There are no laws against "hate speech" in the US. Laws against speech are unconstitutional. Insulting you and your closest billion friends is perfectly legal.
There are hate crimes, though. If a black man cuts in line front of you and you say "fucking asshole!" and punch him, you'll pay a fine and likely spend a few days in the county jail for battery. But if you say "fucking nigger!" and punch him, that's a hate crime and you'll likely go to prison. But that stupid movie was nothing like that.
BTW, mods, he wasn't trolling, that seems like a legit opinion to me (even though I disagree vehemently), particularly if he's from Germany or somewhere where that attitude is drummed into kids at an early age.
I wouldn't say "lacking compassion," I'd say he's probably one of those people born with a silver spoon in their mouth, someone who was born on third base and thinks he hit a home run. It isn't that the rich lack compassion, it's simply that they have no clue what it's like not to be born with lots of contacts and no chance of ever being homeless and hungry.
He is right in that you most likey won't starve without a job, there are breadlines and such, but who in their right mind, after being homeless and eating at soup kitchens for months, would turn down the chance of having some place to live, especially if you have a family? What he said was completely unrealistic, but then, he's ignorant. Rather than bashing him, educate him.
No, it's ONLY in politics or entertainment that ignorance will get you somewhere (won't get you nowhere) in life. Are you and the GP both from Arkansas or somewhere?
Indeed, at least they said "the Aussie equivalent of the SEC" which wil still leave anyone not in the US or Australia clueless.
Damn it, people EXPAND ACRONYMS! Especially obscure acronyms that are the same as tech or science acronyms. If you're talking about cops, don't say "LEO" because to us, an LEO isn't a law enforcement officer, it's low earth orbit. To the one or two of us who don't live in Australia, an ASIC is a chip.
Knock it off, dimwit. I just checked your user page, a dozen comments all saying "test". GTFO, would you? Comments are for commenting. If you want to test, do it in your journal so we don't have to see your juvenile trolls.
Mods, I'm offtopic so if the "no bonus" checkboxes didn't work, please mod me down.
People really need to understand exactly how important Microsoft is to the world if you like that concept or not.
Microsoft isn't important in the least. They don't develop anything that doesn't have an alternative. You can quite easily drop Ubuntu or kubunto on any Windows machine and it will just work, and what's more, be easier to use and have more features. The GNU office suites may not be as nice, but they do the job.
If Microsoft disappeared tomorrow, by next week nobody would miss them.
This may (MAY!!) be the correct link. Gees, I've never seen such a botched URL. Does the submitter not know how to copy a URL from the address bar and paste it in the submission? And why did it get past the "editor"?
When they say "it's not ready for the desktop" they mean that Linux has a tiny userbase compared to Apple and Windows. Many MS users listen to and repeat the FUD (I'm sure you've seen it, "you have to use the command line, there aren't any apps, it's hard to use" bullshit).
The fact is, as you say, given the right distro Linux is far more capable and useable than Windows in every way. I'm running kubuntu on one machine and W7 on another, the kubuntu machine will do everything the W7 machine will, but kubuntu has quite a few really handy features that W7 woefully lacks.
Distros meant for the desktop are for the most part far superior to Windows. The reason Linux hasn't taken over is Windows comes pre-installed on every new computer and few non-nerds have ever heard of Linux.
7 digit UIDs have been around for a while, I've seen the GP post often lately, it's not like he just signed up for the account today as is usual for shillage. As was mentioned by another commenter, he's a subscriber. Subscribers see the articles before they're posted, and the time they will be posted is marked on it. Easy to have a relevant, non-troll FP when you're a subscriber.
As to EFF "astroturfer," since the Electronic Frontier Foundation is a true grassroots outfit, there is no such thing as "EFF astroturfing." Anyone who is concerned with freedom will be an EFF booster.
I've tried it on and off for desktop use since 1997 and TBH, it will never get there.
