Large multinational corporations are the government, that's what's frightening. I don't agree with libertarians that the government should be trashed because that would hand all the power in the world to corporations but at the moment there really needs to be an enforced separation of corporations and state somehow.
Companies who doctor their drugs will make massive profits, injure thousands if not millions and spend decades in court denying they did anything wrong. So zero change, apart from that the lives of people will not depend on a government agency that at least nominally works to ensure public safety but to a mere cost benefit analysis of whether the human misery caused and the expense of the lawsuits will be less than the profits to be made.
Bankers are already accountable to their customers. They have so far failed to give a shit and under a Libertarian administration the customer would have lost all their money through the crime (under Libertarian thinking) of not knowing everything their bank was up to.
What would happen to the third company if the two big companies worked together to drive it out of the market? Would it be able to compete if both companies were selling below cost because they had other sources of revenue?
What we need is better government, not less government. I can see the attraction of sweeping the whole rotten edifice away but there are so many things that I wouldn't trust a corporate shark with without them being watched very closely that I can't agree with the Libertarian philosophy.
You're so right. The anti-trust case against Microsoft was solely to do with Netscape and nothing to do with repeated violations against multiple companies and refusing to comply with a previous ruling at all *eye roll*. Honestly can none of you free marketeers use Google? It's all there under "Microsoft findings of fact". Read it. The Intel anti-trust case ruling is also available and makes very interesting reading. I bet you haven't bothered with that either in your zeal to pronounce these illegal practices as the fault of the victims.
Paying an extra 100GBP for 16GB of storage that you could buy on Amazon for less than 10GBP instantaneously stopped me from getting an iPhone or iPad irrespective of how good the hardware is. Apple are truly brilliant. They completely take the piss out of their customers and those customers will still lie in a fucking sleeping bag for 48 hours to be ripped off again. You can only shake your head at both the brilliance of the marketing and the sheer stupidity of the people buying into it.
The GPL is about the freedom of the customer not the vendor. You are already free to choose what tools you use. An end-user with closed or closable software that they depend on is not free, but dependent on the whims of the developer or the corporate strategy of the software company.
I'm sure that idiotic statement qualifies for Godwin status. Yes Pol Pot murdering millions is exactly the same as ensuring that children learn to read and write. You libertarians will never ever convince anyone because you are such dicks. Anyone sick and can't get healthcare. Let's quote Thomas Jefferson at them, that'll make them feel better. Unemployed and can't find a job. Denounce them as lazy and let them starve, even if they just need a little support to get back into the workplace. Our governments are not perfect but they used to be a lot worse as even a basic examination of history will show you.
And just because someone posts something you disagree with doesn't mean they are stupid. I have been using Linux distros on and off since 1998 and the quality has dropped pretty dramatically in the last 5 years or so. Feel free to pretend otherwise. It won't stop it being true and it won't stop users avoiding it in droves.
Considering that I'm not running Lubuntu in a VM I'm not quite sure what your point is. I'm certainly not a troll. That was my experience last night. It seems to be working now but I won't take it for granted.
Facts mentioned in this post are 5 years in the future because the Linux experience you describe does not exist. Easier to administer than Windows. Fuck off. "It is possible to change the DE easily". Fuck off. I've been waiting 3 hours for lubuntu-desktop to install dozens of unnecessary packages for me and now it's failed and refuses to give me LXDE. That's not a five years in the past out of date blah di blah di fanboi. That's just happened. Right this second. Linux has been going backwards for ages. It used to be really lean and reliable. Now it's festooned with pointless bloat that is poorly tested and annoyingly slow and unreliable. If they wanted to duplicate the Vista experience they've done it. Otherwise you are pretending that you didn't have to dick about with the damn thing for ages to get to a level of functionality that is out of the box on Windows 7 or Mac OS.
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Large multinational corporations are the government, that's what's frightening. I don't agree with libertarians that the government should be trashed because that would hand all the power in the world to corporations but at the moment there really needs to be an enforced separation of corporations and state somehow.
Not due to borrowing as such but due to two ruinous world wars.
Companies who doctor their drugs will make massive profits, injure thousands if not millions and spend decades in court denying they did anything wrong. So zero change, apart from that the lives of people will not depend on a government agency that at least nominally works to ensure public safety but to a mere cost benefit analysis of whether the human misery caused and the expense of the lawsuits will be less than the profits to be made.
