Plumbing and road design pay very well as it happens. Maybe you'd like to pick better examples. Which IT is humble infrastructure work? Surely not yours, writing software to make IT administration easier, which could very easily be shipped to Bangalore like so many other development has. I hope you're as sanguine and arrogant when its your career disappearing eastward.
if I were graduating today, I would get on a boat and I would get off in Shanghai
So you'd be in a foreign country with no visa, no local language skills and no experience in any professions. I'm guessing his business is going downhill too.
People dying of starvation or preventable diseases doesn't sound like a better lifestyle to me. If the welfare state has been such a disaster then how come our standard of living and our longevity has gone up and up in the last 60 years.
If you think removing state protections will somehow magically make things better then I suggest you read your history books again and see how many people actually escaped from the Victorian slums because of the wonderful workhouses.
Ah a wanker, excellent. It's quite clear what I meant and peppering your posts with tedious grammatical critique does you no favours whatsoever. There's no schadenfreude you pretentious prick it was just a comment on the idea that no-one writes malware for Macs because there's not as many users, when it would obviously be quite profitable to do so due to the widespread belief amongst Mac users that they are immune.
Yes of course. To afford a Mac usually means you have more disposable income than the average person. Many Mac users believe that they are immune to the malware nightmare of Windows and don't run any AV software. This makes them an easy target for any enterprising malware author to plant trojans on their machines, stealing the details to their well-stocked bank accounts and high limit credit cards. How you saw my reply to the previous post as some sort of general attack on the rich is beyond me but I hope my more detailed explanation helps you to see what I was getting at.
Criminal behaviour shouldn't be encouraged. Plus I would love it if Microsoft management decided to withdraw from the second biggest market in the world and got sued to oblivion by their shareholders for such a stupid move.
Are you saying that criminals shouldn't be punished just because it was a long time ago? I agree that the remedy is probably pointless since it won't really deter MS from future misbehaviour and it won't remove the applications barrier to entry that keeps them where they are, but to say MS should get off scot-free just because things have changed is a bit of a slap in the face to those companies and individuals that were hurt by MS's illegal behaviour.
What on earth are you talking about. MP3 is not an Apple thing, neither is AAC. My LG phone plays both without any problem at all and Apple has no influence on what music I can or can't play on it. Google may own search but so far they haven't done anything to illegally maintain that position. Microsoft have done several things. Here is the US anti-trust judgment if you care to look. There is an applications barrier to entry for any Microsoft competitor and they have done a great deal to prevent any middleware that could reduce that from ever taking off.
Because if you bothered to do even 30 seconds research you'd see that Microsoft are a predatory and convicted monopolist and the bundling of IE was their worst (but not only) example of monopoly maintenance. But the same tired and stupid argument comes up every time the "evil" EU's punishment for their illegal behaviour is mentioned on here. Here is the US anti-trust decision which will explain it better than I can because I'm annoyed.
But but but......Apple and KDE and GNOME and Google don't have to bundle other browsers so the EU sucks and just wants to hurt a successful MERKIN company!!!!!
This isn't just cancellation of service this is attempting to intimidate customers into an admitting to breaking the law. Sounds like it's on very shaky legal ground to me but I'm not a barrister.
Yep I hate being robbed to pay for the police, the army, the roads, the fire service, the hospitals, the universal education, the laws that prevent corporations preying on their workers or customers. And if you think the private sector would do any of those things better or even at all you're just another delusional tax-dodging libertarian.
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Plumbing and road design pay very well as it happens. Maybe you'd like to pick better examples. Which IT is humble infrastructure work? Surely not yours, writing software to make IT administration easier, which could very easily be shipped to Bangalore like so many other development has. I hope you're as sanguine and arrogant when its your career disappearing eastward.
if I were graduating today, I would get on a boat and I would get off in Shanghai
So you'd be in a foreign country with no visa, no local language skills and no experience in any professions. I'm guessing his business is going downhill too.
