Yeah, but the other problem is that I'm pissed that HTC stopped bothering with updates to this phone almost as soon as I got it, and it's been steadily getting slower and slower, and is almost unusable now. Why would I want to reward a company that doesn't do any after-the-sale support with more business?
No thanks Samsung. Not having it. Your TouchWiz crapped up A5 can sod off as well.
What alternative is there, besides iPhone?
For reference, I have an older HTC (Sensation), and it's crapped up too with HTC's bloatware and "Sense" UI. It's horribly slow and I can't wait to get rid of this POS, and my next phone definitely won't be an HTC. Since I really don't want to join the cult of Apple, and I sure as hell am not going to get a Windows Phone, Samsung appears to be the default choice.
The monkey thing is only racist if a white person calls a black person a "monkey".
However, this incident has North Korea comparing Obama to a monkey, so it can't be racist. Many people here in the US believe it's impossible for non-white people to be racist.
How is he stereotyping anyone besides the general populace? He never claimed that average American users were any more tech-savvy. The idea that average phone users in any country are going to be savvy enough to use technical means to bypass these roadblocks is just silly.
You don't think they could have filtered that stuff out of the mails?
I know, it's a stretch, I just put it out there as a remote possibility. Conspiracy theories aren't always wrong, every once in a while they turn out to be true.
From what I hear, the movie is crap anyway, so Sony is likely making more money off of it because of all the hype and press surrounding it. (They're selling it as pay-per-view on their own website.) The whole incident may have even been orchestrated by Sony as a giant publicity scheme, who knows.
The point is that that's the opinion of people who dislike systemd. That doesn't automatically mean they'll also dislike "a Systemd like init".
People like that might not (those who think it's implemented poorly). The people who will are the ones who insist on an init system that follows the "Unix philosophy". They're not going to be satisfied with anything other than sysvinit.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans do not agree with you. They don't want to see anything intellectually stimulating, and they are not bored by characters with practically no limitations.
Into Darkness on the other hand, is shit. JJ Abrams is shit. Therefore, whoever's replacing him has a low bar to overcome.
I agree about JJ, but I think they've managed to do even worse here. The director of the Fast-n-Furious movies? Are they fucking kidding? This is even worse than hiring Michael Bay to make a movie.
Unfortunately, Latin was not one of the languages they investigated in this research, but I do find it very interesting how Latin, which is one of Spanish's parent languages, is far, far more efficient (in dI/dS terms) than Spanish is, and in fact is probably more efficient and complex than any of its derivatives.
Everything I've ever seen in both English and Spanish looked about 1.5-2 times longer in the Spanish version.
Don't take my word for it; some linguistic researchers actually looked into this, which you can read about here.
Here's an excerpt:
For all of the other languages, the researchers discovered, the more data-dense the average syllable was, the fewer of those syllables had to be spoken per second — and thus the slower the speech. English, with a high information density of.91, was spoken at an average rate of 6.19 syllables per second. Mandarin, which topped the density list at.94, was the spoken slowpoke at 5.18 syllables per second. Spanish, with a low-density.63, ripped along at a syllable-per-second velocity of 7.82. The true speed demon of the group, however, was Japanese, which edged past Spanish at 7.84, thanks to its low density of.49. Despite those differences, at the end of, say, a minute of speech, all of the languages would have conveyed more or less identical amounts of information.
but I'm guessing a lot of it is from open source fanboys that love to hate Microsoft and have never taken time to use the recent (last 3-5 years) iterations of it's products.
All you have to do is try out Windows 8/Metro to renew any hatred for MS products that may have subsided.
Enterprise was actually surprisingly good, with a few exceptions; I only watched it a few months ago, since I had turned my nose up at it when it was new. It did start out a big rough and had a little too much gratuitous sexuality at first, but when it settled down it was pretty good. The main problems with Enterprise are: 1) the opening theme music. It's absolutely horrible. I don't know WTF they were thinking with that whiny emo crap. But there's an exception here: the two mirror-universe episodes in Season 4 had excellent music and intro scenes of humans blasting everything and conquering. And 2) the whole Xindi attack plot arc in Season 3 was too much. It was an obvious parallel to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and just didn't go over that well.
I also didn't bother with the second Abrams movie; the first one was too much of a disappointment.
Now, on to the fight: America is explicitly NOT a democracy.
Yes, it is. You even say so yourself:
America is a democratic Republic.
"Democracy" in modern parlance == "democratic republic". When the word "democracy" is used in regular conversation, NO ONE is talking about Athenian-style direct democracy, unless they explicitly say so. It's only pedants like you who even think of this.
It was formed that way EXPLICITLY to prevent mob rule.
