Cash isn't anonymous. Every time you spend cash it eventually gets scanned and the numbers sent to the government. You take cash from the bank, scan. The gas station deposits that money, scan. You might have paid a hooker with it, and then she bought cash- but if they can trace all the other money from the gas station to tourists then it's more likely it was you buying gas.
Uh, you take the hundred dollar bill from the bank teller, then you buy something with it and get change with smaller bills and so on. Notice how your original withdrawal gets lost in the noise?
You let your child travel to the convenience store without adult supervision, without even a phone just in case? You child abuser, you.
Fucking NAZI. When I was growing up, all the kids wandered the neighbourhood without adult supervision until dusk and we turned out just fine. We also walked to the neighbourhood corner store for candy. Namby-pamby fascists like you are what is ruining society. We did not have cell phones either.
Garbage bag filled streets, the smell of garbage, stupid bridge tolls just to get to Manhattan from the airport and rude people. Visiting NYC once was enough for me for a long time. Attention New Yorkers and New York bureaucrats, you are destroying your local economy with your idiotic short sightedness. Nobody wants to visit your city if you are going to make it a horrible experience.
Yes, it does include a freedom "from" religion clause. If you take the time to learn anything about the framers of the Constitution, you'll know that they were dead-set against allowing anything invoking divine authority to creep into the system of law and government which they were creating. Not all of them, but most, and that wisdom, thankfully, carried the day.
What language exactly are you writing in? It appears to be english but you appear to not understand english. I quote the first amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Where in that set of phrases do you see a freedom "from" religion? It enshrines the principle that the "government" can neither establish a state church or prevent the free exercise of any religion. It does nothing to protect atheists from having to live around non-atheists. You have to make that choice yourself and move elsewhere if you don't like your neighbours. It binds the government to prevent them from interfering and it does not grant you any rights as a citizen to lord over others who choose to practice a religion.
Why, because the US is the most socialist country in the West? What planet are you on?
Really high welfare payouts? Check. Significant amount of the GDP on military spending? Check. 1 in 4 of the workforce work for the government? Check. Vast amounts of government subsidized housing? Check.
Seriously, compared to Canada, the US is positively socialism even though republicans like to call Canada socialist/communist.
'Everyone' hates the car dealership, and I do too. But, in my recent, personal experience, they have provided me the benefit of price competition. I needed to lease a car and found the lowest price I could find. I then simply called the 'Internet Department' at each of the local dealerships for this particular model, and just asked if they could beat that price. One guy said he could, and I went to him. I don't know if this is possible with purchasing a Tesla. Can different dealerships set their own prices, or, since the dealership is the manufacturer, is the price the same across any 'dealership' within a given geographical area?
Don't know. Can your boss set your salary on a whim after asking a bunch of random strangers what he should pay you?
If the device has flashing LEDs, bright backlights, etc., OK I see the point. If it simply bothers people that someone in there is a geek, then I'll just wait for someone to ban the gays, the blacks and my favorite annoyance, hipsters.
I don't own the device and it'll be a long time before I'm convinced it wouldn't make me sick, but "We don't want none of your kind here" isn't an emotion I sympathize with from any establishment for any reason.
I don't think you understand the problem. They are not banning them for piracy. They are banning their use for privacy of other patrons. They have to look out for the interests of the majority of their customers.
Konfabulator was written by a guy who worked on Copeland at Apple. Not only did he steal the ideas of widgets from Copeland and Opendoc but he also stole themes from Copeland when he released Kalidescope theme engine for Mac OS 9.
I'm a hiring manager for a Fortune 100 Tech company (my boss reports directly to WW HR VP) and have been told point-blank that all hires must pass the "if all else is nearly equal" rule. In other words, when presented with two applicants who are "nearly" equally qualified for a position, that we are to hire the one that best addresses a minority concern. Period.
So if Jack rates a 9, and Jane rates a 7 in our interview results, Jane will always be hired. Any manager hiring Jack over Jane in this scenario will not be one much longer.
So which racist and misandry company do you work for so we can all avoid buying their products and services? Tell us so none of you can be there much longer.
