So. Fucking. What. The Clinton administration isn't pressuring Google, the Bush administration is. By your logic, an admin that instituted the draft for an unjust war would be off the hook and the one that may originally used it properly would be to blame for it? Sounds like unadulterated bullshit to me.
This isn't about sharing links. The appearance given by the current system of selecting stories is that there is croneyism going on, as evidenced by their submissions getting picked over everyone elses with regularity. To believe otherwise is to believe that their writeup for a given story always gets subbed first, or is the best writeup each time (which still implies that someone is waiting for their sub in particular, else why not keep looking for a better one). Given the size and diversity of the/. userbase, this seems highly unlikely. Unless there are WAY fewer subs, and dupe subs in particular, than I'm thinking there are...
So you'll be first in line for a transponder implant I suppose? Where do you draw the line? What makes you so afraid that you're willing to..oh fuck it. Some of us are just sheep I guess.
"privacy concerns aside (i'm not convinced there are any)"
Really. Would you like a personally assigned police officer to trail you around 100% of the time you aren't in your house or on your lawn, taking notes on what you are doing? Once pervasive enough, remote surveillance accomplishes the same exact thing. A velvet cage is still a cage.
He throws a few bucks (to him) at some charities, and everyone here is fawning over what a saint he is, with not a word about the anti-social, anti-competitive and downright illegal things his company did to get that money. I've got to go puke now.
"People say the numbers of users correlation to infection idea is flawed, but they're proof is never convincing."
Then you, and the person who modded you up, are either retarded or are willfully ignoring the obvious.
On the lack of MS innovation, you say "Same tired old argument". Yeah, and a true one too. Name _one_ _fucking_ _thing_ MS has truly innovated at, besides marketing and lawyering.
And guess what? Your arguments are themselves the 'same tired old' arguments that the MS apologists have been waving around for years now.
You fail it in your first full sentence. The copter is not intelligent, it is effective. Big difference. As in the sun is very effective at producing heat, much more so than you or I, but it is not more intelligent than us.
Some businesses are burying their heads further up Microsofts ass than ever. The lords on high at the company I work for, a GM sub-subsidiary, just decreed that there will be no open source used for anything, anywhere. The only exceptions will be on a case by case basis providing you have spent the time to write up a business need proposal for why you want something. We can't even run Firefox/Moz anymore and the RHEL desktop I've run for the last three years just went by-by in favor of Win2k. But NO, I'M not fucking bitter...
You are seriously arguing that ease of use, not price or availability of apps, is the main barrier to increased sales for Apple? If so, you are a moron. The moroniest moron who ever moroned in fact.
"This is the "they hate us becasue we're free" claim I heard after 9/11."
No, it isn't. It is saying that due to their success at causing even greater and more permanent social damage as a follow on to their physical acts, they will engage in further physical acts.
Many would argue that whatever further value an operation these fictitious 'endangered operatives' are involved in may have, is outweighed the very fucking ideals that make the USA worth fighting for to begin with. Those ideals are being destroyed with cases like Padilla. And I'm quite sure that the same fascist dipshits who are overlooking all the Bush regime lies, distortions and manipulations that affect the entire nation in the long run, are the same ignorant retards who had a fit when Clinton got a bj.
My initial reaction to 'Ancient Romans in Space' was like yours, then I thought about how Stargate (even just the first movie) managed to pull off 'Ancient Egypt in Space' and figured that if done well it could just possibly work.
It is a business that is as successful as it is precisely because it doesn't seem to have a bunch of pointy-haired MBA types walking around spouting managebable about 'synergistic go-fast leveraging' or other nonsense such as 'an efficent process for managing innovation'.
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So. Fucking. What. The Clinton administration isn't pressuring Google, the Bush administration is. By your logic, an admin that instituted the draft for an unjust war would be off the hook and the one that may originally used it properly would be to blame for it? Sounds like unadulterated bullshit to me.
This isn't about sharing links. The appearance given by the current system of selecting stories is that there is croneyism going on, as evidenced by their submissions getting picked over everyone elses with regularity. To believe otherwise is to believe that their writeup for a given story always gets subbed first, or is the best writeup each time (which still implies that someone is waiting for their sub in particular, else why not keep looking for a better one). Given the size and diversity of the /. userbase, this seems highly unlikely. Unless there are WAY fewer subs, and dupe subs in particular, than I'm thinking there are...
