Citizen, you have dared to question the supreme legal, moral, and constitutional authority of our anti-terrorism methods. Not only that, but you have also exposed yourself as an EVIL anti-American communist socialist fascist islamist anti-war drug doing child molesting hippy. Our officers will arrive promptly to detain you.
Have a nice day,
DHS
Of course! The granting of legal monopolies in the production of something is just bound to lead to an explosion in innovation. No one would ever invent one obvious thing and sit on it forever, never producing anything ever again.
"People don't just send you five laptops for no good reason."
Are you kidding me? I've received hundreds of free laptops from total strangers. In fact, I trust them so much that I do all my banking on them. After all, this nice downtrodden Nigerian prince has personally guaranteed the security and stability of all these laptops. Now, let me go check my bank balance....OMGWTFBBQ^*#^$@))*#$!!!!!
That might be a valid complaint if, in fact, we paid for these schools voluntarily. Anyone who pays taxes (most people) pays for schools, whether they like it or not. Failure to pay those taxes will result in the police coming to kidnap you and lock you in a cage. Failure to comply with the demand to be locked in a cage can result in serious injury or even death.
Oh Anonymous Coward, you do alone do not suffer. I have seen the terrible foe that is the new Slashdot, and, after succumbing to a terrible bout of despair and terror, I managed to log in and enable the old index. Oh Anonymous One, I suggest that you trade in your glorious anonymity for an account.
My personal suggestion is that they pick no one, abolish the office, and tell Hollywood to go to hell. But, that's not going to happen, so I nominate, let's see....Stephen Kinsella.
Translation into modern English:
"Ducks you, the swine that you have cast your perl before will rise up and smites you."
Yes, I am such a pedant, I will critique your usage of outdated English.
yea socialism mostly just means things like: public health care, welfare system, governmental Philanthropy in the arts and cultural affairs etc.
Ah, robber-funded grants to arts and cultural affairs is "philanthropy." I've donated time and money to places such as the Salvation Army. That is philanthropy. I did it willingly with no compulsion.
Ummm... open sourcing, at least, is anything but capitalistic: it's socialism at work. Some of those governmental encumbrances you mention are also trying to achieve socialistic goals. Apparently that's why you despise or fear them.
It's entertaining to watch the same mind try to embrace both open source and capitalism; the cognitive dissonance that results is like watching a daytime soap or a reality show.
Open source is not socialism. In the free market, a team is free to choose what license it would like for its product, be it GPL, BSD, or some sort of proprietary license. No government or societal pressure gets in the way.
I agree! In the name of not harming anyone, we should never allow progress in these troubling times. Why, think of all the jobs we'll save! I just bought a set of torches, a horse, and a plow. Do your patriotic duty!
But I have an even better idea. Why don't we use our military to evacuate cities and then destroy them. Think of all the jobs that will be created in the evacuation, military, and construction industries!
You mean to tell me that Apple has produced a removeable battery!? And it's not present on a newer model!? This must be a myth. No technology that advanced could ever be removed from a future model.
I understand. The ways of the Steve (Peace be upon Him) are mysterious indeed, and I need to get back to studying them.
Now if only someone could design a laptop battery that is removable without opening the case. I know, I know, this is WAY too futuristic in this day and age, even for a company like Apple with the appropriate vision.
I've been up all night trying to find a way to design such a battery, but so far all I've been able to do is marvel at the shear ease of the Apple battery removal. My designs required 20 screws be removed!
I think I have a solution for the best of both worlds... each state should award all of it's electorate votes to a single candidate, but that candidate should be selected via instant run-off.
I have an even better idea, albeit one that would be rather major. Abolish the office of the presidency. Abolish the Federal government. Each state is independent.
Then, to keep the trade wheels going, organize the United States as a trade union. There, no more unfair votes, no more states' interests conflicting. I would welcome this with open arms.
Amarok looks somewhat between "native" and "out of place."
The menubar looks like it should in Windows. Any non-custom buttons look native too. However, the buttons to the left for "Files" and "Playlists," etc. are skinned to look the same.
