actually you can get copies of every MS product right back to DOS 3 via technet. so you'll need use a better example.
your whole premise is a big fail, because some FOSS project is FAR FAR more likely to stop producing updates and go offline (because they got a life/job/girlfriend) then a company like MS or nvidia which has actual funding. i'll say it again, your assumption is stupid and irrational and you've got nothing to back it up.
it's the same kind of thinking as people who stash guns in the attic and keep a hord of canned food for when jesus ends the world next week.
what so the moment the lastest card comes out yours stops working? you can download drivers for card on nvidia's website that they were selling 10 years ago. your fears are stupid and irrational
"Equal opportunity means that you check for racism first, before trying grand social experiments because of an assumption that certain races are inferior."
that sentence there is EXACTLY why equal opportunity is a farce and people like you keep it alive. while the OP clearly stated certain groups, you tried to turn it into race. there are other groups of people denoted by other factors then race. he also stated if they weren't being hired due to a lack of skills, then they should have training directed to them, you turned it into an assumption of them being interior, again based on race.
I think people who push this EEO agenda are the ones hung up on race, not employers like google.
that doesn't prove jackshit though. your still missing the link that shows CO2 somehow suddenly became the driving force of our climate. i refuse to give into the omg the evil CO2 nonsense without something more solid then "because our grant money depands on it"
then please will you global warming nuts STFU everytime some piece of ice breaks off? it seems like everytime some piece of evidence contridicts you, you just claim a computer model has already predicted it, and that you were right all along. is the ice melting or isn't it?
well, this COULD work but only if they grow the crops in an areas unsuitable for food crops (people still starve if you grow fuel crops instead of food crops), and if they choose area's that aren't ecologically sensitive or important.
this is the side effect of being CO2 obessed. you can't turn off the energy tap, so you have to source it some other way then fossil fuels. i've been saying the cure will be worse then the desease for a long time now...
i don't think you are giving animals enough credit. my dog will run in out of the rain and find a shady spot when it's hot. plenty of people are too stupid to even manage that much. not only that he knows when i'm pissed off at him so he scuttles off and stays away for a while, lots of people are too stupid to realise when they've annoyed another person.
I've had a CC for about 12 years now and i've never found visa and MC to be anything but helpful and honest. I lost my card in a dodgey part of memphis and the hotel only had the number for MC, so even though my card was a VISA I called them and they gave me VISA's number right away. VISA then shipped me a new card to the next hotel i was staying at via overnight registered mail.
I haven't had my number ever stolen but my brother in law has and they racked up $6k on it in 24 hours. the bank canceled the card and wiped the debt, including the $200 annual fee he should have had to pay anyway.
i think chip and pin isn't about relieving responsibility, i think it's a misguided approach.
the BEST solution to CC fraud is one time CC numbers. your card uses a new 16 digit cc number with every transaction and it's synced up with visa/MC's servers. this would significantly raise the bar to the point i think 90% of crooks would give up. sure the other 10% are going to find new inventive ways to steal, but just because it isn't perfect it doesn't mean it's not worth it.
"meant to"? who sets those rules anyway. have you asked a squid if it likes it or not? maybe they fucking LOVE being in captivity, for all you know they hate having to swim about all day trying to find food with the threat of starvation ever present.
My dog wasn't meant to live inside either, but that doesn't stop him howling at the back door wanting to come in and jump all over the bed.
he just comes across like another whingey fat ass. I've had people call me fat, i'm a little over weight. I make no excuses and i'm doing something about it, kevin smith should do the same.
Don't try hide behind the dictionary, the intention of calling people "deniers" is to try tar them with the same brush as holocost deniers. I'm well aware of what your trying to do with that turn of phrase. "denier" isn't a term you use when someone disagree's with you in the scientific community, it's a term religous zealots use.
And that post is the first time i've mentioned Al Gore, you twit.
I think the only instances where government has a place is where you can't put a price on something. eg. a human life/health.
I think in the space industry the government definately has a place in saftey and environmental regulation. you simply can't trust private money to place enough of a value on these things.
getting all bitter and attacking anyone that questions global warming by calling them "deniers" and quoting Al Gores fantasy film isn't going to get you any credability.
You've also just proven what i've always said about the peer review argument - it's a circular reference, you don't take anything not in a peer reviewed mag as valid, but the people publishing the peer reviewed articles won't publish anything anti global warming. with climate gate you've got evidence that "peers" are in fact pushing an agenda of their own and actively seeking to derail any descenting views.
if the global warming crowd could stop foaming at the mouth for long enough to make a non emotive arguement you might actually sway some of us skeptics over to your side.
well if you kept reading my post you'd see i also pointed out the lack of accountability with public servants and lack of competition as also being problems.
government departments are cash burning machines, and here is why. in a government department, if they don't spend 110% of their budget each year it will be cut. An ex of mine once told me she got repremanned for not spending all of her budget and she ended up having to spend it on crap for just this reason.
managers in private enterpise on the other hand recieve incentives for comming in under budget. private companys also have to perform or their customers will go else where. government doesn't have this concern, after all there is no alternative government. even if the ruling party is voted out the public servants won't change.
these 2 factors ensure government does everything in a more expensive, slower and less accountable way then private industry. the other reason government sucks for doing things private companys should be doing, is even though you can give me examples of private programs being a failure, those programs typically aren't running anymore, where government programs which are a failure are STILL RUNNING. this is because even though things like the war on drugs and no child left behind are a totally failure, while such programs are politicaly popular government will continue to waste money on them.
replace renting with living for free in mom's basement, or house with 1 bed room with no bath room in a crack house down town and we might believe you.
you do realise that getting a man on the moon was done by standing on the shoulders of 100's of inventions developed by private industry? NASA didn't invent the whole thing from scratch, sure they did some amazing stuff, but your comparison of powered flight taking 300 years to putting a man on the moon in 8 years is so flawed it brings tears to the eyes.
without people trying for powered flight for 300 years, NASA COULD NOT put a man on the moon.
how about you put some thinking into it!? given what we know about people, do you really believe people are just suddenly going to stop wanting things? sure stuff will go up in price, but they will have more in their pay check without income or captial gains taxes.
and single man shouldn't pay as much tax either, he isn't the one using all the government services. he'll sink his money into goods and services rather then throwing it down a government black hole funding daft things like the iraq war.
as for buying a car in canada to avoid tax... think real hard - there is already sales taxes on things now.
