The USDA's National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is another example which takes away our traditional rights to own, raise, transport and sell livestock.
Looking at your own link, the worst thing they say about the law is that it requires a label of country of origin, which would do squat to interfere with owning, raising, or selling livestock. Sounds more like the livestock industries penny-wise pound-stupid usual bellyaching, like when they wanted to keep doing their meat reclamation process to glean the last bits of meat off a carcass. They complained that while the process carried a high chance of cross contamination, it saved them $130 million a year. Of course the Mad Cow scare came by and cost them a couple BILLION dollars.
Although Apple does not have a bad track record, I would not argue that they have a good track record on security and here's why...
Yes, the Marketshare Myth. The reality is that if Microsoft and Apple swapped marketshare, Apple would still have good security and Windows would still be a cesspool. This is because the problems Microsoft has had have not come from having the largest marketshare, but from their design decisions. Like trying the web browser into the OS, leaving ports and services open all over the place, ActiveX, not to mention a user environment that is a pain in the ass if you don't run under a privileged account.
On the other hand, you have the Apple fanboys talking about insecure OS X is--so insecure that Apple can't allow any applications that have not been prescreened.
What do these fanboys look like? Scarecrows made out of straw perhaps, or just straw man for short?
toss them a bone rather than having them agitate for your entire skeleton
They don't need to toss them a bone. If real, massive piracy of Microsoft's products in Asia doesn't stop them from doing business in Asia, the MPAA is NOT going to stop releasing movies in Canada over a non-issue.
especially when the bone you toss is meaningless and costs you nothing.
Unless the MPAA is going to be making donations to Canadian police departments, this bill sure as hell will cost them something.
Did you honestly just say "the MPAA can't do jack against another country" without giggling?
No, I didn't. But then, my head isn't shoved firmly up my ass.
Why don't you ask a Swede how they feel about the MPAA's influence in their country? You might come away better informed.
Why don't you pull your head out and inform yourself, Slick? TPB is just another example of a government needlessly caving to foreign special interests.
Canada's exhibitor industry exists only by the leave of the various American movie associations who sell them content. I've been e-mailing back and forth with a friend who works for one of the major studios here, and I can tell you that around their office they're damn thankful at how this turned out because the alternative meant possible industry action, which threatens their paycheques directly (she's in exhibitor relations).
Yawn. They make millions releasing movies in Canada. Cams cost them next to nothing in Canada. Do the math.
Negotiating with bullies so that they're under the impression you've conceded to their demands when in fact nothing has changed is a clever move. It's called diplomacy, and it works.
This isn't negotiating, this isn't diplomacy, it's bending over and grabbing your ankles. I'm not a homophobe; if you're into that sort of thing, that's your business. But don't expect everyone else to do the same.
The priceless thing about this announcement is having all the Macheads that went "Leopard will be so hip, full of advanced filesystem goodness - all you other lusers will have to play catch-up" now rationalize why ZFS was not a good choice for Leopard anyway.
It's hilarious when the plebes get all foamy at the mouth over something they've totally missed the point of. This was a clever move, not a nefarious one.
How is listening to foreign lobbyists over your own people and banning something that isn't a problem a "clever move"?
An inconsequential smolder has been smothered rather than face an inferno from Hollywood's fattest wallets.
What inferno? The MPAA can't do jack against another country, and they aren't going to stop releasing movies in Canada if this doesn't pass.
Then don't engage in gratuitous asshattery. Nothing sells in the media like a good scandal, and yet Fox News consistently downplays every Republican scandal that comes along. Hell, they once went so far as to call Mark Foley a Democrat.
But the ratings prove my point: The worst rated FoxNews show is better rated than anything on MSNBC or CNN.
Because they are the ones that cater the most to the 14% that still strongly supports everything Bush does, so of course they are going to get all of that 14%. The non-idiot news watchers vastly outnumber those on Fox News, they are just spread out over multiple channels.
Of the four broadcast networks, Fox (entertainment) is one of the most liberal.
Excuse me? Fox once had a tug of war contest between an elephant and an army of midgets. Trashy != liberal.
