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If Microsoft Built Cars...
trystanu writes "If Microsoft Built Cars, occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason; you'd
accept this, restart and drive on -- at least that was the joke a few years ago. ZDNET reports that Microsoft has persuaded a number of carmakers to use its slimmed-down Windows CE operating system to power a variety of in-car electronics, from navigation systems to music players to information devices. BMW, in particular, has gravitated to Microsoft systems, although the company has announced wins with Honda, Volvo and others as well. Perhaps the recent trapping of Thai dignitaries inside a BMW should be a warning to us all."
You don't have to be an MS fan to hate Linux obsessed mindless morons. That just comes naturally. I wouldn't expect somebody displaying the logic in your post to understand that it's possible to like something and hate drooling retards at the same time.
I see you had to use your own +1 posting capability to get to a mod of 2. He got to '+5 funny' based on other people's response to what he typed.
So who's the loser here?
A Good Intro to NetBS
If everyone else can manage to write a printer driver that doesn't send the computer into fits of hysterics, why must it be Microsoft's fault?
Surely there is a possibility that Lexmark has a fucking bug in their driver.
Of course not, this is Slashdot, everyone but Microsoft writes perfect code. All bugs, are either Microsoft's bug, or they hid the specs so people couldn't write compatible code.
Not difficult, just expensive.
No - FRICKIN expensive, and frickin difficult. You take over Afghanistan, they hide in Pakistan and Iran. You take over Iraq, they hide in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Syria. If we're actually going to do this - have a REAL war on terror - we have no real choice but to take over every frickin "bullshit terrorist-sponsoring Middle-Eastern" nation.
We do not have the money, or the manpower to do this. But more importantly, we do not have the CAJONES. Bush has proven that. If we did, we'd have troops in Iran right now, and we'd have enough troops in Iraq that the job would be done by now, and the terrorist corpses would be stacked high and burning. Because that's what THIS path requires to be done. Any other approach than "kill them all" will result in the terrorists finding somewhere else to hide, and using our actions as propaganda for recruitment.
Since it's clear that even after an attrocity like 9/11, we don't have the cujones to do what's really required (Afghanistan was a half-hearted try; Iraq was taking our eye off the ball) - then we should just frickin leave it alone (and, instead, spend the money on REAL airline security, like the Israelis do - oh wait, it's not THEIR money they're spending - it's ours). This war has killed far more people and cost our economy far more than 9/11 has. The only thing this war has been good for is government contractors with questionable ties to the administration, and USA Pride (and that, only amongst lamebrain rednecks or religious fanatics).
The reason why there won't be any more attacks on US soil now, is because 9/11 achieved Osama's goal, 100%. His goal was to get the US out of Saudi Arabia. It worked. We're out of there. 9/11 was extremely expensive, risky, and complicated for Al Qaeda. That's no more true now than it was in 2001, or 1993. They get more bang for their buck attacking third world shitholes now. Notice the steep increase in terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia? (only the ones that the state-sponsored newsmedia allows to become public). How about Turkey? One thing that I think would really SUCK for the US right now, would be to lose Turkey as an ally. All Al Qaeda needs to do is get some close ties with the Kurds (already done, really) and fire up a few more car bombs.
Al Qaeda has moved on to their next goal - and by all accounts, it's moving along nicely too.
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