What distro? There is no "Linux", there are a lot of different ones. Red hat makes an excellent server OS but a shitty desktop OS. Mandriva and kubuntu and likely others are head and shoulders above Windows in every measure except "shiny". Windows has no features those distros lack, and they have many features Windows lacks. The things Windows does, those distros do better. Both distros are far easier to use and require far less maintenance, and what little maintenance is required is a "one click and done" affair rather than the PITA patch Tuesday is.
But I agree, Linux has no chance, simply because few have even heard of it, and those who have heard of it have as much of a chance of hearing it from someone who tried Red Hat as a desktop or other problem such as not being able to transition from MS's proprietary stuff like C: and \ to the standard Unix way that every other PC OS uses.
You spelled his name wrong, it's not Harry, it's Hari. And I've read all the Foundation books, but your "if a people begins as a prison colony it must necessarily end up as a police state" is nowhere to be found in my meatware database. Which book?
Even Google doesn't understand stricterprertationalism -- its only hit on that word is your comment. Is that a typo, or did you deliberately make the word up for purposes of obfuscation?
People without a conscience still apologize for reasons other than conscience when they're caught. Good people apologize for mistakes, bad people apologize for misdeeds done purposly that they're caught at.
I wouldn't count on it. Amsterdam decriminalized pot years ago and their drug use declined, studies show that pot's only negative effects are from the smoke and there are many positive effects (like a reduced risk of cancer), yet it's still illegal.
My point was that for investors to talk of their taking risks entitles them to more money is bogus, since they're risking he lives of their workers for profit. My grandfather died from a preventable workplace "accident"; he died because Purina was too cheap to put doors on an elevator. Two years ago two dozen miners died in Virginia because the owners were too cheap to fix faulty equipment that was supposed to get rid of explosive gasses, despite the fact that the law said that equipment was required to be functional. But the same rich bastards who risk their workers' lives whine about THEIR risk.
Word may not have changed all that much, but it has a new GUI
Best reason I can think of NOT to upgrade. Change for increased functionality is a good thing, change for the sake of change is brain-dead stupid, it only slows down your workflow and decreases productivity.
Office 2010 is so much more functional, and a lot easier to use to
Um, trying to parse past your typo. Did you mean "a lot easier to use, too" or "a lot easier to get use to"? But at any rate, I keep hearing the same thing from MS fans and always ask and never am answered, HOW is it more functional and easier to use?
I imagine this is the same reason that every car manufacturer hasn't re-tooled and started making those old VW bugs. A car that runs forever is a bad product.
Your example is REALLY lame; you don't know what you're talking about, kid. VW bugs didn't last longer than other cars, but they were a lot easier to work on than most (which were all a HELL of a lot easier to work on that today's). Back in the bug days, most auto warrantees were 3-5 years, 30-50k miles. By the time the average car was five years old it was rusted out, burning oil, leaking every kind of fluid it held, seats and carpet shredded, etc. 50k miles was the average car's lifespan.
Modern cars last more than twice as long. Buy a five year old car now and it's like a new car, even with 100k miles on it.
In fact, you used the very worst analogue you possibly could have -- almost every other device sold that was on the market before maybe 1970 or 80 lasted far longer than the modern equivalent. Hell, I have a 57 year old vaccuum cleaner that's never been serviced and still works fine. I bought a Panasonic TV in 1968 that still worked when I left it in a house I moved out of in 2004.
Did you know that railroad locomotives made in the 1800s carried 100 year warrantees?
Cars are the exception to planned obsolescence, not an example.
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Not when they're deemed a flight risk, like this guy and Bernie Madof (who also was denied bond for the same reason).
He should be jailed for spreading hate speech
There are no laws against "hate speech" in the US. Laws against speech are unconstitutional. Insulting you and your closest billion friends is perfectly legal.
There are hate crimes, though. If a black man cuts in line front of you and you say "fucking asshole!" and punch him, you'll pay a fine and likely spend a few days in the county jail for battery. But if you say "fucking nigger!" and punch him, that's a hate crime and you'll likely go to prison. But that stupid movie was nothing like that.
