While ESRB ratings and other warnings about violent games for kids have good reason to exist, many parents still ignore them, aren't aware to them, or simply don't care about their warnings
"Many parents still ignore them", which is fine, they are warnings not commandments.
"or simply don't care about their warnings", which is fine, they are warnings not commandments.
"aren't aware to them", which is a publicity issue for the ESRB and not the fault of the parents -- assuming for a moment that anything more than a statistically insignificant number of people aren't aware of them.
The ESRB warning are there so that parents can make decisions about their own children themselves. That their decisions differ from yours isn't a failing of the warnings. It's a failure of you for wanting to control other people's lives.
Maybe not In the video; the guy using the plastic strip to trick the device is holding the plastic strip over the same finger that can legitimately unlock the device.
Go re-watch the video and pay attention this time... He used his index finger to lock the phone and his middle finger to unlock it using the "plastic strip".
Don't we also have a duty to preserve a world free from flying killer robots for our children?
Isn't it the killing that's the terrible thing, not the method that's used? This reminds me of the stupidity of classifying some crimes as "hate crimes", as if it's worse that someone gets beat up because they're gay than if they get beat up because they're walking down the wrong street.
...maybe put that brainpower into solving the actual global problem, rather than finding a bandaid solution to the local symptom....
Given that solving the global problem would pretty much require us to stop all fossil fuel use, stop all food-animal production, stop all rain-forest destruction and start an effective process of eliminating termites (they are huge methane producers) I think we can pretty much rule out being able to solve the global problem.
Since the current plans to "deal with" global warming are about slowing the affects of global warming not stopping or reversing it -- so your town won't be under water for seventy years instead of fifty -- the rational course of action is to start dealing with the current and upcoming effects.
To use a non-automotive analogy, global warming is like a huge snowball rolling down a snowy hillside. You can waste a bunch of time fruitlessly trying to stop it or slow it down but you'd be better off beating it down the hill and moving anything it's going to hit out of its way.
This whining gets a little old. People cry that "the bankers" (or "banksters" in your case) should go to jail but yet never seem to be able to cite specifics. That to me says you don't actually know of any laws broken, you are just mad and think that you're angry should be reason enough to convict someone.
How about we start with the F'ing bankers who were laundering billions but didn't get charged with any criminal activity and their organization only got a token fine because it would be "bad for the economy" if they were held responsible for their criminal activity.
Then we could go after the F'ing bankers that took money from congress with the promise that they would re-start lending to the "little guy" and instead used it to buy up their competition and pay executive bonuses.
If you don't think most bankers (i.e. top executives at the large banks) should be in jail you haven't been paying attention.
You have the right to free speech, but not the right to yell "fire" in a crowded room.
Actually you do have the right to yell "fire" in a crowded room. You just can't use the first amendment to avoid prosecution for starting a riot. In other words, you have the right to act but you are also responsible for your actions.
There is no need for such a law, all they have to do is install a key logger on the company's computers (it's their computer they can do that) and they'll have the employee's facebook password before lunch.
"By using DHS as the middleman, the Obama administration hopes to bring the formidable overseas intelligence-gathering of the NSA closer to ordinary U.S. residents without triggering an outcry from privacy advocates who have long been leery of the spy agency's eavesdropping."
Translation: People don't fear the DHS as much as they fear the NSA, this should fix that.
Wait, what? A web site can secretly access my browser history? Why does this need the FTC need to get involved, shouldn't "we" stop them by fixing the browsers?
Why not just use a paper ballot marked with a pencil? Everyone knows how to use them, they are cheap and readily available and one person can count them up in a couple of minutes.
Considering that many of the labourers I work with (construction industry) have difficulty figuring out quarter, eighth or sixteenths of a inch on a measuring tape -- I'm very hard pressed to give any credence to the idea that we should be teaching less math in school.
Both underwriters and car dealerships purchase in structured deals with contractual boundaries that set wholesale pricing structures.
So it's not scalping because of the collusion? BTW: Car dealers will not hesitate to sell a car above sticker price (at a premium) if there is a big demand for it.
Scalpers are people who buy something at retail, turn around and sell it at retail for a huge markup, preventing other retail purchasers from buying at the merchant-set rate and intentionally causing scarcity issues. Think tickets for concerts, or the shortages of Wiis and PS3s when those first released.
