I don't know about that, some of those Bhuddist monks can be pretty badassed. I spent a year in Thailand, and in their version of Bhuddism, every young man must spend a year as a monk. I saw a Thai kickboxing vs gungfu match, and the Thais beat the holy shit out of the Chinese. Some of the Gungfu guys wound up in the hospital.
I also saw a few of the guys in the orange robes do shit that made David Copperfield look like a piker.
I can vouch for it. Not tha gamma waves; I've never had my brain scanned. But when I was in my mid twenties, a physician prescribed yoga lessons for my arthritis. Not only did it ease the arthritis to the point that it now seldom bothers me (and I'm 60 now), it really helped with peace of mind as well.
Also, I don't use a seatbelt, airbag, or ABS because I'm not fooled into thinking that researchers, engineers, empirical evidence, and years of track record prove that these things make driving more safe.
Ok, you're joking, but many people actually believe that seatbelts and air bags are more dangerous than not having them, and I even doubted ABS. I was trained as a driver in the USAF and knew that in a skid the vehicle will travel farther than when the brakes are almost at skid level, and that when in a skid you have no steering whatsoever. It took a while to unlearn my Air Force training and stand on the brake in an emergency, but I have to tell you, the milliseconds a computer can react is far faster than the fastest human. My ABS has kept me from hitting stupid dogs, ignorant children, and idiots driving cars who don't look when they pull out, or slow for stop signs, more than once.
You're an engineer, design and build the perfect pen yourself! It's as if Andy Warhol asked for someone to sell him a painting of a soup can. I mean, wtf??
Wow, so many of you have gotten brain scans... I never have. Call your mom and have her scan my brain, Leonard! I'm jealous! I have no idea if my brain produces a level of gamma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory --never before reported in neuroscience!
But please have her not make me cry like she did Penny. Not many gamma waves there.
An old lady I know said her brain produces a level of grandma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory --never before reported in neuroscience!
Either way saying "Oh noes I am old and helpless everyone must cater to my needs" is not a good solution.
I'm sure there are old folks like that, but I've never met one. The really old, the ones I'm young in comparison to, hate getting so they need help. After all, they've been doing the helping all their lives and don't want that to change.
Old folks love to bitch about "kids these days " and "welfare bums"
Old folks have always bitched about "kids these days", there's a great rant from one of the ancient Greeks about "kids these days" that pretty much mirrors what geezers say today. As to "welfare bums" I hear that more from the young, especially the monied young who never had to work a day in their lives.
god forbid anything ever inconvenience them
That's human nature. It's also human nature to see it in others but be blind to it in one's self.
Not in my case. In my case it was personal experience. Going from tape and BASIC based machines to DOS was an incredibly big learning curve. Going from DOS to Windows was hardly a learning curve at all, especially since it was a desktop running on top of DOS. Going from XP to Mandrake was a piece of cake (Unix commands aren't that different from DOS commands, LS does in Unix the exact same thing as DIR in DOS. You could take a Unix script and pretty much load it into a text editor, do a couple of global search-and-replace functions and it would run.
Yeah Bob writes a feature, that fucks up previous releases, breaks shit left and right, and when you point this out? You'll get told "fix it yourself".
You submit a bug report and reinstall the previous version. Simple. A housecat could do it.
There is a REASON why the ONLY time Linux gained shit was when Google just took the whole damned thing away from the devs
If by "shit" you mean "market share," that's one of the biggest reasons why Linux isn't going to dominate the desktop. People not onlty don't know that Linux is a free OS that's superior to Windows, they've never even heard of it.
MSFT could put out Windows Goatse and people will put up with it because it'll be better than dealing with the arrogant asshole devs.
They'll put up with it because they don't know they have a choice. As to the "arrogant asshole devs", you expect someone you're verbally assaulting to help you? Really?
Hell at least if enough of us refuse to buy Windows
Millions of copies of Windows are bought by OEMs, Millions of Windows licenses are bought by enterprise customers, and neither of these groups are likely to stop. Only a handful of computer hobbyists (mostly gamers) buy a Windows boxed set.
how do we fire Torvalds?
