Welcome to a world where *everything* you can/cannot do is based on how stupid or unlucky or "disadvantaged" you are. Where do you think your taxes go, man? Why do you think it's so fashionable to side with the loser and oppose the corp.?
No, it's because of the three thousand plugins that are loading while you watch that splash screen. Move them from the plugins dir to a backup one, restart Acrobat and see it fail, read what plugin is missing, restore it, repeat 3-4 times and notice how it now takes less than 1 sec to show up.
I tried it and the loading time went from like 10 to 1 second.
Then of course when you're doing something that requires a plugin, restore it and leave it there (for example, the search function *is* a plugin... WTF?) but anyway 90% of them won't be needed.
HTH
Uhm, if they were so much better, how comes users dumped them for the free stuff?
Oracle costs an arm and a few legs while mysql and postgre are free, yet it is still the leader. When the product is good, it wins. They lost because they were not good enough.
Pretty much what they did with MSIE and the zealots certainly didn't like that. So, if it's free it's anticompetitive. If it's not it's like demanding ransom. I wonder what MS is to do...
Nah, that wouldn't work.
Gold-backed currency is not necessary and could actually destabilize a system: say a new huge mine is found, or a supposedly huge one is found out to be almost empty... I do use E-Gold etc. but "gold-backed = GOOD" is more of a myth than reality.
Politicians serving... besides being an oxymoron, why would you want representatives? And ones that know you instead of ones that don't? Where's the difference?
Laws passing if a real majority is reached... since when does majority matter? We all know that most people are stupid, and the last some hundred years have proved that the majority simply is not able to make good decisions.
Short laws and short validity... these ones are just too easy to get around. You make many small, auto-renewable ones!
The thing is that all your ideas are like patches. They might make the product a bit better for some time, but what is needed is a rewrite.
WTF?! What I am "aiming for"? Dude, what are you talking about? I am not aiming for anything at all. Let me repeat parts of my post so you can understand. I was not supporting censorship [...] I was criticizing YOUR apparently high opinion [...] You implied it was a clever thing to do Do you understand now? I can't care less about censorship/freedom/america, whatever, in the context of this post. I am simply saying that appreciating what this guy has done is stupid and immature. There, now I've dumbed it down enough. Sorry for trying to be more polite.
Now if you can derive some pro-censorship anti-true-americanism from this, you're free to try again.
Yes. Unfortunately, I was not talking about the reviewers, but this specific one. Also, I was not supporting censorship in the name of some Greater Good; I was criticizing YOUR apparently high opinion of an angry teen who posts disgusting (OK not to me, but surely someone has to be disgusted) stuff in a totally knee-jerk reaction to things he probably doesn't know anything about. You implied it was a clever thing to do. Unfortunately, it's not.
All these things regarding true americans, freedom and whatnot have nothing to do with my post.
We must ban all intolerant people. Anyone who opposes us must die.
I can't understand if you're serious or not. Because if you're not, your sarcasm is wasted on/. And if you are... well then your whole life is wasted on planet Earth and I suggest you take a trip to some communist heaven. Good luck finding one.
That one picture of the person vomiting very concisely shows what many apparently feel about him, and the views he expresses. He chooses to write a book to get his ideas out, they choose to use a single photo.
Oh come on. Free speech and all that... but there is still something called good manners, and posting that pic was not a good-mannered act. Besides, we all know it was posted in a hurry by a teenager who heard that J.T. was an 3v1l 4nt1-54m3r, screamed "OMGZ!!!!!111one!!!" and fired the pic away.
Man, I wish I could. But reality says otherwise... Anyway I agree, I don't know what would be worse for him!
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Uhm, well, not in rural Vietnam where they more or less sleep with poultry in the so-called house in the fields. Diet and excercise, there, mean "near starvation" and "work all day in the fields".
This is idiocy. If the owner does not want you there, you just get the hell out of there. He owns the place, you don't. In your house, you will be able to retaliate. Heck, when someone is hosting you, you just don't have any say in what is accepted or not. You just obey. If you don't want to, you can get out. It's what I have had to do in such circumstances.
I would have no problem hosting gays or whoever else - but the moment I decide that I don't like the way you comb your hair, you are out. End of the story.
I hope you'll be happy when I visit your house tonight and start singing songs by Blind Guardian from dusk to dawn. I mean, it's not like it's your property so you rule there. No sirree. My right to free singing will be respected tonight. IN YOUR HOUSE.
