No, there are more important things they need to deal with at this point in time than this bullshit.
When a volcano erruption spews more CO2 and pollutants into the atmosphere in a couple days than the entire history of mankind, then mankind can't be considered that important in the grand scheme of things. Throw in the FACT that there have been several such erruptions in the last 30 years and your entire theory not only becomes pointless. It doesn't matter if its right, we aren't that important, there are FAR bigger factors that account for the change than anything we can possibly do to change it.
Should we change our ways? Sure, for plenty of reasons, almost none of them having anything to do with global warming. How about we clean up our water supplies and stop dumping mercury into it. How about we be a little more concerned with the over use of disinfectants and antibiotics so that our immune systems never build up any resistance to things. How about we educate our children to not follow the retarded trends brought forth by some political douche bag trying to get elected? How about we fix some of our more immediate problems so that we can be around long enough to worry about the long term problems.
How about we stop being such arrogant, self centered fucks who get stuck on one theme and turn science into a religion, ousting anyone who disagrees and all but burning them at the stake because they don't agree with the guys that say the opposite.
I see plenty of posts here saying 'but so many climatologist say its true'. There are more priests that say you will go to hell for your sins, but you don't stick your head up your ass and believe them, why the hell are you people being so religious about something that you are supposed to question? A good scientist questions everything, what I see here isn't science, its arrogance and religion by another name.
Why is it that every season of Deadliest Catch, the captains of the boats seem to run into the ice sooner and end up getting locked out of the harbor for longer.
Seems to me that everyone who is dealing with Artic ice is having to deal with more of it, not less.
I wonder if perhaps that just staring at some sat photos isn't the best way to determine whats going on, especially since they've come out and noted that they were reading the damn things wrong in the first place.
I'd also believe you guys more if you could come up with a rational explanation for the massive hoax being perpetrated on the innocent public by the 90% or so of scientist who claim that Global Warming is happening and is caused by man. I've yet to hear anyone come up with a reasonable theory as to why these evil scientists would be doing such a thing. I hear can think of plenty of simple, logical reasons why the oil & coal companies would deny it, though...
Funny. You think some scientists go for the oil and gas money, but the others don't go for government money to fund research?
You need to recognize that BOTH sides do EVERYTHING they do for money.
It amuses the piss out of me how you can point at the other guys and say they are doing it for money but can't think for a second that maybe your team is doing the exact same thing. Ignorance is bliss isn't it?
Why can't you make a post with your point that doesn't use mis-spellings of words that were tired and warn out 10 years ago?
It was cool and funny when I was fifteen. It was old but didn't bother me at 20. 10 years later and now it just makes you look like a 15 year old.
You can't really call it 'stupid lazy programmers' when they had to write more code to do it this way than had they used existing protocols since the OSes would already have the required code.
Also, since they have an Apple client, and one for several mobile phones, before you start ranting, you should do a slight amount of research rather than assuming ANYTHING posted by kdawson has even the tiniest amount of truth to it. I'm pretty sure the only thing right in the summary is the spelling of Verizons name.
Let me get this straight, you think because you have an MBA that you somehow understand something that you didn't before? Other than how big of a waste of time it is?
I've never met anyone with an MBA who got anything from school other than a sheet of paper. Its a degree for people who need a degree to say they have one but not actually because they will learn anything from it.
If the school is funded in any way by tax money, then its public domain. Take one dollar in tax breaks or tax money into the school and you're public domain for everything, period. No exceptions. No loop holes. Don't like it? Go to a completely privately funded school that gets nothing at all from the government. If you want to enjoy the benefits of using my tax money then I get to enjoy the benefits of you using my tax money. This bullshit of schools selling stuff I paid to research to companies which then charge me a fortune to buy it back from them needs to end.
I have no problem making our children and future generations more intelligent and throwing into the pot to better the future for all man kind. I have a distinct problem with throwing into the pot to make some asshole professor more money while he rides the coattails of the students that he cons into doing all of his research for him in exchange for little pay (in the case of a phd student) or the students actually helping to pay his salary as well!
