It showed the man's tit in the same way that "the sims" shows people showering. It wasn't blurred out but there's no way in hell anyone can actually make it out. Just because you saw some flesh colors on the screen doesn't mean that "it's showing the man's tit".
Let's throw out your entire bullshit argument and replace it with one that makes sense: How about companies don't over sell their lines? False advertising is illegal. The end. There isn't a "debate" here. If you pay for XkB/s then god damnit you should get X kB/s. PERIOD.
Which is complete nonsense. It only sends a message if those people then decide to sue comcast independently. A bunch of people opting out only serves to save comcast money because we all know that most people cannot afford to hire an attorney and sue comcast themselves.
You're trying to invoke the "if you don't like them then don't buy their service" argument. This is the greatest part of the free market. Companies that provide shitty products (like comcast) go out of business because everyone has moved to the better companies. There are two problems with this: 1. There is no free market in terms of high speed internet. There are only one or two providers at any given location in most of the United States. 2. Even if there are many companies, they all want to adopt the same "throttle bandwidth and fuck users" strategy. They've learned that if they all do it then consumers have no incentive to switch because provider X is just as shitty as provider Y.
Internet is a critical service (no, it's not a luxury, maybe YOU can perform your job duties with dial up but some of us REQUIRE high speed access to perform critical tasks for our jobs/school) so 90% of consumers can't use the "vote with your wallet" approach. The lack of proper regulation (net neutrality, no throttling) allows companies to take the "free" out of the "free market".
Really this is one of the problems with the free market. The free market, by definition, allows for things like monopolies buying out every competitor and companies colluding together. But those things are, by definition, not a free market. There's a paradox that must be solved with proper regulation.
Oh, you're right. I guess we should then completely ignore the fact that school administrators were distributing child pornography because punishing them might indirectly harm the education of a few other students.
"there aren't any EM counters that are parallels to a Geiger counter."
Absolute nonsense. There are meters that can measure magnetic and electric fields. Just as a Geiger counter can measure radioactive decay.
"And if you think devices behave as intended" If you can tell me where I said that devices always behave as intended then I'll give you a cookie. You're making a (very poor) straw man argument because your own point is indefensible.
I find it fucking appalling that we have to discuss whether a completely metal motorcycle helmet with no padding that obviously offers no protection to your skull is a practical device.
Seriously though. Machining isn't something new, it's been around for literally hundreds of years. Obviously steam power changed it a lot with the ability to drive machines under non-human power, but it's generally the same now as it was then.
The difference is that 40-50 years ago people felt exactly the same way about these machines as they do now. Prices may slowly decline over the next many years, but they will not fall at anywhere near the rate computers did. Moore's law does not apply here. (If you doubt this then just look at the non-computerized machines). The capability of machines does not double every 18 months.
No, history suggests exactly the opposite. Have you actually looked at buying these things? Machining equipment isn't like every other American-made product that falls apart in 3 years, these things are built to last. A Bridgeport mill from the 70s with routine maintenance runs just as well today as the day it was made.
Brand new bridgeport mill: $15k Used bridgeport mill (~10-20 yrs old): $5k
Not a whole lot, actually. Do you have any idea how much time you have to spend to set this fucker up? You can't just throw a model at the machine and say "GO!". You have to generate tool paths and such which isn't a simple matter of just running it through some CAM software. You need to know what you're doing.
OK, finding an engineering diploma in your happy meal from McDonalds does not make you an electrical engineer.
Electricity is "invisible" in the same way air is "invisible". You're implying that it's "magical", which it isn't. There are good theories that explain electricity, just because YOU can't understand quantum mechanics (not a huge number of people can) doesn't mean that it's wrong or that it isn't a good theory. Electricity does not "magically give you cancer" if you don't turn it off. Certain EM radiation might cause changes in the chemical reactions regarding your DNA and cause problems that manifest as birth defects, but it ain't fucking magic. This effect is well documented in medical journals, chemistry and biology journals, physics journals, and has lots and lots of experimental evidence to back it up. We might not understand exactly how every single birth defect is caused, but we have a good idea of the mechanism that causes it to happen in the first place. Given time we will discover more.
