You're so fucking full of shit it's ridiculous. I can't even begin to take you seriously with this crap. All I can say is "fuck you" for trying to redefine terms. Want to know what the LP stands for? Go to their god damned website and read for 10 seconds. Paul Ryan is a libertarian on economic issues and nothing else. He isn't a part of the libertarian party, nor has he ever been.
So again, FUCK YOU with your bullshit. Assholes like you trying to constantly move the goal post ruin the political discourse in this country. I happily treat you witht he contempt you deserve. Fucking weasel.
Re:Open Source is similar to the Tea Party ...
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Don't bother. The leftists here have their talking points. Pointing out that the Democrat party was the party that founded the KKK, created the Jim Crow laws, created gun control specifically to keep blacks from arming and protecting themselves, founded Planned Parenthood as a way to euthanize the black population and had a grand wizard of the KKK in the Senate up to just a few years ago. Nevermind that the Republican party was the part of Martin Luther King. That it was the Republican party that fought a civil war that helped to free American slaves. That it was the Republican party that fought for civil rights for minorities from the 40's all the way to the present.
No sir, leftists have their new plantation. Any black person, such as Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Alan West or any of the many others who go against their Democratic talking points are "working for the man" and not "real" black folks.
Liberalism is a mental disease. Its the ultimate form of projection where they can do no wrong, everyone else is evil and free speech is only ok when you're saying something they agree with. If you aren't a liberal you're "stupid" or "ignorant" or "crazy."
I'm so sick of the fucking debate with them it's beyond words for me to express. They have pushed people so far that I honestly believe a civil war is coming. The takers have run out of other peoples money and the workers are fed up. With all the new scandals, all someone needs to do is light a match to this powder keg.
I'm a little hesitant to reply to you since your tone of voice is so nasty but.. here goes.
When you buy stuff, you really should pay the entire cost of that stuff which should include the costs and benefits of the legal, political, education, and infrastructure (roads, communications, etc.) which went into making that stuff. Some of these costs are publicly funded by taxes. That is why corporations should pay taxes. I don't want to underwrite the cost of your latest gadget by paying for all of the public goods which helped create it. You need to pay for your own stuff.
The good news is that these guys are Jobs' hand-picked successors, and that they have a lot of money in the bank..
Not entirely true. Yes Steve picked Tim Cook. God only knows why, the mans so far removed from reality it's mind boggling. How can any CEO keep their job after their stock value was chopped in half in less than a year? Regardless, most of the top dogs at Apple have fleed the sinking ship. I've kept an eye on this. Yes Jon Ive is there and Tim Cook and a couple of others who've been around a while but dig deeper. Many of Jobs "hand picked" people have run for the hills.
Tim Cook is not what he said he was. He is not the same guy Steve picked. He's running the company into the ground and they have no plan going forward. I hope this changes but I'm not holding my breath for it. I do not believe Tim Cook understands his own customers.
Companies don't pay taxes. They pass them off to the customers. Every time I hear one of you tax hungry douche bags scream about corporate taxes I want to slap you across the face. You raise taxes on companies, the companies pass the buck to the customers. Every time you pull this shit my cost of living goes up. So fuck you and your tax and spend bullshit.
Bullshit. It's already been shown that PP doesnt have a single facility with the ability to give a mammogram. PP is a baby killing organization. Look it up, the founder was a rabid racist that believed blacks were sub-human. Her name was Margarete Sanger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger#Race). The entire abortion movement and PP is all about eugenics. Only they were smarter than the Germans, they've sold it to people in such a way that they line up for it rather than being forced to a furnace at gun point.
Honest question here, not trolling. Doesn't your last point negate your first? If it's obvious then who cares about "familiar"? To me "familiar" is what's killing the industry from making any major progress. It's already proven that people will accept new (via iOS and Android) if it's easy enough to use.
Lot's of people do, not thinking about it. It's like walking around with a tin can that says "Save the children!" on it. People think, "Oh hey, it's for kids, I should put some money in there." Only this is with puppies! And fluffeh kittens!
