Funny. Most liberals would call Jack Thompson a conservative freak. After all, it is the conservatives that like to snoop on Americans and restrict their rights. Won't anybody think of the children?
You're a bloody moron. As Kissinger told Meir, "That has nothing to do with this."
Of course Israel has a vested interested in what happens during the Olympics in Greece. What do you think would have happened to the Israeli athletes in Munich if Israeli intelligence had an inside line on what the Germans were planning?
Furthermore, you poison the well. Saying something about Israel that isn't glowing and praiseful is not antisemitism. Saying something about Israel slaughtering Palestinians is not anti-semitic either. After all, the Palestinians are semites.
If you wonder why Israel has no credibility anywhere in the world outside of the United States, maybe you should consider what your actions have to do with that.
Who cares? GUN was the worst game I bought in the past 3 years. It was just about as dumb as a video game could get. After killing some 200 Indians with my pistol that never ran out of ammunition, riding around on a stupid wagon and in general dumb dialog, I took it out of my PC and put it on the shelf, to be ignored forever. Cowboys and Indians are cool. Westerns are cool. GUN was stupid, mundane, and boring. The best thing for it is to ignore the stinker of a game and wait for it to get into the 2 dollar bin and then disappear.
An abortion is an automatically allowed action, like all other actions. There are not rights in the United States, we should think of it more as wrongs. The government's purpose is to restrict government, not pass laws about what we can and cannot do. The whole purpose of the Constitution was to expand government slightly, so that we would all have one federal economy (ala Hamilton), and that was it.
The point of abortion is that it is between a woman and her conscience. All the Supreme Court did was strike down a bunch of bad and illegal laws. It's time we stopped declaring things to be illegal, and remember that Americans are responsible people who can make choices for themselves. Time to remember we are not supposed to be safe, we are supposed to be free.
The Supreme Court, or Congress? For all the complaining the Radical Right does, the Supreme Court can only strike down laws. It can only even the playing field. Legalizing abortion was the removal of a law, and so was seperate is inherently unequal. What most people do not realize is that we have entered a country where some things are legal, and the rest are illegal. It is not the other way around.
If you don't like Social Security, Medicare, or the other government beaucracies, blame Congress. But then, the Radical Right controls Congress, and the Executive. Guess that leaves only the Supreme Court to blame.
I work in a bank. If we fuck up IT security, someone loses a lot of money. The only place more stressful is a hospital. Someone fucks up IT security there, people die.
IT security was a bit of a joke 7 years ago. It isn't funny any more.
World War II started significantly earlier than 1939, in 1931, as a matter of fact, with the Japanese invasion of China, but I can tell you don't care much about details, or you would have referred to the post I was responding to. In this case, the attack on Pearl Harbor does mark the US entrance into the war, which appeared to be what the parent referred to.
You mean December 7th of 1941? Heh. Open a business in four hours. You must be from a different China than me, or you have a rolodex of bribable officials you could sell for half a million.
Yeah, it is that bad. My family relies on me for news in China. There have been riots in their city that they did not know about. Threatening murder is one thing, but I've been able to spend letters expressing my displeasure to officials in the US before, work on campaigns, demonstrate against the sitting government, demonstrate against corporate abuses, join a real union, own a firearm, listen to any radio or satellite station of my choice, own any book I want, watch any movie I want, get DOI documents, and successfully challenge the government in a court of law. I've also never had to issue a bribe to any government official in the US. I am also protected by labor law.
A person can get used to a bad thing, like when the company turns the heat off, or when a policeman talks to you and you move your hand to your wallet, but it does not mean that it is not wrong. And as someone Chinese, would you rather have your friends in Mainland China, or a place they could vote and had rights, like Canada, or Taiwan?
"The Chinese seem to be okay without civil rights..." Tell that to my family, you sunvabitch. And there have been people like you before, "They don't need civil rights, they're black." Or "They shouldn't rush things like this, getting civil liberties is a process that takes time."
There can be no happiness without freedom. You have no idea what it is like to know that if the police come knocking, you need to hand over a thousand yuan or a loved one disappears. You don't know what it means to have classmates beaten so badly they leave police stations brain damaged and half dead, with no recourse. You don't know what it's like when the state owned company you worked for for 30 years decide that it is not going to pay the heat in the winter and the heating company turns it off and will not turn the heat back on for any amount of money. You have no idea what it is like to be required by law to work 80 hour weeks because the company you are at has decided that it's employees can produce more. You don't know what it's like to listen to your daughter call, worried about the riots in your city, only to be told by state run media that there are not any.
