How about a more common sense approach to the question?
When you're married, what's yours is hers, what's hers is hers, and what's our's is hers. That's the way it's always been, unless prenuptuals were signed. My wife opens all my mail - for the most part, I never bother looking at it. I routinely open mail that has her name on it - especially if she isn't home for a couple of days. Something may need to be brought to her attention, for pity's sake! Not to mention that ALL of my dealings are her business, and ALL of her dealings are my business. Marriage. I'm responsible for her, she's responsible for me, we're a team, a partnership.
Only if, and when, an announcement of separation and/or impending divorce is made, are the married couple no longer a team or a partnership. AT THAT POINT IN TIME, then yes, it should become illegal to open his/her mail, or to tamper with his/her finances, property, or whatever.
Oh yeah. The article mentioned that she was having an affair? That is most definitely the husband's legitimate concern. He has the right to know that the ho is cheating on him.
And, also, a child's welfare was mentioned as the reason for forwarding the emails to a third party? Extenuating circumstances. It's ILLEGAL for a large percentage of the population to FAIL to report possible child abuse and endangerment.
Hacking? Horse shit. I've read nothing to indicate that the guy didn't just GUESS the Gmail password. Hacking. My ass. Stupid bitch who is prosecuting him doesn't have a clue what hacking is all about.
Dude - if you're not a veteran, you are not my peer, and you are incapable of judging me, or my peers. That's just that simple. There is a REASON that from time immemorial, soldiers and warriors were judged by soldiers and warriors. That reason is - you are not equipped to judge us.
BTW - who said anything about blind obedience? Do you have any idea how SOP is developed? How the General Rules were formulated? Blind obedience? I hardly think so. Lt. Calley's trial and the various defenses used by his subordinates debunked that "blind obedience" nonsense.
I stand by my statement. If you're not a veteran, you are not my peer.
Exercise and sleep are prohibited? What fairy tales have you been reading? Good God - some of you fools will believe ANYTHING if it is spoonfed to you by people who hate the United States.
Your ass. Solitary confinement is not torture. Pull your head out of your ass. Stop your whining, unless and until you have something to whine about. Torture. Next, you'll be claiming that it's torture if he doesn't get to watch his favorite TV shows while in custody.
You, youngster, are a sick sumbitch. If I can't stand some pervert massaging my balls, I don't DESERVE a plane ride? WTF does deserving have to do with it? What's next - if I can't bend over for some freindly fornication from my local grocer, I don't DESERVE a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk?
I'll bet half the people in Washington and all the people at TSA think like you. Sick, sick, sick. I wish you'd all fuck off and die.
Uhhhh - I beg to differ with your take on Manning. Young Mister Manning VOLUNTEERED to join the military. He swore an oath or ten, to defend this country, it's government, and it's people, from all enemies, foreign and domestic. He swore oaths promising to obey all lawful orders from his superiors, including general orders, and SOP. The boy betrayed his oaths, as far as I can see. He will have a fair trial - in a military court.
I agree with most of the rest of your post, but being a veteran, I expect more of our soldiers and sailors. My father lived to a higher standard than any civilian needs to aspire to, and I followed in his footsteps. Millions of other servicemen have done the same. Unless you're a veteran, you are not a "peer" to judge Manning. The kid is a disgrace to his uniform.
That said - I completely support Julian Assange's efforts to "spread the word". There really is a lot of corruption in Washington. If any soldiers and/or sailors care to assist in exposing that corruption, I caution them to do so LAWFULLY!! Trying to "anonymously" transmit data like this to people who aren't even part of government is the WRONG way to do it. I guess Manning never thought of disclosing this information to someone like his congress critter, instead of some foreign national.
Another idea - maybe we shouldn't criminalize such a high percentage of our population?
Look at the prison statistics. A majority of our prisoners are convicted of minor drug related offenses. Almost all of them were originally convicted of such crimes, then sent to prison where they LEARNED to be "institutinalized" low-lifes.
Prison is nothing but a training ground for criminals.
Decriminalize drugs, and most of those criminals will never make it to prison. Decriminalize other "victimless crimes" such as prostitution, and that will remove another large segment of our prison population.
Our laws are just FUBAR'd, that's all there is to it.
Uhhhh - yeah, right. Dude, I spent some years in the Navy. It was "common knowledge" that you did NOT want to be busted in certain countries. In some place, you'd rather be caged in the zoo with the gorillas, than with the local criminals. In general, European prisons are pretty good - but there are some that are despicable. I believe that Italy and Portugal come in at the bottom of the list.
