It was pretty easy to connect back in 1997, even in rural areas:
Step 1: Walk to the mail box Step 2: Remove the daily unsolicited floppy disk Step 3: Follow the printed instructions
Welcome to the Information Super Highway!*
*Long distance charges may apply if you do not select a LOCAL AOLnet phone number. Please check with your local telephone company if you have a question.
People still pay for pornography? Don't they have the internet? Are they solving printouts of CAPCHA's?
Honestly, there's no need in this modern age to embarrass yourself at the gas-n-go, milling around waiting for the matronly old woman to take a break so that you can ask the pothead with the trainee badge to go round to the rack behind the counter. Anything you want is just a click away.
C# is a terrible language which epitomizes an evolutionary dead-end in programming language design.
"But it continues to change and improve!" you say. Sure, it continues to change. Have you seen C++ lately? Same problem. When you try to decorate a turd, everything just ends up covered in shit.
The same could have been said about Apple circa 1986. "Apple has no focus, no goal,, no vision, no direction to go."
For all we know, in a few years we'll see the triumphant of the former co-CEO's as an important turning point. We'll watch Apple decline and say "Well, Apple doesn't have a Lazaridis. Not even vaguely close. Not by a light year."
Yeah, everyone here knows that. They've known it for years. No one is arguing that. That said, I should point out that sometimes it's benign, sometimes tragic, and sometimes it's helpful. The same can be said about any medical decision, made by anyone involved, for any reason.
What you are arguing against is a parent not having a legitimate say in a childs care. Not the same thing.
But they can be the same thing! The JW bit is just really obvious, which is why you choose to focus on that.
What you really want to do is bash religious people because it makes you feel smart and important. Yes, the JW's restrictions have caused countless unnecessary child deaths. We get it. Even the parents get it. It's a shitty thing.
What you propose to prevent it, however, is far more dangerous -- and far more harmful.
But how can that be?! Let's start with the most obvious: JW's may simply opt out of the medical system completely, for fear that their children will be violated. Possibly relying on home remedies and black market medicine and medical care.
No, I'm saying that you'll be less willing to blindly trust the care of your children to someone else.
See, it's really easy to make up rules that apply to others and not yourself. I seriously doubt you'd be willing to live by the same rules you're proposing if they actually affected you.
if I was a parent that I would want the absolute best for my child
Yes, yes you would. Which is *exactly* why you wouldn't want to abide by the same rules you'd impose on others!
I can't help myself but to notice the similarities between this and the fictional "TruBlood" as I'm sure everyone else will, too.
No. I didn't even know that "TruBood" was a thing until I saw it referenced endlessly in this thread. Since that strange Ann Rice movie, I just assumed that vampire related media was intended for teenage girls and middle-aged lonely women. Being neither of those two things, I never bothered.
It's a shame Obamacare doesn't address hearing aids and glasses, it would have likely gotten a lot more support.
That's funny. Not only is the deaf community a tiny minority (unlikely to have any impact at all), the issue of hearing aids is enough to divide them! If they found out you could get a cochlear implant with insurance purchased through an exchange, you'd see little other than opposition. (Yeah, they're that crazy.)
Not that they're likely to be aware of the issue, as illiteracy is so prevalent. Still, if they found out, they'd oppose it.
Wow! Apple will throw away my old third-party cable and allow me to buy a new one from them!? Why, that's just like repairing or replacing hardware not made by them!
Let me call you a cab. You're too far gone to even stumble home safely.
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Thanks, that's very helpful.
It was pretty easy to connect back in 1997, even in rural areas:
Step 1: Walk to the mail box
Step 2: Remove the daily unsolicited floppy disk
Step 3: Follow the printed instructions
Welcome to the Information Super Highway!*
*Long distance charges may apply if you do not select a LOCAL AOLnet phone number. Please check with your local telephone company if you have a question.
However, C is not the shit that's getting decorated here
I couldn't agree more.
Try to design the lowest level language for Von Neumann architecture machines that's still cross platform and you get C.
Unless you get Forth. That happens occasionally.
