"The plaintiff here filed suit in April 2011, shortly after the issue came to light in the press and after it had already been fixed by Apple."
If that is the case, then this is nothing more than extortion by the plaintiff. If Apple addressed the issue quickly and effectively then there is no "lawsuit" needed nor warranted, especially if it is class action.
Additionally, the "father" is not worthy of that title. If he couldn't trust his daughter to not buy "in-app" upgrades, she shouldn't have a friggin iPhone to start with. If it was an accident, then the guy should have made the daughter work off the debt and learn the valuable lesson that nothing is free in life. But rather than deal with the daughter's selfish behavior, he is trying to reward her with a "get rich quick" scheme.
Douchebags like that need to be humiliated (if that is even possible) into shame for total lack of parental skills.
Well, if you think about it.. the number of companies in the country, and divide it by the number of the companies making enough money and you then subtract out all the ones left that aren't doing very well...
You CAN answer the question "have you stopped beating your wife" with a simple "yes" or "no", even if you've never beat your wife. Saying "no" in that situation is perfectly acceptable, because you've never started beating your wife. The problem is the question is assumptive that you started beating your wife at some point, which is a faulty assumption. As a lawyer(IANAL) for someone asked that question, I would object to the question and ask for a rephrase without the assumption.
Standardized Tests aren't for the student's benefit. They are for the people making political decisions based on the results of those tests. The flaw in your logic is assuming that the people who require the tests care about the children required to take them. STAR testing all week here.
Which Fraud? The obviously over stuffed ballots ("hanging chads" are virtually impossible on a properly marked ballot) from Democratically controlled precincts or the Political maneuverings by the Republicans?
If you claim fraud on only one side, you're too partisan to make an informed opinion.
Reality is often more cruel than the (R) actually state. If it weren't for the fact that the Teacher's Unions are a Subsidiary of the (D) party you might have a point. The reality is there are enough bad teachers (yes, I've seen them) that you cannot dodge all the raindrops.
It is just as irresponsible as Democrats wanting every girl to get pregnant and have an abortion while handing out condoms at High School by reason of "they are going to do it anyways, might as well provide abortion and condoms". I mean, what part of education does handing condoms and taking kids to Planned Parenthood (oxymoronic) to have a medical procedure done.
See, it is easy to create proper hysterical hyperbole*
The point is, Education should focus on READING, WRITING and MATH, everything else comes from these, and we are neglecting these in favor of condoms** and creationism. Give me someone who can do these things, and I can teach them anything else. But we have people who are graduating High School who can't even make change at McDonalds or read an Election Ballot correctly.
As for Creationism and Condoms, I actually believe one is the response to the other. I'll let you figure out which one is which;)
*Please note, I'm a Libertarian, and think Education should be under the control of the parents, not the state. ** meaning Social Engineering .
Blame the Parents is often right, but often wrong. Parents don't get to choose their kids (usually) so they get what they get. I have three kids myself, and people loved to try to blame me for one of them as if I were to blame for the choices made. However, the counter to them is my other two that, while not perfect, are awesome none-the-less. I look at the whole of the family, the structure, at all the various bits and measure the results. Random chance explains exceptional kids raised by bad parents, and bad kids being raised by exceptional parents, and I've known my share of both. Most parents are normal everyday people doing the best they can, and their children are a direct reflection of this, being normal kids doing the best they can.
I'm wondering why they include x86 at all for WINTEL platform. Why not just say "we think that x86 computers cannot run Win8 acceptably so we are removing this as an option to prevent people from even trying" But then again, they think they can get it to run acceptably on ARM so...
Cannot be arrested for resisting arrest. There has to be something else first. I know, because I had a cop try to arrest me for it once. And no, being an asshole is not an arrestable offense.
So now, my standard phrase to a cop talking to me is "I'll resist your interrogation until you arrest me. Am I free to go or are you arresting me?" They have no choice at that point, the relationship has become adversarial, they have to let you go, or arrest you. If they arrest you, they better be arresting you for something other than "resisting arrest". And no, resisting is no the same as interfering.
