While clearly not OUTRIGHT evil, Google certainly defines "no evil" down into a far grayer area than we might have hoped.
Anyone else struck by the correlations between tech companies and politics? While there may be differing degrees, nobody but NOBODY is anywhere close to what I'd consider clean and ethical.
But netbooks got their names because they can basically only surf the web, unlike this one.
I've been using a netbook as my primary work computing device since last March. People tend to snub netbooks because they're "underpowered", without considering what they're underpowered to actually do.
You're not going to play high end games on it, but I use autocad, do DVD transcoding, email, excel...everything I need to do for my job works just fine. This macbook has better specs in some areas, but my netbook blows the doors off of it in practicality, and the macbook isn't going to get my work done any more efficiently than the netbook that cost 1/3 as much.
...Except for the fact that Facebook has an elevated self-worth at the moment. Social networks really only have a lifespan of a few years before they are no longer used by the masses.
What are you talking about? You're talking like some of the biggest Internet companies in the world are just passing fads? That millions of users will just dry up and blow away? where are they going to go? Take all the trouble of learning some NEW website (which you probably don't' think will last long). Fact is dotcom acquisitions are solid investments for larger traditional companies, I just read that in an article from AOL-Time Warner. (see what I did there?)
She was doing something perfectly legal, and a cop told her to stop or he would arrest her on a trumped up charge if she did not obey him immediately.
That's abuse of power. That's not something you should defend.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts. What she was doing was NOT legal. No charges were "trumped up" beyond the actual offense committed. Contrary to what you obviously believe, baiting and harassing police officers who are on duty is not a protected freedom of expression right. She was given every opportunity to go about her business and NOT be arrested, but that wasn't what was going to make her happy. Why should we stand up in outrage over her getting exactly what she WANTED?
Oh, don't worry, I don't expect you to cry over an injustice. I expect you probably get half a hard-on when you witness an injustice, I figure your love for authority (and the limitless exercise thereof) must be conflated with your lust.
You kind of petered out on the maturity scale on this issue. In the future, it's much easier to take people seriously when they don't close out their arguments with childish name calling.
so now I can have an array of small (?) flat antenna instead of one medium sized one? Is that better? I'm sure there's some cool scientific breakthrough here, but the article left me wondering what it is.
He didn't give her a warning. He gave her a threat.
I guess. He did give her a "threat" of arrest if she continued her behavior. Some might call that a "warning". It seems a pointless exercise in semantics.
But hey, don't listen to me, I'm just some guy on the internet. If anyone wants to act like a jackass to cops, and ignore warning/threats of arrest, go for it. Just don't expect me to cry any tears over the injustice of it all. Apparently there's no shortage of people who WILL, but it won't be me.
I don't think it's all that hard for an adult to understand that blowing soap bubbles into a police officers face is going to get you arrested, and he did give her the courtesy of a warning first. I don't really see the controversy there. Well, not unless people are unable to disentagle the word "bubble" from the "soap" part. Blowing a rather effective eye irritant in a cops direction isn't likely to end well, no matter if it's in bubble or other form.
it does seem like he could have a thicker skin about random internet jackhole comments though. you don't HAVE to read them.
I have a new "traditional" doctor (didn't like his general attitude anyway) and now I get a spinal check up from my chiro every month or so.
Be prepared to visit your chiro every month for the rest of your life. You will not find a chiropractor ever telling a patient they are "cured". Ongoing "adjustments" will be recommended for BS "good health" reasons. In fact, you'll never find a chiropractor to check someone out and say "you're fine, you require no treatments". It's simply not an ethical industry, and not medicine.
Cracking joints is not medicine. It sure as hell feels like something is going on, but it's just pops of dissolved gas. There is no misalignments of any kind being treated. If your spine/neck really WERE misaligned, manual pressure pushing things around would be a criminally irresponsible treatment as it would almost certainly result in nerve damage and paralysis.
