Funny, last I booted I swore my netbook was a computer and not a phone. Granted, it's not a Spore-capable system, but it's still a desktop just like most were when XP came out. Unless you're talking about screen real estate, which then you're just getting dick-size into the picture. Especially since if you're desk based temporarily, you can VGA cable it to a monitor.
This usually tends to be the older ones, most in their 20's don't have this problem. So what started off with someone out of the blue trying to pinpoint Americans not liking sex, all the way to people over 20's being the older ones who don't like sex.
I'd first start by saying don't generalize, and realize that what you may have seen is a small minority of the world. Sex and sexually explicit content is sold daily in America, in and out of the mainstream within America.
That being said, who wants a cock flapping around in a picture that your child will be watching on tv?
Once we figure out a way to stop a massive hunk of matter hurdling through space, then we can get our robotic strip mining machines out to latch on and tear it apart. Probably in another year or two.
Since when did a poem become the doctrine of America? I realize it's been around for a long while, but it's symbolic, much like "in god we trust" on the currency.
Is it wrong that hundreds of millions of people blindly give away their personal information while Facebook wildly profits from it?
Yes. And it's not blindly. Recall that when a profile was set to private that the information was suddenly available. This was a couple years ago, and since then things have creeped up.
So, yes.
Are you somehow harmed by those hundreds of millions of people helping to effectively justify privacy invasion and a slow erosion of civil rights?
Remember what America fought for in 1776, by ideology? We like to continue the ideology, just a touch. I sincerely hope you're being a devils advocate and not really a douche.
Wtf... no one ever says their too cool for social networking (one gay ass name lol) People say they don't like the evil tactics of Facebook's administration. Get it right!
If you want to go down the philosophical trail, there is no true justice and fairness as it's mostly relative and subjective.
One civilization may believe that all life should be cherished, another may believe that a woman has the right to govern her own body. (e.g. abortion, birth control, etc)
One civilization may believe that when a person does a certain crime, they should have no mercy shown to them and be extinguished, another civilization may believe that every person's life is immutable and should never be humanly hindered. (European vs. Middle-eastern corporal punishment)
I'd have to agree.. be it playing video games, programming, tearing engines apart and putting them back together, or polishing/collecting antique glass bottles in the garage... it's about YOU then.
Of course, your relatives are usually pretty dear to you so you want to spend time with them as well, but you still have time to veg with an antique PS2 game as you open your 50 year old scotch that you bought at 30;)
You still fail to see the point. Not everyone will go to your site constantly to see your status. With a list of contacts, and a status update news page, you can see everything in one foul swoop.
I figure it this way, I fought it as much as I could but everyone left myspace, so I use facebook the same as I used myspace. I had a picture, a brief summary, pictures from (clean) things that I've been to and done, along with every real physical friend attached to that profile.
So basically it's myspace, but with a different interface, for me. Oh, and lots of "you buy you buy!!!!" kind of things on my screen.
The danger here is that by deploying battlefield robots like these, we take the inherent danger and horror of war down to an antiseptic alternative that is palatable.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, if antiseptic is a bad thing lol) the prime goal is to get to the other side for war, when going through the DMZ. The end result is not war entirely within the DMZ. Essentially the end result is the DMZ being a doorway, in the case of military action.
They are drones, not automated. A person controls it. Don't let the news hype it up as some computers-gone-wild fiasco, as they seem to be doing. "omg omg 7 talaban personnel were killed in xyz country by a drone!" which could be replaced by "omg omg 7 talaban personnel were killed in xyz country by airforce fighter squadron."
Besides, nothing's more pathetic than a libertarian whining that a free public service he enjoys is about to be cut off.
"free public service" is such a misnomer in this case, since it's not a free public service, but a advertisement-subsidized business plan much like radio was and still is. The public air waves used are enabling the model as well. It doesn't matter if you are a republican, democrat, libertarian, or whatever else political ideology. Something that's been around for 60+ years (and readily accepted by American families everywhere!) because of a vision of being able to sell those air waves.. well, that just screams foul.