We'll see how happy you are after a night of that.
Excuse me. That makes her less guilty then me or you in WHAT way exactly? Funny how advocating the same treatment for everyone is conveniently forgot when it suits your own interests... Reminds me of the way concentation camps were bad bad bad but gulags were a-OK!
But do you blame the terminal cancer victims for actively seeking out snake-oil salesmen, or do you blame the snake-oil salesmen for giving people false hope?
Uhm how about I blame both?
Suppose a guy has a serious form of cancer. Doctors have told him there is some cure, possibly effective, possibly not. He should try it. Then the snake-oil seller comes along and goes "Sure thing, you'll be up in no time, blah blah". Well if an informed and reasonable patient chooses to go the snake-oil way... then it's his fault as well as the seller's. Now substitute the Internet for the doctors and the labels for the seller. Musicians should be the patients but hey I don't see them suffering that much... Anyway who do we blame?
We'll stop laughing long enough to put Sony's execs up against the wall.
I hope you realize you're talking about murdering some guys because they happen to distribute *music* in a way you don't like. Now if you think this is normal, then you really have bigger issues to care about.
Besides, how about critising the ones who are really responsible for this? You know, the so-called ARTISTS who, instead of self-promoting and selling on the web (yeah it's sooooo difficult to do it) just say "OK Sony do as you like and I don't mind when you screw my customers"?
You can say the same thing about the entire legal system.
Which is exactly the reason why we shouldn't tolerate any.
Without it, society plunges into anarchy.
Which is the only way to protect the rights of individuals, as you say. Because at the moment your rights are certainly not protected - and that's the way it should be. YOU should protect them. Without the gov't preventing you from protecting yourself, while the real evil-doers (sic) get away with everything.
Terrorists can just as easily send a normail letter by normal mail. I don't think we should ban mail because this system is open, easily accessible and untrackable.
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Welcome to a world where *everything* you can/cannot do is based on how stupid or unlucky or "disadvantaged" you are. Where do you think your taxes go, man? Why do you think it's so fashionable to side with the loser and oppose the corp.?
No, it's because of the three thousand plugins that are loading while you watch that splash screen. Move them from the plugins dir to a backup one, restart Acrobat and see it fail, read what plugin is missing, restore it, repeat 3-4 times and notice how it now takes less than 1 sec to show up.
I tried it and the loading time went from like 10 to 1 second.
Then of course when you're doing something that requires a plugin, restore it and leave it there (for example, the search function *is* a plugin... WTF?) but anyway 90% of them won't be needed.
HTH
essentially killed off the better comptetitors.
Uhm, if they were so much better, how comes users dumped them for the free stuff?
Oracle costs an arm and a few legs while mysql and postgre are free, yet it is still the leader. When the product is good, it wins. They lost because they were not good enough.
Make is free, integrate it into the OS
Pretty much what they did with MSIE and the zealots certainly didn't like that. So, if it's free it's anticompetitive. If it's not it's like demanding ransom. I wonder what MS is to do...
Uhm... people will start flying *there* to get cured instead of to the USA? What do I win?
Nah, that wouldn't work.
Gold-backed currency is not necessary and could actually destabilize a system: say a new huge mine is found, or a supposedly huge one is found out to be almost empty... I do use E-Gold etc. but "gold-backed = GOOD" is more of a myth than reality.
Politicians serving... besides being an oxymoron, why would you want representatives? And ones that know you instead of ones that don't? Where's the difference?
Laws passing if a real majority is reached... since when does majority matter? We all know that most people are stupid, and the last some hundred years have proved that the majority simply is not able to make good decisions.
Short laws and short validity... these ones are just too easy to get around. You make many small, auto-renewable ones!
The thing is that all your ideas are like patches. They might make the product a bit better for some time, but what is needed is a rewrite.
WTF?! What I am "aiming for"? Dude, what are you talking about? I am not aiming for anything at all. Let me repeat parts of my post so you can understand.
I was not supporting censorship [...] I was criticizing YOUR apparently high opinion [...] You implied it was a clever thing to do
Do you understand now? I can't care less about censorship/freedom/america, whatever, in the context of this post. I am simply saying that appreciating what this guy has done is stupid and immature. There, now I've dumbed it down enough. Sorry for trying to be more polite.
Now if you can derive some pro-censorship anti-true-americanism from this, you're free to try again.