If they take ANY money from the government then I'm paying for the research and I expect access to it. I don't give a damn if someone else donates money to the specific project, if the the school takes any money what so ever from the government then you can not disassociate that money from the project. So if they got government funding for something specific, such as paying for some other building on another campus, you still can not disassociate the funding from the entire school because money the school would have spent on its own for the now government funded building is used for these other projects.
The school IS NOT A PROFIT CENTER. Its an educational center.
A completely privately funded, doesn't get any tax breaks, doesn't get any government funding, doesn't get any of my money or benefits of the government which are sponsored by my money, can do whatever the hell they want to at their school. Anything that has ever seen a dime of my money however, should not be allowed to do research that I can not use for myself.
University research is public domain, sorry if that pisses some douche bag professor off because he can't use someone else's money to make a name for myself, he should have got a real job.
Which is part of the point, he's story is bunk. WiFi isn't bothering him, any more than all the other electronic crap he uses is.
Of course your 900mhz equipment has nice side bands at 1.8ghz and 2.7ghz (and every other multiple of 900mhz as well), so you can't exactly rule it out.
The reality of course is that he's just crazy, but my point is that just because you're wireless gear works at its intended frequency of 900mhz, doesn't mean that both the transmitter and reciever are only emitting in the 900mhz range. They are BOTH emitting radiation at multiple frequencies, just generally at a very low (hopefully) power output as to not bother anything else. Harmonics are a bitch, good filtering helps but doesnt' prevent the problem.
No browsers support 'most' of SVG. No browsers support anything more than basic shapes for shit.
We're in a situation where all browsers that support SVG do it in such a shitty way that for anything more than a smiley face on Wikipedia, SVG is worthless in a browser.
The company I work for does all of our work in SVG now, however since the browsers suck at it, we render it to GIF or PNG and use that in a browser rather than SVG since we actually want it to look right.
Apache Batik is the only SVG renderer that doesn't suck complete ass, and its got issues. Adobe doesn't appear to have updated their SVG renderer since they bought out Macromedia.
Ironically, IE has plugins that provide far better SVG support than any Gecko or WebKit based browser or Opera has to offer.
EVERYONE PUSHES THEIR OWN AGENDA, just like you are now, and I am. Welcome to reality, no really need to point it out to anyone older than 15 or so I think.
1) Every windows machine in the world uses IE, even if you never open it. Firefox doesn't render like IE so you would break millions of internal HTML documents used in Windows apps and piss off everyione just to support your agenda. Not happening.
2) All the extensions... yea... just like all the ActiveX controls for IE? Just like all the toolbars that will appear? I realize that slashdot thinks Firefox extensions are 'safe' and has no freaking idea that a XPCOM based extension is EXACTLY THE SAME as browser helper object or non-scriptable ActiveX. Some extensions are just as unsafe as a poorly written scriptable ActiveX. I realize most people don't have a clue why ActiveX causes the problems it does or that Firefox extensions are only 'safer' because they are harder to install (i.e. they haven't yet allowed auto-installing,
3) Well maybe when Firefox doesn't suck complete ass for embedding into other apps, that can happen. As someone who embeds Firefox into other apps, I can tell you that Firefox is no replacement for dropping the IE control on a Windows form or a Webkit view on a Cocoa view. You have no idea how many apps use these other browsers and how much Firefox is asstastic as a replacement. There is a new API in the works but its a long way from being anything anyones going to use. The fact that they change the interface practically every week is yet another reason why Firefox isn't really all that useful to 'bundle' with an OS.
4) Great, so now that Firefox is a real target, and the malware guys are going after it, and it gets exploited monthly, then you won't have anything to do but bitch that its all MSes fault that its being exploited like every other popular product.
5) Do you browse the web? I've hit at least 3 news sites today alone that used WMV. Sucks when I'm not using Windows, but they most certainly gets used. Helps when you haven't had on your anti-ms blinders so long that you ignore half the web.
