If you owned the ground at "ground zero", you could do that. It's called "free speech".
It would be insulting and offensive, but legal. Just like this video.
Do you remember when a cross (crucifix?) was placed in a bottle of urine in an art gallery? The Christians were rather upset, to say the least. The Pope got all bent out of shape. People protested the museum. Public funding for art was attacked, again. NOBODY FUCKING DIED. Get it?
If the Muslim world ever wants to be seen as something other than a bunch of animals, they need to learn to deal with stuff like this without killing people and rioting. It *is* free speech. Offensive free speech, actually.
It seems like there's a simple solution to all of this-- make sure you never NEED to copy files FROM an iOS device.
1. Obtain music by buying it in either CD format or via less restrictive sources-- Amazon, perhaps... 2. Copy music TO your iOS device, using either iTunes or apps that facilitate transfers via web browser or FTP (no jailbreak needed). 3. Make sure you backup your original copies of the music for later copying or transfer of ownership or what-have-you 4. Problem solved
Apple sells music with no DRM, just like Amazon or ripping a CD.
People are making a big deal out of nothing.
- Yes, I understand that license says you can't transfer the songs you own. However, there is nothing technical keeping you from doing it.
I was in education for a while, a decade ago. A very, very larger percentage of the cost of running a school is salary. 70% to 80% if I remember correctly.
Schools don't pay property taxes, or many other business expenses, and it's a very labor intensive industry - so much of the budget is for people. By increasing the number of days of instruction, you increase the number of days you pay teachers, and cafeteria workers, and bus drivers, and librarians, and nurses, and security, and... on and on.
Where I went to school, it was only hot enough to need air conditioning a few months of the year - summer. So we didn't have AC in the new high school. On those rare, hot days of fall or spring it was miserable. It would cost many tens of thousands of dollars to retrofit the building at this point.
I think there's a lot of factors you don't see.
I'm not saying what we have is great, but you can't just add to the number of days taught by lowering maintenance costs.
Thing is, the guy going 60 forces the guy going 62 into the passing lane, and that blocks the people coming up at 85. You've got the initial event, and then the building road rage of those trapped behind, which carries on down the road even after the 62mph guy gets done passing.
I saw it all the time with trucks in california... speed for them was 10mph below everyone else.
I understand that completely. However, it's far better than the drooling moron going 50 in the left lane. I'm in the Bay Area where the freeways are 5 to 10 lanes wide (usually 3 to 5) and people drive slowly in all the lanes. Getting more of the slow folks into one or two lanes will leave three or four lanes for everybody else.
Human drivers or not, there will always be cars going below the speed of traffic.
Your comment "I saw it all the time with trucks in california... speed for them was 10mph below everyone else" makes me think two things. 1) California is a big state, so what you see in one area can be entirely different than another area. I was on a motorcycle trip a few weeks ago, and spent the entire morning on narrow roads with no center stripe. By the afternoon, I was almost home on a 6 lane highway. 2) You don't live in California, so you probably don't see LA or SF traffic on a regular basis. I do. The roads are full, and a large percentage of the drivers aren't really aware of their surroundings. I don't think robot cars are the ultimate answer, but they will probably be better than a lot of the drivers out there.
True, but they won't be doing it in the left lane with the rest of the morons. I don't care if somebody is going 60 on the freeway, as long as they are doing it in the correct spot.
I think the reality is that many, many driver suck. Drinking, texting, applying makeup and eating are just part of an ever growing list of distractions. Let the people who don't care about driving hand it off to a robot. Bus drivers aren't perfect, and they crash on occasion, but we still let them drive.
I wonder how autonomous cars will handle motorcycle lane sharing?
I've been in a Google autonomous car, and the miles driven were in a parking lot. An empty parking lot, with cones to keep other people away.
I'm not saying all 300k miles are demonstrations, but bet a large portion of them are.
That said, even if only 1/3 of them are on public streets, that means there were 100k miles of accident free driving - which is about 8 to 10 years for the average car. It is impressive.
I really wish there was competition for QB. I think it's a fine platform if you are a very small business with a limited product line. Get complicated, and it fails.
So rather than wishing for a competitor for QB, which would be designed for the same market and thus almost certainly have the same flaws... get off your butt and search out the proper program designed for your business/sector. QB is a good tool, but if you're pushing past it's boundaries, that's not QB's fault.
Read much?
I no longer have that job. In my new job, I see the reports, but it's isn't even my department. I have no desire to spend my evenings and weekends finding a solution to some other guy's' problem. The department I run has plenty of ways to use my time. I certainly don't need to go to IT/IS and tell them what software to replace our POS system with.