Murdoch is a cynical, trash-peddling, capitalist pig not a right-wing ideolog. If you're going to despise him, do it from an educated perspective.
Of course he's a right wing ideologue. As the explosion of sites like DailyKos and shows like the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Countdown with Keith Olberman show, there is great appetite for challenging the right wing. Murdock has a vast media empire - what has he done to cater to this market? Nada, zilch, zip, ninguno...
look up NEWSROOM - it's not synonymous with TALKING HEAD
You say that like it makes a difference. Newsrooms continually and consistently downplay GOP scandals when possible - i.e. the "bipartisan" Abramoff scandal - while treating non-issues as Dem scandals - i.e. Pelosi One. When a GOP scandal is too big to ignore, like with the House pages, it's a top story for a couple weeks and then the press forgets about it. As opposed to Whitewater.
I saw them discussing every major republican scandal that every other news org discussed.
You mean like calling for a pardon of Scooter Libby and listing Mark Foley as a Democrat from Florida?
As to the recount, it was the NEW YORK TIMES that reported their recount showed BUSH taking Florida. Learn to read, and get over it.
Only under selective recounts. With a full, statewide recount, Gore won under every scenario. Eat it, bitch.
You can't put Iraq in the same class of destruction that was Germany or Japan post world war II.
Yes, Iraq is in far worse shape. For starters, Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at around 650,000, or 2.5% of it's population. During WWII, Japanese civilians casualties were 580,000. Japan had fewer casualties despite having a much higher population, not to mention being the only country ever to have been nuked. Germany had more casualties, but almost the same percentage as Iraq: 2.6%. Furthermore, once the war stop Europe and Japan were quickly rebuilt, considering the damaged caused by the war. Iraq just gets worse and worse. Furthermore, at least during WWII civilians had air raid sirens to warn them of attacks. Iraqi civilians get no such warnings for an IED left in a market or a death squad setting up fake roadblocks.
You claim Iraq was firebombed? Really?
I don't mean literally. Just what do you think "shock and awe", phosphorous shells, and 15,000 lbs Daisy Cutters are for?
Firebombing involves thousands of bombs and hundreds of aircraft and kills 100,000 people at a pop.
If firebombing killed "100,000 people at a pop" they wouldn't have bothered inventing nuclear weapons.
And, once again. Iraqis are killing each other! That's not America's fault. Nobody is making them do it. They do it on their own. The civil war is not the fault of the United States.
Of course it's the fault of those who lied us into war and then conducted that war with extreme incompetence. Anyone who spent five minutes on Wikipedia could have told them that Iraq was a religious/ethnic/political powder keg ready to blow.
Where was the civil war in Germany after World War II? Where was the civil war in Japan after World War II? It didn't happen.
Because there were no extreme tribal and religious divides in those countries, you dumb bastard.
While I appreciate your concern for my reading skills, "not as successful as Apple had hoped" is clearly a nice way of saying "a failure."
Nevermind reading, you need to work on pulling your head out. Profitable != failure in business. Say Disney wants to make $500 million on the latest Pirates movie on costs of $150 million, but it only takes in $400 million at the box office. It still made $250 million - maybe a disappointment, but far from a "failure".
I also have an 8600, and Bitpim works great for making ringtones. The only thing that pisses me off about the phone is there doesn't seem to be an external keyguard, so every once and a while it gets bumped in my pocket and starts playing mp3's or I have to erase a lot of pocket pictures and videos from the SD card.
Look at all the things that people buy into today, particularly in Europe, such as homeopathy, reflexology, chiropractics, magnet therapy, colonics, yadda yadda. How many people believe that irradiated strawberries are radioactive?
Sure sure, but those people generally aren't making policy and shoving their ideas down the throats of others.
The primary requirement is for a 1-button default both for novice users and to encourage developers not to use improper design methods. That means if Apple were to added a second button to the trackpad, it would have to be a feature you could enable and disable (probably in software) like the mighty mouse. So who is it for? Novices prefer 1 button and it is easier for them.
