What is this "blank check" you're talking about? How in the hell is housing buying subsidized? Why do builders need to be subsidized when they're making record profits?
There have been a handful of people who've come into my place of work, looked up at our lights and have said, "I'm so glad that you have incandescent lighting. Fluorescent lights really bother my EM sensitivity" or something to that effect. All of our lights are CFL (but look like incandescent).
When you strongly regulate something the effects are negative for the consumer!
You must be living in some kind of bizarro reality. Internet connections are NOT regulated at all, right now. Things will improve when Internet connections fall under the auspices of the FCC.
Some people need a new version of the OS because the old one did not do something they felt they needed. Hard core gamers tend to fall into this category which is why the directX program was so vital to Microsoft for the last 15+ years.
Kid, I hate to break it to you, but most Windows users are business users. Businesses upgrade when they need to. There have been plenty of good reasons to move to Windows 7 from Windows XP that have nothing to do with games.
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His point is we have sufficient evidence that current legal dictates with respect to food will likely be wrong,
No, we don't. You make it sound like most nutritional science in the past 40 years has been wrong. On the contrary, most has been correct, and very little has been reversed. For every scientific discovery that changed a position re nutrition, I'd imagine that there are another 99 that are still deemed to be correct.
All the consenting scientists couldn't be wrong, could they?
ALL of them? Sure, it's possible, but not very likely. If you want to wait until science is 100% positive about something before acting on it, feel free to go live in a cave.
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Yes, "force of law" decisions. Make it sound sinister. I have to drive only 35 mph down the street in front of my house because of the FORCE-OF-LAW. I can't buy heroin because of FORCE-OF-LAW. I can't murder somebody because of FORCE-OF-LAW.
Considering that nobody can travel through time to see the future of science, yes, I think that we, as a society, should be making the best possible decisions that we can based on the science of today. Under your logic, there should be no laws, because somebody may be wrong about something, and we won't discover it until far into the future, right?
No, sadly, they don't. If you'd like to provide a link to some valid studies showing that, I'd be interested, but I've never seen a single one that says that high fat, low carb diets are healthy long-term.
Why then do you think the FDA used to recommend high amounts of cereal grain and pasta with their "food pyramid" and now they no longer use that model and advise nobody to go by it anymore?
Because they replaced it with a new system that suggests adults should eat between 5-8 ounces of grains a day.
pure/mostly pure simple carbohydrate breakfasts (which if you eat cereal or bread of any variety for breakfast, then that describes you. That also includes any variety of bread/pasta throughout the day.)
That's fake science. Best of luck with that.
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If you can legalize Marijuana why should a big drink or a Croissant be illegal ?
Because the weed won't kill you or cost society a fortune in hospitalization fees, whereas the "big drink" and the "croissants" will.
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Yup, people make mistakes. News at 11:00.
If I were interested I'm sure I could document every decision you make today, and criticize your wrong ones in 40 years. Yay.
Bluetooth is a perfectly usable universal standard. I have a car with generic bluetooth, and everything (except for stupid Apple phones) works fine with it.
A company-specific tech platform? Are you fucking kidding me? Why would I want something that's going to be dead many years before my car is dead? I drive a VW with generic Bluetooth, and it works perfectly with any gadget (except Apple... they're fucked). I would never buy a car with a brand-specific entertainment system.
Men's rights and white power groups and other groups that "fight" for the rights of an already empowered majority exist only because they choose to ignore history.
Oh, and here are the "terms" for getting information from a web server: HTTP. I can do whatever I want with the data. Thank god, the web is not structured in a way that requires "terms" to request a document from a web server. What you're describing was attempted by a few companies called "Compuserve" and "AOL".
Dude, web hosting is like $5.month. Setting up a web site and typing some shit isn't all that complicated or expensive. You can just run a web site on any old PC, too. If you need a fortune to run a web site, then maybe you should get into another line of work...
Many sites would not exist if its creators couldn't monetize it from google ads or some other ad network.
So what? Fuck 'em. Those aren't sites that I, at least, am interested in seeing. If you have to get *paid* to write something interesting or informative, then fuck you. I'll pay for people to do actual work (journalists).
The web existed before advertising, and it will exist after advertising, too. People can still create content for the web. Fewer will get paid for it, but so what? Hell, if anything, the web was much more interesting and undoubtedly more human before the commercial bullshit started in the mid 90's.
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All you do is put the open wi-fi on a different subnet, so if somebody comes after you, you can just shrug and say, "I don't know who it was".
What is this "blank check" you're talking about? How in the hell is housing buying subsidized? Why do builders need to be subsidized when they're making record profits?
There have been a handful of people who've come into my place of work, looked up at our lights and have said, "I'm so glad that you have incandescent lighting. Fluorescent lights really bother my EM sensitivity" or something to that effect. All of our lights are CFL (but look like incandescent).
