Yea, not only did people pay for windows XP now, but in a year or so they are going to pay again for Vista anyway. M$ knows this and is perfectly fine with it. It helps them by jacking the price of Vista up another $100 or what ever they are getting for XP these days.
"And I'm pretty sure your definition of monopoly is different from mine seeing as how I can choose from literally dozens of alternative OS's, many of which are completely free."
Doesn't this just prove the Monopoly then? If their market share has positioned them to the point where an equivalent or better and free product cant compete I'd say that is not just a monopoly but a staggering abuse of one.
I wonder if SCO is actually the good guys playing devils advocate with the courts. Taking cases that they know will be lost in order to set a precedent in future cases that may not be quite so blatantly dumb.
Phoenix does have two points for the federal government on this issue though, They have both the highest standard speed limits(*) and the highest accident rate.
(*)Although Arizona is a reasonable and prudent speeding law, the burden of proof favors the police in 99.9% of cases. It is pretty much a legal speed limit in practice and even most Arizonians don't know it isn't a 100% legal limit.
Arizona still has "reasonable and prudent" speeding limits. The posted lines are burden of proof ratings and not hard limits. You can fight a speeding ticket on the idea of reasonable and prudent. You can also get a speeding ticket for going under the speed limit if the speed limit was not reasonable and prudent for something such as weather conditions.
Just as good but you can actually influence it. go to store and buy DVD, take it back opened and say it doesn't want to play on your DVD player that plays others well, get an exchange, repeat processes. ??? profit?
Yes another example of not just some people becoming reliant on the government, but government becoming reliant on government. Why can't people take responsibility for their own actions? Why can't a City that is below sea level take care of it's own imminent threat? Why can't a state take care of it's own crisis? They all have to rely on Uncle Sam to come bail them out. Oh and it's a good way to push the responsibility out of the hands of the Democratic leaders of said City and state up to the failures of the republican leaders and George Bush specifically.
But the government is there to protect me. I should be taken care of by the government from the time I am born until the time I die. Choice is far to complicated for me to handle, and I shouldn't have to be responsible for my actions.
Not because I think that 100% of Libertarian ideals must be enacted, but because I see both Democrats and Republicans push us further and further into a Totalitarian society. As the Libertarian tag line goes:
We have a problem Democrats - Lets create more government to fix the problem Republicans - Lets create more government (just less than the Democrats) to fix the problem Libertarian - The Government is the problem, let's reduce it.
I think the bosses that like to see people working overtime have either two things, trying to show that they have too much work to do to upper management, or the direct production idea as if everyone was a factory worker.
If you are stamping out cogs at 10 an hour and work an hour of overtime you get an extra 10 cogs stamped out.
If you ware writing code and work an hour of overtime you may get an hours worth of codeing, you may get some burn out, you may even set yourself back if done at a time you should sleep on it and finish that hours worth of work in 10 minutes the next morning.
Yea it's more likely to rais to barely toxic levels, kill off enough people that CO2 emissions will be reduced enough and the strong will continue on. It has happened several times in the past.
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With a new gimmick, great brand name and at half the price is there really any wonder why?
It's mine.
Yea, not only did people pay for windows XP now, but in a year or so they are going to pay again for Vista anyway. M$ knows this and is perfectly fine with it. It helps them by jacking the price of Vista up another $100 or what ever they are getting for XP these days.
"And I'm pretty sure your definition of monopoly is different from mine seeing as how I can choose from literally dozens of alternative OS's, many of which are completely free."
Doesn't this just prove the Monopoly then? If their market share has positioned them to the point where an equivalent or better and free product cant compete I'd say that is not just a monopoly but a staggering abuse of one.
ghawd! egrish r dum.
finally we have a true definition of Irony. To find out that perhaps all process are not created equal.
That all works great until your favorite harmless hobby, activity or project becomes Illegal. Not possible, ask any pot smoker.
Yea, who the hell looks at porn all day long. If I look for more than about 15 minutes I suddenly lose interest and move on.
I wonder if SCO is actually the good guys playing devils advocate with the courts. Taking cases that they know will be lost in order to set a precedent in future cases that may not be quite so blatantly dumb.
Phoenix does have two points for the federal government on this issue though, They have both the highest standard speed limits(*) and the highest accident rate.
(*)Although Arizona is a reasonable and prudent speeding law, the burden of proof favors the police in 99.9% of cases. It is pretty much a legal speed limit in practice and even most Arizonians don't know it isn't a 100% legal limit.
Arizona still has "reasonable and prudent" speeding limits. The posted lines are burden of proof ratings and not hard limits. You can fight a speeding ticket on the idea of reasonable and prudent. You can also get a speeding ticket for going under the speed limit if the speed limit was not reasonable and prudent for something such as weather conditions.
Good luck on fighting it though.
Now some may understand what "The south will rise again" really means. (Hint: It has nothing to do with particular geographical location or racism)
Just as good but you can actually influence it. go to store and buy DVD, take it back opened and say it doesn't want to play on your DVD player that plays others well, get an exchange, repeat processes. ??? profit?
This new science intrigues me, explain to me again how sheep's bladders can be used to prevent earth quakes?
Yes another example of not just some people becoming reliant on the government, but government becoming reliant on government. Why can't people take responsibility for their own actions? Why can't a City that is below sea level take care of it's own imminent threat? Why can't a state take care of it's own crisis? They all have to rely on Uncle Sam to come bail them out. Oh and it's a good way to push the responsibility out of the hands of the Democratic leaders of said City and state up to the failures of the republican leaders and George Bush specifically.
That's what they "say" they are for. That is not and has never been what the Democrats represent.
But the government is there to protect me. I should be taken care of by the government from the time I am born until the time I die. Choice is far to complicated for me to handle, and I shouldn't have to be responsible for my actions.
Why I'm a Libertarian.
Not because I think that 100% of Libertarian ideals must be enacted, but because I see both Democrats and Republicans push us further and further into a Totalitarian society. As the Libertarian tag line goes:
We have a problem
Democrats - Lets create more government to fix the problem
Republicans - Lets create more government (just less than the Democrats) to fix the problem
Libertarian - The Government is the problem, let's reduce it.
I have yet to post this, but it was all I could think of,
You must be new here.
Sorry but realestate and maintenance both need to be included in your $/watt. An acre of land is expensive, the roof of your house is cheap.
Some people lift weights.
Some people do yard work.
Both get good exercise. One actually accomplishes something useful.
I always laugh when someone first pays to go to the gym then pays someone to cut their grass.
I think the bosses that like to see people working overtime have either two things, trying to show that they have too much work to do to upper management, or the direct production idea as if everyone was a factory worker.
If you are stamping out cogs at 10 an hour and work an hour of overtime you get an extra 10 cogs stamped out.
If you ware writing code and work an hour of overtime you may get an hours worth of codeing, you may get some burn out, you may even set yourself back if done at a time you should sleep on it and finish that hours worth of work in 10 minutes the next morning.
Guess you had a big glass of the Koolade.
MMmmmm, never under estimate an engine of wolf cheese eaters clustered by the bay.
Yea it's more likely to rais to barely toxic levels, kill off enough people that CO2 emissions will be reduced enough and the strong will continue on. It has happened several times in the past.