Have you actually tried WP7 or tried developing for it? Your blind hatred is showing.
A leopard doesn't change its spots. I've been using MS software for thirty years, and almost everything after DOS 6 was utter crap. They are getting better; my notebook has Win 7 and it's head and shoulders above XP (except for the Control Panel, whoever wrote that interface needs a different occupation), but it's still nowhere as useable as KDE.
No, I don't like Microsoft; but the reason I don't like them is because I use their products. They've made exactly ONE product I approve of, Excel.
The Win phone will go over about as well as the Zune, for the same reasons.
When you buy a non-Apple computer, it has Windows preinstalled and you can't get an alternative OS. Not so with phones; MS actually has competetion. Historically, they haven't been able to handle competetion without using their desktop monopoly.
Also, I've found that there are a lot of jorrnals here that are often better than the front page articles. Not many seem to write journal entries; I friend my fans, and out of almost 400 of them there are maybe half a dozen who journal.
He's probably thinking about action movies where the brakes are slammed on and the steering wheel pulled hard to turn the car completely around. It's just movie crap and has no more to do with reality than McClain jumping off of a burning fighter jet and sliding down an offramp. It just doesn't work like that. It would be faster to slam on the ABS and do a U turn when slow enough. The brake-slamming turnaround is good cinema, but like most things in most movies has little to do with the real world.
During professional driver training (before ABS) they had a car equipped with a gun that fired chalk at the ground. The driver got to 40 mph and the passenger hit a button that fired the chalk. The gun went off again when the brake was pressed, and the passenger marked it again when it stopped. The skidding car went a good 30% farther than the one who braked correctly; not an easy thing to do in an emergency, the normal reaction is to slam on the brakes as hard as you can.
The "occasional necessity of skid" is the "occasional necessity of having your car completely out of control and taking longer to stop". I can't think of a single reason that could ever possibly be a good thing. It's a matter of physics.
No, having a positive opinion about an MS product isn't a troll and isn't necessarily a shill, but when matketspeak creeps into the comment you can be damned sure the post is coming from Redmond.
It's really sad that you feel you have such a small dick that everybody who has a different opinion than yours must be in someones pay. I pity you. Please tell your mum you should be let out of the house more.
Now that flamebait is an obvious troll, and you didn't answer my question - why are you so focused on dicks? You do realise that when you have to resort to insults, you've lost the argument, don't you?
The parent comment is identical to his comment to another poster. It's obscene, it's flamebait, it's a troll and it's reducndant. Why is the guy still sitting at 1? He should have been modded to oblivion yesterday.
Terjeber, why are you so focused on dicks? Are you female, or gay? At any rate, your fascination with male genetalia is troubling. Perhaps you should seek psychaitric help?
If you're still in high school don't bother, teenagers are normally insane (If you want a scientific study I can point you to at least one).
What if you *needed* to lock up your brakes and slam the car into a skid, and the ABS prevented it?
You NEVER need to be in a skid! Slamming on the non-ABS brakes (skidding) will make the vehicle take longer to stop; all you have is the friction of the tire and the road, your brakes transfer far more motion to heat than your skidding tires can. This is why we were taught in the Air Force motor pool to NEVER lock the brakes up; this was before ABS.
Plus, when you're in a skid you have NO steering whatever. When you're skidding you're completely out of control. You NEVER want your car to be out of control.
Air bags would have been a good example. Air bags have killed people in accidents that would not have been fatal if the bag wasn't there, but overall they've saved far more lives than they've cost.
I'm afraid you're terribly misinformed, and since you seemed to completely misunderstand what the GP said, your ignorance is understandable. You might want to practice paying attention when you read.
How do entitlements not count?
Read his comment again, HE ALREADY ANSWERED THAT. Sheesh.
They are funded with my taxes either directly or indirectly, and even if they were zero flow, they sill represent a drag on the economy because the people receiving entitlements usually don't contribute (though this will vary depending on what you are talking about and where you live).
I have no problem helping the unable, but most of my welfare taxation goes to helping the unwilling.
You missed PWORA, didn't you? Just to clue you in, welfare is no longer an entitlement. TANF is time-limited, 2 years in a row, 5 years lifetime. The 8% who are collecting unemployment aren't unemployed because they're lazy, they're unemployed because there aren't enough jobs.
