I think your comments back up what I'm saying, not show its silly.
Iran and healthcare are huge issues which impact the daily lives of a lot of people in a significant way. Blizzard and what someone at Mozilla said... not so much.
At any rate everyone I'm sure has limited time and energy to expend on being outraged. Given that, I think the OP should be applying some perspective, as should you.
Well, it would stop me from bringing a suit. Even though I feel I have a good case, and even if there are very good odds i'd win, there is no such thing as a sure thing and the threat of having to pay no only my laywer fees but the oppositions is enough to deter me.
That isn't likely, because there is nothing that can compare to actual face to face interaction.
Bah, that's just nonsense, plain and simple. Why would I need to see your face to do my job? Or are blind people somehow useless?
Maybe we should just move closer to where we work and walk.
Completely unrealistic, especially in today's world of working one day laid off the next. Its not the 50s anymore, and the days of working for one company life-long is completely dead. And lets not forget about people's SO either.
That way we could get some exercise too (I've lost about 30 lbs since I stopped driving).
Yes, you can also do the same by eating less, which would have a better "green" impact than forcing everyone to move every few years.
This is a silly question, and one that has already been answered. Basically, if you don't think its fair, you can go to court to argue why the price being offered is not fair.
You were looking because I don't think it was there before. I previewed my profile the day after the changes, and indeed anyone could see my friends. I just tried it now, and now one can anymore. So either there was a glitch, or they snuck a change in.
Uh, the fact is that the public stuff is now on his celeberty page, which people can be fans of or not. He likely has a personal profile page, where he can friend people and people can friend him which is set to private.
Indeed you can find his actual profile page, and its heavily locked down... no pictures except a profile picture at all.
That's my point; the discussion about violence isn't black and white either. Is it always wrong to hit somebody? Not if they hit you first and you're defending yourself? How do you assess and handle threats? Run away isn't always the answer.
The first is likely to get you a child who ends up getting gangbanged on girls gone wild because they see sex as nothing
If that's what she wants, and she's not hurting herself (that, practicing safe sex), who are you to say its bad? Reverse it, one guy with alot of girls, and people would hardly expect a man NOT to do that.
Oh, and your child doesn't feel empathy? They don't understand the consequences of hurting others? Really? Both of my daughters and my son began to show signs of empathy before they could speak. They understood that hurting others was bad long before they knew there were differences between girls and boys.
Many chlidren think its funny to bite someone, until they themselves are bitten. You can't have empathy for someone if you haven't experienced the pain yourself. And even young children know the difference between boys and girls; they certainly know the difference between a man and a woman.
Actually, the article is far less irritating than the summary had led me to believe. Yes, it points out 10 games that are not recommended for children and teens. But it isn't trying to get the games banned (the original commonsensemedia article actually points out that these are good games), just trying to help parents make informed decisions.
What? The article is useless. Parents already have a big fucking M rating on the box to explain to them its not for kids. This article is just trying to inflame parents against the evil video games.
I hate to break this to you, but part of being a child is that they're not mature enough to understand the consequences of ANYTHING. Of course, this diminishes with age and exeperience. Why you're creating an artifical wall between sex and violence is not clear to me, because when talking about how much a child understands consequences, there's no difference.
Get a life. Everything that's going on in the world, and THIS outrages you? Either you need to get some perspective, or you spend most of your time outraged (and doing nothing about it).
I understand the word friend. I have fewer than 30 on my facebook, and some of those numbers are actually family. But I have friends I've known coming up on 25 years, who I trust, and even if I don't necessarly live near them, do make an effort to see at least occasionally. FB allows us to keep in touch more than we would otherwise.
I have friends, who, believe it not, I haven't talked to in months, but I absolutely know would be there if I needed them.
So please, piss off with your stereotypes of FB users. Some people do use it as a social life; others of use us it to complement our social life.
The OP is talking about quality of PRODUCTS in a free market. The only product you mention that fits is Fox News & Windows.