He probably DID mean POTUS, given the recent comments from the POTUS to the SCOTUS regarding their obligation to overturn unconstitutional laws passed by both houses and signed by the POTUS.
And if GWB said the same thing, the liberals would have gone apeshit crazy (rightfully so) but alas they accept the former LAW PROFESSOR's weasel excuse to what he "really" meant {wink wink}
Yeah, i've seen that kind of thing, and I was avoiding it on purpose. Because, most people who pledge to never vote for a "Christian" or any other person of faith, will do exactly that come Nov. this year. Many of those will vote for Obama, and do so gladly because... well Obama is their kind of person of faith.
I'd love to see the "Atheist Party" candidate and what kind of wackjob they'd end up with. If I had my guess, most people who claim atheism end up voting for some big government (sky daddy substitute) politician like Obama.
Me, I'm not a "Christian". I am a Libertarian, and I don't have a problem with people of faith (or lack their of) politically. My point, Atheists will mock religious people and how they vote, but then often vote for exactly the person they just mocked (like Obama). They compromise their own values in doing so.
Unless Atheists some how got the message (hidden) that Obama isn't really a Christian (or Muslim), in which case, he is pretending (lying) about it, just to get elected. What kind of values is that?
Problem with Democracy is that it leads to mob rule and tyranny of the majority; two wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner.
The whole point of a Republic is to have statesmen (not politicians) make decisions for their constituents (people), but under the limitations of the governance system they are placed. Right now, the Constitution means whatever people want it to mean, which allows slimy politicians to create and keep resubmitting laws over and over again until they get one passed, and usually it is worse one of all that does.
But enough people want something, no matter how bad it is for everyone, that eventually there is no restriction and it becomes law. Tyranny of restraint-less governance.
Fairy Tales... Like "We're from the government and we're here to help"?
Or "This High Speed Rail project will only cost 38 Billion"?
Or "Republicans want you to get pregnant, have cancer, and eat puppies"?
Or "Democrats want you to smoke pot, have gay sex and molest children"?
The problem is, lots of people want to believe in fairy tales, including people who claim they don't. People are not rational, including the ones that claim to be. Get over it.
I abhor violence. My point, which you missed was the part "not so much". Things are relative. I noticed that you object to Abortion clinic bombings, but do you equally, and with equal voice, protest against Eco Terrorists, which commit more violence and "bombings" and Arson? Heck even Ted Kazinski had more "bombings" to his name than all the ones cited in the Abortion Statistics, and is accused of three deaths. I'm not even citing ELF or other eco terrorist organizations.
And I noticed that you cite "incidents" as is they were all equal in nature and scope. A "failed" arson attempt is equal to the FT Hood Massacre , in your approach. Yeah, sorry if I don't agree with your view of things.Too bad there wasn't an abortion clinic in OK City Alfred P. Murrah building, so you could cite that one as well.
Right. Because a idea isn't a failure even if the implementation is. I've had great ideas that when implemented badly turned out very bad. However after retuning the implementation a couple iterations ended up being grand successes. The hard part in some of these things is knowing when an idea is bad, and when the implementation is.
FYI, ideas are bad if the assumptions for the idea are wrong. If the assumptions are correct, then it is the implementation that is bad.
No the Terrorists are educating people like you to ignore what constitutes REAL terrorism. In other words... there is no comparison. You are a troll, and should have been modded as such.
Yes. He's in the White House. And Congress. And the State Capitol.
All you have to do is look at the laws passed since 9/11, signed by Presidents and Governors of Both Parties to know that I am right. And yet, most of you will still vote for one of these two parties come November.
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So you admit that the two parties in charge are corrupt, and yet you still want to work in that system. See the problem yet?
"The plaintiff here filed suit in April 2011, shortly after the issue came to light in the press and after it had already been fixed by Apple."
If that is the case, then this is nothing more than extortion by the plaintiff. If Apple addressed the issue quickly and effectively then there is no "lawsuit" needed nor warranted, especially if it is class action.
Additionally, the "father" is not worthy of that title. If he couldn't trust his daughter to not buy "in-app" upgrades, she shouldn't have a friggin iPhone to start with. If it was an accident, then the guy should have made the daughter work off the debt and learn the valuable lesson that nothing is free in life. But rather than deal with the daughter's selfish behavior, he is trying to reward her with a "get rich quick" scheme.
