Just because you want it to be legal to smoke yourself stupid and lazy to the detriment to society doesn't change the fact that your breaking the law and law breakers go to jail.
That's "You're" Mr. "I'm superior to the 'stupid' lawbreaking potsmoker." Contraction of "you are". You really should pay attention to your teachers, young lady.
Lawbreakers don't go to jail. Poor and middle class people geople getting caught breaking the law, or can be framed, easy with a "crime" like drugs that are easily planted on anyone, go to jail. Want to get rid of your wife without those pesky child support payments? Buy a pound of pot, put it in her trunk, and call crimestoppers while she's at work.
A rich powerful criminal only goes to prison when a richer, more powerful criminal wants him there.
I will not vote for XXX because he wont [sic]let me break the law!!!! Seriously, grow up.
No, I won't vote for someone who won't change an unjust law. That's what legislators do - make, modify, and repeal laws. Seriously, grow a BRAIN.
BTW, I've probably been smoking pot longer than you've been breathing. I've been a productive citizen all my adult (and part of my adolescent) life and am eligible to retire in 2012.
Everything that I've seen suggests that he is open to the idea of decriminalization
If he comes right out and says so he just may get my vote, despite the fact that I've sworn off the corporate parties. As to Paul, he lost the nomination so he's a no-go anyway. I'm leaning toward the Green party, but undecided right now.
As to the state laws, I could move to a less restrictive state, but the Feds won't even let Californian doctors prescribe it for terminal cancer patients! Now that's just plain retarded - you can prescribe a powerful, dangerous, addictive narcotic but you can't prescribe an herb (unless a drug company can get a patent). No state can legalize marijuana while the Federal laws criminalizing it are on the books.
It's my belief that the drug companies (you know, the dope pushers pushing drugs on TV commercials when you watch the evening news) are the ones behind the continued criminalization of illegal drugs. Notice that all of the illegal drugs can't get patents? Heroin is illegal and can't even be prescribed, but the more potent Demerol can be. How much money have the drug companies shoveled into both candidates' campaigns?
My fellow citizens' ignorance saddens me, but my fellow slashdotters' pompous ignorance saddens me more.
You don't lose the vote for being branded a felon. You lose the vote for being convicted of a felony. Voting for a candidate will not get you convicted of a felony. Pissing off the wrong rich man very well may, however.
It's because they listen to "religious radio" and watch "religious tv" instead of reading the bible themselves.
I always say "never trust a preacher in a five thousand dollar suit". And as the necktie is the symbol of wealth and power, it is Satan's leash. Never trust a man who wears a necktie, either.
In all seriousness, I feel like a third party candidate would now need to be part of the "national conversation" on the election a lot earlier than now to win in November -- assuming that's even still really possible.
The more people vote third party (or fourth partty or fifth party) in 2008 the better the chance that they'll lactually WIN in 2012.
These are real concerns I have, not frivolous adolescent worries
My adolescent worry is that I'd like to see adolescents kept off of pot. Pot's illegal for adults and illegal for adolescents. Beer is legal for adults and illegal for adolescents.
You can buy pot in any high schoool in America. You can't buy beer in a single one. A drug dealer will sell pot to an adolescent before he will an adult because adolescents aren't cops. It's easier for an adolescent to buy pot than it is for an adult.
The laws not only don't do what they're supposed to, they're counterproductive.
The economy? Legalize pot and tax it at twice the rate of cigarettes. Pot is a billion dollar industry based on a plant that is a weed that anyone can grow. Legalizing pot would be a huge boon to the economy.
Get the President to smoke it and maybe we would have fewer wars.
1. Stop voting for Republicans 2. Stop voting for Democrats 3. Stop voting for any candidate who takes corporate money, or whose party takes corporate money 4. Start voting for the alternatives. 5. ?????????? 6. Profit!
Time for me to DL a new distro then. I had a back and forth with their tech support on this issue, they were adamant that the only OS supported was Windows 2000 and XP. That was a couple of years ago though.
