How much of this customer preference is just the name? "Blu-Ray" is easy to remember, and does not sound like much anything else. "HD-DVD" sounds like just more tech alphabet soup, or part of a features list string for a Dell desktop ad.
" Ideas like welfare, 40 hour weeks, unions and public medical insurance came from socialism."
It should also be pointed out that forced unionization removes "protection from workers". In the US, most union members do not have a choice: it is "join the union or be fired", even though union membership has nothing to do with job qualifications, and even though the union then forces members to give to political candidates after they are forced to join.
Curiously, it is the socialists (not the capitalists) who end up banning unions outright. I'm referring to the strong socialists (communists). Hugo Chaves, the "leader of all the peoples" of Venezuela, has crossed this line: he has been working to ban independent (non-government controlled) unins in that country.
Socialism took a big blow when the USSR fell. It is dying in China. Only a few tiny countries still keep it alive. It's on the ash heap of history now.
"Wouldn't Darl McBride have been under the obligation to reveal this information to his shareholders?"
Don't know. Was there surprise on Gates' and Ballmer's faces?
Re:Gotta love those Kodak Polaroids.
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"Whoa man, Lay off I'm from the future."
Really? Then you must be one of those moderators on Slashfreerepublicmove.orgnet, right? If you could point me to one of those Wal-bay auctions, I'd like to get a copy of Microapplenix WinOSX (Furry Furhog release) so I can log in. Does it still work with the Netpera Explorafari browser?
You started from this false premise. Why go on further? You appear to be going back to your "straw man" argument once more. We are going backwards here. Try again, but without false accusations.
What do you expect from a guy who actually made up the title of the second Lord of the Rings movie to cash in on the WTC tragedy. Shameless.
Law enforcement does not respect the Batman
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"Actually, I do believe masking in public IS illegal in many places... there are old laws on the books making it illegal in general to wear a mask in public"
This was left over from a few decades ago when many communities were getting fed up with the Batman. The tights, the youthful 'ward', the batarangs gouging buildings, the constantly speeding Batmobile that never checked in for pollution control certification. It got to be too much.
"With live action, how are they going to reproduce Megatron.He's as big as an 18 wheeler truck in robot form, but is a handgun in disguise
Don't tell anyone, but I checked the schedules of the forthcoming monster truck rallies for the next 18 months. A lot of famous transforming-trucks are absent from the playbills, presumably due to filming duties. Among the names: Truck-a-Saurus, Tyrannosaurus Trucks, Bronto-Bilt, Semi-rapter, and, yes, Smith-and-Wobot (the truck that turns into a pistol). I expect we will be seeing all of them in the Transformers movie, disguised by lots of color sheet metal.
"With Spider-Man 3 (May 2007) and the Transformers (July 2007) coming out in the same summer, the amount of time I'll spend in the theater should remain unchanged from 2005, at zero"
I'm holding out for "Lord of the Rings IV". Surely Peter Jackson can make up some more material. I'm sure that Tolkien guy who has sold so many movie adaptation novels from the first three movies would love to be able to write and sell more books too.
"No law can enforce morality on anybody or anything"
Might as well point out that all law forces morality on people. That is what law does.
"....whereas individuals also bring their sense of morality into play when making decisions."
On the other subject, realize that corporations are composed of individuals, and require the actuions of individuals (with their sense of morality that you refer to) in order to do even the smallest thing. A corporation cannot even lift a pencil unless someone chooses to do this for the corporation. Corporations are entirely helpless without these individuals.
"I think corporations will eventually be forced to consider moral issues when concerned citizens force issues onto them by voting with their wallets"
"But a corporation that specializes in car oil changes won't have any qualms throwing massive quantities"
General Grievous aside, we don't yet have robots programmed to serve the corporate charter. Individual human beings are required in order to do this dumping.
This is very true, as well. While corporations are designed to serve the stockholders, it ends up that they must serve the workers and customers as well. The corporation cannot exist without the participation of these other groups. The actions of these groups impact the overall "morality" of the actions of the corporation.
"Regarding the extremely low burn risk, would you say that, if I made a product that severely injured 1 out of every 10,000 people who used it, I should not be held liable for that one person's injuries?"
It depends on a few things. Did the product "fail" in these incidents? Or did someone abuse it? Also, I am curious why you chose the 1 in 10,000 level. Does the "percent risk" matter to you? In the actual McDonald's situation, it was about 1 in 24,000,000. There's a big difference there.
