No, its more likely that you're just not paying attention.
IF you are unhappy that I incorrectly characterized your political views, then you should have communicated them more accurately.
Unfortunately, with the half assed arguments people tend to make here, you have to make a snap judgement. Articluate your view with logic and reason, rather than a short spew and people will understand you better.
AH, I see, you hate people who can afford cars, and so you use this incident with one of them to justify persecuting those who can barely afford cars.
I don't see how smog sensors are going to punish the guy who you claim attacked you with his car.
But then, why should I expect logic? PRobably this is all jsut a class thing-- you hate people who can afford cars, or nicer cars than you. With liberals thats what it usually is.
At any rate, since you are the one who wants to persecute a class of people-- like the Nazis did the jews-- you're the one who's the Nazi here.
You are creating rights-- you don't have the right to force people to live the way you want.
Your rights are not being violated by people living their lives their own way.
This is the problem with liberalism-- you have no clue what human rights really are and so you start creating pretend rights in an effort- ultimately-- to impose communism.
By your argument, free speech is a fundamental right, but to put that speech into a news paper that oyu own the press for is a priviledge.
You claim you have the right to stop people from publishing things you don't like to hear!
You're wrong--- free speech is a right, whether spoken or published.
Your claim that travel by car is polluting your air is not scientifically valid.
Teh vast majority of pollution in this coutry does not come from cars.
You guys always say "but what about the children". Which is bullshit because your policies ultimately persecute children (like the ones who will go hungry because you took away the car the parents used to get to work.)
Fascist, that's what you are. You OPPOSE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Thanks to Liberal governemnt we get even more poverty and persecution of those who already are poor.
Who's going to get caught by this? People driving clunkers, of course.
And what happens when you drive by a sensor 5 times a week and it sends you 5 citations at $50 or $100 a pop?
You can't afford to pay them.
And what happens when you can't afford to pay them? They sieze your car. OR you do pay them, selling your clunker to barely cover the $500.
Now you can't get to work.
So what happens? You are back in that hole that is very difficult to get out of.
Course the sensor cant tell one car from another so people will get charged constantly for the same car... actually 10 times a week, I forgot they'd be cited on the way home as well.
Gotta love that government-- persecution with a smile!
And you liberals fancy yourselves the benefactors of the poor! (Which is ironic because your policies have demonstrably increased poverty in this country) But yet another instance here you make poor people poorer and do NOTHING for the environment!
Here's a clue for the clueless-- the vast majority of environmental polution comes from the government--which operates without review-- not from individuals, and certainly not from cars.
But this isn't about the environement anyway-- this is about persecuting the poor. You just can't come right out and admit it. ITs bad enough you took away half their jobs iwth the minimum wage laws (which cuts unemployement and kills jobs) and unionization and your massive tax burden (which is regressive as all hell). No, then you had to go and waste the money that is collected by those taxes and bullshit programs like the drug war, and pouring money down the sinkhole that is public schools -- where its common to pay teachers for decades after they've died, as was recently discovered again in New Orleans.
No, much easier to claim its for the environemnt.
But you're not fooling anyone with a basic understanding of economics.
No, this is a protest of the flagrant criminality of microsoft-- forcing schools to pay for windows licenses for Macs that can't run windows, etc. etc.
IF you'd paid attention, you would have noticed that I bought Virtual PC in the past.
A value is when you get a better deal for your money. Since Macs cost less to buy and operate, and give you a better deal-- even better than Linux-- you get a better VALUE with a Mac.
You should try one sometime.
As to the Yuppie comment.,.. let me guess, you're a a liberal. Why is it liberals hate success? Why is it liberals work so hard to insure everyone ends up in poverty?
The government doesn't have the right because the constitution does not give them that right.
While the constitution covers the federal government, the states constitutions are generrally modeled after the federal one and most of them don't give the government that right either.
As to government owned roads-- that's bullshit-- they decreed themselves the monopolists of roads. We didn't consent to them owning them. And like all nationalized services they provide crappy service at a high price (like the post office.)
As to dumping toxic waste, if you did it at a rate that did not damage my property at all-- eg: you simply idled your car for 10 minutes in the mornings before going to work, no I wouldn't have a problem with it.
You guys are so out of touch with the science of the environment its not funny.... and you work to OPPOSE improvements ot the environemtn because of it! Just look at the devastation the "nature conservancy" brought to palmyra. What a joke.
As to the government having default rihgts-- you really oppose human rights don't you? Humans have rights. The government, by default, has NONE. And the only rights it can legitimately have are hte ones humans consent to giving it. And not the majority-- the unanimity.
