I hate that such an "Us vs. The stupid mob" post was moderated +5 insightful. Just because you're a religious conservative doesn't mean you're a slack-jawed yokel who wants all public schools turned into churches. Most who I know would get very upset if their kids came home with bad grades. And there are are plenty of liberals who don't give two shits about science or education in my experience. Anecdotal sure, but I think it's fairly short-sighted to blame any and all anti-science sentiment (and anti-intellectual sentiment in general) on *just* the conservative right.
Ok, so what you're saying is that in America, liberal is what is normal and "progressive" and conservative is even more facist than Musolini... Gee, this hyperbolic world you've created for yourself sounds like a great place to live. It must be much easier there to renconcile the complexities of politics into simple statements like "liberals good, convervatives evil."
Microsoft, under due pressure from various anti-Microsoft groups and lobbyists, has announced the release a stripped down version of Windows later this year. The tentative name for it will be "Windows XP: Why the hell should I even buy this?" The operating system will take out much more of the Microsoft programs installed by default than any previous versions had before including programs like Notepad. "The consumer these days wants more accessible third party options [so] we decided to take out everything." quoted Bill Gates at a press conference, "We're also debating the neccesity making consumers use our GUI when there are so many third party possibilities."
Also announced was that the new version of Windows will ship in a "third party" corrugated cardboard box. "We didn't want anyone to feel forced into using Microsoft related packaging." replied Gates when asked about the strange decision.
Osama won. Not only did he win, he won HUGE.
Oh, so Americans are all dead and the world is a big islamic fundamentalist society now? I didn't notice.
An America divided
I really do hate when democrats use that phrase meaning to support their own party. It takes two to tango buddy. Saying something like that in such a pro-partisan context is akin to saying, "If you JUST agreed to everything I said we wouldn't be arguing!!"
"The attitude of the US is sickening, with utter disregard to sovereignity of other nations, and the attitude of the rest of the world in letting the US puppet the UN into submission is sad to see."
It's not like they're telling people who shower under leaky pipes to use linux. It's aimed at the people who would actually use a computer. Aimed at telling them to replace their OS with a cheaper (free) alternative.
Wouldn't it be funny if people were paid according to the importance of their jobs to society? Cops and teachers would be pretty high up instead CEOs from Phillip-Morris or Microsoft...
Things seem completely opposite of the way the should be.
From a business standpoint it makes sense. Businesses other than Microsoft are doing things like this all the time, that's what I'm saying. MS deserves bad sentiment, but not for this in particular. Not for simply wanting to knock their obvious competition out of the playing field. Sure it's not honorable, but it's something any large business would do.
I never said I liked MS but they're not the one's suing everyone. SCO is.
This has probably been said already but the most effective way to lose weight is good ol' fashioned healthy eating and regular exercise.
Diets are just a way to quickly lose weight then to (just as quickly) gain it again. For the most part they're not effective in keeping pounds off permanently. A general way to think about this is that what you get out is proportional to what you put in. There are no free lunches.
What do we have to gain by pointlessly creating more work for ourselves? Is easier shopping going to be the downfall of human intellect? No. In fact, this technology will give us more time to concentrate on more productive things. Unless of course, you're into looking through flyers for grocery sales.
If your clients/boss attached a device to you to threaten you into going to your 3pm conference calls, 9am project meetings, and 15 ongoing projects, then I think your viewpoint would be slightly different.
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I hate that such an "Us vs. The stupid mob" post was moderated +5 insightful. Just because you're a religious conservative doesn't mean you're a slack-jawed yokel who wants all public schools turned into churches. Most who I know would get very upset if their kids came home with bad grades. And there are are plenty of liberals who don't give two shits about science or education in my experience. Anecdotal sure, but I think it's fairly short-sighted to blame any and all anti-science sentiment (and anti-intellectual sentiment in general) on *just* the conservative right.
Do you think the world being "held back" by the Amish?
Ok, so what you're saying is that in America, liberal is what is normal and "progressive" and conservative is even more facist than Musolini... Gee, this hyperbolic world you've created for yourself sounds like a great place to live. It must be much easier there to renconcile the complexities of politics into simple statements like "liberals good, convervatives evil."
This just in:
Microsoft, under due pressure from various anti-Microsoft groups and lobbyists, has announced the release a stripped down version of Windows later this year. The tentative name for it will be "Windows XP: Why the hell should I even buy this?" The operating system will take out much more of the Microsoft programs installed by default than any previous versions had before including programs like Notepad. "The consumer these days wants more accessible third party options [so] we decided to take out everything." quoted Bill Gates at a press conference, "We're also debating the neccesity making consumers use our GUI when there are so many third party possibilities."
Also announced was that the new version of Windows will ship in a "third party" corrugated cardboard box. "We didn't want anyone to feel forced into using Microsoft related packaging." replied Gates when asked about the strange decision.
Osama won. Not only did he win, he won HUGE. Oh, so Americans are all dead and the world is a big islamic fundamentalist society now? I didn't notice. An America divided I really do hate when democrats use that phrase meaning to support their own party. It takes two to tango buddy. Saying something like that in such a pro-partisan context is akin to saying, "If you JUST agreed to everything I said we wouldn't be arguing!!"
"The attitude of the US is sickening, with utter disregard to sovereignity of other nations, and the attitude of the rest of the world in letting the US puppet the UN into submission is sad to see."
What the hell are you talking about?
It's not like they're telling people who shower under leaky pipes to use linux. It's aimed at the people who would actually use a computer. Aimed at telling them to replace their OS with a cheaper (free) alternative.
Wouldn't it be funny if people were paid according to the importance of their jobs to society? Cops and teachers would be pretty high up instead CEOs from Phillip-Morris or Microsoft...
Things seem completely opposite of the way the should be.
From a business standpoint it makes sense. Businesses other than Microsoft are doing things like this all the time, that's what I'm saying. MS deserves bad sentiment, but not for this in particular. Not for simply wanting to knock their obvious competition out of the playing field. Sure it's not honorable, but it's something any large business would do.
I never said I liked MS but they're not the one's suing everyone. SCO is.
Why wouldn't they?
It makes sense in a capitalist economy that any business would want to own the greatest market share.
They tried the water thing in Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson...
Unfortunately the crew encountered an unexpected solar flare and was doused with radiation.
This has probably been said already but the most effective way to lose weight is good ol' fashioned healthy eating and regular exercise.
Diets are just a way to quickly lose weight then to (just as quickly) gain it again. For the most part they're not effective in keeping pounds off permanently. A general way to think about this is that what you get out is proportional to what you put in. There are no free lunches.
Yes, the initial discovery of the IL-4 effect was an accident but then they decided to intentionally make it more virulent.
What do we have to gain by pointlessly creating more work for ourselves? Is easier shopping going to be the downfall of human intellect? No. In fact, this technology will give us more time to concentrate on more productive things. Unless of course, you're into looking through flyers for grocery sales.
If your clients/boss attached a device to you to threaten you into going to your 3pm conference calls, 9am project meetings, and 15 ongoing projects, then I think your viewpoint would be slightly different.
Isn't there a graphic to differ USB 1 devices from USB 2 devices on the packaging? It seems that would elminate any confusion.