They do have someone who knows about software. It's just unfortunate that s/he knows only about Microsoft Software and so this is a brand new concept and Microsoft should be awarded the patent on this new and innovative idea that they have....
How many Internet's are there. If the Internet was one of many different (meaning US internet, Mexico internet, UK internet, etc) nets than I would agree. But it is just one thing and therefore should be capitalized.
My boss of my last job asked be to capitalize the word intranet but I told him that there are different's intranets. There was ours, the vendors with worked with, are customers, etc...everyone has their own intranet but there is only one Internet and it should be capitalized.
Everyone has been saying that the 4G iPod now regulates Music to it's own menu item. What if Jobs were to slowly expand the Hard Drives, continue to update the software and introduce color in the 5G iPod. Which would mean you could then use it to view your color photos. And then low and behold a year or two later the 6G has a stylus and you can take notes and wow the new 6G iPod is Newton but more. What if????
has identified "demon customers" like those who file for a rebate then return the item. OK, I get that one
I don't get that one. Shouldn't the company offering the rebate request info from Best Buy to see if it something was taken back? or how about this...shouldn't Best Buy contact the company to see if a rebate was sent and decrease the return value at that point.
Remember you have to submit the rebate receipt and the original purchase receipt for the rebate so the information should be verified by both companies. If they aren't then it is their own fault not the fault of the customer who has successfully received a rebate.
Of course I hate Best Buy...I had a credit card of $700 with them. In the last year and a half I moved. I notified the credit company which Best Buy is associated but in the process of the move I received my bill late (past the due date in fact - and it had the corrected address) I paid immediately. The next bill came (with the Post Office mailing address changed - it had the old address) three days before the due date - and a again I paid the bill (and it had a penalty for a late payment from last month.) The following month it arrived on time (with corrected address and again a late payment was assessed) and I paid it on time. Two weeks later I was told that my credit was revoked and the special no interest charges were revoked and being assessed at the regular interest rate. I called and they said because I hadn't paid the bill that it was revoked but when I told them that on each of these bills they placed when they received the payment and it was properly credited. There was a pause and then it was determined because I was late when I explained that the first bill was sent to the correct address but I didn't receive it until well past the due date which wasn't my fault but theirs I was told I shouldn't have moved to another state. I paid the entire bill off and returned the credit card.
I haven't stepped into a Best Buy since and I wrote the store that they just lost a customer for life and which included my entire family (seems all five of my siblings had the exact same problem in the last three years) I never had a response.
How come everytime that Apple has an update people report that there have been crashes. I have updated Mac OS X since 10.2.2 when I bought the machine and never once had it...okay I lie it did crash - ONCE! - but that had nothing to do with any update file that I installed. I'm still not sure why it crashed considering it hasn't crashed since the ONE TIME CRASH!
I'm just emphazing that little fact because my Windows Box at work crashed two to three times a week...I mean 2 TO 3 TIMES A WEEK!!
Anyways, the DRM on the iTunes is really relaxed because I've never had a problem with converting the AAC files to MP3's (for those of my friends who don't use AAC files - since none of the MP3 players support them but iPod does.)
Personally, I prefer the console gaming. Mainly, I don't want to use my Mac for something as trivial as gaming and since my Mac is doing other things (compiling, backing itself up, search for ET, crawling news stories for me, etc etc) that I don't want to game on it.
The console lets me free up the Mac for the work things and lets me do just the fun things on it. Who cares about it needs to be recycled every few years. Give it to a charitable organization with the games.
I paid $150 for my PS1 and when I got my PS2 I donated my PS1 for a write off of $150 off my taxes and I'll do the same for my $200 PS2 - which was a gift so therefore I'm making money on it. BTW: I also took a write-off for the games. Very profitable!!
Used to the same with my PC's when I had to continually buy a new one every couple of years. But now I have a 2gig RAM - 120 gig HD - Dual processor 867mhz G4 - which is two years old and has yet to slow down.
- Sorry to the Boy's and Girl's Club which received my donations but as soon as the PS3 is out you'll have a PS2.