6) With SVG specifically, Firefox is fucking worthless. Its 'support for the standard' is about like IE3 supports XHTML. Yes, it might display, but I'll bet money if you're doing anything more than basic shapes its doing it wrong.
If Microsoft set their mind to it, they could have the most standards compliant browser. They have more resources than Mozilla has. Google has no real reason to try to beat them if they are making a standards compliant browser, the browser to Google is just a way to facilitate their web services. But... why should they worry about it, they have a large chunk of the market already, even with it slipping they are STILL the leader by a large portion.
I realize you want to live in a nice little fantasy world, but there is no business reason to do anything you've said for Microsoft, and I'm afraid that if your fantasy was realized you'd be more than slightly disappointed with the result when it didn't turn out like you think it would.
I for one don't want my standards lowered to the mess of code and crappy presentation known as Firefox. I use Gecko in my own apps, but you won't catch me using firefox for anything other than possibly downloading Chrome or Chromium.
You're comments show you haven't read the SVG specification. SVG doesn't have timer support, its scripting language does, which is open. My SVG render supports setTimer in Javascript, sorry yours doesn't.
I was going to go one but your post translates into 'Firefox support for SVG is absolutely ass-tastic' Stop. Thats it. Fix support in Gecko.
Yes, Mozilla supports SVG. Yes, WebKit supports SVG. Yes Opera supports SVG. They all support proper SVG rendering about as good as IE 4/5/6 support HTML standards. No... no... IE is WAY better at HTML than any browser is at SVG.
THEY ALL FUCKING SUCK AT IT. If you do anything more than a basic shapes they fall to pieces. ALL OF THEM. Font support is ass-tastic. Filters suck, no one supports text flows in any way that matters. Animation, yea, good luck with that. Scripting? You're joking right? If you throw any of the browsers against the test suite provided by Apache Batik none of them will get more than 25% even close to correctly rendered. The ones that close are far enough off that you can't actually depend on that feature to work if you use it on a regular basis.
So whoop-dee-do, IE might support SVG... great, now we have one more browser with useless SVG support so Adobe can come along and say 'SVG sucks in browsers, use Flash!' And anyone who wants their stuff to work correctly will continue to use Flash.
The closest thing to a working solution for SVG in a browser is to use throw Batik into a browser applet, at least your SVGs will likely look close to the way the are supposed to.
Before Opera gets all high and mighty, why don't they make their own shit not stink. I for one welcome proper SVG support in browsers, I have no use to be locked into Adobe's bullshit so they can force more upgrades and exploits on people.
The reality of it is however, until there is an SVG editor that doesn't suck ass (Inkscape and Sketsa, the best out there, suck and are missing support for so many features its not even funny. WTF isn't there a flash like editor for SVG yet?), and browser support that doesn't suck ass, theres no point in trying to get IE to support it. The browser guys who are ranting about it dont' even support it properly, why the hell would MS? Enter irony... IE at least has a plugin with half way decent support for older versions of the SVG standard, too bad Adobe discontinued that.
Dear Opera, fix your shitty SVG support before you talk shit to others.
Yes, if you are wondering, the state of SVG support in browsers pisses me off.
You are rather disconnected from reality. No one who matters in the military, the ones with real secrets, are putting that data on an iPhone. The little people who don't actually know anything truely important are using iPhones.
We didn't find out about the banking issues because some piece of software was hacked, we found out because the ran out of money to keep the scam going or because someone (not a peon) who was higher up in the organization blew the whistle.
Most 'leaks' are entirely intentional, some by the company themselves for the press. Some because someone who had the info gets pissed off and rats them out.
Obama isn't going to wake up one morning and have to confront the press when they ask how his blackberry with the nuclear 'launch codes' on it because they aren't on his blackberry. When someone finds a flashdrive or iPod with some intel on it, it's always old and irrelevent or intentionally released to provide misdirect, which works well for tin foil hats such as yourself. The goverment hasn't had any real fuckups in years.
The ones you heard of worked perfectly, you believe it and don't bother to look any closer.
... I understand people don't read the articles, but did you even bother to read the summary?
