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Is Windows Vista in Trouble?
Ken Erfourth writes "The Inquirer.net is running a story about what they consider two powerful indications that Vista is failing in the marketplace. One, Dell has reintroduced PCs running Windows XP on its website due to customer demand. Two, Microsoft is conducting a worldwide firesale on a bundle of Microsoft Office 2007/WindowsXP Starter Edition. According to Inquirer.net, at least, these are signs of serious problems selling Vista. Are we seeing the stumbling of the Microsoft Juggernaught with the slow adoption of Windows Vista?"
What do atheists practice though, your quote includes that as a requirement and as a atheist, I don't do anything but refuse to accept another person's interpretation of how life works out.
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Some atheists believe there is no God. Many more simply don't believe there is a God. The absence of a belief does not imply the belief of the opposite.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.
It's a shame, a short-sited policy, but benefits a few (I think two) wealthy families that own the US sugar production and benefit from high prices.
Well, them, and the fairly large swath of the U.S. involved in corn production. It's not like they could very easily switch over to growing sugar cane...
I'm not normally a fan of protectionism, but I think you have to consider what exactly we're going to do in this country if we start importing everything. Right now, with corn syrup, U.S. consumers are effectively subsidizing corn growers through their purchases of HFCS-containing beverages and foods. If we dropped the trade barriers, imported sugar from the Caribbean or South America instead, and eviscerated the corn industry, those same consumers (now called "taxpayers") would probably just end up subsidizing the same corn growers again, only it would be via welfare, unemployment, and various government bailouts of the corporations that would fail.
Personally, I'd rather pay more for goods, and create a perhaps-unnecessary domestic industry, then buy cheap imported goods and have high taxes in order to support all the unemployed people on the dole. As a taxpayer/consumer, I get screwed either way, but at least this way I don't have the double indignity of knowing that my money is being taken at gunpoint and given to people who aren't working, which I find fundamentally offensive.
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I was young at the time, but was an avid drinker of Coke. I never considered any conspiracy theories on the topic. All I remember is having a distinct memory of "coke made with sugar" being better than "coke made with corn syrup". I didn't even know an ingredient switch had been made until I went looking for a reason as to why Coke Classic didn't taste like the original Coke (which I still had some bottles of).
I just bought a sub-$500 PC.. runs Vista just fine. It's an AMD Sempron 3500+, came with an Nvidia 6130, 2 gigs of ram, 200 gig harddrive, and a lightscribe DVD burner.
Seems you're either under-estimating what a $400-$500 PC comes with these days, or you're over-estimating the requirements of Vista.
With that definition, the US constitution is a religion. The human rights are a religion. Hell, even "if I drop this stone, it'll probably fall down" is a religion with that definition.
I don't think it make sense to label something a religion unless it atleast either tries to give answers to all the central philosophical questions in life, or includes some supernatural entity.
Generally agnosticism refers to the belief that the existence or nonexistence of God is unknowable or unprovable. It says nothing about personal belief in God, or lack of belief in god. Of course there is a lot of overlap between all these categories, but the basic point is that an athiest does not necessarily "believe" anything. He may believe something, or may not. But not believing in God is not the same as believing there is no God.
Recursive: Adj. See Recursive.