So, it really should be paid against the locality in which you reside.
It really should be abolished. Sales tax is both regressive and anti-competitive. If income, property, and vehicle taxes are insufficient, then (go ahead and try to) adjust them accordingly.
Zimmerman instigated the entire thing by having ANY interaction with Trayvon. Had Zimmerman behaved as a neighborhood watch is supposed to behave - observed and called the cops, NO INTERACTION - this situation would not have happened, if the reports are to be believed.
I sort of see it as a traffic accident. Regardless of who was right or wrong in being there, the person who had the last opportunity to avoid the collision is at fault. If you accelerate into an intersection on a green light specifically to hit the rear-end of the guy in cross traffic who wrongfully didn't clear the intersection, the collision is still your fault.
It's obvious that there were lots of ways this could have been avoided. Zimmerman could have neglected to pursue, and Treyvon could have taken his girlfriend's advice and ran home and reported someone suspicious following him. Neither took the opportunities to avoid conflict, and they both opted for confrontation. In my mind, the only question is who made the escalation from words to violence or the threat of violence. It really could have been either of them.
And I'm also tired of hearing about Skittles and Iced Tea. Do criminals hate Skittles now? Enjoying candy doesn't make you innocent any more than (legally) carrying a gun makes you guilty.
You mean if you start the assault or battery, not the confrontation. It's perfectly legal to confront someone nonviolently and then defend yourself if they turn violent.
Also, to the GP, and to minimize double posts, saying "we don't need you to do that" is not in any way, shape, or form telling someone not to do something. It was merely making it clear that they didn't want, expect, or require his assistance, but they didn't order him to stand down either.
A whole 18 hours without sleep!?! I am amazed, quite frankly, that you even had the presence of mind to manage even half a coherent post. Pray tell, what are your secrets for disregarding the siren's call of the dream world for such a time as that? Perhaps some magical and powerful tincture has propelled your near endless wakefulness?
Actually I'll go ahead and give you the benefit of the doubt and say you've been up so long you've witnessed multiple sunrises, aren't sure what day it is, and can no longer perform simple math.
This app doesn't really facilitate stalking any more than cars or binoculars, and probably less so, since check-ins are made of one's own volition. As for whether it's stupid for women to post that information, I'd say hardly. Women like to be seen, noticed, and approached, though obviously by the men they're interested in, and this is yet another way to be seen. That they have to deal with advances from guys they're not interested in is just the price of being the more passive of the species. I'm not saying "who cares if women get stalked," I'm just saying this isn't any more or less dangerous than the rest of reality. Some people may turn out to be mentally unbalanced, but that's life.
Sorry, you're right -- disorder. I would still argue that without strict guidelines for diagnosis, with practitioners who are both sympathetic to their clients (as they should be) and eager to provide a diagnosis, and especially without any actual objective and physical test (as with many mental illnesses), it's far too easy to arrive at a diagnosis of ASD, and the numbers shouldn't necessarily be taken at face value.
It's also true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The project may have been in the works for some time, but it's possible that now that it's deemed important, it's getting hurried.
Not to discount the possible influence of medication, but isn't it also plausible that he got sick and tired of a populous that did nothing to help or inform them as they walked and drove over IEDs day in and day out? Of watching his buddies lose their limbs and lives while villagers look surprised and say "How did that get there?!?" That he wanted to teach them a lesson (even though that meant becoming just like the so-called enemy he was fighting)? I'm not saying it's right to kill civilians caught in the middle -- not by any stretch -- but I can understand why it may have happened without any external "contributing factors" whatsoever.
Except hard drives *are* getting faster because, at a given RPM, transfer speeds are almost exclusively a function of areal density. That's why performance charts closely track capacity, with the notable exception of the 10k RPM drive there at the top which probably still has a high areal density as well. And if you think the seek time of HDDs are high, you don't even want to think about tape. Nothing (new) to see here. Move along.
Except, unless I'm mistaken, you can easily share apps among multiple iOS devices. Also, piracy. It's much more prevalent and streamlined on iOS devices than on consoles. (And, if my private trackers' download counts are any indication, far more popular than console piracy.) Which, without condoning piracy, sort of adds another data point that indicates it's not the bogeyman that publishers want us to believe.
