You've still managed to ignore the fact that "Bush's Buddies" would be hurt by more oil imports from Iraq, not helped.
Well, you're the one claiming it would hurt them.
You used irrelevant statistics to "prove" your wild claim that getting controll of huge oil fields isn't a profitable venture, yougive an explanation for that. One wich makes sense this time.
And nevermind that Iraq supplies only 2% or so of the U.S.'s oil!
Ah, the joys of quoting irrelevant statistics...
Yeah, Iraq, with its EMBARGO THAT PREVENTS IT FROM SELLING ITS OIL is supplying less than 2% of the US's oil. But that won't be the case when the embargo is lifted after Bush's buddies take over the Iraqi oil production. Duh!
I don't mind that it comes preinstalled, but it is my understanding that it cannot be uninstalled. wich is where it gets icky. Sure, that would leave the OS a shell of its former self, but so what? Its the user's choice (or at least, it should be if the OS isn't programmed to prenvent this).
That's how capitalism works. Although it's not necessarily "might" per se, but who prevails in the marketplace for whatever reason: price, quality of product, marketing, etc.
Car bombs, kidnapping, intimidation, poisonning, arson, libel, abuse of monopoly situation, horse's head in the bed sheets, ninja assasins, etc.
Any laws preventing these natural capitalist tactics are morally wrong wrong wrong and obvious commie ploys!
The fact that we live under a gov't that even considers such bullshit is criminal and morally corruupt.
Well, your spelling ought to be outlawed, for starters. Maybe afterwards we can look into outlawing government interventions in big buisnesses. Then we'll see about lifting the ban on slavery...and later on we'll get rid of those stupid laws that say that you can't work employees to death or force entire families to cover 24h shifts...those laws suck too! Sheesh.
What the EU is actually saying is that Microsoft has to sell the car with an empty tank.
Ok, the car analogy has gone to hell. (hey, I didn't start it...)
No, they are not saying that Microsoft isn't allowed to include WMP with Windoze, they are saying that Microsoft isn't allowed to make WMP unremovable.
Its the bit where its impossible to remove it that is getting them upset, not the fact that its in there in the first place.
Of course, this all AFAICK because I'm not a slave to Overlord Gates. If you can remove your WMP from your windoze machine, then this is all pointless. If you can't get rid of WMP because Windose won't let you, then its an issue.
Reason has nothing to it. Companies, like individuals should be allowed to make any stupid decisions that they choose to make. As long as nobody else is harmed
As long as nobody else is harmed
As long as nobody else is harmed
As long as nobody else is harmed
Microsoft is harming others when they use their quasimonopoly position to bully competitors into oblivion. It isn't right of them to write code that identifies Netscape and breaks it, it isn't right of them to send broken tables to Opera so it'll look defective, it isn't right of them to make WMP unremovable from the OS just to annoy people into using it.
my Corvette
So, how did those penis enlargement pills work out for you?
*had* to have synthetic
If your fancy car has a fancy engine that needs fancy oil, that's one thing. But if you'd bought a non-fancy car that was arbitrarily designed with a superfluous need for a specific brand of oil, you might have appreciated it when the courts freed you from that burden.
It's like the government telling automakers they're required to have cup holders suited for 64 oz cups in all vehicles
Actually, its more like telling the Microsoft Motor Corporation that hey are not allowed to sell cars designed to only work with the Microsoft Oil brand gasoline when there is no reason why it shouldn't also work with the competitor's gasoline.
Because farms don't produce coal. Farms produce manure (as waste), and the manure produces methane, wich is a smelly pollutant. What these farmers can do is turn that smelly waste into a profitable ressource.
coal?
It's just as bad for the environment
No, its much much worse for the environment to dig out buried carbon and release it into the atmosphere than to prevent the release of methane in the atmosphere.
I don't really want to smell the fumes of burning shit, thank you!
Yes, you should thank them, since they are saving you from having to smell those fumes by transforming the manure in a closed system and then burning the methane quite thoroughly. Methane then ends up as water vapor, CO2 and energy. Wich is much better smelling than raw manure.
Now, had you read the article before trolling about coal, you'd have known all that.
According to this (registration required...bleah) article from the L.A. Times, "Users will be able to buy and download songs with a single click and transfer them automatically to any iPod they've registered with Apple....Rather than make the songs available in the popular MP3 format, Apple plans to use a higher fidelity technology known as Advanced Audio Codec."
Well, I get a lot of spam trying to pass itself off as legitimate mail, or using all kinds of sneaky ways to get around my filters. Its stupid of them to do so (I'm actively trying to avoid their crap, what makes them think I'll want it when they force me to get it?), it should also be illegal, and punishable by catapult.