LINK? You would let children and the elderly go hungry? What kind of fucking monster are you???
Medicaid? Just let a heart attack victim die? Again, your views are horrible and monstrous, and I sincerely hope you give some thought to your sociopathic political views.
Agree on medical expenses: they are out of control, largely because of socialist policies and cronyism.
Nope, it's because of the useless middleman, the insurance companies, both health and malpractice. Get the government to take over for the insurance companies like civilized countries do, and outlaw malpractice insurance so if a doctor amputates the wrong leg, the settolement comes out of his pocket. I'd be fine with fewer doctors if the ones who left the field were the ones being sued into bankruptcy court; I don't want an incompetent doctor cutting on ME.
Not everything has to apply to money or immediate use.
Mammon worship demands that, and money is the US's predominant religion. There are far too many, even at slashdot, who equate "free" with "worthless" who don't realise that the one theing they need more than anything else is free (air). Those who equate "having more stuff" with "being a better person" ("How much are you worth?")
These folks are flabberghasted by the likes of me, who are happy with a roof over their head, food, clothes, and transportation (and beer and electronics). I think those people are pitiful.
As to classifications, someone else pointed out that Titan is large enough to be a planet, but as it orbits a planet, it's a satellite. Planets orbit stars, moons orbit planets. I wonder if there's a planet out there somewhere with a satellite that has its own satellite? Seems improbable but I still wonder.
The moon is getting farther and farther from the earth, when the orbit's center is outside the earth itself, the Earth and Moon will be considered a double planet, both orbiting a spot between the two.
From wikipedia (don't you have a computer?):A polemic (/pÉ(TM)ËlÉmÉk/) is when the argument, debate or opinion, leans toward attacking the other person as opposed to the discussion at hand. That is, an argument or rhetoric becomes polemic when they have pejorative implications of the dignity of opposition. This is most common in a heated debate, where frustration or a sense of righteousness promotes hostility. The word is derived from the Greek ÏÎÎÎμÎÎÏOEÏ (polemikos), meaning "warlike, hostile",[1][2] which comes from ÏÏOEÎÎμÎÏ ('polemos), "war".[3]
Please take your aliteracy elsewhere. Most folks here have been to college and actually read, and read harder fare than People Magazine.
OOPS, I should have realized that since you're an aliterate you probably haven't heard of that word, either. It must suck to have such a small vocabulary. At any rate, an aliterate is someone who knows how to read, but doesn't.
Windows sucks and always has. Each iteration sucks a little less, but they're still buggy, bloated, and with a crappy UI (no, "shiny" has no part in useability). Windows only succeeded because IBM made sure that DOS was the dominant OS. If IBM had bought the other guy's OS, your computer would be running a desktop shell on top of CP/M instead of on top of DOS.
As to the X-Box, my daughter who works at GameStop tells me they're crap that break often, with design flaws that she's sure are deliberate (I don't; I just think MS's competence leaves much to be desired).
The GP is right; the apps are already developed, they only need to be ported. Making them rewrite them completely is brain-dead stupid. I predict that MS will do as well with their smartphone OS as they were with their MP3 player.
I don't think it's coincidence that so few people seem to use their turn signals for lane changes. It's absolutely dangerous.
Using your turn signal isn't dangerous, the response by idiotic assholes is what's dangerous. If you see my left turn signal, try to pass at your own risk. Ny signal is a courtesy, and I expect people to respond to courtesy with courtesy (unrealistically, usually).
And yet nobody's modded that flamebait you just posted as such. "Religious nutcases" who worship Apple and Linux? Flamebait. Yes, there are a few Linux and Apple (and even MS) zealots, but not the majority.
I don't envy them the (obviously) tiny sexual organs they apparently have. The "wanking" part obviously happens using tweezers.
And yet, you weren't modded down, despite the very obviousness of your flame/master baiting.
