Governments have been doing this in a large scale
for years in different ways. In the USA we call
this corporate welfare, in Canada the recipients
are often called BS de luxe meaning rich welfare
recipients.
The taxpayers welcome this robbery of the tax
money with open arms and actually support most
of the moronic giveaway of moneys to big and
small companies who are too cheap to spend their
own money.
Usually a company takes the grant and create a
few jobs. Those jobs are termined shortly after
the government imposed deadline expires. Often
shortly before the grant there are massive layoffs.
In times of recession the poor welfare recipients
are cut off of their checks to be able to keep
the checks flowing to the corporate welfare
recipients. It is obvious that there are a lot
of cheats and lazy assholes on the welfare rolls
but it pales in comparision to the companies
that uses taxpayers funds to get richer.
Rarely are companies confronted with their
cheating of the system but the government feels
that it is better to punish an innocent welfare
recipients and catch a cheat welfare recipients
than going after where the real money is
big time welfare cheats and corporate welfare
abusers.
Then it would be identical to the ones we use
where I work. All I have to do was use the
keyboard entry commands and never scan bar code
when the bar code program isn't running.
>Linux is Open Source which probably means it has
>a virus and it is piracy so company's should not
>use it! Linux is stealing from the pokcet of
>Miscorfoft employees!
Either you are being sarcastic or have manure for
brain.
Open source means that anyone can see the source
so if indeed a virus is present it would stay
there very long. As for piracy, you might want
to check the warez sites to see for which OS
those sites are.
I don't think that the desktop is likely to be
taken over by Linux anywhere in the near future.
Before you start flaming me take note that I
rarely ever use winblows on my computer. I have
reserved 3G out of 30G for times that I need
to use my scanner (Mustek 600CP) which is not
likely to be supported by Linux before hell
freezes over.
I do think though that NT and that includes
winblows 2000 will have a rocky road to ride
in the next few years. Two of my brothers who
work for big (huge) multinationals are telling
me that their companies who recently got taken
over by bigger fishes are switching to Linux
across the board to save money. One CEO in
particular hates to have to pay for a per computer
fee and when he heard the unlimited allowed use of
Linux, he gave the order to do the switch. Whithin
two to three years NT and Winblows 95-98 are
expected to be flushed in those two companies.
As for Joe Blow, I doubt very much that the
switch is likely to be made anytime soon as
you have to realize that software companies
will fight this to the end. It doesn't really
make much sense to support a system where you
can't force the customer to update regularly.
It is ridiculous to let a customer use the same
damm program for years when he should be upgrading
to something new.
Your logic is not very good. Miami has a lot
of refugees from Cuba and it is normal that there
are a lot of Hispanic and the language isn't dying
out as it is in other areas of the country. In most areas of the country most immigrants and that
includes Hispanic don't speak the language much
after two or three generations. Recent immigrants
speak their mother tongue of course but look at
the age. The kids born in this country speak
both English and Spanish, english is learned in
school and in the street.
Following your logic we would expect all of the
US to become very old quickly because of Florida's
high old folks population.
If I had a choice between Spanish and English I'd
rather have Spanish since it is much more similar
to my mother tongue which is French but reality is
that the English language is the majority language.
A minority doesn't dictate the language of the
majority. Anyone who believes that english is
in trouble in this country has manure for brain.
This joke was written by someone who didn't know
shit about America. We have only two close
neigboors where the language is different, meaning
Québec and Mexico. You will find people on the
borders of these countries who are bilingual.
As for the rest, highly educated people will often
know more than one language.
The majority of the population has a hard time speaking one language, don't ask them to learn
another language. The fact remains though that
there are millions of Americans who speak more
than one language.
I for one speaks French and English. I can
read French, English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian
and Portuguese and am learning to speak Spanish.
Where I live there is no need to speak any other
language than English.
I am an American and proud to be one.
If Europeans didn't have many neighboors most
people wouldn't speak more than one language.
The only reason that the numbers of bilingual
people is higher is that that have no choice
in the matter. Most people are lazy and will not
learn another language unless forced into it.
Stupidity and ignorance are well spread among
humans, it is not something that is purely
American.
