To be honest the Iranian oil is not so good. Full of sulphur. But a blanket statement covering an entire culture and geographical area like that is rather silly. Some good things came from Persia, and I know a lot of cool persians.
And there is nothing wrong with putting incompetent professionals out of business. I'm a doctor and if I start being negligent and killing people I would deserve being run out of the profession because I have to stop being a doctor one way or another. A true professional stops long before he reaches that point and doesn't bite off more than he can reasonably chew. The consequences can be dire, and what's worse it's someone else that suffers them. So yeah, run them out of business and they can find a new career parking cars.
This is the secret to the genius of dogs: It's when dogs join forces with us that they become special.,
Humans and dogs have a mutualistic, symbiotic relationship. Both benefit from it. The dog gets shelter, medical care and access to better quality food. The human gets companionship, security, and help hunting/herding and all the other things dogs can do.
You can keep your fucking emo asteroids. Go feel somewhere else and cut your wrists for real while you're at it. Remember down the road not across the street.
That's exactly why they're trying to "make it right". This isn't generosity so much as damage control and a desperate attempt at "please don't sue us!". I'm sure if they hadn't been caught they would have been perfectly happy with the sales they made.
Not true. I mean yes if they want to maintain the 2.5" form factor, but there's plenty of room if they go 3.5". Of course that would mean two models, one for laptops and one for desktops - because how often does a laptop unexpectedly power down? But space is absolutely not the issue on a desktop. They're designed for 3.5". I'd rather have a bigger drive that never fails than a tiny space saving one that I can't rely on.
The problem with voting has always been that the idiots get to vote too. So while you might "vote with your dollars" to select the most reliable drive, they will vote for the one with the cute name, or the shiny case, or the "free gift", or the special price, etc.
Yes, you are winning until the day everyone gets fed up, and then you lose everything. Absolutely everything. I'm just surprised it's taking the rest of the world so long to catch on. America will never stop printing dollars until some other country takes it over and switches off the printing press.
It was "the government shutdown" a few years ago. And all sorts of people got on their soap box and blamed everyone else for it. Now it's called something else, the "sequester". And again let's point fingers and blame. However none of that has to do with the real problem - the US is spending more money than it takes in, spending more money than it can print, even, and has been doing this for YEARS. They scream at the federal banks to keep interest rates near zero to "stimulate the economy" meaning that everyone must bear the cost of the devaluation including those smart enough to put their money to work, and then they wonder why all the wealth is leaving the US dollar.
The US will be buried under its Keynesian nightmare. I just hope it doesn't take the whole world with it.
Keep that in mind for when you are a vassal state. America is only 300 million people, not even a huge population anymore. It used to dominate economically but haven't you heard? China has now surpassed the US as the largest trader in the world. While the US is celebrating 0.7% growth, China is growing 8-10% every year. They're not even close to being done yet. Don't worry mandarin is not too hard to learn.
I can't wait for China to start pushing for the extradition of US citizens for breaking some of its more restrictive internet laws. I mean fair game, right?
They're not adopting Windows 8 because on the whole, Windows 8 sucks or doesn't offer a compelling reason to upgrade. That does not mean that Microsoft will remove secure boot from future operating systems, since most of the drones have no idea at all what it means or what it does, and don't care. If their $500 computer stops working they say "it had a virus" and throw it away and buy another one.
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I guess they go around looking for satellite dishes too? I mean, how is Iran going to stop someone talking to a Hughes satellite?
To be honest the Iranian oil is not so good. Full of sulphur. But a blanket statement covering an entire culture and geographical area like that is rather silly. Some good things came from Persia, and I know a lot of cool persians.
Yeah that's what the Poles said in 1939. And the Austrians in 1809. Et cetera.
I think it's really funny how they call a drop in traffic a "spike in traffic". Facebook was a fad and people have moved on.
As if congress-people actually manage to be present a whole 8 times in a term.
And there is nothing wrong with putting incompetent professionals out of business. I'm a doctor and if I start being negligent and killing people I would deserve being run out of the profession because I have to stop being a doctor one way or another. A true professional stops long before he reaches that point and doesn't bite off more than he can reasonably chew. The consequences can be dire, and what's worse it's someone else that suffers them. So yeah, run them out of business and they can find a new career parking cars.
Exactly what I came here to post. So he translated it from Quick Basic to Visual Basic. (golfclap)
Of course they do.
This is the secret to the genius of dogs: It's when dogs join forces with us that they become special.,
Humans and dogs have a mutualistic, symbiotic relationship. Both benefit from it. The dog gets shelter, medical care and access to better quality food. The human gets companionship, security, and help hunting/herding and all the other things dogs can do.
You can keep your fucking emo asteroids. Go feel somewhere else and cut your wrists for real while you're at it. Remember down the road not across the street.
That's exactly why they're trying to "make it right". This isn't generosity so much as damage control and a desperate attempt at "please don't sue us!". I'm sure if they hadn't been caught they would have been perfectly happy with the sales they made.
space is at an extreme premium in those drives.
Not true. I mean yes if they want to maintain the 2.5" form factor, but there's plenty of room if they go 3.5". Of course that would mean two models, one for laptops and one for desktops - because how often does a laptop unexpectedly power down? But space is absolutely not the issue on a desktop. They're designed for 3.5". I'd rather have a bigger drive that never fails than a tiny space saving one that I can't rely on.
The problem with voting has always been that the idiots get to vote too. So while you might "vote with your dollars" to select the most reliable drive, they will vote for the one with the cute name, or the shiny case, or the "free gift", or the special price, etc.
Yes, you are winning until the day everyone gets fed up, and then you lose everything. Absolutely everything. I'm just surprised it's taking the rest of the world so long to catch on. America will never stop printing dollars until some other country takes it over and switches off the printing press.
It was "the government shutdown" a few years ago. And all sorts of people got on their soap box and blamed everyone else for it. Now it's called something else, the "sequester". And again let's point fingers and blame. However none of that has to do with the real problem - the US is spending more money than it takes in, spending more money than it can print, even, and has been doing this for YEARS. They scream at the federal banks to keep interest rates near zero to "stimulate the economy" meaning that everyone must bear the cost of the devaluation including those smart enough to put their money to work, and then they wonder why all the wealth is leaving the US dollar.
The US will be buried under its Keynesian nightmare. I just hope it doesn't take the whole world with it.
Keep that in mind for when you are a vassal state. America is only 300 million people, not even a huge population anymore. It used to dominate economically but haven't you heard? China has now surpassed the US as the largest trader in the world. While the US is celebrating 0.7% growth, China is growing 8-10% every year. They're not even close to being done yet. Don't worry mandarin is not too hard to learn.
Next on the list: Cisco and Cat5 cable manufacturers.
I can't wait for China to start pushing for the extradition of US citizens for breaking some of its more restrictive internet laws. I mean fair game, right?
They're not adopting Windows 8 because on the whole, Windows 8 sucks or doesn't offer a compelling reason to upgrade. That does not mean that Microsoft will remove secure boot from future operating systems, since most of the drones have no idea at all what it means or what it does, and don't care. If their $500 computer stops working they say "it had a virus" and throw it away and buy another one.
can't you just turn off "secure boot" in the BIOS?
Especially some big company that has already been hacked and had its certificates compromised in the past.
Then learn to goole maybe?
You don't even know who "the enemy" is, since it's an abstract concept.
Maybe he means Julian Assange, having to live in that embassy?
"We say it did" is all the government needs nowadays.