The fact is, the GGP was an obvious shill; the entire comment was delivered in marketspeak and did not deserve to be seen. I would have modded him "funny" he was so over the top -- MS, who has produced nothing but pure crap for twenty years (with the exception of Excel) is going to make a phone OS that blows everyone away?
the 1% pays its 'fair share' before it pays a single penny in income/corporate/payroll taxes, it pays much more than its fair share by creating the businesses
No, they don't. The wealth doesn't come from the 1%, it comes from the 99% and from machinery that was built by the 99%. Wealth is created on the factory floor, in the programmer's cubicle, behind a camera, behind the fry cook's stove.
succeeding and running the businesse
And still get overly compensated when they run those businesses to the ground -- look how much the President of Chase made, how much Carly Fiona made, how much the president of GM made, as they were running their companies to the ground.
Most businesses aren't strated by the 1%; most jobs come from the small businessperson; guys like Mike Meyers who owns Felbers and a construction company. He lives well, and deserves to, but he's not 1% material. That is for the CEOs of the huge multinationals.
despite the government trying hard to destroy those businesses
Citation? Or even a single example?
The socialist movements are used by the politicians to help them to steal that power. SS, Medicare, income taxes (the way they are collected), payroll taxes
Payroll taxes ARE SS and Medicare taxes. I'll agree that the income taxes are screwed, but they're screwed in favor of the rich, who (unlike me) can deduct their way out of those taxes. I'd love to see an end to all deductions and corporate and farming subsidies. I'd make a wild guess that they could balance the budget simply by stopping all tax deductions.
Once US government defaulted on its money (1971), and the gov't started setting interest rates (price of money), this sent a powerful signal to people who actually run businesses - MOVE THE FUCK OUT.
No, they moved the fuck out when they found they could hire a guy for $3 a day instead of $3 an hour, because the guy they could pay $3 a day to could buy dinner for five cents while the American paid five dollars. Import tarriffs (government involvement) would have saved those jobs.
so called 'Civil Rights', which are entitlements and obligations, not rights
Wrong again. Social Security isn't a civil right, the right to free speech is. Social Security is a property right -- I've paid my share, I'd better get my share.
People cannot expect to live on a dole without producing something
Not the poor, no, but the rich can. Carly Fiona did NOT earn her paycheck; she was on the dole, even worse. Oil company execs are on the government dole, indirectly, because their huge paychecks are partly funded by government subsidies. And guess what? CEOs produce NOTHING. That's not to say that they aren't necessary, just that they do not produce; they control production. Joe Sixpack up on that roof is the guy producing wealth.
If you want to drain your crankcase in the river then government is your enemy, and so is most everyone else. Yes, they're allowed to poison the air and rivers in China, so if you like dirty air, move to China. Personally, as someone who grew up a mile from Monsanto before the EPA, I'd much rather pay an extra penny for that gallon of bleach than to breathe ths shit every day.
The trouble with government is the 1% runs it and the media you're obviously listening to.
And the music loaded on them is...survey says...pirated! You DO realize it would cost something like $64,000 to load an iPod full of RIAA approved music, yes? After all they say ripping to your iPod is illegal and you should have to cut them a check per song (I'm not shitting you, look up "industry says ripping to your iPod is illegal" in Google) but nobody is actually paying attention to their asses are they?
I personally avoid all RIAA-approved music I haven't already paid for. The RIAA may say ripping is illegal, but the fact is it's not. I've been buying music for half a century, and I have a fuckton of it; just spent most of the weekend ripping old music that originally came from LPs and tapes.
The fact is, for every "RIAA-approved" song out there, there are ten more from a non-RIAA band that would love for you to hear their music. THESE are the artists you should be supporting. Hell, you could fill hundreds of iPods with legal music from archive.org alone!
ultimately that is what the consumer WANTS, they want "push button and movie goes"
That should clue you in to how incredibly stupid these media companies are. It galls EVERYONE that it takes ten fucking minutes of antipiracy shit before the movie starts, that only the customer sees. Way to go, Hollywood, all sorts of friendly fire without a single enemy being inconvinienced. Dumbasses.
wtf is with the mods marking pro-MS posts flamebait and troll?
There's no "commenter is a shill" moderation. The comment you're referring to is no troll, but I'd have simply modded it "overrated" since it's an incredibly stupid comment that goes against all reality; MS making ANY OS or software that doesn't suck horribly? MS will never make a "super" phone of a super anything. With the exception of MS Mice and Excel, every single product Microsoft came out with after 1995 was buggy, bloated, and with horrible interfaces.
