everytime you look at it, just remember all the poor people you had to screw over to make enough money that you can just drop it on something like this.
answers the first...
I was just like "who the hell would buy something like that."
Denying the distribution of condoms to africa because ABSTINENCE IS TEH KEY!!!11ONE
or the many "evil" countries that america has sanctions on (between iraq gulfwar and gulfwar2 is a perfect example) which do nothing to the leaders but severly impact the civilian populations?
I love the examples you picked because they are the easiest to disprove.
And you have the ultimate biased opinion of the usa, you live there. Only people who live in the usa have a positive opinion of the usa. So is the entire rest of the world biased, or is it you?
Because when they die and are beamed up to heaven, their old arm will be waiting.. And i dont think it'll be pleased with your new best friend. (its a trick get an axe)
"So, it spends $10,000,000 developing something even better. 6 months later, Nokia had that copied and out on their new phones as well, also undercutting your price."
Considering im not moterola (who would have guessed!), and the resulting knock off products are a direct benifit to me the consumer (driving prices down), i fail to see why i should give a rats ass about motorola. Then, i hear you saying, it will stifle inovation!, to witch i would respond that if no one innovates then theres no new products to buy and no one makes any money. It is in the companies best interest to roll out new features to the consumer in order to have you buy their product. this will not end.
the other thing thats important to mention is that most pharma research starts off in the universities under provincial grants for research and such. So its really the tax payers paying for all these wonderful advances, and then paying again to see the benifits of them. Socialize pharma companies today so we can have aids cures instead of impotancy drugs for baby boomers trying to recapture their youth...
i say 'could of' all the time. it would be easy to write that if you are writing down your thoughts. I wouldnt even consider it wrong really, because its how you pronounce the word. emphasising the 'have' in 'could have' makes it more formal or something. when i say both out loud, definately the extra æffort put into saying 'have' makes the sentance seem more clunky and formal.
also when you pronouncing it 'could of' it makes it seem more, how do i put it, influencing? like its more of a phrase that opens (inspires directed doubt in?) the mind. It makes you start seeing it as more of a possibility, just like saying just 'could' would have over 'could have'. But as always, IANALinguist so i dont know the technical term for 'inspires directed doubt'. When you overpronouncing the 'have' it makes me less likely to believe the could, whatever the could was referring to, than if i just say 'could of' and kind of trail off to let your mind wander around it. noam chomsky would know the correct way to describe it. he knows everything.
"Honestly I think alot of it is that our society is one in which it is very easy to isolate yourself. Easy to interact and be around people all the time without ever really having meaningful relations with them. Easy to get cut out from any social scene."
you must be addicted to people. get the strait jacket!
yeah everything you said was definately spot on, but i think that the only thing you really enjoy is doing things with people. If i had a roomate at all, much less one that wanted me to get off my ass and do shit all the time, i would kill them.
Well since there is no such thing as a dell store, your point is rendered null and void. Any unbranded PC shop has a general 1 year parts 3 years laybour on any machine they sell. this is standaed in canada and im sure something similar is standard everywhere else. A problem that can be fixed in short order ( being called a genius for fixing a file association hows that for ego! ) most shops will do for free.
"Don't let other people choose your brand for you"
doesnt that really negate your whole post, this whole thread????
What you have described is an advanced RMA. Every company does this. The fact that they thought of you too low minded to swap out a drive is because they are apple. Any other company would have shipped you the new drive, as you say, advanced rma, and expected you to do it yourself. Swapping out an exact like part isnt exactly rocket surgery.
K well i had my bosses ipod that the hard drive died out of waranty and they WOULDNT EVEN FIX IT FOR CASH.. so now it sits dead in the bottom of my desk.
"if more than 20% of iPod users ever plug their iPod into more than one computer, I'll eat my iPod."
Get munching bucko because at my work the 1 year aniversary gift is an ipod shuffle. While there is no itunes installed on anyones work pcs, EVERYONE plugs them in to charge them. So technically your wrong as they would load up their songs at home and then as they are listening throughout the day, they would charge it up in their local machine.
