That was going to be my answer: because everyone just bought their back to school MB, "AND NOW YOU CAN BUY ANOTHER ONE!" Apple says as they laugh all the way to bank.
I've looked before and only been told "no you can't disable the touchpad, then how would you click?" and if I close a window or click one more like while scrolling across a page I'm going to scream.
Sure, but when someone makes an analogy about, specifically, something that resembles income taxes and tax cuts, which are are in my experience the least complicated part of the tax code, and is chided for attempting to use an analogy that doesn't explain the entirity of the tax code there's another word for it.
Strawman.
No, his analogy doesn't explain why drug dealers have to file as small business owners or what kind of tax to pay on a game of poker in your garage, the tax code is pretty convoluted. The factors at work in the analogy really aren't though, and you may not agree with the conclusion but to say that no analogy at all is possible is misleading and dishonest.
If it was comparable with a standard simple case $40-100 I could see getting one just for the fun of it. Unless the entire thing is a solid block of Aluminum and functions as a giant passive heat sink there's nothing there worth almost $200.
Given that large portions of the Chinese navy is pieced together surplus from other countries, and that unless they commandeered commercial shipping they don't have the capacity to launch a transoceanic invasion? Not too worried. Plus why would they want to hurt us, then they'll never get paid.
Because that's exactly how it happened last time? Of course it didn't come down to personal loyalties and protecting the homestead. The Confederate States was a small band of radicals who were crushed mercilessly in days...
How many soldiers have you ever talked to that you think most/all of them would fire on U.S. citizens without a moment of hesitation? Speaking as one of the few adult males in my family who has never served in the armed forces I'm betting it's not many. The ones I've met, speaking truthfully, went in it for the college tuition and to get their lives together.
Most military atrocities are the result of problem that runs much deeper, putting on a uniform before the massacre is a side note. Sherman's March to the Sea not withstanding, do you think those soldier's you see every day are only one order away from burning the nation they've sworn to serve to the ground?
To be fair I don't think there's a state in the union that you can't own a pistol in. Even CA, MA, and NY, the biggest anti-gun states all still allow handgun ownership. They have concealed carry too, unlike poor Wisconsin and Illinois.
I guess I don't feel so bad for the US anymore after hear that. Our problem has always been an unwillingness to pay back the debt, not and inability. Obviously we can't turn that $13 Trillion GDP into a debt payoff on the next budget, but anyone who believes that it couldn't be paid off within my lifetime (20-60 years) is more of a cynic than I am.
I don't mean to start trivial arguments, but you can't really use "nail in the coffin" until something is dying. Like it or not MS Office is INCREDIBLY popular and well accepted across multiple platforms.
I think it kinda makes sense though. If you mod something as overrated when it's pegged at +5 because someone went nuts over it and it ends up settling at -1 because it turns out it was actually just ASCII porn would you like to miss out on mod points because a month later it looks like you're a troll abusing power?
The problem is the gray area between Insight and Troll. If someone posts a paragraph about how Microsoft is the devil and has never done anything of value with their time and it's just a big conspiracy to bilk money I don't think it's particularly insightful regardless on what you think about Microsoft because more than likely you're not contributing anything of value to a discussion about X News Item.
However, I don't think that's really trolling either, I like to reserve that for anything including racial slurs, ranting personal insults, homophobia (assuming of course that all of these things are still unrelated to the story and discussion.) So if it's modded +5 insightful what do you call it? I guess I could always use redundant.
"Microsoft's business often fail at striking a balance between profitability and morality." (My half assed quick attempt) +Insightful
"Microsoft are TEH GAY FAGGOT" -Troll
"Microsoft = EVIL TM" (If someone modded it up) -Overrated
The problem I'd see with this is that someone donating money isn't any kind indicator that they got a quality education. I'm sure the obvious example someone on Slashdot would make is Yale. If Bush gave half a trillion dollars (don't ask) to Yale as an endowment to fund the George W. Bush Center for Peace and Prosperity would it mean he got a good education? What about people who got a quality education but in a field that doesn't lead to retiring with enough wealth to make major endowments, or alumni who feel they owe their success to someone else like their home town. What if they love their school but learned absolutely nothing because they spent the whole time partying?
