They don't have the Dems' or GOP's dismal track record.
A track record is better than no track record.
Ultimately, the solution is not to pick one party over another but to reject the concept of political party membership outright.
Thats nice in theory, but doesn't work out in practice. Green Party members voted for Nader rather than Gore in 2000, even though Gore probably fit at least 75% of their party's platform. All they accomplished was letting Bush into office, and look how the last couple years have gone.
Why don't YOU be the guinea pig for all these court cases. You can look forward to spending the next few years of your life in a court room or jail cell and spending hundereds of thousands of dollars defending yourself.
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Still doesn't change the fact that Apple Records has done Jack and Shit as far as releasing new material goes, and Jack left town.
Apple Computer should just buy Apple Records, fire the bunch of leeches, and sell the catalog to Sony or Time Warner.
Its not worth it to stifle a new industry with fee's and unfair regulation to prepare for a disaster that happens every 25 years. Worried about the power going out? Then get a lan line phone.
They did that by taking chances on stuff like Married with Children and the Simpsons. They gambled their future on the notion that people would actually watch "Joe Millionaire" or "American Idol", and they were right.
No, they didn't. The reason the networks are so hog wild over reality tv is because it is cheap. Survivor and Friends pull in about the same ratings. However, Friends costs a million dollars per actor per episode, while the biggest payout for Survivor is a million dollars per season.
They're still taking those gambles.
No, they aren't. They've lost interest in creating long running, successful shows like X-Files or the Simpsons. They like cheap shows that they have a great deal of conrol over. What network would not want another Simpsons on its roster, yet Fox nixed the idea of a Young Homer spinoff, and screwed Futurama by putting it after football games that would almost always run over.
Gah! I *completely* disagree. First of all, they totally fucked up the timeline with that episode.
Of course its different; its been that way for the entire length of the show. It changed during First Contact. This is a *good* thing, because with an alternate timeline you can actually have threats to the Federation, like that mini-Death Star probe thingy from the last season. Otherwise you'd know the Federation wasn't threatened by the Romulans/Cardassians/whomever, because you know the Feds are still going to be around in 200 years.
Worse yet, they yet again decided fall back on The Borg as a plot device, evidently because they couldn't come up with a more intriguing enemy-type to deal with. It was pathetic... didn't the writers have anything better to do than create yet-another-Borg-episode?
I was thinking that too, but I watched it and it really wasn't that bad. They have had some that are real groaners, however. Like just about any episode with the Vulcan's, for example.
American's have air conditioning, cars, broadband internet and we've been to the moon. In other parts of the world, things like toilet paper, asperin and purified water could be considered luxury items. What makes you so sure that kind of disparity wont still be around in another few hundred years?
Is nice to see that technology hasn't solved all our problems. We've had 30 years of near Utopian Star-Trek; its nice to see a future sci-fi series thats gritty.
They use HyperTransport which was invented by AMD and used in Opertons.
So what? Did he say it was exclusive to PowerMacs? And Apple is a member of the HyperTransport consortium.
* On board gigabit ethernet. Huh? Such things exist in the x86 world as well.
But they usually aren't standard on the motherboard.
AltiVec cannot be used; it can only perform 32 bit floating point calculations which is not legal for the Linpack benchmark used at the top500 site.
Wonderful. Once you've gotten your "top 500" rating you can turn it back on and start spanking other clusters. Next?
The Apple G5 has far more fans than your typical x86 box
Which was done to reduce the amount of noise, not because the 970 puts out enormous amounts of heat.
Oh yeah -- they can't strike out the cost of buying a copy of MacOS for each machine, can they?
Hmm, lets think about this for a second. They're buying over a thousand brand new machines and giving Apple some great PR. Do you really think that Apple wouldn't come down on the price of the included operating system?
Most of my software recompiles on a plethora of other CPU architectures.
Same is true for a G5.
So this notion that those of us that would prefer the Opteron are "locked" into anything is absurd and highly misleading.
Uh, right. The only people who are making x86-84 chips are AMD. If you start to depend on Opterons but AMD can't afford the R&D to keep pace with Intel, goes bankrupt or has supply problems, you're fucked. How again is this not proprietary?
Our position only seems senseless to you because you've got Apple blinders on.
