because they try to aggressively limit competition in any way possible???????
and then they have the gall to deliver inferior products, and provide poor support for their crappy buggy, bloatware.
and also the fact that the man behind the company is the richest man in the world, and hes only giving his children a million bucks out of his 50 billion or whatever, and whenever he donates to charity its in windows product!!!!!! i mean how is it possible to not hate this company?
well in my opinion this is just going to be another tool of the government, and it will slowly twist itself into another shackle basically.
pretty much all these things are proposed to be so beneficial for the people, when in reality they just become a system to manipulate the populus.
in 1935 we got the social security program, by the time most of us retire, it will have been proven a failure at providing income for the elderly, and disabled and such that it was made to provide, however well be left with the legacy of the social security number, in which the word security has also proven to be pretty ironic.
now its main purpose is for tracking everything you do, and not just the government. no, we all have credit scores, since when did i agree to be ranked for credit cards, and how the hell did they get my social security number anyway? i dont even have a credit card, although surely credit card companies will require this. so of course now every purchase you make will be trackable. the government uses this to thier advantage too, making it easier to incriminate you for whatever. even though credit cards are ridiculously insecure.
then they started putting up cameras all over the place and no one complained, its for our own safety right? im not doing anything illegal so why should i care, etc etc.
well this is the next step as they slowly tighten the shackles, everythis is such a small step, so innoccous that nobody cares enough to argue with it. under the guise of the public good.
None of these things serve the best interests of the citizen, theyre just tools for prosecuting, incriminating, and supressing them, thats it. The cops arent your friends, they are just waiting for you to do something illegal so they can arrest you. the politicians arent your friends, they just want to further thier career, and make money. THESE THINGS ARE DIRECTLY IN OPPOSITION TO YOUR BEST INTERESTS. same thing with the any hierarchy of power, its just natural for them to oppose each other which is fine, its just sickening that everyone lays down and accepts it or even worse applauds the government for protecting them you know. same thing with corporations especially, thier relationship to their employees who want to be paid more, while the company wants to pay them less. the customer demands high quality, but they want to spend the least money making it. not to forget the fact that they get all sorts of tax breaks, they write everything off, they have huge spending power lobbying for all sorts of laws that directly oppose the consumer, basically buying laws. tacking them onto some totally unrelated bill. they make you consent to a background check, drug testing, during hiring, sometimes after. these are violations of your rights, but your consenting, why? because otherwise you wont get a job anywhere, ever. because everyone just said, ahh well, im innocent why should i care etc etc. and now its commonplace, and therefore ok.
so back to this stupid id thing, how long before somebody bastardizes it, giving themselves some new power over us. violating our frigging rights, because we are so stupid we agreed to the useless thing years ago. then a few more years go by and this new violation becomes widely adopted and pass some new law to further control us.
really whats the difference between medeival fuedal societies, and the present state of things. now corporations are the lords, and our working class are the peasants, and the government is the weak militant arm of the lords, making sure they work the lands productively. besides a slightly higher standard of living, however we still work the majority of our lives, at least they could work till they died since they didnt have such good medicine. bs bs bs bs bs
so some christians like this game, and feel good about murder which is great, and the corporation that makes the game is making money, sending free discs out through churchgroups and such as well, to reach a larger demographic with thier spyware.
much cheaper and faster, with classic 2d you have to draw all the different frames, which takes forever. and they gotta pay the artists and what not you know.
so if all binary closed source drivers are banned, the companies are gonna say, "ahh they wanna play hard ball eh? alright we fold, heres the source."
not likely,
and it certainly wouldnt make it easier to produce drivers for our favorite hardware, (read nvidia) there may be a little more incentive for developers, but still come on.
but then again, like was also mentioned above, if they are banned i dont really care ill use whatever bloody driver i want anyway.
the thing is though, that nvidia wont support linux, in fact i doubt any hardware vendor that values its own IP will, so it will indirectly screw me the user. super.
next theyll suggest they should be allowed to drive, with a sighted passenger riding shotgun.
what the hell is the world coming to, canada is looking mighty inviting lately.
