Heck, forget building it with a keyboard. Just keep the exterior form factor the same, and offer a Bluetooth keyboard that snaps on to the phone and can swivel out. If they would keep the outside form factor consistent, they could probably even get peripheral manufacturers to handle making the keyboards.
(Yes, I know that the iPhone has this. Peripherals are the one thing that iOS devices crush Android in.)
Different people have different price points. I always said that I would buy my PC games if they were priced reasonably, and didn't have DRM. In the last year I have bought 140 PC games from GoG. That is at least 10 times the number of games that I had purchased over the last 10 years.
If I could buy PS1 games in a paper sleeve at the checkout of the drugstore for $1 a pop, I would buy just about anything I could get my hands on. I would pay 2 to 3 times that for PS2/XBox games.
99 cents per song is a ridiculously high cost for music. The cost of producing music has dropped dramatically in the last 2 decades, and 99 cents per song is what it used to cost for a physical disk. It is actually surprising how many people have bought into having the price RAISED for the privilege of not having a physical disk.
Claiming that you don't publish data because it won't convince 100% of the people is like a child claiming that they are lying to you because you wouldn't believe them anyways. It is a poor excuse.
And whether you are right or wrong, the fact that you believe it is a self proving point. The previous posters can argue whether your position is rational or not, but they cannot argue that no one has your point of view. And, since getting a job happens because someone makes a decision based on their point of view, and not the accuracy of their point of view, your point is made.
That is the funny part about people who claim that it is paranoia to worry about extending the use of the SSN. With SSNs we are at the bottom of the slippery slope. Not the top.
Absolute BS. Doctors recommend vaccines because they have been told they work, and because they see that fewer people getting sick after they have the vaccine. They do NOT recommend them because they understand evolution. If you think that medical doctors are basing any of their decisions on an understanding of evolution, you don't know what a doctor does. The issue of evolution would only come into play during the research phase, by the time vaccines, or any other medicine goes into human trials, knowledge of evolution is no longer necessary. Medical doctors come well after that stage.
The best available facts that a doctor bases his treatment on never is about evolution. It is about statistics. At best, they look at the results of the trials. Often (particularly with vaccines), they just prescribe the items on the list that they have been given.
The medical doctor is going to use simpler non-evolutionary biology in his day to day practice. Knowing that evolution exists will be irrelevant to his day to day practice. Just as particle physics is not used in the day to day practice of a building engineer. You are placing the medical doctor WAY too high on the biology field scale.
Given the number of people I personally know that have had cancer and been cured, I think they are doing a pretty good job of curing it. Sure they have more to go, but it is absolutely AMAZING what has been accomplished and is available to the public.
That is a good argument. Although it doesn't cover the fact that a priest is pretty much going to be called on to perform tasks that involve knowledge of god, whereas 99.99% of all medical doctors will never be called on to perform tasks that require knowledge of evolution. For practicing medicine, evolution, while closely related, is not a core subject.
The best argument for failing them if they don't take the class is that you fail students for not taking any required class. If the program requires a certain number of units in English Literature, they would get failed for not taking that class too, even if they were offended by the literature itself.
You are reading the argument backwords. The argument puts forth that Newtonian Physics is the day to day physics you use, even though we know it isn't the whole story. So, it would be more akin to a building engineer that refused to take classes on particle physics. Would you trust a building designed by an engineer that did not believe in neutrinos?
He didn't say that HE was the viruses and bacteria. He specifically stated that "I may not but things living in me may be evolving." The problem with his argument isn't that he claims to be evolving. The problem is that his suggestion that the viruses and bacteria may be evolving is irrelevant because his doctor STILL doesn't need to know about evolution because that is not how medicine is practiced. No medical doctor that is treating normal patients is going to look at the evolution of viruses and bacteria in you. Looking at evolution would be reserved for doctors involved in research.
No doctor YOU will ever visit is going to be taking the evolution of viruses and bacteria inside of you into consideration. That is not how medicine is performed at the patent level. Thus my statement still stands. You are not a Pokemon, so your doctor understanding evolution is irrelevant.