I'd provide you links, but seriously, put in some damn effort before you sound off.
right back atcha.
fluoridation undeniable DOES have positive effects, but only in the complete absence of what we would call minimal dental hygiene. Water fluoridation is by necessity about 1/100th the level of fluoride in toothpaste. If you're actually brushing your teeth with modern toothpaste, fluoridated water is literally like throwing one more straw on a haystack.
People who actually brush their teeth with fluoride paste get zero benefit from fluoridated water.
If I'd followed my MD's advice, I probably wouldn't be walking now. With the help of a chiropractor, I'm able to do most of the activity that normal people my age do.
Or maybe if you'd followed an MD's advice you'd have exactly the same result you have now. Or if you'd followed your grannys advice and taken castor oil.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc is not the basis of good medicine. It just means time passed and you got better.
That's not true. They're scientifically proven to be effective at pain relief, at a minimum. I'm not willing to take it so far as the other claims, but if you're out of whack and in pain, they can certainly help you. "NOTHING" is proven false. Look it up.
they are "scientifically proven" to be as effective as placebo at treating subjective symptoms. It's basically the same effect as having your mommy kiss your booboo. You've received "treatment" from a "doctor", and now you "feel better". Some people are willing to grant the stamp of effective to placebo treatments, I am not.
Chiropractic fails utterly at treating anything that can actually be measures objectively, and that's on top of the entire PREMISE of the treatment being scientifically unsound.
The best you can hope for from a visit to a chiropractor is the equivalent of a massage, except that you're virtually guaranteed not to get a happy ending.
they are ALL bullshit artists. pushing bones and joints around will accomplish NOTHING for any disorder, except a dislocated joint..and I'd really recommend going to a REAL doctor for one of those.
This was probably caused by the same idiots that are trying to push non fluoridated water on us (http://www.waterloowatch.com/). Ontario for some reason seems inundated with quacks and people that think they know whats best for us recently regardless of their education.
Ok, at risk of defending jackassery, I gotta respond to that. "push non flouridated water on us"? Water isn't naturally flouridated to any reasonable level, the flouridation is added. It's flouridated water that is being "pushed" on people because they're not give the choice. It may be well below the level of toxicity, but asking to not be exposed to a toxic chemical just because some people refuse to brush their goddamn teeth isn't exactly a radical position.
Paint the roofs white and use lighter colored pavement..
I'm not sure about the effect on the environment, but light colored roofing makes a big difference on how hot your damn house is. I've never understood how here in the US we decided the standard is to cover our houses with broad expanses of BLACK shingles...and then we crank up the air conditioner to offset it. Am I missing some key point of heating/cooling physics?
I find myself in the unusual and uncomfortable position of agreeing with the UN.
If there is one thing we've proven over and over throughout the decades, our climate scientists have an INCOMPLETE understanding of global climate change issues. Through the course of my lifetime I've heard new ice age coming, acid rain will dissolve our cities, farm animal flatulence is going to doom the planet, ozone layer, global warming, blah blah blah.
No matter what you think about global warming (which we're now supposed to call global climate change because we've now learned it's not actually about warming...sigh), everyone should be able to admit that we don't know all there is to know about the VERY complex global environment. So maybe...just maybe we shouldnt' be deliberately tinkering with things we actually hope will change it. Oh yeah, let's fuck with the environment deliberately, hoping we have some god damned clue what we're doing. great plan..what could go wrong?
Maybe we should just try to be responsible about our industrialized society? can we at least TRY that first???
That's why he gets his news from The Daily Show with occasional doses of The Colbert Report to keep things fair and balanced.
I actually had to explain to my girlfriend that Colbert is NOT a conservative, that he is a "parody" of a conservative. She didn't understand the difference. She thought that John Steward had a liberal show and Colbert had a conservative one.
I honestly have to wonder how many people also think that. When I hear about people getting their primary news from The Daily Show, I doubt they can tell the difference. There are probably loads of people who think Colbert is what conservatives are.
