But the market for small / light players is vanishing because the number of joggers etc willing to get a dedicated player as well as a smartphone is shrinking.
I actually don't see what you're observing.
I rarely see anyone that is jogging, or at the gym with a large format player (phone, ipod touch)...since they are bulky, and you don't want to drop/break/forget something that $$$, so most people I see have something that is small and clips on like the nano or the shuffle type player.
The exception I do find...is biking outdoors...you do see more phones or the other large format ones...due to the gps tracking and all the apps for that on there....but when riding, you can attach to bike or your pack you have strapped onto you....things you don't generally have when just walking/jogging...or in the confines of the gym.
If you're working, you can pay at least $1-$10 federal tax too.
And no, I don't think you should get tax credits for kids...why? You get a credit for fucking? It isn't like people will stop fucking and reproducing just because there is no longer a tax credit for it.
Besides, that's unfair for those with few or no kids as that they basically are subsidizing YOUR reproduction, you know?
Stop giving welfare. I don't mind a safety net...if you're infirmed, or elderly...fine. If it is temporary...lose job, etc...fine.
But welfare and more tax money returned than paid should not be a continuous way of life.
You can't pay taxes if your income doesnt even cover food, shelter and medical care for you and your dependables but if you're making millions you wont even notice a drop in your living standards even if you paid half of your income in taxes. Taxation aside, US is also spending more on healthcare than any other country while getting worst return-per-dollar of any industrialized nation.
I'm sorry...EVERYONE should have to pay into federal taxation...to have some 'skin in the game' so to speak.
Everyone could at least afford to pay at least $1-$2....and no one should get more money back than they put in.
What? You mean some people in NY think they're smarter than the FDA with regard to the food products they want to consume? That DEFINITELY has to be illegal!
What would be wrong with letting people make that choice for themselves?
If they want to contract directly with a dairy...and get their milk direct from them with no pasteurization (those that own the farms aren't prohibited from consuming their own produced milk that isn't pasteurized).....and accept whatever consequences arise...what's the problem?
It isn't just in NY...there are folks across the nation that have to deal with various state laws concerning this. Some states...people co-op like, and 'buy' shares of a cow on a farm, and since they own the cow, they can get the milk in whatever form they wish, and get around the laws that way.
There are some cheeses that are best with un-pasteurized milk...but you can't import them into the country, and while in some states you can make it...you can't transport it for sale to other states...
But I see nothing wrong with giving adults the ability to decide about their foods, etc.
Not everyone needs permission from nanny to do what they want to do as an adult..
Justice Thomas was only a judge for SIXTEEN MONTHS before he was put on the Supreme Court.
That's just ludicrous to me!
From what I understand..technically you don't have to have been a judge prior to, or even a lawyer at ALL, in order to qualify as a Supreme Ct. Justice.
He's too busy thinking about Anita Hill's tits to bother paying attention to what they're saying in the court room.
Maybe Thomas is still pondering his ruling that allowed Monsanto to patent and basically take over the whole soybean source of production in the US...?
It's absolutely ridiculous that the Courts invoke the idea of "state powers" when it's convenient for them, but at other times insist that Constitutional protections (as per the 14th Amendment) supercede state law. Women have a Constitutional right(even though there is nothing about abortion in The Constitution) to have an abortion that no state can legislate against, but a state law can take precedence over the Fifth Amendment? WTF?
If I recall....the abortion thing was ruled on on the basis of the right to "privacy", not so much the abortion itself, so, in that way, I supposed it overruled the states on that basis?
Everything you just said is true unless you don't care about gay rights, immigrant rights, reproductive rights, civil rights, publicly funded social programs, a modicum of union rights...
Let's see...
Don't care, same as any person's sexual orientation..who cares what you do in the dark? No one should get any special treatment.
Don't care (if they're illegal, they shouldn't be here)
Don't care (what? No one is forcing you to fuck or not fuck...have a little personal responsibility when pulling your pants down, eh?)
Already encoded by constitutional amendment
Don't care
That's my views....but hardly those espoused by Romney and his campaign.
Ask 50 people, "Would you prefer to see ads which advertisers had determined were more-likely to be of interest to you, instead of a random selection of ads?", and report back.
I'd be willing to guess that the majority of that 50 would respond with "I'd prefer to see no ads at all".....