Why is Apple going to run around saying how incredibly slow the systems are that they were selling a month ago? What sense does that make for them? If you have a burning desire to see how the G4 does against the G5, wait until Macworld runs some Photoshop tests. And why are you complaning that they are making legit (or at least more legit than the old Photoshop bakeoffs) advertisements that the G5 is faster than Intel's processors?
ar more interested in the progress and development of AMD's Opteron line than all this G5 stuff? I mean, dont misunderstand. I'm excited about desktop 64 bit computing, but I really dont want to be locked into a whole platform.
You don't want to be "locked in" to the G5, so you'd rather be locked in to the Opteron? The only company that makes AMD Opterons is AMD. This does not make sense...
So you're too cheap to buy the movie. That's entirely different from convinience.
Of course its still convenience; thats 2 hours out of my life wasted on working to pay for something that sucks. Just because you are entirely too stupid to get it....
No, he's not. If every single computer user had an IQ of 40 but used Macs we'd still only have a handfull of Mac viruses. Security wasn't important to Microsoft until the last couple of years, so insecurities riddle the Windows achitecture and applications. Apple, to my knowledge, never has had a single service turned on out of the box, and they've certainally never had an email client that helpfully auto-executes email attatchments.
Don't be a jerk. Of course there will always be people who will sell you expensive junk, but as a general rule, if you pay more you get more. The point that you could have made is that you need to do a little research before you buy, so you weed out the expensive crap from the best of breed.
The evidence clearly indicates that no Arabs were living there.
What the hell is this? The flip-side, Zionist version of "the holocast didn't really happen?" Of course there were Arabs living there! Why do you think the Palistinian Authority has refused to drop the Right of Return for refugees?
Most of them came to Israel because there are more jobs there than in their home countries.
Riiight. If I were an Arab, I would so want to live under an aparthied where Isralies could sieze my property or bulldoze it down, keeping the best land and water resources for themselves. Oh, and if they're really going there for the jobs: what jobs? You try have any kind of economy with imposed curfews, roadblocks on all heavy trafic areas and a big concrete wall being laid throughout your town.
If the cops told you specifically: hey, make a u-turn, that would be entrapment. The cops aren't telling you to break the law. They're not even suggesting it.
What do you think entrapment is? Do you think its when a group of uniformed officers walk around with bullhorns encouraging you to break the law? No, entrapment is when an undercover police officer, posing as a prostitute, pressures you to have sex. Entrapment is when undercover officers offer to sell pot to high school students. A real entrapment case happned where the FBI mailed pedophelia advertizements to a known porn addict. When he finally broke down and bought some, they pounced. Entrapment.
Would people have been making u-turns if that "cars may/will be searched" sign? Certainaly far less. If the PP's memory is correct, the cops didn't have any intention of searching cars. They wanted people to make u-turns so they could give out tickets.
Again, this has been hashed out in courts.
Except that the current SCOTUS is nutorious for rubber-stamping police procedures. Over at policeabuse.org, they recommend that minority drivers NOT tell an officer their destination. Why? Well aside from the fact that you aren't required to give out that information, they can claim that you are driving on a "drug route" and that is suffecient reason to search your car.
Judges have upheld the checkpoint: it's a public place where your privacy is limited, and you drive under a license to follow the rules and instructions of police. There are simply times when you will face the imposition of these facts.
The "facts" are that while the road is a public place, your car is not. What kind of reasoning is that? Would you like to be searched every time you leave your house because you're in a public place? And the only thing you have to do for an officer who pulls you over is show him your drivers licence and proof of insurance. You don't have to let him search your car, you don't have to tell him where you are going or what you are doing, you don't have to give him the time of day.
If you want a copy of a movie to keep, is convienence really the reason you'd rather spend a day downloading
Yes. If I buy the movie at a store and it sucks I'm out $20. If I download a movie and it sucks I've added a little to the net congestion and wasted a few hours of my time.
a several hundred megabyte rip that's nowhere near DVD quality
A good divx rip is nearly indistinquishible from a DVD, and thats if you're sitting a foot away from your monitor. Sit back on your couch and you *can't* tell the difference.
and quite possible has subtitles for some random language permenantly on then driving to the store?
You seem to be missing the point here, that its a matter of convinience. Movies, just like cds, cost so much that they simply make it worth peoples time to get it through means other than paying $$$ for it at a store. I say again: lower prices, gauranteed reliability and quality, and they'd have p2p licked. Sure kazaa would still be around, but if someone is so dedicated to not pay for a retail copy, its unlikely he would have bought it in the first place.