True, they probably aren't as bad as some prisons in Asia, Africa, or even South America. But, when some close cousin to a gorilla is pounding your ass while his two buddies hold you down, you don't much care that a prison on another continent might be worse.
I see that you're not especially literate. I really don't think you figured that all out for yourself, did you? You took it almost verbatim from Faux News. Except for the grammar and the spelling.
Dude - THERE IS NO FREE MARKET IN HEALTH CARE!!! Wake the hell up. There are myriad regulations in place, seemingly to protect the people - but if you really dig into them, they only protect the investments of big business. Free market? Really? Not since - ohhhhh - about the early 1950's.
Have you forgotten how the (un)Patriot act was passed? Remember the days after 9/11, while the Anthrax scare was really raging? Every sniveling, whining dog in Washington wanted action, immediately, to take the fear out of their timid little hearts. They ALL voted for the (un)Patriot act - liberals, conservatives, libertarians, male and female, black and white, straight and queer, big and little, it just didn't matter who or what they were.
In fact, the (un)Patriot act alone makes the best single argument in favor of the conspiracy nuts who think it was an inside job.
You're talking out your ass, fuzzy. Freedom isn't free - you have that much right. However - your conservative minded friends are busy taking freedoms away from the common man.
I'll remind you: copyright was NEVER MEANT to ensure that the owner could make a dollar. It was only intended to ensure that IF ANYONE made a coin or two from his work, then he should get part of it.
Every bone head moron who thinks that beating the kid down the street to the copyright and/or patent office with something new should guarantee an income for life needs to pull their bone-heads out of their asses. Hey - Microsoft came to market first, with an easy operating system that any moron could use. That means what, exactly? That everyone in the world should pay Microsoft forever? What utter fucking BULLSHIT!
Back in the day when patents and copyrights were limited to reasonable periods of time, everything that made Win 3.1 and the W32 crap work would be public today. That's right. The added bits and pieces that made the small jump from W32 up to Win98 would be coming up for expiration in about two or three years. (Fact is, Digital Research beat Microsoft to the W32 thing, which is exactly why Microsoft turned their big guns on DRDos)
No - freedom isn't free. And, you'll remember that when the commoners are spilling your royal blood on Wall Street. Our laws are totally borked right now because your heros are crooked SOB's who buy the laws they want.
Perhaps you're not looking at the question properly. Please, change your perspective. slightly, then take another look. Let's ask the question, like this: "If having all those corporations in the country tax-free is so good, then WHY is Ireland going bankrupt?"
I'll be honest - I am no economist. I don't understand all the tax schedules, or who gets tax breaks, or why, or how. What I DO KNOW for certain is, the corporations are parasitic entities, with only their own welfare in mind. If the corporations were symbiotic, instead of parasitic, they would be examining how taxes benefit the host nation, and negotiating over those taxes. You know, give and take, compromise, stuff like that.
Instead, we see here that the parasites are ready to find a new host if this one goes belly up.
Actually, the BOINC process uses very little CPU - or any other resources. It's the child processes that are resource hogs. They are assigned their nice priorities via the GUI interface, under preferences. Yeah, I know, a real Linux guru would do it all from the command line - but I'm not that guru, LOL
Unless I'm very mistaken, it's a scheduling problem. From my point of view, it's not a real serious problem, but it does become a problem from time to time. If this patch fixes that problem, great. And, if it can become a selling point with which to lure more people into the Linux community, even better!
What the other guys have all said. Compiling the kernel wasn't MEANT to be any kind of a benchmark. The idea is to load the system - notice that they were also playing back a movie WHILE compiling, and they were still able to do meaningful work with yet more windows. Basically, we're talking about the sort of improvement that one used to see when he upgraded from insufficient memory to enough memory to do all the work he requires to be done. Multi-tasking.
My machines all run BOINC, full time. Thanks to rather poor scheduling, I find myself waiting for the system, sometimes. This patch should solve that little problem. Make full use of the cores, make full use of all the CPU cycles, but ensure that the system is RESPONSIVE!!!
"Windows 7 arbitrarily uninstalled my network connection. Bastards."
Yeah, I've seen that repeatedly. I suppose it's justified by some twisted network security philosophy. Add a connection, the others die. Dirty rat bastards.
Exotic. RAIDs are exotic, now? Mmmm. Maybe for the average non-dweeb. Alright, I'll give you that.
