Yeah but you see, THAT is what I'm not getting. Yes I could understand if it were simply "kill wimpy and have someone yell WINNAR" because as you said baby steps seem to be popular ATM. But these grinds aren't called that because they are easy, they are called that because they are these loooong, boring, tedious, same old bullshit! It is like paying someone to work at the DMV!
That is what I don't get. Sure I've played a clickfest, Sacred which I got for $3 on GOG was nothing but clicky clicky all the time. I get that even if I didn't find it particularly great, same thing with The Witcher. What I don't get is spending the entire day being a fetch bitch for an NPC. It isn't like the NPC is a friend who can actually use these things, if it were reality he'd have snow goat asses piled 40 feet high! It isn't like the snow goat slaying is exciting, just one boring battle after another, lather rinse repeat.
So I just don't get how being the border collie of an NPC is so damned thrilling people will pay good money to be an NPC's bitch. And I apologize to the guy who got his panties in a wad because I said Diablo had snow goats. I was probably thinking of one of the 500 Diablo clones I played back then, it was a decade ago during what I called "the bad time". you know that God Awful Quake III Arena period where everything that wasn't a Diablo clone was an excuse for a bunch of guys to run around like chickens with their heads cut off while throwing quad damage and generally being dicks? Needless to say I don't get that either although thankfully back then they didn't have mikes so they couldn't scream nigger and faggot all day long. Its the little things that count, ya know?
Does this mean we can assign to Apple the "Pay your $699 license fee, you cocksmoking teabaggers!" meme? If so I'd like to thank Apple for bringing back such a classic. It is nice to see a company that has their eyes on the future remembering the past and adopting a meme with such a long and storied history.
Now all we need is to get MSFT to adopt Natalie Portman in hot grits as the new wallpaper default for Windows 8, as I think Penisbird is currently being claimed by Comcast although Sony wishes to challenge by claiming they are the bigger pricks and thus deserve the iconic image more, and of course shiteater was recently adopted by RIM after seeing the sales of their new tablet.
Honestly? I think we are beginning to see what will be the future of Apple without Steve. it is kinda sad really as it really was "The house that Steve built" but it is his own fault for not building a clean line of succession and obviously grooming his replacement after the first health scare. i know that a company is more than one man but reading many stories of those that have worked there it is pretty clear that from the time he came back it has been Steve's vision the whole time.
Sadly I have a feeling it is gonna be like the Pepsi guy all over again when he is gone, or like the bumbling mess that has been Ballmer's takeover of Gate's company. Whether you liked them or not Gates and Jobs had clear visions of where they wanted their respective companies to go and plans to get them there. I have a feeling as Steve takes more and more time to tend to his failing health the stupid moves and general douchebaggery will only get worse, but that is what happens when you get suits in charge that are MBAs and salesmen and not visionaries.
It happened to Apple under the Pepsi guy, it is happening now to MSFT under the sweaty monkey, and it looks like it will happen to Apple again without Steve at the helm. Let us just hope for all those Apple fans out there Steve gets well soon, because whether you support their products or not you have to admit the man knew how to run his company.
Yeah but that is what I don't understand. How EXACTLY is "bring me the asses of 20 snow goats" supposed to be fun? So far every MMO I've ever played to quote Yahtzee at ZP is "grindtastic" and makes me think of a hamster on a wheel. My oldest bought Mines of Moria and was so happy when it arrived. i needed to do a HDD upgrade on his box anyway so afterward I sat down beside him to watch. An hour later I was like "When does the grinding stop and the good stuff start?" and he just looked at me like I had grown two heads. So I just sighed and walked away.
Maybe it is because I'm old enough to remember MechWarrior 3 and 4, where the clashes of battlegroups was like Midway. You had the ultra heavies like super battleships lobbying the big guns, you had mediums and assaults in the next ring like destroyers covering the heavies, and then you had the lights in the outer ring offering fast attack support like a cruiser. Until the griefers ruined it for me that was quite enjoyable and you really had to think as well as fight if you wanted to survive.
So maybe its just me, maybe I'm weird. but I just don't get how walking up to an NPC and being told "bring me the asses of 20 snow goats" and then spending 2 hours collecting said asses only to come back and have the NPC go "Now bring me the asses of 30 purple monkeys" is supposed to be fun. I didn't find that fun in Diablo or Sacred and I certainly wouldn't pay a monthly fee to be a fetch bitch for NPCs in an MMO.
Because once upon a time there was a whole lot of people that played a little game called SWG. But then Sony looked at the numbers and said "We aren't making teh WoW monies!" and put out a big update that was intended to lure in teh noobs but instead seriously broke shit for the regular players while the noobs said "Meh" and stayed with WoW. A lot of the players at that point, seeing things they had worked hard for made worthless and all their grinding turn to poo said "Ffffffuuuuuucccckkk!" and canceled their subscription while giving Sony the finger.
So you see SuperDre you can occasionally treat your customers as a commodity but when you openly take a big old dump on everything they worked for in chasing "teh WoW monies!" you can have very bad things happen. I have a feeling we'll be seeing the same thing soon with EVE Online as their developers are sounding like they are getting ready to have a taste of the horse armor of fail.
Oh sure thing, all you had to do was ask. Please note the headline which is a quote from Linus who says, and i quote "Linux not designed, never was' then he goes on to talk about it just kinda grows like a virus LOL! Now really, is that ANYWAY to treat the heart of a multibillion dollar OS that millions depend on? I think not. Linus has gotten to big for his britches and needs replaced IMHO.
And do NOT even get me started on RMS. Those pics of him posing with Chavez and Casto? All I could think of was "useful idiot". The guy came up with ONE really good idea (The GPL, which was because he got burnt on a printer driver) and now he squats at MIT (his words not mine) and thinks communist dictatorships are just great and people treat him like he's a saint? WTF? Have you seen his "computer" which he says is THE ONLY "truly free" computer on the planet? It is funky Loongson ARM netbook no longer made which he "surfs" on by using a daemon to fetch pages to his email. The OS whose biggest selling point is the net being dictated by a guy that uses an embedded toy and hasn't surfed a web page in years? WTF?
As for Windows 7 all I can say is THANK FUCKING GOD that somebody at MSFT finally got it! It is intuitive, easy for someone like my dad to use and find new features, while letting an old hand like me work faster with libraries and bread crumbs. But now you watch if they don't fire the sweaty monkey he'll come along and take a big whiz on it trying to ape Apple again with Win 8. Yeah boy I really sound like a shill calling the CEO a retarded baboon.
And I agree the "la la la everything is rainbows la la la" is a BIG problem in Linux right now. Lets be honest: The GUI is fine, graphics could use work in hardware acceleration but it is coming along, but the drivers are total shite on a crusty roll. And the sad part? It is EGO, linus' ego come and it won't go away. In 1993 when Pcs had 1Mb of RAM if you were lucky he said he didn't like ABIs and wouldn't have them. Well it has been 17 YEARS since then, and everyone and his dog and his dog's fleas has an ABI and their drivers don't break. Does Linus listen? maybe realize that what worked in 93 may not work now? NO, oh hell no, he might have to admit he is wrong!
Finally it isn't the specs, do the math: You have X number of kernel developers and those qualified to write driver code, you have Yx10,000 pieces of hardware released per year. Even if Linus didn't break drivers (fat chance there) you would never catch up with what is currently out. The math simply doesn't work. 99.995% of companies will NEVER "pull an Nvidia" and pay a whole team of developers to sit around and do nothing but fix what linus breaks, so they don't bother. with a stable ABI they could write once and it would work for a decade or more, same as the Win2K/XP driver model has lasted for nearly 14 years and the WinVista/7 driver model will be supported until 2020 at the earliest.
But when you point out that even in a perfect world the math simply don't add, what do you get? Dipshits like Alex with his "Nah Nah you must work for teh M$! Linus is a God and does no wrong! U r teh shill!" like a bunch of infants being shown their favorite toy is dirty. Well I've had enough, and so has Walmart, Best Buy, ASUS, Staples, hell I could list the companies that have offered Linux only to give up in single space and it would come out looking like War & Peace.
