I have seen MSE let some nasty stuff get by, like Alureon boot-sector virus variants. MSE pretends to try, but is wholly incapable of removing boot sector viruses once it's let them get in. That being said, SAV probably does too and it slows your machine to a crawl to boot.
It's probably using VCPI. The few games that used that were pretty much obsolete as soon as Windows 95 came along. Too bad, because a few were decent. But VCPI made the stupid decision to run in ring 0, defeating the whole purpose of protected mode.
The ribbon also doesn't give any visual feedback once a tab has been selected. I have a brand new laptop, and even on that machine there is a small delay before the ribbon changes. This usually results in me clicking two or three times because I'm not sure it has registered. Since Microsoft programmers still haven't figured out how to keep their apps from being so bloated that they don't run smoothly even on new machines, maybe they could have at least used visual cues (you know, like in an old-fashioned menu) to indicate when a tab has been selected.
That's so 1980s. We've made so much progress (in the west, anyway) on reducing pollution that we have to call carbon dioxide pollution now! We're ALL polluters!
Because that's all the AGW activists want to do. Oh wait... no. They want cap-and-trade, high energy taxes, and an end to all fossil fuel usage. At least, we've been told that's what it will take.
Obviously there are not enough Ron Pauls out there to solve it through their own selflessness.
No, they're not, and there never will be-- even if you try to force them to help by using the State to confiscate their wealth. They will continue to cheat on their taxes-- using the excuse of this confiscation of wealth being an abuse of an overreaching state-- in much the same way that wealthy southerners defended slavery as an assertion of states' rights. People will continue to cheat the system at a high rate, as they already do now with Medicare and Medicaid. They will rationalize that they are merely getting back what the State took from them.
You can call it a straw man just like you can claim I'm a jellyfish. But I'm not, and my comment wasn't.
My point is that being against state-run health care does not mean you want people to die in the street, like former representatives of Florida claim. There exist many, many charities that provide medical services and support for little or no cost. I contribute to these, even though much of my income is already confiscated without my approval by the government, and wasted in a horribly inefficient Medicare/Medicaid system.
If you don't want to have the state pay for the the health of those who cannot afford it themselves, then you've chosen not to care for them.
That's funny, because the claims of our current regime that "someone has to step down so someone else can have power", "spread the wealth around so everyone can have a chance", and "government has to create jobs" are all proof that they believe our resources are exhausted.
In my day, we played the Zeroth Edition. In those days we created characters on parchment made from jaguar hides and used dice carved from the femur of a wooly mammoth. By the time I took the wooly mammoth with my trusty spear ("Katharina", I used to call her... although her real name was "Agnes"-- but that's another story), I was dead tired and needed a nap. By the time I woke up, the First Edition was out and I had missed my chance. I blame Richard Nixon, although I suspect James Knox Polk could also be implicated in this disaster.
If only I had read your in-depth analysis before wasting my time on all the other useless comments! Clearly, I must have hallucinated about those Kodak digital cameras I was selling in the early 1990s. I'm sure it was that simple-- they must have been still making Instamatics and Brownies while their competitors were making buckets of dough off 100 Mpixel cameras.
Really? Well, we're seeing it through the effects on the social welfare systems of the west right now. People are still dying, but at a much slower rate than before, and fewer children are being born to support the system. Yet, activists are clamoring for shorter work hours and earlier retirement.
Here's something to counter your anecdotes. For a prominent one, Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's but can't be put on medications for it because he's too young. That's bureaucrats overriding medical science. Socialized health care isn't interested in improving the quality of life. As a consequence, he will likely be taking his own life soon-- amusingly, in Switzerland. I guess assisted suicide isn't covered in the UK.
Then why do we allow protest? Perhaps we should enforce the silence of the public "at gunpoint"... after all, they are impeding progress. Life, liberty, and property are outdated.
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I have seen MSE let some nasty stuff get by, like Alureon boot-sector virus variants. MSE pretends to try, but is wholly incapable of removing boot sector viruses once it's let them get in. That being said, SAV probably does too and it slows your machine to a crawl to boot.
