blah blah, and more polar bears exhibit hermaphroditic features, and there's a higher percentage of Florida alligators that are female, and girls are hitting puberty earlier these days, and, and, an
Well, I would think that, when you people are ignoring that animals in nature are all becoming genders, 10 year old girls are getting pregnant, that, you might look up from your Wii and say, "hey, you know, the whole planet is fucked up, and we might well, actually try to FIX IT." Sometimes when there is a fire, you have to yell more than once.
You do have to wonder if the widening gap between rural and city male voting behavior might actually be attributable to exposure to these sorts of chemicals, in all seriousness.
I wouldn't be so cocky. Yeah, I'm using Linux, but, if you think Open Office even comes remotely close to Office 2007, you are sniffing glue! Windows 7 is by far the better desktop than Linux is, it is. But I like Linux for server development.
But... Linux has nothing comparable to Direct2d. OpenGL lags Direct3d. Windows threads remain better, and, you can get better drivers for sound cards under Windows. The Linux sound situation is a disaster.
Most Americans have been socialized in a culture of punishment, not rehabilitation Rehabilitation doesn't work. It's been tried, but, it doesn't work. Once you do some things, walk through certain doors, there's no closing them again.
When you let murderers go free, and you protect them, essentially, that is still state sponsored execution of the murder victim. There's no "I didn't kill anyone choice". If you let the murderer walk, and you protect that murderers life, you essentially legalize murder.
In other words; only the non-civilised would contemplate reciprocal killing.
Frankly, I think it is uncivilized to let murderers live. Essentially what you are saying is that someone whose loved one is murdered can expect that the government will, in essence, protect the murderer, after it already failed to protect the victim to begin with. Really, when it comes down to the brass tacks, this "civilized world" you speak of essentially legalizes murder.
The EU countries, unlike some other countries, are civilized ones and here we don't execute our citizens.
Yeah, that's real civilized, to throw a mother in jail because she uttered the name of the person who murdered her son. Way to go EU. If that's civilization, I'd rather be a barbarian.
oxPro was a dBase clone and the only thing it did better was a compiler, and a pretty s
No... FoxPro had Rushmore indexing, and a compiler, and it kicked the living shit of dbase tables for nearly every operation. It had a great editor too, the report writer was awesome. All in all, Fox was a great product. dBase. Come on dude, that was a slow old joke.
Is that, after a night of getting really stoned, you are still kinda out of it for a month, and it makes you kinda stupid. Booze gets you hammered, and you are still ok maybe two to three days later.
Nobody can say this about Apple, who are still working to the 1960s proprietary hardware business model, and still behaving as if the PC revolution never happened.
Well, except for that part, that, for all intents and purposes, Apple STARTED the PC revolution. Yeah, there were other people before Apple, but Apple was the first to put the PC together into the thing that it is, and get everything working. IBM and the clones are just copies of the very concept of the personal computer that Apple defined.
It has been shown time and time again MSFT only makes products good enough to beat the competition through brute force
I wish advocates of alternative anything would just be honest. Microsoft has made products that are better than their competition and sometimes they are breathtakingly so. Bill Gates may have been a ruthless businessman, but when he was at the helm, Microsoft made some good stuff.
MS BASIC was way better than other BASICs made by other computer companies. String arrays? Geez, on Atari Basic you had to fake them.
DOS was better than CP/M. It was quicker to learn, and, had a pretty spiffy version of BASICA with it, for its day.
FoxPro (bought by MS), was way better than the dBase (bought by Borland). And, Access was a better desktop database than anything else out there.
Windows of the DOS extender series was better than any other DOS task extender series. For that matter, Windows 95 is hands down superior to Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 and Windows NT blew OS/2 completely out of the water. OS/2, single message queue on the desktop, puhlease.
Excel was better than Quattro, and I'm sorry, Word was better than Word Perfect for Windows, by far. My favorite Word Process was Samna AmiPro, which, probably would have ruled them all had Lotus not bought them and screwed it up.
Yeah, everyone can cry fowl over Netscape being destroyed by Microsoft, but Microsoft IE 4 had a fully programmable DOM and an AJAX XMLHttpRequest.. what did Netscape have... you could script a form, had document.write for everything else...a half-assed buggy email, and a billion bugs.
