So fucking tired of this "unlimited tolerance of intolerance is a scared American cow" white guy libertarian BULLSHIT. It's not. It's an enabling attitude of rhetoric disseminated by racists and hate groups. Fucking stop it.
No, those nazi punks need to f-off. It's just really fascinating how all these "free speech" ideologues find themselves defending notorious trolls, neo-nazis and criminals. Keep up the good fight!
Lots of the people they're contacting are senior citizens, disabled and, yes, often times not too bright. It's kind of a sad confluence of a few things including a lot of old Windows XP computers and the people who still use them. But it's still pretty criminal and the victims are people who don't know any better until it's too late.
Aren't "Ultrabooks" the Netbooks we all really wanted? We have 12-13" laptops now that probably have less volume than the 9-12" Netbooks they replaced.
Considered filing a complaint? You have the right to take pictures of everything and everyone if you are in a public place. Sounds like a cop with nothing to do and am exaggerated sense of self-importance.
Met any gay parents lately? My best friend and his partner have two children with four parents. Two Moms and two Dads and are their children growing up just fine. Our society is developing new ways of parenting and allowing people express their sexuality as they biologically feel. All the while creating new definitions of families that are arguably stronger than the nuclear family.
It's only in the last 30-40 years since Stonewall and the human rights movement that gay, lesbian and bisexual have had an opportunity to participate in society as who they are. Perhaps you'd like GBLT to go back in the closet and have sex with multiple partners in secrecy? The "prime disease vector" you speak of still exists, gay parents or not. Although I question your data on HIV infection rates in populations. There are an awful lot of people who have sex with multiple partners who are heterosexual. By shear volume of heterosexuals alone. Adjusted per-capita you might perhaps a point but I suspect it's a lot slimmer than you'd imagine.
So you're right, it is a disruption but it's also progress. Your assertion that homosexuality is an intrinsic sin due to the risks that population faces due to AIDS seems like hubris to me. Arguably the lack of recognition of homosexuality and same sex partnership has lead to lifestyles that include multiple partners of the same sex. The data on men who have sex with men (including men who identify as homosexual) shows a large quotient identify as heterosexual and are even married to a partner of the opposite sex or "MSMs" (men who have sex with men). This is because society does not recognize how they biologically feel as acceptable. So they are forced into hiding. This is known factor and has been for quite some time in the epidemiology of HIV. The creation of the "prime disease vector" you speak of is a societal construct of the supposed moral majority such as yourself. And it is not limited to homosexual people as HIV is outstandingly non-discriminatory.
So really I do believe your lack of acceptance of GBLT people is a sin of your own that falls under the first category you outline "doing harm to[wards] others". But really I question your whole belief system as, best to my knowledge, God does not hate. I hope you find it in your righteous heart to love GBLT people for who they are so we can all come together and make this world a better place. Because I am a gay man and that is never going to change. I believe it was the super deity in question who said "I am who I am".
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"I suspect now society may have to accept the inevitable and stop people from having multiple sexual partners. I fear the possiblity that HIV could mutate into something that can infect even without sexual contact in the meantime."
Your comment was interesting and well researched up until this point. Much of the HIV research done in high risk groups of individuals has revealed that polyamoury is very much a part of our human animal. The discovery of heterosexually identifying MSM's (men who have sex with men) is a particular point of interest. These men often covertly have sex with other men but are otherwise heterosexualy identifying. Most importantly is that these men consider themselves heterosexual and monogamous. They aren't "fags with aids", at least in their minds.
The idea of "enforcing" monogamy is a pretty chilly concept. Much of the AIDS epidemic in the developed world has it's roots in this societal stigma of it being the sexual deviant's disease. A virus kills indiscriminantly. As a culture we should choose to continue developing our responsible sexual civil liberties. It's only with openess and education that we will control this disease in the present. State enforcement of behaviour is socially retroactive and inconsequential. The choice to make love with whom we please is not a crime. It's a modern responsibiliy that we choose to take.
I think it'd be an interesting slashdot poll to see how often people have upgraded their CPU and not their motherboard. I've not yet done it myself other than once replacing a dodgy AMD Duron.
