MicroSoft would never stoop to such a dirty trick. They have a long history of being open and above board in all business dealings. Just look how well they've treated the open source community over the years.
She's probably getting elected even though she's an idiot. That's okay though...someone has to take Pelosi's place as the biggest airhead in congress. The House that is. Their are several competitors in the Senate. And then there is Biden. Man...every time I watch C-Span I'm amazed that with the nutty leadership we have this country still survives.
Yes...I know. The truth hurts. No one likes to admit there isn't a single unbiased source of news anymore. I think I quit taking network news seriously when Cronkite retired. It's been spin city ever since. Now the conservatives badmouth the mainstream media and liberals badmouth Fox and talk radio. Funny thing is they are both usually correct. They never see the bias on their side though. If you point it out you're a troll. Ah well....I generally feel good about myself when both sides think I agree with the other side. Liberals think I'm conservative and conservatives think I'm liberal. Frankly I don't give a rats ass. A plague on both their houses.
OH come now. I readily admit Fox is heavily conservative....after all their is always room for an opposing viewpoint. The liberals have NBC, CBS, ABC and most of CNN. The conservatives have Fox...fair enough. But truly while Fox puts it's own spin on the news they don't "create" news or tell outright lies. Unlike CBS and NBC....well, I take back that about CBS, Dan Rather retired so they went up about 100 notches now. Yeah, Beck's kooky and preachy and Hannity foams at the mouth from time to time but O'reilly really just likes poking fun at the libs. It's a fun network. I doubt they'll be coming to her rescue though.
He just happened to start raping women right after the pentagon papers were released. I bet we find out he started murdering people and robbing banks since the release of those papers too. The pedophilia charges can't be far behind. Didn't this guy ever watch "Enemy of the State?" I wonder if Gene Hackman can help him?
The only dialup modem I had that got it's listed speed was the 14.4 USR courier. It was the best dialup modem I had. The 56K modem generally downloaded at about 44K. I remember getting 49K a few times but that was rare. I never saw 56K download speeds.
Amazing that SUSE fixed this in it's distro. In the proprietary world they'd still be waiting for the OS maker to fix it. SUSE just fixed it themselves. Many windows bugs could have been fixed but yet remained waiting for years until MS got around to it.
No dialup. I'm on Cable at 10Mb. I've been ridiculously pleased with it since I got it. It's been 3 years or more since I had to call about a problem with connection. I remember the dark days of dialup all too well. I have the 2400 baud modem, the 9600, the 14.4 (a USR courier) and 28.8 and 56K. Man the money I spent.
I have a small local ISP here. Comsouth.net they consistently run at 100 percent of advertised speed. I'm amazed sometimes how fast it is. No lag, no drop in speed after the kiddies get home from school. I don't know what's wrong with them.
I'm not going and if no one else (much) went it might show them the error of their ways. I'll be damned if I ever go to any event anywhere where people are pre-suing attendees. I can't believe anyone would attend such an event.....well.....yes I guess I do believe it. The whole thing makes me sick.
I know lot's of European countries tax the shit out of Petrol. I spent 3 years in Germany and occasionally ran short on my fuel ration and had to purchase fuel on the local economy. Wow! That hurt.
There's a reason that gas cars are cheaper. The oil companies are not stupid. They know the price point at which alternative fuels become competitive with gas and they keep the price a little below that. The price of oil is not high enough for anything else to compete....and it'll stay that way barring government interference. It's good for oil companies, they're rolling in the dough. It's good for consumers, gas is cheap and plentiful. It's good for politicians, their voters are happy with them. When glitches happen to the fuel supply and price drives high then all sorts of alternative power supply comes out of the woodwork. The price never stays high for long though. No one wants expensive fuel.
These companies that reign on top for years like AOL always seem to be almost unable to change and adapt to new times and technology. They get locked in to their success to the point that they stagnate. When change happens they just get left behind.
Nuking of two cities was truly brutal. A full scale invasion of Japan would have most likely have destroyed it totally. Even then, compared to how the military government of Japan treated civilians, most notably the Chinese, it was kind. A few hundred thousand dead instead of a few million. Ultimately war is bad. Losing a war is worse. My own State fought a losing war against the USA in the 1860's as part of the Confederacy. After years of brutal warfare costing the lives of more Americans than any other in it's history and two decades of "reconstruction" the scars are mostly gone. I still remember the bitterness my grand parents held. The moral? Try to avoid war. If you can't, then win it at all costs. Lose and you're fucked.
Oh yeah. WWII, that was the USA's fault too. We were picking on poor old hitler and hirohito. All they wanted was peace just like the fanatical elements of the muslim religion like the taliban who only want the right to kill anyone who disagrees with them. You know...I didn't think much of W when he was president and I don't like Obama much either but compared to these guys running places like Iran...they're saintly good people. It's a matter of degree you know.
I'm not getting it. There's a security problem and MS refuses to fix it? Really? How many times has this happened before? It's happened enough that I didn't even blink at it. It's like saying a politician told a lie. So?
Your side huh? I'm caught in the middle. Arrogant know it alls with all the answers on one side and nutty people on the other who can't figure out that if the thermometer is going up then it's getting warmer. The fact I dispute isn't that it's getting warmer, that's obvious enough. It's that I'm gonna get charged an extra 8.25 a month. If you believe that you're crazier than the people saying the climate isn't changing.
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MicroSoft would never stoop to such a dirty trick. They have a long history of being open and above board in all business dealings. Just look how well they've treated the open source community over the years.
She's probably getting elected even though she's an idiot. That's okay though...someone has to take Pelosi's place as the biggest airhead in congress. The House that is. Their are several competitors in the Senate. And then there is Biden. Man...every time I watch C-Span I'm amazed that with the nutty leadership we have this country still survives.
