You're full of it. I've had a Razr for over a year and as a phone it works really well. It fits nicely in my pocket, has no external antenna and gets fantastic reception. What features are you looking for? It runs java apps, supports bluetooth headsets AND file transfers, takes pictures, has a built in calendar, address book, and can text msg. As for breaking easily, mine has survived being wet to the point that all the internal got-wet indicators have been tripped and I've dropped it several times and it still works.
My only complaints with it are that the screen gets full of pocket lint, the OS sucks and the phonebook is essentially a flat file.
I'll admit it's probably over accessorized, but as a phone, it works better than most.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
That's like saying that a tree that doesn't help put out a fire in another tree is part of the reason the burning tree is combusting. It's inflammatory, illogical and inapplicable to most instances to which it is applied.
Besides, I'm sure my conservative republican representative is going to care what one non-party-affiliated atheist thinks. Especially in the face of the thousands of conservative republican citizens who elected him.
And for the record, I don't eat fast food, I go to the gym three times a week and I don't carry a Guillotine in my car. Yeah, just like your representatives are ultimately answerable to you. In short, not really. I think you've been watching too much CNN & Fox News. Less media digestion, more thinking by everyone would be beneficial to everyone.
While I mostly agree with your sentiments, I have issues with your aim.
The Americans doing this are the copyright holders via their lobbyists. Please confine your admirable detest of these actions to the people who are performing them, there's no need to generalize to include the whole populace.
On an individual level people are mostly the same the world over, so please use your head. I can't make these senators stop doing what they're doing any more than you can make your representatives start behaving like this.
I wish I could mod you +83 Insightful. Actually I'd much rather prohibit sensationalist bullshit and speculative "news" from getting on the main page, but hey I'd settle for appropriately modding up voices of reason.
Rules of thumb: If your headline could be considered flamebait, it's not news. If your headline ends in a question mark, it's not news.
Enforcing immigration laws isn't going to work, and building a big fence is a waste of money. If you really want illegal immigrants to go away, stop using businesses that employ them.
The cause of the influx of illegal immigrants is that businesses employ them and pay them. And since they're illegal they have to pay them under the table, thus avoiding taxes on them, and the rest of us who pay taxes get to take up the slack. They come here because we give them jobs. If there were no jobs they could get, they wouldn't bother. Point your fingers at your citizen brethren, that's where the problem lies. I'm not racist, I just don't like the fact that they pay no taxes, and send much of the money they make home to support their families. Our economy is bleeding money as a result. Make it legal to employ them, make them and the businesses that hire them pay their share of taxes and I won't give a damn anymore.
People that think like you are the reason we have such convoluted laws. People that think like you are the reason we allow people to get off on "loopholes". Whomever defined the precedent that because a particular instance of crime didn't quite fit the definition of the law that the offender gets off free should be shot. THERE is the problem with our legal system.
You call them precise and structured (whatever that means). I call them, exhausting, frivolous, wasteful, wordy, incomprehensible and ridiculous and almost entirely lacking in structure.
"Do not steal." People know what stealing is without having to be told.
What if person A stole something from person B, then person B stole it back? I don't think the laws we have now even cover this, but it's obvious who is in the wrong.
What about if person B happened to break a window in the act of stealing the thing back?
Under the system I envision, Person A is guilty of theft (if convicted by a jury) and person B is guilty of destruction of property (if convicted by a jury).
The problem with the existing laws that try to cover every possible scenario is that they don't cover every possible scenario and they never will because we don't live in a finite world.
I can't believe you got modded insightful. Interesting, sure, but insightful? I've never seen a post so well written by an obviously intelligent person so lacking in insight.
I think the laws should be written plainly enough that lawyers become unnecessary. The intent of most laws is known without having to read them.
We (the USA) needs to scrap legal jargon and rewrite the laws plainly, then let a judge decide if the law applies to an act and let the jury decide if they're guilty.
I mean, stop and think for a second, if a really good lawyer means you get a more favorable outcome, how fucked up is our legal system?
I'm sick and tired of "verifying that my SiteKey is correct".