I have had many users ask me if they could sync them to the pc to trade with friends at work, and i have told them that apple breaks their ipod if they try and do that. which is for all intents and purposes true.
"It could be won, but even if it can't we should still fight it to at least reduce the damage done. Drug abuse is a disease, much like manic depression and other mental disorders are diseases"
No these arent diseases.. these are choices. No one makes you do cocaine even if your addicted. Its a mental PROBLEM (arguaby because its illegal its more of a problem) but its definately something you can overcome yourself without medical care. same with alcoholism and the addiction to tobacco products. The reason they are diseases is because the medical establishment makes alot more money treating a problem then just smacking people and saying, dont fucking do that if you want to be the picture of health.
But the larger point is that we shouldnt be fighting against these drugs at all. All drugs should be legal, safe and controlled. If i want to work a full day and come home and smoke two pipes of opium every night, legally obtained, what the fucks business is it of the governements?
The rest of your post seems to be gun nut ranting, and although the first part of my post advocates an american libertarian view on substances, i would never condone private ownership of guns at the level of the states. There is a reason why canada only has several hundred gun murders a year and the states has a magnitude more. The real thing you should be doing with those guns, and the only reason i think people should have them, would be to overthrow your government. A waco type event every month would definately start making people listen. Otherwise, your just shooting your fellow citizens so the government doesnt have to.
"Parent is saying that UAVs will allow people involved in criminal acts will be arrested before they can cause too much damage"
And when the criminal act is whistleblowing on a corrupt govt? The system is set up so that you are a criminal already. If you look hard enough at anyone you can find them doing something illegal eventually. its only a matter of time.
If you watch old VHS tapes tapes of tv in the 80s and early 90s that was indeed their slogan. They say it many times in all their comericals and have it printed complete with american flags and huge lettering at the end of every single tv advert. Unfortuantely i cant provide any video links to this but if you have any old tapes lying around take a look.
in a related story, the move labyrinth is still AWESOME...
Well when you dont get a message for several months, you will undoubtably check their webpage and see all these alerts you are missing. Then you are free to email aol tech support and bitch at them/cancel your service. The grandparent was right. People know when they are not reciving legit mail. Time will pass, you wont get mail, and youll start complaining.
Honestly, if you go with a service like aol people expect you to have your hand held. Thats what aol is doing here so i dont know why its surprising or contridictory to any past behavior of that company.
"Not everyone who looks differently than you do is doing it for attention or to make a 'statement'."
its purely about attention. Why do girls have 40 pairs of shoes? they are hoping someone will notice that the shoes they are wearing that day matches their hat. Most people are that vain yes. If you dress like a punk, your making the statement that you like punk music, no?
for the record i hate mens fashion. If it were up to me id wear no logo jeans and a plain black shirt every day. Unfortuately the man owns you and you have to realize that if you dress like a coke head, you might be looked at like one. life's too short to get to know how nice everyone is on the inside.
and this guy was a hardcore regan tool who supported missle defense, pro nuclear arms, increased US military/DoD budgets and oh yeah, NEGOTIATED with terrorists to supply them arms.
plus its a damn funny CLICHE as none of the people ever reported dead, actually are. Your reply only ads to my enjoyment.
"it is obvious to the user whether they are taking the right actions or not. For example, when a program crashes in OS X there is a spinning beachball.."
Of course that means a program crashed, its like word association. Beach ball - ball park - giant hotdogs - thirst - cold beer - expensive ballpark beer - beer empty - gag at refill price - hotdogs stuck in throat - call ambulance - hospital room visit - wheeled into ER on crash cart
And for all that, your still just as dead in 70 years give or take. I dislike people who have that attitude (myself included sometimes), that you need to be busy busy to make your life "worthwhile". Do what makes you happy, because it comes down to your own individual personality whether you will have regrets on your deathbed or not, (and if it helps you in that situation, just think, you'll soon be dead anyways). If your happy and dont feel like anything missing from your life, then chill. Happiness lies within.
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answers the first...
Denying the distribution of condoms to africa because ABSTINENCE IS TEH KEY!!!11ONE
or the many "evil" countries that america has sanctions on (between iraq gulfwar and gulfwar2 is a perfect example) which do nothing to the leaders but severly impact the civilian populations?
