The point is, no other country has on a national level the retarded moral attitude that they are a superhero who fights against evil and for freedom in the world. This fiction of inherent moral superiority and being the definition of a free country does cloud the assessment of Americans on how free and democratic their country functions.
Are 6 years old, or did you just skip all your history classes? Europe is full of countries who have done EXACTLY that, until their empires fell and the next guy took over.
Does your city magically self sustain itself and produce all of its own food and energy within its own borders so that no one EVER has to leave it to do anything in the real world... you know, where food and resources you consume actually come from?
Fact: Cities are consumers, not producers. You can not get much worse for the environment than an over crowded, pollution producing city that consumes millions of times more than is capable of supporting.
You want to use non-lethal shot on a bear... but kill the human? Please stay in whatever shit hole city you live in. We country bumpkins will do well without you.
Actually, I'd say you have no clue, or at least, don't know much about history.
Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. You can't find a historical example of such laws that were not eventually perverted into a problem, which is why people get so uppity about them in the first place.
in contrast to the terrifying "Obama is a Muslim" nonsense in the States
Lets be clear, there is an EXTREMELY small minority of idiots with very large mouths, and a media who wants to sensationalize EVERYTHING that makes it look like there was some sort of actual issue with Obama being Muslim.
If the media didn't prop them up, no one would be heard making retarded statements about Osama/Obama or his religious preferences.
We are, in general, a little on edge with Muslims at the moment, but thats because there is a very small, but extremely troublesome group of people who spread hate under the flag of Islam. There are very few among us who are stupid enough to equate that with all Muslims, but the news media seeks them out.
Sadly, I have one of these ignorant people in my family. I do apologize for our morons, but they really are a tiny part of our population.
Please, please try not to let what you see on the in the media be how you view our country. Most of us are not like that.
The US has anti-discrimination laws as well. Whats your point? Having a law against something doesn't mean it magically goes away.
For example someone could be a street preacher but if they preached hatred or incited violence they're going to get arrested in most places.
So... less free than the US...
In the US (unfortunately) it is completely (legally) acceptable to harass people at a funeral for soldiers killed in action... with a rally cry of something like 'god hates fags' or some other stupid bullshit. Or to burn the flag. Or to join a hate group.
You do realize that the second half of the post contradicts the first half, and that because you have been doing it as a side business, you've illustrated that its not really considered disposable, right?
Hell, even Apple repairs them for fucks sake. You pay a flat fee, give them your old device, they give you a refurbished device. They don't repair yours right away, they send it off to have it done in bulk, but it gets repaired none the less.
As for not looking inside... seriously? Because Apple still hasn't figured out that iFixit is and that they'll have a tear down of it on the web, showing everyone whats in it within 10 minutes of it going on sale, usually BEFORE it goes on sale?
Do you really think the company with so much cash in its bank accounts it could buy about half of the European countries and not sweat it has no clue what goes on the Interwebz? You really think no one at Apple knows that its trivial to find a pentalobe driver if you actually look?
Since you pretty much always have to go with the crowd in order to survive in the modern world, by your retarded definition, everyone is a servant for everyone else.
1) How often are you opening your phone? WHY are you opening your phone so often that you need to have a screwdriver handy?
2) I've never, in my life, seen anyone who has given a fuck about the screws when buying a used device. None of the reselling sites care, no one cares out side of the tiny group of slashdotters who aren't going to buy one anyway. No one pays extra for phillips screws versus pentalobe because.... ALL THE REPAIR SITES ALREADY HAVE PENTALOBE DRIVERS to deal with all the phones they get that are normal.
You don't have any good reasons and you're struggling to make them up.
WHAT principal? Just because you have a conspiracy theory about Apple being evil and shutting people out of opening their phones doesn't make it true.
You're principal is non-existent since anyone who ACTUALLY wants to open their phone, can, easily.
You want Apple to produce an inferior product, so that if you want to, you can open the case... but you don't actually have a reason to open it... and even if you did (such as water damage), you are a 0.00001% of the population who does. And... the tools are readily available if it actually bothered you enough to do more than whine about it.
You're principals are fucking retarded, but I'm sure they go with your OMFGAPPLEEVIL juice pretty well.
As an Apple convert, I suggest you just accept their 'way of doing things' for 2 weeks. Embrace it completely and accept it. Then decide if you hate it so much.
If you try to customize the shit out of everything, stick to Linux and Android.
What I found, and perhaps its because I got older and had more important things to do, is that Apple's devices, while not PERFECT, require far far less tweaking to use, once I accepted their way of doing things and 'go with the flow' it turned out that I actually LIKE the Apple way a lot.
