I hate the claim that people "can't afford nutritious food." That is a load of bunk. People are too lazy to buy raw ingredients.
Well it's an easily observable fact that while so many people "don't have time to cook", there's hardly one of them who doesn't have time for a couple or six hours of television every night.
Thank you so much for that, I am definitely going to look into it. If I can have a break from the pain without feeling drugged out that would truly be a godsend!
BTW, I do admire you for taking the time to share this information with me after I was such a smartass to you in previos discussions. Sorry 'bout that!
Thank you yes, that's exactly correct (well, after replacing the incorrect pronouns, but who cares?).
It's the bias (a gentle way of saying fanboi-ism, BTW) for Google yet against Apple that actually makes no sense at all to any thinking person. I can easily avoid Apple's evil by not buying an Apple. Google, OTOH, you'll practically have to give up the internet if you don't want to be affected. And why is TiVo-ization evil when TiVo does it, but not when Google does it? TiVo releases a device with linux and a locked bootloader and the reaction was so severe that to this day people are trying to shove GPLv3 down eveyone's throats. Google does it and they say, "good thing Linus stuck with GPLv2". Total doublethink. Triplethink, if you include the (clearly mandatory) bashing of all "iFags", real or imagined.
I don't own one, I have a Blackberry (see how stupid all the "yer an apple fanboi" idjits look all of a sudden?:)). But in any event the link provided to "control what info google has on you" was given, and it was wrong. Because fanbois of any stripe are generally idiots who don't know what they're talking about. When it's Android fanbois it's the most annoying of all because they're truly a bunch of morons who are deliriously happy to see Linux Done Wrong (just like TiVo!)TM without having any clue how this will undermine their actual Freedom. Google gets away with calling their stuff "FOSS" while withholding the source. The fanbois are falling all over themselves to make excuses, while they gleefully accuse anyone who has a problem with it of being "iFags" (or whatever). It's unseemly, not to mention totally stupid.
Actually, I did. Doesn't say what you seem to think it does, in fact there's barely a word in there about sexuality at all. You're trying to conflate the notion of being "risk-averse" with the idea of being self-limited to vanilla sex. You have zero data on this to share, of course, but apparently you believe it and that should be good enough for me, right?:) Sorry, doesn't work for me...
Funny, I don't see any Android phone geolocation cache controls. Did you even bother to look at your own klink? It's for google accounts, not android OS. Duh.
You're both retards. I am not making excuses but pointing out actual, useful facts. I neither own nor do I desire an iThingie. Now go correct your sorry, pathetic selves and see if you have anything relevant to say. I'll just be here enjoying the crickets...
that was my thought. I was withholding judgement until Apple actually opened their mouths.
apparently they decided to stick their feet into their mouths.
It's called "quote mining". The explanation* for the location data is really quite straightforward. Apple isn't doing anything here that isn't also being done by Google, only the method varies.
Oh, snap! So amazingly original. Happy Easter, troll.
In related news, buyers of luxury cars are also seen as "wasteful, foolish, and ignorant" for not settling for a glorified lawn tractor like normal, wholesome wal-mart employees aspire to own if they can ever get a real job.
Believe it or not, I've actually seen those and they're battery-powered. I wasn't looking you understand, but did notice it in a certain section of a local "smoke shop". There was a brightly-colored blurb that said "BATTERIES INCLUDED!", among other things.
BTW you do know that it's the right-wingers who are into wild, uninhibited kink right? The lefties tend to be pretty vanilla. Though as a leftish person I happen to know for a fact there are exceptions.
