Really, I don't know why any US companies can do business with China.
My guess is because the ones doing business, mega corporations, are run by people whose god is the almighty Dollar and the only thing they hate about this are US laws preventing them to treat its American workers here the same way.
I guess that's why they just _bought_ their competitor.
I'm reminded of my view of Alexander the Great when he took over as compared to when the Muslims took over way back. Alexander (am I wrong???) came in and asked if the smaller kingdoms were interested in joining his Kingdom and many happily were since they got to keep their culture, etc. As compared to when the Muslims took over, when they killed and destroyed everything they didn't like.
Why keep that "feature" in there (espeically when talking about a GUI) when it doesn't work as adertised?
Because you advertise that the feature works and the more features you advertise that they work the more lemmings you can get to buy your product. Then you try to eliminate competition so that when the lemmings realize that the feaure works like crap, or doesn't work at all, they don't have a choice but to continue using your crappy product. At least with Linux, the programmers actually want to fix faulty features!:)
In short, Microsft should be known as a marketing, and not technology, company. I wonder if Microsoft's billions in research includes marketing research... "Who should we buy today?" "Where should we spread our FUD today?"
I'm a firm believer that most people act in the best intrests of others.
Dude, evidence shows that to NOT be the case, IMO. But please continue to think positively of others!
Is it just me or is the US using that fucking thing to basically pass laws in other countries? The Frog is coming to a boil.
Dude, didn't you read the earlier Spamhaus story? We don't even need to pass laws in your country, 'cause we can just enforce ours there. But you know what? We have the world's largest amassment of chemical weapons, biological weapons, conventional bombs, jet fighters, aircraft carriers, Weapons of Mass Destruction in the known Universe... AND we have a credit card with bottomless pit to buy more!
We also are working on taking over every election in the world, that you may elect leaders more favorable to us; they need not even be electronic since we have money to bribe or guns to kill those that do not cooperate with us.
We reserve the right to take hostage any person, place, or thing and need not tell or explain to anyone what we did because undoubtedly, they had ties to terrorists.
Passing a law in another country is just for show, to make things easier for us so we don't have to do those things which we can do whether you like it or not.
The important thing that various republican forms we call "democracy" do is give people the the power to "throw the bums out".
It is probably impossible to change an unvirtuous, corrupt, but economically fortunate government under any system...
Stifling bad news is not a wise policy, certainly when taken to extremes.
I agree with what you say. Seems like our current regime is on to this, for they have seized control of the voting system and claim if we say something against them that we are helping the terrorists. Is a benevolent dictator, an enlightened despot, something that we will never see in our lifetimes?
Windows runs one or two degrees Celsius hotter on my workstation, (AMD XP-M @ 2.3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 6600GT) than Linux. {Temperature read off GKrellm in Linux vs nVidia system monitor in Windows.}
My guess was that Windows' System Idle Process was using CPU cycles even when nothing else was but I stopped caring since I spend so little time in Windows anyway.
Everyone here is a fanboy of something and its not usually Microsoft. Anything Microsoft does they will tear apart with their close-mindedness.
I must say that anyone who doesn't approach anything Microsoft with caution and disbelief is either naive (I'd like to say stupid but then I'll get automatically modded flamebait) or ignorant of Microsoft's history of business practices.
Which are you?
I don't know what you have noticed but most on Slashdot seem to be "fanboys" of such things like Freedom, the search for Truth, the non-destruction of our natural resources, against war, for technology (especially fun tech!) and ethical business practices. My kind of homies!
Does anyone want to start a pool how days after official launch Vista licensees are owned by malicious software such that M$ has to issue a critical update? My dollar is on "7".
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I also think we should suggest to Joe Schmoe to got to the The Kitty. Let's not leave him completely out of the loop, hey!
We can't just throw money we don't have at these things forever...
Dude, yes we can, ask Dubya or any one of the other 500 elected fuckheads in DC. They don't care because they don't pay taxes, well some may but we pay them for them in the form of salary-for-life!
