And you just hit the nail on the head on why there aren't any Linux desktops that can compete with the polish and intuitiveness of OSX and Windows.
And that's the fundamental flaw of your whole argument. Gnome 2 and KDE 3 are DIFFERENT, but they are DEFINITELY "polished" and very usable, even if you don't PERSONALLY like them. To claim otherwise is such biased claptrap it's sickening.
Show me where any nation's laws mandate that corporations seek profit before compliance with their version of a Constitution, Charter of Rights, and existing law.
Show me where a nation's laws guarantee shareholders be "compensated" before basic operational and growth funding are covered.
Explain to me the rational for hiring executives who extort MILLIONS in compensation before they even start working for the company. This is someone you think has the company's best interests at heart? Are you SERIOUS?
No one ever seems to get away without being screwed by American greed. Personally. No matter where they come from. No matter how skilled they are. No matter their ethics. Anything to feed the executive and shareholder payroll.
Delaware has a relatively low cost of living, so people doing the same job in some districts were getting paid $120K+
My staff covered the full range of technologies in use in the industry at the time: C, C++, Sybase ASE, Oracle, Encina, PegaSystems, AS/400, Powerbuilder, Java, Web -- the full gamut
Only two mainframe programmers were laid off. They were the only ones working on Y2K projects.
I had to move back to Saskatchewan for health reasons, but not until I got screwed over for another year. I was glad to come home, and swore I'd never take another US contract in my life.
The "bubble" was a sham and an excuse to cut everyone's pay. Nothing more.
The only people who weren't needed after Y2K were the mainframe programmers who'd upgraded the old systems. I and all but two people on a team of twenty were on projects that had NOTHING to do with Y2K and were kept on LONG after that.
But not before we all got raped into taking a forced pay cut. My staff were NOT happy when I presented them with their pay packages, renegotiated on an entirely one-sided basis: take it or leave.
As a staff manager, I knew what other people were being paid. My salary was very typical across a pretty broad range of experience levels.
And so what if it was the tail end of the Y2K bubble? That means people should still be getting paid less after 13 years of inflationary pressure on their actual disposable income?
Drink that government Koolaid. All is right with America. Just trust The Great Leader.
A lot of people never bothered to read the legislation as it was written when it finally passed. The Harper government did temper it from it's original form, and put in clauses to clarify the situations when the mandatory minimums would apply.
But that doesn't change the fact that the majority of Canadian society wants our drug policies to be up for a MAJOR rethink of our approach, shifting it to either a legalization/regulation or medical model from the current incarceration/prohibition approach. The Harper government is having none of that, and instead is jackbooting along on the DEA-inspired drug war, despite years of rulings in favour of medical cannabis rights and DECADES of evidence that the prohibitionist policies are more damaging to society than the marketing of alcohol and tobacco.
Now there's thorny topic for anyone who has a fundamental disagreement with abortion. To them, killing a fetus is immoral no matter what the reasoning. And as the uncle of a boy who is autistic, I must admit I would hate to have seen my sister have him killed when he failed the genetic screening.
I don't believe in abortion as birth control at all. It needs to be available to deal with cases of rape and occasionally to save the mother's life, but that's where I draw the line. There are far better ways to manage population growth than abortion.
If you were stupid enough to get pregnant because you didn't take precautions, either put the child up for adoption or raise it yourself. Your life may be a living hell as a single mom, but you've brought that on yourself.
Lord knows there is no shortage of clinics and outreach groups providing free condoms.
It did, my friend. I lived many years in the US. I was working for J. P. Morgan before the merger when 9/11 happened. Some of my co-workers died in the attack.
But times have changed, and even those who remember the way it used to be are derided as "soft" and "weak" if they object to the police state.
I thought the excuse for toll highways in the US was to pay for the maintenance of those stretches of highway. If the gas taxes are supposed to pay for the maintenance, what's the purpose of the tolls? Straight out gouging of a captive market?
Demanding that a service provider not automatically slander you is not censorship. Google's white-washing of their control over the algorithms is bullshit. I seriously doubt it's hard for them to flag a word that should NEVER come up during a search; they certainly can ensure through AdWords that a word ALWAYS flags a particular result.