What you are claiming is nonsense. Spanish isn't
likely to take over anytime soon. Spanish language
is alive and well in California, Texas and a few
other states but it is not the language of the
majority and as with many other languages the
language disappears after the second or third
generation.
Unfortunately the English language has taken over
this land much like the whites have taken over the
land of our natives ancestors but that is reality.
American english (not the brit dialect) is the
language of business and will likely remain so
for a long time.
Only morons and ignorants really believe that
english is in any danger in this country.
Considering that for most people Linux doesn't
exist and virutally all hardware for PC only
has "Designed for Windows" on them like my
designed for windows mouse pad I fail to so the
chance of any lawsuit go anywhere for someone
complaining that the junk doesn't work with Linux.
You do not need to freeze nitrogen. You just
compress it. For the morons who think it's not
possible check your facts.
We've used liquid nitrogen where I work for
a long time and it's dirt cheap.
Most of the atmosphere is made of nitrogen
and to compress it is cheap if you have the
proper equipment.
I couldn't help bust out laughing when I read
that phrase in the same context as KDE. What
a crock!
I bought a new 15G hard disk so I started
backing up some files on the new hard disk,
files from a 14G and some from an 8G hard disk.
About 20-30 minutes or so after I started the
drag and drop of directories the system hung.
I could go to different destop with ctrl-F2
and other functions but couldn't login. I tried
to login from my son's computer. Not possible
even though I was able to ping and the rate was
good.
A reset was the only thing that got it out
of the shit. On reboot the expected disk check
was done and tons of files were flushed. A whole
directory of good stuff flushed to hell.
I then used the command line to finish bcaking up
linux stuff.
Too lazy for the winblows stuff I went back to
the KDE GUI to do the drag and drop. I thought
that perhaps it had problem with one particular
hard disk and this one was vfat so I may not have
the same problem. No luck, as it was moving
a fairly large subdirectory it crashed again. This
time I had no different useless desktops. I was
able to ping from my son's computer but no login.
Reset again...
This time I had a surprise, it was impossible to
continue the copying or even delete files on the
directory where KDE fucked up. It was read only.
I looked and the files were w for the user root
which is where I was. I rebooted to winblows where
I deleted the screwed up directory.
My system has 128M or ram and 4 133M swap partitions. I run SuSE 6.4 on an UltraDMA 64
controller from Promise. The processor is
a K6 550Mhz which not overclocked.
You might think the controller is at fault
but how do you explain this other event which
happened before I had the new controller and
was running Mandrake 7.0
I was recording my Dean Martin LPs. I choose
to record a few songs before I would save to
files. I figured it would use swap when I ran out
of ram and was not concerned the least. After 4 or
5 songs there was a deadly crash, very similar
as to what happened.
It seems to me that KDE fucks up big time when
it is required to use a lot of memory. Perhaps
it leaks memory like creasy and breaks the system
in the process. This is pushing emulation of
winblows a bit too far I think.
If anyone has a solution to this severe bug
please let me know at bbcat@netonecom.net
As for being rock solid, anyone who thinks
that KDE is rock solid had one too many drinks
or been sniffing some funny stuff.
I haven't drank much Canadian beer since the early
70s but I recalled the best Canadian beer being
the Labatt 50. For those who liked to fart there
was Dow.
Today I'm told that "La Maudite" is the very best.
For those who want to try it you'll have to go to
a Québec Dépanneur. It's very potent stuff, more
alcool than most Canuck beers.
As for our good old American beers. It may not
have much alcool but it's more tasty than molson.
Miller does give an interesting flavor to some
good old chicken Gumbo. Those who disagree
obviously don't know much about beer.
It was amusing to see Bush giving a speech
in Spanish in a rally where Hispanics didn't
bother to show up. The ones holding the
Spanish signs didn't speak a word in Spanish.
The boob does know some Spanish but doesn't
really give a rats ass about the Hispanics
when he's not running for office.
Yesterday I bought a 15G hard disk because I
was running out of space on my other hard disks.
I had a bit less than 3G reserved for winblows
out of 8G and 14G hard disks with the rest
used for Linux. Now I will give perhaps another
gig for winblows and should have enough room
to install more Linux apps.
