You certainly know how to put the message across don't you? People these days are downloading their content with Netflix and stuff like that. They don't care to put a ridiculous box inline with their home theaters complicating things. Your model is broken and unwanted.
Meanwhile, as cable companies are losing business, they are offering free TV is many areas so that they can sell more ads to advertisers. (Yes, we have a large collection of eyeballs to sell... see? We give it to them TV for free!) No one is offering me free TV just yet, but I don't care... I don't watch TV.
"Your people" *especially* feel that murder is okay so long as it is under "god's direction." At which point, it's no longer considered murder by the perpetrators. Also, war is murder and countless Christians advocate going to war under a variety of causes but most recently, the cause really came down to unwillingness to pay more at the pump. That's right. I said it. We sent people out to kill and be killed over prices at the gas pump and perhaps to further the interests of Israel. The WMDs story was bogus from the beginning. The persuit of the terrorist boogey-man looked like crap even on the surface.
Christianity believes deeply in murder. It just doesn't call it murder most of the time... it's "god's will" or "following the orders of our christian leaders." Sorry, but no. To me, it's murder... worse that a one-off murder -- it's systemized, mechanized and organized murder and plunder. And I have yet to hear a mainstream Christian church protest the war.
You are, once again, attributing goodness with the club you're associated. Good behavior is more of a function of society and has nothing specifically to do with religion or a particular religion. Take Japanese society as a prime example. They are EXTREMELY not religious.... superstitious perhaps and more along the lines of "this is traditional and also, it doesn't hurt [fire insurance] to do this" but no one believes in in their hearts. Japan is famous for its low crime rate while at the same time not particularly religious and certainly "godless" by most standards.
You want to attribute things to your god-club, and I would suggest that god isn't even part of the equation.
Also, ample evidence to the contrary exists where loads of church-goers are also found in prisons across the world... god's grace had little effect on these, but then that just opens up a whole lot of rebuttle about being truly faithful followers and blah blah blah. The point here is that the existence of religion in any given individual's life is not a deciding factor. Arguably, it's not even a contributing factor.
But for "good christians" it's convenient to think "I'm good. I'm Christian. Therefore Christians are good." And that falacy of logic, among lots of others, contributes to the mental weakness [vulnerability if you will] of religious people.
I remember the Yugo fondly. It was a failure by the time I was ready to buy my first [new] car and I was fresh out of bootcamp at the time. I got first-hand experience with how stupid sales people thought us military guys are. I suppose they were right more often than not, but I recall a particular Yugo that was being sold for like $12,000 because it had an air conditioner and racing stripes. It wasn't hard to walk away from them... they told me they thought I was stupid without having to say so. So I in turn called them assholes without having to say so.
I ended up getting a "new" but unsold from the previous year VW Fox... cheaper than the Yugo was and SO much better. Peppy engine, manual transmission that shifted "like a machine is supposed to," and just an all-around nice little car.
I'm probably going to see history repeat itself in all this and will probably get a Versa over one of their turda cars.
Then I guess the average St. Patrick's Day parade participants and spectators are also low level terrorists... and let's not talk about sports fans. There have been actual riots associated with sporting events.
Get some perspective. The occupy movement is about protesting the current balance of power and wealth. It's not healthy, has lead to the problems we are seeing today and inhibits the notion that there is any equality in the rule of law.
It was not just about "freedom of religion" it was also about "freedom from religion."
Peopel never cease to [amaze/annoy/disappoint] me in that they STILL somehow believe that "goodness" can only come from religion. That's nonsense. But that's part of how religion build a false sense of trust which is *ALWAYS* exploited by leadership. Religion is yet another "team affiliation" which creates a sense of Us vs Them.
Most of the founding fathers are 'suspected atheists.' I say suspected because especially back in those days, people in leadership positions who announced themselves as "godless" would immediate lose the trust and faith of the people. If fact, things haven't improved too much since those days. It's all part of an ugly and vicious cycle of expectations. But the fact that your presumption that it was Christians and therefore Christianity which was responsible for creating the constitutional government of the US only serves to prove my point. Was the government of England not ALSO Christian?
