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Interview with Dr. Villanueva
cigarky writes "I think many of us were very impressed by the recent letter of Peruvian Congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez. Linux Today has a followup interview with more in-depth information."
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I had to get it, propz to all logged in trolls :-)
The "subsciption model" for software just won't work. There will be a lot of resistance to move from a "buy once" model to a scheme where licenses must be periodically renewed, or a "pay per use" model.
Microsoft is just trying to extract the extra buck from consumers, which is natural for most corporations. But when your software costs hundreds per copy, people will resist.
I am the evil aardvark!
Today it was announced Stallman is boycotting linuxtoday.com until it changes its name to the "correct" gnulinuxtoday.com and now recoomends everyone use Windows in protest until this change is made across the GNU/Linux world!
A professor at the University of Mississippi is giving a
lecture on the supernatural. To get a feel for his
audience, he asks: "How many people here believe in
ghostses?" About 90 students raise their hands.
"Well, that's a good start. Out of those of you who
believe in ghostses, do any of you think you've ever seen
a ghostse?" About 40 students raise their hands.
"That's really good. Has anyone here ever talked to a
ghostse?" 15 students raise their hands.
"That's great. Has anyone here ever touched a ghostse?" 3
students raise their hands.
"That's fantastic. But let me ask you one question
further... Have any of you ever made love to a ghostse?"
One student way in the back raises his hand.
The professor is astonished and says, "Son, all the
years I've been giving this lecture, no one has ever
claimed to have slept with a ghostse. You've got to come
up here and tell us about your experience."
The redneck student replies with a nod and a grin, and
begins to make his way up to the podium. The professor
says, "Well, tell us what it's like to have sex with
ghostse."
The student replies, "Ghostse?!? From ah-way back there ah
thought yuh said "goatse."
the sad thing is that you watch the osburnes, you representthe mtv watching soundbite culture that the politicians like GW feed off of. read a book.
How the natives of the north got their name
When Europeans first visited the northern part of North America, they did not know how to survive there. The natives did. So they gave the Europeans advice:
But the Europeans had no respect for the natives, and ignored their advice. So they kept on wearing insufficient clothing, teasing bears, and travelling with too few dogs. And sometimes they died.
When the natives heard, they said, "I knew it." Eventually they became known as the I-knew-it, or "Inuit".
INUIT! HAHAH!
L01OL0l10Lo0L!
... then don't forget to blame this guy too.
i am pretty sure the only reason this guy posted is because he likes to say "free (as in beer)"
Why can't nerds tell Halloween from Christmas?
Becase 31 OCT = 25 DEC
"Hex" isn't a month, but OCTober is.
too bad a wheelbarrow filled with last week's pay is worthless before you get to the store.
but when you roll in with greenbacks i am sure its a wonderful place, i hear the blow is super cheap.
Raise the Roof!
Mayans! Mayans! Mayans! Mayans! Mayans!
We love Peru!
Idiot: Peru was Incan. The Mayan civilization was in Mexico/Central America.
Maybe they should hold you back in 8th grade.
I don't know about open-source Spanish people, but your mom's pussy is free (as in beer) for everyone.
[This post brought to you by the Troll under the sink]
just sad. He is entertainment and shouldn't be. For christs sake he can't even say terrorists!
To be President, you have to be at least 35 years old and a *natutal born citizen*.
So, there's no danger that clones of dubya will rule the USA for the rest of eternity. Guess we're lucky after all.
Be wary of any facts that confirm your opinion.
Luckily, ~ 0.76 * 285,000,000 Americans disagree with you. :-)
Sometimes, when I go to bed, I have a nightmare that September 11 and the events thereafter are being handled by a cabinet with William Cohen instead of Donald Rumsfeld, Madeleine Albright instead of Colin Powell, and Sandy Berger instead of Condi Rice. I usually wake up screaming. :-)
Well, I'd like to speak to a few points here:
Bush only won the electorate not the popular vote. -- which is a fancy way of saying `I think the (rich, generally left-leaning) large coastal states should get to decide who the new president is single handedly'. Our founding fathers felt differently, and thus established the electoral college to ensure that a candidate would need a broad base of support and not just the popular vote to become president.
Give the rich a unnecessary tax cut -- we probably don't have time to go into the economics of why cutting taxes creates more jobs, and thus helps people at all levels of society, but I would like to point out that far from being solely a Republican idea, this fact was well recognized by JFK, who pushed his tax-cut in very similar terms to the current round of cuts. As to `for the rich', I suggest you look at the economics of these cuts -- almost all were in areas like the estate tax and middle-income-brackets which the rich don't pay anyway, but which middle class businessmen shoulder the burden of.
As to helping people in need, well we've all seen how the Republican welfare reforms of 1996, which I give Clinton credit for signing, have resulted in more improvement in the number of people getting off welfare and into work than any of the programs of the previous 30 years. Of course, you'll have to decide for yourself whether when you say `help people' you mean `keep them on welfare' or `help them get a job and return to society.' I see the latter as much more helpful.