You miss understand the basic premise. If the scientific method were to be like Newtonian Physics in that it is good enough for practical use, but fails under specific circumstances, then the old line about this or that being a 'sign from God' would be the better one that disproves the theory that the scientific method is absolute.
Again, I am not saying that *I* believe the scientific method is flawed, but instead I am pointing out the flaw in the argument. You don't convince people to give up their beliefs (even if they are flawed) by making easily refuted arguments. Unfortunately, yours is.
I agree with you, but I could see others saying it was more like Newtonian Physics. It works for most cases, but isn't the whole story. *I* am not saying that, but I could definitely see that argument raised.
Slashdot. I have never heard the name mentioned on Fox News. Presumably because I don't get Fox News on my TV. Your not suggesting that Slashdot is an agent of the Secret Fox News Society are you? Besides, it isn't just when the name Soros comes up that "Fox New!" starts getting cried.
Are you saying that you have never performed an unauthorized public performance of "Happy Birthday"? You always keep the car complately under the speed limit? Never do 58 in a 55? I have yet to meet one of these mythical people that even grudgingly honor the rule of law in real life. While you might be that rare exception, I highly doubt it.
What I do see every day are people who see the law as shades of gray, and see anything darker than the shade they chose to draw their line as being criminal, and anything lighter not counting. This includes me. I consider raping, murdering, and eating your neighbors to be criminal. I don't consider copying the DVD you purchased to a hard drive that you purchased so that you can watch a movie on the TV you purchased without jumping through hoops to be criminal.
Your SkyTran suggestion is a 25% solution with more than a 100% cost. If it were up to people of your thinking, Manhattan would tear out their subway system because it is too mundane, and you would just ignore the actual problems. We don't need to replace our light rail. We need to replace our fossil fuel burning personal transit.
Your entire argument about leadership is self contradictory. You claim that "anytime you kill the leader of an organization, it throws everything into chaos" so, eugenics would not have been a moving force (ignoring that eugenics was in vogue outside of Germany as well), yet you claim that removing the leadership of energy companies would lead to an even more devoted to their current policies.
If the man knew he had AIDs in your example, the primary problem isn't that "he didn't like to use condoms", the criminal behavior is that "he didn't tell his partner that he had AIDS". So, the "he doesn't like to use condoms" part wouldn't make sense as a complaint. Thus your comment, neither explicitly, nor implicitly implies the man knows he has AIDS.
So, I am not "blaming the victim", and whether you intended it or not, your comment IS "blame the penis". Thus it is a bad example.
A more accurate example would be "Right. She's dead because of the car, not because he wanted to go to the movies."
Correct. Yet, here in the US, you will get will get people accusing you of murdering your child and theirs if you don't vaccinate for it.
The vaccine has only been available in the US for 16 years. This is not nearly long enough to be advisable to the majority of the child population give the nature of Chicken Pox.
You are seriously suggesting that we put a Mag Rail within a 1/4 mile of every single home in the country? Let me guess. You live in a high density location. Your suggestion would mean that in many parts of the country, you would be building stations for every home. You are talking about a "rail" system that would dwarf our highway system, as it would have to include most of the city streets on top of it. You wouldn't be able to have poorly maintained sections like we have with streets because unlike streets where you can get past a pothole, and in fact, can keep driving down the road even if the entire road has broken down into gravel. The SkyTran wouldn't work in unmaintained scenarios. The SkyTran is a replacement for light rail. It isn't a replacement for cars.
As for the Nazis/Fossil Fuel companies, you are wrong. Hitler and Himmler did not rise out of a vacuum. They were the products of WWI. You MIGHT argue that there were no other tyrants that would have taken their place, but the fact that brutal tyrants have popped up all over the world throughout history, that argument would be pretty weak. As for the Fossil Fuel companies... They are lead by a pretty small core group of leaders. And remember, we are talking about a claim of an extinction level event, not something that you can wait out, or move away from.
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Heck, forget building it with a keyboard. Just keep the exterior form factor the same, and offer a Bluetooth keyboard that snaps on to the phone and can swivel out. If they would keep the outside form factor consistent, they could probably even get peripheral manufacturers to handle making the keyboards.
