Thank you for very aptly describing EXACTLY why Sweden is so much better than the US and why any of us would be damn lucky to live there.
No, I am not a deadbeat who lives off of others, so I would prefer to live in the US.
It's very clear that you don't respect people who care more about others than themselves and prefer the selfish American me-first way of thinking. That's fine if you wish to think that way (and have no morals)...
What absolute bullshit. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor is not altruism. Robin Hood was no altruist. It is when people give THEIR OWN MONEY of THEIR OWN ACCORD, that is selfless. And Americans give in droves TO THE TRULY NEEDY. Also, the US capitalist system has allowed us to accumulate the massive wealth for real problems, such as bailing out other countries' disasters like the Indonesian tsunami. How much did Sweden give to that?
There is nothing altrustic about giving the able-bodied handouts for a lifetime. It makes them dependent and robs their souls of self-respect and self-reliance. America is, or is supposed to be about giving people the opportunity to help themselves.
We'll see where Sweden is in 25 years with all of those benefits and an aging and increasingly immigrant demographic. Cutting back on the handouts like economically-stagnant France and Germany, I'll bet.
At least up until now, unlike building a PC, you couldn't just run out and select a mobo for a Mac from 15 different companies. Apple tends to sell replacement parts only, and they tend to be a fortune.
I upgraded my non-socketed beige G3 running at 300 MHz (zoom!) to an IBM 400 that ran at like 485 under stock cooling. Now that was a kick-ass upgrade, at a time when buying a new Mac would have cost me 5 times as much.
One of the beauties of the Mactel platform is that I am sure it allows for some awesome upgrade potential. Now, if it were only possible to DIY a Mactel from the start, that would get me off of Wintel forever - unless you count dual-boot.
I don't see what learning the mechanisms of bee flight have to do with ID.
With that said, I think people who disoute evolution are blinded (I won't say morons, because I have a Christian friend who believe in ID who has an IQ of 180+). They just substitute "faith" for that which they have absolutely no proof.
Can't God's (intelligent) design be evolution? Why do we have to chose one over the other?
As Gallileo said, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
BTW how is it that conservatives still have a persecution complex?
Funny you assume I am conservative. I guess you already figured out it was some socialist wanting to squelch ideas opposing his own.
The fact is that what you view as fair and balanced is viewed by others as ridiculously partisan. What they view as a fair and balanced view you probably view as ridiculously partisan.
The difference between my approach and that of the lefty is that I do not delete other people's Wiki postings! I added *facts* to a clearly biased report on the Venezuelan elections, only to have it pulled within a day.
I've had some zealots come in and delete things I have written. I try to be fair-and-balanced, but when people start deleting things to keep them slanted, what can be done?
says the technology can actually promote more responsible drinking because it allows people to be cut off from using the tap after the system detects that they've had more than their alloted fluid ounces.
Oh yeah, there's a big selling point for frats. Those things will be flyin' off the shelves.
And one of his platforms during the campaign was nominating solidly conservative justices. Additionally, the GOP gained seats in the Senate in the last election. Seems like the people have spoken. Bush should be able to nominate the jutices he wants, and get an up-or-down vote, not be dictated to by the likes of Ted Kennedy and Moveon.org.
You might not like it, but it's the truth. And you wouldn't mod me down just because you disagree with me, would you?
or another firewall app on disk. Right after you install Windows, install Zone Alarm or other firewall, then connect your Net cable, then go to Windows update. Problem solved.
Clock for clock, the Dothan smokes the FX. In the Anantech review, the Dothan is clocked @ 2.16 and the Athlon is at 2.6. At equal clocks, Dothan smokes AMD.
I thought Netflix used to suck, bad turnaround times, so I tried Walmart. Walmart's service was worse, and within a month, Netflix had bought them out. Netflix seems improved now, better turnarounds and they even work on Fridays, which they didn't seem to be doing previously.
Just signed up for Blockbuster's free trial to see how that goes.
It simply crushes everything in its path in game performance and handles most of today's common applications with power to spare."
Bullshit, Intels' Dothan (Pentium-M) on an Asus mobo will smoke an FX-57 at less that half the price. Dothans currently hold all the 3DMark records and SuperPi. Check out the scores for yourself.