Did Logitech write the drivers, or are they an open source effort? When I first got the combo they were adamant that Apple and Linux users could just go fuck themselves (not in those words, but that was the attitude). I didn't like it one bit and swore off Logitech.
Then they have made some improvements since I bought the combo, iirc it was 04 or 05 when I bought it. They pretty much had a "fuck off loser" attitude toward both Linux and Mac users when I contacted them.
I'm not voting for Obama and I'm not voting for McCain. Despite the hot air coming from both their mouths to the contrary, they are both deeply in the corporate pockets. They have taken their corporate bribes and the corporations own them.
Obama and McCain want to put potsmokers in prison. A vote for someone who wants you in prison isn't just a wasted vote, it's a stupid vote. "Vote for me, I want you incarcerated! A gambler in every prison, a pothead in every institution, a hooker or a john in every cell!"
I want to know what the Green and Libertarian candidates stances are on tech issues. Why these two parties are not mentioned in the corporate-owned media is obvious; the question is why they are being ignored by slashdot?
The baby boomers are (were?) a bunch of dope-smoking draft dodgers that have run this country into the ground while their parents wonder why exactly it is that they fought World War II, since they just ended up living under authoritarianism anyway.
My grandad's generation smoked cigars. My dad's generation smoked cigarettes. My generation smoked pot.
Your generation smokes crack.
You have to have a draft in order to dodge that draft. Fifty thosand boomers DIDN'T dodge the draft and died in that godforsaken jungle for absolutely nothing. Unless you have served in the military (and yes, I did, during Vietnam, despite the fact that I was in no danger of being drafted) you have no right to criticise anyone for dodging the draft.
A generation didn't run the country into the ground, a class did. Your class (if you are rich) ran it into the ground with your selfish grubbing for money, with your exploitation of my friends my age and younger who do the actual work building roads, bridges, houses, cell phone towers, and everything else for you. The rich sent the jobs overseas, not the people who do the actual work. My generation isn't taking rights away, the rich of all adult generations who run things are.
Get your enemies straight, son. While you're fighting me, your masters are laughing at you. I'm not taking away any of your rights, I'm fighting to preserve them. You employer is fighting tooth and nail to get as much of everything as he can, including YOUR RIGHTS. And you dumbass kids do your damndest to help him!
World War Two was started by the same generation that fought World War One. People seem to forget that Hitler and Mussolini were of the same generation as Eisenhower and Truman and Patton. They wouldn't have had to fight that war if they hadn't tried to take over the world. What is your generation doing to fight authoritarianism? Mine got a war ended, protesting in person (and some dying in those protests) while yours bitches anonymously or semi-anonymously on messageboards. "The best generation?" IMO my Uncles' generation (my dad was a teenager in WWII, I was born at the end of the Korean war) was the WORST generation, not the greatest. They brought the world nuclear warfare, my generation brought it the World Wide Web.
If you could have seen what the world was like in the 1950s when I was a child, you would appreciate what my generation has done for you.
The one thing my generation did badly was raise you ignorant, hateful crackheads. I sincerely hope your generation does a better job of raising the next generation than mine did, because we really sucked at raising you.
The baby boomers built the country? Please! They were sitting around protesting, free-loving, and smoking dope while their parents and grandparents actually built what we have today. No one on this planet has the same entitlement mentality as United States baby boomers. No one.
I thought that WE had little respect for our elders, but you punks take the cake (and eat it too). We didn't "sit around protesting", we marched around protesting. And what we protested was what the previous generations had fucked up.
We were being drafted to be cannon fodder for a useless war. Some of us volunteered for that useless war out of patriotism (I did). The protests finally eneded thath war. Meanwhile you little whiners are too busy chasing filthy lucre and getting your nipples pierced and foreheads tattood to care that an oil man becaise President and started a useless war for the sole purpose of enriching himself. At least my dad's generation's rich people who starte dthe Vietnam war thought )prehaps correctly) that they were fighting communism, a laudible goal to them.
My generation's protests stopped the war and made the President resign. Where are your protests of the Iraq war? Your stupid generation doesn't even have to be drafted!
