It's not like people have no legitimate reason for doubting claims on either side.
Sure we do. One side is backed by researchers and data who keep making predictions that turn out to be too conservative. The other side is backed by people accusing the researchers of being money-grubbing grant-chasers, people who blame the "myth" on some government conspiracy, and armchair analysts who obviously have a better grasp of the data than the people who study this for a living.
Guess which side is which.
Fuck, the side of ignorance has even conceded that yes, it appears that global warming is happening -- we just can't prove that *humans* are causing it. (as if it matters -- for any other natural disaster we'd at least try to mitigate the damage, but for some reason with global warming all we can do is throw up our hands and say "it's impossible to do anything about it!") So you're a few years behind on your denialism there -- get with the program.
And union membership was what got my dad a living wage to support my family, along with health, retirement, and vacation benefits.
Although I don't doubt that there are shitty unions out there, I'd be willing to bet that a majority of the complaints I see like yours are either a) bald-faced lies or b) gross ignorance of what your union actually did for you. And blaming 3-minute breaks on the unions is ridiculous: at best it's a non-sequiter, as it would be the employer enforcing draconian rules like that because the union was obviously too emasculated to fight them.
The idea behind a design patent is to protect the manufacturer and the consumer from counterfeit products.
Even if that were true: are you honestly suggesting that people buying Samsung devices were confused and thought that they were getting an Apple device? Despite the big "Samsung" logos on the front of every fucking Samsung device? Despite the fact that Apple devices are clearly sold only on special displays or stores with big Apple logos on them? Samsung never shipped crates of counterfeit phones marked as "Apphole" devices that were sold out of the backs of vans or in discount stores in an attempt to trick people into thinking that they were buying the genuine product.
If you really think people were being tricked into buying Samsung devices, you have far less faith in Apple customers' purchasing intelligence than I do.
Compare this with android where you'd target android 2.1 probably, and then have a ton of bug fixes to deal with on newer releases because the APIs have changed so much.
jittles was much more forgiving to you, but I'll just come out and say it: now you're clearly talking out your ass.
Support pretty much any resolution you can make up between 320x240 and 1280x800
This is a good thing. It makes it so you don't have asinine "letterboxing" on apps that don't support the native resolutions of newer devices.
It's also not difficult. You could also add, potentially, supporting both landscape and portrait layouts for each resolution. Also not difficult.
Support each of the above, paired with any one of 4/5 different graphics cores from 4/5 different vendors, each vendor using its own custom texture compression.
Only if you're doing engine development for games. Agreed, it's annoying, but not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
Support CPUs that can range anywhere from 800Mhz single cores up to 1.5Ghz quad cores
And this is different than iPhone development... how? Or are you claiming that an iPhone 4 can handle anything that the 5 will be able to handle, computationally?
Fragmentation is multiple parallel products that have incompatibilities.
"Fragmentation is defined in a way such that it can be used to describe the stuff I don't like, but not to the stuff I like."
Android fanboys wish iOS devices had the same problem, they just don't.
Just like iOS fanbois wish that fragmentation were actually a problem for end users, when it really isn't. And as an Android developer, I can say that it's not much of an issue for any remotely competent developer either.
Well first off, we define pedophilia as sex with anyone under 18
Umm, no, pedophilia is defined as an attraction to pre-pubescent children. As in, attraction to members of the species that lack mature sexual characteristics. It's possible to be a pedophile without ever actually having sex with anyone.
I think the point AC makes is that your suggestion, even though technically 'easier' than moving out of the country, is still an unrealistic solution. On top of that, it's completely unsympathetic (and I'd go so far as to say downright insulting) response to someone else's plight. "Oh, don't like something about where you live? Just move."... and hope that the place you're able to move to is better.
