See, I wouldn't think TDP would be a problem. If I was willing to let the proc run at 50 celcius under load, which was previously the norm for AMD I'd probably have it cruising well north of 4 ghz.
Is it just that an unacceptable amount of the chips due to some manufacturing flaws wouldn't be able to sustain those clocks?
Rift was running at 60 fps on my 3800+ AMD Athlon X2 with a 4890 Video card attached on pretty high settings, all I had to do was turn shadows down. As such, I find your claims incredibily hard to believe, and I keep that board and processor around purely because of folks like you. It may say that on the requirements for the game but the game itself in no way requires that.
WoW after updates runs the same.
EVE Online is BY FAR the biggest CPU hog out there because largeish portions of its GFX engine still run on the CPU and a 3800+ can still handle it, DDR400 and all. The only thing it can't handle are the new Shogun II game and a few others like it. Things with shedloads of physics calcs.
Besides people correcting you, the Phenom and Phenom II chips were by no means "bad" excepting a few pricing faux-pahs where they priced new parts too high for their relative performance out of the gates.
There are actually very few(nearly none) video games out there that max out any CPU these days. Its all GPU now. The physics engines pretty much do as much as they are going to and all thats left is to make it shinier.
I bought my FX4100 purely because of how quiet I can make this thing run. The loudest thing in it is the 800 RPM PSU fan and the computer is overclocked.
Which actually brings me to a pet-peeve about bulldozer. They've underclocked these chips by a LOT. Its actually ridiculous what they've done to themselves. This computer idles at room temp and hits maybe 40 Celcius under load on chip temp, and its overclocked about 600 MHZ which yields something like a 25% total increase in performance. In other words its competitive with an I5 or low end I7s for $100 or more less cost. The best part is any idiot can overclock it with one of these new UEFI boards from Asus, they don't even have to know how to install software or navigate a bios by keyboard.
If it wasn't for pre-existing exclusivity deals and pushes against it by intel at the time Intel probably would have been forced to burn through their entire cash-on-hand supply to catch up rather than just half of it.
Besides that this guy designed the K8, one of the most under-rated chips of all time, and set the direction for AMD that led to the AMD64 chip that had Intel flubbing about looking for an answer for nearly two whole years from a company that at the time was struggling to stay afloat.
AMDs entire cash-on-hand balance can be nearly directly credited to this man.
I'm not what you'd call a fanboy, but I am a fan of AMD products(in particular since they acquired ATI). Lets hope this guy can bring some of the bang back.
You are correct sir. This in fact is largely the reason we are falling behind some of the asian countries. They allow thier students to begin vocational training as they are coming out of junior high, which is EXACTLY when I should have been starting MY vocational training. Its not entirely mandatory and you can get an extra year of general studies in but after the point of junior high they are allowed to differentiate. Our K-12 school system doesn't need to be K-12. It needs to be K-10 at most, in fact back when we were still producing a top-quality work force it WAS K-10, these extra grades have been added on for nothing more than to generate more teacher jobs. What we should be doing is cutting back on the amount of high school and cutting back on the quantity of teachers while paying those that we keep more money, attracting higher quality education on BOTH fronts.
I, as a construction company owner, have zero need for calculus. I'm good at it, but I didn't need to do it.
I also have zero need to read romeo and juliet just because some dried up prune on a school board somewhere says its necessary. There is loads of room for exposure to culture in the full ELEVEN YEARS that a K-10 school ecosystem allows. the extra 2 years of bullshit isn't needed.
It in fact gave me enough time to become entirely disenchanted and disinterested in academic success and drop from an A+ in grade 9 to a C for grades 10 and 11(D in classes I gave less than a shit about and A in a few like maths, woodworking, physics) before upping my average in Grade 12 to a 92 so as not to limit my university options.
While this deserves a downmod, it has a shred of truth. In the various workplaces I have worked(yes anecdotal but it seems to correlate to others experiences) men are far more likely to adapt to the situation than women are. Women come into a situation and expect the situation to adapt to THEM and will actively work to make it that way. It happens from everything to the bathrooms magically being cleaner even if said woman does none of the cleaning and certain words that may have been tossed around previously no longer seeming to be part of anyone's vocabulary.