Did you know that Dell, even though they have but a teeny tiny subset of hardware with Linux offered, has to run their own repos because otherwise the drivers die hard? And yet when I point this out all I will get from the "community" Is "shill shill astroturfer!" while they ignore link after link showing literally hundreds of thousands harmed by this. Well if they want to act like 14 year old Halo teabaggers? fine and dandy I'm making quite a decent living selling PCs WITHOUT their product
Actually if it is like there MSE it is since....well never since they bought out Giant which made a decent antimalware package and just rebranded it. I actually thought that was a smart idea, as simply throwing more money at a problem rarely if ever works so it is better just to hire someone who knows how to do what you need done.
Of course the danger to that theory is the Symantec "OMFG how much shit they gonna pile on this thing?" school of jamming everything you buy into a giant "suite' of poorly related crap, but from what I've seen MSE is pretty much just antimalware and that's it. Meh I think Avast Free is better anyway.
As for TFA search results got poisoned, big whoop. With the Anons and LULSec types running amok I'm sure this happens hundred of times a day and it would have even made idle if it was Bob's insurance company or John's house o' security, but in this case it was MSFT who probably farmed it out and got bit by badly coded website design. Surprise surprise.
Considering that since the sweaty monkey took over they have been flinging poo at the wall in the hopes something sticks (Zune,Kin, no real mobile strategy) and hitting themselves in the face more often than not (killing the market they had built up with PlaysForSure with the lame ZunePass) fuckups like this frankly should not be a surprise to anyone. The only real hits they've had since Ballmer is the X360 which they got lucky in that the PS3 screwed their price point with Cell and Blu Ray, not to mention having Halo and Gears to sell the x360 to fratboys, and Win 7 which from what I understand was done by the office guys without Ballmer meddling after the grand suckfest that was Vista.
That is because the Linux nutjob known as Alex has been following me around for several weeks now claiming I'm some sort of super M$ ninja hired by Redmond to harm his precious, while ignoring I've written several posts on what I think is wrong with MSFT (Ballmer is an idiot with Jobs envy, their mobile strategy is shit, they finally have a good GUI with Win 7 and they'll cock it up in Win 8 trying to ripoff the iPad) and that I've never been west of OKC in my life nor do I even get a discount on Windows, I buy system builders like every other small shop.
And the sad part? The part that makes ALL Linux users look like tinfoil hat wearing nutters? Is that is ALL HE CAN SAY no matter how many links I provide to refute him he simply rocks while holding his Tux blankie and going "Nigger nigger faggot fucker" which of course is the translation of "shill shill astroturfer troll" which he simply follows me around to chant like it is a magic word that makes his delusions real.
And the funny part? The great revelation that blew his little Linux zealot mind? I pointed out (and I'll be happy to give you the links as well if you wish) that major retailers have joined small shops like mine in refusing to sell Linux because LINUX BREAKS DRIVERS. I then gave him a link from Linus himself laughing on that THERE ARE NO PLANS when it comes to the kernel, it is just him and his buds scratching itches, like it is 1993 and they are just doing it for shits and giggles. Again I'll be happy to provide links and it is Linus in his own words, no bullshit.
This is why I won't carry Linux and why when someone posts complete horseshit like "Linux is as easy to use as Windows" I pop in and show they are full of shit. If you are a CS grad, a programmer, or need to save money on a server deployment? Then Linux is for you, likewise if you work embedded.
But to say when EVERY SINGLE MAJOR OS has a stable ABI specifically to NOT break drivers, OSX, Solaris, BSD, Windows, OS/2 and Linux doesn't not that makes it "easier' for the users? Horseshit. To refuse to accept the fact that for OSX and Windows users the CLI doesn't exist, because they never use it, and that "open up bash and type" should be an acceptable substitution for drivers that function after an update? Total unbelievable bullshit.
So everytime Alex opens his loser mouth with his "shill shill astroturfer" chant I will consider it a public service to counter his bullshit with the truth and paste link after link showing his lies for what they are. things never will get better if losers like Alex are allowed to spread misinformation, nor does it help anyone to stick their heads in the sand and pretend the driver model on Linux doesn't have SERIOUS deal breaking issues. Since I hate hypocrisy I will counter lies with the truth, and bullshit with facts. if it gets Alex's little panties in a wad? Well that's just too bad, isn't it?
Nope, in fact i'm typing this on my netbox at the shop, which is a 1.8GHz AMD Sempron CPU with 1.5Gb of RAM, and even with such a weak CPU I can launch a video tab in the background and get NO lockups with Comodo Dragon (Based on Chromium). Sadly I can't even use FF on this machine anymore because simply launching ANY tab will cause a 100% CPU spike that will last up to 45 seconds on a static page and Lord help you if it has any video element. You literally can't use FF on this machine anymore and considering that it is faster than most netbooks that is truly sad. I don't know what the Chromium guys did but it NEVER loses responsiveness.
Whatever the Moz devs after the 3.x branch frankly screwed the pooch as it was the last truly well working version on all boxes IMHO. frankly one shouldn't need a multicore with gobs of RAM just to load a webpage or watch an SD video and the fact that no only does FF not work well on less than an HT 3.0GHz P4 but it seems to seriously gobble memory (try launching FF and then walking away and leaving it on all day and see how much mem it uses without even surfing!) is simply inexcusable
I personally think it is the Gecko engine. I think they have tried bolting multi process features that the engine simply wasn't designed for like the plugin container and it simply can't handle it. But all I know is even on a slow low power CPU like this I'm using practically no CPU except when watching flash and even then it rarely hits above 35% and even after leaving Dragon on for the past 3 days the amount of memory I'm using is a paltry 198Mb of RAM (Use About:Memory to check any Chromium browser's memory state. you can even launch the same tabs in FF and compare the two with the feature) and that is a BIG difference compared to my exp with FF 5.
If you haven't tried Comodo Dragon give it a spin. Better security features, better speed, and NO lockups!
Chrome/Chromium. Chrome has support for group policies and you can also get Chrome in.MSI format, although frankly you don't need.MSI you can use.EXE with AD as well.
While I work mainly with small business and home users I have begun switching them over to Comodo Dragon, based on Chromium. The Dragon doesn't break extensions, is fast, and has better security features IMHO like better SSL validation.
What someone hasn't explained to me though is WHY, why did they do this? Why when finally gaining share against IE and while facing the juggernaut that is Chrome would they purposely take a big old dump on their users and extension writers? It was the extensions that made Firefox and now they are jumping ship to Chrome/Chromium. When I first started testing Dragon many extensions simply didn't exist and now the ONLY extension I used on FF that doesn't exist for Dragon is NoScript and from what I've read the Chromium team is trying to work with the NoScript guy to come up with an API that will give him the hooks he needs.
So I just don't get it, what did they gain? They pissed on the enterprise which news flash, people tend to use at home what they use at work and admins aren't gonna touch FF now with a 50 foot pole, they pissed off the little shops and normal folks by causing massive extension breakage while at the SAME TIME pulling support for the previous version so we couldn't even stick with FF 4 until the extensions we needed got fixed, so what did they gain? Anything? Sadly IMHO Mozilla has become Netscape...an arrogant company without the code to back up the bad attitude. And we saw what happened to them didn't we?
Since I have never talked to a paleoconservative (not even sure what that means, is that like a Barry Goldwater conservative? Be dating myself with that one) so let me ask you something about paleoconservatives...what about medicaid/care, unemployment and disability? Because one thing that truly disgusts me about the current republican party is the almost sadistic glee they get when they do something that will hurt the poor. Listening to them you would think they have an orgasm just at the thought of a poor person hurting with all the joy it gives them.