Nintendo has always given very conservative estimates of its hardware's capabilities. Their honesty is a lot of the reason that there are many people who still think that the PS2 (70 million polygons per second (unlit, un-transformed, non-textured, single-pixel degenerate triangles)) was more powerful than the Gamecube (8-12 million (fully lit, multi-textured, typical-for-a-game-scene triangles)). People believe this despite the fact that Gamecube games looked way better, that ports from the Gamecube or XBox back to the PS2 had to be downgraded (RE4, for example), and that developers themselves said that the XBox and Gamecube were roughly on par hardware-wise, and both superior to the PS2.
You don't have a goddamn clue what computer science is. If you managed to finish a CS degree and still think that, I really pity you for your wasted time.
Huntsman seems pretty decent. If the Republican party fielded him 2016 (and he didn't do a batshit crazy flip from his previous campaigns, a la McCain) I'd give serious thought to voting for him.
Ahh, yes -- and the people who fall for scams do it voluntarily as well. All perfectly legal, right? So there's nothing that can be done.
But ignoring that... The people who make the decision to sell -- the owners -- are generally *very* well compensated in these deals. There's very little reason for them to not take their own golden parachute when the leveraged buyout offers show up.
No, your example of why proportional representation doesn't work is a) a false dichotomy and b) only really applicable to the US, where one party has decided that it will, under *zero* circumstances, compromise with anybody.
A) your assumption that any seats that don't go to more mainstream political ideologies will go to crazies is a form of false dichotomy. There are any number of reasonable viewpoints or priorities that aren't held by mainstream parties.
B) in most of the rest of the world, there's this thing called compromise, where the two larger parties *could* make reasonable concessions to get things done without having to buy favors of the 2 independents. Unfortunately, we don't have that in the US any more, because compromise is now seen as weakness and will get you labeled a RINO or DINO.
The problem is, how to convince people to buy stock.
And how, exactly, do you propose that all of these displaced workers purchase enough of this stock that the dividends will be enough to support them?
Also, how do you convince them to buy stock when every 10 years or so some bubble (created by those with essentially limitless amounts of cash) bursts and takes all the money of everybody not too-big-to-fail with it?
The word "evolution" is horribly misused and equally misunderstood.
For instance: I enjoy the X-Men universe. However, their description of "evolution" and what happens in the X-Men universe would actually contradict the theory of evolution. For someone to suddenly grow large insect wings would disprove evolution -- or at least throw a major wrench in our understanding of how it works.
And, in response to your rhetorical question: the reason people never say that the plants in their back yard are evolving is because the plants in your back yard are not evolving. Not all change is evolution.
My question is, why do Atheists care about proselytizing their Atheism to others? Why do they care what "religion" says at all? Why are atheists so quick to dehumanize others?
Look at the Republican party and their push to enact the Christian version of Sharia law in the US. As soon as that shit ends, we'll stop giving a shit about what nonsense you believe.
Except in the US, saying "I'm not religious" is considered disrespectful to religion. Saying "I don't want my government to pay for your religious beliefs" is an attack on and oppressive to religious people.
HD really has no bearing on what method you have it delivered to your home. Likely, you had a choice of one cable monopoly, over-the-air, and DirectTV or Dish. They have their prices partially dictated by what the content providers strong-arm them into paying, and then get away with charging a lot more on top of that because of the relatively low amount of competition.
Digital books really have no excuse for being very expensive; same with digital music. It's based entirely on supporting an industry that's used to getting $10 per CD or $25 per hardcover.
Wow, you sure showed the libtards how dumb they are with that completely fabricated example. Yeah, we all hate plumbers, and every suggested tax we support is aimed squarely at that edge case you describe.
Your problem is that you probably fancy yourself to be in (or have a chance to be in) the 1%, but in reality you have no fucking clue what the 1% really is.
By that logic, I should get reduced taxes on the interest (ha!) from what I have in savings because if I hadn't been taxed on my earnings, I could have put more in savings, and then earn more interest. Or more on my IRA. Or more on whatever other financial vehicle I have to save/invest.
But that's a stupid conclusion. At some point you just have to say, "ok, here's what I'm taking out to pay taxes" and forget about it. It's all these stupid exceptions and loopholes that make the tax code so damn complex and easily-gamed-if-you-have-the-resources to begin with.
