>>>any pending orders would get upgraded to the new models automatically, which was pretty cool of them.
Unless you didn't want the new models, then it would suck. For example I wouldn't want the new 4S phone because it has a dualcore that drains the battery faster than the old 4 model. If I order the "4" then that's exactly what I want..... not Apple to upgrade me.
Another example of this is where I ordered a stick-shift Beetle and the dealer "helpfully" upgraded me to the Automated Shift because "it gets +2 more MPG". Yeah. True. But I wanted to shift the car myself.
He lost a sale that day. Then he begged me to keep the business. So I told him to knock $1000 off the price. His foolish behavior cost him some cash. A customer wants Exactly what they what, not a a car dealer's or Apple's switcheroo.
I don't think Amazon planned it this way. They stopped production on the older Kindle Touch and Fire, and sold-out faster than anticipated. That's all..... no grand conspiracy.
Hardly. I know the word "Cardashians". I haven't the foggiest clue who they are or why TV/radio onair talent keeps talking about them. As for the OJ Trial I know there a joke about a poorly-fitting bra on Seinfeld that referenced OJ, but that's about it.
You left-out "fear". I admit that I was afraid of how this cop might act, but decided I'd rather exert my right to be free, than submit to illegal demands for an ID.
It helps if you read the WHOLE post before replying. "The Supreme Court has already ruled, again and again, that such detainments are a violation of the 4th amendment". In other words police are not allowed to detain your car's travel down the road for even one single minute. The DHS were acting like members of the East German Stazi, except this is not supposed to be happening in our land (the DHS swore an oath to obey the 4th amendment... no warrant or probable cause == no searches or detainments).
The first quote on your list is mistranslated, and I suspect the others are as well. When a list starts-off with a debunked lie, it holds zero credibility.
Besides we all know the president of Iran is not the real source of power. It is the elected Parliament and the Supreme Leader (ayatollah) that hold the strings. I don't want to say the Iranian president is a "puppet" but he's pretty close to it. The Supreme Leader has stated several times he disavows any idea of exterminating the Jews (which is why we see them living in Iran and happy to be there).
>>>the bottom is starting to shrink relative to the top
And that is exactly the mechanism by which Ponzi/pyramid schemes collapse. The bottom shrinks so that there is not enough money to support the people receiving money out the top. You say Social Security is "fixable" but I think the entire concept is flawed:
A better system would be one where SSI checks were only received if you needed the money..... folks who are well off (like me with ~10 million lifetime income) would not receive the benefits because we don't need the help. Then SSI could be sustainable like Welfare and Food Stamps are sustainable. It would only have to support ~20% of the retirees instead of 100%.
>>>strictly speaking the cloud is 'remote storage and remote processing', which is a bit of a mouthful
"Mainframe computing" Term invented in the 1960s or 70s (not sure which). Why do people think it's necessary to come up with new terms for old concepts? The other day I read about something called a "plugin hybrid" that is supposed to be revolutionary leap forward in automobiles. Then I realized it's the same concept as the old 1920s Electric Cars that were sold with add-on generators. New term; old concept.
>>>Okay, despite his confusion, at least he admitted he was ignorant about the subject.
Which is actually the OPPOSITE of what modern schooling teaches. The current method taught in education is that admitting you don't know will get scolded by the teacher ("Shame on you! Should have read the chapters!"). Plus it is better to GUESS on the typical mutliple choice test than leave it blank because you don't know.
So more of this government schooling would just lead to MORE of these types of answers from Americans: "Is cloud computing affected by weather?" Um.... well it's a cloud, haha. So I'll guess yes. (Surveyor writes down yes.)
At what point did a bird stop being a dinosaur? Was it when early dinosaurs developed feathers? Are those birds? Or dinos? (Yes I'm making a point: The precise delineation between two species, especially when they are in the process of changing, is not always obvious.)
It would be interesting as a thought experiment to imagine a world where the asteroid never happened. Would we now be looking at a world dominated by dinosaurs that have feathers instead of scales? Or maybe it would be half-and-half..... half scaled dinos and half feathered dinos.
>>>Infringement did make Samsung products more appealing and functional. That not only hurt Apple, but contributed to market share taken from Nokia and RIM.
Except what Apple did was obvious, and had already been done with prior art. If find it interesting you brought-up Amiga below:
>>>Atari ST software was updated when it infringed on the Mac, and the Amiga proved that competing products can not only avoid infringing, but innovate in new ways improving diversity in the marketplace.
