Those programs are "free"? I mean, can I legally install in my Linux box and run under Wine? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIR and according to the EULA, starting from IE5 or IE6 you are allowed to install IE only into MS Windows.
Can you legally install iTunes on Linux?
Well, most do not care, no matter how badly trapped they are (or will be) in MS technology. The problem is that there are people who care, and that people is being artificially being prevented to use (or use properly) the technology they prefer because MS do not follow standards as they should.
The answer to this should be simple. If you prefer Microsoft technology, use Microsoft products. If you don't prefer Microsoft technology, don't use their products. Period.
Are you a hermit? I ask this because, if you're not, it means you must be able to exchange information with the rest of society. The moment you graduate and start looking for a job (you need such thing in order to be able to afford things like.. food, for example) you will be asked (or expected), most of the time, to send your CV in.doc format. -- What choice are you talking about?
Granted, they aren't as prominent, but there are plenty of companies that use Linux and/or Open Office (the company that I work for being one of them) And once again, is Microsoft holding guns to folks head's? Because if they aren't, those companies CHOSE to use Microsoft, just like the companies that they work with CHOSE to use it.
I'm not saying Microsoft doesn't have deplorable practices. I'm saying that people that feel trapped by it have only themselves to blame by adding to Microsoft's coffers.
About that regrettable Amiga (a great machine in its time BTW) comment of yours, I can say this: Today is not the 1980s and interoperability is not a luxury, it's an expected thing from technology.
Right. That's why Blu-Ray should play in my Wii, my cell phone should be able to use the same memory card as my digital camera (which, admittingly, some do) and my gas-guzzling car should be able to be filled with diesel. Right?
I have met MANY stoners in my short life...many of those that I have met have been met from traveling across the country. There is one thing that I can say about stoners that makes them some of the best people in the world: they are simple to satisfy, they are deep thinkers, and they are some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
To paraphrase Grandpa Ganja:
"To the layperson, a stoner is always just sort of staring out into space. Inside that stoner brain, however, is a swirling torrent of questions that would make most people's head explode. A stoner is never staring off into space: he is constantly questioning it."
100% absolutely correct. It is Microsoft MONOPOLY that makes real competition impossible. The barriers to use of another product make it almost impossible to not use Microsoft products.
But once again, who made Microsoft a monopoly? We, the consumers. 90% of us use Windows. Unless Bill Gates went to the home of every Windows user that you know and held a gun to their head unless they used his products, people CHOSE to give Microsoft THEIR money...Microsoft didn't take it from them, it was given BY them.
I'm not defending Microsoft's buisness practices...but for the very people who made them a monopoly to be crying foul on them...that's just plain stupid. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and all that.
Well of course you won't find that. Would you expect Apple to sell their systems out of the box using their biggest competitor's operating system? Come on...
In all seriousness though, this does reflect my own personal beliefs...if you were to gauge where on the scale I am, you would find me right smack in the middle. A little from column A, a little from column B...
OK, so you don't include all of the brainwashing inherint in military bootcamp...you only include the physical training.
Forgive me for not thinking this through enough to put make it to the floor for debate...I was just stating what I would do. Sorry if I didn't make it detailed enough to be a bestseller.
The argument "no one forced" the purchase of Microsoft products is patently and provably false. Go to Best Buy or Staples and buy a P.C. laptop without Windows. Just go ahead and try. The barriers put in the way are amazing.
Comcast won't support you on a P.C. if you don't use Windows, so you are forced to have a version of Windows in order to get support.
And last time I checked, Best Buy, Comcast, and those laptop manufacturers are seperate companies from Microsoft. They could just as easily sell all their computers without Windows.
Of course, the next step in that argument is that no one would buy them. Going along that line of thinking, who is at fault here; Microsoft, or the people and companies that continue to buy and use their products?
I have never thought that drug use was immoral. I do however think that raiding medical marijuana clinics, burning hemp fields, and treating weekend users like terrorists is immoral.
If alcohol is legal, "drugs" should be legal as well. After all, alcohol kills more people every year than every illicit drug combined.