I think the 'novice users' reasoning was great in the 80's, when popular computers were first getting GUI's and mice, and most computer users were new computer users. But as time goes on, the percentage of 'novice' users gets closer and closer to zero. i.e. my grandma has never shown any interest in computers, and at the ripe old age of 95, that's unlikely to change. I don't count kids as novice users since kids pick up the use of a mouse in about five seconds. And requiring a two button mouse didn't do much to slow the rate of the adoption of Windows.
There are of course developing countries where many people have never even seen a computer, much less used one. But people who live in developing countries and have never seen a computer are unlikely to pop $1,000 for an iMac.
Even if he ruled that the nobody-reads-the-EULA stance doesn't hold water, he should have ruled the EULA was only good for toilet paper as it was trying to enforce contractual terms after the sale was completed.
Sure, sure. But but "not treating Christianity as seriously as the Pope" is not "making fun of Christianity". As for Flanders, the reason I said "most of the time" was the episode where he tries to baptize the Simpson kids in a river without the consent of the kids or their parents.
Gay tolerance, making fun of Christianity, making fun of immigration laws - yup, that has "GOP" written all over it.
Ken Mehlman, Mark Foley, Mary Cheney. The Simpsons are Christians, many episodes have Christian themes, and Ned Flanders is (usually) the paragon of an upstanding Christian. As for immigration, the GOP is all over the map on that one.
So if you want to go there, the Simpsons does have GOP written all over it.
They explained this on the simpsons when trying to figure out why Fox News is so anti liberal while Fox airs Family Guy and other non-conservative shows.
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Gee, you wonder why jobs are leaving America? Could it be the cost of compliance with every asinine regulation that some moron drafts?
No, jobs are leaving America because CEO's have to get their 20% annual pay increases, regardless of their actual performance.
I'm pretty sure Al Gore, his wife, and Hillary Clinton don't count as "the far right."
They are when they're pushing stuff like this.
The USDA's National Animal Identification System (NAIS) is another example which takes away our traditional rights to own, raise, transport and sell livestock.
Looking at your own link, the worst thing they say about the law is that it requires a label of country of origin, which would do squat to interfere with owning, raising, or selling livestock. Sounds more like the livestock industries penny-wise pound-stupid usual bellyaching, like when they wanted to keep doing their meat reclamation process to glean the last bits of meat off a carcass. They complained that while the process carried a high chance of cross contamination, it saved them $130 million a year. Of course the Mad Cow scare came by and cost them a couple BILLION dollars.
Although Apple does not have a bad track record, I would not argue that they have a good track record on security and here's why...
Yes, the Marketshare Myth. The reality is that if Microsoft and Apple swapped marketshare, Apple would still have good security and Windows would still be a cesspool. This is because the problems Microsoft has had have not come from having the largest marketshare, but from their design decisions. Like trying the web browser into the OS, leaving ports and services open all over the place, ActiveX, not to mention a user environment that is a pain in the ass if you don't run under a privileged account.
On the other hand, you have the Apple fanboys talking about insecure OS X is--so insecure that Apple can't allow any applications that have not been prescreened.
What do these fanboys look like? Scarecrows made out of straw perhaps, or just straw man for short?
It is a clever move
Stop calling straight up idiocy "clever".
toss them a bone rather than having them agitate for your entire skeleton
They don't need to toss them a bone. If real, massive piracy of Microsoft's products in Asia doesn't stop them from doing business in Asia, the MPAA is NOT going to stop releasing movies in Canada over a non-issue.
especially when the bone you toss is meaningless and costs you nothing.
Unless the MPAA is going to be making donations to Canadian police departments, this bill sure as hell will cost them something.
Did you honestly just say "the MPAA can't do jack against another country" without giggling?
No, I didn't. But then, my head isn't shoved firmly up my ass.
Why don't you ask a Swede how they feel about the MPAA's influence in their country? You might come away better informed.
Why don't you pull your head out and inform yourself, Slick? TPB is just another example of a government needlessly caving to foreign special interests.
Canada's exhibitor industry exists only by the leave of the various American movie associations who sell them content. I've been e-mailing back and forth with a friend who works for one of the major studios here, and I can tell you that around their office they're damn thankful at how this turned out because the alternative meant possible industry action, which threatens their paycheques directly (she's in exhibitor relations).
