Start with an ad hominem, then go to a non-sequitur . Wow.
It's ok if you are unwilling or unable to reply, though it's a shame you didn't even want to try to respond with anything more coherent than a bit of crying.
When your boss prohibits you from having a firearm in your own home, then you can cry about it.
So... the right to keep and bear arms only applies in the home? You may want to check with a number of courts who have said otherwise, repeatedly.
Again, I call 'chilling effect' for the banning of a legal object by my employer while on the job site... vs your beef of a future employer who may have acted in their own private capacity at an earlier time somehow disqualifying them for the job down the line and unrelated to the work.
While the initial presence of them took many off guard... it's been with us so long I'd wager most (who have been using them for that time) are more or less used to them and see the benefit.
I just can't see getting an Office365 subscription to use these applications.
While I don't think we'd get to see any #'s... I doubt that many will get an Office 365 subscription *just* to be able to use the iPad apps... instead being able to use the subscription on the iPad and a couple of desktop and laptops (up to 5 devices I think) is where the motivation to subscribe will comes in.
Assuming these people are still doing their jobs, asking the CEO to step down is not insubordination.
Depends on what the context of their job is.
While my job involves writing specs & code and a whole litany of other 'deliverables'... I am also a representative of the company both while on and off the clock, and am expected (and instructed) to act accordingly.
Advocating against the legitimate leadership of the organization, be it military or corporate is not generally a good way to represent the larger unit... especially when the folks at the top have disciplinary options that were part of the agreement when joining.
It could also be argued that you are a moron based on what you said... allow me to demonstrate.
that his public support for stripping rights from homosexuals
Which 'right' did he seek to 'strip' from homosexuals? The right to marry? Last I checked they already had that right... the same one that heterosexuals did.
The issue with the Prop 8 case was that the court overturned a previous prohibition (pre 'rights')... then some municipalities unilaterally granted the 'right' (see San Francisco for one).
Given that those marriages granted during the window when San Francisco (and other areas) were doing their own thing were grandfathered in under Prop 8... is one really 'stripped' of 'rights' that were gained illegitimately... even if you agree with the end result?
might have a chilling effect on any gay employees.
My employer prohibits me from even having an unloaded firearm in my car when it is parked on company property... do I not get to cry of chilling effects and receive similar support?
Wrong. It was overturned because Prop. 8 was clearly unconstitutional. Study civil rights law as I have and you'll understand.
Wrong... in so many ways.
If you actually read the ruling of Judge Vaughn Walker you'd realize that he was inventing much of his ruling out of whole cloth... in the end the reason Prop 8 was struck down actually has less to do with 'civil rights law' as you claim and more to do with standing.
Vaughn Walker struck down P8 yes, on flimsy grounds. The state of California then opted not to appeal... effectively guaranteeing it remained overturned as they were the only entity which could have defended it.
While it's true that there was an effort by individuals & groups to defend it on behalf of the voters who had passed it, they ultimately lost because they did not have standing in the case.
Like the outcome all you want, but fear the process.
Ug... posted the wrong reply above... instead I meant to ask/say...
Bigger question... where is the campaign to have President Obama step down as he was against same sex marriage when he ran for national office back in 2008 (and previously)... and only more recently 'evolved' on the issue.
Shouldn't a (former?) bigot like him be compelled to resign for his previous sins?
Ug... posted my reply to the wrong comment... now again to the right place...
The reason why the attacks are unidirectional is because gay marriage
I wasn't talking just about same sex marriage... why are you?
or the larger issue of gay rights
At last check... gay individuals had the same rights as straight ones... and while sometimes those rights may not line up with preferences (ie right to marry someone of the opposite sex where desire is to marry someone of the same sex), the right remains the same regardless... you purposely try to pain the issue as something more than its not.
is a human rights issue.
Again... you prove my point of intolerance from the left... and that one need only call something a 'human rights' or 'civil rights' issue until you make enough people agree through education & politics... or fear mongering and blacklisting.
Guess which you are supporting?
All you need to do is look back across history to figure out if the side that protects, or the side that attacks, human rights is the "right" side.
History tends to be written by the victors... yet up until just two years ago, the President of the United States claimed to be against same-sex marriage... does that mean up until then he should have been viewed as a homophobic and anti-gay bigot? No? Interesting the continued double standard... or do you think history will record it that way?
2 men or 2 women getting married has the same impact on your life as a black man marrying a white woman.
