And this, in a nutshell, is why magazine reviews and website comparisons between the Mac and Windows fail to understand *why* Mac users, in general, are loyal to the platform.
It's got more to do with Apple's tradition of putting users, not features or speed, at the heart of the design.
I agree with you that, generally, if you inadvertently receive something you didn't pay for, keeping it is stealing.
Unless it arrives in the mail, addressed to you, unsolicited. Then it is yours. You are under no obligation to return it, pay for it, contact those who sent it to you, or anything. Just one of the actually citizen-friendly laws out there, which does serve to protect you if you know about it (and someone's dumb enough to send you something you didn't ask for).
It must be "Confuse New Mexico with Nevada" Day on Slashdot or something...
While Los Alamos is, indeed, in New Mexico, the vast majority of US above- and underground nuclear testing took place in Nevada, at the aptly-named Nevada Test Site. I think (but I'm not certain) that only one test took place in New Mexico, at the Trinity Site.
My father, who is a nuclear physicist, participated in over two dozen of those tests, and had to fly to Nevada from New Mexico (where we lived) for every one.
By the way, there are also no deserts in New Mexico.
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Nitpicking, of course, but TorC is in New Mexico, not Nevada.:)
I agree wholeheartedly. About ten years ago, the some insurance industry group (I can't remember who or when, just the results) did a study and found that people driving 10 mph BELOW the speed limit were 50% more likely to be in an accident than people driving 10 mph ABOVE the speed limit.
Yet, insurance companies across America still insist on increasing your premium when they find out you've gotten a speeding ticket. Even if that speeding ticket is off your record (more than four years old), as I found out when GEICO mysteriously recovered a speeding ticket I'd gotten seven years before in another state.
At the same time, I've found that while US speed limits are (generally) too low, speed limits in Australia, where I now live, are generally too high. Most rural and semi-rural roads in Australia (Sydney and New South Wales, at least) have a 100 kph (about 61 mph) speed limit. Sounds great, until you realize that the lanes here are 10 feet wide (US standard is 12 feet), and that the roads generally have no shoulders (not even on the few motorways), and are winding, two-lane affairs with terrible pavement.
I like to drive fast, but I often don't feel safe driving 100 kilometers per hour on these roads in my Volvo. And that's not because I'm not used to driving on the left side of the road, either!
Another, probably more hurtful example, is 1-800-SOUTHWEST. When I was living in the US (two years ago, so it may have changed), this number rang the Shuttle by United reservation center. Not, as you might expect, Southwest Airlines.
Southwest had to set up their reservation center at 1-800-IFLYSWA, which doesn't exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, if you ask me.
This was made worse by the fact that at the time it was nearly impossible to book a Southwest flight via a travel agent, thanks to SABRE.
Nowadays, both http://www.southwest.com and http://www.iflyswa.com will get you to Southwest Airlines' homepage, but I remember it was pretty confusing trying to book a flight for awhile.
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And this, in a nutshell, is why magazine reviews and website comparisons between the Mac and Windows fail to understand *why* Mac users, in general, are loyal to the platform.
It's got more to do with Apple's tradition of putting users, not features or speed, at the heart of the design.
I agree with you that, generally, if you inadvertently receive something you didn't pay for, keeping it is stealing.
Unless it arrives in the mail, addressed to you, unsolicited. Then it is yours. You are under no obligation to return it, pay for it, contact those who sent it to you, or anything. Just one of the actually citizen-friendly laws out there, which does serve to protect you if you know about it (and someone's dumb enough to send you something you didn't ask for).
While Los Alamos is, indeed, in New Mexico, the vast majority of US above- and underground nuclear testing took place in Nevada, at the aptly-named Nevada Test Site. I think (but I'm not certain) that only one test took place in New Mexico, at the Trinity Site.
My father, who is a nuclear physicist, participated in over two dozen of those tests, and had to fly to Nevada from New Mexico (where we lived) for every one.
By the way, there are also no deserts in New Mexico.
Nitpicking, of course, but TorC is in New Mexico, not Nevada. :)
I do.
But I don't carry my feelings around in a big chip on my shoulder, insulting people who've done me no wrong.
The original comment was rude and uncalled-for.
Wake up. Racism and discrimination aren't one-way streets. Being condescending and elitist isn't going to help the issue you seem to have.
Yet, insurance companies across America still insist on increasing your premium when they find out you've gotten a speeding ticket. Even if that speeding ticket is off your record (more than four years old), as I found out when GEICO mysteriously recovered a speeding ticket I'd gotten seven years before in another state.
At the same time, I've found that while US speed limits are (generally) too low, speed limits in Australia, where I now live, are generally too high. Most rural and semi-rural roads in Australia (Sydney and New South Wales, at least) have a 100 kph (about 61 mph) speed limit. Sounds great, until you realize that the lanes here are 10 feet wide (US standard is 12 feet), and that the roads generally have no shoulders (not even on the few motorways), and are winding, two-lane affairs with terrible pavement.
I like to drive fast, but I often don't feel safe driving 100 kilometers per hour on these roads in my Volvo. And that's not because I'm not used to driving on the left side of the road, either!
Just some thoughts...
Southwest had to set up their reservation center at 1-800-IFLYSWA, which doesn't exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, if you ask me.
This was made worse by the fact that at the time it was nearly impossible to book a Southwest flight via a travel agent, thanks to SABRE.
Nowadays, both http://www.southwest.com and http://www.iflyswa.com will get you to Southwest Airlines' homepage, but I remember it was pretty confusing trying to book a flight for awhile.
Congratulations. You must be cool.