If I walk into a place with 100 grand and walk out with 110 grand, I won ten grand. You can wax as philosophic as you like, but the fact remains gambling and earning profit from it is how most folks would define "winning." The fact the house ALWAYS wins in the end only reinforces the point I just made.
Am 47 fucking years old. How old are you? You do not think life is the great educator?
I bet you're like 22. Probably still in school and brainwashed by "women's studies" classes.
Maybe not - maybe you're older... so lessee, why don't you discount the points I made? Your assertions I am wrong are meaningless when you give no effort at all toward discounting the proofs given; the agenda of feminism is to equate thoughts to an actual crime.
Oh, but you can't remove all those posts from the internet, can you? The editorials, the comments made by the legislators, the comments made by the pundits back when the first of the child porn laws were passed under the Clinton administration? Or the FACT our kids have become a revenue source to the drug industry by playing upon this fetishism of the american child?
"It takes a village." Yeah, fuck off - our kids are not your kids.
How many of those people are the "slow players?" There are a few high rollers in any given casino and the fact they are treated well is simple logic - but those high rollers can also win and the house has to cover it. How do they cover it? On all those "slow players."
Why do you think casinos have player's clubs? There's not a casino around that doesn't offer perks of some sort and there are scads of people who exchange info on these perks and use that info in selecting their next vacation destination. Retirees sometimes count in that lot but as often as not don't.
Those "slow gamblers" are the bread and butter. They're the people willing to write off 50 or 100 bucks as "entertainment expenses" and will leave happy and return first chance they get so long as they have a full belly from a cheap dinner, or a nice buzz from the cheap booze, or just a good attitude brought on by the hours of fun and the good floor show they watched while they played.
People become addicted to gambling and lose sight of reality. This is no different than any other addiction. You can't make other people's weakness your problem or you'll never work again - I can't work in food services cuz fat people will get fatter; I can't work in medicine because people use hospitals to seek drugs and avoid work; I can't work in the engineering sector because someone might use my project for stealing data or swapping kiddy porn or whatever.
Gambling is entertainment. I know dozens of people who love to gamble and venture from time to time to the casinos. Not one of them leaves for the casino expecting anything but a full belly and a good time. It's not a problem for a single one of them - save for most are too poor due to the aftereffects of king george's collapsed economy to play as often as they'd like.
Back in 2000 I was denied unemployment benefits because I made the mistake of telling the interviewer I had tried to get some contract positions. Never mind that I DIDN'T GET THEM, simply the fact I was now "an independent contractor" meant I was employed.
Never tell them anything. No, woe si me; I'm unemployed and unemployable, I simply don't know what I am going to do...
Why is feminism on dev teams even an issue? Most of this stuff is done via electronic exchanges where gender, race, or even weight or height issues can only become an issue if someone DECIDES to make it an issue. I've been doing this nonsense two decades now and I have never even considered the gender or race of the person I was communicating with unless that person had already chosen to make known their agenda.
Feminism has a history of being anti-male, and that agenda has had GREAT detrimental influence upon this culture. From child porn laws (go back 15 years and see just how many of the warnings about those laws perverting our culture have come to pass in spades) to the way our boys (and increasingly our girls) are drugged most of the way through school simply because of their otherwise normal juvenile hormonal and brain functions, the feminist agenda has proven itself a menace to whatever society it touches.
We can only accept so much "protection" before we delve into "revolution" once the people realize they are being "protected" right out of their ability to participate in society. Gift cards might be a "loophole" for them mean and evil "terrists" but the fact is those folks are gonna get money no matter what - but without the ability for POOR PEOPLE who have zero credit and no bank accounts to participate in society the folks on Pennsylvania Ave would end up with way more to worry about than a handful of radical nutcases.
We have become a culture of plastic money. Financially deprived people need access to that plastic as well.
Peolpe will use it because it's there. And now because office is "free" with their new computer they will have no reason to pirate it and every reason to use it, thus deepening the MS monopoly on the desktop.
But you're doing the same thing I am - making a statement of fact that defies the beliefs of these fruits.. and loiok at the result. Even here, saying anything negative about Apple begets what? -1, troll.
