Anechoic

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1081.
by Anechoic 16y ago
>Or clothes, or buy food...etc.? Again, not the same at all - I've been buying food and clothes all my life so I know what I like and what I don't. There's also the issue that I generally don't spend hundreds of dollars for food or clot
1082.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Well there is a reason I'm driving a 13-year-old VW with 200k miles. But to answer your question, it's not the same thing at all, especially in my specific situation. First of all, I have a job that requires a lot of travel, which means I
1083.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Nokia E71 owner here. Marco's post described my experience to a T. Last summer I was looking to upgrade to a touchscreen phone. I like the iPhone, but I can't get an unlocked one in the USA (not easily at least) so it wasn't an option. So I
1084.
by Anechoic 16y ago
" Are you aware of the fact that On2 released VP3 before H.264 was released (2000 vs. 2003), and that therefore, the MPEG-LA most likely infringes on On2 (now owned by Google) patents? " That does not follow at all. edit: I should say that
1085.
by Anechoic 16y ago
If people wanted an iPhone, they could have just gone to AT&T and bought an iPhone. My sister really wanted an iPhone but she absolutely did not want to switch from VZW (she travels a lot and voice calls are a priority), so she got a
1086.
by Anechoic 16y ago
* Rather, they sought out qualified women and recruited them, much the way other schools recruit athletes* that is exactly what affirmative action is.
1087.
by Anechoic 16y ago
I don't know if Belichick has done it from his own ten (I doubt it) but on 4-and-1 or 4-and-inches in his own territory he's gone for it on several occasions (usually a quarterback sneak).
1088.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Gregg Easterbrook (Tuesday Morning Quarterback column on ESPN.com) has been a huge proponent of "don't punt" and wrote about this paper a couple of years ago: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/... http://sports.
1089.
by Anechoic 16y ago
I think the question of whether Apple's AppStore constitutes a monopoly is a grey area. Not even close to a grey area unless you want to argue that Nike has a monopoly on athletic shoes that have the Nike 'swoosh.' To this, I would offer
1090.
by Anechoic 16y ago
If you're going to define "monopoly" and "platform" than the word monopoly loses all meaning. If I create a business making 3rd-party wire harnesses for VW Passat and VW decides to change to a different harness and that change would kill my
1091.
by Anechoic 16y ago
telecommunications for example Telecommunications (in the USA) used publicly-owned airwaves and in too-many cases have de facto or de jure monopolies. Neither applies to Apple.
1092.
by Anechoic 16y ago
and I doubt he will call himself on this. He's not above admitting mistakes: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:daringfireball.net+%22i+... ;
1093.
by Anechoic 16y ago
The problem with the Rockefeller drug laws and subsequent enforcement was the unequal application - despite the fact that whites and blacks use and deal drugs at roughly the same rates, blacks are more likely to be arrested and jailed for d
1094.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Again, it exists , but if in 38 years of growing up black, going to school with blacks, living, working, playing sports, dating, etc with blacks, I've never heard it, and I don't know anyone who has heard it, I really can't consider it "pe
1095.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Oh, I'm not that it exists but the assertion was that the use of "oreo" was pervasive - I'm not convinced of that given thadisputingt I've never heard anyone use that term in real life.
1096.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Well those weren't exhaustive examples, but I'd still disagree - for the longest time, I though "hoagie" was a polish food (I grew up in "grinder" territory) and I was mystified the first time someone asked me to pick up an "orange coke" at
1097.
by Anechoic 16y ago
serious/pervasive thing in the same way as the Oreo slur I don't know that "Oreo" is a pervasive slur. I've certainly never heard it IRL.
1098.
by Anechoic 16y ago
something else happened to hurt the black community even worse. If we can figure out what it was, we'll be well on our way to closing the gap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_drug_laws
1099.
by Anechoic 16y ago
The "acting white" derision is pretty much exclusive to blacks, as far as I know "Acting white" by definition isn't going to be present among whites, but anti-intellectiolism certainly is. See: GOP 2008 presidential campaign. It's certai
1100.
by Anechoic 16y ago
70% of Black Americans are raised in a single parent household and if you can combine that with the above statistics, the picture is not pretty. The problem with single-parent housing has more to do with the reduction in income than lack
1101.
by Anechoic 16y ago
How exactly does this apply to, say, the African American segment of the population, many of whom have been in the US for hundreds of years and most of whom know no other language than English? "English" (at least as practiced in the USA)
1102.
by Anechoic 16y ago
There's an extreme anti-education element to black culture in the US. Caring about and one's education and working hard in school is derided as "acting white". This is a very popular meme in tech circles, based mainly on John Ogbu's work
1103.
by Anechoic 16y ago
John Ogbu, a Nigerian-American anthropologist, conducted research on this subject. And no one was able to replicate his findings. Even Roland Fryer, who is a proponent of the "acting white" theory concluded "We, like Ferguson (2001), Cook
1104.
by Anechoic 16y ago
He talks about "myths that somehow bear truth only through repeated assertion" and then he goes ahead and repeats such a myth: "At one point in Steve Jobs' reign they were effectively bailed out by Microsoft." It wasn't a bailout (especiall
1105.
by Anechoic 16y ago
what is college age though? 18-24: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind00/c4/fig04-06.htm there are plenty of 30 year olds who go to college True, but the under 25 range makes up ~70% of college students (IIRC).
1106.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Just like IE, sometimes you have to use Adode Reader. I deliberately removed Acrobat from my mom's iMac and set Preview.app as the default. Worked fine for years until I got a call a few days ago about a PDF she needed to open to do some wo
1107.
by Anechoic 16y ago
EDIT: Here's another fun stat: america has more black people in prison than in college: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/ americas/2223709.stm This claim is a little misleading - the absolute numbers are true (or close enough depending
1108.
by Anechoic 16y ago
and it would seem that "reasonable force" is where the conflict arises - after all, I suspect that you would agree that simply shooting the suspect would be unreasonable?
1109.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Public servants performing their duty in public should be subject to the scrutiny of the public. That's usually the caveat I put when I make that statement, but I forgot to that time (and again, most of my govt work is in public and I wou
1110.
by Anechoic 16y ago
Two of the arguments bandied about are: 1) police have an expectation of privacy, and 2) people trying to videotape can interfere with police (if they get too close, etc).

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