well its only a matter of time before its integrated into the frame of the glasses, and it works better than the ones that were supposed to fire directly onto your retinas. it would be awesome if there were better mini pc motherboards, like fitting into a hard drive enclosure with a decent processor makes me kinda look forward to the amd cpu gpu integrated chip doozer. that would be awesome.
well imagine it was like a giant pc watercooling setup, with the radiator in space and the cooling block in the ocean, in space there is no air to carry away the heat so it would rely on radiating the heat entirely by infrared radiation, no convection like in a pc with a fan blowing on it.
also it would be absorbing energy from the sun so it would probably only work when it was night-time, and even then theres probably a better solution.
and yes i do understand that this was meant to be a joke, it was a real knee slapper lemme tell ya.
the best part was when he was talking about microsofts "home of tommorow"
"The examples that popped into my mind most during the NDA tour were Marshall Brain's online books Robotic Nation and Manna . Bits of Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 novel Player Piano also boiled up from my memory.
Microsoft has a positive take on many of these technologies and how they can work together to make our lives different in the future, but since it won't allow me to share its optimism with you, Brain and Vonnegut's dystopian visions will have to do."
well it probably targets the nerves responsible for pain and stops them from functioning, lots of venom contains toxins that affect the central nervous system like the black widow's for instance.
the thing id worry about is less that a huge dose would kill you, because it probably wouldnt, id worry that you could become completely immune to pain overtime and hurt yourself without even knowing, like contorting into a wierd position during sleep and breaking your own spine.
pain lets you know that your doing something wrong and you correct it, if you cant feel pain your liable to injure yourself doing mundane tasks, like walking for instance, or drinking scaldingly hot coffee, etc etc.
"The survival advantage was so powerful perhaps because those with the mutations not only gained extra energy from lactose but also, in drought conditions, would have benefited from the water in milk. People who were lactose-intolerant could have risked losing water from diarrhea, Dr. Tishkoff said."
still seems suspect to me, i guess the ones that tolerated lactose were also more promiscuous, less picky. OR maybe its simply because lets face it: who wants to have sex with someone with diarrhea??? not this guy.
or maybe its what they said, and they were healthier and produced more children, and/or lived longer.
well the way i see it, is that we can read very little from the past. those acheologists talk so much crap about what actually happened but they have very little evidence to support it, in fact anything couldve happened. we could have went through several iterations of technological epochs like the one were enjoying now, with out a shred of evidence that it even existed, look at the pyramids and such, they say that they were built with brute strength, piling dirt underneath those massive monoliths to raise them. ok maybe so, but maybe not. there isnt even any concrete proof that we are evolved from primates, as far as im concerned we may be evolved from pigs, or whales or whatever, or perhaps they evolved from us.
the only reason we think that humanity has only been around 50k years is because thats what fossil evidence remains, well look at new york city for instance, how much fossil evidence remains that people lived there in 1850. i mean large lasting structures, that will tell the people of 52006 that there were people there in 1850.
as far as im concerned we could be far more ancient as a race than we give ourselves credit. we live a very short time in the grand scheme of things, and keep very poor records. look at how fast other animals adapt, 50k years ago, we were probably so much different we wouldnt even recognize our ancestors fossils if we found them. there were probably millions of species that existed that didnt leave a shred of evidence that they ever lived.
then there are people who think we came here from venus or mars, thats just as likely as well. it makes alot more sense to me than that we descended from apes. thing is about evolution is this, if the mutation makes the creature better suited for survival, it will compete with the old version and completely replace it, and so on. so why are there apes remaining? wouldnt we have replaced them before becoming so different that we couldnt reproduce? its all a crock of shit.
will we survive, probably. there will be some great catastrophe and the majority will be wiped out, but some will live, hidden away, forgetting everything, and there will be just dust to remember our great civilization by, and in 52006 our distant counterparts will be considering the same thing, theyll find the eiffel tower, and make up some stupid theory on how their ancient ancestors lashed it together with nothing but grit and determination.
ahh f it.
seriously anti-phishing applications? is that really necessary? how about a jpeg desktop background, that says "THINK DAMN IT!!!"
i think that might prevent most if not all problems with malware.
this is what you call a crock-of-shit. it reminds me of the honda civics with huge carbon fiber spoilers. once i saw a civic with a nismo sticker on it. this nic actually induced the same amount of nausea, in fact i was so angry, that when i was done smashing things my eyes were bleeding. my bloodpressure mustve soared, i cant remember though i blacked out during the rage.