The really ironic thing is that lately John Stewart has been highly critical of the democrats, sounding almost like a conservative...while Colbert just acts like a cartoon character.
prepaid phones are kind of an unknown secret weapon in the cell communication world. Us high-end smartphone users tend to turn up our noses at feature bare phones, but it's a hell of a cheap backup plan.
When I had t-mobile service I picked up a pre-paid blister packed phone that got almost two weeks of battery standby time. I'd take it along traveling and if I ran into a situation where my iphone went dead after less than a day of hard use, I could just slip the sim card into the pre-paid and still be able to do plain old voice/txt for weeks.
Android directly supports it by default, as in the OS includes the function. Sprint however charges an extra fee ($30 I think) to use this feature. So it's a little like saying your cable box supports pay-per-view, it just aint free to use it.
Is available for jailbroken iphones and rooted androids. The unlimited data service I already pay for on my Android EVO made it seem really silly in the extreme to buy ANOTHER wireless data service when I bought my ipad. So I rooted the phone and set up wireless tethering without paying anyone, including Sprint, another dime.
This endless process of buying the exact same service over and over for different devices has got to stop. ONE wireless data device should be able to serve as your personal data gateway for all others. And with very little time investment on my part, my EVO now does.
Yeah, which makes it even WORSE for us because we have to wear those annoying glasses uncomfortably over the glasses we already have. DOUBLE ANNOYANCE!
You need some 3D contact lenses. Then you can wear them ALL the time and experience 3D all day long without looking like an idiot wearing the 3D glasses in public.
I've always wondered what the real world would look like in 3D, just never had the nerve to wear those goofy glasses outside.
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While clearly not OUTRIGHT evil, Google certainly defines "no evil" down into a far grayer area than we might have hoped.
Anyone else struck by the correlations between tech companies and politics? While there may be differing degrees, nobody but NOBODY is anywhere close to what I'd consider clean and ethical.
But netbooks got their names because they can basically only surf the web, unlike this one.
I've been using a netbook as my primary work computing device since last March. People tend to snub netbooks because they're "underpowered", without considering what they're underpowered to actually do.
You're not going to play high end games on it, but I use autocad, do DVD transcoding, email, excel...everything I need to do for my job works just fine. This macbook has better specs in some areas, but my netbook blows the doors off of it in practicality, and the macbook isn't going to get my work done any more efficiently than the netbook that cost 1/3 as much.
Yes, good call. Including a recovery disk with a laptop that doesn't have a disk drive would certainly have been questionable.
Last time I looked your wife's account was active...and relationship status was "looking".
sorry for the abuse, but that's what you get for having a facebook account in the first place.
...Except for the fact that Facebook has an elevated self-worth at the moment. Social networks really only have a lifespan of a few years before they are no longer used by the masses.
What are you talking about? You're talking like some of the biggest Internet companies in the world are just passing fads? That millions of users will just dry up and blow away? where are they going to go? Take all the trouble of learning some NEW website (which you probably don't' think will last long). Fact is dotcom acquisitions are solid investments for larger traditional companies, I just read that in an article from AOL-Time Warner. (see what I did there?)
She was doing something perfectly legal, and a cop told her to stop or he would arrest her on a trumped up charge if she did not obey him immediately.
That's abuse of power. That's not something you should defend.
You're entitled to your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts. What she was doing was NOT legal. No charges were "trumped up" beyond the actual offense committed. Contrary to what you obviously believe, baiting and harassing police officers who are on duty is not a protected freedom of expression right. She was given every opportunity to go about her business and NOT be arrested, but that wasn't what was going to make her happy. Why should we stand up in outrage over her getting exactly what she WANTED?
Oh, don't worry, I don't expect you to cry over an injustice. I expect you probably get half a hard-on when you witness an injustice, I figure your love for authority (and the limitless exercise thereof) must be conflated with your lust.