Yeah... there's a touch of sarcasm and stuff like that in there. I was actually being critical of the people who respond to insults with murder. I am also being critical of those who would seek to condone instead of condemn the behavior by seeking to blame freedom of expression... especially religious expression.
"We need plasphemy laws!!" Fuck you Jews/Christians/Muslims and all the rest. We do need blasphemy laws... laws that PROTECT THE RIGHT TO BLASPHEME!!! Your beliefs are yours. Keep them to yourself and your groups. Leave everyone else out of it. You have NO RIGHT to government protect or special government treatment.
I still believe Obama actually wanted to fix a lot of things. I think he quickly found out a few reasons why he can't make any serious change... dark secret reasons. Yeah, I know "conspiracy theory -- ignore the nut bag." I didn't vote for Obama... I voted Libertarian. But the change in Obama was remarkable and I don't think it's because 'he's just crooked like the rest of them.' I think Kennedy was the last rebel from the backstage establishment and we know how that ended up.
There's still lots of hope though. The problem is this internet thing. The establishment pretty much controls the media and all the usual stuff. But this internet thing... no one has figured out how to control it yet and it's too late to try to take it away. (Seriously, if they were forward thinking enough, they would have created an internet competitor that was 'fun, addicting and *SAFE(tm)* for public use' long ago... but now it's kind of too late. Only Steve Jobs could have pulled off a stunt like that and he's gone.
This internet thing... it may free the people yet.
I guess you;ve never heard od the other end-runs they pull off. "Enemy combatant" is a buzz word they use to strip anyone and everyone of constitutional guarantees and even of "human rights." They don't need law or trials or anything to 'disappear' people.
Before anything gets done about it, we have to start acknowleding what we see. And most of it is in plain sight.
We have seen it and we will keep seeing it until there is a major change of government in the U.S.
They write laws governing us and laws governing them [government and business]. The laws governing either are managed inconsistently. (That's the nicest way I know how to put it) The laws governing government are all but completely ignored. Constitutional issues never make it to the courts for challenge. They redefine reality in all areas of government. In this case, they say email is not "e" (electronic) and not storage. Sorry, but what?! These guys are not even pretending to hide their corruption or their agendas. They want unfettered access to our data and they are getting it.
It's just a formality that a judge is declaring email not electronic storage. They ALREADY have access to all electronic communications and all storage. They HAVE IT. They may or may not deny it. When the truth comes out, "retroactive immunity" is the response. FOIA requests are blocked forever.
How much clearer does it have to be?
They aren't our government any longer. They are our masters.
Let's start with the freedom to kill and destroy in response to insulting or otherwise uncomfortable information being published. This is a form of expression which seriously needs to be addressed.
Oh that's just precious. NVidia with their god-cursed optimus that will NEVER support Linux has used GPL code?
Okay, let's push for a settlement on the matter. Require them to build and support Optimus drivers for X.org and for that other thing which is X compatible but not X... the name escapes me but I'm sure a thousand people here know what I'm talking about.
With this, can we FINALLY get NVidia to the table on the issue of opening their drivers and/or important interface data so WE can write the drivers?
It can never happen right. They want "reasonable" terms? That's not exactly something you can lock down. The problems are not because of something no one can completely agree with everyone else means. Apple is "unreasonable" and yet a judge has recently ruled that Apple's notion of reasonable is unreasonable.
If they can't fight nicely, it's time to take away their weapons. It's as simple as that.
The Android phone market isn't quite what I would call "settled" or mature just yet. People are still exploring them and building their expectations of them. This means that when people see something in another phone that they can't or don't have in theirs, the bridge between consumer and manufacturer/seller goes up like flash paper.