My last job involved many, many frustrating hours with QuickBooks - every week. It's a steaming pile of crap. There were so many basic things missing, like decent reporting, that it was a total joke. I could go on for many long rants about how much I hate the software. We wanted to integrate Fishbowl, so we could do some trick inventory manipulation, but it wasn't implemented before I quit. They are still working on it.
In my new job, I get the daily reports from our 5 stores. QB failures are mentioned daily. I am so happy to be in an entirely different department.
I really wish there was competition for QB. I think it's a fine platform if you are a very small business with a limited product line. Get complicated, and it fails.
Gee, what if apps were skinnable and people could make them look like whatever they want?
This is hell at work. Change of shifts. Temps and volunteers. You need to have people who can sit down at any desk at any time and be productive,
At my last job, I did some tech support in addition to my "real" job. I had to help users with QuickBooks regularly, and we had 3 people sharing 2 jobs. The simple ribbon bar across the top of the window in QuickBooks became a living hell as the three gals switched computers. "My QuickBooks isn't working", "I can't search [because the button is gone]" were just part of the endless nightmare. Only one of the three could handle a different interface (and it really wasn't that different). I cannot imagine the chaos that skins on top of Office would have created.
Obviously it won't built here, from 100% US sourced parts. The real question to me is what percentage of it is made here.
If it's an injection molded box, made here, filled with bits from China, it's "assembled in the US", it's a marketing ploy, If substantial parts are made here, it's something to get excited about, and pay a premium for.
Well, they also wrote their own obituary with the way they handled the release. The main thing that sticks out is breaking "Plays for Sure", which pretty much told the consumer how much they could trust MS.
I already had an iPod at the time, so I didn't pay much attention to the Zune launch. The only things I remember about it are 1) It's now dead, and 2) they broke "Plays For Sure", 3) the fat guy with the tattoo.
Yeah, their track record with releasing their own product isn't so good. This will be an interesting experiment.
If someone has a gun stolen and they don't notice or report it, they probably deserve to have their door kicked in. They're responsible for it. Police aren't complete idiots anyway, if it's a suburban dad registered to a gun and the killing was drug related a thousand miles away, they will probably knock rather than kick the door down.
Well, let me tell you a story. A true one. My brother had a handgun stolen in California, and reported it stolen. It was recovered by the police and returned to him. Years later, he was living in Oregon, and at one point, had a cop check the serial number of a gun he had in his truck (long story, that did not involve violence, drugs, drunk driving...). He was instantly handcuffed, placed into the back of the cop car and taken to jail for, you guessed, a stolen handgun.
Yes. He was arrested for owning a gun that he reported stolen, and was then recovered. it seems that you cannot report a gun recovered, after it has been reported stolen. I guess the cops need to do their job with 100% accuracy (and nobody is that good).
So no, it won't surprise me a bit when an innocent person has their front door kicked in, even if their gun wasn't used in a crime, or even if they don't have one.
Like almost every other gun law out there, this will do almost nothing to deter crime, but will be an expensive pain in the ass for law abiding gun owners.
I don't trust Apple, but I trust the "wild west" approach of Android even less.
I want a totally open phone, but there's been too many cases of this activity. Yeah, I know it happens on iPhones as well, but it doesn't seem to happen as often, and Apple retaliates quickly.
When I went to a state university in the late 80's, I had to take a health class. Part of the class was telling me to wash my hands after using the bathroom, to not have unprotected sex, and all the other things your mom should have taught you by the time you were 16. It was agonizing.
It's designed to push everyone into the dumb end of the spectrum. Dumb people are easier to manage by fear and intimidation.
You are totally wrong, and reactionary. I used to be a middle school teacher.
Most teachers love what they do - and they certainly aren't doing it for the money, or the adoration of the public. There's always somebody like you talking shit about them.
1) Schools have no budgets, so class sizes are up, up, up. It has been shown again and again that small class sizes help everybody. 2) Schools have been forced to teach to the least common denominator. There is a phrase "least restrictive environment", that is the rule of how kids are to be educated. For example, when I was teaching (long time ago) I had a room full of Mac Classics & 30 kids. I used HyperCard (I told you it was a long time ago) because I was teaching some kids programming, some kids drawing and a few special ed kids how to not drool on the keyboard (I am being serious) at the same time, in the same room.. Why? Because I was teaching each kid at the level they were willing & able to learn..
