That a first world government, like the US or England, wanted yet more information on people to collect, and they wanted Yahoo to help. Yahoo caves, wipes everyone's profiles clean, so when they get rewritten, that data goes straight to the secret databases.
Maybe I'm just an ignorant American, but you got elected officials, chosen by the working classes, against the population in general, and the House of Lords, who are 'appointed' working for the general population? How does this work?:D
News reports have indicated that the earth's weather climate has been constantly shifting over millions of years.
Seriously, I wish people would stop getting so shocked about this. I remember reading in school about things like Ice ages and constaly changing climates, and I'm not that old. I beleive man's impact on the enviroment, while measurable, is severly overblown.
For the last time, the Stones aren't dead. I know they look like the Crypt Keeper, but they are, infact, alive.
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Using Microsoft's failures to justify OSS' shortcomings is like using Bill Clinton's blowjob to excuse Bush's fuck-ups.
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Ever think that maybe some of this stuff just might be right? Ever think that maybe these criticisms aren't something people have pulled out of their asses, but are rather genuine complaints based on their experiances? I can deal with a learning curve. I cannot accept a sharp, jagged peak.
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This train of thought here is exactly what's wrong with Linux and the OSS world in general. If it's already doable, no matter how hard and/or obscure the method, than that's just good enough,no reason to improve.
Until this attitude is corrected, OSS will continue to go nowhere.
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I wish they'd let us do this in the real world. Manners would suddenly come back in vouge.
Stop bitching. Bring back hard time in the form of back breaking labor. Bring back public flogging. Bring back hanging. Problem solved.
Humanity's desire to overvalue human life is going to be the death of society as we know it, if not our species itself.
I've never understood the whole I-never-rebooted-for-this-long penis measuring contest.
Some things are clearly not permitted. To obtain a demonstration, go rob a bank or kill your neighbor or something.
You don't live in the United States, do you? Or at least the wealthy part of it.
That's like saying you hate The Godfather, isn't it? XD
...Your jacket is now dry!
A motorcycle shop prehaps? :)
There are actually vaild reason why Americans are so fiercely protective of the right to bare arms. This is a big one.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a van filled with DVDs.
If it can't be done with Windows Three point One One, it isn't worth doing.
Get those chair hurling muscles in shape!
I ask that all rat lovers mod parent down for such an insult to rats everywhere.
That a first world government, like the US or England, wanted yet more information on people to collect, and they wanted Yahoo to help. Yahoo caves, wipes everyone's profiles clean, so when they get rewritten, that data goes straight to the secret databases.
Maybe I'm just an ignorant American, but you got elected officials, chosen by the working classes, against the population in general, and the House of Lords, who are 'appointed' working for the general population? How does this work? :D
News reports have indicated that the earth's weather climate has been constantly shifting over millions of years.
Seriously, I wish people would stop getting so shocked about this. I remember reading in school about things like Ice ages and constaly changing climates, and I'm not that old. I beleive man's impact on the enviroment, while measurable, is severly overblown.
You've obviously not used Flash much lately. :D
Umm, I don't think you can do a reverse Wild Thornberries.
I've heard some say it is..."best damn investigative reporting on the planet."
For the last time, the Stones aren't dead. I know they look like the Crypt Keeper, but they are, infact, alive.
Using Microsoft's failures to justify OSS' shortcomings is like using Bill Clinton's blowjob to excuse Bush's fuck-ups.
Ever think that maybe some of this stuff just might be right? Ever think that maybe these criticisms aren't something people have pulled out of their asses, but are rather genuine complaints based on their experiances? I can deal with a learning curve. I cannot accept a sharp, jagged peak.
This train of thought here is exactly what's wrong with Linux and the OSS world in general. If it's already doable, no matter how hard and /or obscure the method, than that's just good enough,no reason to improve.
Until this attitude is corrected, OSS will continue to go nowhere.
To keep it out of AMD or VIA's hands.
Umm, most kids just shrug off paddleings once they hit puberty, and often before.
If I figured out how to do something that would lay a serious hurting on my competition, I wouldn't exactly go around saying how I did it either.