My Palestinian boss once threatened to fire me for smoking a cigarette in front of him during daylight when he was fasting for Ramadan (I don't get it either). About five minutes later, he broke down and joined me.
Precisely.
This is why I did not and do not support Dr. Paul, even though our views are superficially similar. Incompetent and contradictory attacks on statism and defenses of capitalism are far worse than none at all.
It's an irrelevant point regardless. In the least case, all the amendment shows is that Congress cannot take arms from a well-regulated militia. Now show me, in the Constitution, where it says that they can take arms from anyone else.
Committimg copyright violation is not *larceny*. It's still the acquisition of a value the offending party did nothing to create and offered nothing in trade for. I'll give you "piracy" though.
The term "Good Samaritan law" has a different meaning in the United States than it does in other countries. In the States, there is no "duty" to help others, and the term simply means that, barring non-obvious negligence, those who offer aid are not to be held liable.
Ditto. I went with a little more pricey machine (about $600) with a Tl-58, 2g of mem, and no HP sticker on the case, and Vista/Aero ran like a dream. If it wasn't so damn buggy (the Incredible Disappearing Control Panel was the straw that broke the camel's back), I might still be running it.
I run Ubuntu on a $600 Acer machine picked up at the good ol' Wally World. For low to mid level machines, they've got decent stuff if you know what you're looking for.
The driver situation isn't going to change anytime soon. The Linux developers aren't about to slow down development so a binary-only driver can catch up. They don't support out of kernel drivers, ergo, it's not their problem. I hear you on the dual head stuff though. It's already a trip into xorg.conf just to get widescreen working. I don't bitch about it too much (it's not my first rodeo), but I can see that some people might have a problem with it. Of course, the question there becomes, is that an advantage or a disadvantage? My box runs just as well if 5 people use Ubuntu as opposed to 5 million.
We had one in Oklahoma City, but I'm not going to miss it. In OKC, all the "techie" type stores are within about a 5 block strip on May Ave, and both CompUSA and BestBuy had the misfortune of being almost right next to PC Club. Judging by prices, stock (for such a small store!), and the people who work there, I'll honestly be surprised if PC Club doesn't take over the world in a few years. Then again, some losers like to buy the cases that already have all the stuff in them.
Just out of curiosity, how in the hell can Microsoft sell a handful of CD's and about 5.00 USD worth of cardboard, paper, and shrink wrap "below cost"? Software, being intangible in nature, has no fixed per-unit cost.
And I suppose if that shining example of coercion fails, we can waterboard Bill Gates until he tells us all the secret Windows APIs? Maybe have Ballmer stand on that thrown chair with live wires in his hands until he reveals those 235 patents Linux is supposedly infringing? Really, the only difference is that the preceding two don't engage in the hypocrisy of pretending to support a "free market."
AT&T and the BEIC were *coercive* monopolists (they had access to government coercion to run out competitors). Standard Oil's a tired example that was on its way to being competed out of existence when the Sherman Act was run through Congress. Like Microsoft in the early days, they were a monopoly of infancy (the entire oil business was less than 1% of the American GDP at Standard's height), born out of the simple fact that one big company in an unproven market can gain capital more easily than a polyglot of smaller companies. Now Microsoft is simply a monopoly of inertia, dominating for the simple reason that nobody else is quite good enough yet to handle all of the use cases that people use Windows/Office for. OSX is very, very, good, but I just don't see it taking over the market while being tied to Apple's proprietary hardware (and I don't see it running on generic PC's anytime soon; a bad user experience due to poor/unsupported hardware could do much more harm than good). Linux has been "getting there" for over a decade now, and finally gaining some ground after being hidden in the server closets for the years after the IPO goldrush panned out.
Of course, the real unsettling thing is the sheer number of people who want to have their cake and eat it too. You know who I'm talking about, the people who cheer when Linux/Firefox/OO.o/Apple gets rolling in the market, and then draw back and claim that victory in the market is impossible without *forcing* Microsoft out.
Alpha emitters leave a nucleus in an excite state, therefore just about all of them (except Beryllium-8, which decays into 2 alphas almost immediately) are gamma emitters.
Antitrust law is there to destroy those who can succeed for the sake of those who can't, tied to an outdated model of "competition" where no competitor ever makes any steps to actually influence the market.
That's mainly because Third World laptop projects are the result of First World guilt over their own successes. Until people in these countries understand what it takes to succeed in this world (India under Singh seems to be a prime example at this moment), they're essentially going to be handed down crumbs.
Textbooks also don't compete with Facebook. Even in classes at work with grown men and women (I work for GE, they hand out corporate laptops like they were church tracts) the instructor has a hard time getting the information out while everyone's checking their Yahoo account or stock quotes. This is just going to be one more thing for the teacher to shout over.
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My Palestinian boss once threatened to fire me for smoking a cigarette in front of him during daylight when he was fasting for Ramadan (I don't get it either). About five minutes later, he broke down and joined me.
You're being intolerant of their intolerance!
Precisely.
