the internet strikes again. more connected people tend to be a little better informed. we've all read the reviews and specs on this phone, and many people want them. and then you find out that your provider has crippled features x1..xn because they've found a way to make money off of it. bell canada locks you out of using whatever mp3 you want as a ringtone "to help prevent piracy". even though you can load whatever mp3s you want on to the phone and listen to them through headphones or the built-in speaker. oh yeah, then they sell you ringtones. this is only one example, and i know everyone here can point out similar stupidities.
so now verizon wants you to want their new shiny, but they were kinda hoping you only knew about it from their commercials. because if you've heard about all the great things it can do, and then you find out that it can only do some of those things, and then only if you go up two or three billing tiers, well that makes them look kinda like pricks, now doesn't it?
not gonna happen. thanks to the wonders of brain chemistry, sex is way too much fun to give up. one way to help ensure the continuation of the species.
alright then, take the ambiguous laws off the books. if you can't manage to make "driving without due care and attention" stick as a traffic violation on someone for outright obvious infractions, there's something wrong with the law. if law enforcement has to have laid out for them all of the specifics that constitute violation, then we don't need the vague laws anymore. unless they're just there as a cudgel for cops who want to get you for *something*.
1) wouldn't that mean developing the app with a name/brand/logo and hoping that someone doesn't take the name the day before you release? 2) a week to rebrand?
first coffee of the day; maybe i'm missing something...
the segment on the dark knight extras where they talk to zimmer about the sound of the joker is one of the most intriguing things i've seen on a dvd extra. that alone made it worth the buy.
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while you may not be able to quit eating altogether, you can certainly change your diet and activity level. and while i realize that everybody has different metabolism, appetite, etc. the majority of obesity that we see in north america is the people eating fast food (i've got coworkers who do it two or three times a day) and spending their "leisure time" in front of the television. i managed to drop 50 lbs by limiting my fast food to once or twice a week and going for walks on my work breaks (yay, anecdote!) and another 30 lbs past that by tweaking my diet and actually exercising. small changes are not difficult to make and can reap huge rewards, but you need the will power to know when you're full and stop eating (even if the food tastes really good). simply walking away from processed foods and cooking your own healthy meals will help shed pounds, and the extra energy from getting actual nourishment will make you *want* to get up from the couch and move around.
and as an added bonus, the new-found healthiness motivated me to quit smoking.
Oh, well I could be wrong... so please point out a society which 100% excuses theft if its for some conceived good. I certainly don't know of any, so please enlighten me.
1. point out to me a society that 100% agrees on anything
2. we're not talking about theft. if i can convince you that you need to buy something, i haven't stolen a thing from you. not my fault you didn't need it. for evidence of this, look up "marketing" in your nearest dictionary.
Your right to survive doesn't trump my grandmothers same right to survive.
it sure doesn't, but i think we can agree that two humans have an equal right to survive. i have every right to try to sell high-markup items to make more money for myself. if granny is spending her grocery and rent money on computer accessories, you or someone else in your family may want to intervene. it's not the job of the retail salesperson to budget your grandmother's funds.
so if you want to revert back to animals that "do whatever it takes," I can play that game too.
we're not talking about a mugging here, we're talking about commerce; try to keep some perspective.
i didn't realize that as a species we had all agreed to adopt your morals.
for me, i'm glad i have employment where *my* morality doesn't conflict with my job duties, but if it came to feeding my family, you can bet i'd be climbing down off the horse. unless of course you'd be willing to provide food and shelter to my family so i didn't have to con your grandma into buying a sound card she doesn't really need.
directly from http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173 they're showing extended support into 2014. "extended support", according to their own faq, covers security fixes. i'm wondering at what point "inconvenient" to fix becomes "not technically feasible". unless they mean to say "impossible", but i find that hard to believe.
When I get pulled over, I put my hands on the dash, ask the officer what they want me to do, tell them what I am reaching for, where, and what it will look like. I want the officer to be confident they know what is happening. No surprises, nothing unexpected. I don't want to become a victim of bad judgement, knowing it will probably be my own mistake that sets off that series of events.
text of the ad from the first link (emphasis mine):
Free basket ball goal and tether ball pole. At dead end of roadway beside my home...(address) dont knock its placed out there for you to come get. will delete when gone. thanks.
this guy deliberately misrepresented himself as the owner of the property and worded it to lead anyone who might want it to just wander into the yard and take it.
go hang out on 4chan for a minute and tell me that the internet should be safe for children. that's like saying central park should be safe for children: it sure can be WITH PROPER PARENTAL SUPERVISION. shit, even some filtering software. but asking your child not to do something that you as a parent deem detrimental to their health? fuck that, TELL THEM. disconnect their internet.
oh, and i'm pretty sure i never said her parents were responsible for her death, just that they were irresponsible as parents. unfortunately, they lost their child because of it.
no, but if you watch the child do it time after time, and every time you say "no sweetie, really, don't do it" without ever imposing some sanctions on YOUR CHILD then maybe when they do get shot people may be justified in saying "if only the parents had done some parenting". they allowed their child to repeatedly defy their rules, and now they have to live with knowing that if they'd just stuck to their guns their daughter might still be alive. obviously the people who drove her to suicide shoulder most of the responsibility (though i'm glad this shitty ruling was overturned) but the child should never have been in that situation in the first place, and that's mostly on her parents.
