I do think they should pay full compensation if nothing comes of their investigation. A detained person can't work, and will quite probably also lose their job. Given the police force's tendency towards extreme paranoia and abuse of power, especially when given sweeping powers, the government must be willing to pay up, and pay up big, anytime they make a mistake.
Maybe we should start differential taxation - if you support extended imprisonment without trial and excessive police powers because you think it will make you safer, then you must also be willing to pay extra for it. I don't want my taxes wasted on this game of idiots.
These guys obviously think that creative people only create for financial reward, which means they know nothing about creative people. They can't grasp that creative people just have the need to create, and that not everything is about money.
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I only consider an organisation a cult if they engage in aggressive intimidation of their members. And it has to verge on physical violence because otherwise we should just include almost all religions since in most cases members tend to shun those who leave the fold, and that is a form of intimidation.
The Bible does imply that animals at the beginning are the same animals we have now, basically unchanged.
I've read much on both sides. It seems that whenever there is a fossil that shows characteristics of two animals, e.g. dinosaurs with bird characteristics, it gets declared as one or the other. On that basis we will never find any between-species fossils.
ID is attacked with good reason. Most of the time it is actually just creationism disguised so that its supporters don't look like fools.
We can say that if this was all started or created by some being that this being was not perfect because the results are not perfect. The human body alone as numerous flaws, all of which shouldn't exist if there was a perfect designer.
Firstly supporters of some sentient initiator need to clearly dissociate themselves from any belief or notion of a perfect being having been involved. They can't even consider the known universe as some sort of R&D experiment because the god referred to in the Bible knows all and therefore would know the ultimate outcome of any such experiment.
Secondly they have to vocally distance themselves from idiots who say things like "what good is half an eye?" as an argument against gradual development of various organic systems. Making such statements is tantamount to having MORON tattooed on your forehead.
"Why can't God use effective tools such as evolution"
Evolutionary science does not cover how it all started. Scientists acknowledge this. However evolution is extremely inefficient. Of course this 'god' could be carrying out an experiment to test the effectiveness of evolution versus other creation methods.
What we do know without any doubt is that there is no intelligent design by any perfect being. Such a being must by definition create a perfect design. Nature as it currently exists is seriously flawed.
The whole Jesus Christ story is nonsensical. If he was a god, then dying was no big deal. Hardly a big sacrifice. His father only gave up something if Jesus Christ is in fact now dead. And if he's dead you can't pray to him. The story has more plot holes than a Hollywood blockbuster.
Religion is by definition unchanging. The whole point is that it appeals to people who are desperate for some stable thing to which they can cling.
"If enough tech workers do this then companies may give higher raises to keep their workforce. Or they (Like my company) will replace these people with people will less skills for less pay and train them with experience."
Actually what happens is the new hires are also looking to improve their lot and usually won't take what the company was paying the previous guy so the company ends up paying what the old guy was asking and as part of this great bargain they get someone who still has to learn the software before they can start being productive. Happens to engineers as well as programmers.
Welcome to standard management short-term thinking. If they had guns they'd shoot themselves in both feet, twice a day.
When you say associating their product with the iPod do you mean implying their product has been tested and approved by Apple or merely that it works with the iPod? If the former then I would go along with paying Apple a small fee to test and approve the product - there should be some quid pro quo, as in Apple includes those approved accessories amongst those listed on their site, with links to the relevant manufacturer. If you're referring to simply stating the product is intended for use with an iPod, then Apple should be told where they can stick their attempts at extortion.
"On the flip side, Ford won't bless just any crap product for logo use."
No, they just fit them at the factory.
"If you see a product box with an MS-Windows or MacOS logo on it anywhere, you can bet that there is a license involved"
Only applies if you want it to be certified for use with the OS.
The ultimate stupidity in this trademark nonsense is when a company tries to block retailers from selling their products without their express permission with the legal fiction that advertising the product is trademark infringement. Sony pulled that rubbish trying to control the import and sale of PSPs in the UK. They should have been soundly laughed out of court and viciously fined to teach them a lesson.
That is bull. There are endless aftermarket products that mention the specific make and model for which they are designed. Otherwise how the hell would you have any clue what to buy.
Customer: "I want a free-flow exhaust." Shop: "We have just the thing. See here on the box it says made for automobiles." Customer: "But will it fit my Ford Bronco?" Shop: "I'm sure it will, it is an automobile right? The manufacturer can't mention makes and models in case they get sued."
