You're assuming that the women of the world will suddenly turn into lesbians if they don't need men for sperm. Sorry, that's not going to happen. Most woemn are heterosexual and they would ot bee likely to condemn their daughters to a world where homosexuality is the only option for love and companionship. (Not that I mean anything against homosexuals by that slighty loaded language.)
They forgot reason 11: No one gives a wet fart about high-def DVD. No one. A few videophiles and the usual "gotta have the next bestest toy" nerds love the idea of high-def DVD, but Joe Sixpack (and Sally Sobstory and just about everyone else) does not care at all.
Great. I can see the zipper on the back of Darth Vader's uniform, or the edges of Spock's ears. Big flipping deal. DV-Audio died for the same reason quadrophonic music died: who listens to music in that chair set up just so? Outside of audiophiles, no one.
This is technology without a need or a demand.
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It's proof that our government is for sale is what it is.
Which is pretty much the same thing as what you said.
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It was never about piracy. Domestic/consumer level piracy is so minor as to not make a difference in their bottom line. The real media pirates are the overseas DVD pressing plants that press legal DVDs by day and bootleg DVDs by night.
This is about controlling what you watch and how you watch it. It's about protecting their advertising revenue. It' about making you buy a new copy of your favorite content every time they change formats.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Man, you don't even deserve a respectful responce, but I'm going to try. She's the instructor. She gets to make the rules in her class (so long as they do not violate the law or the rules of the institution). You need to pull your spoiled head out of your spoiled butt and come to grips that you are not in charge. The sooner you do this the less likely you are to die from a stress-related heart attack.
This is one of several resons I let my XBox Live! account expire. I don't mind swearing, I do it alot. It's the constant screaming; racial, sexist and homophobic slurs; the constant accusations of cheating if you're kicking their pasty little asses; the incessant trash-talking and the general meanness and abusive conduct.
I don't play games in order to listen to a bunch of obnoxious children who think the Internet gives them the right to behave like complete asshats with imounity. I play to have fun.
In other words, the product team's very educated guesses were frequently wrong. These were people who had worked on the same product, on the same feature areas, for years, often looking into bugs and suggestions sent in by real end-users.
Of course they were wrong. They're too close to the code. They know the weak spots and work around them. They don't know that's what they are doing. It's like when you've hurt your ankle - you learn to walk in a way that reduces the stress on the injured part. Most often you never know you've adjusted your gait until you go to the doctor.
I've worked on a number of small software projects and I never trust myself to make it as usable as posible without direct end-user feedback because I know that I have the habit of avoiding the less-than-perfect areas of the program. We all do it at some level.
What duality? Oh, that Cartesean claptrap. Sorry, but the brain IS the mind. That's the brain's job. And yes, if we could see your brain at work in fine enough detail, we might be able to know what you are thinking. But that would require extensive mapping of the unique neural pathways in your brain. While we know what certian regions of the brain do, we don't know the exact links in your brain. Every brain is different in the fine details. and we can already control your mind at a very simple level. It is common in brain surgery to stimulate parts of the brain in order to find the part you need to operate on. This direct stimulation has been known to bring up memories, play music, create smells, etc... (within the confines of the experience of the person who's brain is being stilulated, of course). This is nothing new. With a fine enough map of your brain direct stimulation could be used to provoke any desired responce.
I'm not sure bow this touches on free will at all. Or justice.
The problem with your argument is that most attacks on the ignorance of the average american come from... Americans! I am much harsher on my fellow Americans than I am on the citizens of other nations because I know just how stupid and ignorant Americans are. I live in a popular tourist destination and I can tell you that the average American tourist is far dumber than tourists I've met from other countries.
Eyes spontaneously generate? Where? When? Show me one claim that eyes just popped into existence in their current form. They didn't. They developed from simpler structures over periods of millions of years. From light-sensative spots on the skin to shallow pits to deeper pits to rounder pits to pits with lenses on them and the insides filled with fluid. It's not that hard of an engineering job. And you can find examples of these different eyes all throughout nature.
And speaking of eyes, how come we got ripped off in the eye department? Octopi do not have the blind spot you and I have. There are species of shrimp who can see colors we can't even imagine as they have six different color sensors compaired to our three. Bees (and other insects) can see into the ultraviolet. We can't. An hawk can spot a mouse in the grass from half a mile. Can you even see a dog at half a mile?
And the problem with a theory is? Or do you not know what at theory is? It's not just a collection of wild guesses and half-assed ideas.
Evolution is not a thoery. It is a fact. It happens. It is happenning as we speak. The "theory of evolution" (of which there are several) is our attempt to explain how it is happenning, what makes it work. Not knowing how every part works no more invalidates that it doe shappen than not knowing how the insides of a pocket watch work means it can't keep time or that our incomplete understanding of how gravity works means things will not fall down.
I have to ask, which group of anti-evolutiuonsists do you hail from?
The "evolution means Genesis is wrong and invalidates my religion" group?
The "evolution means we're all just animals and not God's favorite" group?
The "evolution means the universe is billions of years old and that makes my life an insignificant eye-blink" group?
The "I'm not a monkey, damn you!" group?