Mainly because it went into more detail about the houses. Lynch made a very pretty Dune and stylish but I didn't get the sense of the politics of what man was capable of or rather incapable of. After thousands of years man is still being controlled from a few rather than from the many we've become pawns in political infighting and religion still controls are destiny.
The miniseries brought this out whereas the movie was pretty but very little substance. I'd take substance over beauty everyday!
but it felt more like the Search for Spock. The minute that they found another brother it and Data uploaded his matrix I knew that Data was dead.
The whole clone thing with Picard was better but the whole I have to have your blood thing was stupid. What I thought would have been better is if the Remans went ahead of the plan of going after Earth. It felt too preachy beyond most Trek episodes.
And I usually like the Trek films (Except #5 - again too preachy) Besides that - if your even going to show Wesley then why not tell us what he's doing...I always thought that him and the Traveller taking off into different realms was interesting but here they bring him back and no one talks to him?
I heard that the studio had the film re-edited and it seems that every time they do that they take a lot away from the Movies. They wanted action but Trek episodes usually had some intelligence behind them. Ever since the 1st movie it's been all action, or as much as they can muster, and very little detail about new characters or technology.
What makes Apple so good. Is it the operating system? is it the hardware? Or how about both? What made Microsoft rich was that they didn't care about the hardware - what has that cost M$? well, the fact that tons of geeks have left M$ in favor of a more stable operating system one that has less drivers than M$ but much more reliability when it comes to actually getting work done. Apple has had a pretty stable OS but not because it produced anything better than M$ (until now I like the UNIX tools that OSX supports) but because it controlled the hardware and was able to get both working together. Unfortunately, that has also hurt Apple making their systems way expensive compared to the INTEL/M$ system. Hopefully, the OS is as stable on x86 as on their own hardware. But if it isn't they can either a) enlist those geeks that hate M$ to help them make OSX work on x86 as good as Linux which then helps Linux (we all know anything learned will be taught back to the bazaar NDA or no NDA). b) do nothing - hey Jobs loses on the hardware end why should he bother if he can't get a percentage of the hardware sales too.
Time will tell if Apple begins to market this idea of his OS on every INTEL box. Maybe that's why we've heard some talk that IBM and Apple might get into bed soon. IBM supplies the hardware and cuts Apple in on it and Apple becomes the next M$ with a superior GUI design than M$ xxxx??? whatever it's called.
That is interesting article. So now instead of trading the music we will also trade the license. Considering when you buy a new computer you'll get a new license instead of transferring and how long before someone gets a program running that masks your license to look like your friends license who gave you the music file. I don't see how this is really going to stop anyone.
I bow to your sense of fair play. I agree with you on all points of your reply. I, personally, didn't think about the classically liberal vs. the current liberal platforms. Thanks. I've always viewed a libertarian Internet to be more democratic in the sense of ideas survive based on overall usefullness - the less people find it useful the more it dies out and fades away. No one person has control of access to the information just if no one likes it why keep it on a server. Unfortunately, that's wishful thinking since there will always be someone trying to restrict or control information based on their own moral or idealogical value.
The writer doesn't want are US values yet he wants a highly regulated internet that the US goverment has been trying to put into place, unsuccessfully, he seems to think that the goverment adheres to libertarian values (?!?!?) when it's us (hackers) that are in cyberspace (and alot of them are in his own country) that are trying to get the death grip of big business and the regulatory goverment hands off to allow true freedom. And he attributes that to US values (again, ?!?!?).
What's funny he's yelling at a Congressman, who would love to regulate the hell out of the internet btw, and he's yelling about the DMCA but he seems to be in favor with both those actions.
Weird, this guys probably a little schizo, and probably drinks too much coffee. Or possibly he's in cahoots with the UK way of thinking. Considering, the want to do exactly what he wants them to do which is regulate and censor. Because regulation and censorship seem to always go hand in hand.