BTW, mods, he wasn't trolling, that seems like a legit opinion to me (even though I disagree vehemently), particularly if he's from Germany or somewhere where that attitude is drummed into kids at an early age.
I wouldn't say "lacking compassion," I'd say he's probably one of those people born with a silver spoon in their mouth, someone who was born on third base and thinks he hit a home run. It isn't that the rich lack compassion, it's simply that they have no clue what it's like not to be born with lots of contacts and no chance of ever being homeless and hungry.
He is right in that you most likey won't starve without a job, there are breadlines and such, but who in their right mind, after being homeless and eating at soup kitchens for months, would turn down the chance of having some place to live, especially if you have a family? What he said was completely unrealistic, but then, he's ignorant. Rather than bashing him, educate him.
As an American I had to google "carer". For those of you who aren't British, it's a Britishism for "caregiver".
No, it's ONLY in politics or entertainment that ignorance will get you somewhere (won't get you nowhere) in life. Are you and the GP both from Arkansas or somewhere?
Indeed, at least they said "the Aussie equivalent of the SEC" which wil still leave anyone not in the US or Australia clueless.
Damn it, people EXPAND ACRONYMS! Especially obscure acronyms that are the same as tech or science acronyms. If you're talking about cops, don't say "LEO" because to us, an LEO isn't a law enforcement officer, it's low earth orbit. To the one or two of us who don't live in Australia, an ASIC is a chip.
Gees...
Knock it off, dimwit. I just checked your user page, a dozen comments all saying "test". GTFO, would you? Comments are for commenting. If you want to test, do it in your journal so we don't have to see your juvenile trolls.
Mods, I'm offtopic so if the "no bonus" checkboxes didn't work, please mod me down.
People really need to understand exactly how important Microsoft is to the world if you like that concept or not.
Microsoft isn't important in the least. They don't develop anything that doesn't have an alternative. You can quite easily drop Ubuntu or kubunto on any Windows machine and it will just work, and what's more, be easier to use and have more features. The GNU office suites may not be as nice, but they do the job.
If Microsoft disappeared tomorrow, by next week nobody would miss them.
This may (MAY!!) be the correct link. Gees, I've never seen such a botched URL. Does the submitter not know how to copy a URL from the address bar and paste it in the submission? And why did it get past the "editor"?
Of course you'll be modded down. So will I, and deservedly: offtopic. Hope your karma is excellent...
Uh, what the heck is a 'shiny-shitty' ?
A turd covered in glitter. Example: Microsoft Windows.
When they say "it's not ready for the desktop" they mean that Linux has a tiny userbase compared to Apple and Windows. Many MS users listen to and repeat the FUD (I'm sure you've seen it, "you have to use the command line, there aren't any apps, it's hard to use" bullshit).
The fact is, as you say, given the right distro Linux is far more capable and useable than Windows in every way. I'm running kubuntu on one machine and W7 on another, the kubuntu machine will do everything the W7 machine will, but kubuntu has quite a few really handy features that W7 woefully lacks.
Distros meant for the desktop are for the most part far superior to Windows. The reason Linux hasn't taken over is Windows comes pre-installed on every new computer and few non-nerds have ever heard of Linux.
7 digit UIDs have been around for a while, I've seen the GP post often lately, it's not like he just signed up for the account today as is usual for shillage. As was mentioned by another commenter, he's a subscriber. Subscribers see the articles before they're posted, and the time they will be posted is marked on it. Easy to have a relevant, non-troll FP when you're a subscriber.
As to EFF "astroturfer," since the Electronic Frontier Foundation is a true grassroots outfit, there is no such thing as "EFF astroturfing." Anyone who is concerned with freedom will be an EFF booster.
It's obvious Romney was trying to be funny.
For a Presidential candidate to try for laughs by pretending to be stupid is pretty damned stupid.