Privacy for all! Unless of course its someone we dont like.
Indeed -- privacy for everybody. Right up until they decide to run for public office. Then they'd damn well better show us any records they can that will show that they're trustworthy. Not because they must, but because they *should*.
Tax records are really a pretty fucking weak demand anyway. It's basically public information, and unless you have something to hide there's no reason a national politician should feel ashamed to show them. The fact that he hasn't shown them speaks volumes about his own attitudes towards what he thinks about them: he clearly doesn't honestly believe that what he has paid in taxes is fair.
Hell, Obama showed everybody his birth certificate, even though that was an idiotic demand to begin with. Romney's tax information might just let people judge whether he really does "get it" when it comes to being a middle-class citizen. (of course, anybody who's still on the fence about whether Romney (I-bought-a-dancing-horse-for-the-tax-writeoff) "gets it" is fucking clueless anyway)
Apple store is not the only way to get content or apps for the device.
Though that's not due to Apple's lack of trying. And make no mistake: when they can get you locked out of your iOS devices and have you completely dependent on their services, they will.
Cydia isn't even remotely comparable to Android alternatives; no matter how much lock-down Motorola or any other manufacturer applies to their devices, the Nexus line will *always* be available for those of us who actually want to own our hardware. Your alternatives for iOS are Apple and Apple, or Apple if you're really desperate.
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It's not like people have no legitimate reason for doubting claims on either side.
Sure we do. One side is backed by researchers and data who keep making predictions that turn out to be too conservative. The other side is backed by people accusing the researchers of being money-grubbing grant-chasers, people who blame the "myth" on some government conspiracy, and armchair analysts who obviously have a better grasp of the data than the people who study this for a living.
Guess which side is which.
Fuck, the side of ignorance has even conceded that yes, it appears that global warming is happening -- we just can't prove that *humans* are causing it. (as if it matters -- for any other natural disaster we'd at least try to mitigate the damage, but for some reason with global warming all we can do is throw up our hands and say "it's impossible to do anything about it!") So you're a few years behind on your denialism there -- get with the program.
--Jeremy
And union membership was what got my dad a living wage to support my family, along with health, retirement, and vacation benefits.
Although I don't doubt that there are shitty unions out there, I'd be willing to bet that a majority of the complaints I see like yours are either a) bald-faced lies or b) gross ignorance of what your union actually did for you. And blaming 3-minute breaks on the unions is ridiculous: at best it's a non-sequiter, as it would be the employer enforcing draconian rules like that because the union was obviously too emasculated to fight them.
--Jeremy
The free market only applies to property owners. Nobody else gets to participate in the free market except as a consumer.
--Jeremy
Don't link to the LG Prada
"Just ignore this evidence that pretty much blows up all of the rest of this rant I'm about to give."
Phones had been converging on these interfaces and designs for years before Apple released the iPhone. Here, have some knowledge:
http://phandroid.com/2012/07/31/pre-iphone-design-concepts-add-weight-to-samsungs-defense-in-patent-trial/
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Like_BlackBerry_Before_the_iPhone_
--Jeremy
The idea behind a design patent is to protect the manufacturer and the consumer from counterfeit products.
Even if that were true: are you honestly suggesting that people buying Samsung devices were confused and thought that they were getting an Apple device? Despite the big "Samsung" logos on the front of every fucking Samsung device? Despite the fact that Apple devices are clearly sold only on special displays or stores with big Apple logos on them? Samsung never shipped crates of counterfeit phones marked as "Apphole" devices that were sold out of the backs of vans or in discount stores in an attempt to trick people into thinking that they were buying the genuine product.
If you really think people were being tricked into buying Samsung devices, you have far less faith in Apple customers' purchasing intelligence than I do.
--Jeremy
Compare this with android where you'd target android 2.1 probably, and then have a ton of bug fixes to deal with on newer releases because the APIs have changed so much.
jittles was much more forgiving to you, but I'll just come out and say it: now you're clearly talking out your ass.
