Ford never wanted to build the car you describe. It would have cost money to develop it, and they were perfectly happy to cater to market pressure to build big, comfortable cars that people can live in - complete with entertainment systems, GPS and computers, etc ad nauseum. That wonderful profit margin was aimed at gas guzzling Joe Sixpack, whom I mentioned. It never was aimed at the tree hugger crowd - in fact, the tree huggers either bought gas guzzlers, or they bought foreign.
You can't POSSIBLY convince anyone there was no market for 30 mpg sedans that can haul a family of 4 - or the Japanese wouldn't be importing them.
The long and short of this story is, Detroit catered to a niche market that is dying out today. They are going bankrupt by reason of poor planning and lack of development as much as by reason of greedy unions.
The Japanese manufacturers compete in the American market, using American labor making competitive wages. How do they stay profitable, while Detroit goes under?
Yeah, you make points with the union thing, but that isn't all of the story. Not by a long shot.
What you really mean is, "I am one of those arrogant pricks written about in "The Ugly American", and I have a RIGHT to be wasteful. Because I am an American, I have the right to burn thousands of gallons of fuel every year for no better purpose than to poison the planet."
Wake up and smell the coffee. Life is changing. Adapt, or go the way of the neanderthal. Your ancestors who lived through the depression would be ashamed of you.
Right there is a big part of our problem. A boat belongs on the water, not in a driveway. No one needs a truck to haul a boat - the boat hauling is just one of those status things used to compensate for the micro-penis. Besides which - if you can't sail a boat, you have no business on a boat. The Phoenicians could teach your freind a few things. And, don't blubber at me about a bunch of macho bullshit. That fuel wasting boat contributes to the national problems, economically, and environmentally.
Deisel is a viable alternative - if/when biofuels make it into the market. The biggest pollutant in deisel is sulphur, the major source of acid rain. Today's sulphur content is MUCH lower than in past decades. The problem with traditional deisel fuel is, it is basically a "waste" product of the gasoline refining process. As refining methods improve, there is less "leftover" hydrocarbon suitable for deisel engines. More, as people adopted deisel fuel for personal use, prices for commercial use skyrocketed. Those increases in price were felt at your local grocery, drygoods stores, and everywhere else.
Kind of off-subject - if the US would legalize industrial hemp, certain species of the cannabis plants make SUPERB deisel bio-fuel. They produce more oil than cotton, corn, or any other plant raised for oil. That oil burns ultra clean, with zero sulphur content. Renewable energy is a big concern today, but the plant is illegal. Go figure.
Over the road trucks (18 wheelers) with a gross weight of 80,000 pounds generally get 7 to 10 mpg, depending on load, terrain, and weather conditions. That's up from about 4mpg in the '70's. Lighter local deliver trucks, gwt of 20,000 pounds get 10 to 15 mpg. Full size pickup trucks may get as little as 10 mpg, smaller pickups like Dakota and S-10 can get as much as 25 mpg.
The problem with fuel mileage goals in the past, was that trucks were exempt from regulation. That was Congress' mistake, when they first passed fuel mileage goals. Few individuals need a full sized pickup truck - it is generally nothing more than a status symbol. "Oh, look, I'm wealthy enough to not CARE how much gasoline costs, my truck is BIG and it can crush your little car!!" Big macho thing.
Almost everyone in America who really NEEDS a privately owned truck can probably make do with an S-10 sized pickup. Many businesses can do their work with the smaller pickups. The huge gas-guzzling Dodge Rams should be a rare sight, used for work trucks.
All that said, the target of this current legislation are personally owned vehicles. The Department of Transportation has been working hard for years to increase the mileage of OTR and deliver trucks. Economic factors have been driving trucking companies to buy fuel efficient vehicles and to educate drivers to operate them efficiently. The commercial fleet has room for improvement, but that improvement is unlikely to be as dramatic as personal vehicles.
I say, it's about time, really. 42 mpg sounds rather high - but only because we haven't even TRIED. Remember the oil embargo of the '70's? Congress mandated some radical new goals for fuel mileage way back then, to help break our dependence on foreign oil. They even set the national speed limit at 55mph to save fuel. All sorts of drastic measures were taken.
Joe Sixpack and Detroit, in their infinite wisdom (selfishness) decided to create new "cars" built on truck frames, which would be exempt from fuel mileage requirements.
