A monopoly disfigures the forces of a free market. It is the anomaly that has to be treated before it gets too big to be dealt with.
Former monopolies in many countries like phone, electricity, water, transport , higways could not fix prices at whatever prices they wanted. Some amount of goverment regulation was needed to gurantee the consumer was not robed.
Windows has become an infrastruture utility (in desktop computing terms) and it will be regulated accordingly.
Monopolies have not such privileges. You can rant all what you want, but MS is a de facto monopoly, and it should be treated accordingly.
In most cases monopolies are regulated and their prices are checked to make sure they don't abuse their power.
To change in many case is not an option, MS is making sure it breaks all kind of programs that should work with its OS, keep formats secret so nobody can reliably predict how they behave and deprecates popular protocols that have been implemented widely outside MS control (Samba).
MS won a monopoly position and it is not respecting its clients. The only way to make sure there is no abuse is goverment intervention of some kind.
For a second I thought one terrorist was writing....
What about this: the US invests a bit of the 60 billion dollars is uses in defense in helping Palestine while becomming a fair, objective, no one-sided mediator and using its good relationship with Israel to implement a US lead UN peace force? (as has been requested repeatedily by the Palestinians)?
With actions such as this the would be terrorists would be too busy being happier and having some hope to think about killing themselves and others with them....
It is soo easy to say people are spineless without knowing.
Afghanistan is a battlefield and has been for the last 20 years (at least). They are trying to deal with it, idiot, the population there is perhaps victim of the same people that bombed NY.....
I mostly agree with what you said, I just want to take one point of your argument to expand about other stuff:
Basically, Jesus Christ's idea of not returning violence with violence means that we can protect ourselves, but that any response must be the true minimum necessary to achieve security.
You got that bit wrong. Jesus Christ advocated not returning violence at all, not even to protect yourself.
"Love the other as if he was yourself "(sorry for the shody tranlsation to English from my mother tongue). That was the commandment. Now, are you ready to love those people that so many are naming as the enemy (without probe yet, which shows only prejudice)?
If you are not Christian (or religious) and want more blood and revenge, congratulations, at least you are coherent and consistent. I don't agree with you, I deeply regret that you can't see beyond your anger and sorrow.
If you pretend you are Christian and call for revenge, more carnage and mayhem, sorry, you just probed you can't live to the standards you have set to yourself (and very often to others).
I am not religious for that reason, I can't bear so much hipocrasy ( how can somebody say with a straight face "Good Bless America" after anouncing you are going to kill more people? That is more like an Ayatollah calling for a holly war. Pathetic). Today I don't pray for the dead, because it should be obvious there is no god, but I do share their suffering and the suffering of their loved ones. I wish there was a god that magicaly would comfort them and somehow grant them a better place to be after they depart this sad dust of space that we share.
The US either take concrete actions to brake the cycle of violence (the US has aided many terrorist groups that now have turned against US interests) or endure the consequences of dealing with an enemy you can't target.
The US is globalizing everything, and now it wants to globalize Vietnam and make us all participants of such wonderful experience...
My deepest sympaties to the victims and their families. My greatest pity to those that can only react using exactly the same idiotic instincts that caused this horrible tragedy...
God and revenge are words that can't share the same sentence.
To be consistent you will have to drop one of them, otherwise to diferentiate between US freedom fighters and Terrorist freedom fighters will be very difficult....
How easy is to use the Internet? Try it.
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Bobby Fischer Online?
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Common, time yourself and find a meaningful answer to the question using whatever tools you have. How long didi it take you? 10 sec? 15 sec? (I tried several times, gave up after 30 sec).
We are talking about 3 minutes matches.
Perhaps having a complete database with all the biographic details (all of them including games against unknown players) of Fisher would help, but still, how long does it take you to type "Acevedo Mexico" and copy a meaningful answer to the chat program while at the same time thinking how to defeat a GM that can stand his ground against Kasparov in blitz games???
These are 3 minutes blitz games. You play fast or you are toast. You don't have time at all to fire search engines and find such answers while at the same time defeating a GM.
First, addictions are not "a liberal myth", they are documented and recognized by the World Health Organization as a sickness.
Be glad you could give up smoking, scientific evidence shows that people with addiction to nicotine just can't.
Big Tobacco was not sued because they made people addict, they are being sued because they lied about the addictive nature of their product, that is a huge difference. Liars should sued specialy if those lies harm people.
I don't know about caffeine, but if it is addictive and companies profitting from coffee products were also lying about an aledged addictivness of caffeine, then there would be plenty of justification to seek legal action against caffeine related industries.
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I did not know NY was under martial law and that freedom of movement was restricted....
And a check of reality.
MS has been declared a monopoly. Jump, rant, scream, a judge and the US supreme court agreed about that.
Deal with it.
May I ask why you choose to check emails daily for Mandrake but choose to patch only monthly IIS?
That would suggest a quite uneven approach to system administration depending on the OS, and thus any comparision you make seems unfair.
A monopoly disfigures the forces of a free market. It is the anomaly that has to be treated before it gets too big to be dealt with.
Former monopolies in many countries like phone, electricity, water, transport , higways could not fix prices at whatever prices they wanted. Some amount of goverment regulation was needed to gurantee the consumer was not robed.
Windows has become an infrastruture utility (in desktop computing terms) and it will be regulated accordingly.
Monopolies have not such privileges. You can rant all what you want, but MS is a de facto monopoly, and it should be treated accordingly.
In most cases monopolies are regulated and their prices are checked to make sure they don't abuse their power.
