Apple needs to start asking it's customers if they are smokers BEFORE selling them the product, and refusing to offer it to smokers BEFORE taking the cusomer's money. In fact they should put this in all of their marketing materials. To do less is pretty fraudulent. If they are not going to honor the warranty based on the habit of smoking, then they should have to refund the price of the machine and any extended warranty that was purchased.
Apple doesn't want to subject their techs to tobacco smoke residue? Fine, stop taking money from smokers and give back what it has already taken. It's that simple.
Do you think a smoking customer would buy Apple's product knowing that the warranty would be void as soon as they light up a smoke?
I wouldn't, but then I don't "think diffrent" like those Apple users claim to.
"Heck, I'd say you've solved the age-old Problem of Evil: an omnipotent and loving God did make an eternal utopia for his creations to live in... then some asshole went back in time and screwed it all up, and here we are!"
I think you have left out one of the legs of the tripod. The "problem of evil" involves an all loving, all knowing, all powerfull being. If there was an asshole going back to screw it all up, then the all knowing god should know about it. If that god can't do anything about it, then he's not all powerfull. If the god refuses to do anything about it then it's not all good. And if the asshole goes undetected, then the god's not all knowing.
"the Prius drivers have more of an impact on the roads because they can drive much further (and cause much more wear on the roads) than the Hummer drivers."
The Prius weighs in at just over 3000 lbs, the Hummer H3 at just over 6000. How is the Prius with it's smaller wheels and less weight going to do MORE damage to roads no matter how far they drive? Seems like the way to measure the damage is per mile right, not vehicle range?
Still, I bet it would suck to have spent several thousand dollars more than you could afford buying gifts for xmas, expecting the traditional several thousand dollar bonus (you had been getting) to cover it.
Beer AND cocktails AND people flailing around? Beer and flailing, ok. Cocktails and flailing, ok. Beer and cocktails and trying not to move around too much, ok if you must. But all three together is just asking for trouble.
Your house must smell like puke a lot of the time.
"I get such a kick out of those who will say cell phones for extended periods are "probably unsafe" and then talk on a 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz cordless phone for hours on end."
I get a similar kick out of those who assume they know the living habits of people they have never met. Or maybe you are just peeking in the wrong window?
My hat's off to you though for having such a strong passion about this. 25 posts in just over an hour, impressive. I was bored by the time I finished my first one. I wouldn't have bothered at all if it weren't for the bad car analogy. Those are always fun.
"I don't know that the guy driving next to me on the highway is dangerous, but I don't know if he's safe either. Therefore the only logical solution is to NOT drive on the highway."
Actually I think the solution in that case is to drive as if the driver next to you COULD BE dangerous. Because indeed he could be dangerous, if he is safe then you are still covered.
I think that folks who have long conversations on a cell do take some risk, I can't prove it, but hey, it's your brain.
Keep in mind though that big business was able to keep findings about the risks of tobacco out of the public media for very very long time. Don't ask me how, but we all know why. It would be silly think there is less at stake for the cell industry, or that they would not take similar steps to protect their intrests.
You can relax though, I don't think the big bad Doctor is going to come to pry the phone from your cold dead fingers.
The thing is, I don't presume to know it well enough to knock on your door (at 9:00 am) and tell you that my literary club knows it well enough that you should come and hang out there and support our reading habits. I do not have a particular version of the dictionary and set of words that I think should and should not be used everyday, nor do I think that people who do or don't use or misuse those words should or will be sent to a place where they will be punnished FOREVER for not using them.
And anyway the "full and perfect understanding" bit wasn't mine it was the parent posters. I was just looking for a fuller and more perfect understanding of just what the hell they were talking about.
Hard to say really. I don't meet a whole lot of scientists, and none have ever come to my door to tell me about relativity and invite me to their lab to study it. Now christians on the other hand...
(And then, there are some of us who believe that, even if you had the originals and were fluent in the original language, you'd still have to read under inspiration from God to get a full and perfect understanding of the text.)
So there are almost no christians who have a perfect understanding of the text? I mean if the language requirement cuts out a huge percentage of readers, and then they would have to not only feel the inpiration to read for perfect understanding, but also have access to the text at the time of inspiration. How many christians could that possibly be?