Maybe the GP was looking for +5 funny? That would have been a good moderation.
There is nothing that raising of taxes can do to 'eliminate ills from society'.
Nobody can or will eliminate all ills from society, but here are a few that taxes have eliminated:
Dirt roads replaced by the interstate highway system
Air pollution so bad you literally could not breathe when driving past a Monsanto
Water pollution so bad that rivers caught fire
People dying from treatable and even curable diseases
Robbery, rape, mayhem (yep, those cops brought to you by taxes... as well as the fire department)
Poisoned food and mislabeled drugs
Workplace safety (my grandfather died because Purina was too God damned cheap to put doors on an elevator).
Allocation of radio spectrum
Of course you can't tax your way to prosperity, but taxes fund the infrastructure necessary for prosperity's growth. Is the Federal government too big? I'd say "yes" but I wouldn't cut social nets; ours is the smallest and most fragile of all developed nations. Instead, I'd get rid of the ATF, DEA, TSA, and most of DHS (FEMA should stay). I'd end all corporate and farming subsidies and get the hell out of Afghanistan.
Before that moment since the end of Civil War, the US had the most economic growth in history, allowing it to pay out all of its debts and become largest creditor nation on earth, while being largest producer of cheap, high quality consumer goods.
The roaring twenties only roared for the 1%; most people did poorly in the '20s. The goods were cheap because there were no labor laws and unions were brand new, so management could horribly exploit the workers.
As many times as we have to tell you that they are being deprived of sales and income.
Then why do studies show that music pirates spend more money on music than non-pirates? Do you think that my ability to check a book (or CD or DVD) out from the library deprives the author of income?
However, I'm not one of the loonies who want copyright abolished, but I would see it greatly shortened, and I'd like to see noncommercial copying legalized, but copyright is necessary. But infringing it isn't theft.
Why would we go to the expense of mining asteroids when it's far cheaper, easier, and safer to mine here on Earth? I mean, until an asteroid made of unobtainium comes close.
Yes... but in this case there should be some sort of punishment for stealing. It is very likely that no sale would have occurred, but that's not the point on an infringement case.
You don't see what you did wrong there, did you? You use the word "stealing" then in the very next sentence you say there has been no harm.
If you steal my car, I no longer have a car. If you infringe my copyright I have lost nothing. Furthermore, there should be a moral imperative against stealing, not necessarily against copyright infringement of old crap that was produced before I was born (and I'll be 60 this year). John Lee Hooker's been dead almost a decade, why is the stuff he recorded before I was born covered under copyright? I see no moral imperitive to honor those copyrights.
Inflamatory and inaccurate language like calling copyright infringement "theft" hurts your argument, and the over the top copyright laws themselves often do, as well.
If you're talking of rape, don't call it murder. If you're talking of stealing a candy bar, don't call it rape. It's not a "pointy shovel," it's a spade.
Flamebait? Someone was offended by that guy's post? Wow. Yeah, it's a stupid, shilly comment, but hardly flamebait.
A Microsoft product that is superior to anyone's?? With the exception of Excel they've never done that before, never even come close. And it took them decades to get Excel right.
Microsoft making a superphone? LOL!!! You guys are hilarious.
As do I. All these nut bags that refuse to use their signals are a danger on the road.
Those people annoy me as well -- but "those people" are damned near everyone on the road. I don't know why they bother installing turn signals, because so few of us use them. And when most people do use them, they use them in a way making them useless; for instance, once you're in the turn lane it's pretty evident you're turning. Why won't people signal that they're gettting in the turn lane?
Then there are those whose brake lights come on before the turn signal. Hey, dimwits, your brake lights already alerted me to the fact that you're doing something and it's probably something stupid.
The problem with these idiots is they drive as if they're the only vehicle on the road... and have you noticed that the worst offenders drive the biggest cars? "Hey get outta my way I'm IMPO'TANT!"
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Have you actually tried WP7 or tried developing for it? Your blind hatred is showing.
A leopard doesn't change its spots. I've been using MS software for thirty years, and almost everything after DOS 6 was utter crap. They are getting better; my notebook has Win 7 and it's head and shoulders above XP (except for the Control Panel, whoever wrote that interface needs a different occupation), but it's still nowhere as useable as KDE.
