Do you behave as if humans have freedom, dignity, equality? These concepts are impossible to justify under a naturalistic framework.
While you're pulling things out of your ass, how about digging around in there for anything at all to support this absurd statement? There's a big difference between description and prescription.
Look at you: You're apparently so indoctrinated that you actually believe it's right to suppress the speech of someone who is merely identifying (and collecting evidence to prove the identification of) professors who abuse their positions.
Please to show where anyone is trying to suppress the speech of the Bruin Alumni Association.
citing the fact that we don't glue ourselves together when we nick ourselves
I'm not sure if they're trying to say that our bodies don't naturally glue themselves back together or that we don't apply glue to cuts, but either way, they're wrong.
It's not okay for them to use it because they're Google, it's okay for them to use it because you implicitly agree to it when you use their Personalized Homepage. And they're not selling that data off directly, they're using it internally to make their ad targeting more accurate, which increases the value of the space they sell to advertisers.
And what makes you think they're getting a "free pass?" I can't imagine there are many ad-supported sites that don't do similar tracking, but the only one I see getting hysterical press about violating privacy is the one that didn't hand the data over.
Since you're obviously having trouble with your reading comprehension skills, here's a primer:
"You're an asshole" is not an ad hominem, it's simply an insult. "The flaw in your argument is that you're an asshole" is an ad hominem. "It sounds to me like what you are trying to say is x," which is what the parent poster said, doesn't come anywhere close to either.
(That AC already did a pretty good job of explaining exactly why your accusation of "strawman" was way off-base, so maybe you can just reread his comment and pretend like I said the same thing.)
Where do you infer an expectation of privacy when using someone else's resources for free? That's like going to a market research thing for the free donuts and then getting upset that they actually write down your answers.
A restatement of what you perceive a debater's point to be is not an ad hominem. Neither is reframing of the terms of a debate a strawman.
Try paying attention to what's actually being said instead of shoehorning it in to something you read on a page about logical fallacies to make yourself look smart, because that approach is not working for you at all.
But IBM owns patent rights to the use of the term Personal Area Network, of that I'm sure.
No you're not. Usage of specific terms is governed by trademark, not patent. If they have a patent on that particular method, no one else can use it (without a license) no matter what they decide to call it. If they have a trademark for "Personal Area Network," then no one else can use that phrase for anything in the same market space. With a 4-digit UID you ought to know the difference between patent, trademark, & copyright by now.
I've seen people not reading the content of their own links before, but not reading your own blockquote -- that's pretty special. "The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive." No longer in use. It is no longer a medical term. Even if it weren't obsolete, unless the speaker is a doctor giving a professional opinion, common usage trumps jargon. If you say "that motherfucker is a maniac!" you are neither alleging incest nor making a psychiatric diagnosis.
As such, freedom of speech in that setting was never granted or guaranteed in the first place, so you can't "sign it away". They would have to grant you the right first.
That's not how contracts work. Unless a contract specifically restricts your right to do x, as in an NDA where you partially waive your right to speech, you maintain that right. Conversely, contracts don't grant you "rights," they grant you privileges. These are often called "rights" for purposes of the contract, but are not to be confused with fundamental civil rights, which are assumed to exist unless abrogated.
Safari has had autocomplete built-in for a while. Start typing in the address bar and it shows a progressively-shrinking drop-down menu of matching urls from your history & bookmarks, sorted by frequency of visit.
Even better, go install the Sogudi extension. You get a customizable list of search engines and abbreviations, so that you can type "goo britney spears" or "mov king kong" or "amz oprah book club" and immediately get the google, imdb, or amazon results for those queries. Comes with about a dozen, which you can change or add to as you please.
American "blended whiskeys" are usually not different whiskeys blended together, but whiskey blended with neutral spirits. Which is why they tend to be awful. Skyy is the fanciest stuff that Frank-Lin produces, which is why they make sure it shows up in those pictures. What they don't tell you is that Skyy comes off a separate dedicated production line. Pretty much everything else they make is bottom-shelf crap: Grocery store house brands, "Winner's Cup Vodka, Potter's Gin, King's Bay Rum, St. Maurice Premium Brandy, MacTay's Scotch, Hombre Tequila, and hundreds of others" (Associated Press.) It's true that there is a big fuzzy area of quality in liquor and wine, much of it taking advantage of the pretentious and the ignorant easily-marketed-to "price == quality" audience, but all that stuff falls unambiguously in nasty swill territory.
Even the government is a profit making corporation (the difference between a private corporation and the government is the government is a monopoly and can use violence... but both private corporations and government corporations are for-profit)
Nonsense. If the government were a for-profit entity its primary goal would be to maximize the budget surplus.
One size doesn't fit all. Even if your company needs nothing but off-the-shelf software, you still have to build and maintain those tools.
The analogy is not "computer : hammer" but "computers : assembly line." True, improving a hammer is usually only worth it if you're selling hammers, but improving your processes is worth it no matter what your business.
And thus you'll have zero impact on making the world a better place. I'm not saying join the Peace Corps, but there's a broad spectrum between charity and mercenary. Delivering a commercial product that's been improved by your input counts too.
Attitudes like yours are exactly what everyone here complains about when they emanate from the corner offices -- CEOs making disastrous decisions to boost the stock for the next two or three quarters and then bailing with their golden parachute when the shit starts getting near the fan. "I got mine, fuck you." If it weren't so common it would be considered clinically sociopathic.
Do you really like spending half your waking life doing something you don't care about?
