Yeah, I'm really depressed that I can't run Windows on my PPC Mac. And I'm still trying to find the "Start" button on this damn KDE thing I'm running now. I'll feel your pain...just as soon as I can stop laughing. Maybe you should visit Dr. Linus. You're lookin' a little pale there.
Microsoft "stole" nothing. Every thing they have was given to them voluntarily for something else in exchange. Not a shot was fired. If you have a complaint, take it up with the people who make it difficult to use an alternative... like your bank possibly, or the tax man. Microsoft has done nothing out of the ordinary in this market economy. Don't be playing the victim.
I think we can trust the government not to misuse the data, right? It's not like it doesn't know everything about you anyway. I'm sure its "privacy policies" are every bit as honorable as Google's, or Microsoft's.
Yes, well, even though all that is true, chances are that telling people that they are standing naked and they have little dicks rarely, if ever brings about the desired result. We are a twisted lot.
Yes, GM, Chrysler, Microsoft, et al sell crap. So what? The other end of the magnet shows that we buy crap. Where's the weapon that forces us to do so? Fraud is a two way street. And the customer will fully support it if they think they're getting a "good deal". The fact is that we DO reward them for producing crap, and we beg for more. The AC has it right. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. And the cell phone, airline, banking, health care industries, and the government itself are prime examples of our own failures. We still have insufficient cause to overcome our conditioning and change our own behavior. We refuse to acknowledge our own psychoses. The politics and the economy are mere reflections in the pond.
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Your post is not flamebait. One of the biggest drags with Slashdot and many others is the response time of constantly linking and loading off site ad servers before the main page shows itself, which is probably the intention. Doubleclick is especially horrible, and since I blocked it Slashdot loading has sped up very nicely. c.fsdn.com which seems to contain a lot of the "pretty widgets" is another real monster. Though I can read the page, blocking it breaks too much stuff. The quest for monetizing every little thing is what will keep the internet in its miserable state, but who notices, with all the pretty pictures? Whatever new technological wizardry comes along will be completely consumed by Madison Ave.
It used to be that people in the US could cross the US Mexico border and the US Canadian border, which I've done a number of tymes, without needing a passport.
I think Peter Sellers said it best, when he stated, "Not any more!"
Honestly you don't have an even casual acquaintance if you think they're fundamentally similar.
Fundamentally they are identical. One is an iron fist. The other is the velvet glove. One uses the raw force of indoctrination. The other uses the even more effective power of dazzling distraction. But the common mission is still control.
If that's going to the case, then indeed we do need a single worldwide standard... Otherwise we are all subject to the most radical puritans that happen to have an army and a flag.
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The haters have bumped the post up pretty good. Let's see if that gets corrected.
Hehe... and I'm the troll...dig it..
If you Microsoft shills...
Yeah, I'm really depressed that I can't run Windows on my PPC Mac. And I'm still trying to find the "Start" button on this damn KDE thing I'm running now. I'll feel your pain...just as soon as I can stop laughing. Maybe you should visit Dr. Linus. You're lookin' a little pale there.
So copyright infringement is theft? Or did they steal their only physical copy from the lab, denying DEC from using their own software?
And the Europeans are saving even more energy by going only 50.
I can't drive...55
Microsoft "stole" nothing. Every thing they have was given to them voluntarily for something else in exchange. Not a shot was fired. If you have a complaint, take it up with the people who make it difficult to use an alternative... like your bank possibly, or the tax man. Microsoft has done nothing out of the ordinary in this market economy. Don't be playing the victim.
Somebody will find a way to clog it up.
Where's our "paperless" society?
I think we need a mod option to mod down the article summary: -1, stupid editor.
You had your chance.
I think we can trust the government not to misuse the data, right? It's not like it doesn't know everything about you anyway. I'm sure its "privacy policies" are every bit as honorable as Google's, or Microsoft's.
Yes, well, even though all that is true, chances are that telling people that they are standing naked and they have little dicks rarely, if ever brings about the desired result. We are a twisted lot.
Yes, GM, Chrysler, Microsoft, et al sell crap. So what? The other end of the magnet shows that we buy crap. Where's the weapon that forces us to do so? Fraud is a two way street. And the customer will fully support it if they think they're getting a "good deal". The fact is that we DO reward them for producing crap, and we beg for more. The AC has it right. We have nobody to blame but ourselves. And the cell phone, airline, banking, health care industries, and the government itself are prime examples of our own failures. We still have insufficient cause to overcome our conditioning and change our own behavior. We refuse to acknowledge our own psychoses. The politics and the economy are mere reflections in the pond.
Incase you were wondering, FDR created the largest, legal Ponzi scheme ever - Social Security. :)
Funny. I always thought it was Wilson and the Federal Reserve.
Suddenly, a pudgy guy in a a rumpled business suit comes running thru the back door...
It would only work if it was Calvert DeForest...Or maybe Drew Carey could be dressed up to look like him.
...A major one...
Don't tell me... Ford
Your post is not flamebait. One of the biggest drags with Slashdot and many others is the response time of constantly linking and loading off site ad servers before the main page shows itself, which is probably the intention. Doubleclick is especially horrible, and since I blocked it Slashdot loading has sped up very nicely. c.fsdn.com which seems to contain a lot of the "pretty widgets" is another real monster. Though I can read the page, blocking it breaks too much stuff. The quest for monetizing every little thing is what will keep the internet in its miserable state, but who notices, with all the pretty pictures? Whatever new technological wizardry comes along will be completely consumed by Madison Ave.
As opposed to, say, Linux distributions?
You mean... there's more than one?
It used to be that people in the US could cross the US Mexico border and the US Canadian border, which I've done a number of tymes, without needing a passport.
I think Peter Sellers said it best, when he stated, "Not any more!"
Ain't gonna happen. Boring numbers may tell the story, but foolish pride wins the day. Silly moderator...
CO2...BAH!
Water is where it's at.
Almost no American will accept that Ronald Reagan was a liberal.. But he sure was, to a fault.
Honestly you don't have an even casual acquaintance if you think they're fundamentally similar.
Fundamentally they are identical. One is an iron fist. The other is the velvet glove. One uses the raw force of indoctrination. The other uses the even more effective power of dazzling distraction. But the common mission is still control.
Yes, well.. It's entirely different when the US does it.
I guess we can expect everybody coming out of Amsterdam to have to take a piss test for customs.
...you're liable for it worldwide...
If that's going to the case, then indeed we do need a single worldwide standard... Otherwise we are all subject to the most radical puritans that happen to have an army and a flag.
"incitement"... Does that preclude the existence of free will?
The point is that the administration was under the impression it was acting legally.
Yeah, that's their story, and they're sticking to it. That, of course, would be the smart move. "If the president does it..."