Has anyone stopped for a moment to contemplate the fact that data is *transient*? That two years down the road you are a different person?
If you're politician, no. Everything is fixed in stone. If you change your position because the facts have changed, then you're a hypocrite and a liar. Time to break out the recall petitions and get someone more "purer" into office. And the cycle continues.
Some of these same people want to take it a step further and want special protection from these consequences when speech can be attributed to them, which ironically enough would require significant restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly, and association, among others.
Whenever someone screams the loudest about political correctness, it usually because they want to say inappropriate and not suffer the consequences.
Because that logic amounts to not calling out evil person doing evil things.
Only a stupid person would come to that logical conclusion. Many people did in World War II. Some still deny that Holocaust took place.
So, you're okay if the government decides to execute you for your speech. Or a lynch mob. Nice to know.
You must not have lived through the Civil Rights and/or Viet Nam War protests. Many people died. Some were killed by the government, others were killed by lynch mobs. Society eventually changed because of their sacrifices for freedom.
No, because my mother wasn't deluded into believing that the world was all peachy.
My mother was the same way. But she taught me to be polite and respectful regardless of how bad life treats you. Politeness and respect are in short supply these days.
If you have to pay a price, then it's not free.
People are more likely respect something if they paid the price for it. Something given away for free can easily be toss away.
You really didn't think much before making that contradictory statement, did you?
You obviously haven't thought hard enough about yours.
[...] the sole purpose for which is to make retribution possible.
Uh, no. The sole purpose is to make people think twice about their comments. Nothing stops you from posting, "The president is a [church bells]!" (to paraphrase Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles). Do you really want the whole world to know that you — under your real name — are just another racist nut job? Probably not.
My father got a new Dell box every other year because they were "crap" in his eyes. Did he run an anti-virus/spyware scanner? Nope. Did he defrag the hard drive? Nope. Did he stopped looking at the naughty bits on the Internet? Nope.
I take those Dell boxes home, blow out the dust and reformat the hard drive. I used them for another five years before I recycle them.
You can bet anything you post as AC ends up in your file at those agencies.
Slashdot never came up in my background interview for my security clearance at my government IT job. Then again, I don't post under my legal name. A Google search under my legal name shows that I fell off the Internet prior to the dot com bust in 2001. I haven't had any jobs in the last 15 years that made an issue out of my lack of presence on the Internet.
Just list your App for FREE. Apple will STILL do all those things above, and NOT charge you ANYTHING (30% of zero is...).
IIRC, App developers need to pay the annual $100 fee for the Apple Developer Program to keep their app listings on iTunes. No membership, no listings. For some developers, it's a high price for a free app with in-app purchases.
If I buy quality gear that's good for a decade, why would I want to sell it?
My 2006 MacBook has a 32-bit processor. Most Mac developers don't compile for 32-bit OS X, making software and updates difficult to find. However, it runs Windows 10 great (see YouTube link below). If you want quality hardware to run Windows, get an older Mac.
Ship it now, offer a fix in 4 months for the shoddy work, then discontinue support for your 7 month old phone and release a new one.
My 2006 MacBook lasted ten years. My first gen iPod touch lasted eight years. My iPad 2 is still strong after four years. Don't have much experience with the iPhone, as I traded in my 5c for a 6s last year. But I'm not planning to upgrade it anytime soon.
We either need to start cleaning up or affixing defensive technology onto satellites.
China does have anti-satellite missiles. If the Japanese telescope got pointed in the wrong direction, they may have mistaken it for a spy satellite and taken it out.
BART hasn't made it east on the south side of the bay to complete a circle anyhow. It was always a dumb idea.
The original plan for the VTA light rail had lines going East-West in addition to the existing North-South lines. When San Carlos Street got ripped out between Forth Street and Seventh Street to unify the San Jose State University campus, the construction crew put in the foundation for the tracks that is buried underneath the grass throughway. I very much doubt that particular line to East San Jose will ever get built out. This isn't really surprising when it comes to transit planning. Los Angeles has 600 miles of planned freeway that were never constructed for one reason or another.
They were both right (the costs would clearly have caused taxes to be ever higher, as the other counties have demonstrated) and wrong (commuter rail (Caltrain) has not been able to keep up with demand).
