What you, and sadly most Americans, don't understand is we are not a democracy. A great deal of, if not all of, the US welfare system is quite unconstitutional. We are not at liberty to create social programs and implement them according to our alleged underlying Constitution. The fact that we do some and don't go all the way with socialized medicine belies the fact that we have some lingering sense of our heritage.
Now whether it seems right to your or not, in a completely different country and continent, that we have a less socialized medical system is pretty irrelevent. Everyone is going to die. Some people on socialized systems die when services are backlogged. Some people get less than adequate care in socialized medical systems because some of the capitalistic motivation is taken out of the system, etc. There really isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for health care in our country our yours. There isn't a perfect system and while ours has flaws so does yours.
Interestingly, there are more medical breakthroughs, that benefit the entire world, coming from operations that are funded by capitalistic medicine that help prolong life. In fact, I'd argue that our capitalistic health care system, with its profit motive, has done far more to save lives and extend the quality of life for all the socialized medical systems, than they have ever done for anyone else. You can benefit from what we do and then complain about repugnance from the outside looking in and miss where you have benefitted and miss the fact that your systems are crumbling due to old age, lower birth rates of those with means, and the influx of cheap foreign labor into your markets that are less well-to-do and cannot contribute at the same rate to sustain the socialized medicine experiment.
Does it suck that health care is expensive here? Surely! But, it's not everyone else' repsonsibility to take care of me.
"Communism is an economic theory, the people currently running the US have opposite beliefs."
Uh, not they don't. They have national socialistic or facist beliefs (or at least practices) but certainly not "the opposite" which would be free market economic beliefs.
Whaddya mean you couldn't uninstall Norton for DOS? deltree c:\norton. Done.
As far as not needing an anti-spyware program, Norton's sucks for one reason. Another reason is MSFT's product stops a lot of things on the fly. Most anti-spyware programs only work marginally but the extra realtime layer with the MSFT product helps.
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"I can read in the dark, I can read while waiting in a queue, I can read while floating in a canoe "
I can read in Timbuktu. I can read in the zoo. I can read about Green Eggs and Ham. I can read on Slashdot about Can-Spam. I can read almost anything, anywhere, Hot Damn!
I'm 38 and I can hear a TV with no signal and I attended some really loud head banging concerts back in the day! Go figure! I don't know anyone else that can hear those high pitch sounds, although I don't think I have it as bad as you.
Oh, and 60hz refresh monitors kill me and other people don't understand that just like they don't understand my bionic dog hearing.
God, some people are so looking to read too much into something. I just said people should stick to what they know rather than wasting time and money instead of doing what earns them money- and somehow this gives you all kinds of insight into what I look like and my beverage preference? Get a life.
I didn't call my customers stupid, dipshit. I said quite simply that people should stick to what they know rather than being too cheap for their own good. Sorry you didn't get it.
Sure a lot of smb's use SBS, however, they DO NOT get it all patched and updated automatically with a few mouse clicks or automatically. Sure, the OS can be updated with automated Windows update, but no, you cannot get SQL, Exchange, and ISA updated automatically. That's more than a couple of mouseclicks. In fact, it's quite a number of clicks going to the various www.microsoft.com/whatever web sites, clicking on downloads, and figuring out which is the latest service pack and whether they are cumulative and whether there are any more hotfixes and whether the additional downloads are "required" or simply enhancements that you may want.
It's what I do for a living Mr. Business Owner is fixing messes that you made... What really sucks for you is your MS Office and devices and specialized apps that you bought thinking you understood technology and your playing "IT Guy" when you actually make money doing something else. Holy crap I don't understand cheapskate small business owners. I am one too and if I need my business taxes done I pay somebody that knows what the hell they are doing. I've seen people spend several days monkeying around with comnputer problems cause they're too cheap to call me and in frustration they give in and I fix it in minutes. How much is their time worth? Apparently not much if they can afford to screw around for days playing "IT Guy". Me? I make a lot more money fixing things for people than I do trying to muddle through taxes or change the oil in my car, or whatever, so I pay the people that know what they're doing to perform those tasks.
Sorry to get off on a rant but you pretty much sound like a lot of my customer base. If y'all would stick to what it is that you make money at then you wouldn't be frustrated playing "IT Guy" and oh, NO you won't pay extra. You already admitted that you spend too much time playing "IT Guy". You should just pay and let someone who enjoys it handle it for you so you can focus on the core objective of your business.
The punishment may seem "absurd" to you but perhaps not to others. If you consider that he is effectively stealing bandwidth and computing resources from email servers and client recipients then he's stealing on a massive scale. Perhaps if you rolled the clock back a few years and were paying per minute or something on your dialup you'd feel differently. Just because fairly ubiquitous bandwidth makes it *less* of a nuisance than it was not too many years ago doesn't make it any less not his bandwidth and disk space, and cpu cycles, etc.
