Frankly, you seem convinced that something happened which is the polar opposite of reality (there have been budget cuts, though not as deeply as many would like and largely offset by stimulus spending, and taxes have also been cut, not raised).
Unless it covers coastlines, which are also borders, and along which the majority of the US population lives.
It gets even bigger if every international airport counts as a border and gets a 100 mile radius 4th Amendment-free zone as well, covering virtually every major city in the nation.
I do not disagree with the premise that unlocking a phone should be legal: indeed, I feel that creating criminal penalties for doing so is a travesty, and might border on treasonous for the legislators involved.
But...
I was not aware that Canada had joined the Union and become a state. That would be a legally relevant point of interest.
Yes, actually. In most jurisdictions (I believe that Quebec is one) planning a crime is, itself, a crime. If somebody catches you "casing the joint" you need a better defense than "I haven't stolen anything yet" or you can be convicted.
It is 100% illegal for you to try and force the latch on my window, just to make sure the new one is secure. Also, depending on jurisdiction, that might be considered legal justification for me to use lethal force to protect my home. I strongly advise that you DO NOT try that in Texas.
Arabs, Persians and Europeans have shown that they cannot interact peacefully. There are places in the world where Islam co-exists with other religions quite happily, even places where it has done so for centuries. Religion has much less to do with it than cultural friction which long predates Islam (and Christianity, for that matter), though certainly religion has become woven into the issue as well.
As far as France being a cautionary tale about Islam run amok... yeah, right. Islam is a minority religion in France, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. There is literally no risk that the extremely dominant French culture is going to vanish, though it will certainly pick up a few hints from the immigrant cultures as the younger generations who always drive cultural change assimilate across racial and cultural lines. This is a normal, healthy process which we in the States refer to as "the melting pot," France will be stronger, socially and culturally, once they get past these awkward early stages.
I don't think anyone has ever suggested that either HP or GM was suffering because their IT departments weren't up to snuff. Why should we doubt that many of those IT workers are talented at what they do simply because the company they work for is apparently bad at doing something that is only tangentially related?
So in another year or two Apple will launch one with a sexy monochrome, art deco design and a splashy ad campaign that will do basically the same thing, but look cool while doing it, and in a few months time everyone will remember that it came first?
It happened in Sweden. The US Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, is irrelevant to his situation. So far as I am aware, Sweden doesn't even use Common Law, so the entire concept is simply moot.
One of the worst pieces of crapware I've ever encountered, with regards to hijacking functionality, trampling user-defined preferences, insinuating itself into unrelated software, hogging resources, being uncooperative with attempts to uninstall, and just generally causing anguish and frustration is QuickTime. Last I checked, that's an Apple product and a Mac staple.
So they'll spend 97 minutes having an inane conversation ostensibly about how cool and interesting they are, 10 minutes into which most viewers will either walk away or resolve to hang themselves, followed by 8 minutes of frenzied action during which everything they do ends in a colossal fuck up resulting in their messy deaths/captures/anal rapes?
"Why should the African farmer's effort be wasted on low productivity agricultural work?"
Because when all is said and done, it doesn't matter what else you have if you don't have food. IT professionals are worth shit if they starve to death.
"Why are we treating web advertising any differently?
Probably because we like having "free" content on the web, and "free" content is, generally, paid for by advertising.
Maybe you're one of those rare birds who likes the idea of paying subscription fees or micro-transactions every time you want to look at a website, but most of us are happier with the occasional unobtrusive banner ad.
Ah yes, the No True Scotsman defense, that's solid.
Sorry guy, but I remember the Atlanta Summer Games bombing, the OKC bombing, and numerous other acts of terrorism and assassination carried out by American Christians during the past 20 years. I'll believe that Christians don't do that shit anymore when they actually stop.
I would hypothesize that Bill Nye holds a fundamental respect for the personal beliefs of others, even those who believes to be entirely wrong on every subject, which prevents him from stating that everyone ought to simply agree with him or jump off of a bridge. He could, therefore, protest the forced indoctrination of children into willful ignorance while simultaneously condoning the decisions of adults who willingly choose to be stupid and foolish.