Ingenuity, huh? Well, that ingenuity has finally come back to bite Joe and Detroit in the ass. Today, we finally start seriously saving fuel, or else.
I like it.
(note - I'm not a demoncrat, I'm not an Obama cultist, I'm not even some tree hugging activist. It just makes sense to stop WASTING everything we can, just because we can.)
My wife and my son shop at WalMart. No, they don't spend 200 bucks on printers. There is a printer sitting in my kitchen which is connected to a Ubuntu machine. Let me pick my dead arse up, and see what brand it is - be right back.
Oh, looky, I spent less than 5 minutes duplicating my son's work!!
I would assume that having spent several hours, or perhaps a week or two, developing that dream machine, you would have already identified those printers that will work with your machine. Further, I would assume that you informed YOUR customer of your findings, so that he wouldn't waste time and money on a printer that will not work. Actually, I would assume that you ASKED THE CUSTOMER if he wanted to use a printer, and offered to SELL HIM a compatible printer, thereby saving him a trip to Walmart.
Sorry, your argument carries no weight. Just 'fess up that you are incapable of designing a "dream machine", and you are further incapable of supporting that dream machine.
Apparently, my son could do it. I'll have to consider putting him into business.......
High prison pop? Due in PART to the aforesaid permissiveness and lack of responsibility. A lot of little kids never grow up, and as a result get in trouble with the law over trifling bullshit.
Collapsing economy? Due in LARGE PART to the same permissiveness and lack of responsibility. Washington permitted Wall Street to engage in asshat investment practices when they deregulated the investment industries. And, no one takes responsibility.
Health care? A smaller part of the problem there can be attributed to the same problem. Less so permissiveness, than responsibility. Like people who make use of emergency rooms instead of doctor's visits, because of insurance requirements. Union contracts that ask for more benefits than are reasonable. Insurance companies that try to cull the most needy, and retain the most profitable customers. Ultimately, no one is responsible.
Public education? Again - lack of responsibility. Parents don't get involved, kids don't try, teachers become disillusioned, beauracrats only see the money, politicians don't have a clue, special interest groups get involved to promote their own agenda. No one is ultimately responsible for the failure that we call a public education system.
As I pointed out - corporal punishment is a TOOL that can be used early on to help teach and reinforce the concept of responsibility. Responsibility that few people seem to learn, in this day and age. It is ALWAYS someone else's fault when your plans go to shit. NO ONE says, "Oh, I screwed up, didn't I? Now, I have to make things right somehow!"
Sometimes, that lack of responsibility costs lives. Remember Hurricane Katrina, and two worthless politicians (mayor and governor) who couldn't even take responsibility to call in the National Guard for 5 days? Did you ever hear either of those bumbling boobs take any responsibility? NOOOO, both just pointed their fingers at Washington.
And, pitifully, we just accept that sort of ineptitude in all walks of life.
Some moron modded you down, obviously. I'm jealous. No one has ever given me a Mac - it would be fun to play with!! Another post further down suggests installing BSD - why not? Just make a backup first, so that if BSD doesn't work, you can come back to what doesn't work!! Wait... did I really say that?
But, Joe Consumer, the unsophisticated dork that he is, NEVER NEEDS 4 gig of RAM. In fact, the majority of the dorks are still running Dell and Compaq machines that sold with 1 gig or less of RAM. Yeah, I manage to load up my machine, and sometimes actually make real use of the 3 gig installed, but that isn't very often. I don't do intensive video stuff, or anything else that really NEEDS a lot of memory. Joe Consumer and family don't either, I assure you. Business generally doesn't need a lot of memory, either. 1 or 2 gig will run an office suite, and keep track of multiple databases, after all. Where exactly do we NEED 8, 16, or 32 gig of RAM outside of the servers? For that matter, most company servers don't need any more than 4 gig. There isn't a single server in the county that I live in, OR the county that I work in, that gets enough traffic to require 8 gig.
Not quite exactly. Someone has to ensure that each install works on each set of hardware, before approving it for that hardware, then cloning it. You're on the target, but missed the bullseye.;)
Mom and Pop can sell what they want. I was addressing Microsoft and major OEM's. The multi-million and billion dollar corporations set the trends, the little people selling a dozen computers in a good month just follow along.
And, my post was pertinent. Today, we continue to reap the rewards of MS monopoly.