But, Quixotic seems a more apt term here. Feeding ANY kind of storage to a Windows powered machine is Quixotic, IMHO. You may get data back, you may not, you may even get data back that you don't WANT back.
Funny where word associations can take you - 'specially if you're not the average sort of dork, LMAO
I hope that when they graduate, they'll all head off to Washington. Dems and republicans alike - NO ONE could screw up our nation so badly, unless they were possessed!
The problem is, we've lost our dignity. We as a nation, we as passengers, our "leaders" - we have lost our dignity. We've given in to fear and animal instincts. That is exactly why we have all this airport security nonsense, and it is why people are getting into a tizzy over being searched. The only difference is the scale of things.
Ditto. Not that I have the most bodacious set of balls in the world (I think I rank about number 6, globally) but because the bastard can't touch ME. Oh, he can run his hand up the crack of my ass, but my ass isn't ME. Public speakers have learned how to stay detached from the audience, people who have been through boot camp can focus away from the "humiliation", and I'm sure there are plenty of others who can maintain their dignity by various means.
Maybe it's time for some of those self-help "therapists" to start teaching people about real dignity.
For instance - I had a group of people barge in on me one day, as I was leaving the shower. Buck naked. I would never have DREAMED of parading in front of these people naked - but I found myself in the situation. At computer speed, I pictured myself running, gibbering like a nut, to the bedroom or back into the bathroom, pictured myself screaming at them all to "GET OUT!", then pictured myself just saying "Hi, I'll be right back." and calmly walking to the bedroom.
I opted for choice 3.
Lucky I didn't have a huge boner pointing the way, huh? The big guy stayed down and behaved himself, despite the fact that it was a mixed bunch of people.
Oh - I also learned to make sure the door is locked before taking a shower . . .
Dignity. The bastards can't touch you unless you let them.
"companies are looking at virtualizing IE6 so that it can run on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft says this violates licensing agreements."
A: What licensing agreement, exactly, does it violate?
B: How can you call it an "agreement", when Microsoft dictates terms? There are no polls, no surveys, no give and take on these "agreements".
C: ASSuming that it would actually violate some stupid "agreement" - if MS has any interest in keeping the market they enjoy now, it seems that MS would CHANGE the agreement to allow companies to virtualize IE6.
D: How many people really give a small rat's ass about these EULA's and "agreements" anyway? If all the companies that believe they really NEED IE6 were to go ahead and virtualize, what is MS going to do? Send out something like the RIAA's Gestapo to arrest all the offenders?
In short, MS is shooting themselves in the foot - or the balls - by denying these corporations permission to virtualize as needed.
Doesn't have to be a new OS to be marketed as a new OS. Hell, with the closed source stuff they have to work with, they can just change the desktop shell, and market it to the masses as something new and exciting!
FFS, trash IE6 and the ERP systems. Jesus H. Christ, they can do SOMETHING new and different. Rewrite the crap in FLash, for crying out loud. Rewrite it to run in Java VM. Or, go back and code a real damned application. I don't give one small rat's ass about shit designed to run with/under/on/around IE6. Braindead sumbitches actually paid real money for that crap - let them pay to fix the problems encountered now that IE6 is dead. Pay through the freaking nose!
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Play us some music, FFS
Pivot? Microsoft only, and you have to have Vista with Aero. I suppose that I could load it onto a virtual machine, maybe. But, somehow, I'm not motivated to experiment with yet another Microsoft browser. I was kinda thinking about grabbing IE9, but I haven't even found the motivation to do that yet.
Alright - explain something for me. We got rid of one bunch of dirtbags, just to set up another bunch of dirtbags. Pretty much the same thing happened in VietNam. The allies and the enemy were hard to tell apart, when it came to their conduct toward indigent civilians. So, what is is all about? Democracy? Give me a break - it's MONEY! Why else did we topple the one real democracy in the mideast in the 1950's? (Operation Ajax - if you need a refresher on it, Wikipedia has a passingly good article on it) Sorry man, but it isn't about democracy.
Don't exist? Damn. That bites. Does that mean I have to quit scaring the pretty young lady at work? Her supervisor has often put her to operating Machine #1, which is right next to an outside door. So, all of 3rd shift, she is alone, next to a nice dark doorway. I wander by now and then, explaining that I'm making sure the chupacabra hasn't got her yet. So - if there's no chupacabra, I have to stop loitering in her work area to protect her? This just sucks . . .