Visual Studio was way better than Borland's C++ IDE was by around 2.0 of Visual Studio.
It's pretty simple. Microsoft is good, at times, especially when Gates was running the show. And there were many times Microsoft, despite all of these "advantages", competed, and flopped... does anyone remember PhotoDraw? That little gem was actually pretty innovative, but, Adobe crushed it like an insect. Now we have Silverlight going up against Flash, and lo, Silverlight is still not reliable in Firefox and didn't have drop shadows. WTF. They lose, and deservedly so.
And, Microsoft lets the XP franchise languish, releases Vista way too early, and so loses market share to Linux. Microsoft prices things off, and so, WinNT Server loses to Linux. Microsoft, after a brilliant run from IE4-6 (yeah, one time, 6 was the best... almost 10 years ago?), but now, can't catch a clue with IE8 and so FireFox and now Google Chrome and Safari are now gradually crushing them.
And now Visual Studio seems ever more confused, while Eclipse and other IDE's start to look better, and I switched.
Conspiracies, monopolies, all of that, can be an advantage, but really, only for so long. In this society, it is product that matters,
For the love of God, NASA's little 15 billion dollars a year has kept some of the best and brightest minds engaged, added immeasurably to the American reputation around the globe. Let's GO and get these guys the funding that they have earned. Let's bring back JIMO, let's get nuclear propulsion programs working. Lets get Constellation rolling and get people to asteroids, to Mars, and to space. Let's do ALL of it.
If we have the Feds printing currency, we may as well spend it on something humanity can remember for a thousand years to come. Let history say, Americans lead the way into space.
Ok liberals, now hear's your big chance. Instead of always trying to kill NASA and space exploration to buy donuts for poor people, let's have a tax on candy bars for NASA and let's go find out, if this volcano god of mine manifests himself elsewhere in the universe. Here's your big chance to prove in your minds, everything we religius right nutcases is wrong.
Build the nuclear powered spaceships, build the big ass space telescopes, let's get HUMANS walking on Mars and on the asteroids and on Titan and Europa...
Let's go! Double NASA's budget. Mars, Constellation, robots in space. Let's do ALL OF IT.
Is that, the lions share of you, in the Congress, always vote to cut, curtail and otherwise shut down NASA. Routinely. As soon as we get a Democrat in office, since the 1970s, NASA comes under attack.
I mean, really, seriously, NASA is a government program, engaged in secular science, and liberals always want to kill it, and manned space flight, in particular.
Liberals killed Bush the Eldar's Mars program, probably will kill Bush the Jr's Mars program, already killed the Prometheus project and ran O'Keefe out on a rail because he said what every scientist with half a brain knows - you need nuclear power for space.
Like, how on earth is it that is we god fearing, backwards ass knuckle driving Conservatives can see that NASA is not even a national priority, but a human one, and you liberals can't. For fuck sakes, I am hear, Rush Limbaugh listening, Sean Hannity watching, capitalist flag waving, Obama bitching Nancy Pelosi saying, raise my fricking taxes on smokes or something, let's double NASA's budget and have nuclear powered spaceships, robots and telescopes and all sorts of crap in space...
and liberals say NO?
WTF is up with that?
If Obama said, we're going to do stimulus round 2 and build a pyramid on Mars, I'd say let's go!
You know a lot of critics of the church like to hold Brunu up as an example of Catholic badness, but, the guy was a dick. When he wrote what he wrote, he wasn't just doing it to be some sort of a scientist, he was playing politics and trying to dick with the Pope. You don't dick with the Pope, or you get burned, that's the deal.
As it is, historically, it seems that the farther people get removed from the Catholic church, the more people get killed. Let's say, sure, that the Catholics killed a couple of dudes in the Inquisition. Cry me a river. But then, you get Protestants slaughtering people left and right in all the holy wars that followed, that they started, then, come the 19th century, you start to see the completely secular, and godless, communists, socialists and nazis all as supremely liberal groups, and they slaughtered people like ants.
About 50% of all US gov't debt is still underwritten by Americans, I believe. All Chinese debt demagoguery notwithstanding, the US citizen has a big voice in American debt... well, at least until the Federal Reserve started printing money to lend to the Treasury... that's just staggeringly third world.
But...