Also, police raids kill more illicit drug users every year than all illicit drugs combined.
And I will tell you exactly why I think so. Microsoft releases a retail version of Windows. Included in this retail version of Windows is Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer.
Number 1. Both of these are FREE PROGRAMS. You can download any version of IE and WMP for free directly from Microsoft (and yes, I am aware they don't retain older versions for downloading). You won't see Internet Explorer or WMP sitting on Best Buy's shelves.
Number 2. After installing windows, the first two programs I install are Media Player Classic and Firefox. Both free, legal alternatives. If someone is upset with Microsoft including those other two programs in there, don't use them. Yes, they take up a minimal amount of disk space...but if you are complaining about 50-100 MB of disk space when you can get a 1 TB drive in a 3.5" model for roughtly $250-$300, you are just looking for something to complain about.
Number 3. Those who don't know any better obviously don't care that they come included...and if they do care, they will do the research required to download and use something else.
Number 4. LINUX AND OSX!!!! It's not like Windows is the only game in town...it is perhaps for gaming, but that is not Microsoft's fault...you wouldn't try to sue Sony because your PS3 can't play an Amiga game, would you?
All I'm saying is that this is complete and utter stupidity. People that use windows don't care that they are using windows. If they care enough that they are using windows, they will look at what the other alternatives are. "But...but...but...I HAVE to use office, it's what my job uses!" That's your company's fault for using Microsoft products...no one forced them to. Just like no one has forced you to use Microsoft products.
Sorry, didn't answer your whole first question. Any major injury sustained (excluding things like minor bruises, etc.) would be taken care of and paid for. The purpose of putting people through boot camp is two-fold. 1. Try to encourage them to lead active lives (once they see how they look and feel at the end of boot camp) and 2. train people to defend themselves against any kind of attacker, whether it's a mugger or an invading country.
Would people diagnosed with significant mental disabilities, such as Asperger syndrome, be considered able-bodied under your suggestion? And people would receive veterans' benefits for any injury sustained in basic training, right?
Able-Bodied would be considered anyone that is mentally stable and anyone who does not have any permanent physical conditions (missing appendeges, weak bones/joints, etc.) Essentially, healthy people that don't have any physical or mental complications.
Which precondition of Duverger's law would you repeal?
There would be no more parties. No Democrats, no republicans, no green party, no libertarian...nothing. People would no longer be able to vote along party lines, because their would be no parties. You would simply listen to the proposed policies and opinions of the canidates, and go from there. Granted, this could get complicated very quickly, but it's not like the system we have now is simple either.
To what level of proficiency? And would your policy prefer one dialect over another?
Proficient to the point if they are a witness to a crime, they can describe what they saw. I'm not looking for them to be able to write a novel; i'm looking for them to be able to converse in English. I personally think it's a fair request; like I said, I wouldn't expect to be granted citizenship to a country unless I could speak the primary language to the point of being able to survive on a day-to-day basis. As far as dialect goes, that all depends on where they are trying to move to. Once you are a citizen, you are a citizen...you (of course) wouldn't be required to learn the dialects from many different places...hell, I've lived in America my whole life and can't undersand what some people say.
What good is a curriculum of only basketbology and footbology?
There are plenty of people that are interested in more than just that. Not everyone is interested in sports. Besides, the curriculum itself is one of the other things I would change (the largest change being empowering teachers to teach how they see fit...they have to teach the same material, but it would be up to them HOW to teach it based on their classes individual needs...this alone would raise the data retention rate amongst students exponentially.)
5 is indeed a potential ecological disaster, something that I honestly hadn't considered.
6 is meant to learn English to the point of being able to have a short conversation with someone, or give them directions, or not have a language barrier at your job. I wouldn't expect to be allowed to become a citizen of a country if I didn't know that country's language, and I would expect nothing less of my own country.
As far as choosing classes in high school, your concerns could be addressed very easily. My fiance is a teacher. Quite frequently, I hear stories of other teachers that have problematic students, be it in behaviour or learning. Have all public schools teach the same thing (as it roughly is now), however allow each individual teacher to teach it to their class as they see fit. I'm a politician, they are a teacher. I think they would be more qualified in knowing how to talk to their own students than I would be.