But the idea that democrats oppose the war on drugs is absurd.
Name one presidential canddiate from that party that has come out in opposition to it. Or the last time they put a law forward on congress to shut it down.
It is an idea with total democrat support. You had congress and Clinton and you did nothing to stop it-- you expanded it, infact.
By calling the rest of my points "Baseless and nonsensical" I take it you have to recognize they are true, but don't have the integrity to do so.
By calling me a troll, you show that you have a closed mind and are apparently incapable of actually thinking about an opinion that disagrees with yours.
First off, Boeing hasn't left. They relocated their headquarters, not the whole company.
I should be fair and credit our State government which has given us the highest state minimum wage in the country-- that's more likely the reason we have the highest unemployment than anything else. ex-Microsoft idiots who thought they could start companies, though, is a big factor in the unemployment of technologists in this region.
The overall unemployment, of course, is due to our crappy government-- which spent like crazy in the boom and now has massive budget shortfalls on top of a poor environment to do business, with too much regulation, too much taxation and too high a minimum wage. (Minimum wage doesn't raise wages, it raises unemployment. ITs a bad thing-- it CREATES poverty.)
Secondly, Microsoft is hiring, but not local experienced employees. Microsoft hires kids right out of college because they are cheap.
If you've got 5 years of experience or more, Microsoft doesn't want to hire you... you're too expensive for them.
IF you think about it, that explains a lot about the quality of their software!
That peopel will idly sit by and let this happen-- hell they never even question the authority of government to do these things.... shows just how far this country has fallen into tyranny!
The government doesn't have the rigth to license cars or drivers, let alone put environmental restrictiosn on them.
Travel is a FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT.
But you guys keep rah-rahing for the taking away of rights of people you don't like, and eventually they'll get around to making sure you are so poor (cause you've paid all your savings into social security which pays out nothing in your old age ) that you die as well.
There are precious few people who respect the constitution in this country... and you all deserve what you get. Only you're too clueless to realize you asked for it!
You don't get to support socialism (Eg: Democrats) and quote Niomoller.... not when you're endorsing rounding up drug users, gun owners, religious people, and executing them nazi style.
I find conservatives annoying, but democrats are pure hypocrites.
You run around advocating pogroms and calling yourself "tolerant".
And the worst thing is mostly you're too stupid to even realize the hypocrisy.
Yes, because as a PC user you've never accounted for the thousands of dollars your poured into your piece of shit fly-by-night crap.
Macintoshes are cheaper, and have been for almost a decade now.
Its just that %90 of the populace can't, or doesn't do the math, and so they buy PCs (And new cars, and houses and lots of other stupid financial moves that they think are smart.)
By the way, I'm sure you'll be happy to know Microsoft is counting you as a windows user as it convinces everyone that they have %90+ market share. How does it feel to be a tool of Microsoft?
I've been boycotting Microsoft for some time due to their dishonest, FRAUDULENT and unseemly activities.
But this pisses me off. Not that I use VPC much, but I do have a licensed copy.
No more.
I am now going to Pirate VPC and do my best to make sure pirated copies of VPC show up on as many forums and distribution points as I can find.
I've had it with Microsoft extorting money from schools for Windows licenses for every Mac they have. I've had it with Microsoft spreading lies about its competitors. I've had it with the Justice department going after MS for stupid anti-trust when straight Fraud and Theft charges are just as appropriate. And I've had it with the low moral, arrogant, incompetant Microsoft employees that are responsible for the Seattle half of the dotcom bust with their poorly run (and no longer running) companies.
I'm a Mac user, and I just became a Microsoft enemy. I believed that this was a free market and Micrisoft was allowed to compete, and anyone who bougth their stuff was just a fool. But this is it. This isn't a criminal activity-- they can make their software fail to run Linux and suck a little more... but buying the only x86 Emulator on the market and then hobbling it just pisses me off. ITs not enough that they have %90 market share-- no, they have to piss all over us.
Basically, you;re a fucking idiot who believes what you want to believe, despite reality.
If you knew anyhting about economics you'd know you're full of shit.
And as for "great federal programs" a dare you to name one-- a SINGLE ONE that is of decent quality.
Sure, mail to the bush would be more expensive than local mail under a private system-- but even that more expensive mail would be cheaper than it currently costs to send the mail locally or to the bush.
Jesus but you have to be dense not to see the economic fallacy in what you advocate.
And immoral too-- to casually assert that humans have no rights, and that we should be glad to be forced to live under the rule of a government that gets to decide how we live, and how much of our own produce we get to keep.
