"the government's duty is to prove to the population that invasion of a foreign country is necessary"
The government's duty is to obey the people. If the government can make drastic decisions such as this without the consent of a majority of the people, we will keep seeing the same corruption and stupidity that plagues us currently.
"but I truly believe it fits for a lot of people."
"and just makes the attempt to get lawmakers to see reason even more difficult"
Then they'll just piss more people off. If they remove even more freedoms, they might even alert the average idiot. Then again, I doubt they would do anything, as most people don't even know how to fight for their rights anymore, or care to do so. Some of them even think that breaking the law is always 'bad', I'm willing to bet.
Pollution is still somewhat related, though. I know exactly what the other posts were talking about, but my original post was talking about other kinds of pollution.
"So, I either you are the most uncouth motherfucking poster around or an ignorant motherfucker. What kind are you?"
"As I said, you start with the most evil ones, favour better behaved companies, and make it a competative advantage to be one of the better behaved ones"
Yes, but as I said, until the people actually receive some power, this will continue to happen over and over again. One corrupt corporations falls, another rises.
Competition, man. It solves all. There's probably hundreds, if not thousands, of ISPs in his area alone that offer an unlimited data plan. They're just invisible!
"and there's no guarantee that the client receives a file within a certain time frame."
But that applies to regular downloading, too. It depends on the server location, its connection speed, your connection speed (which isn't always constant), and how much traffic the server is getting at the time.
So get another ISP! There's always thousands of ISPs in all areas of the world. Competition ensures that at least some of them follow good practices. Get with the times, man.
No, the swap file is much slower than RAM (that and I have 4GB of RAM and close applications that I don't use). Not to mention that it uses hard drive space and if it somehow gets corrupted, it will contain incorrect contents. If you're really low on RAM, it's pretty much a last resort.
You're forgetting that it's completely possible to steal money (the pirates money) that only exists in the future of an alternate dimension where the artist/business made more money. Also, if a sale could ever have occurred and something prevented it from happening, potential profit was stolen and whoever made this sale not happen should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
Perfectly legitimate reason to pirate something. I certainly know that if I was looking forward to a game or something and they installed crippling DRM in it, I'd pirate it. It's certainly better than buying it, thereby rewarding them with your money.
"breaking the law"
Irrelevant. The law isn't always 'right'.
"thieving fools"
Alright. What is it that pirates are stealing? We know they aren't stealing the software itself, as they're just copying data, which doesn't deprive anyone of anything. So,what is it that they are 'stealing'?
Apparently, some people are also stupid enough to believe that profit (and by profit, I of course mean money that the pirate owns and has not given to the artist/business yet) that only exists in the future of an alternate dimension where the artist/business made more money can actually be stolen.
"Firstly, because you have absolutely no way of ensuring that the pirated Windows you download has not been tampered with to the point where you're installing malware or a root kit when you do install it."
I usually look at the comments beforehand. I make sure to not download torrents with only a few seeds and such (easy if it's something big like Windows 7) and that have a bunch of comments telling me it's a virus.
"Secondly, because using a pirated version of Windows (or any software) is utter hypocrisy when legally free alternatives exist"
Uh, they do? Like something that can play the newest games without resorting to slow emulation? If so, I'd like to know what it is, because that'd be great.
"legally"
This matters little to me.
"then have the strength of character to try out an alternative."
If a free alternative that works just as well or slightly worse exists, I will use that instead. I don't pirate unless there's a point in doing so.
"Thirdly, free software cannot be pirated and pirated commercial software (and software cracks) are probably the main reason for the spread of malware across Windows PC & therefore serve to give Microsoft a much worse security reputation than they deserve."
This is completely true. Many of the less experienced users do get viruses, with or without piracy.
This is what I'm saying. If something is so carefully thought out that even a knowledgeable user with strong anti-virus software can't prevent themselves from getting 'infected' by the virus, well, it's likely that they've already found a way around that "UAC" protection. Maybe. I'm not trying to say it isn't helpful, it probably is. I'm just saying that a knowledgeable user with a good anti-virus software can prevent themselves from getting 99.99% of the viruses out there.
Close! I'd estimate around 95% of users don't know how to do much more than access a website or operate a television remote.
"the computers in peoples homes are redundant, and are merely trying to sell the same product, the same basic technology, something that does the very same thing, over and over again"
This is true, Windows 7 doesn't add anything groundbreaking. There's no reason to upgrade to it except a few very small reasons.
If something could potentially be used in a bad way, even if most people aren't going to abuse it, it must immediately be banned! So, basically, anything that can be used as a weapon, too. Which is... pretty much everything.
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"The crucial difference is that they should actually use some judgement."
Sorry, not happening. Unless the people are given more power, the government will continue to be corporate tools.
"A good servant will prevent his master from doing something stupid."
Allows for too much corruption. It is the peoples country.
"the government's duty is to prove to the population that invasion of a foreign country is necessary"
The government's duty is to obey the people. If the government can make drastic decisions such as this without the consent of a majority of the people, we will keep seeing the same corruption and stupidity that plagues us currently.
"but I truly believe it fits for a lot of people."
99%, I'd say.
"c)You didn't repeat the word "website" 3 times in one sentence."
It's a word. Was it used correctly? If so, it's fine.
"and just makes the attempt to get lawmakers to see reason even more difficult"
Then they'll just piss more people off. If they remove even more freedoms, they might even alert the average idiot. Then again, I doubt they would do anything, as most people don't even know how to fight for their rights anymore, or care to do so. Some of them even think that breaking the law is always 'bad', I'm willing to bet.