I haven't suffered that much of the dependency hell of RPM maybe I don't try the new bleedin' app that comes out. I have tried Gentoo Linux but unfortunately I use an Old 200 mhz Pentium w/mmx. I have had if for 5 years and whereas I've tried to get gentoo to load on it it just won't but my Red Hat installation just continues to purr along without a problem.
Maybe, I'm the odd one. I've packed newest graphics card, the newest ethernet card, new monitors, but USB 2.0, a logictech wheelman mouse, more memory (256mb, the motherboard can't go any higher), the latest harddive and the damn thing keeps running and not only that it running so damn smoothly. I've installed new programs and usually get the source file rather than RPM but when there has been no source just a binary RPM it never has failed me...
I'd love to use Gentoo and Sorcer but they just don't work for my old workhorse and Red Hat does....
The only way to protest any kind of metering (if it happens, I highly doubt it will)
Check out Cox Cable's Las Vegas website. Their not necessarily metering just charging you more for more bandwidth. All in all I'm a single geek who can afford to pay more so big deal. What I find interesting is the cable companies will simply allow pirating to continue. If providing free music is can be considered pirating. I thought a pirate wanted to make money by selling it more cheaply. Why consider someone giving something away a pirate?
That's fine if they want multitiered pricing plans but shouldn't they have to then make sure that download/upload speeds are kept at a constant. I can see subscribers paying for the higher service suing for more guarantee's on the speeds this could really cause a backlash in the form of a nice class action suit. What happens when a judge orders the cable companies to do just that then they have to spend more money to get more bandwidth to those higher paying subscribers. And what happens when the goverment gets involved. Cable prices are already almost $100.00 for basic cable/high-speed Internet. I guess the goverment will have to start regulating the cable industry since they (the goverment) is stating that they want more people to have the ability to get online. What about all those poor people who can't afford to get online because.
If the DSL and phone companies band together (which will never happen) and start pricing competively and guarantee bandwidth speeds they could go after the higher end users and get more customers on their bandwagon. Then what will the cable companies do when people are leaving them for more guarantees?
Just a thought....Any lawyers interested in a nice big class action suit?
A while ago (3 years in fact) I wrote a small column for a different forum (now defunct). That basically stated that the web should be stay free and that the web should be used for informational not transactional operations. IE: A company should post all information about a product but the purchase by that product should be handled by a different protocol not http. https should be used to create virtual communities and http for a public web page.
And also that advertising on the web should be banned. The reasons was that I was sure that if the web became to much of a commerical it would lose it's usefulness and become stale and boring. It's an excellent medium for many to many communications (and that's why the goverment has had a hard time of passing the CDA I & II theres not a one to many medium like public television so it's protected.) but not I great idea for high commercialization because if you want commercials watch TV! People are now getting tired of entering search requests for information but instead are getting companies websites selling the product.
Also, because of commercialization it becomes easier for the goverment to say it's less of a many to many medium and predomiately a one to many medium. Once that happens watch how fast the CDA's will come back and censor the web. It's bad enough when the ISP's have censored things just think how it will be when the goverment starts...I'll see if I can find that article for reposting here at/.
Hello, but doesn't this bother anyone that all these millionaires are having a benefit concert so they can raise money to pay for lawyers. You mean they're pissed to be missing out on royalities so they ask the consumers to offset their lawyer fees.
Now that's a benefit concert to benefit Millionaires. Does that mean that if Microsoft loses 5% market share in the next year Bill Gates should hold a benefit concert?!?!?
The article in my opinion does not have all the facts but I have to expect that. But what bugs me is how all these protesters are worried about the corporation taking over when it has been shown that for the last 20 years of globalization it has improved the world we live in today. Take a look at the book The Skeptical Enviromentalist by Bjorn Lomborg. He worked with Greenpeace and when he heard some American Conservative state that world has become a better place because of globalization he couldn't believe it.
What he ended up doing was take all the research that he could find to disprove this American and instead found that because of globalization the number of people who are poor is less than would be believed, that the enviroment in the last 20 years has improved, and that they are more countries that are richer today than they ever were.
