"And their guts know that they need to track every movement of your and your money, to protect you from yourself."
Gee whiz. Sounds like the Democratic and Democrat Light(Republican) parties right there. Everyone is talking about Nationalized Heath Care now, and guess what that is? Protecting you from yourself. Actually, it applies to just about everything our government is involved with now.
What gets me, is that the same people that want National Health Care have no idea that it also means more government intrusion into one's life that they so despise. I wonder if they'll accept the National ID if and when its attached to Universal Health Care.
Is it "they" or is it "them"? How come your are so sure it is "they" and not "them". My bets are on the "them", not the "theys". Before you go off telling everyone it is "They", you had better get all your facts straight.
Oh, and by mentioning "they", you've just popped up on the RADAR of both "They" and "Them". Nice going! And, in case you were wondering, I'm already being watched. I got nothing to hide.
There's a fine line between stupidity and ignorance. How many people DON'T know because NOBODY told them different vs how many people have been told yet still don't care enough to learn?
In other words, don't blame the student, blame the teachers (us techies).
Your right, they have the "right" to do it. Just because we CAN do something doesn't mean we OUGHT to do it. And I have one word why this also breaks down quickly....
PHISHERS
100s of domains all used by Dell makes it much easier to sneak one in that isn't but could be.
So, what you're saying is that coding towards ignorance is better than education? I also blame part of this edge of the mess on early Web, which was almost uniformly www.foo.com. Even Slashdot's own name is a play on this phenomenon, but that is besides the point.
I'd much rather someone big like DELL make it clear that any website that doesn't end in DOTdellDOTcom isn't Dell. The solution that is best is education, not ignorance. Ignorance is expensive.
Seriously, if DELL only had ONE primary domain name "Dell.com" rather than the myriad of other "domain names" and properly used host name designations for various ads, then they wouldn't have an issue, would they?
If your response is related to the intellectual capabilities of Atheists or Agnostics, then believing in Evolution (or whatever you believe) isn't all you're trying to make it to be.
As for Creation vs Evolution, both can be equally understood by someone, apart and distinct from each. I happen to believe in Creation (so get your jabs in) but can and often discuss Evolution in more details than your average non-believing Democrat (or believing Republican) can. Being able to discuss the merits of Evolution scientifically doesn't negate or prove one's intelligence. I wonder if you have any idea how many scientists are actually "christian" or "jewish"? There quite a few, many of which excel in their scientific field. My point? Religion in no way affects how science is done, regardless of one's world view. Those that think it does show less sound reasoning than the ones they are blaming for poor science ability in our society. I blame the public education system where the only people being paid any attention are those in the bottom end of the gene pool (Evolutionary speaking of course).
Holding to a position such as yours, where you're antagonistic towards anyone with a differing opinion scares the crap out of me, about as much as those religious loons holding signs that say "thank god for the Iraq War".
As for "logic, thought and everyone's" well being, why not look at the stances taken by all the candidates. It isn't the President's job to look after everyone, or even government's job. It isn't even to lead this country. If the congress did its job, and the president did his job, and the courts did their job, we wouldn't be in the mess we have now. COngress thinks it is Executive branch (Investigating crimes/Steroids), The President creates laws (Executive orders) as does the Judicial branch.
I'm libertarian (and L), and yet I find most of the Libertarians out there looney or unable to articulate things well enough to gain any votes. Ron Paul is as close as a Libertarian you're gonna find, and he has drawn out the typical libertarian loons. I still think he'd make one heck of a president and piss off all the power elites (Republicrats) in DC. Something we probably need.
DRM by choice is still DRM and bad. Enabling DRM for DRM sake on a General Purpose computing device is insane. There is no reason to have an OS have any DRM at all. None. If Hollywood and Americal Idol folks want to have DRM, let them build specialty products and require the users to buy those.
And when they've bought the same album (or movie) for the fifth time (45, 8 track, 33, cassette, CD... ) then they'll realize that Elvis (or his kid, grand kid etc) isn't starving. Yes, some of us are that old.
Really, I don't have to or want to buy it again. Offtopic rant semi-related... I like Tom Petty, but that halftime show sucked. BORING.
So, what you're saying is that you're a one issue person, and that one issue has nothing (or very little) to do with running a country (or state). So, there you are, saying you can't vote for someone because of some position that has little or nothing to do with anything of the office being discussed.
I'd really love to see the logic in that. I'm sure you have some smug reason, I'd just love to hear it. Better yet, I'd love to debate the merits of choosing a leader based upon that one issue alone.