There are of course numerous women that are exceptions to the rule, but I've found probably 70%+ of women attempt to force the environment to adapt to them. If the environment refuses to adapt or has too much inertia to do so quickly enough to suit them they leave. This is also demonstrated in the fact that women initiate divorces far more often and far far more often describe differences as irreconcilable, even when there is no infidelity etc involved.
Women get a buy from this burden they place on others simply because they are women, a man who does the same thing(which while much rarer I have seen) is most often ostracized and/or forced out of the workplace/fired unless they've been hired in a position of high authority.
The same reason they care about being indemnified from any risks. Less risk makes an investment much more worthwhile, and being indemnified at the level that they currently are makes multi-billion dollar investments much easier to choke down.
See, most of these guys/companies play stocks etc, and yes they may invest billions, but rarely more than a few hundred million in any particular company. Sinking billions upon billions into anything runs counter intuitive to them.
common myth about Type 2 diabetes is that it is caused by over-eating.
This is in no way the case.
Certain people are genetically pre-disposed to type 2 diabetes. Over-eating on carbs is simply a very good trigger for the diabetes, this is what causes the correlation.
However while quantity can definitely cause the onset faster, just eating a slice of bread a day for someone that has the pre-disposition will eventually trigger it. Any kind of what most people would consider "normal" quantity of refined sugars and carbs will definitely trigger it eventually.
As with all things genetic you can be more susceptible than others of course, but the only real way to avoid getting it if you know you are pre-disposed to being a type 2 diabetic is multivitamins and a meat-heavy diet combined with a smaller selection of nutritious fruits and veggies.
You can even set up a royalty regimen fairly easily so that government cutbacks etc wouldn't stall the progress in these research centers.
Basically make them NGOs that get to recoup costs through patent licensing without ever actually being allowed to SELL patents. Government provides the initial huge up front cash injection then they do their thing. It will still keep them working on the best cure for the most people but the researchers themselves will have more governance over themselves to get cures out.
People want drugs, if nothing is legal, you'll make 75%+ of the population criminals. They tried this during prohibition, the result was what I'd call "Citizen Co-Op drug running". Nearly everyone was in on it, including a fair number of folks that were supposed to enforce the law.
Having booze and pot legal but nothing else would give folks a choice even and probably cut down on the problems with injection drugs etc. People also want choices, or at least the illusion of choice.
You really want to trust a government that can't even keep its own damaging secrets secure with the security of evidence?
Besides that a cursory forensic analysis is stupidly easy and would like involve automated software checking of individual pages against original electronic copies. Its called multi-layer authentication that includes a physical component. What the GP is saying is we should do away with paper altogether, which we should definitely not.
You are inherently trusting the initial seeder. If the initial seeder put up blocks that are infected, then you get infected. The initial source is exactly who the courts very often CANNOT trust and still have a fair and just legal system.
I am aware of ALL of the technologies that you are describing but NONE of them counteract the one problem that is stopping it. You can digitally sign, encrypt and time stamp your fucking heart off. All of it is either irrelevant or exploitable. There is no such thing as an entirely secure electronic document, no where near the security offered by a paper copy and a vault. You can MD5 or SHA-2 sum an HDD all you want, if the data has already been altered on an SSD you'll just know that the data that is there is the same as it was when it was handed to the court. If you were to do something like this with source code you would have to have someone independantly verify the code and then ensure that nothing at all happened to it in between verification and delivery. The trigger could even be built into a device to do it as soon as an SHA-2 sum is run. Then every following copy of that data is both verified and not legitimate. The paper copy can be verified and signed off on. Duplicating the signature down to the point where forensics can't detect it is much less trivial than hacking a flash drive to run its own custom code. Besides which PDF and other formats are so exploitable that you can literally have the file install a process that just corrupts the whole process, have the SHA-2 return a value that matches a changed file and change the file at the same time, etc.