Yes. Unfortunately, I was not talking about the reviewers, but this specific one. Also, I was not supporting censorship in the name of some Greater Good; I was criticizing YOUR apparently high opinion of an angry teen who posts disgusting (OK not to me, but surely someone has to be disgusted) stuff in a totally knee-jerk reaction to things he probably doesn't know anything about. You implied it was a clever thing to do. Unfortunately, it's not.
All these things regarding true americans, freedom and whatnot have nothing to do with my post.
We must ban all intolerant people. Anyone who opposes us must die.
/. And if you are... well then your whole life is wasted on planet Earth and I suggest you take a trip to some communist heaven. Good luck finding one.
I can't understand if you're serious or not. Because if you're not, your sarcasm is wasted on
That one picture of the person vomiting very concisely shows what many apparently feel about him, and the views he expresses. He chooses to write a book to get his ideas out, they choose to use a single photo.
Oh come on. Free speech and all that... but there is still something called good manners, and posting that pic was not a good-mannered act. Besides, we all know it was posted in a hurry by a teenager who heard that J.T. was an 3v1l 4nt1-54m3r, screamed "OMGZ!!!!!111one!!!" and fired the pic away.
Well, I agree that this thing won't work. But it won't do any harm, either. So, let's just let them do as they like.
Man, I wish I could. But reality says otherwise... Anyway I agree, I don't know what would be worse for him!
Uhm, well, not in rural Vietnam where they more or less sleep with poultry in the so-called house in the fields. Diet and excercise, there, mean "near starvation" and "work all day in the fields".
This is idiocy. If the owner does not want you there, you just get the hell out of there. He owns the place, you don't. In your house, you will be able to retaliate. Heck, when someone is hosting you, you just don't have any say in what is accepted or not. You just obey. If you don't want to, you can get out. It's what I have had to do in such circumstances.
I would have no problem hosting gays or whoever else - but the moment I decide that I don't like the way you comb your hair, you are out. End of the story.
Yes. It happens EVERY DAY.
The ones who trampled on them.
Case closed.
I hope you'll be happy when I visit your house tonight and start singing songs by Blind Guardian from dusk to dawn. I mean, it's not like it's your property so you rule there. No sirree. My right to free singing will be respected tonight. IN YOUR HOUSE.
We'll see how happy you are after a night of that.
Actually, Capitalism rocks.
Still, YOU are a moron.
Excuse me. That makes her less guilty then me or you in WHAT way exactly? Funny how advocating the same treatment for everyone is conveniently forgot when it suits your own interests... Reminds me of the way concentation camps were bad bad bad but gulags were a-OK!
But do you blame the terminal cancer victims for actively seeking out snake-oil salesmen, or do you blame the snake-oil salesmen for giving people false hope?
Uhm how about I blame both?
Suppose a guy has a serious form of cancer. Doctors have told him there is some cure, possibly effective, possibly not. He should try it. Then the snake-oil seller comes along and goes "Sure thing, you'll be up in no time, blah blah". Well if an informed and reasonable patient chooses to go the snake-oil way... then it's his fault as well as the seller's. Now substitute the Internet for the doctors and the labels for the seller. Musicians should be the patients but hey I don't see them suffering that much... Anyway who do we blame?
We'll stop laughing long enough to put Sony's execs up against the wall.
I hope you realize you're talking about murdering some guys because they happen to distribute *music* in a way you don't like. Now if you think this is normal, then you really have bigger issues to care about.
Besides, how about critising the ones who are really responsible for this? You know, the so-called ARTISTS who, instead of self-promoting and selling on the web (yeah it's sooooo difficult to do it) just say "OK Sony do as you like and I don't mind when you screw my customers"?
You can say the same thing about the entire legal system.
Which is exactly the reason why we shouldn't tolerate any.
Without it, society plunges into anarchy.
Which is the only way to protect the rights of individuals, as you say. Because at the moment your rights are certainly not protected - and that's the way it should be. YOU should protect them. Without the gov't preventing you from protecting yourself, while the real evil-doers (sic) get away with everything.
And respect his m4d l33t h4X0r sk1llz.
Man, how I want one of those statues for myself!
Is it dirty? I don't think FF is dirty because it was inspired by Opera, so I don't see why MSIE should be dirty for looking at FF.
Terrorists can just as easily send a normail letter by normal mail. I don't think we should ban mail because this system is open, easily accessible and untrackable.