> people would rather pay a couple hundred dollars for windows or the premium involved with buying a mac than use linux for free. what does that tell you?
What does it tell me? You are a liar.
Very few people in fact pay for the premium for a Mac.
OMG, you finally admit that the Mac 'premium' is illusory. No, that can't be it. It would make too much sense.
WTF, do you not get the context? That was a section of a children's book that Winston was copying into his diary. The whole point is that the government were a bunch of fucking liars, starting with lying to children.
The real answer is that there is no fair way to support the weak, but people are sentimental and insist on it for "reasons" that have no reason behind them.
The reason is quite simple and fundamental: there but for the grace of God go I.
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> people would rather pay a couple hundred dollars for windows or the premium involved with buying a mac than use linux for free. what does that tell you?
What does it tell me? You are a liar.
Very few people in fact pay for the premium for a Mac.
OMG, you finally admit that the Mac 'premium' is illusory. No, that can't be it. It would make too much sense.
Really? Comparing benchmarks? All this time, and you people still don't get it.
Much obliged. There is a color version out there somewhere.
...that is what will happen to the 99%
That's ok, because we already know what happens to the 1%.
Not entirely unlike Thunderball.
WTF, do you not get the context? That was a section of a children's book that Winston was copying into his diary. The whole point is that the government were a bunch of fucking liars, starting with lying to children.
I've chosen Brazil...
I'm not sure that's an improvement.
I think I love you, man.
The real answer is that there is no fair way to support the weak, but people are sentimental and insist on it for "reasons" that have no reason behind them.
The reason is quite simple and fundamental: there but for the grace of God go I.
Even our actions to a "good joke" - the baring of our teeth in laughter - are an aggressive challenge to apes and many other animals.
Somebody remembers her Heinlein.
Let me know when they find a way to repel Ticks without harmful effects.
I suggest the Chainsaw Vigilante. Or a billion zillion ninjas.
The Oatmeal to the rescue.
Someone need to invent a sarcasm font.
I thought that's what Comic Sans was for?
Nay! He does not use his right name, nor permit it to be spelt or spoken.
Chaim Levine?
They also move on from a discussion more quickly than legitimate users, discarding their IDs and never using them again.
I bet not a one of them has as many IDs as Michael Kristopeit.
I bet he's a waiter in another life.
To paraphrase WOPR, "The only way to win is to run the game."
I think that is Skynet. But now you've given me a good idea for a movie...
To Steve Jobs, $1M would be equally meaningless.
Too soon?
Nope. $1m has been useless to Steve Jobs for a couple of weeks now.
640k cupcakes oughta be enough for anyone. Even fat Linux using losers.
That Fannie and Freddie encouraged Countrywide to start the ball rolling with those standards, and thus everyone else followed suit.
Yeah, too bad private banks gave shitty mortgages all on their own. Back to the drawing board, troll.
"You can also make them "one per customer" although customers will get violent if you try to enforce that just because it says so on the coupon."
Then you simply smile and say "bring it" as you reach for a gun.
FTFY. This *is* an American website, after all.
then how come i can't have real glass in a bar?
You get your not real glass to go with your not real ale.
Listen, it's Slashdot, an American website. Be thankful we even recognized that this was taking place in a different country.
In other news, the Emperor's new clothes look maahhhhhvelous.
You make it sound like Weyland-Yutani is a bad thing.