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How about a more common sense approach to the question? When you're married, what's yours is hers, what's hers is hers, and what's our's is hers. That's the way it's always been, unless prenuptuals were signed. My wife opens all my mail - for the most part, I never bother looking at it. I routinely open mail that has her name on it - especially if she isn't home for a couple of days. Something may need to be brought to her attention, for pity's sake! Not to mention that ALL of my dealings are her business, and ALL of her dealings are my business. Marriage. I'm responsible for her, she's responsible for me, we're a team, a partnership. Only if, and when, an announcement of separation and/or impending divorce is made, are the married couple no longer a team or a partnership. AT THAT POINT IN TIME, then yes, it should become illegal to open his/her mail, or to tamper with his/her finances, property, or whatever. Oh yeah. The article mentioned that she was having an affair? That is most definitely the husband's legitimate concern. He has the right to know that the ho is cheating on him. And, also, a child's welfare was mentioned as the reason for forwarding the emails to a third party? Extenuating circumstances. It's ILLEGAL for a large percentage of the population to FAIL to report possible child abuse and endangerment. Hacking? Horse shit. I've read nothing to indicate that the guy didn't just GUESS the Gmail password. Hacking. My ass. Stupid bitch who is prosecuting him doesn't have a clue what hacking is all about.
Dude - if you're not a veteran, you are not my peer, and you are incapable of judging me, or my peers. That's just that simple. There is a REASON that from time immemorial, soldiers and warriors were judged by soldiers and warriors. That reason is - you are not equipped to judge us. BTW - who said anything about blind obedience? Do you have any idea how SOP is developed? How the General Rules were formulated? Blind obedience? I hardly think so. Lt. Calley's trial and the various defenses used by his subordinates debunked that "blind obedience" nonsense. I stand by my statement. If you're not a veteran, you are not my peer.
Exercise and sleep are prohibited? What fairy tales have you been reading? Good God - some of you fools will believe ANYTHING if it is spoonfed to you by people who hate the United States.
Your ass. Solitary confinement is not torture. Pull your head out of your ass. Stop your whining, unless and until you have something to whine about. Torture. Next, you'll be claiming that it's torture if he doesn't get to watch his favorite TV shows while in custody.
You, youngster, are a sick sumbitch. If I can't stand some pervert massaging my balls, I don't DESERVE a plane ride? WTF does deserving have to do with it? What's next - if I can't bend over for some freindly fornication from my local grocer, I don't DESERVE a loaf of bread or a gallon of milk? I'll bet half the people in Washington and all the people at TSA think like you. Sick, sick, sick. I wish you'd all fuck off and die.
Uhhhh - I beg to differ with your take on Manning. Young Mister Manning VOLUNTEERED to join the military. He swore an oath or ten, to defend this country, it's government, and it's people, from all enemies, foreign and domestic. He swore oaths promising to obey all lawful orders from his superiors, including general orders, and SOP. The boy betrayed his oaths, as far as I can see. He will have a fair trial - in a military court. I agree with most of the rest of your post, but being a veteran, I expect more of our soldiers and sailors. My father lived to a higher standard than any civilian needs to aspire to, and I followed in his footsteps. Millions of other servicemen have done the same. Unless you're a veteran, you are not a "peer" to judge Manning. The kid is a disgrace to his uniform. That said - I completely support Julian Assange's efforts to "spread the word". There really is a lot of corruption in Washington. If any soldiers and/or sailors care to assist in exposing that corruption, I caution them to do so LAWFULLY!! Trying to "anonymously" transmit data like this to people who aren't even part of government is the WRONG way to do it. I guess Manning never thought of disclosing this information to someone like his congress critter, instead of some foreign national.
Another idea - maybe we shouldn't criminalize such a high percentage of our population? Look at the prison statistics. A majority of our prisoners are convicted of minor drug related offenses. Almost all of them were originally convicted of such crimes, then sent to prison where they LEARNED to be "institutinalized" low-lifes. Prison is nothing but a training ground for criminals. Decriminalize drugs, and most of those criminals will never make it to prison. Decriminalize other "victimless crimes" such as prostitution, and that will remove another large segment of our prison population. Our laws are just FUBAR'd, that's all there is to it.
