Alright, so I get ya.. You get a big check from the government and you just think they are super great. Government rocks! YAY Government! Go Government! Can't have too little.. Government! Government manages my sock drawer!
What you are is a Statist. I think thats fair to say.. You believe government should have massive control in your daily life. There is great error in your ways.. primarily because you keep sayings you keep talking about people as a united force. The In actuality "we" are not the people. We are not states. We are not government. We are not nations.
Those terms are made up.. what "we" are is individual men each with our own ideas about things. This is why happy places where "everyone" acts a certain way.. don't exist on earth.
Personally, I think there should be a law against drinking in public- after all, that's where the problem arises. And no, I wouldn't do business with anybody who does marijuana OR alcohol to excess- it's proof of a lack of intelligence. First off, I don't do drugs, and you say.. you wouldn't do business with them.. fair enough, You get to choose who you associate with.. pot heads are washed out, and unreliable.. but you seem to support putting them in government cages. 41%.. Thats about 130,000,000 people in jail, most of whom.. don't want to hurt people at all they just want to smoke there weed in peace.
Thus the need to start over with REAL democracy- not a representative system. Democracy is a bad thing. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding whats for dinner. In democracy someone ALWAYS looses. I want a system where everybody has the opportunity to win. A system of liberty. A system where we enshrine the rights of the people and say These rights are rights that the government can never take away.
They already do that anyway- but it's not the cops doing it, it's the corporations. It's done to be able to better market to you, to target you for advertising. Let the cops do it too? Just a bit of redundancy to actually PROTECT your rights against the corporations. No.. corporations are again "legal fiction" They could not exist without government. Government creates protections for rich people so they can conduct questionable business practices with immunity. There is quite a bit of difference between them too as Wal-Mart can't put me in jail.
The constitution died in 1876- and you're already being tracked, your privacy is not in existance and is already dead. If the mobsters in the government want to buy your data- it's already for sale. there have been people who have said it before.. they will say things like this again.. "No taxations without representation.. bahh.. we don't need a revolutionary war.. king George knows what he is doing." or "Yeah.. in 2029 the government took over like V for Vendetta.. why bother fighting them. Who needs freedom."
But men live for freedom.. if you don't believe that.. Why do kids move out of their parents house into tiny apartments? Why do people go to Vegas? Why will men say such things as.. "What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
I gotta go.. I think you have some crazy ideas.. and I don't expect you to change you mind right away, but think about it. Think about who government hurts. Think about who they aim to protect, it sure isn't us.
Hea, I don't think your a bad guy or anything but your REALLY convinced that anyone who breaks a law is a bad, evil, monstrous, person. Are you a cop? You didn't answer my question about marijuana.. what about alcohol? it was illegal once.. were the people drinking it when it was illegal bad and then when it was legal suddenly good again? Why did we need a law for that if people like it?
Look at Mexico- if they could make OUR industry and economy strong, would they have started at home?
I would say the corruption of the Mexican Government has quite a bit to do with the sad state of Mexico. Again.. the problem is welfare.. if we get rid of it.. and if your right.. that they only want to be freeloaders.. then they won't come at all.
No, you misunderstand. What's my guarantee, as a business, that somebody possessing a lifelock ID is who they say they are? Is there a similar $1 million guarantee on the other side as well?
Lifelock is not an ID system. It is an Anti Identity Theft system. You wouldn't accept it at all because there is nothing to accept.. all they do is prevent identity theft and fraud.
I have no problem with a police state that responds to elections and where EVERY decision made by EVERY bureaucrat is public and actionable.
And when are we going to get such a system.. because we don't have it now. People are not in control of this government. How many people voted for the Patriot Act? How many voted for the IRS? ---- actually.. how many vote? about 50%? and of that 50% about half win.. so your down to 25% of the population that matter.. and of those.. how many are informed??
Government bureaucrats are not held accountable.. if a government project fails.. (and most do) the reason is always that it didn't have enough money. they say "Our intentions were good." And keep failed programs running.
