I then must worry about "mission ciritcal" NORMAL people, like ambulance drivers and firefighters...
Wait. Every time you drive a car someone is at risk. Screw the don't drink and drive thing, we need don't drink a coke and drive!
Moderation. Yes, repeat that word. Real adults know their limits. Sure a pot of coffee will make me purform less well, but 2-3 cups has no real mental imparement. (for me), and thus I indulge.
Fat foods, and a lazy life style could also hinder their abilities. As could dating. Freindship. Or anything else causing stress.
iTunes is always open (I'm a slight audiophile) Meaning get an unsorted track, or a bunch of them.
Now, for the folder method:
open HD (add extra step for windows since it is My Computer -> C:/) Navigate down to folder. (3 deep for me, or 6 without the finder sidebar) Find subfolder (sorting through 300 folders for me) Drop.
Now, the iTunes method
Drag and drop. file->update iPod. (optional)
K, now I want to update my non-iPod (with 15g+ HD) Find a 3rd party app to do it for me. And pray.
Now for my iPod. Plug it in. Wait 3 secs for music/calender/phone stuff to update Done.
Now for my 512 flash mp3-player Go through, find what I want to keep, delete rest. Go through 3000+ songs, picking and choosing what I want. Go over 512, deliberate on what to keep. wash rinse repeat every damn day.
I had a little 512 flash player (I think a Memorex, or some such) before I got my 4G 20g iPod. Even with such a small music capacity it GOT really tedious to pre-plan what I wanted to hear for the next day, or whatever. I don't really have the time to go through 3k+ songs, to pick what I want to hear. Sure, it only takes 45 min, but that is 45 min I could be doing something productive, or fun, rather than trying to pre-anticipate my erratic musical taste. ("hmmmm, weather says it might rain today, perhaps I should listen to the beatles? Or is Dead Kennedys more rain music?")
About two years ago I switched over it iTunes, since I got sick of messing with tags and directories. I guess it is just me, the busier I get, the less I want to slave over my technology. I really like dragging a file into iTunes, and having it show up on BOTH my mp3 player AND my library. Simple as that. Nothing more.
And Smart Playlists are just bloody awsome. Easy to use, but powerful. I wish they had slightly more options, but... hey.
If not wanting to spend an hour or so messing with files when I don't have to an idiot. I'll proudly wear that badge. I like things to be easy, and convenient.
Then again, thanks to iTunes (not iPod, that came later) I bought a Mac, and love it. Keep your work, my computer does what it wants, with no maintence from me. The less time I waste making things work, the better my life becomes.
Meh, I quit playing awhile ago because being a druid was so tedious in group (heal more). Perhaps I should go back now, seems like they finally made us viable, are druids still forced to heal after the patch? If yes, then you don't have to worry about them being over powered, since they aren't allowed to play still.
If not, you still don't have to worry much, since they can't do EVERYTHING, when in feral they have no mana, so just try to out last them, they'll run out of heals quick enough. In their in caster gear, just trinket out of roots, they have no armor AC. If in MK, then they have no health whatsoever.
It's a gear class, you need to compensate for their gear, not their abilities.
Perhaps you should be bitching about shammies? They are the ALPHA overpowered hybrid. We were the underpowered one, we got buffed, next is pallies, meaning we will be underpowered again.:)
Its like Blade Runner, it is litterally impossible to buy the original version of the movie, the only thing that exists is the damn directors cut, which I find inferior, and not as I remember watching it.
Same thing wish Starwars I don't like the hokey CG, the idiotic PCing of Han, or any of that, I want the fricken original, the director is a moron, but the production stands as good. And moreso I WANT THE ORIGINAL WORK, thats all that matters, everything else is a fictional footnote on a fiction.
Its okay to do it, as long as the original is there. Now we're dealing with a generation of kids who have never seen Blade Runner as it REALLY was, only the inauthentic version. Same with StarWars, these kids will never see the Original STARWARS, they will only see the fake ones.
