A standards-based state run (in the 50 sense, not the conspiracy sense) public healthcare system is an intriguing idea. As with education, tho, there'd be massive differences in quality of care from state to state. I'm not sure what the solution to that would be.
That's good, but what would really impress me is more nonprofit preventative care. And let's all laugh together at nonprofit pharmacuticals (which, i suppose, would be possible, if you could attract nonprofit researchers).
That's an emotionally charged statement, but how many of those 'massive civil suits' succeed? How many are even an option for the average consumer with a legitimate grievance? Of course, this also brings the issue of legal system abuse into the debate, and i suspect you and i would probably find some common ground there.
"We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect"
No you don't. You do business in China. You keep yourself willfully ignorant as much as possible about their internal workings, In fact you not only don't require any such thing from them; it would be more accurate to say that you cave in a hot second to China's "don't even think about telling us what to do, and we'll provide cheap labor you shouldn't think too hard about" attitude. So shut the fuck up.
So Sam's making a movie based on a game that quotes one of his own most famous lines. I've nothing insightful to add here, i just found that funny and a little strange. It'll never happen, but i wouldn't mind Mr. Campbell with a shotgun in there somewhere....
Yes, for some reason, a widely discussed, analyzed, publicised, dissected threat that everyone knew about just hasn't managed to do as much damage as it might have.
They're accountable to their customers, their shareholders, and their potential customers they want
The order here is important, I think.
Hearing "corporations are accountable to their customers!" strikes me as the same idealist wishful thinking that caused the supporters of communism to declare all of The People equal. Corporations are accountable to money. Period. The PR says that the money flows from the customer, and that's why corporations listen to their customers. Reality says, call your local regional monopoly and attempt to get good customer service from them.
In fairness, your examples on education are more on-target than the buzzword Obamacare generalizations so popular now. Of course, I hope you see the conflict in nerfing the hell out of public education budgets, then laughing at how much public education sucks...:)
Not every private sector health and education provider is driven by profit
[Citation needed]
Please, explain that before you go any further. Especially publicly-held companies, who are legally obligated to look out for shareholders' interests first and foremost..?
You can't just skip over that little detail with a dismissive, unsupported statement, and expect me to accept it as fact.
I think BASIC would be so grossly inefficient and difficult to write anything remotely useful that Apple would just kind of chuckle and let it through.
(ii) the transmission thus received is further transmitted to the public;
Like a boom box on a beach? (Alas, Aliteration this Ain't.) How is blasting your tunes to anyone who passes by not "further transmitted to the public," unless they're talking about radio or cabled transmission only...?
I guess you haven't dealt with real-world business or politics much..? Look up "selectively enforced." Yes, ok, despite what seems like a snide tone, i understand your feelings about a hard-line enforcement of the rules.
But those rules aren't being enforced consistently. Your tough tone and insinuations of conspiracy say to me you haven't encountered anyone caving in to high-level assurances - for which you should be grateful:). A "wink wink, nudge nudge" is a lot more dangerous than a contract, but you'd be surprised (and disgusted) with how much gets done that way.
Did you even read the article? The nod they got from Apple, and the minor detail wherein other apps already violate this selectively-enforced clause, giving the developer the idea that they'd be excused as well..?
Add more "quotes" to your "comment," it makes you seem "wiser.":P
What are they worried about, that a revival of BASIC will crowd out Apple market share...? Or did Sega maybe have a quiet word with Apple about the competition?
You are both correct in what you say. The difference is in your respective definition of the word "right." One definition is that it is a legal status; the other is that it's something you're born with until some other actor moves to take it away or suppress it. This is also the source of conflict on your definition of "natural." It's a matter of: do you start with all rights, or none? Everything is colored by this difference in starting point.
Oh don't fool yourself. The papers know they're obsolete, and need to keep "real journalism" in their own ad-laden, corporate owned pages. You just try to make a major-outlet reporter reveal sources and name names; no really, go ahead. I want to watch.
Blogging isn't safe! Trust the paper! Argh bleah puke. Gimme a break. Yeah, you're right, they should be ashamed. So what? Do you see "for shame!" holding a lot of weight in politics or business..? I don't think "and they should be ashamed of themselves, Your Honor" is how i want to safeguard my freedoms. We're going to need to work a little harder.
