Yes, it was sarcasm. For years I've heard some of the Apple faithful response to condemnations of elitism with elitist responses. Granted it isn't just them, it happens everywhere and with every group, but with folks like Leander Kahney around, the mythological Mac Cultist becomes an easy target.
Elitist really? You are simply jealous and I'll bet that you can't even comprehend the refinement and engineering that goes into Apple's devices, but then again, it is so hard for those so far away from the apex of technology to understand such things.
Forget detecting broken bones, give me a wrist watch that can repair a machine gun, feed me, enable magical objects that increase my luck and change the resolution of my eye sight all from a set of sub-menus.
Then I guess the real question is why do voters fall for it? If we swapped out tax cuts with welfare benefits and large corporate entity with welfare recipient, voters would howl. We place restrictions on what someone can or cannot buy with their food stamps, why not do the same for tax cuts that are specifically targeted for infrastructure building?
When this becomes a more serious problem they will beg/demand/get massive tax breaks and claim that it will go to infrastructure building. Then they will pass the majority to their stock holders. If anyone complains and suggests regulation concerning either the tax breaks (outside of suggesting more tax breaks) or how the additional revenue should be spent will be branded a socialist and an enemy of capitalism.
We saw this under both Clinton and Bush and we will see it again under Obama, because there is one simple fact that no one in government can understand. You cannot bribe businesses. You can sign contracts where they provide a service for a price, you can enforce current legislation and if you are willing to waste the time you can write new legislation, but you will never get anything done with bribery (ie. tax cuts).
I think I'm more disturbed by the fact that there are a lot of people out there who push the idea that Fox News is a legitimate news outlet. In their copyright notice, they are often pretty open with Copyright 20xx Fox News Product, the same as Hard Copy or any other form of tabloid journalism.
It seems like a lot of the complaints about coddling our kids has a lot less to do with neurotic parents than liability concerns. We say we don't want to give our kids a.22 or allow them to ride on the back of a hay wagon because they might get hurt, but really it is because we don't want to go jail (hand of one) if our kid shoots someone or the farmer doesn't want to lose his farm because of some stupid kid. On the other hand, you don't have those worries with PlayStation or 4 hours of PBS.
I can think of a great place that is virtually NIMBY proof; economically depressed areas. The blinders of affluence make the world a very different place.
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Because people have bought expensive HD sets with VGA/S-Video/HDMI and they want to use them as big, honkin' monitors in their living room without running cable.
We had this problem a while back, so everyone brought in a coffee maker from home and sit on their desk. 30 to 40 coffee makers eating up power are always a great sign of passive protest (seems they left that one out of the employee handbook). Nothing brings change like a room full of firetraps.
The sad part is that the only reason we have what we have isn't because of the EFF or concerned citizens, but because there were a lot of powerful companies gambling over what money they could and couldn't make off this internet thing.
Its been my experience that Help Desk Jockeys wear a suit and tie to work every day, not to impress you, but because they just left two other job interviews hoping to get the hell out of your shop.
You actually have a point. The whole reason for this game is to create better offspring. At some point it was the male going over that hill and killing their prey with a sharpened stick. Sooner or later, someone had the brilliant idea of saying, "Hey Baby, I can get a bison twice as big as that loser." and with a quick grin he was able to bypass millions of years of evolution until he was eaten alive by a hungry investment banker.
I've got to give Epic credit, they've taken a lot of criticisms about developing for Unreal to heart and went miles beyond what anyone could have expected.
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People aren't paid for being educated, they are paid for taking risks. The education just gives you the opportunity to better, higher-paying risks.
Yes, it was sarcasm. For years I've heard some of the Apple faithful response to condemnations of elitism with elitist responses. Granted it isn't just them, it happens everywhere and with every group, but with folks like Leander Kahney around, the mythological Mac Cultist becomes an easy target.
