and, yet, a good leader/manager will have some contact with people "below" the technical prima dona and will know when the PD is being a shithead, or the people under the technical prima dona will call the PD's bluff and rat him/her out, too.
Sometimes it's a self-correcting system. Most of the time it's not.
It would be nice if they either put the label on the "cartridges" on the other side, or flipped internally the socket, so you can click out the game to see what's in it. Minor step, yes. And, yes, I could open it up and turn it on, too.
Well, there are humans born with 21 pairs or 23 pairs (XXY syndrome) of chromosomes, too. Why is it that not every cross between a horse and a donkey is sterile?
If you throw enough of a population together long enough, you're going to get some interesting edge cases that occaisionally express themselves. If you have some sort of selective pressure for those traits, they will express themselves even more so.
If you don't believe this, just go look at your average interurban rock pigeon flock. Most of them will be just like all of the others. But in a very few flocks, some of the more recessive genes will be played out - there willl be a bird or two that is mostly white, mostly brown, or otherwise not quite like all of the others.
Even in strains of historically white sheep (Dorset, Romney, etc) you get the occaisional odd black sheep. It just happens.
Yes, it is believed, but it is not preached, and certainly at least half of the Bible the God is petty, mean, vengeful, and otherwise not humanly benevolent.
Me, personally? I find it silly to try and anthropomorphize God. I have faith, but to think that one cluster of soft pink creatures is somehow inherently more special and unique than anything else we've figured out how to observe in the universe is...well...it just doesn't fit.
For all we know, our God really is Cthulhu, and has eaten all the other Gods up to this point. But what if He has eaten all the other Gods, what's He going to eat next? Assuming that everyone has a soul, and there's 6 billion or so people on this little rock now, where were all these souls 10,000 years ago when there was probably about 100,000 human beings on Earth? Where are they being created? How does quantum mechanics, stochastic chemistry, string theory, etc. all fit in with Intelligent Design?
No, it's from watching what the so-called "megachurches" are about. Part cult-of-personality, part in-club, but mostly a big money-sucking unit that's tax-free if you do things right.
Nothing denominational about it. In some towns, there is one Catholic church that is the above, and all the others just kind of limp along. In others, it's the Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist or Baptist church. In certain areas it's an Assembly of God church or a big, non-demoninational. There is a bit of a "network effect" with churches, too. In Idaho & Utah, it's a Church of Latter Day Saints. Certainly the Mormons have made a rather big business out of it, as has historically the Roman Catholic church in the US.
It is illegal for apple farmers in the US to use Alar. It is not possible to buy Alar in the US. But, is it possible to use Alar on apples grown in Chile, New Zealand and everywhere else that they're imported into the US from? Probably.
Should IBM be held to task for selling equipment to the Nazis? What about Siemens? Bayer? There are many, many others.
No, both parties do NOT run the K street project, and the last time there was a Democratic administration, the federal deficit SHRANK, and we were more or less at peace with the world.
In the interest of fairness, for 6 of those 8 years, Congress (both houses) were controlled by fiscally conservative Republicans who were driving to push down the budget deficit, and did a rightfully good job at it. The President was just trying to coopt these guys, basically playing along with them to get some of his initiatives passed by them.
So is eating horse meat an absolute wrong? Talk to a PETA person in the US, and it is. Talk to someone in Europe, and horse meat is better than cow meat. Which is too bad, because the horse breeding industry in the US is sort of dependent on that backdoor. Where do all the thoroughbred foals go after a couple of years reveals that they're not going to cut the mustard as race horses? Hmm...
Now, what do the alpaca farmers do with all their duds that they can't sell off? At least with llamas, there's enough meat there to eat. With an alpaca, you get to decide whether that $5000-20000 you dropped on that stupid creature that won't breed or throws bad crias is worth eating [sic].
I would bet there is more meat on a Shetland sheep than on an alpaca, and there isn't a lot of meat on a Shetland sheep.
