The reason there are so many viruses and exploits for Windows is because Microsoft makes it so easy for them to spread. Typical Outlook email virus? You click on the email from your friend, click on the attachment that he sent you, and its automatically opened and executed, typically as an Administrator. The really bad ones, you wouldn't even have to open the attachment to activate it; just previewing the message is enough.
Contrast that to Apple, where you click on the attachment, download it, then have to open the attachment, and then enter your password for it to run as root. Thats another two steps (a big one with asking the password) that a virus has to take before being executed. The more steps a worm or cracker has to go through to get into your system, the more the chance of a successful attempt will drop.
Sure, there will always be social engineering, but Microsoft makes it so easy while Apple actually makes you work for it.
Marriage won't be any special, sacred institution anymore between a man and a woman.
blah blah blah blah
Hello? Where have you been? No-fault divorce? Hollywood two week marriages? Arranged unions for political reasons? Henry IIIV and his eight wives? Marriage has never been a sacred institution, deal with it.
Then you raise a military to deal with a threat, you don't need to be ready to re-fight WWII at the drop of the hat at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. Especially in the age of ICBM's...even if we got rid of our entire military, including the National Guard, we could still obliterate China or any other country if they decided to invade us.
True, but did you ever consider that Australia having a powerful ally in the U.S. (and to a lesser extent, the U.K) just might have had a small deterrant effect against anyone who might have been thinking of attacking them?
No. Not since they weren't constantly invaded *before* the US was a superpower, either.
As they should be. We've got the two largest oceans and two friendly nations as a barrier to anyone who wants to invade. You don't see Australia being invaded left and right just because they haven't spent a few trillion dollars on their military over the last couple of decades.
My theory is it's because they aren't interested in producing long running, successful shows anymore, because reality tv is not only popular, but cheap cheap cheap to produce. Why pay the cast of Friends a million a piece per episode, where Survivor pulls in the same kind of ratings and ONE contestant gets A million dollars for the entire YEAR?
FOX has gone from becomming a network with some cool, edgy shows, like Simpsons and X-Files, to the Get Rich Quick network.
Um, excuse me? Whoever told you that you need a license for software or violate copyright law is full of crap. The only restrictions that apply are those give all itmes covered by copyright - you can do pretty much whatever you want with the software, just not copy it and give it to your friends.
1. It had international support; France, Germany, and Russia do not constitute "International"
Neither does England, for that matter.
2. It did not violate International Law, that is almost laughable. It went in under the original agreement of cease fire through which the first Gulf War was stopped.
Uh huh. We're going to punish Saddam for ignoring U.N. resolutions, but to do so we ignore the U.N. No, thats not contradictory at all...
Picking nits, no UN Security Council Resolution that passed opposed it.
And how is any such resolution going to pass, when either the United States or Britain could veto it? How stupid are you?
So, play your little ignorance game, its far far easy to do as you don't provide any links to real news sites to back it up.
Go ahead and play your apologist game, since no amount of facts will beat the truth through your thick skull.
You forget that: 1.) It was Clinton who first proposed overthrowing Saddam because of alleged WMD's
You remember he didn't go through with it, right?
2.) It was Clinton who, for 8 years, allowed the ineffective UN sanctions to continue, starving to death hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, according to some sources
True, he should have done something to get rid of them, but he didn't put them in place.
If there was a shread of truth to that, why isn't the Bush team screaming it from the rooftops, eh?
No, it wasn't about oil, nor can you back up your silly claim.
The practice of awarding reconstruction contracts only to companies with strong ties to the administration would imply otherwise.
There are posters in this thread who are obviously disappointed that W and the boys captured Saddham. That's sad.
Uh huh. We'll only be able to tell in the long run, but its quite possible that both we and the Iraqis would be better of if Saddam was left in power. Its possible that the people could rebel and set up a hardcore theocracy, a la Iran in the 80's. There is precedent - the United States helped create Al Queda by training guys like Osama to fight the puppet communist government installed by the Soviet Union. There's two problems with that: 1) we helped train future terrorists and 2) the people of Afganistan would have been a *hell* of a lot better off under a communist government than under the Taliban.