HTC decided that the carriers are their customers instead of the people who actually hold the phones in their hands. So yeah, they were pretty douchey if you like to put it that way. That and HTC isn't well known for putting out "premium" handsets. (If they actually make premium handsets, I don't know.) So what you get are pretty low expectations and a lot of frustrations.
It doesn't hurt that the "anyone who does phone business with Microsoft is doomed" tradition is alive and well. That problem has been on-going for a very long time and I still haven't seen a success story yet.
It's simply too important an invention. It is found in every office, every business and nearly every home. It was a breakthrough in so many ways. What could possibly replace it?
Oh sure... some "computer" thing... it's just a fancy typewriter is all... and it's too expensive. What else is it good for?
Some may not remember hearing things like that, but I do.
Now people are unable to imagine a replacement for a PC? Sorry, but it's coming.
You phone is the new PC. You will have different displays, different interfaces and different functionality based on where it is used. In your car? It's navigation, information and all that... and a phone. At work it's a work machine. At home, it's a game machine. When I'm vacationing... you get the idea. Your phone is the new PC. You don't need a desktop any longer.
Lately, we have been seeing a LOT of attention on the problem of patents. Not just software patents, but patents in general. If Apple bought Nokia now, they will either have to exploit those patents now or face losing all of their value.
When I start hearing lay people discuss the problems of patents, (and I have heard this recently) I know it's not just geek interest any longer. Now it's getting in the way of their next gadget purchase and they are taking notice.
Game companies want Gamestop out of the used game business. The RIAA wants an end to used music. The MPAA wants an end to used movies. And every thing maker will want to get in on this as well. Every sale of used-thing is believed to be a lost sale of new-thing.
Oh goody! No more first sale doctrine! No more used games/CDs/cars/android-phones-tablets and on and on and on. You want a new one? Fine. Just don't think you can get away with selling your old one. Garage sales are the new black market.
I think NO OBJECT should be exempt from the first-sale doctrine. It's an object. A thing. The patents associated with the things were exhausted with the first sale. Nothing else was manufactured. I think they're out of their minds. But there would be enough big-money interest in the US wanting to see this happen so they can justify similar protection in the US to "fight back" in the most patriotic way imaginable.
The things I own, I don't own... I hoped I would die before that happened.
Lately, I have seen a decrease in smartphone fever. Okay, maybe not "lately" -- it has been decreasing for a long time actually. People are less excited about new gadgets and spending that money when they know another new thing is coming along soon. Even the demand for iPhone 5 seems to have dropped where I am... I have a good number of iPhone users where I work but they have been moving to droid and even a couple back to flip phones. I have seen exactly zero iPhone5 phones where I work or anywhere in the wild.
I think people are realizing what "good enough" means and that spending the $100-$300 more doesn't buy them a whole lot more. Also, simple and reliable seem to be features many people are interested having again.
But the phone companies have invested a lot of money in FCC costs, marketing and especially in ruining perfectly good smart phones with their bloatware and hacked ROMs that remove features they hope to sell back to customers at a premium. People are losing interest. I know *I* am losing interest... not completely... I'm still looking to get an unlocked, unbranded GalaxyS3 for my next phone and ditching the carrier's plans. Prepaid is the way to go for me. I will save TONS of money when my contract is up.
More and more as home computing becomes about appliances instead of about general purpose PCs and more and more, different detail markets are looking to Linux to make these things happen, video chip makers who have bet most of their business on Microsoft-only support will soon need to rethink that notion.
Long ago, no one thought IBM could be humbled. No one could have imagined Novell becoming a novelty. And no one in Windows-centric IT shops want to admit that the vast majority of internet and databases out there are running on Linux servers and services.
Things are shifting but some people aren't noticing or believing.
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I really like this idea... I suppose that makes me a peto-phyle.
You certainly know how to put the message across don't you? People these days are downloading their content with Netflix and stuff like that. They don't care to put a ridiculous box inline with their home theaters complicating things. Your model is broken and unwanted.
