Uh, that's pretty much been America for the last 30 years. Janet Jackson shows a boob on broadcast TV and half the country goes into hysterics, yet that same half of the country, statistically speaking, plops their kids down in front of WWE and let's them watch two grotesquely humongous men pretend to beat each other half to death and it's good, clean fun.
My point (which you know, yay for being deliberately obtuse!) is that insinuating that Amazon and Barnes and Noble are in any sort of trouble just because Apple is releasing a 7" tablet is fucking retarded. The iPod certainly didn't kill off all other MP3 players, the iPad certainly didn't kill off 10" tablets, so why the fuck would a 7" iPad kill off the Nook or Kindle? It's completely ridiculous, and this is just click-bait.
Also, I really love the fact that, to you, iPad:Nook/Kindle = house:cardboard box. The fanboy is strong with this one!
Are you serious? Pretty much every single atheist I know is decidedly not materialistic. Honestly, it's the Christians I know that think they need to acquire crap to prove how much God has "blessed" them.
I have never in my whole life heard anyone define atheist philosophy as materialistic, which leads me to believe it was just a subtle dig at atheists by another CINO (Christian In Name Only).
By costing 1/3 to 1/2 less then the iPad Mini. There's still a lot of people out there that don't want to pay the Apple Tax.
This is just stupid. Look at how many 3rd party MP3 players were on the market before smartphones took over that role for most people. It's the same reason why people went out and bought a $50 Sansui instead of the $150 iPod Nano. Despite what the average fanboy would believe, price is still a motivating factor for a lot of people. I know many people that specifically went out and bought cheap-o MP3 players because they didn't want to risk losing/breaking the iPod which cost three times as much. For all intents and purposes, they both perform the same functions, after all, regardless of the price tag.
Nope, he rejects her because she was an atheist. He's always rejected her, didn't you know? All those words of praise in the past never happened, we all imagined it! We've always been at war with EastAsia!!
Oh, what a difficult thing it must be, to be forced to reject a person's entire philosophy because of their atheism, which has nothing to do with said philosophy at all anyway. I do heartily enjoy watching him swallow that bitter pill, though.
When she's not talking about politics, she actually comes across like a normal person for the most part. Paul Ryan, on the other hand, is almost as much a fucking robot as Mitt Romney.
Yeah, I don't know what people are smoking these days, but you've got to be seriously delusional if you think that Do Not Track is going to be respected in any way. They'll track anyway, and if they get busted, they'll call out the lawyer brigades and nothing will fucking happen. Hell, maybe they'll even end up with some sweet legal precedent saying they have every right to track us if we deign to navigate to one of their websites.
I trust NoScript and Adblock, I sure as shit do not trust "we won't track you, we promise!"
I have the same problem, not from lack of coffee (which I drink a half-pot of every morning, and have since I was 14), but from lack of soda. I've tried to ween myself off of goddamned Diet Coke many times over the last couple years and I just can't, because by day three I always have a pounding headache. As someone that quit smoking cold turkey, after smoking a pack a day (Newport, no less, no piddly shit Marlboro Lights) the fact that I can't break myself of my Diet Coke habit drives me mad.
One would think I would be getting my caffeine fix from the java, but I'm definitely having withdrawal symptoms from something in the soda that is not present in the coffee. If not caffeine, what else can it be? The cola itself? Perhaps. All I know is within a couple days without my head feels like it's in a vice. I've gone similar amounts of time without coffee and suffered no ill effects, outside of being a fucking zombie for half the morning, of course. That's the other weird thing I've noticed: the caffeine in soda doesn't seem to have the kick for waking me up like coffee does. I lived down in Georgia for a time and the people down there drink Coke with their breakfast, but that was never sufficient for me to jump start my day for whatever reason.
It probably is all psychosomatic (well, not the headaches from the caffeine withdrawal, but the need for it to function like a normal human being before 10 AM) but regardless, the headaches are miserable so I'm stuck on the Diet Coke until I find a more healthy substitute.
iOS users can happily use any video service (like Vimeo for example).
So you're saying they finally removed the 'auto-destruct on attempt to use a non-Youtbe video service' function?! Whew, finally!! I was wondering what was going on on Vimeo but I didn't want my iPhone to explode so I just kept using Youtube. Free at last, free at last!!
Oh, wait. That actually never really was a thing. So the people whining about not having a choice for a video service are just retards that are too lazy to type in a url, huh? Sure seems that way.
I'm not a fandroid, BTW, but that's just a dumb argument. Nobody forced you to use Youtube other than yourself. I know people that make it a lifestyle choice to avoid Google at all costs. Lets not try and seem helpless here...