There are many non-specific geek slashdotters such as myself. Many people are making the cut-and-dry comparison that geeks run x86 and maybe a Mac while those of us who's job it is to be rhetorical and entirely ungeeky must use Macs only! In reality, where things are inevitably more complex, there infact artsy types who can paint, write and sing but also can work a compiler and do a bit of shell scripting. This is what we call "progress".
For the sake of accuracy I'll clarify the problems with medicare here. It is not difficult to see a doctor or get emergency treatment in the least. There are waiting times for patients who are not critical at emergency rooms but I don't think that is any different than in the USA.
One of the biggest problems we have here is with medical imaging. The cost of MRI equipement and technicians is absolutely astronomical which makes funding these clinics publically much more difficult than normal clinical staff in a hospital. Imaging is a pre-operative necessity in and this respect the entire system is gummed up at one point. Of course to the ignorant it looks as if the whole system doesn't work. That's not the case at all.
Upon inspection of most public healthcare programs here the major stumbling points usually have nothing to do with the talent of the staff or funding as such but more so to do with economic pressure from the south. Millions of Canadian tax dollars are used to train RN's and MD's who take work south of the border every year. Canadian healthcare workers are a rare breed who get paid peanuts compared to their US counterparts because they believe in equal access for all. The idea of uncomprimised equality for all is a very much a part of our culture in Canada. It is indeed no wonderland however our detractors from south of the border usually don't know all the details.
I don't think it is appropriate for a corporation to protect themselves from an individual. As a corporation is not a person. Unfortunately the law does not agree with me.
The cube is a good machine but not without it's own issues as well. The "new" (soon to be old) iMac actually fixed a lot of the issues it had. For instance having the volume turned up on the USB speakers causes the power indicators to dim with the music. The power button on the monitor puts the computer to sleep. And the horizontally slot-loading drive tends to be prone to failure with certain types of CDs.
Not that the G4 Cube wasn't a really cool design. It's just that they definitely improved upon it and made it an AIO then branded it an iMac. Given the chronology it's safe to assume that's how the design process may have went.
Yes but the market is big enough to afford techies many brands of their own. Look at all the OEM and hobbyist brands for case modders! Like ABIT or Gigabyte mean much other than to geeks.
And if your medical system serves your citizens so well, why do many of the wealthier ones come down here when they need to get the best treatment? It's not just Canada, though... from all over the world people fly in from their wonderfully "progressive" state-run health care systems at home to be treated by our "horrible" and "broken" health care system or specialists here in the States. Actions like these speak louder than words and posturing.
That's a recent phenominon as a result of a foreign private interest looking to have public healthcare de-regulated. Much of what was publically funded before has become private so the system as it exists here in Canada presently is in transition. Over the last term of provincial government the public system was large dismantled in a effort to make it appear broken. Yet despite a reduciton of 6 billion dollars in funding healthcare here still works. The majority of people going to the USA were getting medical imaging done not major surgeries. Even in the USA diagnostics and imaging are expensive.
I wrote this post in haste orginally and apologise for the tone. To clarify witout getting too much further off topic private and public systems of healthcare tend not to co-exist well in the Canadian experience. For us in the industry it's well known that the influence from the US is a major political power even here. It makes us awfully resentful when companies from abroad railroad us by pressuring government to further cut funding in the face of increasing demand. Well of course we're going to start failing. Then to see the US defense budget as a blueprint for my country to come? No wonder we're more resentful than ever of our neighbours to the south. Our sovereignty has always been regarded as some sort of quaint and primitive custom.
I don't mean to flame but... let me get this straight. No public healthcare yet defense contracts like this aren't a big deal? Even the usually rational slashdotter geeks are all "Hooha hypersonic flight!". This shit is primarily for killing people. But I'm just some commie cannuck. What, with my morality and all.
If lables control the airwaves, how do you get the word out that you have a great band? Weblogs, mix CDs, word of mouth, p2ps and indie media are very important. Also some of the more influential radio stations programs and DJs like Morning Becomes Ecclectic on KCRW and John Peel on the BBC are not controlled. Likewise many artists on major labels still pursue artistically credible careers without having their music paid to play and still get the distribution.