"Rather, it was an example of something where more than one person was at fault"
Yeah. The 12 hijackers, bin Laden, and his henchmen. If you believe that GWB organized it, count him too. As long as you are including only those whom you think actually blew up the buildings. The builders have no blame. They did not blow the buildings up.
"And if a reasonable person knew that spilling McDonald's coffee would cause third-degree burns to 6% of their body"
Those 23,999,999 out of 24,000,000 knew how hot the coffee was. They drank the stuff.
"Stella was a mostly reasonable person"
That idea is only acceptible if her relatives and crooked ambulance-chasers connived her into taking this to court. If the frivolous lawsuit was her idea, she is not that reasonable.
"But the jury found that her injuries would never have happened if McDonald's had served coffee at a reasonable temperature"
This is why it has been pointed out that the coffee was at a reasonable temperature (a) recommended serving temperature of coffee b) the number of burn incidents is extremely low.)
"Neither you nor I was present to hear the evidence in this case. There are facts that neither of us knows nor can know"
Information about the case, and the testimony, can be found all over the place. It is highly unlikely that there is some hidden info that would give McDonald's any sort of fault here (")Ronald McDonald dumped the coffee in my lap and vanished!")
"Do you really think that a 12-person cross-section of the community is so stupid as to award enormous verdicts for frivolous cases? "
Yes. It is very common.
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"I mean, wouldn't a plain old Kodak Polaroid do this?"
That reminds me. I want to get one myself. First, I'll shut off my Dell iMac, then I'll hop in my Chevrolet Taurus, and see if my local Target Wal-mart has one. Once I get it, I'll post a few GIF JPG's.
"corporation are by law required to work towards enriching stakeholders. Moral concerns aren't their problems, essentially turning them into psychopathic types of entities"
So.... do you want the law to enforce someone's particular morality? Is that it?
Only if we allow those do-gooder Jedi to gain power.
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"I'll have to make sure I am bloated... that way they won't be able to identify me when I am not!"
We'll get you anyway!
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"terrain-style 3D map of one side of an object, and subjects that open their eyes cause holes in the terrain where the reflected light was scattered by the wet surface"
The problem with subjects opening their eyes goes away if you greatly increase the strength of the scanning beam. This becomes a lesson learned quickly.
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You are comparing apples and oranges. These are two entirely DIFFERENT interfaces.
More relevant is how the "better name" Firewire really eclipsed Sony's name for the same thing (something like IEEE-1394, I think).
And now Sony will dust off that damn pan-faced robot from "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" for commercials: "BD BD BD BD BD BD".
That's the one where the Pepsi rep makes sure that he pees in the Coke bottles before each and every "Taste Challenge".
How much of this customer preference is just the name? "Blu-Ray" is easy to remember, and does not sound like much anything else. "HD-DVD" sounds like just more tech alphabet soup, or part of a features list string for a Dell desktop ad.
In a related story, another small moon has been discovered near Jupiter. Wait. That's no moon, it's a $$#%${NO CARRIER{
It should also be pointed out that forced unionization removes "protection from workers". In the US, most union members do not have a choice: it is "join the union or be fired", even though union membership has nothing to do with job qualifications, and even though the union then forces members to give to political candidates after they are forced to join.
Curiously, it is the socialists (not the capitalists) who end up banning unions outright. I'm referring to the strong socialists (communists). Hugo Chaves, the "leader of all the peoples" of Venezuela, has crossed this line: he has been working to ban independent (non-government controlled) unins in that country.
Socialism took a big blow when the USSR fell. It is dying in China. Only a few tiny countries still keep it alive. It's on the ash heap of history now.
Don't know. Was there surprise on Gates' and Ballmer's faces?
"Whoa man, Lay off I'm from the future." Really? Then you must be one of those moderators on Slashfreerepublicmove.orgnet, right? If you could point me to one of those Wal-bay auctions, I'd like to get a copy of Microapplenix WinOSX (Furry Furhog release) so I can log in. Does it still work with the Netpera Explorafari browser?
Beating a dead horse is for the long-gone socialist world. In the capitalist world, you buy the dead horse.
The Uncanny X-box-men
Captain Bluescreen
The Clipperine
However, I forget the superhero name of the fat guy in the skintight butterfly suit.
