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Moblin 2 First Impressions
nerdyH notes a DesktopLinux.com first look at the alpha of Intel's Moblin 2 toolkit for Linux distributors to create distributions for netbooks and other Atom-based kit. "A lot of notebooks and even netbooks these days run Windows, but also offer a minimalist Linux environment that boots in seconds. Now, with the Intel-sponsored Moblin project's alpha release of Moblin 2 Monday, it looks like insanely fast boots will become a standard feature of full-featured Linux desktops, too. Some of the quick-booting environments out there are enough to give anyone a lasting hatred of Linux. Like those free bicycles that liberal, well-intentioned municipalities release into the wild from time to time, hoping to get drivers out of their cars, fast-boot Linux is probably doing more to harm than help the cause. But pretty soon, even full-featured Linux will boot in seconds. That's because Intel's built some mighty whizzy read-ahead boot technology into Moblin 2."
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Uh? Can we moderate the story itself as Off-Topic?
No, we cannot moderate the story as such because it is NOT off-topic. You will just have to accept that ALL well-intentioned actions of liberals lead to exactly the opposite effect they hope for. Welfare to help get people off streets and into jobs? So they become dependent on Welfare and stay there forever. Unemployment to help people who lose their jobs? So thousands of people work the system, getting a job for a week and then not showing up one day, only to file for unemployment. Some people make their living this way. State run health programs to make health care affordable for everyone? Makes health care so expensive that nobody except the state can afford it anymore. Higher taxes on businesses and the rich to help the poor? Means less money available to businesses and the rich to hire people, means less jobs, means less economic activity, means these people and entities leave the country, means you end up hurting the poor. Rent control laws that mean you can only raise the rent by a small percentage every year? Means landlords must tack on a significantly higher rent right from the start, to make up for the inability to keep up with inflation later. Rent control laws designed to help the elderly by making it mandatory for landlords to renew their lease indefinitely? Means many landlords will avoid renting to anyone over 50 because they might never be able to get rid of them if, for example, they decide to occupy the unit themselves in the future, means less housing available to the elderly. I can go on and on. This story is not off topic. It is very much on topic. YOU are off topic!
So thousands of people work the system, getting a job for a week and then not showing up one day, only to file for unemployment.
Obvious troll, but in California you get only as much time as you've worked. You're paid according to how much you made 6 months before the time you file your claim. And, if you weren't laid-off, then it's damn near impossible to be awarded unemployment, because they do check.
Though I have never received unemployment, I WILL milk it until I find another similar-paying job. I been workin' for 9 muthafuckin' years and I earned it, bitch.
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