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We're talking victimless, not harmless. With drugs, there is no victim, because the person making the purchase is making a conscious choice to buy something to put into their body. They are well aware of the effects and risks.

Contrarily, identity theft is clearly not victimless. A person's credit card or social security number is taken from them without their knowledge or consent so that it can be sold.

To go on an anti-drug tirade here when your pedantry isn't even correct does no one any good. All you're doing is parroting and reinforcing negative drug stereotypes. You wouldn't be doing so if those sentiments weren't pushed on you since before you could even comprehend them.

Google's way of handling accounts is infuriating.

I have multiple g-mail accounts. One of them is my primary personal one, and another one I use is a shared account that my band uses for business and soundcloud.

Google makes it hellish to sign out of one and into the other. For the longest time, I had them linked, and my band mates could see my personal e-mail. I don't know if they could get past a log in point, but the fact that its so hard to keep them un-linked and log into one or the other is infuriating.

Looking at sales as an indicator of the success of a product is warped and silly. The fact that it is considered the right way is a shining example of the fundamentally flawed nature of our capitalist system.

Up until last year when he moved out, I continued to use my dad's first generation iPad while he used his new mini. The first generation iPad worked great, I used it all the time. I saw no reason to go and purchase one of the newer ones for myself other than the fact that I couldn't install iOS 7 on it. The software pushed obsolescence, not the hardware. My dad kept it when he moved out because it was still a great device.

A more accurate title would be "No one knows of any reason to buy the new generation iPads because their older ones are working just fine"

>Rovio's expansion into animation and merchandising continued to hit its profits hard, leading to today's 110 redundancies.

I wouldn't say they grew the company too fast. I can definitely see why merchandising would have been a huge hit on profits.

With the amount of angry birds garbage I saw in stores in my area, compared against the number of people that would possibly want said garbage, well...it was just a waste of money.

It's like some old executive thought it would be a great idea to expand into merchandising, as if this were still the 80s or 90s where people bought rooms full of that kind of useful shit.

Anyone who has looked at the income inequality mountain that has appeared since then knows that the people who would buy that kind of crap can't afford to. Though, it doesn't surprise me that the kind of executive who would be able to make a decision like expanding into merchandising would be upper class and completely out of touch with how little people want their garbage and would have seen it as a complete waste of money.

This is great, but why is the Australian translation called 'upside down pseudoalphabet'?

No, shit like this isn't helping. You are talking out of your ass about something you clearly know nothing about.

Marijuana is as addictive as potatoes. The fact that you even mention heroin in your post shows you clearly have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

Alcohol is way more addictive and dangerous than pot and we have a huge craft brewing and tasting culture in this country.

If you know absolutely nothing about a subject, for the love of god, please stop and think before you hit reply. You're not contributing at all by posting when you know nothing about the subject.

This is what happens when your production facility is on an Indian burial ground...

Anyone else have trouble reading the upside down text?

Make your hand into a fist

Starting at the left, each knuckle and the space in between counts as one month.

Count all the way across and when you get to the end of your fist, start over (or carry over to the next fist)

Knuckle months have 31 days, months in between knuckles have 30 days (except for February)

I am generally anti-feminist, but I support this.

There is a serious lack of women in the tech industry, and it isn't (as some in the slashdot comments suggest) solvable just by encouraging that companies hire more women. Companies can't hire more women if there simply aren't that many women applying because they don't exist in the field. Encouraging more women to get into the tech industry at a young age is the right approach, IMO.

Nope. At this point, people have either forgotten about Iraq or just come to accept it.

The gay marriage issue is a current one. It's a fight that's being fought right now. Protesting someone who is against gay rights has an actual impact in today's politics. Protesting against someone who supported going into Iraq over 10 years ago does not.

Yes, there will be public outcry, because many people view her as a deceiver, and others will think she is a tool of the NSA. But the outcry will not be the same as it was for Eich.

Those things are very far off from the point.

If you buy Purina, you're paying for dog food. If you donate money to a proposition that opposes gay marriage, you are paying for a proposition that opposes gay marriage.

I intentionally avoid Chik-fil-a, The Salvation Army, etc. by choice. However, if someone was pro-LGBT and still chose to eat Chik-fil-a, I don't really care. The only time it would be comparable would be the people who intentionally started eating Chik-fil-a as a show of opposition to the people who were boycotting it.

Isn't that what a CEO is supposed to do?

Left hand: Complains that CEOs/politicians don't listen and are out of touch Right hand: Complains that CEOs are pandering

...what?