Requiring manufacturers to use this patented safety device would be denying me my right to cut off my fingers. Stay out of my self-mutilation, government!
Aren't all government programs poorly run and ineffective? Isn't that what we keep hearing about health care? "If you want to have your health care be like the post office...blah blah blah". Why is this different? Can't private industry do a better job?
I've stopped going to theater; I just get redbox instead...Why pay $10 so I can be distracted by self-absorbed morons who can't go 20 minutes without checking their messages? Yes, it's a pet peeve. One of many.
Sounds like you are trying to justify your skewed perspective by labeling those who argue others as something they may not be. Intellectually dishonest much?
Syntactically challenged much? And for the record, what about my post is intellectually dishonest?
And speaking of skewed, your argument that you are just "making a copy of something" is outright laughable. There would be no opportunity for you to make that copy if the owner had not expended their creative abilities and time to create the original - thus you are diminishing that work's value by stealing it from them. Worse yet, you're trying to rationalize it as "just making a copy".
Is it as bad as property theft? No, I don't think that it is, but it is still stealing.
Piracy IS stealing. You're taking something from someone else that does not belong to you. Of course, most people have no problem rationalizing this until it's their stuff that's being taken.
Uh, no. The problem with the pervasive "well, they did it so I can too" attitude is that anybody can rationalize anything: "I think the other guy is probably cheating, so I will too". "I think my employer is screwing me over, so I'll screw them first". "The company's CEO is getting paid way too much so I'll just help myself to their products". The truth doesn't matter as long as you can come up with an excuse.
If you have conditionally based morals then you have none at all.
Sorry your moral relativism is complete BS.
I used murder in the legal sense. They broke the law while killing someone. I acknowledge and even agree that they did their time, may have been rehabilitated, and thus are free.
But scrubbing the record completely is an insult to their victim and the victim's family.
Well, I've made 250 before. Living in a metro area with kids it's enough to live comfortably but we don't have a mcmansion or fancy cars. I guess it all depends on your point of view.
No, I read he made about 40K. I think Joe & McCain's point was that if you work hard, and do manage to make 250K+ you should be able to keep the fruits of your labors instead of "spreading the wealth".
I've been writing Objective-C for a few months now and I don't see the "elegance". I see the lack of garbage collection (at least on iphone dev) as annoying and nested function calls as hardly unique. Simple things like trimming whitespace from string requires goofy convoluted code. newString = [origString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]] I've also found the documentation a pain to navigate (which may be why I'm not so keen on it).
OTOH, XCode and it's suite of profiling tools is indeed handy, and the debugging seems to work pretty well.
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He also tweeted that it wasn't because he was anti-big daddy. i guess that should eliminate about 95% of the comments on this story.
Requiring manufacturers to use this patented safety device would be denying me my right to cut off my fingers. Stay out of my self-mutilation, government!
Aren't all government programs poorly run and ineffective? Isn't that what we keep hearing about health care? "If you want to have your health care be like the post office...blah blah blah". Why is this different? Can't private industry do a better job?
And then you'll need to get the asshole lawyers involved. (hmn, I wonder if asshole should be capitalized in this usage)
I've stopped going to theater; I just get redbox instead...Why pay $10 so I can be distracted by self-absorbed morons who can't go 20 minutes without checking their messages? Yes, it's a pet peeve. One of many.
Sounds like you are trying to justify your skewed perspective by labeling those who argue others as something they may not be. Intellectually dishonest much?
Syntactically challenged much? And for the record, what about my post is intellectually dishonest?
And speaking of skewed, your argument that you are just "making a copy of something" is outright laughable. There would be no opportunity for you to make that copy if the owner had not expended their creative abilities and time to create the original - thus you are diminishing that work's value by stealing it from them. Worse yet, you're trying to rationalize it as "just making a copy".
Is it as bad as property theft? No, I don't think that it is, but it is still stealing.
Piracy IS stealing. You're taking something from someone else that does not belong to you. Of course, most people have no problem rationalizing this until it's their stuff that's being taken.
Morals are a two-way street.
Uh, no. The problem with the pervasive "well, they did it so I can too" attitude is that anybody can rationalize anything: "I think the other guy is probably cheating, so I will too". "I think my employer is screwing me over, so I'll screw them first". "The company's CEO is getting paid way too much so I'll just help myself to their products". The truth doesn't matter as long as you can come up with an excuse.
If you have conditionally based morals then you have none at all.
Those are just poor people who won't pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like my grandfather did so I wouldn't have to
I wonder if your grandfather would feel so smug.
Sorry your moral relativism is complete BS. I used murder in the legal sense. They broke the law while killing someone. I acknowledge and even agree that they did their time, may have been rehabilitated, and thus are free. But scrubbing the record completely is an insult to their victim and the victim's family.
Someone that has murdered someone should not be thought of "in the same way" as someone who has not.
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Ok Billy. Time for you to get off /. and get to bed.
you say that being a captain just to get chicks is a bad thing?
So...Should we assume you don't buy anything from overseas?
It's effectively the same thing - companies buy cost effective labor and citizens head down to Walmart or the mall to buy cheaper foreign products.
Well, I've made 250 before. Living in a metro area with kids it's enough to live comfortably but we don't have a mcmansion or fancy cars. I guess it all depends on your point of view.
No, I read he made about 40K. I think Joe & McCain's point was that if you work hard, and do manage to make 250K+ you should be able to keep the fruits of your labors instead of "spreading the wealth".
Anybody? I'd think that the personal data of just about any news figure is combed over. This is certainly unfortunate but hardly surprising.
I may get modded down to nothing, but it seems the Google phone is very much like Linux: attractive to techies but a harder sell to consumers.
FWIW, I did a lot of android dev. earlier this year and really like the system - I just doubt the commercial appeal/necessity.
I've been writing Objective-C for a few months now and I don't see the "elegance". I see the lack of garbage collection (at least on iphone dev) as annoying and nested function calls as hardly unique. Simple things like trimming whitespace from string requires goofy convoluted code.
newString = [origString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]]
I've also found the documentation a pain to navigate (which may be why I'm not so keen on it).
OTOH, XCode and it's suite of profiling tools is indeed handy, and the debugging seems to work pretty well.
I think it's just marketing. How many other classes at Belfast University make it onto /.?
Hey now, no need to be nasty. They need to be counted too.
You shouldn't call it an education just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
I'd imagine you'd want to sort out your future memory or disk capacity needs before dipping.
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