I'm still waiting for a FOSS version of something like Exchange/Outlook. Don't get me wrong, I'm fully a FOSS supporter, and despise just about everything MS. There are a few email/calendar type apps out there, but nothing even comes close to Exchange / Outlook.
I blame the development model, where the parts of the puzzle are greater than the whole. This is quite interesting, once you realize it. Linux and the related applications and projects are singularly better than anything coming from Microsoft, but the whole isn't. Firefox is better than IE, Thunderbird is better than Outlook email, etc etc. The exception seems to be LAMP.
Why should anyone tell them who anyone is? Shouldn't the RIAA be held for wrongful prosecution or whatever it is, for bringing suit against the wrong person?
Why aren't judges allowed to look upon all RIAA suits with some level of mistrust. They've been proven wrong in so many cases that it is criminal. YES CRIMINAL. Someone should go to jail for all the crap they've put people through.
I find OS X extremely easy to use, once I "forgot" all the goofy things I had to "learn" to make Windows useful (learn from Win 3.0 days). This is when one realizes how goofy WINDOWS really is, and how awkward and intrusive to actually working it really is. Find someone who doesn't know computers at all (getting harder each day), and have them work on a PC and a Mac, I guarantee you they will be more productive on the Mac from the start.
We've all made fun of the "click start"... "but I want to turn the computer off" jokes. Think about it, everything we do on Windows is just as silly.
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"And their guts know that they need to track every movement of your and your money, to protect you from yourself."
Gee whiz. Sounds like the Democratic and Democrat Light(Republican) parties right there. Everyone is talking about Nationalized Heath Care now, and guess what that is? Protecting you from yourself. Actually, it applies to just about everything our government is involved with now.
What gets me, is that the same people that want National Health Care have no idea that it also means more government intrusion into one's life that they so despise. I wonder if they'll accept the National ID if and when its attached to Universal Health Care.
Is it "they" or is it "them"? How come your are so sure it is "they" and not "them". My bets are on the "them", not the "theys". Before you go off telling everyone it is "They", you had better get all your facts straight.
Oh, and by mentioning "they", you've just popped up on the RADAR of both "They" and "Them". Nice going! And, in case you were wondering, I'm already being watched. I got nothing to hide.
"Blame stupidity for that one."
There's a fine line between stupidity and ignorance. How many people DON'T know because NOBODY told them different vs how many people have been told yet still don't care enough to learn?
In other words, don't blame the student, blame the teachers (us techies).
"I actually got an MS bash out of this thread!"
Nice! Double Plus Super Good. That, and I think you made my point for me. Thanks.
Your right, they have the "right" to do it. Just because we CAN do something doesn't mean we OUGHT to do it. And I have one word why this also breaks down quickly ....
PHISHERS
100s of domains all used by Dell makes it much easier to sneak one in that isn't but could be.
So, what you're saying is that coding towards ignorance is better than education? I also blame part of this edge of the mess on early Web, which was almost uniformly www.foo.com. Even Slashdot's own name is a play on this phenomenon, but that is besides the point.
I'd much rather someone big like DELL make it clear that any website that doesn't end in DOTdellDOTcom isn't Dell. The solution that is best is education, not ignorance. Ignorance is expensive.
Crap, I sound like a bumpersticker .
Dell for this.
Seriously, if DELL only had ONE primary domain name "Dell.com" rather than the myriad of other "domain names" and properly used host name designations for various ads, then they wouldn't have an issue, would they?
www.dell.com
education.dell.com
support.dell.com
deals.dell.com
dudeyourgettinga.dell.com
farmerinthe.dell.com
Can anyone give me a good reason why dell needs 100s of related sites that can't be done just as easily as proper hostnames?
If your response is related to the intellectual capabilities of Atheists or Agnostics, then believing in Evolution (or whatever you believe) isn't all you're trying to make it to be.
As for Creation vs Evolution, both can be equally understood by someone, apart and distinct from each. I happen to believe in Creation (so get your jabs in) but can and often discuss Evolution in more details than your average non-believing Democrat (or believing Republican) can. Being able to discuss the merits of Evolution scientifically doesn't negate or prove one's intelligence. I wonder if you have any idea how many scientists are actually "christian" or "jewish"? There quite a few, many of which excel in their scientific field. My point? Religion in no way affects how science is done, regardless of one's world view. Those that think it does show less sound reasoning than the ones they are blaming for poor science ability in our society. I blame the public education system where the only people being paid any attention are those in the bottom end of the gene pool (Evolutionary speaking of course).
Holding to a position such as yours, where you're antagonistic towards anyone with a differing opinion scares the crap out of me, about as much as those religious loons holding signs that say "thank god for the Iraq War".
