No, but it does require some degree of explanation as to why somebody is passing off a movie which he didn't watch. The most likely explanation would be that he wasn't the one that was sharing it.
As a Nexus One owner, I have to point out that Google's support sucks. There's still significant outsanding bugs that they never bothered to fix. They were fixed by 3rd party firmware and apps, but Google itself hasn't bother to fix any of it.
I disagree, Windows has been dumbed down to the point that it's a valid criticism to make. MS has had an incentive to make sure that users aren't smart enough to be able to switch to another OS. And it seems to be working quite well.
It's not exploitation, you have options, you just choose to take the option that involves paying taxes. You could stop paying taxes and go to prison, stop making money or you could move to a country whose values more closely align with yours.
Part of living in a representative democracy is that sometimes the decisions run counter to what you want. Ultimately, you get a choice of living with it, trying to change it or leaving. Remember that demacracy is the worst form of government except all the other ones we've tried.
There is no etiquette rule that dictates that you must answer the phone in a situation like that. The person on the line will just assume that you're indisposed at the moment, which you are, and either leave a message or call back.
The sort of self entitled thinking that demands that people answer the phone even when the callee is indisposed is really not something which should be allowed to continue. Manners are getting uncommon enough as it is.
I think the interesting thing here is that people seem to think that it's OK to answer a phone while they're talking to somebody else. It's understandable if one is a receptionist that needs to answer the phone, but for most people it's rude regardless of whether or not there's somebody on the line.
Same goes for call waiting. There are a limited number of times during which it is acceptable to use call waiting most of the time you're showing a decided lack of respect for the person that's one the line.
Precisely, many movies are entertaining without needing a plot. I think that Michael Bay is pretty famous for not worrying about the plot.
But, if you look at the format with which stories are told, the structure really doesn't work very well if you know what the solution to the problems the protagonist is dealing with are. You know that ultimately Sarah Connor is going to win out over the Terminator, but the movie wouldn't be anywhere near as interesting if you knew how that comes about.
You know that in most movies good is going to triumph over evil, the boy is going to end up getting the girl and somebody is probably going to learn a life lesson, but having information about how that happens and how the transformations occur is definitely going to harm the experience.
The point of these laws is that at some point the risk to others is too great to be justified. If we just limited laws to cases where somebody is already dead or injured that would greatly reduce the point of doing so as it would only apply retroactively.
With that approach we'd have basically no traffic laws, food safety laws, maintenance requirements on transportation or rules against other forms of reckless endangerment.
Because the lawmakers that were deciding the legality recognized that it was more similar to wiretapping than to other possible offenses and found it to be more convenient to lump it in with wiretapping than make it something completely different.
The police are typically outnumber over a hundred to one in most places. Even if you count other types of law enforcement, they're still outnumbered. The police are able to maintain order primarily because the people consent to it on a frequent enough basis that things work.
Compton is probably the best example I can think of for that. The place was a cesspool for many years, but has in recent years been cleaned up largely because the community became more sick of the criminals than any abuses of power that the police might have been committing.
Obama was guilty of commenting on police affairs while black. I doubt very much that there would have been the sort of uproar had it not been for the fact that both the President and the man being arrested are black.
Yeah, that's the way things have been going around here. We've been trying to get better and better equipment for a while now. I think it's gotten to the point of having officers have both a camera and a microphone on at pretty all times while on duty. Ultimately, it's in the best interests of everybody involved.
The sorts of officers that one wants doing the job are going to understand that.
That's not true, they get put on administrative leave following a shooting because they have to investigate before deciding what the appropriate action should be. It's a bit like if you or I shoot somebody and they take time to decide whether or not to bring charges.
The difference that explains the lack of jail time during that period for police is that officers do from time to time have to shoot people as a function of their job.
Savings accounts are for suckers. The Pension system in the US is an absolute disgrace though. It's not unheard of for HR reps to lose the paper work for people to apply for their 401k accounts.
Yes, but they should at some point during your average month be capable of delivering the advertised bandwidth. It's understandable that they can't do so all the time due to congestion, but if the ISP can't do so on a routine basis, then they shouldn't be claiming that they can.
The lowest price for airfare I can find is $600 round trip and most of the fares were closer to $800 without taxes. Then throw in the cost of food and lodging and you definitely get pretty close to $1k.
You know a lot of folks don't live on the East Coast.
For a thousand dollars and several days off work, one can afford to buy the wrong back pack and even after buying a couple others still come out somewhat ahead financially.
In the field, just about any computer will do. The main thing you're wanting is something that's going to allow you to take a look at the composition in full and get a fair amount of the composition at the pixel level. Also, you're not going to be performing a proper back up in the field, so all you're going to get to do is copy the cards to the laptop and keep the originals still on the card until you get home.
The other thing is taking notes, and you're probably going to be better off taking notes on a write in the rain notepad anyways than trying to enter everything into the computer.
It's obvious to geeks, however this kind of thing is just a first step towards telling ISPs that they had better provide the bandwidth they're charging for. That is unless the GOP wins big in the next elections in which case it's back to dial up speeds for us.
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No, but it does require some degree of explanation as to why somebody is passing off a movie which he didn't watch. The most likely explanation would be that he wasn't the one that was sharing it.
