Where I live - the _vast_ majority of people who fire handguns at a shooting range are police (the NYPD, to be specific). Handguns belonging to the police are the only handguns I see on a regular basis. I think you'll have a hard time arguing that those handguns are intended for sport shooting.
My apologies - everyone I know who owns a handgun explicitly owns it for their own self-defense, and they use it for target shooting such that they can be sure that they can defend themselves when they need it. I know, anecdotes do not data make; I withdraw my statement regarding the primary use of handguns. As to your racist claim - I (quite happily) live in a mostly black neighborhood, if I were so racist, I'd certainly have never made the choice to live where I do - so go fuck yourself and your projections.
But in all seriousness, driving with the intent of getting yourself to a destination is no fun at all. There are all these rules, speed limits, and other drivers ruining the whole experience. Cars as a mode of personal transportation are horribly inefficient and unbelievably dangerous. The act of driving itself can be tons of fun - if you enjoy driving, do it on a track (at whatever speed, and performing whatever maneuvers you'd like). The rest of us will take the subway.
I didn't realize he was a TEENAGER, that makes it all right. I forgot that teenagers are invincible
The point is - he was a teenager. His UID belies the fact that he's no longer a teenager. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't swerve side to side across the road anymore, or carpool to high school. I'm willing to bet that he doesn't drive in an unsafe manner at all, anymore. I'm also willing to bet that the reason for that is due, in part, to that little story. Have you ever been behind the wheel of a car that, even momentarily, was completely out of your control? Did it give you a fear-for-your-life adrenaline rush that you'll never forget? Unless you are a stunt driver, if the answer to that first question is yes, the answer to the second is _always_ yes (unless you were drunk, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms).
In conclusion, I'd be happy to find you the number of a proctologist who can help you with that stick problem.
I know - right? All of this talk about the article. Which article? 'The'? 'A'? What does grammar have to do with slide parking cars?
Re:You signed away this "right" by picking Apple.
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their one-sided, parasitic relationships the open source projects
One sided? Apple shares it's modifications to the open source tools that it uses with the open source community. Likewise it's contributions to WebKit - but feel free to ignore that, no one else on the market besides Apple is using that engine...
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Seriously - I can't believe more people don't realize that you can write the app in the c-flavor of your preference, it's only the view code that need differ between devices (assuming you designed the code correctly). Frankly, if you take the time to write and polish the view code specifically for the device it's going on - your app will be better on every device for which you do that.
I'm also willing to bet that applications that have no need for native UI elements (games, particularly the 3D variety) require even less work porting between the various platforms.
According to Apple? Do they write the laws (yes, maybe they do a little bit, lobbyists, etc.) but they certainly don't get to decide when the laws are being violated. As far as I'm concerned, jailbreaking is a requirement for unlocking my (now unlocked) iPhone. Since it's a necessity - it is therefore *explicitly* legal according to the DMCA. I don't give a fuck what Apple says the law is, no one has yet been brought to jail (or fined, or whatever) for jailbreaking their iPhone, and they never will.
Microsoft _did_ have the right to control that market, right up until the point that it became the only market of comparable utility (i.e. when the competing markets/platforms, combined, had an insignificant presence).
But they're not controlling "the market"; they are only controlling their portion of the market. Their impact on "the market" as a whole, appears to have been to force competitors to make phones of comparable quality/usability; this, IMHO, is indeed the case, as there is a plethora of excellent Android (and otherwise) based products on "the market", and more coming. This antitrust stuff all seems a little bit premature, to me - Apple has by no means yet earned the right to say they "control the market".
I think you're jumping the gun. How do we know that this is the end of all that is LaLa? iTunes came from another Apple acquisition. How do we know that LaLa in some form won't come back into existence in the iTunes ecosystem?
According to TFA, Mac sales are _half_ of Creative Suite's sales. While you could argue that if Adobe dropped Mac support most professionals would switch their OS platform and follow Adobe's lead, it would be a major hit to the initial success of Creative Suite 6, and a very expensive gamble on Adobe's part. Not to mention the fact that Adobe is a public company, and deliberately cutting into the initial returns of an otherwise very profitable product would not sit very well with their shareholders.
Wake up Jobs, no one wants a PC without a fucking keyboard and a fucking mouse.
Jobs is actually well aware of this, all of his company's PCs have a "fucking keyboard and a fucking mouse" (of one sort or another). The iPad is not a PC; it's a device that is optimized for the consumption of content, not its creation. An iPad goes on a coffee table, a PC goes on a desk.
And don't stars when the collapse create black holes?
Never taken a class on astronomy? *Big* stars collapse into black holes. Big as in much bigger than Sol. This "star" won't have enough mass to overpower Earth's gravitational field let alone establish one of its own, so it won't collapse so much as fizzle out.
For sure; reminds me of those filler baseball stats announcers use: "Wright bats 1.000 against left handed pitchers on the day after a rainstorm when the Mets are on the road and Venus is in retrograde."
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Where I live - the _vast_ majority of people who fire handguns at a shooting range are police (the NYPD, to be specific). Handguns belonging to the police are the only handguns I see on a regular basis. I think you'll have a hard time arguing that those handguns are intended for sport shooting.
My apologies - everyone I know who owns a handgun explicitly owns it for their own self-defense, and they use it for target shooting such that they can be sure that they can defend themselves when they need it. I know, anecdotes do not data make; I withdraw my statement regarding the primary use of handguns. As to your racist claim - I (quite happily) live in a mostly black neighborhood, if I were so racist, I'd certainly have never made the choice to live where I do - so go fuck yourself and your projections.