Why would you want to? If he were doing a shitty job there would be far fewer, if any, people installing Linux. Now, tell me, how do we fire Ballmer?
How do we fire the guys that make the DEs, and the shitpile that is Pulse?
You answered your own question -- don't use Pulse.
GTFO because they don't give a crap WHAT you think
Which is different from Microsoft how? Look at how W8 has been trashed by almost everyone who's used it, yet it's still going to be installed on every new damned Acer, HP, and Dell computer sold, even though nobody wants it.
Its only been 20 damned years
And Linux, despite being ten years younger than Windows, has more features and is more stable and secure than Windows, despite the tons of money being shoveled into Windows.
Back to market share, if I bought a Zune and was happy with it, why should I care how many other people have bought it? Market share is meaningless to anyone who doesn't own stock in a company; at least, anyone with a brain.
First off, the snarky "How about users just get a clue? Online search is a feature, not a bug. Yes it can 'leak' data, but I would expect most Linux users to know that and make an informed decision" isn't what I would expect from a hard-core Linux user. He's going to eschew any distro that did that.
They are socially retarded pinheads who's only accomplishment in life was staying up late staining their teeth with Cheetos and Jolt cola figuring out how to use a free distro because they were too poor to buy a copy of Windows or good hardware to run it.
I see your problem (besides confusing who's with whose). Ten years ago when I was learning Linux, I never got the "RTFM n00b," almost every Linux question I have posed in any forum got a useful answer, or at least an attempt at one. But you know, sneer at some "retarded pinheads who's only accomplishment in life was staying up late staining their teeth with Cheetos and Jolt cola figuring out how to use a free distro because they were too poor to buy a copy of Windows" and guess what? You're going to be told to fuck off.
Talk about "socially retarded", lets talk about pots and kettles. It's been my experience, whether with Linux geeks or those completely ignorant of computers, that in most cases if you're polite you'll be met with politeness and helpfulness, and if you're a jerk they're not going to be nice and there's no way they're going out of their way to help you.
But since you finally were polite in your last sentence, I'll tell you why I, personally, use Linux. It's because it has more features, is more customizable, I don't have to reboot the damned thing every time it needs a patch, if I do decide to reboot it (I usually shut it off at night if I'm not downloading anything) when it comes up, all the apps and documents that were open when I shut it down are reopened. That, and it's more stable on flaky hardware. That, and MS refuses to follow standards; CP/M died twenty years ago, what are they still using a backslash to denote different directories when everyone else has been Unix-like for a decade now? Oh, yeah, lock in. Forgot that. Probably a lot more reasons I forgot as well.
Unless you're a gamer there's no reason except laziness (I confess, I have a W7 notebook I'm too lazy to install Linux on) to NOT install Linux. Windows simply has nothing that Linux lacks, and Linux has a lot of stuff that's been there for years that Windows lacks.
"Cheap" and "quality" are not necessarily antonyms
They are to fools who believe "you get what you pay for" and who think anything free is worthless. Which I suspect the GP is one of. But like you, I've seen many times where the cheap shit cost more than the quality shit. The GP wouldn't even consider the quality, only the price. To some people, "worth" and "quality" are always counted in dollars. But like I said, they're fools. That 60 cent store brand can of corn came from the same fields and went through the same processing as the $1 can. Look how much Alieve they sell, even though it costs three times what generic Naproxin costs and it's the same damned chemical!
I'd bet a donut to a dollar* that when the GP gets a headache, he tales Alieve.
* It used to be dollars to donuts before inflation, when donuts were a dime a dozen.
In my experience the police don't bother to go out and preemptively fight even the easy crimes.
I guess it depends on where you live. My car was stolen five or so years ago, I got it back six hours after I discovered it missing.
