I've actually met a lot of those software packages. But no, nothing in my entire life of computers has caused me to expend more time than iTunes. It is the single most hated and despised piece of software that I have ever installed.
In fact 80% of what I hate about the iPhone involved iTunes/synching/DRM issues.
Then you drive through Maryland on highway 70. Receive this threatening letter for violating a toll plaza. Except none exists, it's an automated license plate capture camera that autogenerates a bill.
But they still use the same letter as if you'd run the toll booth.
Okay, for the past five years or so I've experience some of the most frigid winters. We had an extremely cold winter. Followed by a winter with record snow (4 ft in two days). Followed by a year with a mild winter but a huge snow in fall and a late frost in April. Then this past winter we've had snow flurries on about 1/2 the days. And now, in the middle of may we had a frost wipe out my second planting of sweet potatoes and peppers.
This is well past the Farmer's Almanac.
So seriously, F-GW, F-AlGore, F-Idiots who shout doom and gloom. I'm going to light my fire pit, burn some carbon filled wood. And pour used motor oil over it just to help warm things up.
***
EXPLANATIONS for Polar Shift.
1. Global Warming, heck maybe they're right. Maybe the ice melting is rotating the planet.
(Or maybe the planet rotating is melting the ice, though I would think that would mean the ice would merely shift directions.)
2. Maybe Three Gorges Dam in China
3. Maybe Fukishima earthquake, tidal wave, what not also contributed to the shift.
4. Perhaps we're applying the sure and steady scientific error. Where we assume things ALWAYS happen at the same rate. So if we see that the pole moved 1 meter in 300 years. We assume that it moved a centimeter a year. Rather than having any proof that the average movement is consistent. It may have moved 3 centimeters one year and 1/2 a centimeter another year.
5. If we used logic, we'd quit feeding the poor, quit having wars and devote ALL of our money to get us to a second planet and solar system. I mean seriously, what's the point of saving the poor only to have them wiped out by an asteroid. Just saying....Bruce Willis can't save us every time. I mean yes, he stopped Armageddon, and Cobra...but really. Can we rely on him to bail our butts out of every mess?
The People of the World should burn Mosanto to the ground.
90% of the American soy is Mosanto. And Mosanto "owns" all the seed. This is fucking ludicrous. Dangerous. And potentially such a threat to humanity. That I don't see how the mere "benefit for innovation" does not outweigh the threat. In which case, these patents should be deemed null and void.
So if Mosanto winds up destroying a key crop such as corn or soy. What then? risking such is unacceptable. Nor is letting a company claim ownership of an entire food product (eg: soy, corn, etc).
Seriously, nearly 1/2 a dozen times I have followed severely drunk drivers. Not a tipsy slowed down reflexes drunk. A swerving all over the road drunk. And guess how many times the police gave a damn to even respond.
Meanwhile I had to follow these cars, flash my lights and honk my horn every time they almost hit another vehicle or guardrail. So if 0.20% alcohol doesn't mean crap to police. Than why should we lower the limit?
Steve Jobs death I believe was because his accusation of accusing Flash as being crappy software while iTunes remained by far the worse POS ever written, literally guilted Mr. Jobs to death.
Seriously though...I've never wasted more time than I have with iTunes. Never had any app cause my system to become unresponsive more. I would wager $5,000 Apple deliberately chose to make for a sucky experience on Windows.
Many flew before Kitty Hawk. And some may have had even more legitimate claims. The Wright Brothers needed a skid platform for take offs. A Brazilian I believe was documented with a self take off and landing plane a year or two before.
There was a man in Connecticut who may likely have flown 2 years before the Wright Brothers. And there were many many folks experimenting with manned gliders and the like.
I'd also point out that the very first "metal" guns weren't all that safe and reliable as well. So this is a generation 1 prototype. Consider in 20 years, when 3D printers are in most middle class homes (if we still have a middle class). What do you think 20 years of tweaking and discovery will do? Might these become more reliable, & safer,... there was a time that folk though using a polymer frame on a handgun was ludicrus. Glocks and many others have shown that is NOT the case.
