Go in any online help forum and the most useless answers are from the people with a big list of "MVP", "MSCE", etc. in their overlong sigs. Basically they're just unwitting Microsoft evangelists/astroturfers who drank the cool aid and are now sitting in forums repeating what Microsoft told them.
The biggest skill in a Microsoft admin is somebody who knows how to Google and ignore all the answers posted by MCSEs and thinly disguised anti-malware adverts, etc.
The size of the innovations isn't the problem, the problem is the size of what the patent office accepts as 'innovation'. Currently we're at "rounded corners" and it doesn't seem to be moving in an upwards direction.
That only helps to stop idiots from skidding/flipping when it's snowing (I say "idiots" because SUVs cause people to be overconfident in bad weather - acceleration of 4WDs is still good in slippery conditions, braking and steering, not so much...)
a) The chances of your circumcision being botched leaving serious, permanent dysfunction are higher than the reduction in AIDS risk.
b) Your risk of AIDS is highly lifestyle dependent. The western world isn't Uganda, most people simply aren't at risk. Why can't people who chose risky lifestyles also choose to be circumcised, as adults? Why do we presume all babies are guilty...?
c) All the medical studies in favor of circumcision are written by people who make money from it. The only study you need is the observation that Europe isn't some aids infested den of rotting, cancerous dicks.
d) Masturbation with/without foreskin? Foreskin is best, no contest. Modern circumcision was actually started by the anti-masturbation movements in the 1900s to remove the pleasure from wanking (headed by Doctor Kellogg no less - the guy who invented cornflakes). Think about that before chopping.
The "disease hazard" one: How the hell is it expecting to much, to pull back your foreskin and wash your dick once, every 1-2 days?? How is that a disease hazard and a justification in the first place?? And how, going by that logic, don't they also recommend removing your asshole, bowels, mouth and nose? Those are even more prone to be full of bad germs.
Funny how it's mostly women who are pushing circumcision and they don't seem to have any trouble keeping all their clefts, cavities and flaps clean.
A penis though? Obviously far too difficult to wash...
If a heavy car hits a light car the light car is going to move further.
True, but *after* shoving the little car out of the way the SUV will have enough kinetic energy left to roll over three times and kill the occupants.
Plus... SUV drivers are more likely to die if they swerve, fall asleep at the wheel, or any of the other accidents which are more common than head-on collisions with other vehicles.
Even better... make him buy a new hard disk, that way you can be sure that: a) He spends some money (more likely to pay attention in the future). b) You didn't lose any data files - they're all on the old disk somewhere.
Actually that's pretty much exactly what happened.
Yeah, Apple invented something completely out of the blue. None of those old Windows CE "PDA"s (remember those?) had animations, touch screens, etc. Nor were they smartphone shaped. They certainly wouldn't have had an 'i' anywhere in their names.
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100% this.
Go in any online help forum and the most useless answers are from the people with a big list of "MVP", "MSCE", etc. in their overlong sigs. Basically they're just unwitting Microsoft evangelists/astroturfers who drank the cool aid and are now sitting in forums repeating what Microsoft told them.
The biggest skill in a Microsoft admin is somebody who knows how to Google and ignore all the answers posted by MCSEs and thinly disguised anti-malware adverts, etc.
The reality is, selling it at a loss is better than having unsold inventory you'll never sell anyway.
Much better idea: Don't have any unsold inventory that you have to sell at a loss.
Which is what they've done (...unless they're lying and it's a publicity thing).
Huh?
If you made more than you can sell then you lose money. If you have to sell them off at a reduced price you lost even more.
I'd rather be fat and die early having eaten the things I liked, than old, skinny and never enjoyed a triple bacon burger with extra cheese.
Well done. You completely failed to find out how calorie restriction works before sticking your foot in your mouth.
Hint: On the non-restricted days you can eat whatever you like.
Some even continue to sell the old model afterwards as a budget model.
ie. They lose money.
This means their sales projection was only off by one week.
They were trying to avoid ending up with a warehouse full of unsold Model Is, I'd say they did a pretty good job.
The size of the innovations isn't the problem, the problem is the size of what the patent office accepts as 'innovation'. Currently we're at "rounded corners" and it doesn't seem to be moving in an upwards direction.
