A dozen phones would be healthy competition to appeal to a broad audience; 50+ phones is confusion that will drive consumers away.
You honestly expect someone to think, "I really want an Android phone, but there's just too many of them. I guess I'll get an iPhone instead." Anyone that knows enough to be looking specifically for an Android phone will not be confused by their choices.
How will they know that person said it was consensual
How do you know someone has agreed to anything? I'm sure there would be a line on the form for the designated person to sign.
as well as the fact I thought you couldn't marry a family member.
That restriction is because of the medical risks to children from genetic defects that may be present in both parents. That law can often be bypassed if there is no possibility of having children; I have a family member who married his first cousin when they were both in their 50's or 60's.
I saw a great commercial the other night. I was up in Maine for the weekend, and the argument for banning gay marriage was that children in Massachusetts had started asking their teachers about gay sex, and nobody wants that to happen in Maine. I was almost completely speechless, only managing to say, "Wait, what?"
It's not a "fear." If you are a Christian, it is explicitly forbidden. Read verse 22 here.
Most Jews have decided to just ignore the existence of that verse. The Conservative movement passed an opinion a few years ago that allowed homosexuals to be ordained as rabbis and allowed individual rabbis to decide for themselves whether or not to perform homosexual marriages. I haven't read the entire opinion, but I believe the reasoning was that the laws about preserving human dignity should be given greater importance than a single, rather unspecific Biblical verse. The Reform movement, which is by far the largest in the United States, made these decisions several years ago (a quick search gave me 1990 for ordaining homosexuals, and 2000 for accepting homosexual marriages).
In other words, shut up and give us back our book.
Or how many are bankers or moneylenders in general, as charging interest for a loan is explicitly forbidden too (Psalm 15:5)
Just to be a bit pedantic, Psalms are in no way considered a source of Jewish law. The actual law (I apologize for being too lazy to look up the exact text) is that Jews are not allowed to charge interest on loans to other Jews (I think the actual text uses the term "brother" or "kin", though those are often used as terms for any Jew). This law may have been rather prejudicial at the time, though there are modern commentaries that hypothesize that the reason was that loans to other Jews in your community were usually to help them buy food and other necessities, while non-Jews living nearby were frequently businessmen visiting or living in the area temporarily, so loans to them would probably be a business investment.
It should be a pretty simple fix, though. Maybe simple enough that even the federal government can't screw it up. All they have to do is replace "spouse" with "designated person", and allow everyone to designate any person they want. You could designate your spouse, of course, regardless of gender, or you could designate a parent, sibling, roommate, close friend, or even a neighbor.
Last time I saw an interview with someone who knew about this kind of stuff, he said it was around 35 MPH. That's probably for a typical modern sedan-type car, though. It might be closer to 60 MPH for something like an SUV that probably isn't quite as aerodynamic to begin with.
I got my annual notice about my student loans from my state's program this summer, and the rate went down to 0.98%. It's not even worth paying off any extra amount anymore, since I can get more with even just a CD than I'd save in interest.
Government intervention is the reason that free market capitalism has broken down. Nobody even gets to try to come up with the entry costs because there's no point -- not when Government has already granted an exclusive monopoly to another company.
While that's true in general, it doesn't hold up as well when you're dealing with something that's restricted by the physical world. Roads, sewers, and power delivery are natural monopolies, since you can only have one or very few of each in any given location. In some cases where you can have more than one competitor, such as power delivery or Internet connectivity, bringing in new competitors is highly disruptive to people that live nearby, since it involves a fairly large amount of construction to tear up people's yards or the neighborhood's roads to run new wires.
Like my gas costs, where the old company that got forced to become just a carrier and could not sell gas to me suddenly is half my bill in summer. Now I have this nice maintenance and transport charge for the gas which is a flat fee +some if I go over some mystical limit that stresses the pipes I guess.
Meaning in summer half if not three fourths of my bill is paying the transport layer and very little goes to actual gas or the person who bills me.
Have you considered that such a split of the cost might be because most of the expense is in maintaining the pipes and other delivery infrastructure, and the actual raw material is a fairly low percentage of the cost of delivery?
Believe it or not, it is possible for a company to earn money by providing useful goods or services to its customers instead of shafting them. It's just unfortunate that most large companies go the shaft-them route.
Bullseye. Harassment is harassment, regardless of the medium used. Without knowing the details of the case (not like I'd read the article, but someone else here mentioned that details weren't released anyway), it's impossible to make a judgment about whether or not this really is harassment. If it was just some girl calling her classmate a bitch, then that's called high school. If it's a girl repeatedly posting false or misleading information with the intent to cause harm, then that's illegal, no matter how you spread that false information.