needless to say, this product does not get my stamp of approval.
why would that piss anyone off, like: "fuck!! theyre releasing a linux disc? fuck!!!! the friggin web browser was one thing, but this is the last straw, AHHHRHRRRAAAHGGGG!!! fucking sony. this settles it im getting a wii." rippin their hair out and shit. punching the wall, breaking furniture. then the guy takes it out on the poor dog, "fucking DOG!" kicking him, "FUCKING SONY" kick, kick, kick. "ARGHHHHHH"
do you really think its going to be sold as a pc, like the marketing hype, "sony playstation 3, personal computer." i think the playstation name is pretty widely known to be a game console at this point. im really not sure how anyone could get upset about this.
well thats an obscure device, the thing is, you spend much less time maintaining linux, on my windows partition i have to reformat and reinstall every couple of months just to keep things working, simply because its easier than tracking down the problem. in linux the only time i have to actually do anything to make things work is when i install a newer version. installing binaries is incredibly easy. i have a whole directory full of updated packages that i keep in case i want to install a different version or what not, after a fresh install i just cd to the dir, type installpkg *.tgz, and presto everythings ready to go. ease of maintenance, takes about 30 minutes for the whole process, in windows the same thing would take god knows forever. switch to slack youll learn how to use linux, and you will never look back.
lol nah i was thinking about the way they only sell software for their own os, push developers to use their proprietary api's and provide incentives for oems and businesses to use thier os in a way to limit competition, and using the same tactics on literature. the way china restricts access to damaging information, or any literature that may undermine thier interests.
its very unlikely, mainly just a cheap-shot, anti-microsoft linux fanboyism and such. however it is possible.
drafting, in motor sports it reduces drag. in running, its more of a mental thing. its tougher to gauge your pace when your leading the pack, and you can just settle in behind and then out kick him at the end.
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because they try to aggressively limit competition in any way possible???????
and then they have the gall to deliver inferior products, and provide poor support for their crappy buggy, bloatware.
and also the fact that the man behind the company is the richest man in the world, and hes only giving his children a million bucks out of his 50 billion or whatever, and whenever he donates to charity its in windows product!!!!!! i mean how is it possible to not hate this company?
well in my opinion this is just going to be another tool of the government, and it will slowly twist itself into another shackle basically.
pretty much all these things are proposed to be so beneficial for the people, when in reality they just become a system to manipulate the populus.
in 1935 we got the social security program, by the time most of us retire, it will have been proven a failure at providing income for the elderly, and disabled and such that it was made to provide, however well be left with the legacy of the social security number, in which the word security has also proven to be pretty ironic.
now its main purpose is for tracking everything you do, and not just the government. no, we all have credit scores, since when did i agree to be ranked for credit cards, and how the hell did they get my social security number anyway? i dont even have a credit card, although surely credit card companies will require this. so of course now every purchase you make will be trackable. the government uses this to thier advantage too, making it easier to incriminate you for whatever. even though credit cards are ridiculously insecure.
then they started putting up cameras all over the place and no one complained, its for our own safety right? im not doing anything illegal so why should i care, etc etc.
well this is the next step as they slowly tighten the shackles, everythis is such a small step, so innoccous that nobody cares enough to argue with it. under the guise of the public good.
None of these things serve the best interests of the citizen, theyre just tools for prosecuting, incriminating, and supressing them, thats it. The cops arent your friends, they are just waiting for you to do something illegal so they can arrest you. the politicians arent your friends, they just want to further thier career, and make money. THESE THINGS ARE DIRECTLY IN OPPOSITION TO YOUR BEST INTERESTS. same thing with the any hierarchy of power, its just natural for them to oppose each other which is fine, its just sickening that everyone lays down and accepts it or even worse applauds the government for protecting them you know. same thing with corporations especially, thier relationship to their employees who want to be paid more, while the company wants to pay them less. the customer demands high quality, but they want to spend the least money making it. not to forget the fact that they get all sorts of tax breaks, they write everything off, they have huge spending power lobbying for all sorts of laws that directly oppose the consumer, basically buying laws. tacking them onto some totally unrelated bill. they make you consent to a background check, drug testing, during hiring, sometimes after. these are violations of your rights, but your consenting, why? because otherwise you wont get a job anywhere, ever. because everyone just said, ahh well, im innocent why should i care etc etc. and now its commonplace, and therefore ok.