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I know your not a professional, but i hardly thing you should be making this post without checking your facts.
your whole premise is a big fail, because some FOSS project is FAR FAR more likely to stop producing updates and go offline (because they got a life/job/girlfriend) then a company like MS or nvidia which has actual funding. i'll say it again, your assumption is stupid and irrational and you've got nothing to back it up.
it's the same kind of thinking as people who stash guns in the attic and keep a hord of canned food for when jesus ends the world next week.
what so the moment the lastest card comes out yours stops working? you can download drivers for card on nvidia's website that they were selling 10 years ago. your fears are stupid and irrational
so why are they wasting time reinventing the wheel when they could be working on something more valuable?
how the fuck do you check for racism? it's not like they put out a sign saying they don't hire black people.
that sentence there is EXACTLY why equal opportunity is a farce and people like you keep it alive. while the OP clearly stated certain groups, you tried to turn it into race. there are other groups of people denoted by other factors then race. he also stated if they weren't being hired due to a lack of skills, then they should have training directed to them, you turned it into an assumption of them being interior, again based on race.
I think people who push this EEO agenda are the ones hung up on race, not employers like google.
that doesn't prove jackshit though. your still missing the link that shows CO2 somehow suddenly became the driving force of our climate. i refuse to give into the omg the evil CO2 nonsense without something more solid then "because our grant money depands on it"
then please will you global warming nuts STFU everytime some piece of ice breaks off? it seems like everytime some piece of evidence contridicts you, you just claim a computer model has already predicted it, and that you were right all along. is the ice melting or isn't it?
this is the side effect of being CO2 obessed. you can't turn off the energy tap, so you have to source it some other way then fossil fuels. i've been saying the cure will be worse then the desease for a long time now...
i don't think you are giving animals enough credit. my dog will run in out of the rain and find a shady spot when it's hot. plenty of people are too stupid to even manage that much. not only that he knows when i'm pissed off at him so he scuttles off and stays away for a while, lots of people are too stupid to realise when they've annoyed another person.
The fact is, you can only do so much. the more idiot proof you think you have made it, eventually a big enough idiot with break it.
I haven't had my number ever stolen but my brother in law has and they racked up $6k on it in 24 hours. the bank canceled the card and wiped the debt, including the $200 annual fee he should have had to pay anyway.
the BEST solution to CC fraud is one time CC numbers. your card uses a new 16 digit cc number with every transaction and it's synced up with visa/MC's servers. this would significantly raise the bar to the point i think 90% of crooks would give up. sure the other 10% are going to find new inventive ways to steal, but just because it isn't perfect it doesn't mean it's not worth it.
My dog wasn't meant to live inside either, but that doesn't stop him howling at the back door wanting to come in and jump all over the bed.
he just comes across like another whingey fat ass. I've had people call me fat, i'm a little over weight. I make no excuses and i'm doing something about it, kevin smith should do the same.
And that post is the first time i've mentioned Al Gore, you twit.
I think in the space industry the government definately has a place in saftey and environmental regulation. you simply can't trust private money to place enough of a value on these things.
You've also just proven what i've always said about the peer review argument - it's a circular reference, you don't take anything not in a peer reviewed mag as valid, but the people publishing the peer reviewed articles won't publish anything anti global warming. with climate gate you've got evidence that "peers" are in fact pushing an agenda of their own and actively seeking to derail any descenting views.
if the global warming crowd could stop foaming at the mouth for long enough to make a non emotive arguement you might actually sway some of us skeptics over to your side.
I award you a comprehension fail.
well if you kept reading my post you'd see i also pointed out the lack of accountability with public servants and lack of competition as also being problems.
managers in private enterpise on the other hand recieve incentives for comming in under budget. private companys also have to perform or their customers will go else where. government doesn't have this concern, after all there is no alternative government. even if the ruling party is voted out the public servants won't change.
these 2 factors ensure government does everything in a more expensive, slower and less accountable way then private industry. the other reason government sucks for doing things private companys should be doing, is even though you can give me examples of private programs being a failure, those programs typically aren't running anymore, where government programs which are a failure are STILL RUNNING. this is because even though things like the war on drugs and no child left behind are a totally failure, while such programs are politicaly popular government will continue to waste money on them.
replace renting with living for free in mom's basement, or house with 1 bed room with no bath room in a crack house down town and we might believe you.
without people trying for powered flight for 300 years, NASA COULD NOT put a man on the moon.
and single man shouldn't pay as much tax either, he isn't the one using all the government services. he'll sink his money into goods and services rather then throwing it down a government black hole funding daft things like the iraq war.
as for buying a car in canada to avoid tax... think real hard - there is already sales taxes on things now.
are you yet another nerd raging at some book/comic not being adapted to film in a way that matches his wet dreams? *yawn*