It is also in no way established that more donations is the reason spending has been increased.
Because it's the other way around? They want a years funds as reserves, as they spend more each year they want more reserves. How is that not circular or why is it only circular if it goes the other way? It will keep going like that until it reaches an equilibrium or implodes.
"It would be egregious and unlawful for a major retailer, such as Tower Records, for example, to require that all music CDs purchased at Tower Records can be played only with CD players purchased at Tower Records. Yet, this is precisely what Apple has done."
No... CDs are an industry standard format, which the consumer experience shows can be used with any devices, so selling a CD that cannot be played in a CD player would be deceptive marketing.
You focus too much on the word cd, replace it with the word music in the quote and reread. MP3 is an industry standard just like CD, which most people would have started with unless they had iTunes do the ripping. Apple then convert to their own format to be able to play, in your analogy they would take your cds and convert it to one your cubes and only let you play the cube even though the device would technically be capable of playing cds.
If your disk crashes, or your music player is lost, then you now don't have that copy anymore.
Not to defend apple, because I fucking hate them, but that's the way backups work, and why backups of backups are a thing, and backups of those and so on until a person would safely feel they are fully protected in case of failure.
How do you know it only has a 30' range? These things being untested/uncertified and all.
How much power do you think they put in these things? My bet would be the minimum possible and also the cheapest. You're probably lucky to get 30' out of it.
Haha. I'm a daily smoker and I've never had an accident and avoided more than my fair share in more than 15 years. I know it's only anecdotal but I reckon you'd have just as good a result banning driving under the influence of too much caffeine. I mean, it makes you jittery and unable to concentrate properly, right? Bad news for driving.
I'd like to point out that Cinavia is not free. Companies that use it pay a fee for using it. I don't know what the price is, but I can tell you that Sony puts it on every BluRay they put out, even those foreign films they release that have limited audiences. For all I know, it may actually cost more to use Cinavia on some of those films than Sony can even make back in sales of the discs. Sony even puts it on a few DVDs and no DVD player is required to detect or support Cinavia, and they still sometimes use it there.
It costs a fair bit by the looks of it, and the also seem to take a dip from everyone on the chain
From wiki
Licensing[edit]
For Cinavia the owners Verance make their money through licensing agreements with several sections of the entertainment and media industry. As of March 2012 these licence costs due to Verance were $10,000–$300,000 per manufacturer of Blu-ray Disc players—for the rights to embed the Cinavia detection system—plus additional software costs for the implementation itself.[8] Production facilities need to pay $50 for each audio track that is watermarked with Cinavia.[8] Distribution houses must finally pay $0.04 per disc with Cinavia watermarked content included.[8]
Or, conversely, the politicians that ban guns in all federal buildings yet believe wholeheartedly that anyone should be able to carry semi-automatic assault rifles into their local Walmart.
That's because they never do, have or will go into a walmart.
I'm not clear why anyone cares about "net neutrality" anyway..
You'll care when they try and charge you extra to watch youtube or Netflix. Facebook? Oh that's heavy traffic that, surcharge. I'm not clear how anyone could be against net neutrality, basically you're saying your happy to pay more, not for extra but to not have your service artificially restricted for no better reason than you're happy to pay more.
last i checked, luxembourg is still a sovereign nation. this is about the USA is trying to tax companies & citizens of other countries.
Spot the one who works at amazon's legal dept. In what way is it about that? It's about amazon moving all their money to places where the make no tax by doing deals to licence it's name, site and itself to itself for vast or tiny sums of money depending on how the tax works in that particular country.
So, let me get this straight, pre jesus Christianity doesn't matter and what jesus said doesn't matter? The fact that jeus never existed to begin with certainly doesn't matter. You went on to explain
The point of Jesus was that he died for the sins of man so that we could be forgiven even though we sin.
which didn't really have anything to do with what I said. So did no one pre jesus got forgiven for anything? There were a lot more sins back then which may or may not still be sins depending on if you want them to be or not. But hey, you can be forgiven for them now so fuck you.
Did you really forget that? It's pretty well established.
Yes show me where Jesus says it all counts and can't be changed. Then I'll tell you why it doesn't matter. Oh heck I'll just tell you now. The point of Jesus wasn't to make things that used to be sins not sins anymore. The point of Jesus was that he died for the sins of man so that we could be forgiven even though we sin.
I guess you didn't get the message that Jesus transformed Christianity from a temporal religion to a spiritual, personal religion.
That's all so well and good but rapes, murders, slavery, beheadings for any one of a number of reasons were never sins to begin with and in some places are encouraged. I'm not even sure what your point is? Either follow this so called holy book or don't, you can't pick and choose which bits you like or say well what they actually meant was this because that's somewhere between blasphemy and heresy and to be frank, the rest of us are bored of it.
Not for Christians there not, show me in the new testament where is says this?