I really don't understand people who insist that a company should be forced to take a loss before they cut their workforce. It's the cost of being more efficient. Don't like it? get off Slashdot and write a letter to your local newspaper editor. Inefficiency creates jobs and your posting to Slashdot is putting your local newspaper owner, postman and lumberjack out of work. Stop being a hypocrite about it.
Oh, any while you're at it be sure to deliver it down to the drop box in your horse and buggy. Your local whip manufacturer will love you for it.
I don't think you understand how healthy capitalism is supposed to work. Employees of HP are not only providing goods are services but area also potential customers of HP products and services. When you cut and cut and cut, you end up with nobody being able to afford the products your company offers. The lost jobs also have a ripple effect in the local economy. Why don't you stop being a hypocrite. You want to keep your job right? Why should you get to keep yours?
At some point, cutting jobs have a negative effect on your bottom line over the long run.
Amazon sells some books for less than cost and offsets that loss with other higher margin items from their massive selection. It that better than publishers making money selling books at Apple or elsewhere?
If a book is priced at 9.99 at Amazon and 12.99 everywhere else, how long will the "everywhere else" be in the business of selling books (When they don't have the higher margin items that Amazon does)?
I DON'T CARE. Their app on iOS sucks and I have no interest in any sort of kind. I don't live in the US so I don't have a "PRIME" account either. The US DOJ is making things more difficult for non-americans to access content.
You're comparing Apples and Crocodiles. Apple rigged prices with the collusion of the major publishers which is illegal.
I think you are confused. Do you work at the DOJ by any chance. The agency model removed control over pricing from the vendor and gave it to the publishers. That means that Apple had no control over pricing.
>If there is a creator of the universe, why wouldn't he/she/it listen to you?
Because a creator of universes would be very unlikely to take an interest in some animals on one planet in one universe. It takes a massive ego to expect that a god would give a damn about you.
I'd expect them to continue to make universes, not be a petty god that monitors the details of tiny lives like the absurd gods of man's imagination.
Wow. From the tone of your post, you seem to be a firm believer in extra terrestrial life and you have the nerve to critique a belief in god? Your attitude reeks of a low self worth and a low value for humanity in general. You are like a beaten wife of a stockholm syndrome sufferer who no longer thinks they are not worth the attention of a creator. Ironically, you equate the belief in a personal god as requiring a massive ego and yet humility is what is generally required of believers.
You apparently speak out on religion out of a great deal of ignorance. You seem to have almost no knowledge on the matter.
Seriously, your anti-human attitude is repulsive. There is zero evidence of life on any other planet let alone intelligent life and no evidence of other universes either. You seem to have an awful lot of "faith" in things you cannot prove for an atheist.
It is you who seems to have the large ego since you have taken upon yourself to define what a god should be and how that god should act towards humanity.
You are so eloquent. Where did you go to school? Get back to us with a larger vocabulary and avoid using insults and slurs. Then and only then will your opinion be worth hearing.
"people get sick as a consequence of bad behaviour" Ah, circular reasoning FTW. In absence of STDs and Christian morality having bareback sex is not bad behavior anymore, you know.
I think you need to stop using words that you clearly do not understand their meaning. This is not circular reasoning but a matter of your actions having natural consequences. You seem to be engaging in "magical" thinking where because you believe that something is not bad behaviour that somehow the negative consequences of your actions go away. The same consequences exists regardless of what you believe. Your opinion on the matter is irrelevant.
Risky behaviour remains risky no matter how much wishful thinking you engage in. Christian morality simply helps people avoid certain risks and ensure that their behaviour does not negatively affect other people around them especially those they care about. You are free to be an amoral a-hole but your actions will have natural consequences down the road and you will have negatively affected other people that you have interacted with.
You have the mindset of the Christian God.
Mass genocide...hey, it works.
You atheists are funny. You don't believe in god but then you blame god when people get sick as a consequence of bad behaviour. I have a fool proof way to not get HIV. Ready for it? Are you really ready? Ok here it is.
