Dunno if Primus counts as too "proggy", but don't leave out Eleven (11/4, played in 3-3-3-2). Personally, odd time signatures are one of my favorite things to pick out in music.
because nobody here is willing to take a pay cut to keep their job.
This line is bullshit for so many reasons.
First, workers generally aren't even given an *option* to take a pay cut. A factory is built in China, all manufacturing shifts to the new factory, then one in the US is shut down and all the workers are laid off. At no point does management ever ask, "well, we think we may have to move manufacturing to China... unless everybody in this plant is willing to take a pay cut to $1.25 per hour." There's really no reason to even ask, because there's no way that the US worker could ever compete, even if they were willing to take the cut.
And the reason they couldn't compete? Because it's absolutely impossible to live on those kinds of wages in the US. (strawman alert) I suppose you think it would be a great thing if US workers could just suck it up and do 12-16 hour shifts and live in factory dormitories and never see the light of day, but most of the rest of us think that would be a terrible thing for what little is left of the middle class.
However, I don't feel that schools should have the right to say that creationism is wrong.
Well, yeah. Creation is "not even wrong." Creation shouldn't even be mentioned in school outside of being one of many origin stories offered by ancient mythologies.
Too bad the Republican party isn't going to run anyone remotely interesting as a candidate. I'd happily vote against Obama if something credible were offered from the other side.
I agree with pretty much everything you said except the idea that it's Google's job to do something about it.
I think Rick Santorum is a huge, unelectable douche, and I think that Savage is dragging down the level of political discourse to even lower levels with this stupid spreading santorum campaign. Honestly, it's no better than all the morons that call anything they don't like "socialism" or "fascism".
But all Google is doing is presenting an unbiased ranking of what seem to be the best matches based on their search algorithm's weighting. That's exactly what they're supposed to be doing.
Keep telling yourself this if it helps you sleep at night, or helps you justify your Apple purchases.
But it's bullshit, and the rest of us know it. When it needs replacing, my MacBook Pro will not be updated with newer Apple hardware. They'll never get another penny from me.
Overcoming the paradox of choice is good for the manufacturer because it gets over a psychological hurdle that the customer would otherwise have to jump to make a purchase.
It is not in any way a benefit for the customer. Making it easier, psychologically, to spend your money doesn't do jack shit for you.
People should really see their BS for what is with these claims, seriously, they own voice control?
Except that's not what they're claiming. And if you'd bothered to read some portion of this thread (or God forbid, the patents that you're commenting on) you'd know that.
Except it doesn't even matter what they're claiming they're doing with voice. It's all just trivial, obvious improvements using the technology (that Apple didn't invent) available today.
And on top of this, Apple does *everything* they can to present themselves as an all-American company. Every one of their products mentions how it came from Cupertino right on the packaging in a very conspicuous location as you open it. "Designed by Apple in California" was on my MacBook Pro's box, IIRC. Of course, "designed" doesn't mean "manufactured", but less discerning customers won't really focus on that word, they'll focus on "California."
I don't know of any other consumer electronics company that goes out of their way to mislead their customers in this manner.
Comments like yours remind me of some bawling child on the playground blubbering "b-b-but he did it too!" as if that is an acceptable excuse for their own behavior.
And if you're just trying to ruffle the feathers of all the rabid Dell fanbois out there, well, you might not want to hold your breath waiting for indignant posts defending them...
This is why I'm conservative. Bureaucracies are by far and away the easiest things for Big Corp. or the MIC to corrupt. Bureaucrats are unelected, unaccountable, and largely uncontrollable. Thus large centralized governments INEVITABLY become corrupt, regardless of how many "controls" we put on them. (in the end, they just ignore the law anyway, so why have them?)
Yeah, because all of us liberals would just *love* to see the military-industrial complex be in complete control; in fact, we'd cheer bad FAA rules because we're just such huge fans of big, inefficient bureaucracies.
These things are entirely OPTIONAL. If you think you're a good, safe driver, and want to get one to prove that you're a good, safe driver for the discount, then go for it. If you get one and then try to defeat it? Fuck you -- nobody put a gun to your head and made you install it. Your insurance premiums didn't go up because you didn't accept it. You just don't get the safe driver discount that other people, presumably, earned by proving that they're safe drivers.
