>>>Why is MS always being held to a double-standard that others aren't?
Because MS has been sued - twice (once in the US; once in the EU) - for using their monopolistic position to kill-off or damage competitors. The other companies are not in a monopolisticsituation.
Anyway I think the lawyer should have kept his mouth shut & waited a year after Window 8's release. That would give the US and EU regulators more ammunition ("look: users can't install Firefox or Opera") to break-up the Microsoft company once and for all..... like they did with ATT in the 80s.
One company would be the OS. The second company would be the software (Explorer, Office, Visio, etc). I'm not sure where the Xbox division would end up... maybe a third company.
>>>it took three hours to explain to these bureaucrats how such things can be accidental
Wow. The leaders of the school are dumber than the kids they are not teaching.
But I disagree with you that people should be arrested for possessing images of kiddie porn, just as they should not be arrested for images of murder victims, or car accidents, or a pile of cocaine. The holder of the image is Not the guilty person who committed the crime.
And I especially do not think people should be arrested for comics of kids, because there is no victim. No victim == no rights have been infringed. (Of course I'm sure you disagree, just as you probably want to force everyone to attend church weekly.)
>>>I've never have that in my screen but it's pure luck.
Are you sure? Some of these stupid laws would arrest you for looking at a merely nude image of a teenager, so if you've ever visited a nudist website, or seen images of Brroke Shields & other starlets nude, then you could be prosecuted under these laws.
Most Tea Partiers (like me) hate corporations. It's pretty much why the thing formed in the first place (first to help Ron Paul in 2007, and then to protest the bailout of corporations by Bush).
Sadly the Tea Party Congressmen just voted 71% in favor of the CISPA spying-by-corporations act, so maybe the TP has lost its was over the years. Hijacked by the Republicans.
I guess that's why their new LED burns-up 26 watts but only created the equivalent of a 100 watt bulb. They are losing efficiency because the LEDs are being driven to high powers. (Lower power 25W or 40W bulbs only use 3 and 6 watts.)
>>>The TSA's whole job is to keep radical idiots from blowing me and my family up in mid air.
You're worried about the 1 in 700 million odds of death-by-terrorist. And yet you stuff your face with fat & sugar, which WILL kill you through artery blockage. Way to totally invalidate your original argument.
Stop being afraid of unlikely events like death-by-terrorist, death-by-tsunami, or death-by-meteorite, and focus on the REAL killers like heart attack, brain stroke, cancer, or driving to work in your car. Those are the things that kill 99.999% of Americans.
Open Source advocate Dr. Richard Stallman for one. I was listening to an interview he did with Alex Jones, and I was surprised to hear he boycotts the Kindle and other e-readers, and prefers physical books. Read more here:
I'd rather lose weight by not eating, such as skipping supper, then waste time on a treadmill or bike. Besides diet restriction has been shown (in mice/monkeys) to create a longer-lasting body.
Agreed and if I am, they can quartine me. BUT I am not diseased, so they should keep their hands off me. There is no justification for a government cop to bust down a door, followed by a nurse, and hold-down either you or your kids to forcibly rape..... er, I mean inject them. That is a violation of bodily rights. (And yes that has happened in states like California and Texas.)
Except there is no more regression smaller than the body nature has given you. The whole of that body is yours and yours alone, and you have the right to use it in aggregate to think a thought, to speak it, or write it.
>>>If you truly believe that BMI is an accurate measure of somebody's overall health, you have some learning to do
Let's suppose he's a doctor. How much more learning does he need? You still think you know more than the doctors in the WHO and AMA who publish these BMI figures?
They are no more "human" and entitled to human rights, then this building I'm sitting in. The people inside the building have a right to free speech, but not the building itself.
>>>What does your token anti-vax friend say while they pick up their teeth with broken fingers?
Yes because the way to deal with people who hold "wrongthought" is to punish them with brutality. Maybe even send them to a re-education camp, like they did in Socialist Russia. Are you a Democrat per chance? I may not like your opinion or your group (KKK) but you still have a natural right to express yourself using the body given to you.
Or else they claim it has Tracking Devices in the vaccine.
I am pro-vaccine and had all my shots, but am also anti-force. The government has no more right to force a needle into your body, then to force a penis into your body. Both actions are a violation of your natural right to control what goes into your body. Force is the opposite of freedom.