No, I don't like Microsoft; but the reason I don't like them is because I use their products. They've made exactly ONE product I approve of, Excel.
The Win phone will go over about as well as the Zune, for the same reasons.
When you buy a non-Apple computer, it has Windows preinstalled and you can't get an alternative OS. Not so with phones; MS actually has competetion. Historically, they haven't been able to handle competetion without using their desktop monopoly.
No.why would I?
Because people constantly ask me to put them in book form. "I've been wondering for a couple years now if you're an interesting character who writes well, or a great writer drafting an interesting character. Don't tell me. Some things are more fun to wonder about. Either way, there's probably some money in it."
Also, I've found that there are a lot of jorrnals here that are often better than the front page articles. Not many seem to write journal entries; I friend my fans, and out of almost 400 of them there are maybe half a dozen who journal.
He's probably thinking about action movies where the brakes are slammed on and the steering wheel pulled hard to turn the car completely around. It's just movie crap and has no more to do with reality than McClain jumping off of a burning fighter jet and sliding down an offramp. It just doesn't work like that. It would be faster to slam on the ABS and do a U turn when slow enough. The brake-slamming turnaround is good cinema, but like most things in most movies has little to do with the real world.
During professional driver training (before ABS) they had a car equipped with a gun that fired chalk at the ground. The driver got to 40 mph and the passenger hit a button that fired the chalk. The gun went off again when the brake was pressed, and the passenger marked it again when it stopped. The skidding car went a good 30% farther than the one who braked correctly; not an easy thing to do in an emergency, the normal reaction is to slam on the brakes as hard as you can.
The "occasional necessity of skid" is the "occasional necessity of having your car completely out of control and taking longer to stop". I can't think of a single reason that could ever possibly be a good thing. It's a matter of physics.
Thank you for the links, especially the first one.
No, having a positive opinion about an MS product isn't a troll and isn't necessarily a shill, but when matketspeak creeps into the comment you can be damned sure the post is coming from Redmond.
It's really sad that you feel you have such a small dick that everybody who has a different opinion than yours must be in someones pay. I pity you. Please tell your mum you should be let out of the house more.
Now that flamebait is an obvious troll, and you didn't answer my question - why are you so focused on dicks? You do realise that when you have to resort to insults, you've lost the argument, don't you?
Now grow up.
"We still haven't found extraforgostnic life".
The parent comment is identical to his comment to another poster. It's obscene, it's flamebait, it's a troll and it's reducndant. Why is the guy still sitting at 1? He should have been modded to oblivion yesterday.
Terjeber, why are you so focused on dicks? Are you female, or gay? At any rate, your fascination with male genetalia is troubling. Perhaps you should seek psychaitric help?
If you're still in high school don't bother, teenagers are normally insane (If you want a scientific study I can point you to at least one).
What if you *needed* to lock up your brakes and slam the car into a skid, and the ABS prevented it?
You NEVER need to be in a skid! Slamming on the non-ABS brakes (skidding) will make the vehicle take longer to stop; all you have is the friction of the tire and the road, your brakes transfer far more motion to heat than your skidding tires can. This is why we were taught in the Air Force motor pool to NEVER lock the brakes up; this was before ABS.
Plus, when you're in a skid you have NO steering whatever. When you're skidding you're completely out of control. You NEVER want your car to be out of control.
Air bags would have been a good example. Air bags have killed people in accidents that would not have been fatal if the bag wasn't there, but overall they've saved far more lives than they've cost.
I'm afraid you're terribly misinformed, and since you seemed to completely misunderstand what the GP said, your ignorance is understandable. You might want to practice paying attention when you read.
How do entitlements not count?
Read his comment again, HE ALREADY ANSWERED THAT. Sheesh.
They are funded with my taxes either directly or indirectly, and even if they were zero flow, they sill represent a drag on the economy because the people receiving entitlements usually don't contribute (though this will vary depending on what you are talking about and where you live).
I have no problem helping the unable, but most of my welfare taxation goes to helping the unwilling.
You missed PWORA, didn't you? Just to clue you in, welfare is no longer an entitlement. TANF is time-limited, 2 years in a row, 5 years lifetime. The 8% who are collecting unemployment aren't unemployed because they're lazy, they're unemployed because there aren't enough jobs.