(The Independent paper in the UK gave a full page interview to one of Mousavi's supporters who, when you managed to overlook the bias, was praising her fellows for managing to have set a bus on fire and pretty much said that it didn't matter whether Ahmadinejad got more votes because he shouldn't be President and Mousavi should).
I respectfully submit that this is the bias - one we've seen in America for years, that comedians have even based routines around. Repeatedly. It is the choice of spokesperson, made by the media, that is the bias.
Come on, THINK a minute! Do you really think this bus-burning vote-ignoring supporter is the only person they spoke to that day? The reporter should be fired, if they just took the words of the first person who ran up screaming to them as The News. No. They took many statements, spoke to many people, and the reporter and editor chose what to present. Simple as that.
Consider also the bet-hedging of "reporting that Ahmadinejad won." What they really reported, you'll notice, is "official results." You know, the ones endorsed by the government. Because the wire can't stand to stay silent for 5 seconds until it actually knows more, anyway; and reports, at any given instant, as if right now is the absolute truth of the matter. Reuters' story was my favorite: Official results are in, the incumbent won, the losers are protesting, the UN calls for the will of the people to be respected. Taken together, it sounds like an endorsement of the official results, doesn't it? When you say "the winner" and "the loser," you are stating facts. You are reinforcing that perception. Makes the opposition sound like "we lost, let's riot" - as your bus-burning spokesperson further reinforces.
"It was crazy as hell!" makes better camera time for the spectacle then "Well, I believe the geopolitical ramifications of this are... hey, where's the cameraman going? Burning, you say?"
IMHO, i think there's a Cheney-like extreme right group that would prefer Mousavi to have lost. An uncooperative, defiant Iran would be easier to demonize.
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A standards-based state run (in the 50 sense, not the conspiracy sense) public healthcare system is an intriguing idea. As with education, tho, there'd be massive differences in quality of care from state to state. I'm not sure what the solution to that would be.
That's good, but what would really impress me is more nonprofit preventative care. And let's all laugh together at nonprofit pharmacuticals (which, i suppose, would be possible, if you could attract nonprofit researchers).
That's an emotionally charged statement, but how many of those 'massive civil suits' succeed? How many are even an option for the average consumer with a legitimate grievance? Of course, this also brings the issue of legal system abuse into the debate, and i suspect you and i would probably find some common ground there.
"We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect"
No you don't. You do business in China. You keep yourself willfully ignorant as much as possible about their internal workings, In fact you not only don't require any such thing from them; it would be more accurate to say that you cave in a hot second to China's "don't even think about telling us what to do, and we'll provide cheap labor you shouldn't think too hard about" attitude. So shut the fuck up.
So Sam's making a movie based on a game that quotes one of his own most famous lines. I've nothing insightful to add here, i just found that funny and a little strange. It'll never happen, but i wouldn't mind Mr. Campbell with a shotgun in there somewhere....
Yes, for some reason, a widely discussed, analyzed, publicised, dissected threat that everyone knew about just hasn't managed to do as much damage as it might have.
They're accountable to their customers, their shareholders, and their potential customers they want
The order here is important, I think.
Hearing "corporations are accountable to their customers!" strikes me as the same idealist wishful thinking that caused the supporters of communism to declare all of The People equal. Corporations are accountable to money. Period. The PR says that the money flows from the customer, and that's why corporations listen to their customers. Reality says, call your local regional monopoly and attempt to get good customer service from them.
In fairness, your examples on education are more on-target than the buzzword Obamacare generalizations so popular now. Of course, I hope you see the conflict in nerfing the hell out of public education budgets, then laughing at how much public education sucks... :)
Not every private sector health and education provider is driven by profit
[Citation needed] Please, explain that before you go any further. Especially publicly-held companies, who are legally obligated to look out for shareholders' interests first and foremost..? You can't just skip over that little detail with a dismissive, unsupported statement, and expect me to accept it as fact.
What's amusing to me is that if you want to education or health care funded in the US, you have to lobby Congress like hell to fund it.
What's amusing to me is that people think education or health care is a proper role for the Federal Government.
What's amusing to me is that people think education or health care is a proper role for unaccountable entities whose primary responsibility is profit.
is for an alcoholic millionaire to cram it into a suit of armor!