I'll be honest. After big media hijacked the Ds and big business and religious nutjobs hijacked the Rs I went back to the beliefs my great grandfather instilled in me many years ago...I'm a socialist. I believe ALL men should have the RIGHT to food in his belly, a roof over his head, clothes on his back, and to be able to see a doctor when they are sick...that's it. If they want a widescreen, a car, something bigger than an efficiency apt? Then they should have to work BUT there should be jobs waiting for them, if nothing else WPA jobs where our infrastructure is bettered for us all.
So I simply can't support a party whose current leadership are IMHO sadists whose worship of money is only complemented by their hatred of those without. Maybe paleoconservatives are different, as I said I've never even heard the term before your post so I don't know. What I DO know is that the last major factory in my home town just closed down, more than half the houses are now abandoned, and in this scorching heat there are people living in tents because their benefits ran out before they could find a job.
The fact that this happens in this great country disgusts me and fills me with shame. I simply can't in good conscience support a party that not only thinks that is great but would INCREASE those suffering if possible. I swear the Reps should just admit it and change their symbol to a rich man's shoe stomping on a poor person.
Did you even bother to read anything on that link? Blaming an entire org for one or two loudmouth racists would be like saying all of us southerners like to spend our weekends lynching anybody that isn't white.
I have several friends and family that have been in the military and I can tell you they take their oath to the constitution VERY seriously. Read the link, see what they are fighting for. you'll see they simply want to uphold their original oath which wasn't to a single man but to the Constitution of The United States of America. Frankly I think we need a lot more people like that, that are willing to risk everything for what they believe in.
Not to mention you are losing extremely important information that the classic versioning system gave us, which is why we had it in the first place...when there are gonna be major changes to the code. with the old system if it was a change from.01 to point 02 it was a bug fix, those rarely broke things and if they code was well written a change from.10 to point.20 rarely broke major things although their might be some minor niggles. It was the 1.0 to 2.0 you had to watch out for as THAT is what bit you in the ass.
Ultimately I think this move is gonna be a major victory....for Chrome The Google juggernaut will make even larger gains thanks to this dickish move and here is why: People tend to use at home what they learn and use at work and no admin with any sense is gonna touch FF now, and most importantly even little guys with not nearly as many people to support as an enterprise are now dumping FF because i don't know when they are gonna break extensions myself and my customers depend on. Finally let us not forget that most extension developers are doing this in their spare time and/or for donations an the crazy release schedule with the 'fuck you, jump on board or piss off" attitude is causing quite a few to spend a LOT less time worrying about the FF extension and instead working on Chrome.
Lets be honest folks, the extension framework was the only real selling point to FF anymore. Their GUI was becoming more of a Chrome ripoff by the day, in performance tests Chrome and Opera regularly stomped them, all that was left is the extension framework. So what do they do? Take a big old shit on the extension developers!
This is why I have switched and am switching my users to Comodo Dragon, based on Chromium. So far I have upgraded from Dragon 6 through Dragon 12 without a SINGLE extension breaking, whereas I lost about a third of my extensions going from 4 to 5, including those like the Avast site rating that helped my customers to avoid dodgy sites. The only extension I had on FF I don't have on Dragon is NoScript and as I understand it the Chromium guys are working on an API that will give NoScript the hooks it needs.
And sorry about the length but as someone who used Firefox before it was even called Firefox, and the Suite before that, this really saddens me. Mozilla has become the rebirth of Netscape, with an arrogant leadership whose code simply can't back up their arrogant attitude. So from me and my customers Mozilla so long and thanks for all the fish.
I'd say a better analogy would be demanding that she tell them where she hid a trunk, knowing there is a body in it. In the safe analogy if they don't comply? They can go around it. Locks can be picked, doors can be pried, etc. What is dangerous and against everything we believe in with this is they are attempting to force someone to give that which only exists in their minds and in their minds alone.
I just don't see how anyone can argue this is anything but a fifth amendment issue. The information ONLY exists in her mind, to give it WOULD be forcing her to give testimony against herself, how is this not classic fifth amendment?
Sadly that is why we now have those known as the Oath Keepers made up of brave men and women of our armed forces, who take an oath to defend the constitution even against our own government which many believe it will come down to.
Lucky for us in the US there are a great many men and women both past and presently in our armed forces who still believe in words like "honor" and "The constitution" and when the shit hits the fan (which I believe it will, those at the top will continue to enrich themselves and their friends while this country death spirals) and they try to turn the military against us when we get tired of being stomped on that like old Mo Mo in Libya is finding out the military has families too and care more about the country than the ruinous leaders at the top..
I would also add improvised camelbaks like those used by the US military would probably help. Dehydration in those temps is VERY real and VERY dangerous whereas a couple of two liters filled with water frozen the night before with a hose or surgical tubing would not only provide cooling as the ice melts but a source of fresh drinking water.
How well does DisplayPort support HDCP? I bet when all is said and done that is what it will be about, Lord forbid Joe Average gets a cable that might not work with their precious DRM. Of course that is ignoring the fact that TPB often has the movies before they are released and if someone wanted the movie going 'clicky clicky" on a TPB link is a HELL of a lot easier than actually ripping it yourself.
When are they ever gonna learn DRM only bites the consumer in the ass, never the pirate? Maybe they'll have to have thousands throwing a shitfit like what happened to MSFT in that stupid ass Vista debacle where they had Vista go into "cripple mode" if it didn't get activated, meanwhile the pirates have fully functional Vista and 7 that not only don't need activation but actually run better with less BS than the legit.
Accept your DRM crap don't work and move on. If you want DRM then make it a baby hoop jump like Steam, where it doesn't bone the user (although even Steam is starting to suck as moronic game companies but MORE DRM on TOP of Steamed and Valve allows it) or give extra value to the paying customers like GOG with all the extras they give.
All this dumbshit will do is make sure any guys that need that cable will just go to chinamart, where they can pick up mod chips and region free players and anything else the DRM lovers don't want you to have, as China frankly don't give a shit as long as there is $$$ to be made. Maybe that is why they are kicking our collective asses?
Thank you, you responded to the "libertarian" (Libertarian I've found is a code word for "extra fucking greedy rich white guy") in much better manner than I ever could have. What I do love is for all their screams about "gubment taking my monies!" they never seem to answer why if their "give the rich more monies!" theory held true then why when taxes and corporate handouts have never been better for the top 5% are we in such a mess? Why if trickle down and "give the monies to teh rich they'll create teh jobz!" is a sound theory are we not better off than we were 20 years ago?
The answer is simple, when you lower taxes you make Americans MORE expensive to hire since the payroll tax breaks are based on the upper tax. Bigger upper tax? get more money back when you hire labor. Lower tax? The labor becomes MORE expensive. although I'm sure that since this info is on the Daily Koz he won't read it because it is "socialist" which is like more evil than Hitler in their book. No Godwin intended.
But you are absolutely right that when you lose 21,000 factories in less than a decade while CEOs from the 60s made 80 times what the worker did and now make on average over 500 times? What you have is the start of our own Arab spring. The sad part is they are hoping for another depression IMHO, as the rich made out like bandits while the poor starved in the last one. But they are wrong, the poor won't go silently into that good night again. they will arm, they will read the anarchist cookbook, they will mobilize and they WILL fight. It ain't gonna be pretty but when BOTH sides of the aisle are handing out as much to the rich as they can with a "let them eat cake" attitude? Frankly I don't see any other outcome.
Have you taken your meds today Alex dear? I guess not since we are talking about a SPAMMING DOMAIN where NOBODY but your crazy tinfoil hat wearing ass has mentioned ANYTHING about operating systems? Are you REALLY that fucking paranoid? Or does the thought of being next to my large southern manmeat get you so wet between your legs you gotta break out the tweezrs and hope I respond?
So please, keep it up my little bitch. I do so love and consider it a public service to point out hypocrisy and bullshit whenever and wherever I find it. the fact that you can't even contemplate that a retailer would try your precious turd sandwich and find that it is shit? That it MUST be some right wing conspiracy involving Bill Gates and the illuminati? Just shows what a bunch of crazy fuckwits hang around the Linux "community". Oh and for those that want to see Alex here is a pretty good likeness. Enjoy!