Uhhhh - yeah, right. Dude, I spent some years in the Navy. It was "common knowledge" that you did NOT want to be busted in certain countries. In some place, you'd rather be caged in the zoo with the gorillas, than with the local criminals. In general, European prisons are pretty good - but there are some that are despicable. I believe that Italy and Portugal come in at the bottom of the list. True, they probably aren't as bad as some prisons in Asia, Africa, or even South America. But, when some close cousin to a gorilla is pounding your ass while his two buddies hold you down, you don't much care that a prison on another continent might be worse.
I see that you're not especially literate. I really don't think you figured that all out for yourself, did you? You took it almost verbatim from Faux News. Except for the grammar and the spelling. Dude - THERE IS NO FREE MARKET IN HEALTH CARE!!! Wake the hell up. There are myriad regulations in place, seemingly to protect the people - but if you really dig into them, they only protect the investments of big business. Free market? Really? Not since - ohhhhh - about the early 1950's.
Have you forgotten how the (un)Patriot act was passed? Remember the days after 9/11, while the Anthrax scare was really raging? Every sniveling, whining dog in Washington wanted action, immediately, to take the fear out of their timid little hearts. They ALL voted for the (un)Patriot act - liberals, conservatives, libertarians, male and female, black and white, straight and queer, big and little, it just didn't matter who or what they were. In fact, the (un)Patriot act alone makes the best single argument in favor of the conspiracy nuts who think it was an inside job.
You're talking out your ass, fuzzy. Freedom isn't free - you have that much right. However - your conservative minded friends are busy taking freedoms away from the common man. I'll remind you: copyright was NEVER MEANT to ensure that the owner could make a dollar. It was only intended to ensure that IF ANYONE made a coin or two from his work, then he should get part of it. Every bone head moron who thinks that beating the kid down the street to the copyright and/or patent office with something new should guarantee an income for life needs to pull their bone-heads out of their asses. Hey - Microsoft came to market first, with an easy operating system that any moron could use. That means what, exactly? That everyone in the world should pay Microsoft forever? What utter fucking BULLSHIT! Back in the day when patents and copyrights were limited to reasonable periods of time, everything that made Win 3.1 and the W32 crap work would be public today. That's right. The added bits and pieces that made the small jump from W32 up to Win98 would be coming up for expiration in about two or three years. (Fact is, Digital Research beat Microsoft to the W32 thing, which is exactly why Microsoft turned their big guns on DRDos) No - freedom isn't free. And, you'll remember that when the commoners are spilling your royal blood on Wall Street. Our laws are totally borked right now because your heros are crooked SOB's who buy the laws they want.
Perhaps you're not looking at the question properly. Please, change your perspective. slightly, then take another look. Let's ask the question, like this: "If having all those corporations in the country tax-free is so good, then WHY is Ireland going bankrupt?" I'll be honest - I am no economist. I don't understand all the tax schedules, or who gets tax breaks, or why, or how. What I DO KNOW for certain is, the corporations are parasitic entities, with only their own welfare in mind. If the corporations were symbiotic, instead of parasitic, they would be examining how taxes benefit the host nation, and negotiating over those taxes. You know, give and take, compromise, stuff like that. Instead, we see here that the parasites are ready to find a new host if this one goes belly up.
Actually, the BOINC process uses very little CPU - or any other resources. It's the child processes that are resource hogs. They are assigned their nice priorities via the GUI interface, under preferences. Yeah, I know, a real Linux guru would do it all from the command line - but I'm not that guru, LOL Unless I'm very mistaken, it's a scheduling problem. From my point of view, it's not a real serious problem, but it does become a problem from time to time. If this patch fixes that problem, great. And, if it can become a selling point with which to lure more people into the Linux community, even better!
What the other guys have all said. Compiling the kernel wasn't MEANT to be any kind of a benchmark. The idea is to load the system - notice that they were also playing back a movie WHILE compiling, and they were still able to do meaningful work with yet more windows. Basically, we're talking about the sort of improvement that one used to see when he upgraded from insufficient memory to enough memory to do all the work he requires to be done. Multi-tasking. My machines all run BOINC, full time. Thanks to rather poor scheduling, I find myself waiting for the system, sometimes. This patch should solve that little problem. Make full use of the cores, make full use of all the CPU cycles, but ensure that the system is RESPONSIVE!!!
"Windows 7 arbitrarily uninstalled my network connection. Bastards." Yeah, I've seen that repeatedly. I suppose it's justified by some twisted network security philosophy. Add a connection, the others die. Dirty rat bastards.
