So, you somehow think your anecdote of not seeing something cancels someones anecdote of it happening? I can only hope you never ever have anything to do with statistical analysis.
Ever seen a rape? Well, I guess they never happen then! (get the idea moron?).
The original poster never claimed his anecodes proved anything..
This just means they see the writing on the wall and want to put a little legitimate infrastructure there to secure the 'Irish Scam'. They see the writing on the wall as the EU moves in of this tax scam, and by using this nice excuse the US has handed to them, they will get a nice little PR boost also. Ireland gets to make cents-on-the-dollar money from other countries lost taxes.
Of course if they actually wanted to secure anyones data, Ireland would not be the best place, by a long shot. All of its internet connectivity runs through the UK, practically the USs 52nd state so fast as the NSA are concerned.
Its actually quite funny looking at the undersea cable routed around that area, they actively bypass landing them in Ireland, choosing to run longer cables should risky areas instead..
May I suggest, Zondar the Mindless, that you look up 'Sarcasm' in a dictionary.. you remember that woosh you heard a while ago above your head? That was something flying over you..
Of COURSE a reduction in privacy is a loss of freedom, that is the point. Sigh. Let me guess, you are American? My mistake for not punching the message violently into your consciousness..
So.. what you are saying is that having near constant surveillance on anyone the US government wants, internally and externally, has not worked out well for them (them of course being the state..)? Or are you suggesting that the French government would not love to copy this political power grab to be able to monitor who/what/when they like for pretty much any reason?
I would suggest that these capabilities have worked out VERY well for the powers that be - there have been a few hiccups along the way, when the damn unwashed masses heard about it, and they actually had to get around to passing legislation to make it all look a touch more legitimate, however that is a small price to pay for absolute political power!
After all, what world leader would not want to be able to retroactively dig up huge masses of 'private' information on threats (to their political power of course..) when and if they need them! It revolutionises the process of both local and international negotiations! Think how easy it becomes to squash people who dont tow the line!
After all, they need all this power, as they obviously have only our best interests at heart. Think of the children!
Tokyo and NYC may well have the highest GDP, but how much of that do you think is local, and how much is attributes revenue because companies are housed there, and therefore it gets attributed their external revenues? How much of it is banks that are 'based' in NYC and yet do most of there earning externally? Corporates? other national chains? etc?
I would suggest that actual production capability of NYC is actually quite low, as there will be very little real production there, even if you count IP creation, etc.
There you go, apparently Good Christian Values can lead to peoples violent deaths also.. I guess all Christians must also be murderous bastards?
OR, just perhaps, these are a few particularly stupid and extreme idiots, being goaded along in a world that likes to shit all over their particular belief system.. Doesnt make their actions any better, but it doesnt allow you to label a whole belief system either. Unless we label them all.....
I would suggest that just a little remedial math could help you improve your huge miss-understanding in this situation.
But just to be helpful, no, halving the US rates wouldnt make them 'isn't that different' from Europe.. not even close.
The 'Fuck you, and here is my gun to prove it!' attitude of many Americans is the problem, what you are thinking about is just the scale of that problem, its still batshit crazy at all levels in most of the rest of the western world.
Honda CTX700 already gets 64 MPG in a reasonably large/comfortable commuter bike. The Honda GROM 125, which is more compact, is being reported by users at over 100MPG
There is significantly less room for electrics here, since bikes can already quite easily be very efficient, and the added weight as a percentage of total mass is much higher than a car.
Sure, there is a niche, but thats already pretty well catered for with steppies, and those are often already around 100MPG at 'city speeds'
Touring/Cruiser/etc bikes dont want electric on the whole (except again in a marketing niche). Harley etal already intentionally put piss poor engines in their bikes for pure marketing reasons, with horrendous fuel economy, terrible performance, and horrible weight - because thats what the market demands.
Electric bikes will exist in cities for noise/political reasons, and as a fashion niche, but will not become commonplace for some time.