P.S. They already do the taking of corporate data immediately. It is only in a police raid situation where they can actually trust the data. It is only in civil proceedings where they are -SOMETIMES- allowed to voluntarily hand over information, because the civil court is a tiny bit more trusting(wrongly so IMO).
When you're talking about big money, electronics are not the best thing to trust. Everything is exploitable. The only safe computer on the planet is one that is unplugged, put in a 8 m3 block of concrete and buried 20 feet under, and even that one isn't completely safe.
Now, I'm not saying your practices don't have their place. I totally agree with them being used, but they need to be used in addition to the traditional paper methods, not in place of.
You have no fucking idea what you are talking about in regards to digital storage vs law needs.
The point of it is to be UNCHANGEABLE once entered into evidence AND verifiable as not having been changed BEFORE being entered into evidence. What you claim about paper being forge-able is trivially ruled out by a cursory forensics analysis. More sophisticated attempts would require a more sophisticated analysis but would be found.
Electronics can NEVER guarantee that. You can even hide programs inside the files that change the contents of the file on 3rd, 4th or access. Paper is there, it is what it is, it is easily verified, and it is easily accessible for consultation. Maybe not easily searchable but easily accessible.
With solid state drives becoming more common in some cases you wouldn't even be able to tell anything had been done without a second data set that didn't have the same exploit active to over-write the data.
Yes the Electronic copies are easily accessed and searched, but there is so much room for abuse. You would have to COMPLETELY trust whoever is handing over the evidence to you. Which is entirely impossible as often the person could face losing millions or billions of dollars or going to jail.
Now, some things that are common knowledge, such as textbooks etc, would be fine, because you can re-verify the validity of the data at any given time against another outside copy. However much of that material is already being used electronically.
Source code for an entire OS??
The only truly secure way would be to have the running source code given to you, verified by an expert as being the correct code that is actually running on the device, then verified against a paper copy, and then have the paper copy scanned by someone at the justice department. Which means you're adding the extra step of having someone at the justice dept scan everything in just so its more easily searched later. This is why it hasn't caught on, and why it won't.
I'm a huge fan of technology and feel it should be used wherever possible to help speed things along, but this is one of those situations where it just can't.
Theres just one problem there. The legal system hasn't caught up with the tech and since documents need to be independently verifiable as well as unchanging, print is still the only reliable format.
So we have A) The law hasn't really caught up to the use of electronic documents and B) the tech doesn't exist that would ALLOW the law to catch up. Not that it would take much to create something but its a bit of a chicken and egg situation.
For Europe you would be correct, but for 30 years or so prior to Prime Dictator Stephen Harper stealing power, Canada was spending nearly double per capita on health care research as the US.
BTW thats a literal stealing of power. He literally rigged the voting system with live and robo-calls telling known liberal supporters to go to voting stations that were not for their areas, where they then could not vote, and he won his Majority by a few thousand votes, the robo calls and live calls accounted for nearly five times the amount he won by.
Also, he LOST the popular vote. By a lot. Lowest popular vote Prime Minister in history. The former official opposition leader(the now-deceased Jack Layton) beat him by like 12 points on the popular vote.
How he is still in power I have no fucking idea, he should be strung up and shot, If the Queen of England or someone who knows the Queen at least(the chances she reads slashdot are probably nil) reads this, there are still laws on the books that allow you to dissolve the government and for the love of god, we need you now. Mr. Harper and his entire cabinet need to be barred from ever running for office again in Canada and every law written into the books since their stealing of power needs to be undone.
Most of these programs are forced on them by the Medicare program so that they can get paid for the other drugs that get paid for through medicare. Just FYI.
When a large, known-to-be-evil corporation does something that makes it look less-evil, look for the evil lining. Its probably there somewhere.
Whatever you may think, government is the only large organization that is even a little bit likely to do things for the common good.
Everything else is profit at all costs. The idea that the "Free Market" or some other voodoo can sort it out is a bullshit story told by the same people with a shitload of money who benefit more from less government to protect the people they are exploiting.
They can't. Samsung is both manufacturer and software developer. Apple is just software, all of their manufacturing is outsourced.
