The rules probably aren't as strict in the US. However, this is such an egregious example, that it's going to be a slam dunk. I'm guessing that Apple will wind up settling as half of a season isn't the same as a season. Especially if previous seasons were sold at a similar price.
It does get a bit funny as it's relatively common for cable series to do 2 seasons a year rather than one long season, so that's a potential out. However, if that's a change from previous seasons, which it sounds like it was, then they would still have to properly advertise that it's a shortened season.
That was true 50 years ago. These days, there's very little actual feminism left.
As for those blogs, I won't go there any more because it's mostly man bashing and tripe about how women deserve things that they haven't earned. Back in the '60s and '70s there was far more insight in the movement. These days, it's common to prevent opposing views because they somehow damage the movement. And it's popular to view women as underpaid and under-compensated, but not to bother looking too closely at the figures, because they're not on their side. And to claim that the average woman is spending tons more time on home related work, when the average woman only does about 1 extra hour, hardly the thousands of hours a year that the bloggers would have you believe.
Any man that's a feminist is a turn coat that should be avoided. Sort of like those self hating Jews. Never trust anybody that's learned to hate their own kind.
That's called selection bias. Whenever I see it around here, it's generally women. Mainly because men are too afraid of having a spurious law suit filed against them.
Most of the lectures on equal rights are really just a cover for feminist propaganda. Tons of statistics taken out of context and god help any that bother to point out that there's cherry picking going on to make things look bad for women.
Objectification of women is conventionally considered sexism. Objectification of men is just hunky dory. Seems to me that women ought to clean their own house before bitching about when men do it. Or at least make some meaningful effort to do so.
Not to mention all the TV, movies and video games that reduce the role of a man to a paycheck or cannon fodder.
So, they removed the nicotine then? Oh, wait, they didn't.
As long as they include nicotine, it's complete horseshit to suggest that they're safe. Because, nicotine itself is highly addictive and carries it's own health risks.
They're not safe. They're safer. Which is a big difference. I met a seller of e-cigs a while back and he was pretty clear that e-cigs aren't an excuse to start smoking, they're a safer replacement for the real thing.
That's merely because it's not cost effective to send somebody that's making a minimum of minimum wage over to your house to retrieve the book. Around here, it's cheaper to just write off the cost of the book, or more likely send it to collections. Most of the books they lend weren't $20 new.
If it were cost effective, they probably would do so.
That was my reaction. The iPad is not an ereader, you might as well just read on a laptop as the iPad screen has most of the same drawbacks. Sure, it's slightly more convenient, but not by much.
The least they could do is support ADE which is a bit more widely available and perfectly suitable for library use.
And for those of us lucky enough to have a good library, we have access to much of the Safari library. It's kind of annoying because it's web only, but it's still a great resource that some public libraries offer.
I personally prefer to buy books from O'reilly and Smashwords when I can, because of the lack of DRM. O'reilly is nice in that I can use dropbox to download updated copies of my books.
Only 10? Ouch, my library allows me to check out 25 books at a time. And that's actively checked out, not ones that I have on hold. I'm guessing the libraries aren't as well funded where you live.
Depends on the selection and where you live. Around here we have a ton of readers, but the library system is good enough that the selection here is going to have to be incredible to make it worthwhile.
But, for people in parts of the country that aren't as well educated and aren't as interested in reading, this might be a good deal, as the libraries there are probably not as good, and access to ebooks through the library might not be possible.
The other thing is that a service like this might be useful if they can guarantee access when you want it. I know that the local library only has a limited number of copies of digital books available, which is stupid, but it can mean waiting a rather long time for popular ebooks.
If you can't see the difference between firearms and those things, I have better things to do with my time than argue.
Pills, rope and walking into the ocean are not even remotely the same. Taking a firearm that you already have, putting it in your mouth and pulling the trigger is pretty much the easiest and most effective method. It's 100% fatal and takes only a couple seconds. Which isn't the case with any of those other things.
With pills and knives, people do change their mind and get help after attempting suicide. And rope, requires a fair amount of work to use.
Bottom line here is that Australia hasn't had a single mass shooting since they locked down on the firearm availability, and that's been over a decade at this point. Just because you choose to believe that isn't possible, doesn't mean that it isn't.
Those other methods aren't as convenient or expedient. In order to hang, you have to tie the knot and locate someplace to hang it from. Similar for jumping, you have to go someplace to do it, and many times people are deterred by the wait.
Guns, are fast and effective. They're easily accessible as well. Which, with the possible exception of blades, isn't the case with any of the others.
In terms of poison, that's inevitable, unlike firearms, it's impossible to completely remove poisonous substances from the environment. However, most poisonous substances permit the poisoned to seek help. A firearm, will kill a person instantly and without any method of preventing the death.
Honestly, these sorts of bullshit rationalizations just make gun nuts look, well, nuts.