so back to this stupid id thing, how long before somebody bastardizes it, giving themselves some new power over us. violating our frigging rights, because we are so stupid we agreed to the useless thing years ago. then a few more years go by and this new violation becomes widely adopted and pass some new law to further control us.
really whats the difference between medeival fuedal societies, and the present state of things. now corporations are the lords, and our working class are the peasants, and the government is the weak militant arm of the lords, making sure they work the lands productively. besides a slightly higher standard of living, however we still work the majority of our lives, at least they could work till they died since they didnt have such good medicine. bs bs bs bs bs
sometimes you forget to switch to plain old text, and it gets posted as html, which ignores all the line breaks.
so some christians like this game, and feel good about murder which is great, and the corporation that makes the game is making money, sending free discs out through churchgroups and such as well, to reach a larger demographic with thier spyware.
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more info about the ad placement here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/21/113545/73
to me religion is just a business like any other and this is just further proof.
much cheaper and faster, with classic 2d you have to draw all the different frames, which takes forever. and they gotta pay the artists and what not you know.
so if all binary closed source drivers are banned, the companies are gonna say, "ahh they wanna play hard ball eh? alright we fold, heres the source."
not likely,
and it certainly wouldnt make it easier to produce drivers for our favorite hardware, (read nvidia) there may be a little more incentive for developers, but still come on.
but then again, like was also mentioned above, if they are banned i dont really care ill use whatever bloody driver i want anyway.
the thing is though, that nvidia wont support linux, in fact i doubt any hardware vendor that values its own IP will, so it will indirectly screw me the user. super.
just bad ones
next theyll suggest they should be allowed to drive, with a sighted passenger riding shotgun. what the hell is the world coming to, canada is looking mighty inviting lately.
well its only a matter of time before its integrated into the frame of the glasses, and it works better than the ones that were supposed to fire directly onto your retinas. it would be awesome if there were better mini pc motherboards, like fitting into a hard drive enclosure with a decent processor makes me kinda look forward to the amd cpu gpu integrated chip doozer. that would be awesome.
well imagine it was like a giant pc watercooling setup, with the radiator in space and the cooling block in the ocean, in space there is no air to carry away the heat so it would rely on radiating the heat entirely by infrared radiation, no convection like in a pc with a fan blowing on it. also it would be absorbing energy from the sun so it would probably only work when it was night-time, and even then theres probably a better solution. and yes i do understand that this was meant to be a joke, it was a real knee slapper lemme tell ya.
the best part was when he was talking about microsofts "home of tommorow" "The examples that popped into my mind most during the NDA tour were Marshall Brain's online books Robotic Nation and Manna . Bits of Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 novel Player Piano also boiled up from my memory. Microsoft has a positive take on many of these technologies and how they can work together to make our lives different in the future, but since it won't allow me to share its optimism with you, Brain and Vonnegut's dystopian visions will have to do."
well it probably targets the nerves responsible for pain and stops them from functioning, lots of venom contains toxins that affect the central nervous system like the black widow's for instance.
the thing id worry about is less that a huge dose would kill you, because it probably wouldnt, id worry that you could become completely immune to pain overtime and hurt yourself without even knowing, like contorting into a wierd position during sleep and breaking your own spine.
pain lets you know that your doing something wrong and you correct it, if you cant feel pain your liable to injure yourself doing mundane tasks, like walking for instance, or drinking scaldingly hot coffee, etc etc.
and her breast milk tastes like cigar butts.