Dr. Lomborg uses data that is available to everyone but no one uses data they get emotional - mainly tired of seeing all those poor kids in Africa starving to death is that because of globalization or because civil war where one Totalitarian Ruler is deposed for another.
If you really want to know the state of the world today go to Amazaon.com and pick up this book. You'll find that globalzation is the answer and the next time someone says that they are too many poor people in the world tell them that it's a lot less than 20 years ago and that because of globalization it'll get better.
What's the deal that the only problem people have with Enterprise is a theme song. Considering that this series is closer to us than Kirk it makes much more sense. Consider that Cochran was a Steppenwolf fan. It makes sense to have a 20th/21st type song accompaning this show. These people are us not in the distant future but in the soon and now - 100 years is not that far. With the advent of Warp technology 200 years becomes even closer.
I've been reading a lot of comments that just make me sick. We have people declaring war not on the United States Goverment but on us the United States Citizens and all any of you are worried about is the inconvenice or the tightened security. How many of you were alive during WWII??
The security measures that will be in place will be no different than during that time. Considering that there never was an attack on the contiguous US. But security was at a premium just in case. Over 5000 people have died and I believe that during this time the Goverment has to do whatever is necessary to protect us and our Freedoms. We should be asking the Goverment to pass the laws they deem necessary but that those laws go out of effect once this War is over.
To believe that we are not at a state of War is to live with your head in the sand. Besides there have been more laws passed in the last eight years during Peace time that have been more restrictive of our Personal Liberties yet no one here seemed to really write our congresspeople or organize a protest unless of course it was a law trying to ban pornography (which was a stupid law) but what about others that none of you/us paid attention too yet exist?????
It's time to stand behind our Goverment and stop allowing our Fear about a Fictional Big Brother dictate what needs to happen?
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They do have someone who knows about software. It's just unfortunate that s/he knows only about Microsoft Software and so this is a brand new concept and Microsoft should be awarded the patent on this new and innovative idea that they have....
How many Internet's are there. If the Internet was one of many different (meaning US internet, Mexico internet, UK internet, etc) nets than I would agree. But it is just one thing and therefore should be capitalized.
My boss of my last job asked be to capitalize the word intranet but I told him that there are different's intranets. There was ours, the vendors with worked with, are customers, etc...everyone has their own intranet but there is only one Internet and it should be capitalized.
me
Everyone has been saying that the 4G iPod now regulates Music to it's own menu item. What if Jobs were to slowly expand the Hard Drives, continue to update the software and introduce color in the 5G iPod. Which would mean you could then use it to view your color photos. And then low and behold a year or two later the 6G has a stylus and you can take notes and wow the new 6G iPod is Newton but more. What if????
The news is public and it hasn't jumped more than 1.5% as of the close of today's market.
has identified "demon customers" like those who file for a rebate then return the item. OK, I get that one
I don't get that one. Shouldn't the company offering the rebate request info from Best Buy to see if it something was taken back? or how about this...shouldn't Best Buy contact the company to see if a rebate was sent and decrease the return value at that point.
Remember you have to submit the rebate receipt and the original purchase receipt for the rebate so the information should be verified by both companies. If they aren't then it is their own fault not the fault of the customer who has successfully received a rebate.
Of course I hate Best Buy...I had a credit card of $700 with them. In the last year and a half I moved. I notified the credit company which Best Buy is associated but in the process of the move I received my bill late (past the due date in fact - and it had the corrected address) I paid immediately. The next bill came (with the Post Office mailing address changed - it had the old address) three days before the due date - and a again I paid the bill (and it had a penalty for a late payment from last month.) The following month it arrived on time (with corrected address and again a late payment was assessed) and I paid it on time. Two weeks later I was told that my credit was revoked and the special no interest charges were revoked and being assessed at the regular interest rate. I called and they said because I hadn't paid the bill that it was revoked but when I told them that on each of these bills they placed when they received the payment and it was properly credited. There was a pause and then it was determined because I was late when I explained that the first bill was sent to the correct address but I didn't receive it until well past the due date which wasn't my fault but theirs I was told I shouldn't have moved to another state. I paid the entire bill off and returned the credit card.
