Considering that they dressed up to hide their identities, I would not characterize this a night of drunken stupidity. It looks like a group of people with mental problems that decided to disguise themselves and vandalize cars.
And they'd be right. I have to use XP at work for a few more months, and the lack of real multitasking makes it a real pain. One active process can tie up the whole PC. This does not happen in Win 7+
>I think it's totally unfair to crucify somebody for their personal opinions. Just saying.
I agree, but that's not what this is about. It's about a bigot that used his money to try to hurt people who aren't like him. I don't think anyone has run into trouble just for having regressive beliefs. It's when they engage in actions to harm others that they become a problem and need to be marginalized.
People who think critically KNOW that homophobic bigots have no business having power and being in control!
Sure, but that's only true because the homophobes have no rational justification for their beliefs, just emotion and superstition. No fair expecting them to be able to think and revise toxic beliefs.
That's an extreme insult to everyone who was actually lynched. I suppose that's why you posted your derp as an AC.
There's nothing wrong with not tolerating bigotry. If this clown was kicked out simply for being Christian, maybe because many employees understand that religion is idiotic, I'd be on his side, even though he's supposedly an adult and still believes the supernatural exists outside of fiction and the imagination.
He crossed a line when he financed bigotry. It's the same line Orson Scott Card crossed that lost him the support of everyone who opposes bigotry. No one came down on them for being religious flakes. The problem was that they promote inequality.
> Should I be persecuted for voting Democrat? What about voting for or giving money to gay marriage?
Of course not. Being accepting of people that are different that you, and trying to deny rights to people that are different than you are not equivalent actions or a simple difference of opinion like what kind of pie is best.
>there is no justification for equating the regular, children-producing marriage and gay-unions.
Are you sure that you're not an ignorant social conservative, rather than a libertarian. That's the argument that toxic loons like Bryan Fischer try to peddle. It's easily shot down by the fact that plenty of people marry and don't have children, so most people wouldn't try to argue it outside of far-right sites where the average IQ is well below room temperature.
> Indeed, no culture in the history of humanity has done so
That's exactly what a social conservative would say. If you're really a Libertarian, it's clear that you got that way via being a backward social conservative.
They'll be sold on LocalBitcoins.com. Most of the sellers accepting Western Union are either in China or Vietnam. I don't think the Chinese government can stop its citizens from receiving WU transfers without raising all kinds of hell.
Or he just accurately noticed that the commodity has lost value on the exchanges, has no intrinsic value, and may crash completely. Bitcoincharts is down at the moment, but according to other sites, the value has fallen all the way to $455 per btc, which if I recall correctly was at about $550 per btc last Friday. It wasn't that long ago that it was at $1000 per btc.
Yes, invading Iraq was the wrong thing to do for a huge list of reasons, starting with all the lives lost. Enabling people to draw a parallel between the US and a Russian invasion is just another one of them.
We should never have allowed Bush to invade Iraq, but that doesn't make this invasion acceptable.
So you're crushing on a tyrant. You're not alone. Much of the American far-right is infatuated with Putin. The Twitter Conservatives shake my faith in humanity some days with their Putin/Obama memes. Putin's virile-man propaganda, pandering to Christians, and persecution of gay people has made less sophisticated people love him
>As opposed to Clippy, their digital assistant software that's similar to Jar Jar Binks You win the Internet today.
Cnet reports that Digital assistant Cortana does sound like Jen Taylor. If true, This could win me over to Microsoft Phone.
I'm happy with my Andriod devices, but if MS can succeed in bringing Cortana into the real world that's going to appeal strongly to people who enjoyed the Halo series.
Even without fans doing it, JMS really shouldn't say never. It took many years for Star Trek TOS to be released with CGI effects. The same could happen to B5, but it's a lot more likely if JMS made some more series set in that universe.
Same here. I have many more interesting things to watch than game development, even with added drama by Pepsi. Between TV and web series, there's already more available to keep me entertained than I can possibly watch.
It's weird that the article leads with the Galaxy Gear, which is pretty much useless, so there's no surprise that people want to dump them.