Of course, if all the little Hairfooted critters in the world who sell computers to Joe Sixpack would get involved, THEY could help break the monopoly. I mean, you could set up your own "dreambox" based on Linux, offer it at a tremendously reduced price to a few people to learn on. As they found problems, you correct them. Then, you could build that very same dream box, and offer it for sale at a profit.
Just think. No more service calls to fix malware. But, wait - that might be counterproductive for your business? Oh, sorry. Supporting the monopoly might be in your best interest.
Meanwhile, don't bother telling me that MS's actions from a decade ago are inconsequential to today's tech world. That much of your post is pure bullshit, thank you very much.
Spoken like a true malcontent, who wouldn't be happy with ANY rule - unless of course, he is the ruler.
Tell me - do these Christians torture you to make you see their way? Is your home burnt down, regularly? Are you forbidden to build a temple of your choosing? Assuming that you are an American, Canadian, Australian, or European, you have the freedom to worship as you wish, or not. What more can you ask for?
Branding all corporal punishment as "abuse" is totally moronic. The ills our society suffers today are due more to permissiveness and lack of responsibility than any imagined affects of "abuse". There are any number of individuals in history who suffered genuine abuse, who went on to become famous. Does Alexander Graham ring any bells?
The individual who can use corporal punishment as an effective teaching tool is far superior to either the child abuser, OR the child "protector". Both the abuser and the overly protective idiot harm the child.
The magna cum laude you mock has most definitely put things into perspective, and found that a swat on the ass now and then is beneficial for irresponsible children. Prove him wrong, if you can.
Given a choice, I'd go with the tyranny of the majority, rather than the tyranny of the minority. The minority has almost always ruled, historically. The concept of royalty, and the hocus pocus of religion were both designed for the purpose of enforcing minority rule. The majority may not be "good", but it is certainly less "evil".
Racist, how? The guy is noting that the same sort of thing happened repeatedly in the history of mankind. First the dominant Homo lines ate up the competition, then he moved on to subdue other competition. Nothing has changed in the past millenia, now has it? Well - with the abundance of better food sources, we don't always eat the competition anymore. Maybe refusing to eat the spoils of war IS racist?
So do chickens. And, have you actually LOOKED AT the food people eat? Want a hot dog? How about some sausage? And, check those ingredients carefully - a lot of garbage is less toxic than the ingredients in a lot of food in the supermarkets. Eating kosher makes more and more sense, these days. Oh yeah. Pigs don't eat garbage, unless it is supplied to them. Wild boar just don't hang around dumpsters, in my experience, they would rather root up a farmer's corn field.
I call bullshit. This sounds like something the nerd in the basement figured out by reading a bunch of magazines found under his daddy's mattress. If a man says his wife if more attractive than some popular tart on the television screen, I believe him. My wife is. As for the "celebs" - phhht. There aren't very many of them who ARE better than trailer trash.
Spent 2 1/2 years aboard ship with a Gunner's Mate from the Philippines. One of those BIG guys from back in the hills. His dad was a headhunter. When asked directly if he had ever eaten a human, he would answer, "I ate what my mother gave me! I didn't ask!" Some years later, I got a "stepmother" from the Philippines. Pretty much the same story.
Yes, there ARE people alive today who have eaten human flesh.
Repugnant? I dunno. If I were starving, and given the choice of human flesh or rat, I might opt for the long pig. I've NEVER heard anyone say that rat tastes good, but long pig is supposed to be just like - well - PIG! (I often wonder if that fact has anything to do with Islamic and Jewish prohibitions against pork - it tastes to much like human?)
You may or may not be easily offended. You may or may not be a fanboy. But, the comment you refer to is definitely stooo-pid. There is one kind of person who would profess disappointment in Ubuntu's market share and performance. That is the kind of person who worships money, and sees no value in something that he isn't making money from.
Meanwhile, every computer that runs something other than the devil's own operating system counts as a small victory. Very small, but a victory all the same.;)
You don't "get it". Artist's rights are one thing - what the *iaa's are doing is quite another thing. If the various enforcement gestapos could be controlled, and set on a CONSTRUCTIVE PATH, then we might actually be able to address what an artist's rights might be. Today, copyright and patent laws are being abused, twisted into unrecognizable abortions, and the PEOPLE'S RIGHTS are being trampled.
You're an artist? Great. How much money has your "label" made, and how much have you made from your art? Is the ratio something like 1000/1, or 10,000/1, or maybe even more?