I haven't stepped into a Best Buy since and I wrote the store that they just lost a customer for life and which included my entire family (seems all five of my siblings had the exact same problem in the last three years) I never had a response.
How come everytime that Apple has an update people report that there have been crashes. I have updated Mac OS X since 10.2.2 when I bought the machine and never once had it...okay I lie it did crash - ONCE! - but that had nothing to do with any update file that I installed. I'm still not sure why it crashed considering it hasn't crashed since the ONE TIME CRASH!
I'm just emphazing that little fact because my Windows Box at work crashed two to three times a week...I mean 2 TO 3 TIMES A WEEK!!
Anyways, the DRM on the iTunes is really relaxed because I've never had a problem with converting the AAC files to MP3's (for those of my friends who don't use AAC files - since none of the MP3 players support them but iPod does.)
Later
Personally, I prefer the console gaming. Mainly, I don't want to use my Mac for something as trivial as gaming and since my Mac is doing other things (compiling, backing itself up, search for ET, crawling news stories for me, etc etc) that I don't want to game on it.
The console lets me free up the Mac for the work things and lets me do just the fun things on it. Who cares about it needs to be recycled every few years. Give it to a charitable organization with the games.
I paid $150 for my PS1 and when I got my PS2 I donated my PS1 for a write off of $150 off my taxes and I'll do the same for my $200 PS2 - which was a gift so therefore I'm making money on it. BTW: I also took a write-off for the games. Very profitable!!
Used to the same with my PC's when I had to continually buy a new one every couple of years. But now I have a 2gig RAM - 120 gig HD - Dual processor 867mhz G4 - which is two years old and has yet to slow down.
- Sorry to the Boy's and Girl's Club which received my donations but as soon as the PS3 is out you'll have a PS2.
Later
Okay, two points: 1. Didn't Netscape already do that? 2. Isn't that what Apple did to Mail in the Panther release?
Just my two cents.
I've been waiting for this one for a long while and looks as good as it can be....
I'm shiviring with anticapation over this!!!
Mainly because it went into more detail about the houses. Lynch made a very pretty Dune and stylish but I didn't get the sense of the politics of what man was capable of or rather incapable of. After thousands of years man is still being controlled from a few rather than from the many we've become pawns in political infighting and religion still controls are destiny.
The miniseries brought this out whereas the movie was pretty but very little substance. I'd take substance over beauty everyday!
I can't wait for the next miniseries.
but it felt more like the Search for Spock. The minute that they found another brother it and Data uploaded his matrix I knew that Data was dead.
The whole clone thing with Picard was better but the whole I have to have your blood thing was stupid. What I thought would have been better is if the Remans went ahead of the plan of going after Earth. It felt too preachy beyond most Trek episodes.
And I usually like the Trek films (Except #5 - again too preachy) Besides that - if your even going to show Wesley then why not tell us what he's doing...I always thought that him and the Traveller taking off into different realms was interesting but here they bring him back and no one talks to him?
I heard that the studio had the film re-edited and it seems that every time they do that they take a lot away from the Movies. They wanted action but Trek episodes usually had some intelligence behind them. Ever since the 1st movie it's been all action, or as much as they can muster, and very little detail about new characters or technology.
http://www.reason.com they usually have some good articles looking at both viewpoints. But you have to look for them.
Later
What makes Apple so good. Is it the operating system? is it the hardware? Or how about both? What made Microsoft rich was that they didn't care about the hardware - what has that cost M$? well, the fact that tons of geeks have left M$ in favor of a more stable operating system one that has less drivers than M$ but much more reliability when it comes to actually getting work done. Apple has had a pretty stable OS but not because it produced anything better than M$ (until now I like the UNIX tools that OSX supports) but because it controlled the hardware and was able to get both working together. Unfortunately, that has also hurt Apple making their systems way expensive compared to the INTEL/M$ system. Hopefully, the OS is as stable on x86 as on their own hardware. But if it isn't they can either a) enlist those geeks that hate M$ to help them make OSX work on x86 as good as Linux which then helps Linux (we all know anything learned will be taught back to the bazaar NDA or no NDA). b) do nothing - hey Jobs loses on the hardware end why should he bother if he can't get a percentage of the hardware sales too.
