Sure, that makes plenty of sense! If you consider Kim Il Jong's "Screw the US and screw the UN; we are going to go ahead and build nukes whether you like it or not" stance as a sign of willingness to talk, I guess you could definitely see the impotent dictator Saddam "Look how long my fox-hole-grown beard is now!" Hussein as the bigger threat.
I'm not pretending that he should have been left alone or that the Iraqis won't _eventually_ be better off without him, but you can't defend Bush's actions by pretending that Saddam was a threat.
We're safer because of it, and the Iraqi people are better off because of it.
Don't make me laugh. You were never in danger because he was never a threat, and the Iraqi people will only be better off when the US military is gone and the country can put itself back together.
This whole oil idea is so stupid I'm surprised people still bring it up. You'd think they'd be ashamed at looking like total morons.
This whole "we are acting in the best interest of the Iraqi people out of goodwill and benevolence" idea is so stupid I'm surprised people still bring it up. You'd think they'd be ashamed at looking like total morons.
I believe that he was just pointing out that MacOS X uses FreeBSD, but in his haste to supply us with information we all know he panicked and typed in Linux instead.
We need another moderation topic.
Linux Bigot.
I fully agree. In an ideal world everytime someone is moderated as Linux Bigot IE would mysteriously appear on their system and fuxzor everything...I think vampires and garlic would be happier together:-)
Pulling troops out of the Middle East now would just encourage terrorism, since that was the point behind most of Al-Q's attacks anyways.
Leave the soldiers there to encourage peace and stability in the region (leading to increasing casualties and skyrocketing local hostility towards the US invaders and, ultimately, against the US) or pull out and engage in diplomatic approaches to promote stability (allowing those you have infuriated to express that anger towards the diplomatic process and, ultimately, the US)?
Sending troops to invade a sovereign nation with NO justification hardly endears people to your point of view. The poster's point is that American belligerence and aggression has encouraged terrorism, and so to attack them until they are peaceful is "like fucking for virginity". This Catch-22 would have been avoided if the US government didn't squander international goodwill by lying to it's citizens and the world so it could bomb Iraqis and send Americans to die in the pursuit of oil.
The restrictions imposed by Apple DRM are a fair trade for the product.
No, they aren't. Regular "old" copy-protected CDs are already an unfair "trade for the product". DRM, which takes the restrictions further, is even less fair.
Perhaps. It comes down to a matter of preference: Microsoft flavoured DRM or Apple flavoured DRM?
Microsoft already has licensing dealswith several large music services, and Apple beats them all combined. Because the customers say so.
Because Apple ha the iPod and Microsoft has _nothing_ to compete with it.
You are assuming that everyone who uses Apple's online music store owns an iPod.
An appeal to racism (lacking an example, I assume you mean something like "the Blacks are taking all our money and jobs"?) is very different than what you are calling sexism here.
To put it differently, is this out-and-out sexism, or is it just marketing a stereotype?
A similar discussion took place here a few weeks ago when a woman accused salesmen of being sexist because she would be ignored in tech stores if her husband was present. The counterpoint was that the stereotype (as in learned behaviour by example, not discrimination) is that women are less interested and thus know less about technology and "geek toys".
I know two women who can use Linux. TWO.
As is mentioned in the adjacent post, if the product was marketed in a "Hey look! I can do this, and I'm a woman! A BLONDE woman, at that!" then that is sexism. But by having a woman carry out the demo as a professional it goes against the stereotype, the learned behaviour, and the message is all that much clearer. For those who don't have such a stereotype it is EXACTLY the same as having a man do the demo, except her voice probably doesn't carry quite as well:-)
Even if your child is really stupid:-) the quantity of soil consumed will not hold a candle to the quantity of NOx inhaled.
By the way, the pH of your stomach is around 2-3. That means there is 0.001-0.01M HCl in your digestive tract; someone could lick the walls of your house for a week and come nowhere close to that:-)
Except for the fact that nitric acid can deaminate guanine and adenine (causing DNA mutation)
Children are subjected to far more mutation simply by being outside, thanks to the sun.
Catalysts that capture light to oxidize the bejaysus out of everything around them don't soil easily:-)
The production of nitric acid (itself a potent oxidant) will ostensibly aid in keeping the catalyst clean, and this will in turn consume the acid, extending the lifetime of the carbonate supply.
