If you patent a mechanical device and someone infringes on your patent to sell me a knockoff, you can sue them and make them stop selling it, but you can't sue me and make me stop using the one that I bought.
One one hand that's a valid point, but on the other hand it probably also helped him get enough perspective to see the problem in the first place (as he wasn't mired in it himself).
And yes, blacks can misjudge the cause of their problems and blame "culture" (lack of "values", rap music, religion) instead of the genuine problems of poverty and continued discrimination.
My (multi-racial) girlfriend's brother exhibits exactly the kind of attitude problem we're talking about, and I can damn well tell you the cause is the "culture," not poverty or discrimination.
...but the devil weed also makes the dirty mexicans and niggers rape white women!!11!one!
Yep, that's what all those racists claimed back in the day, which is why marijuana is illegal*, and why any discussion of "industrial hemp" is dead-on-arrival. Sorry, no miracle energy source for us!
*Technically, the federal government didn't outlaw the substance (as that would be unconstitutional); they just made it so that a permit was required to grow it (citing the Interstate Commerce Clause) and then refused to issue any permits. Fucking NAZIs, circumventing the Constitution!)
Who cares? The better question would be "to what degree can we defeat the damn corn lobby so that we can get the ethanol from a less ridiculously inefficient crop in the first place?!"
Or that he joins victim-blaming Republicans in pointing to poor blacks' "cultural" issues as the cause of concentrated black poverty (Obama, The Audacity of Hope)
He himself is black! If he's not qualified to judge his own culture's issues, who is?
Like you said, the problem is the source of the fuel, not the chemical itself. Unfortunately, your post title would lead one to believe the opposite -- you ought to be more careful about that.
If he brings pricing everywhere in the US to the levels it is in my state (about $.02-.05/gallon cheaper than non-ethanol fuels)...
That's it? 2 to 5 cents is less than the normal variation between stations around here! I sure hope that when Obama talks about ethanol he means switchgrass, not corn!
Honestly, I don't even see a negative side to ethanol (other than it's still a fossil fuel).
So what? If the fight itself was legal (maybe it was recorded in a foreign country), and the film itself is legal (because of freedom of expression), then they're doing nothing wrong.
Such a religion already exists: Pastafarianism. Or, at least, if free speech isn't already one of its tenets, it's a young enough religion that I'm sure they'd add it if you asked nicely. rAmen!
Of course, you can send groups of people on long journeys. Just take a look at the classic journeys of exploration, where people were at sea, out of site of land, often for many months at a time.
Now you know why it was considered "unlucky" in those days to have women aboard ship -- it had nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with hormones and jealousy.
Here's a tip: don't put your swap partition (or swap file, if you're using that other operating system) on the flash. Just get yourself enough RAM and don't bother with swap at all instead.
Adding Bluetooth doesn't mean getting rid of USB, you know. Besides, Bluetooth is fast enough for transferring smaller amounts of data, like a few songs at a time.
Personally, I would rather have several separate gadgets, if they all did one task and did it well. Do I want a lot of storage in my phone? Heck no! Do I want a screen on my phone? Heck no! But I do want a screen and a lot of storage; I just want the screen on my wrist (instead of a watch), the storage -- without a screen -- in my pocket, and the phone itself (which uses the watch-screen for I/O) consisting entirely of the headset in my ear, like Will Smith had in I, Robot.
But is that because they play video, or because they're cheaper per gigabyte (and/or higher total capacity) than the nano? As the owner of a 30GB video, I say it's the latter.
If you really want to have the iPod video, you're prepared to spend big bucks anyway. I don't think there's that much of a difference between a person willing to pay $400 for a portable music player, and one who wants to spend $800.
WTF?!! I have an iPod video, and I sure as heck wouldn't have spent $400 -- let alone $800 -- on it! In fact, it was something like $229 (with an educational discount) and I barely managed to convince myself to pay even that (I almost got the cheapest Nano instead, but decided that being able to sync my entire slightly-over-8GB library too it was worth the extra money).
Price matters, especially since it's the kind of huge (100%!) difference you're talking about. People haggle over $50 floor mats in a $30,000 car, for Dog's sake! And you think they won't care about an extra $400 (or $200, or $100, or $5) in a $300 gadget? Let me have some of what you're smoking, because it must be some damn good stuff!
Here's the funny thing about iPods: like you, I really like open formats and Free Software and whatnot, but I actually like being able to sync with iTunes! If Rockbox could do that, I'd switch.
You can transcode to ALE from FLAC without losing any data...
Do you know of a good tool to transcode from ALE to Ogg FLAC while keeping all the metadata? I ripped a lot of my music to ALE, and while I'm not too worried since it's lossless and not DRM'd, it'd be nice to know there's an easy path (as opposed to researching the MPEG4 and Ogg metadata structures myself, and writing a shell script) if I decide to stop using iTunes.