Don't fuck random strangers. Find a life mate who does not have HIV and marry them. Then remain faithful.
Why is this so damn hard for people to understand? Your choices often have consequences. Make the right choices in life.
A friend of mine would scold me for not scolding you about the difference between gender and sex.
Uh, in the natural state, they are the same thing. You have to apply technology to making someone appear a different gender on the outside sort of but you cannot change their sex. The reality is that everyone can tell the difference between a natural woman and a transexual. It is blindingly obvious and no amount of facial surgery can change that.
The Dr. Dre headphones are crap. They have a plastic headband that will crack at random intervals of use. The executive ones have a metal band but it takes disposable batteries and only work when you have the noise cancelling turned on.
If Apple does buy them, they should replace the plastic bands on the other models with metal with leather cushion like what you find on the Executive. For the price they share, they should not break during normal use within a year.
I had a pair of Dr. Dre Wireless break on me after a 4 months of normal use after returning from a business trip to DC. The headband snapped on me.
I am saving a tonne of money by having officially unlocked my iPhone 5S from another carrier where I was paying 90 bucks a month for a paltry amount of data per month. Now I pay 39 bucks per month for unlimited everything in Canada and the US. Even with having to pay off the device balance, the unlock fee (50 bucks), I am going to save hundreds of dollars of the remainder of time that I would have paid if I had stayed on my contract with that other carrier. I am saving even more by not having to pay roaming fees when I cross the border.
When I eventually do upgrade, I will not be buying an iPhone subsidized but rather I will buy one directly from Apple. That way, I can choose the best carrier available at the time and save a lot of money over the long haul.
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Cash isn't anonymous. Every time you spend cash it eventually gets scanned and the numbers sent to the government. You take cash from the bank, scan. The gas station deposits that money, scan. You might have paid a hooker with it, and then she bought cash- but if they can trace all the other money from the gas station to tourists then it's more likely it was you buying gas.
Uh, you take the hundred dollar bill from the bank teller, then you buy something with it and get change with smaller bills and so on. Notice how your original withdrawal gets lost in the noise?
You let your child travel to the convenience store without adult supervision, without even a phone just in case? You child abuser, you.
Fucking NAZI. When I was growing up, all the kids wandered the neighbourhood without adult supervision until dusk and we turned out just fine. We also walked to the neighbourhood corner store for candy. Namby-pamby fascists like you are what is ruining society. We did not have cell phones either.
You're still perfectly able to not use cash, but why do you insist that the rest of us follow along?
because it's impractical for some to take cash, so I am "forced" to use cash for some transactions.
You might like to be sodomized by the man but let the rest of live free. Do you want to be the bitch of big brother or something?
Garbage bag filled streets, the smell of garbage, stupid bridge tolls just to get to Manhattan from the airport and rude people. Visiting NYC once was enough for me for a long time. Attention New Yorkers and New York bureaucrats, you are destroying your local economy with your idiotic short sightedness. Nobody wants to visit your city if you are going to make it a horrible experience.
Yes, it does include a freedom "from" religion clause. If you take the time to learn anything about the framers of the Constitution, you'll know that they were dead-set against allowing anything invoking divine authority to creep into the system of law and government which they were creating. Not all of them, but most, and that wisdom, thankfully, carried the day.
What language exactly are you writing in? It appears to be english but you appear to not understand english. I quote the first amendment.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
Where in that set of phrases do you see a freedom "from" religion? It enshrines the principle that the "government" can neither establish a state church or prevent the free exercise of any religion. It does nothing to protect atheists from having to live around non-atheists. You have to make that choice yourself and move elsewhere if you don't like your neighbours. It binds the government to prevent them from interfering and it does not grant you any rights as a citizen to lord over others who choose to practice a religion.
Why, because the US is the most socialist country in the West? What planet are you on?
Really high welfare payouts? Check. Significant amount of the GDP on military spending? Check. 1 in 4 of the workforce work for the government? Check. Vast amounts of government subsidized housing? Check.
Seriously, compared to Canada, the US is positively socialism even though republicans like to call Canada socialist/communist.
