Well... Sorry but you just proved his point that Linux depends on a lot of work to keep running while Windows usually just works. I also used Linux to work until I have become tired of fixing things that break at each update.
It would be a stupid move. The greatest advantage of Windows over other OS is exactly the ability to continue supporting legacy applications that are fundamental to a lot of people. Virtualization is an option, but it is important to note that not everyone have the computational resources required to use a VM and rarely these VMs have all the features that baremetal offers (as example, running a DirectX 9 game in a VM is currently impossible or very, very slow).
Lets put more context. Here a house to get started costs a lot more than most people can afford in life. So everybody uses loans, but it is a debt to at least 15 years in a Third World country where the rules change at the whim of those who really rule the country (bankers and wealthy foreigners). Usually people here buy houses anyway because they are too naive (or too stupid) to take into account all these factors, and end up without the money paid and without the house in the first accident to happen (change of employment, unemployment, change of government, etc). Of course you can get lucky and nothing happens to you in your turn to buy, but I honestly do not like to relying on luck.
Short version: It is far more risky in a third world country.
Well... Usually when you will be forced to pay three houses to have one as goes on here (ludicrous interest rates, "taxes", even plain fraud), it is best not to take the trouble of trying to buy a house.
Only 20% in a year? On Brazil the "Banco do Brasil" (Bank of Brazil) the interest rate on a year is more than 350% (link), and all other banks are engaged in similar rates (or worse). Yeah, I live in a shithole...
Look, it's already hard to explain to you something complicated using English that is too simple language compared to my native language (therefore an idea lost much of the detail in the conversion). And I'm realizing that you expect an answer with really explicit meaning and covering all possible alternatives, which I never have to do among my peers.
Let's try again (and I will only try only once more). Is impossible to the population to grow indefinitely (or infinitely if the word "indefinitely" has another meaning for you) for a simple reason: The planet is finite. With more technology (better crops, greater efficiency, etc) you can throw the "saturation point" forward in time, but sooner or later you will still reach saturation point because the planet just keeps finite. To colonize other planets is a solution to the problem of course, but if we do not follow that course of action our only option will be some type of population control to avoid the series of bad things that will happen if we exceed the saturation point (because remember, better resource managment is only a palliative to a problem of indefinite growth).
Hey, I do not have how to present all possible solutions in a single post, I am perfectly aware that one of the options is to expand out of the planet and only not cited this explicitly. This said, I'm not "demanding" population control. What I am doing is pointing out the important fact that if we continue on the way we are (restricted to a single planet, stupidly thinking that worrying about overcrowding is not needed, etc) so we will need some form of population control.
And I worry seeing that many find it stupid to think about the problem (and if you do not think about the problem so how you will find solutions?).
Oh... You have some socketpuppets with modpoints. Maybe is why people here are claiming the moderation system is failing. Sorry my dear dumbass, mod points do not conceal your stupidity.
Funny, you are the only one obtuse here. Because education and access to birth control are forms of population control, dumbass. Furthermore, you failed miserably to understand that I am questioning the misconception that many people have that population can grow indefinitely without being able to really understand what means "indefinitely" and its consequences over the long term. Good for us that we are managing to prevent overpopulation despite idiots like you who prefer to believe that is not necessary to worry about it.
People these days can only think in the short term and this is getting worse. And if you try to warn them that it is wrong to think only in the short term, they attack you.
You are thinking only in the short term. In the long run it is impossible to maintain a growing population indefinitely, improvements in food production only push the problem for some years ahead (remember: think long term). At some point you will have to think about acceptable means of population control or will be chaos.
Dude, go fuck yourself. Really. I'm tired of trying to explain things to retards like you, I wrote in an obscenely obvious way earlier that I am not a "communist" and what your shithead got was the usual "is not capitalism then must be communist". No surprise that much of the world want to see your country disappearing in a nuclear mushroom.
Oh boy, this again... Let's get some things really clear:
1) No, dislike of capitalism does NOT mean that the person then is communist;
2) Yes, I know real well that humans are unable to operate under real communism;
3) No, soviet and chinese was not real communist, they were just another kind of dictatorship that was said communist. For example, in my country I had a dictatorship that was said capitalist though it was just another dictatorship;
4) The fact 2 It does not imply that you should therefore stop trying or stop looking for alternatives;
5) No, you've never, ever seen truly communist societies, see facts 2 and 3;
Clear enough now? Or I'll have to draw? Damn humans.
Sorry to burst your bubble but have no "communist evil eater of little children" here. What we have here is a country - mine - being sabotaged politically and economically right now so your country can buy the oil company from my country at a bargain price while my countrymen - deceived by the media bought and paid for intelligence services of your country - go hungry while shouting slogans of the Cold War against an imaginary foe created to divert their eyes from the real criminals. And if after all that I wrote you still want me to adore the United States and swallow this idea of capitalism without controls, fuck you.
When you have your country transformed into an extractivist colony so that Americans can buy the latest iPhone, you'll understand. Only that there will be too late.
In my case it is not the excess of choices that bothers me. What worries me is the fact that out of a hundred options I have, in 80 of them will try to cheat me.
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This one :-D And with the bonus of getting rid of helicopters as well
Well... Sorry but you just proved his point that Linux depends on a lot of work to keep running while Windows usually just works. I also used Linux to work until I have become tired of fixing things that break at each update.