Nothing in TiVo prevents you from taking their GPLed kernel changes and applying them to a custom board that you design with similar chips or even a standard off-the-shelf PC with PCI cards that contain the relevant bits.
I may be misremembering this, but wasn't that exactly the problem? Didn't the software require a hardware key that was only available as part of the TiVo package?
"Positron" is an english word, inspired by "electron," which is another english word that was inspired by some greek words. Positron might be bad greek, but then we're not speaking greek, are we?
It has nothing to do with the Greek. In English, particles are given the suffix -on. ("electron" comes from the Greek "elektron", which I believe is what started the practice of using the -on suffix). "Proton" comes from the "prot" part of "proto" ("first", because a proton is a hydrogen nucleus) and the -on suffix. "Neutron" comes from the "neutr" part of "neutral" and the -on suffix. Photon, graviton, muon, tauon, gluon, boson, fermion, etc. are all formed the same way. "Positron" comes from the word "positive", but there is no 'r' anywhere, so the suffix being added is -ron instead of the normal -on. It's an inconsistency in the naming convention of subatomic particles.
When you consider that way back in the 1980's, people were shelling out upwards of $2000 for a new computer
When I started college in 1998, the package I got from Dell totaled close to $4000. I got a top-of-the-line P2-400 system with a 19" CRT monitor and a color inkjet printer.
Elect-ricity is moving elect-ric charges. Magnet-ricity is moving magnet-ic charges. Seems about as logical as you can get, while making the word actually pronounceable.
Um, no. The 'r' is part of the root from which we get electron and electricity. It could possibly be called "magneticity". I think "Magnetity" would be more accurate, since the root of "electricity" is "electric", but that sounds kinda funny.
People like you are why we have the inaccurately-named positron, instead of the more consistent name "positon".
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A dozen phones would be healthy competition to appeal to a broad audience; 50+ phones is confusion that will drive consumers away.
You honestly expect someone to think, "I really want an Android phone, but there's just too many of them. I guess I'll get an iPhone instead." Anyone that knows enough to be looking specifically for an Android phone will not be confused by their choices.
How will they know that person said it was consensual
How do you know someone has agreed to anything? I'm sure there would be a line on the form for the designated person to sign.
as well as the fact I thought you couldn't marry a family member.
That restriction is because of the medical risks to children from genetic defects that may be present in both parents. That law can often be bypassed if there is no possibility of having children; I have a family member who married his first cousin when they were both in their 50's or 60's.
I saw a great commercial the other night. I was up in Maine for the weekend, and the argument for banning gay marriage was that children in Massachusetts had started asking their teachers about gay sex, and nobody wants that to happen in Maine. I was almost completely speechless, only managing to say, "Wait, what?"
So, because being a single parent is difficult, there should be laws to prevent households from having two parents.
Um, yeah
It's not a "fear." If you are a Christian, it is explicitly forbidden. Read verse 22 here.
Most Jews have decided to just ignore the existence of that verse. The Conservative movement passed an opinion a few years ago that allowed homosexuals to be ordained as rabbis and allowed individual rabbis to decide for themselves whether or not to perform homosexual marriages. I haven't read the entire opinion, but I believe the reasoning was that the laws about preserving human dignity should be given greater importance than a single, rather unspecific Biblical verse. The Reform movement, which is by far the largest in the United States, made these decisions several years ago (a quick search gave me 1990 for ordaining homosexuals, and 2000 for accepting homosexual marriages).
In other words, shut up and give us back our book.
Or how many are bankers or moneylenders in general, as charging interest for a loan is explicitly forbidden too (Psalm 15:5)
Just to be a bit pedantic, Psalms are in no way considered a source of Jewish law. The actual law (I apologize for being too lazy to look up the exact text) is that Jews are not allowed to charge interest on loans to other Jews (I think the actual text uses the term "brother" or "kin", though those are often used as terms for any Jew). This law may have been rather prejudicial at the time, though there are modern commentaries that hypothesize that the reason was that loans to other Jews in your community were usually to help them buy food and other necessities, while non-Jews living nearby were frequently businessmen visiting or living in the area temporarily, so loans to them would probably be a business investment.
Married families are more stable
I think the divorce rate in the United States would like to have a word with you.
It should be a pretty simple fix, though. Maybe simple enough that even the federal government can't screw it up. All they have to do is replace "spouse" with "designated person", and allow everyone to designate any person they want. You could designate your spouse, of course, regardless of gender, or you could designate a parent, sibling, roommate, close friend, or even a neighbor.
Hey, have you ever worked on Sunday? Why hasn't your church stoned you?
