That's like saying the sun naturally releases lots of radiation so it's okay to go jump into a nuclear reactor.
Not really. Not really at all. Completely off-base comparision. Solar radiation is completely different from Nuclear Radiation, at least in the form that reaches the earth's surface. Heck, sound waves radiate out from the loudspeakers in your house. Radiation! Bad. Boogy-boogy!
You can't just go pour oil over everything and then go, "Well oil naturally occurs so it'll be fine!" Really rather absurd.
It's rather absurd to wave a caveman rattle around saying 'any oil leak bad' too.
It probably sucks to own a Red Lobster or 'Long John Silver' franchise these days. I remember seeing a sign in Red Lobster on one of the few occasions I've eaten there something to the effect of 'if it swims, we serve it.'
This will definitely affect the big seafood restaurant operations, which probably shouldn't be selling so much 'harvest' in the first place.
Millions of gallons of oil leach into the Gulf every year through natural processes. There is a whole ecology of critters and flora down there that thrive on a certain amount of oil, which is a natural part of the ecosystem. This doesn't absolve BP at all for the huge volume of the leak they have created, but it also seldom gets mentioned by the 'any amount of oil is bad bad bad' crowd who seek to capitalize on the crisis. 'Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste' after all.
Also, the older you get, the more expensive the replacement modules get. My friend had an early 80's Jaguar, and you don't want to know how much the replacement 'computer' for it will cost you. And the chips were more fragile and failure prone back then.
I meant to type 'if the updates are so important, I assume....' not 'expensive' in the above. They're certainly bound to be more expensive as well, of course....
How are these 'frequent updates' tracked? That is, if we buy the expensive new part from the proper vendor, how is it differentiated from the clone part? If the ELMs have frequent updates, are they field-updates, or are you stuck with what you've got when you buy the expensive official part just as much as if you buy the clone part? Namely, if the updates are so expensive, I assume you get them and can flash them to your PIC easily. Otherwise, you're paying for a closed non-updateable chip no matter which one you choose to purchase.
Social vulnerabilities don't have to be 'interesting' for them to be worth manipulating. Embarassing revelations don't have to be 'interesting' for them to be embarassing.
And it's been established in other parts of this thread that the a-Queda material is readily available at many other locations on the internet, including government sites.
No, you can't wave 'al-Queda' around like a bloody shirt and automatically win an argument.
We can own handguns, though. Consequently, we're not facing the epidemic of 'knife crime' that Simon Cowell recently bemoaned.
Being allowed to gamble on the Internet and say 'fuck' on TV surely pale in comparison to the right to express political thought freely. We don't have a powerful set of 'speech crimes' codified in the U.S. and I hazard to say that's more important than the right to be a crude potty-mouth.
I am not sure what you mean by the term 'work.' Your link doesn't establish there is a productive and positive purpose for allowing police to selectively enforce the law. The police are not supposed to be making those decisions. We live in a democratic society, not a police state.
But when, as in this case, it's a manual inciting terrorism, yes, in combination with possession of materials that does establish intent.
Incorrect. Possessing a manual that says 'Anarchist' on the cover does not establish intent. Now, I agree that it might in a court where there was an incompetent defense attorney.
You're correct, in that Marx was an armchair theoretician. He did participate actively in the First International, but mostly he hung out in the library, writing stuff that would provoke other people to do crazy things in the name of 'science.'
I think the GP should have cited Lenin instead. Lenin imprisoned plenty of people for thought crimes.
Or if you have to drop a bill and internet comes up, do you want the hundreds of dollars in applications and gear to be worth absolutely nothing?
That can already be said about your Electric Power bill.
I keep a non-electric pencil sharpener on hand. It's not screwed to the wall, but I still have one or two manual screwdrivers I could use to install it in a pinch. Even a hand crank drill to drill the screw holes, actually.
Right now, if you're unemployed, you can get the Flash Suite for free from Adobe. I guess they figure there are a bunch of unemployed developers out of work who might want to bone up on their skills with a free Adobe suite. It's pretty cool, and you can sign up on Adobe's site for it. You get your license in about a week.
I've seen attitudes like yours as long as I've known Apple Developers, which is back into the early 90's. You like your little sandbox that Apple provides you, and the monopoly on their platform that they give you. There's a healthy but small premium market that you satisfy and your place is secure in it. You're one of Jobs' pedigree poodles.
You probably don't even have an inkling what the GP was getting at when they said "good Apps are a pain for the developer to port". The keyword there is port, and I bet you missed it. Multi-platform. That's scary shit when you're a poodle fed little tins of fancy dog food and living in someone's walled garden.
Lots of good code is multi-platform. Lots of people write code for more than one platform. And lots of stuff is already written and ready to be ported. It's probably not written in Objective-C though, so never mind....
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That's like saying the sun naturally releases lots of radiation so it's okay to go jump into a nuclear reactor.
Not really. Not really at all. Completely off-base comparision. Solar radiation is completely different from Nuclear Radiation, at least in the form that reaches the earth's surface. Heck, sound waves radiate out from the loudspeakers in your house. Radiation! Bad. Boogy-boogy!
You can't just go pour oil over everything and then go, "Well oil naturally occurs so it'll be fine!" Really rather absurd.
It's rather absurd to wave a caveman rattle around saying 'any oil leak bad' too.