Once you stop fighting it and accept for a few moments that they have put more effort into usability than you have, then it works out better. It won't fit into your 'work flow' until you adjust your workflow to work with it rather than trying to change it to fit into your work flow as it has been.
With that sad, do you realize how silly your attacks on them actually look? Have you actually compared those statements to other companies? Do you not realize they all do the same thing? Do you think that Google/Android are some how not EXACTLY the same as you stated above for iOS?
Do you really expect a device to let you do ANYTHING you want? So your phone can make you fly around magically? Do you want your phone to be like a Linux desktop where you constantly spend time maintaining it rather than just using it?
No real reason why I'd want to replace the screws in my phone (if I had an iphone) but I'd just want to.
Oh, so you're just being a disagreeable pain in the ass for no reason other than to have a reason to not like 'the man'? Well great, slashdot will cheer for you. No one else in the rest of the world will give a shit.
If you are so clumsy/accident prone that when you buy a phone, you're worried about being able to open it quickly to remove the battery because it got wet...
Then you probably shouldn't be so stupid as to buy an iPhone in the first place, don't you think?
I can say this safely because there is no fucking way you're going to open the case faster than the water causes damage, no matter how quick or what screws you have. Even if you have the screw driver in your hand, with whatever head you want, and I drop your phone in glass of water in front of you, you will not get it open before the damage is done.
Right, because switching to pentalobe stopped how many people from taking apart an iPhone?
Let me answer for you:
0, zero, zilch, nada, not a fucking single person who WANTED to disassemble their iPhone was stopped by this change.
Contrary to whatever silly fantasy world you live in, 99.9999% of the population DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT DISASSEMBLING THEIR PHONE. They just use the damn thing.
If you think Apple chose pentalobe (which has been a standard screw type available my entire life) to stop people from opening up their case to replace the soldered in battery, you're just a moron.
ProTip: I have pentalobe drivers from my father that are older than I am. They are not uncommon in older high end cameras where you need tiny screws that don't strip when you breath on them hard.
Phillips is designed for low quality, high volume assembly line work. Read that over and over again until you understand why apple doesn't use them anymore, on anything.
Oh, and my local Ace Hardware carries a pentalobe driver set, seems like they would have picked an obscure head rather than something I can pickup tools for at the hardware store down the street... don't you think?
Hrm, a few million in bonuses to a few people compared to paying salaries of 40k people... yea, totally the same thing.
You do realize the rounding errors in salary payments cost more than those executive bonuses, right?
The end of the story was 'Unionized workers: go back to work or we're selling'. The union tried to bluff.
They got called on it and lost. No job is clearly better than a low paying job, isn't it?
And how well did the union help out those workers? Are they making money now? Did they get a raise when they went back to work at hostess? No, they didn't, in fact... now they aren't unionized workers anymore and get paid less.
So I'm sorry, how exactly did the union do its job? Its job is to make the employees get better treatment at their jobs. Not having a job does not in any way count as better treatment. And if you're going to refuse to come to work, you're a moron to not recognize you may not have a job to go back to very long.
This myth has been busted so many times its not funny.
Your statements are flat out lies.
Even frozen, they decay, though at a slower rate. Funny thing about sugars and chemical reactions, freezers don't stop them! Which is why you actually make certain sweets (mmmm candied strawberries) by adding a bunch of sugar and freezing them.
There is no way you've had them for more than a year and they still look edible.
A few million in management bonuses has exactly dick to do with the billions paid in wages each year. Get some perspective, the managements job is to do EXACTLY that. Its not a charity, its a business.
And lets remember that when hostess closed up shop, the union tried to get an injunction against the sale of assets to which the judge replied basically saying 'no, you got what you deserved'.
The union pushed too hard and lost, next time perhaps they won't be so quick to side with the greedy fucks in the union... who also give themselves millions in bonuses when they do... well pretty much ANYTHING.
Unions in America are a joke, they're just like lawyers. They don't actually accomplish anything, but do their best to drive up costs so they can take a bigger cut from the workers.
You need to stop thinking the union cares about the workers. Union management cares about the same thing company management does, they just bullshit you into believing otherwise,, and this is why they don't exist in any meaningful form in right to work states. When they can't use strong arm tactics to prevent people from working if they aren't part of the union, they cease to exist. Get the picture? They aren't your friends, stop being so naive.
Management said: If you strike, we'll close up shop as we can't stay in business.
