1. If you're guiding it, it's not natural selection, it's eugenics. 2. Any time people start talking about eugenics, it makes me nervous. The Germans pretty much ruined that for the rest of us.
The only thing worse than a moron is a moron who thinks he's smart. I've never been to Halifax in my life, and the rest of your "info" is equally accurate. But I LOVE your casual bigotry. It's very progressive.
Either you're a moron, or a pedant. Either way, you're wasting my time.
The Christians conquered Rome?
I didn't say that, but, now that I think of it, yes, they certainly did. If the US became 99% Muslim within the next few decades, there would be no question that Islam conquered America. It's irrelevant whether the conquest is violent, cultural, demographic, or what have you. The fact that Christians used force and intimidation to propagate their beliefs amongst the citizens of Rome is just the icing on the cake.
The rest of your post is a joke, not only do you fail to understand ancient history, you also seem to have trouble with recent history as well.
You suck donkey dicks. Big throbbing goo covered equine jizz delivery divces. Deep-throat style. And those statements have about as much substance as the shit you just spewed.
It's clear that you've run out of real arguments, and have resorted to ignoring questions you don't like, pedanticism, ad-hom, and yelling "NUHUH, UR WRONG!!!". Do yourself a favor and bow out gracefully. It's better to concede an error than to continue arguing out of a desire to protect your fragile ego.
"GPS should never replace maps and mapreading skills"
Why not?
Because when 2012 comes, only those of us with map-reading skills will be able to find the good stuff. I'll be navigating my way to gun shops and twinkie factories, while you get lost in the lingerie department at Walmart.
That might come as a bit of a surprise to the Japanese soldiers in Iraq. Guess the silly buggers accidentally walked into Iraq, and somehow managed to miraculously manifest weapons and uniforms.
Perhaps it's not technically a "promise" but calling WGA a "security update" is pretty damned close. I mean, a user who sees "security update" is going to think "if I don't install this, then I will be vulnerable to malware" and that just wasn't the case here.
Just to play devils advocate - having a pirated OS could definitely make you vulnerable to malware. What's to stop someone from taking a disc image of XP, using a program like nLite to package whatever malware he wants into it (or just modifying system files directly), and then uploading a torrent to TPB? If you had someone install the OS for you, you have no idea where he got it from or what kind of crap came with it. Any time you install pirated software, you put yourself at the mercy of whoever made it available to you.
Now, granted, MS most likely created WGA for completely different reasons. However, they're not lying and they're not even misleading people - they're just not listing ALL of their reasons for wanting you to install the "update".
Fear only works so long as one is vulnerable, if one can find someone capable of protecting them then fear is useless.
Yeah, that's right, France sided with Saddam because they were afraid of the US, and they figured Iraq could protect them. Makes perfect sense!
The Romans taught Latin to native tribes, adsorbed other cultures into their own.
AKA conquered.
Julius Caesar married his generals off to local women (not the only Roman emperor to do so either)
So if General Patreus had married an Iraqi woman, that would have made everything better, huh?
Latin is the Roman language, if they were so bad to the Christians then why do German and Polish popes give their sermons in Latin rather then Italian, German or English.
Hrm.... let's see... I'm going to go out on a limb here, but, could it be because CHRISTIANS TOOK OVER ROME????
Please read up on ancient cultures before commenting on them.
Presumably, "product or service" means "type of product or service".
There should be no presumptions in a definition. If you have to presume something other than the literal words which are written into it, then the definition sucks, and needs to be changed. Which, in case you missed it, was the only point I was trying to make. The fact that Microsoft wouldn't fit under the "monopoly" label even under your changed definition is a completely separate matter.
Microsoft always gives you exactly what they promised to give you. If you're the one exception in the entire world, feel free to sue them. Oh, and please let me know exactly how they failed to deliver on which promise - I'm quite curious. Thanks.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but what the hell: No, you're not curious, you're just looking for an excuse to spew your gormless opinion about US foreign policy, and phrasing it in the form of a question to mask your intentions. So STFU.
And I swear, the next person who tells me that I just replied to an AC is getting coal for Christmas. You're not funny or clever, you're just annoying, as were the 50 guys who did it before you. I've got pull with the Big Guy, so watch it.