>>>the first us of hacker... to describe criminal activity
False. Prior to 1990, the word used for people with evil intent was "safecracker" or "lockpick" or just plain "thief". People copying games were said to be "cracking" the disk or program.
I wrote: >>>>>And yes I picked the subject on purpose.
Anonymous Coward wrote: >>You can't even get "right" right.
Why do Anon. Cowards even bother to speak? They can't read the post directly in front of their nose. And neither can the moderator who gave him +1 point! LOL.
Probably the same idiot at the FTC or FDA who thought "natural milk" sounded like a dangerous substance and started prosecuting Amish-Americans (i.e. organic farmers), because their customers carried the product from PA to Maryland.
Last I checked that's the customer who committed the supposed-crime, not the farmer. Arrest the customer. (Or better yet: Don't arrest anybody.)
They've successfully re-educated the public and turned a good word (hacker==hobbyist) into an evil word, such that stores yank magazines off shelves if the title says, "How to hack your Linux computer". And you expect reporters to correctly published chemical formulas when they never took chemistry classes in college??? LOL.
EM-blocking wallpaper would also block radio and TV reception. Or maybe just the UHF band. (Then again maybe I'm the only one who still uses that old technology, and most people don't care.)
1 hour limits huh? My parents let me play as many Atari and Commodore videogames as much as I wanted, as long as the homework was done FIRST, immediately after coming home. So oftentimes that meant 1 hour for work, and 4-5 hours gaming.
Gaming is probably more beneficial than TV watching or book reading (both of which are static forms of entertainment).
>>>So you mean if you implement a software and sell it and then I inject a virus I created into the software with your name on it without your consent, now you are the creator of the virus, right?;)
No. Because in this case Sony IS the virus writer (rootkit writer), and deserving all the flack they get.
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>>>Why is MS always being held to a double-standard that others aren't?
Because MS has been sued - twice (once in the US; once in the EU) - for using their monopolistic position to kill-off or damage competitors. The other companies are not in a monopolisticsituation.
Anyway I think the lawyer should have kept his mouth shut & waited a year after Window 8's release. That would give the US and EU regulators more ammunition ("look: users can't install Firefox or Opera") to break-up the Microsoft company once and for all..... like they did with ATT in the 80s.
One company would be the OS. The second company would be the software (Explorer, Office, Visio, etc). I'm not sure where the Xbox division would end up... maybe a third company.
>>>it took three hours to explain to these bureaucrats how such things can be accidental
Wow.
The leaders of the school are dumber than the kids they are not teaching.
But I disagree with you that people should be arrested for possessing images of kiddie porn, just as they should not be arrested for images of murder victims, or car accidents, or a pile of cocaine. The holder of the image is Not the guilty person who committed the crime.
And I especially do not think people should be arrested for comics of kids, because there is no victim. No victim == no rights have been infringed. (Of course I'm sure you disagree, just as you probably want to force everyone to attend church weekly.)
>>>I've never have that in my screen but it's pure luck.
Are you sure?
Some of these stupid laws would arrest you for looking at a merely nude image of a teenager, so if you've ever visited a nudist website, or seen images of Brroke Shields & other starlets nude, then you could be prosecuted under these laws.
Most Tea Partiers (like me) hate corporations. It's pretty much why the thing formed in the first place (first to help Ron Paul in 2007, and then to protest the bailout of corporations by Bush).
Sadly the Tea Party Congressmen just voted 71% in favor of the CISPA spying-by-corporations act, so maybe the TP has lost its was over the years. Hijacked by the Republicans.
I guess that's why their new LED burns-up 26 watts but only created the equivalent of a 100 watt bulb. They are losing efficiency because the LEDs are being driven to high powers. (Lower power 25W or 40W bulbs only use 3 and 6 watts.)
>>>The TSA's whole job is to keep radical idiots from blowing me and my family up in mid air.
You're worried about the 1 in 700 million odds of death-by-terrorist. And yet you stuff your face with fat & sugar, which WILL kill you through artery blockage. Way to totally invalidate your original argument.
Stop being afraid of unlikely events like death-by-terrorist, death-by-tsunami, or death-by-meteorite, and focus on the REAL killers like heart attack, brain stroke, cancer, or driving to work in your car. Those are the things that kill 99.999% of Americans.
