This is a prime example of why trendiness drives iPod sales.
Uhhh, no. I don't know anybody who bought an iPod because middle-aged wankers play their wank-rock in their wank-mobiles. In fact, the male has-been wankers were the first to decry the iPod when it was released. But people noticed how amazingly designed it was. Customers flocked to the product through word-of-mouth. Women especially, who had grown tired of middle-aged wankers like Mossberg recommending bad products, found something they could enjoy without being forced to listen to geek wankers. So, the iPod became very successful. Then all the middle-aged wanker men jumped on the bandwagon because of all the cool, smart people who like the iPod.
Mossberg is an example of how the iPod sells, even though a large percentage of iPod users are total dork losers like him.
Besides, with the price of gas being so high who has money left to gamble?
Some vegan guy named Moonbeam, who walks everywhere. Shit, I'd better buy shares in cruelty-free shoes, because this guy's going to be like Rockerfeller in 2010.
So help me, if I finally get my dream to explore space, I'm going to be very upset if its in a ship with "Tampax" painted on the side )~\
Oh come on, it's not that bad. At least you'd be relieving Mother Universe's menstrual flow. Thousands of women would adore your bold symbolic mission in the name of sanitary products, and throw panties at you. Which would be fresh and lack blood stains due to the miracle of Tampax.
We're all in this tampon-spaceship together. Don't forget that. This is not a time for pulling strings, it's a time for serious application of one's self.
They probably wouldn't agree with paying for the government to provide benefits to married gay couples.
But what does that have to do with religion, or the separation of church and state? How is the government allowing gay marriage an issue of "Caesar" interfering with religion?
or maybe they want those children to live... i really like the approach one christian volunteer group in our city takes: they offer free counseling to women who are considering abortions
You mean that they want to force their views onto other people. Which is exactly what the other poster was complaining about. He was asked how to distinguish people who wanted to force their beliefs on others, compared to those who were happy to practice their beliefs without harassing others who don't believe. He responded "look outside the abortion clinics."
Then, you reply that you like the way they try to force their beliefs on vulnerable women. Thereby providing evidence for the point the other poster was trying to make.
if they believe the Bible, it says not to judge people. christians are supposed to be able to judge if an action is right or wrong. they believe that it's a sin for two men to marry, and that's why they don't support it.
But Christians aren't supposed to use the government (Ceasar) to enforce their beliefs on others. They are supposed to forgive the sinners, not try to make their sinning illegal. It's up to Christians to follow Christian rules out of their own sense of faith.
Compare the "coverage" the Swift Boat Vets received to the coverage Cindy Shehan is receiving.
yes, let's look at that. Cindy Sheehan is honest and has a simple message (whether you agree with it or not). The Swift Boat veterans were lying schills for the administration who were totally corrupt.
Why should lying corrupt bastards like the Swift Boat Veterans be given any credibility? Furthermore, the Swift Boat lies got a LOT more coverage than Sheehan has. What matters in journalism is truth, not representing two different extremes of political view equally.
Don't know anything about that. I was just astounded that the OP had a globe of the U. S. My globe has a LOT more than just the U.S. on it.
What is this "U.S" you are speaking of? Didn't you get the memo that it is now called "Freedomland," and it's spreading? Of course you need a globe to see it spread.
We all know that a Radeon 9600 for mac last much longer than its PC equivalent. Also mac memory modules are so different from the PC hardware
The difference is that Apple designs the whole system, and usually pays good attention to things like cooling and thermal properties, and in their portables, things like shock-protection. The components themselves do not constitute the entire design of a system. Too many WinTel and Linux PCs are poorly designed as systems, which puts more strain on the components involved. It's similar to the way you can make a Hi-Fi system out of similar components, but get better performance and longevity by designing the system and its enclosure differently, and building it to higher standards.
Sure, but isn't "The Dvorak Prophecy" a great name for a band? Especially one that uses Powerbooks with Logic for their live performances. I think I'll have to start that band.
But this article is the kind of drivel that gives us windows fanboys a bad name.
No, the fact that you are a fanboy is what gives fanboys a bad name. You don't need anyone else to make idiocy look bad. This guy just helps confirm what everybody already knows.
"Environmentalism" and "diversity" and "social justice" are indistinguishable from religion.
In what way? Are you seriously suggesting you can't tell the difference?
Yet somehow they find their way into public schools with no problem,
What are you talking about? Religion is taught frequently in most schools, and environmentalism is almost never touched. Despite there being scientific support for environmentalism, but not for religion.
Speaking of Commodore, I've got an old Amiga 3.5 floppy with "Warning: VIRUS!" written on it, in my wallspace. I put it there so I would not accidentally infect my machine, but so I could get it if I ever happened to need to infect someone. I believe it was the "Byte Bandit" virus, but I'm not sure. I wonder if it still runs?
it gives detailed information throughout the whole milky way?
C'mon, the fictional guide didn't even provide detailed information throughout the milky way. Quote:
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it
has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
Sales of ordinary DVDs were largely driven by widespread consumption of cheap DVD players and the Playstation 2, not high-end DVD players. The market is usually influenced from the bottom, not the top. The inclusion of a DVD player in the Playstation2, meant that lots of people bought it, who weren't even interested in a games console.
