My 2008 Liberty has Select-Trac on the fly switchable 4 wheel drive, with a 3.21 gear ratio. No station wagon has that. Will I be climbing the Rubicon trail or doing any rock-crawling? Of course not. But I live in BUFFALO. Where the hell am I gonna get to USE something that can rock-crawl around here? (hint: this is a somewhat flat area. No mountains to climb.)
I need something that can handle Buffalo winters. That means good but not crazy-high ground clearance, and good but not the best off-road ability. I also don't want a full-sized SUV so I can save on gas. The Liberty fits that bill PERFECTLY. Not to mention that the lease terms are great on the Jeeps right now. (Got a 36 month lease on a loaded Liberty Sport for less than $250 a month. A great deal in NY State.) Oh, and the plastic interior and rockers make for easy care and rust resistance, which is important in Buffalo, where we still put SALT on our roads in the winter. (salt+snow+metal = rust. salt+snow+plastic = minor cleaning)
Now, how does ANY of that make my Liberty a "Station Wagon"? Of course, if you're one of those "off road purists" (read: snob) then I don't know what to tell you. Some of us buy a vehicle for practical reasons, and not just as a phallic enhancement.
1. Don't loose perspective of the place you stand compared to other people.
He Hasn't. Indeed, I suspect he has a greater grasp on it that you do, being that it is his own life. Oh, and it's LOSE. One 'O'.
2. Don't say poor people doesn't work, or works less than you do.
The Jobs poor people do may be physically more demanding, but physical labor does not a successful society make. working SMARTER is what gets you advancement, NOT working HARDER. This is something that all Slashdotters should understand. Brainwork is more valuable than Musclework, simply because there are less people that can do it. It's a more scarce resource, so it commands higher prices. Simply supply and demand.
3. Everyone is needed in society, everyone deserves to be recognized.
Wrong. There are several types of people NOT needed in society. Criminals, for example. Most societies work very hard to rid themselves of the criminal element, with varying degrees of success.
Another type would be the Welfare Lazy. We have quite a few of them in America. People who have decided that dependency on the government is their choice of lifestyle. They do a minimal amount of work, and are rewarded for laziness by would-be Robin Hoods using the tax system as a wealth-redistribution vehicle. Meanwhile those that have used their scarce-commodity brains to actually EARN a living are forced to support the leeches of society.
Sorry, but if I earn a buck, it is MINE. If the leeches want to earn a buck, they can go do it themselves. I'm sick and tired of people thinking they are entitled to the contents of my wallet.
The Internet does not make us stupid. Lazy, perhaps, but not stupid. Indeed, I would say that the increased MENTAL interaction it provides makes us, in many ways, smarter and more flexible.
Also, why the focus on the tools it replaces? Is this not the way of things? Tools are used until a better one comes along. Or would the Author have us all still using stone axes or flintlock rifles or riding horseback to get to work each day?
Ultimately, the Internet is a tool and simultaneously a source of entertainment. It expands our horizons and connects us to people in new and exciting ways. What's not to love?
Since when was Slashdot a haven for anti-semetic bigots? I mean, look at this guy's posts! Next thing I expect him to start quoting from "Mein Kampf"!
Tell you what "aproposofwhat", Why don't you take the bigotry back to either DailyKos or "Voice of Jihad" or whatever dirty little hole you crawled out of? Stop trying to hide your naked bigotry behind a mask of reason. It won't work here, we can see through you. Now Begone, go back to your dirty hole and leave the decent people alone.
I think many alarmists forget that Earth was once significantly warmer than it is now, and had significantly higher levels of atmospheric CO2 than it has now. Was the Earth a desert? Hardly. The Earth was an even greater oasis of life than it is now. The warm Earth gave us the dinosaurs, and all the massive vegetation required to support such enormous animals.
After the death of the Dinosaurs and the rise of Mammals we have gone through several Ice and Warm ages, as our planet naturally swings back and forth from one temperature extreme to the other. We are still living within these natural trends, which we puny humans are powerless to stop or alter in any way. Indeed, we are as helpless as the Dinosaurs before the Natural forces at work on our world.
