Ever hear about how back in the day the FBI spent over a million dollars of supercomputer time to decrypt an encrypted e-mail only to find it was someone's secret cookie recipe. That's why they hate encryption. They have to spend time and money instead of just scanning stuff.
Partisan fool. Keep buying into that them versus us mentality. You Republicans and Democrats make me sick. You think your side (whichever) is not dirty like the other side. Time and time again a Democrat or Republican arrives on the scene to save America! It just gets sicker and sicker and you fools never wise up. Don't you get it yet? There is only one party in Washington and that is the Money Party.
They've simply redefined the words to mean anyone they want to harass or detain for any reason whatsoever. Anyone can be a terrorist now. We had a guy nut up at work. He'd been hurt on the job and due to a botched operation he was unable to work. He got jerked around for a while and had no pay and was in the process of being fired. Despairing and angry he made some foolish decisions and went to see the top manager at work. Fortunately for the bossman he wasn't in his office. The guy had a gun, I don't know if he was there to threaten or kill the guy but he was wrong anyway. The police were called and the man was trapped. His wife tried to get in to talk him out and so did his brother but the police told them "we don't negotiate with terrorists." Sadly the guy shot himself in his despair. Another terrorist dead. See how easy it is to slide into this kind of thing. Because they defined him as a terrorist in their minds he became nonhuman to them. Everyone hates terrorists. If you can define someone as a terrorist you can do any damn thing you want to them.
I think Canonical is trying to do this with Ubuntu which may be why I don't like Ubuntu anymore. I've installed Ubuntu for several of my friends who didn't need any windows applications and all of them have been really happy with it. Every single one of them was amazed at how fast it ran compared to their former windows installs and after a few questions here and there they generally had no problem using it for the things they needed. Of course how difficult is it to use a browser for Facebook, an e-mail client and VLC to watch videos? This, for 90% of the computing public, is mostly what they do. Now they have a computer that operates smoothly, has no more of the bloatware it came with, and doesn't pick up the virus of the week. All of the ones I converted use an Xbox or Playstation to get their game on if they game at all. Most of the high-end PC gamers I know are generally pretty computer savvy.
Oh I didn't say I'd never heard anything derogatory. 99% of the time though it's just something like "she likes dark meat." That, generally, was enough to make sure no white guy would ever ask her out again.
You failed to comprehend what you read. The pollution from burning coal caused hemispherical cooling for the Northern part of the globe. Sad to admit but I'm unable to understand how cooling the Northern hemisphere caused global warming but I'm sure some of the geniuses around here will be glad to explain it to me. Too bad about Africa. It seems like whitey has been shafting them for a few centuries now. The slave trade, then the European powers carved the continent into provinces and raped the resources for their own benefit then throwing them unprepared into nationhood with no money and no prospects. Now through exploitation of coal for energy they've had their climate drastically changed. Life sucks, then you die.
Ah! I didn't really think about that. He's an Excel user, that explains it. My wife is an Excel wizard and she hardly knows how to use a computer at all. It's just something to boot into Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
If your definition of a desktop OS is running "windows centric apps" then I can see why Linux sucks for you. As a desktop for me it's fabulous. I can do anything I need to do on a Linux desktop and the only place I find the need to use another OS is in video editing. The programs on my Mac are much better than the Linux video applications but things there are improving. Having used Linux as my primary desktop for 14 years I've never been tempted to use windows for my home system but then I don't really play games. If I was a video game player I'd have to dual boot 'cause Linux gaming is really pretty far behind. I don't get the sound problem. Haven't seen that in like 8 or 9 years. Wifi was the last real hurdle I had for a Linux install and that's been about 3 years since I've had to open a terminal to fix that.
My wife is an Excel wizard and she's not having problems with the Mac version on her Macbook. I use Excel at work on windows but I'm nowhere near in her league and I don't use it at home at all since the only way I'll use a spreadsheet is if someone is paying me to do it. My wife plays with it for fun, organizing every damn thing in Excel. Ugh.