You assume I care about either, your point?
There is no reason to not allow that.
Again... do you have a point? It's been clear for some time which way the tide was going... yet the issue is less today about the 'right' to marry someone of the same sex, but of the compulsion to force others to recognize it... and no, I don't mean at the court house, but of even a florist or baker being able to say they do not agree with the union and cannot provide services for such an event.
The only justification people have for not supporting gay rights is because of their own prejudice.
Yet the prejudices of those who see prejudices everywhere are emboldened to lash out against anyone they deem as not being sufficiently supportive of the current cause celeb... as we see in this case here.
Intolerance of perceived intolerance is still bigotry... and if anything, those who are calling for the stepping down of Eich are proving the (lack) of quality of their characters as they cannot handle the idea of working for someone who may have once disagreed with them.
The reason why the attacks are unidirectional is because gay marriage
I wasn't talking just about same sex marriage... why are you?
or the larger issue of gay rights
At last check... gay individuals had the same rights as straight ones... and while sometimes those rights may not line up with preferences (ie right to marry someone of the opposite sex where desire is to marry someone of the same sex), the right remains the same regardless... you purposely try to pain the issue as something more than its not.
is a human rights issue.
Again... you prove my point of intolerance from the left... and that one need only call something a 'human rights' or 'civil rights' issue until you make enough people agree through education & politics... or fear mongering and blacklisting.
Guess which you are supporting?
All you need to do is look back across history to figure out if the side that protects, or the side that attacks, human rights is the "right" side.
History tends to be written by the victors... yet up until just two years ago, the President of the United States claimed to be against same-sex marriage... does that mean up until then he should have been viewed as a homophobic and anti-gay bigot? No? Interesting the continued double standard... or do you think history will record it that way?
2 men or 2 women getting married has the same impact on your life as a black man marrying a white woman.
You assume I care about either, your point?
There is no reason to not allow that.
Again... do you have a point? It's been clear for some time which way the tide was going... yet the issue is less today about the 'right' to marry someone of the same sex, but of the compulsion to force others to recognize it... and no, I don't mean at the court house, but of even a florist or baker being able to say they do not agree with the union and cannot provide services for such an event.
The only justification people have for not supporting gay rights is because of their own prejudice.
Yet the prejudices of those who see prejudices everywhere are emboldened to lash out against anyone they deem as not being sufficiently supportive of the current cause celeb... as we see in this case here.
Intolerance of perceived intolerance is still bigotry... and if anything, those who are calling for the stepping down of Eich are proving the (lack) of quality of their characters as they cannot handle the idea of working for someone who may have once disagreed with them.
While employment law prohibits (not prevents) discriminatory hiring/firing practices... some of these employees have likely crossed a line outside of any kind of protection... in that they are effectively being insubordinate of the current management and in most cases is a fire-able offense.
Just like in a civil war, if you are unable to stay neutral, best choose your side carefully, because if you back the wrong side you will probably be in a world of pain when it's all done.
The employees disagree with his position and are asking him to step down. It is their right to do so.
They are also taking a great risk in doing so.
In some companies, what these employees are doing would be considered insubordination and could easily get them fired for cause... if Eich doesn't do so, he will demonstrate rather well that he is the bigger person.
Remember, sometime it'll be our turn to have an unpopular opinion.
Unlikely... in such a case you simply need to call your 'unpopular opinion' a 'civil rights issue', repeat ad nauseam until you get your way.
Don't forget, just this week we had a case before the Supreme Court over the question over whether the government has the authority to compel private individuals to violate their religious beliefs and directly pay for medications which in their views (rightly or wrongly) cause abortions.
Somehow... birth control (which was already widely available prior to Obamacare) is now a civil right to receive for free and from your employer.
Prop 8 has been a contentious issue for many, and is now largely resolved... yet those who ultimately won are still not happy.
It is interesting to see how those who supported it (even through a simple donation) are now targets for personal and professional attacks such as this... yet this kind of intolerance for the views of other peoples opinions & donations, does seem to be rather unidirectional, but then that is the typical 'tolerance' that the left in this country believes in.
There was a story in a news a while back about an autistic kid who was banned because he "cheated" by loading his friend's save game to unlock stuff he couldn't access.
Doing so violates the xbox terms of service, what exactly is your beef?
His mother contacted Microsoft but they told her to fuck off and buy a new console.
