Re:Sure, the hell with the rule of law...
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Do we rationalize this as acceptable "collateral damage" the way Timothy McVeigh rationalized dropping a building on a bunch of preschoolers? Is this the kind of society you actually want?
And where did Timothy McVeigh get such a wonderful phrase? When he was dropping buildings on Iraqi pre-schoolers, with the full support of the American people. Not that I agree with McVeigh, but the hypocrisy of the whole thing makes me want to puke.
When corporations first started selling cigarettes there was no evidence that they caused cancer. When Valium was first introduced there was no evidence that there would be any problems with them. When Thalidomyde was first introduced there was no evidence that it would cause deformities in foetuses. What people are showing is a sensible distrust of the kind of organisations that habitually put profits before people and may not have done enough research before introducing something to market.
Re:Why did this editorial bother me so much...
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All Americans who disagree with acts of terrorism and destruction of property should immediately surrender their country to its rightful owner - the British Empire - and pay reparations to the descendents of those people killed or dispossed by the illegal actions of George Washington and his cohorts.
Re:The only thing that helps is taxes
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As has already been pointed out to you, the argument against SUVs has nothing to do with those who need a 4WD vehicle like you. It's against the clowns that clog up the roads and car parks, drive like idiots due to the illusion of safety, and use up dwindling oil resources just to satisfy their pathetic egos. Since you don't fit into that category please stop justifying those peoples' stupidity.
As for minding my own business, I have problems with SUV drivers on a regular basis, with being cut off or seeing one parked over 2 parking spaces in the supermarket car park (much more than drivers of ordinary cars), so I would say it is my business.
SUVs are pathetic. After nearly a century of improvements in aerodynamics, handling and aesthetics, people still want to drive an ugly box-shaped tank. They are merely ego-wanking - you can get a superb and far more useful car for the same money with the bonus that you retain your ability to park in one parking space. They are the car equivalent of platform shoes - fashionable (at the time) but stupid-looking and wildly impractical.
How terrible that poor and oppressed people might want to come to a rich and free country. Perhaps if your country hadn't been so keen to support the Indonesian dictator Suharto and the sanctions on Iraq, perhaps then you wouldn't have to put up with 'garbage' arriving on your shores. You reap what you sow.
No-one, of course, would ever think of Americans as being arrogant. I bet you've never even been to France or, for that matter, outside of your bedroom very often.
RPMDrake in Mandrake 8.0 will allow you to get selected packages from a site and will automatically resolve any dependencies.
Re:...I thought open source was bad for business??
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Sadly I couldn't find the first 9 years of Microsoft's profitability, but if you look here
you'll see that after 10 years in business (RedHat have only been around for 7), Microsoft made a mere $24M in profit. Microsoft didn't spring fully-formed into an immense corporation in 1975 and therefore mocking RedHat for not doing so in 1994 is pretty pointless. If anyone does have the fiscal info from 1975-1984, it will probably look very similar to RedHat's progress.
If you could point me to the part of the GPL where it forbids the selling of GPL software then perhaps you would look a little less foolish.
The GPL is a consumer-friendly license, not a profiteer-friendly one, and this suits me just fine. Why is something that was designed to protect the rights of the paying customer so anathema to so many people here?
It's hard if you don't know how to, and aren't aware of it. If the instructions to turn it off are available and obvious, that's fine, but if they aren't, then a lot of novices are going to have unnecessary crap foisted on them without their knowledge or consent.
What happens if you buy your PC pre-built and don't know what the BIOS is? At the very least Phoenix will be installing stuff on your PC that you may not want and may screw up your system.
Re:What's ESR surprised by now?
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It's currently worth $394500 ($2.63*150000), a bit of a drop from the original $36M he was bragging about, but still a reasonable chunk of change.
Software should be free and I guess you should work for free too.
Just like a browser should be free and those who work on it should do it for free too? Contrary to what the software industry would have you believe, most development happens in IT departments, not software companies.
It is. How do you think Galeon and K-meleon use the rendering engine if it's all a big monolithic monster. Konqueror can also use it, with a few DCOP bindings.
3. Hardware Support. I don't know what to say here. It is so very obviously the strength of Windows that no comparison to *NIX is worth mentioning. Why people choose to wait months or years to gain the full use of their hardware (if ever) is completely beyond me. Why people would settle for antiquated hardware, ie. that hardware that linux sufficiently supports, is also quite beyond me, considering the prices to be found today.
Cobblers. The hardware support under Windows 2000, if it is better, is only marginally so. So many things don't work. That's why there is a compatibility list.
Jefferson also said this at at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787:
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.
If you do not exclude them from these United States, in their Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives our substance and jeopardized our liberty.
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.
Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will nor how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even thou they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention.
Charming. A most useful quote for any anti-semitic American, given the unwarranted hero-worship he seems to get.
Sort of like arresting members of the Mafia would be prevention of freedom of association. People lose a lot of rights once convicted. Why should this not apply to corporations too, as they are considered 'people' under the law?
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Do we rationalize this as acceptable "collateral damage" the way Timothy McVeigh rationalized dropping a building on a bunch of preschoolers? Is this the kind of society you actually want?
And where did Timothy McVeigh get such a wonderful phrase? When he was dropping buildings on Iraqi pre-schoolers, with the full support of the American people. Not that I agree with McVeigh, but the hypocrisy of the whole thing makes me want to puke.
When corporations first started selling cigarettes there was no evidence that they caused cancer. When Valium was first introduced there was no evidence that there would be any problems with them. When Thalidomyde was first introduced there was no evidence that it would cause deformities in foetuses. What people are showing is a sensible distrust of the kind of organisations that habitually put profits before people and may not have done enough research before introducing something to market.