BEFORE: Skilled Blue Collared metal workers could make a zip gun. As manufacturing is almost gone in America, this was a dying breed going the way of the winged water buffalo.
NOW: The huge spat of nerds and computer programmers now have the means to accomplish what formerly required a moderately skilled metal worker.
Why are anti-gunners so violent and always wishing for death of gun owners.
Hmm....
I bet you most murderers who kill folks with a gun are anti-gunners themselves. (Just like how most of those legislators who pass gun control, actually own or are protected by guns.)
Has anyone thought that perhaps, just perhaps, the implementation of the 3rd Amendment and similar legal preventions made in other nations. May have actually STOPPED that process.
We laugh and say that was done for a time. But maybe it was more akin to the polio vaccine. Sure, the idea of soldiers entering your house, taking your bedrooms and eating your food seems ludicrous today. But perhaps it was the implementation of that Amendment that in part led to the cessation of the practice.
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I've actually met a lot of those software packages. But no, nothing in my entire life of computers has caused me to expend more time than iTunes. It is the single most hated and despised piece of software that I have ever installed.
In fact 80% of what I hate about the iPhone involved iTunes/synching/DRM issues.
Of the patent(s) at hand would have been nice...
Then you drive through Maryland on highway 70. Receive this threatening letter for violating a toll plaza. Except none exists, it's an automated license plate capture camera that autogenerates a bill.
But they still use the same letter as if you'd run the toll booth.
*priceless*
Government is FAIL on almost every level.
Okay, for the past five years or so I've experience some of the most frigid winters. We had an extremely cold winter. Followed by a winter with record snow (4 ft in two days). Followed by a year with a mild winter but a huge snow in fall and a late frost in April. Then this past winter we've had snow flurries on about 1/2 the days. And now, in the middle of may we had a frost wipe out my second planting of sweet potatoes and peppers.
This is well past the Farmer's Almanac.
So seriously, F-GW, F-AlGore, F-Idiots who shout doom and gloom. I'm going to light my fire pit, burn some carbon filled wood. And pour used motor oil over it just to help warm things up.
***
EXPLANATIONS for Polar Shift.
1. Global Warming, heck maybe they're right. Maybe the ice melting is rotating the planet.
(Or maybe the planet rotating is melting the ice, though I would think that would mean the ice would merely shift directions.)
2. Maybe Three Gorges Dam in China
3. Maybe Fukishima earthquake, tidal wave, what not also contributed to the shift.
4. Perhaps we're applying the sure and steady scientific error. Where we assume things ALWAYS happen at the same rate. So if we see that the pole moved 1 meter in 300 years. We assume that it moved a centimeter a year. Rather than having any proof that the average movement is consistent. It may have moved 3 centimeters one year and 1/2 a centimeter another year.
5. If we used logic, we'd quit feeding the poor, quit having wars and devote ALL of our money to get us to a second planet and solar system. I mean seriously, what's the point of saving the poor only to have them wiped out by an asteroid. Just saying....Bruce Willis can't save us every time. I mean yes, he stopped Armageddon, and Cobra...but really. Can we rely on him to bail our butts out of every mess?
The People of the World should burn Mosanto to the ground.
90% of the American soy is Mosanto. And Mosanto "owns" all the seed. This is fucking ludicrous. Dangerous. And potentially such a threat to humanity. That I don't see how the mere "benefit for innovation" does not outweigh the threat. In which case, these patents should be deemed null and void.
So if Mosanto winds up destroying a key crop such as corn or soy. What then? risking such is unacceptable. Nor is letting a company claim ownership of an entire food product (eg: soy, corn, etc).
