IF MS really wanted to lock you into Windows, they could have broken Netscape or any of their other competitors at any time. It would have been trivial to make newer versions of Windows incompatible with competing browsers, media players, etc. or required MS licensing for all software to run on the OS. But they never did.
Now, you can say it's unfair that they bundled their own apps with Windows, but that makes them no different that any other OS (including IBM, Apple, and pretty much every Linux distro).
If a CEO started bad-mouthing his own company in public, I'm pretty sure his shareholders would be pissed. In fact, I'm pretty sure his shareholders would either remove him or sue him almost immediately.
It's easy for us 1st world Westerners to forget what life is like most people in China, India, Africa, etc. Sure, things are getting better in those places, but that's only for the middle and upper class.
Obviously we need Oprah to realize that there are some non-fiction books out there besides self-help titles, Deepak Chopra ramblings, and self-serving celebrity autobiographies.
Do you honestly think that Obama isn't beholden to trial lawyers, unions, the black community, gays, liberals, Hollywood, and every other large Democratic interest group that will put him into office? If you really believe that, you are truly naive. EVERY (let me say that again: E V E R Y) politician in a major political party has debts to repay after an election.
People don't host big fundraisers for you and not expect you to repay them in kind. People don't host voter drives expecting to be ignored when you go to Washington. There are no free lunches, and strings are attached to every dime and every vote.
The only thing sadder and more despicable at this point than the Bush administration are the Democrats in Congress who have been on their knees for the last two years after promising to hold this imperial administration accountable.
We lost an bike-riding employee to a rhino attack just this week. I can still picture him, desperately peddling away in those Birkenstocks, trying to outrun that rhino while we sat back watching helplessly from the office window. We found out later that the rhino was attracted to the color in his tye-dyed t-shirt. All that was left of him after the rhino got done was part of his torso and his laminated PETA membership card.
Actually, I was thinking about that just the other day when I saw a garbage pickup in my neighborhood. It used to be that garbage pickup involved a couple of dudes hanging off the back of a truck doing the unenviable job of hopping off and manually emptying trash cans. But I realized the other day that most garbage pickup today is largely automated (it's why they require you to use their special trash bins and set them out facing the road). I watched a garbage truck empty the trash bins of all the houses on my street without anyone ever even leaving the truck cab.
I'm sure there are still plenty of places where manual pickup is still done. But, in my area at least, being a garbageman is not nearly as bad a job as it once was.
Because they know that the scope of the people they're spying on would never hold up to FISA scrutiny (a truly scary thought, as FISA is basically a "rubber stamp" court in the first place). Even the FISA court wouldn't accept a warrant for wholesale email and phone call data mining on EVERYONE.
Anyone who believes that any candidate from either of the two major parties is ever going to affect any real change doesn't know politics very well. Obama is selling the ILLUSION of change, but he is just as much beholden to special interests and the Washington political system as John McCain.
People laugh at Jesse Ventura when he goes on Larry King and condemns both parties for exactly this kind of bill. But that's one ex-pro-wrestler who has Washington pegged PERFECTLY.
Sure, there are plenty of jobs in IT that allow for creativity (game design, many coding projects, etc.). But, in fairness, a lot of IT jobs involve running cabling, fixing routers, database entry, coding really dull projects, etc. that most people WOULD find pretty fucking boring.
Has anyone with even the slightest bit of observational ability EVER doubted this? Small town hicks surf nasty pron just as much as anyone else.
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Most people sitting in church services don't really believe most of that shit in the Bible and are just there for the social and networking aspects of church activities.
Married pastors are just as likely to cheat as married laymen.
The girl in high school who most loudly proclaims herself a virgin isn't.
The redneck politician who yells "family values" at every opportunity has no values.
The people that use the term "college boy" derisively are the same people who were too stupid for college--and they know it.
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Even harder, you have to find one of the ten people in the U.S. still driving a Chrysler.
And I had already promised the wife and kids that we could go to Norilsk this year. Damn!
I would digg you up if I could.
Destined to be a "Made for the Scifi Channel" classic just as soon as they can sober up Lorenzo Lamas and put together a Bulgarian film crew.
Now, you can say it's unfair that they bundled their own apps with Windows, but that makes them no different that any other OS (including IBM, Apple, and pretty much every Linux distro).
If a CEO started bad-mouthing his own company in public, I'm pretty sure his shareholders would be pissed. In fact, I'm pretty sure his shareholders would either remove him or sue him almost immediately.
If future Democrats are as weak and cowardly as this bunch, I doubt any Republican will object to them staying in power as long as they like.
It's easy for us 1st world Westerners to forget what life is like most people in China, India, Africa, etc. Sure, things are getting better in those places, but that's only for the middle and upper class.
You mean like how he stood up to President Bush on domestic surveillance and telcom immunity?
Yeah, he's my hero.
Obviously we need Oprah to realize that there are some non-fiction books out there besides self-help titles, Deepak Chopra ramblings, and self-serving celebrity autobiographies.
Is the sentence "Grammar Nazi's are unable to affect any attraction in the opposite sex" grammatically correct?
People don't host big fundraisers for you and not expect you to repay them in kind. People don't host voter drives expecting to be ignored when you go to Washington. There are no free lunches, and strings are attached to every dime and every vote.
But perhaps you can tell me where a guy fits in who:
- Supports the first AND second AND fourth amendments
- Supports abortion rights
- Supports universal health care and malpractice tort reform
- Opposes wacko environmentalists, bible-thumpers, and political-correctness
- Distrusts big business and trial lawyers
- Hates the Iraq War
- Fully supports the Afghan War
- Thinks the government should help the poor more than the rich, but not to the point of fraud and dependency
- Supports higher taxes and less spending
- Thinks the government has a responsibility to balance the deficit before this country goes bankrupt
- Supports putting an income test on entitlements like Social Security
Now, tell me what party speaks for me. Jesse Ventura is the closest thing I've seen so far to my ideals. And alas, he doesn't have a party either.I would say NOTHING, but it's actually even WORSE. They've passed laws actually condoning and legalizing that behavior!
The only thing sadder and more despicable at this point than the Bush administration are the Democrats in Congress who have been on their knees for the last two years after promising to hold this imperial administration accountable.
We lost an bike-riding employee to a rhino attack just this week. I can still picture him, desperately peddling away in those Birkenstocks, trying to outrun that rhino while we sat back watching helplessly from the office window. We found out later that the rhino was attracted to the color in his tye-dyed t-shirt. All that was left of him after the rhino got done was part of his torso and his laminated PETA membership card.
The greatest generation was born in the late 15th-early 16th century. Every other generation has been a bunch of lame-ass pansies by comparison.
I'm sure there are still plenty of places where manual pickup is still done. But, in my area at least, being a garbageman is not nearly as bad a job as it once was.
Because they know that the scope of the people they're spying on would never hold up to FISA scrutiny (a truly scary thought, as FISA is basically a "rubber stamp" court in the first place). Even the FISA court wouldn't accept a warrant for wholesale email and phone call data mining on EVERYONE.
People laugh at Jesse Ventura when he goes on Larry King and condemns both parties for exactly this kind of bill. But that's one ex-pro-wrestler who has Washington pegged PERFECTLY.
In their defense, if you're going to run your entire site off a single server farm,a coastal city in Florida is the logical place to put it.
I doubt they designed it with public presentation in mind.
Sure, there are plenty of jobs in IT that allow for creativity (game design, many coding projects, etc.). But, in fairness, a lot of IT jobs involve running cabling, fixing routers, database entry, coding really dull projects, etc. that most people WOULD find pretty fucking boring.
Won't someone PLEASE think about the ninjas?
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