"While you sit here and watch your freedoms slip away, Microsoft is actively providing services that are useful and wanted. No one is preventing anyone from coming up with a digital music scheme that protects the copyright of the artists."
Actively providing a service? They are entirely self-serving. As they have ALWAYS been, donating pc's to schools? Gotta run Windows on those.
This is just another brick that MS is laying into their wall of monopolization.
What will mac users do?
What will linux users do?
Suffer under the poor programming and pathetic software quality of MS?
I don't think so.
I'll stop buying cd's at that point. I can live without new music.
I'm going back to Skinny Puppy.
"When people try to remove guns, they are saying you do not have the right to defend your life, liberty, and property, and the US founders considered life, liberty, and property (aka "pursuit of happiness" but we can argue that last one...) INALIENABLE rights."
You do understand that the original intention for the 'right to bear arms' was for militia (which every man pretty much was in colonial times) and wasn't talking about fully automatic human puncture tools... they had muskets... that rarely hit their targets, and were one shot per minute if they were a fast reload.
It's rediculous to try and compare arms from years ago, to the arms of today.
As much as I enjoy the freedom I retain within this country, the fact that any idiot with some ID can go pick themselves up a gun frightens me to no end. And although there may be many law abiding citizens, there are thousands of individuals who don't respect human life.
It's a 2 way street, you can say that the removal of guns reduces our rights and safety's... but how can an increase of guns in our desensitized society be a good thing?
People don't think twice nowadays about firing a gun... it seperates you from the actual violence... put a knife in someones hand, and they're more likely to think twice.
I think guns are a great defence tool... but in the wrong hands (and today, that's so many hands) they can be deadly.
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"While you sit here and watch your freedoms slip away, Microsoft is actively providing services that are useful and wanted. No one is preventing anyone from coming up with a digital music scheme that protects the copyright of the artists." Actively providing a service? They are entirely self-serving. As they have ALWAYS been, donating pc's to schools? Gotta run Windows on those. This is just another brick that MS is laying into their wall of monopolization. What will mac users do? What will linux users do? Suffer under the poor programming and pathetic software quality of MS? I don't think so. I'll stop buying cd's at that point. I can live without new music. I'm going back to Skinny Puppy.
"When people try to remove guns, they are saying you do not have the right to defend your life, liberty, and property, and the US founders considered life, liberty, and property (aka "pursuit of happiness" but we can argue that last one...) INALIENABLE rights." You do understand that the original intention for the 'right to bear arms' was for militia (which every man pretty much was in colonial times) and wasn't talking about fully automatic human puncture tools... they had muskets... that rarely hit their targets, and were one shot per minute if they were a fast reload. It's rediculous to try and compare arms from years ago, to the arms of today. As much as I enjoy the freedom I retain within this country, the fact that any idiot with some ID can go pick themselves up a gun frightens me to no end. And although there may be many law abiding citizens, there are thousands of individuals who don't respect human life. It's a 2 way street, you can say that the removal of guns reduces our rights and safety's... but how can an increase of guns in our desensitized society be a good thing? People don't think twice nowadays about firing a gun... it seperates you from the actual violence... put a knife in someones hand, and they're more likely to think twice. I think guns are a great defence tool... but in the wrong hands (and today, that's so many hands) they can be deadly.