If you are refering to Itunes you are sadly mistaken. Last spring I upgraded from a Windows 2000 PC to a G5 Mac and all my music went with it. All that I needed to do was deauthorize my Windows box and then authorize my Mac. Everything worked. (Okay, I had to copy the file directories, but that's a given.)
I'm not talking about crumple zones. I know how they work. I'm talking about the fact that SUV frames are stiff and they tend to fold on impact killing the people inside the car. Not the engine compartment or the fenders, the structural beams under the car. Because they are classified as trucks and not passenger cars they are not required to meet the same safety requirements and they don't.
What the person you are responding to doesn't understand is that the Smart car is safer than a SUV. SUV are oversized minivans built on truck bodies and are classified as "light trucks" (or just "trucks" for the bigger units) and do not have to meet the safety requirements of passenger cars. They are built with stiff frames that simply fold like taco shells when they hit something.
Smart cars, on the other hand, are small roll cages on wheels. While the SUV folds itself up and kills its occupants, the Smart car simply bounces off.
SUVs give the illusion of safety. But they are more dangerous than any car on the road today save a pre-1963 Corvair or a pre-1975 Pinto.
And the Beatles before that. And Rock & Roll music before that. And Elvis Presley before that. Before that it was Jazz. Zippers. Buttons. You name it. Anything new is automatically the root of all evil.
Perhaps these people would be better off trying to be good parents to their own children than trying to force the video came industry to do it for them.
They don't care about the children. They care about enforcing their moral values on others. That's ALL they care about. The "think of the children" argument is just a smokescreen to get you to go along with them.
None of this is a surprise to me. I've been dealing with this crap at work for years now. Spyware is teh single biggest headache the ITS department I work for has to deal with. We spend more time cleaning spyware out than viruses. XP Service Pack 2 has helped a lot, and so has encourgaing the use of FireFox, however, at least 55% of our systems still run Windows 2000 and a lot of the resources we need to access online only work in IE.
Of course I guess if you are going to drop the $10,000 to legitimatly fill your iPod
And then there are those of us who have 500+ CDs sitting in our media center shelves. After a decade or two you can build up a large music collection. Not every iPod user is 17 years old.
I switched from PC to Mac after I got my iPod. The iPod wasn't the main reason I switched, but it was the final argument. I was tired of all of the viruses, exploits, etc.. on Windows, as well as all of the other crap Windows users put up with every day. My switch to Mac had been slowly brewing from the day Mac OS X first came out.
And yes, I did try Linux, but I always wound up at the same point after installing it: "Ok, now what?" and never having an answer to that question.
I have little sympathy for people stupid enough to used a CD-Key hack on a legit copy of a product they bought. Why on earth would you use a pirated product code on a product you bought? It's not like the CD-Key was missing.
Why should they give a damn about people who do not pay for their products? Half-Life 2 doesn't need "free" advertising from people who warez it. It's a big enough product that the loss of said "advertising" will mean nothing to their bottom line.
And what have we done since? Defended medical students in Grenada from... what? Sold weapons to Iran, a sworn enemy of the United States, to be used in a war with our (then) ally Iraq so we could fund an illegal war in South America. Get bogged down in a long, drawn out war that tore our nation apart, a war in a failed French colony that we had no business being in. A nice place called Vietnam.
Yea, we did great things in WWII, and we outspent the Soviets, and hell, we put human beings on another celestial body. But we've lost what glory we had.
Or, they could be kike me, with a CD catalogue going back 16 years. I have hudreds of CDs. And every one of them is sitting on my iPod. Don't be so quick to call users thieves. Jackass.
And what the hell does Apple care how people get their music? That's not their responcibility.
Quote the parent: gawd, this would rock, that is if U2 didn't suck after they made Johsua Tree.
And this got modded as flamebait. I thought that truth protected you from being modded flamebait. What the poster said is, IMNSHO, true. Everything after Joshua Tree has been forgettable pop garbage. Souless, meaningless, empty crap.
You don't have to agree with me, and you don't have to agree with the original poster. That's fine. If you don't you post a rebuttal. You don't mod as flamebait because he/she/it makes a statement you don't agree with.
Lighter fluid, kerosene, gasoline, etc... there are tons of options. "Jet fuel" isn't all that special. People think it's some form of super-explosive gasoline or something. Most jets burn kerosene or some very similiar product.
What we *should* do is voice our concerns to Neopets. Or, I should say, parents should voice their concerns. If enough people object to the gambling aspect Neopets may remove it. Content providers who do not listen to the concerns of parents run the risk of going out of business.
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"Hobbes". Then "Krazy Kat".
If you are refering to Itunes you are sadly mistaken. Last spring I upgraded from a Windows 2000 PC to a G5 Mac and all my music went with it. All that I needed to do was deauthorize my Windows box and then authorize my Mac. Everything worked. (Okay, I had to copy the file directories, but that's a given.)
