I buy Levis from Macy's all the time, and they holding up just fine. I actually got rid of some because I'm no longer a 36" but they had no holes. Gap jeans on the other hand...
Maybe you should figure out the difference between a 505 and a 550 before you bash them..
Some companies have adapted by staying away from Walmart and tried to link the Walmart brand with crappy quality.
No, companies that don't deal with Walmart have no need to try and link Walmark with low quality. That happens as soon as you purchase something from them; say a shirt that falls apart on its inital wash, or a lawn mower that dies after one summer. Or flea mediciation that has a high rate of mortality due to alergic reactions.
I didn't need anyone to tell me that Walmart sells cheap garbage, I learnt that all on my own. Hence why I only advise people to buy diapers there... who cares about quality when the product will be shit into once and thrown away. That's about all their other products are good for as well.
That's why sysadmins at big companies waste all sorts of time testing out these updates before rolling them out.
I'd fire any sysadmin that blindly rolls out updates to Linux / Unix machines. Free software is not immune to such problems. I know, because I did run Linux. Updates broke other applications. Opps.
Bit rot is inevitable and sooner or later their computers don't work at all.
Bit rot is a myth. Of course I expect you to use myths to try and use as arguing points.
Things are much better in the free software world, where things are tested and can easily be fixed before being pushed onto the public. Things are broken from time to time but those are exceptions that prove the rule.
Its been a very, very long time since updates have broken a large number of users programs. Sorry, MS has improved, whether you like it or not. Updates breaking systems are also exceptions today, not the rule.
Reasonable standards and excellent package management take the dread out of updates and software experimentation.
Wow. Only a troll will tell you with a straight face that package managment on Lix is "excellent." I guess that's why there's no more RPM hell right?
Knowing you can install and rip software out, even kernels, without much harm is one of the great advantages of free software.
I'm not sure you've ever really used a Linux system, as this just isn't true. It also doesn't help those you claim to be considered about; IT departments (who aren't coders) and home users (certainly not coders). Oh well.
It would shake my faith, that's for sure. And yet, I really have faith that it won't happen.
I ask because I thought I had read that they were beginning to raise funds to rebuild the template. I don't know if they were planning on doing animal sacrifice though.
That's the impossibility of understand God, who I do believe doesn't deal with time considerations. Man happened, as I believe God always knows. Man needed a lesson as to God's grace, so the Old Testament proved man was fallible and imperfect. God still is grace and love, so God provided that love permanently for all by finishing the process around 70AD.
Note that I'm not saying I'm right, but the "prove it" person in me is very comfortable with the comparisons in history (63AD-70AD as the "Second Coming") verses taking Revelation literally. For me, Matthew 24:32-34 puts Christ in an uncomfortable position as a liar if I accept the Futurist Evangelical perspective. "Generation" always meant "these people for 40 years." If Christ lied about the timing of His Second Coming, then everything else is a lie, and useless. I hold to believe that Christ was the Savior, was telling the truth, and did come to complete things forever and ever in that very generation. For everyone, believer or atheist or Muslim or Hindu or Flying Spaghetti Monsterites.
At least your belief is more consistent than many others. Still not enough to get me believing again though.:-) But at least it seems more reasonable, and not blindly repeating what you've been told and worse, forcing those beliefs on others.
A lot of companies in rural areas won't bother running what really amounts to the last mile of lines needed for DSL and cable. The reason is simple -- they will never recover the cost of running the line.
No, they'd recover the costs eventually. They just don't want to wait as long as it would take.
Of course... the idea that it can even happen just ONCE is foreign to people like me. It is not in my genes to hit people. Some people tend to be more aggressive than others, and some people just know how to channel their aggression better. For those people, there will be no thought of excuses.
Well, I have to say you're full of shit. Every human has the capacity, all it takes is enough pushing.
I don't have a reference, but I do know some cops, and so do many of my friends.