All they did is make the login process arduous. Instead of being able to bookmark one page, go there, click a button to make Roboform log me in, I have to click a button, then wait for the page with their retarded SiteKey to load, manually enter my password, then hit enter and wait through another page load.
I'm completely immune to phishing attacks because I simply don't use links from emails. I only ever use my own bookmarks to get get to my bank's page. All sitekey does is waste my time.
How have you never heard of CYA (covering your ass)?
There's no harm in doing it as long as it doesn't get to the point where you're really shifting blame rather than protecting yourself.
I like the place I work now, for the most part the people are great to work with, but I don't for one minute believe they wouldn't ax me if it was in the company's best interest to do so. It's not shocking, appalling, evil or anything like that. It's every company's right and prerogative to do what is best for the company as a whole. In order to combat that I have to make sure that I work smart and hard enough such that keeping me on board is in the company's best interest.
The title of this article should be, "Senior Economist at Chicago Federal Reserve Recommends Changing Value of Penny to Five Cents".
Because that's all that actually fucking happened.
The headline is the propagation of the article's author's speculation. It's just a new take on sensationalism. Sensationalism with speculation.
Some guy who happens to know what he's talking about recommends it, but that doesn't mean dick. He's not in charge of the mint or the federal government.
These people consciously chose to put crap content (ads) on pages that people would accidentally stumble onto. Sure it's pretty obvious that it could make money, but that's no excuse for repugnant behavior. Robbing banks, mugging, stealing, scamming and spamming all make money too, so saying it makes money does not excuse behavior. Sure it's predictable that some asshole will eventually do anything that makes money but that doesn't mean you should stick up for them or excuse it for no other reason.
It's not brilliant, it's just that they got there first.
Don't coddle the masses, if they can't think for themselves it's their own damn problem. Expect the media to be retarded, leave out information and get things wrong. People should know this by now.
I've you've had chemistry, physics, or even the slightest idea of how microwaves work you'd be fine.
I know that microwaves essentially do three things: heat water, but only about 1-2cm deep (from too sides/corners, not just top down) cause dangerous pyrotechnics with metal melt virtually all forms of plastic without some water to absorb the energy (and water can take a LOT)
Combine that with the common knowledge that extremely hot or boiling water will pretty much sterilize anything and it's pretty obvious that you should make sure there is ample water to prevent the sponge (which is probably plastic) from melting, smoking or burning, and does not contain metal.
It's more akin to buying up all the coastal properties on an island and then selling off the harbors to shipping companies at ridiculous prices, the beaches to resort companies at ridiculous prices etc.
They're seeing the pieces of land that they know companies are going to want and then getting there first. Or, taking the misspellings and profiting off of the combination of big companies' names or common words and typos users of the internet.
"Domain parking" or squatting, or whatever you want to call it are all repugnant practices little better than spamming.
I make it a point to never, ever click a single link on a typo-domain. I always use Firefox with adblock.
I see it as a feature. It gives me a chance to reach down and turn on the light, then look away before it has time to light up while my eyes/face are still aimed at the lamp. Very nice in the am too.
Four years of experience fixing college issue laptops says you're wrong.
The three most common ways (in no particular order) for a laptop to be dropped are in fact:
spinning off of a table after someone trips over the cord
spinning out of the crook of someone's arm
while open and running, breaking free of someone's grip on the upper edge of the LCD and impacting on the furthest point from the hand as they walk from one place to another
impact while inside a backpack against whatever they threw it against before they remembered there was a laptop inside
I don't know how you can bring up other industries with price fixing problems and NOT mention oil/gasoline companies.
Funny how the war in Iraq was supposed to be so bad for the oil industry and they'd have to raise prices. Then what happened? They posted RECORD profits. Where's the accountability for that little bit of profiteering (I realize it's not the same as price fixing, but still)? The same goes for the hurricane Katrina...
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You're full of it. I've had a Razr for over a year and as a phone it works really well. It fits nicely in my pocket, has no external antenna and gets fantastic reception. What features are you looking for? It runs java apps, supports bluetooth headsets AND file transfers, takes pictures, has a built in calendar, address book, and can text msg. As for breaking easily, mine has survived being wet to the point that all the internal got-wet indicators have been tripped and I've dropped it several times and it still works.