Time will tell if Apple begins to market this idea of his OS on every INTEL box. Maybe that's why we've heard some talk that IBM and Apple might get into bed soon. IBM supplies the hardware and cuts Apple in on it and Apple becomes the next M$ with a superior GUI design than M$ xxxx??? whatever it's called.
Time will tell indeed....
That is interesting article. So now instead of trading the music we will also trade the license. Considering when you buy a new computer you'll get a new license instead of transferring and how long before someone gets a program running that masks your license to look like your friends license who gave you the music file. I don't see how this is really going to stop anyone.
I bow to your sense of fair play. I agree with you on all points of your reply. I, personally, didn't think about the classically liberal vs. the current liberal platforms. Thanks. I've always viewed a libertarian Internet to be more democratic in the sense of ideas survive based on overall usefullness - the less people find it useful the more it dies out and fades away. No one person has control of access to the information just if no one likes it why keep it on a server. Unfortunately, that's wishful thinking since there will always be someone trying to restrict or control information based on their own moral or idealogical value.
The writer doesn't want are US values yet he wants a highly regulated internet that the US goverment has been trying to put into place, unsuccessfully, he seems to think that the goverment adheres to libertarian values (?!?!?) when it's us (hackers) that are in cyberspace (and alot of them are in his own country) that are trying to get the death grip of big business and the regulatory goverment hands off to allow true freedom. And he attributes that to US values (again, ?!?!?).
What's funny he's yelling at a Congressman, who would love to regulate the hell out of the internet btw, and he's yelling about the DMCA but he seems to be in favor with both those actions.
Weird, this guys probably a little schizo, and probably drinks too much coffee. Or possibly he's in cahoots with the UK way of thinking. Considering, the want to do exactly what he wants them to do which is regulate and censor. Because regulation and censorship seem to always go hand in hand.
I haven't suffered that much of the dependency hell of RPM maybe I don't try the new bleedin' app that comes out. I have tried Gentoo Linux but unfortunately I use an Old 200 mhz Pentium w/mmx. I have had if for 5 years and whereas I've tried to get gentoo to load on it it just won't but my Red Hat installation just continues to purr along without a problem.
Maybe, I'm the odd one. I've packed newest graphics card, the newest ethernet card, new monitors, but USB 2.0, a logictech wheelman mouse, more memory (256mb, the motherboard can't go any higher), the latest harddive and the damn thing keeps running and not only that it running so damn smoothly. I've installed new programs and usually get the source file rather than RPM but when there has been no source just a binary RPM it never has failed me...
I'd love to use Gentoo and Sorcer but they just don't work for my old workhorse and Red Hat does....
Later
The only way to protest any kind of metering (if it happens, I highly doubt it will)
Check out Cox Cable's Las Vegas website. Their not necessarily metering just charging you more for more bandwidth. All in all I'm a single geek who can afford to pay more so big deal. What I find interesting is the cable companies will simply allow pirating to continue. If providing free music is can be considered pirating. I thought a pirate wanted to make money by selling it more cheaply. Why consider someone giving something away a pirate?
That's fine if they want multitiered pricing plans but shouldn't they have to then make sure that download/upload speeds are kept at a constant. I can see subscribers paying for the higher service suing for more guarantee's on the speeds this could really cause a backlash in the form of a nice class action suit. What happens when a judge orders the cable companies to do just that then they have to spend more money to get more bandwidth to those higher paying subscribers. And what happens when the goverment gets involved. Cable prices are already almost $100.00 for basic cable/high-speed Internet. I guess the goverment will have to start regulating the cable industry since they (the goverment) is stating that they want more people to have the ability to get online. What about all those poor people who can't afford to get online because.
