I can pay $50 more. But only if that will mean, at least $50 will be taken away from Microsoft. I don't care where it will go (baby mulching machines running OpenBSD would be fine), just not back to Microsoft.
The problem that I see with this, someone is still feeding Microsoft even when users are voting with their wallets against Microsoft.
What is actually illegal, and if they still have it, there should be another antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, this time with Republicans out of power.
No, you're not really correct, as both the USSR and US spent far too much on unnecessarily paranoid defence, the US just had a much stronger economy at the time and could also borrow money more easily when needed to fund it. Oh no, that's now isn't it when The Great Satan doesn't really exist any more.
USSR economy was one giant nonprofit. It could not "spend" anything other than natural resources and labor -- and it had both in abundance. US could produce enough weapons to conquer the world ten times already if it really needed that (it didn't), but it has to pay for military-industrial complex profits, thus weakening the rest of its economy. It's a problem very much specific to US-style military-industrial complex, no one else has it, and this is why no one else builds giant amounts of weapons like US does.
I think when they shot down a civilian airliner and then claimed it was spying [history.com], while importing American wheat to avoid starving themselves, we should have known the USSR was circling the bowl.
US is a mostly-agrarian country that exports food to most of the world -- does it mean that everyone is "avoiding starving themselves"?
Actually, one of the main factors causing the USSR to collapse was that we forced them to spend too much of their GDP on defense.
That's a bullshit propaganda talking point that contradicts pretty much everything known about USSR GDP, defense, or economic significance (or, to be precisely, lack of one) of USSR dissolution.
I have a better idea -- study what threat I, Alex Belits (437) pose to humanity. It's more likely to produce useful results, even if it will be that I am completely harmless.
Stalin, according to all available data, is responsible for, at most, two million dead -- bad but entirely within the range of typical leader in so-called "free" world. Massively inflated numbers come from works of fiction (Solzhenitsyn) and politicized interpretation of massive natural disaster that Communists were unable to mitigate (Robert Conquest). None of those works are based on any actual sources, and anyone who takes those as facts is an idiot.
Mao's idiotic actions have very little to do with him being Communist, and more in line with the rest of recent Chinese history -- again, mostly influenced by war of aggression perpetrated by "enlightened" capitalist countries.
Pol Pot was not in a Communist in the first place -- at best he knew some Communists early in his life.
Of course, your friendly propaganda workers don't tell you that -- their goal is to completely cut off all possibilities of any social progress anywhere, and that requires besmirching everything that was responsible for it over the last century and a half.
Sorry but ALL religion is insidious and evil. It is a means of control for the unintelligent and mentally lazy.
The situation existing in the present with this religion is now the problem at this time. Although in agreement, qualifying disclaimers getting beat to death can get old.
Yeah, just think of all time travellers! How would his statement affect someone headed to 2000 B.C.E!
US has a wonderful framework of brutal oppression directed toward people who are psychologically incapable of fulfilling certain roles in society -- it's how it treats diagnosed pedophiles and people convicted of sex crimes. All that is necessary, is to apply it to the diagnosed psychopaths and people who exhibited psychopathic behavior while being in positions of control or authority.
The purpose of our business environment is to turn selfish motives - greed - towards good ends.
Yes, it's a hack on one of the humans' shortcomings. Like most hacks, it worked for a while, and then was defeated, so now it just promotes and exacerbates those shortcomings.
One of psychopaths' defining characteristics is their inability to empathize with others. It creates motivation that is fundamentally incompatible with human society, except within highly dysfunctional (and by their nature, parasitic) entities such as some companies and organized crime.
Here we tend to piss on anything that relates to USPTO, but then again we have a tendency to believe that if they let us we'd fix lots of broken things in a heartbeat because the problem here is just a lack of geeks in the relevant power areas.
Yesss!!! Stupid people are solution to everything, don't touch them!
Go fuck yourself. He was one of many executives in a company that achieved control of the industry by tweaking a hopelessly obsolete architecture for three decades until architecture stopped mattering anymore.
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I can pay $50 more. But only if that will mean, at least $50 will be taken away from Microsoft. I don't care where it will go (baby mulching machines running OpenBSD would be fine), just not back to Microsoft.
The problem that I see with this, someone is still feeding Microsoft even when users are voting with their wallets against Microsoft.
What is actually illegal, and if they still have it, there should be another antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, this time with Republicans out of power.
