90% of people wouldn't want to screw around with that. When they spend all that money on a TV, they expect it to do cool stuff, out of the box.
It's particularly amusing that you make this unfounded assertion in a story about how nobody who buys smart TVs uses them do do any of the 'cool stuff' that they're capable of.
But you can be assured that if modern weapons had been around then and used to fight off the British, there wouldn't have been an exception for them in the 2nd.
It's a good thing we have you here to clear that up. And here I foolishly thought that everybody who personally knew not only authors of the US Constitution -- but also knew exactly how they'd behave in different situations -- was dead.
I would like to thank you for keeping a rational sense of perspective about the world, despite your loss. Too many people have the attitude that "something horrible happened to me! Everybody should live in fear because of it!" and it's created an incredibly unhealthy environment of distrust for us to live in, despite the fact that violent crime has been on the decline for decades.
There's also the "freedom to be litigious assholes who goad people into attacking them and then turn around sue them" that we don't necessarily have to respect.
And I'm sorry, but any group that pickets funerals of non-political figures has lost the right to expect any degree of civility from the rest of society.
Nothing can be "fully tested". Things like this happens to any developer and are unavoidable as the code complexity increases.
Sure they can -- you'd never see something like, say, a drive-by exploit using a PDF on a web page that was able to achieve arbitrary code execution on an Apple device, would you?
It's not as clear cut as you think it is, either. There's plenty of waste and unethical behavior in any organization that employs humans; it's not something that's exclusive to government.
The complaint isn't with the store. The complaint is that police thought that using a taser in this situation was an appropriate use of force. When you're (operaghost) known to be such an anti-government complainer, it boggles the mind as to why are you so gung-ho to defend jackboot thugs in this situation?
All taxation is unfair. Taxation is, essentially, legalised theft
This argument is overly simplistic, completely self-centered, and frankly, fucking stupid -- by perpetuating it you're displaying either intellectual dishonesty or willful ignorance. The fact that it regularly gets upmods here on Slashdot is just sad.
I love these comments from true believers like you.
If your best argument is that "religion isn't any worse than atheism" (or vice versa) when your religion is supposedly the divine word of god, what, may I ask, is your divine word of god worth?
I disagree. For that 30%, Apple is hosting the apps, collecting the payment and remitting it to the developer, distributing the updates, providing a global notification service, and making apps easy to find with centralized searching.
Compare it to what software companies used to pay distributors like Ingram.
Somehow sites like Bandcamp manage to survive with taking a much smaller cut, while providing all of those same features. I'm not sure why musicians are able to get so much better rates than we highly intelligent programmers are.
People seem to forget just how scalable software is. Once it's been built, it costs very little to maintain. The "services" that these companies' app stores (Google, Apple, Amazon, etc) provide, while valuable, are almost pure profit.
That's the best link you have? One regarding the result of a case that had been pending since before Google bought Motorola? That sure doesn't lend a lot of credence to your claims.
What specific products has Motorola (post-buyout) tried to take off the shelves?
Seriously, try a little harder, bonch. This is just pathetic.
Ok, supply-side. Doesn't change the fact that it's an obvious bald-faced lie either way.
And Romney tried to rebrand "trickle-down" with his "trickle-down government" lie during the debates, so you're wrong about nobody on "the right" using that terminology.
Except that most NFL players have relatively short careers and are making the NFL minimum wage. (Still quite well paid for playing a game, no doubt, but they aren't all making millions per year). Couple that with the fact that the types that usually make the NFL aren't exactly known for their financial acumen, and you'll find that a lot of NFL players end up broke within a few years of retirement. I don't remember the exact numbers and can't be bothered to look it up right now, but it was a fairly significant percentage, IIRC.
In my world, you would be able to buy drugs, legally. I'd also regulate and tax them and require sellers to be registered and buyers to present ID to buy it much like alcohol and cigarettes are regulated and controlled.
And that's what it would be like in my world as well, but until you can point out an (R) (or even a credible (L)) candidate that actually campaigns on anything even remotely similar to that idea, then your complaints about the (D)s are just more partisan rhetoric.
Your comparison would be relevant if you were looking at iOS update adoption vs. Nexus line update adoption.
Anything else is apples-to-oranges and you know it, but are too intellectually dishonest to admit it. For Android users who care about system updates, there IS an option for that, despite your FUD.