Douchebags like that need to be humiliated (if that is even possible) into shame for total lack of parental skills.
We don't like the French speakers.
"but at least he thinks about the little guy 1% of the time"
No, he just makes you THINK he does. You're part of the problem, excusing bad behavior based on someone else's worse behavior.
Well, if you think about it .. the number of companies in the country, and divide it by the number of the companies making enough money and you then subtract out all the ones left that aren't doing very well ...
(for reference see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhm7-LEBznk&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active )
You CAN answer the question "have you stopped beating your wife" with a simple "yes" or "no", even if you've never beat your wife. Saying "no" in that situation is perfectly acceptable, because you've never started beating your wife. The problem is the question is assumptive that you started beating your wife at some point, which is a faulty assumption. As a lawyer(IANAL) for someone asked that question, I would object to the question and ask for a rephrase without the assumption.
Standardized Tests aren't for the student's benefit. They are for the people making political decisions based on the results of those tests. The flaw in your logic is assuming that the people who require the tests care about the children required to take them. STAR testing all week here.
Which Fraud? The obviously over stuffed ballots ("hanging chads" are virtually impossible on a properly marked ballot) from Democratically controlled precincts or the Political maneuverings by the Republicans?
If you claim fraud on only one side, you're too partisan to make an informed opinion.
http://greenewable.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/how-to-fire-a-teacher-in-new-york-city/
Reality is often more cruel than the (R) actually state. If it weren't for the fact that the Teacher's Unions are a Subsidiary of the (D) party you might have a point. The reality is there are enough bad teachers (yes, I've seen them) that you cannot dodge all the raindrops.
It is just as irresponsible as Democrats wanting every girl to get pregnant and have an abortion while handing out condoms at High School by reason of "they are going to do it anyways, might as well provide abortion and condoms". I mean, what part of education does handing condoms and taking kids to Planned Parenthood (oxymoronic) to have a medical procedure done.
See, it is easy to create proper hysterical hyperbole*
The point is, Education should focus on READING, WRITING and MATH, everything else comes from these, and we are neglecting these in favor of condoms** and creationism. Give me someone who can do these things, and I can teach them anything else. But we have people who are graduating High School who can't even make change at McDonalds or read an Election Ballot correctly.
As for Creationism and Condoms, I actually believe one is the response to the other. I'll let you figure out which one is which ;)
*Please note, I'm a Libertarian, and think Education should be under the control of the parents, not the state.
** meaning Social Engineering .
Awesome Post! Nicely Done!
Blame the Parents is often right, but often wrong. Parents don't get to choose their kids (usually) so they get what they get. I have three kids myself, and people loved to try to blame me for one of them as if I were to blame for the choices made. However, the counter to them is my other two that, while not perfect, are awesome none-the-less. I look at the whole of the family, the structure, at all the various bits and measure the results. Random chance explains exceptional kids raised by bad parents, and bad kids being raised by exceptional parents, and I've known my share of both. Most parents are normal everyday people doing the best they can, and their children are a direct reflection of this, being normal kids doing the best they can.
Unfortunately for you, there is a bit of truth in what you said. :-D
I'm wondering why they include x86 at all for WINTEL platform. Why not just say "we think that x86 computers cannot run Win8 acceptably so we are removing this as an option to prevent people from even trying" But then again, they think they can get it to run acceptably on ARM so ...
Windows 8 should be Balmer's last failure.
Not really. Not compared to this method.
http://xkcd.com/538/
Cannot be arrested for resisting arrest. There has to be something else first. I know, because I had a cop try to arrest me for it once. And no, being an asshole is not an arrestable offense.
So now, my standard phrase to a cop talking to me is "I'll resist your interrogation until you arrest me. Am I free to go or are you arresting me?" They have no choice at that point, the relationship has become adversarial, they have to let you go, or arrest you. If they arrest you, they better be arresting you for something other than "resisting arrest". And no, resisting is no the same as interfering.