It's god damn difficult to teach that wide of a range of students, but the law says that little Johny, who's father beat him till he had a 60 IQ, has to be educated in "the least restrictive environment" - which means in my class with "regular" students. So that really bright kid? He doesn't get the attention he needs. Not by design, but because there's one of me. The kid being violent or disruptive? He takes priority, because he might hurt somebody or keep 90% of the class from working & learning. However, there's no real punishment for that behavior any more. So he keeps doing it every day.
It's not *designed* to make people dumb. It has been forced by lazy parents who won't make their kids behave, make them do their homework, and make excuses all fucking day about why their kid is fucking "special". Kids have become so "special" that they cannot fail in school. You can't give a kid an F, because their parents complain to the principal that the teacher is bad. If that doesn't work, they go to the school board.
The reason I no longer teach is the total lack of control teachers have, and assholes who gut all the resources - then yell and scream that the schools suck.
The school system is not designed for people at either end of the spectrum.
He could go to college, and he'd learn something. However, he'd need to be in a phd program before he got to "interesting" studies. Is he willing to wait 6 yeas to start learning? Is he mature enough to sit through a "health" class in college where they tell you to wash your hands after using the bathroom (that really pissed me off)?
The real question - is he ready for the American school system?
I'm sure that lots of people won't care, and if Walmart can make the system simple enough for Walmart shoppers, it can succeed. However, Walmart is the company that forces artists to make CDs with the radio versions of their songs - because Walmart doesn't want us to hear the word "fuck" in something they sell.
Are they going to bleep the movies I'm not streaming from them too?
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If you owned the ground at "ground zero", you could do that.
It's called "free speech".
It would be insulting and offensive, but legal. Just like this video.
Do you remember when a cross (crucifix?) was placed in a bottle of urine in an art gallery? The Christians were rather upset, to say the least. The Pope got all bent out of shape. People protested the museum. Public funding for art was attacked, again. NOBODY FUCKING DIED. Get it?
If the Muslim world ever wants to be seen as something other than a bunch of animals, they need to learn to deal with stuff like this without killing people and rioting. It *is* free speech. Offensive free speech, actually.
It seems like there's a simple solution to all of this-- make sure you never NEED to copy files FROM an iOS device.
1. Obtain music by buying it in either CD format or via less restrictive sources-- Amazon, perhaps...
2. Copy music TO your iOS device, using either iTunes or apps that facilitate transfers via web browser or FTP (no jailbreak needed).
3. Make sure you backup your original copies of the music for later copying or transfer of ownership or what-have-you
4. Problem solved
Apple sells music with no DRM, just like Amazon or ripping a CD.
People are making a big deal out of nothing.
- Yes, I understand that license says you can't transfer the songs you own. However, there is nothing technical keeping you from doing it.
OK, it will cut maintenance costs.
I was in education for a while, a decade ago. A very, very larger percentage of the cost of running a school is salary. 70% to 80% if I remember correctly.
Schools don't pay property taxes, or many other business expenses, and it's a very labor intensive industry - so much of the budget is for people. By increasing the number of days of instruction, you increase the number of days you pay teachers, and cafeteria workers, and bus drivers, and librarians, and nurses, and security, and... on and on.
Where I went to school, it was only hot enough to need air conditioning a few months of the year - summer. So we didn't have AC in the new high school. On those rare, hot days of fall or spring it was miserable. It would cost many tens of thousands of dollars to retrofit the building at this point.
I think there's a lot of factors you don't see.
I'm not saying what we have is great, but you can't just add to the number of days taught by lowering maintenance costs.
See comment below -- even DRM free, it is very time consuming and unfriendly to move MY OWN PURCHASED MUSIC from iTunes to a non-Apple device.
1) Sync the music to your computer.
2) Copy files to another device.
or
1) Use iTunes Cloud
2) Tell it to sync to another device.
What is the difficult part that I am missing?
Thing is, the guy going 60 forces the guy going 62 into the passing lane, and that blocks the people coming up at 85. You've got the initial event, and then the building road rage of those trapped behind, which carries on down the road even after the 62mph guy gets done passing.
I saw it all the time with trucks in california... speed for them was 10mph below everyone else.
I understand that completely. However, it's far better than the drooling moron going 50 in the left lane. I'm in the Bay Area where the freeways are 5 to 10 lanes wide (usually 3 to 5) and people drive slowly in all the lanes. Getting more of the slow folks into one or two lanes will leave three or four lanes for everybody else.
Human drivers or not, there will always be cars going below the speed of traffic.