No, tax ConAgra, Cargill and ADM instead, say, with a differential tax (figure out an inverse formula to help drive up the price that the commodity buyers pay to farmers. Of course, they will just figure out some other way to screw over farmers, so what's the point). ADM benefits (and lobbies for) the continued cane sugar tariffs, along with the anti-Castro loonies in Florida and the few remaining sugar cane growers in Florida. It is in ADM's best interests to keep the sugar tariffs high. ADM makes and sells the corn syrup, not the farmers. ADM probably sets different incentive values to the farmers. Growing high sugar hybrids this year will pay more than growing GMO'd high oil content seed corn, etc.
USDA commodity payouts for grain don't differentiate on what kind of corn you're growing or production. You get $x/acre/crop.
Yes, I'm proud to get my $77/yr for 3.5 acres of "wheat" and "oats" production (for when my property used to be leased out for that. now it's sheep pasture). Wow. $77/year.
But look how well that worked out for Enron & its employees. Of course, executives were allowed to sell their stocks & options, but regular employees weren't, and were directly told to keep buying stocks, even when things were starting to look dour.
...and what are the taxes for cashing out their stocks (i.e., capital gains on shares held longer than two years, isn't it?) vs. normal income tax/AMT for a decent executive-level salary?
...and your computer doesn't have a CDRW/DVDRW on it of some form or another? You haven't secretly set up an ssh tunnel to an outside computer?
You religiously put all your sensitive docs into the to-be-shredded container instead of the usual recycle bin (but people will still inadvertently put critical info in the regular recycle bins from time to time)?
Furthermore a NFL commentator spends the most time with tactical stuff, or pointing out key plays, stuff like that, this can be done in a game too, because that 2vs2 could probably have ended very differently had something been changed..
To be honest, most NFL commentators are simply blowing some serious smoke out their asses for the time they're on the air, especially the "color commentators". Ever listen to the ESPN Sunday Night crew? Joe Theissman is only a couple of notches better than Joe Namath in the "blatantly obvious" dept. Al McGwire sounds like...well...a cranky, constipated overweight white guy with too much stress. When Al and Joe go at each other, it's almost so tragic it approaches comedy. What is cool is when Dan Patrick or other semi-intelligent sports journalist gets Joe Theissman to comment about a tangible subject. Joe usually spouts off a quick blurt of words, to which he so easily gets tied up into a rhetorical knot and he doesn't have the sense to say, "hey, time out", but instead just keeps digging deeper and deeper...
The only other team that would be better in this department for ESPN would be getting John Clayton and Sean Salisbury together into the booth. The hostility between those two is pretty tangible.
Even better stupid commentary is done by the color analysts for the lesser network games.
The ex-coaches are sort of palatable, but only for awhile. Quit calling out plays unless you have an audio feed from the offensive coordinator to the quarterback, or at least a copy of their playbook. "Yeah, it looks like they're running a 28-star salute black fadeout left half-back twizzler". OK, I'll buy THAT for a dollar, because it probably actually was a "50 cent green two pack over tackle". It's easy to confuse the two.
OK, so I probably listen to too much sports talk radio. At least it's sports, and it's a given that it just doesn't really mean much. If only all the idiots that hang off of every last word of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Bill OReilley would just realize the same thing...
But the best roadshow idiots have to be the sports guys blabbing on 1080 The Fan in the afternoons, here in Portland. On one hand, they try to ride Tom Potter, the mayor, out of town because he basically said the obvious to reps from the Florida Marlins baseball team that there really isn't that much interest in Portland for a MLB team. So they then go on and on about this and that meaningless and contextless stat about how popular baseball really is in Portland, that Tom Potter wouldn't know his head from a bucket, etc., but then today were just, yeah, the people of Portland seem to just not really give a rats ass one way or the other about the Seahawks making it into the Superbowl for the first time ever and how Seattle/Puget Sound is just going crazy (earlier it was in the lack of fans to see the Univ of Portland and Univ of Oregon basketball games over the holidays, or how the fans just aren't coming back to see the Portland Trailblazers any longer, etc.).