--Jeremy
Support pretty much any resolution you can make up between 320x240 and 1280x800
This is a good thing. It makes it so you don't have asinine "letterboxing" on apps that don't support the native resolutions of newer devices.
It's also not difficult. You could also add, potentially, supporting both landscape and portrait layouts for each resolution. Also not difficult.
Support each of the above, paired with any one of 4/5 different graphics cores from 4/5 different vendors, each vendor using its own custom texture compression.
Only if you're doing engine development for games. Agreed, it's annoying, but not nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
Support CPUs that can range anywhere from 800Mhz single cores up to 1.5Ghz quad cores
And this is different than iPhone development ... how? Or are you claiming that an iPhone 4 can handle anything that the 5 will be able to handle, computationally?
--Jeremy
Fragmentation is multiple parallel products that have incompatibilities.
"Fragmentation is defined in a way such that it can be used to describe the stuff I don't like, but not to the stuff I like."
Android fanboys wish iOS devices had the same problem, they just don't.
Just like iOS fanbois wish that fragmentation were actually a problem for end users, when it really isn't. And as an Android developer, I can say that it's not much of an issue for any remotely competent developer either.
--Jeremy
Well first off, we define pedophilia as sex with anyone under 18
Umm, no, pedophilia is defined as an attraction to pre-pubescent children. As in, attraction to members of the species that lack mature sexual characteristics. It's possible to be a pedophile without ever actually having sex with anyone.
--Jeremy
I think the point AC makes is that your suggestion, even though technically 'easier' than moving out of the country, is still an unrealistic solution. On top of that, it's completely unsympathetic (and I'd go so far as to say downright insulting) response to someone else's plight. "Oh, don't like something about where you live? Just move." ... and hope that the place you're able to move to is better.
But then maybe the AC was asking too much of you.
--Jeremy
That's if 20x wasn't an exaggeration.
Nintendo has always given very conservative estimates of its hardware's capabilities. Their honesty is a lot of the reason that there are many people who still think that the PS2 (70 million polygons per second (unlit, un-transformed, non-textured, single-pixel degenerate triangles)) was more powerful than the Gamecube (8-12 million (fully lit, multi-textured, typical-for-a-game-scene triangles)). People believe this despite the fact that Gamecube games looked way better, that ports from the Gamecube or XBox back to the PS2 had to be downgraded (RE4, for example), and that developers themselves said that the XBox and Gamecube were roughly on par hardware-wise, and both superior to the PS2.
--Jeremy
CS == IT jobs by the way.
You don't have a goddamn clue what computer science is. If you managed to finish a CS degree and still think that, I really pity you for your wasted time.
--Jeremy
Congratulations: you're an exception.
--Jeremy
Huntsman seems pretty decent. If the Republican party fielded him 2016 (and he didn't do a batshit crazy flip from his previous campaigns, a la McCain) I'd give serious thought to voting for him.
--Jeremy
Ahh, yes -- and the people who fall for scams do it voluntarily as well. All perfectly legal, right? So there's nothing that can be done.
But ignoring that... The people who make the decision to sell -- the owners -- are generally *very* well compensated in these deals. There's very little reason for them to not take their own golden parachute when the leveraged buyout offers show up.
--Jeremy
No, your example of why proportional representation doesn't work is a) a false dichotomy and b) only really applicable to the US, where one party has decided that it will, under *zero* circumstances, compromise with anybody.
A) your assumption that any seats that don't go to more mainstream political ideologies will go to crazies is a form of false dichotomy. There are any number of reasonable viewpoints or priorities that aren't held by mainstream parties.
B) in most of the rest of the world, there's this thing called compromise, where the two larger parties *could* make reasonable concessions to get things done without having to buy favors of the 2 independents. Unfortunately, we don't have that in the US any more, because compromise is now seen as weakness and will get you labeled a RINO or DINO.
--Jeremy
The problem is, how to convince people to buy stock.