While I do think the US penal system is very broken... this research is trivially shown to be a pile of garbage. It ASSUMES the only cause of recidivism can be the length of prison sentence, and therefore that relation is cause. It totally ignores that harder criminals, when caught tend to end up with longer sentences (because, well, they do worse crimes..) and that these same harder criminals are more likely to not change their ways.
Having spent some significant time with people who actually work with criminals in the prison systems I can tell you that the VERY unpopular but well proven fact is that there are generally two types of people. The prison psycologists often call them the sheep and the wolves. The sheep are usually these because of a bad situation or foolish mistake that spun out of control. They were late for a meeting, not thinking, and crashed into someone in their car killing them. Their personal/family situation got desperate so they had to steal to make things meet. They didnt usually drink much, but had a few that night, arrived home to find their partner in a screaming rage and punched them. etc. All very stupid and faulty, but not their usual actions. Punishment usually gives them a pretty big reality check.
The wolves however are very different, and not that rare. To them things are for the taking. They have the 'right' to do these things, and the punishment is just an unfortunate side effect. Next time they will just be 'tougher' and wont get caught. These people tend to spiral up not down and little if anything works to reduce their damaging effects on society because they see society as theirs to use/abuse as they want.
Prison is often, but not always, overkill for the sheep - they will usually see their mistake. Prison is often a requirement for the wolves, because is KEEPS THEM AWAY FROM SOCIETY.
Prison is not primarily a punishment, it is a way to protect society as a whole. This is where the system is falling down - we are not separating those two groups and treating them suitably... because the crime itself does not tell you which type they are.
Unfortunately there is a strong feeling among quite a bit of modern society that 'bad boys will become good, they just need more love'. The wolves live on this..It is their free ride and they know it.
We need to judge more on intent and less on crime. We need a wider range of 'suitable' punishments, and many more 'unpleasant but not prison' options. We need to accept that some people should not be part of society. And we need to stop wishing everyone would just love each other more.. Because some people are good, some are bad. Deal with it.
This kid, of course, needs a damn good kick in the entitlements. Not a prison sentence (yet). Only time will tell where he goes.
Boy, the FUD on this one is going to be impressive.
Tell me, if its your baby who cannot get treatment with a nebulizer because multi-thousand dollar 'certified' equipment is not affordable, when $50 of parts would do the job perfectly well, will you feel the same? Welcome to the lives of a good proportion of the worlds population.
Of course that doesnt apply to YOU right? to fuck em.. let them watch their children die. MIT should convert themselves to another business school and turn out more MBAs!
Of course the party you either fail to appreciate, or dont want to mention is that the regulations are strongly supported by the incumbents.
It created a very artificially high gateway to entry for competitors, while the cost of maintaining it is well covered for the current manufacturers who use it as a way to charge artificially high profit margins in the name of 'safety'. Many of the regulatory requirements have been actively created BY the manufacturers.. This is of course how almost all of the medical industry operates, certainly not just the manufacturers.
The natural reaction to this is of course a black market in affordable 'medicine' for people who just cannot afford to take that ride. Unfortunately the US has just taken the opposite tack by trying to 'spread the load' instead, continuing to fuel its insane medical inefficiencies, and to continue to maximise profitability for medical related companies. What a surprise.
If you really think that top quality medicine costs that much, then I suggest you visit South Korea... Their private medical services are very high grade, and cost much, much less. Their fault rates are also lower..
The fact is that a lot of diagnosis (and other) equipment is cheap to make these days, and is not directly a safety threat to patients. The medical system however does not want large price drops in one area, as they are worried at all levels that it may tip the scales and their own gravy trains may get tipped..
To suffer a modern day Inquisition in the US you had to be a damn dirty Commie! (or suspected of being one by the right people). However, thats not a religion, right? so its all ok:) happy shiny times for all!!
No, the US pushed for and funded the illegal immigration into the area (mostly as a move to avoid post-war immigration of European Jews to America). The British actively fought against it, and were the targets of terrorist attacks in response (see the King David Hotel Bombing, for example). The US then pressured a desperate Britain to allow things to continue. In the end Britain, in desperation, turned the problem over to the UN, where the US championed a decision allowing the seeding of modern Israel. The British still tried to resist this, and were only pushed out under force of arms.