You have to blast your fuel pellet with a whole lot of energy to initiate fusion, but once you get the system running it releases more energy than it required for initiation. So while they aren't creating the fuel pellet from elementary particles, it is not impossible to get energy from something that requires an initial investment.
Like it or not, whether you suspect/know that they have an ulterior motive or not, the fact is that they are donating money and software for a good cause. It is also reported that they are "permitting" these places to implement OS software as well, and though I figure they will have to jump through hoops, here is the bottom line:
My next computer will be a Mac, guaranteed; I hate MS as much as anyone else. But the fact of the matter is they are doing a good thing with this initiative and they should be recognized for this.
If Steve Jobs owned 95% of the market and was worth billions, I expect that he would be just as generous.
Interesting! I know that when I was looking into buying a phone that I could bring home the only options were priced around 200GBP+ ($450-500CDN). Maybe your post will be helpful to some other readers.
far away from his social circle of fellow Linux folk
You DO realize just how far away from everything Australia is, don't you? Saying California is closer to Australia than is Finland is like saying Neptune is closer to Earth than is Pluto:-)
IIRC you can't use phones purchased in OZ in North America unless you buy a ghastly expensive tri-band phone. I had to sell my mobile when I left the UK for that reason. And it is the service that is the major problem, as they are selling the phones.
Ah, how I miss my Virgin Mobile service...buying top-up cards when I needed them rather than paying a monthly fee for minutes I may or not use, and not getting charged for the calls that you receive?! I re-emphasise "service"; what a concept:-)
Round it off. 3.7GB is a lot closer to 4GB than it is to 3GB. Which seems to indicate you don't understand grade three math. So I could calculate the capacity of the drive but I don't understand Grade 3 math? You are the one rounding off ~300,000,000 bytes to a number that better suits your trolling. Hey, I say it's a 0GB drive because 4GB is closer to 0 than 10!
I understand what you were doing; my point was that you were being a pedantic troll, and I responded in the same manner to illustrate that. Apparently this was lost on you.
Oh, and I'm not attracted to the mini iPod Go back and read your comment and then mine. I wasn't stating that you were attracted to the mini iPod; I was quoting your absurd comment and substituting my own comments to illustrate that you were being an idiot. (I also think that the drive is a waste of money.)
I browse at +1. ACs need not reply. Maybe you should do us all a favour and start browsing at +2.
"Majorities" are not part of the scientific method. Proof is.
Proof is not part of the scientific method. It was once "proven" that the Earth was flat and that the Sun revolved around it. The scientific method is simply (a) develop a hypothesis, and (b) do everything you can to disprove that hypothesis. If you fail to disprove it then your theory is that much stronger, but you can't say that it is a definitive proof; it is just the current best explanation with the given data/information. Far too many scientists (successful and otherwise) are biased and more focussed on "I think this is how it works so let's try to prove it" rather than "This is a plausible explanation, let's see if it stands up to testing".
Everyone who buys x86 does so because they think clock speed is performance.
I have a 40GB hard drive split into 5 partitions, with a Games drive size of 20GB. I have two friends who have PowerBooks and are quite difficult to accomodate for in a LAN party. Please explain why I would purchase an Apple product to play games.
You are also assuming that everyone who buys x86 is doing so because they are concerned with speed, and you are quite wrong. Celerons and Durons make cheap word processors (for Windows XP! Open source fans, I apologize) that are quite capable of doing much more than that. Plus the ability to buy whatever hardware you want is a good thing.
As far as the rest of your comments, as others have said: show us proof. I don't care one way or the other because I am not buying either, but a little reading would be nice.
You're attracted to the mini iPod? The mini iPod is 4GB, not 3GB, which seems to indicate you haven't even seen the mini iPod website, so how are you attracted to it?
You're attracted to the mini iPod? The mini iPod is ~3.7GB unformatted (4 billion bytes), not 4GB, which seems to indicate you haven't even seen the small type on the mini iPod website nor do you understand how hard drives are marketed, so how are you attracted to it?
Just hold Ctrl when you left-click. Another neat feature is that you can type a URL in the location bar and open that address in a new window by pressing Alt-Enter.