You forgot to mention her also going to the press to try to make it sound like Microsoft was punishing her son for being too good... though in the end, Microsoft showed her evidence of his cheating and even later admitted knowing about it.
It depends on how you use that space... and how quickly you fill it.
Sure your ISP may not be happy if over the course of a few days you upload a few hundred gigs to any provider like this... but after that's done, the bandwidth bill stays low as there isn't usually much churn.
In the case that the amount of data to be uploaded is even larger... some cloud providers have the option to simply mail hard drives directly to the datacenter to import the data directly.
Do you think data you upload to a cloud storage provider lives on just one hard disk that is plugged into the wall and that's it?
While some data centers do rely on more consumer level hardware (vs enterprise)... to help make up for the inherent unreliability of consumer level drives, they will replicate the data across multiple HDDs, in multiple racks, and possibly across multiple datacenters... as well as monitor the underlying bits for bitrot and overall integrity... in addition to sometimes offering backup options of what has been stored.
And this aside from offering you 24/7 access to the data from anywhere in the world while keeping that HDD and the attached server running (and power consuming) and with a redundant power system available.
All of these things quickly add up in terms of cost... so yes, two cents/GB is quite inexpensive for cloud storage these days when compared to like offerings.
If you are not a member of one of various elites, you have no expectation of privacy, protection under the law, or economic security.
I feel quite dirty even thinking about defending Senator Feinstein... but she has a point... though I don't know if she's making it as she could.
In the US we are taught that we have three co-equal branches (it's really two with a lessor third, but I digress)... so one branch secretly spying on/impeding a second... is not quite kosher... at least with the FBI raid on the congressional offices of William "Cold Cash" Jefferson... a claim could at least be made that it was two branches acting together to target a member of the third and through normal legal practices ( ie checks and balances)... even that was attacked by virtually all in congress.
if you want to see tyranny, nothing beats homeowners' associations.
You went in knowing you'd be part of an HOA (unless you were rather ignorant and didn't read through the covenants of the property you moved to/purchased (alas, I cannot erect an oil derrick on my property which was the major takeaway of reading through all of the paperwork when closing on my house (an no HOA!!! (which I already knew))... in the end you agreed to live under that tyranny... I on the other hand did not vote for a single person who voted for and ultimately forced Obamacare down the thought of the American people... so I'd argue that my tyranny beats your tyranny.
These sorts of announcements have the effect of freezing developers and keeping them from moving to superior technology.
Which developers are you talking about? I'd wager that the biggest money makers and users of these APIs (AAA game developers) already have good enough relationships with Microsoft, Sony, etc where under NDA they are able to offer feedback on existing and proposed API/platform directions and allow themselves to be in sync with where it is going.
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Even the ACLU disagrees with you.
Which anti-minority group? For that matter... which minority? Virtually any group can be called 'a minority' compared to some others.
That is a false choice. Different people have different views on what a human right is.
Many on the left say women should have unfettered access to abortion... are those who disagree bigots?
Many on the right think that individuals should have unfettered access to firearms... are those who disagree bigots?
If so... guess what that makes all of us?
It's ok if you are unwilling or unable to reply, though it's a shame you didn't even want to try to respond with anything more coherent than a bit of crying.
So... the right to keep and bear arms only applies in the home? You may want to check with a number of courts who have said otherwise, repeatedly.
Again, I call 'chilling effect' for the banning of a legal object by my employer while on the job site... vs your beef of a future employer who may have acted in their own private capacity at an earlier time somehow disqualifying them for the job down the line and unrelated to the work.
While the initial presence of them took many off guard... it's been with us so long I'd wager most (who have been using them for that time) are more or less used to them and see the benefit.
While I don't think we'd get to see any #'s... I doubt that many will get an Office 365 subscription *just* to be able to use the iPad apps... instead being able to use the subscription on the iPad and a couple of desktop and laptops (up to 5 devices I think) is where the motivation to subscribe will comes in.
So you want to rely on a DRM system which decides if you are using it for commercial purposes? Or just the honesty of users?
Neither sound like a good options when dealing with a product that is known for making good sums of money.
Depends on what the context of their job is.
While my job involves writing specs & code and a whole litany of other 'deliverables'... I am also a representative of the company both while on and off the clock, and am expected (and instructed) to act accordingly.
Advocating against the legitimate leadership of the organization, be it military or corporate is not generally a good way to represent the larger unit... especially when the folks at the top have disciplinary options that were part of the agreement when joining.
It could also be argued that you are a moron based on what you said... allow me to demonstrate.