You kind of petered out on the maturity scale on this issue. In the future, it's much easier to take people seriously when they don't close out their arguments with childish name calling.
Apple lost all credibility for moral high ground in their App Store when they rubber stamp approved every "Fart Box" app that was submitted.
so now I can have an array of small (?) flat antenna instead of one medium sized one? Is that better? I'm sure there's some cool scientific breakthrough here, but the article left me wondering what it is.
He didn't give her a warning. He gave her a threat.
I guess. He did give her a "threat" of arrest if she continued her behavior. Some might call that a "warning". It seems a pointless exercise in semantics.
But hey, don't listen to me, I'm just some guy on the internet. If anyone wants to act like a jackass to cops, and ignore warning/threats of arrest, go for it. Just don't expect me to cry any tears over the injustice of it all. Apparently there's no shortage of people who WILL, but it won't be me.
I don't think it's all that hard for an adult to understand that blowing soap bubbles into a police officers face is going to get you arrested, and he did give her the courtesy of a warning first. I don't really see the controversy there. Well, not unless people are unable to disentagle the word "bubble" from the "soap" part. Blowing a rather effective eye irritant in a cops direction isn't likely to end well, no matter if it's in bubble or other form.
it does seem like he could have a thicker skin about random internet jackhole comments though. you don't HAVE to read them.
You might be new here (on planet earth), but positions of authority have little to nothing to do with the propensity of people to sue each other.
I have a new "traditional" doctor (didn't like his general attitude anyway) and now I get a spinal check up from my chiro every month or so.
Be prepared to visit your chiro every month for the rest of your life. You will not find a chiropractor ever telling a patient they are "cured". Ongoing "adjustments" will be recommended for BS "good health" reasons. In fact, you'll never find a chiropractor to check someone out and say "you're fine, you require no treatments". It's simply not an ethical industry, and not medicine.
Cracking joints is not medicine. It sure as hell feels like something is going on, but it's just pops of dissolved gas. There is no misalignments of any kind being treated. If your spine/neck really WERE misaligned, manual pressure pushing things around would be a criminally irresponsible treatment as it would almost certainly result in nerve damage and paralysis.
I'd provide you links, but seriously, put in some damn effort before you sound off.
right back atcha. fluoridation undeniable DOES have positive effects, but only in the complete absence of what we would call minimal dental hygiene. Water fluoridation is by necessity about 1/100th the level of fluoride in toothpaste. If you're actually brushing your teeth with modern toothpaste, fluoridated water is literally like throwing one more straw on a haystack.
People who actually brush their teeth with fluoride paste get zero benefit from fluoridated water.
If I'd followed my MD's advice, I probably wouldn't be walking now. With the help of a chiropractor, I'm able to do most of the activity that normal people my age do.
Or maybe if you'd followed an MD's advice you'd have exactly the same result you have now. Or if you'd followed your grannys advice and taken castor oil.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc is not the basis of good medicine. It just means time passed and you got better.
That's not true. They're scientifically proven to be effective at pain relief, at a minimum. I'm not willing to take it so far as the other claims, but if you're out of whack and in pain, they can certainly help you. "NOTHING" is proven false. Look it up.
they are "scientifically proven" to be as effective as placebo at treating subjective symptoms. It's basically the same effect as having your mommy kiss your booboo. You've received "treatment" from a "doctor", and now you "feel better". Some people are willing to grant the stamp of effective to placebo treatments, I am not.
Chiropractic fails utterly at treating anything that can actually be measures objectively, and that's on top of the entire PREMISE of the treatment being scientifically unsound.
The best you can hope for from a visit to a chiropractor is the equivalent of a massage, except that you're virtually guaranteed not to get a happy ending.
they are ALL bullshit artists. pushing bones and joints around will accomplish NOTHING for any disorder, except a dislocated joint..and I'd really recommend going to a REAL doctor for one of those.
