"but everyone else values their time and does not have the skill to deal with all the flexibility and variety Linux has."
Not to mention the constant UI changes inflicted on newcomers. It used to be getting a GUI running in the first place was a barrier to entry. Now that Linux driver support is excellent and most distros are easier to install than Windows, the new barrier is frequent UI change.
No problem for geeks, but I don't even bother to interest non-geeks in Linux because unless you are a techy and willing to put in a few hundred hours getting proficient it's a waste of time.
People buy Windows because they are used to Windows and because it is the de-facto STANDARD (though Redmond can't resist fucking around with the UI a bit).
I detest Windows, but Linux UI designers don't give a fuck about noobs. They provide a useful free service, but that doesn't make it wrong to point out shortcomings.
Bundled software licenses merely move money to the rich ruling classes. They can then speculate with it, or blow it on coke and hookers, but that does fuck all for the average consumer.
Nice try. We geo-located your IP to the Oval Office.
Now get back to "work" caving in to the "peckerwoods" of the Tea Party who just beat dat ass like a rented mule. You didn't cuckold them, you cuckolded your base.
Be sure to kiss and make up with the Democrats you threw under the bus for extra traction while driving to the Grover Norquist plantation.
Considering the WIDE variety of protractors and "squares" throughout history which perform more than one function, your explanation makes perfect sense. So does robust construction since job sites are rough on gear.
Carpenters, ironworkers, and other tradesmen are still fond of the tools of their trade. No surprise one would be buried with them.
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You ignore history.
Society pre-Social Security was LITERALLY Dickensian! Chuck didn't make up the conditions he wrote about.
Relying on charity to SCALE is naive to the point of being not sane.
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There is also no reason for the US to protect strong, rich foreign countries who do absolutely nothing for us.
Japan can choose to afford to protect its own interests. So can South Korea. They despise roundeyes (G.I.s poaching their bitches is a loss of face) and many would be glad to see us gone.
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"Break with all capitalist parties! For a workers party that fights for a workers government!"
That's been done, and inevitably leads to Bolsheviks who have the will to power crushing the naive Mensheviks. Since confiscation of all wealth for redistribution by the "workers government" removes all incentive (except the point of a Stalinist gun) for "workers" to slave for their political masters, they aren't productive. Their "capitalist" incentive to produce is gone. The non-workers get fat off the workers, and fuck them thoroughly.
Good luck with your infantile dreams, but history has pissed all over that nonsense many times. Chinese, cited as examples of exploitation, have NEVER lived better in their history. Capitalism has flaws as do all human systems, but only Capitalism is natural and occurs even in the absence of formal government.
The military doesn't get the concept of military reform, at all, so why expect most civilians to get it? SecDef Gates will be remembered for a lonely battle which accomplished nothing.
The idea that wars merit war taxes is considered absurd by the public.
The sick idea that the US must master the world for its own good and that Americans should throw their country away for foreigners who universally despise them and bitterly resent their misbegotten adventurism in the first place is not sane.
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"but everyone else values their time and does not have the skill to deal with all the flexibility and variety Linux has."
Not to mention the constant UI changes inflicted on newcomers. It used to be getting a GUI running in the first place was a barrier to entry. Now that Linux driver support is excellent and most distros are easier to install than Windows, the new barrier is frequent UI change.
No problem for geeks, but I don't even bother to interest non-geeks in Linux because unless you are a techy and willing to put in a few hundred hours getting proficient it's a waste of time.
People buy Windows because they are used to Windows and because it is the de-facto STANDARD (though Redmond can't resist fucking around with the UI a bit).
I detest Windows, but Linux UI designers don't give a fuck about noobs. They provide a useful free service, but that doesn't make it wrong to point out shortcomings.
Bundled software licenses merely move money to the rich ruling classes. They can then speculate with it, or blow it on coke and hookers, but that does fuck all for the average consumer.
Building the basis for those advances could be done at a distance.
There is good reason for barriers against fraternization.