Some of us protested the rape of the environment. We got the Clean Air act and teh Clean Water act passed. We got CFCs banned. What are you gutless wimps doing about global warmning? Buying SUVs!
My generation built sna is still building houses, like the one you live in. The parts of the electrical grid my dad din't build were built by those who followed him.
My dad's generation invented computers, but my generation pur those giant building sized machines on your desktop. My generation put VCRs and CDs and DVDs on the narket. My generation made the entire cell phone infrastructure.
My dad's generation smoked cigarettes. My generation smoked pot. Your generation smokes crack.
Your generation uses my generation's music in their fucktardedly stupid commercials. Neither my nor my dad's generation did that.
My generation was pretty ignorant of history, but we were pikers when it comes to your generation.
What has your generation done, except invent internet trolling?
"Good thing for us God is just a figment of your imagination."
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]
Penguins don't exist. They're a figment of your imagination. If anyone tells you he has ever seen a penguin, he's either lying or hallucinating. A bird that swims underwater but doesn't fly and lives at the south pole? Thst' just crazy talk. You never heard of Photoshop?
IHBT. The above "insightful" comment was completely offtopic and meant to bait Christians, Jews, and Muslims at slashdot. There are a lot of religious people here; they just aren't as fanatical as slashdot's athiests, and don't try to cram their beliefs down others' throats like the athiests here do.
Unless it's on topic, please STFU about God, Jesus, Muhammed, Bhodisatva, and any other religious matter. It is as unwelcome here as it is in a bar. That goes for the GP and his quotation of Moses' scripture as well (it seemed also rather trollish).
Whowever modded that troll "insightful" should be afraid.
Besides that god also said to kill anyone caught working on the sabbath
That's not what my Bible says. Where did he say that, the Koran? God doesn't need men to mete out punishment, he's perfectly capable of punishing anyone he wants to.
Look up "smite". God enforces his own laws, you don't need to.\
"No karma bonus" checked for this post replying to an anti-Christian, anti-Jew, anti-Muslim troll.
Law are meant to keeps law abiding citizens abiding.
That makes no sense at all! If there are no laws, there are no laws to abide. If the only law was Aleister Crowley's law ("Do what one wilt shall be the whole of the law") than everyone would be law abiding, even rapists, murderersm and thieves.
How does a a law against stealing make the thief abide? Law doesn't keep people law abiding, law enforcement does.
I haven't bought a whole computer in a couple of decades, si I'm ignorant here and your comment surprised me. If one buys a computer with Windows and won't accept Microsoft's EULA, you can get a refund on just Windows? I thought you would have to return the whole computer.
How much do you get back? I've seen Dells where the Windows computer was cheaper than the Linux version, how much more of a Windows discount do you get by returning Windows?
If it's ten bucks that won't cover the price of gas to take it back to the store in a lot of places. I paid a hundred bucks for my copy of XP Home (proffessional was something like $500 iirc), would you get retail refunded if you got a whole computer instead of just the OS? If so, buying a whole computer might be cheaper than building one.
Indeed. Some of the simplest things trip people up, but it's especially true about joe sixpack. Joe will say "I need a computer" and choose it simply on hardware without even knowing what it's for. Most ignorants (and this is not a slam at anyone, everyone is ignorant about something. Nobody knows everything) will simply buy the most expensive one they can afford, because common perception (usually untrue but still) is that "more expensive is always better".
A computer is good for one thing and one thing only: runnig an operating system.
An operating system is good for one thing and one thing only: Running programs.
Of course, with a computer you want to avoid vertain things as well, such as viruses, spyware, etc.
Car analogy: you may like convertables, but if you live in North Canada one is pretty much a waste of money. If you live in Florida a four wheel drive is likeways a waste. If you run Linux and buy a Logitech wireless keyboard, the extras like the media control buttons aren't going to work. I've sworn of Logotech for just that reason; the morons only support Microsoft (as I found out after buying Logitech - never again!). I have no use for a company whose hardware won't support my OS.
So the GP hhas it right. If it comes preinstalled with Linux, you know it and any accessories that come with it will work.
