You're blaming the user for file system designers not including the capacity to label partitions so users know what they are.
Of course, if we started asking ourselves why users are always getting confused by filesystems, we might start thinking that the standard hierarchical filesystem is utter crap...
If not, you should remember the constant lying about what Al Gore said.
Oh, please. He brought it on himself.
Gore would say something stupid, like, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
If he had said "I was the first legislator to recognize the potential of the Internet", like any normal person would have, no one would have faulted him. But the guy was talking about "creating" it.
Then instead of just saying, "look, I was shooting my mouth off" he'd respond (and his supporters would respond) by carefully parsing what he had said and showing how *technically* it wasn't a lie.
And then he'd go and shoot his mouth off again... the union label lullaby, the love canal thing, and on and on.
That's why Gore has a reputation for being a liar.
The military has never trained soldiers to shoot without thinking and certainly doesn't now.
There's no such thing as a "necessary" or "acceptable" fratricide or civilian death. What we have in Iraq is the result of cowards deliberately pretending to be civilians and hiding in schools and mosques.
Try saying linchpin of freedom and I may agree. Nothing says a goverment has to be democratic.
Very true... note in the US the judiciary has never been elected, and the Senate was appointed by the House (Article I Section 3) until 1912 (ammnd #17). And, of course, each state has two senators regardless of raw population.
I can live in a autocratic society with a King or Queen who's equally bound by law, and have the same right of criticism. How am I now less free?
How about the linchpin of a republic? An autocrat might be bound by law, but since s/he writes that law it's not much of a binding. What matters is that no part of the government holds all the cards. Not even the "majority" (which usually means a vocal plurality) should hold all the power because lasting reforms and far sighted leadership often require an initial sacrifice or risk for a long term gain.
How many of you are working on systems whose parts were manufactured in China? How many of your clothes and shoes were made there? How many objects can you find within ten feet of you right this second that were made in China? You are doing business in China, by buying their goods, but you are not evil. Why are you applying a double standard to Google?
That's a valid point, but it's not like buying Chinese products is a bad thing to begin with. They need jobs, our dollars help provide that. They need a search engine, and even a censored one helps.
Bad move. Claiming that wine tasting is 100% snake oil, makes it pretty easily to DISPROVE your claim.
Bzzzt. Straw man. S/he never claimed it was 100% anything. Obviously we can tell wine from grape juice, but you still have to explain why wine tasters can't reliably tell a $5 bottle from a $100 bottle.
No two wine tasters reported the same taste, body, or whatever from the same wines. Their repsonses were, in fact, wildly dissimilar.
This doesn't mean it's snake oil, it means that different people have different tastes.
If everyone has different tastes and you've no guarantee that a $100 bottle will be better than a $5 bottle, then the prices on wines are meaningless. Since those prices are determined by reputation which is determined by wine tasters, wine tasting is snake oil.
Consider an analogy to movies.
Movies all cost the same, so that analogy weakens your argument.
Bring back the good old days, when wine had the same social status as lager, thats what I say!
I dunno. Around where I am (flyover country...) I've been to many parties where the choice is Bud vs. Miller. The wine equivalent would be Kool-Aid vs. Gatorade...
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I just can't listen to Whitney Houston sing about the children for 4 minutes, even if it is making fun on MySpace.
It's not Windows' fault, it's ID10T error.
You're blaming the user for file system designers not including the capacity to label partitions so users know what they are.
Of course, if we started asking ourselves why users are always getting confused by filesystems, we might start thinking that the standard hierarchical filesystem is utter crap...
After Netscape worked so hard to educate us as to what beta really means...
Oh, another great Gore moment:
He's talking to Courtney love. Says he's a big fan of hers. So she asks him to name a song. Can't.
Here's video proof of a bunch of Gore's gaffes, including that one.
If not, you should remember the constant lying about what Al Gore said.
Oh, please. He brought it on himself.
Gore would say something stupid, like, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
If he had said "I was the first legislator to recognize the potential of the Internet", like any normal person would have, no one would have faulted him. But the guy was talking about "creating" it.
Then instead of just saying, "look, I was shooting my mouth off" he'd respond (and his supporters would respond) by carefully parsing what he had said and showing how *technically* it wasn't a lie.
And then he'd go and shoot his mouth off again... the union label lullaby, the love canal thing, and on and on.
That's why Gore has a reputation for being a liar.