GWB is an elected offical, and he was JUST BARELY popular enough to get elected. 51 vs. 49%, IIRC. Whereas most people have CHOOSEN to eat at McDs more than once, and people CHOOSE windows. (Remember the stories about the linux dell laptops returned for Windows ones?)
Comcast is a monopoly; Tiger is a person, not a product or service, and we HAVE objective measurements of how good he is at golf; his stats. His cheating has nothing to do with his ability to play golf.
Finally, please stop distorting the point; the point was McDs is GOOD, not THE BEST. Popularity can tell us if somethings good... because if nobody likes it, it goes away!
Your point is interesting, because my spouse certainly has changed for the better since we've been together.
As far as your quip about psychologists, you have no idea what is talked about, because you're not there. Most people actually do have complex underlying issues, but its getting to them that's the problem.
A corporation being a legal entity doesn't make it a person in another other than name. It implies none of the behavior of an individual (or even group of people). But I guess you're too young to remember a time when IBM was the big evil corporation.
I think what it boils down to is that some people hate seeing success... maybe because they think they'll never achieve it. Or maybe for another reason, but I think its jealousy and / or some feeling of inadequacy.
As far as MS goes, I think its telling most of/. memes revolve around things that haven't been true for at least five years now, usually more.
Ya, good job failing to prove any point. Sorry, but you can't win a discussion with two words. Oh, did you forget the problem with Vista Ready was Intel throwing its weight around? Yup, MS made the wrong decision, but its not like there weren't coersive factors either.
Bah. No amount of marketing will make you like the taste of food. I see tons of seafood commercials; I still hate seafood.
the quality is low, but the cost is also low. A lot of people don't have the money for better fare.
Again, bah. McDs was doing fine before and after the recession started. People that can't afford better are probably better served cooking at home. It costs 2.50 for fries, 5.60 for 1lbs of ground BUFFALO (beef is cheaper, per pound) and $3 for roles (org. wheat rolls). That's $11.10, meanwhile a 1/4er meal runs about $5 a pop (assuming bottled water), or $20 for a family of four.
This "fast food is cheaper than cooking" is nonsense.
By "automatically" I mean "its publicly visible and there's no settings to change it anymore." It previously DID have privacy settings, and I had set them to friend only.
So yes, it is a change for people that care, because now 1) groups are ALWAYS visible, 2) your hometown is now ALWAYS visible, and 3) your friend list is now ALWAYS vislble... and there are NO settings to make them private, short of deleting the data, which I've done for 1 & 2, but I can't do anything about 3 short of canceling my account completely.
Well, enjoy your hermit lifestyle. Of course some of us also have friends AND family who use facebook to connect more than we otherwise would be able to.
And I'll disagree with your McDs statement; if the burgers WEREN'T good, they'd be out of business long before they were able to sell billions and billions. Or do you think people choke down McDs because they have no other choice?
Your groups are now public with no settings to indicate otherwise, as its your current residence. Somehow, my photos which had previously been friends only was set to friends of friends.
But its not totally true. Photos got set to "Friends of Friends," where previously I had "Friends only." Groups which you belong to are now automaticallyi public to everyone, and you can't control it should of exiting the groups. Your current residence is now also visble, and the only way to hide it is delete it (so nobody can see it).
I have been finding friends from HS that may not know where I live, and once I accepted they could see. Now they can't, because its gone completely.
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I think your comments back up what I'm saying, not show its silly.
Iran and healthcare are huge issues which impact the daily lives of a lot of people in a significant way. Blizzard and what someone at Mozilla said... not so much.
At any rate everyone I'm sure has limited time and energy to expend on being outraged. Given that, I think the OP should be applying some perspective, as should you.
Well, it would stop me from bringing a suit. Even though I feel I have a good case, and even if there are very good odds i'd win, there is no such thing as a sure thing and the threat of having to pay no only my laywer fees but the oppositions is enough to deter me.
