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Comment OK... (Score 1) 519

What I don't understand is why it's such a big deal that Microsoft does this. Google's Chrome OS is built from the browser up, it's not like you can remove that. And components from Safari are used for iTunes, etc in Mac OSX. Why don't people go after them about the same issue?

Comment Re:Don't worry, it'll be dangerous too (Score 1) 401

With regard to your sig...whom is still a used word. Just because people don't bother to learn proper grammar/spelling doesn't make a word irrelevant. "Intensive purposes," however, has never been a quote. "Intents and purposes" is what you are looking for. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_the_saying_'all_intents_and_purposes'_or_'all_intense_purposes'

Comment Re:Wikileaks done in by its own leak (Score 0) 316

The purpose of all this is so that we, the voters, can know what is going on. How can we vote intelligently when all we are fed is propaganda?

And how do we know what Wikileaks releases is not propaganda to further their own agenda? I am by no means saying that the governments and/or financial institutions are not guilty, but Wikileaks is no less blameless than the ones it is "reporting on." Their methods of obtaining information is no better than those they claim to be informaing against.

The media has never been truthful. Remember Yellow journalism? That had more to do with heads of the media trying to sell more papers than it ever did with being in bed with the government. The media has had a long history of self-serving motives.

Comment Re:Wikileaks done in by its own leak (Score 0) 316

I am not saying Assange in particular, but Wikileaks as an organization. Did they disclose the people that are leaking the information to them, such as Manning? How is that any different than a government refusing to release the sources of their information? a lie by omission is still a lie.

I would argue that Assange is not doing this so much for the good of the people, but for the good of his ego.

Comment Re:Wikileaks done in by its own leak (Score 0) 316

Next time don't associate with liars and murderers and their cloak-and-dagger bullshit and you won't be so afraid of the truth and the whole truth.

One could argue that Wikileaks does the same thing...In order to obtain the truth from untruthful people, you will ultimately have to tell a few lies yourself. Assange is no better than the people and entities he is outing.

Comment Re:You think the housing collapse was bad (Score 1) 917

High schools should be for teaching the basics, not things like PLTW. As a result, most schools are cutting other things that are more beneficial to young students, because "This class will guarantee you getting into college!!!" Also, the schools get money for putting this program in, and getting students into it, so the counselors try to push them in at the expense of other classes.

What happened to preparing students for real-life situations, like balancing their own personal budgets? Oh wait, Home Economics (it was not all about baking and sewing, at least it wasn't supposed to be), which was required when I was in school, is replaced by PLTW and its middle-school equivalents. Learning how to balance a checkbook and the like, relegated to the students who will most likely never be able to live on their own anyway. And we wonder why student loan and other debts are growing? It's because no one teaches them how to deal with real-life situations when they need to be educated about them.

Now get off my lawn!

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