Your comment "I saw it all the time with trucks in california... speed for them was 10mph below everyone else" makes me think two things.
1) California is a big state, so what you see in one area can be entirely different than another area. I was on a motorcycle trip a few weeks ago, and spent the entire morning on narrow roads with no center stripe. By the afternoon, I was almost home on a 6 lane highway.
2) You don't live in California, so you probably don't see LA or SF traffic on a regular basis. I do. The roads are full, and a large percentage of the drivers aren't really aware of their surroundings. I don't think robot cars are the ultimate answer, but they will probably be better than a lot of the drivers out there.
True, but they won't be doing it in the left lane with the rest of the morons. I don't care if somebody is going 60 on the freeway, as long as they are doing it in the correct spot.
I think the reality is that many, many driver suck. Drinking, texting, applying makeup and eating are just part of an ever growing list of distractions. Let the people who don't care about driving hand it off to a robot. Bus drivers aren't perfect, and they crash on occasion, but we still let them drive.
I wonder how autonomous cars will handle motorcycle lane sharing?
I've been in a Google autonomous car, and the miles driven were in a parking lot. An empty parking lot, with cones to keep other people away.
I'm not saying all 300k miles are demonstrations, but bet a large portion of them are.
That said, even if only 1/3 of them are on public streets, that means there were 100k miles of accident free driving - which is about 8 to 10 years for the average car. It is impressive.
So rather than wishing for a competitor for QB, which would be designed for the same market and thus almost certainly have the same flaws... get off your butt and search out the proper program designed for your business/sector. QB is a good tool, but if you're pushing past it's boundaries, that's not QB's fault.
Read much?
I no longer have that job. In my new job, I see the reports, but it's isn't even my department. I have no desire to spend my evenings and weekends finding a solution to some other guy's' problem.
The department I run has plenty of ways to use my time. I certainly don't need to go to IT/IS and tell them what software to replace our POS system with.
My last job involved many, many frustrating hours with QuickBooks - every week. It's a steaming pile of crap. There were so many basic things missing, like decent reporting, that it was a total joke. I could go on for many long rants about how much I hate the software. We wanted to integrate Fishbowl, so we could do some trick inventory manipulation, but it wasn't implemented before I quit. They are still working on it.
In my new job, I get the daily reports from our 5 stores. QB failures are mentioned daily. I am so happy to be in an entirely different department.
I really wish there was competition for QB. I think it's a fine platform if you are a very small business with a limited product line. Get complicated, and it fails.
Gee, what if apps were skinnable and people could make them look like whatever they want?
This is hell at work. Change of shifts. Temps and volunteers. You need to have people who can sit down at any desk at any time and be productive,
At my last job, I did some tech support in addition to my "real" job. I had to help users with QuickBooks regularly, and we had 3 people sharing 2 jobs.
The simple ribbon bar across the top of the window in QuickBooks became a living hell as the three gals switched computers. "My QuickBooks isn't working", "I can't search [because the button is gone]" were just part of the endless nightmare. Only one of the three could handle a different interface (and it really wasn't that different). I cannot imagine the chaos that skins on top of Office would have created.
Nobody in the USofA uses .303 - thats a British caliber.
Thirty ought six (30-06) would be the round of choice. Though 7.62x54R is very cheap.as are the bolt action Moisin-Nagant rifles that fire it.
Wrong. .303 isn't popular, but many of us have them.
You can still buy ammo at any decent gun store.
And yes, I bought mine in Oregon.
Obviously it won't built here, from 100% US sourced parts. The real question to me is what percentage of it is made here.
If it's an injection molded box, made here, filled with bits from China, it's "assembled in the US", it's a marketing ploy, If substantial parts are made here, it's something to get excited about, and pay a premium for.
Time will tell.
Well, they also wrote their own obituary with the way they handled the release. The main thing that sticks out is breaking "Plays for Sure", which pretty much told the consumer how much they could trust MS.
I already had an iPod at the time, so I didn't pay much attention to the Zune launch. The only things I remember about it are 1) It's now dead, and 2) they broke "Plays For Sure", 3) the fat guy with the tattoo.
Yeah, their track record with releasing their own product isn't so good. This will be an interesting experiment.
Except when I miss use a hammer I can't accident kill someone 50 yards way.
Learn to throw.
If someone has a gun stolen and they don't notice or report it, they probably deserve to have their door kicked in. They're responsible for it. Police aren't complete idiots anyway, if it's a suburban dad registered to a gun and the killing was drug related a thousand miles away, they will probably knock rather than kick the door down.
