No, this is why a new car today costs (on average) about $22,000 (US) whereas when I started driving in 1976 the average was closer to US$10,000.
Automobiles (and everything that gravitates around it) are the only consumer goods whose price has increased FASTER than inflation during the last 30 years.
Where does the money come from for BBC Canada (tv station on digital cable/sat., I can't see the british paying for that, but the Federal Gov. over here wouldn't likely pay for it either.
What do you think that Rogers Cable-TV bill you get every so often is for???
Linus Torvalds, the man behind the creation of Linux, which is used by millions of computers around the globe, has went to use the bathroom, possibly to take a leak. Full coverage can be seen on Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org) Another article with no fluff.
Typical jewish reaction: hurl accusations of antisemitism at any accusation; the opponent will be so busy in defending himself from being an antisemite that he'll promptly forget the initial debate.
Won't work with me, buddy. I've seen jews barking at me before. Around here, Jews try that stunt all the time when they're given a traffic ticket. It doesn't work in a city whose mayor spent the war in a britshit concentration camp and was elected twice afterwards.
The arabs are merely defending themselves against aggression. After all, they were there first (too bad the jews left long ago).
When you look at the shitheaded way jews behave, particularly in the middle-east, you start getting hints about why, once in a while, someone comes along and starts bashing jews.
After all, jews have a pretty old "civilization", so it's only normal that they behave like cavemen.
Analogy: you can't afford to buy a Bentley at the price they're charging. But if, through advances in technology, you were able to create your own automobile out of airborne dust molecules by pointing your Scan-Fab-o-Matic(TM) at the car of your choice and selecting "Object" and then "Copy" off the menu, doesn't it make *sense* that you could copy any car you like?
Can I borrow your Scan-Fab-O-Matic(TM) for a second? Just the time to duplicate it.
Apple makes it's dough by sucking up to morons who don't know their arse from a computer and who'd never recognize a network card if hit on the head by one.
Apple's credo, "The computer for the rest of them" rides on the very notion that you should not scare lusers by giving them the slightest hint on how the darn thing works.
So it's only normal that they close tight shut their machines, and this includes the OS.
Libertarians believe very strongly in social obligations -- through neighbor to neighbor obligations, not government to neighbor.
So, if two assholes move besides you after you've been there for 15 years, though fucking shit for you. If you're not happy with them storing old cars (for one) and old airplanes (for the other) on their front lawn, move.
The government forcibly taking from one person to give to another breeds resentment in the takee, and the faceless nature of it breeds dependency on the taker. Not to mention the extreme inefficiency. For these reasons, charity should be done voluntarily and locally.
When the State (not the government - you anglo-saxons are pitifully clueless about the three branches it seems) does that, it insures that EVERYBODY gets the same treatment, no matter where they are; so if they don't happen to live in a generous neighbourhood, they are not screwed like it happens so much in the USA with, say, school districts.
Personally, and this will be quite the unpopular opinion, I figure that this kind of stuff will not get thrown down soon. Why? Prohibition failed because everybody drank beer. Not enough people are online right now to make the difference. The citical mass is not there.
Just wait till everyone gets their Congress-mandated HDTV. And let them find out they can't record that "HDTV-Digitally-Interpolated" Seinfield rerun because of that nasty "can't copy" bit.
I work first hand with DOI IT, and I can tell you that there will be waivers flying every direction. Everything is UNIX now, and there are not enough qualified people to migrate. They spent MILLIONS replacing 3000 mail servers with 32 Domino servers, and they arent changing that anytime soon.
Note to CowboyNeal: add a "phew!" moderation type.
why is it such a terrible thing if a government office standardize on some license requirements (e.g. only buy free software) allowing any vendor to compete, but not a problem when a government office standardize on a single vendor, and accept whatever license that vendor provides?
Think biologically: compare the evolutionary performance of organisms issued through sexual reproduction (by screwing), versus organisms issued through asexual reproduction (by budding/cloning).
Or, for you hick types, look at the general health status of normal people versus inbreds (the O'Higgins living accross the tracks, or the britshit royal family).
As long as they are not X.10. It would be a shame to refuse one those because we decided to boycott them because of those fuckingly annoying pop-up ads...
Actually, the increased RAM failure rate due to the greater cosmic ray intensities at higher altitudes isn't as bad as you describe.
For example, the expected soft-fail rate of a computer memory system in Denver, Colorado is about 4 times greater than the rate expected at a city it sea level (such as New York City). Even in Leadville, Colorado (which is located at 10,151 feet) the expected failure rate is only about 13 times greater than in NYC.
One would think that with all that LEAD lying all over the place, cosmic ray showers wouldn't be such an issue...
There could have been an inscription, or reasonable equivalent, on the other side of the door they drilled through last night. Disappointing they didn't think to check...
Since the speed of light in copper is zero, anyone with a flashlight battery and a length of wire is able to send electrons faster than light!!!
With such bloated cost estimates, those scientists must be working for the Pentagon, because the last time I checked, those materials were much cheaper than $500.
Reminds me... Once, at my grandmother's, I run accross a kiddy religious book which stated that masturbating is bad. So I zipped out my penis, and masturbated until I've got a nice head of whipped cream (sperm, for the metaphor-challenged), with which I promptly smeared the two pages together in order to glue them shut...
No, I don't feel any shame in doing that. I still find it hilarious 25 years later...
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Won't work with me, buddy. I've seen jews barking at me before. Around here, Jews try that stunt all the time when they're given a traffic ticket. It doesn't work in a city whose mayor spent the war in a britshit concentration camp and was elected twice afterwards.
The arabs are merely defending themselves against aggression. After all, they were there first (too bad the jews left long ago).
When you look at the shitheaded way jews behave, particularly in the middle-east, you start getting hints about why, once in a while, someone comes along and starts bashing jews.
After all, jews have a pretty old "civilization", so it's only normal that they behave like cavemen.
Thanks.
Apple's credo, "The computer for the rest of them" rides on the very notion that you should not scare lusers by giving them the slightest hint on how the darn thing works.
So it's only normal that they close tight shut their machines, and this includes the OS.
... is to ask a lawyer...
You'll have your critical mass.
And that's far more important than human dignity.
Or, for you hick types, look at the general health status of normal people versus inbreds (the O'Higgins living accross the tracks, or the britshit royal family).
As long as they are not X.10. It would be a shame to refuse one those because we decided to boycott them because of those fuckingly annoying pop-up ads...
Don't keep lending records.
If required, scramble them.
A pet mouse? Are you sure it isn't a gerbil???
The egyptians always do things by three...
With such bloated cost estimates, those scientists must be working for the Pentagon, because the last time I checked, those materials were much cheaper than $500.
No, I don't feel any shame in doing that. I still find it hilarious 25 years later...
20 minutes of the hour were spent watching an episode of Futorama. 20 minutes? This means it was without commercials!!! BUNCH OF THIEVES !!!