You just proved Parent's point and that the list is nearly irrelevant. First, the US government DOESN'T go into radio stations and shoot people, so that point is moot.
What we have here isn't even self censorship - it's people using their better judgement. I may love bunny rabbit porn, but me recognizing that people will think I'm nuts if I go shout it from the rooftops isn't self-censorship - it's just a good idea. On the other end of the spectrum, if someone wants to publish an article but doesn't because of fear of reprisals then he's either too cowardly to have mattered anyway, or he's in the extreme utter minority.
There is no right to be heard and have people agree with you. If people stop buying the Dixie Chicks' albums because of their vocal political views, that's both their fault and their problem.
Seconded. I have SP2 RC2 on my home machines and I work at a computer tech support shop and have installed it on dozens of machines. Not once have I had a failure of a machine to boot up. This is on machines that run the gamut from new custom built PCs, to all sorts of different models of retail PCs. From units that have just been restored to ones that still have all sorts of junk on them.
It's easier to just install the one service pack than the tons of updates, and heck, any problems that it's generated are small in comparison to the machine being completely unpatched, which most are.
They're doing something wrong or have something screwy going on. Microsoft certainly has tons of problems, but this isn't one of them in my experience.
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You just proved Parent's point and that the list is nearly irrelevant. First, the US government DOESN'T go into radio stations and shoot people, so that point is moot.
What we have here isn't even self censorship - it's people using their better judgement. I may love bunny rabbit porn, but me recognizing that people will think I'm nuts if I go shout it from the rooftops isn't self-censorship - it's just a good idea. On the other end of the spectrum, if someone wants to publish an article but doesn't because of fear of reprisals then he's either too cowardly to have mattered anyway, or he's in the extreme utter minority.
There is no right to be heard and have people agree with you. If people stop buying the Dixie Chicks' albums because of their vocal political views, that's both their fault and their problem.
Seconded. I have SP2 RC2 on my home machines and I work at a computer tech support shop and have installed it on dozens of machines. Not once have I had a failure of a machine to boot up. This is on machines that run the gamut from new custom built PCs, to all sorts of different models of retail PCs. From units that have just been restored to ones that still have all sorts of junk on them.
It's easier to just install the one service pack than the tons of updates, and heck, any problems that it's generated are small in comparison to the machine being completely unpatched, which most are.
They're doing something wrong or have something screwy going on. Microsoft certainly has tons of problems, but this isn't one of them in my experience.