Casual players are Blizzard's bread and butter - they put less strain on the servers by not playing as much while still paying the same to play and there are a lot more of them.
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I wouldn't describe my Catholic relations and friends as fanatics - they get on with their religion and don't bother me with it. Just how it should be as far as I'm concerned and I wish more people would realise that fact.
Actually yes I was, since gun owners on here and other places think the government will never be able to beat them as long as they're armed. I was wondering how the Union beat the Confederacy in that case if the Confederate citizens all had guns.
Don't think that I'm anti-gun ownership as such; I think it's a complete load of shit that banning gun ownership will turn the world into some sort of utopia. However I dispute that gun ownership automatically prevents totalitarianism.
Microsoft have never been punished by the market for their illegal behaviour, IBM were punished at the beginning of the 90s and are a much more pleasant company and Ford are in the crapper right now but their bad behaviour was a very long time ago and the market is punishing them for not having as good products as the competition pure and simple. The market, like I said, punishes poor financial performance and has no interest in whether that financial performance was earned within the law or not. The consequences you speak of have nothing to do with any illegal or amoral behaviour.
Just as a matter of interest did the citizens of the Confederacy have the right to bear arms? And if they did how did they, going by gun owners' logic, ever lose the war?
Microsoft do actually have something to sell unlike Enron. I notice Ford is still around despite some evil behaviour (although they seem to be in some financial shit finally) as are IBM (they weathered their financial shit) and no doubt dozens if not hundreds of evildoer corporations which haven't been destroyed for their crimes. The all-powerful market doesn't punish criminal corporations only unprofitable ones and most corporate crime convictions don't really affect profits.
Microsoft have been painting themselves in a negative light for a lot longer than slashdot has existed. Having a private unaccountable police force is fairly negative in any case. Why does a government agency need a warrant but a private corporation does not?
It also needs to be seen that most PC users are still running the same OS as they were five years ago pretty much barring some much needed security updates. Nobody's laughing at that.
Seriously, there's no money in everything being fine.
People who make money from oil, the Chinese, the Indians, and everyone else who wouldn't have to do any cleaning up would probably disagree with that statement.
There is bugger all money in anthropomorphic climate change. There is instead a big cost in changing things if it turns out to be true and therefore a big financial incentive to deny it at all costs.
That means you have to have millions and billions of cars to get any kind of a quantity.
Not to mention all the other vehicles including planes, trains, trucks etc and all factories pumping out waste. In any case there might well be a billion cars on the roads of the world now; if not it probably isn't that far off.
Given the recovery capacity of the planet, what makes you think your puny a$$ vespa or even my brontosaur vehicle can spew enough crap to cause climatic change?
What does the recovery capacity of the planet have to do with whether the human race gets wiped out or not?
Care to let us know how many millions died in the name of Marx? None at a guess, since he never actually ruled any countries, nor made war on anyone else. And quoting a half-senile ex-actor to make your point - whatever. If socialism failed why are we not still working in death trap factories and dying at 40 of cholera? Or do you think the rich folks just all one day decided not to be such arseholes and handed large amounts of taxes to the government to help those poor folks out?
I would have thought unreasonable searches and seizures by private organisations would be called breaking and entering and/or burglary and/or outright theft. Since when do corporates have any rights to trespass and steal? And why do you think it's okay if they do?
I'm hardly nostalgic for the USSR but the first man in space was an excellent way to rebut the parent poster's "Communism makes you stupid" waffle. In any case it was a bunch of fascist Germans who made space flight possible for both sides of the Iron Curtain.
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Which they stole from someone else even earlier in history.
Just like almost everything else MS nicked FUD from someone else, in this case IBM.
Now that would be nice, there are a number of programs that I would only use every so often and paying say £10 for a month's use would be handy.
Casual players are Blizzard's bread and butter - they put less strain on the servers by not playing as much while still paying the same to play and there are a lot more of them.
I wouldn't describe my Catholic relations and friends as fanatics - they get on with their religion and don't bother me with it. Just how it should be as far as I'm concerned and I wish more people would realise that fact.