You seem to forget just how oppressive a Communist regime and a dictator can be. There is economic growth in China, and it is not trickling down. A few have become rich; most Chinese were better off sixty years ago under the KMT. All property and all rights in China are illusory.
There is no freedom in China. There is no happiness in China.
If you would have read more closely (instead of been so interested in trolling), you would have discovered both Curies had suffered from radition poisoning at certain points in their lives, at times suffering from effects similar to those found somewhere near 200-300 REM exposure. Marie Curie died of leukemia, almost certainly brought on by radiation exposure.
1. Adobe products and antivirus cause the most software problems, but you cannot live without either.
2. Most computer hardware problems are the result of sticky rolls, janitors cleaning, computers being accidently kicked, or power failures. In that order.
3. When calling HP or Dell about anything other than servers, you will get bad tech support.
4. Three year warranties on individual PCs do not matter. On a system with dozens of computers, they pay for themselves.
5. There will always be a lower price. Get over it.
6. Phones cannot fail. Five nines of reliability is not good enough.
7. Documented organization of the network and supplies will save you more time than the knowledge a thousand certifications brings (which isn't that much anyways).
8. Researching and backing up information before beginning a project is the sign of a professional. So is spelling.
9. Soft operating expenses are always more expensive than hard operating expenses.
10. When working on a project, document everything. It is almost never needed, but if your coworkers know you have it, they will not try to screw you.
So your husband should be working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? I'm sure he appreciates that. I'm hope he appreciates that he's little more than a money machine to you. Your husband doesn't need video games to relax. With your wonderful attitude, he needs a stiff drink. Of poison.
Working through this in a relationship is stupid. Boyfriends and girlfriends break up with each other. They are not married. It's for the best.
If you are married and do not like your husband's video game habits, then you are a fool. If your husband is at home playing computer games, good. He's not out drinking or whoring. He's not gambling away the money he makes. He's not committing crimes. He's not hurting anyone. He's relaxing in a safe manner.
Instead of watching football or baseball, he's playing video games. He's surfing on the internet playing games with friends, not fantasy football. There is zero difference between watching games and playing games (except for the fact that playing games makes you smarter), just how some of society perceives it.
Next time you read about a girlfriend angry that her boyfriend plays video games, pay her the same attention you would any whiny complaining stupid person.
I did not say cripple, but it would cost millions, and the effect would be as such. However, millions that are pre-accrued for and a transition that takes place slowly and is well thought out is something completely different.
I've worked for several small banks which were required to use a data processor. A migration for a bank with 300 million in assets from one data processor to another is fine, but cannot be done in a two week, or even two months period. For large banks, this process can take as long as two years. It's basically the same thing. If Microsoft places South Korea in an Interdict, then there will be problems. But companies can migrate to other products without being in a monopolistic situation.
The same thing is true of Linux, OS-X, or any other OS. This is not a monopoly, but it is a big decision and a hard thing to do.
Korea is attempting to force government regulation on a product that has not received government backing or free government money like railroads or airlines.
Like most folks here, I have switched to Linux, although I maintain a Windows box for my gaming. It's a perfectly viable solution, and if Linux, a Mac, or something else were obviously superior to MS, I would be glad to migrate there. The monopoly only exists because Microsoft creates genuinely superior products.
Basically, South Korea is looking for cash from Microsoft. This is not about monopolies, because the monopoly does not exist.
Then Microsoft can file with the WTO. Korea is not playing by the rules of the WTO, so Microsoft is perfectly justified in picking up its marbles and going home.
As for all the Linux zealots proclaiming victory, that's just foolishness. There are corporations in Korea that require Microsoft to do their work. Migrating these places would cost millions, if not potentially billions. Think of all the issues. Training users, the actual migration, new support staff, in many cases new hardware. The corporations will never allow it.
Microsoft has not taken the high road, but neither has South Korea. But in this case, it sounds like MS has the advantage.
Uh, you're a moron. I did not say China's demand was not increasing. What I said was that oil is a commodity. Even if Venezuela sold all it's oil to China, except for the relatively minor supply shock, world oil prices would not sky rocket. This is basic basic economics. Very basic. Get off of Slashdot, and get your stupid, ignorant ass to a 101 economics class.
First, it's Venezuela. Second, even if that were true, which it is not, oil is a commodity. If Venezuela sells all its oil to China, that will just free up oil elsewhere in the world.
