They are willing to pay others to do parts; Amazon is trying to drive those others out of business. That was the whole point of the rant.

What do you think fuelled the race to the bottom for PC's? The money software companies gave the hardware companies to pre-install trial versions their shit.

I'd like to see a citation for this. The way I remembered it PC prices dropped because of a rise in production based on the demand for applications like Wordstar, WordPerfect, dBase and Lotus-1-2-3.

The cheap trial versions and adware only turned up after PC prices had hit such a rock bottom that it was seen as a way for suppliers to increase their margin.

But that's my recollection. Apparently you know something I don't, so I'd like a reference.

And as pointed out, that just doesn't happen in unsustainable numbers.

So fuck off, you piece of NPD shit.

Speaking for the Netherlands, being an open economy dependent on trade with the rest of the EU, the Netherlands definitely gets more back than mere subisidies.

Let Geert 'idiot racist' Wilders have his way, and we would see an economic collapse worse than the 1930s.

Mart

That should of course read 'anyone who claims ...'.

This, class, is why you should stay away from double negatives.

News International, aka the Murdoch family, may be into making lots of money, but anyone who denies that the overall direction of their properties isn't right wing conservatism, with a nice heaping of hate speech for everything to the left of it, is an idiot, or agrees with that ideology.

unspoken assumption

Or, as we sane peopel call it, a right-wing paranoid fantasy.

Unspoken assumptions are so nice, you can use them to read anything you want into what people actually say and use that to prove whatever your ideology says you should believe.

Us rational people will stick to the obervable facts, thank you very much.

Are you attempting to argue

No.

I don't argue with libertards. I just insult them. I save my arguing for actual libertarians, not basement-dwelling teens on a Rand trip.

Your definition of progressive is broken.

Then again, you are obviously a libertard, so what else would I expect.

She was an integral part in shaping the disastrous foreign policy that led up to the war. In an interview before the inauguration (maybe even before the election itself) on CNN she was telling the interviewer that when in power she and the rest of the team would make an end to the 'Clinton multilateralism'.

In other words, she was pushing for the disastrous 'our way or the highway' policies of the Bush Administration since before she even got to the State Department.

Maybe it wouldn't be so underresourced if the developers weren't such arrogant jackasses. This and the Debian disaster a few years back show that OpenSSL is hopelessly broken at the social level and should be ditched by all parties.

The interesting bit to me is that the whole thrust of systemd seems to be to inject a Windows NT style Registry onto Linux.

Yeah, but that's because you're an idiot. Seriously? Cough up some good proof, and not just personal speculation.

If we adopt this policy, then the winning strategy is to constantly be an asshole to everyone,

I take it you haven't looked at Karmashock's posting history?

"Downing their tools" means "they walked out of the job". It's perfectly standard British English.

Just like he blamed 'One More Day' on Joe Quesada?

My question to JMS would be: how do you always get away when you produce crap and manage to make others take the fall?

Note to the JMS fanbois: yes, he does produce good stuff, but he slipped up plenty of times, and for some reason noone holds it against him but always blames Executive Meddling