The only way it's convienence driving you to download the movie is if your ass really is the size and shape of your computer chair.
More like the other poster was right, and you are just an asshole.
What he said is validated by history. "Palestine" had always referred to Israel. Classic usage of the term "Palestinian" was synonomous with "Jew." Go read some old newspapers or books. At first, Arabs were extremely offended when called Palestinians, because that was a name for Jews.
What they're called is irrelevant. The fact remains that Isreal was created without any reguard for the people who were already living there, and a whole group of people were made second class citizens and forced into refugee camps. Now before you bring up the fact that other countries like Jordan were also carved from the Ottoman Empire, at least the people in Jordan have their own country.
There's no entrapment in busting someone who has already broken the law.
Entrapment isn't arresting an innocent person a crime they didn't commit, entrapment is when the police arrest you for a crime they encouraged you to commit. IANAL, but if I were one for those drivers I would argue that creating (or threatening to create) a traffic jam just so you can ticket people for making u-turns as 'encouragement'.
they had public announcement television spots (and signs on sight) a few times, explaining that turning around raises suspicion.
If the cops had sat outside the concert passivly and watched to see if anyone made u-turns and then handed them tickets, that would be fine. But they weren't sitting passivly, they were deliberatly creating a situation were a lot of people would want to turn around and go the other way.
People don't download the crap. They don't even download the good stuff to avoid getting crap. They download to avoid paying.
It has nothing to do with not paying and everything to do with convenience. It is simply more convienient to spend a day downloading a movie than it is to go buy a DVD for $20 at a store. Rather than trying to sue everybody (which wont work) they should make their offerings better than what you can download for "free" (nothing is free unless your time is worthless). Make the downloads reasonably priced, with guaranteed quality and reliablilty, and you won't lose that much to p2p. Maybe Apple should open another iTMS: iTunes Movie Store.
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They don't have the Dems' or GOP's dismal track record.
A track record is better than no track record.
Ultimately, the solution is not to pick one party over another but to reject the concept of political party membership outright.
Thats nice in theory, but doesn't work out in practice. Green Party members voted for Nader rather than Gore in 2000, even though Gore probably fit at least 75% of their party's platform. All they accomplished was letting Bush into office, and look how the last couple years have gone.
Why don't YOU be the guinea pig for all these court cases. You can look forward to spending the next few years of your life in a court room or jail cell and spending hundereds of thousands of dollars defending yourself.
Still doesn't change the fact that Apple Records has done Jack and Shit as far as releasing new material goes, and Jack left town.
Apple Computer should just buy Apple Records, fire the bunch of leeches, and sell the catalog to Sony or Time Warner.
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Its not worth it to stifle a new industry with fee's and unfair regulation to prepare for a disaster that happens every 25 years. Worried about the power going out? Then get a lan line phone.
They did that by taking chances on stuff like Married with Children and the Simpsons. They gambled their future on the notion that people would actually watch "Joe Millionaire" or "American Idol", and they were right.
No, they didn't. The reason the networks are so hog wild over reality tv is because it is cheap. Survivor and Friends pull in about the same ratings. However, Friends costs a million dollars per actor per episode, while the biggest payout for Survivor is a million dollars per season.
They're still taking those gambles.
No, they aren't. They've lost interest in creating long running, successful shows like X-Files or the Simpsons. They like cheap shows that they have a great deal of conrol over. What network would not want another Simpsons on its roster, yet Fox nixed the idea of a Young Homer spinoff, and screwed Futurama by putting it after football games that would almost always run over.
Gah! I *completely* disagree. First of all, they totally fucked up the timeline with that episode.
Of course its different; its been that way for the entire length of the show. It changed during First Contact. This is a *good* thing, because with an alternate timeline you can actually have threats to the Federation, like that mini-Death Star probe thingy from the last season. Otherwise you'd know the Federation wasn't threatened by the Romulans/Cardassians/whomever, because you know the Feds are still going to be around in 200 years.
Worse yet, they yet again decided fall back on The Borg as a plot device, evidently because they couldn't come up with a more intriguing enemy-type to deal with. It was pathetic... didn't the writers have anything better to do than create yet-another-Borg-episode?
I was thinking that too, but I watched it and it really wasn't that bad. They have had some that are real groaners, however. Like just about any episode with the Vulcan's, for example.
