Just the sound of one man talking, but for me piracy has been more a consequence of opportunity than economics, and I know I'm not alone.
Can I afford Pimp My Ride on DVD? Sure.
Can I afford CDs? Sure.
Do I still download dozens of albums and never listen to them because I never liked the band in the first place? You bet.
I'm sure there are plenty of insurgents fighting because of the continued violence against Iraqi civilians. I'm also sure there are plenty fighting because they want their cushy job back or because they've wandered in from Jordon or Syria or yes, Suadia Arabia to fight the colonial oppressors and nonbeleivers.
Having a consistant position doesn't make you right, it makes you stubborn. It's making a blanket statement that quashes all reasonable debate and discussion.
Not as much if you throw a nice disclaimer on there "You wont understadn some of these questions, you're not ment to." and then never give them their test score
No expexctations, no judgements, that's about as nice as you can be the children.
The dozens of militantly leftwing (pardon, "progressive") political organizations in Wisconsin are hardly the will of the people. You can say that Senators are not chosen by political hotspots like Madison, but obviously you've never looked at vote breakdowns by polling place or even by county. Wisconsin by and large urban areas Vs. rural areas, and an urban area that consistantly vote 95% Democrat, 5% Wisconsin Greens can do quite a bit to help canidates.
To be fair to Feingold, he has plenty of supporters who don't fall into the pile I've been talking about, but that's not because they cherish his stance against the war, it's because wether you agree with his politcs or not he does a lot of good work for the state and we haven't had a decent republican canidate in any election I can remember.
Oh no! Then we'd have to consider affording them the rights offered to them by the Geneva Convention. The same things that they're already getting like addaquate shelter and medical care. I'm pretty sure the only difference is Red Cross visits which I would assume are being withheld in the name of security.
Not to sound like a facist maniac, but they're not US Citizens, they have no rights to great things like a trial or presumed innocence. What do you think a closed session military tribunal is going to prove or provide?
I don't know if you've ever actually walked around in Madison, but opposing the PATRIOT Act is the will of special intrest groups. Not that the 50,000 college students and twenty square miles of people who beleive the 60s never ended really hurt his platform.
Limiting your military only works if you have friends who don't or nothing of value.
And what are a few more nukes anyway? If we can already destroy the surface of the earth a hundred times over why not go for 101?
According to MS documentation they shouldn't, but I wouldn't know firsthand. I've been on pirated copies ever since the HP I bought with a legal copy 3 years ago didn't come with backup copy and I was left with no other choice and never looked back across 3 other systems.
Or, and I admit this is a giant or, they took a stap at stopping pirating by saying that if the same license is activating two computers with drastically different hardware that maybe you're pirating. In that event the worst case scenario is that you call microsoft and have them give you a new activation code, all which has been explained since long before XP came out.
You want to know who stifling homebrewed computer? Apple. It seems petty to get on a company for require a mild inconvenience of you sometimes when other OSes you wouldn't even have the luxury of having that problem. I guess there's always linux?
Or since you have 30 days to activate it, and you're rebuilding 10 times a week, you could just never activate it. Am I the only one who saw that you can skip that step on installation.
Comparing using Windows to using heroin is just as bad as stating that the hinge of fate for the future is opensource.
Changing from one system to another always has a little cost invovled, just time to get used to things and get them the way you like them. The idea that this minor cost to "freedom" (used in the loosest sense I've ever seen) is at all comprable to the physical withrawl symptoms is ludicrus.
Not to mention that we are infact not free to do drugs, they are illegal.
Not to mention that the real point I was trying to get across is that using windows does not make you a terrorist, child pornographer, puppy-kicker. It doesn't even make you a bad person. This doomsday idea that all of our hardware needs to be ready to switch to linux at a momments notice and we should prepare ourselves for this event is mindblowing. Furthermore, the notion that people are whiners and consorters becasue they want sound support and the abilitiy to use their computers as they choose is not only insulting, but contrary to what most people would regard as freedom. "Linux/FOSS or else" is no better than "Win/DMCA or else"
I never knew freedom and democracy required limiting your choice of hardware and software. This sounds like when the Department of Homeland Security tells me that to protect freedom I should only buy American products.
I think someone is exaggerating the social importance of OS choices.