--Jeremy
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Because, yeah, we don't tax wealth. Like, there's no such thing as property tax, because that would be insanity.
There's no reason to think in terms of good and evil about any of this stuff. It's simply a matter of profitable vs. not profitable, and looking out for one's own self interests.
Some people and/or corporations are better about recognizing the negative impacts that their profits might impose on other entities. You know, something like empathy. Most corporations and a disappointingly large number of individuals seem to have no empathy whatsoever for anyone outside their immediate circle of friends and family -- if it even extends that far.
There's no moustachioed villain running Halliburton. It's just a big amoral conglomerate of people who are out to make sure their own lives are the best they can be, using the government and financial systems as they exist to do that.
That said, they deserve zero respect because they've shown the rest of us zero respect. It's got nothing to do with good or evil.
Your post is, truly, one of the best pieces of spin I've ever read.
Do you actually believe that garbage? You realize that the only reason we finally started funding it is because while we were doing so much religiously-influenced foot-dragging, the rest of the world was busy kicking our asses and generating such an overwhelming amount of positive results that we couldn't possibly sit on the sidelines anymore?
I find it hilarious that you're crediting W for this when he famously used a photo-op with 'snowflake babies' to show his stance against stem cell research.
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So the mechanic should go to jail because they made a mistake? Should mechanics need to have malpractice insurance?
Shit like this is exactly why we have a CYA attitude in every organization, everywhere.
--Jeremy
Dunno if Primus counts as too "proggy", but don't leave out Eleven (11/4, played in 3-3-3-2). Personally, odd time signatures are one of my favorite things to pick out in music.
--Jeremy
because nobody here is willing to take a pay cut to keep their job.
This line is bullshit for so many reasons.
First, workers generally aren't even given an *option* to take a pay cut. A factory is built in China, all manufacturing shifts to the new factory, then one in the US is shut down and all the workers are laid off. At no point does management ever ask, "well, we think we may have to move manufacturing to China ... unless everybody in this plant is willing to take a pay cut to $1.25 per hour." There's really no reason to even ask, because there's no way that the US worker could ever compete, even if they were willing to take the cut.
And the reason they couldn't compete? Because it's absolutely impossible to live on those kinds of wages in the US. (strawman alert) I suppose you think it would be a great thing if US workers could just suck it up and do 12-16 hour shifts and live in factory dormitories and never see the light of day, but most of the rest of us think that would be a terrible thing for what little is left of the middle class.
--Jeremy
Yup, this anecdote serves as a scathing indictment of all teachers.
--Jeremy
However, I don't feel that schools should have the right to say that creationism is wrong.
Well, yeah. Creation is "not even wrong." Creation shouldn't even be mentioned in school outside of being one of many origin stories offered by ancient mythologies.
--Jeremy
Too bad the Republican party isn't going to run anyone remotely interesting as a candidate. I'd happily vote against Obama if something credible were offered from the other side.
--Jeremy
And your thinly veiled homophobia says a lot about you.
--Jeremy
Then you're using ignorance to justify your prejudices.
--Jeremy
Look up post hoc ergo proptor hoc.
--Jeremy
Unfortunately, rather than making this fact widely known, we have the unhelpful distraction of spreadingsantorum.com for people to talk about instead.
--Jeremy
I agree with pretty much everything you said except the idea that it's Google's job to do something about it.
I think Rick Santorum is a huge, unelectable douche, and I think that Savage is dragging down the level of political discourse to even lower levels with this stupid spreading santorum campaign. Honestly, it's no better than all the morons that call anything they don't like "socialism" or "fascism".
But all Google is doing is presenting an unbiased ranking of what seem to be the best matches based on their search algorithm's weighting. That's exactly what they're supposed to be doing.
--Jeremy
Keep telling yourself this if it helps you sleep at night, or helps you justify your Apple purchases.
