Problem with fashion is the name means more than the look itself...Tech doesn't have that kind of name recognition. Ok.. maybe apple does..
Exactly. Apple would still sell shiny geegaws to its legions of adherents.
if someone built a feature for feature, damn near exact clone of the iphone and started selling it for $50.. you'd see apple losing some business.
So let them lose business. The purpose of patents and copyrights is not to fatten the pocket of Apple stockholders, it is to promote progress in science, engineering, and the arts.
Apple paid Xerox (in stocks) for the GUI and the mouse. Apple did not steal them - Xerox gave (sold) them away willingly.
Where does this ahistorical gibberish come from? Xerox sued Apple in 1989, claiming that that Apple ''intentionally and purposefully concealed'' the derivation of the Lisa and Macintosh software from Xerox software and that Apple's copyrights were invalid. (Xerox's suit was barred for technical reasons of standing.)
Before the iPhone first hit the market, touchscreens were a relic.
Remarkable that Jobs's Reality Distortion Field persists after his death, and can still make folks like you forget all those touchscreen-based PDAs and smartphones that preceded the fscking iPhone. Hint: Palm has been making touchscreen devices continually since 1996.
Oddly, there wasn't so much fuss over Opera's compression service, which is opt-in for Opera Mobile and always on for Opera Mini.
Probably because the three people who use Opera Mobile and the two that use Opera Mini are an insufficient crowd to create a fuss.
Obviously, I exaggerate; but go ask a bunch of random net users how many have heard of Opera and how many have heard of Amazo. Opera is not a significant player.
The lead-up to the Waco massacre involved the McLennan County Sheriff's Department calling in the ATF. And it's not as if the armed citizens of Texas all came out to stop the federal government's assault on the cult.
(Koresh was a nutjob, but being a nutjob isn't a crime. The allegations about sexual abuse were serious, but you don't conduct a blitzkrieg rate to "protect the children." The allegations that the Davidians had illegal firearms had very little evidence; the allegation that they were running a meth lab, used to obtain military assets, was an outright lie. The Davidians were nuts, but the ATF were more nuts and more dangerously violent.)
With the new changes (I call it the 'stalking update 1.0'), I've been preaching to everyone on FB to move over to Google+. Not a single person has moved.
If you've concerned about privacy, why would you want Google to be able to add your social graph to what it already knows about you from your searches? FB only knows what I tell FB; Google knows what I tell Google Search, Google Maps, Google +, and is trying hard to know everything on my Android phone. (I set up a separate account for the phone which I don't use for anything else.)
One year, upon the tailgate of the truck, was sprayed "MILK: RAPED FROM COWS". To this day, I don't know whether it was written there in earnest, or in jest. It could so easily be either.
Like all our fellow mammals, cows only give milk when they have young to feed. To keep dairy cows producing, they are repeatedly inseminated; most of their offspring are slaughtered so that people can eat their flesh, while a few of their daughters are allowed to live for a few years in the same enslavement as their mothers before meeting the same fate when they can no longer produce. The natural lifespan of a cow is 20-25 years, but with this exploitation burning out their usefulness to humans most are slaughtered before reaching a third of that.
"Raped from cows"? Not exactly how I would phrase it, but not (given a bit of rhetorical license) inaccurate.
Veggies and fruits are probably filthy too, on some level.
You can and should wash and scrub veggies and fruits. You can't wash Listeria out of milk, and it's hard to scrub the campylobacter off of chicken flesh.
These are state sponsored institutions, i.e. they receive a good share of tax money from your local gov.
The cause of this is exactly that schools receive a hell of a lot less tax money from state governments than they used to.
"Capitalists will take anyone that can pay the bills..." and only those who can pay the bills. And they deliver an inferior product -- for-profit colleges and universities are notoriously poor. If you want a quality education for everyone; we need public funding; if you want a so-so education for the children of the rich and little or no education for the poor, then let the capitalists run the schools.
Yes. Yes, it is, and shame on you sir for claiming otherwise. Shame on you, your parents, your teachers, and whoever else taught you such vile garbage.
Freedom of expression is a vital basic natural right. It is not something that is just permitted to "keep a society balanced", it is a fundamental requirement for fulfilled human existence.
There is no expression that a human being can made, spoken or written, that in and of itself justifies locking them in a cage. None. To be a threat requires more than an expression, it requires behavior and circumstances that render the threat credible. Slander and libel are civil issues, not criminal ones.