A lack of anonymity is a sword that cuts both ways- tyranny and oppression are impossible where every second is watched by an informed electorate.
but again from above.. its not.. Did you know that the FDA wants to label vegetable juice as a drug? They want to do it because they conceder "May cure cancer" a drug claim. By law in the US the only thing that can "cure" something is a drug. How many people voted for vegetables being labeled drugs? NONE, it was a rule change by unelected bureaucrats.
Besides this.. you don't even want to get me started on our money system in the US.. The Dollar is not backed by gold. Its backed by the US's ability to collect taxes. When the government wants money for a War, or a Project or a Hurricane.. they just print as much as they like! That causes the value of the dollar to drop.. do you think that gas is really going up? or is the dollar going down? Are companies making record profits.. or is the dollars amount worth a record low? What good is the DJIA being 13,000 if its actually *worth* half as much? 10 years ago the price of gold was $340 an ounce.. today its $690!! http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/au3650nyb.gif The value of gold did not change.. its the dollar that changed.. and the government is not doing a thing about it.. They like it because they can spend as much as they like and they don't have to raise taxes. This is THEFT, right in blind eye of your so called "informed electorate".
I fail to understand the difference. If you're not afraid to be tracked, then you're not afraid to give *anybody* the authority to track you. Only if you have reason to hide something do you have reason not to be tracked.
I'm not afraid. Let me put it to you this way.. Would you allow cops into your home? Why? What gives them the right to do that? Is it your house or there's? Where did the authority come from? Who gave it from them? Would you let them install a camera in your bedroom to make sure you not having gay sex? You don't have gay sex.. so its ok right?
They ask.. but you can say no. The airline checks your ID (not the TSA) checks your ID when you load your luggage. If you say "I don't have it." They will mark SS or SSSS on your boarding pass for "Special Search" You will then have to go to a stage 2 search but you can still board.
Some states also require you to present ID to police upon demand but I don't know what ones..
So for a large amount of America.. the only thing you need in your wallet is stuff you choose to carry and voluntarily sign up for.. such as credit cards.. etc. A Drivers License is so a police offer can identify the driver of a motor vehicle. That's it.
* Invasion? How will your little card protect you from an invasion? An armed and well regulated militia does this best, or the national guard.
I completely agree- but since the interstate commerce clause now prevents us from protecting the borders in this fashion, second best is having a national identity card and verification website- to prevent illegals from getting jobs, buying food, etc.
So your not talking about an invasion.. your talking about immigration. I charge that the US does not have an immigration problem. The US has a welfare problem. If we lived in a socialist society and there were a limited number of jobs then we would have a problem.. but in a land of freedom.. you don't need someone to employ you.. you can employ yourself and create your own jobs that need to be filled. If we give immigrants freedom yet with no social handouts they wont steal anything from us.. indeed they will make our industry and economy strong.
* Fraud? You want the government who is not liable for anything they do wrong to protect you from fraud? There is a private company LifeLock http://lifelock.com/ that already does this, better and cheaper than the feds could, if they screw up you can sue them, AND they can't throw you in jail if you loose your lifelock card.
Now that's interesting- I had not known about them. But there are two sides to fraud- how does lifelock insure that you know who you are dealing with? Will they turn over the address of a con artist who uses a lifelock card?
They insure it with a 1 million dollar guarantee.. They loose your ID, you get 1 mil. If the government looses your ID because of incompetence.. oh well, nothing you can do.. but if a private industry does.. they can be held liable.
Private solutions to problems are always better.. if there is someone willing to do it.
Security? ID is NOT security.. they are not the same thing. The 9/11 hijackers had ID, Timothy Mcvay ID, Cho Seung-Hui had ID. The Washington snipers had ID. What can we assume from this? ID makes us NO safer.
ID alone doesn't. ID Plus data mining does. An ID is only a primary key.