What you have just described are free enterprisers who are exercising their rights to make a profit in a free enterprise system.
BTW: They are not creating a scarcity of the item in question, they are taking advantage of the scarcity -- there is a common economic term that covers this, "supply and demand". They aren't doing anything commodity traders don't do.
People who were willing to buy at the set price get blocked out, and the venue ends up with empty seats.
So what you're saying is the retailer has under-priced the item they are selling and someone else is risking their capital in order to capitalise on that. What's the problem with that?
Car dealers and stock underwriters on the other hand, have every incentive to sell every item they purchase.
"Scalpers" have the exact same incentive to sell every item that they purchase that a car dealer or stock underwriter does -- profit.
Unlike scalpers, they are providing a benefit to their service by organizing distribution and sales channels. In these situations, the original product source (IPO, factory) doesn't want to sell direct, they prefer to sell wholesale and let someone else take on that responsibility. Scalpers on the other hand are simply injecting themselves as an additional layer post-retail and do not add any value with their service.
As a consumer I don't give a rat's ass what service a wholesaler provides to the manufacturer. I only care what service they provide to me and scalpers provide a very valuable service. They allow people who are willing to pay for the privilege, to buy tickets to shows (for example) at their convenience.
Really? Suppose I'm used to yellow lights lasting 6 seconds, and I know I can get through the light in 5 seconds.
That question is part of your problem. The yellow light mean "Stop, unless it's unsafe to do so". It doesn't mean "hurry up, the light is about to turn red".
Now, if you had said that you are approaching an intersection where you require a minimum of 6 seconds to stop in a safe manner and they changed the yellow light to three seconds, you'd have a point.
If someone doesn't want to buy a Mac cause they can't swap batteries, being able to swap batteries by opening up the case isn't going to change that.
There are two kinds of people wanting to swap batteries, one wants to swap them frequently when the battery runs down, and the other wants to be able to swap them occasionally when the battery starts to fail. Being able to open the case with a screwdriver and swap the battery appeals to the latter group.
For a lot of people, I can see this being the case, but equally not the case for many other people that want ultraportables. A 5 hour battery life on a 16 hour flight would be a bit... lacking.
So you'd rather buy and carry around three spare batteries rather than shell out $49 on a MagSafe Airline Adapter?
Sorry, but this all sounds like the standard response to any new apple product, people look for reasons not to like it.
1) Mach 3.3 speed record by SR-71 -> official speed record. NASA's X-15 set an unofficial one of Mach 6.7.
The X-15 is a rocket plane, not a jet plane. Fact checking is your friend too... If you're going to include rockets the shuttle is much faster than the X-15, it's travelling at around 17,000 mph when it reenters the atmosphere and the Apollo capsules hit reentry doing almost 25,000 mph.
2) So.. 3.3 is NOWHERE NEAR the limit for jet engines.
Mach 3.3 is about the the limit for jet engine powered planes (the SR71 uses RAM Jets), until they figure out how to get SCRAM Jets working (I don't count a few seconds of SCRAM JET power after being boosted to speed by rockets as a functional jet plane). But, you're welcome to prove me wrong. Name a plane that is known to be faster than the SR-71?
Unfortunately, hurt feelings is about the extent of the powers of the GAO from what I understand.
Exactly, the GAO is not an enforcement arm of your government, it's an investigative arm. Democratic Senator Edward Markey reqested the report and the GAO investigated the situation and reported back. The ball in now in Senator Markey's hands, it's his job to "do something about it".
HFS+ also allows leading and trailing spaces, for example you can have a file named " filename" or "filename "
And I got into trouble the other day mounting a volume from my PC on my Mac and creating a folder named "Misc." There was no problem accessing it on the Mac but Windows choked on it every time. I had to remount the volume on the Mac and rename it to get at the files inside it.
NASA has confirmed that it was an error converting metric to imperial measurments that caused the death of almost seven billion people and the started our current ice age.
In other news; Today's high is expected to reach -65 celcius.
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While ESRB ratings and other warnings about violent games for kids have good reason to exist, many parents still ignore them, aren't aware to them, or simply don't care about their warnings
"Many parents still ignore them", which is fine, they are warnings not commandments.
"or simply don't care about their warnings", which is fine, they are warnings not commandments.
