It's sort of humorous to visualize the angry FBI agents who were on that particular stake-out.
"Good God! Those terrorists are never gonna be so stupid as to come back here. This sucks! Damnit I'm bored here. Why can't they deploy us where we'll do some good!"
C) Hijack the truck on it's way to it's destination, when it's out on the wide-open unsecured roadway. This can be at a truck stop if you like, while the driver is taking a dump at the rest room in the diner.
Then you elected a communist national leader (yes, a small-c communist.)
We in the US haven't changed much. You certainly have. Could it have to do with all those soviet-block educated East Germans who are now fellow citizens?
I am just taking a stab here. It'd be nice to figure out where Germany went so wrong in the last decade...
I find it hard to believe that Taft and Hartley codified a detailed guideline regarding dual-boot Operating Systems on systems sold by OEMs in the law they wrote about a century ago.
However, as you say, Microsoft is a monopoly and was branded as such by a fully accredited judicial crank, so all the old rules are null and void now. heh.
The Palestinians are not a 'people' any more than 'Iowans' are a people. There are people in Iowa who have adopted an identity, but people move in and out of Iowa at will. Similarly, Arabs migrated in and out of 'Palestine' for centuries before Europeans came along and drew some borders on a map.
Most of the conflict in the third world is due to the fact that Europeans came in and 'froze' artificial national boundaries that didn't respect the boundaries established by the people who were there before they showed up. So we have countries like Iraq with multiple nationalities, i.e. the Kurds, who are split between several countries, including Iraq and Turkey.
Yassar Arafat is a patsy set up by one of the factions of European overlords. They said 'here, you can be the figurehead in charge of this 'nationality' and we'll point you at Israel, because we hate jews.'
I've never been that impressed with lead seals. Isn't there a Lead Seal company out there where replacement seals can be ordered? And lead isn't a very difficult material to work with.
With people like you running around calling the US Constitution an 'obsolete charter' it's not surprising that some people see the President as 'the Government.'
However, both you and they are wrong.
I won't suggest that you leave. Stick around and keep making a damn fool of yourself. There's always a small percentage of the populace without a clue how a constituional government works, and it may as well be you.
The fact of the matter is, Dell shouldn't be obligated to sell you any other OS, or a PC without an OS. Dell has every right to offer only Microsoft Windows XP, and not offer any machines with a different configuration. That should be Dell's choice.
Yes, and it at this point in history is Dell's choice. Why should they be forced to offer a confusing set of options for software included on their PCs? It will cost them more to have to expand their product line to include 'naked' machines for the 1-5% of their market that wants them. Since it costs them more, they should pass on the cost to that 1-5% of the market. It's not inconceivable that the 'naked' computer could even end up costing more as a result.
And no, Dell should NOT be forced to offer alternative OSes. That drives up support costs for Dell, when they suddenly need to train their help desk on multiple operating systems. It forces their inventory cost (see above paragraph) up, stocking many different models of machine.
It's an unworkable problem. Microsoft shouldn't be able to force them to only provide Windows computers, but Microsoft isn't anymore.
I've never understood why states banned radar detectors.
What they should have done was come up with an inexpensive radar simulator device. It wouldn't be hard, and it would be something that cost maybe $10 to produce in quantity.
Then the police could distribute them all around the streets and highways. They would be little black boxes and easy to conceal.
They would emit a signal that mimics a police radar. They would cause people who have radar detectors to slow down.
Since they'd probably be even cheaper than speed limit signs, they'd fill a useful and cost effective function.
I've thought about building a 'renegade' illegal one. It'd be handy when I want to pass somebody who's going above the speed limit and has a radar detector.
My experienc with well-timed lights is that there are one or two idiots who burn rubber between the lights, so that if you travel the proper speed to catch all the greens, it doesn't matter, because tard-boy who sped to the red light, is sitting there stopped at it, blocking me.
I am so tired of localities where they stick in a traffic light that 'regulates' traffic that isn't congested. What ends up happening is the mechanism causes traffic to 'bunch up' which creates a traffic hazard that wasn't there before, when there was a safe four way stop. Maybe a whole lot of extra red lights would get people mad enough that the lights would get pulled.
You don't seen ignorant, and yet you ignored this sentence in his comment: A company who also completely failed to sue Netscape for creating their own non-compliant Java libraries?