I e-mailed the author several days ago that leaving out Dothan benches made his review and conclusions worthless. He hasn't e-mailed back. I can't say for sure, but this article sure seemed like AMD fanboyism.
Pardon me if I mis-interpreted, but it appears to me you are posing a rhetorical question to the effect of: if sueing the people making a tool is OK, who is sueing Smith & Wesson?
IP law and negligence have different rules, so you can't really compare the two.
WRT S&W, you had liberal judges not following product liability law. They should have tossed these suits at the earliest level, since guns do not have latent defects that are unreasonably dangerous. These suits were end-arounds of the legislative process. Basically, the anti-gun groups couldn't win at the ballot box, so they tried to bankrupt gun companies with these frivolous lawsuits. Thank God Congress spelled out for these rogue judges what product liability means, and gave the gun manufacturers immunity.
You all seem to be against outsourcing and globalization through free trade, and now you all seem to be against protectionism. Can't have it both ways.
Or is it just anti-Americanism?
Now go ahead and mod me troll or flamebait for having the audacity to stand up for my country.
Kyle would have gotten his money back, under CA's SLAPP statute, which, inter alia, awards attorney fees for violations of constitutionally protected speech.
people really have to get off the rediculous bandwagon that copying is bad.
There are a few of us who read/. for the articles (you know, as with Playboy), but don't buy into the whole "IP is bad" thing. The US Constitution is clear on mandating Congress to pass laws to protect art and science:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Some of us still believe in reasonable IP law, which does not preclude reform...
Well, the post was a little joke, so don't read too much into it
Yeah, I figgered that.
The vast majority of the "Look and Feel" of a GUI system is not 'intellectual property', and therefore was not Apple's to sell anyway.
Not sure if this is a value judgement or a legal one. The look and feel claim failed because of the license, according to the jist of the judge's decision. In other words, Apple might have had an IP claim, the judge said, but the poorly-written license trumped it. I have no doubt that the idea of menus, icons, and other GUI elements could have been patented, and of course look and feel can be part of trade dress (see: Coca-Cola, Prestone bottles).
I guess we'll never know what might have been; imagine if you will, MS paying Apple a license fee for its GUI from 1984-2004, only in, the Twilight Zone...
So no, Gates buying DOS isn't "just like" the Apple deal.
You think Xerox would have done anything with it? This is based on all of the shipping, profit-earning products that PARC/Xerox has shipped in the last 20 years? LOL, the Apple deal was likely the most money Xerox has every gotten out of PARC.
I guess we now use the term "exploited" for any deal or job we don't like or approve of?
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No, I am not a deadbeat who lives off of others, so I would prefer to live in the US.
It's very clear that you don't respect people who care more about others than themselves and prefer the selfish American me-first way of thinking. That's fine if you wish to think that way (and have no morals)...
What absolute bullshit. Robbing from the rich and giving to the poor is not altruism. Robin Hood was no altruist. It is when people give THEIR OWN MONEY of THEIR OWN ACCORD, that is selfless. And Americans give in droves TO THE TRULY NEEDY. Also, the US capitalist system has allowed us to accumulate the massive wealth for real problems, such as bailing out other countries' disasters like the Indonesian tsunami. How much did Sweden give to that?
There is nothing altrustic about giving the able-bodied handouts for a lifetime. It makes them dependent and robs their souls of self-respect and self-reliance. America is, or is supposed to be about giving people the opportunity to help themselves.
We'll see where Sweden is in 25 years with all of those benefits and an aging and increasingly immigrant demographic. Cutting back on the handouts like economically-stagnant France and Germany, I'll bet.
I guess that depends who you ask, those pulling the cart or the deadbeats riding in it.
America is about equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.
Yeah right, Jack Abramoff couldn't find 30 Republican professors on the entire UCLA faculty.
This is UCLA. Every department on campus is run by liberals or by leftists.
Tough criticism in a free society is not McCarthyism; it's free speech. -- Andrew Sullivan
At least up until now, unlike building a PC, you couldn't just run out and select a mobo for a Mac from 15 different companies. Apple tends to sell replacement parts only, and they tend to be a fortune.