Although chemists and physicists have long known about the untapped energy available where fresh water rivers pour into salty oceans â" it's equivalent to 'each river in the world ending at its mouth in a waterfall 225 meters [739 feet] high'
Until Glaxo or some other company like that buys the patent and makes sure it never sees the light of day again so they can keep making over priced, expensive to maintain peices of equipment to us. Its silly to think they'll let their pocket padding business go away any time soon.
Imagine if you bought a car from some manufacture and the only engine you could get in it was from that same manufacture.
That would be outrag.... wait, thats the way it works.
What the fuck are you talking about? Cars are all sold with preset packages that you get from the factory, just like many other things in life. If you want something REALLY custom you don't get the cheap mass produced version, which means you pay more, generally more than if you would have just stopped being a whiney fuck and bought the copy of Windows.
Theres a monoply on PCs? WTF planet do you live on? I can buy the parts to build a PC from bestbuy, hundreds of websites and at least 10 different local companies (who also sell built to spec PCs, sans OS if I want). Plenty of local shops will sell netbooks too.
There isn't really any monopoly on the generic white box PC market, sorry to burst your bubble, but there are other websites besides www.dell.com, err, www.amazon.com. Oh hell, I think the point is made.
Really? Can you buy a Chevy Camero from the factory with a engine from Ford Mustang?
I admit, you should be able to get it sans OS pretty easy, but since pretty much everyone wants an OS and the percentage of people who don't want windows is smaller than a statstical anonmoly, there isn't really any compelling reason for them to jump through hoops to add another option for the small group of people who don't want Windows.
Hell, I don't usually run Windows either, but I go ahead and buy it with the PC cause its cheaper that way and I'm sure I'll want it for something eventually anyway.
So anyway, you got a Honda Insight with a LS1 engine in it straight from the dealer?
What? Oh, I didn't really think so, not any more than I think you'll get the point of this post.
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No, there are more important things they need to deal with at this point in time than this bullshit.
When a volcano erruption spews more CO2 and pollutants into the atmosphere in a couple days than the entire history of mankind, then mankind can't be considered that important in the grand scheme of things. Throw in the FACT that there have been several such erruptions in the last 30 years and your entire theory not only becomes pointless. It doesn't matter if its right, we aren't that important, there are FAR bigger factors that account for the change than anything we can possibly do to change it.
Should we change our ways? Sure, for plenty of reasons, almost none of them having anything to do with global warming. How about we clean up our water supplies and stop dumping mercury into it. How about we be a little more concerned with the over use of disinfectants and antibiotics so that our immune systems never build up any resistance to things. How about we educate our children to not follow the retarded trends brought forth by some political douche bag trying to get elected? How about we fix some of our more immediate problems so that we can be around long enough to worry about the long term problems.
How about we stop being such arrogant, self centered fucks who get stuck on one theme and turn science into a religion, ousting anyone who disagrees and all but burning them at the stake because they don't agree with the guys that say the opposite.
I see plenty of posts here saying 'but so many climatologist say its true'. There are more priests that say you will go to hell for your sins, but you don't stick your head up your ass and believe them, why the hell are you people being so religious about something that you are supposed to question? A good scientist questions everything, what I see here isn't science, its arrogance and religion by another name.
Why is it that every season of Deadliest Catch, the captains of the boats seem to run into the ice sooner and end up getting locked out of the harbor for longer.
Seems to me that everyone who is dealing with Artic ice is having to deal with more of it, not less.
I wonder if perhaps that just staring at some sat photos isn't the best way to determine whats going on, especially since they've come out and noted that they were reading the damn things wrong in the first place.
Funny. You think some scientists go for the oil and gas money, but the others don't go for government money to fund research?
You need to recognize that BOTH sides do EVERYTHING they do for money.
It amuses the piss out of me how you can point at the other guys and say they are doing it for money but can't think for a second that maybe your team is doing the exact same thing. Ignorance is bliss isn't it?
Well, that would be great if the case was in Europe, but its not so your point is ... well ... pointless.
