What the fuck is "\."; the Microsoft version of "/."?
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I take umbrage to that statement. There is plenty of good American beer. It just happens to come from the Pacific Northwest.
Take, for instance, Anchor Steam (brewed in San Francisco, CA). Or anything from the Mendocino Brewing Company a little further north (Red Tail, Blue Heron, etc.). If you like something with that full flavor and a little less body, try one of the fine Oregonian brews from Full Sail.
Not all American beer is that Anheiser/Busch pisswater.
Makes you wish your dad was accomplished and acclaimed so you could, through no merit of your own, randomly monkey around with the foreign and domestic policies of the US, and crap yourself silly when you see a "Terrorist/Enemy-Combatant", doesn't it?
Re:Microsoft Bob will never go out of fashion.
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I was a beta tester for 3.11. Then I upgraded to being a beta tester for Windows 95. After that came NT, then 98, then 2000. I'm happy beta testing 2000, and have no inclination toward joining the XP beta test group...
I once carried ten hard drives to a trade show in Switzerland and back. You entomb the bastards in foam and don't let the airport securitard run it through the XRay machine (they can use those little swipe pads to check for nitrites). All the drives survived nicely.
The head of Shipping&Receiving at that company wanted to just ship the drives inside the computers (which were in turn packed inside of large crates with a bunch of other tradeshow hardware). I politely declined that offer...
Amen. First guy that shows up on the East side with one of these gets his ass kicked and his little toy sunk to the bottom of the kelp beds. The only thing that saves the jetski fucktards is that I can't paddle fast enough to catch them.
Microsoft and IBM together invented the PC. If anyone should complain, it should be IBM only.
Actually, IBM alone invented the PC. Microsoft just bought an existing OS that happened to be written for the processor IBM chose to include in the system, and changed the name before presenting it to IBM as their own work.
It was mighty nice of them to later give the real inventor of DOS a job (even if he still was never cut in on the distribution profits).
So no, Microsoft had no real affect on the PC except to later on make it (for a while) so that everyone who bought a PC was forced to run their OS.
That is the way it was from the beginning.
So we should all just go back to using an Altair? Don't be a horse's ass.
Apple is a monopoly only to those who wish to purchase Apple products (which is a single-digit segment of the market). Microsoft, on the other hand, has been found in numerous courts to be a monopoly on the desktop system market and has been found to utilize illegal methods to enforce such a monopoly. A marriage of hardware to the OS should be illegal in such a circumstance (lack or perceived lack of choice for the consumers).
In short, your comparison is one of "Apples and oranges" and is therefore invalid.
Rich people have much more influence over government than you do, and if you think that goverment is ever going to help you satisfy your envy, think again.
Believe you me, I was under no illusions there.. And I'm not saying "soak the rich". I'm saying "don't soak the rest of us to benefit the rich".
To get into making money from property today, you pretty much have to come up with the price of a house or condo that you can rent out.
Not really.. it just depends on how leveraged you want to be in the early going. It's actually much easier to break into the property market than most people think, and you have to start with shit-boxes with short-term neg-am mortgages hoping the value holds or increases. I shifted all of my invested money into property shortly before the bubble burst and my properties have so far held value (even slightly increased while others have dropped) but this was soley due to location. So far that is the only thing between me and a trailer park.
Dividends don't really help me here, only a capital gains reduction would (if I flip short-term, which I'm not doing).
Anyway, this isn't available to the majority of the populace. The middle and lower income folks just never see the benefit of a reduction of dividend taxes. This was intended to put more money in the pockets of business with the hope that business would spend that money creating jobs. In this economic environment, all it does is make business keep its cash reserves high for a little longer, hoping to ride out decreased revenue.
I think Bush has done to much, but I am very pro small government
Then you should be anti-Bush, as he has drastically expanded government in his term (think "Department of Homeland Security" on top of an expanded FBI, etc.).
He has investments in oil and energy companies
The ones he and his buddies own? The ones who made up the secret counsel advising his energy policy?
has fought to decrease our dependance on foreign oil
by trying to drill in ANWR?? Are you serious?
Cutting taxes from the rich does not hurt the middle class.
Yes it does, because it places the burden more on our shoulders. We get to enjoy the higher tax rates on the lower end of their income bracket with a very limited ability to exploit loopholes^H^H^H^H^H^Htax shelters.
Great Idea! Government spending is the perfect way to ensure a healthy, thriving economy!
The current Administration seems hell-bent on spending. Only, they're borrowing from future generations to do it so they can present their fictitious "tax reduction". Oh, and they're not spending it here at home, either....
I can've believe I'm responding to an AC.. but, just to clarify my point:
It is also apparent that you love this country and are quite pissed for the current situation the nation is in. How can your stance be what it is yet you disagree with the war in Iraq & Afghanistan?
