If I were to call you a racist without any evidence, I bet you'd be upset. So too is Microsoft upset to hear your charge of anticompetitive practices.
Wow. The race card right off the bat. Anyway, I'm sure that MS was much more upset by the courts calling them anticompetitive. Our little accusations hardly compare to that.
I am currently using Mozilla 1.3...
Good for you.
... and upon opening the linked page I received the following warning: "Website Certified By An Unknown Authority Unable to verify the identity of listman.redhat.com as a trusted site." So I guess the Mozilla team has been sabotaged and is now in cahoots with Microsoft, right?
Read up on SSL: that's not an error, but proper behavior. Mozilla is telling you that it couldn't verify the SSL certificate with a recognized certificate authority. Does IE do that? I don't remember, but if it doesn't, it should. So RH decided not to use a trusted Certification Authority (Verisign, Thawte, et al), or they let their subscription slip. Who cares? Do you really think that redhat.com may not be who they say they are? Highly unlikely.
Before you bash Slashdot next time, take a breath and relax. There are bigger fish to fry. Saddam Hussein uses rape to keep people in line; CmdrTaco runs a tech related website for opinionated nerds. Who is worse? Figure it out and then go after him.
how about making the world a safer, better place (exactly what its being used for now)?
You mean like how the Israelis use their military as a force for stability in the Middle East? Ooh, sorry, that was a cheap shot. I'll stick to the American military. Maybe you mean like how we made the world safer with the first gulf war. OK, maybe not the world, but the Kurds were a lot safer right? Oh, right, that's no good either. Let's see, the vietnam war, that was an action that did... no, not good either. Ok, then, how about Korea? Our involvement surly did some good there, didn't it? I guess the peaceful situation we have there speaks volumes about the effectiveness of war. OK, going back thirty years may be a little much. We're different now. Just look at how we helped out the Somalis a few years ago.
The point is, I fail to see how destroying peoples' lives on a massive scale could possibly make the world a safer place.
Ohhh, I just got it. You mean how our military makes the world a safer place for YOU.
it would be irresponsible for a country to have the most successful social and economic system in the history of the world and NOT buy the greatest military in the history of the world too.
We have the largest prison system in the world. Indicative of our successful social system, we lock up more dope smokers and cocaine addicts than any other nation on Earth. Doesn't that make you feel safe? I guess our world renowned primary school system must be that most successful social system you talk about. You know, the one that, for all their good intentions, still churn out illiterate and violent malcontents. Our medical system is certainly the envy of the world if you can afford it. Which brings us to the economic system.
The poverty rate in the U.S. is something like 12%. Our minimum wage is set far below what our own government says is a poverty level. And the poverty rate is increasing. It's at it's highest level since the 70's - which followed one of the few wars I can agree with, the war on poverty. Now that was just war - and not a single shot was fired. After the war on poverty we started a war on drugs. Which is really a war on the poor people of America. And it didn't really start in the eighties. It started just after prohibition failed way back in the twenties, but Reagan really kicked into high gear.
As the saying goes, intelligence is knowing the street is one-way. Wisdom is looking both ways anyway.
And yes, at least some (if not most) states recognize that not all pedestrians have the right of way in all cases. Here in Houston, a man was recently killed while trying to cross the freeway. The person that hit him was not arrested or charged with any crime. It was decided that there was no intent to kill (or harm), and that the man had failed to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic. I heard that on the local news, in very similar words.
Being from Texas, I'm a little hazy on geography north of the Red River. But I've heard of Canadians. They're from Canadia, I think. Isn't that somewhere in northern Oklahoma?
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My post was half-joking, but the point you made is interesting...
Understood, and thanks. My reply was really for the benifit of people that don't live in Delaware and may not have realized the full facts of it's tax code.
...it seems that Retailers in Delaware are subject to a 0.720% tax rate [state.de.us], which compared to say, NJ or NY state sales tax, it's next to nothing
Perhaps, but it is comparable to many other states, including my own - Texas. We pay a state mandated 6.25% sales tax. Cities and counties may (and often do) impose additional sales taxes not to exceed a combined total of 8.25%. In other words, an additional 2%. source
Sorry to reply twice, but I just noticed your last statement: "Someday we'll all have chips embedded in our wrists or something, then it won't be such a problem anymore. That's my opinion."
The government can implant a chip in my wrist when they can remove my wrist from my arm. That's my opinion.