You mean like "the love of money is the root of all evil"? Or "Judge not, lest you be judged yourself?" Or "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's [property]"? Or "It is as hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven as it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle?" How about "if a man asks for you coat, give him your cloak as well"?
That doesn't describe any Republican I ever met. The Republican Party is the party of the rich. They don't worship God, they worship money. Pat Robertson is the "wolf in sheep's clothing" Jesus warned about, and converted so many Christians to Atheism he has Satan jealous.
Republicans use the churches to control the working man, who DOES for the most part believe in God.
Layoff thousands of useless unioned employee workers.
The ones in the unions do the actual work and are the lowest paid. If you want to save money, get rid of most of the middle management.
Actually, if you want to save government money get us the hell our of Iraq! The only ones who have benefitted from that senseless waste of lives and money is the oil companies, due to the further destabilization of the region.
Because when Social Security was first introduced, a citizens anonymity was thought to be a god-given right. It was warned by "tinfoil hat wearing nut jobs" that Social Security was evil because it required an identity card. "Your paperss pleass".
My SS card, issued in 1968, says "For social security and tax purposes only - not for identification". The newer SS cards don't say that.
Now they're trying to do away with Social Security and keep the cards. The "tinfoil hat wearing nut jobs" were right.
Before long it will be a felony to not carry identification.
Regardless of what they say publicly, my guess is that they are probably seeking the information not just to keep tabs on the merchants, but to keep a better lock on consumers
Oh no! My credit card receipts from marijuana dealer and my hookers will all bust me out!
More seriously, they act as if cash has been outlawed. I haven't used a credit or debit card in quite some time, and the only place I cash chekcs are the bank and two local bars. When I cash checks at the bars I almost always cash them for more than I spend there.
This seems a very VERY thin excuse to spy on Americans. I can't for the life of me figure out any other reason for it.
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Just because you want it to be legal to smoke yourself stupid and lazy to the detriment to society doesn't change the fact that your breaking the law and law breakers go to jail.
That's "You're" Mr. "I'm superior to the 'stupid' lawbreaking potsmoker." Contraction of "you are". You really should pay attention to your teachers, young lady.
Lawbreakers don't go to jail. Poor and middle class people geople getting caught breaking the law, or can be framed, easy with a "crime" like drugs that are easily planted on anyone, go to jail. Want to get rid of your wife without those pesky child support payments? Buy a pound of pot, put it in her trunk, and call crimestoppers while she's at work.
A rich powerful criminal only goes to prison when a richer, more powerful criminal wants him there.
I will not vote for XXX because he wont [sic]let me break the law!!!! Seriously, grow up.
No, I won't vote for someone who won't change an unjust law. That's what legislators do - make, modify, and repeal laws. Seriously, grow a BRAIN.
BTW, I've probably been smoking pot longer than you've been breathing. I've been a productive citizen all my adult (and part of my adolescent) life and am eligible to retire in 2012.
Your government lies to you.
Everything that I've seen suggests that he is open to the idea of decriminalization
If he comes right out and says so he just may get my vote, despite the fact that I've sworn off the corporate parties. As to Paul, he lost the nomination so he's a no-go anyway. I'm leaning toward the Green party, but undecided right now.
As to the state laws, I could move to a less restrictive state, but the Feds won't even let Californian doctors prescribe it for terminal cancer patients! Now that's just plain retarded - you can prescribe a powerful, dangerous, addictive narcotic but you can't prescribe an herb (unless a drug company can get a patent). No state can legalize marijuana while the Federal laws criminalizing it are on the books.
It's my belief that the drug companies (you know, the dope pushers pushing drugs on TV commercials when you watch the evening news) are the ones behind the continued criminalization of illegal drugs. Notice that all of the illegal drugs can't get patents? Heroin is illegal and can't even be prescribed, but the more potent Demerol can be. How much money have the drug companies shoveled into both candidates' campaigns?
My fellow citizens' ignorance saddens me, but my fellow slashdotters' pompous ignorance saddens me more.
You don't lose the vote for being branded a felon. You lose the vote for being convicted of a felony. Voting for a candidate will not get you convicted of a felony. Pissing off the wrong rich man very well may, however.