Elitist really? You are simply jealous and I'll bet that you can't even comprehend the refinement and engineering that goes into Apple's devices, but then again, it is so hard for those so far away from the apex of technology to understand such things.
Forget detecting broken bones, give me a wrist watch that can repair a machine gun, feed me, enable magical objects that increase my luck and change the resolution of my eye sight all from a set of sub-menus.
"What`s good for Business is good for America" - Calvin Coolidge (attributed)
You never bite the hand that feeds, while it's feeding.
Then I guess the real question is why do voters fall for it? If we swapped out tax cuts with welfare benefits and large corporate entity with welfare recipient, voters would howl. We place restrictions on what someone can or cannot buy with their food stamps, why not do the same for tax cuts that are specifically targeted for infrastructure building?
When this becomes a more serious problem they will beg/demand/get massive tax breaks and claim that it will go to infrastructure building. Then they will pass the majority to their stock holders. If anyone complains and suggests regulation concerning either the tax breaks (outside of suggesting more tax breaks) or how the additional revenue should be spent will be branded a socialist and an enemy of capitalism.
We saw this under both Clinton and Bush and we will see it again under Obama, because there is one simple fact that no one in government can understand. You cannot bribe businesses. You can sign contracts where they provide a service for a price, you can enforce current legislation and if you are willing to waste the time you can write new legislation, but you will never get anything done with bribery (ie. tax cuts).
I think I'm more disturbed by the fact that there are a lot of people out there who push the idea that Fox News is a legitimate news outlet. In their copyright notice, they are often pretty open with Copyright 20xx Fox News Product, the same as Hard Copy or any other form of tabloid journalism.
If they spend more resources on espionage than R&D, find a cheap method for making espionage expensive. The game works both ways.
It isn't diabolical in the least. Averting panic is half the battle.
It seems like a lot of the complaints about coddling our kids has a lot less to do with neurotic parents than liability concerns. We say we don't want to give our kids a .22 or allow them to ride on the back of a hay wagon because they might get hurt, but really it is because we don't want to go jail (hand of one) if our kid shoots someone or the farmer doesn't want to lose his farm because of some stupid kid. On the other hand, you don't have those worries with PlayStation or 4 hours of PBS.
As a child there was no worse punishment than: "just wait until your father gets home!"
I can think of a great place that is virtually NIMBY proof; economically depressed areas. The blinders of affluence make the world a very different place.
Because people have bought expensive HD sets with VGA/S-Video/HDMI and they want to use them as big, honkin' monitors in their living room without running cable.
Non-sense. It is a proven fact that it takes 15 people to decide the color of a submit button.
We had this problem a while back, so everyone brought in a coffee maker from home and sit on their desk. 30 to 40 coffee makers eating up power are always a great sign of passive protest (seems they left that one out of the employee handbook). Nothing brings change like a room full of firetraps.
The sad part is that the only reason we have what we have isn't because of the EFF or concerned citizens, but because there were a lot of powerful companies gambling over what money they could and couldn't make off this internet thing.
I think that would make it a series of tubs.
Providing the least amount of service possible to as many people as we can dupe for the most amount of money that the market will bear.
That the mission statement for corporate America.
I'd call that a fair assessment of AT&T.
Its been my experience that Help Desk Jockeys wear a suit and tie to work every day, not to impress you, but because they just left two other job interviews hoping to get the hell out of your shop.
You don't know anything. You checks the google to make sure the pipes are working, then you check the mcaffee to make sure it is secure.
You actually have a point. The whole reason for this game is to create better offspring. At some point it was the male going over that hill and killing their prey with a sharpened stick. Sooner or later, someone had the brilliant idea of saying, "Hey Baby, I can get a bison twice as big as that loser." and with a quick grin he was able to bypass millions of years of evolution until he was eaten alive by a hungry investment banker.
I've got to give Epic credit, they've taken a lot of criticisms about developing for Unreal to heart and went miles beyond what anyone could have expected.