People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
You know, the Iranian people seem to have achieved this.
I think BASIC would be so grossly inefficient and difficult to write anything remotely useful that Apple would just kind of chuckle and let it through.
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"The NY Times has a story on the culture of secrecy at Apple (registration possibly required)."
/facepalm
(ii) the transmission thus received is further transmitted to the public;
Like a boom box on a beach? (Alas, Aliteration this Ain't.) How is blasting your tunes to anyone who passes by not "further transmitted to the public," unless they're talking about radio or cabled transmission only...?
Okay, i see what you mean, and in that case I agree with you. That also makes it a lot clearer than your original post, you know.
While technically possible, do you really think a developer went and 'blathered about his idea' in public, at an Apple store? Really?
Okay, i see the flaw in the original summary: i guess we'd need to see if any of the other apps cited can run arbitrary code.
I'm still giggling over the idea of the next hacktool being written in BASIC, tho.
Aha, there's the rub. Why did you AC your comment...? That actually made sense. That *is* allowed here, you know.
I guess you haven't dealt with real-world business or politics much..? Look up "selectively enforced." Yes, ok, despite what seems like a snide tone, i understand your feelings about a hard-line enforcement of the rules.
But those rules aren't being enforced consistently. Your tough tone and insinuations of conspiracy say to me you haven't encountered anyone caving in to high-level assurances - for which you should be grateful :). A "wink wink, nudge nudge" is a lot more dangerous than a contract, but you'd be surprised (and disgusted) with how much gets done that way.
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Did you even read the article? The nod they got from Apple, and the minor detail wherein other apps already violate this selectively-enforced clause, giving the developer the idea that they'd be excused as well..?
Add more "quotes" to your "comment," it makes you seem "wiser." :P
What are they worried about, that a revival of BASIC will crowd out Apple market share...? Or did Sega maybe have a quiet word with Apple about the competition?
You are both correct in what you say. The difference is in your respective definition of the word "right." One definition is that it is a legal status; the other is that it's something you're born with until some other actor moves to take it away or suppress it. This is also the source of conflict on your definition of "natural." It's a matter of: do you start with all rights, or none? Everything is colored by this difference in starting point.
Oh don't fool yourself. The papers know they're obsolete, and need to keep "real journalism" in their own ad-laden, corporate owned pages. You just try to make a major-outlet reporter reveal sources and name names; no really, go ahead. I want to watch.
Blogging isn't safe! Trust the paper! Argh bleah puke. Gimme a break. Yeah, you're right, they should be ashamed. So what? Do you see "for shame!" holding a lot of weight in politics or business..? I don't think "and they should be ashamed of themselves, Your Honor" is how i want to safeguard my freedoms. We're going to need to work a little harder.
Lawful Neutral? Chaotic Guiltridden? Level 12 Maccabee, Hammer +1, +5 vs. Elephants..?
I respectfully submit that this is the bias - one we've seen in America for years, that comedians have even based routines around. Repeatedly. It is the choice of spokesperson, made by the media, that is the bias.
Come on, THINK a minute! Do you really think this bus-burning vote-ignoring supporter is the only person they spoke to that day? The reporter should be fired, if they just took the words of the first person who ran up screaming to them as The News. No. They took many statements, spoke to many people, and the reporter and editor chose what to present. Simple as that.
Consider also the bet-hedging of "reporting that Ahmadinejad won." What they really reported, you'll notice, is "official results." You know, the ones endorsed by the government. Because the wire can't stand to stay silent for 5 seconds until it actually knows more, anyway; and reports, at any given instant, as if right now is the absolute truth of the matter. Reuters' story was my favorite: Official results are in, the incumbent won, the losers are protesting, the UN calls for the will of the people to be respected. Taken together, it sounds like an endorsement of the official results, doesn't it? When you say "the winner" and "the loser," you are stating facts. You are reinforcing that perception. Makes the opposition sound like "we lost, let's riot" - as your bus-burning spokesperson further reinforces.
"It was crazy as hell!" makes better camera time for the spectacle then "Well, I believe the geopolitical ramifications of this are... hey, where's the cameraman going? Burning, you say?"
IMHO, i think there's a Cheney-like extreme right group that would prefer Mousavi to have lost. An uncooperative, defiant Iran would be easier to demonize.