Which 'right' did he seek to 'strip' from homosexuals? The right to marry? Last I checked they already had that right... the same one that heterosexuals did.
The issue with the Prop 8 case was that the court overturned a previous prohibition (pre 'rights')... then some municipalities unilaterally granted the 'right' (see San Francisco for one).
Given that those marriages granted during the window when San Francisco (and other areas) were doing their own thing were grandfathered in under Prop 8... is one really 'stripped' of 'rights' that were gained illegitimately... even if you agree with the end result?
My employer prohibits me from even having an unloaded firearm in my car when it is parked on company property... do I not get to cry of chilling effects and receive similar support?
Wrong... in so many ways.
If you actually read the ruling of Judge Vaughn Walker you'd realize that he was inventing much of his ruling out of whole cloth... in the end the reason Prop 8 was struck down actually has less to do with 'civil rights law' as you claim and more to do with standing.
Vaughn Walker struck down P8 yes, on flimsy grounds. The state of California then opted not to appeal... effectively guaranteeing it remained overturned as they were the only entity which could have defended it.
While it's true that there was an effort by individuals & groups to defend it on behalf of the voters who had passed it, they ultimately lost because they did not have standing in the case.
Like the outcome all you want, but fear the process.
Ug... posted the wrong reply above... instead I meant to ask/say...
Bigger question... where is the campaign to have President Obama step down as he was against same sex marriage when he ran for national office back in 2008 (and previously)... and only more recently 'evolved' on the issue.
Shouldn't a (former?) bigot like him be compelled to resign for his previous sins?
Ug... posted my reply to the wrong comment... now again to the right place...
I wasn't talking just about same sex marriage... why are you?
At last check... gay individuals had the same rights as straight ones... and while sometimes those rights may not line up with preferences (ie right to marry someone of the opposite sex where desire is to marry someone of the same sex), the right remains the same regardless... you purposely try to pain the issue as something more than its not.
Again... you prove my point of intolerance from the left... and that one need only call something a 'human rights' or 'civil rights' issue until you make enough people agree through education & politics... or fear mongering and blacklisting.
Guess which you are supporting?
History tends to be written by the victors... yet up until just two years ago, the President of the United States claimed to be against same-sex marriage... does that mean up until then he should have been viewed as a homophobic and anti-gay bigot? No? Interesting the continued double standard... or do you think history will record it that way?
You assume I care about either, your point?
Again... do you have a point? It's been clear for some time which way the tide was going... yet the issue is less today about the 'right' to marry someone of the same sex, but of the compulsion to force others to recognize it... and no, I don't mean at the court house, but of even a florist or baker being able to say they do not agree with the union and cannot provide services for such an event.
Yet the prejudices of those who see prejudices everywhere are emboldened to lash out against anyone they deem as not being sufficiently supportive of the current cause celeb... as we see in this case here.
Intolerance of perceived intolerance is still bigotry... and if anything, those who are calling for the stepping down of Eich are proving the (lack) of quality of their characters as they cannot handle the idea of working for someone who may have once disagreed with them.
I wasn't talking just about same sex marriage... why are you?
At last check... gay individuals had the same rights as straight ones... and while sometimes those rights may not line up with preferences (ie right to marry someone of the opposite sex where desire is to marry someone of the same sex), the right remains the same regardless... you purposely try to pain the issue as something more than its not.
Again... you prove my point of intolerance from the left... and that one need only call something a 'human rights' or 'civil rights' issue until you make enough people agree through education & politics... or fear mongering and blacklisting.
Guess which you are supporting?
History tends to be written by the victors... yet up until just two years ago, the President of the United States claimed to be against same-sex marriage... does that mean up until then he should have been viewed as a homophobic and anti-gay bigot? No? Interesting the continued double standard... or do you think history will record it that way?
You assume I care about either, your point?
Again... do you have a point? It's been clear for some time which way the tide was going... yet the issue is less today about the 'right' to marry someone of the same sex, but of the compulsion to force others to recognize it... and no, I don't mean at the court house, but of even a florist or baker being able to say they do not agree with the union and cannot provide services for such an event.
Yet the prejudices of those who see prejudices everywhere are emboldened to lash out against anyone they deem as not being sufficiently supportive of the current cause celeb... as we see in this case here.
Intolerance of perceived intolerance is still bigotry... and if anything, those who are calling for the stepping down of Eich are proving the (lack) of quality of their characters as they cannot handle the idea of working for someone who may have once disagreed with them.