"The behaviour of any given device is erratic at best, taken for granted, or just plain whacky." Good god no. We don't just "take science for granted". It is, by definition, impossible to PROVE a scientific theory but this does not mean that we're just making random guesses and flying by the seat of our pants when it comes to science. We do experiments, we are methodical about the way we test things, the theories people come up with are generated from hypotheses generated from careful observation and theoretical study.
"Older drivers also tend to drive more slowly, accelerate more slowly and deliberately"
Another sweeping generalization. I've seen elderly drivers range anywhere from poor to excellent to asshole. I've seen more poor than good, but by no means can I group them ALL into one category.
If your car can't physically make it up a hill then you have more problems than your automatic transmission. What in the hell are you talking about with this ATs can't make it up a hill nonsense? Was the last time you drove one when they first came out?
"the benefit of the unpaid internship arrangement for both the intern and the employer has been valuable enough to not raise a stink about the fact that technically, it violates a number of laws."
What the hell are you talking about? Unpaid internships are perfectly legal if they're done in accordance with the law... really quite redundant but you seem to be confused about this basic aspect of the word "internship".
"The thing is, with interns, I usually get little work out of them I can use and have to spend a lot of time supervising and training" That is EXACTLY the point of an internship. If you don't like unqualified people then the solution is NOT TO USE INTERNS. Dumbass.
"interns are still generally 'earning their keep' from Day 1 by producing value for the company."
Did you read the article? This is completely illegal. The entire point is that internships are to gain experience and education, NOT to serve as employees. If they're producing value for the company then they deserve to, and by law must, be paid.
Sure, avoiding dangerous situations is great. But it's completely naive to think that you can anticipate every situation or that the unexpected can't happen. There are some times when you will have to be in a dangerous situation and when that happens you need to be able to handle it.
You can observe all you want, but you can't see the drunk driver behind a house/fence/tree/parked cars about to run a stop sign. You have to be able to brake and swerve to avoid him without throwing yourself into a ditch/pole/house/other car when you finally do see him.
That's because cars are getting safer, not because people are learning to drive. Previously you'd be impaled by your steering column. Now, we have fancy crumple zones and airbags and such that prevent fatalities. But all the safety features in the world aren't going to stop every fatality caused by an accident that isn't a real accident.
How the hell does a wine get an unfair advantage in terms of taste? Nonsense like "$wine will have the advantage, but unfairly" is stuff said only by wine snobs that think the $1000 bottle is better simply because it costs $1000.
We'll never know because they don't release test material except that which they explicitly publish themselves. You are NEVER allowed to discuss the multiple choice questions of AP exams ever (you sign a poor version of an NDA). I almost want to go retake the test simply to walk out the door with the booklet and publish it. All they could really do is invalidate my previous test scores, which doesn't really matter because I've been in college for 2 years now with a ~3.0 gpa. The college isn't going to revoke me because some scores got invalidated.
Well of course they're going to use the exact same variable names. If you're taught "u substitution" in which your teacher uses Tau instead of "u" then you're going to use tau on your exams because that's how you learned it. The majority of people I talk to seem to have learned "u substitution" as "u substitution" but I've also heard it called "v substitution", "t substitution", etc.
The fact that a class of people taught by the same teacher used the same variable names as the teacher means NOTHING. Look at every other student, I'm sure that they all used "u" or another similar letter. Obviously, they must have cheated as well.
Colleges generally don't give two shits about your class rank. They don't really care if you're the brightest moron or the dumbest genius in the entire school. They understand that weighted grades are complete bullcrap only used to artificially inflate GPAs and unweight them accordingly.
Actually you don't have to have an argument. You have to have the motivation to go over their head (i.e. parents calling the superintendent or threatening to bring in a lawyer) or be annoying (asking them repeatedly to the point that they give up and say "fuck it, do whatever you want").
Making things less safe is NOT an answer. There will always be true accidents (where neither driver could possibly have prevented a problem even with no distractions and advanced training) and for these situations cars should be as safe as possible for all parties involved.
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"Who am I to tell Apple what's best for their devices?""
Because YOU bought it. Therefore, it's YOUR device and YOU deserve to be allowed to do whatever the fuck YOU want to.