Yes but... Cho Seung-Hui gave off every warning sign in the book and nothing was done. This is because.. so far in America.. you need to actually *commit* a crime to be guilty of it. We put people in jail for what they do.. not for what they *might* do. I don't think this should change, because if we do we will be able to arrest people for only thinking about committing a crime.
* Theft? How does they government tracking you physically and digitally help against theft? I can SILL steal your lawn mower if you don't lock it up and your little card does nothing. Maybe you mean ID theft.. see lifelock above.
If you had to show an ID to come into my neighborhood or on to my property, and you steal my lawn mower, you can expect vigilante justice to show up VERY soon.
Already possible.. have you heard of gated neighborhoods?.. aside from that.. the governments not going to provide a ID scanner for your yard or neighborhood.. and if they did it would be a total police state. Government is not a "good" thing. We can look to history to see how well governments have served man. The very worst examples of tyranny, oppression, war and murder, slavery, rape and theft were committed by government hands. even if our elected officials are somehow holy saints today.. they may not always be so and a system like this will never go away if they become some day.. less saintly.
* wallet? Right now you don't have to carry any card in your wallet if you so choose.. You can still get on air planes without ID. This is freedom. It's how it should be.
Freedom is overrated if it's just the freedom to be a criminal.
There is a study out there that shows that 41% of America has at one point in there life smoked marijuana. So.. do you think 41
Knowing who people are is the first step towards knowing how to truly protect people from fraud and invasion. Privacy as we knew it is dead. Get over it, and let's get ONE card that identifies us down to the DNA level so that we don't have to keep a bazillion cards in our wallet. Only luddites and con artists would be against this- as it would make identity MUCH harder to steal.... You bring up some points here and all of them are flat wrong.
* Invasion? How will your little card protect you from an invasion? An armed and well regulated militia does this best, or the national guard.
* Fraud? You want the government who is not liable for anything they do wrong to protect you from fraud? There is a private company LifeLock http://lifelock.com/ that already does this, better and cheaper than the feds could, if they screw up you can sue them, AND they can't throw you in jail if you loose your lifelock card.
* Security? ID is NOT security.. they are not the same thing. The 9/11 hijackers had ID, Timothy Mcvay ID, Cho Seung-Hui had ID. The Washington snipers had ID. What can we assume from this? ID makes us NO safer.
* Theft? How does they government tracking you physically and digitally help against theft? I can SILL steal your lawn mower if you don't lock it up and your little card does nothing. Maybe you mean ID theft.. see lifelock above.
*wallet? Right now you don't have to carry any card in your wallet if you so choose.. You can still get on air planes without ID. This is freedom. It's how it should be.
We can't secure our schools, we cant secure our shopping malls, hell... we cant even secure our prisons and that's about as secure as I can imagine. I'll have you know that I am a honest small business owner and I will not accept this card. I flat out refuse to do so even if they have to throw me in Jail.. is that fair? for me to go to jail because you want to *feel* secure in your Police state? This is my breaking point. I will not be traced and tracked and have every action purchase and message I send analyzed by the state.
Will you be willing to destroy my life because I don't want to be tracked? How many more like me are there? 100? 1,000? How about them? At what point does using force on others in your aims become ok?
I think in the idea of "less government" that would not include funding internet filters of any kind either government controlled or otherwise.
Government funded "privatization" of social programs is not LESS GOVERNMENT. Less government would be no funding of any kind and no program.. its an individual choice if they want a filter or not and there are many out there, if people want one, they can go get on.. that is in the spirit of Liberty, not forcing people to pay for a crappy government system.
Actually its funny.. if you watch it almost seems like the media is taking extra time to cut out Ron Paul and ignore his existence. It's like they think he is bad and will go away if they don't mention him.
ABC had a poll on the debates up yesterday with 9 candidates on it.. excluding *only* one.. Ron Paul how absurd.
I say the non-endorsement of these candidates by the main stream media make them even more attractive.