Bankers are already accountable to their customers. They have so far failed to give a shit and under a Libertarian administration the customer would have lost all their money through the crime (under Libertarian thinking) of not knowing everything their bank was up to.
What would happen to the third company if the two big companies worked together to drive it out of the market? Would it be able to compete if both companies were selling below cost because they had other sources of revenue?
What we need is better government, not less government. I can see the attraction of sweeping the whole rotten edifice away but there are so many things that I wouldn't trust a corporate shark with without them being watched very closely that I can't agree with the Libertarian philosophy.
You're so right. The anti-trust case against Microsoft was solely to do with Netscape and nothing to do with repeated violations against multiple companies and refusing to comply with a previous ruling at all *eye roll*. Honestly can none of you free marketeers use Google? It's all there under "Microsoft findings of fact". Read it. The Intel anti-trust case ruling is also available and makes very interesting reading. I bet you haven't bothered with that either in your zeal to pronounce these illegal practices as the fault of the victims.
Which piece of software would you need that runs on Windows ARM? This is not an x86 device.
The US government that is, not the US in general which is full of very nice people.
The N95 and N96 both sold by the ton so they did have an answer, it just wasn't built on well enough.
They're actually Taiwanese which is a different country despite what the PRC might want.
Paying an extra 100GBP for 16GB of storage that you could buy on Amazon for less than 10GBP instantaneously stopped me from getting an iPhone or iPad irrespective of how good the hardware is. Apple are truly brilliant. They completely take the piss out of their customers and those customers will still lie in a fucking sleeping bag for 48 hours to be ripped off again. You can only shake your head at both the brilliance of the marketing and the sheer stupidity of the people buying into it.
Selfish fuckers doing what ever they want with the code they wrote. They should be working for NVidia for free goddammit!
How tyrannical that people who write code want a say in how it's used. The bastards!
The GPL is about the freedom of the customer not the vendor. You are already free to choose what tools you use. An end-user with closed or closable software that they depend on is not free, but dependent on the whims of the developer or the corporate strategy of the software company.
Us six digit guys are pretty hot too,.
Netflix, Lovefilm and Sky TV all use it here in the UK because no-one's broken the DRM yet.
I'm sure that idiotic statement qualifies for Godwin status. Yes Pol Pot murdering millions is exactly the same as ensuring that children learn to read and write. You libertarians will never ever convince anyone because you are such dicks. Anyone sick and can't get healthcare. Let's quote Thomas Jefferson at them, that'll make them feel better. Unemployed and can't find a job. Denounce them as lazy and let them starve, even if they just need a little support to get back into the workplace. Our governments are not perfect but they used to be a lot worse as even a basic examination of history will show you.
With the private sector ably helping out
I'm stealing that quote it's utterly brilliant :-)
The cat can be in three states: alive, dead and bloody furious.
Yes enterprise users will switch in a heartbeat from 19in dual screen set ups to single 7" screen tablets *rolls eyes*
A lack of apps buggers up the ARM version and a radical interface change isn't going to help sell the x86 desktop version.
And just because someone posts something you disagree with doesn't mean they are stupid. I have been using Linux distros on and off since 1998 and the quality has dropped pretty dramatically in the last 5 years or so. Feel free to pretend otherwise. It won't stop it being true and it won't stop users avoiding it in droves.
Considering that I'm not running Lubuntu in a VM I'm not quite sure what your point is. I'm certainly not a troll. That was my experience last night. It seems to be working now but I won't take it for granted.
Fuck off fanboi. I'm so sick of Linux apologists pretending there's nothing wrong with it.
Facts mentioned in this post are 5 years in the future because the Linux experience you describe does not exist. Easier to administer than Windows. Fuck off. "It is possible to change the DE easily". Fuck off. I've been waiting 3 hours for lubuntu-desktop to install dozens of unnecessary packages for me and now it's failed and refuses to give me LXDE. That's not a five years in the past out of date blah di blah di fanboi. That's just happened. Right this second. Linux has been going backwards for ages. It used to be really lean and reliable. Now it's festooned with pointless bloat that is poorly tested and annoyingly slow and unreliable. If they wanted to duplicate the Vista experience they've done it. Otherwise you are pretending that you didn't have to dick about with the damn thing for ages to get to a level of functionality that is out of the box on Windows 7 or Mac OS.
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