So, turning off your TV set during the ads is theft as well?
What about closing your eyes and covering your ears during the ads? Can I be called a thief for that?
And isn't theft (agains us this time) to put ads in 50% of cable TV time, which we are already paying for?!?!?
Thanks for the audience. I'll be here all the week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
You know, I moved from Brazil to Spain almost a year ago and one of the first things I noticed here is how many chinese girls adopted by spanish couples there are. And they are all girls, I haven't seen a chinese boy adopted by a spanish couple so far. At least these lucky little ones are being "exported" instead of "murdered".
They plan to charge more money to protect us from the problems they created themselves? What is the difference between paying this to Microsoft and paying the Mafia for "protection"?
Thans for letting me put it out. I just took a weight from my chest.
I have mixed feelings about this
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It's hard to know where the truth is... they usually say the truth lies between the two versions of the story.
I really have mixed feelings about this. I agree that when you are cheated on, the punishment has to be harsher than the cheating itself to discourage future cheatings. We can't know if the laptop wasn't really working and if the memory and CD/DVD driver specifications where incorrect, but most of us agree this laptopguy is ruining the boy's life.
Anyway, just to tell you an anedoct of my own life, I once honked to a guy who cut my way on the street. I just honked. It wasn't a long honk, I didn't yell or anything. I just thought "he didn't see me, I will honk and make my presence known". But the guy started to slow down in front of me and then waved a gun. I turned in the corner between us and sped away from there. The lesson I learnt that day:
Don't mess with who you don't know, you have no idea what the reaction will be!
And about leaving sensible information in a computer you are selling, sorry, but it's all your fault. Like an old chinese saying goes (I swear it's a real old chinese saying, I'm not making it up), "he who sleeps with his ass dirty wakes up with the fingers stinking".
Because it runs on methanol, it's going to be fairly affordable
Inkjet printer cartridges used to be pretty affordable back in the 90's, when I bought my first inkjet printer. It was until they found out that the profit could be in the ink cartridges, since we aren't prone to buy new printers very often. If this happens to the methanol cartridge as well, in the long run it will be much better to buy and carry extra LiIon batteries.
Just like AA and AAA batteries. It's been years since I don't buy any AA* battery. My cellphone and my laptop computer have their own batteries and my MP3 player and digital camera run on rechargeable batteries. Sure, disposable AA* batteries are cheap, but the rechargeables pay themselves after you charge them like 5 or 6 times, which usually happen in less than a month. And they last for at least a year.
I for one will stick to the our current rechargeable overlords until they make a Mr. Fusion for Notebooks(TM) for me to be able to run my gadgets with garbage.
but drink it and you might go blind
That's not only that, you might also die. And the fumes are pretty toxic as well. Not everybody knows, but Brazil has developed a neat technology of alcohol fuel for cars. Cheap and clean. Until the sugar cane crop owners (where the alcohol come from in Brazil) found out that it's much more profitable to export sugar than produce alcohol. Because of that, some years ago Brazil had an alcohol fuel shortage and in order to keep the cars running, they added methanol to the alcohol (I don't remember the proportions right now) and because of its toxicity, the customers wheren't allowed to pump the fuel themselves (well, they can't do that in Brazil because other reasons) and the gas stations employees had to wear thick rubber gloves and masks during work.
Conclusion: I love this fuel cell idea, I'm all for it and I've always been. But this "disposable cartridges" idea really sounds like a ripping off coming.
ENIAC was pretty big too... and I'm writting this on a computer on my lap while I'm on bed. Oh, the network is wireless, I almost forgotten to mention that.
It seems absolutey crazy to encourage the use of nuclear fission in an atmosphere.
It also seems absolutely crazy to encourage the use of power sources that throw tons of greenhouse gases in an atmosphere every day. Seems like "global warming" or something like that.
Have you though about how much paper you are wasting and how much ozone you are getting? I know, I know, what are a few billion trees when you have to save a few billion people? Unfortunatelly, according to the HP website, their try to keep the ozone emission as low as possible, and some printers even have ozone filters! Bastards! I bet they even use CFC to make their printers! I bet their have a share in sunscreen factories! I bet the toners they make is made of baby kittens!
You don't live in the southern hemisphere, do you? I used to live in southern Brazil, now I'm living in Spain. In the first few days I was here I could already tell the sun burns much, but much less here than there (and I had thermometers both there and here, so I say it's not the temperature). Reports were saying that the ozone layer where I used to live were already 27% thinner than what it should be. I couldn't go to the beach without a 50 FPS sunscreen. You say "bullshit", but I say "skin cancer risk".
Honestly, where do our tax dollars go, eh? Eh? Am I right, folks?
From the article: Researchers in the US and Britain have unveiled their blueprints for building a cloaking device.