Last year my hose was burglarized. The burglars took some checks along with other valuables (including my beloved Epiphone bass). After taking my report the cop went to the bank, who had called me and told me someone had tried to cash a forged check, and looked at the video. The guy was in jail that night. No, they never found the stolen goods, but the burglar's in prison where he's not likely to rob my house again.
there's a fundamental problem with all these vaccines, which is summed up flippantly as "what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger"... by vaccinating children against various disease - by giving their immune systems an "easy ride" - their immune systems simply do not develop to the same extent that a child would if they had the actual disease and had to fight for their life.
Yeah, tell that to my friend Mike, who has a twisted arm and hand and a twisted leg because he had polio fifty years ago. Guess what? Neitze was a fucking moron; ask Steve Reeves if falling off that horse made him stronger. Ask my wheelchair-bound cousin if having his neck broken at age 16 made him stronger.
Moron.
the very first time we fight for our lives - for our right to live - is when we are born. we *literally* fight for breath, when being sqeezed out of our mums.
Well, my oldest did, because the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck and her lungs were filled with fluid. She's now learning-disabled. A hundred years ago she would have died.
My youngest came out screaming in rage. I don't think you've ever seen a child being born.
i would sit by my daughter's bed-side, nursing her patiently back to health, loving her and being happy with and for her.
Being happy with her when she's seriously ill? Let me tell you something, boy (I'm sure you're under 16), NOBODY'S happy when their child is ill.
and no, we have *NOT* vaccinated our daughter.
That's because you don't have one. If in fact you're an adult with schitzoaffective disorder rather than a stupid teenager, I hope the child protective services take her from you and possibly save her life. How you're treating your (I still believe nonexistant) daughter is monstrous.
the reports on the detrimental effects and case studies on the long-term health of children are out there; they're just not widely published
So where did you find out about these "secret studies"? Got a citation? Heh, thought not.
in the 1960s there was a "foot & mouth" outbreak in the UK. nobody slaughtered any cows.
with the masses having their immune systems weakened *because* of the mass-vaccinations
Where in the HELL did you get the retarded idea that vaccinations weaken the immune system? And is the shift key broken on your keyboard, son? Yes, refusal to type like an adult is a very good indicator that you're a dumbass youngster trying to be hip.
Pay a little more attention in school. When you do have a real kid, rather than the schitzophrenic hallucination you seem to be having, I hope you've been taking your meds.
Oddly, using the left foot on the brake pedal is fairly ordinary in racing.
In racing it makes sense. On the street it's brain-dead stupid. First, just touching the brake makes the brake lights come on. Get behind one of these assholes and it's like following someone who has no brake lights. It's dangerous as hell. Second, the morons are wearing their brakes out prematurely, although that's their problem. Having their brake lights on when they're not braking IS my problem.
Funny, since even after gambling was made legal in Vegas it was still run by organized crime for decades.
So, Jack Daniels and AB In-Bev are run by the mafia? The reason the mafia was able (for a while) to continue in Vagas is because they only need to take over one single city, quite unlike the legalization and regulation of alcohol or marijuana.
Now what is the best way to provide current weather conditions to the driver. By painting the roads or via some technology in their car??
By having the technology in the road. Not everyone trades their car in every year, and some of us smarter ones buy our vehicles used. Mine's ten years old, I'll retire it when repairs start costing more than a car payment.
If this tech were on my roads today, it would make me safer. But if it only came on brand new BMWs I'm SOL.
Also, I don't know how well or badly Europeans drive, but I know for a fact that Americans drive REALLY bad.
You don't have to live in California to be bound by their laws. If you visit there or do business there, you are bound by their laws.
You will be the one losing out, not California. Someone else has written the equivalent to your app, and they'll get the sales you would have.
And... if you have to be sneaky to get their info, I don't think much of your morality. IMO that's really assholish behavior and I wish you people would stop it.
Your brain color-adjusts all the time. Back in the film camera days, there was indoor film and outdoor film. If you used outdoor film indoors the colors came out way too warm/yellowish, if you used indoor film outdoors the photo would come out way too blueish/cool. The colors as shown by the film are what the actual colors were, but your brain adapts and changes the colors to "normal".