The union went on strike anyway.
Management started selling the company.
The union TRIED to block it, but a court stepped in and said 'no, morons, you fucking ruined the company financially, they can not pay you now, you're strike got you exactly what they said it would get you'
You can cut this bullshit 'watch out for the little guy' crap, they hung themselves when they joined the shitty union.
Unions aren't for protecting workers, they are just another political machine used to rob you without making it obvious you're still someones tool, just a different someone. At least the company made it clear they aren't your friend, the union just says they are your support team while fucking you over and collecting more fees.
Turn in your card. No geek eats that crap. They are the butt of jokes about surviving a nuclear winter and out lasting the cockroaches, not something we actually eat. These things are false of course, Twinkies dont' last all that long at all on the shelf. Its just fun to make fun of them since they are made out of some things one would not normally consider being edible in its natural form.
Their opinion doesn't matter, they are no different than me. They aren't special because they did it. They don't have some sort of magical insight so they can see the ultimate truth behind everyones posturing.
If they come out and approve of everyone doing the same shit they did without question, all it shows is they are looking for excuses and safety in numbers, not that these people are acting in our best interests.
Right, because the USG assassinates obnoxious little pricks who leak secrets... except Assange is still alive and Manning is still breathing despite the fact that many prisoners in his prison would love to rip his head off and shit down his throat.
He doesn't have any knowledge they don't already have. Hell, he doesn't have any knowledge I didn't already have. No one cares about him for anything other than political posturing. Once he's out of the news, his body will show up in a ditch.
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The point is, no other country has on a national level the retarded moral attitude that they are a superhero who fights against evil and for freedom in the world. This fiction of inherent moral superiority and being the definition of a free country does cloud the assessment of Americans on how free and democratic their country functions.
Are 6 years old, or did you just skip all your history classes? Europe is full of countries who have done EXACTLY that, until their empires fell and the next guy took over.
Does your city not have fires?
Does your city magically self sustain itself and produce all of its own food and energy within its own borders so that no one EVER has to leave it to do anything in the real world ... you know, where food and resources you consume actually come from?
Fact: Cities are consumers, not producers. You can not get much worse for the environment than an over crowded, pollution producing city that consumes millions of times more than is capable of supporting.
You want to use non-lethal shot on a bear ... but kill the human? Please stay in whatever shit hole city you live in. We country bumpkins will do well without you.
Actually, I'd say you have no clue, or at least, don't know much about history.
Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't. You can't find a historical example of such laws that were not eventually perverted into a problem, which is why people get so uppity about them in the first place.
Those are still black crows, they just have pigmentation defects.
An albino black man ... is still a black man.
Your attempt to skew the meaning of the proverb has failed. If you only look skin deep, you're part of the problem.
in contrast to the terrifying "Obama is a Muslim" nonsense in the States
Lets be clear, there is an EXTREMELY small minority of idiots with very large mouths, and a media who wants to sensationalize EVERYTHING that makes it look like there was some sort of actual issue with Obama being Muslim.
If the media didn't prop them up, no one would be heard making retarded statements about Osama/Obama or his religious preferences.
We are, in general, a little on edge with Muslims at the moment, but thats because there is a very small, but extremely troublesome group of people who spread hate under the flag of Islam. There are very few among us who are stupid enough to equate that with all Muslims, but the news media seeks them out.
Sadly, I have one of these ignorant people in my family. I do apologize for our morons, but they really are a tiny part of our population.
Please, please try not to let what you see on the in the media be how you view our country. Most of us are not like that.
The US has anti-discrimination laws as well. Whats your point? Having a law against something doesn't mean it magically goes away.
For example someone could be a street preacher but if they preached hatred or incited violence they're going to get arrested in most places.
So ... less free than the US...
In the US (unfortunately) it is completely (legally) acceptable to harass people at a funeral for soldiers killed in action ... with a rally cry of something like 'god hates fags' or some other stupid bullshit. Or to burn the flag. Or to join a hate group.
Then why is Assange afraid of Sweden?
You do realize that the second half of the post contradicts the first half, and that because you have been doing it as a side business, you've illustrated that its not really considered disposable, right?
Hell, even Apple repairs them for fucks sake. You pay a flat fee, give them your old device, they give you a refurbished device. They don't repair yours right away, they send it off to have it done in bulk, but it gets repaired none the less.
As for not looking inside ... seriously? Because Apple still hasn't figured out that iFixit is and that they'll have a tear down of it on the web, showing everyone whats in it within 10 minutes of it going on sale, usually BEFORE it goes on sale?
