I'll see your anecdote and raise you one. I have a 2 year old Samsung SPH-a680. Whenever I am carrying too much stuff and drop something, it's always the phone that takes a 4 foot trip to the concrete. Never the wallet. Never the car keys. Always the phone. I've dropped that sucker so many times that almost all the finish has worn off, and it still works flawlessly.
Going by uid, I've been around longer than you, and others have been around longer than me. Nothing's changed...the QC has always been crappy to non-existant, and they'll post whatever they think people will talk about. It used to every 2.2.x release would get posted...now it's anything to with Apple. If you think the story is lame, why click on "Read More"?
It's not an excuse if it's not going to make any difference. Content industries are certainly entitled to set whatever prices they want, but the content is only worth what people are willing and able to pay. A large majority of a pirate's collection is likely to be stuff he would never buy at the **AA's prices, even if he had plenty of money to spend.
I would bet that the vast majority of pirates have a very high debt to income ratio, and couldn't buy more than a small fraction of their collections even if they wanted to.
The problem with the media is that they make judgments on viewpoints rather the facts, the opposite of how it should be. An example of the former would be the media's obsession with Al Gore's non-existant "fib factor" back in 2000. As for the latter, how many times do you see a reporter say "George Bush lied again today, when he said his NSA wiretapping is about listening in on suspected terrorists, as it was already legal under the FISA statute..."
When. And there's a difference between not being omniscient and ignoring reports plopped on your desk telling you that terrorists are determined to strike in the U.S., soon, and that they might use planes to do so.
was "weak" on terrorism in the same way that Bush 1, Regan, and, need it even be said, Carter were.
How so. Clinton was the first to bomb Al Qaeda, and the first to have a standing capture or kill order on Osama.
Ultimately, there was no political will on either side of the aisle to remove the terrorist threat.
It's not a matter of will, it's a matter of being impossible. We will ALWAYS have a problem with terrorism, just as we will ALWAYS have illegal drug use. This is why the "war on terror" is as asinine and will be as successful as the "war on drugs". What we need to do is go back to the simple policy that was talked about shortly after 911: we wont differentiate between terrorist organizations and the governments that shelter them. This was working great in Afganistan, until Bush let his obession with Saddam get the better of him, a cluster fuck that will probably claim more American lives than Osama did five years ago.
Facts are facts. Clinton had the opportunity to take down Bin Laden. He refused.
That's not a fact, that's a lie. Clinton was the first to bomb Al Qaeda, and the first to have a standing capture or kill order on Osama.
The Foley thing is mostly a Democrat fabrication. Yes, he sent some emails in poor taste, but never to any minors. The pedophile thing exists only in the minds of Democrats.
More lies. 16 year olds are minors, and the first calls for Hasert to resign came from Republicans.
Stop being tricked by the liberal media. Do some actual research.
There is "liberal bias" in the media and never has been. Stop lying, and stop being a bitch for the corrupt GOP. Unless you want the Democrats to win, that is.
and Ted Turner and CNN aren't shills for the left...
Then why do conservatives get their own (primetime) shows on CNN while liberals do not, eh?
The privacy of my medical records is more important to me than letting Bush, Clinton or J Edgar Hoover know I called my girlfriend 6 times today.
That's because you are stupid. Here, let me switch that around and be equally flippant: who cares if the gvt knows I saw a chiropractor twice in July when they can look through my bank records and tap my phone and internet communications without a warrant?
But there's the catch -- the system isn't quick and speedy.
Yes, it is, and anytime a Republican claims otherwise, they are lying. "Speed" is a red herring, they can get a warrant 72 hours after the fact. "Spying on terrorists" is a red herring, because they can do that to their hearts content under FISA. They want to be able to tap without warrants not to spy on terrorists, but to spy on anyone at all, even if they no suspicion whatsoever that the person is guilty of anything.
Funny how you're leaving out the fact that the leading figures in the party that bitterly dislikes him also say we need this.
Who would that be, exactly. Go on, start rattling off "leading" Democrats who think we need warrantless searches. Reid has gone on record as saying that Specter's bill is going nowhere...too bad he didn't have the same backbone for the torture bill.
FISA doesn't help you at all when you're dealing with a shifting network of multiple, one-time-use trash phones, VoIP, etc.
Neither will the NSA program. And besides, you have a higher chance of killing yourself than dying from a terrorist attack, so those who want to sell our freedoms for a false sense of security can FOAD.