So no, saying the UK created the nation os Israel is, in fact, simple insanity, or more likely an attempt to rewrite history.
And yet, it seems, you have not heard of current day Israel.
Interesting. You apparently have done ALL this research and not even noticed that small thorn in your statistical theory. ' The fact that you don't hear about Jews doesn't mean anything- numerically, they don't exist.'
However, the fact that we DO hear about Jews (Israelis) quite often, and their nearly constant and well documented human rights violations, means quite a lot, as they are - as you say, a tiny minority. Therefore statistically they are pretty damn active in this area..
Your statistics regarding percentages are also a lot of tripe sorry, as the ratio of 'true believers' is what matters rather than the practically useless numbers which tend to lump whole countries in to certain religious groups based on historical details...
I am not excusing ANY of the groups. Using religion (or pretty much anything else) as an excuse to persecute others is just plain disgusting.
The reason we are seeing these beatups is because the manufacturers of such consumer items see India, Africa, and China as growth markets as they develop an increasing middle class, however the norm there is to buy our (usually perfectly functional and/or easy to repair) discarded items, and use those at a fraction of the cost.
This REDUCES CORPORATE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES, hence must be squashed at any cost, including outright lies (and I suspect much much more).
E-Waste is a huge lie, what we are seeing here is active recycling. Exactly what we want, but of course the purveyors of new goods hate..
Seriously, the efforts being made by computer equipment manufacturers to block the export of perfectly functional second hand equipment to such countries, where they will be used and cared for for a long time, is just disgusting (Cisco is a very good example of this.. their older 100mbit equipment is throwaway in the west, and sells very well in the 3rd world..)
So we are just seeing the usual easily swallowed lies being picked up by the idiocracy of the general populous/media, who it seems cannot critically think their way out of a paper bag.
Same thing happens all the time with second hand cars (often by a moving target of 'safety standards').
Reuse is by FAR the best form of recycling, and yet our governments are fighting it tooth and nail. Sad.
You DO know what a gearbox is, right? and that most cars have them? Just wondering, since that kind of shows that you dont have a fucking clue... but hey.
BUT, just in case. torque would matter if both vehicles were forced to stay in the same total end to end gearing ratio.. As soon as gearing can be changed to obtain maximum hp, then HP is the only thing that matters for power output.
So no, they are not 'geared for better torque', they produce more torque at lower RPM, which means exactly squat.
And I have both, turbo diesel and petrol, with similar torques (actually higher peak in diesel) and petrol has about 40% more hp. Its a no contest between them in acceleration. The petrol destroys the diesel.
Perfect! Now, from what I can tell, the majority is China followed by India India. I would suspect both are pretty much good with this, and more.
Here is my bet. In the good ole US of A, this will quietly/'secretly' be used to build beefier quarterbacks and taller execs. In Asia this will be publicly used to treat congenital diseases.
The US will scream in horror at what Asia is doing.
1) I think the word you are looking for is 'fashion' as in people think having an iwatch ion their wrist will somehow make them cool. good luck with that. 2) I can only assume you have not actually looked at the competition on this one. 3) And again, you missed the fact that most of the Android watches last longer? Even Apple dont rate their watch for 24 whole hours. 4) You mean just like android? 5) Um, what? is that in some way an apple only feature? Oh, I see. because apple use THAT name for it it is somehow special. hmmm. 6) Yes, a nice and effective way to reduce battery life even further. Enjoy.
BTW I do like your rationalisation at the end where anything that doesnt quite work properly must not be needed, so you can just bin it;)
Thank god that outside the Apple walled garden there is some choice - hell, you can even get WATCH shaped watches;)
And no doubt when the insurance investigators get access to the data as part of the fine-print on your contract, and decide you were not doing exactly what they believe is correct in a given situation, then you will be at fault.
Let alone once the police decide that data is theirs also.