Oh right, I forgot the part where Christians get to ignore half the book because they know it's full of shit. How about showing you the part where jesus says it all counts and can't be changed?
That sums up the problem with math on wikipedia pretty well. It uses established notation but doesn't explain the notation. This continues in a perpetual circle reference which means that it impossible for someone not familiar with the notation to understand what it says, even if the math itself is extremely simple.
Completely useless if you just want to get a basic understanding of something.
I could understand it if Jobs was gay or it was a Cook thing but how is it 'gay propaganda' to have a memorial to a dead guy who was replaced by a gay guy. Are they insinuating gay is the new way or something?
It is simple. Sodomy gives you time-traveling super-powers. These are enhanced by waves of adoration directed at idols depicting anybody close to you. So Cook being gay now, and having been close to Jobs in the past, means that by showing fondness towards a Jobs statue you enhance the Gay Superpowers of Captain Cook.
But sure, there's fanatical people. What's the difference between Muslims and Christians?
Basically the difference is the name. Put an extreme Muslim next to an extreme Christian and it's hard to tell the difference, same with your everyday Joe Muslim and Johnny Christian. All religions have the potential to have the extremists, even none religious do (only they have to look harder for justification). It just so happens to be the Muslims turn in the spotlight to be 'the baddies' before that the Russians, before that the Germans, before that the Germans again etc etc etc.
Kinda does as it based entirely on synced time transmissions and triangulations. I don't think the coverage was that great in the 1800's though so they had to fall back on hand written directions from ye olde google maps I guess.
this is natures way of making sure the world doesn't get overcrowded. It's a sad fact but people NEED to die.
Then how do you explain the fact that some of the countries with the highest life expectancies, and almost no severe endemic diseases, are also the ones with the slowest-growing (or even shrinking) populations?
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It is also in no way established that more donations is the reason spending has been increased.
Because it's the other way around? They want a years funds as reserves, as they spend more each year they want more reserves. How is that not circular or why is it only circular if it goes the other way? It will keep going like that until it reaches an equilibrium or implodes.
"It would be egregious and unlawful for a major retailer, such as Tower Records, for example, to require that all music CDs purchased at Tower Records can be played only with CD players purchased at Tower Records. Yet, this is precisely what Apple has done."
No... CDs are an industry standard format, which the consumer experience shows can be used with any devices, so selling a CD that cannot be played in a CD player would be deceptive marketing.
You focus too much on the word cd, replace it with the word music in the quote and reread. MP3 is an industry standard just like CD, which most people would have started with unless they had iTunes do the ripping. Apple then convert to their own format to be able to play, in your analogy they would take your cds and convert it to one your cubes and only let you play the cube even though the device would technically be capable of playing cds.
Hmm... we had Soviet/Communism comparison, we had bad Jobs jokes...
You're right, what this thread sorely needed was a bad car analogy. We're complete now.
No, now we're just waiting on the Godwin.
If your disk crashes, or your music player is lost, then you now don't have that copy anymore.
Not to defend apple, because I fucking hate them, but that's the way backups work, and why backups of backups are a thing, and backups of those and so on until a person would safely feel they are fully protected in case of failure.
He crushed them utterly, killing most and executing the rest.
So killing them all then?
And Bluetooth too - the 30' menace.
How do you know it only has a 30' range? These things being untested/uncertified and all.
How much power do you think they put in these things? My bet would be the minimum possible and also the cheapest. You're probably lucky to get 30' out of it.
Hmm. We need something to stop the camera from falling to the ground.... A wall perhaps. A table. A chair, or perhaps a rock.
If you want to get serious you can always use a tripod but that's for geeky people. I guess that these things don't exist in the selfie world.
The days where people dared to trust strangers enough to ask them to take a picture are also long gone.
Dude, that won't even begin to cover the $2 that I owe the paperboy [1], or the $3.50 that I owe the loch ness monster [2]. :(
[1] = Better Off Dead (1985). [2] = Southpark, season 3 episode 3 (1999).
You don't have to reference your references and it makes you look like a knob. Just saying.
Haha. I'm a daily smoker and I've never had an accident and avoided more than my fair share in more than 15 years. I know it's only anecdotal but I reckon you'd have just as good a result banning driving under the influence of too much caffeine. I mean, it makes you jittery and unable to concentrate properly, right? Bad news for driving.
I've never seen a stoned musician slam a 2 ton metal guitar at 50mph into a crowd.
When was the last time you saw a stoned driver do that?
I'd like to point out that Cinavia is not free. Companies that use it pay a fee for using it. I don't know what the price is, but I can tell you that Sony puts it on every BluRay they put out, even those foreign films they release that have limited audiences. For all I know, it may actually cost more to use Cinavia on some of those films than Sony can even make back in sales of the discs. Sony even puts it on a few DVDs and no DVD player is required to detect or support Cinavia, and they still sometimes use it there.