However the winning entry will be taken by the governemnt and inserted secretly by a crack team of hackers into every image editing program on the market.
1984 is here!
As someone, who like most people, took great pleasure in nuking/napalming/firebombing/running over large infantry formations in RTS games I would welcome the chance to beat a screaming bench without mercy. Is this because I'm some deranged sociopath with no heart or soul? No, it's because it's a bench, an inanimate bench, and people shouldn't be so upset if it's howling.
Actually the primarry supporters of the democratic party are the rich, well educated (Masters or Ph.D) and the the lower to lower middle class living in urban areas. The republican base is rural Americans and Business owners. Yes, a great many of the business owners are quite rich, but more than Republicans being party of the rich, they are the party of the financially independent, whether that be in the form of sustinance farming or multibillion dollar oil.
Before I get modded a troll, remember I vote Libertarian.
Having a billion trillion programmers doesn't mean you have enough of them working on any given project such as patching IE. Microsoft, like any company, has to strike the balance between having availible staff for sporadic large scale security crisis, and not just having superflous programmers laying around.
To be fair, 99% of male superheroes are attractive, muscular, wearing skintight outfits, and under the control of some male superhero even if it be indirectly through the Justive League or Canadian Government.
Nitpicking:
For $127, last time I bought a computer I got an AGP 256MB Radeon 9600. This was roughtly a year ago, and from what I've seen there still isn't a Dell on the market that offers anything close to a large memory, replaceable videocard, or an AGP slot for that matter.
Quite a large section of the US debt is held by Americans in the form of US savings bonds, which are in effect a way of investing in the future of this country.
Clinton did a lovely job of balancing the budget by crippling US intelligence, cutting educational programs and doing just about anything possible to save a buck and then claiming the glory of a balanced budget as everyone else desperately tr0ied to adjust their budgets to get by.
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Most cokehead drop-outs and terrorists really don't have a promising future. Is that different enough?
Just the sound of one man talking, but for me piracy has been more a consequence of opportunity than economics, and I know I'm not alone. Can I afford Pimp My Ride on DVD? Sure. Can I afford CDs? Sure. Do I still download dozens of albums and never listen to them because I never liked the band in the first place? You bet.
I'm sure there are plenty of insurgents fighting because of the continued violence against Iraqi civilians. I'm also sure there are plenty fighting because they want their cushy job back or because they've wandered in from Jordon or Syria or yes, Suadia Arabia to fight the colonial oppressors and nonbeleivers. Having a consistant position doesn't make you right, it makes you stubborn. It's making a blanket statement that quashes all reasonable debate and discussion.
Not as much if you throw a nice disclaimer on there "You wont understadn some of these questions, you're not ment to." and then never give them their test score
No expexctations, no judgements, that's about as nice as you can be the children.
The dozens of militantly leftwing (pardon, "progressive") political organizations in Wisconsin are hardly the will of the people. You can say that Senators are not chosen by political hotspots like Madison, but obviously you've never looked at vote breakdowns by polling place or even by county. Wisconsin by and large urban areas Vs. rural areas, and an urban area that consistantly vote 95% Democrat, 5% Wisconsin Greens can do quite a bit to help canidates. To be fair to Feingold, he has plenty of supporters who don't fall into the pile I've been talking about, but that's not because they cherish his stance against the war, it's because wether you agree with his politcs or not he does a lot of good work for the state and we haven't had a decent republican canidate in any election I can remember.
Oh no! Then we'd have to consider affording them the rights offered to them by the Geneva Convention. The same things that they're already getting like addaquate shelter and medical care. I'm pretty sure the only difference is Red Cross visits which I would assume are being withheld in the name of security. Not to sound like a facist maniac, but they're not US Citizens, they have no rights to great things like a trial or presumed innocence. What do you think a closed session military tribunal is going to prove or provide?
I don't know if you've ever actually walked around in Madison, but opposing the PATRIOT Act is the will of special intrest groups. Not that the 50,000 college students and twenty square miles of people who beleive the 60s never ended really hurt his platform.
Limiting your military only works if you have friends who don't or nothing of value. And what are a few more nukes anyway? If we can already destroy the surface of the earth a hundred times over why not go for 101?
According to MS documentation they shouldn't, but I wouldn't know firsthand. I've been on pirated copies ever since the HP I bought with a legal copy 3 years ago didn't come with backup copy and I was left with no other choice and never looked back across 3 other systems.