It's because they listen to "religious radio" and watch "religious tv" instead of reading the bible themselves.
I always say "never trust a preacher in a five thousand dollar suit". And as the necktie is the symbol of wealth and power, it is Satan's leash. Never trust a man who wears a necktie, either.
In all seriousness, I feel like a third party candidate would now need to be part of the "national conversation" on the election a lot earlier than now to win in November -- assuming that's even still really possible.
The more people vote third party (or fourth partty or fifth party) in 2008 the better the chance that they'll lactually WIN in 2012.
These are real concerns I have, not frivolous adolescent worries
My adolescent worry is that I'd like to see adolescents kept off of pot. Pot's illegal for adults and illegal for adolescents. Beer is legal for adults and illegal for adolescents.
You can buy pot in any high schoool in America. You can't buy beer in a single one. A drug dealer will sell pot to an adolescent before he will an adult because adolescents aren't cops. It's easier for an adolescent to buy pot than it is for an adult.
The laws not only don't do what they're supposed to, they're counterproductive.
The economy? Legalize pot and tax it at twice the rate of cigarettes. Pot is a billion dollar industry based on a plant that is a weed that anyone can grow. Legalizing pot would be a huge boon to the economy.
Get the President to smoke it and maybe we would have fewer wars.
If I donate to Obama I'm making a donation. If I donate to McCain I'm making a donation. If I donate to Obama and McCain I'm making a bribe.
It's that simple.
1. Stop voting for Republicans
2. Stop voting for Democrats
3. Stop voting for any candidate who takes corporate money, or whose party takes corporate money
4. Start voting for the alternatives.
5. ??????????
6. Profit!
Time for me to DL a new distro then. I had a back and forth with their tech support on this issue, they were adamant that the only OS supported was Windows 2000 and XP. That was a couple of years ago though.
Did Logitech write the drivers, or are they an open source effort? When I first got the combo they were adamant that Apple and Linux users could just go fuck themselves (not in those words, but that was the attitude). I didn't like it one bit and swore off Logitech.
Then they have made some improvements since I bought the combo, iirc it was 04 or 05 when I bought it. They pretty much had a "fuck off loser" attitude toward both Linux and Mac users when I contacted them.
Thanks for the keytouch link!
I'm not voting for Obama and I'm not voting for McCain. Despite the hot air coming from both their mouths to the contrary, they are both deeply in the corporate pockets. They have taken their corporate bribes and the corporations own them.
Obama and McCain want to put potsmokers in prison. A vote for someone who wants you in prison isn't just a wasted vote, it's a stupid vote. "Vote for me, I want you incarcerated! A gambler in every prison, a pothead in every institution, a hooker or a john in every cell!"
I want to know what the Green and Libertarian candidates stances are on tech issues. Why these two parties are not mentioned in the corporate-owned media is obvious; the question is why they are being ignored by slashdot?
The baby boomers are (were?) a bunch of dope-smoking draft dodgers that have run this country into the ground while their parents wonder why exactly it is that they fought World War II, since they just ended up living under authoritarianism anyway.
My grandad's generation smoked cigars. My dad's generation smoked cigarettes. My generation smoked pot.
Your generation smokes crack.
You have to have a draft in order to dodge that draft. Fifty thosand boomers DIDN'T dodge the draft and died in that godforsaken jungle for absolutely nothing. Unless you have served in the military (and yes, I did, during Vietnam, despite the fact that I was in no danger of being drafted) you have no right to criticise anyone for dodging the draft.
A generation didn't run the country into the ground, a class did. Your class (if you are rich) ran it into the ground with your selfish grubbing for money, with your exploitation of my friends my age and younger who do the actual work building roads, bridges, houses, cell phone towers, and everything else for you. The rich sent the jobs overseas, not the people who do the actual work. My generation isn't taking rights away, the rich of all adult generations who run things are.
Get your enemies straight, son. While you're fighting me, your masters are laughing at you. I'm not taking away any of your rights, I'm fighting to preserve them. You employer is fighting tooth and nail to get as much of everything as he can, including YOUR RIGHTS. And you dumbass kids do your damndest to help him!