On the flip-side, if a dog on public property is clearly signalling drugs in a bordering house, then yes, I'd certainly accept that as strong evidence in favour of granting a warrant.
How is that different than using an IR detector looking for grow lights, which has alreadty been declared unconstitutional?
That's wise. I was on the bleeding edge of flu shots themselves, back in the early seventies. It wasn't voluntary, I was in the Air Force then. The vaccine gave me the worst case of flu I've ever had, before or since. Needless to say, that was my very first and very last flu shot.
Question: If Canonical announced tomorrow "We are going broke, either we have the Amazon search or we close our doors" which would you choose?
Close the fucking doors! Canonical isn't the only one providing distros.
Frankly most of the improvements on usability on the desktop can be traced back to Canonical
Such as? Unity? haven't tried it but I heard it sucked. Gnome improvements? I never liked Gnome. I'm running kubuntu, but if Canonical wnt out of business I'd just switch back to Mandriva. So what useability improvements has Canonical made? Mandiva's installation and setup were more useable back when mandriva was still Mandrake than Ubuntu is now.
That is what it ultimately comes down to as TINSTAAFL and somebody has to sink those millions into the desktop if you want it to go anywhere...or would you prefer going back to "Bob's Distro" where its just the same packages with a new theme and a couple of little things switched around, like 2/3rds of the ones on distrowatch?
You grossly overestimate Canonical's contributions. Most improvements are in fact from Bob, who wants a feature and just writes it and releases it.
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I don't know about that, some of those Bhuddist monks can be pretty badassed. I spent a year in Thailand, and in their version of Bhuddism, every young man must spend a year as a monk. I saw a Thai kickboxing vs gungfu match, and the Thais beat the holy shit out of the Chinese. Some of the Gungfu guys wound up in the hospital.
I also saw a few of the guys in the orange robes do shit that made David Copperfield look like a piker.
I can vouch for it. Not tha gamma waves; I've never had my brain scanned. But when I was in my mid twenties, a physician prescribed yoga lessons for my arthritis. Not only did it ease the arthritis to the point that it now seldom bothers me (and I'm 60 now), it really helped with peace of mind as well.
I'd hate to be Timothy, you guys are really savaging him. You've never fucked up at work before?
OTOH, like my old man always said, "one 'oh, shit' wipes out a whole bunch of 'attaboys'"
Also, I don't use a seatbelt, airbag, or ABS because I'm not fooled into thinking that researchers, engineers, empirical evidence, and years of track record prove that these things make driving more safe.
Ok, you're joking, but many people actually believe that seatbelts and air bags are more dangerous than not having them, and I even doubted ABS. I was trained as a driver in the USAF and knew that in a skid the vehicle will travel farther than when the brakes are almost at skid level, and that when in a skid you have no steering whatsoever. It took a while to unlearn my Air Force training and stand on the brake in an emergency, but I have to tell you, the milliseconds a computer can react is far faster than the fastest human. My ABS has kept me from hitting stupid dogs, ignorant children, and idiots driving cars who don't look when they pull out, or slow for stop signs, more than once.
You're an engineer, design and build the perfect pen yourself! It's as if Andy Warhol asked for someone to sell him a painting of a soup can. I mean, wtf??
Wow, so many of you have gotten brain scans... I never have. Call your mom and have her scan my brain, Leonard! I'm jealous! I have no idea if my brain produces a level of gamma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory --never before reported in neuroscience!
But please have her not make me cry like she did Penny. Not many gamma waves there.
An old lady I know said her brain produces a level of grandma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory --never before reported in neuroscience!
Either way saying "Oh noes I am old and helpless everyone must cater to my needs" is not a good solution.
I'm sure there are old folks like that, but I've never met one. The really old, the ones I'm young in comparison to, hate getting so they need help. After all, they've been doing the helping all their lives and don't want that to change.
