The iPod is designed to be a music player, and does it very well. No one expects a music player to also work as a web browser, chat client, or a system administration tool.
Such is not the case for the iPhone, which is billed as a smartphone that "has Cocoa and OSX." Apple is essentially teasing us with the capabilities of the device and then saying "oh, but fuck you, you can't use anything except what we say you can." Arbitrarily. We all know the stated reasons are bullshit.
You can't even buy a PC laptop for the same price with the same specs. Actually, I think if you spec out a similar PC laptop, it costs MORE. And it is durable, and the industrial design is excellent.
Your complaints about Macs used to be valid. I used to have the same complaints. Wake up -- they don't apply anymore.
This isn't a PDA. You can't add software to it. You can't write software for it. It is worthless as a computing device. This is why it is not worth $500.
No commercial production yet, but that will change as the engineering is worked out. Of course, before anyone can do the engineering they need funding.
They said that there was no option for "fully automatic," so they picked the one for semi-automatic. Don't know what his ACTUAL position on it is, but that's what they said.
I've lived in NYC too and I remember the draconian restrictions you're talking about very well. But the president isn't responsible for things like that -- mayors and city councils are.
I would love to watch crime numbers drop even further than they already have in NYC if concealed carry was liberalized a bit -- and by "liberalized" I mean "given to people who submit to background checks, ffs," but I don't think it's gonna happen anytime soon. Too many knee-jerk liberals in city council.
No President since Regan in 84 has had more than a modicum of a mandate from the people
Unless, of course, they are given one by the media.
Do you not recall how with the victory he barely eked out over John Kerry (questionable all by itself), news outlets everywhere were talking about how he had a mandate?
But as you note, this can be engineered around. We sort of do the same thing these days with summer gas and winter gas (though the chemical components are completely different and done for different reasons, the principle of different blends is the same).
I agree with you. And yes, I remember the Brady Bill.
However, I think Obama's priorities are far, far away from making the possession of firearms unilaterally a crime. This would also be an excellent example of something he'd be willing to compromise on. How about enforcing laws on the books to make sure that only licensed gun owners can purchase guns rather than passing new and pointlessly restrictive laws?
You left out yet another reason industrial hemp is DOA: the textile industry, which knows that hemp is a miracle plant and doesn't want to have to spend millions upon billions of dollars re-engineering their businesses to grow it instead of cotton.
Hussein Obama has said publicly that he believes in the Wahhabbi doctrine that denies the rights of non-Muslims.
No. He hasn't. What the hell are you talking about? Do you follow the Karl Rove doctrine that if you repeat a lie often enough, people think it's the truth?
Being human doesn't mean you "speak just like anyone else."
Overwhelmingly, black culture in America entails a certain, less-educated-sounding way of speaking. This doesn't have to be true, but it is. From what I understand from friends overseas, the same does not apply in places like the United Kingdom.
And you, my friend, are a lunatic! Either that or you are intentionally taking Obama's statements out of context.
He does support the troops, not the least in the way that he supports veterans' benefits. He WILL bring them home, he is for phased withdrawal. If Iran started waving nuclear weapons around and was immune to diplomacy, and started threatening neighboring countries, you think it would be a BAD idea to hit them with surgical missile strikes? He's not saying it's GOING to come to that, he's saying there is a small chance that it might.
He did not "embrace Israel's brutal bombings of Lebanon." Where are you getting this batshit insane stuff from?
is almost certainly PART of the problem. It is not the whole problem; poverty and discrimination certainly DO play a part in the disenfranchisement of blacks. But when a black kid who likes to read and works hard in school is considered by his peers to be "acting white," that is an enormous problem.
The inefficiency is only true for gas engines converted to run on booze. When you design an engine that cannot run on gasoline but runs well on alcohol, you design it to use much, MUCH higher compression ratios that would be impossible to use in a gas engine, and efficiency actually surpasses that of gasoline.
Obama wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. So do the rest of us. i.e., so do I, and I'm a member of the NRA.
There is nothing wrong (i.e., against the 2nd Amendment) with enforcing gun control laws. It's gun control, not gun banning. I am not a felon (and neither are you, I assume?) so I have nothing to fear from them.
As for redistributive economics, that's another way of saying "letting government do things that it's good at."
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The iPod is designed to be a music player, and does it very well. No one expects a music player to also work as a web browser, chat client, or a system administration tool.
Such is not the case for the iPhone, which is billed as a smartphone that "has Cocoa and OSX." Apple is essentially teasing us with the capabilities of the device and then saying "oh, but fuck you, you can't use anything except what we say you can." Arbitrarily. We all know the stated reasons are bullshit.
vlc? vnc? mplayer? gstreamer? AIM? Skype? How about a Game Boy emulator? Terminal? ssh? Firefox?
You can't even buy a PC laptop for the same price with the same specs. Actually, I think if you spec out a similar PC laptop, it costs MORE. And it is durable, and the industrial design is excellent.
Your complaints about Macs used to be valid. I used to have the same complaints. Wake up -- they don't apply anymore.
