Because with a CD you have 'Purchased' a physical item. The downloads are just a 'License' to play the music. A fire, flood, or hard drive crash does not destroy the license.
And that is why Degrees are largely a joke. Giving a degree in no way is any indication that a person has knowledge in the area they claim. It shouldn't be suprising. We have a culture of 'Social Promotion' in our education system. If we are going to pass students who don't know the subject for the first 13 years of their education, why not for the next 4?
2) FOIA requests would be MUCH easier to handle if everything were published. Just give them a link to the publicly available data and code. The FOIA request are made because the data and code are not publicly available, yet are being used to influence public policy.
3) "Peer" is a loaded term. What is a peer? Is it someone that has all of the same biases as you? Is it someone that understands the material as well as you? Is it someone who has the same pieces of paper as you? Peer review is not an excuse to hide your work. This becomes an issue of "Who polices the police?", which is often the argument when corruption and/or incompetence is rampant, and the people with the power don't want to be outed.
I would go one step farther and say that it is physically impossible to do anything romantic on Valentine's Day. Being pressured to do something is simply not romantic. Valentine's day is by it's very existence an attempt to pressure people into doing something romantic.
Of course, contrary to popular belief, most women have no idea what is romantic. Valentine's day could just as easily be called 'Prostitutes Day'. Now, I wouldn't want to begrudge someone from being or using a prostitute, if that is their thing, and with all of the other 'Day's' we have, Prostitutes Day might be valid, BUT there certainly isn't anything 'romantic' about it.
It doesn't matter if it there are more white people or not. Saying that there are 'too many white people' is no less racist than saying 'there are too many black people', 'too many Jews', 'too many Arabs', or 'too many Asians'. You are a racist that is seeing people based on the color of their skin. Just because you are being racist against a group that currently is in disfavor doesn't make you any less of a scum bag for being a raving racist. It is unsurprising that you rationalize your racism, as racist throughout history have pretty much always rationalized why their racism wasn't racist, and was just 'a fact'. No doubt, if you go and talk to any Arian supremacy group, they will explain why their racism isn't bad in much the same way that you do, and no doubt they won't be any more or less racist than you.
I don't know if you are making fun of the anti-cell phone folks, or if you are trying vilify cell phones, and you couldn't help going off subject to put in a jab. Either way, you make good show of why we would see so called 'independent' studies showing the dangers of cell phones. There is a very large contingent of neo-luddites that see the cell phone as evil, and they will make any crazy claim they can to try and turn people away from them.
I'm not sure what you mean by you pay nothing. If you mean that it is covered by your employer, then you are wrong. You have just been tricked by a shell game. When an employer hires people, they consider the cost of that employee. That includes both salary as well as all of the employer side payments. This includes health care.
That or they could open source their server so that third parties can run their own servers for those games. Actually, if isn't there already a third party server for the XBox?
Has there ever been a single case where fingerprint a kid has done any good in any situation? I can't imagine that it has ever been used to find a missing child, and it certainly does not help the child in the case of trying to solve crimes.
If I ever get into a western style gun fight, I want it to be with you. As long as I get to be the shooter in your analogy. I will happily move first and let you throw your body in front of my bullet.
You are right and you are wrong. You are right that children are animals. Where you are wrong is when you blame the victim, which is what you and the article are doing. If you a 10 cows in a pen, and one of them keeps kicking the crap out a couple of the other cows, you don't get rid of the cows that are getting the crap kicked out of them. You take the aggressive one out of the pen, slaughter it, and eat it for dinner.
How is "Get Beaten and Mugged" an analogy for 'Get Beaten and Mugged'? And how do you expect a 12 year old to avoid the crime-ridden neighborhood when the alternative is going to jail? The state mandates kids go to school. While home schooling is legal, the kid has very little to no part in making that decision. The school is literally the neighborhood that the kids are literally getting beaten and mugged in. Just because "Bullying" sounds nicer doesn't mean that it isn't "Getting Beaten and Mugged".
So, your comparison (not analogy) between adult and childhood beatings and muggings actually highlights the absurdity of blaming the victim. If the police were to force you to walk that dark alley in a crime-ridden neighborhood 5 days a week, back and forth for 6 hours a day, 9 months a year, and then told you it was your own fault for getting mugged, what would you do?
I will agree with you concerning many vaccines, but flu has way to many variants to be well protected against, and you have to keep getting vaccinated. Combined with the fact that it is less dangerous than regular car trips to the park, and it is not crazy that many people would opt out. The other one that is reasonable to opt out of is chicken pox. It is a disease with very low mortality rates, and offers life long immunity once you have had it. The big problem being that chicken pox becomes WAY more dangerous if you get it as an adult. Combine this with the fact that the chicken pox vaccine is not permanent, and you have a recipe for disaster. Now, I would never tell you not to get your kid vaccinated for the chicken pox, but I'm not sure you are doing them any favors if you are just delaying it until they are 30. If the chicken pox vaccine were to be given at 12 or 13, when a human becomes adult, and the disease starts to get more dangerous, it would make more sense.