Everyone "knows" that recycling is good for the environment, but after doing a little digging one can find out that sending out recycling trucks to pick up the recycling requires more energy than simply using new resources.
I call bullshit on that. Recycling trucks don't use any more fuel than the garbage trucks which would be hauling the stuff away otherwise. There may be some legitimate question as to the overall efficency of recycling plastic versus using virgin plastic, as there are lots of ways to do cost-benefit analyses, but that recycling truck thing is simply a lie.
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While you're pulling things out of your ass, how about digging around in there for anything at all to support this absurd statement? There's a big difference between description and prescription.
Please to show where anyone is trying to suppress the speech of the Bruin Alumni Association.
I'm not sure if they're trying to say that our bodies don't naturally glue themselves back together or that we don't apply glue to cuts, but either way, they're wrong.
And what makes you think they're getting a "free pass?" I can't imagine there are many ad-supported sites that don't do similar tracking, but the only one I see getting hysterical press about violating privacy is the one that didn't hand the data over.
"You're an asshole" is not an ad hominem, it's simply an insult. "The flaw in your argument is that you're an asshole" is an ad hominem. "It sounds to me like what you are trying to say is x," which is what the parent poster said, doesn't come anywhere close to either.
(That AC already did a pretty good job of explaining exactly why your accusation of "strawman" was way off-base, so maybe you can just reread his comment and pretend like I said the same thing.)
Where do you infer an expectation of privacy when using someone else's resources for free? That's like going to a market research thing for the free donuts and then getting upset that they actually write down your answers.
A restatement of what you perceive a debater's point to be is not an ad hominem. Neither is reframing of the terms of a debate a strawman.
Try paying attention to what's actually being said instead of shoehorning it in to something you read on a page about logical fallacies to make yourself look smart, because that approach is not working for you at all.
No you're not. Usage of specific terms is governed by trademark, not patent. If they have a patent on that particular method, no one else can use it (without a license) no matter what they decide to call it. If they have a trademark for "Personal Area Network," then no one else can use that phrase for anything in the same market space. With a 4-digit UID you ought to know the difference between patent, trademark, & copyright by now.
You drive them home?!? And here I thought I was being a gentleman leaving them cabfare on the nightstand.
You might want to check a dictionary the next time you don't know the meaning of a word. Or even look a little more closely at Wikipedia.
I've seen people not reading the content of their own links before, but not reading your own blockquote -- that's pretty special. "The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive." No longer in use. It is no longer a medical term. Even if it weren't obsolete, unless the speaker is a doctor giving a professional opinion, common usage trumps jargon. If you say "that motherfucker is a maniac!" you are neither alleging incest nor making a psychiatric diagnosis.
That's not how contracts work. Unless a contract specifically restricts your right to do x, as in an NDA where you partially waive your right to speech, you maintain that right. Conversely, contracts don't grant you "rights," they grant you privileges. These are often called "rights" for purposes of the contract, but are not to be confused with fundamental civil rights, which are assumed to exist unless abrogated.
These guys.
Uh huh. You try marketing a spreadsheet app called "Notasheep Excel" and see how far you get.
Koochie koochie!
Even better, go install the Sogudi extension. You get a customizable list of search engines and abbreviations, so that you can type "goo britney spears" or "mov king kong" or "amz oprah book club" and immediately get the google, imdb, or amazon results for those queries. Comes with about a dozen, which you can change or add to as you please.
Song of Solomon? "Oh, it's a metaphor for Christ's love for the church." Shyeah, right. Christ wanted to feel up the church's tits. Sure thing.
And mercenary vinters, it would appear.
No, it'll be cheaper. To make, if not to buy.
American "blended whiskeys" are usually not different whiskeys blended together, but whiskey blended with neutral spirits. Which is why they tend to be awful. Skyy is the fanciest stuff that Frank-Lin produces, which is why they make sure it shows up in those pictures. What they don't tell you is that Skyy comes off a separate dedicated production line. Pretty much everything else they make is bottom-shelf crap: Grocery store house brands, "Winner's Cup Vodka, Potter's Gin, King's Bay Rum, St. Maurice Premium Brandy, MacTay's Scotch, Hombre Tequila, and hundreds of others" (Associated Press.) It's true that there is a big fuzzy area of quality in liquor and wine, much of it taking advantage of the pretentious and the ignorant easily-marketed-to "price == quality" audience, but all that stuff falls unambiguously in nasty swill territory.
Nonsense. If the government were a for-profit entity its primary goal would be to maximize the budget surplus.
The analogy is not "computer : hammer" but "computers : assembly line." True, improving a hammer is usually only worth it if you're selling hammers, but improving your processes is worth it no matter what your business.
Attitudes like yours are exactly what everyone here complains about when they emanate from the corner offices -- CEOs making disastrous decisions to boost the stock for the next two or three quarters and then bailing with their golden parachute when the shit starts getting near the fan. "I got mine, fuck you." If it weren't so common it would be considered clinically sociopathic.
Do you really like spending half your waking life doing something you don't care about?
DOS is a version of Windows?
I call bullshit on that. Recycling trucks don't use any more fuel than the garbage trucks which would be hauling the stuff away otherwise. There may be some legitimate question as to the overall efficency of recycling plastic versus using virgin plastic, as there are lots of ways to do cost-benefit analyses, but that recycling truck thing is simply a lie.
How much of that exhaust gas temperature is actually bled off by the intercooler, rather than being converted into kinetic energy by the turbine?