Old folks love to bitch about "kids these days " and "welfare bums"
Old folks have always bitched about "kids these days", there's a great rant from one of the ancient Greeks about "kids these days" that pretty much mirrors what geezers say today. As to "welfare bums" I hear that more from the young, especially the monied young who never had to work a day in their lives.
god forbid anything ever inconvenience them
That's human nature. It's also human nature to see it in others but be blind to it in one's self.
Not in my case. In my case it was personal experience. Going from tape and BASIC based machines to DOS was an incredibly big learning curve. Going from DOS to Windows was hardly a learning curve at all, especially since it was a desktop running on top of DOS. Going from XP to Mandrake was a piece of cake (Unix commands aren't that different from DOS commands, LS does in Unix the exact same thing as DIR in DOS. You could take a Unix script and pretty much load it into a text editor, do a couple of global search-and-replace functions and it would run.
Yeah Bob writes a feature, that fucks up previous releases, breaks shit left and right, and when you point this out? You'll get told "fix it yourself".
You submit a bug report and reinstall the previous version. Simple. A housecat could do it.
There is a REASON why the ONLY time Linux gained shit was when Google just took the whole damned thing away from the devs
If by "shit" you mean "market share," that's one of the biggest reasons why Linux isn't going to dominate the desktop. People not onlty don't know that Linux is a free OS that's superior to Windows, they've never even heard of it.
MSFT could put out Windows Goatse and people will put up with it because it'll be better than dealing with the arrogant asshole devs.
They'll put up with it because they don't know they have a choice. As to the "arrogant asshole devs", you expect someone you're verbally assaulting to help you? Really?
Hell at least if enough of us refuse to buy Windows
Millions of copies of Windows are bought by OEMs, Millions of Windows licenses are bought by enterprise customers, and neither of these groups are likely to stop. Only a handful of computer hobbyists (mostly gamers) buy a Windows boxed set.
how do we fire Torvalds?
Why would you want to? If he were doing a shitty job there would be far fewer, if any, people installing Linux. Now, tell me, how do we fire Ballmer?
How do we fire the guys that make the DEs, and the shitpile that is Pulse?
You answered your own question -- don't use Pulse.
GTFO because they don't give a crap WHAT you think
Which is different from Microsoft how? Look at how W8 has been trashed by almost everyone who's used it, yet it's still going to be installed on every new damned Acer, HP, and Dell computer sold, even though nobody wants it.
Its only been 20 damned years
And Linux, despite being ten years younger than Windows, has more features and is more stable and secure than Windows, despite the tons of money being shoveled into Windows.
Back to market share, if I bought a Zune and was happy with it, why should I care how many other people have bought it? Market share is meaningless to anyone who doesn't own stock in a company; at least, anyone with a brain.
First off, the snarky "How about users just get a clue? Online search is a feature, not a bug. Yes it can 'leak' data, but I would expect most Linux users to know that and make an informed decision" isn't what I would expect from a hard-core Linux user. He's going to eschew any distro that did that.
They are socially retarded pinheads who's only accomplishment in life was staying up late staining their teeth with Cheetos and Jolt cola figuring out how to use a free distro because they were too poor to buy a copy of Windows or good hardware to run it.
I see your problem (besides confusing who's with whose). Ten years ago when I was learning Linux, I never got the "RTFM n00b," almost every Linux question I have posed in any forum got a useful answer, or at least an attempt at one. But you know, sneer at some "retarded pinheads who's only accomplishment in life was staying up late staining their teeth with Cheetos and Jolt cola figuring out how to use a free distro because they were too poor to buy a copy of Windows" and guess what? You're going to be told to fuck off.
Talk about "socially retarded", lets talk about pots and kettles. It's been my experience, whether with Linux geeks or those completely ignorant of computers, that in most cases if you're polite you'll be met with politeness and helpfulness, and if you're a jerk they're not going to be nice and there's no way they're going out of their way to help you.