It's a tricky application of philosophy and competing definitions of The Good, but one of a sort that most people are naturally capable of navigating.
A canny reader might have noticed that Leviticus is just absolutely full to the brim with sins, and a canny observer of human behavior might surmise that virtually no one can live their whole lives without indulging in at least a couple of the Big 7 (envy, lust, wrath, greed, sloth, gluttony, pride)... especially since the sin in each of those is simply experiencing the thought or emotion. If you're ever been upset because someone else ate the last scallop wrapped in bacon, you've committed at least four to five sins right there.
Beyond that, the Original Sin was a willful violation of God's instruction. The details are illustrative, but hardly necessary for the message to resonate. Evolution, in any event, does nothing to contradict that part of Genesis... it posits that Eve was not likely made from Adam's rib, but has very little to say regarding whether or not she ate an apple.
"Are they claiming IRL, working hard is meaningless?"
This may sound strange, counter-intuitive, pessimistic, and maybe a even a bit misanthropic... but in many, perhaps even most, cases hard work _is_ completely meaningless. Most people who work hard for their entire lives, try their best to live within the law and their own ethical guidelines end up with shit to show for it, at least in a purely objective sense. When your boss' boss' boss loots the pension fund to buy a South Asian island populated with underage hookers, it doesn't matter how hard you worked or how good a person you are: that fuckbag just fucked you even harder than he fucks his 12 year-old ladyboys after years of making more then you make in a lifetime, just because he could get a little bit more at your expense.
I would guess and, given my utter lack of experience with coding RAID or even really dealing with hard drives, I would like to emphasize the word "guess," that it is related to the movement of read/write heads.
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Which taxes were raised? When?
Frankly, you seem convinced that something happened which is the polar opposite of reality (there have been budget cuts, though not as deeply as many would like and largely offset by stimulus spending, and taxes have also been cut, not raised).
Please do some research and try again.
Unless it covers coastlines, which are also borders, and along which the majority of the US population lives.
It gets even bigger if every international airport counts as a border and gets a 100 mile radius 4th Amendment-free zone as well, covering virtually every major city in the nation.
Overall inflation has been shockingly, distressingly, low for the past decade. It certainly IS NOT a runaway problem that is bankrupting America.
Why is that a meme?
I do not disagree with the premise that unlocking a phone should be legal: indeed, I feel that creating criminal penalties for doing so is a travesty, and might border on treasonous for the legislators involved.
But...
I was not aware that Canada had joined the Union and become a state. That would be a legally relevant point of interest.
Yes, actually. In most jurisdictions (I believe that Quebec is one) planning a crime is, itself, a crime. If somebody catches you "casing the joint" you need a better defense than "I haven't stolen anything yet" or you can be convicted.
It is 100% illegal for you to try and force the latch on my window, just to make sure the new one is secure. Also, depending on jurisdiction, that might be considered legal justification for me to use lethal force to protect my home. I strongly advise that you DO NOT try that in Texas.
Whether or not my front door is locked, entering it without my permission IS trespassing.
Arabs, Persians and Europeans have shown that they cannot interact peacefully. There are places in the world where Islam co-exists with other religions quite happily, even places where it has done so for centuries. Religion has much less to do with it than cultural friction which long predates Islam (and Christianity, for that matter), though certainly religion has become woven into the issue as well.
As far as France being a cautionary tale about Islam run amok... yeah, right. Islam is a minority religion in France, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. There is literally no risk that the extremely dominant French culture is going to vanish, though it will certainly pick up a few hints from the immigrant cultures as the younger generations who always drive cultural change assimilate across racial and cultural lines. This is a normal, healthy process which we in the States refer to as "the melting pot," France will be stronger, socially and culturally, once they get past these awkward early stages.
I don't think anyone has ever suggested that either HP or GM was suffering because their IT departments weren't up to snuff. Why should we doubt that many of those IT workers are talented at what they do simply because the company they work for is apparently bad at doing something that is only tangentially related?
So in another year or two Apple will launch one with a sexy monochrome, art deco design and a splashy ad campaign that will do basically the same thing, but look cool while doing it, and in a few months time everyone will remember that it came first?