If a band wants to persue a huge, global pop star career.. well, there aren't many choices. However musicians can still lead very normal lives, make a good income and stay artistically credible today too. The idea of major label control only works in the pop sphere. Right now we are in pop times but if the modern history of music tells us anything this will all come to pass soon. As hip-pop and slock-pop hits disco levels of excess all it will take is one watershed even like the Disco Demolition Night before people start printing their Avirl/Eminem/Britney Sucks t-shirts on cafepress.
We actually have more choices than ever. Awareness of the greater world of music is what brings on this discussion. The major label hegemony conspiracy is always taken out of historical context.
Oh man I've totally been listening to the universe with my ipod already. I just get real comfy on my beanbag chair, grab some munchies and tune in some floyd. Oh man I am so hungry right now. I love chips. Corn chips, kettle chips, barbeque chips. They are soooo good.
I think graphically WMP is still really weak. It looks like the design is shy of semiotics and relies on a lot of text. And what's with opting out of viewing the toolbar still? I know MSN Messenger 6 does that at well. I still don't see the practical benefit. There is seriously too much gloss as well. To the point that it impedes on the contrast where text is. That's just impractical
Also, the obsession with hierarchical tree lists? Is it really necessary to know that my music resides under the "All Music" node? This creates so much dead (not negative, that would mean it's useful) space and nasty horizontal scrollbars. Interface wise the Windows and Office teams at Microsoft have come leaps and bounds with XP and Office 2003, respectively. But the Windows Media Div. seems to be really hung up on the technical bits and providing a shitty user experience. I hope they redesign for the final release. I was really hoping that they'd shape up WMP interface wise with this version. It's the place the player is lacking most. WMP continues to be all geewhiz skinning with absolutely no design discipline. Save that crap for the hobbyists at Deviant Art.
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Apple more narrowly designs their products for a variety of reasons. Most people don't have any need for a portable encoding mp3 jukebox with optical IO as the world is mostly made up of non-geeks. Also remember that the iPod is almost a direct conduit to the iTMS (which we still don't have in Canada). So incorporating an FM tuner and on board encoding isn't in their best interest.
As for the "hipster image", well, that's marketing and it's how they sell iPods. Most slashdotters may see it as disappointing that successful products aren't sold on specs. But the dominant group of consumers don't care. They'd much rather have something that's well culturally regarded ("hip") that they can figure out and utilize without too much effort. This is what Apple does and that's why they're so successful with this product. Also be glad that you can get what you want in the iHP 120. But it's unreasonable to expect Apple to market directly to a niche like geeks with the iPod.
I really fail to see what value is added with having a colour screen and video playback. I don't think many people have any need for video playback they'd be using a portable device. Unless they have other behaviours in mind like using it primarily as an audio player and a video player or data storage when you arrive at your destination. Just from the perspective of my own behaviours I'm definitely not sold on video playback as a must-have feature. For the same reason portable RF televisions or DVD players aren't terribly popular I see this Sony unit as being similar.
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So fucking tired of this "unlimited tolerance of intolerance is a scared American cow" white guy libertarian BULLSHIT. It's not. It's an enabling attitude of rhetoric disseminated by racists and hate groups. Fucking stop it.
No, those nazi punks need to f-off. It's just really fascinating how all these "free speech" ideologues find themselves defending notorious trolls, neo-nazis and criminals. Keep up the good fight!
Lots of the people they're contacting are senior citizens, disabled and, yes, often times not too bright. It's kind of a sad confluence of a few things including a lot of old Windows XP computers and the people who still use them. But it's still pretty criminal and the victims are people who don't know any better until it's too late.
Aren't "Ultrabooks" the Netbooks we all really wanted? We have 12-13" laptops now that probably have less volume than the 9-12" Netbooks they replaced.
Awesome, it only took Slashdot two years since somebody wrote them a tutorial on how to do it.
Wow, my poor little post-industrial home town in the shadow of Toronto got on Slashdot!
Considered filing a complaint? You have the right to take pictures of everything and everyone if you are in a public place. Sounds like a cop with nothing to do and am exaggerated sense of self-importance.