Opposite here. Never really used windows except at work where it's all we have and is misery personified. I got my first computer in 1983, a Commodore 64 with the big clunky 1541 disk drive. 64 Kilobytes of Ram (48K free) and 170K of storage on 5.25" floppies. Later I moved to an Amiga 500 then an Amiga 3000 which I upgraded time after time until 1999 when I got an Intel dual P3 tower and looked around and picked up a box of SUSE Linux at Best Buy for $70. It took a while to get over the fact it wasn't an Amiga but eventually I got the hang of it. I look back at 14 years of Linux and am amazed at how much better things are. It's been years since I had a problem installing a distro. I still am stuck with windows at work and it's not terrible but I'd never use it by choice when there are so many better options available and many for free. I do have a Mac Mini I use for video work and it does a great job at that but for general computing I like Linux best.
As far as I can tell the Muslims treat everyone like shit. They have a special place in their hearts for the Jews but they don't mind killing Christians and Hindus and anyone else that doesn't agree with them. This includes each other too when there are no outsiders to concentrate on. Radicals do the killing and the so called moderates provide the money and make excuses for them. I'm enjoying watching Europe try to deal with them.
You just keep spouting the same lie. You equate current day Republicans with conservatism. Conservatism is individual liberty and personal responsibility. Modern day Republicans are not conservatives they are Corporate Whores as are most Democrats. They vote how they are told to vote. Religious conservatism is not political conservatism. This is where you are confused I think. Or maybe you're just a shill. I'll give you a couple more examples of Liberal attempts to control peoples lives. Obama care, misnamed because it's really Pelosi and Reed care. Forcing people to buy insurance. That should be a matter of individual choice but Liberals have decided they know what's good for the rest of us and we can't be trusted to make our own decisions on the matter.
Another? The constant attempt to control gun ownership. Bad behavior should be punished but liberals want to punish those who have done nothing wrong. It's okay to take away a right you don't agree with. Liberals don't like guns so all guns should be taken away from everyone because of course Liberals know what is good for us. Better to be safe than free!
I could go on and on but this has taken up enough of my time. As I say, I respect your right to disagree with me but I don't respect your right to fuck with me. I don't want anything much but to be left alone to mind my own business. You can have your gay marriage, your dope (do all you want) and really, even though I think abortion is evil, there is no way I can stop women from slaughtering their own children. Nowadays they are still in great danger even after they escape the womb. But if you have any pull with your supposedly liberal friends in Washington, could you please ask them to quit helping the Republicans pass those damn wiretapping bills? Maybe they could repeal the Patriot act too? No? They don't believe in individual liberty either? President Obama, the great Liberal messiah didn't stop all that bad stuff? I guess he's too busy pushing for more taxes.
You don't listen. All you heard is the dislike for queers. Yeah, I don't like them. So what? I don't care what they do either! It's not MY business. That was the whole point. Just because I don't like what others do it doesn't give me the right to tell them what they can and can not do. But NO! You think that I should stay out of other peoples business but it's okay for the Libs to tell ME how to live. That was the entire point I was making. Leave me the fuck alone and I'll leave you alone. The libs though, they have all the answers. They know what is good for me and feel that they need the government to enforce what they feel is good for me. Yeah I used Soda because that was one of the more obvious (and stupid) expamples. I don't get your obsession with religious dictatorship at all. Where did you get that fantasy? This country has become less and less religious by the year for decades. Just because you occasionally hear someone yelling about God's wrath coming for all the unbelievers doesn't mean it's a religious country. 3 or 4 decades ago stores didn't open on Sunday, now they never close. Alcohol sales were banned on Sunday if the county wasn't dry. Now that is rare and getting rarer, people can get sloshed anytime they want. Where in hell do you get religious dictatorship? You are delusional. Iran conservative? Hah! You don't understand conservative, you've confused it with something else. The Republican party hasn't been conservative since just after Reagan. Less government? Those assholes have grown it nearly as damn much as the Democrats. They give conservatism a bad name.
