Every single person I know either understands base-2, or *DOESN'T FUCKING CARE*.
There's an exceedingly small number of people who catch that their 16GB of memory actually displays what is it, 14.something GiB, and who actually *GET MAD*. That requires noticing that discrepency but not having the knowledge of why such a discrepency exists. That's so few fucking people.
KibObyte, GibObyte, MebObyte.
Those words sound.. decent.
Kibi, Gibi, Mebi? Those words sound fucking awful. Gibberish, sort of thing that comes out of the mouths of toddlers.
That's why nobody likes those fucking units unless they only use them in writing. Anyone saying those words out loud feels dumb for having said them.
The reason nobody uses those terms is because those terms are fucking retarded. You can tell they were coined by some real tech-only minded folks.. the terms DO make sense, they ARE consistent, it's NOT a huge change from the current terms..
But my god, they just sound so bad to the ear. It sounds like the gibberish a young kid would babble out. There's no consideration for the sound the word makes, for the way it hits the ear.
You really have to include the cost of growing, harvesting, and producing the ethanol. Those costs are included in petrochem production. The fertilizer is a bit less clear, but IMO should be counted. And once you're getting close to breaking even, you sorta need to stop and step back and ask if it's really worthwhile to take a sizable chunk of FOOD FOR HUMANS and fairly inefficiently turn it into vroom vroom juice instead of people eating it (driving up the price of the food since it's less subject to market pressure now that a portion of the supply is MANDATED to be added to gasoline.
The whole deal is a farce and a kickback.
Oh, and it's not the best for your older vehicle. And you're paying as much or more for it than E0 gasoline, by volume. And you're getting less energy, by volume.
Shit, son. Apple didn't even SHIP any iPad Minis to any stores in a 30 mile radius from me, save two that I'm aware of -- one being an Apple store, and the other an Apple-store-inside-a-Walmart. Most places didn't start seeing them until right around Christmas (erring more towards *after* Christmas than before).
And of course Apple dropped iPad 3 prices by 50 bucks, and then again, so they now match the iPad 2 prices. Which were *not* dropped. So that the iPad Mini would be their lowest price point, so as to drive its sales. Many places stopped getting iPad 3 shipments around the last price drop, but PLENTY of iPad 2s! Which NO ONE WANTS, but Apple was able to unload onto retailers and keep the profitable 3s for their own stores.
Not that any of that doesn't make good business sense.. but then, not that any of that isn't at LEAST as big of a douche move as what you're saying MS is doing here.
Also for rolling aluminum. 12 hour shifts, rotating from am-pm to pm-am on each break. 4 on, 3 off, 3 on, 1 off, 3 on, 3 off, 4 on, 7 off.
Things only stopped when there was no work to be done, when things broke, or.. well, ideally, that's it. Shut down a few times because the power company forced it (hot, hot hot summers), worker shortages (blizzard), etc..
It is, unfortunately, a fucking awful schedule to work. You pretty quickly get the feeling that it's killing you, and it pretty much does.
Actually that's... pretty horribly inaccurate. It's a common inaccuracy -- but the past wasn't as awful as that, and the present isn't that great. Sure, they worked a lot. So do all of us. It's a different kind of work, and a different kind of pressure to work, but it's all the same in the end. 7 days a week is a lie, as at the very least Sunday was (is?) the Sabbath and most people didn't work. Sex wasn't exactly the horrible no-no-badness, either. That's really more a Victorian thing. Hell, even the damned PURITANS had all kinds of sex out of wedlock, brah. There was just always a marriage pretty much soon as the girl was showing.
Actually didn't notice that, but it's irrelevant to my comment. Mojo's pretty firmly on the left -- doesn't mean garbage articles, but there's a left-leaning bend to them. That's fine, but it means that anything dealing with political hot-buttons is probably worth NOT taking at face value. Not discounted as falsehoods, but not... er, trusted, I suppose.
I do, in hindsight, feel a bit of remorse. Not a fan of mother jones, but to compare anything to Michael Bloomberg is a crime. The man simply should be in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for his gun-running racket. He's also a fascist dickwad but that's really beside the point that he's a criminal free because he's connected and rich.
So, what, your argument on whether or not Apple copied other phones, in opposition to the view that they did... is to say that the existing full screen touch phones didn't work AS WELL as the iPhone?
