But Fandroids would be the first to scream that Apple is copying Android if Google did it first. Both Apple and Google clearly get ideas from each other, the fanboi cult behavior exists on both sides and really just needs to stop. In this particular case, Apple beat Google to the punch - why didn't Google think of implementing this before, if it's such a commonplace technology? Apple was the one here to invest in it first, and see how the market responded. In other cases, Google was.
Exactly. This is getting to be part and parcel of the neoprogressive movement, it's a growing trend. It's funny to them when they rake the opposition over the coals, and call them various insults or stereotypical sweeping labels: morons, idiots, stupid, bigots, inbreds, homophobes, islamophobes, racists, sexists, etc.., and that's just "free speech"; but it's clearly offensive when anyone lobbies a criticism at the progressives, they label that as "hate speech" and there's a strong push to shut it down and silence it.
That sure sounds like democracy in action to me. (/sar)
Well, duh. They exist on both sides. Would you have any problem with a vendor if they did this with Trump, Cruz, or Bush? (and other places are doing just that). This isn't Trademark abuse, this is fair use.
I'm fairly good friends with a guy who's worked there a chunk of his life (he's not a manager, he's a tech). In our area, it's mostly the landline people going on strike, and he thinks they're nuts. Landlines are rapidly vanishing anyway, and these guys already make 100k a year or better. They're lucky to have a job like that, in his words. I'd agree. I don't know about other areas though.
Yes, they did. It was an outgrowth of Blues, much like Rock was. Jazz started in New Orleans, long before Stepane Grapelli or Django, who started playing jazz in the 1930s. Same with Rock, it's an outgrowth of Blues.
I think there's also Confidential; at least, that was my rating way back when I worked with CSC/RCA in the '80s, so I could handle data marked as "Confidential". Then there was Secret, and Top Secret.
Ad Hominem attacks, in other words.It's for those who don't have the mental faculties to logically debate a topic point by point, they just attack the messenger they disagree with instead of the idea.
I now await the, "You're an idiot" responses, playful or otherwise.
If you believe that one race is more worthy of mention than another race in someone of mixed heritage, you might just be the actual racist. Or perhaps your lack of comprehension is simply due to a mental deficiency.
OTOH, if you want to find subversive text in all this, I find it a little bit racist to refer to her strictly as a "black" woman, when clearly she's extremely light skinned and only lightly exhibits the typical facial features of african heritage (which is a real thing before the SJ kneejerkers scream racism: http://johnhawks.net/explainer... , as did her parents, which strongly suggests a white lineage as well.
This doesn't matter academically of course, she did what she did because of who she was, not what she was, but why is it if someone has half, or even just 25% african heritage in the US, they're still typically considered simply "black' for all intents and purposes, and it's as if the Caucasian or Sino-Asian heritage is submersed and dismissed? Both Halley Berry and Obama, for example, are equally half white/black but they're flatly considered black by most accounts. Obama was even raised by his US mother and her parents, who were white. Few other than Morgan Freeman seem to comprehendf that Obama is actually 50/50.
This can work either for or against someone actually (as in the case of Obama, supporters and detractors alike), but why don't we just honestly refer to mixed race people as mulatto anymore, or maybe "mixed", when that's the simple truth of the matter?
It seems rather belittling to both races: the white aspect is ignored, and the black aspect is patronized, as the parent post pointed out.
It should be but it isn't going to go down like that, realistically. How long does it take to unfold it? We've got cops on edge already as is it, every week another cop is getting shot and killed because of a few nervous or trigger happy cops that preceded them (or the perception) has caused an outbreak of more violence. It's a viscous cycle, and this isn't going to help. The more cop haters that shoot cops, the more that cops are going to be paranoid and quicker to shoot someone first. Frankly you could pull a regular gun on someone, but they don't know if it's loaded, or if the safety is still on, if the gun is cocked...they're not going to take a chance on that. People don't like to take chances with their lives, and cops aren't superhuman, they're just people too.
The jerk is anyone who thinks they can spell however they feel like spelling and don't like being told it's wrong because they're lazy. But mostly for people where English is their primary language. If English is their secondary language, then it's far more understandable to make mistakes and that's not really who I'm talking about.
Agreed. The odd typo here and there can be expected, it happens. No big. I don't give a rat's patoot if someone types "abuot" by accident.
However, persistent grammatical errors, like "brake" instead of "break", and a favorite, "Man, I was so waisted.." made repeatedly by the same person.. those can be annoying because the writer appears so uneducated for a supposed adult, but it also depends on context: if they're lambasting someone else for being stupid or uneducated, it's intolerable.
Admittedly, no. But my Windows 7 box did it's fair share of that too, so it doesn't seem that different than what I had before. I am not installing something else, there're other ways to deal with it.
I turned off the telemetry and anti-privacy stuff, but FWIW, I actually like Win10. I had Win7 before. I'd used clonezilla to make an image if anything went belly up, and then did the typical online upgrade - I had no issues, except just one that took me a few days to realize: MS Office 2010 starter (Word and Excel only) wouldn't run, claiming it's incompatible with Windows10. I looked online and found some conflicting info, but ultimately there's a KB and a patch for Office 2010 available (released around the time of Windows8, I believe); after installing the patch and rebooting, Word and Excel now open fine.
So, in addition to the standard costs of investment, like materials and installation, he's got to jack up his insurance premium too. Good to know if you're deciding to install solar.
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I wondered if they were trying to clone Wooly Mammoths in zero G, at first. Space Mammoths, what a concept.
But Fandroids would be the first to scream that Apple is copying Android if Google did it first. Both Apple and Google clearly get ideas from each other, the fanboi cult behavior exists on both sides and really just needs to stop. In this particular case, Apple beat Google to the punch - why didn't Google think of implementing this before, if it's such a commonplace technology? Apple was the one here to invest in it first, and see how the market responded. In other cases, Google was.