As far as 10 goes...potential reprocutions are huge...likely, murder would skyrocket at first. People would figure it out though. Once your neighbor realizes you could legally kick his ass for stealing your car, he is much less likely to steal your car.
Sorry, I should have clarified. This would be for planned pregnancies (think of it as a centralized extension of planned parenthood) Abortion would still be legal in it's present state.
1. Legalize ALL drugs (this includes regulation and taxation. Want to end the illegal drug trade? This is the fastest way.) 2. Require all able-bodied citizens between ages 18 and 35 (male and female) to undergo military bootcamp. This is NOT a draft however; after going through bootcamp, you are not required to serve in the military. 3. Abolish the two-party system 4. Erase all censorship from all media...This includes: Internet, Television, print, video games, music, etc. 5. Build a border-spanning fence. Every 75 miles, have a reinforced entry way in which people are allowed through. 6. Require that any immigrants that enter the US to be able to speak English prior to being granted citizenship. 7. Allow high school students to pick all of their classes throughout their 4-year High School education. 8. Allow all fifty states to have their say in gun ownership laws (I personally am for personal gun ownership.) 9. Require application for parental certificates (the program would be known as "If you can't feed em, don't breed em". It would be based on the financial situation of the parents, as well as their mental well being and relationship status...i.e. do they constantly fight, or are they constantly in love, etc.) 10. Legalize (and actively regulate) vigalante justice. (if everyone knows they can get their ass kicked by their gun toting neighbor, they are more likely to behave themselves)
That's because weed wasn't legal when they made alcohol illegal;-)
Really, if you look at the effects that it has on people, combined with the uses of each product (other than drinking, alcoholic beverages don't really have much of any other use...whereas marijuana/hemp has THOUSANDS of uses) it would have made more sense to keep marijuana legal than to keep alcohol legal...
The discovery of late Stone Age beer jugs has established the fact that intentionally fermented beverages existed at least as early as the Neolithic period (cir. 10,000 BC), and it has been suggested that beer may have preceded bread as a staple; wine clearly appeared as a finished product in Egyptian pictographs around 4,000 BC[1]
Brewing dates from the beginning of civilization in ancient Egypt and alcoholic beverages were very important in that country. Symbolic of this is the fact that while many gods were local or familial, Osiris, was worshiped throughout the entire country. The Egyptians believed that this important god invented beer, a beverage that was considered a necessity of life; it was brewed in the home "on an everyday basis."[1]
Both beer and wine were deified and offered to gods. Cellars and winepresses even had a god whose hieroglyph was a winepress. The ancient Egyptians made at least seventeen varieties of beer and at least 24 varieties of wine. Alcoholic beverages were used for pleasure, nutrition, medicine, ritual, remuneration and funerary purposes. The latter involved storing the beverages in tombs of the deceased for their use in the after-life.[1]
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The answer to this should be simple. If you prefer Microsoft technology, use Microsoft products. If you don't prefer Microsoft technology, don't use their products. Period.
Granted, they aren't as prominent, but there are plenty of companies that use Linux and/or Open Office (the company that I work for being one of them) And once again, is Microsoft holding guns to folks head's? Because if they aren't, those companies CHOSE to use Microsoft, just like the companies that they work with CHOSE to use it.
I'm not saying Microsoft doesn't have deplorable practices. I'm saying that people that feel trapped by it have only themselves to blame by adding to Microsoft's coffers.
Right. That's why Blu-Ray should play in my Wii, my cell phone should be able to use the same memory card as my digital camera (which, admittingly, some do) and my gas-guzzling car should be able to be filled with diesel. Right?
I have met MANY stoners in my short life...many of those that I have met have been met from traveling across the country. There is one thing that I can say about stoners that makes them some of the best people in the world: they are simple to satisfy, they are deep thinkers, and they are some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
To paraphrase Grandpa Ganja:
"To the layperson, a stoner is always just sort of staring out into space. Inside that stoner brain, however, is a swirling torrent of questions that would make most people's head explode. A stoner is never staring off into space: he is constantly questioning it."