I live in a small rural town in the midwest FULL of christians (more than two dozen churches) who think they have a true understanding of the word. So out of 9,000 people, how many could really know what they say they know? Why are the rest of them fooling themselves?
What are the odds that the ones who knock at my door have a clue?
Upon second look it seems the GP didn't read RTFA. Point is we DO need a game mode, in a BIG way. And I can't stand consoles, which seem to be killing off releases for the PC. We need a game mode and a good 360 emmulator. Maybe we will actually get the former, not holding my breath for the latter.
"Why can I not install the most basic framework of the OS and DX in order to utilize all available resources of my rig?
You can - Microsoft sells that under the name "XBox"."
Excuse me but the poster said "MY (his presonal) RIG", not "THEIR (microsoft's) RIG".
My guess is that HIS RIG is a custom made upgradable system, that can actually run games better than an overpriced console. One that can do other things that people have computers for also. Like many of us, he seems to find keeping a nice current PC desirable, and also having a low end entertainment rig redundant.
But since the topic is scifi"&"fantasy I suggest the Christopher Stacheff Books in the Warlock series. It's about a space "secret agent" who is sent to a world where magic appears to be a real phenomenon. Witches, shapeshifters, robots and rayguns. Its great stuff.
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Apple needs to start asking it's customers if they are smokers BEFORE selling them the product, and refusing to offer it to smokers BEFORE taking the cusomer's money. In fact they should put this in all of their marketing materials. To do less is pretty fraudulent. If they are not going to honor the warranty based on the habit of smoking, then they should have to refund the price of the machine and any extended warranty that was purchased.
Apple doesn't want to subject their techs to tobacco smoke residue? Fine, stop taking money from smokers and give back what it has already taken. It's that simple.
Do you think a smoking customer would buy Apple's product knowing that the warranty would be void as soon as they light up a smoke?
I wouldn't, but then I don't "think diffrent" like those Apple users claim to.
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Suppose the only two that a person likes on your lists are, watering the pot plants and adultry. What then?
Or in the case of a lot of "christians" in the military command structure we hear about, singing and talking to God, pilaging and torture?
How long are these lists, how many of them are there, who writes or edits them and where can I get a copy?
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They got the press coverage without the kid. The "schrodingers kid" was only a "potential child" in the balloon.
Either "The case looks like a prop from 2001" or "It's absolutely unlike anything I've ever seen before."
Make up your mind.
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"Heck, I'd say you've solved the age-old Problem of Evil: an omnipotent and loving God did make an eternal utopia for his creations to live in ... then some asshole went back in time and screwed it all up, and here we are!"
I think you have left out one of the legs of the tripod. The "problem of evil" involves an all loving, all knowing, all powerfull being. If there was an asshole going back to screw it all up, then the all knowing god should know about it. If that god can't do anything about it, then he's not all powerfull. If the god refuses to do anything about it then it's not all good. And if the asshole goes undetected, then the god's not all knowing.
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"What happened to the can-do, damn-the-torpedoes attitude that got us to the moon?"
It got outsourced to China?
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"the Prius drivers have more of an impact on the roads because they can drive much further (and cause much more wear on the roads) than the Hummer drivers."
The Prius weighs in at just over 3000 lbs, the Hummer H3 at just over 6000. How is the Prius with it's smaller wheels and less weight going to do MORE damage to roads no matter how far they drive? Seems like the way to measure the damage is per mile right, not vehicle range?
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Louis Armstrong was a jazz musician, Neil Armstron is the astronaut you are thinking of.
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"What does God need with a solar array?" J.T. Kirk
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Their just afraid someone will get drunk and do something really, really stupid..... like install Linux!
Or maybe throw some chairs?
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Still, I bet it would suck to have spent several thousand dollars more than you could afford buying gifts for xmas, expecting the traditional several thousand dollar bonus (you had been getting) to cover it.
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Oh, you just hold it. My bad. Around here we drink it when it is served.