Well, unless when they sold the game they STATED CLEARLY that the game was not sold, but was an 18 month lease of service then YES WE DO. Otherwise it is a violation of the contract established at the time of sale - at a minimum they owe the purchaser a percentage refund based on the possible time the purchaser could play the game - lets say 10-20 years of hardware compatibility availability? 90% should be fair.
You see, when you sell someone an item, YOU HAVE TO DAMN WELL STAND BEHIND IT!
Imagine if you bought a house and it started falling down after 18 months... perhaps that would also just be ok? after all, the seller got what they wanted.. Or are people who want what they paid for just cheap bastards? Still, I guess you will get your EA shill money no matter.. but then they dont pay you to be a moron do they, you do it voluntarily.
Ah, but you are not thinking through his claim well enough!;)
A magical spirit that has existed forever somehow decided to make just us, here, and has a bunch of rather arbitrary rules that we must follow or we go to hell for eternity, or heaven if we follow them (which seem to be somewhat flexible and changing, as they once included stoning people to death and keeping slaves, but now, not so much..) is OBVIOUS (or pick another one of the hundreds of belief systems if you like..), but that instead of that, the same life-after-death existence cannot possibly involve ending up on top of the local big volcano, a place that has been part of the peoples life for all their life?
However perhaps towermac was meaning the type of Creator described in Star Maker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker), who couldnt really care less about our existence, but I have my doubts;)
I bet when their children are sick they take them to a hospital, not up to the sacred sites.. But dont worry, it will all be made better when their leaders decide to bless the site and make it ok. Of course that costs.. a lot.. because... sacred!
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So, you somehow think your anecdote of not seeing something cancels someones anecdote of it happening?
I can only hope you never ever have anything to do with statistical analysis.
Ever seen a rape? Well, I guess they never happen then! (get the idea moron?).
The original poster never claimed his anecodes proved anything..
Exactly.
I would be almost certain these are "So, have you stopped beating your wife yet?" style questions.
Still, the media will love it.
Um no, they are ALREADY doing that.
This just means they see the writing on the wall and want to put a little legitimate infrastructure there to secure the 'Irish Scam'.
They see the writing on the wall as the EU moves in of this tax scam, and by using this nice excuse the US has handed to them,
they will get a nice little PR boost also. Ireland gets to make cents-on-the-dollar money from other countries lost taxes.
Of course if they actually wanted to secure anyones data, Ireland would not be the best place, by a long shot. All of its internet
connectivity runs through the UK, practically the USs 52nd state so fast as the NSA are concerned.
Its actually quite funny looking at the undersea cable routed around that area, they actively bypass landing them in Ireland, choosing
to run longer cables should risky areas instead..
May I suggest, Zondar the Mindless, that you look up 'Sarcasm' in a dictionary.. you remember that woosh you heard a while ago above your head? That was something flying over you..
Of COURSE a reduction in privacy is a loss of freedom, that is the point. Sigh.
Let me guess, you are American? My mistake for not punching the message violently into your consciousness..
So.. what you are saying is that having near constant surveillance on anyone the US government wants, internally and externally, has not worked out well for them (them of course being the state..)?
Or are you suggesting that the French government would not love to copy this political power grab to be able to monitor who/what/when they like for pretty much any reason?
I would suggest that these capabilities have worked out VERY well for the powers that be - there have been a few hiccups along the way, when the damn unwashed masses heard about it, and they actually had to get around to passing legislation to make it all look a touch more legitimate, however that is a small price to pay for absolute political power!
After all, what world leader would not want to be able to retroactively dig up huge masses of 'private' information on threats (to their political power of course..) when and if they need them! It revolutionises the process of both local and international negotiations! Think how easy it becomes to squash people who dont tow the line!
After all, they need all this power, as they obviously have only our best interests at heart.
Think of the children!
Um... No.
Tokyo and NYC may well have the highest GDP, but how much of that do you think is local, and how much is attributes revenue because companies are housed there, and therefore it gets attributed their external revenues? How much of it is banks that are 'based' in NYC and yet do most of there earning externally?
Corporates? other national chains? etc?