If SuSE's promises come true, support of
parallel scanner, then I won't have any reason
to waste any space for winblows.
I have never found it in any store so it is
quite lame to bitch about low sales.
I wanted to buy it but couldn't find it
so I ended up with the winblows version.
I ain't about to pay double for one stupid
game.
Perhaps the sales might not have been very
much higher but I fail to see the logic
in complaining of low sales when the ones
who want to buy can't find it anywhere.
Why not bundle the damm thing with the winblows
version? There is plenty of room on the CD.
I read a complaint about low sales on the Linux
platform. Perhaps the sales would have been better
if the Linux version had been available for sale.
You may think I'm joking, actually I've looked
in a lot of stores around here and have not
found a single one where the linux version was
available. Of course it's available on the net
but at at lest $10 to $15 more than the
winblows version.
It turned out that I bought some other kind of
games for my son, on the playstation...
MDOS was buggy as hell under NT. It looks like
it's from OS/2 1.5. If you are to use a French
Canadian keyboard for instance and perhaps it does
the same with non anglo keyboards, you would get
regular crashes or just lose useability of the
keyboard under the dos shell. Many function keys
become regular characters or funny looking stuff
and most of the keyboard is useless except
alt ctrl del which seems to still work.
I don't think microsoft has made any fixes on
it for years. Instead of fixing it they are
flushing it.
Re:how will both versions be priced ?
on
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Actually the US price of version has been around $30 at chumbo and compUSA which is pretty much the same price as RedHat. Whatever SuSE seems to be doing is just adding a professional version like RedHat and Mandrake are doing for relatively the same price.
If the bug in sane (lack of parallel port support) is indeed fixed this is a major fix and will be worth the expense. It is annoying though considering that I just bought version 6.4.
Hopefully the locales will work this time, correctly that is. For some mysterious reasons KDE thinks that I have an english install when it's actually French. Now for some mysterious reason the accents don't appear in a dir listing. They do on another almost identical installation. Messages are still in French, sort of. They need to steal from Mandrake, not the core dump features of RedHat though.
A decent French language keyboard doesn't exist under the SuSE installation as they only have the swiss, belgium and french keyboards Whoever invented that moronic azerty keyboard should be shot!
Apparently SuSE doesn't know that there are a lot of French speaking Linux users in Canada and the US. Installing SuSE is a real pain in the ass due to this ridiculous keyboard bug.
I may now be able to remove winblows!
on
SuSE 7.0
·
· Score: 1
Actually the price may be worthwhile as I could free a few gigs by removing Winblows 98 for good. I only have 3G over 24G for winblows but it seems like such a waste.
The only thing that keeps Winblows on my PC is the fact that my parallel port scanner isn't supported under Linux.
Once that bug is fixed I fail to see what I use I could possibly find for Winblows aside from wasting hard disk space and acting as virus much too often.
If that judge is up for reelection it would be possible to help said judge into early retirement, assuming people would bother showing up on election day.
>PS Did I tell you that Microsoft will release an >operating system in the next 6 months that has no >bugs at all, is as fast as hell, and has a 500kB >footprint! So much for your Linux!
Nonsense! That Microsoft Linux version was an april fool joke!
MAC is not a bad platform but in many way it sucks. I've used it a few times and was not very impressed. It is perhaps better than winblows but then again anything is better than winblows.
Someday Europeans may run out of things to tax ...
on
EU Web Tax Proposed
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· Score: 1
No need to build a wall around Europe they are doing a good job at it themselves.
This new way is just a way to make sure that every transactions on the net in Europe are taxed. Europeans are used to taxes anyway. Those who are sick of them usually move the this great country of ours.
One day or another they will run out of things to tax but then I may be wrong, read on...
A few years ago I read an interesting Science Fiction book from Richard Bessière describing a future society where everything was taxed. A man and his lady were enjoying some sexual moments when all of a sudden they heard a police car siren. What happened was that the lady had an implant which was counting the number of times she'd come. Apparently she had exceeded her paid quota for the month.
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The writer is a bit quick to conclude that
most programmers are morons. Many of us don't
believe in mystical bullshit or any other
religious beliefs.
