The story you've linked to is about Yahoo actively supporting adware companies.
Title of the article: "Is Yahoo Actively Supporting Adware?"
Almost every major company with something to hawk tries to bundle their thing with something unrelated. You don't hear people lambasting MS for bundling their MSN toolbar and MSN search into the MSN Messenger package. You don't hear people complaining that Yahoo bundles their own toolbar with some software. Hell, I'm certain that AIM tries to unload something on it's users too.
The double standard you're complaining about exists only in your mind.
Actually, it's an acceptable analogy. If I got hacked because I had a sony music CD, it'd be because some powerful person being a prick, just like millions of cases of aids are because the vatican still disapproves of condom use.
Frankly, I just don't see it. In a sample group of about 10 people, all had MP3 players, and 0 had any apple MP3 player.
With all this talk of how well the iPod and derivatives are doing, it's awkward that I've only ever seen one in my life, and it was two years ago, owned by a die-hard Mac user.
This is a fruitless discussion until SOMEONE(everyone?) takes a bloody high school media course and actually learns the definition of right/left. People can call themselves whatever they want. Doesn't make them what they say they are. The current airy popular definitions are political propoganda, not conducive to anything ever, let alone a good discussion on the relative merits of certain political ideologies.
In 1970, could anyone have said that in the year 2006 there would be a worldwide network where anyone could place any data as long as they paid their internet bill? Could anyone have known that in 2006 the concept of "storage media" such as cassettes would quickly be becoming a quaint memory as it's more convenient for devices to have their own massive internal storage?
The future of technology is too unpredictable. Anyone trying to deduce it is doomed to fail.
We shall see exactly what your computer teacher does when something else in his or her(who am I kidding? His) life that he isn't a teacher of goes wrong. Geez, your brakes went? Well, the car uses patented(possibly copyrighted) designs, so he'd better watch out, because if his brakes go and he dies a terrible terrible death, we'll all know it's because he wasn't utilizing a free and open standard.
It makes perfect sense. Frankly, it's about time someone pointed this out, even.
If women want games for women, they should get out there and make some games for women. Demanding men create games suitable for women is simply regressive.
Open source is not classically liberal. It utilizes laws already in place to slowly and peacefully generate change. This focus upon effecting change through current methods rather than through revolution is classically conservative, according to most definitions I've seen.
You know, evil can be evil without it's source being the source of ALL evil.
When Americans realize that a country can be mostly evil without being totally evil, the game will end and we'll have to find another chubby kid to make fun of.
If anyone else manages to make a laughingstock of themselves for the better part of a decade, we'll point and laugh at them too. Trust me, the french are making some fine headway in this respect.
I'm beginning to think the purpose of french governments is to incite violence among frenchmen.
The big thing in Ontario is the fact that they've raised the bar with regards to education.
If you want a raised bar, do something about it. Get the word out there that there are people who dislike the new, more difficult high school curriculum and mandatory literacy testing in Grade 10. Maybe, with enough sane people, we can get higher standards in elementary schools as well. Frankly, I'm rather upset that elementary calculus isn't taught by the end of Grade 12.
The patriot act is a tiny piece of a huge puzzle of ineptitude. Pay off any debts you have, because the next decade is going to show a massive increase in the cost of consumer debt, as the credit bubble finally bursts. By 2015, the USA will not be the same power it is today, I'm positive.
If more people would actually think for 30 seconds when they heard the words "Liberal" or "Conservative", we'd have a much more honest political landscape.
Oh great. Why do I have a feeling you consider yourself a conservative?
A conservative would look back and realise that most of the stuff they want to fix today is relatively new.
The big thing the Liberals did in their first terms in office? They balanced the budget. They spent entirely too much time, money and effort on trying to keep Quebec from seperating. These were massive things at the time. Sure, there was some pork along the way, but frankly, the stuff which is about to destroy the Martin government is the sort of stuff that happens without raising an eyebrow in the US.
The Progressive Conservatives under Mulroney DOUBLED the federal debt. Remember that when you're talking about things the Liberals were doing for all those 12 years. 250 Billion dollars. Yes, the Liberals are responsible for the initial spending which led to the debt, but the conservatives are the ones who allowed it to double our debt, and it was the Liberals who came in and actually did what needed to be done to fix it.
Canadians often remind me of Marie Antoinette: They're so out of touch with the concept of a truly bad politician, and so far removed from any sort of context -- let alone HISTORY, that they think that their politicians are all bad, when the truth of the matter is, we have it so good that we can complain about pittling 200 million dollar ad contracts, or our taxes, or our balanced budget.
I read the article mentioning the study in the National Post, the single most right wing, Pro-American, "Oh lordy, why aren't the conservatives in power? We pay ever so much tax!" newspaper in the country, and the linked article was care of google.
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To be fair, this WAS the biggest piece of news to come out of New Orleans in several years that didn't involve girls going wild. :P
You're just a troll.
The story you've linked to is about Yahoo actively supporting adware companies.
Title of the article: "Is Yahoo Actively Supporting Adware?"
Almost every major company with something to hawk tries to bundle their thing with something unrelated. You don't hear people lambasting MS for bundling their MSN toolbar and MSN search into the MSN Messenger package. You don't hear people complaining that Yahoo bundles their own toolbar with some software. Hell, I'm certain that AIM tries to unload something on it's users too.
The double standard you're complaining about exists only in your mind.
