Healthcare... WTF? Who was asking for that? We wanted jobs and economic stability not government mandated health care.
Polls, at the time, showed 80% of respondents saying "yes" to "do we need healthcare reform?" So, in response to your question, EVERYBODY is who the fuck was asking for it.
As for the jobs? That was the whole point of the stimulus bill -- you know, the one that passed in like the first month he was in office? Oh, but that's right -- the stimulus bill was nothing but government waste. He had to do something else to create jobs that didn't involve spending money, such as go beg CEOs and other job creators to hire more gardeners for their personal estates.
There are lots of legitimate gripes about Obama. Yours? They're bullshit.
Why would you buy a device where (apparently) the camera is a major piece of functionality that you need and not read up on the camera specs before buying it?
On top of that, if a camera is important to you, why would you consider the pinhole lens cameras available on phones and tablets to be acceptable *at all*?
It's tough to have any sympathy for someone who can't at least do a trivial review of a device's hardware specs and then having sour grapes over something they purchased while not knowing its full capabilities/limitations.
Let's see...what apps did Apple cover in the keynote? Autodesk Sketchbook, GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, the iWork suite and a couple games. Yeah, no content creation at all.
Sure, and there are a few people who even purchase these devices (tablets in general, not just iPads) that actually use them as creation tools. The rest (read: vast majority) just have a shiny expensive gadget that lets them browse the web and watch videos on yet another device.
A) that money that is spent on airport bs would otherwise be allocated to "the people out in the cold"
Any way you look at it, that money is, currently, being wasted. You can argue that it would have just been wasted somewhere else. I will argue that we should find a way to not waste it in the first place.
If profit is your only incentive, then maybe we'd rather you got the fuck out of the way and let people who are actually interested in the subject do the work.
The competitor can't just clone your product instantaneously.
And furthermore, if the competitor *can* clone the patented features of your product instantaneously, then your product's features probably don't deserve patent protection.
If the law somehow increased the number of murders, it would be a stupid law. With murder it's hard to imaging such a law, but that's been a legitimate discussion with some of the drug laws.
So are you insinuating that texting laws increase the amount of texting while driving? If not, then how is your analogy relevant to the discussion whatsoever?
The worst thing we do in societies these days is outlaw stuff on the basis that it's "icky"
Yeah, that's not what's going on here. There is quantifiable damage done (to others) by people who abuse their phones while driving. Those that choose to engage in reckless (to others) activities should have to pay for their damage. Personal responsibility and all that.
Yes, in the same way that communism is the most efficient and beneficial of political systems: "in theory", and as long as you ignore how things actually work out every time it's tried in real life. Real world governments are neverending breeders of corruption and incompetence, and the more you strengthen them, the more incompetent they get. It's naive to expect otherwise.
You can keep spewing this garbage, or you can just look at every other first-world nation and compare them to us, and see that you're absolutely wrong. At this point your ignorance would be funny if it weren't so sad.
And while we're at it, ban those evil violent video games that brainwash you into murdering people.
Disingenuous, offtopic strawman.
But, to address your 'point', I'd be all for banning advertising of those evil, violent video games.
Also, anyone who sticks up for the poor, misunderstood advertisers can seriously go fuck themselves. They do nothing but mislead (at best) and generally outright lie, waste our time, and intrude into EVERY POSSIBLE FACET OF OUR LIVES. The sooner we can get rid of push advertising altogether, the better.
That's a baseless argument. Sony could have stopped production of the PS3 altogether, at any time.
And if that had been what actually happened, then it would have been less of an issue. Had the PS3 completely flopped and Sony stopped building them, one could hardly blame them for other institutions' reliance on their hardware.
However, that's not even close to what happened. These institutions evaluated the risk and saw that Sony has a pretty proven track record at this point, and that the life of their consoles typically extended to a decade or more. It was perfectly reasonable for them to have the expectation that there was a good chance that the same would happen again.
Instead, Sony, for no technical reason, pulls the rug out from under them a couple years in. That's why Sony is the douche in this case.
The only games I have bought for PS3 since then are the console exclusives.
There are enough good games (and, for that matter, things to do in general) that there's no reason to worry about buying every console exclusive must-have.
I've heard that Uncharted is a good series. Guess what? I don't have enough time to play the games I already have, let alone do all the other stuff I want to do; I'm not going to regret missing it.
If you're really trying to send a message to Sony by only buying their most lucrative game releases, you're doing a pretty bad job of it.
I've worked for a public university and for private businesses. (Roughly a 50/50 split for my adult life). The people are equally wasteful and incompetent in both places. It's just more visible for public institutions.
And I find it offensive, to be honest, that you are fine with it becoming "untenable" to live where you want and work where you want. This is a basic tenet of existence to me.