Exotic. RAIDs are exotic, now? Mmmm. Maybe for the average non-dweeb. Alright, I'll give you that. But, Quixotic seems a more apt term here. Feeding ANY kind of storage to a Windows powered machine is Quixotic, IMHO. You may get data back, you may not, you may even get data back that you don't WANT back. Funny where word associations can take you - 'specially if you're not the average sort of dork, LMAO
I hope that when they graduate, they'll all head off to Washington. Dems and republicans alike - NO ONE could screw up our nation so badly, unless they were possessed!
The problem is, we've lost our dignity. We as a nation, we as passengers, our "leaders" - we have lost our dignity. We've given in to fear and animal instincts. That is exactly why we have all this airport security nonsense, and it is why people are getting into a tizzy over being searched. The only difference is the scale of things.
Ditto. Not that I have the most bodacious set of balls in the world (I think I rank about number 6, globally) but because the bastard can't touch ME. Oh, he can run his hand up the crack of my ass, but my ass isn't ME. Public speakers have learned how to stay detached from the audience, people who have been through boot camp can focus away from the "humiliation", and I'm sure there are plenty of others who can maintain their dignity by various means. Maybe it's time for some of those self-help "therapists" to start teaching people about real dignity. For instance - I had a group of people barge in on me one day, as I was leaving the shower. Buck naked. I would never have DREAMED of parading in front of these people naked - but I found myself in the situation. At computer speed, I pictured myself running, gibbering like a nut, to the bedroom or back into the bathroom, pictured myself screaming at them all to "GET OUT!", then pictured myself just saying "Hi, I'll be right back." and calmly walking to the bedroom. I opted for choice 3. Lucky I didn't have a huge boner pointing the way, huh? The big guy stayed down and behaved himself, despite the fact that it was a mixed bunch of people. Oh - I also learned to make sure the door is locked before taking a shower . . . Dignity. The bastards can't touch you unless you let them.
"companies are looking at virtualizing IE6 so that it can run on Windows 7 — even though Microsoft says this violates licensing agreements." A: What licensing agreement, exactly, does it violate? B: How can you call it an "agreement", when Microsoft dictates terms? There are no polls, no surveys, no give and take on these "agreements". C: ASSuming that it would actually violate some stupid "agreement" - if MS has any interest in keeping the market they enjoy now, it seems that MS would CHANGE the agreement to allow companies to virtualize IE6. D: How many people really give a small rat's ass about these EULA's and "agreements" anyway? If all the companies that believe they really NEED IE6 were to go ahead and virtualize, what is MS going to do? Send out something like the RIAA's Gestapo to arrest all the offenders? In short, MS is shooting themselves in the foot - or the balls - by denying these corporations permission to virtualize as needed.
Doesn't have to be a new OS to be marketed as a new OS. Hell, with the closed source stuff they have to work with, they can just change the desktop shell, and market it to the masses as something new and exciting!
FFS, trash IE6 and the ERP systems. Jesus H. Christ, they can do SOMETHING new and different. Rewrite the crap in FLash, for crying out loud. Rewrite it to run in Java VM. Or, go back and code a real damned application. I don't give one small rat's ass about shit designed to run with/under/on/around IE6. Braindead sumbitches actually paid real money for that crap - let them pay to fix the problems encountered now that IE6 is dead. Pay through the freaking nose! http://ken_ashford.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834515b2069e201053605c23c970c-pi Play us some music, FFS
Pivot? Microsoft only, and you have to have Vista with Aero. I suppose that I could load it onto a virtual machine, maybe. But, somehow, I'm not motivated to experiment with yet another Microsoft browser. I was kinda thinking about grabbing IE9, but I haven't even found the motivation to do that yet.
Alright - explain something for me. We got rid of one bunch of dirtbags, just to set up another bunch of dirtbags. Pretty much the same thing happened in VietNam. The allies and the enemy were hard to tell apart, when it came to their conduct toward indigent civilians. So, what is is all about? Democracy? Give me a break - it's MONEY! Why else did we topple the one real democracy in the mideast in the 1950's? (Operation Ajax - if you need a refresher on it, Wikipedia has a passingly good article on it) Sorry man, but it isn't about democracy.
Don't exist? Damn. That bites. Does that mean I have to quit scaring the pretty young lady at work? Her supervisor has often put her to operating Machine #1, which is right next to an outside door. So, all of 3rd shift, she is alone, next to a nice dark doorway. I wander by now and then, explaining that I'm making sure the chupacabra hasn't got her yet. So - if there's no chupacabra, I have to stop loitering in her work area to protect her? This just sucks . . .