Telasip totally doesn't care what your hardware/software is or how many simultaneous calls you have going. They don't do all those foreign countries like Broadvoice but they're only $14.95/month too.
Uh... in what universe? Politicians, Dubya included, seem to LOVE illegal immigrants. I'm not really sure why.. best I can tell is they think they'll get votes from them or something. I suppose it's like giving out welfare and other "entitlements" to people so they'll vote for you.
Under the guidelines that Judge Jackson used to legally declare them a monopoly- "competitive barrier to entry", I'd be they still are- despite Apple's paltry market share.
"KDE 3.4 is really slow on a Pentium MMX class machine with 192 mb of ram. Soemtimes, you have to make sacrifices. However, XP can run on that machine nicely. "
I call bullshit. XP consumes most if not all of 128 meg just to load and if you have any apps running in your system tray (NAV, MS Antispyware, etc) you've just blown past that 192 mb RAM. Not to mention that the minimum requirement (an industry joke) for XP is a "Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)". Pentium MMX stopped at 200mhz.
Actually this is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. The people DO NOT rule, we abide by the rule of law. That said, we have to change the law that we do not like. To do this we have to change the minds of the representative that votes differently than we like. If this were a democracy 51% of the population could impose their viewpoint on 49%. That would suck for just less than half the population. Now one could argue that what's gone awry in our system is 5% of companies and PAC's getting their way with representatives is imposing their views on 95% of the country. That's probably more to the point, but that's another story for another time... Point being, we have to make ourselves heard and we have to elect the right people.
Hey, did you see X-files? It kinda sucked, but was kinda interesting, maybe. Oh well, it was vaguely technological oriented so let's post about it. Reminds me of Chris Farley's movie reviews on SNL. "Hey, you remember that part where they were like playing video games? That was cool"
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What you, and sadly most Americans, don't understand is we are not a democracy. A great deal of, if not all of, the US welfare system is quite unconstitutional. We are not at liberty to create social programs and implement them according to our alleged underlying Constitution. The fact that we do some and don't go all the way with socialized medicine belies the fact that we have some lingering sense of our heritage.
Now whether it seems right to your or not, in a completely different country and continent, that we have a less socialized medical system is pretty irrelevent. Everyone is going to die. Some people on socialized systems die when services are backlogged. Some people get less than adequate care in socialized medical systems because some of the capitalistic motivation is taken out of the system, etc. There really isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for health care in our country our yours. There isn't a perfect system and while ours has flaws so does yours.
Interestingly, there are more medical breakthroughs, that benefit the entire world, coming from operations that are funded by capitalistic medicine that help prolong life. In fact, I'd argue that our capitalistic health care system, with its profit motive, has done far more to save lives and extend the quality of life for all the socialized medical systems, than they have ever done for anyone else. You can benefit from what we do and then complain about repugnance from the outside looking in and miss where you have benefitted and miss the fact that your systems are crumbling due to old age, lower birth rates of those with means, and the influx of cheap foreign labor into your markets that are less well-to-do and cannot contribute at the same rate to sustain the socialized medicine experiment.
Does it suck that health care is expensive here? Surely! But, it's not everyone else' repsonsibility to take care of me.
"Communism is an economic theory, the people currently running the US have opposite beliefs."
Uh, not they don't. They have national socialistic or facist beliefs (or at least practices) but certainly not "the opposite" which would be free market economic beliefs.
Have you ever read a standard EULA? The GPL is simple by comparison.
Whaddya mean you couldn't uninstall Norton for DOS? deltree c:\norton. Done.
As far as not needing an anti-spyware program, Norton's sucks for one reason. Another reason is MSFT's product stops a lot of things on the fly. Most anti-spyware programs only work marginally but the extra realtime layer with the MSFT product helps.
"I can read in the dark, I can read while waiting in a queue, I can read while floating in a canoe "
I can read in Timbuktu.
I can read in the zoo.
I can read about Green Eggs and Ham.
I can read on Slashdot about Can-Spam.
I can read almost anything, anywhere, Hot Damn!
I'm 38 and I can hear a TV with no signal and I attended some really loud head banging concerts back in the day! Go figure! I don't know anyone else that can hear those high pitch sounds, although I don't think I have it as bad as you.
Oh, and 60hz refresh monitors kill me and other people don't understand that just like they don't understand my bionic dog hearing.
There's no such thing as a "hot water heater" - it's a cold water heater.