By that definition, Apple is a monopoly because they're the only ones who sell the iPhone. McDonalds is a monopoly because they're the only ones who sell a McChicken. That is one stupid definition.
The fastest way to load a page full of javascript is to not load the javascript? Brilliant.
Yep. Just like the fastest way to walk to the store is to drive there. What's wrong with that?
If your objective is to dick around with javascript, then yeah, the solution sucks. But that's not what most people are looking to do. Just like most people don't actually want to WALK to the store, they just want to get there. If two different methods get you to the same objective, go with the faster one.
Obviously you don't have a teenager living with you. I installed an antivirus suite and an anti-spyware scanner on a relatives computer, and still every time I visit them their kids have somehow managed to get at least 3 new pieces of malware on it. After I replaced IE7 with Firefox - and installed NoScript - I only ever caught one more piece of spyware on the computer. I figured that's about a 3,000% decrease:)
But gain your allies respect and they will stick with you no matter what.
Yeah, that worked really well in the lead-up to Iraq, huh?
Of course, ideally you want your friends to respect you and your enemies to fear you. Pragmatically, it helps if your friends fear you at least a little bit. That way they won't be so quick to jump to the defensive of a murderous dictator, just so they can keep buying cheap oil from him. Sure, some of them will stay with you out of respect and loyalty, but others are weaselly enough that a bit of fear will go a long way.
That's the difference between the Romans and the Mongols, Genghis Khan made the world fear the Mongols and their empire died in a generation, Julius Caesar made the world respect the Roman empire and it lasted for centuries.
Uh, the Romans conquered almost everyone and intimidated everyone else. I'm pretty sure they didn't stick Jeebus on a flagpole just for shits and giggles - it may have had something to do with instilling fear in the citizens of their colony. If that's your idea of respect then you need to check your definitions in a dictionary.
Think what you want, but I tell you from a country other than the US: the US was definitely admired because all of that stuf fyou mention, and for being a beacon for democracies around the world. That was until the last decade.
And I tell you from a country other than the US that the Yanks have been made fun of and insulted for decades, all over the world. Funny enough, the start of it seemed to coincide with the end of the cold war. If I were a more cynical person, I might think that people were more than happy to hide behind the yanks as long as the Soviet boogyman was rearing his ugly head. The moment that the USSR collapsed, it became fashionable to trash the yanks and their "imperialism".
It is considered a bully that resolves all matters through force, and is willing to invest 10x more in maintaining that attitude than in continuing its historical path of exploration and invention.
Yes, I know, I hear such ignorant statements on a regular basis. Thanks for repeating them, though.
Or a launch loop [wikipedia.org], which is a practical alternative to a space elevator that doesn't require exotic materials.
Practical? The guy wants to take a 4,000 km long iron cable with a 5cm diameter, and spin it at velocities fast enough to raise the whole thing into the air. And then he wants to put the strain of a few hundred tonnes of payload on it.
The only question seems to be whether it would disintegrate while still on the ground, or whether it would last long enough to build up some speed and launch itself into a different country.
If you fly it up there then you need to keep it in working order
You do? Why?
All you need to do is make sure it's airtight. You can scrap the engines. You can scrap the avionics and flight controls. You can scrap the radio equipment and the computers and pretty much everything in the cockpit. You can feed electricity and air to it from the station, allowing you to scrap the life support system and generators and batteries, or you can keep them as a backup in case the station craps out. He wasn't suggesting using the shuttle as a shuttle so much as just using it for extra space.
Sounds like a joke, but it's not -- the world is more likely to look favorably on a country that uses its wealth for cultural progress like significant science.
Ironically spending $10 billion on the space program would contribute *far* more to US national security than an extra $10 billion to the military.
Yeah! I mean... inventing silicon chips integrated circuits and microprocessors.. the cyclotron and nuclear energy.. freon for use in refrigeration and air conditioning.. the gasoline engine, electric motor, powered airplane and helicopter.. the artificial heart, synthetic skin, heart-lung machine, the BIRTH CONTROL PILL, and vaccines for measles, meningitis and polio.. FM radio, television, the telephone, incandescent and fluorescent bulbs, lasers and lightning rods... discovering the structure of DNA, decoding the human genome, and creating hybrid corn to feed millions... not to mention being the only nation to send a probe out of the solar system... all that stuff wasn't enough. But if you give $10 million to NASA, Osama will immediately call to apologize about that whole 9/11 thing, and we can all go hold hands and smoke weed on the lawn of the White-house. I'm with you man! Now if only we could get off this couch long enough to do something about it....
