I remember when I was in the Air Force back in the early 80's in Biloxi, Mississippi one of the guys in my unit had a POS Renault Le Car. Ugly beater that half ass ran half the time and over 3 thousand dollars worth of stereo equipment in it. It sounded great though.
Maybe it's because I'm buying the cheap stuff. I looked at a 200 dollar headset but then I thought of all the other things I could do with 200 dollars. My apple mouse works pretty good and so far that's the only thing that isn't too bad.
I keep hearing bullshit like this but that's what it is, bullshit. I don't like unreasonable search and I don't defend it. I think the 4th amendment is important and should be upheld. Even so, the number of times someone is jailed for minor crap is minuscule, people jump on the occasional over reach and act as if it's the norm. Sodomy laws were mostly used in the last few decades as an additional punishment in rape cases. Regardless the supreme court struck those down so they're as meaningless as the ones about leaving your horse tied up on the city street at night. All the cops I know are too busy chasing real criminals to waste time on bullshit. In one city the only way to get a traffic ticket is to act totally insane. Traffic's a nightmare but they don't have time for it. Yeah, you see the occasional story about a Barney Fife wannabe because they make great news filler but they're the exception.
I don't doubt some people get jailed that are innocent. I don't think it's rampant though given that everyone I've ever known to go to prison deserved to go there. Many I thought got way too many second, third, and fourth chances.
It's a 50 dollar throw away tablet. I mean for 50 bucks you get a tablet that you actually can control what apps are on it. No more putting up with someone else idea of what software should be there. You get a slot for a 128gb micro sd card which now sell for less than 40 dollars. If you just want something to play with it's perfect. Ooops! I broke it! Oh well, no worries. What's not to like. I started to buy a Fire but when I saw Amazon crippled it I decided I didn't need something totally fucking useless. If your hardware is crippled with crapware you should be giving that shit away.
Ah, but I plan to obey the law. I find that the very best way to stay out of prison. I don't really worry about cops wandering through my phone as long as I don't get in trouble for them dying from boredom.
Honestly, if you're keeping shit on your phone that can send you to prison you're too stupid to live. IF I was involved in any sort of felony the last fucking thing I'd do is have any kind of phone anywhere near me. It's going to leave a trail no matter what you do and I'd never bet my freedom on anyone's encryption. I'm amazed at how many people get caught in crimes because they texted shit or called someone or had their phone on and were someplace they said they weren't. People are stupid. That's not counting the morons that put their crimes on facebook. That's a special kind of stupid.
I could compromise on this. No more secret courts with secret warrants. No more searching phones without a warrant. Go back to obeying the Constitution (as it's written not as you interpret) and I can see making the phones with two keys. One for the user and one for the courts. But to open the phones so that the government can ignore the 4th amendment is wrong.
Maybe no one has poured over every line of code in the Linux kernel but then you don't know that either. For sure it can be looked at. This new OS can't be looked at. I guess it depends on your level of trust. I'd bet any amount of money that it'll be backdoored. You know it'll have bugs.
If you want to run linux they're great. The only reason I can think of to buy a macbook pro is to run OS X. I can't figure what this guy really wants but if he wants the same experience that he's getting on the Mac from a Windows laptop I only see disappointment ahead. Every time I log in at work on my computer there I instantly miss my Linux and Mac computers. The difference is obvious to me every day.
Applecare isn't all that expensive and it basically covers everything in a no questions asked kind of manner. If I have a 500 dollar computer I'll roll the dice. 2500 dollar computer? Time to pay for applecare.
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Every time we start killing them people get upset about it. It's a simple solution to so many problems but political untenable.
Only the Wild ones.
I wonder if Buffalo pollute as much as cows? I think we need a 5 year, 3.6 billion dollar study on this.
That still leaves the methane. Cows gotta go.
I remember when I was in the Air Force back in the early 80's in Biloxi, Mississippi one of the guys in my unit had a POS Renault Le Car. Ugly beater that half ass ran half the time and over 3 thousand dollars worth of stereo equipment in it. It sounded great though.
