"Even if I had, it wouldn't make any difference, the burden of proof doesn't shift just because somebody disagrees with the claim."
Really? Prove it!
The point is that the poster doesn't have a "burden of proof" period. People are not required to backup everything they say with copious amounts of proof. That is only your bullshit tactic; a way of attacking a poster who posts something with which you personally don't agree
Everything he said about your attempt to invalidate posts you don't agree with by using the "Give me proof" bullshit is true. Look it up yourself Dude... it's not that hard.
Either party would call foul if they lost an election and the voting anomalies were as great as they were in the last two presidential elections!
The votes counted were outside of the possible margin of error of several exit polls in key areas. This means that the votes had been tampered with. Had they not George W Bush would NOT be President right now. The war in Iraq, which is part of the Wolfowitz Doctrine, would not have happened and THOUSANDS of Americans and HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of Iraqs would still be alive.
These elections were stolen and people are dead because of it. I call it treason and thing that the people involved in stealing the country should be hanged until dead. All of them.
"If this Apple/Microsoft partnership was formed how would this have changed the Microsoft and Apple dynamics?
Yes, Microsoft would have found a way to screw Apple over like it has with just about every "partner" they have ever had and the two would be locked in a legal battle over it.
I was just expressing my opinion of lawyers with the fictional dog story but the bike example was a Slash-dot story. If you want to search you can probably find it.
It seems very hard to protect oneself from lawyers and their wily ways. If you have a mean dog in your fenced yard and someone trespasses and gets bit you can be sued. If you put up a sign that says "Beware of Dog" the lawyer may just argue that you knew the dog was dangerous and the warning sign you put up is proof.
I remember there was a case where a bicycle manufacturer got sued because some kid got hit by a car while riding one of their bikes at night with no light! The lawyer argued that because the bike came with reflectors the kid somehow believed that it didn't need lights and there wasn't a warning that came with the bike to tell him the obvious. The really sad thing is that the jury found in favor of the kid.
Parents need to realize that most kids go through a phase where they are too stupid to pass the Darwin test.
Democrats position? Did you not even read the intro to the article or are you a retard?
It was the Republicans who killed the bill. THE ONLY VOTES FOR THE BILL CAME FROM THE DEMOCRATS!
Maybe you meant to say: "So the Republicans position was to shut down a majority of people that critisize them?" That at least would have ben accurate.
Maybe each piece of spam that broke the law was an considered an infraction of the law and carried a minimum penalty? A couple of million penalties can add up.
"Even if a smoking gun was exposed saying that blatant fraud was discovered in one or both elections, what would it accomplish?"
If you find a smoking gun it is best to take it away so that it won't be used again.
Just saying "Get over it" isn't a solution to what happened. Looking at the facts, investigation and if the investigation leads to the discovery that the election was stolen then jail time or worse is warranted.
Now what is the penalty for trying to take over the government by illegal mea? Wouldn't that be treason?
I think the election was not so much a mandate for a liberal agenda as a mandate against the current direction that the Republican party is taking our country.
The Administration tricking us into an unnecessary and unpopular war in an effort to find WMDs that never existed didn't help the Republican image. Then when it became apparent that there were no weapons of mass destruction to have the administration try to morph the war into part of the "war on terrorism" which it IS NOT also didn't help.
I agree with Kucinich that media is being controlled by a few large Corporations. But saying that they must present controversial issues in an honest, equal, and balanced manner isn't going to get the job done. My God, Fox news is anything but fair and balanced even though they claim to be. If they were leaning any further to the right the US would slide into the Atlantic Ocean!
The solution is to break up the media into MUCH smaller companies that are not controlled by a few and not allow them to be combined ever again. It is incredibly important that everything we see and hear is NOT controlled by a few who will feed us what they want to meet hidden agendas. Currently we have corporate media and it's not a good thing.
Do you think that legislation will end at POD casting? The media industry won't quit until it has positioned itself to squeeze every possible penny from consumers. Controlling our fair use rights one media at a time is part of their plans.
I take it from your sarcastic post that you feel that putting a reply on a post that Apple may feel is off topic is going WAY beyond a reasonable effort.
Rather than being sarcastic you could have just said so... or...
You could snail mail me, call me, call my mother, write it in a TPS report, stick it on a post-it on my monitor, write it on my forehead with a sharpe, and then have a 6 month board review and mock trial to allow me to object to your post.
"And do you really think these things are going to be 'given' to the children to 'play with' and learn as they would.. - oh no! They'll be carefully controlled, supervised and hamstered away at classrooms, where the kids will have to do exactly what the teacher wants them to do: "now, timmy, move the pointed to this icon and click it, then draw a circle... "
So much for the dream of creating a Linux generation - these kids will grow up to be another bunch of helpless cubicle retards at telemarketing caves..."
