Ah, I see, the Dutch are grown-up, whereas Americans aren't... Racist much?
An ironic race-card - well done, sir. I bet you love defending racial statistics during your off-time.
Maybe, I'm just a child throwing a tantrum
You are.
but if I were, how come I was able to earn any such "resources" to begin with?
There is a certain amount of public resources that have gone into you. I can provide examples if you lack the creativity or vigor to look for them.
You have a cost to society. It's not a difficult concept, you're not a homesteader who thinks your trusty double-barrel is keeping the Cherokee away, though you're like just as ignorant as one.
Remove 400 people from the US population, and those wealth figures change rather drastically. Remove 400 people from the US population, and all of a sudden our median wealth is only giving former eastern bloc countries a run for their money. What a defensible position you've taken.
The only fair way to help customers' bottom line is to ensure competition.
Ok, this is beyond dubious- it's patently bullshit. Though I agree with you it's the fairest and best way.
As to the rest of your post, without pretty major patent law reform, or some other way to encourage the market to drive prices down (Oh, I don't know, allow import of foreign drugs without going through the Pharma Cartels^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFDA), they're virtually guaranteed to abuse their government granted monopolies. The price controls are just an attempt at controlling the already granted and abused monopoly.
The sheer profitability of the Megapharmas would indicate (to my untrained eye) that their crash-and-burn products are about as important to their bottom line as the lawn care.
Last time I did the math, every single hit drug the largest 5 pharmas created, produced enough money to completely fund their operational costs for the next 17 years, and they produced them once every couple years.
To me, it seems like life-or-death vendor lock-in is simply being exploited, as I suppose is their right, until we as a people begin to crack down on their abusive business tactics.
Shot down in convenient sound bites, sure. However, the charges and convictions levied against those who tried to get as close to the President as his supporters (people who refused to stay in the free-speech-zone) were upheld in the court of law.
I think the difference is that the DNC convention was a private affair, while Dubya's successful use of the concept federally to keep protesters out of sight of the duly elected (lol?) executive of the United States, was, well, not.
At first I was going to complain loudly that you are equating the shitty actions of the IRS to punishment of *speech*, but then I realized, that in the post Citizens United world, I suppose unjustly lengthened approval process of tax-free attack-ad fund laundering via "public good" charity status could probably be called speech. Kudos, sir.
While I agree, it's bullshit that the standard doesn't *appear* to have been applied equally, the whole process is hardly an attack on *speech*, by anything but the most stretched measure a reasonable person can imagine.
I don't know, my Nexus 7 2013 feels pretty goddamn solid compared to my iPad Mini- though definitely not as ridiculously solid and heavy as my iPad 4. There are certainly cheap Android devices out there, and not really cheap Apple devices... But I have to say, overall, I like my higher-end Android devices better in terms of build.
Really? I'm not aware of a single Android device that gives you root access straight from the manufacturer.
Really? The guy just explained that the manufacturers support custom firmware installation on several classes of device, and you're still trying to twist it into your walled garden argument? Quit being a tool.
Certainly, since you have a Nexus, you're well aware that the bootloader is unlockable, and relockable- presenting precisely 0 risk of bricking it.
Now, feel free to explain to me how that is not freedom, and how the competition is?
You'll be arguing that lack of access to the baseband also constitutes a walled garden next. Come on, dude. You have to be smarter than the bullshit argument you're making. I have faith in you.
This is so stupid. I'm a senior network engineer working in Seattle, and while I can't argue that Android has the low-end phone market pinned, nearly every person up here with money to blow has 1 or more android devices, and in my circles the weight in phone OS is very heavily tilted in favor of Android. I have an android phone and an iphone (work-provided), an ipad, a nexus, a couple nooks.. In fact, the only people-with-money segment I'd say gravitate toward iphones is the soccer mom's and half-functionally-retarded executives who haven't pitched blackberries yet. How insecure are you in your success that you attribute your tastes to a superior income compared to other people? You're a world-class fuckwit, friend.
Or maybe they hate the interface, and how dumb it feels. The bone-headed things they've decided are not optional. The super-gnomification of every interface we touch. There's a million reasons. It's brainfucked ridiculous to try to speculate why someone likes an Android phone better than an apple device, and the height of human stupidity to try to chalk it up to stupidity or income.
I'm hesitant to call that a citation. Torvalds wasn't being retarded, as that context-less citation makes him sound. That's more like a political sound-bite
Holy shit, where do you live, man?
In my neck of the woods, it's a driving infraction, covered under civil law. Sure there's a threshold where it becomes a criminal act, but it's high enough that I can't really argue with it.
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Ah, I see, the Dutch are grown-up, whereas Americans aren't... Racist much?
An ironic race-card - well done, sir. I bet you love defending racial statistics during your off-time.
Maybe, I'm just a child throwing a tantrum
You are.
but if I were, how come I was able to earn any such "resources" to begin with?
There is a certain amount of public resources that have gone into you. I can provide examples if you lack the creativity or vigor to look for them.