It's basic thermodynamics. There's only so much energy coming into the system we have here on Earth, and currently we're burning it faster than we (and the rest of the planet) can harvest it. Eventually it will get to the point that there simply isn't enough energy to move your (or your children's, or your grandchildren's) ass from home to your job on a daily basis. Maybe you're one of those selfish not-my-problem, kick-the-can-down-the-road assholes, but some of us like to solve problems proactively when we have the opportunity.
Let me guess: you also think that wind and solar energy are stupid ideas and wastes of time.
And if there weren't so much gas wasted by solo suburban commuters driving their SUVs to work, the gas you Montana residents (nobody says you *have* to live in Montana, BTW; if you can't afford it maybe you should move somewhere else?) need to get around would be a lot cheaper. Supply/demand curve, right?
You bought the FUD and are doing your part as an Apple user to keep spreading it.
I don't give a shit what you use, honestly, if it meets your needs. Just seriously, you and all the other Apple users, quit telling the rest of us that we're wrong for not being satisfied with what Apple offers, and quit spreading uninformed bullshit about the stuff you don't choose to use.
500,000 apps available on the iOS App Store. Why don't you go take a look for yourself.
I tried doing this the other day. Turns out the only way you can search through Apple's store is if you install iTunes (not going to happen) or browse from an iOS device (I don't have any). Otherwise, you're limited to browsing via the web alphabetically by category. Difficult to believe that such an obvious feature is missing from Apple's web interface? It's true!
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Healthcare... WTF? Who was asking for that? We wanted jobs and economic stability not government mandated health care.
Polls, at the time, showed 80% of respondents saying "yes" to "do we need healthcare reform?" So, in response to your question, EVERYBODY is who the fuck was asking for it.
As for the jobs? That was the whole point of the stimulus bill -- you know, the one that passed in like the first month he was in office? Oh, but that's right -- the stimulus bill was nothing but government waste. He had to do something else to create jobs that didn't involve spending money, such as go beg CEOs and other job creators to hire more gardeners for their personal estates.
There are lots of legitimate gripes about Obama. Yours? They're bullshit.
--Jeremy
Why would you buy a device where (apparently) the camera is a major piece of functionality that you need and not read up on the camera specs before buying it?
On top of that, if a camera is important to you, why would you consider the pinhole lens cameras available on phones and tablets to be acceptable *at all*?
It's tough to have any sympathy for someone who can't at least do a trivial review of a device's hardware specs and then having sour grapes over something they purchased while not knowing its full capabilities/limitations.
--Jeremy
Let's see...what apps did Apple cover in the keynote? Autodesk Sketchbook, GarageBand, iMovie, iPhoto, the iWork suite and a couple games. Yeah, no content creation at all.
Sure, and there are a few people who even purchase these devices (tablets in general, not just iPads) that actually use them as creation tools. The rest (read: vast majority) just have a shiny expensive gadget that lets them browse the web and watch videos on yet another device.
--Jeremy
I like being charitable. I don't like when some criminal with a government ID and a gun comes and says: give us money, we are the charity.
And when has this happened to you? Never? Thought so.
--Jeremy
A) that money that is spent on airport bs would otherwise be allocated to "the people out in the cold"
Any way you look at it, that money is, currently, being wasted. You can argue that it would have just been wasted somewhere else. I will argue that we should find a way to not waste it in the first place.
Your other 3 points are non-sequiturs.
--Jeremy
Without a profit incentive
If profit is your only incentive, then maybe we'd rather you got the fuck out of the way and let people who are actually interested in the subject do the work.
--Jeremy
The competitor can't just clone your product instantaneously.
And furthermore, if the competitor *can* clone the patented features of your product instantaneously, then your product's features probably don't deserve patent protection.
--Jeremy
No, when they advertise unlimited bandwidth
I've never seen such an advertisement, so your entire post is a moot point.
--Jeremy
If the law somehow increased the number of murders, it would be a stupid law. With murder it's hard to imaging such a law, but that's been a legitimate discussion with some of the drug laws.
So are you insinuating that texting laws increase the amount of texting while driving? If not, then how is your analogy relevant to the discussion whatsoever?
The worst thing we do in societies these days is outlaw stuff on the basis that it's "icky"
Yeah, that's not what's going on here. There is quantifiable damage done (to others) by people who abuse their phones while driving. Those that choose to engage in reckless (to others) activities should have to pay for their damage. Personal responsibility and all that.
--Jeremy
I'll take the 'drunk' who can 'sober up' immediately thank you very much.
I'll take neither, and not make excuses for anybody, thank you very much.
