Apple: "LOLZ! this sux, let's approve it to show it's suckyness."
Opera: (updates to a non-sucky version after the sucky version gets approved)
Apple: O_o
Opera: "pwned"
(now if Apple yanks it, they look like even bigger d-bags)
Don't atomic clocks rely entirely on measuring the frequency of the changes of the state of caesium-133 atoms?
So really it should be Nature > Nature... considering all that was discovered was that a caesium-133 atom keeps time better than a distant pulsar...
The part played by man is simply looking in the right place.
My personal opinion is that ISPs are ridiculous with the crap they pull.
AT&T has blocked my DSL in the past for using too much bandwidth. Umm... If I payed for 3 Mb/s (of which I only actually get about 2.4 Mb/s) then I should get 3 Mb/s for the entire duration of my contract. There was no term in the contract that gave any limit besides 3 Mb/s. This is stealing just as much as (if not more than) than downloading illegal torrents is.
If this keeps up, then why not block phone calls of people who use too much phone bandwidth? Cut TV service of people who watch TV too much (or make over-watched channels broadcast at lower quality, to follow the traffic-shaping scheme). Ridiculous, right? Same exact scenario in a different setting. ISPs need to get their act together.
He's correct. Open source is not a democracy. No software is a democracy. There are really only 2 things open source says: 1) here's how we did it, and 2) if you want it designed differently, go right ahead and make your own, here's the code. You don't dictate the design of a product someone else built. If they want to put it to a vote, that's fine, but if they don't then that's fine too.
In the end, there are 3 options: 1) just deal with it, 2) put some custom code in there to make it to your liking, 3) go find another software solution, or just buy something. There's not much you have a right to complain about when it's free...
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I think healthcare is broken already, and the gov't is certainly not the one to fix it. In fact, what is planned will break it even further. How many people have healthcare costs that are because they chose to smoke, or chose to eat crappy fast food every day instead of something decently healthy? I don't want to have to pay for other people's unwillingness to take care of their own bodies. Maybe we should have government-run car insurance. If I drive for 2 years without changing oil and the engine blows up, oh well, the government will fix it out of the taxpayers' pocket. Ridiculous, right? Government health care carries the same scenario. Don't even get me started on the abortion stuff. If I say any more though, it'll just start a flame war and that will be anything but productive, so i'll leave it at that
Might I point out that evolution is a religion...
Yes, it is, and therefore it has no business being taught in science class either
People claiming there is evidence are just blowing smoke. Find some that isn't from a book filled with lies! Every single textbook has "evidences" for evolution which have been proven wrong 100 years ago, yet they still include them. It has been asked of the publishers "Why don't you take the lies out?" and they have responded "What would we replace it with?". I call that an admission that they have nothing to replace it with. They know there's no true evolution evidence to include, otherwise they would have included it.
DO YOUR RESEARCH, PEOPLE!
Don't believe anything that you hear from either side! Use science, not religion. Evolution has never been science. Karl Popper said, "Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program", and he's quite right. I would challenge people to present evidence here, of either side, just to be fair, but you'd get all kinds of evolution "evidence" that has been proven wrong, like a whale's not-so-vestigial hip bone, or that phony horse-evolution sequence, or any of those "primitive man" fossils that would be funny if they weren't used to lie to millions of kids across the nation, and I don't feel like getting into debates with people who don't really want to debate, but just want to argue.
People complaining about this being unconstitutional are blowing smoke. Find something from the text of the constitution that says a business cannot put references to a passage of a book on their products. If the complaint only exists because this product is being used by the government, then go complain to the government for buying that product instead of a different one. Don't put all the heat on the company when the government is the one that chose to spend money on it.
And anyone who says this infringes upon freedom of religion is quite wrong. Not allowing them to do this would be instead infringing upon the scope makers' freedom of religion.
My philosophy on "offensive products" is simple. Don't buy it or support the company. If it offends YOU, then YOU just don't have to buy it. If it offends you that someone else is buying it, well that's just your problem. If it offends you that someone else is using your money to buy it (gov't using your tax $) then take issue with the ones spending your money (this means if you want to do anything, let gov't know. Until you at least try that, quit complaining). If it offends you, but it's otherwise the best choice for your application, then you have to choose between the importance of your beliefs and the importance of your goods.
And on a side note, to the comments about how this makes Muslims think it's an America vs Islam war... While that's not what America fights specifically against, that's what it ends up being anyways. This is due to the fact that Islam teaches that all who don't convert to Islam must be killed. In order to be a good Muslim, you must convert others and kill those that won't convert. Therefore, I can quite easily predict that there will never be a resolution.
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Apple: "LOLZ! this sux, let's approve it to show it's suckyness."