Polio on the other hand doesn't get more dangerous as you get older. So, even if the polio vaccine didn't last for life, one would still be better off getting the vaccine so that they could spend more of their life healthy.
What I want to know is why the article doesn't say what the problem is. If it is reproducible, what conditions will reproduce it. We are supposidly talking about a life and death situation here, and either Woz is letting his ego get in the way so that he can be the 'expert', the reporter as well as their editor is incompetent because they left out perhaps the single most important information of the story, or both.
No doubt if 50,000 people were calling and saying that they could reproduce the problem, including the CEO's teenage kid/nephew/neighbor, there would be a faster response than that given to 1. Even if that is the great and powerful Woz.
This is by design. Businesses don't want legitimate calls going through. They want the caller who is qualified to give up on getting resolution. Generally customer service staff are perfectly qualified. They are qualified to take care of non-issues, and to act as human shields when there really is a problem. There is great value to those higher up on the food chain in being able to claim ignorance.
If Toyota feels the cost to fix the Prius problem (if there is one) is more expensive than to not fix it, the CEO avoids having to take personal responsibility for killing people if he has an army of expendable customer service 'managers' to keep Woz from actually telling him that his cars have a dangerous flaw.
You are absolutely correct. I don't get why people cried over this. Seven people died. That sucks for them and their families, but seven people die every day. Crying and feeling despondent over 7 people you do not personally know dieing doing something that they were fully aware was highly dangerous is bizarre. It is a little like crying and having real sadness over the injuries the guys on 'Jackass' incurred.
Yes. That is exactly what I am talking about. Now, we just need to see them in Target and Wallmart. Of course a version for my Android phone would be even better.
I get crashes about once a week. The who system just shuts down. Of course, this COULD have something to do with the fact that I have a video card that says you need a 300 watt power supply, and the computer has an 80 watt power supply in it.
Anyone know of a decent power supply that will fit in a Gateway low profile case?
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Because with a CD you have 'Purchased' a physical item. The downloads are just a 'License' to play the music. A fire, flood, or hard drive crash does not destroy the license.
And that is why Degrees are largely a joke. Giving a degree in no way is any indication that a person has knowledge in the area they claim. It shouldn't be suprising. We have a culture of 'Social Promotion' in our education system. If we are going to pass students who don't know the subject for the first 13 years of their education, why not for the next 4?
That's the one I was thinking of.
1) Yes. This one, that one, the other one, etc...
2) FOIA requests would be MUCH easier to handle if everything were published. Just give them a link to the publicly available data and code. The FOIA request are made because the data and code are not publicly available, yet are being used to influence public policy.
3) "Peer" is a loaded term. What is a peer? Is it someone that has all of the same biases as you? Is it someone that understands the material as well as you? Is it someone who has the same pieces of paper as you? Peer review is not an excuse to hide your work. This becomes an issue of "Who polices the police?", which is often the argument when corruption and/or incompetence is rampant, and the people with the power don't want to be outed.
Yes, you should. You are going to LOVE the new pink pony menu bar! And unicorns...UNICORNS!!!
I would go one step farther and say that it is physically impossible to do anything romantic on Valentine's Day. Being pressured to do something is simply not romantic. Valentine's day is by it's very existence an attempt to pressure people into doing something romantic.
Of course, contrary to popular belief, most women have no idea what is romantic. Valentine's day could just as easily be called 'Prostitutes Day'. Now, I wouldn't want to begrudge someone from being or using a prostitute, if that is their thing, and with all of the other 'Day's' we have, Prostitutes Day might be valid, BUT there certainly isn't anything 'romantic' about it.
It doesn't matter if it there are more white people or not. Saying that there are 'too many white people' is no less racist than saying 'there are too many black people', 'too many Jews', 'too many Arabs', or 'too many Asians'. You are a racist that is seeing people based on the color of their skin. Just because you are being racist against a group that currently is in disfavor doesn't make you any less of a scum bag for being a raving racist. It is unsurprising that you rationalize your racism, as racist throughout history have pretty much always rationalized why their racism wasn't racist, and was just 'a fact'. No doubt, if you go and talk to any Arian supremacy group, they will explain why their racism isn't bad in much the same way that you do, and no doubt they won't be any more or less racist than you.
We'll agree there are too many white guys, and it's a good ole boys club.
That is an indefensibly racist statement.
Do you have something pointing to this, as every other account of them seems to disagree with you.
I don't know if you are making fun of the anti-cell phone folks, or if you are trying vilify cell phones, and you couldn't help going off subject to put in a jab. Either way, you make good show of why we would see so called 'independent' studies showing the dangers of cell phones. There is a very large contingent of neo-luddites that see the cell phone as evil, and they will make any crazy claim they can to try and turn people away from them.