A citation of an example of a company forced to not install Linux on the machines they sell is in order here.
Face it, Linux on the desktop is still a failure for the general consumer. No manufacturer wants the expense of supporting customers with a Linux preload on their machine.
Server machines don't generally come with an OEM OS on them that the customer is going to use. And Linux is a server OS at this point in time. Ask Red Hat, if you don't believe me.
Disclaimer: I am typing this in Mozilla on a NetBSD/i386 box, so please, pleeease don't start chanting your 'astroturfer' mantra.
Netscape had hopes of 0wning the Internet, and they had a bad habit themselves of introducing new non-standard-compliant tags to push their expensive server technology.
And BeOS was hurt by Apple (who refused to give them the tech data to use the G3 processor) significantly more than they were hurt by Microsoft. It was only after Apple DROVE be out of the PPC market that they were forced to compete only with Microsoft in the x86 market.
It's a much more complicated world we live in than a 'Micro$oft baaad, everyone else gooood' one.
Elections in Chicago, for example, that are conducted with complicated mechanisms aren't risky. They're a sure thing proposition for the people running the election.
That sounds way too much like the 'property is theft' chant that some people drone on about.
It fits right in with a hard-core interpretation of the GNU philosophy, though. A philosophy written by someone who's got HIS endowment and the money he needs to get by. Too bad for anybody else who has to work for theirs.
Nope. Your morality makes no sense to 99% of the rest of us.
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It's sort of humorous to visualize the angry FBI agents who were on that particular stake-out.
"Good God! Those terrorists are never gonna be so stupid as to come back here. This sucks! Damnit I'm bored here. Why can't they deploy us where we'll do some good!"
You:
C) Hijack the truck on it's way to it's destination, when it's out on the wide-open unsecured roadway. This can be at a truck stop if you like, while the driver is taking a dump at the rest room in the diner.
Yes, we remember.
Then you elected a communist national leader (yes, a small-c communist.)
We in the US haven't changed much. You certainly have. Could it have to do with all those soviet-block educated East Germans who are now fellow citizens?
I am just taking a stab here. It'd be nice to figure out where Germany went so wrong in the last decade...
You believe world opinion is well represented by what a bunch of JOURNALISTS say?
Hell, the Journalists here in the US are zealous wingnuts, with some of the most extreme 'out there' opinions you'll find anywhere.
I'll now have to qualify any other claims you make.
I find it hard to believe that Taft and Hartley codified a detailed guideline regarding dual-boot Operating Systems on systems sold by OEMs in the law they wrote about a century ago.
However, as you say, Microsoft is a monopoly and was branded as such by a fully accredited judicial crank, so all the old rules are null and void now. heh.
The Palestinians are not a 'people' any more than 'Iowans' are a people. There are people in Iowa who have adopted an identity, but people move in and out of Iowa at will. Similarly, Arabs migrated in and out of 'Palestine' for centuries before Europeans came along and drew some borders on a map.
Most of the conflict in the third world is due to the fact that Europeans came in and 'froze' artificial national boundaries that didn't respect the boundaries established by the people who were there before they showed up. So we have countries like Iraq with multiple nationalities, i.e. the Kurds, who are split between several countries, including Iraq and Turkey.
Yassar Arafat is a patsy set up by one of the factions of European overlords. They said 'here, you can be the figurehead in charge of this 'nationality' and we'll point you at Israel, because we hate jews.'
I've never been that impressed with lead seals. Isn't there a Lead Seal company out there where replacement seals can be ordered? And lead isn't a very difficult material to work with.
Yeah. Right in Your Back Yard .
Sorta makes you get all twitchy, doesn't it?
With people like you running around calling the US Constitution an 'obsolete charter' it's not surprising that some people see the President as 'the Government.'
However, both you and they are wrong.
I won't suggest that you leave. Stick around and keep making a damn fool of yourself. There's always a small percentage of the populace without a clue how a constituional government works, and it may as well be you.
The fact of the matter is, Dell shouldn't be obligated to sell you any other OS, or a PC without an OS. Dell has every right to offer only Microsoft Windows XP, and not offer any machines with a different configuration. That should be Dell's choice.
Yes, and it at this point in history is Dell's choice. Why should they be forced to offer a confusing set of options for software included on their PCs? It will cost them more to have to expand their product line to include 'naked' machines for the 1-5% of their market that wants them. Since it costs them more, they should pass on the cost to that 1-5% of the market. It's not inconceivable that the 'naked' computer could even end up costing more as a result.