Actually, it's an acceptable analogy. If I got hacked because I had a sony music CD, it'd be because some powerful person being a prick, just like millions of cases of aids are because the vatican still disapproves of condom use.
News stopped being news the second it was shown to be more profitable to sell entertainment in a different package.
Frankly, I just don't see it. In a sample group of about 10 people, all had MP3 players, and 0 had any apple MP3 player.
With all this talk of how well the iPod and derivatives are doing, it's awkward that I've only ever seen one in my life, and it was two years ago, owned by a die-hard Mac user.
I smell hype.
This is a fruitless discussion until SOMEONE(everyone?) takes a bloody high school media course and actually learns the definition of right/left. People can call themselves whatever they want. Doesn't make them what they say they are. The current airy popular definitions are political propoganda, not conducive to anything ever, let alone a good discussion on the relative merits of certain political ideologies.
In 1970, could anyone have said that in the year 2006 there would be a worldwide network where anyone could place any data as long as they paid their internet bill? Could anyone have known that in 2006 the concept of "storage media" such as cassettes would quickly be becoming a quaint memory as it's more convenient for devices to have their own massive internal storage?
The future of technology is too unpredictable. Anyone trying to deduce it is doomed to fail.
As opposed to the auto industry, where you'd be breaking the law because you're not qualified to be altering the fundamental makeup of brakes?
We shall see exactly what your computer teacher does when something else in his or her(who am I kidding? His) life that he isn't a teacher of goes wrong. Geez, your brakes went? Well, the car uses patented(possibly copyrighted) designs, so he'd better watch out, because if his brakes go and he dies a terrible terrible death, we'll all know it's because he wasn't utilizing a free and open standard.
Three billion women on the planet. Let 'em make their own damned games if they don't like how we're doing it.
Off topic, but I was sure I'd seen your name before so I checked it out, and sure enough, you've got qb stuff on your site.
Have you seen the 'new'(1 year old yesterday) Freebasic compiler? It's quite nice, and it's 99% compatible with QB syntax.
It makes perfect sense. Frankly, it's about time someone pointed this out, even.
If women want games for women, they should get out there and make some games for women. Demanding men create games suitable for women is simply regressive.
Seperatists aren't allowed to bitch about other frenchmen whining.
The American definition of "Liberal" and "Conservative" are horribly contrived, inconsistent things.
For example: If Anne Coulter is as conservative as she says she is, why is she writing political columns and not making me a sammich?
Open source is not classically liberal. It utilizes laws already in place to slowly and peacefully generate change. This focus upon effecting change through current methods rather than through revolution is classically conservative, according to most definitions I've seen.
You know, evil can be evil without it's source being the source of ALL evil.
When Americans realize that a country can be mostly evil without being totally evil, the game will end and we'll have to find another chubby kid to make fun of.
If anyone else manages to make a laughingstock of themselves for the better part of a decade, we'll point and laugh at them too. Trust me, the french are making some fine headway in this respect.
I'm beginning to think the purpose of french governments is to incite violence among frenchmen.
Medical coverage is a moot point if people are going bankrupt regardless.
Oh, great. You've already won.
Well, no reason to try to continue then. Have a nice day.
The big thing in Ontario is the fact that they've raised the bar with regards to education.
If you want a raised bar, do something about it. Get the word out there that there are people who dislike the new, more difficult high school curriculum and mandatory literacy testing in Grade 10. Maybe, with enough sane people, we can get higher standards in elementary schools as well. Frankly, I'm rather upset that elementary calculus isn't taught by the end of Grade 12.
The patriot act is a tiny piece of a huge puzzle of ineptitude. Pay off any debts you have, because the next decade is going to show a massive increase in the cost of consumer debt, as the credit bubble finally bursts. By 2015, the USA will not be the same power it is today, I'm positive.
*SJ Zero gives waferhead a trophy.
If more people would actually think for 30 seconds when they heard the words "Liberal" or "Conservative", we'd have a much more honest political landscape.
Oh great. Why do I have a feeling you consider yourself a conservative?
A conservative would look back and realise that most of the stuff they want to fix today is relatively new.
The big thing the Liberals did in their first terms in office? They balanced the budget. They spent entirely too much time, money and effort on trying to keep Quebec from seperating. These were massive things at the time. Sure, there was some pork along the way, but frankly, the stuff which is about to destroy the Martin government is the sort of stuff that happens without raising an eyebrow in the US.
The Progressive Conservatives under Mulroney DOUBLED the federal debt. Remember that when you're talking about things the Liberals were doing for all those 12 years. 250 Billion dollars. Yes, the Liberals are responsible for the initial spending which led to the debt, but the conservatives are the ones who allowed it to double our debt, and it was the Liberals who came in and actually did what needed to be done to fix it.
Canadians often remind me of Marie Antoinette: They're so out of touch with the concept of a truly bad politician, and so far removed from any sort of context -- let alone HISTORY, that they think that their politicians are all bad, when the truth of the matter is, we have it so good that we can complain about pittling 200 million dollar ad contracts, or our taxes, or our balanced budget.
I read the article mentioning the study in the National Post, the single most right wing, Pro-American, "Oh lordy, why aren't the conservatives in power? We pay ever so much tax!" newspaper in the country, and the linked article was care of google.
This means that you are a presumptuous ass.
Have a nice day. Ass.
You managed to fuck your dollar. Sorry man, it's only 15% less these days.