"aren't aware to them", which is a publicity issue for the ESRB and not the fault of the parents -- assuming for a moment that anything more than a statistically insignificant number of people aren't aware of them.
The ESRB warning are there so that parents can make decisions about their own children themselves. That their decisions differ from yours isn't a failing of the warnings. It's a failure of you for wanting to control other people's lives.
So how long until this technology can be used to build the flying car I've been promised for several decades?
So how long until I can use this technology to finally get my flaying car?
Maybe not In the video; the guy using the plastic strip to trick the device is holding the plastic strip over the same finger that can legitimately unlock the device.
Go re-watch the video and pay attention this time... He used his index finger to lock the phone and his middle finger to unlock it using the "plastic strip".
Don't we also have a duty to preserve a world free from flying killer robots for our children?
Isn't it the killing that's the terrible thing, not the method that's used? This reminds me of the stupidity of classifying some crimes as "hate crimes", as if it's worse that someone gets beat up because they're gay than if they get beat up because they're walking down the wrong street.
...maybe put that brainpower into solving the actual global problem, rather than finding a bandaid solution to the local symptom....
Given that solving the global problem would pretty much require us to stop all fossil fuel use, stop all food-animal production, stop all rain-forest destruction and start an effective process of eliminating termites (they are huge methane producers) I think we can pretty much rule out being able to solve the global problem.
Since the current plans to "deal with" global warming are about slowing the affects of global warming not stopping or reversing it -- so your town won't be under water for seventy years instead of fifty -- the rational course of action is to start dealing with the current and upcoming effects.
To use a non-automotive analogy, global warming is like a huge snowball rolling down a snowy hillside. You can waste a bunch of time fruitlessly trying to stop it or slow it down but you'd be better off beating it down the hill and moving anything it's going to hit out of its way.
This whining gets a little old. People cry that "the bankers" (or "banksters" in your case) should go to jail but yet never seem to be able to cite specifics. That to me says you don't actually know of any laws broken, you are just mad and think that you're angry should be reason enough to convict someone.
How about we start with the F'ing bankers who were laundering billions but didn't get charged with any criminal activity and their organization only got a token fine because it would be "bad for the economy" if they were held responsible for their criminal activity.
Then we could go after the F'ing bankers that took money from congress with the promise that they would re-start lending to the "little guy" and instead used it to buy up their competition and pay executive bonuses.
If you don't think most bankers (i.e. top executives at the large banks) should be in jail you haven't been paying attention.
This is all about setting up a system to charge for access to 'whois' information. Phrases like "authorizing 'requestors'" is code for charging users.
You have the right to free speech, but not the right to yell "fire" in a crowded room.
Actually you do have the right to yell "fire" in a crowded room. You just can't use the first amendment to avoid prosecution for starting a riot. In other words, you have the right to act but you are also responsible for your actions.
There is no need for such a law, all they have to do is install a key logger on the company's computers (it's their computer they can do that) and they'll have the employee's facebook password before lunch.
"By using DHS as the middleman, the Obama administration hopes to bring the formidable overseas intelligence-gathering of the NSA closer to ordinary U.S. residents without triggering an outcry from privacy advocates who have long been leery of the spy agency's eavesdropping."
Translation: People don't fear the DHS as much as they fear the NSA, this should fix that.
Wait, what? A web site can secretly access my browser history? Why does this need the FTC need to get involved, shouldn't "we" stop them by fixing the browsers?
What's NASA trying to hide? It looks to me like they're a bunch of terrorists...
They are only asking for your email address so that they can sell it to spammers and spam you themselves.
Use http://www.mailinator.com/ and thwart their evil plans...
Why not just use a paper ballot marked with a pencil? Everyone knows how to use them, they are cheap and readily available and one person can count them up in a couple of minutes.
... on their own list?
Considering that many of the labourers I work with (construction industry) have difficulty figuring out quarter, eighth or sixteenths of a inch on a measuring tape -- I'm very hard pressed to give any credence to the idea that we should be teaching less math in school.
Both underwriters and car dealerships purchase in structured deals with contractual boundaries that set wholesale pricing structures.
So it's not scalping because of the collusion? BTW: Car dealers will not hesitate to sell a car above sticker price (at a premium) if there is a big demand for it.
Scalpers are people who buy something at retail, turn around and sell it at retail for a huge markup, preventing other retail purchasers from buying at the merchant-set rate and intentionally causing scarcity issues. Think tickets for concerts, or the shortages of Wiis and PS3s when those first released.