No, if you don't like it, you should join them for government contracts! For example, you could start a great, big drug sniffing dog training school and lobby the US to buy them from you for $125,000.00 and put them in government building or public schools. Do it for the children!
I concluded that the biggest reason that marihuana is illegal is to force a certain group of people into the undergraound and away from important decision-making roles. Big Brother does NOT want people to think for themselves, they want drones, servants, slaves.
From my experience most of the people who smoke it are freethinkers who make up their own mind about things, (especially the government!). These rich mother fuckers running the country don't want anyone to get in their way of robbing the planet's resources for their own gain, no sir!
On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that Uncle Sam was the world's biggest supplier of weed. Can't force people into the underground if they ain't got any, right?
... or will try to convince you in a similar manner that you don't have any rights.
No kidding. I was arrested once many years ago and when I told the copper at the station (in a joking, not pissing manner), "Hey, you didn't read us our rights!" He said, "Shit, that's only in the movies."
Whether that had anything to do with the fact that I was charged with disorderly conduct instead of whatever it was that they had arrested me for in the first place, I can't say.
Having studied Buddhism for fourteen years, I see myself as a "Citizen of the Cosmos" and I see myself at One with all sentient being in the universe. I do not see my family as necessarily more important than my friends, who I do not see as more imortant than other Americans, who I do not see as more important than other people around, who I do not see as more important than other living beings around the universe. I try to treat everyone the same.
I do, however, see and treat hot chicks as extra special!
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Really, I don't know why any US companies can do business with China.
My guess is because the ones doing business, mega corporations, are run by people whose god is the almighty Dollar and the only thing they hate about this are US laws preventing them to treat its American workers here the same way.
A Microsoft spokesman explained the crash was due to "technical problems"...
LOL
I guess that's why they just _bought_ their competitor.
I'm reminded of my view of Alexander the Great when he took over as compared to when the Muslims took over way back. Alexander (am I wrong???) came in and asked if the smaller kingdoms were interested in joining his Kingdom and many happily were since they got to keep their culture, etc. As compared to when the Muslims took over, when they killed and destroyed everything they didn't like.
Since when does the US have juristiction on (us) Europeans ?
Since World War II, sir.
Am I missing something ?
A history book?
Wouldn't it be funny if they advertised it that way? In small print, anyway!
Why keep that "feature" in there (espeically when talking about a GUI) when it doesn't work as adertised?
:)
Because you advertise that the feature works and the more features you advertise that they work the more lemmings you can get to buy your product. Then you try to eliminate competition so that when the lemmings realize that the feaure works like crap, or doesn't work at all, they don't have a choice but to continue using your crappy product. At least with Linux, the programmers actually want to fix faulty features!
In short, Microsft should be known as a marketing, and not technology, company. I wonder if Microsoft's billions in research includes marketing research... "Who should we buy today?" "Where should we spread our FUD today?"
I'm a firm believer that most people act in the best intrests of others.
Dude, evidence shows that to NOT be the case, IMO. But please continue to think positively of others!
Is it just me or is the US using that fucking thing to basically pass laws in other countries? The Frog is coming to a boil.
Dude, didn't you read the earlier Spamhaus story? We don't even need to pass laws in your country, 'cause we can just enforce ours there. But you know what? We have the world's largest amassment of chemical weapons, biological weapons, conventional bombs, jet fighters, aircraft carriers, Weapons of Mass Destruction in the known Universe... AND we have a credit card with bottomless pit to buy more!
We also are working on taking over every election in the world, that you may elect leaders more favorable to us; they need not even be electronic since we have money to bribe or guns to kill those that do not cooperate with us.
We reserve the right to take hostage any person, place, or thing and need not tell or explain to anyone what we did because undoubtedly, they had ties to terrorists.
Passing a law in another country is just for show, to make things easier for us so we don't have to do those things which we can do whether you like it or not.
Are you familiar with this poem: First they came for....
The important thing that various republican forms we call "democracy" do is give people the the power to "throw the bums out".
It is probably impossible to change an unvirtuous, corrupt, but economically fortunate government under any system...
Stifling bad news is not a wise policy, certainly when taken to extremes.