I can understand it being helpful to the school, providing scholarships in particular, but I refuse to accept it as a measure of quality education. Most the people I know who ran out to get class rings and school gear aren't the ones who went to school out of a thirst for knowledge.
Like I mentioned I like to speed as much as most people and probably more, but honestly, if you've ever driven something loaded with 10,000lbs of cargo in traffic, on narrow uneven roads, or anything with significant curves (and "significant" is quite a bit different in this case) I don't know how often you'd want to be going over 80mph. There have certainly been times, but most professional drivers probably worry quite a bit more about losing their licenses than I do, and probably have bosses that worry quite a bit more about insurance and reputation than mine do. Honestly removing the ability to speed from commercial vehicles does a lot more to make everyone a little less worried than it's ever done to cause any problems. I've taken a Uhaul at 95 through Alaska and all it got me was more time to pull over and take pictures.
I'm going to let you question. I drive every day, day in and day out, and I can't name a single time I've needed to go faster when I could have just have easily merged behind a car as in front of it. I've never been rear-ended, never run off the road, never had any problems at all as a matter of fact. Your mileage certainly may very, and I may understand the situation in your example incorrectly, but (and my mother would love me for this) it sounds like maybe it would force people to be less competitive drivers.
P.S. I'm pretty sure the option of giving out limited keys is the buyers option. Unless you mean that the teens should be able to determine how they drive someone else's car.
I'd be willing to bet you that it's more likely that the child would be further injured by the aggressive driving than whatever percentage of time was gained or lost by the speed limiter. I don't know where you're camping, but how many places have you ever been that you could safely go above 80 without the risk of being forced to make a sudden stop or other maneuver that could potentially be far more harmful to the victim than his injuries.
More importantly, how many of those places have hospitals? There's a reason you've probably never seen an ambulance going 80 anywhere but the interstate, it's not safe and it's not practical.
Thanks though. I asked for a reasonable scenario and you came back with "kid gets hurt in the wilderness with no way to direct people to it (and I would assume no way to call/GPS/Medflight of course)" and you still think that the ability to go slightly faster in the car is the make or break part of this equation.
Because turning off traction control to do donuts is essential to freedom/safety.
I have to agree, I'd say I'm more reckless than 95% of people I've ever met, but I've never seen so many whining replies to an optional feature. There is no right to driving fast, driving stupid, or demanding that your parents let you. Don't like it? Don't buy it/use it. Period.
I've seen plenty of 75s in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. I want to say I may have seen an 80 somewhere in there, otherwise that 110 was worse than I thought.
You are aware that a lot, if not most, newer commercial vehicles (cargo vans, straight trucks) have speed limiters on them that cut out somewhere between 66-80mph. As someone who drives them every day I couldn't tell you once that it's ever been an issue other than "I wish I was going faster because then I'd get there sooner."
Don't like that one? There are plenty of cars that have top end limiters, I believe there one of the old Chevys cut out at 115 or so. How many people do you think have been complaining about that one?
I rarely drive the speed limit in anything but rush hour traffic, but the idea that not being able to go faster than 80 is endangering anybodies life, or especially more people than it's protecting is complete bullshit. It's right up there with people who don't wear seatbelts because they know a guy who knows a guy who was killed by one, you can come up with any harebrained scenario to justify it (I've already seen "racing off a collapsing bridge") but you're just grasping at straws.
Because those are tools used in analyzing and improving operations, and in a lot of cases they aren't particularly applicable, it doesn't mean that operations don't need to be managed and improved. Most of these standards seem more geared towards production and manufacturing. The variety in my line of work makes it hard to apply something like Six Sigma because there's no clear line as to what a "defect" is, I would assume he'd often find himself in the same position. What is their unit? Customers? CDs? Server time? Lines of code? What's a defect? Hackers? Deadbeats? Unsubscribers?
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That was going to be my answer: because everyone just bought their back to school MB, "AND NOW YOU CAN BUY ANOTHER ONE!" Apple says as they laugh all the way to bank.
Can you link me to these?
I've looked before and only been told "no you can't disable the touchpad, then how would you click?" and if I close a window or click one more like while scrolling across a page I'm going to scream.