My only complaints with it are that the screen gets full of pocket lint, the OS sucks and the phonebook is essentially a flat file.
I'll admit it's probably over accessorized, but as a phone, it works better than most.
What's the point of citing sources about theology? It's all made up stuff anyway.
That's like saying that a tree that doesn't help put out a fire in another tree is part of the reason the burning tree is combusting. It's inflammatory, illogical and inapplicable to most instances to which it is applied.
Besides, I'm sure my conservative republican representative is going to care what one non-party-affiliated atheist thinks. Especially in the face of the thousands of conservative republican citizens who elected him.
And for the record, I don't eat fast food, I go to the gym three times a week and I don't carry a Guillotine in my car. Yeah, just like your representatives are ultimately answerable to you. In short, not really. I think you've been watching too much CNN & Fox News. Less media digestion, more thinking by everyone would be beneficial to everyone.
While I mostly agree with your sentiments, I have issues with your aim.
The Americans doing this are the copyright holders via their lobbyists. Please confine your admirable detest of these actions to the people who are performing them, there's no need to generalize to include the whole populace.
On an individual level people are mostly the same the world over, so please use your head. I can't make these senators stop doing what they're doing any more than you can make your representatives start behaving like this.
The sad thing is, many of its citizens agree with you.
No.
Further evidence that headlines that end in question marks aren't news.
I wish I could mod you +83 Insightful. Actually I'd much rather prohibit sensationalist bullshit and speculative "news" from getting on the main page, but hey I'd settle for appropriately modding up voices of reason.
Rules of thumb:
If your headline could be considered flamebait, it's not news.
If your headline ends in a question mark, it's not news.
Enforcing immigration laws isn't going to work, and building a big fence is a waste of money. If you really want illegal immigrants to go away, stop using businesses that employ them.
The cause of the influx of illegal immigrants is that businesses employ them and pay them. And since they're illegal they have to pay them under the table, thus avoiding taxes on them, and the rest of us who pay taxes get to take up the slack. They come here because we give them jobs. If there were no jobs they could get, they wouldn't bother. Point your fingers at your citizen brethren, that's where the problem lies. I'm not racist, I just don't like the fact that they pay no taxes, and send much of the money they make home to support their families. Our economy is bleeding money as a result. Make it legal to employ them, make them and the businesses that hire them pay their share of taxes and I won't give a damn anymore.
People that think like you are the reason we have such convoluted laws. People that think like you are the reason we allow people to get off on "loopholes". Whomever defined the precedent that because a particular instance of crime didn't quite fit the definition of the law that the offender gets off free should be shot. THERE is the problem with our legal system.
You call them precise and structured (whatever that means). I call them, exhausting, frivolous, wasteful, wordy, incomprehensible and ridiculous and almost entirely lacking in structure.
"Do not steal." People know what stealing is without having to be told.
What if person A stole something from person B, then person B stole it back? I don't think the laws we have now even cover this, but it's obvious who is in the wrong.
What about if person B happened to break a window in the act of stealing the thing back?
Under the system I envision, Person A is guilty of theft (if convicted by a jury) and person B is guilty of destruction of property (if convicted by a jury).
The problem with the existing laws that try to cover every possible scenario is that they don't cover every possible scenario and they never will because we don't live in a finite world.
I can't believe you got modded insightful. Interesting, sure, but insightful? I've never seen a post so well written by an obviously intelligent person so lacking in insight.
Upgrade...
You keep using that word. I do not think that means what you think it means.
I think the laws should be written plainly enough that lawyers become unnecessary. The intent of most laws is known without having to read them.
We (the USA) needs to scrap legal jargon and rewrite the laws plainly, then let a judge decide if the law applies to an act and let the jury decide if they're guilty.
I mean, stop and think for a second, if a really good lawyer means you get a more favorable outcome, how fucked up is our legal system?
Yes. Remove the other players.
Well said, but I can say it much shorter:
Any headline that ends in a question mark is FUD.