LINK? You would let children and the elderly go hungry? What kind of fucking monster are you???
Medicaid? Just let a heart attack victim die? Again, your views are horrible and monstrous, and I sincerely hope you give some thought to your sociopathic political views.
Agree on medical expenses: they are out of control, largely because of socialist policies and cronyism.
Nope, it's because of the useless middleman, the insurance companies, both health and malpractice. Get the government to take over for the insurance companies like civilized countries do, and outlaw malpractice insurance so if a doctor amputates the wrong leg, the settolement comes out of his pocket. I'd be fine with fewer doctors if the ones who left the field were the ones being sued into bankruptcy court; I don't want an incompetent doctor cutting on ME.
On the other hand, you're saying it is fair for that 5% to bear 60% of the total burden?
Yes, they're getting far more than 60% of the total benefit of those taxes. Why should I have to pay to protect some billionaire's overseas profits?
Not everything has to apply to money or immediate use.
Mammon worship demands that, and money is the US's predominant religion. There are far too many, even at slashdot, who equate "free" with "worthless" who don't realise that the one theing they need more than anything else is free (air). Those who equate "having more stuff" with "being a better person" ("How much are you worth?")
These folks are flabberghasted by the likes of me, who are happy with a roof over their head, food, clothes, and transportation (and beer and electronics). I think those people are pitiful.
As to classifications, someone else pointed out that Titan is large enough to be a planet, but as it orbits a planet, it's a satellite. Planets orbit stars, moons orbit planets. I wonder if there's a planet out there somewhere with a satellite that has its own satellite? Seems improbable but I still wonder.
The moon is getting farther and farther from the earth, when the orbit's center is outside the earth itself, the Earth and Moon will be considered a double planet, both orbiting a spot between the two.
From wikipedia (don't you have a computer?):A polemic ( /pÉ(TM)ËlÉmÉk/) is when the argument, debate or opinion, leans toward attacking the other person as opposed to the discussion at hand. That is, an argument or rhetoric becomes polemic when they have pejorative implications of the dignity of opposition. This is most common in a heated debate, where frustration or a sense of righteousness promotes hostility. The word is derived from the Greek ÏÎÎÎμÎÎÏOEÏ (polemikos), meaning "warlike, hostile",[1][2] which comes from ÏÏOEÎÎμÎÏ ('polemos), "war".[3]
Please take your aliteracy elsewhere. Most folks here have been to college and actually read, and read harder fare than People Magazine.
OOPS, I should have realized that since you're an aliterate you probably haven't heard of that word, either. It must suck to have such a small vocabulary. At any rate, an aliterate is someone who knows how to read, but doesn't.
Windows sucks and always has. Each iteration sucks a little less, but they're still buggy, bloated, and with a crappy UI (no, "shiny" has no part in useability). Windows only succeeded because IBM made sure that DOS was the dominant OS. If IBM had bought the other guy's OS, your computer would be running a desktop shell on top of CP/M instead of on top of DOS.
As to the X-Box, my daughter who works at GameStop tells me they're crap that break often, with design flaws that she's sure are deliberate (I don't; I just think MS's competence leaves much to be desired).
The GP is right; the apps are already developed, they only need to be ported. Making them rewrite them completely is brain-dead stupid. I predict that MS will do as well with their smartphone OS as they were with their MP3 player.
I don't think it's coincidence that so few people seem to use their turn signals for lane changes. It's absolutely dangerous.
Using your turn signal isn't dangerous, the response by idiotic assholes is what's dangerous. If you see my left turn signal, try to pass at your own risk. Ny signal is a courtesy, and I expect people to respond to courtesy with courtesy (unrealistically, usually).
And yet nobody's modded that flamebait you just posted as such. "Religious nutcases" who worship Apple and Linux? Flamebait. Yes, there are a few Linux and Apple (and even MS) zealots, but not the majority.
I don't envy them the (obviously) tiny sexual organs they apparently have. The "wanking" part obviously happens using tweezers.
And yet, you weren't modded down, despite the very obviousness of your flame/master baiting.
