Now millions of Americans have to buy overpriced beverages and/or die of thirst.
You know, it's something to make a point, it's altogether something different to say shit like this. Die of thirst? On a fucking plane? Really? Can you cite the last time this happened?
All of this may have something to do with the fact that I belong to a religion of truth, rather than being eg. a dedicated Cthulhu cultist, though:).
Don't laugh it off friend. While I do respect religion I also accept that Cthulhu Cults have just as much solid evidence of their deity being among us.
Maybe you get looked at as being insane for raving on about not wanting to take part. I know I don't get any backlash for simply explaining to people that I'm not a holiday person. They seem to accept it and move on. I could understand their amusement if I went around spouting about a "culture of lies".
To be frank, you look like a complete kook and I say this as a person who doesn't believe in Christmas and finds holidays a waste of time. I'm sorry, but I'm being honest.
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The use of the Norad name gives this unwarranted credibility.
Tracking Santa? Credibility? Wow. Just wow.
Your "secular xmas" is an invention of pure greed devised consciously to exploit and manipulate people into spending money they dont have to raise the bottom line for wealthy commercial interests.
No one said you had to participate. Isn't freedom great?
I am sorry you were raised so immersed in a culture of lies that you dont even understand that lying to children is evil, but no need to take it out on everyone else.
Seek professional help. Please. While I respect your right to not celebrate holidays you consider groundless I think to insist that this is a "culture of lies" is taking it to the extremes a bit. Or do you rant about a "culture of lies" when someone is superstitious about Friday the 13th or dresses up at Halloween?
I personally am not a holiday person but if that's what it takes to help get someone through the day I'd say it's relatively harmless.
Hell, Santa is huge in Japan, and they have very few Christians there. There was a story on CNN earlier today about how Santa is used there as a symbol to celebrate the New Year, and they're primarily Muslims.
But seriously, that's where the action is for open platform phones.
I'm sorry but I really have to say this: 95% of people with a cell today don't know what an open platform is. Of the other 5% a good 90% of them don't care.
Open only matters if you really want to make something out of what you're given. Most people can't be bothered to do more with what they have in their phones today. Why do you think Twitter is still such a joke to most of the people who own cells?
This is the same reason that open source on the PC means so little to most people.
Who says they weren't modified and that the refinement process wasn't what we consider refinement today?
This isn't to say that the movie doesn't have a million plot holes as science goes but I'm sure that if people made usable fuel from crude oil with the technology of 100 years ago that it could be done easily today by those with the proper understanding of chemistry.
Wow! Assuming what you said is true it makes it completely understandable why the post was modded troll. NOT!
The moderator (assuming he understood what you posted) should have instead explained this like a reasonable human being. Someone really should lose their mod points for pulling shit like this.
It's not like the OP was posting some shit like "AT&T is teh gay." That's a troll. Too bad few mods around here know the difference. On an possitve note; at least they didn't take the extreme low road of using the Overrated mod.
Perhaps it's an infant as far as age but it's really not as far as popularity.
With Firefox it had to build it's base slowly over time as more and more people started to use it. Chrome was thrust on users and not many seem to adopt it. I know tons of people who know what Chrome is and have tried it but I don't know of one who has stuck with it.
We're all whining about how Evil Verizon is, but people PUT UP WITH THIS SH!T. It's outrageous, considering that NOT putting up with it is cheaper, easier, better for the environment, etc...
Speak for yourself. I'm not whining at all.
Early termination fees don't bother me in the least. It makes business sense and I feel it's justifiable for the cost of subsidizing a phone. Verizon has provided a kick ass service to me for over a decade. So I'm putting you to task to explain how it's cheaper, easier and better for the environment.
I'm sure everyone could find something in your life that they think is excessive. Don't be so fast to judge who should do what with their own property lest someone do the same about yours.
Hmmm. I heard a lot of jabber back in Nov 08 that said that the Republicans were irrelevant and a dying breed and that the public would get things done in a fashion that suits them without all the baggage that the GOP carries. Now when something doesn't go through you want to blame the Republicans? Huh? I thought that we were liberated from Republican tyranny and that the heavens were going to open up and manna was to pour from the skies. What happened?
Mathematically the Republicans mean nothing. Anyone attempting to use them as a scapegoat is just as irrelevant as they are.
With crap like this going on can't people see why the two party system is a complete fraud that is doing nothing but bleeding the citizen? We hear this same old garbage from both sides and people keep defending it when it's their side looking bad for it. Take the blinders off and join us in the human race where we can learn to resolve these issues when we finally stop doing the Red and Blue goosestep.
Ok, I hear you on that. The "Fraser" contributions are annoying to me as well but I think that we're might likely be a bit above the target audience. I think it's a great transition from the TV science programs and I would have to say that, from that aspect, the question/answer format makes a bit more sense. Maybe we can petition them to kick Fraser from the show.
