I The fact is, Apple sells their products as part of an entire "user experience" you're supposed to get from them. That's one of the reasons you don't ever see Macs for sale at the local Wal-Mart or "Joe's Computer Shop" down the street in a strip mall.
I'd love to ride my bike to work or to the store. I used to live by the Katy Trail (a bike trial built on an old railway line that transverses Missouri) and would ride 50 miles round trip to go shopping. But since I moved from a rural farm to a small city, its not safe. The roads are narrow with heavy traffic, and the speed limit in some areas is 55mph, and 45mph in other areas. I'm talking about major roads within the city limits. Outside the city its 55mph almost everywhere. It would be suicide to ride a bike on these roads. In my old area I could, because there wasn't a lot of traffic.
Why reply to people like this? They know that the climate change is much more rapid than it has been in the past. They've heard that argument before. But they're Conservatives. Which means they are intellectually dishonest, lying greedy morons who don't give a crap what happens to other people in the world as long as they've got theirs.
Right. This is just more right wing lies. That's what many of these 'facts' right wingers claim in arguments are - out and out lies. Well, being right wing basically means your a psychopath anyway.
I have to disagree with you on this. The reason Europe has such high fuel taxes and the U.S. doesn't is historically Europe didn't have a lot of oil like the U.S.did at one time. High fuel taxes in Europe cause people to drive more fuel efficient cars, reducing their balance of payments deficit, with the added bonus of getting funding for government programs like healthcare, etc.. Since the United States no longer produces the vast majority of its own oil, imported oil is now the largest single contributor to the balance of payment deficit. Having higher fuel taxes would encourage people to drive more efficient cars to reduce this. Or do you advocate European nations reducing their fuel taxes so they can run the same massive balance of payment deficits the the U.S. does?
We don't have a problem of not enough resources. We have a problem of uneven distribution. And that's not caused by Americans raising our own food and feeding ourselves, it's caused by authoritarian governments oppressing their citizens.
Sure, and many of the authoritarian governments which protect the rich and keep people in poverty have been backed by the U.S. See Pakistan or Mubarak in Egypt before he was overthrown, or the capitalist governments installed by the U.S. in Central America. You were modded a five? Slashdot really has a lot of ignorant right-wingers. Read up on the history of Columbia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, or El Salvador. The U.S.enforces an economic system where the farm workers earn slave wages growing coffee and bananas, while the bulk of the profits going to multinational corporations and rich landlords.
According to Wikipedia
Colombia has the fourth largest economy in Latin America, but income and wealth are unevenly distributed.[37][38] In 1990, the income ratio between the richest and poorest 10% was 40-to-one, climbing to 80-to-one in 2000.[39] In 2009, Colombia had a Gini coefficient of 0.587, one of the highest in Latin America,[40] with 46% of Colombians living below the poverty line and 17% in "extreme poverty".[41][42][43]
That's the economic system the U.S. have given Columbia billions in military aid to protect.
In short, your comment is bullshit. The U.S. is responsible as anyone for the poverty in the world.
There sure are a lot of right wing idiots on slashdot that swallow the propaganda of the government and the media. How many more millions of innocent Iraqis, Afghans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Native Americans, etc, etc, etc, will have to die before you morons realize your world view of the U.S. as some righteous well meaning power is the biggest bunch of bullshit since Stalin or Hitler?
What's strange is the whole idea of the Genesis creation being allegory is totally in accordance with the Bible. Jesus used parables to explain relativity simple things. Maybe he was giving a clue to the nature of Genesis. Daniel and Revelation and many other books are full of symbolic and allegorical prophecy, yet literalists can claim Genesis isn't?. In one the Epistles, it says to God,a thousand years is but a day (and to my mind, he was just giving an example, and could have easily said a million or billion years if he had terms for those numbers). Doesn't that put the lie to the claim the universe was created in six earth days? So called "literalists" use a genealogy given in the Bible to date the earth to about 6000 years. But when it says x begat y, it is consistent with biblical use of language to have skipped generations. That is, some Jews told Jesus they were 'sons' of Abraham. Shouldn't literalists claim these people were a thousand years old? Biblical literalists distort the meaning of the Bible by ignoring how the Bible uses language. Theologians are the biggest intellectual frauds there are in terms of honestly analyzing the Bible, even as a believer. They are very similar to how historians of each nation distort history in their nation's favor.
Sure its corrupt politicians - politicians corrupted by the wealthy. You talk like the politicians are equally corrupted by the poor and the rich. Bullshit. 99% of the corruption goes in favor of the rich, along with a few crumbs thrown by the Democrats to the poor and middle class. If the working and middle class had any power, we'd have had single payer heath care, instead of a giveaway to the insurance companies. There would have been real bank reform instead the watered down bills which basically continue BAU. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy would have been repealed. You can survey the news for the last 30 years and write an encyclopedia about how one sided the corruption of the politicians is in favor of the rich.
