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someone will copyright it, then nobody else can do it for about 100 years. Situation solved.
Since it's a tech, it can't be copyrighted, only patented. However, I think anyone who receives taxpayer money to develop a technology should lose any patent rights to the technology. It's paid for by the public, it should be open to the public.
I don't think anyone who really appreciates coffee prefers pod coffee. I was drinking a cup of it as I wrote that, so I'm not trying to be condescending. Its not bad, just not great.
Unless you have some sort of magic way of judging if someone really appreciates coffee, it is being condescending, just like audiophiles or wine snobs in their respective fields of "expertise". I really appreciate coffee, and I prefer k-cups because of cost, convenience and variety.
Yes, there are many sub-standard k-cups out there, but there are some really excellent ones as well. My personal favorite is Jet Fuel. It is a very strong, rich-bodied coffee. It is better than anything I can get at Bigby, Starbucks, Seattle's Best, Caribou, etc., for a small fraction of the price. Most people I've shared it with really like it. There may indeed be better coffees out there, but the
I think what she meant was "You can't win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket".
Yes, but you always save a $1 (or more) every time you don't buy a lottery ticket.
Do you really think that the end result will be better, and not worse?
No, it will almost certainly be worse.
how many employees are there? just him?
FTA:
Rather, it's that people just like to stay: Dropcam has hired 30 workers to date, and it's never had to give a single going-away party.
What terrifies me is people that believe the ONLY source of morality is exactly that in the form of their religion. When some one makes claims like that, what they really just said is "I see no reason not to rip you apart with my bare hands right now except the external moral authority told me not too and/or/because I would be punished if I did".
I'll apologize in advance for continuing this way off topic thread. I don't typically respond to AC's, but I'll make an exception. I am a Christian, and I make no secret of it. If you (not you specifically, but any person in general) believe the teachings of the Christian church, that means you believe that there is only one God, and faith in Jesus Christ is the only means of salvation. If you believe in Christ, you understand that there is no way that you on your own could ever "good enough" to obtain eternal life in Heaven (Romans 3:20-24), so you don't behave out of fear of punishment. Jesus Christ has already paid for the punishment that everyone deserves for their sins. You behave because of what Christ has commanded you to do: "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Mark 12:30-31). I'll be the first to admit that I, like many Christians, fall short of this standard on many occasions.
And I'm really off topic but I think religious believers should get the help they need for their condition. That is, when you find out your full grown friend or coworker seriously believes in the Easter Bunny you wouldn't shoot him or take his kids, you'd try to help him. Remember, these people are a combination of a handful of nutty bars and opportunistic power hungry people up to no good but mainly victims of life long brainwashing and conditioning.
I don't need any help, and don't need have any condition. I don't want to wield any control over anyone else, and there aren't any people in the church who are trying to wield power over me. It's not like as if Christians, or people of any other religion have a monopoly over love of power, we've seen that with terrible effect in many 20th/21st century secular states.
I grew up in the church, but I wouldn't say that I really understood it, and wasn't really too committed to the little I did understand. Then I went to college and fell far away from my Christian faith. I was somewhere between atheist and agnostic during that time. I neither knew, nor cared if there was a God. I believed everything in the world could be answered naturalistically and science could answer all mankind's questions.
After I got married, my wife wanted to go to church, so I started going with her. I am a skeptic by nature, and a lot of questions I wanted answered. I decided that if there really could be a God, then that must be the most important thing there could be to know, so I started doing lots of research. I searched for answers to the questions I had, both from skeptics and Christian apologetic/theological sources. Somehow, I usually found the skeptics' answers ringing hollow. The apologetic answers were structured in a more logically consistent manner, and made more sense to me. After much study, thought and prayer, I eventually came back to faith in God. I also know that this was not due to anything I did, but rather it was a gift of Grace through the Holy Spirit moving me toward faith. (Titus 3:3-8)
I still don't have all the answers to all my questions, but I am mostly satisfied with the answers I have received. That doesn't mean that I stop asking the questions or searching for the answers, I do continue to seek them. At the same time, I also understand that there are some questions that I will never have the answers to, and that it is not possible for a finite being like myself to fully understand an infinite being like God.
If you don't inherently understand how forcing people to pray to your god is an infringement of their freedom of religion, you will never understand it.
Way to put words in someone's mouth. Straw man, have you heard of it?
How about a party name that doesn't implicitly say the others are 'anti Justice'?
Wait... you mean they aren't? Don't worry, I'm sure if the Justice party was in power, they'd be just as anti-justice as the rest of them.
Where the morals or ethics came from is irrelevent.
It's only irrelevant if they don't come from anywhere. If there is a source of objective morality, it is of the utmost relevance.
Many religions have some good ideas at their core, it's just that they eventually tend to be used by people to wield power over others.
Just like everything else. No matter what system you have in place, somebody is going to feel oppressed. Political correctness, affirmative action, wealth redistribution all help some people while harming others. I've seen atheists recommend taking children away from Christians who bring their children to church because it is child abuse. A completely secular society would not be a panacea.
Al Qaeda can never win militarily.
No, they win by bankrupting us to fund the expanding police state.
Cure the disease and kill the patient. -- Francis Bacon