You started from this false premise. Why go on further? You appear to be going back to your "straw man" argument once more. We are going backwards here. Try again, but without false accusations.
What do you expect from a guy who actually made up the title of the second Lord of the Rings movie to cash in on the WTC tragedy. Shameless.
This was left over from a few decades ago when many communities were getting fed up with the Batman. The tights, the youthful 'ward', the batarangs gouging buildings, the constantly speeding Batmobile that never checked in for pollution control certification. It got to be too much.
Don't tell anyone, but I checked the schedules of the forthcoming monster truck rallies for the next 18 months. A lot of famous transforming-trucks are absent from the playbills, presumably due to filming duties. Among the names: Truck-a-Saurus, Tyrannosaurus Trucks, Bronto-Bilt, Semi-rapter, and, yes, Smith-and-Wobot (the truck that turns into a pistol). I expect we will be seeing all of them in the Transformers movie, disguised by lots of color sheet metal.
I'm holding out for "Lord of the Rings IV". Surely Peter Jackson can make up some more material. I'm sure that Tolkien guy who has sold so many movie adaptation novels from the first three movies would love to be able to write and sell more books too.
Heh. If he had decided to rob wearing a plastic bag, said Bozo would likely be sitting there dead in traffic because he forgot to cut airholes.
Might as well point out that all law forces morality on people. That is what law does.
"....whereas individuals also bring their sense of morality into play when making decisions."
On the other subject, realize that corporations are composed of individuals, and require the actuions of individuals (with their sense of morality that you refer to) in order to do even the smallest thing. A corporation cannot even lift a pencil unless someone chooses to do this for the corporation. Corporations are entirely helpless without these individuals.
"I think corporations will eventually be forced to consider moral issues when concerned citizens force issues onto them by voting with their wallets"
"But a corporation that specializes in car oil changes won't have any qualms throwing massive quantities"
General Grievous aside, we don't yet have robots programmed to serve the corporate charter. Individual human beings are required in order to do this dumping.
This is very true, as well. While corporations are designed to serve the stockholders, it ends up that they must serve the workers and customers as well. The corporation cannot exist without the participation of these other groups. The actions of these groups impact the overall "morality" of the actions of the corporation.
It depends on a few things. Did the product "fail" in these incidents? Or did someone abuse it? Also, I am curious why you chose the 1 in 10,000 level. Does the "percent risk" matter to you? In the actual McDonald's situation, it was about 1 in 24,000,000. There's a big difference there.
"Rather, it was an example of something where more than one person was at fault"
Yeah. The 12 hijackers, bin Laden, and his henchmen. If you believe that GWB organized it, count him too. As long as you are including only those whom you think actually blew up the buildings. The builders have no blame. They did not blow the buildings up.
"And if a reasonable person knew that spilling McDonald's coffee would cause third-degree burns to 6% of their body"
Those 23,999,999 out of 24,000,000 knew how hot the coffee was. They drank the stuff.
"Stella was a mostly reasonable person"
That idea is only acceptible if her relatives and crooked ambulance-chasers connived her into taking this to court. If the frivolous lawsuit was her idea, she is not that reasonable.
"But the jury found that her injuries would never have happened if McDonald's had served coffee at a reasonable temperature"
This is why it has been pointed out that the coffee was at a reasonable temperature (a) recommended serving temperature of coffee b) the number of burn incidents is extremely low.)
"Neither you nor I was present to hear the evidence in this case. There are facts that neither of us knows nor can know"
Information about the case, and the testimony, can be found all over the place. It is highly unlikely that there is some hidden info that would give McDonald's any sort of fault here (")Ronald McDonald dumped the coffee in my lap and vanished!")
"Do you really think that a 12-person cross-section of the community is so stupid as to award enormous verdicts for frivolous cases? "
Yes. It is very common.
That reminds me. I want to get one myself. First, I'll shut off my Dell iMac, then I'll hop in my Chevrolet Taurus, and see if my local Target Wal-mart has one. Once I get it, I'll post a few GIF JPG's.
So.... do you want the law to enforce someone's particular morality? Is that it?
When I hear "the smelt are biting" from the other fishermen, I never thought it was supposed to be a warning!
Only if we allow those do-gooder Jedi to gain power.
We'll get you anyway!
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The problem with subjects opening their eyes goes away if you greatly increase the strength of the scanning beam. This becomes a lesson learned quickly.