And no, Dell should NOT be forced to offer alternative OSes. That drives up support costs for Dell, when they suddenly need to train their help desk on multiple operating systems. It forces their inventory cost (see above paragraph) up, stocking many different models of machine.
It's an unworkable problem. Microsoft shouldn't be able to force them to only provide Windows computers, but Microsoft isn't anymore.
I've never understood why states banned radar detectors.
What they should have done was come up with an inexpensive radar simulator device. It wouldn't be hard, and it would be something that cost maybe $10 to produce in quantity.
Then the police could distribute them all around the streets and highways. They would be little black boxes and easy to conceal.
They would emit a signal that mimics a police radar. They would cause people who have radar detectors to slow down.
Since they'd probably be even cheaper than speed limit signs, they'd fill a useful and cost effective function.
I've thought about building a 'renegade' illegal one. It'd be handy when I want to pass somebody who's going above the speed limit and has a radar detector.
Yeah, but he's going to breed and create more red diaper babies.
A few of them have turned out okay in the end, of course.
They probably do cost $10,000.
A $10,000 dollar donation to the Democratic (or Republican, doesn't matter either way) candidate for Sheriff.
My experienc with well-timed lights is that there are one or two idiots who burn rubber between the lights, so that if you travel the proper speed to catch all the greens, it doesn't matter, because tard-boy who sped to the red light, is sitting there stopped at it, blocking me.
Well, that even seems useful to me.
I am so tired of localities where they stick in a traffic light that 'regulates' traffic that isn't congested. What ends up happening is the mechanism causes traffic to 'bunch up' which creates a traffic hazard that wasn't there before, when there was a safe four way stop. Maybe a whole lot of extra red lights would get people mad enough that the lights would get pulled.
Something that amused me recently was when I installed IRIX on a cool SGI box I bought at auction.
It refused to let me use a password longer than 8 characters.
I am talking about a release of IRIX that was pressed to CD in the year 2002.
You don't seen ignorant, and yet you ignored this sentence in his comment: A company who also completely failed to sue Netscape for creating their own non-compliant Java libraries?
I don't ever lock my car parked out there on the driveway here. All too often I forget to wind up the window when it rains.
No way in hell do I want to pay for a 'default' alarm system I didn't request, because somebody else chooses to live in a high crime neighborhood.
A citation of an example of a company forced to not install Linux on the machines they sell is in order here.
Face it, Linux on the desktop is still a failure for the general consumer. No manufacturer wants the expense of supporting customers with a Linux preload on their machine.
Server machines don't generally come with an OEM OS on them that the customer is going to use. And Linux is a server OS at this point in time. Ask Red Hat, if you don't believe me.
Disclaimer: I am typing this in Mozilla on a NetBSD/i386 box, so please, pleeease don't start chanting your 'astroturfer' mantra.
Netscape, be
Oh, puhlease.
Netscape had hopes of 0wning the Internet, and they had a bad habit themselves of introducing new non-standard-compliant tags to push their expensive server technology.
And BeOS was hurt by Apple (who refused to give them the tech data to use the G3 processor) significantly more than they were hurt by Microsoft. It was only after Apple DROVE be out of the PPC market that they were forced to compete only with Microsoft in the x86 market.
It's a much more complicated world we live in than a 'Micro$oft baaad, everyone else gooood' one.
What percentage of said consumers isn't using said MS OEM software? 1%? 2%?
We have a written constitution here in the United States.
It has it's benefits and it's detriments. Nations without written constitutions have problems we don't have.
I'm not sure what you mean about 'enormous risk.'
Elections in Chicago, for example, that are conducted with complicated mechanisms aren't risky. They're a sure thing proposition for the people running the election.
The technical reason is that a fee is charged for issuing a drivers license/ID. It's illegal to put financial barriers in the way of voting.
The non-technical reason is that Illegal Aliens vote mostly for the people who pull the strings in California.
That sounds way too much like the 'property is theft' chant that some people drone on about.
It fits right in with a hard-core interpretation of the GNU philosophy, though. A philosophy written by someone who's got HIS endowment and the money he needs to get by. Too bad for anybody else who has to work for theirs.
Nope. Your morality makes no sense to 99% of the rest of us.