Actually it sounds like an appropriate response to her column then. She should be stoned. After all, she apparently thinks it's okay. Oh...I missed the part where she thinks it's okay for "others" to be stoned. Sorry 'bout that!
Microsoft never really needed for it's advertising to be effective. When they operated out of a virtual monopoly they just spent advertising dollars to brag on themselves. Their idea seemed to be that the masses were going to have to buy it anyway, all they had to do was pat themselves on the back. This stuff of having to compete with aggressive competitors is all new to them.
I think that if you don't make products you take your patent troll business to Texas. Evidently if you actually use your patents for making things you have to go elsewhere.
I installed Snow Leopard on my Dell 1545. It ran fast and worked well. I went back to Ubuntu though. I already preferred Linux to Windows for many years and now I even like it better than Mac. My wife still uses an old iBook G4 because it works for her and she likes the 12" screen on it. She took one look at my new widescreen laptop and went "ugh!"
It may seem stupid to you but you obviously aren't aware of how the rural south works. Many times you have sparsely populated areas that have minimal police and fire protection. Generally it's better in towns and cities. Where I live I am near a fair sized city of about 50,000 population and the county is fairly populated too. The county has fire coverage by volunteer firemen who respond to calls by dispatcher from their homes or jobs. There are some full time employees here but most counties have few or no such personnel. This fire service is funded partially by county taxes but also by donations and fundraisers. I contribute voluntarily to my local fire station (45 dollars) and so do many other residents. This works well here as a full up fire department would be so expensive as to be a burden on taxpayers. Rural counties and towns are generally poor and do the best they can with what they have. I spent 3 years in Germany and I noticed there that rural areas are totally different from what we have in the US. The country has most of the population settled in small town or villages 15 to 20 kilometers apart and the farmers often live in town and drive out on tractors to the fields to work. Here in the Southern US people tend to spread out often having 10 or more acres to themselves with a trailer or small house even if they do not farm. Trying to saturate this population with social services is incredibly difficult and expensive and the people that live this way don't generally desire it anyway. A lot of people like living down a dirt road and being left alone.
An emergency room will treat you on a cash basis. I once was required to make a $700 deposit for service. It took me 6 months to get a refund on the $109 they owed me.
Sadly it seems taxes mostly buy less and less. Government is a necessary evil. The idea is that you have to have it but you must keep it chained and under control or it will turn around and eat you. Government spending (by both parties) is rampant and rapidly going out of control. In a few more years of this idiocracy your taxes will mostly just pay interest on massive debt.
Try reading the article. He didn't live in the district so he didn't pay taxes there. He was offered the chance to be covered for a measly $75 but chose to pass on it thinking that if he got a fire they'd have to respond anyway. They didn't respond because they don't like deadbeats so his place burned down. Too bad...he rolled the dice and lost. As for the healthcare thing. If you think there is such a thing as free healthcare you're deluded. Someone is gonna pay. If you don't pay then someone else will have to pay for you. I'm sure if you're not working then you like having someone else pay for you. If you are working I'm sure you're going to enjoy paying out the ass for others to have healthcare. But it's not free.
I know a lot of you feel that it's everyone's responsibility to care for the deadbeats of the world. A lot of us are tired of paying for other people. This guy figured he wouldn't pay and the firemen would have to come help him anyway. I feel no pity for him.
Right on. This is the way it should be. Dead beat can't part with $75 but expects everyone else to pay to support him. His place burned down and he's got only himself to blame. If you want to be free you have to be self supporting.
Why do you think so many industries fled the US to China? In China they avoid things like the EPA and OSHA that cost businesses so much money in the US. They can dump toxic wastes in the rice paddy out back and as long as they are making money it's all good. Cheap labor is only a part of the draw.
You'd expect to be told info about a group of people that are in no way implicated in the attack other than that they don't like you exploiting their state's natural resources? You'd expect to be privy to private information and e-mails and web traffic? Well...if you're connected politically you can evidently have those expectations fulfilled.
Well maybe they are mainstream if you're going by market share. It's a term they use for "everybody" else. Just think of it as a convenient way to differentiate between Fox and the other network news organizations. It's not like it's an important distinction.
Truth, my insightful friend. Google isn't the typical MicroSoft victim. They have their own huge army of lawyers and deep pockets. It make you wonder what MS's real goals are here. Is it just to spread FUD and hassle Google like they tried with SCO against IBM? Something even more nefarious. It ought to be interesting, eh?
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You're entitled to you opinion. But only because of that military.
You left out the part about amnesty international! There goes the joke.
Stoning is far too good for spammers. They should be burned at the stake.
Actually it sounds like an appropriate response to her column then. She should be stoned. After all, she apparently thinks it's okay. Oh...I missed the part where she thinks it's okay for "others" to be stoned. Sorry 'bout that!