God, some people are so looking to read too much into something. I just said people should stick to what they know rather than wasting time and money instead of doing what earns them money- and somehow this gives you all kinds of insight into what I look like and my beverage preference? Get a life.
I didn't call my customers stupid, dipshit. I said quite simply that people should stick to what they know rather than being too cheap for their own good. Sorry you didn't get it.
Sure a lot of smb's use SBS, however, they DO NOT get it all patched and updated automatically with a few mouse clicks or automatically. Sure, the OS can be updated with automated Windows update, but no, you cannot get SQL, Exchange, and ISA updated automatically. That's more than a couple of mouseclicks. In fact, it's quite a number of clicks going to the various www.microsoft.com/whatever web sites, clicking on downloads, and figuring out which is the latest service pack and whether they are cumulative and whether there are any more hotfixes and whether the additional downloads are "required" or simply enhancements that you may want.
It's what I do for a living Mr. Business Owner is fixing messes that you made... What really sucks for you is your MS Office and devices and specialized apps that you bought thinking you understood technology and your playing "IT Guy" when you actually make money doing something else. Holy crap I don't understand cheapskate small business owners. I am one too and if I need my business taxes done I pay somebody that knows what the hell they are doing. I've seen people spend several days monkeying around with comnputer problems cause they're too cheap to call me and in frustration they give in and I fix it in minutes. How much is their time worth? Apparently not much if they can afford to screw around for days playing "IT Guy". Me? I make a lot more money fixing things for people than I do trying to muddle through taxes or change the oil in my car, or whatever, so I pay the people that know what they're doing to perform those tasks.
Sorry to get off on a rant but you pretty much sound like a lot of my customer base. If y'all would stick to what it is that you make money at then you wouldn't be frustrated playing "IT Guy" and oh, NO you won't pay extra. You already admitted that you spend too much time playing "IT Guy". You should just pay and let someone who enjoys it handle it for you so you can focus on the core objective of your business.
Perhaps you think it's a fair deal but I don't. The whole notion of paying for a ringtone seems pretty foolish to me.
The punishment may seem "absurd" to you but perhaps not to others. If you consider that he is effectively stealing bandwidth and computing resources from email servers and client recipients then he's stealing on a massive scale. Perhaps if you rolled the clock back a few years and were paying per minute or something on your dialup you'd feel differently. Just because fairly ubiquitous bandwidth makes it *less* of a nuisance than it was not too many years ago doesn't make it any less not his bandwidth and disk space, and cpu cycles, etc.
Uh, no IMAP? Hmm.. maybe I should tell my customers to turn it off now since it's not there :)
CGI's my cherry pie.. A cool drink of water...
Telasip totally doesn't care what your hardware/software is or how many simultaneous calls you have going. They don't do all those foreign countries like Broadvoice but they're only $14.95/month too.
Uh... in what universe? Politicians, Dubya included, seem to LOVE illegal immigrants. I'm not really sure why.. best I can tell is they think they'll get votes from them or something. I suppose it's like giving out welfare and other "entitlements" to people so they'll vote for you.
Under the guidelines that Judge Jackson used to legally declare them a monopoly- "competitive barrier to entry", I'd be they still are- despite Apple's paltry market share.
That doesn't make it any less a commercial endeavor.
For those out of the know- like the parent poster- Open Source != non-commercial.
"KDE 3.4 is really slow on a Pentium MMX class machine with 192 mb of ram. Soemtimes, you have to make sacrifices. However, XP can run on that machine nicely. "
I call bullshit. XP consumes most if not all of 128 meg just to load and if you have any apps running in your system tray (NAV, MS Antispyware, etc) you've just blown past that 192 mb RAM. Not to mention that the minimum requirement (an industry joke) for XP is a "Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)". Pentium MMX stopped at 200mhz.
Actually this is a constitutional republic, not a democracy. The people DO NOT rule, we abide by the rule of law. That said, we have to change the law that we do not like. To do this we have to change the minds of the representative that votes differently than we like. If this were a democracy 51% of the population could impose their viewpoint on 49%. That would suck for just less than half the population. Now one could argue that what's gone awry in our system is 5% of companies and PAC's getting their way with representatives is imposing their views on 95% of the country. That's probably more to the point, but that's another story for another time... Point being, we have to make ourselves heard and we have to elect the right people.
The only part of the story that didn't seem criminal to me was using/owing L0phtCrack. The rest of it was clearly illegal.
Hey, did you see X-files? It kinda sucked, but was kinda interesting, maybe. Oh well, it was vaguely technological oriented so let's post about it. Reminds me of Chris Farley's movie reviews on SNL. "Hey, you remember that part where they were like playing video games? That was cool"
At least 55-60, but I quit counting. Too much knowledge about that kind of reality is painful.