American's have air conditioning, cars, broadband internet and we've been to the moon. In other parts of the world, things like toilet paper, asperin and purified water could be considered luxury items. What makes you so sure that kind of disparity wont still be around in another few hundred years?
Is nice to see that technology hasn't solved all our problems. We've had 30 years of near Utopian Star-Trek; its nice to see a future sci-fi series thats gritty.
They use HyperTransport which was invented by AMD and used in Opertons.
So what? Did he say it was exclusive to PowerMacs? And Apple is a member of the HyperTransport consortium.
* On board gigabit ethernet.
Huh? Such things exist in the x86 world as well.
But they usually aren't standard on the motherboard.
AltiVec cannot be used; it can only perform 32 bit floating point calculations which is not legal for the Linpack benchmark used at the top500 site.
Wonderful. Once you've gotten your "top 500" rating you can turn it back on and start spanking other clusters. Next?
The Apple G5 has far more fans than your typical x86 box
Which was done to reduce the amount of noise, not because the 970 puts out enormous amounts of heat.
Oh yeah -- they can't strike out the cost of buying a copy of MacOS for each machine, can they?
Hmm, lets think about this for a second. They're buying over a thousand brand new machines and giving Apple some great PR. Do you really think that Apple wouldn't come down on the price of the included operating system?
Any more jerky questions?
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No they are not legal because they try to force conditions on you after the sale has been made. The only thing EULA's are good for is toilet paper.
Most of my software recompiles on a plethora of other CPU architectures.
Same is true for a G5.
So this notion that those of us that would prefer the Opteron are "locked" into anything is absurd and highly misleading.
Uh, right. The only people who are making x86-84 chips are AMD. If you start to depend on Opterons but AMD can't afford the R&D to keep pace with Intel, goes bankrupt or has supply problems, you're fucked. How again is this not proprietary?
Our position only seems senseless to you because you've got Apple blinders on.
More like you've got your idiot-pc-fanboy hat on.
Why is Apple going to run around saying how incredibly slow the systems are that they were selling a month ago? What sense does that make for them? If you have a burning desire to see how the G4 does against the G5, wait until Macworld runs some Photoshop tests. And why are you complaning that they are making legit (or at least more legit than the old Photoshop bakeoffs) advertisements that the G5 is faster than Intel's processors?
ar more interested in the progress and development of AMD's Opteron line than all this G5 stuff? I mean, dont misunderstand. I'm excited about desktop 64 bit computing, but I really dont want to be locked into a whole platform.
You don't want to be "locked in" to the G5, so you'd rather be locked in to the Opteron? The only company that makes AMD Opterons is AMD. This does not make sense...
Thus, even if I have one and only one thread running (say, Anarchy Online) it still splits it onto two processors.
Have you tried setting the cpu affinity in the task manager? Supposedly you can do that to make processes run on just one processor.
So you're too cheap to buy the movie. That's entirely different from convinience.
Of course its still convenience; thats 2 hours out of my life wasted on working to pay for something that sucks. Just because you are entirely too stupid to get it....
He's right.
No, he's not. If every single computer user had an IQ of 40 but used Macs we'd still only have a handfull of Mac viruses. Security wasn't important to Microsoft until the last couple of years, so insecurities riddle the Windows achitecture and applications. Apple, to my knowledge, never has had a single service turned on out of the box, and they've certainally never had an email client that helpfully auto-executes email attatchments.
Don't be a jerk. Of course there will always be people who will sell you expensive junk, but as a general rule, if you pay more you get more. The point that you could have made is that you need to do a little research before you buy, so you weed out the expensive crap from the best of breed.
What I really don't get are the freaks who think Trinity (Matrix) is hot...
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T&A in tight leather. Anymore questions?
The evidence clearly indicates that no Arabs were living there.
What the hell is this? The flip-side, Zionist version of "the holocast didn't really happen?" Of course there were Arabs living there! Why do you think the Palistinian Authority has refused to drop the Right of Return for refugees?
Most of them came to Israel because there are more jobs there than in their home countries.
Riiight. If I were an Arab, I would so want to live under an aparthied where Isralies could sieze my property or bulldoze it down, keeping the best land and water resources for themselves. Oh, and if they're really going there for the jobs: what jobs? You try have any kind of economy with imposed curfews, roadblocks on all heavy trafic areas and a big concrete wall being laid throughout your town.