As for "logic, thought and everyone's" well being, why not look at the stances taken by all the candidates. It isn't the President's job to look after everyone, or even government's job. It isn't even to lead this country. If the congress did its job, and the president did his job, and the courts did their job, we wouldn't be in the mess we have now. COngress thinks it is Executive branch (Investigating crimes/Steroids), The President creates laws (Executive orders) as does the Judicial branch.
I'm libertarian (and L), and yet I find most of the Libertarians out there looney or unable to articulate things well enough to gain any votes. Ron Paul is as close as a Libertarian you're gonna find, and he has drawn out the typical libertarian loons. I still think he'd make one heck of a president and piss off all the power elites (Republicrats) in DC. Something we probably need.
DRM by choice is still DRM and bad. Enabling DRM for DRM sake on a General Purpose computing device is insane. There is no reason to have an OS have any DRM at all. None. If Hollywood and Americal Idol folks want to have DRM, let them build specialty products and require the users to buy those.
... ) then they'll realize that Elvis (or his kid, grand kid etc) isn't starving. Yes, some of us are that old.
... I like Tom Petty, but that halftime show sucked. BORING.
And when they've bought the same album (or movie) for the fifth time (45, 8 track, 33, cassette, CD
Really, I don't have to or want to buy it again. Offtopic rant semi-related
"I used to play D&D (and AD&D) a lot when I was in junior high"
... "momsbasement"
Which is why I tagged it
YaMicroHooSoft
... yeah, micro who's soft
as in
So, what you're saying is that you're a one issue person, and that one issue has nothing (or very little) to do with running a country (or state). So, there you are, saying you can't vote for someone because of some position that has little or nothing to do with anything of the office being discussed.
I'd really love to see the logic in that. I'm sure you have some smug reason, I'd just love to hear it. Better yet, I'd love to debate the merits of choosing a leader based upon that one issue alone.
Care to engage ?
"(Disclaimer: Honestly, I think with the way things are going, nobody can "fix" this mess)"
This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done
this may be a case where the Cowboy Neal option is actually correct.
... most cars don't disappear when hitting 88 mph
"Windows 7 will have a really awesome mini kernel, and then they will shove everything into the kernel so it runs as fast as possible."
You just keep believing that okay?
I'm still waiting for a FOSS version of something like Exchange/Outlook. Don't get me wrong, I'm fully a FOSS supporter, and despise just about everything MS. There are a few email/calendar type apps out there, but nothing even comes close to Exchange / Outlook.
I blame the development model, where the parts of the puzzle are greater than the whole. This is quite interesting, once you realize it. Linux and the related applications and projects are singularly better than anything coming from Microsoft, but the whole isn't. Firefox is better than IE, Thunderbird is better than Outlook email, etc etc. The exception seems to be LAMP.
But that is just me.
How about a class action lawsuit against RIAA. I don't care what we call it.
... scorched earth warfare! May they all burn in Hell (apologies to all the atheists and agnostics).
Its time to fight fire with fire
Why should anyone tell them who anyone is? Shouldn't the RIAA be held for wrongful prosecution or whatever it is, for bringing suit against the wrong person?
Why aren't judges allowed to look upon all RIAA suits with some level of mistrust. They've been proven wrong in so many cases that it is criminal. YES CRIMINAL. Someone should go to jail for all the crap they've put people through.
The obvious choice would be gPhone or maybe even dPhone, but I have an even better suggestion ...
....
the GD-ItPhone, which might be the expletive used by the early buyers
On a more serious note, they'd better out do iPhone 2.0 and come in under the current iPhone pricing.
Just my 2 copper coins of the realm.
Yes.
We're against everything that has errors, so we're against anything distinctly human, which is why we like technolog(&#$#$OOO@ no carrier
It seems that a TORRENT of complaints to the FCC is the result
New Meme, instead of "Going Postal", it will be the new version of "SLASHDotted"
I'm not using a SMTP Proxy Server, I'm using a SMTP Relay server. Its not the same. :p
I find OS X extremely easy to use, once I "forgot" all the goofy things I had to "learn" to make Windows useful (learn from Win 3.0 days). This is when one realizes how goofy WINDOWS really is, and how awkward and intrusive to actually working it really is. Find someone who doesn't know computers at all (getting harder each day), and have them work on a PC and a Mac, I guarantee you they will be more productive on the Mac from the start.
... "but I want to turn the computer off" jokes. Think about it, everything we do on Windows is just as silly.
We've all made fun of the "click start"