Now I remember why I gave up these discussions so many months ago.
Apple doesn't even MAKE PCs - just ask any applehead and they'll tell you "I don't use a PC" or "I have an Apple AND a PC." Apple does not have a monopoly on PCs, but Apple does have a monopoly on the platform. How long could Microsoft get away with saying you can't run Windows on any PC you didn't buy from us? There's definitely a double standard going on there.
Cloning a mainframe doesn't mean cloning the operating system. Cloning a mac doesn't mean cloning the OS - I can make a workalike mac but apple still wont license me the software. Game machines have built in non portable operating systems. XB360s have operating systems married to their disc drives! In order to clone a game machine I'd have to clone the built in operating system which cannot be done due to copyright restrictions.
What I find interesting is how someone can make a workalike mainframe without violating IBM patents on some CPU/management/I/Oprocessing hardware. AMD and Cyrix have been able to "clone" Intel functionality only because of past agreements and licensing deals and lawsuits.
Imagine a giant penis flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant penis. But then, at the last moment, it changes trajectory and hits you in the eye. You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way", but then the giant penis rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant penis is penetrating your gray matter, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills. That's when the giant penis slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant penis finally lodges itself in your anus, where it rests uncomfortably for 4, maybe 5 hours. That's what playing Final Fantasy 8 is like.
Now, let me ask YOU this: can YOUR whiny ass carry a pack of shingles up a ladder in 100 degree sun? Have you ever even been ON a roof?
Contractors are responsible for the contracts, not the roofers. It's not the greasy, sunburnt guys working their asses off who steal your money - it's the well dressed fellow sitting in the truck watching them work who takes your money.
That said, I don't think any of you have read TFA. These are thin film shingles. There are demo videos on youtube - you can see them press holes in the shingles, even drive nails through them and they still work just fine. These are not silicon and glass, they are thin film on some sort of flexible substrate. And it's about time.
I write too. Are you paid by a publisher? If so, you're polishing the handrails on the titanic - just like those old school rock stars and wannabe rock stars.
What most creative types don't seem to get is there's no reason for them to exist. There's so muc recorded music already if there were no more new artists we'd still have mroe music available than any of us can listen to in a lifetime. Same thing with books.
Artists communicate. Your job is to communicate. The enemy of an artist is not piracy, it's obscurity. Publishers are your enemy, not your enabler. People do not buy shit from publishers because they want to they do it because they formerly HAD to - publishers created an artificial scarcity by keeping most artists in obscurity. Once you have someone who CHOOSES to listen to you - and that's how virtually all art works - they will "support" you to the best of their ability. Fans want to be connected to their artists - this is where publishers seek to interject themselves in order to extract value.
If you're a creative type still thinking in terms of a publisher, you're screwed. Give the people who appreciate you what they want, and they'll support you - it's that simple.
My house burned down about a year ago. I lost everything. I now have a stack of old BYTE magazines and a copy of the Scelbi/BYTE primer sitting on my shelf. It's not because there's "information" in them - the "information" was obsolete two decades ago. It's because there's creative content in them I can't find elsewhere and I love having this "souvenir" of my youth. Among the things I miss most are my EPs of "Holland Tunnel Dive" and the Detroit band "Shock Therapy." Why? I can download the content, but they don't have the value to me of the records. It has nothign to do with content and everything to do with being something tangible. However, if I had never heard either of these bands those now destroyed records would mean nothing to me - get it?
So you're saying Apple is behind this new technology coming from intel at their behest but it's all part of a scheme to devise a new technology that will get intel to compete with... intel?
Man, you must REALLY think Steve Jobs is clever! Imagine, getting intel to go into competition with itself!
Slavery? Get a grip. What we have NOW is fascism - how is socialism any worse? What we have now is corporations running unfettered through society keeping us addicted to whatever they can keep legal while our health disintegrates - which they then try to patch up by selling us even more shit to fix the problems THEIR SHIT CAUSED. And when someone can't pay for their shit who pays for it?
YOU AND ME.