Yawn. They make millions releasing movies in Canada. Cams cost them next to nothing in Canada. Do the math.
Negotiating with bullies so that they're under the impression you've conceded to their demands when in fact nothing has changed is a clever move. It's called diplomacy, and it works.
This isn't negotiating, this isn't diplomacy, it's bending over and grabbing your ankles. I'm not a homophobe; if you're into that sort of thing, that's your business. But don't expect everyone else to do the same.
The priceless thing about this announcement is having all the Macheads that went "Leopard will be so hip, full of advanced filesystem goodness - all you other lusers will have to play catch-up" now rationalize why ZFS was not a good choice for Leopard anyway.
Which Macheads, exactly.
It's hilarious when the plebes get all foamy at the mouth over something they've totally missed the point of. This was a clever move, not a nefarious one.
How is listening to foreign lobbyists over your own people and banning something that isn't a problem a "clever move"?
An inconsequential smolder has been smothered rather than face an inferno from Hollywood's fattest wallets.
What inferno? The MPAA can't do jack against another country, and they aren't going to stop releasing movies in Canada if this doesn't pass.
I take offense at that.
Then don't engage in gratuitous asshattery. Nothing sells in the media like a good scandal, and yet Fox News consistently downplays every Republican scandal that comes along. Hell, they once went so far as to call Mark Foley a Democrat.
But the ratings prove my point: The worst rated FoxNews show is better rated than anything on MSNBC or CNN.
Because they are the ones that cater the most to the 14% that still strongly supports everything Bush does, so of course they are going to get all of that 14%. The non-idiot news watchers vastly outnumber those on Fox News, they are just spread out over multiple channels.
Of the four broadcast networks, Fox (entertainment) is one of the most liberal.
Excuse me? Fox once had a tug of war contest between an elephant and an army of midgets. Trashy != liberal.
Murdoch is a cynical, trash-peddling, capitalist pig not a right-wing ideolog. If you're going to despise him, do it from an educated perspective.
Of course he's a right wing ideologue. As the explosion of sites like DailyKos and shows like the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Countdown with Keith Olberman show, there is great appetite for challenging the right wing. Murdock has a vast media empire - what has he done to cater to this market? Nada, zilch, zip, ninguno...
look up NEWSROOM - it's not synonymous with TALKING HEAD
You say that like it makes a difference. Newsrooms continually and consistently downplay GOP scandals when possible - i.e. the "bipartisan" Abramoff scandal - while treating non-issues as Dem scandals - i.e. Pelosi One. When a GOP scandal is too big to ignore, like with the House pages, it's a top story for a couple weeks and then the press forgets about it. As opposed to Whitewater.
I saw them discussing every major republican scandal that every other news org discussed.
You mean like calling for a pardon of Scooter Libby and listing Mark Foley as a Democrat from Florida?
As to the recount, it was the NEW YORK TIMES that reported their recount showed BUSH taking Florida. Learn to read, and get over it.
Only under selective recounts. With a full, statewide recount, Gore won under every scenario. Eat it, bitch.
Apples and oranges are both fruit. Therefore they are the same.
You can't put Iraq in the same class of destruction that was Germany or Japan post world war II.
Yes, Iraq is in far worse shape. For starters, Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at around 650,000, or 2.5% of it's population. During WWII, Japanese civilians casualties were 580,000. Japan had fewer casualties despite having a much higher population, not to mention being the only country ever to have been nuked. Germany had more casualties, but almost the same percentage as Iraq: 2.6%. Furthermore, once the war stop Europe and Japan were quickly rebuilt, considering the damaged caused by the war. Iraq just gets worse and worse. Furthermore, at least during WWII civilians had air raid sirens to warn them of attacks. Iraqi civilians get no such warnings for an IED left in a market or a death squad setting up fake roadblocks.
You claim Iraq was firebombed? Really?
I don't mean literally. Just what do you think "shock and awe", phosphorous shells, and 15,000 lbs Daisy Cutters are for?