Hmm. Good point; I obviously had my brain turned off. Basically the point is that non-biological processes (ie. photochemistry) would produce a racemic mixture? Or am I being dumb again? If I am right don't bother to waste your time responding; I have been drunk all Christmas and it probably explains my lack of mental acuity:-)
The best and worst part of English is, as someone on/. pointed out one day, that you can glork the meaning of a word from its context.
I have gripes about the usage about certain parts of the language (I am drunk but I think I got the its/it's part right) but we have to keep in mind that the language (and more specifically, the way we use the language) evolves at an incredible rate.
It's (!) like the whole me/I argument. Me and my friend, versus my friend and I. At some point we must draw a line between obeying rules and being able to commmunicate with each other, and while I am not suggesting that we toss all rules out the window once a few twits start abusing them, no one speaks in Olde English anymore, now do they? Eventually usage will supercede the rules whether we like it or not, and while I am not endorsing or supporting this idea it is nonetheless a fact.
The fact is that written English in no way approximates spoken English. My written English can be understood by many people, but as I am a Newfoundlander my spoken English is quite different, to the point of being incomprehensible to some people (much to the consternation of my Russian ex-roommate).
"Howd'ya find dat b'y" makes perfect sense to me and my Newfoundlander friends, but is confusing to most other people. The language is changing far too quickly for universal rules to be laid down and followed, and thus we need to adapt accordingly. A "common" ground must be established, but when you consider the vast number of dialects the expectation that everyone must adhere to every rule becomes quite silly.
Note that I am not excusing people from learning the language that they claim to speak, but rather that we need to temper what we perceive as "poor language" with what we are observing as "changing language.
Sorry, this is a little off-topic. But I was just curious about these so-called "chirality tests", and how enantiomers would have unequivocally "proven that there was/is life on mars". Could you elaborate? Not trying to be trollish, but I briefly Googled and found little of interest (I guess they aren't trying to sell anything) and was wondering if you could assist.
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Hey, thanks! But I have to admit I find your movies to be a little irritating.
/hoping you are not THAT Chris Tucker
Sure, that makes plenty of sense! If you consider Kim Il Jong's "Screw the US and screw the UN; we are going to go ahead and build nukes whether you like it or not" stance as a sign of willingness to talk, I guess you could definitely see the impotent dictator Saddam "Look how long my fox-hole-grown beard is now!" Hussein as the bigger threat.
I'm not pretending that he should have been left alone or that the Iraqis won't _eventually_ be better off without him, but you can't defend Bush's actions by pretending that Saddam was a threat.
We're safer because of it, and the Iraqi people are better off because of it.
Don't make me laugh. You were never in danger because he was never a threat, and the Iraqi people will only be better off when the US military is gone and the country can put itself back together.
This whole oil idea is so stupid I'm surprised people still bring it up. You'd think they'd be ashamed at looking like total morons.
This whole "we are acting in the best interest of the Iraqi people out of goodwill and benevolence" idea is so stupid I'm surprised people still bring it up. You'd think they'd be ashamed at looking like total morons.
I believe that he was just pointing out that MacOS X uses FreeBSD, but in his haste to supply us with information we all know he panicked and typed in Linux instead.
:-)
We need another moderation topic.
Linux Bigot.
I fully agree. In an ideal world everytime someone is moderated as Linux Bigot IE would mysteriously appear on their system and fuxzor everything...I think vampires and garlic would be happier together
Pulling troops out of the Middle East now would just encourage terrorism, since that was the point behind most of Al-Q's attacks anyways.
Leave the soldiers there to encourage peace and stability in the region (leading to increasing casualties and skyrocketing local hostility towards the US invaders and, ultimately, against the US) or pull out and engage in diplomatic approaches to promote stability (allowing those you have infuriated to express that anger towards the diplomatic process and, ultimately, the US)?
Sending troops to invade a sovereign nation with NO justification hardly endears people to your point of view. The poster's point is that American belligerence and aggression has encouraged terrorism, and so to attack them until they are peaceful is "like fucking for virginity". This Catch-22 would have been avoided if the US government didn't squander international goodwill by lying to it's citizens and the world so it could bomb Iraqis and send Americans to die in the pursuit of oil.
My 2 cents
The restrictions imposed by Apple DRM are a fair trade for the product.
No, they aren't. Regular "old" copy-protected CDs are already an unfair "trade for the product". DRM, which takes the restrictions further, is even less fair.
