Gas prices sometimes vary 10% on a weekly basis. So when prices are down by 25% for a single month, the do-gooders want to raise it back up and "hope" we won't notice when gas costs rise back to their "normal" levels? So I should expect $5 a gallon gas when prices restabilize? I pay surcharges on shipping, trash hauling and a number of other services because of high prices. Fuel prices are one on the reasons the economy has had trouble recovering.
Take your social engineering tax and go suck my balls. When I get 20% annual raises, you can ask too.
Do you mean the OPTIONAL Windows Metro UI? No need to ever use that, you know...
I pointed out that in fact you DO have to use it for even the simplest of tasks. I also pointed out that in order to add an administrative user, you have to open and use TWO SEPARATE apps. This is undeniably WORSE than Windows 7. I didn't even add the part about how difficult it is for a novice to add a Windows 8 user without creating a new unwanted Microsoft account. Your only defense of this idiocy is:
The Metro UI app is as simple as the Windows 7 app to add a user. It's the same thing - just with different looks...
In fact, no, it is not "the same thing." It requires using two different apps on two different desktop interfaces. It demands the new user create or connect to a Microsoft Live account. And it directly contradicts your original assertion that you can get by without using Metro/Modern Interface.
I could go on and on about how Windows 8's features including the fast shutdown/startup makes virus cleanup difficult or how difficult it is to get into safe mode and nearly impossible to enter safe mode if the video driver fails, but you clearly are a Windows 8 apologist and will find some way to justify these foolish design changes. Microsoft jumped the shark on Windows 8. They gambled that their installed base and mindshare would let them leverage Windows into the mobile world and dropped a pile of junk in our laps. Those of us that have to support it realize how bad it is. Complacency and familiarity is what keeps Windows on the desktop and they decided to throw it all overboard to try to enter mobile. Epic fail.
Click users from control panel. Click add a new user. The control panel app closes and you are redirected to the "new" Metro users management app. After you create a new user, you have to return to the control panel app because the "new improved" app has no provision to create an administrative user or to promote an existing user to administrator.
You have to use BOTH apps to create a new administrative user.
I don't really see any difference between the Windows 8 desktop and the Windows 7 desktop - other than the Start button. Do you mean the OPTIONAL Windows Metro UI? No need to ever use that, you know...
Unless you need to create a new user or any of the myriad other things that require you to use it...
Windows 8 Fans must just hand their machines over to their betters when they need something other than starting up IE or Word. Wait until you need to clean up a few trojans or viruses and see if you still think the start button is the only thing we "haters" are complaining about.
Yes, I am. Not all illegal methods of collecting evidence violate the rights of the accused against unconstitutional searches and seizures.
I made no mention of violated rights being limited to fourth amendment seizures. If the state has to break laws to investigate someone, their rights ARE violated.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying the prosecution is allowed to introduce evidence against the accused if he can show the independent source
Parallel construction: hey, I'll admit I had to look that one up. But if the government can find an independent source of evidence to convict the bad guy that doesn't involve illegally-collected evidence, then they haven't violated his rights (at least as to the crime charged). [emphasis mine]
Are you SURE you are a lawyer? If so, you must not be a very good one. They most certainly HAVE violated his rights regardless if evidence is admitted.
Pretty pathetic, really. If you can't trust your spouse/S.O./fuckbuddy without spyware, maybe you need to find a new spouse/S.O./fuckbuddy. If you are unhappy enough with said spouse/S.O./fuckbuddy to cheat and haven't got the guts to just leave, screw you anyway.
Unfortunately in my case, there was a third axis on that scale: Time. The crazy axis shifted horribly in the bad direction over time. Come to think of it, the Hot axis did too...
The thing is, when one side tries to make it work for the sake of the relationship itself, then the other side feels this and also tries.
Not necessarily.
From my own experience, the BIGGEST impediment to my marriage stability was my wife's bipolar syndrome. I was able to hold it all together for nearly 18 years before she finally left the reservation completely. She is now untreated, although it was hit-or-miss when she was with me. I am now the "single dad" with a "deadbeat" absentee mom. She has gone through two more husbands in six years since we split. My financial problems left when she did, which were a great source of our strife, and now she is in financial ruin despite being an employable RN.
After my own experiences, I would never be serious with a woman who suffered bipolar again. Sorry to all of you who have to deal with it personally, but for two decades it was ruinous for me psychologically, financially, and socially. I will never again be with someone who stays pissed at me for days because of something "I did" in her dreams or yell at me at 2AM because I could sleep during her manic states when she couldn't.
