It is a bit late to get it as a standard, but I would rather have had an opt-in instead of an opt-out.
Sure, that would have meant that some things would not be standard to find. However with the opt-in that would have been what those sites would have wanted.
Why is this industry incapable of recognizing that users would prefer to have a juke-box with their movies?
Oh, they recognize it and they are very well aware of it. It is that they do not really care. They want to make money and if customers get a nice product, that is a nice side effect, not the goal.
What is needed is people who know nothing to do beta-testing. Sure, feedback is appreciated from people who know how to code, what is needed is feedback from those pesky users.
Or even just a 'thank you' to the makers, so the makers will be motivated to go on. An email saying something like "Thanks for making this program. Keep up the good work. I really like it." will be great to programmers.
Or if you have time, tell them why you like it, what you like and what you dislike. As long as it is constructive, it might end up in a newer version.
The worst that could happen is that they disagree.
In Belgium everybody is a donor, unless you clearly state otherwise. So basically an opt-out, not an opt-in. I have not heard anyone being 'turned off' before everything was tried.
Why does the land of fruits and nuts get to dictate what's in our Cokes?
They don't. Coke and Pepsi just do not want the warning labels on them. All others states and the rest of the world is fine. Unfortunatly with companies that have a wide, if not global customer base, they will often go for the strictest and thus most ridicule law that they might find so they can still make one product as cheap as possible.
The reason California is able to do that is because they are a state and states do have individual rights. Apparently now too much, other times not enough.
No, they should not do that at all. What they do is abusing their power. You should be able to use whatever you think is best. If you select something else, they should improve of what they have so that your are willing to select them.
Terrorists should go to prison first where they learn how to make guns from soap and knives from about anything, including pens. Also will they be able to smuggle C4 in the same way drug mules do.
As a terrorist, I would avoid the whole circus and bl;ow up the lines people are waiting in to get scanned.
What happens if/when there are 10,000,000 names on the Do Not Fly list?
Then they will just need more people to handle those that try to fly. Or they will ask for other measures that are just as ridiculous as they are now, like random searches anywhere, because you know, bridges and tunnels can be targets too.
This is not about the do-not-fly list. This is about them wanting complete control over everything and everybody and they will not stop before they have it. The question is when you, The American Public, will stop them.
but I'm not going there until I have no other choice.
And that is why they will succeed. Because you think that at some point you have no choice, so you will go there. I will not go there. is the only option. And that might mean not seeing any movies. The moment you are willing to accept whatever they trow at you, you have lost.
Time gained by offloading unimportant tasks to machines is time that can be better spent on more important goals. And yes, "having fun" fits too.
This is what people told us when we started to use computer. The extra time would be used to do other tasks they said. In reality they let the few that were left work just as many hours and fire all the rest.
So with all this great time saving, we have indeed gotten more free time. However it is not shared equally. Some have all the free time and others have none. Unfortunately for those that were worced to take all the free time, the checks stopped coming as well.
I declare most people who have a pre-paid plan an idiot. Unfortunatly for may that is not an option anymore.
Phone prices without a plan are not real prices. They are inflated prices to show how 'cheap' the ones with a plan are.
These phones are not free. They are not cheap. You paid for them. There is no such thing as a free lunch. And please keep telling yourself that you are the one that beat the system and make money out of it. As long as you tell that to yourself, they do not need to spend it on marketing to make you believe it.
we start getting gunman in the bell towers, people marching into classrooms and blowing away everyone they see... We get sporatic acts of seemingly random violence
This is what the police andf politics will read. Yes, it is edited like a boss (or a/. editor, you decide) and their answer is to give MORE power to the police and tell all that want to listen: Doi you want to have terrorists in the towers? Do you want your kids killed in school?
I do not agree with that. Unfortunately that is how things are at this moment. The only way is to have a revolution and that will come. Not sure when, but history has shown that it will happen.
My parents where once in a situation when some trouble started where they were on a holiday. I did not try to contact them. What would I have done if they weren't? I had no insight on what REALLY was going on so I could only make them panic for no reason or hear that something terrible had happened to them, to which I could also do nothing and just hope for the best.
Also, I've heard the "eye of a needle is figurative" argument before- what is the evidence that it wasn't intended literally?
It WAS intended literally. It was intended as a way of saying that it will never happen. Bit like "When hell freezes over."
