So? Are there any Republicans who aren't political whores? Or who haven't been burned on issues before? I don't see how that would take her out of the race, as it describes 90% of politicians.
The "Snakes on a Plane" buzz/meme was started by an actual blog that was making fun of the name. It was unexpected by the producers, who actually wanted to change the name. It was basically Sam Jackson's hilarious remarks and a bunch of actual internet nerds who created the viral campaign - not the company. They did later take advantage of this, but through more traditional means, like Jackson't interview on The Daily Show.
So you're attacking them and excusing Apple and Nintendo even though their in the same situation.
But the grandparent post did not excuse Apple or Nintendo. He did not praise the DataDyne campaign (something I was not aware of, and probably the GP was also not) - and you have yet to show us where Apple has ever done any similarly deceptive advertising.
Now everybody and their grandmother has a legit online music store, and the competition is only going to get worse,
Actually, haven't a ton of music stores shut down? I remember in the early days of iTunes, everybody had some music store strategy that was supposed to kill iTunes. But they mostly flopped. Even Coca-Cola had a music store, if I remember correctly. And there was that one with with Tommy Lee that was hyped big and failed. I think that there are probably fewer online music stores today (although I don't have figures) - because so many either went out of business, or got sold or downsized.
Why can't a newbie try out a system, to see how well it performs the tasks that s/he wants to accomplish? How about reading reviews and journals? Newbies have plenty to go on besides looks.
I worked in an integer mine, doing backbreaking work to obtain values for programmers to use in their variables. Those carts were really heavy to push. They flogged us to make us work harder. There was also the risk of death in a tunnel collapse, if we accidentally drilled into a vein of pi. One of the other workers was flogged to death when he was discovered trying to steal a 9.
Most programmers have similar stories to tell, with the scars to show for it. If they pretend they actually worked in an office drinking Mountain Dew and eating snack food in their early career, it's just because the memories are too traumatic to talk about.
I saw them play in Las Vegas, and it was a totally bitchin' punk gig. They even burned their guitars at the end, and totally wailed on the mosh pit. Check out their Myspace page for free downloads.
The idea that we can deplete "natural" resources comes from a profound misunderstanding of such resources come into being. Human create them, they do not exist in nature. Oil was not a "natural" resource 120 years ago
Say what? The oil was there before humans came along and used it. We did not create it.
There is no such thing as "unsustainable" consumption.
And what's your reasoning for this? It is profoundly at odds with physical reality and history.
Over the whole of human history we have created more and more resources.
Can you provide any examples?
The idea we will run out of resources without some kind of state control and rationing is merely an academic conceit of people with no understanding of the way our civilization creates and uses its technology.
When did I ever mention anything about state control and rationing? The fact is that we have run many resources nearly dry. I'm not sure why you are bringing "state control" into this.
People have been making predictions of resource exhaustion since the time of Malthus and they have ALL been wrong.
Those who made rash predictions and specified a year may have been wrong, but those with a more rational approach have yet to be proven wrong. How can you say somebody is proven wrong if they don't specify a date? It could still happen in the future.
You remind me of the those back in the 70's enthrall to Paul Ehrlich and his concept of the population bomb. They were convinced that if they didn't take drastic action, like cutting off the people of starve, then the whole planet was doomed.
Why? When did I mention anything about "drastic action" or a "population bomb"?
As it turned out population control was minor problem easily handled automatically by raising standards of living, exactly the opposite tack advocated by Ehrlich et al.
Eh? Overpopulation is a major problem today in many parts of the world.
I see nothing but a history of failed predictions and nothing that suggest that the means and methods that have carried us to this point will suddenly fail.
But when did I say it would suddenly fail? My whole point all a long is that it will not be that sudden, but rather a slow decline. And that decline could be halted or even reversed if we decided to manage the problems. I'm not sure where you are getting this alarmism from. Most respectable scientists and environmentalists have been talking about slow declines, not sudden apocalypses. Are you deliberately listening to emotional arguments (from both sides) rather than the more sober reality?
Won't all that happen the same way if you let your computer sleep or hibernate? After all, the hard-drive stops spinning after a few minutes of activity anyway (at normal settings). Same with the thermal cycles. The computer cools down when you stop using it, even if you leave it "on," unless you deliberately leave a load on it.
You youngsters, with your fancy 5 minute boot process. My abacus is always on and ready for computation. I bet your energy-saving mode doesn't use 0 watts.
Everybody, and I do mean everybody, bought into the entire concept and then in a period of less than a year the entire "crises" simply disappeared.
But it hasn't. We are going to be facing wars and all kinds of other strife over oil shortages. So, they found some more oil. That hasn't stopped us consuming it unsustainably.
Neither global warming nor oil shortages are going to happen overnight. They take place over many years - but still a short time, when you consider that the industrial revolution wasn't much more than 100 years ago. Humans are pretty alarmist by nature - but then we are overly confident. If a crisis doesn't develop in a few short years, people tend to think the problem doesn't exist, even as long-term problems continue to get more serious. It makes it very hard for the rational people among us to warn of long-term crises, because if there isn't an "apocalypse" in the short term, many think there is no problem. It's the short-term problems and sensationalist horror that people respond to. Look at 9/11 for example - so many people were outraged, and "something had to be done" - even though more people are killed every year by other preventable causes. It was the immediacy that caused people to notice, that caused political change. Our environmental and pollution problems will cost a magnitude of order more lives, but the globally distributed, slowly-acting nature of the effects will likely cause people to do nothing about it.
Slashdot Mirror
So? Are there any Republicans who aren't political whores? Or who haven't been burned on issues before? I don't see how that would take her out of the race, as it describes 90% of politicians.
