"Bottom line is that Reaganomics worked and socialism is largely discredited,"
Certainly, if by "worked" you mean "fooled everyone into thinking it was capitalism", and if by "largely discredited", you mean "widely adopted as the prevailing American 'wisdom of the day'".
are the affordable (not necessarily 'cheap') laptops, using LinuxBIOS to boot minimal X (in under 10 seconds) that can login over the network, using no local hard drive or flash drive (of course you can always add those), with CPU's that don't run hot enough to cook your sperm, with a battery life actually measured in days instead of pitiful hours?
"You see blowhards on here who insist that Linux should be hard to use, because, damn it, it was hard for them to learn it."
Why do you pretend those people are saying anything sensible or valid? Why validate their nonsense with even the slightest acknowledgment?
"Or some tripe about how computers should require a license to use."
Unless that person works in government and has the gun to back up their whims, why should we do anything other than ignore them?
Government officials, whether elected or appointed, always do their utmost to pass the costs and consequences of their actions on to the people they supposedly serve, refusing to be held personally liable. And then people pretend to be surprised by the results.
Chase are a bunch of goddamn lying thieves who claimed we always sent our mortgage payments late and tried to make us pay late fees. Lo and behold, when we started sending the payments by certified mail, suddenly like a miracle, they started receiving them on time. Go figure.
"Fully based on a lack of knowledge", indeed. But what kind of fool conflates the use of a pseudonym with claiming credentials one never earned? So much for the vaunted Objectivist reputation for truth and integrity.
Just goes to show that because someone SAYS they value truth, doesn't mean they walk the walk.
Anyone who conflates the use of a pseudonym, with claiming credentials one does not have, is a complete fucking fool.
...will be one piece, and constructed entirely of soft rubber.
However, children will still be issued mandatory helmets before being allowed on the premises.
"DVD playback just works in Windows"
You misspelled "not available by default in Windows so your DVD drive cannot play DVD's until you install a third-party application".
Perhaps because it fills the woefully ignored niche market in this affluent Western country of providing an efficient portable computer, as opposed to a gigahertz crotch-warmer that barely has enough battery life to play an average movie on the vaunted DVD's they are advertised as being powerful enough to play. (The TRS-80 Model 100 could "run for days on a set of four alkaline AA batteries".) Or perhaps of providing something durable, as opposed to something that snaps in half if you give it a funny look. The amount of "choice" in the laptop computer market is even worse than the desktop, and I welcome anything that puts pressure on businesses to provide real alternative solutions rather than more of the same overpowered, overpriced crap.
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Certainly, if by "worked" you mean "fooled everyone into thinking it was capitalism", and if by "largely discredited", you mean "widely adopted as the prevailing American 'wisdom of the day'".
But go ahead and be just like the Germans: "They thought they were free."
They should have called it PING: Pidgin Is Not Gaim.
are the affordable (not necessarily 'cheap') laptops, using LinuxBIOS to boot minimal X (in under 10 seconds) that can login over the network, using no local hard drive or flash drive (of course you can always add those), with CPU's that don't run hot enough to cook your sperm, with a battery life actually measured in days instead of pitiful hours?
"Russian."
(pointedly) "Estonian."
(smirk) "Russian."
(glare) "_We_ don't think so."
You know I'm right. Anyone too busy recording "life" to actually live it, effectively has none.
I'm sorry, sir. You have no life.
So where is the heroic bureaucrat who can get this hellhole running so efficiently, that all the labour can be done by a single Australian man?
"You see blowhards on here who insist that Linux should be hard to use, because, damn it, it was hard for them to learn it." Why do you pretend those people are saying anything sensible or valid? Why validate their nonsense with even the slightest acknowledgment? "Or some tripe about how computers should require a license to use." Unless that person works in government and has the gun to back up their whims, why should we do anything other than ignore them?
I would have thought that silly Ponzi scheme discredited decades ago.
Government officials, whether elected or appointed, always do their utmost to pass the costs and consequences of their actions on to the people they supposedly serve, refusing to be held personally liable. And then people pretend to be surprised by the results.
Also, you will be unable to close the door to your entertainment center, unless you want it and everything around to melt.
Chase are a bunch of goddamn lying thieves who claimed we always sent our mortgage payments late and tried to make us pay late fees. Lo and behold, when we started sending the payments by certified mail, suddenly like a miracle, they started receiving them on time. Go figure.
Looked like "emo.h". Which would be more than appropriate.
"Fully based on a lack of knowledge", indeed. But what kind of fool conflates the use of a pseudonym with claiming credentials one never earned? So much for the vaunted Objectivist reputation for truth and integrity.
Ah, the virtue of selfishness. Yep -- "THAT woman".
Just goes to show that because someone SAYS they value truth, doesn't mean they walk the walk. Anyone who conflates the use of a pseudonym, with claiming credentials one does not have, is a complete fucking fool.
Like "reliability"? Count me in!
...will be one piece, and constructed entirely of soft rubber. However, children will still be issued mandatory helmets before being allowed on the premises.
Well, that's mighty fucking white of them. Next up: Reports from Herefordshire indicate a possible end to meat rationing starting mid February.
"DVD playback just works in Windows" You misspelled "not available by default in Windows so your DVD drive cannot play DVD's until you install a third-party application".
Why bother? It's already counterfeit.
Perhaps because it fills the woefully ignored niche market in this affluent Western country of providing an efficient portable computer, as opposed to a gigahertz crotch-warmer that barely has enough battery life to play an average movie on the vaunted DVD's they are advertised as being powerful enough to play. (The TRS-80 Model 100 could "run for days on a set of four alkaline AA batteries".) Or perhaps of providing something durable, as opposed to something that snaps in half if you give it a funny look. The amount of "choice" in the laptop computer market is even worse than the desktop, and I welcome anything that puts pressure on businesses to provide real alternative solutions rather than more of the same overpowered, overpriced crap.
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Life imitates art :)