World War Two was started by the same generation that fought World War One. People seem to forget that Hitler and Mussolini were of the same generation as Eisenhower and Truman and Patton. They wouldn't have had to fight that war if they hadn't tried to take over the world. What is your generation doing to fight authoritarianism? Mine got a war ended, protesting in person (and some dying in those protests) while yours bitches anonymously or semi-anonymously on messageboards. "The best generation?" IMO my Uncles' generation (my dad was a teenager in WWII, I was born at the end of the Korean war) was the WORST generation, not the greatest. They brought the world nuclear warfare, my generation brought it the World Wide Web.
If you could have seen what the world was like in the 1950s when I was a child, you would appreciate what my generation has done for you.
The one thing my generation did badly was raise you ignorant, hateful crackheads. I sincerely hope your generation does a better job of raising the next generation than mine did, because we really sucked at raising you.
The baby boomers built the country? Please! They were sitting around protesting, free-loving, and smoking dope while their parents and grandparents actually built what we have today. No one on this planet has the same entitlement mentality as United States baby boomers. No one.
I thought that WE had little respect for our elders, but you punks take the cake (and eat it too). We didn't "sit around protesting", we marched around protesting. And what we protested was what the previous generations had fucked up.
We were being drafted to be cannon fodder for a useless war. Some of us volunteered for that useless war out of patriotism (I did). The protests finally eneded thath war. Meanwhile you little whiners are too busy chasing filthy lucre and getting your nipples pierced and foreheads tattood to care that an oil man becaise President and started a useless war for the sole purpose of enriching himself. At least my dad's generation's rich people who starte dthe Vietnam war thought )prehaps correctly) that they were fighting communism, a laudible goal to them.
My generation's protests stopped the war and made the President resign. Where are your protests of the Iraq war? Your stupid generation doesn't even have to be drafted!
Some of us protested the rape of the environment. We got the Clean Air act and teh Clean Water act passed. We got CFCs banned. What are you gutless wimps doing about global warmning? Buying SUVs!
My generation built sna is still building houses, like the one you live in. The parts of the electrical grid my dad din't build were built by those who followed him.
My dad's generation invented computers, but my generation pur those giant building sized machines on your desktop. My generation put VCRs and CDs and DVDs on the narket. My generation made the entire cell phone infrastructure.
My dad's generation smoked cigarettes. My generation smoked pot. Your generation smokes crack.
Your generation uses my generation's music in their fucktardedly stupid commercials. Neither my nor my dad's generation did that.
My generation was pretty ignorant of history, but we were pikers when it comes to your generation.
What has your generation done, except invent internet trolling?
"Good thing for us God is just a figment of your imagination."
An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and usually irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]
Penguins don't exist. They're a figment of your imagination. If anyone tells you he has ever seen a penguin, he's either lying or hallucinating. A bird that swims underwater but doesn't fly and lives at the south pole? Thst' just crazy talk. You never heard of Photoshop?
IHBT. The above "insightful" comment was completely offtopic and meant to bait Christians, Jews, and Muslims at slashdot. There are a lot of religious people here; they just aren't as fanatical as slashdot's athiests, and don't try to cram their beliefs down others' throats like the athiests here do.
Unless it's on topic, please STFU about God, Jesus, Muhammed, Bhodisatva, and any other religious matter. It is as unwelcome here as it is in a bar. That goes for the GP and his quotation of Moses' scripture as well (it seemed also rather trollish).
Whowever modded that troll "insightful" should be afraid.
Besides that god also said to kill anyone caught working on the sabbath
That's not what my Bible says. Where did he say that, the Koran? God doesn't need men to mete out punishment, he's perfectly capable of punishing anyone he wants to.
Look up "smite". God enforces his own laws, you don't need to.\
"No karma bonus" checked for this post replying to an anti-Christian, anti-Jew, anti-Muslim troll.
Law are meant to keeps law abiding citizens abiding.
