Does it make it sound warmer? Is it warmer than these wooden standoffs ( 600.00 each ) I got to hold my oxygen-free digital cables off the floor ( a steal at 900 for 6ft )?

"Well, my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle"

The whole net-neutrality issue is moot; near as I can tell, there is more than enough bandwidth bandwidth to go around, when normal packet prioritization is utilized.

The real issue is the con-artist ISPs trying to double-sell the same service, charging a premium to both sides.

All the security "best practices" in the world won't help if you can convince someone at the ISP to let you in.

I can't help but feel as though you're missing the joke, hence I quoted the relevant part.

Yes, we need a bloated political system to fix a...bloated political system.

Seriously, "Unions" are never the answer. It would only make things worse.

Do you know what those bastards did last time I was in? They gave me a burrito...for free.

That shit could have anthrax sprinkled on it, and I'd probably still nom on it.

You are in a universe full of twisty little galaxies, all alike.

...and I'm not talking about the streaming service. The cat is already out of the bag; the only question is whether we'll be smiling in front of, or behind, our victims' collective backs.

You can like it, or hate it, but you can simply not ignore Apple.

This highly depends on your perspective. For instance, I have no apple stuff, nor do any of their products excite me in a way that would suggest that'll change soon. So in that context, I can simply ignore apple.

However, from a business perspective, they're the 800 lb gorilla. What's interesting, however, is how easy it is for some of their target audience to ignore them.

The problem is that spreadsheets and databases solve different problems, yet they are related enough that folks confuse the two. Not unlike what you did. Spreadsheets represent the full MVC concept, whereas databases are usually just the M(odel), with some (C)ontroller capabilities.

From there, the problem becomes somewhat more obvious; Because applications like Excel provide more complete functionality ( or try to at any rate ), that's naturally what anyone who needs to model data wants to use. Aside from programmers, who has time to construct a full data modeling environment using the right tools?

There's an opportunity here for MS to "fill the gap" here; provide the function-rich environment of Excel and tie it to a database backend simply. Or perhaps, considering the mess that is Access, that opportunity exists for someone other than MS.

Bullshit. Terrorism is only peripherally related to government's interest in compromising encryption. Governments the world over are terrified of their citizens speaking freely, for whatever noise they make about "Freedom of Speech". It's about controlling the message, which they can't do if people are communicating outside of their control.

They're using terrorism to push this agenda.

The company does amazing work to keep its iPhones and iPads ahead of competitors, performance-wise.
Um....

So...you're trying to convince me of your position...but this isn't a debate...and you're acting juvenile and ignoring the realities of the situation.

And that's meant to convince me? Of what, precisely?

It's possibly worth noting at this point which of us is relying on personal experience and name calling to support their position.

The problem with a lot of these cases and how the colleges are handling them is that they are not rape. Often it's a consensual encounter which later becomes "rape" because "reasons" ( regret, boyfriend found out, ect... ). In those instances, with the lower burden of proof and the systemic bias against the accused, it becomes virtually impossible to prove innocence.

This, incidentally, should be very worrisome to those concerned about legitimate sexual assault. False accusations that lead to severe consequences trivialize the impact of real crimes. The backlash from the above won't result in more protections for legitimate victims, but less as the integrity of the entire process is called into question. The phrase "Throwing out the baby with the bath water" comes to mind here.

Colleges should never have been involved in the process to begin with; if students felt assaulted, they should have been referred to law enforcement directly, and any punishment against the accused would follow the determination of guilt in a court of law.