The port of KDE to Windows or Mac OS X isn't so that you can have a full KDE desktop. It's so that some of the apps that people would like to run on other platforms, such as Konqueror and Amarok, will be available.
Their hopes are that eventually you'll find yourself using only KDE apps and wonder, "Why don't I just switch to Linux w/KDE?"
As an example of this, I am running Amarok 2 on Windows.
Shopping around the world for labor and materials ultimately lowers the price of goods. That house, that food, and even that education would get cheaper. Except that our government (and also many governments in Western Europe, IIRC) have strict price controls and anti-competitive rules in many of these sectors.
People's first experiences with OSS is likely to be with Firefox, not KDE (or its children) on Windows. I think Firefox shows that OSS can be professional, keeping up very well with its closed source rivals.
Our car was robbed, too. We checked into a hotel and left mostly clothes in the car. Sometime late at night, some thieves busted our car up and stole all our clothes. They left (thankfully) a laptop, but they got some jewelry. In doing so, they cut themselves on the broken glass and left a good bit of blood and bloody tissues behind.
The thieves got thousands of dollars of stuff, such as my mother's jewelry, and almost all of my dad's clothes, including suits.
The lovely North Carolina police did not collect any evidence. They did not even really question anyone. They simply suggested it was the work of drug addicts and left us, for more donuts, I suppose. They were more interesting than actually earning that taxpayer money.
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Citizen, you have dared to question the supreme legal, moral, and constitutional authority of our anti-terrorism methods. Not only that, but you have also exposed yourself as an EVIL anti-American communist socialist fascist islamist anti-war drug doing child molesting hippy. Our officers will arrive promptly to detain you. Have a nice day, DHS
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that PETA kills animals. Not a handful of animals. Thousands.
Perhaps it also has to do with calling feeding kids meat child abuse.
Maybe it could be with this not so tactful ad.
Or maybe he's offended by PETA's ads that make mothers out to be murderers.
Then PETA goes on to say that dad's a psychopathic killer.
Of course! The granting of legal monopolies in the production of something is just bound to lead to an explosion in innovation. No one would ever invent one obvious thing and sit on it forever, never producing anything ever again.
"People don't just send you five laptops for no good reason."
Are you kidding me? I've received hundreds of free laptops from total strangers. In fact, I trust them so much that I do all my banking on them. After all, this nice downtrodden Nigerian prince has personally guaranteed the security and stability of all these laptops. Now, let me go check my bank balance....OMGWTFBBQ^*#^$@))*#$!!!!!
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That might be a valid complaint if, in fact, we paid for these schools voluntarily. Anyone who pays taxes (most people) pays for schools, whether they like it or not. Failure to pay those taxes will result in the police coming to kidnap you and lock you in a cage. Failure to comply with the demand to be locked in a cage can result in serious injury or even death.
Oh Anonymous Coward, you do alone do not suffer. I have seen the terrible foe that is the new Slashdot, and, after succumbing to a terrible bout of despair and terror, I managed to log in and enable the old index. Oh Anonymous One, I suggest that you trade in your glorious anonymity for an account.
My personal suggestion is that they pick no one, abolish the office, and tell Hollywood to go to hell. But, that's not going to happen, so I nominate, let's see....Stephen Kinsella.
Translation into modern English: "Ducks you, the swine that you have cast your perl before will rise up and smites you." Yes, I am such a pedant, I will critique your usage of outdated English.
The illicit drug trade is regulated, or do you not think that something being made totally illegal counts as a regulation?
It is because of that regulation (your business cannot exist) that drug dealers cannot seek any kind of arbitration, private or government.
Lower costs equal lower cost products. Lower cost products = dollar that goes farther, which means that less money is needed to survive.
yea socialism mostly just means things like: public health care, welfare system, governmental Philanthropy in the arts and cultural affairs etc.
Ah, robber-funded grants to arts and cultural affairs is "philanthropy." I've donated time and money to places such as the Salvation Army. That is philanthropy. I did it willingly with no compulsion.