Errr... No one forced me to get iTunes, no one locked me out of switching back to Winamp after trying it. I discovered that is was a superior product (don't even mention WMP). It was superior, I kept it. Seems very free market. If they become #1 for this, GOOD! This is how things should work, superior products win, this is good, as long as they don't do something illegal to do so, OR leverage people to their product by nerfarious means, like locking out competition.
Last time I checked there are several competeing software players.
Ditto with the iPod (which I got after to switching to iTunes and iTMS because of their superiority to the rest of the feild) after trying several other players (granted, not HD ones, only flash), I found the iPod a better investment. Simple. Stable. No tweaking needed. Thus I buy an iPod, others feel the same way and do the same. Apple becomes #1 in portable music players, great, free market at work again. Superior product. No one forced me to pick and ipod over a x. iTunes did not shut me out from getting a different player, since I could let iTunes handle music, and a combination of directory tree, software, and jHymn handle putting music on my x.
So far we have two choices, dictated by a superior (as perceived by the public) product, within a free market. Sorry if this principle leads to a conclusion that you do not agree with, blaim the free market. In NO WAY IS APPLE LEVERAGING THEIR PRODUCT TO MONOPOLY LIKE MSFT. They made it easy, they made is elogent, they made it better, and people use it, but are free to choose otherwise with no difficulty.
And iTMS does not interupt the free market in any way, since THERE is competition, granted not for the iPod, but if it became viable to switch (if iTMS stopped being the superior service), people CAN. The iPod is not a permanent attachment to your body.
It's like saying Apple has an OS monopoly, then citing that OS X only runs on Macs (yeah, I know it runs on x86 with tweaking too). It's an inane statement, since people CAN buy a PC with Windows/Lunux/BeOS/etc very easily, choice still exists, with relatively few (non-economic) restrictions.
CS is what made the realistic FPS GOOD. People talk of Doom being the first real FPS, even if Wolfenstein came first, Doom still defined the genre. CS is still the best realistic shooter out there, which is saying a lot considering its age.
If I am an old crank for craving quality and ingenuity over gore, sex, and pretty, sobeit. I can live with it. But I guess only us old cranks want QUALITY over FLASH. Flashy games are great, but sadly they don't hold my attention anymore, there its all smoke and mirrors with no substance.
I wish there was more old cranks who want quality over idiot appeal (wooooooo shiny!).
Err... as an adult, I can say blood/guts stopped being a selling point sometime shortly after high school. Yes, if your a kid trying to be cool, or more adult then blood and guts are titillating, but once you grow up you'd rather have something with some depth, story, plot, etc. ESPECIALLY Novelty, mind, I really stopped gaming since there is very little innovation (yes, there is some, like that katma-*cough*) game.
Yes, we were spoiled, those of us growing up in the time between NES and SNES, since that is when games innovated, thats when stories were more prevelant, because of the lack of graphics gameplay was king. Sure, there was a crap load of crap too, but qualitatively a higher percentage of games were solid.
I stopped RPGs because I get sick of watching 8 hour cinematics, with weak gameplay (Xenosaga and all the post PSX Metal Gear's come to mind). I stopped FPS when everything became a weak version of CS (Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six, ad naseum). MMO's were fun briefly, but are infested with young wankers. RTS is still decent, especially waiting for Chris Taylors new TA-like-game.
I just don't find the amusement in blowing up people for the sake of blowing up people anymore. It really stops being entertaining after puberty. If you could link that with solid play, and an engaging story, then perhaps I'll join in.
Though, Oblivion holds promise too... Morrowind was the last great game made, IMO.
I believe in CHOICE until in infringes on others, and by others I mean those who are not yet living as well.
Your SUV is hurtful, AND probably unnecessary. Thus superfluous.
I like incentives, AND engeneering, since by nature neither REMOVES choice, but weighs it towards more responcible, and less detrimental actions. If you still feel the need to drive an SUV for no real purpose except that of a status symbol, please be will to pay MUCH more, and to FORGO incentives that others who act responcibly get. But the choice is still wholly in your hands, no perceived freedom lost.
