The nonsense you are correcting is the typical level of criticism against Christianity on/.
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Really people, if you want to have any hope of convincing people you are superior to Christians then you shouldn't act even stupider and more ignorant than you claim Christians to be.
I thought/.'ers prided themselves on being MORE educated and logical than the average person.
I know perfectly well what the Warren Commission was all about. What I'm wondering is what bizarre twist on the facts leads you believe Ford was a traitor. Believe it or not, Google won't clue me in to your weird opinions.
I would want them to be subjected to constant surveillence. This is as Mark Twain and Will Rogers said, the most corrupt group of people in the country outside of a Federal penitentiary (and even that's close).
Futhermore, they should be required to do their own taxes AND be audited every year. These people are largely millionaires who have made a career out of selling us out to places like China or organizations like Big Oil. Given that much power and responsibility, I would demand that everything they do "on the record" be recorded and made public. I pay about a third of my salary to these people and the wasteful, destructive programs they create and there is very little real accountability, except for the ballot box, which doesn't really count for much.
Sure, there can be back room meetings that are off the record, but everything that happens on the floor of the House and Senate should be recorded and transcribed verbatim and made public, and could be done each day for less than the cost of a couple Pentagon toilet seats.
These people are destroying our country and compromising our future and you're afraid to put a little pressure on them? Personally, I think if there's not so much pressure that these guys are dropping dead of heart attacks or strokes every other day then they are being held to the awesome, mind-numbing responsibility that they have taken upon themselves. Running the U.S. should be the hardest job in the world, not some country club for plutocratic decadent scoff-laws.
The problem is that the government solutions tends to sacrifice the good of the many to solve the problems of the few. Some people can't or won't educate their kids? Then create crappy mandatory government schools where no one gets a good education. Then vilify anyone who thinks we should have an alternative.
Another example: You used to be able to buy little pills to dissolve in distilled water to create contact lens cleaning solution. It seems some people were too stupid to do this right, so you can't buy them any more and you have to buy premixed solution, which of course is much more expensive.
I won't even mention jarts.
The government can't solve these kinds of problems because it simply can't create solutions that will be efficient, effective and have a reasonable cost for all people. In fact, if you can get one of these three for more than a quarter of the target population, you're lucky.
Of course, the government should be providing education to those who can't provide it for themselves. The problem is that it needs to be a good education, and those people who are in the worst socioeconomic situations usually have the worst schools. But even if the government wanted or could to fix the problem, the teachers' unions have too much to lose if the status quo is disrupted.
What's wrong with just creating a folder for each website you maintain. Heck, you could probably do some automatic filtering based on From: address or a domain name in the body. I don't see why you need a completely new feature.
In fact, I do live in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia, and despite the fact that we have a transportation department that rivals Pennsylvania in its ineptitude (OK, I exaggerate, nothing outside of the Third World rivals Pennsylvania), I have found that culturally, philosophically, historically and geographically, Virginia is a fine place to live.
You maybe didn't state specifically that the "blue states" are especially smart, but a lot of people do. The blue states may have a higher average of education, but as we all know, being educated and being smart are completely correlated.
How about this: Every time Congress wants to pass a new law, they should extract 1 pound of flesh from Ted Kennedy, that way by 2011, we'll have a lot fewer laws being passed and America's Favorite Swimming Coach won't have to buy his pants at that special store that also sells muu-muus.
Seriously, though, the law we need is that all members of Congress must do their own taxes, handle their own insurance claims and every other piece of bureaucratic hoop-jumping they thoughtlessly pile on us at a whim.
Oh, and John McCain must spend 4 hours a day browsing YouTube for inappropriate material.
Google "Macrovision", before creating various forms of digital rights management, as well as acquiring InstallShield for some strange reason, they were the leading name in "analog rights management", i.e., screwing up VHS tapes to prevent dubbing.
And of course the problem you always face when you have an argument with a mental defective is that onlookers might not know which is which.
All I can say is that either you're not doing it right, or you are mentally defective yourself. Or do you think an "argument" means yelling and profanity?