They've already been shelling out free porn
People still pay for pornography? Don't they have the internet? Are they solving printouts of CAPCHA's?
Honestly, there's no need in this modern age to embarrass yourself at the gas-n-go, milling around waiting for the matronly old woman to take a break so that you can ask the pothead with the trainee badge to go round to the rack behind the counter. Anything you want is just a click away.
C# is a terrible language which epitomizes an evolutionary dead-end in programming language design.
"But it continues to change and improve!" you say. Sure, it continues to change. Have you seen C++ lately? Same problem. When you try to decorate a turd, everything just ends up covered in shit.
You didn't have Internet access in 1997?
How do you figure that?
Pitiful. I use the completely impossible to guess, unhackable, passcode 2845.
Don't be stupid. There are infinite non-repeating patterns.
iMessage became ubiquitous for a huge % of smart phone numbers
This is what delusion looks like!
The same could have been said about Apple circa 1986. "Apple has no focus, no goal,, no vision, no direction to go."
For all we know, in a few years we'll see the triumphant of the former co-CEO's as an important turning point. We'll watch Apple decline and say "Well, Apple doesn't have a Lazaridis. Not even vaguely close. Not by a light year."
I see that you have absolutely no scientific background. What's it like to be so sure of yourself with little to know knowledge of the subject?
It's undoubtedly true. Go look at the numbers. You'll be surprised.
Apple is actually selling more iPhones than ever, even if their market share is falling.
Just like BlackBerry was not very long ago...
No, you're still wrong.
Here's how it works:
Because you couldn't here my clear my through [sic] when I typed the word adult in reference to the /. community.
See how easy that is?
This is not without precedent, it happens.
Yeah, everyone here knows that. They've known it for years. No one is arguing that. That said, I should point out that sometimes it's benign, sometimes tragic, and sometimes it's helpful. The same can be said about any medical decision, made by anyone involved, for any reason.
What you are arguing against is a parent not having a legitimate say in a childs care. Not the same thing.
But they can be the same thing! The JW bit is just really obvious, which is why you choose to focus on that.
What you really want to do is bash religious people because it makes you feel smart and important. Yes, the JW's restrictions have caused countless unnecessary child deaths. We get it. Even the parents get it. It's a shitty thing.
What you propose to prevent it, however, is far more dangerous -- and far more harmful.
But how can that be?! Let's start with the most obvious: JW's may simply opt out of the medical system completely, for fear that their children will be violated. Possibly relying on home remedies and black market medicine and medical care.
No, I'm saying that you'll be less willing to blindly trust the care of your children to someone else.
See, it's really easy to make up rules that apply to others and not yourself. I seriously doubt you'd be willing to live by the same rules you're proposing if they actually affected you.
if I was a parent that I would want the absolute best for my child
Yes, yes you would. Which is *exactly* why you wouldn't want to abide by the same rules you'd impose on others!
Let me know if you feel the same way after you have children of your own.
I can't help myself but to notice the similarities between this and the fictional "TruBlood" as I'm sure everyone else will, too.
No. I didn't even know that "TruBood" was a thing until I saw it referenced endlessly in this thread. Since that strange Ann Rice movie, I just assumed that vampire related media was intended for teenage girls and middle-aged lonely women. Being neither of those two things, I never bothered.
I guess you don't know many MD's.
Competence is ... uncommon.
Deaf culture is destructive.
Except sign is a con lang -- strike that -- a bunch of different con langs incompatible with one another.
It's a shame Obamacare doesn't address hearing aids and glasses, it would have likely gotten a lot more support.
That's funny. Not only is the deaf community a tiny minority (unlikely to have any impact at all), the issue of hearing aids is enough to divide them! If they found out you could get a cochlear implant with insurance purchased through an exchange, you'd see little other than opposition. (Yeah, they're that crazy.)
Not that they're likely to be aware of the issue, as illiteracy is so prevalent. Still, if they found out, they'd oppose it.
How do you sign: Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all?
Wow! Apple will throw away my old third-party cable and allow me to buy a new one from them!? Why, that's just like repairing or replacing hardware not made by them!
Let me call you a cab. You're too far gone to even stumble home safely.