Do you really think the company with so much cash in its bank accounts it could buy about half of the European countries and not sweat it has no clue what goes on the Interwebz? You really think no one at Apple knows that its trivial to find a pentalobe driver if you actually look?
Since you pretty much always have to go with the crowd in order to survive in the modern world, by your retarded definition, everyone is a servant for everyone else.
1) How often are you opening your phone? WHY are you opening your phone so often that you need to have a screwdriver handy?
2) I've never, in my life, seen anyone who has given a fuck about the screws when buying a used device. None of the reselling sites care, no one cares out side of the tiny group of slashdotters who aren't going to buy one anyway. No one pays extra for phillips screws versus pentalobe because .... ALL THE REPAIR SITES ALREADY HAVE PENTALOBE DRIVERS to deal with all the phones they get that are normal.
You don't have any good reasons and you're struggling to make them up.
WHAT principal? Just because you have a conspiracy theory about Apple being evil and shutting people out of opening their phones doesn't make it true.
You're principal is non-existent since anyone who ACTUALLY wants to open their phone, can, easily.
You want Apple to produce an inferior product, so that if you want to, you can open the case ... but you don't actually have a reason to open it ... and even if you did (such as water damage), you are a 0.00001% of the population who does. And ... the tools are readily available if it actually bothered you enough to do more than whine about it.
You're principals are fucking retarded, but I'm sure they go with your OMFGAPPLEEVIL juice pretty well.
As an Apple convert, I suggest you just accept their 'way of doing things' for 2 weeks. Embrace it completely and accept it. Then decide if you hate it so much.
If you try to customize the shit out of everything, stick to Linux and Android.
What I found, and perhaps its because I got older and had more important things to do, is that Apple's devices, while not PERFECT, require far far less tweaking to use, once I accepted their way of doing things and 'go with the flow' it turned out that I actually LIKE the Apple way a lot.
Once you stop fighting it and accept for a few moments that they have put more effort into usability than you have, then it works out better. It won't fit into your 'work flow' until you adjust your workflow to work with it rather than trying to change it to fit into your work flow as it has been.
With that sad, do you realize how silly your attacks on them actually look? Have you actually compared those statements to other companies? Do you not realize they all do the same thing? Do you think that Google/Android are some how not EXACTLY the same as you stated above for iOS?
Do you really expect a device to let you do ANYTHING you want? So your phone can make you fly around magically? Do you want your phone to be like a Linux desktop where you constantly spend time maintaining it rather than just using it?
No real reason why I'd want to replace the screws in my phone (if I had an iphone) but I'd just want to.
Oh, so you're just being a disagreeable pain in the ass for no reason other than to have a reason to not like 'the man'? Well great, slashdot will cheer for you. No one else in the rest of the world will give a shit.
If you are so clumsy/accident prone that when you buy a phone, you're worried about being able to open it quickly to remove the battery because it got wet ...
Then you probably shouldn't be so stupid as to buy an iPhone in the first place, don't you think?
I can say this safely because there is no fucking way you're going to open the case faster than the water causes damage, no matter how quick or what screws you have. Even if you have the screw driver in your hand, with whatever head you want, and I drop your phone in glass of water in front of you, you will not get it open before the damage is done.
Right, because switching to pentalobe stopped how many people from taking apart an iPhone?
Let me answer for you:
0, zero, zilch, nada, not a fucking single person who WANTED to disassemble their iPhone was stopped by this change.
Contrary to whatever silly fantasy world you live in, 99.9999% of the population DOES NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT DISASSEMBLING THEIR PHONE. They just use the damn thing.
If you think Apple chose pentalobe (which has been a standard screw type available my entire life) to stop people from opening up their case to replace the soldered in battery, you're just a moron.
ProTip: I have pentalobe drivers from my father that are older than I am. They are not uncommon in older high end cameras where you need tiny screws that don't strip when you breath on them hard.
Phillips is designed for low quality, high volume assembly line work. Read that over and over again until you understand why apple doesn't use them anymore, on anything.
Oh, and my local Ace Hardware carries a pentalobe driver set, seems like they would have picked an obscure head rather than something I can pickup tools for at the hardware store down the street ... don't you think?
I remember having a Twinkie once, and it was one of the most disgusting "foods" I've ever eaten. And I've eaten spiders, scorpions and tripe.
I don't know if I'd tell people that, its more of a reflection on you than Twinkies.
Hrm, a few million in bonuses to a few people compared to paying salaries of 40k people ... yea, totally the same thing.
