When that happens 'we' will move on the the next greatest thing. Maybe Amiga, maybe plan-9, maybe atheos or something.
It's like a city. In a city there are the slums, artists all move to the slums because they can't afford to live on the other side of the tracks. Eventually the artists section of town becomes fashionable because all the cool galleries, restaurants and clubs are there and the yuppies move in. Prices skyrocket the artists move the next slum and the whole cycle starts over again.
" The fact is, the Earth will be destroyed. All human life, no, all life, on Earth will be wiped out. It's just a matter of time."
Putting aside the sun expanding for a minute...
The earth has been hit with many asteroids. Never once has it destroyed all life. There is always something that survives and perpetuates. After the asteroid that destroyed the dinasaurs the dominant life on the planet was ferns for a very long time and eventually even human beings.
Humans will die (most of them anyway) but all life will not end.
Why am I trying to prevent an asteroid from hitting the earth? Chances are that you want to
1) Prevent a lot of humans from being killed. 2) Prevent a lot humans from suffering badly.
You can accomplish that right now and by spending less money!. It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to spend a 100 billion on something that has a.01% chance of happening? Why not spend that money now to help the dying and the suffering people of the world.
sure you won't help all of them but lets face it you may not save all humans when the asteroid is coming either.
Really? Is that your definition of good? Doing whatever you want? What's your religion satanism? I believe the main idea behind satanism is "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". It sounds like that's your philosopy. You must be a satanist.
Unlike you most people get their ideas of good and evil from their church or spiritual leader. For them good is not defined as "doing whatever you want" or "looking like what ever you want".
But the sons and daughters ARE coming home in pine boxes. Just because the media stopped reporting the deaths of US soldiers that does not mean they stopped dying.
I think it's shameful the way this country and the media are not even acknowledging the soldiers who give their lives in the line of duty. The president hasn't even attended one funeral.
BTW all bills in congres must be introduced by members of both parties. When you say that the bill is "sponsered by a democrat senator" you are lying by telling only half the truth. There is also a republican sponsor.
" We normally wouldn't even need to use the Reserves except that a prior administration decided we didn't need as large of an armed forces and proceeded to downsize the military."
That's true of course. Clinton never thought that invading and occupying countries was a good thing. He waged one war (bosnia) and he did it by only using airpower and getting commitments from Nato and UN forces.
In Clinton's view there is no need for a large military because the US does not invade and occupy other nations. Clintons policy was that the US would intervene during humanaterian crisises and helps out with airpower and intelligence (and money of course). It was a good strategy and it worked quite well.
This administration is much more about building an American empire and occupying countries who have crucial natural resources that we want.
Different world views and strategies require different configurations of the military. Bush needs a huge military because he needs to occupy a few countries.
Why go to war if you are not going to invade and occupy them?
Once our puppets are firmly seated in Iraq we will have lot of cheap oil (iraq will not be allowed to join OPEC). Every time OPEC reduces production our oil wells in Iraq ill increase production to offset price hikes. What's in china that we want?
Georbe Bush points at a human being and says "this man is bad". At that point the human being loses all rights and is "disappeared" into some secret holding facility god knows where and god only knows what gets done to him.
And you are OK with that right? What would happen if GW decided you were a bad man?
He is wrong about the GPL. He confuses the GPL with "public domain". He feels that you "have to go after somebody". That last one is quite disturbing actually. Why do you have to go after somebody.
This guy is an evil idiot. All he talks about is how great he is and how busy he is and how he knows so much and how us little old peons don't know what's really going on.
Listen. If open source means guys like this will make less money then that's reason enough to support open source. If this guy is representitive of the enemies of open source then then we should have no problems convincing people to adopt open source.
Just point to his letter and say "see you don't want guys like this running the world do you?"
" No one is suggesting that the money came from Microsoft."
Not yet. If people keep digging I bet they will find the body sooner or later. Why would a bank make a 50 million dollar investment just because MS said so? Doesn't that seem weird to you?
What a damning indictment of capitalism when you can automatically presume that any large company is unethical by default. That's it's impossible to grow a company without playing dirty.
"She's talking with family via iChat, has figured out email and web just fine, and is even figuring out things I never really taught her."
I set up the Mic and turned on the voice recognition. When my wife asked me how to check her email I said just ask the computer to check your mail. She said to the computer "check my mail" and her email opened up.
When you get ripped off by one of your suppliers and continue to use the same supplier then you can expect to keep getting screwed. You are at that point an official sucker to be fleeced at will.
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You should try Lindows next. Click N Run is pretty effortless. It's based on debian so you can't really go wrong.
When that happens 'we' will move on the the next greatest thing. Maybe Amiga, maybe plan-9, maybe atheos or something.
It's like a city. In a city there are the slums, artists all move to the slums because they can't afford to live on the other side of the tracks. Eventually the artists section of town becomes fashionable because all the cool galleries, restaurants and clubs are there and the yuppies move in. Prices skyrocket the artists move the next slum and the whole cycle starts over again.
Does it seem strange the MS can force hardware manufacturers to ship PCs with an OS?
" The fact is, the Earth will be destroyed. All human life, no, all life, on Earth will be wiped out. It's just a matter of time."
