Again, I didn't argue that the war in Iraq was a good idea. As a matter of fact, I think it was utter folly. However, the US was in fact following the letter of the law as codified in the UN Resolutions.
Now, if you want to start talking about OPINIONS, that's fine. Just don't pretend that they have anything to do with international law.
Had the opposition gotten a UN resolution directly opposing Bush's intervention, that would be one thing. But they didn't. (And they couldn't. Nice, huh?)
The US was enforcing active UN agreements against Iraq. There are lots of good reasons to not have gone into Iraq, but international law is not one of them.
You are assuming that making something illegal reduces its incidence.
The current "drug problem" puts the lie to your theorem. There is HUGE incidence of drug use. We now need to figure out how to reduce the impact of that drug use (which is not going to go away) on society.
I don't use "illegal" drugs because I choose not to, not because I'm scared of getting caught. On the other hand, I do not want a state powerful and intrusive enough to shut off drug use, because that state would limit my liberty and invade my privacy, in an effort to stop me from doing something that thanks very much, I don't do anyway.
The cost (in freedom) is not worth the prize (no drug use).
I'd love to buy an American car. But, there's not a damn one of them out there that's as reliable or holds its value as well as a Camry, or is as fun to drive as a Miata or an RX-8.
If American car makers want to get ME as a customer, they need to start making cars I want to drive. Right now, there is precisely one American car I'd own (the C5 Corvette is a superb automobile) and I can't afford it.
OK, and I'll take a Ford GT while I'm at it.
I understand the sentiment, but I don't owe any American car maker my allegiance just because they happen to be on the same continent I am. I'll buy the best car for my money, and right now, those come from Japan. (And Germany, if I've got more money to spend.)
Incidentally, when Toyotas are manufactured in South Carolina, does that make them American cars? Why or why not?
So, you got suckered by somebody's marketing scheme, and you think they should then pay up?
Seems like some people posting here have had some really good experiences getting their iBooks fixed. Some other people have had bad experiences. Apple being a "premium" brand has nothing to do with it.
I have had good experiences, both first- and second-hand, with Apple hardware. Therefore, they will be my next vendor of choice. You are free to make a different decision. What exactly do you want? Steve to fly to your house and personally repair your $1200 laptop? Come on.
The SI prefixes are not base 2. If the geeks wanted to use a prefix that was base 2, they should have made one up.
Fortunately, this has been rectified by later revisions of the Systeme Internationale, by including binary prefixes like "mibi" and "tibi", which, although ridiculous sounding, are clear and accurate.
Of course the marketroids wouldn't have done this if rounding would produce smaller numbers. However, in this unusual case, the marketroids have happened on the correct expression of these values.
Look, there are lots of people out there who think the Dock is a poorly designed waste of screen space. So, saying that the old functionality is subsumed in the Dock is Not A Good Thing from that perspective.
I loathe the new column view in folder windows. I think the Toolbar is ridiculous. I liked the old interface better, and I think it would be in Apple's interest to consider that view as an option for future releases.
I wasn't criticizing. I was just making an observation.
And, as far as VW's marketing, I think it's silly too. I like VW's because I've driven in them, and find them to be well-built, attractively designed inside and out, and reasonably priced.
Can you say power to weight ratio? I knew you could.
I don't understand why people seem to think that a brand of car has some sort of upper limit on the price/quality of the vehicles they sell. The whole Honda/Acura Toyota/Lexus Nissan/Infiniti Dodge/Chrysler branding philosophies never made a damn bit of sense to me.
I'd rather have an Acura badged as a Honda, and save $5k in marketing bullshit expenses.
Actually, I'd much rather have a Mazda. They a) don't mess with that sort of crap, and b) make cars that are actually fun to drive.
There are numerous social activities one can enjoy on the Internet. Some of them don't even involve masturbation.
In all seriousness, I can have a rich, fruitful conversation with my friends in a chat room. And the beer in my fridge is cheaper than the beer at a pub. Is it as social as going to a restaurant with friends? No, but it's infinitely more social than watching Friends on TV.
I'm sitting in front of a box stock eMac with MacOS 10.3. If you want, reply here and I'll send you an email with a screenshot of my system profiler screen.
I'm in Safari.
I double click on the Address Book icon. The app launches, and the Address Book window does not appear in front of the Safari window. I did this as I was typing, and it behaved exactly as I've explained.
On further exploration, I found that if I double click the Address Book icon after the app has been launched, it comes into the foreground.