But it's bullshit, and the rest of us know it. When it needs replacing, my MacBook Pro will not be updated with newer Apple hardware. They'll never get another penny from me.
--Jeremy
Overcoming the paradox of choice is good for the manufacturer because it gets over a psychological hurdle that the customer would otherwise have to jump to make a purchase.
It is not in any way a benefit for the customer. Making it easier, psychologically, to spend your money doesn't do jack shit for you.
--Jeremy
Case in point.
People should really see their BS for what is with these claims, seriously, they own voice control?
Except that's not what they're claiming. And if you'd bothered to read some portion of this thread (or God forbid, the patents that you're commenting on) you'd know that.
Except it doesn't even matter what they're claiming they're doing with voice. It's all just trivial, obvious improvements using the technology (that Apple didn't invent) available today.
--Jeremy
And on top of this, Apple does *everything* they can to present themselves as an all-American company. Every one of their products mentions how it came from Cupertino right on the packaging in a very conspicuous location as you open it. "Designed by Apple in California" was on my MacBook Pro's box, IIRC. Of course, "designed" doesn't mean "manufactured", but less discerning customers won't really focus on that word, they'll focus on "California."
I don't know of any other consumer electronics company that goes out of their way to mislead their customers in this manner.
--Jeremy
Comments like yours remind me of some bawling child on the playground blubbering "b-b-but he did it too!" as if that is an acceptable excuse for their own behavior.
And if you're just trying to ruffle the feathers of all the rabid Dell fanbois out there, well, you might not want to hold your breath waiting for indignant posts defending them...
--Jeremy
This is why I'm conservative. Bureaucracies are by far and away the easiest things for Big Corp. or the MIC to corrupt. Bureaucrats are unelected, unaccountable, and largely uncontrollable. Thus large centralized governments INEVITABLY become corrupt, regardless of how many "controls" we put on them. (in the end, they just ignore the law anyway, so why have them?)
Yeah, because all of us liberals would just *love* to see the military-industrial complex be in complete control; in fact, we'd cheer bad FAA rules because we're just such huge fans of big, inefficient bureaucracies.
--Jeremy
Too bad we don't have a single-payer system in place for medical care here in the states. That would make scenarios like this a completely moot point.
--Jeremy
These things are entirely OPTIONAL. If you think you're a good, safe driver, and want to get one to prove that you're a good, safe driver for the discount, then go for it. If you get one and then try to defeat it? Fuck you -- nobody put a gun to your head and made you install it. Your insurance premiums didn't go up because you didn't accept it. You just don't get the safe driver discount that other people, presumably, earned by proving that they're safe drivers.
--Jeremy
Because, yeah, we don't tax wealth. Like, there's no such thing as property tax, because that would be insanity.
--Jeremy
Hey, this is the military we're talking about. Just be glad they're not being purchased as replacements for parachutes.
--Jeremy
There's no reason to think in terms of good and evil about any of this stuff. It's simply a matter of profitable vs. not profitable, and looking out for one's own self interests.
Some people and/or corporations are better about recognizing the negative impacts that their profits might impose on other entities. You know, something like empathy. Most corporations and a disappointingly large number of individuals seem to have no empathy whatsoever for anyone outside their immediate circle of friends and family -- if it even extends that far.
There's no moustachioed villain running Halliburton. It's just a big amoral conglomerate of people who are out to make sure their own lives are the best they can be, using the government and financial systems as they exist to do that.
That said, they deserve zero respect because they've shown the rest of us zero respect. It's got nothing to do with good or evil.
--Jeremy
Your post is, truly, one of the best pieces of spin I've ever read.
Do you actually believe that garbage? You realize that the only reason we finally started funding it is because while we were doing so much religiously-influenced foot-dragging, the rest of the world was busy kicking our asses and generating such an overwhelming amount of positive results that we couldn't possibly sit on the sidelines anymore?
I find it hilarious that you're crediting W for this when he famously used a photo-op with 'snowflake babies' to show his stance against stem cell research.
--Jeremy
It all depends on the extend of the mockery here.
Guess you must be on the side of the Muslims who got their panties in a bunch over that cartoon thing?
--Jeremy