Afghanistan I had no problem with. There was acknowledged direct involvement in the events of 9-11 and with the perpetrators thereof. Iraq, on the other hand, was a trumped-up load of bullshit which has cost us all of our international political capital and goodwill, not to mention almost 400 US military lives (I'm not even counting Iraqi civilians). Saddam, while a despicable human, had nothing to do with 9-11 or terrorism in general, obviously in hindsight had no WMDs (either to use or give to terrorists) and was effectively bottled up in his little locale doing nothing but making laughable press releases which the rest of the Muslim world largely ignored.
I'm glad that the Afghanis and Iraqis are free from oppressive governments. It should have stopped at Afghanistan. Where is Osama these days? Is he bunked up with Saddam in some Baghdad suburb?
How is it not worth the money to know the US freed them from a life of horror
How about spending 1/4 of that money here at home making sure US citizens have jobs? I'm sorry, but when I'm constantly facing the loss of MY home and MY standard of living, I have to think about MY family first. A McJob wouldn't even begin to allow me to provide for them without uprooting everything we have built in the last decade (a decision, as a family, we have made not to do).
So I take my job as a Patriot seriously enough to speak up against the transgressions of my current government, and seek to change the persons currently in power and responsible for those transgressions.
Btw: Read some American history. Start with Nixon, and then go back to King George (18th Century).
I got my $400 "advance" on next year's tax liability. So what. There's no real reduction here; if you think there is, you're drinking the kool-aid, Karl.
a removal of dividend taxes
Oh come on now.. you can't be serious. The folks to whom a removal of this type of tax makes a difference are those who have MILLIONS of dollars invested. Those who have that kind of money to invest are those who need tax reductions the least. And don't even THINK about trying to mention Bush's re-do of Reagan's "trickle down". It didn't work then, and it won't work now.
all sorts of extensions to unemploymet insurance
This, in lieu of an actual job-creating economic program? No thanks. I'd rather work for my money. However, I'm not able to thanks to the ignorance or just plain disregard of your buddy in the White House.
and a crackdown on Wall Street corruption
Hmm.. two years and counting since Enron and no one seems to be going to jail, much less having a trial. If you mean the recent indictments of Kozlowski and Quattrone, a big yawn to you as these cases are just the tip of the scapegoat iceberg and will probably result in little more than "community service". Meanwhile, the rest of the scandals go unpunished. By the way, what's going on with Bernie Ebbers or John Rigas?
Its not governemts job to fix the economy
Uh, actually, yes it is. And so far, nothing is being done about it. The economy was softening prior to Bush. However, because of Bush's greed and neglect, it has continue to flounder much longer than anyone predicted. And it really isn't getting much better, despite what Fox news insists.
but the market as a whole always eventually corrects itself
That type of free economic thinking did well in the '30s... Thankfully a stronger engine was built during the 90s which could withstand a few years of neglect (even if a few million citizens have to bear the burden).
there are many people in this world who would love to have a job at McDonalds, here in the land of opportunity
Unfortunately, douchebag, people like you vote for legislation to keep those people out of this country.
We're all trying to make the best of it, but are getting exactly ZERO support from the current Administration (unless, of course, we'd like to go be cannon fodder).
According to your logic I should just give up my house, my car, the place I love to live, and move my family to some shit-hole trailer park in BumFuck S. Dakota (apologies to S.Dakota residents) so I can actually afford to live off of the McJob some illegal alien is risking death to come into this country to have.
All the while, your friend in the White House can have a party with his buddies wiping their asses with the Constitution and killing US soldiers so that companies like Bechtel and Halliburton (and by reference, themselves) can get rich.
I never rant or troll as a matter of policy. But you have offended me so much with your callous disregard for what's going on in this country.
In short, sir, FUCK YOU. I hope that we never meet in person.
Whoop-de-doo.. a few weeks or a few months. Almost all of the OSS vulns I've monitored for the past 5 years have been announced and patched within 30 days of rumors floating around in certain circles, and more often than not, less than half that time.
The Blaster patch story is still quite a departure from the usual SOP employed by Microsoft. There is no debating that point. One semi-alert response to a show-stopper of a bug does not heal the wounds of a decade.
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"Help! I'm being held captive in a Chinese OS-development facility!"
It's a fuckin' typo, you anal-retentive loser. How do you survive the real world as tightly wrapped as you are?
Massive quantities of beer.
(lighten up, Francis.. it was a little joke...hah hah)
What the fuck is "\."; the Microsoft version of "/."?
I take umbrage to that statement. There is plenty of good American beer. It just happens to come from the Pacific Northwest.