You mean like trickle down (80-88) voodoo economics (88-92) free trade with countries with no environmental laws (92-2000) and of course lets cut them taxes on the rich a lot! (2000-2008) and finally bailout baby bailout! (2008-present) like that?
Look at what the tax rates were during the best times of this country such as the 50s (which the Rs idolize) and today. You will see that taxes on the top 5% have never been lower not in the ENTIRE history of our tax system. Not once.
So if the libertarian/republican trickle down "Its the gubment!" theory held true, we are living in a utopia right now. Are we? hell in just the last 10 years with EVER lowering taxes on the top 5% we've lost 21,000 FACTORIES even as the politicians tripped over themselves to give ever larger tax cuts to the top 5%, oh and the middle class? They are just about DOA. If the "give the rich more money" theory was sound, where are the results? Where is the trickle down?
Oh right it is actually trickle upon, as in they piss on the peasants while lining their pockets. well that is how revolutions get started my friends. ever hear a little ditty called "no taxation without representation"? Or what the tree of liberty needs to be watered with? If those at the top think the other 95% are just gonna go quietly starve to death in a corner you got another thing coming. Hell we have our own soldiers taking oaths to FIGHT THE GOVERNMENT that trained them! Think this is a coincidence? I think when the shit hits the fan they are gonna find like old Mo Mo the military? Well they got families too and they ain't rich.
It ain't gonna be pretty but perhaps it is just what this country needs. No government lasts forever, just look at how many they have been through in Asia and Europe. Maybe it is time to start over.
Huh, is there anything they had back in 69 they could have made a flag out of that COULD survive in such an environment? I mean sure they could have made it out of metal but that wouldn't look good on camera.
As for TFA its a strip of cloth that sat in an office, that's all. It has about as much of a real connection to the moon as the slippers Glenn wore before getting into his space suit. Now if it would have been something like the plaque that Lovell saved from Apollo 13? The one that was supposed to be changed out on the moon but didn't because of the accident? Now THAT would easily be worth $100,000+. Hell it would probably fetch a cool million.
But the fact this never even left the ground doesn't make it that special and the bids reflected that. Hell I think one of those vests Kranz wore for the launches back in the day would fetch more.
Wow, way to ignore every single thing while piling up the bullshit? I am impressed! You still haven't answered the question, allow me to rephrase without wiping out the Jews and without bowing to Sharia, how can there be peace between the east and the west? Are you saying the Muslims in London are being beaten and whipped? How about in France, are they being abused? no yet the violence goes up because from birth the are taught about Dhimmis (I bet you didn't even have the balls to look it up, did you? Might burst your bubble) and how to the "religion of peace" you are nothing but a single word...infidel. That is all you are, you are a dog.
So lets hear it, we're waiting. Lets hear this big plan on how you will make peace with countries that have declared they will drive the Jews into the sea, who have declared that there will be no peace until all are under Sharia (If you don't believe me most of the mullahs happily post their translated diatribes on YouTube, help yourself) and who believe that stonings, penis removals, chopping the hands off and wholesale murder are not only acceptable, but are rewarded with divine gifts? Perhaps you might want to read a little history, maybe start with the empire of Japan for which I see many parallels, for like the Islamic religion the Japanese were taught they too were divine and that non believers were less than human.
So if you are not talking of appeasement lets hear it, we're all ears. But just remember in Mosques all over the world they are actually using Nazi propaganda to teach their children about Jews. look it up, I dare you. If you teach your children blacks are like rats, do you think they would have a problem lynching them? Now replace black with infidel and you might just catch a clue.
Awww, whatsa matter girlie? Can't even find a single argument to back up your bullshit? None at all? Afraid of the truth? Scared? Crying at being shown that Tux blankie is diseased and covered in shit? Don't blame the messenger because you keep sucking on the Linus cock and then acting surprised when you're blinded by the splooge. As a public service I will again post the links, so that all can see how completely full of shit you are and how unlike you I who have the truth on my side have NO SHORTAGE of links to back my assertions up. Citations? I'll give you citations!
Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?
So you go hide now mama's boy, you hide with your Tux blankie and keep saying your magical nigger nigger faggot, or should I say shill shill astroturfer, like it is a magical word that will make all the bad go away. But it won't change reality and the reality is your driver model is shit and more than 15 years behind everyone else and that is why retailers like me wouldn't piss on it, not some mythical money truck that sneaks up to my door in the middle of the night. So go compile something and leave the men to talk about the real world, okay little girl?
Ugh, republican, yes? let me ask you something...why is your answer to EVERYTHING give the rich people more money? Town is burning, give rich people more money. No jobs? give the rich people more money. Sitting in the street with a broken leg and no money for a doctor? Give the rich people more money.
Ya know what? We've TRIED THAT for going on 30 fricking years now? Forget trickle down, aka trickle upon? or how about how we gave FREE MONIES TO GE who said "thanks" and then sent their best paying jobs overseas which I'm sure will buy the CEO some more gold toilets and hookers, but help America? Naaah.
If anything taxes on the top 5% should be HIGHER not lower! Money hoarded by the rich is "dead money" its not getting spent, its out of the economy, goodbye. When they will get the living shit taxed out of them if they keep it? Well then they invest it in their businesses so as to lower their tax debt, duh! Taxes have NEVER BEEN LOWER on the top 5%, not ever. Are we better off than those times of high taxes? Can you name ONE time your "give the rich more money" policy has EVER worked? Even one? We've had trickle down, voodoo economics, the "free trade" bullshit under Clinton, and of course Dubya cutting like there was no tomorrow. Are we better off? NO.
That horseshit might actually sell to someone that doesn't know history, has never been here, and of course your constituency which is the rich and the poor suckers in red states that think they are gonna be rich someday, aka "lotto mentality" but everyone else has seen this shit time after time after time only now sadly the Ds are just as sold out as the Rs to the rich so it is SSDD.
That is why I believe we will have our Arab spring, because the public no longer believes in your games. They don't vote NOT because they don't care, it is because they have lost hope that anyone will listen. And when the poor, which outnumber you by a good 10,000 to 1 and rising every day decide to fall behind our own version of Uncle Joe or the crazy Austrian? Well lets just say I hope you have your jet filled up because the fall of Saigon comes to mind.
Its aluminum ya damned Limey! I swear we bust our balls saving your pasty white asses from the rampaging Krauts and what do you do? Adopt a damned system created by cheese eating surrender monkeys! Either go back to imperial units like God and the Queen intended or the next time your balls are in a sling we might just forget which way to the UK! And learn to fricking speak AMERICAN! It is a damned cigarette not a fag, geez.
As for TFA anyone who has seen the videos of the clusterfuck that was Ohio in 2004 ought to know that you don't even have to change the vote, just disenfranchise those whose votes you don't want to count. The rich neighborhoods had an abundance of voting booths, the poor too few and half of those worked. When activists tried to peaceably hand out flyers to all those who had waited in line for hours only to be told they were in the wrong line that they could request a provisional ballot? They were run off by the cops.
So it really wouldn't take much in a close one, just a few districts in a few states making sure the group you don't want to vote is treated bad enough they won't bother. Watch those videos from Ohio at how many got disgusted and walked away, guess who they would have voted for? Not the guy that won.
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Yeah but you see, THAT is what I'm not getting. Yes I could understand if it were simply "kill wimpy and have someone yell WINNAR" because as you said baby steps seem to be popular ATM. But these grinds aren't called that because they are easy, they are called that because they are these loooong, boring, tedious, same old bullshit! It is like paying someone to work at the DMV!
That is what I don't get. Sure I've played a clickfest, Sacred which I got for $3 on GOG was nothing but clicky clicky all the time. I get that even if I didn't find it particularly great, same thing with The Witcher. What I don't get is spending the entire day being a fetch bitch for an NPC. It isn't like the NPC is a friend who can actually use these things, if it were reality he'd have snow goat asses piled 40 feet high! It isn't like the snow goat slaying is exciting, just one boring battle after another, lather rinse repeat.
