A new fee-based version of its software, which will permit only legal downloads, will be available within 60 days from a new parent organization, according to one executive involved in the deal.
Really, your logic and reason is no match for the speed of a ninja using Emacs. Observe:
1. Ninjas > Pirates
2. Emacs > Vi
Therefore, ninjas use Emacs to quickly eviscerate the enemy (C-x, C-e) and then contemplate rose blossoms and haiku (M-x, contemplate-rose-blossoms-and-haiku). Pirates, on the other hand, use the arcane sequence necessary to go forward a character in Vi (:xwctrvchthulujkimholol!!!) as a sort of passphrase for the secret brotherhood of piracy.
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
-Douglas Adams, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
Voting is all too often a scam perpetrated by the rulers of a dictatorship to make the masses believe they wield power. The two-party dictatorship is merely an improvement on the one-party dictatorship that rolls the illusion of choice into the illusion of power, thus making the system of governance all the more stable for the governors.
You're not missing anything, but the submitter is. The TFA argues that the Greens' support of -- not disdain for, as the the summary wrongly claimed -- the new Novell contract is misplaced, mainly because Microsoft is t3h r0x0r!!!eleventy-one
If you read TFA -- or even part of it -- you'll see that this article posting is really little more than a blatant troll. The TFA mentions Laura DiDio, but it might as well have been written by her or, if not her, then by someone else on Redmond's payroll.
Better summary: The NZ Greens are pumped about moving to OSS, but some random Microsoft shill at a business rag thinks the move sucks, because Microsoft rocks. Anyone with half a brain can dismantle most of the arguments in TFA. Mod story -1, troll.
That's because Lieberman and Clinton desperately want to appear to be sufficiently centrist to attract the critical vote of fence-straddlers, like the suburban soccer moms who elected Bush in 2000. (Apparently, Clinton I's tactic of getting elected by the young, the poor, and the Black will never work again.) Feigning moral outrage -- indeed, pretending to be even more outraged than the right -- is one way to do this.
Tipper Gore, on the other hand, just hates Black people.
I know that every time I go on a murderous rampage in which I blow up countless cars, kill dozens of innocent pedestrians and scores of cops, I just run back to my house and step on the giant floppy disk in my kitchen. The cops all leave me alone after that.
So.... are you saying that, because the U.S. once pursued a campaign of forced sterilization, Americans aren't allowed to criticize the idea? Or was that just a big fucking red herring that had absolutely nothing to do with the parent's post?
I have never been required to re-compile all of my system binaries, patch the kernel and update all my dependancies in Windows in order to play a game, however, in Linux, this is standard practice.
What the hell kind of games do you play? "MTV's Add SATA Support to your Kernel XXXTREME"? "John Madden All-Pro Glibc Updater 2006"? I've never had to do anything close to the rigamarole you describe, and nothing even close for games.
So? Seriously, so fucking what? The headline didn't say, "Bush nominates outspoken Microsoft shill!!!111" It said that she was hired by Microsoft, which, somehow, the OP interpreted to be a flame, mainly because he's an idiot.
Uh, how is that a flame? It's a fact. Bush's latest nominee used to be a lawyer for Microsoft. Whoopty-doo. How would you prefer they put it? "Bush court nominee hugs fuzzy bunnies, gives flags to orphans"?
Except that the whole fucking point of the Michigan law is that parents can't override it. Laws with voluntary enforcement are just dandy, but that's not what we're getting, from the Michigan law or from any other law written by the pompous moralists who control the governments in this country. Maybe things are different in the UK, but here in the States, if you give your kid a glass of wine, that's procuring for a minor and you can go to jail for it. The OP basically said: "I want to make decisions for my kid. So, I think the government should make decisions for my kid!"