The mafiaa people don't give jack shit about you, any more than they care about the customers. You are an asset, nothing more, and nothing less, and you are as expendable as an office chair.
"Why is that? How could a nearly decade old insecure OS stomp the crap out of a brand new Linux distro? because for home users Linux sucks,"
Totally, out of this world, wrong. Not flaming you - but it amazes me how little people understand the monopoly. Please, look to your local school's curriculum. What are children taught? MS, of course. Very nearly every computer in every school has MS installed. It was made a standard, mostly as a result of MS "exclusivity" agreements from a decade ago.
Son number 1 attends college, where he majors in something called "computer sciences". He learns Microsoft. He learns absolutely zero "science". I know more "science" than he does. That son knows FAR MORE than I do about Microsoft, Microsoft products, Microsoft troubleshooting, Microsoft support, etc, etc, etc, but he is totally incompetent on any other platform.
For studying the products of a single proprietary operating system, the kid expects to earn a degree in "computer science". In fact, he will become part of the problem that perpetuates the Microsoft myth that MS knows best.
People really ought to understand the dynamics of a monopoly, before mocking those who fight the monopoly. Probably fewer than 5% of the people who argue the merits of Microsoft really understand how the actions of last decade have locked so many people into MS products. The schools are a big part of the problem today.
I would LOVE to see public schools dump MS, en masse, and stop the indoctrination that is going on each and every day. Just wipe the drives, pass out a *nix or BSD distro, and have the kids install. The only MS machines allowed in school would be in virtual machines.
Real computer science could only benefit, as more and more children are forced to face and solve computer problems. By the time today's Kindergarden kids graduate, they would be truly competent on dozens of platforms - including Microsoft platforms.
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Ford never wanted to build the car you describe. It would have cost money to develop it, and they were perfectly happy to cater to market pressure to build big, comfortable cars that people can live in - complete with entertainment systems, GPS and computers, etc ad nauseum. That wonderful profit margin was aimed at gas guzzling Joe Sixpack, whom I mentioned. It never was aimed at the tree hugger crowd - in fact, the tree huggers either bought gas guzzlers, or they bought foreign.
You can't POSSIBLY convince anyone there was no market for 30 mpg sedans that can haul a family of 4 - or the Japanese wouldn't be importing them.
The long and short of this story is, Detroit catered to a niche market that is dying out today. They are going bankrupt by reason of poor planning and lack of development as much as by reason of greedy unions.
The Japanese manufacturers compete in the American market, using American labor making competitive wages. How do they stay profitable, while Detroit goes under?
Yeah, you make points with the union thing, but that isn't all of the story. Not by a long shot.
What you really mean is, "I am one of those arrogant pricks written about in "The Ugly American", and I have a RIGHT to be wasteful. Because I am an American, I have the right to burn thousands of gallons of fuel every year for no better purpose than to poison the planet."
Wake up and smell the coffee. Life is changing. Adapt, or go the way of the neanderthal. Your ancestors who lived through the depression would be ashamed of you.
Right there is a big part of our problem. A boat belongs on the water, not in a driveway. No one needs a truck to haul a boat - the boat hauling is just one of those status things used to compensate for the micro-penis. Besides which - if you can't sail a boat, you have no business on a boat. The Phoenicians could teach your freind a few things. And, don't blubber at me about a bunch of macho bullshit. That fuel wasting boat contributes to the national problems, economically, and environmentally.
Deisel is a viable alternative - if/when biofuels make it into the market. The biggest pollutant in deisel is sulphur, the major source of acid rain. Today's sulphur content is MUCH lower than in past decades. The problem with traditional deisel fuel is, it is basically a "waste" product of the gasoline refining process. As refining methods improve, there is less "leftover" hydrocarbon suitable for deisel engines. More, as people adopted deisel fuel for personal use, prices for commercial use skyrocketed. Those increases in price were felt at your local grocery, drygoods stores, and everywhere else.
Kind of off-subject - if the US would legalize industrial hemp, certain species of the cannabis plants make SUPERB deisel bio-fuel. They produce more oil than cotton, corn, or any other plant raised for oil. That oil burns ultra clean, with zero sulphur content. Renewable energy is a big concern today, but the plant is illegal. Go figure.
