Seriously, Win7 runs just fine on netbooks with 1.6GHz single-core Atoms and 1GB of RAM.
You've never actually used Win7 on a netbook, slow as a double amputee retarded kid stuck in quicksand. Hell, I've got a C2D E6600, 4 GB of RAM and Win7 struggles at times. Cant have too many FFX windows open as well as a virtual machine. Strange thing is the machine was fine doing the same thing under XP until the orders came down from up high that we were moving to Win7. It may be better then Vista, well it is but that's like telling me it's better then syphilis.
The corporations aren't "too powerful" in their own right; they simply have too much influence over the government,
You know this statement contradicts itself.
Corporations that are able to influence governments without question have without a doubt grown too powerful in their own rights.
One is to reduce the power of governments, ????? which simultaneously limits the power available for corporations to influence
There, fixed that for you.
So, the solution to an organisation that has grown too powerful is to limit the power of largest opposing faction. This somehow does not create a power vacuum which is not immediately filled by the largest opposing force (the corporations). What colour is the sky on your planet.
Public debt and high taxes are both very real problems
Nope, unrestrained public debt is a symptom of two reckless wars. High taxation is the only real way to fix that. I said when the Iraqi invasion began that eventually the American people will have to pay for the war in taxes (just as every nation does, when they go to war, wars are very expensive and do not have a good ROI) it just took longer then I expected.
which is also a goal of the "Tea Party".
The goal of the Tea Party is to deliver votes to the Republican party without voters realising they are doing it. The Tea Party really is the "I cant believe it's not the Republican party", it's a classic PR coup, re-brand and people forget the problems. In Australia we are quite familiar with this system, the Nationals (Australian National Party) sole purpose these days is to bring the extremist right (nationalist) vote under the power of the more moderate Liberal party (conservatives), but we see through it and refer to the whole sordid mess as "the Coalition". The Tea Party is being used to lure those people who dont want to vote Republican, to vote Republican via proxy and not feel like they are voting Republican.
The Tea Party will never accomplish its stated goals because they are unrealistic and merely a feel good smokescreen.
* Of course, drugs in this context do not include Alcohol or Nicotene, two of the most dangerous and addicting substances known to man
Alcohol is not chemically addictive, unlike tobacco. Nor does Alcohol have a high rate of developing a debilitating illness or condition later in life unless taken in extreme excess (I.E. getting plastered every day for 25 years). What makes Alcohol such a big killer is driving or operating machinery whilst impaired (drunk), to borrow one from the gun nuts, drinking does not kill people, driving drunk does.
As far as addictiveness goes, Alcohol is only as addictive as gambling (meaning it's entirely psychological) but unlike compulsive gambling, alcoholism leaves fairly signs.
My point was, what's in a name. Technically it's still the United Kingdom although there hasn't been a king there for decades, one hasn't ruled absolutely in over 400 years. The British Empire, was never once ruled by an Emperor.
Also, the word Socialist can be used in multiple contexts (not just Fiscal Socialism (communism) as Americans assume) especially in foreign languages. The hatred between 30's Fascists and Communists was legendary, German Communists were the first group rounded up and executed by Hitler & co (even before Jews and Roma). Hitler original plans were to go to war in 1942, against the soviets not in 1939 against the Britain and France.
The thing is eldavojohn practically *is* an editor for/. , just check out his submission page. Despite having such a high UID he's got a solid reputation, a good writing style, and offers good commentary on a wide variety of topics.
Ah Yes! Welcome to the USSA. China already does this....
United Socialist implies that the workers have control over their own destiny, the correct term is National Socialist which implies that the state and corporations are in cahoots when it comes to running things.
Then again, the Democratic Peoples Republic of (north) Korea is hardly Democratic. What's in a name?
We doing this now? Last time I checked, there are literally hundreds of thousands of privately owned businesses, and you can't name me a single solitary industry which government controls every aspect of it, including marketing, distribution, R&D, and everything else (which is the definition of socialism.)
No it isn't.
That is the definition of communism, which is socialist but socialism isn't communism.
I dislike how most Americans cant separate social policy from fiscal policy. Socialism in a social context is about giving the worker (or peasantry) more power over their own destiny (as Marx put it, to own the means of production). This is about workers deciding how society is run, it's quite compatible with democracy (probably more so then capitalism) and the free market.