Microsoft never really needed for it's advertising to be effective. When they operated out of a virtual monopoly they just spent advertising dollars to brag on themselves. Their idea seemed to be that the masses were going to have to buy it anyway, all they had to do was pat themselves on the back. This stuff of having to compete with aggressive competitors is all new to them.
I think that if you don't make products you take your patent troll business to Texas. Evidently if you actually use your patents for making things you have to go elsewhere.
It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
It ends in 2012...we just need to last about 2 more years.
It'll barely get mentioned. Every smear against wikileaks gets maximum exposure but retractions are barely heard.
I installed Snow Leopard on my Dell 1545. It ran fast and worked well. I went back to Ubuntu though. I already preferred Linux to Windows for many years and now I even like it better than Mac. My wife still uses an old iBook G4 because it works for her and she likes the 12" screen on it. She took one look at my new widescreen laptop and went "ugh!"
Dave, we need to talk about this.....
It may seem stupid to you but you obviously aren't aware of how the rural south works. Many times you have sparsely populated areas that have minimal police and fire protection. Generally it's better in towns and cities. Where I live I am near a fair sized city of about 50,000 population and the county is fairly populated too. The county has fire coverage by volunteer firemen who respond to calls by dispatcher from their homes or jobs. There are some full time employees here but most counties have few or no such personnel. This fire service is funded partially by county taxes but also by donations and fundraisers. I contribute voluntarily to my local fire station (45 dollars) and so do many other residents. This works well here as a full up fire department would be so expensive as to be a burden on taxpayers. Rural counties and towns are generally poor and do the best they can with what they have. I spent 3 years in Germany and I noticed there that rural areas are totally different from what we have in the US. The country has most of the population settled in small town or villages 15 to 20 kilometers apart and the farmers often live in town and drive out on tractors to the fields to work. Here in the Southern US people tend to spread out often having 10 or more acres to themselves with a trailer or small house even if they do not farm. Trying to saturate this population with social services is incredibly difficult and expensive and the people that live this way don't generally desire it anyway. A lot of people like living down a dirt road and being left alone.
An emergency room will treat you on a cash basis. I once was required to make a $700 deposit for service. It took me 6 months to get a refund on the $109 they owed me.
The Constitution? We still have one of those?
Sadly it seems taxes mostly buy less and less. Government is a necessary evil. The idea is that you have to have it but you must keep it chained and under control or it will turn around and eat you. Government spending (by both parties) is rampant and rapidly going out of control. In a few more years of this idiocracy your taxes will mostly just pay interest on massive debt.
Try reading the article. He didn't live in the district so he didn't pay taxes there. He was offered the chance to be covered for a measly $75 but chose to pass on it thinking that if he got a fire they'd have to respond anyway. They didn't respond because they don't like deadbeats so his place burned down. Too bad...he rolled the dice and lost. As for the healthcare thing. If you think there is such a thing as free healthcare you're deluded. Someone is gonna pay. If you don't pay then someone else will have to pay for you. I'm sure if you're not working then you like having someone else pay for you. If you are working I'm sure you're going to enjoy paying out the ass for others to have healthcare. But it's not free.
I know a lot of you feel that it's everyone's responsibility to care for the deadbeats of the world. A lot of us are tired of paying for other people. This guy figured he wouldn't pay and the firemen would have to come help him anyway. I feel no pity for him.
Right on. This is the way it should be. Dead beat can't part with $75 but expects everyone else to pay to support him. His place burned down and he's got only himself to blame. If you want to be free you have to be self supporting.
Why do you think so many industries fled the US to China? In China they avoid things like the EPA and OSHA that cost businesses so much money in the US. They can dump toxic wastes in the rice paddy out back and as long as they are making money it's all good. Cheap labor is only a part of the draw.
If we put every politico that did this in jail for bribery then virtually all of them would be there......hmmm.........
You'd expect to be told info about a group of people that are in no way implicated in the attack other than that they don't like you exploiting their state's natural resources? You'd expect to be privy to private information and e-mails and web traffic? Well...if you're connected politically you can evidently have those expectations fulfilled.
Well maybe they are mainstream if you're going by market share. It's a term they use for "everybody" else. Just think of it as a convenient way to differentiate between Fox and the other network news organizations. It's not like it's an important distinction.
Sorry....that's Micro$oft. I forgot.
Ballmer or Gates? I'll leave Paul Allen out of this, he seemed like a decent guy.
Truth, my insightful friend. Google isn't the typical MicroSoft victim. They have their own huge army of lawyers and deep pockets. It make you wonder what MS's real goals are here. Is it just to spread FUD and hassle Google like they tried with SCO against IBM? Something even more nefarious. It ought to be interesting, eh?