Since installing a clean, "free" version of 7 has been effortless for years, and MSFT gets your money of a version of 8 you don't want, it's your call how you wish to "downgrade".
"For a perfect example, read the Harvard business cases on Black & Decker, and how they tried to do the same thing and completely destroyed their brand name for professionals."
Great info! As an equipment geek, I thank you for that post.
I wondered why they polluted their old line of gear with consumer shit.
Amusing how the superstitions of the Middle East resemble each other.
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."
Since the US is sliding into primitivism for a few decades at least (exemplified by the rise of the vicious superstitionist anti-immigration bigots of the Evangelical Right) it makes more sense to choose Canada.
After the Baby Boomers die off, there will likely be the same level of generational shift as when their predecessors aged out of power then got out of the way by dying. (I'm a Boomer, but that doesn't prevent me from observing how things work.)
The advanced weapons DO make short work of things like Iraqi ground forces, and reduce US casualties to tiny levels compared to those inflicted on their opponents.
Tech overmatch saved South Korea, temporarily saved Viet Nam (and even the South Vietnamese until the US cut all their funding and left them to swing in the wind!), and ensured that US ground troops don't come under attack by enemy air forces.
War is awkward, but tech overmatch is Very Nice to have.
Then facilitate LEGAL immigration and capture the talent. Americans don't want to work and disdain many jobs because they think they are too precious to compete.
Import and retain skilled workers, denying them to other countries. Business is war and "defectors" are useful. "Brain drain" the competition and welcome new Americans.
Props to anyone who can pull off getting funded for such a telegenic venture!
Just as the sinking of Titanic was more valuable to society in terms of delicious romantic fappery than the ship and lives lost, so too will be the recovery of soggy Lockheed bits from the depths.
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Since installing a clean, "free" version of 7 has been effortless for years, and MSFT gets your money of a version of 8 you don't want, it's your call how you wish to "downgrade".
"I wonder how many bother."
Only those suckered into it buy unethical PC repair shops and similar.
...machine or doing a clean install?
Why is this news?
INS worked fine long before GPS satellites existed, and modern ring laser gyro units are highly accurate.
A compact INS:
http://www.gim-international.com/news/id5719-iXSeas_Smallest_Inertial_Navigation_System.html
Well deserved for backing the WRONG SIDE in that squabble.
We should have let the Serbs do their thing instead of rescuing their (and our) Muslim enemies.
"For a perfect example, read the Harvard business cases on Black & Decker, and how they tried to do the same thing and completely destroyed their brand name for professionals."
Great info! As an equipment geek, I thank you for that post.
I wondered why they polluted their old line of gear with consumer shit.
uwf.edu/hbettisoutland/Black%20&%20Decker.pdf
"even though it requires leaps of faith"
That just made it irrational.
The ancient thinkers you cite had very little information to work with and lived in a time when superstition was unquestioned.
PROVE your Sky Fairie exists, here, now, and I'll recant and kiss his/her/it's Noodly Appendage.
That's not a fracture, that's a love match between Klansmen and Koch Brothers.
"The truth is, that many of the pre-reagan GOPers are disgusted by where their party is today."
Not enough to keep them from enjoying the rise of the real GOP Evangelical White Trash (rich trash are still trash) to power.
Inaction is consent is endorsement. Fuck off.
"The DNC educational platform is teaching that 2+2==3 is "not wrong" and the kid should be given praise because he tried hard. B for effort."
Citation needed.
"mindless automaton endlessly saying Jesus loves me is the goal."
Contemplate religious song and chant.
Of course. If one is able to embrace the nonsense of religion, any other lie is second nature.
Amusing how the superstitions of the Middle East resemble each other.
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."
Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
The Canadian system seems much more logical.
Since the US is sliding into primitivism for a few decades at least (exemplified by the rise of the vicious superstitionist anti-immigration bigots of the Evangelical Right) it makes more sense to choose Canada.
After the Baby Boomers die off, there will likely be the same level of generational shift as when their predecessors aged out of power then got out of the way by dying. (I'm a Boomer, but that doesn't prevent me from observing how things work.)
If porn were produced as literal re-enactments of specific Biblical (and Quranic!) texts, on what grounds could it be censored?
Lot turning out his daughters comes to mind as does Mohammed's marriage to Aisha.
The advanced weapons DO make short work of things like Iraqi ground forces, and reduce US casualties to tiny levels compared to those inflicted on their opponents.
Tech overmatch saved South Korea, temporarily saved Viet Nam (and even the South Vietnamese until the US cut all their funding and left them to swing in the wind!), and ensured that US ground troops don't come under attack by enemy air forces.
War is awkward, but tech overmatch is Very Nice to have.
Then facilitate LEGAL immigration and capture the talent. Americans don't want to work and disdain many jobs because they think they are too precious to compete.
Import and retain skilled workers, denying them to other countries. Business is war and "defectors" are useful. "Brain drain" the competition and welcome new Americans.
"My chatbot also does a convincing 13 year old. It just calls you a fag and claims to have done your mother non stop."
That's a "Chanbot", not a chatbot.
"Cyber-war" relies on the victim deliberately choosing to connect systems to the internet which should not be connected.
Fuck shit up and build some "herd immunity".
Should be "Insightful" instead of "Funny".
Hurr...TV....drama....derp.
Yes, really.
Props to anyone who can pull off getting funded for such a telegenic venture!
Just as the sinking of Titanic was more valuable to society in terms of delicious romantic fappery than the ship and lives lost, so too will be the recovery of soggy Lockheed bits from the depths.
"Americans are constantly trying to convince us it is Christmas all year round"
If you run into any of those, please punch them in the throat the give them a kerbie. They are "the problem".
..pay what the market will bear.
Hiring coolie labor to undercut US workers is great for the coolies, not so for the people the US BELONGS to.
Why do you post AC?
"If you don't live in a border state you really can't grasp how bad it is."
No, they just don't give a fuck, at all. Open border ideals are delightful when you live far away from the consequences.