Because after the colonialists and explorers leave, the pansy environmentalists will have free reign of the planet, and you can do all the hippy crap you want to do without us to get in the way of your crazy talk.:P
YEAH! And the same to all them stupid krackers! Nothing but colonialists and warlords in THAT lot!!
This way they don't have to worry about converting the entire planet to their false religion that they claim is the "religion of peace". Who the fuck believes that shit anyway? Who the fuck is Jesus?
I'd believe them if there was one, just one Richard Johnson fucker kracker-head that comes out and formally denounces war and colonialism... then I'd say call off the dogs and stop killing the white skins. Until then, we need to apply the final solution to their barbaric dumbasses.
In other words, you have to commit yourself to ignoring all forms of reality to find it? What a strange phenomenon. I'm not sure I'd LIKE to find it if that's the case!
(besides, the link in question has a whole lot of stuff where the paragraph goes on about the reasons why species evolved in a certain way, then at the end they go "and that's why evolution couldn't work and therefore god created everything you heathen scum" at the end of every paragraph. It was really disconcerting.)
Bah. If someone gave me a million dollars, my children would be billionaires(takes money to make money, and the Google IPO is coming up). If Prussia hadn't been eliminated in the war I'd be a prince right now. If a land bridge hadn't formed thousands of years ago the warlike mongols would never have invaded the americas and destroyed the multicultural civilization that was here.
To dwell on the future as if it was the past is plainly stupid. Human expansion, the spirit of discovery, and that sense of "just what's around that next bend" will never die, so we might as well do what we do best, and expand. While we're at it, take the experience and learn how to terraform the moon, or venus, or a large asteroid. Frankly, the further mankind expands, the greater our chances of survival become as a species, and the greater our chances of ever making it out of our solar system.:)
You know, there are two different ways to take that remark, and I think I'll take it in the "people with plenty who don't live in the middle of a desert don't become terrorists" way, instead of the "we should drown millions of people" way.:P
You do realize that by existing, by simply running around and being alive, you destroy millions, if not billions of microbes every single day, right?
Bacteria is born to die. If the human race can extend it's reach(and perhaps come a bit closer to understanding the universe first hand) by terraforming mars, I'll be on the first colonization craft there -- after all, adventure is the spice of life, isn't it?:D
A civil war where the civilians as a whole attack the military is ONLY occupation.
Colonialists and Kings of old both knew that one couldn't simply destroy uprisings. The Soviets knew it too. The current situation in Iraq seems to indicate that Americans don't though. Who'da thunk it?
The frog in boiling water thing is a myth. So is the idea that people are so stupid that they'll let things get really bad in a democratic society which savours freedom.
Except that people are smarter than that, so it's not the way it works. Politicians aren't immune to their own laws, and they have to get re-elected SOMEHOW, so nothing ever comes of it.
Government and stifling free speech go hand in hand. Doesn't matter which country you're in. Even the most gung-ho have laws that say "you're not allowed to say that!!".
Good lord yeah. Having full debug for all your interfaces is great. After having it for so long working in DOS(because in DOS you basically had to write your own I/O code anyway), I've been having some real problems adapting to the blackbox of windows libs!
You know, it just occurred to me that most consumer WAN equipment does 10Mbps on it's WAN port.
Even if an ISP offered this, odds are many folks would hit a bottleneck before they hit their machines. One alternative is Full Duplex 100Mbps directly plugged into the DSL modem, but god help you if a new windows virus pops up while you're downloading the sum mans knowlege of the universe.:)
Except that you're wrong. Some simple, standard html tags aren't even treated the same way between revisions (I had a friend who was complaining that his page was broken in Mozilla -- turned out that the page was also broken in every single version of IE except the one he was using, and each and every version treated the tag differently).
IE's second biggest quirk is it's (semi) lack of PNG alpha. Yet, why exactly do you need to be using 32-bit images on your page? It's quite easy (and beneficial for download speeds) to get by with 8-bit images. JPEG does better for photographs, anyway.
Nice attitude. Very Linuxey. "What? You want to do THAT? You don't need to do that! What are you, stupid? What you REALLY wanted to do was THIS!!"
IE doesn't even conform to ITSELF between versions. A freind of mine was complaining that a page he was working on didn't work in mozilla. Turns out the tag he was using behaved the same in Opera and Mozilla, but completely differently in IE4,5,5.5,6, and IE for MAC.
