"(To even come close to justifying that level of extreme violence, we'd need to do something insanely evil, not just stick up for Israel in the UN and maintain a military base in Saudi Arabia.)"
What the hell man? They only killed three thousand people. What do you mean "that level of extreme violence"? Israel has killed more palestenian civillians then that, US has killed more civillians then that. Get some perspective for gods sake. Three thousand people die from smoking EVERY WEEK.
Well isn't great that we lowered ourself to their level by killing hundreds of thousands of human beings. Oh and what's even cooler is that we made ourselves much worse then the japanese by ration poisoning them so that they died a slow and painful death. Oh even better we then begat thousands of children with birth defects who suffered all their lives too.
Man we are sooooooo much morally superior to the japanese now. They raped people!.
"The entire world understood what had happened - Truman announced it in a public address 16 hours afterwards. The Japanese got a first-hand report when they sent an official by plane to see why the telegraph signals from Hiroshima had stopped. Combine that with the radar reports which showed just 1-3 planes (the air raid sirens were turned on, but were shut down when the small number of planes seemed to indicate a reconaissance mission). It doesn't take a genius to figure out the U.S. really did a new weapon where a single plane could wipe out a city."
OK so why drop a second bomb, on a noather city, targetting more civillians? The first bomb may have been justifiable, the second one just a outright act of sadism and cruelty.
Americans pretty much have no conscience anymore. They don't feel guilt about anything. They like to win, no guilt, just win at any cost and enjoy the rewards of conquest.
Is there one american out there that feels guilty about killing thousands of innocent civillians in Iraq and Afghanistan? I haven't met one.
Since the US is running insane trade deficits it's in no shape to win a trade war. The only sector in which US is ahead in trade is IP related. Movies, software and music. All anybody has to do is to stop recognizing US patents and copyrights and voila there goes MS, there goes, hollywood, there goes the music industry. Along with them go the stock market (virtually every mutual fund is heavily invested in MS) and the economy.
"Would MS then go and bundle Sun's VM, after getting sued by them?"
Why not? Just because they are prevented from bundling their purposefully borked version why shouldn't they bundle the real version? Just for spite? Just to be petty? Just to be sore loser? Just to be small?
"What is with all the anti-MS FUD recently?"
Why not? MS deserves all the scron, critisim, and hatred it gets. It is one of the most unethical companies on the planet. I think they don't get enough shit dumped on them.
"Read up: MS isn't 100% bad. They have some good stuff and good policies sometimes. Don't complain about them point blank to improve your ego, you'll be the kid that called wolf too many times."
Mmm. Interesting philosophy. I wonder if I can apply to other things... Let me try.
Jeffrey Dahmer isn't 100% bad. He does have some good qualities and does good things sometimes. Don't complain about him point blank to imrove yoru ego, you'll be the kid that called wolf too many times.
Wow, imagine that. A language which runs on multiple operating systems er I mean multiple versions of the same operating system. How brilliant is that!
"Microsoft did not "rip code from mosaic". They bought it outright from Spyglass."
Actually they fucked spyglass to get it. They promised them a percent of every IE sold then they gave the thing away. Poor spyglass, next time get better lawyers when signing a deal with the devil.
Tony blair recently said that anybody who suggests that the bombings are a reaction to his foreign policy is speaking "an obcenity". To him if anybody tries to form a causal relationship between his cheerleading for the iraq war and london bombings it's extorting terrorism.
"Does this prevent me from doing something like writing/publishing my own personal dynamic website in.NET or writing an app in.NET and giving it away for free?"
It may very well be against the EULA. The purpose educational discount is to give you a cheap version so you can learn it and then evangellize it after you graduate. The purpose is not for you to write software for production use. If I was you I would submit the EULA to a lawyer and get his opinion on it. MS certainly bans GPL like licenses.
" Saddam ordered the soldiers to do what they did. "
Really? I bet he didn't. I bet it was some general or colonel in the field that did that. Just like Bush didn't order the destruction of Fallujiah but left that decision to some general.
"I never ordered anyone to own slaves. Why should I pay reparations for keeping slaves?"
Where did this canard come from?
"No one in my family history ever owned a slave, so even "generational guilt" doesn't enter into it."
Even so they benefitted from slave labor. Just like an indian programmer today benefits from having near slavery. The house that the indian programmer lives in is made of bricks that only cost pennies because the labor that goes to making them is done by children sold into indentured servitute. He therefore does not pay as much for his house or apartment compared to you who has to pay dollars per brick for your house.
