OS/2 Warp was, if anything, then a bit too early. It had steep hardware requirements (8 megabytes of RAM to run properly) when memory was very expensive.
Even Windows 95 recommended 8 megabytes, although it would theoretically run on 4, if you weren't bothered about speed, usability or anything like that. The hardware wasn't really the issue.
It means someone meant to say 'positivity' and used the wrong word. Perhaps it's because Chrome's spell checker seems to think 'positivity' isn't a word (it's underlined in red as I type this post).
They should just have written "The OS/2 community has reacted to this news positively" which has the advantage of being normal English.
= "black youths" being stopped and searched by the police, because blacks are more likely to be carrying weapons, and commit crimes, than other racial groups...
Why aren't the police stopping and searching Japanese tourists, if they're 'racists'?
I was about to write your post is a load of complete bollocks, but I realised you're being sarcastic.
Well done.
Hmmm, classic Poe's Law problem. Personally, I'd say it was serious, certainly all the drongos agreeing with it are, but then again that would apply to a troll too. Almost impossible to tell.
I myself hold the opinion that people cannot come anywhere close to changing their biological sex at any point past conception. It's an unpopular opinion, but there's zero justification to try to get me fired over it or have people showing up my house and harass me over it.
I doubt that anyone would care about your reactionary opinions, unless you started calling for transgendered people to be lynched or something.
It is almost as preposterous as having a black norse god Heimdall in Thor. Just why?
Why not?
Seriously, you're watching a show about norse gods and you care about their fucking skin colour? How about the fact that they're talking in American English? Or that they exist at all?
I still didn't have a CD burner and stuck on a 56k modem connection I tried downloading linux installs that were said to be installable from floppy disks but they didn't even boot. Using a download manager later I was determined to download mandrake. I spent 3 months doing this. I ended up taking my computer in a wheel barrow over to a friends house where we LANed together so he could burn this thing on to CD, but all his CD-Rs were corrupt so I went home still using windows XP.
At the point where computers didn't have CD burners built in as standard and I was still using a slow modem connection, I got Linux from CDs included in magazines, or you could just order them by post for a couple of quid.
I assume you had none of these options open to you, in which case I feel your pain. Three months...
A precious metal standard was kinda okeish, as long as you could set aside some productivity gains to mine more precious metals to represent the gained productivity in additional coins. It worked as long as countries in dire need of more precious metals simply invaded other countries and either stole theirs or started to mine non-depleted resources.
Ah yes, the Good Old Days before SJWs ruined it all for everyone.
"Go Daddy" sounds like the title of an amateur incest porno starring a fat bloke with a mustache and a woman on crack in pigtails..
I really can't imagine who thought this was a good idea, but it doesn't seem to have done their sales any harm.
It''s obviously true that any advertising or marketing is ok as long as it creates some impression, whether good or bad. In the UK, the "go compare" insurance ads are simultaneously the most hated and most recognisable ones on TV.
If you don't have a murder weapon then u can't commit murder. That is just logical.
So you re saying the peole of the UK need their hands cut-off too? I am quite certain at least a few murders in Merry Olde England were committed with nothing more than the murderer's hands.
Very few people are capable of murdering someone with their bare hands.
In increasing order of ease of killing, you have blunt instruments, knives, swords and guns. It is far easier to kill someone with a gun, not least because you can do it at a distance. And no, you can't walk around in public with a loaded crossbow in England either.
Correct. It needs to be more than 94% so we can pay basic income.
Exactly. In order to pay everybody who doesn't want to work a basic income, we would have to collect well over 100% in taxes. Then once the program really got rolling and people realized how foolish it is to work when you could just get handouts from the government, we will have to raise that percentage to infinity percent.
But as people keep pointing out, you won't be able to live very comfortably on the basic income, and so you'll most likely be working in one way or another anyway. If you have any sort of interesting career, you'll still be following that. If you're an entrepreneur, you can use your basic income as fallback while you start your next business. And so on.
Under capitalism people are not wage slaves. They can choose to work for someone else or they can choose to work for themselves or they can choose to live on no money. There are people who do each of these things. Your analogy is completely false.
I'm not arguing against a basic income at all. It's a great idea. But don't think wrong.
Under pure capitalism, how would you live on no money?
I would have to agree that it is the ultimate in stupidity that government benefits would ever be higher than holding SOME kind of job, even if it was a minimum wage job. Otherwise, why would anyone ever get a job?
The "government benefits" wouldn't be at a level to allow you to have a mansion and Ferrari, so there'll always be incentives for those motivated by money.
The trick is to let you collect the stipend and make money at a job as well. Up to a certain level anyway.
Yes, it would be stupid to say "here is your 800 euros a month, but if you go out to work and earn another 500 we'll deduct it from your allowance and only give you 300".
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It's aimed at old people then?
OS/2 Warp was, if anything, then a bit too early. It had steep hardware requirements (8 megabytes of RAM to run properly) when memory was very expensive.
Even Windows 95 recommended 8 megabytes, although it would theoretically run on 4, if you weren't bothered about speed, usability or anything like that. The hardware wasn't really the issue.
It means someone meant to say 'positivity' and used the wrong word. Perhaps it's because Chrome's spell checker seems to think 'positivity' isn't a word (it's underlined in red as I type this post).
They should just have written "The OS/2 community has reacted to this news positively" which has the advantage of being normal English.