Fiscally it's as you describe, state controls. State run economies are not restricted to Communism, Fascism also installs a lot of state control into industry, the critical difference is that Communism does not permit the industry leaders to reap the benefits (make large profits) where as Fascism does.
Now a few Nordic nations have very socialist "social" policies such as health care, transportation and so forth but they also have a thriving free market where one is free to make as much profit as they are able to within the law. Personally I tend to favour slightly socialist social policies (public health care and education) and slightly capitalist (conservative) fiscal policies, this ensures that our society moves forward (sorry Gillard haters, but we really have stagnated over the last 15 years) but is also sustainable economically. Fortunately both Australian parties are fiscally conservative, but only one is socially progressive, the other is socially conservative.
Pure capitalism is just as flawed as pure communism, both lead to a concentration of power and the inevitable abuse of that power, this does not make socialism or free market capitalism bad, it just makes the extremes of both bad.
Yes education is your friend: NAZI in English becomes NSDAP in Germany: National Socialist German Workers' Party.
Your education however seems to be somewhat lacking. Unless you mean to tell me the DPRK, Democratic Peoples Republic of (north) Korea is really democratic.
I am both a Skype and Facebook user. This move will mean that I'll stop using Skype. Maybe Google Voice will pick me up as a user, maybe someone else. I don't want my facebook tied to skype or anything else. I won't log onto another website with my facebook account. I won't use google mail, because I use google search....and so on. All these companies are bad enough on their own. This drive to merge, will only drive me away. Every time I read a story like this, I end up googling for disapora (only to see that it hasn't gotten anywhere).
If Google Voice was available in Australia they would have already have picked me up as a customer. Even with their current rates, US$0.14 (A$0.15) per minute to a mobile is almost a quarter of any local telco, they want A$0.29 for 30 seconds. US$0.02 (not even worth considering the 10% diff between the AUD and USD) per minute to any land line.
Even if both the European and the Chinese invest more public money in infrastructure than the US (do they?)
Well yes, they do but this tends to go towards useful things like universal low cost health care, roads, rails and quality communications infrastructure rather then to a politicians graft^W pet project.
I don't get it, why is this being positioned as an Android problem?
Because Apple and Microsoft have a very large umm... marketing budget for just this kind of FUD.
Plus it tends to make it easier when it's revealed that IOS and Windows Phone 7 do the exact same thing, this is more about saying "It's OK we're selling your data because TEH EVIL GOOGLE did it first".
desktops have antivirus, antimalware and firewalls. What does your android phone have?
A firewall and a system designed not to be conducive to drive by attacks.
Sorry to interrupt your anti-Android rant but you seem to have forgotten two very important things, 1. Anti-virus/malware is not preventative, it's reactive meaning it's not going to prevent you from getting viruses or malware, it will only to let you know that it's detected one. 2. They dont work (mostly). No AV package can detect new 0-day vulnerabilities or viruses that do not fit their pre-existing definitions. Further more they will not stop the user from installing anything harmful, no OS can, not even Apple's walled garden. Anti-virus/malware is only meant to protect you from drive by attacks, not deliberate user initiated infections.
The only real defence against viruses and malware are good habits. This counts out the vast majority of users.
(Posted from the year 2089, see you guys soon! The future is great, but the space-beer is a little watered down.) Yankees win in 66, America is nuked by Eskimos in 70, and 89 is to be the year of the Linux holodeck neural interface.
Only the American Space-Beer is watered down, that was the cause of the Eskimo-America war back in 70.
The Asian-European Union was too drunk on quality German SpaceBrau to notice.
As for BBC, they too have a bias. There's is pro-EU and pro-centralization
Despite this being typical anti-Beeb rhetoric...
I said the Beeb separates out it's biased content from its factual content. So the pro-EU stories you'll only see on BBC World, not BBC News. The Beeb does not print crap and try to create controversy like the Daily Mail and has quite a few openly anti-EU presenters (Hammond, May and Clarkson just to name a few) but then again Top Gear isn't advertised as news either.
But the real issue is when they stations outright lie, Fox and to a lesser extent the Daily Mail deliberately print/broadcast "non-truths", the only difference is the Daily Mail is not permitted to do it legally (doesn't stop them though). With the BBC, they are forced to issue retractions when someone spots a factual error in their news.
Unlikely. Hard as it may be to believe, Shuttle's safety record (two disasters in 132 flights) was better than Apollo (one disaster in twelve flights) or even Soyuz (two disasters in 106 flights).