I guess you've never heard of the shooting sports [wikipedia.org] or hunting?
Handguns (with some exceptions, of course) are not typically used for either of those things.
the student's ability to tolerate alcohol
Yeah...I learned that one in college several years ago. No DNA test required...
The Man's already gotten to the microwaves - you can really see the faraday cage doing its good work when you put one in a microwave.
I reheat all of my food in inexpensive faraday cages. It's the only way to be sure insidious mind-control radiation isn't leaking into my food.
I use white text on a black background (in addition to lowest possible brightness) - it significantly reduces eyestrain.
How can you so casually disregard Apple's (and Steve Jobs') role in the development of the personal computer?
Were you using a Web UI toolkit? YUI comes with a combo box exactly as you describe, as do several others, I'm sure.
Think about fault tolerance...
We all know the value of splash damage...
But in all seriousness, driving with the intent of getting yourself to a destination is no fun at all. There are all these rules, speed limits, and other drivers ruining the whole experience. Cars as a mode of personal transportation are horribly inefficient and unbelievably dangerous. The act of driving itself can be tons of fun - if you enjoy driving, do it on a track (at whatever speed, and performing whatever maneuvers you'd like). The rest of us will take the subway.
I didn't realize he was a TEENAGER, that makes it all right. I forgot that teenagers are invincible
The point is - he was a teenager. His UID belies the fact that he's no longer a teenager. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't swerve side to side across the road anymore, or carpool to high school. I'm willing to bet that he doesn't drive in an unsafe manner at all, anymore. I'm also willing to bet that the reason for that is due, in part, to that little story. Have you ever been behind the wheel of a car that, even momentarily, was completely out of your control? Did it give you a fear-for-your-life adrenaline rush that you'll never forget? Unless you are a stunt driver, if the answer to that first question is yes, the answer to the second is _always_ yes (unless you were drunk, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms).
In conclusion, I'd be happy to find you the number of a proctologist who can help you with that stick problem.
I know - right? All of this talk about the article. Which article? 'The'? 'A'? What does grammar have to do with slide parking cars?
their one-sided, parasitic relationships the open source projects
One sided? Apple shares it's modifications to the open source tools that it uses with the open source community. Likewise it's contributions to WebKit - but feel free to ignore that, no one else on the market besides Apple is using that engine...
Seriously - I can't believe more people don't realize that you can write the app in the c-flavor of your preference, it's only the view code that need differ between devices (assuming you designed the code correctly). Frankly, if you take the time to write and polish the view code specifically for the device it's going on - your app will be better on every device for which you do that.
I'm also willing to bet that applications that have no need for native UI elements (games, particularly the 3D variety) require even less work porting between the various platforms.
According to Apple? Do they write the laws (yes, maybe they do a little bit, lobbyists, etc.) but they certainly don't get to decide when the laws are being violated. As far as I'm concerned, jailbreaking is a requirement for unlocking my (now unlocked) iPhone. Since it's a necessity - it is therefore *explicitly* legal according to the DMCA. I don't give a fuck what Apple says the law is, no one has yet been brought to jail (or fined, or whatever) for jailbreaking their iPhone, and they never will.
Microsoft _did_ have the right to control that market, right up until the point that it became the only market of comparable utility (i.e. when the competing markets/platforms, combined, had an insignificant presence).
But they're not controlling "the market"; they are only controlling their portion of the market. Their impact on "the market" as a whole, appears to have been to force competitors to make phones of comparable quality/usability; this, IMHO, is indeed the case, as there is a plethora of excellent Android (and otherwise) based products on "the market", and more coming. This antitrust stuff all seems a little bit premature, to me - Apple has by no means yet earned the right to say they "control the market".
I think you're jumping the gun. How do we know that this is the end of all that is LaLa? iTunes came from another Apple acquisition. How do we know that LaLa in some form won't come back into existence in the iTunes ecosystem?
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According to TFA, Mac sales are _half_ of Creative Suite's sales. While you could argue that if Adobe dropped Mac support most professionals would switch their OS platform and follow Adobe's lead, it would be a major hit to the initial success of Creative Suite 6, and a very expensive gamble on Adobe's part. Not to mention the fact that Adobe is a public company, and deliberately cutting into the initial returns of an otherwise very profitable product would not sit very well with their shareholders.
Wake up Jobs, no one wants a PC without a fucking keyboard and a fucking mouse.
Jobs is actually well aware of this, all of his company's PCs have a "fucking keyboard and a fucking mouse" (of one sort or another). The iPad is not a PC; it's a device that is optimized for the consumption of content, not its creation. An iPad goes on a coffee table, a PC goes on a desk.
And don't stars when the collapse create black holes?
Never taken a class on astronomy? *Big* stars collapse into black holes. Big as in much bigger than Sol. This "star" won't have enough mass to overpower Earth's gravitational field let alone establish one of its own, so it won't collapse so much as fizzle out.
You have to sign a lot of papers to sell new Apple products at retail.
For sure; reminds me of those filler baseball stats announcers use: "Wright bats 1.000 against left handed pitchers on the day after a rainstorm when the Mets are on the road and Venus is in retrograde."
General McMaster said [...] “Some problems in the world are not bullet-izable.”
Taken out of context, that seems to be quite an insightful thing for a general to say...