Comment Re:Waste (Score 2) 276
Or distorted his view of computer systems.
Or distorted his view of computer systems.
"We could, perhaps, use a bit of enlightened self interest and work on the Ebola epidemic, work on the virus that is decimating the crop, work on creating an infrastructure in those countries so they can move themselves out the shithole that everyone has managed to create over there."
The U.S. is already doing this as well as the Western nations. Even China has anted up a pittance. You know it is serious when China decides to fund something with no immediate payback.
I can totally see most people not having the jack to pay for $15 candy bars. They'll use something else for their sweet tooth. The high end producers might survive if their current market is small enough and well enough heeled. The rest go bye-bye.
More like the line between religion and insanity is a thin one.
What I'd like from Microsoft is suicide. They are unreformable. This latest push into open source is merely another attempt at sinking opposition to their malware.
Yes, that's true, but it isn't easy to spot someone going over the edge. And if you get pushy about it, the ACLU will show up and tell you in no uncertain terms that the mentally disabled have rights.
Or....use a fraction of the money to inform parents that if their kid comes to school with one of their guns and no mitigating circumstances, the school system will sue them for everything they have ever owned and everything they will ever own. Proceeds go to the victims.
You forgot to include the cost of approx. $80K/yr for the individual needed to watch the cameras...and that's if you get someone with no training and you only need one.
So you are saying they want to do to the Mac and Linux ecosystem what they did to the MS ecosystem. Hmmm...no, I'll pass.
"part of the aversion to doing "white people stuff" (where that aversion exists) is the result of disbelief at the prospect of actually becoming accepted among white people"
While that may be part of it, another part is that doing "white people stuff" means you are not doing black people stuff and hence are not black enough. I tend to think it has a heavy does of socio-economic bias built into it. If you are brought up in a poverty stricken area with a majority race, that race and poverty are seen as part of the same thing. So doing anything outside of the run of the mill things for that area will brand you as "other". In black inner cities, you are acting white. In white Appalachia, you are branded effete or thinking you are better than your peers. It is the same thing, but it gets colored differently depending upon where you are.
And for management, it also helps if you are 6 foot or taller male and glib. Bonus points if it looks like your hair will turn silver over the years (Dilbert reference).
"We always suspected that Big Brother was going to subcontract the work; now we know who got the bid!" Let me guess, you also believe WTC was an inside job.
Try this, leave your home and car unlocked so that others can have free access to your stuff. Your stuff wants to be free, let it go.
"Indifferent" is not quite the right word for the American media towards Russia. It is more actually phrased, "who gives a flying rat's ass about Russia?".
Personally, I think it comes down to whom you can fall in love with. The mechanics of sex is secondary.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"