Or, and I admit this is a giant or, they took a stap at stopping pirating by saying that if the same license is activating two computers with drastically different hardware that maybe you're pirating. In that event the worst case scenario is that you call microsoft and have them give you a new activation code, all which has been explained since long before XP came out. You want to know who stifling homebrewed computer? Apple. It seems petty to get on a company for require a mild inconvenience of you sometimes when other OSes you wouldn't even have the luxury of having that problem. I guess there's always linux?
Or since you have 30 days to activate it, and you're rebuilding 10 times a week, you could just never activate it. Am I the only one who saw that you can skip that step on installation.
Trading with Cuba wouldn't be a political problem, it'd be a legal problem. Embargo? Sanctions?
I'm not sure about the legal state with North Korea, but I can say there's probably not much of a market for legitimately licensed MS products.
That is pretty annoying, I hadn't even seen it. I rarely feel the need to check the weather.
Why use weather.com when http://www.doineedajacket.com/ will handle all your forcast needs without useless bloat like temperatures and conditions?
Comparing using Windows to using heroin is just as bad as stating that the hinge of fate for the future is opensource. Changing from one system to another always has a little cost invovled, just time to get used to things and get them the way you like them. The idea that this minor cost to "freedom" (used in the loosest sense I've ever seen) is at all comprable to the physical withrawl symptoms is ludicrus. Not to mention that we are infact not free to do drugs, they are illegal. Not to mention that the real point I was trying to get across is that using windows does not make you a terrorist, child pornographer, puppy-kicker. It doesn't even make you a bad person. This doomsday idea that all of our hardware needs to be ready to switch to linux at a momments notice and we should prepare ourselves for this event is mindblowing. Furthermore, the notion that people are whiners and consorters becasue they want sound support and the abilitiy to use their computers as they choose is not only insulting, but contrary to what most people would regard as freedom. "Linux/FOSS or else" is no better than "Win/DMCA or else"
I never knew freedom and democracy required limiting your choice of hardware and software. This sounds like when the Department of Homeland Security tells me that to protect freedom I should only buy American products. I think someone is exaggerating the social importance of OS choices.
However the winning entry will be taken by the governemnt and inserted secretly by a crack team of hackers into every image editing program on the market. 1984 is here!
As someone, who like most people, took great pleasure in nuking/napalming/firebombing/running over large infantry formations in RTS games I would welcome the chance to beat a screaming bench without mercy. Is this because I'm some deranged sociopath with no heart or soul? No, it's because it's a bench, an inanimate bench, and people shouldn't be so upset if it's howling.
Farley is technically from Maple Bluff, the vocal aristocracy of four square miles cramed within Madison.
Actually the primarry supporters of the democratic party are the rich, well educated (Masters or Ph.D) and the the lower to lower middle class living in urban areas. The republican base is rural Americans and Business owners. Yes, a great many of the business owners are quite rich, but more than Republicans being party of the rich, they are the party of the financially independent, whether that be in the form of sustinance farming or multibillion dollar oil. Before I get modded a troll, remember I vote Libertarian.
Having a billion trillion programmers doesn't mean you have enough of them working on any given project such as patching IE. Microsoft, like any company, has to strike the balance between having availible staff for sporadic large scale security crisis, and not just having superflous programmers laying around.
When "Improved DOS" no longer runs DOS based applications (like 90% of games that came out for Windows 95) I'd be willing to say it's no longer DOS.
To be fair, 99% of male superheroes are attractive, muscular, wearing skintight outfits, and under the control of some male superhero even if it be indirectly through the Justive League or Canadian Government.
Nitpicking: For $127, last time I bought a computer I got an AGP 256MB Radeon 9600. This was roughtly a year ago, and from what I've seen there still isn't a Dell on the market that offers anything close to a large memory, replaceable videocard, or an AGP slot for that matter.
Quite a large section of the US debt is held by Americans in the form of US savings bonds, which are in effect a way of investing in the future of this country. Clinton did a lovely job of balancing the budget by crippling US intelligence, cutting educational programs and doing just about anything possible to save a buck and then claiming the glory of a balanced budget as everyone else desperately tr0ied to adjust their budgets to get by.