The majority of the casualties in the Soviet space program were on the ground. The US lost about a dozen people in ground accidents (the largest direct loss was 3 people when they asphyxiated in a rocket motor but I think six died in a space program related lab explosion). The Soviet space program lost over 40 people on two separate occasions. China is by far the worse with up to 200 dead in a single incident.
Technically the US lost more Astronauts then the Soviet union lost Cosmonauts but the US had more space missions. Also the Russians picked up the safety game in the late Soviet era.
Just because they have no real money in Sony terms does not mean this law suit wont ruin their lives.
This is about 1. getting the source code. Sony may not know exactly how the OS was broken into and 2. making an example of those responsible, sticking their heads on a Playstation pike for all to see that you do _not_ hack Sony products. Not that it would work mind you.
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You've never actually used Win7 on a netbook, slow as a double amputee retarded kid stuck in quicksand. Hell, I've got a C2D E6600, 4 GB of RAM and Win7 struggles at times. Cant have too many FFX windows open as well as a virtual machine. Strange thing is the machine was fine doing the same thing under XP until the orders came down from up high that we were moving to Win7. It may be better then Vista, well it is but that's like telling me it's better then syphilis.
You know this statement contradicts itself.
Corporations that are able to influence governments without question have without a doubt grown too powerful in their own rights.
There, fixed that for you.
So, the solution to an organisation that has grown too powerful is to limit the power of largest opposing faction. This somehow does not create a power vacuum which is not immediately filled by the largest opposing force (the corporations). What colour is the sky on your planet.
Nope, unrestrained public debt is a symptom of two reckless wars. High taxation is the only real way to fix that. I said when the Iraqi invasion began that eventually the American people will have to pay for the war in taxes (just as every nation does, when they go to war, wars are very expensive and do not have a good ROI) it just took longer then I expected.
The goal of the Tea Party is to deliver votes to the Republican party without voters realising they are doing it. The Tea Party really is the "I cant believe it's not the Republican party", it's a classic PR coup, re-brand and people forget the problems. In Australia we are quite familiar with this system, the Nationals (Australian National Party) sole purpose these days is to bring the extremist right (nationalist) vote under the power of the more moderate Liberal party (conservatives), but we see through it and refer to the whole sordid mess as "the Coalition". The Tea Party is being used to lure those people who dont want to vote Republican, to vote Republican via proxy and not feel like they are voting Republican.
The Tea Party will never accomplish its stated goals because they are unrealistic and merely a feel good smokescreen.
Alcohol is not chemically addictive, unlike tobacco. Nor does Alcohol have a high rate of developing a debilitating illness or condition later in life unless taken in extreme excess (I.E. getting plastered every day for 25 years). What makes Alcohol such a big killer is driving or operating machinery whilst impaired (drunk), to borrow one from the gun nuts, drinking does not kill people, driving drunk does.
As far as addictiveness goes, Alcohol is only as addictive as gambling (meaning it's entirely psychological) but unlike compulsive gambling, alcoholism leaves fairly signs.
My point was, what's in a name. Technically it's still the United Kingdom although there hasn't been a king there for decades, one hasn't ruled absolutely in over 400 years. The British Empire, was never once ruled by an Emperor.
Also, the word Socialist can be used in multiple contexts (not just Fiscal Socialism (communism) as Americans assume) especially in foreign languages. The hatred between 30's Fascists and Communists was legendary, German Communists were the first group rounded up and executed by Hitler & co (even before Jews and Roma). Hitler original plans were to go to war in 1942, against the soviets not in 1939 against the Britain and France.
Which is exactly why he _cant_ be a /. editor.
United Socialist implies that the workers have control over their own destiny, the correct term is National Socialist which implies that the state and corporations are in cahoots when it comes to running things.
Then again, the Democratic Peoples Republic of (north) Korea is hardly Democratic. What's in a name?
No it isn't.
That is the definition of communism, which is socialist but socialism isn't communism.
I dislike how most Americans cant separate social policy from fiscal policy. Socialism in a social context is about giving the worker (or peasantry) more power over their own destiny (as Marx put it, to own the means of production). This is about workers deciding how society is run, it's quite compatible with democracy (probably more so then capitalism) and the free market.
Fiscally it's as you describe, state controls. State run economies are not restricted to Communism, Fascism also installs a lot of state control into industry, the critical difference is that Communism does not permit the industry leaders to reap the benefits (make large profits) where as Fascism does.