Over the road trucks (18 wheelers) with a gross weight of 80,000 pounds generally get 7 to 10 mpg, depending on load, terrain, and weather conditions. That's up from about 4mpg in the '70's. Lighter local deliver trucks, gwt of 20,000 pounds get 10 to 15 mpg. Full size pickup trucks may get as little as 10 mpg, smaller pickups like Dakota and S-10 can get as much as 25 mpg.
The problem with fuel mileage goals in the past, was that trucks were exempt from regulation. That was Congress' mistake, when they first passed fuel mileage goals. Few individuals need a full sized pickup truck - it is generally nothing more than a status symbol. "Oh, look, I'm wealthy enough to not CARE how much gasoline costs, my truck is BIG and it can crush your little car!!" Big macho thing.
Almost everyone in America who really NEEDS a privately owned truck can probably make do with an S-10 sized pickup. Many businesses can do their work with the smaller pickups. The huge gas-guzzling Dodge Rams should be a rare sight, used for work trucks.
All that said, the target of this current legislation are personally owned vehicles. The Department of Transportation has been working hard for years to increase the mileage of OTR and deliver trucks. Economic factors have been driving trucking companies to buy fuel efficient vehicles and to educate drivers to operate them efficiently. The commercial fleet has room for improvement, but that improvement is unlikely to be as dramatic as personal vehicles.
I say, it's about time, really. 42 mpg sounds rather high - but only because we haven't even TRIED. Remember the oil embargo of the '70's? Congress mandated some radical new goals for fuel mileage way back then, to help break our dependence on foreign oil. They even set the national speed limit at 55mph to save fuel. All sorts of drastic measures were taken.
Joe Sixpack and Detroit, in their infinite wisdom (selfishness) decided to create new "cars" built on truck frames, which would be exempt from fuel mileage requirements.
Ingenuity, huh? Well, that ingenuity has finally come back to bite Joe and Detroit in the ass. Today, we finally start seriously saving fuel, or else.
I like it.
(note - I'm not a demoncrat, I'm not an Obama cultist, I'm not even some tree hugging activist. It just makes sense to stop WASTING everything we can, just because we can.)
My wife and my son shop at WalMart. No, they don't spend 200 bucks on printers. There is a printer sitting in my kitchen which is connected to a Ubuntu machine. Let me pick my dead arse up, and see what brand it is - be right back.
HP Deskjet f4325 $45 at Walmart http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10710285
I'm pretty sure that the printer was plug and play because they brought it in the house, and within an hour, it was connected, and running. We'll assume that the kid did his homework before going to the store with his mother, and he KNEW that it would work. A quick google for HP Linux drivers takes me to http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bpu00658&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=3571316 where I click another link http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
Oh, looky, I spent less than 5 minutes duplicating my son's work!!
I would assume that having spent several hours, or perhaps a week or two, developing that dream machine, you would have already identified those printers that will work with your machine. Further, I would assume that you informed YOUR customer of your findings, so that he wouldn't waste time and money on a printer that will not work. Actually, I would assume that you ASKED THE CUSTOMER if he wanted to use a printer, and offered to SELL HIM a compatible printer, thereby saving him a trip to Walmart.
Sorry, your argument carries no weight. Just 'fess up that you are incapable of designing a "dream machine", and you are further incapable of supporting that dream machine.
Apparently, my son could do it. I'll have to consider putting him into business.......
High prison pop? Due in PART to the aforesaid permissiveness and lack of responsibility. A lot of little kids never grow up, and as a result get in trouble with the law over trifling bullshit.
Collapsing economy? Due in LARGE PART to the same permissiveness and lack of responsibility. Washington permitted Wall Street to engage in asshat investment practices when they deregulated the investment industries. And, no one takes responsibility.
Health care? A smaller part of the problem there can be attributed to the same problem. Less so permissiveness, than responsibility. Like people who make use of emergency rooms instead of doctor's visits, because of insurance requirements. Union contracts that ask for more benefits than are reasonable. Insurance companies that try to cull the most needy, and retain the most profitable customers. Ultimately, no one is responsible.
Public education? Again - lack of responsibility. Parents don't get involved, kids don't try, teachers become disillusioned, beauracrats only see the money, politicians don't have a clue, special interest groups get involved to promote their own agenda. No one is ultimately responsible for the failure that we call a public education system.
As I pointed out - corporal punishment is a TOOL that can be used early on to help teach and reinforce the concept of responsibility. Responsibility that few people seem to learn, in this day and age. It is ALWAYS someone else's fault when your plans go to shit. NO ONE says, "Oh, I screwed up, didn't I? Now, I have to make things right somehow!"