And so another normal, legitimate competitive business goes down the drain. Why don't Apple and the rest just move to a totalitarian state where they belong?
If Apple wants to sell an 'Approved by Apple' logo, then that is surely fine, just as the car manufacturers can sell such a logo, but expecting money just because the product says it is made for use with the iPod is nonsense.
Entertainment media does not undo good upbringing. Children learn almost 100% of their behaviour from their immediate real-world environment.
Of course if their parents or others use violence then this teaches them that violence is a solution, particularly of the violence is directed towards the children or those close to them. The strongest influence comes from the home/parents, then to a lesser extent the local community and in the distance is media influence. Yet no-one is loudly worrying about the effects of violent religious attitudes amongst parents and the community, parents who promote the beating of children as discipline or a government that daily enthusiastically engages in violence. That's all in the real world, not the fantasy land of games and movies.
Visualisation - it works primarily to focus the mind. Someone could mentally work through scenarios, e.g. as a boxer considering strategies, but this is the real world, not a game or movie.
"can be affected by our experiences and then think about how games or porn present various different classes/professions/races/genders"
Except games and porn are not experiences. There is ample research that found that these things have essentially zero negative impact unless the person comes in with negative attitudes. If your father taught you that women are stupid, that beating them is fun and they only get raped because they want it, then violent porn can marginally re-inforce that, but it doesn't create the attitude, and the effect from the porn is extremely limted, short-lived. Racial biases are taught directly by parents and the local community. You don't become a racist by watching movies or playing games - even if every movie made portrayed white people as incompetent morons, while your parents/community taught you different, you would not learn to view white people as inherently stupid and worthless.
There is something distinctly wrong with the individual who said they are more likely to act like a jerk after playing GTA. They could perhaps be referring to the fact that playing an exciting, tense game or watching a similar movie arouses the nervous system leading to more energetic and expressive behaviour that anti-game/movie researchers 'creatively' interpret as an increased tendency towards violence. Anything that puts the nervous system into an aroused state has the same effect, and there is no translation into any actual real-world violence. When children get excited they get louder, more demanding and stubborn, but that doesn't mean they're getting ready to mass-murder their schoolmates.
His sort usually have no grasp of humour, nevermind satire.
And usually it would be a proposal like 'If you do that outrageous thing, I'll do this outrageous thing'. e.g. if you could make a game like that I'd eat my hat.
Palm is just junk. It is a dated OS combined with poor desktop software. Just to be sure they alienate their customers their support is idiotic and useless.
PalmOne/PalmSource rested on their laurels for a long time. I'll be glad to see them go.
I'm not a Mac user. PalmOne just fcks all their customers. They simply don't care. Their software is sloppy and their devices have design flaws they refuse to even acknowledge.
I used Palm devices for many years, but never more.
With the generally shoddy support Palm offers I will never again even consider one of their products. They've been very thorough in converting a long-time supporter into a customer for their competitors.
It is more about being expected to pay for a lower quality copy that is locked to a couple of devices. If the music was at least CD quality and freely transferable between devices then $5 for an album, regardless of number of tracks would be fairly reasonable. Naturally this all rests on firstly the artists getting a proper cut and secondly Apple getting a sensible percentage. The label should end up with 5-10% at most. Basically it is money for nothing for the labels since they don't actually have to do any work.
Why shouldn't each country get an equal vote rather than having it based on arbitrary factors such as the physical size of the country, its wealth or number of people.
The arbitrary security council is one thing that is wrong with the UN. Why should a few countries get to effectively control everything.
The world doesn't have enough resources to support the kind of rampant waste typical of a few wealthy countries. Rampant waste on which those countries built their wealth.
OK, so your government is made of an elected elite. You elected them to make decisions on your behalf not so? So why don't you trust their choice of elitists to send to the UN?
Internet naming is currently in the hands of an elite anyway.
However the police are inherently paranoid and suspicious. In effect everyone is up to no good in their books. They just haven't figured out what you're up to yet, but if they could spy on you a little they'd be able to determine your crime.
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I do think they should pay full compensation if nothing comes of their investigation. A detained person can't work, and will quite probably also lose their job. Given the police force's tendency towards extreme paranoia and abuse of power, especially when given sweeping powers, the government must be willing to pay up, and pay up big, anytime they make a mistake.
Maybe we should start differential taxation - if you support extended imprisonment without trial and excessive police powers because you think it will make you safer, then you must also be willing to pay extra for it. I don't want my taxes wasted on this game of idiots.