In Hawaii, you can get 60k on welfare.
'Everyone' hates the car dealership, and I do too. But, in my recent, personal experience, they have provided me the benefit of price competition. I needed to lease a car and found the lowest price I could find. I then simply called the 'Internet Department' at each of the local dealerships for this particular model, and just asked if they could beat that price. One guy said he could, and I went to him. I don't know if this is possible with purchasing a Tesla. Can different dealerships set their own prices, or, since the dealership is the manufacturer, is the price the same across any 'dealership' within a given geographical area?
Don't know. Can your boss set your salary on a whim after asking a bunch of random strangers what he should pay you?
They are banning their use for privacy of other patrons.
Their other patrons expect privacy in a public place? I bet the cinema has plenty of surveillance cameras already aiming at those patrons.
They expect privacy in the sense that there would be nobody (other patrons) taking photos or video of them within the theatre.
If the device has flashing LEDs, bright backlights, etc., OK I see the point. If it simply bothers people that someone in there is a geek, then I'll just wait for someone to ban the gays, the blacks and my favorite annoyance, hipsters.
I don't own the device and it'll be a long time before I'm convinced it wouldn't make me sick, but "We don't want none of your kind here" isn't an emotion I sympathize with from any establishment for any reason.
I don't think you understand the problem. They are not banning them for piracy. They are banning their use for privacy of other patrons. They have to look out for the interests of the majority of their customers.
It does if they want my continued business.
Obviously, they don't consider the glasshole demographic to be worth the effort to target. In a nutshell, they don't want your business.
Konfabulator.
Idiot.
Konfabulator was written by a guy who worked on Copeland at Apple. Not only did he steal the ideas of widgets from Copeland and Opendoc but he also stole themes from Copeland when he released Kalidescope theme engine for Mac OS 9.
Yeah, the administration is full of traitors and not the guy who leaked information on US spying operations abroad.
Right, because the current administration never leaked information on US spying operations abroad. Nope. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...
I'm a hiring manager for a Fortune 100 Tech company (my boss reports directly to WW HR VP) and have been told point-blank that all hires must pass the "if all else is nearly equal" rule. In other words, when presented with two applicants who are "nearly" equally qualified for a position, that we are to hire the one that best addresses a minority concern. Period.
So if Jack rates a 9, and Jane rates a 7 in our interview results, Jane will always be hired. Any manager hiring Jack over Jane in this scenario will not be one much longer.
So which racist and misandry company do you work for so we can all avoid buying their products and services? Tell us so none of you can be there much longer.
Should kids be allowed to ride trains/metros all by themselves? Same answer.
Trains in Vancouver are driverless and have been that way since their introduction in 1986. Oh the humanity.
no. the idea of an autonomous vehicle with no possible driver to override it is just plain stupid.
The idea of requiring a driver's license to "ride" in an autonomous car is stupid. What's the point if you need to be able to drive?
I really don't understand people who insist that a company should be forced to take a loss before they cut their workforce. It's the cost of being more efficient. Don't like it? get off Slashdot and write a letter to your local newspaper editor. Inefficiency creates jobs and your posting to Slashdot is putting your local newspaper owner, postman and lumberjack out of work. Stop being a hypocrite about it. Oh, any while you're at it be sure to deliver it down to the drop box in your horse and buggy. Your local whip manufacturer will love you for it.
I don't think you understand how healthy capitalism is supposed to work. Employees of HP are not only providing goods are services but area also potential customers of HP products and services. When you cut and cut and cut, you end up with nobody being able to afford the products your company offers. The lost jobs also have a ripple effect in the local economy. Why don't you stop being a hypocrite. You want to keep your job right? Why should you get to keep yours?
At some point, cutting jobs have a negative effect on your bottom line over the long run.
Amazon sells some books for less than cost and offsets that loss with other higher margin items from their massive selection. It that better than publishers making money selling books at Apple or elsewhere?
If a book is priced at 9.99 at Amazon and 12.99 everywhere else, how long will the "everywhere else" be in the business of selling books (When they don't have the higher margin items that Amazon does)?