PETA should be dragged to court and exposed for the frauds they are. They can take all their celebrity nudes with them too. Sick of seeing washed up actresses on their commercials posing with nothing but hand bras telling us how cruel we are because we don't give them money to kill animals. These freaks are almost as bad as planned parenthood.
Have you priced Mercedes/Audi/BMW against American cars? Excluding that new $30k Merc they all cost twice as much.
I have priced out American cars lately and unless you want a POS they cost just as much as Mercedes/Audi/BMW.
I'm a truck guy too which is worse. I priced out a truck that I considered minimum requirement and it was over 50k, closer to 60k with the stuff I actually wanted. The prices on American cars are ridiculous. On the other hand, Japanese vehicles seem to be priced more competitively. They used to be a hell of a lot cheaper but ever since Toyota got the reputation for being crazy reliable the prices sky rocketed.
The Union issue in the US is one of corruption. American Unions are beyond corrupt. The Union execs are constantly under scrutiny for corruption charges, never mind the history of Mob involvement with them. This all leads to added manufacturing costs. There's a reason Pinto's arent built anymore. Its not because they are ugly as fuck it's because they cant make any money of them. SUV's have flooded the market for two reasons, they have huge profit margins and they sell like hot cakes. The age of the 3-15k car in the US is dead and gone.
The internet has become the new "idiot box" as my grandparents used to call Television. It's not all bad news though for those of us who choose to use it well. Between Google, WolframAlpha and Wikipedia we have, at our finger tips, the greatest accumulation of knowledge humankind has ever known. Using it well can and will make the difference between an idiot and a resourceful, intelligent human being.
Ah the Google+ haters. I and millions of others use Google+ every day. We just use it for things other than whining about stupid shit and complaining about High School like what you find on Facebook. Unlike Facebook I find Google+ to actually be useful. Hate all you want, bitch about how Grandma and little Tina in 10th grade aren't using it. I really don't give a fuck. I'm just glad you and the other whining bitches aren't on it. Thanks for staying away.
Really, McAfee is the best celebrity you can get Slashdot? He's not even had anything to do with tech for what, 20 years?
Careful what you wish for. We'll end up with an RMS/Linus sex tape or something.
Re:what is the point of forking a distro ?
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Forking a distro usually happens when one of the people working on it doesn't feel they are "in charge" enough, and they want to be "the boss," so they go off and create "their own" little fiefdom to rule over.
In my experience it's usually the opposite. When the current dictator in charge refuses input from a large group of contributors, is abusive or otherwise tries to exploit the free labor being contributed to the project. Take XF86 for example and how that debacle ended up. Take OpenOffice.
A lone person not feeling like they are in control enough, as you say, isn't enough to create a fork. There has to be people behind him/her and willing to contribute to the fork. Take OpenBSD as an example of that or Cinnamon.
I heard that FreeRCT is in need for both programmers and graphic artists. Their goal is to create an open game in the spirit of Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 2.
I actually thought about contributing until I saw "C++" in their requirements.:)
Firefox is on the decline. I really do hope they switch gears and get Firefox up-to-par again. I would really hate to see Chrome dominating the web like IE once did. Mozilla just seems more interested in Rust and FirefoxOS these days. I know they are capable of doing more than one thing at a time but Firefox needs some serious love, I'd like it to be the focus again.
I get two days off every week. I get 3 weeks off every year and I have 6 paid days off a year in the form of floating holidays and sick days. That's plenty unless you're a lazy bitch.
You might be a greedy scumbag, regardless of the amount of money you have already accrued. Check for the following symptoms: not wanting to pay taxes on money your employees earned for you, feeling it is totally acceptable to dumb toxic waste from your country off the coast of Somalia, or stealing from babies.
But seriously, this isn't "battling labor laws," this is breaking the law for a higher profit margin.
The laws being talked about are the ones where it is literally impossible to fire the employees unless they commit a crime. My company has an entire office full of people in Italy that do nothing because we have no more use for the facility but the local laws do not allow us to fire them. Instead we make them show up every day, for their 7-8 hours and sit in chairs and do nothing. They get paid for this. Some day they will quit and move on to other jobs and they just wont be replaced. However it's been about 3 years so far and they are still hanging around. France is even worse.
