Ofcourse there is no other country or organization capable of doing a better job than USA, admitting to that would be to admit that you are brainwashed, kind of like getting an alcoholic to admit he is an alcoholic, not easy even though everyone else sees it.
Oil is shared and some of the oil producing countries are organozed into something you probably never have heard of, it's called The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC , see www.opec.org. No single country control access to oil, besides oil is localized. USA should not have anything to say over oil production in lets say Venezuela unless both countries are members of an organization like OPEC in which case BOTH have to follow what is decided by the organization. bad example but oh so typical.
Regulation? I'm not sure what you are hinting at. There is a LOT of regulations for the Internet, it's just that you don't think about them as long a you can browse to your favorite pr0n site.
But this is NOT about regulations, it's about who is controlling the TLD's. At the moment USA is more or less doing it, but I can't see anything written anywhere that states this is the one and only true solution and I'm sure that all Americans would have screamed loud and very clear if the situation was reversed.
Please, dont make this to a USA v World because nothing gives USA any rights to decide for the rest of the world, not even on the Internet of which the majority of users and cabling is OUTSIDE USA.
No single country should control TLD's and other issues impacting all users of Internet. I don't understand why this is difficult to grasp.
And Scarborough Country is show were you watch the episodes over and over again?
I do have movies on DVD's, but just a few and mostly because they are rare and not easy to come by. Other shows and movies, I can barly stand to watch them once and quite a few shows gets deleted after a few minutes of watching.
But if you want to download movies that you can store and watch over and over again, just like you do with DVD's, don't you think that the price should be different? 99 cents for a download but $29.99 for the DVD. pay 99 cents and you can watch it for a week, pay $29.99 and you can burn DVD's.
At least acknowledge the difference in the purpose of the 2 and hence maybe the limitations are not that bad? I personally could see myself pay 99 cents for a single show I missed and were the DVR already was recording the max amount of shows, but I wouldn't expect to be able to whatever I like for that price. $29.99? yeah, I would like a few more options than with the 99 cent one. You get what you pay for.
I honestly don't know many if any shows that I would want to watch over and over and over again.
I have a DVR with my cable subscription and I basically use it to record shows that I watch at a more convienient time and then delete the show. If you need to watch the same show over and over again, you are like my daughter when she was 4, couldn't wrestle certain VHS tapes away from her.
Again, why do you need to save a show and watch it 100 times over? That sounds more like a mental issue than a practical one.
Yes, I saw that too and I guess they have forgotten the most devastating MS bug which is present in all releases from NT 3.1 and at least up to 2k. I haven't tested XP.
I couldn't find the description right now, but I'm sure others know the bug. The one were you can basically type a special textfile using type-command or similar and will basically BSOD the machine. The file consists of tabs, spaces and newline/carriage return pairs and nothing else. MS never fixed the bug.
Wooww... This looks more and more like Oracle version 7 released in the early 90's. Oracle has had 2PC (2 Phase Commit) for about 15 years now. Nice catchup!
Refused? No, but there was never any plans in the first place. And the mysterious country is called Norway. I just checked and now they have taken to the same stupidity as US and I called my ex-wife to see when that happened and it seems like over the past 2-3 years the system has changed. I normally called as much or as little as I needed to and each month I got an invoice from the phone company specifying how many minutes I had used and the price per minute and a nice sum for me to pay. Best way for the consumer since you don't pay up front, don't have to guess how much you need, never have to worry about "losing" minutes. Too bad they have taken to the same crappy deals as we have here. You can check for yourself over at www.telenor.no or www.tele2.no/privat/mobil
So, I guess you ARE right after all, every country seems to be offering the same crappy shit and ripping off customers. Oh well, I was wrong!:-)
No other country?
I don't mean to get nasty here, but that is positively wrong. I've used cell phones since the 80's in my homecountry, all the way uo until 1999 when I moved to USA. I NEVER had a plan, I always paid the same price per minute, no matter how much or little I talked and the minutes were billed to me at the end of each periode.
I think you misunderstand.
I meant that the months I only use 45 minutes, i still have to pay for 2000 minutes and will lose the ones I don't use unless I have a roll-over plan in which case the minutes are transferred and you end up with thousands of minutes that you will not use and still have to pay for additional new 2000 minutes each month. Horrible. And it doesn't really matter who you choose, it's not about how much it costs to go over (which is basically robbery from the cell phone company), but that you pay for minutes you'll never use and hence each minute you really use, becomes way too expensive. A horrible system designed to suck as much as possible out of our pockets while providing a minimum in return.
Only USA has phone plans. Minutes LEFT on a plan? Enligthened societies pay per minute used AFTER they have used the minutes, not paying up front for something that you'll never use. Silly Americans who don't mind beeing ripped off!
