I have a two year old MBP like yours, and a new one. They've fixed a lot of what you're bitching about. The hard drive is in the same compartment as the battery now, and the memory is the only difficult thing to change. No biggy for me. I also don't care if the wiring is held by adhesive tape - all Apple laptops that I've looked inside are like that and it seems to work fine. It's not something that is taken apart daily.
I know I sound like a jerk, but I've made a ton of money over the years cleaning up after self-taught programmers. There's a difference betweeen "programming" and "computer science". Like there's a difference between being a "builder" and being an "architect". The problem is that many places will bring in programmers to do work that a computer scientist should be doing, and the results are often disastrous.
No, here's your car analogy: how many carriage manufacturers went on to build automobiles? Some probably did, but they're long forgotten.
Companies generally stick with their niche and die with it when the paradigm changes (witness DEC for a good example). The oil companies' gig is drilling oil and selling it, and they do well at what they do. Other companies will come along and profit from these other industries, if there's a profit to be made.
Duh, no, you're right! Apartment building owners *don't* have to pay property taxes in TN! Especially if they're renting to illegals. And, if they do have to pay property taxes, like in other states, it doesn't come out of the rent money. Can you believe that? They are allowed to print their own money (using a color copier) to pay the property taxes in that case. Just to make sure Mexicans pay absolutely no taxes.
Good catch, dude, surprised I didn't notice it when I was posting!
In TN, some groceries are taxed at a 1% lower rate than everything else. 1%.
Something else you people may be interested in is that most illegal immigrants actually *do* pay the taxes that you claim they don't. Interestingly, most pay social security and medicare even though they can't legally "collect" on the back end.
I've watched the debate here for years. The bottom line is that those against "illegal immigrants" are against "immigrants", and they use illegals as their entry point for the larger debate. Same way many medical marijuana advocates actually want full legalization.
California has almost 3 million illegals. That's almost 8% of the state's population who are not paying taxes,
You know, I hear this all the time here in TN, where we have a 9.25% sales tax and no state income tax. Maybe you can answer the question that your intellectual kinsmen here never can seem to answer.
Where is it that these illegals are buying groceries? And gasoline? Where do they live that there isn't a property tax? I'm serious when I ask this. I have to pay taxes on most stuff that I buy, but then I find out that illegals don't. Are they simply shopping at the same places as me, and producing an "illegal alien" identification card that lets them skip paying the taxes? Does the gas pump knock off the 18 cent federal tax and 21 cent state tax on gasoline if a car pulls up with an unlicensed driver? I've looked closely many times when Mexicans were getting gas and the pump shows the same $/gallon as my pump, but maybe that's to fool me and when they go to pay the cashier knocks the tax off?
Let me know, if you can. The mouthbreathing racists around here seem to turn into stroke victims when I ask them such questions.
iPod is to Zune as Apple Store is to Microsoft Store. I predict it'll be an embarrassing rip off of the Apple Store that will cause no more than snickering from most people. And their customers will be nothing but MCSEs looking for a place to hang out. Should be amusing.
The best part is that Microsoft is dumb enough to keep pouring money into a losing venture for decades...
I just read Frank Abagnale's autobiography and another book that he wrote. He was one of the greatest con men who ever lived, cashing two or three million in bad checks in the 1960's, before he even turned 21. Anyway, the last book of his I read was written around 2002 or so, and he was pretty spooked by the idea of people being able to pull money from accounts simply by knowing the routing and account numbers.
He designs checks nowadays and does security consulting, among other things.
Don't you love the impartial scientific tone here? And the sheer illogic of this statement is staggering. If you know you are going to have large amount of episodic oversupply there are all sorts of useful things you can do with it. Make ice. Melt salt. Run pumps.
Dams don't prevent flooding. They just move it somewhere else.
Right, and we know exactly where that somewhere else is (right behind the dam) and we don't build houses there anymore because it's a lake.