Samsung is a -VERY- known quantity and has been playing in the electronics industry in far more areas than apple for a very long time in the high-end stuff. Even their low-end items however are very high quality, I have yet to own a samsung product that I can complain about beyond "I wish it had feature x" which is usually available on the model up Samsung product.
Every LCD or LED panel in my house right now is a Samsung panel. I'm not normally brand loyal but Samsung has been so good to me for so long that if Samsung has a product in category x I just buy that one.
The only exception for me is some appliances. You can't beat a Maytag.
Slashdot needs +1 Sarcasm mods, or tags, or something.
Every time I see someone post something like this I fear for the confirmation bias that causes others to read it as though it was in no way intended to be sarcastic.
See, I could even have my own confirmation bias going on here. This can legitimately be taken as you genuinely believe the bullshit that I see as obvious sarcasm due to the last sentence, but it wouldn't be that clear to someone else. Especially fox news viewers. Of whom we have more than a few around here. That station is like a fucking plague on the intelligence of the US.
Harper just pretends to be fiscally responsible. In reality he entirely makes his decisions based on his own ideology.
There is even a rumor that the conservative party isn't going to LET him run for re-election, thats how much of an asshole he is and how much a cock-up of all things canadian he is making.
I shouldn't be responding to you again and won't be after this but I've already WON the debate, you're basically just sticking your fingers in your ears.
Sweden already DROPPED the charges due to lack of evidence, and NEITHER of the key witnesses are currently willing to testify against him(aka there is no crime to charge him with).
How much more evidence of a witch hunt do you need?
You're wasting your time. He's a low UID sleeper astro turfing account.
He's even completely ignored the fact that you totally trashed his argument in your post.
If I had mod points I'd be running through modding down every single one of his posts at the moment as they're all totally nonsensical and pay no attention to the facts as reported by swedens own justice department, who as you mentioned already dropped the charges, and have no key witnesses for the charges that they re-opened.
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See, I wouldn't think TDP would be a problem. If I was willing to let the proc run at 50 celcius under load, which was previously the norm for AMD I'd probably have it cruising well north of 4 ghz.
Is it just that an unacceptable amount of the chips due to some manufacturing flaws wouldn't be able to sustain those clocks?
Rift was running at 60 fps on my 3800+ AMD Athlon X2 with a 4890 Video card attached on pretty high settings, all I had to do was turn shadows down. As such, I find your claims incredibily hard to believe, and I keep that board and processor around purely because of folks like you. It may say that on the requirements for the game but the game itself in no way requires that.
WoW after updates runs the same.
EVE Online is BY FAR the biggest CPU hog out there because largeish portions of its GFX engine still run on the CPU and a 3800+ can still handle it, DDR400 and all. The only thing it can't handle are the new Shogun II game and a few others like it. Things with shedloads of physics calcs.
Besides people correcting you, the Phenom and Phenom II chips were by no means "bad" excepting a few pricing faux-pahs where they priced new parts too high for their relative performance out of the gates.
There are actually very few(nearly none) video games out there that max out any CPU these days. Its all GPU now. The physics engines pretty much do as much as they are going to and all thats left is to make it shinier.
I bought my FX4100 purely because of how quiet I can make this thing run. The loudest thing in it is the 800 RPM PSU fan and the computer is overclocked.
Which actually brings me to a pet-peeve about bulldozer. They've underclocked these chips by a LOT. Its actually ridiculous what they've done to themselves. This computer idles at room temp and hits maybe 40 Celcius under load on chip temp, and its overclocked about 600 MHZ which yields something like a 25% total increase in performance. In other words its competitive with an I5 or low end I7s for $100 or more less cost. The best part is any idiot can overclock it with one of these new UEFI boards from Asus, they don't even have to know how to install software or navigate a bios by keyboard.
I did. Thank you for fixing that for me.
If it wasn't for pre-existing exclusivity deals and pushes against it by intel at the time Intel probably would have been forced to burn through their entire cash-on-hand supply to catch up rather than just half of it.
Besides that this guy designed the K8, one of the most under-rated chips of all time, and set the direction for AMD that led to the AMD64 chip that had Intel flubbing about looking for an answer for nearly two whole years from a company that at the time was struggling to stay afloat.