If the DSL and phone companies band together (which will never happen) and start pricing competively and guarantee bandwidth speeds they could go after the higher end users and get more customers on their bandwagon. Then what will the cable companies do when people are leaving them for more guarantees?
Just a thought....Any lawyers interested in a nice big class action suit?
A while ago (3 years in fact) I wrote a small column for a different forum (now defunct). That basically stated that the web should be stay free and that the web should be used for informational not transactional operations. IE: A company should post all information about a product but the purchase by that product should be handled by a different protocol not http. https should be used to create virtual communities and http for a public web page.
/.
And also that advertising on the web should be banned. The reasons was that I was sure that if the web became to much of a commerical it would lose it's usefulness and become stale and boring. It's an excellent medium for many to many communications (and that's why the goverment has had a hard time of passing the CDA I & II theres not a one to many medium like public television so it's protected.) but not I great idea for high commercialization because if you want commercials watch TV! People are now getting tired of entering search requests for information but instead are getting companies websites selling the product.
Also, because of commercialization it becomes easier for the goverment to say it's less of a many to many medium and predomiately a one to many medium. Once that happens watch how fast the CDA's will come back and censor the web. It's bad enough when the ISP's have censored things just think how it will be when the goverment starts...I'll see if I can find that article for reposting here at
So now it is illegal to send spam!! But why can't the lawmakers do something about junk mail!!!
Hello, but doesn't this bother anyone that all these millionaires are having a benefit concert so they can raise money to pay for lawyers. You mean they're pissed to be missing out on royalities so they ask the consumers to offset their lawyer fees.
Now that's a benefit concert to benefit Millionaires. Does that mean that if Microsoft loses 5% market share in the next year Bill Gates should hold a benefit concert?!?!?
The article in my opinion does not have all the facts but I have to expect that. But what bugs me is how all these protesters are worried about the corporation taking over when it has been shown that for the last 20 years of globalization it has improved the world we live in today. Take a look at the book The Skeptical Enviromentalist by Bjorn Lomborg. He worked with Greenpeace and when he heard some American Conservative state that world has become a better place because of globalization he couldn't believe it.
What he ended up doing was take all the research that he could find to disprove this American and instead found that because of globalization the number of people who are poor is less than would be believed, that the enviroment in the last 20 years has improved, and that they are more countries that are richer today than they ever were.
Dr. Lomborg uses data that is available to everyone but no one uses data they get emotional - mainly tired of seeing all those poor kids in Africa starving to death is that because of globalization or because civil war where one Totalitarian Ruler is deposed for another.
If you really want to know the state of the world today go to Amazaon.com and pick up this book. You'll find that globalzation is the answer and the next time someone says that they are too many poor people in the world tell them that it's a lot less than 20 years ago and that because of globalization it'll get better.
What's the deal that the only problem people have with Enterprise is a theme song. Considering that this series is closer to us than Kirk it makes much more sense. Consider that Cochran was a Steppenwolf fan. It makes sense to have a 20th/21st type song accompaning this show. These people are us not in the distant future but in the soon and now - 100 years is not that far. With the advent of Warp technology 200 years becomes even closer.
I've been reading a lot of comments that just make me sick. We have people declaring war not on the United States Goverment but on us the United States Citizens and all any of you are worried about is the inconvenice or the tightened security. How many of you were alive during WWII??
The security measures that will be in place will be no different than during that time. Considering that there never was an attack on the contiguous US. But security was at a premium just in case. Over 5000 people have died and I believe that during this time the Goverment has to do whatever is necessary to protect us and our Freedoms. We should be asking the Goverment to pass the laws they deem necessary but that those laws go out of effect once this War is over.
To believe that we are not at a state of War is to live with your head in the sand. Besides there have been more laws passed in the last eight years during Peace time that have been more restrictive of our Personal Liberties yet no one here seemed to really write our congresspeople or organize a protest unless of course it was a law trying to ban pornography (which was a stupid law) but what about others that none of you/us paid attention too yet exist?????
It's time to stand behind our Goverment and stop allowing our Fear about a Fictional Big Brother dictate what needs to happen?