Women do want sex every day - just not with me.
The thought of blasting religious fanatics into space never fails to put a smile onto my face :)
You forgot inventing ice skates for cloven feet.
Actually yes I was, since gun owners on here and other places think the government will never be able to beat them as long as they're armed. I was wondering how the Union beat the Confederacy in that case if the Confederate citizens all had guns.
Don't think that I'm anti-gun ownership as such; I think it's a complete load of shit that banning gun ownership will turn the world into some sort of utopia. However I dispute that gun ownership automatically prevents totalitarianism.
Microsoft have never been punished by the market for their illegal behaviour, IBM were punished at the beginning of the 90s and are a much more pleasant company and Ford are in the crapper right now but their bad behaviour was a very long time ago and the market is punishing them for not having as good products as the competition pure and simple. The market, like I said, punishes poor financial performance and has no interest in whether that financial performance was earned within the law or not. The consequences you speak of have nothing to do with any illegal or amoral behaviour.
Just as a matter of interest did the citizens of the Confederacy have the right to bear arms? And if they did how did they, going by gun owners' logic, ever lose the war?
Because the people who appoint them don't understand IT either and believe it to be so simple that anyone can manage it.
Microsoft do actually have something to sell unlike Enron.
I notice Ford is still around despite some evil behaviour (although they seem to be in some financial shit finally) as are IBM (they weathered their financial shit) and no doubt dozens if not hundreds of evildoer corporations which haven't been destroyed for their crimes. The all-powerful market doesn't punish criminal corporations only unprofitable ones and most corporate crime convictions don't really affect profits.
He has no choice whether he uses Exchange Server though does he, it's not his network that he's been trying to use, it's Dell's.
Chances are it has happened but the terms of the settlement preclude the victims from saying anything.
Microsoft have been painting themselves in a negative light for a lot longer than slashdot has existed. Having a private unaccountable police force is fairly negative in any case. Why does a government agency need a warrant but a private corporation does not?
It also needs to be seen that most PC users are still running the same OS as they were five years ago pretty much barring some much needed security updates. Nobody's laughing at that.
Yes the sooner we get people away from BSD/Windows the better.
Yeh ok shoddy use of anthropomorphic. I should know better than make a mistake on Pedants Anonymous.
Surely Fox have to have a reason backed by some sort of legality before they can just demand other people's information or property?
I don't see Marx on that list, do you?
Seriously, there's no money in everything being fine.
People who make money from oil, the Chinese, the Indians, and everyone else who wouldn't have to do any cleaning up would probably disagree with that statement.
There is bugger all money in anthropomorphic climate change. There is instead a big cost in changing things if it turns out to be true and therefore a big financial incentive to deny it at all costs.
That means you have to have millions and billions of cars to get any kind of a quantity.
Not to mention all the other vehicles including planes, trains, trucks etc and all factories pumping out waste. In any case there might well be a billion cars on the roads of the world now; if not it probably isn't that far off.
Given the recovery capacity of the planet, what makes you think your puny a$$ vespa or even my brontosaur vehicle can spew enough crap to cause climatic change?
What does the recovery capacity of the planet have to do with whether the human race gets wiped out or not?
Care to let us know how many millions died in the name of Marx? None at a guess, since he never actually ruled any countries, nor made war on anyone else.
And quoting a half-senile ex-actor to make your point - whatever. If socialism failed why are we not still working in death trap factories and dying at 40 of cholera? Or do you think the rich folks just all one day decided not to be such arseholes and handed large amounts of taxes to the government to help those poor folks out?
I would have thought unreasonable searches and seizures by private organisations would be called breaking and entering and/or burglary and/or outright theft. Since when do corporates have any rights to trespass and steal? And why do you think it's okay if they do?
I'm hardly nostalgic for the USSR but the first man in space was an excellent way to rebut the parent poster's "Communism makes you stupid" waffle. In any case it was a bunch of fascist Germans who made space flight possible for both sides of the Iron Curtain.