So I just don't get how being the border collie of an NPC is so damned thrilling people will pay good money to be an NPC's bitch. And I apologize to the guy who got his panties in a wad because I said Diablo had snow goats. I was probably thinking of one of the 500 Diablo clones I played back then, it was a decade ago during what I called "the bad time". you know that God Awful Quake III Arena period where everything that wasn't a Diablo clone was an excuse for a bunch of guys to run around like chickens with their heads cut off while throwing quad damage and generally being dicks? Needless to say I don't get that either although thankfully back then they didn't have mikes so they couldn't scream nigger and faggot all day long. Its the little things that count, ya know?
Does this mean we can assign to Apple the "Pay your $699 license fee, you cocksmoking teabaggers!" meme? If so I'd like to thank Apple for bringing back such a classic. It is nice to see a company that has their eyes on the future remembering the past and adopting a meme with such a long and storied history.
Now all we need is to get MSFT to adopt Natalie Portman in hot grits as the new wallpaper default for Windows 8, as I think Penisbird is currently being claimed by Comcast although Sony wishes to challenge by claiming they are the bigger pricks and thus deserve the iconic image more, and of course shiteater was recently adopted by RIM after seeing the sales of their new tablet.
Honestly? I think we are beginning to see what will be the future of Apple without Steve. it is kinda sad really as it really was "The house that Steve built" but it is his own fault for not building a clean line of succession and obviously grooming his replacement after the first health scare. i know that a company is more than one man but reading many stories of those that have worked there it is pretty clear that from the time he came back it has been Steve's vision the whole time.
Sadly I have a feeling it is gonna be like the Pepsi guy all over again when he is gone, or like the bumbling mess that has been Ballmer's takeover of Gate's company. Whether you liked them or not Gates and Jobs had clear visions of where they wanted their respective companies to go and plans to get them there. I have a feeling as Steve takes more and more time to tend to his failing health the stupid moves and general douchebaggery will only get worse, but that is what happens when you get suits in charge that are MBAs and salesmen and not visionaries.
It happened to Apple under the Pepsi guy, it is happening now to MSFT under the sweaty monkey, and it looks like it will happen to Apple again without Steve at the helm. Let us just hope for all those Apple fans out there Steve gets well soon, because whether you support their products or not you have to admit the man knew how to run his company.
Yeah but that is what I don't understand. How EXACTLY is "bring me the asses of 20 snow goats" supposed to be fun? So far every MMO I've ever played to quote Yahtzee at ZP is "grindtastic" and makes me think of a hamster on a wheel. My oldest bought Mines of Moria and was so happy when it arrived. i needed to do a HDD upgrade on his box anyway so afterward I sat down beside him to watch. An hour later I was like "When does the grinding stop and the good stuff start?" and he just looked at me like I had grown two heads. So I just sighed and walked away.
Maybe it is because I'm old enough to remember MechWarrior 3 and 4, where the clashes of battlegroups was like Midway. You had the ultra heavies like super battleships lobbying the big guns, you had mediums and assaults in the next ring like destroyers covering the heavies, and then you had the lights in the outer ring offering fast attack support like a cruiser. Until the griefers ruined it for me that was quite enjoyable and you really had to think as well as fight if you wanted to survive.
So maybe its just me, maybe I'm weird. but I just don't get how walking up to an NPC and being told "bring me the asses of 20 snow goats" and then spending 2 hours collecting said asses only to come back and have the NPC go "Now bring me the asses of 30 purple monkeys" is supposed to be fun. I didn't find that fun in Diablo or Sacred and I certainly wouldn't pay a monthly fee to be a fetch bitch for NPCs in an MMO.
Because once upon a time there was a whole lot of people that played a little game called SWG. But then Sony looked at the numbers and said "We aren't making teh WoW monies!" and put out a big update that was intended to lure in teh noobs but instead seriously broke shit for the regular players while the noobs said "Meh" and stayed with WoW. A lot of the players at that point, seeing things they had worked hard for made worthless and all their grinding turn to poo said "Ffffffuuuuuucccckkk!" and canceled their subscription while giving Sony the finger.
So you see SuperDre you can occasionally treat your customers as a commodity but when you openly take a big old dump on everything they worked for in chasing "teh WoW monies!" you can have very bad things happen. I have a feeling we'll be seeing the same thing soon with EVE Online as their developers are sounding like they are getting ready to have a taste of the horse armor of fail.
Oh sure thing, all you had to do was ask. Please note the headline which is a quote from Linus who says, and i quote "Linux not designed, never was' then he goes on to talk about it just kinda grows like a virus LOL! Now really, is that ANYWAY to treat the heart of a multibillion dollar OS that millions depend on? I think not. Linus has gotten to big for his britches and needs replaced IMHO.
And do NOT even get me started on RMS. Those pics of him posing with Chavez and Casto? All I could think of was "useful idiot". The guy came up with ONE really good idea (The GPL, which was because he got burnt on a printer driver) and now he squats at MIT (his words not mine) and thinks communist dictatorships are just great and people treat him like he's a saint? WTF? Have you seen his "computer" which he says is THE ONLY "truly free" computer on the planet? It is funky Loongson ARM netbook no longer made which he "surfs" on by using a daemon to fetch pages to his email. The OS whose biggest selling point is the net being dictated by a guy that uses an embedded toy and hasn't surfed a web page in years? WTF?
As for Windows 7 all I can say is THANK FUCKING GOD that somebody at MSFT finally got it! It is intuitive, easy for someone like my dad to use and find new features, while letting an old hand like me work faster with libraries and bread crumbs. But now you watch if they don't fire the sweaty monkey he'll come along and take a big whiz on it trying to ape Apple again with Win 8. Yeah boy I really sound like a shill calling the CEO a retarded baboon.
And I agree the "la la la everything is rainbows la la la" is a BIG problem in Linux right now. Lets be honest: The GUI is fine, graphics could use work in hardware acceleration but it is coming along, but the drivers are total shite on a crusty roll. And the sad part? It is EGO, linus' ego come and it won't go away. In 1993 when Pcs had 1Mb of RAM if you were lucky he said he didn't like ABIs and wouldn't have them. Well it has been 17 YEARS since then, and everyone and his dog and his dog's fleas has an ABI and their drivers don't break. Does Linus listen? maybe realize that what worked in 93 may not work now? NO, oh hell no, he might have to admit he is wrong!
Finally it isn't the specs, do the math: You have X number of kernel developers and those qualified to write driver code, you have Yx10,000 pieces of hardware released per year. Even if Linus didn't break drivers (fat chance there) you would never catch up with what is currently out. The math simply doesn't work. 99.995% of companies will NEVER "pull an Nvidia" and pay a whole team of developers to sit around and do nothing but fix what linus breaks, so they don't bother. with a stable ABI they could write once and it would work for a decade or more, same as the Win2K/XP driver model has lasted for nearly 14 years and the WinVista/7 driver model will be supported until 2020 at the earliest.
But when you point out that even in a perfect world the math simply don't add, what do you get? Dipshits like Alex with his "Nah Nah you must work for teh M$! Linus is a God and does no wrong! U r teh shill!" like a bunch of infants being shown their favorite toy is dirty. Well I've had enough, and so has Walmart, Best Buy, ASUS, Staples, hell I could list the companies that have offered Linux only to give up in single space and it would come out looking like War & Peace.
Did you know that Dell, even though they have but a teeny tiny subset of hardware with Linux offered, has to run their own repos because otherwise the drivers die hard? And yet when I point this out all I will get from the "community" Is "shill shill astroturfer!" while they ignore link after link showing literally hundreds of thousands harmed by this. Well if they want to act like 14 year old Halo teabaggers? fine and dandy I'm making quite a decent living selling PCs WITHOUT their product
Actually if it is like there MSE it is since....well never since they bought out Giant which made a decent antimalware package and just rebranded it. I actually thought that was a smart idea, as simply throwing more money at a problem rarely if ever works so it is better just to hire someone who knows how to do what you need done.