The fact is, the GGP was an obvious shill; the entire comment was delivered in marketspeak and did not deserve to be seen. I would have modded him "funny" he was so over the top -- MS, who has produced nothing but pure crap for twenty years (with the exception of Excel) is going to make a phone OS that blows everyone away?
LOL!
the 1% pays its 'fair share' before it pays a single penny in income/corporate/payroll taxes, it pays much more than its fair share by creating the businesses
No, they don't. The wealth doesn't come from the 1%, it comes from the 99% and from machinery that was built by the 99%. Wealth is created on the factory floor, in the programmer's cubicle, behind a camera, behind the fry cook's stove.
succeeding and running the businesse
And still get overly compensated when they run those businesses to the ground -- look how much the President of Chase made, how much Carly Fiona made, how much the president of GM made, as they were running their companies to the ground.
Most businesses aren't strated by the 1%; most jobs come from the small businessperson; guys like Mike Meyers who owns Felbers and a construction company. He lives well, and deserves to, but he's not 1% material. That is for the CEOs of the huge multinationals.
despite the government trying hard to destroy those businesses
Citation? Or even a single example?
The socialist movements are used by the politicians to help them to steal that power. SS, Medicare, income taxes (the way they are collected), payroll taxes
Payroll taxes ARE SS and Medicare taxes. I'll agree that the income taxes are screwed, but they're screwed in favor of the rich, who (unlike me) can deduct their way out of those taxes. I'd love to see an end to all deductions and corporate and farming subsidies. I'd make a wild guess that they could balance the budget simply by stopping all tax deductions.
Once US government defaulted on its money (1971), and the gov't started setting interest rates (price of money), this sent a powerful signal to people who actually run businesses - MOVE THE FUCK OUT.
No, they moved the fuck out when they found they could hire a guy for $3 a day instead of $3 an hour, because the guy they could pay $3 a day to could buy dinner for five cents while the American paid five dollars. Import tarriffs (government involvement) would have saved those jobs.
so called 'Civil Rights', which are entitlements and obligations, not rights
Wrong again. Social Security isn't a civil right, the right to free speech is. Social Security is a property right -- I've paid my share, I'd better get my share.
People cannot expect to live on a dole without producing something
Not the poor, no, but the rich can. Carly Fiona did NOT earn her paycheck; she was on the dole, even worse. Oil company execs are on the government dole, indirectly, because their huge paychecks are partly funded by government subsidies. And guess what? CEOs produce NOTHING. That's not to say that they aren't necessary, just that they do not produce; they control production. Joe Sixpack up on that roof is the guy producing wealth.
If you want to drain your crankcase in the river then government is your enemy, and so is most everyone else. Yes, they're allowed to poison the air and rivers in China, so if you like dirty air, move to China. Personally, as someone who grew up a mile from Monsanto before the EPA, I'd much rather pay an extra penny for that gallon of bleach than to breathe ths shit every day.
The trouble with government is the 1% runs it and the media you're obviously listening to.
And the music loaded on them is...survey says...pirated! You DO realize it would cost something like $64,000 to load an iPod full of RIAA approved music, yes? After all they say ripping to your iPod is illegal and you should have to cut them a check per song (I'm not shitting you, look up "industry says ripping to your iPod is illegal" in Google) but nobody is actually paying attention to their asses are they?
I personally avoid all RIAA-approved music I haven't already paid for. The RIAA may say ripping is illegal, but the fact is it's not. I've been buying music for half a century, and I have a fuckton of it; just spent most of the weekend ripping old music that originally came from LPs and tapes.
The fact is, for every "RIAA-approved" song out there, there are ten more from a non-RIAA band that would love for you to hear their music. THESE are the artists you should be supporting. Hell, you could fill hundreds of iPods with legal music from archive.org alone!
ultimately that is what the consumer WANTS, they want "push button and movie goes"
That should clue you in to how incredibly stupid these media companies are. It galls EVERYONE that it takes ten fucking minutes of antipiracy shit before the movie starts, that only the customer sees. Way to go, Hollywood, all sorts of friendly fire without a single enemy being inconvinienced. Dumbasses.
wtf is with the mods marking pro-MS posts flamebait and troll?