Uh, no.
Uh, yeah.
If the cops told you specifically: hey, make a u-turn, that would be entrapment. The cops aren't telling you to break the law. They're not even suggesting it.
What do you think entrapment is? Do you think its when a group of uniformed officers walk around with bullhorns encouraging you to break the law? No, entrapment is when an undercover police officer, posing as a prostitute, pressures you to have sex. Entrapment is when undercover officers offer to sell pot to high school students. A real entrapment case happned where the FBI mailed pedophelia advertizements to a known porn addict. When he finally broke down and bought some, they pounced. Entrapment.
Would people have been making u-turns if that "cars may/will be searched" sign? Certainaly far less. If the PP's memory is correct, the cops didn't have any intention of searching cars. They wanted people to make u-turns so they could give out tickets.
Again, this has been hashed out in courts.
Except that the current SCOTUS is nutorious for rubber-stamping police procedures. Over at policeabuse.org, they recommend that minority drivers NOT tell an officer their destination. Why? Well aside from the fact that you aren't required to give out that information, they can claim that you are driving on a "drug route" and that is suffecient reason to search your car.
Judges have upheld the checkpoint: it's a public place where your privacy is limited, and you drive under a license to follow the rules and instructions of police. There are simply times when you will face the imposition of these facts.
The "facts" are that while the road is a public place, your car is not. What kind of reasoning is that? Would you like to be searched every time you leave your house because you're in a public place? And the only thing you have to do for an officer who pulls you over is show him your drivers licence and proof of insurance. You don't have to let him search your car, you don't have to tell him where you are going or what you are doing, you don't have to give him the time of day.
If you want a copy of a movie to keep, is convienence really the reason you'd rather spend a day downloading
Yes. If I buy the movie at a store and it sucks I'm out $20. If I download a movie and it sucks I've added a little to the net congestion and wasted a few hours of my time.
a several hundred megabyte rip that's nowhere near DVD quality
A good divx rip is nearly indistinquishible from a DVD, and thats if you're sitting a foot away from your monitor. Sit back on your couch and you *can't* tell the difference.
and quite possible has subtitles for some random language permenantly on then driving to the store?
You seem to be missing the point here, that its a matter of convinience. Movies, just like cds, cost so much that they simply make it worth peoples time to get it through means other than paying $$$ for it at a store. I say again: lower prices, gauranteed reliability and quality, and they'd have p2p licked. Sure kazaa would still be around, but if someone is so dedicated to not pay for a retail copy, its unlikely he would have bought it in the first place.
The only way it's convienence driving you to download the movie is if your ass really is the size and shape of your computer chair.
More like the other poster was right, and you are just an asshole.
What he said is validated by history. "Palestine" had always referred to Israel. Classic usage of the term "Palestinian" was synonomous with "Jew." Go read some old newspapers or books. At first, Arabs were extremely offended when called Palestinians, because that was a name for Jews.
What they're called is irrelevant. The fact remains that Isreal was created without any reguard for the people who were already living there, and a whole group of people were made second class citizens and forced into refugee camps. Now before you bring up the fact that other countries like Jordan were also carved from the Ottoman Empire, at least the people in Jordan have their own country.
renting != buying
There's no entrapment in busting someone who has already broken the law.
Entrapment isn't arresting an innocent person a crime they didn't commit, entrapment is when the police arrest you for a crime they encouraged you to commit. IANAL, but if I were one for those drivers I would argue that creating (or threatening to create) a traffic jam just so you can ticket people for making u-turns as 'encouragement'.
they had public announcement television spots (and signs on sight) a few times, explaining that turning around raises suspicion.
If the cops had sat outside the concert passivly and watched to see if anyone made u-turns and then handed them tickets, that would be fine. But they weren't sitting passivly, they were deliberatly creating a situation were a lot of people would want to turn around and go the other way.
People don't download the crap. They don't even download the good stuff to avoid getting crap. They download to avoid paying.
It has nothing to do with not paying and everything to do with convenience. It is simply more convienient to spend a day downloading a movie than it is to go buy a DVD for $20 at a store. Rather than trying to sue everybody (which wont work) they should make their offerings better than what you can download for "free" (nothing is free unless your time is worthless). Make the downloads reasonably priced, with guaranteed quality and reliablilty, and you won't lose that much to p2p. Maybe Apple should open another iTMS: iTunes Movie Store.