AMDs entire cash-on-hand balance can be nearly directly credited to this man.
I'm not what you'd call a fanboy, but I am a fan of AMD products(in particular since they acquired ATI). Lets hope this guy can bring some of the bang back.
You are correct sir. This in fact is largely the reason we are falling behind some of the asian countries. They allow thier students to begin vocational training as they are coming out of junior high, which is EXACTLY when I should have been starting MY vocational training. Its not entirely mandatory and you can get an extra year of general studies in but after the point of junior high they are allowed to differentiate. Our K-12 school system doesn't need to be K-12. It needs to be K-10 at most, in fact back when we were still producing a top-quality work force it WAS K-10, these extra grades have been added on for nothing more than to generate more teacher jobs. What we should be doing is cutting back on the amount of high school and cutting back on the quantity of teachers while paying those that we keep more money, attracting higher quality education on BOTH fronts.
I, as a construction company owner, have zero need for calculus. I'm good at it, but I didn't need to do it.
I also have zero need to read romeo and juliet just because some dried up prune on a school board somewhere says its necessary. There is loads of room for exposure to culture in the full ELEVEN YEARS that a K-10 school ecosystem allows. the extra 2 years of bullshit isn't needed.
It in fact gave me enough time to become entirely disenchanted and disinterested in academic success and drop from an A+ in grade 9 to a C for grades 10 and 11(D in classes I gave less than a shit about and A in a few like maths, woodworking, physics) before upping my average in Grade 12 to a 92 so as not to limit my university options.
While this deserves a downmod, it has a shred of truth. In the various workplaces I have worked(yes anecdotal but it seems to correlate to others experiences) men are far more likely to adapt to the situation than women are. Women come into a situation and expect the situation to adapt to THEM and will actively work to make it that way. It happens from everything to the bathrooms magically being cleaner even if said woman does none of the cleaning and certain words that may have been tossed around previously no longer seeming to be part of anyone's vocabulary.
There are of course numerous women that are exceptions to the rule, but I've found probably 70%+ of women attempt to force the environment to adapt to them. If the environment refuses to adapt or has too much inertia to do so quickly enough to suit them they leave. This is also demonstrated in the fact that women initiate divorces far more often and far far more often describe differences as irreconcilable, even when there is no infidelity etc involved.
Women get a buy from this burden they place on others simply because they are women, a man who does the same thing(which while much rarer I have seen) is most often ostracized and/or forced out of the workplace/fired unless they've been hired in a position of high authority.
The same reason they care about being indemnified from any risks. Less risk makes an investment much more worthwhile, and being indemnified at the level that they currently are makes multi-billion dollar investments much easier to choke down.
See, most of these guys/companies play stocks etc, and yes they may invest billions, but rarely more than a few hundred million in any particular company. Sinking billions upon billions into anything runs counter intuitive to them.
common myth about Type 2 diabetes is that it is caused by over-eating.
This is in no way the case.
Certain people are genetically pre-disposed to type 2 diabetes. Over-eating on carbs is simply a very good trigger for the diabetes, this is what causes the correlation.
However while quantity can definitely cause the onset faster, just eating a slice of bread a day for someone that has the pre-disposition will eventually trigger it. Any kind of what most people would consider "normal" quantity of refined sugars and carbs will definitely trigger it eventually.
As with all things genetic you can be more susceptible than others of course, but the only real way to avoid getting it if you know you are pre-disposed to being a type 2 diabetic is multivitamins and a meat-heavy diet combined with a smaller selection of nutritious fruits and veggies.
You can even set up a royalty regimen fairly easily so that government cutbacks etc wouldn't stall the progress in these research centers.
Basically make them NGOs that get to recoup costs through patent licensing without ever actually being allowed to SELL patents. Government provides the initial huge up front cash injection then they do their thing. It will still keep them working on the best cure for the most people but the researchers themselves will have more governance over themselves to get cures out.
It most certainly is.
