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IE9, FF4 Beta In Real-World Use Face-Off
An anonymous reader writes "Most browser benchmarks are isolated, artificial tests that can be gamed by browser vendors optimizing those specific cases. With only those benchmarks to go on, the folks at LucidChart were skeptical that the IE9 beta would actually outperform other modern browsers in real-world applications. To separate hype from reality, they built their first browser benchmarking tool, based in LucidChart itself. This benchmark is to SunSpider what a Left4Dead 2 benchmark is to 3Dmark Vantage. Product specs don't matter, only real-world performance on a real-world application. The results were surprising. IE9 held its own pretty well (with a few caveats), and the latest Firefox 4 beta came in dead last."
Well lets talk about my country for a minute. 200 years ago group A (the English) were over here taking property from group B (the Aboriginals). I don't think that was communism. And now that some members of group C (descended from group A) want to give some property back to group B, I don't that that is communist either.
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But if you take property from group A and keep it, you're either a capitalist or a thief, depending on your PR person and/or lawyer.
For fucks sake, you argue like a kid. Like everything's a dichotomy.
If you take money from the rich and give it to the poor, that is fundamentally wrong. If you take it from the middle class to give to the corporations, that is fundamentally wrong.
If all groups agree to contribute towards the creation of common property (roads, armed forces), then that is part of the social contract formulated among free people. But why should upper-middle class pay a greater percentage of their earnings toward roads than the lower-middle class? Do rich people wear out roads faster? Do the cops spend more or less of their budget year dealing with rich or poor people?
There are problems with the Bush tax cuts, since there are rich people paying nothing. Everyone should pay in their share to the social contract, but NO ONE should be cashing out.
Obama, et al, really do think your money belongs to them first. To be doled out as they see fit. It's YOUR money, you just agree to let them have a portion to support the social contract.
I listen to people like you, a good chunk of slashdotland....it's like the Enlightenment never happened. Like Rousseau, Voltaire, and Jefferson didn't get thru to y'all the importance of government as a social contract and consent of the governed.
THL phish sticks