Freedom only should exist with responcibiliy. If you lack responcibility, then you should lack freedom.
Not really true, I have an RP character name Bunnicula, due to request I tried to tell a GM to change it, since my own name infringes on their TOS (Copywrite, fictional character), but the GM refused. Now I've gotten 100 people to complain, and I still am Bunnicula.
It seems sporadic. My friends auction mule was Gnomedepot, and they forced him to change it, mine is Gnomebase, and I've never had a problem other than being called chinese.
I disagree. When I walk a mile to work, and someone drives the same mile, I view them as more irresponsible and lazy than me. Still not a political thing.
I advocate recycling, and walking/biking to work (within reason), still not political.
Personal view against lazy asses, perhaps, but not representing a politcal view.
I don't think anyone thinks they are better than anyone else, BUT when presented with someone like you use as an example, I must admit, I probably am better than them, since they are an asshole, whereas I am not.
The price of gas is not an incentive in the same meaning as a conscious incentive. The price of gas was not engineered for people to be responsible for their own actions. Yes, there are inadvertant incentives to living responsibly, but the more the better. Even if some greedy asshole doesn't care, it doesn't matter since it might just get more people to do the right thing.
Woe for the rest of us who use it as meaning sustainable/enviromentally freindly, we suddenly become socialists (not that I see a huge problem with that, even).
Just because a wacko political party uses the word... I'm still a democrat, even if I am not a member of their party, I'm still a libertarian, even if I really have fundamental disagreement with the party who stole these words far right doctrine. Just because of wacko ideology stole the word does not mean the word loses its original meaning.
I am green, but not in the Green Party. I am a democrat, in so far as I beleive in democracy I am a libertarian in that I support liberty and buy the philosophical premise of free-will and nondeterminism.
In Arizona there really isn't much reason for these things. Though I do know more than one family here (Flagstaff) that keep a small fleet of dualies. But never actually haul a damn thing.
Sure, there is some justification, since we have ranchers and such out here, but not enough to warrent EVERYONE owning one of those bloody abortions.
In fact, the very word "green" is political, as it refers to a progressivist liberal party.
Bollocks. I didn't know my recycling, or riding my bike instead of driving was a political action, I thought it was a moral action. But we live in a time of political idealistic wackos, who think that a proper rejection of a claim is to call it the opposite end of the political spectrum.
A human and citizens job should be in part to steward the enviroment for the future. I see no reasons that corporations should be exempt from this. I think they have MORE responsibility to the enviorment than an individual citizen, since they have more means, more profit, and more culbability to the problems that exist today. there is no ethical way to reject that premise, really. (but I forget that this is/., where greed reins supreme, and ethics sit in the corner, a poor slave to greed)
I don't see the word FORCE anywhere in the parent, no one is FORCING you to do anything. They are offering an incentive to do something good. It is sad that the incentive needs to exist, much less that people like you are arguing that there shouldn't even be that.
Whats wrong for a company to act responsibly, and offer a means for their employees to do the same? A lot of companies have earned a name for not being purely greedy, but also trying to do something good above and beyond profit.
Not really true. There is no law against having 10.3 with Konfabulator and Quicksilver instead of coughing up 80-140 for 10.4 with Dashboard and Spotlight. The 3rd party apps still exist, and are still used. I actually do like Konfabulator better than Dashboard, I don't use it though, because I never really found it too useful, I find Dashboard less so. Really, nothing is stopping you from buying far superior services from other companies.
I really can't think of many other things packaged with OS X stolen from other companies besides what came with 10.4.
Or you could look at it as they give the user what they want, as evident by the functions popularity. Same thing put another way, doesn't seem half bad. This is universal to OSs. If it wasn't we wouldn't even have windowing systems.
Haven't read his book, skimmed TFA since it doesn't apply to me, but...