Of course the danger to that theory is the Symantec "OMFG how much shit they gonna pile on this thing?" school of jamming everything you buy into a giant "suite' of poorly related crap, but from what I've seen MSE is pretty much just antimalware and that's it. Meh I think Avast Free is better anyway.
As for TFA search results got poisoned, big whoop. With the Anons and LULSec types running amok I'm sure this happens hundred of times a day and it would have even made idle if it was Bob's insurance company or John's house o' security, but in this case it was MSFT who probably farmed it out and got bit by badly coded website design. Surprise surprise.
Considering that since the sweaty monkey took over they have been flinging poo at the wall in the hopes something sticks (Zune,Kin, no real mobile strategy) and hitting themselves in the face more often than not (killing the market they had built up with PlaysForSure with the lame ZunePass) fuckups like this frankly should not be a surprise to anyone. The only real hits they've had since Ballmer is the X360 which they got lucky in that the PS3 screwed their price point with Cell and Blu Ray, not to mention having Halo and Gears to sell the x360 to fratboys, and Win 7 which from what I understand was done by the office guys without Ballmer meddling after the grand suckfest that was Vista.
That is because the Linux nutjob known as Alex has been following me around for several weeks now claiming I'm some sort of super M$ ninja hired by Redmond to harm his precious, while ignoring I've written several posts on what I think is wrong with MSFT (Ballmer is an idiot with Jobs envy, their mobile strategy is shit, they finally have a good GUI with Win 7 and they'll cock it up in Win 8 trying to ripoff the iPad) and that I've never been west of OKC in my life nor do I even get a discount on Windows, I buy system builders like every other small shop.
And the sad part? The part that makes ALL Linux users look like tinfoil hat wearing nutters? Is that is ALL HE CAN SAY no matter how many links I provide to refute him he simply rocks while holding his Tux blankie and going "Nigger nigger faggot fucker" which of course is the translation of "shill shill astroturfer troll" which he simply follows me around to chant like it is a magic word that makes his delusions real.
And the funny part? The great revelation that blew his little Linux zealot mind? I pointed out (and I'll be happy to give you the links as well if you wish) that major retailers have joined small shops like mine in refusing to sell Linux because LINUX BREAKS DRIVERS. I then gave him a link from Linus himself laughing on that THERE ARE NO PLANS when it comes to the kernel, it is just him and his buds scratching itches, like it is 1993 and they are just doing it for shits and giggles. Again I'll be happy to provide links and it is Linus in his own words, no bullshit.
This is why I won't carry Linux and why when someone posts complete horseshit like "Linux is as easy to use as Windows" I pop in and show they are full of shit. If you are a CS grad, a programmer, or need to save money on a server deployment? Then Linux is for you, likewise if you work embedded.
But to say when EVERY SINGLE MAJOR OS has a stable ABI specifically to NOT break drivers, OSX, Solaris, BSD, Windows, OS/2 and Linux doesn't not that makes it "easier' for the users? Horseshit. To refuse to accept the fact that for OSX and Windows users the CLI doesn't exist, because they never use it, and that "open up bash and type" should be an acceptable substitution for drivers that function after an update? Total unbelievable bullshit.
So everytime Alex opens his loser mouth with his "shill shill astroturfer" chant I will consider it a public service to counter his bullshit with the truth and paste link after link showing his lies for what they are. things never will get better if losers like Alex are allowed to spread misinformation, nor does it help anyone to stick their heads in the sand and pretend the driver model on Linux doesn't have SERIOUS deal breaking issues. Since I hate hypocrisy I will counter lies with the truth, and bullshit with facts. if it gets Alex's little panties in a wad? Well that's just too bad, isn't it?
Nope, in fact i'm typing this on my netbox at the shop, which is a 1.8GHz AMD Sempron CPU with 1.5Gb of RAM, and even with such a weak CPU I can launch a video tab in the background and get NO lockups with Comodo Dragon (Based on Chromium). Sadly I can't even use FF on this machine anymore because simply launching ANY tab will cause a 100% CPU spike that will last up to 45 seconds on a static page and Lord help you if it has any video element. You literally can't use FF on this machine anymore and considering that it is faster than most netbooks that is truly sad. I don't know what the Chromium guys did but it NEVER loses responsiveness.
Whatever the Moz devs after the 3.x branch frankly screwed the pooch as it was the last truly well working version on all boxes IMHO. frankly one shouldn't need a multicore with gobs of RAM just to load a webpage or watch an SD video and the fact that no only does FF not work well on less than an HT 3.0GHz P4 but it seems to seriously gobble memory (try launching FF and then walking away and leaving it on all day and see how much mem it uses without even surfing!) is simply inexcusable
I personally think it is the Gecko engine. I think they have tried bolting multi process features that the engine simply wasn't designed for like the plugin container and it simply can't handle it. But all I know is even on a slow low power CPU like this I'm using practically no CPU except when watching flash and even then it rarely hits above 35% and even after leaving Dragon on for the past 3 days the amount of memory I'm using is a paltry 198Mb of RAM (Use About:Memory to check any Chromium browser's memory state. you can even launch the same tabs in FF and compare the two with the feature) and that is a BIG difference compared to my exp with FF 5.
If you haven't tried Comodo Dragon give it a spin. Better security features, better speed, and NO lockups!
Chrome/Chromium. Chrome has support for group policies and you can also get Chrome in .MSI format, although frankly you don't need .MSI you can use .EXE with AD as well.
While I work mainly with small business and home users I have begun switching them over to Comodo Dragon, based on Chromium. The Dragon doesn't break extensions, is fast, and has better security features IMHO like better SSL validation.
What someone hasn't explained to me though is WHY, why did they do this? Why when finally gaining share against IE and while facing the juggernaut that is Chrome would they purposely take a big old dump on their users and extension writers? It was the extensions that made Firefox and now they are jumping ship to Chrome/Chromium. When I first started testing Dragon many extensions simply didn't exist and now the ONLY extension I used on FF that doesn't exist for Dragon is NoScript and from what I've read the Chromium team is trying to work with the NoScript guy to come up with an API that will give him the hooks he needs.
So I just don't get it, what did they gain? They pissed on the enterprise which news flash, people tend to use at home what they use at work and admins aren't gonna touch FF now with a 50 foot pole, they pissed off the little shops and normal folks by causing massive extension breakage while at the SAME TIME pulling support for the previous version so we couldn't even stick with FF 4 until the extensions we needed got fixed, so what did they gain? Anything? Sadly IMHO Mozilla has become Netscape...an arrogant company without the code to back up the bad attitude. And we saw what happened to them didn't we?
Since I have never talked to a paleoconservative (not even sure what that means, is that like a Barry Goldwater conservative? Be dating myself with that one) so let me ask you something about paleoconservatives...what about medicaid/care, unemployment and disability? Because one thing that truly disgusts me about the current republican party is the almost sadistic glee they get when they do something that will hurt the poor. Listening to them you would think they have an orgasm just at the thought of a poor person hurting with all the joy it gives them.
I'll be honest. After big media hijacked the Ds and big business and religious nutjobs hijacked the Rs I went back to the beliefs my great grandfather instilled in me many years ago...I'm a socialist. I believe ALL men should have the RIGHT to food in his belly, a roof over his head, clothes on his back, and to be able to see a doctor when they are sick...that's it. If they want a widescreen, a car, something bigger than an efficiency apt? Then they should have to work BUT there should be jobs waiting for them, if nothing else WPA jobs where our infrastructure is bettered for us all.
So I simply can't support a party whose current leadership are IMHO sadists whose worship of money is only complemented by their hatred of those without. Maybe paleoconservatives are different, as I said I've never even heard the term before your post so I don't know. What I DO know is that the last major factory in my home town just closed down, more than half the houses are now abandoned, and in this scorching heat there are people living in tents because their benefits ran out before they could find a job.