It costs a fair bit by the looks of it, and the also seem to take a dip from everyone on the chain
From wiki
Licensing[edit] For Cinavia the owners Verance make their money through licensing agreements with several sections of the entertainment and media industry. As of March 2012 these licence costs due to Verance were $10,000–$300,000 per manufacturer of Blu-ray Disc players—for the rights to embed the Cinavia detection system—plus additional software costs for the implementation itself.[8] Production facilities need to pay $50 for each audio track that is watermarked with Cinavia.[8] Distribution houses must finally pay $0.04 per disc with Cinavia watermarked content included.[8]
Or, conversely, the politicians that ban guns in all federal buildings yet believe wholeheartedly that anyone should be able to carry semi-automatic assault rifles into their local Walmart.
That's because they never do, have or will go into a walmart.
I'm not clear why anyone cares about "net neutrality" anyway..
You'll care when they try and charge you extra to watch youtube or Netflix. Facebook? Oh that's heavy traffic that, surcharge. I'm not clear how anyone could be against net neutrality, basically you're saying your happy to pay more, not for extra but to not have your service artificially restricted for no better reason than you're happy to pay more.
last i checked, luxembourg is still a sovereign nation. this is about the USA is trying to tax companies & citizens of other countries.
Spot the one who works at amazon's legal dept. In what way is it about that? It's about amazon moving all their money to places where the make no tax by doing deals to licence it's name, site and itself to itself for vast or tiny sums of money depending on how the tax works in that particular country.
The point of Jesus was that he died for the sins of man so that we could be forgiven even though we sin.
which didn't really have anything to do with what I said. So did no one pre jesus got forgiven for anything? There were a lot more sins back then which may or may not still be sins depending on if you want them to be or not. But hey, you can be forgiven for them now so fuck you.
Did you really forget that? It's pretty well established.
Yes show me where Jesus says it all counts and can't be changed. Then I'll tell you why it doesn't matter. Oh heck I'll just tell you now. The point of Jesus wasn't to make things that used to be sins not sins anymore. The point of Jesus was that he died for the sins of man so that we could be forgiven even though we sin.
I guess you didn't get the message that Jesus transformed Christianity from a temporal religion to a spiritual, personal religion.
That's all so well and good but rapes, murders, slavery, beheadings for any one of a number of reasons were never sins to begin with and in some places are encouraged. I'm not even sure what your point is? Either follow this so called holy book or don't, you can't pick and choose which bits you like or say well what they actually meant was this because that's somewhere between blasphemy and heresy and to be frank, the rest of us are bored of it.
Not for Christians there not, show me in the new testament where is says this?
Oh right, I forgot the part where Christians get to ignore half the book because they know it's full of shit. How about showing you the part where jesus says it all counts and can't be changed?
Opposing gays and abortions isn't quite the same as selling them as sex slaves or beheading them, is it?
Both of which are also A-OK in the bible.
That sums up the problem with math on wikipedia pretty well. It uses established notation but doesn't explain the notation. This continues in a perpetual circle reference which means that it impossible for someone not familiar with the notation to understand what it says, even if the math itself is extremely simple. Completely useless if you just want to get a basic understanding of something.
Yeah, but there's a wiki for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Mathematics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering
it says basically nothing
I could understand it if Jobs was gay or it was a Cook thing but how is it 'gay propaganda' to have a memorial to a dead guy who was replaced by a gay guy. Are they insinuating gay is the new way or something?
It is simple. Sodomy gives you time-traveling super-powers. These are enhanced by waves of adoration directed at idols depicting anybody close to you. So Cook being gay now, and having been close to Jobs in the past, means that by showing fondness towards a Jobs statue you enhance the Gay Superpowers of Captain Cook.
Damn, I knew I should've chosen to be gay.
Almost every murder, terrorist act or bad thing has been committed within 24 hours of drinking water or a water based product! Something must be done!
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
But sure, there's fanatical people. What's the difference between Muslims and Christians?
Basically the difference is the name. Put an extreme Muslim next to an extreme Christian and it's hard to tell the difference, same with your everyday Joe Muslim and Johnny Christian. All religions have the potential to have the extremists, even none religious do (only they have to look harder for justification). It just so happens to be the Muslims turn in the spotlight to be 'the baddies' before that the Russians, before that the Germans, before that the Germans again etc etc etc.
yeah and GPS absolutely doesn't rely on clocks...
Kinda does as it based entirely on synced time transmissions and triangulations. I don't think the coverage was that great in the 1800's though so they had to fall back on hand written directions from ye olde google maps I guess.
this is natures way of making sure the world doesn't get overcrowded. It's a sad fact but people NEED to die.
Then how do you explain the fact that some of the countries with the highest life expectancies, and almost no severe endemic diseases, are also the ones with the slowest-growing (or even shrinking) populations?
Because they don't spit out 5-10 kids each?