You are, literally, the moral equivilent of one who supported the nazis sending jews off to the gas chamber... you adovcate the system--- socialism-- that was behind the National Socialist party in Germany, the USSR, Pol Pot, China--- all in all about 100 million people killed by your brand of "economic justice" in the last 100 years.
And you call me a moron. Well, typical of leftists, you have nothing but bigotry to try and justify your desire for mass death.
Those "licensed" stations are licensed by whom? The government of course.
This is another case of the government taking community property-- in this case the airwaves-- and selling it to the highest bidder, while keeping us from using them.
Yes, the FCC grants an exclusion if you'r;e under 1 watt... and the UK is just a little more fascist in that regard.
But the Government does not have the right to get involved in the first place... hell the FCC isn't even constitutional-- nowhere in the constitution is the FCC given authorization. (and if it aint' authorized in the constitution, its retained by the states and people, according to the constitution.)
And finally, NO, they do NOT transmit on the same frequencies as the local radio stations--otherwise your radio would pick up the local station rather than your transmitter.... so how are they interefering with the local station, as you claim?
Don't be a rube who lets the government tell you what to think-- the german people arent' fascist, they just failed to stand up to their government. Why do you give our government a pass?
Government is a disease masquarading as its own cure-- you've just provided an example of a government created problem that government pretends to cure!
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YEah, that server, however ,cost more than the Mac when you bought it.
This is the truth... you guys just can't handle the truth.
Its not enough that you have the market share, you have to bash the Mac anyway.
Becuase deep down inside, you know it's superior.
No, its more likely that you're just not paying attention.
IF you are unhappy that I incorrectly characterized your political views, then you should have communicated them more accurately.
Unfortunately, with the half assed arguments people tend to make here, you have to make a snap judgement. Articluate your view with logic and reason, rather than a short spew and people will understand you better.
The idea that Mac hardware costs more is absurd. It costs less and you get more with it.
You can buy a POS PC for less money, but over 2 years it will cost you far more.
Or are you one of those people who drives a Yugo cause you think its the same as a Toyota, Mercedes or BMW?
AH, I see, you hate people who can afford cars, and so you use this incident with one of them to justify persecuting those who can barely afford cars.
I don't see how smog sensors are going to punish the guy who you claim attacked you with his car.
But then, why should I expect logic? PRobably this is all jsut a class thing-- you hate people who can afford cars, or nicer cars than you. With liberals thats what it usually is.
At any rate, since you are the one who wants to persecute a class of people-- like the Nazis did the jews-- you're the one who's the Nazi here.
I say, live and let live.
You really can walk 30 miles each way to and from work in under an hour?
Wow, you're amazing!
But I suspect you're a liar.
The average person walks 5 miles an hour...so that would be a bout 12 hours walking to and from work. With an 8 hour day that leaves 4 hours to sleep.
Not very practical.
You are creating rights-- you don't have the right to force people to live the way you want.
Your rights are not being violated by people living their lives their own way.
This is the problem with liberalism-- you have no clue what human rights really are and so you start creating pretend rights in an effort- ultimately-- to impose communism.
No, travel by car is not a priviledge.
By your argument, free speech is a fundamental right, but to put that speech into a news paper that oyu own the press for is a priviledge.
You claim you have the right to stop people from publishing things you don't like to hear!
You're wrong--- free speech is a right, whether spoken or published.
Your claim that travel by car is polluting your air is not scientifically valid.
Teh vast majority of pollution in this coutry does not come from cars.
You guys always say "but what about the children". Which is bullshit because your policies ultimately persecute children (like the ones who will go hungry because you took away the car the parents used to get to work.)
Fascist, that's what you are. You OPPOSE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Thanks to Liberal governemnt we get even more poverty and persecution of those who already are poor.
Who's going to get caught by this? People driving clunkers, of course.
And what happens when you drive by a sensor 5 times a week and it sends you 5 citations at $50 or $100 a pop?
You can't afford to pay them.
And what happens when you can't afford to pay them? They sieze your car. OR you do pay them, selling your clunker to barely cover the $500.
Now you can't get to work.
So what happens? You are back in that hole that is very difficult to get out of.
Course the sensor cant tell one car from another so people will get charged constantly for the same car... actually 10 times a week, I forgot they'd be cited on the way home as well.
Gotta love that government-- persecution with a smile!
And you liberals fancy yourselves the benefactors of the poor! (Which is ironic because your policies have demonstrably increased poverty in this country) But yet another instance here you make poor people poorer and do NOTHING for the environment!
Here's a clue for the clueless-- the vast majority of environmental polution comes from the government--which operates without review-- not from individuals, and certainly not from cars.