Ah, screw it. Wanna go get us a bag of Doritos while I spark the next bowl?
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I know you're trying to be funny, but:
1. If you're guiding it, it's not natural selection, it's eugenics.
2. Any time people start talking about eugenics, it makes me nervous. The Germans pretty much ruined that for the rest of us.
The only thing worse than a moron is a moron who thinks he's smart. I've never been to Halifax in my life, and the rest of your "info" is equally accurate. But I LOVE your casual bigotry. It's very progressive.
You know, you could have just said:
"Sorry, I'm a moron, yes Japan does have a military and thank you for informing me of that fact."
It would have made you look a lot better.
Either you're a moron, or a pedant. Either way, you're wasting my time.
I didn't say that, but, now that I think of it, yes, they certainly did. If the US became 99% Muslim within the next few decades, there would be no question that Islam conquered America. It's irrelevant whether the conquest is violent, cultural, demographic, or what have you. The fact that Christians used force and intimidation to propagate their beliefs amongst the citizens of Rome is just the icing on the cake.
You suck donkey dicks. Big throbbing goo covered equine jizz delivery divces. Deep-throat style. And those statements have about as much substance as the shit you just spewed.
It's clear that you've run out of real arguments, and have resorted to ignoring questions you don't like, pedanticism, ad-hom, and yelling "NUHUH, UR WRONG!!!". Do yourself a favor and bow out gracefully. It's better to concede an error than to continue arguing out of a desire to protect your fragile ego.
Hrm ...
evilviper (135110) on Wednesday September 09, @04:17PM - In other words, Japan has no military.
evilviper (135110) on Wednesday September 09, @09:24PM - The Japanese soldiers in Iraq don't do any fighting
Yeah, I see what you mean about that idiot thing ....
Because when 2012 comes, only those of us with map-reading skills will be able to find the good stuff. I'll be navigating my way to gun shops and twinkie factories, while you get lost in the lingerie department at Walmart.
That might come as a bit of a surprise to the Japanese soldiers in Iraq. Guess the silly buggers accidentally walked into Iraq, and somehow managed to miraculously manifest weapons and uniforms.
Just to play devils advocate - having a pirated OS could definitely make you vulnerable to malware. What's to stop someone from taking a disc image of XP, using a program like nLite to package whatever malware he wants into it (or just modifying system files directly), and then uploading a torrent to TPB? If you had someone install the OS for you, you have no idea where he got it from or what kind of crap came with it. Any time you install pirated software, you put yourself at the mercy of whoever made it available to you.
Now, granted, MS most likely created WGA for completely different reasons. However, they're not lying and they're not even misleading people - they're just not listing ALL of their reasons for wanting you to install the "update".
Hi. Welcome to Earth. Did you have a nice trip?
Yeah, that's right, France sided with Saddam because they were afraid of the US, and they figured Iraq could protect them. Makes perfect sense!
AKA conquered.
So if General Patreus had married an Iraqi woman, that would have made everything better, huh?
Hrm .... let's see ... I'm going to go out on a limb here, but, could it be because CHRISTIANS TOOK OVER ROME????
Ditto.
There should be no presumptions in a definition. If you have to presume something other than the literal words which are written into it, then the definition sucks, and needs to be changed. Which, in case you missed it, was the only point I was trying to make. The fact that Microsoft wouldn't fit under the "monopoly" label even under your changed definition is a completely separate matter.
Because "I rarely respond to Anonymous Cowards" just doesn't pack the same punch.
Just for that, you're getting ice-cubes.
There are no seeders :(
Microsoft always gives you exactly what they promised to give you. If you're the one exception in the entire world, feel free to sue them. Oh, and please let me know exactly how they failed to deliver on which promise - I'm quite curious. Thanks.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but what the hell: No, you're not curious, you're just looking for an excuse to spew your gormless opinion about US foreign policy, and phrasing it in the form of a question to mask your intentions. So STFU.