Please list 3 reasons why ousting Saddam will make 9/11 all better again.
We're all waiting.
Sigh. You're being a child. Iraq has oil. Oil its not allowed to sell because of embargos. That makes the price of gas higher. If the US gets controll of the territory, US oil companies can get all that oil to the states, thus augmenting the offer to catch up with the demand. Then, as economy 101 should have though you, the price will go down.
If one wanted the price of gas to go down, invading Iraq is not the way to do it.
If one wants to controll a country's natural ressources and make sure that one's buddies and buisness asssociate get the lucrative explotation contracts, war is a great way to do it.
Invading, during which time the facilities will most likely be destroyed
Hmmm...I wonder who then would be in a good position to get the lucrative rebuilding contracts...the country who just got its ass whupped or the one who did the whupping?
could very well do the same thing the Taliban did in Afghanistan
All brown people look alike huh? Iraq and Afghanistan are NOT THE SAME THING!
As evil and dangerous as Saddam is, he is not a taliban, and in fact Iraq was on the Taliban's list of not-nice-places. Iraq is a modern country (kinda), where women can go to school and work and show their faces in public. Saddam has founded a lot of archeological digs, he even had replicas built of the excavated sites so that the people could go look at their countrie's past glory without damaging the originals.
Try to get this in your head: Saddam and Oussama are NOT THE SAME PERSON, they don't agree on anything except that they both resent the US.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you
You've still managed to ignore the fact that "Bush's Buddies" would be hurt by more oil imports from Iraq, not helped.
Well, you're the one claiming it would hurt them.
You used irrelevant statistics to "prove" your wild claim that getting controll of huge oil fields isn't a profitable venture, yougive an explanation for that.
One wich makes sense this time.
And nevermind that Iraq supplies only 2% or so of the U.S.'s oil!
Ah, the joys of quoting irrelevant statistics...
Yeah, Iraq, with its EMBARGO THAT PREVENTS IT FROM SELLING ITS OIL is supplying less than 2% of the US's oil. But that won't be the case when the embargo is lifted after Bush's buddies take over the Iraqi oil production. Duh!
But can you, or can't you, remove WMP?
I don't mind that it comes preinstalled, but it is my understanding that it cannot be uninstalled. wich is where it gets icky. Sure, that would leave the OS a shell of its former self, but so what? Its the user's choice (or at least, it should be if the OS isn't programmed to prenvent this).
That's how capitalism works. Although it's not necessarily "might" per se, but who prevails in the marketplace for whatever reason: price, quality of product, marketing, etc.
Car bombs, kidnapping, intimidation, poisonning, arson, libel, abuse of monopoly situation, horse's head in the bed sheets, ninja assasins, etc.
Any laws preventing these natural capitalist tactics are morally wrong wrong wrong and obvious commie ploys!
Man, they really did a job on you in "commies are evil" class...
Companies that can't compete shouldn't exist, that's the whole point.
Might makes right, I gotcha.
I won't do business with companies that whine and ask for gov't intervention to help them compete.
What, you mean like Microsoft?
The fact that we live under a gov't that even considers such bullshit is criminal and morally corruupt.
Well, your spelling ought to be outlawed, for starters. Maybe afterwards we can look into outlawing government interventions in big buisnesses. Then we'll see about lifting the ban on slavery...and later on we'll get rid of those stupid laws that say that you can't work employees to death or force entire families to cover 24h shifts...those laws suck too!
Sheesh.
What the EU is actually saying is that Microsoft has to sell the car with an empty tank.
Ok, the car analogy has gone to hell. (hey, I didn't start it...)
No, they are not saying that Microsoft isn't allowed to include WMP with Windoze, they are saying that Microsoft isn't allowed to make WMP unremovable.
Its the bit where its impossible to remove it that is getting them upset, not the fact that its in there in the first place.
Of course, this all AFAICK because I'm not a slave to Overlord Gates. If you can remove your WMP from your windoze machine, then this is all pointless. If you can't get rid of WMP because Windose won't let you, then its an issue.
P.S. Man, that Wired article's layout sucks...
Reason has nothing to it. Companies, like individuals should be allowed to make any stupid decisions that they choose to make. As long as nobody else is harmed
As long as nobody else is harmed
As long as nobody else is harmed
As long as nobody else is harmed
Microsoft is harming others when they use their quasimonopoly position to bully competitors into oblivion. It isn't right of them to write code that identifies Netscape and breaks it, it isn't right of them to send broken tables to Opera so it'll look defective, it isn't right of them to make WMP unremovable from the OS just to annoy people into using it.
my Corvette
So, how did those penis enlargement pills work out for you?
