You will find lots of things you and I agree with Nazis on. Breathing and eating are good things to be able to do. Agreeing with the lies of Nazis is far from agreeing with Nazis, BTW. Study a bit of logic sometime.
No, inequality of outcome is not the same as inequality of opportunity, and I am well aware of that. It correlates, and very frequently when we look at unequal outcomes we find unequal opportunities. We do not have laws to ensure anything near equal opportunities. For example, the quality of public schools varies tremendously from pretty much useless to highly educational. Moreover, there are social factors that have to be addressed. Equality under the law is not necessarily equality, and assuming that it is, and therefore that blacks and Native Americans must be inferior due to inferior outcomes or test results, is racist.
Some people see transsexuals wanting to go to the bathroom unobtrusively as asking for special rights. Some people see same-sex couples wanting to marry as asking for special rights. Some people see disabled people asking to be able to use some facilities in the first place as asking for special rights.
That would be tricky. Having similarly named systems with different CPUs worked so well for Microsoft.
Lots of people buy Apple laptops because they like the hardware, but want to be able to run either Windows or Linux, which works best with Intel and AMD processors.
Unfortunately for people with phones that can't run iOS 8 there aren't many of them so I guess they do get shitcanned.
From a business point of view, someone who's more than two major versions behind on the OS is almost certainly either too cheap or too poor to buy new apps, or is completely satisfied with his or her phone and doesn't want new apps. It can suck to be almost satisfied with an older phone or computer.
If men and women are equally compensated for the same work, there still can be gender discrimination, if men are favored for the higher-paying jobs, or if (the opposite side of the coin) primarily male-dominated jobs are arbitrarily paid more than primarily female-dominated jobs. Both of these used to be commonplace. There's still lots of people around who grew up when the man was expected to support the family and women were assumed to only work for extras, and didn't need to be paid as much. These things don't just go away in a moment.
Inequality of outcome doesn't prove inequality of opportunity, but it's a good place to start looking.
Sure. We just have to get certain minorities (like blacks and Native Americans) treated like whites, given good education, etc. Statistically, blacks are screwed, and I suspect it's worse for the natives except that approximately nobody cares about them so you never see the stats.
I want everyone to have equal opportunity, and opportunity is currently not anywhere near equally distributed. It is heavily biased by race.
Most of the time, when I hear people talking about groups other than white males wanting special rights, it turns out that the groups want equal treatment and aren't getting it.
There's no requirement that students embrace AGW. Students are expected to embrace science, and the science says that AGW is going on and it's serious. For similar reasons, you're not going to get a physics degree unless you embrace gravity. If a student can come up with a reasonable argument that AGW isn't happening, that student would be highly successful.
You obviously know very little of science or scientists. Scientists love to disagree with each other. You can't get a scientific consensus without some pretty darn convincing evidence.
Your logical fallacy is assuming a conclusion. You assume that AGW isn't happening, and to keep your delusions intact you have to find explanations for what all the scientists say. You're also irrationally afraid (or something) of Leftists, and find them a very convenient scapegoat.
Your last paragraph is a form of "proof by blatant assertion".
Exactly where do you live? Finland/s pretty far north.
As one who lives at 45N, winters have changed considerably since when I was young. For example, winter rain is now fairly common. When the song "White bird in a golden cage, in the winter rain" was going around, it seemed odd because it almost never rained in winter.
To help US solar panel manufacturers, keeping an important capability for the US, and preventing the Chinese from driving people out of business and then raising their costs. Free trade is overall good, but there are exceptions, such as when it prevents someone from getting monopoly power.
Even assuming your opinions were anywhere near factual, what you're saying is that we should let known sleazy companies ignore the laws we enforce with more reputable companies. Are you sure you want that to happen?
You're very certain of the morality of prices for someone who admits not knowing what the R&D expenses would be, and is obviously ignorant of modern distribution works.
Glad you found what you want at a reasonable price, but that simply wouldn't work for me. I can't use earbuds because my hearing aids are where they'd go. I need external headphones that are comfortable, block exterior sound, and have decent sound quality. Different requirements for different people.
Because the phones weren't advertised as having a headphone jack. If they had been, and people pre-ordered them on the understanding that the ads were correct in saying they had a jack, they would have had excellent grounds for a lawsuit.
Hint: the Atari ST and the Amiga both cost significantly more than a Macintosh or a Microsoft-powered computer. If salespeople got people to pay extra money, Atari and Commodore would still be making computers.
Advertising claims are measured from the perspective of a reasonable person.
