item 1 on bill: save distressed orphan puppies from torture.
item 2 on bill : give 10 trillion dollars to the military and surrender your right to vote.
Why would you vote against a omnibus bill that wants to stop puppy torture?! Are you some kind of sicko!!
Rogers is NOT the consumer. Rogers communications is one of the two major ISP's in Canada; the other being BELL.
They are BOTH throttling traffic! So, if you say "Goodbye Bell" because you disagree with bandwidth throttling, you are left with Rogers Communications (who is also throttling).
Rock mets hard place.
The controversy stems from the fact that we cannot vote with our dollars; there is an effective monopoly, there is no alternative. Therefore the government must be presured to act to restore the consumer/provider balance which does not exixt in a monopoly situation.
It is ridiculous to compare a essential service like health care to an entertainment business. Why should we support this particular _business_ with what amounts to a tax? Why not support all failing businesses with some surcharge on something? No; this scheme inappropriately takes money from certain people to support another persons business model. It is wrong.
HA HA........
"The WTO has
NO PLACE WHATSOEVER in this issue. It's simply trying to override the
sovereignty of an independent state/nation."..."mindless USA bashers with an axe to grind."
That's rich. clap, clap, clap. bravo. quite the performance!!
From the country that makes a living by stepping on..er...liberating other countries sovereignty.
As soon as a international body views US action negatively, those bodies are useless
But if they rule in favor of the US it's a matter of international law, and must be abided by all
You fail to see the distinction between:
1 - A company that SELL WEB 2.0 "stuff"
2 - A company that wants to USE WEB2.0 "stuff" to increase profits.
If your company does #1 then DUN, go for it, sell sell sell the hype and profit.
However, if your company is a consumer of WEB 2.0 "stuff" then your post is ridiculous.
"Web 2.0 has some security issues and it's not optimal, but for a lot of applications that either doesn't matter or a good IT group could work around it anyway."
I read: it will cost a lot of money to "work around it anyway" and, in the end, probably not be secure....but that doesn't matter as long as it look pretty,because that's what the end user wants. HOW does this help a company??
While I agree that having users help each other will probably decrease calls to the IT department (at least initially), I have to wonder if the overhead created in supporting the wiki will leave you with a net gain? You may start to get calls on how to post questions to the wiki; a question that you would have gotten directly previously. Meanwhile the user still has no answer, but at least he has something to do (post to the wiki and discuss the problem with others). Is this adding to profitability? I'm not completely convinced, but open to debate.
Why not just cut to the chase and put the MPAA/RIAA in charge of the entire country?
I mean they need a test ground before we can trust them to rule the world, otherwise it would just be irresponsible of us! Courts are so bothersome and expensive, why use them at all?
"Why can't you accept the fact that there is a being greater than man? A being that has the power to create the universe in which we live."
So there is FACTUAL evidence to support beings greater than man; it's not just a mater of faith anymore, as I thought the usual argument went? ok.
In any case, it's the same mental leap to believe the is NO a greater being for one who believes, then for a non-believer to in turn believe in a greater being. So one could easily ask, "Why can't you accept the fact that there is NO being greater than man?" with the equal amount of thrust that you ask your question. The incredulousness of the opposing view lies only in which side of the belief/non-belief issue you start.
Yea? Didn't the US ignore their obligations under NAFTA and continue
the protect their softwood lumber industry from Canadian imports, in the
face of the fact that NAFTA and the WTO both deemed the US action to be
contrary to the NFTA trade agreement?
Free trade with the US works as long as the US gets the best deal; otherwise the protect.
Although it may be hard to get your $400 video card to work with Linux, I hardly think this will be an obstacle for most business in their efforts to move away from Microsoft. Gamers may have a bit more of a problems, especially considering that most games are written for MS anyways. So we may end up with businesses adopting linux as the cost of MS rises, and MS taking its rightfull place as a game platform (a toy as it were:) But I'm sure your driver is on it's way just the same.
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Am I missing something here? I hate real as well, but I got to the download in two clicks (both of which said "Free click here" type of thing.
Why is this so hard again?
Holy cow! Take a moment to relax. Your WAY too upset over your inability to run a LINUX system on the desktop.
"For 2 years I've dual booted, preparing to make the switch, I still haven't been able to do it!"
What are you running that's so magically complicated that you cannot do it under Linux? Grab a distro and run it. Running a computer is not rocket science, all the hard parts have been done by the code gurus. If you can't handle linux then run windows! No big deal. Just stop complaining because your OS doesn't _think_ for you because you are really getting what you paid for.
Wow! So what I gather from this is that, by copying movies, thus removing money from Hollywood, I am actually helping in the "War on Drugs"!
Just doing my civic duty.
What if car manufacturer inserted a digital chip in the opening to the fuel tank such that it would ONLY accept fuel if you used say a "Shell" fueling nozzle? Could they then claim that filling your tank at any other service station but the "approved" was an attempt to "circumvents the technological measure that controls access to the"...er fuel tank?
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Beautifully said.
item 1 on bill: save distressed orphan puppies from torture.
item 2 on bill : give 10 trillion dollars to the military and surrender your right to vote.
