Yeah, you'll notice the MS haters can't really come up with much bad to say about it, because it's actually a pretty good filesystem. Not perfect, and it's got feature bloat, but it really is, in total, "...the most widely used, advanced, and feature rich file system in broad use.".
Come on, this is getting old. If you don't want your words or pictures to be made public don't put them on Facebook. How difficult is this? Assume that anything you write there will be public information because it's, well, public.
This is why the welfare state will fail, even Germany who is doing pretty well right now because they are the financial nexus of Europe. It's ironic that what most of the "99%" hate most is the only thing keeping Germany afloat right now. They have corporations and banks which service the rest of EU and rake money into Germany.
Unless you have a rich relative who _did_ work to earn money, you should not be comfortable doing something nobody wants. We don't make progress like that, and economies will grind to a halt if people are too safe and sound doing nothing useful. The only thing society should provide is a social net for temporary need, and the _bare_ rudiments of survival. So (cheap, basic) food and shelter and emergency health care. That's it. And the US does provide those things.
Slashdot isn't geared towards coming back in ten years to a thread and telling you I told you so, so I'll tell you I told you so now. Germany will suffer a massive decline in quality of living because its economy is unsustainable. When the rest of the EU crashes, it will crash. It is a parasite that depends on its host, and when that host suffers it suffers.
You are a successful nation because your forefathers understood the need to work. Now you've forgotten and think that you can all just take care of each other in your pristine little welfare state. Well, it won't work for much longer.
Google whined about Microsoft and Yahoo forming a "monopoly", which is risible because if anybody has a monopoly in that space (which they don't), it would be Google. They also whined about Internet explorer and Windows being bundled, when clearly there are dozens of alternative OS's and browsers available.
Back in my day a monopoly was real, you had one choice of a physically or legally limited resource. Nowadays apparently if there are 50 choices but one is so much better than the others that people overwhelmingly choose it, that's a "monopoly".
You're blathering the wrong argument to the wrong person. I'm not a "No government, maaaaan!" nitwit. We need government, social contract, blah blah blah. I just think government intervention in anything should be a dire necessity because it's the ultimate form of force and rife with potential for easy abuse.
I want my kids to be safe and happy and _secure_. That's what money is, security. If I have $500 million when I die, they get it. Parenting isn't about withholding money from them so they have to succeed. What if they want to succeed at playing the cello, or writing books nobody wants to read? More importantly, the security that money gives them makes them safer if they do fail. That's what I'm buying with the effort I put into making that $500m, or the luck - either way.
If giving your kids too much money feeds some character flaw in them, you created that character flaw as a parent not the money. But more importantly, it's not your or the government's business.
I'd just tax it as normal income, like anything else should be. All these bullshit little tax breaks should be eliminated for the middle class and the wealthy, and all income of any type from any source taxed at the same slighly graduated rate.
God damn this place is getting on my nerves. I must like it because I keep reading and replying.
First, Microsoft doesn't have anything approaching a fucking monopoly in this space. They're barely a bit player. So your post is inane from that perspective.
Second, this whole article is bullshit. If the ARM vendor wants you to be able to install Linux, they can enable you to install Linux. If they choose not to (via a secure boot signature), then don't buy the fucking device! It's that simple.
What the fuck is wrong with people? Learn to think reasonably ffs.
Normally I'd be totally with Google on this, but I believed they've whined about other "monopolies" where the monopoly only exists because people choose the product from among dozens of other alternatives. In other words a make believe monopoly.
So instead of backing google, I'll go with a Nelson Munz "ha ha".
Exactly. "Whhaaaa! That guy got rich because I buy shit from him I don't actually need all that much! Help, I'm being oppressed!". This place is fucking sickening. Used to be cool about 15 years ago, kind of a libertarian haunt but now it's a bunch of Eurotrash and Americans who are ashamed to be American.
Bullshit. So some guy who invents a widget and goes on to earn $500 million can't pass that wealth on to his children because you, God, don't think they deserve it and that we, the Government, should take it from him at gunpoint?
It's funny that his children don't deserve it but a bunch of fucking lowlife shitbags spitting out 10 kids they can't afford do "deserve" it. Amusing.
There's that word. "Deserve". There is no such thing as deserve. They make the money, you have no right to it. Don't blather to me about a social contract, either, I agree we have to pay taxes. You're not talking about fairly levied taxes, you're talking about their labor and effort as if you or the government own it and they have to deserve it.
So to answer your question, they have done whatever they did to earn the money to deserve it. It's literally as simple as that.