The numbers on activity trackers are more interesting. I currently have a Fitbit on one wrist, and a Basis activity tracker on the other while I evaluate each. It seems like the current generation is pretty limited, with the FitBit just tracking motion, and the Basis tracking heartbeat poorly, especially when active, so I can see why people would be dissatisfied. If someone makes a reasonably-sized, reasonably-priced device that tracks movement, heartbeat, O2, and perspiration while active and not, I expect it to be very popular.
Of course that fear doesn't apply in the U.S. No one but the deeply paranoid wingnuts and the foolish cult of Greenwald dudebros are afraid of the "state" turning off their phone.
The IRS didn't just investigate the teabaggers, they investigated political groups on the right and the left, it was just the mentally-ill right-wingers with their persecution complexes (we're not persecuting them, we're making fun of them and their superstitious, backward, bigoted beliefs) that went nuts over it.
>I think the general idea, at least in terms of this discussion, is that someone who can remotely access your stove via exploits can also probably bypass any safety mechanism that would prevent the stove from overheating.
That weird assumption would seem to make the discussion pointless. There would be no reason to connect the safety functionality to the remote start functionality. If you build an over that poorly, you'd be sued out of existence the first time the shoddy design was exploited.
>You can lower your energy bill by setting your thermostat to a more relaxed temperature while you're at work (hotter or colder, depending on your climate)
We already have this with smart thermostats. No Internet connection needed.
>and then remotely set it back to a more comfortable temp as you leave the office.
This is only useful for people with work schedules that vary. I think most of us leave work within 30 minutes of the same time every day.
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Of course teenagers have mental problems. They go crazy during the transition from childhood to being an adult.
I never went out destroying people's cars, and I doubt that you did either.
Considering that they dressed up to hide their identities, I would not characterize this a night of drunken stupidity. It looks like a group of people with mental problems that decided to disguise themselves and vandalize cars.
And they'd be right. I have to use XP at work for a few more months, and the lack of real multitasking makes it a real pain. One active process can tie up the whole PC. This does not happen in Win 7+
>I think it's totally unfair to crucify somebody for their personal opinions. Just saying.
I agree, but that's not what this is about. It's about a bigot that used his money to try to hurt people who aren't like him. I don't think anyone has run into trouble just for having regressive beliefs. It's when they engage in actions to harm others that they become a problem and need to be marginalized.
People who think critically KNOW that homophobic bigots have no business having power and being in control!
Sure, but that's only true because the homophobes have no rational justification for their beliefs, just emotion and superstition. No fair expecting them to be able to think and revise toxic beliefs.
That's an extreme insult to everyone who was actually lynched. I suppose that's why you posted your derp as an AC.
There's nothing wrong with not tolerating bigotry. If this clown was kicked out simply for being Christian, maybe because many employees understand that religion is idiotic, I'd be on his side, even though he's supposedly an adult and still believes the supernatural exists outside of fiction and the imagination.
He crossed a line when he financed bigotry. It's the same line Orson Scott Card crossed that lost him the support of everyone who opposes bigotry. No one came down on them for being religious flakes. The problem was that they promote inequality.
To me, the fact that they blame their bigotry on their superstitions means that they've doubly-failed as people.
> Should I be persecuted for voting Democrat? What about voting for or giving money to gay marriage?
Of course not. Being accepting of people that are different that you, and trying to deny rights to people that are different than you are not equivalent actions or a simple difference of opinion like what kind of pie is best.
>there is no justification for equating the regular, children-producing marriage and gay-unions.
Are you sure that you're not an ignorant social conservative, rather than a libertarian. That's the argument that toxic loons like Bryan Fischer try to peddle. It's easily shot down by the fact that plenty of people marry and don't have children, so most people wouldn't try to argue it outside of far-right sites where the average IQ is well below room temperature.
> Indeed, no culture in the history of humanity has done so
That's exactly what a social conservative would say. If you're really a Libertarian, it's clear that you got that way via being a backward social conservative.
So now we're torturing slime mold. Think of the poor victimized slime mold!!11!One
They'll be sold on LocalBitcoins.com. Most of the sellers accepting Western Union are either in China or Vietnam. I don't think the Chinese government can stop its citizens from receiving WU transfers without raising all kinds of hell.