Meanwhile, as cable companies are losing business, they are offering free TV is many areas so that they can sell more ads to advertisers. (Yes, we have a large collection of eyeballs to sell... see? We give it to them TV for free!) No one is offering me free TV just yet, but I don't care... I don't watch TV.
"Your people" *especially* feel that murder is okay so long as it is under "god's direction." At which point, it's no longer considered murder by the perpetrators. Also, war is murder and countless Christians advocate going to war under a variety of causes but most recently, the cause really came down to unwillingness to pay more at the pump. That's right. I said it. We sent people out to kill and be killed over prices at the gas pump and perhaps to further the interests of Israel. The WMDs story was bogus from the beginning. The persuit of the terrorist boogey-man looked like crap even on the surface.
Christianity believes deeply in murder. It just doesn't call it murder most of the time... it's "god's will" or "following the orders of our christian leaders." Sorry, but no. To me, it's murder... worse that a one-off murder -- it's systemized, mechanized and organized murder and plunder. And I have yet to hear a mainstream Christian church protest the war.
"Support the troops" is the most we hear.
You are, once again, attributing goodness with the club you're associated. Good behavior is more of a function of society and has nothing specifically to do with religion or a particular religion. Take Japanese society as a prime example. They are EXTREMELY not religious.... superstitious perhaps and more along the lines of "this is traditional and also, it doesn't hurt [fire insurance] to do this" but no one believes in in their hearts. Japan is famous for its low crime rate while at the same time not particularly religious and certainly "godless" by most standards.
You want to attribute things to your god-club, and I would suggest that god isn't even part of the equation.
Also, ample evidence to the contrary exists where loads of church-goers are also found in prisons across the world... god's grace had little effect on these, but then that just opens up a whole lot of rebuttle about being truly faithful followers and blah blah blah. The point here is that the existence of religion in any given individual's life is not a deciding factor. Arguably, it's not even a contributing factor.
But for "good christians" it's convenient to think "I'm good. I'm Christian. Therefore Christians are good." And that falacy of logic, among lots of others, contributes to the mental weakness [vulnerability if you will] of religious people.
I remember the Yugo fondly. It was a failure by the time I was ready to buy my first [new] car and I was fresh out of bootcamp at the time. I got first-hand experience with how stupid sales people thought us military guys are. I suppose they were right more often than not, but I recall a particular Yugo that was being sold for like $12,000 because it had an air conditioner and racing stripes. It wasn't hard to walk away from them... they told me they thought I was stupid without having to say so. So I in turn called them assholes without having to say so.
I ended up getting a "new" but unsold from the previous year VW Fox... cheaper than the Yugo was and SO much better. Peppy engine, manual transmission that shifted "like a machine is supposed to," and just an all-around nice little car.
I'm probably going to see history repeat itself in all this and will probably get a Versa over one of their turda cars.
Then I guess the average St. Patrick's Day parade participants and spectators are also low level terrorists... and let's not talk about sports fans. There have been actual riots associated with sporting events.
Get some perspective. The occupy movement is about protesting the current balance of power and wealth. It's not healthy, has lead to the problems we are seeing today and inhibits the notion that there is any equality in the rule of law.
It was not just about "freedom of religion" it was also about "freedom from religion."
Peopel never cease to [amaze/annoy/disappoint] me in that they STILL somehow believe that "goodness" can only come from religion. That's nonsense. But that's part of how religion build a false sense of trust which is *ALWAYS* exploited by leadership. Religion is yet another "team affiliation" which creates a sense of Us vs Them.
Most of the founding fathers are 'suspected atheists.' I say suspected because especially back in those days, people in leadership positions who announced themselves as "godless" would immediate lose the trust and faith of the people. If fact, things haven't improved too much since those days. It's all part of an ugly and vicious cycle of expectations. But the fact that your presumption that it was Christians and therefore Christianity which was responsible for creating the constitutional government of the US only serves to prove my point. Was the government of England not ALSO Christian?