You're right, and since Windows 2000 was the point where functionality, usability and stability (if not security) for an MS operating system all came together, it would have been nice if somehow they could have stuck with that as a base and maybe today we'd be running Windows 2000 SP9, and it would be solid, stable, much more secure and still run in 64MB of memory. From a user's point of view, the only "can't live without it" features since Windows 2000 have been support for newer hardware. Sure there have been other improvements, but when I use Windows 2000, aside of a couple small GUI enhancements in Explorer, there's really nothing I miss.
Microsoft's biggest problem is that their best competition is their older versions. They have to expand their monopoly to also be against themselves.
By including it for free, pre-installed with Windows they destroyed Netscape and Spyglass.
I dunno. Netscape had a hand in that. Does anyone besides me remember how horrible Netscape was until about version 3? By version 3 it was pretty decent, and so was IE. IE 4 was the version that was finally really good, and Netscape came out with that huge bloated monstrosity that was their version 4.
Microsoft is a bully and a monopoly, but I don't feel bad for Netscape. As far as I'm concerned, they couldn't compete on quality or features, so they played the monopoly card. By the time that whole "bundling" nonsense went to court, it was 10 years too late. MS's monopoly did the most damage back in the Windows 3 days.
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Well said, David.
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/.'ers prided themselves on being MORE educated and logical than the average person.
The nonsense you are correcting is the typical level of criticism against Christianity on
Note to others:
Really people, if you want to have any hope of convincing people you are superior to Christians then you shouldn't act even stupider and more ignorant than you claim Christians to be.
I thought
Al Gore invented time. The British, however, invented Tea Time.
I know perfectly well what the Warren Commission was all about. What I'm wondering is what bizarre twist on the facts leads you believe Ford was a traitor. Believe it or not, Google won't clue me in to your weird opinions.
I would want them to be subjected to constant surveillence. This is as Mark Twain and Will Rogers said, the most corrupt group of people in the country outside of a Federal penitentiary (and even that's close).
Futhermore, they should be required to do their own taxes AND be audited every year. These people are largely millionaires who have made a career out of selling us out to places like China or organizations like Big Oil. Given that much power and responsibility, I would demand that everything they do "on the record" be recorded and made public. I pay about a third of my salary to these people and the wasteful, destructive programs they create and there is very little real accountability, except for the ballot box, which doesn't really count for much.
Sure, there can be back room meetings that are off the record, but everything that happens on the floor of the House and Senate should be recorded and transcribed verbatim and made public, and could be done each day for less than the cost of a couple Pentagon toilet seats.
These people are destroying our country and compromising our future and you're afraid to put a little pressure on them? Personally, I think if there's not so much pressure that these guys are dropping dead of heart attacks or strokes every other day then they are being held to the awesome, mind-numbing responsibility that they have taken upon themselves. Running the U.S. should be the hardest job in the world, not some country club for plutocratic decadent scoff-laws.
OK, I'm not up to date on the latest fad in nutty conspiracy theories. Would you mind elucidating?
At least you got something... I'm still waiting for the new release from Microsoft, "Windows Forever".
I don't see why. A monopoly conviction hasn't caused them any trouble so far.
You're assuming that this is all to prevent piracy. The real truth is that the media companies simply hate us.
The problem is that the government solutions tends to sacrifice the good of the many to solve the problems of the few. Some people can't or won't educate their kids? Then create crappy mandatory government schools where no one gets a good education. Then vilify anyone who thinks we should have an alternative.
Another example: You used to be able to buy little pills to dissolve in distilled water to create contact lens cleaning solution. It seems some people were too stupid to do this right, so you can't buy them any more and you have to buy premixed solution, which of course is much more expensive.
I won't even mention jarts.
The government can't solve these kinds of problems because it simply can't create solutions that will be efficient, effective and have a reasonable cost for all people. In fact, if you can get one of these three for more than a quarter of the target population, you're lucky.