I am a Mac user and find it vastly superior to XP, but I'm not going to be your typical zealot. XP is FULL of flaws, and this leads to 3 possible solutions, Switch to OS X, switch to Linux or the ilk, or fi Windows. The last one is out of our reach, leaving the previous two, both of which are viable, and both of which ultimatly boil to to personal taste/practicallity. Linux wasn't my thing (not developed enough, to much kludge and ductape, got plain sick of maintence and working for my computer), but it might be yours.
Whats wrong with XP/MS? Security, natch. Even with the security SP it still is about as secure as something that isn't secure. Active X is a slayer. XP itself is a VAST improvement for MS, but still has a hard time having over 30 days uptime without a crash. I generally take a day off once a week or month to antivirus/spybot/adaware/reg clean/defrag, which is damn obnoxious. I don't like having a handy CLI for when I want to get my hands dirty (BSD for OS X and Linux for... Linux). Sure, XP has ghetto DOS emulation, but it lacks ANY power when compaired to OS X or Linux. I don't like any OS where I need to do undo maintence to. I don't like having to reinstall XP every once in awhile, and where that is the best option for most soft problems. I don't much like the look of it, and customizing it takes a grip of time (who thought a blue start menu was pretty?), and even in 98 mode, it looks like crap still. I don't like a shit ton of completely hidden and obscure features. I don't like the OS telling me what to use for tasks, and taking a performance hit if I don't. Along with that, I don't like software integrated into the OS as it takes away my choice.
As to why I chose OS X (ignore this if you hate Mac talk), my XP Box ate it from bad hardware, and I realized that I really didn't feel like taking the time to fix it, EVER AGAIN. I am too damn busy to be spending time fixing and babying my computer. I must agree with the Apple folk, a computer should be an appliance, it should sit there quietly when not used, and do what it is supposed to do when it is, with no real interference from me. Neither windows or Linux (as of yet, I do have hope) has this ease of use yet. I also like things to be powerful, but simple. Yes, Macs have a dumbed down, easy to use interface, this used to irk me, but now I think it is the best thing. I used to think that Macs were not powerful because of their easy colorful look, but then I started messing with terminal. Also macs can use Quicksilver and XP/Linux boxes can't. QS is like tabbed browsing, you can't go back after using it. Windows, vanilla OS X, and Linux boxes feel gimped now.
I don't think we need a study. If a man has intercourse with a man, he was either choosing it, or he was raped. That's not genetic, so it is either a choice or a rape. Granted there might be other factors that might effect a man's decision, but it finally comes down to his choice.
I somewhat lean towards the "homosexuality as choice" camp, as un PC as that is now, but it does bring up some interesting thoughts on choice, biology, social conditioning, etc. Since at first sight homosexuality does not seem a logical decision, and there is some evidence of very early homosexual preferences, before social conditioning could lead to such a choice.
The act of homosexual intercourse is, of course, a choice, just like any act of heterosexual intercourse is. But the guiding force behind homosexual intercourse is what is interesting, what causes such a choice to become appearent. To me as a straight male, the choice to have homosexual sex is there, but does not become appearent ever, unless I take the philosophical view of thing, but pragmatically it does not exist to me (i.e. when I see a male walking down the street, I do not see them as an object of sexual desire, as opposed to an attractive woman). What makes this choice evident in the homosexual faction of society? Why do they seem to ignore/repress/lack the seemingly normal heterosexual urges, and instead go for the other side? We must examine the deep causes.
I don't think, at this point in time, there is an answer. We cannot pin down personal volition as the cause, nor can we say some form of biological predestination. Granted both of these, taken individually, are overly simplistic. But an answer to the deeper source of these urges would be valuable to philosophy and all the biological/behavioral sciences.
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I then must worry about "mission ciritcal" NORMAL people, like ambulance drivers and firefighters...
Wait. Every time you drive a car someone is at risk. Screw the don't drink and drive thing, we need don't drink a coke and drive!
Moderation. Yes, repeat that word. Real adults know their limits. Sure a pot of coffee will make me purform less well, but 2-3 cups has no real mental imparement. (for me), and thus I indulge.
Fat foods, and a lazy life style could also hinder their abilities. As could dating. Freindship. Or anything else causing stress.
iTunes is always open (I'm a slight audiophile)
Meaning get an unsorted track, or a bunch of them.