You have a 5Gb cap monthly (at max) with a phone plan. Also, a smartphone is quite a bit less capable than a desktop computer simply because of the screen size and keyboard style. Not that I'm dismissing them, since I use them on a daily basis and they are the best thing since sliced bread. Using the name AOL and internet together in the same sentence while talking about Windows 95 is a little twisted since America Online fought hard to keep the internet externalized for the longest time. Remember, they were a content-provider in their eyes, and not an internet provider.
Dude, seriously. I *came* from rural Maryland. You do have dialup/cable modem/DSL... Okay maybe not DSL depending on the location to the CO. Granted, it's not as high of quality as closer to Virginia but still... it's available. Hell, even satellite internet is available no matter where you are in the continental United States of America.
Do you really think most countries have any interest in reviewing all the code in windows? or even in linux or any other OS for that matter? the size of such a task would be beyond belief and a constantly moving target.
While it would be a huge huge huge task, by no means would it be a moving target. Versions exist for a reason, which is why we have things called version control.
An organization/government can rip apart any version they wish to QA it, then freeze that version as 'stable' within their organization/government. It's how most (conventional) organizations operate.
if an employee doesn't take your payment, who will? I mean, even when I make a payment for a hotel through Expedia, hotels always want a credit card or they won't allow entry into the room. You're basically forced to do something stupid for the sake of the business owner...
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It's still the absolute best!
Pushing it to the netbooks is a bit of a stretch,
Funny, last I booted I swore my netbook was a computer and not a phone.
Granted, it's not a Spore-capable system, but it's still a desktop just like most were when XP came out.
Unless you're talking about screen real estate, which then you're just getting dick-size into the picture. Especially since if you're desk based temporarily, you can VGA cable it to a monitor.
This usually tends to be the older ones, most in their 20's don't have this problem.
So what started off with someone out of the blue trying to pinpoint Americans not liking sex, all the way to people over 20's being the older ones who don't like sex.
I'd first start by saying don't generalize, and realize that what you may have seen is a small minority of the world. Sex and sexually explicit content is sold daily in America, in and out of the mainstream within America.
That being said, who wants a cock flapping around in a picture that your child will be watching on tv?
Once we figure out a way to stop a massive hunk of matter hurdling through space, then we can get our robotic strip mining machines out to latch on and tear it apart.
Probably in another year or two.
Wyse terminals didn't only exist in the early 90's, they still exist and are used.
Not to mention that it's next to impossible to do a pump-and-run on a prepaid pump...
Since when did a poem become the doctrine of America?
I realize it's been around for a long while, but it's symbolic, much like "in god we trust" on the currency.
Is it wrong that hundreds of millions of people blindly give away their personal information while Facebook wildly profits from it?
Yes.
And it's not blindly. Recall that when a profile was set to private that the information was suddenly available.
This was a couple years ago, and since then things have creeped up.
So, yes.
Are you somehow harmed by those hundreds of millions of people helping to effectively justify privacy invasion and a slow erosion of civil rights?
Remember what America fought for in 1776, by ideology? We like to continue the ideology, just a touch.
I sincerely hope you're being a devils advocate and not really a douche.
Wtf... no one ever says their too cool for social networking (one gay ass name lol)
People say they don't like the evil tactics of Facebook's administration.
Get it right!
If you want to go down the philosophical trail, there is no true justice and fairness as it's mostly relative and subjective.
One civilization may believe that all life should be cherished, another may believe that a woman has the right to govern her own body. (e.g. abortion, birth control, etc)
One civilization may believe that when a person does a certain crime, they should have no mercy shown to them and be extinguished, another civilization may believe that every person's life is immutable and should never be humanly hindered. (European vs. Middle-eastern corporal punishment)
I'd have to agree.. be it playing video games, programming, tearing engines apart and putting them back together, or polishing/collecting antique glass bottles in the garage... it's about YOU then.
