We have runaway government and a bunch of people calling for raising of taxes and fees as the answer to our economic problems
Well, taxes on the wealthy are at pre-Depression era lows and the real runaways in this situation are the Teabaggers who are running around screaming about the deficit that their fucking heroes spent the last 30 years running up. Those of us who support raising taxes on the wealthy (a majority of Americans, by the way) are in this position because somehow Social Security (which does not add a single penny to the deficit) and Medicare are on the chopping block rather than say even one damn dollar of the out-of-control defense budget. If you wanted to talk about "runaway" programs, that is.
I don't know why you are heading down this path of shrieking about taxes and liberty except that it really looks like you are listening to way too much Rush Limbaugh or one of his stupid clones. None of what you said has jack shit to do with broadband access. Please go find a Teabagger convention to rant and rave at.
I have to strongly disagree with you about cassette taping. There has never been anything but unfounded fear and hysteria that "home taping" or any other redistribution method ever actually impacted record sales -- except that I would say in many cases home taping helped spread the word about many an artist in the early days of their success.
I know of several very large sections of my music catalog that I would not have ever gotten into if someone hadn't given me a cassette recording or a ripped CD of their work. And yes I paid for those things. Some of them 2 and 3 times now as the formats have continued.
I just wanted to stop you right there, because this whole consumer copy thing is total, complete and utter steaming bullshit.
It is ONLY EVER about the loss of control, and not about "piracy" or lost sales.
And, yes, it's the best iPhone as each iPhone is better than the previous one (otherwise, nobody would purchase it).
I really am laughing out loud at this. Apple fanbois will buy ANY FUCKING THING with the Apple logo on it, regardless of how badly designed, overpriced, or user-hostile it is.
Everything is about setting expectations and how overpaid fucking prima donnas have a sad if we don't meet them.
The real problem is that we need to break up the three or four dozen major players in our economy and force them to work for their pay. Right now we service the needs of a few whiny executives in this economy. That needs to change. Employees need to be shielded from the effects of disastrous executive decisions, and not blamed for every bad management call.
Patents may have a little bit to do with it, but not a hell of a lot. The biggest problem is monopolies who have no incentive to innovate because they are squatting in front of guaranteed "revenue streams," i.e., captive consumers who have no option to vote with their feet.
That is the most absurd strawman I've ever seen. Somehow I failed to use the word "Fucking" and "stupid" in that statement, but they also belong there.
....it used to be easy to get to things like a command line or the Run box
And now all you have to do is hit the windows key and start typing the name of something resembling what you want, and it comes up in the search results.
Of course, if you aren't bright enough to read where it says "Search for programs and files" and type in that box, you probably don't need to be administering a calculator, let alone an enterprise server.
Your assumption that the Start Menu was the problem is not founded on anything other than your hatred of MS.
In reality as several others have already posted, it's probably more that the ability to pin stuff to the start bar has made the start MENU a less-used piece of interface.
The Win 7 Start Menu is just like the XP menu, except that the initial pane is now most recently used programs or programs you pin there, while a sticky menu item allows to to expand the same old, reliable Xp-style start menu that is actually still there.
But, I will concede that Microsoft did a terrible job of making that obvious to people. Also I think that the ability to pin items to the start bar probably obviated the need for that menu in the first place.
. It is possible for Fox News to air something that is true
Technically you are correct. But, where human behavior is concerned I have this to say: I told my son years ago after I caught him in a lie that his problem was not that one lie. It was that he was going to have to prove himself truthful and credible a thousand times before I would just believe him again without questioning it.
And that is Fox News' problem with me. They have displayed an unabashed tendency not only to lie, but to omit important truths and to cover up after they've been caught lying.
I frankly will not use them as a source of anything because the well isn't just poisoned, it's fucking radioactive.
For example, if we would start a war with India, one of the first things that would happen is the loss of all communication with that country. How many businesses would fail since they wouldn't be able to replace that infrastructure quickly.
War is basically a dressed-up excuse for one nation to steal wholesale from another anyway. I can't see the downside.
But what I can see a downside to is the hollowing-out of economies based on wage disparity. That will even out eventually. After that, offshoring will probably decline as employers find new and more creative ways to steal their employees' wages.
Deliberately screwing something up is still called a "mistake" when it leads to thousands of easily-prevented deaths?
I guess if I intentionally sabotage a project I'm working on I can claim a mistake was made too. I am just as sure that I will get fired regardless.
