Haven't updated the app since it started asking for "Personal Information" permissions several months ago.

I'm rather curious as to how the app is supposed to be determining my gender/sex in the first place. Algorithmically based on the songs I listen to? If so, all those Glee songs I upvoted are probably throwing it off.

Cardboard and duct-tape are a 'temporary' solution to a damaged car window. Fixing the window and replacing the glass is a 'permanent' solution in that you're not normally going to be replacing the window again until you get side-swiped by a garbage truck again. FTFY

"Now why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land? If you'd come today you could have reached the whole nation; Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication." -Judas, on Jesus' choice of time and place for his First Coming (Jesus Christ Superstar)

I built a new desktop recently, ordered all the parts off of Newegg, mostly OEM. Nearly every major component came with a sticker: Mobo, RAM, processor, graphics card, even the case. As if they expected me to stick them on myself?

I was about to say, facetiously, "Unless they discontinued it yesterday, you must have a very different definition of 'discontinued' than I do, since I used it a couple of days ago." Then I double-checked wikipedia: "On August 4, 2010, Google announced the suspension of standalone Wave development..." That'll teach me to be snarky on the internet.

I know this is anecdotal, but: I spent several hours trying to get drivers downloaded and installed for a two-year-old HP printer/scanner for Windows. Then I booted into Ubuntu, opened XSane (which is included with 10.04 at least) and pressed the "scan" button, and 30 seconds later I had my scanned image. So sure, some hardware isn't supported by Linux. But for the vast majority of supported hardware, it works from the get-go, or at the very least automatically scans the hardware and gives you a button to install the correct drivers (for things like graphics cards).

I worked in IT at a medium-sized college, and we got 3 or 4 laptops a week in with either HDD failure or unrecoverable corruption (usually due to viruses). In either case, recovery partitions were un-usable. Fortunately, we had a bunch of OEM install disks lying around, but most people aren't in that situation. So yeah, it's less common than reinstalling due to software issues, but hard drive crashes happen often enough that it's worth having an install disk. But then, this is just one of the many reasons why I build my own computers and use exclusively OSS.

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Damn, that was my car analogy too.

No, having underage sex is a crime. The use of a condom during an otherwise illegal act has nothing to do with the condom. To make a car analogy: Driving without a license is a crime. But the claim that "Wearing a seat-belt is a crime for unlicensed drivers" is obviously absurd, as wearing a seat-belt has nothing to do with the reason why the action is illegal and is in fact a much safer option regardless of the legality of the action. A nitpick, sure. But wording can be important.

Thought is not for you, and ignorance is bliss. At least you're being consistent.

More to the point: TFS specifically refers to the "poem" on the front page of the UVEX website, which is linked.

I'm still trying to figure out how eating the chicken after it has stopped laying works into the analogy.

I find it particularly amusing that the wiki article for fallacy uses vaccines and autism as the example for post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Studies show that people with more bumper stickers have higher levels of road rage.