Oh, I see. So if I came to your house and set it on fire and burned you and your family alive, it would basically be your fault because it's your responsibility to build a fire-proof house, right? Hey, I like how this thing works! I think what you fail at is understanding that I am not responsible for someone else willfully committing a crime against me, period. Well, unless I mind-control someone into doing it. Your implication is that the victim always assumes some percentage of responsibility for being a victim, and this somehow reduces the perpetrator's culpability by some factor. Like if I had a high enough percentage of responsibility the perpetrator would almost be obligated to have committed the crime... This is utter nonsense. I am not responsible for another person's actions in any way. Yes, a customer can be wrong if they do something to victimize themselves. Say a customer puts $10 in the jar but then claims he put $5 in and demands $5 back. He is obviously wrong, and responsible for his own actions. The clerks didn't steal his $10. The clerks didn't make him give up $10, he chose to do it. There is a difference between this scenario and the aforementioned rape scenario which I don't think you comprehend. I would say take your "pragmatic approach to evaluating the risk of certain behaviors" and your time machine and go back in time maybe 100 years or so. You would fit in perfectly.
Hedge fund managers don't care is MS succeeds or fails. All they want is a change in management to drive the stock price up, so they can then sell their stock and make a profit.
You can have quarks, radiation, positrons, muons...
There might be entire galaxies of antimatter that contain no electrons
You'll notice I said "our universe". If you take electrons out of the picture, our universe as we know it would not exist. I never said no universe could exist, just the one we are experiencing right now...
Why do you defend MS? You think MS would defend you? All MS wants from you is your money, and they will do anything to get it including illegal things, which I find disrespectful. I do not respect anyone or anything that does not respect me. Bashing MS is shameful? What I find shameful is your willingness to tolerate MS's behavior.
Pool owners are the worst; they're usually well off, used to getting their way, and generally don't understand how construction time tables work. They usually start thinking of a pool in March, or April, and want it done and open for Memorial Day or the 4th of July. They usually don't understand we have more than one customer who all also want their pool done on the same timeframe. Further, they don't understand we can't work in bad weather, which means time tables tend to slip in the rainy season. So inevitably, people get delayed and it's the end of the world for them because they won't have their pool open for their all important Memorial Day BBQ
Did your company explain all these things to your customers, or did they just assume the customer knew all this? These are your customers. If you anticipate that they might not understand some part of your business, it's up to you to explain it, because ultimately they will be happier customers, and your primary goal should be to have happy customers. Explain up-front that there might be permitting delays, or rain delays, or material delays, whatever. Make sure they understand the nature of your work before you take their money. "Hey, there might be ZZZ delay and there is a chance your pool won't be ready by Memorial Day. Are you okay with this? I cannot absolutely guarantee a specific completion date, but I will try my best to meet the schedule." I think for the most part contractors just say "Yeah, it'll be done." so they can get the contract...
he would claim to have copyright ownership of those reviews
I don't think you can copyright a review. I could easily write a program to generate every possible 100-word review (for instance), store them in a closet, and claim copyright over every single 100-word review in the world.
That's all well and good, except that chiropractic is widely considered to be bunk science. Unless you can cite a reference to a peer-reviewed study in a medical journal that shows chiropractic was used to restore movement to a paralyzed person, I will maintain this belief...
Sounds like a smokeout to me. Some older hacked Xboxes are invulnerable to M$'s new anti-piracy countermeasures, so they make a firmware upgrade that totally breaks the DVD drive. Replace the broken Xboxes with new ones. Now they don't have to worry about old hardware that they can't control...
No one decent human being would find the above examples acceptable or defensible.
You, sir, are a moron and a coward.No decent person should sacrifice his/her freedoms out of fear of a phantom hypothetical mob of crazies standing outside his house all hours of the day and night yelling at you. You're afraid of people yelling? Fuck you. Don't impose your stupid cowardly regulations on the rest of us because you're too much of a pussy to handle stressful situations. If there are local ordinances about noise at night or whatever, that is a completely separate issue. Don't try and combine the two to make your argument seem more palatable. Have you ever had a member of your family raped and mutilated by someone claiming to do it in the name of God? Maybe we should make all religion illegal, just on the off chance that some crazy somewhere decides to do that. You don't get to restrict freedom based on what-ifs. What if this... what if that... what if such-and-such... EVERYTHING WOULD BE ILLEGAL... That is the way of cowards, and you fall squarely into that category.
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... they don't HAVE to love each other...
But they have to be attracted to each other, right?