AES consists of well studied algorithms. Whether or not the NSA recommends it, it's still known to be secure by independent researchers. From what I understand the only breaks to it are marginally better than brute force, and not likely to result in the data becoming available in a useful period of time.
You do, but if you're that worried, there's always truecrypt and keepassx. If you keep the database in a truecrypt encrypted partition, the NSA can't get at that with any reasonable period of time. You can also ditch the keepassx and just store it as plain text in the encrypted partition, but that's not very convenient.
Indeed, with digital you've still got bit rot to worry about, but as long as you've got backups, monitor the backups and transfer to a more recent storage medium from time to time, you shouldn't ever be caught in the position of not being able to read the files.
It also becomes trivial to store multiple copies of the same file in different locations.
You must be a gun nut. Requiring that they also get the uniform on top of the weapon would greatly reduce the likelihood of a shooting spree. What's more, it would cut gun related suicides down to practically nothing.
There is no perfect solution, but that does not mean that we shouldn't be looking for better solutions. And ultimately, the more inconvenient it is to procure the necessary supplies, the more likely it is that somebody is going to notice something suspicious before it happens.
It's not debatable. The PRC has a population of well over 1b people, and so there's at least 9 people that don't speak Cantonese for every one that does. Mandarin itself is the Chinese that's most likely to work in any given region of China.
Outside of Guangdong and Hong Kong, Cantonese is of no use. In fact even the colleagues I had in Guangdong were pretty clear about the fact that Mandarin is the one to learn, if you're not planning on staying in that region permanently.
But, more than that, you're assuming that none of those people know Mandarin. Well, guess what, they're supposed to be getting their schooling in Mandarin because it is the official language of China. There are no other languages in China that are as prevalent as Mandarin Chinese is. In fact, if a Chinese person asks you if you know Chinese, they're not talking about Cantonese, they're talking specifically about standard Chinese, which is Mandarin.
King County doesn't have police, King County has a Sheriff's Department. I'm guessing that you're making this up, because I'd imagine that if I were ever arrested that I would at least remember the name of the department.
What's more, polygraphs aren't admissible in court, regardless of what the results are. So, either you're lying or you had a really shitty attorney.
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I'm not sure what the person's problem is. It works fine for me when I hold it using my thumb, middle finger and pinky.
The rules probably aren't as strict in the US. However, this is such an egregious example, that it's going to be a slam dunk. I'm guessing that Apple will wind up settling as half of a season isn't the same as a season. Especially if previous seasons were sold at a similar price.
It does get a bit funny as it's relatively common for cable series to do 2 seasons a year rather than one long season, so that's a potential out. However, if that's a change from previous seasons, which it sounds like it was, then they would still have to properly advertise that it's a shortened season.
And precisely when is the last time any feminist organization spoke out about it?
Serious question, I can't recall any women's group ever mentioning it.
But no one actually cares about feminist blogs.
FTFY
That was true 50 years ago. These days, there's very little actual feminism left.
As for those blogs, I won't go there any more because it's mostly man bashing and tripe about how women deserve things that they haven't earned. Back in the '60s and '70s there was far more insight in the movement. These days, it's common to prevent opposing views because they somehow damage the movement. And it's popular to view women as underpaid and under-compensated, but not to bother looking too closely at the figures, because they're not on their side. And to claim that the average woman is spending tons more time on home related work, when the average woman only does about 1 extra hour, hardly the thousands of hours a year that the bloggers would have you believe.
Any man that's a feminist is a turn coat that should be avoided. Sort of like those self hating Jews. Never trust anybody that's learned to hate their own kind.
That's called selection bias. Whenever I see it around here, it's generally women. Mainly because men are too afraid of having a spurious law suit filed against them.
Most of the lectures on equal rights are really just a cover for feminist propaganda. Tons of statistics taken out of context and god help any that bother to point out that there's cherry picking going on to make things look bad for women.
Objectification of women is conventionally considered sexism. Objectification of men is just hunky dory. Seems to me that women ought to clean their own house before bitching about when men do it. Or at least make some meaningful effort to do so.
Not to mention all the TV, movies and video games that reduce the role of a man to a paycheck or cannon fodder.
Umm, I don't know about you, but when I stare at tits, I prefer them to be female tits. Moobs are just nasty.
So, they removed the nicotine then? Oh, wait, they didn't.
As long as they include nicotine, it's complete horseshit to suggest that they're safe. Because, nicotine itself is highly addictive and carries it's own health risks.
They're not safe. They're safer. Which is a big difference. I met a seller of e-cigs a while back and he was pretty clear that e-cigs aren't an excuse to start smoking, they're a safer replacement for the real thing.
That's merely because it's not cost effective to send somebody that's making a minimum of minimum wage over to your house to retrieve the book. Around here, it's cheaper to just write off the cost of the book, or more likely send it to collections. Most of the books they lend weren't $20 new.