"The survival advantage was so powerful perhaps because those with the mutations not only gained extra energy from lactose but also, in drought conditions, would have benefited from the water in milk. People who were lactose-intolerant could have risked losing water from diarrhea, Dr. Tishkoff said."
still seems suspect to me, i guess the ones that tolerated lactose were also more promiscuous, less picky. OR maybe its simply because lets face it: who wants to have sex with someone with diarrhea??? not this guy.
or maybe its what they said, and they were healthier and produced more children, and/or lived longer.
well the way i see it, is that we can read very little from the past. those acheologists talk so much crap about what actually happened but they have very little evidence to support it, in fact anything couldve happened. we could have went through several iterations of technological epochs like the one were enjoying now, with out a shred of evidence that it even existed, look at the pyramids and such, they say that they were built with brute strength, piling dirt underneath those massive monoliths to raise them. ok maybe so, but maybe not. there isnt even any concrete proof that we are evolved from primates, as far as im concerned we may be evolved from pigs, or whales or whatever, or perhaps they evolved from us. the only reason we think that humanity has only been around 50k years is because thats what fossil evidence remains, well look at new york city for instance, how much fossil evidence remains that people lived there in 1850. i mean large lasting structures, that will tell the people of 52006 that there were people there in 1850. as far as im concerned we could be far more ancient as a race than we give ourselves credit. we live a very short time in the grand scheme of things, and keep very poor records. look at how fast other animals adapt, 50k years ago, we were probably so much different we wouldnt even recognize our ancestors fossils if we found them. there were probably millions of species that existed that didnt leave a shred of evidence that they ever lived. then there are people who think we came here from venus or mars, thats just as likely as well. it makes alot more sense to me than that we descended from apes. thing is about evolution is this, if the mutation makes the creature better suited for survival, it will compete with the old version and completely replace it, and so on. so why are there apes remaining? wouldnt we have replaced them before becoming so different that we couldnt reproduce? its all a crock of shit. will we survive, probably. there will be some great catastrophe and the majority will be wiped out, but some will live, hidden away, forgetting everything, and there will be just dust to remember our great civilization by, and in 52006 our distant counterparts will be considering the same thing, theyll find the eiffel tower, and make up some stupid theory on how their ancient ancestors lashed it together with nothing but grit and determination. ahh f it.
seriously anti-phishing applications? is that really necessary? how about a jpeg desktop background, that says "THINK DAMN IT!!!" i think that might prevent most if not all problems with malware.
this is what you call a crock-of-shit. it reminds me of the honda civics with huge carbon fiber spoilers. once i saw a civic with a nismo sticker on it. this nic actually induced the same amount of nausea, in fact i was so angry, that when i was done smashing things my eyes were bleeding. my bloodpressure mustve soared, i cant remember though i blacked out during the rage. needless to say, this product does not get my stamp of approval.
why would that piss anyone off, like: "fuck!! theyre releasing a linux disc? fuck!!!! the friggin web browser was one thing, but this is the last straw, AHHHRHRRRAAAHGGGG!!! fucking sony. this settles it im getting a wii." rippin their hair out and shit. punching the wall, breaking furniture. then the guy takes it out on the poor dog, "fucking DOG!" kicking him, "FUCKING SONY" kick, kick, kick. "ARGHHHHHH" do you really think its going to be sold as a pc, like the marketing hype, "sony playstation 3, personal computer." i think the playstation name is pretty widely known to be a game console at this point. im really not sure how anyone could get upset about this.
well thats an obscure device, the thing is, you spend much less time maintaining linux, on my windows partition i have to reformat and reinstall every couple of months just to keep things working, simply because its easier than tracking down the problem. in linux the only time i have to actually do anything to make things work is when i install a newer version. installing binaries is incredibly easy. i have a whole directory full of updated packages that i keep in case i want to install a different version or what not, after a fresh install i just cd to the dir, type installpkg *.tgz, and presto everythings ready to go. ease of maintenance, takes about 30 minutes for the whole process, in windows the same thing would take god knows forever. switch to slack youll learn how to use linux, and you will never look back.
lol nah i was thinking about the way they only sell software for their own os, push developers to use their proprietary api's and provide incentives for oems and businesses to use thier os in a way to limit competition, and using the same tactics on literature. the way china restricts access to damaging information, or any literature that may undermine thier interests.
its very unlikely, mainly just a cheap-shot, anti-microsoft linux fanboyism and such. however it is possible.
drafting, in motor sports it reduces drag. in running, its more of a mental thing. its tougher to gauge your pace when your leading the pack, and you can just settle in behind and then out kick him at the end.
they probably will only offer Trusted-Reading. fahrenheit 451 style