The military personnel CLEARLY thought that crowd had an RPG, AK and other weapons. You don't carry that type of weaponry for protection. Hell, you can even hear them talk about being worried the RPG was being readied to fire on them.
Jimbo explains to the boys how to hunt. Whenever they see a creature, they shoot it after yelling, "It's coming right for us!", so they can claim the shooting was in self-defense.
Are they young? I think the point of the article I didn't read was that young people with low IQs are more likely to ignore all the evidence that starting to smoke would be a bad idea. If they got addicted before being well-informed as to why it would be a bad idea to put yourself in that situation, then it's not about their smarts, it's about their environment.
Where Apple deserves much credit is making things pretty, masterful branding and marketting campaigns, and creating revolutionary business models; Apple really hasn't invented any groundbreaking hardware in a long time.
What apple does best is interfaces. I don't want their product because of hardware no one else has, I want it because I don't want the annoyances that the other guys don't bother to remove.
The iPad doesn't have a nice digitizer like a wacom or other tech. So sketchbook would suck massively on the iPad.
I've heard good things about it on the iPod, but this is an eight dollar app with the word "sketch" in the name from the makers of four-figure priced professional applications, so I don't really expect professional-level precision.
I don't think the original MP3 players sucked. I think they suffered from what many other consumer devices did. Buttons that break, headphone jacks that were only held together by solder, with no stress relief.
I was thinking more of how their software sucked. I had one (gift) that you had to change your file names to all-caps 8 character names, and the controls were horrible. The iPod synching with iTunes for the song transfer and the scrollwheel for navigation were HUGE improvements.
Maybe in 6 months when normal people get a look at one they will see it as the same 'magical' do-nothing-special device that the iPod and iPhone turned out to be.
I'm sorry if you think that's "going gaga over how cool it is", but I call that "looking at the bottom line". Then again, you think iPods "do nothing", while I'm still using my 2002 model as an external hard drive.
This is not just a tablet computer, this is a big-ass iPod
This is also exactly why so many slashdotters hate the thing. It's nothing more than an ipod so big I can't even fit it in my pocket. Why in the world would I want that?
I am currently wearing pants with pockets big enough for an iPad (old beat up cargo pants, it's laundry day). Although I'm not sure I would be very comfortable with an iPad in my pants... they're more of a purse/and/or/bag sort of item.
As for why I want one? A thingy I can draw on and watch movies with? WANT! Why wouldn't you want one? It's all shiny, and interactive, and wireless...
People, snap out of it. Its just a tablet computer. They have been around for over 10 years and they have never been all that special. Apple has you in some sort of hypnosis
There were MP3 players before the iPod. They sucked, Apple made one that did not suck, and from that they made billions.
This is not just a tablet computer, this is a big-ass iPod, and they're likely to make big-ass billions from it.
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I say when an individual is convicted of mis-using his corporation and corporate power that he have it be removed from him, (as well as any profits he might have earned at the time.)
I say that fines should be measured in percentages rather than in numbers: Speeding ticket? You pay 1% of your wealth; Fraud? You pay 200% of the fraudulent gains; etc.
It should be possible to redirect all this the anger and popular hatred from pedophiles to sociopaths
Sociopaths perform important functions in modern organisations. I don't like it anymore than you do but if the ship is going down somebody has to decide who gets a seat on a lifeboat.
So, the role of sociopaths is to sink ships and then take up space on the lifeboats? I dunno, man, I think we can do without.
I would regard the loss of my freedom as being as bad as the loss of my life.
You'd rather die in an earthquake than be stuck under the rubble until the rescue crews can get you out?
Back to punishment scenarios: They can give you back your freedom, even if they took years from you, but they can't give you back your life if they took ALL your years from you. I'm amazed that you not only needto have this explained to you, but that there were people modding up that baffling comment.