No where did I say the "system" was any better for women either; being that my wife was once married to an abuser, I know all too well where the system failed her. I merely said that many times the man is arrested when really it should be the woman. And again, that goes back to knowing cops and friends of cops.
Hmm, very interesting way of thinking. The only problem would seem to ascribe a flaw to god, that he could not love man because man was imperfect. Since that is a trait man values, I would think it would not show up in a perfect being.
I'm curious.. what would you say if they did rebuild the temple and began the animal offerings again?
First, I need to say that you're an ass. Its because of people like you no one can have a rational argument anymore, because you're too busy trying to paint those that disagree as evildoers.
No one said that it would be ok to hit someone, even once. The objects have been against calling someone that did that a wife beater, which implies there's a pattern, even if there isn't.
How can you call one incident a pattern? You assume that they've done it before even without evidence. Yes, you are whats wrong with people today; quick to judge, even without any evidence at all. You speculate and call it fact. I cannot wait for the day you fall into your own trap.
Sorry, what's your argument? That the incident in question didn't happen? Its not like the scenario is unheard of, I've heard plenty of similar stories. The fact that it was on national TV and no one blinked I think goes to show how accepting Americans are of blindly faulting the man.
Yes, I think it has a great deal to do with protectionism. Its not like France hasn't done that before, going as far back as Louis XIV.
The laws do what they intend to do; protect local French bookstores. To say the intent is to keep a wide selection is silly; you don't need local French bookstores to have a wide selection, almost any bookstore can find a book for you if you ask. Only a naive person would buy thats the aim of the law.
The same site also has a definition of literacy, which includes comprehension. At least I provided some stats.. you provide nothing but a rant you found online.
Ask any English teacher over the age of 50 what they think of today's literacy rates. They'll generally tell you that kids today are idiots, and most can't comprehend Shakespeare let alone the newspaper.
Ya, ok. Of course a person over 50 will tell you kids today are idiots. Of course that same purpose probably never even took a course in trig either and yell "get off my lawn!", so I think its safe to say you need to take that with a grain of salt.
I'm not sure what reading the queen's English from 400 years ago has to do with literacy in today's English. Languages change and evolve, and good English teachers will agree that getting used to the dialect in Shakespeare can be difficult. Not because people are dumb, but because no one speaks like the people from that time anymore.
I don't know where you were taught evolution, but whenever I was taught about it the word "theory" was always part of it.. as in "the theory of evolution." If you don't know that "theory" doesn't mean "fact," I think you have other issues, and its not the teaching of science that is the problem.
You claim the current scientific world is "hardly scientific," yet with it we've been to the moon and back. Maybe you're confused with the sound-bite headlines that the news throws around after reading the abstract of a scientific paper.
Indeed. I worked as a cashier at a grocery store as well, and it was amazing how many people would try to confuse you with numbers to get back more change then they should.
and what He finished on his second coming (70 AD, the day the ancient Israelites were destroyed and banished forever, never to return). That's done, it's over with. Live in God's glorious Kingdom today (here on Earth) if you like. If you don't like, don't. It's up to you, really, but please don't fear eternal punishment because it isn't in the Bible.
Sorry, but I thought after the second coming, the world was supposed to be free of war and poverty and such. What makes you think the second coming already happened?
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Ahh. So they get you drunk with wine before having you sign a cell phone plan. Genius!
I buy Levis from Macy's all the time, and they holding up just fine. I actually got rid of some because I'm no longer a 36" but they had no holes. Gap jeans on the other hand...
Maybe you should figure out the difference between a 505 and a 550 before you bash them..
Ya, they really are fucked. Being sold without lowering quality in a nationwide store. What a failure..
Some companies have adapted by staying away from Walmart and tried to link the Walmart brand with crappy quality.
