The real question is, are you, as a human being, actually *entitled* to bitch about how 'hard' your life is made by superfluous issues, while others barely survive?
Yes. As people who live in developed, modern countries, we are entitled to complain about anything we fucking well want. If you don't like free speech, or you want companies to be able to get away with fucking over everyone without any hope of retribution, then fuck off to China or North Korea.
What are you saying, that because we don't have a military dictatorship we should let companies fuck us up the arse? The whole reason why we have such a high standard of living compared to third-world hell holes is because we have law and order, and consumer rights.
We don't need to 'earn' anything, we live in decent countries, and we demand high standards of living. If you have a problem with us 'crybabies' who actually like companies who sell defective products to be punished, then perhaps you might be better off living in Somaliland.
Three days is more than I can usually handle without my brain going into a fit of chaos. If they really expect people to go 30 months without sex then they should provide medication that will reduce their sex drive. Even then you have basic human emotional needs which sex plays a part of so people would still probably have sex.
That's a load of crap. Many people (especially me) go for years, even decades without sex, and they get by fine. If you can't last 30 months without sticking your dick into something then you really do have problems.
If you are using excel for trivial purposes, why on earth are you paying for it in the first place (or is yours a free version). Why wouldn't you use quality free software that is widely accepted in the market place.
Because I don't like the free software. I'm using Office 97, I've had it for nearly a decade, it does its job. Also sometimes it's worth paying for software which is easy to use and doesn't look a mess.
The lastest version of gnumeric I used had an unusable file dialogue. I'm confused about that because the previous version's file dialogue was fine. It seems to be regressing. I couldn't find something so I opened the help file: the program crashed.
Openoffice seems to take a week to start (after a week to download!).
No offence but if I need to download, install, configure, and learn how to use a third-party program, then work out how to integrate it with Open Office, I'll just stick with Excel.
Excel is a really shitty platform for data analysis for anything more complex than sophmore-level undergrad labs. At the least, using a dedicated analysis and charting tool or set of tools is like a breath of fresh air after dealing with Excel's cramped, business-oriented data toolset.
You're assuming everyone uses Excel for serious, hard-core scientific analysis. I use it for trivial purposes, in which case user-friendliness and an easy interface are more important than accuracy to 80000 decimal places.
Or you could stop keeping them in poverty by ruining global markets with your illegal subsidies and trading practices - why do you think they needed to borrow in the first place?
How is that keeping them in poverty? As far as I'm aware, there's nothing stopping them running their own affairs without relying on exports. What exactly did they do before richer countries starting buying their food? Surely they didn't all starve to death.
Any country is capable of living in decent conditions whilst being self-sufficient. Also there's nothing stopping them imposing their own subsidies and trading practices. Not that subsidies hurt them anyway, here in Britain all the big shops insist on selling cheap vegetables from the third-world rather than home-grown produce, hurting our own argricultural industry.
'Billions to combat AIDS'? The biggest way you could help there is not to insist on the ability to enforce patent rights on anti-retroviral drugs.
Or, they could just stop having extra-marital sex, or use condoms, or stop raping children because an old wives' tale says it cures AIDS. Of course, us evil westerners are FORCING them to have unprotected sex with all and sundry.
Giving a little aid makes you all feel so big, but what you're doing to the third world makes me sick to think you're our (Europeans') cousins...
I'm European, and you're talking fucking bollocks. Europe gives MASSIVE subsidies to farmers. European supermarkets squeeze third-world countries over prices. I don't see Europe developing anti-AIDS drugs and distributing them for free. Get down of your fucking high horse.
Umm... Isn't it human nature to root for the underdog? Good vs. Evil? Et cetera?
Underdog? Apple dominates the ipod market. That's not an underdog it's an overdog. The underdogs are the manufacturers making cheaper, more reliable, more functional players who are going out of business because they can't compete with Apple's marketing budget and constant media sycophancy.
If the Ipod was a non-Apple invention, Slashdot would hate it.
How exactly do they know if you used the free version?
Say you use the free version to code some software. Then you buy the commercial version and release the code. If QT come round complaining, just tell them that you programmed it using the commercial version.
What are they going to do, put spyware on your computer? This is completely unenforceable.
They're 'dumbasses' and 'conniving assholes' for looking after their trademark?
