Have you noticed what happens in countries where the local currency is subject to extreme value fluctuations? In case you've never been to such a place: nobody accepts it, or they accept it only at an extremely steep discount. Foreign currency is what everyone (who can get it) uses.
That is, it's NOT any different than regular government-issued currency.
I wonder how the FaceTime block is implemented. It must be an AT&T customization because with other carriers you can do FaceTime over 3G no problem. If it's implemented as part of the locking on AT&T iPhones then my unlocked iPhone should work just fine. If it's part of the OS on all iPhones (FaceTime checks the carrier) then it won't.
Why should Mastercard care what currency you're using? They'd probably love to offer bitcoin services... then they get to charge the merchant a transaction fee AND the customer a transaction fee plus currency exchange. It would be like everyone was suddenly shopping abroad.
However, Mastercard isn't going to go for an anonymous system.
I have a Mazda 3. The first couple of model years had a flaw where you could pop the door locks by punching the door at just the right spot. You had to hit it hard enough to leave a dent, but not so hard that thieves would bother to use something other than their fists.
Mazda's (free) fix was to put a steel plate under that spot. After that I was tempted to install a camera just to see if I could watch someone trying the trick.
You have both a crappy toolbox and a crappy hardware shop.
I have to admit, I'm not exactly sure where my T10 is at the moment, because people keep borrowing it because they're used in all sorts of things. But you can generally find cheap torx sets at the local dollar store and sometimes convenience and gas station stores. No need to even go to a hardware store.
"Things of value require money, and money has to come from somewhere. Are you really saying you would prefer to pay for content directly, rather than to have an unobtrusive and moderately relevant ad that you can easily ignore?"
Absolutely. If we all just paid for things that are currently ad supported, and got rid of all the gratuitous advertising, EVERYTHING would be cheaper, we'd all come out ahead, and all the people wasting their lives trying to manipulate us into buying things could do something useful instead.
Modern advertising is verging on evil. It's using more and more sophisticated psychological tools to manipulate masses of people into doing things detrimental to themselves and their loved ones.
Presumably a woman's ability to "shut that whole thing down" in response to rape would require her to know it was rape in the first place.
Pregnancy isn't subjective. Her ability to head off a pregnancy would be based on subjective factors, similar to the placebo effect that you're trying to randomize out when you do blinded trials. I suppose you could argue that the evaluators should be blinded, but as you point out, pregnancy is a pretty objective diagnosis.
"Physics...oh, and there aren't physics in any other mechanical devices. From what I'd gather, and MRI is probably somewhat along the lines of a finely tuned generater/degausser/radio system."
You gather incorrectly. And your math is... very, very creative.
That's silly. Not everything gets cheaper at the same rate as computers. MRI scanners cost a lot of money because of the physics involved.
Much of the cost of an MRI is the technician doing the scan and the radiologist reading it. In the US there's also profit for whoever is doing it - many American medical providers use imaging as a high profit service that offsets less profitable things.
Because I pointed out that the statement "Apple contributes very little to the domestic US economy" is ridiculous? On the contrary, you seem to have some sort of Apple vendetta.
You mean like the thirty thousand retail employees Apple has in the US? Or the thirty thousand construction jobs they create building stores? Maybe the 7,000 people building their new campus? Or the 8000 call centre employees?
"and had some scientific basis that was skewed due to rape victims' misreporting"
Nope, too far. A "theory" that some anti-abortion advocates made up doesn't have any scientific basis just because it involves putting together two independent observations that do have (some) scientific basis. Epidemiological claims like this one have scientific basis when there's some epidemiological evidence to support them, NOT when someone comes up with an ideologically convenient half baked mechanistic explanation.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
The phrase "hatred of women" gets used a lot to describe everything from this idiot to the dummies who organized and participated in that crotch grabbing scavenger hunt at Defcon. I really doubt any of the above hate women. They might fear women, they're probably intimidated by women and they certainly don't understand them, but I doubt they hate them.
This guy is clearly an idiot who believes things that aren't true and doesn't care to change his beliefs. He also believes it's his duty to tell women what they can and can't do, but he probably also thinks it's his duty to tell men what they can and can't do.
The idiots at Defcon probably really want to get to know some women but the only thing they can come up with is a game where they grab one, giggle, and run away. Note that most of those guys would probably NOT be overly offended if a woman did the same thing to them.
I'm definitely not saying that the behaviour in any of these examples is okay, but let's save "hatred of women" for the cases (and there are no shortage of them) where there's some real hatred going on.
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They claim they can fly as high as they want. You'd think they'd support that claim with the video.
Just think how much more efficient it would be with a skirt. Could probably get high enough off the ground to go somewhere other than the desert too.
"maybe, reactor design would change over the next few thousand years?"
"no I don't see much happening for another couple of decades (in the Western World)"
Ah, Slashdot.
Have you noticed what happens in countries where the local currency is subject to extreme value fluctuations? In case you've never been to such a place: nobody accepts it, or they accept it only at an extremely steep discount. Foreign currency is what everyone (who can get it) uses.
