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Do you mean 'criminal and non-citizen slave'?
Or 'is an example of how Congress enacted a discriminatory law that hurt thousands of technology consultants, their staffing firms and customers. And despite strong bipartisan efforts and unbiased studies supporting that law's repeal, it remains on the books.'?
The gist of it is that the 1986 law withdrew a special exemption for high tech workers, along with a whole bunch of other tax shelters (the law is most hostile to individuals that work full time using resources provided by a company and with supervision from an employee of the company, while claiming that they are a corporation doing contract work for the company).
The skill sets of the audience members are likely to vary wildly. The ones that don't know what the first 5 minutes of the class are about get to waste an hour.
Still, most math education is done in a presentational style.
If you are going to Antarctica, you need to take your safety into your own hands, not hope that the label on the box is accurate.
This principle applies to other things as well. For instance, making sure that expensive, semi-delicate electronics are not exposed to harsh environments.
(Extending the legal situation: to prove that what Apple is doing is illegal would take a single court case; there apparently isn't one...)
Your definition of purpose is way out there. It isn't unreasonable for Apple to market the phone in Canada with a disclaimer that using or storing the phone in certain extreme conditions may damage it (most people don't spend much of their day in -20 C weather, so that is, in fact, an extreme condition). There are enough buildings to make it so that a portable phone is still useful.
If there was a case where it was decided that Apple was breaking the law by marketing their phones (with moisture disclaimers) in Florida and Canada, I would be disappointed in the law (see how that works, I don't want to argue about whether it is legal or not, my personal opinion is that it isn't that ridiculous).
As far as your sleeping bag thing, if someone went to Antarctica without proper shelter, I wouldn't begrudge anything anybody did to try to help them, whether money changed hands or not.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that your insistence on receiving a $1,200 phone that you can treat like an inert slab of metal means that I might not be able to buy an $800 phone that I have to pay some attention to.
(This is all in the abstract, I wouldn't spend the money on an iPhone+contract and don't have anybody offering to do it for me, so my phone cost $30; I could give a shit about it having a good warranty)
Why? If they have done their work right, triggering the LCI voids the warranty, regardless of the condition of the device (because the device has been exposed to conditions that are not covered in the warranty).
That it continues to work after the triggering is simply a bonus, and that it fails for some other reason is simply unfortunate.
If those things bother you, factor them into the purchasing decision.
You are misapprehending how the cochlear implant functions. It is stimulating nerves using 16 electrodes, not stimulating 16 individual nerves (each electrode will stimulate a region...).
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Do you mean 'criminal and non-citizen slave'?
Or 'is an example of how Congress enacted a discriminatory law that hurt thousands of technology consultants, their staffing firms and customers. And despite strong bipartisan efforts and unbiased studies supporting that law's repeal, it remains on the books.'?
The gist of it is that the 1986 law withdrew a special exemption for high tech workers, along with a whole bunch of other tax shelters (the law is most hostile to individuals that work full time using resources provided by a company and with supervision from an employee of the company, while claiming that they are a corporation doing contract work for the company).
They have the potential to be cheaper to manufacture than LCD TVs (because there are less pieces working together), but they aren't yet.
Fiasco? Really?
No, Disney is pretty fucking sinister.
The skill sets of the audience members are likely to vary wildly. The ones that don't know what the first 5 minutes of the class are about get to waste an hour.
Still, most math education is done in a presentational style.
I wanna see how they reverse Venus. Must be an awful big rocket.
The entertaining part was that you got a stupid answer.
(yes yes, the reasoning from the answer is fine)
The first thing I thought was "Here comes a shitstorm."
Turns out, society at large finds the behavior here pretty unconscionable, not something that they should embrace.
Recurse!
If you are going to Antarctica, you need to take your safety into your own hands, not hope that the label on the box is accurate.
This principle applies to other things as well. For instance, making sure that expensive, semi-delicate electronics are not exposed to harsh environments.
(Extending the legal situation: to prove that what Apple is doing is illegal would take a single court case; there apparently isn't one...)
Your definition of purpose is way out there. It isn't unreasonable for Apple to market the phone in Canada with a disclaimer that using or storing the phone in certain extreme conditions may damage it (most people don't spend much of their day in -20 C weather, so that is, in fact, an extreme condition). There are enough buildings to make it so that a portable phone is still useful.
If there was a case where it was decided that Apple was breaking the law by marketing their phones (with moisture disclaimers) in Florida and Canada, I would be disappointed in the law (see how that works, I don't want to argue about whether it is legal or not, my personal opinion is that it isn't that ridiculous).
As far as your sleeping bag thing, if someone went to Antarctica without proper shelter, I wouldn't begrudge anything anybody did to try to help them, whether money changed hands or not.
The problem with this line of reasoning is that your insistence on receiving a $1,200 phone that you can treat like an inert slab of metal means that I might not be able to buy an $800 phone that I have to pay some attention to.
(This is all in the abstract, I wouldn't spend the money on an iPhone+contract and don't have anybody offering to do it for me, so my phone cost $30; I could give a shit about it having a good warranty)
Just not quite douchey enough for you to simply walk away?
Are you sure it isn't marketed as a hand held phone?
Why? If they have done their work right, triggering the LCI voids the warranty, regardless of the condition of the device (because the device has been exposed to conditions that are not covered in the warranty).
That it continues to work after the triggering is simply a bonus, and that it fails for some other reason is simply unfortunate.
If those things bother you, factor them into the purchasing decision.
Right, but this isn't PR, PC Perspective thinks they are a news site (and they didn't simply parrot the OCZ press release).
Calling the article a 'press release' unfairly tarnishes OCZ. Their press release is still full of press release though:
http://www.ocztechnology.com/aboutocz/press/2010/362
You are misapprehending how the cochlear implant functions. It is stimulating nerves using 16 electrodes, not stimulating 16 individual nerves (each electrode will stimulate a region...).
There must be some reason that most businesses fail.
I would speculate that a big part of it is that the people trying to start them are wildly irrational.
(The idea being that this would lead to the expectation of nonsensical commentary about successful businesses doing rational things)
Live Linux BSD?
Confusion indeed.
Blood sacrifice.
Yes, they are nearly keeping pace with Norway. Whoo.
It's too bad there isn't a "-1 Canadian" mod.
That's retarded.
Except for the part where you can selectively and trivially turn off keys.
Anybody with non-trivial security needs really better be doing more than trusting the defaults.