Mac cultists can't seem to understand the fact that Apple will never capture the gamer market. My PC is built from the ground up to be a gaming machine.
PC cultists keep falling for the falacy of comparing a Mac to a do-it-yourself machine, when they really need to be comparing OEM's to OEM's. Of course you can build a faster, cheaper system yourself than buying one from Apple - but the same is true for Dell, HP or any other OEM.
Also, Exposé runs fine on a 1.33 GHz G4 with 32 MB VRAM (although most OS X eye candy like 64 MB VRAM), while Flip 3D will require 64MB or, more likely, 128MB VRAM.
It's useful even on a Rev A iMac with it's amazing 4 meg, 9 year old ATI chipset. It's a little slower and you don't have the slick window sliding from OpenGL, but you can still see all the windows on you screen at once.
I also plan on running 2000 for as long as I possibly can. The difference, imo, between Apple and Microsoft is that Apple comes up with new features that are actually usefull, whereas Microsoft comes up with new features to entice users to upgrade, reguardless of how useful or not the new features actually are. See 'personalized menus' and Clippy for examples.
Not that I would like the american model here with huge class differences here, but fact is fact.;)
Fact is fact, except for when it's a statistic. You need to compare the average of the average, because the super rich will distort any comparisons of median household income.
How about all those Intel, AMD, Dell etc etc in Malaysia, Taiwan and around the world. Didn't the lower cost of building all the components there help to decrease the prices of computing, encouraging demand.
There's a big difference between creating new jobs overseas, and destroying American jobs to move them overseas so the board can see their annual 50% pay increase.
Lots of devices use non-easily replaceable batteries, but only Apple get's bitched at. I don't see people complaining here that the Dell DigitalDJ is just like the iPod in this respect. If you don't want to get a kit and do it yourself, Apple charges $50 to replace an iPod battery. Or if you abosolutely want a player that uses simple AA's, then buy one. Either way, stop whining.
It is a logical impossibility for "Millions of atheists [to] have NO problem telling right from wrong" -- WHAT right and WHAT wrong?
By the basic concept that any three year old can grasp: don't do anything to others that you don't want them to do to you. Duh.
So where does the definition of what is right and what is wrong come from? It can't come from you, or any other human
Um, athiests are human, and again have no problems telling right from wrong, see above. That you continue to insist that this is impossible without some sort of higher bs, despite all evidence to the contrary, means you should not breed. Because you are stupid. It's not an insult, just a simple statement of fact that you have gone out of your way to demonstrate.
Without an absolute right and wrong given by a higher authority, there is NO definition of right and wrong.
Millions of atheists have NO problem telling right from wrong and by definition do not belive in a "higher authority". If you can't deal with this simple fact maybe you should consider not breeding for the sake of humanity.
Talk about the point sailing over your head. Millions of people are perfectly capable of seeing "right from wrong" without the crutch of religion to help them do so. An athiest doesn't need to read the bible to know that stealing, killing, or cheating on your spouse are "wrong".
I think that's more a sign of people wanting jobs than people wanting to work at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart does provide jobs, but not good paying ones, and frequently destory other jobs in order to do so.
In your analogy, Rubbermaid would go ahead and cut costs and quality to meet the $5 price of that cheap chinese import. But then Wal-Mart asks for a 5% cost reduction the next year. And the year after that, and after that, until Rubbermaid goes out of business. It happened to Vlasic. Wal-Mart is also single-handedly driving offshoring through this pracetice - before, companies would offshore to match prices out of a need to compete with cheap Asian imports, or for executive greed. Now companies have to offshore just to survive thanks to Wal-Mart's greed. So please, spare us the elitism, and the "arrogance" here is not coming from Rubbermaid.
I've not been too impressed with some of Wal-Mart's recent actions, but that, my friend, is a flat-out lie. I have seen a manager fired for doing just that with only a few minutes of time.
Maybe that Wal-Mart was sued? Because, yes Wal-Mart has been busted for messing with people's timeclocks numerous times. This of course is not company policy, but when upper management has the unstoppable force of "you must get all your work done" meet the immovable object of "you must not pay overtime", something is going to give in middle management.
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I'll see your anecdote and raise you one. I have a 2 year old Samsung SPH-a680. Whenever I am carrying too much stuff and drop something, it's always the phone that takes a 4 foot trip to the concrete. Never the wallet. Never the car keys. Always the phone. I've dropped that sucker so many times that almost all the finish has worn off, and it still works flawlessly.
