It didn't sink. The ocean became a lot less buoyant due to large amounts of fresh water from melting glaciers and polar icecaps diluting teh high salt content of the oceans. Like dude, do some research first:)
The media is just as you described world-wide. The difference between the US and the rest of the world is that the rest of the world isn't so gullible.
What sort of idiot are you? Your PC without Windows would have been cheaper (unless you bought a DELL dude!) ergo Windows is not free. But hey, my doctor says I should be more friendly to people - so welcome to morondot!
Trees get narrower as they go up, so at the bottom you may get more than one 2x4. Also, these trees were probably harvested because they were wanted and suitable for 2x4's.
US companies having control of more of the worlds oil != cheap oil products for anyone. Bush is in it for the big companies, to make them more money, and not for the little guy.
The MPAA did not shut down suprnova. They did shut down many torrent sites, but suprnova was not one of them. suprnova decided to call it quits - too much hassle from fale files, stupid users and some large bills not always covered by donations.
Google overcame many GREAT & Powerful names - the main being Yahoo and Lycos to come out on top.
Yahoo and Lycos never had good search engines. Altavista and Excite both did for a while. But you raise an interesting point.
Microsoft has the muscle now and has always had the brute force or dominating power to overcome anyone they set their minds on.
That said, I think Google has the name - MSN Search just doesn't roll off the tongue.
Google is already "there". Microsoft needs to play the catch-up game, and cope with the same crap as google did (SEO spam etc.) Also google has an advantage by owning google groups. I have no idea how much (if any) worthwhile information come out of usenet these days (or ever), but if it does google has a clear advantage there.
Googles success was and is based on having more relevant results for any given search query, via their PageRank technology, than its competitors. While PageRank has been found to have its flaws (SEO spammers, etc.) and is thus - for the moment - loosing its high signal to noise ratio, the only way MS will win is by doing two things.
1. Implementing their own PageRank-type algorithm
2. Beat the SEO spam
Marketting just won't cut it. It has to better and more relevant to win.
So far everyone has died. Its pretty hard, nay impossible, to determine what might have happened to them if unfortunate cases of death hadn;t intervened.
Communism may have been a real threat. At the moment no one really knows the truth yet of what went on back in the USSR during that period. Perhaps they were a real threat a true super-power on a par with the US. This would have been some sort of miracle when you consider the state they were in after fighting (and getting massacred) in both world wars. Now they would have certainly have been aware of the power of the US, and well aware of the US plans for World Domination^H^Hglobalisation, and - seeing as no-one else seemed capable - decided something had to be done and did what they could. They got their propaganda machine going at full steam.
Of course, US leaders would welcome such a "threat" as it gave them a good reason to build up military power to combat the "threat". They built bigger and better propaganda machines than the Reds even thought possible and set turned them on. If the public were to believe that those damn Commies are about to invade 'any minute now', you can be sure they will support the government spending all the money that could be used for other stuff (education, health care, whatever) on more weapons of mass destruction.
Sounds to me like like you're just another victim of the American progaganda machine. You need to check up on a few of your own points - here's just one you seem to have missed: the US sponsored the Khymer Rouge for years, then suddenly made an about face and decided they were "bad people". Have a read of Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival or some other modern political analyses of the current state or world affairs - one with facts, rather than fiction.
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What is Coca Cola, Crack Coccaine, Cactus Cuddle, Condoleeza Rice and Choking the Chicken?
The one pushed by the convicted monopolist? I'm just guessing here.
So are minorities always wrong?
Big money? So are search engines apparently. Isnt it amazing how accurate they are all of the time?
It didn't sink. The ocean became a lot less buoyant due to large amounts of fresh water from melting glaciers and polar icecaps diluting teh high salt content of the oceans. Like dude, do some research first :)
The media is just as you described world-wide. The difference between the US and the rest of the world is that the rest of the world isn't so gullible.
The GIMP has a very very good interface.
Indeed: unzip and let the good times begin!
The mind boggles. And what language do they speak in the US? Iroquois? Cherokee? Oh wait, its English! How quaint.
Windows BE Edition?
(Blasted EU!)
What sort of idiot are you? Your PC without Windows would have been cheaper (unless you bought a DELL dude!) ergo Windows is not free. But hey, my doctor says I should be more friendly to people - so welcome to morondot!
Its free.
Logic can be used to prove or disprove *anything*.
Trees get narrower as they go up, so at the bottom you may get more than one 2x4. Also, these trees were probably harvested because they were wanted and suitable for 2x4's.
Weird. I can only count one.
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US companies having control of more of the worlds oil != cheap oil products for anyone. Bush is in it for the big companies, to make them more money, and not for the little guy.
The MPAA did not shut down suprnova. They did shut down many torrent sites, but suprnova was not one of them. suprnova decided to call it quits - too much hassle from fale files, stupid users and some large bills not always covered by donations.
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Google overcame many GREAT & Powerful names - the main being Yahoo and Lycos to come out on top.
Yahoo and Lycos never had good search engines. Altavista and Excite both did for a while. But you raise an interesting point.
Microsoft has the muscle now and has always had the brute force or dominating power to overcome anyone they set their minds on.
That said, I think Google has the name - MSN Search just doesn't roll off the tongue.
Google is already "there". Microsoft needs to play the catch-up game, and cope with the same crap as google did (SEO spam etc.) Also google has an advantage by owning google groups. I have no idea how much (if any) worthwhile information come out of usenet these days (or ever), but if it does google has a clear advantage there.
Googles success was and is based on having more relevant results for any given search query, via their PageRank technology, than its competitors. While PageRank has been found to have its flaws (SEO spammers, etc.) and is thus - for the moment - loosing its high signal to noise ratio, the only way MS will win is by doing two things.
1. Implementing their own PageRank-type algorithm
2. Beat the SEO spam
Marketting just won't cut it. It has to better and more relevant to win.
I only have 8 fingers you insensitive clod!
Only on /. would analogies involving computers be used to describe stuff that happens real life :)
So far everyone has died. Its pretty hard, nay impossible, to determine what might have happened to them if unfortunate cases of death hadn;t intervened.
Communism may have been a real threat. At the moment no one really knows the truth yet of what went on back in the USSR during that period. Perhaps they were a real threat a true super-power on a par with the US. This would have been some sort of miracle when you consider the state they were in after fighting (and getting massacred) in both world wars. Now they would have certainly have been aware of the power of the US, and well aware of the US plans for World Domination^H^Hglobalisation, and - seeing as no-one else seemed capable - decided something had to be done and did what they could. They got their propaganda machine going at full steam.
Of course, US leaders would welcome such a "threat" as it gave them a good reason to build up military power to combat the "threat". They built bigger and better propaganda machines than the Reds even thought possible and set turned them on. If the public were to believe that those damn Commies are about to invade 'any minute now', you can be sure they will support the government spending all the money that could be used for other stuff (education, health care, whatever) on more weapons of mass destruction.
Sounds to me like like you're just another victim of the American progaganda machine. You need to check up on a few of your own points - here's just one you seem to have missed: the US sponsored the Khymer Rouge for years, then suddenly made an about face and decided they were "bad people". Have a read of Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival or some other modern political analyses of the current state or world affairs - one with facts, rather than fiction.
How come you don't?