I can never understand people who waste time and emotion hating a company that, if they never bought from them, could never affect their lives in any way.
If you think EA games suck, then don't buy them. There. I've just saved you all the hours you would have wasted hating on EA. Use them wisely.
Stop offering obvious and simple solutions! There is a perfectly good complicated, will-never-quite-work-as-intended, overly engineered, techy solution!
And indeed your Surface RT may be the best travel computer you've ever had.
That only gives it a small market (travel computer) and makes it only the best you've had. Many, apparently, have experienced better. Microsoft's problem is that those who have experienced better, and those seeking a travel computer, are mostly the same people.
You are totally correct. Two wrongs make a right and Nixon was a swell fella because he wasn't any of those other guys.
If we reduce the argument to tribal squabbles and liberal Democrats vs neo-conservative Republicans, we can happily ignore the real issues of right vs wrong, moral vs immoral and honest vs dishonest. And we don't want to be dealing with those, do we?
This is all well and good. But you'll find a great number of people have based a religion on the translation being a "day". What the Hebrew translation is matters very little.
It also seems a bit odd to split a totally flexible periods of time into defined parts. On the first totally arbitrary and flexible period of time God did this. On the second totally flexible and arbitrary period he did this. Exactly when the first became the second is totally flexible, as there is no obvious reason to split the two, The first could cover the period of the second, being totally of a totally flexible length.
I guess my point is the story is riddled with literary devices, metaphors and figures of speech. Which is fine, because that's what it ultimately is; a story. It was designed to be a good read. It is no basis for understanding the universe.
Well that's the difference between Evolution and Creationism, isn't it? Evolution is a scientific theory that is, and indeed must, be open to constant refinement and challenge in the light of the proven, reproducible evidence. Creationism is based on the bible, the infallible word of God, no proof needed, end of discussion.
If you want to open the can of worms that says the bible might be wrong because it's the work of mere men, then that's fine with me.
And "seed" might be asteroids, "fowl" might be spaceships, "creeping thing" might be nanotech bots and "blessed" may be "provided a 1 billion year support contract". If you like to provide your own translation of every word and concept in the Bible, you can make it anything you want it to be, prove anything you like and be infinitely update-able.
If we were to accept this, it must be very comforting that Genesis can seem to be more than simplistic myth. But it doesn't stop it being fiction.
"Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is."
A large number of homosexual people have engaged in heterosexual activity, at one time, for one reason or another. (Indeed society makes it almost non-negotiable that they do so.) That does not make them, or will ever make them, heterosexual. So why would engaging in homosexual activity, at one time, for whatever reason, make anyone irrefutably homosexual?
This is why what people identify as is paramount. Because only they know what they really are, regardless of what you think their activity makes them, or what you presume that they 'like'.
Just to note that non-American hearts are warmed by where the line is getting drawn here. American deaths? Surely not! American deaths on American soil! Are you freakin kidding me!!! Not American? Fair game. Lock 'n' load!!
We may have expected the line to be drawn on what is morally defensible, with some regard for universal human rights regardless of nationality, but I guess that's no concern of American politicians of either party.
Excellent policy. But why start with space exploration? Space exploration has some very useful applications for now and our future. Let's ban the spending of millions on films, tv, sports, music, entertainment, vacations, celebrations, art, fancy food and alcohol. All this non-essential crap that waste the Earth's resources and could be better spent on new energy technologies, food production and clean water preservation.
Sure, life would be dull and joyless. But I guess that's the price you pay when you get to ban use of resources on things you don't like.
We would learn nothing about Mars that couldn't be done with an unmanned orbiter. We would learn nothing about humans in space that we couldn't learn in Earth orbit.
So I guess humanity should just stop doing stuff that we already think we know the answers to. You have absolutely no idea what might be learned, and nor does anyone else until it's tried.
Thus traffic from your IP can be assumed to originate from other computers... if you want to download crap, your traffic will use TOR to originate from another IP.
"I'm not downloading copyright material illegally, I'm just aiding anonymous others to do it, and they are anonymously returning the favor." Yeah, the FBI and judges will have absolutely no problem with that.
You can get $2-$5/mo virtual servers powerfull enough for VPN.
Hang on, didn't you say it was crap not worth paying for? Here you are paying for it, and presumably spending time watching/listening to it. Your time has absolutely no value that it you actively seek out crap to waste it on? Or is the value of this "crap" conveniently flexible enough to fit whatever point you want to make?
Article is a blog post from February 9th 2013. You are looking at a follow up link commented on previous debate about this continuing issue.