And now CalTrain is getting electrified. Gee, I wonder who's paying for that?
Someone who made a ton of money from investing in something worthless is telling the rest of us we shouldn't invest in things that are worthless?
When I worked at Accolade, a family-owned video game company, it got bought out by Infogrames, a French video game company, in 1998. Like many companies in the run up to the dot com bust, Infogrames went on a buying spree for other video game companies. When it acquired Hasbro Interactive, which owned the intellectual property for Atari, it moved the company from San Jose to Sunnyvale and renamed itself Atari. As the company slid into bankruptcy after the dot com bust, upper management figured out that they paid two to four times what each company was worth. In short, it was all crap.
If you want to interest or even convince anyone who didn't already agree with you, why not mention what you believe are the causes of poverty in the USA?
The Rich getting richer, the Poor getting poor, and the Middle Class getting screwed. Thanks, President Reagan!
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shut up, your comment is not clever and is detrimental to the community here
This is Slashdot. You must be new here.
That doesn't sound like a very nice thing to say for one who claims that you shouldn't say "bad" things.
"The person who loves correction loves knowledge, but anyone who hates a rebuke is stupid." - Proverbs 12:1 (NIV)
Nice try at moving goalposts though.
I'm not the one is moving the goalposts.
Except I'm not spouting illogical and contradictory statements like you are.
Think harder. I'm sure it will come to you in time.
Has anyone stopped for a moment to contemplate the fact that data is *transient*? That two years down the road you are a different person?
If you're politician, no. Everything is fixed in stone. If you change your position because the facts have changed, then you're a hypocrite and a liar. Time to break out the recall petitions and get someone more "purer" into office. And the cycle continues.
Some of these same people want to take it a step further and want special protection from these consequences when speech can be attributed to them, which ironically enough would require significant restrictions on freedom of speech, assembly, and association, among others.
Whenever someone screams the loudest about political correctness, it usually because they want to say inappropriate and not suffer the consequences.
Because that logic amounts to not calling out evil person doing evil things.
Only a stupid person would come to that logical conclusion. Many people did in World War II. Some still deny that Holocaust took place.
So, you're okay if the government decides to execute you for your speech. Or a lynch mob. Nice to know.
You must not have lived through the Civil Rights and/or Viet Nam War protests. Many people died. Some were killed by the government, others were killed by lynch mobs. Society eventually changed because of their sacrifices for freedom.
No, because my mother wasn't deluded into believing that the world was all peachy.
My mother was the same way. But she taught me to be polite and respectful regardless of how bad life treats you. Politeness and respect are in short supply these days.
If you have to pay a price, then it's not free.
People are more likely respect something if they paid the price for it. Something given away for free can easily be toss away.
You really didn't think much before making that contradictory statement, did you?
You obviously haven't thought hard enough about yours.
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That's why Zuckerberg, for example, has claimed that having multiple online identities is fundamentally "dishonest."
Never mind that Zuckerberg uses Limited Liability Companies (LLC) to conceal his real estate purchases and keep his name off the public records.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2013/10/11/facebook-billionaire-mark-zuckerbergs-quietly-expanding-real-estate-portfolio/
But what is implicit in your statement that it makes people "think twice" before having an opinion?
Your mother never told you, "If you have something bad to say, don't say it!"
[...] if they post something another human finds distasteful, they might be found in the real world and made to pay for it.
It's called free speech. Yes, you do have to pay the price for that freedom.
[...] the sole purpose for which is to make retribution possible.
Uh, no. The sole purpose is to make people think twice about their comments. Nothing stops you from posting, "The president is a [church bells]!" (to paraphrase Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles). Do you really want the whole world to know that you — under your real name — are just another racist nut job? Probably not.
Nor your holier than thou attitude
I may be an asshole, but I'm not Donald Trump. ;)
I generally no longer speak up in public, and if I do, I think long and hard about it first, and neutralize my words as much as possible.
That's the definition of a politician.
Survivor bias, pure and simple.
My father got a new Dell box every other year because they were "crap" in his eyes. Did he run an anti-virus/spyware scanner? Nope. Did he defrag the hard drive? Nope. Did he stopped looking at the naughty bits on the Internet? Nope.