Sometimes, that lack of responsibility costs lives. Remember Hurricane Katrina, and two worthless politicians (mayor and governor) who couldn't even take responsibility to call in the National Guard for 5 days? Did you ever hear either of those bumbling boobs take any responsibility? NOOOO, both just pointed their fingers at Washington.
And, pitifully, we just accept that sort of ineptitude in all walks of life.
Some moron modded you down, obviously. I'm jealous. No one has ever given me a Mac - it would be fun to play with!! Another post further down suggests installing BSD - why not? Just make a backup first, so that if BSD doesn't work, you can come back to what doesn't work!! Wait... did I really say that?
I'm still jealous, lol Good luck!
But, Joe Consumer, the unsophisticated dork that he is, NEVER NEEDS 4 gig of RAM. In fact, the majority of the dorks are still running Dell and Compaq machines that sold with 1 gig or less of RAM. Yeah, I manage to load up my machine, and sometimes actually make real use of the 3 gig installed, but that isn't very often. I don't do intensive video stuff, or anything else that really NEEDS a lot of memory. Joe Consumer and family don't either, I assure you. Business generally doesn't need a lot of memory, either. 1 or 2 gig will run an office suite, and keep track of multiple databases, after all. Where exactly do we NEED 8, 16, or 32 gig of RAM outside of the servers? For that matter, most company servers don't need any more than 4 gig. There isn't a single server in the county that I live in, OR the county that I work in, that gets enough traffic to require 8 gig.
Not quite exactly. Someone has to ensure that each install works on each set of hardware, before approving it for that hardware, then cloning it. You're on the target, but missed the bullseye. ;)
Mom and Pop can sell what they want. I was addressing Microsoft and major OEM's. The multi-million and billion dollar corporations set the trends, the little people selling a dozen computers in a good month just follow along.
And, my post was pertinent. Today, we continue to reap the rewards of MS monopoly.
Of course, if all the little Hairfooted critters in the world who sell computers to Joe Sixpack would get involved, THEY could help break the monopoly. I mean, you could set up your own "dreambox" based on Linux, offer it at a tremendously reduced price to a few people to learn on. As they found problems, you correct them. Then, you could build that very same dream box, and offer it for sale at a profit.
Just think. No more service calls to fix malware. But, wait - that might be counterproductive for your business? Oh, sorry. Supporting the monopoly might be in your best interest.
Meanwhile, don't bother telling me that MS's actions from a decade ago are inconsequential to today's tech world. That much of your post is pure bullshit, thank you very much.
Spoken like a true malcontent, who wouldn't be happy with ANY rule - unless of course, he is the ruler.
Tell me - do these Christians torture you to make you see their way? Is your home burnt down, regularly? Are you forbidden to build a temple of your choosing? Assuming that you are an American, Canadian, Australian, or European, you have the freedom to worship as you wish, or not. What more can you ask for?
Branding all corporal punishment as "abuse" is totally moronic. The ills our society suffers today are due more to permissiveness and lack of responsibility than any imagined affects of "abuse". There are any number of individuals in history who suffered genuine abuse, who went on to become famous. Does Alexander Graham ring any bells?
The individual who can use corporal punishment as an effective teaching tool is far superior to either the child abuser, OR the child "protector". Both the abuser and the overly protective idiot harm the child.
The magna cum laude you mock has most definitely put things into perspective, and found that a swat on the ass now and then is beneficial for irresponsible children. Prove him wrong, if you can.
Given a choice, I'd go with the tyranny of the majority, rather than the tyranny of the minority. The minority has almost always ruled, historically. The concept of royalty, and the hocus pocus of religion were both designed for the purpose of enforcing minority rule. The majority may not be "good", but it is certainly less "evil".
Racist, how? The guy is noting that the same sort of thing happened repeatedly in the history of mankind. First the dominant Homo lines ate up the competition, then he moved on to subdue other competition. Nothing has changed in the past millenia, now has it? Well - with the abundance of better food sources, we don't always eat the competition anymore. Maybe refusing to eat the spoils of war IS racist?
So do chickens. And, have you actually LOOKED AT the food people eat? Want a hot dog? How about some sausage? And, check those ingredients carefully - a lot of garbage is less toxic than the ingredients in a lot of food in the supermarkets. Eating kosher makes more and more sense, these days. Oh yeah. Pigs don't eat garbage, unless it is supplied to them. Wild boar just don't hang around dumpsters, in my experience, they would rather root up a farmer's corn field.