Take, for instance, Anchor Steam (brewed in San Francisco, CA). Or anything from the Mendocino Brewing Company a little further north (Red Tail, Blue Heron, etc.). If you like something with that full flavor and a little less body, try one of the fine Oregonian brews from Full Sail.
Not all American beer is that Anheiser/Busch pisswater.
Give me hops, or give me death..!
Ah.. Nokia isn't an Asian company. Try again.
I would pay for Napster. I wanted to pay for Napster. The RIAA killed Napster.
This is NOT Napster.
Hitler and Stalin named two of the top 5 influential political leaders of the 20th Century.
Makes you wish your dad was accomplished and acclaimed so you could, through no merit of your own, randomly monkey around with the foreign and domestic policies of the US, and crap yourself silly when you see a "Terrorist/Enemy-Combatant", doesn't it?
I was a beta tester for 3.11. Then I upgraded to being a beta tester for Windows 95. After that came NT, then 98, then 2000. I'm happy beta testing 2000, and have no inclination toward joining the XP beta test group...
IIRC, that was MS-SQL, not mysql (or any other *NIX variety). This puts it back in the category of "Windows Vulnerability".
I once carried ten hard drives to a trade show in Switzerland and back. You entomb the bastards in foam and don't let the airport securitard run it through the XRay machine (they can use those little swipe pads to check for nitrites). All the drives survived nicely.
The head of Shipping&Receiving at that company wanted to just ship the drives inside the computers (which were in turn packed inside of large crates with a bunch of other tradeshow hardware). I politely declined that offer...
Keeps getting pushed back? Smeg!
Amen. First guy that shows up on the East side with one of these gets his ass kicked and his little toy sunk to the bottom of the kelp beds. The only thing that saves the jetski fucktards is that I can't paddle fast enough to catch them.
Microsoft and IBM together invented the PC. If anyone should complain, it should be IBM only.
Actually, IBM alone invented the PC. Microsoft just bought an existing OS that happened to be written for the processor IBM chose to include in the system, and changed the name before presenting it to IBM as their own work.
It was mighty nice of them to later give the real inventor of DOS a job (even if he still was never cut in on the distribution profits).
So no, Microsoft had no real affect on the PC except to later on make it (for a while) so that everyone who bought a PC was forced to run their OS.
That is the way it was from the beginning.
So we should all just go back to using an Altair? Don't be a horse's ass.
Apple is a monopoly only to those who wish to purchase Apple products (which is a single-digit segment of the market). Microsoft, on the other hand, has been found in numerous courts to be a monopoly on the desktop system market and has been found to utilize illegal methods to enforce such a monopoly. A marriage of hardware to the OS should be illegal in such a circumstance (lack or perceived lack of choice for the consumers).
In short, your comparison is one of "Apples and oranges" and is therefore invalid.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it...
Didn't he play the cop in all those Jaws movies?
I also liked him as Heywood Floyd in "2010".
I thought Unreal Tournament had that distinction...
Rich people have much more influence over government than you do, and if you think that goverment is ever going to help you satisfy your envy, think again.
Believe you me, I was under no illusions there.. And I'm not saying "soak the rich". I'm saying "don't soak the rest of us to benefit the rich".
To get into making money from property today, you pretty much have to come up with the price of a house or condo that you can rent out.
Not really.. it just depends on how leveraged you want to be in the early going. It's actually much easier to break into the property market than most people think, and you have to start with shit-boxes with short-term neg-am mortgages hoping the value holds or increases. I shifted all of my invested money into property shortly before the bubble burst and my properties have so far held value (even slightly increased while others have dropped) but this was soley due to location. So far that is the only thing between me and a trailer park.
Dividends don't really help me here, only a capital gains reduction would (if I flip short-term, which I'm not doing).
Anyway, this isn't available to the majority of the populace. The middle and lower income folks just never see the benefit of a reduction of dividend taxes. This was intended to put more money in the pockets of business with the hope that business would spend that money creating jobs. In this economic environment, all it does is make business keep its cash reserves high for a little longer, hoping to ride out decreased revenue.
I think Bush has done to much, but I am very pro small government
Then you should be anti-Bush, as he has drastically expanded government in his term (think "Department of Homeland Security" on top of an expanded FBI, etc.).
He has investments in oil and energy companies
The ones he and his buddies own? The ones who made up the secret counsel advising his energy policy?
has fought to decrease our dependance on foreign oil
by trying to drill in ANWR?? Are you serious?
Cutting taxes from the rich does not hurt the middle class.
Yes it does, because it places the burden more on our shoulders. We get to enjoy the higher tax rates on the lower end of their income bracket with a very limited ability to exploit loopholes^H^H^H^H^H^Htax shelters.