I take those Dell boxes home, blow out the dust and reformat the hard drive. I used them for another five years before I recycle them.
You can bet anything you post as AC ends up in your file at those agencies.
Slashdot never came up in my background interview for my security clearance at my government IT job. Then again, I don't post under my legal name. A Google search under my legal name shows that I fell off the Internet prior to the dot com bust in 2001. I haven't had any jobs in the last 15 years that made an issue out of my lack of presence on the Internet.
Just list your App for FREE. Apple will STILL do all those things above, and NOT charge you ANYTHING (30% of zero is...).
IIRC, App developers need to pay the annual $100 fee for the Apple Developer Program to keep their app listings on iTunes. No membership, no listings. For some developers, it's a high price for a free app with in-app purchases.
So far mass surveillance had zero impact on silencing Anonymous Cowards.
If I buy quality gear that's good for a decade, why would I want to sell it?
My 2006 MacBook has a 32-bit processor. Most Mac developers don't compile for 32-bit OS X, making software and updates difficult to find. However, it runs Windows 10 great (see YouTube link below). If you want quality hardware to run Windows, get an older Mac.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJw8aSxEFwQ
Such is the thought processes of Mtards.
That's the thought process of a Window retard who can't get pass smelling his own underwear and thinking it smell like roses.
The Mactard over-valuation of used Apple gear with old, generic components.
Other World Computing has great prices for used Macs.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Apple_Systems/Used/Macs_and_Tablets/
[...] my thinkpad from the same time is still fine and hasn't needed anything.
How many PCs still command a premium in the used market? Not many.
Ship it now, offer a fix in 4 months for the shoddy work, then discontinue support for your 7 month old phone and release a new one.
My 2006 MacBook lasted ten years. My first gen iPod touch lasted eight years. My iPad 2 is still strong after four years. Don't have much experience with the iPhone, as I traded in my 5c for a 6s last year. But I'm not planning to upgrade it anytime soon.
It's interesting to see such a large company letting a bug like this slip by, especially in an operating system.
Otherwise known as the Microsoft model of software development: ship it now and patch it later.
We either need to start cleaning up or affixing defensive technology onto satellites.
China does have anti-satellite missiles. If the Japanese telescope got pointed in the wrong direction, they may have mistaken it for a spy satellite and taken it out.
http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/china-secretly-tested-an-anti-satellite-missile/
BART hasn't made it east on the south side of the bay to complete a circle anyhow. It was always a dumb idea.
The original plan for the VTA light rail had lines going East-West in addition to the existing North-South lines. When San Carlos Street got ripped out between Forth Street and Seventh Street to unify the San Jose State University campus, the construction crew put in the foundation for the tracks that is buried underneath the grass throughway. I very much doubt that particular line to East San Jose will ever get built out. This isn't really surprising when it comes to transit planning. Los Angeles has 600 miles of planned freeway that were never constructed for one reason or another.
They were both right (the costs would clearly have caused taxes to be ever higher, as the other counties have demonstrated) and wrong (commuter rail (Caltrain) has not been able to keep up with demand).
And now CalTrain is getting electrified. Gee, I wonder who's paying for that?
http://www.caltrain.com/projectsplans/CaltrainModernization/Modernization/PeninsulaCorridorElectrificationProject.html
Someone who made a ton of money from investing in something worthless is telling the rest of us we shouldn't invest in things that are worthless?
When I worked at Accolade, a family-owned video game company, it got bought out by Infogrames, a French video game company, in 1998. Like many companies in the run up to the dot com bust, Infogrames went on a buying spree for other video game companies. When it acquired Hasbro Interactive, which owned the intellectual property for Atari, it moved the company from San Jose to Sunnyvale and renamed itself Atari. As the company slid into bankruptcy after the dot com bust, upper management figured out that they paid two to four times what each company was worth. In short, it was all crap.
If you want to interest or even convince anyone who didn't already agree with you, why not mention what you believe are the causes of poverty in the USA?
The Rich getting richer, the Poor getting poor, and the Middle Class getting screwed. Thanks, President Reagan!