I absolutely LOVE that there's an "ad" for the ZIP code in there! Took a while to catch on; I wasn't born until a few years later, and I still remember having to learn "the new system" in school -- they must have been pushing that idea for over a decade!
You know once you've hit it, and everyone else does also. I think it sort of 'just works'. Why don't you?
Thanks to growth hormones in our livestock, 12-year-olds look like the 18-year-olds of my youth. So, no, "everyone else" does not also know, based on physical characteristics anyway. So I don't think it "just works". Making 18 years the age of consent has contributed to destroying our society; I have a female relative something like 5 generations back (+/- 100 years) who married at 13. Our bodies have not evolved much at all since then, especially not pushing puberty off by 5 more years.
So, we're forcing "physical adults" to still be "incapable children" when their bodies are fully capable and are in fact being urged to do the deed by their very hormones, which are expressing this urgency because they "know" (even if the individual doesn't) that the individual can die at any time, so it's best to start reproducing as soon as physically able -- see "The Selfish Gene". (Yes, I know that there are other concerns like the ability to support one's self; I'm just talking about the physical aspects, like you were.)
So, perhaps you can't reasonably opt out of society. You can't opt out of the capitalist system, either. You can't opt out of paying for the things you get. This is a fact of life, and fair.
Ah, but you can opt out of life, and thus escape society, the capitalist system, and paying for things. This is also a fact of life, and fair. And, it seems like that's the real goal of some of the folks who want out of "society". And that makes me sad, because we have ways to treat depression. Just smoke some weed! Oh wait... Now back to opting out of life again.
You know, I still think Gates owes all of us that was stuck with that turkey an apology and a copy of XP Home. Where is my apology you rich bastard!!! Just as I think the Ballmer monkey should do the right thing and say he was sorry for Vista and give those stuck with that loser at least Windows 7 Starter just to say he was sorry. WHERE IS MY APOLOGY YOU FAT BASTARD!
Not exactly the apology you were looking for, but: Kevin Turner, COO, recently called the iPhone 4 "Apple's Vista" -- so at least there is some acknowledgement of their flaws.
Yes I know I've been smoking the Utopian cool aid, but at no point in history has humanity been able to give something to every person on the planet. We can't do it with food, clothing, shelter, but we can do it with digital information.
Yes, we can currently; and, soon, we'll be able to do it with physical goods. I can't wait for the Singularity, even if it means my transformation into something I'll no longer recognize.
If music, movies, software and books are freely distributed they pretty much have zero value.
Completely false. I've read many older works from Project Gutenberg that enriched my life: the works of Mark Twain; Da Vinci; Einstein's theory of relativity; Machiavelli; O Henry; and many more.
Don't you dare try telling me that the works that have enriched my life for free have zero value. It's true, I spent zero dollars on them. That doesn't at all mean that the value transfer was equivalent in both directions.
The Public Domain is truly a force to be reckoned with, even if the USA has gutted it in the past century.
Yeah, sure, you can still buy all these books in a bookstore. But with Project Gutenberg (and a good reader), why would you?
I don't think they provided beer at all, free or not. AFAIK, what speakeasies sold was moonshine. Beer has too little alcohol per volume, why would you go to the trouble of carrying that much water around when the cops were after you?
Exactly. Same reason we now have crack; it's more concentrated than cocaine, so one can carry higher dollar value for the same risk (or same dollar value, for lower risk). I fucking hate the war on some drugs. Go watch "Union", Canada rocks (BC bud!).
It would take several generations of tape-to-tape copy to degrade fidelity to the point it became unacceptable to the normal ear.
Completely agree. When I was a kid, I had the worst setup possible: a mono AM/FM radio with no line out, and a tape recorder (the flat kind, with the buttons on the front, like 9" x 4" x 2"). I used to start Dr. Demento just before I went to bed, telling everyone "be quiet in this room!", and taping "over the air". I would listen to it until the tape wore out. I didn't care about the sound quality; I just loved "Shaving Cream", "Dead Puppies", "Little Nash Rambler", much by Tom Lehrer, "Pencil Neck Geek", and many more. Too bad the tapes are all gone now.