What if we made the analogy taxpayers, the US, and the government.
All those off shore bank havens and people screaming about tax cuts for the wealthy are looking pretty familiar aren't they?
Sure, but when someone makes an analogy about, specifically, something that resembles income taxes and tax cuts, which are are in my experience the least complicated part of the tax code, and is chided for attempting to use an analogy that doesn't explain the entirity of the tax code there's another word for it.
Strawman.
No, his analogy doesn't explain why drug dealers have to file as small business owners or what kind of tax to pay on a game of poker in your garage, the tax code is pretty convoluted. The factors at work in the analogy really aren't though, and you may not agree with the conclusion but to say that no analogy at all is possible is misleading and dishonest.
You just replied to me with exactly the point I made...
That's the killer.
If it was comparable with a standard simple case $40-100 I could see getting one just for the fun of it. Unless the entire thing is a solid block of Aluminum and functions as a giant passive heat sink there's nothing there worth almost $200.
I dunno, it sure seems to explain why the local DoT thugs spend more time tearing up the roads that work than fixing potholes in the ones that don't.
Land of the free, including the freedom to choose to go to a school that makes you less free, or conversely, not to.
Keep trolling...
Given that large portions of the Chinese navy is pieced together surplus from other countries, and that unless they commandeered commercial shipping they don't have the capacity to launch a transoceanic invasion? Not too worried. Plus why would they want to hurt us, then they'll never get paid.
Because that's exactly how it happened last time? Of course it didn't come down to personal loyalties and protecting the homestead. The Confederate States was a small band of radicals who were crushed mercilessly in days...
How many soldiers have you ever talked to that you think most/all of them would fire on U.S. citizens without a moment of hesitation? Speaking as one of the few adult males in my family who has never served in the armed forces I'm betting it's not many. The ones I've met, speaking truthfully, went in it for the college tuition and to get their lives together.
Most military atrocities are the result of problem that runs much deeper, putting on a uniform before the massacre is a side note. Sherman's March to the Sea not withstanding, do you think those soldier's you see every day are only one order away from burning the nation they've sworn to serve to the ground?
To be fair I don't think there's a state in the union that you can't own a pistol in. Even CA, MA, and NY, the biggest anti-gun states all still allow handgun ownership. They have concealed carry too, unlike poor Wisconsin and Illinois.
I guess I don't feel so bad for the US anymore after hear that. Our problem has always been an unwillingness to pay back the debt, not and inability. Obviously we can't turn that $13 Trillion GDP into a debt payoff on the next budget, but anyone who believes that it couldn't be paid off within my lifetime (20-60 years) is more of a cynic than I am.
I don't mean to start trivial arguments, but you can't really use "nail in the coffin" until something is dying. Like it or not MS Office is INCREDIBLY popular and well accepted across multiple platforms.
Why not just correct them?
I think it kinda makes sense though. If you mod something as overrated when it's pegged at +5 because someone went nuts over it and it ends up settling at -1 because it turns out it was actually just ASCII porn would you like to miss out on mod points because a month later it looks like you're a troll abusing power?
The problem is the gray area between Insight and Troll. If someone posts a paragraph about how Microsoft is the devil and has never done anything of value with their time and it's just a big conspiracy to bilk money I don't think it's particularly insightful regardless on what you think about Microsoft because more than likely you're not contributing anything of value to a discussion about X News Item.
However, I don't think that's really trolling either, I like to reserve that for anything including racial slurs, ranting personal insults, homophobia (assuming of course that all of these things are still unrelated to the story and discussion.) So if it's modded +5 insightful what do you call it? I guess I could always use redundant.
"Microsoft's business often fail at striking a balance between profitability and morality." (My half assed quick attempt) +Insightful
"Microsoft are TEH GAY FAGGOT" -Troll
"Microsoft = EVIL TM" (If someone modded it up) -Overrated
Just my system.
The problem I'd see with this is that someone donating money isn't any kind indicator that they got a quality education. I'm sure the obvious example someone on Slashdot would make is Yale. If Bush gave half a trillion dollars (don't ask) to Yale as an endowment to fund the George W. Bush Center for Peace and Prosperity would it mean he got a good education? What about people who got a quality education but in a field that doesn't lead to retiring with enough wealth to make major endowments, or alumni who feel they owe their success to someone else like their home town. What if they love their school but learned absolutely nothing because they spent the whole time partying?