I love the examples you picked because they are the easiest to disprove.
And you have the ultimate biased opinion of the usa, you live there. Only people who live in the usa have a positive opinion of the usa. So is the entire rest of the world biased, or is it you?
What is the alternative of a loved one to prayer? Nothing, nadda, zilch.
did you try heavy drinking?
"Why Won't God Heal Amputees"
Because when they die and are beamed up to heaven, their old arm will be waiting.. And i dont think it'll be pleased with your new best friend. (its a trick get an axe)
"So, it spends $10,000,000 developing something even better. 6 months later, Nokia had that copied and out on their new phones as well, also undercutting your price."
Considering im not moterola (who would have guessed!), and the resulting knock off products are a direct benifit to me the consumer (driving prices down), i fail to see why i should give a rats ass about motorola. Then, i hear you saying, it will stifle inovation!, to witch i would respond that if no one innovates then theres no new products to buy and no one makes any money. It is in the companies best interest to roll out new features to the consumer in order to have you buy their product. this will not end.
the other thing thats important to mention is that most pharma research starts off in the universities under provincial grants for research and such. So its really the tax payers paying for all these wonderful advances, and then paying again to see the benifits of them. Socialize pharma companies today so we can have aids cures instead of impotancy drugs for baby boomers trying to recapture their youth...
i say 'could of' all the time. it would be easy to write that if you are writing down your thoughts. I wouldnt even consider it wrong really, because its how you pronounce the word. emphasising the 'have' in 'could have' makes it more formal or something. when i say both out loud, definately the extra æffort put into saying 'have' makes the sentance seem more clunky and formal.
also when you pronouncing it 'could of' it makes it seem more, how do i put it, influencing? like its more of a phrase that opens (inspires directed doubt in?) the mind. It makes you start seeing it as more of a possibility, just like saying just 'could' would have over 'could have'. But as always, IANALinguist so i dont know the technical term for 'inspires directed doubt'. When you overpronouncing the 'have' it makes me less likely to believe the could, whatever the could was referring to, than if i just say 'could of' and kind of trail off to let your mind wander around it. noam chomsky would know the correct way to describe it. he knows everything.
for the love of god post a torrent link that sounds as hilarious as reefer madness
"Honestly I think alot of it is that our society is one in which it is very easy to isolate yourself. Easy to interact and be around people all the time without ever really having meaningful relations with them. Easy to get cut out from any social scene."
you must be addicted to people. get the strait jacket!
yeah everything you said was definately spot on, but i think that the only thing you really enjoy is doing things with people. If i had a roomate at all, much less one that wanted me to get off my ass and do shit all the time, i would kill them.
wow i was saying that exact same thing yesterday. its all in the mind. definately mod this dude up
considering the only images google returns are of what apears to be badly burned connectors, im not sure their deisgn is the best...
Well since there is no such thing as a dell store, your point is rendered null and void. Any unbranded PC shop has a general 1 year parts 3 years laybour on any machine they sell. this is standaed in canada and im sure something similar is standard everywhere else. A problem that can be fixed in short order ( being called a genius for fixing a file association hows that for ego! ) most shops will do for free.
"Don't let other people choose your brand for you"
doesnt that really negate your whole post, this whole thread????
What you have described is an advanced RMA. Every company does this. The fact that they thought of you too low minded to swap out a drive is because they are apple. Any other company would have shipped you the new drive, as you say, advanced rma, and expected you to do it yourself. Swapping out an exact like part isnt exactly rocket surgery.
K well i had my bosses ipod that the hard drive died out of waranty and they WOULDNT EVEN FIX IT FOR CASH.. so now it sits dead in the bottom of my desk.
"if more than 20% of iPod users ever plug their iPod into more than one computer, I'll eat my iPod."
Get munching bucko because at my work the 1 year aniversary gift is an ipod shuffle. While there is no itunes installed on anyones work pcs, EVERYONE plugs them in to charge them. So technically your wrong as they would load up their songs at home and then as they are listening throughout the day, they would charge it up in their local machine.