This is why I did not and do not support Dr. Paul, even though our views are superficially similar. Incompetent and contradictory attacks on statism and defenses of capitalism are far worse than none at all.
It's an irrelevant point regardless. In the least case, all the amendment shows is that Congress cannot take arms from a well-regulated militia. Now show me, in the Constitution, where it says that they can take arms from anyone else.
Being: Present participle of the verb "to be".
Committimg copyright violation is not *larceny*. It's still the acquisition of a value the offending party did nothing to create and offered nothing in trade for. I'll give you "piracy" though.
http://www.llbbl.com/data/RPG-motivational/target239.html
The term "Good Samaritan law" has a different meaning in the United States than it does in other countries. In the States, there is no "duty" to help others, and the term simply means that, barring non-obvious negligence, those who offer aid are not to be held liable.
http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2007-winter/moral-vs-universal-health-care.asp
Ditto. I went with a little more pricey machine (about $600) with a Tl-58, 2g of mem, and no HP sticker on the case, and Vista/Aero ran like a dream. If it wasn't so damn buggy (the Incredible Disappearing Control Panel was the straw that broke the camel's back), I might still be running it.
I run Ubuntu on a $600 Acer machine picked up at the good ol' Wally World. For low to mid level machines, they've got decent stuff if you know what you're looking for.
The driver situation isn't going to change anytime soon. The Linux developers aren't about to slow down development so a binary-only driver can catch up. They don't support out of kernel drivers, ergo, it's not their problem. I hear you on the dual head stuff though. It's already a trip into xorg.conf just to get widescreen working. I don't bitch about it too much (it's not my first rodeo), but I can see that some people might have a problem with it. Of course, the question there becomes, is that an advantage or a disadvantage? My box runs just as well if 5 people use Ubuntu as opposed to 5 million.
Who in their right mind is going to sign that kind of employment contract?
Does it get anymore patriotic than that?
We had one in Oklahoma City, but I'm not going to miss it. In OKC, all the "techie" type stores are within about a 5 block strip on May Ave, and both CompUSA and BestBuy had the misfortune of being almost right next to PC Club. Judging by prices, stock (for such a small store!), and the people who work there, I'll honestly be surprised if PC Club doesn't take over the world in a few years. Then again, some losers like to buy the cases that already have all the stuff in them.
Just out of curiosity, how in the hell can Microsoft sell a handful of CD's and about 5.00 USD worth of cardboard, paper, and shrink wrap "below cost"? Software, being intangible in nature, has no fixed per-unit cost.
And I suppose if that shining example of coercion fails, we can waterboard Bill Gates until he tells us all the secret Windows APIs? Maybe have Ballmer stand on that thrown chair with live wires in his hands until he reveals those 235 patents Linux is supposedly infringing? Really, the only difference is that the preceding two don't engage in the hypocrisy of pretending to support a "free market."
That's like complaining that Coke vending machines only sell Coke products, and demanding that they put Pepsi in as well.
Is Microsoft a monopoly because no one can compete with it, or can no one compete with Microsoft because it is a monopoly?
But according to the states, there are no viable alternatives.
AT&T and the BEIC were *coercive* monopolists (they had access to government coercion to run out competitors). Standard Oil's a tired example that was on its way to being competed out of existence when the Sherman Act was run through Congress. Like Microsoft in the early days, they were a monopoly of infancy (the entire oil business was less than 1% of the American GDP at Standard's height), born out of the simple fact that one big company in an unproven market can gain capital more easily than a polyglot of smaller companies. Now Microsoft is simply a monopoly of inertia, dominating for the simple reason that nobody else is quite good enough yet to handle all of the use cases that people use Windows/Office for. OSX is very, very, good, but I just don't see it taking over the market while being tied to Apple's proprietary hardware (and I don't see it running on generic PC's anytime soon; a bad user experience due to poor/unsupported hardware could do much more harm than good). Linux has been "getting there" for over a decade now, and finally gaining some ground after being hidden in the server closets for the years after the IPO goldrush panned out.
Of course, the real unsettling thing is the sheer number of people who want to have their cake and eat it too. You know who I'm talking about, the people who cheer when Linux/Firefox/OO.o/Apple gets rolling in the market, and then draw back and claim that victory in the market is impossible without *forcing* Microsoft out.
Alpha emitters leave a nucleus in an excite state, therefore just about all of them (except Beryllium-8, which decays into 2 alphas almost immediately) are gamma emitters.
Antitrust law is there to destroy those who can succeed for the sake of those who can't, tied to an outdated model of "competition" where no competitor ever makes any steps to actually influence the market.
That's mainly because Third World laptop projects are the result of First World guilt over their own successes. Until people in these countries understand what it takes to succeed in this world (India under Singh seems to be a prime example at this moment), they're essentially going to be handed down crumbs.
Textbooks also don't compete with Facebook. Even in classes at work with grown men and women (I work for GE, they hand out corporate laptops like they were church tracts) the instructor has a hard time getting the information out while everyone's checking their Yahoo account or stock quotes. This is just going to be one more thing for the teacher to shout over.