This all boils down to one thing: lack of personal responsibility.
Give us a break. "Personal responsibility" is only used as an excuse by the conservatives to allow them to blame the poor for their plight and sleep at night.
Hey! Most mods are yanks, so it's normal that they'd be brainwashed religious morons and so proceed to eradicate anything that's against their dogma by running over my karma...
It's for a church? Well, in that case, why don't you let God protect you? I mean, only the Creator himself can provide you with absolute, total protection, no?
But the most important security measure of all: Microsoft plans on installing at least half a dozen starving, crazed weasels that will attack anyone who succeeds in opening their boxes.
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Lawyers on line#3 and Weasel Anti-Defamation League on line #2.
Because like any console, they don't make money of the console sales, they make money on the game sales of which they get a slice. If one can mod their XBox, like you have, and it is no longer a closed system, then they have no lever to force you to buy new content that they profit from.
Hey! no one have been twisting their arm to adopt such a hare-brained business scheme...
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Proof: this summer I was at a birthday party with 11 people, 6 of them female. And all of the people there had at least one computer at home that was at least dual boot. That's way way past the threshold for being mainstream.
Geeks will congregate, so your example is not valid as your sample is too statistically insignificant...
I've been using Linux for 13 years now (took me a week to download it on a 2400 baud modem!) and I first implemented it in a business setting 10 years ago to connect someone to the Internet.
How long has Windows or DOS or MacOS waited before becoming "mainstream"??? Certainly not 20 years!!!
Don't bother, because I have the advantage of not being ruled by morons who think like you do. You see, I don't live in the USA, and from elsewhere, we look in awe how the USA is slowly sinking into hell...
It's amazing, just a quick online form and they get a huge chunk of money I earned. I'm so glad the federal government decided to branch off into the free insurance business at my expense.
This is to allow hardasses such as you, who obviously invest in insurance companies, to protect their investment by allowing insurance companies to stay in the black without causing a huge public backlash against insurance "industry".
Yes, indeed. A downwards mobility. Ever since the markets were "liberated" 25 years ago by Reagan and his ultraliberal (for the rest of the world, what you call "conservatives" are really liberals) clique, the middle class has seen it's lot worsen and it's numbers dwindle.
With a highly regulated market, it makes it harder for smaller and sole proprietorships to cut through all of the regulations and start-up. Big business likes big government because they can buy laws. We are seeing this situation play out currently.
A poorly regulated market is even worse, by allowing big players to squish the smaller ones by anticompetitive tactics.
I agree that our individual freedoms are being eroded away with time by the government. We have inalieble rights which are not given to us by the government, but rather secured by it. Thus having a smaller government doesn't allow it to be used as a tool by the wealthy to swing things in their favor.
You must be absolutely blinded by ideology. Rights are not eroded by big government; the big fish has been clamouring for smaller government precisely because it enables them to precisely avoid the kind of government protection for the smaller classes.
In this country, the US, it is not the government's job to protect people from different classes.
Yet they do by protecting the wealth of the wealthy against the "assaults" of the smaller fry; for example, bankrupcy reform now allows credit card company to litterally enslave the working poor by preventing them from liberating themselves from credit-card debt, whereas an insolvent big company is conveniently shielded against similar claims by other creditors.
Do you realize that our most transformative era in US history was when the government took a lazie-faire attitude? This allowed the industrial revolution. Granted there were signifigant abuses that came about during that time period, horrible working conditions, child labor, pathetic wages, etc. However the people began to form unions which was the counter balence.
And those counterbalancing unions have been one of the principal casualties of the last 25 years.
The government had no place. Honestly any basic college economics course will explain that the market always attempts to equalize under free conditions. Imposing artificial restrictions tend to foul the system and prohibit the attempt of equalization. The misnomer of "price-gouging" comes to mind.
The government had it's place. When the system completely collapsed in 1929, and millions of people were reduced to stone-age poverty, only government intervention in the guise of the "new-deal" allowed the very economy recover by allowing the smaller people to survive. Without proletarians, capitalists are not worth anything at all. And without the poor, the rich aren't.