Me? I don't see why Portland & the state of Oregon should have to shell out a few hundred million dollars to a private business with no terms on paying back the state or city over a period of 10-30 years to "attract" a baseball team. Especially when interest in the existing AAA baseball team is...lackluster (the Pacific Coast League has owned and operated the team the last couple of years...). But if Phil Knight wants to dip into his Nike stock pool and throw a couple of hundred $$$ of his own money into buying property and building a facility, more power to him. Hey, isn't that what Paul Allen did with the Rose Garden?
The Fehrenheit scale is arbitrary and does not have a meaningful zero point.
Umm...*every* temperature scale (just like linear measurements) are arbitrary.
It just so happens that Kelvin coincides nicely with an unobtainable measuring point. You could just as easily factor a thermal scale that rises at 0.857347235 the "rate" of the Kelvin scale. Say, in the Stupid thermal scale, boiling water is at 5.2 deg Stupid, instead of 212 deg F, 100 deg Cel, or 373 deg Kelvin.
The *advantages* for one system or another are not always so apparant. Is it better to calculate trig-related math in degrees, gradients or radians? For trivial things, radians is a whole heck of a lot easier than degrees. Is it better to do geometrical maths in cartesian coordinates, or use some other coordinate system?
In the end, one system vs another explain the same thing correctly and to the same degree of "accuracy".
Or detaining US fishing boats for catching "Canadian" salmon in open waters as they go back to Seattle through the Admiralty Inlet. Or silly arguments in the past regarding dumping raspberries [sic] in US markets...
How about the state of Canadian Beef these days? Thanks, Canada, for introducing BSE to US herds.
So you moved out to the "country", great. Us city slickers think you should have to pay the same taxes we have to. Don't count on us to bail you out when you get flooded out, droughted to dust, or burned down to a ground.
Hey, city slicker, stop passing laws (and the taxes to pay for them!) in the legislature to make the rest of us rural folk pay for your increased infrastructure requirements, crime problems, etc.
Hey, LA, got an earthquake problem? Well, silly you for living in an earthquake zone.
Would a Catholic go for an post-partum (WAYY post partum) aborted pig's heart valve or mechanical valve?
Would a Catholic go for a cadever bone transplant or something else?
While I appreciate the expressions of the Pope regarding this issue, is it really morally any different than a White Supremacist who refuses a blood transfusion from a nigger or kike, with the same level and depth of moral convictions and feelings? After all, if we're to take the Catholic Church with respect, should we not also grant the White Supremacist the same respect over a medical action too?
and -- gasp -- make some of your own music. Music is OK when it's a passive activity (listening), but nothing compares to being able to make your own.
This would work, if only I could take my shower and bathroom along with me wherever I go... For some people, vicarously enjoying the music made by others is a perfectly legitimate activity. Just like most people like to eat their food, but not cook it, prepare it, manufacture it or grow it.
You overlooked the obvious ploy in your own statement: permitted provided that it doesn't break nay applicable law
One just now has to pass laws that prohibit what was once permissible, and the Customary Historic Use doublespeak is not violated.
In the past, various aspects of copyright, like First Sale, have been pretty much unassailable. Garth Brooks and a bunch of other RIAA bitches tried to sue The Wherehouse (they were probably the only largish chain that was doing it. Sam Goody, Tower Records, et al. at the time weren't selling used music) to either stop reselling "used" music media or pay the same royalties that they pay when they sell new music media. But I don't think it even made it out of court.
If the RIAA really was smart, they would just stop selling music purely under copyright, and say that it is a licensed "rental" or "lease" or something like that, that you have only purchased and own the physical media, but the contents on the media are owned by the RIAA companies and you only have a limited license to listen to it but not record, timeshift, make backup copies, convert to other formats, etc, that your opening of the package constitutes your acceptance of the enclosed license agreement, etc., because this license is outside the scope of copyright law, which only applies to "published" or "broadcast" works, and RIAA products are not "published" any longer.
