Mod parent up. People make all kinds of excuses to try and rationalize the moronic practice of not wearing their helmet, but the fact is they just want to feel cool.
I'm growing increasingly convinced that the president acts as a lightning rod and scapegoat for the legislators and has for about the last century. Things seem to be designed such that the president gets all the inevitable problems that arise in their term placed on their shoulders (along with the ones that they caused themselves) and the party in the white house changes every 4 or 8 years. The outrage never quite reaches the legislators, though, and they serve for decades and decades raking it in and adding new vacation house keys to their keychain.
That argument only works if you spend less time fiddling with drivers, security, updates, periodic reinstallation, etc that come with the joy of Windows Licenseeship.
Maybe that is true in many cases, especially if you have special needs with respect to software and hardware that the vendors don't support on Linux.
In my case, however, that statement does not hold true.
Also, how exactly is a unified world supposed to eliminate or even reduce the occurrence of war. Historically, nations have no problem warring with themselves.
Try it, it's free. Download a LiveCD and just boot up and click around. If it piques your interest, it's quite easy to resize your hard drive to create a Linux partition next to your windows partition and choose your OS at boot time.
Articles like this make things sound harder than they actually are. The great thing about linux is that common questions and problems are documented to DEATH on various how-tos and forums. The linux community isn't satisfied until there are 5 How-Tos to fix any given issue. In Windows if you run into a problem you might just be screwed because MS didn't want it to work the way you want it to.
Linux is an operating system, and it's flexible enough to be 'for' just about anything.
Linux works equally well on Top500 supercomputers and $20 wireless routers. Maybe the Desktop Environment needs some work, maybe the hardware manufacturers need to get with the program in the drivers arena, but the Linux operates the hell out of whatever you put it on.
The underlying moral of the story is that if the guy on the other side of the peephole looks meaner than one of Michael Vick's dogs, ask for ID before opening it.
This is what I've used for retired laptops at work.
If the hard drive is in working condition or dying but still alive to run a little while then you can overwrite the whole thing in under an hour using a LiveCD.
I've never seen any concrete claims that anyone can recover overwritten data. As far as I know The Great Zero Challenge is still going.
I would predict:
Chrome supports anything it can legally
Firefox supports anything it can legally
Safari supports anything it can legally
IE tries using only WMV for a little while, then opens up to other formats to slow the exodus.
I could see Google and Apple using their websites to push one codec or another, but I think they want their browsers to be as capable as possible.
Fact is though it was Russia's declaration of war that brought Japan to it's knees. Russian forces combined with American forces would eventually, but not easily, conquer Japan.
It wasn't the fact that Russia + USA was more likely to defeat Japan. It was all about what would happen afterwards. A large portion of Germany didn't surrender to the USA and Britain in time and look where it got them...
A metal detector under the parking space and a camera nearby, and the computer could automatically issue a ticket (or automatically bill for the correct duration). And tell drivers how many spaces are available.
Finally a little payback for motorcycles. The traffic lights may have no idea I'm there half the time, but neither will the automated ticket-issuing overlords!
We can easily feed the world anyway, if it weren't for land-mines and warlords and it didn't cost more to ship the food in from a peaceful area than it costs to produce it in the first place, and then run the risk of it being confiscated and sold by corrupt officials in $STARVING_REGION. I guess what I'm trying to say is that "Feeding Africa" is not an opportunity cost of "Feeding Cattle", it's an opportunity cost of "Civil War".
How is this a troll?
There are alternatives to a contract.
You can also get out of your contract in the first 30 days without paying anything. Mobile phone companies in this country are all more or less evil and either intentionally or unintentionally price fixing the market, but the contract isn't the thing you need to be up in arms about. It's limiting the service, lobotomizing the phones, overcharging for services and tacking on fees for things you didn't agree to.
It is prospect of getting cheap labor from these countries that prompt corporate America to promote telecommuting. Remember that.
My company has quite a few people who work from home some or all of the time. Many of these are in other states, but none of them are in other nations. Not everything is a trap set by The Man.
Also, if your job is such that you don't physically need to be there, it can be outsourced whether you take advantage of that or not.
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Mod parent up.
People make all kinds of excuses to try and rationalize the moronic practice of not wearing their helmet, but the fact is they just want to feel cool.
Spartacus!
Texas did succeed to secede on their first try.
It's the second try that was the problem.
I'm growing increasingly convinced that the president acts as a lightning rod and scapegoat for the legislators and has for about the last century.