Learn history before you mouth off. Standardized hardware is wholly a result of the work of IBM, and to a lesser extent, Compaq. If Bills mother didn't go to the united way with a VP from IBM, we'd have another, extremely similar, OS on our IBM XT, followed by another windowing system(DR GEM?), etc...
Microsoft is extremely egocentric. They think they did a lot of things that happened long before they got any real power to do anything, and everything they have today they owe to IBM -- without them, they'd still just be a language company porting DEC code they found in dumpsters. Of course, I'm sure they'd like everyone to THINK they've been a powerful company forever, but the PC would have moved forward with or without Microsoft -- I guarantee it.
I think you have the dependency map reversed. OEMs need Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't need the OEMs. If this wasn't the case, OS/2 Warp would've done better in the marketplace, and there never would've been the first microsoft trial at all. They CERTAINLY wouldn't have lost it.
I don't really think you understand that MS does have a monopoly. After that happens, the rules change somewhat, and you can't just go around using your dominance to shut everyone out of the market. That's why antitrust laws EXIST.
To wrap it up, just because it's theoretically secure doesn't change the fact that a default install will be filled with viruses in about 2 hours. You can squawk and moan about theoreticals all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that here, in REALITY, where your computer actually needs to remain SECURE, you're far better off with anything non-windows. Trying to argue this point is only possible if you remove yourself from the realm of reality as you have.
Windows has it's strengths, and that's the reason the majority of us use it. Saying security is one of those strengths is just not the truth. Not just against Linux, but against just about anything, there is no comparison. Just like you can be considered more disease resistant than the locals if you take a malaria and aids vaccine before heading to Africa. The locals could have superhuman constitutions, but you are immune to two of the most common, deadly diseases there. The net effect is that you're more safe from disease than they are.
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Because after the colonialists and explorers leave, the pansy environmentalists will have free reign of the planet, and you can do all the hippy crap you want to do without us to get in the way of your crazy talk. :P
YEAH! And the same to all them stupid krackers! Nothing but colonialists and warlords in THAT lot!!
This way they don't have to worry about converting the entire planet to their false religion that they claim is the "religion of peace". Who the fuck believes that shit anyway? Who the fuck is Jesus?
I'd believe them if there was one, just one Richard Johnson fucker kracker-head that comes out and formally denounces war and colonialism... then I'd say call off the dogs and stop killing the white skins. Until then, we need to apply the final solution to their barbaric dumbasses.
In other words, you have to commit yourself to ignoring all forms of reality to find it? What a strange phenomenon. I'm not sure I'd LIKE to find it if that's the case!
(besides, the link in question has a whole lot of stuff where the paragraph goes on about the reasons why species evolved in a certain way, then at the end they go "and that's why evolution couldn't work and therefore god created everything you heathen scum" at the end of every paragraph. It was really disconcerting.)
I find that as long as you don't turn it into a religion, atheism/agnostism is generally accepted too.
:)
Those who turn not believing in anything into a religion deserve no sympathy, imho anyway.
Nobody says we'd have to kill 'em ALL, but what are a few specimens for the lab compared to a whole new world to explore IN PERSON?
Bah. If someone gave me a million dollars, my children would be billionaires(takes money to make money, and the Google IPO is coming up). If Prussia hadn't been eliminated in the war I'd be a prince right now. If a land bridge hadn't formed thousands of years ago the warlike mongols would never have invaded the americas and destroyed the multicultural civilization that was here.
:)
To dwell on the future as if it was the past is plainly stupid. Human expansion, the spirit of discovery, and that sense of "just what's around that next bend" will never die, so we might as well do what we do best, and expand. While we're at it, take the experience and learn how to terraform the moon, or venus, or a large asteroid. Frankly, the further mankind expands, the greater our chances of survival become as a species, and the greater our chances of ever making it out of our solar system.
You know, there are two different ways to take that remark, and I think I'll take it in the "people with plenty who don't live in the middle of a desert don't become terrorists" way, instead of the "we should drown millions of people" way. :P
Ever been to a big city? I'd say there are plenty of people who can be stuck in a "confined space" their entire lives and not really care...
You do realize that by existing, by simply running around and being alive, you destroy millions, if not billions of microbes every single day, right?
:D
Bacteria is born to die. If the human race can extend it's reach(and perhaps come a bit closer to understanding the universe first hand) by terraforming mars, I'll be on the first colonization craft there -- after all, adventure is the spice of life, isn't it?
A civil war where the civilians as a whole attack the military is ONLY occupation.