The reason that Apple gets singled out is because they go to such lengths to make sure you see the "Designed by Apple in California" every time you open one of their products, to trigger the "rah rah USA company!" emotional response. If they didn't go to such lengths to intentionally manipulate people, and also if they didn't position themselves as a premium brand when, in fact, their shit is made out of the same components and made in the same facilities as everybody else's shit, they might have a justifiable argument against being singled out.
This is potentially a step in the right direction, at least. Nowhere near enough to take them out of the "do not recommend, do not buy" category though.
Do you consider it abuse to not teach kids about Newton's laws of motion?
No, I don't, but I would consider it abuse to teach that God pushes everything around with his invisible fingers to make everything *look* like they obeyed Newton's laws of motion.
Also, there isn't a whole lot of debate coming from the religious evangelicals trying to shove "intelligent pushing" into classrooms and keep Newton's laws out, AND Newton's laws *are* taught to anyone who takes a physics course in high school, so your point is completely irrelevant.
Evolution is absolutely fundamental to every branch of biology; it is one of the core concepts that people need to learn in school, regardless of what education they pursue later in life. And on top of that, if you take a religious view of the universe, to ignore or deny evolution would be to deny one of your god's greatest creations.
Kind of like all those climate researchers living large off of grants? Do you ever point the finger back at yourself and look at who stands to gain by *not* taking steps to mitigate possible warming scenarios? (or rather, who stands to *lose* if we do?)
Anyway, I'll rate your post a 2/10 as far as conspiracy theories go. Nice and non-specific, and the World Bank boogeyman sounds scary, but it's just too predictable to give it any originality points.
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You should really take your own advice.
Solyndra is a pretty tired example, anyway.
--Jeremy
90% of people wouldn't want to screw around with that. When they spend all that money on a TV, they expect it to do cool stuff, out of the box.
It's particularly amusing that you make this unfounded assertion in a story about how nobody who buys smart TVs uses them do do any of the 'cool stuff' that they're capable of.
--Jeremy
You miss the point. Weapons shouldn't be registered to start with.
Says you.
--Jeremy
So are you. You've never once displayed an ounce of introspection and blame everything on progressives, liberals, and the "far left".
--Jeremy
Yeah -- a perfect example of this is the far left politicians mentioned in the OP who are bravely addressing the real issue.
--Jeremy
But you can be assured that if modern weapons had been around then and used to fight off the British, there wouldn't have been an exception for them in the 2nd.
It's a good thing we have you here to clear that up. And here I foolishly thought that everybody who personally knew not only authors of the US Constitution -- but also knew exactly how they'd behave in different situations -- was dead.
--Jeremy
I would like to thank you for keeping a rational sense of perspective about the world, despite your loss. Too many people have the attitude that "something horrible happened to me! Everybody should live in fear because of it!" and it's created an incredibly unhealthy environment of distrust for us to live in, despite the fact that violent crime has been on the decline for decades.
--Jeremy
There's also the "freedom to be litigious assholes who goad people into attacking them and then turn around sue them" that we don't necessarily have to respect.
And I'm sorry, but any group that pickets funerals of non-political figures has lost the right to expect any degree of civility from the rest of society.
--Jeremy
Nothing can be "fully tested". Things like this happens to any developer and are unavoidable as the code complexity increases.
Sure they can -- you'd never see something like, say, a drive-by exploit using a PDF on a web page that was able to achieve arbitrary code execution on an Apple device, would you?
--Jeremy
It's not as clear cut as you think it is.
It's not as clear cut as you think it is, either. There's plenty of waste and unethical behavior in any organization that employs humans; it's not something that's exclusive to government.
--Jeremy
The complaint isn't with the store. The complaint is that police thought that using a taser in this situation was an appropriate use of force. When you're (operaghost) known to be such an anti-government complainer, it boggles the mind as to why are you so gung-ho to defend jackboot thugs in this situation?
--Jeremy
All taxation is unfair. Taxation is, essentially, legalised theft
This argument is overly simplistic, completely self-centered, and frankly, fucking stupid -- by perpetuating it you're displaying either intellectual dishonesty or willful ignorance. The fact that it regularly gets upmods here on Slashdot is just sad.
--Jeremy
I love these comments from true believers like you.
If your best argument is that "religion isn't any worse than atheism" (or vice versa) when your religion is supposedly the divine word of god, what, may I ask, is your divine word of god worth?
