Maybe it's just me, but I'm more likely to be pissed off rather than traumatized if the stupid rockets are only powerful enough to total a car (which really doesn't take much if you go at it from the top, as a device on a ballistic trajectory would tend to do). Now, if they did manage to explode reliably, that might be traumatizing.
I think some people complain because they do want a product similar to the one being discussed, but the product has some particular flaw that screws it up. They're frustrated because they almost found exactly what they wanted, but failed.
Well, there's also the original version (a book) and a new movie version planned for 2010... neither of those are likely to include spandex, so you could go without and still maintain the theme.
Incidentally, that's a really cool idea -- remind me in 5 years so I can do it myself, ok?
Some suburbs of Atlanta are considering the same thing, since the state government passed a law lengthening yellow times for 1 second. It turns out that actually giving people enough time to react to the yellow decreases the number who end up running the red! Gee, who'da thunk it?!
Really this whole argument is a joke â" we're complaining at apple because they put a remote interface on their headphones, something that other companies have been doing since god knows when.
I think it's perfectly valid to complain about that, since the design of the new shuffle is so stupid -- WTF is the point of having separate controls, when the separate controls are almost as big as the damn player itself?! The second-gen Shuffle was a much better design.
Lots of other companies do "made for xxx" stickers, and it takes time to certify that something really is compatible, so you have to charge for it, even if you're not looking for a new revenue stream.
Yeah, but there's a big fucking difference between doing that and locking out and suing anyone who doesn't want to pay for the certification!
If a third-party doesn't want to pay for "made for iPod" certification, then they shouldn't be allowed to write the logo on the box. But they should still be allowed to sell the product!
Seems to me that the media are the real terrorists, then. Whenever I hear hoopla on the news about "Hamas shooting rockets at Israel," I'm thinking something more like the V2, not a dinky model rocket!
Assuming this statement is true then it ought to be that the ideal photo compression algorithm produces the same size image file no matter how many pixels went into it. That is to say a lossy compression algorithm would only be discarding detail of no human interest.
This is not true, the compression does not seem to be getting better. This suggests that the compression algorithms in use are not scaling properly for increased pixels.
While it's true that common compression algorithms don't yet take your human factor idea -- which is a neat idea, by the way -- into account, it doesn't matter because we haven't hit the ceiling of human perception yet anyway, and thus still need all the input pixels we can get.
3. You act under the assumption that population growth/shrinkage rates are constant. This is far from the truth. We will likely see birth rates climb after a population drop due to increased availability of land.
It's not a population drop. It's a population displacement by immigrants from Asia and Africa.
I would think you'd want to spend $1000 because if four or five houses around you get repossessed you might find you lose $50,000 off the value of your home.
Hey asshole, he deserves to lose $50K off the value of his home! Why? Because his house is was never worth that extra $50K to begin with! You know what the damn housing bubble really did? It locked all the responsible people, who could have afforded a home at uninflated prices, out of the market! So now all the people who actually weren't morons, and knew better than to get insane interest-only loans, are finally just about able to get our reward. And now you want to screw us out of it again! Well FUCK YOU, FUCK HIM, FUCK THE GOVERNMENT, and FUCK EVERYONE ELSE WHO'S TRYING TO ARTIFICIALLY INFLATE HOUSING PRICES YET A-FUCKING-GAIN!
Replace the word "housing" with "medical", and you have the basis of health insurance.
Or don't you believe in health insurance either?
The difference is that the government doesn't force us at gunpoint to buy health insurance, like it does with taxes. It only does that for medicare, and medicare is wrong too!
might have a chance to at least slow down the drop in housing prices.
You mean, "might have a chance to continue screwing over those of us who were RESPONSIBLE enough to realize we couldn't afford a house during the bubble! Fuckers!
I didn't say it was surprising; I said it was unfortunate. Ideally the South should have recognized that human rights apply to everyone and abolished slavery voluntarily. That way we might have had much less Federal meddling today.
I take it by this comment that you're retracting your original statement that the U.S. "is a republic instead [of a democracy]."
No, "democratic" is just the adjective describing what type of republic it is.
And anyway, you're the one who started this conversation talking about "counter[ing] a tyranny of the majority." The modification required to do that -- electing representatives rather than voting on all issues directly -- is exactly the difference that makes it a republic.
History is chock-full of examples of people whose unique way of thinking changed the shape of our world, the canonical example being Newton. He saw things in a way that others did not, and he advanced science dramatically.
And yet Leibniz invented calculus too, independently and at about the same time. Methinks you need a better example.
The Constitution having no provision for being unilaterally rendered null and void by one or more signatories
If the Constitution has no provision for something, then the States and/or the Public are free to do whatever they want, according to the 10th Amendment.
Accordingly the attempt to secede was simply forswearing their oaths before man and God.
States can't make oaths in the first place, so there's nothing to forswear. And God is irrelevant to this discussion (as per the 1st Amendment).
My contention was with certain idiots who, whenever secession or the Civil War is mentioned feel the need to jump in with the opinion that they "were not about slavery" when, according to each state's explicitly written Articles of Secession, they most certainly were.
Perhaps the best way to put it is that the secession was about slavery, but the war was about opposing secession.
First of all, I resent that you accused me of being a Confederate sympathizer, and that you imply that all such people support slavery. Yes, I support states' rights (and I only coincidentally happen to be a Southerner), but I also support civil rights!
