great, and i'm sure most of/. can do the same on their devices of choice. but the attitude of "well *I* understand technology so everyone else is dumb for using more than their allotted share of a finite resource" doesn't actually resolve anything. i've never once seen a cell provider's pitch for their service include "well yeah, it's great for data but you should only use it for small things". what's acceptably small? my mom doesn't know this shit, and she shouldn't need to. she can barely keep straight how to email pictures and use the maps on her iphone. if the phone is *capable* of doing it, the average user is not gonna grasp why they shouldn't, especially when the people selling them the service pitch it on how fast and convenient it is.
I think the real problem with Apple users is how clueless they are about technology. Cell phone towers are easily overloaded so you really shouldn't use them for things like backups. Wait until you get home or go to your public library or starbucks or something.
myopic and misplaced. that's like bitching that the problem with ford owners is that they don't understand the engineering behind road design. this is not a failing of the user; this is a failing of the cell phone providers to scale up their architecture appropriately for new technology. they absolutely had to know that every new generation of phone is bringing new ways to use data, and that they're selling them more now than ever, and that people are becoming permanently "connected" more and more by the hour. instead of spending their record-breaking profits on new laws and huge bonuses they could have been expanding their network capabilities and increasing service levels and satisfaction. but hey, screwing customers and litigating show up prettier on this quarter's reports.
in china, doesn't the lack of automation make the same manufacturing outfit more nimble? i'd imagine they can reconfigure the line for new models in hours instead of weeks because giving different instructions to humans seems much easier than reconfiguring enormous purpose-built machines while your smaller, higher-paid labour force sits on their hands and collects their union wage.
if current copyright legislation such as the DMCA isn't performing as expected, perhaps they could take it off the books before piling new laws on top?
as a canadian, i feel it necessary to interject on this whole pipeline-is-a-good-idea theme. with estimates that by 2020, greenhouse emissions from the oilsands alone would exceed combined emissions of all passenger vehicles on canadian roads, and the damage being done to the surrounding land and fresh water supplies, i find it really difficult to label the pipeline as "a good idea" simply because the whole oilsands project is still a colossally bad idea.
no vegans eat dairy products, else they wouldn't be "vegan". there are quite a few vegan protein supplements available, and there are in fact many vegan powerlifters, body builders and professional athletes of all persuasions. seriously, how does anyone not understand that you can get all of your required nutrients from a plant-based diet?
got any references for any of that? the best i could come up with was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate which granted is only homicide rates, but due to the way different governments classify "violent" crimes it's one of the easier stats to get a read on. the u.s. placed about 34th in 2010 with 4.8 homicides per 100k population. compare that to mexico at 18 or honduras at 78; try to imagine 16x the murders on the evening news.
and then there's the "...as our borders collapse our society becomes less and less unified". any sources on that, or did you read it on a blog somewhere and just take it as fact? although, i probably should have just guessed you were trolling from the "lower class trash" line. stay classy.
this, a hundred times. how many people, who used to think nothing of turning over whatever data a company asked for, are thinking a little bit about that now? there's some truly sad security practices in place where a lot of sensitive data is concerned, but nobody knew because the people who could slip through the cracks kept quiet so master wouldn't change the locks. at least with lulzsec we've got someone doling out loud public humiliation about how easy it was to sneak in through a window and rob you blind...
not to get all godwin-ny, but nazis who didn't put bullets in jews were breaking procedure and policy. "doing what i'm told" is no excuse. frankly, i'm a bit surprised that we're not hearing about tsa employees quitting their jobs to avoid having to feel up and x-ray-strip-search american air travellers all day long. but it sure would be nice to hear about a few quitting on the grounds that they're uncomfortable with enforcing such shitty policy. i guess they wouldn't be working for the tsa in the first place if they had any guts.
how fucked up is it when the nicest thing anyone has to say about the TSA is that they didn't fondle his daughter and let him have bottled water after they "examined it fairly closely". and you refer to these as "positive interactions"...
they used oss to build an os and a browser, among other things; maybe they can take the gimp to new levels. between that and the base they've built with aperture, i'm sure they could be competitive in the photo retouching world in short order.
as someone who lives on adobe software on a mac, i feel like a little kid watching his parents divorce. why can't they just get along?
whoa, whoa, whoa! so i was involuntarily entered into a contract whereby "the nation" gains wealth from the sweat of my brow, because they shoved some paperwork under my mom's nose when i was born and told her to sign it? that seems a little shady, wouldn't you say?
also, it seems to me like gold isn't so worthless after all. as a matter of fact, it's been so stable over time that many investors maintain it as a hedge in case fiat currencies fail.
