I was talking about the texter being selfish and undisciplined not the cop. If the news article is actually telling it staight the cop has far more serious mental issues than that.
>> Me, I see texting to check on your children as far more reasonable than to talk with your friends, and as disturbances go, it's a good enough reason for me. Same with a heart doctor I know. Doesn't turn his phone off. He takes emergency calls.
If you choose to go to a movie even though your personal situation is so fragile there would be serious issues if you turn your damn phone off for 90 minutes thats a good indicator you shouldn't be going to the movie in the first place. If you do anyway, then at least have the manners to temporarily step outside to text or whatever rather than force your needs on others. Nobody else should have to be inconvenienced by somones incessant need to text, tweet and update their facebook status 24/7, which is what its actually mostly about these days, especially with teens. Even if your doctor friend might be on emergency call during a movie I bet he would step outside to take/continue a call rather than talk in the auditorium. You already said you feel trailers are not so important so you wouldn't miss anything by stepping out temporarily anyway.
I put it down to a society with fucked up values, such as encouraging/rewarding people for being selfish, and limiting parents ability to discipline their own kids.
I agree. I wasn't advocating such a law, just observing that its a sad reflection on US society that apparently the only way some people will act considerately is because of a law.
>> texting during the previews is even less of a wrong.
Says who? the "please turn your cellphone off" trailers dont differentiate. many people (me included) like watching the upcoming movie trailers. You shouldn't text in the auditorium at all.
>> But I think he might have been texting about his 3-year old daughter, which is more like checking up on her, which is reasonable enough.
Not at all. It isn't any more reasonable than if he was texting his friends. He's still creating the same amount of disturbance to others regardless of his personal reasons.
If he actually needs to check his daughter is OK then he's a bad parent for leaving her in a situation where she might not be, and he should at least go outside to text, if not go home to care for her properly.
No Net neutrality was a actually good and is kind of the opposite of what you're saying.
The key is here:
'Given that the Commission has chosen to classify broadband providers in a manner that exempts them from treatment as common carriers'
The commission was corrupted by the RIAA/MPAA to make ISPs different to common carriers, as that makes them responsible for the actual data they pass. So now the RIAA/MPAA can act as the censors of the whole internet and make all ISPs have to prevent access to any data or site they alone decide is 'undesireable', which amounts to anything from business competitiors like the Pirate Bay etc.
I know its only one example, but it supports my personal theory that US cops are programmed by their job to think that you can fix every problem with a gun, and that they are arrogant enough to think that shooting people is always OK if you are (or maybe ever were) a cop.
The texter was very much in the wrong too though. Every movie I've ever been to includes at least one info-trailer to let people know that phoning and texting are not OK in the theater. For all you saying it was 'only' during the previews, the trailer never says anything about "only during the main movie". And what about people who enjoy watching the previews?
>> "The man using the phone explained to the irritated man that he was simply texting his 3-year-old daughter"
This made me laugh as it so represents the apparent socialised blame culture in the US...like somehow the age/gender/personal relationship of the recipient is somehow now a justifiable reason for why everyone should put up with his selfishness...and what kind of parent gives their 3 year old kid a cellphone anyway?
so depending on the stereo implementation method, per-eye will be 1920x540 or 960*1080. Sigh. Come on guys. Is it really soooo frikkin impossible to have a seperate 1920x1080 panel per eye?
yep I can see that. Cars that come with FastNFurious modes will cost 3x as much as normal cars to buy and insure, and will drive upto a scary 5mph faster, while injecting fake engine sounds through the stereo, like BMW already does.
so what happens if you get more than say 1 claim per year even though actually none of them was your fault? Does your insurance still go up? If so that idea sucks ass.
Not that I'd like it, but I'm guessing insurance companies will switch to selling 'normal' insurance that is only valid if/when you have your car in self-driving mode. If you want to be covered all the time it will cost you a lot more. Conditional insurance is somewhat similar to what they already do in Germany. Even if it is legal to go > 90mph on the autobahn, in most cases your insurance becomes invalid > 90Mph.
>> But the whole point of a self driving car is that it is safer driving in a self-driving car with your eyes closed than in a non-self driving car with open eyes.
Maybe thats the selling pitch of said cars, but I for one don't believe that they would actually be safer in practice at all.
>> I live in Massachusetts and our schools are rated some of the best in the world.
By what standard? I'd guess that its a US-based one, or at least one by a pro-US organisation.
>> At last check eighty six percent of adults in Massachusetts have a bachelors.
That alone says that your academic standards are too low. Assuming people in Mass. are more or less the same as those from the rest of the planet, it shouldn't even be possible for that high a percentage of people to get a degree (without the barrier being way too low).
>> There is no evidence that the people who disagree with you are less intelligent than yourself. That is just your ego making your feel good. Your fear of people who think differently is predictable but also kind of lame.
Firstly, ignorance and lack of intelligence aren't the same thing. At no point did I say they were. You are the one playing games with semantics, not me.