A reasonable person, being told that something is good for workouts, would believe that buying them and working out while wearing them would work just fine. The headphones were advertised as being fit for a certain purpose, and apparently they aren't. Nitpicking about what a reasonable person would conclude after careful analysis of the advertising and available information doesn't change the fact that the merchandise was not fit for its advertised purpose.
I've got a flashlight without a user-replaceable battery. It's mostly useful around the house, since it does need to be charged before use. Our toothbrushes don't have user-replaceable batteries. I'm not sure they're replaceable at all.
If a battery doesn't have to be user-replaceable, the device can be made more compact, or alternatively a bigger battery can fit in it. The body design is a lot simpler and can be stronger. These things are tradeoffs. There are advantages and disadvantages to user-replaceable batteries, no matter how hard you ignore the disadvantages.
Excuse me, but my only way to be cool is to turn the thermostat down. I use iPhones because I like them, and the price is reasonable for something I use so often for three years or so.
Batteries in iDevices are replaceable. They aren't easy to replace, and on most sites I'd say not user-replaceable, but you don't need to replace them very often. I haven't seen an iDevice battery fail to last three years.
I have no idea why you got modded up. Some people like music while they work out. Some people like having good headphones, because their music sounds better with good headphones. The headphones were advertised as good for working out, and at that price it's reasonable to assume that some of the extra cost is for durability.
Do you also scoff at people who pay more than $20 for their running shoes?
Suppose you're willing to work as a server for $20/hour. The restaurant owner could pay you $20/hour, or if you expect to make $12/hour in tips, the owner could get away with paying you $10/hour. Tell me why these circumstances are so undesirable. You get roughly the same competition. Some nights you're stiffed and some you collect unusually generous tips. It's not like you can go across the street and get a $20/hour job doing the same thing (assuming you're working in the same class of restaurant), because all the restaurant owners work the same way. You could get a $15/hour job, but it wouldn't come with tips. You could ask to be paid $15/hour as a server, and unless you were unusually good, nobody would hire you.
I haven't taken the time to fully understand it, but it appears that a voter can check that she entered certain codes, and the integrity of the system can be checked in other ways. Interesting. The voting process doesn't need to be any more complicated, and, like any acceptable voting system, it's possible to fall back on manual counting. I'll have to study it further.
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You will find lots of things you and I agree with Nazis on. Breathing and eating are good things to be able to do. Agreeing with the lies of Nazis is far from agreeing with Nazis, BTW. Study a bit of logic sometime.
No, inequality of outcome is not the same as inequality of opportunity, and I am well aware of that. It correlates, and very frequently when we look at unequal outcomes we find unequal opportunities. We do not have laws to ensure anything near equal opportunities. For example, the quality of public schools varies tremendously from pretty much useless to highly educational. Moreover, there are social factors that have to be addressed. Equality under the law is not necessarily equality, and assuming that it is, and therefore that blacks and Native Americans must be inferior due to inferior outcomes or test results, is racist.
Some people see transsexuals wanting to go to the bathroom unobtrusively as asking for special rights. Some people see same-sex couples wanting to marry as asking for special rights. Some people see disabled people asking to be able to use some facilities in the first place as asking for special rights.
That would be tricky. Having similarly named systems with different CPUs worked so well for Microsoft.
Lots of people buy Apple laptops because they like the hardware, but want to be able to run either Windows or Linux, which works best with Intel and AMD processors.
From a business point of view, someone who's more than two major versions behind on the OS is almost certainly either too cheap or too poor to buy new apps, or is completely satisfied with his or her phone and doesn't want new apps. It can suck to be almost satisfied with an older phone or computer.
I use DropBox. They're very unlikely to lose their copies of my stuff for the same reasons that I might lose them, so it's pretty reliable.
If men and women are equally compensated for the same work, there still can be gender discrimination, if men are favored for the higher-paying jobs, or if (the opposite side of the coin) primarily male-dominated jobs are arbitrarily paid more than primarily female-dominated jobs. Both of these used to be commonplace. There's still lots of people around who grew up when the man was expected to support the family and women were assumed to only work for extras, and didn't need to be paid as much. These things don't just go away in a moment.
Inequality of outcome doesn't prove inequality of opportunity, but it's a good place to start looking.
Sure. We just have to get certain minorities (like blacks and Native Americans) treated like whites, given good education, etc. Statistically, blacks are screwed, and I suspect it's worse for the natives except that approximately nobody cares about them so you never see the stats.
I want everyone to have equal opportunity, and opportunity is currently not anywhere near equally distributed. It is heavily biased by race.
Most of the time, when I hear people talking about groups other than white males wanting special rights, it turns out that the groups want equal treatment and aren't getting it.