To change in many case is not an option, MS is making sure it breaks all kind of programs that should work with its OS, keep formats secret so nobody can reliably predict how they behave and deprecates popular protocols that have been implemented widely outside MS control (Samba).
MS won a monopoly position and it is not respecting its clients. The only way to make sure there is no abuse is goverment intervention of some kind.
To be disconnected surely is a good incentive to learn a bit more about security.
I swear is encrypted!
;-)
Lets assume cryptography laws are passed.
How would you know this message is not encrypted some how?
Maybe I just passed a phone number of somebody,
or an address,
or the name of a person that
somebody should
contact.
To put limits into encryption is silly because
ther is
no way that
you can police it...
&@^%@$!@& YUYUUWBWQM
The Bible is full of contradictions like the one pointed out.
Intelligent people just don't use it as moral guidance, because you can find whatever suits you there.
Now, there is no difference....
Regarding the second thing, whoever wrote those tidbits in the Bible commited, in my opinion the same mistake.
...
How do you interpret those things after receiving the 10 commandments from Christ, the son of god, himself?
The contradicton is obvious to me
Not you. Bush did (or implied one, revenge, while using the other, god).
For a second I thought one terrorist was writing....
What about this: the US invests a bit of the 60 billion dollars is uses in defense in helping Palestine while becomming a fair, objective, no one-sided mediator and using its good relationship with Israel to implement a US lead UN peace force? (as has been requested repeatedily by the Palestinians)?
With actions such as this the would be terrorists would be too busy being happier and having some hope to think about killing themselves and others with them....
It is soo easy to say people are spineless without knowing.
.....
Afghanistan is a battlefield and has been for the last 20 years (at least). They are trying to deal with it, idiot, the population there is perhaps victim of the same people that bombed NY
I mostly agree with what you said, I just want to take one point of your argument to expand about other stuff:
Basically, Jesus Christ's idea of not returning violence with violence means that we can protect ourselves, but that any response must be the true minimum necessary to achieve security.
You got that bit wrong. Jesus Christ advocated not returning violence at all, not even to protect yourself.
"Love the other as if he was yourself "(sorry for the shody tranlsation to English from my mother tongue). That was the commandment. Now, are you ready to love those people that so many are naming as the enemy (without probe yet, which shows only prejudice)?
If you are not Christian (or religious) and want more blood and revenge, congratulations, at least you are coherent and consistent. I don't agree with you, I deeply regret that you can't see beyond your anger and sorrow.
If you pretend you are Christian and call for revenge, more carnage and mayhem, sorry, you just probed you can't live to the standards you have set to yourself (and very often to others).
I am not religious for that reason, I can't bear so much hipocrasy ( how can somebody say with a straight face "Good Bless America" after anouncing you are going to kill more people? That is more like an Ayatollah calling for a holly war. Pathetic). Today I don't pray for the dead, because it should be obvious there is no god, but I do share their suffering and the suffering of their loved ones. I wish there was a god that magicaly would comfort them and somehow grant them a better place to be after they depart this sad dust of space that we share.
The US either take concrete actions to brake the cycle of violence (the US has aided many terrorist groups that now have turned against US interests) or endure the consequences of dealing with an enemy you can't target.
The US is globalizing everything, and now it wants to globalize Vietnam and make us all participants of such wonderful experience...
My deepest sympaties to the victims and their families. My greatest pity to those that can only react using exactly the same idiotic instincts that caused this horrible tragedy...
God and revenge are words that can't share the same sentence.
To be consistent you will have to drop one of them, otherwise to diferentiate between US freedom fighters and Terrorist freedom fighters will be very difficult....
One can't access them ...
The towers (any tower higher than 10 floors perhpas) is stupid from many points of view:
-It uses huge amount of resources that in general are detrimental to the arease where the are.
-They are a huge fire hazard, many of these towers deal with fire cutting the oxygen, people be damned.
-As we have sadly learned, they are obvious targets for any fanatic.
-It makes easier to disable a whole country with little effort (who can argue about this now).
No, I think a memorial there and then to make a big push for working at home and descentralization....
Responsibility has not been confirmed, initial reports about Palestinians claiming responsibility have been denied or have not been confirmed ...
Please, please, please, inform about something you have seen or have a reliable source....
It is 1 for a win
....
1/2 for a draw
0 for a lost.
This lad won 8 games in a row
Common, time yourself and find a meaningful answer to the question using whatever tools you have. How long didi it take you? 10 sec? 15 sec? (I tried several times, gave up after 30 sec).
We are talking about 3 minutes matches.
Perhaps having a complete database with all the biographic details (all of them including games against unknown players) of Fisher would help, but still, how long does it take you to type "Acevedo Mexico" and copy a meaningful answer to the chat program while at the same time thinking how to defeat a GM that can stand his ground against Kasparov in blitz games???
These are 3 minutes blitz games. You play fast or you are toast. You don't have time at all to fire search engines and find such answers while at the same time defeating a GM.
Learn DNS, NIS (or better and if you dare NIS+) or LDAP.
You don't want to use plain text files in each machine....
First, addictions are not "a liberal myth", they are documented and recognized by the World Health Organization as a sickness.
Be glad you could give up smoking, scientific evidence shows that people with addiction to nicotine just can't.
Big Tobacco was not sued because they made people addict, they are being sued because they lied about the addictive nature of their product, that is a huge difference. Liars should sued specialy if those lies harm people.
I don't know about caffeine, but if it is addictive and companies profitting from coffee products were also lying about an aledged addictivness of caffeine, then there would be plenty of justification to seek legal action against caffeine related industries.