I can show you many well educated poor people who walk throught the doors of the welfare office I work at. it takes self motivation to become successful.
And I can show you a bunch of people who work harder than 99% of America, and are STILL barely getting by, barely able to feed and clothe their kids.
Do you know a lot of poor people who just said "I'm going to try really hard!" then jobs just started magically appearing in places where there were no jobs? Did they find money on the ground that allowed them to move someplace with more work?
"People are poor because they don't apply themselves. Sure not everyone can be a millionare. I know I'm not but I work my ass off and make a decent living."
Some people don't have the education to do much of anything, similar to your lack of any social education or insight into the way the world works.
If you REALLY believe this and want some examples of why you are making yourself look stupid, let me know. Then you can thank me for giving you the education you obviously missed out on.
If MS was the publisher of the music, then maybe. But in this case, all they are doing is selling their technology to music publishers. The publishers are deciding what technology to use, and they are choosing WMP. The publishers are choosing MS because they have the greatest market share. MS has done nothing wrong here.
I know you want to blame Microsoft for everything, but it's just not the case here. If you want to fault the publishers for choosing a technology that only runs on one platform, then do so. Again, not Microsoft.
It's easy to want it all and not do anything about it, isn't it?
I am all for protecting and securing the safety of all people everywhere. But I am not for doing so by way of restricting our rights and freedoms
I'm all for living in a fantasy world as well. What you suggest above is not possible. Securing the safety of people requires resticting rights and freedoms. Don't think so? Come up with a solution yourself.
Take, for instance, the metal detectors in an airport. Do you think they should be removed? This is obviously an invasion of privacy, and possibly illegal search and seizure, is it not?
How about encypted email? Is this part of the American "way of life"? How did you communicate 10 years ago? Did people encrypt their paper mail? Make up secret languages to talk over the phone? Did we have less freedom 10 years ago than we have today?
You asked a question of the families above. Let me ask you a question:
You were told that in 1 month, there was going to be a nuclear attack on the US which would kill 100 million people. The only way to stop it would be to allow the goverment to intercept all phone calls, mail and email. Would you be for allowing the goverment to do that?
Well? 100 million is only 1/3 of the population, so you would be restricting freedoms for 2/3 of the population. I'm guessing you would let the 100 million people die.
THAT'S MY WHOLE POINT! People are not being responsible in the first place, so why would you expect them to use the breathalyzer? The alcohol makes them more irresponsible.
Just sell friggin breathalyzers to the general public so they can see for themselves if they're over the legal limit. Why do we need all the Big BrotherTM crap? How the hell is that supposed to help anything?
Are you really this naive? People who drive drunk are irresponsible assholes. They don't give a shit about themselves or anyone else. What makes you think they would buy a breathalyzer and actually use it?
All the people that I know who have DUIs are jackasses who knew EXACTLY what they were doing.
Because the liberals/socialists want to be the "big brother" of society... they don't believe in people taking responsibility for themselves. In fact, they probably believe people are too stupid to take responsibility for themselves.
People DON'T take responsibility for themselves. People ARE too stupid to take responsibility for themselves. That's why there are so many drunk drivers and drunk driving accidents and fatalities.
Isn't this obvious? If people were responsible, they would not be driving drunk in the first place.
My point was a rebuttal to the original comment that XP disables the use of any Java, which is untrue.
As to your point, though, Mom & Pop don't give a rat's ass about Java.
Also, why is bundling IE bad, but bundling the JVM good? If people are going to blame MS that they don't have a JVM, aren't they going to blame them even more for not having a browser? Which is it?
It is controlled by a standards body called the Java Community Process
You mean the group started and operated by Sun? Where you have to pay Sun $5000 to be a member? Where Sun can reject any JSR at their discretion, and chooses the leaders of the expert groups?
Sun and Sun alone has the final word on what goes into Java, or what doesn't go in.
EVERYTHING that is happening in software engineering, everything new and bold and adventurous, is happening in Java
That is really funny.
Java is no longer Sun's alone. Java is the industry's
No it isn't. It's Sun's. They refuse to let it go, refuse to let it be an open standard, and they never will allow it.
By crippling XP so that it can't run Java
Ugh, this is getting so tired. XP CAN run Java. In fact, in can run the MS JVM if you download and install it. It can run any JVM you want that you download and install.
Why do people insist on writing long comments trying to look smart, without actually bothering to know what they are talking about?
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I can show you many well educated poor people who walk throught the doors of the welfare office I work at. it takes self motivation to become successful.