You fucking liar. Please, find me some statistics on people who died from hunger or exposure to the elements because they didn't have access to one or the other. I'm all ears.
Medical care is a different issue, though you'd be hard pressed to find many of those either. I'm actually for a high deductible type plan where you get universal coverage no matter what and pay a sliding (starting at 0) deductible.
I only hope you're willing to work an extra 15 hours a week for the government (to pay taxes) so that some 70 year old fat asshole with a heart condition and not a penny to his name can cost us $800k in medical expenses for a heart transplant.
No no no. You don't understand. The word "homeless" means her family was living in a ditch on the verge of death. That's what we do in America, haven't you heard of the thousands of homeless people who die because they couldn't find food or shelter each year?
It did work exactly as it should. Probably 40% of the people using this thread to bash america are from other countries, but I bet 60% of them are fucking Americans brainwashed into feeling guilty for what they have.
Fuck that. It's abject weakness. I'm glad a live an easy life and I work hard for it. I'm lucky to have it. This is a great story showing how you can succeed in this country if you try. When poor people are dying in the streets than I'll agree we have a problem.
Right now things are working about right. You have a cost to being poor and not trying your hardest to get out of poverty, and that cost is being "homeless". But you're not going to die - you'll have food and shelter. That's why America and China and other nations that value work will continue to dominate the world economy while other countries will continue to fade into obscurity.
Because it's a stupid question. It's necessary to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps unless you get lucky, work hard, or had a relative who did the same.
See, this life isn't easy. Shit doesn't get handed to you. You're seriously pretending there's a "question" as to why someone should have to work hard to advance in life?
Thank got our forefathers down through history didn't ask this asinine fucking question, or they would have been all "Meh, we're fine. Let's just all take care of eachother, don't work too hard out there developing new and better ways to do things!".
I somewhat agree. Frankly, however, I'd much rather have them in charge than the fucking multitudes of rabble.
With the rabble in charge, I will work 25 hours a week for the government and 15 for myself so that some fucking wastrel can sit in her house and spit out 10 kids she receives $300 a month each for.
With the new aristocracy in charge I can be a low level functionary working 15 hours a week for the government and the fucking wastrel can get $100 a month.
Income inequality is just something rabble rousers say to get the rabble all roused up.
The richest 500 people in the US could just up and move somewhere else, or we could shoot them in the streets and burn their money. Suddenly income inequality would take a massive nosedive.
Other than some stupid, made up statistic going down it is impossible for you to name one real benefit to this happening.
Do you know when the last time a homeless person who wasn't mentally insane died because they literally couldn't find food or shelter?
I guess it might happen, but I seriously doubt it. Our homeless are mostly fine, really it's just a bunch of pretentious dickweeds from tiny, sheltered European countries who like to guffaw at how badly they think we run things.
Whatever, fuckers. I'll be watching on CNN and laughing when you're rioting in the streets over the latest round of austerity cuts implemented because your shitty little Socialist Utopias don't work.
Yeah, we're fucking beating you. So whine all you like, we're winning. Your idiotic socialism leads to stagnation and eventually complete collapse. If you make life too easy for people who don't want to work, they won't fucking work.
But whatever socialist utopia you hail from should keep it up. I'm sure you're a dynamo of the world economy. Well, you might be if you sit on a bunch of oil or something, but that won't last forever.
Oh, we'll just fix that. We'll pass a law that you can't be homeless. It worked to "solve" our healthcare problem.
What do you mean what's wrong with us? What's wrong with you? Why are you allowing Americans to be homeless? Because I happen to live within a few thousand miles of someone I have to work 20 hours a week to support them, but you who might also be the same distance from them are free to just make pointless comments about "somebody oughta do something"? How...odd.
Oh no, I'm a "wage slave" and have to work to lead an existence 75% of the world would love to have. Oh no, I have to struggle a bit to get some shit I don't really need to survive! Oh no, I can't quite pay my bills (but I have food, shelter, usually access to TV, transportation, emergency health care,...).
The whole 99% vs 1% is pathetic. When you're starving to death or dying of exposure you can complain. Until then, work and try to improve your lot instead of whining like a little bitch about a lifestyle that 75% of the world envies.
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Yeah, you'll notice the MS haters can't really come up with much bad to say about it, because it's actually a pretty good filesystem. Not perfect, and it's got feature bloat, but it really is, in total, "...the most widely used, advanced, and feature rich file system in broad use.".