Yes, and why not get me to agree that my sister is also my father, too, right?
Let me jar your head loose from your ass with this 2x4... *whack* (hey, I even used 'loose' correctly...)
So, "jar" certainly can be used as a verb.
If you've played baseball, you've probably been beaned by a pitch at least once. So, there again, English Major, another noun that is also quite properly used as a verb.
An "Archive" is in one usage a repository for historical purposes, whether it be an electronic backup, a printout stored in a document storage library or file cabinet, a laser-etched stone tablet, whatever, and it is also used to refer to *any* collection of files (and possibly directories) of files joined into one entity, like a "tar" file (Tape ARchive). Jar files are really just zip files in disguise anyways.
Sun & Apple as verbs? OK, you probably got us on that one.
As is common also in the English language is the usage of words in a vernacular fashion, which takes root usually as part of a specialized jargon for a given domain area or topic, so your complaint may be applicable to the usage of English in general, but in this area maybe not so germane.
So while complaining about these apparant travesties of language justice, will you write letters to me to all the sports writers in the world to stop using "athleticism", as if it means anything real? I could come up with a couple more if you want. Like, "he sure is hobbled by that 'left acl'" (no mention that it's partially torn or sprained or otherwise injured, just that it is). And WTF is a "high ankle sprain", "sports hernia" or "groin injury"? At least "turf toe" means something - basically a seriously jammed/dislocated toe joint.
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and, yet, a good leader/manager will have some contact with people "below" the technical prima dona and will know when the PD is being a shithead, or the people under the technical prima dona will call the PD's bluff and rat him/her out, too.
Sometimes it's a self-correcting system. Most of the time it's not.
It would be nice if they either put the label on the "cartridges" on the other side, or flipped internally the socket, so you can click out the game to see what's in it. Minor step, yes. And, yes, I could open it up and turn it on, too.
I'd almost argue that the chips are too small.
Would a woman's "come-hither-glance" work with Chimpanzees? (Rhetorical question.)
More importantly, would it work on the typical Slashdotter?
Well, there are humans born with 21 pairs or 23 pairs (XXY syndrome) of chromosomes, too. Why is it that not every cross between a horse and a donkey is sterile?
If you throw enough of a population together long enough, you're going to get some interesting edge cases that occaisionally express themselves. If you have some sort of selective pressure for those traits, they will express themselves even more so.
If you don't believe this, just go look at your average interurban rock pigeon flock. Most of them will be just like all of the others. But in a very few flocks, some of the more recessive genes will be played out - there willl be a bird or two that is mostly white, mostly brown, or otherwise not quite like all of the others.
Even in strains of historically white sheep (Dorset, Romney, etc) you get the occaisional odd black sheep. It just happens.
Yes, it is believed, but it is not preached, and certainly at least half of the Bible the God is petty, mean, vengeful, and otherwise not humanly benevolent.
Me, personally? I find it silly to try and anthropomorphize God. I have faith, but to think that one cluster of soft pink creatures is somehow inherently more special and unique than anything else we've figured out how to observe in the universe is...well...it just doesn't fit.
For all we know, our God really is Cthulhu, and has eaten all the other Gods up to this point. But what if He has eaten all the other Gods, what's He going to eat next? Assuming that everyone has a soul, and there's 6 billion or so people on this little rock now, where were all these souls 10,000 years ago when there was probably about 100,000 human beings on Earth? Where are they being created? How does quantum mechanics, stochastic chemistry, string theory, etc. all fit in with Intelligent Design?
No, it's from watching what the so-called "megachurches" are about. Part cult-of-personality, part in-club, but mostly a big money-sucking unit that's tax-free if you do things right.