If you really believe everything you just posted then you have indeed fallen into the trap and mental illness of modern day liberalism. You have been listening to people cry this dogma of self helplessness for way too long and apparently have succumbed to the class warfare farce.
If you really believe everything you just posted, then you have indeed fallen into the trap and mental illness of what the rest of the world calls modern day liberalism. You have listened to the big fish brainwashing you through their privately-controlled media outlets cry this dogma of "might is right" and "personal responsibility" (to blame the poor for their plight) in order to further the interests of the big fish at the expense of the smaller fry to further the continuing class struggle.
So I say, pull your brain from your bleeding heart and make some intelligent statements which are not an us vs them, good vs
Free markets, individual freedoms, limited government, and personal responsibility are the most reliable courses of action.
Er... no.
"Free markets" (ain't) are only for the benefit of the richer, because it enables them to crush anyone smaller than them.
Individual freedoms mean nothing if they are not protected by the government. Here, again, it profits the richer people.
Limited government is a disaster for the poor, because they are left totally unprotected against the onslaught of the rich people.
Personal responsibility is a gimmick invented by the rich to enable them to sleep at night because it permits them to blame the poor people for their own misfortune.
Therefore it is NOT a reliable course of action, because it leads to a very primitive society where only the one with the most power wins, by crushing any lesser folk.
Because private industry did such a great job of evacuating the city of New Orleans before hurricane Katrina. Let's turn over our space program to the free market and see how it handles it.
Hey, Louisiana is a red state, right? So they voted for Dubya?, no? Well, since they,re so wonderfully anti-government, why don't they let private entreprise bail the water out for them, and take care of the poor people who have nowhere to go, and, for that matter, shoot at the looters?
We just wonder when private industry will put Nasa out of the game.
It won't happen.
Space exploration is precisely the expensive, too-long term kind of planning private companies are notorious for avoiding, as they are driven to next-quarter results by greedy, scruples-less directors and frothing institutional stockholders.
People are fed-up with the growing pains of globalization of poverty and will slowly start to realize that government for the croporations only bring pain and suffering to the majority while lining the pockets of a select few, and will eventually elect more caring governments.
The political pendulum has already swung to the far-right, and will only go back towards the left, bringing more government in people's lifes to insure that not just a few can get a decent living and protect the masses against the excesses of croporate arrogance.
One net result will be the resurgence of government-funded space exploration driven by the needs of pure science to insure a long-term future, as governments more enlightened than the moronic bunch of foaming croporate stoodges in power all over the place will more readily see the long-term benefits of space exploration, especially in the lights of massive climatic damage.
Oh, goody lordly. And now, where all that hydrogen is going to come from? From dwindling natural gas supplies (unless everyone is fitted with a methane collector and fed 5 kg of burritos every day)? Or from water electrolyzed with electricity coming from coal fired or nuclear power plants???
There are good reasons to pay someone for support, if the people you're paying know their stuff. If you're building enterprise level, mission critical data warehouses, you'll want immediate access to expert help when things go horribly wrong. And Sorbannes/Oxley reinforces that need.
And, pray tell, where is it written that the people you pay for support cannot support a free product???
Admittedly, this has a lot ot do with my style - I'm old school enough that I write my logic in C, C++ or Perl and use the database purely for storing and retrieving data. DBMS vendors (and some database researchers, to be fair) would like coders to do program purely with database packages. I've always though this a supremely boneheaded idea - I trust database designers to design databases, but not progamming langauges thank you.
Seems that the bonehead is not where one thinks. By putting the transaction logic in the database, you put it where it will interact the most efficiently possible with the data, inside the database server itself. This also has the advantage of centralizing that logic at one place, so the clients do not have to worry about it while accessing the database. This means that the clients can be varied and need less ressources to run.
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As usual, when you listen to "intelligence" and law "enforcement" guys, all you hear is various levels of "let's jail everyone, for their own good".
Are you happy to see me, or is that a Windows USB key in your pocket??
Hey! Most mods are yanks, so it's normal that they'd be brainwashed religious morons and so proceed to eradicate anything that's against their dogma by running over my karma...
