Besides, this is SanDisk. They put out products that sell retail, and then quietly decide not to provide full support.
Just this weekend I found that the support for software bundled on a flash drive (value-added, ya know? Remember that stuff) doesn't work because they decided that supporting that software is now reserved for only a select part of their product line.
You know they COULD have either recalled the stuff still on the shelves of the major retailers selling it (In this case Staples), or at a minimum sent stickers to put on the package or similar warnings. Instead, after a few hours of trying to get it to work, the little girlie on the chat line blithely informed that it wasn't supposed to work anymore. Skuzzy behavior makes me at least plan to avoid their products.
If they do this to a friggin flash drive, imagine a 100 yr card. "Take the money and run!"
Sorry. Just because the most proximate person "selling" a product believes in it, doesn't mean the process isn't a scam. It just means it's being propagated at the lower(est?) level by the gullible.
I think it's more than that, though. Intelligent Design is a study in dishonesty, liberally slatherd with a coating of "lying for Jesus is OK". If it has to come up, it needs to be shown for the con job it is, not given a pass as a minor indiscretion.
Putting Intelligent Design in schools is simply a chance to wedge in an opportunity to try yet again to undermine logical and scientific thought and training and replace it with magical, Christian theology.
Pretending otherwise is disingenious. It allows a free pass to liars.
It's not all that often you can trace a war to religion, it's not all the often you can't find a religious component after the war is initiated by those in charge.
Religious fervor is an amazing way to get people to fight and _die_.
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While perhaps true, since the thread is about old-school Unix admins, this comment is perfect for /.
Besides, this is SanDisk. They put out products that sell retail, and then quietly decide not to provide full support. Just this weekend I found that the support for software bundled on a flash drive (value-added, ya know? Remember that stuff) doesn't work because they decided that supporting that software is now reserved for only a select part of their product line. You know they COULD have either recalled the stuff still on the shelves of the major retailers selling it (In this case Staples), or at a minimum sent stickers to put on the package or similar warnings. Instead, after a few hours of trying to get it to work, the little girlie on the chat line blithely informed that it wasn't supposed to work anymore. Skuzzy behavior makes me at least plan to avoid their products. If they do this to a friggin flash drive, imagine a 100 yr card. "Take the money and run!"
Sorry. Just because the most proximate person "selling" a product believes in it, doesn't mean the process isn't a scam. It just means it's being propagated at the lower(est?) level by the gullible.
I think it's more than that, though. Intelligent Design is a study in dishonesty, liberally slatherd with a coating of "lying for Jesus is OK". If it has to come up, it needs to be shown for the con job it is, not given a pass as a minor indiscretion. Putting Intelligent Design in schools is simply a chance to wedge in an opportunity to try yet again to undermine logical and scientific thought and training and replace it with magical, Christian theology. Pretending otherwise is disingenious. It allows a free pass to liars.
It's not all that often you can trace a war to religion, it's not all the often you can't find a religious component after the war is initiated by those in charge. Religious fervor is an amazing way to get people to fight and _die_.