People who want it to mean anything else will more likely be those who would normally not be able to go to heaven and try to find a loophole. When a girl tells you she will date you when pigs fly, the argument that they are transported by plane will not get you a date with said girl. It means never.
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It is a bit late to get it as a standard, but I would rather have had an opt-in instead of an opt-out.
Sure, that would have meant that some things would not be standard to find. However with the opt-in that would have been what those sites would have wanted.
Oh, they recognize it and they are very well aware of it. It is that they do not really care.
They want to make money and if customers get a nice product, that is a nice side effect, not the goal.
What is needed is people who know nothing to do beta-testing. Sure, feedback is appreciated from people who know how to code, what is needed is feedback from those pesky users.
Or even just a 'thank you' to the makers, so the makers will be motivated to go on. An email saying something like "Thanks for making this program. Keep up the good work. I really like it." will be great to programmers.
Or if you have time, tell them why you like it, what you like and what you dislike. As long as it is constructive, it might end up in a newer version.
The worst that could happen is that they disagree.
In Belgium everybody is a donor, unless you clearly state otherwise. So basically an opt-out, not an opt-in.
I have not heard anyone being 'turned off' before everything was tried.
They don't. Coke and Pepsi just do not want the warning labels on them. All others states and the rest of the world is fine.
Unfortunatly with companies that have a wide, if not global customer base, they will often go for the strictest and thus most ridicule law that they might find so they can still make one product as cheap as possible.
The reason California is able to do that is because they are a state and states do have individual rights. Apparently now too much, other times not enough.
5.000 soldiers is a lot. Care to say how many civilians? Or do you not care about the people you are trying to liberate?
Because it is meaningless as well.
No, they should not do that at all. What they do is abusing their power. You should be able to use whatever you think is best.
If you select something else, they should improve of what they have so that your are willing to select them.
You must be European then (excluding Britain). Or South American.
Well, it isn't there in the America of the founders. It is there in the America of you.
Terrorists should go to prison first where they learn how to make guns from soap and knives from about anything, including pens.
Also will they be able to smuggle C4 in the same way drug mules do.
As a terrorist, I would avoid the whole circus and bl;ow up the lines people are waiting in to get scanned.
See? The snake oil is working.
Then they will just need more people to handle those that try to fly. Or they will ask for other measures that are just as ridiculous as they are now, like random searches anywhere, because you know, bridges and tunnels can be targets too.
This is not about the do-not-fly list. This is about them wanting complete control over everything and everybody and they will not stop before they have it. The question is when you, The American Public, will stop them.
Same here in Belgium. So it is basically a new website for Android Market.
So do not watch movies.
And that is why they will succeed. Because you think that at some point you have no choice, so you will go there.
I will not go there. is the only option. And that might mean not seeing any movies. The moment you are willing to accept whatever they trow at you, you have lost.
Not too far, but you will be arrested for jaywalking.
This is what people told us when we started to use computer. The extra time would be used to do other tasks they said. In reality they let the few that were left work just as many hours and fire all the rest.
So with all this great time saving, we have indeed gotten more free time. However it is not shared equally. Some have all the free time and others have none. Unfortunately for those that were worced to take all the free time, the checks stopped coming as well.
You do not need a smartphone for that. Any cellphone will do that, including the unbreakable nokias.
I declare most people who have a pre-paid plan an idiot. Unfortunatly for may that is not an option anymore.
Phone prices without a plan are not real prices. They are inflated prices to show how 'cheap' the ones with a plan are.
These phones are not free. They are not cheap. You paid for them. There is no such thing as a free lunch. And please keep telling yourself that you are the one that beat the system and make money out of it. As long as you tell that to yourself, they do not need to spend it on marketing to make you believe it.
Instead of catching small time thieves, they could go after the bankers.
One can dream
Ah, they used the magical word "networked". Does that predates the words "Over internet protocol"?
My parents where once in a situation when some trouble started where they were on a holiday. I did not try to contact them. What would I have done if they weren't?
I had no insight on what REALLY was going on so I could only make them panic for no reason or hear that something terrible had happened to them, to which I could also do nothing and just hope for the best.
It WAS intended literally. It was intended as a way of saying that it will never happen.
Bit like "When hell freezes over."
People who want it to mean anything else will more likely be those who would normally not be able to go to heaven and try to find a loophole. When a girl tells you she will date you when pigs fly, the argument that they are transported by plane will not get you a date with said girl. It means never.