Many here seem to think that it's all Aspies. Trust me, it's not. Aspies are the tiny minority of ASD sufferers.
According to you. Citation please? When you lump in everyone with Aspergers and Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), into "Autism Spectrum Diseases," as is happening now, then of course the rates of ASD are going to increase. Anyone who has mild difficulty with social situations or communication can be diagnosed with PDD-NOS. When the criteria for diagnosis are so broad as to include kids who are likely the victims of abuse (and thus have atypical social and communication development), then yes, we can all agree that ASDs are reaching epidemic proportions. Unfortunately that tells us almost nothing of value.
I *completely agree* that Autism != introversion and/or mild antisocial or asocial behavior, but that's what's happening by lumping them all under ASDs as the (always just-around-the-corner) DSM-5 does.
Apple does better than most at identifying and correcting these conditions.
Yes, Apple does better than most after receiving the most scrutiny and attention for it. But the public would never boycott Apple's devices because we want to have our cake and eat it too, and usually eat someone else's as well. We do a lot of eating, is what I'm trying to say. At any rate, it's fine to raise a stink about Foxconn and Apple, but no, we'd never go beyond the crying phase to the actually-doing-something-about-it phase. It's other people's job to do things, so we tell them what to do, and they pretend to do it. It's a lot like our system of government actually.
Unfortunately, even if all slashdotters stopped buying, the effect on video-game market would be almost zero. On the other hand, if we raise stink about it and manage to educate a significant portion of buyers managements will think twice before crippling their offerings. And that is exactly what we are doing here.
But the maximum effect of preaching to the choir, by your own logic, is almost zero. Go forth. Spread the bad news.
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It's also part of the tactic to get tourists to pay for your infrastructure and services. I'm looking at you, old people in Florida.
So, it really should be paid against the locality in which you reside.
It really should be abolished. Sales tax is both regressive and anti-competitive. If income, property, and vehicle taxes are insufficient, then (go ahead and try to) adjust them accordingly.
Indeed. In fact, the Navy intends to replace the CIWS with lasers.
You can add this one to the short but growing list of employers demanding access to Facebook accounts.
Not to mention the long and still-growing list of reasons not to have a Facebook account.
And just look at all those blank papers on the desk! Not a single word visible on any of them!
I mean obviously if they had words on them, you'd be able to see that in the video even if you couldn't make out the words themselves, right? Right?!?
Zimmerman instigated the entire thing by having ANY interaction with Trayvon. Had Zimmerman behaved as a neighborhood watch is supposed to behave - observed and called the cops, NO INTERACTION - this situation would not have happened, if the reports are to be believed.
I sort of see it as a traffic accident. Regardless of who was right or wrong in being there, the person who had the last opportunity to avoid the collision is at fault. If you accelerate into an intersection on a green light specifically to hit the rear-end of the guy in cross traffic who wrongfully didn't clear the intersection, the collision is still your fault.
It's obvious that there were lots of ways this could have been avoided. Zimmerman could have neglected to pursue, and Treyvon could have taken his girlfriend's advice and ran home and reported someone suspicious following him. Neither took the opportunities to avoid conflict, and they both opted for confrontation. In my mind, the only question is who made the escalation from words to violence or the threat of violence. It really could have been either of them.
And I'm also tired of hearing about Skittles and Iced Tea. Do criminals hate Skittles now? Enjoying candy doesn't make you innocent any more than (legally) carrying a gun makes you guilty.
You mean if you start the assault or battery, not the confrontation. It's perfectly legal to confront someone nonviolently and then defend yourself if they turn violent.
Also, to the GP, and to minimize double posts, saying "we don't need you to do that" is not in any way, shape, or form telling someone not to do something. It was merely making it clear that they didn't want, expect, or require his assistance, but they didn't order him to stand down either.
A whole 18 hours without sleep!?! I am amazed, quite frankly, that you even had the presence of mind to manage even half a coherent post. Pray tell, what are your secrets for disregarding the siren's call of the dream world for such a time as that? Perhaps some magical and powerful tincture has propelled your near endless wakefulness?
Actually I'll go ahead and give you the benefit of the doubt and say you've been up so long you've witnessed multiple sunrises, aren't sure what day it is, and can no longer perform simple math.
Free for you, maybe, but Apple had to pay for that laptop out of their meager cash holdings, you insensitive clod.