These guys obviously think that creative people only create for financial reward, which means they know nothing about creative people. They can't grasp that creative people just have the need to create, and that not everything is about money.
I only consider an organisation a cult if they engage in aggressive intimidation of their members. And it has to verge on physical violence because otherwise we should just include almost all religions since in most cases members tend to shun those who leave the fold, and that is a form of intimidation.
You only have yourself to blame if you buy products from the music mafia. They're no different to a corner drug dealer.
It is your duty to refuse to observe unjust laws.
The statement was:
"If we allow politicians the right to decide what is true in science, we are well and truly screwed"
Do some reading on science in the old Soviet Union for some information the consequences of allowing politics to dictate what is true in science.
The Bible does imply that animals at the beginning are the same animals we have now, basically unchanged.
I've read much on both sides. It seems that whenever there is a fossil that shows characteristics of two animals, e.g. dinosaurs with bird characteristics, it gets declared as one or the other. On that basis we will never find any between-species fossils.
ID is attacked with good reason. Most of the time it is actually just creationism disguised so that its supporters don't look like fools.
We can say that if this was all started or created by some being that this being was not perfect because the results are not perfect. The human body alone as numerous flaws, all of which shouldn't exist if there was a perfect designer.
Firstly supporters of some sentient initiator need to clearly dissociate themselves from any belief or notion of a perfect being having been involved. They can't even consider the known universe as some sort of R&D experiment because the god referred to in the Bible knows all and therefore would know the ultimate outcome of any such experiment.
Secondly they have to vocally distance themselves from idiots who say things like "what good is half an eye?" as an argument against gradual development of various organic systems. Making such statements is tantamount to having MORON tattooed on your forehead.
"Why can't God use effective tools such as evolution"
Evolutionary science does not cover how it all started. Scientists acknowledge this. However evolution is extremely inefficient. Of course this 'god' could be carrying out an experiment to test the effectiveness of evolution versus other creation methods.
What we do know without any doubt is that there is no intelligent design by any perfect being. Such a being must by definition create a perfect design. Nature as it currently exists is seriously flawed.
The whole Jesus Christ story is nonsensical. If he was a god, then dying was no big deal. Hardly a big sacrifice. His father only gave up something if Jesus Christ is in fact now dead. And if he's dead you can't pray to him. The story has more plot holes than a Hollywood blockbuster.
Religion is by definition unchanging. The whole point is that it appeals to people who are desperate for some stable thing to which they can cling.
"If enough tech workers do this then companies may give higher raises to keep their workforce. Or they (Like my company) will replace these people with people will less skills for less pay and train them with experience."
Actually what happens is the new hires are also looking to improve their lot and usually won't take what the company was paying the previous guy so the company ends up paying what the old guy was asking and as part of this great bargain they get someone who still has to learn the software before they can start being productive. Happens to engineers as well as programmers.
Welcome to standard management short-term thinking. If they had guns they'd shoot themselves in both feet, twice a day.
"In any case, the remaining employees don't get any additional compensation per hours for the extra workload."
You don't get overtime pay? Thankfully that is illegal here.
Photoshop is simple and powerful.
When you say associating their product with the iPod do you mean implying their product has been tested and approved by Apple or merely that it works with the iPod? If the former then I would go along with paying Apple a small fee to test and approve the product - there should be some quid pro quo, as in Apple includes those approved accessories amongst those listed on their site, with links to the relevant manufacturer. If you're referring to simply stating the product is intended for use with an iPod, then Apple should be told where they can stick their attempts at extortion.
I'm going to sue Rockstar. Their GTA cop killing simulator is a dismal failure. I trained for weeks, but I've haven't managed to kill a single cop.
And on which Apple infrastructure exactly are we driving our iPods and accessories?
"even better some products like car chargers end up killing ur ipod faster"
Standard disclaimer, if it wasn't approved by us it ain't our problem. Caveat Emptor remember.
"On the flip side, Ford won't bless just any crap product for logo use."
No, they just fit them at the factory.
"If you see a product box with an MS-Windows or MacOS logo on it anywhere, you can bet that there is a license involved"
Only applies if you want it to be certified for use with the OS.
The ultimate stupidity in this trademark nonsense is when a company tries to block retailers from selling their products without their express permission with the legal fiction that advertising the product is trademark infringement. Sony pulled that rubbish trying to control the import and sale of PSPs in the UK. They should have been soundly laughed out of court and viciously fined to teach them a lesson.