The Amiga has been used as "prior art" to invalidate several patents over the years. Likewise pre-existing tablets invalidate Apple's patents, because they too represent prior art. (ASIDE: I'm surprised GEOS on the Commodore never got sued. It looked identical to a Mac.)
>>>maybe, just maybe, the foreman actually tried to do a good job, drawing on whatever personal experience he had to try and help the rest of his fellow jurors do a good job
We're not annoyed by that. We're annoyed because he tried to act as an Expert Witness on patent law, and provided false information that code running on a different CPU is not protected by a patent. Whether it was deliberate or accidental, it's still tainting the jury.
>>> I mean, once a jury has rendered a verdict, can you actually have it overturned because it's later found out that a juror has ulterior motives?
Yes higher level judges on the appeals court can find that the jury was tainted, or reached a conclusion not supported by the evidence presented to them, and declare a mistrial. It doesn't happen very often though,
>>>Finding someone who wasn't particularly familiar with him, or biased by existing coverage at that point meant finding absolute idiots or social pariahs who avoided all news outlets.
Hello! I was vaguely aware of the Bronco chase & that OJ was a part of that, but knew little else. (1) I don't care about stupid sports. (2) At the time I was more-interested in a new channel called Sci-Fi. (3) And passing my college exams.
That does not make me an idiot. On the contrary I think it makes me highly intelligent because I don't pay attention to tabloid shit like the OJ Scandl, or the Cardassians, or the recent Twlight romnce cheating thingies. It's all mindless pap.
Yes a scramjet would be straned in space w/ no way to move. Charleton Heston made a movie about it in the 70s.
And the SR-71 can takeoff with full tanks, but they leak all over the place. We had a supersonic jet called the Concorde and it failed to make a profit. Passengers didn't like the loudness of the ride (engine rumbling and air rushing past). I suspect any new jet would have the same flaw.
Used cars are not used in CAFE calculations, so they are irrelevant. I was referring to the fact carmakers will have a hard time meeting an average fuel economy of 54, when not a single car they sell meets even the minimum.
The reality is that they'll have to build a lot of 80-90 mpg econocars in order to offset the 30-40mpg gas guzzlers. Only one company has ever reached that lofty MPG rating (Volkswagen with the 80mpg diesel Lupo 3L).
Yes. No. Maybe. Greencars.org rated the SULEV gasoline Insight +10% cleaner than the various EV cars that have come out (they rated no cleaner than a Prius or Civic). A hydrogen car derives its water-cracked fuel from the same electric supply the EV runs-on, so I suspect an HV would score no better than the EV. Which means my gasoline Insight would still be +10% cleaner.
>>>Or maybe you're just making up friends and numbers in light of people responding who actually know what they're talking about?
Nice insult. I happened to be a member of several EV groups and read their reports on how much their cars burn. I am also a follower of ACEEE.org which says EV cars are no cleaner/efficient than a Prius or Civic Hybrid.
I also I know that saying a car gets "100MPG" like Cevy does with their Volt, and not taking into account the electricity usage is False advertising. Owners are surprised to discover their "fuel cost" (gas+electric)) is the same as a regular 40MPG car, and no money was saved versus just buying a Civic or Yaris. You see: I have zero patience for corporations that would try to defraud the customer in that fashion. I try to set the record straight when I can, so people are no misled with falsehoods.
No you failed to read what I wrote, or pay attention to the discussion at hand. I said a "new car" from a dealer lot, and the topic at hand is the EPA and the CAFE. The only numbers that matter are the ones printed on the sticker when I buy a new car.
The anecdotes from individual people are irrelevant (in fact most anecdotes are irrelevant when lab-controlled measurements are available). No new car has 54 or higher on their sticker. You can't buy such an animal.
>>>I saw that they had the power to tax, which they do.
Which means they have the power to punish as well, by fining people who didn't buy a certain product. Thanks Obama and Heritage Foundation for creating this stupid plan.
>>> The breasts perform a major bodily function (feeding babies). They are also psychologically important - some women who get their breasts removed feel much less "woman". Male circumcision is not even similar to that.
What a dipshit, man-hating reply. The foreskin also performs a major bodily function by protecting the head, protecting the sperm as they enter the body, and helping stimulate the woman's orgasm so she can "collect" the sperm into her womb. The foreskin has also been shown to be effective at scooping-out foreign sperm if the woman has been cheating (history shows that 1/3rd of female stray to other partners).