It showed the man's tit in the same way that "the sims" shows people showering. It wasn't blurred out but there's no way in hell anyone can actually make it out. Just because you saw some flesh colors on the screen doesn't mean that "it's showing the man's tit".
Let's throw out your entire bullshit argument and replace it with one that makes sense:
How about companies don't over sell their lines? False advertising is illegal. The end. There isn't a "debate" here. If you pay for XkB/s then god damnit you should get X kB/s. PERIOD.
Which is complete nonsense. It only sends a message if those people then decide to sue comcast independently. A bunch of people opting out only serves to save comcast money because we all know that most people cannot afford to hire an attorney and sue comcast themselves.
You're trying to invoke the "if you don't like them then don't buy their service" argument. This is the greatest part of the free market. Companies that provide shitty products (like comcast) go out of business because everyone has moved to the better companies. There are two problems with this:
1. There is no free market in terms of high speed internet. There are only one or two providers at any given location in most of the United States.
2. Even if there are many companies, they all want to adopt the same "throttle bandwidth and fuck users" strategy. They've learned that if they all do it then consumers have no incentive to switch because provider X is just as shitty as provider Y.
Internet is a critical service (no, it's not a luxury, maybe YOU can perform your job duties with dial up but some of us REQUIRE high speed access to perform critical tasks for our jobs/school) so 90% of consumers can't use the "vote with your wallet" approach. The lack of proper regulation (net neutrality, no throttling) allows companies to take the "free" out of the "free market".
Really this is one of the problems with the free market. The free market, by definition, allows for things like monopolies buying out every competitor and companies colluding together. But those things are, by definition, not a free market. There's a paradox that must be solved with proper regulation.
Oh, you're right. I guess we should then completely ignore the fact that school administrators were distributing child pornography because punishing them might indirectly harm the education of a few other students.
"there aren't any EM counters that are parallels to a Geiger counter."
Absolute nonsense. There are meters that can measure magnetic and electric fields. Just as a Geiger counter can measure radioactive decay.
"And if you think devices behave as intended"
If you can tell me where I said that devices always behave as intended then I'll give you a cookie. You're making a (very poor) straw man argument because your own point is indefensible.
I find it fucking appalling that we have to discuss whether a completely metal motorcycle helmet with no padding that obviously offers no protection to your skull is a practical device.
Yeah, no one has thought of that before.....
Seriously though. Machining isn't something new, it's been around for literally hundreds of years. Obviously steam power changed it a lot with the ability to drive machines under non-human power, but it's generally the same now as it was then.
The difference is that 40-50 years ago people felt exactly the same way about these machines as they do now. Prices may slowly decline over the next many years, but they will not fall at anywhere near the rate computers did. Moore's law does not apply here. (If you doubt this then just look at the non-computerized machines). The capability of machines does not double every 18 months.
No, history suggests exactly the opposite. Have you actually looked at buying these things? Machining equipment isn't like every other American-made product that falls apart in 3 years, these things are built to last. A Bridgeport mill from the 70s with routine maintenance runs just as well today as the day it was made.
Brand new bridgeport mill: $15k
Used bridgeport mill (~10-20 yrs old): $5k
Ten to twenty years for a 2/3 reduction in price.
Not a whole lot, actually. Do you have any idea how much time you have to spend to set this fucker up? You can't just throw a model at the machine and say "GO!". You have to generate tool paths and such which isn't a simple matter of just running it through some CAM software. You need to know what you're doing.
OK, finding an engineering diploma in your happy meal from McDonalds does not make you an electrical engineer.
Electricity is "invisible" in the same way air is "invisible". You're implying that it's "magical", which it isn't. There are good theories that explain electricity, just because YOU can't understand quantum mechanics (not a huge number of people can) doesn't mean that it's wrong or that it isn't a good theory. Electricity does not "magically give you cancer" if you don't turn it off. Certain EM radiation might cause changes in the chemical reactions regarding your DNA and cause problems that manifest as birth defects, but it ain't fucking magic. This effect is well documented in medical journals, chemistry and biology journals, physics journals, and has lots and lots of experimental evidence to back it up. We might not understand exactly how every single birth defect is caused, but we have a good idea of the mechanism that causes it to happen in the first place. Given time we will discover more.