Ummm... open sourcing, at least, is anything but capitalistic: it's socialism at work. Some of those governmental encumbrances you mention are also trying to achieve socialistic goals. Apparently that's why you despise or fear them.
It's entertaining to watch the same mind try to embrace both open source and capitalism; the cognitive dissonance that results is like watching a daytime soap or a reality show.
Open source is not socialism. In the free market, a team is free to choose what license it would like for its product, be it GPL, BSD, or some sort of proprietary license. No government or societal pressure gets in the way.
I agree! In the name of not harming anyone, we should never allow progress in these troubling times. Why, think of all the jobs we'll save! I just bought a set of torches, a horse, and a plow. Do your patriotic duty!
But I have an even better idea. Why don't we use our military to evacuate cities and then destroy them. Think of all the jobs that will be created in the evacuation, military, and construction industries!
Avalanche of crazy whacked out girlfriend stories? Sorry to disappoint, but this is Slashdot. We don't have the regular girlfriend stories!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to stalking this one chick....
Wait, wait, wait....
You mean to tell me that Apple has produced a removeable battery!? And it's not present on a newer model!? This must be a myth. No technology that advanced could ever be removed from a future model.
I understand. The ways of the Steve (Peace be upon Him) are mysterious indeed, and I need to get back to studying them.
Now if only someone could design a laptop battery that is removable without opening the case. I know, I know, this is WAY too futuristic in this day and age, even for a company like Apple with the appropriate vision.
I've been up all night trying to find a way to design such a battery, but so far all I've been able to do is marvel at the shear ease of the Apple battery removal. My designs required 20 screws be removed!
I think I have a solution for the best of both worlds... each state should award all of it's electorate votes to a single candidate, but that candidate should be selected via instant run-off.
I have an even better idea, albeit one that would be rather major. Abolish the office of the presidency. Abolish the Federal government. Each state is independent.
Then, to keep the trade wheels going, organize the United States as a trade union. There, no more unfair votes, no more states' interests conflicting. I would welcome this with open arms.
I knew the Internet was bad for you!
Now Google confirms it!
Amarok looks somewhat between "native" and "out of place."
The menubar looks like it should in Windows. Any non-custom buttons look native too. However, the buttons to the left for "Files" and "Playlists," etc. are skinned to look the same.
Konqueror looks okay.
The port of KDE to Windows or Mac OS X isn't so that you can have a full KDE desktop. It's so that some of the apps that people would like to run on other platforms, such as Konqueror and Amarok, will be available. Their hopes are that eventually you'll find yourself using only KDE apps and wonder, "Why don't I just switch to Linux w/KDE?" As an example of this, I am running Amarok 2 on Windows.
Shopping around the world for labor and materials ultimately lowers the price of goods. That house, that food, and even that education would get cheaper. Except that our government (and also many governments in Western Europe, IIRC) have strict price controls and anti-competitive rules in many of these sectors.
People's first experiences with OSS is likely to be with Firefox, not KDE (or its children) on Windows. I think Firefox shows that OSS can be professional, keeping up very well with its closed source rivals.
You're both wrong: we libertarians are getting our long-awaited revenge on you conservatives and liberals. Soon, Mars will be ours, mwuhahahahahaha!
...a Beowulf cluster of these! In all seriousness, I'm waiting for the latest and greatest supercomputers to have huge GPU farms.
Our car was robbed, too. We checked into a hotel and left mostly clothes in the car. Sometime late at night, some thieves busted our car up and stole all our clothes. They left (thankfully) a laptop, but they got some jewelry. In doing so, they cut themselves on the broken glass and left a good bit of blood and bloody tissues behind. The thieves got thousands of dollars of stuff, such as my mother's jewelry, and almost all of my dad's clothes, including suits. The lovely North Carolina police did not collect any evidence. They did not even really question anyone. They simply suggested it was the work of drug addicts and left us, for more donuts, I suppose. They were more interesting than actually earning that taxpayer money.