But since you finally were polite in your last sentence, I'll tell you why I, personally, use Linux. It's because it has more features, is more customizable, I don't have to reboot the damned thing every time it needs a patch, if I do decide to reboot it (I usually shut it off at night if I'm not downloading anything) when it comes up, all the apps and documents that were open when I shut it down are reopened. That, and it's more stable on flaky hardware. That, and MS refuses to follow standards; CP/M died twenty years ago, what are they still using a backslash to denote different directories when everyone else has been Unix-like for a decade now? Oh, yeah, lock in. Forgot that. Probably a lot more reasons I forgot as well.
Unless you're a gamer there's no reason except laziness (I confess, I have a W7 notebook I'm too lazy to install Linux on) to NOT install Linux. Windows simply has nothing that Linux lacks, and Linux has a lot of stuff that's been there for years that Windows lacks.
That being said - my current uptime is 1826 hours with Vista.
That's two and a half months, how do you get away from reboots on Patch Tuesday? Just ignore it and not update?
I've learnt to accept the less bad DRM as a part of life
That makes you part of the problem.
"Cheap" and "quality" are not necessarily antonyms
They are to fools who believe "you get what you pay for" and who think anything free is worthless. Which I suspect the GP is one of. But like you, I've seen many times where the cheap shit cost more than the quality shit. The GP wouldn't even consider the quality, only the price. To some people, "worth" and "quality" are always counted in dollars. But like I said, they're fools. That 60 cent store brand can of corn came from the same fields and went through the same processing as the $1 can. Look how much Alieve they sell, even though it costs three times what generic Naproxin costs and it's the same damned chemical!
I'd bet a donut to a dollar* that when the GP gets a headache, he tales Alieve.
* It used to be dollars to donuts before inflation, when donuts were a dime a dozen.
Well, one of two things:
1. Volcano's hot ash and lava, or
2. He's a semi-literate who hasn't graduated junior high yet.
In my experience the police don't bother to go out and preemptively fight even the easy crimes.
I guess it depends on where you live. My car was stolen five or so years ago, I got it back six hours after I discovered it missing.
Last year my hose was burglarized. The burglars took some checks along with other valuables (including my beloved Epiphone bass). After taking my report the cop went to the bank, who had called me and told me someone had tried to cash a forged check, and looked at the video. The guy was in jail that night. No, they never found the stolen goods, but the burglar's in prison where he's not likely to rob my house again.
there's a fundamental problem with all these vaccines, which is summed up flippantly as "what doesn't kill ya makes ya stronger"... by vaccinating children against various disease - by giving their immune systems an "easy ride" - their immune systems simply do not develop to the same extent that a child would if they had the actual disease and had to fight for their life.
Yeah, tell that to my friend Mike, who has a twisted arm and hand and a twisted leg because he had polio fifty years ago. Guess what? Neitze was a fucking moron; ask Steve Reeves if falling off that horse made him stronger. Ask my wheelchair-bound cousin if having his neck broken at age 16 made him stronger.
Moron.
the very first time we fight for our lives - for our right to live - is when we are born. we *literally* fight for breath, when being sqeezed out of our mums.
Well, my oldest did, because the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck and her lungs were filled with fluid. She's now learning-disabled. A hundred years ago she would have died.
My youngest came out screaming in rage. I don't think you've ever seen a child being born.
i would sit by my daughter's bed-side, nursing her patiently back to health, loving her and being happy with and for her.
Being happy with her when she's seriously ill? Let me tell you something, boy (I'm sure you're under 16), NOBODY'S happy when their child is ill.
and no, we have *NOT* vaccinated our daughter.
That's because you don't have one. If in fact you're an adult with schitzoaffective disorder rather than a stupid teenager, I hope the child protective services take her from you and possibly save her life. How you're treating your (I still believe nonexistant) daughter is monstrous.
the reports on the detrimental effects and case studies on the long-term health of children are out there; they're just not widely published
So where did you find out about these "secret studies"? Got a citation? Heh, thought not.
in the 1960s there was a "foot & mouth" outbreak in the UK. nobody slaughtered any cows.