They are owned and operated by individuals, who themselves bear responsability for their actions.
What the fuck are you smoking? Seems to me that the whole point of incorporating is so that the individual does not have to take responsibility for bad business decisions, even if they were the ones making the damned decisions. Look at the fucking banking industry right now. Yeah, there's a whole lot of individual responsibility being meted out there, huh?
Corporations have all the rights of living people but don't have any of the responsibility. They've become super-people, able to act with near impunity because, at the end of the day, when the jig is up and there is nothing more than can be squeezed...then they just go Enron and the fuckers at the top hop on their private plane to the other boards they sit on to continue the process. They're the financial equivalent of locusts.
It depends on where you live. Here in Wisconsin, you can register on election day for whichever party you wish and the registration isn't binding or anything, so for all intents and purposes you can be whatever political party you want when there is a public vote coming up.
I was born and raised in Philadelphia, and I remember my Grandmother having to register ahead of time to vote back in the 80's and early 90's (maybe they changed things since, I haven't ever actually voted myself in Philly in my life). They used to send people door to door like census takers to sign people up to vote, and I remember my grandmother getting exasperated having to tell people over and over that she already registered.
Yeah, why would you all care if someone knew what party you registered with.
You know, I didn't used to care. Then recall season hit here in Wisconsin, and happy groups like this started popping up on Facebook, not to mention tons of veiled threats online (I received plenty just commenting on Madison.com during the height of the circulation)...and even a few open ones. Then, of course, the employers started getting harassed over their employees having signed the recall petitions and shit like this started happening.
Maybe if you'd lived up here in Wisconsin over the last year you would understand better why shit like this being made public could intimidate some people.
I don't despise my customers, I despise ignorant people that think Steve Jobs invented the modern era, as well as people that waste my time by asking me about the capabilities of a given product when they'd already made up their mind to buy the fucking shiny iThing that they see their neighbor's kids with long before they walked in the door.
Those other things you list as examples of being "important" don't directly impact my job. iDiots do. What I can't understand is why they don't just go to the Apple Store if they want an iCircle Jerk...there is one mere minutes away, and there's plenty of Geniuses willing to wax philosophical about how Steve Jobs was the electric Jesus. I'm here to discuss the products and their capabilites, not the goddamned sociopolitical impact of the fucking iPod.
Actually, an even better analogy would be a restaurant owner that serves minorities while donating money to anti-minority groups.
LBGT and fat people are pretty much the only classes of people left to safely hate on in this country without social repercussion. If we'd been talking about Blacks or Latinos instead of gays there would be few people out there jumping to defend this guy's views. How many people would get on CNN and defend a person's right to hate minorities? How many people would publicly declare their support of him and patronize his restaurants more because of it?
But you know, because it's gay people, and they're icky, then it's okay. Just like fat people, and how they're icky, too. You're allowed to point and laugh. God Bless America!
As opposed to always knowing precisely when Firefox updated because it broke 2/3 of your fucking plug-ins? Chrome's got all of the same damn plugins now and they don't get busted like they do (did) on Firefox.
Whether they fixed the issue in Firefox since those days is immaterial; the fact that it was like that for long enough to build a reputation for that fucking issue is all the explanation you need for why so many people have said "fuck Firefox" since Chrome came out. They had their chance, and I got tired of waking up to that shit. If you depend on those plugins it was almost like waking up to a BSoD in terms of how it fucked up your morning.
Chrome didn't lure me away, Firefox drove me to Chrome. I'm betting that's true for a lot of people out there.
I really miss the old days when they just reported the news factually and let people make up their own minds, rather then the "news as a product that must be tailored for optimal consumption" corporate-whore mentality that we're stuck with today.
It's not a new phenomenon (William Randolph Hearst was doing the same shit a century ago) but it's certainly become totally pervasive these days...
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Uh, that's pretty much been America for the last 30 years. Janet Jackson shows a boob on broadcast TV and half the country goes into hysterics, yet that same half of the country, statistically speaking, plops their kids down in front of WWE and let's them watch two grotesquely humongous men pretend to beat each other half to death and it's good, clean fun.
Gotta love our sense of priorities.
INB4 mysterious plane crash or other "accident"...
But if the box fits...
It doesn't. That was kinda like the whole point. Yay again for being deliberately obtuse!