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Come on, this is getting old. If you don't want your words or pictures to be made public don't put them on Facebook. How difficult is this? Assume that anything you write there will be public information because it's, well, public.
I didn't read it as racist, I read it as a childish implication that Microsoft or Google are racist.
This is why the welfare state will fail, even Germany who is doing pretty well right now because they are the financial nexus of Europe. It's ironic that what most of the "99%" hate most is the only thing keeping Germany afloat right now. They have corporations and banks which service the rest of EU and rake money into Germany.
Unless you have a rich relative who _did_ work to earn money, you should not be comfortable doing something nobody wants. We don't make progress like that, and economies will grind to a halt if people are too safe and sound doing nothing useful. The only thing society should provide is a social net for temporary need, and the _bare_ rudiments of survival. So (cheap, basic) food and shelter and emergency health care. That's it. And the US does provide those things.
Slashdot isn't geared towards coming back in ten years to a thread and telling you I told you so, so I'll tell you I told you so now. Germany will suffer a massive decline in quality of living because its economy is unsustainable. When the rest of the EU crashes, it will crash. It is a parasite that depends on its host, and when that host suffers it suffers.
You are a successful nation because your forefathers understood the need to work. Now you've forgotten and think that you can all just take care of each other in your pristine little welfare state. Well, it won't work for much longer.
Google whined about Microsoft and Yahoo forming a "monopoly", which is risible because if anybody has a monopoly in that space (which they don't), it would be Google. They also whined about Internet explorer and Windows being bundled, when clearly there are dozens of alternative OS's and browsers available.
Back in my day a monopoly was real, you had one choice of a physically or legally limited resource. Nowadays apparently if there are 50 choices but one is so much better than the others that people overwhelmingly choose it, that's a "monopoly".
You're blathering the wrong argument to the wrong person. I'm not a "No government, maaaaan!" nitwit. We need government, social contract, blah blah blah. I just think government intervention in anything should be a dire necessity because it's the ultimate form of force and rife with potential for easy abuse.
I want my kids to be safe and happy and _secure_. That's what money is, security. If I have $500 million when I die, they get it. Parenting isn't about withholding money from them so they have to succeed. What if they want to succeed at playing the cello, or writing books nobody wants to read? More importantly, the security that money gives them makes them safer if they do fail. That's what I'm buying with the effort I put into making that $500m, or the luck - either way.
If giving your kids too much money feeds some character flaw in them, you created that character flaw as a parent not the money. But more importantly, it's not your or the government's business.
I'd just tax it as normal income, like anything else should be. All these bullshit little tax breaks should be eliminated for the middle class and the wealthy, and all income of any type from any source taxed at the same slighly graduated rate.
They should go for it. Then the rest of the world won't have to deal with their corrupt bureaucratic bullshit.
God damn this place is getting on my nerves. I must like it because I keep reading and replying.
First, Microsoft doesn't have anything approaching a fucking monopoly in this space. They're barely a bit player. So your post is inane from that perspective.
Second, this whole article is bullshit. If the ARM vendor wants you to be able to install Linux, they can enable you to install Linux. If they choose not to (via a secure boot signature), then don't buy the fucking device! It's that simple.
What the fuck is wrong with people? Learn to think reasonably ffs.
Normally I'd be totally with Google on this, but I believed they've whined about other "monopolies" where the monopoly only exists because people choose the product from among dozens of other alternatives. In other words a make believe monopoly.
So instead of backing google, I'll go with a Nelson Munz "ha ha".
If only you understood money and work.
Your idea is somewhere nearly as bright as suggesting that we could solve poverty by just printing a trillion dollars and giving it out to everyone.
Exactly. "Whhaaaa! That guy got rich because I buy shit from him I don't actually need all that much! Help, I'm being oppressed!". This place is fucking sickening. Used to be cool about 15 years ago, kind of a libertarian haunt but now it's a bunch of Eurotrash and Americans who are ashamed to be American.
Bullshit. So some guy who invents a widget and goes on to earn $500 million can't pass that wealth on to his children because you, God, don't think they deserve it and that we, the Government, should take it from him at gunpoint?
It's funny that his children don't deserve it but a bunch of fucking lowlife shitbags spitting out 10 kids they can't afford do "deserve" it. Amusing.
There's that word. "Deserve". There is no such thing as deserve. They make the money, you have no right to it. Don't blather to me about a social contract, either, I agree we have to pay taxes. You're not talking about fairly levied taxes, you're talking about their labor and effort as if you or the government own it and they have to deserve it.