Not to mention the insane amount of paid time off many Europeans get. Honestly, I have a lot of friends in these countries. Many are out of work needlessly. If the government would unpucker its asshole and allow the crap people to be fired, the companies wouldnt be so afraid to hire new ones.
Because negativity draws clicks. This is what movie reviewers have known for decades and have exploited heavily. I honestly can't remember the last positive movie review I read.
I just tried Firefox again after a year + on Chrome. I genuinely wanted Firefox to be better but it wasn't. In two days it corrupted its cache 3 times, forcing me to manually clear it. It choked on all of my google cookies and wouldn't allow me to login to gmail until I googled the answer (manually clearing all of my cookies as well as cache). On top of that the sync barfed all over the place when I added a third machine and and somehow the plugins I had loaded, specifically lastpass, ended up taking a shit on all over the place because sync broke.
I'm sorry but Firefox is a piece of shit. It was cool 10 years ago but Mozilla hasn't done a fucking thing worth mentioning in years now. It's only getting worse too with FirefoxOS and Rust. There is no leadership at Mozilla and they are slipping into irrelevancy quickly.
Every time this topic comes up, someone like you mentions how you can disable every single "spying" thing... but fail to provide specific details about how/where to do so. Occasionally, they'll tell you to "google it" or "look it up yourself." I find that very curious.
The phone is actually very good. The hardware that is. If you stripped out Facebook Home you would basically have stock android on it. At.99 cents on contract thats a damn good buy if Cyanogen Mod supported it.
One day (and I believe it will be soon), a viable alternative will appear and their collective mass of users will leave practically overnight.
No one loves Facebook. Its not cool. Its just where everyone is hanging until something better comes along.
I went over to Google+ and have never looked back. All the high school bullshit from 20 years ago that somehow found me on Facebook is now long gone. I honestly hope Facebook stays alive for a while so as to keep all the fuckers I hate from my high school years away from my social networking.
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You're so fucking full of shit it's ridiculous. I can't even begin to take you seriously with this crap. All I can say is "fuck you" for trying to redefine terms. Want to know what the LP stands for? Go to their god damned website and read for 10 seconds. Paul Ryan is a libertarian on economic issues and nothing else. He isn't a part of the libertarian party, nor has he ever been.
So again, FUCK YOU with your bullshit. Assholes like you trying to constantly move the goal post ruin the political discourse in this country. I happily treat you witht he contempt you deserve. Fucking weasel.
Don't bother. The leftists here have their talking points. Pointing out that the Democrat party was the party that founded the KKK, created the Jim Crow laws, created gun control specifically to keep blacks from arming and protecting themselves, founded Planned Parenthood as a way to euthanize the black population and had a grand wizard of the KKK in the Senate up to just a few years ago. Nevermind that the Republican party was the part of Martin Luther King. That it was the Republican party that fought a civil war that helped to free American slaves. That it was the Republican party that fought for civil rights for minorities from the 40's all the way to the present.
No sir, leftists have their new plantation. Any black person, such as Herman Cain, Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Alan West or any of the many others who go against their Democratic talking points are "working for the man" and not "real" black folks.
Liberalism is a mental disease. Its the ultimate form of projection where they can do no wrong, everyone else is evil and free speech is only ok when you're saying something they agree with. If you aren't a liberal you're "stupid" or "ignorant" or "crazy."
I'm so sick of the fucking debate with them it's beyond words for me to express. They have pushed people so far that I honestly believe a civil war is coming. The takers have run out of other peoples money and the workers are fed up. With all the new scandals, all someone needs to do is light a match to this powder keg.
and fed. orgs. like the IRS have been snooping on random citizens
They weren't random. They were specifically targeted for their political, social and economic beliefs, which is far, far worse than random.
I'm a little hesitant to reply to you since your tone of voice is so nasty but.. here goes.
When you buy stuff, you really should pay the entire cost of that stuff which should include the costs and benefits of the legal, political, education, and infrastructure (roads, communications, etc.) which went into making that stuff. Some of these costs are publicly funded by taxes.
That is why corporations should pay taxes.
I don't want to underwrite the cost of your latest gadget by paying for all of the public goods which helped create it.
You need to pay for your own stuff.
