Can you guys drop the Socialist moniker please?
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Frankly it is tiring, Western Europe and what is today's EU has always respected free enterprise and private ownership, cornerstones of a capitalist economy.
People in the US have no idea what they are talking about when they say EU countries are socialist.
They may be more socially responsible than the US goverments perhaps, but private property and free enterprise has never been stopped.
If you want examples of Socialist countries look at Cuba or North Korea, where everything is Socialized by means of state control and ownership.
- Humane working conditions. - Working rights. - Social security.
The right: -Spiraling debt every time they have bee in power. -High subsidies for failed economic activities. -Rampant protectionism and populism. -Expenditure in the military machine as only outlet to create jobs.
Because the last time I had to schedule reboots for a mchine of mine was around 10 years ago.
Oh yes, last time I used Windows, my bad.
I have administered SOlaris, Linux, HP-UX, Irix and a few others, and frankly the one that either should go to get a job in the real world or stop talking hallucinations is you.
Your neigbhour down south has been both for more than 100 years, so I don't understand why so many USians in this forum (or is it always you?) keep insisting about this stupid non issue.
Your outlandish ascertion that MS is easy falls miserably like a shaky house of cards when you go and visit any bookstore and see the shelves full of books guiding people through the piece of cake that Windows is suppossed to be.
People like you just don't get it.
Linux in particular and OSS in general is making software an infrastructure resource, like electricity or water.
MS does not like that because competing in a comoditized resource in a free market is the nightmare of any monopoly.
The entrenching of Linux in the server market is just the start. Eventually Linux will be as capable and more flexible than anything MS has to offer (with all the barriers currently existent it makes a perfect replacement for many people. In 5 years time there will be no major issues with Linux in the desktop, save stupid hardware manufactureres that may still be in the dark).
The fact that more people don't use Linux is just a temporary stage clearly owed to natural resistance. It is always like that with any technological change, but the writing is in the wall and that is why MS (shich is not stupid) is doing all what they can to attack the OSS phenomenon.
.... because of the fucgin tree in front of you. Which you put there by the way.
Don't you have a funny feeling that the expansion and improvement of software would not create more jobs?
Improvement is in the eye of the beholder, customazition may be the biggest IT engine for several years to come if we don't allow the like of MS to derail this,
They are welcome to join, but if they keep messing around they may be left without many friends (like if they have any at this stage).
Nuclear plants in several countries (Mexico, UK) have probed economically unviable.
In places like France or even the US they are very often heavily subsidized and would not survive the slightiest of competitions from other energy sources.
US politics is a blood sport. It is not necessarily so in other places.
In Europe, where campaign financing is better controlled (for example in the UK parties can't buy TV time) we don't have the sorry spectacle of political mud throwing that US campaigning is.
But that would not mean he was taking the correct decission or that he was doing something morally correct.
Take the Guernica for example. That painting had a cultural impact the engulfs our full understanding of the horrors of WWII.
If Picasso had decided to change it in any way after it was completed it would have amounted to vandalism, since the work entered that thing called popular culture.
But that is copyrights for you, in their current form they clearly damage the culture of the world as a whole.
The cheesy, new agey music they put in the end of the third movie replacing the original, did not exist back there, it was not possible to write cheesy pseudo irish music back then.
If the system is broken all what you do is also broken from the start.
There are several ways to fix this (in many countries you have a second round vote between the most popular candidates in case nobody obtains 50% + 1 votes). But as long as you have the archaic, undemocratic electoral college system of indiret election, the participants will have to do this and more in order to advance their cause.
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Frankly it is tiring, Western Europe and what is today's EU has always respected free enterprise and private ownership, cornerstones of a capitalist economy.
People in the US have no idea what they are talking about when they say EU countries are socialist.
They may be more socially responsible than the US goverments perhaps, but private property and free enterprise has never been stopped.
If you want examples of Socialist countries look at Cuba or North Korea, where everything is Socialized by means of state control and ownership.
Yet another USian that does not get democracy.
So you as a farmer become fully dependant on a company for your survival.
ANd loses biological diversity, stoping uisng plants that are pretty well adapted to local conditions.
And nobody know how the sudden introduction of these crops will affect the environment.
Somebody that can't grasp the difference between racism and chauvinism does not deserve to address a Presidential candidate.
- Humane working conditions.
- Working rights.
- Social security.
The right:
-Spiraling debt every time they have bee in power.