No, you're not really correct, as both the USSR and US spent far too much on unnecessarily paranoid defence, the US just had a much stronger economy at the time and could also borrow money more easily when needed to fund it. Oh no, that's now isn't it when The Great Satan doesn't really exist any more.
USSR economy was one giant nonprofit. It could not "spend" anything other than natural resources and labor -- and it had both in abundance.
US could produce enough weapons to conquer the world ten times already if it really needed that (it didn't), but it has to pay for military-industrial complex profits, thus weakening the rest of its economy. It's a problem very much specific to US-style military-industrial complex, no one else has it, and this is why no one else builds giant amounts of weapons like US does.
I think when they shot down a civilian airliner and then claimed it was spying [history.com], while importing American wheat to avoid starving themselves, we should have known the USSR was circling the bowl.
US is a mostly-agrarian country that exports food to most of the world -- does it mean that everyone is "avoiding starving themselves"?
Congratulations, you are a true American patriot. And an idiot, but the former implies the latter.
Actually, one of the main factors causing the USSR to collapse was that we forced them to spend too much of their GDP on defense.
That's a bullshit propaganda talking point that contradicts pretty much everything known about USSR GDP, defense, or economic significance (or, to be precisely, lack of one) of USSR dissolution.
Why must everything be right wing? You realize WWI, and then indirectly, WWII were caused by left wing extremists called anarchists.
You have serious mental problems if you believe that.
I have a better idea -- study what threat I, Alex Belits (437) pose to humanity.
It's more likely to produce useful results, even if it will be that I am completely harmless.
He probably used "gay" in the original meaning of that word.
Stalin, according to all available data, is responsible for, at most, two million dead -- bad but entirely within the range of typical leader in so-called "free" world. Massively inflated numbers come from works of fiction (Solzhenitsyn) and politicized interpretation of massive natural disaster that Communists were unable to mitigate (Robert Conquest). None of those works are based on any actual sources, and anyone who takes those as facts is an idiot.
Mao's idiotic actions have very little to do with him being Communist, and more in line with the rest of recent Chinese history -- again, mostly influenced by war of aggression perpetrated by "enlightened" capitalist countries.
Pol Pot was not in a Communist in the first place -- at best he knew some Communists early in his life.
Of course, your friendly propaganda workers don't tell you that -- their goal is to completely cut off all possibilities of any social progress anywhere, and that requires besmirching everything that was responsible for it over the last century and a half.
We know what happens with Communism (hundred million dead give or take a few million)
Not this bullshit again.
Sorry but ALL religion is insidious and evil. It is a means of control for the unintelligent and mentally lazy.
The situation existing in the present with this religion is now the problem at this time. Although in agreement, qualifying disclaimers getting beat to death can get old.
Yeah, just think of all time travellers! How would his statement affect someone headed to 2000 B.C.E!
There is an idiotic talking point that praises psychopathic "leaders" for all achievements of companies that they lorded over.
US has a wonderful framework of brutal oppression directed toward people who are psychologically incapable of fulfilling certain roles in society -- it's how it treats diagnosed pedophiles and people convicted of sex crimes. All that is necessary, is to apply it to the diagnosed psychopaths and people who exhibited psychopathic behavior while being in positions of control or authority.
The purpose of our business environment is to turn selfish motives - greed - towards good ends.
Yes, it's a hack on one of the humans' shortcomings. Like most hacks, it worked for a while, and then was defeated, so now it just promotes and exacerbates those shortcomings.
No, that's fear of death.
No.
One of psychopaths' defining characteristics is their inability to empathize with others. It creates motivation that is fundamentally incompatible with human society, except within highly dysfunctional (and by their nature, parasitic) entities such as some companies and organized crime.
Before you judge Israel, think for a second about how we would respond to thousands of them.
Being world-class cowards and opportunists, you would join them.
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It means that he hates Linux and only wants it to run in a crippled environment.
Then you can be both sued for breach of contract and charged with a felony.
Here we tend to piss on anything that relates to USPTO, but then again we have a tendency to believe that if they let us we'd fix lots of broken things in a heartbeat because the problem here is just a lack of geeks in the relevant power areas.
Yesss!!! Stupid people are solution to everything, don't touch them!
I never ever helped Microsoft in its world conquest, that's infinitely better than what he did.
Go fuck yourself. He was one of many executives in a company that achieved control of the industry by tweaking a hopelessly obsolete architecture for three decades until architecture stopped mattering anymore.
No, he is one of those Libertarian asshats who are actually all Social Conservatives in disguise.