According to the Consumerist Apple is also more evil than Microsoft (http://consumerist.com/2011/03/worst-company-in-america-round-one-apple-vs-microsoft.html) And Sony is still in the running for most evil in the country.
Honestly I think this is one of those what's old is new again kind of things. There was a number of years in the middle where the components and build quality at Apple was phenomenal. It just looks like Apple is trying to go back to being irrelevant in the PC market, it's not like they really care when they have the iPod, iPhone, and iPad cash cows to milk...
I tend to agree with you especially when it comes to 90% of the offerings out there. That said I bought from a smaller company that me and my friends have had good luck with for a few years and have been impressed with the material and build quality I got for newer parts and lower prices than I could have gotten from the big guys.
If you want a laptop that is solidly built and has decent battery life (I get more than 4 hours of real use) perhaps you should start looking for a reputable smaller builder.
All of those losses were due to the pension costs they have without the pension charges the USPS would have actually ran about a 2 billion dollar profit.
As is the USPS is not fine because they run a deficit of any variety but I wouldn't be opposed to cutting them off from the treasury and vice versa (Though that would increase the deficit since the USPS pension plan is used to increase tax receipts and thus lower the deficit). This would put them on the same pension funding rules as every other corporation. Of course eliminating one day of delivery and raising the rates for shipping packages to something remotely close to other carriers would solve this.
While I can't really disagree with you since Egypt and Tunisia aren't major oil players it should be noted their protests were mostly without military action and wouldn't have warranted UN intervention in any case.
Actually the USPS is borrowing from the US Treasury below market to fund the pension plan. The pension plan money is actually held an used US Treasury interest free... So the USPS is effectively paying the US Treasury interest on money it is loaning TO the US Treasury.
And if you don't like me calling a spade a spade you don't have to play.
I was trying to take a stab at a reasonable definition. I think the whole idea of legislating this is idiotic but I'll play some more.
If all the anatomy book has is pictures of genitals then perhaps but even a reproductive anatomy book would have more than muff shots. If the entire museum was shunga prints then it could easily be considered that way but again last I checked most museums have more than one exhibit.
Also you seemed to miss part of the definition. "A website with a primary or secondary purpose of providing entertainment through real or simulated erotic media." Anatomy and STD books are for education...
You do realize that the USPS gets exactly $0.00 from your taxes right? Not even a penny. Whether or not the USPS exists has absolutely no effect on the national debt. In fact even their retirements are PRE-funded so it is impossible for them to have unfunded pension issues... This is a potential revenue source for the USPS. Weather services, scientists, and others could "rent" access to the sensor information for a small nominal fee.
This also has the potential to greatly expand the available data points for any number of things and could greatly increase our ability to understand or predict natural phenomenon.
Of course people like you who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about will probably ruin the opportunity for those that aren't completely uninformed idiots.
I was thinking along the lines of percentage of content not intent of the material. So if erotic material was in the top 2 as a percentage of content then it would qualify.
As I said it would very easily be abused. Especially if you talk about a retailer like Victoria's Secret.
I personally don't think we needed.xxx but don't have an issue with it existing either.
How does "A website with a primary or secondary purpose of providing entertainment through real or simulated erotic media. Erotic includes but is not limited to exposed genitals and sexual acts. Media includes but is not limited to images, videos, and audio files."
Not perfect, will certainly be abused, but could be a starting point for something like this. I don't think 4chan should be forced on to.xxx but tube8 probably could be.
Or people could just leave it the hell alone, we have a new TLD that can provide an easy way to sort things should people want to.
Actually it typically resolves #3 as well. All of the information is on the check for the computer to automatically record and process it. The MOST a person would have to do is manually enter the value if the hand writing is particularly poor.
We don't help them as much but there is still a basis for being called socialist, just not as much as the raving idiots like Glenn Beck would have you believe. There is still quite a bit of help for the poor. It's the middle class and lower middle class who get fucked here.
It is a cost comparison issue. When the time cost to "punt and reload" is lower than the time costs of further troubleshooting that is the correct solution to the problem. Having virtual servers makes it easier and quicker to reload a server by having a default image on stand-by so it makes less troubleshooting worth the time.
That said only a very poor admin would discard the old image without discovering the root cause of the issues in order to prevent it from happening again. Thus saving future troubleshooting costs in an offline environment. Thats what dev servers are there for.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm suspecting you're not telephone help desk support which is what I suspect he was referring to when he said tech support. You probably have the knowledge and skills to go to the site of a problem more complex than "plug it in" or "turn it off and on again" diagnose and then fix it. I find a large amount of satisfaction in being able to know my systems well enough to go to them and fix them.
Good it wasn't just me. I thought I had missed something momentous and it turns out I just missed an idiot talking about something he doesn't understand.
Because they take a direct portion of the sale price of the app. Apple's policies do not matter in anyway. There is no policy that they have or could have that says we can profit from "theft." Their policies aren't the most friendly to consumer rights but there is nothing they have that suggests they are above the law (except on the occasion where the law hasn't actually been defined). You of course are welcome to produce such policies to correct me however.
Actually at this point if Apple doesn't do something to remedy this they can be found to be facilitating copyright infringement and things could get fun.
Because maybe just maybe Benjamin Blakely isn't the one who submitted it. Some other/. reader saw it and just linked to his album would have worked the same way...
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According to the Consumerist Apple is also more evil than Microsoft (http://consumerist.com/2011/03/worst-company-in-america-round-one-apple-vs-microsoft.html) And Sony is still in the running for most evil in the country.