That's because hoof and mouth doesn't affect humans except in very rare circumstances. Note than when bovine ensephalitis hit Europe, they killed hlaf the cows after finding that it did indeed affect humans who ate the meat.
with the masses having their immune systems weakened *because* of the mass-vaccinations
Where in the HELL did you get the retarded idea that vaccinations weaken the immune system? And is the shift key broken on your keyboard, son? Yes, refusal to type like an adult is a very good indicator that you're a dumbass youngster trying to be hip.
Pay a little more attention in school. When you do have a real kid, rather than the schitzophrenic hallucination you seem to be having, I hope you've been taking your meds.
Oddly, using the left foot on the brake pedal is fairly ordinary in racing.
In racing it makes sense. On the street it's brain-dead stupid. First, just touching the brake makes the brake lights come on. Get behind one of these assholes and it's like following someone who has no brake lights. It's dangerous as hell. Second, the morons are wearing their brakes out prematurely, although that's their problem. Having their brake lights on when they're not braking IS my problem.
Funny, since even after gambling was made legal in Vegas it was still run by organized crime for decades.
So, Jack Daniels and AB In-Bev are run by the mafia? The reason the mafia was able (for a while) to continue in Vagas is because they only need to take over one single city, quite unlike the legalization and regulation of alcohol or marijuana.
Now what is the best way to provide current weather conditions to the driver. By painting the roads or via some technology in their car??
By having the technology in the road. Not everyone trades their car in every year, and some of us smarter ones buy our vehicles used. Mine's ten years old, I'll retire it when repairs start costing more than a car payment.
If this tech were on my roads today, it would make me safer. But if it only came on brand new BMWs I'm SOL.
Also, I don't know how well or badly Europeans drive, but I know for a fact that Americans drive REALLY bad.
You don't have to live in California to be bound by their laws. If you visit there or do business there, you are bound by their laws.
You will be the one losing out, not California. Someone else has written the equivalent to your app, and they'll get the sales you would have.
And... if you have to be sneaky to get their info, I don't think much of your morality. IMO that's really assholish behavior and I wish you people would stop it.
Your brain color-adjusts all the time. Back in the film camera days, there was indoor film and outdoor film. If you used outdoor film indoors the colors came out way too warm/yellowish, if you used indoor film outdoors the photo would come out way too blueish/cool. The colors as shown by the film are what the actual colors were, but your brain adapts and changes the colors to "normal".
How can a vaccine hurt you?
By giving you the symptoms of the disease, or containing something you're allergic to.
On the flip-side, if a dog on public property is clearly signalling drugs in a bordering house, then yes, I'd certainly accept that as strong evidence in favour of granting a warrant.
How is that different than using an IR detector looking for grow lights, which has alreadty been declared unconstitutional?
I will not be on bleeding edge of this.
That's wise. I was on the bleeding edge of flu shots themselves, back in the early seventies. It wasn't voluntary, I was in the Air Force then. The vaccine gave me the worst case of flu I've ever had, before or since. Needless to say, that was my very first and very last flu shot.
Question: If Canonical announced tomorrow "We are going broke, either we have the Amazon search or we close our doors" which would you choose?
Close the fucking doors! Canonical isn't the only one providing distros.
Frankly most of the improvements on usability on the desktop can be traced back to Canonical
Such as? Unity? haven't tried it but I heard it sucked. Gnome improvements? I never liked Gnome. I'm running kubuntu, but if Canonical wnt out of business I'd just switch back to Mandriva. So what useability improvements has Canonical made? Mandiva's installation and setup were more useable back when mandriva was still Mandrake than Ubuntu is now.
That is what it ultimately comes down to as TINSTAAFL and somebody has to sink those millions into the desktop if you want it to go anywhere...or would you prefer going back to "Bob's Distro" where its just the same packages with a new theme and a couple of little things switched around, like 2/3rds of the ones on distrowatch?
You grossly overestimate Canonical's contributions. Most improvements are in fact from Bob, who wants a feature and just writes it and releases it.
Pay your own damn internet bill!
You're a selfih bastard, AC. I'd leave mine open if the TOS allowed it.