They keep talking about "average." Average is the result of society's self-destructive love of SUVs and Minivans. While some people have a legitimate need for such vehicles, most buy them DESPITE their bad mileage.
There are many perfectly comfortable cars that do much better. Myself, I like the Ford Focus line.
I think the Chevy Volt is a great design concept because it would suit me needs perfectly, but I can buy two Focus' for the price of one Volt in Canada, and the Focus gets MUCH better highway mileage than the Volt. I WANT to be environmentally responsible and go electric, but it's just not gonna happen until prices come WAY down.
Do you realize that cancer is actually caused by the rogue and uncontrolled triggering of cellular growth that normally results in healing?
The fetus still goes through stages of growth that trace back to our evolution, a nine-month fast replay of evolution as the zygote develops into a viable organism.
The concept of genetic engineering is not scary because of the "risk" of GMO fields infecting natural genetics, but because of the few psychopaths who would like to use such technology to "eliminate disease." Who's to say a "disease" is not the first step of the next stage of evolution? The brilliance of many people I've met with ADHD and various levels of autism disorders are a key example -- they're not SUCCESSFUL adaptations yet, but I believe they're the beginnings of an evolution of a greater intelligence than the typical modern human.
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And obviously you shouldn't have all the plants in one district in case of natural or man-made disaster!
Not true at all. There are limits to economy of scale, so it's not necessarily cost-prohibitive to have a few plants scattered around the world.
It's just EASIER to have a few big plants. But then you risk supply shortages like this one.
And that's the fundamental flaw of your whole argument. Gnome 2 and KDE 3 are DIFFERENT, but they are DEFINITELY "polished" and very usable, even if you don't PERSONALLY like them. To claim otherwise is such biased claptrap it's sickening.
Are they seriously saying there are NO other plants in the world to take up the slack? The entire industry put ALL their eggs in one basket?
Has no one ever heard of having multiple supply chains before?
What the hell is management doing?
Typo: Right to Unlimited Profit.
Show me where any nation's laws mandate that corporations seek profit before compliance with their version of a Constitution, Charter of Rights, and existing law.
Show me where a nation's laws guarantee shareholders be "compensated" before basic operational and growth funding are covered.
Explain to me the rational for hiring executives who extort MILLIONS in compensation before they even start working for the company. This is someone you think has the company's best interests at heart? Are you SERIOUS?
Show me the law in any nation that states you have the Freedom to Unlimited Profit.
One investor's greedy dog-in-a-manger attitude is KILLING A COMPANY and you DEFEND that behaviour?
Apparently Americans aren't the only ones who've let greed overcome sanity.
No one ever seems to get away without being screwed by American greed. Personally. No matter where they come from. No matter how skilled they are. No matter their ethics. Anything to feed the executive and shareholder payroll.
Here's another few points to consider:
I had to move back to Saskatchewan for health reasons, but not until I got screwed over for another year. I was glad to come home, and swore I'd never take another US contract in my life.
Shortly after I said "Fuck the US" and moved back to Saskatchewan. Thank God I left before the TSA started groping people on subways at random.
Every single employer in the region did this. Not just J. P. Morgan. Everyone. Even "new" industries that had no legacy systems.
The "bubble" was a sham and an excuse to cut everyone's pay. Nothing more.
The only people who weren't needed after Y2K were the mainframe programmers who'd upgraded the old systems. I and all but two people on a team of twenty were on projects that had NOTHING to do with Y2K and were kept on LONG after that.
But not before we all got raped into taking a forced pay cut. My staff were NOT happy when I presented them with their pay packages, renegotiated on an entirely one-sided basis: take it or leave.
Read the article again. They're not bringing up pages or links to reports of supposed abuse by them.
As a staff manager, I knew what other people were being paid. My salary was very typical across a pretty broad range of experience levels.
And so what if it was the tail end of the Y2K bubble? That means people should still be getting paid less after 13 years of inflationary pressure on their actual disposable income?
