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  1. uh aging Sopranos... obvious but had to do it on Opera Being Composed On Twitter · · Score: 1

    Well, I suppose Tony could sing, but I bet the rest of them would do better.

  2. Re:State of the art on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 1

    Of course it wouldn't send you overdrawn if you did your recording properly in the first place. All things being all electronic facilitates is faster fraud and screwups. At least with a system that still has a bit of slinkyness to it you can catch big errors before they bankrupt a company.

  3. Re:Oh God Make It Stop on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 1

    Wow, you must know this guy we have around here that says the internet is only for crackpots and pornographers. Or maybe he knows you, hmmm not sure how that works...

  4. Re:Funny on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 1

    A bank has very little clout with Apple. Unless they hold a significant amount of Apple stock or Apple loans (which Apple has almost none).

  5. Re:Checks on Deposit Checks By iPhone · · Score: 1

    The mailing budget must be huge on those old people it is issuing. Cheaper to produce them the old fashioned way I bet.

  6. Re:Nothing new on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 1

    granted, I wasn't sure of the time line and was too lazy to look it up.

  7. Re:reasonable people? on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Quite right, tits does not belong on that list!

  8. Re:Upset reasonable people??? on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 1

    I don't see the words thou shalt be reasonable anywhere in this bible...

  9. Re:Rating on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Free speech? he has the right to say but they have the right to not publish it. How does that apply. I don't think that phrase means what you think it does.

  10. Re:would someone please tell me on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Only it's more like we just kept ignoring him until he felt like talking...

  11. Re:Nothing new on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 1

    The parental controls are only sort of for the phone, the ipod portion on the other hand.

  12. Re:Nothing new on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Until King James, bibles were written in Latin and the common man could not see the word of god he had to take the priests word for it. Masses were only performed in Latin. Censorship has been a part of human existence for our centuries. You think this is unusual.

  13. Re:Nothing new on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2. The specific examples the developer quoted as being objected to
    The specific examples the developer let you see I'm sure there may have been others, we will never know.

  14. Re:surprise on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 1

    Schadenfreude becomes you.
    But seriously can't we just get along. pardon gagging there for a second.

  15. Re:surprise on Apple's Schiller Responds To iPhone Dictionary App Fiasco · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Your problem is that you probably don't live near enough or don't know the wingnuts that ARE requiring this kind of censorship. Sadly your education and intelligence are sufficient to realize that this kind of censorship is both useless and offensive to the rest of the sane thinking world. But since the bible belt does have a lot of people in it and we want their money too...

    To date I fail to see any average good done by any religion in the world. At one time or another they have impeded the development of civilization, technology or social interaction on a less than war like level. But if that's your thing, go right ahead and practice. I'm tired of having other peoples standards and morals shoved down my throat.
    Such is the world we live in.

  16. Re:Linux is well... on Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Happened to me a few months ago. But it was a python executable and I had python 3 installed and the code wouldn't work under 3 so I had to hunt up 2 and then figure out which version of 2 and find the packages it needed. The game wasn't that much fun anyway and the graphics kind of sucked. But it did take only 2.5 hours to install and get working.

  17. Re:um yeah... on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    Oh but what is on the table is not single payer. But it is good competition for the Insurance companies. Too many people and probably rightly so do not want a single payer system but it will come. Small steps, small steps.

  18. Re:um yeah... on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    Now you're talking. Thanks and no problem.

  19. Re:Linux is well... on Goodbye Apple, Hello Music Production On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    "apt-get install $buildtoolname" and where do you click to have that work?
    I have tried apt-get install package which inevitably involves "there are dependencies required for that package" Ok so install the damn dependencies. Oops sorry the only one in that repository is two versions behind what I need. And the only one in the next repository is too advanced a version. So I can download the right version of the source package and build it but oops I don't have the required tool listed in it's make file to compile awkfrobistan source into the gnucramitz file into a coherent interface so that the UI can run correctly.

  20. Re:I guess this could make sense on Apple Working On Tech To Detect Purchasers' "Abuse" · · Score: 1

    Whooosh,
    I guess you missed the point about "any company" and also dropping a small percentage off the profit margin to gain significant sales and therefore greater profits. Apple doesn't quite fit the luxury goods market (more like a Honda than a BMW) as they are pretty competitively priced and have a greater quality and appeal than some of their competitors as well as much better customer service. So with 91% of Laptops that cost more than $1000 sold being Apple I guess there are a lot of people that need luxury laptops.

  21. Re:I believe that ... on Apple Working On Tech To Detect Purchasers' "Abuse" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Um what the frack are you talking about. What color is the sky in your world. How does the voiding of your warranty in any way impact how you are able to use your equipment? I can't really tell if this is sarcastic or pathetic, please enlighten me.

  22. Re:I guess this could make sense on Apple Working On Tech To Detect Purchasers' "Abuse" · · Score: 1

    My economics teacher gagged when he read this one. So far off base it's not even worth disputing.

  23. Re:I guess this could make sense on Apple Working On Tech To Detect Purchasers' "Abuse" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As opposed to this pathetic post by an obvious Apple hater describing behavior of the best support system available from a computer vendor as "Megalomaniacal"

  24. took long enough for this to get here. on Apple Balks, Finally Relents, At Possible User Queries of Dictionary App · · Score: 1

    If the bible belt prudes hadn't asked for this no one would ever have thought of this. If nothing had been banned in Boston we wouldn't be seeing crap like this. Remember that someone had to think like this or this would never have happened.
    Ask the idiots that are still trying to burn books for their content. You guys have the wrong bad guys here.
    We need to look at a society that thinks that bad words are no good for kids and so we must ban them so that we can claim we are responsible parents and not have to actually parent them ourselves. There are devices for sale Target that will censor DVDs for you on the fly taking out every bad word and all the violence and they sell these pieces of crap. So quit blaming Apple and go after the real bullies, the so called moral majority which is neither.

  25. Re:um yeah... on California Student Arrested For Console Hacking · · Score: 1

    Well at least you got back to the infield. Ok you obviously don't realize exactly how much power the common people have. If you can find the rest of the people that feel like you do, they each have a small amount of money, but when you put it together they have a ton of money. Now take that money and buy a senator or two. Go for the small state guys first cause they don't have that big a base to draw campaign funds from so they are relatively cheap. Buy a bunch of those and keep raising money, and you can get a large state senator or two. This is what the lobbyists are doing now. It's why the small state senators look so far out of it cause they keep getting bought up by the fringes. Become a bigger fringe than the birthers and you too can change laws.