I hover my mouse over the black bar between the trash and the rest of the dock. I get the black cross cursor with the vertical arrows, similar to when I want to resize a row in Excel. I click the mouse button and move the mouse up and down, and the dock changes sizes.
I'm not making this shit up, man. The double click to launch in the background is freakin' awesome IMO. RadicalSkeptic said "And are you sure that dragging the mouse on the border doesn't do anything?... but I was pretty sure that was all I did to resize it." and they are absolutely correct. Dragging the mouse on the border (between the trash can and the rest of the dock) resizes it. Double clicking on the dock icon of a closed app opens it in the background.
No hacks. Yes, I've played with the dock prefs in System Preferences, but just to turn magnification off. You might want to look again.
His complaint (and mine) is that it moves based on the size of your dock icons. If your dock is small, the trash icon is towards the middle of the screen. If it's big, it's in the corner.
That objection would largely go away if I could pin it in the corner, but I flatly refuse to type things at the command line to fix rudimentary issues like this. I think Apple should include it as a user-selectable preference.
And, re: smug and full of himself, there are people on this planet who are staggeringly good at what they do. Tog is one of them. He can be as smug as he wants.
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Again, I didn't argue that the war in Iraq was a good idea. As a matter of fact, I think it was utter folly. However, the US was in fact following the letter of the law as codified in the UN Resolutions.
Now, if you want to start talking about OPINIONS, that's fine. Just don't pretend that they have anything to do with international law.
Had the opposition gotten a UN resolution directly opposing Bush's intervention, that would be one thing. But they didn't. (And they couldn't. Nice, huh?)
Well, since that's never happened, and isn't very likely to happen, I don't think it's germane to the discussion.
I'll let you know, IF we get there. Don't hold your breath.
*sigh*
The US was enforcing active UN agreements against Iraq. There are lots of good reasons to not have gone into Iraq, but international law is not one of them.
Engineers also appreciate elegance and quality, and are often ready to pay for those qualities.
Powerbook all the way, baby.
If their audience feels the way you do, then why does he mislead them?
I'll tell you why. Because lots of his audience would NOT feel the way you do.
Let the man do his show from the Moon, I don't care. But when he implies that he's in Boston and he's not, he is no longer trustworthy in my opinion.
You are assuming that making something illegal reduces its incidence.
The current "drug problem" puts the lie to your theorem. There is HUGE incidence of drug use. We now need to figure out how to reduce the impact of that drug use (which is not going to go away) on society.
I don't use "illegal" drugs because I choose not to, not because I'm scared of getting caught. On the other hand, I do not want a state powerful and intrusive enough to shut off drug use, because that state would limit my liberty and invade my privacy, in an effort to stop me from doing something that thanks very much, I don't do anyway.
The cost (in freedom) is not worth the prize (no drug use).
I'd love to buy an American car. But, there's not a damn one of them out there that's as reliable or holds its value as well as a Camry, or is as fun to drive as a Miata or an RX-8.
If American car makers want to get ME as a customer, they need to start making cars I want to drive. Right now, there is precisely one American car I'd own (the C5 Corvette is a superb automobile) and I can't afford it.
OK, and I'll take a Ford GT while I'm at it.
I understand the sentiment, but I don't owe any American car maker my allegiance just because they happen to be on the same continent I am. I'll buy the best car for my money, and right now, those come from Japan. (And Germany, if I've got more money to spend.)
Incidentally, when Toyotas are manufactured in South Carolina, does that make them American cars? Why or why not?
So, you got suckered by somebody's marketing scheme, and you think they should then pay up?
Seems like some people posting here have had some really good experiences getting their iBooks fixed. Some other people have had bad experiences. Apple being a "premium" brand has nothing to do with it.
I have had good experiences, both first- and second-hand, with Apple hardware. Therefore, they will be my next vendor of choice. You are free to make a different decision. What exactly do you want? Steve to fly to your house and personally repair your $1200 laptop? Come on.
The SI prefixes are not base 2. If the geeks wanted to use a prefix that was base 2, they should have made one up.
Fortunately, this has been rectified by later revisions of the Systeme Internationale, by including binary prefixes like "mibi" and "tibi", which, although ridiculous sounding, are clear and accurate.
Of course the marketroids wouldn't have done this if rounding would produce smaller numbers. However, in this unusual case, the marketroids have happened on the correct expression of these values.
What is an inalienable right, apart from one that shall not be violated?