I'm sick and tired of "verifying that my SiteKey is correct".
All they did is make the login process arduous. Instead of being able to bookmark one page, go there, click a button to make Roboform log me in, I have to click a button, then wait for the page with their retarded SiteKey to load, manually enter my password, then hit enter and wait through another page load.
I'm completely immune to phishing attacks because I simply don't use links from emails. I only ever use my own bookmarks to get get to my bank's page. All sitekey does is waste my time.
The only dregs-of-the-internet style post I've ever seen modded up.
(I admit it, I laughed out loud.)
I believe this internet-joke all started with this and curiously taken to extremes by this.
How have you never heard of CYA (covering your ass)?
There's no harm in doing it as long as it doesn't get to the point where you're really shifting blame rather than protecting yourself.
I like the place I work now, for the most part the people are great to work with, but I don't for one minute believe they wouldn't ax me if it was in the company's best interest to do so. It's not shocking, appalling, evil or anything like that. It's every company's right and prerogative to do what is best for the company as a whole. In order to combat that I have to make sure that I work smart and hard enough such that keeping me on board is in the company's best interest.
The title of this article should be, "Senior Economist at Chicago Federal Reserve Recommends Changing Value of Penny to Five Cents".
Because that's all that actually fucking happened.
The headline is the propagation of the article's author's speculation. It's just a new take on sensationalism. Sensationalism with speculation.
Some guy who happens to know what he's talking about recommends it, but that doesn't mean dick. He's not in charge of the mint or the federal government.
I disagree.
These people consciously chose to put crap content (ads) on pages that people would accidentally stumble onto. Sure it's pretty obvious that it could make money, but that's no excuse for repugnant behavior. Robbing banks, mugging, stealing, scamming and spamming all make money too, so saying it makes money does not excuse behavior. Sure it's predictable that some asshole will eventually do anything that makes money but that doesn't mean you should stick up for them or excuse it for no other reason.
It's not brilliant, it's just that they got there first.
Don't coddle the masses, if they can't think for themselves it's their own damn problem. Expect the media to be retarded, leave out information and get things wrong. People should know this by now.
I've you've had chemistry, physics, or even the slightest idea of how microwaves work you'd be fine.
I know that microwaves essentially do three things:
heat water, but only about 1-2cm deep (from too sides/corners, not just top down)
cause dangerous pyrotechnics with metal
melt virtually all forms of plastic without some water to absorb the energy (and water can take a LOT)
Combine that with the common knowledge that extremely hot or boiling water will pretty much sterilize anything and it's pretty obvious that you should make sure there is ample water to prevent the sponge (which is probably plastic) from melting, smoking or burning, and does not contain metal.
Not exactly.
It's more akin to buying up all the coastal properties on an island and then selling off the harbors to shipping companies at ridiculous prices, the beaches to resort companies at ridiculous prices etc.
They're seeing the pieces of land that they know companies are going to want and then getting there first. Or, taking the misspellings and profiting off of the combination of big companies' names or common words and typos users of the internet.
"Domain parking" or squatting, or whatever you want to call it are all repugnant practices little better than spamming.
I make it a point to never, ever click a single link on a typo-domain. I always use Firefox with adblock.
Article title: "The death of domain parking?"
Article body: "unrelated information"
Article comes free with idiotic terms like "domainers" (not a word) when what they mean is "squatter".
It's just a euphemism. Anybody with a brain will see right though it. It's no better than calling URL spammers "search engine optimizers".
We also expect the sun to turn into a red giant within a matter of years.
I see it as a feature. It gives me a chance to reach down and turn on the light, then look away before it has time to light up while my eyes/face are still aimed at the lamp. Very nice in the am too.
The three most common ways (in no particular order) for a laptop to be dropped are in fact:
I don't know how you can bring up other industries with price fixing problems and NOT mention oil/gasoline companies.
Funny how the war in Iraq was supposed to be so bad for the oil industry and they'd have to raise prices. Then what happened? They posted RECORD profits. Where's the accountability for that little bit of profiteering (I realize it's not the same as price fixing, but still)? The same goes for the hurricane Katrina...