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There are some pretty good games that didn't make it up there.
Silent Service
Rampart
Crystalis
Metroid
Castlevania III
Skate or Die
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Nevermind. Some of those sucked. I like my PC better.
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Funny. Most liberals would call Jack Thompson a conservative freak. After all, it is the conservatives that like to snoop on Americans and restrict their rights. Won't anybody think of the children?
You're a bloody moron. As Kissinger told Meir, "That has nothing to do with this."
Of course Israel has a vested interested in what happens during the Olympics in Greece. What do you think would have happened to the Israeli athletes in Munich if Israeli intelligence had an inside line on what the Germans were planning?
Furthermore, you poison the well. Saying something about Israel that isn't glowing and praiseful is not antisemitism. Saying something about Israel slaughtering Palestinians is not anti-semitic either. After all, the Palestinians are semites.
If you wonder why Israel has no credibility anywhere in the world outside of the United States, maybe you should consider what your actions have to do with that.
Can you say Israel boys and girls?
I knew you could.
Who cares? GUN was the worst game I bought in the past 3 years. It was just about as dumb as a video game could get. After killing some 200 Indians with my pistol that never ran out of ammunition, riding around on a stupid wagon and in general dumb dialog, I took it out of my PC and put it on the shelf, to be ignored forever. Cowboys and Indians are cool. Westerns are cool. GUN was stupid, mundane, and boring. The best thing for it is to ignore the stinker of a game and wait for it to get into the 2 dollar bin and then disappear.
An abortion is an automatically allowed action, like all other actions. There are not rights in the United States, we should think of it more as wrongs. The government's purpose is to restrict government, not pass laws about what we can and cannot do. The whole purpose of the Constitution was to expand government slightly, so that we would all have one federal economy (ala Hamilton), and that was it.
The point of abortion is that it is between a woman and her conscience. All the Supreme Court did was strike down a bunch of bad and illegal laws. It's time we stopped declaring things to be illegal, and remember that Americans are responsible people who can make choices for themselves. Time to remember we are not supposed to be safe, we are supposed to be free.
The Supreme Court, or Congress? For all the complaining the Radical Right does, the Supreme Court can only strike down laws. It can only even the playing field. Legalizing abortion was the removal of a law, and so was seperate is inherently unequal. What most people do not realize is that we have entered a country where some things are legal, and the rest are illegal. It is not the other way around.
If you don't like Social Security, Medicare, or the other government beaucracies, blame Congress. But then, the Radical Right controls Congress, and the Executive. Guess that leaves only the Supreme Court to blame.
I work in a bank. If we fuck up IT security, someone loses a lot of money. The only place more stressful is a hospital. Someone fucks up IT security there, people die.
IT security was a bit of a joke 7 years ago. It isn't funny any more.
World War II started significantly earlier than 1939, in 1931, as a matter of fact, with the Japanese invasion of China, but I can tell you don't care much about details, or you would have referred to the post I was responding to. In this case, the attack on Pearl Harbor does mark the US entrance into the war, which appeared to be what the parent referred to.
You mean December 7th of 1941? Heh. Open a business in four hours. You must be from a different China than me, or you have a rolodex of bribable officials you could sell for half a million.
Yeah, it is that bad. My family relies on me for news in China. There have been riots in their city that they did not know about. Threatening murder is one thing, but I've been able to spend letters expressing my displeasure to officials in the US before, work on campaigns, demonstrate against the sitting government, demonstrate against corporate abuses, join a real union, own a firearm, listen to any radio or satellite station of my choice, own any book I want, watch any movie I want, get DOI documents, and successfully challenge the government in a court of law. I've also never had to issue a bribe to any government official in the US. I am also protected by labor law.
A person can get used to a bad thing, like when the company turns the heat off, or when a policeman talks to you and you move your hand to your wallet, but it does not mean that it is not wrong. And as someone Chinese, would you rather have your friends in Mainland China, or a place they could vote and had rights, like Canada, or Taiwan?
There can be no happiness without freedom. You have no idea what it is like to know that if the police come knocking, you need to hand over a thousand yuan or a loved one disappears. You don't know what it means to have classmates beaten so badly they leave police stations brain damaged and half dead, with no recourse. You don't know what it's like when the state owned company you worked for for 30 years decide that it is not going to pay the heat in the winter and the heating company turns it off and will not turn the heat back on for any amount of money. You have no idea what it is like to be required by law to work 80 hour weeks because the company you are at has decided that it's employees can produce more. You don't know what it's like to listen to your daughter call, worried about the riots in your city, only to be told by state run media that there are not any.