I've tried it on and off for desktop use since 1997 and TBH, it will never get there.
What distro? There is no "Linux", there are a lot of different ones. Red hat makes an excellent server OS but a shitty desktop OS. Mandriva and kubuntu and likely others are head and shoulders above Windows in every measure except "shiny". Windows has no features those distros lack, and they have many features Windows lacks. The things Windows does, those distros do better. Both distros are far easier to use and require far less maintenance, and what little maintenance is required is a "one click and done" affair rather than the PITA patch Tuesday is.
But I agree, Linux has no chance, simply because few have even heard of it, and those who have heard of it have as much of a chance of hearing it from someone who tried Red Hat as a desktop or other problem such as not being able to transition from MS's proprietary stuff like C: and \ to the standard Unix way that every other PC OS uses.
You spelled his name wrong, it's not Harry, it's Hari. And I've read all the Foundation books, but your "if a people begins as a prison colony it must necessarily end up as a police state" is nowhere to be found in my meatware database. Which book?
Even Google doesn't understand stricterprertationalism -- its only hit on that word is your comment. Is that a typo, or did you deliberately make the word up for purposes of obfuscation?
It is called a typo --- and it happens because submissions can't be spell-checked by the browser or the software that drives Slashdot.
Firefox's spell check works on submissions, but it won't proofread for you.
People without a conscience still apologize for reasons other than conscience when they're caught. Good people apologize for mistakes, bad people apologize for misdeeds done purposly that they're caught at.
I wouldn't count on it. Amsterdam decriminalized pot years ago and their drug use declined, studies show that pot's only negative effects are from the smoke and there are many positive effects (like a reduced risk of cancer), yet it's still illegal.
My point was that for investors to talk of their taking risks entitles them to more money is bogus, since they're risking he lives of their workers for profit. My grandfather died from a preventable workplace "accident"; he died because Purina was too cheap to put doors on an elevator. Two years ago two dozen miners died in Virginia because the owners were too cheap to fix faulty equipment that was supposed to get rid of explosive gasses, despite the fact that the law said that equipment was required to be functional. But the same rich bastards who risk their workers' lives whine about THEIR risk.
A thing is more than the sum of its parts.
I do like that you can now mount ISOs and VHDs directly from explorer
It's about time. Linux has had that feature for, like, forever.
Word may not have changed all that much, but it has a new GUI
Best reason I can think of NOT to upgrade. Change for increased functionality is a good thing, change for the sake of change is brain-dead stupid, it only slows down your workflow and decreases productivity.
Office 2010 is so much more functional, and a lot easier to use to
Um, trying to parse past your typo. Did you mean "a lot easier to use, too" or "a lot easier to get use to"? But at any rate, I keep hearing the same thing from MS fans and always ask and never am answered, HOW is it more functional and easier to use?
I imagine this is the same reason that every car manufacturer hasn't re-tooled and started making those old VW bugs. A car that runs forever is a bad product.
Your example is REALLY lame; you don't know what you're talking about, kid. VW bugs didn't last longer than other cars, but they were a lot easier to work on than most (which were all a HELL of a lot easier to work on that today's). Back in the bug days, most auto warrantees were 3-5 years, 30-50k miles. By the time the average car was five years old it was rusted out, burning oil, leaking every kind of fluid it held, seats and carpet shredded, etc. 50k miles was the average car's lifespan.
Modern cars last more than twice as long. Buy a five year old car now and it's like a new car, even with 100k miles on it.
In fact, you used the very worst analogue you possibly could have -- almost every other device sold that was on the market before maybe 1970 or 80 lasted far longer than the modern equivalent. Hell, I have a 57 year old vaccuum cleaner that's never been serviced and still works fine. I bought a Panasonic TV in 1968 that still worked when I left it in a house I moved out of in 2004.
Did you know that railroad locomotives made in the 1800s carried 100 year warrantees?
Cars are the exception to planned obsolescence, not an example.