It's for a church? Well, in that case, why don't you let God protect you? I mean, only the Creator himself can provide you with absolute, total protection, no?
... Scientists (still) looking for cheap room-temperature fusion. Film at 11.
This must be the computerish equivalent of the "Kick-Me" tee-shirt...
I've been using Linux for 13 years now (took me a week to download it on a 2400 baud modem!) and I first implemented it in a business setting 10 years ago to connect someone to the Internet.
How long has Windows or DOS or MacOS waited before becoming "mainstream"??? Certainly not 20 years!!!
Don't bother, because I have the advantage of not being ruled by morons who think like you do. You see, I don't live in the USA, and from elsewhere, we look in awe how the USA is slowly sinking into hell...
Yes, indeed. A downwards mobility. Ever since the markets were "liberated" 25 years ago by Reagan and his ultraliberal (for the rest of the world, what you call "conservatives" are really liberals) clique, the middle class has seen it's lot worsen and it's numbers dwindle.
A poorly regulated market is even worse, by allowing big players to squish the smaller ones by anticompetitive tactics.
You must be absolutely blinded by ideology. Rights are not eroded by big government; the big fish has been clamouring for smaller government precisely because it enables them to precisely avoid the kind of government protection for the smaller classes.
Yet they do by protecting the wealth of the wealthy against the "assaults" of the smaller fry; for example, bankrupcy reform now allows credit card company to litterally enslave the working poor by preventing them from liberating themselves from credit-card debt, whereas an insolvent big company is conveniently shielded against similar claims by other creditors.
And those counterbalancing unions have been one of the principal casualties of the last 25 years.
The government had it's place. When the system completely collapsed in 1929, and millions of people were reduced to stone-age poverty, only government intervention in the guise of the "new-deal" allowed the very economy recover by allowing the smaller people to survive. Without proletarians, capitalists are not worth anything at all. And without the poor, the rich aren't.
If you really believe everything you just posted, then you have indeed fallen into the trap and mental illness of what the rest of the world calls modern day liberalism. You have listened to the big fish brainwashing you through their privately-controlled media outlets cry this dogma of "might is right" and "personal responsibility" (to blame the poor for their plight) in order to further the interests of the big fish at the expense of the smaller fry to further the continuing class struggle.
This is how National Lampoon would classify it (in it's "true section on the level")...
- "Free markets" (ain't) are only for the benefit of the richer, because it enables them to crush anyone smaller than them.
- Individual freedoms mean nothing if they are not protected by the government. Here, again, it profits the richer people.
- Limited government is a disaster for the poor, because they are left totally unprotected against the onslaught of the rich people.
- Personal responsibility is a gimmick invented by the rich to enable them to sleep at night because it permits them to blame the poor people for their own misfortune.
Therefore it is NOT a reliable course of action, because it leads to a very primitive society where only the one with the most power wins, by crushing any lesser folk.Space exploration is precisely the expensive, too-long term kind of planning private companies are notorious for avoiding, as they are driven to next-quarter results by greedy, scruples-less directors and frothing institutional stockholders.
People are fed-up with the growing pains of globalization of poverty and will slowly start to realize that government for the croporations only bring pain and suffering to the majority while lining the pockets of a select few, and will eventually elect more caring governments.
The political pendulum has already swung to the far-right, and will only go back towards the left, bringing more government in people's lifes to insure that not just a few can get a decent living and protect the masses against the excesses of croporate arrogance.
One net result will be the resurgence of government-funded space exploration driven by the needs of pure science to insure a long-term future, as governments more enlightened than the moronic bunch of foaming croporate stoodges in power all over the place will more readily see the long-term benefits of space exploration, especially in the lights of massive climatic damage.
When it fucks-up, ask your "windows happy" to help you fix it. After 10 minutes, say "fuck it, let's go Linux" and plug-in the Linux backup.
Laugh.
Oh, goody lordly. And now, where all that hydrogen is going to come from? From dwindling natural gas supplies (unless everyone is fitted with a methane collector and fed 5 kg of burritos every day)? Or from water electrolyzed with electricity coming from coal fired or nuclear power plants???