Maybe you don't know what a police state is. This is from dictionary.com
police state n.
A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force.
If that is what it takes to enforce law, then yes, the law is probably wrong.
Some folks say that the U.S. is quickly becoming a police state. Many disagree. The arguments on both sides are convincing. I'd like to point out that it's much more difficult to remove a police state than it is to prevent one. Freedom lost is not easily regained. We can either choose to guard against such an occurance with vigilant, peaceful protest where appropriate, or we can be complacent and protest with our blood if the unthinkable should come to pass.
Chew on that.
While you do, have a look at this round table discussion over at FrontPage Magazine (not related to the FrontPage HTML editor).
I shudder to thing how the word 'microsoft' might be used as a verb.
"I was microsofted this morning"? -- Nope, too obscene.
"I'll be microsofting today"? -- I think you can be arrested for that.
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For the sake of clarity: although Delaware does not impose a sales tax, it does impose a gross receipts tax. In this system, businesses pay a tax based on total sales receipts for that fiscal year. Which amounts to a less visible sales tax. Businesses simply include the cost in pricing, passing that tax on to you in the process. Similar systems exist in other countries and seem to work well. The drawback is that it's harder to tell what the tax rate is for a given product. (you have to check the state guidelines instead of simply looking at the receipt)
Required? I don't know about that. I love networked computing as much as the next guy, but I don't want anyone telling me what I have to put into my home - aside from smoke detectors, proper electrical wiring, and other safety related things that could impact my neighbors if not properly installed. In-home LANs are neither necessary nor always wanted. We should not force them on anyone, however benign the technology is.
CNN is liberal as a news organization can get. Yeah. OK. Wrong.
CNN is actually very conservative in their reporting. Perhaps not as conservative as the Lehrer News Hour, but conservative none-the-less. CNN does little but repeat whatever Ari Fleitcher (et al) is spewing at the moment. Unfortunately, there is no money in providing thought provoking commentary on important issues that do not have the mass appeal that things like war do. So CNN (and Fox and CBS and NBC...) resort to sound bites, flashy images, and superficial commentary. That's what sells, so that's what they provide.
If you want examples of liberal journalism, look at the UK's The Independant and The Register. Look at NPR. At Pacifica Radio. These are true examples of liberal journalism. If those are not credible enough, then there is the New York Times, the Washington Post. Not as aggressively liberal as the previous set, but far less conservative than the cable news providers.
BTW - kudos on your stance on our military. While I may not agree with everything our government does with it, I whole-heartedly support our brothers who have given a piece of their lives to protect the rest of us. Even if I disagree with their decision to join, I respect that decision and I wish them all the best in their chosen path, and that they return safely. All of them. I cannot find fault with their desire to protect our country and it's people.
The ACLU does many good things in protecting your civil rights. Things like protecting your right to free speech, your right to be protected against unreasonable search and siezure, your right to peacefully interact with society without fear of retribution for your political, religeous, or social philospy. The list goes on and on. Yet you would deny them their legitimacy on the grounds that you disagree with their stance on a single issue. That stikes me as incredibly short sighted. What's wrong with supporting the ACLU and the NRA? That would seem to cover the bases nicely for you.
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hmmm... you don't really know how computers are affecting our everyday lives do you?
Sure, there are indeed some mission critical things that shouldn't go down, but its not like people will die. And if someone breaks in you'll lose a lot more than that little downtime would cost you. The only computers that can never go down are in a hospital, and even then only if they are keeping people alive.
What about air traffic safety control systems? Police/Fire emergency systems? And how about critical monitoring systems at refineries and nuclear power plants? People die when these fail.
There are tons of critical systems that must not fail, because there is a potential public safety risk if they do.
"the NT 4 that is so broke it can't be fixed -- Microsoft is hoping for quick adoption." I don't think they will ever release anything that isn't broke
No probably not. But then again, neither will Sun, Redhat, Novell, or anybody else. All software has bugs, or had them at one time, so all software is broken in at least one respect. There are very, very few exceptions. I can't really think of any off-hand that don't.
You are so right. Since copyright theft supports terrorism, couldn't we just roll the whole thing under the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001?
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OK, troll, here you go...
... and upon opening the linked page I received the following warning:
If I were to call you a racist without any evidence, I bet you'd be upset. So too is Microsoft upset to hear your charge of anticompetitive practices.