That makes no sense at all! If there are no laws, there are no laws to abide. If the only law was Aleister Crowley's law ("Do what one wilt shall be the whole of the law") than everyone would be law abiding, even rapists, murderersm and thieves.
How does a a law against stealing make the thief abide? Law doesn't keep people law abiding, law enforcement does.
I haven't bought a whole computer in a couple of decades, si I'm ignorant here and your comment surprised me. If one buys a computer with Windows and won't accept Microsoft's EULA, you can get a refund on just Windows? I thought you would have to return the whole computer.
How much do you get back? I've seen Dells where the Windows computer was cheaper than the Linux version, how much more of a Windows discount do you get by returning Windows?
If it's ten bucks that won't cover the price of gas to take it back to the store in a lot of places. I paid a hundred bucks for my copy of XP Home (proffessional was something like $500 iirc), would you get retail refunded if you got a whole computer instead of just the OS? If so, buying a whole computer might be cheaper than building one.
Indeed. Some of the simplest things trip people up, but it's especially true about joe sixpack. Joe will say "I need a computer" and choose it simply on hardware without even knowing what it's for. Most ignorants (and this is not a slam at anyone, everyone is ignorant about something. Nobody knows everything) will simply buy the most expensive one they can afford, because common perception (usually untrue but still) is that "more expensive is always better".
A computer is good for one thing and one thing only: runnig an operating system.
An operating system is good for one thing and one thing only: Running programs.
Of course, with a computer you want to avoid vertain things as well, such as viruses, spyware, etc.
Car analogy: you may like convertables, but if you live in North Canada one is pretty much a waste of money. If you live in Florida a four wheel drive is likeways a waste. If you run Linux and buy a Logitech wireless keyboard, the extras like the media control buttons aren't going to work. I've sworn of Logotech for just that reason; the morons only support Microsoft (as I found out after buying Logitech - never again!). I have no use for a company whose hardware won't support my OS.
So the GP hhas it right. If it comes preinstalled with Linux, you know it and any accessories that come with it will work.
Republicans are about spreading the word of God
You mean like "the love of money is the root of all evil"? Or "Judge not, lest you be judged yourself?" Or "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's [property]"? Or "It is as hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven as it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle?" How about "if a man asks for you coat, give him your cloak as well"?
That doesn't describe any Republican I ever met. The Republican Party is the party of the rich. They don't worship God, they worship money. Pat Robertson is the "wolf in sheep's clothing" Jesus warned about, and converted so many Christians to Atheism he has Satan jealous.
Republicans use the churches to control the working man, who DOES for the most part believe in God.
Layoff thousands of useless unioned employee workers.
The ones in the unions do the actual work and are the lowest paid. If you want to save money, get rid of most of the middle management.
Actually, if you want to save government money get us the hell our of Iraq! The only ones who have benefitted from that senseless waste of lives and money is the oil companies, due to the further destabilization of the region.
Because when Social Security was first introduced, a citizens anonymity was thought to be a god-given right. It was warned by "tinfoil hat wearing nut jobs" that Social Security was evil because it required an identity card. "Your paperss pleass".
My SS card, issued in 1968, says "For social security and tax purposes only - not for identification". The newer SS cards don't say that.
Now they're trying to do away with Social Security and keep the cards. The "tinfoil hat wearing nut jobs" were right.
Before long it will be a felony to not carry identification.
Regardless of what they say publicly, my guess is that they are probably seeking the information not just to keep tabs on the merchants, but to keep a better lock on consumers
Oh no! My credit card receipts from marijuana dealer and my hookers will all bust me out!
More seriously, they act as if cash has been outlawed. I haven't used a credit or debit card in quite some time, and the only place I cash chekcs are the bank and two local bars. When I cash checks at the bars I almost always cash them for more than I spend there.
This seems a very VERY thin excuse to spy on Americans. I can't for the life of me figure out any other reason for it.
Thanks, I'll try it.
Exactly, thank you. I don't denigrate the effort to make the movie or record the song (unless it's Britney Spears =P).
Previous US copyright law said that you couldn't copyright something that wasn't "affixed to a tangible medium." That made much sense to me.
Ok, I agree with you there.