Maybe I'm missing something here but why do SHAREHOLDERS care about human rights?
Maybe because they are decent human beings. I did not realize that becoming a shareholder meant that you had to stop caring about human rights, which are enshrined in the US Constitution, which is what allows the existence of businesses in the US in the first place.
Parsing your statement, if we know that the majority of Americans are actually shareholders, then you must be arguing that the majority of Americans should not care about human rights. Do you see something wrong with this picture?
They're not the government. If China comes to Cisco and says, we'll trade you these millions of dollars for your routers, they have an obligation to the shareholders to say OK. I mean, if they don't do it, then Juniper will do it. China is the one that is responsible for their misdeeds against their people,
Do you feel the same way about IBM's collaboration with the Nazis, where their technology was used to track Jews and other undesirables for extermination or punishment? Or any of the other American businesses who collaborated with Nazis? What a company that sold medical equipment that was used for torture to Saddam? After all, it was just business. IBM just saw an opportunity to profit from fascism.
And isn't the desire for profit one of the major motivations of fascism? Business is not politically neutral. Businesses have effects on society, and should live within the laws and values of a society. Excusing such actions because it happens outside the US is like approving of human rights violations because they did not happen on US soil. How can a country ask another country to abide by its standards on human rights, if it is not willing to hold companies that operate from that country, to participate in said violations of human rights?
If every penny the US spent on the cold war had been spent on a combination of nuclear and space technology, you'd be addressing me as comrade... if you hadn't been shipped off to a gulag, that is
Bullshit. There was no serious threat of invasion of America by the Soviets, just as there was no serious threat of nukes or WMD from Saddam's Iraq being deployed in the US. It's this kind of paranoid attitude that fuels the massive waste and potential destruction of something like the Cold War.
Most of the thousands of nukes were not necessary, and are like white elephants today. None of it was used to "win" the cold war, America could have just pretended to have nukes and it would have been equally as effective. Not to even mention the waste of "star wars" type programs.
I'm 25 and have many childhood memories of how space was the future and how someday I'd get to visit the moon (maybe even live there) and all that. Somewhere along the line all of that kind of talk just ended and space faded from people's view
I'm 30, and blame the eighties (as any Gen-Xer would!). the Cold War was on, and we were shit scared of nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. Reagan proposed the "Star Wars" space-based defense initiative. This grubbied the art, instead of being about romantic exploration of our destiny in the stars, space started being seen as a tool of war, or at least big satellite media companies and maybe mining companies one day. Similar to the confounding issues of nuclear technology and Hiroshima making people nervous about peaceful nuclear technology.
Then there was the Challenger disaster, and the rest's history. It's sad they're still persisting with the shuttle and didn't implement something different in the 90s. These days we are busy being worried about terrorists, and that inverts the focus from the great, expanding future - to fighting non-technological (but socially sophisticated) methods and culture wars. The moon landing didn't stop Vietnam, nor did any other aviation technology. But the money was already gone, digging holes, rather than lifting ourselves up.
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Uhhh, no. I don't know anybody who bought an iPod because middle-aged wankers play their wank-rock in their wank-mobiles. In fact, the male has-been wankers were the first to decry the iPod when it was released. But people noticed how amazingly designed it was. Customers flocked to the product through word-of-mouth. Women especially, who had grown tired of middle-aged wankers like Mossberg recommending bad products, found something they could enjoy without being forced to listen to geek wankers. So, the iPod became very successful. Then all the middle-aged wanker men jumped on the bandwagon because of all the cool, smart people who like the iPod.
Mossberg is an example of how the iPod sells, even though a large percentage of iPod users are total dork losers like him.
Some vegan guy named Moonbeam, who walks everywhere. Shit, I'd better buy shares in cruelty-free shoes, because this guy's going to be like Rockerfeller in 2010.
Oh come on, it's not that bad. At least you'd be relieving Mother Universe's menstrual flow. Thousands of women would adore your bold symbolic mission in the name of sanitary products, and throw panties at you. Which would be fresh and lack blood stains due to the miracle of Tampax.
We're all in this tampon-spaceship together. Don't forget that. This is not a time for pulling strings, it's a time for serious application of one's self.
No, what's next is Apple re-brands their software division as Nanosoft.
But what does that have to do with religion, or the separation of church and state? How is the government allowing gay marriage an issue of "Caesar" interfering with religion?
Yeah, that's it. Rap music is the problem. Who are you, Nancy Reagan?
You mean that they want to force their views onto other people. Which is exactly what the other poster was complaining about. He was asked how to distinguish people who wanted to force their beliefs on others, compared to those who were happy to practice their beliefs without harassing others who don't believe. He responded "look outside the abortion clinics."
Then, you reply that you like the way they try to force their beliefs on vulnerable women. Thereby providing evidence for the point the other poster was trying to make.
if they believe the Bible, it says not to judge people. christians are supposed to be able to judge if an action is right or wrong. they believe that it's a sin for two men to marry, and that's why they don't support it.