In the same way every white person who lived during slavery (and their progeny) have benefitted from slavery. See how simple that is.
"Keep your "social justice" to yourself. If you feel you owe someone something for what others did, go ahead and try to settle the score. Don't come around my place looking to take my stuff or make me change the way I live because you want to tar me with the same guilt you feel."
I tell you what. Why don't I tell you go fuck yourself, convince people who have actual morals and ethics to get some reparations for slavery and then make you pay it just to hear to whine, scream and moan. That sounds like more fun to me.
I just want to know what you are going to do with the carcass after you have killed somebody who you thought was stealing from you that's all. Why don't you answer that question?
I don't walk around saying I am going to kill human beings, you are. So what comes next after you kill them.
"The almighty marketplace says Internet Explorer is ~10x better than Firefox. Opera is obviously utter "crap." "
Yes, that's true. For most people opera is crap and IE is better. Sorry to tell you the obvious. Most people feel that way. I think firefox is better but your grandma disagrees.
" So have you used FogzBugz, or other products he makes?"
No and I don't need to either. The marketplace determines what is good software and what is not. It's a subjective thing after all. You may think a piece of software is brilliant but I may think it's poorly designed and a worthless pile or vice versa. take Gimp for example. Many people think it's an abomination but others swear by it.
My opinion or yours does not matter. The marketplace determines what is good and what is crap.
"I guess you just need more proof."
My signature says "evil is as evil does", the proof is in the pudding.
You didn't answer any of my questions. After you take the head and mount it on you wall what do you do with the rest of the carcass? If you get rid of the carcass then how will you achieve erections again?
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First of all the A-Bomb did not such thing. Secondly it does not justify the second bomb, only the first one. The second was pure sadism.
"(To even come close to justifying that level of extreme violence, we'd need to do something insanely evil, not just stick up for Israel in the UN and maintain a military base in Saudi Arabia.)"
What the hell man? They only killed three thousand people. What do you mean "that level of extreme violence"? Israel has killed more palestenian civillians then that, US has killed more civillians then that. Get some perspective for gods sake. Three thousand people die from smoking EVERY WEEK.
Well isn't great that we lowered ourself to their level by killing hundreds of thousands of human beings. Oh and what's even cooler is that we made ourselves much worse then the japanese by ration poisoning them so that they died a slow and painful death. Oh even better we then begat thousands of children with birth defects who suffered all their lives too.
Man we are sooooooo much morally superior to the japanese now. They raped people!.
Why does it matter why they were in place. There are other ways to solve the worlds problems then starving and killing civillians.
Sure Bush and his war pig cronies can't think of any of them but there are.
"The entire world understood what had happened - Truman announced it in a public address 16 hours afterwards. The Japanese got a first-hand report when they sent an official by plane to see why the telegraph signals from Hiroshima had stopped. Combine that with the radar reports which showed just 1-3 planes (the air raid sirens were turned on, but were shut down when the small number of planes seemed to indicate a reconaissance mission). It doesn't take a genius to figure out the U.S. really did a new weapon where a single plane could wipe out a city."
OK so why drop a second bomb, on a noather city, targetting more civillians? The first bomb may have been justifiable, the second one just a outright act of sadism and cruelty.
Americans pretty much have no conscience anymore. They don't feel guilt about anything. They like to win, no guilt, just win at any cost and enjoy the rewards of conquest.
Is there one american out there that feels guilty about killing thousands of innocent civillians in Iraq and Afghanistan? I haven't met one.
That's a nice argument for the dropping of the first bomb.
What's your argument for dropping the second one?
Water will run out before the oil will.
Since the US is running insane trade deficits it's in no shape to win a trade war. The only sector in which US is ahead in trade is IP related. Movies, software and music. All anybody has to do is to stop recognizing US patents and copyrights and voila there goes MS, there goes, hollywood, there goes the music industry. Along with them go the stock market (virtually every mutual fund is heavily invested in MS) and the economy.
OK then, subsitute osama bin laden or saddam hussein.
"Would MS then go and bundle Sun's VM, after getting sued by them?"
Why not? Just because they are prevented from bundling their purposefully borked version why shouldn't they bundle the real version? Just for spite? Just to be petty? Just to be sore loser? Just to be small?
"What is with all the anti-MS FUD recently?"
