I never said anything about what is better or worse, according to any criteria. What I said is that people should not support Apple. You and your ilk fixate on popularity, and it bothers you that there people who don't like what is popular, for reasons completely orthogonal to what makes it popular. You would like us to shut up, to stop providing evidence that contradicts Apple the brand: Apple the renegade, Apple the artistic, Apple differently thinker. Because, who knows, if people recognized Apple as a censor and ham-fisted control-freak, it might undermine the marketing message. That endless, obnoxious, marketing message. How dare we counter a billion dollar ad campaign with our "parochial moaning". Don't we know that commercial speech is reserved for corporations?
It's funny how certain kinds of people praise the defiance of authority like this but admonish those who defeat filters in school to access controversial information. They force their public schools and libraries to install buggy censorware which has been demonstrated time and time again to block legitimate but incorrectly categorized information.
Heck, the Australian and German governments filter their entire countries, for ostentatious "think of the children" reasons, but all it takes is a flip of a switch for it to go political. Neither country historically has much of a problem with certain kinds of political censorship.
How long ago was it that we had Republicans telling us to watch what we say?
We need a pan-national dedication to transparency and the free flow of information. The people who scream about Iranian and Chinese injustice the loudest are also some of the worst censors at home. The free world won't be until we hold our own people accountable.
I think the fact that GWB is of above average intelligence is the most poorly reported aspect of the entire Bush administration.
The typical YouTube commenter has an above average intelligence. The typical 4chan poster has an above average intelligence. Nearly everyone on Slashdot is in the highest quartile. Carter, Clinton, and Obama are as much smarter than Bush as Bush is smarter than the people who don't get the jokes in Idiocracy.
Yes! There are always two sides to every conflict, and they deserve equal consideration! You can't always trust the so-called "facts" because sometimes one side has a greater ability to collect more of them than the other side. It's not fair!
"'The holy grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone' -- a region around the host star with the right conditions for water to be liquid on a planet's surface', says Michel Mayor from the Geneva Observatory, who led the European team to this stunning breakthrough."
Indeed. Who do these scientists think they are, making their work sound interesting?
They're not bound by the US Constitution since they're not the Federal Government and I highly doubt that you can classify a local school board as the State Government, so they're probably not bound by the State's Constitution, either. The schoolboard is subject to state _laws_ and local ordinances, neither of which say anything about this, I am guessing.
News about patches to a game belong on the game's RSS feed, not a tech news site.
Holy sweet jeebus frak! This "tech news site" lets your link your account name to your character in the game! They mimic the game's achievement system as a ha-ha, only serious joke! Would you please do us all a favor and take your whining to someone who cares? There's a whole Internet out there for you to explore, get to it!
The thought of spending the next 5 months farming Ulduar, as we've just spent 5 months farming the pitiful content that was in the game at release and redoing it in an attempt to get some dumb achievements is not pleasant.
Perhaps you should reevaluate the value of "farming" anything.
That's kind of a circular argument, isn't it? Just because I built my own house doesn't mean I'm an architect.
No, because an engineer was originally one who built or operated machines of war (eg. siege engine), or built structures and fortifications (eg. US Army Corps of Engineers). You don't exactly do that sort of thing off-site.
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I never said anything about what is better or worse, according to any criteria. What I said is that people should not support Apple. You and your ilk fixate on popularity, and it bothers you that there people who don't like what is popular, for reasons completely orthogonal to what makes it popular. You would like us to shut up, to stop providing evidence that contradicts Apple the brand: Apple the renegade, Apple the artistic, Apple differently thinker. Because, who knows, if people recognized Apple as a censor and ham-fisted control-freak, it might undermine the marketing message. That endless, obnoxious, marketing message. How dare we counter a billion dollar ad campaign with our "parochial moaning". Don't we know that commercial speech is reserved for corporations?
Don't bother. They're turning to dumbed down dreck like everything else.
To convince other people of what a mistake it is to support Apple. Is that the part you don't like, fanboy?
It's funny how certain kinds of people praise the defiance of authority like this but admonish those who defeat filters in school to access controversial information. They force their public schools and libraries to install buggy censorware which has been demonstrated time and time again to block legitimate but incorrectly categorized information.