-High subsidies for failed economic activities.
-Rampant protectionism and populism.
-Expenditure in the military machine as only outlet to create jobs.
Great policies from the right.
And the evil, incapable left, shame on them.
Does that herb facilitates time travel?
Because the last time I had to schedule reboots for a mchine of mine was around 10 years ago.
Oh yes, last time I used Windows, my bad.
I have administered SOlaris, Linux, HP-UX, Irix and a few others, and frankly the one that either should go to get a job in the real world or stop talking hallucinations is you.
Your neigbhour down south has been both for more than 100 years, so I don't understand why so many USians in this forum (or is it always you?) keep insisting about this stupid non issue.
My company has scores of programmers adapting OSS to our needs.
Those jobs would not exist if it was not for the existence of OSS.
But down here on Earth MS is way behind Linux.
Your outlandish ascertion that MS is easy falls miserably like a shaky house of cards when you go and visit any bookstore and see the shelves full of books guiding people through the piece of cake that Windows is suppossed to be.
People like you just don't get it.
Linux in particular and OSS in general is making software an infrastructure resource, like electricity or water.
MS does not like that because competing in a comoditized resource in a free market is the nightmare of any monopoly.
The entrenching of Linux in the server market is just the start. Eventually Linux will be as capable and more flexible than anything MS has to offer (with all the barriers currently existent it makes a perfect replacement for many people. In 5 years time there will be no major issues with Linux in the desktop, save stupid hardware manufactureres that may still be in the dark).
The fact that more people don't use Linux is just a temporary stage clearly owed to natural resistance. It is always like that with any technological change, but the writing is in the wall and that is why MS (shich is not stupid) is doing all what they can to attack the OSS phenomenon.
And I am not joking.
.... because of the fucgin tree in front of you. Which you put there by the way.
Don't you have a funny feeling that the expansion and improvement of software would not create more jobs?
Improvement is in the eye of the beholder, customazition may be the biggest IT engine for several years to come if we don't allow the like of MS to derail this,
They are welcome to join, but if they keep messing around they may be left without many friends (like if they have any at this stage).
And if my grandma was a bicycle I may be a motorcycle.
People have to find solutions and attitudes to the reality they have to face now, not to dabble in a hypotetical nirvana which may never come.
Let them know!
I hate people wasting my time and effort, and I let them know when they are doing so.
I also want to see a non biased discussion of the following topics.
- There was no landing in the moon in 1969.
- The NY twin towers did not colapse.
- Adolf Hitler was a very nice chap.
But I want to see the arguments in pro of all these very reasonable topics of discussion.
Nuclear plants in several countries (Mexico, UK) have probed economically unviable.
In places like France or even the US they are very often heavily subsidized and would not survive the slightiest of competitions from other energy sources.
... from the law of supply and demand.
US politics is a blood sport. It is not necessarily so in other places.
In Europe, where campaign financing is better controlled (for example in the UK parties can't buy TV time) we don't have the sorry spectacle of political mud throwing that US campaigning is.
It is not like somebody sat in front of you and pressed the link to read the posts on this thread.
How more pathetic can some people get?
.... it would have been his choice and right.
But that would not mean he was taking the correct decission or that he was doing something morally correct.
Take the Guernica for example. That painting had a cultural impact the engulfs our full understanding of the horrors of WWII.
If Picasso had decided to change it in any way after it was completed it would have amounted to vandalism, since the work entered that thing called popular culture.
But that is copyrights for you, in their current form they clearly damage the culture of the world as a whole.
... of Picasso to change Guernica 40 or 50 years later?
There are things that may be possible and legal.
That does not mean they are also wise and moral.
The cheesy, new agey music they put in the end of the third movie replacing the original, did not exist back there, it was not possible to write cheesy pseudo irish music back then.
That is what I call progress.
... if the US electoral system is completely and utterly broken.
Perhaps people will come to realize this thanks to his and other candidates efforts.
People voting for 3rd parties clearly believe is on the best interest of their country.
Your political gymnastics are amusing but stupid.
If the system is broken all what you do is also broken from the start.
There are several ways to fix this (in many countries you have a second round vote between the most popular candidates in case nobody obtains 50% + 1 votes). But as long as you have the archaic, undemocratic electoral college system of indiret election, the participants will have to do this and more in order to advance their cause.
Given two vendors I will always prefer the one that is not paying lip services to security and that show they have got half a clue regarding spam.