Device is unspecific; phone may not encompass the entirety of the device, but so what? it is a phone, and, in time, the definition of phone will change to match the fullness of the things we call phones.
many things are devices which are not phones, but phones are clearly a smaller subset of things than devices -- use the term phone, not device, as both are devices but only one could be called a phone. even if you never make calls on it.
So it is your position that it is a basic human right that one may profit from another's work, leaving the other with no chance to profit themselves, while not compensating that other in any way?
killer.
give me your shit. all of your shit.
tell me that it's different because with electronic files you're not depriving anyone of something after you take it. tell me. tell me after you create something, it is taken by another, they undercut you, they fail to compensate you, and you are left with literally fucking nothing to show for the work that you did because some jackass stole it from you.
This isn't personal file-copying, this isn't personal use bullshit. That I'm really OK with. This is different.
I am not a fan of third world worker exploitation -- however, it doesn't have any effect on me, personally, nor on you, personally. A WTO-approved (WTO.. what a fucking load of shitfuckery THAT is) piracy campaign? That will have an effect on me, and you, personally.
This is someone taking someone else's shit, making money off it, and not a dime reaching the content creators (or distributors, but I don't have much care for them...). That's wrong. Flat out unambiguously wrong. Hey, wanna argue multinationals take other people's shit (resources) without compensation (money to the people)? Make that argument, but almost without exception that shit *is* paid for... it's just that the peoples of those nations are kinda getting fucked in the ass by their government first and foremost (as is the habit of government).
FUCK'S SAKE! I don't AGREE with the anti-internet-gambling laws, I think they're full of shit -- BUT THIS SHIT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Antigua needs to get the fuck over it and move on.
Want an analogy? American alcohol companies get pissed they're not allowed to sell to Shariah-law nations, so the US decides to just steal their shit until they capitulate. Commodore Perry type shit. That's what this is. It's bad for everybody.
If I wrote a novel and Antigua started selling it, undercutting me and not compensating me in any way.. yes it would be just about time to grab your guns. This isn't about them being wronged, it's about them not respecting the sovereignty of another nation. They cannot dictate our laws, regardless of if those laws are dumb.
That sounds like it makes sense, but there's simply no way for anyone to sit on something like that for very long.
If anyone came up with a cure for cancer (and, actually, many already do exist! it depends on what kind of cancer it is, how it responds to a given treatment.. some people can be cured of cancer easily, some people can but only after a long time of trying many things and being very, VERY sick, and some people won't ever find their cure) -- but yes, if anyone can come up with a cure, it would get out.
There's too much money to be made, and if one person can find The Cure, so can another -- if you've found it first, you sorta can't sit on it, because someone else will discover it eventually too.
Speed was perhaps the wrong analogy. Try vehicle size.
Is it reasonable to ban SUVs because they're too big? Is that reasonable? How about vans? Minivans? Station wagons? 4 door coupes? Where's the line? They're all dangerous, if used in an improper manner. There's almost no difference between the level of danger any of those vehicles pose, in fact, if they are being used wrongly -- but go ahead and draw a line.
Someone else will draw a different line, and a third another, and each will be just above what YOU, PERSONALLY find reasonable -- and none of the 3 would make one whit of difference in the end, anyway, because the level of danger between an SUV driven to cause injury and a station wagon driven to cause injury is insignificant compared to the base line value of injury for any vehicle driven in that manner.
You can make statistics say just about anything you want. Without being bothered to find the shit they were putting out back then, it was garbage. You'll have to take my word. Wonderfully insightful things like.. well, does your household have a firearm? any crime committed by or against any member of that household is a firearm-related crime. Have a heart attack out hunting? firearm related death.
It's simply fucking dishonesty, it's not even about whether or not the data has anything to say.
If you want to know why the pro-gun lobby sounds so much like they're screaming mad? It's because the antigun lobby lies, fucking constantly, and the non-gun-owning public (and even a fair number of fair-weather gun owners, who own a gun but don't know much about firearms in general..) doesn't have the knowledge to correct them. When the pro-gun group comes around to correct the lies, well.. I'm sure your familiar with what people remember, the interesting lie or the boring correction.
I've been seeing it happen for 20 years now and I'm only fucking 31, it's infuriating. It's a bit like talking to someone about automobiles but their only point of reference is Jason Statham movies but GODDAMN are they INSISTENT that they know things!
Something tells me that little squirrel gun you've got there has a higher capacity in its magazine than 7, bro. Best check again. I bet you can fit 10 in there.