If the foreskin didn't matter either god or evolution would not have put it there. It would have disappeared. And yes the foreskin is psychologically important since it provides better feelings during pair-bonding with the man's mate.
>>>"This is why regulations rarely work"? Any fool that actually believes this Libertian bullshit needs to go spend sometime in Mogadishu.
Libertarian =/= Anarchist. You are the "fool" to equate these two philosophies. Libertarianism can be summed up eloquently by Jefferson: "It it were possible to have no government we would, but we resort to its creation in order to protect our inalienable rights." i.e. We believe in having a government not anarachy like Mogadishu.
>>> it is no accident that the countries with the most rules and highest taxes are also the least corrupt, are the safest and have the highest quality of life*.
From 2000 the number of U.S. regulations rose 80,000 to 140,000 pages, and yet we are more corrupt now than we were thirteen years ago. The regulations have been written by the corporations which have given themselves bankruptcy protection, bailouts, immunity from classaction suits, whistleblower laws that protect the company instead of the employee, and on and on. Those extra regulations have brought MORE corruption, not less.
Yes people who invest in Ponzi/pyramid schemes are "idiots" and I feel no sympathy for them. BTW the Social Security program is also a Ponzi/pyramid scheme (investors on the bottom support people exiting out the top). I'm amazed it lasted this long w/o collapsing.
>>>Iran is committed to the extinction of the Jews. This is a publicly stated policy
No there isn't. The comment you are referring to has been accurately translated as, "Someday the government in Jerusalem will fall and be wiped from the pages of history." It isn't the Jews that government hates, but the government. In fact there are many Jews living in Iran even as we speak, and they are not being round-up and exterminated. So stop spreading anti-Arab/Iranian hate speech and racism.
As for the nuclear weapon Secretary of Defense Panetta has alread said, "No I don't think Iran is developing a nuclear weapon. The fuel they have is not anywhere pure enough for weapon use, and it is within compliance with the Nonproliferation Treaty."
>>> by normal I mean not looking and acting like a homeless guy sufferring from PTSD
The Supreme Court has ruled that "acting suspicious or strange" is not probable cause, and the police cannot detain or search said citizen. They declared any evidence found in such a case should be thrown out as inadmissable.
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>>>any pending orders would get upgraded to the new models automatically, which was pretty cool of them.
Unless you didn't want the new models, then it would suck. For example I wouldn't want the new 4S phone because it has a dualcore that drains the battery faster than the old 4 model. If I order the "4" then that's exactly what I want..... not Apple to upgrade me.
Another example of this is where I ordered a stick-shift Beetle and the dealer "helpfully" upgraded me to the Automated Shift because "it gets +2 more MPG". Yeah. True. But I wanted to shift the car myself.
He lost a sale that day.
Then he begged me to keep the business.
So I told him to knock $1000 off the price. His foolish behavior cost him some cash. A customer wants Exactly what they what, not a a car dealer's or Apple's switcheroo.
I don't think Amazon planned it this way. They stopped production on the older Kindle Touch and Fire, and sold-out faster than anticipated. That's all..... no grand conspiracy.
Hardly. I know the word "Cardashians". I haven't the foggiest clue who they are or why TV/radio onair talent keeps talking about them. As for the OJ Trial I know there a joke about a poorly-fitting bra on Seinfeld that referenced OJ, but that's about it.
You left-out "fear".
I admit that I was afraid of how this cop might act, but decided I'd rather exert my right to be free, than submit to illegal demands for an ID.
It helps if you read the WHOLE post before replying. "The Supreme Court has already ruled, again and again, that such detainments are a violation of the 4th amendment". In other words police are not allowed to detain your car's travel down the road for even one single minute. The DHS were acting like members of the East German Stazi, except this is not supposed to be happening in our land (the DHS swore an oath to obey the 4th amendment... no warrant or probable cause == no searches or detainments).
The first quote on your list is mistranslated, and I suspect the others are as well. When a list starts-off with a debunked lie, it holds zero credibility.
Besides we all know the president of Iran is not the real source of power. It is the elected Parliament and the Supreme Leader (ayatollah) that hold the strings. I don't want to say the Iranian president is a "puppet" but he's pretty close to it. The Supreme Leader has stated several times he disavows any idea of exterminating the Jews (which is why we see them living in Iran and happy to be there).