Depending on what the scope is you might just be best off with the normal jazz; the moon, planets, galaxies in the local group.
6, 4 and 3 are kind of young but if you're interested in this as well you might want to consider joining your local amateur astronomy association. You'd get a lot more input as to what's good to find for the backyard astronomer, some access to better scopes and you'd probably learn a great deal about astronomy with it. Space.com's NightSky is also a good resource for things that people can see without hardcore equipment and it's kept up to date. I also recommend people with a basic interest in astronomy to subscribe to the AstronomyCast podcast. It's highly informative and a step above any of the crap you find on Discovery or The Science Channel.
The nice thing about astronomy is that there are a ton of resources for all levels of interest, resources and abilities. It's probably the cheapest science you can learn on your own because of the vast number of resources available. Not to mention that it touches on so many other areas of science. It's really a great intersection of scientific disciplines that just about everyone can appreciate. There aren't many other fields of science you can say that for.
Because a dozen people post exactly what you posted any time they call it piracy and posts and hits are the selling points that Slashdot uses to sell ads. All you're doing is to help keep the practice going.
In all honesty? DVD bootlegs are probably funneling more money to the same types of people who rob and murder for a living than what happens in Somalia. It's just a gentler hand and it's mostly socially acceptable.
Not to mention that the US government has a much wider range of jurisdiction and tools to work with when it comes down to bootlegged goods that sell on our lands.
Plus, who says we only have to deal with one problem at a time? The issues off the African coast will not be solved by one nation. Washington is not the place to start the kinds of discussions that will really help the situation.
Kinda off topic but... The sun will never super nova unless it gains some serious mass. And the earth is going to be uninhabitable to life as we know it for a few billion years before the sun effectively burns itself out into a cinder of iron and carbon.
It's TV people. No one is asking you to eat bread with broken glass shards in it. If it's a problem for you move on to something else. Instead we'll see the government get their fingers in yet another pie while Rome burns. Fan-fucking-tastic.
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Now millions of Americans have to buy overpriced beverages and/or die of thirst.
You know, it's something to make a point, it's altogether something different to say shit like this. Die of thirst? On a fucking plane? Really? Can you cite the last time this happened?
All of this may have something to do with the fact that I belong to a religion of truth, rather than being eg. a dedicated Cthulhu cultist, though :).
Don't laugh it off friend. While I do respect religion I also accept that Cthulhu Cults have just as much solid evidence of their deity being among us.
Just admit that you feel if it doesn't have an Apple logo then it just won't do and get it over with.
HP had a medical grade tablet with the TC1100. I guess if you want this you're about 4 years too late.
But it is telling that you're unwilling to look around you and see the alternatives. I guess if it doesn't have an Apple logo...
Maybe you get looked at as being insane for raving on about not wanting to take part. I know I don't get any backlash for simply explaining to people that I'm not a holiday person. They seem to accept it and move on. I could understand their amusement if I went around spouting about a "culture of lies".
To be frank, you look like a complete kook and I say this as a person who doesn't believe in Christmas and finds holidays a waste of time. I'm sorry, but I'm being honest.
The use of the Norad name gives this unwarranted credibility.
Tracking Santa? Credibility? Wow. Just wow.
Your "secular xmas" is an invention of pure greed devised consciously to exploit and manipulate people into spending money they dont have to raise the bottom line for wealthy commercial interests.
No one said you had to participate. Isn't freedom great?
I am sorry you were raised so immersed in a culture of lies that you dont even understand that lying to children is evil, but no need to take it out on everyone else.
Seek professional help. Please. While I respect your right to not celebrate holidays you consider groundless I think to insist that this is a "culture of lies" is taking it to the extremes a bit. Or do you rant about a "culture of lies" when someone is superstitious about Friday the 13th or dresses up at Halloween?
I personally am not a holiday person but if that's what it takes to help get someone through the day I'd say it's relatively harmless.
Hell, Santa is huge in Japan, and they have very few Christians there. There was a story on CNN earlier today about how Santa is used there as a symbol to celebrate the New Year, and they're primarily Muslims.
The Japanese are primarily Muslim? What?
No one said you had to use it. For my part? I think Twitter has a ton of possibilities.
But seriously, that's where the action is for open platform phones.
I'm sorry but I really have to say this: 95% of people with a cell today don't know what an open platform is. Of the other 5% a good 90% of them don't care.
Open only matters if you really want to make something out of what you're given. Most people can't be bothered to do more with what they have in their phones today. Why do you think Twitter is still such a joke to most of the people who own cells?
This is the same reason that open source on the PC means so little to most people.
Who says they weren't modified and that the refinement process wasn't what we consider refinement today?
This isn't to say that the movie doesn't have a million plot holes as science goes but I'm sure that if people made usable fuel from crude oil with the technology of 100 years ago that it could be done easily today by those with the proper understanding of chemistry.