Wow, just wow. Talk about fucking clueless
The good news is that these guys are Jobs' hand-picked successors, and that they have a lot of money in the bank..
Not entirely true. Yes Steve picked Tim Cook. God only knows why, the mans so far removed from reality it's mind boggling. How can any CEO keep their job after their stock value was chopped in half in less than a year? Regardless, most of the top dogs at Apple have fleed the sinking ship. I've kept an eye on this. Yes Jon Ive is there and Tim Cook and a couple of others who've been around a while but dig deeper. Many of Jobs "hand picked" people have run for the hills.
Tim Cook is not what he said he was. He is not the same guy Steve picked. He's running the company into the ground and they have no plan going forward. I hope this changes but I'm not holding my breath for it. I do not believe Tim Cook understands his own customers.
pay little to no taxes on them
Companies don't pay taxes. They pass them off to the customers. Every time I hear one of you tax hungry douche bags scream about corporate taxes I want to slap you across the face. You raise taxes on companies, the companies pass the buck to the customers. Every time you pull this shit my cost of living goes up. So fuck you and your tax and spend bullshit.
Need mammograms but can't afford them? PP
Bullshit. It's already been shown that PP doesnt have a single facility with the ability to give a mammogram. PP is a baby killing organization. Look it up, the founder was a rabid racist that believed blacks were sub-human. Her name was Margarete Sanger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger#Race). The entire abortion movement and PP is all about eugenics. Only they were smarter than the Germans, they've sold it to people in such a way that they line up for it rather than being forced to a furnace at gun point.
Familiarity
Consistency
Menus
Obviousness
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Honest question here, not trolling. Doesn't your last point negate your first? If it's obvious then who cares about "familiar"? To me "familiar" is what's killing the industry from making any major progress. It's already proven that people will accept new (via iOS and Android) if it's easy enough to use.
Lot's of people do, not thinking about it. It's like walking around with a tin can that says "Save the children!" on it. People think, "Oh hey, it's for kids, I should put some money in there." Only this is with puppies! And fluffeh kittens!
PETA should be dragged to court and exposed for the frauds they are. They can take all their celebrity nudes with them too. Sick of seeing washed up actresses on their commercials posing with nothing but hand bras telling us how cruel we are because we don't give them money to kill animals. These freaks are almost as bad as planned parenthood.
Have you priced Mercedes/Audi/BMW against American cars? Excluding that new $30k Merc they all cost twice as much.
I have priced out American cars lately and unless you want a POS they cost just as much as Mercedes/Audi/BMW.
I'm a truck guy too which is worse. I priced out a truck that I considered minimum requirement and it was over 50k, closer to 60k with the stuff I actually wanted. The prices on American cars are ridiculous. On the other hand, Japanese vehicles seem to be priced more competitively. They used to be a hell of a lot cheaper but ever since Toyota got the reputation for being crazy reliable the prices sky rocketed.
The Union issue in the US is one of corruption. American Unions are beyond corrupt. The Union execs are constantly under scrutiny for corruption charges, never mind the history of Mob involvement with them. This all leads to added manufacturing costs. There's a reason Pinto's arent built anymore. Its not because they are ugly as fuck it's because they cant make any money of them. SUV's have flooded the market for two reasons, they have huge profit margins and they sell like hot cakes. The age of the 3-15k car in the US is dead and gone.
The internet has become the new "idiot box" as my grandparents used to call Television. It's not all bad news though for those of us who choose to use it well. Between Google, WolframAlpha and Wikipedia we have, at our finger tips, the greatest accumulation of knowledge humankind has ever known. Using it well can and will make the difference between an idiot and a resourceful, intelligent human being.
Ah the Google+ haters. I and millions of others use Google+ every day. We just use it for things other than whining about stupid shit and complaining about High School like what you find on Facebook. Unlike Facebook I find Google+ to actually be useful. Hate all you want, bitch about how Grandma and little Tina in 10th grade aren't using it. I really don't give a fuck. I'm just glad you and the other whining bitches aren't on it. Thanks for staying away.
Really, McAfee is the best celebrity you can get Slashdot? He's not even had anything to do with tech for what, 20 years?
Careful what you wish for. We'll end up with an RMS/Linus sex tape or something.