Of course, the government should be providing education to those who can't provide it for themselves. The problem is that it needs to be a good education, and those people who are in the worst socioeconomic situations usually have the worst schools. But even if the government wanted or could to fix the problem, the teachers' unions have too much to lose if the status quo is disrupted.
Isn't about time for a War on Global Warming?
You realize that most Congressmen are millionaires, don't you?
The salary and perks they receive are line noise compared to the power and influence that the job gives.
I see what you mean now. Yeah, I suppose your idea is really the only reasonable way to do it.
I always joke that I read the Dune books when they were only a trilogy.
Maybe you don't realize just how rich Microsoft is.
What's wrong with just creating a folder for each website you maintain. Heck, you could probably do some automatic filtering based on From: address or a domain name in the body. I don't see why you need a completely new feature.
Aren't. Aren't. Aren't completely correlated.
Stupid typo.
In fact, I do live in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia, and despite the fact that we have a transportation department that rivals Pennsylvania in its ineptitude (OK, I exaggerate, nothing outside of the Third World rivals Pennsylvania), I have found that culturally, philosophically, historically and geographically, Virginia is a fine place to live.
You maybe didn't state specifically that the "blue states" are especially smart, but a lot of people do. The blue states may have a higher average of education, but as we all know, being educated and being smart are completely correlated.
How about this: Every time Congress wants to pass a new law, they should extract 1 pound of flesh from Ted Kennedy, that way by 2011, we'll have a lot fewer laws being passed and America's Favorite Swimming Coach won't have to buy his pants at that special store that also sells muu-muus.
Seriously, though, the law we need is that all members of Congress must do their own taxes, handle their own insurance claims and every other piece of bureaucratic hoop-jumping they thoughtlessly pile on us at a whim.
Oh, and John McCain must spend 4 hours a day browsing YouTube for inappropriate material.
Google "Macrovision", before creating various forms of digital rights management, as well as acquiring InstallShield for some strange reason, they were the leading name in "analog rights management", i.e., screwing up VHS tapes to prevent dubbing.
But this is precisely why a piece of electronic hardware should not be that color -- it is going to look dated fast.
That's why I'm holding out for the olive green Zune. Or maybe the burnt orange.
And of course the problem you always face when you have an argument with a mental defective is that onlookers might not know which is which.
All I can say is that either you're not doing it right, or you are mentally defective yourself. Or do you think an "argument" means yelling and profanity?
You're right, and since Windows 2000 was the point where functionality, usability and stability (if not security) for an MS operating system all came together, it would have been nice if somehow they could have stuck with that as a base and maybe today we'd be running Windows 2000 SP9, and it would be solid, stable, much more secure and still run in 64MB of memory. From a user's point of view, the only "can't live without it" features since Windows 2000 have been support for newer hardware. Sure there have been other improvements, but when I use Windows 2000, aside of a couple small GUI enhancements in Explorer, there's really nothing I miss.
Microsoft's biggest problem is that their best competition is their older versions. They have to expand their monopoly to also be against themselves.
It seems to me that everyone has short term memories. Smileys have been around since the 80's.
By including it for free, pre-installed with Windows they destroyed Netscape and Spyglass.
I dunno. Netscape had a hand in that. Does anyone besides me remember how horrible Netscape was until about version 3? By version 3 it was pretty decent, and so was IE. IE 4 was the version that was finally really good, and Netscape came out with that huge bloated monstrosity that was their version 4.
Microsoft is a bully and a monopoly, but I don't feel bad for Netscape. As far as I'm concerned, they couldn't compete on quality or features, so they played the monopoly card. By the time that whole "bundling" nonsense went to court, it was 10 years too late. MS's monopoly did the most damage back in the Windows 3 days.
I thought you promised to eliminate spam over a year ago, or that your operating system would be secure 6 years ago.
Really, does this guy say anything that's even relevant any more? Or not just stating the obvious?
Of course DRM is complicated.
For 60 years we've been trying to make computers work. The whole idea behind DRM is to make them NOT work.
Just think of how much time and energy are being spent making things not work that used to work fine.