I'm inclined to agree with you on most of your points above, except one: I've been dirt poor before, and I ate less quantity of higher quality food. It isn't hard, really. Produce, brown rice, dried beans, even whole grain flours -- all very cheap compared to all but the cheapest convenience foods. The real trouble with the American diet today is that people are addicted to quantity, convenience, and refined carbs. I bake a loaf of whole grain bread twice a week, and it costs less than a loaf of cheap white bread and is far more nutritious. Chop up three potatoes, two carrots, and a parsnip and saute with garlic and green onions in a little butter, throw in whatever else you have in the fridge, season to taste, add a liter of water and simmer for a couple of hours -- dirt cheap, and better than any soup you'll find in a restaurant. How hard is that? We're talking 10-15 minutes of prep time and stirring every 20 minutes or so. People act like cooking is some lost, arcane knowledge, but just 40 years ago instant food and fast food wasn't even on most family's radar. The idea that "I can't cook, I have to work" is a terribly popular false dichotomy. I know these are stressful times, but cooking and caring for your health is not something many of us can afford to do without for long.
Thanks for sharing your pain med experience -- I've avoided them for years now, mostly because I always assumed that once I resort to opiates it's the beginning of the end for me. It's hard though, especially nights and mornings. Natural remedies like alfalfa tabs, glucosamine, CMO, and ginger tea have all helped a bit, but getting enough rest is still damned near impossible most nights.
One of these days I may see a doctor again...
Get real. Anonymous is just a bunch of wannabes who download some "app" so their computer can be pwned by Anonymous and used in DDOS attacks and who knows what else. Lame doesn't begin to cover it. As far as your fantasy of Anonymous having "the power to take down Visa, Paypal, and others", well, as a frequent shopper I did not experience even one minute of delay when those attacks happened.
At the end of the day the great achievement of Anonymous will be to turn the tide of public opinion even more directly against internet freedom than it already is. This is quite predictable to anyone who isn't an uneducated fool.
A lot of construction and factory workers end up with it after they retire, I wonder if it is all the plastic they breathe in.
Smoking is actually the most common cause, but working in a dirty industrial environment could also contribute. A lot of the Fatboi Skooter crowd are suffering from diseases relating to decades of food abuse and zero exercise though. Type 2 diabetes, congestive heart failure, etc. Many of them wound up that way at least in part because of chronic pain issues and greedy, incompetent doctors, as well as their own irresponsibility. From what I've seen the worst possible thing for anyone's health is to not be able to tolerate pain or delayed gratification. People who have impulse control problems and who can't stand pain always seem to be the ones who end up on a scooter. Personally, I have a great deal of chronic pain (rheumatoid arthritis plus an old spinal injury). I take it as a sign I'd better stay busy so it doesn't keep me down. When that's no longer sufficient, I guess it'll be time to start the pain meds.
Except that you sound much more brainwashed than any "iGroupy" I've met, especially since I neither own nor want an iThingie. Oh, I've said it before in many places -- your idiot fanboi brain just can't assimilate it, because it's "the wrong information". I guess I should say thanks for illustrating my point!
I for one, appreciate it. After all, if the Slashdot crowd--supposedly a little brighter than the average Joe--can't get it together enough to know the difference between they're and their then we are indeed in trouble.
Agreed, these discussions are far too rife with self-righteous stupidity like that. If you make a mistake and don't want to know about it, you probably don't belong on slashdot -- real nerds care about knowledge and would rather know the truth even if it means they are wrong!
I suspect that the same people who complain about spelling and grammar 'Nazis' are the same ones who would deride a liberal arts major for not knowing calculus.
Yes, the same ones who call gentoo users "ricers" because belittling is easier than doing. The tyranny of the moronic has become ubiquitous on slashdot.
In each and every one of the cases you listed, Apple broke new ground and created something like had never existed before. Only then did others look at what Apple had done and began to copy them. It's not "copying" just because you make a product that someone else may have already thought of, but it is copying when your version is a copy of someone else's design. In every one of the examples you listed, any products that existed before Apple's where notably clunkier and had extremely low consumer appeal, and the products that followed Apple's successful introductions all somehow ended up looking more like what Apple had created than what had come before.
So, who's the copycat?