My first cell phone aquisition in USA:
Me: Cell phone please!
Store: How many minutes do you want?
Me: How do I know? Depends on how much I use it. maybe 2000 one month and 45 the next.
Store: Then you need at least a 2000 minute plan.
Me: What happens when I don't use 2000 minutes? Do I get a refund? No? I lose them? Idiots!
Ended up getting a phone where I buy pre-paid cards, maybe more expensive per minute, but at least I can use all the minutes hence for me it's cheaper. Phone companies here are in the stoneage, just like banks. When I moved here I had not seen a check book in 20 years, 1979 was the last time I got a check book from a bank back home. After that it was all electronic more or less. Stupid, just as money orders. I have to withdraw money from an ATM, buy money orders for the amount I need to pay (rent) and then physically drop it off at the leasing office. How utterly inefficient and pre-historic way of doing business.
If there is one thing that I DON'T want on my PC or TV, it is a smelling device. Can you imagine playing an online game and your room is saturated with the smell of geeks who last showered 2 weeks ago? Hell no, that's nasty!
"When can I buy a quarter and for how much?" is the only appropriate question, but beware of those communist buds.... Once you smoke one, you are doomed.... doomed... I'm telling you!
Well, I've been living in USA since 1999 and over the years I have realized that USA:
- Is not free
- Is not democractic
- Don't have free speech
- Has more criminals than any other country and put a larger percent of it's population behind bars than any other country.
- Has a cruel and barbaric justice system
- Has a completly corrupt and criminal political system
- Has more poverty than any other 1st world country
- Has an increasingly horrible education system
- Have their own world history which differs quite a bit from the history that the rest of the world knows.
- Indoctrinates it's people about the same as old Soviet Union did and about the same as todays North Korea and China.
I cpuld go on and on about these things but I'll stop here. Now I will be labeled as a USA hater, when it is the opposite. I actually love USA enough to care about what it does and how it is conceived around the world. If you hate USA, the current course if fine and you really don't have to say anything, just continue to support it's actions. That is hating USA when you really don't care what the rest of the world thinks.
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I agree! While we are at it, why not:
- Make cars more unsafe so people die when they crash? That way we will have fewer crashes
- Make materials more flameable? That way a fire will ensure everyone gets killed. THAT will teach people to be more carefule with matches and lighters.
- Make cellphones give you an electroshock when you say something ungodly? Then everyone will be religious and believe in the same crap.
Yes, by golly! I think you are on to something... Why not just use all the nuclear weapons we have? Then we will not be having this discussion in the future!
Is there anyone here in USA who is worried? I mean, this is a "free" country so a company like WalMart can't do anything about it , right? Right? They can't buy politicians and judges that will support Walmart in any form of legislation or legal cases in USA, can they? I mean it's not like US politicans vote for the companies they are owned by, is it?
Since this is/. I'd say the spread is like this:
87% will chose OSS
3% will scream very loudly OSX THANK YOU!
9% will ask "What is a blowjob?"
1% will give the right answer
Really, that is all it is. I like Linux as much as other people, but I don't think South Korea, as a whole, is going to jump on this just as I really don't believe MS will pull out of South Korea. It's all marketing and jocking for positions. There is no way that MS will leave South Korea, one of the most advanced industrial nationas around and a lot more advanced than USA. Oh no, MS will never leave South Korea, it means too much to them.
Now, if they only could produce one that also turn the baseball player blue when doping is dioscovered, I would be happy! (Yeah-yeah it's semi off-topic!)
US knows how to do it with 1960's technology, making the moon viable as a platform for other activities, requires almost repeating the Apollo program all over again. Why? Because all moon activity was stopped in 1972 when the last 2 Apollo flights were scrapped.
Plus maybe the most imporant factor: money. I guess China needs 10 year to spread the cost. Or would you rather pay for it? (And here I mean you, as in US citizens) USA owns China a LOT of money, i.e. China sits on wast dollar reserves. and can easily drive the value of dollar down the drain and/or raise the US interest rate a few points. Result of the almost 8 trillion dollar deficit USA has.
If you are a Google Executive type and have seen the money flowing into your account and then stop 5 minutes and take a look at Bill Gates 60.000+ SqFt house outside Seattle and the numbers on the Forbes list of the 100 richest persons, you look at the OS and ask "Why not? There are BILLIONS to be made..."
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Tell that to all my co-workers who had their machine BSOD on boot thanks to me adding "type c:\bsod.txt" to the startup commands.
Just because a bug is not easily exploitable doesn't mean it is not a serious bug.
Oh another racist!