We shouldn't fear the changes, merely work to ensure that our societies and economies are as strong as possible so that we can weather the changes, adapt, and come out stronger than before. This is why I oppose ALL of the proposed "solutions" to the "anthropogenic climate change" hoax. EVERY ONE of them, without exception, leaves us in a weaker position to weather change than if we did not follow them. They all propose some sort of socialistic or communistic top-down managed approach, FORCING people to alter their lifestyles in some vain attempt to "live green". What a farce.
Not necessarily. The drivers set is determined by Distro.
I personally prefer Ubuntu. Comes on one CD, and downloads ONLY what you need from the repo as it installs. So you can have a nearly infinite supply of drivers, but the OS still fits on a single CD.
Now, before you go "yeah, but you need an internet connection." remember, You need one to complete the install of Vista and activate it. So if you need a connection either way, Why not use the OS that only installs what you NEED rather than piles of crap you don't need?
YES! Let's just Nationalize all the Oil companies just like Maxine Waters wants!
Yes Comrade, then we can have Government Run Oil. We will have all the fantastic efficiencies in our new Oil Bureau that we have in the DMV, the IRS, and the TSA!
Forward Comrades, into the new People's Oil Revolution!
/communistmoron
You're an idiot if you think Nationalizing oil would help ANYONE.
And what God damned business is it of YOURS to determine how much money ANYONE can make? Oh yeah, IT'S NOT.
Socialism and Communism FAIL everywhere they are tried. Stop suggesting wasteful big govt. solutions.
The gross margin for ALL the products a company makes has NOTHING to do with the price of Gasoline.
It also doesn't change the fact that the profit on GASOLINE is around 4%.
Stop changing the subject when you can't fight the facts. Nothing shows a losing argument when all you can do is say; "Oh yeah, well what about THIS!" and bring up a tangential subject. Just admit that it's NOT obscene to make a 4% profit on Gasoline and that you are wrong.
Of course, as another poster as mentioned, focusing on JUST the profits ignores the very real market realities of the situation. But then, when all you are doing is throwing around emotionalist arguments meant to inflame without really informing, it's not surprising that you would overlook something so "econ 101" as Supply and Demand.
Well, most of this information is buried in dry industry and government reports. So save you some hunting I will link you to some articles that I got the quotes from that ALSO have links to the reports in them:
Dunno if you were aware, but the big American oil companies make a roughly 4% profit on their sales of Gasoline. That's it. Roughly 9 cents on every gallon of Gas sold goes to Oil Exec profits. A whole 9 cents.
In case you also wondered, about 15% goes to State and Federal taxes. The rest goes to pay the salaries of the people that work to get the oil out of the ground, to refine it, to transport it to you, to service both you and the station you buy gas at, and to keep the entire process safe under ever-watchful eyes of OSHA and an alphabet soup of other government agencies.
Of course, even these figures don't paint a complete picture. You ALSO have to keep in mind that American oil companies have to compete with other oil companies on the world market. Unfortunately, for the American oil companies, the vast majority of the other world oil companies are nationalized and have a lock on most of their oil. The market is so restricted that a mere 7% of the total world oil production is available on the open market to compete for. That's right, SEVEN PERCENT. ALL the rest of it is locked up by nationalized oil companies and totalitarian governments. So the US can't even TOUCH 93% of the world's oil supply. It's just not available to buy! Now compound that with the fact that America has to import over 80% of her oil to supply daily needs, and every day the weak dollar and increased market pressure from China and other countries drives the cost for crude higher and our ability to buy lower and lower.
Oh yeah, and add to all that the fact that the vast majority of American oil reserves are locked up in areas where drilling is BANNED (ANWR, both East and West coasts, the west coast of Florida, and the High Plains fields.), AND the fact that we haven't built a new refinery in America in nearly 30 years (if not longer) and you will BEGIN to get a picture of the real reasons why gas costs are currently so high, and why they are historically so volatile.
But hey, you just go ahead and keep blaming those Eeeevil Big Oil Execs and their OBSCENE 4% profits! Ignorance like yours must be fucking bliss.