(Yes, I know that the iPhone has this. Peripherals are the one thing that iOS devices crush Android in.)
Different people have different price points. I always said that I would buy my PC games if they were priced reasonably, and didn't have DRM. In the last year I have bought 140 PC games from GoG. That is at least 10 times the number of games that I had purchased over the last 10 years.
If I could buy PS1 games in a paper sleeve at the checkout of the drugstore for $1 a pop, I would buy just about anything I could get my hands on. I would pay 2 to 3 times that for PS2/XBox games.
99 cents per song is a ridiculously high cost for music. The cost of producing music has dropped dramatically in the last 2 decades, and 99 cents per song is what it used to cost for a physical disk. It is actually surprising how many people have bought into having the price RAISED for the privilege of not having a physical disk.
Claiming that you don't publish data because it won't convince 100% of the people is like a child claiming that they are lying to you because you wouldn't believe them anyways. It is a poor excuse.
And whether you are right or wrong, the fact that you believe it is a self proving point. The previous posters can argue whether your position is rational or not, but they cannot argue that no one has your point of view. And, since getting a job happens because someone makes a decision based on their point of view, and not the accuracy of their point of view, your point is made.
That is the funny part about people who claim that it is paranoia to worry about extending the use of the SSN. With SSNs we are at the bottom of the slippery slope. Not the top.
Absolute BS. Doctors recommend vaccines because they have been told they work, and because they see that fewer people getting sick after they have the vaccine. They do NOT recommend them because they understand evolution. If you think that medical doctors are basing any of their decisions on an understanding of evolution, you don't know what a doctor does. The issue of evolution would only come into play during the research phase, by the time vaccines, or any other medicine goes into human trials, knowledge of evolution is no longer necessary. Medical doctors come well after that stage.
The best available facts that a doctor bases his treatment on never is about evolution. It is about statistics. At best, they look at the results of the trials. Often (particularly with vaccines), they just prescribe the items on the list that they have been given.
The medical doctor is going to use simpler non-evolutionary biology in his day to day practice. Knowing that evolution exists will be irrelevant to his day to day practice. Just as particle physics is not used in the day to day practice of a building engineer. You are placing the medical doctor WAY too high on the biology field scale.
Given the number of people I personally know that have had cancer and been cured, I think they are doing a pretty good job of curing it. Sure they have more to go, but it is absolutely AMAZING what has been accomplished and is available to the public.
That is a good argument. Although it doesn't cover the fact that a priest is pretty much going to be called on to perform tasks that involve knowledge of god, whereas 99.99% of all medical doctors will never be called on to perform tasks that require knowledge of evolution. For practicing medicine, evolution, while closely related, is not a core subject.
The best argument for failing them if they don't take the class is that you fail students for not taking any required class. If the program requires a certain number of units in English Literature, they would get failed for not taking that class too, even if they were offended by the literature itself.
You are reading the argument backwords. The argument puts forth that Newtonian Physics is the day to day physics you use, even though we know it isn't the whole story. So, it would be more akin to a building engineer that refused to take classes on particle physics. Would you trust a building designed by an engineer that did not believe in neutrinos?
He didn't say that HE was the viruses and bacteria. He specifically stated that "I may not but things living in me may be evolving." The problem with his argument isn't that he claims to be evolving. The problem is that his suggestion that the viruses and bacteria may be evolving is irrelevant because his doctor STILL doesn't need to know about evolution because that is not how medicine is practiced. No medical doctor that is treating normal patients is going to look at the evolution of viruses and bacteria in you. Looking at evolution would be reserved for doctors involved in research.
No doctor YOU will ever visit is going to be taking the evolution of viruses and bacteria inside of you into consideration. That is not how medicine is performed at the patent level. Thus my statement still stands. You are not a Pokemon, so your doctor understanding evolution is irrelevant.
You miss understand the basic premise. If the scientific method were to be like Newtonian Physics in that it is good enough for practical use, but fails under specific circumstances, then the old line about this or that being a 'sign from God' would be the better one that disproves the theory that the scientific method is absolute.