Governments have been doing this in a large scale
for years in different ways. In the USA we call
this corporate welfare, in Canada the recipients
are often called BS de luxe meaning rich welfare
recipients.
The taxpayers welcome this robbery of the tax
money with open arms and actually support most
of the moronic giveaway of moneys to big and
small companies who are too cheap to spend their
own money.
Usually a company takes the grant and create a
few jobs. Those jobs are termined shortly after
the government imposed deadline expires. Often
shortly before the grant there are massive layoffs.
In times of recession the poor welfare recipients
are cut off of their checks to be able to keep
the checks flowing to the corporate welfare
recipients. It is obvious that there are a lot
of cheats and lazy assholes on the welfare rolls
but it pales in comparision to the companies
that uses taxpayers funds to get richer.
Rarely are companies confronted with their
cheating of the system but the government feels
that it is better to punish an innocent welfare
recipients and catch a cheat welfare recipients
than going after where the real money is
big time welfare cheats and corporate welfare
abusers.
Then it would be identical to the ones we use
where I work. All I have to do was use the
keyboard entry commands and never scan bar code
when the bar code program isn't running.
>Linux is Open Source which probably means it has
>a virus and it is piracy so company's should not
>use it! Linux is stealing from the pokcet of
>Miscorfoft employees!
Either you are being sarcastic or have manure for
brain.
Open source means that anyone can see the source
so if indeed a virus is present it would stay
there very long. As for piracy, you might want
to check the warez sites to see for which OS
those sites are.
I don't think that the desktop is likely to be
taken over by Linux anywhere in the near future.
Before you start flaming me take note that I
rarely ever use winblows on my computer. I have
reserved 3G out of 30G for times that I need
to use my scanner (Mustek 600CP) which is not
likely to be supported by Linux before hell
freezes over.
I do think though that NT and that includes
winblows 2000 will have a rocky road to ride
in the next few years. Two of my brothers who
work for big (huge) multinationals are telling
me that their companies who recently got taken
over by bigger fishes are switching to Linux
across the board to save money. One CEO in
particular hates to have to pay for a per computer
fee and when he heard the unlimited allowed use of
Linux, he gave the order to do the switch. Whithin
two to three years NT and Winblows 95-98 are
expected to be flushed in those two companies.
As for Joe Blow, I doubt very much that the
switch is likely to be made anytime soon as
you have to realize that software companies
will fight this to the end. It doesn't really
make much sense to support a system where you
can't force the customer to update regularly.
It is ridiculous to let a customer use the same
damm program for years when he should be upgrading
to something new.
Your logic is not very good. Miami has a lot
of refugees from Cuba and it is normal that there
are a lot of Hispanic and the language isn't dying
out as it is in other areas of the country. In most areas of the country most immigrants and that
includes Hispanic don't speak the language much
after two or three generations. Recent immigrants
speak their mother tongue of course but look at
the age. The kids born in this country speak
both English and Spanish, english is learned in
school and in the street.
Following your logic we would expect all of the
US to become very old quickly because of Florida's
high old folks population.
If I had a choice between Spanish and English I'd
rather have Spanish since it is much more similar
to my mother tongue which is French but reality is
that the English language is the majority language.
A minority doesn't dictate the language of the
majority. Anyone who believes that english is
in trouble in this country has manure for brain.
This joke was written by someone who didn't know
shit about America. We have only two close
neigboors where the language is different, meaning
Québec and Mexico. You will find people on the
borders of these countries who are bilingual.
As for the rest, highly educated people will often
know more than one language.
The majority of the population has a hard time speaking one language, don't ask them to learn
another language. The fact remains though that
there are millions of Americans who speak more
than one language.
I for one speaks French and English. I can
read French, English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian
and Portuguese and am learning to speak Spanish.
Where I live there is no need to speak any other
language than English.
I am an American and proud to be one.
If Europeans didn't have many neighboors most
people wouldn't speak more than one language.
The only reason that the numbers of bilingual
people is higher is that that have no choice
in the matter. Most people are lazy and will not
learn another language unless forced into it.
Stupidity and ignorance are well spread among
humans, it is not something that is purely
American.