The "if we all evolved from Africans, that makes us all black!" group?
The "if I'm wrong there is no Heaven and death is final!" group?
Yeah, I've heard all those as last-ditch reasons to not beleive in evolution. I don't buy into any of them.
I feel so old. I used to watch the original Zoom back in the 1970's when I was a kid. I've seen some of the new shows, and while I'm no longer in the target demographic, it is still a very educational series.
You didn't get modded as a troll for your opinion. You got modded for expressing your opinion like a complete asshat. You could have phrased your position politely and you might have gotten modded up as interesting.
I will be buying an X360 to replace my Xboxes which currently run as extenders. I have less than 10 games (most bought used). If MS is losing money on every X360, then they'll lose 3x that with my units.
We're all impressed by how cool you are. With how you're sticking it to The Man. With how you're putting another nail in Microsoft's coffin.
Now, pull your head out of your clueless butt.
By all accounts Microsoft has enough liquid assets (cash and prizes) to run for more than a year with *DUM! DUM! DUM-DUM!*no income at all. I've heard estimates of up to 40 billion dollars in available assets before they have to start selling off shares of stock. Your little act of rebellion is like trying to kill a blue whale with a thumbtack. They won't even feel it.
There are many valid reasons to buy an XBox/XBox 360: to play games, to watch DVDs, to chat with friends online, to hack and mod, to cover in feces and throw across the fence into the back yard of that noisy bastard who lives next door. But buying one in order to feel smug because you're costing Microsoft an insignificant amount of money they'll never miss is about as childish as I can imagine.
Exactly. at some point you are faced with the final "Well, where did the FIRST life come from". Just saying that life came from "out there" is passing the buck.
As others have already said, there are already charities for funding treatments. But what is the kid supposed to *DO* while sitting around waiting for his/her week-long chemo session to end? Nothing? The one thing hospitals never have the money for, due to people with attitudes like yours, is to provide much needed diversions for childresn. Something to occupy their bored little minds while they spend long periods of time away from home and any toys or games they might have had.
You know, there was nothing quite like the feeling I got when I read my Thank You letter from the (I forget which one) Children's Hospital I donated a gift to. I'm going to donate again this year.
I smell astroturf, personally. Too many people saying exactly the same thing every time one of these stories gets posted. They've been corrected again and again and yet they spew the same drivel every time. Either they are stupid, fanboys or shills.
The format choice does not effect me at all. I do not live in Mass, I do not use Open Office or MS Office, I don't run Linux, and my word processor of choice doesn't even support Open Document Format yet.
30MB music collection? Son, I've got 15GB, all of it legal. (Been buying CDs for 16 years or so.) And some (not many, but some) videos are worth watching. No, I haven't pruchased any videos, but that's only because they don't have the ones I want.
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You got your X's and Y's reversed. X is female, Y is male.
You're assuming that the women of the world will suddenly turn into lesbians if they don't need men for sperm. Sorry, that's not going to happen. Most woemn are heterosexual and they would ot bee likely to condemn their daughters to a world where homosexuality is the only option for love and companionship. (Not that I mean anything against homosexuals by that slighty loaded language.)
Great. I can see the zipper on the back of Darth Vader's uniform, or the edges of Spock's ears. Big flipping deal. DV-Audio died for the same reason quadrophonic music died: who listens to music in that chair set up just so? Outside of audiophiles, no one.
This is technology without a need or a demand.
It's proof that our government is for sale is what it is.
Which is pretty much the same thing as what you said.
It was never about piracy. Domestic/consumer level piracy is so minor as to not make a difference in their bottom line. The real media pirates are the overseas DVD pressing plants that press legal DVDs by day and bootleg DVDs by night.
This is about controlling what you watch and how you watch it. It's about protecting their advertising revenue. It' about making you buy a new copy of your favorite content every time they change formats.
BWAHAHAHAHA! Man, you don't even deserve a respectful responce, but I'm going to try. She's the instructor. She gets to make the rules in her class (so long as they do not violate the law or the rules of the institution). You need to pull your spoiled head out of your spoiled butt and come to grips that you are not in charge. The sooner you do this the less likely you are to die from a stress-related heart attack.
This is one of several resons I let my XBox Live! account expire. I don't mind swearing, I do it alot. It's the constant screaming; racial, sexist and homophobic slurs; the constant accusations of cheating if you're kicking their pasty little asses; the incessant trash-talking and the general meanness and abusive conduct.
I don't play games in order to listen to a bunch of obnoxious children who think the Internet gives them the right to behave like complete asshats with imounity. I play to have fun.
Of course they were wrong. They're too close to the code. They know the weak spots and work around them. They don't know that's what they are doing. It's like when you've hurt your ankle - you learn to walk in a way that reduces the stress on the injured part. Most often you never know you've adjusted your gait until you go to the doctor.
I've worked on a number of small software projects and I never trust myself to make it as usable as posible without direct end-user feedback because I know that I have the habit of avoiding the less-than-perfect areas of the program. We all do it at some level.