Why can't you make a post with your point that doesn't use mis-spellings of words that were tired and warn out 10 years ago?
It was cool and funny when I was fifteen. It was old but didn't bother me at 20. 10 years later and now it just makes you look like a 15 year old.
You can't really call it 'stupid lazy programmers' when they had to write more code to do it this way than had they used existing protocols since the OSes would already have the required code.
Also, since they have an Apple client, and one for several mobile phones, before you start ranting, you should do a slight amount of research rather than assuming ANYTHING posted by kdawson has even the tiniest amount of truth to it. I'm pretty sure the only thing right in the summary is the spelling of Verizons name.
Let me get this straight, you think because you have an MBA that you somehow understand something that you didn't before? Other than how big of a waste of time it is?
I've never met anyone with an MBA who got anything from school other than a sheet of paper. Its a degree for people who need a degree to say they have one but not actually because they will learn anything from it.
I thought these people were supposed to be educated, why the fuck are they letting themselves be taken advantage of?
If the school is funded in any way by tax money, then its public domain. Take one dollar in tax breaks or tax money into the school and you're public domain for everything, period. No exceptions. No loop holes. Don't like it? Go to a completely privately funded school that gets nothing at all from the government. If you want to enjoy the benefits of using my tax money then I get to enjoy the benefits of you using my tax money. This bullshit of schools selling stuff I paid to research to companies which then charge me a fortune to buy it back from them needs to end.
I have no problem making our children and future generations more intelligent and throwing into the pot to better the future for all man kind. I have a distinct problem with throwing into the pot to make some asshole professor more money while he rides the coattails of the students that he cons into doing all of his research for him in exchange for little pay (in the case of a phd student) or the students actually helping to pay his salary as well!
If they take ANY money from the government then I'm paying for the research and I expect access to it. I don't give a damn if someone else donates money to the specific project, if the the school takes any money what so ever from the government then you can not disassociate that money from the project. So if they got government funding for something specific, such as paying for some other building on another campus, you still can not disassociate the funding from the entire school because money the school would have spent on its own for the now government funded building is used for these other projects.
The school IS NOT A PROFIT CENTER. Its an educational center.
A completely privately funded, doesn't get any tax breaks, doesn't get any government funding, doesn't get any of my money or benefits of the government which are sponsored by my money, can do whatever the hell they want to at their school. Anything that has ever seen a dime of my money however, should not be allowed to do research that I can not use for myself.
University research is public domain, sorry if that pisses some douche bag professor off because he can't use someone else's money to make a name for myself, he should have got a real job.
Fear of someone where he works finding out he uses Wikipedia for references and firing him for using it in work related projects.
Detectors almost always emit as well, they have to generate their own signals to enter a PLL in order to detect other signals.
The idea however is that the detector will emit far less on its operating frequency and the harmonics will be a lot lower.
Which is part of the point, he's story is bunk. WiFi isn't bothering him, any more than all the other electronic crap he uses is.
Of course your 900mhz equipment has nice side bands at 1.8ghz and 2.7ghz (and every other multiple of 900mhz as well), so you can't exactly rule it out.
The reality of course is that he's just crazy, but my point is that just because you're wireless gear works at its intended frequency of 900mhz, doesn't mean that both the transmitter and reciever are only emitting in the 900mhz range. They are BOTH emitting radiation at multiple frequencies, just generally at a very low (hopefully) power output as to not bother anything else. Harmonics are a bitch, good filtering helps but doesnt' prevent the problem.
No browsers support 'most' of SVG. No browsers support anything more than basic shapes for shit.
We're in a situation where all browsers that support SVG do it in such a shitty way that for anything more than a smiley face on Wikipedia, SVG is worthless in a browser.
The company I work for does all of our work in SVG now, however since the browsers suck at it, we render it to GIF or PNG and use that in a browser rather than SVG since we actually want it to look right.
Apache Batik is the only SVG renderer that doesn't suck complete ass, and its got issues. Adobe doesn't appear to have updated their SVG renderer since they bought out Macromedia.
