Comment Re:I also own half of Facebook (Score 1) 46
I also have a face, so I claim MyFace. I also have a book about space.
I also have a face, so I claim MyFace. I also have a book about space.
The only way to get them to change their position is to apply real political force. That means forming lobbies and throwing actual money at the problem, just like the large corporations do.
Yeah right, like that's going to happen. It's a personal cost to throw money into a political cause as an individual; for corporations and their owners, it is for their own interests. It's a social dilemma, money will not get thrown into stopping horrible laws like this, because it is not in anyone's self interest to do that. Why would anyone donate to a political cause when the bastard next to them is just going to keep their money and therefore have an advantage over them?
Even if a large proportion of the population came together and threw money at the problem, it's doubtful that it will work, simply because of the vast difference in disposable income/assets between commoners and the wealthy elite. It's easy to imagine the incumbents pulling something unforeseen out with the power that they have.
Other than to nit pick that point, I agree with you. Are there any education resources that would actually allow people to self organise and prevent them from being pushed around? It's certainly something that wasn't taught at school.
Especially when you could just look it up on your phone...
Worse, there seem to be a whole lot of people in the USA that would like to reduce it to a boolean: { republican, democrat }.
They both ring false to me.
Ba-dum-tish
This may have been a bit later, but there was the ad supported version, which was fine.
1048576 rows now.
People still have the choice to use Linux and its desktop environments. I would say Linux has truly failed if that choice is taken away.
Do not forget the animated buildings! If that's not occult then what is?
About the link in your signature, you might want to separate the exclamation mark from it or make it so your web server doesn't care about it.
Yeah, it was piss poor. I shouldn't have included it.
If I were to make a bunch of copies of a game disc, and go around handing it out to people and paying them $5 (note, *I'm* paying them to "buy" my product), then I'm selling the game at an even lower price than the pirates. Yes, it would be incredibly stupid to do that, but that's not the point; the point is, just because the customer isn't paying doesn't mean they're not sales.
I predict a lot of selling, indeed incredibly stupid selling, this Christmas, especially to family and relatives. Just don't mention the 'G' word, it's not kosher these days.
Or this?
Wow , 40+, thats so old! If you're a teenager. For most people the 30s and 40s are when you finally mature into someone who can make sensible decisions and less bound over by knee jerk group think.
With an attitude like that, no wonder. Especially as you yourself are advocating this "group think" you are talking about.
It is fairly accepted that diversity in a group tends to increase the quality of decision making. I do not see the reason in keeping intelligent people away from parliament just because they are not old or "mature" enough.
Fine, using that logic lets vote pre-schoolers into parliament.
That argument is akin to saying "Fine, using that logic lets only drink water and not eat anything" to somebody who said water is good for you. I hope you can see that argument is fallacious, and well, quite silly.
Yes, this. As Steve Ballmer said "Developers Developers Developers Developers Developers". By developing for the XBOX the developer is using almost the same Microsoft stack as the one to develop on Microsoft Windows. This helps keep the developers locked in instead of developing using a cross platform API or the other specific technologies that the other console gaming platforms use. This also hugely decreases the friction involved in porting the game to windows. Do you see the Uncharted series on anything but a PS3? No. Do you see major Wii games ported to Windows? Not really. Do you see XBOX (360) games ported to Windows? Very Often. Xbox and Windows are symbiotic.
Cupcakes!? Surely you mean fruitcakes.
"All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in. I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skin" -- They Might Be Giants