What duality? Oh, that Cartesean claptrap. Sorry, but the brain IS the mind. That's the brain's job. And yes, if we could see your brain at work in fine enough detail, we might be able to know what you are thinking. But that would require extensive mapping of the unique neural pathways in your brain. While we know what certian regions of the brain do, we don't know the exact links in your brain. Every brain is different in the fine details. and we can already control your mind at a very simple level. It is common in brain surgery to stimulate parts of the brain in order to find the part you need to operate on. This direct stimulation has been known to bring up memories, play music, create smells, etc... (within the confines of the experience of the person who's brain is being stilulated, of course). This is nothing new. With a fine enough map of your brain direct stimulation could be used to provoke any desired responce.
I'm not sure bow this touches on free will at all. Or justice.
Damn, doesn't anyone read anymore?
The problem with your argument is that most attacks on the ignorance of the average american come from... Americans! I am much harsher on my fellow Americans than I am on the citizens of other nations because I know just how stupid and ignorant Americans are. I live in a popular tourist destination and I can tell you that the average American tourist is far dumber than tourists I've met from other countries.
Spoken like someone who's never had an idea worth any money.
Let's stop bullshitting ourselves and just admit the truth: you want the sweat of other people's brow and you don't want to have to pay for it.
And speaking of eyes, how come we got ripped off in the eye department? Octopi do not have the blind spot you and I have. There are species of shrimp who can see colors we can't even imagine as they have six different color sensors compaired to our three. Bees (and other insects) can see into the ultraviolet. We can't. An hawk can spot a mouse in the grass from half a mile. Can you even see a dog at half a mile?
And the problem with a theory is? Or do you not know what at theory is? It's not just a collection of wild guesses and half-assed ideas.
Evolution is not a thoery. It is a fact. It happens. It is happenning as we speak. The "theory of evolution" (of which there are several) is our attempt to explain how it is happenning, what makes it work. Not knowing how every part works no more invalidates that it doe shappen than not knowing how the insides of a pocket watch work means it can't keep time or that our incomplete understanding of how gravity works means things will not fall down.
I have to ask, which group of anti-evolutiuonsists do you hail from?
- The "evolution means Genesis is wrong and invalidates my religion" group?
- The "evolution means we're all just animals and not God's favorite" group?
- The "evolution means the universe is billions of years old and that makes my life an insignificant eye-blink" group?
- The "I'm not a monkey, damn you!" group?
- The "if we all evolved from Africans, that makes us all black!" group?
- The "if I'm wrong there is no Heaven and death is final!" group?
Yeah, I've heard all those as last-ditch reasons to not beleive in evolution. I don't buy into any of them.I feel so old. I used to watch the original Zoom back in the 1970's when I was a kid. I've seen some of the new shows, and while I'm no longer in the target demographic, it is still a very educational series.
You know, I don't remember the 9th Commandment saying "Thou shall not lie, save to further my faith".
You didn't get modded as a troll for your opinion. You got modded for expressing your opinion like a complete asshat. You could have phrased your position politely and you might have gotten modded up as interesting.
Gir: Must obey the taco man!
We're all impressed by how cool you are. With how you're sticking it to The Man. With how you're putting another nail in Microsoft's coffin.
Now, pull your head out of your clueless butt.
By all accounts Microsoft has enough liquid assets (cash and prizes) to run for more than a year with *DUM! DUM! DUM-DUM!* no income at all. I've heard estimates of up to 40 billion dollars in available assets before they have to start selling off shares of stock. Your little act of rebellion is like trying to kill a blue whale with a thumbtack. They won't even feel it.
There are many valid reasons to buy an XBox/XBox 360: to play games, to watch DVDs, to chat with friends online, to hack and mod, to cover in feces and throw across the fence into the back yard of that noisy bastard who lives next door. But buying one in order to feel smug because you're costing Microsoft an insignificant amount of money they'll never miss is about as childish as I can imagine.
Exactly. at some point you are faced with the final "Well, where did the FIRST life come from". Just saying that life came from "out there" is passing the buck.
As others have already said, there are already charities for funding treatments. But what is the kid supposed to *DO* while sitting around waiting for his/her week-long chemo session to end? Nothing? The one thing hospitals never have the money for, due to people with attitudes like yours, is to provide much needed diversions for childresn. Something to occupy their bored little minds while they spend long periods of time away from home and any toys or games they might have had.
Have a heart and stop being such a tightwad.
You know, there was nothing quite like the feeling I got when I read my Thank You letter from the (I forget which one) Children's Hospital I donated a gift to. I'm going to donate again this year.
I smell astroturf, personally. Too many people saying exactly the same thing every time one of these stories gets posted. They've been corrected again and again and yet they spew the same drivel every time. Either they are stupid, fanboys or shills.
The format choice does not effect me at all. I do not live in Mass, I do not use Open Office or MS Office, I don't run Linux, and my word processor of choice doesn't even support Open Document Format yet.
Dear RIAA/MPAA: Kiss my hairy, pasty white ass.
30MB music collection? Son, I've got 15GB, all of it legal. (Been buying CDs for 16 years or so.) And some (not many, but some) videos are worth watching. No, I haven't pruchased any videos, but that's only because they don't have the ones I want.