What I find sad is that people can't even imagine an existence that doesn't involve the exploitation or killing and eating of animals. They can't even conceive how it can be possible. You mention it and people think you are crazy. Literally crazy. Like you had suggested turning off gravity or the sun or that you come from the future. Yet, every movie about aliens coming to the planet to eat humans ultimately ends in us fighting back and killing them for trying such a thing. If it's so awesome for both sides, why do we always fight the aliens? "We're going to subjugate the creatures on our planet but goddamn you if you try to subjugate us in the same way!"
something that humans have been doing since the first creature was domesticated
So anything that was done ages ago should be allowed? I can think of at least 1000 things that you would not be happy to have me do to you, that people have been doing for ages and ages...
Your logic and reason will fall of deaf ears, I'm afraid. American's don't care about animal suffering as long as they can have their fluffy little critter around to entertain them, or their tasty hamburger to fill that void inside where a soul should live...
We (as in most of IT) had been trying to get management on board with switching to Firefox for a while now in place of IE for various reasons, and were finally making some progress. Then this idiocy happened. Management is back to being spooked.
If most of your IT dept is advocating for something and management chooses to ignore that, then you have shitty management. FF has nothing to do with it. If you can't come up with reasons strong enough to make management change their mind, their either A.) you suck as an IT dept, or B.) there is no case strong enough because your mgmt is sufficiently shitty. If IE does everything your company needs, then why are you advocating the switch?
Yeah, just like those Al Queda fools. They're so unorganized and inexperienced they couldn't possibly launch an attack on US soil and take out two huge skyscrapers... Never underestimate your enemy.
Nobody ever said Apple software was perfect or bug-free -- no software is. But you can be sure that their development has been far more rigorous than anything a student would do.
Well, those "pixels" as you call them actually glow for a period of time. So what you mean to say is that only a single pixel at a time is ever fully-lit.
I don't see how it's wiretapping to begin with. This isn't the interception of a private transmission. The cops are basically broadcasting their audio/video for all to see. That would be like calling recording a radio show "wiretapping"...
The police are public employees, they are salaried with taxes you pay them. Therefore, you are their bosses and they are working on *YOUR* time. You have the right to record and monitor what they do at work.
Can I make them come in on Saturday to work on some TPS reports? Oh, and Sunday too...
but this student actually finishes it a full year before the combined might of Apple
If you worked in software you would know that 99.999% of students do not know how to write commercial-quality software. Yes they can cobble together a proof-of-concept or something at alpha quality (at best), but for the most part none of this stuff would ever be robust, stable, or correct enough to release commercially, especially with an Apple brand on it. They don't know the APIs. They don't handle the error conditions. They don't have the edge-cases. They don't have the testing know-how. They don't have the testing tools. They don't have the testing resources. Etc... Any fool can write a program and make it 80% "done". The other 20% is the real art, and takes the most time, even more than the other 80%. So yes, a student could very easily write something that would take Apple a full year or more to finish.
Who needs to get real here? What about fat people? People who are addicted to food. Yes, they are slowly killing themselves. Should we incarcerate them until they get reprogrammed to be thin?
I think as a society we have gone beyond the need to wait for severely messed up people to commit a crime before we can lock them up and treat them for the betterment of everyone involved.
Except that we haven't. We don't "treat" drug users, we incarcerate them which is of zero benefit to them or society (maybe even negative benefit). Please don't confuse incarceration with treatment. How does locking up a pothead with murderers help him at all? How does that help his family? You want to lock up people for selling drugs that can be gotten through legal channels, that's one thing. But don't lock up the poor bastards who got themselves addicted. Treat them with medical and social services. You seem to be missing a vital trait called "compassion". Anyone who doesn't live the way you do should get punished and reprogrammed. People get addicted to stuff for all sorts of reasons, but getting to that place in your life is not a crime. It's more like a disease, and can be treated if that person wants. And just like every other disease, if someone doesn't want to be treated they should have the right to not be...
again with the correlation vs. causation...
How about the US Bureau of Justice Statistics report from 2009 that says:
"According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the total prison and jail population in 2009."
Obviously being a black non-Hispanic causes you to commit crimes, so we should probably make being a black non-Hispanic a crime...
Even if the drug trade were legal, we'd still have a large number of so-called consenting adults not hurting anybody but themselves actively hurting everyone and themselves.
So we should imprison people for falling victim to basic human flaws? Drug abuse at it's heart is a social issue and should be dealt with with social and medical programs, not prison time. If I have a drug problem, how is that a crime against anyone but myself? Sure, I could drive a car while high, but that is a totally separate crime, and only one of many many ways to drive a car dangerously. You can't just outlaw every possible thing that could potentially make driving a car more dangerous. Maybe we should outlaw bees because I can drive a car with a jar full of angry bees, and that seems pretty dangerous to me. How does putting people in prison help them with their drug problem? I'm sure that once they get out of jail and their family is destroyed and they can't get a job that they'll definitely not regress back to drug abuse...
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What I find sad is that people can't even imagine an existence that doesn't involve the exploitation or killing and eating of animals. They can't even conceive how it can be possible. You mention it and people think you are crazy. Literally crazy. Like you had suggested turning off gravity or the sun or that you come from the future. Yet, every movie about aliens coming to the planet to eat humans ultimately ends in us fighting back and killing them for trying such a thing. If it's so awesome for both sides, why do we always fight the aliens? "We're going to subjugate the creatures on our planet but goddamn you if you try to subjugate us in the same way!"
something that humans have been doing since the first creature was domesticated
So anything that was done ages ago should be allowed? I can think of at least 1000 things that you would not be happy to have me do to you, that people have been doing for ages and ages...