I'm not sure what you mean by you pay nothing. If you mean that it is covered by your employer, then you are wrong. You have just been tricked by a shell game. When an employer hires people, they consider the cost of that employee. That includes both salary as well as all of the employer side payments. This includes health care.
Or MS could do what they should have done with XP and just included DOS as an OS image running inside of a PC emulator.
That or they could open source their server so that third parties can run their own servers for those games. Actually, if isn't there already a third party server for the XBox?
You don't even need the $25 developer certificate. All the user has to do is click the checkbox that they want to install from unverified sources.
Has there ever been a single case where fingerprint a kid has done any good in any situation? I can't imagine that it has ever been used to find a missing child, and it certainly does not help the child in the case of trying to solve crimes.
If I ever get into a western style gun fight, I want it to be with you. As long as I get to be the shooter in your analogy. I will happily move first and let you throw your body in front of my bullet.
Of course it isn't. Waiting until there are no authority figures around, and then kicking the crap out of them is...Right?
You are right and you are wrong. You are right that children are animals. Where you are wrong is when you blame the victim, which is what you and the article are doing. If you a 10 cows in a pen, and one of them keeps kicking the crap out a couple of the other cows, you don't get rid of the cows that are getting the crap kicked out of them. You take the aggressive one out of the pen, slaughter it, and eat it for dinner.
How is "Get Beaten and Mugged" an analogy for 'Get Beaten and Mugged'? And how do you expect a 12 year old to avoid the crime-ridden neighborhood when the alternative is going to jail? The state mandates kids go to school. While home schooling is legal, the kid has very little to no part in making that decision. The school is literally the neighborhood that the kids are literally getting beaten and mugged in. Just because "Bullying" sounds nicer doesn't mean that it isn't "Getting Beaten and Mugged".
So, your comparison (not analogy) between adult and childhood beatings and muggings actually highlights the absurdity of blaming the victim. If the police were to force you to walk that dark alley in a crime-ridden neighborhood 5 days a week, back and forth for 6 hours a day, 9 months a year, and then told you it was your own fault for getting mugged, what would you do?
I will agree with you concerning many vaccines, but flu has way to many variants to be well protected against, and you have to keep getting vaccinated. Combined with the fact that it is less dangerous than regular car trips to the park, and it is not crazy that many people would opt out. The other one that is reasonable to opt out of is chicken pox. It is a disease with very low mortality rates, and offers life long immunity once you have had it. The big problem being that chicken pox becomes WAY more dangerous if you get it as an adult. Combine this with the fact that the chicken pox vaccine is not permanent, and you have a recipe for disaster. Now, I would never tell you not to get your kid vaccinated for the chicken pox, but I'm not sure you are doing them any favors if you are just delaying it until they are 30. If the chicken pox vaccine were to be given at 12 or 13, when a human becomes adult, and the disease starts to get more dangerous, it would make more sense.
Polio on the other hand doesn't get more dangerous as you get older. So, even if the polio vaccine didn't last for life, one would still be better off getting the vaccine so that they could spend more of their life healthy.
What I want to know is why the article doesn't say what the problem is. If it is reproducible, what conditions will reproduce it. We are supposidly talking about a life and death situation here, and either Woz is letting his ego get in the way so that he can be the 'expert', the reporter as well as their editor is incompetent because they left out perhaps the single most important information of the story, or both.
No doubt if 50,000 people were calling and saying that they could reproduce the problem, including the CEO's teenage kid/nephew/neighbor, there would be a faster response than that given to 1. Even if that is the great and powerful Woz.
This is by design. Businesses don't want legitimate calls going through. They want the caller who is qualified to give up on getting resolution. Generally customer service staff are perfectly qualified. They are qualified to take care of non-issues, and to act as human shields when there really is a problem. There is great value to those higher up on the food chain in being able to claim ignorance.
If Toyota feels the cost to fix the Prius problem (if there is one) is more expensive than to not fix it, the CEO avoids having to take personal responsibility for killing people if he has an army of expendable customer service 'managers' to keep Woz from actually telling him that his cars have a dangerous flaw.
You are absolutely correct. I don't get why people cried over this. Seven people died. That sucks for them and their families, but seven people die every day. Crying and feeling despondent over 7 people you do not personally know dieing doing something that they were fully aware was highly dangerous is bizarre. It is a little like crying and having real sadness over the injuries the guys on 'Jackass' incurred.
Yes. That is exactly what I am talking about. Now, we just need to see them in Target and Wallmart. Of course a version for my Android phone would be even better.
I get crashes about once a week. The who system just shuts down. Of course, this COULD have something to do with the fact that I have a video card that says you need a 300 watt power supply, and the computer has an 80 watt power supply in it.
Anyone know of a decent power supply that will fit in a Gateway low profile case?