Drink that government Koolaid. All is right with America. Just trust The Great Leader.
And my compensation package in 1999 was roughly $80,000/year. Things have improved how? Those numbers are still LESS than I made 13 years ago!
Wasn't it in 1984 that someone was told to say the government increased the chocolate ration to a lower number than previously?
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That's what happens when you let the terrorists scare you into giving up your rights and letting the war-drum beaters take over the country.
That's because some Americans still think they rule the world and that they can shove their screwed up system down everyone else's throat.
Fuck the wanna-be dictators in the US. They do NOT own the world, much as it pisses them off.
A lot of people never bothered to read the legislation as it was written when it finally passed. The Harper government did temper it from it's original form, and put in clauses to clarify the situations when the mandatory minimums would apply.
But that doesn't change the fact that the majority of Canadian society wants our drug policies to be up for a MAJOR rethink of our approach, shifting it to either a legalization/regulation or medical model from the current incarceration/prohibition approach. The Harper government is having none of that, and instead is jackbooting along on the DEA-inspired drug war, despite years of rulings in favour of medical cannabis rights and DECADES of evidence that the prohibitionist policies are more damaging to society than the marketing of alcohol and tobacco.
Now there's thorny topic for anyone who has a fundamental disagreement with abortion. To them, killing a fetus is immoral no matter what the reasoning. And as the uncle of a boy who is autistic, I must admit I would hate to have seen my sister have him killed when he failed the genetic screening.
I don't believe in abortion as birth control at all. It needs to be available to deal with cases of rape and occasionally to save the mother's life, but that's where I draw the line. There are far better ways to manage population growth than abortion.
If you were stupid enough to get pregnant because you didn't take precautions, either put the child up for adoption or raise it yourself. Your life may be a living hell as a single mom, but you've brought that on yourself.
Lord knows there is no shortage of clinics and outreach groups providing free condoms.
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The people I knew were on medication to control the ADHD, but it didn't take away from their above-average skills and intelligence.
It did, my friend. I lived many years in the US. I was working for J. P. Morgan before the merger when 9/11 happened. Some of my co-workers died in the attack.
But times have changed, and even those who remember the way it used to be are derided as "soft" and "weak" if they object to the police state.
I thought the excuse for toll highways in the US was to pay for the maintenance of those stretches of highway. If the gas taxes are supposed to pay for the maintenance, what's the purpose of the tolls? Straight out gouging of a captive market?
Demanding that a service provider not automatically slander you is not censorship. Google's white-washing of their control over the algorithms is bullshit. I seriously doubt it's hard for them to flag a word that should NEVER come up during a search; they certainly can ensure through AdWords that a word ALWAYS flags a particular result.
They keep talking about "average." Average is the result of society's self-destructive love of SUVs and Minivans. While some people have a legitimate need for such vehicles, most buy them DESPITE their bad mileage.
There are many perfectly comfortable cars that do much better. Myself, I like the Ford Focus line.
I think the Chevy Volt is a great design concept because it would suit me needs perfectly, but I can buy two Focus' for the price of one Volt in Canada, and the Focus gets MUCH better highway mileage than the Volt. I WANT to be environmentally responsible and go electric, but it's just not gonna happen until prices come WAY down.
I thought the US was turning into a police state, but I didn't realize the TSA gestapo were wandering the subways and accosting people at random.
I weep for the America that once was.
Do you realize that cancer is actually caused by the rogue and uncontrolled triggering of cellular growth that normally results in healing?
The fetus still goes through stages of growth that trace back to our evolution, a nine-month fast replay of evolution as the zygote develops into a viable organism.
The concept of genetic engineering is not scary because of the "risk" of GMO fields infecting natural genetics, but because of the few psychopaths who would like to use such technology to "eliminate disease." Who's to say a "disease" is not the first step of the next stage of evolution? The brilliance of many people I've met with ADHD and various levels of autism disorders are a key example -- they're not SUCCESSFUL adaptations yet, but I believe they're the beginnings of an evolution of a greater intelligence than the typical modern human.