I hate to be someone that makes wife/girlfriend requirement lists, but.. Crazies need not apply.
I hope that we come up with a list of deniers so that future generations can blame the grandkids for the crimes of their families. It is only right that if their grandparents polluted more to get ahead or stopped progress on switching to clean technology/recycling/efficient transportation, that their descendants should be the first ones to face the costs associated with the problems that will be caused and the lack of resources caused by climate problems.
Are you paying for the wrongs of your ancestors on the whim of others?
The same can apply to meters, and say 1 meter 8 decimeters, and find a notation to represent it like feet.
But... Doesn't that notation defeat the express purpose of SI? I was taught that the beauty of it was being able to use decimals. You know, base ten and all...
Plus there are no payphones anywhere anymore. When I was a kid, I always had change so I could call from a payphone. When the school district built the new fancy schmancy high school, they didn't install one single payphone. Band kids and players getting back from away football games late on Friday had to use their cell phones or borrow one from a friend to get picked up.
Half of my machines at home are Linux based. When my daughter went through high school a couple years ago, the "compatibility" of Open Office with Powerpoint sucked. We tried. Valiantly. We had to use MS Office to get her Powerpoints to look right. And they did a LOT of Powerpoint.
You obviously don'y have kids in school. My school district is sending down all kinds of these ridiculous edicts for purchases. We are having to buy all kinds of shit to be collected by the teachers and provided to the classroom at their discretion. On my kids' 8th grade school supply list this year, besides the TI calculator:
A home computer
A Printer
Computer paper
Internet Access
Microsoft Office
I didn't miss your point. My daughter is out of state and the ONLY way she communicates in a timely fashion is by Facebook. She doesn't even have a celllphone and only calls infrequently. Therefore if I want to communicate with her, I have to use Facebook. I detest it as much as you do, but Tinfoil makes it less retchworthy. My love for my daughter is stronger than my hate for Facebook. Between Tinfoil and emails notifying me she has sent me a message, I find it acceptable. Tinfoil only runs WHEN I want it to run and does not use my location nor does it "send or receive" text messages without the owners consent.
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Gas prices sometimes vary 10% on a weekly basis. So when prices are down by 25% for a single month, the do-gooders want to raise it back up and "hope" we won't notice when gas costs rise back to their "normal" levels? So I should expect $5 a gallon gas when prices restabilize? I pay surcharges on shipping, trash hauling and a number of other services because of high prices. Fuel prices are one on the reasons the economy has had trouble recovering.
Take your social engineering tax and go suck my balls. When I get 20% annual raises, you can ask too.
You said, quote:
I pointed out that in fact you DO have to use it for even the simplest of tasks. I also pointed out that in order to add an administrative user, you have to open and use TWO SEPARATE apps. This is undeniably WORSE than Windows 7. I didn't even add the part about how difficult it is for a novice to add a Windows 8 user without creating a new unwanted Microsoft account. Your only defense of this idiocy is:
In fact, no, it is not "the same thing." It requires using two different apps on two different desktop interfaces. It demands the new user create or connect to a Microsoft Live account. And it directly contradicts your original assertion that you can get by without using Metro/Modern Interface.
I could go on and on about how Windows 8's features including the fast shutdown/startup makes virus cleanup difficult or how difficult it is to get into safe mode and nearly impossible to enter safe mode if the video driver fails, but you clearly are a Windows 8 apologist and will find some way to justify these foolish design changes. Microsoft jumped the shark on Windows 8. They gambled that their installed base and mindshare would let them leverage Windows into the mobile world and dropped a pile of junk in our laps. Those of us that have to support it realize how bad it is. Complacency and familiarity is what keeps Windows on the desktop and they decided to throw it all overboard to try to enter mobile. Epic fail.
Click users from control panel. Click add a new user. The control panel app closes and you are redirected to the "new" Metro users management app. After you create a new user, you have to return to the control panel app because the "new improved" app has no provision to create an administrative user or to promote an existing user to administrator.
You have to use BOTH apps to create a new administrative user.
I don't really see any difference between the Windows 8 desktop and the Windows 7 desktop - other than the Start button. Do you mean the OPTIONAL Windows Metro UI? No need to ever use that, you know...
Unless you need to create a new user or any of the myriad other things that require you to use it...
Windows 8 Fans must just hand their machines over to their betters when they need something other than starting up IE or Word. Wait until you need to clean up a few trojans or viruses and see if you still think the start button is the only thing we "haters" are complaining about.
Every time the cops go flying by with sirens blaring, I tell the kids that the "hot now" light must be on at the Krispy Kreme.