I just happen to have a C= 1530 Datasette. What's on the tape?
Maybe it's because I'm buying the cheap stuff. I looked at a 200 dollar headset but then I thought of all the other things I could do with 200 dollars. My apple mouse works pretty good and so far that's the only thing that isn't too bad.
Really man? Assault? For something on your phone? Did you lose track of the thread? You have child porn on your phone??? WTF!
Don't be a total dipshit. I never said it didn't happen. I said it's rare. People harp like there are millions of people in jail for nothing.
Fucking cows are polluting the planet. Acid rain and global warming and turning forests into wasteland. I say we kill and eat those fuckers!
I keep hearing bullshit like this but that's what it is, bullshit. I don't like unreasonable search and I don't defend it. I think the 4th amendment is important and should be upheld. Even so, the number of times someone is jailed for minor crap is minuscule, people jump on the occasional over reach and act as if it's the norm. Sodomy laws were mostly used in the last few decades as an additional punishment in rape cases. Regardless the supreme court struck those down so they're as meaningless as the ones about leaving your horse tied up on the city street at night. All the cops I know are too busy chasing real criminals to waste time on bullshit. In one city the only way to get a traffic ticket is to act totally insane. Traffic's a nightmare but they don't have time for it. Yeah, you see the occasional story about a Barney Fife wannabe because they make great news filler but they're the exception.
If you listen to a lot of these clowns 90 percent of the prison population is innocent people.
I don't doubt some people get jailed that are innocent. I don't think it's rampant though given that everyone I've ever known to go to prison deserved to go there. Many I thought got way too many second, third, and fourth chances.
Bluetooth ranges from bad to fucking shit.
I rented a Ford Exploder a few weeks ago. I'd rather have a fucking cassette player than their shit audio.
Yes. It's plain old vanilla Android on it.
It's a 50 dollar throw away tablet. I mean for 50 bucks you get a tablet that you actually can control what apps are on it. No more putting up with someone else idea of what software should be there. You get a slot for a 128gb micro sd card which now sell for less than 40 dollars. If you just want something to play with it's perfect. Ooops! I broke it! Oh well, no worries. What's not to like. I started to buy a Fire but when I saw Amazon crippled it I decided I didn't need something totally fucking useless. If your hardware is crippled with crapware you should be giving that shit away.
Ah, but I plan to obey the law. I find that the very best way to stay out of prison. I don't really worry about cops wandering through my phone as long as I don't get in trouble for them dying from boredom.
I don't have a problem with you keeping shit on your phone that can send you to prison. Feel free. It's a self solving problem.
Honestly, if you're keeping shit on your phone that can send you to prison you're too stupid to live. IF I was involved in any sort of felony the last fucking thing I'd do is have any kind of phone anywhere near me. It's going to leave a trail no matter what you do and I'd never bet my freedom on anyone's encryption. I'm amazed at how many people get caught in crimes because they texted shit or called someone or had their phone on and were someplace they said they weren't. People are stupid. That's not counting the morons that put their crimes on facebook. That's a special kind of stupid.
I could compromise on this. No more secret courts with secret warrants. No more searching phones without a warrant. Go back to obeying the Constitution (as it's written not as you interpret) and I can see making the phones with two keys. One for the user and one for the courts. But to open the phones so that the government can ignore the 4th amendment is wrong.
Hell, Minix is open source.
Maybe no one has poured over every line of code in the Linux kernel but then you don't know that either. For sure it can be looked at. This new OS can't be looked at. I guess it depends on your level of trust. I'd bet any amount of money that it'll be backdoored. You know it'll have bugs.
If you want to run linux they're great. The only reason I can think of to buy a macbook pro is to run OS X. I can't figure what this guy really wants but if he wants the same experience that he's getting on the Mac from a Windows laptop I only see disappointment ahead. Every time I log in at work on my computer there I instantly miss my Linux and Mac computers. The difference is obvious to me every day.
Applecare isn't all that expensive and it basically covers everything in a no questions asked kind of manner. If I have a 500 dollar computer I'll roll the dice. 2500 dollar computer? Time to pay for applecare.