Heck, the Australian and German governments filter their entire countries, for ostentatious "think of the children" reasons, but all it takes is a flip of a switch for it to go political. Neither country historically has much of a problem with certain kinds of political censorship.
How long ago was it that we had Republicans telling us to watch what we say?
We need a pan-national dedication to transparency and the free flow of information. The people who scream about Iranian and Chinese injustice the loudest are also some of the worst censors at home. The free world won't be until we hold our own people accountable.
I think the fact that GWB is of above average intelligence is the most poorly reported aspect of the entire Bush administration.
The typical YouTube commenter has an above average intelligence. The typical 4chan poster has an above average intelligence. Nearly everyone on Slashdot is in the highest quartile. Carter, Clinton, and Obama are as much smarter than Bush as Bush is smarter than the people who don't get the jokes in Idiocracy.
Yes! There are always two sides to every conflict, and they deserve equal consideration! You can't always trust the so-called "facts" because sometimes one side has a greater ability to collect more of them than the other side. It's not fair!
LOL, insulting, really? To suggest that those with little avoid the temptation to become completely dependent on those with much?
Eat your colonialism - it's good for you!
Wikipediasucks.com is nothing one would confuse with Wikipedia.
Wikipediaart.com, however, sounds like an official Wikipedia for art.
Domains can also be trademarks. Them's the breaks. Get over it.
It's more like socialism in practice. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but let's call it what it is.
I call it freeper wharrgarbl.
"'The holy grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone' -- a region around the host star with the right conditions for water to be liquid on a planet's surface', says Michel Mayor from the Geneva Observatory, who led the European team to this stunning breakthrough."
Indeed. Who do these scientists think they are, making their work sound interesting?
One in a thousand still means the galaxy has millions of earth-like worlds. "Rare" is relative.
Where is the superficial study that links the pathological addiction to sports with low grades? 'Cause I think you'd find more data in that one.
They should have called it Lost Vegas. They should have teamed up with Harmonix instead and made the awesomest video game evar.
It's frackin' easy with a stylus. Try using a capacitive touch screen with gloves on.
Guess which OS most ruggedized PDAs actually run? You got it - Windows Mobile.
all that while being completely wheelchair bound and having a speech impediment.
Hey, most of us have American accents, you insensitive clod!
They're not bound by the US Constitution since they're not the Federal Government and I highly doubt that you can classify a local school board as the State Government, so they're probably not bound by the State's Constitution, either. The schoolboard is subject to state _laws_ and local ordinances, neither of which say anything about this, I am guessing.
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"Publishing", in the context of that law, means distribution for sale. I don't believe that's what the prankster did.
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Fool, everybody knows you only axe questions.
To really sum it up: Is the world made of sets or is it made of graphs?
"Beg the question" and "Beg for a question" are two very different things
Yes, one is a type of rhetorical fallacy, and the other demonstrates both ignorance of what it means and how to say it correctly.
In a similar manner, everything in Assembly begs for a question.
That's not what that means! In fact, the point being made is antithetical to begging the question!
News about patches to a game belong on the game's RSS feed, not a tech news site.
Holy sweet jeebus frak! This "tech news site" lets your link your account name to your character in the game! They mimic the game's achievement system as a ha-ha, only serious joke! Would you please do us all a favor and take your whining to someone who cares? There's a whole Internet out there for you to explore, get to it!
The thought of spending the next 5 months farming Ulduar, as we've just spent 5 months farming the pitiful content that was in the game at release and redoing it in an attempt to get some dumb achievements is not pleasant.
Perhaps you should reevaluate the value of "farming" anything.
One key difference, Advernews doesn't make sense to anyone outside of the game's target market.
Because advertising is so useful to an audience that already buys your product. Quit your nonsensical whining.
That's kind of a circular argument, isn't it? Just because I built my own house doesn't mean I'm an architect.
No, because an engineer was originally one who built or operated machines of war (eg. siege engine), or built structures and fortifications (eg. US Army Corps of Engineers). You don't exactly do that sort of thing off-site.