Perhaps. It comes down to a matter of preference: Microsoft flavoured DRM or Apple flavoured DRM?
Microsoft already has licensing dealswith several large music services, and Apple beats them all combined. Because the customers say so.
Because Apple ha the iPod and Microsoft has _nothing_ to compete with it.
You are assuming that everyone who uses Apple's online music store owns an iPod.
An appeal to racism (lacking an example, I assume you mean something like "the Blacks are taking all our money and jobs"?) is very different than what you are calling sexism here.
:-)
To put it differently, is this out-and-out sexism, or is it just marketing a stereotype?
A similar discussion took place here a few weeks ago when a woman accused salesmen of being sexist because she would be ignored in tech stores if her husband was present. The counterpoint was that the stereotype (as in learned behaviour by example, not discrimination) is that women are less interested and thus know less about technology and "geek toys".
I know two women who can use Linux. TWO.
As is mentioned in the adjacent post, if the product was marketed in a "Hey look! I can do this, and I'm a woman! A BLONDE woman, at that!" then that is sexism. But by having a woman carry out the demo as a professional it goes against the stereotype, the learned behaviour, and the message is all that much clearer. For those who don't have such a stereotype it is EXACTLY the same as having a man do the demo, except her voice probably doesn't carry quite as well
My 2 cents
Even if your child is really stupid :-) the quantity of soil consumed will not hold a candle to the quantity of NOx inhaled.
:-)
By the way, the pH of your stomach is around 2-3. That means there is 0.001-0.01M HCl in your digestive tract; someone could lick the walls of your house for a week and come nowhere close to that
Except for the fact that nitric acid can deaminate guanine and adenine (causing DNA mutation)
Children are subjected to far more mutation simply by being outside, thanks to the sun.
Catalysts that capture light to oxidize the bejaysus out of everything around them don't soil easily :-)
The production of nitric acid (itself a potent oxidant) will ostensibly aid in keeping the catalyst clean, and this will in turn consume the acid, extending the lifetime of the carbonate supply.
You have to blast your fuel pellet with a whole lot of energy to initiate fusion, but once you get the system running it releases more energy than it required for initiation. So while they aren't creating the fuel pellet from elementary particles, it is not impossible to get energy from something that requires an initial investment.
Like it or not, whether you suspect/know that they have an ulterior motive or not, the fact is that they are donating money and software for a good cause. It is also reported that they are "permitting" these places to implement OS software as well, and though I figure they will have to jump through hoops, here is the bottom line:
My next computer will be a Mac, guaranteed; I hate MS as much as anyone else. But the fact of the matter is they are doing a good thing with this initiative and they should be recognized for this.
If Steve Jobs owned 95% of the market and was worth billions, I expect that he would be just as generous.
Asinine.
That is one of the most compelling cases against legislating for human behaviour I have ever seen.
Interesting! I know that when I was looking into buying a phone that I could bring home the only options were priced around 200GBP+ ($450-500CDN). Maybe your post will be helpful to some other readers.
far away from his social circle of fellow Linux folk
:-)
You DO realize just how far away from everything Australia is, don't you?
Saying California is closer to Australia than is Finland is like saying Neptune is closer to Earth than is Pluto
/being a jerk
IIRC you can't use phones purchased in OZ in North America unless you buy a ghastly expensive tri-band phone. I had to sell my mobile when I left the UK for that reason. And it is the service that is the major problem, as they are selling the phones.
:-)
Ah, how I miss my Virgin Mobile service...buying top-up cards when I needed them rather than paying a monthly fee for minutes I may or not use, and not getting charged for the calls that you receive?! I re-emphasise "service"; what a concept
Err...by "I'm pretty sure everyone understood" I mean everyone understood your point, not my behaviour.
Sorry. I got pissed off at someone earlier for being pedantic and so I went and did it myself! I'm pretty sure everyone understood.
More like an afternoon warm-up to the Friday evening warm-up to the weekend.
Round it off. 3.7GB is a lot closer to 4GB than it is to 3GB. Which seems to indicate you don't understand grade three math.
So I could calculate the capacity of the drive but I don't understand Grade 3 math? You are the one rounding off ~300,000,000 bytes to a number that better suits your trolling. Hey, I say it's a 0GB drive because 4GB is closer to 0 than 10!