You're a commie, with a short left leg? Hmmm. My dad had a short leg, which he fixed with a special pair of shoes. It stops the leaning, at least.
I call bullshit. This sounds like something the nerd in the basement figured out by reading a bunch of magazines found under his daddy's mattress. If a man says his wife if more attractive than some popular tart on the television screen, I believe him. My wife is. As for the "celebs" - phhht. There aren't very many of them who ARE better than trailer trash.
Spent 2 1/2 years aboard ship with a Gunner's Mate from the Philippines. One of those BIG guys from back in the hills. His dad was a headhunter. When asked directly if he had ever eaten a human, he would answer, "I ate what my mother gave me! I didn't ask!" Some years later, I got a "stepmother" from the Philippines. Pretty much the same story.
Yes, there ARE people alive today who have eaten human flesh.
Repugnant? I dunno. If I were starving, and given the choice of human flesh or rat, I might opt for the long pig. I've NEVER heard anyone say that rat tastes good, but long pig is supposed to be just like - well - PIG! (I often wonder if that fact has anything to do with Islamic and Jewish prohibitions against pork - it tastes to much like human?)
You may or may not be easily offended. You may or may not be a fanboy. But, the comment you refer to is definitely stooo-pid. There is one kind of person who would profess disappointment in Ubuntu's market share and performance. That is the kind of person who worships money, and sees no value in something that he isn't making money from.
Meanwhile, every computer that runs something other than the devil's own operating system counts as a small victory. Very small, but a victory all the same. ;)
You don't "get it". Artist's rights are one thing - what the *iaa's are doing is quite another thing. If the various enforcement gestapos could be controlled, and set on a CONSTRUCTIVE PATH, then we might actually be able to address what an artist's rights might be. Today, copyright and patent laws are being abused, twisted into unrecognizable abortions, and the PEOPLE'S RIGHTS are being trampled.
You're an artist? Great. How much money has your "label" made, and how much have you made from your art? Is the ratio something like 1000/1, or 10,000/1, or maybe even more?
The mafiaa people don't give jack shit about you, any more than they care about the customers. You are an asset, nothing more, and nothing less, and you are as expendable as an office chair.
You deviant..........
1. the Net Wasn't Worth It
2. Men on the moon was a fraud
3. the earth IS flat
4. The earth is almost exaclty 5000 years old
5. The illuminati run everything
6. The Jews run everything (NOTE: please disregard the fact that #6 is mutually contrary with #5)
7. The neocons run everything (NOTE: see above note)
8. If man learns to split the atom, the world will be destroyed
9. sail to far out on the ocean, you'll fall off the edge of the earth!
10. here there be DRAGONS!
"Why is that? How could a nearly decade old insecure OS stomp the crap out of a brand new Linux distro? because for home users Linux sucks,"
Totally, out of this world, wrong. Not flaming you - but it amazes me how little people understand the monopoly. Please, look to your local school's curriculum. What are children taught? MS, of course. Very nearly every computer in every school has MS installed. It was made a standard, mostly as a result of MS "exclusivity" agreements from a decade ago.
Son number 1 attends college, where he majors in something called "computer sciences". He learns Microsoft. He learns absolutely zero "science". I know more "science" than he does. That son knows FAR MORE than I do about Microsoft, Microsoft products, Microsoft troubleshooting, Microsoft support, etc, etc, etc, but he is totally incompetent on any other platform.
For studying the products of a single proprietary operating system, the kid expects to earn a degree in "computer science". In fact, he will become part of the problem that perpetuates the Microsoft myth that MS knows best.
People really ought to understand the dynamics of a monopoly, before mocking those who fight the monopoly. Probably fewer than 5% of the people who argue the merits of Microsoft really understand how the actions of last decade have locked so many people into MS products. The schools are a big part of the problem today.
I would LOVE to see public schools dump MS, en masse, and stop the indoctrination that is going on each and every day. Just wipe the drives, pass out a *nix or BSD distro, and have the kids install. The only MS machines allowed in school would be in virtual machines.
Real computer science could only benefit, as more and more children are forced to face and solve computer problems. By the time today's Kindergarden kids graduate, they would be truly competent on dozens of platforms - including Microsoft platforms.