Nothing denominational about it. In some towns, there is one Catholic church that is the above, and all the others just kind of limp along. In others, it's the Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist or Baptist church. In certain areas it's an Assembly of God church or a big, non-demoninational. There is a bit of a "network effect" with churches, too. In Idaho & Utah, it's a Church of Latter Day Saints. Certainly the Mormons have made a rather big business out of it, as has historically the Roman Catholic church in the US.
It is illegal for apple farmers in the US to use Alar. It is not possible to buy Alar in the US. But, is it possible to use Alar on apples grown in Chile, New Zealand and everywhere else that they're imported into the US from? Probably.
Should IBM be held to task for selling equipment to the Nazis? What about Siemens? Bayer? There are many, many others.
No, both parties do NOT run the K street project, and the last time there was a Democratic administration, the federal deficit SHRANK, and we were more or less at peace with the world.
In the interest of fairness, for 6 of those 8 years, Congress (both houses) were controlled by fiscally conservative Republicans who were driving to push down the budget deficit, and did a rightfully good job at it. The President was just trying to coopt these guys, basically playing along with them to get some of his initiatives passed by them.
So is eating horse meat an absolute wrong? Talk to a PETA person in the US, and it is. Talk to someone in Europe, and horse meat is better than cow meat. Which is too bad, because the horse breeding industry in the US is sort of dependent on that backdoor. Where do all the thoroughbred foals go after a couple of years reveals that they're not going to cut the mustard as race horses? Hmm...
Now, what do the alpaca farmers do with all their duds that they can't sell off? At least with llamas, there's enough meat there to eat. With an alpaca, you get to decide whether that $5000-20000 you dropped on that stupid creature that won't breed or throws bad crias is worth eating [sic].
I would bet there is more meat on a Shetland sheep than on an alpaca, and there isn't a lot of meat on a Shetland sheep.
No, tax ConAgra, Cargill and ADM instead, say, with a differential tax (figure out an inverse formula to help drive up the price that the commodity buyers pay to farmers. Of course, they will just figure out some other way to screw over farmers, so what's the point). ADM benefits (and lobbies for) the continued cane sugar tariffs, along with the anti-Castro loonies in Florida and the few remaining sugar cane growers in Florida. It is in ADM's best interests to keep the sugar tariffs high. ADM makes and sells the corn syrup, not the farmers. ADM probably sets different incentive values to the farmers. Growing high sugar hybrids this year will pay more than growing GMO'd high oil content seed corn, etc.
USDA commodity payouts for grain don't differentiate on what kind of corn you're growing or production. You get $x/acre/crop.
Yes, I'm proud to get my $77/yr for 3.5 acres of "wheat" and "oats" production (for when my property used to be leased out for that. now it's sheep pasture). Wow. $77/year.
blatant and vicious persecution of dark folks and weirdos on US soil
To be honest, most of this persecution you speak of is not happening on US soil, unless you count the sands of Iraq as US soil.
...as I recall, "America's Army" is free. How exactly do you tax a free application? 50% of 0 is still $0.00.
Is Flight Simulator a violent game when you're bored and just crashing your cessna into the Sears Tower?
But look how well that worked out for Enron & its employees. Of course, executives were allowed to sell their stocks & options, but regular employees weren't, and were directly told to keep buying stocks, even when things were starting to look dour.
...and what are the taxes for cashing out their stocks (i.e., capital gains on shares held longer than two years, isn't it?) vs. normal income tax/AMT for a decent executive-level salary?
...and your computer doesn't have a CDRW/DVDRW on it of some form or another? You haven't secretly set up an ssh tunnel to an outside computer?
You religiously put all your sensitive docs into the to-be-shredded container instead of the usual recycle bin (but people will still inadvertently put critical info in the regular recycle bins from time to time)?
Furthermore a NFL commentator spends the most time with tactical stuff, or pointing out key plays, stuff like that, this can be done in a game too, because that 2vs2 could probably have ended very differently had something been changed..
