There is a VERY easy solution. Don't buy from people who make you buy Microsoft products. It's not a problem, you have had this option all the time. In fact, it is CHEAPER.
For you and I it isn't much of a problem to find such a vendor, what about when you need to buy for an enterprise? What if you need several thousand computers in differens states or countries and you need reliable hardware support?
What choices do you have? To buy from several small mfgs? To pay higher prices because you're not doing the volume with one dealer?
You pay taxes on the money you earn at your job. You invest it and pay taxes on any dividends that are paid and when you sell it, you pay a capitol gains tax on the profit. Then you pay taxes on the goods and services that you buy with the thrice taxed remains.
The sticky point comes in where states are trying to force e-merchants to collect their own sales taxes. Depending on how this is accomplished (i.e., not a federal law) if you've got a state that isn't part of this agreement you're going to see e-merchants move to those states to avoid having the additional burden of collecting those taxes.
Or Canada.
How's that going to affect the economy when the major etailers move their HQs to Canada or Jamaica? No federal taxes for the US and no sales taxes for the states.
Sorry, having never been to the US I was going by michael moore's bowling for columbine where he opens a bank account and gets given a gun. within about an hour... not much time for any real background checks in an hour.
Criminal records are stored in databases. A background check can happen in less than 30 minutes. When the police pull you over, they query your license plate. In minutes they are given information about the registered owner of the vehicle and information about that person's criminal history (if any).
Gun legislation is also handy for preventing diagnosed psycho's from being allowed to use them.. as well as convicted murderers etc.
It's even more effective to keep people who are dangerous locked up.
Every day convicted criminals and dangerous psychopaths skirt the law by stealing firearms or using other weapons to hurt people.
Then again, if guns were banned for psycho's in the US then I guess profits would take a serious hit.
It's obvious that you've never bought a firearm in the US. The FBI does a background check on every prospective gun buyer. If you've been convicted of a felony or a violent misdemeanor, you can't buy a gun. If you've ever been found by a judge to be mentally unfit, you can't buy a gun. If someone to whom you're married, were married, living with or dating has an active restraining order against you, you can't buy a gun.
It's not a diminishing market that threatens gun makers, it's lawsuits. That's why the Bush administration has moved to forbid civil lawsuits against gun makers when some criminal uses their product to kill someone./Australian gun owner
So then what the fuck do you know about US gun laws? This story is about the UK, why even bring them up?
do you think it was because prosecutor couldn't figure out how to get the guy?
Maybe it's just me, but I always thought that prosecutors were supposed to prosecute people who break the law and not try to find ways to "get people".
I know first hand how cops can be that petty, but thankfully I've never encountered a prosecutor who was that much of an asshole.
I want to buy Woz a lap dance at a strip club. He is one of the coolest people who was ever involved in technology. He is the one most responsible for the change in the IT environment from stuffed shirts to free thinkers.
It's a dangerous can of worms to open. A header IS a part of a packet's contents. Once you've started to look at the contents of every packet, it won't be long before you're required to do so on someone else's(the Government or a Lawyer's) behalf.
I'm not sure I'd call creatures like the Dodo perfect...
Then you must not be a conservationist. The Dodo is perfect for them. It's an example of the evil of humanity. It was a docile, peaceful, flightless bird that was exterminated because of human greed. BTW, I'm not a conservationist but I'm also a realist.
As you imply, if the ACLU won't fight for gun rights, they should stop fighting for rights altogether.
Not at all. I'm saying that until they fight for ALL of our constitutional rights, I won't support them.
It's like stopping to help an injured person by the side of the road. If you don't intend to help every injured person everywhere in the world for all eternity, you shouldn't bother stopping for one. Right?
No, it's more akin to someone only stopping to assist that injured person if they're not wearing Nike shoes. Then claiming to help all injured people.
Or like running out of canned pears in your pantry, and deciding that if you can't have canned pears with your meal, you'd rather just eat nothing and starve to death.
If McDonalds doesn't have any Apple pies done and you really wanted an Apple pie. You can wait until pies are done, or you can go to KFC and get a pie with my meal there.
It's good to know people like you stand proud, defending our freedoms (except when someone tries to defend a freedom besides bearing arms).
I like the EFF because they are not hypocrites about defending rights like the ACLU is.
Ah yes. Leaving the 2nd to the capable hands of the NRA is "ignoring it." For that, we might as well condemn the NRA for not defending the 1st and 4th Amendments.
If the NRA claimed to be a group that upholds all constitutional rights, you'd have a point. The NRA only claims to be a group that is concerned with the interests of gun owners.
The ACLU is an organization that is primarily concerned with advancing a leftist political agenta via the court system.
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Spec out a Dell with Windows and then Spec out one with linux.
How much different are the prices?
Chances are you'll pay MORE for the linux system.
LK
Not to mention the fact that China's recent history of human rights abuses is every bit as bad as Soviet Russia's(no pun intended).
LK
There is a VERY easy solution. Don't buy from people who make you buy Microsoft products. It's not a problem, you have had this option all the time. In fact, it is CHEAPER.
For you and I it isn't much of a problem to find such a vendor, what about when you need to buy for an enterprise? What if you need several thousand computers in differens states or countries and you need reliable hardware support?
What choices do you have? To buy from several small mfgs? To pay higher prices because you're not doing the volume with one dealer?
LK
All money is taxed multiple times.
You pay taxes on the money you earn at your job. You invest it and pay taxes on any dividends that are paid and when you sell it, you pay a capitol gains tax on the profit. Then you pay taxes on the goods and services that you buy with the thrice taxed remains.