Which is entirely pointless, as vehicles similar to the ones being targeted for removal are being sold new. What's the point in destroying a perfectly good 10-year-old truck when someone else is buying a brand new one that is no safer, gets no better mileage and has no cleaner emissions?
I worked for one of these programs for a summer. The point was to get people with vehicles from before 1996 off the roads, because the ozone emissions standards changed that year. That and getting people to check their tire pressure, for fuel economy.
And yeah, SUVs need to have their little "farm equipment" subsidy removed (retroactively, I say! Grrr! Revenge!).
As raising the CAFE has proven time and again, every time they are raised, they have the effect of increasing the amount of time older, less-efficient cars will remain in service, instead of being replaced
That's why they do "cash for clunkers" incentives.
Clearly the answer is to convert Humanity from a Sexual Species that reproduces via Sexual Mating, to one that is Asexual and reproduces via Asexual technology assisted Cloning.
Yeah, like I'm gonna use that cloning machine after you've been in it. Ewww...
The question is how may fuck-ups where there before they got caught. And how many fuck-ups are there in the rest of the automotive industry that just haven't surfaced (because of any one of a number of reasons)...
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.
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The military personnel CLEARLY thought that crowd had an RPG, AK and other weapons. You don't carry that type of weaponry for protection. Hell, you can even hear them talk about being worried the RPG was being readied to fire on them.
Jimbo explains to the boys how to hunt. Whenever they see a creature, they shoot it after yelling, "It's coming right for us!", so they can claim the shooting was in self-defense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcano_(South_Park)#Plot
I know a lot of very smart people that smoke.
Are they young? I think the point of the article I didn't read was that young people with low IQs are more likely to ignore all the evidence that starting to smoke would be a bad idea. If they got addicted before being well-informed as to why it would be a bad idea to put yourself in that situation, then it's not about their smarts, it's about their environment.
Under bush the liberals/dems wallowed in paranoia.
Under obama the conservatives/repubs wallow in paranoia.
Under Bush protesters were put in "free speech zone" cages placed well out of view and hearing range.
Under Obama protesters are allowed within spitting distance.
I see a change.
Where Apple deserves much credit is making things pretty, masterful branding and marketting campaigns, and creating revolutionary business models; Apple really hasn't invented any groundbreaking hardware in a long time.
What apple does best is interfaces. I don't want their product because of hardware no one else has, I want it because I don't want the annoyances that the other guys don't bother to remove.
The iPad doesn't have a nice digitizer like a wacom or other tech. So sketchbook would suck massively on the iPad.
I've heard good things about it on the iPod, but this is an eight dollar app with the word "sketch" in the name from the makers of four-figure priced professional applications, so I don't really expect professional-level precision.
It does less than a similarly equipped laptop, and for only twice the price!
Speaking as someone who wants an iPad but won't get one for that very reason, I say mod that guy up.
You can do those things with just about any electronic device on the market in the past 10 years...
WRONG. These devices are all about consumption, not creation.
Hey, Lex, chill out and look at the first thing I would buy for an iPad: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=6848332
I don't think the original MP3 players sucked. I think they suffered from what many other consumer devices did. Buttons that break, headphone jacks that were only held together by solder, with no stress relief.
I was thinking more of how their software sucked. I had one (gift) that you had to change your file names to all-caps 8 character names, and the controls were horrible. The iPod synching with iTunes for the song transfer and the scrollwheel for navigation were HUGE improvements.
Maybe in 6 months when normal people get a look at one they will see it as the same 'magical' do-nothing-special device that the iPod and iPhone turned out to be.
And then they'll buy them by the tens of millions every year? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.svg
I'm sorry if you think that's "going gaga over how cool it is", but I call that "looking at the bottom line". Then again, you think iPods "do nothing", while I'm still using my 2002 model as an external hard drive.
This is also exactly why so many slashdotters hate the thing. It's nothing more than an ipod so big I can't even fit it in my pocket. Why in the world would I want that?
