The difference is that Linux actually has a number of real technical advantages over its competitors such as customizability, stability, and price. Apple does not, and relies entirely on form factor, marketing, and ignorant or brainwashed consumers who will pay more for a less useful product.
Deuterium-Tritium fusion throws off neutrons. After a few years of operation, the entire reactor will be radioactive and have to be replaced. Deuterium-He3 fusion does not, and is able to produce electricity much more directly and efficiently.
Unfortunately, you need something like 18 parts tritium to get one part He3, so you'd have to produce 18 tons of tritium and then process it to get one ton of He3. Not exactly an efficient process.
Harder to damage? These are Apple products we're talking about here. They'll shatter into half a million pieces for no legitimate reason because of perfectly normal every day use. There are countless articles here on Slashdot about the phenomenon.
Hell, my dad's fiance just replaced her iPhone with some no-name US Cellular smartphone because the iPhone's body shattered for no apparent reason.
Taking care of the sick is not the government's job. Defending the country is. Social Security Insurance was never intended to be a retirement plan in the first place.
Throwing money at education has been proven to not do anything anyway. The DoE is a cancer on the education system and has done nothing but ruin generations of students.
Our military spending is fine. It's remained largely consistent as a percentage of the GDP since WWII. It's the entitlements and bureaucracy that's bankrupting us.
You're dreaming if you think the Chinese wouldn't go after Taiwan, and even Korea and Japan, in a second if we weren't there to keep them in check. Russia would probably retake all of its former Soviet territories as well if they knew we couldn't do anything about it.
Maybe you should stop making excuses. Some people get dealt shitty cards. Your opening hand doesn't mean shit so long as you do what you can with the cards you have.
Killing the people who are out to destroy you, your countrymen, and your country is far more important than taking care of the people who cannot take care of themselves.
A lot of it has to do with the fact that the US was basically taking on the defense of all of NATO and most of the free world after WWII, and those other countries which traditionally had strong militaries underwent massive cutbacks because we were the ones holding the ball. The Soviets killed themselves trying to keep up, but the Russians and Chinese wouldn't hesitate to take us out or any number of other nations if they could get away with it.
We stop spending on defense, everyone else suffers.
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Well shit. It looks like they'll just give anyone mod points these days.
Oh snap!
Somehow I doubt that this was an accident.
Nothing an airstrike can't fix.
The difference is that Linux actually has a number of real technical advantages over its competitors such as customizability, stability, and price. Apple does not, and relies entirely on form factor, marketing, and ignorant or brainwashed consumers who will pay more for a less useful product.
How about we just kill the bean counter?
Deuterium-Tritium fusion throws off neutrons. After a few years of operation, the entire reactor will be radioactive and have to be replaced. Deuterium-He3 fusion does not, and is able to produce electricity much more directly and efficiently.
Unfortunately, you need something like 18 parts tritium to get one part He3, so you'd have to produce 18 tons of tritium and then process it to get one ton of He3. Not exactly an efficient process.
I think the real factor is that the old Apple IIs had The Oregon Trail and the Windows NT boxes didn't.
It'd be no wonder why the Apple II was more popular with kids intent on not doing anything productive with their time.
Harder to damage? These are Apple products we're talking about here. They'll shatter into half a million pieces for no legitimate reason because of perfectly normal every day use. There are countless articles here on Slashdot about the phenomenon.
Hell, my dad's fiance just replaced her iPhone with some no-name US Cellular smartphone because the iPhone's body shattered for no apparent reason.
Yeah, I'm sure scaling up the screen on the iPod Touch was a real miniaturization problem for Apple to tackle.
They also like spending a lot of money on useless hardware.
The Android phones probably wouldn't have needed a special server just to get basic functionality anyway.
What can you expect from someone who thinks that owning Apple products is a good idea?
I wasn't aware that communists, homosexuals, gypsies, and jews were a different color.
Sure, their souls are pitch black, but outside they're more or less the same color as any other German.
My phone already has a calculator.
Taking care of the sick is not the government's job. Defending the country is. Social Security Insurance was never intended to be a retirement plan in the first place.
Throwing money at education has been proven to not do anything anyway. The DoE is a cancer on the education system and has done nothing but ruin generations of students.
Our military spending is fine. It's remained largely consistent as a percentage of the GDP since WWII. It's the entitlements and bureaucracy that's bankrupting us.
Not as long as we have the most powerful navy and air force in the world.
By the way, we use them to keep Japan, Korea, and Taiwan safe too. It's not just our own soil that we've got to protect.
They have five times as many people. It's a fair trade.
You're dreaming if you think the Chinese wouldn't go after Taiwan, and even Korea and Japan, in a second if we weren't there to keep them in check. Russia would probably retake all of its former Soviet territories as well if they knew we couldn't do anything about it.
Work with inmates for a while and try to tell me that they're not subhuman. I dare you.
Somehow you don't seem to realize that the House can't do anything without the Senate and President agreeing to it as well.
Maybe you should stop making excuses. Some people get dealt shitty cards. Your opening hand doesn't mean shit so long as you do what you can with the cards you have.
Killing the people who are out to destroy you, your countrymen, and your country is far more important than taking care of the people who cannot take care of themselves.
You forgot the two intermissions.
A lot of it has to do with the fact that the US was basically taking on the defense of all of NATO and most of the free world after WWII, and those other countries which traditionally had strong militaries underwent massive cutbacks because we were the ones holding the ball. The Soviets killed themselves trying to keep up, but the Russians and Chinese wouldn't hesitate to take us out or any number of other nations if they could get away with it.
We stop spending on defense, everyone else suffers.