That is the whole crux of the matter, isn't it? Asian manipulation has made the dollar a joke. I mean, China and Japan have more dollars than M1, I believe. That's just crazy. If Asia is dumb enough to buy every dollar we print so that their goods are cheap, basically be so completely mercantile, then it really does make some sense to avail them of their dollar lust and print as many as we please.
We know the dollar is too high, they know the dollar is too high, but, if they aren't willing to let it adjust naturally, then, it is their stupidity. At some point, its all going to come crashing down, really come crashing down, and Asia is going to get as genuinely screwed as the Hunt brothers were. But I guess, in the meantime, let's have those $300 LCD TVs.
And the craziest thing about all of it, is, that that all those trillions of US dollars sitting in Asian banks isn't even doing any of the Asians any good. Like a pile of gold sitting on the floor in 1790s London as Adam Smith starts to write.
If you don't want to have your information collected about a visit, then don't visit. You are essentially asking the government to pass a law that requires owners to lie and say you were not at their store, when you were. Frankly, I'm about 90% tempted to organize a strike on purchasing US Gov't bonds and bankrupt the Feds, just because its way more abused than any fucking cookie is.
You could do the.net hack, and fill invisible form fields with codes that you "post" every time the user clicks a link. But that's a dumb work-around, cookies are a much better solution.
I used to do that in Perl with a single special field that essentially had a correlation id on every page of the web page. What a pain in the rear that is...
This is where the FOSS people need to fish or cut bait. On one hand you might not believe that software should be something you pay for, but on the other, you want genuinely FOSS systems to succeed. In my mind, the choice is clear cut. The guy should do what I did. If you don't want to pay for Windows + Office, then switch to Linux. You have to respect Microsoft's IP.
Granted, what MS does is pretty stupid. The more they clamp down on licensing, the more users will bolt.
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Go try to die or have any permanent effect by smoking as much pot
You are going to wind up with lung cancer and emphysema.
blah blah, and more polar bears exhibit hermaphroditic features, and there's a higher percentage of Florida alligators that are female, and girls are hitting puberty earlier these days, and, and, an
Well, I would think that, when you people are ignoring that animals in nature are all becoming genders, 10 year old girls are getting pregnant, that, you might look up from your Wii and say, "hey, you know, the whole planet is fucked up, and we might well, actually try to FIX IT." Sometimes when there is a fire, you have to yell more than once.
Just a thought.
You do have to wonder if the widening gap between rural and city male voting behavior might actually be attributable to exposure to these sorts of chemicals, in all seriousness.
which protested that US exports "could be impacted".
Have you seen the US trade deficit lately? The man was trying to save some jobs.
But, with that said, I think plastic should be banned.
Guess all we bible thumping luddites in Amish country can still get it up, thank you very much.
I wouldn't be so cocky. Yeah, I'm using Linux, but, if you think Open Office even comes remotely close to Office 2007, you are sniffing glue! Windows 7 is by far the better desktop than Linux is, it is. But I like Linux for server development.
But... Linux has nothing comparable to Direct2d. OpenGL lags Direct3d. Windows threads remain better, and, you can get better drivers for sound cards under Windows. The Linux sound situation is a disaster.
Most Americans have been socialized in a culture of punishment, not rehabilitation
Rehabilitation doesn't work. It's been tried, but, it doesn't work. Once you do some things, walk through certain doors, there's no closing them again.
When you let murderers go free, and you protect them, essentially, that is still state sponsored execution of the murder victim. There's no "I didn't kill anyone choice". If you let the murderer walk, and you protect that murderers life, you essentially legalize murder.
In other words; only the non-civilised would contemplate reciprocal killing.
Frankly, I think it is uncivilized to let murderers live. Essentially what you are saying is that someone whose loved one is murdered can expect that the government will, in essence, protect the murderer, after it already failed to protect the victim to begin with. Really, when it comes down to the brass tacks, this "civilized world" you speak of essentially legalizes murder.
Way to go.
The EU countries, unlike some other countries, are civilized ones and here we don't execute our citizens.
Yeah, that's real civilized, to throw a mother in jail because she uttered the name of the person who murdered her son. Way to go EU. If that's civilization, I'd rather be a barbarian.
oxPro was a dBase clone and the only thing it did better was a compiler, and a pretty s
No... FoxPro had Rushmore indexing, and a compiler, and it kicked the living shit of dbase tables for nearly every operation. It had a great editor too, the report writer was awesome. All in all, Fox was a great product. dBase. Come on dude, that was a slow old joke.