The fact that this happens in this great country disgusts me and fills me with shame. I simply can't in good conscience support a party that not only thinks that is great but would INCREASE those suffering if possible. I swear the Reps should just admit it and change their symbol to a rich man's shoe stomping on a poor person.
Did you even bother to read anything on that link? Blaming an entire org for one or two loudmouth racists would be like saying all of us southerners like to spend our weekends lynching anybody that isn't white.
I have several friends and family that have been in the military and I can tell you they take their oath to the constitution VERY seriously. Read the link, see what they are fighting for. you'll see they simply want to uphold their original oath which wasn't to a single man but to the Constitution of The United States of America. Frankly I think we need a lot more people like that, that are willing to risk everything for what they believe in.
Not to mention you are losing extremely important information that the classic versioning system gave us, which is why we had it in the first place...when there are gonna be major changes to the code. with the old system if it was a change from .01 to point 02 it was a bug fix, those rarely broke things and if they code was well written a change from .10 to point .20 rarely broke major things although their might be some minor niggles. It was the 1.0 to 2.0 you had to watch out for as THAT is what bit you in the ass.
Ultimately I think this move is gonna be a major victory....for Chrome The Google juggernaut will make even larger gains thanks to this dickish move and here is why: People tend to use at home what they learn and use at work and no admin with any sense is gonna touch FF now, and most importantly even little guys with not nearly as many people to support as an enterprise are now dumping FF because i don't know when they are gonna break extensions myself and my customers depend on. Finally let us not forget that most extension developers are doing this in their spare time and/or for donations an the crazy release schedule with the 'fuck you, jump on board or piss off" attitude is causing quite a few to spend a LOT less time worrying about the FF extension and instead working on Chrome.
Lets be honest folks, the extension framework was the only real selling point to FF anymore. Their GUI was becoming more of a Chrome ripoff by the day, in performance tests Chrome and Opera regularly stomped them, all that was left is the extension framework. So what do they do? Take a big old shit on the extension developers!
This is why I have switched and am switching my users to Comodo Dragon, based on Chromium. So far I have upgraded from Dragon 6 through Dragon 12 without a SINGLE extension breaking, whereas I lost about a third of my extensions going from 4 to 5, including those like the Avast site rating that helped my customers to avoid dodgy sites. The only extension I had on FF I don't have on Dragon is NoScript and as I understand it the Chromium guys are working on an API that will give NoScript the hooks it needs.
And sorry about the length but as someone who used Firefox before it was even called Firefox, and the Suite before that, this really saddens me. Mozilla has become the rebirth of Netscape, with an arrogant leadership whose code simply can't back up their arrogant attitude. So from me and my customers Mozilla so long and thanks for all the fish.
I'd say a better analogy would be demanding that she tell them where she hid a trunk, knowing there is a body in it. In the safe analogy if they don't comply? They can go around it. Locks can be picked, doors can be pried, etc. What is dangerous and against everything we believe in with this is they are attempting to force someone to give that which only exists in their minds and in their minds alone.
I just don't see how anyone can argue this is anything but a fifth amendment issue. The information ONLY exists in her mind, to give it WOULD be forcing her to give testimony against herself, how is this not classic fifth amendment?
Sadly that is why we now have those known as the Oath Keepers made up of brave men and women of our armed forces, who take an oath to defend the constitution even against our own government which many believe it will come down to.
Lucky for us in the US there are a great many men and women both past and presently in our armed forces who still believe in words like "honor" and "The constitution" and when the shit hits the fan (which I believe it will, those at the top will continue to enrich themselves and their friends while this country death spirals) and they try to turn the military against us when we get tired of being stomped on that like old Mo Mo in Libya is finding out the military has families too and care more about the country than the ruinous leaders at the top..
I would also add improvised camelbaks like those used by the US military would probably help. Dehydration in those temps is VERY real and VERY dangerous whereas a couple of two liters filled with water frozen the night before with a hose or surgical tubing would not only provide cooling as the ice melts but a source of fresh drinking water.
How well does DisplayPort support HDCP? I bet when all is said and done that is what it will be about, Lord forbid Joe Average gets a cable that might not work with their precious DRM. Of course that is ignoring the fact that TPB often has the movies before they are released and if someone wanted the movie going 'clicky clicky" on a TPB link is a HELL of a lot easier than actually ripping it yourself.
When are they ever gonna learn DRM only bites the consumer in the ass, never the pirate? Maybe they'll have to have thousands throwing a shitfit like what happened to MSFT in that stupid ass Vista debacle where they had Vista go into "cripple mode" if it didn't get activated, meanwhile the pirates have fully functional Vista and 7 that not only don't need activation but actually run better with less BS than the legit.
Accept your DRM crap don't work and move on. If you want DRM then make it a baby hoop jump like Steam, where it doesn't bone the user (although even Steam is starting to suck as moronic game companies but MORE DRM on TOP of Steamed and Valve allows it) or give extra value to the paying customers like GOG with all the extras they give.
All this dumbshit will do is make sure any guys that need that cable will just go to chinamart, where they can pick up mod chips and region free players and anything else the DRM lovers don't want you to have, as China frankly don't give a shit as long as there is $$$ to be made. Maybe that is why they are kicking our collective asses?
Thank you, you responded to the "libertarian" (Libertarian I've found is a code word for "extra fucking greedy rich white guy") in much better manner than I ever could have. What I do love is for all their screams about "gubment taking my monies!" they never seem to answer why if their "give the rich more monies!" theory held true then why when taxes and corporate handouts have never been better for the top 5% are we in such a mess? Why if trickle down and "give the monies to teh rich they'll create teh jobz!" is a sound theory are we not better off than we were 20 years ago?
The answer is simple, when you lower taxes you make Americans MORE expensive to hire since the payroll tax breaks are based on the upper tax. Bigger upper tax? get more money back when you hire labor. Lower tax? The labor becomes MORE expensive. although I'm sure that since this info is on the Daily Koz he won't read it because it is "socialist" which is like more evil than Hitler in their book. No Godwin intended.
But you are absolutely right that when you lose 21,000 factories in less than a decade while CEOs from the 60s made 80 times what the worker did and now make on average over 500 times? What you have is the start of our own Arab spring. The sad part is they are hoping for another depression IMHO, as the rich made out like bandits while the poor starved in the last one. But they are wrong, the poor won't go silently into that good night again. they will arm, they will read the anarchist cookbook, they will mobilize and they WILL fight. It ain't gonna be pretty but when BOTH sides of the aisle are handing out as much to the rich as they can with a "let them eat cake" attitude? Frankly I don't see any other outcome.
Have you taken your meds today Alex dear? I guess not since we are talking about a SPAMMING DOMAIN where NOBODY but your crazy tinfoil hat wearing ass has mentioned ANYTHING about operating systems? Are you REALLY that fucking paranoid? Or does the thought of being next to my large southern manmeat get you so wet between your legs you gotta break out the tweezrs and hope I respond?
But don't worry my little bitch, when OS talks come around I'll be happy to point out those wonderful links that you never seem to be able to respond to, you know, the ones that make you wet yourself? Ones like...oh say Dell has to run their own repos because Linux shits itself and breaks drivers otherwise or your hero Linus, in his own words mind you, saying Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans!
So please, keep it up my little bitch. I do so love and consider it a public service to point out hypocrisy and bullshit whenever and wherever I find it. the fact that you can't even contemplate that a retailer would try your precious turd sandwich and find that it is shit? That it MUST be some right wing conspiracy involving Bill Gates and the illuminati? Just shows what a bunch of crazy fuckwits hang around the Linux "community". Oh and for those that want to see Alex here is a pretty good likeness. Enjoy!
You mean like trickle down (80-88) voodoo economics (88-92) free trade with countries with no environmental laws (92-2000) and of course lets cut them taxes on the rich a lot! (2000-2008) and finally bailout baby bailout! (2008-present) like that?
Look at what the tax rates were during the best times of this country such as the 50s (which the Rs idolize) and today. You will see that taxes on the top 5% have never been lower not in the ENTIRE history of our tax system. Not once.