and people who give the american government money in any way, whether through sales taxes on anything or income tax, are funding a network of gangs and cartels that murders far more people than the mexican drug gangs could ever dream of; imagine if they had access to bombers and tanks. ideally the u.s. would pull their military out of these wars and use them for something actually useful to the citizens of their country, but that ain't going to happen. so if you happen to pay any sort of taxes or engage in commerce at all in the u.s.a., please do your fellow man a favour and stop.
i think he should do both; get current and help those governments and banks get their stuff current. they need to update before there's real trouble and they can't find anyone who can read the legacy stuff, and you can scare them into paying you lots for your unique skill set.
in addition to that, organ donors don't get to decide who gets their organs. so really, if you wanted someone's organs for selfish reasons and were willing to commit crimes to get them, the fastest route is to kidnap the "donor" and do the surgery in a motel in tijuana.
the whole scenario is pretty much fail, and all the mods that bumped gp to +5 should feel sad.
that was pretty much my thought when i read this story yesterday. walk into a hospital, hand the nearest nurse/physician a d.n.r. and a will, then slice some arteries. if the hospital staff can't help him end his life, he can still go on his own terms and get the results he wants, he just has to be a little more creative. the bucket is a nice touch as well.
i don't have kids of my own, and i can't imagine how shitty it is for a parent to have a young child die. that said, pretty much anywhere around north america, from what i know, if your child dies you will be the one responsible for paying the costs to dispose of the body in whatever way you choose; your responsibility, your decision. a four-year-old may not understand the pros and cons of organ donation, but neither does a corpse at any age. i may not agree with a parent of a fifteen-year-old making that decision for them, but we're talking about children too young to really grasp what sort of things we're dealing with.
also, kudos to gp for making that tough decision. i'm sure that if some terrible misfortune befalls one of your tykes you can take some comfort knowing that some other parent may get more time with their child because of your kindness.
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great, and i'm sure most of /. can do the same on their devices of choice. but the attitude of "well *I* understand technology so everyone else is dumb for using more than their allotted share of a finite resource" doesn't actually resolve anything. i've never once seen a cell provider's pitch for their service include "well yeah, it's great for data but you should only use it for small things". what's acceptably small? my mom doesn't know this shit, and she shouldn't need to. she can barely keep straight how to email pictures and use the maps on her iphone. if the phone is *capable* of doing it, the average user is not gonna grasp why they shouldn't, especially when the people selling them the service pitch it on how fast and convenient it is.
I think the real problem with Apple users is how clueless they are about technology. Cell phone towers are easily overloaded so you really shouldn't use them for things like backups. Wait until you get home or go to your public library or starbucks or something.
myopic and misplaced. that's like bitching that the problem with ford owners is that they don't understand the engineering behind road design. this is not a failing of the user; this is a failing of the cell phone providers to scale up their architecture appropriately for new technology. they absolutely had to know that every new generation of phone is bringing new ways to use data, and that they're selling them more now than ever, and that people are becoming permanently "connected" more and more by the hour. instead of spending their record-breaking profits on new laws and huge bonuses they could have been expanding their network capabilities and increasing service levels and satisfaction. but hey, screwing customers and litigating show up prettier on this quarter's reports.
in china, doesn't the lack of automation make the same manufacturing outfit more nimble? i'd imagine they can reconfigure the line for new models in hours instead of weeks because giving different instructions to humans seems much easier than reconfiguring enormous purpose-built machines while your smaller, higher-paid labour force sits on their hands and collects their union wage.
if current copyright legislation such as the DMCA isn't performing as expected, perhaps they could take it off the books before piling new laws on top?
as a canadian, i feel it necessary to interject on this whole pipeline-is-a-good-idea theme. with estimates that by 2020, greenhouse emissions from the oilsands alone would exceed combined emissions of all passenger vehicles on canadian roads, and the damage being done to the surrounding land and fresh water supplies, i find it really difficult to label the pipeline as "a good idea" simply because the whole oilsands project is still a colossally bad idea.