Newsflash: Concrete is manufactured in factories with VERY high quality control standards.
Each batch is specifically formulated to be as identical to the ones before it as possible. While there might me MINOR variances in mix, most of our modern construction absolutely depends on the homogeneousness of the concrete batches. If we really had to deal with widely disparate batches, ntohing large could ever be built, as the overall strength of the finished product could not be counted on. Yes, there are exceptions to this, some of which have caused rather spectacular engineering catastrophes. But the reason they are a big deal is precisely because they are so rare.
Now, if we were still mixing concrete by hand using slave labor like the Romans, then wide variations in concrete batches would be an issue. But we don't. We use complicated mathematics, and specialized weighing and measuring and mixing machines, all tied together by tried and tested computers and software platforms. Concrete hasn't been an issue of "every mixed batch of concrete is different from the last" for at least 50 years, if not longer.
Also, the types of concrete mixed for high-temperature use such as this WOULD be very different than the types mixed for use in bridges.
Concrete used to be my family's business back in the 50's - 70's. I grew up on stories about the concrete business. Not that I would even need that history to understand this though. Don't any of you ever watch the Discovery Channel? Geez.
Until the game gets quietly invaded by the SA Forum Goons or Anonymous.
Then, JUST at a critical junction in the plot, a massive chunk of the player base will suddenly start spamming the chat channels, or running dance emotes, or attacking the wrong side, or suiciding their spaceships into the wrong thing, or finding some way to take advantage of a game mechanic to introduce flying Dongs into the scene.
Basically, there isn't any reliable way to allow this to function in the stated manner and NOT get PWNED by even loosely organized griefers. Let alone a seriously organized group that wants to make a name for themselves as "Those guys that ruined a multi-million dollar Sci-Fi channel show."
I bet that Vostro is one of those fugly and heavy cheap dells.
Here is a link for you. If you hit the "Look Closer" link on that page, you can get a java-based 360 viewer. The Vostro actually has the same style aesthetic as the Wind. Just a bit bigger. Although it is a tad hefty at a starting weight of 6.33 lbs.
How is voting for a person entirely because of his race any less racist than voting against a person entirely because of his race?
Oh, it isn't. nomadic is simply under the popular delusion that only racism AGAINST blacks is "real racism". According to that philosophy it's just fine to be racist against everyone except blacks. Just evening out the historical karma, don'tcha know.
Personally, I think that making decisions based on skin color or ancestry is stupid and vile in any context, whether for or against. Just pick the best person for the job, and pay no attention to what shade they happen to come in. It's not really all that hard.
Actually, I left application support out because the submitter specifically said he was planning on installing Linux. Thus Windows application support is a moot issue anyway.
And then you get guys like me. I could personally care LESS about Barack Obama's skin color. Really. His ancestry is of no interest to me.
What is of interest are his positions defined by his voting record. Barack Obama's voting record is the single MOST LIBERAL of anyone in the Senate. More liberal than Ted Kennedy, more liberal than anyone. Even the redoutable Maxine Water of the House, who recently (and infamously) threatened to "socialize" all the American oil companies, isn't as liberal as Obama (and has endorsed Hillary Clinton).
So my vote goes to McCain. Not because I particularly like him, but because he is, by far and away, the LEAST vile and frightening of the available choices.
Well, first of all, the price difference isn't really all that much. In fact, unless you are buying in bulk and getting an Enterprise discount, the cost difference is less than $50.00 (in the case of Dell, anyway).
Secondly, if you WANT Linux and FOSS software to succeed in the desktop realm, supporting companies that are willing to go out on a limb and sell Linux on Desktops and Laptops is necessary. If there isn't any profit in it for them, they won't support FOSS. Simple as that.
Thirdly, Why would you WANT to pay the "Microsoft Tax", or have to deal with fighting with a machine who's hardware might only be partially supported under Linux. Vs. a machine with NO "Microsoft Tax" AND will have all hardware fully supported in Linux? Why make things harder on yourself?