So if the libertarian/republican trickle down "Its the gubment!" theory held true, we are living in a utopia right now. Are we? hell in just the last 10 years with EVER lowering taxes on the top 5% we've lost 21,000 FACTORIES even as the politicians tripped over themselves to give ever larger tax cuts to the top 5%, oh and the middle class? They are just about DOA. If the "give the rich more money" theory was sound, where are the results? Where is the trickle down?
Oh right it is actually trickle upon, as in they piss on the peasants while lining their pockets. well that is how revolutions get started my friends. ever hear a little ditty called "no taxation without representation"? Or what the tree of liberty needs to be watered with? If those at the top think the other 95% are just gonna go quietly starve to death in a corner you got another thing coming. Hell we have our own soldiers taking oaths to FIGHT THE GOVERNMENT that trained them! Think this is a coincidence? I think when the shit hits the fan they are gonna find like old Mo Mo the military? Well they got families too and they ain't rich.
It ain't gonna be pretty but perhaps it is just what this country needs. No government lasts forever, just look at how many they have been through in Asia and Europe. Maybe it is time to start over.
Huh, is there anything they had back in 69 they could have made a flag out of that COULD survive in such an environment? I mean sure they could have made it out of metal but that wouldn't look good on camera.
As for TFA its a strip of cloth that sat in an office, that's all. It has about as much of a real connection to the moon as the slippers Glenn wore before getting into his space suit. Now if it would have been something like the plaque that Lovell saved from Apollo 13? The one that was supposed to be changed out on the moon but didn't because of the accident? Now THAT would easily be worth $100,000+. Hell it would probably fetch a cool million.
But the fact this never even left the ground doesn't make it that special and the bids reflected that. Hell I think one of those vests Kranz wore for the launches back in the day would fetch more.
Wow, way to ignore every single thing while piling up the bullshit? I am impressed! You still haven't answered the question, allow me to rephrase without wiping out the Jews and without bowing to Sharia, how can there be peace between the east and the west? Are you saying the Muslims in London are being beaten and whipped? How about in France, are they being abused? no yet the violence goes up because from birth the are taught about Dhimmis (I bet you didn't even have the balls to look it up, did you? Might burst your bubble) and how to the "religion of peace" you are nothing but a single word...infidel. That is all you are, you are a dog.
So lets hear it, we're waiting. Lets hear this big plan on how you will make peace with countries that have declared they will drive the Jews into the sea, who have declared that there will be no peace until all are under Sharia (If you don't believe me most of the mullahs happily post their translated diatribes on YouTube, help yourself) and who believe that stonings, penis removals, chopping the hands off and wholesale murder are not only acceptable, but are rewarded with divine gifts? Perhaps you might want to read a little history, maybe start with the empire of Japan for which I see many parallels, for like the Islamic religion the Japanese were taught they too were divine and that non believers were less than human.
So if you are not talking of appeasement lets hear it, we're all ears. But just remember in Mosques all over the world they are actually using Nazi propaganda to teach their children about Jews. look it up, I dare you. If you teach your children blacks are like rats, do you think they would have a problem lynching them? Now replace black with infidel and you might just catch a clue.
Awww, whatsa matter girlie? Can't even find a single argument to back up your bullshit? None at all? Afraid of the truth? Scared? Crying at being shown that Tux blankie is diseased and covered in shit? Don't blame the messenger because you keep sucking on the Linus cock and then acting surprised when you're blinded by the splooge. As a public service I will again post the links, so that all can see how completely full of shit you are and how unlike you I who have the truth on my side have NO SHORTAGE of links to back my assertions up. Citations? I'll give you citations!
Isn't it sad, how like a frightened child afraid to look under the bed, you cower at the truth? if your driver model isn't shit then why does Dell have to run their own repos even though we are talking a teeny tiny subset of hardware? Oh right because Linux shits itself and dies if you use the default repos! Man that is some excellent product you got there! you think I can get better QA than the third largest OEM on the planet? What, you expect me to tell paying customers "Go to the forum, kiss some loser ass, and maybe, just maybe, in a few days someone will have mercy and give you a big pile of bullshit that may or may not make your sound work again"?
Bleeding yet douchey? want some more? nice thing about having the truth on your side, you can keep throwing punches all day! How about how a decade old Windows beat the shit out of Linux on netbooks or how ASUS has given up on your bullshit or how about Walmart running away from linux as fast as it can? You got the crazy koolaid drunk enough to say they ALL are paid shills because they won't do your forum dance or CLI horseshit? Meanwhile your "hero" Torvalds the great says Plans? We don't need no steenkin plans!. Why don't you tell them that at work next week, see how quick you get a pink slip? More? How about you actually have the balls to celebrate getting a whole 1% market share while you are actually lower than JavaME and there is a whole website dedicated To your bullshit and excuses .
So you go hide now mama's boy, you hide with your Tux blankie and keep saying your magical nigger nigger faggot, or should I say shill shill astroturfer, like it is a magical word that will make all the bad go away. But it won't change reality and the reality is your driver model is shit and more than 15 years behind everyone else and that is why retailers like me wouldn't piss on it, not some mythical money truck that sneaks up to my door in the middle of the night. So go compile something and leave the men to talk about the real world, okay little girl?
Ugh, republican, yes? let me ask you something...why is your answer to EVERYTHING give the rich people more money? Town is burning, give rich people more money. No jobs? give the rich people more money. Sitting in the street with a broken leg and no money for a doctor? Give the rich people more money.
Ya know what? We've TRIED THAT for going on 30 fricking years now? Forget trickle down, aka trickle upon? or how about how we gave FREE MONIES TO GE who said "thanks" and then sent their best paying jobs overseas which I'm sure will buy the CEO some more gold toilets and hookers, but help America? Naaah.
If anything taxes on the top 5% should be HIGHER not lower! Money hoarded by the rich is "dead money" its not getting spent, its out of the economy, goodbye. When they will get the living shit taxed out of them if they keep it? Well then they invest it in their businesses so as to lower their tax debt, duh! Taxes have NEVER BEEN LOWER on the top 5%, not ever. Are we better off than those times of high taxes? Can you name ONE time your "give the rich more money" policy has EVER worked? Even one? We've had trickle down, voodoo economics, the "free trade" bullshit under Clinton, and of course Dubya cutting like there was no tomorrow. Are we better off? NO.
That horseshit might actually sell to someone that doesn't know history, has never been here, and of course your constituency which is the rich and the poor suckers in red states that think they are gonna be rich someday, aka "lotto mentality" but everyone else has seen this shit time after time after time only now sadly the Ds are just as sold out as the Rs to the rich so it is SSDD.
That is why I believe we will have our Arab spring, because the public no longer believes in your games. They don't vote NOT because they don't care, it is because they have lost hope that anyone will listen. And when the poor, which outnumber you by a good 10,000 to 1 and rising every day decide to fall behind our own version of Uncle Joe or the crazy Austrian? Well lets just say I hope you have your jet filled up because the fall of Saigon comes to mind.
Its aluminum ya damned Limey! I swear we bust our balls saving your pasty white asses from the rampaging Krauts and what do you do? Adopt a damned system created by cheese eating surrender monkeys! Either go back to imperial units like God and the Queen intended or the next time your balls are in a sling we might just forget which way to the UK! And learn to fricking speak AMERICAN! It is a damned cigarette not a fag, geez.
As for TFA anyone who has seen the videos of the clusterfuck that was Ohio in 2004 ought to know that you don't even have to change the vote, just disenfranchise those whose votes you don't want to count. The rich neighborhoods had an abundance of voting booths, the poor too few and half of those worked. When activists tried to peaceably hand out flyers to all those who had waited in line for hours only to be told they were in the wrong line that they could request a provisional ballot? They were run off by the cops.
So it really wouldn't take much in a close one, just a few districts in a few states making sure the group you don't want to vote is treated bad enough they won't bother. Watch those videos from Ohio at how many got disgusted and walked away, guess who they would have voted for? Not the guy that won.