I sure have, and there's no reason I should get in trouble for doing so. The Saturdays that I've worked, on the other hand...
Last time I saw an interview with someone who knew about this kind of stuff, he said it was around 35 MPH. That's probably for a typical modern sedan-type car, though. It might be closer to 60 MPH for something like an SUV that probably isn't quite as aerodynamic to begin with.
You laugh, but asshattery of the Darl McBride variety has been rewarded more often than not.
How do people think that someone becomes CEO to begin with?
Yes 1.5% - that's unheard of
I got my annual notice about my student loans from my state's program this summer, and the rate went down to 0.98%. It's not even worth paying off any extra amount anymore, since I can get more with even just a CD than I'd save in interest.
Well, Coal hasn't yet destroyed a whole city with a single bomb.
Neither have any nuclear power plants.
Since there's barely anything useful on the Moon given the cost of getting it, and there's even LESS useful on Mars
Since you know the exact chemical composition of the entirety of the moon and Mars, would you mind sharing with the rest of us?
Government intervention is the reason that free market capitalism has broken down. Nobody even gets to try to come up with the entry costs because there's no point -- not when Government has already granted an exclusive monopoly to another company.
While that's true in general, it doesn't hold up as well when you're dealing with something that's restricted by the physical world. Roads, sewers, and power delivery are natural monopolies, since you can only have one or very few of each in any given location. In some cases where you can have more than one competitor, such as power delivery or Internet connectivity, bringing in new competitors is highly disruptive to people that live nearby, since it involves a fairly large amount of construction to tear up people's yards or the neighborhood's roads to run new wires.
Like my gas costs, where the old company that got forced to become just a carrier and could not sell gas to me suddenly is half my bill in summer. Now I have this nice maintenance and transport charge for the gas which is a flat fee +some if I go over some mystical limit that stresses the pipes I guess.
Meaning in summer half if not three fourths of my bill is paying the transport layer and very little goes to actual gas or the person who bills me.
Have you considered that such a split of the cost might be because most of the expense is in maintaining the pipes and other delivery infrastructure, and the actual raw material is a fairly low percentage of the cost of delivery?
Believe it or not, it is possible for a company to earn money by providing useful goods or services to its customers instead of shafting them. It's just unfortunate that most large companies go the shaft-them route.
Bullseye. Harassment is harassment, regardless of the medium used. Without knowing the details of the case (not like I'd read the article, but someone else here mentioned that details weren't released anyway), it's impossible to make a judgment about whether or not this really is harassment. If it was just some girl calling her classmate a bitch, then that's called high school. If it's a girl repeatedly posting false or misleading information with the intent to cause harm, then that's illegal, no matter how you spread that false information.
Nothing in TiVo prevents you from taking their GPLed kernel changes and applying them to a custom board that you design with similar chips or even a standard off-the-shelf PC with PCI cards that contain the relevant bits.
I may be misremembering this, but wasn't that exactly the problem? Didn't the software require a hardware key that was only available as part of the TiVo package?
"Positron" is an english word, inspired by "electron," which is another english word that was inspired by some greek words. Positron might be bad greek, but then we're not speaking greek, are we?
It has nothing to do with the Greek. In English, particles are given the suffix -on. ("electron" comes from the Greek "elektron", which I believe is what started the practice of using the -on suffix). "Proton" comes from the "prot" part of "proto" ("first", because a proton is a hydrogen nucleus) and the -on suffix. "Neutron" comes from the "neutr" part of "neutral" and the -on suffix. Photon, graviton, muon, tauon, gluon, boson, fermion, etc. are all formed the same way. "Positron" comes from the word "positive", but there is no 'r' anywhere, so the suffix being added is -ron instead of the normal -on. It's an inconsistency in the naming convention of subatomic particles.
When you consider that way back in the 1980's, people were shelling out upwards of $2000 for a new computer
When I started college in 1998, the package I got from Dell totaled close to $4000. I got a top-of-the-line P2-400 system with a 19" CRT monitor and a color inkjet printer.
Elect-ricity is moving elect-ric charges. Magnet-ricity is moving magnet-ic charges. Seems about as logical as you can get, while making the word actually pronounceable.
Um, no. The 'r' is part of the root from which we get electron and electricity. It could possibly be called "magneticity". I think "Magnetity" would be more accurate, since the root of "electricity" is "electric", but that sounds kinda funny.
People like you are why we have the inaccurately-named positron, instead of the more consistent name "positon".
Harry Potter is some of the dirtiest literature ever written.
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Colonblow
Would that make the fancy new Javascript/CSS interface Super Colonblow?
This what they for have the lowest cost IT workers
I that you a verb or two.