Second, the Civil War was about both slavery and states' rights. In fact, the most unfortunate thing about it was that abolition was allowed to become an excuse to trample over the Tenth Amendment, in essentially the same way that things like drugs and kiddie porn are giving government excuses to destroy other parts of the Bill of Rights today.
Ah, but once the states seceded, which they invariably did before joining the Confederacy, they were no longer bound by the Constitution. You need to cite a paragraph where it says that states cannot secede in the first place.
Does the guy in the wheelchair also arrive 5 minutes early? If not, then why is it that he can successfully navigate the people-full corridors when arriving, but not leaving?
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Personally, I'd much rather cameras have GPS instead of Wi-Fi, so that they can automatically fill in the EXIF location data for the photos.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm more likely to be pissed off rather than traumatized if the stupid rockets are only powerful enough to total a car (which really doesn't take much if you go at it from the top, as a device on a ballistic trajectory would tend to do). Now, if they did manage to explode reliably, that might be traumatizing.
I think some people complain because they do want a product similar to the one being discussed, but the product has some particular flaw that screws it up. They're frustrated because they almost found exactly what they wanted, but failed.
Well, there's also the original version (a book) and a new movie version planned for 2010... neither of those are likely to include spandex, so you could go without and still maintain the theme.
Incidentally, that's a really cool idea -- remind me in 5 years so I can do it myself, ok?
Logan's run?
Some suburbs of Atlanta are considering the same thing, since the state government passed a law lengthening yellow times for 1 second. It turns out that actually giving people enough time to react to the yellow decreases the number who end up running the red! Gee, who'da thunk it?!
I think it's perfectly valid to complain about that, since the design of the new shuffle is so stupid -- WTF is the point of having separate controls, when the separate controls are almost as big as the damn player itself?! The second-gen Shuffle was a much better design.
Yeah, but there's a big fucking difference between doing that and locking out and suing anyone who doesn't want to pay for the certification!
If a third-party doesn't want to pay for "made for iPod" certification, then they shouldn't be allowed to write the logo on the box. But they should still be allowed to sell the product!
Seems to me that the media are the real terrorists, then. Whenever I hear hoopla on the news about "Hamas shooting rockets at Israel," I'm thinking something more like the V2, not a dinky model rocket!
While it's true that common compression algorithms don't yet take your human factor idea -- which is a neat idea, by the way -- into account, it doesn't matter because we haven't hit the ceiling of human perception yet anyway, and thus still need all the input pixels we can get.
It's not a population drop. It's a population displacement by immigrants from Asia and Africa.
Wow, you're an idiot. (See also the reply to the post you just cited.)
Hey asshole, he deserves to lose $50K off the value of his home! Why? Because his house is was never worth that extra $50K to begin with! You know what the damn housing bubble really did? It locked all the responsible people, who could have afforded a home at uninflated prices, out of the market! So now all the people who actually weren't morons, and knew better than to get insane interest-only loans, are finally just about able to get our reward. And now you want to screw us out of it again! Well FUCK YOU, FUCK HIM, FUCK THE GOVERNMENT, and FUCK EVERYONE ELSE WHO'S TRYING TO ARTIFICIALLY INFLATE HOUSING PRICES YET A-FUCKING-GAIN!
The difference is that the government doesn't force us at gunpoint to buy health insurance, like it does with taxes. It only does that for medicare, and medicare is wrong too!
You mean, "might have a chance to continue screwing over those of us who were RESPONSIBLE enough to realize we couldn't afford a house during the bubble! Fuckers!
I didn't say it was surprising; I said it was unfortunate. Ideally the South should have recognized that human rights apply to everyone and abolished slavery voluntarily. That way we might have had much less Federal meddling today.
If Newton hadn't thought of it, Bernoulli or Maxwell or somebody would have instead.
No, "democratic" is just the adjective describing what type of republic it is.
And anyway, you're the one who started this conversation talking about "counter[ing] a tyranny of the majority." The modification required to do that -- electing representatives rather than voting on all issues directly -- is exactly the difference that makes it a republic.
And yet Leibniz invented calculus too, independently and at about the same time. Methinks you need a better example.
If the Constitution has no provision for something, then the States and/or the Public are free to do whatever they want, according to the 10th Amendment.
States can't make oaths in the first place, so there's nothing to forswear. And God is irrelevant to this discussion (as per the 1st Amendment).
Perhaps the best way to put it is that the secession was about slavery, but the war was about opposing secession.
The fact that it's a democratic republic doesn't stop it from being a republic.
First of all, I resent that you accused me of being a Confederate sympathizer, and that you imply that all such people support slavery. Yes, I support states' rights (and I only coincidentally happen to be a Southerner), but I also support civil rights!
Second, the Civil War was about both slavery and states' rights. In fact, the most unfortunate thing about it was that abolition was allowed to become an excuse to trample over the Tenth Amendment, in essentially the same way that things like drugs and kiddie porn are giving government excuses to destroy other parts of the Bill of Rights today.
Ah, but once the states seceded, which they invariably did before joining the Confederacy, they were no longer bound by the Constitution. You need to cite a paragraph where it says that states cannot secede in the first place.
Does the guy in the wheelchair also arrive 5 minutes early? If not, then why is it that he can successfully navigate the people-full corridors when arriving, but not leaving?