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Yeah he can.
Holy shit, you're right! In the end, it's gonna come down to Hillary vs. Condi...
I think Bender says it best: "Well, we're boned."
Oh, whoop-de-do! So that disqualifies him?
One one hand that's a valid point, but on the other hand it probably also helped him get enough perspective to see the problem in the first place (as he wasn't mired in it himself).
My (multi-racial) girlfriend's brother exhibits exactly the kind of attitude problem we're talking about, and I can damn well tell you the cause is the "culture," not poverty or discrimination.
Yes...
...but the devil weed also makes the dirty mexicans and niggers rape white women!!11!one!
Yep, that's what all those racists claimed back in the day, which is why marijuana is illegal*, and why any discussion of "industrial hemp" is dead-on-arrival. Sorry, no miracle energy source for us!
*Technically, the federal government didn't outlaw the substance (as that would be unconstitutional); they just made it so that a permit was required to grow it (citing the Interstate Commerce Clause) and then refused to issue any permits. Fucking NAZIs, circumventing the Constitution!)
Who cares? The better question would be "to what degree can we defeat the damn corn lobby so that we can get the ethanol from a less ridiculously inefficient crop in the first place?!"
He himself is black! If he's not qualified to judge his own culture's issues, who is?
Like you said, the problem is the source of the fuel, not the chemical itself. Unfortunately, your post title would lead one to believe the opposite -- you ought to be more careful about that.
That's it? 2 to 5 cents is less than the normal variation between stations around here! I sure hope that when Obama talks about ethanol he means switchgrass, not corn!
No it's not.
So what? If the fight itself was legal (maybe it was recorded in a foreign country), and the film itself is legal (because of freedom of expression), then they're doing nothing wrong.
Such a religion already exists: Pastafarianism. Or, at least, if free speech isn't already one of its tenets, it's a young enough religion that I'm sure they'd add it if you asked nicely. rAmen!
It would probably help to tether the two lovers together with an elastic belt or something.
Actually no, it's not.
Now you know why it was considered "unlucky" in those days to have women aboard ship -- it had nothing to do with luck, and everything to do with hormones and jealousy.
I think you're confused: that demand isn't for an iPod at all... it's for a new Newton.
Here's a tip: don't put your swap partition (or swap file, if you're using that other operating system) on the flash. Just get yourself enough RAM and don't bother with swap at all instead.
Adding Bluetooth doesn't mean getting rid of USB, you know. Besides, Bluetooth is fast enough for transferring smaller amounts of data, like a few songs at a time.
Personally, I would rather have several separate gadgets, if they all did one task and did it well. Do I want a lot of storage in my phone? Heck no! Do I want a screen on my phone? Heck no! But I do want a screen and a lot of storage; I just want the screen on my wrist (instead of a watch), the storage -- without a screen -- in my pocket, and the phone itself (which uses the watch-screen for I/O) consisting entirely of the headset in my ear, like Will Smith had in I, Robot.
But is that because they play video, or because they're cheaper per gigabyte (and/or higher total capacity) than the nano? As the owner of a 30GB video, I say it's the latter.
If it hasn't happened yet, it's at least close -- I have seen 2GB USB flash drives for ~$20 (at Fry's).
And a video iPod today costs $349 for the 80GB model, or $4.36/GB. Some savings, indeed!
Because those don't sync with iTunes (that's why I have an iPod, anyway -- I'm not stupid enough to get locked into FairPlay DRM).
FYI, the hard drives in iPods are 1.8", not 2.5".
WTF?!! I have an iPod video, and I sure as heck wouldn't have spent $400 -- let alone $800 -- on it! In fact, it was something like $229 (with an educational discount) and I barely managed to convince myself to pay even that (I almost got the cheapest Nano instead, but decided that being able to sync my entire slightly-over-8GB library too it was worth the extra money).
Price matters, especially since it's the kind of huge (100%!) difference you're talking about. People haggle over $50 floor mats in a $30,000 car, for Dog's sake! And you think they won't care about an extra $400 (or $200, or $100, or $5) in a $300 gadget? Let me have some of what you're smoking, because it must be some damn good stuff!
Here's the funny thing about iPods: like you, I really like open formats and Free Software and whatnot, but I actually like being able to sync with iTunes! If Rockbox could do that, I'd switch.
Do you know of a good tool to transcode from ALE to Ogg FLAC while keeping all the metadata? I ripped a lot of my music to ALE, and while I'm not too worried since it's lossless and not DRM'd, it'd be nice to know there's an easy path (as opposed to researching the MPEG4 and Ogg metadata structures myself, and writing a shell script) if I decide to stop using iTunes .