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Beer AND cocktails AND people flailing around? Beer and flailing, ok. Cocktails and flailing, ok. Beer and cocktails and trying not to move around too much, ok if you must. But all three together is just asking for trouble.
Your house must smell like puke a lot of the time.
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"I get such a kick out of those who will say cell phones for extended periods are "probably unsafe" and then talk on a 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz or 5.8 GHz cordless phone for hours on end."
I get a similar kick out of those who assume they know the living habits of people they have never met. Or maybe you are just peeking in the wrong window?
My hat's off to you though for having such a strong passion about this. 25 posts in just over an hour, impressive. I was bored by the time I finished my first one. I wouldn't have bothered at all if it weren't for the bad car analogy. Those are always fun.
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"I don't know that the guy driving next to me on the highway is dangerous, but I don't know if he's safe either. Therefore the only logical solution is to NOT drive on the highway."
Actually I think the solution in that case is to drive as if the driver next to you COULD BE dangerous. Because indeed he could be dangerous, if he is safe then you are still covered.
I think that folks who have long conversations on a cell do take some risk, I can't prove it, but hey, it's your brain.
Keep in mind though that big business was able to keep findings about the risks of tobacco out of the public media for very very long time. Don't ask me how, but we all know why. It would be silly think there is less at stake for the cell industry, or that they would not take similar steps to protect their intrests.
You can relax though, I don't think the big bad Doctor is going to come to pry the phone from your cold dead fingers.
C.
The thing is, I don't presume to know it well enough to knock on your door (at 9:00 am) and tell you that my literary club knows it well enough that you should come and hang out there and support our reading habits. I do not have a particular version of the dictionary and set of words that I think should and should not be used everyday, nor do I think that people who do or don't use or misuse those words should or will be sent to a place where they will be punnished FOREVER for not using them.
And anyway the "full and perfect understanding" bit wasn't mine it was the parent posters. I was just looking for a fuller and more perfect understanding of just what the hell they were talking about.
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Hard to say really. I don't meet a whole lot of scientists, and none have ever come to my door to tell me about relativity and invite me to their lab to study it. Now christians on the other hand...
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(And then, there are some of us who believe that, even if you had the originals and were fluent in the original language, you'd still have to read under inspiration from God to get a full and perfect understanding of the text.)
So there are almost no christians who have a perfect understanding of the text? I mean if the language requirement cuts out a huge percentage of readers, and then they would have to not only feel the inpiration to read for perfect understanding, but also have access to the text at the time of inspiration. How many christians could that possibly be?
I live in a small rural town in the midwest FULL of christians (more than two dozen churches) who think they have a true understanding of the word. So out of 9,000 people, how many could really know what they say they know? Why are the rest of them fooling themselves?
What are the odds that the ones who knock at my door have a clue?
And how can I tell the difference?
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We're doomed.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2102493327413792072
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Upon second look it seems the GP didn't read RTFA. Point is we DO need a game mode, in a BIG way. And I can't stand consoles, which seem to be killing off releases for the PC. We need a game mode and a good 360 emmulator. Maybe we will actually get the former, not holding my breath for the latter.
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If you RTFA you will see that the discussion is about a stripped down MODE for games, not a stripped down VERSION.
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"Why can I not install the most basic framework of the OS and DX in order to utilize all available resources of my rig?
You can - Microsoft sells that under the name "XBox"."
Excuse me but the poster said "MY (his presonal) RIG", not "THEIR (microsoft's) RIG".
My guess is that HIS RIG is a custom made upgradable system, that can actually run games better than an overpriced console. One that can do other things that people have computers for also. Like many of us, he seems to find keeping a nice current PC desirable, and also having a low end entertainment rig redundant.
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That was on the first page, not that you can see it now, it's totally shashdotted.
I only got as far as page two before the server choked.
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Damnit, Intended to post without karma bonus, not AC.
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Addams and Tolkien Great choices.
But since the topic is scifi"&"fantasy I suggest the Christopher Stacheff Books in the Warlock series. It's about a space "secret agent" who is sent to a world where magic appears to be a real phenomenon. Witches, shapeshifters, robots and rayguns. Its great stuff.
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/christopher-stasheff/
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