Yes...I know. The truth hurts. No one likes to admit there isn't a single unbiased source of news anymore. I think I quit taking network news seriously when Cronkite retired. It's been spin city ever since. Now the conservatives badmouth the mainstream media and liberals badmouth Fox and talk radio. Funny thing is they are both usually correct. They never see the bias on their side though. If you point it out you're a troll. Ah well....I generally feel good about myself when both sides think I agree with the other side. Liberals think I'm conservative and conservatives think I'm liberal. Frankly I don't give a rats ass. A plague on both their houses.
OH come now. I readily admit Fox is heavily conservative....after all their is always room for an opposing viewpoint. The liberals have NBC, CBS, ABC and most of CNN. The conservatives have Fox...fair enough. But truly while Fox puts it's own spin on the news they don't "create" news or tell outright lies. Unlike CBS and NBC....well, I take back that about CBS, Dan Rather retired so they went up about 100 notches now. Yeah, Beck's kooky and preachy and Hannity foams at the mouth from time to time but O'reilly really just likes poking fun at the libs. It's a fun network. I doubt they'll be coming to her rescue though.
Well really if someone sued Obama that's obviously completely different. Obama is a democrat, you can't go around suing democrats.
Nasa is going to the asteroid belt? Oh, they're making another video game.
It's off to get the lotto tickets!
Dead he becomes a martyr, discredited a charlatan.
He just happened to start raping women right after the pentagon papers were released. I bet we find out he started murdering people and robbing banks since the release of those papers too. The pedophilia charges can't be far behind. Didn't this guy ever watch "Enemy of the State?" I wonder if Gene Hackman can help him?
The only dialup modem I had that got it's listed speed was the 14.4 USR courier. It was the best dialup modem I had. The 56K modem generally downloaded at about 44K. I remember getting 49K a few times but that was rare. I never saw 56K download speeds.
Amazing that SUSE fixed this in it's distro. In the proprietary world they'd still be waiting for the OS maker to fix it. SUSE just fixed it themselves. Many windows bugs could have been fixed but yet remained waiting for years until MS got around to it.
No dialup. I'm on Cable at 10Mb. I've been ridiculously pleased with it since I got it. It's been 3 years or more since I had to call about a problem with connection. I remember the dark days of dialup all too well. I have the 2400 baud modem, the 9600, the 14.4 (a USR courier) and 28.8 and 56K. Man the money I spent.
I have a small local ISP here. Comsouth.net they consistently run at 100 percent of advertised speed. I'm amazed sometimes how fast it is. No lag, no drop in speed after the kiddies get home from school. I don't know what's wrong with them.
I'm not going and if no one else (much) went it might show them the error of their ways. I'll be damned if I ever go to any event anywhere where people are pre-suing attendees. I can't believe anyone would attend such an event.....well.....yes I guess I do believe it. The whole thing makes me sick.
You never heard of OPEC? Seriously?
I know lot's of European countries tax the shit out of Petrol. I spent 3 years in Germany and occasionally ran short on my fuel ration and had to purchase fuel on the local economy. Wow! That hurt.
There's a reason that gas cars are cheaper. The oil companies are not stupid. They know the price point at which alternative fuels become competitive with gas and they keep the price a little below that. The price of oil is not high enough for anything else to compete....and it'll stay that way barring government interference. It's good for oil companies, they're rolling in the dough. It's good for consumers, gas is cheap and plentiful. It's good for politicians, their voters are happy with them. When glitches happen to the fuel supply and price drives high then all sorts of alternative power supply comes out of the woodwork. The price never stays high for long though. No one wants expensive fuel.
These companies that reign on top for years like AOL always seem to be almost unable to change and adapt to new times and technology. They get locked in to their success to the point that they stagnate. When change happens they just get left behind.
I used them as coasters. New ones came regularly in the mail. I always thought that AOL stood for American Organization of Lamers.
Nuking of two cities was truly brutal. A full scale invasion of Japan would have most likely have destroyed it totally. Even then, compared to how the military government of Japan treated civilians, most notably the Chinese, it was kind. A few hundred thousand dead instead of a few million. Ultimately war is bad. Losing a war is worse. My own State fought a losing war against the USA in the 1860's as part of the Confederacy. After years of brutal warfare costing the lives of more Americans than any other in it's history and two decades of "reconstruction" the scars are mostly gone. I still remember the bitterness my grand parents held. The moral? Try to avoid war. If you can't, then win it at all costs. Lose and you're fucked.
Damn...what do you expect when incompetent idiots sit in the White House? We went from Dumb to Dumber. I hate to think what's next.
Oh yeah. WWII, that was the USA's fault too. We were picking on poor old hitler and hirohito. All they wanted was peace just like the fanatical elements of the muslim religion like the taliban who only want the right to kill anyone who disagrees with them. You know...I didn't think much of W when he was president and I don't like Obama much either but compared to these guys running places like Iran...they're saintly good people. It's a matter of degree you know.
whoa! Lizard shape shifters? I missed that one.
I'm not getting it. There's a security problem and MS refuses to fix it? Really? How many times has this happened before? It's happened enough that I didn't even blink at it. It's like saying a politician told a lie. So?
Your side huh? I'm caught in the middle. Arrogant know it alls with all the answers on one side and nutty people on the other who can't figure out that if the thermometer is going up then it's getting warmer. The fact I dispute isn't that it's getting warmer, that's obvious enough. It's that I'm gonna get charged an extra 8.25 a month. If you believe that you're crazier than the people saying the climate isn't changing.