I would carry this a step farther and metricize our year to a thousand days. This would involve attaching huge rockets to the earth to slow down its orbit, moving it outward until the orbit is beyond Mars. However, this would be worth it to metricize the year. This would also solve global warming.
And in most artists' realizations, with rounded corners. And it was written on with the finger of God. Seems like the Jewish people have a substantial copyright infringement case here.
God sues Apple for copyright infringement. Full story at 6.
Check if you Internet provider has free ESPN3. ATT has it it for one. I watched the women's world cup on it. The resolution was pretty decent. It has a lot of sports like soccer and Canadian Football not common on the U.S. They also broadcast U.S. sports, of course. A non-conference Mizzou football game is coming up in a few weeks I'm planning on watching.
Both of these characters (while more recent) have actually had very little political impact (less so than Stonewall Jackson). Ralf Nader is a minor political player
Well, Ralph Nadar did write "Unsafe at Any Speed?", exposing how poorly designed automobiles were for safety, that and his activism, testifying before congess, etc, led to the redisigning of cars with crumple zones, seat belts as standard, etc.
Ralph Nadar is almost solely responsible for launching the revolution in automoble saftey design which has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and millions of injuries. For that alone he deverves a place in history books.
When robots and AI products exhibit creativity, it will be impossible to deny them a soul.
Yeah, but does the computer know if the music its composing is any good? It doesn't have the slightest idea. It doesn't know its best piece from its worst piece. If it can't appreciate music, it has no soul, at least no musical soul.
So what this means is under Australian and American law, if some newspaper published that I was extremely bright, remarkably witty, and incredibly good looking, this would not be copywritable. However if the newspaper said the same thing about Brad Pitt, it would be.
Take my roommate, he's in a plumber's union. Well for starters they take a significant amount in union dues, over a hundred a month. For that he gets apparently jack and shit.
I have a hard time believing this post is the full picture. Sounds like more right wing bullshit to me. My (late) father was a plumber, who did strictly commercial plumbing, e.g. laying plumbing for new commercial contruction, such as hospitals, etc. Admitedly, this was a while age, in the seventies (he died from lung cancer in his fifties). But he never once complained about the union. Believe me, if the union was treating him unfairly, he would have complained Not that unions, just like politics, can't be corrupt. But the unions are a democracy, and, workers can vote, and have a say in affairs. And skilled tradesmen like plumbers have more influence than, say, members of the janitors union.
Got any factual links to back up your claims? Sorry, from years of experience, I've learned most right wingers are compulsive liars and exaggerators, who make up facts, or seriously twist them into disinformation.
Taking the fruits of your neighbors labor to supply for yourself would be called stealing if it was done directly and without the government as a middle man.
Yeah, like the Wall Steet Bankers? The persistant myth under capitalism is that what people on the top make vs people on the bottom is fair. It is far from fair or just. In fact if is profoundly unfair and unjust. Capitalism does not distribute wealth fairly. If you think its fair and just that a Wall Steet trader earns multi-millions trading in oil futures, while creating no real wealth; while some poor dirt farmer lives in poverty growing your food so you don't starve; well, there's plenty of room in hell for people like you. And I guarentee you, that's where people like you are going.
Please Google, teach this old bag a lesson and kill all links to his website so we can no longer find any of his companies online.
As great as this would be, it would be a bad move for Google from a business perspective. They would alienate the millions of people who consume Murdochs's media - Fox, The Wall Street Journal, etc. Worse, the right wing propaganda machine would attack Google, claiming it had a liberal bias in its news aggregation, and was maliciously trying to silence conservative voices. The real truth of the reasons for this would be irrelevant to the right wing spin machine.
My mp3 player is almost totally ripped from my CD collection. A handful of tracks which were given to me by my brother might be downloaded. In the past couple of years I've probably bought over 50 pop/rock CDs and over 100 classical CDS. I'm not interested in downloading illegally.
If I had mod points, I would have modded this up. Guess theirs not many lefties on Slashdot. I'm lefthanded and always had a hard time with handwriting. Handwriting is designed for right handed people, and is awkward for lefties. My poor handwriting was always a minus in school back in the day before computers. I wish I would have read your tips back then.
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I The fact is, Apple sells their products as part of an entire "user experience" you're supposed to get from them. That's one of the reasons you don't ever see Macs for sale at the local Wal-Mart or "Joe's Computer Shop" down the street in a strip mall.
My local Walmart sells iPads and iPods.