You do realize the rounding errors in salary payments cost more than those executive bonuses, right?
The end of the story was 'Unionized workers: go back to work or we're selling'. The union tried to bluff.
They got called on it and lost. No job is clearly better than a low paying job, isn't it?
And how well did the union help out those workers? Are they making money now? Did they get a raise when they went back to work at hostess? No, they didn't, in fact ... now they aren't unionized workers anymore and get paid less.
So I'm sorry, how exactly did the union do its job? Its job is to make the employees get better treatment at their jobs. Not having a job does not in any way count as better treatment. And if you're going to refuse to come to work, you're a moron to not recognize you may not have a job to go back to very long.
No, they aren't. They don't look good either.
This myth has been busted so many times its not funny.
Your statements are flat out lies.
Even frozen, they decay, though at a slower rate. Funny thing about sugars and chemical reactions, freezers don't stop them! Which is why you actually make certain sweets (mmmm candied strawberries) by adding a bunch of sugar and freezing them.
There is no way you've had them for more than a year and they still look edible.
No actual geeks are. We aren't, by definition, that stupid.
Twinkies are not a geek food. When CmdrTaco left, so did the only actual geek that worked at slashdot.
No one left at the organization is qualified to even know what geeks do, let alone act like they can tell others about it.
Fat fucks with no social skills who dwell in moms basement drooling over a computer are not geeks, they are just fat slobs in front of a computer.
slashdot's editors don't even actually know what geeks are. Very sad. At least they removed the News for Nerds tagline from the site.
A few million in management bonuses has exactly dick to do with the billions paid in wages each year. Get some perspective, the managements job is to do EXACTLY that. Its not a charity, its a business.
And lets remember that when hostess closed up shop, the union tried to get an injunction against the sale of assets to which the judge replied basically saying 'no, you got what you deserved'.
The union pushed too hard and lost, next time perhaps they won't be so quick to side with the greedy fucks in the union ... who also give themselves millions in bonuses when they do ... well pretty much ANYTHING.
Unions in America are a joke, they're just like lawyers. They don't actually accomplish anything, but do their best to drive up costs so they can take a bigger cut from the workers.
You need to stop thinking the union cares about the workers. Union management cares about the same thing company management does, they just bullshit you into believing otherwise,, and this is why they don't exist in any meaningful form in right to work states. When they can't use strong arm tactics to prevent people from working if they aren't part of the union, they cease to exist. Get the picture? They aren't your friends, stop being so naive.
Seriously?
Management said: If you strike, we'll close up shop as we can't stay in business.
The union went on strike anyway.
Management started selling the company.
The union TRIED to block it, but a court stepped in and said 'no, morons, you fucking ruined the company financially, they can not pay you now, you're strike got you exactly what they said it would get you'
You can cut this bullshit 'watch out for the little guy' crap, they hung themselves when they joined the shitty union.
Unions aren't for protecting workers, they are just another political machine used to rob you without making it obvious you're still someones tool, just a different someone. At least the company made it clear they aren't your friend, the union just says they are your support team while fucking you over and collecting more fees.
Turn in your card. No geek eats that crap. They are the butt of jokes about surviving a nuclear winter and out lasting the cockroaches, not something we actually eat. These things are false of course, Twinkies dont' last all that long at all on the shelf. Its just fun to make fun of them since they are made out of some things one would not normally consider being edible in its natural form.
Followers and attention whores, nothing more.
Their opinion doesn't matter, they are no different than me. They aren't special because they did it. They don't have some sort of magical insight so they can see the ultimate truth behind everyones posturing.
If they come out and approve of everyone doing the same shit they did without question, all it shows is they are looking for excuses and safety in numbers, not that these people are acting in our best interests.
You are incredibly naive.
Just because Congress authorized it doesn't make it legal.
Actually it does. Thats the way our government works. Congress, by definition, is the ONLY group who can make something legal.
And as you noticed, its legal UNTIL the supreme court says otherwise.
God, we're going to have to start spend more time on American Government in our schools, you guys have no fucking clue how your own government works.
That would be suicide.
Right, because the USG assassinates obnoxious little pricks who leak secrets ... except Assange is still alive and Manning is still breathing despite the fact that many prisoners in his prison would love to rip his head off and shit down his throat.
If the NSA wanted him dead, he would be.
Bastion of human rights? WTF?
He doesn't have any knowledge they don't already have. Hell, he doesn't have any knowledge I didn't already have. No one cares about him for anything other than political posturing. Once he's out of the news, his body will show up in a ditch.