I can't understand the gay marriage thing at all. What's the point? I don't really care if they get married but in my mind two guys or two girls aren't a married couple no matter what anyone says. Even so, the government has no business being involved in marriage. It's become a joke anyway because people actually marrying for life is a small portion of society anyway. If two people want to call themselves married I really could care less. Let's just do away with marriage as a government recognized status. Insurance companies can do the "partner" thing and then some guy can insure his butt buddy and another guy his shack-up girl of the month. Reality is reality and might as well be accepted. My viewpoints are conservative but I don't insist that others follow my choices. Actually my views are closer to anarchy. I think that the minimum amount of government neccessary should be the way we go. All these "czars" and "bureaus" and such to micro manage our lives just drag the entire country down. The Feds should handle the army, mint money, foreign relations, such infrastructure neccessary to conduct business such as ports, airports, major interstate roadways and rail. All the other crap they have taken on causes more problems than they solve. Liberals love that shit though. They want to micro-manage my life for me. No 32oz sodas? Really? It's none of their fucking business. Leave people the fuck alone for gods sake. If I don't care who's dick you suck why do you care how big my cup of soda is? Let's all just mind our own business. That's goes back to my point that Republicans aren't really conservatives. They just try to control my life too.
Gay Rights. I don't know what the hell you're talking about here. They have all the rights I have. I don't care what the hell they do and neither do most people.
Abortion. Well that depends on whose rights you're talking about doesn't it. The rights of the mother or the unborn child? You picked one and I pick the other. It's got a simple solution though. People could start being responsible and not get pregnant with a child they don't want.
I don't have the first idea what you're talking about with the church on the block.
I'm with you on the jack booted thugs. I don't know anybody who likes them all that much except politicians. I notice the Democrat politicians seem to like jack booted thugs a lot too.
Personal drug use. I guess you're talking about illegal drugs. I'm conflicted here. I have no problem with people drugging themselves however they like on the condition they assume ALL responsibility for what they do to themselves. I tire of people who destroy themselves with drugs then demand help.
Reasonable sentences for minor stuff. I like it. Of course reasonable is relative but I think sending people off to jail for stupid crap like drug possession is good for no one. Murder, rape, child molesters just throw away the key.
See, we can agree on a lot. Not everything of course but I bet if we sat down and rapped about it awhile we could agree on a middle ground somewhere.
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Ever hear about how back in the day the FBI spent over a million dollars of supercomputer time to decrypt an encrypted e-mail only to find it was someone's secret cookie recipe. That's why they hate encryption. They have to spend time and money instead of just scanning stuff.
Partisan fool. Keep buying into that them versus us mentality. You Republicans and Democrats make me sick. You think your side (whichever) is not dirty like the other side. Time and time again a Democrat or Republican arrives on the scene to save America! It just gets sicker and sicker and you fools never wise up. Don't you get it yet? There is only one party in Washington and that is the Money Party.
They've simply redefined the words to mean anyone they want to harass or detain for any reason whatsoever. Anyone can be a terrorist now. We had a guy nut up at work. He'd been hurt on the job and due to a botched operation he was unable to work. He got jerked around for a while and had no pay and was in the process of being fired. Despairing and angry he made some foolish decisions and went to see the top manager at work. Fortunately for the bossman he wasn't in his office. The guy had a gun, I don't know if he was there to threaten or kill the guy but he was wrong anyway. The police were called and the man was trapped. His wife tried to get in to talk him out and so did his brother but the police told them "we don't negotiate with terrorists." Sadly the guy shot himself in his despair. Another terrorist dead. See how easy it is to slide into this kind of thing. Because they defined him as a terrorist in their minds he became nonhuman to them. Everyone hates terrorists. If you can define someone as a terrorist you can do any damn thing you want to them.
I think Canonical is trying to do this with Ubuntu which may be why I don't like Ubuntu anymore. I've installed Ubuntu for several of my friends who didn't need any windows applications and all of them have been really happy with it. Every single one of them was amazed at how fast it ran compared to their former windows installs and after a few questions here and there they generally had no problem using it for the things they needed. Of course how difficult is it to use a browser for Facebook, an e-mail client and VLC to watch videos? This, for 90% of the computing public, is mostly what they do. Now they have a computer that operates smoothly, has no more of the bloatware it came with, and doesn't pick up the virus of the week. All of the ones I converted use an Xbox or Playstation to get their game on if they game at all. Most of the high-end PC gamers I know are generally pretty computer savvy.
Oh I didn't say I'd never heard anything derogatory. 99% of the time though it's just something like "she likes dark meat." That, generally, was enough to make sure no white guy would ever ask her out again.
What could possibly go wrong?
