You could cut military spending to zero, and you'd still have a huge deficit. The only ways to eliminate the deficit are big cuts everywhere, big tax increases, or big economic growth.
That 'big money' wouldn't matter if the government was restricted to the few powers allowed to it in the Constitution.
So long as government has the power to take trillions of dollars from ordinary Joes and hand it over to the politicians' friends, everyone will want to be the politician's friend.
Air Canada has treated its employees so poorly for so long its employees treat their customers in due kind
Weird. I've flown Air Canada many times and never had any complaint about the people on the plane. Being stuck on board for three hours while they changed a wheel, yes, but even when I've been flying cattle class rather than business they've been fine.
I had a 2GB tape backup system that recorded to VHS tapes. So at a minimum you'd need the ISA card, a Win 95/98 box you could plug the card into and a VHS tape player.
I removed my LS-120 drive a few years ago for reasons I can't remember. Probably either the drive died or they stopped selling LS-120 disks.
It seems natural to me that if you have windows at home, and on your laptop, you'd want it "on the go" as well.
People who use Windows at home and at work probably know they don't want it on their phone as well.
I was shocked a few years ago when I rented a car in Italy and it had a Windows logo on the steering wheel; no idea what it was running, but I was continually expecting a BSOD across the dashboard.
After decades of dealing with Microsoft crap, Windows is a negative branding, not a positive one.
don't worry, once the financial risk is low enough (after someone else has already put in the high risk hard yards - most likely funded by taxpayers), the cheap knockoffs will begin to appear, ready to kill off the cheapskate idiots who decide to fly with them, probably doing the world a favor.
Given that the massively expensive space shuttle destroyed itself and killed the crew about one time in sixty, a 'cheapskate' doesn't have to try too hard to kill their crew less often.
Obviously written by someone never stuck "sucking on a satellite" for Internet access.
Satellite Internet seemed to work fine for web browsing last I used it. However, I wasn't paying the dollar per megabyte or whatever they charge these days, or trying to play online games.
This is EXACTLY why Windows reigns supreme over all the 2^42 versions of Linux. You know exactly what you are getting into.
Yes. You can choose:
XP Home XP Pro XP 64 Couple of other varieties of XP Various server versions of Windows Six or so varieties of Vista A dozen or so varieties of Windows 7, 32-bit or 64-bit And soon, Windows for Tablets on the Desktop
People complaining about Linux 'fragementation' and then using that as an argument for running Windows are highly amusing. I can't even remember all the different versions of Windows you can run with different features and radically different UIs.
... Pay them more and tell them to assign more writing and speech assignments and stop letting administration scare them out of flunking those students who refuse to learn...
Except from the stats I've seen from around the world there's no correlation between teachers' pay and results. Perhaps if you stopped paying American teachers more for doing a bad job, they might improve.
Essentially the same thing, but offer awesome protection when transacting online at the cost of some functionality and convenience (no auto renewals, no credit card payments over the phone, things like Amazon 1-click ordering not possible)
I think you mean: 'encourage users to enter confidential information into random web sites and cause many people to abort their purchase and go somewhere else'.
These crappy things are one of the main reasons why I keep my Amex card.
What, pray tell, is your problem with honoring contracts?
Copyright is effectively a contract with the public: 'we let you have exclusive rights for a limited time so that we get more material in the public domain'. When big copyright holders breach their side of the contract by pushing ever-longer contract terms, the public don't see much reason to respect them.
What if Einstein resigned from his post just because he challenged Newton's laws?
Uh, everyone knew that Newton's Laws didn't work properly in exotic situations; Einstein was the first to figure out what was wrong.
We already have a ton of evidence that neutrinos can't travel faster than light, so the odds of this being correct were only a little larger than the odds of the average Internet conspiracy theory being correct.
You shouldn't have to resign just because you're wrong, but when you get your mistake plastered all over the media you do look a bit silly.
The vast majority of the RRP on a book is author's fee
I believe you meant to say 'retailer's profit' and 'publisher's profit'.
Authors typically get around 10% of the price of a book, if they're lucky; and 15% of that will go to their agent. A full-price book sale probably gets the retailer 30-50% (which is why they can sell at 40% off and still make money).
Given that layout is more difficult in an eBook
Uh, what? Most e-book formats are just a zipped HTML file which support a limited subset of HTML. And there are no returns to worry about either.
So then you just need a huge bureaucracy interfering with every company in the country to tell them what data is 'absolutely required to do its business'.
Or the company could risk being sued at any moment by someone who believes their data isn't 'absolutely required to do its business'.
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You could cut military spending to zero, and you'd still have a huge deficit. The only ways to eliminate the deficit are big cuts everywhere, big tax increases, or big economic growth.
That 'big money' wouldn't matter if the government was restricted to the few powers allowed to it in the Constitution.
So long as government has the power to take trillions of dollars from ordinary Joes and hand it over to the politicians' friends, everyone will want to be the politician's friend.
The government is spending taxpayers' money to train people to do jobs outsourced from America and it's all the EVIL CORPORATIONS fault?
So long as people continue to ignore the real problem, nothing will change.
Air Canada has treated its employees so poorly for so long its employees treat their customers in due kind
Weird. I've flown Air Canada many times and never had any complaint about the people on the plane. Being stuck on board for three hours while they changed a wheel, yes, but even when I've been flying cattle class rather than business they've been fine.