How do you figure the invasion was illegal? Iraq was declared in violation of the terms of the cease fire less than a year after it was signed. At that point, there was no cease fire, and further invasion was authorized. Read the documents, and come back.
Oh, so we're going to punish Iraq for violating U.N. sanctions, but ignore the U.N. to do it? That makes a whole lot of sense.
But Microsoft practically invented butt pirate DRM. Microsoft can compete on price but I don't see how they are going to compete on ease of use or user exerience. I think the only company that can really compete with Apple is Wal-Mart, and thats because they are well practiced at squeezing every last drop out of their "partners".
He communicated untrue information, therefore, he lied.
What part of oral sex not being intercourse is a misscommunication? There was no intercourse, so there was no lie.
And as Richard pointed out below:
Clinton actually was very cunning here, as when he was asked this question, he requested that the Judge define exactly what "sexual relations" were. The definition that the judge gave precluded oral sex from the scope of the definition, so he was perfectly in his right to answer "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".
Fact: Republicans spent millions of dollars on many investigations of the Clintons. Fact: The worst thing they could come up with was Bill fudging on his sex life.
Ha. A few years ago my family took a train from Fargo, ND, to Seattle. For starters the train was 6 hours late, then there was some signaling problem so for the first seventy miles the train could only go at 10 miles an hour. We got into Seattle almost a full day late, and I'm sure there are people with even worse horror stories than that.
I've got a Webster's Dictionary sitting in front of me that was published before the Clinton administration.
That's why its called splitting hairs, my friend. Some dicionary's have 50+ definitions of the word "set", does that mean I'm lying if I use it in one connotation, without mentioning the 49 others?
Yes, he was, per my point above.
No he wasn't, as the other poster proved.
We just had a case locally where a cop was getting BJs in return for not issuing tickets. (Again, power over powerless). Turns out there were over a dozen different women before one finally turned him in. I see very little difference between that and what Clinton was doing.
Except that all of those instances are illegal. Consensual sex with a person of age is not. As it wasn't an illegal act, and consensual sex is not harrassment, there was no purgery. And from all reports, its seems that Monica is the one who came onto Bill, not the other way around.
How many women did Clinton really take advantage of using his positions as Governor and then President?
Zero, probably. No, seriously, think about it for one single second. Congresss investigated him countless times. A couple of independant prosecutors investigated him with unlimited time, unlimited staff, unlimted budged, unlimited resources (the Starr investigation spent something like $60 million alone). All these people went over every single spec of dust in Clinton's adult life with an electron microscope, and the worst thing they can come up with is making misleading statements about their sex life? Would you look as good after being investigated so throuraly? Would anyone? Hell, lets be fair and spend $60 million frikkin dollars investigating every public official, starting with George Bush. Lets investigate his rumored cocaine use, the time he skipped out on his military service, the rumored abortion for a pregnant girlfirend, and his rumored shenanigans at various energy companies. All of those things are illegal; getting a BJ from a consenting adult is not.
Its a bit more complicated than that. Amtrack was in financial trouble, so the gvt bailed them out. Unfortunatly, the senators who passed this bailout insisted that Amtrack still offer services through their home states - places where they don't make any money. So they're stuck in a vicious cycle - they need to become profitable, except they're forced to maintain all these unprofitable routes. I don't see the situation improving until Amtrack figures a way off the goverment dole, or they get bought out by some other company.
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The reason there are so many viruses and exploits for Windows is because Microsoft makes it so easy for them to spread. Typical Outlook email virus? You click on the email from your friend, click on the attachment that he sent you, and its automatically opened and executed, typically as an Administrator. The really bad ones, you wouldn't even have to open the attachment to activate it; just previewing the message is enough.
Contrast that to Apple, where you click on the attachment, download it, then have to open the attachment, and then enter your password for it to run as root. Thats another two steps (a big one with asking the password) that a virus has to take before being executed. The more steps a worm or cracker has to go through to get into your system, the more the chance of a successful attempt will drop.
Sure, there will always be social engineering, but Microsoft makes it so easy while Apple actually makes you work for it.
