My main complaint about Twitter is that it seems to have killed Cocoa programming blogs.
Really? I don't remember that ever being a very high-volume thing in the first place. Also, with the iPhone market the way it is, who has time to write articles?
It's also prohibited by the US constitution. Of course, our Federal government would never violate the constitution unless they found it absolutely convenient to do so.
No informed adult believes that Republicans and Democrats are the same.
It's not so much that they're identical; more like neither of them cares about anything more than expanding their power. The alleged differences you cite are distraction issues, used to deflect attention from the fact that both of the brands of the Ruling Party have steadily increased federal power since the Eisenhower administration.
What Apple needed was somebody to bitch-slap the CPAs.
Bean-counters were never Apple's problem. As it happens, when Jobs returned, one of the people he made sure to retain was Fred Anderson, the company's CFO.
Apple's problem was a lack of focus. Sculley let people do whatever the hell they wanted to do, and Spindler nearly dropped dead from the stress of trying to get a lid on the place. Amelio did some major financial surgery to stop the bleeding, and once that was done, Jobs was the guy who got everybody on the same page so that Apple could do more than merely survive.
Thalidomide was before my time, but I'm familiar with the case. The real tragedy of thalidomide is that it gave the FDA the power to keep many other drugs off the market; drugs which can and do save lives for years or even decades in Europe before the FDA allows them to be used here.
You wield your words in a foolishly irresponsible way without considering their ramifications, frequently.
I have a bit of direct personal experience with the FDA, and I will criticize them with or without your approval. They kill thousands of people every year by keeping drugs off the market that are known to save lives through clinical experience in other countries.
Without the FDA, an enormous number of drugs would never be recalled, or, likely, ever see standard testing in the US to ensure their efficacy and safety.
It does not follow that because a government agency does something (like testing drugs for efficacy, which the FDA doesn't actually do anyway), that it wouldn't happen if that agency didn't exist.
Anyone who needs treatments that the FDA doesn't want to allow will have to incur the added expense of going somewhere with a free market for medicine. Sucks for the people who can't afford it.
If there's a legitimate role for an agency like the FDA, it's indicated by its original name, which was the "Pure Food and Drug Administration". Having inspectors who will check up on whether the bottle of pills you've bought is in fact the drug it's sold as and not just gel caps full of chalk, and punish anyone committing fraud, might be worthwhile. How we got from that to the government deciding whether you're allowed to ingest something and whether your doctor is allowed to prescribe it is a tragic story of gradual usurpation by an overfunded bureaucracy.
The FDA wields an unconstitutional power, and they'll grab any excuse at all to interfere with the practice of medicine while people die waiting for new treatments.
Now... if I were to say my IQ > 140 and hers 70, would that make me less empathetic?
No, calling her stupid is what shows me that you're lacking in empathy. How you got that way doesn't really interest me. Whatever her problems are, they're not going to be helped by her stepfather disparaging her as you did.
Accomplish? I'm the audience, and you're the clown. This is like popping bubble wrap.
I know you why you want to get rid of government.
There's a proper role for government, which Bastiat did a fine job of explaining in his great book, The Law. Governments' legitimate powers are all delegations of the rights of the people.
You think you are better than other people
Project much?
and it is your right, as a superior being, to profit from those less gifted than you.
Wow, you pinkos really have a distorted idea of what commerce is all about. When I buy or sell products or services with other people, whether they are superior or inferior to me or to anyone else is completely irrelevant. What matters is whether we want what the other is offering. If so, we do the deal. If not, we don't.
Me, I think FDR didn't do enough.
Perhaps Mussolini was more to your liking?
He had the fat-cat capitalists over a barrel, he could have nationalized everything.
Yeah, he could have turned the USA into a second Soviet Union. Of course, there is that little problem that looting tends to deter production, and eventually the whole mess comes crashing down when the people get sick of living in destitution while the party bosses live it up.
You want to get rid of anything standing in the way of you dominating others and telling them what to do.
Well, that's a rather vicious slander on your part. Can you point to any example of me attempting to coerce another person?
you know that the government protects the freedoms of the powerless,
I know that a legitimate government is supposed to do so, but in practice the protection of liberty depends on the limits which the people place on their government. This is a fact that far too many Americans have learned the hard way. As we speak, there's a political prisoner named Charlie Lynch waiting in jail to be sentenced for a non-crime, despite the promise made by your Anointed One (you know, the guy who's playing FDR to Bush's Hoover as we speak) that he'd back off a bit on the War on Drugs.
The really funny thing about your diatribe above is that I'm the one advocating leaving people alone, and you accuse me of lusting for power.
Twitter is the most useless waste of time and human resource.
I don't use it myself, but I've seen it come in handy on a number of occasions. I was at WWDC last year, and I went to a bar with a couple of friends. One of them posted where we were, and twenty minutes later we had a party with about a hundred people in attendance. Rather more convenient than looking up a bunch of people and calling them.
Nobody at Apple is stupid enough to buy an SMS service.