Open Source advocate Dr. Richard Stallman for one. I was listening to an interview he did with Alex Jones, and I was surprised to hear he boycotts the Kindle and other e-readers, and prefers physical books. Read more here:
http://stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf
I'd rather lose weight by not eating, such as skipping supper, then waste time on a treadmill or bike. Besides diet restriction has been shown (in mice/monkeys) to create a longer-lasting body.
>>>You don't have a right to spread disease.
Agreed and if I am, they can quartine me. BUT I am not diseased, so they should keep their hands off me. There is no justification for a government cop to bust down a door, followed by a nurse, and hold-down either you or your kids to forcibly rape..... er, I mean inject them. That is a violation of bodily rights. (And yes that has happened in states like California and Texas.)
Except there is no more regression smaller than the body nature has given you. The whole of that body is yours and yours alone, and you have the right to use it in aggregate to think a thought, to speak it, or write it.
[Government-created monopolies] are a bitch, eh?
FTFY.
And yes.
Too bad that Comcast placed a cap so my two kids can't watch those "1.5 million images, videos". The cap would be hit in just 9 days.
>>>If you truly believe that BMI is an accurate measure of somebody's overall health, you have some learning to do
Let's suppose he's a doctor.
How much more learning does he need?
You still think you know more than the doctors in the WHO and AMA who publish these BMI figures?
They are no more "human" and entitled to human rights, then this building I'm sitting in. The people inside the building have a right to free speech, but not the building itself.
>>>What does your token anti-vax friend say while they pick up their teeth with broken fingers?
Yes because the way to deal with people who hold "wrongthought" is to punish them with brutality. Maybe even send them to a re-education camp, like they did in Socialist Russia. Are you a Democrat per chance? I may not like your opinion or your group (KKK) but you still have a natural right to express yourself using the body given to you.
Or else they claim it has Tracking Devices in the vaccine.
I am pro-vaccine and had all my shots, but am also anti-force. The government has no more right to force a needle into your body, then to force a penis into your body. Both actions are a violation of your natural right to control what goes into your body. Force is the opposite of freedom.
>>>the first us of hacker... to describe criminal activity
False. Prior to 1990, the word used for people with evil intent was "safecracker" or "lockpick" or just plain "thief". People copying games were said to be "cracking" the disk or program.
I wrote:
>>>>>And yes I picked the subject on purpose.
Anonymous Coward wrote:
>>You can't even get "right" right.
Why do Anon. Cowards even bother to speak? They can't read the post directly in front of their nose. And neither can the moderator who gave him +1 point! LOL.
Probably the same idiot at the FTC or FDA who thought "natural milk" sounded like a dangerous substance and started prosecuting Amish-Americans (i.e. organic farmers), because their customers carried the product from PA to Maryland.
Last I checked that's the customer who committed the supposed-crime, not the farmer. Arrest the customer. (Or better yet: Don't arrest anybody.)
They've successfully re-educated the public and turned a good word (hacker==hobbyist) into an evil word, such that stores yank magazines off shelves if the title says, "How to hack your Linux computer". And you expect reporters to correctly published chemical formulas when they never took chemistry classes in college??? LOL.
(And yes I picked the subject on purpose.)
EM-blocking wallpaper would also block radio and TV reception. Or maybe just the UHF band. (Then again maybe I'm the only one who still uses that old technology, and most people don't care.)
>>>Microware OS9 Level 1 could multi-task in 64k
On a 32-bit 68000 CPU?
Interesting.
1 hour limits huh? My parents let me play as many Atari and Commodore videogames as much as I wanted, as long as the homework was done FIRST, immediately after coming home. So oftentimes that meant 1 hour for work, and 4-5 hours gaming.
Gaming is probably more beneficial than TV watching or book reading (both of which are static forms of entertainment).
>>> It's called, having only 1 child, because that's all I can easily afford on my salary
Sadly it was overridden by the Wife Install.
She desired two.
>>>So you mean if you implement a software and sell it and then I inject a virus I created into the software with your name on it without your consent, now you are the creator of the virus, right? ;)
No.
Because in this case Sony IS the virus writer (rootkit writer), and deserving all the flack they get.