In the USA we have a political party that would never allow such a thing. They would scream about big government and unfair regulation and job creators needing to be protected.
Seems they have taken a clue from Albert Einstein, who supposedly owned 6 or 7 of the exact same brown suits for the same reason - so he wouldn't waste any mental energy with such useless minutiae such as what to wear that day.
If only they had invented GarAnimals earlier....would have made it easier for poor Albert to match his clothes in the morning...and still have some variety.
What the fuck does 'most people' have to do with it?
Well, "most people" usually vote for things that go with their way of life....why are they going to vote to pay and be inconvenienced by a few people out there when it doesn't benefit them?
..or consider implementing a modern and considerate transportation network that doesn't demean people fit enough to get to work without driving a smelly inefficient expensive car.
Nice thought, but why not try to be realistic about it..that's just NOT going to happen.
With the economy the way it is....we're having trouble keeping existing infrastructure up and repaired....think we're going to be able to find extra money for redoing the infrastructure for entire cities (mine is more than 300 yrs old) just to appease a few bicyclists that don't fit the norm of today's lifestyle....which means, in the US, you have at least one car to get where you're going?
I live in Southern Ontario. In the summer, it is not unusual for temperatures to exceed 35C, and humidity to hover around 100%. In the winter, we regularly get snowfalls of 10cm or more, and have temperatures below -15C.
I have no idea how to relate how hot or cold weather is in Celcius.....but guessing that is hot and cold to you.
I know in New Orleans, for a LARGE part of the year...it is easily 95F or greater with humidity close to 100%...I dunno how you do it biking to work, but if I was to bike to work in that, I"d be a stinky, sweat soaked mess, not looking professional at all for work, which just isn't going to work.
That's not including days where it rains all day...2-3" in a city that will have some street flooding everywhere (a bitch in a car, impossible not to be soaked on a bike).
I'm not likely to freeze living down here...but the heat and humidity is a killer...even if I wasn't having to be looking bathed and no a sweat soaked field worker.
The only reason it doesn't get above 100F here that often is..the humidity is TOO HIGH to let it....
I'm guessing you must live quite close to work? I live closer than most I work with to my worksite....and even speeding on non too busy roads (avg 50mph )..it takes me 7-10 minutes. On a bicycle, it would take me 45 minutes or an hour each way....why would I want to do that to myself?
I don't have enough hours n the day to do MY stuff as it is....why waste that much extra time in transit if I don't have to.
Given the logistics in cities, which are you going to ban from the roads - cars, or people?
Not sure where you're going with this...?
Simple answer.....ban people from roads that aren't on motorized vehicles that can keep up to road speeds (usually 35mph is minimum in most cities I've been to).
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I actually don't see what you're observing.
I rarely see anyone that is jogging, or at the gym with a large format player (phone, ipod touch)...since they are bulky, and you don't want to drop/break/forget something that $$$, so most people I see have something that is small and clips on like the nano or the shuffle type player.
The exception I do find...is biking outdoors...you do see more phones or the other large format ones...due to the gps tracking and all the apps for that on there....but when riding, you can attach to bike or your pack you have strapped onto you....things you don't generally have when just walking/jogging...or in the confines of the gym.
No shit.....
"Water Quota"....seriously?!?!?
And no, I don't think you should get tax credits for kids...why? You get a credit for fucking? It isn't like people will stop fucking and reproducing just because there is no longer a tax credit for it.
Besides, that's unfair for those with few or no kids as that they basically are subsidizing YOUR reproduction, you know?
Stop giving welfare. I don't mind a safety net...if you're infirmed, or elderly...fine. If it is temporary...lose job, etc...fine.
But welfare and more tax money returned than paid should not be a continuous way of life.
I'm sorry...EVERYONE should have to pay into federal taxation...to have some 'skin in the game' so to speak.
Everyone could at least afford to pay at least $1-$2....and no one should get more money back than they put in.
What would be wrong with letting people make that choice for themselves?
If they want to contract directly with a dairy...and get their milk direct from them with no pasteurization (those that own the farms aren't prohibited from consuming their own produced milk that isn't pasteurized).....and accept whatever consequences arise...what's the problem?
It isn't just in NY...there are folks across the nation that have to deal with various state laws concerning this. Some states...people co-op like, and 'buy' shares of a cow on a farm, and since they own the cow, they can get the milk in whatever form they wish, and get around the laws that way.