>> They know about dinosours, carbon dating and DNA. There is no evidence that the people who disagree with you are less intelligent than yourself.
Facts remain facts, whether someone chooses to believe in them or not. It is therefore self evident that those people are either ignorant of the actual facts (even though they may think they aren't), or they aren't intelligent enough to grasp the meaning of the facts. I'll leave it to you to decide if they are ignorant or unintelligent (or both), but they are necessarily at least one.
You're just playing with semantics. I would guess the question was most likely interpreted in its intended form by at least nearly all those asked it.
So do you think Evolution is happening at all, and is the most likely explanation for our existence, or do you have an interesting alternative hypothesis? If so please share.
I am originally from Europe and now living in the US. I have an 8 yr old son and am appalled at the low standard of education he is receiving here, even in supposedly top schools.
I am therefore not surprised that 1/3 of all Americans are so scarily ignorant that they have to rely on superstition to understand even the basics. I see this as just more confirmation of how dangerously powerful churches in the US are, and how broken the US education system is, even compared to most 3rd world countries.
The US approach reminds me of the Eurpoean dark ages, when cartographers used to write "Here Be Dragons" on parts of the map to avoid admitting that they didn't actually know what was there at all.
I agree we should have expected it, not because it *had* to happen, but because US judges are just as corrupt and self-interested as US politicians. They won't ever do anything to rule against the system, no matter how screwed up the system's behaviour has become, because its the same system thats giving them their power, status and wealth.
>> Our military and law enforcement absolutely must be able to use all means to catch the bad guys.
Sorry but thats crazy talk. You've totally bought into the brainwashing. Yours is exactly the same excuse all dictatorships, terrorists and psychopaths use. Once we start acting like them, even just in order to beat them, we have already lost because we have become no different from them.
>>> 'I really hate that the Playstation 4 is limited to sharing on Facebook and I really like that the Xbox One saves to my Skydrive,
Translated: I believe you are all stupid enough to not spot the obvious inconsistency in my claiming to really hate one proprietary locked down site but loving another. I also have a vested interest in only promoting and saying good things about Microsoft products.
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I was talking about the texter being selfish and undisciplined not the cop. If the news article is actually telling it staight the cop has far more serious mental issues than that.
>> Me, I see texting to check on your children as far more reasonable than to talk with your friends, and as disturbances go, it's a good enough reason for me. Same with a heart doctor I know. Doesn't turn his phone off. He takes emergency calls.
If you choose to go to a movie even though your personal situation is so fragile there would be serious issues if you turn your damn phone off for 90 minutes thats a good indicator you shouldn't be going to the movie in the first place.
If you do anyway, then at least have the manners to temporarily step outside to text or whatever rather than force your needs on others. Nobody else should have to be inconvenienced by somones incessant need to text, tweet and update their facebook status 24/7, which is what its actually mostly about these days, especially with teens.
Even if your doctor friend might be on emergency call during a movie I bet he would step outside to take/continue a call rather than talk in the auditorium.
You already said you feel trailers are not so important so you wouldn't miss anything by stepping out temporarily anyway.
I put it down to a society with fucked up values, such as encouraging/rewarding people for being selfish, and limiting parents ability to discipline their own kids.
I've already been married, am a parent and own 3 houses. You were saying?....
Wait, you're NOT american and you don't know the difference between YOUR and YOU'RE? wow.
So what? many people (including me) like watching the upcoming movie trailers too.
I agree. I wasn't advocating such a law, just observing that its a sad reflection on US society that apparently the only way some people will act considerately is because of a law.
>> texting during the previews is even less of a wrong.
Says who? the "please turn your cellphone off" trailers dont differentiate. many people (me included) like watching the upcoming movie trailers. You shouldn't text in the auditorium at all.
>> But I think he might have been texting about his 3-year old daughter, which is more like checking up on her, which is reasonable enough.
Not at all. It isn't any more reasonable than if he was texting his friends. He's still creating the same amount of disturbance to others regardless of his personal reasons.
If he actually needs to check his daughter is OK then he's a bad parent for leaving her in a situation where she might not be, and he should at least go outside to text, if not go home to care for her properly.
>> when did it become *illegal* to text or answer the phone during a movie? Last I checked, it never was.
Yeah its crazy that some asshats need it to become an actual law before they will be considerate to others.
No Net neutrality was a actually good and is kind of the opposite of what you're saying.
The key is here:
'Given that the Commission has chosen to classify broadband providers in a manner that exempts them from treatment as common carriers'
The commission was corrupted by the RIAA/MPAA to make ISPs different to common carriers, as that makes them responsible for the actual data they pass. So now the RIAA/MPAA can act as the censors of the whole internet and make all ISPs have to prevent access to any data or site they alone decide is 'undesireable', which amounts to anything from business competitiors like the Pirate Bay etc.
