At least the Republicans will allow one the tools to defend oneself or to forcefully change things
In defense of reasonable Republicans, not all of them feel the only way to address disagreements on policy is with guns. The few that are left believe compromise is better than violence.
The Republicans deserve credit for how they stand up for freedom in general and against SOPA in particular.
Let's see: Republican Lamar Smith authors SOPA. Public is enraged. Republicans back off. Bizzaro World conclusion: Republicans deserve credit for being "against" SOPA
I feel your pain. The unbalanced allocation of resources mirrors so many policy decisions, from law enforcement to military involvement. If we could just use/. polls to drive these decisions, spammers would experience the same wake up call as the Somalis who took those aid workers hostage.
You dare post facts here? Prepare for a hoard of tri-corner hat wearing goons to pummel you with nonsensical ravings and coordinated mod bombing from a collection of attack accounts.
I've found with Mormons in general... their almost pathological inability to publicly treat people with disrespect, even when deserved.
Mitt does not have that problem. He is regularly disrespectful to his political foes. His son Matt doesn't have that problem, propagating lies like the "birther" myth, likely at the request of daddy big bucks.
No, I think Mormons are just as big of jerks as anyone else. The core of Mitt's weirdness is a combination of religious secrecy and political pandering. He is so worried about telling the person in front of him what it takes to get elected, while trying to maintain a distance between them that the end result is unsettling.
Seriously, try one of Apple's products. It's not hard to see why they're so popular.
Exactly. There are plenty of top notch technical people who like Apple. I was skeptical myself until I tried their products. Now I have several, and I'm very happy. I still use and develop for Windows and Linux. There is nothing about Apple products that magically make you stupid or incapable of using other platforms. Hard core anti-Apple people are generally those who speak from, at best, second hand knowledge.
It's almost like people buy Apple because they don't want to have to think...
You probably meant this as an insult, but the wording is accurate. People buy Apple products because they do not want to be *forced* to know the smallest technical details as if they intended to build the product themselves. If someone is technically oriented, they can still have lots of fun digging into things like the free Xcode IDE with modern LLVM based compilers and git source control.
It's nice to have the choice of just using a product and being able to dig into the technical details if you want.
If you insist on putting the brake pedal on the right foot and accelerator on the left, it doesn't matter how loudly you blame the driver, its still a design failure.
They should take the Apple route and put both functions in one pedal. Simply Genius! (tm)
...we need to fight harder to solve it, not just roll over.
I re-read the post you are responding to a few times. Nowhere is anything that can be construed as "just rolling over". The only argument in the original post is that singling out Apple is pointless, unless your goal is simply to attack Apple.
I think the real problem with Apple users is how clueless they are about technology.
A small subset of users of any mobile phone are technologically literate, and the rest are just people who want to use their phones. I think the real problem with Apple haters is they are clueless about their own bias.
Instead of Robin Williams as a talking dog (ugh), splice together Chapman's voice from all his films and Monty Python episodes (like South Park and Chef) for that role. Then sprinkle photos of Chapman in his various outlandish outfits throughout the movie without making a direct reference to them.
The Earth precesses once ever 26000 years. In 13000 years north will be pointed towards Vega.
For fun I cranked up Stellarium to check the relative positions of Polaris and Vega. Does anyone know a way to make Stellarium draw a trail for stars like it does with planets? I turned up the time rate to whiz through thousands of years per second and can sort of make out the the path of Polaris with respect to the North pole due to precession, but it would be nice to have it trace out the path.
BTW, Stellarium stops at the year 99999. That seems like an odd limit.
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For every Dilbert, there's two Wallys.
It's a Wally World. The moose at the door should have told you.
Paragraph 3 contained the phase "left and indelible mark..."
...plane crashes are dangerous.
At least the Republicans will allow one the tools to defend oneself or to forcefully change things
In defense of reasonable Republicans, not all of them feel the only way to address disagreements on policy is with guns. The few that are left believe compromise is better than violence.
The Republicans deserve credit for how they stand up for freedom in general and against SOPA in particular.
Let's see:
Republican Lamar Smith authors SOPA.
Public is enraged.
Republicans back off.
