Buddy, back off on the elitism a bit. Everyone determines their own musical tastes. Just because there happens to be a rather large group you don't agree with doesn't make your taste superior in any way.
Since there's no possibility of success, it's wasted energy. That's my reason. It's nice to have a fantasy about where the human race could be, but in the meantime, I live in the now, where I may have to (and have had to) deal with people who wish me harm.
Apparently you have no understanding of what a CEO does. I'll let you know something he doesn't do: help the competition.
Your unrelated points are all excellent, and true about Microsoft in general, but you apparently don't understand the concept of leading such a beast, even in the abstract. It's okay, very few people do.
The citizens mostly unhappy with the President don't like guns. It's a bit of a conundrum. In any case, the problem with politics in this country is politics in general. We've advanced representational democracy to the next logical stage; we've gone from money talks to money rules everything. You'll all get here soon enough.
Besides, the dislike of Bush is at least 50% "he's a Republican." His specific actions, while sometimes onerously disgusting, are overall not entirely out of line with prior presidents, both liberal and conservative.
Why wouldn't they aim very well? You can train for better aim, and anyone carrying a gun is likely to have done target shooting to work on just such skills. The problem here is that no one is allowed to carry them at all, so everyone was vulnerable, regardless of skill.
Your doomsday scenario of everyone packing, no one trained, and death everywhere is just plain unrealistic, and obviously agenda driven. This is typically not a good place for boogeymen to be used as the basis of an argument, because lots of us are smart here.
Interesting attitude. My father used to scare me with stories about people like you existing, but finding out you are all real is a lot more terrifying.
Get real. People don't carry snakebite emergency repair kits, and they're much more likely than a gun to be useful.
Strangely, while I've been at gunpoint, knifepoint, baseball batpoint, and fistpoint many times, I've never been faced with a poisonous snake. I suppose my experience is contrary to yours, but then again, I don't live in a jungle.
The flaw is that you saw it as a comparison, which wasn't the intended use. Basically, people will die. Sometimes at the hands of other people. The tool is not the problem, the people are. That was the point.
It's easy to cast aspersions on people you don't know. Personally, I know several people who own guns and have used them safely and effectively to disperse a truly violent situation. Once, to my personal benefit (and possibly continued life.) That's no illusion.
What about the other 100,000 or so people who die every single day, many of them senselessly? Should Slashdot be given over as a portal to count the dead, perhaps?
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Buddy, back off on the elitism a bit. Everyone determines their own musical tastes. Just because there happens to be a rather large group you don't agree with doesn't make your taste superior in any way.
We can face the criticism. Hell, I welcome the criticism. I look at it this way, no one cares about unseating #2.
It's post like that one that started this subthread that get irksome: outright lies.
Damn, it's the end of the world: I agree with you, completely and without reservation.
Since there's no possibility of success, it's wasted energy. That's my reason. It's nice to have a fantasy about where the human race could be, but in the meantime, I live in the now, where I may have to (and have had to) deal with people who wish me harm.
I don't get mod points anymore, so here's my +1, Insightful in reply form.
Vinyl sounds freakin awful.
Commence proving me wrong
Apparently you have no understanding of what a CEO does. I'll let you know something he doesn't do: help the competition.
Your unrelated points are all excellent, and true about Microsoft in general, but you apparently don't understand the concept of leading such a beast, even in the abstract. It's okay, very few people do.
The citizens mostly unhappy with the President don't like guns. It's a bit of a conundrum. In any case, the problem with politics in this country is politics in general. We've advanced representational democracy to the next logical stage; we've gone from money talks to money rules everything. You'll all get here soon enough.
Besides, the dislike of Bush is at least 50% "he's a Republican." His specific actions, while sometimes onerously disgusting, are overall not entirely out of line with prior presidents, both liberal and conservative.
Oh, I didn't mean that part. I have no particular love for racism either.
I meant the part where you would torture people who don't share your attitude of tolerance. Sorry you misunderstood.
Why wouldn't they aim very well? You can train for better aim, and anyone carrying a gun is likely to have done target shooting to work on just such skills. The problem here is that no one is allowed to carry them at all, so everyone was vulnerable, regardless of skill.
Your doomsday scenario of everyone packing, no one trained, and death everywhere is just plain unrealistic, and obviously agenda driven. This is typically not a good place for boogeymen to be used as the basis of an argument, because lots of us are smart here.
Interesting attitude. My father used to scare me with stories about people like you existing, but finding out you are all real is a lot more terrifying.
Do they tie you down and force you to watch US movies in Australia?
They are lethal weapons with no other purpose than to kill.
Your hyperbole notwithstanding, that doesn't contradict with calling them tools. Sorry if that word has too many positive connotations for you.
Nothing comes free with the server. At best, they won't allow you to deduct the cost.
Was that post generated? It seemed like it should make sense, but it didn't.
You can't lose that much karma on a single comment without someone modding you funny, and there's no chance of that happening here.
On the other hand, you shot pretty much all of your credibility.
Get real. People don't carry snakebite emergency repair kits, and they're much more likely than a gun to be useful.
Strangely, while I've been at gunpoint, knifepoint, baseball batpoint, and fistpoint many times, I've never been faced with a poisonous snake. I suppose my experience is contrary to yours, but then again, I don't live in a jungle.
The flaw is that you saw it as a comparison, which wasn't the intended use. Basically, people will die. Sometimes at the hands of other people. The tool is not the problem, the people are. That was the point.
It's not annoying, it just makes it easy to ignore what you say. I consider it helpful in that regard.
It's easy to cast aspersions on people you don't know. Personally, I know several people who own guns and have used them safely and effectively to disperse a truly violent situation. Once, to my personal benefit (and possibly continued life.) That's no illusion.
I suppose bombings don't count as murder.
What about the other 100,000 or so people who die every single day, many of them senselessly? Should Slashdot be given over as a portal to count the dead, perhaps?
I predict a cavalcade of Microsoft "jokes." God bless Slashdot.
Sorry, I'm not willing to give up my freedom for the illusion of safety. We have enough of that going on over here already, thanks.
He probably trained on Doom. Someone check to see if he was able to aim up and down.