You can hide any articles related to politics if so you wish, nobody is forcing you to click in the politics articles anyway./. was born as a technical site, and is still mainly that, but geeks wanted to discuss politics and Taco provided for that here.
The masses have bread and circus. BigMacs and Paris Hilton.
They do not care about anything else. If people really cared Bush would have not been elected at all, since it was plain to see he has never been fit for office.
If you think that people are going to risk their lives when they can't be bothered to elect the best person for office, you frankly are truly derided.
Here in the UK you can request free transport from and to hospital if needed as far as I know.
People do fall through the system, since the service above is not provided automatically and perhaps a frai lady may not have been aware that she could request this.
There are no 5 year olds that can explain that to you.
There are 2 problems here, MS has segmented the product names so badly that you have who know how many flavours to contend with.
And second, Apple should say in a more explicit manner what is not going to work well knowing that people are bound to get confussed with all the Windows Vista naming scheme.
Use a demo or buy an expensive version of Windows (otherwise you will not have a license for virtualization).
The phone should really be platform neutral, and if Apple couldn't be arsed to support Linux (which should be immensely easier than Windows, given OSX's roots) they could have released documentation to let people do this themselves.
Please show us where users are demanding to be inconvenienced by Apple's paranoid approach to controlling all aspects of their offerings.
People using Linux (a small but not for that reason ignorable niche) had to wait for people to reverse engineer the mechanism by which the iPods connect to a computer all because Apple could not be arsed to use open protocols and methods.
People do not want Apple, or any other company for that matter, to solve all the problems, but what many people want is to face artificial barriers to solve those problems themselves, not to be impeded at every corner by the manufacturer of products they have favored with their costum in spite of their shortcomings (when did the slogan "the client is right" stopped to have any value????).
If Apple were using open formats and protocols to connect the gadget in the first place (I don't know if the do, but based on past experiences my guess is they don't).
When a company has fragmented the same product so badly, any reasonable consumer should be given the benefit of the doubt if he gets confused.
I do not need to know all the mindless bits of technobabble to know if a bloody phone with mediocre standard features (I am not talking about how it is all integrated, which can be a better than the sum of its parts) works or not in a given computer.
And if the manufacturer knows that the product will not work with certain products, it is pure common sense to expect to be told about this explicitly and prominently, specially when it comes to such an expensive toy...
If people are taking the carts, there is a fucking business model screaming at the shops right there. So put 2 guards in the parking lot to make sure nobody takes the trolleys and request a deposit from anybody taking it home, big enough to want people to bring them back, but low enough not to deter people from using the service.
On return of the trolley refund most of the money and keep a small fee.
That is the real issue. That there are people out there willing to wreck havoc with trolleys (or carts).
And in a typical fashion shops go for the apparently cheaper option: tech instead of social. It is cheaper in the long term to put en electronic break than to have 2 guards at all times in the parking lot.
The guards would send a strong social message: this is private property, no pranks here.
The fancy electronic devices say: we don't care, if you can get away with it all the power to you.
I faced the same situation dude, in a niche even less popular than yours: classical music.
I saw the writing in the wall when I was 25. It was either a life of privations, little gigs and meagre salaries or the opportunity to earn good money with my mad hacker 5ki115.
I decided for the later, with the money I have made I bought a nice piano, go to any concert I feel like it and in general enjoy music very much as a listener and amateur player.
Such is life, you seem to have accepted it, people should live in reality, not in Wishfuland.
My dad had an amazing collection of vinyl, several hundred of discs.
The day he saw and played a CD for the first time in a shop, he came back home, packed all the vinyl and sold them as a collection, as well as his turntable.
With the money he got he bought a CD player and 2 or 3 disks (insanely expensive back then).
So your whining about CDs will get you little sympathy. I am doing pretty much the same with my CDs btw, ripping them, and storing them away (the attachment to the cover "art" baffles me, but to each one his own).
To be ignorant about something, as you clearly are, does not mean you are asked to perform huge leaps of faith to accept a scientific sound theory.
The information is out there to anyone willing to go and get ti, the only leap of faith is top expect somebody like you, with such vast ignorance of the topic, to take the time and effort to read about the evidence debunking the nonsense you are ejaculating.
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It was quite some time since politics was considered "stuff that matters", this frankly merits the treatment.
If it aggravates you so much fix your preferences, or stop clicking.
Obstructing the course of justice is always a crime, irrespective if an alleged crime was committed or not.
You can hide any articles related to politics if so you wish, nobody is forcing you to click in the politics articles anyway. /. was born as a technical site, and is still mainly that, but geeks wanted to discuss politics and Taco provided for that here.
But thanks for playing.
... sometimes are more vicious than others when dealing with Mexicans (they want to convince other USians of their real allegiances).
Whenever I have dealt with US police officers or immigration people, the Mexican-USian ones were always the worst to deal with.
And read the FAQs for bunnies sakes.
Open a bloody dictionary.
Whoever told you republic and democracy are mutually exclusive concepts was lying to you.
The masses have bread and circus. BigMacs and Paris Hilton.