Is that, after a night of getting really stoned, you are still kinda out of it for a month, and it makes you kinda stupid. Booze gets you hammered, and you are still ok maybe two to three days later.
Nobody can say this about Apple, who are still working to the 1960s proprietary hardware business model, and still behaving as if the PC revolution never happened.
Well, except for that part, that, for all intents and purposes, Apple STARTED the PC revolution. Yeah, there were other people before Apple, but Apple was the first to put the PC together into the thing that it is, and get everything working. IBM and the clones are just copies of the very concept of the personal computer that Apple defined.
You can't take that away from them.
It has been shown time and time again MSFT only makes products good enough to beat the competition through brute force
I wish advocates of alternative anything would just be honest. Microsoft has made products that are better than their competition and sometimes they are breathtakingly so. Bill Gates may have been a ruthless businessman, but when he was at the helm, Microsoft made some good stuff.
MS BASIC was way better than other BASICs made by other computer companies. String arrays? Geez, on Atari Basic you had to fake them.
DOS was better than CP/M. It was quicker to learn, and, had a pretty spiffy version of BASICA with it, for its day.
FoxPro (bought by MS), was way better than the dBase (bought by Borland). And, Access was a better desktop database than anything else out there.
Windows of the DOS extender series was better than any other DOS task extender series. For that matter, Windows 95 is hands down superior to Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 and Windows NT blew OS/2 completely out of the water. OS/2, single message queue on the desktop, puhlease.
Excel was better than Quattro, and I'm sorry, Word was better than Word Perfect for Windows, by far. My favorite Word Process was Samna AmiPro, which, probably would have ruled them all had Lotus not bought them and screwed it up.
Yeah, everyone can cry fowl over Netscape being destroyed by Microsoft, but Microsoft IE 4 had a fully programmable DOM and an AJAX XMLHttpRequest.. what did Netscape have... you could script a form, had document.write for everything else...a half-assed buggy email, and a billion bugs.
Visual Studio was way better than Borland's C++ IDE was by around 2.0 of Visual Studio.
It's pretty simple. Microsoft is good, at times, especially when Gates was running the show. And there were many times Microsoft, despite all of these "advantages", competed, and flopped... does anyone remember PhotoDraw? That little gem was actually pretty innovative, but, Adobe crushed it like an insect. Now we have Silverlight going up against Flash, and lo, Silverlight is still not reliable in Firefox and didn't have drop shadows. WTF. They lose, and deservedly so.
And, Microsoft lets the XP franchise languish, releases Vista way too early, and so loses market share to Linux. Microsoft prices things off, and so, WinNT Server loses to Linux. Microsoft, after a brilliant run from IE4-6 (yeah, one time, 6 was the best... almost 10 years ago?), but now, can't catch a clue with IE8 and so FireFox and now Google Chrome and Safari are now gradually crushing them.
And now Visual Studio seems ever more confused, while Eclipse and other IDE's start to look better, and I switched.
Conspiracies, monopolies, all of that, can be an advantage, but really, only for so long. In this society, it is product that matters,
For the love of God, NASA's little 15 billion dollars a year has kept some of the best and brightest minds engaged, added immeasurably to the American reputation around the globe. Let's GO and get these guys the funding that they have earned. Let's bring back JIMO, let's get nuclear propulsion programs working. Lets get Constellation rolling and get people to asteroids, to Mars, and to space. Let's do ALL of it.
If we have the Feds printing currency, we may as well spend it on something humanity can remember for a thousand years to come. Let history say, Americans lead the way into space.
LET'S GO.
Ok liberals, now hear's your big chance. Instead of always trying to kill NASA and space exploration to buy donuts for poor people, let's have a tax on candy bars for NASA and let's go find out, if this volcano god of mine manifests himself elsewhere in the universe. Here's your big chance to prove in your minds, everything we religius right nutcases is wrong.
Build the nuclear powered spaceships, build the big ass space telescopes, let's get HUMANS walking on Mars and on the asteroids and on Titan and Europa...