Generally good principles, yes. Of course, it was mostly a fabric of lies, because the Nazis didn't believe in what Goebbels said.
Looks like Goebbels the master propagandist found yet another person to believe him.
The only way to make the really big money is to have an obviously dumb idea that turns out not to be dumb.
There's no requirement that students embrace AGW. Students are expected to embrace science, and the science says that AGW is going on and it's serious. For similar reasons, you're not going to get a physics degree unless you embrace gravity. If a student can come up with a reasonable argument that AGW isn't happening, that student would be highly successful.
You obviously know very little of science or scientists. Scientists love to disagree with each other. You can't get a scientific consensus without some pretty darn convincing evidence.
Your logical fallacy is assuming a conclusion. You assume that AGW isn't happening, and to keep your delusions intact you have to find explanations for what all the scientists say. You're also irrationally afraid (or something) of Leftists, and find them a very convenient scapegoat.
Your last paragraph is a form of "proof by blatant assertion".
Exactly where do you live? Finland/s pretty far north.
As one who lives at 45N, winters have changed considerably since when I was young. For example, winter rain is now fairly common. When the song "White bird in a golden cage, in the winter rain" was going around, it seemed odd because it almost never rained in winter.
To help US solar panel manufacturers, keeping an important capability for the US, and preventing the Chinese from driving people out of business and then raising their costs. Free trade is overall good, but there are exceptions, such as when it prevents someone from getting monopoly power.
Even assuming your opinions were anywhere near factual, what you're saying is that we should let known sleazy companies ignore the laws we enforce with more reputable companies. Are you sure you want that to happen?
You're very certain of the morality of prices for someone who admits not knowing what the R&D expenses would be, and is obviously ignorant of modern distribution works.
Glad you found what you want at a reasonable price, but that simply wouldn't work for me. I can't use earbuds because my hearing aids are where they'd go. I need external headphones that are comfortable, block exterior sound, and have decent sound quality. Different requirements for different people.
Because the phones weren't advertised as having a headphone jack. If they had been, and people pre-ordered them on the understanding that the ads were correct in saying they had a jack, they would have had excellent grounds for a lawsuit.
Hint: the Atari ST and the Amiga both cost significantly more than a Macintosh or a Microsoft-powered computer. If salespeople got people to pay extra money, Atari and Commodore would still be making computers.
A reasonable person, being told that something is good for workouts, would believe that buying them and working out while wearing them would work just fine. The headphones were advertised as being fit for a certain purpose, and apparently they aren't. Nitpicking about what a reasonable person would conclude after careful analysis of the advertising and available information doesn't change the fact that the merchandise was not fit for its advertised purpose.
I've got a flashlight without a user-replaceable battery. It's mostly useful around the house, since it does need to be charged before use. Our toothbrushes don't have user-replaceable batteries. I'm not sure they're replaceable at all.
If a battery doesn't have to be user-replaceable, the device can be made more compact, or alternatively a bigger battery can fit in it. The body design is a lot simpler and can be stronger. These things are tradeoffs. There are advantages and disadvantages to user-replaceable batteries, no matter how hard you ignore the disadvantages.
Excuse me, but my only way to be cool is to turn the thermostat down. I use iPhones because I like them, and the price is reasonable for something I use so often for three years or so.
Batteries in iDevices are replaceable. They aren't easy to replace, and on most sites I'd say not user-replaceable, but you don't need to replace them very often. I haven't seen an iDevice battery fail to last three years.
I have no idea why you got modded up. Some people like music while they work out. Some people like having good headphones, because their music sounds better with good headphones. The headphones were advertised as good for working out, and at that price it's reasonable to assume that some of the extra cost is for durability.
Do you also scoff at people who pay more than $20 for their running shoes?
Suppose you're willing to work as a server for $20/hour. The restaurant owner could pay you $20/hour, or if you expect to make $12/hour in tips, the owner could get away with paying you $10/hour. Tell me why these circumstances are so undesirable. You get roughly the same competition. Some nights you're stiffed and some you collect unusually generous tips. It's not like you can go across the street and get a $20/hour job doing the same thing (assuming you're working in the same class of restaurant), because all the restaurant owners work the same way. You could get a $15/hour job, but it wouldn't come with tips. You could ask to be paid $15/hour as a server, and unless you were unusually good, nobody would hire you.
I haven't taken the time to fully understand it, but it appears that a voter can check that she entered certain codes, and the integrity of the system can be checked in other ways. Interesting. The voting process doesn't need to be any more complicated, and, like any acceptable voting system, it's possible to fall back on manual counting. I'll have to study it further.