I had a 2GB tape backup system that recorded to VHS tapes. So at a minimum you'd need the ISA card, a Win 95/98 box you could plug the card into and a VHS tape player.
I removed my LS-120 drive a few years ago for reasons I can't remember. Probably either the drive died or they stopped selling LS-120 disks.
Remember that Xbx thing that took 20 billion and 7+ years to become a success.
Success? You mean the Xbox has finally made enough profit to pay back those years of losses?
It was an Italian car? Windows was probably installed to increase its reliability.
It was Italian. Windows running on Italian automotive electrics just seems like the kind of car you'd rent in Hell.
For 90% of the population a dual core Atom running at ~1.6Ghz with 4Gigs of memory will be able to handle all their computing needs.
Shame about the twenty minute battery life.
It seems natural to me that if you have windows at home, and on your laptop, you'd want it "on the go" as well.
People who use Windows at home and at work probably know they don't want it on their phone as well.
I was shocked a few years ago when I rented a car in Italy and it had a Windows logo on the steering wheel; no idea what it was running, but I was continually expecting a BSOD across the dashboard.
After decades of dealing with Microsoft crap, Windows is a negative branding, not a positive one.
iTunes is bad because the team of developers and managers working on it is bad. Period.
Let's be fair. All Apple software I've ever used on Windows has been a heap of fail.
Some Atoms are still 32-bit, aren't they?
Also, if you want to run old 16-bit apps you still need 32-bit Windows or some kind of emulator.
don't worry, once the financial risk is low enough (after someone else has already put in the high risk hard yards - most likely funded by taxpayers), the cheap knockoffs will begin to appear, ready to kill off the cheapskate idiots who decide to fly with them, probably doing the world a favor.
Given that the massively expensive space shuttle destroyed itself and killed the crew about one time in sixty, a 'cheapskate' doesn't have to try too hard to kill their crew less often.
Obviously written by someone never stuck "sucking on a satellite" for Internet access.
Satellite Internet seemed to work fine for web browsing last I used it. However, I wasn't paying the dollar per megabyte or whatever they charge these days, or trying to play online games.
This is EXACTLY why Windows reigns supreme over all the 2^42 versions of Linux. You know exactly what you are getting into.
Yes. You can choose:
XP Home
XP Pro
XP 64
Couple of other varieties of XP
Various server versions of Windows
Six or so varieties of Vista
A dozen or so varieties of Windows 7, 32-bit or 64-bit
And soon, Windows for Tablets on the Desktop
People complaining about Linux 'fragementation' and then using that as an argument for running Windows are highly amusing. I can't even remember all the different versions of Windows you can run with different features and radically different UIs.
Weird. I always hated having to use the NeXT machines in the office because they were so damn slow.
... Pay them more and tell them to assign more writing and speech assignments and stop letting administration scare them out of flunking those students who refuse to learn...
Except from the stats I've seen from around the world there's no correlation between teachers' pay and results. Perhaps if you stopped paying American teachers more for doing a bad job, they might improve.
Essentially the same thing, but offer awesome protection when transacting online at the cost of some functionality and convenience (no auto renewals, no credit card payments over the phone, things like Amazon 1-click ordering not possible)
I think you mean: 'encourage users to enter confidential information into random web sites and cause many people to abort their purchase and go somewhere else'.
These crappy things are one of the main reasons why I keep my Amex card.
What, pray tell, is your problem with honoring contracts?
Copyright is effectively a contract with the public: 'we let you have exclusive rights for a limited time so that we get more material in the public domain'. When big copyright holders breach their side of the contract by pushing ever-longer contract terms, the public don't see much reason to respect them.
What if Einstein resigned from his post just because he challenged Newton's laws?
Uh, everyone knew that Newton's Laws didn't work properly in exotic situations; Einstein was the first to figure out what was wrong.
We already have a ton of evidence that neutrinos can't travel faster than light, so the odds of this being correct were only a little larger than the odds of the average Internet conspiracy theory being correct.
You shouldn't have to resign just because you're wrong, but when you get your mistake plastered all over the media you do look a bit silly.
The vast majority of the RRP on a book is author's fee
I believe you meant to say 'retailer's profit' and 'publisher's profit'.
Authors typically get around 10% of the price of a book, if they're lucky; and 15% of that will go to their agent. A full-price book sale probably gets the retailer 30-50% (which is why they can sell at 40% off and still make money).
Given that layout is more difficult in an eBook
Uh, what? Most e-book formats are just a zipped HTML file which support a limited subset of HTML. And there are no returns to worry about either.
Solar is booming because of subsidies; poor people are being taxed in the West so that Chinese solar power manufacturers get rich.
Eliminate all subsidies and let the market sort itself out.
Does the GNOME3 team have any plans to make their DE run on Wayland?
No. That would result in such an accumulation of suck in one place that the universe would implode.
I don't understand why GNOME's devs would screw its supporters this way.
The other alternative was to start fixing Gnome 2's numerous bugs, and where's the fun in that?
Nah, everyone who wants a usable desktop has switched away and no longer cares how much the Gnome boys fsck theirs up.
So then you just need a huge bureaucracy interfering with every company in the country to tell them what data is 'absolutely required to do its business'.
Or the company could risk being sued at any moment by someone who believes their data isn't 'absolutely required to do its business'.