But Christians aren't supposed to use the government (Ceasar) to enforce their beliefs on others. They are supposed to forgive the sinners, not try to make their sinning illegal. It's up to Christians to follow Christian rules out of their own sense of faith.
yes, let's look at that. Cindy Sheehan is honest and has a simple message (whether you agree with it or not). The Swift Boat veterans were lying schills for the administration who were totally corrupt.
Why should lying corrupt bastards like the Swift Boat Veterans be given any credibility? Furthermore, the Swift Boat lies got a LOT more coverage than Sheehan has. What matters in journalism is truth, not representing two different extremes of political view equally.
Maybe, in your case, they should stick to spelling.
Would that be an air guitar?
I was having visions of Elzar. "Knock it up another notch, Bam!"
What is this "U.S" you are speaking of? Didn't you get the memo that it is now called "Freedomland," and it's spreading? Of course you need a globe to see it spread.
The difference is that Apple designs the whole system, and usually pays good attention to things like cooling and thermal properties, and in their portables, things like shock-protection. The components themselves do not constitute the entire design of a system. Too many WinTel and Linux PCs are poorly designed as systems, which puts more strain on the components involved. It's similar to the way you can make a Hi-Fi system out of similar components, but get better performance and longevity by designing the system and its enclosure differently, and building it to higher standards.
Sure, but isn't "The Dvorak Prophecy" a great name for a band? Especially one that uses Powerbooks with Logic for their live performances. I think I'll have to start that band.
No, the fact that you are a fanboy is what gives fanboys a bad name. You don't need anyone else to make idiocy look bad. This guy just helps confirm what everybody already knows.
In what way? Are you seriously suggesting you can't tell the difference?
Yet somehow they find their way into public schools with no problem,
What are you talking about? Religion is taught frequently in most schools, and environmentalism is almost never touched. Despite there being scientific support for environmentalism, but not for religion.
Speaking of Commodore, I've got an old Amiga 3.5 floppy with "Warning: VIRUS!" written on it, in my wallspace. I put it there so I would not accidentally infect my machine, but so I could get it if I ever happened to need to infect someone. I believe it was the "Byte Bandit" virus, but I'm not sure. I wonder if it still runs?
But does it run BeOS?
C'mon, the fictional guide didn't even provide detailed information throughout the milky way. Quote:
Sales of ordinary DVDs were largely driven by widespread consumption of cheap DVD players and the Playstation 2, not high-end DVD players. The market is usually influenced from the bottom, not the top. The inclusion of a DVD player in the Playstation2, meant that lots of people bought it, who weren't even interested in a games console.
Maybe because they are decent human beings. I did not realize that becoming a shareholder meant that you had to stop caring about human rights, which are enshrined in the US Constitution, which is what allows the existence of businesses in the US in the first place.
Parsing your statement, if we know that the majority of Americans are actually shareholders, then you must be arguing that the majority of Americans should not care about human rights. Do you see something wrong with this picture?
Do you feel the same way about IBM's collaboration with the Nazis, where their technology was used to track Jews and other undesirables for extermination or punishment? Or any of the other American businesses who collaborated with Nazis? What a company that sold medical equipment that was used for torture to Saddam? After all, it was just business. IBM just saw an opportunity to profit from fascism.
And isn't the desire for profit one of the major motivations of fascism? Business is not politically neutral. Businesses have effects on society, and should live within the laws and values of a society. Excusing such actions because it happens outside the US is like approving of human rights violations because they did not happen on US soil. How can a country ask another country to abide by its standards on human rights, if it is not willing to hold companies that operate from that country, to participate in said violations of human rights?
Bullshit. There was no serious threat of invasion of America by the Soviets, just as there was no serious threat of nukes or WMD from Saddam's Iraq being deployed in the US. It's this kind of paranoid attitude that fuels the massive waste and potential destruction of something like the Cold War.
Most of the thousands of nukes were not necessary, and are like white elephants today. None of it was used to "win" the cold war, America could have just pretended to have nukes and it would have been equally as effective. Not to even mention the waste of "star wars" type programs.
I'm 30, and blame the eighties (as any Gen-Xer would!). the Cold War was on, and we were shit scared of nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. Reagan proposed the "Star Wars" space-based defense initiative. This grubbied the art, instead of being about romantic exploration of our destiny in the stars, space started being seen as a tool of war, or at least big satellite media companies and maybe mining companies one day. Similar to the confounding issues of nuclear technology and Hiroshima making people nervous about peaceful nuclear technology.
Then there was the Challenger disaster, and the rest's history. It's sad they're still persisting with the shuttle and didn't implement something different in the 90s. These days we are busy being worried about terrorists, and that inverts the focus from the great, expanding future - to fighting non-technological (but socially sophisticated) methods and culture wars. The moon landing didn't stop Vietnam, nor did any other aviation technology. But the money was already gone, digging holes, rather than lifting ourselves up.
Didn't you know that the RIAA controls the copyright on most child pornography?