The "Snakes on a Plane" buzz/meme was started by an actual blog that was making fun of the name. It was unexpected by the producers, who actually wanted to change the name. It was basically Sam Jackson's hilarious remarks and a bunch of actual internet nerds who created the viral campaign - not the company. They did later take advantage of this, but through more traditional means, like Jackson't interview on The Daily Show.
But the grandparent post did not excuse Apple or Nintendo. He did not praise the DataDyne campaign (something I was not aware of, and probably the GP was also not) - and you have yet to show us where Apple has ever done any similarly deceptive advertising.
He should look under his skin for one of those robot bug-things from The Matrix.
Which probably means no more Allofmp3.com as we knew it - probably no more lossless/high bitrate files, quite possibly DRM, probably higher prices.
Actually, haven't a ton of music stores shut down? I remember in the early days of iTunes, everybody had some music store strategy that was supposed to kill iTunes. But they mostly flopped. Even Coca-Cola had a music store, if I remember correctly. And there was that one with with Tommy Lee that was hyped big and failed. I think that there are probably fewer online music stores today (although I don't have figures) - because so many either went out of business, or got sold or downsized.
Good luck with Allofmp3.com, as it is being/has been shut down.
I think that would be expected when they try to make a magnetic medium work in an optical drive. The magnets, they do nothing!
It's for my inner child, of course.
Just about everybody I know who uses a Mac uses Command-Tab to switch application focus, or they have it mapped to a mouse button.
Why can't a newbie try out a system, to see how well it performs the tasks that s/he wants to accomplish? How about reading reviews and journals? Newbies have plenty to go on besides looks.
Hey, stop it! That's my brain! - Bender
Or ASCII porn.
Most programmers have similar stories to tell, with the scars to show for it. If they pretend they actually worked in an office drinking Mountain Dew and eating snack food in their early career, it's just because the memories are too traumatic to talk about.
And there was much rejoicing and celebration in the hamlet of slashdot, as their foe was finally vanquished.
Why is that interesting?
I saw them play in Las Vegas, and it was a totally bitchin' punk gig. They even burned their guitars at the end, and totally wailed on the mosh pit. Check out their Myspace page for free downloads.
I adopted a filament of gas who was a refuge from the tsunami. I urge you all to do likewise and open your hearts and your houses to the victims.
Say what? The oil was there before humans came along and used it. We did not create it.
There is no such thing as "unsustainable" consumption.And what's your reasoning for this? It is profoundly at odds with physical reality and history.
Over the whole of human history we have created more and more resources.Can you provide any examples?
The idea we will run out of resources without some kind of state control and rationing is merely an academic conceit of people with no understanding of the way our civilization creates and uses its technology.When did I ever mention anything about state control and rationing? The fact is that we have run many resources nearly dry. I'm not sure why you are bringing "state control" into this.
People have been making predictions of resource exhaustion since the time of Malthus and they have ALL been wrong.Those who made rash predictions and specified a year may have been wrong, but those with a more rational approach have yet to be proven wrong. How can you say somebody is proven wrong if they don't specify a date? It could still happen in the future.
You remind me of the those back in the 70's enthrall to Paul Ehrlich and his concept of the population bomb. They were convinced that if they didn't take drastic action, like cutting off the people of starve, then the whole planet was doomed.Why? When did I mention anything about "drastic action" or a "population bomb"?
As it turned out population control was minor problem easily handled automatically by raising standards of living, exactly the opposite tack advocated by Ehrlich et al.Eh? Overpopulation is a major problem today in many parts of the world.
I see nothing but a history of failed predictions and nothing that suggest that the means and methods that have carried us to this point will suddenly fail.But when did I say it would suddenly fail? My whole point all a long is that it will not be that sudden, but rather a slow decline. And that decline could be halted or even reversed if we decided to manage the problems. I'm not sure where you are getting this alarmism from. Most respectable scientists and environmentalists have been talking about slow declines, not sudden apocalypses. Are you deliberately listening to emotional arguments (from both sides) rather than the more sober reality?
Won't all that happen the same way if you let your computer sleep or hibernate? After all, the hard-drive stops spinning after a few minutes of activity anyway (at normal settings). Same with the thermal cycles. The computer cools down when you stop using it, even if you leave it "on," unless you deliberately leave a load on it.
You youngsters, with your fancy 5 minute boot process. My abacus is always on and ready for computation. I bet your energy-saving mode doesn't use 0 watts.
My brain has an Alfred E. Neumann architecture.
Uhh, what makes startup more taxing on the hardware than normal operation?
Neil: "Nah. I think I'll watch the dot some more."
But it hasn't. We are going to be facing wars and all kinds of other strife over oil shortages. So, they found some more oil. That hasn't stopped us consuming it unsustainably.
Neither global warming nor oil shortages are going to happen overnight. They take place over many years - but still a short time, when you consider that the industrial revolution wasn't much more than 100 years ago. Humans are pretty alarmist by nature - but then we are overly confident. If a crisis doesn't develop in a few short years, people tend to think the problem doesn't exist, even as long-term problems continue to get more serious. It makes it very hard for the rational people among us to warn of long-term crises, because if there isn't an "apocalypse" in the short term, many think there is no problem. It's the short-term problems and sensationalist horror that people respond to. Look at 9/11 for example - so many people were outraged, and "something had to be done" - even though more people are killed every year by other preventable causes. It was the immediacy that caused people to notice, that caused political change. Our environmental and pollution problems will cost a magnitude of order more lives, but the globally distributed, slowly-acting nature of the effects will likely cause people to do nothing about it.