No, companies that don't deal with Walmart have no need to try and link Walmark with low quality. That happens as soon as you purchase something from them; say a shirt that falls apart on its inital wash, or a lawn mower that dies after one summer. Or flea mediciation that has a high rate of mortality due to alergic reactions.
I didn't need anyone to tell me that Walmart sells cheap garbage, I learnt that all on my own. Hence why I only advise people to buy diapers there... who cares about quality when the product will be shit into once and thrown away. That's about all their other products are good for as well.
Ahh, the old troll is back.
That's why sysadmins at big companies waste all sorts of time testing out these updates before rolling them out.
I'd fire any sysadmin that blindly rolls out updates to Linux / Unix machines. Free software is not immune to such problems. I know, because I did run Linux. Updates broke other applications. Opps.
Bit rot is inevitable and sooner or later their computers don't work at all.
Bit rot is a myth. Of course I expect you to use myths to try and use as arguing points.
Things are much better in the free software world, where things are tested and can easily be fixed before being pushed onto the public. Things are broken from time to time but those are exceptions that prove the rule.
Its been a very, very long time since updates have broken a large number of users programs. Sorry, MS has improved, whether you like it or not. Updates breaking systems are also exceptions today, not the rule.
Reasonable standards and excellent package management take the dread out of updates and software experimentation.
Wow. Only a troll will tell you with a straight face that package managment on Lix is "excellent." I guess that's why there's no more RPM hell right?
Knowing you can install and rip software out, even kernels, without much harm is one of the great advantages of free software.
I'm not sure you've ever really used a Linux system, as this just isn't true. It also doesn't help those you claim to be considered about; IT departments (who aren't coders) and home users (certainly not coders). Oh well.
It would shake my faith, that's for sure. And yet, I really have faith that it won't happen.
:-) But at least it seems more reasonable, and not blindly repeating what you've been told and worse, forcing those beliefs on others.
I ask because I thought I had read that they were beginning to raise funds to rebuild the template. I don't know if they were planning on doing animal sacrifice though.
That's the impossibility of understand God, who I do believe doesn't deal with time considerations. Man happened, as I believe God always knows. Man needed a lesson as to God's grace, so the Old Testament proved man was fallible and imperfect. God still is grace and love, so God provided that love permanently for all by finishing the process around 70AD.
Note that I'm not saying I'm right, but the "prove it" person in me is very comfortable with the comparisons in history (63AD-70AD as the "Second Coming") verses taking Revelation literally. For me, Matthew 24:32-34 puts Christ in an uncomfortable position as a liar if I accept the Futurist Evangelical perspective. "Generation" always meant "these people for 40 years." If Christ lied about the timing of His Second Coming, then everything else is a lie, and useless. I hold to believe that Christ was the Savior, was telling the truth, and did come to complete things forever and ever in that very generation. For everyone, believer or atheist or Muslim or Hindu or Flying Spaghetti Monsterites.
At least your belief is more consistent than many others. Still not enough to get me believing again though.
That will happen to those that chose to automatically download and install updates. In other words, they get just what they want, ALL updates.
If you don't know how to turn off the updates, you probably won't care much that IE 7 appears.
Perhaps you're forgetting the analog TV shut off in 2009? That will free much space in the TV spectrum.
A lot of companies in rural areas won't bother running what really amounts to the last mile of lines needed for DSL and cable. The reason is simple -- they will never recover the cost of running the line.
No, they'd recover the costs eventually. They just don't want to wait as long as it would take.
Of course... the idea that it can even happen just ONCE is foreign to people like me. It is not in my genes to hit people. Some people tend to be more aggressive than others, and some people just know how to channel their aggression better. For those people, there will be no thought of excuses.
Well, I have to say you're full of shit. Every human has the capacity, all it takes is enough pushing.
If you're not using IE, how would you notice it was updated?
No one has to do anything. If you don't want IE7, its easy enough not to get it. It won't be forced onto anyone's machine that doesn't want it.
I don't have a reference, but I do know some cops, and so do many of my friends.