Opera: (updates to a non-sucky version after the sucky version gets approved)
Apple: O_o
Opera: "pwned"
(now if Apple yanks it, they look like even bigger d-bags)
so Lexmark is making the device then?
Man > Nature... Take that religion!
Don't atomic clocks rely entirely on measuring the frequency of the changes of the state of caesium-133 atoms?
So really it should be Nature > Nature... considering all that was discovered was that a caesium-133 atom keeps time better than a distant pulsar...
The part played by man is simply looking in the right place.
My personal opinion is that ISPs are ridiculous with the crap they pull. AT&T has blocked my DSL in the past for using too much bandwidth. Umm... If I payed for 3 Mb/s (of which I only actually get about 2.4 Mb/s) then I should get 3 Mb/s for the entire duration of my contract. There was no term in the contract that gave any limit besides 3 Mb/s. This is stealing just as much as (if not more than) than downloading illegal torrents is. If this keeps up, then why not block phone calls of people who use too much phone bandwidth? Cut TV service of people who watch TV too much (or make over-watched channels broadcast at lower quality, to follow the traffic-shaping scheme). Ridiculous, right? Same exact scenario in a different setting. ISPs need to get their act together.
He's correct. Open source is not a democracy. No software is a democracy. There are really only 2 things open source says: 1) here's how we did it, and 2) if you want it designed differently, go right ahead and make your own, here's the code. You don't dictate the design of a product someone else built. If they want to put it to a vote, that's fine, but if they don't then that's fine too.
In the end, there are 3 options: 1) just deal with it, 2) put some custom code in there to make it to your liking, 3) go find another software solution, or just buy something. There's not much you have a right to complain about when it's free...
I think healthcare is broken already, and the gov't is certainly not the one to fix it. In fact, what is planned will break it even further. How many people have healthcare costs that are because they chose to smoke, or chose to eat crappy fast food every day instead of something decently healthy? I don't want to have to pay for other people's unwillingness to take care of their own bodies. Maybe we should have government-run car insurance. If I drive for 2 years without changing oil and the engine blows up, oh well, the government will fix it out of the taxpayers' pocket. Ridiculous, right? Government health care carries the same scenario. Don't even get me started on the abortion stuff. If I say any more though, it'll just start a flame war and that will be anything but productive, so i'll leave it at that
What we need is a non-metaphorical shotgun. Or a non-crappy justice system. Preferably the latter, because we sure don't have it now
Might I point out that evolution is a religion...
Yes, it is, and therefore it has no business being taught in science class either
People claiming there is evidence are just blowing smoke. Find some that isn't from a book filled with lies! Every single textbook has "evidences" for evolution which have been proven wrong 100 years ago, yet they still include them. It has been asked of the publishers "Why don't you take the lies out?" and they have responded "What would we replace it with?". I call that an admission that they have nothing to replace it with. They know there's no true evolution evidence to include, otherwise they would have included it.
DO YOUR RESEARCH, PEOPLE!
Don't believe anything that you hear from either side! Use science, not religion. Evolution has never been science. Karl Popper said, "Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research program", and he's quite right. I would challenge people to present evidence here, of either side, just to be fair, but you'd get all kinds of evolution "evidence" that has been proven wrong, like a whale's not-so-vestigial hip bone, or that phony horse-evolution sequence, or any of those "primitive man" fossils that would be funny if they weren't used to lie to millions of kids across the nation, and I don't feel like getting into debates with people who don't really want to debate, but just want to argue.
You do NOT have the right to remain silent.
Anything you DON'T say can, and will, be used against you in a court of law.
People complaining about this being unconstitutional are blowing smoke. Find something from the text of the constitution that says a business cannot put references to a passage of a book on their products. If the complaint only exists because this product is being used by the government, then go complain to the government for buying that product instead of a different one. Don't put all the heat on the company when the government is the one that chose to spend money on it. And anyone who says this infringes upon freedom of religion is quite wrong. Not allowing them to do this would be instead infringing upon the scope makers' freedom of religion.
My philosophy on "offensive products" is simple. Don't buy it or support the company. If it offends YOU, then YOU just don't have to buy it. If it offends you that someone else is buying it, well that's just your problem. If it offends you that someone else is using your money to buy it (gov't using your tax $) then take issue with the ones spending your money (this means if you want to do anything, let gov't know. Until you at least try that, quit complaining). If it offends you, but it's otherwise the best choice for your application, then you have to choose between the importance of your beliefs and the importance of your goods.
And on a side note, to the comments about how this makes Muslims think it's an America vs Islam war... While that's not what America fights specifically against, that's what it ends up being anyways. This is due to the fact that Islam teaches that all who don't convert to Islam must be killed. In order to be a good Muslim, you must convert others and kill those that won't convert. Therefore, I can quite easily predict that there will never be a resolution.