Going by uid, I've been around longer than you, and others have been around longer than me. Nothing's changed...the QC has always been crappy to non-existant, and they'll post whatever they think people will talk about. It used to every 2.2.x release would get posted...now it's anything to with Apple. If you think the story is lame, why click on "Read More"?
It's not an excuse if it's not going to make any difference. Content industries are certainly entitled to set whatever prices they want, but the content is only worth what people are willing and able to pay. A large majority of a pirate's collection is likely to be stuff he would never buy at the **AA's prices, even if he had plenty of money to spend.
I would bet that the vast majority of pirates have a very high debt to income ratio, and couldn't buy more than a small fraction of their collections even if they wanted to.
The problem with the media is that they make judgments on viewpoints rather the facts, the opposite of how it should be. An example of the former would be the media's obsession with Al Gore's non-existant "fib factor" back in 2000. As for the latter, how many times do you see a reporter say "George Bush lied again today, when he said his NSA wiretapping is about listening in on suspected terrorists, as it was already legal under the FISA statute..."
Bill Clinton did miss several opportunities
When. And there's a difference between not being omniscient and ignoring reports plopped on your desk telling you that terrorists are determined to strike in the U.S., soon, and that they might use planes to do so.
was "weak" on terrorism in the same way that Bush 1, Regan, and, need it even be said, Carter were.
How so. Clinton was the first to bomb Al Qaeda, and the first to have a standing capture or kill order on Osama.
Ultimately, there was no political will on either side of the aisle to remove the terrorist threat.
It's not a matter of will, it's a matter of being impossible. We will ALWAYS have a problem with terrorism, just as we will ALWAYS have illegal drug use. This is why the "war on terror" is as asinine and will be as successful as the "war on drugs". What we need to do is go back to the simple policy that was talked about shortly after 911: we wont differentiate between terrorist organizations and the governments that shelter them. This was working great in Afganistan, until Bush let his obession with Saddam get the better of him, a cluster fuck that will probably claim more American lives than Osama did five years ago.
Facts are facts. Clinton had the opportunity to take down Bin Laden. He refused.
That's not a fact, that's a lie. Clinton was the first to bomb Al Qaeda, and the first to have a standing capture or kill order on Osama.
The Foley thing is mostly a Democrat fabrication. Yes, he sent some emails in poor taste, but never to any minors. The pedophile thing exists only in the minds of Democrats.
More lies. 16 year olds are minors, and the first calls for Hasert to resign came from Republicans.
Stop being tricked by the liberal media. Do some actual research.
There is "liberal bias" in the media and never has been. Stop lying, and stop being a bitch for the corrupt GOP. Unless you want the Democrats to win, that is.
and Ted Turner and CNN aren't shills for the left...
Then why do conservatives get their own (primetime) shows on CNN while liberals do not, eh?
The privacy of my medical records is more important to me than letting Bush, Clinton or J Edgar Hoover know I called my girlfriend 6 times today.
That's because you are stupid. Here, let me switch that around and be equally flippant: who cares if the gvt knows I saw a chiropractor twice in July when they can look through my bank records and tap my phone and internet communications without a warrant?
But there's the catch -- the system isn't quick and speedy.
Yes, it is, and anytime a Republican claims otherwise, they are lying. "Speed" is a red herring, they can get a warrant 72 hours after the fact. "Spying on terrorists" is a red herring, because they can do that to their hearts content under FISA. They want to be able to tap without warrants not to spy on terrorists, but to spy on anyone at all, even if they no suspicion whatsoever that the person is guilty of anything.
Marines and Coast Guard are under the Navy.
Funny how you're leaving out the fact that the leading figures in the party that bitterly dislikes him also say we need this.
Who would that be, exactly. Go on, start rattling off "leading" Democrats who think we need warrantless searches. Reid has gone on record as saying that Specter's bill is going nowhere...too bad he didn't have the same backbone for the torture bill.
FISA doesn't help you at all when you're dealing with a shifting network of multiple, one-time-use trash phones, VoIP, etc.
Neither will the NSA program. And besides, you have a higher chance of killing yourself than dying from a terrorist attack, so those who want to sell our freedoms for a false sense of security can FOAD.