Linux tends to have abit better hardware support (for stuff you really dont need) at the rick of stability. There is also more software that is ported to Linux. Did I say Linux was unstable? Well that depends, Debian is very well tested and will generally give you good preformance in the server role.
I know BSD well but, I prefer Linux and sometimes Solaris over *BSD.
I am quite aware of how the current laws and legal system make it dangerous NOT to incorporate. That's something we need to change.. the thief is liable.
Cingular (err AT&T now..) is 51% or 52% of the market now. The reason *WHY* they went with Cingular was just as you said. They are trying enter a saturated market.. and want the biggest slice of it.
So your Think Tank survived a drop.. but how much did it weigh? There is a reason they have that name.
I have a old G3 iBook and that thing is a trooper too. It survived a heavy splashing with wine, and went off the desk once due to the cat.. It did have to have the logic bord replaced but Apple did it for free as part of the recall, no questions asked, they even shipped it for free.
Its outlased two dell's and a compaq in my family, but they sony is still kicking, if you count the dvd drive being out of it (the sony) now.
Its getting about time I should replace it and yeah I think ill go with another MBP.
Balmer knows about as much about the iPhone as I do.. that's pratically nothing.
Windows Mobile STINKS.. its awfal software. I personaly think Symbian is the best mobile software out there right now.
He made a comment afew weeks ago that it won't support office documents however.. both Symbian and Garnet Palm's actually *do* support it. If they do.. I can't see why Apple's iPhone couldn't also.
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What you are is a Statist. I think thats fair to say.. You believe government should have massive control in your daily life. There is great error in your ways.. primarily because you keep sayings you keep talking about people as a united force. The In actuality "we" are not the people. We are not states. We are not government. We are not nations.
Those terms are made up.. what "we" are is individual men each with our own ideas about things. This is why happy places where "everyone" acts a certain way.. don't exist on earth. Personally, I think there should be a law against drinking in public- after all, that's where the problem arises. And no, I wouldn't do business with anybody who does marijuana OR alcohol to excess- it's proof of a lack of intelligence. First off, I don't do drugs, and you say.. you wouldn't do business with them.. fair enough, You get to choose who you associate with.. pot heads are washed out, and unreliable.. but you seem to support putting them in government cages. 41%.. Thats about 130,000,000 people in jail, most of whom.. don't want to hurt people at all they just want to smoke there weed in peace. Thus the need to start over with REAL democracy- not a representative system. Democracy is a bad thing. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding whats for dinner. In democracy someone ALWAYS looses. I want a system where everybody has the opportunity to win. A system of liberty. A system where we enshrine the rights of the people and say These rights are rights that the government can never take away. They already do that anyway- but it's not the cops doing it, it's the corporations. It's done to be able to better market to you, to target you for advertising. Let the cops do it too? Just a bit of redundancy to actually PROTECT your rights against the corporations. No.. corporations are again "legal fiction" They could not exist without government. Government creates protections for rich people so they can conduct questionable business practices with immunity. There is quite a bit of difference between them too as Wal-Mart can't put me in jail. The constitution died in 1876- and you're already being tracked, your privacy is not in existance and is already dead. If the mobsters in the government want to buy your data- it's already for sale. there have been people who have said it before.. they will say things like this again.. "No taxations without representation.. bahh.. we don't need a revolutionary war.. king George knows what he is doing." or "Yeah.. in 2029 the government took over like V for Vendetta.. why bother fighting them. Who needs freedom."
But men live for freedom.. if you don't believe that.. Why do kids move out of their parents house into tiny apartments? Why do people go to Vegas? Why will men say such things as.. "What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
I gotta go.. I think you have some crazy ideas.. and I don't expect you to change you mind right away, but think about it. Think about who government hurts. Think about who they aim to protect, it sure isn't us.
Look at Mexico- if they could make OUR industry and economy strong, would they have started at home?