Colonialists and Kings of old both knew that one couldn't simply destroy uprisings. The Soviets knew it too. The current situation in Iraq seems to indicate that Americans don't though. Who'da thunk it?
The frog in boiling water thing is a myth. So is the idea that people are so stupid that they'll let things get really bad in a democratic society which savours freedom.
Except that people are smarter than that, so it's not the way it works. Politicians aren't immune to their own laws, and they have to get re-elected SOMEHOW, so nothing ever comes of it.
Don't argue. You can't win.
Why?
Haven't you noticed that most americans treat being foreign like some sort of skin fungus?
"Oh my god! You're from Denmark? I'm so sorry! It must have been so traumatic not growing up in the US!"
Would you recommend the 80 year old grandmother defeat her assailant in a death-defying match of fisticuffs?
So how's the occupation of the holy cities in Iraq going?
Government and stifling free speech go hand in hand. Doesn't matter which country you're in. Even the most gung-ho have laws that say "you're not allowed to say that!!".
Good lord yeah. Having full debug for all your interfaces is great. After having it for so long working in DOS(because in DOS you basically had to write your own I/O code anyway), I've been having some real problems adapting to the blackbox of windows libs!
Tell me you didn't just say "mailboxen".
For your sake you'd better be german, 'cause otherwise that's just inexcusably geeky.
No, not in a good way.
You know, it just occurred to me that most consumer WAN equipment does 10Mbps on it's WAN port.
:)
Even if an ISP offered this, odds are many folks would hit a bottleneck before they hit their machines. One alternative is Full Duplex 100Mbps directly plugged into the DSL modem, but god help you if a new windows virus pops up while you're downloading the sum mans knowlege of the universe.
Except that you're wrong. Some simple, standard html tags aren't even treated the same way between revisions (I had a friend who was complaining that his page was broken in Mozilla -- turned out that the page was also broken in every single version of IE except the one he was using, and each and every version treated the tag differently).
IE's second biggest quirk is it's (semi) lack of PNG alpha. Yet, why exactly do you need to be using 32-bit images on your page? It's quite easy (and beneficial for download speeds) to get by with 8-bit images. JPEG does better for photographs, anyway.
Nice attitude. Very Linuxey. "What? You want to do THAT? You don't need to do that! What are you, stupid? What you REALLY wanted to do was THIS!!"
IE doesn't even conform to ITSELF between versions. A freind of mine was complaining that a page he was working on didn't work in mozilla. Turns out the tag he was using behaved the same in Opera and Mozilla, but completely differently in IE4,5,5.5,6, and IE for MAC.
Yeah, real great standard there.
Learn history before you mouth off. Standardized hardware is wholly a result of the work of IBM, and to a lesser extent, Compaq. If Bills mother didn't go to the united way with a VP from IBM, we'd have another, extremely similar, OS on our IBM XT, followed by another windowing system(DR GEM?), etc...
Microsoft is extremely egocentric. They think they did a lot of things that happened long before they got any real power to do anything, and everything they have today they owe to IBM -- without them, they'd still just be a language company porting DEC code they found in dumpsters. Of course, I'm sure they'd like everyone to THINK they've been a powerful company forever, but the PC would have moved forward with or without Microsoft -- I guarantee it.
I think you have the dependency map reversed. OEMs need Microsoft. Microsoft doesn't need the OEMs. If this wasn't the case, OS/2 Warp would've done better in the marketplace, and there never would've been the first microsoft trial at all. They CERTAINLY wouldn't have lost it.
I don't really think you understand that MS does have a monopoly. After that happens, the rules change somewhat, and you can't just go around using your dominance to shut everyone out of the market. That's why antitrust laws EXIST.
Looked like phase 3 to me. :)
:)
On the other hand, I wouldn't consider the linux movement passive aggressive!
You're wrong.
To wrap it up, just because it's theoretically secure doesn't change the fact that a default install will be filled with viruses in about 2 hours. You can squawk and moan about theoreticals all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that here, in REALITY, where your computer actually needs to remain SECURE, you're far better off with anything non-windows. Trying to argue this point is only possible if you remove yourself from the realm of reality as you have.
Windows has it's strengths, and that's the reason the majority of us use it. Saying security is one of those strengths is just not the truth. Not just against Linux, but against just about anything, there is no comparison. Just like you can be considered more disease resistant than the locals if you take a malaria and aids vaccine before heading to Africa. The locals could have superhuman constitutions, but you are immune to two of the most common, deadly diseases there. The net effect is that you're more safe from disease than they are.