Democratic republics exist for several reasons. One is because no one citizen can possibly be competent at voting on every single issue that faces a large and populous nation, nor can every citizen be expected to invest that much time into the governing process. So we "outsource" most of the work of governing to politicians called "representatives", and elect them to represent us and do our bidding. The rules you talk about do exist to make sure there's a longer feedback loop, so people's short-term reactionary tendencies don't make a mess of things, and so that there's a rule of law: people have to follow laws, until the laws are changed.
The Constitution and Bill of rights spell out what America is supposed to be. If there is a true need for the Republic to change the rules it is built upon, then there are mechanisms in place to do that... but THEY HAVE NOT BEEN USED.
Yes, they have. The Constitution has been amended dozens of times since it was written, and countless Supreme Court cases have further changed laws. And if you have some kind of problem with a court effectively legislating and deciding law, then you have a problem with English Common Law, which this country was explicitly founded upon.
Why? We can argue about that forever. Regardless, the basic rules from which all other rules rest upon, have not been changed. That means a police state is incompatible with American law; both in the letter and spirit of the law.
Completely incorrect. If case law and legislation (at all levels of government) have resulted in a police state, then a police state is indeed compatible with American law, by very definition.
It's sad how poorly educated in basic Civics most Americans are these days.
Don't be stupid. Anyone who's an American Citizen is by definition an American, whether you like it or not, and whether you agree with them (and their idiotic ideas) or not. They certainly are "welcome" in America, they're Citizens and they were born here. Whether something is against the "spirit" of the founding laws is open to debate, and quite frankly, totally irrelevant since, as a representative democracy, this country (and any other with the same form of government) is supposed to reflect the will of the citizenry. If the citizens are a bunch of fools who vote for police-state laws, then that's what they're supposed to have. You're obviously the one here who opposes democracy and wishes to have an authoritarian government, because any government which does not reflect the will of the voters can only be authoritarian.
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Well his own username does indicate that he's scum....
Yeah, but the other problem is that I'm pissed that HTC stopped bothering with updates to this phone almost as soon as I got it, and it's been steadily getting slower and slower, and is almost unusable now. Why would I want to reward a company that doesn't do any after-the-sale support with more business?
I already said there's no way in hell I'm getting a Windows Phone.
Blackberries are out too because they're not Android; I'm not buying into a dying brand with a dying ecosystem (one reason to also avoid MS).
Sony's out because they're almost as evil as Comcast.
I'll have to look into the other ones.
TouchWiz.
No thanks Samsung. Not having it. Your TouchWiz crapped up A5 can sod off as well.
What alternative is there, besides iPhone?
For reference, I have an older HTC (Sensation), and it's crapped up too with HTC's bloatware and "Sense" UI. It's horribly slow and I can't wait to get rid of this POS, and my next phone definitely won't be an HTC. Since I really don't want to join the cult of Apple, and I sure as hell am not going to get a Windows Phone, Samsung appears to be the default choice.
Do you not remember people comparing Bush to a chimpanzee?
I remember that well. It was extremely insulting -- to chimpanzees. Chimps are highly intelligent creatures.
The monkey thing is only racist if a white person calls a black person a "monkey".
However, this incident has North Korea comparing Obama to a monkey, so it can't be racist. Many people here in the US believe it's impossible for non-white people to be racist.
How is he stereotyping anyone besides the general populace? He never claimed that average American users were any more tech-savvy. The idea that average phone users in any country are going to be savvy enough to use technical means to bypass these roadblocks is just silly.
You don't think they could have filtered that stuff out of the mails?
I know, it's a stretch, I just put it out there as a remote possibility. Conspiracy theories aren't always wrong, every once in a while they turn out to be true.
But isn't transsexual part of the larger set which is transgender? It seems like you're just being redundant.
From what I hear, the movie is crap anyway, so Sony is likely making more money off of it because of all the hype and press surrounding it. (They're selling it as pay-per-view on their own website.) The whole incident may have even been orchestrated by Sony as a giant publicity scheme, who knows.
Great, we look forward to seeing your new upstart-based distro, since everyone else has abandoned it.
The point is that that's the opinion of people who dislike systemd. That doesn't automatically mean they'll also dislike "a Systemd like init".
People like that might not (those who think it's implemented poorly). The people who will are the ones who insist on an init system that follows the "Unix philosophy". They're not going to be satisfied with anything other than sysvinit.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans do not agree with you. They don't want to see anything intellectually stimulating, and they are not bored by characters with practically no limitations.
Into Darkness on the other hand, is shit. JJ Abrams is shit. Therefore, whoever's replacing him has a low bar to overcome.
I agree about JJ, but I think they've managed to do even worse here. The director of the Fast-n-Furious movies? Are they fucking kidding? This is even worse than hiring Michael Bay to make a movie.