I would say the corruption of the Mexican Government has quite a bit to do with the sad state of Mexico. Again.. the problem is welfare.. if we get rid of it.. and if your right.. that they only want to be freeloaders.. then they won't come at all.
No, you misunderstand. What's my guarantee, as a business, that somebody possessing a lifelock ID is who they say they are? Is there a similar $1 million guarantee on the other side as well?
Lifelock is not an ID system. It is an Anti Identity Theft system. You wouldn't accept it at all because there is nothing to accept.. all they do is prevent identity theft and fraud.
I have no problem with a police state that responds to elections and where EVERY decision made by EVERY bureaucrat is public and actionable.
And when are we going to get such a system.. because we don't have it now. People are not in control of this government. How many people voted for the Patriot Act? How many voted for the IRS? ---- actually.. how many vote? about 50%? and of that 50% about half win.. so your down to 25% of the population that matter.. and of those.. how many are informed??
Government bureaucrats are not held accountable.. if a government project fails.. (and most do) the reason is always that it didn't have enough money. they say "Our intentions were good." And keep failed programs running.
A lack of anonymity is a sword that cuts both ways- tyranny and oppression are impossible where every second is watched by an informed electorate.
but again from above.. its not.. Did you know that the FDA wants to label vegetable juice as a drug? They want to do it because they conceder "May cure cancer" a drug claim. By law in the US the only thing that can "cure" something is a drug. How many people voted for vegetables being labeled drugs? NONE, it was a rule change by unelected bureaucrats.
Besides this.. you don't even want to get me started on our money system in the US.. The Dollar is not backed by gold. Its backed by the US's ability to collect taxes. When the government wants money for a War, or a Project or a Hurricane.. they just print as much as they like! That causes the value of the dollar to drop.. do you think that gas is really going up? or is the dollar going down? Are companies making record profits.. or is the dollars amount worth a record low? What good is the DJIA being 13,000 if its actually *worth* half as much? 10 years ago the price of gold was $340 an ounce.. today its $690!! http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/au3650nyb.gif The value of gold did not change.. its the dollar that changed.. and the government is not doing a thing about it.. They like it because they can spend as much as they like and they don't have to raise taxes. This is THEFT, right in blind eye of your so called "informed electorate".
I fail to understand the difference. If you're not afraid to be tracked, then you're not afraid to give *anybody* the authority to track you. Only if you have reason to hide something do you have reason not to be tracked.
I'm not afraid. Let me put it to you this way.. Would you allow cops into your home? Why? What gives them the right to do that? Is it your house or there's? Where did the authority come from? Who gave it from them? Would you let them install a camera in your bedroom to make sure you not having gay sex? You don't have gay sex.. so its ok right?
what point does your logic fall
They ask.. but you can say no. The airline checks your ID (not the TSA) checks your ID when you load your luggage. If you say "I don't have it." They will mark SS or SSSS on your boarding pass for "Special Search" You will then have to go to a stage 2 search but you can still board.
Some states also require you to present ID to police upon demand but I don't know what ones..
So for a large amount of America.. the only thing you need in your wallet is stuff you choose to carry and voluntarily sign up for.. such as credit cards.. etc. A Drivers License is so a police offer can identify the driver of a motor vehicle. That's it.
Yeah, I know about that but It dosn't sound like they are very open about it.. sounds like they want to develop the closed source Net Mail more.
* Invasion? How will your little card protect you from an invasion? An armed and well regulated militia does this best, or the national guard.
I completely agree- but since the interstate commerce clause now prevents us from protecting the borders in this fashion, second best is having a national identity card and verification website- to prevent illegals from getting jobs, buying food, etc.
So your not talking about an invasion.. your talking about immigration. I charge that the US does not have an immigration problem. The US has a welfare problem. If we lived in a socialist society and there were a limited number of jobs then we would have a problem.. but in a land of freedom.. you don't need someone to employ you.. you can employ yourself and create your own jobs that need to be filled. If we give immigrants freedom yet with no social handouts they wont steal anything from us.. indeed they will make our industry and economy strong.