To be honest, most NFL commentators are simply blowing some serious smoke out their asses for the time they're on the air, especially the "color commentators". Ever listen to the ESPN Sunday Night crew? Joe Theissman is only a couple of notches better than Joe Namath in the "blatantly obvious" dept. Al McGwire sounds like...well...a cranky, constipated overweight white guy with too much stress. When Al and Joe go at each other, it's almost so tragic it approaches comedy. What is cool is when Dan Patrick or other semi-intelligent sports journalist gets Joe Theissman to comment about a tangible subject. Joe usually spouts off a quick blurt of words, to which he so easily gets tied up into a rhetorical knot and he doesn't have the sense to say, "hey, time out", but instead just keeps digging deeper and deeper...
The only other team that would be better in this department for ESPN would be getting John Clayton and Sean Salisbury together into the booth. The hostility between those two is pretty tangible.
Even better stupid commentary is done by the color analysts for the lesser network games.
The ex-coaches are sort of palatable, but only for awhile. Quit calling out plays unless you have an audio feed from the offensive coordinator to the quarterback, or at least a copy of their playbook. "Yeah, it looks like they're running a 28-star salute black fadeout left half-back twizzler". OK, I'll buy THAT for a dollar, because it probably actually was a "50 cent green two pack over tackle". It's easy to confuse the two.
OK, so I probably listen to too much sports talk radio. At least it's sports, and it's a given that it just doesn't really mean much. If only all the idiots that hang off of every last word of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity or Bill OReilley would just realize the same thing...
But the best roadshow idiots have to be the sports guys blabbing on 1080 The Fan in the afternoons, here in Portland. On one hand, they try to ride Tom Potter, the mayor, out of town because he basically said the obvious to reps from the Florida Marlins baseball team that there really isn't that much interest in Portland for a MLB team. So they then go on and on about this and that meaningless and contextless stat about how popular baseball really is in Portland, that Tom Potter wouldn't know his head from a bucket, etc., but then today were just, yeah, the people of Portland seem to just not really give a rats ass one way or the other about the Seahawks making it into the Superbowl for the first time ever and how Seattle/Puget Sound is just going crazy (earlier it was in the lack of fans to see the Univ of Portland and Univ of Oregon basketball games over the holidays, or how the fans just aren't coming back to see the Portland Trailblazers any longer, etc.).
Me? I don't see why Portland & the state of Oregon should have to shell out a few hundred million dollars to a private business with no terms on paying back the state or city over a period of 10-30 years to "attract" a baseball team. Especially when interest in the existing AAA baseball team is...lackluster (the Pacific Coast League has owned and operated the team the last couple of years...). But if Phil Knight wants to dip into his Nike stock pool and throw a couple of hundred $$$ of his own money into buying property and building a facility, more power to him. Hey, isn't that what Paul Allen did with the Rose Garden?
The Fehrenheit scale is arbitrary and does not have a meaningful zero point.
Umm...*every* temperature scale (just like linear measurements) are arbitrary.
It just so happens that Kelvin coincides nicely with an unobtainable measuring point. You could just as easily factor a thermal scale that rises at 0.857347235 the "rate" of the Kelvin scale. Say, in the Stupid thermal scale, boiling water is at 5.2 deg Stupid, instead of 212 deg F, 100 deg Cel, or 373 deg Kelvin.
The *advantages* for one system or another are not always so apparant. Is it better to calculate trig-related math in degrees, gradients or radians? For trivial things, radians is a whole heck of a lot easier than degrees. Is it better to do geometrical maths in cartesian coordinates, or use some other coordinate system?
In the end, one system vs another explain the same thing correctly and to the same degree of "accuracy".
Or detaining US fishing boats for catching "Canadian" salmon in open waters as they go back to Seattle through the Admiralty Inlet. Or silly arguments in the past regarding dumping raspberries [sic] in US markets...
How about the state of Canadian Beef these days? Thanks, Canada, for introducing BSE to US herds.
So you moved out to the "country", great. Us city slickers think you should have to pay the same taxes we have to. Don't count on us to bail you out when you get flooded out, droughted to dust, or burned down to a ground.
