I was thinking the same thing. If you ask that sort of question, isn't it incumbent upon you to explain what terms we should be using instead, and also preferably why? Otherwise, you're just trolling.
I thought we had a policy of "look forward, not backward". Or does that only apply to the torturers and not the people who blew the whistle on their crimes?
Evidence? Warrants? Those things are so Pre-911. The government doesn't need those things any more. This whole Megaupload seizure episode demonstrated that already.
And you realize that, if we're going to use your standard, the German state has only existed about 21 years?
It's quite revealing how weak your argument is that you have to cite the overall rate of US economic growth, all the way back to the founding of the republic, to find a standard by which the US is doing (present tense, as in now) better than Germany, never mind that it is a completely specious standard.
I actually thought someone could answer how the US economy is still doing better than Germany *right now*. I guess not.
The two aren't mutually exclusive, you know. You think he planned to be discriminated against? You think he conspired with his victims to make them incriminate themselves?
If one expects discrimination, it's entirely prudent to be ready for it. And yes, to stand up for your principles and do something about it. The unprincipled often don't understand what it means to have principles.
I asked for substantial legwork. Everything you cited is nearly completely automated in the iTunes store, except for maybe a few mouse clicks and drags, and a few graphics in special cases, and certainly none qualify as "substantial legwork". Idiot brigade indeed.
I don't think those articles show what you think they show. Either that or you think liberalism is based around the idea that people hate Apple products.
The labor pool is drying up? When Foxconn is the Chinese equivalent of a dream job? I keep hearing about how Chinese are so lucky to be working at Foxconn because it's do much better than most other Chinese can hope for, those 60hour workweeks and rat-infested dormitories are so much better than what anyone else in China has. How can the labor pool be drying up?
That point is pure bullshit. The US sustained a large manufacturing sector for decades, and it in turn sustained an expansive middle class. The reason for that is unions. Once the unions began to crumble, the manufacturing became outsourced, or the jobs paid less, and the middle class started to crumble. US households now work twice as many hours per week to make what they once did just forty years ago.
The idea that we can't have nice things unless they are made by slave labor, or that the Chinese that make our nice things should be happy with their oppressive conditions, is just bullshit. Apple, for their part, is sitting on nearly 100 billion dollars cash, and could do a lot to improve the quality of life for the people who make their products. The current situation is exactly why we, and the Chinese, need stronger unions.
Furthermore, it's almost certain the prospective employer wants you to agree to certain terms of employment, particularly secrecy if you work in any sort of computer industry these days. If you violated your Facebook terms of use for them, why should they trust you not to violate their terms for someone else?
That was going to be part of my response if I was ever in that situation.
This is what ebooks are made for. Eliminating the middle-man, and letting the creators own the distribution of their own works. I hope this trend continues. I'm only too happy to buy these books knowing that the creator is getting the lion's share of the profits and not some publishing house.
It's surprising because they keep promising they won't do stuff like this, and that we don't need Net Neutrality because the free market will magically prevent stuff like this from happening. It just proves they are lying.
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You make it sound like it would be a noteworthy feat if someone attempted the task and had some measure of success.
I was thinking the same thing. If you ask that sort of question, isn't it incumbent upon you to explain what terms we should be using instead, and also preferably why? Otherwise, you're just trolling.
"We've made precision measurements of the large-scale structure of the universe five to seven billion years ago"...
And they're just now getting around to telling us about it?
There's no way that black scholar would be working at National Review in the first place.
You have to be pretty seriously racist to get yourself fired from National Review.
I thought we had a policy of "look forward, not backward". Or does that only apply to the torturers and not the people who blew the whistle on their crimes?
Reminds me of this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/2/9/
"Twenty million kids are eaten by bats every second."
It's only a crime against humanity when other countries do it.
Evidence? Warrants? Those things are so Pre-911. The government doesn't need those things any more. This whole Megaupload seizure episode demonstrated that already.
A really white, liberal, and fairly homogeneous city. I don't see it happen here. That isn't to say I don't believe it happens. That's why I asked.
And you realize that, if we're going to use your standard, the German state has only existed about 21 years?
It's quite revealing how weak your argument is that you have to cite the overall rate of US economic growth, all the way back to the founding of the republic, to find a standard by which the US is doing (present tense, as in now) better than Germany, never mind that it is a completely specious standard.
I actually thought someone could answer how the US economy is still doing better than Germany *right now*. I guess not.
The two aren't mutually exclusive, you know. You think he planned to be discriminated against? You think he conspired with his victims to make them incriminate themselves?
If one expects discrimination, it's entirely prudent to be ready for it. And yes, to stand up for your principles and do something about it. The unprincipled often don't understand what it means to have principles.
I asked for substantial legwork. Everything you cited is nearly completely automated in the iTunes store, except for maybe a few mouse clicks and drags, and a few graphics in special cases, and certainly none qualify as "substantial legwork". Idiot brigade indeed.
I don't think those articles show what you think they show. Either that or you think liberalism is based around the idea that people hate Apple products.
The labor pool is drying up? When Foxconn is the Chinese equivalent of a dream job? I keep hearing about how Chinese are so lucky to be working at Foxconn because it's do much better than most other Chinese can hope for, those 60hour workweeks and rat-infested dormitories are so much better than what anyone else in China has. How can the labor pool be drying up?
That point is pure bullshit. The US sustained a large manufacturing sector for decades, and it in turn sustained an expansive middle class. The reason for that is unions. Once the unions began to crumble, the manufacturing became outsourced, or the jobs paid less, and the middle class started to crumble. US households now work twice as many hours per week to make what they once did just forty years ago.
The idea that we can't have nice things unless they are made by slave labor, or that the Chinese that make our nice things should be happy with their oppressive conditions, is just bullshit. Apple, for their part, is sitting on nearly 100 billion dollars cash, and could do a lot to improve the quality of life for the people who make their products. The current situation is exactly why we, and the Chinese, need stronger unions.
I understand why certain things are and should be verboten, but why nationality?
Furthermore, it's almost certain the prospective employer wants you to agree to certain terms of employment, particularly secrecy if you work in any sort of computer industry these days. If you violated your Facebook terms of use for them, why should they trust you not to violate their terms for someone else?
That was going to be part of my response if I was ever in that situation.
Is that sarcasm? Last I checked Germany's economy was doing better than the US's. Their debt rating is still AAA, for one.
What exactly do they do that could possibly be described as "substantial legwork"?
This is what ebooks are made for. Eliminating the middle-man, and letting the creators own the distribution of their own works. I hope this trend continues. I'm only too happy to buy these books knowing that the creator is getting the lion's share of the profits and not some publishing house.
Can I get my money back when the service is inevitably cancelled?
It's surprising because they keep promising they won't do stuff like this, and that we don't need Net Neutrality because the free market will magically prevent stuff like this from happening. It just proves they are lying.
Why would any defendant do that? This whole conversation is dumb because most people are too afraid of jail time to risk pissing off a judge.
The claim isn't that Apple invented the tablet, it's that Samsung's products are knockoffs of Apple's tablets, like Rolox watches.
Bah, I should still be able to use my mod points for +1 Funny after I post a comment.