"The behaviour of any given device is erratic at best, taken for granted, or just plain whacky."
Good god no. We don't just "take science for granted". It is, by definition, impossible to PROVE a scientific theory but this does not mean that we're just making random guesses and flying by the seat of our pants when it comes to science. We do experiments, we are methodical about the way we test things, the theories people come up with are generated from hypotheses generated from careful observation and theoretical study.
"Older drivers also tend to drive more slowly, accelerate more slowly and deliberately"
Another sweeping generalization. I've seen elderly drivers range anywhere from poor to excellent to asshole. I've seen more poor than good, but by no means can I group them ALL into one category.
If your car can't physically make it up a hill then you have more problems than your automatic transmission. What in the hell are you talking about with this ATs can't make it up a hill nonsense? Was the last time you drove one when they first came out?
"the benefit of the unpaid internship arrangement for both the intern and the employer has been valuable enough to not raise a stink about the fact that technically, it violates a number of laws."
What the hell are you talking about? Unpaid internships are perfectly legal if they're done in accordance with the law... really quite redundant but you seem to be confused about this basic aspect of the word "internship".
"The thing is, with interns, I usually get little work out of them I can use and have to spend a lot of time supervising and training"
That is EXACTLY the point of an internship. If you don't like unqualified people then the solution is NOT TO USE INTERNS. Dumbass.
"interns are still generally 'earning their keep' from Day 1 by producing value for the company."
Did you read the article? This is completely illegal. The entire point is that internships are to gain experience and education, NOT to serve as employees. If they're producing value for the company then they deserve to, and by law must, be paid.
Sure, avoiding dangerous situations is great. But it's completely naive to think that you can anticipate every situation or that the unexpected can't happen. There are some times when you will have to be in a dangerous situation and when that happens you need to be able to handle it.
You can observe all you want, but you can't see the drunk driver behind a house/fence/tree/parked cars about to run a stop sign. You have to be able to brake and swerve to avoid him without throwing yourself into a ditch/pole/house/other car when you finally do see him.
That's because cars are getting safer, not because people are learning to drive. Previously you'd be impaled by your steering column. Now, we have fancy crumple zones and airbags and such that prevent fatalities. But all the safety features in the world aren't going to stop every fatality caused by an accident that isn't a real accident.
How the hell does a wine get an unfair advantage in terms of taste? Nonsense like "$wine will have the advantage, but unfairly" is stuff said only by wine snobs that think the $1000 bottle is better simply because it costs $1000.
We'll never know because they don't release test material except that which they explicitly publish themselves. You are NEVER allowed to discuss the multiple choice questions of AP exams ever (you sign a poor version of an NDA). I almost want to go retake the test simply to walk out the door with the booklet and publish it. All they could really do is invalidate my previous test scores, which doesn't really matter because I've been in college for 2 years now with a ~3.0 gpa. The college isn't going to revoke me because some scores got invalidated.
Well of course they're going to use the exact same variable names. If you're taught "u substitution" in which your teacher uses Tau instead of "u" then you're going to use tau on your exams because that's how you learned it. The majority of people I talk to seem to have learned "u substitution" as "u substitution" but I've also heard it called "v substitution", "t substitution", etc.
The fact that a class of people taught by the same teacher used the same variable names as the teacher means NOTHING. Look at every other student, I'm sure that they all used "u" or another similar letter. Obviously, they must have cheated as well.
Colleges generally don't give two shits about your class rank. They don't really care if you're the brightest moron or the dumbest genius in the entire school. They understand that weighted grades are complete bullcrap only used to artificially inflate GPAs and unweight them accordingly.
Actually you don't have to have an argument. You have to have the motivation to go over their head (i.e. parents calling the superintendent or threatening to bring in a lawyer) or be annoying (asking them repeatedly to the point that they give up and say "fuck it, do whatever you want").
Making things less safe is NOT an answer. There will always be true accidents (where neither driver could possibly have prevented a problem even with no distractions and advanced training) and for these situations cars should be as safe as possible for all parties involved.