But if the iPhone is so dangerous, why not also ban the TomTom?
I use a GPS navigator. I hate the iPhone (I instead got a cheapo mobile phone this year for a mere $60. It makes calls, it takes calls. That's all I need or wanted). But the interface is functionally identical. If one is dangerous, then so is the other.
It's been discovered there are 7 people who need vital organs that you possess or they will die. They've sued to have those organs from you harvested and a judge has agreed. "The need of the many outweigh the need of the few" he was quoted as saying. Don't worry though, you're rights were upheld. The judge considered your rights, but simply chose to rule to help these 7 people instead.
------- The idea a judge can destroy my property without me even being allowed to respond somehow being "just" and my rights being "upheld" is ludicrous.
Pffft. We don't want New Zealand! Tasmanians are bad enough with all their in-breeding. If we allow the New Zealanders in we'll forever be associated with beastiality as well!
While they might not hagve an air defence force, I believe they recently started testing anti air missiles. Apparently their epsionage forces finally recovered the plans to what they call The Catapault.
(I'm Australian. I'm allowed to make these jokes).
Funnily enough, I believe it was due to the warrior culture of the Maori that the white immigrants were able to peacefully (well, more peaceful then us aussies did with the aboriginals) co-exist. From what I've heard (which is only a very little bit), the maori tribes were too busy fighting each other to pay much attention to the white immigrants and that they even allied with the white immigrants to help them in their fights with the other tribes.
Had they been slightly more peaceful, they might have united against the immigrants and successfully driven them off. As it was, they mostly just ignored the immigrants because they were too busy fighting each other.
At least, that's what I've been told. I might have got it COMPLETELY wrong;)
would you pay $30 for the latest release of Debian or Ubuntu?
Considering I had to downgrade to Windows XP because Ubuntu simply had too many bugs and things wrong with it (primarily the internet being extremely slow on a generic computer while Windows XP somehow manages to work fine). I like Linux. I love the idea of it. But I just don't think its ready for prime time yet.
a proprietary OS for 30 bucks deserves 5 points on price.
But it doesn't. You can only run it on Apple hardware and that's where Apple hides the price. Building comparable computers with fairly similar hardware will result in the Apple version costing significantly more than the non-Apple version.
You don't pay less for the OS, Apple just shifts when you pay for it.
And how much for a PC with Windows 7 with very similar hardware? If it isn't the same, I'd argue Snow Leopard is overpriced, not Windows 7.
My brother was talking about buying a Mac a few months ago so I did the maths to see if the Mac tax actually existed. I found it did. Now that was without an OS because my brother already has Windows XP. He doesn't need a new OS.
Yep, this is true. Although I gladly paid the Mac Tax so I can use OS X as my main OS. It's just....awesome.
And that's fine. But people need to stop pretending the Mac Tax doesn't exist, for example plasmacutter and the article author.
Do a comparison yourself if you don't think the Mac Tax exists. It does. HOWEVER it isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't know how much the Mac Tax is (a few hundred I believe), but its quite possible/likely that the "tax" or difference simply brings the cost of the OS within the range of a Windows 7 license.
The question then of course becomes, which one is better? Given how similar the OS's appear to be, I'd rather pay my Microsoft tax and get an OS that is compatible with the majority of hardware out there then pay a similar amount of money on the Mac Tax and get a computer plagued with incompatibilities for much of the software that exists.
Of course, I am reliant on very little Windows-only products. I only use 2, but I do know those two can be royal pain in the ass to use on a Mac. Coupled with the fact that I got Windows 7 for free through my university, Windows 7 wins this time. Perhaps that battle between Windows 8 and Summer Jaguar will result in the Mac winning. Although to be honest, I wasn't going to upgrade to Windows 7. I don't feel the features it offered are sufficient for me to lay down a couple of hundred dollars. If Mac can't somehow introduce new features that are worth paying the Mac tax, it could be I will be using Windows 7 for many, many years to come.
Mental retardation is a disease most people are born with or are inflicted with through some traumatising accident. You should not make fun of such people! They are human beings who are truly special.
Wait, American families only hand out a quarter for a missing tooth? That's it? Is today's generation actually mollified by this? What can they spend a quarter on? A piece of lint?
I don't see why its good to teach children that you should always look for a way to make a buck from everything. It leads to situations where people believe its actually illegal for companies to give up a small amount of profit in order to help make the world a better place. What's really scary is, it really COULD be illegal!
are you putting this on your sig to show how absurd you think the idea is?