But once again, who made Microsoft a monopoly? We, the consumers. 90% of us use Windows. Unless Bill Gates went to the home of every Windows user that you know and held a gun to their head unless they used his products, people CHOSE to give Microsoft THEIR money...Microsoft didn't take it from them, it was given BY them.
I'm not defending Microsoft's buisness practices...but for the very people who made them a monopoly to be crying foul on them...that's just plain stupid. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, and all that.
Well of course you won't find that. Would you expect Apple to sell their systems out of the box using their biggest competitor's operating system? Come on...
That's because I'm a crackpot middle-body :-)
In all seriousness though, this does reflect my own personal beliefs...if you were to gauge where on the scale I am, you would find me right smack in the middle. A little from column A, a little from column B...
OK, so you don't include all of the brainwashing inherint in military bootcamp...you only include the physical training.
Forgive me for not thinking this through enough to put make it to the floor for debate...I was just stating what I would do. Sorry if I didn't make it detailed enough to be a bestseller.
I know that...these are some of the changes I would propose though.
:-)
It's my dream world, let me fill it with the dreams that I want to
Yeah, spelling was never my best subject ;-)
And last time I checked, Best Buy, Comcast, and those laptop manufacturers are seperate companies from Microsoft. They could just as easily sell all their computers without Windows.
Of course, the next step in that argument is that no one would buy them. Going along that line of thinking, who is at fault here; Microsoft, or the people and companies that continue to buy and use their products?
I have never thought that drug use was immoral. I do however think that raiding medical marijuana clinics, burning hemp fields, and treating weekend users like terrorists is immoral.
If alcohol is legal, "drugs" should be legal as well. After all, alcohol kills more people every year than every illicit drug combined.
Also, police raids kill more illicit drug users every year than all illicit drugs combined.
No, I'm a 23 year old who believes that being pushed to the limit physically and mentally makes you a stronger person all around.
yes...yes you can. It would be illegal, but ::shrug:: whatever :-)
And I will tell you exactly why I think so. Microsoft releases a retail version of Windows. Included in this retail version of Windows is Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer.
Number 1. Both of these are FREE PROGRAMS. You can download any version of IE and WMP for free directly from Microsoft (and yes, I am aware they don't retain older versions for downloading). You won't see Internet Explorer or WMP sitting on Best Buy's shelves.
Number 2. After installing windows, the first two programs I install are Media Player Classic and Firefox. Both free, legal alternatives. If someone is upset with Microsoft including those other two programs in there, don't use them. Yes, they take up a minimal amount of disk space...but if you are complaining about 50-100 MB of disk space when you can get a 1 TB drive in a 3.5" model for roughtly $250-$300, you are just looking for something to complain about.
Number 3. Those who don't know any better obviously don't care that they come included...and if they do care, they will do the research required to download and use something else.
Number 4. LINUX AND OSX!!!! It's not like Windows is the only game in town...it is perhaps for gaming, but that is not Microsoft's fault...you wouldn't try to sue Sony because your PS3 can't play an Amiga game, would you?
All I'm saying is that this is complete and utter stupidity. People that use windows don't care that they are using windows. If they care enough that they are using windows, they will look at what the other alternatives are. "But...but...but...I HAVE to use office, it's what my job uses!" That's your company's fault for using Microsoft products...no one forced them to. Just like no one has forced you to use Microsoft products.
Parts of it are, yes. As Gallagher once so succinctly put it
"We hold these truths to be self evident (and federally taxable). All men are created equal (just in different tax brackets)"
Sorry, didn't answer your whole first question. Any major injury sustained (excluding things like minor bruises, etc.) would be taken care of and paid for. The purpose of putting people through boot camp is two-fold. 1. Try to encourage them to lead active lives (once they see how they look and feel at the end of boot camp) and 2. train people to defend themselves against any kind of attacker, whether it's a mugger or an invading country.