My point (which you know, yay for being deliberately obtuse!) is that insinuating that Amazon and Barnes and Noble are in any sort of trouble just because Apple is releasing a 7" tablet is fucking retarded. The iPod certainly didn't kill off all other MP3 players, the iPad certainly didn't kill off 10" tablets, so why the fuck would a 7" iPad kill off the Nook or Kindle? It's completely ridiculous, and this is just click-bait.
Also, I really love the fact that, to you, iPad:Nook/Kindle = house:cardboard box. The fanboy is strong with this one!
Are you serious? Pretty much every single atheist I know is decidedly not materialistic. Honestly, it's the Christians I know that think they need to acquire crap to prove how much God has "blessed" them.
I have never in my whole life heard anyone define atheist philosophy as materialistic, which leads me to believe it was just a subtle dig at atheists by another CINO (Christian In Name Only).
By costing 1/3 to 1/2 less then the iPad Mini. There's still a lot of people out there that don't want to pay the Apple Tax.
This is just stupid. Look at how many 3rd party MP3 players were on the market before smartphones took over that role for most people. It's the same reason why people went out and bought a $50 Sansui instead of the $150 iPod Nano. Despite what the average fanboy would believe, price is still a motivating factor for a lot of people. I know many people that specifically went out and bought cheap-o MP3 players because they didn't want to risk losing/breaking the iPod which cost three times as much. For all intents and purposes, they both perform the same functions, after all, regardless of the price tag.
Or, alternatively, if you're looking to get some resistance training in, the wheelbarrow.
Nope, he rejects her because she was an atheist. He's always rejected her, didn't you know? All those words of praise in the past never happened, we all imagined it! We've always been at war with EastAsia!!
Since he's a fan of Ayn Rand he might as well be called Andrew Ryan.
Ruh Roh! Looks like the romance has ended.
Oh, what a difficult thing it must be, to be forced to reject a person's entire philosophy because of their atheism, which has nothing to do with said philosophy at all anyway. I do heartily enjoy watching him swallow that bitter pill, though.
When she's not talking about politics, she actually comes across like a normal person for the most part. Paul Ryan, on the other hand, is almost as much a fucking robot as Mitt Romney.
I fine this particularly lulzy. I don't think he could have picked a less likable running mate.
Yeah, I don't know what people are smoking these days, but you've got to be seriously delusional if you think that Do Not Track is going to be respected in any way. They'll track anyway, and if they get busted, they'll call out the lawyer brigades and nothing will fucking happen. Hell, maybe they'll even end up with some sweet legal precedent saying they have every right to track us if we deign to navigate to one of their websites.
I trust NoScript and Adblock, I sure as shit do not trust "we won't track you, we promise!"
Shit, that ain't nothing. Look at these two ladykillers at the world's fastest typist competition. You know that bearded guy has never seen a vagina before in person.
That's all gonna change now that he's the world's fastest typist, though. Fame, fortune, and beautiful women await!
I have the same problem, not from lack of coffee (which I drink a half-pot of every morning, and have since I was 14), but from lack of soda. I've tried to ween myself off of goddamned Diet Coke many times over the last couple years and I just can't, because by day three I always have a pounding headache. As someone that quit smoking cold turkey, after smoking a pack a day (Newport, no less, no piddly shit Marlboro Lights) the fact that I can't break myself of my Diet Coke habit drives me mad.
One would think I would be getting my caffeine fix from the java, but I'm definitely having withdrawal symptoms from something in the soda that is not present in the coffee. If not caffeine, what else can it be? The cola itself? Perhaps. All I know is within a couple days without my head feels like it's in a vice. I've gone similar amounts of time without coffee and suffered no ill effects, outside of being a fucking zombie for half the morning, of course. That's the other weird thing I've noticed: the caffeine in soda doesn't seem to have the kick for waking me up like coffee does. I lived down in Georgia for a time and the people down there drink Coke with their breakfast, but that was never sufficient for me to jump start my day for whatever reason.
It probably is all psychosomatic (well, not the headaches from the caffeine withdrawal, but the need for it to function like a normal human being before 10 AM) but regardless, the headaches are miserable so I'm stuck on the Diet Coke until I find a more healthy substitute.
iOS users can happily use any video service (like Vimeo for example).
So you're saying they finally removed the 'auto-destruct on attempt to use a non-Youtbe video service' function?! Whew, finally!! I was wondering what was going on on Vimeo but I didn't want my iPhone to explode so I just kept using Youtube. Free at last, free at last!!
Oh, wait. That actually never really was a thing. So the people whining about not having a choice for a video service are just retards that are too lazy to type in a url, huh? Sure seems that way.