Unless there is a specific piece of hardware that you need or want that is in a Windows box and not a Linux box, I really don't see the need to buy Windows when you want Linux if there are Linux machines available. Especially when the Linux machines are comparable in specs to the Windows ones, excepting the really high-end gaming rigs (Of course, if you want a high-end gaming rig, why wouldn't you just build it yourself from hardware you know is Linux supported?)
I seem to remember reading somewhere that, not only had the Zebra Mussels cleaned up the Great Lakes, but that several of the native species of fish (Lake Trout, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, I can't remember which exactly) had started to feed on the mussels and were experiencing a population explosion due to the extra food source.
However, I'm not 100% certain on that one. I might be remembering it wrong. I do hope it's true though. More fish = better fishing.
Humor of all kinds (satire included) needs to have an element of truth in it to be funny. In other words, in order to find his "joke" funny, you would have to believe (on some level) that the US military really DOES go out and commit atrocities on a regular basis.
In other words, those of you that found it funny REALLY need to get your facts straight about the US military. There are no regular atrocities, no raping and pillaging, no cutting off body parts. That stuff just does NOT happen, other than one or two VERY isolated incidents which were quickly and appropriately punished. Military justice is swift. Monsters get put down or put away FAST.
The US Military is the best trained and the best disciplined force of any kind in human history. Most Americans are rightly proud of that history and will not stand for it's being maligned, even through the use of poor humor.
I'd also add that the average literacy rate in the armed forces is higher than the national average.
In addition, the average IQ level is higher, as is the average education level.
While I can't speak for other countrys, I do know that the US military (all branches) contains the brightest and best of America.
When you understand that, it just makes the trolls who denigrate the military look even more like the pitiful, petulant, spoiled little children they are.
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Bullcrap.
My 2008 Liberty has Select-Trac on the fly switchable 4 wheel drive, with a 3.21 gear ratio. No station wagon has that. Will I be climbing the Rubicon trail or doing any rock-crawling? Of course not. But I live in BUFFALO. Where the hell am I gonna get to USE something that can rock-crawl around here? (hint: this is a somewhat flat area. No mountains to climb.)
I need something that can handle Buffalo winters. That means good but not crazy-high ground clearance, and good but not the best off-road ability. I also don't want a full-sized SUV so I can save on gas. The Liberty fits that bill PERFECTLY. Not to mention that the lease terms are great on the Jeeps right now. (Got a 36 month lease on a loaded Liberty Sport for less than $250 a month. A great deal in NY State.) Oh, and the plastic interior and rockers make for easy care and rust resistance, which is important in Buffalo, where we still put SALT on our roads in the winter. (salt+snow+metal = rust. salt+snow+plastic = minor cleaning)
Now, how does ANY of that make my Liberty a "Station Wagon"? Of course, if you're one of those "off road purists" (read: snob) then I don't know what to tell you. Some of us buy a vehicle for practical reasons, and not just as a phallic enhancement.
He Hasn't. Indeed, I suspect he has a greater grasp on it that you do, being that it is his own life. Oh, and it's LOSE. One 'O'.
The Jobs poor people do may be physically more demanding, but physical labor does not a successful society make. working SMARTER is what gets you advancement, NOT working HARDER. This is something that all Slashdotters should understand. Brainwork is more valuable than Musclework, simply because there are less people that can do it. It's a more scarce resource, so it commands higher prices. Simply supply and demand.
Wrong. There are several types of people NOT needed in society. Criminals, for example. Most societies work very hard to rid themselves of the criminal element, with varying degrees of success.
Another type would be the Welfare Lazy. We have quite a few of them in America. People who have decided that dependency on the government is their choice of lifestyle. They do a minimal amount of work, and are rewarded for laziness by would-be Robin Hoods using the tax system as a wealth-redistribution vehicle. Meanwhile those that have used their scarce-commodity brains to actually EARN a living are forced to support the leeches of society.
Sorry, but if I earn a buck, it is MINE. If the leeches want to earn a buck, they can go do it themselves. I'm sick and tired of people thinking they are entitled to the contents of my wallet.