Not true.
This app doesn't really facilitate stalking any more than cars or binoculars, and probably less so, since check-ins are made of one's own volition. As for whether it's stupid for women to post that information, I'd say hardly. Women like to be seen, noticed, and approached, though obviously by the men they're interested in, and this is yet another way to be seen. That they have to deal with advances from guys they're not interested in is just the price of being the more passive of the species. I'm not saying "who cares if women get stalked," I'm just saying this isn't any more or less dangerous than the rest of reality. Some people may turn out to be mentally unbalanced, but that's life.
Sorry, you're right -- disorder. I would still argue that without strict guidelines for diagnosis, with practitioners who are both sympathetic to their clients (as they should be) and eager to provide a diagnosis, and especially without any actual objective and physical test (as with many mental illnesses), it's far too easy to arrive at a diagnosis of ASD, and the numbers shouldn't necessarily be taken at face value.
It's also true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease. The project may have been in the works for some time, but it's possible that now that it's deemed important, it's getting hurried.
Not to discount the possible influence of medication, but isn't it also plausible that he got sick and tired of a populous that did nothing to help or inform them as they walked and drove over IEDs day in and day out? Of watching his buddies lose their limbs and lives while villagers look surprised and say "How did that get there?!?" That he wanted to teach them a lesson (even though that meant becoming just like the so-called enemy he was fighting)? I'm not saying it's right to kill civilians caught in the middle -- not by any stretch -- but I can understand why it may have happened without any external "contributing factors" whatsoever.
Except hard drives *are* getting faster because, at a given RPM, transfer speeds are almost exclusively a function of areal density. That's why performance charts closely track capacity, with the notable exception of the 10k RPM drive there at the top which probably still has a high areal density as well. And if you think the seek time of HDDs are high, you don't even want to think about tape. Nothing (new) to see here. Move along.
Nobody ever wins in wars. It's about finding out who loses less.
The people with the least to lose, obviously.
Except, unless I'm mistaken, you can easily share apps among multiple iOS devices. Also, piracy. It's much more prevalent and streamlined on iOS devices than on consoles. (And, if my private trackers' download counts are any indication, far more popular than console piracy.) Which, without condoning piracy, sort of adds another data point that indicates it's not the bogeyman that publishers want us to believe.
Right, like *that's* a viable business model.
Just drive around until you see a DirecTV, Dish, or Comcast truck and offer the guy $5. Hell, ask if you can have 10 for $5. They don't care.
I believe their mascot is or was a cow.
Many here seem to think that it's all Aspies. Trust me, it's not. Aspies are the tiny minority of ASD sufferers.
According to you. Citation please? When you lump in everyone with Aspergers and Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), into "Autism Spectrum Diseases," as is happening now, then of course the rates of ASD are going to increase. Anyone who has mild difficulty with social situations or communication can be diagnosed with PDD-NOS. When the criteria for diagnosis are so broad as to include kids who are likely the victims of abuse (and thus have atypical social and communication development), then yes, we can all agree that ASDs are reaching epidemic proportions. Unfortunately that tells us almost nothing of value.
I *completely agree* that Autism != introversion and/or mild antisocial or asocial behavior, but that's what's happening by lumping them all under ASDs as the (always just-around-the-corner) DSM-5 does.
Apple does better than most at identifying and correcting these conditions.
Yes, Apple does better than most after receiving the most scrutiny and attention for it. But the public would never boycott Apple's devices because we want to have our cake and eat it too, and usually eat someone else's as well. We do a lot of eating, is what I'm trying to say. At any rate, it's fine to raise a stink about Foxconn and Apple, but no, we'd never go beyond the crying phase to the actually-doing-something-about-it phase. It's other people's job to do things, so we tell them what to do, and they pretend to do it. It's a lot like our system of government actually.
Maybe because nobody uses the other things you mentioned.
Honestly. It's bad enough that the layout is so distinctive and obvious that sometime I browse in lynx.
Unfortunately, even if all slashdotters stopped buying, the effect on video-game market would be almost zero. On the other hand, if we raise stink about it and manage to educate a significant portion of buyers managements will think twice before crippling their offerings. And that is exactly what we are doing here.
But the maximum effect of preaching to the choir, by your own logic, is almost zero. Go forth. Spread the bad news.