Because governments all work on the delusion that everything belongs to them and that they're being kind by letting you possess some money or non-monetary objects.
Considering that there have been senators who've said in interviews that they ('they' meaning all senators / congressmen) don't read 90% of the stuff they vote on, that's pretty accurate.
Well if you look at it from the context of it is your mind that makes you who you are, not your body, then Alzheimer's is very much a terminal illness. Even if you ignore that, the fact that it permanently reduces a formerly fully functioning adult to less than a toddler is a pretty damning ending as well.
I don't believe the terminally ill are in the right frame of mind to make important decisions.
And I don't believe that you're in the right frame of mind to make that judgement. You clearly worship the notion of life in and of itself as being superior to all things and thus thing people should be damned to intense pain and suffering just to promote your own ridiculous religious ideas. You're nothing more than a sociopath who enjoys watching others suffer, so in fact you are the one with the mental issues, not the people wanting to avoid suffering and making a choice about their own life.
It's much better to keep someone caged like an animal and waste hundreds of thousands of dollars / euro's of taxpayer money that could have gone to more useful things (or been left in the taxpayers pockets).
Honestly, I'd have to say the biggest reason that Windows stays on top is support for existing software. I'm hard pressed to find legacy software that won't run on Windows 7 64-bit and very few people want to go re-buy everything they have for an new OS.
The only times I've ever had problems with hibernating a machine is when using Linux (I've yet to have hibernate work properly on a Linux system - it will always hibernate, but it will never resume from hibernate).
And Apple will get away with that crap - Bill Gates has the wrong political views, thus MS is always wrong and must be fined for everything they do. Steve Jobs holds the right views, thus Apple can do the same goddamn thing and it's perfectly OK.
Which is why I always say that Apple does not innovate - they merely take someone else's idea and put a fancy Apple interface on it and then sell it for an absurd markup.
That's why the best way to patent troll Apple would be to take out a patent on "taking an existing product and making cosmetic enhancements to it as well as applying a stylized logo of a fruit on the back of the device".
I'm curious why you don't just do what the majority do and simply A) if there's enough room for them to get over, don't be a jerk and speed up or B) if there's not enough room for them to get over, slow down a bit so that they can get over?
OK, I'm just going to have to ask how old you are after that "double flash" comment. Either that's a New England thing or you're just REALLY old and remembering a tradition from the early days of motoring. I wouldn't have cussed you out, but I probably would've thought "WTF is this asshole getting angry and flashing his lights for just because I'm trying to change lanes?"
To further support the fact that it's about making money and not safety (or else why did the Federal government have to threaten to withdraw Federal funding for highways if states didn't lower their speed limit to 65?), a friend of mine was pulled over the other weekend - she informed the cop that she was doing 65 because she thought that's what the speed limit was (for revenue purposes, that part of the highway drops down to 55 for a few miles, then back to 65) and he said he would let her go, but it's Memorial Day weekend and it's one of their biggest revenue weekends so they have to give out a ticket to everyone they stop.
We have a road near my house where the speed limit used to change three times in half a mile - they've at least changed it to only two times now, but there's still no reason for it but to let cops sit right at a bend in the road and wait for someone to not change speed. I always hit the high beams when driving through there at night so I can make sure there isn't a cop sitting there.
And that is merely #1 on my list of a thousand reasons to never have kids. I spent enough time growing up being miserable because I had no free time - I'm not going to be foolish enough to do that to myself for 20-30 years now that I'm older.
Ok, I've read plenty of people BS-ing about how "vouchers only help the rich". No. Not even slightly. The CURRENT system benefits the rich. Why? Because right now if you want your child to have a good education, you have to pay TWICE and send them to a private school (you have to pay for the useless public education that they're not receiving, then pay again for the private school). This means that a lot of lower and middle class families cannot afford to send their child to a private school. Vouchers would eliminate the double-payment system and put quality education in the reach of a lot more kids.
So? There are many parts of the OS that you cannot get rid of. I can't get rid of Media Player or Notepad. I can't replace the built-in zip program. I can't replace the built-in defrag program. However, what you CAN do (just like with IE) is install something else and not use the one that's included in the OS. No one is forcing you to use IE or any other default program - you have the freedom to install alternatives all you want.
And that's all these companies are doing. Identifying a product that they are giving away as part of a promotion. Trademark law would involve them misrepresenting their product as Apple's product in order to steal business / con people into buying something they otherwise wouldn't.
MSE is silent. You're thinking of McCrappy or Shitmantec (the two most popular AV's for companies). Both of those are utter crap (no idea why companies continue to use them). MSE on the other hand is amazing.
Yes, because all other OS's don't include a browser built-in and people don't expect a browser when they first boot up. Oh, wait....
Seriously, this argument was old before the first bogus lawsuit was filed 15 years ago (or whenever the exact date was). Anyways, you better believe if they put MSE as part of the OS or even just pushed it through Windows Update that they would get raped just as an excuse for governments to pull in more revenue.
According to that logic, Apple can sue you because you mentioned Apple (which is trademarked or copyrighted, whichever) without getting their permission first. Now do you see how ridiculous this is? If you can't mention a product without being sued, how is anyone supposed to ever advertise what they're selling or even discuss what they want?
"Hey Bob, when you go on break will you grab me a cola with the red label on it? It has a 'C' on there..."
"A Coke?"
"Bob Johnson, I'm with the Coca-Cola Company - we're suing you for $50 million for using our trademark without permission"
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Because governments all work on the delusion that everything belongs to them and that they're being kind by letting you possess some money or non-monetary objects.
Considering that there have been senators who've said in interviews that they ('they' meaning all senators / congressmen) don't read 90% of the stuff they vote on, that's pretty accurate.