LK
The sticky point comes in where states are trying to force e-merchants to collect their own sales taxes. Depending on how this is accomplished (i.e., not a federal law) if you've got a state that isn't part of this agreement you're going to see e-merchants move to those states to avoid having the additional burden of collecting those taxes.
Or Canada.
How's that going to affect the economy when the major etailers move their HQs to Canada or Jamaica? No federal taxes for the US and no sales taxes for the states.
LK
So you can buy a gun three years before you are allowed to buy alcohol? That makes a lot of sense....
There's a constitutional right to keep and bear arms, there is no such right for alcohol.
LK
Sorry, having never been to the US I was going by michael moore's bowling for columbine where he opens a bank account and gets given a gun. within about an hour... not much time for any real background checks in an hour.
Criminal records are stored in databases. A background check can happen in less than 30 minutes. When the police pull you over, they query your license plate. In minutes they are given information about the registered owner of the vehicle and information about that person's criminal history (if any).
LK
Remember how that was what the whole Cold War was all about?
I guess those 20 million bodies buried in the forest outside of Minsk weren't a good enough reason to oppose communism.
LK
Gun legislation is also handy for preventing diagnosed psycho's from being allowed to use them.. as well as convicted murderers etc.
/Australian gun owner
It's even more effective to keep people who are dangerous locked up.
Every day convicted criminals and dangerous psychopaths skirt the law by stealing firearms or using other weapons to hurt people.
Then again, if guns were banned for psycho's in the US then I guess profits would take a serious hit.
It's obvious that you've never bought a firearm in the US. The FBI does a background check on every prospective gun buyer. If you've been convicted of a felony or a violent misdemeanor, you can't buy a gun. If you've ever been found by a judge to be mentally unfit, you can't buy a gun. If someone to whom you're married, were married, living with or dating has an active restraining order against you, you can't buy a gun.
It's not a diminishing market that threatens gun makers, it's lawsuits. That's why the Bush administration has moved to forbid civil lawsuits against gun makers when some criminal uses their product to kill someone.
So then what the fuck do you know about US gun laws? This story is about the UK, why even bring them up?
LK
Kanye is black.
If he had been sued he'd cry "George Bush is suing me because I'm black!"
LK
So does that mean that the devices to used encode MPEG video used to author DVDs will be illegal?
Hollywood may have just fucked themselves.
LK
About three weeks ago, one of my professors asked us who regularly backed up their data. About four of us raised our hands.
The professor then asked who had lost a drive's worth of data, the same four hands went up.
There's nothing wrong with being paranoid about backing up your data. All it takes is one catastrophic loss.
LK
Better a trick than a bitch I guess.
do you think it was because prosecutor couldn't figure out how to get the guy?
Maybe it's just me, but I always thought that prosecutors were supposed to prosecute people who break the law and not try to find ways to "get people".
I know first hand how cops can be that petty, but thankfully I've never encountered a prosecutor who was that much of an asshole.
LK
In the remake of Shaft, they show Peoples Hernandez pooping.
Even if it's a drug dealer, rich is rich.
LK
I think it's that they know that the ass fucking is coming, they'd prefer to get compensated for it.
LK
I want to buy Woz a lap dance at a strip club. He is one of the coolest people who was ever involved in technology. He is the one most responsible for the change in the IT environment from stuffed shirts to free thinkers.
LK
Next up: How Microsoft thinks that the US controls the internet too much...
A company that I hate thinking something stupid. Where's the conflict?
LK
It's a dangerous can of worms to open. A header IS a part of a packet's contents. Once you've started to look at the contents of every packet, it won't be long before you're required to do so on someone else's(the Government or a Lawyer's) behalf.
LK
You are correct, they had to add a system to manage moisture because they would occasionally get rain due to the huge volume of the building.
LK
I'm not sure I'd call creatures like the Dodo perfect...
Then you must not be a conservationist. The Dodo is perfect for them. It's an example of the evil of humanity. It was a docile, peaceful, flightless bird that was exterminated because of human greed. BTW, I'm not a conservationist but I'm also a realist.
LK
If you, like me, believe that evolution is the process by which God enacted creation, he's confirming your faith.
LK
As you imply, if the ACLU won't fight for gun rights, they should stop fighting for rights altogether.
Not at all. I'm saying that until they fight for ALL of our constitutional rights, I won't support them.
It's like stopping to help an injured person by the side of the road. If you don't intend to help every injured person everywhere in the world for all eternity, you shouldn't bother stopping for one. Right?
No, it's more akin to someone only stopping to assist that injured person if they're not wearing Nike shoes. Then claiming to help all injured people.
Or like running out of canned pears in your pantry, and deciding that if you can't have canned pears with your meal, you'd rather just eat nothing and starve to death.
If McDonalds doesn't have any Apple pies done and you really wanted an Apple pie. You can wait until pies are done, or you can go to KFC and get a pie with my meal there.
It's good to know people like you stand proud, defending our freedoms (except when someone tries to defend a freedom besides bearing arms).
I like the EFF because they are not hypocrites about defending rights like the ACLU is.
LK
Ah yes. Leaving the 2nd to the capable hands of the NRA is "ignoring it." For that, we might as well condemn the NRA for not defending the 1st and 4th Amendments.
If the NRA claimed to be a group that upholds all constitutional rights, you'd have a point. The NRA only claims to be a group that is concerned with the interests of gun owners.
The ACLU is an organization that is primarily concerned with advancing a leftist political agenta via the court system.
LK
The ACLU will defend your civil rights, no matter how loathesome you or your viewpoints are.
Or unless your second amendment rights are violated.
LK