I have had many users ask me if they could sync them to the pc to trade with friends at work, and i have told them that apple breaks their ipod if they try and do that. which is for all intents and purposes true.
"It could be won, but even if it can't we should still fight it to at least reduce the damage done. Drug abuse is a disease, much like manic depression and other mental disorders are diseases"
No these arent diseases.. these are choices. No one makes you do cocaine even if your addicted. Its a mental PROBLEM (arguaby because its illegal its more of a problem) but its definately something you can overcome yourself without medical care. same with alcoholism and the addiction to tobacco products. The reason they are diseases is because the medical establishment makes alot more money treating a problem then just smacking people and saying, dont fucking do that if you want to be the picture of health.
But the larger point is that we shouldnt be fighting against these drugs at all. All drugs should be legal, safe and controlled. If i want to work a full day and come home and smoke two pipes of opium every night, legally obtained, what the fucks business is it of the governements?
The rest of your post seems to be gun nut ranting, and although the first part of my post advocates an american libertarian view on substances, i would never condone private ownership of guns at the level of the states. There is a reason why canada only has several hundred gun murders a year and the states has a magnitude more. The real thing you should be doing with those guns, and the only reason i think people should have them, would be to overthrow your government. A waco type event every month would definately start making people listen. Otherwise, your just shooting your fellow citizens so the government doesnt have to.
"Parent is saying that UAVs will allow people involved in criminal acts will be arrested before they can cause too much damage"
And when the criminal act is whistleblowing on a corrupt govt?
The system is set up so that you are a criminal already. If you look hard enough at anyone you can find them doing something illegal eventually. its only a matter of time.
why be normal?
If you watch old VHS tapes tapes of tv in the 80s and early 90s that was indeed their slogan. They say it many times in all their comericals and have it printed complete with american flags and huge lettering at the end of every single tv advert. Unfortuantely i cant provide any video links to this but if you have any old tapes lying around take a look.
in a related story, the move labyrinth is still AWESOME...
because you know, slashdot users are the coveted "basement recluse" demographic which lawn care vendors have been trying so hard to reach...
Well when you dont get a message for several months, you will undoubtably check their webpage and see all these alerts you are missing. Then you are free to email aol tech support and bitch at them/cancel your service. The grandparent was right. People know when they are not reciving legit mail. Time will pass, you wont get mail, and youll start complaining.
Honestly, if you go with a service like aol people expect you to have your hand held. Thats what aol is doing here so i dont know why its surprising or contridictory to any past behavior of that company.
"Not everyone who looks differently than you do is doing it for attention or to make a 'statement'."
its purely about attention. Why do girls have 40 pairs of shoes? they are hoping someone will notice that the shoes they are wearing that day matches their hat. Most people are that vain yes. If you dress like a punk, your making the statement that you like punk music, no?
for the record i hate mens fashion. If it were up to me id wear no logo jeans and a plain black shirt every day. Unfortuately the man owns you and you have to realize that if you dress like a coke head, you might be looked at like one. life's too short to get to know how nice everyone is on the inside.
its CLICHE not clique.
and this guy was a hardcore regan tool who supported missle defense, pro nuclear arms, increased US military/DoD budgets and oh yeah, NEGOTIATED with terrorists to supply them arms.
plus its a damn funny CLICHE as none of the people ever reported dead, actually are. Your reply only ads to my enjoyment.
theres a difference?
"it is obvious to the user whether they are taking the right actions or not. For example, when a program crashes in OS X there is a spinning beachball.."
Of course that means a program crashed, its like word association. Beach ball - ball park - giant hotdogs - thirst - cold beer - expensive ballpark beer - beer empty - gag at refill price - hotdogs stuck in throat - call ambulance - hospital room visit - wheeled into ER on crash cart
see its completely intuative
And for all that, your still just as dead in 70 years give or take. I dislike people who have that attitude (myself included sometimes), that you need to be busy busy to make your life "worthwhile". Do what makes you happy, because it comes down to your own individual personality whether you will have regrets on your deathbed or not, (and if it helps you in that situation, just think, you'll soon be dead anyways). If your happy and dont feel like anything missing from your life, then chill. Happiness lies within.