Offending people just for the sake of the offending is just as much freedom of speech as thrilling people just for the sake of the thrill (any action story), or titillating them just for the sake of the titillation (erotica), or amusing them just for the sake of the amusement (comedy). Speakers and writers do not need to justify their words to you or to the state.
Was this guy an asshole? Yes. What do we do with assholes? We tell them they're assholes, we don't invite them to parties, we decline to be their friends, we mod down or ban entirely their posts, we don't listen to their advice, we point at them and laugh. We shame them, and maybe they eventually get the point. But in a society with any shred of respect for human rights, we do not lock someone up for being an asshole.
No. He wasn't "just being an arsehole" (we have arseholes over here, not assholes!), he was bullying.
No, this is not bullying. Bullying involves physical force against person or property, or the threat of it. It takes more than insults and rudeness to rise to the level of bullying.
If I or anyone else were to have told such a joke in the middle of last weekend's anniversary markings, or on a forum for those affected by the events and subsequent fall-out, or so forth, that would be a deliberate attempt to cause offence. It would be bullying. A petty crime but a crime all the same, and should be punished.
No, "a deliberate attempt to cause offense" is neither bullying nor a crime, you snot-nosed fetid mother-whoring dog-faced git. (And note the correct spelling, stupid limey poofter.) Bullying would be if I were to threaten to punch you in your misshapen lump of a face. I guess you're just too mentally retarded to grasp the difference between bullying and insulting. </deliberate-attempt-to-cause-offense>
Seriously, if someone cracked a 9/11 joke in the middle of some solemn observance, that would be rude and earn them a social shunning. But there is no rational argument that it would justify locking them in a cage. A society that can't tell the difference between behavior that should result in shunning someone and behavior that should result in locking someone up, is doomed.
Posting offensive messages on a tribute page for the deceased is not necessary for free speech.
Which is why the tribute page should be moderated.
The poster was an asshole, and ought to be socially shunned, and perhaps some civil case ought to be brought on infliction of emotional distress; but the gross incompetence of whoever set up an unfiltered memorial page does not justify locking this asshole in a cage.
For years, I couldn't go into the electronics section of retailers because the TVs were screeching so loud that I couldn't think straight.
That's the flyback transformer. It makes a high-pitched whine in many TVs. I used to hear it when I was a kid -- I don't know if TVs have gotten quieter or I lost that range of hearing over the years, probably a bit of both. Nothing really to do with electromagnetic effects on the body.
After all... light is also electromagnetic radiation, and there is radio waves coming from the sun and stars but she doesnt mention anything about having problems in the sun or looking at the stars. Crackpot ignorant people.
I'm highly skeptical that there's anything more than a nocebo effect here. But the arguments in your dismissal is not sound. Light is not radio waves; and radio signals from the sun and stars are far weaker that those emitted by phones and wifi gear. (Which is the whole reason for the "quiet zone".
Again, I don't mean to say that this syndrome has a physiological basis, just that "this person doesn't claim to be sensitive to visible light or to the stellar radio background!" does not logically imply that they do not have some sensitivity to some sort of radio signals.
Anytime you scan something, you need to worry about DPI settings, whether to use greyscale or black-and-white, decisions like that. Faxes included.
I doubt that as many as 5% of people who have ever sent a fax, have thought about DPI. Yes, you and I do, but we're geeks. For the average faxer, the image is degraded but it's "good enough", and they fax their document and go about their day.
"DPI? Compression quality? What are you talking about?! I just want to send this document. I never had to worry about this technobabble when we had a fax machine. Get rid of this scanner and get me my fax back."
Consider that 25% of all homes don't have a land-line, so faxing stuff to or from them is out, even if their all-in-one has fax capabilities.
For most people, faxing is a send-only operation. They fax stuff to their bank, to the HR department at work, etc. And most people don't have an all-in-one.
Faxing has an infrastructure set up to support these folks -- you can go to Kinkos and easily send a fax for a buck. Trying to do the equivalent with e-mailing a scanned document is much more difficult: you've have to rent computer time and figure out how to use their scanner. You'd have to have the ability to send e-mail from their computer; not everyone even has an e-mail address, much less a webmail one.
The fax machine refuses to die because it works much better than e-mail for a certain common type of operation.
I must have missed all those achievements that put man further into space...
Beyond the orbit of Luna, space belongs to robots, and will for quite a while. There's nothing we can have humans do in deep space the justifies the cost of sending them there. If we survive the next century, maybe we'll have developed technology that will bring that cost down; but criticizing NASA for not getting humans further into space is disconnected from reality.
You should try competing some time. Hell, even try competing with yourself.