--Jeremy
I disagree. For that 30%, Apple is hosting the apps, collecting the payment and remitting it to the developer, distributing the updates, providing a global notification service, and making apps easy to find with centralized searching.
Compare it to what software companies used to pay distributors like Ingram.
Somehow sites like Bandcamp manage to survive with taking a much smaller cut, while providing all of those same features. I'm not sure why musicians are able to get so much better rates than we highly intelligent programmers are.
People seem to forget just how scalable software is. Once it's been built, it costs very little to maintain. The "services" that these companies' app stores (Google, Apple, Amazon, etc) provide, while valuable, are almost pure profit.
--Jeremy
That's the best link you have? One regarding the result of a case that had been pending since before Google bought Motorola? That sure doesn't lend a lot of credence to your claims.
What specific products has Motorola (post-buyout) tried to take off the shelves?
Seriously, try a little harder, bonch. This is just pathetic.
--Jeremy
Ok, supply-side. Doesn't change the fact that it's an obvious bald-faced lie either way.
And Romney tried to rebrand "trickle-down" with his "trickle-down government" lie during the debates, so you're wrong about nobody on "the right" using that terminology.
--Jeremy
Except that most NFL players have relatively short careers and are making the NFL minimum wage. (Still quite well paid for playing a game, no doubt, but they aren't all making millions per year). Couple that with the fact that the types that usually make the NFL aren't exactly known for their financial acumen, and you'll find that a lot of NFL players end up broke within a few years of retirement. I don't remember the exact numbers and can't be bothered to look it up right now, but it was a fairly significant percentage, IIRC.
--Jeremy
In my world, you would be able to buy drugs, legally. I'd also regulate and tax them and require sellers to be registered and buyers to present ID to buy it much like alcohol and cigarettes are regulated and controlled.
And that's what it would be like in my world as well, but until you can point out an (R) (or even a credible (L)) candidate that actually campaigns on anything even remotely similar to that idea, then your complaints about the (D)s are just more partisan rhetoric.
--Jeremy
Your comparison would be relevant if you were looking at iOS update adoption vs. Nexus line update adoption.
Anything else is apples-to-oranges and you know it, but are too intellectually dishonest to admit it. For Android users who care about system updates, there IS an option for that, despite your FUD.
--Jeremy
We have rationing in the US as well, except we ration our health care by who can afford to pay for it, not by who needs it the most.
Are you going to try to claim that "pay up or fuck off" is fairer than need-based rationing?
--Jeremy
The reason that Apple gets singled out is because they go to such lengths to make sure you see the "Designed by Apple in California" every time you open one of their products, to trigger the "rah rah USA company!" emotional response. If they didn't go to such lengths to intentionally manipulate people, and also if they didn't position themselves as a premium brand when, in fact, their shit is made out of the same components and made in the same facilities as everybody else's shit, they might have a justifiable argument against being singled out.
This is potentially a step in the right direction, at least. Nowhere near enough to take them out of the "do not recommend, do not buy" category though.
--Jeremy
Do you consider it abuse to not teach kids about Newton's laws of motion?
No, I don't, but I would consider it abuse to teach that God pushes everything around with his invisible fingers to make everything *look* like they obeyed Newton's laws of motion.
Also, there isn't a whole lot of debate coming from the religious evangelicals trying to shove "intelligent pushing" into classrooms and keep Newton's laws out, AND Newton's laws *are* taught to anyone who takes a physics course in high school, so your point is completely irrelevant.
Evolution is absolutely fundamental to every branch of biology; it is one of the core concepts that people need to learn in school, regardless of what education they pursue later in life. And on top of that, if you take a religious view of the universe, to ignore or deny evolution would be to deny one of your god's greatest creations.
--Jeremy
Then, there's some of us that just don't care frankly.
I can (honestly) respect choosing that route, just as I'm sure you can respect my choice to call you a selfish asshole for choosing it.
--Jeremy
Kind of like all those climate researchers living large off of grants? Do you ever point the finger back at yourself and look at who stands to gain by *not* taking steps to mitigate possible warming scenarios? (or rather, who stands to *lose* if we do?)
Anyway, I'll rate your post a 2/10 as far as conspiracy theories go. Nice and non-specific, and the World Bank boogeyman sounds scary, but it's just too predictable to give it any originality points.
--Jeremy
Ahh yes, because the evil government boogeyman argument is so much more convincing than the AGW boogeyman argument.
--Jeremy