Ironically, IE has plugins that provide far better SVG support than any Gecko or WebKit based browser or Opera has to offer.
EVERYONE PUSHES THEIR OWN AGENDA, just like you are now, and I am. Welcome to reality, no really need to point it out to anyone older than 15 or so I think.
1) Every windows machine in the world uses IE, even if you never open it. Firefox doesn't render like IE so you would break millions of internal HTML documents used in Windows apps and piss off everyione just to support your agenda. Not happening.
2) All the extensions ... yea ... just like all the ActiveX controls for IE? Just like all the toolbars that will appear? I realize that slashdot thinks Firefox extensions are 'safe' and has no freaking idea that a XPCOM based extension is EXACTLY THE SAME as browser helper object or non-scriptable ActiveX. Some extensions are just as unsafe as a poorly written scriptable ActiveX. I realize most people don't have a clue why ActiveX causes the problems it does or that Firefox extensions are only 'safer' because they are harder to install (i.e. they haven't yet allowed auto-installing,
3) Well maybe when Firefox doesn't suck complete ass for embedding into other apps, that can happen. As someone who embeds Firefox into other apps, I can tell you that Firefox is no replacement for dropping the IE control on a Windows form or a Webkit view on a Cocoa view. You have no idea how many apps use these other browsers and how much Firefox is asstastic as a replacement. There is a new API in the works but its a long way from being anything anyones going to use. The fact that they change the interface practically every week is yet another reason why Firefox isn't really all that useful to 'bundle' with an OS.
4) Great, so now that Firefox is a real target, and the malware guys are going after it, and it gets exploited monthly, then you won't have anything to do but bitch that its all MSes fault that its being exploited like every other popular product.
5) Do you browse the web? I've hit at least 3 news sites today alone that used WMV. Sucks when I'm not using Windows, but they most certainly gets used. Helps when you haven't had on your anti-ms blinders so long that you ignore half the web.
6) With SVG specifically, Firefox is fucking worthless. Its 'support for the standard' is about like IE3 supports XHTML. Yes, it might display, but I'll bet money if you're doing anything more than basic shapes its doing it wrong.
If Microsoft set their mind to it, they could have the most standards compliant browser. They have more resources than Mozilla has. Google has no real reason to try to beat them if they are making a standards compliant browser, the browser to Google is just a way to facilitate their web services. But ... why should they worry about it, they have a large chunk of the market already, even with it slipping they are STILL the leader by a large portion.
I realize you want to live in a nice little fantasy world, but there is no business reason to do anything you've said for Microsoft, and I'm afraid that if your fantasy was realized you'd be more than slightly disappointed with the result when it didn't turn out like you think it would.
I for one don't want my standards lowered to the mess of code and crappy presentation known as Firefox. I use Gecko in my own apps, but you won't catch me using firefox for anything other than possibly downloading Chrome or Chromium.
It does support TIny... About as good as IE5 support HTML.
You're comments show you haven't read the SVG specification. SVG doesn't have timer support, its scripting language does, which is open. My SVG render supports setTimer in Javascript, sorry yours doesn't.
I was going to go one but your post translates into 'Firefox support for SVG is absolutely ass-tastic' Stop. Thats it. Fix support in Gecko.
Yes, Mozilla supports SVG. Yes, WebKit supports SVG. Yes Opera supports SVG. They all support proper SVG rendering about as good as IE 4/5/6 support HTML standards. No ... no ... IE is WAY better at HTML than any browser is at SVG.
THEY ALL FUCKING SUCK AT IT. If you do anything more than a basic shapes they fall to pieces. ALL OF THEM. Font support is ass-tastic. Filters suck, no one supports text flows in any way that matters. Animation, yea, good luck with that. Scripting? You're joking right? If you throw any of the browsers against the test suite provided by Apache Batik none of them will get more than 25% even close to correctly rendered. The ones that close are far enough off that you can't actually depend on that feature to work if you use it on a regular basis.
So whoop-dee-do, IE might support SVG ... great, now we have one more browser with useless SVG support so Adobe can come along and say 'SVG sucks in browsers, use Flash!' And anyone who wants their stuff to work correctly will continue to use Flash.