Of course, your relatives are usually pretty dear to you so you want to spend time with them as well, but you still have time to veg with an antique PS2 game as you open your 50 year old scotch that you bought at 30 ;)
You still fail to see the point. Not everyone will go to your site constantly to see your status.
With a list of contacts, and a status update news page, you can see everything in one foul swoop.
This stuffs been around for at least 5-7 years...
I figure it this way, I fought it as much as I could but everyone left myspace, so I use facebook the same as I used myspace. I had a picture, a brief summary, pictures from (clean) things that I've been to and done, along with every real physical friend attached to that profile.
So basically it's myspace, but with a different interface, for me.
Oh, and lots of "you buy you buy!!!!" kind of things on my screen.
The danger here is that by deploying battlefield robots like these, we take the inherent danger and horror of war down to an antiseptic alternative that is palatable.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, if antiseptic is a bad thing lol) the prime goal is to get to the other side for war, when going through the DMZ.
The end result is not war entirely within the DMZ. Essentially the end result is the DMZ being a doorway, in the case of military action.
Now that sounds like one hell of a weekly TV show :)
"Destruction in the Korean DMZ! 6 'bots go in, only one comes out! Friday at 8 on ESPN Ocho!"
They are drones, not automated.
A person controls it. Don't let the news hype it up as some computers-gone-wild fiasco, as they seem to be doing.
"omg omg 7 talaban personnel were killed in xyz country by a drone!"
which could be replaced by
"omg omg 7 talaban personnel were killed in xyz country by airforce fighter squadron."
They have to ask before anything happens.
What is it they are asking? They are at war, STILL.
The Korean war never ended, remember that.
Besides, nothing's more pathetic than a libertarian whining that a free public service he enjoys is about to be cut off.
"free public service" is such a misnomer in this case, since it's not a free public service, but a advertisement-subsidized business plan much like radio was and still is. The public air waves used are enabling the model as well.
It doesn't matter if you are a republican, democrat, libertarian, or whatever else political ideology. Something that's been around for 60+ years (and readily accepted by American families everywhere!) because of a vision of being able to sell those air waves.. well, that just screams foul.
You have a 5Gb cap monthly (at max) with a phone plan. Also, a smartphone is quite a bit less capable than a desktop computer simply because of the screen size and keyboard style. Not that I'm dismissing them, since I use them on a daily basis and they are the best thing since sliced bread.
Using the name AOL and internet together in the same sentence while talking about Windows 95 is a little twisted since America Online fought hard to keep the internet externalized for the longest time. Remember, they were a content-provider in their eyes, and not an internet provider.
Dude, seriously.
I *came* from rural Maryland. You do have dialup/cable modem/DSL... Okay maybe not DSL depending on the location to the CO. Granted, it's not as high of quality as closer to Virginia but still... it's available.
Hell, even satellite internet is available no matter where you are in the continental United States of America.
If your a bush-ite, that'd be the wording.
Information is data, it's not an item, btw.
I figure I should throw that out there before people start foaming at the mouth about how nothing is free.
Everyone generalizes, it seems....
I also worked in a call center, and while we had the same needs, we didn't get anything like that.
You obviously worked at another call center, then.
Do you really think most countries have any interest in reviewing all the code in windows? or even in linux or any other OS for that matter? the size of such a task would be beyond belief and a constantly moving target.
While it would be a huge huge huge task, by no means would it be a moving target.
Versions exist for a reason, which is why we have things called version control.
An organization/government can rip apart any version they wish to QA it, then freeze that version as 'stable' within their organization/government. It's how most (conventional) organizations operate.
if an employee doesn't take your payment, who will?
I mean, even when I make a payment for a hotel through Expedia, hotels always want a credit card or they won't allow entry into the room. You're basically forced to do something stupid for the sake of the business owner...