An interesting idea.
It happened in Sweden. The US Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, is irrelevant to his situation. So far as I am aware, Sweden doesn't even use Common Law, so the entire concept is simply moot.
One of the worst pieces of crapware I've ever encountered, with regards to hijacking functionality, trampling user-defined preferences, insinuating itself into unrelated software, hogging resources, being uncooperative with attempts to uninstall, and just generally causing anguish and frustration is QuickTime. Last I checked, that's an Apple product and a Mac staple.
" it was launched at the biggest cash cow not the sanest target."
I dunno, targeting the biggest cash-cow sounds quite sane to me. Not particularly fair, possibly unreasonable, but definitely sane.
So they'll spend 97 minutes having an inane conversation ostensibly about how cool and interesting they are, 10 minutes into which most viewers will either walk away or resolve to hang themselves, followed by 8 minutes of frenzied action during which everything they do ends in a colossal fuck up resulting in their messy deaths/captures/anal rapes?
That sounds shockingly realistic.
"Why should the African farmer's effort be wasted on low productivity agricultural work?"
Because when all is said and done, it doesn't matter what else you have if you don't have food. IT professionals are worth shit if they starve to death.
"Why are we treating web advertising any differently?
Probably because we like having "free" content on the web, and "free" content is, generally, paid for by advertising.
Maybe you're one of those rare birds who likes the idea of paying subscription fees or micro-transactions every time you want to look at a website, but most of us are happier with the occasional unobtrusive banner ad.
Ah yes, the No True Scotsman defense, that's solid.
Sorry guy, but I remember the Atlanta Summer Games bombing, the OKC bombing, and numerous other acts of terrorism and assassination carried out by American Christians during the past 20 years. I'll believe that Christians don't do that shit anymore when they actually stop.
I would hypothesize that Bill Nye holds a fundamental respect for the personal beliefs of others, even those who believes to be entirely wrong on every subject, which prevents him from stating that everyone ought to simply agree with him or jump off of a bridge. He could, therefore, protest the forced indoctrination of children into willful ignorance while simultaneously condoning the decisions of adults who willingly choose to be stupid and foolish.
It's a tricky application of philosophy and competing definitions of The Good, but one of a sort that most people are naturally capable of navigating.
A canny reader might have noticed that Leviticus is just absolutely full to the brim with sins, and a canny observer of human behavior might surmise that virtually no one can live their whole lives without indulging in at least a couple of the Big 7 (envy, lust, wrath, greed, sloth, gluttony, pride)... especially since the sin in each of those is simply experiencing the thought or emotion. If you're ever been upset because someone else ate the last scallop wrapped in bacon, you've committed at least four to five sins right there.
Beyond that, the Original Sin was a willful violation of God's instruction. The details are illustrative, but hardly necessary for the message to resonate. Evolution, in any event, does nothing to contradict that part of Genesis... it posits that Eve was not likely made from Adam's rib, but has very little to say regarding whether or not she ate an apple.
"Are they claiming IRL, working hard is meaningless?"
This may sound strange, counter-intuitive, pessimistic, and maybe a even a bit misanthropic... but in many, perhaps even most, cases hard work _is_ completely meaningless. Most people who work hard for their entire lives, try their best to live within the law and their own ethical guidelines end up with shit to show for it, at least in a purely objective sense. When your boss' boss' boss loots the pension fund to buy a South Asian island populated with underage hookers, it doesn't matter how hard you worked or how good a person you are: that fuckbag just fucked you even harder than he fucks his 12 year-old ladyboys after years of making more then you make in a lifetime, just because he could get a little bit more at your expense.
If tomatoes are a fruit, then how is ketchup a vegetable? Clearly you are mistaken, sir. Check and mate.
^implying running any of that on a Mac would improve the situation
When they do this again in a few years, they'll make it so the rock actually shoots first.
Probably because your sex-ed class taught you what a dangerous and unpleasant job that would be.
I would guess and, given my utter lack of experience with coding RAID or even really dealing with hard drives, I would like to emphasize the word "guess," that it is related to the movement of read/write heads.
Either that or he meant to say calculus.