Honestly I think this is one of those what's old is new again kind of things. There was a number of years in the middle where the components and build quality at Apple was phenomenal. It just looks like Apple is trying to go back to being irrelevant in the PC market, it's not like they really care when they have the iPod, iPhone, and iPad cash cows to milk...
I tend to agree with you especially when it comes to 90% of the offerings out there. That said I bought from a smaller company that me and my friends have had good luck with for a few years and have been impressed with the material and build quality I got for newer parts and lower prices than I could have gotten from the big guys.
If you want a laptop that is solidly built and has decent battery life (I get more than 4 hours of real use) perhaps you should start looking for a reputable smaller builder.
Pretty much. Which is why there is no Do Not Mail list...
All of those losses were due to the pension costs they have without the pension charges the USPS would have actually ran about a 2 billion dollar profit.
As is the USPS is not fine because they run a deficit of any variety but I wouldn't be opposed to cutting them off from the treasury and vice versa (Though that would increase the deficit since the USPS pension plan is used to increase tax receipts and thus lower the deficit). This would put them on the same pension funding rules as every other corporation. Of course eliminating one day of delivery and raising the rates for shipping packages to something remotely close to other carriers would solve this.
While I can't really disagree with you since Egypt and Tunisia aren't major oil players it should be noted their protests were mostly without military action and wouldn't have warranted UN intervention in any case.
Actually the USPS is borrowing from the US Treasury below market to fund the pension plan. The pension plan money is actually held an used US Treasury interest free... So the USPS is effectively paying the US Treasury interest on money it is loaning TO the US Treasury.
And if you don't like me calling a spade a spade you don't have to play.
I was trying to take a stab at a reasonable definition. I think the whole idea of legislating this is idiotic but I'll play some more.
If all the anatomy book has is pictures of genitals then perhaps but even a reproductive anatomy book would have more than muff shots. If the entire museum was shunga prints then it could easily be considered that way but again last I checked most museums have more than one exhibit.
Also you seemed to miss part of the definition. "A website with a primary or secondary purpose of providing entertainment through real or simulated erotic media." Anatomy and STD books are for education...
You do realize that the USPS gets exactly $0.00 from your taxes right? Not even a penny. Whether or not the USPS exists has absolutely no effect on the national debt. In fact even their retirements are PRE-funded so it is impossible for them to have unfunded pension issues... This is a potential revenue source for the USPS. Weather services, scientists, and others could "rent" access to the sensor information for a small nominal fee.
This also has the potential to greatly expand the available data points for any number of things and could greatly increase our ability to understand or predict natural phenomenon.
Of course people like you who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about will probably ruin the opportunity for those that aren't completely uninformed idiots.
I was thinking along the lines of percentage of content not intent of the material. So if erotic material was in the top 2 as a percentage of content then it would qualify.
As I said it would very easily be abused. Especially if you talk about a retailer like Victoria's Secret.
I personally don't think we needed .xxx but don't have an issue with it existing either.
How does "A website with a primary or secondary purpose of providing entertainment through real or simulated erotic media. Erotic includes but is not limited to exposed genitals and sexual acts. Media includes but is not limited to images, videos, and audio files."
Not perfect, will certainly be abused, but could be a starting point for something like this. I don't think 4chan should be forced on to .xxx but tube8 probably could be.
Or people could just leave it the hell alone, we have a new TLD that can provide an easy way to sort things should people want to.
Actually it typically resolves #3 as well. All of the information is on the check for the computer to automatically record and process it. The MOST a person would have to do is manually enter the value if the hand writing is particularly poor.
Sweet! That was one of the major road blocks to me jumping to Chrome full time.
No! Not the Waffles!
Does Adblock work properly on Chrome yet? Last I knew you still had to download the ads and it just prevented them from being displayed...
Except 2015 would make it closer to 10 years than 5...
So many ratings so few points, you sir are:
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+1 Funny
+1 Insightful
+1 Informative
We don't help them as much but there is still a basis for being called socialist, just not as much as the raving idiots like Glenn Beck would have you believe. There is still quite a bit of help for the poor. It's the middle class and lower middle class who get fucked here.
It is a cost comparison issue. When the time cost to "punt and reload" is lower than the time costs of further troubleshooting that is the correct solution to the problem. Having virtual servers makes it easier and quicker to reload a server by having a default image on stand-by so it makes less troubleshooting worth the time.
That said only a very poor admin would discard the old image without discovering the root cause of the issues in order to prevent it from happening again. Thus saving future troubleshooting costs in an offline environment. Thats what dev servers are there for.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm suspecting you're not telephone help desk support which is what I suspect he was referring to when he said tech support. You probably have the knowledge and skills to go to the site of a problem more complex than "plug it in" or "turn it off and on again" diagnose and then fix it. I find a large amount of satisfaction in being able to know my systems well enough to go to them and fix them.
Good it wasn't just me. I thought I had missed something momentous and it turns out I just missed an idiot talking about something he doesn't understand.
Fair enough. I had assumed it had gotten past the whiny email stage. If it hasn't or doesn't then it's not Apple's fault.
Because they take a direct portion of the sale price of the app. Apple's policies do not matter in anyway. There is no policy that they have or could have that says we can profit from "theft." Their policies aren't the most friendly to consumer rights but there is nothing they have that suggests they are above the law (except on the occasion where the law hasn't actually been defined). You of course are welcome to produce such policies to correct me however.
Actually at this point if Apple doesn't do something to remedy this they can be found to be facilitating copyright infringement and things could get fun.
Because maybe just maybe Benjamin Blakely isn't the one who submitted it. Some other /. reader saw it and just linked to his album would have worked the same way...