Techno-nerds vote much less than do old folks or pissed-off folks.
What about pissed-off, old, techno-nerds like me?
I'm really starting to wonder if the Federal government can literally no longer do _anything_ right. They're like Microsoft, so big, bloated and corrupt that whatever good work is being done at the low levels is completely eradicated by the clueless, cowardly and flat-out evil management up top. The difference is, I can mostly avoid Microsoft.
I agree with you. For the short time I used Vista until I realized I was dealing with all this hassle and performance problems for absolutely no benefit at all, one of the worst things was a program I used regularly that always triggered UAC. That there was no option for me to say, "Always allow this program" is utterly insane.
I actually paid for a copy of XP just to get rid of the nonsense (Yes, two sales for one computer. Thank you, Microsoft. You suck.) but I switched to Ubuntu when 8.04 came out. I was already running Linux on my desktops and although the 64-bit Gutsy was too much of a hassle on my HP Pavilion laptop (especially Flash and Java), 32-bit Hardy does everything I want.
That Microsoft's whole concept of improved security in Vista based on bugging the user every third time he clicks the mouse isn't valid?!
Does this surprise anyone outside of Redmond? I'm being sarcastic, of course. UAC allows Microsoft to blame the user, "After all, you _allowed_ the malware to be installed."
but he doesn't associate with the fundamentalist nutcases.
No, he associates with black liberation theology nutcases, which are much worse. By the way, Jerry Falwell is dead.
Obama is the not change, he's more of the same. More of the same soggy liberal nonsense that has been losing elections in this country for 40 years for good reason. More class warfare. More mindless entitlements. More appeasement. More tax and spend. More shady politics. More of the same old crap. If you think he's different or new, you're completely deluded.
Hey, he voted against it before he voted it for it! That has to count for something. If it weren't for empty gestures, Congress would be sitting around doing nothing all day.
That may describe you and the people you know, which is fine, but if you read the statistics, the "Red" states give much more to charity than the "Blue" states, and the state that gives the highest per capita is the very red Mississippi, which is also one of the poorest. Funny about that.
Liberal politicians would also bely your superior (no sarcasm intended) view as they would satisfy the responsibility for charity with endless entitlements and other reasons to funnel trillions of dollars of yours and mine down a black hole for little or no return. That's the real effect of liberals (in both parties) and charity: endless Federal Ponzi schemes (e.g. Social Security), trillions wasted (e.g., Great Society), a permanent welfare underclass, a failing education system and an insane insistence that it's all the right thing to do.
I know what you meant, it's just that "liberals" and "inconspicuous charity" usually don't go together. You're more likely to see "liberals" and "forced 'charity' through punitive taxation" together. Liberals prefer charity with someone else's money.
If by "inconspicuous charity" you mean forcing "charity" on others, then yes.
I'm not driven by fear of loss, I'm driven by wanting people to be responsible for themselves as much as possible. I'm driven by a desire for consequences for actions, good and bad. I'm driven by the realization that if it's impossible to fail then few will have the motivation to succeed. I'm driven by the idea that a safety net is a last resort, not the basis for perpetual underclass of citizens. I'm driven by the fact that the trillions of dollars spent on eliminating poverty have had little effect. I'm driven by the fact that persisting in the failed ideas of the last 40 to 70 years and expecting them to suddenly start working, when they never have before, is the definition of insanity. I'm driven by aspiration rather than envy. I'm driven by the truth that low expectations lead to low results. I'm driven by the common sense that throwing money at a problem is almost always the worst way to address it.
Microsoft doesn't care about engaging the community as long as they can imprison the community.
It's a shame too, because there are lots of ways that they could embrace "freedom" that would win them lots of favor with the very customers they've spent all these years alienating. They could do lots of things like this, but they'd rather try to succeed with a stick than a carrot.
Maybe after the guy with too many Y-chromosomes steps down Microsoft can go back to being part of the community rather than trying to hijack the community.