People want drugs, if nothing is legal, you'll make 75%+ of the population criminals. They tried this during prohibition, the result was what I'd call "Citizen Co-Op drug running". Nearly everyone was in on it, including a fair number of folks that were supposed to enforce the law.
Having booze and pot legal but nothing else would give folks a choice even and probably cut down on the problems with injection drugs etc. People also want choices, or at least the illusion of choice.
You really want to trust a government that can't even keep its own damaging secrets secure with the security of evidence?
Besides that a cursory forensic analysis is stupidly easy and would like involve automated software checking of individual pages against original electronic copies. Its called multi-layer authentication that includes a physical component. What the GP is saying is we should do away with paper altogether, which we should definitely not.
Sigh, logical fail in third paragraph, everything until "The trigger" should be ignored. I'll fix it later.
You still don't understand.
You are inherently trusting the initial seeder. If the initial seeder put up blocks that are infected, then you get infected. The initial source is exactly who the courts very often CANNOT trust and still have a fair and just legal system.
I am aware of ALL of the technologies that you are describing but NONE of them counteract the one problem that is stopping it. You can digitally sign, encrypt and time stamp your fucking heart off. All of it is either irrelevant or exploitable. There is no such thing as an entirely secure electronic document, no where near the security offered by a paper copy and a vault. You can MD5 or SHA-2 sum an HDD all you want, if the data has already been altered on an SSD you'll just know that the data that is there is the same as it was when it was handed to the court. If you were to do something like this with source code you would have to have someone independantly verify the code and then ensure that nothing at all happened to it in between verification and delivery. The trigger could even be built into a device to do it as soon as an SHA-2 sum is run. Then every following copy of that data is both verified and not legitimate. The paper copy can be verified and signed off on. Duplicating the signature down to the point where forensics can't detect it is much less trivial than hacking a flash drive to run its own custom code. Besides which PDF and other formats are so exploitable that you can literally have the file install a process that just corrupts the whole process, have the SHA-2 return a value that matches a changed file and change the file at the same time, etc.
P.S. They already do the taking of corporate data immediately. It is only in a police raid situation where they can actually trust the data. It is only in civil proceedings where they are -SOMETIMES- allowed to voluntarily hand over information, because the civil court is a tiny bit more trusting(wrongly so IMO).
When you're talking about big money, electronics are not the best thing to trust. Everything is exploitable. The only safe computer on the planet is one that is unplugged, put in a 8 m3 block of concrete and buried 20 feet under, and even that one isn't completely safe.
Now, I'm not saying your practices don't have their place. I totally agree with them being used, but they need to be used in addition to the traditional paper methods, not in place of.
You have no fucking idea what you are talking about in regards to digital storage vs law needs.
The point of it is to be UNCHANGEABLE once entered into evidence AND verifiable as not having been changed BEFORE being entered into evidence. What you claim about paper being forge-able is trivially ruled out by a cursory forensics analysis. More sophisticated attempts would require a more sophisticated analysis but would be found.
Electronics can NEVER guarantee that. You can even hide programs inside the files that change the contents of the file on 3rd, 4th or access. Paper is there, it is what it is, it is easily verified, and it is easily accessible for consultation. Maybe not easily searchable but easily accessible.
With solid state drives becoming more common in some cases you wouldn't even be able to tell anything had been done without a second data set that didn't have the same exploit active to over-write the data.
Yes the Electronic copies are easily accessed and searched, but there is so much room for abuse. You would have to COMPLETELY trust whoever is handing over the evidence to you. Which is entirely impossible as often the person could face losing millions or billions of dollars or going to jail.
Now, some things that are common knowledge, such as textbooks etc, would be fine, because you can re-verify the validity of the data at any given time against another outside copy. However much of that material is already being used electronically.
Source code for an entire OS??
The only truly secure way would be to have the running source code given to you, verified by an expert as being the correct code that is actually running on the device, then verified against a paper copy, and then have the paper copy scanned by someone at the justice department. Which means you're adding the extra step of having someone at the justice dept scan everything in just so its more easily searched later. This is why it hasn't caught on, and why it won't.
I'm a huge fan of technology and feel it should be used wherever possible to help speed things along, but this is one of those situations where it just can't.