There would be no more parties. No Democrats, no republicans, no green party, no libertarian...nothing. People would no longer be able to vote along party lines, because their would be no parties. You would simply listen to the proposed policies and opinions of the canidates, and go from there. Granted, this could get complicated very quickly, but it's not like the system we have now is simple either. Proficient to the point if they are a witness to a crime, they can describe what they saw. I'm not looking for them to be able to write a novel; i'm looking for them to be able to converse in English. I personally think it's a fair request; like I said, I wouldn't expect to be granted citizenship to a country unless I could speak the primary language to the point of being able to survive on a day-to-day basis. As far as dialect goes, that all depends on where they are trying to move to. Once you are a citizen, you are a citizen...you (of course) wouldn't be required to learn the dialects from many different places...hell, I've lived in America my whole life and can't undersand what some people say. There are plenty of people that are interested in more than just that. Not everyone is interested in sports. Besides, the curriculum itself is one of the other things I would change (the largest change being empowering teachers to teach how they see fit...they have to teach the same material, but it would be up to them HOW to teach it based on their classes individual needs...this alone would raise the data retention rate amongst students exponentially.)
5 is indeed a potential ecological disaster, something that I honestly hadn't considered.
6 is meant to learn English to the point of being able to have a short conversation with someone, or give them directions, or not have a language barrier at your job. I wouldn't expect to be allowed to become a citizen of a country if I didn't know that country's language, and I would expect nothing less of my own country.
As far as choosing classes in high school, your concerns could be addressed very easily. My fiance is a teacher. Quite frequently, I hear stories of other teachers that have problematic students, be it in behaviour or learning. Have all public schools teach the same thing (as it roughly is now), however allow each individual teacher to teach it to their class as they see fit. I'm a politician, they are a teacher. I think they would be more qualified in knowing how to talk to their own students than I would be.
As far as 10 goes...potential reprocutions are huge...likely, murder would skyrocket at first. People would figure it out though. Once your neighbor realizes you could legally kick his ass for stealing your car, he is much less likely to steal your car.
Sorry, I should have clarified. This would be for planned pregnancies (think of it as a centralized extension of planned parenthood) Abortion would still be legal in it's present state.
It would also stop all this bullshit that people spew about gun control. I'm tired of all that.
;-)
Besides, if Vigilante Justice is made legal, I assure you no state would be dumb enough to make guns illegal
In no particular order:
1. Legalize ALL drugs (this includes regulation and taxation. Want to end the illegal drug trade? This is the fastest way.)
2. Require all able-bodied citizens between ages 18 and 35 (male and female) to undergo military bootcamp. This is NOT a draft however; after going through bootcamp, you are not required to serve in the military.
3. Abolish the two-party system
4. Erase all censorship from all media...This includes: Internet, Television, print, video games, music, etc.
5. Build a border-spanning fence. Every 75 miles, have a reinforced entry way in which people are allowed through.
6. Require that any immigrants that enter the US to be able to speak English prior to being granted citizenship.
7. Allow high school students to pick all of their classes throughout their 4-year High School education.
8. Allow all fifty states to have their say in gun ownership laws (I personally am for personal gun ownership.)
9. Require application for parental certificates (the program would be known as "If you can't feed em, don't breed em". It would be based on the financial situation of the parents, as well as their mental well being and relationship status...i.e. do they constantly fight, or are they constantly in love, etc.)
10. Legalize (and actively regulate) vigalante justice. (if everyone knows they can get their ass kicked by their gun toting neighbor, they are more likely to behave themselves)
That's because weed wasn't legal when they made alcohol illegal ;-)
Really, if you look at the effects that it has on people, combined with the uses of each product (other than drinking, alcoholic beverages don't really have much of any other use...whereas marijuana/hemp has THOUSANDS of uses) it would have made more sense to keep marijuana legal than to keep alcohol legal...
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Do your part in helping to end the prohibition of Marijuana and industrial hemp.
From Wikipedia:
Main Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcohol#Ancient_period
And yes, the article cites its sources.
Which is silly, considering alcoholic drinks were first conceived by holy men...
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Or...perhaps some ultra-slow failing?