Ofcourse there is no other country or organization capable of doing a better job than USA, admitting to that would be to admit that you are brainwashed, kind of like getting an alcoholic to admit he is an alcoholic, not easy even though everyone else sees it.
Wow... Which state do you come from?
Oil is shared and some of the oil producing countries are organozed into something you probably never have heard of, it's called The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC , see www.opec.org. No single country control access to oil, besides oil is localized. USA should not have anything to say over oil production in lets say Venezuela unless both countries are members of an organization like OPEC in which case BOTH have to follow what is decided by the organization. bad example but oh so typical.
Regulation? I'm not sure what you are hinting at. There is a LOT of regulations for the Internet, it's just that you don't think about them as long a you can browse to your favorite pr0n site.
But this is NOT about regulations, it's about who is controlling the TLD's. At the moment USA is more or less doing it, but I can't see anything written anywhere that states this is the one and only true solution and I'm sure that all Americans would have screamed loud and very clear if the situation was reversed.
Please, dont make this to a USA v World because nothing gives USA any rights to decide for the rest of the world, not even on the Internet of which the majority of users and cabling is OUTSIDE USA.
No single country should control TLD's and other issues impacting all users of Internet. I don't understand why this is difficult to grasp.
And Scarborough Country is show were you watch the episodes over and over again?
I do have movies on DVD's, but just a few and mostly because they are rare and not easy to come by. Other shows and movies, I can barly stand to watch them once and quite a few shows gets deleted after a few minutes of watching.
But if you want to download movies that you can store and watch over and over again, just like you do with DVD's, don't you think that the price should be different? 99 cents for a download but $29.99 for the DVD. pay 99 cents and you can watch it for a week, pay $29.99 and you can burn DVD's.
At least acknowledge the difference in the purpose of the 2 and hence maybe the limitations are not that bad? I personally could see myself pay 99 cents for a single show I missed and were the DVR already was recording the max amount of shows, but I wouldn't expect to be able to whatever I like for that price. $29.99? yeah, I would like a few more options than with the 99 cent one. You get what you pay for.
It's so fast that you can't even see it!
I honestly don't know many if any shows that I would want to watch over and over and over again.
I have a DVR with my cable subscription and I basically use it to record shows that I watch at a more convienient time and then delete the show. If you need to watch the same show over and over again, you are like my daughter when she was 4, couldn't wrestle certain VHS tapes away from her.
Again, why do you need to save a show and watch it 100 times over? That sounds more like a mental issue than a practical one.
Yes, that is the one.... But it was publicly known way before that. I tested it back in the late 90's.
Yes, I saw that too and I guess they have forgotten the most devastating MS bug which is present in all releases from NT 3.1 and at least up to 2k. I haven't tested XP.
I couldn't find the description right now, but I'm sure others know the bug. The one were you can basically type a special textfile using type-command or similar and will basically BSOD the machine. The file consists of tabs, spaces and newline/carriage return pairs and nothing else. MS never fixed the bug.
Ahhhh truth is modded flamebait now... Nice work!
Wooww... This looks more and more like Oracle version 7 released in the early 90's. Oracle has had 2PC (2 Phase Commit) for about 15 years now. Nice catchup!
Refused? No, but there was never any plans in the first place. And the mysterious country is called Norway. I just checked and now they have taken to the same stupidity as US and I called my ex-wife to see when that happened and it seems like over the past 2-3 years the system has changed. I normally called as much or as little as I needed to and each month I got an invoice from the phone company specifying how many minutes I had used and the price per minute and a nice sum for me to pay. Best way for the consumer since you don't pay up front, don't have to guess how much you need, never have to worry about "losing" minutes. Too bad they have taken to the same crappy deals as we have here. You can check for yourself over at www.telenor.no or www.tele2.no/privat/mobil
:-)
So, I guess you ARE right after all, every country seems to be offering the same crappy shit and ripping off customers. Oh well, I was wrong!
No other country?
I don't mean to get nasty here, but that is positively wrong. I've used cell phones since the 80's in my homecountry, all the way uo until 1999 when I moved to USA. I NEVER had a plan, I always paid the same price per minute, no matter how much or little I talked and the minutes were billed to me at the end of each periode.
I think you misunderstand.
I meant that the months I only use 45 minutes, i still have to pay for 2000 minutes and will lose the ones I don't use unless I have a roll-over plan in which case the minutes are transferred and you end up with thousands of minutes that you will not use and still have to pay for additional new 2000 minutes each month. Horrible. And it doesn't really matter who you choose, it's not about how much it costs to go over (which is basically robbery from the cell phone company), but that you pay for minutes you'll never use and hence each minute you really use, becomes way too expensive. A horrible system designed to suck as much as possible out of our pockets while providing a minimum in return.