This mindless Google worship sickens me, you know very well that Google would crush anyone who named a product 'gmail' or 'froogle'. How can anyone blindly support an over-sized, profiteering, fraudulent corporation, even when they're screwing over other people?
If this was Microsoft you'd all be supporting the small company, but because it's Google, you're happy for them to trample everyone in their path.
I'm not blaming the victim, I'm just saying it's not anyone else's fault. Natural disasters happen. If you live below sea-level in a hurricane zone, and the shit hits the fan, don't cry to other people for not protecting you.
What 'leader' are you on about? I don't care about Bush, I'm not even American. But then it makes it easier to attack people when you put them into boxes.
Why would the Autons, the Rift, the Slovenes, the gas creatures, and Rose's home all be in Cardiff? I'd never heard of this place before; the coincidence strains credulity
Because they filmed it in Cardiff. Although it's a pretty lazy writing method: "Let's set everything where we film it."
I don't see how it's the tax-payer's business to protect places which are clearly too dangerous for human habitation. The fact that they need huge levees just to stop the place constantly flooding might suggest that there are better places to live.
If anything, only locals should have to pay for it, not anyone else.
How many people actually know what NP-complete is? I studied that at university and still don't know what it means. I read about it on the Internet and still don't get it. Can anyone actually give a plain-English answer?
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When Apple fuck their customers, their customers grease up and ask for more.
The real question is, are you, as a human being, actually *entitled* to bitch about how 'hard' your life is made by superfluous issues, while others barely survive?
Yes. As people who live in developed, modern countries, we are entitled to complain about anything we fucking well want. If you don't like free speech, or you want companies to be able to get away with fucking over everyone without any hope of retribution, then fuck off to China or North Korea.
What are you saying, that because we don't have a military dictatorship we should let companies fuck us up the arse? The whole reason why we have such a high standard of living compared to third-world hell holes is because we have law and order, and consumer rights.
We don't need to 'earn' anything, we live in decent countries, and we demand high standards of living. If you have a problem with us 'crybabies' who actually like companies who sell defective products to be punished, then perhaps you might be better off living in Somaliland.
Good thing all that goes away on a space mssion when you're strapped down 10 feet away from that gorgeous russian researcher chick
Have you seen the sort of women who go into space? They could turn straight men gay.
Three days is more than I can usually handle without my brain going into a fit of chaos. If they really expect people to go 30 months without sex then they should provide medication that will reduce their sex drive. Even then you have basic human emotional needs which sex plays a part of so people would still probably have sex.
That's a load of crap. Many people (especially me) go for years, even decades without sex, and they get by fine. If you can't last 30 months without sticking your dick into something then you really do have problems.
Just send a married couple, two gays, two lesbians, the Pope and Darl McBride on the mission.
It's a 30 month mission isn't it? What do they do with a Pope corpse for 2 years?
I can't decide if this is sarcasm or not. I seem to remember an episode which completely took the piss out of scientology.
If you are using excel for trivial purposes, why on earth are you paying for it in the first place (or is yours a free version). Why wouldn't you use quality free software that is widely accepted in the market place.
Because I don't like the free software. I'm using Office 97, I've had it for nearly a decade, it does its job. Also sometimes it's worth paying for software which is easy to use and doesn't look a mess.
The lastest version of gnumeric I used had an unusable file dialogue. I'm confused about that because the previous version's file dialogue was fine. It seems to be regressing. I couldn't find something so I opened the help file: the program crashed.
Openoffice seems to take a week to start (after a week to download!).
Of course, the Simpsons never makes fun of Christians or conservatives.
No offence but if I need to download, install, configure, and learn how to use a third-party program, then work out how to integrate it with Open Office, I'll just stick with Excel.
Excel is a really shitty platform for data analysis for anything more complex than sophmore-level undergrad labs. At the least, using a dedicated analysis and charting tool or set of tools is like a breath of fresh air after dealing with Excel's cramped, business-oriented data toolset.
You're assuming everyone uses Excel for serious, hard-core scientific analysis. I use it for trivial purposes, in which case user-friendliness and an easy interface are more important than accuracy to 80000 decimal places.
Dude, they're Americans. This is the country that gave us creationists
Of course, not only did America invent Christianity, they're also the only country in the world without a 100% athiest population.