The closest thing to a working solution for SVG in a browser is to use throw Batik into a browser applet, at least your SVGs will likely look close to the way the are supposed to.
Before Opera gets all high and mighty, why don't they make their own shit not stink. I for one welcome proper SVG support in browsers, I have no use to be locked into Adobe's bullshit so they can force more upgrades and exploits on people.
The reality of it is however, until there is an SVG editor that doesn't suck ass (Inkscape and Sketsa, the best out there, suck and are missing support for so many features its not even funny. WTF isn't there a flash like editor for SVG yet?), and browser support that doesn't suck ass, theres no point in trying to get IE to support it. The browser guys who are ranting about it dont' even support it properly, why the hell would MS? Enter irony ... IE at least has a plugin with half way decent support for older versions of the SVG standard, too bad Adobe discontinued that.
Dear Opera, fix your shitty SVG support before you talk shit to others.
Yes, if you are wondering, the state of SVG support in browsers pisses me off.
You are rather disconnected from reality. No one who matters in the military, the ones with real secrets, are putting that data on an iPhone. The little people who don't actually know anything truely important are using iPhones.
We didn't find out about the banking issues because some piece of software was hacked, we found out because the ran out of money to keep the scam going or because someone (not a peon) who was higher up in the organization blew the whistle.
Most 'leaks' are entirely intentional, some by the company themselves for the press. Some because someone who had the info gets pissed off and rats them out.
Obama isn't going to wake up one morning and have to confront the press when they ask how his blackberry with the nuclear 'launch codes' on it because they aren't on his blackberry. When someone finds a flashdrive or iPod with some intel on it, it's always old and irrelevent or intentionally released to provide misdirect, which works well for tin foil hats such as yourself. The goverment hasn't had any real fuckups in years.
The ones you heard of worked perfectly, you believe it and don't bother to look any closer.
... I understand people don't read the articles, but did you even bother to read the summary?
It would be impractical to do it anywhere else.
Technically, they don't have to be for our purposes.
The fresh water streams exist due to an external power source, Sol.
Until Glaxo or some other company like that buys the patent and makes sure it never sees the light of day again so they can keep making over priced, expensive to maintain peices of equipment to us. Its silly to think they'll let their pocket padding business go away any time soon.
Actually, it's already done. I'm just waitting on Apple to approve it. It's already been two weeks since I submitted it!
Soviet Russia ...
In Soviet Russia, quotes Google you!
I hate that meme due to overuse, but I just couldn't pass it up :(
Imagine if you bought a car from some manufacture and the only engine you could get in it was from that same manufacture.
That would be outrag .... wait, thats the way it works.
What the fuck are you talking about? Cars are all sold with preset packages that you get from the factory, just like many other things in life. If you want something REALLY custom you don't get the cheap mass produced version, which means you pay more, generally more than if you would have just stopped being a whiney fuck and bought the copy of Windows.
Theres a monoply on PCs? WTF planet do you live on? I can buy the parts to build a PC from bestbuy, hundreds of websites and at least 10 different local companies (who also sell built to spec PCs, sans OS if I want). Plenty of local shops will sell netbooks too.
There isn't really any monopoly on the generic white box PC market, sorry to burst your bubble, but there are other websites besides www.dell.com, err, www.amazon.com. Oh hell, I think the point is made.
Really? Can you buy a Chevy Camero from the factory with a engine from Ford Mustang?
I admit, you should be able to get it sans OS pretty easy, but since pretty much everyone wants an OS and the percentage of people who don't want windows is smaller than a statstical anonmoly, there isn't really any compelling reason for them to jump through hoops to add another option for the small group of people who don't want Windows.
Hell, I don't usually run Windows either, but I go ahead and buy it with the PC cause its cheaper that way and I'm sure I'll want it for something eventually anyway.
So anyway, you got a Honda Insight with a LS1 engine in it straight from the dealer?
What? Oh, I didn't really think so, not any more than I think you'll get the point of this post.