Where did you read that ridiculous idea? Really. Where?
Did you miss the part where the occupy movement has been listed as low level terrorists?
Yeah... there's a touch of sarcasm and stuff like that in there. I was actually being critical of the people who respond to insults with murder. I am also being critical of those who would seek to condone instead of condemn the behavior by seeking to blame freedom of expression... especially religious expression.
"We need plasphemy laws!!" Fuck you Jews/Christians/Muslims and all the rest. We do need blasphemy laws... laws that PROTECT THE RIGHT TO BLASPHEME!!! Your beliefs are yours. Keep them to yourself and your groups. Leave everyone else out of it. You have NO RIGHT to government protect or special government treatment.
Ask Obama.
I still believe Obama actually wanted to fix a lot of things. I think he quickly found out a few reasons why he can't make any serious change... dark secret reasons. Yeah, I know "conspiracy theory -- ignore the nut bag." I didn't vote for Obama... I voted Libertarian. But the change in Obama was remarkable and I don't think it's because 'he's just crooked like the rest of them.' I think Kennedy was the last rebel from the backstage establishment and we know how that ended up.
There's still lots of hope though. The problem is this internet thing. The establishment pretty much controls the media and all the usual stuff. But this internet thing... no one has figured out how to control it yet and it's too late to try to take it away. (Seriously, if they were forward thinking enough, they would have created an internet competitor that was 'fun, addicting and *SAFE(tm)* for public use' long ago... but now it's kind of too late. Only Steve Jobs could have pulled off a stunt like that and he's gone.
This internet thing... it may free the people yet.
I guess you;ve never heard od the other end-runs they pull off. "Enemy combatant" is a buzz word they use to strip anyone and everyone of constitutional guarantees and even of "human rights." They don't need law or trials or anything to 'disappear' people.
Before anything gets done about it, we have to start acknowleding what we see. And most of it is in plain sight.
We have seen it and we will keep seeing it until there is a major change of government in the U.S.
They write laws governing us and laws governing them [government and business]. The laws governing either are managed inconsistently. (That's the nicest way I know how to put it) The laws governing government are all but completely ignored. Constitutional issues never make it to the courts for challenge. They redefine reality in all areas of government. In this case, they say email is not "e" (electronic) and not storage. Sorry, but what?! These guys are not even pretending to hide their corruption or their agendas. They want unfettered access to our data and they are getting it.
It's just a formality that a judge is declaring email not electronic storage. They ALREADY have access to all electronic communications and all storage. They HAVE IT. They may or may not deny it. When the truth comes out, "retroactive immunity" is the response. FOIA requests are blocked forever.
How much clearer does it have to be?
They aren't our government any longer. They are our masters.
Nice one. And well put. That's a really fancy way of saying "awww, cmon..."
Let's start with the freedom to kill and destroy in response to insulting or otherwise uncomfortable information being published. This is a form of expression which seriously needs to be addressed.
Was watching Star Trek TNG the other day so the context was just all wrong for me.
Oh that's just precious. NVidia with their god-cursed optimus that will NEVER support Linux has used GPL code?
Okay, let's push for a settlement on the matter. Require them to build and support Optimus drivers for X.org and for that other thing which is X compatible but not X... the name escapes me but I'm sure a thousand people here know what I'm talking about.
With this, can we FINALLY get NVidia to the table on the issue of opening their drivers and/or important interface data so WE can write the drivers?
It can never happen right. They want "reasonable" terms? That's not exactly something you can lock down. The problems are not because of something no one can completely agree with everyone else means. Apple is "unreasonable" and yet a judge has recently ruled that Apple's notion of reasonable is unreasonable.
If they can't fight nicely, it's time to take away their weapons. It's as simple as that.
That's kind of the lesson here isn't it?