Tell that to the voters in Florida. Presidential elections are a state matter, but SCOTUS didn't have any problem stepping in then, either.
Marriage won't be any special, sacred institution anymore between a man and a woman.
blah blah blah blah
Hello? Where have you been? No-fault divorce? Hollywood two week marriages? Arranged unions for political reasons? Henry IIIV and his eight wives? Marriage has never been a sacred institution, deal with it.
I don't hear you being righteously indignant about Xandros or Linows not including GNOME...
Huh, maybe because the topic is about KDE and UserLinux, not those other two?
Hypocrite.
Dumbass.
They could use transparent decompression a la Knoppix.
They hold roughly 1.5gb, the current GTA is upwards of 4gigs, you want a 3+ disc game?
I don't know about GTA3, but GTA:VC for the PC comes on just two discs...well under 1.5GB.
Then you raise a military to deal with a threat, you don't need to be ready to re-fight WWII at the drop of the hat at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. Especially in the age of ICBM's...even if we got rid of our entire military, including the National Guard, we could still obliterate China or any other country if they decided to invade us.
True, but did you ever consider that Australia having a powerful ally in the U.S. (and to a lesser extent, the U.K) just might have had a small deterrant effect against anyone who might have been thinking of attacking them?
No. Not since they weren't constantly invaded *before* the US was a superpower, either.
They are larger than the defense budget.
As they should be. We've got the two largest oceans and two friendly nations as a barrier to anyone who wants to invade. You don't see Australia being invaded left and right just because they haven't spent a few trillion dollars on their military over the last couple of decades.
Why did they cancle it?
My theory is it's because they aren't interested in producing long running, successful shows anymore, because reality tv is not only popular, but cheap cheap cheap to produce. Why pay the cast of Friends a million a piece per episode, where Survivor pulls in the same kind of ratings and ONE contestant gets A million dollars for the entire YEAR?
FOX has gone from becomming a network with some cool, edgy shows, like Simpsons and X-Files, to the Get Rich Quick network.
) Merry and Pippen should've been taller. That was very obvious in their side-by-side shot.
As others have pointed out, the effects of the Ent food seem to have worn after after a while.
2) WTF did Aragorn et all dismount before charging the enemy at the Black Gate? That's not continuity, that's just dumb.
Because he's not from Rohan?
3) Why did the eagles beating the tar out of the wyrms not actually kill any wyrms (especially compared to what we saw at Minas Tirith)?
Because the eagles are a lot smaller, and might have to pick at them for a while? Duh? Duh?
4) Shelob's sting went straight through the Mithril Shirt
That is a good point.
Um, excuse me? Whoever told you that you need a license for software or violate copyright law is full of crap. The only restrictions that apply are those give all itmes covered by copyright - you can do pretty much whatever you want with the software, just not copy it and give it to your friends.
Cube, iBook, TiBook & Dual 1.25 G4
What, no G5? Whats wrong with you?
(said by a Mac user who could only aford a G3 iBook)
1. It had international support; France, Germany, and Russia do not constitute "International"
Neither does England, for that matter.
2. It did not violate International Law, that is almost laughable. It went in under the original agreement of cease fire through which the first Gulf War was stopped.
Uh huh. We're going to punish Saddam for ignoring U.N. resolutions, but to do so we ignore the U.N. No, thats not contradictory at all...
Picking nits, no UN Security Council Resolution that passed opposed it.
And how is any such resolution going to pass, when either the United States or Britain could veto it? How stupid are you?
So, play your little ignorance game, its far far easy to do as you don't provide any links to real news sites to back it up.
Go ahead and play your apologist game, since no amount of facts will beat the truth through your thick skull.
You forget that: 1.) It was Clinton who first proposed overthrowing Saddam because of alleged WMD's
You remember he didn't go through with it, right?
2.) It was Clinton who, for 8 years, allowed the ineffective UN sanctions to continue, starving to death hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, according to some sources
True, he should have done something to get rid of them, but he didn't put them in place.
It's about this.
If there was a shread of truth to that, why isn't the Bush team screaming it from the rooftops, eh?
No, it wasn't about oil, nor can you back up your silly claim.