I'm not a fandroid, BTW, but that's just a dumb argument. Nobody forced you to use Youtube other than yourself. I know people that make it a lifestyle choice to avoid Google at all costs. Lets not try and seem helpless here...
I agree. On my v1 Droid, which is admittedly feeling it's age in a big way, the Youtube app works much better than viewing through the browser.
They are owned and operated by individuals, who themselves bear responsability for their actions.
What the fuck are you smoking? Seems to me that the whole point of incorporating is so that the individual does not have to take responsibility for bad business decisions, even if they were the ones making the damned decisions. Look at the fucking banking industry right now. Yeah, there's a whole lot of individual responsibility being meted out there, huh?
Corporations have all the rights of living people but don't have any of the responsibility. They've become super-people, able to act with near impunity because, at the end of the day, when the jig is up and there is nothing more than can be squeezed...then they just go Enron and the fuckers at the top hop on their private plane to the other boards they sit on to continue the process. They're the financial equivalent of locusts.
It depends on where you live. Here in Wisconsin, you can register on election day for whichever party you wish and the registration isn't binding or anything, so for all intents and purposes you can be whatever political party you want when there is a public vote coming up.
I was born and raised in Philadelphia, and I remember my Grandmother having to register ahead of time to vote back in the 80's and early 90's (maybe they changed things since, I haven't ever actually voted myself in Philly in my life). They used to send people door to door like census takers to sign people up to vote, and I remember my grandmother getting exasperated having to tell people over and over that she already registered.
Yeah, why would you all care if someone knew what party you registered with.
You know, I didn't used to care. Then recall season hit here in Wisconsin, and happy groups like this started popping up on Facebook, not to mention tons of veiled threats online (I received plenty just commenting on Madison.com during the height of the circulation)...and even a few open ones. Then, of course, the employers started getting harassed over their employees having signed the recall petitions and shit like this started happening.
While I'm not afraid of those people when it comes to violence against me (they're largely trailer park living, welfare collecting, hypocritical cowards), when those signatures were released I was definitely worried about repercussions in the workplace. How do you prove you were terminated in response to political ideology? Even if you could prove it, political affiliation is not considered a protected class.
Maybe if you'd lived up here in Wisconsin over the last year you would understand better why shit like this being made public could intimidate some people.
I don't despise my customers, I despise ignorant people that think Steve Jobs invented the modern era, as well as people that waste my time by asking me about the capabilities of a given product when they'd already made up their mind to buy the fucking shiny iThing that they see their neighbor's kids with long before they walked in the door.
Those other things you list as examples of being "important" don't directly impact my job. iDiots do. What I can't understand is why they don't just go to the Apple Store if they want an iCircle Jerk...there is one mere minutes away, and there's plenty of Geniuses willing to wax philosophical about how Steve Jobs was the electric Jesus. I'm here to discuss the products and their capabilites, not the goddamned sociopolitical impact of the fucking iPod.
Actually, an even better analogy would be a restaurant owner that serves minorities while donating money to anti-minority groups.
LBGT and fat people are pretty much the only classes of people left to safely hate on in this country without social repercussion. If we'd been talking about Blacks or Latinos instead of gays there would be few people out there jumping to defend this guy's views. How many people would get on CNN and defend a person's right to hate minorities? How many people would publicly declare their support of him and patronize his restaurants more because of it?
But you know, because it's gay people, and they're icky, then it's okay. Just like fat people, and how they're icky, too. You're allowed to point and laugh. God Bless America!
As opposed to always knowing precisely when Firefox updated because it broke 2/3 of your fucking plug-ins? Chrome's got all of the same damn plugins now and they don't get busted like they do (did) on Firefox.
Whether they fixed the issue in Firefox since those days is immaterial; the fact that it was like that for long enough to build a reputation for that fucking issue is all the explanation you need for why so many people have said "fuck Firefox" since Chrome came out. They had their chance, and I got tired of waking up to that shit. If you depend on those plugins it was almost like waking up to a BSoD in terms of how it fucked up your morning.
Chrome didn't lure me away, Firefox drove me to Chrome. I'm betting that's true for a lot of people out there.
As I said, part of what I do for a living requires me to deal with these people. I don't much like it, but the paychecks come in handy.
How long before baptisms and communion services are offered at the Genius Bar?
I really miss the old days when they just reported the news factually and let people make up their own minds, rather then the "news as a product that must be tailored for optimal consumption" corporate-whore mentality that we're stuck with today.
It's not a new phenomenon (William Randolph Hearst was doing the same shit a century ago) but it's certainly become totally pervasive these days...