I've been reading the Discworld books since "The Light Fantastic" was new. Frankly, (and I know I'm going to generate some real hating from this), I thought Terry Pratchett was more or less imitating Douglas Adams in the first two books, with their more-or-less meandering plots and fairly random happenings (plus lots of excellent writing and humor), but then he got BETTER. Much BETTER. [Don't get me wrong, I love Adams' stuff and my copies of his books are all dog-eared and well-worn... I even used to read them to my kids (they totally love the BBC TV version and the revent movie, but their consensus is that the BBC version is better, which makes me proud), and I play the radio shows on CD when we are in the car.]
Pratchett gets the details the way Adams would... tons of really clever jokes (the guy even puns in Latin for cryin' out loud) and great dialog, the outrageously bizarre creations, the fantastic imagination of it all, but to that he adds incredible characterization and detailed plotting, stopwatch-perfect pacing, and some of the best satire ever written. I can get more of a "feeling" for, more inside the minds of, Commander Vimes or Granny Weatherwax or Tiffany Aching or even the Librarian from one chapter than I can get from Arthur or Trillian or Ford from 5 books. Out of places I've never been, Anhk-Morpork is more real and detailed to me than London, Paris or San Francisco.
And the stories... they are huge, sprawling and often very abstract working on many different levels, while remaining very cohesive, and we never lose the little details that make the Discworld perhaps the "realest" imaginary world ever created, more detailed in many ways than Tolkien, stranger in many ways than Wonderland, and yet it's really just a funhouse mirror that casts an exaggerated, but very, very true reflection of our real world and our complex, wonderful and insane nature as human beings.
Adams universe was just a vehicle for delivering his exceptional writing style and brilliant humor, but it never had a sense of being a "real place". The Discworld is carried by four elephants on the back of the great A'Tuin the star turtle, and yet feel more real than the most hardest of hard science fiction and the most scrupulously detailed of fantasy worlds.
Plus, Nanny Ogg. Anyone who could create Nanny Ogg (or really, discover her and reveal her to the world!) is a hero in my book.
The difference is that blacks are supporting Obama almost unanimously... whereas women are split on Palin according to political beliefs or her qualifications or whatever. That's the difference.
I figured blacks would favor Obama because of his party, but they're so heavily weighted in favor of him it bothers me. Does his race really matter that much?
I think what we have to do, as a community, is stop bitching at the game developers, and start bitching out the dirty bastards who steal games and ruin it for the rest of us!
So what you do think is more likely to work... try to convince a corporation, which at least in theory acts rational that their business model is costing them profits, or a bunch of amoral losers who aren't going to listen to anyone, leave alone people who are preaching to them?
Kids are by definition less intelligent then adults, and fall for all the materialism traps marketeers throw at them. Free might generate some pickup, but they really want to spend their money on shiny _expensive_ things.
You so perfectly explained why Obama is so popular among young people.
Before you bury me, take a moment to realize I am right.
but it would have been a good idea for a year or two
Backwards compatibility is an all-or-nothing deal. If it was in Vista to start with, they'd have to support it forever or suffer the exact same problems they suffered from revising the driver model in the first place.
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Why `Free as in Beer'? Because TANSTAAFL.
What if you make a lunch out of free beer?
Yeah I was wondering. Does it open the gates to the Dungeon Dimensions to let the creatures that live there in?
Let's just say you'd better have your Young Men's Reformed-Cultists-of-the-Ichor-God Bel-Shamharoth Association dues paid up.
Techno-nerds vote much less than do old folks or pissed-off folks .
What about pissed-off, old, techno-nerds like me?
I'm really starting to wonder if the Federal government can literally no longer do _anything_ right. They're like Microsoft, so big, bloated and corrupt that whatever good work is being done at the low levels is completely eradicated by the clueless, cowardly and flat-out evil management up top. The difference is, I can mostly avoid Microsoft.
I agree with you. For the short time I used Vista until I realized I was dealing with all this hassle and performance problems for absolutely no benefit at all, one of the worst things was a program I used regularly that always triggered UAC. That there was no option for me to say, "Always allow this program" is utterly insane.