I upgraded my non-socketed beige G3 running at 300 MHz (zoom!) to an IBM 400 that ran at like 485 under stock cooling. Now that was a kick-ass upgrade, at a time when buying a new Mac would have cost me 5 times as much.
One of the beauties of the Mactel platform is that I am sure it allows for some awesome upgrade potential. Now, if it were only possible to DIY a Mactel from the start, that would get me off of Wintel forever - unless you count dual-boot.
With that said, I think people who disoute evolution are blinded (I won't say morons, because I have a Christian friend who believe in ID who has an IQ of 180+). They just substitute "faith" for that which they have absolutely no proof.
Can't God's (intelligent) design be evolution? Why do we have to chose one over the other?
As Gallileo said, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Funny you assume I am conservative. I guess you already figured out it was some socialist wanting to squelch ideas opposing his own.
The fact is that what you view as fair and balanced is viewed by others as ridiculously partisan. What they view as a fair and balanced view you probably view as ridiculously partisan.
The difference between my approach and that of the lefty is that I do not delete other people's Wiki postings! I added *facts* to a clearly biased report on the Venezuelan elections, only to have it pulled within a day.
I've had some zealots come in and delete things I have written. I try to be fair-and-balanced, but when people start deleting things to keep them slanted, what can be done?
Do we know what the DRM tech is on the blu-ray, and is it bypassable for legitimate fair-use backups?
Agent Smith, he's a real hardass.
Oh yeah, there's a big selling point for frats. Those things will be flyin' off the shelves.
Surprised there have been no references to the great Outer Limits episode. Of course, Robert Culp had the entire human race encoded in his finger.
You might not like it, but it's the truth. And you wouldn't mod me down just because you disagree with me, would you?
Might be nice to have SP1 on disk too...
Believe what you want, but if you want to see what the real gurus are doing, check out what what the Dothan is doing to all comers.
Just signed up for Blockbuster's free trial to see how that goes.
Bullshit, Intels' Dothan (Pentium-M) on an Asus mobo will smoke an FX-57 at less that half the price. Dothans currently hold all the 3DMark records and SuperPi. Check out the scores for yourself.
I e-mailed the author several days ago that leaving out Dothan benches made his review and conclusions worthless. He hasn't e-mailed back. I can't say for sure, but this article sure seemed like AMD fanboyism.
IP law and negligence have different rules, so you can't really compare the two.
WRT S&W, you had liberal judges not following product liability law. They should have tossed these suits at the earliest level, since guns do not have latent defects that are unreasonably dangerous. These suits were end-arounds of the legislative process. Basically, the anti-gun groups couldn't win at the ballot box, so they tried to bankrupt gun companies with these frivolous lawsuits. Thank God Congress spelled out for these rogue judges what product liability means, and gave the gun manufacturers immunity.
Or is it just anti-Americanism?
Now go ahead and mod me troll or flamebait for having the audacity to stand up for my country.
So let's not blame the entire USA legal system.
"White Oleander."
There are a few of us who read /. for the articles (you know, as with Playboy), but don't buy into the whole "IP is bad" thing. The US Constitution is clear on mandating Congress to pass laws to protect art and science:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
Some of us still believe in reasonable IP law, which does not preclude reform...
Thanks for the clarification...
Yeah, I figgered that.
The vast majority of the "Look and Feel" of a GUI system is not 'intellectual property', and therefore was not Apple's to sell anyway.
Not sure if this is a value judgement or a legal one. The look and feel claim failed because of the license, according to the jist of the judge's decision. In other words, Apple might have had an IP claim, the judge said, but the poorly-written license trumped it. I have no doubt that the idea of menus, icons, and other GUI elements could have been patented, and of course look and feel can be part of trade dress (see: Coca-Cola, Prestone bottles).
I guess we'll never know what might have been; imagine if you will, MS paying Apple a license fee for its GUI from 1984-2004, only in, the Twilight Zone...
Xerox made millions off the Apple deal.
So no, Gates buying DOS isn't "just like" the Apple deal.
You think Xerox would have done anything with it? This is based on all of the shipping, profit-earning products that PARC/Xerox has shipped in the last 20 years? LOL, the Apple deal was likely the most money Xerox has every gotten out of PARC.
I guess we now use the term "exploited" for any deal or job we don't like or approve of?