There are thousands of people at Apple, and out of a sample that large, I'm sure you could find at least one person who thinks that buying Twitter is a good idea. I doubt that any such person is even at the director level.
If Apple wanted something like Twitter, they could just bring up some Jabber servers on me.com. If they wanted access to Twitter's userbase, they could cut a deal like they did with AOL for iChat access.
then, and only then, would I consider joining that congregation.
But why would they want you? You sound like you hold most christians in contempt. When you see these congregations where bad things are happening, why don't you step up and try to set a good example instead of just bitching at the first christian you spot posting on/.?
As I recall, he would get tortured to death and then have his philosophy distorted for the purposes of power seekers for thousands of years afterwards.
Good one, except Hitler, Stalin, and Mao never practiced socialism
They sure did. You pinkbots have been pretending ever since the news of the body counts started to leak out that they weren't "real" socialists, and if we just let you power-grubbers get one more chance, this time you won't murder people in the millions. Sorry, not buying it.
You have no good answer as to why FDR was elected for a record four terms
Sure I do, it's just not a reason you want to accept.
You think that by getting the last word, you win.
No, I won back when you first claimed that the depression ended in only three years. Watching you dance after that is just the icing on the cake.
Nope, only a Keynesian would buy the absurd notion that a war creates wealth. It's the ultimate broken window fallacy.
As I've already explained to you, the depression ended in 1946 when the federal government 1) released millions of people from military service and war production, 2) cut the federal budget by 2/3, and most importantly, 3) abandoned most of the price controls that had been stifling the economy since the crash.]
you're too dumb to understand that no one is reading this but you and me.
You're performing for my amusement. Why should I care if anyone else is reading it?
I don't want my medical records in the hands of incompetent state bureaucrats. If they have some actual need to know, they can get a fucking warrant to find out.
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My main complaint about Twitter is that it seems to have killed Cocoa programming blogs.
Really? I don't remember that ever being a very high-volume thing in the first place. Also, with the iPhone market the way it is, who has time to write articles?
-jcr
Vigorously defending all odd-numbered amendments
Yeah, they sure came in handy when those soldiers were quartered in my house last week.
-jcr
Torture is a violation of basic human rights.
It's also prohibited by the US constitution. Of course, our Federal government would never violate the constitution unless they found it absolutely convenient to do so.
-jcr
No informed adult believes that Republicans and Democrats are the same.
It's not so much that they're identical; more like neither of them cares about anything more than expanding their power. The alleged differences you cite are distraction issues, used to deflect attention from the fact that both of the brands of the Ruling Party have steadily increased federal power since the Eisenhower administration.
-jcr
What Apple needed was somebody to bitch-slap the CPAs.
Bean-counters were never Apple's problem. As it happens, when Jobs returned, one of the people he made sure to retain was Fred Anderson, the company's CFO.
Apple's problem was a lack of focus. Sculley let people do whatever the hell they wanted to do, and Spindler nearly dropped dead from the stress of trying to get a lid on the place. Amelio did some major financial surgery to stop the bleeding, and once that was done, Jobs was the guy who got everybody on the same page so that Apple could do more than merely survive.
-jcr
the FDA tried to regulate the newly-invented pepper spray for defense against bears as a "pesticide".
Are you sure that was FDA? I know they try to extend their jurisdiction over anything they can, but I thought pesticides were the USDA's bailiwick.
-jcr
That's just the good old All-American tradition of coming up with euphemisms for everything.
Animal model isn't a euphemism, it's a jargon. It's a more specific term than "animal experimentation".
-jcr
Thalidomide was before my time, but I'm familiar with the case. The real tragedy of thalidomide is that it gave the FDA the power to keep many other drugs off the market; drugs which can and do save lives for years or even decades in Europe before the FDA allows them to be used here.
-jcr
You wield your words in a foolishly irresponsible way without considering their ramifications, frequently.
I have a bit of direct personal experience with the FDA, and I will criticize them with or without your approval. They kill thousands of people every year by keeping drugs off the market that are known to save lives through clinical experience in other countries.
Without the FDA, an enormous number of drugs would never be recalled, or, likely, ever see standard testing in the US to ensure their efficacy and safety.
It does not follow that because a government agency does something (like testing drugs for efficacy, which the FDA doesn't actually do anyway), that it wouldn't happen if that agency didn't exist.
-jcr
liquidate what?
Office furniture, computers, buildings? They did have a sizable operation going on at some point.
-jcr
how many were just stalkers?
If we're notable enough to have any stalkers, it's news to me.
-jcr
Anyone who needs treatments that the FDA doesn't want to allow will have to incur the added expense of going somewhere with a free market for medicine. Sucks for the people who can't afford it.
-jcr
If there's a legitimate role for an agency like the FDA, it's indicated by its original name, which was the "Pure Food and Drug Administration". Having inspectors who will check up on whether the bottle of pills you've bought is in fact the drug it's sold as and not just gel caps full of chalk, and punish anyone committing fraud, might be worthwhile. How we got from that to the government deciding whether you're allowed to ingest something and whether your doctor is allowed to prescribe it is a tragic story of gradual usurpation by an overfunded bureaucracy.