I would suggest that actual production capability of NYC is actually quite low, as there will be very little real production there, even if you count IP creation, etc.
Have you ever stopped to think that perhaps part of the reason they as so god damn fucking angry is BECAUSE of the dropped bombs?
I just wonder, how many years of bombs being dropped on your families would it take for you to consider a driveby on the people doing it?
But no, its the RELIGION thats the problem.. cannot be anything else.
http://www.alternet.org/story/150899/how_american_evangelism_triggered_the_murder_of_gays_overseas
There you go, apparently Good Christian Values can lead to peoples violent deaths also.. I guess all Christians must also be murderous bastards?
OR, just perhaps, these are a few particularly stupid and extreme idiots, being goaded along in a world that likes to shit all over their particular
belief system.. Doesnt make their actions any better, but it doesnt allow you to label a whole belief system either.
Unless we label them all.....
I would suggest that just a little remedial math could help you improve your huge miss-understanding in this situation.
But just to be helpful, no, halving the US rates wouldnt make them 'isn't that different' from Europe.. not even close.
The 'Fuck you, and here is my gun to prove it!' attitude of many Americans is the problem, what you are thinking about
is just the scale of that problem, its still batshit crazy at all levels in most of the rest of the western world.
Honda CTX700 already gets 64 MPG in a reasonably large/comfortable commuter bike.
The Honda GROM 125, which is more compact, is being reported by users at over 100MPG
There is significantly less room for electrics here, since bikes can already quite easily be very efficient, and
the added weight as a percentage of total mass is much higher than a car.
Sure, there is a niche, but thats already pretty well catered for with steppies, and those are often already
around 100MPG at 'city speeds'
Touring/Cruiser/etc bikes dont want electric on the whole (except again in a marketing niche). Harley etal already
intentionally put piss poor engines in their bikes for pure marketing reasons, with horrendous fuel economy, terrible
performance, and horrible weight - because thats what the market demands.
Electric bikes will exist in cities for noise/political reasons, and as a fashion niche, but will not become commonplace
for some time.
Yawn, not this again.
While I do think the US penal system is very broken... this research is trivially shown to be a pile of garbage.
It ASSUMES the only cause of recidivism can be the length of prison sentence, and therefore that relation is cause.
It totally ignores that harder criminals, when caught tend to end up with longer sentences (because, well, they do worse crimes..) and that
these same harder criminals are more likely to not change their ways.
Having spent some significant time with people who actually work with criminals in the prison systems I can tell you that the VERY unpopular
but well proven fact is that there are generally two types of people. The prison psycologists often call them the sheep and the wolves.
The sheep are usually these because of a bad situation or foolish mistake that spun out of control. They were late for a meeting, not thinking,
and crashed into someone in their car killing them. Their personal/family situation got desperate so they had to steal to make things meet. They
didnt usually drink much, but had a few that night, arrived home to find their partner in a screaming rage and punched them. etc. All very stupid
and faulty, but not their usual actions. Punishment usually gives them a pretty big reality check.
The wolves however are very different, and not that rare. To them things are for the taking. They have the 'right' to do these things, and the
punishment is just an unfortunate side effect. Next time they will just be 'tougher' and wont get caught. These people tend to spiral up not down
and little if anything works to reduce their damaging effects on society because they see society as theirs to use/abuse as they want.
Prison is often, but not always, overkill for the sheep - they will usually see their mistake.
Prison is often a requirement for the wolves, because is KEEPS THEM AWAY FROM SOCIETY.
Prison is not primarily a punishment, it is a way to protect society as a whole.
This is where the system is falling down - we are not separating those two groups and treating them suitably... because the crime itself does not
tell you which type they are.
Unfortunately there is a strong feeling among quite a bit of modern society that 'bad boys will become good, they just need more love'. The wolves
live on this..It is their free ride and they know it.
We need to judge more on intent and less on crime.
We need a wider range of 'suitable' punishments, and many more 'unpleasant but not prison' options.
We need to accept that some people should not be part of society.