It's completely true that Android's UI is a blatant attempt at copying iOS. It's also true that the Android fanbois are every bit as irrational and rabid as any other kind, so here on slashdot you may as well post that in Latin. Actually if you do that probably the forty-two or so of us who get your point now would probably still understand it.:)
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Well it's an easily observable fact that while so many people "don't have time to cook", there's hardly one of them who doesn't have time for a couple or six hours of television every night.
Thank you so much for that, I am definitely going to look into it. If I can have a break from the pain without feeling drugged out that would truly be a godsend!
BTW, I do admire you for taking the time to share this information with me after I was such a smartass to you in previos discussions. Sorry 'bout that!
Thank you yes, that's exactly correct (well, after replacing the incorrect pronouns, but who cares?). It's the bias (a gentle way of saying fanboi-ism, BTW) for Google yet against Apple that actually makes no sense at all to any thinking person. I can easily avoid Apple's evil by not buying an Apple. Google, OTOH, you'll practically have to give up the internet if you don't want to be affected. And why is TiVo-ization evil when TiVo does it, but not when Google does it? TiVo releases a device with linux and a locked bootloader and the reaction was so severe that to this day people are trying to shove GPLv3 down eveyone's throats. Google does it and they say, "good thing Linus stuck with GPLv2". Total doublethink. Triplethink, if you include the (clearly mandatory) bashing of all "iFags", real or imagined.
Exactly like Android, yes. You've got half the information correct. Now, about your cognitive dissonance issue...
Sorry -- you haven't proven anything. Life must be really hard for you...
I don't own one, I have a Blackberry (see how stupid all the "yer an apple fanboi" idjits look all of a sudden?:)). But in any event the link provided to "control what info google has on you" was given, and it was wrong. Because fanbois of any stripe are generally idiots who don't know what they're talking about. When it's Android fanbois it's the most annoying of all because they're truly a bunch of morons who are deliriously happy to see Linux Done Wrong (just like TiVo!)TM without having any clue how this will undermine their actual Freedom. Google gets away with calling their stuff "FOSS" while withholding the source. The fanbois are falling all over themselves to make excuses, while they gleefully accuse anyone who has a problem with it of being "iFags" (or whatever). It's unseemly, not to mention totally stupid.
Actually, I did. Doesn't say what you seem to think it does, in fact there's barely a word in there about sexuality at all. You're trying to conflate the notion of being "risk-averse" with the idea of being self-limited to vanilla sex. You have zero data on this to share, of course, but apparently you believe it and that should be good enough for me, right? :) Sorry, doesn't work for me...
Funny, I don't see any Android phone geolocation cache controls. Did you even bother to look at your own klink? It's for google accounts, not android OS. Duh.
You're both retards. I am not making excuses but pointing out actual, useful facts. I neither own nor do I desire an iThingie. Now go correct your sorry, pathetic selves and see if you have anything relevant to say. I'll just be here enjoying the crickets...
LOL, wired is about as reputable and accurate as the National Enquirer. Sorry, do better or admit you've been had!
It's called "quote mining". The explanation* for the location data is really quite straightforward. Apple isn't doing anything here that isn't also being done by Google, only the method varies.
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Looks like someone's taken his Easter Hallucinogens.
Oh, snap! So amazingly original. Happy Easter, troll.
In related news, buyers of luxury cars are also seen as "wasteful, foolish, and ignorant" for not settling for a glorified lawn tractor like normal, wholesome wal-mart employees aspire to own if they can ever get a real job.
Abacus. It's the only way to be sure you can account for all processes. (I know, painful -- sorry).
Believe it or not, I've actually seen those and they're battery-powered. I wasn't looking you understand, but did notice it in a certain section of a local "smoke shop". There was a brightly-colored blurb that said "BATTERIES INCLUDED!", among other things.
BTW you do know that it's the right-wingers who are into wild, uninhibited kink right? The lefties tend to be pretty vanilla. Though as a leftish person I happen to know for a fact there are exceptions.
