I'm a conservative and I could give a flying fuck about the GOP. I don't know if solar power is the answer but it may be a part of the answer and as long as it can pay it's own way it deserves a chance. It almost has to be better than coal. The GOP claims to be conservative but they're really just like the fucking DEMS, all about money.
What a stupid comment. Everyone has to have revenue of some kind. What were they going to do? Operate off of donations? They provide a class browser for free. Next best free alternative? Chrome browser. Guess who makes that?
Face it, Linux isn't for everyone and may never be. So fucking what? It's good for the people that use it. It's been my desktop since 1999 when I finally retired my Amiga 3000. It's the desktop of choice of a lot of people. I've seen the average windows user and guess what? They mostly don't know what they're doing. The overwhelming majority of windows users happily install malware on their computers on a daily basis. That's the desktop we're shooting for in the Linux community? Average users are going to fuck up their systems regardless of what platform they use.
Like I said, there are worse things than dying. I don't like war. It's wasteful and cruel. I hate that it eats our young. Unfortunately it can become necessary if you are perceived as being weak. That's one reason for being armed to the teeth, so the wolves will seek weaker prey.
The battles of the first world war were hell on earth. The battles of the Somme and Verdun in particular, with casualties approaching one million each were horrendous. They estimate that the remains of over 100,000 soldiers still occupy the forrest near Verdun. One of the more pointless and bloody wars in human history and the technology of that day pales in comparison to what is available today. You know World War III is coming and it's going to suck really bad. Only the knowledge of the potential devastation has delayed it and eventually we'll have some group that doesn't give a shit kick it off.
War drives tecnology and technology drives war. From the development of bows to bronze then iron armor and then gunpowder and so on it has been a steady progression of killing science. I'd say war is the driving force behind most advancement of science. You can bitch about robots with guns but it will happen and the reason is very simple and obvious. If one nation has them all will have to have them. The only way to stop that would be to have a one world government and given the nature of government and it's fear of it's own citizens they would have to develop weapons to control the populace. War is in mans nature, the only way to stop it is to change that nature. Luck with that.
It's very easy to avoid war. Simplicity itself. Don't fight. When someone comes and says we want to take everything you have and enslave you then just say "okay." No problem. It doesn't get any easier than that. Personally I believe there are a lot of things worse than war. Worse even than dying.
I've seriously though about cutting grass for a living. I know people that do it and they make 30-40K a year working just over half a year at it. It's a cash business so they pay little to no taxes. One guy makes about 15K selling firewood during the winter in addition to grass cutting during the summer. He lives far better than I do at 60K a year.
To be exact, I make it, my employer hands about a third of it to the government, my insurance and other obligations eat another 15 or 20 percent then my wife gets what's left.
If the prices are too high in a store I go somewhere else. This is beyond overkill. Soldiers taking over a retail store for high prices is crazy. What do they do if the TV is defective? Slaughter all the sales clerks?
Ms. Feinstein lives in a fairy land where fairness is King. I expect any day for her to try to repeal the law of gravity because it's not fair that some people are heavier than others.
You know, I buy about as much music now as I did in the 70's and 80's. I just never rebuy it. I bought the "Days of future passed" album by the Moody Blues on LP, 8 track, LP again when the original got scratched, on cassette 3 times and CD twice. I ripped it to my computer and never bought it again. I never will buy it again. They can keep the fucking copyright for the next 3 Trillion Millennium if the greedy fuckers want to but I have it in perpetuity because it's digital. I don't have any problem with them making money but do they really need to make 30 million dollars off a CD where there may be one or two hits and the rest are mediocre filler? Give me a break.
The cheap OEM side is a huge market. This is good because now the cheap OEM side is decent instead of shitty in terms of performance. Hardcore gamers with money to blow are not the market for this.
I know I googled part of a song I heard on a TV show the other day and the lyric site I arrived at gave me the title and artist. Using that I bought the CD. Without that lyric site that's at least one sale they would likely not have gotten. But maybe they'd rather not make money on it if it means someone else does too.
I mostly use piratebay for downloading shows from England. Downton Abbey for my wife is one. Frankly there is more on DirectTV than I'll ever have time to watch. I can't bother streaming anything. My wife DVR's a lot of shows and occasionally I'll sit and watch one with her, mostly cooking shows or the like. Occasionally I'll watch football or baseball. Really if it wasn't for the wife and the grandkids I wouldn't miss any of it much. Game of Thrones and Justified are the only two shows I regularly watch. I've almost entirely stopped watching the news, it all pisses me off too much so why would I watch something that's just going to aggravate me? Maybe I'm just old. Get the fuck off my lawn.
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I'm a conservative and I could give a flying fuck about the GOP. I don't know if solar power is the answer but it may be a part of the answer and as long as it can pay it's own way it deserves a chance. It almost has to be better than coal. The GOP claims to be conservative but they're really just like the fucking DEMS, all about money.
What a stupid comment. Everyone has to have revenue of some kind. What were they going to do? Operate off of donations? They provide a class browser for free. Next best free alternative? Chrome browser. Guess who makes that?