I am currently wearing pants with pockets big enough for an iPad (old beat up cargo pants, it's laundry day).
Although I'm not sure I would be very comfortable with an iPad in my pants... they're more of a purse/and/or/bag sort of item.
As for why I want one? A thingy I can draw on and watch movies with? WANT! Why wouldn't you want one? It's all shiny, and interactive, and wireless...
So the solution to genetic privacy is for us all to clone ourselves!
Good thing we"ll have all those genegeneered crops to feed them clones.
I have a 95 yr old neighbor who uses an old Windows machine and AOL dialup.
So what you're saying is that the iPad is a way to put him out of his misery without resorting to euthanasia?
People, snap out of it. Its just a tablet computer. They have been around for over 10 years and they have never been all that special. Apple has you in some sort of hypnosis
There were MP3 players before the iPod. They sucked, Apple made one that did not suck, and from that they made billions.
This is not just a tablet computer, this is a big-ass iPod, and they're likely to make big-ass billions from it.
I say when an individual is convicted of mis-using his corporation and corporate power that he have it be removed from him, (as well as any profits he might have earned at the time.)
I say that fines should be measured in percentages rather than in numbers: Speeding ticket? You pay 1% of your wealth; Fraud? You pay 200% of the fraudulent gains; etc.
It should be possible to redirect all this the anger and popular hatred from pedophiles to sociopaths
Sociopaths perform important functions in modern organisations. I don't like it anymore than you do but if the ship is going down somebody has to decide who gets a seat on a lifeboat.
So, the role of sociopaths is to sink ships and then take up space on the lifeboats? I dunno, man, I think we can do without.
The criminal justice system is for justice, not revenge.
That's the exact opposite of what I have always observed. I guess I'm a cynic and you're a believer.
I would regard the loss of my freedom as being as bad as the loss of my life.
You'd rather die in an earthquake than be stuck under the rubble until the rescue crews can get you out?
Back to punishment scenarios: They can give you back your freedom, even if they took years from you, but they can't give you back your life if they took ALL your years from you. I'm amazed that you not only needto have this explained to you, but that there were people modding up that baffling comment.
Which is entirely pointless, as vehicles similar to the ones being targeted for removal are being sold new. What's the point in destroying a perfectly good 10-year-old truck when someone else is buying a brand new one that is no safer, gets no better mileage and has no cleaner emissions?
I worked for one of these programs for a summer. The point was to get people with vehicles from before 1996 off the roads, because the ozone emissions standards changed that year. That and getting people to check their tire pressure, for fuel economy.
And yeah, SUVs need to have their little "farm equipment" subsidy removed (retroactively, I say! Grrr! Revenge!).
As raising the CAFE has proven time and again, every time they are raised, they have the effect of increasing the amount of time older, less-efficient cars will remain in service, instead of being replaced
That's why they do "cash for clunkers" incentives.
Clearly the answer is to convert Humanity from a Sexual Species that reproduces via Sexual Mating, to one that is Asexual and reproduces via Asexual technology assisted Cloning.
Yeah, like I'm gonna use that cloning machine after you've been in it. Ewww...
fail.
hedonism is the pursuit of everything in EXCESS.
FAIL! Hedonism is a school of ethics which argues that pleasure is the only intrinsic good.
Unfortunately it seems it will take an outbreak of Gonorrhea 2.0 to get the lesson to stick.
Lessons do not stick on people who think enforced ignorance counts as education.
If you want an exciting life, go skydiving with your prospective girlfriend instead of s3x0r.
Yeah, like you're not getting laid after talking a chick skydiving. Come on!
The question is how may fuck-ups where there before they got caught. And how many fuck-ups are there in the rest of the automotive industry that just haven't surfaced (because of any one of a number of reasons)...
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
People who are illegally downloading and distributing their works are not a part of their customer base. You have to *buy* something to be a customer.
The people I know who download the most are the ones with the biggest DVD collections. They sample by downloading, and buy what they like.