That tech does not exist. I mean, it "exists", but it doesn't work. It just doesn't. You may have heard of a demonstration several years ago by Smith & Wesson? With an RFID tag ring worn on the shooter's hand? It shot one time, and then broke, they fixed it, then it would fire again. Except their "fixing it" was "turning off the shit so it worked like any other gun" -- because that shit doesn't work.
Waht's more, that solution required wearing a ring, which isn't something all people like to do. Bracelet? Well now you've got the RFID several more inches from the receiver, meaning.. if someone stole a cop's gun, they'd be able to fire it so long as the cop was several inches from it! Handy. Also not something that really ever happens.
Hmm, and what about in this particular case.... how would that have helped? The Sandy Hook guy would've had access to the firearm AND to the device which allowed it to fire.
Unless you're talking about some kind of crazy DNA-based shit, which... no, that just, no, stop watching Judge Dredd, that doesn't exist.
Neither does microstamping, by the by -- last company that came out and said they had a microstamping technology that would work? that company resolved to an empty office in an industrial park, and was nothing but a shell PR campaign for a proposed law in Cali that would have mandated microstamping. The lack of any way to actually accomplish that would have made that law a de-facto ban of ammunition. That's why the shell company was created and put out bullshit PR about their microstamping tech.
The antigun lobby has no compunctions about fucking outright lying to achieve their goals.
"Every little bit helps" -- restrict cars to no more than 10mph, then. It's safer. every little bit helps, right?
let's make everyone wear helmets 24/7 so no one slips and falls and dies from a concussion. maybe it'll be uncomfortable, maybe it won't, i don't care! every little bit helps.
without looking up numbers something tells me there's more people who die from slipping and falling on a flat surface than there are people who die in spree killings.
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Every single person I know either understands base-2, or *DOESN'T FUCKING CARE*.
There's an exceedingly small number of people who catch that their 16GB of memory actually displays what is it, 14.something GiB, and who actually *GET MAD*. That requires noticing that discrepency but not having the knowledge of why such a discrepency exists. That's so few fucking people.
KibObyte, GibObyte, MebObyte.
Those words sound.. decent.
Kibi, Gibi, Mebi? Those words sound fucking awful. Gibberish, sort of thing that comes out of the mouths of toddlers.
That's why nobody likes those fucking units unless they only use them in writing. Anyone saying those words out loud feels dumb for having said them.
Gibibyte / Kibibyte, yeah. I agree.
The reason nobody uses those terms is because those terms are fucking retarded. You can tell they were coined by some real tech-only minded folks.. the terms DO make sense, they ARE consistent, it's NOT a huge change from the current terms..
But my god, they just sound so bad to the ear. It sounds like the gibberish a young kid would babble out. There's no consideration for the sound the word makes, for the way it hits the ear.
To be fair, Social Security is pretty indistinguishable from a Ponzi scheme.
You are forced to pay your taxes and to pay into social security.
It's the law.
Seems a pretty good reason why you're forced to participate to me.
That was confusing until it got to the part where the company was in Quebec. Quebec hates the rest of Canada, news at 11.
It's a fucking Office Space quote, you culturally ignorant sod.
You really have to include the cost of growing, harvesting, and producing the ethanol. Those costs are included in petrochem production.
The fertilizer is a bit less clear, but IMO should be counted.
And once you're getting close to breaking even, you sorta need to stop and step back and ask if it's really worthwhile to take a sizable chunk of FOOD FOR HUMANS and fairly inefficiently turn it into vroom vroom juice instead of people eating it (driving up the price of the food since it's less subject to market pressure now that a portion of the supply is MANDATED to be added to gasoline.
The whole deal is a farce and a kickback.
Oh, and it's not the best for your older vehicle. And you're paying as much or more for it than E0 gasoline, by volume. And you're getting less energy, by volume.
GUYS THIS IS THE BEST IDEA EVER!
Shit, son. Apple didn't even SHIP any iPad Minis to any stores in a 30 mile radius from me, save two that I'm aware of -- one being an Apple store, and the other an Apple-store-inside-a-Walmart.
Most places didn't start seeing them until right around Christmas (erring more towards *after* Christmas than before).
And of course Apple dropped iPad 3 prices by 50 bucks, and then again, so they now match the iPad 2 prices. Which were *not* dropped. So that the iPad Mini would be their lowest price point, so as to drive its sales. Many places stopped getting iPad 3 shipments around the last price drop, but PLENTY of iPad 2s! Which NO ONE WANTS, but Apple was able to unload onto retailers and keep the profitable 3s for their own stores.