Theres just one problem there. The legal system hasn't caught up with the tech and since documents need to be independently verifiable as well as unchanging, print is still the only reliable format.
So we have A) The law hasn't really caught up to the use of electronic documents and B) the tech doesn't exist that would ALLOW the law to catch up. Not that it would take much to create something but its a bit of a chicken and egg situation.
For Europe you would be correct, but for 30 years or so prior to Prime Dictator Stephen Harper stealing power, Canada was spending nearly double per capita on health care research as the US.
BTW thats a literal stealing of power. He literally rigged the voting system with live and robo-calls telling known liberal supporters to go to voting stations that were not for their areas, where they then could not vote, and he won his Majority by a few thousand votes, the robo calls and live calls accounted for nearly five times the amount he won by.
Also, he LOST the popular vote. By a lot. Lowest popular vote Prime Minister in history. The former official opposition leader(the now-deceased Jack Layton) beat him by like 12 points on the popular vote.
How he is still in power I have no fucking idea, he should be strung up and shot, If the Queen of England or someone who knows the Queen at least(the chances she reads slashdot are probably nil) reads this, there are still laws on the books that allow you to dissolve the government and for the love of god, we need you now. Mr. Harper and his entire cabinet need to be barred from ever running for office again in Canada and every law written into the books since their stealing of power needs to be undone.
Most of these programs are forced on them by the Medicare program so that they can get paid for the other drugs that get paid for through medicare. Just FYI.
When a large, known-to-be-evil corporation does something that makes it look less-evil, look for the evil lining. Its probably there somewhere.
Whatever you may think, government is the only large organization that is even a little bit likely to do things for the common good.
Everything else is profit at all costs. The idea that the "Free Market" or some other voodoo can sort it out is a bullshit story told by the same people with a shitload of money who benefit more from less government to protect the people they are exploiting.
They can't. Samsung is both manufacturer and software developer. Apple is just software, all of their manufacturing is outsourced.
Samsung is a -VERY- known quantity and has been playing in the electronics industry in far more areas than apple for a very long time in the high-end stuff. Even their low-end items however are very high quality, I have yet to own a samsung product that I can complain about beyond "I wish it had feature x" which is usually available on the model up Samsung product.
Every LCD or LED panel in my house right now is a Samsung panel. I'm not normally brand loyal but Samsung has been so good to me for so long that if Samsung has a product in category x I just buy that one.
The only exception for me is some appliances. You can't beat a Maytag.
Slashdot needs +1 Sarcasm mods, or tags, or something.
Every time I see someone post something like this I fear for the confirmation bias that causes others to read it as though it was in no way intended to be sarcastic.
See, I could even have my own confirmation bias going on here. This can legitimately be taken as you genuinely believe the bullshit that I see as obvious sarcasm due to the last sentence, but it wouldn't be that clear to someone else. Especially fox news viewers. Of whom we have more than a few around here. That station is like a fucking plague on the intelligence of the US.
The Anon has it right.
Harper just pretends to be fiscally responsible. In reality he entirely makes his decisions based on his own ideology.
There is even a rumor that the conservative party isn't going to LET him run for re-election, thats how much of an asshole he is and how much a cock-up of all things canadian he is making.
Sigh...
I shouldn't be responding to you again and won't be after this but I've already WON the debate, you're basically just sticking your fingers in your ears.
Sweden already DROPPED the charges due to lack of evidence, and NEITHER of the key witnesses are currently willing to testify against him(aka there is no crime to charge him with).
How much more evidence of a witch hunt do you need?
You're wasting your time. He's a low UID sleeper astro turfing account.
He's even completely ignored the fact that you totally trashed his argument in your post.
If I had mod points I'd be running through modding down every single one of his posts at the moment as they're all totally nonsensical and pay no attention to the facts as reported by swedens own justice department, who as you mentioned already dropped the charges, and have no key witnesses for the charges that they re-opened.
Wow. I looked at your posts briefly and 3 new astro turfing posts appeared like magic. Most of them even make a sort of twisted sense.
I hope you're being paid well for this.