Silly boy!
Only USA has phone plans. Minutes LEFT on a plan? Enligthened societies pay per minute used AFTER they have used the minutes, not paying up front for something that you'll never use. Silly Americans who don't mind beeing ripped off!
My first cell phone aquisition in USA:
Me: Cell phone please!
Store: How many minutes do you want?
Me: How do I know? Depends on how much I use it. maybe 2000 one month and 45 the next.
Store: Then you need at least a 2000 minute plan.
Me: What happens when I don't use 2000 minutes? Do I get a refund? No? I lose them? Idiots!
Ended up getting a phone where I buy pre-paid cards, maybe more expensive per minute, but at least I can use all the minutes hence for me it's cheaper. Phone companies here are in the stoneage, just like banks. When I moved here I had not seen a check book in 20 years, 1979 was the last time I got a check book from a bank back home. After that it was all electronic more or less. Stupid, just as money orders. I have to withdraw money from an ATM, buy money orders for the amount I need to pay (rent) and then physically drop it off at the leasing office. How utterly inefficient and pre-historic way of doing business.
No way!
If there is one thing that I DON'T want on my PC or TV, it is a smelling device. Can you imagine playing an online game and your room is saturated with the smell of geeks who last showered 2 weeks ago? Hell no, that's nasty!
Nonono.... Wrong question!
"When can I buy a quarter and for how much?" is the only appropriate question, but beware of those communist buds.... Once you smoke one, you are doomed.... doomed... I'm telling you!
Well, I've been living in USA since 1999 and over the years I have realized that USA:
- Is not free
- Is not democractic
- Don't have free speech
- Has more criminals than any other country and put a larger percent of it's population behind bars than any other country.
- Has a cruel and barbaric justice system
- Has a completly corrupt and criminal political system
- Has more poverty than any other 1st world country
- Has an increasingly horrible education system
- Have their own world history which differs quite a bit from the history that the rest of the world knows.
- Indoctrinates it's people about the same as old Soviet Union did and about the same as todays North Korea and China.
I cpuld go on and on about these things but I'll stop here. Now I will be labeled as a USA hater, when it is the opposite. I actually love USA enough to care about what it does and how it is conceived around the world. If you hate USA, the current course if fine and you really don't have to say anything, just continue to support it's actions. That is hating USA when you really don't care what the rest of the world thinks.
I agree! While we are at it, why not:
- Make cars more unsafe so people die when they crash? That way we will have fewer crashes
- Make materials more flameable? That way a fire will ensure everyone gets killed. THAT will teach people to be more carefule with matches and lighters.
- Make cellphones give you an electroshock when you say something ungodly? Then everyone will be religious and believe in the same crap.
Yes, by golly! I think you are on to something... Why not just use all the nuclear weapons we have? Then we will not be having this discussion in the future!
Is there anyone here in USA who is worried? I mean, this is a "free" country so a company like WalMart can't do anything about it , right? Right? They can't buy politicians and judges that will support Walmart in any form of legislation or legal cases in USA, can they? I mean it's not like US politicans vote for the companies they are owned by, is it?
Since this is /. I'd say the spread is like this:
87% will chose OSS
3% will scream very loudly OSX THANK YOU!
9% will ask "What is a blowjob?"
1% will give the right answer
Really, that is all it is. I like Linux as much as other people, but I don't think South Korea, as a whole, is going to jump on this just as I really don't believe MS will pull out of South Korea. It's all marketing and jocking for positions. There is no way that MS will leave South Korea, one of the most advanced industrial nationas around and a lot more advanced than USA. Oh no, MS will never leave South Korea, it means too much to them.
Now, if they only could produce one that also turn the baseball player blue when doping is dioscovered, I would be happy! (Yeah-yeah it's semi off-topic!)
US knows how to do it with 1960's technology, making the moon viable as a platform for other activities, requires almost repeating the Apollo program all over again. Why? Because all moon activity was stopped in 1972 when the last 2 Apollo flights were scrapped.
Plus maybe the most imporant factor: money. I guess China needs 10 year to spread the cost. Or would you rather pay for it? (And here I mean you, as in US citizens) USA owns China a LOT of money, i.e. China sits on wast dollar reserves. and can easily drive the value of dollar down the drain and/or raise the US interest rate a few points. Result of the almost 8 trillion dollar deficit USA has.
If you are a Google Executive type and have seen the money flowing into your account and then stop 5 minutes and take a look at Bill Gates 60.000+ SqFt house outside Seattle and the numbers on the Forbes list of the 100 richest persons, you look at the OS and ask "Why not? There are BILLIONS to be made..."