$60/mo is roughly the price difference between what tthomas48 pays ($35/mo) and what a typical AT&T/Verizon smartphone package costs (~$100/mo after taxes and fees).
Why would the average user care about having more storage space on a phone? If I want to carry around a bunch of large files, I'll buy an SD card or USB stick.
Siri is a lot more impressive than Android's voice functionality, which is basically just voice-to-text with the ability to say "call X", "send text to X", or "navigate to X" tacked on. iCloud is similarly impressive.
Yes, I can do almost all of those things with Android, using Dropbox and Flickr and Amazon, but with Apple you can just turn on iCloud and you're done. No setup required. If saving $60/mo is a really important thing to you, then you're not Apple's target market. They sell to people who have plenty of money and don't want to have to think about their technology. And the iPhone 4S, despite lacking 4G, is in most ways the best phone on the market. When you get down to it, now that Apple stole the notification bar, the primary reason I still use Android is Swype.
Basically, no, you can't violate someone's rights if you're just a private citizen. You can only perform a tortious action. And the tort will be resolved by the courts.
The original wording of the 4A was thought to be pretty damned clear, too. Judges who want to let the police do anything they like will find a way to corrupt your language, and a large part of the public will support them.
To the extent that committing felonies is something caused by a lack of "tools" to deal with society normally, the #1 tool would be wiping their felony conviction record. Very few places will take a chance on an ex-con, especially one who was locked up for a violent crime.
iPhones don't work until activated with an iTunes account. They can't say "units sold" for most outlets, but since an iPhone is useless without activation, it's a pretty safe bet that they know almost exactly how many phones have been sold.
iPhones are activated by Apple. They know exactly how many are activated as soon as it happens. They even know how many owners the average iPhone has over its lifetime and how many iPhones the average owner has over time. HTC and Samsung have nothing like that.
Dropping in a small piece of info for those who might pass by here in the future and think it was Foucault's idea.
That, and I just have a bit of a soft spot for Bentham - have had since I was in college. I was driving in one of those godawful wastes where your radio choices (pre-iPod and was tired of all the CDs I had in the front seat) were country or Christian, and I picked up some guy doing his level best to produce an intellectual sermon. I can't remember the subject, but at one point he started talking about the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bent Ham. Not Bin Thumb: Bent Ham. I felt a bit sorry for both of them - the dead philosopher and the live preacher.
If you're taking something in low doses, it's not going to hurt you any more than abstaining from alcohol will hurt you if you have a couple of glasses of wine every night. In fact, if you actually sober up all the way once every day, you're probably not going to be at risk from it. OTOH I once gave an alcoholic guy 16 mg of Ativan just to relieve his agitation during withdrawal. He wasn't sedated at all, just back to normal.
There are a lot of little things, but on this topic you can read between the lines of pharmacology and neuroscience textbooks and learn a lot about how illicit compounds work by seeing the effects of their legal analogues and comparing/contrasting. I find CNS and autonomic drugs fascinating, personally, and being an anesthesiologist means I can actually watch them work. It's pretty remarkable. (And no, I never, ever stick my hand in the cookie jar. Great way to get fired, lose your medical license, and end up dead.)
Those books were written by a bunch of guys like Kary Mullis. If you find the idea at all interesting, it's worth picking up a copy of the book Making PCR just to read his stories from being a grad student in biochemistry in the late 60s/early 70s. I won't spoil the stories, except to say that you can imagine what kind of compounds they spent their evenings and weekends synthesizing. You might also pick up a copy of A Primer of Drug Action by Robert Julien (no link because Amazon has a few different editions with wildly varying prices - my copy is probably 15 years old). It's easily understandable for the interested layman.
I'm an anesthesiologist. I could be wrong, of course, but medical school, residency, and my personal experience all say that people don't die of opioid withdrawal. It's not fun, but it's not fatal. I would guess that something else was going on at the same time - perhaps he was using some of those other drugs I mentioned, as well - but would welcome details, if you have them.
You won't die from quitting heroin, either. The drugs that are actually physically dangerous to quit cold-turkey are alcohol, benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax, Librium, etc.), and barbiturates (Quaalude/methaqualone, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, etc.).
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Like I said, if you care about $60/mo, you're not their target market.
$60/mo is roughly the price difference between what tthomas48 pays ($35/mo) and what a typical AT&T/Verizon smartphone package costs (~$100/mo after taxes and fees).
Why would the average user care about having more storage space on a phone? If I want to carry around a bunch of large files, I'll buy an SD card or USB stick.
Siri is a lot more impressive than Android's voice functionality, which is basically just voice-to-text with the ability to say "call X", "send text to X", or "navigate to X" tacked on. iCloud is similarly impressive.