I'm inclined to agree with you on most of your points above, except one: I've been dirt poor before, and I ate less quantity of higher quality food. It isn't hard, really. Produce, brown rice, dried beans, even whole grain flours -- all very cheap compared to all but the cheapest convenience foods. The real trouble with the American diet today is that people are addicted to quantity, convenience, and refined carbs. I bake a loaf of whole grain bread twice a week, and it costs less than a loaf of cheap white bread and is far more nutritious. Chop up three potatoes, two carrots, and a parsnip and saute with garlic and green onions in a little butter, throw in whatever else you have in the fridge, season to taste, add a liter of water and simmer for a couple of hours -- dirt cheap, and better than any soup you'll find in a restaurant. How hard is that? We're talking 10-15 minutes of prep time and stirring every 20 minutes or so. People act like cooking is some lost, arcane knowledge, but just 40 years ago instant food and fast food wasn't even on most family's radar. The idea that "I can't cook, I have to work" is a terribly popular false dichotomy. I know these are stressful times, but cooking and caring for your health is not something many of us can afford to do without for long.
Thanks for sharing your pain med experience -- I've avoided them for years now, mostly because I always assumed that once I resort to opiates it's the beginning of the end for me. It's hard though, especially nights and mornings. Natural remedies like alfalfa tabs, glucosamine, CMO, and ginger tea have all helped a bit, but getting enough rest is still damned near impossible most nights. One of these days I may see a doctor again...
Get real. Anonymous is just a bunch of wannabes who download some "app" so their computer can be pwned by Anonymous and used in DDOS attacks and who knows what else. Lame doesn't begin to cover it. As far as your fantasy of Anonymous having "the power to take down Visa, Paypal, and others", well, as a frequent shopper I did not experience even one minute of delay when those attacks happened.
At the end of the day the great achievement of Anonymous will be to turn the tide of public opinion even more directly against internet freedom than it already is. This is quite predictable to anyone who isn't an uneducated fool.
Smoking is actually the most common cause, but working in a dirty industrial environment could also contribute. A lot of the Fatboi Skooter crowd are suffering from diseases relating to decades of food abuse and zero exercise though. Type 2 diabetes, congestive heart failure, etc. Many of them wound up that way at least in part because of chronic pain issues and greedy, incompetent doctors, as well as their own irresponsibility. From what I've seen the worst possible thing for anyone's health is to not be able to tolerate pain or delayed gratification. People who have impulse control problems and who can't stand pain always seem to be the ones who end up on a scooter. Personally, I have a great deal of chronic pain (rheumatoid arthritis plus an old spinal injury). I take it as a sign I'd better stay busy so it doesn't keep me down. When that's no longer sufficient, I guess it'll be time to start the pain meds.
Does it matter? If they're not "disabled" now, they soon will be. People who eat themselves into disability are becoming extremely common in the US.
Except that you sound much more brainwashed than any "iGroupy" I've met, especially since I neither own nor want an iThingie. Oh, I've said it before in many places -- your idiot fanboi brain just can't assimilate it, because it's "the wrong information". I guess I should say thanks for illustrating my point!
Prove me wrong, you lazy dumbass. Do not own and do not want an iPhone either, you tard.
Agreed, these discussions are far too rife with self-righteous stupidity like that. If you make a mistake and don't want to know about it, you probably don't belong on slashdot -- real nerds care about knowledge and would rather know the truth even if it means they are wrong!
Yes, the same ones who call gentoo users "ricers" because belittling is easier than doing. The tyranny of the moronic has become ubiquitous on slashdot.
It's completely true that Android's UI is a blatant attempt at copying iOS. It's also true that the Android fanbois are every bit as irrational and rabid as any other kind, so here on slashdot you may as well post that in Latin. Actually if you do that probably the forty-two or so of us who get your point now would probably still understand it. :)
When the average slashdotter's opinion of me becomes a priority I'll let you know. :)
Stating facts in a humorous manner != "attacking people left, right, and center".