Met any gay parents lately? My best friend and his partner have two children with four parents. Two Moms and two Dads and are their children growing up just fine. Our society is developing new ways of parenting and allowing people express their sexuality as they biologically feel. All the while creating new definitions of families that are arguably stronger than the nuclear family.
It's only in the last 30-40 years since Stonewall and the human rights movement that gay, lesbian and bisexual have had an opportunity to participate in society as who they are. Perhaps you'd like GBLT to go back in the closet and have sex with multiple partners in secrecy? The "prime disease vector" you speak of still exists, gay parents or not. Although I question your data on HIV infection rates in populations. There are an awful lot of people who have sex with multiple partners who are heterosexual. By shear volume of heterosexuals alone. Adjusted per-capita you might perhaps a point but I suspect it's a lot slimmer than you'd imagine.
So you're right, it is a disruption but it's also progress. Your assertion that homosexuality is an intrinsic sin due to the risks that population faces due to AIDS seems like hubris to me. Arguably the lack of recognition of homosexuality and same sex partnership has lead to lifestyles that include multiple partners of the same sex. The data on men who have sex with men (including men who identify as homosexual) shows a large quotient identify as heterosexual and are even married to a partner of the opposite sex or "MSMs" (men who have sex with men). This is because society does not recognize how they biologically feel as acceptable. So they are forced into hiding. This is known factor and has been for quite some time in the epidemiology of HIV. The creation of the "prime disease vector" you speak of is a societal construct of the supposed moral majority such as yourself. And it is not limited to homosexual people as HIV is outstandingly non-discriminatory.
So really I do believe your lack of acceptance of GBLT people is a sin of your own that falls under the first category you outline "doing harm to[wards] others". But really I question your whole belief system as, best to my knowledge, God does not hate. I hope you find it in your righteous heart to love GBLT people for who they are so we can all come together and make this world a better place. Because I am a gay man and that is never going to change. I believe it was the super deity in question who said "I am who I am".
The idea of "enforcing" monogamy is a pretty chilly concept. Much of the AIDS epidemic in the developed world has it's roots in this societal stigma of it being the sexual deviant's disease. A virus kills indiscriminantly. As a culture we should choose to continue developing our responsible sexual civil liberties. It's only with openess and education that we will control this disease in the present. State enforcement of behaviour is socially retroactive and inconsequential. The choice to make love with whom we please is not a crime. It's a modern responsibiliy that we choose to take.
That is a really great way to ride the upgrade curve without getting dead ended by planned obsolescence.
I think it'd be an interesting slashdot poll to see how often people have upgraded their CPU and not their motherboard. I've not yet done it myself other than once replacing a dodgy AMD Duron.
Yes, if I had $10 000CAD to blow I'd think about one too.
There are many non-specific geek slashdotters such as myself. Many people are making the cut-and-dry comparison that geeks run x86 and maybe a Mac while those of us who's job it is to be rhetorical and entirely ungeeky must use Macs only! In reality, where things are inevitably more complex, there infact artsy types who can paint, write and sing but also can work a compiler and do a bit of shell scripting. This is what we call "progress".
One of the biggest problems we have here is with medical imaging. The cost of MRI equipement and technicians is absolutely astronomical which makes funding these clinics publically much more difficult than normal clinical staff in a hospital. Imaging is a pre-operative necessity in and this respect the entire system is gummed up at one point. Of course to the ignorant it looks as if the whole system doesn't work. That's not the case at all.
Upon inspection of most public healthcare programs here the major stumbling points usually have nothing to do with the talent of the staff or funding as such but more so to do with economic pressure from the south. Millions of Canadian tax dollars are used to train RN's and MD's who take work south of the border every year. Canadian healthcare workers are a rare breed who get paid peanuts compared to their US counterparts because they believe in equal access for all. The idea of uncomprimised equality for all is a very much a part of our culture in Canada. It is indeed no wonderland however our detractors from south of the border usually don't know all the details.
I don't think it is appropriate for a corporation to protect themselves from an individual. As a corporation is not a person. Unfortunately the law does not agree with me.
Not that the G4 Cube wasn't a really cool design. It's just that they definitely improved upon it and made it an AIO then branded it an iMac. Given the chronology it's safe to assume that's how the design process may have went.