= "black youths" being stopped and searched by the police, because blacks are more likely to be carrying weapons, and commit crimes, than other racial groups...
Why aren't the police stopping and searching Japanese tourists, if they're 'racists'?
Um, because they're identifiable as tourists?
I was about to write your post is a load of complete bollocks, but I realised you're being sarcastic.
Well done.
Hmmm, classic Poe's Law problem. Personally, I'd say it was serious, certainly all the drongos agreeing with it are, but then again that would apply to a troll too. Almost impossible to tell.
Should I get off your lawn now, or would you like to shout at me first?
There are dark times ahead for the KKK.
Yes, things are looking black.
"I once saw a black woman call a white woman a bitch, so there is an equal amount of racism from black and white people."
I myself hold the opinion that people cannot come anywhere close to changing their biological sex at any point past conception. It's an unpopular opinion, but there's zero justification to try to get me fired over it or have people showing up my house and harass me over it.
I doubt that anyone would care about your reactionary opinions, unless you started calling for transgendered people to be lynched or something.
There was a Hollywood writers strike during much of the first two years STNG too.
Shame there wasn't a fucking actors strike too.
It is almost as preposterous as having a black norse god Heimdall in Thor. Just why?
Why not?
Seriously, you're watching a show about norse gods and you care about their fucking skin colour? How about the fact that they're talking in American English? Or that they exist at all?
There was one series of Star Trek, in the 1960s. Just like there was one Matrix movie.
I've been assuming it was the game Go until it became clear it was some programming language I'd never hurd of.
Capitalism is a law of nature,like evolution: communism is a religion, like creationism.
They are both human social constructs.
Lions and zebras practise neither capitalism nor communism.
I still didn't have a CD burner and stuck on a 56k modem connection I tried downloading linux installs that were said to be installable from floppy disks but they didn't even boot. Using a download manager later I was determined to download mandrake. I spent 3 months doing this. I ended up taking my computer in a wheel barrow over to a friends house where we LANed together so he could burn this thing on to CD, but all his CD-Rs were corrupt so I went home still using windows XP.
At the point where computers didn't have CD burners built in as standard and I was still using a slow modem connection, I got Linux from CDs included in magazines, or you could just order them by post for a couple of quid.
I assume you had none of these options open to you, in which case I feel your pain. Three months...
A precious metal standard was kinda okeish, as long as you could set aside some productivity gains to mine more precious metals to represent the gained productivity in additional coins. It worked as long as countries in dire need of more precious metals simply invaded other countries and either stole theirs or started to mine non-depleted resources.
Ah yes, the Good Old Days before SJWs ruined it all for everyone.
I really can't imagine who thought this was a good idea, but it doesn't seem to have done their sales any harm.
It''s obviously true that any advertising or marketing is ok as long as it creates some impression, whether good or bad. In the UK, the "go compare" insurance ads are simultaneously the most hated and most recognisable ones on TV.
But what about how the Slashdot article text has no semantic meaning?
Slashdot have out-sourced their crowd-funded story-editing to a Chinese botnet.
In a day or two I'm sure we'll see the improvements in grammar, spelling and general sense.
If you don't have a murder weapon then u can't commit murder. That is just logical.
So you re saying the peole of the UK need their hands cut-off too? I am quite certain at least a few murders in Merry Olde England were committed with nothing more than the murderer's hands.
Very few people are capable of murdering someone with their bare hands.
In increasing order of ease of killing, you have blunt instruments, knives, swords and guns. It is far easier to kill someone with a gun, not least because you can do it at a distance. And no, you can't walk around in public with a loaded crossbow in England either.
You can use them to get food or as protection from others with guns.
Hunting is a separate issue, and is associated with rich twats slaughtering wildlife for fun here in the UK, rather than someone killing their dinner.
And you only need protection from others with guns in places where (most) others have guns.
more people with more time on their hands and nothing to do results in more crime every time
Not everyone is a penniless fourteen year old.
Correct. It needs to be more than 94% so we can pay basic income.
Exactly. In order to pay everybody who doesn't want to work a basic income, we would have to collect well over 100% in taxes. Then once the program really got rolling and people realized how foolish it is to work when you could just get handouts from the government, we will have to raise that percentage to infinity percent.
But as people keep pointing out, you won't be able to live very comfortably on the basic income, and so you'll most likely be working in one way or another anyway. If you have any sort of interesting career, you'll still be following that. If you're an entrepreneur, you can use your basic income as fallback while you start your next business. And so on.
Under capitalism people are not wage slaves. They can choose to work for someone else or they can choose to work for themselves or they can choose to live on no money. There are people who do each of these things. Your analogy is completely false.
I'm not arguing against a basic income at all. It's a great idea. But don't think wrong.
Under pure capitalism, how would you live on no money?
I would have to agree that it is the ultimate in stupidity that government benefits would ever be higher than holding SOME kind of job, even if it was a minimum wage job. Otherwise, why would anyone ever get a job?
The "government benefits" wouldn't be at a level to allow you to have a mansion and Ferrari, so there'll always be incentives for those motivated by money.
The trick is to let you collect the stipend and make money at a job as well. Up to a certain level anyway.
Yes, it would be stupid to say "here is your 800 euros a month, but if you go out to work and earn another 500 we'll deduct it from your allowance and only give you 300".