The latter:)
Back when I first put it in my signature the whole "gay marriage is wrong! We shouldn't change the definition of marriage! They should be happy with separate but equal unions. BLAH BLAH BLAH" debate was at its peak.
On a sidenote: I don't understand how unions can be equal to marriage if people are violently opposed to calling unions marriages.
it's just something about carrying a couple of twenty dollar bills around for the exchange of goods and services.
We do get change. But outside of crazy America this change isn't isn't broken down into 25 cent increments, because we actually have coins larger than the quarter (the fact you say some machines take one dollar and two dollar coins suggests Canada is slightly better than America in this regard). Vending machines say "no change given" or "out of service" a heck of a lot more often than your ATMs or EFTPOS machines blow up.
So if we're going to go avoid relying on inoperative machinery, I'd rather stick with EFTPOS please.
Also coins are typically heavier then notes. So we tend to get rid of them ASAP so we don't have our pants constantly falling down (although I'm sure pants falling down isn't a problem for people who are too lazy to walk a whole half block).
I also can't actually remember the last business I visited that didn't have an EFTPOS machine. I know there was one 5 years ago when I started working (and it was so annoying and out of the ordinary that I still remember it), but even that store has since gotten one.
Surely you must have missed the word improve in his post. If he thought current mass transit was adequate, I doubt he would have bothered to include it. After all, you Americans are too lazy to walk a whole half block! I can only imagine the effort you must expend to type a 7 letter word.
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If they have to sue Woolworths then they also have to sue Taco Bell. Because that's how close the the trademarks are.
I certainly understand in the case of Poisoned Apple and Foxtel. But Woolworths? Seriously?
I don't see how any lawyer could in good faith say "there could be an issue with the woolworths logo, we should sue just to be on the safe side."
You can as long as the work has moved into the public domain. The laws that prohibit you from doing so for copyrighted works... are copyright laws.
Are you going to say someone's face, height and weight can be copyrighted? Is that truly what we've sunk to?
Choosing to not use someone's image out of respect is quite distinct from not being allowed to use someone's image.
Of course they are.
Its sad when we all applaud a judge actually making a good ruling. Shouldn't that simply be the assumed state of all rulings?
But if the iPhone is so dangerous, why not also ban the TomTom?
I use a GPS navigator. I hate the iPhone (I instead got a cheapo mobile phone this year for a mere $60. It makes calls, it takes calls. That's all I need or wanted). But the interface is functionally identical. If one is dangerous, then so is the other.
Deleting the account data harms no one.
Says you. I'd be more than a little harmed if my account was deleted at the wrong time.
It's been discovered there are 7 people who need vital organs that you possess or they will die. They've sued to have those organs from you harvested and a judge has agreed. "The need of the many outweigh the need of the few" he was quoted as saying. Don't worry though, you're rights were upheld. The judge considered your rights, but simply chose to rule to help these 7 people instead.
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The idea a judge can destroy my property without me even being allowed to respond somehow being "just" and my rights being "upheld" is ludicrous.
As a joke someone should mod him up funny.
I prefer to put up with advertisements as part of my social contract for getting goods and services at a discounted price.
Pffft. We don't want New Zealand! Tasmanians are bad enough with all their in-breeding. If we allow the New Zealanders in we'll forever be associated with beastiality as well!
While they might not hagve an air defence force, I believe they recently started testing anti air missiles. Apparently their epsionage forces finally recovered the plans to what they call The Catapault.
(I'm Australian. I'm allowed to make these jokes).
Are any of us native to anywhere except Africa?
Funnily enough, I believe it was due to the warrior culture of the Maori that the white immigrants were able to peacefully (well, more peaceful then us aussies did with the aboriginals) co-exist. From what I've heard (which is only a very little bit), the maori tribes were too busy fighting each other to pay much attention to the white immigrants and that they even allied with the white immigrants to help them in their fights with the other tribes.
Had they been slightly more peaceful, they might have united against the immigrants and successfully driven them off. As it was, they mostly just ignored the immigrants because they were too busy fighting each other.
At least, that's what I've been told. I might have got it COMPLETELY wrong ;)
would you pay $30 for the latest release of Debian or Ubuntu?