Correct, remember the other side though.
While employment law prohibits (not prevents) discriminatory hiring/firing practices... some of these employees have likely crossed a line outside of any kind of protection... in that they are effectively being insubordinate of the current management and in most cases is a fire-able offense.
Just like in a civil war, if you are unable to stay neutral, best choose your side carefully, because if you back the wrong side you will probably be in a world of pain when it's all done.
They are also taking a great risk in doing so.
In some companies, what these employees are doing would be considered insubordination and could easily get them fired for cause... if Eich doesn't do so, he will demonstrate rather well that he is the bigger person.
Unlikely... in such a case you simply need to call your 'unpopular opinion' a 'civil rights issue', repeat ad nauseam until you get your way.
Don't forget, just this week we had a case before the Supreme Court over the question over whether the government has the authority to compel private individuals to violate their religious beliefs and directly pay for medications which in their views (rightly or wrongly) cause abortions.
Somehow... birth control (which was already widely available prior to Obamacare) is now a civil right to receive for free and from your employer.
Prop 8 has been a contentious issue for many, and is now largely resolved... yet those who ultimately won are still not happy.
It is interesting to see how those who supported it (even through a simple donation) are now targets for personal and professional attacks such as this... yet this kind of intolerance for the views of other peoples opinions & donations, does seem to be rather unidirectional, but then that is the typical 'tolerance' that the left in this country believes in.
You don't care much for facts, do you?
Doing so violates the xbox terms of service, what exactly is your beef?
You forgot to mention her also going to the press to try to make it sound like Microsoft was punishing her son for being too good... though in the end, Microsoft showed her evidence of his cheating and even later admitted knowing about it.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/...
It depends on how you use that space... and how quickly you fill it.
Sure your ISP may not be happy if over the course of a few days you upload a few hundred gigs to any provider like this... but after that's done, the bandwidth bill stays low as there isn't usually much churn.
In the case that the amount of data to be uploaded is even larger... some cloud providers have the option to simply mail hard drives directly to the datacenter to import the data directly.
Do you think data you upload to a cloud storage provider lives on just one hard disk that is plugged into the wall and that's it?
While some data centers do rely on more consumer level hardware (vs enterprise)... to help make up for the inherent unreliability of consumer level drives, they will replicate the data across multiple HDDs, in multiple racks, and possibly across multiple datacenters... as well as monitor the underlying bits for bitrot and overall integrity... in addition to sometimes offering backup options of what has been stored.
And this aside from offering you 24/7 access to the data from anywhere in the world while keeping that HDD and the attached server running (and power consuming) and with a redundant power system available.
All of these things quickly add up in terms of cost... so yes, two cents/GB is quite inexpensive for cloud storage these days when compared to like offerings.
I feel quite dirty even thinking about defending Senator Feinstein... but she has a point... though I don't know if she's making it as she could.
In the US we are taught that we have three co-equal branches (it's really two with a lessor third, but I digress)... so one branch secretly spying on/impeding a second... is not quite kosher... at least with the FBI raid on the congressional offices of William "Cold Cash" Jefferson... a claim could at least be made that it was two branches acting together to target a member of the third and through normal legal practices ( ie checks and balances)... even that was attacked by virtually all in congress.
You went in knowing you'd be part of an HOA (unless you were rather ignorant and didn't read through the covenants of the property you moved to/purchased (alas, I cannot erect an oil derrick on my property which was the major takeaway of reading through all of the paperwork when closing on my house (an no HOA!!! (which I already knew))... in the end you agreed to live under that tyranny... I on the other hand did not vote for a single person who voted for and ultimately forced Obamacare down the thought of the American people... so I'd argue that my tyranny beats your tyranny.
That assumes you put much trust in Google vs your ISP... I do not trust either.
Which developers are you talking about? I'd wager that the biggest money makers and users of these APIs (AAA game developers) already have good enough relationships with Microsoft, Sony, etc where under NDA they are able to offer feedback on existing and proposed API/platform directions and allow themselves to be in sync with where it is going.
People loose races yes... but on average an incumbent is far more likely to hold onto their seat then lose it to a non-incumbent.
For the most part I can (and do) choose which companies I do business with... I don't have the same degree of choice when it comes to government.
Racist!
I guess this means that my wife's pink AR-15 variant with Hello Kitty stickers isn't an assault weapon... wheew!