I DON'T CARE. Their app on iOS sucks and I have no interest in any sort of kind. I don't live in the US so I don't have a "PRIME" account either. The US DOJ is making things more difficult for non-americans to access content.
You're comparing Apples and Crocodiles. Apple rigged prices with the collusion of the major publishers which is illegal.
I think you are confused. Do you work at the DOJ by any chance. The agency model removed control over pricing from the vendor and gave it to the publishers. That means that Apple had no control over pricing.
>If there is a creator of the universe, why wouldn't he/she/it listen to you? Because a creator of universes would be very unlikely to take an interest in some animals on one planet in one universe. It takes a massive ego to expect that a god would give a damn about you. I'd expect them to continue to make universes, not be a petty god that monitors the details of tiny lives like the absurd gods of man's imagination.
Wow. From the tone of your post, you seem to be a firm believer in extra terrestrial life and you have the nerve to critique a belief in god? Your attitude reeks of a low self worth and a low value for humanity in general. You are like a beaten wife of a stockholm syndrome sufferer who no longer thinks they are not worth the attention of a creator. Ironically, you equate the belief in a personal god as requiring a massive ego and yet humility is what is generally required of believers.
You apparently speak out on religion out of a great deal of ignorance. You seem to have almost no knowledge on the matter.
Seriously, your anti-human attitude is repulsive. There is zero evidence of life on any other planet let alone intelligent life and no evidence of other universes either. You seem to have an awful lot of "faith" in things you cannot prove for an atheist.
It is you who seems to have the large ego since you have taken upon yourself to define what a god should be and how that god should act towards humanity.
You forgot The Book of Mormon and a few others.
Guess I should had only mentioned one.
Then I could have said "THOSE ARE ALL WRONG!"
Damn religinuts are retarded.
You are so eloquent. Where did you go to school? Get back to us with a larger vocabulary and avoid using insults and slurs. Then and only then will your opinion be worth hearing.
"people get sick as a consequence of bad behaviour" Ah, circular reasoning FTW. In absence of STDs and Christian morality having bareback sex is not bad behavior anymore, you know.
I think you need to stop using words that you clearly do not understand their meaning. This is not circular reasoning but a matter of your actions having natural consequences. You seem to be engaging in "magical" thinking where because you believe that something is not bad behaviour that somehow the negative consequences of your actions go away. The same consequences exists regardless of what you believe. Your opinion on the matter is irrelevant.
Risky behaviour remains risky no matter how much wishful thinking you engage in. Christian morality simply helps people avoid certain risks and ensure that their behaviour does not negatively affect other people around them especially those they care about. You are free to be an amoral a-hole but your actions will have natural consequences down the road and you will have negatively affected other people that you have interacted with.
You have the mindset of the Christian God. Mass genocide...hey, it works.
You atheists are funny. You don't believe in god but then you blame god when people get sick as a consequence of bad behaviour. I have a fool proof way to not get HIV. Ready for it? Are you really ready? Ok here it is.
Don't fuck random strangers. Find a life mate who does not have HIV and marry them. Then remain faithful.
Why is this so damn hard for people to understand? Your choices often have consequences. Make the right choices in life.
A friend of mine would scold me for not scolding you about the difference between gender and sex.
Uh, in the natural state, they are the same thing. You have to apply technology to making someone appear a different gender on the outside sort of but you cannot change their sex. The reality is that everyone can tell the difference between a natural woman and a transexual. It is blindingly obvious and no amount of facial surgery can change that.
If Apple does buy them, they should replace the plastic bands on the other models with metal with leather cushion like what you find on the Executive. For the price they share, they should not break during normal use within a year.
I had a pair of Dr. Dre Wireless break on me after a 4 months of normal use after returning from a business trip to DC. The headband snapped on me.
When I eventually do upgrade, I will not be buying an iPhone subsidized but rather I will buy one directly from Apple. That way, I can choose the best carrier available at the time and save a lot of money over the long haul.
Always consider the long term cost of ownership.