Substitute 'Capone' for 'Gates' in your message and you will see why your argument sounds so ridiculous to some people.
So you'll be first in line for a transponder implant I suppose? Where do you draw the line? What makes you so afraid that you're willing to..oh fuck it. Some of us are just sheep I guess.
Show me where the parent mentioned Linux. Seems like the truth stung a little too much and your knee jerked.
Flamebait? Every word is true, even the bit about the Russians covering up their failed manned moon program until recent years.
Go ahead and keep worrying about Google, who has done nothing wrong. The rest of us with a fucking clue will stay worried about MS.
"Absolutely, but to generalize their contribution to modern computing as nothing more than theft and good marketing is pure garbage."
Fucking name one then.
"privacy concerns aside (i'm not convinced there are any)"
Really. Would you like a personally assigned police officer to trail you around 100% of the time you aren't in your house or on your lawn, taking notes on what you are doing? Once pervasive enough, remote surveillance accomplishes the same exact thing. A velvet cage is still a cage.
Troll? Truth hurts doesn't it. Or in the only Spanish I know: La verdad es amarga.
Or something like that.
Considering the beatification going on in this discussion, yes it does matter.
He throws a few bucks (to him) at some charities, and everyone here is fawning over what a saint he is, with not a word about the anti-social, anti-competitive and downright illegal things his company did to get that money. I've got to go puke now.
"People say the numbers of users correlation to infection idea is flawed, but they're proof is never convincing."
Then you, and the person who modded you up, are either retarded or are willfully ignoring the obvious.
On the lack of MS innovation, you say "Same tired old argument". Yeah, and a true one too. Name _one_ _fucking_ _thing_ MS has truly innovated at, besides marketing and lawyering.
And guess what? Your arguments are themselves the 'same tired old' arguments that the MS apologists have been waving around for years now.
"Well it proves one thing Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don't have the education enough to admit when you're wrong." - Quint
Not only is this not funny, it's wrong. The Chinese have no problem pronouncing the letter 'L'. LAO Tze, Bruce LI, etc.
You fail it in your first full sentence. The copter is not intelligent, it is effective. Big difference. As in the sun is very effective at producing heat, much more so than you or I, but it is not more intelligent than us.
Some businesses are burying their heads further up Microsofts ass than ever. The lords on high at the company I work for, a GM sub-subsidiary, just decreed that there will be no open source used for anything, anywhere. The only exceptions will be on a case by case basis providing you have spent the time to write up a business need proposal for why you want something. We can't even run Firefox/Moz anymore and the RHEL desktop I've run for the last three years just went by-by in favor of Win2k. But NO, I'M not fucking bitter...
You are seriously arguing that ease of use, not price or availability of apps, is the main barrier to increased sales for Apple? If so, you are a moron. The moroniest moron who ever moroned in fact.
They grasp it, they just don't give a fuck.
"This is the "they hate us becasue we're free" claim I heard after 9/11."
No, it isn't. It is saying that due to their success at causing even greater and more permanent social damage as a follow on to their physical acts, they will engage in further physical acts.
Many would argue that whatever further value an operation these fictitious 'endangered operatives' are involved in may have, is outweighed the very fucking ideals that make the USA worth fighting for to begin with. Those ideals are being destroyed with cases like Padilla. And I'm quite sure that the same fascist dipshits who are overlooking all the Bush regime lies, distortions and manipulations that affect the entire nation in the long run, are the same ignorant retards who had a fit when Clinton got a bj.
My initial reaction to 'Ancient Romans in Space' was like yours, then I thought about how Stargate (even just the first movie) managed to pull off 'Ancient Egypt in Space' and figured that if done well it could just possibly work.
And if it were Microsoft, the derision would be _justified_ motherfucker.
"both countries were richer with NAFTA than they would have been without NAFTA"
Just because the countries or some companies are richer in tax dollars or profits doesn't mean the regular working people are any richer.
It is a business that is as successful as it is precisely because it doesn't seem to have a bunch of pointy-haired MBA types walking around spouting managebable about 'synergistic go-fast leveraging' or other nonsense such as 'an efficent process for managing innovation'.