But this isn't about the environement anyway-- this is about persecuting the poor. You just can't come right out and admit it. ITs bad enough you took away half their jobs iwth the minimum wage laws (which cuts unemployement and kills jobs) and unionization and your massive tax burden (which is regressive as all hell). No, then you had to go and waste the money that is collected by those taxes and bullshit programs like the drug war, and pouring money down the sinkhole that is public schools -- where its common to pay teachers for decades after they've died, as was recently discovered again in New Orleans.
No, much easier to claim its for the environemnt.
But you're not fooling anyone with a basic understanding of economics.
Gee, who said I didn't agree with the prices?
No, this is a protest of the flagrant criminality of microsoft-- forcing schools to pay for windows licenses for Macs that can't run windows, etc. etc.
IF you'd paid attention, you would have noticed that I bought Virtual PC in the past.
Clearly I can afford it.
What are you, 16?
A value is when you get a better deal for your money. Since Macs cost less to buy and operate, and give you a better deal-- even better than Linux-- you get a better VALUE with a Mac.
You should try one sometime.
As to the Yuppie comment.,.. let me guess, you're a a liberal. Why is it liberals hate success? Why is it liberals work so hard to insure everyone ends up in poverty?
The government doesn't have the right because the constitution does not give them that right.
While the constitution covers the federal government, the states constitutions are generrally modeled after the federal one and most of them don't give the government that right either.
As to government owned roads-- that's bullshit-- they decreed themselves the monopolists of roads. We didn't consent to them owning them. And like all nationalized services they provide crappy service at a high price (like the post office.)
As to dumping toxic waste, if you did it at a rate that did not damage my property at all-- eg: you simply idled your car for 10 minutes in the mornings before going to work, no I wouldn't have a problem with it.
You guys are so out of touch with the science of the environment its not funny.... and you work to OPPOSE improvements ot the environemtn because of it! Just look at the devastation the "nature conservancy" brought to palmyra. What a joke.
As to the government having default rihgts-- you really oppose human rights don't you? Humans have rights. The government, by default, has NONE. And the only rights it can legitimately have are hte ones humans consent to giving it. And not the majority-- the unanimity.
Thanks for telling me about the link.
But the idea that democrats oppose the war on drugs is absurd.
Name one presidential canddiate from that party that has come out in opposition to it. Or the last time they put a law forward on congress to shut it down.
It is an idea with total democrat support. You had congress and Clinton and you did nothing to stop it-- you expanded it, infact.
By calling the rest of my points "Baseless and nonsensical" I take it you have to recognize they are true, but don't have the integrity to do so.
By calling me a troll, you show that you have a closed mind and are apparently incapable of actually thinking about an opinion that disagrees with yours.
Unfortunate.
First off, Boeing hasn't left. They relocated their headquarters, not the whole company.
I should be fair and credit our State government which has given us the highest state minimum wage in the country-- that's more likely the reason we have the highest unemployment than anything else. ex-Microsoft idiots who thought they could start companies, though, is a big factor in the unemployment of technologists in this region.
The overall unemployment, of course, is due to our crappy government-- which spent like crazy in the boom and now has massive budget shortfalls on top of a poor environment to do business, with too much regulation, too much taxation and too high a minimum wage. (Minimum wage doesn't raise wages, it raises unemployment. ITs a bad thing-- it CREATES poverty.)
Secondly, Microsoft is hiring, but not local experienced employees. Microsoft hires kids right out of college because they are cheap.
If you've got 5 years of experience or more, Microsoft doesn't want to hire you... you're too expensive for them.
IF you think about it, that explains a lot about the quality of their software!
IF you know of a competitor who provides x86 emulation on the Mac, let me know... I'll let everyone I know hear about it.
In fact, I expect Apple will come out with something like that in the next year or so.
But at this point, there is no competitor to VPC, that I know of.
Yeah, that Althon box will cost you $4,000 over the next three years.
You can get a hell of a Mac for $4,000 and not have to deal with replacing your power supply every 6 months, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Yes, and if your number is correct, you could have gotten Macintoshes for less that do more.
By the way, you need to provide a counter argument, before you talk about who's an idiot, idiot.
That peopel will idly sit by and let this happen-- hell they never even question the authority of government to do these things.... shows just how far this country has fallen into tyranny!
The government doesn't have the rigth to license cars or drivers, let alone put environmental restrictiosn on them.
Travel is a FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT.
But you guys keep rah-rahing for the taking away of rights of people you don't like, and eventually they'll get around to making sure you are so poor (cause you've paid all your savings into social security which pays out nothing in your old age ) that you die as well.