Yes, I can do almost all of those things with Android, using Dropbox and Flickr and Amazon, but with Apple you can just turn on iCloud and you're done. No setup required. If saving $60/mo is a really important thing to you, then you're not Apple's target market. They sell to people who have plenty of money and don't want to have to think about their technology. And the iPhone 4S, despite lacking 4G, is in most ways the best phone on the market. When you get down to it, now that Apple stole the notification bar, the primary reason I still use Android is Swype.
Basically, no, you can't violate someone's rights if you're just a private citizen. You can only perform a tortious action. And the tort will be resolved by the courts.
I'm not giving up - but I can recognize when I'm fighting a battle that curiously few of my fellow citizens want to fight.
The original wording of the 4A was thought to be pretty damned clear, too. Judges who want to let the police do anything they like will find a way to corrupt your language, and a large part of the public will support them.
No, because you're not the government.
Don't waste your time with him.
Disparate impact on those classes may create a presumption of discrimination.
Go to 1:42 in the video. They pair the IR mosquito repellent with a low-powered visible laser to mark the protected area.
You truly think that any punishment other than separating the offender from society is unnecessary brutality?
Giving them the tools they need to not re-offend.
To the extent that committing felonies is something caused by a lack of "tools" to deal with society normally, the #1 tool would be wiping their felony conviction record. Very few places will take a chance on an ex-con, especially one who was locked up for a violent crime.
Been living under a rock for the past few years?
iPhones don't work until activated with an iTunes account. They can't say "units sold" for most outlets, but since an iPhone is useless without activation, it's a pretty safe bet that they know almost exactly how many phones have been sold.
iPhones are activated by Apple. They know exactly how many are activated as soon as it happens. They even know how many owners the average iPhone has over its lifetime and how many iPhones the average owner has over time. HTC and Samsung have nothing like that.
Dropping in a small piece of info for those who might pass by here in the future and think it was Foucault's idea.
That, and I just have a bit of a soft spot for Bentham - have had since I was in college. I was driving in one of those godawful wastes where your radio choices (pre-iPod and was tired of all the CDs I had in the front seat) were country or Christian, and I picked up some guy doing his level best to produce an intellectual sermon. I can't remember the subject, but at one point he started talking about the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bent Ham. Not Bin Thumb: Bent Ham. I felt a bit sorry for both of them - the dead philosopher and the live preacher.
If you're taking something in low doses, it's not going to hurt you any more than abstaining from alcohol will hurt you if you have a couple of glasses of wine every night. In fact, if you actually sober up all the way once every day, you're probably not going to be at risk from it. OTOH I once gave an alcoholic guy 16 mg of Ativan just to relieve his agitation during withdrawal. He wasn't sedated at all, just back to normal.
There are a lot of little things, but on this topic you can read between the lines of pharmacology and neuroscience textbooks and learn a lot about how illicit compounds work by seeing the effects of their legal analogues and comparing/contrasting. I find CNS and autonomic drugs fascinating, personally, and being an anesthesiologist means I can actually watch them work. It's pretty remarkable. (And no, I never, ever stick my hand in the cookie jar. Great way to get fired, lose your medical license, and end up dead.)
Those books were written by a bunch of guys like Kary Mullis. If you find the idea at all interesting, it's worth picking up a copy of the book Making PCR just to read his stories from being a grad student in biochemistry in the late 60s/early 70s. I won't spoil the stories, except to say that you can imagine what kind of compounds they spent their evenings and weekends synthesizing. You might also pick up a copy of A Primer of Drug Action by Robert Julien (no link because Amazon has a few different editions with wildly varying prices - my copy is probably 15 years old). It's easily understandable for the interested layman.
Sorry, that comment looks like I was trying to be a dick. I wasn't. I really am open to the possibility that I'm wrong.
Nitpick: if your veins completely collapsed, there wouldn't be any blood returning to your heart to generate an extremely elevated blood pressure.
I agree that heroin addiction, as practiced, is not a healthy lifestyle. But withdrawal from opioids isn't considered medically dangerous.
I'm an anesthesiologist. I could be wrong, of course, but medical school, residency, and my personal experience all say that people don't die of opioid withdrawal. It's not fun, but it's not fatal. I would guess that something else was going on at the same time - perhaps he was using some of those other drugs I mentioned, as well - but would welcome details, if you have them.
They can use narrowly-tailored skills tests. Please point me to any business using general IQ tests on applicants. I'd love to be wrong.
Medical school does teach a few very interesting things... even if most of the students don't happen to absorb them.
You won't die from quitting heroin, either. The drugs that are actually physically dangerous to quit cold-turkey are alcohol, benzodiazepines (Valium, Xanax, Librium, etc.), and barbiturates (Quaalude/methaqualone, pentobarbital, phenobarbital, etc.).