Make it so that people who make a good living aren't demonized and you will see more engineers.
Well if you look at it from the context of it is your mind that makes you who you are, not your body, then Alzheimer's is very much a terminal illness. Even if you ignore that, the fact that it permanently reduces a formerly fully functioning adult to less than a toddler is a pretty damning ending as well.
As long as you have life, you have hope.
And as long as you have Hope, you have Crosby.
I don't believe the terminally ill are in the right frame of mind to make important decisions.
And I don't believe that you're in the right frame of mind to make that judgement. You clearly worship the notion of life in and of itself as being superior to all things and thus thing people should be damned to intense pain and suffering just to promote your own ridiculous religious ideas. You're nothing more than a sociopath who enjoys watching others suffer, so in fact you are the one with the mental issues, not the people wanting to avoid suffering and making a choice about their own life.
If death is your worst nightmare, then I'm afraid you don't have much imagination. There are many things in life that are far worse than death.
It's much better to keep someone caged like an animal and waste hundreds of thousands of dollars / euro's of taxpayer money that could have gone to more useful things (or been left in the taxpayers pockets).
Honestly, I'd have to say the biggest reason that Windows stays on top is support for existing software. I'm hard pressed to find legacy software that won't run on Windows 7 64-bit and very few people want to go re-buy everything they have for an new OS.
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To quote Adam Savage "Well there's your problem!"
The only times I've ever had problems with hibernating a machine is when using Linux (I've yet to have hibernate work properly on a Linux system - it will always hibernate, but it will never resume from hibernate).
And Apple will get away with that crap - Bill Gates has the wrong political views, thus MS is always wrong and must be fined for everything they do. Steve Jobs holds the right views, thus Apple can do the same goddamn thing and it's perfectly OK.
Which is why I always say that Apple does not innovate - they merely take someone else's idea and put a fancy Apple interface on it and then sell it for an absurd markup.
That's why the best way to patent troll Apple would be to take out a patent on "taking an existing product and making cosmetic enhancements to it as well as applying a stylized logo of a fruit on the back of the device".
Because even if Android banned DUI apps (which they don't), it would be impossible to just release the APK and let people sideload it - oh, wait....
I'm curious why you don't just do what the majority do and simply A) if there's enough room for them to get over, don't be a jerk and speed up or B) if there's not enough room for them to get over, slow down a bit so that they can get over?
OK, I'm just going to have to ask how old you are after that "double flash" comment. Either that's a New England thing or you're just REALLY old and remembering a tradition from the early days of motoring. I wouldn't have cussed you out, but I probably would've thought "WTF is this asshole getting angry and flashing his lights for just because I'm trying to change lanes?"
To further support the fact that it's about making money and not safety (or else why did the Federal government have to threaten to withdraw Federal funding for highways if states didn't lower their speed limit to 65?), a friend of mine was pulled over the other weekend - she informed the cop that she was doing 65 because she thought that's what the speed limit was (for revenue purposes, that part of the highway drops down to 55 for a few miles, then back to 65) and he said he would let her go, but it's Memorial Day weekend and it's one of their biggest revenue weekends so they have to give out a ticket to everyone they stop.
We have a road near my house where the speed limit used to change three times in half a mile - they've at least changed it to only two times now, but there's still no reason for it but to let cops sit right at a bend in the road and wait for someone to not change speed. I always hit the high beams when driving through there at night so I can make sure there isn't a cop sitting there.
Or release it for another mobile OS - perhaps one with more market share and no dickish rules about what's "appropriate"?
but I'm still swamped with the care for my kid
And that is merely #1 on my list of a thousand reasons to never have kids. I spent enough time growing up being miserable because I had no free time - I'm not going to be foolish enough to do that to myself for 20-30 years now that I'm older.
Ok, I've read plenty of people BS-ing about how "vouchers only help the rich". No. Not even slightly. The CURRENT system benefits the rich. Why? Because right now if you want your child to have a good education, you have to pay TWICE and send them to a private school (you have to pay for the useless public education that they're not receiving, then pay again for the private school). This means that a lot of lower and middle class families cannot afford to send their child to a private school. Vouchers would eliminate the double-payment system and put quality education in the reach of a lot more kids.
So? There are many parts of the OS that you cannot get rid of. I can't get rid of Media Player or Notepad. I can't replace the built-in zip program. I can't replace the built-in defrag program. However, what you CAN do (just like with IE) is install something else and not use the one that's included in the OS. No one is forcing you to use IE or any other default program - you have the freedom to install alternatives all you want.
And that's all these companies are doing. Identifying a product that they are giving away as part of a promotion. Trademark law would involve them misrepresenting their product as Apple's product in order to steal business / con people into buying something they otherwise wouldn't.
MSE is silent. You're thinking of McCrappy or Shitmantec (the two most popular AV's for companies). Both of those are utter crap (no idea why companies continue to use them). MSE on the other hand is amazing.
Yes, because all other OS's don't include a browser built-in and people don't expect a browser when they first boot up. Oh, wait....
Seriously, this argument was old before the first bogus lawsuit was filed 15 years ago (or whenever the exact date was). Anyways, you better believe if they put MSE as part of the OS or even just pushed it through Windows Update that they would get raped just as an excuse for governments to pull in more revenue.
According to that logic, Apple can sue you because you mentioned Apple (which is trademarked or copyrighted, whichever) without getting their permission first. Now do you see how ridiculous this is? If you can't mention a product without being sued, how is anyone supposed to ever advertise what they're selling or even discuss what they want?
"Hey Bob, when you go on break will you grab me a cola with the red label on it? It has a 'C' on there..."
"A Coke?"
"Bob Johnson, I'm with the Coca-Cola Company - we're suing you for $50 million for using our trademark without permission"