Complaining it's old news is like moaning that your newspaper has a report about drunk driving. Old news, but the story is it still happens and still affects people.
In this case the story is also that this situation is ridiculous and confusing. It should be sorted.
Why is it my job to switch on Frank's lights? If I called around someone's house uninvited and found the lights out, I usually conclude they may not be in. I don't enter anyway, switch on the lights, turn on the tv and help myself to a beer from the fridge. People tend to frown upon that.
Attempting to penetrating a system to test it and hacking to steal from it looks identical. Indeed, if they're not identical your test isn't proving anything. So how are you going to prove what was in my mind to do once I gain access? I'm not going to tell you theft was in my mind. I'm a good liar and don't look guilty. And I've already a well pre-prepared cover story that says I was just testing and guarantees I'm a free man. So how you going to prove differently?
This is why the law relies on the single key difference between testing and hacking; gaining permission first. Ignorance of this cannot be used as an excuse.
Absolutely. It's depressing that so many people believe that a 'good' song is some kind of absolute measure you can base a legal or moral decision on. A 'good' song is just a personal opinion of no value to anyone but the holder.
Vote for PKZip! Back in the day when you transferred everything by 720K floppy PKZip was invaluable, and knowing your command switches was an art you needed to master.
But seriously, where does Dave Winer get the idea that MacWrite and MacPaint are essential info for today's coder? He just sounds like some ancient complaining about how youngsters today have never heard of Bob Dylan. It's not as if it's critical information. Yes, they were remarkable in their day. But it's history now. Unless you're a technology historian they're old news of very limited relevance.
you can hear from be bad composing that he laughed so hard at his own joke that he just made something shit, then asked everyone who listens "hey don't you think this is funny?"
And that is different from Weird Al's entire career because..... ??
Well crafted marketing ploys tend to avoid having companies look like corporate jerks ripping off an individual. If this is a ploy by Fox then they really are clueless.
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And those who do already have a copy. They're not waiting for you to die first.
I can never understand people who waste time and emotion hating a company that, if they never bought from them, could never affect their lives in any way.
If you think EA games suck, then don't buy them. There. I've just saved you all the hours you would have wasted hating on EA. Use them wisely.
Stop offering obvious and simple solutions! There is a perfectly good complicated, will-never-quite-work-as-intended, overly engineered, techy solution!
And indeed your Surface RT may be the best travel computer you've ever had.
That only gives it a small market (travel computer) and makes it only the best you've had. Many, apparently, have experienced better. Microsoft's problem is that those who have experienced better, and those seeking a travel computer, are mostly the same people.
Predictable result; no-one buys it.
And if they register their software under the name "Customer"?
Arrrg! Must. Not. Be. Grammar. Nazi. Too. Many. Errors. To. Know. Where. To. Start.
You are totally correct. Two wrongs make a right and Nixon was a swell fella because he wasn't any of those other guys.
If we reduce the argument to tribal squabbles and liberal Democrats vs neo-conservative Republicans, we can happily ignore the real issues of right vs wrong, moral vs immoral and honest vs dishonest. And we don't want to be dealing with those, do we?
I think we established earlier this month that American lives are one thing, and non-Americans lives are quite another;
http://politics.slashdot.org/story/13/03/06/2159204/rand-paul-launches-a-filibuster-against-drone-strikes-on-us-soil
This is all well and good. But you'll find a great number of people have based a religion on the translation being a "day". What the Hebrew translation is matters very little.
It also seems a bit odd to split a totally flexible periods of time into defined parts. On the first totally arbitrary and flexible period of time God did this. On the second totally flexible and arbitrary period he did this. Exactly when the first became the second is totally flexible, as there is no obvious reason to split the two, The first could cover the period of the second, being totally of a totally flexible length.
I guess my point is the story is riddled with literary devices, metaphors and figures of speech. Which is fine, because that's what it ultimately is; a story. It was designed to be a good read. It is no basis for understanding the universe.
Well that's the difference between Evolution and Creationism, isn't it? Evolution is a scientific theory that is, and indeed must, be open to constant refinement and challenge in the light of the proven, reproducible evidence. Creationism is based on the bible, the infallible word of God, no proof needed, end of discussion.
If you want to open the can of worms that says the bible might be wrong because it's the work of mere men, then that's fine with me.
A "day" might be 1 billion years.
And "seed" might be asteroids, "fowl" might be spaceships, "creeping thing" might be nanotech bots and "blessed" may be "provided a 1 billion year support contract". If you like to provide your own translation of every word and concept in the Bible, you can make it anything you want it to be, prove anything you like and be infinitely update-able.