Now, for the folder method:
open HD (add extra step for windows since it is My Computer -> C:/)
Navigate down to folder. (3 deep for me, or 6 without the finder sidebar)
Find subfolder (sorting through 300 folders for me)
Drop.
Now, the iTunes method
Drag and drop.
file->update iPod. (optional)
K, now I want to update my non-iPod (with 15g+ HD)
Find a 3rd party app to do it for me. And pray.
Now for my iPod.
Plug it in. Wait 3 secs for music/calender/phone stuff to update
Done.
Now for my 512 flash mp3-player
Go through, find what I want to keep, delete rest.
Go through 3000+ songs, picking and choosing what I want.
Go over 512, deliberate on what to keep.
wash rinse repeat every damn day.
I had a little 512 flash player (I think a Memorex, or some such) before I got my 4G 20g iPod. Even with such a small music capacity it GOT really tedious to pre-plan what I wanted to hear for the next day, or whatever. I don't really have the time to go through 3k+ songs, to pick what I want to hear. Sure, it only takes 45 min, but that is 45 min I could be doing something productive, or fun, rather than trying to pre-anticipate my erratic musical taste. ("hmmmm, weather says it might rain today, perhaps I should listen to the beatles? Or is Dead Kennedys more rain music?")
About two years ago I switched over it iTunes, since I got sick of messing with tags and directories. I guess it is just me, the busier I get, the less I want to slave over my technology. I really like dragging a file into iTunes, and having it show up on BOTH my mp3 player AND my library. Simple as that. Nothing more.
And Smart Playlists are just bloody awsome. Easy to use, but powerful. I wish they had slightly more options, but... hey.
If not wanting to spend an hour or so messing with files when I don't have to an idiot. I'll proudly wear that badge. I like things to be easy, and convenient.
Then again, thanks to iTunes (not iPod, that came later) I bought a Mac, and love it. Keep your work, my computer does what it wants, with no maintence from me. The less time I waste making things work, the better my life becomes.
Here in Northern Arizona we use cinders, cheap, plentiful.
While it works, it looks ugly as hell, huge drifts of black slush on all sides of the road.
I can MT a hound in healing, sadly I can only do it for 20secs.
I really have been avoiding WoW, perhaps I should head back and give Panthra some lovin'.
Meh, I quit playing awhile ago because being a druid was so tedious in group (heal more). Perhaps I should go back now, seems like they finally made us viable, are druids still forced to heal after the patch? If yes, then you don't have to worry about them being over powered, since they aren't allowed to play still.
:)
If not, you still don't have to worry much, since they can't do EVERYTHING, when in feral they have no mana, so just try to out last them, they'll run out of heals quick enough. In their in caster gear, just trinket out of roots, they have no armor AC. If in MK, then they have no health whatsoever.
It's a gear class, you need to compensate for their gear, not their abilities.
Perhaps you should be bitching about shammies? They are the ALPHA overpowered hybrid. We were the underpowered one, we got buffed, next is pallies, meaning we will be underpowered again.
Boohoo!
I didn't care then, I sure as heck don't care now.
Oh no! Some asshats violated a contract! Oh no! They had to stop doing it!
Damn Blizz for protecting their IP! How dare they!
Its like Blade Runner, it is litterally impossible to buy the original version of the movie, the only thing that exists is the damn directors cut, which I find inferior, and not as I remember watching it.
Same thing wish Starwars I don't like the hokey CG, the idiotic PCing of Han, or any of that, I want the fricken original, the director is a moron, but the production stands as good. And moreso I WANT THE ORIGINAL WORK, thats all that matters, everything else is a fictional footnote on a fiction.
Its okay to do it, as long as the original is there. Now we're dealing with a generation of kids who have never seen Blade Runner as it REALLY was, only the inauthentic version. Same with StarWars, these kids will never see the Original STARWARS, they will only see the fake ones.