I'd love to ride my bike to work or to the store. I used to live by the Katy Trail (a bike trial built on an old railway line that transverses Missouri) and would ride 50 miles round trip to go shopping. But since I moved from a rural farm to a small city, its not safe. The roads are narrow with heavy traffic, and the speed limit in some areas is 55mph, and 45mph in other areas. I'm talking about major roads within the city limits. Outside the city its 55mph almost everywhere. It would be suicide to ride a bike on these roads. In my old area I could, because there wasn't a lot of traffic.
Why reply to people like this? They know that the climate change is much more rapid than it has been in the past. They've heard that argument before. But they're Conservatives. Which means they are intellectually dishonest, lying greedy morons who don't give a crap what happens to other people in the world as long as they've got theirs.
Yea, and kills tens of thousands of innocent people in the process. You, and the millions of Americans who think like you, are murderers.
Right. This is just more right wing lies. That's what many of these 'facts' right wingers claim in arguments are - out and out lies. Well, being right wing basically means your a psychopath anyway.
I have to disagree with you on this. The reason Europe has such high fuel taxes and the U.S. doesn't is historically Europe didn't have a lot of oil like the U.S.did at one time. High fuel taxes in Europe cause people to drive more fuel efficient cars, reducing their balance of payments deficit, with the added bonus of getting funding for government programs like healthcare, etc.. Since the United States no longer produces the vast majority of its own oil, imported oil is now the largest single contributor to the balance of payment deficit. Having higher fuel taxes would encourage people to drive more efficient cars to reduce this. Or do you advocate European nations reducing their fuel taxes so they can run the same massive balance of payment deficits the the U.S. does?
Sure, and many of the authoritarian governments which protect the rich and keep people in poverty have been backed by the U.S. See Pakistan or Mubarak in Egypt before he was overthrown, or the capitalist governments installed by the U.S. in Central America. You were modded a five? Slashdot really has a lot of ignorant right-wingers. Read up on the history of Columbia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, or El Salvador. The U.S.enforces an economic system where the farm workers earn slave wages growing coffee and bananas, while the bulk of the profits going to multinational corporations and rich landlords. According to Wikipedia
Colombia has the fourth largest economy in Latin America, but income and wealth are unevenly distributed.[37][38] In 1990, the income ratio between the richest and poorest 10% was 40-to-one, climbing to 80-to-one in 2000.[39] In 2009, Colombia had a Gini coefficient of 0.587, one of the highest in Latin America,[40] with 46% of Colombians living below the poverty line and 17% in "extreme poverty".[41][42][43]
That's the economic system the U.S. have given Columbia billions in military aid to protect. In short, your comment is bullshit. The U.S. is responsible as anyone for the poverty in the world.
There sure are a lot of right wing idiots on slashdot that swallow the propaganda of the government and the media. How many more millions of innocent Iraqis, Afghans, Vietnamese, Cambodians, El Salvadorians, Guatemalans, Native Americans, etc, etc, etc, will have to die before you morons realize your world view of the U.S. as some righteous well meaning power is the biggest bunch of bullshit since Stalin or Hitler?
What's strange is the whole idea of the Genesis creation being allegory is totally in accordance with the Bible. Jesus used parables to explain relativity simple things. Maybe he was giving a clue to the nature of Genesis. Daniel and Revelation and many other books are full of symbolic and allegorical prophecy, yet literalists can claim Genesis isn't?. In one the Epistles, it says to God,a thousand years is but a day (and to my mind, he was just giving an example, and could have easily said a million or billion years if he had terms for those numbers). Doesn't that put the lie to the claim the universe was created in six earth days? So called "literalists" use a genealogy given in the Bible to date the earth to about 6000 years. But when it says x begat y, it is consistent with biblical use of language to have skipped generations. That is, some Jews told Jesus they were 'sons' of Abraham. Shouldn't literalists claim these people were a thousand years old? Biblical literalists distort the meaning of the Bible by ignoring how the Bible uses language. Theologians are the biggest intellectual frauds there are in terms of honestly analyzing the Bible, even as a believer. They are very similar to how historians of each nation distort history in their nation's favor.
Sure its corrupt politicians - politicians corrupted by the wealthy. You talk like the politicians are equally corrupted by the poor and the rich. Bullshit. 99% of the corruption goes in favor of the rich, along with a few crumbs thrown by the Democrats to the poor and middle class. If the working and middle class had any power, we'd have had single payer heath care, instead of a giveaway to the insurance companies. There would have been real bank reform instead the watered down bills which basically continue BAU. The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy would have been repealed. You can survey the news for the last 30 years and write an encyclopedia about how one sided the corruption of the politicians is in favor of the rich.