The Internet does not make us stupid. Lazy, perhaps, but not stupid. Indeed, I would say that the increased MENTAL interaction it provides makes us, in many ways, smarter and more flexible.
Also, why the focus on the tools it replaces? Is this not the way of things? Tools are used until a better one comes along. Or would the Author have us all still using stone axes or flintlock rifles or riding horseback to get to work each day?
Ultimately, the Internet is a tool and simultaneously a source of entertainment. It expands our horizons and connects us to people in new and exciting ways. What's not to love?
Wow.
Since when was Slashdot a haven for anti-semetic bigots? I mean, look at this guy's posts! Next thing I expect him to start quoting from "Mein Kampf"!
Tell you what "aproposofwhat", Why don't you take the bigotry back to either DailyKos or "Voice of Jihad" or whatever dirty little hole you crawled out of? Stop trying to hide your naked bigotry behind a mask of reason. It won't work here, we can see through you. Now Begone, go back to your dirty hole and leave the decent people alone.
I think many alarmists forget that Earth was once significantly warmer than it is now, and had significantly higher levels of atmospheric CO2 than it has now. Was the Earth a desert? Hardly. The Earth was an even greater oasis of life than it is now. The warm Earth gave us the dinosaurs, and all the massive vegetation required to support such enormous animals.
After the death of the Dinosaurs and the rise of Mammals we have gone through several Ice and Warm ages, as our planet naturally swings back and forth from one temperature extreme to the other. We are still living within these natural trends, which we puny humans are powerless to stop or alter in any way. Indeed, we are as helpless as the Dinosaurs before the Natural forces at work on our world.
We shouldn't fear the changes, merely work to ensure that our societies and economies are as strong as possible so that we can weather the changes, adapt, and come out stronger than before. This is why I oppose ALL of the proposed "solutions" to the "anthropogenic climate change" hoax. EVERY ONE of them, without exception, leaves us in a weaker position to weather change than if we did not follow them. They all propose some sort of socialistic or communistic top-down managed approach, FORCING people to alter their lifestyles in some vain attempt to "live green". What a farce.
Not necessarily. The drivers set is determined by Distro.
I personally prefer Ubuntu. Comes on one CD, and downloads ONLY what you need from the repo as it installs. So you can have a nearly infinite supply of drivers, but the OS still fits on a single CD.
Now, before you go "yeah, but you need an internet connection." remember, You need one to complete the install of Vista and activate it. So if you need a connection either way, Why not use the OS that only installs what you NEED rather than piles of crap you don't need?
Food for thought.
YES! Let's just Nationalize all the Oil companies just like Maxine Waters wants!
/communistmoron
Yes Comrade, then we can have Government Run Oil. We will have all the fantastic efficiencies in our new Oil Bureau that we have in the DMV, the IRS, and the TSA!
Forward Comrades, into the new People's Oil Revolution!
You're an idiot if you think Nationalizing oil would help ANYONE.
And what God damned business is it of YOURS to determine how much money ANYONE can make? Oh yeah, IT'S NOT.
Socialism and Communism FAIL everywhere they are tried. Stop suggesting wasteful big govt. solutions.
Yeah, I'm thinking YOU are the ignorant one here.
The gross margin for ALL the products a company makes has NOTHING to do with the price of Gasoline.
It also doesn't change the fact that the profit on GASOLINE is around 4%.
Stop changing the subject when you can't fight the facts. Nothing shows a losing argument when all you can do is say; "Oh yeah, well what about THIS!" and bring up a tangential subject. Just admit that it's NOT obscene to make a 4% profit on Gasoline and that you are wrong.
Of course, as another poster as mentioned, focusing on JUST the profits ignores the very real market realities of the situation. But then, when all you are doing is throwing around emotionalist arguments meant to inflame without really informing, it's not surprising that you would overlook something so "econ 101" as Supply and Demand.
Well, most of this information is buried in dry industry and government reports. So save you some hunting I will link you to some articles that I got the quotes from that ALSO have links to the reports in them:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020571.php
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/despite-energy-crisis-dems-vow-no-new.html
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=296435488187160
http://www.americansolutions.com/General/?Page=d4b72449-7edb-493d-88ff-76bfe669e0f2
Enjoy!