It has the feel of a new cult.
That's exactly what the Vatican told Galileo!
Wow! Assuming what you said is true it makes it completely understandable why the post was modded troll. NOT!
The moderator (assuming he understood what you posted) should have instead explained this like a reasonable human being. Someone really should lose their mod points for pulling shit like this.
It's not like the OP was posting some shit like "AT&T is teh gay." That's a troll. Too bad few mods around here know the difference. On an possitve note; at least they didn't take the extreme low road of using the Overrated mod.
Chrome is already at 5% and its still an infant.
Perhaps it's an infant as far as age but it's really not as far as popularity.
With Firefox it had to build it's base slowly over time as more and more people started to use it. Chrome was thrust on users and not many seem to adopt it. I know tons of people who know what Chrome is and have tried it but I don't know of one who has stuck with it.
We're all whining about how Evil Verizon is, but people PUT UP WITH THIS SH!T. It's outrageous, considering that NOT putting up with it is cheaper, easier, better for the environment, etc...
Speak for yourself. I'm not whining at all.
Early termination fees don't bother me in the least. It makes business sense and I feel it's justifiable for the cost of subsidizing a phone. Verizon has provided a kick ass service to me for over a decade. So I'm putting you to task to explain how it's cheaper, easier and better for the environment.
I'm sure everyone could find something in your life that they think is excessive. Don't be so fast to judge who should do what with their own property lest someone do the same about yours.
Uh, no. Open standards means that the format is open as to it's syntax and that it's not a for-pay (as in royalties).
After looking at the thing would you really want it to? The car is a joke and I don't mean that in the good sense.
Hmmm. I heard a lot of jabber back in Nov 08 that said that the Republicans were irrelevant and a dying breed and that the public would get things done in a fashion that suits them without all the baggage that the GOP carries. Now when something doesn't go through you want to blame the Republicans? Huh? I thought that we were liberated from Republican tyranny and that the heavens were going to open up and manna was to pour from the skies. What happened?
Mathematically the Republicans mean nothing. Anyone attempting to use them as a scapegoat is just as irrelevant as they are.
With crap like this going on can't people see why the two party system is a complete fraud that is doing nothing but bleeding the citizen? We hear this same old garbage from both sides and people keep defending it when it's their side looking bad for it. Take the blinders off and join us in the human race where we can learn to resolve these issues when we finally stop doing the Red and Blue goosestep.
Ok, I hear you on that. The "Fraser" contributions are annoying to me as well but I think that we're might likely be a bit above the target audience. I think it's a great transition from the TV science programs and I would have to say that, from that aspect, the question/answer format makes a bit more sense. Maybe we can petition them to kick Fraser from the show.
Thanks for the other links.
How do you mean "greasy and slick"?
Depending on what the scope is you might just be best off with the normal jazz; the moon, planets, galaxies in the local group.
6, 4 and 3 are kind of young but if you're interested in this as well you might want to consider joining your local amateur astronomy association. You'd get a lot more input as to what's good to find for the backyard astronomer, some access to better scopes and you'd probably learn a great deal about astronomy with it. Space.com's NightSky is also a good resource for things that people can see without hardcore equipment and it's kept up to date. I also recommend people with a basic interest in astronomy to subscribe to the AstronomyCast podcast. It's highly informative and a step above any of the crap you find on Discovery or The Science Channel.
The nice thing about astronomy is that there are a ton of resources for all levels of interest, resources and abilities. It's probably the cheapest science you can learn on your own because of the vast number of resources available. Not to mention that it touches on so many other areas of science. It's really a great intersection of scientific disciplines that just about everyone can appreciate. There aren't many other fields of science you can say that for.
Because a dozen people post exactly what you posted any time they call it piracy and posts and hits are the selling points that Slashdot uses to sell ads. All you're doing is to help keep the practice going.
In all honesty? DVD bootlegs are probably funneling more money to the same types of people who rob and murder for a living than what happens in Somalia. It's just a gentler hand and it's mostly socially acceptable.
Not to mention that the US government has a much wider range of jurisdiction and tools to work with when it comes down to bootlegged goods that sell on our lands.
Plus, who says we only have to deal with one problem at a time? The issues off the African coast will not be solved by one nation. Washington is not the place to start the kinds of discussions that will really help the situation.
Kinda off topic but... The sun will never super nova unless it gains some serious mass. And the earth is going to be uninhabitable to life as we know it for a few billion years before the sun effectively burns itself out into a cinder of iron and carbon.
You, as a consumer, have no power in this.
Turn the fucking thing off! How hard was that?
It's TV people. No one is asking you to eat bread with broken glass shards in it. If it's a problem for you move on to something else. Instead we'll see the government get their fingers in yet another pie while Rome burns. Fan-fucking-tastic.