Your logic and reason will fall of deaf ears, I'm afraid. American's don't care about animal suffering as long as they can have their fluffy little critter around to entertain them, or their tasty hamburger to fill that void inside where a soul should live...
Pets bring a lot of joy to humans, and it isn't bad for the pets. They have their needs met in a way they'd never get in the wild.
I could say the same thing about slaves.
We (as in most of IT) had been trying to get management on board with switching to Firefox for a while now in place of IE for various reasons, and were finally making some progress. Then this idiocy happened. Management is back to being spooked.
If most of your IT dept is advocating for something and management chooses to ignore that, then you have shitty management. FF has nothing to do with it. If you can't come up with reasons strong enough to make management change their mind, their either A.) you suck as an IT dept, or B.) there is no case strong enough because your mgmt is sufficiently shitty. If IE does everything your company needs, then why are you advocating the switch?
Congrats. You win "Geek of the Day" for June 22, 2011!
are you allowed to "lulz" your own joke?
Yeah, just like those Al Queda fools. They're so unorganized and inexperienced they couldn't possibly launch an attack on US soil and take out two huge skyscrapers... Never underestimate your enemy.
TTL chips? Luxury! When I was a lad we had to use coconuts and vine to fashion NAND gates.
"No we're not" != "unlikely"
Asstronaut?
Nobody ever said Apple software was perfect or bug-free -- no software is. But you can be sure that their development has been far more rigorous than anything a student would do.
Well, those "pixels" as you call them actually glow for a period of time. So what you mean to say is that only a single pixel at a time is ever fully-lit.
I don't see how it's wiretapping to begin with. This isn't the interception of a private transmission. The cops are basically broadcasting their audio/video for all to see. That would be like calling recording a radio show "wiretapping"...
The police are public employees, they are salaried with taxes you pay them. Therefore, you are their bosses and they are working on *YOUR* time. You have the right to record and monitor what they do at work.
Can I make them come in on Saturday to work on some TPS reports? Oh, and Sunday too...
Whenever I think of purple I think of Barney. So sad...
Right, kinda like how you can only buy Xbox360 games that are licensed by Microsoft. Sounds pretty illegal...
He goes on to say that they specifically told him that the Apple dev team looked at his app and were impressed.
Translation: "Nice try, junior. Now toddle along."
but this student actually finishes it a full year before the combined might of Apple
If you worked in software you would know that 99.999% of students do not know how to write commercial-quality software. Yes they can cobble together a proof-of-concept or something at alpha quality (at best), but for the most part none of this stuff would ever be robust, stable, or correct enough to release commercially, especially with an Apple brand on it. They don't know the APIs. They don't handle the error conditions. They don't have the edge-cases. They don't have the testing know-how. They don't have the testing tools. They don't have the testing resources. Etc... Any fool can write a program and make it 80% "done". The other 20% is the real art, and takes the most time, even more than the other 80%. So yes, a student could very easily write something that would take Apple a full year or more to finish.
the cameras instead cause rear-end collisions as drivers slam on their brakes
So which is better, a rear-end collision outside the intersection, or a broadside collision inside the intersection?
It should be illegal to even be a junkie.
Who needs to get real here? What about fat people? People who are addicted to food. Yes, they are slowly killing themselves. Should we incarcerate them until they get reprogrammed to be thin?
I think as a society we have gone beyond the need to wait for severely messed up people to commit a crime before we can lock them up and treat them for the betterment of everyone involved.
Except that we haven't. We don't "treat" drug users, we incarcerate them which is of zero benefit to them or society (maybe even negative benefit). Please don't confuse incarceration with treatment. How does locking up a pothead with murderers help him at all? How does that help his family? You want to lock up people for selling drugs that can be gotten through legal channels, that's one thing. But don't lock up the poor bastards who got themselves addicted. Treat them with medical and social services. You seem to be missing a vital trait called "compassion". Anyone who doesn't live the way you do should get punished and reprogrammed. People get addicted to stuff for all sorts of reasons, but getting to that place in your life is not a crime. It's more like a disease, and can be treated if that person wants. And just like every other disease, if someone doesn't want to be treated they should have the right to not be...
Unfortunately your plan requires something called "compassion" which is a strange and scary thing to many people...
again with the correlation vs. causation...
How about the US Bureau of Justice Statistics report from 2009 that says:
"According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the total prison and jail population in 2009."
Obviously being a black non-Hispanic causes you to commit crimes, so we should probably make being a black non-Hispanic a crime...
Even if the drug trade were legal, we'd still have a large number of so-called consenting adults not hurting anybody but themselves actively hurting everyone and themselves.
So we should imprison people for falling victim to basic human flaws? Drug abuse at it's heart is a social issue and should be dealt with with social and medical programs, not prison time. If I have a drug problem, how is that a crime against anyone but myself? Sure, I could drive a car while high, but that is a totally separate crime, and only one of many many ways to drive a car dangerously. You can't just outlaw every possible thing that could potentially make driving a car more dangerous. Maybe we should outlaw bees because I can drive a car with a jar full of angry bees, and that seems pretty dangerous to me. How does putting people in prison help them with their drug problem? I'm sure that once they get out of jail and their family is destroyed and they can't get a job that they'll definitely not regress back to drug abuse...
I guess credit card data is not important to protect