Great Idea! Government spending is the perfect way to ensure a healthy, thriving economy!
The current Administration seems hell-bent on spending. Only, they're borrowing from future generations to do it so they can present their fictitious "tax reduction". Oh, and they're not spending it here at home, either....
Good advice. You should take it.
You're surely joking with that little quip...
I can've believe I'm responding to an AC.. but, just to clarify my point:
It is also apparent that you love this country and are quite pissed for the current situation the nation is in. How can your stance be what it is yet you disagree with the war in Iraq & Afghanistan?
Afghanistan I had no problem with. There was acknowledged direct involvement in the events of 9-11 and with the perpetrators thereof. Iraq, on the other hand, was a trumped-up load of bullshit which has cost us all of our international political capital and goodwill, not to mention almost 400 US military lives (I'm not even counting Iraqi civilians). Saddam, while a despicable human, had nothing to do with 9-11 or terrorism in general, obviously in hindsight had no WMDs (either to use or give to terrorists) and was effectively bottled up in his little locale doing nothing but making laughable press releases which the rest of the Muslim world largely ignored.
I'm glad that the Afghanis and Iraqis are free from oppressive governments. It should have stopped at Afghanistan. Where is Osama these days? Is he bunked up with Saddam in some Baghdad suburb?
How is it not worth the money to know the US freed them from a life of horror
How about spending 1/4 of that money here at home making sure US citizens have jobs? I'm sorry, but when I'm constantly facing the loss of MY home and MY standard of living, I have to think about MY family first. A McJob wouldn't even begin to allow me to provide for them without uprooting everything we have built in the last decade (a decision, as a family, we have made not to do).
So I take my job as a Patriot seriously enough to speak up against the transgressions of my current government, and seek to change the persons currently in power and responsible for those transgressions.
Btw: Read some American history. Start with Nixon, and then go back to King George (18th Century).
So we have a reduction in income taxes
I got my $400 "advance" on next year's tax liability. So what. There's no real reduction here; if you think there is, you're drinking the kool-aid, Karl.
a removal of dividend taxes
Oh come on now.. you can't be serious. The folks to whom a removal of this type of tax makes a difference are those who have MILLIONS of dollars invested. Those who have that kind of money to invest are those who need tax reductions the least. And don't even THINK about trying to mention Bush's re-do of Reagan's "trickle down". It didn't work then, and it won't work now.
all sorts of extensions to unemploymet insurance
This, in lieu of an actual job-creating economic program? No thanks. I'd rather work for my money. However, I'm not able to thanks to the ignorance or just plain disregard of your buddy in the White House.
and a crackdown on Wall Street corruption
Hmm.. two years and counting since Enron and no one seems to be going to jail, much less having a trial. If you mean the recent indictments of Kozlowski and Quattrone, a big yawn to you as these cases are just the tip of the scapegoat iceberg and will probably result in little more than "community service". Meanwhile, the rest of the scandals go unpunished. By the way, what's going on with Bernie Ebbers or John Rigas?
Its not governemts job to fix the economy
Uh, actually, yes it is. And so far, nothing is being done about it. The economy was softening prior to Bush. However, because of Bush's greed and neglect, it has continue to flounder much longer than anyone predicted. And it really isn't getting much better, despite what Fox news insists.
but the market as a whole always eventually corrects itself
That type of free economic thinking did well in the '30s... Thankfully a stronger engine was built during the 90s which could withstand a few years of neglect (even if a few million citizens have to bear the burden).
there are many people in this world who would love to have a job at McDonalds, here in the land of opportunity
Unfortunately, douchebag, people like you vote for legislation to keep those people out of this country.
We're all trying to make the best of it, but are getting exactly ZERO support from the current Administration (unless, of course, we'd like to go be cannon fodder).
According to your logic I should just give up my house, my car, the place I love to live, and move my family to some shit-hole trailer park in BumFuck S. Dakota (apologies to S.Dakota residents) so I can actually afford to live off of the McJob some illegal alien is risking death to come into this country to have.
All the while, your friend in the White House can have a party with his buddies wiping their asses with the Constitution and killing US soldiers so that companies like Bechtel and Halliburton (and by reference, themselves) can get rich.
I never rant or troll as a matter of policy. But you have offended me so much with your callous disregard for what's going on in this country.
In short, sir, FUCK YOU. I hope that we never meet in person.
Whoop-de-doo.. a few weeks or a few months. Almost all of the OSS vulns I've monitored for the past 5 years have been announced and patched within 30 days of rumors floating around in certain circles, and more often than not, less than half that time.
The Blaster patch story is still quite a departure from the usual SOP employed by Microsoft. There is no debating that point. One semi-alert response to a show-stopper of a bug does not heal the wounds of a decade.