"Open License" products bypass the product activation, which helps, but it means that I have to buy TWO licenses for each machine, because PC makers (in our case, Dell), will not sell PCs without software, and have no provision for wirking with Open Licensees. This is retarded.
It is you who are retarded. If you weren't retarded, you would not buy your PCs from maintstream dealers, but you'd get the components and kitbash them up yourself. What? No time to do that? No money to hire monkeys to do it? Don't trust the chinese geeks in the corner store? Well, keep paying the microsoft tax, bozo.
That's the problem with you dweebs. You think it's some kind of holy war between Linux and MS. MS can care less. Yes they assessed it as a threat and in return they are looking for ways to improve their product. Meanwhile Linux is just running around copying what has already been done with windows. Things like winex and crossover plugin are all counterproductive. It shows that natively Linux programmers can't create anything in the same class as professional windows apps so instead they focus on getting ways to run Win apps on linux. Also KDE is nothing but a bloated Windows desktop clone.
Microsoft doesn't give a flying fuck about it's products quality; all it cares about is it's bottom line. If it changes some product somewhat, it's not to improve it, but just to make it sellable to millions more dopes so it can rake-in more dough.
How do you stop Overpeer and like-minded companies from lying about the moderation points? Why can't they give it +100, CD Quality? The only solution I have thought of is rather slow and clumsy. Basically everyone gets unlimited moderation points...instead of incrementing the count, you simply say "This file is good" or "This file is bad".
Why bother with clumsy, crackable moderation? If files are looped, definitely the downloading software could spot the loop by analyzing the data and sounding an alarm as soon as the data repeats...
The point is, with nuclear, at least we can bottle the waste and keep tabs on it.
... until we can have a surface-to-orbit transport safe/effective/cheap enough to lift the waste to orbit, then, presto, send the whole kit and kaboodle into the Sun.
Back in the days where steam power was ***THE*** thing, steam locomotives were often used to replace or assist some plant's steam boiler while it was out of service... As many plants had sidings to bring-in railroad cars, it wasn't very hard to bring the hog near the plant building.
But this was done recently for electric power; in 1998, a disastrous ice storm destroyed a fair portion of the electric distribution system in Québec; in a suburb of Montréal, diesel locomotives were lent to the city to provide emergency power; they even ran the engines on the frozen street without any track at all!!! (other links here and here).
No, Palestinians are denied citizenship by the fact that they (or their parents or grandparents) left Israel/Palestine in 1948 to join the arab armies that were going to push the jews into the sea and steal all their property. (Meaning for the most part, land the arabs had valued at virtually nothing until the jews bought it and built it up.) The arabs lost. The Israelis refused to let people who had intended to murder them back in. Sounds pretty sensible to me...
You're so pathetically head into ass that it is a pity you didn't have a whiff of Zyklon-B. Your narrow thinking is a prime example why, once in a while, someone decides to exterminate jews.
You need to read Stratfor, and maybe some Foreign Affairs magazine.
Puuuhhhleeeeze! "Foreign Affairs" is but a collection of yankees whining at the world for not being yankee enough, packaged to look like a slick INTELLECTUAL (as opposed to geek-appealing) publication.
One thing the palestinians certainly are NOT fighting for is "freedom". They are attacking the most free nation in the middle east, on behalf of a corrupt Palestinian would-be dictator. They are egged on by the various arab dictators and kings, who need a distraction from their own shortcomings. You can call them "revolutionaries", or even "resistance", but they are not freedom fighters.
Surely, if the jews had such a great democracy, the benefits of citizenship would be extended to all those palestinians living in the occupied territories, no? The palestiniants would be able to vote at elections and have a number of representatives at the Knesset, no? They would also have access to the government programs that provide subsidies and army protection to establishments installed in the occupied territories, no?
But it seems that it is not the case; palestinians are denied citizenship by the fact that they aren't jewish.
Therefore, the state of israel is a racist state, and should be brought down with the same zeal that the south-african racist state was brought down.
Sorry? Oh, true, it can't happen, as the jews have an iron grip over american public opinion by their control of the mass-medias...
Oh. Sorry, I thought you were a religious butthead.
However, you seem to be unable to grasp that someone might actually be WITHOUT religion.
I am; I'm not only totally atheistic/agnostic/unpatriotic/whatever, but I don't need a religion to make myself my own morals.
When I day freedom from religion I mean that I should not be FORCED to act/talk/think according to a solely religious dictum. I don't mean not being exposed to religion at all, I mean not being forced to endure it.
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Pick any one.
(What does Andrija Mohorovicic has to do with "mohole"? Well, read this).
-- I don't know, and I don't care.
... only when you're a monopolist?
Hey, dope, improved doesn't mean better. In microsoft's case, it means more bloat, sucking more CPU and memory, more crash-prone.
What? That's BLENDER, not BENDER??? Oh, sorry. Nevermind.
Bite my shiny robot ass...
For the good riddance? Yes, definitely.
Wow! A 14L on Slashdot! Now, I've seen everything!!!
But this was done recently for electric power; in 1998, a disastrous ice storm destroyed a fair portion of the electric distribution system in Québec; in a suburb of Montréal, diesel locomotives were lent to the city to provide emergency power; they even ran the engines on the frozen street without any track at all!!! (other links here and here).
But it seems that it is not the case; palestinians are denied citizenship by the fact that they aren't jewish.
Therefore, the state of israel is a racist state, and should be brought down with the same zeal that the south-african racist state was brought down.
Sorry? Oh, true, it can't happen, as the jews have an iron grip over american public opinion by their control of the mass-medias...
However, you seem to be unable to grasp that someone might actually be WITHOUT religion.
I am; I'm not only totally atheistic/agnostic/unpatriotic/whatever, but I don't need a religion to make myself my own morals.
When I day freedom from religion I mean that I should not be FORCED to act/talk/think according to a solely religious dictum. I don't mean not being exposed to religion at all, I mean not being forced to endure it.