I can understand it being helpful to the school, providing scholarships in particular, but I refuse to accept it as a measure of quality education. Most the people I know who ran out to get class rings and school gear aren't the ones who went to school out of a thirst for knowledge.
Like I mentioned I like to speed as much as most people and probably more, but honestly, if you've ever driven something loaded with 10,000lbs of cargo in traffic, on narrow uneven roads, or anything with significant curves (and "significant" is quite a bit different in this case) I don't know how often you'd want to be going over 80mph. There have certainly been times, but most professional drivers probably worry quite a bit more about losing their licenses than I do, and probably have bosses that worry quite a bit more about insurance and reputation than mine do. Honestly removing the ability to speed from commercial vehicles does a lot more to make everyone a little less worried than it's ever done to cause any problems. I've taken a Uhaul at 95 through Alaska and all it got me was more time to pull over and take pictures.
I'm going to let you question. I drive every day, day in and day out, and I can't name a single time I've needed to go faster when I could have just have easily merged behind a car as in front of it. I've never been rear-ended, never run off the road, never had any problems at all as a matter of fact. Your mileage certainly may very, and I may understand the situation in your example incorrectly, but (and my mother would love me for this) it sounds like maybe it would force people to be less competitive drivers.
P.S. I'm pretty sure the option of giving out limited keys is the buyers option. Unless you mean that the teens should be able to determine how they drive someone else's car.
Because he could only go 80?
I'd be willing to bet you that it's more likely that the child would be further injured by the aggressive driving than whatever percentage of time was gained or lost by the speed limiter. I don't know where you're camping, but how many places have you ever been that you could safely go above 80 without the risk of being forced to make a sudden stop or other maneuver that could potentially be far more harmful to the victim than his injuries.
More importantly, how many of those places have hospitals? There's a reason you've probably never seen an ambulance going 80 anywhere but the interstate, it's not safe and it's not practical.
Thanks though. I asked for a reasonable scenario and you came back with "kid gets hurt in the wilderness with no way to direct people to it (and I would assume no way to call/GPS/Medflight of course)" and you still think that the ability to go slightly faster in the car is the make or break part of this equation.
Because turning off traction control to do donuts is essential to freedom/safety.
I have to agree, I'd say I'm more reckless than 95% of people I've ever met, but I've never seen so many whining replies to an optional feature. There is no right to driving fast, driving stupid, or demanding that your parents let you. Don't like it? Don't buy it/use it. Period.
I've seen plenty of 75s in Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. I want to say I may have seen an 80 somewhere in there, otherwise that 110 was worse than I thought.
It may sound nice, but the laws, insurance companies, and common sense in general disagree with your logic.
You are aware that a lot, if not most, newer commercial vehicles (cargo vans, straight trucks) have speed limiters on them that cut out somewhere between 66-80mph. As someone who drives them every day I couldn't tell you once that it's ever been an issue other than "I wish I was going faster because then I'd get there sooner."
Don't like that one? There are plenty of cars that have top end limiters, I believe there one of the old Chevys cut out at 115 or so. How many people do you think have been complaining about that one?
I rarely drive the speed limit in anything but rush hour traffic, but the idea that not being able to go faster than 80 is endangering anybodies life, or especially more people than it's protecting is complete bullshit. It's right up there with people who don't wear seatbelts because they know a guy who knows a guy who was killed by one, you can come up with any harebrained scenario to justify it (I've already seen "racing off a collapsing bridge") but you're just grasping at straws.
Because those are tools used in analyzing and improving operations, and in a lot of cases they aren't particularly applicable, it doesn't mean that operations don't need to be managed and improved. Most of these standards seem more geared towards production and manufacturing. The variety in my line of work makes it hard to apply something like Six Sigma because there's no clear line as to what a "defect" is, I would assume he'd often find himself in the same position. What is their unit? Customers? CDs? Server time? Lines of code? What's a defect? Hackers? Deadbeats? Unsubscribers?