Errr... No one forced me to get iTunes, no one locked me out of switching back to Winamp after trying it. I discovered that is was a superior product (don't even mention WMP). It was superior, I kept it. Seems very free market. If they become #1 for this, GOOD! This is how things should work, superior products win, this is good, as long as they don't do something illegal to do so, OR leverage people to their product by nerfarious means, like locking out competition.
Last time I checked there are several competeing software players.
Ditto with the iPod (which I got after to switching to iTunes and iTMS because of their superiority to the rest of the feild) after trying several other players (granted, not HD ones, only flash), I found the iPod a better investment. Simple. Stable. No tweaking needed. Thus I buy an iPod, others feel the same way and do the same. Apple becomes #1 in portable music players, great, free market at work again. Superior product. No one forced me to pick and ipod over a x. iTunes did not shut me out from getting a different player, since I could let iTunes handle music, and a combination of directory tree, software, and jHymn handle putting music on my x.
So far we have two choices, dictated by a superior (as perceived by the public) product, within a free market. Sorry if this principle leads to a conclusion that you do not agree with, blaim the free market. In NO WAY IS APPLE LEVERAGING THEIR PRODUCT TO MONOPOLY LIKE MSFT. They made it easy, they made is elogent, they made it better, and people use it, but are free to choose otherwise with no difficulty.
And iTMS does not interupt the free market in any way, since THERE is competition, granted not for the iPod, but if it became viable to switch (if iTMS stopped being the superior service), people CAN. The iPod is not a permanent attachment to your body.
It's like saying Apple has an OS monopoly, then citing that OS X only runs on Macs (yeah, I know it runs on x86 with tweaking too). It's an inane statement, since people CAN buy a PC with Windows/Lunux/BeOS/etc very easily, choice still exists, with relatively few (non-economic) restrictions.
CS is what made the realistic FPS GOOD. People talk of Doom being the first real FPS, even if Wolfenstein came first, Doom still defined the genre. CS is still the best realistic shooter out there, which is saying a lot considering its age.
If I am an old crank for craving quality and ingenuity over gore, sex, and pretty, sobeit. I can live with it. But I guess only us old cranks want QUALITY over FLASH. Flashy games are great, but sadly they don't hold my attention anymore, there its all smoke and mirrors with no substance.
I wish there was more old cranks who want quality over idiot appeal (wooooooo shiny!).
And let them trust me that Bunnicula is NOT an RP-like name for an Orc Warlock... PLEASE! My name, I'm the expert.
Err... as an adult, I can say blood/guts stopped being a selling point sometime shortly after high school. Yes, if your a kid trying to be cool, or more adult then blood and guts are titillating, but once you grow up you'd rather have something with some depth, story, plot, etc. ESPECIALLY Novelty, mind, I really stopped gaming since there is very little innovation (yes, there is some, like that katma-*cough*) game.
Yes, we were spoiled, those of us growing up in the time between NES and SNES, since that is when games innovated, thats when stories were more prevelant, because of the lack of graphics gameplay was king. Sure, there was a crap load of crap too, but qualitatively a higher percentage of games were solid.
I stopped RPGs because I get sick of watching 8 hour cinematics, with weak gameplay (Xenosaga and all the post PSX Metal Gear's come to mind). I stopped FPS when everything became a weak version of CS (Tom Clancy, Rainbow Six, ad naseum). MMO's were fun briefly, but are infested with young wankers. RTS is still decent, especially waiting for Chris Taylors new TA-like-game.
I just don't find the amusement in blowing up people for the sake of blowing up people anymore. It really stops being entertaining after puberty. If you could link that with solid play, and an engaging story, then perhaps I'll join in.
Though, Oblivion holds promise too... Morrowind was the last great game made, IMO.
Wouldn't call /. lore wisdom.
Amusing, yes.
Wise, oxymoronical.
(I miss the caplessness, now whoring seems so empty)
I believe in CHOICE until in infringes on others, and by others I mean those who are not yet living as well.
Your SUV is hurtful, AND probably unnecessary. Thus superfluous.