And how, exactly, do you propose that all of these displaced workers purchase enough of this stock that the dividends will be enough to support them?
Also, how do you convince them to buy stock when every 10 years or so some bubble (created by those with essentially limitless amounts of cash) bursts and takes all the money of everybody not too-big-to-fail with it?
--Jeremy
The word "evolution" is horribly misused and equally misunderstood.
For instance: I enjoy the X-Men universe. However, their description of "evolution" and what happens in the X-Men universe would actually contradict the theory of evolution. For someone to suddenly grow large insect wings would disprove evolution -- or at least throw a major wrench in our understanding of how it works.
And, in response to your rhetorical question: the reason people never say that the plants in their back yard are evolving is because the plants in your back yard are not evolving. Not all change is evolution.
--Jeremy
My question is, why do Atheists care about proselytizing their Atheism to others? Why do they care what "religion" says at all? Why are atheists so quick to dehumanize others?
Look at the Republican party and their push to enact the Christian version of Sharia law in the US. As soon as that shit ends, we'll stop giving a shit about what nonsense you believe.
--Jeremy
Except in the US, saying "I'm not religious" is considered disrespectful to religion. Saying "I don't want my government to pay for your religious beliefs" is an attack on and oppressive to religious people.
--Jeremy
Gasoline is limited in supply; ebooks are not.
HD really has no bearing on what method you have it delivered to your home. Likely, you had a choice of one cable monopoly, over-the-air, and DirectTV or Dish. They have their prices partially dictated by what the content providers strong-arm them into paying, and then get away with charging a lot more on top of that because of the relatively low amount of competition.
Digital books really have no excuse for being very expensive; same with digital music. It's based entirely on supporting an industry that's used to getting $10 per CD or $25 per hardcover.
--Jeremy
Wow, you sure showed the libtards how dumb they are with that completely fabricated example. Yeah, we all hate plumbers, and every suggested tax we support is aimed squarely at that edge case you describe.
Your problem is that you probably fancy yourself to be in (or have a chance to be in) the 1%, but in reality you have no fucking clue what the 1% really is.
--Jeremy
By that logic, I should get reduced taxes on the interest (ha!) from what I have in savings because if I hadn't been taxed on my earnings, I could have put more in savings, and then earn more interest. Or more on my IRA. Or more on whatever other financial vehicle I have to save/invest.
But that's a stupid conclusion. At some point you just have to say, "ok, here's what I'm taking out to pay taxes" and forget about it. It's all these stupid exceptions and loopholes that make the tax code so damn complex and easily-gamed-if-you-have-the-resources to begin with.
--Jeremy
Privacy for all! Unless of course its someone we dont like.
Indeed -- privacy for everybody. Right up until they decide to run for public office. Then they'd damn well better show us any records they can that will show that they're trustworthy. Not because they must, but because they *should*.
Tax records are really a pretty fucking weak demand anyway. It's basically public information, and unless you have something to hide there's no reason a national politician should feel ashamed to show them. The fact that he hasn't shown them speaks volumes about his own attitudes towards what he thinks about them: he clearly doesn't honestly believe that what he has paid in taxes is fair.
Hell, Obama showed everybody his birth certificate, even though that was an idiotic demand to begin with. Romney's tax information might just let people judge whether he really does "get it" when it comes to being a middle-class citizen. (of course, anybody who's still on the fence about whether Romney (I-bought-a-dancing-horse-for-the-tax-writeoff) "gets it" is fucking clueless anyway)
--Jeremy
Apple store is not the only way to get content or apps for the device.
Though that's not due to Apple's lack of trying. And make no mistake: when they can get you locked out of your iOS devices and have you completely dependent on their services, they will.
Cydia isn't even remotely comparable to Android alternatives; no matter how much lock-down Motorola or any other manufacturer applies to their devices, the Nexus line will *always* be available for those of us who actually want to own our hardware. Your alternatives for iOS are Apple and Apple, or Apple if you're really desperate.
--Jeremy