Please tell me you don't honestly believe that the cold war was not due to the emergence of the U.S. as the only remaining superpower due to its role in WWII. I fully understand the role the Great Depression took in fueling the turn to communism of the second-world nations, but did you ever stop to ask yourself why it was even a "problem" that a handful of little countries scattered around the globe wanted to war red scarves and pretend to be equal? (Hint: because the U.S., punch-drunk with power, decided it was a threat to their newfound economic superiority. Oops, gave it away.)
If the U.S. had stayed out of WWII, there would never have been a doctrine of containment, nor would there have been a Korean war, a Vietnam war, Bay of Pigs, a Cuban missile crisis, Augusto Pinochet, Osama bin Laden, Grenada, or countless other things. Of course, 75% of Europe would be speaking German and would be mysteriously free of people named Wiesel, and the entire Pacific would be flying the rising sun. Violence stopped that, alright, but it also precipitated much more violence. (Before you or anyone else tries to make the dumbest strawman argument ever, please note that I'm not claiming that we should have stayed out of WWII to prevent all of the crap I listed off.)
And don't even get me started on WWI. WWII came to a pretty clean close, what with reconstruction efforts and all.
I'd argue that Afghanistan was a lot like Vietnam. In both cases -- and in Iraq today -- a slow, bureaucratic, organized army was fighting a diffuse, unorganized citizenry who were willing to die in hordes to support their cause. The difference -- and my guess is that this is what you had in mind -- is that there was also an organized army giving a face to the resistance in Vietnam.
Whether or not we need a draft is a moot point; I agree that, given enough time, enough dead Americans and, moreover, enough attrition, we could "win." (We could literally win through sufficient attrition, to the tune of everyone in Iraq.) The question is whether or not the American people will stand for it. I don't think even Karl Rove can keep the populace sated while we slog through ten more years of this, so they'll draft a bunch of folks and send them over there.
Possible outcomes of a draft: Either middle- and upper-class Americans will finally get pissed off because white kids from well-to-do families are getting killed, and the outrage will be sufficient to force a pull-out, leaving Iraq in shambles and creating the next Iraq (har har); or, the added troop strength will be sufficient to quell the revolutionaries and get some sort of law and order in place before we hastily evacuate, leaving an iron-fisted puppet dictator in place who gasses the Kurds, slaughters Shi'ites by the thousands, invades Iran for us, and generally creates the next Iraq.
I hope you're making red handkerchiefs and molotov cocktails while you're crying....
>f: I'm not talking about targeting all the muslims. But the ones that run around burning our flag and rioting in support of terrorist attacks would be a good start.
So if I burn the flag, do you advocate nuking Lincoln, Nebraska? (I mean, aside from the good reasons to do so.)
Increase the military via the draft. By the time, it was implemented, GWB would be out of office and the dems would have control.
Actually, my bet is that this will happen. In 2008, the Republicans will look at poll numbers if Jeb Bush or whoever has a good chance of winning, they'll hold off on the draft until 2009. If not, they'll institute the draft in late 2008 and stick the Dems with the mess in order to get back in in 2012. ("They've mismanaged the war on terror!") The Dems couldn't rescind the draft order without appearing soft on "terror."
how about listening to just some of senators who have been real soldiers (McCain, Hagel to name a few) and have visited?
You misspelled "anti-American traitors."
Other than that, I agree with your analysis. The question in my mind is this: What if Iran really is only developing nuclear technology for power generation, not for weaponry? Then what happens when we bomb the hell out of them? Dear Lord, protect us from ourselves.
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Shouldn't we outlaw LRAD, then, in order to encourage growth of the pirate population?
I'm going as a pirate-ninja for Halloween, so I guess I'll find out.
1. Ninjas > Pirates
2. Emacs > Vi
Therefore, ninjas use Emacs to quickly eviscerate the enemy (C-x, C-e) and then contemplate rose blossoms and haiku (M-x, contemplate-rose-blossoms-and-haiku). Pirates, on the other hand, use the arcane sequence necessary to go forward a character in Vi (:xwctrvchthulujkimholol!!!) as a sort of passphrase for the secret brotherhood of piracy.