I've been training in a karate style that does medium-hard sparring for 25+ years, and I've competed in several tournaments. Though I suck at it, I know about the adrenaline rush. But that's not the "runner's high", which is an endorphin phenomenon,. I've also experienced that through exhaustive training. (Also, one time, from a long session of getting tattooed.)
The FDA is raiding Amish for sharing unpasteurized milk products... a religious observance, however wacky.
How is selling bacteria-laden, potentially deadly, impure food a "religious observance"?
Now, unless they're doing it across state lines, it's the state government, not the FDA, that should act. But the whole "raw milk" thing is amazing stupid from top to bottom, purely an attempt by small dairy producers to boost sales. The biggest raw milk advocacy organization, the Weston A. Price foundation, is a bunch of anti-vaccine, pro-homeopathy cranks who believe that soy foods make kids gay.
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Exactly. Apple would still sell shiny geegaws to its legions of adherents.
So let them lose business. The purpose of patents and copyrights is not to fatten the pocket of Apple stockholders, it is to promote progress in science, engineering, and the arts.
Where does this ahistorical gibberish come from? Xerox sued Apple in 1989, claiming that that Apple ''intentionally and purposefully concealed'' the derivation of the Lisa and Macintosh software from Xerox software and that Apple's copyrights were invalid. (Xerox's suit was barred for technical reasons of standing.)
Remarkable that Jobs's Reality Distortion Field persists after his death, and can still make folks like you forget all those touchscreen-based PDAs and smartphones that preceded the fscking iPhone. Hint: Palm has been making touchscreen devices continually since 1996.
My life is a work of art. All photographs of me a derivative works.
Well said, sir or madam! No mod points so I will just say huzzah,
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Sometimes, thirty seconds with Google can keep you from saying really stupid things.
You may submit your apology to me and my Samsung Epic at your leisure.
What about scores for NFL games? Basketball scores are non-copyrightable data, I can't imagine football being any different.
Probably because the three people who use Opera Mobile and the two that use Opera Mini are an insufficient crowd to create a fuss.
Obviously, I exaggerate; but go ask a bunch of random net users how many have heard of Opera and how many have heard of Amazo. Opera is not a significant player.
The lead-up to the Waco massacre involved the McLennan County Sheriff's Department calling in the ATF. And it's not as if the armed citizens of Texas all came out to stop the federal government's assault on the cult.
(Koresh was a nutjob, but being a nutjob isn't a crime. The allegations about sexual abuse were serious, but you don't conduct a blitzkrieg rate to "protect the children." The allegations that the Davidians had illegal firearms had very little evidence; the allegation that they were running a meth lab, used to obtain military assets, was an outright lie. The Davidians were nuts, but the ATF were more nuts and more dangerously violent.)
And this differs from code produced by industrial software developers how, exactly?
99% of code sucks. Open source, closed source, academic, government, private industry.
If you've concerned about privacy, why would you want Google to be able to add your social graph to what it already knows about you from your searches? FB only knows what I tell FB; Google knows what I tell Google Search, Google Maps, Google +, and is trying hard to know everything on my Android phone. (I set up a separate account for the phone which I don't use for anything else.)
Like all our fellow mammals, cows only give milk when they have young to feed. To keep dairy cows producing, they are repeatedly inseminated; most of their offspring are slaughtered so that people can eat their flesh, while a few of their daughters are allowed to live for a few years in the same enslavement as their mothers before meeting the same fate when they can no longer produce. The natural lifespan of a cow is 20-25 years, but with this exploitation burning out their usefulness to humans most are slaughtered before reaching a third of that.
"Raped from cows"? Not exactly how I would phrase it, but not (given a bit of rhetorical license) inaccurate.
You can and should wash and scrub veggies and fruits. You can't wash Listeria out of milk, and it's hard to scrub the campylobacter off of chicken flesh.
The cause of this is exactly that schools receive a hell of a lot less tax money from state governments than they used to.
"Capitalists will take anyone that can pay the bills..." and only those who can pay the bills. And they deliver an inferior product -- for-profit colleges and universities are notoriously poor. If you want a quality education for everyone; we need public funding; if you want a so-so education for the children of the rich and little or no education for the poor, then let the capitalists run the schools.
Yes. Yes, it is, and shame on you sir for claiming otherwise. Shame on you, your parents, your teachers, and whoever else taught you such vile garbage.
Freedom of expression is a vital basic natural right. It is not something that is just permitted to "keep a society balanced", it is a fundamental requirement for fulfilled human existence.