I agree with what you say. Seems like our current regime is on to this, for they have seized control of the voting system and claim if we say something against them that we are helping the terrorists. Is a benevolent dictator, an enlightened despot, something that we will never see in our lifetimes?
Windows.* runs hot
Windows runs one or two degrees Celsius hotter on my workstation, (AMD XP-M @ 2.3 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 6600GT) than Linux. {Temperature read off GKrellm in Linux vs nVidia system monitor in Windows.}
My guess was that Windows' System Idle Process was using CPU cycles even when nothing else was but I stopped caring since I spend so little time in Windows anyway.
Everyone here is a fanboy of something and its not usually Microsoft. Anything Microsoft does they will tear apart with their close-mindedness.
I must say that anyone who doesn't approach anything Microsoft with caution and disbelief is either naive (I'd like to say stupid but then I'll get automatically modded flamebait) or ignorant of Microsoft's history of business practices.
Which are you?
I don't know what you have noticed but most on Slashdot seem to be "fanboys" of such things like Freedom, the search for Truth, the non-destruction of our natural resources, against war, for technology (especially fun tech!) and ethical business practices. My kind of homies!
Does anyone want to start a pool how days after official launch Vista licensees are owned by malicious software such that M$ has to issue a critical update? My dollar is on "7".
I also think we should suggest to Joe Schmoe to got to the The Kitty. Let's not leave him completely out of the loop, hey!
Flamebait? I'd say this is Insightful.
Ah, whatever.
It's critical that no one person in a company ever appears [emphasis mine] to be above a code of ethics.
What it really means is: DON'T GET CAUGHT LYING, CHEATING, BREAKING LAWS, etc.
You're insane. :)
Let's see if I get modded informative.
I used to worh 3-4 months straight for my business.
Good God, Daengbo, what did you do to keep awake?
And every time a president gets serious about doing us a favor by getting rid of our greatest evil, Federal Reserve, they get shot. Here
I'm not sure I follow, but are you suggeting that we illegalize anything that could harm us?
We can't just throw money we don't have at these things forever...
Dude, yes we can, ask Dubya or any one of the other 500 elected fuckheads in DC. They don't care because they don't pay taxes, well some may but we pay them for them in the form of salary-for-life!
No, if you don't like it, you should join them for government contracts! For example, you could start a great, big drug sniffing dog training school and lobby the US to buy them from you for $125,000.00 and put them in government building or public schools. Do it for the children!
Or, you could come up with a pot-breathalyzer...
Dude, you forgot drug-sniffing dogs on every other street with the OK to attack to kill when the smell the sweet smell of sinsemilla.
I concluded that the biggest reason that marihuana is illegal is to force a certain group of people into the undergraound and away from important decision-making roles. Big Brother does NOT want people to think for themselves, they want drones, servants, slaves.
From my experience most of the people who smoke it are freethinkers who make up their own mind about things, (especially the government!). These rich mother fuckers running the country don't want anyone to get in their way of robbing the planet's resources for their own gain, no sir!
On the other hand, it wouldn't surprise me to find out that Uncle Sam was the world's biggest supplier of weed. Can't force people into the underground if they ain't got any, right?
What exactly is this "voting" thing that you're talking about and does it actually work?
Yes, it works very well. It keeps people busy enough to not notice that the winner is chosen before the election even starts.
... or will try to convince you in a similar manner that you don't have any rights.
No kidding. I was arrested once many years ago and when I told the copper at the station (in a joking, not pissing manner), "Hey, you didn't read us our rights!" He said, "Shit, that's only in the movies."
Whether that had anything to do with the fact that I was charged with disorderly conduct instead of whatever it was that they had arrested me for in the first place, I can't say.
Are you a citizen of the United States first?
Having studied Buddhism for fourteen years, I see myself as a "Citizen of the Cosmos" and I see myself at One with all sentient being in the universe. I do not see my family as necessarily more important than my friends, who I do not see as more imortant than other Americans, who I do not see as more important than other people around, who I do not see as more important than other living beings around the universe. I try to treat everyone the same.
I do, however, see and treat hot chicks as extra special!