Considering I had to downgrade to Windows XP because Ubuntu simply had too many bugs and things wrong with it (primarily the internet being extremely slow on a generic computer while Windows XP somehow manages to work fine). I like Linux. I love the idea of it. But I just don't think its ready for prime time yet.
a proprietary OS for 30 bucks deserves 5 points on price.
But it doesn't. You can only run it on Apple hardware and that's where Apple hides the price. Building comparable computers with fairly similar hardware will result in the Apple version costing significantly more than the non-Apple version.
You don't pay less for the OS, Apple just shifts when you pay for it.
And how much for a PC with Windows 7 with very similar hardware? If it isn't the same, I'd argue Snow Leopard is overpriced, not Windows 7.
My brother was talking about buying a Mac a few months ago so I did the maths to see if the Mac tax actually existed. I found it did. Now that was without an OS because my brother already has Windows XP. He doesn't need a new OS.
Yep, this is true. Although I gladly paid the Mac Tax so I can use OS X as my main OS. It's just....awesome.
And that's fine. But people need to stop pretending the Mac Tax doesn't exist, for example plasmacutter and the article author.
Do a comparison yourself if you don't think the Mac Tax exists. It does. HOWEVER it isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't know how much the Mac Tax is (a few hundred I believe), but its quite possible/likely that the "tax" or difference simply brings the cost of the OS within the range of a Windows 7 license.
The question then of course becomes, which one is better? Given how similar the OS's appear to be, I'd rather pay my Microsoft tax and get an OS that is compatible with the majority of hardware out there then pay a similar amount of money on the Mac Tax and get a computer plagued with incompatibilities for much of the software that exists.
Of course, I am reliant on very little Windows-only products. I only use 2, but I do know those two can be royal pain in the ass to use on a Mac. Coupled with the fact that I got Windows 7 for free through my university, Windows 7 wins this time. Perhaps that battle between Windows 8 and Summer Jaguar will result in the Mac winning. Although to be honest, I wasn't going to upgrade to Windows 7. I don't feel the features it offered are sufficient for me to lay down a couple of hundred dollars. If Mac can't somehow introduce new features that are worth paying the Mac tax, it could be I will be using Windows 7 for many, many years to come.
There IS a reason they're called Carrier Pigeons
Yes, they carried diseases like the black plague.
If its shifted out of my neighbourhood then I'm more than happy to have those cameras installed in my neighbourhood.
Mental retardation is a disease most people are born with or are inflicted with through some traumatising accident. You should not make fun of such people! They are human beings who are truly special.
Wait, American families only hand out a quarter for a missing tooth? That's it? Is today's generation actually mollified by this? What can they spend a quarter on? A piece of lint?
I don't see why its good to teach children that you should always look for a way to make a buck from everything. It leads to situations where people believe its actually illegal for companies to give up a small amount of profit in order to help make the world a better place. What's really scary is, it really COULD be illegal!
are you putting this on your sig to show how absurd you think the idea is?
The latter :)
Back when I first put it in my signature the whole "gay marriage is wrong! We shouldn't change the definition of marriage! They should be happy with separate but equal unions. BLAH BLAH BLAH" debate was at its peak.
On a sidenote: I don't understand how unions can be equal to marriage if people are violently opposed to calling unions marriages.
it's just something about carrying a couple of twenty dollar bills around for the exchange of goods and services.
We do get change. But outside of crazy America this change isn't isn't broken down into 25 cent increments, because we actually have coins larger than the quarter (the fact you say some machines take one dollar and two dollar coins suggests Canada is slightly better than America in this regard). Vending machines say "no change given" or "out of service" a heck of a lot more often than your ATMs or EFTPOS machines blow up.
So if we're going to go avoid relying on inoperative machinery, I'd rather stick with EFTPOS please.
Also coins are typically heavier then notes. So we tend to get rid of them ASAP so we don't have our pants constantly falling down (although I'm sure pants falling down isn't a problem for people who are too lazy to walk a whole half block).
I also can't actually remember the last business I visited that didn't have an EFTPOS machine. I know there was one 5 years ago when I started working (and it was so annoying and out of the ordinary that I still remember it), but even that store has since gotten one.
Surely you must have missed the word improve in his post. If he thought current mass transit was adequate, I doubt he would have bothered to include it. After all, you Americans are too lazy to walk a whole half block! I can only imagine the effort you must expend to type a 7 letter word.