I'm sure that Apple pushed so hard for the "moron in a hurry" standard because of a fundamental paradox in their target market: people who religiously believe everyone else is a moron in a hurry, and must constantly defend themselves against such accusations even when none are made. Visit any starbucks to find these "individuals" attempting to prove they have self worth.
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Apple needs to wake up to the fact that no matter how high the walls around their garden are, they cant spray for weeds at the house two blocks down and not expect an angry letter and/or lawsuit.
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Welcome to the PC club. Yes, that includes linux/unix (personal computer. No, that does not include macs, they are all part of the "mac experience" of p(r)aying (to) Steve Jobs.
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Electromagnetic radiation passes right through the soft tissues of the human body. The back scattering is just the x-ray version of Ramman IR spec. So, though the x-rays still pass through, the scattered emissions coming back are what are measured. No matter what any TSA parrot (or unfortunately confused innocent) may tell you, x-rays ARE penetrating radiation. This is a simple fact that should have zero confusion attached to it. The accumulation issue is the primary concern as the machines have so far been inconsistent at best at maintaining emission levels within their own specified safe limits. For frequent fliers, even a reasonably safe rise in exposure for a single pass may be excessive overall. The ridiculous resistance to proper scrutiny and open regulation standards is also a major drawback.
Anyway, nice a diversion as the machine specifics are, my point was the medical issue and the failure of the TSA to adequately address it. I may have over emphasized my hypothetical hyperbole a touch too much.
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What if she had just gone through chemo and radiation therapy? What if that extra little toasting in the TSA oven would have shut down several of her vital organs? She would have died is what would have happened. Look at how shitty her experience was with a bruised eye. I know the situation I described seems fairly far fetched, but the demonstrable imperative to provide medical care on only one side of a fucking line simply does not exist. She needed medical care then and there, not after several minutes of sexual assault across the room. The TSA was clearly in the wrong by not immediately providing or seeking medical care for Cathy.
At some point we need to figure out how to consistently get a contingent of well informed consumers and/or consumer advocates to spam the people just breaching these massive epiphanies with GOOD ideas. And when I say spam, I don't mean unsolicited direct communication (they're immune to that...), I mean 'hack' their 'random' selection process for test audiences and questionnaires. The sickening part is that not only are these TV dweebs just coming to terms with reality, but they take credit for discovering the basic infrastructure they work next to like a typical egocentric five year old figuring out an automatic car door window. I would have far less of a problem with usurped credit if it didn't take decades of public outcry to accomplish in the first place! For all of their statistically derived 'public opinion' they seem keen to ignore the rest of the population sampled. Sure, this may open the door to shows with ratings in the trillions if someone misses a decimal place or two, but we would still be better off without misinformed morons turning bad statistics into worse decision making.
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*hands over bullhorn*
*receives a cookie*
Well aren't you just the poignantly pedantic patronizer! Perhaps if you didn't passively instill in those you regularly work with a grandiose ire toward an arbitrarily contrived sophism, they wouldn't be offended by common hyperbolic humor.
Apparently Finkel has decided that multiple trips carrying supplies to some form of staging facility in orbit is too hard to consider when determining the physical feasibility of spaceflight, as well as the possibility of utilizing a propulsive force other than the thrust from a combustion powered rocket. If only we had some sort of "space station" to use as a proxy for improving our ability to explore our solar system. I guess that is only something we could achieve by launching a whole science vessel at once on the top of a single huge rocket.
... and forget about getting ANY country to agree to working in a collaborative manor to do science in space. That's just a waste of our precious land-based time and money. Besides, what has going into space EVER achieved for the rest of us?
While you're right in that a utilities company does not exist in this market that would charge a flat rate for water on a flow rate basis, my example was accurate in the context of my intent to draw out the analogy to as close a representation of data transfer as possible without explicitly describing data transfer. In reality, yes, a water utility charges for the net throughput, not the rate of throughput. In my analogy, I did correctly specify a hypothetical charge for a rate (in Gallons Per Minute), not the net throughput.
However, in the end, you did still make the exact connection (succinctly!) I was going for. I may not have been fully clear as to the extent of what I was pointing out, but hopefully you can see the parallel between your last paragraph and my half-asleep-4am-nerd-rage to which you responded so kindly.
TO round out the water analogy in a proper format: its like paying for 3 million GPM (3 Mbps...) pipe capacity and then being scorned for attempting to fill up a 3 million gallon backyard pool in a minute. The simple fact is that the service is paid for and the expectation of performance should not be contingent on the end use. The pipe cant be used up, only the capacity to deliver the water during heavy use; and that is the service providers' problem (to fix) given they should be investing in infrastructure capable of sustaining delivery of what they f*****g sell.
Shaking a bent stick at your customers and blaming them for your own failure as a business is just bad business.
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/sarc
Apple needs to wake up to the fact that no matter how high the walls around their garden are, they cant spray for weeds at the house two blocks down and not expect an angry letter and/or lawsuit.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: The TSA made me cry last week too. And wrecked my eye.
Anyway, nice a diversion as the machine specifics are, my point was the medical issue and the failure of the TSA to adequately address it. I may have over emphasized my hypothetical hyperbole a touch too much.
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Think about what you're thinking...
And here's a link to help cure you of that infectious intellectual dishonesty, political correctness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1NUposXVQ
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(if you don't see the irony, you're doing it wrong)
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... it may be a bit old, but enjoy the find
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:-)
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... and forget about getting ANY country to agree to working in a collaborative manor to do science in space. That's just a waste of our precious land-based time and money. Besides, what has going into space EVER achieved for the rest of us?
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However, in the end, you did still make the exact connection (succinctly!) I was going for. I may not have been fully clear as to the extent of what I was pointing out, but hopefully you can see the parallel between your last paragraph and my half-asleep-4am-nerd-rage to which you responded so kindly.
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Shaking a bent stick at your customers and blaming them for your own failure as a business is just bad business.
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