I thought we were supposed to be welcoming our new insect overlords.
Then again, even if we do destroy them with a giant Fresnel lens, we won't stop there. We'll just build bigger and bigger lenses until we build a Fresnel lens so big it will destroy us all!
You asked for a explanation. You got it! In synopsis, the EU is a Bureacratic Super State where Citizens have no particular rights except those granted by PERMIT. The Brussels system will further dominate the area by an Oligarchy and the delivery of individual freedom in the EU is questionable at best in FACT. The US System is degrading towards the EU model. Regards "social" issues the EU is a socialist mecca. Some personal demands they make in exchange for their rights include the loss of freedom to change jobs easily in exchange for the protection of employment, better severance pay, and a more assured retirement.
Actually, the grandparent asked for examples, not just an endless string of assertions without anything to back them up. Writing "FACT" in all caps does not constitute evidence.
Do you pay car insurance in case you get a car some day? Do you pay for life insurance in case you get a life some day?
No, you pay for car insurance so that you'll be covered if you lose your car (or it gets wrecked, or you wreck something else with it, etc.) You pay for life insurance in case you lose your life, and you pay for employment insurance in case you lose your employment.
Actually, it's more like blaming the car company because your gas tank exploded when some jackass rear-ended you. The jackass was still a jackass, but that doesn't mean that the car company didn't build a shoddy product, and it doesn't mean that there shouldn't be consequences for that company.
I was an OS/2 user for a good long while too, but there's some very important differences between it an Linux. For one thing, instead of getting new headlines every year proclaiming the current year to be the "Year of OS/2", we'd get headlines saying that this would be the year OS/2 finally breathed its last breath.
The other, and more important issue is that, while OS/2 was being made by a company that never bothered to put more than a half-hearted effort into promoting it, and who dropped it like a hot potato as soon as they could, Linux is being made by a community of independant programmers all over the world. Even if Linux decided tomorrow that this "Linux" thing isn't worth the effort, development would still continue as long as there's still people using the OS that know how to program, whereas OS/2 was completely dependant on the whims of IBM.
There's a hell of a lot more people than the president that you could sue. Just imagine all those people illegally profiting from your invention of the Internet!
Minor nitpick: Microsoft was not convicted of being a monopoly, since you can only be convicted of a crime and being a monopoly is not, in itself, a crime. Microsoft was convicted of abusing its monopoly status.
Odd, I've never heard of this game, and I usually try to stay on top of this type of thing. Is that a new expansion to The Sims, or something? I can never keep all of those sorted out.
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The current "real" Enterprise exists only as a CGI model, so I think this thing as it beat.
I thought we were supposed to be welcoming our new insect overlords.
Then again, even if we do destroy them with a giant Fresnel lens, we won't stop there. We'll just build bigger and bigger lenses until we build a Fresnel lens so big it will destroy us all!
Well, they do use a BSD-based OS now...
You asked for a explanation. You got it! In synopsis, the EU is a Bureacratic Super State where Citizens have no particular rights except those granted by PERMIT. The Brussels system will further dominate the area by an Oligarchy and the delivery of individual freedom in the EU is questionable at best in FACT. The US System is degrading towards the EU model. Regards "social" issues the EU is a socialist mecca. Some personal demands they make in exchange for their rights include the loss of freedom to change jobs easily in exchange for the protection of employment, better severance pay, and a more assured retirement.
Actually, the grandparent asked for examples, not just an endless string of assertions without anything to back them up. Writing "FACT" in all caps does not constitute evidence.
Of course. After all, they had to take apart their camera to make the thing.
So that you can run a pirated copy instead of paying the $699, of course.
They already make those.
Too bad they only sell 'em in Japan.
Do you pay car insurance in case you get a car some day? Do you pay for life insurance in case you get a life some day?
No, you pay for car insurance so that you'll be covered if you lose your car (or it gets wrecked, or you wreck something else with it, etc.) You pay for life insurance in case you lose your life, and you pay for employment insurance in case you lose your employment.
Makes more sense now than the old way, really.
Yes, but if you're reasonably well-off without insurance than you're pretty much guaranteed to be poor without insurance by the time you're done.
Windows 95?
No deoderant, either.
That show ended last year, which was about four years too late.
Actually, it's more like blaming the car company because your gas tank exploded when some jackass rear-ended you. The jackass was still a jackass, but that doesn't mean that the car company didn't build a shoddy product, and it doesn't mean that there shouldn't be consequences for that company.
Of course. After all, Skynet was originall activated to combat a computer virus. Haven't you seen Terminator 3?
For TNG it would probably have "quantum" in there somewhere, too. For Voyager, add "gravimetric."
They should've called it a puma...
Didn't Maxis release a hacked version of The Sims that worked with WineX? I think they included it with the Mandrake Gaming Edition a while back.
I was an OS/2 user for a good long while too, but there's some very important differences between it an Linux. For one thing, instead of getting new headlines every year proclaiming the current year to be the "Year of OS/2", we'd get headlines saying that this would be the year OS/2 finally breathed its last breath.
The other, and more important issue is that, while OS/2 was being made by a company that never bothered to put more than a half-hearted effort into promoting it, and who dropped it like a hot potato as soon as they could, Linux is being made by a community of independant programmers all over the world. Even if Linux decided tomorrow that this "Linux" thing isn't worth the effort, development would still continue as long as there's still people using the OS that know how to program, whereas OS/2 was completely dependant on the whims of IBM.
Didn't you watch the Light-cycle parts in Tron?
There's a hell of a lot more people than the president that you could sue. Just imagine all those people illegally profiting from your invention of the Internet!
There needs to be a +1: Troll moderation option...
Just because things could be worse doesn't mean that they couldn't be better.
Minor nitpick: Microsoft was not convicted of being a monopoly, since you can only be convicted of a crime and being a monopoly is not, in itself, a crime. Microsoft was convicted of abusing its monopoly status.
Odd, I've never heard of this game, and I usually try to stay on top of this type of thing. Is that a new expansion to The Sims, or something? I can never keep all of those sorted out.
Aren't there still a lot of Win9x computers on the internet?