Now a few Nordic nations have very socialist "social" policies such as health care, transportation and so forth but they also have a thriving free market where one is free to make as much profit as they are able to within the law. Personally I tend to favour slightly socialist social policies (public health care and education) and slightly capitalist (conservative) fiscal policies, this ensures that our society moves forward (sorry Gillard haters, but we really have stagnated over the last 15 years) but is also sustainable economically. Fortunately both Australian parties are fiscally conservative, but only one is socially progressive, the other is socially conservative.
Pure capitalism is just as flawed as pure communism, both lead to a concentration of power and the inevitable abuse of that power, this does not make socialism or free market capitalism bad, it just makes the extremes of both bad.
Your education however seems to be somewhat lacking. Unless you mean to tell me the DPRK, Democratic Peoples Republic of (north) Korea is really democratic.
If Google Voice was available in Australia they would have already have picked me up as a customer. Even with their current rates, US$0.14 (A$0.15) per minute to a mobile is almost a quarter of any local telco, they want A$0.29 for 30 seconds. US$0.02 (not even worth considering the 10% diff between the AUD and USD) per minute to any land line.
Unfortunately, there aren't many pictures available of William Miss Friday.
SILENCE.
Hawking says you do not exist (Both Steven and Jennifer).
Well yes, they do but this tends to go towards useful things like universal low cost health care, roads, rails and quality communications infrastructure rather then to a politicians graft^W pet project.
Because Apple and Microsoft have a very large umm... marketing budget for just this kind of FUD.
Plus it tends to make it easier when it's revealed that IOS and Windows Phone 7 do the exact same thing, this is more about saying "It's OK we're selling your data because TEH EVIL GOOGLE did it first".
BlackSn0w or YellowRa1n (or whatever they call themselves) would like to have a word with you about that.
A firewall and a system designed not to be conducive to drive by attacks.
Sorry to interrupt your anti-Android rant but you seem to have forgotten two very important things, 1. Anti-virus/malware is not preventative, it's reactive meaning it's not going to prevent you from getting viruses or malware, it will only to let you know that it's detected one. 2. They dont work (mostly). No AV package can detect new 0-day vulnerabilities or viruses that do not fit their pre-existing definitions. Further more they will not stop the user from installing anything harmful, no OS can, not even Apple's walled garden. Anti-virus/malware is only meant to protect you from drive by attacks, not deliberate user initiated infections.
The only real defence against viruses and malware are good habits. This counts out the vast majority of users.
Not since 2051 where the AEU accepted Germenglishese as the primary and only language.
Only the American Space-Beer is watered down, that was the cause of the Eskimo-America war back in 70.
The Asian-European Union was too drunk on quality German SpaceBrau to notice.
I agree, but I still think Mad Max is more of a tyrannical then libertarian
Nobody found this funny, I'm unsurprised.
Steve wants to give you "freedom" from boobs.
Despite this being typical anti-Beeb rhetoric...
I said the Beeb separates out it's biased content from its factual content. So the pro-EU stories you'll only see on BBC World, not BBC News. The Beeb does not print crap and try to create controversy like the Daily Mail and has quite a few openly anti-EU presenters (Hammond, May and Clarkson just to name a few) but then again Top Gear isn't advertised as news either.
But the real issue is when they stations outright lie, Fox and to a lesser extent the Daily Mail deliberately print/broadcast "non-truths", the only difference is the Daily Mail is not permitted to do it legally (doesn't stop them though). With the BBC, they are forced to issue retractions when someone spots a factual error in their news.
The majority of the casualties in the Soviet space program were on the ground. The US lost about a dozen people in ground accidents (the largest direct loss was 3 people when they asphyxiated in a rocket motor but I think six died in a space program related lab explosion). The Soviet space program lost over 40 people on two separate occasions. China is by far the worse with up to 200 dead in a single incident.
Technically the US lost more Astronauts then the Soviet union lost Cosmonauts but the US had more space missions. Also the Russians picked up the safety game in the late Soviet era.
Actually it's both. The first Buran class orbiter constructed was the named the Buran.
If they cut out all the scenes that suck...
Shortest, Movie, Evar.
Just because they have no real money in Sony terms does not mean this law suit wont ruin their lives.
This is about 1. getting the source code. Sony may not know exactly how the OS was broken into and 2. making an example of those responsible, sticking their heads on a Playstation pike for all to see that you do _not_ hack Sony products. Not that it would work mind you.