I like incentives, AND engeneering, since by nature neither REMOVES choice, but weighs it towards more responcible, and less detrimental actions. If you still feel the need to drive an SUV for no real purpose except that of a status symbol, please be will to pay MUCH more, and to FORGO incentives that others who act responcibly get. But the choice is still wholly in your hands, no perceived freedom lost.
Freedom only should exist with responcibiliy. If you lack responcibility, then you should lack freedom.
Not really true, I have an RP character name Bunnicula, due to request I tried to tell a GM to change it, since my own name infringes on their TOS (Copywrite, fictional character), but the GM refused. Now I've gotten 100 people to complain, and I still am Bunnicula.
It seems sporadic. My friends auction mule was Gnomedepot, and they forced him to change it, mine is Gnomebase, and I've never had a problem other than being called chinese.
I was thinking real world, sorry.
I disagree. When I walk a mile to work, and someone drives the same mile, I view them as more irresponsible and lazy than me. Still not a political thing.
I advocate recycling, and walking/biking to work (within reason), still not political.
Personal view against lazy asses, perhaps, but not representing a politcal view.
I don't think anyone thinks they are better than anyone else, BUT when presented with someone like you use as an example, I must admit, I probably am better than them, since they are an asshole, whereas I am not.
The price of gas is not an incentive in the same meaning as a conscious incentive. The price of gas was not engineered for people to be responsible for their own actions. Yes, there are inadvertant incentives to living responsibly, but the more the better. Even if some greedy asshole doesn't care, it doesn't matter since it might just get more people to do the right thing.
So, it shares a common word.
Woe for the rest of us who use it as meaning sustainable/enviromentally freindly, we suddenly become socialists (not that I see a huge problem with that, even).
Just because a wacko political party uses the word... I'm still a democrat, even if I am not a member of their party, I'm still a libertarian, even if I really have fundamental disagreement with the party who stole these words far right doctrine. Just because of wacko ideology stole the word does not mean the word loses its original meaning.
I am green, but not in the Green Party.
I am a democrat, in so far as I beleive in democracy
I am a libertarian in that I support liberty and buy the philosophical premise of free-will and nondeterminism.
In Arizona there really isn't much reason for these things. Though I do know more than one family here (Flagstaff) that keep a small fleet of dualies. But never actually haul a damn thing.
Sure, there is some justification, since we have ranchers and such out here, but not enough to warrent EVERYONE owning one of those bloody abortions.
In fact, the very word "green" is political, as it refers to a progressivist liberal party.
/., where greed reins supreme, and ethics sit in the corner, a poor slave to greed)
Bollocks. I didn't know my recycling, or riding my bike instead of driving was a political action, I thought it was a moral action. But we live in a time of political idealistic wackos, who think that a proper rejection of a claim is to call it the opposite end of the political spectrum.
A human and citizens job should be in part to steward the enviroment for the future. I see no reasons that corporations should be exempt from this. I think they have MORE responsibility to the enviorment than an individual citizen, since they have more means, more profit, and more culbability to the problems that exist today. there is no ethical way to reject that premise, really. (but I forget that this is
I don't see the word FORCE anywhere in the parent, no one is FORCING you to do anything. They are offering an incentive to do something good. It is sad that the incentive needs to exist, much less that people like you are arguing that there shouldn't even be that.
Whats wrong for a company to act responsibly, and offer a means for their employees to do the same? A lot of companies have earned a name for not being purely greedy, but also trying to do something good above and beyond profit.
Actually most galleries use around 3000k for lighting, even if it not accurate, people prefer it more than natural 5000k light.
Not really true. There is no law against having 10.3 with Konfabulator and Quicksilver instead of coughing up 80-140 for 10.4 with Dashboard and Spotlight. The 3rd party apps still exist, and are still used. I actually do like Konfabulator better than Dashboard, I don't use it though, because I never really found it too useful, I find Dashboard less so. Really, nothing is stopping you from buying far superior services from other companies.
I really can't think of many other things packaged with OS X stolen from other companies besides what came with 10.4.