It wouldn't deter a major corporation though.
That isn't likely, because there is nothing that can compare to actual face to face interaction.
Bah, that's just nonsense, plain and simple. Why would I need to see your face to do my job? Or are blind people somehow useless?
Maybe we should just move closer to where we work and walk.
Completely unrealistic, especially in today's world of working one day laid off the next. Its not the 50s anymore, and the days of working for one company life-long is completely dead. And lets not forget about people's SO either.
That way we could get some exercise too (I've lost about 30 lbs since I stopped driving).
Yes, you can also do the same by eating less, which would have a better "green" impact than forcing everyone to move every few years.
This is a silly question, and one that has already been answered. Basically, if you don't think its fair, you can go to court to argue why the price being offered is not fair.
I'm pretty sure the right of Eminate Domain is in the Consitution, via the Fifth Amendment.
You were looking because I don't think it was there before. I previewed my profile the day after the changes, and indeed anyone could see my friends. I just tried it now, and now one can anymore. So either there was a glitch, or they snuck a change in.
Uh, the fact is that the public stuff is now on his celeberty page, which people can be fans of or not. He likely has a personal profile page, where he can friend people and people can friend him which is set to private.
Indeed you can find his actual profile page, and its heavily locked down... no pictures except a profile picture at all.
That's my point; the discussion about violence isn't black and white either. Is it always wrong to hit somebody? Not if they hit you first and you're defending yourself? How do you assess and handle threats? Run away isn't always the answer.
The first is likely to get you a child who ends up getting gangbanged on girls gone wild because they see sex as nothing
If that's what she wants, and she's not hurting herself (that, practicing safe sex), who are you to say its bad? Reverse it, one guy with alot of girls, and people would hardly expect a man NOT to do that.
Oh, and your child doesn't feel empathy? They don't understand the consequences of hurting others? Really? Both of my daughters and my son began to show signs of empathy before they could speak. They understood that hurting others was bad long before they knew there were differences between girls and boys.
Many chlidren think its funny to bite someone, until they themselves are bitten. You can't have empathy for someone if you haven't experienced the pain yourself. And even young children know the difference between boys and girls; they certainly know the difference between a man and a woman.
Actually, the article is far less irritating than the summary had led me to believe. Yes, it points out 10 games that are not recommended for children and teens. But it isn't trying to get the games banned (the original commonsensemedia article actually points out that these are good games), just trying to help parents make informed decisions.
What? The article is useless. Parents already have a big fucking M rating on the box to explain to them its not for kids. This article is just trying to inflame parents against the evil video games.
Ya, so what? It's a game. Is that somehow worse than killing your opponent when you defeat them in Mortal Kombat?
I hate to break this to you, but part of being a child is that they're not mature enough to understand the consequences of ANYTHING. Of course, this diminishes with age and exeperience. Why you're creating an artifical wall between sex and violence is not clear to me, because when talking about how much a child understands consequences, there's no difference.
And yes, I am outraged.
Get a life. Everything that's going on in the world, and THIS outrages you? Either you need to get some perspective, or you spend most of your time outraged (and doing nothing about it).
I understand the word friend. I have fewer than 30 on my facebook, and some of those numbers are actually family. But I have friends I've known coming up on 25 years, who I trust, and even if I don't necessarly live near them, do make an effort to see at least occasionally. FB allows us to keep in touch more than we would otherwise.
I have friends, who, believe it not, I haven't talked to in months, but I absolutely know would be there if I needed them.
So please, piss off with your stereotypes of FB users. Some people do use it as a social life; others of use us it to complement our social life.
I love junk food. I also limit my intake an exercise. I'm willing to bet I'm way more fit than you are.
The OP is talking about quality of PRODUCTS in a free market. The only product you mention that fits is Fox News & Windows.
