hopefully he's learned what not to do (cheap consumer-grade crap).
The problem is, the windows PC market won't support higher-quality vendors. HP tried to hold out for a long time, but once Dell and Gateway had their big race to the bottom, people would just buy cheap crap and accept the higher failure rate. Alienware could serve the gamers niche, but there aren't nearly enough of those customers to keep a large-volume vendor open for business.
I don't see Dell being able to pull out of this. He has no control of the OS, so he has no control of the user experience. He can't offer better hardware quality or service, because the market won't pay for it.
If you want to know where it all starts, read the history of the Puritans in New England. They were the sick little bible-thumping bastards who first brought the idea of totalitarianism to this continent.
Bullshit. The constitution is the entirety of the legal basis for the federal government's existence, and it does NOT grant any such royalist power to the supreme court.
So far they have found that the power for the President to authorize this falls under Article II powers for national security purposes.
In other words, they've shit all over the bill of rights by pretending that the President is allowed to exercise wartime powers without a declaration of war. The courts have failed in their duty to safeguard our liberty, and become nothing more than a rubber-stamp for usurpation.
This is NOT a test of whether a warrantless wiretap is constitutional. It is a test of whether the Supreme Court is willing to blatantly disregard the fourth amendment AGAIN.
Yes, it was that idiot Bush who started the ball rolling.
Not likely. The NSA has been around since the Eisenhower administration or thereabouts. I don't believe for a second that they were clean up until the second Bush administration.
Well, the choice available to the D brand of the Ruling Party was between Hillary Clinton (incompetent), John Edwards (sleazy ambulance-chaser who cheated on his terminally ill wife with a groupie), and Barack Obama (man, he sounded good giving speeches.) There was also this guy Dennis Kucinich who was a genuine Democrat, but he didn't look good on TV.
the most dangerous-feeling aspect of flying right now seems to be the winding security line itself.
Yep. Any perp who wants to get attention by committing mayhem can just attack the hundreds of people being herded like cattle, awaiting the porno scanner obedience ritual. TSA is not, and never was about safety. Its only purpose is to compel obedience to government.
Even more than the fiscal unreliability, the big problem with government funding is that it makes science a political football, with brain-dead demagogues getting to decide what is and isn't studied according to their religion.
Plants absorb CO2 from the air. What do you think that C is? Rotting plant matter fertilizes the ground when NITROGEN-fixing bacteria digest it. What plants get through their roots is water, nitrogen, and trace minerals.
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The shares were worth WAY more than that in reality
Nope. The shares were worth what people were willing to pay for them on the stock exchange. Anything else is just wishful thinking.
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hopefully he's learned what not to do (cheap consumer-grade crap).
The problem is, the windows PC market won't support higher-quality vendors. HP tried to hold out for a long time, but once Dell and Gateway had their big race to the bottom, people would just buy cheap crap and accept the higher failure rate. Alienware could serve the gamers niche, but there aren't nearly enough of those customers to keep a large-volume vendor open for business.
I don't see Dell being able to pull out of this. He has no control of the OS, so he has no control of the user experience. He can't offer better hardware quality or service, because the market won't pay for it.
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We had affordable medical care once.
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Taxpayer money is necessary in research; otherwise the only research that gets done is the one that can be monetized quickly
Bullshit.
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If you want to know where it all starts, read the history of the Puritans in New England. They were the sick little bible-thumping bastards who first brought the idea of totalitarianism to this continent.
-jcr
Just for the record.
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effectively the Supreme Court IS the constitution
Bullshit. The constitution is the entirety of the legal basis for the federal government's existence, and it does NOT grant any such royalist power to the supreme court.
-jcr
So far they have found that the power for the President to authorize this falls under Article II powers for national security purposes.
In other words, they've shit all over the bill of rights by pretending that the President is allowed to exercise wartime powers without a declaration of war. The courts have failed in their duty to safeguard our liberty, and become nothing more than a rubber-stamp for usurpation.
-jcr
This is NOT a test of whether a warrantless wiretap is constitutional. It is a test of whether the Supreme Court is willing to blatantly disregard the fourth amendment AGAIN.
-jcr
Yes, it was that idiot Bush who started the ball rolling.
Not likely. The NSA has been around since the Eisenhower administration or thereabouts. I don't believe for a second that they were clean up until the second Bush administration.
-jcr
Oh, didn't you get the memo? Obama is exonerated for any crime if he can show that Bush did it first. If you disagree, you're a racist.
-jcr
Well, the choice available to the D brand of the Ruling Party was between Hillary Clinton (incompetent), John Edwards (sleazy ambulance-chaser who cheated on his terminally ill wife with a groupie), and Barack Obama (man, he sounded good giving speeches.) There was also this guy Dennis Kucinich who was a genuine Democrat, but he didn't look good on TV.
-jcr
I don't think I'd ride a bike in NYC until this criminal gang is disbanded.
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There are assholes out there who spend their days sprinkling "citation needed"s around like they were pixie dust.
Yeah, I've seen a lot of that shit. Wikipedia needs a "No, a citation is not needed because it's obvious, you pedantic twat" tag.
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Microsoft's collaboration support looks pretty half-assed to me. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033437/collaboration-in-microsoft-office-painful-but-not-impossible.html
-jcr
the most dangerous-feeling aspect of flying right now seems to be the winding security line itself.
Yep. Any perp who wants to get attention by committing mayhem can just attack the hundreds of people being herded like cattle, awaiting the porno scanner obedience ritual. TSA is not, and never was about safety. Its only purpose is to compel obedience to government.
-jcr
Poorer people have to life further away from major city centers due to housing costs.
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iWork is now free, and include collaboration features that MS Office will have a hell of a time trying to match.
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Oh, get serious. We're talking about a job that people can leave if they don't like it.
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Watch the WWDC sessions on power management in iOS and Mac OS X. You'll get an idea of how much work Apple put into this over the last decade or so.
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If I had any interest at all in working for the latest version of MySpace.com, this might be upsetting, but I don't, so who cares?
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Why is that the only alternative you can imagine?
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Don't forget the other brand of the Ruling Party. Their responsibility for the debacle is exactly the same.
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Bingo. I couldn't agree with you more.
Even more than the fiscal unreliability, the big problem with government funding is that it makes science a political football, with brain-dead demagogues getting to decide what is and isn't studied according to their religion.
-jcr
Plants absorb CO2 from the air. What do you think that C is? Rotting plant matter fertilizes the ground when NITROGEN-fixing bacteria digest it. What plants get through their roots is water, nitrogen, and trace minerals.
-jcr