That is bull. There are endless aftermarket products that mention the specific make and model for which they are designed. Otherwise how the hell would you have any clue what to buy.
Customer: "I want a free-flow exhaust."
Shop: "We have just the thing. See here on the box it says made for automobiles."
Customer: "But will it fit my Ford Bronco?"
Shop: "I'm sure it will, it is an automobile right? The manufacturer can't mention makes and models in case they get sued."
And so another normal, legitimate competitive business goes down the drain. Why don't Apple and the rest just move to a totalitarian state where they belong?
If Apple wants to sell an 'Approved by Apple' logo, then that is surely fine, just as the car manufacturers can sell such a logo, but expecting money just because the product says it is made for use with the iPod is nonsense.
Entertainment media does not undo good upbringing. Children learn almost 100% of their behaviour from their immediate real-world environment.
Of course if their parents or others use violence then this teaches them that violence is a solution, particularly of the violence is directed towards the children or those close to them. The strongest influence comes from the home/parents, then to a lesser extent the local community and in the distance is media influence. Yet no-one is loudly worrying about the effects of violent religious attitudes amongst parents and the community, parents who promote the beating of children as discipline or a government that daily enthusiastically engages in violence. That's all in the real world, not the fantasy land of games and movies.
Visualisation - it works primarily to focus the mind. Someone could mentally work through scenarios, e.g. as a boxer considering strategies, but this is the real world, not a game or movie.
"can be affected by our experiences and then think about how games or porn present various different classes/professions/races/genders"
Except games and porn are not experiences. There is ample research that found that these things have essentially zero negative impact unless the person comes in with negative attitudes. If your father taught you that women are stupid, that beating them is fun and they only get raped because they want it, then violent porn can marginally re-inforce that, but it doesn't create the attitude, and the effect from the porn is extremely limted, short-lived. Racial biases are taught directly by parents and the local community. You don't become a racist by watching movies or playing games - even if every movie made portrayed white people as incompetent morons, while your parents/community taught you different, you would not learn to view white people as inherently stupid and worthless.
There is something distinctly wrong with the individual who said they are more likely to act like a jerk after playing GTA. They could perhaps be referring to the fact that playing an exciting, tense game or watching a similar movie arouses the nervous system leading to more energetic and expressive behaviour that anti-game/movie researchers 'creatively' interpret as an increased tendency towards violence. Anything that puts the nervous system into an aroused state has the same effect, and there is no translation into any actual real-world violence. When children get excited they get louder, more demanding and stubborn, but that doesn't mean they're getting ready to mass-murder their schoolmates.
His sort usually have no grasp of humour, nevermind satire.
And usually it would be a proposal like 'If you do that outrageous thing, I'll do this outrageous thing'. e.g. if you could make a game like that I'd eat my hat.
Palm is just junk. It is a dated OS combined with poor desktop software. Just to be sure they alienate their customers their support is idiotic and useless.
PalmOne/PalmSource rested on their laurels for a long time. I'll be glad to see them go.
I'm not a Mac user. PalmOne just fcks all their customers. They simply don't care. Their software is sloppy and their devices have design flaws they refuse to even acknowledge.
I used Palm devices for many years, but never more.
With the generally shoddy support Palm offers I will never again even consider one of their products. They've been very thorough in converting a long-time supporter into a customer for their competitors.
It is more about being expected to pay for a lower quality copy that is locked to a couple of devices. If the music was at least CD quality and freely transferable between devices then $5 for an album, regardless of number of tracks would be fairly reasonable. Naturally this all rests on firstly the artists getting a proper cut and secondly Apple getting a sensible percentage. The label should end up with 5-10% at most. Basically it is money for nothing for the labels since they don't actually have to do any work.
Why shouldn't each country get an equal vote rather than having it based on arbitrary factors such as the physical size of the country, its wealth or number of people.
The arbitrary security council is one thing that is wrong with the UN. Why should a few countries get to effectively control everything.
The world doesn't have enough resources to support the kind of rampant waste typical of a few wealthy countries. Rampant waste on which those countries built their wealth.
OK, so your government is made of an elected elite. You elected them to make decisions on your behalf not so? So why don't you trust their choice of elitists to send to the UN?
Internet naming is currently in the hands of an elite anyway.
However the police are inherently paranoid and suspicious. In effect everyone is up to no good in their books. They just haven't figured out what you're up to yet, but if they could spy on you a little they'd be able to determine your crime.