"isn't it better to use swap than to fail to allocate?"
Not when it costs you some performance and you never actually run out of RAM.
"If you are working within your RAM's limits, then what benefit does disabling swap have?"
As I already said, in that case, it's probably best to have it on. If you have tons of RAM, the swap file will only slow you down.
Pollution is still somewhat related, though. I know exactly what the other posts were talking about, but my original post was talking about other kinds of pollution.
"So, I either you are the most uncouth motherfucking poster around or an ignorant motherfucker. What kind are you?"
Both!
"As I said, you start with the most evil ones, favour better behaved companies, and make it a competative advantage to be one of the better behaved ones"
Yes, but as I said, until the people actually receive some power, this will continue to happen over and over again. One corrupt corporations falls, another rises.
Yeah, I know a bittorrent download is largely unpredictable, but I was just pointing out that, to an extent, so are regular downloads.
Competition, man. It solves all. There's probably hundreds, if not thousands, of ISPs in his area alone that offer an unlimited data plan. They're just invisible!
"and there's no guarantee that the client receives a file within a certain time frame."
But that applies to regular downloading, too. It depends on the server location, its connection speed, your connection speed (which isn't always constant), and how much traffic the server is getting at the time.
So get another ISP! There's always thousands of ISPs in all areas of the world. Competition ensures that at least some of them follow good practices. Get with the times, man.
No, the swap file is much slower than RAM (that and I have 4GB of RAM and close applications that I don't use). Not to mention that it uses hard drive space and if it somehow gets corrupted, it will contain incorrect contents. If you're really low on RAM, it's pretty much a last resort.
Obviously not!
"Windows 7, on the other hand, seems to work fine with the swap file enabled."
That's... odd. I have encountered no such thing. Whatever, though. I'm not saying I hate Windows 7, but I just see no reason to upgrade to it.
"I don't know where device manager is in the control panel"
Well, I know all of those things, so it's not of much use to me. Certainly no reason to upgrade. But, if it helps you, then good.
"Oh, and windows XP doesn't use the ctrl+shift+n shortcut to create a new directory."
I rarely use keyboard shortcuts, anyway.
They're not hypocrites, they're greedy, corrupt idiots. Obviously.
You're forgetting that it's completely possible to steal money (the pirates money) that only exists in the future of an alternate dimension where the artist/business made more money. Also, if a sale could ever have occurred and something prevented it from happening, potential profit was stolen and whoever made this sale not happen should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
"DRM"
Perfectly legitimate reason to pirate something. I certainly know that if I was looking forward to a game or something and they installed crippling DRM in it, I'd pirate it. It's certainly better than buying it, thereby rewarding them with your money.
"breaking the law"
Irrelevant. The law isn't always 'right'.
"thieving fools"
Alright. What is it that pirates are stealing? We know they aren't stealing the software itself, as they're just copying data, which doesn't deprive anyone of anything. So,what is it that they are 'stealing'?
Apparently, some people are also stupid enough to believe that profit (and by profit, I of course mean money that the pirate owns and has not given to the artist/business yet) that only exists in the future of an alternate dimension where the artist/business made more money can actually be stolen.
"Firstly, because you have absolutely no way of ensuring that the pirated Windows you download has not been tampered with to the point where you're installing malware or a root kit when you do install it."
I usually look at the comments beforehand. I make sure to not download torrents with only a few seeds and such (easy if it's something big like Windows 7) and that have a bunch of comments telling me it's a virus.
"Secondly, because using a pirated version of Windows (or any software) is utter hypocrisy when legally free alternatives exist"
Uh, they do? Like something that can play the newest games without resorting to slow emulation? If so, I'd like to know what it is, because that'd be great.
"legally"
This matters little to me.
"then have the strength of character to try out an alternative."
If a free alternative that works just as well or slightly worse exists, I will use that instead. I don't pirate unless there's a point in doing so.
"Thirdly, free software cannot be pirated and pirated commercial software (and software cracks) are probably the main reason for the spread of malware across Windows PC & therefore serve to give Microsoft a much worse security reputation than they deserve."
This is completely true. Many of the less experienced users do get viruses, with or without piracy.
"if something gets by the AV"
This is what I'm saying. If something is so carefully thought out that even a knowledgeable user with strong anti-virus software can't prevent themselves from getting 'infected' by the virus, well, it's likely that they've already found a way around that "UAC" protection. Maybe. I'm not trying to say it isn't helpful, it probably is. I'm just saying that a knowledgeable user with a good anti-virus software can prevent themselves from getting 99.99% of the viruses out there.
Oh, please. Terrorists obviously need iPhones and other gadgets to do things such as this. There's no way they'd figure it out on their own!
"(More like 100%, haha, j/k)"
Close! I'd estimate around 95% of users don't know how to do much more than access a website or operate a television remote.
"the computers in peoples homes are redundant, and are merely trying to sell the same product, the same basic technology, something that does the very same thing, over and over again"
This is true, Windows 7 doesn't add anything groundbreaking. There's no reason to upgrade to it except a few very small reasons.
"How much time did you spend?"
Around $700.
"How much money did you save?"
$200.
"How does the quotient compare to the hourly pay rate you could make doing some job?"
Absolutely irrelevant question because I did this in my free time. I already have a job and I'm not working 24/7!
"Because terrorists would never, ever be able to find out this information by themselves"
No, they wouldn't. They need iPhones to accomplish all of their evil deeds!
If something could potentially be used in a bad way, even if most people aren't going to abuse it, it must immediately be banned! So, basically, anything that can be used as a weapon, too. Which is... pretty much everything.