Not that any of that doesn't make good business sense..
but then, not that any of that isn't at LEAST as big of a douche move as what you're saying MS is doing here.
Also for rolling aluminum. 12 hour shifts, rotating from am-pm to pm-am on each break. 4 on, 3 off, 3 on, 1 off, 3 on, 3 off, 4 on, 7 off.
Things only stopped when there was no work to be done, when things broke, or.. well, ideally, that's it. Shut down a few times because the power company forced it (hot, hot hot summers), worker shortages (blizzard), etc..
It is, unfortunately, a fucking awful schedule to work. You pretty quickly get the feeling that it's killing you, and it pretty much does.
Actually that's... pretty horribly inaccurate. It's a common inaccuracy -- but the past wasn't as awful as that, and the present isn't that great.
Sure, they worked a lot. So do all of us. It's a different kind of work, and a different kind of pressure to work, but it's all the same in the end.
7 days a week is a lie, as at the very least Sunday was (is?) the Sabbath and most people didn't work.
Sex wasn't exactly the horrible no-no-badness, either. That's really more a Victorian thing.
Hell, even the damned PURITANS had all kinds of sex out of wedlock, brah. There was just always a marriage pretty much soon as the girl was showing.
Actually didn't notice that, but it's irrelevant to my comment. Mojo's pretty firmly on the left -- doesn't mean garbage articles, but there's a left-leaning bend to them.
That's fine, but it means that anything dealing with political hot-buttons is probably worth NOT taking at face value. Not discounted as falsehoods, but not... er, trusted, I suppose.
I do, in hindsight, feel a bit of remorse. Not a fan of mother jones, but to compare anything to Michael Bloomberg is a crime. The man simply should be in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for his gun-running racket. He's also a fascist dickwad but that's really beside the point that he's a criminal free because he's connected and rich.
There's no need for comments, because Bloomberg and MotherJones had no credibility in the first place.
I've said it before, I'll say it again, and I hope you all can join me.
Fuck Michael Bloomberg.
So, what, your argument on whether or not Apple copied other phones, in opposition to the view that they did...
is to say that the existing full screen touch phones didn't work AS WELL as the iPhone?
i'll just let you think about that.
Device is unspecific; phone may not encompass the entirety of the device, but so what? it is a phone, and, in time, the definition of phone will change to match the fullness of the things we call phones.
many things are devices which are not phones, but phones are clearly a smaller subset of things than devices -- use the term phone, not device, as both are devices but only one could be called a phone. even if you never make calls on it.
So it is your position that it is a basic human right that one may profit from another's work, leaving the other with no chance to profit themselves, while not compensating that other in any way?
killer.
give me your shit. all of your shit.
tell me that it's different because with electronic files you're not depriving anyone of something after you take it. tell me. tell me after you create something, it is taken by another, they undercut you, they fail to compensate you, and you are left with literally fucking nothing to show for the work that you did because some jackass stole it from you.
This isn't personal file-copying, this isn't personal use bullshit. That I'm really OK with. This is different.
Yeah, you're an idiot.
I am not a fan of third world worker exploitation -- however, it doesn't have any effect on me, personally, nor on you, personally.
A WTO-approved (WTO.. what a fucking load of shitfuckery THAT is) piracy campaign? That will have an effect on me, and you, personally.
This is someone taking someone else's shit, making money off it, and not a dime reaching the content creators (or distributors, but I don't have much care for them...). That's wrong. Flat out unambiguously wrong. Hey, wanna argue multinationals take other people's shit (resources) without compensation (money to the people)? Make that argument, but almost without exception that shit *is* paid for... it's just that the peoples of those nations are kinda getting fucked in the ass by their government first and foremost (as is the habit of government).
FUCK'S SAKE! I don't AGREE with the anti-internet-gambling laws, I think they're full of shit -- BUT THIS SHIT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Antigua needs to get the fuck over it and move on.
Want an analogy? American alcohol companies get pissed they're not allowed to sell to Shariah-law nations, so the US decides to just steal their shit until they capitulate. Commodore Perry type shit. That's what this is. It's bad for everybody.
If I wrote a novel and Antigua started selling it, undercutting me and not compensating me in any way.. yes it would be just about time to grab your guns. This isn't about them being wronged, it's about them not respecting the sovereignty of another nation. They cannot dictate our laws, regardless of if those laws are dumb.
That sounds like it makes sense, but there's simply no way for anyone to sit on something like that for very long.