You do realize that the "story" you just told is a fantasy, right? There is no logic or reason to your rant and no reason to believe this is what will happen.
Because Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems for the PC and because the profit margin on PCs is so small, a moderate increase in the cost of Windows can make it impossible for Dell to compete.
Most people don't want to buy a PC that does not come with Windows preinstalled. So if Dell does anything that really frosts Microsoft's cookies, Microsoft could make it very difficult for dell to stay in business simply by raising the price it charges Dell for its monopoly operating system.
"Privitization allows people to keep costs low..."
Only until the mega corporation kills all competition. Then the people get raped.
"...thus we outsource much (international and domestic)."
Mostly out of country where the mega corporations can get labor much cheaper. This kills the job market here and drives down wages.
"Our ability to outsource allows much of the rest of the world to keep a high standard of living."
Actually no. We are losing jobs and wages are being driven down to compete. Also there are some of us that don't like mega corporations exploiting cheap labor by paying slave wages to disparate people.
"Now lets see how many of these countries utilize products that were developed in capitalistic countries. Lets see how much your life would change if the US stopped allowing its IP to be sold to King Louis (and his ilk) and took back all of its previously created IP. I wonder how much quicker these countries would travel back to the stone age."
Right. All other people are stupid and couldn't figure things out for themselves. You are an idiot and the remainder of your post is proof.
Microsoft isn't "ALLOWED" to act the way it does. It has already been bitch slapped a number of times for breaking antitrust laws. Its actions are ILLEGAL.
Eventually and hopefully soon it will be dragged back into court and ordered to be broken apart into at least three separate companies for its flagrant disregard and violations of the law. (You dumb idiot.)
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"Even if I had, it wouldn't make any difference, the burden of proof doesn't shift just because somebody disagrees with the claim."
Really? Prove it!
The point is that the poster doesn't have a "burden of proof" period. People are not required to backup everything they say with copious amounts of proof. That is only your bullshit tactic; a way of attacking a poster who posts something with which you personally don't agree
Where's the proof bub...
Everything he said about your attempt to invalidate posts you don't agree with by using the "Give me proof" bullshit is true. Look it up yourself Dude... it's not that hard.
"What is their alternative? Should they let others spew incorrect FUD all day long?"
Seems ironic doesn't it?
Either party would call foul if they lost an election and the
voting anomalies were as great as they were in the last two
presidential elections!
The votes counted were outside of the possible margin of error of
several exit polls in key areas. This means that the votes had been
tampered with. Had they not George W Bush would NOT be President
right now. The war in Iraq, which is part of the Wolfowitz
Doctrine, would not have happened and THOUSANDS of Americans and
HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of Iraqs would still be alive.
These elections were stolen and people are dead because of it. I
call it treason and thing that the people involved in stealing the
country should be hanged until dead. All of them.
"If this Apple/Microsoft partnership was formed how would this have changed the Microsoft and Apple dynamics?
Yes, Microsoft would have found a way to screw Apple over like it has with just about every "partner" they have ever had and the two would be locked in a legal battle over it.
I was just expressing my opinion of lawyers with the fictional dog story but the bike example was a Slash-dot story. If you want to search you can probably find it.
It seems very hard to protect oneself from lawyers and their wily ways. If you have a mean dog in your fenced yard and someone trespasses and gets bit you can be sued. If you put up a sign that says "Beware of Dog" the lawyer may just argue that you knew the dog was dangerous and the warning sign you put up is proof.
I remember there was a case where a bicycle manufacturer got sued because some kid got hit by a car while riding one of their bikes at night with no light! The lawyer argued that because the bike came with reflectors the kid somehow believed that it didn't need lights and there wasn't a warning that came with the bike to tell him the obvious. The really sad thing is that the jury found in favor of the kid.
Parents need to realize that most kids go through a phase where they are too stupid to pass the Darwin test.
Democrats position? Did you not even read the intro to the article or are you a retard?
It was the Republicans who killed the bill. THE ONLY VOTES FOR THE BILL CAME FROM THE DEMOCRATS!
Maybe you meant to say: "So the Republicans position was to shut down a majority of people that critisize them?" That at least would have ben accurate.
Maybe each piece of spam that broke the law was an considered an infraction of the law and carried a minimum penalty? A couple of million penalties can add up.
Maybe if Microsoft won't comply with the reduced penalty for abusing its monopoly power the original penalty should be carried out.
Bust them up into two or better yet three separate companies.
Honestly, this should have been done a long time ago.