You failed to comprehend what you read. The pollution from burning coal caused hemispherical cooling for the Northern part of the globe. Sad to admit but I'm unable to understand how cooling the Northern hemisphere caused global warming but I'm sure some of the geniuses around here will be glad to explain it to me. Too bad about Africa. It seems like whitey has been shafting them for a few centuries now. The slave trade, then the European powers carved the continent into provinces and raped the resources for their own benefit then throwing them unprepared into nationhood with no money and no prospects. Now through exploitation of coal for energy they've had their climate drastically changed. Life sucks, then you die.
Newspeak?
You know, I live in the deep South and I've never once in my 53 years heard that term used that way until just now.
Ah! I didn't really think about that. He's an Excel user, that explains it. My wife is an Excel wizard and she hardly knows how to use a computer at all. It's just something to boot into Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
was that a question or a statement?
If your definition of a desktop OS is running "windows centric apps" then I can see why Linux sucks for you. As a desktop for me it's fabulous. I can do anything I need to do on a Linux desktop and the only place I find the need to use another OS is in video editing. The programs on my Mac are much better than the Linux video applications but things there are improving. Having used Linux as my primary desktop for 14 years I've never been tempted to use windows for my home system but then I don't really play games. If I was a video game player I'd have to dual boot 'cause Linux gaming is really pretty far behind. I don't get the sound problem. Haven't seen that in like 8 or 9 years. Wifi was the last real hurdle I had for a Linux install and that's been about 3 years since I've had to open a terminal to fix that.
My wife is an Excel wizard and she's not having problems with the Mac version on her Macbook. I use Excel at work on windows but I'm nowhere near in her league and I don't use it at home at all since the only way I'll use a spreadsheet is if someone is paying me to do it. My wife plays with it for fun, organizing every damn thing in Excel. Ugh.
Opposite here. Never really used windows except at work where it's all we have and is misery personified. I got my first computer in 1983, a Commodore 64 with the big clunky 1541 disk drive. 64 Kilobytes of Ram (48K free) and 170K of storage on 5.25" floppies. Later I moved to an Amiga 500 then an Amiga 3000 which I upgraded time after time until 1999 when I got an Intel dual P3 tower and looked around and picked up a box of SUSE Linux at Best Buy for $70. It took a while to get over the fact it wasn't an Amiga but eventually I got the hang of it. I look back at 14 years of Linux and am amazed at how much better things are. It's been years since I had a problem installing a distro. I still am stuck with windows at work and it's not terrible but I'd never use it by choice when there are so many better options available and many for free. I do have a Mac Mini I use for video work and it does a great job at that but for general computing I like Linux best.
Freedom is dangerous.
I saw what you did there.
Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark.
As far as I can tell the Muslims treat everyone like shit. They have a special place in their hearts for the Jews but they don't mind killing Christians and Hindus and anyone else that doesn't agree with them. This includes each other too when there are no outsiders to concentrate on. Radicals do the killing and the so called moderates provide the money and make excuses for them. I'm enjoying watching Europe try to deal with them.
Well technically it was the Romans at the behest of the Jewish religious leaders. Jesus kept calling them hypocrites and then they proved him right.
Have a nice day. :)
The capability is still there it's just available under the "police" menu.
You just keep spouting the same lie. You equate current day Republicans with conservatism. Conservatism is individual liberty and personal responsibility. Modern day Republicans are not conservatives they are Corporate Whores as are most Democrats. They vote how they are told to vote. Religious conservatism is not political conservatism. This is where you are confused I think. Or maybe you're just a shill. I'll give you a couple more examples of Liberal attempts to control peoples lives. Obama care, misnamed because it's really Pelosi and Reed care. Forcing people to buy insurance. That should be a matter of individual choice but Liberals have decided they know what's good for the rest of us and we can't be trusted to make our own decisions on the matter.
Another? The constant attempt to control gun ownership. Bad behavior should be punished but liberals want to punish those who have done nothing wrong. It's okay to take away a right you don't agree with. Liberals don't like guns so all guns should be taken away from everyone because of course Liberals know what is good for us. Better to be safe than free!
