heir subjugation of their subjects (aka, people like you and me) did not start yesterday. It started DECADES AGO, it's only now that they have gained so much power that they have become SO EMBOLDEN that they dare to publicly dis-regard the Constitution and everything that was stated inside the Constitution.
Who is to blame for it ? Them in Washington, D.C., or us, the voters who voted them in, every fucking four years, without fail ?
The biggest need we have right now if we want to remain a free people is NOT the formation of a third party, at this point we DO NOT EVEN HAVE A SECOND PARTY!
NEITHER party opposes the transformation of this Republic into a tyrannical Regime with unlimited power and authority. The DemocRAT party orgasms whenever the name OBAMA!!! is uttered. The Republican party is led by a bunch of RINOS who's only meaningful difference with the Democrats is that they will lead us to bankruptcy and slavery a couple weeks later.
Biggest threat to Microsoft's business was their massive blunder with Windows 8, and the failure of Windows 8.1 to fix it in any meaningful way. So what if we get the "start" button back only to be taken back to the retarded touch interface of monochromatic tile bullshit where you can't find your applications!
...to pass laws abridging THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, or the PRESS...
These companies don't need to beg the government or grovel before any court. The Constitution grants them the right to free speech, INCLUDING the right to disclose what the GOVERNMENT is demanding of them to violate their customers.
It's time to quit ACCEPTING the premise of this kind of government power and authority. It's time to start showing the Obama Regime the SAME LEVEL OF RESPECT it's showing to the Constitution!
Have you spent much time with Windows 7? I would say it's UI is in every way better than Windows 2000.
I disagree. Windows 7 was where I started using Classic Shell (which will also make Windows 8 bearable). The last OS UI that, IMHO, could be argued as an improvement over it's predecessor was Windows XP, and the differences between it and Windows 2000's UI were very minor and mostly thematic.
Windows 7 attempted to be a poor copy of the Mac OS UI (encouraging you to dock all your programs to the taskbar) and Windows 8 attempted to be a piss poor copy of an Android/iPad/iPhone touchscreen UI on a mouse and keyboard PC desktop...
What do you know, overpopulated three-level menu clusterfucks and the institutional separation between menus and toolbars were the pinnacle of UI design accordingly to some people.
It at least had the virtue of making some logical sense. And it's certainly better than the atrocious toolbar "ribbon" scheme of Office 2007/2010/2012 and the clusterfuck of disorganized colored tiles to find your applications arrayed for a TOUCHSCREEN that is Windows 8x...
Microsoft's current program and UI designs aren't even as sensible as Windows 3.1's...
Unfortunately, judges who will enforce the constitution are few and far between. Every sitting member of the supreme court has already failed to do so on multiple occasions.
It's way past time for Americans to stop allowing judges to have the kind of absolute power they have right now. It's also way past time for Americans to accept by default orders handed down by government in general.
The Federal Government doesn't have rights. It has enumerated POWERS. The Constitution is written as such that they have those powers (plus extra ones amended in) and no more. If we want to put a stop to what the NSA and this unlawful Regime in DC are doing to us we need to INSIST that the government restrict itself to those enumerated powers.
Government has to get a warrant in an OPEN COURT. It has to describe SPECIFICALLY the person or things to be searched and seized. Government has no rights, the People have ALL rights. Government has no more authority to collect everyone's e-mails than it does to send a black van down each street, pull the mail from everyone's mailbox and photocopy it...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I don't see any "Because TERRORISTS!", or "Because Someone doesn't like Obama" exceptions in there, do you?
Yes. It's why there is a TRILLION dollars in student debt.
The education bubble is LONG overdue to bust. People are graduating with more student loan debt than a nice house costs and finding they can't get jobs (because what can you REALLY do with that degree in 16th Century Feminist Studies?)
Colleges and universities are going to have to prove their value from scratch again by remaking themselves to efficient operations that do not waste their customer's money and deliver their product at a reasonable cost...
Microsoft's "innovation" has been played out for over a decade. The last several years most of their products has been WORSE and a step back from the previous ones!
Look at Windows 8 and the last couple versions of Office, for example. Their UI's are terrible designs. I will absolutely NEVER deploy a Windows 8 PC for an end user because I don't want the headache of supporting it.