Yes but the market is big enough to afford techies many brands of their own. Look at all the OEM and hobbyist brands for case modders! Like ABIT or Gigabyte mean much other than to geeks.
That's a recent phenominon as a result of a foreign private interest looking to have public healthcare de-regulated. Much of what was publically funded before has become private so the system as it exists here in Canada presently is in transition. Over the last term of provincial government the public system was large dismantled in a effort to make it appear broken. Yet despite a reduciton of 6 billion dollars in funding healthcare here still works. The majority of people going to the USA were getting medical imaging done not major surgeries. Even in the USA diagnostics and imaging are expensive.
I wrote this post in haste orginally and apologise for the tone. To clarify witout getting too much further off topic private and public systems of healthcare tend not to co-exist well in the Canadian experience. For us in the industry it's well known that the influence from the US is a major political power even here. It makes us awfully resentful when companies from abroad railroad us by pressuring government to further cut funding in the face of increasing demand. Well of course we're going to start failing. Then to see the US defense budget as a blueprint for my country to come? No wonder we're more resentful than ever of our neighbours to the south. Our sovereignty has always been regarded as some sort of quaint and primitive custom.
I don't mean to flame but... let me get this straight. No public healthcare yet defense contracts like this aren't a big deal? Even the usually rational slashdotter geeks are all "Hooha hypersonic flight!". This shit is primarily for killing people. But I'm just some commie cannuck. What, with my morality and all.
If lables control the airwaves, how do you get the word out that you have a great band? Weblogs, mix CDs, word of mouth, p2ps and indie media are very important. Also some of the more influential radio stations programs and DJs like Morning Becomes Ecclectic on KCRW and John Peel on the BBC are not controlled. Likewise many artists on major labels still pursue artistically credible careers without having their music paid to play and still get the distribution. If a band wants to persue a huge, global pop star career.. well, there aren't many choices. However musicians can still lead very normal lives, make a good income and stay artistically credible today too. The idea of major label control only works in the pop sphere. Right now we are in pop times but if the modern history of music tells us anything this will all come to pass soon. As hip-pop and slock-pop hits disco levels of excess all it will take is one watershed even like the Disco Demolition Night before people start printing their Avirl/Eminem/Britney Sucks t-shirts on cafepress. We actually have more choices than ever. Awareness of the greater world of music is what brings on this discussion. The major label hegemony conspiracy is always taken out of historical context.
Oh man I've totally been listening to the universe with my ipod already. I just get real comfy on my beanbag chair, grab some munchies and tune in some floyd. Oh man I am so hungry right now. I love chips. Corn chips, kettle chips, barbeque chips. They are soooo good.
Note the container of RID on the counter next to his thigh. Somebody has had pants pets.
Also, the obsession with hierarchical tree lists? Is it really necessary to know that my music resides under the "All Music" node? This creates so much dead (not negative, that would mean it's useful) space and nasty horizontal scrollbars. Interface wise the Windows and Office teams at Microsoft have come leaps and bounds with XP and Office 2003, respectively. But the Windows Media Div. seems to be really hung up on the technical bits and providing a shitty user experience. I hope they redesign for the final release. I was really hoping that they'd shape up WMP interface wise with this version. It's the place the player is lacking most. WMP continues to be all geewhiz skinning with absolutely no design discipline. Save that crap for the hobbyists at Deviant Art.
As for the "hipster image", well, that's marketing and it's how they sell iPods. Most slashdotters may see it as disappointing that successful products aren't sold on specs. But the dominant group of consumers don't care. They'd much rather have something that's well culturally regarded ("hip") that they can figure out and utilize without too much effort. This is what Apple does and that's why they're so successful with this product. Also be glad that you can get what you want in the iHP 120. But it's unreasonable to expect Apple to market directly to a niche like geeks with the iPod.
I really fail to see what value is added with having a colour screen and video playback. I don't think many people have any need for video playback they'd be using a portable device. Unless they have other behaviours in mind like using it primarily as an audio player and a video player or data storage when you arrive at your destination. Just from the perspective of my own behaviours I'm definitely not sold on video playback as a must-have feature. For the same reason portable RF televisions or DVD players aren't terribly popular I see this Sony unit as being similar.