If anyone came up with a cure for cancer (and, actually, many already do exist! it depends on what kind of cancer it is, how it responds to a given treatment.. some people can be cured of cancer easily, some people can but only after a long time of trying many things and being very, VERY sick, and some people won't ever find their cure) -- but yes, if anyone can come up with a cure, it would get out.
There's too much money to be made, and if one person can find The Cure, so can another -- if you've found it first, you sorta can't sit on it, because someone else will discover it eventually too.
Speed was perhaps the wrong analogy.
Try vehicle size.
Is it reasonable to ban SUVs because they're too big? Is that reasonable? How about vans? Minivans? Station wagons? 4 door coupes? Where's the line? They're all dangerous, if used in an improper manner. There's almost no difference between the level of danger any of those vehicles pose, in fact, if they are being used wrongly -- but go ahead and draw a line.
Someone else will draw a different line, and a third another, and each will be just above what YOU, PERSONALLY find reasonable -- and none of the 3 would make one whit of difference in the end, anyway, because the level of danger between an SUV driven to cause injury and a station wagon driven to cause injury is insignificant compared to the base line value of injury for any vehicle driven in that manner.
You can make statistics say just about anything you want.
Without being bothered to find the shit they were putting out back then, it was garbage. You'll have to take my word. Wonderfully insightful things like.. well, does your household have a firearm? any crime committed by or against any member of that household is a firearm-related crime. Have a heart attack out hunting? firearm related death.
It's simply fucking dishonesty, it's not even about whether or not the data has anything to say.
If you want to know why the pro-gun lobby sounds so much like they're screaming mad? It's because the antigun lobby lies, fucking constantly, and the non-gun-owning public (and even a fair number of fair-weather gun owners, who own a gun but don't know much about firearms in general..) doesn't have the knowledge to correct them. When the pro-gun group comes around to correct the lies, well.. I'm sure your familiar with what people remember, the interesting lie or the boring correction.
I've been seeing it happen for 20 years now and I'm only fucking 31, it's infuriating. It's a bit like talking to someone about automobiles but their only point of reference is Jason Statham movies but GODDAMN are they INSISTENT that they know things!
This one may be of interest to you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Something tells me that little squirrel gun you've got there has a higher capacity in its magazine than 7, bro. Best check again. I bet you can fit 10 in there.
Actuuuuuaaaallllllyyyyyyy....
That tech does not exist. I mean, it "exists", but it doesn't work. It just doesn't. You may have heard of a demonstration several years ago by Smith & Wesson? With an RFID tag ring worn on the shooter's hand? It shot one time, and then broke, they fixed it, then it would fire again.
Except their "fixing it" was "turning off the shit so it worked like any other gun" -- because that shit doesn't work.
Waht's more, that solution required wearing a ring, which isn't something all people like to do. Bracelet? Well now you've got the RFID several more inches from the receiver, meaning.. if someone stole a cop's gun, they'd be able to fire it so long as the cop was several inches from it! Handy. Also not something that really ever happens.
Hmm, and what about in this particular case.... how would that have helped? The Sandy Hook guy would've had access to the firearm AND to the device which allowed it to fire.
Unless you're talking about some kind of crazy DNA-based shit, which... no, that just, no, stop watching Judge Dredd, that doesn't exist.
Neither does microstamping, by the by -- last company that came out and said they had a microstamping technology that would work? that company resolved to an empty office in an industrial park, and was nothing but a shell PR campaign for a proposed law in Cali that would have mandated microstamping. The lack of any way to actually accomplish that would have made that law a de-facto ban of ammunition. That's why the shell company was created and put out bullshit PR about their microstamping tech.
The antigun lobby has no compunctions about fucking outright lying to achieve their goals.
Killing people with a gun is illegal. So is gun ownership by prohibited peoples, primarily convicted felons.
Unfortunately, alcohol ownership isn't yet.
"Every little bit helps" -- restrict cars to no more than 10mph, then. It's safer. every little bit helps, right?
let's make everyone wear helmets 24/7 so no one slips and falls and dies from a concussion. maybe it'll be uncomfortable, maybe it won't, i don't care! every little bit helps.
without looking up numbers something tells me there's more people who die from slipping and falling on a flat surface than there are people who die in spree killings.
Unless you were a Jew, of course. Jews weren't allowed any weapons whatsoever.
I'm sure that's irrelevant, though. Truly the atrocities of the Nazis were distributed evenly across all of Germany's population. Mhm.