Or maybe it was Kevin A. Strom. Either way:
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"
While you're at it, look up "fair use".
Exactly. This is getting to be part and parcel of the neoprogressive movement, it's a growing trend. It's funny to them when they rake the opposition over the coals, and call them various insults or stereotypical sweeping labels: morons, idiots, stupid, bigots, inbreds, homophobes, islamophobes, racists, sexists, etc.., and that's just "free speech"; but it's clearly offensive when anyone lobbies a criticism at the progressives, they label that as "hate speech" and there's a strong push to shut it down and silence it.
That sure sounds like democracy in action to me. (/sar)
Well, duh. They exist on both sides. Would you have any problem with a vendor if they did this with Trump, Cruz, or Bush? (and other places are doing just that). This isn't Trademark abuse, this is fair use.
I'm fairly good friends with a guy who's worked there a chunk of his life (he's not a manager, he's a tech). In our area, it's mostly the landline people going on strike, and he thinks they're nuts. Landlines are rapidly vanishing anyway, and these guys already make 100k a year or better. They're lucky to have a job like that, in his words. I'd agree. I don't know about other areas though.
Yes, they did. It was an outgrowth of Blues, much like Rock was. Jazz started in New Orleans, long before Stepane Grapelli or Django, who started playing jazz in the 1930s. Same with Rock, it's an outgrowth of Blues.
I think there's also Confidential; at least, that was my rating way back when I worked with CSC/RCA in the '80s, so I could handle data marked as "Confidential". Then there was Secret, and Top Secret.
Ask me: I have no living enemies.
You... you killed them all??
Ad Hominem attacks, in other words.It's for those who don't have the mental faculties to logically debate a topic point by point, they just attack the messenger they disagree with instead of the idea.
I now await the, "You're an idiot" responses, playful or otherwise.
Now if they can just do the same for the Cheetah.
If you believe that one race is more worthy of mention than another race in someone of mixed heritage, you might just be the actual racist. Or perhaps your lack of comprehension is simply due to a mental deficiency.
OTOH, if you want to find subversive text in all this, I find it a little bit racist to refer to her strictly as a "black" woman, when clearly she's extremely light skinned and only lightly exhibits the typical facial features of african heritage (which is a real thing before the SJ kneejerkers scream racism: http://johnhawks.net/explainer... , as did her parents, which strongly suggests a white lineage as well.
This doesn't matter academically of course, she did what she did because of who she was, not what she was, but why is it if someone has half, or even just 25% african heritage in the US, they're still typically considered simply "black' for all intents and purposes, and it's as if the Caucasian or Sino-Asian heritage is submersed and dismissed? Both Halley Berry and Obama, for example, are equally half white/black but they're flatly considered black by most accounts. Obama was even raised by his US mother and her parents, who were white. Few other than Morgan Freeman seem to comprehendf that Obama is actually 50/50.
This can work either for or against someone actually (as in the case of Obama, supporters and detractors alike), but why don't we just honestly refer to mixed race people as mulatto anymore, or maybe "mixed", when that's the simple truth of the matter?
It seems rather belittling to both races: the white aspect is ignored, and the black aspect is patronized, as the parent post pointed out.
That gets infinitely recursive, 'yknow..
Those other countries don't have much in the way of guns either. Disarm the cops in the US, they'll get massacred in the inner cities.
It should be but it isn't going to go down like that, realistically. How long does it take to unfold it? We've got cops on edge already as is it, every week another cop is getting shot and killed because of a few nervous or trigger happy cops that preceded them (or the perception) has caused an outbreak of more violence. It's a viscous cycle, and this isn't going to help. The more cop haters that shoot cops, the more that cops are going to be paranoid and quicker to shoot someone first. Frankly you could pull a regular gun on someone, but they don't know if it's loaded, or if the safety is still on, if the gun is cocked...they're not going to take a chance on that. People don't like to take chances with their lives, and cops aren't superhuman, they're just people too.
The jerk is anyone who thinks they can spell however they feel like spelling and don't like being told it's wrong because they're lazy. But mostly for people where English is their primary language. If English is their secondary language, then it's far more understandable to make mistakes and that's not really who I'm talking about.
Agreed. The odd typo here and there can be expected, it happens. No big. I don't give a rat's patoot if someone types "abuot" by accident. .. those can be annoying because the writer appears so uneducated for a supposed adult, but it also depends on context: if they're lambasting someone else for being stupid or uneducated, it's intolerable.
However, persistent grammatical errors, like "brake" instead of "break", and a favorite, "Man, I was so waisted.." made repeatedly by the same person
"Hiah, Ah'm Darl, and this is mah other brother Daryl" ...
It's like a bad sequel. Who'd want to watch "Jaws 17" ? .. they just don't get the hint, it's game over.
Admittedly, no. But my Windows 7 box did it's fair share of that too, so it doesn't seem that different than what I had before. I am not installing something else, there're other ways to deal with it.
Nope. Home (because I had Win7 home premium). Well, I disabled *most* of it then I guess.
I turned off the telemetry and anti-privacy stuff, but FWIW, I actually like Win10. I had Win7 before. I'd used clonezilla to make an image if anything went belly up, and then did the typical online upgrade - I had no issues, except just one that took me a few days to realize: MS Office 2010 starter (Word and Excel only) wouldn't run, claiming it's incompatible with Windows10. I looked online and found some conflicting info, but ultimately there's a KB and a patch for Office 2010 available (released around the time of Windows8, I believe); after installing the patch and rebooting, Word and Excel now open fine.
So, in addition to the standard costs of investment, like materials and installation, he's got to jack up his insurance premium too. Good to know if you're deciding to install solar.