Forking a distro usually happens when one of the people working on it doesn't feel they are "in charge" enough, and they want to be "the boss," so they go off and create "their own" little fiefdom to rule over.
In my experience it's usually the opposite. When the current dictator in charge refuses input from a large group of contributors, is abusive or otherwise tries to exploit the free labor being contributed to the project. Take XF86 for example and how that debacle ended up. Take OpenOffice.
A lone person not feeling like they are in control enough, as you say, isn't enough to create a fork. There has to be people behind him/her and willing to contribute to the fork. Take OpenBSD as an example of that or Cinnamon.
I heard that FreeRCT is in need for both programmers and graphic artists. Their goal is to create an open game in the spirit of Rollercoaster Tycoon 1 & 2.
I actually thought about contributing until I saw "C++" in their requirements. :)
Firefox is on the decline. I really do hope they switch gears and get Firefox up-to-par again. I would really hate to see Chrome dominating the web like IE once did. Mozilla just seems more interested in Rust and FirefoxOS these days. I know they are capable of doing more than one thing at a time but Firefox needs some serious love, I'd like it to be the focus again.
What's 3 and 5% of 3-4 billion? Hint: it's a lot more than 50 million.
I get two days off every week. I get 3 weeks off every year and I have 6 paid days off a year in the form of floating holidays and sick days. That's plenty unless you're a lazy bitch.
You might be a greedy scumbag, regardless of the amount of money you have already accrued. Check for the following symptoms: not wanting to pay taxes on money your employees earned for you, feeling it is totally acceptable to dumb toxic waste from your country off the coast of Somalia, or stealing from babies.
But seriously, this isn't "battling labor laws," this is breaking the law for a higher profit margin.
The laws being talked about are the ones where it is literally impossible to fire the employees unless they commit a crime. My company has an entire office full of people in Italy that do nothing because we have no more use for the facility but the local laws do not allow us to fire them. Instead we make them show up every day, for their 7-8 hours and sit in chairs and do nothing. They get paid for this. Some day they will quit and move on to other jobs and they just wont be replaced. However it's been about 3 years so far and they are still hanging around. France is even worse.
Not to mention the insane amount of paid time off many Europeans get. Honestly, I have a lot of friends in these countries. Many are out of work needlessly. If the government would unpucker its asshole and allow the crap people to be fired, the companies wouldnt be so afraid to hire new ones.
Because negativity draws clicks. This is what movie reviewers have known for decades and have exploited heavily. I honestly can't remember the last positive movie review I read.
You're about as fucking stupid as it gets aren't you?
I just tried Firefox again after a year + on Chrome. I genuinely wanted Firefox to be better but it wasn't. In two days it corrupted its cache 3 times, forcing me to manually clear it. It choked on all of my google cookies and wouldn't allow me to login to gmail until I googled the answer (manually clearing all of my cookies as well as cache). On top of that the sync barfed all over the place when I added a third machine and and somehow the plugins I had loaded, specifically lastpass, ended up taking a shit on all over the place because sync broke.
I'm sorry but Firefox is a piece of shit. It was cool 10 years ago but Mozilla hasn't done a fucking thing worth mentioning in years now. It's only getting worse too with FirefoxOS and Rust. There is no leadership at Mozilla and they are slipping into irrelevancy quickly.
Every time this topic comes up, someone like you mentions how you can disable every single "spying" thing... but fail to provide specific details about how/where to do so. Occasionally, they'll tell you to "google it" or "look it up yourself." I find that very curious.
http://www.chromium.org/Home
You're welcome
The phone is actually very good. The hardware that is. If you stripped out Facebook Home you would basically have stock android on it. At .99 cents on contract thats a damn good buy if Cyanogen Mod supported it.
One day (and I believe it will be soon), a viable alternative will appear and their collective mass of users will leave practically overnight.
No one loves Facebook. Its not cool. Its just where everyone is hanging until something better comes along.
I went over to Google+ and have never looked back. All the high school bullshit from 20 years ago that somehow found me on Facebook is now long gone. I honestly hope Facebook stays alive for a while so as to keep all the fuckers I hate from my high school years away from my social networking.