Or you could stop keeping them in poverty by ruining global markets with your illegal subsidies and trading practices - why do you think they needed to borrow in the first place?
How is that keeping them in poverty? As far as I'm aware, there's nothing stopping them running their own affairs without relying on exports. What exactly did they do before richer countries starting buying their food? Surely they didn't all starve to death.
Any country is capable of living in decent conditions whilst being self-sufficient. Also there's nothing stopping them imposing their own subsidies and trading practices. Not that subsidies hurt them anyway, here in Britain all the big shops insist on selling cheap vegetables from the third-world rather than home-grown produce, hurting our own argricultural industry.
'Billions to combat AIDS'? The biggest way you could help there is not to insist on the ability to enforce patent rights on anti-retroviral drugs.
Or, they could just stop having extra-marital sex, or use condoms, or stop raping children because an old wives' tale says it cures AIDS. Of course, us evil westerners are FORCING them to have unprotected sex with all and sundry.
Giving a little aid makes you all feel so big, but what you're doing to the third world makes me sick to think you're our (Europeans') cousins...
I'm European, and you're talking fucking bollocks. Europe gives MASSIVE subsidies to farmers. European supermarkets squeeze third-world countries over prices. I don't see Europe developing anti-AIDS drugs and distributing them for free. Get down of your fucking high horse.
That's exactly the problem. You keep posting msft "news" and keep the buzz going and nobody ever thinks about the alternatives.
Of course, no Apple or Linux articles are ever on this site.
In other word: "We can't do it, so you don't need it."
Sounds like someone the Microsoft PR department would come up with.
Why would I want to pay hundreds for professional graph software? That pretty much defeats the whole point of free software.
Umm... Isn't it human nature to root for the underdog? Good vs. Evil? Et cetera?
Underdog? Apple dominates the ipod market. That's not an underdog it's an overdog. The underdogs are the manufacturers making cheaper, more reliable, more functional players who are going out of business because they can't compete with Apple's marketing budget and constant media sycophancy.
If the Ipod was a non-Apple invention, Slashdot would hate it.
You have a persecution complex.
No, but you can have a storm in a teacup.
What law is being broken exactly?
How exactly do they know if you used the free version?
Say you use the free version to code some software. Then you buy the commercial version and release the code. If QT come round complaining, just tell them that you programmed it using the commercial version.
What are they going to do, put spyware on your computer? This is completely unenforceable.
They're 'dumbasses' and 'conniving assholes' for looking after their trademark?
This mindless Google worship sickens me, you know very well that Google would crush anyone who named a product 'gmail' or 'froogle'. How can anyone blindly support an over-sized, profiteering, fraudulent corporation, even when they're screwing over other people?
If this was Microsoft you'd all be supporting the small company, but because it's Google, you're happy for them to trample everyone in their path.
I'm not blaming the victim, I'm just saying it's not anyone else's fault. Natural disasters happen. If you live below sea-level in a hurricane zone, and the shit hits the fan, don't cry to other people for not protecting you.
What 'leader' are you on about? I don't care about Bush, I'm not even American. But then it makes it easier to attack people when you put them into boxes.
Why would the Autons, the Rift, the Slovenes, the gas creatures, and Rose's home all be in Cardiff? I'd never heard of this place before; the coincidence strains credulity
Because they filmed it in Cardiff. Although it's a pretty lazy writing method: "Let's set everything where we film it."
OK:
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1. My phone number is 773114
2. 773
3. *80 = 61840
4. +1 = 61841
5. *250 = 15460250
6. +3114 = 15463364
7. +3114 = 15466478
8. -250 = 15466228
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No I don't recognise that number.
I don't see how it's the tax-payer's business to protect places which are clearly too dangerous for human habitation. The fact that they need huge levees just to stop the place constantly flooding might suggest that there are better places to live.
If anything, only locals should have to pay for it, not anyone else.
How many people actually know what NP-complete is? I studied that at university and still don't know what it means. I read about it on the Internet and still don't get it. Can anyone actually give a plain-English answer?
What they need to sponsor are DDR competitions. Get enough people dancing and bopping, and bipping and hopping and they'll get in shape soon enough.
Bad idea, it would probably reduce the MTTV (mean time to vomiting) of McDonald's food from 30 minutes to 5 minutes.