I was being facetious...
Apple usually gets disproportionate coverage, but this is insane.
And I'm not getting a new Mac for at least two years, so I don't want to hear about the Intel Macs already.
when someone asked if the internet will fit on a floppy?
Hell, I compressed it down to an sh one-liner:
yes 'Blah blah blah.'
But is it smart enough to move itself when it senses the parking enforcement officer approaching with a ticket.
"Parking enforcement officer"? Those worthless fat fucks are called meter maids.
and it has a great user interface library in the form of Swing.
I just unloaded out a great meal in the form of a turd.
Is this a new record?
The military has never trained soldiers to shoot without thinking and certainly doesn't now.
There's no such thing as a "necessary" or "acceptable" fratricide or civilian death. What we have in Iraq is the result of cowards deliberately pretending to be civilians and hiding in schools and mosques.
When I was in the Army, the static bulls-eye targets had been replaced with pop-up silhouettes that gave you a limited time to aim and fire.
Over at Knox they have plastic dummies that are basically a head on a torso. (Except the 50m targets are just a head and shoulders.)
I figured you'd all want to hear what it sounds like:
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Imagine that two lawyers both write the exact same argument...
How about a hypothetical situation that's actually possible?
Lawyers are not hired on the basis of their beliefs, they're hired because they will argue whatever you pay them to argue.
But you don't know what they'll write until you've hired them so it's pretty dumb to hire someone who disagrees with you.
Us Americans have such a short term memory.
If you drop "Americans" from your sentence, it reads:
"Us have such a short term memory."
So it should be "We Americans..."
It's only hypocrisy if the same person took both positions.
No, that's a double standard, though someone holding a double standard is probably a hypocrite as well.
As the one leveling the charge, you bear the burden of proof.
Rather than get caught up calling for proof, point out that it's an ad hominem tu quoque fallacy.
Try saying linchpin of freedom and I may agree. Nothing says a goverment has to be democratic.
Very true... note in the US the judiciary has never been elected, and the Senate was appointed by the House (Article I Section 3) until 1912 (ammnd #17). And, of course, each state has two senators regardless of raw population.
I can live in a autocratic society with a King or Queen who's equally bound by law, and have the same right of criticism. How am I now less free?
How about the linchpin of a republic? An autocrat might be bound by law, but since s/he writes that law it's not much of a binding. What matters is that no part of the government holds all the cards. Not even the "majority" (which usually means a vocal plurality) should hold all the power because lasting reforms and far sighted leadership often require an initial sacrifice or risk for a long term gain.
I think that Google is leaving the door ajar for political dissenters this way.
Personally, if I were an aspiring rebel, I think I'd use something a little less obvious than a search engine to do my research...
How many of you are working on systems whose parts were manufactured in China? How many of your clothes and shoes were made there? How many objects can you find within ten feet of you right this second that were made in China? You are doing business in China, by buying their goods, but you are not evil. Why are you applying a double standard to Google?
That's a valid point, but it's not like buying Chinese products is a bad thing to begin with. They need jobs, our dollars help provide that. They need a search engine, and even a censored one helps.
Whatever would we need XAML for when we've already got XUL?
Remind me what we needed XML for again...
Not really. IF the person bought the songs off of ITunes and deleted the copy on his computer why wouldn't this be legit?
What part of "bullshit" don't you understand?
Bad move. Claiming that wine tasting is 100% snake oil, makes it pretty easily to DISPROVE your claim.
Bzzzt. Straw man. S/he never claimed it was 100% anything. Obviously we can tell wine from grape juice, but you still have to explain why wine tasters can't reliably tell a $5 bottle from a $100 bottle.
No two wine tasters reported the same taste, body, or whatever from the same wines. Their repsonses were, in fact, wildly dissimilar.
This doesn't mean it's snake oil, it means that different people have different tastes.
If everyone has different tastes and you've no guarantee that a $100 bottle will be better than a $5 bottle, then the prices on wines are meaningless. Since those prices are determined by reputation which is determined by wine tasters, wine tasting is snake oil.
Consider an analogy to movies.
Movies all cost the same, so that analogy weakens your argument.
Bring back the good old days, when wine had the same social status as lager, thats what I say!
I dunno. Around where I am (flyover country...) I've been to many parties where the choice is Bud vs. Miller. The wine equivalent would be Kool-Aid vs. Gatorade...