And I swear, the next person who tells me that I just replied to an AC is getting coal for Christmas. You're not funny or clever, you're just annoying, as were the 50 guys who did it before you. I've got pull with the Big Guy, so watch it.
You must have had a fun childhood. "Mister whiskers wouldn't fit in the peanut butter jar .... and now he does!"
By that definition, Apple is a monopoly because they're the only ones who sell the iPhone. McDonalds is a monopoly because they're the only ones who sell a McChicken. That is one stupid definition.
Yep. Just like the fastest way to walk to the store is to drive there. What's wrong with that?
If your objective is to dick around with javascript, then yeah, the solution sucks. But that's not what most people are looking to do. Just like most people don't actually want to WALK to the store, they just want to get there. If two different methods get you to the same objective, go with the faster one.
Obviously you don't have a teenager living with you. I installed an antivirus suite and an anti-spyware scanner on a relatives computer, and still every time I visit them their kids have somehow managed to get at least 3 new pieces of malware on it. After I replaced IE7 with Firefox - and installed NoScript - I only ever caught one more piece of spyware on the computer. I figured that's about a 3,000% decrease :)
Yeah, that worked really well in the lead-up to Iraq, huh?
Of course, ideally you want your friends to respect you and your enemies to fear you. Pragmatically, it helps if your friends fear you at least a little bit. That way they won't be so quick to jump to the defensive of a murderous dictator, just so they can keep buying cheap oil from him. Sure, some of them will stay with you out of respect and loyalty, but others are weaselly enough that a bit of fear will go a long way.
Uh, the Romans conquered almost everyone and intimidated everyone else. I'm pretty sure they didn't stick Jeebus on a flagpole just for shits and giggles - it may have had something to do with instilling fear in the citizens of their colony. If that's your idea of respect then you need to check your definitions in a dictionary.
And I tell you from a country other than the US that the Yanks have been made fun of and insulted for decades, all over the world. Funny enough, the start of it seemed to coincide with the end of the cold war. If I were a more cynical person, I might think that people were more than happy to hide behind the yanks as long as the Soviet boogyman was rearing his ugly head. The moment that the USSR collapsed, it became fashionable to trash the yanks and their "imperialism".
Yes, I know, I hear such ignorant statements on a regular basis. Thanks for repeating them, though.
It turns out that the only viable use for Guinness is a replacement bearing lubricant for spaceships.
Practical? The guy wants to take a 4,000 km long iron cable with a 5cm diameter, and spin it at velocities fast enough to raise the whole thing into the air. And then he wants to put the strain of a few hundred tonnes of payload on it.
The only question seems to be whether it would disintegrate while still on the ground, or whether it would last long enough to build up some speed and launch itself into a different country.
A really nice movie stage in the Arizona desert?
You do? Why?
All you need to do is make sure it's airtight. You can scrap the engines. You can scrap the avionics and flight controls. You can scrap the radio equipment and the computers and pretty much everything in the cockpit. You can feed electricity and air to it from the station, allowing you to scrap the life support system and generators and batteries, or you can keep them as a backup in case the station craps out. He wasn't suggesting using the shuttle as a shuttle so much as just using it for extra space.
Yeah! I mean ... inventing silicon chips integrated circuits and microprocessors .. the cyclotron and nuclear energy .. freon for use in refrigeration and air conditioning .. the gasoline engine, electric motor, powered airplane and helicopter .. the artificial heart, synthetic skin, heart-lung machine, the BIRTH CONTROL PILL, and vaccines for measles, meningitis and polio .. FM radio, television, the telephone, incandescent and fluorescent bulbs, lasers and lightning rods ... discovering the structure of DNA, decoding the human genome, and creating hybrid corn to feed millions ... not to mention being the only nation to send a probe out of the solar system ... all that stuff wasn't enough. But if you give $10 million to NASA, Osama will immediately call to apologize about that whole 9/11 thing, and we can all go hold hands and smoke weed on the lawn of the White-house. I'm with you man! Now if only we could get off this couch long enough to do something about it ....
Ah, screw it. Wanna go get us a bag of Doritos while I spark the next bowl?