The practice of awarding reconstruction contracts only to companies with strong ties to the administration would imply otherwise.
There are posters in this thread who are obviously disappointed that W and the boys captured Saddham. That's sad.
Uh huh. We'll only be able to tell in the long run, but its quite possible that both we and the Iraqis would be better of if Saddam was left in power. Its possible that the people could rebel and set up a hardcore theocracy, a la Iran in the 80's. There is precedent - the United States helped create Al Queda by training guys like Osama to fight the puppet communist government installed by the Soviet Union. There's two problems with that: 1) we helped train future terrorists and 2) the people of Afganistan would have been a *hell* of a lot better off under a communist government than under the Taliban.
How do you figure the invasion was illegal? Iraq was declared in violation of the terms of the cease fire less than a year after it was signed. At that point, there was no cease fire, and further invasion was authorized. Read the documents, and come back.
Oh, so we're going to punish Iraq for violating U.N. sanctions, but ignore the U.N. to do it? That makes a whole lot of sense.
But Microsoft practically invented butt pirate DRM. Microsoft can compete on price but I don't see how they are going to compete on ease of use or user exerience. I think the only company that can really compete with Apple is Wal-Mart, and thats because they are well practiced at squeezing every last drop out of their "partners".
Their Spider-Man II page lists Dylan Baker as Dr. Connors, and Bruce Cambell as a "snooty usher".
Can we have a cameo appearance of Magneto in this movie? Pretty Please? And have Doc Ock try to take him out?
What part of oral sex not being intercourse is a misscommunication? There was no intercourse, so there was no lie.
And as Richard pointed out below:
Fact: Republicans spent millions of dollars on many investigations of the Clintons.
Fact: The worst thing they could come up with was Bill fudging on his sex life.
Deal with it.
Ha. A few years ago my family took a train from Fargo, ND, to Seattle. For starters the train was 6 hours late, then there was some signaling problem so for the first seventy miles the train could only go at 10 miles an hour. We got into Seattle almost a full day late, and I'm sure there are people with even worse horror stories than that.
I've got a Webster's Dictionary sitting in front of me that was published before the Clinton administration.
That's why its called splitting hairs, my friend. Some dicionary's have 50+ definitions of the word "set", does that mean I'm lying if I use it in one connotation, without mentioning the 49 others?
Yes, he was, per my point above.
No he wasn't, as the other poster proved.
We just had a case locally where a cop was getting BJs in return for not issuing tickets. (Again, power over powerless). Turns out there were over a dozen different women before one finally turned him in. I see very little difference between that and what Clinton was doing.
Except that all of those instances are illegal. Consensual sex with a person of age is not. As it wasn't an illegal act, and consensual sex is not harrassment, there was no purgery. And from all reports, its seems that Monica is the one who came onto Bill, not the other way around.
How many women did Clinton really take advantage of using his positions as Governor and then President?
Zero, probably. No, seriously, think about it for one single second. Congresss investigated him countless times. A couple of independant prosecutors investigated him with unlimited time, unlimited staff, unlimted budged, unlimited resources (the Starr investigation spent something like $60 million alone). All these people went over every single spec of dust in Clinton's adult life with an electron microscope, and the worst thing they can come up with is making misleading statements about their sex life? Would you look as good after being investigated so throuraly? Would anyone? Hell, lets be fair and spend $60 million frikkin dollars investigating every public official, starting with George Bush. Lets investigate his rumored cocaine use, the time he skipped out on his military service, the rumored abortion for a pregnant girlfirend, and his rumored shenanigans at various energy companies. All of those things are illegal; getting a BJ from a consenting adult is not.
Bullshit.
Eat it.
Amtrak problem is Amtrak.
Its a bit more complicated than that. Amtrack was in financial trouble, so the gvt bailed them out. Unfortunatly, the senators who passed this bailout insisted that Amtrack still offer services through their home states - places where they don't make any money. So they're stuck in a vicious cycle - they need to become profitable, except they're forced to maintain all these unprofitable routes. I don't see the situation improving until Amtrack figures a way off the goverment dole, or they get bought out by some other company.