Wow. The race card right off the bat. Anyway, I'm sure that MS was much more upset by the courts calling them anticompetitive. Our little accusations hardly compare to that.
I am currently using Mozilla 1.3...
Good for you.
"Website Certified By An Unknown Authority
Unable to verify the identity of listman.redhat.com as a trusted site."
So I guess the Mozilla team has been sabotaged and is now in cahoots with Microsoft, right?
Read up on SSL: that's not an error, but proper behavior. Mozilla is telling you that it couldn't verify the SSL certificate with a recognized certificate authority. Does IE do that? I don't remember, but if it doesn't, it should. So RH decided not to use a trusted Certification Authority (Verisign, Thawte, et al), or they let their subscription slip. Who cares? Do you really think that redhat.com may not be who they say they are? Highly unlikely.
Before you bash Slashdot next time, take a breath and relax. There are bigger fish to fry. Saddam Hussein uses rape to keep people in line; CmdrTaco runs a tech related website for opinionated nerds. Who is worse? Figure it out and then go after him.
A ton of manure is a money making venture, but 1500 flaming bags of dog shit... now that's funny.
how about making the world a safer, better place (exactly what its being used for now)?
You mean like how the Israelis use their military as a force for stability in the Middle East? Ooh, sorry, that was a cheap shot. I'll stick to the American military. Maybe you mean like how we made the world safer with the first gulf war. OK, maybe not the world, but the Kurds were a lot safer right? Oh, right, that's no good either. Let's see, the vietnam war, that was an action that did... no, not good either. Ok, then, how about Korea? Our involvement surly did some good there, didn't it? I guess the peaceful situation we have there speaks volumes about the effectiveness of war. OK, going back thirty years may be a little much. We're different now. Just look at how we helped out the Somalis a few years ago.
The point is, I fail to see how destroying peoples' lives on a massive scale could possibly make the world a safer place.
Ohhh, I just got it. You mean how our military makes the world a safer place for YOU.
it would be irresponsible for a country to have the most successful social and economic system in the history of the world and NOT buy the greatest military in the history of the world too.
We have the largest prison system in the world. Indicative of our successful social system, we lock up more dope smokers and cocaine addicts than any other nation on Earth. Doesn't that make you feel safe? I guess our world renowned primary school system must be that most successful social system you talk about. You know, the one that, for all their good intentions, still churn out illiterate and violent malcontents. Our medical system is certainly the envy of the world if you can afford it. Which brings us to the economic system.
The poverty rate in the U.S. is something like 12%. Our minimum wage is set far below what our own government says is a poverty level. And the poverty rate is increasing. It's at it's highest level since the 70's - which followed one of the few wars I can agree with, the war on poverty. Now that was just war - and not a single shot was fired. After the war on poverty we started a war on drugs. Which is really a war on the poor people of America. And it didn't really start in the eighties. It started just after prohibition failed way back in the twenties, but Reagan really kicked into high gear.
Either way, he's still just as dead.
As the saying goes, intelligence is knowing the street is one-way. Wisdom is looking both ways anyway.
And yes, at least some (if not most) states recognize that not all pedestrians have the right of way in all cases. Here in Houston, a man was recently killed while trying to cross the freeway. The person that hit him was not arrested or charged with any crime. It was decided that there was no intent to kill (or harm), and that the man had failed to yield the right of way to oncoming traffic. I heard that on the local news, in very similar words.
Neither was Hitler's SS. That didn't stop them from calling themselves secret.
Being from Texas, I'm a little hazy on geography north of the Red River. But I've heard of Canadians. They're from Canadia, I think. Isn't that somewhere in northern Oklahoma?
My post was half-joking, but the point you made is interesting...
...it seems that Retailers in Delaware are subject to a 0.720% tax rate [state.de.us], which compared to say, NJ or NY state sales tax, it's next to nothing
Understood, and thanks. My reply was really for the benifit of people that don't live in Delaware and may not have realized the full facts of it's tax code.
Perhaps, but it is comparable to many other states, including my own - Texas. We pay a state mandated 6.25% sales tax. Cities and counties may (and often do) impose additional sales taxes not to exceed a combined total of 8.25%. In other words, an additional 2%. source
Sorry to reply twice, but I just noticed your last statement: "Someday we'll all have chips embedded in our wrists or something, then it won't be such a problem anymore. That's my opinion."
The government can implant a chip in my wrist when they can remove my wrist from my arm. That's my opinion.