Well, it's not only dollars, but pounds too. Good thing my euros are out of it! Besides, since you write so many EH's, I'm assuming you are canadian. So, no worry for us.
I'll bet 90% of people of buy DVDs dont know what DRM is or what it does to them.
"Imagine prisoners who have been chained since childhood deep inside a cave. Not only are their limbs immobilized by the chains; their heads are chained as well so that their eyes are fixed on a wall.
Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway, along which shapes of various animals, plants, and other things are carried. The shapes cast shadows on the wall, which occupy the prisoners' attention. When one of the shape-carriers speaks, an echo against the wall causes the prisoners to believe that the words come from the shadows.
The prisoners engage in what appears to us to be a game - naming the shapes as they come by. This, however, is the only reality that they know, even though they are seeing merely shadows of images.
Suppose a prisoner is released and compelled to stand up and turn around.
His eyes will be blinded by the firelight, and the shapes passing will appear less real than their shadows."
My girfriend bought an Acer notebook and it already had to be repaired 2 times, and next week we are sending it to be repaired for the third time, in less than a year.
What has already been replaced:
- Motherboard
- Memory
- CD/DVD driver
- HDD
The current problem is that if we keep it plugged it to the outlet and turned off for a few hours (like when we are sleeping), it doesn't turn on again. We have to unplug it and take its battery for an hour and so, then we are able to turn it on again.
Antitrust laws are for the protection of competition, not competitors.... When the plaintiff is a poor champion of consumers, a court must be especially careful not to grant relief that may undercut the proper function of antitrust.
Man, this judge is my hero! Winners do, whiners sue!
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So, turning off your TV set during the ads is theft as well?
What about closing your eyes and covering your ears during the ads? Can I be called a thief for that?
And isn't theft (agains us this time) to put ads in 50% of cable TV time, which we are already paying for?!?!?
Thanks for the audience. I'll be here all the week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
You know, I moved from Brazil to Spain almost a year ago and one of the first things I noticed here is how many chinese girls adopted by spanish couples there are. And they are all girls, I haven't seen a chinese boy adopted by a spanish couple so far. At least these lucky little ones are being "exported" instead of "murdered".
Its like a Flea barking orders at the dog.
"Flea" with a capital F? You mean the Red Hot Chilli Peppers bass player?
But China didn't mess with RIAA, did they? ;-)
Who makes the rules is who decides what is right and what is wrong.
Sunt eu un haiduc... ;-)
I thought Real Men(TM) wrote the assembly codes directly into memory using debug?!
I did that during college. Can I put Real Man(TM) in my business cards?
I have to say this:
They plan to charge more money to protect us from the problems they created themselves? What is the difference between paying this to Microsoft and paying the Mafia for "protection"?
Thans for letting me put it out. I just took a weight from my chest.
It's hard to know where the truth is... they usually say the truth lies between the two versions of the story.
I really have mixed feelings about this. I agree that when you are cheated on, the punishment has to be harsher than the cheating itself to discourage future cheatings. We can't know if the laptop wasn't really working and if the memory and CD/DVD driver specifications where incorrect, but most of us agree this laptopguy is ruining the boy's life.
Anyway, just to tell you an anedoct of my own life, I once honked to a guy who cut my way on the street. I just honked. It wasn't a long honk, I didn't yell or anything. I just thought "he didn't see me, I will honk and make my presence known". But the guy started to slow down in front of me and then waved a gun. I turned in the corner between us and sped away from there. The lesson I learnt that day:
Don't mess with who you don't know, you have no idea what the reaction will be!
And about leaving sensible information in a computer you are selling, sorry, but it's all your fault. Like an old chinese saying goes (I swear it's a real old chinese saying, I'm not making it up), "he who sleeps with his ass dirty wakes up with the fingers stinking".
Because it runs on methanol, it's going to be fairly affordable
Inkjet printer cartridges used to be pretty affordable back in the 90's, when I bought my first inkjet printer. It was until they found out that the profit could be in the ink cartridges, since we aren't prone to buy new printers very often. If this happens to the methanol cartridge as well, in the long run it will be much better to buy and carry extra LiIon batteries.
Just like AA and AAA batteries. It's been years since I don't buy any AA* battery. My cellphone and my laptop computer have their own batteries and my MP3 player and digital camera run on rechargeable batteries. Sure, disposable AA* batteries are cheap, but the rechargeables pay themselves after you charge them like 5 or 6 times, which usually happen in less than a month. And they last for at least a year.