There's no "commenter is a shill" moderation. The comment you're referring to is no troll, but I'd have simply modded it "overrated" since it's an incredibly stupid comment that goes against all reality; MS making ANY OS or software that doesn't suck horribly? MS will never make a "super" phone of a super anything. With the exception of MS Mice and Excel, every single product Microsoft came out with after 1995 was buggy, bloated, and with horrible interfaces.
Maybe the GP was looking for +5 funny? That would have been a good moderation.
There is nothing that raising of taxes can do to 'eliminate ills from society'.
Nobody can or will eliminate all ills from society, but here are a few that taxes have eliminated:
Dirt roads replaced by the interstate highway system
Air pollution so bad you literally could not breathe when driving past a Monsanto
Water pollution so bad that rivers caught fire
People dying from treatable and even curable diseases
Robbery, rape, mayhem (yep, those cops brought to you by taxes... as well as the fire department)
Poisoned food and mislabeled drugs
Workplace safety (my grandfather died because Purina was too God damned cheap to put doors on an elevator).
Allocation of radio spectrum
Of course you can't tax your way to prosperity, but taxes fund the infrastructure necessary for prosperity's growth. Is the Federal government too big? I'd say "yes" but I wouldn't cut social nets; ours is the smallest and most fragile of all developed nations. Instead, I'd get rid of the ATF, DEA, TSA, and most of DHS (FEMA should stay). I'd end all corporate and farming subsidies and get the hell out of Afghanistan.
Before that moment since the end of Civil War, the US had the most economic growth in history, allowing it to pay out all of its debts and become largest creditor nation on earth, while being largest producer of cheap, high quality consumer goods.
The roaring twenties only roared for the 1%; most people did poorly in the '20s. The goods were cheap because there were no labor laws and unions were brand new, so management could horribly exploit the workers.
USA was the beacon of freedom
Sure, if you were white. (YouTube documentary here).
As many times as we have to tell you that they are being deprived of sales and income.
Then why do studies show that music pirates spend more money on music than non-pirates? Do you think that my ability to check a book (or CD or DVD) out from the library deprives the author of income?
However, I'm not one of the loonies who want copyright abolished, but I would see it greatly shortened, and I'd like to see noncommercial copying legalized, but copyright is necessary. But infringing it isn't theft.
Why would we go to the expense of mining asteroids when it's far cheaper, easier, and safer to mine here on Earth? I mean, until an asteroid made of unobtainium comes close.
Yes... but in this case there should be some sort of punishment for stealing. It is very likely that no sale would have occurred, but that's not the point on an infringement case.
You don't see what you did wrong there, did you? You use the word "stealing" then in the very next sentence you say there has been no harm.
If you steal my car, I no longer have a car. If you infringe my copyright I have lost nothing. Furthermore, there should be a moral imperative against stealing, not necessarily against copyright infringement of old crap that was produced before I was born (and I'll be 60 this year). John Lee Hooker's been dead almost a decade, why is the stuff he recorded before I was born covered under copyright? I see no moral imperitive to honor those copyrights.
Inflamatory and inaccurate language like calling copyright infringement "theft" hurts your argument, and the over the top copyright laws themselves often do, as well.
If you're talking of rape, don't call it murder. If you're talking of stealing a candy bar, don't call it rape. It's not a "pointy shovel," it's a spade.
Flamebait? Someone was offended by that guy's post? Wow. Yeah, it's a stupid, shilly comment, but hardly flamebait.
A Microsoft product that is superior to anyone's?? With the exception of Excel they've never done that before, never even come close. And it took them decades to get Excel right.
Microsoft making a superphone? LOL!!! You guys are hilarious.
As do I. All these nut bags that refuse to use their signals are a danger on the road.
Those people annoy me as well -- but "those people" are damned near everyone on the road. I don't know why they bother installing turn signals, because so few of us use them. And when most people do use them, they use them in a way making them useless; for instance, once you're in the turn lane it's pretty evident you're turning. Why won't people signal that they're gettting in the turn lane?
Then there are those whose brake lights come on before the turn signal. Hey, dimwits, your brake lights already alerted me to the fact that you're doing something and it's probably something stupid.
The problem with these idiots is they drive as if they're the only vehicle on the road... and have you noticed that the worst offenders drive the biggest cars? "Hey get outta my way I'm IMPO'TANT!"