What US conservatives describe as "Christian" often does not fit in with anyones reading of the Bible outside your country.
I recently came across someone stating that he could not support universal health care because he was a Christian. I told him that my being a Christian was a major deciding factor in my working for the NHS in the UK. Stopping people being looked after when they need it is what most Christians in the UK would define as a bad thing.
As a Christian, I also support the universal availability of contraception, social security and welfare. Perhaps this may have confused some people on your side of the pond but your Christians seem to be different from other ones. I am a white male Christian- just not a conservative one. I am also hard to offend (please do not take that a a challenge!)
The fact that you can find NEW phones running Gingerbread or earlier is a complete joke.
Have I missed something? Do those devices not work? Can nobody use them to phone, SMS, email, GPS or take pictures? Are there no cheap/free games to run on these cheap devices?
Of course not. Just as a huge amount of computer users have not got PCs with the latest processors huge amounts of memory and HDD and 28" monitors, a large market sector will quite happily spend less and be happy with "lesser" devices.
A common way to judge the popularity of a product is by considering the number of people who adopt it. 73% means that almost 3 quarters of people have adopted it. By definition, Apple must be less popular.
Another way of judging popularity is by considering the number of "cool people" who like something. As a/. user, I claim my right to be socially awkward and consider that sort of popularity as totally invalid.
Doesn't significant profit indicate that their products are priced correctly?
No. It indicates 2 things - an incredibly gullible market and price gouging
Either iDevices are very over priced or high-end androids are ridiculously cheap. I think both have some truth.
Rather than hurl insults at you, I would merely state that your statements are not original to yourself and that if you disapprove of "copying", you should not copy ill-informed propaganda,
What you (and most people) are doing does not require the boatload of spurious bells and whistles that makes up A/D. Some of us who support Windows remember life before AD and not all of us are totally convinced that the supposed upgrade has been worth it.
Perhaps they were talking about gallons rather than US ones.
What you call a gallon seems to be about 0.729 of a standard gallon that is 4.546 litres in size.
It will give them a reason to not get anything at all done (like they need another reason).
This might not be a completely bad thing. If our legislatures created no new laws for a while, they could devote themselves to repealing or at least simplifying what already exists.
1 - The cold war is over. Capitalism won (not democracy).
2 - If I had a choice between something checked by the Russians, the US and the Chinese, the only one I would flat out reject would be the Chinese one. I see US spooks as no more concerned with my happiness and wellbeing than Russian ones.
They not only have to do what the court has said. They also have to do it to the courts satisfaction. Too much creative fardling about and they will have to try again and possibly deal with a contempt of court action as well.
They can only do that by using the redefined meaning of the word "copy".
If Apple does something, it, by definition, is original. They cannot be copying. If you accuse them of it, you obviously do not know what the word means.
If you are a competitor, you are copying their stuff. If you say you are not because you were using the idea 10 years before Apple did, you still do not correctly understand the word.
Copying means doing anything that may affect their profits - nothing else. You could make a spherical phone with 32 hexagonal buttons, a crescent shaped screen, had a UI based on Lcars and Apple would still sue for copying you if it was faster, cheaper and easier to use and outsold them.
The more traditional meaning of "copying" is being phased out by apple now then?
I have worn uniform. I got trained in how to handle firearms just like everyone else. The people around me were trained and all was fine. The idea that people are carrying guns is not the worry. It is the idea that they did not have it pushed into their every action by army instructors.
Yes soldier do on occasion go crazy and shoot their comrades. This is not very common. Accidents happen even. Both of those scenarios are a lot less likely with trained men & women than random civilians. Military personnel know how to handle guns because that is their job. Civilians don't. Some of them may be trained but I understand that you do not have to go through Basic Training to get a gun in your country. Yes I feel happy that there are less guns here.
cayenne8 Thank you for living up to the preconceptions most of the world has about your country. A further confirmation of this will be the facts that you
A don't care what the rest of the world thinks and
B may not be entirely clear where the rest of the world is.
That is why I put the phrase in "quotation" marks. It signifies a phrase that others use that I do not wish to identify as a statement from me.
As others here have pointed out, we are not looking malnourished here either. I am sue some politician somewhere will be pushing fuel prices as the cure. If we mention the idea first, we can be ready.
AC taxation and scaremongering have been used successfully to change behaviour for centuries. This is a subset of their method. Governments have used legislation to change behaviour for thousands of years. They still do. Remember that the next time you do up your seat belt. I am not sure if they save lives (citation needed) but anecdotal stories from people who work in A&E tell me that less people put their faces through car windscreens than they used to. That has to save money somewhere.
If you really don't want to give up all this data to the whois directory, just forgo having a domain... Simple as that
Or alternatively, use a registrar in Europe. Not proof against a warrant. That is fine. Just a little less of my info where the spammers MAFIAA and other criminal organisations can easily see it. No doubt, there is still plenty out there but "every little helps".
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Why do right wingers think gays' sins are any worse than their own?
A major facet of Christianity is that all sin is bad. Saying that they only do small sins is like someone saying that she is "only a bit pregnant".
Also, many of the people that talk about other peoples sins the most seem to forget their own.
In other words, Christianity is not a True Scotsman.
I however am. As far as I know, there is no photographic proof of this though!
Christianity does not politicise.
What US conservatives describe as "Christian" often does not fit in with anyones reading of the Bible outside your country.
I recently came across someone stating that he could not support universal health care because he was a Christian. I told him that my being a Christian was a major deciding factor in my working for the NHS in the UK. Stopping people being looked after when they need it is what most Christians in the UK would define as a bad thing.