Why would you vote against a omnibus bill that wants to stop puppy torture?! Are you some kind of sicko!!
just messup the software and tell them to send out a tech to fix it....see how long the support budget lasts!
ADTENT: when Advertisement is indistinguishable from Content.
Incorrect: Rogers throttles as well.
Rogers is NOT the consumer. Rogers communications is one of the two major ISP's in Canada; the other being BELL. They are BOTH throttling traffic! So, if you say "Goodbye Bell" because you disagree with bandwidth throttling, you are left with Rogers Communications (who is also throttling). Rock mets hard place. The controversy stems from the fact that we cannot vote with our dollars; there is an effective monopoly, there is no alternative. Therefore the government must be presured to act to restore the consumer/provider balance which does not exixt in a monopoly situation.
It is ridiculous to compare a essential service like health care to an entertainment business. Why should we support this particular _business_ with what amounts to a tax? Why not support all failing businesses with some surcharge on something? No; this scheme inappropriately takes money from certain people to support another persons business model. It is wrong.
THAT's hilarious...thanks for the laugh!!
HA HA........
"The WTO has NO PLACE WHATSOEVER in this issue. It's simply trying to override the sovereignty of an independent state/nation."..."mindless USA bashers with an axe to grind." That's rich. clap, clap, clap. bravo. quite the performance!!
From the country that makes a living by stepping on..er...liberating other countries sovereignty.
As soon as a international body views US action negatively, those bodies are useless
But if they rule in favor of the US it's a matter of international law, and must be abided by all
nice troll.
You fail to see the distinction between:
1 - A company that SELL WEB 2.0 "stuff"
2 - A company that wants to USE WEB2.0 "stuff" to increase profits.
If your company does #1 then DUN, go for it, sell sell sell the hype and profit. However, if your company is a consumer of WEB 2.0 "stuff" then your post is ridiculous.
"Web 2.0 has some security issues and it's not optimal, but for a lot of applications that either doesn't matter or a good IT group could work around it anyway."
I read: it will cost a lot of money to "work around it anyway" and, in the end, probably not be secure....but that doesn't matter as long as it look pretty,because that's what the end user wants. HOW does this help a company??
While I agree that having users help each other will probably decrease calls to the IT department (at least initially), I have to wonder if the overhead created in supporting the wiki will leave you with a net gain? You may start to get calls on how to post questions to the wiki; a question that you would have gotten directly previously. Meanwhile the user still has no answer, but at least he has something to do (post to the wiki and discuss the problem with others). Is this adding to profitability? I'm not completely convinced, but open to debate.
Why not just cut to the chase and put the MPAA/RIAA in charge of the entire country? I mean they need a test ground before we can trust them to rule the world, otherwise it would just be irresponsible of us! Courts are so bothersome and expensive, why use them at all?
I agree. couln't frikin care any less what WM does! fuck em.
All broad generalities are false.....er
"Why can't you accept the fact that there is a being greater than man? A being that has the power to create the universe in which we live."
So there is FACTUAL evidence to support beings greater than man; it's not just a mater of faith anymore, as I thought the usual argument went? ok.
In any case, it's the same mental leap to believe the is NO a greater being for one who believes, then for a non-believer to in turn believe in a greater being. So one could easily ask, "Why can't you accept the fact that there is NO being greater than man?" with the equal amount of thrust that you ask your question. The incredulousness of the opposing view lies only in which side of the belief/non-belief issue you start.
Yea? Didn't the US ignore their obligations under NAFTA and continue
the protect their softwood lumber industry from Canadian imports, in the
face of the fact that NAFTA and the WTO both deemed the US action to be
contrary to the NFTA trade agreement?
Free trade with the US works as long as the US gets the best deal; otherwise the protect.
Although it may be hard to get your $400 video card to work with Linux, I hardly think this will be an obstacle for most business in their efforts to move away from Microsoft. :)
Gamers may have a bit more of a problems, especially considering that most games are written for MS anyways. So we may end up with businesses adopting linux as the cost of MS rises, and MS taking its rightfull place as a game platform (a toy as it were
But I'm sure your driver is on it's way just the same.
Am I missing something here? I hate real as well, but I got to the download in two clicks (both of which said "Free click here" type of thing. Why is this so hard again?
Holy cow! Take a moment to relax. Your WAY too upset over your inability to run a LINUX system on the desktop.
"For 2 years I've dual booted, preparing to make the switch, I still haven't been able to do it!"
What are you running that's so magically complicated that you cannot do it under Linux? Grab a distro and run it.
Running a computer is not rocket science, all the hard parts have been done by the code gurus. If you can't handle linux then run windows! No big deal. Just stop complaining because your OS doesn't _think_ for you because you are really getting what you paid for.
Wow! So what I gather from this is that, by copying movies, thus removing money from Hollywood, I am actually helping in the "War on Drugs"! Just doing my civic duty.
I wouldn't put it past REAL to sic the DMCA police after you for "circumventing" their um...market "security" features.
What if car manufacturer inserted a digital chip in the opening to the fuel tank such that it would ONLY accept fuel if you used say a "Shell" fueling nozzle? Could they then claim that filling your tank at any other service station but the "approved" was an attempt to "circumvents the technological measure that controls access to the"...er fuel tank?