Every time we go to the hospital and pay 500 bucks for an ER visit, 50 bucks for an aspirin, 5 grand for an operating room and 8 grand for an anaesthesiologist.
Being held accountable for your behavior toward society is not socialism, it's what freaking Jefferson wrote about.
Dunno about windows, but ubuntu certainly does. They invested considerable resources into improving the startup procedure so that it runs as asynchronously as possible, thereby allowing each process to run in its own thread and/or core.
And because it's all globally identifiable with unique addresses there is no problem for the refrigerator company to turn off your fridge when u miss the payment or he warranty lapses, the media companies to track EXACTLY what you watch and when via your dvr - and to disable THAT because they don't like you watching this movie that seems to have no unique identifier and therefore must have been "pirated," and because it's all wifi and operates in the whitespace bands it can connect to the net from pretty much any location in the EU or the US meaning your "right to ownership" of virtually everything has just been revoked.
I had an appendectomy a while back. If I had not had it, I would now be dead. So the next time you have a common ailment that was life threatening nary a century ago, maybe you should think twice before heading to the hospital? Think of the good of the species!
Duh. Humans have evolved brains making them capable of advanced thought and self awareness. This makes us as a species less bound by those frailties that follow dogs, insects, cows, rats, sheep and even whales (who, even if they do have great brains, have no hands to allow them to build stuff).
Of course we are evolving - just like all the other species. Part of our evolution is technology. This is both a genetic weakness and a strength - no different than similar strengths and weaknesses found in dogs, insects, cows, rats, whales and flowers.
There is a popular dance fitness program that started in Chile. Because the program is meant to appeal to ALL ages and get them involved it often features preteen dancers. But posting one of these videos - from a Chile TELEVISION program - will get you banned from Youtube in a heartbeat for violating their TOS (inappropriate). I don't see how this is any different - Youtube is trying to keep up a "clean cut" appearance by filtering to a lowest common denominator.
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If I walk into a place with 100 grand and walk out with 110 grand, I won ten grand. You can wax as philosophic as you like, but the fact remains gambling and earning profit from it is how most folks would define "winning." The fact the house ALWAYS wins in the end only reinforces the point I just made.
Am 47 fucking years old. How old are you? You do not think life is the great educator?
I bet you're like 22. Probably still in school and brainwashed by "women's studies" classes.
Maybe not - maybe you're older... so lessee, why don't you discount the points I made? Your assertions I am wrong are meaningless when you give no effort at all toward discounting the proofs given; the agenda of feminism is to equate thoughts to an actual crime.
Oh, but you can't remove all those posts from the internet, can you? The editorials, the comments made by the legislators, the comments made by the pundits back when the first of the child porn laws were passed under the Clinton administration? Or the FACT our kids have become a revenue source to the drug industry by playing upon this fetishism of the american child?
"It takes a village." Yeah, fuck off - our kids are not your kids.
There's more women than men, you poor brainwashed fool.
How many of those people are the "slow players?" There are a few high rollers in any given casino and the fact they are treated well is simple logic - but those high rollers can also win and the house has to cover it. How do they cover it? On all those "slow players."
Why do you think casinos have player's clubs? There's not a casino around that doesn't offer perks of some sort and there are scads of people who exchange info on these perks and use that info in selecting their next vacation destination. Retirees sometimes count in that lot but as often as not don't.
Those "slow gamblers" are the bread and butter. They're the people willing to write off 50 or 100 bucks as "entertainment expenses" and will leave happy and return first chance they get so long as they have a full belly from a cheap dinner, or a nice buzz from the cheap booze, or just a good attitude brought on by the hours of fun and the good floor show they watched while they played.
People become addicted to gambling and lose sight of reality. This is no different than any other addiction. You can't make other people's weakness your problem or you'll never work again - I can't work in food services cuz fat people will get fatter; I can't work in medicine because people use hospitals to seek drugs and avoid work; I can't work in the engineering sector because someone might use my project for stealing data or swapping kiddy porn or whatever.
Gambling is entertainment. I know dozens of people who love to gamble and venture from time to time to the casinos. Not one of them leaves for the casino expecting anything but a full belly and a good time. It's not a problem for a single one of them - save for most are too poor due to the aftereffects of king george's collapsed economy to play as often as they'd like.