Yeah. Extortion.
Dunno if you were aware, but the big American oil companies make a roughly 4% profit on their sales of Gasoline. That's it. Roughly 9 cents on every gallon of Gas sold goes to Oil Exec profits. A whole 9 cents.
In case you also wondered, about 15% goes to State and Federal taxes. The rest goes to pay the salaries of the people that work to get the oil out of the ground, to refine it, to transport it to you, to service both you and the station you buy gas at, and to keep the entire process safe under ever-watchful eyes of OSHA and an alphabet soup of other government agencies.
Of course, even these figures don't paint a complete picture. You ALSO have to keep in mind that American oil companies have to compete with other oil companies on the world market. Unfortunately, for the American oil companies, the vast majority of the other world oil companies are nationalized and have a lock on most of their oil. The market is so restricted that a mere 7% of the total world oil production is available on the open market to compete for. That's right, SEVEN PERCENT. ALL the rest of it is locked up by nationalized oil companies and totalitarian governments. So the US can't even TOUCH 93% of the world's oil supply. It's just not available to buy! Now compound that with the fact that America has to import over 80% of her oil to supply daily needs, and every day the weak dollar and increased market pressure from China and other countries drives the cost for crude higher and our ability to buy lower and lower.
Oh yeah, and add to all that the fact that the vast majority of American oil reserves are locked up in areas where drilling is BANNED (ANWR, both East and West coasts, the west coast of Florida, and the High Plains fields.), AND the fact that we haven't built a new refinery in America in nearly 30 years (if not longer) and you will BEGIN to get a picture of the real reasons why gas costs are currently so high, and why they are historically so volatile.
But hey, you just go ahead and keep blaming those Eeeevil Big Oil Execs and their OBSCENE 4% profits! Ignorance like yours must be fucking bliss.
Newsflash: Concrete is manufactured in factories with VERY high quality control standards.
Each batch is specifically formulated to be as identical to the ones before it as possible. While there might me MINOR variances in mix, most of our modern construction absolutely depends on the homogeneousness of the concrete batches. If we really had to deal with widely disparate batches, ntohing large could ever be built, as the overall strength of the finished product could not be counted on. Yes, there are exceptions to this, some of which have caused rather spectacular engineering catastrophes. But the reason they are a big deal is precisely because they are so rare.
Now, if we were still mixing concrete by hand using slave labor like the Romans, then wide variations in concrete batches would be an issue. But we don't. We use complicated mathematics, and specialized weighing and measuring and mixing machines, all tied together by tried and tested computers and software platforms. Concrete hasn't been an issue of "every mixed batch of concrete is different from the last" for at least 50 years, if not longer.
Also, the types of concrete mixed for high-temperature use such as this WOULD be very different than the types mixed for use in bridges.
Concrete used to be my family's business back in the 50's - 70's. I grew up on stories about the concrete business. Not that I would even need that history to understand this though. Don't any of you ever watch the Discovery Channel? Geez.
Until the game gets quietly invaded by the SA Forum Goons or Anonymous.
Then, JUST at a critical junction in the plot, a massive chunk of the player base will suddenly start spamming the chat channels, or running dance emotes, or attacking the wrong side, or suiciding their spaceships into the wrong thing, or finding some way to take advantage of a game mechanic to introduce flying Dongs into the scene.
Basically, there isn't any reliable way to allow this to function in the stated manner and NOT get PWNED by even loosely organized griefers. Let alone a seriously organized group that wants to make a name for themselves as "Those guys that ruined a multi-million dollar Sci-Fi channel show."
Here is a link for you. If you hit the "Look Closer" link on that page, you can get a java-based 360 viewer. The Vostro actually has the same style aesthetic as the Wind. Just a bit bigger. Although it is a tad hefty at a starting weight of 6.33 lbs.
Oh, it isn't. nomadic is simply under the popular delusion that only racism AGAINST blacks is "real racism". According to that philosophy it's just fine to be racist against everyone except blacks. Just evening out the historical karma, don'tcha know.