Dams prevent catastrophic, uncontrolled flooding by buffering the surge in a lake and letting it out slowly. The Ohio River no longer floods because of the hundreds of artificial lakes created in its watershed, for instance.
Um, Saddam wasn't a "president", he was a dictator. There were a few sham "elections" where he won 99% of the vote, but not voting for him meant torture.
William Ayers is chiefly known by most of the country as being "That guy who Palin said was a terrorist that Obama was palling around with". Describing him as "Sarah Palin boogieman William Ayers" is a fairly efficient way of ensuring that readers knew which person was being talked about.
"Palin said was a terrorist"? Why not type the guy's name into google and see if anybody besides Sarah Palin thinks that? Ayers own words: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird."
Not everyone is a news junkie and not everyone is going to remember who Bill Ayers is, as the last time he was a regular topic of discussion in the proess in October of last year, nearly 4 months ago. Theodp was simply trying to remind the reader of who Bill Ayers and why he was noteworthy in the news.
If he was trying to remind the reader of who Bill Ayers is, he would have used the term "domestic terrorist" instead of invoking Sarah Palin. He's trying to head off any reasonable discussion of Ayers by acting like Ayers is a normal guy that that old meany Sarah Palin was using as a punching bag.
Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist. Perhaps many of you are too young to remember the Weather Underground, I barely remember as I'm just 40. But they set bombs, killed people, and only through their gross incompetence didn't kill many more. One of their foiled plans would have set a barrage of roofing nails into a black restaurant at lunch time.
Not to sound like a snob, but gentlemen do not associate with Ayers and his ilk.
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Jealousy is a stinky cologne, Stevie. ;)
I bet it smells better than that stuff under his arms when he's yelling "developers"...
I have a two year old MBP like yours, and a new one. They've fixed a lot of what you're bitching about. The hard drive is in the same compartment as the battery now, and the memory is the only difficult thing to change. No biggy for me. I also don't care if the wiring is held by adhesive tape - all Apple laptops that I've looked inside are like that and it seems to work fine. It's not something that is taken apart daily.
I know I sound like a jerk, but I've made a ton of money over the years cleaning up after self-taught programmers. There's a difference betweeen "programming" and "computer science". Like there's a difference between being a "builder" and being an "architect". The problem is that many places will bring in programmers to do work that a computer scientist should be doing, and the results are often disastrous.
If you want to get into this field, do it right.
With betfair banned, it might be a good idea to closely check the ownership of their biggest Aussie rivals...
Or he may be married to another guy.
Maybe. But I think we can agree that attempting anal sex would be a lost cause - unless his partner's dick is the size of a fence post.
No, here's your car analogy: how many carriage manufacturers went on to build automobiles? Some probably did, but they're long forgotten.
Companies generally stick with their niche and die with it when the paradigm changes (witness DEC for a good example). The oil companies' gig is drilling oil and selling it, and they do well at what they do. Other companies will come along and profit from these other industries, if there's a profit to be made.
...to lift a 56 pound camera.
Quick!
It's not a 10% difference, the battery life is at least double what it would have been.
I think it's obvious that the battery isn't "non-removable", just that it requires removing a few screws rather than a simple sliding latch.
Duh, no, you're right! Apartment building owners *don't* have to pay property taxes in TN! Especially if they're renting to illegals. And, if they do have to pay property taxes, like in other states, it doesn't come out of the rent money. Can you believe that? They are allowed to print their own money (using a color copier) to pay the property taxes in that case. Just to make sure Mexicans pay absolutely no taxes.
Good catch, dude, surprised I didn't notice it when I was posting!
We can't even get people to read the article and you expect someone to read the faq? By the way, what does it say?
In TN, some groceries are taxed at a 1% lower rate than everything else. 1%.
Something else you people may be interested in is that most illegal immigrants actually *do* pay the taxes that you claim they don't. Interestingly, most pay social security and medicare even though they can't legally "collect" on the back end.
I've watched the debate here for years. The bottom line is that those against "illegal immigrants" are against "immigrants", and they use illegals as their entry point for the larger debate. Same way many medical marijuana advocates actually want full legalization.
