Its very interesting to me that someone from a New Zealand domain is so concerned about American politics. Its doubly interesting when that person claims that without US IP law (blah blah I just don't feel like typing it all out everytime), American entities cannot compete in the "free market".
What kind of absurdity is this? Seriously. The parent brings up a point that a corporation in the US (stereotypically portrayed as a nation where you can make assloads of money if you just work hard enough) goes crying to Congress because some other people somewhere else are beating the tar out of it. You are aware of the irony of the stated situation, are you not?
In summary, if other entities cannot compete with American entities, maybe those peoples should be looking within instead of without for reasons and solutions rather than attacking a system that actually gets results.
Hmm, right. Let's switch A for B for a second...
In summary, if [American] entities cannot compete with [other] entities, maybe those peoples should be looking within instead of without for reasons and solutions rather than attacking a system that actually gets results.
Sorta sounds like SCO's problem with Open Source... just a little. Maybe. Don't you think?
So basically the parent is arguing realistically using logic, and all you've got to rebut him is his four-dimensional coordinates in the spacetime continuum? Where I'm from, that's called attacking the messenger and not the message.
Pfeh.
Oh, just FYI, I'm an American citizen living in Los Angeles, California... so you're going to have to find some other false pretense to 'argue' against my post, if you so choose.
I'm told by a Bank of America customer that BofA's site requires IE to manage your bank account. I've heard that this is the case also for some other banks (someone hereabouts mentioned CitiBank). Irony: banks requiring use of IE for "security reasons"!!
I'm a BofA customer and I've been using their Online Banking website for several years, almost since they first went online with it. I've been using Mozilla for a couple of years now and I've only had really small glitches with certain versions, and nothing that kept me from doing whatever I wanted or needed on their website. The version of Mozilla I'm using now (1.3a I think) works smoothly. Can't ask for anything more than that.
I'll keep my Rolex and enjoy a considerable amount of more female attention
If you depend on your Rolex for female attention instead of on your personality and/or wits, you've got more fundamental issues to deal with than the average nerdboy.
I fear for the world if/when your offspring are spaw... er, I mean born.
The other day I saw a movie that took place in California in 1998, and they showed it without any glaciers, and there were no dinosaurs walking around either!
You are obviously unfamiliar with the Bakersfield tragedy of 1997. A dinosaur was horribly mutilated when its hind legs became trapped under the leading edge of a slow-moving glacier. It was only through the heroic efforts of rescue crews that it was extricated, but by then the poor animal was in such bad condition that it was put down to end its suffering.
Hollywood then imposed a five-year moratorium on films that might include dinosaurs and glaciers, to spare the moviegoing public any reminder of such an incident, so there is some precedent for this. The first movie that will likely reunite these two most beloved plot devices of filmmakers is Jurassic Park IV; the release date is set for Memorial Day 2003.
Hello, my name is slippery slope argument, nice to meet you.
No, your name's not slippery slope argument, it's "Didn't read the frelling article", because if you had, you would know that quote comes from the Microsoft rep's own presentation.
Next time you want to post something, just lie down. The feeling will soon pass.
Let me guess: ubergeek trekkie who has nothing better to do than spend time online as a trek apologist and can't *stand* the idea that someone, somewhere, might think that
THE NEW TREK SUCKS!!!
Let me guess: Bored middle-class white american male who tosses off a post trashing the premiere because he thinks he's being witty, then when someone actually decides to rebut his points one by one in a rational manner, reverts to insults and personal attacks.
Were have you been for the last year? Haven't you read the news about california's power problems? They happend because the energy network was turned over to the private sector.
I have to assume that you don't live in California. Either that or you do and you voted for the purported "deregulation" or didn't vote at all.
The largest factor in the screwing of California's power supply was that the CalPX/ISO was forced to buy power from the (mostly out-of-state) suppliers at vastly inflated (and unregulated) prices and sell it to the consumer at rock-bottom (and highly regulated) prices. You can't deregulate only one half of the equation, otherwise it becomes government-mandated butt rape, which is exactly what it turned into.
I voted against the damn thing, of course. What about you?
You may or may not have read anything on the site (hell, I can't even tell if you even visited it from your vague post) but you obviously didn't read the letter from the editor that explicitly stated it was both the first and last issue.
Unless, of course, they actually do manage to find someone with both the capital and the interest to continue funding them. I can't decide whether they're cool or just hysterically desperate for doing that.
And another letter came from "Tuscon, Utah," a city that doesn't exist.
This is what happens when you use Microsoft Encarta.
When a caller started asking Minnesotan Nancy Brown questions about Microsoft, she thought she was going to get help figuring out what was wrong with her computer.
Am I the only one who had to restrain myself from laughing hysterically when I read this?
You know, if they spent even a tenth of the money they use for advertising, PR, astroturfing, etc. on writing better code and creating a better tech support infrastructure, they might not HAVE to spend so much on advertising, PR, astroturfing, etc.
I don't know German, but I'll take your translation at face value. I think, though, in the context that I've seen the word zeitgeist used, a more appropriate translation would be "spirit of the time", for example "a 90's zeitgeist" which this book is apparently intended to express (not having read it yet).
All of those are about right except the pop one. Soda seems to be an east coast thing, and coke a southeast thing. Most of the US west of New York says pop.
Like hell.
Speaking as someone born and bred in Los Angeles, I would rather die than call a soda a "pop". Jesus, it just sounds so damn wimpy. I'd never heard of soda being referred to as "pop" in my life until some of my relatives from Ohio came out to visit.
I can't speak for the East Coast, so I'll say it's most likely a Midwest thing. I have relatives in Alabama too, and I've never heard anybody call anything "pop" there, either.