What you have just described are free enterprisers who are exercising their rights to make a profit in a free enterprise system.
BTW: They are not creating a scarcity of the item in question, they are taking advantage of the scarcity -- there is a common economic term that covers this, "supply and demand". They aren't doing anything commodity traders don't do.
People who were willing to buy at the set price get blocked out, and the venue ends up with empty seats.
So what you're saying is the retailer has under-priced the item they are selling and someone else is risking their capital in order to capitalise on that. What's the problem with that?
Car dealers and stock underwriters on the other hand, have every incentive to sell every item they purchase.
"Scalpers" have the exact same incentive to sell every item that they purchase that a car dealer or stock underwriter does -- profit.
Unlike scalpers, they are providing a benefit to their service by organizing distribution and sales channels. In these situations, the original product source (IPO, factory) doesn't want to sell direct, they prefer to sell wholesale and let someone else take on that responsibility. Scalpers on the other hand are simply injecting themselves as an additional layer post-retail and do not add any value with their service.
As a consumer I don't give a rat's ass what service a wholesaler provides to the manufacturer. I only care what service they provide to me and scalpers provide a very valuable service. They allow people who are willing to pay for the privilege, to buy tickets to shows (for example) at their convenience.
Really? Suppose I'm used to yellow lights lasting 6 seconds, and I know I can get through the light in 5 seconds.
That question is part of your problem. The yellow light mean "Stop, unless it's unsafe to do so". It doesn't mean "hurry up, the light is about to turn red".
Now, if you had said that you are approaching an intersection where you require a minimum of 6 seconds to stop in a safe manner and they changed the yellow light to three seconds, you'd have a point.
If someone doesn't want to buy a Mac cause they can't swap batteries, being able to swap batteries by opening up the case isn't going to change that.
There are two kinds of people wanting to swap batteries, one wants to swap them frequently when the battery runs down, and the other wants to be able to swap them occasionally when the battery starts to fail. Being able to open the case with a screwdriver and swap the battery appeals to the latter group.
For a lot of people, I can see this being the case, but equally not the case for many other people that want ultraportables. A 5 hour battery life on a 16 hour flight would be a bit... lacking.
So you'd rather buy and carry around three spare batteries rather than shell out $49 on a MagSafe Airline Adapter?
Sorry, but this all sounds like the standard response to any new apple product, people look for reasons not to like it.
1) Mach 3.3 speed record by SR-71 -> official speed record. NASA's X-15 set an unofficial one of Mach 6.7.
The X-15 is a rocket plane, not a jet plane. Fact checking is your friend too...
If you're going to include rockets the shuttle is much faster than the X-15, it's travelling at around 17,000 mph when it reenters the atmosphere and the Apollo capsules hit reentry doing almost 25,000 mph.
2) So.. 3.3 is NOWHERE NEAR the limit for jet engines.
Mach 3.3 is about the the limit for jet engine powered planes (the SR71 uses RAM Jets), until they figure out how to get SCRAM Jets working (I don't count a few seconds of SCRAM JET power after being boosted to speed by rockets as a functional jet plane). But, you're welcome to prove me wrong. Name a plane that is known to be faster than the SR-71?
Unfortunately, hurt feelings is about the extent of the powers of the GAO from what I understand.
Exactly, the GAO is not an enforcement arm of your government, it's an investigative arm. Democratic Senator Edward Markey reqested the report and the GAO investigated the situation and reported back. The ball in now in Senator Markey's hands, it's his job to "do something about it".
(This may have been copied from the Xerox Star system out of PARC that Apple copied.)
I have one minor correction. That should read "(This may have been copied from the Xerox Star system out of PARC that Apple licenced.)"
HFS+ also allows leading and trailing spaces, for example you can have a file named " filename" or "filename "
And I got into trouble the other day mounting a volume from my PC on my Mac and creating a folder named "Misc." There was no problem accessing it on the Mac but Windows choked on it every time. I had to remount the volume on the Mac and rename it to get at the files inside it.
Date line Aug. 17th, 2017:
NASA has confirmed that it was an error converting metric to imperial measurments that caused the death of almost seven billion people and the started our current ice age.
In other news; Today's high is expected to reach -65 celcius.