No, just read the summary a bit more closely. Landing on water lets the engineers ditch the airbags. Landing on solid ground without the airbag system would be a bit... jarring, to say the least.
What DRM processing? You act like every single system call is brute force decoding a message from the NSA or something. You're making this absurd accusation without backing it up.
Damn skippy. People should review Windows' source code before they make accusations like that.
Remember when the e-mail was sliding into your inbox and I said "Cease and Desist" and you were like "No way," and then I was all, "We pretended we were going to litigate." That was great.
U.S. government photos are automatically part of the public domain unless they're classified or for official use only. Government agencies typically only ask that you credit the photographer or agency if you republish the photo.
Doesn't XP have a big green light that tells users they're secure with a firewall and anti-virus protection?
Only with SP2. But you can bet a lot of folks aren't using SP2, or even Windows XP, for that matter. Windows 2000, 98, 95, ME... they're all still out there; Microsoft has stopped supporting them, and in many cases, so have software developers.
IE v Firefox. Windows v Linux. Blu-Ray v HD DVD. When is/. gonna stop raising the same old arguments over and over again? Haven't we got anything better to do with our time?
We have work, but I wouldn't necessarily call that "better."
Oh, right, because this is the same Department of Justice that doesn't see anything wrong with waterboarding, transporting people to secret overseas prisons, etc. It's the same DOJ that kowtowed to Microsoft pretty much the same day that President Bush swore his first oath of office.
Sorry to be nitpicking, but it *IS* easier to drop a nuke than to attack a correctly set-up network.
How many government networks do you suppose are correctly set up? Nevermind commercial networks, which don't even have the benefit of government standards on securing their systems.
Their 60-odd year old brand name has, through no fault of their own, become inextricably associated with a massive, universally despised, worldwide problem.
You can demand journalistic integrity, for starters. You can boycott advertisers that take such underhanded tactics. You can boycott the publications whose lack of testicular fortitude leads them to cave to said advertisers. And you can tell other people about what's going on and why they should do the same thing.
Oh, the poor record executives and lawyers, they're so misunderstood.
Not. The record labels declared war on the consumer when the RIAA started taking consumers to court. If that's cost them a few hundred million dollars and some egg on their faces, too fucking bad. Now it seems like EMI's starting to get the picture, and that's good -- but that's one of several, and there's no sign yet that the other labels are going to change their tune.
To any politician who thinks about regulating video games, I say this: "Prove to me that depriving people of freedom and entertainment is worth it. Prove that it would save a life."
Even then, it doesn't matter. Depriving people of free speech and the right to bear arms might save a few lives, too -- but about 230 years ago, this country decided that freedom was more important than safety. I wish I had faith that the politicians who give lip service to "protecting" American citizens from themselves understood the history of the Constitution they swore to uphold.
And even in the military, some of the brass had doubts. Air Force brass at the Pentagon tried to kill GPS a couple of times before it got off the ground -- no one needed space-based navigation, they said, because all their aircraft already had inertial navigation systems.
Also there's just the sad truth that there are assholes in the world and nations have a need for defense. Don't think for a second North Korea would be nearly so well behaved if South Korea just disarmed their allies all left.
Now, this I'm not so sure I agree with. The United States has national interests in the region, but we've been confusing national interests with national security for nearly 60 years. Let's say the U.S. didn't have any forces in South Korea, and North Korea invaded tomorrow. It would probably hurt our economy, and it would threaten Japan; but how would it threaten U.S. national security directly?
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I think he knew and was just going for irony (or at least a +5 Funny).
No, just read the summary a bit more closely. Landing on water lets the engineers ditch the airbags. Landing on solid ground without the airbag system would be a bit ... jarring, to say the least.
Damn skippy. People should review Windows' source code before they make accusations like that.
And I, for one, still want to know how I can get those five hours of my life back.
And to think, I was happy when the Democrats took control of Congress back in November.
Meet the new schmucks, same as the old schmucks.
Remember when the e-mail was sliding into your inbox and I said "Cease and Desist" and you were like "No way," and then I was all, "We pretended we were going to litigate." That was great.
If no one pays for ideas, maybe that means the ideas suck, in which case the idea producers should be in a different line of work.
Only with SP2. But you can bet a lot of folks aren't using SP2, or even Windows XP, for that matter. Windows 2000, 98, 95, ME ... they're all still out there; Microsoft has stopped supporting them, and in many cases, so have software developers.
We have work, but I wouldn't necessarily call that "better."
Try "A branch of the American government that's come to represent the exact opposite of its name." What kind of "justice" department condones torture?
Oh, right, because this is the same Department of Justice that doesn't see anything wrong with waterboarding, transporting people to secret overseas prisons, etc. It's the same DOJ that kowtowed to Microsoft pretty much the same day that President Bush swore his first oath of office.
... which is inevitably the side that's predestined to fall face-down on the floor.
How many government networks do you suppose are correctly set up? Nevermind commercial networks, which don't even have the benefit of government standards on securing their systems.
Clearly you've never eaten SPAM.
You can demand journalistic integrity, for starters. You can boycott advertisers that take such underhanded tactics. You can boycott the publications whose lack of testicular fortitude leads them to cave to said advertisers. And you can tell other people about what's going on and why they should do the same thing.
Oh, the poor record executives and lawyers, they're so misunderstood.
Not. The record labels declared war on the consumer when the RIAA started taking consumers to court. If that's cost them a few hundred million dollars and some egg on their faces, too fucking bad. Now it seems like EMI's starting to get the picture, and that's good -- but that's one of several, and there's no sign yet that the other labels are going to change their tune.
Even then, it doesn't matter. Depriving people of free speech and the right to bear arms might save a few lives, too -- but about 230 years ago, this country decided that freedom was more important than safety. I wish I had faith that the politicians who give lip service to "protecting" American citizens from themselves understood the history of the Constitution they swore to uphold.
And even in the military, some of the brass had doubts. Air Force brass at the Pentagon tried to kill GPS a couple of times before it got off the ground -- no one needed space-based navigation, they said, because all their aircraft already had inertial navigation systems.
Now, this I'm not so sure I agree with. The United States has national interests in the region, but we've been confusing national interests with national security for nearly 60 years. Let's say the U.S. didn't have any forces in South Korea, and North Korea invaded tomorrow. It would probably hurt our economy, and it would threaten Japan; but how would it threaten U.S. national security directly?
Or eight small-diameter bombs.