Star Trek is dead.
This is what those fuckers get for spying on everyone instead of just concentrating on criminals.
Here's some more handy links about this research:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_...
Unfortunately, Latin was not one of the languages they investigated in this research, but I do find it very interesting how Latin, which is one of Spanish's parent languages, is far, far more efficient (in dI/dS terms) than Spanish is, and in fact is probably more efficient and complex than any of its derivatives.
Everything I've ever seen in both English and Spanish looked about 1.5-2 times longer in the Spanish version.
Don't take my word for it; some linguistic researchers actually looked into this, which you can read about here.
Here's an excerpt:
For all of the other languages, the researchers discovered, the more data-dense the average syllable was, the fewer of those syllables had to be spoken per second — and thus the slower the speech. English, with a high information density of .91, was spoken at an average rate of 6.19 syllables per second. Mandarin, which topped the density list at .94, was the spoken slowpoke at 5.18 syllables per second. Spanish, with a low-density .63, ripped along at a syllable-per-second velocity of 7.82. The true speed demon of the group, however, was Japanese, which edged past Spanish at 7.84, thanks to its low density of .49. Despite those differences, at the end of, say, a minute of speech, all of the languages would have conveyed more or less identical amounts of information.
but I'm guessing a lot of it is from open source fanboys that love to hate Microsoft and have never taken time to use the recent (last 3-5 years) iterations of it's products.
All you have to do is try out Windows 8/Metro to renew any hatred for MS products that may have subsided.
You probably can't find a better place to have a farm.
Sure, if you don't mind mosquitos the size of horses.
Vic Mignogna actually has very intentionally made his Kirk rendition as close to Shatner's as he could, down to the way Kirk walks.
Enterprise was actually surprisingly good, with a few exceptions; I only watched it a few months ago, since I had turned my nose up at it when it was new. It did start out a big rough and had a little too much gratuitous sexuality at first, but when it settled down it was pretty good. The main problems with Enterprise are: 1) the opening theme music. It's absolutely horrible. I don't know WTF they were thinking with that whiny emo crap. But there's an exception here: the two mirror-universe episodes in Season 4 had excellent music and intro scenes of humans blasting everything and conquering. And 2) the whole Xindi attack plot arc in Season 3 was too much. It was an obvious parallel to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and just didn't go over that well.
I also didn't bother with the second Abrams movie; the first one was too much of a disappointment.
He have jaywalking laws in the US because car drivers are considered more important than pedestrians.
Now, on to the fight: America is explicitly NOT a democracy.
Yes, it is. You even say so yourself:
America is a democratic Republic.
"Democracy" in modern parlance == "democratic republic". When the word "democracy" is used in regular conversation, NO ONE is talking about Athenian-style direct democracy, unless they explicitly say so. It's only pedants like you who even think of this.
It was formed that way EXPLICITLY to prevent mob rule.
Democratic republics exist for several reasons. One is because no one citizen can possibly be competent at voting on every single issue that faces a large and populous nation, nor can every citizen be expected to invest that much time into the governing process. So we "outsource" most of the work of governing to politicians called "representatives", and elect them to represent us and do our bidding. The rules you talk about do exist to make sure there's a longer feedback loop, so people's short-term reactionary tendencies don't make a mess of things, and so that there's a rule of law: people have to follow laws, until the laws are changed.
The Constitution and Bill of rights spell out what America is supposed to be. If there is a true need for the Republic to change the rules it is built upon, then there are mechanisms in place to do that... but THEY HAVE NOT BEEN USED.
Yes, they have. The Constitution has been amended dozens of times since it was written, and countless Supreme Court cases have further changed laws. And if you have some kind of problem with a court effectively legislating and deciding law, then you have a problem with English Common Law, which this country was explicitly founded upon.
Why? We can argue about that forever. Regardless, the basic rules from which all other rules rest upon, have not been changed. That means a police state is incompatible with American law; both in the letter and spirit of the law.
Completely incorrect. If case law and legislation (at all levels of government) have resulted in a police state, then a police state is indeed compatible with American law, by very definition.
It's sad how poorly educated in basic Civics most Americans are these days.
Don't be stupid. Anyone who's an American Citizen is by definition an American, whether you like it or not, and whether you agree with them (and their idiotic ideas) or not. They certainly are "welcome" in America, they're Citizens and they were born here. Whether something is against the "spirit" of the founding laws is open to debate, and quite frankly, totally irrelevant since, as a representative democracy, this country (and any other with the same form of government) is supposed to reflect the will of the citizenry. If the citizens are a bunch of fools who vote for police-state laws, then that's what they're supposed to have. You're obviously the one here who opposes democracy and wishes to have an authoritarian government, because any government which does not reflect the will of the voters can only be authoritarian.