Firebombing involves thousands of bombs and hundreds of aircraft and kills 100,000 people at a pop.
If firebombing killed "100,000 people at a pop" they wouldn't have bothered inventing nuclear weapons.
And, once again. Iraqis are killing each other! That's not America's fault. Nobody is making them do it. They do it on their own. The civil war is not the fault of the United States.
Of course it's the fault of those who lied us into war and then conducted that war with extreme incompetence. Anyone who spent five minutes on Wikipedia could have told them that Iraq was a religious/ethnic/political powder keg ready to blow.
Where was the civil war in Germany after World War II? Where was the civil war in Japan after World War II? It didn't happen.
Because there were no extreme tribal and religious divides in those countries, you dumb bastard.
Your ignorance of history is utterly amazing.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Bitch.
While I appreciate your concern for my reading skills, "not as successful as Apple had hoped" is clearly a nice way of saying "a failure."
Nevermind reading, you need to work on pulling your head out. Profitable != failure in business. Say Disney wants to make $500 million on the latest Pirates movie on costs of $150 million, but it only takes in $400 million at the box office. It still made $250 million - maybe a disappointment, but far from a "failure".
I also have an 8600, and Bitpim works great for making ringtones. The only thing that pisses me off about the phone is there doesn't seem to be an external keyguard, so every once and a while it gets bumped in my pocket and starts playing mp3's or I have to erase a lot of pocket pictures and videos from the SD card.
I'm sure many creationists would say the same thing about science museums.
Sure, but science museums aren't exempt from labor and tax laws the way religious operations are.
Look at all the things that people buy into today, particularly in Europe, such as homeopathy, reflexology, chiropractics, magnet therapy, colonics, yadda yadda. How many people believe that irradiated strawberries are radioactive?
Sure sure, but those people generally aren't making policy and shoving their ideas down the throats of others.
I'm also in the midwest, and yes there are a lot of tolerant people out here. There are also a lot of intolerant assholes out here.
The primary requirement is for a 1-button default both for novice users and to encourage developers not to use improper design methods. That means if Apple were to added a second button to the trackpad, it would have to be a feature you could enable and disable (probably in software) like the mighty mouse. So who is it for? Novices prefer 1 button and it is easier for them.
I think the 'novice users' reasoning was great in the 80's, when popular computers were first getting GUI's and mice, and most computer users were new computer users. But as time goes on, the percentage of 'novice' users gets closer and closer to zero. i.e. my grandma has never shown any interest in computers, and at the ripe old age of 95, that's unlikely to change. I don't count kids as novice users since kids pick up the use of a mouse in about five seconds. And requiring a two button mouse didn't do much to slow the rate of the adoption of Windows.
There are of course developing countries where many people have never even seen a computer, much less used one. But people who live in developing countries and have never seen a computer are unlikely to pop $1,000 for an iMac.
Except when you walk into that hunting goods store all terms and conditions are up front BEFORE money changes hands. As opposed to a EULA.
Even if he ruled that the nobody-reads-the-EULA stance doesn't hold water, he should have ruled the EULA was only good for toilet paper as it was trying to enforce contractual terms after the sale was completed.
Or because jackasses like you have been shitting on this country day in and day out for the last 27 years.
Sure, sure. But but "not treating Christianity as seriously as the Pope" is not "making fun of Christianity". As for Flanders, the reason I said "most of the time" was the episode where he tries to baptize the Simpson kids in a river without the consent of the kids or their parents.
Gay tolerance, making fun of Christianity, making fun of immigration laws - yup, that has "GOP" written all over it.
Ken Mehlman, Mark Foley, Mary Cheney. The Simpsons are Christians, many episodes have Christian themes, and Ned Flanders is (usually) the paragon of an upstanding Christian. As for immigration, the GOP is all over the map on that one.
So if you want to go there, the Simpsons does have GOP written all over it.
They explained this on the simpsons when trying to figure out why Fox News is so anti liberal while Fox airs Family Guy and other non-conservative shows.
Because not conservative != liberal.
The smart thing to do when a line is not clearly drawn in the sand
That's the point: it's not clearly defined.