If that is what it takes to enforce law, then yes, the law is probably wrong.
Some folks say that the U.S. is quickly becoming a police state. Many disagree. The arguments on both sides are convincing. I'd like to point out that it's much more difficult to remove a police state than it is to prevent one. Freedom lost is not easily regained. We can either choose to guard against such an occurance with vigilant, peaceful protest where appropriate, or we can be complacent and protest with our blood if the unthinkable should come to pass.
Chew on that.
While you do, have a look at this round table discussion over at FrontPage Magazine (not related to the FrontPage HTML editor).
You might have better luck keeping them if you did see them as sexual partners.
But then again, maybe not.
I can't wait for Microsoft to be used as a verb:
"Our company was microsofted so we'll have to let you all go."
I can help. What's the name of your company?
Sincerely,
- Bill G.
And as a Google user, that's exactly the experience you get. ;)
I shudder to thing how the word 'microsoft' might be used as a verb.
"I was microsofted this morning"? -- Nope, too obscene.
"I'll be microsofting today"? -- I think you can be arrested for that.
For the sake of clarity: although Delaware does not impose a sales tax, it does impose a gross receipts tax. In this system, businesses pay a tax based on total sales receipts for that fiscal year. Which amounts to a less visible sales tax. Businesses simply include the cost in pricing, passing that tax on to you in the process. Similar systems exist in other countries and seem to work well. The drawback is that it's harder to tell what the tax rate is for a given product. (you have to check the state guidelines instead of simply looking at the receipt)
yahuh.. an thar purty good at openin up ma beer too...
Sure, why not? And we could have a mustard moon to go with the one made of cheese. And some lettuce moons. It'll be a great big moon salad.
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To quote Abraham Simpson:
"Evil, I tells ya! EEEEEEEEEEEvvviiiilll!!!!"
Required? I don't know about that. I love networked computing as much as the next guy, but I don't want anyone telling me what I have to put into my home - aside from smoke detectors, proper electrical wiring, and other safety related things that could impact my neighbors if not properly installed. In-home LANs are neither necessary nor always wanted. We should not force them on anyone, however benign the technology is.
CNN is liberal as a news organization can get. Yeah. OK. Wrong.
CNN is actually very conservative in their reporting. Perhaps not as conservative as the Lehrer News Hour, but conservative none-the-less. CNN does little but repeat whatever Ari Fleitcher (et al) is spewing at the moment. Unfortunately, there is no money in providing thought provoking commentary on important issues that do not have the mass appeal that things like war do. So CNN (and Fox and CBS and NBC...) resort to sound bites, flashy images, and superficial commentary. That's what sells, so that's what they provide.
If you want examples of liberal journalism, look at the UK's The Independant and The Register. Look at NPR. At Pacifica Radio. These are true examples of liberal journalism. If those are not credible enough, then there is the New York Times, the Washington Post. Not as aggressively liberal as the previous set, but far less conservative than the cable news providers.
BTW - kudos on your stance on our military. While I may not agree with everything our government does with it, I whole-heartedly support our brothers who have given a piece of their lives to protect the rest of us. Even if I disagree with their decision to join, I respect that decision and I wish them all the best in their chosen path, and that they return safely. All of them. I cannot find fault with their desire to protect our country and it's people.
The ACLU does many good things in protecting your civil rights. Things like protecting your right to free speech, your right to be protected against unreasonable search and siezure, your right to peacefully interact with society without fear of retribution for your political, religeous, or social philospy. The list goes on and on. Yet you would deny them their legitimacy on the grounds that you disagree with their stance on a single issue. That stikes me as incredibly short sighted. What's wrong with supporting the ACLU and the NRA? That would seem to cover the bases nicely for you.
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What about air traffic safety control systems? Police/Fire emergency systems? And how about critical monitoring systems at refineries and nuclear power plants? People die when these fail.
There are tons of critical systems that must not fail, because there is a potential public safety risk if they do.
Agreed.
"the NT 4 that is so broke it can't be fixed -- Microsoft is hoping for quick adoption." I don't think they will ever release anything that isn't broke
No probably not. But then again, neither will Sun, Redhat, Novell, or anybody else. All software has bugs, or had them at one time, so all software is broken in at least one respect. There are very, very few exceptions. I can't really think of any off-hand that don't.
You are so right. Since copyright theft supports terrorism, couldn't we just roll the whole thing under the
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001?