As a Nexus One owner, I have to point out that Google's support sucks. There's still significant outsanding bugs that they never bothered to fix. They were fixed by 3rd party firmware and apps, but Google itself hasn't bother to fix any of it.
Nice strawman you've got there.
If you're at work then there will be guidelines about that. It's still not required by etiquette that you conduct yourself like a jackass though.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
They'd use signal lights and they'd travel a lot more slowly.
I disagree, Windows has been dumbed down to the point that it's a valid criticism to make. MS has had an incentive to make sure that users aren't smart enough to be able to switch to another OS. And it seems to be working quite well.
It's not exploitation, you have options, you just choose to take the option that involves paying taxes. You could stop paying taxes and go to prison, stop making money or you could move to a country whose values more closely align with yours.
Part of living in a representative democracy is that sometimes the decisions run counter to what you want. Ultimately, you get a choice of living with it, trying to change it or leaving. Remember that demacracy is the worst form of government except all the other ones we've tried.
There is no etiquette rule that dictates that you must answer the phone in a situation like that. The person on the line will just assume that you're indisposed at the moment, which you are, and either leave a message or call back.
The sort of self entitled thinking that demands that people answer the phone even when the callee is indisposed is really not something which should be allowed to continue. Manners are getting uncommon enough as it is.
Armageddon was kind of fun, as was The Rock, but Transformers was a crime against humanity.
Yeah, well, what do you expect from an article that keeps misspelling nucular.
I think the interesting thing here is that people seem to think that it's OK to answer a phone while they're talking to somebody else. It's understandable if one is a receptionist that needs to answer the phone, but for most people it's rude regardless of whether or not there's somebody on the line.
Same goes for call waiting. There are a limited number of times during which it is acceptable to use call waiting most of the time you're showing a decided lack of respect for the person that's one the line.
Precisely, many movies are entertaining without needing a plot. I think that Michael Bay is pretty famous for not worrying about the plot.
But, if you look at the format with which stories are told, the structure really doesn't work very well if you know what the solution to the problems the protagonist is dealing with are. You know that ultimately Sarah Connor is going to win out over the Terminator, but the movie wouldn't be anywhere near as interesting if you knew how that comes about.
You know that in most movies good is going to triumph over evil, the boy is going to end up getting the girl and somebody is probably going to learn a life lesson, but having information about how that happens and how the transformations occur is definitely going to harm the experience.
The point of these laws is that at some point the risk to others is too great to be justified. If we just limited laws to cases where somebody is already dead or injured that would greatly reduce the point of doing so as it would only apply retroactively.
With that approach we'd have basically no traffic laws, food safety laws, maintenance requirements on transportation or rules against other forms of reckless endangerment.
Because the lawmakers that were deciding the legality recognized that it was more similar to wiretapping than to other possible offenses and found it to be more convenient to lump it in with wiretapping than make it something completely different.
The police are typically outnumber over a hundred to one in most places. Even if you count other types of law enforcement, they're still outnumbered. The police are able to maintain order primarily because the people consent to it on a frequent enough basis that things work.
Compton is probably the best example I can think of for that. The place was a cesspool for many years, but has in recent years been cleaned up largely because the community became more sick of the criminals than any abuses of power that the police might have been committing.
Obama was guilty of commenting on police affairs while black. I doubt very much that there would have been the sort of uproar had it not been for the fact that both the President and the man being arrested are black.
Yeah, that's the way things have been going around here. We've been trying to get better and better equipment for a while now. I think it's gotten to the point of having officers have both a camera and a microphone on at pretty all times while on duty. Ultimately, it's in the best interests of everybody involved.
The sorts of officers that one wants doing the job are going to understand that.
That's not true, they get put on administrative leave following a shooting because they have to investigate before deciding what the appropriate action should be. It's a bit like if you or I shoot somebody and they take time to decide whether or not to bring charges.
The difference that explains the lack of jail time during that period for police is that officers do from time to time have to shoot people as a function of their job.
Savings accounts are for suckers. The Pension system in the US is an absolute disgrace though. It's not unheard of for HR reps to lose the paper work for people to apply for their 401k accounts.
For 0.1% interest, I don't see any incentive not to. At least this way you don't have bankers getting rich off your money.
Yes, but they should at some point during your average month be capable of delivering the advertised bandwidth. It's understandable that they can't do so all the time due to congestion, but if the ISP can't do so on a routine basis, then they shouldn't be claiming that they can.
The lowest price for airfare I can find is $600 round trip and most of the fares were closer to $800 without taxes. Then throw in the cost of food and lodging and you definitely get pretty close to $1k.
You know a lot of folks don't live on the East Coast.
For a thousand dollars and several days off work, one can afford to buy the wrong back pack and even after buying a couple others still come out somewhat ahead financially.
In the field, just about any computer will do. The main thing you're wanting is something that's going to allow you to take a look at the composition in full and get a fair amount of the composition at the pixel level. Also, you're not going to be performing a proper back up in the field, so all you're going to get to do is copy the cards to the laptop and keep the originals still on the card until you get home.
The other thing is taking notes, and you're probably going to be better off taking notes on a write in the rain notepad anyways than trying to enter everything into the computer.
It's obvious to geeks, however this kind of thing is just a first step towards telling ISPs that they had better provide the bandwidth they're charging for. That is unless the GOP wins big in the next elections in which case it's back to dial up speeds for us.