Or you could look at it as they give the user what they want, as evident by the functions popularity. Same thing put another way, doesn't seem half bad. This is universal to OSs. If it wasn't we wouldn't even have windowing systems.
Haven't read his book, skimmed TFA since it doesn't apply to me, but...
I am a Mac user and find it vastly superior to XP, but I'm not going to be your typical zealot. XP is FULL of flaws, and this leads to 3 possible solutions, Switch to OS X, switch to Linux or the ilk, or fi Windows. The last one is out of our reach, leaving the previous two, both of which are viable, and both of which ultimatly boil to to personal taste/practicallity. Linux wasn't my thing (not developed enough, to much kludge and ductape, got plain sick of maintence and working for my computer), but it might be yours.
Whats wrong with XP/MS? Security, natch. Even with the security SP it still is about as secure as something that isn't secure. Active X is a slayer. XP itself is a VAST improvement for MS, but still has a hard time having over 30 days uptime without a crash. I generally take a day off once a week or month to antivirus/spybot/adaware/reg clean/defrag, which is damn obnoxious. I don't like having a handy CLI for when I want to get my hands dirty (BSD for OS X and Linux for... Linux). Sure, XP has ghetto DOS emulation, but it lacks ANY power when compaired to OS X or Linux. I don't like any OS where I need to do undo maintence to. I don't like having to reinstall XP every once in awhile, and where that is the best option for most soft problems. I don't much like the look of it, and customizing it takes a grip of time (who thought a blue start menu was pretty?), and even in 98 mode, it looks like crap still. I don't like a shit ton of completely hidden and obscure features. I don't like the OS telling me what to use for tasks, and taking a performance hit if I don't. Along with that, I don't like software integrated into the OS as it takes away my choice.
As to why I chose OS X (ignore this if you hate Mac talk), my XP Box ate it from bad hardware, and I realized that I really didn't feel like taking the time to fix it, EVER AGAIN. I am too damn busy to be spending time fixing and babying my computer. I must agree with the Apple folk, a computer should be an appliance, it should sit there quietly when not used, and do what it is supposed to do when it is, with no real interference from me. Neither windows or Linux (as of yet, I do have hope) has this ease of use yet. I also like things to be powerful, but simple. Yes, Macs have a dumbed down, easy to use interface, this used to irk me, but now I think it is the best thing. I used to think that Macs were not powerful because of their easy colorful look, but then I started messing with terminal. Also macs can use Quicksilver and XP/Linux boxes can't. QS is like tabbed browsing, you can't go back after using it. Windows, vanilla OS X, and Linux boxes feel gimped now.
Now it is your turn to defend windows.
I don't think we need a study. If a man has intercourse with a man, he was either choosing it, or he was raped. That's not genetic, so it is either a choice or a rape. Granted there might be other factors that might effect a man's decision, but it finally comes down to his choice.
I somewhat lean towards the "homosexuality as choice" camp, as un PC as that is now, but it does bring up some interesting thoughts on choice, biology, social conditioning, etc. Since at first sight homosexuality does not seem a logical decision, and there is some evidence of very early homosexual preferences, before social conditioning could lead to such a choice.
The act of homosexual intercourse is, of course, a choice, just like any act of heterosexual intercourse is. But the guiding force behind homosexual intercourse is what is interesting, what causes such a choice to become appearent. To me as a straight male, the choice to have homosexual sex is there, but does not become appearent ever, unless I take the philosophical view of thing, but pragmatically it does not exist to me (i.e. when I see a male walking down the street, I do not see them as an object of sexual desire, as opposed to an attractive woman). What makes this choice evident in the homosexual faction of society? Why do they seem to ignore/repress/lack the seemingly normal heterosexual urges, and instead go for the other side? We must examine the deep causes.
I don't think, at this point in time, there is an answer. We cannot pin down personal volition as the cause, nor can we say some form of biological predestination. Granted both of these, taken individually, are overly simplistic. But an answer to the deeper source of these urges would be valuable to philosophy and all the biological/behavioral sciences.