Hey, city slicker, stop passing laws (and the taxes to pay for them!) in the legislature to make the rest of us rural folk pay for your increased infrastructure requirements, crime problems, etc.
Hey, LA, got an earthquake problem? Well, silly you for living in an earthquake zone.
In the end, it's a stupid, undefendable argument.
Would a Catholic go for an post-partum (WAYY post partum) aborted pig's heart valve or mechanical valve?
Would a Catholic go for a cadever bone transplant or something else?
While I appreciate the expressions of the Pope regarding this issue, is it really morally any different than a White Supremacist who refuses a blood transfusion from a nigger or kike, with the same level and depth of moral convictions and feelings? After all, if we're to take the Catholic Church with respect, should we not also grant the White Supremacist the same respect over a medical action too?
and -- gasp -- make some of your own music. Music is OK when it's a passive activity (listening), but nothing compares to being able to make your own.
This would work, if only I could take my shower and bathroom along with me wherever I go... For some people, vicarously enjoying the music made by others is a perfectly legitimate activity. Just like most people like to eat their food, but not cook it, prepare it, manufacture it or grow it.
Funny, though, is that it took an Amendment to the Constitution to spell this right out... (as in, must enumerate rights before they're...rights).
You overlooked the obvious ploy in your own statement: permitted provided that it doesn't break nay applicable law
One just now has to pass laws that prohibit what was once permissible, and the Customary Historic Use doublespeak is not violated.
In the past, various aspects of copyright, like First Sale, have been pretty much unassailable. Garth Brooks and a bunch of other RIAA bitches tried to sue The Wherehouse (they were probably the only largish chain that was doing it. Sam Goody, Tower Records, et al. at the time weren't selling used music) to either stop reselling "used" music media or pay the same royalties that they pay when they sell new music media. But I don't think it even made it out of court.
If the RIAA really was smart, they would just stop selling music purely under copyright, and say that it is a licensed "rental" or "lease" or something like that, that you have only purchased and own the physical media, but the contents on the media are owned by the RIAA companies and you only have a limited license to listen to it but not record, timeshift, make backup copies, convert to other formats, etc, that your opening of the package constitutes your acceptance of the enclosed license agreement, etc., because this license is outside the scope of copyright law, which only applies to "published" or "broadcast" works, and RIAA products are not "published" any longer.
Yes, and why not get me to agree that my sister is also my father, too, right?
Let me jar your head loose from your ass with this 2x4... *whack* (hey, I even used 'loose' correctly...)
So, "jar" certainly can be used as a verb.
If you've played baseball, you've probably been beaned by a pitch at least once. So, there again, English Major, another noun that is also quite properly used as a verb.
An "Archive" is in one usage a repository for historical purposes, whether it be an electronic backup, a printout stored in a document storage library or file cabinet, a laser-etched stone tablet, whatever, and it is also used to refer to *any* collection of files (and possibly directories) of files joined into one entity, like a "tar" file (Tape ARchive). Jar files are really just zip files in disguise anyways.
Sun & Apple as verbs? OK, you probably got us on that one.
As is common also in the English language is the usage of words in a vernacular fashion, which takes root usually as part of a specialized jargon for a given domain area or topic, so your complaint may be applicable to the usage of English in general, but in this area maybe not so germane.
So while complaining about these apparant travesties of language justice, will you write letters to me to all the sports writers in the world to stop using "athleticism", as if it means anything real? I could come up with a couple more if you want. Like, "he sure is hobbled by that 'left acl'" (no mention that it's partially torn or sprained or otherwise injured, just that it is). And WTF is a "high ankle sprain", "sports hernia" or "groin injury"? At least "turf toe" means something - basically a seriously jammed/dislocated toe joint.
Screw the lung cancer. COPD (aka emphysema) has got to suck. Not everyone with cirrhosis or HepC is an alchy or sex whore, either.