Or he just accurately noticed that the commodity has lost value on the exchanges, has no intrinsic value, and may crash completely. Bitcoincharts is down at the moment, but according to other sites, the value has fallen all the way to $455 per btc, which if I recall correctly was at about $550 per btc last Friday. It wasn't that long ago that it was at $1000 per btc.
Yes, invading Iraq was the wrong thing to do for a huge list of reasons, starting with all the lives lost. Enabling people to draw a parallel between the US and a Russian invasion is just another one of them.
We should never have allowed Bush to invade Iraq, but that doesn't make this invasion acceptable.
> the imo very sexy Putin
So you're crushing on a tyrant. You're not alone. Much of the American far-right is infatuated with Putin. The Twitter Conservatives shake my faith in humanity some days with their Putin/Obama memes. Putin's virile-man propaganda, pandering to Christians, and persecution of gay people has made less sophisticated people love him
>As opposed to Clippy, their digital assistant software that's similar to Jar Jar Binks
You win the Internet today.
Cnet reports that Digital assistant Cortana does sound like Jen Taylor. If true, This could win me over to Microsoft Phone.
I'm happy with my Andriod devices, but if MS can succeed in bringing Cortana into the real world that's going to appeal strongly to people who enjoyed the Halo series.
Even without fans doing it, JMS really shouldn't say never. It took many years for Star Trek TOS to be released with CGI effects. The same could happen to B5, but it's a lot more likely if JMS made some more series set in that universe.
Same here. I have many more interesting things to watch than game development, even with added drama by Pepsi. Between TV and web series, there's already more available to keep me entertained than I can possibly watch.
It's weird that the article leads with the Galaxy Gear, which is pretty much useless, so there's no surprise that people want to dump them.
The numbers on activity trackers are more interesting. I currently have a Fitbit on one wrist, and a Basis activity tracker on the other while I evaluate each. It seems like the current generation is pretty limited, with the FitBit just tracking motion, and the Basis tracking heartbeat poorly, especially when active, so I can see why people would be dissatisfied. If someone makes a reasonably-sized, reasonably-priced device that tracks movement, heartbeat, O2, and perspiration while active and not, I expect it to be very popular.
Of course that fear doesn't apply in the U.S. No one but the deeply paranoid wingnuts and the foolish cult of Greenwald dudebros are afraid of the "state" turning off their phone.
The IRS didn't just investigate the teabaggers, they investigated political groups on the right and the left, it was just the mentally-ill right-wingers with their persecution complexes (we're not persecuting them, we're making fun of them and their superstitious, backward, bigoted beliefs) that went nuts over it.
Sounds like paranoia to me.
>I think the general idea, at least in terms of this discussion, is that someone who can remotely access your stove via exploits can also probably bypass any safety mechanism that would prevent the stove from overheating.
That weird assumption would seem to make the discussion pointless. There would be no reason to connect the safety functionality to the remote start functionality. If you build an over that poorly, you'd be sued out of existence the first time the shoddy design was exploited.
>You can lower your energy bill by setting your thermostat to a more relaxed temperature while you're at work (hotter or colder, depending on your climate)
We already have this with smart thermostats. No Internet connection needed.
>and then remotely set it back to a more comfortable temp as you leave the office.
This is only useful for people with work schedules that vary. I think most of us leave work within 30 minutes of the same time every day.
>Seriously? On an airplane? You would be lucky enough to have enough room to unfold the thing.
I pay a little extra for seats with leg-room, so my flights don't suck. Don't be so cheap, and you won't be so cramped that you can't function.
>I have Prime video but as you say, almost never use the video because of the mix of free and non-free - a search is pointless.
My response has been the same. It was annoying to find that they wanted extra money to watch more than the first few episodes of a series.
>Next year I plan to drop Prime as the value has diminished and the cost is increasing
To me it's still worth it, but I use Amazon for most of my non-food purchases.
I'd say the laptop (with MKV files) is far superior to an Archos. I can work AND entertain myself on a flight with a laptop.