* Fraud? You want the government who is not liable for anything they do wrong to protect you from fraud? There is a private company LifeLock http://lifelock.com/ that already does this, better and cheaper than the feds could, if they screw up you can sue them, AND they can't throw you in jail if you loose your lifelock card.
Now that's interesting- I had not known about them. But there are two sides to fraud- how does lifelock insure that you know who you are dealing with? Will they turn over the address of a con artist who uses a lifelock card?
They insure it with a 1 million dollar guarantee.. They loose your ID, you get 1 mil. If the government looses your ID because of incompetence.. oh well, nothing you can do.. but if a private industry does .. they can be held liable.
Private solutions to problems are always better.. if there is someone willing to do it.
Security? ID is NOT security.. they are not the same thing. The 9/11 hijackers had ID, Timothy Mcvay ID, Cho Seung-Hui had ID. The Washington snipers had ID. What can we assume from this? ID makes us NO safer.
ID alone doesn't. ID Plus data mining does. An ID is only a primary key.
Yes but... Cho Seung-Hui gave off every warning sign in the book and nothing was done. This is because.. so far in America.. you need to actually *commit* a crime to be guilty of it. We put people in jail for what they do.. not for what they *might* do. I don't think this should change, because if we do we will be able to arrest people for only thinking about committing a crime.
* Theft? How does they government tracking you physically and digitally help against theft? I can SILL steal your lawn mower if you don't lock it up and your little card does nothing. Maybe you mean ID theft.. see lifelock above.
If you had to show an ID to come into my neighborhood or on to my property, and you steal my lawn mower, you can expect vigilante justice to show up VERY soon.
Already possible.. have you heard of gated neighborhoods? .. aside from that.. the governments not going to provide a ID scanner for your yard or neighborhood.. and if they did it would be a total police state. Government is not a "good" thing. We can look to history to see how well governments have served man. The very worst examples of tyranny, oppression, war and murder, slavery, rape and theft were committed by government hands. even if our elected officials are somehow holy saints today.. they may not always be so and a system like this will never go away if they become some day.. less saintly.
* wallet? Right now you don't have to carry any card in your wallet if you so choose.. You can still get on air planes without ID. This is freedom. It's how it should be.
Freedom is overrated if it's just the freedom to be a criminal.
There is a study out there that shows that 41% of America has at one point in there life smoked marijuana. So.. do you think 41
Why do we need to close our borders again?
* Invasion? How will your little card protect you from an invasion? An armed and well regulated militia does this best, or the national guard.
* Fraud? You want the government who is not liable for anything they do wrong to protect you from fraud? There is a private company LifeLock http://lifelock.com/ that already does this, better and cheaper than the feds could, if they screw up you can sue them, AND they can't throw you in jail if you loose your lifelock card.
* Security? ID is NOT security.. they are not the same thing. The 9/11 hijackers had ID, Timothy Mcvay ID, Cho Seung-Hui had ID. The Washington snipers had ID. What can we assume from this? ID makes us NO safer.
* Theft? How does they government tracking you physically and digitally help against theft? I can SILL steal your lawn mower if you don't lock it up and your little card does nothing. Maybe you mean ID theft.. see lifelock above.
*wallet? Right now you don't have to carry any card in your wallet if you so choose.. You can still get on air planes without ID. This is freedom. It's how it should be.
We can't secure our schools, we cant secure our shopping malls, hell... we cant even secure our prisons and that's about as secure as I can imagine. I'll have you know that I am a honest small business owner and I will not accept this card. I flat out refuse to do so even if they have to throw me in Jail.. is that fair? for me to go to jail because you want to *feel* secure in your Police state? This is my breaking point. I will not be traced and tracked and have every action purchase and message I send analyzed by the state.
Will you be willing to destroy my life because I don't want to be tracked? How many more like me are there? 100? 1,000? How about them? At what point does using force on others in your aims become ok?