I'm afraid you missed my point. Adding anything to a car adds cost, and corporations are designed to maximize profits. Maximizing profits means both reducing costs, and increasing revenues. Perhaps they can sell the car at more of a premium based on the "new safety features" but chances are if they're not mandated, they're noise, and noise doesn't sell cars. You were a bit more polite than the other responder, though, and for that, we thank you.
Hey, I'm not arguing against the sensors: I'm saying that there's an uphill battle because the corporations are designed to maximize profit, and adding additional layers of complexity costs money. Both the design, and the recurring cost of creating additional units, and ultimately to the consumer (both in terms of increased cost for the final product, and increased maintenance costs). But hey, you're still free to shoot the messenger. (Duh on me; your name is "dissy", I get it...)
Money isn't the only cost; these sensors have weight, as well, so they add to the price-per-mile. (Perhaps negligibly; but adding many sensors won't likely be negligible -- and then they would also add to the design cost.)
If anything, what Microsoft's relatively long history of handheld mobile device development has revealed is that they have consistently and repeatedly squandered each opportunity to develop breakthrough products with a sense of refinement and attention to the user experience. Quite the opposite--they try to shoehorn existing paradigms (and therefore existing software and interfaces) into new hardware because they suffer from such a pervasive degree of corporate mismanagement, unwillingness to take design risks, and complete lack of imagination, that the contrast in Apple vs. MS approaches might well be considered the quintessential object lesson in product development. Indeed, the fact that MS has been developing such devices for so long and yet have so little to show for it, makes their blatant incompetence all the more inexcusable.
The problem with Apple doing this is that it would be an admission of guilt. An admission that an Apple product has a flaw would destroy the image that Apple has worked to create and doing this would destroy the reason that many people buy Apple products.
Weird thing is, Apple can't rewrite Consumer Reports articles. The image is damaged, and their inaction is damaging it further. Or perhaps it's all shiny happy bubble land, I don't know, I was never offered the kool-aid.
I was going to reply to your initial post, but I see someone already found that flaw. I want to add, though, that "unless" is merely "!if", in Perl -- so your statement is TMTOWTDI-compliant.:)
In addition to the other response, it is possible that this couple had another destination after the Denny's that was far enough to "reasonably" drive to, and didn't want to risk their lives crossing the street twice unnecessarily just to get back to the car so they could drive to their next destination.
While that's true, that's private property. This is public property, for which now trespassing can convert you into a felon with full non-voting rights. Yet nobody from BP is even in prison. (Yet?)
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I absolutely LOVE that there's an "ad" for the ZIP code in there! Took a while to catch on; I wasn't born until a few years later, and I still remember having to learn "the new system" in school -- they must have been pushing that idea for over a decade!
Hi, I never know when someone adds me as a friend, so I'm letting you know that I loved your analysis, and just subscribed to your newsletter. :)
Thanks to growth hormones in our livestock, 12-year-olds look like the 18-year-olds of my youth. So, no, "everyone else" does not also know, based on physical characteristics anyway. So I don't think it "just works". Making 18 years the age of consent has contributed to destroying our society; I have a female relative something like 5 generations back (+/- 100 years) who married at 13. Our bodies have not evolved much at all since then, especially not pushing puberty off by 5 more years.
So, we're forcing "physical adults" to still be "incapable children" when their bodies are fully capable and are in fact being urged to do the deed by their very hormones, which are expressing this urgency because they "know" (even if the individual doesn't) that the individual can die at any time, so it's best to start reproducing as soon as physically able -- see "The Selfish Gene". (Yes, I know that there are other concerns like the ability to support one's self; I'm just talking about the physical aspects, like you were.)
Ah, but you can opt out of life, and thus escape society, the capitalist system, and paying for things. This is also a fact of life, and fair. And, it seems like that's the real goal of some of the folks who want out of "society". And that makes me sad, because we have ways to treat depression. Just smoke some weed! Oh wait... Now back to opting out of life again.