>>>the bottom is starting to shrink relative to the top
And that is exactly the mechanism by which Ponzi/pyramid schemes collapse. The bottom shrinks so that there is not enough money to support the people receiving money out the top. You say Social Security is "fixable" but I think the entire concept is flawed:
A better system would be one where SSI checks were only received if you needed the money..... folks who are well off (like me with ~10 million lifetime income) would not receive the benefits because we don't need the help. Then SSI could be sustainable like Welfare and Food Stamps are sustainable. It would only have to support ~20% of the retirees instead of 100%.
>>>strictly speaking the cloud is 'remote storage and remote processing', which is a bit of a mouthful
"Mainframe computing"
Term invented in the 1960s or 70s (not sure which). Why do people think it's necessary to come up with new terms for old concepts? The other day I read about something called a "plugin hybrid" that is supposed to be revolutionary leap forward in automobiles. Then I realized it's the same concept as the old 1920s Electric Cars that were sold with add-on generators. New term; old concept.
>>>Okay, despite his confusion, at least he admitted he was ignorant about the subject.
Which is actually the OPPOSITE of what modern schooling teaches. The current method taught in education is that admitting you don't know will get scolded by the teacher ("Shame on you! Should have read the chapters!"). Plus it is better to GUESS on the typical mutliple choice test than leave it blank because you don't know.
So more of this government schooling would just lead to MORE of these types of answers from Americans: "Is cloud computing affected by weather?" Um.... well it's a cloud, haha. So I'll guess yes. (Surveyor writes down yes.)
At what point did a bird stop being a dinosaur? Was it when early dinosaurs developed feathers? Are those birds? Or dinos? (Yes I'm making a point: The precise delineation between two species, especially when they are in the process of changing, is not always obvious.)
It would be interesting as a thought experiment to imagine a world where the asteroid never happened. Would we now be looking at a world dominated by dinosaurs that have feathers instead of scales? Or maybe it would be half-and-half..... half scaled dinos and half feathered dinos.
>>>Infringement did make Samsung products more appealing and functional. That not only hurt Apple, but contributed to market share taken from Nokia and RIM.
Except what Apple did was obvious, and had already been done with prior art. If find it interesting you brought-up Amiga below:
>>>Atari ST software was updated when it infringed on the Mac, and the Amiga proved that competing products can not only avoid infringing, but innovate in new ways improving diversity in the marketplace.
The Amiga has been used as "prior art" to invalidate several patents over the years. Likewise pre-existing tablets invalidate Apple's patents, because they too represent prior art. (ASIDE: I'm surprised GEOS on the Commodore never got sued. It looked identical to a Mac.)
>>>maybe, just maybe, the foreman actually tried to do a good job, drawing on whatever personal experience he had to try and help the rest of his fellow jurors do a good job
We're not annoyed by that.
We're annoyed because he tried to act as an Expert Witness on patent law, and provided false information that code running on a different CPU is not protected by a patent. Whether it was deliberate or accidental, it's still tainting the jury.
>>> I mean, once a jury has rendered a verdict, can you actually have it overturned because it's later found out that a juror has ulterior motives?
Yes higher level judges on the appeals court can find that the jury was tainted, or reached a conclusion not supported by the evidence presented to them, and declare a mistrial. It doesn't happen very often though,
>>>Finding someone who wasn't particularly familiar with him, or biased by existing coverage at that point meant finding absolute idiots or social pariahs who avoided all news outlets.
Hello!
I was vaguely aware of the Bronco chase & that OJ was a part of that, but knew little else. (1) I don't care about stupid sports. (2) At the time I was more-interested in a new channel called Sci-Fi. (3) And passing my college exams.
That does not make me an idiot. On the contrary I think it makes me highly intelligent because I don't pay attention to tabloid shit like the OJ Scandl, or the Cardassians, or the recent Twlight romnce cheating thingies. It's all mindless pap.
Yes a scramjet would be straned in space w/ no way to move. Charleton Heston made a movie about it in the 70s.
And the SR-71 can takeoff with full tanks, but they leak all over the place. We had a supersonic jet called the Concorde and it failed to make a profit. Passengers didn't like the loudness of the ride (engine rumbling and air rushing past). I suspect any new jet would have the same flaw.
Used cars are not used in CAFE calculations, so they are irrelevant. I was referring to the fact carmakers will have a hard time meeting an average fuel economy of 54, when not a single car they sell meets even the minimum.
The reality is that they'll have to build a lot of 80-90 mpg econocars in order to offset the 30-40mpg gas guzzlers. Only one company has ever reached that lofty MPG rating (Volkswagen with the 80mpg diesel Lupo 3L).