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the internet strikes again. more connected people tend to be a little better informed. we've all read the reviews and specs on this phone, and many people want them. and then you find out that your provider has crippled features x1..xn because they've found a way to make money off of it. bell canada locks you out of using whatever mp3 you want as a ringtone "to help prevent piracy". even though you can load whatever mp3s you want on to the phone and listen to them through headphones or the built-in speaker. oh yeah, then they sell you ringtones. this is only one example, and i know everyone here can point out similar stupidities.
so now verizon wants you to want their new shiny, but they were kinda hoping you only knew about it from their commercials. because if you've heard about all the great things it can do, and then you find out that it can only do some of those things, and then only if you go up two or three billing tiers, well that makes them look kinda like pricks, now doesn't it?
not gonna happen. thanks to the wonders of brain chemistry, sex is way too much fun to give up. one way to help ensure the continuation of the species.
so you're saying there's salmonella bacteria in diesel exhaust?
this doesn't even make any sense.
alright then, take the ambiguous laws off the books. if you can't manage to make "driving without due care and attention" stick as a traffic violation on someone for outright obvious infractions, there's something wrong with the law. if law enforcement has to have laid out for them all of the specifics that constitute violation, then we don't need the vague laws anymore. unless they're just there as a cudgel for cops who want to get you for *something*.
i was all prepared with a "your wife seems to think so" smartass retort, then i saw your username...
for the last time, no you don't.
*slow clap*
looks like somebody needs a hug
1) wouldn't that mean developing the app with a name/brand/logo and hoping that someone doesn't take the name the day before you release?
2) a week to rebrand?
first coffee of the day; maybe i'm missing something...
the segment on the dark knight extras where they talk to zimmer about the sound of the joker is one of the most intriguing things i've seen on a dvd extra. that alone made it worth the buy.
while you may not be able to quit eating altogether, you can certainly change your diet and activity level. and while i realize that everybody has different metabolism, appetite, etc. the majority of obesity that we see in north america is the people eating fast food (i've got coworkers who do it two or three times a day) and spending their "leisure time" in front of the television. i managed to drop 50 lbs by limiting my fast food to once or twice a week and going for walks on my work breaks (yay, anecdote!) and another 30 lbs past that by tweaking my diet and actually exercising. small changes are not difficult to make and can reap huge rewards, but you need the will power to know when you're full and stop eating (even if the food tastes really good). simply walking away from processed foods and cooking your own healthy meals will help shed pounds, and the extra energy from getting actual nourishment will make you *want* to get up from the couch and move around.
and as an added bonus, the new-found healthiness motivated me to quit smoking.
i've got a couple friends who've promised to...erm..."procure" my corpse by whatever means and leave me at the edge of the forest for the coyotes.
besides, if you're in stasis on the brink of death, how are you supposed to respawn?
Oh, well I could be wrong... so please point out a society which 100% excuses theft if its for some conceived good. I certainly don't know of any, so please enlighten me.
1. point out to me a society that 100% agrees on anything
2. we're not talking about theft. if i can convince you that you need to buy something, i haven't stolen a thing from you. not my fault you didn't need it. for evidence of this, look up "marketing" in your nearest dictionary.
Your right to survive doesn't trump my grandmothers same right to survive.
it sure doesn't, but i think we can agree that two humans have an equal right to survive. i have every right to try to sell high-markup items to make more money for myself. if granny is spending her grocery and rent money on computer accessories, you or someone else in your family may want to intervene. it's not the job of the retail salesperson to budget your grandmother's funds.
so if you want to revert back to animals that "do whatever it takes," I can play that game too.
we're not talking about a mugging here, we're talking about commerce; try to keep some perspective.
i didn't realize that as a species we had all agreed to adopt your morals.
for me, i'm glad i have employment where *my* morality doesn't conflict with my job duties, but if it came to feeding my family, you can bet i'd be climbing down off the horse. unless of course you'd be willing to provide food and shelter to my family so i didn't have to con your grandma into buying a sound card she doesn't really need.
not true. many of them are perfectly correct before reaching slashdot.
directly from http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173 they're showing extended support into 2014. "extended support", according to their own faq, covers security fixes. i'm wondering at what point "inconvenient" to fix becomes "not technically feasible". unless they mean to say "impossible", but i find that hard to believe.
wow. just...WOW.
text of the ad from the first link (emphasis mine):
this guy deliberately misrepresented himself as the owner of the property and worded it to lead anyone who might want it to just wander into the yard and take it.
thanks for the informative article. maybe next you could link a source for the much-disputed numbers you posted?
and *i'm* surely not the only one who read that as "quality braindead content" the first time through...
go hang out on 4chan for a minute and tell me that the internet should be safe for children. that's like saying central park should be safe for children: it sure can be WITH PROPER PARENTAL SUPERVISION. shit, even some filtering software. but asking your child not to do something that you as a parent deem detrimental to their health? fuck that, TELL THEM. disconnect their internet.
oh, and i'm pretty sure i never said her parents were responsible for her death, just that they were irresponsible as parents. unfortunately, they lost their child because of it.
no, but if you watch the child do it time after time, and every time you say "no sweetie, really, don't do it" without ever imposing some sanctions on YOUR CHILD then maybe when they do get shot people may be justified in saying "if only the parents had done some parenting". they allowed their child to repeatedly defy their rules, and now they have to live with knowing that if they'd just stuck to their guns their daughter might still be alive. obviously the people who drove her to suicide shoulder most of the responsibility (though i'm glad this shitty ruling was overturned) but the child should never have been in that situation in the first place, and that's mostly on her parents.
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fucking brilliant.