I for one will stick to the our current rechargeable overlords until they make a Mr. Fusion for Notebooks(TM) for me to be able to run my gadgets with garbage.
but drink it and you might go blind
That's not only that, you might also die. And the fumes are pretty toxic as well. Not everybody knows, but Brazil has developed a neat technology of alcohol fuel for cars. Cheap and clean. Until the sugar cane crop owners (where the alcohol come from in Brazil) found out that it's much more profitable to export sugar than produce alcohol. Because of that, some years ago Brazil had an alcohol fuel shortage and in order to keep the cars running, they added methanol to the alcohol (I don't remember the proportions right now) and because of its toxicity, the customers wheren't allowed to pump the fuel themselves (well, they can't do that in Brazil because other reasons) and the gas stations employees had to wear thick rubber gloves and masks during work.
Conclusion: I love this fuel cell idea, I'm all for it and I've always been. But this "disposable cartridges" idea really sounds like a ripping off coming.
ENIAC was pretty big too... and I'm writting this on a computer on my lap while I'm on bed. Oh, the network is wireless, I almost forgotten to mention that.
I rest my case.
Coupled with Sony's desire to not only push their own content on HD discs, but to control that medium with their proprietary Blu-ray format
Does that sound like Betamax just for me?
... and I found out that the Soup Base has Silicon Dioxide in it... Does this mean Ramen is carcinogenic?
Only if you breath it!
Does this mean we can make Oxygen from Ramen if the need arises?
Sure! But you might get an onion breath...
Why do you want to go stay there if there is not a good motivation to do it?
Why do people climb the Everest? There is not even internet up there!
It seems absolutey crazy to encourage the use of nuclear fission in an atmosphere.
It also seems absolutely crazy to encourage the use of power sources that throw tons of greenhouse gases in an atmosphere every day. Seems like "global warming" or something like that.
Have you though about how much paper you are wasting and how much ozone you are getting? I know, I know, what are a few billion trees when you have to save a few billion people? Unfortunatelly, according to the HP website, their try to keep the ozone emission as low as possible, and some printers even have ozone filters! Bastards! I bet they even use CFC to make their printers! I bet their have a share in sunscreen factories! I bet the toners they make is made of baby kittens!
You don't live in the southern hemisphere, do you? I used to live in southern Brazil, now I'm living in Spain. In the first few days I was here I could already tell the sun burns much, but much less here than there (and I had thermometers both there and here, so I say it's not the temperature). Reports were saying that the ozone layer where I used to live were already 27% thinner than what it should be. I couldn't go to the beach without a 50 FPS sunscreen. You say "bullshit", but I say "skin cancer risk".
People fart methane, not CFC... methane is a greenhouse gas; this joke is good, keep it for an article about global warming.
Wonder Woman has this technology since the 70's. Nothing to see here, folks!
Honestly, where do our tax dollars go, eh? Eh? Am I right, folks?
From the article: Researchers in the US and Britain have unveiled their blueprints for building a cloaking device.
Well, it's not only dollars, but pounds too. Good thing my euros are out of it! Besides, since you write so many EH's, I'm assuming you are canadian. So, no worry for us.
This ability/technology would render diamonds chaper than bricks in other 18 months, making itself useless.
without a question mark in the title?
I'll bet 90% of people of buy DVDs dont know what DRM is or what it does to them.
g ory_of_the_cave/)
"Imagine prisoners who have been chained since childhood deep inside a cave. Not only are their limbs immobilized by the chains; their heads are chained as well so that their eyes are fixed on a wall.
Behind the prisoners is an enormous fire, and between the fire and the prisoners is a raised walkway, along which shapes of various animals, plants, and other things are carried. The shapes cast shadows on the wall, which occupy the prisoners' attention. When one of the shape-carriers speaks, an echo against the wall causes the prisoners to believe that the words come from the shadows.
The prisoners engage in what appears to us to be a game - naming the shapes as they come by. This, however, is the only reality that they know, even though they are seeing merely shadows of images.
Suppose a prisoner is released and compelled to stand up and turn around.
His eyes will be blinded by the firelight, and the shapes passing will appear less real than their shadows."
This is the "Allegory of the Cave", by Plato.
(Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato's_alle
My girfriend bought an Acer notebook and it already had to be repaired 2 times, and next week we are sending it to be repaired for the third time, in less than a year.
What has already been replaced:
- Motherboard
- Memory
- CD/DVD driver
- HDD
The current problem is that if we keep it plugged it to the outlet and turned off for a few hours (like when we are sleeping), it doesn't turn on again. We have to unplug it and take its battery for an hour and so, then we are able to turn it on again.
Guess where it's made? Right, China.
I rest my case.
Antitrust laws are for the protection of competition, not competitors. ... When the plaintiff is a poor champion of consumers, a court must be especially careful not to grant relief that may undercut the proper function of antitrust.
Man, this judge is my hero! Winners do, whiners sue!
In Soviet Russia, Ladas are measured in Nepture-sized units.