/me pulls on asbestos trousers
"You mean it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
-Douglas Adams, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
See also Mouseland.
Voting is all too often a scam perpetrated by the rulers of a dictatorship to make the masses believe they wield power. The two-party dictatorship is merely an improvement on the one-party dictatorship that rolls the illusion of choice into the illusion of power, thus making the system of governance all the more stable for the governors.
If you read TFA -- or even part of it -- you'll see that this article posting is really little more than a blatant troll. The TFA mentions Laura DiDio, but it might as well have been written by her or, if not her, then by someone else on Redmond's payroll.
Better summary: The NZ Greens are pumped about moving to OSS, but some random Microsoft shill at a business rag thinks the move sucks, because Microsoft rocks. Anyone with half a brain can dismantle most of the arguments in TFA. Mod story -1, troll.
Are you kidding? They're worlds apart! I mean, they use totally different mascots!
Tipper Gore, on the other hand, just hates Black people.
I know that every time I go on a murderous rampage in which I blow up countless cars, kill dozens of innocent pedestrians and scores of cops, I just run back to my house and step on the giant floppy disk in my kitchen. The cops all leave me alone after that.
Also, can we get a geek t-shirt that isn't black? Thanks.
So.... are you saying that, because the U.S. once pursued a campaign of forced sterilization, Americans aren't allowed to criticize the idea? Or was that just a big fucking red herring that had absolutely nothing to do with the parent's post?
-1, Troll.
Good point. After all, cronyism worked great for FEMA. I have nothing but faith in our Glorious Leader, President Mobutu^H^H^H^H^H^HBush.
So? Seriously, so fucking what? The headline didn't say, "Bush nominates outspoken Microsoft shill!!!111" It said that she was hired by Microsoft, which, somehow, the OP interpreted to be a flame, mainly because he's an idiot.
Uh, how is that a flame? It's a fact. Bush's latest nominee used to be a lawyer for Microsoft. Whoopty-doo. How would you prefer they put it? "Bush court nominee hugs fuzzy bunnies, gives flags to orphans"?
And that is the contradiction of the year.
If the U.S. had stayed out of WWII, there would never have been a doctrine of containment, nor would there have been a Korean war, a Vietnam war, Bay of Pigs, a Cuban missile crisis, Augusto Pinochet, Osama bin Laden, Grenada, or countless other things. Of course, 75% of Europe would be speaking German and would be mysteriously free of people named Wiesel, and the entire Pacific would be flying the rising sun. Violence stopped that, alright, but it also precipitated much more violence. (Before you or anyone else tries to make the dumbest strawman argument ever, please note that I'm not claiming that we should have stayed out of WWII to prevent all of the crap I listed off.)
And don't even get me started on WWI. WWII came to a pretty clean close, what with reconstruction efforts and all.
Whether or not we need a draft is a moot point; I agree that, given enough time, enough dead Americans and, moreover, enough attrition, we could "win." (We could literally win through sufficient attrition, to the tune of everyone in Iraq.) The question is whether or not the American people will stand for it. I don't think even Karl Rove can keep the populace sated while we slog through ten more years of this, so they'll draft a bunch of folks and send them over there.
Possible outcomes of a draft: Either middle- and upper-class Americans will finally get pissed off because white kids from well-to-do families are getting killed, and the outrage will be sufficient to force a pull-out, leaving Iraq in shambles and creating the next Iraq (har har); or, the added troop strength will be sufficient to quell the revolutionaries and get some sort of law and order in place before we hastily evacuate, leaving an iron-fisted puppet dictator in place who gasses the Kurds, slaughters Shi'ites by the thousands, invades Iran for us, and generally creates the next Iraq.
I hope you're making red handkerchiefs and molotov cocktails while you're crying....
Other than that, I agree with your analysis. The question in my mind is this: What if Iran really is only developing nuclear technology for power generation, not for weaponry? Then what happens when we bomb the hell out of them? Dear Lord, protect us from ourselves.