You seem to forget just how oppressive a Communist regime and a dictator can be. There is economic growth in China, and it is not trickling down. A few have become rich; most Chinese were better off sixty years ago under the KMT. All property and all rights in China are illusory.
There is no freedom in China. There is no happiness in China.
If you would have read more closely (instead of been so interested in trolling), you would have discovered both Curies had suffered from radition poisoning at certain points in their lives, at times suffering from effects similar to those found somewhere near 200-300 REM exposure. Marie Curie died of leukemia, almost certainly brought on by radiation exposure.
There are precidents. Remember what happened to the Curies?
Goddamn furries. Never had to deal with them before the Internet.
The ancients knew the earth was round. Hell, stand in the right place in the US Midwest, and you can see the curvature.
1. Adobe products and antivirus cause the most software problems, but you cannot live without either.
2. Most computer hardware problems are the result of sticky rolls, janitors cleaning, computers being accidently kicked, or power failures. In that order.
3. When calling HP or Dell about anything other than servers, you will get bad tech support.
4. Three year warranties on individual PCs do not matter. On a system with dozens of computers, they pay for themselves.
5. There will always be a lower price. Get over it.
6. Phones cannot fail. Five nines of reliability is not good enough.
7. Documented organization of the network and supplies will save you more time than the knowledge a thousand certifications brings (which isn't that much anyways).
8. Researching and backing up information before beginning a project is the sign of a professional. So is spelling.
9. Soft operating expenses are always more expensive than hard operating expenses.
10. When working on a project, document everything. It is almost never needed, but if your coworkers know you have it, they will not try to screw you.
So your husband should be working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? I'm sure he appreciates that. I'm hope he appreciates that he's little more than a money machine to you. Your husband doesn't need video games to relax. With your wonderful attitude, he needs a stiff drink. Of poison.
If you are married and do not like your husband's video game habits, then you are a fool. If your husband is at home playing computer games, good. He's not out drinking or whoring. He's not gambling away the money he makes. He's not committing crimes. He's not hurting anyone. He's relaxing in a safe manner.
Instead of watching football or baseball, he's playing video games. He's surfing on the internet playing games with friends, not fantasy football. There is zero difference between watching games and playing games (except for the fact that playing games makes you smarter), just how some of society perceives it.
Next time you read about a girlfriend angry that her boyfriend plays video games, pay her the same attention you would any whiny complaining stupid person.
I've worked for several small banks which were required to use a data processor. A migration for a bank with 300 million in assets from one data processor to another is fine, but cannot be done in a two week, or even two months period. For large banks, this process can take as long as two years. It's basically the same thing. If Microsoft places South Korea in an Interdict, then there will be problems. But companies can migrate to other products without being in a monopolistic situation.
The same thing is true of Linux, OS-X, or any other OS. This is not a monopoly, but it is a big decision and a hard thing to do.
Like most folks here, I have switched to Linux, although I maintain a Windows box for my gaming. It's a perfectly viable solution, and if Linux, a Mac, or something else were obviously superior to MS, I would be glad to migrate there. The monopoly only exists because Microsoft creates genuinely superior products.
Basically, South Korea is looking for cash from Microsoft. This is not about monopolies, because the monopoly does not exist.
As for all the Linux zealots proclaiming victory, that's just foolishness. There are corporations in Korea that require Microsoft to do their work. Migrating these places would cost millions, if not potentially billions. Think of all the issues. Training users, the actual migration, new support staff, in many cases new hardware. The corporations will never allow it.
Microsoft has not taken the high road, but neither has South Korea. But in this case, it sounds like MS has the advantage.
Uh, you're a moron. I did not say China's demand was not increasing. What I said was that oil is a commodity. Even if Venezuela sold all it's oil to China, except for the relatively minor supply shock, world oil prices would not sky rocket. This is basic basic economics. Very basic. Get off of Slashdot, and get your stupid, ignorant ass to a 101 economics class.
First, it's Venezuela. Second, even if that were true, which it is not, oil is a commodity. If Venezuela sells all its oil to China, that will just free up oil elsewhere in the world.
Silent Service
Rampart
Crystalis
Metroid
Castlevania III
Skate or Die
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Nevermind. Some of those sucked. I like my PC better.
It's kooks like you that make me love my sig.