They do not care about anything else. If people really cared Bush would have not been elected at all, since it was plain to see he has never been fit for office.
If you think that people are going to risk their lives when they can't be bothered to elect the best person for office, you frankly are truly derided.
You don't ever understand the terms you are using to make your case.
Pathetic.
Is it too implausible that somebody affected by her covert operations in the past, may wish to exact some revenge?
Anyway you want to slice it, you only oust somebody like that if you are a despicable piece of shit.
The only way for politics to remain sane is that parties stand on the toes of each other as often as possible.
I do not want to see parties making cosy dealings and being all friendly and cooperative to each other.
We need oversight, and that is only achieved when you are scrutinizing with the finest of coms what your political opponents are doing.
Here in the UK you can request free transport from and to hospital if needed as far as I know.
People do fall through the system, since the service above is not provided automatically and perhaps a frai lady may not have been aware that she could request this.
There are no 5 year olds that can explain that to you.
There are 2 problems here, MS has segmented the product names so badly that you have who know how many flavours to contend with.
And second, Apple should say in a more explicit manner what is not going to work well knowing that people are bound to get confussed with all the Windows Vista naming scheme.
Use a demo or buy an expensive version of Windows (otherwise you will not have a license for virtualization).
The phone should really be platform neutral, and if Apple couldn't be arsed to support Linux (which should be immensely easier than Windows, given OSX's roots) they could have released documentation to let people do this themselves.
Please show us where users are demanding to be inconvenienced by Apple's paranoid approach to controlling all aspects of their offerings.
People using Linux (a small but not for that reason ignorable niche) had to wait for people to reverse engineer the mechanism by which the iPods connect to a computer all because Apple could not be arsed to use open protocols and methods.
People do not want Apple, or any other company for that matter, to solve all the problems, but what many people want is to face artificial barriers to solve those problems themselves, not to be impeded at every corner by the manufacturer of products they have favored with their costum in spite of their shortcomings (when did the slogan "the client is right" stopped to have any value????).
.... with pretty much any machine.
If Apple were using open formats and protocols to connect the gadget in the first place (I don't know if the do, but based on past experiences my guess is they don't).
When a company has fragmented the same product so badly, any reasonable consumer should be given the benefit of the doubt if he gets confused.
I do not need to know all the mindless bits of technobabble to know if a bloody phone with mediocre standard features (I am not talking about how it is all integrated, which can be a better than the sum of its parts) works or not in a given computer.
And if the manufacturer knows that the product will not work with certain products, it is pure common sense to expect to be told about this explicitly and prominently, specially when it comes to such an expensive toy...
And not all require gadgetry.
If people are taking the carts, there is a fucking business model screaming at the shops right there. So put 2 guards in the parking lot to make sure nobody takes the trolleys and request a deposit from anybody taking it home, big enough to want people to bring them back, but low enough not to deter people from using the service.
On return of the trolley refund most of the money and keep a small fee.
That is the real issue. That there are people out there willing to wreck havoc with trolleys (or carts).
And in a typical fashion shops go for the apparently cheaper option: tech instead of social. It is cheaper in the long term to put en electronic break than to have 2 guards at all times in the parking lot.
The guards would send a strong social message: this is private property, no pranks here.
The fancy electronic devices say: we don't care, if you can get away with it all the power to you.
But only as long as it is convenient and they see it as an investment of some kind or get something else in addition to the music itself.
If you do annoy me with DRM nonsense you can kiss goodbye to my disposable income. It is that simple.
How you do it, is up to you, that is what entrepreneurship is all about.
Gigs, tours, teaching, commissioned work, flipping burgers.
Artists are not entitled to an easy living, neither are they entitled to make a living based in a flawed business model based in copyright nonsense.
I faced the same situation dude, in a niche even less popular than yours: classical music.
I saw the writing in the wall when I was 25. It was either a life of privations, little gigs and meagre salaries or the opportunity to earn good money with my mad hacker 5ki115.
I decided for the later, with the money I have made I bought a nice piano, go to any concert I feel like it and in general enjoy music very much as a listener and amateur player.
Such is life, you seem to have accepted it, people should live in reality, not in Wishfuland.
My dad had an amazing collection of vinyl, several hundred of discs.
The day he saw and played a CD for the first time in a shop, he came back home, packed all the vinyl and sold them as a collection, as well as his turntable.
With the money he got he bought a CD player and 2 or 3 disks (insanely expensive back then).
So your whining about CDs will get you little sympathy. I am doing pretty much the same with my CDs btw, ripping them, and storing them away (the attachment to the cover "art" baffles me, but to each one his own).
I did the ad-hominem attacks: you are an ignorant.
The other guy beat you nonsense with well reasoned logic until you weaseled out.
To be ignorant about something, as you clearly are, does not mean you are asked to perform huge leaps of faith to accept a scientific sound theory.
The information is out there to anyone willing to go and get ti, the only leap of faith is top expect somebody like you, with such vast ignorance of the topic, to take the time and effort to read about the evidence debunking the nonsense you are ejaculating.