Yes. No. Maybe. Greencars.org rated the SULEV gasoline Insight +10% cleaner than the various EV cars that have come out (they rated no cleaner than a Prius or Civic). A hydrogen car derives its water-cracked fuel from the same electric supply the EV runs-on, so I suspect an HV would score no better than the EV. Which means my gasoline Insight would still be +10% cleaner.
>>>Or maybe you're just making up friends and numbers in light of people responding who actually know what they're talking about?
Nice insult. I happened to be a member of several EV groups and read their reports on how much their cars burn. I am also a follower of ACEEE.org which says EV cars are no cleaner/efficient than a Prius or Civic Hybrid.
I also I know that saying a car gets "100MPG" like Cevy does with their Volt, and not taking into account the electricity usage is False advertising. Owners are surprised to discover their "fuel cost" (gas+electric)) is the same as a regular 40MPG car, and no money was saved versus just buying a Civic or Yaris. You see: I have zero patience for corporations that would try to defraud the customer in that fashion. I try to set the record straight when I can, so people are no misled with falsehoods.
>>>No, you're an idiot.
No you failed to read what I wrote, or pay attention to the discussion at hand. I said a "new car" from a dealer lot, and the topic at hand is the EPA and the CAFE. The only numbers that matter are the ones printed on the sticker when I buy a new car.
The anecdotes from individual people are irrelevant (in fact most anecdotes are irrelevant when lab-controlled measurements are available). No new car has 54 or higher on their sticker. You can't buy such an animal.
>>>I saw that they had the power to tax, which they do.
Which means they have the power to punish as well, by fining people who didn't buy a certain product. Thanks Obama and Heritage Foundation for creating this stupid plan.
>>> The breasts perform a major bodily function (feeding babies). They are also psychologically important - some women who get their breasts removed feel much less "woman". Male circumcision is not even similar to that.
What a dipshit, man-hating reply. The foreskin also performs a major bodily function by protecting the head, protecting the sperm as they enter the body, and helping stimulate the woman's orgasm so she can "collect" the sperm into her womb. The foreskin has also been shown to be effective at scooping-out foreign sperm if the woman has been cheating (history shows that 1/3rd of female stray to other partners).
If the foreskin didn't matter either god or evolution would not have put it there. It would have disappeared. And yes the foreskin is psychologically important since it provides better feelings during pair-bonding with the man's mate.
>>>"This is why regulations rarely work"? Any fool that actually believes this Libertian bullshit needs to go spend sometime in Mogadishu.
Libertarian =/= Anarchist. You are the "fool" to equate these two philosophies. Libertarianism can be summed up eloquently by Jefferson: "It it were possible to have no government we would, but we resort to its creation in order to protect our inalienable rights." i.e. We believe in having a government not anarachy like Mogadishu.
>>> it is no accident that the countries with the most rules and highest taxes are also the least corrupt, are the safest and have the highest quality of life*.
From 2000 the number of U.S. regulations rose 80,000 to 140,000 pages, and yet we are more corrupt now than we were thirteen years ago. The regulations have been written by the corporations which have given themselves bankruptcy protection, bailouts, immunity from classaction suits, whistleblower laws that protect the company instead of the employee, and on and on. Those extra regulations have brought MORE corruption, not less.
Yes people who invest in Ponzi/pyramid schemes are "idiots" and I feel no sympathy for them.
BTW the Social Security program is also a Ponzi/pyramid scheme (investors on the bottom support people exiting out the top).
I'm amazed it lasted this long w/o collapsing.
>>>Iran is committed to the extinction of the Jews. This is a publicly stated policy
No there isn't. The comment you are referring to has been accurately translated as, "Someday the government in Jerusalem will fall and be wiped from the pages of history." It isn't the Jews that government hates, but the government. In fact there are many Jews living in Iran even as we speak, and they are not being round-up and exterminated. So stop spreading anti-Arab/Iranian hate speech and racism.
As for the nuclear weapon Secretary of Defense Panetta has alread said, "No I don't think Iran is developing a nuclear weapon. The fuel they have is not anywhere pure enough for weapon use, and it is within compliance with the Nonproliferation Treaty."
>>> by normal I mean not looking and acting like a homeless guy sufferring from PTSD
The Supreme Court has ruled that "acting suspicious or strange" is not probable cause, and the police cannot detain or search said citizen. They declared any evidence found in such a case should be thrown out as inadmissable.