If it were cost effective, they probably would do so.
They could have used ADE and then it would be available for all of the platforms. Seems like a problem of NIH.
That was my reaction. The iPad is not an ereader, you might as well just read on a laptop as the iPad screen has most of the same drawbacks. Sure, it's slightly more convenient, but not by much.
The least they could do is support ADE which is a bit more widely available and perfectly suitable for library use.
And for those of us lucky enough to have a good library, we have access to much of the Safari library. It's kind of annoying because it's web only, but it's still a great resource that some public libraries offer.
I personally prefer to buy books from O'reilly and Smashwords when I can, because of the lack of DRM. O'reilly is nice in that I can use dropbox to download updated copies of my books.
Only 10? Ouch, my library allows me to check out 25 books at a time. And that's actively checked out, not ones that I have on hold. I'm guessing the libraries aren't as well funded where you live.
Depends on the selection and where you live. Around here we have a ton of readers, but the library system is good enough that the selection here is going to have to be incredible to make it worthwhile.
But, for people in parts of the country that aren't as well educated and aren't as interested in reading, this might be a good deal, as the libraries there are probably not as good, and access to ebooks through the library might not be possible.
The other thing is that a service like this might be useful if they can guarantee access when you want it. I know that the local library only has a limited number of copies of digital books available, which is stupid, but it can mean waiting a rather long time for popular ebooks.
If you can't see the difference between firearms and those things, I have better things to do with my time than argue.
Pills, rope and walking into the ocean are not even remotely the same. Taking a firearm that you already have, putting it in your mouth and pulling the trigger is pretty much the easiest and most effective method. It's 100% fatal and takes only a couple seconds. Which isn't the case with any of those other things.
With pills and knives, people do change their mind and get help after attempting suicide. And rope, requires a fair amount of work to use.
Because he wouldn't have a gun.
Bottom line here is that Australia hasn't had a single mass shooting since they locked down on the firearm availability, and that's been over a decade at this point. Just because you choose to believe that isn't possible, doesn't mean that it isn't.
Those other methods aren't as convenient or expedient. In order to hang, you have to tie the knot and locate someplace to hang it from. Similar for jumping, you have to go someplace to do it, and many times people are deterred by the wait.
Guns, are fast and effective. They're easily accessible as well. Which, with the possible exception of blades, isn't the case with any of the others.
In terms of poison, that's inevitable, unlike firearms, it's impossible to completely remove poisonous substances from the environment. However, most poisonous substances permit the poisoned to seek help. A firearm, will kill a person instantly and without any method of preventing the death.
Honestly, these sorts of bullshit rationalizations just make gun nuts look, well, nuts.
AES consists of well studied algorithms. Whether or not the NSA recommends it, it's still known to be secure by independent researchers. From what I understand the only breaks to it are marginally better than brute force, and not likely to result in the data becoming available in a useful period of time.
You do, but if you're that worried, there's always truecrypt and keepassx. If you keep the database in a truecrypt encrypted partition, the NSA can't get at that with any reasonable period of time. You can also ditch the keepassx and just store it as plain text in the encrypted partition, but that's not very convenient.
Indeed, with digital you've still got bit rot to worry about, but as long as you've got backups, monitor the backups and transfer to a more recent storage medium from time to time, you shouldn't ever be caught in the position of not being able to read the files.
It also becomes trivial to store multiple copies of the same file in different locations.
Right, because obviously there's no way of replacing them and the government doesn't have money for bodyguards.
You must be a gun nut. Requiring that they also get the uniform on top of the weapon would greatly reduce the likelihood of a shooting spree. What's more, it would cut gun related suicides down to practically nothing.
There is no perfect solution, but that does not mean that we shouldn't be looking for better solutions. And ultimately, the more inconvenient it is to procure the necessary supplies, the more likely it is that somebody is going to notice something suspicious before it happens.
It's not debatable. The PRC has a population of well over 1b people, and so there's at least 9 people that don't speak Cantonese for every one that does. Mandarin itself is the Chinese that's most likely to work in any given region of China.
Outside of Guangdong and Hong Kong, Cantonese is of no use. In fact even the colleagues I had in Guangdong were pretty clear about the fact that Mandarin is the one to learn, if you're not planning on staying in that region permanently.
But, more than that, you're assuming that none of those people know Mandarin. Well, guess what, they're supposed to be getting their schooling in Mandarin because it is the official language of China. There are no other languages in China that are as prevalent as Mandarin Chinese is. In fact, if a Chinese person asks you if you know Chinese, they're not talking about Cantonese, they're talking specifically about standard Chinese, which is Mandarin.
King County doesn't have police, King County has a Sheriff's Department. I'm guessing that you're making this up, because I'd imagine that if I were ever arrested that I would at least remember the name of the department.
What's more, polygraphs aren't admissible in court, regardless of what the results are. So, either you're lying or you had a really shitty attorney.