Ha! Hahahahaha!
Not exactly the apology you were looking for, but: Kevin Turner, COO, recently called the iPhone 4 "Apple's Vista" -- so at least there is some acknowledgement of their flaws.
Wow, I remember when your signature had a typo, and now I have a better understanding of why.
Yes, we can currently; and, soon, we'll be able to do it with physical goods. I can't wait for the Singularity, even if it means my transformation into something I'll no longer recognize.
Completely false. I've read many older works from Project Gutenberg that enriched my life: the works of Mark Twain; Da Vinci; Einstein's theory of relativity; Machiavelli; O Henry; and many more.
Don't you dare try telling me that the works that have enriched my life for free have zero value. It's true, I spent zero dollars on them. That doesn't at all mean that the value transfer was equivalent in both directions.
The Public Domain is truly a force to be reckoned with, even if the USA has gutted it in the past century.
Yeah, sure, you can still buy all these books in a bookstore. But with Project Gutenberg (and a good reader), why would you?
Exactly. Same reason we now have crack; it's more concentrated than cocaine, so one can carry higher dollar value for the same risk (or same dollar value, for lower risk). I fucking hate the war on some drugs. Go watch "Union", Canada rocks (BC bud!).
Completely agree. When I was a kid, I had the worst setup possible: a mono AM/FM radio with no line out, and a tape recorder (the flat kind, with the buttons on the front, like 9" x 4" x 2"). I used to start Dr. Demento just before I went to bed, telling everyone "be quiet in this room!", and taping "over the air". I would listen to it until the tape wore out. I didn't care about the sound quality; I just loved "Shaving Cream", "Dead Puppies", "Little Nash Rambler", much by Tom Lehrer, "Pencil Neck Geek", and many more. Too bad the tapes are all gone now.
Your post, too many words. (Mine too.)
I'm afraid you missed my point. Adding anything to a car adds cost, and corporations are designed to maximize profits. Maximizing profits means both reducing costs, and increasing revenues. Perhaps they can sell the car at more of a premium based on the "new safety features" but chances are if they're not mandated, they're noise, and noise doesn't sell cars. You were a bit more polite than the other responder, though, and for that, we thank you.
Hey, I'm not arguing against the sensors: I'm saying that there's an uphill battle because the corporations are designed to maximize profit, and adding additional layers of complexity costs money. Both the design, and the recurring cost of creating additional units, and ultimately to the consumer (both in terms of increased cost for the final product, and increased maintenance costs). But hey, you're still free to shoot the messenger. (Duh on me; your name is "dissy", I get it...)
Money isn't the only cost; these sensors have weight, as well, so they add to the price-per-mile. (Perhaps negligibly; but adding many sensors won't likely be negligible -- and then they would also add to the design cost.)
Evidence shows they hate their employees, too.
I got the image of the Broken Window Fallacy. Next!
Okay, you just described me and all my geek friends. Unintentionally, of course...
Weird thing is, Apple can't rewrite Consumer Reports articles. The image is damaged, and their inaction is damaging it further. Or perhaps it's all shiny happy bubble land, I don't know, I was never offered the kool-aid.
I was going to reply to your initial post, but I see someone already found that flaw. I want to add, though, that "unless" is merely "!if", in Perl -- so your statement is TMTOWTDI-compliant. :)
On a QWERTY keyboard, "s" and "d" are adjacent. I would consider this simply a typo, not an intentional tense change.
Yes, as does your stopping distance! :)
In addition to the other response, it is possible that this couple had another destination after the Denny's that was far enough to "reasonably" drive to, and didn't want to risk their lives crossing the street twice unnecessarily just to get back to the car so they could drive to their next destination.
While that's true, that's private property. This is public property, for which now trespassing can convert you into a felon with full non-voting rights. Yet nobody from BP is even in prison. (Yet?)
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