There are three kinds of people in this world: good, bad, and indifferent. Assuming all sides are equal, the good are still outnumbered two to one.
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Its very interesting to me that someone from a New Zealand domain is so concerned about American politics. Its doubly interesting when that person claims that without US IP law (blah blah I just don't feel like typing it all out everytime), American entities cannot compete in the "free market".
What kind of absurdity is this? Seriously. The parent brings up a point that a corporation in the US (stereotypically portrayed as a nation where you can make assloads of money if you just work hard enough) goes crying to Congress because some other people somewhere else are beating the tar out of it. You are aware of the irony of the stated situation, are you not?
In summary, if other entities cannot compete with American entities, maybe those peoples should be looking within instead of without for reasons and solutions rather than attacking a system that actually gets results.
Hmm, right. Let's switch A for B for a second...
In summary, if [American] entities cannot compete with [other] entities, maybe those peoples should be looking within instead of without for reasons and solutions rather than attacking a system that actually gets results.
Sorta sounds like SCO's problem with Open Source... just a little. Maybe. Don't you think?
So basically the parent is arguing realistically using logic, and all you've got to rebut him is his four-dimensional coordinates in the spacetime continuum? Where I'm from, that's called attacking the messenger and not the message.
Pfeh.
Oh, just FYI, I'm an American citizen living in Los Angeles, California... so you're going to have to find some other false pretense to 'argue' against my post, if you so choose.
I'm a BofA customer and I've been using their Online Banking website for several years, almost since they first went online with it. I've been using Mozilla for a couple of years now and I've only had really small glitches with certain versions, and nothing that kept me from doing whatever I wanted or needed on their website. The version of Mozilla I'm using now (1.3a I think) works smoothly. Can't ask for anything more than that.
Using a proprietary OS would make it much harder for a single, easy to write virus to be unleashed.
Perhaps closed-source has -some- good points?
*takes deep breath, counts to three*
All right. I want you to look at the above sentences you wrote, and think about them long and hard in the context of Windows.
Then I want you to go to the corner and don the Floppy Clown Hat of Shame. Believe me, you'll be better for it.
I'll keep my Rolex and enjoy a considerable amount of more female attention
If you depend on your Rolex for female attention instead of on your personality and/or wits, you've got more fundamental issues to deal with than the average nerdboy.
I fear for the world if/when your offspring are spaw... er, I mean born.
The other day I saw a movie that took place in California in 1998, and they showed it without any glaciers, and there were no dinosaurs walking around either!
You are obviously unfamiliar with the Bakersfield tragedy of 1997. A dinosaur was horribly mutilated when its hind legs became trapped under the leading edge of a slow-moving glacier. It was only through the heroic efforts of rescue crews that it was extricated, but by then the poor animal was in such bad condition that it was put down to end its suffering.
Hollywood then imposed a five-year moratorium on films that might include dinosaurs and glaciers, to spare the moviegoing public any reminder of such an incident, so there is some precedent for this. The first movie that will likely reunite these two most beloved plot devices of filmmakers is Jurassic Park IV; the release date is set for Memorial Day 2003.
"This will open a Pandora's box,"
Hello, my name is slippery slope argument, nice to meet you.
No, your name's not slippery slope argument, it's "Didn't read the frelling article", because if you had, you would know that quote comes from the Microsoft rep's own presentation.
Next time you want to post something, just lie down. The feeling will soon pass.
Let me guess: ubergeek trekkie who has nothing better to do than spend time online as a trek apologist and can't *stand* the idea that someone, somewhere, might think that
THE NEW TREK SUCKS!!!
Let me guess: Bored middle-class white american male who tosses off a post trashing the premiere because he thinks he's being witty, then when someone actually decides to rebut his points one by one in a rational manner, reverts to insults and personal attacks.
Who didn't take debate class again?
I have to assume that you don't live in California. Either that or you do and you voted for the purported "deregulation" or didn't vote at all.
The largest factor in the screwing of California's power supply was that the CalPX/ISO was forced to buy power from the (mostly out-of-state) suppliers at vastly inflated (and unregulated) prices and sell it to the consumer at rock-bottom (and highly regulated) prices. You can't deregulate only one half of the equation, otherwise it becomes government-mandated butt rape, which is exactly what it turned into.
I voted against the damn thing, of course. What about you?
Unless, of course, they actually do manage to find someone with both the capital and the interest to continue funding them. I can't decide whether they're cool or just hysterically desperate for doing that.
This is what happens when you use Microsoft Encarta.
When a caller started asking Minnesotan Nancy Brown questions about Microsoft, she thought she was going to get help figuring out what was wrong with her computer.
Am I the only one who had to restrain myself from laughing hysterically when I read this?
You know, if they spent even a tenth of the money they use for advertising, PR, astroturfing, etc. on writing better code and creating a better tech support infrastructure, they might not HAVE to spend so much on advertising, PR, astroturfing, etc.
But then again, I know nothing about business.
OK, shutting up now.
Like hell.
Speaking as someone born and bred in Los Angeles, I would rather die than call a soda a "pop". Jesus, it just sounds so damn wimpy. I'd never heard of soda being referred to as "pop" in my life until some of my relatives from Ohio came out to visit.
I can't speak for the East Coast, so I'll say it's most likely a Midwest thing. I have relatives in Alabama too, and I've never heard anybody call anything "pop" there, either.
There are three kinds of people in this world: good, bad, and indifferent. Assuming all sides are equal, the good are still outnumbered two to one.
Hell, I once wrote a report on a book that doesn't exist.
Got a B on it too. In the context of the MSNBC article, I suppose you could say "It was the best review the book ever got!"
*snicker*