What you are claiming is nonsense. Spanish isn't
likely to take over anytime soon. Spanish language
is alive and well in California, Texas and a few
other states but it is not the language of the
majority and as with many other languages the
language disappears after the second or third
generation.
Unfortunately the English language has taken over
this land much like the whites have taken over the
land of our natives ancestors but that is reality.
American english (not the brit dialect) is the
language of business and will likely remain so
for a long time.
Only morons and ignorants really believe that
english is in any danger in this country.
Considering that for most people Linux doesn't
exist and virutally all hardware for PC only
has "Designed for Windows" on them like my
designed for windows mouse pad I fail to so the
chance of any lawsuit go anywhere for someone
complaining that the junk doesn't work with Linux.
You do not need to freeze nitrogen. You just
compress it. For the morons who think it's not
possible check your facts.
We've used liquid nitrogen where I work for
a long time and it's dirt cheap.
Most of the atmosphere is made of nitrogen
and to compress it is cheap if you have the
proper equipment.
I couldn't help bust out laughing when I read
that phrase in the same context as KDE. What
a crock!
I bought a new 15G hard disk so I started
backing up some files on the new hard disk,
files from a 14G and some from an 8G hard disk.
About 20-30 minutes or so after I started the
drag and drop of directories the system hung.
I could go to different destop with ctrl-F2
and other functions but couldn't login. I tried
to login from my son's computer. Not possible
even though I was able to ping and the rate was
good.
A reset was the only thing that got it out
of the shit. On reboot the expected disk check
was done and tons of files were flushed. A whole
directory of good stuff flushed to hell.
I then used the command line to finish bcaking up
linux stuff.
Too lazy for the winblows stuff I went back to
the KDE GUI to do the drag and drop. I thought
that perhaps it had problem with one particular
hard disk and this one was vfat so I may not have
the same problem. No luck, as it was moving
a fairly large subdirectory it crashed again. This
time I had no different useless desktops. I was
able to ping from my son's computer but no login.
Reset again...
This time I had a surprise, it was impossible to
continue the copying or even delete files on the
directory where KDE fucked up. It was read only.
I looked and the files were w for the user root
which is where I was. I rebooted to winblows where
I deleted the screwed up directory.
My system has 128M or ram and 4 133M swap partitions. I run SuSE 6.4 on an UltraDMA 64
controller from Promise. The processor is
a K6 550Mhz which not overclocked.
You might think the controller is at fault
but how do you explain this other event which
happened before I had the new controller and
was running Mandrake 7.0
I was recording my Dean Martin LPs. I choose
to record a few songs before I would save to
files. I figured it would use swap when I ran out
of ram and was not concerned the least. After 4 or
5 songs there was a deadly crash, very similar
as to what happened.
It seems to me that KDE fucks up big time when
it is required to use a lot of memory. Perhaps
it leaks memory like creasy and breaks the system
in the process. This is pushing emulation of
winblows a bit too far I think.
If anyone has a solution to this severe bug
please let me know at bbcat@netonecom.net
As for being rock solid, anyone who thinks
that KDE is rock solid had one too many drinks
or been sniffing some funny stuff.
I haven't drank much Canadian beer since the early
70s but I recalled the best Canadian beer being
the Labatt 50. For those who liked to fart there
was Dow.
Today I'm told that "La Maudite" is the very best.
For those who want to try it you'll have to go to
a Québec Dépanneur. It's very potent stuff, more
alcool than most Canuck beers.
As for our good old American beers. It may not
have much alcool but it's more tasty than molson.
Miller does give an interesting flavor to some
good old chicken Gumbo. Those who disagree
obviously don't know much about beer.
If you'd care to check you'd realize that
in many states the drinking age is 21 years old.
It was amusing to see Bush giving a speech
in Spanish in a rally where Hispanics didn't
bother to show up. The ones holding the
Spanish signs didn't speak a word in Spanish.
The boob does know some Spanish but doesn't
really give a rats ass about the Hispanics
when he's not running for office.
Yesterday I bought a 15G hard disk because I
was running out of space on my other hard disks.
I had a bit less than 3G reserved for winblows
out of 8G and 14G hard disks with the rest
used for Linux. Now I will give perhaps another
gig for winblows and should have enough room
to install more Linux apps.