So to answer your question, they have done whatever they did to earn the money to deserve it. It's literally as simple as that.
You fucking liar. Please, find me some statistics on people who died from hunger or exposure to the elements because they didn't have access to one or the other. I'm all ears.
Medical care is a different issue, though you'd be hard pressed to find many of those either. I'm actually for a high deductible type plan where you get universal coverage no matter what and pay a sliding (starting at 0) deductible.
I only hope you're willing to work an extra 15 hours a week for the government (to pay taxes) so that some 70 year old fat asshole with a heart condition and not a penny to his name can cost us $800k in medical expenses for a heart transplant.
Is money being forced from your hand? What exactly are the 1% doing to you? They're not paying you enough money?
No no no. You don't understand. The word "homeless" means her family was living in a ditch on the verge of death. That's what we do in America, haven't you heard of the thousands of homeless people who die because they couldn't find food or shelter each year?
It did work exactly as it should. Probably 40% of the people using this thread to bash america are from other countries, but I bet 60% of them are fucking Americans brainwashed into feeling guilty for what they have.
Fuck that. It's abject weakness. I'm glad a live an easy life and I work hard for it. I'm lucky to have it. This is a great story showing how you can succeed in this country if you try. When poor people are dying in the streets than I'll agree we have a problem.
Right now things are working about right. You have a cost to being poor and not trying your hardest to get out of poverty, and that cost is being "homeless". But you're not going to die - you'll have food and shelter. That's why America and China and other nations that value work will continue to dominate the world economy while other countries will continue to fade into obscurity.
Because it's a stupid question. It's necessary to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps unless you get lucky, work hard, or had a relative who did the same.
See, this life isn't easy. Shit doesn't get handed to you. You're seriously pretending there's a "question" as to why someone should have to work hard to advance in life?
Thank got our forefathers down through history didn't ask this asinine fucking question, or they would have been all "Meh, we're fine. Let's just all take care of eachother, don't work too hard out there developing new and better ways to do things!".
I somewhat agree. Frankly, however, I'd much rather have them in charge than the fucking multitudes of rabble.
With the rabble in charge, I will work 25 hours a week for the government and 15 for myself so that some fucking wastrel can sit in her house and spit out 10 kids she receives $300 a month each for.
With the new aristocracy in charge I can be a low level functionary working 15 hours a week for the government and the fucking wastrel can get $100 a month.
I'll take..option 1, kthx.
Income inequality is just something rabble rousers say to get the rabble all roused up.
The richest 500 people in the US could just up and move somewhere else, or we could shoot them in the streets and burn their money. Suddenly income inequality would take a massive nosedive.
Other than some stupid, made up statistic going down it is impossible for you to name one real benefit to this happening.
Do you know when the last time a homeless person who wasn't mentally insane died because they literally couldn't find food or shelter?
I guess it might happen, but I seriously doubt it. Our homeless are mostly fine, really it's just a bunch of pretentious dickweeds from tiny, sheltered European countries who like to guffaw at how badly they think we run things.
Whatever, fuckers. I'll be watching on CNN and laughing when you're rioting in the streets over the latest round of austerity cuts implemented because your shitty little Socialist Utopias don't work.
Most Western nations are tiny and have vastly different demographics than the US. Nice try though.
Yeah, we're fucking beating you. So whine all you like, we're winning. Your idiotic socialism leads to stagnation and eventually complete collapse. If you make life too easy for people who don't want to work, they won't fucking work.
But whatever socialist utopia you hail from should keep it up. I'm sure you're a dynamo of the world economy. Well, you might be if you sit on a bunch of oil or something, but that won't last forever.
Oh, we'll just fix that. We'll pass a law that you can't be homeless. It worked to "solve" our healthcare problem.
What do you mean what's wrong with us? What's wrong with you? Why are you allowing Americans to be homeless? Because I happen to live within a few thousand miles of someone I have to work 20 hours a week to support them, but you who might also be the same distance from them are free to just make pointless comments about "somebody oughta do something"? How...odd.
What a bunch of lame fucking whining.
Oh no, I'm a "wage slave" and have to work to lead an existence 75% of the world would love to have. Oh no, I have to struggle a bit to get some shit I don't really need to survive! Oh no, I can't quite pay my bills (but I have food, shelter, usually access to TV, transportation, emergency health care, ...).
The whole 99% vs 1% is pathetic. When you're starving to death or dying of exposure you can complain. Until then, work and try to improve your lot instead of whining like a little bitch about a lifestyle that 75% of the world envies.