Putting aside the sun expanding for a minute...
The earth has been hit with many asteroids. Never once has it destroyed all life. There is always something that survives and perpetuates. After the asteroid that destroyed the dinasaurs the dominant life on the planet was ferns for a very long time and eventually even human beings.
Humans will die (most of them anyway) but all life will not end.
Ask yourself this.
.01% chance of happening? Why not spend that money now to help the dying and the suffering people of the world.
Why am I trying to prevent an asteroid from hitting the earth? Chances are that you want to
1) Prevent a lot of humans from being killed.
2) Prevent a lot humans from suffering badly.
You can accomplish that right now and by spending less money!. It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to spend a 100 billion on something that has a
sure you won't help all of them but lets face it you may not save all humans when the asteroid is coming either.
Really? Is that your definition of good? Doing whatever you want? What's your religion satanism? I believe the main idea behind satanism is "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law". It sounds like that's your philosopy. You must be a satanist.
Unlike you most people get their ideas of good and evil from their church or spiritual leader. For them good is not defined as "doing whatever you want" or "looking like what ever you want".
But the sons and daughters ARE coming home in pine boxes. Just because the media stopped reporting the deaths of US soldiers that does not mean they stopped dying.
I think it's shameful the way this country and the media are not even acknowledging the soldiers who give their lives in the line of duty. The president hasn't even attended one funeral.
BTW all bills in congres must be introduced by members of both parties. When you say that the bill is "sponsered by a democrat senator" you are lying by telling only half the truth. There is also a republican sponsor.
Why are people that pro war against the draft? That makes no sense. If war is great then the draft must also be great.
Bah. We are all fighting for the right to turn our daughters into britney spears and christina aguilera lookalikes.
Freedom means your daugters get to look like prostitues.
" We normally wouldn't even need to use the Reserves except that a prior administration decided we didn't need as large of an armed forces and proceeded to downsize the military."
That's true of course. Clinton never thought that invading and occupying countries was a good thing. He waged one war (bosnia) and he did it by only using airpower and getting commitments from Nato and UN forces.
In Clinton's view there is no need for a large military because the US does not invade and occupy other nations. Clintons policy was that the US would intervene during humanaterian crisises and helps out with airpower and intelligence (and money of course). It was a good strategy and it worked quite well.
This administration is much more about building an American empire and occupying countries who have crucial natural resources that we want.
Different world views and strategies require different configurations of the military. Bush needs a huge military because he needs to occupy a few countries.
Why go to war if you are not going to invade and occupy them?
Once our puppets are firmly seated in Iraq we will have lot of cheap oil (iraq will not be allowed to join OPEC). Every time OPEC reduces production our oil wells in Iraq ill increase production to offset price hikes. What's in china that we want?
Maybe not. You may end up in guantanamo bay.
Georbe Bush points at a human being and says "this man is bad". At that point the human being loses all rights and is "disappeared" into some secret holding facility god knows where and god only knows what gets done to him.
And you are OK with that right? What would happen if GW decided you were a bad man?
Look he is wrong about a lot of things.
He is wrong about the GPL. He confuses the GPL with "public domain". He feels that you "have to go after somebody". That last one is quite disturbing actually. Why do you have to go after somebody.
This guy is an evil idiot. All he talks about is how great he is and how busy he is and how he knows so much and how us little old peons don't know what's really going on.
Listen. If open source means guys like this will make less money then that's reason enough to support open source. If this guy is representitive of the enemies of open source then then we should have no problems convincing people to adopt open source.
Just point to his letter and say "see you don't want guys like this running the world do you?"
Ya. It's just bush pandering to the hispanic vote. He won't really deliver for them.
Why develop your own IDE? Why not write a plug in for eclipse?
Bah, you probably wanted something written in C#. So much wasted effort.
" No one is suggesting that the money came from Microsoft."
Not yet. If people keep digging I bet they will find the body sooner or later. Why would a bank make a 50 million dollar investment just because MS said so? Doesn't that seem weird to you?
What a damning indictment of capitalism when you can automatically presume that any large company is unethical by default. That's it's impossible to grow a company without playing dirty.
If your mom is in the habit of double clicking on things sent to her by her friends she is in big trouble.
"She's talking with family via iChat, has figured out email and web just fine, and is even figuring out things I never really taught her."
I set up the Mic and turned on the voice recognition. When my wife asked me how to check her email I said just ask the computer to check your mail. She said to the computer "check my mail" and her email opened up.
She was floored.
Maybe there is illegal Linux IP in windows! We won't say where but we are sure there is. Let's sue MS!
When you get ripped off by one of your suppliers and continue to use the same supplier then you can expect to keep getting screwed. You are at that point an official sucker to be fleeced at will.
There are other protocols you know. What about AFS?
Wow. I guess they are right when they say you don't need an expensive sysadmin to run windows networks!
"Thing is, how can Microsoft ever sell these subscriptions again to companies that paid and got nothing?"
Yes they can and they will. History has shown that your typical CIO will take any kind of abuse MS no matter how humiliating or painful or expensive.
They will all line up on their hands and knees and yell "thank you sir may I have another!"