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no vegans eat dairy products, else they wouldn't be "vegan". there are quite a few vegan protein supplements available, and there are in fact many vegan powerlifters, body builders and professional athletes of all persuasions. seriously, how does anyone not understand that you can get all of your required nutrients from a plant-based diet?
got any references for any of that? the best i could come up with was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate which granted is only homicide rates, but due to the way different governments classify "violent" crimes it's one of the easier stats to get a read on. the u.s. placed about 34th in 2010 with 4.8 homicides per 100k population. compare that to mexico at 18 or honduras at 78; try to imagine 16x the murders on the evening news.
and then there's the "...as our borders collapse our society becomes less and less unified". any sources on that, or did you read it on a blog somewhere and just take it as fact? although, i probably should have just guessed you were trolling from the "lower class trash" line. stay classy.
this, a hundred times. how many people, who used to think nothing of turning over whatever data a company asked for, are thinking a little bit about that now? there's some truly sad security practices in place where a lot of sensitive data is concerned, but nobody knew because the people who could slip through the cracks kept quiet so master wouldn't change the locks. at least with lulzsec we've got someone doling out loud public humiliation about how easy it was to sneak in through a window and rob you blind...
not to get all godwin-ny, but nazis who didn't put bullets in jews were breaking procedure and policy. "doing what i'm told" is no excuse. frankly, i'm a bit surprised that we're not hearing about tsa employees quitting their jobs to avoid having to feel up and x-ray-strip-search american air travellers all day long. but it sure would be nice to hear about a few quitting on the grounds that they're uncomfortable with enforcing such shitty policy. i guess they wouldn't be working for the tsa in the first place if they had any guts.
idiot.
those are toothpick-blanks. whittle one down and get to work!
how fucked up is it when the nicest thing anyone has to say about the TSA is that they didn't fondle his daughter and let him have bottled water after they "examined it fairly closely". and you refer to these as "positive interactions"...
if i hadn't found a quarter on the sidewalk, would i have stolen it from a bank?
they used oss to build an os and a browser, among other things; maybe they can take the gimp to new levels. between that and the base they've built with aperture, i'm sure they could be competitive in the photo retouching world in short order.
as someone who lives on adobe software on a mac, i feel like a little kid watching his parents divorce. why can't they just get along?
whoa, whoa, whoa! so i was involuntarily entered into a contract whereby "the nation" gains wealth from the sweat of my brow, because they shoved some paperwork under my mom's nose when i was born and told her to sign it? that seems a little shady, wouldn't you say?
also, it seems to me like gold isn't so worthless after all. as a matter of fact, it's been so stable over time that many investors maintain it as a hedge in case fiat currencies fail.
and people who give the american government money in any way, whether through sales taxes on anything or income tax, are funding a network of gangs and cartels that murders far more people than the mexican drug gangs could ever dream of; imagine if they had access to bombers and tanks. ideally the u.s. would pull their military out of these wars and use them for something actually useful to the citizens of their country, but that ain't going to happen. so if you happen to pay any sort of taxes or engage in commerce at all in the u.s.a., please do your fellow man a favour and stop.
oh man, four years for $200k in lost money; the guys running bp are gonna be in jail for millennia!
i think he should do both; get current and help those governments and banks get their stuff current. they need to update before there's real trouble and they can't find anyone who can read the legacy stuff, and you can scare them into paying you lots for your unique skill set.
and i *just* ran out of mod points. this would be the time where an actual mod of "+1 internets" would be useful.
in addition to that, organ donors don't get to decide who gets their organs. so really, if you wanted someone's organs for selfish reasons and were willing to commit crimes to get them, the fastest route is to kidnap the "donor" and do the surgery in a motel in tijuana.
the whole scenario is pretty much fail, and all the mods that bumped gp to +5 should feel sad.
i don't know about +5 romantic, but i'll happily give you +5 internets. well played, sir.
a "trustee" is a holder of property. there still needs to be an owner. if i'm the trustee, who owns the flesh? why should it be anyone other than me?
that was pretty much my thought when i read this story yesterday. walk into a hospital, hand the nearest nurse/physician a d.n.r. and a will, then slice some arteries. if the hospital staff can't help him end his life, he can still go on his own terms and get the results he wants, he just has to be a little more creative. the bucket is a nice touch as well.
i don't have kids of my own, and i can't imagine how shitty it is for a parent to have a young child die. that said, pretty much anywhere around north america, from what i know, if your child dies you will be the one responsible for paying the costs to dispose of the body in whatever way you choose; your responsibility, your decision. a four-year-old may not understand the pros and cons of organ donation, but neither does a corpse at any age. i may not agree with a parent of a fifteen-year-old making that decision for them, but we're talking about children too young to really grasp what sort of things we're dealing with.
also, kudos to gp for making that tough decision. i'm sure that if some terrible misfortune befalls one of your tykes you can take some comfort knowing that some other parent may get more time with their child because of your kindness.
let's do a quick substitution here: in clause 2 i'd like to replace "the universe" with "god". now simply re-read the argument.