Comment Re:Apple (Score 2) 85
Which ones?
Which ones?
I can feel the joy of countless obese people knowing that they can now enjoy all the potatot chips and twinkies that they want to eat.
"He's truly incapable of seeing any other point of view because he views such as irrational and illogical."
Yeah, come on RMS, some people WANT to be fucking slaves.
Aye. Fellow non-dualist here, although Buddhist.
All Good?
I love my KDE! I can see how Windows users would be overwhelmed by choices and hold that against it.
You remind me of when I would tell some Republicans, "You're president lied to get us into an illegal war that is going to cost us over a trillion dollars!" and they would reply, "So, your president lied about a blow job." WTFF
If I were to get a PhD in Philosophy, which I'm pretty sure I'm not, one of my ideas for a thesis is The Public Misuse of The Aristotelian Syllogism And How Governments, Corporations, and Monotheistic Religions Use It To Totally Screw You.
I think you and many here misunderstood what Linus was talking about. Linux specifically said NVIDIA is one of the worst companies with whom they worked. Period. There is no need to bring up ATI into the table. There is no need to bring up that your card has always worked beautifully. This is talking about his and the kernel maintainer's experience in dealing with hardware vendors, something that we ourselves never have to deal with. Their proprietary drivers may be the best ever but that has nothing to do with!
If the kernel maintainers have a question about the hardware, they can't ask NVIDIA they have to test and reverse engineer to find the answer whereas with other companies, they may get an answer directly from the manufacturer. Get it? "...NVIDIA just made the damn drivers. Now that is not good enough." Not from a kernel maintainer's or Stallman's point of view, I'm pretty sure.
Not everyone here wants to get rid of regulations like minimum wage, OSHA, and environmental laws. Historically corporations here have screwed the environment (and everything else) if they are not regulated. I think things would be different if somehow the CEO was personally liable to some extent for the corporations' actions but I think we can agree that they are not.
Yeah, ALEC and Republicans really want to bring China here, fast. And many Americans don't like it!
"... why on Earth does Microsoft advertise..." Viking, you sound fluent in logic and reasoning, I'm pretty sure you're not their intended audience.
The argument is that of the balance between freedom and security, and that argument goes back a long way. When Moses (I don't really believe in the Bible, but I like to use this as an illustration) freed his peeps from slavery some of them wanted to go back. Obviously they would rather have security rather than freedom.
People high in government know this and they are very willing to promise us security in exchange for our freedoms. Erich Fromm wrote something about it in Escape from Freedom. People want to feel secure because they don't like the unknown.
I also loved my typing class because it was mostly girls!
Well, I like the fact that geeks tend to better at logical reasoning than average plebes. A real geek would never say something silly like "Keep your government off my Medicare!" or "The universe is too complex FOR ME to understand therefore God exists!"
If all else fails, lower your standards.