The article seems to assume that we are representative of all intelligent races and there for it would take the length of time that he puts forth.
As long as we're speculating let me. Maybe of all the intelligent races we are retards. Look at what we're doing to our own planet.
Maybe they found us a long time ago but don't want to make contact with retards like us.
"Even if a smoking gun was exposed saying that blatant fraud was discovered in one or both elections, what would it accomplish?"
If you find a smoking gun it is best to take it away so that it won't be used again.
Just saying "Get over it" isn't a solution to what happened. Looking at the facts, investigation and if the investigation leads to the discovery that the election was stolen then jail time or worse is warranted.
Now what is the penalty for trying to take over the government by illegal mea? Wouldn't that be treason?
"Yet in the three months it's been available, Firefox's market share has continued to grow."
I think I hear a chair bouncing off a wall in Redmond!
I think the election was not so much a mandate for a liberal agenda as a mandate against the current direction that the Republican party is taking our country.
The Administration tricking us into an unnecessary and unpopular war in an effort to find WMDs that never existed didn't help the Republican image. Then when it became apparent that there were no weapons of mass destruction to have the administration try to morph the war into part of the "war on terrorism" which it IS NOT also didn't help.
I agree with Kucinich that media is being controlled by a few large Corporations. But saying that they must present controversial issues in an honest, equal, and balanced manner isn't going to get the job done. My God, Fox news is anything but fair and balanced even though they claim to be. If they were leaning any further to the right the US would slide into the Atlantic Ocean!
The solution is to break up the media into MUCH smaller companies that are not controlled by a few and not allow them to be combined ever again. It is incredibly important that everything we see and hear is NOT controlled by a few who will feed us what they want to meet hidden agendas. Currently we have corporate media and it's not a good thing.
Do you think that legislation will end at POD casting? The media industry won't quit until it has positioned itself to squeeze every possible penny from consumers. Controlling our fair use rights one media at a time is part of their plans.
I take it from your sarcastic post that you feel that putting a reply on a post that Apple may feel is off topic is going WAY beyond a reasonable effort.
Rather than being sarcastic you could have just said so... or...
You could snail mail me, call me, call my mother, write it in a TPS report, stick it on a post-it on my monitor, write it on my forehead with a sharpe, and then have a 6 month board review and mock trial to allow me to object to your post.
I just love starting my morning with a big hot heaping bowl of Craplets and a couple slices of toast! Best served with a side of Vista.
"And do you really think these things are going to be 'given' to the children to 'play with' and learn as they would.. - oh no! They'll be carefully controlled, supervised and hamstered away at classrooms, where the kids will have to do exactly what the teacher wants them to do: "now, timmy, move the pointed to this icon and click it, then draw a circle... "
So much for the dream of creating a Linux generation - these kids will grow up to be another bunch of helpless cubicle retards at telemarketing caves..."
You do realize that the "story" you just told is a fantasy, right? There is no logic or reason to your rant and no reason to believe this is what will happen.
You need a reality check dude.
Because Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems for the PC and because the profit margin on PCs is so small, a moderate increase in the cost of Windows can make it impossible for Dell to compete.
Most people don't want to buy a PC that does not come with Windows preinstalled. So if Dell does anything that really frosts Microsoft's cookies, Microsoft could make it very difficult for dell to stay in business simply by raising the price it charges Dell for its monopoly operating system.
"Um, they have such a large market share because people *want* Windows.."
Um... no, they have such a market because they know how to play very, very dirty and soon they'll start to pay for it.
"Privitization allows people to keep costs low..."
Only until the mega corporation kills all competition. Then the people get raped.
"...thus we outsource much (international and domestic)."
Mostly out of country where the mega corporations can get labor much cheaper. This kills the job market here and drives down wages.
"Our ability to outsource allows much of the rest of the world to keep a high standard of living."
Actually no. We are losing jobs and wages are being driven down to compete. Also there are some of us that don't like mega corporations exploiting cheap labor by paying slave wages to disparate people.
"Now lets see how many of these countries utilize products that were developed in capitalistic countries. Lets see how much your life would change if the US stopped allowing its IP to be sold to King Louis (and his ilk) and took back all of its previously created IP. I wonder how much quicker these countries would travel back to the stone age."
Right. All other people are stupid and couldn't figure things out for themselves. You are an idiot and the remainder of your post is proof.
Their campaign contributions... Cough** Cough**
Microsoft isn't "ALLOWED" to act the way it does. It has already been bitch slapped a number of times for breaking antitrust laws. Its actions are ILLEGAL.
Eventually and hopefully soon it will be dragged back into court and ordered to be broken apart into at least three separate companies for its flagrant disregard and violations of the law. (You dumb idiot.)