GWB is an elected offical, and he was JUST BARELY popular enough to get elected. 51 vs. 49%, IIRC. Whereas most people have CHOOSEN to eat at McDs more than once, and people CHOOSE windows. (Remember the stories about the linux dell laptops returned for Windows ones?)
Comcast is a monopoly; Tiger is a person, not a product or service, and we HAVE objective measurements of how good he is at golf; his stats. His cheating has nothing to do with his ability to play golf.
Finally, please stop distorting the point; the point was McDs is GOOD, not THE BEST. Popularity can tell us if somethings good... because if nobody likes it, it goes away!
Your point is interesting, because my spouse certainly has changed for the better since we've been together.
As far as your quip about psychologists, you have no idea what is talked about, because you're not there. Most people actually do have complex underlying issues, but its getting to them that's the problem.
A corporation being a legal entity doesn't make it a person in another other than name. It implies none of the behavior of an individual (or even group of people). But I guess you're too young to remember a time when IBM was the big evil corporation.
I think what it boils down to is that some people hate seeing success... maybe because they think they'll never achieve it. Or maybe for another reason, but I think its jealousy and / or some feeling of inadequacy.
As far as MS goes, I think its telling most of /. memes revolve around things that haven't been true for at least five years now, usually more.
Ya, good job failing to prove any point. Sorry, but you can't win a discussion with two words. Oh, did you forget the problem with Vista Ready was Intel throwing its weight around? Yup, MS made the wrong decision, but its not like there weren't coersive factors either.
Yes, because we know that companies and people are incapable of change.
Bah. No amount of marketing will make you like the taste of food. I see tons of seafood commercials; I still hate seafood.
the quality is low, but the cost is also low. A lot of people don't have the money for better fare.
Again, bah. McDs was doing fine before and after the recession started. People that can't afford better are probably better served cooking at home. It costs 2.50 for fries, 5.60 for 1lbs of ground BUFFALO (beef is cheaper, per pound) and $3 for roles (org. wheat rolls). That's $11.10, meanwhile a 1/4er meal runs about $5 a pop (assuming bottled water), or $20 for a family of four.
This "fast food is cheaper than cooking" is nonsense.
They have a choice. Yet they still choke down the burgers. That says more about them than they realize.
I think it really only says something about you. You assume they are just "choking" down the burgers, as if its not possible they're actually good.
And the fact that you realize that they "choke down" McD's burgers shows you do too.
Learn to read; I said no such thing. I was asking if YOU thought they were choking them down. I personally like burgers from McDs.
Given a choice between going hungry for a few hours and having McD's I'd choose to go hungry for a short while.
As I said, your post says more about your feelings more than it does about anyone elses.
But ya man, keep fighting the system man! Its popular so it MUST BE CRAP MAN!
By "automatically" I mean "its publicly visible and there's no settings to change it anymore." It previously DID have privacy settings, and I had set them to friend only.
So yes, it is a change for people that care, because now 1) groups are ALWAYS visible, 2) your hometown is now ALWAYS visible, and 3) your friend list is now ALWAYS vislble... and there are NO settings to make them private, short of deleting the data, which I've done for 1 & 2, but I can't do anything about 3 short of canceling my account completely.
Yes, and its gone.
Well, enjoy your hermit lifestyle. Of course some of us also have friends AND family who use facebook to connect more than we otherwise would be able to.
And I'll disagree with your McDs statement; if the burgers WEREN'T good, they'd be out of business long before they were able to sell billions and billions. Or do you think people choke down McDs because they have no other choice?
Your groups are now public with no settings to indicate otherwise, as its your current residence. Somehow, my photos which had previously been friends only was set to friends of friends.
But its not totally true. Photos got set to "Friends of Friends," where previously I had "Friends only." Groups which you belong to are now automaticallyi public to everyone, and you can't control it should of exiting the groups. Your current residence is now also visble, and the only way to hide it is delete it (so nobody can see it).
I have been finding friends from HS that may not know where I live, and once I accepted they could see. Now they can't, because its gone completely.