And we need to stop wishing everyone would just love each other more.. Because some people are good, some are bad. Deal with it.
This kid, of course, needs a damn good kick in the entitlements. Not a prison sentence (yet). Only time will tell where he goes.
Area man bases all decisions on the first popular media example that strings to mind.
Boy, the FUD on this one is going to be impressive.
Tell me, if its your baby who cannot get treatment with a nebulizer because multi-thousand dollar 'certified' equipment is not
affordable, when $50 of parts would do the job perfectly well, will you feel the same? Welcome to the lives of a good proportion
of the worlds population.
Of course that doesnt apply to YOU right? to fuck em.. let them watch their children die.
MIT should convert themselves to another business school and turn out more MBAs!
Of course the party you either fail to appreciate, or dont want to mention is that the regulations are strongly supported by the incumbents.
It created a very artificially high gateway to entry for competitors, while the cost of maintaining it is well covered for the current manufacturers
who use it as a way to charge artificially high profit margins in the name of 'safety'. Many of the regulatory requirements have been actively
created BY the manufacturers..
This is of course how almost all of the medical industry operates, certainly not just the manufacturers.
The natural reaction to this is of course a black market in affordable 'medicine' for people who just cannot afford to take that ride. Unfortunately
the US has just taken the opposite tack by trying to 'spread the load' instead, continuing to fuel its insane medical inefficiencies, and to continue
to maximise profitability for medical related companies. What a surprise.
If you really think that top quality medicine costs that much, then I suggest you visit South Korea... Their private medical services are very high
grade, and cost much, much less. Their fault rates are also lower..
The fact is that a lot of diagnosis (and other) equipment is cheap to make these days, and is not directly a safety threat to patients. The medical
system however does not want large price drops in one area, as they are worried at all levels that it may tip the scales and their own gravy trains
may get tipped..
Quite Right!
To suffer a modern day Inquisition in the US you had to be a damn dirty Commie! (or suspected of being one by the right people). :) happy shiny times for all!!
However, thats not a religion, right? so its all ok
No, the US pushed for and funded the illegal immigration into the area (mostly as a move to avoid post-war immigration of European Jews to America).
The British actively fought against it, and were the targets of terrorist attacks in response (see the King David Hotel Bombing, for example).
The US then pressured a desperate Britain to allow things to continue.
In the end Britain, in desperation, turned the problem over to the UN, where the US championed a decision allowing the seeding of modern Israel.
The British still tried to resist this, and were only pushed out under force of arms.
So no, saying the UK created the nation os Israel is, in fact, simple insanity, or more likely an attempt to rewrite history.
And yet, it seems, you have not heard of current day Israel.
Interesting. You apparently have done ALL this research and not even noticed that small thorn in your statistical theory.
' The fact that you don't hear about Jews doesn't mean anything- numerically, they don't exist.'
However, the fact that we DO hear about Jews (Israelis) quite often, and their nearly constant and well documented
human rights violations, means quite a lot, as they are - as you say, a tiny minority. Therefore statistically they
are pretty damn active in this area..
Your statistics regarding percentages are also a lot of tripe sorry, as the ratio of 'true believers' is what matters rather than
the practically useless numbers which tend to lump whole countries in to certain religious groups based on historical
details...
I am not excusing ANY of the groups. Using religion (or pretty much anything else) as an excuse to persecute others is
just plain disgusting.
People are missing the point my friend.
The reason we are seeing these beatups is because the manufacturers of such consumer items see India, Africa, and China as growth markets as they
develop an increasing middle class, however the norm there is to buy our (usually perfectly functional and/or easy to repair) discarded items, and use those
at a fraction of the cost.
This REDUCES CORPORATE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES, hence must be squashed at any cost, including outright lies (and I suspect much much more).
E-Waste is a huge lie, what we are seeing here is active recycling. Exactly what we want, but of course the purveyors of new goods hate..
Seriously, the efforts being made by computer equipment manufacturers to block the export of perfectly functional second hand equipment to such countries,
where they will be used and cared for for a long time, is just disgusting (Cisco is a very good example of this.. their older 100mbit equipment is throwaway
in the west, and sells very well in the 3rd world..)