Back in 2000 I was denied unemployment benefits because I made the mistake of telling the interviewer I had tried to get some contract positions. Never mind that I DIDN'T GET THEM, simply the fact I was now "an independent contractor" meant I was employed.
Never tell them anything. No, woe si me; I'm unemployed and unemployable, I simply don't know what I am going to do...
Why is feminism on dev teams even an issue? Most of this stuff is done via electronic exchanges where gender, race, or even weight or height issues can only become an issue if someone DECIDES to make it an issue. I've been doing this nonsense two decades now and I have never even considered the gender or race of the person I was communicating with unless that person had already chosen to make known their agenda.
Feminism has a history of being anti-male, and that agenda has had GREAT detrimental influence upon this culture. From child porn laws (go back 15 years and see just how many of the warnings about those laws perverting our culture have come to pass in spades) to the way our boys (and increasingly our girls) are drugged most of the way through school simply because of their otherwise normal juvenile hormonal and brain functions, the feminist agenda has proven itself a menace to whatever society it touches.
We can only accept so much "protection" before we delve into "revolution" once the people realize they are being "protected" right out of their ability to participate in society. Gift cards might be a "loophole" for them mean and evil "terrists" but the fact is those folks are gonna get money no matter what - but without the ability for POOR PEOPLE who have zero credit and no bank accounts to participate in society the folks on Pennsylvania Ave would end up with way more to worry about than a handful of radical nutcases.
We have become a culture of plastic money. Financially deprived people need access to that plastic as well.
Peolpe will use it because it's there. And now because office is "free" with their new computer they will have no reason to pirate it and every reason to use it, thus deepening the MS monopoly on the desktop.
I smell some new antitrust action.
Would you like to view a commercial for the US mail service?
But I don't play either way. "I am the third way!"
But you're doing the same thing I am - making a statement of fact that defies the beliefs of these fruits.. and loiok at the result. Even here, saying anything negative about Apple begets what? -1, troll.
Now I remember why I gave up these discussions so many months ago.
Apple doesn't even MAKE PCs - just ask any applehead and they'll tell you "I don't use a PC" or "I have an Apple AND a PC." Apple does not have a monopoly on PCs, but Apple does have a monopoly on the platform. How long could Microsoft get away with saying you can't run Windows on any PC you didn't buy from us? There's definitely a double standard going on there.
Cloning a mainframe doesn't mean cloning the operating system. Cloning a mac doesn't mean cloning the OS - I can make a workalike mac but apple still wont license me the software. Game machines have built in non portable operating systems. XB360s have operating systems married to their disc drives! In order to clone a game machine I'd have to clone the built in operating system which cannot be done due to copyright restrictions.
What I find interesting is how someone can make a workalike mainframe without violating IBM patents on some CPU/management/I/Oprocessing hardware. AMD and Cyrix have been able to "clone" Intel functionality only because of past agreements and licensing deals and lawsuits.
There is no cut. It's uncut. There is no cut for you to get.
Penis.
Imagine a giant penis flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant penis. But then, at the last moment, it changes trajectory and hits you in the eye. You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way", but then the giant penis rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant penis is penetrating your gray matter, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills. That's when the giant penis slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant penis finally lodges itself in your anus, where it rests uncomfortably for 4, maybe 5 hours. That's what playing Final Fantasy 8 is like.
Yeah, he puts on "rooves."
Now, let me ask YOU this: can YOUR whiny ass carry a pack of shingles up a ladder in 100 degree sun? Have you ever even been ON a roof?
Contractors are responsible for the contracts, not the roofers. It's not the greasy, sunburnt guys working their asses off who steal your money - it's the well dressed fellow sitting in the truck watching them work who takes your money.
That said, I don't think any of you have read TFA. These are thin film shingles. There are demo videos on youtube - you can see them press holes in the shingles, even drive nails through them and they still work just fine. These are not silicon and glass, they are thin film on some sort of flexible substrate. And it's about time.