When you strongly regulate something the effects are negative for the consumer!
You must be living in some kind of bizarro reality. Internet connections are NOT regulated at all, right now. Things will improve when Internet connections fall under the auspices of the FCC.
If we don't want to save the world because it's "not profitable", then we are truly fucked. What are we, Ferengi?
Star Trek is cute, but we have a real group of people who truly believe that. In the US, they're called "Conservatives".
Some people need a new version of the OS because the old one did not do something they felt they needed. Hard core gamers tend to fall into this category which is why the directX program was so vital to Microsoft for the last 15+ years.
Kid, I hate to break it to you, but most Windows users are business users. Businesses upgrade when they need to. There have been plenty of good reasons to move to Windows 7 from Windows XP that have nothing to do with games.
His point is we have sufficient evidence that current legal dictates with respect to food will likely be wrong,
No, we don't. You make it sound like most nutritional science in the past 40 years has been wrong. On the contrary, most has been correct, and very little has been reversed. For every scientific discovery that changed a position re nutrition, I'd imagine that there are another 99 that are still deemed to be correct.
Yeah, not selling 64 oz sodas is just like USSR-era authoritarianism. You're a fucking genius.
All the consenting scientists couldn't be wrong, could they?
ALL of them? Sure, it's possible, but not very likely. If you want to wait until science is 100% positive about something before acting on it, feel free to go live in a cave.
Yes, "force of law" decisions. Make it sound sinister. I have to drive only 35 mph down the street in front of my house because of the FORCE-OF-LAW. I can't buy heroin because of FORCE-OF-LAW. I can't murder somebody because of FORCE-OF-LAW.
Considering that nobody can travel through time to see the future of science, yes, I think that we, as a society, should be making the best possible decisions that we can based on the science of today. Under your logic, there should be no laws, because somebody may be wrong about something, and we won't discover it until far into the future, right?
Studies back up my experience.
No, sadly, they don't. If you'd like to provide a link to some valid studies showing that, I'd be interested, but I've never seen a single one that says that high fat, low carb diets are healthy long-term.
Why then do you think the FDA used to recommend high amounts of cereal grain and pasta with their "food pyramid" and now they no longer use that model and advise nobody to go by it anymore?
Because they replaced it with a new system that suggests adults should eat between 5-8 ounces of grains a day.
pure/mostly pure simple carbohydrate breakfasts (which if you eat cereal or bread of any variety for breakfast, then that describes you. That also includes any variety of bread/pasta throughout the day.)
That's fake science. Best of luck with that.
If you can legalize Marijuana why should a big drink or a Croissant be illegal ?
Because the weed won't kill you or cost society a fortune in hospitalization fees, whereas the "big drink" and the "croissants" will.
Yup, people make mistakes. News at 11:00.
If I were interested I'm sure I could document every decision you make today, and criticize your wrong ones in 40 years. Yay.
"reasonably intelligent animal kill for entertainment."
Human intelligent? Not sure.
It's called "society", asshole.
Bluetooth is a perfectly usable universal standard. I have a car with generic bluetooth, and everything (except for stupid Apple phones) works fine with it.
That's a great red herring you made there, but it's irrelevant. Taxes are on profits, not sales.
Stock valuations are based not only on actual assets, but future growth and earnings potential.
No, stock valuations are based on what people will pay for the shares.
A company-specific tech platform? Are you fucking kidding me? Why would I want something that's going to be dead many years before my car is dead? I drive a VW with generic Bluetooth, and it works perfectly with any gadget (except Apple... they're fucked). I would never buy a car with a brand-specific entertainment system.
Men's rights and white power groups and other groups that "fight" for the rights of an already empowered majority exist only because they choose to ignore history.
Oh, and here are the "terms" for getting information from a web server: HTTP. I can do whatever I want with the data. Thank god, the web is not structured in a way that requires "terms" to request a document from a web server. What you're describing was attempted by a few companies called "Compuserve" and "AOL".
Dude, web hosting is like $5.month. Setting up a web site and typing some shit isn't all that complicated or expensive. You can just run a web site on any old PC, too. If you need a fortune to run a web site, then maybe you should get into another line of work...
Many sites would not exist if its creators couldn't monetize it from google ads or some other ad network.
So what? Fuck 'em. Those aren't sites that I, at least, am interested in seeing. If you have to get *paid* to write something interesting or informative, then fuck you. I'll pay for people to do actual work (journalists).
The web existed before advertising, and it will exist after advertising, too. People can still create content for the web. Fewer will get paid for it, but so what? Hell, if anything, the web was much more interesting and undoubtedly more human before the commercial bullshit started in the mid 90's.