Well, let me tell you a story. A true one.
My brother had a handgun stolen in California, and reported it stolen. It was recovered by the police and returned to him.
Years later, he was living in Oregon, and at one point, had a cop check the serial number of a gun he had in his truck (long story, that did not involve violence, drugs, drunk driving...). He was instantly handcuffed, placed into the back of the cop car and taken to jail for, you guessed, a stolen handgun.
Yes. He was arrested for owning a gun that he reported stolen, and was then recovered. it seems that you cannot report a gun recovered, after it has been reported stolen. I guess the cops need to do their job with 100% accuracy (and nobody is that good).
So no, it won't surprise me a bit when an innocent person has their front door kicked in, even if their gun wasn't used in a crime, or even if they don't have one.
Like almost every other gun law out there, this will do almost nothing to deter crime, but will be an expensive pain in the ass for law abiding gun owners.
I use software that won't run on a Mac. I do 3D modeling in Autodesk Inventor.
If I had lots of cash, I'd buy a bad ass Mac Pro, with a Windows partition - but instead I run it on an older Windows laptop.
So yeah, money & software.
The fact that I'm not forced to use iPhoto also helps.
Why? Can't you just use an OS browser instead?
I have apps that aren't browsers on my smartphone.
This isn't a browser specific problem.
Can you elaborate on this?
I don't trust Apple, but I trust the "wild west" approach of Android even less.
I want a totally open phone, but there's been too many cases of this activity. Yeah, I know it happens on iPhones as well, but it doesn't seem to happen as often, and Apple retaliates quickly.
I'm sticking with the iPhone for now.
It this a joke? Does such a class exist?
When I went to a state university in the late 80's, I had to take a health class. Part of the class was telling me to wash my hands after using the bathroom, to not have unprotected sex, and all the other things your mom should have taught you by the time you were 16. It was agonizing.
It's designed to push everyone into the dumb end of the spectrum. Dumb people are easier to manage by fear and intimidation.
You are totally wrong, and reactionary. I used to be a middle school teacher.
Most teachers love what they do - and they certainly aren't doing it for the money, or the adoration of the public. There's always somebody like you talking shit about them.
1) Schools have no budgets, so class sizes are up, up, up. It has been shown again and again that small class sizes help everybody.
2) Schools have been forced to teach to the least common denominator. There is a phrase "least restrictive environment", that is the rule of how kids are to be educated. For example, when I was teaching (long time ago) I had a room full of Mac Classics & 30 kids. I used HyperCard (I told you it was a long time ago) because I was teaching some kids programming, some kids drawing and a few special ed kids how to not drool on the keyboard (I am being serious) at the same time, in the same room.. Why? Because I was teaching each kid at the level they were willing & able to learn..
It's god damn difficult to teach that wide of a range of students, but the law says that little Johny, who's father beat him till he had a 60 IQ, has to be educated in "the least restrictive environment" - which means in my class with "regular" students. So that really bright kid? He doesn't get the attention he needs. Not by design, but because there's one of me. The kid being violent or disruptive? He takes priority, because he might hurt somebody or keep 90% of the class from working & learning. However, there's no real punishment for that behavior any more. So he keeps doing it every day.
It's not *designed* to make people dumb. It has been forced by lazy parents who won't make their kids behave, make them do their homework, and make excuses all fucking day about why their kid is fucking "special". Kids have become so "special" that they cannot fail in school. You can't give a kid an F, because their parents complain to the principal that the teacher is bad. If that doesn't work, they go to the school board.
The reason I no longer teach is the total lack of control teachers have, and assholes who gut all the resources - then yell and scream that the schools suck.
The school system is not designed for people at either end of the spectrum.
He could go to college, and he'd learn something. However, he'd need to be in a phd program before he got to "interesting" studies. Is he willing to wait 6 yeas to start learning? Is he mature enough to sit through a "health" class in college where they tell you to wash your hands after using the bathroom (that really pissed me off)?
The real question - is he ready for the American school system?
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Screw you.
Change your ways, or go away.
The rep that FB has is getting worse. My own mother killed her FB account when I shared some of their sleazy marketing/privacy tricks.
I'm sure that lots of people won't care, and if Walmart can make the system simple enough for Walmart shoppers, it can succeed. However, Walmart is the company that forces artists to make CDs with the radio versions of their songs - because Walmart doesn't want us to hear the word "fuck" in something they sell.
Are they going to bleep the movies I'm not streaming from them too?
I left out details so that my ID here isn't able to be connected to my ID there.