This was probably caused by the same idiots that are trying to push non fluoridated water on us (http://www.waterloowatch.com/). Ontario for some reason seems inundated with quacks and people that think they know whats best for us recently regardless of their education.
Ok, at risk of defending jackassery, I gotta respond to that. "push non flouridated water on us"? Water isn't naturally flouridated to any reasonable level, the flouridation is added. It's flouridated water that is being "pushed" on people because they're not give the choice. It may be well below the level of toxicity, but asking to not be exposed to a toxic chemical just because some people refuse to brush their goddamn teeth isn't exactly a radical position.
that's not quantum mechanics, that's just physics (or biology depending on your point of view)
Paint the roofs white and use lighter colored pavement. .
I'm not sure about the effect on the environment, but light colored roofing makes a big difference on how hot your damn house is. I've never understood how here in the US we decided the standard is to cover our houses with broad expanses of BLACK shingles...and then we crank up the air conditioner to offset it. Am I missing some key point of heating/cooling physics?
I find myself in the unusual and uncomfortable position of agreeing with the UN.
If there is one thing we've proven over and over throughout the decades, our climate scientists have an INCOMPLETE understanding of global climate change issues. Through the course of my lifetime I've heard new ice age coming, acid rain will dissolve our cities, farm animal flatulence is going to doom the planet, ozone layer, global warming, blah blah blah.
No matter what you think about global warming (which we're now supposed to call global climate change because we've now learned it's not actually about warming...sigh), everyone should be able to admit that we don't know all there is to know about the VERY complex global environment. So maybe...just maybe we shouldnt' be deliberately tinkering with things we actually hope will change it. Oh yeah, let's fuck with the environment deliberately, hoping we have some god damned clue what we're doing. great plan..what could go wrong?
Maybe we should just try to be responsible about our industrialized society? can we at least TRY that first???
Of course he knows that.
That's why he gets his news from The Daily Show with occasional doses of The Colbert Report to keep things fair and balanced.
I actually had to explain to my girlfriend that Colbert is NOT a conservative, that he is a "parody" of a conservative. She didn't understand the difference. She thought that John Steward had a liberal show and Colbert had a conservative one.
I honestly have to wonder how many people also think that. When I hear about people getting their primary news from The Daily Show, I doubt they can tell the difference. There are probably loads of people who think Colbert is what conservatives are.
The really ironic thing is that lately John Stewart has been highly critical of the democrats, sounding almost like a conservative...while Colbert just acts like a cartoon character.
prepaid phones are kind of an unknown secret weapon in the cell communication world. Us high-end smartphone users tend to turn up our noses at feature bare phones, but it's a hell of a cheap backup plan.
When I had t-mobile service I picked up a pre-paid blister packed phone that got almost two weeks of battery standby time. I'd take it along traveling and if I ran into a situation where my iphone went dead after less than a day of hard use, I could just slip the sim card into the pre-paid and still be able to do plain old voice/txt for weeks.
Android directly supports it by default, as in the OS includes the function. Sprint however charges an extra fee ($30 I think) to use this feature. So it's a little like saying your cable box supports pay-per-view, it just aint free to use it.
Is available for jailbroken iphones and rooted androids. The unlimited data service I already pay for on my Android EVO made it seem really silly in the extreme to buy ANOTHER wireless data service when I bought my ipad. So I rooted the phone and set up wireless tethering without paying anyone, including Sprint, another dime.
This endless process of buying the exact same service over and over for different devices has got to stop. ONE wireless data device should be able to serve as your personal data gateway for all others. And with very little time investment on my part, my EVO now does.
Yeah, which makes it even WORSE for us because we have to wear those annoying glasses uncomfortably over the glasses we already have. DOUBLE ANNOYANCE!
You need some 3D contact lenses. Then you can wear them ALL the time and experience 3D all day long without looking like an idiot wearing the 3D glasses in public.
I've always wondered what the real world would look like in 3D, just never had the nerve to wear those goofy glasses outside.