The Android phone market isn't quite what I would call "settled" or mature just yet. People are still exploring them and building their expectations of them. This means that when people see something in another phone that they can't or don't have in theirs, the bridge between consumer and manufacturer/seller goes up like flash paper.
HTC decided that the carriers are their customers instead of the people who actually hold the phones in their hands. So yeah, they were pretty douchey if you like to put it that way. That and HTC isn't well known for putting out "premium" handsets. (If they actually make premium handsets, I don't know.) So what you get are pretty low expectations and a lot of frustrations.
It doesn't hurt that the "anyone who does phone business with Microsoft is doomed" tradition is alive and well. That problem has been on-going for a very long time and I still haven't seen a success story yet.
It's simply too important an invention. It is found in every office, every business and nearly every home. It was a breakthrough in so many ways. What could possibly replace it?
Oh sure... some "computer" thing... it's just a fancy typewriter is all... and it's too expensive. What else is it good for?
Some may not remember hearing things like that, but I do.
Now people are unable to imagine a replacement for a PC? Sorry, but it's coming.
You phone is the new PC. You will have different displays, different interfaces and different functionality based on where it is used. In your car? It's navigation, information and all that... and a phone. At work it's a work machine. At home, it's a game machine. When I'm vacationing... you get the idea. Your phone is the new PC. You don't need a desktop any longer.
Lately, we have been seeing a LOT of attention on the problem of patents. Not just software patents, but patents in general. If Apple bought Nokia now, they will either have to exploit those patents now or face losing all of their value.
When I start hearing lay people discuss the problems of patents, (and I have heard this recently) I know it's not just geek interest any longer. Now it's getting in the way of their next gadget purchase and they are taking notice.
Game companies want Gamestop out of the used game business. The RIAA wants an end to used music. The MPAA wants an end to used movies. And every thing maker will want to get in on this as well. Every sale of used-thing is believed to be a lost sale of new-thing.
Oh goody! No more first sale doctrine! No more used games/CDs/cars/android-phones-tablets and on and on and on. You want a new one? Fine. Just don't think you can get away with selling your old one. Garage sales are the new black market.
I think NO OBJECT should be exempt from the first-sale doctrine. It's an object. A thing. The patents associated with the things were exhausted with the first sale. Nothing else was manufactured. I think they're out of their minds. But there would be enough big-money interest in the US wanting to see this happen so they can justify similar protection in the US to "fight back" in the most patriotic way imaginable.
The things I own, I don't own... I hoped I would die before that happened.
Lately, I have seen a decrease in smartphone fever. Okay, maybe not "lately" -- it has been decreasing for a long time actually. People are less excited about new gadgets and spending that money when they know another new thing is coming along soon. Even the demand for iPhone 5 seems to have dropped where I am... I have a good number of iPhone users where I work but they have been moving to droid and even a couple back to flip phones. I have seen exactly zero iPhone5 phones where I work or anywhere in the wild.
I think people are realizing what "good enough" means and that spending the $100-$300 more doesn't buy them a whole lot more. Also, simple and reliable seem to be features many people are interested having again.
But the phone companies have invested a lot of money in FCC costs, marketing and especially in ruining perfectly good smart phones with their bloatware and hacked ROMs that remove features they hope to sell back to customers at a premium. People are losing interest. I know *I* am losing interest... not completely... I'm still looking to get an unlocked, unbranded GalaxyS3 for my next phone and ditching the carrier's plans. Prepaid is the way to go for me. I will save TONS of money when my contract is up.
More and more as home computing becomes about appliances instead of about general purpose PCs and more and more, different detail markets are looking to Linux to make these things happen, video chip makers who have bet most of their business on Microsoft-only support will soon need to rethink that notion.
Long ago, no one thought IBM could be humbled. No one could have imagined Novell becoming a novelty. And no one in Windows-centric IT shops want to admit that the vast majority of internet and databases out there are running on Linux servers and services.
Things are shifting but some people aren't noticing or believing.
F* You NVidia... F* You.