I used to think that, but it turns out a few of the HD stations are in the VHF band.
Yes it is. Move to Canada or Europe if you're so in love with socialism programs.
I'd love to move to Canada or Europe, or someplace with single payer healthcare! Thanks for the idea!
I would carry this a step farther and metricize our year to a thousand days. This would involve attaching huge rockets to the earth to slow down its orbit, moving it outward until the orbit is beyond Mars. However, this would be worth it to metricize the year. This would also solve global warming.
Both rectangular.
And in most artists' realizations, with rounded corners. And it was written on with the finger of God. Seems like the Jewish people have a substantial copyright infringement case here.
God sues Apple for copyright infringement. Full story at 6.
Check if you Internet provider has free ESPN3. ATT has it it for one. I watched the women's world cup on it. The resolution was pretty decent. It has a lot of sports like soccer and Canadian Football not common on the U.S. They also broadcast U.S. sports, of course. A non-conference Mizzou football game is coming up in a few weeks I'm planning on watching.
Both of these characters (while more recent) have actually had very little political impact (less so than Stonewall Jackson). Ralf Nader is a minor political player
Well, Ralph Nadar did write "Unsafe at Any Speed?", exposing how poorly designed automobiles were for safety, that and his activism, testifying before congess, etc, led to the redisigning of cars with crumple zones, seat belts as standard, etc. Ralph Nadar is almost solely responsible for launching the revolution in automoble saftey design which has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and millions of injuries. For that alone he deverves a place in history books.
When robots and AI products exhibit creativity, it will be impossible to deny them a soul.
Yeah, but does the computer know if the music its composing is any good? It doesn't have the slightest idea. It doesn't know its best piece from its worst piece. If it can't appreciate music, it has no soul, at least no musical soul.
So what this means is under Australian and American law, if some newspaper published that I was extremely bright, remarkably witty, and incredibly good looking, this would not be copywritable. However if the newspaper said the same thing about Brad Pitt, it would be.
Take my roommate, he's in a plumber's union. Well for starters they take a significant amount in union dues, over a hundred a month. For that he gets apparently jack and shit.
I have a hard time believing this post is the full picture. Sounds like more right wing bullshit to me. My (late) father was a plumber, who did strictly commercial plumbing, e.g. laying plumbing for new commercial contruction, such as hospitals, etc. Admitedly, this was a while age, in the seventies (he died from lung cancer in his fifties). But he never once complained about the union. Believe me, if the union was treating him unfairly, he would have complained Not that unions, just like politics, can't be corrupt. But the unions are a democracy, and, workers can vote, and have a say in affairs. And skilled tradesmen like plumbers have more influence than, say, members of the janitors union.
Got any factual links to back up your claims? Sorry, from years of experience, I've learned most right wingers are compulsive liars and exaggerators, who make up facts, or seriously twist them into disinformation.
Taking the fruits of your neighbors labor to supply for yourself would be called stealing if it was done directly and without the government as a middle man.
Yeah, like the Wall Steet Bankers? The persistant myth under capitalism is that what people on the top make vs people on the bottom is fair. It is far from fair or just. In fact if is profoundly unfair and unjust. Capitalism does not distribute wealth fairly. If you think its fair and just that a Wall Steet trader earns multi-millions trading in oil futures, while creating no real wealth; while some poor dirt farmer lives in poverty growing your food so you don't starve; well, there's plenty of room in hell for people like you. And I guarentee you, that's where people like you are going.
I agree, this bill is prejudice against the hard of hearing. And if these clueless lawmakers don't know, most MP3 player users are hard of hearing.
Please Google, teach this old bag a lesson and kill all links to his website so we can no longer find any of his companies online.
As great as this would be, it would be a bad move for Google from a business perspective. They would alienate the millions of people who consume Murdochs's media - Fox, The Wall Street Journal, etc. Worse, the right wing propaganda machine would attack Google, claiming it had a liberal bias in its news aggregation, and was maliciously trying to silence conservative voices. The real truth of the reasons for this would be irrelevant to the right wing spin machine.
My mp3 player is almost totally ripped from my CD collection. A handful of tracks which were given to me by my brother might be downloaded. In the past couple of years I've probably bought over 50 pop/rock CDs and over 100 classical CDS. I'm not interested in downloading illegally.
If I had mod points, I would have modded this up. Guess theirs not many lefties on Slashdot. I'm lefthanded and always had a hard time with handwriting. Handwriting is designed for right handed people, and is awkward for lefties. My poor handwriting was always a minus in school back in the day before computers. I wish I would have read your tips back then.
Couldn't the circle be perfect, and the radius the indeterminable dimension?