LoL,

Gaming and work are what I use my PC for. In fact I'd wager most people computer use is work related, you simply cant be as productive on a tablet as you are on a laptop or desktop because of the shortcomings of a tablet. Small single screen, lack of a physical keyboard, lack of productivity applications, cant sign onto a corporate network without trouble and in the case of Ipads, piss poor file management.

I've seen plenty of sales drones and middle managers delude themselves that they can work "Ipad only" but this lasts a few days to a few weeks before they either give up or their boss has a talk with them about their poor performance. Beyond this, MDM (Mobile Device Management) has become an onerous cost and workload as well.

Tablet sales are decreasing whilst laptop sales are picking up. The CEO of walmart said the tablet market has crashed. The "post-PC world" was always nonsense dreamt up by someone with no attachment to reality, we're quickly moving to the "post-Ipad world" as sales decrease and Android dominates.

That's just an indication of how messed up the US market is.

Here in Australia I'm on the most expensive telco with Nexus 5 I bought outright. I dont make a lot of phone calls but I need a lot of data (over 1 GB), now to get the Nexus 5 through a telco (it was only available through Telstra) it would have cost me A$70 p/m including the handset for 24 mo. A total cost of A$1680.

I paid for A$420 for the handset and went on a A$30 p/m prepaid plan with enough data (I could go cheaper, some people have A$15 prepaid plans but I use the data and like LTE). So over 24 months that's A$1140 for the same phone and service. Over half your contract is paying for the "free" phone.

So basically it's OK for you to be as bad as the people you rally against?

If so, what makes you better than them. There are Americans who call for the death of Muslims, these may be the minority but the same is true with Muslims, the majority are peaceful and simply want to get on with their lives.

Every time the M word is mentioned on /. there inevitably is a flood of comments insulting Islam. Most of these comments have no purpose other than to be insulting. They aren't insightful, they aren't even funny, it's just people being arseholes because its anonymous and because deep down, they're just bitter, angry arseholes. Sure they can hide behind free speech in the US, but they're still arseholes.

Not only are they arseholes, but cowards as they wouldn't go into a predominantly black neighbourhood and start shouting about how lazy niggers were because then there would be real consequences.

Every religion has a "do not kill" clause but they always have "unless we say it's OK" exception. Even Buddhism has some crazy parts (misogyny is rife in Buddhism, women are sometimes consider temptation incarnate).

I think "arguably" is a better term than "largely", but let that go.

You misspelled "definitely".

Because Uber is definitely violating laws, far worse than the likes of Comcast.

The US tried that with Saddam, we ended up with ISIS.

A better question is, why is are the internal affairs of Turkey any of your damn business?

In other developed countries, we pay service people a wage they can live on. We do this to prevent employers from abusing the employee's situation and because not every service person is customer facing, meaning a large number of minimum wage workers do not have the opportunity to earn tips.

Because the person manning a checkout at Walmart as well as many other minimum wage positions do not get tips, we consider the notion that tips make up for minimum wages that aren't enough to live off to be abusive and morally repugnant, in some cases going as far as indentured servitude.

I'm simply trying to demonstrate that this whole "I'm offended because you're doing something in your country that we dont like in my country" cuts both ways and the US is not above criticism (nor is my own nation).

If you are going to be doing international business, you need to be sensitive to your own ideals, as well as the ideals of your new customer base.

This.

If you want to sell your products and services in a different country, you have to make sure they're appealing to the people of that country.

This is why Ford continually is unable to sell many of its flagship cars like the Mustang and F series utes outside the US despite repeatedly trying. The fact is, no one in Europe wants a 5L V8 that only produces 300 Kw and has a live rear axle because 2L turbo engines can produce 300 KW for half the weight and multi-link suspension means that they can handle corners, which are common on European roads.

Which leads me onto the second point, why the fuck to do people care?

This is happening in Turkey, not worldwide. The US does not have the right to force its ideals onto other nations (which ironically, seems contrary to the ideal of free speech as with free speech you have to tolerate ideas you dont like).

Actually this is going to make things worse.

When the annoying, music playing, flashing punch the monkey ads were in flash, it was trivial to block them using something like flashblock because you simply stopped the plugin from running.

Now adblockers are going to have to parse the code making it very easy for ads to avoid detection and masquerade as content.

This is a direct reaction to what they did in Sydney during the Martin Place Hostage Crisis. Uber was caught charging $100 for a ride that only cost $30 in a normal, licensed and insured taxi. Their response was "free market, so fuck you Australia". Whilst the world ignores this happening in Australia, they wont ignore it happening in NY.

You are completely missing the point. Raising the minimum wage does NOT reduce the number of poor households, because most minimum wage earners are NOT poor.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Countries that have a higher minimum wage have less poverty. Hell, counties in the US that have a higher minimum wage have less poverty than those with a lower minimum wage.

You are completely missing the point.

He didn't miss your point, he got it. It's just that your point is so horribly wrong its not funny.

The Greek Orthodox church is very powerful in Greece. One of SYRIZA's platforms is removing the benefits the Greek Orthodox church gets.

The poker player analogy is a good one.

All of the best and most successful poker players are experts at bluffing. Those that suck at bluffing rely on blind luck and rarely get anywhere.

Of course we do, there's no joke to be made in the fact this guy is a qualified, experienced and respected economist.

Now take your new Greek Austerity hat and move on you humourless sod.

B5 just demonstrates that star power is overrated.

A really good story could easily overcome wooden/over acting and mediocre scripting.

B5 had a feeling of grand scale to it and was on the forefront of using CGI. Other prominent sci-fi shows at the time were still primarily using models.

Hey, take it easy.

Up until this year, Ford's flagship coupe still ran a live rear axle. They've only just put independent rear suspension (on a rear wheel drive car) this year. If it's taken them decades to get multi-link suspension on one of their best selling cars, expecting them to develop software that works in just a few years is a bit rich.