When was it demonstrated that North Korea actually had nukes? I only remember a failed test and a lot of posturing. Googling turns up nothing, although I may not be looking correctly. What am I missing?
You want to know the hard truth? There is no money in producing a genre for a fanbase mainly populated by people who are proud of their ideology of free entertainment and ignoring advertisers. What, you think they can keep donating their productions to you?
But please, go on pirating like there are no consequences, then bury your head in the sand while cold reality splashes in your face.
It's a pretty simple thing. If they can't make money, they won't invest money. Dur.
It's kids (not necessarily minors). Kids always want mommy and daddy to protect them, because they can't make the hard decisions for themselves. It's especially true in these new generations, because we have never known actual need, so we confuse strong desire for it instead. Since our needs are essentially automatically taken care of, we feel entitled to having our desires taken care of as well.
It's insidious thinking, and it's sad. The powerful work ethic that built our country is being buried under the fat corpuses of entitled fools.
So they provide something that you really, really want (which is still not a need) and you feel that if this want is strong enough, then you are somehow entitled to... what exactly? I couldn't figure out the end, you trailed off into the usual bullshit without noting that the "rest of the free world" actually has a very wide range of services with us somewhere in the middle.
Do you have some sort of entitlement to a technology career? I mean most of it was created by AT&T, basically the progenitor of almost this entire industry. Sure, it's fun to call them evil, but they've basically given us this whole kit 'n' kaboodle. I think the various companies that have fallen out of AT&T and the industry it created are well within their rights to make money.
You expected an actual sense of humor here? People only laugh at jokes they've seen a million times before. Try making fun of Microsoft or quoting Monty Python. That's pretty much all that gets through to these people.
Who cares what job requires it? They do this because this is what they do. It suits their purposes. You have many alternatives that work. It's not necessary that every choice meet all of your criteria.
You may see it as an attack, but it's far from obvious. You have to be pretty deep in a conspiracy mindset first.
And yeah, like the other reply says - the free OSes are handicapping themselves to serve ideals. Not the fault of the rest of the world that ideals rarely coincide with reality.
Calm down on the nerdrage. Google is under no obligation to cater to your every computing need, and you are under no obligation to use their services. It's a pretty reasonable arrangement.
Easily? Seems like it's not all that easy to be as successful as Google. Also seems like Altavista couldn't pull it off. I think maybe you work with the bizarro definition of the word.
There is a reason - your systems are unsupported. What you meant to say is there is absolutely no way for you to have everything you want on your terms, but your sense of entitlement makes you feel like you should be able to get it.
I find it telling that unless the issue presented before Slashdot is purely technical in nature, it is basically a given that the comments will be knee-jerk populist and entirely misinformed.
You know, basically everyone in this country who works relies on a business climate that's favorable to doing business. I'm not sure what magic fairy feeds you and yours, but I have to bring in money to have a place to live and food to keep my body from stopping. Painting this as a "Forbes 500" issue leads me to believe you think food comes from your parent's refrigerator.
If only the government would recognize the right of the people to trample copyright protection, trademark protection, and patent protection, then surely we would live in a utopia where everyone gave away everything for free from the kindness of their heart.
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It's not genocide, there are other Koreans.
When was it demonstrated that North Korea actually had nukes? I only remember a failed test and a lot of posturing. Googling turns up nothing, although I may not be looking correctly. What am I missing?
You want to know the hard truth? There is no money in producing a genre for a fanbase mainly populated by people who are proud of their ideology of free entertainment and ignoring advertisers. What, you think they can keep donating their productions to you?
But please, go on pirating like there are no consequences, then bury your head in the sand while cold reality splashes in your face.
It's a pretty simple thing. If they can't make money, they won't invest money. Dur.
It's kids (not necessarily minors). Kids always want mommy and daddy to protect them, because they can't make the hard decisions for themselves. It's especially true in these new generations, because we have never known actual need, so we confuse strong desire for it instead. Since our needs are essentially automatically taken care of, we feel entitled to having our desires taken care of as well.
It's insidious thinking, and it's sad. The powerful work ethic that built our country is being buried under the fat corpuses of entitled fools.
So they provide something that you really, really want (which is still not a need) and you feel that if this want is strong enough, then you are somehow entitled to... what exactly? I couldn't figure out the end, you trailed off into the usual bullshit without noting that the "rest of the free world" actually has a very wide range of services with us somewhere in the middle.
Do you have some sort of entitlement to a technology career? I mean most of it was created by AT&T, basically the progenitor of almost this entire industry. Sure, it's fun to call them evil, but they've basically given us this whole kit 'n' kaboodle. I think the various companies that have fallen out of AT&T and the industry it created are well within their rights to make money.
Why are manufacturing jobs a good thing? I never understood this. There is value in overpaying human beings do work that can be automated?
You expected an actual sense of humor here? People only laugh at jokes they've seen a million times before. Try making fun of Microsoft or quoting Monty Python. That's pretty much all that gets through to these people.
Who cares what job requires it? They do this because this is what they do. It suits their purposes. You have many alternatives that work. It's not necessary that every choice meet all of your criteria.
In a word, idealism.
Ideals rarely make sense to people who don't share them, so defending them appears to be rationalization in that context.
You may see it as an attack, but it's far from obvious. You have to be pretty deep in a conspiracy mindset first.
And yeah, like the other reply says - the free OSes are handicapping themselves to serve ideals. Not the fault of the rest of the world that ideals rarely coincide with reality.
Calm down on the nerdrage. Google is under no obligation to cater to your every computing need, and you are under no obligation to use their services. It's a pretty reasonable arrangement.
I guess if we can just use whatever we want to mean whatever we want, I could care less.
Easily? Seems like it's not all that easy to be as successful as Google. Also seems like Altavista couldn't pull it off. I think maybe you work with the bizarro definition of the word.
Seems like a pretty reasonable solution to me.
And remember to include this not-insignificant fact: 1% of people who are averse to paying for things.
Marketing departments don't exactly salivate over the idea of chasing a tiny slice of people who philosophically want everything with no price.
There is a reason - your systems are unsupported. What you meant to say is there is absolutely no way for you to have everything you want on your terms, but your sense of entitlement makes you feel like you should be able to get it.
Your javascript prejudice has nothing to do with reality. Sort of ironic, given your name.
I find it telling that unless the issue presented before Slashdot is purely technical in nature, it is basically a given that the comments will be knee-jerk populist and entirely misinformed.
You know, basically everyone in this country who works relies on a business climate that's favorable to doing business. I'm not sure what magic fairy feeds you and yours, but I have to bring in money to have a place to live and food to keep my body from stopping. Painting this as a "Forbes 500" issue leads me to believe you think food comes from your parent's refrigerator.
There are probably a few who read it to revel in the ignorance of the masses, I'm sure.
Bravo. You're screaming at the weather, but at least it's nice to know I'm not the only person around here who isn't ignorant.
If only the government would recognize the right of the people to trample copyright protection, trademark protection, and patent protection, then surely we would live in a utopia where everyone gave away everything for free from the kindness of their heart.
Don't ever let logic get in the way of some good old fashioned class warfare. Those business people must be evil because they make money.
So a semi-permanent inconvenience to hedge against a possible temporary inconvenience is an acceptable trade-off?
Yeah, you're definitely part of the generation that ruined the world.