Plenty of US users buy Lister-style diesels for off-grid use.
Example only, there is much more info for the Googling:
http://www.centralmainediesel.com/stats/PRINTABLE/K09944.asp?page=K09944
Being professional means not having social media accounts period or at most having obfuscated accounts which so state.
Embrace the utility of barriers!
Keep all comms to email and don't interact with students outside class.
If it's not strictly business, strictly avoid it. Been there, done that, it's easy so no excuse no to.
Hydrogen is an energy storage medium. Not an energy "source".
"Each one strips away more and more useful features, and hence becomes much more difficult to use."
It's called the GNOME design model. The goal is to suck more than Redmond.
"You've just described how Firefox started"
Phoenix rocked. It was light and fast.
PRETTY CHANGE IS PROGRESS!
Good thing these douchenozzles don't design aircraft cockpits...
If it won't "shoehorn". just run XP in a (free) Virtualbox VM with a Ubuntu host.
Take a Snapshot after a clean install, and you can promptly revert if something Bad happens.
...may mean you are screwed.
I use the manual colon cleanse method, and if that fails the "Enumclaw Equine Dilator" does the trick.
"Lotteries are played by most people as entertainment, not as investments."
Remind us again before the next housing bubble!
We has internets and can read that if we care too. Thread crap elsewhere.
They should serve superbly for making small lost-material foundry patterns. It's easy to cast metal, but patternmaking is labor-intensive.
Nice try. We geo-located your IP to the Oval Office.
Now get back to "work" caving in to the "peckerwoods" of the Tea Party who just beat dat ass like a rented mule. You didn't cuckold them, you cuckolded your base.
Be sure to kiss and make up with the Democrats you threw under the bus for extra traction while driving to the Grover Norquist plantation.
"You guys remember the age of sanity, "
I remember the pretense that there was such. It's the "Good Old Days" fallacy.
Considering the WIDE variety of protractors and "squares" throughout history which perform more than one function, your explanation makes perfect sense. So does robust construction since job sites are rough on gear.
Carpenters, ironworkers, and other tradesmen are still fond of the tools of their trade. No surprise one would be buried with them.
You ignore history.
Society pre-Social Security was LITERALLY Dickensian! Chuck didn't make up the conditions he wrote about.
Relying on charity to SCALE is naive to the point of being not sane.
There is also no reason for the US to protect strong, rich foreign countries who do absolutely nothing for us.
Japan can choose to afford to protect its own interests. So can South Korea. They despise roundeyes (G.I.s poaching their bitches is a loss of face) and many would be glad to see us gone.
"Break with all capitalist parties! For a workers party that fights for a workers government!"
That's been done, and inevitably leads to Bolsheviks who have the will to power crushing the naive Mensheviks. Since confiscation of all wealth for redistribution by the "workers government" removes all incentive (except the point of a Stalinist gun) for "workers" to slave for their political masters, they aren't productive. Their "capitalist" incentive to produce is gone. The non-workers get fat off the workers, and fuck them thoroughly.
Good luck with your infantile dreams, but history has pissed all over that nonsense many times. Chinese, cited as examples of exploitation, have NEVER lived better in their history. Capitalism has flaws as do all human systems, but only Capitalism is natural and occurs even in the absence of formal government.
Install Linux and dispose of the problem before it gets hit again and all that work is wasted.
Repaired Windows is still Windows.
Four hundred bucks is food for a month or more in much of the US.
The military doesn't get the concept of military reform, at all, so why expect most civilians to get it? SecDef Gates will be remembered for a lonely battle which accomplished nothing.
The idea that wars merit war taxes is considered absurd by the public.
The sick idea that the US must master the world for its own good and that Americans should throw their country away for foreigners who universally despise them and bitterly resent their misbegotten adventurism in the first place is not sane.
Thanks! Looks interesting so I'll install in a VM then play with the memory and graphics settings to see how low it can go.
Plenty of seeders at the moment.