Oh, I see. So if I came to your house and set it on fire and burned you and your family alive, it would basically be your fault because it's your responsibility to build a fire-proof house, right? Hey, I like how this thing works! I think what you fail at is understanding that I am not responsible for someone else willfully committing a crime against me, period. Well, unless I mind-control someone into doing it. Your implication is that the victim always assumes some percentage of responsibility for being a victim, and this somehow reduces the perpetrator's culpability by some factor. Like if I had a high enough percentage of responsibility the perpetrator would almost be obligated to have committed the crime... This is utter nonsense. I am not responsible for another person's actions in any way. Yes, a customer can be wrong if they do something to victimize themselves. Say a customer puts $10 in the jar but then claims he put $5 in and demands $5 back. He is obviously wrong, and responsible for his own actions. The clerks didn't steal his $10. The clerks didn't make him give up $10, he chose to do it. There is a difference between this scenario and the aforementioned rape scenario which I don't think you comprehend. I would say take your "pragmatic approach to evaluating the risk of certain behaviors" and your time machine and go back in time maybe 100 years or so. You would fit in perfectly.
takes on responsiblity for being raped due to her actions
The 1950's called. They want their attitude back.
How do they work??
The only reason I even go to hospitals is for the cocktails.
the link doesn't work
The worms have cut the cable.
Why doesn't everyone flip out when things like those are added to Group 2B?
You must be new here.
Hedge fund managers don't care is MS succeeds or fails. All they want is a change in management to drive the stock price up, so they can then sell their stock and make a profit.
You can have quarks, radiation, positrons, muons...
There might be entire galaxies of antimatter that contain no electrons
You'll notice I said "our universe". If you take electrons out of the picture, our universe as we know it would not exist. I never said no universe could exist, just the one we are experiencing right now...
Does anyone really care? Who is eagerly anticipating PS4? Who even cares about consoles anymore... ?
You cannot have consciousness without electrons
Well that goes without saying. You can't have anything in our universe without electrons...
Why do you defend MS? You think MS would defend you? All MS wants from you is your money, and they will do anything to get it including illegal things, which I find disrespectful. I do not respect anyone or anything that does not respect me. Bashing MS is shameful? What I find shameful is your willingness to tolerate MS's behavior.
TVs and Blu-ray players can't possibly provide the flexibility to serve as the platform for delivering rapidly evolving technologies
They could if they ran something like Linux under the hood.
Pool owners are the worst; they're usually well off, used to getting their way, and generally don't understand how construction time tables work. They usually start thinking of a pool in March, or April, and want it done and open for Memorial Day or the 4th of July. They usually don't understand we have more than one customer who all also want their pool done on the same timeframe. Further, they don't understand we can't work in bad weather, which means time tables tend to slip in the rainy season. So inevitably, people get delayed and it's the end of the world for them because they won't have their pool open for their all important Memorial Day BBQ
Did your company explain all these things to your customers, or did they just assume the customer knew all this? These are your customers. If you anticipate that they might not understand some part of your business, it's up to you to explain it, because ultimately they will be happier customers, and your primary goal should be to have happy customers. Explain up-front that there might be permitting delays, or rain delays, or material delays, whatever. Make sure they understand the nature of your work before you take their money. "Hey, there might be ZZZ delay and there is a chance your pool won't be ready by Memorial Day. Are you okay with this? I cannot absolutely guarantee a specific completion date, but I will try my best to meet the schedule." I think for the most part contractors just say "Yeah, it'll be done." so they can get the contract...
he would claim to have copyright ownership of those reviews
I don't think you can copyright a review. I could easily write a program to generate every possible 100-word review (for instance), store them in a closet, and claim copyright over every single 100-word review in the world.
Thanks. I can now say "penis" in 5 languages!
Ohio is part of the US
Well I can only think of one way to solve that problem.
Han or Greedo?
That's all well and good, except that chiropractic is widely considered to be bunk science. Unless you can cite a reference to a peer-reviewed study in a medical journal that shows chiropractic was used to restore movement to a paralyzed person, I will maintain this belief...
Sounds like a smokeout to me. Some older hacked Xboxes are invulnerable to M$'s new anti-piracy countermeasures, so they make a firmware upgrade that totally breaks the DVD drive. Replace the broken Xboxes with new ones. Now they don't have to worry about old hardware that they can't control...
No one decent human being would find the above examples acceptable or defensible.
You, sir, are a moron and a coward.No decent person should sacrifice his/her freedoms out of fear of a phantom hypothetical mob of crazies standing outside his house all hours of the day and night yelling at you. You're afraid of people yelling? Fuck you. Don't impose your stupid cowardly regulations on the rest of us because you're too much of a pussy to handle stressful situations. If there are local ordinances about noise at night or whatever, that is a completely separate issue. Don't try and combine the two to make your argument seem more palatable. Have you ever had a member of your family raped and mutilated by someone claiming to do it in the name of God? Maybe we should make all religion illegal, just on the off chance that some crazy somewhere decides to do that. You don't get to restrict freedom based on what-ifs. What if this... what if that... what if such-and-such... EVERYTHING WOULD BE ILLEGAL... That is the way of cowards, and you fall squarely into that category.
How does that help the patent trolls buy Ferraris?
At least they didn't put the baby through the scanner...
How is that painstaking? That's like calling writing a telegram painstaking.
Oh man, I could quite happily live off only those little brownie cakes...