Of course, we don't really believe in the Constitution anymore. Presumption of innocence and habeas corpus is so 1840's.
*grumble*
Look, there are lots of people out there who think the Dock is a poorly designed waste of screen space. So, saying that the old functionality is subsumed in the Dock is Not A Good Thing from that perspective.
I loathe the new column view in folder windows. I think the Toolbar is ridiculous. I liked the old interface better, and I think it would be in Apple's interest to consider that view as an option for future releases.
Please explain to me how that inconveniences you.
I wasn't criticizing. I was just making an observation.
And, as far as VW's marketing, I think it's silly too. I like VW's because I've driven in them, and find them to be well-built, attractively designed inside and out, and reasonably priced.
A one pound bird can not carry a ten pound drive.
There's no husk for gripping.
I often start a meatspace discussion with an article I read about on /. How is this different from talking about something one read in the paper?
The ENTIRE POINT of metric prefixes is precisely that they do NOT change in meaning totally.
SI has been around longer than computers. The metric system has been around way longer than that. SI wins. Get over it.
I hate marketers too, but in this case? They are absolutely correct.
er, Phaeton==5000lb luxo-yacht.
Nardo==2500lb rocket ship.
Can you say power to weight ratio? I knew you could.
I don't understand why people seem to think that a brand of car has some sort of upper limit on the price/quality of the vehicles they sell. The whole Honda/Acura Toyota/Lexus Nissan/Infiniti Dodge/Chrysler branding philosophies never made a damn bit of sense to me.
I'd rather have an Acura badged as a Honda, and save $5k in marketing bullshit expenses.
Actually, I'd much rather have a Mazda. They a) don't mess with that sort of crap, and b) make cars that are actually fun to drive.
WOOOHOOOOO!!!!
*konks self on head with foam hammer*
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA!
I disagree.
There are numerous social activities one can enjoy on the Internet. Some of them don't even involve masturbation.
In all seriousness, I can have a rich, fruitful conversation with my friends in a chat room. And the beer in my fridge is cheaper than the beer at a pub. Is it as social as going to a restaurant with friends? No, but it's infinitely more social than watching Friends on TV.
I'd rather put a VW W-12 engine in a VW Nardo and go give that Lamborghini a run for its money.
Why oh why didn't VW build this car for me?
Stupid Systeme Internationale! It's all the fuckin' French's fault!
A megabyte is, for the overwhelming majority of the population of Earth, 1000 bytes. Nobody cares about 2% error.
I had it in my head that a RAID5 array needed an odd number of drives.
Am I crazy?
I'm sorry, but yeah, it does.
... but I was pretty sure that was all I did to resize it." and they are absolutely correct. Dragging the mouse on the border (between the trash can and the rest of the dock) resizes it. Double clicking on the dock icon of a closed app opens it in the background.
I'm sitting in front of a box stock eMac with MacOS 10.3. If you want, reply here and I'll send you an email with a screenshot of my system profiler screen.
I'm in Safari.
I double click on the Address Book icon. The app launches, and the Address Book window does not appear in front of the Safari window. I did this as I was typing, and it behaved exactly as I've explained.
On further exploration, I found that if I double click the Address Book icon after the app has been launched, it comes into the foreground.
I hover my mouse over the black bar between the trash and the rest of the dock. I get the black cross cursor with the vertical arrows, similar to when I want to resize a row in Excel. I click the mouse button and move the mouse up and down, and the dock changes sizes.
I'm not making this shit up, man. The double click to launch in the background is freakin' awesome IMO. RadicalSkeptic said "And are you sure that dragging the mouse on the border doesn't do anything?
No hacks. Yes, I've played with the dock prefs in System Preferences, but just to turn magnification off. You might want to look again.
His complaint (and mine) is that it moves based on the size of your dock icons. If your dock is small, the trash icon is towards the middle of the screen. If it's big, it's in the corner.
That objection would largely go away if I could pin it in the corner, but I flatly refuse to type things at the command line to fix rudimentary issues like this. I think Apple should include it as a user-selectable preference.
And, re: smug and full of himself, there are people on this planet who are staggeringly good at what they do. Tog is one of them. He can be as smug as he wants.
*gets poked in ass by dock*
[mr slave]Jesuth Christh![/mr slave]
"but the means to accomplish tasks just were not friendly"
You call that a fact?
Which tasks? What does "friendly" mean? if you never used the Classic interface, how do you know?
And how does having an OPTION for the Classic interface cause trouble for anybody who does not exercise that OPTION?