So we are just seeing the usual easily swallowed lies being picked up by the idiocracy of the general populous/media, who it seems cannot critically think
their way out of a paper bag.
Same thing happens all the time with second hand cars (often by a moving target of 'safety standards').
Reuse is by FAR the best form of recycling, and yet our governments are fighting it tooth and nail. Sad.
You DO know what a gearbox is, right? and that most cars have them?
Just wondering, since that kind of shows that you dont have a fucking clue... but hey.
BUT, just in case. torque would matter if both vehicles were forced to stay in the same total end to end gearing ratio..
As soon as gearing can be changed to obtain maximum hp, then HP is the only thing that matters for power output.
So no, they are not 'geared for better torque', they produce more torque at lower RPM, which means exactly squat.
And I have both, turbo diesel and petrol, with similar torques (actually higher peak in diesel) and petrol has about 40% more hp.
Its a no contest between them in acceleration. The petrol destroys the diesel.
Perfect!
Now, from what I can tell, the majority is China followed by India India. I would suspect both are pretty much good with this, and more.
Here is my bet.
In the good ole US of A, this will quietly/'secretly' be used to build beefier quarterbacks and taller execs.
In Asia this will be publicly used to treat congenital diseases.
The US will scream in horror at what Asia is doing.
Have a nice day.
However in the real world...
1) I think the word you are looking for is 'fashion' as in people think having an iwatch ion their wrist will somehow make them cool. good luck with that.
2) I can only assume you have not actually looked at the competition on this one.
3) And again, you missed the fact that most of the Android watches last longer? Even Apple dont rate their watch for 24 whole hours.
4) You mean just like android?
5) Um, what? is that in some way an apple only feature? Oh, I see. because apple use THAT name for it it is somehow special. hmmm.
6) Yes, a nice and effective way to reduce battery life even further. Enjoy.
BTW I do like your rationalisation at the end where anything that doesnt quite work properly must not be needed, so you can just bin it ;)
Thank god that outside the Apple walled garden there is some choice - hell, you can even get WATCH shaped watches ;)
And no doubt when the insurance investigators get access to the data as part of the fine-print on your contract, and decide you were not doing exactly what they believe is correct in a given situation, then you will be at fault.
Let alone once the police decide that data is theirs also.
Let the fun times roll.
Well, unless when they sold the game they STATED CLEARLY that the game was not sold, but was an 18 month lease of service then YES WE DO.
Otherwise it is a violation of the contract established at the time of sale - at a minimum they owe the purchaser a percentage refund based on the possible
time the purchaser could play the game - lets say 10-20 years of hardware compatibility availability? 90% should be fair.
You see, when you sell someone an item, YOU HAVE TO DAMN WELL STAND BEHIND IT!
Imagine if you bought a house and it started falling down after 18 months... perhaps that would also just be ok? after all, the seller got what they wanted..
Or are people who want what they paid for just cheap bastards?
Still, I guess you will get your EA shill money no matter.. but then they dont pay you to be a moron do they, you do it voluntarily.
Ah, but you are not thinking through his claim well enough! ;)
A magical spirit that has existed forever somehow decided to make just us, here, and has a bunch of rather
arbitrary rules that we must follow or we go to hell for eternity, or heaven if we follow them (which seem to be somewhat flexible and
changing, as they once included stoning people to death and keeping slaves, but now, not so much..) is OBVIOUS (or pick another
one of the hundreds of belief systems if you like..), but that instead of that, the same life-after-death existence cannot possibly involve
ending up on top of the local big volcano, a place that has been part of the peoples life for all their life?
However perhaps towermac was meaning the type of Creator described in Star Maker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Maker), who ;)
couldnt really care less about our existence, but I have my doubts
This..
I bet when their children are sick they take them to a hospital, not up to the sacred sites..
But dont worry, it will all be made better when their leaders decide to bless the site and make it ok.
Of course that costs.. a lot.. because... sacred!