All Americans who disagree with acts of terrorism and destruction of property should immediately surrender their country to its rightful owner - the British Empire - and pay reparations to the descendents of those people killed or dispossed by the illegal actions of George Washington and his cohorts.
As has already been pointed out to you, the argument against SUVs has nothing to do with those who need a 4WD vehicle like you. It's against the clowns that clog up the roads and car parks, drive like idiots due to the illusion of safety, and use up dwindling oil resources just to satisfy their pathetic egos. Since you don't fit into that category please stop justifying those peoples' stupidity.
As for minding my own business, I have problems with SUV drivers on a regular basis, with being cut off or seeing one parked over 2 parking spaces in the supermarket car park (much more than drivers of ordinary cars), so I would say it is my business.
SUVs are pathetic. After nearly a century of improvements in aerodynamics, handling and aesthetics, people still want to drive an ugly box-shaped tank. They are merely ego-wanking - you can get a superb and far more useful car for the same money with the bonus that you retain your ability to park in one parking space. They are the car equivalent of platform shoes - fashionable (at the time) but stupid-looking and wildly impractical.
I mean, what good are we if we don't wonder?
Good consumers?
Writing Solid Code has many good ideas on writing bug free and easily debugged code.
Talk about setting themselves up for ridicule ;-)
How terrible that poor and oppressed people might want to come to a rich and free country. Perhaps if your country hadn't been so keen to support the Indonesian dictator Suharto and the sanctions on Iraq, perhaps then you wouldn't have to put up with 'garbage' arriving on your shores. You reap what you sow.
Yeah, yeah, thank you for the opinion of Linux circa 1997. You forgot to say kernel recompiles and communism though.
Seriously though, do you think that all corporate IT is Windows? Since when?
as arrogant as people depict the French. (oui!)
No-one, of course, would ever think of Americans as being arrogant. I bet you've never even been to France or, for that matter, outside of your bedroom very often.
I've just tried build 632 and the integrated desktop has bitten the dust, thank $DEITY.
If you don't like it here, please leave. Otherwise, try to post something remotely intelligent.
Because they are accessing the internet at work where they have no choice over what OS they use
RPMDrake in Mandrake 8.0 will allow you to get selected packages from a site and will automatically resolve any dependencies.
Sadly I couldn't find the first 9 years of Microsoft's profitability, but if you look here you'll see that after 10 years in business (RedHat have only been around for 7), Microsoft made a mere $24M in profit. Microsoft didn't spring fully-formed into an immense corporation in 1975 and therefore mocking RedHat for not doing so in 1994 is pretty pointless. If anyone does have the fiscal info from 1975-1984, it will probably look very similar to RedHat's progress.
If you could point me to the part of the GPL where it forbids the selling of GPL software then perhaps you would look a little less foolish.
The GPL is a consumer-friendly license, not a profiteer-friendly one, and this suits me just fine. Why is something that was designed to protect the rights of the paying customer so anathema to so many people here?
It's hard if you don't know how to, and aren't aware of it. If the instructions to turn it off are available and obvious, that's fine, but if they aren't, then a lot of novices are going to have unnecessary crap foisted on them without their knowledge or consent.
What happens if you buy your PC pre-built and don't know what the BIOS is? At the very least Phoenix will be installing stuff on your PC that you may not want and may screw up your system.
It's currently worth $394500 ($2.63*150000), a bit of a drop from the original $36M he was bragging about, but still a reasonable chunk of change.
But the trouble with this is that if the decision is a poor one (as I've seen far too many times), you're screwed.
Just like a browser should be free and those who work on it should do it for free too? Contrary to what the software industry would have you believe, most development happens in IT departments, not software companies.
It is. How do you think Galeon and K-meleon use the rendering engine if it's all a big monolithic monster. Konqueror can also use it, with a few DCOP bindings.
3. Hardware Support. I don't know what to say here. It is so very obviously the strength of Windows that no comparison to *NIX is worth mentioning. Why people choose to wait months or years to gain the full use of their hardware (if ever) is completely beyond me. Why people would settle for antiquated hardware, ie. that hardware that linux sufficiently supports, is also quite beyond me, considering the prices to be found today.
Cobblers. The hardware support under Windows 2000, if it is better, is only marginally so. So many things don't work. That's why there is a compatibility list.
Jefferson also said this at at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention of 1787:
I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.
In whatever country Jews have settled in any great number, they have lowered its moral tone; depreciated its commercial integrity; have segregated themselves and have not been assimilated; have sneered at and tried to undermine the Christian religion upon which that nation is founded, by objecting to its restrictions; have built up a state within the state; and when opposed have tried to strangle that country to death financially, as in the case of Spain and Portugal.
For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.
If you do not exclude them from these United States, in their Constitution, in less than 200 years they will have swarmed here in such great numbers that they will dominate and devour the land and change our form of government, for which we Americans have shed our blood, given our lives our substance and jeopardized our liberty.
If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves.
Jews, gentlemen, are Asiatics, let them be born where they will nor how many generations they are away from Asia, they will never be otherwise. Their ideas do not conform to an American's, and will not even thou they live among us ten generations. A leopard cannot change its spots. Jews are Asiatics, are a menace to this country if permitted entrance, and should be excluded by this Constitutional Convention.
Charming. A most useful quote for any anti-semitic American, given the unwarranted hero-worship he seems to get.
Sort of like arresting members of the Mafia would be prevention of freedom of association. People lose a lot of rights once convicted. Why should this not apply to corporations too, as they are considered 'people' under the law?