There are precious few people who respect the constitution in this country... and you all deserve what you get. Only you're too clueless to realize you asked for it!
You don't get to support socialism (Eg: Democrats) and quote Niomoller.... not when you're endorsing rounding up drug users, gun owners, religious people, and executing them nazi style.
I find conservatives annoying, but democrats are pure hypocrites.
You run around advocating pogroms and calling yourself "tolerant".
And the worst thing is mostly you're too stupid to even realize the hypocrisy.
Liberalism is just a as bigotted as the KKK.
Someone's ported VMWare to the Mac?
Yes, because as a PC user you've never accounted for the thousands of dollars your poured into your piece of shit fly-by-night crap.
Macintoshes are cheaper, and have been for almost a decade now.
Its just that %90 of the populace can't, or doesn't do the math, and so they buy PCs (And new cars, and houses and lots of other stupid financial moves that they think are smart.)
By the way, I'm sure you'll be happy to know Microsoft is counting you as a windows user as it convinces everyone that they have %90+ market share. How does it feel to be a tool of Microsoft?
I've been boycotting Microsoft for some time due to their dishonest, FRAUDULENT and unseemly activities.
But this pisses me off. Not that I use VPC much, but I do have a licensed copy.
No more.
I am now going to Pirate VPC and do my best to make sure pirated copies of VPC show up on as many forums and distribution points as I can find.
I've had it with Microsoft extorting money from schools for Windows licenses for every Mac they have. I've had it with Microsoft spreading lies about its competitors. I've had it with the Justice department going after MS for stupid anti-trust when straight Fraud and Theft charges are just as appropriate. And I've had it with the low moral, arrogant, incompetant Microsoft employees that are responsible for the Seattle half of the dotcom bust with their poorly run (and no longer running) companies.
I'm a Mac user, and I just became a Microsoft enemy. I believed that this was a free market and Micrisoft was allowed to compete, and anyone who bougth their stuff was just a fool. But this is it. This isn't a criminal activity-- they can make their software fail to run Linux and suck a little more... but buying the only x86 Emulator on the market and then hobbling it just pisses me off. ITs not enough that they have %90 market share-- no, they have to piss all over us.
Well. That's it. This means war.
Yeah, you pay more, and yet you get a much better deal. Amazing how that works?
Why go with free BSD, saving the money, but spending a hundred times the cost of the MAc OS upgrade in wasted time and hassle and lower producctivity?
Ironic you should say that, since it is reason that you call ignorance.
Seriously, you should read some economics-- and Karl Marx (aka Keynes) doesn't count.
Look up the broken window fallacy, first thing, since you keep advocating it.
Typical fucking idiot... can't take care of yourself, so you want to force everyone to live in your filth.
Basically, you;re a fucking idiot who believes what you want to believe, despite reality.
If you knew anyhting about economics you'd know you're full of shit.
And as for "great federal programs" a dare you to name one-- a SINGLE ONE that is of decent quality.
Sure, mail to the bush would be more expensive than local mail under a private system-- but even that more expensive mail would be cheaper than it currently costs to send the mail locally or to the bush.
Jesus but you have to be dense not to see the economic fallacy in what you advocate.
And immoral too-- to casually assert that humans have no rights, and that we should be glad to be forced to live under the rule of a government that gets to decide how we live, and how much of our own produce we get to keep.
You are, literally, the moral equivilent of one who supported the nazis sending jews off to the gas chamber... you adovcate the system--- socialism-- that was behind the National Socialist party in Germany, the USSR, Pol Pot, China--- all in all about 100 million people killed by your brand of "economic justice" in the last 100 years.
And you call me a moron. Well, typical of leftists, you have nothing but bigotry to try and justify your desire for mass death.
Those "licensed" stations are licensed by whom? The government of course.
This is another case of the government taking community property-- in this case the airwaves-- and selling it to the highest bidder, while keeping us from using them.
Yes, the FCC grants an exclusion if you'r;e under 1 watt... and the UK is just a little more fascist in that regard.
But the Government does not have the right to get involved in the first place... hell the FCC isn't even constitutional-- nowhere in the constitution is the FCC given authorization.
(and if it aint' authorized in the constitution, its retained by the states and people, according to the constitution.)
And finally, NO, they do NOT transmit on the same frequencies as the local radio stations--otherwise your radio would pick up the local station rather than your transmitter.... so how are they interefering with the local station, as you claim?
Don't be a rube who lets the government tell you what to think-- the german people arent' fascist, they just failed to stand up to their government. Why do you give our government a pass?
Government is a disease masquarading as its own cure-- you've just provided an example of a government created problem that government pretends to cure!
And have thus, proven my point.