Microsoft pretty much had the UI down when they released Windows 2000 and Office 97. Everything they've DONE to their UI since has been a step backward. Why do they do it? Because to justify the upgrades they have to MAKE IT LOOK DIFFERENT. Which means screwing with UI functionality. Why is that all they can do to differentiate product? Because they have NO IDEAS for actual features or enhancements to make the product any better!
The only product Microsoft has put out in 10 years that was better than it's predecessor was Windows 7. And that only because Vista was so awful that they panicked and actually LISTENED to their customers for once. Which they promptly undid when they decided to force keyboard and mouse based PC users to navigate a tablet touch screen by DEFAULT in Windows 8. My Macbook Pro doesn't force me to see an IOS UI by default...
When will Slashdot lose it's worship of Obama? This guy is collecting e-mail, monitoring phones, etc, even WORSE than "the evil BOOSHITLER" was. And if he were AGAINST all that he would have ENDED the Bush programs wouldn't he?
I won't go anywhere I can't drive to in my own vehicle. I won't stand for strip searching, irradiation and groping by government thugs.
And how many terrorists have the TSA ever stopped? The answer: ZERO.
The TSA is all about harassment in the name of the APPEARANCE of security. They will strip search a nun while allowing muslims (who were responsible for 9/11) through without a second look. Because of this, because of political correctness, if anything planes are LESS SAFE today than on 9/10.
If Lightsquared weren't run and funded by an Obama campaign bundler with deep Democrat party ties their proposal never would have made it past the "submitted on paper" stage.
If the FCC approves this they have abdicated their primary purpose of preventing interference. These frequencies were never intended for 4G or cell service of any kind.
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If anyone should go to forced labor re-education camps it should be lawyers IN GENERAL.
It's not the Texas courts (ie: Texas). It's the FEDERAL judges that were nominated by Presidents for that district.
The state and locality has NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
Windows 9 is ALREADY a miserable failure before it launches.
By going with a single UI for PC/mouse/keyboard AND tablets/phones, they GUARANTEE a UI that's good for NONE of them!
...Needs to be burned to the ground, the judges impeached, and the earth it sits on SALTED!
He and his clique of fascists will soon be against the wall when the Revolution comes.
The United States is going to become a Turd World IT backwater with our government's obsession with spying on everyone.
Why did we kick the British out of here in the first place?
Government is inherently incompetent and lazy. Why do work when you can force people at gunpoint to make your job easy?
Especially when you can throw people in jail for the "crime" of revealing that they MADE YOU do this.
The United States is now Officially a Turd World Country being ruled by a Turd World Dictator.
NONE of this is legal by the highest laws of our Republic. But we aren't a Republic anymore.
Beside overspend, run up deficits, and generally behave according to the Peter Principle? The federal government is a Dilbert cartoon.
The biggest need we have right now if we want to remain a free people is NOT the formation of a third party, at this point we DO NOT EVEN HAVE A SECOND PARTY!
NEITHER party opposes the transformation of this Republic into a tyrannical Regime with unlimited power and authority. The DemocRAT party orgasms whenever the name OBAMA!!! is uttered. The Republican party is led by a bunch of RINOS who's only meaningful difference with the Democrats is that they will lead us to bankruptcy and slavery a couple weeks later.
Biggest threat to Microsoft's business was their massive blunder with Windows 8, and the failure of Windows 8.1 to fix it in any meaningful way. So what if we get the "start" button back only to be taken back to the retarded touch interface of monochromatic tile bullshit where you can't find your applications!
...to pass laws abridging THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, or the PRESS...
These companies don't need to beg the government or grovel before any court. The Constitution grants them the right to free speech, INCLUDING the right to disclose what the GOVERNMENT is demanding of them to violate their customers.
It's time to quit ACCEPTING the premise of this kind of government power and authority. It's time to start showing the Obama Regime the SAME LEVEL OF RESPECT it's showing to the Constitution!
I disagree. Windows 7 was where I started using Classic Shell (which will also make Windows 8 bearable). The last OS UI that, IMHO, could be argued as an improvement over it's predecessor was Windows XP, and the differences between it and Windows 2000's UI were very minor and mostly thematic.
Windows 7 attempted to be a poor copy of the Mac OS UI (encouraging you to dock all your programs to the taskbar) and Windows 8 attempted to be a piss poor copy of an Android/iPad/iPhone touchscreen UI on a mouse and keyboard PC desktop...