Things seem to be designed such that the president gets all the inevitable problems that arise in their term placed on their shoulders (along with the ones that they caused themselves) and the party in the white house changes every 4 or 8 years.
The outrage never quite reaches the legislators, though, and they serve for decades and decades raking it in and adding new vacation house keys to their keychain.
That argument only works if you spend less time fiddling with drivers, security, updates, periodic reinstallation, etc that come with the joy of Windows Licenseeship.
Maybe that is true in many cases, especially if you have special needs with respect to software and hardware that the vendors don't support on Linux.
In my case, however, that statement does not hold true.
Also, how exactly is a unified world supposed to eliminate or even reduce the occurrence of war.
Historically, nations have no problem warring with themselves.
Try it, it's free.
Download a LiveCD and just boot up and click around. If it piques your interest, it's quite easy to resize your hard drive to create a Linux partition next to your windows partition and choose your OS at boot time.
Articles like this make things sound harder than they actually are. The great thing about linux is that common questions and problems are documented to DEATH on various how-tos and forums. The linux community isn't satisfied until there are 5 How-Tos to fix any given issue.
In Windows if you run into a problem you might just be screwed because MS didn't want it to work the way you want it to.
Linux is an operating system, and it's flexible enough to be 'for' just about anything.
Linux works equally well on Top500 supercomputers and $20 wireless routers.
Maybe the Desktop Environment needs some work, maybe the hardware manufacturers need to get with the program in the drivers arena, but the Linux operates the hell out of whatever you put it on.
It always cracks me up when WHOOOSH!
Not really.
Denmark is full of Danes. Danish people don't assault anyone over here either.
The underlying moral of the story is that if the guy on the other side of the peephole looks meaner than one of Michael Vick's dogs, ask for ID before opening it.
This is what I've used for retired laptops at work.
If the hard drive is in working condition or dying but still alive to run a little while then you can overwrite the whole thing in under an hour using a LiveCD.
I've never seen any concrete claims that anyone can recover overwritten data.
As far as I know The Great Zero Challenge is still going.
Currently unpopular example, give it a few years (as always).
Chrome supports anything it can legally
Firefox supports anything it can legally
Safari supports anything it can legally
IE tries using only WMV for a little while, then opens up to other formats to slow the exodus.
I could see Google and Apple using their websites to push one codec or another, but I think they want their browsers to be as capable as possible.
You could whisk in a little white wine over some heat, but I don't see how that stops me from refreshing Woot.com.
Guns for show, knives for a pro.
Why is that? What's wrong with 'k'?
Spelling like everybody else isn't kool.
Fact is though it was Russia's declaration of war that brought Japan to it's knees. Russian forces combined with American forces would eventually, but not easily, conquer Japan.
It wasn't the fact that Russia + USA was more likely to defeat Japan.
It was all about what would happen afterwards. A large portion of Germany didn't surrender to the USA and Britain in time and look where it got them...
A metal detector under the parking space and a camera nearby, and the computer could automatically issue a ticket (or automatically bill for the correct duration). And tell drivers how many spaces are available.
Finally a little payback for motorcycles. The traffic lights may have no idea I'm there half the time, but neither will the automated ticket-issuing overlords!
We can easily feed the world anyway, if it weren't for land-mines and warlords and it didn't cost more to ship the food in from a peaceful area than it costs to produce it in the first place, and then run the risk of it being confiscated and sold by corrupt officials in $STARVING_REGION.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that "Feeding Africa" is not an opportunity cost of "Feeding Cattle", it's an opportunity cost of "Civil War".
Hah, it took me a second to get that.
Good one.
If I was to use an android phone to call you up and tell you not to be such a $%^&ing moron, would that be another example of google being evil?
The entire link still just points to an IP address...
How is this a troll?
There are alternatives to a contract.
You can also get out of your contract in the first 30 days without paying anything. Mobile phone companies in this country are all more or less evil and either intentionally or unintentionally price fixing the market, but the contract isn't the thing you need to be up in arms about. It's limiting the service, lobotomizing the phones, overcharging for services and tacking on fees for things you didn't agree to.
It is prospect of getting cheap labor from these countries that prompt corporate America to promote telecommuting. Remember that.
My company has quite a few people who work from home some or all of the time.
Many of these are in other states, but none of them are in other nations.
Not everything is a trap set by The Man.
Also, if your job is such that you don't physically need to be there, it can be outsourced whether you take advantage of that or not.