I could go on and on but this has taken up enough of my time. As I say, I respect your right to disagree with me but I don't respect your right to fuck with me. I don't want anything much but to be left alone to mind my own business. You can have your gay marriage, your dope (do all you want) and really, even though I think abortion is evil, there is no way I can stop women from slaughtering their own children. Nowadays they are still in great danger even after they escape the womb. But if you have any pull with your supposedly liberal friends in Washington, could you please ask them to quit helping the Republicans pass those damn wiretapping bills? Maybe they could repeal the Patriot act too? No? They don't believe in individual liberty either? President Obama, the great Liberal messiah didn't stop all that bad stuff? I guess he's too busy pushing for more taxes.
You don't listen. All you heard is the dislike for queers. Yeah, I don't like them. So what? I don't care what they do either! It's not MY business. That was the whole point. Just because I don't like what others do it doesn't give me the right to tell them what they can and can not do. But NO! You think that I should stay out of other peoples business but it's okay for the Libs to tell ME how to live. That was the entire point I was making. Leave me the fuck alone and I'll leave you alone. The libs though, they have all the answers. They know what is good for me and feel that they need the government to enforce what they feel is good for me. Yeah I used Soda because that was one of the more obvious (and stupid) expamples. I don't get your obsession with religious dictatorship at all. Where did you get that fantasy? This country has become less and less religious by the year for decades. Just because you occasionally hear someone yelling about God's wrath coming for all the unbelievers doesn't mean it's a religious country. 3 or 4 decades ago stores didn't open on Sunday, now they never close. Alcohol sales were banned on Sunday if the county wasn't dry. Now that is rare and getting rarer, people can get sloshed anytime they want. Where in hell do you get religious dictatorship? You are delusional. Iran conservative? Hah! You don't understand conservative, you've confused it with something else. The Republican party hasn't been conservative since just after Reagan. Less government? Those assholes have grown it nearly as damn much as the Democrats. They give conservatism a bad name.
I can't understand the gay marriage thing at all. What's the point? I don't really care if they get married but in my mind two guys or two girls aren't a married couple no matter what anyone says. Even so, the government has no business being involved in marriage. It's become a joke anyway because people actually marrying for life is a small portion of society anyway. If two people want to call themselves married I really could care less. Let's just do away with marriage as a government recognized status. Insurance companies can do the "partner" thing and then some guy can insure his butt buddy and another guy his shack-up girl of the month. Reality is reality and might as well be accepted. My viewpoints are conservative but I don't insist that others follow my choices. Actually my views are closer to anarchy. I think that the minimum amount of government neccessary should be the way we go. All these "czars" and "bureaus" and such to micro manage our lives just drag the entire country down. The Feds should handle the army, mint money, foreign relations, such infrastructure neccessary to conduct business such as ports, airports, major interstate roadways and rail. All the other crap they have taken on causes more problems than they solve. Liberals love that shit though. They want to micro-manage my life for me. No 32oz sodas? Really? It's none of their fucking business. Leave people the fuck alone for gods sake. If I don't care who's dick you suck why do you care how big my cup of soda is? Let's all just mind our own business. That's goes back to my point that Republicans aren't really conservatives. They just try to control my life too.
Well we could go down this list....
Gay Rights. I don't know what the hell you're talking about here. They have all the rights I have. I don't care what the hell they do and neither do most people.
Abortion. Well that depends on whose rights you're talking about doesn't it. The rights of the mother or the unborn child? You picked one and I pick the other. It's got a simple solution though. People could start being responsible and not get pregnant with a child they don't want.
I don't have the first idea what you're talking about with the church on the block.
I'm with you on the jack booted thugs. I don't know anybody who likes them all that much except politicians. I notice the Democrat politicians seem to like jack booted thugs a lot too.
Personal drug use. I guess you're talking about illegal drugs. I'm conflicted here. I have no problem with people drugging themselves however they like on the condition they assume ALL responsibility for what they do to themselves. I tire of people who destroy themselves with drugs then demand help.
Reasonable sentences for minor stuff. I like it. Of course reasonable is relative but I think sending people off to jail for stupid crap like drug possession is good for no one. Murder, rape, child molesters just throw away the key.
See, we can agree on a lot. Not everything of course but I bet if we sat down and rapped about it awhile we could agree on a middle ground somewhere.