"No plan under serious consideration cuts spending in the way you and I think about it. Instead, the cuts being discussed are illusory and are not cuts from current amounts being spent, but cuts in prospective spending increases. This is akin to a family saving $100,000 in expenses by deciding not to buy a Lamborghini and instead getting a fully loaded Mercedes when really their budget dictates that they need to stick with their perfectly serviceable Honda."
http://www.ronpaul2012.net/2011/08/01/ron-paul-on-the-debt-ceiling-debate-just-freeze-the-budget/
They took other people's "altruistic" work. Used it as the basis for their billion dollar business and cut off the "free" part of free software.
But I'm sure the people that donated lots of man hours for free feel better because RedHat's owners are loaded.
All of you lefties want MORE government and MORE statism to regulate everything.. Why are you complaining? Do you think YOU are above being regulated but everyone else isn't?
You can't have more government AND more freedom. It just doesn't work that way.
If he had money to invest it might be a different story. This strategy is like stealing other peoples credit cards and buying stocks on the stock market because you know how to invest better than the owners of the credit cards you stole.
Not to mention his "investments" are essentially bribes and payoffs to democratic cronies, political groups and pork.
The reason our economy beats EVERY other socialist country that has ever existed is because we are very capitalist at our core. Of course every year we veer more and more to the left. Obama would make a SHARP turn that would likely screw everyone over.
Not to mention he seems to think that the government generates and controls wealth in this country. Too "command economy"-ish for me.
Why Obama is WRONG for America
"Microsoft is a monopoly for a fact, they detain more than 90% of the market share of OS for desktops and Office applications. In several occasions Microsoft was shown to use anti-competitive practices, using their monopoly to kill their opponents and keep their market share."
All businesses use ant-competitive actions. It's called business. I'm a believer that the only true monopolies are companies that can literally have no competition. In Microsoft's case they are at the top because they essentially created the market or in the Office case out gunned their competitors. Thank you for pointing out that the iMac was able to compete with just a quality product and awesome marketing. It's amazing how that can happen when Microsoft controls everything..
"Linux is an pretty good piece of software and newadays it's superior to Windows in most of its features. The fact that it still has less than 1% of market share in the desktop is a direct result of Microsoft's dirty practices (such as blackmailing hardware vendors into bundling their OS and using proprietary protocols to make interoperability impossible)."
If it's superior why the need for interopoerability? Oh right, it's because Windows still has things Linux doesn't.. In this case lots and lots of software developers for commercial software. The reason Linux has and always will have 1-2% market share is because the OSS philosophy. No one wants to write commercial software (desktop/games/media) and give it away for free. Note how Apple literally went from.5ish% marketshare to 6+% during the same time Linux was supposed to be taking over the desktop? Hmm.... Steve Job's knows something all the Linux distro people don't obviously.
O.J. Simpson is an acquitted murderer too that doesn't mean it's true.
If their monopoly power was so great Apple & Linux wouldn't be here.
You can't have it both ways.. The death of Microsoft and Linux/Apple winning! Or Microsoft is so powerful the government has to destroy it for others to compete.
Considering they have a monopoly on desktop operating systems on the Intel Processor I don't see how this would relate..
But knowing how the EU is essentially a shakedown machine you never know..
Missing earnings and Microsoft buying Yahoo..
So far they are down to $514.00 in before market trading.
I think the Google juggernaught just realized how vunerable they are. The first thing that goes in a down economy is the excess advertising budget.
What I don't get is why people care so much.. Free music isn't a big deal.
DRM it all you freaking want. If it's too much of a hassle just don't buy it.
People treat having access to free music like it's a matter of life & death. Trust me on an importance to your life factor of 0-10 it's about a.007.
Unfortunately let's do something because it's awesome hasn't been in vogue with presidential candidates since the 60's. It's all about redistribution of wealth because people hate the rich..
Can we just change the subject? Surely America can't be completly fixated on someone elses property..
Let's talk about space exploration - I'm with ya!
Well being a Mac FanBoy/iPhone user they are likely to announce that due to their superior technology they are able to cut in line in front of all the poor losers.. So don't worry about the arrogance factor going away;)
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Well how many recessions have been caused from over extension of debt? Sounds like your theory is missing some sample data.