*had* to have synthetic
If your fancy car has a fancy engine that needs fancy oil, that's one thing. But if you'd bought a non-fancy car that was arbitrarily designed with a superfluous need for a specific brand of oil, you might have appreciated it when the courts freed you from that burden.
It's like the government telling automakers they're required to have cup holders suited for 64 oz cups in all vehicles
Actually, its more like telling the Microsoft Motor Corporation that hey are not allowed to sell cars designed to only work with the Microsoft Oil brand gasoline when there is no reason why it shouldn't also work with the competitor's gasoline.
Why not just burn coal?
Because farms don't produce coal. Farms produce manure (as waste), and the manure produces methane, wich is a smelly pollutant.
What these farmers can do is turn that smelly waste into a profitable ressource.
coal?
It's just as bad for the environment
No, its much much worse for the environment to dig out buried carbon and release it into the atmosphere than to prevent the release of methane in the atmosphere.
I don't really want to smell the fumes of burning shit, thank you!
Yes, you should thank them, since they are saving you from having to smell those fumes by transforming the manure in a closed system and then burning the methane quite thoroughly. Methane then ends up as water vapor, CO2 and energy.
Wich is much better smelling than raw manure.
Now, had you read the article before trolling about coal, you'd have known all that.
Is beautiful beautiful because of the (pleasant) way it differs from the "norm"? Or will we be in heaven living in a world of super models?
Lets ask Hugh Hefner!
Where's that mansion of his again?
: )
What Fruits Will Reduced R&D Bear For The U.S.?
Hopefully, super-intelligent bananas that peel themselves!
Go biotech go!
: )
No, you can "register this product on-line".
The synching is a different issue (one I'm more comfortable with).
Oh, yeah...
see, just no way to do it without being tracked and catalogued...and then the spam and junk snailmail comes in. SIgh
According to this (registration required...bleah) article from the L.A. Times, "Users will be able to buy and download songs with a single click and transfer them automatically to any iPod they've registered with Apple....Rather than make the songs available in the popular MP3 format, Apple plans to use a higher fidelity technology known as Advanced Audio Codec."
As seen on macslash
What gets me is the "registered iPod" bit...can't we do anything anonymously anymore? Geeze!
Well, I get a lot of spam trying to pass itself off as legitimate mail, or using all kinds of sneaky ways to get around my filters. Its stupid of them to do so (I'm actively trying to avoid their crap, what makes them think I'll want it when they force me to get it?), it should also be illegal, and punishable by catapult.
COBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
;- )
Am right now typing this on a mac while listening to my iPod...
Maybe I was too subtle in the humour...or just not funny.
Ah well...
Unix is dead, Apple is dead, Apple uses Unix, so Apple is double-killed super dead!
Apple is deader than a hippy at an NRA convention...deader than a drunk dear on a highway, deader than a l33t coder who ran out of caffeine...
I don't know.
He might have done both...dictators are quirky that way.
Then what? You wait and see how people fight back with mutant powers? Psychic terrorism maybe? Go watch sci-fi instead of reality shows, please.
Please list 3 reasons why ousting Saddam will make 9/11 all better again.
We're all waiting.
Sigh. You're being a child.
Iraq has oil. Oil its not allowed to sell because of embargos. That makes the price of gas higher. If the US gets controll of the territory, US oil companies can get all that oil to the states, thus augmenting the offer to catch up with the demand. Then, as economy 101 should have though you, the price will go down.
If one wanted the price of gas to go down, invading Iraq is not the way to do it.
If one wants to controll a country's natural ressources and make sure that one's buddies and buisness asssociate get the lucrative explotation contracts, war is a great way to do it.
Invading, during which time the facilities will most likely be destroyed
Hmmm...I wonder who then would be in a good position to get the lucrative rebuilding contracts...the country who just got its ass whupped or the one who did the whupping?
could very well do the same thing the Taliban did in Afghanistan
All brown people look alike huh?
Iraq and Afghanistan are NOT THE SAME THING!
As evil and dangerous as Saddam is, he is not a taliban, and in fact Iraq was on the Taliban's list of not-nice-places. Iraq is a modern country (kinda), where women can go to school and work and show their faces in public. Saddam has founded a lot of archeological digs, he even had replicas built of the excavated sites so that the people could go look at their countrie's past glory without damaging the originals.
Try to get this in your head: Saddam and Oussama are NOT THE SAME PERSON, they don't agree on anything except that they both resent the US.
Al-quaeda and Saddam ARE NOT THE SAME THING!
Jeez...they all look the same huh?
Wake up dammit, the war has nothing to do with terrorism, and everything to do with the price of gas.
And you *could* loose lives to terrorism, or be 100% sure to loose lives in a war...hmmm...not very good at basic math are ya?