I'm not talking about crumple zones. I know how they work. I'm talking about the fact that SUV frames are stiff and they tend to fold on impact killing the people inside the car. Not the engine compartment or the fenders, the structural beams under the car. Because they are classified as trucks and not passenger cars they are not required to meet the same safety requirements and they don't.
What the person you are responding to doesn't understand is that the Smart car is safer than a SUV. SUV are oversized minivans built on truck bodies and are classified as "light trucks" (or just "trucks" for the bigger units) and do not have to meet the safety requirements of passenger cars. They are built with stiff frames that simply fold like taco shells when they hit something.
Smart cars, on the other hand, are small roll cages on wheels. While the SUV folds itself up and kills its occupants, the Smart car simply bounces off.
SUVs give the illusion of safety. But they are more dangerous than any car on the road today save a pre-1963 Corvair or a pre-1975 Pinto.
And the Beatles before that. And Rock & Roll music before that. And Elvis Presley before that. Before that it was Jazz. Zippers. Buttons. You name it. Anything new is automatically the root of all evil.
They don't care about the children. They care about enforcing their moral values on others. That's ALL they care about. The "think of the children" argument is just a smokescreen to get you to go along with them.
None of this is a surprise to me. I've been dealing with this crap at work for years now. Spyware is teh single biggest headache the ITS department I work for has to deal with. We spend more time cleaning spyware out than viruses. XP Service Pack 2 has helped a lot, and so has encourgaing the use of FireFox, however, at least 55% of our systems still run Windows 2000 and a lot of the resources we need to access online only work in IE.
And then there are those of us who have 500+ CDs sitting in our media center shelves. After a decade or two you can build up a large music collection. Not every iPod user is 17 years old.
I switched from PC to Mac after I got my iPod. The iPod wasn't the main reason I switched, but it was the final argument. I was tired of all of the viruses, exploits, etc.. on Windows, as well as all of the other crap Windows users put up with every day. My switch to Mac had been slowly brewing from the day Mac OS X first came out.
And yes, I did try Linux, but I always wound up at the same point after installing it: "Ok, now what?" and never having an answer to that question.
They said the same thing about audio CDs. And they were wrong that time, too.
I have little sympathy for people stupid enough to used a CD-Key hack on a legit copy of a product they bought. Why on earth would you use a pirated product code on a product you bought? It's not like the CD-Key was missing.
Why should they give a damn about people who do not pay for their products? Half-Life 2 doesn't need "free" advertising from people who warez it. It's a big enough product that the loss of said "advertising" will mean nothing to their bottom line.
I don't know if that iFruit can actually play DOOM3. It looks like one of the older G3 CRT based units.
Not to mention that "Dr. Spock" is a real human who wrote books on raising children. "Mr. Spock" is the fictional Vulcan guy.
I lub you, Mr. Macintosh.
And what have we done since? Defended medical students in Grenada from ... what? Sold weapons to Iran, a sworn enemy of the United States, to be used in a war with our (then) ally Iraq so we could fund an illegal war in South America. Get bogged down in a long, drawn out war that tore our nation apart, a war in a failed French colony that we had no business being in. A nice place called Vietnam.
Yea, we did great things in WWII, and we outspent the Soviets, and hell, we put human beings on another celestial body. But we've lost what glory we had.
That was Twiki. Not that I ever watched that terrible show.
Yiou did notice that this release is for developers and not the general public, did you not? Or did you just post halfcocked without RFTA?
Or, they could be kike me, with a CD catalogue going back 16 years. I have hudreds of CDs. And every one of them is sitting on my iPod. Don't be so quick to call users thieves. Jackass.
And what the hell does Apple care how people get their music? That's not their responcibility.
And this got modded as flamebait. I thought that truth protected you from being modded flamebait. What the poster said is, IMNSHO, true. Everything after Joshua Tree has been forgettable pop garbage. Souless, meaningless, empty crap.
You don't have to agree with me, and you don't have to agree with the original poster. That's fine. If you don't you post a rebuttal. You don't mod as flamebait because he/she/it makes a statement you don't agree with.
That's a hell of an oxymoron you got going there. U2 hasn't done anything worth listening to in ten years. An entire decade of forgettable pop crap.
Lighter fluid, kerosene, gasoline, etc... there are tons of options. "Jet fuel" isn't all that special. People think it's some form of super-explosive gasoline or something. Most jets burn kerosene or some very similiar product.
What we *should* do is voice our concerns to Neopets. Or, I should say, parents should voice their concerns. If enough people object to the gambling aspect Neopets may remove it. Content providers who do not listen to the concerns of parents run the risk of going out of business.
No offense, but the US Government doesn't give a damn about you. Hell, they don't really give a damn about me, a US citizen!
It wasn't a lack of communication that dropped our pants and let the attacks happen. It was a president who didn't care and didn't want to know.