Yup. Trying to convince someone that there was an obscure serial killer who lived and died 100 years ago is a lot different than trying to convince people that, say, a leading national figure is Muslim. However, the latter can also work because it's helped along by the "big lie" effect.
I really find this annoying because to me it shows a fallacy of thinking.
Why should you *not* show skepticism of other types of writing? Just because it's printed by some corporate major publisher is not a guarantee that the material is correct. You're putting a lot of faith in "professional" editors that also might not be fact checking or promoting a bias (Ann Coulter's publisher comes to mind here).
You should be skeptical of writing on the internet, but should be just skeptical of everything else. Everyone is human, everyone has bias, everyone has an agenda, everyone screws up.
In the 2000s companies learned that death didn't matter, they would simply buy a congresscritter and get the law changed so it's illegal to talk about it. See: the beef industry.
What "freedom" is the corporate sycophant Tea Party talking about again?!?
Reminds me of the braindead comments we saw here in Indiana after last year's State Fair stage collapse when it was revealed that no one had to inspect the stage rigging.
My favorite was the one that said "why does it matter if some guy inspects the rigging." Well, for one thing it's not "some guy" but someone that has education and experience with such engineering problems. Secondly it's because people could die if it is wrong. Even when given a practical demonstration people are so ideologically motivated that they can't see why it should be done. You should of seen that idiot Mitch "fuck all regulations" Daniels backtrack when this was revealed and and people wondered why common sense wasn't followed and someone with experience didn't look over the setup.
I think there is a clear bright line between something like a set top box and a general use machine. If I buy the latter I have a reasonable expectation that I can install what I want on it.
I am not sure in this case they are being held to a different standard. Most of us that know what we are talking about and aren't just normal users care about whether you can install what you want on the platform. When you write an OS for a general use machine it is considered monopolistic behavior to disallow competitors apps and that's not limited to Microsoft. When Apple does it we get upset about it as well.
Bad analogy. BSOD is a software issue because the OS didn't trap the hardware failure and crashed.
The same thing happens on Linux but at a MUCH smaller frequecy. Bad hardware (except for the processor which runs the show) shouldn't crash your system.
I agree happen to agree after supporting and configuring and administering the same two platforms, but Baldy McSuitysuit has heard of Microsoft and hasn't heard of Debian because Debian doesn't actually spend money on commericals.
Of course this explains 96% of the problems in the corporate world. You also can't expect every Microsoft employee to be dumb... good ideas have to get through once in a while, even with a rotten corporate culture.
The thing is that Linux (and before that Unix) has always been a part of their infastructure. When Ballmer was being an ass, throwing chairs, and having diarrhea of the mouth with the cancer and "viral" comments, the people doing the real work on the inside had linux boxes on their network helping them get their day to day work done.
In other words, Ballmer is an idiot and Microsoft does have some good and practicle people working for them. An idiot CEO, that's not at all odd either.
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Why pay a public servant starvation wage when you can pay a private contractor $200 an hour? That's how the corporatist government saves money.
The summary fails to mention one of the agents was a down-on-her-luck Meg Ryan.
You've Got Subpoena!
...and right now Wikipedia "peer review" amounts to a pissing match between jerk editors. It's past its peak unless this gets fixed.
Yup. Trying to convince someone that there was an obscure serial killer who lived and died 100 years ago is a lot different than trying to convince people that, say, a leading national figure is Muslim. However, the latter can also work because it's helped along by the "big lie" effect.
I really find this annoying because to me it shows a fallacy of thinking.
Why should you *not* show skepticism of other types of writing? Just because it's printed by some corporate major publisher is not a guarantee that the material is correct. You're putting a lot of faith in "professional" editors that also might not be fact checking or promoting a bias (Ann Coulter's publisher comes to mind here).
You should be skeptical of writing on the internet, but should be just skeptical of everything else. Everyone is human, everyone has bias, everyone has an agenda, everyone screws up.
Business model tired, worn out?
Unable or too lazy to come up with new ideas?
Loaded down with cash from when consumers had to take it your way or hit the highway?
If this describes you, call 1-800-BUYCONGRESS.
We'll do ALL we can to screw over you customers and keep your worn-out way of thinking in the public eye.
Cause everyone else is obviously a pirate or a terrorist!
BUY A CONGRESSMAN TODAY!
I don't have mod points, but someone needs to mod this up. The overratted mod is pattently unfair.
Much like CNN and Fox News, it's now an opinion organ. That's the state of factual reporting in the U.S.
Wait until Romney gets into office. He'll END human rights and we will get all our jerbs back.
In the 2000s companies learned that death didn't matter, they would simply buy a congresscritter and get the law changed so it's illegal to talk about it. See: the beef industry.
What "freedom" is the corporate sycophant Tea Party talking about again?!?
Reminds me of the braindead comments we saw here in Indiana after last year's State Fair stage collapse when it was revealed that no one had to inspect the stage rigging.
My favorite was the one that said "why does it matter if some guy inspects the rigging." Well, for one thing it's not "some guy" but someone that has education and experience with such engineering problems. Secondly it's because people could die if it is wrong. Even when given a practical demonstration people are so ideologically motivated that they can't see why it should be done. You should of seen that idiot Mitch "fuck all regulations" Daniels backtrack when this was revealed and and people wondered why common sense wasn't followed and someone with experience didn't look over the setup.
engineering is bad.
To a normal user this is a distinction without a difference. The OS *is* the computer to the uninitiated.
I think there is a clear bright line between something like a set top box and a general use machine. If I buy the latter I have a reasonable expectation that I can install what I want on it.
I am not sure in this case they are being held to a different standard. Most of us that know what we are talking about and aren't just normal users care about whether you can install what you want on the platform. When you write an OS for a general use machine it is considered monopolistic behavior to disallow competitors apps and that's not limited to Microsoft. When Apple does it we get upset about it as well.
This is funny, but it's probably an abuse of the patent system. At best it is trivial.
And Vonnegut thought American life was absurd in his heyday. We seem to be living in a Dali painting now....
When ANY browser does something non-standard, it breaks the web. Period.
Bad analogy. BSOD is a software issue because the OS didn't trap the hardware failure and crashed.
The same thing happens on Linux but at a MUCH smaller frequecy. Bad hardware (except for the processor which runs the show) shouldn't crash your system.
This is the worst fucking troll on Slashdot since "think about your breathing."
What is thy bidding, my master?
I agree happen to agree after supporting and configuring and administering the same two platforms, but Baldy McSuitysuit has heard of Microsoft and hasn't heard of Debian because Debian doesn't actually spend money on commericals.
Of course this explains 96% of the problems in the corporate world. You also can't expect every Microsoft employee to be dumb... good ideas have to get through once in a while, even with a rotten corporate culture.
The thing is that Linux (and before that Unix) has always been a part of their infastructure. When Ballmer was being an ass, throwing chairs, and having diarrhea of the mouth with the cancer and "viral" comments, the people doing the real work on the inside had linux boxes on their network helping them get their day to day work done.
In other words, Ballmer is an idiot and Microsoft does have some good and practicle people working for them. An idiot CEO, that's not at all odd either.
Which is why I called for MY OWN post to be modded down. It was a factually inacurate shot. A post below enlightened me.
Well.. not be a smartass, but everyone has the right to use it. That's the point.
negative one the above post. it deserves it.