It at least had the virtue of making some logical sense. And it's certainly better than the atrocious toolbar "ribbon" scheme of Office 2007/2010/2012 and the clusterfuck of disorganized colored tiles to find your applications arrayed for a TOUCHSCREEN that is Windows 8x...
Microsoft's current program and UI designs aren't even as sensible as Windows 3.1's...
It's way past time for Americans to stop allowing judges to have the kind of absolute power they have right now. It's also way past time for Americans to accept by default orders handed down by government in general.
The Federal Government doesn't have rights. It has enumerated POWERS. The Constitution is written as such that they have those powers (plus extra ones amended in) and no more. If we want to put a stop to what the NSA and this unlawful Regime in DC are doing to us we need to INSIST that the government restrict itself to those enumerated powers.
And as if on cue, the Obamaworshipper mods strike!
Government has to get a warrant in an OPEN COURT. It has to describe SPECIFICALLY the person or things to be searched and seized. Government has no rights, the People have ALL rights. Government has no more authority to collect everyone's e-mails than it does to send a black van down each street, pull the mail from everyone's mailbox and photocopy it...
I don't see any "Because TERRORISTS!", or "Because Someone doesn't like Obama" exceptions in there, do you?
The education bubble is LONG overdue to bust. People are graduating with more student loan debt than a nice house costs and finding they can't get jobs (because what can you REALLY do with that degree in 16th Century Feminist Studies?)
Colleges and universities are going to have to prove their value from scratch again by remaking themselves to efficient operations that do not waste their customer's money and deliver their product at a reasonable cost...
Shouldn't it be obvious from the moment you try to get it TO WORK that the hardware is counterfeit and doesn't work?
How does such a "business" last long enough to make tens of millions of dollars?
Microsoft's "innovation" has been played out for over a decade. The last several years most of their products has been WORSE and a step back from the previous ones!
Look at Windows 8 and the last couple versions of Office, for example. Their UI's are terrible designs. I will absolutely NEVER deploy a Windows 8 PC for an end user because I don't want the headache of supporting it.
Microsoft pretty much had the UI down when they released Windows 2000 and Office 97. Everything they've DONE to their UI since has been a step backward. Why do they do it? Because to justify the upgrades they have to MAKE IT LOOK DIFFERENT. Which means screwing with UI functionality. Why is that all they can do to differentiate product? Because they have NO IDEAS for actual features or enhancements to make the product any better!
The only product Microsoft has put out in 10 years that was better than it's predecessor was Windows 7. And that only because Vista was so awful that they panicked and actually LISTENED to their customers for once. Which they promptly undid when they decided to force keyboard and mouse based PC users to navigate a tablet touch screen by DEFAULT in Windows 8. My Macbook Pro doesn't force me to see an IOS UI by default...
When will Slashdot lose it's worship of Obama? This guy is collecting e-mail, monitoring phones, etc, even WORSE than "the evil BOOSHITLER" was. And if he were AGAINST all that he would have ENDED the Bush programs wouldn't he?
All my passwords will contain "blowmeO" in them from now on.
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2013/07/26/#007040
The "presidential" alerts CANNOT be disabled, and no doubt will share the same LOUD EBS tone the Amber Alerts do.
OBAMA ALERT! "Some TEA Partier in YOUR vicinity has been TAKING MY NAME in vain!"
In my area we were getting spammed with Amber Alerts for a non custodial parent who took his child in Cleveland, OH.
Cleveland, OH is 300 miles from where I am! What is the sense in that?
I did turn them off, but a friend of mine with kids shamed me into turning amber alerts back on.
I won't go anywhere I can't drive to in my own vehicle. I won't stand for strip searching, irradiation and groping by government thugs.
And how many terrorists have the TSA ever stopped? The answer: ZERO.
The TSA is all about harassment in the name of the APPEARANCE of security. They will strip search a nun while allowing muslims (who were responsible for 9/11) through without a second look. Because of this, because of political correctness, if anything planes are LESS SAFE today than on 9/10.
If Lightsquared weren't run and funded by an Obama campaign bundler with deep Democrat party ties their proposal never would have made it past the "submitted on paper" stage.
If the FCC approves this they have abdicated their primary purpose of preventing interference. These frequencies were never intended for 4G or cell service of any kind.