--Jeremy
Yes, in the same way that communism is the most efficient and beneficial of political systems: "in theory", and as long as you ignore how things actually work out every time it's tried in real life. Real world governments are neverending breeders of corruption and incompetence, and the more you strengthen them, the more incompetent they get. It's naive to expect otherwise.
You can keep spewing this garbage, or you can just look at every other first-world nation and compare them to us, and see that you're absolutely wrong. At this point your ignorance would be funny if it weren't so sad.
--Jeremy
OsBAMA / BInlaDEN
Seriously? This is what you're reducing your level of political discourse to?
--Jeremy
And while we're at it, ban those evil violent video games that brainwash you into murdering people.
Disingenuous, offtopic strawman.
But, to address your 'point', I'd be all for banning advertising of those evil, violent video games.
Also, anyone who sticks up for the poor, misunderstood advertisers can seriously go fuck themselves. They do nothing but mislead (at best) and generally outright lie, waste our time, and intrude into EVERY POSSIBLE FACET OF OUR LIVES. The sooner we can get rid of push advertising altogether, the better.
--Jeremy
That's a baseless argument. Sony could have stopped production of the PS3 altogether, at any time.
And if that had been what actually happened, then it would have been less of an issue. Had the PS3 completely flopped and Sony stopped building them, one could hardly blame them for other institutions' reliance on their hardware.
However, that's not even close to what happened. These institutions evaluated the risk and saw that Sony has a pretty proven track record at this point, and that the life of their consoles typically extended to a decade or more. It was perfectly reasonable for them to have the expectation that there was a good chance that the same would happen again.
Instead, Sony, for no technical reason, pulls the rug out from under them a couple years in. That's why Sony is the douche in this case.
--Jeremy
The only games I have bought for PS3 since then are the console exclusives.
There are enough good games (and, for that matter, things to do in general) that there's no reason to worry about buying every console exclusive must-have.
I've heard that Uncharted is a good series. Guess what? I don't have enough time to play the games I already have, let alone do all the other stuff I want to do; I'm not going to regret missing it.
If you're really trying to send a message to Sony by only buying their most lucrative game releases, you're doing a pretty bad job of it.
--Jeremy
rapidly depreciating assets
Hey, that's not a very nice thing to say about the students of Ann Arbor.
--Jeremy
I've worked for a public university and for private businesses. (Roughly a 50/50 split for my adult life). The people are equally wasteful and incompetent in both places. It's just more visible for public institutions.
--Jeremy
And I find it offensive, to be honest, that you are fine with it becoming "untenable" to live where you want and work where you want. This is a basic tenet of existence to me.
It's basic thermodynamics. There's only so much energy coming into the system we have here on Earth, and currently we're burning it faster than we (and the rest of the planet) can harvest it. Eventually it will get to the point that there simply isn't enough energy to move your (or your children's, or your grandchildren's) ass from home to your job on a daily basis. Maybe you're one of those selfish not-my-problem, kick-the-can-down-the-road assholes, but some of us like to solve problems proactively when we have the opportunity.
Let me guess: you also think that wind and solar energy are stupid ideas and wastes of time.
--Jeremy
ArcherB, you're nearly always technically correct. However, you also nearly always miss the point or leave out important details.
--Jeremy
And if there weren't so much gas wasted by solo suburban commuters driving their SUVs to work, the gas you Montana residents (nobody says you *have* to live in Montana, BTW; if you can't afford it maybe you should move somewhere else?) need to get around would be a lot cheaper. Supply/demand curve, right?
--Jeremy
Doctors and most lawyers aren't rich. Many are well off, but few are rich.
--Jeremy
I'd rather have a +1, Wrong option, personally. Don't hide idiocy. Expose it to public ridicule.
--Jeremy
You bought the FUD and are doing your part as an Apple user to keep spreading it.
I don't give a shit what you use, honestly, if it meets your needs. Just seriously, you and all the other Apple users, quit telling the rest of us that we're wrong for not being satisfied with what Apple offers, and quit spreading uninformed bullshit about the stuff you don't choose to use.
--Jeremy
500,000 apps available on the iOS App Store. Why don't you go take a look for yourself.
I tried doing this the other day. Turns out the only way you can search through Apple's store is if you install iTunes (not going to happen) or browse from an iOS device (I don't have any). Otherwise, you're limited to browsing via the web alphabetically by category. Difficult to believe that such an obvious feature is missing from Apple's web interface? It's true!
--Jeremy
What proprietary lock-in hell? How do they lock you in?
See those apps you bought from the iTunes store? You'll never be able to use them on any other manufacturer's phone.
See that alarm clock with the iPod charging dock you bought for your iPhone? You'll never be able to use it with any other manufacturer's phone.
--Jeremy