needing to worry about buying new hardware Windows has that too.
printers in general Windows has that too
updating the software on the system (have you ever tried to update Kopete on Mandriva?) Updating is much simpler on an APT-based system like Ubuntu or the portage system Gentoo uses. Switch away from Mandriva--it uses the most braindead implementation of RPM possible, and RPM already suffers from deep flaws in the system.
some "oddness" (like sound ceasing to function in KDE for no reason) I've had just about equal amounts of oddness with Linux and Windows. The differ
Oh, and not being able to stay away from the command line. You could stay away from the command line if you wanted to, but Linux devs and users prefer the commandline because it's a lot easier to express complex concepts in a CLI than a GUI for much the same reason it's difficult to say "Because your lab goggles are too large and mine too small, let's switch" using only hand motions. Trust me, I've tried(during the Day of Silence--I eventually just wrote it down).
No, communism is the workers owning the means of production. "Communist" is a name used by a bunch of different groups, very few of which actually have the workers owning the means of production.
Depending on your OS version, you may have a Start Menu but no AppManager, or an AppManager but no Start Menu. Let's not even talk about what version of that software various versions of Windows may have. Others put their configuration files in C:\WINDOWS, others in C:\WINNT. Some in both.
Communism is the workers owning the means of production. Anyone who tells you otherwise should not be trusted.
And if universal healthcare is socialism, then the United States is already socialist.
Seriously, go look at Social Security. It is more efficient than just about every private organization. You wanna know why? Because a lot of seniors use the service and a lot of what they do is watch Social Security to make sure the checks come in on time. Replace seniors with sick people and you'll get what would happen with US social healthcare.
Likewise, the movie presents the viewpoint that "guns are bad," which is at odds with the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, et. al. That's fallacious in both clauses--an AdVerecundiam in the second and a misreading of the facts in the first. Considering that guns are just as common in Canada which has much fewer of the Columbine stuff and Moore even mentions that in the film, the most you could say about Moore's gun opinions are that "The NRA is ridiculous". Which it is.
Do you realize that healthcare is the largest cause of debt in the United States? That's fucked up.
That fact alone is more persuasive than the entire Michael Moore film. Michael Moore's real talent lies not in persuasion but in playing with the people in power as if they were kitty toys. The reactions they cause would be hilarious were it not for the fact that these were the guys running the nation--example, during the 2000 elections when MM got Alan Keyes to mosh in a pit with his friends from Rage Against the Machine Gary Bauer's quote pretty much outdoes anything I could actually say about it:
Alan, a couple of weeks ago, you criticized my good friend John McCain because he expressed some support of or interest in a controversial music group [McCain had claimed to be a fan of Nine Inch Nails]. In view of that I was a little surprised this week to see you fall in to a mosh pit while a band called "The Machine Rages On," or "Rage Against the Machine" played [Bauer is either genuinely ignorant or trying to distance himself from actually knowing the name of such an evil bandboth seem plausible]. That band is anti-family. It's pro-cop killer, and it's pro-terrorist. He then goes on to falsely claim it's what the kids at Columbine listened to.
Yeah, well, a ruined environment is bad for humans as well, and torture is bad no matter who the victim is. Death is an inevitability and I'm not telling you to stop eating meat but I still think we should stop torturing animals the way we do with our current meatmaking methods. ThereHasToBeABetterWay.
that might work for large established bands but it would also spell the death of full time professional musicians in about 20 years. You do realize that only "large established bands" get any money from CD sales and even those who do usually get a miniscule fraction(I'm talking less than a thousandth here) of the money earned here. To the bands, CDs are pretty much promotional material.
And if you infer anything about my views on the subject based on that observation you are probably wrong. From that statement I can infer that the obvious inference that could be made from the first statement is wrong.
Google, even in China, mentions the Tiananmen Square killings on page 3 or 4. In China, Tiananmen Square is known for a lot more things than the killings, much like the Lincoln Memorial is known for a lot more things than the Million Man March.
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I'm touching my Firefly and wishing that Fox hadn't canceled it.
Yeah, because if a kid shows interest in anything intellectual he must be forced to play outside so that he becomes a dumb jock later in life.
No, communism is the workers owning the means of production. "Communist" is a name used by a bunch of different groups, very few of which actually have the workers owning the means of production.
Depending on your OS version, you may have a Start Menu but no AppManager, or an AppManager but no Start Menu. Let's not even talk about what version of that software various versions of Windows may have. Others put their configuration files in C:\WINDOWS, others in C:\WINNT. Some in both.
Michael Moore put the Presidential Mosh Pit challenge to every single candidate. Keyes was the only one who agreed to it.
Communism is the workers owning the means of production. Anyone who tells you otherwise should not be trusted.
And if universal healthcare is socialism, then the United States is already socialist.
Seriously, go look at Social Security. It is more efficient than just about every private organization. You wanna know why? Because a lot of seniors use the service and a lot of what they do is watch Social Security to make sure the checks come in on time. Replace seniors with sick people and you'll get what would happen with US social healthcare.
That fact alone is more persuasive than the entire Michael Moore film. Michael Moore's real talent lies not in persuasion but in playing with the people in power as if they were kitty toys. The reactions they cause would be hilarious were it not for the fact that these were the guys running the nation--example, during the 2000 elections when MM got Alan Keyes to mosh in a pit with his friends from Rage Against the Machine Gary Bauer's quote pretty much outdoes anything I could actually say about it: Alan, a couple of weeks ago, you criticized my good friend John McCain because he expressed some support of or interest in a controversial music group [McCain had claimed to be a fan of Nine Inch Nails]. In view of that I was a little surprised this week to see you fall in to a mosh pit while a band called "The Machine Rages On," or "Rage Against the Machine" played [Bauer is either genuinely ignorant or trying to distance himself from actually knowing the name of such an evil bandboth seem plausible]. That band is anti-family. It's pro-cop killer, and it's pro-terrorist. He then goes on to falsely claim it's what the kids at Columbine listened to.
Yeah, well, a ruined environment is bad for humans as well, and torture is bad no matter who the victim is. Death is an inevitability and I'm not telling you to stop eating meat but I still think we should stop torturing animals the way we do with our current meatmaking methods. ThereHasToBeABetterWay.
It's better than Ancient Rome, where they had slaves strap your sandals.
And if you don't live in "most major cities"?
Well, actually I have a dualboot, but the copy of Windows 2000 is from a corporate license, so technically it's free to me...
Their developers, most of whom are probably hobbyists.
The problem with the NRA is that they say they need guns to fight off tyranny but essentially define tyranny as not having guns.
Q: This word is spelled the same and means the same thing in both English and Spanish. Its opposite also means "If" in Spanish.
Or he's a Wizard and as anyone who's read Jim Butcher knows wizards and technology do not mix
The former. Ted would have been a lot less annoying in the shadow of John and Robert.
Bears are Catholic. The Pope shits in the woods.
Actually, train schedules were especially bad in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Hitler and Mussolini actually made the trains run on thyme.
no, he means minority. Then again, white population has fallen below 50% so there isn't a majority anymore.
Google, even in China, mentions the Tiananmen Square killings on page 3 or 4. In China, Tiananmen Square is known for a lot more things than the killings, much like the Lincoln Memorial is known for a lot more things than the Million Man March.