"No plan under serious consideration cuts spending in the way you and I think about it. Instead, the cuts being discussed are illusory and are not cuts from current amounts being spent, but cuts in prospective spending increases. This is akin to a family saving $100,000 in expenses by deciding not to buy a Lamborghini and instead getting a fully loaded Mercedes when really their budget dictates that they need to stick with their perfectly serviceable Honda." http://www.ronpaul2012.net/2011/08/01/ron-paul-on-the-debt-ceiling-debate-just-freeze-the-budget/
They took other people's "altruistic" work. Used it as the basis for their billion dollar business and cut off the "free" part of free software. But I'm sure the people that donated lots of man hours for free feel better because RedHat's owners are loaded.
All of you lefties want MORE government and MORE statism to regulate everything.. Why are you complaining? Do you think YOU are above being regulated but everyone else isn't? You can't have more government AND more freedom. It just doesn't work that way.
If he had money to invest it might be a different story. This strategy is like stealing other peoples credit cards and buying stocks on the stock market because you know how to invest better than the owners of the credit cards you stole. Not to mention his "investments" are essentially bribes and payoffs to democratic cronies, political groups and pork.
We're already in debt so deep because of his idiocy we may never recover. Why not spend a little more? http://blog.heritage.org/2009/03/24/bush-deficit-vs-obama-deficit-in-pictures/
The reason our economy beats EVERY other socialist country that has ever existed is because we are very capitalist at our core. Of course every year we veer more and more to the left. Obama would make a SHARP turn that would likely screw everyone over. Not to mention he seems to think that the government generates and controls wealth in this country. Too "command economy"-ish for me. Why Obama is WRONG for America
"Microsoft is a monopoly for a fact, they detain more than 90% of the market share of OS for desktops and Office applications. In several occasions Microsoft was shown to use anti-competitive practices, using their monopoly to kill their opponents and keep their market share." All businesses use ant-competitive actions. It's called business. I'm a believer that the only true monopolies are companies that can literally have no competition. In Microsoft's case they are at the top because they essentially created the market or in the Office case out gunned their competitors. Thank you for pointing out that the iMac was able to compete with just a quality product and awesome marketing. It's amazing how that can happen when Microsoft controls everything.. "Linux is an pretty good piece of software and newadays it's superior to Windows in most of its features. The fact that it still has less than 1% of market share in the desktop is a direct result of Microsoft's dirty practices (such as blackmailing hardware vendors into bundling their OS and using proprietary protocols to make interoperability impossible)." If it's superior why the need for interopoerability? Oh right, it's because Windows still has things Linux doesn't.. In this case lots and lots of software developers for commercial software. The reason Linux has and always will have 1-2% market share is because the OSS philosophy. No one wants to write commercial software (desktop/games/media) and give it away for free. Note how Apple literally went from .5ish% marketshare to 6+% during the same time Linux was supposed to be taking over the desktop? Hmm.... Steve Job's knows something all the Linux distro people don't obviously.
O.J. Simpson is an acquitted murderer too that doesn't mean it's true.
If their monopoly power was so great Apple & Linux wouldn't be here.
You can't have it both ways.. The death of Microsoft and Linux/Apple winning! Or Microsoft is so powerful the government has to destroy it for others to compete.
And it is only 4 articles down.. Host with Yahoo! Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/08/1811236
To compare the US with countries that utilize Sharia law shows your ignorance.
Not in Afghanistan.. it's just scrub brush and suicide bombers :)
Yes.. Shame on America for not realizing these religious maggots aren't intelligent enough for democracy.
Unfortunately, if you give a bunch of religous zealots democracy they will vote to stone you to death and revert to a dictatorship.
But not the first death sentence due to the idiocy of sharia law.
Considering they have a monopoly on desktop operating systems on the Intel Processor I don't see how this would relate.. But knowing how the EU is essentially a shakedown machine you never know..
Missing earnings and Microsoft buying Yahoo.. So far they are down to $514.00 in before market trading. I think the Google juggernaught just realized how vunerable they are. The first thing that goes in a down economy is the excess advertising budget.
"Access Issue" is different from "hurt"? I guess it's alright for a linux server to be compomised and distribute malware then?
What I don't get is why people care so much.. Free music isn't a big deal. DRM it all you freaking want. If it's too much of a hassle just don't buy it. People treat having access to free music like it's a matter of life & death. Trust me on an importance to your life factor of 0-10 it's about a .007.
Unfortunately let's do something because it's awesome hasn't been in vogue with presidential candidates since the 60's. It's all about redistribution of wealth because people hate the rich.. Can we just change the subject? Surely America can't be completly fixated on someone elses property.. Let's talk about space exploration - I'm with ya!
Well being a Mac FanBoy/iPhone user they are likely to announce that due to their superior technology they are able to cut in line in front of all the poor losers.. So don't worry about the arrogance factor going away ;)