I actually paid for a copy of XP just to get rid of the nonsense (Yes, two sales for one computer. Thank you, Microsoft. You suck.) but I switched to Ubuntu when 8.04 came out. I was already running Linux on my desktops and although the 64-bit Gutsy was too much of a hassle on my HP Pavilion laptop (especially Flash and Java), 32-bit Hardy does everything I want.
Windows? Who needs Windows?
That Microsoft's whole concept of improved security in Vista based on bugging the user every third time he clicks the mouse isn't valid?!
Does this surprise anyone outside of Redmond? I'm being sarcastic, of course. UAC allows Microsoft to blame the user, "After all, you _allowed_ the malware to be installed."
but he doesn't associate with the fundamentalist nutcases.
No, he associates with black liberation theology nutcases, which are much worse. By the way, Jerry Falwell is dead.
Obama is the not change, he's more of the same. More of the same soggy liberal nonsense that has been losing elections in this country for 40 years for good reason. More class warfare. More mindless entitlements. More appeasement. More tax and spend. More shady politics. More of the same old crap. If you think he's different or new, you're completely deluded.
Hey, he voted against it before he voted it for it! That has to count for something. If it weren't for empty gestures, Congress would be sitting around doing nothing all day.
That may describe you and the people you know, which is fine, but if you read the statistics, the "Red" states give much more to charity than the "Blue" states, and the state that gives the highest per capita is the very red Mississippi, which is also one of the poorest. Funny about that.
Liberal politicians would also bely your superior (no sarcasm intended) view as they would satisfy the responsibility for charity with endless entitlements and other reasons to funnel trillions of dollars of yours and mine down a black hole for little or no return. That's the real effect of liberals (in both parties) and charity: endless Federal Ponzi schemes (e.g. Social Security), trillions wasted (e.g., Great Society), a permanent welfare underclass, a failing education system and an insane insistence that it's all the right thing to do.
I know what you meant, it's just that "liberals" and "inconspicuous charity" usually don't go together. You're more likely to see "liberals" and "forced 'charity' through punitive taxation" together. Liberals prefer charity with someone else's money.
If by "inconspicuous charity" you mean forcing "charity" on others, then yes.
I'm not driven by fear of loss, I'm driven by wanting people to be responsible for themselves as much as possible. I'm driven by a desire for consequences for actions, good and bad. I'm driven by the realization that if it's impossible to fail then few will have the motivation to succeed. I'm driven by the idea that a safety net is a last resort, not the basis for perpetual underclass of citizens. I'm driven by the fact that the trillions of dollars spent on eliminating poverty have had little effect. I'm driven by the fact that persisting in the failed ideas of the last 40 to 70 years and expecting them to suddenly start working, when they never have before, is the definition of insanity. I'm driven by aspiration rather than envy. I'm driven by the truth that low expectations lead to low results. I'm driven by the common sense that throwing money at a problem is almost always the worst way to address it.
Microsoft doesn't care about engaging the community as long as they can imprison the community.
It's a shame too, because there are lots of ways that they could embrace "freedom" that would win them lots of favor with the very customers they've spent all these years alienating. They could do lots of things like this, but they'd rather try to succeed with a stick than a carrot.
Maybe after the guy with too many Y-chromosomes steps down Microsoft can go back to being part of the community rather than trying to hijack the community.
Based on his sig, it seems the only dimension he needs is one with Ace Rimmer (what a guy!).
Gah, cues goddamnit!!! Not queues. Cues!!! You'd think Slashdot of all places would get that right ...
I hate to say it, but "You must be new here."
You can't read half a dozen posts without seeing grade-school-type grammar and spelling mistakes. Granted it's not Digg, but...
Indeed. I wonder if it was intentional.
Does it also bother you that Europeans are supporting Obama almost unanimously?
So do all of America's enemies. That _does_ bother me.