It ISN'T an OSX handheld computer.
In order to be a computer, one would need to be able to install/develop software on/for it.
Instead, it is just a toy.
This isn't a PDA. You can't add software to it. You can't write software for it. It is worthless as a computing device. This is why it is not worth $500.
No commercial production yet, but that will change as the engineering is worked out. Of course, before anyone can do the engineering they need funding.
And yes -- the biggest issue is public image.
This is why you don't produce it with foodstocks, and instead use pools of algae grown in areas that would otherwise be completely barren.
They said that there was no option for "fully automatic," so they picked the one for semi-automatic. Don't know what his ACTUAL position on it is, but that's what they said.
Long ago and far away, before there was OSX, when sysadmins needed to connect Macs to Windows shares, there was... DAVE. :)
Dave does WINS.
I've lived in NYC too and I remember the draconian restrictions you're talking about very well. But the president isn't responsible for things like that -- mayors and city councils are.
I would love to watch crime numbers drop even further than they already have in NYC if concealed carry was liberalized a bit -- and by "liberalized" I mean "given to people who submit to background checks, ffs," but I don't think it's gonna happen anytime soon. Too many knee-jerk liberals in city council.
No President since Regan in 84 has had more than a modicum of a mandate from the people
Unless, of course, they are given one by the media.
Do you not recall how with the victory he barely eked out over John Kerry (questionable all by itself), news outlets everywhere were talking about how he had a mandate?
But as you note, this can be engineered around. We sort of do the same thing these days with summer gas and winter gas (though the chemical components are completely different and done for different reasons, the principle of different blends is the same).
I think the fact that you think "compromise" is a dirty word says it all.
I agree with you. And yes, I remember the Brady Bill.
However, I think Obama's priorities are far, far away from making the possession of firearms unilaterally a crime. This would also be an excellent example of something he'd be willing to compromise on. How about enforcing laws on the books to make sure that only licensed gun owners can purchase guns rather than passing new and pointlessly restrictive laws?
You left out yet another reason industrial hemp is DOA: the textile industry, which knows that hemp is a miracle plant and doesn't want to have to spend millions upon billions of dollars re-engineering their businesses to grow it instead of cotton.
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Shame on you.
Hussein Obama has said publicly that he believes in the Wahhabbi doctrine that denies the rights of non-Muslims.
No. He hasn't. What the hell are you talking about? Do you follow the Karl Rove doctrine that if you repeat a lie often enough, people think it's the truth?
Being human doesn't mean you "speak just like anyone else."
Overwhelmingly, black culture in America entails a certain, less-educated-sounding way of speaking. This doesn't have to be true, but it is. From what I understand from friends overseas, the same does not apply in places like the United Kingdom.
Biodiesel. With the exception that current commuter cars don't run on it, but that's not terribly hard to fix.
For the record, I'm a left-wing Democrat.
And you, my friend, are a lunatic! Either that or you are intentionally taking Obama's statements out of context.
He does support the troops, not the least in the way that he supports veterans' benefits. He WILL bring them home, he is for phased withdrawal. If Iran started waving nuclear weapons around and was immune to diplomacy, and started threatening neighboring countries, you think it would be a BAD idea to hit them with surgical missile strikes? He's not saying it's GOING to come to that, he's saying there is a small chance that it might.
He did not "embrace Israel's brutal bombings of Lebanon." Where are you getting this batshit insane stuff from?
is almost certainly PART of the problem. It is not the whole problem; poverty and discrimination certainly DO play a part in the disenfranchisement of blacks. But when a black kid who likes to read and works hard in school is considered by his peers to be "acting white," that is an enormous problem.
The inefficiency is only true for gas engines converted to run on booze. When you design an engine that cannot run on gasoline but runs well on alcohol, you design it to use much, MUCH higher compression ratios that would be impossible to use in a gas engine, and efficiency actually surpasses that of gasoline.
You could not be more right.
Algal biodiesel is *the* way forward to an oil-free, carbon-neutral energy cycle. Now if we can just get the industry to support it.
I'm in favor of incentives to car companies, as opposed to legislating "you MUST produce x number of BD-powered cars."
Nothing about Obama's platform is "evil." Moreover, he has repeatedly shown an ability to work with Republicans and create great, lasting compromises.
As for "what has he done lately?", you can use Wikipedia as well as I can.
This is just totally out of the mainstream.
70% of Americans want our involvement in Iraq to start decreasing. Did you miss that?
Everyone agrees that health care is poor-to-mediocre and getting worse. Something has to be done. Everyone agrees on energy independence.
Repeating lies over and over again doesn't make them true.
Obama wants to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. So do the rest of us. i.e., so do I, and I'm a member of the NRA.
There is nothing wrong (i.e., against the 2nd Amendment) with enforcing gun control laws. It's gun control, not gun banning. I am not a felon (and neither are you, I assume?) so I have nothing to fear from them.
As for redistributive economics, that's another way of saying "letting government do things that it's good at."