Uhm, simple logic tells you B.C. only applies to the latter statement (obviously) but not the first statement. But since you have a reading comprehension here is a clarified sentence so it is not ambiguous for you:
How do you think the Catholic Church bought land in A.D. era let alone people bought land in the B.C. era??
> Due to loopholes, exploitation and poor oversight megacorporations have had an unfair advantage for decades.
Actually, it is worse then that. Decades? Try Centuries. Before corporations were invented in 1602 there were trusts. How do you think the Catholic Church bought land let alone people in the B.C. era?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When US Corporations were declared a legal person in the 1800's and again in the 1900's...
a) Corporations can own other Corporations which means they can structure themselves offshore to take advantage of tax breaks. Many "tax havens" have laws where they have zero tax on foreign sales.
b) Since corporations technically never die they never pay an estate tax.
If the world would ban corporations from owning another corporation that would solve 95% of the problem but good luck trying to legalize the minimization of greed. The politicians and CEO's are not interested in doing The Right Thing (TM) over Long Term -- they are more interested in the Short-Term profits.
> Tax laws, breaks and reductions are not there to be professionally manipulated to the extent that you pay nothing.
"The legal right of an individual to decrease the amount of what would otherwise be his taxes or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted."
That is, it is Legal to OPTIMIZE the amount you pay, that is, tax minimization, down to zero IF the Law allows.
If you don't like what Apple is doing then petition to have the Law(s) changed because I agree with you.
The letter of the law has quickly become out-of-touch with the original spirit of the law.
For the majority of people there is NO problem because we're smart enough to understand the _context_. Anyone who is offended over the nude picture of a 9 year old in this context is immature. Why should the rest of the world kowtow to their insecurity??
Only a complete idiot would think there is something that magically happens between a picture of a nude girl before she is a legal adult vs the same picture when she is legal.
The problem isn't the age. It is the insecurity / immature of people, and mis-use of the picture.
Censorship isn't the solution, it is precisely the problem.
1. Sony isn't forward thinking. Aside from taking a risk on the PlayStation, they make their bread and butter from insurance, not electronics. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05...
In fact, except for BluRay, Sony has lost every format war they've ever fought.
* BetaMax/VHS (VHS crushed beta), * NT casette/microcasette (nobody remembers NT casettes), * MiniDisc/Flash (held on in Asia, but flash and HDD and CDs won), * DAT/CD (DAT never made it beyond professional use), * MMCD/SD (MMCD abandonned, SD became DVD), * VCD/DVD (VCDs saw some use, but DVD came out two years later and started killing it), * MemoryStick/MMC/SD/CF/Xd/etc (SD won, even some Sony products use SD rather than MS, CF only sees some professional use), * ATRAC/MP3 (ATRAC never saw much adoption outside of MiniDisc), * SACD/DVD-Audio (made irrelevant by digital distribution).
3. Sony is a hardware company -- they really don't understand software.
* the expenses > the profits, and * there is no point cannibalizing sales of propping up an artificial monopoly. Who is going to makes FreeBSD games for < 0.001% of the market?
Not just IRC but IM too. It has been that way since at least the ICQ days. I laugh at MS's incompetence:
Hey MS, how is that Office Communicator, Lync, and Live Messenger working out for you? Gee, how about getting _one_ messaging app to work properly first.
How many fucking times does IRC and IM's "need" to be re-invented???
[[Citation]] because you're still begging the question.
Counter-proof:
Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Tesla, Feynman, Woz, etc., were all great men and they *didn't* beat it over the heads of others to show it.
I completely agree about these ePenis reviews -- they are more about bragging how stupid they are about how much money the wasted then actual technical specs:
* Where is the double blind study? * What's the SNR on them? * The THD % ??
You know, the stuff that actually matters.
I like Headphone Reviews because you get a more realistic picture instead of some shill promoting a specific brand.
Agreed that this is idea completely half-baked. Definitely need to calculate the ENTIRE food chain, not ignore it.
[OT] Re: your.sig Your "solution" to fighting Stupid Juvenile Whiners is worse then the cure. Violence just begets more violence. The proper solution comes from how we should treat all trolls: Don't feed the tolls.
Don't give them attention. Eventually they will figure out no one gives them a fuck about their insecurity.
> "YouTube demonetized videos for reasons that appear to punish those who attack 'Stupid Juvenile Whiners' " This bothers me because I have found most SJW types to be arrogant, offensive jackasses and I think the majority of the public would agree with me. If YouTube is supporting SJW over those who are critical of them then that is just one more example of political correctness run amok.
Agreed 100%. I also FTFY with a more accurate accurate acronym.
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> compiled sprites,
You used to hang out on rec.games.programmer in the 90's as well ? :-)
90% of the /. readers probably don't even have a clue what that is. :-/
Ah, the days of self-modifying code to get high performance ...
Uhm, simple logic tells you B.C. only applies to the latter statement (obviously) but not the first statement.
But since you have a reading comprehension here is a clarified sentence so it is not ambiguous for you:
> Due to loopholes, exploitation and poor oversight megacorporations have had an unfair advantage for decades.
Actually, it is worse then that. Decades? Try Centuries. Before corporations were invented in 1602 there were trusts. How do you think the Catholic Church bought land let alone people in the B.C. era??
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
When US Corporations were declared a legal person in the 1800's and again in the 1900's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .. that enabled them to have all sorts of advantages that a normal doesn't have. The 2 most important ones are:
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/...
a) Corporations can own other Corporations which means they can structure themselves offshore to take advantage of tax breaks. Many "tax havens" have laws where they have zero tax on foreign sales.
b) Since corporations technically never die they never pay an estate tax.
