"a fascist-capitalist state"... which is the oposite of a democratic-capitalist state, where the govt requires connections to large corporations in order to be successful.
...but after this post you won't be able to access slashdot, because your Royalty are a bunch of narrow minded horse-raping hermaphraditic dipshits who can't take a bit of criticism
we use good old pen and paper down in Aus and the ballots get kept. Technology is not the answer to every problem, especially not when faulty software/hardware can cause a moron to get elected president of one of the most powerful countries on the planet... you should let the people elect the moron without the aid of technology.
80% isn't that low when you consider that the vast majority of linux users will use OOo because there isn't another great altertnative. Now, I'm not saying that MS Office is great, but the VAST majority of windows users are just going to use MS Office because they either aren't aware of OOo, don't care about OOo or have tried it and not liked it. Your assumption that 99% of the downloads should be windows because 99% of the market use windows is therefore a bad assumption because on one platform OOo has almost no competition, while on the other it only has almost insignificant penetration because of a competing product endorsed by the OS vendor.
"Please don't hurt the poor artists."
because Metallica need a new gold-encrusted jet, and if it weren't for all you Pirates they wouldn't have to release 2 half baked albums, they could have quit while they were ahead. Bad, bad, bad, naughty, horrible Pirates.
yeah, my tinfoil hat is particularly tight today. but they do ban some silly things, like safety scissors, and liquids in containers less than 500ml have to be checked and sealed in a small plastic bag by security, when if you really want a weapon it's easiest to make a shiv out of the plastic knives they give you or hide a small capsule of lighter fluid up your arse.
...but don't expect the airlines to care about the facts when they decide to stop letting you use electronic devices on their flights. Common sense didn't get in the way of them banning nailclippers, shaving razors, liquids and many other innocuous day-to-day items.
the mentality that everyone should be in debt is exactly what has caused the current credit crunch and world economic crisis. and what happens when your debt is higher than your GDP? this is happening to Iceland and they are now f***ed because they will never pay it off.
economically poor? check how our economy was doing BEFORE Howard got into power. Keating dug a whole and the Liberal govt solved the problem, as soon as they did Labor got into power again because of peoples short memories. Using up all the surplus and spending like a madman is going to just leave the next govt to pick up the tab. Howard may have been a prick on some policies, but he know how to keep the economy going rather than appealing to peoples selfish nature and squandering our resources like KRudd is doing. The handouts from the labor govt are nothing more than bribes to buy votes. By then end of this term we are going to be in a far worse position than we are now because of foolish spending and poor management of the national budget.
" Give the children wooden blocks to play with, and they will build bridges with them"
Give the children technology that they, and their teachers don't understand and the laptops will end up gathering dust.
I'm all for using OSS, but somebody needs to take responsibility and ensure that teachers and students are properly educated in their use.
on the one side the govt says "hey, we've paid enough, you get free laptops!"
on the other side the schools are saying "this will eat into our already slim budget, more money please!" net effect: the kids lose out, better off investing the money in better teaching programs than laptops that the students don't even need.
KRudd is wasting money on laptops that students don't NEED. The Aus economy would be in better hands if we threw the treasury at a 13yo girl in the mall. It's going to take a 3 term liberal govt to fix the mistakes of a 1 term labor govt, it did last time, but by the end of it everyone had forgotten why labor only lasted one term. They've already spent half of the nations surplus on a moronic homebuyers grant (which will just artificially inflate property prices in the short term) and in giving a $1000 christmas bonus to families on welfare (I actually don't have much of a problem with this, but it just goes to show that our govt is currently more socialist than capitalist).
i used to eat through brakepads every 6months because of the way i drive (like a hoon), and when the fronts ran out i'd use the handbrake... then i bought a manual and started using the gears to do most of the work and haven't replaced the brakepads in 18months.
"in China and you can be permanently imprisoned almost at will"
Kinda like all those people in Guantanamo Bay, did they get a trial and due process?
"China create laws just to extort money"
kinda like how the RIAA/MPAA/ pay for laws that make criminals out of ordinary folk?
I'm sorry, but if you think you are living in any semblance of what your founding fathers envisaged then you are delusional.
Next time there's a story about China ruling with an iron fist, look at yourselves before you go critisizing the way other governments are run. The USA is worse IMHO because they claim to be a democracy and the "land of the free". At least the Chinese aren't hypocritical and call a spade a spade.
it doesn't happen here in Australia...
if it did do you think the Chasers would still be walking free? (the blokes that gate-crashed APEC under the Canadian flag)
Highly unlikely. God doesn't use MS products, just look at the Bible, completely open source... every sect has it's own way of reading and writing the thing.
out of curiousity: does this lack of smell extend to your sense of taste as well? I'm no bioligist but I think I read somewhere that the two are very closely tied, which is why if something tastes horrible blocking your nose and chewing makes it far easier to swallow.
hear hear, I'm a web developer and have just started doing my own graphic design (graphic designers are such a rip off) and I've found that I can make a website look just as snazzy with GIMP as those overcharging wankers can with Photoshop. Keep up the good work GIMP devs.
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i'll bet they removed you from their Christmas card list too, eh.
"a fascist-capitalist state"... which is the oposite of a democratic-capitalist state, where the govt requires connections to large corporations in order to be successful.
uhh... isn't the whole point of prostitution getting someone else to do it to you?