It probably sucks to own a Red Lobster or 'Long John Silver' franchise these days. I remember seeing a sign in Red Lobster on one of the few occasions I've eaten there something to the effect of 'if it swims, we serve it.'
This will definitely affect the big seafood restaurant operations, which probably shouldn't be selling so much 'harvest' in the first place.
Millions of gallons of oil leach into the Gulf every year through natural processes. There is a whole ecology of critters and flora down there that thrive on a certain amount of oil, which is a natural part of the ecosystem. This doesn't absolve BP at all for the huge volume of the leak they have created, but it also seldom gets mentioned by the 'any amount of oil is bad bad bad' crowd who seek to capitalize on the crisis. 'Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste' after all.
Obama is the politician who has received the highest amount of contributions from Goldman Sachs.
Now, I am sure there is an explanation for this, which will be forthcoming.
Also, the older you get, the more expensive the replacement modules get. My friend had an early 80's Jaguar, and you don't want to know how much the replacement 'computer' for it will cost you. And the chips were more fragile and failure prone back then.
Do you mean the new distro: Roadkill Linux? I think it's being worked on now.
I meant to type 'if the updates are so important, I assume....' not 'expensive' in the above. They're certainly bound to be more expensive as well, of course....
How are these 'frequent updates' tracked? That is, if we buy the expensive new part from the proper vendor, how is it differentiated from the clone part? If the ELMs have frequent updates, are they field-updates, or are you stuck with what you've got when you buy the expensive official part just as much as if you buy the clone part? Namely, if the updates are so expensive, I assume you get them and can flash them to your PIC easily. Otherwise, you're paying for a closed non-updateable chip no matter which one you choose to purchase.
Is this 3-D too? Will it be played at all the 3-D theatres?
Not everybody is cheap enough to wait until the cakeboxes of DVD-R media are on sale, I think you meant to say.
I bought enough beer to drown in (5 24 ounce cans) for $5 yesterday. Seriously, you pay $5 for a beer? You live in the wrong location.
Social vulnerabilities don't have to be 'interesting' for them to be worth manipulating. Embarassing revelations don't have to be 'interesting' for them to be embarassing.
What's with the monospace font?
No, fucking-chemical weapons are things like dildoes that have a trigger on them you press to make them squirt lubricant.
And it's been established in other parts of this thread that the a-Queda material is readily available at many other locations on the internet, including government sites.
No, you can't wave 'al-Queda' around like a bloody shirt and automatically win an argument.
We can own handguns, though. Consequently, we're not facing the epidemic of 'knife crime' that Simon Cowell recently bemoaned.
Being allowed to gamble on the Internet and say 'fuck' on TV surely pale in comparison to the right to express political thought freely. We don't have a powerful set of 'speech crimes' codified in the U.S. and I hazard to say that's more important than the right to be a crude potty-mouth.
I am not sure what you mean by the term 'work.' Your link doesn't establish there is a productive and positive purpose for allowing police to selectively enforce the law. The police are not supposed to be making those decisions. We live in a democratic society, not a police state.
It is if you're ethical and follow the 'use everything you kill' credo.
Lots of vegetarians are very smug about credos like that.
But when, as in this case, it's a manual inciting terrorism, yes, in combination with possession of materials that does establish intent.
Incorrect. Possessing a manual that says 'Anarchist' on the cover does not establish intent. Now, I agree that it might in a court where there was an incompetent defense attorney.
You're correct, in that Marx was an armchair theoretician. He did participate actively in the First International, but mostly he hung out in the library, writing stuff that would provoke other people to do crazy things in the name of 'science.'
I think the GP should have cited Lenin instead. Lenin imprisoned plenty of people for thought crimes.
So you openly propose oppression and suppression of free speech is a good thing. Free speech is good 'in theory' but not in practice.
Well, it's good that you're airing your position here, so it can be criticized. Loudly, I might add.
I'd invision an Ipohone hooked up, programming it to use its GPS and accelerometers then a simple bit of code...
Unfortunately, your program would be lost in a sea of Fart Apps in the App Store.
Similarly, a company that can't make a truck can't make a piano either.
Or if you have to drop a bill and internet comes up, do you want the hundreds of dollars in applications and gear to be worth absolutely nothing?
That can already be said about your Electric Power bill.
I keep a non-electric pencil sharpener on hand. It's not screwed to the wall, but I still have one or two manual screwdrivers I could use to install it in a pinch. Even a hand crank drill to drill the screw holes, actually.
Right now, if you're unemployed, you can get the Flash Suite for free from Adobe. I guess they figure there are a bunch of unemployed developers out of work who might want to bone up on their skills with a free Adobe suite. It's pretty cool, and you can sign up on Adobe's site for it. You get your license in about a week.
I've seen attitudes like yours as long as I've known Apple Developers, which is back into the early 90's. You like your little sandbox that Apple provides you, and the monopoly on their platform that they give you. There's a healthy but small premium market that you satisfy and your place is secure in it. You're one of Jobs' pedigree poodles.
You probably don't even have an inkling what the GP was getting at when they said "good Apps are a pain for the developer to port". The keyword there is port, and I bet you missed it. Multi-platform. That's scary shit when you're a poodle fed little tins of fancy dog food and living in someone's walled garden.
Lots of good code is multi-platform. Lots of people write code for more than one platform. And lots of stuff is already written and ready to be ported. It's probably not written in Objective-C though, so never mind....