I've been reading the Discworld books since "The Light Fantastic" was new. Frankly, (and I know I'm going to generate some real hating from this), I thought Terry Pratchett was more or less imitating Douglas Adams in the first two books, with their more-or-less meandering plots and fairly random happenings (plus lots of excellent writing and humor), but then he got BETTER. Much BETTER. [Don't get me wrong, I love Adams' stuff and my copies of his books are all dog-eared and well-worn... I even used to read them to my kids (they totally love the BBC TV version and the revent movie, but their consensus is that the BBC version is better, which makes me proud), and I play the radio shows on CD when we are in the car.]
Pratchett gets the details the way Adams would... tons of really clever jokes (the guy even puns in Latin for cryin' out loud) and great dialog, the outrageously bizarre creations, the fantastic imagination of it all, but to that he adds incredible characterization and detailed plotting, stopwatch-perfect pacing, and some of the best satire ever written. I can get more of a "feeling" for, more inside the minds of, Commander Vimes or Granny Weatherwax or Tiffany Aching or even the Librarian from one chapter than I can get from Arthur or Trillian or Ford from 5 books. Out of places I've never been, Anhk-Morpork is more real and detailed to me than London, Paris or San Francisco.
And the stories... they are huge, sprawling and often very abstract working on many different levels, while remaining very cohesive, and we never lose the little details that make the Discworld perhaps the "realest" imaginary world ever created, more detailed in many ways than Tolkien, stranger in many ways than Wonderland, and yet it's really just a funhouse mirror that casts an exaggerated, but very, very true reflection of our real world and our complex, wonderful and insane nature as human beings.
Adams universe was just a vehicle for delivering his exceptional writing style and brilliant humor, but it never had a sense of being a "real place". The Discworld is carried by four elephants on the back of the great A'Tuin the star turtle, and yet feel more real than the most hardest of hard science fiction and the most scrupulously detailed of fantasy worlds.
Plus, Nanny Ogg. Anyone who could create Nanny Ogg (or really, discover her and reveal her to the world!) is a hero in my book.
I just bought them all. I hope they don't put out something I would prefer to the existing releases.
Is that thing still around? I thought it died from irrelevance years ago.
Oh well, I guess there are still people using black-and-white TVs too.
The difference is that blacks are supporting Obama almost unanimously... whereas women are split on Palin according to political beliefs or her qualifications or whatever. That's the difference.
I figured blacks would favor Obama because of his party, but they're so heavily weighted in favor of him it bothers me. Does his race really matter that much?
I think what we have to do, as a community, is stop bitching at the game developers, and start bitching out the dirty bastards who steal games and ruin it for the rest of us!
So what you do think is more likely to work... try to convince a corporation, which at least in theory acts rational that their business model is costing them profits, or a bunch of amoral losers who aren't going to listen to anyone, leave alone people who are preaching to them?
Kids are by definition less intelligent then adults, and fall for all the materialism traps marketeers throw at them. Free might generate some pickup, but they really want to spend their money on shiny _expensive_ things.
You so perfectly explained why Obama is so popular among young people.
Before you bury me, take a moment to realize I am right.
Don't forget
"Vista will fully utilize the incredibly fast processor and vast amounts of memory that come with the modern computer."
or
"Vista will make repetitive strain injuries a thing of the past by requiring many lengthy breaks from work."
or
"Vista will improve your health because running around the room screaming at the top of your lungs is great aerobic exercise."
or
"Vista: Trading backwards compatibility for lack of speed and stability since 2007"
or perhaps the one that best reflects Microsoft's actual marketing:
"Vista: Ooooo! It's shiny!"
Well, the job certainly doesn't require you to know anything, because if you did, you couldn't sell Vista without lying.
but it would have been a good idea for a year or two
Backwards compatibility is an all-or-nothing deal. If it was in Vista to start with, they'd have to support it forever or suffer the exact same problems they suffered from revising the driver model in the first place.
Is that thing still around? Wow. Hooda thunk?