There are some cheeses that are best with un-pasteurized milk...but you can't import them into the country, and while in some states you can make it...you can't transport it for sale to other states...
But I see nothing wrong with giving adults the ability to decide about their foods, etc.
Not everyone needs permission from nanny to do what they want to do as an adult..
From what I understand..technically you don't have to have been a judge prior to, or even a lawyer at ALL, in order to qualify as a Supreme Ct. Justice.
Maybe Thomas is still pondering his ruling that allowed Monsanto to patent and basically take over the whole soybean source of production in the US...?
If I recall....the abortion thing was ruled on on the basis of the right to "privacy", not so much the abortion itself, so, in that way, I supposed it overruled the states on that basis?
Goodness....you're certainly being pessimistic.....
Let's see...
Don't care, same as any person's sexual orientation..who cares what you do in the dark? No one should get any special treatment.
Don't care (if they're illegal, they shouldn't be here)
Don't care (what? No one is forcing you to fuck or not fuck...have a little personal responsibility when pulling your pants down, eh?)
Already encoded by constitutional amendment
Don't care
That's my views....but hardly those espoused by Romney and his campaign.
I've not touched MySql in a long time...not since Oracle took it over at least.
Can you describe in what ways it has been "compromised" by Oracle?
Has no one forked MySql yet?
I have always preferred postgres for more hard core database stuff, but mysql always had its place....
All this time, I thought it was the other thing....
Actually....I really DO miss the April Fools pages....I used to always look forward to wasting a day on /. reading through the 'stupid' AF day stories.
If ya'll are listening out there...please bring them back!!
I thought that was Frost Piss.....err.....
I'd be willing to guess that the majority of that 50 would respond with "I'd prefer to see no ads at all".....
Whew...and Thank Goodness for that!!!!!!!!
If ever we needed such a thing....
I remember, not that many years ago...before there was advertising on web pages and the internet in general.
You know what? It wasn't a bad thing...didn't bother me at all that I didn't have ads, or that I was being tracked.
Nope...didn't miss it at all....
Remember, the Internet and the Web...weren't originally designed to be commercial vehicles....and worked just fine before those came along later.
If only they had invented GarAnimals earlier....would have made it easier for poor Albert to match his clothes in the morning...and still have some variety.
Oh...I sure wish I had mod points!!!
Exactly how would this be a detriment to the users?
Everyone out there that objects to 'not being tracked' for advertisement purposes please raise their hands....
[crickets chirping]
Apples to oranges and all that....
Well, "most people" usually vote for things that go with their way of life....why are they going to vote to pay and be inconvenienced by a few people out there when it doesn't benefit them?
Nice thought, but why not try to be realistic about it..that's just NOT going to happen.
With the economy the way it is....we're having trouble keeping existing infrastructure up and repaired....think we're going to be able to find extra money for redoing the infrastructure for entire cities (mine is more than 300 yrs old) just to appease a few bicyclists that don't fit the norm of today's lifestyle....which means, in the US, you have at least one car to get where you're going?
I have no idea how to relate how hot or cold weather is in Celcius.....but guessing that is hot and cold to you.
I know in New Orleans, for a LARGE part of the year...it is easily 95F or greater with humidity close to 100%...I dunno how you do it biking to work, but if I was to bike to work in that, I"d be a stinky, sweat soaked mess, not looking professional at all for work, which just isn't going to work.
That's not including days where it rains all day...2-3" in a city that will have some street flooding everywhere (a bitch in a car, impossible not to be soaked on a bike).
I'm not likely to freeze living down here...but the heat and humidity is a killer...even if I wasn't having to be looking bathed and no a sweat soaked field worker.
The only reason it doesn't get above 100F here that often is..the humidity is TOO HIGH to let it....
I'm guessing you must live quite close to work? I live closer than most I work with to my worksite....and even speeding on non too busy roads (avg 50mph )..it takes me 7-10 minutes. On a bicycle, it would take me 45 minutes or an hour each way....why would I want to do that to myself?
I don't have enough hours n the day to do MY stuff as it is....why waste that much extra time in transit if I don't have to.
Not sure where you're going with this...?
Simple answer.....ban people from roads that aren't on motorized vehicles that can keep up to road speeds (usually 35mph is minimum in most cities I've been to).
Hey...what she wants to do with her own money...is up to her.
No free rides around this house....