He probably DID mean POTUS, given the recent comments from the POTUS to the SCOTUS regarding their obligation to overturn unconstitutional laws passed by both houses and signed by the POTUS.
And if GWB said the same thing, the liberals would have gone apeshit crazy (rightfully so) but alas they accept the former LAW PROFESSOR's weasel excuse to what he "really" meant {wink wink}
Yeah, i've seen that kind of thing, and I was avoiding it on purpose. Because, most people who pledge to never vote for a "Christian" or any other person of faith, will do exactly that come Nov. this year. Many of those will vote for Obama, and do so gladly because ... well Obama is their kind of person of faith.
I'd love to see the "Atheist Party" candidate and what kind of wackjob they'd end up with. If I had my guess, most people who claim atheism end up voting for some big government (sky daddy substitute) politician like Obama.
Me, I'm not a "Christian". I am a Libertarian, and I don't have a problem with people of faith (or lack their of) politically. My point, Atheists will mock religious people and how they vote, but then often vote for exactly the person they just mocked (like Obama). They compromise their own values in doing so.
Unless Atheists some how got the message (hidden) that Obama isn't really a Christian (or Muslim), in which case, he is pretending (lying) about it, just to get elected. What kind of values is that?
Problem with Democracy is that it leads to mob rule and tyranny of the majority; two wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner.
The whole point of a Republic is to have statesmen (not politicians) make decisions for their constituents (people), but under the limitations of the governance system they are placed. Right now, the Constitution means whatever people want it to mean, which allows slimy politicians to create and keep resubmitting laws over and over again until they get one passed, and usually it is worse one of all that does.
But enough people want something, no matter how bad it is for everyone, that eventually there is no restriction and it becomes law. Tyranny of restraint-less governance.
Fairy Tales ... Like "We're from the government and we're here to help"?
Or "This High Speed Rail project will only cost 38 Billion"?
Or "Republicans want you to get pregnant, have cancer, and eat puppies"?
Or "Democrats want you to smoke pot, have gay sex and molest children"?
The problem is, lots of people want to believe in fairy tales, including people who claim they don't. People are not rational, including the ones that claim to be. Get over it.
I abhor violence. My point, which you missed was the part "not so much". Things are relative. I noticed that you object to Abortion clinic bombings, but do you equally, and with equal voice, protest against Eco Terrorists, which commit more violence and "bombings" and Arson? Heck even Ted Kazinski had more "bombings" to his name than all the ones cited in the Abortion Statistics, and is accused of three deaths. I'm not even citing ELF or other eco terrorist organizations.
And I noticed that you cite "incidents" as is they were all equal in nature and scope. A "failed" arson attempt is equal to the FT Hood Massacre , in your approach. Yeah, sorry if I don't agree with your view of things.Too bad there wasn't an abortion clinic in OK City Alfred P. Murrah building, so you could cite that one as well.
Right. Because a idea isn't a failure even if the implementation is. I've had great ideas that when implemented badly turned out very bad. However after retuning the implementation a couple iterations ended up being grand successes. The hard part in some of these things is knowing when an idea is bad, and when the implementation is.
FYI, ideas are bad if the assumptions for the idea are wrong. If the assumptions are correct, then it is the implementation that is bad.
Satan is in congress? I KNEW IT!!! That explains everything!
Yeah that happens so often. *Rolleyes*
http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/violence/history_extreme.asp
Blowing up ... not so much.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence#Murders
Murder ... not so much.
Compare with Islamic Terrorism in the US.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/AmericanAttacks.htm
No the Terrorists are educating people like you to ignore what constitutes REAL terrorism. In other words ... there is no comparison. You are a troll, and should have been modded as such.
Fucking George W Bush. What a fuckwit asshole hell bent on global domination and right wing totalitarianism. ...
Oh, wait ...
How is all that hope n change working out for you?
Yes. He's in the White House. And Congress. And the State Capitol.
All you have to do is look at the laws passed since 9/11, signed by Presidents and Governors of Both Parties to know that I am right. And yet, most of you will still vote for one of these two parties come November.
YOU are the terrorists, voting for Terrorism.