Seriously, nearly 1/2 a dozen times I have followed severely drunk drivers. Not a tipsy slowed down reflexes drunk. A swerving all over the road drunk. And guess how many times the police gave a damn to even respond.
Meanwhile I had to follow these cars, flash my lights and honk my horn every time they almost hit another vehicle or guardrail. So if 0.20% alcohol doesn't mean crap to police. Than why should we lower the limit?
Steve Jobs death I believe was because his accusation of accusing Flash as being crappy software while iTunes remained by far the worse POS ever written, literally guilted Mr. Jobs to death.
Seriously though...I've never wasted more time than I have with iTunes. Never had any app cause my system to become unresponsive more. I would wager $5,000 Apple deliberately chose to make for a sucky experience on Windows.
Simply create a Wikipedia article. And than post the design file in the article.
One would be hard pressed to argue that Wikipedia is NOT a library or similar resource.
Get rid of all the guns in a America...large and small.
How long do you think the USA exist if we had no weapons?
"...unless you are Native American. Then there would be a lot more of you here."
Actually sir, you tragically prove my point. There were no guns in Native America. There are now no Natives in America.
Ya, kind of see what I'm saying here?
Remove the guns from non-Native America. And there would be no USA either.
Actually, there is much debate on that.
Many flew before Kitty Hawk. And some may have had even more legitimate claims. The Wright Brothers needed a skid platform for take offs. A Brazilian I believe was documented with a self take off and landing plane a year or two before.
There was a man in Connecticut who may likely have flown 2 years before the Wright Brothers. And there were many many folks experimenting with manned gliders and the like.
Really, cause I think he nailed it.
I'd also point out that the very first "metal" guns weren't all that safe and reliable as well. So this is a generation 1 prototype. Consider in 20 years, when 3D printers are in most middle class homes (if we still have a middle class). What do you think 20 years of tweaking and discovery will do? Might these become more reliable, & safer,... there was a time that folk though using a polymer frame on a handgun was ludicrus. Glocks and many others have shown that is NOT the case.
Really, cause Gumby is supposed to be flexible. And most of the output I've seen is hard plastic.
If there weren't guns in America. (Be it civilian, police and military.) You wouldn't be here...
BEFORE: Skilled Blue Collared metal workers could make a zip gun. As manufacturing is almost gone in America, this was a dying breed going the way of the winged water buffalo.
NOW: The huge spat of nerds and computer programmers now have the means to accomplish what formerly required a moderately skilled metal worker.
NOW THEY'RE SCARED. NERDS WITH GUNS!!!!
Why are anti-gunners so violent and always wishing for death of gun owners.
Hmm....
I bet you most murderers who kill folks with a gun are anti-gunners themselves. (Just like how most of those legislators who pass gun control, actually own or are protected by guns.)
It's a weird inverted relationship...
MOD UP...
If you think gun manufacturers are NRA's primary constitutuents, you are seriously mistaken.
Has anyone thought that perhaps, just perhaps, the implementation of the 3rd Amendment and similar legal preventions made in other nations. May have actually STOPPED that process.
We laugh and say that was done for a time. But maybe it was more akin to the polio vaccine. Sure, the idea of soldiers entering your house, taking your bedrooms and eating your food seems ludicrous today. But perhaps it was the implementation of that Amendment that in part led to the cessation of the practice.
Actually, that's not a bad business model you're onto. Plastic grave stones would last many years. Could be made to be very colorful.
You know...you might e on a million dollar business there...
Unless you live in Chicago where you can't buy a handgun easily. ;-)
Some paper over some wood and lots of wire taking off from a ramp at Kitty Hawk did...
The right to defend and protect myself and my family is the most fundamental of all rights.
The right of a government to be armed is far more questionable.
You're right...we need a more civilized weapon for more civilized nations....
Like a LIGHTSABER!!!!!
Really, I mean shotgun shells are mostly plastic today. And there are blackpowder sabot cartridges. So I wager it could be done...