Rounded corners FTW!
That only helps to stop idiots from skidding/flipping when it's snowing (I say "idiots" because SUVs cause people to be overconfident in bad weather - acceleration of 4WDs is still good in slippery conditions, braking and steering, not so much...)
This video shows an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXeKSDpFjlg
(Collision test at 4:30 )
- Let's bring back Female Circumcision too.
Same reasons (healthier).
Even Dr Kellogg (the grandfather of American circumcision) didn't go that far.
He recommends regular application of carbolic acid to the clitoris.
So yes, they actually do.
When you ask people in McDonalds if they'd like to see healthier choices of food they all say "yes, of course!".
Do they buy it if you put it in the restaurant? No, they keep on with the Big Mac and fries (which is why they went to McDonalds in the first place).
Circumcision become the norm in the US after it was found out that the rates of penile cancer among Jewish men were zero.
Nope.
a) Circumcision become the norm in the US because of anti-masturbation movements in the 1800s (led by Dr. Kellogg).
b) Correlation is not causation.
There's only one real study that produces impressive numbers and it was done in Uganda (watch it appear in this thread....)
I put it to you that the USA isn't Uganda.
a) The chances of your circumcision being botched leaving serious, permanent dysfunction are higher than the reduction in AIDS risk.
b) Your risk of AIDS is highly lifestyle dependent. The western world isn't Uganda, most people simply aren't at risk. Why can't people who chose risky lifestyles also choose to be circumcised, as adults? Why do we presume all babies are guilty...?
c) All the medical studies in favor of circumcision are written by people who make money from it. The only study you need is the observation that Europe isn't some aids infested den of rotting, cancerous dicks.
d) Masturbation with/without foreskin? Foreskin is best, no contest. Modern circumcision was actually started by the anti-masturbation movements in the 1900s to remove the pleasure from wanking (headed by Doctor Kellogg no less - the guy who invented cornflakes). Think about that before chopping.
The "disease hazard" one: How the hell is it expecting to much, to pull back your foreskin and wash your dick once, every 1-2 days?? How is that a disease hazard and a justification in the first place?? And how, going by that logic, don't they also recommend removing your asshole, bowels, mouth and nose? Those are even more prone to be full of bad germs.
Funny how it's mostly women who are pushing circumcision and they don't seem to have any trouble keeping all their clefts, cavities and flaps clean.
A penis though? Obviously far too difficult to wash...
Male circumcision for HIV prevention in men in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised trial
Yeah, an AIDS ridden country with very little indoor plumbing or condoms. That's a good place to compare yourself with.
once you're at highway speeds, air resistance becomes insurmountable.
...unless you improve the aerodynamics.
A good way to do that is to make the vehicle lower/smaller/less trucklike.
If a heavy car hits a light car the light car is going to move further.
True, but *after* shoving the little car out of the way the SUV will have enough kinetic energy left to roll over three times and kill the occupants.
Plus ... SUV drivers are more likely to die if they swerve, fall asleep at the wheel, or any of the other accidents which are more common than head-on collisions with other vehicles.
soccer mom texting in her gas guzzling behemoth, when wrecking with a subcompact, tends to survive better than the poor guy in the subcompact
Simply not true. The behemoth is safer in a head-on collision, sure, but that's only a tiny percentage of accidents.
In almost all other types of collisions the SUV will roll over and kill everybody inside.
(After wrecking everything else in the area with all that kinetic energy...)
The Newton was based on the Amstrad Penpad
The claim was that Apple "waddled into a vacuum"...
Bow your head and type "Format C:" Amen.
Even better ... make him buy a new hard disk, that way you can be sure that:
a) He spends some money (more likely to pay attention in the future).
b) You didn't lose any data files - they're all on the old disk somewhere.
It's easy to tailgate someone, much harder to force someone to tailgate you.
Two cars working together as a team...?
Actually that's pretty much exactly what happened.
Yeah, Apple invented something completely out of the blue. None of those old Windows CE "PDA"s (remember those?) had animations, touch screens, etc. Nor were they smartphone shaped. They certainly wouldn't have had an 'i' anywhere in their names.
Oh, wait....