If SuSE's promises come true, support of
parallel scanner, then I won't have any reason
to waste any space for winblows.
I have never found it in any store so it is
quite lame to bitch about low sales.
I wanted to buy it but couldn't find it
so I ended up with the winblows version.
I ain't about to pay double for one stupid
game.
Perhaps the sales might not have been very
much higher but I fail to see the logic
in complaining of low sales when the ones
who want to buy can't find it anywhere.
Why not bundle the damm thing with the winblows
version? There is plenty of room on the CD.
I read a complaint about low sales on the Linux
...
platform. Perhaps the sales would have been better
if the Linux version had been available for sale.
You may think I'm joking, actually I've looked
in a lot of stores around here and have not
found a single one where the linux version was
available. Of course it's available on the net
but at at lest $10 to $15 more than the
winblows version.
It turned out that I bought some other kind of
games for my son, on the playstation
MDOS was buggy as hell under NT. It looks like
it's from OS/2 1.5. If you are to use a French
Canadian keyboard for instance and perhaps it does
the same with non anglo keyboards, you would get
regular crashes or just lose useability of the
keyboard under the dos shell. Many function keys
become regular characters or funny looking stuff
and most of the keyboard is useless except
alt ctrl del which seems to still work.
I don't think microsoft has made any fixes on
it for years. Instead of fixing it they are
flushing it.
Actually the US price of version has been around
$30 at chumbo and compUSA which is pretty much
the same price as RedHat. Whatever SuSE seems
to be doing is just adding a professional
version like RedHat and Mandrake are doing for
relatively the same price.
If the bug in sane (lack of parallel port support) is indeed fixed this is a major fix and will be worth the expense. It is annoying though considering that I just bought version 6.4.
Hopefully the locales will work this time, correctly that is. For some mysterious reasons
KDE thinks that I have an english install when
it's actually French. Now for some mysterious
reason the accents don't appear in a dir
listing. They do on another almost identical
installation. Messages are still in French, sort of. They need to steal from Mandrake, not the
core dump features of RedHat though.
A decent French language keyboard doesn't exist
under the SuSE installation as they only have the
swiss, belgium and french keyboards Whoever
invented that moronic azerty keyboard should be
shot!
Apparently SuSE doesn't know that there are
a lot of French speaking Linux users in Canada
and the US. Installing SuSE is a real pain in the
ass due to this ridiculous keyboard bug.
Actually the price may be worthwhile as I could
free a few gigs by removing Winblows 98 for good.
I only have 3G over 24G for winblows but it seems
like such a waste.
The only thing that keeps Winblows on my PC is
the fact that my parallel port scanner isn't
supported under Linux.
Once that bug is fixed I fail to see what I
use I could possibly find for Winblows aside
from wasting hard disk space and acting as virus
much too often.
If that judge is up for reelection it would
be possible to help said judge into early
retirement, assuming people would bother
showing up on election day.
This moronic approach has good chances
to succeed in destroying whatever is
left of apple's share of the market.
Whatever Micro$oft was not been able to do
to the MAC will be done by the brain dead
marketing dept of Apple.
>PS Did I tell you that Microsoft will release an
>operating system in the next 6 months that has no
>bugs at all, is as fast as hell, and has a 500kB
>footprint! So much for your Linux!
Nonsense! That Microsoft Linux version was an
april fool joke!
MAC is not a bad platform but in many way it
sucks. I've used it a few times and was not
very impressed. It is perhaps better than
winblows but then again anything is better
than winblows.
No need to build a wall around Europe they are
...
doing a good job at it themselves.
This new way is just a way to make sure that every
transactions on the net in Europe are taxed.
Europeans are used to taxes anyway. Those who
are sick of them usually move the this great
country of ours.
One day or another they will run out of things
to tax but then I may be wrong, read on
A few years ago I read an interesting Science
Fiction book from Richard Bessière describing a
future society where everything was taxed.
A man and his lady were enjoying some sexual
moments when all of a sudden they heard a police
car siren. What happened was that the lady had
an implant which was counting the number of times
she'd come. Apparently she had exceeded her paid
quota for the month.