If just ONE person gets fired or becomes unemployable due to this it would be a sign that some kind of credibility still exists in our federal law enforcement/security agencies. But, I doubt it's ever going to happen.
Just because they have forced us in the past doesn't mean it's correct and the attitude should continue.
What you stupidly fail to comprehend is that the rest of us WILL PAY for your healthcare if you can't be bothered, are too lazy, or too self-centered to contribute to some insurance plan. You will end up needing healthcare some day (AND YOU WILL, don't even waste your pixels denying that) and then THE REST OF US will be here to pick up your freeloading ass.
Buy a blank CDR? Pay the record company for the songs you might put on it!
I think this is hilarious. Not only is this one of the more retarded analogies I have ever read, but you are also failing completely to compare Canada's much-loved HEALTHCARE system to ours. Instead you draw a really really stupid, I mean seriously unintelligent, dumb, retarded, brain-dead analogy about CD-R's.
You aren't mandated to buy a product. You're mandated to be a part of the insurance pool that everyone else is already in.
When you don't buy health insurance, THE REST OF US end up paying for your healthcare when you are finally dragged, unconscious and helpless, into the E.R. So, before you get too far up on your fucking high horse, remember that the mandate exists to get freeloaders like yourself to contribute to a pool that you will, inevitably, unavoidably be drinking from in the future.
And if you can't get yourself off of that very high horse, let me know. I'm happy to help push you off.
The unfundd liabilities of medicare exceed the total wealth of every citizen, corporation, and small business in America combined.
That number is manufactured by assuming all sorts of impossible things, such as zero economic growth, etcetera. I'm not sure which fake "medicare crisis' number you're pulling out of your ass, but would you mind terribly producing your sources before we just swallow this fantastic lie whole?
Citizens' United is a real SCOTUS ruling which effectively removes any and all campaign finance reform rules and leaves US elections a massive, no-rules free for all. What part of that sold, indisputable fact do you fucking think is "tinfoil hat" worthy?
And frankly, I don't see how or where the police forces I have known in Texas even attempting what is being done in New York city
No, they just execute whoever happens to wander in off the street at the wrong time.
But then again, I don't imagine there would be much in the way of government protests in the first place...
No, your governor just runs his fat dumb mouth about seceding from the Union, so that's more like Civil War and less like the more mundane sounding "Government protest."
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Well, taxes on the wealthy are at pre-Depression era lows and the real runaways in this situation are the Teabaggers who are running around screaming about the deficit that their fucking heroes spent the last 30 years running up. Those of us who support raising taxes on the wealthy (a majority of Americans, by the way) are in this position because somehow Social Security (which does not add a single penny to the deficit) and Medicare are on the chopping block rather than say even one damn dollar of the out-of-control defense budget. If you wanted to talk about "runaway" programs, that is.
I don't know why you are heading down this path of shrieking about taxes and liberty except that it really looks like you are listening to way too much Rush Limbaugh or one of his stupid clones. None of what you said has jack shit to do with broadband access. Please go find a Teabagger convention to rant and rave at.
I have to strongly disagree with you about cassette taping. There has never been anything but unfounded fear and hysteria that "home taping" or any other redistribution method ever actually impacted record sales -- except that I would say in many cases home taping helped spread the word about many an artist in the early days of their success.
I know of several very large sections of my music catalog that I would not have ever gotten into if someone hadn't given me a cassette recording or a ripped CD of their work. And yes I paid for those things. Some of them 2 and 3 times now as the formats have continued.
I just wanted to stop you right there, because this whole consumer copy thing is total, complete and utter steaming bullshit.
It is ONLY EVER about the loss of control, and not about "piracy" or lost sales.
Wow. What an incredible dick Steve Jobs really was. And petty too.
I really am laughing out loud at this. Apple fanbois will buy ANY FUCKING THING with the Apple logo on it, regardless of how badly designed, overpriced, or user-hostile it is.
Everything is about setting expectations and how overpaid fucking prima donnas have a sad if we don't meet them.
The real problem is that we need to break up the three or four dozen major players in our economy and force them to work for their pay. Right now we service the needs of a few whiny executives in this economy. That needs to change. Employees need to be shielded from the effects of disastrous executive decisions, and not blamed for every bad management call.
Patents may have a little bit to do with it, but not a hell of a lot. The biggest problem is monopolies who have no incentive to innovate because they are squatting in front of guaranteed "revenue streams," i.e., captive consumers who have no option to vote with their feet.
Time for another round of massive trust-busting.