It would be a stupid move. The greatest advantage of Windows over other OS is exactly the ability to continue supporting legacy applications that are fundamental to a lot of people. Virtualization is an option, but it is important to note that not everyone have the computational resources required to use a VM and rarely these VMs have all the features that baremetal offers (as example, running a DirectX 9 game in a VM is currently impossible or very, very slow).
Lets put more context. Here a house to get started costs a lot more than most people can afford in life. So everybody uses loans, but it is a debt to at least 15 years in a Third World country where the rules change at the whim of those who really rule the country (bankers and wealthy foreigners). Usually people here buy houses anyway because they are too naive (or too stupid) to take into account all these factors, and end up without the money paid and without the house in the first accident to happen (change of employment, unemployment, change of government, etc). Of course you can get lucky and nothing happens to you in your turn to buy, but I honestly do not like to relying on luck.
Short version: It is far more risky in a third world country.
"...perhaps people are now so brainwashed that they will never wake up?"
Yup. And beware if you get close to one, he can become hostile without notice if he believes you infringe his programmed belief system.
Well... Usually when you will be forced to pay three houses to have one as goes on here (ludicrous interest rates, "taxes", even plain fraud), it is best not to take the trouble of trying to buy a house.
Only 20% in a year? On Brazil the "Banco do Brasil" (Bank of Brazil) the interest rate on a year is more than 350% (link), and all other banks are engaged in similar rates (or worse). Yeah, I live in a shithole...
"Only" ten for one? Can be a lot more.
Look, it's already hard to explain to you something complicated using English that is too simple language compared to my native language (therefore an idea lost much of the detail in the conversion). And I'm realizing that you expect an answer with really explicit meaning and covering all possible alternatives, which I never have to do among my peers.
Let's try again (and I will only try only once more). Is impossible to the population to grow indefinitely (or infinitely if the word "indefinitely" has another meaning for you) for a simple reason: The planet is finite. With more technology (better crops, greater efficiency, etc) you can throw the "saturation point" forward in time, but sooner or later you will still reach saturation point because the planet just keeps finite. To colonize other planets is a solution to the problem of course, but if we do not follow that course of action our only option will be some type of population control to avoid the series of bad things that will happen if we exceed the saturation point (because remember, better resource managment is only a palliative to a problem of indefinite growth).
Clearer now?
Hey, I do not have how to present all possible solutions in a single post, I am perfectly aware that one of the options is to expand out of the planet and only not cited this explicitly. This said, I'm not "demanding" population control. What I am doing is pointing out the important fact that if we continue on the way we are (restricted to a single planet, stupidly thinking that worrying about overcrowding is not needed, etc) so we will need some form of population control. And I worry seeing that many find it stupid to think about the problem (and if you do not think about the problem so how you will find solutions?).
Oh... You have some socketpuppets with modpoints. Maybe is why people here are claiming the moderation system is failing. Sorry my dear dumbass, mod points do not conceal your stupidity.
Funny, you are the only one obtuse here. Because education and access to birth control are forms of population control, dumbass. Furthermore, you failed miserably to understand that I am questioning the misconception that many people have that population can grow indefinitely without being able to really understand what means "indefinitely" and its consequences over the long term. Good for us that we are managing to prevent overpopulation despite idiots like you who prefer to believe that is not necessary to worry about it.
People these days can only think in the short term and this is getting worse. And if you try to warn them that it is wrong to think only in the short term, they attack you.
You are thinking only in the short term. In the long run it is impossible to maintain a growing population indefinitely, improvements in food production only push the problem for some years ahead (remember: think long term). At some point you will have to think about acceptable means of population control or will be chaos.
Dude, go fuck yourself. Really. I'm tired of trying to explain things to retards like you, I wrote in an obscenely obvious way earlier that I am not a "communist" and what your shithead got was the usual "is not capitalism then must be communist". No surprise that much of the world want to see your country disappearing in a nuclear mushroom.
No, you fucktard... re-read again what I wrote, I see you americans have SERIOUS problems with text interpretation.
And someone modded me troll for this... Well, you ALWAYS gets a lot of enemies when you insist on telling the truth (or I have a secret admirer :-D)
As if that was going to do any difference to your opinion what has been programmed... pardon, decided long ago?
Is because you have no one. This is common.
Oh boy, this again... Let's get some things really clear:
1) No, dislike of capitalism does NOT mean that the person then is communist;
2) Yes, I know real well that humans are unable to operate under real communism;
3) No, soviet and chinese was not real communist, they were just another kind of dictatorship that was said communist. For example, in my country I had a dictatorship that was said capitalist though it was just another dictatorship;
4) The fact 2 It does not imply that you should therefore stop trying or stop looking for alternatives;
5) No, you've never, ever seen truly communist societies, see facts 2 and 3;
Clear enough now? Or I'll have to draw? Damn humans.
Sorry to burst your bubble but have no "communist evil eater of little children" here. What we have here is a country - mine - being sabotaged politically and economically right now so your country can buy the oil company from my country at a bargain price while my countrymen - deceived by the media bought and paid for intelligence services of your country - go hungry while shouting slogans of the Cold War against an imaginary foe created to divert their eyes from the real criminals. And if after all that I wrote you still want me to adore the United States and swallow this idea of capitalism without controls, fuck you.
Shhhh ... Be careful, do not tell truths that might hurt the ego of Americans.
When you have your country transformed into an extractivist colony so that Americans can buy the latest iPhone, you'll understand. Only that there will be too late.
In my case it is not the excess of choices that bothers me. What worries me is the fact that out of a hundred options I have, in 80 of them will try to cheat me.
He told the plain truth, my friend. You like it or not.