Personally, I think that making decisions based on skin color or ancestry is stupid and vile in any context, whether for or against. Just pick the best person for the job, and pay no attention to what shade they happen to come in. It's not really all that hard.
Actually, I left application support out because the submitter specifically said he was planning on installing Linux. Thus Windows application support is a moot issue anyway.
Excellent point.
And then you get guys like me. I could personally care LESS about Barack Obama's skin color. Really. His ancestry is of no interest to me.
What is of interest are his positions defined by his voting record. Barack Obama's voting record is the single MOST LIBERAL of anyone in the Senate. More liberal than Ted Kennedy, more liberal than anyone. Even the redoutable Maxine Water of the House, who recently (and infamously) threatened to "socialize" all the American oil companies, isn't as liberal as Obama (and has endorsed Hillary Clinton).
So my vote goes to McCain. Not because I particularly like him, but because he is, by far and away, the LEAST vile and frightening of the available choices.
Well, first of all, the price difference isn't really all that much. In fact, unless you are buying in bulk and getting an Enterprise discount, the cost difference is less than $50.00 (in the case of Dell, anyway).
Secondly, if you WANT Linux and FOSS software to succeed in the desktop realm, supporting companies that are willing to go out on a limb and sell Linux on Desktops and Laptops is necessary. If there isn't any profit in it for them, they won't support FOSS. Simple as that.
Thirdly, Why would you WANT to pay the "Microsoft Tax", or have to deal with fighting with a machine who's hardware might only be partially supported under Linux. Vs. a machine with NO "Microsoft Tax" AND will have all hardware fully supported in Linux? Why make things harder on yourself?
Unless there is a specific piece of hardware that you need or want that is in a Windows box and not a Linux box, I really don't see the need to buy Windows when you want Linux if there are Linux machines available. Especially when the Linux machines are comparable in specs to the Windows ones, excepting the really high-end gaming rigs (Of course, if you want a high-end gaming rig, why wouldn't you just build it yourself from hardware you know is Linux supported?)
I'm actually hoping for software that will simply flash the TPM to non-functionality. Just kill the damn thing and get on with your life.
Very true.
Indeed, if there is anything I have found, it's that most human behavior can be modeled on the Bell Curve.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that, not only had the Zebra Mussels cleaned up the Great Lakes, but that several of the native species of fish (Lake Trout, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, I can't remember which exactly) had started to feed on the mussels and were experiencing a population explosion due to the extra food source.
However, I'm not 100% certain on that one. I might be remembering it wrong. I do hope it's true though. More fish = better fishing.
Sounds like someone in the Porn community that supports the troops could set up a very interesting charity.
I can see it now: "Support the troops, send them quality American porn!"
There could be shots of porn stars dressed like 1940's pinup stars in the ads for the charity.
The name might be tough though... "Skin for the Soldiers", "Tits for the Troops"? I'm sure we could come up with something interesting.
Anyone here have contacts at Vivid Entertainment? Let's get this baby rolling!
Hmm.. Gonna take more than one DVD, that's for sure.
Humor of all kinds (satire included) needs to have an element of truth in it to be funny. In other words, in order to find his "joke" funny, you would have to believe (on some level) that the US military really DOES go out and commit atrocities on a regular basis.
In other words, those of you that found it funny REALLY need to get your facts straight about the US military. There are no regular atrocities, no raping and pillaging, no cutting off body parts. That stuff just does NOT happen, other than one or two VERY isolated incidents which were quickly and appropriately punished. Military justice is swift. Monsters get put down or put away FAST.
The US Military is the best trained and the best disciplined force of any kind in human history. Most Americans are rightly proud of that history and will not stand for it's being maligned, even through the use of poor humor.
The joke wasn't funny. Don't laugh.
In addition, the average IQ level is higher, as is the average education level.
While I can't speak for other countrys, I do know that the US military (all branches) contains the brightest and best of America.
When you understand that, it just makes the trolls who denigrate the military look even more like the pitiful, petulant, spoiled little children they are.
I dunno.
THIS scooter might be OK to ride. Let's face it, it does look pretty cool.