Alex T6903

Reply to Will Linux ever go mainstream? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

I’ve run a lot of OS’s in my day DOS/Win 3.1, OS/2 Warp, Win 95/98/ME/NT/XP, Mac OS, & Red Hat. The best one of any by far is Win NT, if it supported current hardware I’d still be running it over XP. OS2 never even had a chance, even IBM didn’t offer it standard on it’s computers, OS/2 was an extra cost option. It’s not like selling extra copies of OS/2 would cost IBM much. How is IBM going to convince someone to pay extra for OS/2 over Windows? Linux was stable enough, my

Reply to Bush's Hypocrisy in Politics JoeUser Forums

What you’re ignoring in you’re efforts to bash Bush is that this is probably the most liberal US policy toward Taiwan in the past 50 years. In the past the policy was “Taiwan is a part of China and we don’t support their full independence.” Now Bush is saying, “Taiwan is a part of China and we support their full independence if China says it’s OK.” Personally I’d call that progress.

Reply to Impulse Weekend Buys - August 20th in Press Room JoeUser Forums

Does anyone know why so many British protesters are carrying around mock nuclear weapons? Frankly I’m baffled, it’s not like Bush has gone around randomly nuking people. Strange.

Reply to Enough with the rear-wheel drive cars! in Consumer Issues JoeUser Forums

JJ, Your definition of understeer / oversteer is backwards but I agree with your conclusions. Understeer is the tendency to continue traveling in a straight line due to limited grip on the front tires. Oversteer is when the rear end of the car slides out. Since cars tend to lose traction on the drive wheels, especially in bad weather, fwd cars tend to understeer and rwd cars tend to oversteer. Draginol, Why didn’t Cadillac make the XLR awd? Well, it’s built off the

Reply to Europe: Israel biggest threat to world peace? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Pablo, Respect is a two way street. Where is the respect of Israel’s right to exist? Why must all the Jews live in Israel? Are they just not good enough to live elsewhere? Or do you just want to “concentrate” them in one place so they can be “taken care of”? And you can come to the US and build a house if you want to; we’re not so small-minded as to persecute someone because they come from another country.

Reply to Europe: Israel biggest threat to world peace? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Pablo, 1. So there were no Jews living there before 1947? 2. Relevant yes, powerful no. 3. Good for you, but why should we care? 4. The Palestinians HAVE their own country and the "government" of that country is directing attacks against Israel in an effort to take over Israeli land. 5. So you're scared because the US doesn't just sit on their hands instead of trying to make things better. I prefer trying to make the world a better place. 6. So it's ok for t

Reply to The Bush Doctrine will spell doom to American hegemony in Politics JoeUser Forums

1. “The United States can effectively project power to any place in the globe thus eing able to credibly back up its intention to defend its national interests and those of its allies.” The US can effectively project power to any TWO places on the globe. It used to be that US policy demanded a 2.5 war army, meaning the US could fight two full on wars and a defending action anywhere on the globe, now it more like 1.5. 2. “Don't belittle Iraq - it's about as big a fish you

Reply to The Bush Doctrine will spell doom to American hegemony in Politics JoeUser Forums

I agree that using the British empire as an example is a poor choice, but let’s look at the other side of the argument, is America even a hegemonic power? Calling America a hegemony implies a level a control that simply doesn’t exist. The US is undoubtedly a world power (able to project force anywhere on the globe), but is extremely limited in it’s influence over any single nation. France for example has no problem disagreeing with the US and actively working against US policy, without fear o

Reply to My iTunes Desktop in OS Customization JoeUser Forums

I wouldn’t be so confident in saying the RIAA won’t be able to track you down because it’s a foreign website, there’s no technological or legal barriers to prevent them from doing so, the US and Russia have intellectual property protection agreements and the Russians even enforce them occasionally. Just because the RIAA hasn’t yet noticed allofmp3.com doesn’t mean they wont and if your security is based on the idea that the Russians wouldn’t give you up, you might want to rethink your plan.

Reply to Hypocricy Wars: Limbaugh vs. The Left in Politics JoeUser Forums

Jail time? First off I have to point out that there isn’t any law against being addicted to painkillers, only against obtaining or taking some painkillers without a prescription. So until someone presents evidence of what the prescription was and that it was illegally obtained, no law was even broken. Does anyone really believe Rush was buying pills from some back alley dealer? No, he would just get a prescription from his doctor and go to the local pharmacy. The other point I want

Reply to Trust in the free market? It may not be good for your health in Politics JoeUser Forums

People did stop buying products made with CFC's, most notable was the nationwide boycott on McDonalds for the use of Styrofoam containers. Eventually this resulted in them being replaced by the current paper products with a cardboard ring around the sandwich, which was later removed, also due to environmental pressure.

Reply to Trust in the free market? It may not be good for your health in Politics JoeUser Forums

I don’t understand why people continue to bash the free market. Do you realize who the free market is? It’s YOU; it’s your neighbor, and it’s your family. CFC’s weren’t banned because some government environmental swat team thought our lives were in danger, no, it was because of political pressure brought on by the free market. There were demonstrations and boycotts, phone calls to congressmen; all these things are free market mechanisms. The government is no more altruistic then the averag

Reply to Trickle Down Economics and corporations in Politics JoeUser Forums

I would seriously question the numbers McIntyre gives as examples of tax loopholes, at least in the case of Ford I know the numbers to be false. In the fiscal years 2001 and 2002 (which I assume the article refers to since it was written in 2002 and not the same as tax years but good enough for this) Ford had losses totaling 6.5B, so where this McIntyre guy came up with an 18.6B profit is beyond me. Although it is interesting to note that in 2001 Ford expected a 2.1B tax refund, after a 7.4B l