And I can show you a bunch of people who work harder than 99% of America, and are STILL barely getting by, barely able to feed and clothe their kids.
Do you know a lot of poor people who just said "I'm going to try really hard!" then jobs just started magically appearing in places where there were no jobs? Did they find money on the ground that allowed them to move someplace with more work?
"People are poor because they don't apply themselves. Sure not everyone can be a millionare. I know I'm not but I work my ass off and make a decent living."
Some people don't have the education to do much of anything, similar to your lack of any social education or insight into the way the world works.
If you REALLY believe this and want some examples of why you are making yourself look stupid, let me know. Then you can thank me for giving you the education you obviously missed out on.
This IS a blatant misuse of Microsofts monopoly
No it isn't. Not in any way, shape, or form.
If MS was the publisher of the music, then maybe. But in this case, all they are doing is selling their technology to music publishers. The publishers are deciding what technology to use, and they are choosing WMP. The publishers are choosing MS because they have the greatest market share. MS has done nothing wrong here.
I know you want to blame Microsoft for everything, but it's just not the case here. If you want to fault the publishers for choosing a technology that only runs on one platform, then do so. Again, not Microsoft.
I am all for protecting and securing the safety of all people everywhere. But I am not for doing so by way of restricting our rights and freedoms
I'm all for living in a fantasy world as well. What you suggest above is not possible. Securing the safety of people requires resticting rights and freedoms. Don't think so? Come up with a solution yourself.
Take, for instance, the metal detectors in an airport. Do you think they should be removed? This is obviously an invasion of privacy, and possibly illegal search and seizure, is it not?
How about encypted email? Is this part of the American "way of life"? How did you communicate 10 years ago? Did people encrypt their paper mail? Make up secret languages to talk over the phone? Did we have less freedom 10 years ago than we have today?
You asked a question of the families above. Let me ask you a question:
Well? 100 million is only 1/3 of the population, so you would be restricting freedoms for 2/3 of the population. I'm guessing you would let the 100 million people die.
Readers on /. trying to justify theft! Wow, that is really shocking.
Oh, wait...no it's not.
THAT'S MY WHOLE POINT! People are not being responsible in the first place, so why would you expect them to use the breathalyzer? The alcohol makes them more irresponsible.
Just sell friggin breathalyzers to the general public so they can see for themselves if they're over the legal limit. Why do we need all the Big BrotherTM crap? How the hell is that supposed to help anything?
Are you really this naive? People who drive drunk are irresponsible assholes. They don't give a shit about themselves or anyone else. What makes you think they would buy a breathalyzer and actually use it?
All the people that I know who have DUIs are jackasses who knew EXACTLY what they were doing.
Because the liberals/socialists want to be the "big brother" of society... they don't believe in people taking responsibility for themselves. In fact, they probably believe people are too stupid to take responsibility for themselves.
People DON'T take responsibility for themselves. People ARE too stupid to take responsibility for themselves. That's why there are so many drunk drivers and drunk driving accidents and fatalities.
Isn't this obvious? If people were responsible, they would not be driving drunk in the first place.
So you're theory is that the code name for the next WinCE OS was purposely named after a modem that 99.9% of people have never even heard of? Wow.
Your argument is fatally flawed. You see, to get oil you HAD to get it from Standard. To get steel you HAD to get it from Carnegie.
You DO NOT HAVE TO GET YOUR OS FROM MICROSOFT. I know people like to be victims and all, but I'm sure you even know this argument is not valid.
My point was a rebuttal to the original comment that XP disables the use of any Java, which is untrue.
As to your point, though, Mom & Pop don't give a rat's ass about Java.
Also, why is bundling IE bad, but bundling the JVM good? If people are going to blame MS that they don't have a JVM, aren't they going to blame them even more for not having a browser? Which is it?
It is controlled by a standards body called the Java Community Process
You mean the group started and operated by Sun? Where you have to pay Sun $5000 to be a member? Where Sun can reject any JSR at their discretion, and chooses the leaders of the expert groups?
Sun and Sun alone has the final word on what goes into Java, or what doesn't go in.
EVERYTHING that is happening in software engineering, everything new and bold and adventurous, is happening in Java
That is really funny.
Java is no longer Sun's alone. Java is the industry's
No it isn't. It's Sun's. They refuse to let it go, refuse to let it be an open standard, and they never will allow it.
By crippling XP so that it can't run Java
Ugh, this is getting so tired. XP CAN run Java. In fact, in can run the MS JVM if you download and install it. It can run any JVM you want that you download and install.
Why do people insist on writing long comments trying to look smart, without actually bothering to know what they are talking about?