As a Christian, I also support the universal availability of contraception, social security and welfare. Perhaps this may have confused some people on your side of the pond but your Christians seem to be different from other ones. I am a white male Christian- just not a conservative one. I am also hard to offend (please do not take that a a challenge!)
The fact that you can find NEW phones running Gingerbread or earlier is a complete joke.
Have I missed something? Do those devices not work? Can nobody use them to phone, SMS, email, GPS or take pictures? Are there no cheap/free games to run on these cheap devices?
Of course not. Just as a huge amount of computer users have not got PCs with the latest processors huge amounts of memory and HDD and 28" monitors, a large market sector will quite happily spend less and be happy with "lesser" devices.
It all depends on what you mean by popular.
A common way to judge the popularity of a product is by considering the number of people who adopt it. 73% means that almost 3 quarters of people have adopted it. By definition, Apple must be less popular.
Another way of judging popularity is by considering the number of "cool people" who like something. As a /. user, I claim my right to be socially awkward and consider that sort of popularity as totally invalid.
They sell something better than average at high end prices. Apple does not sell on actual quality, just "Appleness".
Doesn't significant profit indicate that their products are priced correctly?
No. It indicates 2 things - an incredibly gullible market and price gouging
Either iDevices are very over priced or high-end androids are ridiculously cheap. I think both have some truth.
Rather than hurl insults at you, I would merely state that your statements are not original to yourself and that if you disapprove of "copying", you should not copy ill-informed propaganda,
or just extreme stupidity?
Of course, people could argue that is a pretty good definition of racism anyway.
Gotta love them death panels.
An interesting idea from a very small and (apparently) unrepresentative number of US politicians.
What you (and most people) are doing does not require the boatload of spurious bells and whistles that makes up A/D. Some of us who support Windows remember life before AD and not all of us are totally convinced that the supposed upgrade has been worth it.
Perhaps they were talking about gallons rather than US ones.
What you call a gallon seems to be about 0.729 of a standard gallon that is 4.546 litres in size.
It will give them a reason to not get anything at all done (like they need another reason).
This might not be a completely bad thing. If our legislatures created no new laws for a while, they could devote themselves to repealing or at least simplifying what already exists.
I think you used a "straw man" argument there. Nobody said that they don't like competition or the benefits.
Apple don't seem to like it though. Creating billions of dollars worth of spurious court cases is not competing. It is avoiding competing.
Are all the cases that people are kidnapped in this way for actually crimes at all outside the Corporate States of America?
1 - The cold war is over. Capitalism won (not democracy).
2 - If I had a choice between something checked by the Russians, the US and the Chinese, the only one I would flat out reject would be the Chinese one. I see US spooks as no more concerned with my happiness and wellbeing than Russian ones.
They not only have to do what the court has said. They also have to do it to the courts satisfaction. Too much creative fardling about and they will have to try again and possibly deal with a contempt of court action as well.
They can only do that by using the redefined meaning of the word "copy".
If Apple does something, it, by definition, is original. They cannot be copying. If you accuse them of it, you obviously do not know what the word means.
If you are a competitor, you are copying their stuff. If you say you are not because you were using the idea 10 years before Apple did, you still do not correctly understand the word.
Copying means doing anything that may affect their profits - nothing else. You could make a spherical phone with 32 hexagonal buttons, a crescent shaped screen, had a UI based on Lcars and Apple would still sue for copying you if it was faster, cheaper and easier to use and outsold them.
The more traditional meaning of "copying" is being phased out by apple now then?
I have worn uniform. I got trained in how to handle firearms just like everyone else. The people around me were trained and all was fine. The idea that people are carrying guns is not the worry. It is the idea that they did not have it pushed into their every action by army instructors.
Yes soldier do on occasion go crazy and shoot their comrades. This is not very common. Accidents happen even. Both of those scenarios are a lot less likely with trained men & women than random civilians. Military personnel know how to handle guns because that is their job. Civilians don't. Some of them may be trained but I understand that you do not have to go through Basic Training to get a gun in your country. Yes I feel happy that there are less guns here.
And I am not surrounded by gun toting civilians - just less gun carrying crooks per head of population and a theoretically unarmed police force.
cayenne8 Thank you for living up to the preconceptions most of the world has about your country. A further confirmation of this will be the facts that you
A don't care what the rest of the world thinks and
B may not be entirely clear where the rest of the world is.
That is why I put the phrase in "quotation" marks. It signifies a phrase that others use that I do not wish to identify as a statement from me.
As others here have pointed out, we are not looking malnourished here either. I am sue some politician somewhere will be pushing fuel prices as the cure. If we mention the idea first, we can be ready.
AC taxation and scaremongering have been used successfully to change behaviour for centuries. This is a subset of their method. Governments have used legislation to change behaviour for thousands of years. They still do. Remember that the next time you do up your seat belt. I am not sure if they save lives (citation needed) but anecdotal stories from people who work in A&E tell me that less people put their faces through car windscreens than they used to. That has to save money somewhere.
If you had the same fuel prices as we do in the UK, your "obesity epidemic" would be over,
($8.50 to $9 per US gallon depending on where you live)
They be undergoing national mourning. Their king just died...
If you really don't want to give up all this data to the whois directory, just forgo having a domain... Simple as that
Or alternatively, use a registrar in Europe. Not proof against a warrant. That is fine. Just a little less of my info where the spammers MAFIAA and other criminal organisations can easily see it. No doubt, there is still plenty out there but "every little helps".