...but after this post you won't be able to access slashdot, because your Royalty are a bunch of narrow minded horse-raping hermaphraditic dipshits who can't take a bit of criticism
his name is Robert Paulson
we use good old pen and paper down in Aus and the ballots get kept. Technology is not the answer to every problem, especially not when faulty software/hardware can cause a moron to get elected president of one of the most powerful countries on the planet... you should let the people elect the moron without the aid of technology.
"the difference between 17 and 364 days and 18"
leap years are such a bitch when picking up ripe 17 yo and 364 days chicks.
80% isn't that low when you consider that the vast majority of linux users will use OOo because there isn't another great altertnative.
Now, I'm not saying that MS Office is great, but the VAST majority of windows users are just going to use MS Office because they either aren't aware of OOo, don't care about OOo or have tried it and not liked it.
Your assumption that 99% of the downloads should be windows because 99% of the market use windows is therefore a bad assumption because on one platform OOo has almost no competition, while on the other it only has almost insignificant penetration because of a competing product endorsed by the OS vendor.
"Please don't hurt the poor artists."
because Metallica need a new gold-encrusted jet, and if it weren't for all you Pirates they wouldn't have to release 2 half baked albums, they could have quit while they were ahead. Bad, bad, bad, naughty, horrible Pirates.
why is there no mod option for "-1 Thanks Captain Obvious!"
yeah, my tinfoil hat is particularly tight today. but they do ban some silly things, like safety scissors, and liquids in containers less than 500ml have to be checked and sealed in a small plastic bag by security, when if you really want a weapon it's easiest to make a shiv out of the plastic knives they give you or hide a small capsule of lighter fluid up your arse.
...but don't expect the airlines to care about the facts when they decide to stop letting you use electronic devices on their flights. Common sense didn't get in the way of them banning nailclippers, shaving razors, liquids and many other innocuous day-to-day items.
the mentality that everyone should be in debt is exactly what has caused the current credit crunch and world economic crisis. and what happens when your debt is higher than your GDP? this is happening to Iceland and they are now f***ed because they will never pay it off.
not all teachers are tech-savvy, and who picks up the tab for hardware failures? again, back to my previous point of govt budget vs school budgets
economically poor? check how our economy was doing BEFORE Howard got into power. Keating dug a whole and the Liberal govt solved the problem, as soon as they did Labor got into power again because of peoples short memories. Using up all the surplus and spending like a madman is going to just leave the next govt to pick up the tab. Howard may have been a prick on some policies, but he know how to keep the economy going rather than appealing to peoples selfish nature and squandering our resources like KRudd is doing. The handouts from the labor govt are nothing more than bribes to buy votes. By then end of this term we are going to be in a far worse position than we are now because of foolish spending and poor management of the national budget.
" Give the children wooden blocks to play with, and they will build bridges with them"
Give the children technology that they, and their teachers don't understand and the laptops will end up gathering dust.
I'm all for using OSS, but somebody needs to take responsibility and ensure that teachers and students are properly educated in their use.
on the one side the govt says "hey, we've paid enough, you get free laptops!"
on the other side the schools are saying "this will eat into our already slim budget, more money please!"
net effect: the kids lose out, better off investing the money in better teaching programs than laptops that the students don't even need.
KRudd is wasting money on laptops that students don't NEED. The Aus economy would be in better hands if we threw the treasury at a 13yo girl in the mall. It's going to take a 3 term liberal govt to fix the mistakes of a 1 term labor govt, it did last time, but by the end of it everyone had forgotten why labor only lasted one term. They've already spent half of the nations surplus on a moronic homebuyers grant (which will just artificially inflate property prices in the short term) and in giving a $1000 christmas bonus to families on welfare (I actually don't have much of a problem with this, but it just goes to show that our govt is currently more socialist than capitalist).
i used to eat through brakepads every 6months because of the way i drive (like a hoon), and when the fronts ran out i'd use the handbrake... then i bought a manual and started using the gears to do most of the work and haven't replaced the brakepads in 18months.
"in China and you can be permanently imprisoned almost at will"
Kinda like all those people in Guantanamo Bay, did they get a trial and due process? "China create laws just to extort money"
kinda like how the RIAA/MPAA/ pay for laws that make criminals out of ordinary folk?
I'm sorry, but if you think you are living in any semblance of what your founding fathers envisaged then you are delusional.
Next time there's a story about China ruling with an iron fist, look at yourselves before you go critisizing the way other governments are run. The USA is worse IMHO because they claim to be a democracy and the "land of the free". At least the Chinese aren't hypocritical and call a spade a spade.
it doesn't happen here in Australia...
if it did do you think the Chasers would still be walking free? (the blokes that gate-crashed APEC under the Canadian flag)
Highly unlikely. God doesn't use MS products, just look at the Bible, completely open source... every sect has it's own way of reading and writing the thing.
C# is also not non-standard.
double non-positives don't not make baby jesus not non-cry.
you've not been unwarned.
out of curiousity: does this lack of smell extend to your sense of taste as well? I'm no bioligist but I think I read somewhere that the two are very closely tied, which is why if something tastes horrible blocking your nose and chewing makes it far easier to swallow.
hear hear, I'm a web developer and have just started doing my own graphic design (graphic designers are such a rip off) and I've found that I can make a website look just as snazzy with GIMP as those overcharging wankers can with Photoshop. Keep up the good work GIMP devs.