I know its only one example, but it supports my personal theory that US cops are programmed by their job to think that you can fix every problem with a gun, and that they are arrogant enough to think that shooting people is always OK if you are (or maybe ever were) a cop.
The texter was very much in the wrong too though. Every movie I've ever been to includes at least one info-trailer to let people know that phoning and texting are not OK in the theater. For all you saying it was 'only' during the previews, the trailer never says anything about "only during the main movie". And what about people who enjoy watching the previews?
>> "The man using the phone explained to the irritated man that he was simply texting his 3-year-old daughter"
This made me laugh as it so represents the apparent socialised blame culture in the US...like somehow the age/gender/personal relationship of the recipient is somehow now a justifiable reason for why everyone should put up with his selfishness. ..and what kind of parent gives their 3 year old kid a cellphone anyway?
> 1920x1080 across the field of vision
so depending on the stereo implementation method, per-eye will be 1920x540 or 960*1080.
Sigh. Come on guys.
Is it really soooo frikkin impossible to have a seperate 1920x1080 panel per eye?
So does this mean the horse can be drunk?
yep I can see that. Cars that come with FastNFurious modes will cost 3x as much as normal cars to buy and insure, and will drive upto a scary 5mph faster, while injecting fake engine sounds through the stereo, like BMW already does.
so what happens if you get more than say 1 claim per year even though actually none of them was your fault?
Does your insurance still go up? If so that idea sucks ass.
Not that I'd like it, but I'm guessing insurance companies will switch to selling 'normal' insurance that is only valid if/when you have your car in self-driving mode.
If you want to be covered all the time it will cost you a lot more.
Conditional insurance is somewhat similar to what they already do in Germany. Even if it is legal to go > 90mph on the autobahn, in most cases your insurance becomes invalid > 90Mph.
>> But the whole point of a self driving car is that it is safer driving in a self-driving car with your eyes closed than in a non-self driving car with open eyes.
Maybe thats the selling pitch of said cars, but I for one don't believe that they would actually be safer in practice at all.
If uncle sam can do it, what is to stop some hacker gang from doing the same thing?
If you're really concerned about security on your individual systems, DONT USE WINDOWS. There, fixed it for ya.
>> I live in Massachusetts and our schools are rated some of the best in the world.
By what standard? I'd guess that its a US-based one, or at least one by a pro-US organisation.
>> At last check eighty six percent of adults in Massachusetts have a bachelors.
That alone says that your academic standards are too low. Assuming people in Mass. are more or less the same as those from the rest of the planet, it shouldn't even be possible for that high a percentage of people to get a degree (without the barrier being way too low).
>> There is no evidence that the people who disagree with you are less intelligent than yourself. That is just your ego making your feel good. Your fear of people who think differently is predictable but also kind of lame.
Firstly, ignorance and lack of intelligence aren't the same thing. At no point did I say they were. You are the one playing games with semantics, not me.
>> They know about dinosours, carbon dating and DNA. There is no evidence that the people who disagree with you are less intelligent than yourself.
Facts remain facts, whether someone chooses to believe in them or not. It is therefore self evident that those people are either ignorant of the actual facts (even though they may think they aren't), or they aren't intelligent enough to grasp the meaning of the facts. I'll leave it to you to decide if they are ignorant or unintelligent (or both), but they are necessarily at least one.
You're just playing with semantics. I would guess the question was most likely interpreted in its intended form by at least nearly all those asked it.
So do you think Evolution is happening at all, and is the most likely explanation for our existence, or do you have an interesting alternative hypothesis? If so please share.
I am originally from Europe and now living in the US. I have an 8 yr old son and am appalled at the low standard of education he is receiving here, even in supposedly top schools.
I am therefore not surprised that 1/3 of all Americans are so scarily ignorant that they have to rely on superstition to understand even the basics. I see this as just more confirmation of how dangerously powerful churches in the US are, and how broken the US education system is, even compared to most 3rd world countries.
The US approach reminds me of the Eurpoean dark ages, when cartographers used to write "Here Be Dragons" on parts of the map to avoid admitting that they didn't actually know what was there at all.
I agree we should have expected it, not because it *had* to happen, but because US judges are just as corrupt and self-interested as US politicians. They won't ever do anything to rule against the system, no matter how screwed up the system's behaviour has become, because its the same system thats giving them their power, status and wealth.
>> Our military and law enforcement absolutely must be able to use all means to catch the bad guys.
Sorry but thats crazy talk. You've totally bought into the brainwashing. Yours is exactly the same excuse all dictatorships, terrorists and psychopaths use. Once we start acting like them, even just in order to beat them, we have already lost because we have become no different from them.
>>> 'I really hate that the Playstation 4 is limited to sharing on Facebook and I really like that the Xbox One saves to my Skydrive,
Translated:
I believe you are all stupid enough to not spot the obvious inconsistency in my claiming to really hate one proprietary locked down site but loving another. I also have a vested interest in only promoting and saying good things about Microsoft products.