Plenty of disposable income and no family commitments. Why wouldn't they want to ahem attract homosexual men.
That doesn't exactly narrow it down :P
If that was a typo it was unintentionally hilarious.
Quality journalism isn't available from Rupert Murdoch's titles so I'm not quite sure why he mentions it at all.
You don't want a basic level of care available to you? Are you invincible?
Ah right so if you commit a crime, as long as you go home you should be free from prosecution?
The solution is to stop believing what you read in the tabloids since our tabloid journalists are no more trustworthy than our politicians.
This is printed in a British tabloid newspaper and is therefore more than likely a huge exaggeration if not an outright lie.
People dying of starvation or preventable diseases doesn't sound like a better lifestyle to me. If the welfare state has been such a disaster then how come our standard of living and our longevity has gone up and up in the last 60 years.
If you think removing state protections will somehow magically make things better then I suggest you read your history books again and see how many people actually escaped from the Victorian slums because of the wonderful workhouses.
The Daily Mail is not a reliable source of information.
Ah a wanker, excellent. It's quite clear what I meant and peppering your posts with tedious grammatical critique does you no favours whatsoever. There's no schadenfreude you pretentious prick it was just a comment on the idea that no-one writes malware for Macs because there's not as many users, when it would obviously be quite profitable to do so due to the widespread belief amongst Mac users that they are immune.
Yes of course. To afford a Mac usually means you have more disposable income than the average person. Many Mac users believe that they are immune to the malware nightmare of Windows and don't run any AV software.
This makes them an easy target for any enterprising malware author to plant trojans on their machines, stealing the details to their well-stocked bank accounts and high limit credit cards.
How you saw my reply to the previous post as some sort of general attack on the rich is beyond me but I hope my more detailed explanation helps you to see what I was getting at.
Targeting some of the richest and yet least security-aware computer users could be a very profitable niche indeed.
And in answer to your last question yes it is as I've done it.
You can even convert your hard disk to a VMWare VM and keep your complete installation using Live View.
How many laptops have you built just out of interest?
Criminal behaviour shouldn't be encouraged. Plus I would love it if Microsoft management decided to withdraw from the second biggest market in the world and got sued to oblivion by their shareholders for such a stupid move.
Are you saying that criminals shouldn't be punished just because it was a long time ago? I agree that the remedy is probably pointless since it won't really deter MS from future misbehaviour and it won't remove the applications barrier to entry that keeps them where they are, but to say MS should get off scot-free just because things have changed is a bit of a slap in the face to those companies and individuals that were hurt by MS's illegal behaviour.
What on earth are you talking about. MP3 is not an Apple thing, neither is AAC. My LG phone plays both without any problem at all and Apple has no influence on what music I can or can't play on it. Google may own search but so far they haven't done anything to illegally maintain that position. Microsoft have done several things. Here is the US anti-trust judgment if you care to look. There is an applications barrier to entry for any Microsoft competitor and they have done a great deal to prevent any middleware that could reduce that from ever taking off.
Because if you bothered to do even 30 seconds research you'd see that Microsoft are a predatory and convicted monopolist and the bundling of IE was their worst (but not only) example of monopoly maintenance. But the same tired and stupid argument comes up every time the "evil" EU's punishment for their illegal behaviour is mentioned on here. Here is the US anti-trust decision which will explain it better than I can because I'm annoyed.
But but but......Apple and KDE and GNOME and Google don't have to bundle other browsers so the EU sucks and just wants to hurt a successful MERKIN company!!!!!
This isn't just cancellation of service this is attempting to intimidate customers into an admitting to breaking the law. Sounds like it's on very shaky legal ground to me but I'm not a barrister.
Yep I hate being robbed to pay for the police, the army, the roads, the fire service, the hospitals, the universal education, the laws that prevent corporations preying on their workers or customers. And if you think the private sector would do any of those things better or even at all you're just another delusional tax-dodging libertarian.