-jcr
The FDA wields an unconstitutional power, and they'll grab any excuse at all to interfere with the practice of medicine while people die waiting for new treatments.
-jcr
Now... if I were to say my IQ > 140 and hers 70, would that make me less empathetic?
No, calling her stupid is what shows me that you're lacking in empathy. How you got that way doesn't really interest me. Whatever her problems are, they're not going to be helped by her stepfather disparaging her as you did.
-jcr
What are you hoping to accomplish here?
Accomplish? I'm the audience, and you're the clown. This is like popping bubble wrap.
I know you why you want to get rid of government.
There's a proper role for government, which Bastiat did a fine job of explaining in his great book, The Law. Governments' legitimate powers are all delegations of the rights of the people.
You think you are better than other people
Project much?
and it is your right, as a superior being, to profit from those less gifted than you.
Wow, you pinkos really have a distorted idea of what commerce is all about. When I buy or sell products or services with other people, whether they are superior or inferior to me or to anyone else is completely irrelevant. What matters is whether we want what the other is offering. If so, we do the deal. If not, we don't.
Me, I think FDR didn't do enough.
Perhaps Mussolini was more to your liking?
He had the fat-cat capitalists over a barrel, he could have nationalized everything.
Yeah, he could have turned the USA into a second Soviet Union. Of course, there is that little problem that looting tends to deter production, and eventually the whole mess comes crashing down when the people get sick of living in destitution while the party bosses live it up.
You want to get rid of anything standing in the way of you dominating others and telling them what to do.
Well, that's a rather vicious slander on your part. Can you point to any example of me attempting to coerce another person?
you know that the government protects the freedoms of the powerless,
I know that a legitimate government is supposed to do so, but in practice the protection of liberty depends on the limits which the people place on their government. This is a fact that far too many Americans have learned the hard way. As we speak, there's a political prisoner named Charlie Lynch waiting in jail to be sentenced for a non-crime, despite the promise made by your Anointed One (you know, the guy who's playing FDR to Bush's Hoover as we speak) that he'd back off a bit on the War on Drugs.
The really funny thing about your diatribe above is that I'm the one advocating leaving people alone, and you accuse me of lusting for power.
-jcr
Twitter is the most useless waste of time and human resource.
I don't use it myself, but I've seen it come in handy on a number of occasions. I was at WWDC last year, and I went to a bar with a couple of friends. One of them posted where we were, and twenty minutes later we had a party with about a hundred people in attendance. Rather more convenient than looking up a bunch of people and calling them.
-jcr
Nobody at Apple is stupid enough to buy an SMS service.
There are thousands of people at Apple, and out of a sample that large, I'm sure you could find at least one person who thinks that buying Twitter is a good idea. I doubt that any such person is even at the director level.
If Apple wanted something like Twitter, they could just bring up some Jabber servers on me.com. If they wanted access to Twitter's userbase, they could cut a deal like they did with AOL for iChat access.
-jcr
the depression ended in three years.
That keeps getting funnier every time you say it.
socialism fixed what capitalism broke
Nope. Socialism delayed the recovery from the disaster that government interference caused. Google for "federal reserve".
-jcr
then, and only then, would I consider joining that congregation.
But why would they want you? You sound like you hold most christians in contempt. When you see these congregations where bad things are happening, why don't you step up and try to set a good example instead of just bitching at the first christian you spot posting on /.?
-jcr
As I recall, he would get tortured to death and then have his philosophy distorted for the purposes of power seekers for thousands of years afterwards.
-jcr
Good one, except Hitler, Stalin, and Mao never practiced socialism
They sure did. You pinkbots have been pretending ever since the news of the body counts started to leak out that they weren't "real" socialists, and if we just let you power-grubbers get one more chance, this time you won't murder people in the millions. Sorry, not buying it.
You have no good answer as to why FDR was elected for a record four terms
Sure I do, it's just not a reason you want to accept.
You think that by getting the last word, you win.
No, I won back when you first claimed that the depression ended in only three years. Watching you dance after that is just the icing on the cake.
-jcr
Why was he elected for four terms?
Because he had an extremely effective propaganda apparatus. Fools like you still sing his praises after all these years.
Face facts, socialism works.
Tell it to the tens of millions dead at the hands of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
-jcr
So, what did 'fix' the depression? The war?
Nope, only a Keynesian would buy the absurd notion that a war creates wealth. It's the ultimate broken window fallacy.
As I've already explained to you, the depression ended in 1946 when the federal government 1) released millions of people from military service and war production, 2) cut the federal budget by 2/3, and most importantly, 3) abandoned most of the price controls that had been stifling the economy since the crash.]
you're too dumb to understand that no one is reading this but you and me.
You're performing for my amusement. Why should I care if anyone else is reading it?
-jcr
I don't want my medical records in the hands of incompetent state bureaucrats. If they have some actual need to know, they can get a fucking warrant to find out.
-jcr