If we were to accept this, it must be very comforting that Genesis can seem to be more than simplistic myth. But it doesn't stop it being fiction.
Fact is people have no idea just how incredibly inequitable the distribution is. They think they do, but it's way worse than even that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
"Infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is often not what we think it is."
A large number of homosexual people have engaged in heterosexual activity, at one time, for one reason or another. (Indeed society makes it almost non-negotiable that they do so.) That does not make them, or will ever make them, heterosexual. So why would engaging in homosexual activity, at one time, for whatever reason, make anyone irrefutably homosexual?
This is why what people identify as is paramount. Because only they know what they really are, regardless of what you think their activity makes them, or what you presume that they 'like'.
Just to note that non-American hearts are warmed by where the line is getting drawn here. American deaths? Surely not! American deaths on American soil! Are you freakin kidding me!!! Not American? Fair game. Lock 'n' load!!
We may have expected the line to be drawn on what is morally defensible, with some regard for universal human rights regardless of nationality, but I guess that's no concern of American politicians of either party.
Excellent policy. But why start with space exploration? Space exploration has some very useful applications for now and our future. Let's ban the spending of millions on films, tv, sports, music, entertainment, vacations, celebrations, art, fancy food and alcohol. All this non-essential crap that waste the Earth's resources and could be better spent on new energy technologies, food production and clean water preservation.
Sure, life would be dull and joyless. But I guess that's the price you pay when you get to ban use of resources on things you don't like.
We would learn nothing about Mars that couldn't be done with an unmanned orbiter. We would learn nothing about humans in space that we couldn't learn in Earth orbit.
So I guess humanity should just stop doing stuff that we already think we know the answers to. You have absolutely no idea what might be learned, and nor does anyone else until it's tried.
Thus traffic from your IP can be assumed to originate from other computers. .. if you want to download crap, your traffic will use TOR to originate from another IP.
"I'm not downloading copyright material illegally, I'm just aiding anonymous others to do it, and they are anonymously returning the favor." Yeah, the FBI and judges will have absolutely no problem with that.
You can get $2-$5/mo virtual servers powerfull enough for VPN.
Hang on, didn't you say it was crap not worth paying for? Here you are paying for it, and presumably spending time watching/listening to it. Your time has absolutely no value that it you actively seek out crap to waste it on? Or is the value of this "crap" conveniently flexible enough to fit whatever point you want to make?
Article is a blog post from February 9th 2013. You are looking at a follow up link commented on previous debate about this continuing issue.
Complaining it's old news is like moaning that your newspaper has a report about drunk driving. Old news, but the story is it still happens and still affects people.
In this case the story is also that this situation is ridiculous and confusing. It should be sorted.
Why is it my job to switch on Frank's lights? If I called around someone's house uninvited and found the lights out, I usually conclude they may not be in. I don't enter anyway, switch on the lights, turn on the tv and help myself to a beer from the fridge. People tend to frown upon that.
Or is it your analogy is crap?
It's a reasonably solved problem.
Well you say that, but how exactly?
Attempting to penetrating a system to test it and hacking to steal from it looks identical. Indeed, if they're not identical your test isn't proving anything. So how are you going to prove what was in my mind to do once I gain access? I'm not going to tell you theft was in my mind. I'm a good liar and don't look guilty. And I've already a well pre-prepared cover story that says I was just testing and guarantees I'm a free man. So how you going to prove differently?
This is why the law relies on the single key difference between testing and hacking; gaining permission first. Ignorance of this cannot be used as an excuse.
Absolutely. It's depressing that so many people believe that a 'good' song is some kind of absolute measure you can base a legal or moral decision on. A 'good' song is just a personal opinion of no value to anyone but the holder.
Back to bean counting for you!
Vote for PKZip! Back in the day when you transferred everything by 720K floppy PKZip was invaluable, and knowing your command switches was an art you needed to master.
But seriously, where does Dave Winer get the idea that MacWrite and MacPaint are essential info for today's coder? He just sounds like some ancient complaining about how youngsters today have never heard of Bob Dylan. It's not as if it's critical information. Yes, they were remarkable in their day. But it's history now. Unless you're a technology historian they're old news of very limited relevance.
you can hear from be bad composing that he laughed so hard at his own joke that he just made something shit, then asked everyone who listens "hey don't you think this is funny?"
And that is different from Weird Al's entire career because ..... ??
Well crafted marketing ploys tend to avoid having companies look like corporate jerks ripping off an individual. If this is a ploy by Fox then they really are clueless.
There really is such a thing as bad publicity.