It's probably using VCPI. The few games that used that were pretty much obsolete as soon as Windows 95 came along. Too bad, because a few were decent. But VCPI made the stupid decision to run in ring 0, defeating the whole purpose of protected mode.
Washington, D.C. and the mainstream media are slithering with his disciples.
What would you replace copyright with?
Or Don LaFontaine. Although you'd have to preface everything with, "In a world..."
They accidentally the verb.
Actually, my experience tells me that he has claimed dibs. I also have a cat that will claim anything you place on the floor for catdom.
The ribbon also doesn't give any visual feedback once a tab has been selected. I have a brand new laptop, and even on that machine there is a small delay before the ribbon changes. This usually results in me clicking two or three times because I'm not sure it has registered. Since Microsoft programmers still haven't figured out how to keep their apps from being so bloated that they don't run smoothly even on new machines, maybe they could have at least used visual cues (you know, like in an old-fashioned menu) to indicate when a tab has been selected.
Which "American" religion worships money? I think it's Environmentalism, but I'm not sure.
Either that, or they accidentally capitalized the "B" in "Mb" somewhere.
That's so 1980s. We've made so much progress (in the west, anyway) on reducing pollution that we have to call carbon dioxide pollution now! We're ALL polluters!
Because that's all the AGW activists want to do. Oh wait... no. They want cap-and-trade, high energy taxes, and an end to all fossil fuel usage. At least, we've been told that's what it will take.
No, they're not, and there never will be-- even if you try to force them to help by using the State to confiscate their wealth. They will continue to cheat on their taxes-- using the excuse of this confiscation of wealth being an abuse of an overreaching state-- in much the same way that wealthy southerners defended slavery as an assertion of states' rights. People will continue to cheat the system at a high rate, as they already do now with Medicare and Medicaid. They will rationalize that they are merely getting back what the State took from them.
Of course, roman_mir gave a much better rebuttal.
My point is that being against state-run health care does not mean you want people to die in the street, like former representatives of Florida claim. There exist many, many charities that provide medical services and support for little or no cost. I contribute to these, even though much of my income is already confiscated without my approval by the government, and wasted in a horribly inefficient Medicare/Medicaid system.
False dilemma.
Next time, present a logical rebuttal.
That's funny, because the claims of our current regime that "someone has to step down so someone else can have power", "spread the wealth around so everyone can have a chance", and "government has to create jobs" are all proof that they believe our resources are exhausted.
There were a lot of "hardcore bible-thumping shotgun-collecting cousin-fucker" types involved in the American revolution. Your prejudice fails you.
In my day, we played the Zeroth Edition. In those days we created characters on parchment made from jaguar hides and used dice carved from the femur of a wooly mammoth. By the time I took the wooly mammoth with my trusty spear ("Katharina", I used to call her... although her real name was "Agnes"-- but that's another story), I was dead tired and needed a nap. By the time I woke up, the First Edition was out and I had missed my chance. I blame Richard Nixon, although I suspect James Knox Polk could also be implicated in this disaster.
If only I had read your in-depth analysis before wasting my time on all the other useless comments! Clearly, I must have hallucinated about those Kodak digital cameras I was selling in the early 1990s. I'm sure it was that simple-- they must have been still making Instamatics and Brownies while their competitors were making buckets of dough off 100 Mpixel cameras.
Really? Well, we're seeing it through the effects on the social welfare systems of the west right now. People are still dying, but at a much slower rate than before, and fewer children are being born to support the system. Yet, activists are clamoring for shorter work hours and earlier retirement.
That doesn't make sense to me. It's the 40+ people who start wars, and the 18+ who fight them.
How do posters with nothing more to contribute than straw men attacks get modded up here so often? It fascinates me.
That might be because Obama cut funding to them when he signed the "Affordable health care art".
Here's something to counter your anecdotes. For a prominent one, Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's but can't be put on medications for it because he's too young. That's bureaucrats overriding medical science. Socialized health care isn't interested in improving the quality of life. As a consequence, he will likely be taking his own life soon-- amusingly, in Switzerland. I guess assisted suicide isn't covered in the UK.
Then why do we allow protest? Perhaps we should enforce the silence of the public "at gunpoint"... after all, they are impeding progress. Life, liberty, and property are outdated.