I understand what you were doing; my point was that you were being a pedantic troll, and I responded in the same manner to illustrate that. Apparently this was lost on you.
Oh, and I'm not attracted to the mini iPod Go back and read your comment and then mine. I wasn't stating that you were attracted to the mini iPod; I was quoting your absurd comment and substituting my own comments to illustrate that you were being an idiot. (I also think that the drive is a waste of money.)
I browse at +1. ACs need not reply.
Maybe you should do us all a favour and start browsing at +2.
"Majorities" are not part of the scientific method. Proof is.
Proof is not part of the scientific method. It was once "proven" that the Earth was flat and that the Sun revolved around it. The scientific method is simply (a) develop a hypothesis, and (b) do everything you can to disprove that hypothesis. If you fail to disprove it then your theory is that much stronger, but you can't say that it is a definitive proof; it is just the current best explanation with the given data/information. Far too many scientists (successful and otherwise) are biased and more focussed on "I think this is how it works so let's try to prove it" rather than "This is a plausible explanation, let's see if it stands up to testing".
Just my 2 cents
Everyone who buys x86 does so because they think clock speed is performance.
I have a 40GB hard drive split into 5 partitions, with a Games drive size of 20GB. I have two friends who have PowerBooks and are quite difficult to accomodate for in a LAN party. Please explain why I would purchase an Apple product to play games.
You are also assuming that everyone who buys x86 is doing so because they are concerned with speed, and you are quite wrong. Celerons and Durons make cheap word processors (for Windows XP! Open source fans, I apologize) that are quite capable of doing much more than that. Plus the ability to buy whatever hardware you want is a good thing.
As far as the rest of your comments, as others have said: show us proof. I don't care one way or the other because I am not buying either, but a little reading would be nice.
You're attracted to the mini iPod? The mini iPod is 4GB, not 3GB, which seems to indicate you haven't even seen the mini iPod website, so how are you attracted to it?
You're attracted to the mini iPod? The mini iPod is ~3.7GB unformatted (4 billion bytes), not 4GB, which seems to indicate you haven't even seen the small type on the mini iPod website nor do you understand how hard drives are marketed, so how are you attracted to it?
Just hold Ctrl when you left-click. Another neat feature is that you can type a URL in the location bar and open that address in a new window by pressing Alt-Enter.
Hmm. Good point; I obviously had my brain turned off. Basically the point is that non-biological processes (ie. photochemistry) would produce a racemic mixture? Or am I being dumb again? If I am right don't bother to waste your time responding; I have been drunk all Christmas and it probably explains my lack of mental acuity :-)
The best and worst part of English is, as someone on /. pointed out one day, that you can glork the meaning of a word from its context.
I have gripes about the usage about certain parts of the language (I am drunk but I think I got the its/it's part right) but we have to keep in mind that the language (and more specifically, the way we use the language) evolves at an incredible rate.
It's (!) like the whole me/I argument. Me and my friend, versus my friend and I. At some point we must draw a line between obeying rules and being able to commmunicate with each other, and while I am not suggesting that we toss all rules out the window once a few twits start abusing them, no one speaks in Olde English anymore, now do they? Eventually usage will supercede the rules whether we like it or not, and while I am not endorsing or supporting this idea it is nonetheless a fact.
The fact is that written English in no way approximates spoken English. My written English can be understood by many people, but as I am a Newfoundlander my spoken English is quite different, to the point of being incomprehensible to some people (much to the consternation of my Russian ex-roommate).
"Howd'ya find dat b'y" makes perfect sense to me and my Newfoundlander friends, but is confusing to most other people. The language is changing far too quickly for universal rules to be laid down and followed, and thus we need to adapt accordingly. A "common" ground must be established, but when you consider the vast number of dialects the expectation that everyone must adhere to every rule becomes quite silly.
Note that I am not excusing people from learning the language that they claim to speak, but rather that we need to temper what we perceive as "poor language" with what we are observing as "changing language.
I hope this made some sense...
Sorry, this is a little off-topic. But I was just curious about these so-called "chirality tests", and how enantiomers would have unequivocally "proven that there was/is life on mars". Could you elaborate? Not trying to be trollish, but I briefly Googled and found little of interest (I guess they aren't trying to sell anything) and was wondering if you could assist.
Cheers