Why not? MS deserves all the scron, critisim, and hatred it gets. It is one of the most unethical companies on the planet. I think they don't get enough shit dumped on them.
"Read up: MS isn't 100% bad. They have some good stuff and good policies sometimes. Don't complain about them point blank to improve your ego, you'll be the kid that called wolf too many times."
Mmm. Interesting philosophy. I wonder if I can apply to other things... Let me try.
Jeffrey Dahmer isn't 100% bad. He does have some good qualities and does good things sometimes. Don't complain about him point blank to imrove yoru ego, you'll be the kid that called wolf too many times.
Hey that works pretty good.
Wow, imagine that. A language which runs on multiple operating systems er I mean multiple versions of the same operating system. How brilliant is that!
"Microsoft did not "rip code from mosaic". They bought it outright from Spyglass."
Actually they fucked spyglass to get it. They promised them a percent of every IE sold then they gave the thing away. Poor spyglass, next time get better lawyers when signing a deal with the devil.
Tony blair recently said that anybody who suggests that the bombings are a reaction to his foreign policy is speaking "an obcenity". To him if anybody tries to form a causal relationship between his cheerleading for the iraq war and london bombings it's extorting terrorism.
"Does this prevent me from doing something like writing/publishing my own personal dynamic website in .NET or writing an app in .NET and giving it away for free?"
It may very well be against the EULA. The purpose educational discount is to give you a cheap version so you can learn it and then evangellize it after you graduate. The purpose is not for you to write software for production use. If I was you I would submit the EULA to a lawyer and get his opinion on it. MS certainly bans GPL like licenses.
If you are not entitled to the education discount and you get somebody else to buy if for you then you are comitting a crime.
Also if you produce any code for production using your education version you are comitting a crime.
Read the license, then the DMCA.
Notice he got modded up to 5 for his shilling.
" Saddam ordered the soldiers to do what they did. "
Really? I bet he didn't. I bet it was some general or colonel in the field that did that. Just like Bush didn't order the destruction of Fallujiah but left that decision to some general.
"I never ordered anyone to own slaves. Why should I pay reparations for keeping slaves?"
Where did this canard come from?
"No one in my family history ever owned a slave, so even "generational guilt" doesn't enter into it."
Even so they benefitted from slave labor. Just like an indian programmer today benefits from having near slavery. The house that the indian programmer lives in is made of bricks that only cost pennies because the labor that goes to making them is done by children sold into indentured servitute. He therefore does not pay as much for his house or apartment compared to you who has to pay dollars per brick for your house.
In the same way every white person who lived during slavery (and their progeny) have benefitted from slavery. See how simple that is.
"Keep your "social justice" to yourself. If you feel you owe someone something for what others did, go ahead and try to settle the score. Don't come around my place looking to take my stuff or make me change the way I live because you want to tar me with the same guilt you feel."
I tell you what. Why don't I tell you go fuck yourself, convince people who have actual morals and ethics to get some reparations for slavery and then make you pay it just to hear to whine, scream and moan. That sounds like more fun to me.
I just want to know what you are going to do with the carcass after you have killed somebody who you thought was stealing from you that's all. Why don't you answer that question?
I don't walk around saying I am going to kill human beings, you are. So what comes next after you kill them.
"The almighty marketplace says Internet Explorer is ~10x better than Firefox. Opera is obviously utter "crap." "
Yes, that's true. For most people opera is crap and IE is better. Sorry to tell you the obvious. Most people feel that way. I think firefox is better but your grandma disagrees.
""Social justice" is one of those keywords that are used to mean "spread the guilt around to everyone not directly responsible"."
So when saddam's soldiers dropped the gas on the kurds saddam was not actually guilty because he was not directly responsible.
" So have you used FogzBugz, or other products he makes?"
No and I don't need to either. The marketplace determines what is good software and what is not. It's a subjective thing after all. You may think a piece of software is brilliant but I may think it's poorly designed and a worthless pile or vice versa. take Gimp for example. Many people think it's an abomination but others swear by it.
My opinion or yours does not matter. The marketplace determines what is good and what is crap.
"I guess you just need more proof."
My signature says "evil is as evil does", the proof is in the pudding.
You didn't answer any of my questions. After you take the head and mount it on you wall what do you do with the rest of the carcass? If you get rid of the carcass then how will you achieve erections again?
LOL. It's funny because it's true.