Let's go! Double NASA's budget. Mars, Constellation, robots in space. Let's do ALL OF IT.
Is that, the lions share of you, in the Congress, always vote to cut, curtail and otherwise shut down NASA. Routinely. As soon as we get a Democrat in office, since the 1970s, NASA comes under attack.
I mean, really, seriously, NASA is a government program, engaged in secular science, and liberals always want to kill it, and manned space flight, in particular.
Liberals killed Bush the Eldar's Mars program, probably will kill Bush the Jr's Mars program, already killed the Prometheus project and ran O'Keefe out on a rail because he said what every scientist with half a brain knows - you need nuclear power for space.
Like, how on earth is it that is we god fearing, backwards ass knuckle driving Conservatives can see that NASA is not even a national priority, but a human one, and you liberals can't. For fuck sakes, I am hear, Rush Limbaugh listening, Sean Hannity watching, capitalist flag waving, Obama bitching Nancy Pelosi saying, raise my fricking taxes on smokes or something, let's double NASA's budget and have nuclear powered spaceships, robots and telescopes and all sorts of crap in space...
and liberals say NO?
WTF is up with that?
If Obama said, we're going to do stimulus round 2 and build a pyramid on Mars, I'd say let's go!
Human walks up in space suit. Picks up robot, dusts solar panels off with can of air spray, robot goes on.
During a recession the government pays people to dig holes and fill them back in again.
The USA has been in a recession for 30 years and has been running deficits for that reason. It's time to pay people to do something useful.
You know a lot of critics of the church like to hold Brunu up as an example of Catholic badness, but, the guy was a dick. When he wrote what he wrote, he wasn't just doing it to be some sort of a scientist, he was playing politics and trying to dick with the Pope. You don't dick with the Pope, or you get burned, that's the deal.
As it is, historically, it seems that the farther people get removed from the Catholic church, the more people get killed. Let's say, sure, that the Catholics killed a couple of dudes in the Inquisition. Cry me a river. But then, you get Protestants slaughtering people left and right in all the holy wars that followed, that they started, then, come the 19th century, you start to see the completely secular, and godless, communists, socialists and nazis all as supremely liberal groups, and they slaughtered people like ants.
China....
About 50% of all US gov't debt is still underwritten by Americans, I believe. All Chinese debt demagoguery notwithstanding, the US citizen has a big voice in American debt... well, at least until the Federal Reserve started printing money to lend to the Treasury... that's just staggeringly third world.
But...
That is the whole crux of the matter, isn't it? Asian manipulation has made the dollar a joke. I mean, China and Japan have more dollars than M1, I believe. That's just crazy. If Asia is dumb enough to buy every dollar we print so that their goods are cheap, basically be so completely mercantile, then it really does make some sense to avail them of their dollar lust and print as many as we please.
We know the dollar is too high, they know the dollar is too high, but, if they aren't willing to let it adjust naturally, then, it is their stupidity. At some point, its all going to come crashing down, really come crashing down, and Asia is going to get as genuinely screwed as the Hunt brothers were. But I guess, in the meantime, let's have those $300 LCD TVs.
And the craziest thing about all of it, is, that that all those trillions of US dollars sitting in Asian banks isn't even doing any of the Asians any good. Like a pile of gold sitting on the floor in 1790s London as Adam Smith starts to write.
If you don't want to have your information collected about a visit, then don't visit. You are essentially asking the government to pass a law that requires owners to lie and say you were not at their store, when you were. Frankly, I'm about 90% tempted to organize a strike on purchasing US Gov't bonds and bankrupt the Feds, just because its way more abused than any fucking cookie is.
You could do the .net hack, and fill invisible form fields with codes that you "post" every time the user clicks a link. But that's a dumb work-around, cookies are a much better solution.
I used to do that in Perl with a single special field that essentially had a correlation id on every page of the web page. What a pain in the rear that is...
This is where the FOSS people need to fish or cut bait. On one hand you might not believe that software should be something you pay for, but on the other, you want genuinely FOSS systems to succeed. In my mind, the choice is clear cut. The guy should do what I did. If you don't want to pay for Windows + Office, then switch to Linux. You have to respect Microsoft's IP.
Granted, what MS does is pretty stupid. The more they clamp down on licensing, the more users will bolt.
I have no intention of following this law.