If the world would ban corporations from owning another corporation that would solve 95% of the problem but good luck trying to legalize the minimization of greed. The politicians and CEO's are not interested in doing The Right Thing (TM) over Long Term -- they are more interested in the Short-Term profits.
> Tax laws, breaks and reductions are not there to be professionally manipulated to the extent that you pay nothing.
Not according to the US Supreme Court: Gregory v. Helvering, 293 U.S. 465 (1935). (Emphasis added)
That is, it is Legal to OPTIMIZE the amount you pay, that is, tax minimization, down to zero IF the Law allows.
If you don't like what Apple is doing then petition to have the Law(s) changed because I agree with you.
The letter of the law has quickly become out-of-touch with the original spirit of the law.
n/t -- see .sig
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This is akin to preaching to the choir.
I would expect an article about "How the lack of internet is having long term consequences" be available in dead tree form.
+1 Interesting.
Sad that young kids don't know, or don't care to know, about the significant milestones of our history.
Someone really needs to write an article entitled:
"The 20 most important images of the 20th century and why."
> The difficulty is that the opposite,
You're begging the question.
For the majority of people there is NO problem because we're smart enough to understand the _context_. Anyone who is offended over the nude picture of a 9 year old in this context is immature. Why should the rest of the world kowtow to their insecurity??
Only a complete idiot would think there is something that magically happens between a picture of a nude girl before she is a legal adult vs the same picture when she is legal.
The problem isn't the age. It is the insecurity / immature of people, and mis-use of the picture.
Censorship isn't the solution, it is precisely the problem.
Move along, (almost) nothing to see.
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Only Cowards Censor.
Beautiful quote!
In this _context_ you're confusing the terms male/female with gender. They refer to the *pattern* of Linear / Non-Linear.
i.e.
Space = Female = Non-Linear
Time = Male = Linear
Monty Python FTW ? :-)
Like Descartes, and the typical male human perspective, your perception is backwards.
Mind creates space/time not the other way around.
Consciousness is not limited by space/time -- it is outside it.
i.e.
Newton and Leibniz simultaneously rediscovered calculas.
If you had spent any time investigating the Lucid Dream and Out-of-Body state you would understand these fundamentals.
Incorrect.
Mind / Consciousness.
You're probably one of those hipsters that complain that the wheel is thousands of years old.
If you had a clue about hardware / software the first rule is:
"Don't fix what isn't broken"
There is a reason we have standards -- so they can be ubiquitous. Change for the sake of change is nothing more then greed.
They should have added 4K BluRay support and then they could call it PS 4K.
Right now, "meh".
Unfortunately, there are 3 problems:
1. Sony isn't forward thinking. Aside from taking a risk on the PlayStation, they make their bread and butter from insurance, not electronics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05...
2. Almost every time Sony tries something proprietary the market tells them they aren't interested.
https://www.fastcompany.com/12...
http://games.slashdot.org/comm...
3. Sony is a hardware company -- they really don't understand software.
Agreed, it isn't courage it is pure greed.
The problem isn't just Apple though -- it is all the other iHipsters would don't understand the fuss.
The audio jack works just fine on my iPhone -- I don't need yet another stupid cable to listen to my Sennheisers.
They could but why would they when
* the expenses > the profits, and
* there is no point cannibalizing sales of propping up an artificial monopoly. Who is going to makes FreeBSD games for < 0.001% of the market?
> But it's not Mac OS X anymore, it's MacOS.
Close, but not quite -- Mac is now in lower case:
i.e.
macOS Sierra
Yup, I guess HipChat isn't "hip" anymore. :-)
Not just IRC but IM too. It has been that way since at least the ICQ days. I laugh at MS's incompetence:
Hey MS, how is that Office Communicator, Lync, and Live Messenger working out for you? Gee, how about getting _one_ messaging app to work properly first.
How many fucking times does IRC and IM's "need" to be re-invented???
Freudian slip on Line #71 ?
Shouldn't that be: fan subs ? :-)
> You cannot have greatness without violence.
[[Citation]] because you're still begging the question.
Counter-proof:
Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Tesla, Feynman, Woz, etc., were all great men and they *didn't* beat it over the heads of others to show it.
> Just count the bits. Done.
That is naive. Perception is *not* uniform, that is non-linear, and I'm not even talking about gamma correction.
Can you tell the difference in quality between:
* These 2 grays? 0xFFFFFF and 0xFEFEFE ?
* What about 0xFFFFFF and 0xFDFDFD
* Or between 0xFFFFFF and 0xFCFCFC
It is possible to encode these in the same number of bit but yet one will be more accurate then the other(s).
I completely agree about these ePenis reviews -- they are more about bragging how stupid they are about how much money the wasted then actual technical specs:
* Where is the double blind study?
* What's the SNR on them?
* The THD % ??
You know, the stuff that actually matters.
I like Headphone Reviews because you get a more realistic picture instead of some shill promoting a specific brand.
Agreed that this is idea completely half-baked. Definitely need to calculate the ENTIRE food chain, not ignore it.
[OT] Re: your .sig
Your "solution" to fighting Stupid Juvenile Whiners is worse then the cure. Violence just begets more violence.
The proper solution comes from how we should treat all trolls: Don't feed the tolls.
Don't give them attention. Eventually they will figure out no one gives them a fuck about their insecurity.
> "YouTube demonetized videos for reasons that appear to punish those who attack 'Stupid Juvenile Whiners' " This bothers me because I have found most SJW types to be arrogant, offensive jackasses and I think the majority of the public would agree with me. If YouTube is supporting SJW over those who are critical of them then that is just one more example of political correctness run amok.
Agreed 100%. I also FTFY with a more accurate accurate acronym.
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"Hey SouthWest dipshits -- WTF is the point of having a schedule if you're just going to ignore it???"