It's also called "the one that always gets skipped because teachers don't understand that it's the most important thing they will ever, ever, ever explain to their students."
"Except that you're more likely to have your gun pointed at you than you are to point it at someone else. I'd much rather take a 10% forward firing failure rate to reduce the chances of backfire by 100%."
As long as I'm free to make a different choice, you're free to do whatever you like. Can you spot the key word in that sentence?
"If you really want to protect yourself and your property, install an alarm system and perimeter cameras. Let whoever it is take whatever it is they want, then nail them with 5 - 10 years in jail because they didn't realize you had a hundred disposable electronic cameras monitoring your perimeter."
If what they want is mayhem, or to harm my family, a prison term is not enough punishment. I will prevent them from getting what they want, period. I will not permit somebody else to be responsible for my safety, and the safety of my family.
"The most important reason, in societies like ours, is that there is a social compact that is binding on those that live in a democracy/republic"
WTF?
You must not have paid attention to that whole civil rights thing.
If my democracy/republic doesn't respect my inalienable rights (which include pretty much everything that does not have a direct deleterious effect on other humans), that society shouldn't be surprised if I take a rather dim view of it.
If I don't like the rules, leave to where, exactly? Mars? Let's go. Since that's not feasible, what's your other suggestion?
Yeah, it's fast enough to edit video, do any task that 95% of the computing public can even imagine, but you're wondering if it's powerful enough.
It's more powerful than the Cube you were talking about. New, it costs about the same as a used Cube. Please explain to me how this computer is not powerful enough. So what if it doesn't have a G5? It plays World of Warcraft just fine (according to people with machines of similar spec). My Powerbook has roughly the same specs, and it is my primary computer.
I use my Windows-formatted iPod on my Powerbook. There is one gotcha: You have to do firmware updates from a Windows machine, and I haven't yet figured out how to keep my Mac from pestering me about them once they're available on Software Update. I'm sure there's a way, but I haven't found the button yet.
Incidentally, contrary to what the other poster mentioned, you can change the iPod's icon. However, the volume label must comply with FAT standards, so it's all uppercase no punctuation.
I haven't tried booting off of it, but I'm guessing that if there's a blessed system folder on it, it'll work fine. I'll have to do a 'speriment...
It comes from Apple being beleaguered all the time. I know, it's counterintuitive...you'll get used to it one of these days. Keep reading Dvorak's columns...all will be made clear.
Yeah, because here in dangerous ol' America, people ARE allowed to pop random caps. I'm so glad that Swiss Army bookkeepers are fearsome enough to keep people from going on murderous rampages. They must have, like, lots of those little pocket knives or something.
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More like the penguin jumps on the tiger, starts furiously gnawing away, ant the tiger couldn't. care. less.
Apple is better at it.
It's also called "the one that always gets skipped because teachers don't understand that it's the most important thing they will ever, ever, ever explain to their students."
Maybe we shouldn't put stickers on textbooks that are explicitly designed to mislead, rather than educate.
I'd rather there be a whole chapter or two on critical, skeptical thinking. I think that'd be a much better use of all of our time.
Uh, dude. President of the United States of America.
"Except that you're more likely to have your gun pointed at you than you are to point it at someone else. I'd much rather take a 10% forward firing failure rate to reduce the chances of backfire by 100%."
As long as I'm free to make a different choice, you're free to do whatever you like. Can you spot the key word in that sentence?
"If you really want to protect yourself and your property, install an alarm system and perimeter cameras. Let whoever it is take whatever it is they want, then nail them with 5 - 10 years in jail because they didn't realize you had a hundred disposable electronic cameras monitoring your perimeter."
If what they want is mayhem, or to harm my family, a prison term is not enough punishment. I will prevent them from getting what they want, period. I will not permit somebody else to be responsible for my safety, and the safety of my family.
"Give it some benefit
of the doubt and assume it's going to be improved quite a bit before you ever
hold one in your hands."
Why should I give the benefit of the doubt to anything that is expressly designed to remove power and soverignty from me?
"But if the technology is refined quite a bit and reaches, say, a 99% success
rate, or 99.5%, then that could be a different thing altogether."
As long as I'm free to buy weapons that don't have this mechanism, I agree with you completely.
"The most important reason, in societies like ours, is that there is a social compact that is binding on those that live in a democracy/republic"
WTF?
You must not have paid attention to that whole civil rights thing.
If my democracy/republic doesn't respect my inalienable rights (which include pretty much everything that does not have a direct deleterious effect on other humans), that society shouldn't be surprised if I take a rather dim view of it.
If I don't like the rules, leave to where, exactly? Mars? Let's go. Since that's not feasible, what's your other suggestion?
That busta is ovah. It's all up ins with the MC Hawking. WORD.
My phone doesn't screw up my network. So you're wrong, AND a dick.
This is kinda fun.
I'd rather start a flamewar about your spelling of marshmallows.
So buy 'em a new phone.
Oh wait, I forgot. You're a dick. My bad.
Lots of things are theoretically true, until you try and implement them in real life.
That's why physicists need engineers. You know, people who actually solve the problems, instead of just thinking about them.
I understand that in China, prisoners' families are billed for the bullets used to execute them.
It's one of those things that annoyed me, but not enough for me to lift a finger to fix it. : )
Thanks for the tip. I'll let you know what I find.
Yeah, it's fast enough to edit video, do any task that 95% of the computing public can even imagine, but you're wondering if it's powerful enough.
It's more powerful than the Cube you were talking about. New, it costs about the same as a used Cube. Please explain to me how this computer is not powerful enough. So what if it doesn't have a G5? It plays World of Warcraft just fine (according to people with machines of similar spec). My Powerbook has roughly the same specs, and it is my primary computer.
Gosh. We pay more for BMWs in America than you do in Europe. C'est la vie.
(That's French.)
I use my Windows-formatted iPod on my Powerbook. There is one gotcha: You have to do firmware updates from a Windows machine, and I haven't yet figured out how to keep my Mac from pestering me about them once they're available on Software Update. I'm sure there's a way, but I haven't found the button yet.
Incidentally, contrary to what the other poster mentioned, you can change the iPod's icon. However, the volume label must comply with FAT standards, so it's all uppercase no punctuation.
I haven't tried booting off of it, but I'm guessing that if there's a blessed system folder on it, it'll work fine. I'll have to do a 'speriment...
It comes from Apple being beleaguered all the time. I know, it's counterintuitive...you'll get used to it one of these days. Keep reading Dvorak's columns...all will be made clear.
Not really, no.
Yep. Apple did it before. 20 years ago. I'm pretty sure you don't have anything to worry about.
Yeah, because here in dangerous ol' America, people ARE allowed to pop random caps. I'm so glad that Swiss Army bookkeepers are fearsome enough to keep people from going on murderous rampages. They must have, like, lots of those little pocket knives or something.
A fellow radical! We should start a club. : )
I agree. My ideas shouldn't be fringe, but they are.
If the cops don't trust them, why should I?
And, of course, because YOU don't understand what's under the hood of modern cars, nobody else does either, huh?
Right. Check out the import tuner circuit and get back to me. I don't like the aesthetics, but I gotta hand it to them for technical know-how.