Mac cultists can't seem to understand the fact that Apple will never capture the gamer market. My PC is built from the ground up to be a gaming machine.
PC cultists keep falling for the falacy of comparing a Mac to a do-it-yourself machine, when they really need to be comparing OEM's to OEM's. Of course you can build a faster, cheaper system yourself than buying one from Apple - but the same is true for Dell, HP or any other OEM.
Also, Exposé runs fine on a 1.33 GHz G4 with 32 MB VRAM (although most OS X eye candy like 64 MB VRAM), while Flip 3D will require 64MB or, more likely, 128MB VRAM.
It's useful even on a Rev A iMac with it's amazing 4 meg, 9 year old ATI chipset. It's a little slower and you don't have the slick window sliding from OpenGL, but you can still see all the windows on you screen at once.
I also plan on running 2000 for as long as I possibly can. The difference, imo, between Apple and Microsoft is that Apple comes up with new features that are actually usefull, whereas Microsoft comes up with new features to entice users to upgrade, reguardless of how useful or not the new features actually are. See 'personalized menus' and Clippy for examples.
Not that I would like the american model here with huge class differences here, but fact is fact. ;)
Fact is fact, except for when it's a statistic. You need to compare the average of the average, because the super rich will distort any comparisons of median household income.
Because 90% of the world doesn't use Mac OS.
No, because Microsoft was very sloppy when designing Windows. Marketshare is irrelevant.
Because OSX has about 5% of the users that Windows does :-/
Nope. Windows has been a cesspool because of Microsoft's design decisions, not because of marketshare.
How about all those Intel, AMD, Dell etc etc in Malaysia, Taiwan and around the world. Didn't the lower cost of building all the components there help to decrease the prices of computing, encouraging demand.
There's a big difference between creating new jobs overseas, and destroying American jobs to move them overseas so the board can see their annual 50% pay increase.
Lots of devices use non-easily replaceable batteries, but only Apple get's bitched at. I don't see people complaining here that the Dell DigitalDJ is just like the iPod in this respect. If you don't want to get a kit and do it yourself, Apple charges $50 to replace an iPod battery. Or if you abosolutely want a player that uses simple AA's, then buy one. Either way, stop whining.
It is a logical impossibility for "Millions of atheists [to] have NO problem telling right from wrong" -- WHAT right and WHAT wrong?
By the basic concept that any three year old can grasp: don't do anything to others that you don't want them to do to you. Duh.
So where does the definition of what is right and what is wrong come from? It can't come from you, or any other human
Um, athiests are human, and again have no problems telling right from wrong, see above. That you continue to insist that this is impossible without some sort of higher bs, despite all evidence to the contrary, means you should not breed. Because you are stupid. It's not an insult, just a simple statement of fact that you have gone out of your way to demonstrate.
Without an absolute right and wrong given by a higher authority, there is NO definition of right and wrong.
Millions of atheists have NO problem telling right from wrong and by definition do not belive in a "higher authority". If you can't deal with this simple fact maybe you should consider not breeding for the sake of humanity.
Talk about the point sailing over your head. Millions of people are perfectly capable of seeing "right from wrong" without the crutch of religion to help them do so. An athiest doesn't need to read the bible to know that stealing, killing, or cheating on your spouse are "wrong".
I think that's more a sign of people wanting jobs than people wanting to work at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart does provide jobs, but not good paying ones, and frequently destory other jobs in order to do so.
In your analogy, Rubbermaid would go ahead and cut costs and quality to meet the $5 price of that cheap chinese import. But then Wal-Mart asks for a 5% cost reduction the next year. And the year after that, and after that, until Rubbermaid goes out of business. It happened to Vlasic. Wal-Mart is also single-handedly driving offshoring through this pracetice - before, companies would offshore to match prices out of a need to compete with cheap Asian imports, or for executive greed. Now companies have to offshore just to survive thanks to Wal-Mart's greed. So please, spare us the elitism, and the "arrogance" here is not coming from Rubbermaid.
I've not been too impressed with some of Wal-Mart's recent actions, but that, my friend, is a flat-out lie. I have seen a manager fired for doing just that with only a few minutes of time.
Maybe that Wal-Mart was sued? Because, yes Wal-Mart has been busted for messing with people's timeclocks numerous times. This of course is not company policy, but when upper management has the unstoppable force of "you must get all your work done" meet the immovable object of "you must not pay overtime", something is going to give in middle management.