That is, it's NOT any different than regular government-issued currency.
I wonder how the FaceTime block is implemented. It must be an AT&T customization because with other carriers you can do FaceTime over 3G no problem. If it's implemented as part of the locking on AT&T iPhones then my unlocked iPhone should work just fine. If it's part of the OS on all iPhones (FaceTime checks the carrier) then it won't.
Nobody (big) will take bitcoins directly because at the end of the day you've got no idea how much they're going to be worth.
Why should Mastercard care what currency you're using? They'd probably love to offer bitcoin services... then they get to charge the merchant a transaction fee AND the customer a transaction fee plus currency exchange. It would be like everyone was suddenly shopping abroad.
However, Mastercard isn't going to go for an anonymous system.
I have a Mazda 3. The first couple of model years had a flaw where you could pop the door locks by punching the door at just the right spot. You had to hit it hard enough to leave a dent, but not so hard that thieves would bother to use something other than their fists.
Mazda's (free) fix was to put a steel plate under that spot. After that I was tempted to install a camera just to see if I could watch someone trying the trick.
You have both a crappy toolbox and a crappy hardware shop.
I have to admit, I'm not exactly sure where my T10 is at the moment, because people keep borrowing it because they're used in all sorts of things. But you can generally find cheap torx sets at the local dollar store and sometimes convenience and gas station stores. No need to even go to a hardware store.
Swiss army quality really has slipped.
Except they're torx screws, so you can just pull out your screwdriver, change the bit, and out they come.
Only if someone was dumb enough to put those wires on the outside of the door.
Damn I need a smoke.
"Things of value require money, and money has to come from somewhere. Are you really saying you would prefer to pay for content directly, rather than to have an unobtrusive and moderately relevant ad that you can easily ignore?"
Absolutely. If we all just paid for things that are currently ad supported, and got rid of all the gratuitous advertising, EVERYTHING would be cheaper, we'd all come out ahead, and all the people wasting their lives trying to manipulate us into buying things could do something useful instead.
Modern advertising is verging on evil. It's using more and more sophisticated psychological tools to manipulate masses of people into doing things detrimental to themselves and their loved ones.
Galaxy collisions aren't quite like car accidents.
Presumably a woman's ability to "shut that whole thing down" in response to rape would require her to know it was rape in the first place.
Pregnancy isn't subjective. Her ability to head off a pregnancy would be based on subjective factors, similar to the placebo effect that you're trying to randomize out when you do blinded trials. I suppose you could argue that the evaluators should be blinded, but as you point out, pregnancy is a pretty objective diagnosis.
"Physics...oh, and there aren't physics in any other mechanical devices. From what I'd gather, and MRI is probably somewhat along the lines of a finely tuned generater/degausser/radio system."
You gather incorrectly. And your math is... very, very creative.
That's silly. Not everything gets cheaper at the same rate as computers. MRI scanners cost a lot of money because of the physics involved.
Much of the cost of an MRI is the technician doing the scan and the radiologist reading it. In the US there's also profit for whoever is doing it - many American medical providers use imaging as a high profit service that offsets less profitable things.
"My aren't we the apple apologist?"
Because I pointed out that the statement "Apple contributes very little to the domestic US economy" is ridiculous? On the contrary, you seem to have some sort of Apple vendetta.
"great unwashed politically centered voters who might, say, disapprove of abortion..."
but are convinced by scientific evidence and statistics that the guy saying abortion is bad doesn't know what he's talking about?
This is Missouri where they don't believe evolution should be taught in science class, right?
You mean like the thirty thousand retail employees Apple has in the US? Or the thirty thousand construction jobs they create building stores? Maybe the 7,000 people building their new campus? Or the 8000 call centre employees?
"and had some scientific basis that was skewed due to rape victims' misreporting"
Nope, too far. A "theory" that some anti-abortion advocates made up doesn't have any scientific basis just because it involves putting together two independent observations that do have (some) scientific basis. Epidemiological claims like this one have scientific basis when there's some epidemiological evidence to support them, NOT when someone comes up with an ideologically convenient half baked mechanistic explanation.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
The phrase "hatred of women" gets used a lot to describe everything from this idiot to the dummies who organized and participated in that crotch grabbing scavenger hunt at Defcon. I really doubt any of the above hate women. They might fear women, they're probably intimidated by women and they certainly don't understand them, but I doubt they hate them.
This guy is clearly an idiot who believes things that aren't true and doesn't care to change his beliefs. He also believes it's his duty to tell women what they can and can't do, but he probably also thinks it's his duty to tell men what they can and can't do.
The idiots at Defcon probably really want to get to know some women but the only thing they can come up with is a game where they grab one, giggle, and run away. Note that most of those guys would probably NOT be overly offended if a woman did the same thing to them.
I'm definitely not saying that the behaviour in any of these examples is okay, but let's save "hatred of women" for the cases (and there are no shortage of them) where there's some real hatred going on.
Do you think he really lost supporters with that statement? I'd like to THINK he did, but really?