You have a cost to society. It's not a difficult concept, you're not a homesteader who thinks your trusty double-barrel is keeping the Cherokee away, though you're like just as ignorant as one.
It's ok, AC. He was accurately moderated.
Remove 400 people from the US population, and those wealth figures change rather drastically. Remove 400 people from the US population, and all of a sudden our median wealth is only giving former eastern bloc countries a run for their money. What a defensible position you've taken.
The only fair way to help customers' bottom line is to ensure competition.
Ok, this is beyond dubious- it's patently bullshit. Though I agree with you it's the fairest and best way.
As to the rest of your post, without pretty major patent law reform, or some other way to encourage the market to drive prices down (Oh, I don't know, allow import of foreign drugs without going through the Pharma Cartels^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HFDA), they're virtually guaranteed to abuse their government granted monopolies. The price controls are just an attempt at controlling the already granted and abused monopoly.
The sheer profitability of the Megapharmas would indicate (to my untrained eye) that their crash-and-burn products are about as important to their bottom line as the lawn care.
Last time I did the math, every single hit drug the largest 5 pharmas created, produced enough money to completely fund their operational costs for the next 17 years, and they produced them once every couple years.
To me, it seems like life-or-death vendor lock-in is simply being exploited, as I suppose is their right, until we as a people begin to crack down on their abusive business tactics.
Or robots demanding that we prove that WE have one.
Physics, by nature, appear to be entirely random however. Only when viewed statistically does it appear not so...
Shot down in convenient sound bites, sure. However, the charges and convictions levied against those who tried to get as close to the President as his supporters (people who refused to stay in the free-speech-zone) were upheld in the court of law.
I think the difference is that the DNC convention was a private affair, while Dubya's successful use of the concept federally to keep protesters out of sight of the duly elected (lol?) executive of the United States, was, well, not.
At first I was going to complain loudly that you are equating the shitty actions of the IRS to punishment of *speech*, but then I realized, that in the post Citizens United world, I suppose unjustly lengthened approval process of tax-free attack-ad fund laundering via "public good" charity status could probably be called speech. Kudos, sir.
While I agree, it's bullshit that the standard doesn't *appear* to have been applied equally, the whole process is hardly an attack on *speech*, by anything but the most stretched measure a reasonable person can imagine.
I don't know, my Nexus 7 2013 feels pretty goddamn solid compared to my iPad Mini- though definitely not as ridiculously solid and heavy as my iPad 4. There are certainly cheap Android devices out there, and not really cheap Apple devices... But I have to say, overall, I like my higher-end Android devices better in terms of build.
Really? I'm not aware of a single Android device that gives you root access straight from the manufacturer.
Really? The guy just explained that the manufacturers support custom firmware installation on several classes of device, and you're still trying to twist it into your walled garden argument? Quit being a tool.
Certainly, since you have a Nexus, you're well aware that the bootloader is unlockable, and relockable- presenting precisely 0 risk of bricking it.
Now, feel free to explain to me how that is not freedom, and how the competition is?
Troll harder.
You'll be arguing that lack of access to the baseband also constitutes a walled garden next. Come on, dude. You have to be smarter than the bullshit argument you're making. I have faith in you.
This is so stupid. I'm a senior network engineer working in Seattle, and while I can't argue that Android has the low-end phone market pinned, nearly every person up here with money to blow has 1 or more android devices, and in my circles the weight in phone OS is very heavily tilted in favor of Android. I have an android phone and an iphone (work-provided), an ipad, a nexus, a couple nooks.. In fact, the only people-with-money segment I'd say gravitate toward iphones is the soccer mom's and half-functionally-retarded executives who haven't pitched blackberries yet. How insecure are you in your success that you attribute your tastes to a superior income compared to other people? You're a world-class fuckwit, friend.
Or maybe they hate the interface, and how dumb it feels. The bone-headed things they've decided are not optional. The super-gnomification of every interface we touch. There's a million reasons. It's brainfucked ridiculous to try to speculate why someone likes an Android phone better than an apple device, and the height of human stupidity to try to chalk it up to stupidity or income.
I'm hesitant to call that a citation. Torvalds wasn't being retarded, as that context-less citation makes him sound. That's more like a political sound-bite
Without a warrant?! You have a citation? That's... fucked up if true.
LOL. Fair enough
At least with the iPhone, (and I imagine most other phone-based biometrics) a skin-contour finger-print is not what unlocks it.
It moves over to PIN as a convenience for the flaky finger sensor. The "cancel" button brings you back to biometric auth.
Until they press "cancel" upon prompt for PIN, and instruct you to try again with the next finger, and repeat until unlocked.
You sped on the way to the office. Misdemeanor.
Holy shit, where do you live, man?
In my neck of the woods, it's a driving infraction, covered under civil law. Sure there's a threshold where it becomes a criminal act, but it's high enough that I can't really argue with it.
So very fucking true. I'd add Web Developer, Network Engineer, 24-hour support line, and help desk to the list as well, though.
Anyone using !== isn't one either.