Have they issued the alert for all people of Canadian descent to open their box of faith yet?
I fail to see that rights are not violated for the accused irrespective of any others who may also be violated.
Rules and regulations of any import are ALWAYS considered inconsequential by those who choose to ignore them.
I made no mention of violated rights being limited to fourth amendment seizures. If the state has to break laws to investigate someone, their rights ARE violated.
Not in dispute.
Parallel construction: hey, I'll admit I had to look that one up. But if the government can find an independent source of evidence to convict the bad guy that doesn't involve illegally-collected evidence, then they haven't violated his rights (at least as to the crime charged). [emphasis mine]
Are you SURE you are a lawyer? If so, you must not be a very good one. They most certainly HAVE violated his rights regardless if evidence is admitted.
Pretty pathetic, really. If you can't trust your spouse/S.O./fuckbuddy without spyware, maybe you need to find a new spouse/S.O./fuckbuddy. If you are unhappy enough with said spouse/S.O./fuckbuddy to cheat and haven't got the guts to just leave, screw you anyway.
Never trust a woman or a government:
-Yellowbeard
Unfortunately in my case, there was a third axis on that scale: Time. The crazy axis shifted horribly in the bad direction over time. Come to think of it, the Hot axis did too...
Hindsight is 20/20
Not necessarily.
From my own experience, the BIGGEST impediment to my marriage stability was my wife's bipolar syndrome. I was able to hold it all together for nearly 18 years before she finally left the reservation completely. She is now untreated, although it was hit-or-miss when she was with me. I am now the "single dad" with a "deadbeat" absentee mom. She has gone through two more husbands in six years since we split. My financial problems left when she did, which were a great source of our strife, and now she is in financial ruin despite being an employable RN.
After my own experiences, I would never be serious with a woman who suffered bipolar again. Sorry to all of you who have to deal with it personally, but for two decades it was ruinous for me psychologically, financially, and socially. I will never again be with someone who stays pissed at me for days because of something "I did" in her dreams or yell at me at 2AM because I could sleep during her manic states when she couldn't.
I hate to be someone that makes wife/girlfriend requirement lists, but.. Crazies need not apply.
I hope that we come up with a list of deniers so that future generations can blame the grandkids for the crimes of their families. It is only right that if their grandparents polluted more to get ahead or stopped progress on switching to clean technology/recycling/efficient transportation, that their descendants should be the first ones to face the costs associated with the problems that will be caused and the lack of resources caused by climate problems.
Are you paying for the wrongs of your ancestors on the whim of others?
What is the accuracy rate 3 weeks out?
But... Doesn't that notation defeat the express purpose of SI? I was taught that the beauty of it was being able to use decimals. You know, base ten and all...
Hey Anonymous coward. How many of PF Chang's, Target's, Jimmy John's, and Home Depot's POS machines were running Linux?
And the Feds going after Apple will find a bit more resistance than some poor shlub running an auto body shop trying to eke out a living.
Joel was way funnier than Mike.
Plus there are no payphones anywhere anymore. When I was a kid, I always had change so I could call from a payphone. When the school district built the new fancy schmancy high school, they didn't install one single payphone. Band kids and players getting back from away football games late on Friday had to use their cell phones or borrow one from a friend to get picked up.
Half of my machines at home are Linux based. When my daughter went through high school a couple years ago, the "compatibility" of Open Office with Powerpoint sucked. We tried. Valiantly. We had to use MS Office to get her Powerpoints to look right. And they did a LOT of Powerpoint.
You obviously don'y have kids in school. My school district is sending down all kinds of these ridiculous edicts for purchases. We are having to buy all kinds of shit to be collected by the teachers and provided to the classroom at their discretion. On my kids' 8th grade school supply list this year, besides the TI calculator:
A home computer
A Printer
Computer paper
Internet Access
Microsoft Office
I didn't miss your point. My daughter is out of state and the ONLY way she communicates in a timely fashion is by Facebook. She doesn't even have a celllphone and only calls infrequently. Therefore if I want to communicate with her, I have to use Facebook. I detest it as much as you do, but Tinfoil makes it less retchworthy. My love for my daughter is stronger than my hate for Facebook. Between Tinfoil and emails notifying me she has sent me a message, I find it acceptable. Tinfoil only runs WHEN I want it to run and does not use my location nor does it "send or receive" text messages without the owners consent.
I use the Tinfoil app for Android. It's for the paranoid inside everyone. I seriously doubt they will ever preload anything.
What biological entity doesn't use iron?
Vulcans? Don't they use copper?