There is no expression that a human being can made, spoken or written, that in and of itself justifies locking them in a cage. None. To be a threat requires more than an expression, it requires behavior and circumstances that render the threat credible. Slander and libel are civil issues, not criminal ones.
Offending people just for the sake of the offending is just as much freedom of speech as thrilling people just for the sake of the thrill (any action story), or titillating them just for the sake of the titillation (erotica), or amusing them just for the sake of the amusement (comedy). Speakers and writers do not need to justify their words to you or to the state.
Was this guy an asshole? Yes. What do we do with assholes? We tell them they're assholes, we don't invite them to parties, we decline to be their friends, we mod down or ban entirely their posts, we don't listen to their advice, we point at them and laugh. We shame them, and maybe they eventually get the point. But in a society with any shred of respect for human rights, we do not lock someone up for being an asshole.
No, this is not bullying. Bullying involves physical force against person or property, or the threat of it. It takes more than insults and rudeness to rise to the level of bullying.
No, "a deliberate attempt to cause offense" is neither bullying nor a crime, you snot-nosed fetid mother-whoring dog-faced git. (And note the correct spelling, stupid limey poofter.) Bullying would be if I were to threaten to punch you in your misshapen lump of a face. I guess you're just too mentally retarded to grasp the difference between bullying and insulting. </deliberate-attempt-to-cause-offense>
Seriously, if someone cracked a 9/11 joke in the middle of some solemn observance, that would be rude and earn them a social shunning. But there is no rational argument that it would justify locking them in a cage. A society that can't tell the difference between behavior that should result in shunning someone and behavior that should result in locking someone up, is doomed.
Which is why the tribute page should be moderated.
The poster was an asshole, and ought to be socially shunned, and perhaps some civil case ought to be brought on infliction of emotional distress; but the gross incompetence of whoever set up an unfiltered memorial page does not justify locking this asshole in a cage.
That's the flyback transformer. It makes a high-pitched whine in many TVs. I used to hear it when I was a kid -- I don't know if TVs have gotten quieter or I lost that range of hearing over the years, probably a bit of both. Nothing really to do with electromagnetic effects on the body.
I'm highly skeptical that there's anything more than a nocebo effect here. But the arguments in your dismissal is not sound. Light is not radio waves; and radio signals from the sun and stars are far weaker that those emitted by phones and wifi gear. (Which is the whole reason for the "quiet zone".
Again, I don't mean to say that this syndrome has a physiological basis, just that "this person doesn't claim to be sensitive to visible light or to the stellar radio background!" does not logically imply that they do not have some sensitivity to some sort of radio signals.
I doubt that as many as 5% of people who have ever sent a fax, have thought about DPI. Yes, you and I do, but we're geeks. For the average faxer, the image is degraded but it's "good enough", and they fax their document and go about their day.
"DPI? Compression quality? What are you talking about?! I just want to send this document. I never had to worry about this technobabble when we had a fax machine. Get rid of this scanner and get me my fax back."
Faxes just work.
For most people, faxing is a send-only operation. They fax stuff to their bank, to the HR department at work, etc. And most people don't have an all-in-one.
Faxing has an infrastructure set up to support these folks -- you can go to Kinkos and easily send a fax for a buck. Trying to do the equivalent with e-mailing a scanned document is much more difficult: you've have to rent computer time and figure out how to use their scanner. You'd have to have the ability to send e-mail from their computer; not everyone even has an e-mail address, much less a webmail one.
The fax machine refuses to die because it works much better than e-mail for a certain common type of operation.
Beyond the orbit of Luna, space belongs to robots, and will for quite a while. There's nothing we can have humans do in deep space the justifies the cost of sending them there. If we survive the next century, maybe we'll have developed technology that will bring that cost down; but criticizing NASA for not getting humans further into space is disconnected from reality.
I've been training in a karate style that does medium-hard sparring for 25+ years, and I've competed in several tournaments. Though I suck at it, I know about the adrenaline rush. But that's not the "runner's high", which is an endorphin phenomenon,. I've also experienced that through exhaustive training. (Also, one time, from a long session of getting tattooed.)
How is selling bacteria-laden, potentially deadly, impure food a "religious observance"?
Now, unless they're doing it across state lines, it's the state government, not the FDA, that should act. But the whole "raw milk" thing is amazing stupid from top to bottom, purely an attempt by small dairy producers to boost sales. The biggest raw milk advocacy organization, the Weston A. Price foundation, is a bunch of anti-vaccine, pro-homeopathy cranks who believe that soy foods make kids gay.