Again, I am not saying that *I* believe the scientific method is flawed, but instead I am pointing out the flaw in the argument. You don't convince people to give up their beliefs (even if they are flawed) by making easily refuted arguments. Unfortunately, yours is.
I agree with you, but I could see others saying it was more like Newtonian Physics. It works for most cases, but isn't the whole story. *I* am not saying that, but I could definitely see that argument raised.
Why? You are not a Pokemon. YOU are not evolving. Thus, you will never have a medical need that requires your doctor to understand evolution.
You mean like still using the same target for delete and eject on the Mac?
Since an iPad is a large iPod, there already is an iPadMini. It's called the iPod.
Slashdot. I have never heard the name mentioned on Fox News. Presumably because I don't get Fox News on my TV. Your not suggesting that Slashdot is an agent of the Secret Fox News Society are you? Besides, it isn't just when the name Soros comes up that "Fox New!" starts getting cried.
Are you saying that you have never performed an unauthorized public performance of "Happy Birthday"? You always keep the car complately under the speed limit? Never do 58 in a 55? I have yet to meet one of these mythical people that even grudgingly honor the rule of law in real life. While you might be that rare exception, I highly doubt it.
What I do see every day are people who see the law as shades of gray, and see anything darker than the shade they chose to draw their line as being criminal, and anything lighter not counting. This includes me. I consider raping, murdering, and eating your neighbors to be criminal. I don't consider copying the DVD you purchased to a hard drive that you purchased so that you can watch a movie on the TV you purchased without jumping through hoops to be criminal.
As I understand it, passenger rail stops for shipping rail. Thus the slow going. Can anyone in the know confirm or deny this?
Your SkyTran suggestion is a 25% solution with more than a 100% cost. If it were up to people of your thinking, Manhattan would tear out their subway system because it is too mundane, and you would just ignore the actual problems. We don't need to replace our light rail. We need to replace our fossil fuel burning personal transit.
Your entire argument about leadership is self contradictory. You claim that "anytime you kill the leader of an organization, it throws everything into chaos" so, eugenics would not have been a moving force (ignoring that eugenics was in vogue outside of Germany as well), yet you claim that removing the leadership of energy companies would lead to an even more devoted to their current policies.
If the man knew he had AIDs in your example, the primary problem isn't that "he didn't like to use condoms", the criminal behavior is that "he didn't tell his partner that he had AIDS". So, the "he doesn't like to use condoms" part wouldn't make sense as a complaint. Thus your comment, neither explicitly, nor implicitly implies the man knows he has AIDS.
So, I am not "blaming the victim", and whether you intended it or not, your comment IS "blame the penis". Thus it is a bad example.
A more accurate example would be "Right. She's dead because of the car, not because he wanted to go to the movies."
What bullshit exactly are you talking about? The bullshit that Fox News isn't the head of a vast conspiracy???
Correct. Yet, here in the US, you will get will get people accusing you of murdering your child and theirs if you don't vaccinate for it.
The vaccine has only been available in the US for 16 years. This is not nearly long enough to be advisable to the majority of the child population give the nature of Chicken Pox.
You are seriously suggesting that we put a Mag Rail within a 1/4 mile of every single home in the country? Let me guess. You live in a high density location. Your suggestion would mean that in many parts of the country, you would be building stations for every home. You are talking about a "rail" system that would dwarf our highway system, as it would have to include most of the city streets on top of it. You wouldn't be able to have poorly maintained sections like we have with streets because unlike streets where you can get past a pothole, and in fact, can keep driving down the road even if the entire road has broken down into gravel. The SkyTran wouldn't work in unmaintained scenarios. The SkyTran is a replacement for light rail. It isn't a replacement for cars.
As for the Nazis/Fossil Fuel companies, you are wrong. Hitler and Himmler did not rise out of a vacuum. They were the products of WWI. You MIGHT argue that there were no other tyrants that would have taken their place, but the fact that brutal tyrants have popped up all over the world throughout history, that argument would be pretty weak. As for the Fossil Fuel companies... They are lead by a pretty small core group of leaders. And remember, we are talking about a claim of an extinction level event, not something that you can wait out, or move away from.