Bizzaro World conclusion: Republicans deserve credit for being "against" SOPA
Face it, it wasn't Tea Party supporters or Republicans that stopped this. It was all of us that wanted Internet freedom.
True. But that does not make a good, biased to the point of delusion campaign slogan for the GOP, which is exactly what this "story" is.
I feel your pain. The unbalanced allocation of resources mirrors so many policy decisions, from law enforcement to military involvement. If we could just use /. polls to drive these decisions, spammers would experience the same wake up call as the Somalis who took those aid workers hostage.
This looks familiar. Looks like the French beat them to it.
You dare post facts here? Prepare for a hoard of tri-corner hat wearing goons to pummel you with nonsensical ravings and coordinated mod bombing from a collection of attack accounts.
...let's face it, zombies are fictional
That will upset Christians. Zombie Jesus is a cornerstone of their system of myths.
I've found with Mormons in general... their almost pathological inability to publicly treat people with disrespect, even when deserved.
Mitt does not have that problem. He is regularly disrespectful to his political foes. His son Matt doesn't have that problem, propagating lies like the "birther" myth, likely at the request of daddy big bucks.
No, I think Mormons are just as big of jerks as anyone else. The core of Mitt's weirdness is a combination of religious secrecy and political pandering. He is so worried about telling the person in front of him what it takes to get elected, while trying to maintain a distance between them that the end result is unsettling.
Or worse, the current Sean Connery in his Zed from Zardoz outfit.
Same old thing. People who prefer echo chambers to discussion.
Seriously, try one of Apple's products. It's not hard to see why they're so popular.
Exactly. There are plenty of top notch technical people who like Apple. I was skeptical myself until I tried their products. Now I have several, and I'm very happy. I still use and develop for Windows and Linux. There is nothing about Apple products that magically make you stupid or incapable of using other platforms. Hard core anti-Apple people are generally those who speak from, at best, second hand knowledge.
Yeah, but Aerosmith would not sound the same singing "Big Ten Centimeter".
It's almost like people buy Apple because they don't want to have to think...
You probably meant this as an insult, but the wording is accurate. People buy Apple products because they do not want to be *forced* to know the smallest technical details as if they intended to build the product themselves. If someone is technically oriented, they can still have lots of fun digging into things like the free Xcode IDE with modern LLVM based compilers and git source control.
It's nice to have the choice of just using a product and being able to dig into the technical details if you want.
If you insist on putting the brake pedal on the right foot and accelerator on the left, it doesn't matter how loudly you blame the driver, its still a design failure.
They should take the Apple route and put both functions in one pedal. Simply Genius! (tm)
All people seem to just be born as scared-to-death xenophobes, and most just don't learn any better as they age.
Native Americans probably would be better off if they had been *more* xenophobic. Beware Europeans bearing blankets.
...space race to get to Moonbase Alpha first?
The Chinese could never match the British 70s futuristic style. Flairs in Space!
...we need to fight harder to solve it, not just roll over.
I re-read the post you are responding to a few times. Nowhere is anything that can be construed as "just rolling over". The only argument in the original post is that singling out Apple is pointless, unless your goal is simply to attack Apple.
John Cleese rant against communists.
I think the real problem with Apple users is how clueless they are about technology.
A small subset of users of any mobile phone are technologically literate, and the rest are just people who want to use their phones. I think the real problem with Apple haters is they are clueless about their own bias.
They can't do that to iCloud because Apple protects it with teams of iNinjas.
Instead of Robin Williams as a talking dog (ugh), splice together Chapman's voice from all his films and Monty Python episodes (like South Park and Chef) for that role. Then sprinkle photos of Chapman in his various outlandish outfits throughout the movie without making a direct reference to them.
I can dream. Feverish dreams.
The Earth precesses once ever 26000 years. In 13000 years north will be pointed towards Vega.
For fun I cranked up Stellarium to check the relative positions of Polaris and Vega. Does anyone know a way to make Stellarium draw a trail for stars like it does with planets? I turned up the time rate to whiz through thousands of years per second and can sort of make out the the path of Polaris with respect to the North pole due to precession, but it would be nice to have it trace out the path.
BTW, Stellarium stops at the year 99999. That seems like an odd limit.