But as you should've been able to glean from the context of my post, I was referring exclusively to the issue of OS upgrades and how apt-get wouldn't break.
Yes, you were. You simply blamed the unions for balking at cuts to their compensation. I fail to see how you can actually criticize them for that, given that just about everyone else would balk at cuts to their compensation as well. Why should unions be special in this regard?
even with companies going into the red, the UAW still demanded 100% of all their benefits
So fucking what? Are you trying to tell me that during that time all of the executives and management were willing to give up any part of their benefits and pay? Are you telling me that you've ever volunteered to give up any part of YOUR benefits and pay when your company wasn't doing so hot?
Unless you are one of the people actually writing Linux drivers, you are doing the same damn thing on Linux: Depending on 3rd parties to support you. If no one wants to write a driver for your particular breed of hardware, it's not getting done unless you pay for it.
I find it funny how in so many people's measure the non-commercial linux offering with commercial metrics.
Because that is what they're comparing them to. Linux doesn't get off free simply because it's "non-commercial". It either fits the needs or it doesn't.
Seriously? Are you fucking retarded? Do you have any idea what the context is that you're quoting? Do you have any fucking idea what MacPorts does?
MacPorts compiles stuff from source. Of course if you switch computers to a new processor architecture, there's ALWAYS the chance that something might break. The EXACT SAME PROBLEM exists for Ubuntu.
Until OS X Lion I would have disagreed, but with Lion they're making it harder and harder to use a mac as a dev machine for anything other than apple products.
No they aren't, unless you're obscenely incompetent.
The command line tools are no longer even automatically installed with XCode
So fucking what? You know that separating them like that means you can install the command line tools WITHOUT installing Xcode, right?
This conclusion is utterly worthless and without merit. The fact of the matter is, you do not have the right to engage in activities which endanger other people. Not vaccinating and sending children to school is one of these activities.
And what if I don't want to live in society? Will society let me independently exist
Yes. Leave, and you can independently exist.
or will they force my participation, through such means as property taxes?
Ahh, so you want to live in society, but not "participate". So you want all the benefits of society (roads, medicine, police protection, electricity, etc), but you don't want the responsibility.
And if I'm not given a choice, who's the parasite?
I would say the one who insists on living with the benefits of society, but throws a childish temper tantrum when asked to live up to their responsibilities.
Yeah. Ask anyone who's ever had to get a 'booster' shot (pretty much everyone, if they've gone to the doctor and been tested for it) how effective their first shot was. You know, the first shot that was supposed to give them life-long immunity.
Nobody claimed it would. Immunity fades, just like the immunity you get from contact with the disease can fade. However, in the vaccine's favor, you have a far lower risk of complications than you do from actually getting the disease.
It's as plain as the nose on your face, if you'd just open your eyes.
He asked for facts and data. You gave him neither. You gave him bullshit and anecdotes.
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But as you should've been able to glean from the context of my post, I was referring exclusively to the issue of OS upgrades and how apt-get wouldn't break.
Except that's not true at all.
I wasn't trying to condemn any single party
Yes, you were. You simply blamed the unions for balking at cuts to their compensation. I fail to see how you can actually criticize them for that, given that just about everyone else would balk at cuts to their compensation as well. Why should unions be special in this regard?
even with companies going into the red, the UAW still demanded 100% of all their benefits
So fucking what? Are you trying to tell me that during that time all of the executives and management were willing to give up any part of their benefits and pay? Are you telling me that you've ever volunteered to give up any part of YOUR benefits and pay when your company wasn't doing so hot?
Unions in the United States needs massive reform.
No they don't. What needs reform is the system at the top. Once that has been reformed, then you can worry about taking things from the working class.
And with that attitude, you should rightly go out of business due to not being able to find anyone worth a shit to work for you.
I can do a fresh install, restore my home folder, do a single apt-get with my previously installed package list, make a cup of tea
You might want to change that to making a cake. Dependency lists can get long, and take a while to download.
With Linux, the community does for itself.
With Macs, you expect 3rd parties to support you.
Unless you are one of the people actually writing Linux drivers, you are doing the same damn thing on Linux: Depending on 3rd parties to support you. If no one wants to write a driver for your particular breed of hardware, it's not getting done unless you pay for it.
Then you're an idiot.
Everything in your comment is nothing but unfounded bullshit, and tired Apple bashing.
I find it funny how in so many people's measure the non-commercial linux offering with commercial metrics.
Because that is what they're comparing them to. Linux doesn't get off free simply because it's "non-commercial". It either fits the needs or it doesn't.
Seriously? Are you fucking retarded? Do you have any idea what the context is that you're quoting? Do you have any fucking idea what MacPorts does?
MacPorts compiles stuff from source. Of course if you switch computers to a new processor architecture, there's ALWAYS the chance that something might break. The EXACT SAME PROBLEM exists for Ubuntu.
Last time I checked, Microsoft didn't require me to obtain digital certificates for publishing code that runs in userland.
Someone clearly hasn't been paying attention to Windows 8.
Your tinfoil hat is cutting off circulation to your brain.
Until OS X Lion I would have disagreed, but with Lion they're making it harder and harder to use a mac as a dev machine for anything other than apple products.
No they aren't, unless you're obscenely incompetent.
The command line tools are no longer even automatically installed with XCode
So fucking what? You know that separating them like that means you can install the command line tools WITHOUT installing Xcode, right?
I'm sorry, but your post is nothing but FUD and bullshit. How some moron decided to mod you insightful I will never know.
And the ironic thing is that most of them were probably doing that from Windows boxes.
It's also 3rd-party and at the mercy of Apple and requires a bunch of prerequisites.
So is Apt. It just so happens that the prereqs are taken care of for you.
Try Homebrew.
Sounds like every internet community ever.
Yeah. People like you, who have no fucking clue what they're talking about.
This conclusion is utterly worthless and without merit. The fact of the matter is, you do not have the right to engage in activities which endanger other people. Not vaccinating and sending children to school is one of these activities.
Your premise is entirely flawed because it requires enough people not being vaccinated by choice.
No, because by doing so, you are still using a construct of society.
And what if I don't want to live in society? Will society let me independently exist
Yes. Leave, and you can independently exist.
or will they force my participation, through such means as property taxes?
Ahh, so you want to live in society, but not "participate". So you want all the benefits of society (roads, medicine, police protection, electricity, etc), but you don't want the responsibility.
And if I'm not given a choice, who's the parasite?
I would say the one who insists on living with the benefits of society, but throws a childish temper tantrum when asked to live up to their responsibilities.
Yeah. Ask anyone who's ever had to get a 'booster' shot (pretty much everyone, if they've gone to the doctor and been tested for it) how effective their first shot was. You know, the first shot that was supposed to give them life-long immunity.
Nobody claimed it would. Immunity fades, just like the immunity you get from contact with the disease can fade. However, in the vaccine's favor, you have a far lower risk of complications than you do from actually getting the disease.
It's as plain as the nose on your face, if you'd just open your eyes.
He asked for facts and data. You gave him neither. You gave him bullshit and anecdotes.