No where did I say the "system" was any better for women either; being that my wife was once married to an abuser, I know all too well where the system failed her. I merely said that many times the man is arrested when really it should be the woman. And again, that goes back to knowing cops and friends of cops.
Hmm, very interesting way of thinking. The only problem would seem to ascribe a flaw to god, that he could not love man because man was imperfect. Since that is a trait man values, I would think it would not show up in a perfect being.
I'm curious.. what would you say if they did rebuild the temple and began the animal offerings again?
Ahh, I see. I'd say you were a troll, but its too painfully clear you're being 100% honest.
Please, never take up science or anything that requires logic and reason.
People like me that haven't hit anyone? Or do you mean people that point out you're not acting on logic, reason, and evidence to support your claim?
First, I need to say that you're an ass. Its because of people like you no one can have a rational argument anymore, because you're too busy trying to paint those that disagree as evildoers.
No one said that it would be ok to hit someone, even once. The objects have been against calling someone that did that a wife beater, which implies there's a pattern, even if there isn't.
How can you call one incident a pattern? You assume that they've done it before even without evidence. Yes, you are whats wrong with people today; quick to judge, even without any evidence at all. You speculate and call it fact. I cannot wait for the day you fall into your own trap.
Sorry, what's your argument? That the incident in question didn't happen? Its not like the scenario is unheard of, I've heard plenty of similar stories. The fact that it was on national TV and no one blinked I think goes to show how accepting Americans are of blindly faulting the man.
Yes, I think it has a great deal to do with protectionism. Its not like France hasn't done that before, going as far back as Louis XIV.
The laws do what they intend to do; protect local French bookstores. To say the intent is to keep a wide selection is silly; you don't need local French bookstores to have a wide selection, almost any bookstore can find a book for you if you ask. Only a naive person would buy thats the aim of the law.
The same site also has a definition of literacy, which includes comprehension. At least I provided some stats.. you provide nothing but a rant you found online.
Ask any English teacher over the age of 50 what they think of today's literacy rates. They'll generally tell you that kids today are idiots, and most can't comprehend Shakespeare let alone the newspaper.
Ya, ok. Of course a person over 50 will tell you kids today are idiots. Of course that same purpose probably never even took a course in trig either and yell "get off my lawn!", so I think its safe to say you need to take that with a grain of salt.
I'm not sure what reading the queen's English from 400 years ago has to do with literacy in today's English. Languages change and evolve, and good English teachers will agree that getting used to the dialect in Shakespeare can be difficult. Not because people are dumb, but because no one speaks like the people from that time anymore.
I don't know where you were taught evolution, but whenever I was taught about it the word "theory" was always part of it.. as in "the theory of evolution." If you don't know that "theory" doesn't mean "fact," I think you have other issues, and its not the teaching of science that is the problem.
You claim the current scientific world is "hardly scientific," yet with it we've been to the moon and back. Maybe you're confused with the sound-bite headlines that the news throws around after reading the abstract of a scientific paper.
Indeed. I worked as a cashier at a grocery store as well, and it was amazing how many people would try to confuse you with numbers to get back more change then they should.
and what He finished on his second coming (70 AD, the day the ancient Israelites were destroyed and banished forever, never to return). That's done, it's over with. Live in God's glorious Kingdom today (here on Earth) if you like. If you don't like, don't. It's up to you, really, but please don't fear eternal punishment because it isn't in the Bible.
Sorry, but I thought after the second coming, the world was supposed to be free of war and poverty and such. What makes you think the second coming already happened?
You're an idiot. Maybe you should check this. Notice that US literacy rate is at 99% In case you forgot, 99 is GREATER than 91 or 97.
Yes, evidence does not equal proof. I don't think anyone has produced a shred of evidence that there is a "god."
Care to sight the evidence that goes against evolution? I'd like to see it, since lots of people claim it exists, but never back it up.