That is the most absurd strawman I've ever seen. Somehow I failed to use the word "Fucking" and "stupid" in that statement, but they also belong there.
And now all you have to do is hit the windows key and start typing the name of something resembling what you want, and it comes up in the search results.
Of course, if you aren't bright enough to read where it says "Search for programs and files" and type in that box, you probably don't need to be administering a calculator, let alone an enterprise server.
Your assumption that the Start Menu was the problem is not founded on anything other than your hatred of MS.
In reality as several others have already posted, it's probably more that the ability to pin stuff to the start bar has made the start MENU a less-used piece of interface.
The Win 7 Start Menu is just like the XP menu, except that the initial pane is now most recently used programs or programs you pin there, while a sticky menu item allows to to expand the same old, reliable Xp-style start menu that is actually still there.
But, I will concede that Microsoft did a terrible job of making that obvious to people. Also I think that the ability to pin items to the start bar probably obviated the need for that menu in the first place.
which evidently you have never seen.
Technically you are correct. But, where human behavior is concerned I have this to say: I told my son years ago after I caught him in a lie that his problem was not that one lie. It was that he was going to have to prove himself truthful and credible a thousand times before I would just believe him again without questioning it.
And that is Fox News' problem with me. They have displayed an unabashed tendency not only to lie, but to omit important truths and to cover up after they've been caught lying.
I frankly will not use them as a source of anything because the well isn't just poisoned, it's fucking radioactive.
War is basically a dressed-up excuse for one nation to steal wholesale from another anyway. I can't see the downside.
But what I can see a downside to is the hollowing-out of economies based on wage disparity. That will even out eventually. After that, offshoring will probably decline as employers find new and more creative ways to steal their employees' wages.
Deliberately screwing something up is still called a "mistake" when it leads to thousands of easily-prevented deaths?
I guess if I intentionally sabotage a project I'm working on I can claim a mistake was made too. I am just as sure that I will get fired regardless.
If just ONE person gets fired or becomes unemployable due to this it would be a sign that some kind of credibility still exists in our federal law enforcement/security agencies. But, I doubt it's ever going to happen.
Yes, the henhouses are perfectly safe with the foxes standing guard outside.
Moron.
What statistics do you have to demonstrate the cost savings "tort reform" would bring to healthcare?
Or, did you just lazily accept what you were spoon fed by people who don't want to be responsible for their actions?
I want to see your argument that it is unconstitutional. Upon what grounds?
Just so I can make fun of your Tea-bag damaged brain.
What you stupidly fail to comprehend is that the rest of us WILL PAY for your healthcare if you can't be bothered, are too lazy, or too self-centered to contribute to some insurance plan. You will end up needing healthcare some day (AND YOU WILL, don't even waste your pixels denying that) and then THE REST OF US will be here to pick up your freeloading ass.
I think this is hilarious. Not only is this one of the more retarded analogies I have ever read, but you are also failing completely to compare Canada's much-loved HEALTHCARE system to ours. Instead you draw a really really stupid, I mean seriously unintelligent, dumb, retarded, brain-dead analogy about CD-R's.
The republican Kool-aid must be very strong.
You aren't mandated to buy a product. You're mandated to be a part of the insurance pool that everyone else is already in.
When you don't buy health insurance, THE REST OF US end up paying for your healthcare when you are finally dragged, unconscious and helpless, into the E.R. So, before you get too far up on your fucking high horse, remember that the mandate exists to get freeloaders like yourself to contribute to a pool that you will, inevitably, unavoidably be drinking from in the future.
And if you can't get yourself off of that very high horse, let me know. I'm happy to help push you off.
That number is manufactured by assuming all sorts of impossible things, such as zero economic growth, etcetera. I'm not sure which fake "medicare crisis' number you're pulling out of your ass, but would you mind terribly producing your sources before we just swallow this fantastic lie whole?
Let me just be the latest to pile on and ask you where the hell you got the idea that buying a used item constitutes stealing.
Are you really that god-damn stupid, or is it just an act?
Citizens' United is a real SCOTUS ruling which effectively removes any and all campaign finance reform rules and leaves US elections a massive, no-rules free for all. What part of that sold, indisputable fact do you fucking think is "tinfoil hat" worthy?
Well, why don't you come down here and live in the real world with the rest of us? You'd understand it immediately.
No, they just execute whoever happens to wander in off the street at the wrong time.
No, your governor just runs his fat dumb mouth about seceding from the Union, so that's more like Civil War and less like the more mundane sounding "Government protest."
Obviously someone's theories are wrong.