We had an exchange killer at one point, Hula.. but Novell didn't release enough of the code and eventually stoped suporting the project.
From what I know its still opensource and could be taken up by people but there just dosnt seem to be intrest in it.
True.
Hea, I'm just lookin for a way to shaft Microsoft for the PC Tax any way possible.
So I was all geared up to buy a Dell system preloaded with Linux.. Then they go and jump into bed with Microsoft.
So do we support linux and continue to support Dell? or do we shun them and kill off any hopes for pre-installed Linux?
I say screw em.. Linux will make it to the desktop eventually.
Do they use electronic voting machines? Will Jimmy Carter certify the election for us?
I think in the idea of "less government" that would not include funding internet filters of any kind either government controlled or otherwise.
Government funded "privatization" of social programs is not LESS GOVERNMENT. Less government would be no funding of any kind and no program.. its an individual choice if they want a filter or not and there are many out there, if people want one, they can go get on.. that is in the spirit of Liberty, not forcing people to pay for a crappy government system.
YAY GOVERNMENT!
Give this project more money THEN it will work. Go government go! Your the solution to every problem! Whoo!
(Alright so I'm kinda jaded today with our suck ass government and there suck ass programs.)
How is this different than synergy?
http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/
They didn't invent squat..
Whoot! Ron Paul!
Actually its funny.. if you watch it almost seems like the media is taking extra time to cut out Ron Paul and ignore his existence. It's like they think he is bad and will go away if they don't mention him.
ABC had a poll on the debates up yesterday with 9 candidates on it.. excluding *only* one.. Ron Paul how absurd.
I say the non-endorsement of these candidates by the main stream media make them even more attractive.
Paul/Gravel in '08!
Due to all the open speach spread by the internet.. governments around the world are having to crack down.. They don't like freedom.
That crackdown is going on here in the US. Government wants the DNS keys and to track every message we send.
The world is starting to becoming a very dark place as of late.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money.. especially if you are working to do it.
There is nothing "wrong" with either.
Linux tends to have abit better hardware support (for stuff you really dont need) at the rick of stability. There is also more software that is ported to Linux. Did I say Linux was unstable? Well that depends, Debian is very well tested and will generally give you good preformance in the server role.
I know BSD well but, I prefer Linux and sometimes Solaris over *BSD.
Actually, I do run my own business.
I am quite aware of how the current laws and legal system make it dangerous NOT to incorporate. That's something we need to change.. the thief is liable.
Cingular (err AT&T now..) is 51% or 52% of the market now. The reason *WHY* they went with Cingular was just as you said. They are trying enter a saturated market.. and want the biggest slice of it.
So Microsoft is really mad about Ubuntu and the iPhone and are trying to generate as much news as possible today?
Balmer crys.. "I still matter!"
I can see masks and bandana's becoming popular in the future.
So your Think Tank survived a drop.. but how much did it weigh? There is a reason they have that name.
I have a old G3 iBook and that thing is a trooper too. It survived a heavy splashing with wine, and went off the desk once due to the cat.. It did have to have the logic bord replaced but Apple did it for free as part of the recall, no questions asked, they even shipped it for free.
Its outlased two dell's and a compaq in my family, but they sony is still kicking, if you count the dvd drive being out of it (the sony) now.
Its getting about time I should replace it and yeah I think ill go with another MBP.
I would expect Cingular to sell these cheeper.. in fact Cingular put out a test ad that had it for $350 I think.
Also.. the $425 Sony Ericsson in my pocket is a great Symbian smart phone.. but its not as capable as the iPhone.
Balmer knows about as much about the iPhone as I do.. that's pratically nothing.
Windows Mobile STINKS.. its awfal software. I personaly think Symbian is the best mobile software out there right now.
He made a comment afew weeks ago that it won't support office documents however.. both Symbian and Garnet Palm's actually *do* support it. If they do.. I can't see why Apple's iPhone couldn't also.
I think they are scared.