California has almost 3 million illegals. That's almost 8% of the state's population who are not paying taxes,
You know, I hear this all the time here in TN, where we have a 9.25% sales tax and no state income tax. Maybe you can answer the question that your intellectual kinsmen here never can seem to answer.
Where is it that these illegals are buying groceries? And gasoline? Where do they live that there isn't a property tax? I'm serious when I ask this. I have to pay taxes on most stuff that I buy, but then I find out that illegals don't. Are they simply shopping at the same places as me, and producing an "illegal alien" identification card that lets them skip paying the taxes? Does the gas pump knock off the 18 cent federal tax and 21 cent state tax on gasoline if a car pulls up with an unlicensed driver? I've looked closely many times when Mexicans were getting gas and the pump shows the same $/gallon as my pump, but maybe that's to fool me and when they go to pay the cashier knocks the tax off?
Let me know, if you can. The mouthbreathing racists around here seem to turn into stroke victims when I ask them such questions.
Why do you think I care? I'm amused...
iPod is to Zune as Apple Store is to Microsoft Store. I predict it'll be an embarrassing rip off of the Apple Store that will cause no more than snickering from most people. And their customers will be nothing but MCSEs looking for a place to hang out. Should be amusing.
The best part is that Microsoft is dumb enough to keep pouring money into a losing venture for decades...
were those of us who kept having those stupid "25 things" posts pop up on our facebook home page from people we hardly know...
I just read Frank Abagnale's autobiography and another book that he wrote. He was one of the greatest con men who ever lived, cashing two or three million in bad checks in the 1960's, before he even turned 21. Anyway, the last book of his I read was written around 2002 or so, and he was pretty spooked by the idea of people being able to pull money from accounts simply by knowing the routing and account numbers. He designs checks nowadays and does security consulting, among other things.
Or make giant toast.
Dams don't prevent flooding. They just move it somewhere else.
Right, and we know exactly where that somewhere else is (right behind the dam) and we don't build houses there anymore because it's a lake.
Dams prevent catastrophic, uncontrolled flooding by buffering the surge in a lake and letting it out slowly. The Ohio River no longer floods because of the hundreds of artificial lakes created in its watershed, for instance.
He wasn't a "leader", either. He was a thug who leeched off the country.
Each processor gets its own megabyte of memory? Are these a bunch of refurb pcs from the late 80's?
Um, Saddam wasn't a "president", he was a dictator. There were a few sham "elections" where he won 99% of the vote, but not voting for him meant torture.
William Ayers is chiefly known by most of the country as being "That guy who Palin said was a terrorist that Obama was palling around with". Describing him as "Sarah Palin boogieman William Ayers" is a fairly efficient way of ensuring that readers knew which person was being talked about.
"Palin said was a terrorist"? Why not type the guy's name into google and see if anybody besides Sarah Palin thinks that? Ayers own words: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird."
It doesn't even do that.
Not everyone is a news junkie and not everyone is going to remember who Bill Ayers is, as the last time he was a regular topic of discussion in the proess in October of last year, nearly 4 months ago. Theodp was simply trying to remind the reader of who Bill Ayers and why he was noteworthy in the news.
If he was trying to remind the reader of who Bill Ayers is, he would have used the term "domestic terrorist" instead of invoking Sarah Palin. He's trying to head off any reasonable discussion of Ayers by acting like Ayers is a normal guy that that old meany Sarah Palin was using as a punching bag.
Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist. Perhaps many of you are too young to remember the Weather Underground, I barely remember as I'm just 40. But they set bombs, killed people, and only through their gross incompetence didn't kill many more. One of their foiled plans would have set a barrage of roofing nails into a black restaurant at lunch time.
Not to sound like a snob, but gentlemen do not associate with Ayers and his ilk.
Because communists killed tens of millions of people pretty much everywhere they ruled.
Not to invoke Godwin, but Communism should be seen as Nazism is.