Face it, Linux isn't for everyone and may never be. So fucking what? It's good for the people that use it. It's been my desktop since 1999 when I finally retired my Amiga 3000. It's the desktop of choice of a lot of people. I've seen the average windows user and guess what? They mostly don't know what they're doing. The overwhelming majority of windows users happily install malware on their computers on a daily basis. That's the desktop we're shooting for in the Linux community? Average users are going to fuck up their systems regardless of what platform they use.
Like I said, there are worse things than dying. I don't like war. It's wasteful and cruel. I hate that it eats our young. Unfortunately it can become necessary if you are perceived as being weak. That's one reason for being armed to the teeth, so the wolves will seek weaker prey.
The price of bombs is coming down. It seems that we get a quantity discount. It helps to buy in volume.
The battles of the first world war were hell on earth. The battles of the Somme and Verdun in particular, with casualties approaching one million each were horrendous. They estimate that the remains of over 100,000 soldiers still occupy the forrest near Verdun. One of the more pointless and bloody wars in human history and the technology of that day pales in comparison to what is available today. You know World War III is coming and it's going to suck really bad. Only the knowledge of the potential devastation has delayed it and eventually we'll have some group that doesn't give a shit kick it off.
War drives tecnology and technology drives war. From the development of bows to bronze then iron armor and then gunpowder and so on it has been a steady progression of killing science. I'd say war is the driving force behind most advancement of science. You can bitch about robots with guns but it will happen and the reason is very simple and obvious. If one nation has them all will have to have them. The only way to stop that would be to have a one world government and given the nature of government and it's fear of it's own citizens they would have to develop weapons to control the populace. War is in mans nature, the only way to stop it is to change that nature. Luck with that.
Cruise missiles are not autonomous. They simply fly a programmed route and hit an assigned target.
It's very easy to avoid war. Simplicity itself. Don't fight. When someone comes and says we want to take everything you have and enslave you then just say "okay." No problem. It doesn't get any easier than that. Personally I believe there are a lot of things worse than war. Worse even than dying.
I swear I thought that said Cylon language and I started thinking, first Klingon and now Cylon?
I've seriously though about cutting grass for a living. I know people that do it and they make 30-40K a year working just over half a year at it. It's a cash business so they pay little to no taxes. One guy makes about 15K selling firewood during the winter in addition to grass cutting during the summer. He lives far better than I do at 60K a year.
To be exact, I make it, my employer hands about a third of it to the government, my insurance and other obligations eat another 15 or 20 percent then my wife gets what's left.
If the prices are too high in a store I go somewhere else. This is beyond overkill. Soldiers taking over a retail store for high prices is crazy. What do they do if the TV is defective? Slaughter all the sales clerks?
I don't know dude. National Guardsmen with assault weapons take over stores because the prices are too high? That seems a little wacky.
I make it, the government gets it.
I never have been able to get a straight answer out of anyone. What is their "fair share?" 50%, 60% 80% or, as I suspect, Everything?
You volunteering to be pivot man?
Ms. Feinstein lives in a fairy land where fairness is King. I expect any day for her to try to repeal the law of gravity because it's not fair that some people are heavier than others.
You know, I buy about as much music now as I did in the 70's and 80's. I just never rebuy it. I bought the "Days of future passed" album by the Moody Blues on LP, 8 track, LP again when the original got scratched, on cassette 3 times and CD twice. I ripped it to my computer and never bought it again. I never will buy it again. They can keep the fucking copyright for the next 3 Trillion Millennium if the greedy fuckers want to but I have it in perpetuity because it's digital. I don't have any problem with them making money but do they really need to make 30 million dollars off a CD where there may be one or two hits and the rest are mediocre filler? Give me a break.
Yet another grammar Nazi. Die already.
You make the assumption this is genetic. If sexual proclivities were genetic then homosexuality would much rarer.
The cheap OEM side is a huge market. This is good because now the cheap OEM side is decent instead of shitty in terms of performance. Hardcore gamers with money to blow are not the market for this.
Perhaps not always but more often than not it's a good indicator.
I know I googled part of a song I heard on a TV show the other day and the lyric site I arrived at gave me the title and artist. Using that I bought the CD. Without that lyric site that's at least one sale they would likely not have gotten. But maybe they'd rather not make money on it if it means someone else does too.
I mostly use piratebay for downloading shows from England. Downton Abbey for my wife is one. Frankly there is more on DirectTV than I'll ever have time to watch. I can't bother streaming anything. My wife DVR's a lot of shows and occasionally I'll sit and watch one with her, mostly cooking shows or the like. Occasionally I'll watch football or baseball. Really if it wasn't for the wife and the grandkids I wouldn't miss any of it much. Game of Thrones and Justified are the only two shows I regularly watch. I've almost entirely stopped watching the news, it all pisses me off too much so why would I watch something that's just going to aggravate me? Maybe I'm just old. Get the fuck off my lawn.