I write too. Are you paid by a publisher? If so, you're polishing the handrails on the titanic - just like those old school rock stars and wannabe rock stars.
What most creative types don't seem to get is there's no reason for them to exist. There's so muc recorded music already if there were no more new artists we'd still have mroe music available than any of us can listen to in a lifetime. Same thing with books.
Artists communicate. Your job is to communicate. The enemy of an artist is not piracy, it's obscurity. Publishers are your enemy, not your enabler. People do not buy shit from publishers because they want to they do it because they formerly HAD to - publishers created an artificial scarcity by keeping most artists in obscurity. Once you have someone who CHOOSES to listen to you - and that's how virtually all art works - they will "support" you to the best of their ability. Fans want to be connected to their artists - this is where publishers seek to interject themselves in order to extract value.
If you're a creative type still thinking in terms of a publisher, you're screwed. Give the people who appreciate you what they want, and they'll support you - it's that simple.
My house burned down about a year ago. I lost everything. I now have a stack of old BYTE magazines and a copy of the Scelbi/BYTE primer sitting on my shelf. It's not because there's "information" in them - the "information" was obsolete two decades ago. It's because there's creative content in them I can't find elsewhere and I love having this "souvenir" of my youth. Among the things I miss most are my EPs of "Holland Tunnel Dive" and the Detroit band "Shock Therapy." Why? I can download the content, but they don't have the value to me of the records. It has nothign to do with content and everything to do with being something tangible. However, if I had never heard either of these bands those now destroyed records would mean nothing to me - get it?
There's more to "force" than pointy sticks and guns.
So you're saying Apple is behind this new technology coming from intel at their behest but it's all part of a scheme to devise a new technology that will get intel to compete with... intel?
Man, you must REALLY think Steve Jobs is clever! Imagine, getting intel to go into competition with itself!
Slavery? Get a grip. What we have NOW is fascism - how is socialism any worse? What we have now is corporations running unfettered through society keeping us addicted to whatever they can keep legal while our health disintegrates - which they then try to patch up by selling us even more shit to fix the problems THEIR SHIT CAUSED. And when someone can't pay for their shit who pays for it?
YOU AND ME.
Every time we go to the hospital and pay 500 bucks for an ER visit, 50 bucks for an aspirin, 5 grand for an operating room and 8 grand for an anaesthesiologist.
Being held accountable for your behavior toward society is not socialism, it's what freaking Jefferson wrote about.
Dunno about windows, but ubuntu certainly does. They invested considerable resources into improving the startup procedure so that it runs as asynchronously as possible, thereby allowing each process to run in its own thread and/or core.
It's very important they minimize windows boot times because, you know, windows users have to reboot so frequently...
And because it's all globally identifiable with unique addresses there is no problem for the refrigerator company to turn off your fridge when u miss the payment or he warranty lapses, the media companies to track EXACTLY what you watch and when via your dvr - and to disable THAT because they don't like you watching this movie that seems to have no unique identifier and therefore must have been "pirated," and because it's all wifi and operates in the whitespace bands it can connect to the net from pretty much any location in the EU or the US meaning your "right to ownership" of virtually everything has just been revoked.
I had an appendectomy a while back. If I had not had it, I would now be dead. So the next time you have a common ailment that was life threatening nary a century ago, maybe you should think twice before heading to the hospital? Think of the good of the species!
Duh. Humans have evolved brains making them capable of advanced thought and self awareness. This makes us as a species less bound by those frailties that follow dogs, insects, cows, rats, sheep and even whales (who, even if they do have great brains, have no hands to allow them to build stuff).
Of course we are evolving - just like all the other species. Part of our evolution is technology. This is both a genetic weakness and a strength - no different than similar strengths and weaknesses found in dogs, insects, cows, rats, whales and flowers.
There is a popular dance fitness program that started in Chile. Because the program is meant to appeal to ALL ages and get them involved it often features preteen dancers. But posting one of these videos - from a Chile TELEVISION program - will get you banned from Youtube in a heartbeat for violating their TOS (inappropriate). I don't see how this is any different - Youtube is trying to keep up a "clean cut" appearance by filtering to a lowest common denominator.