I tend to vote D more than anything (I will vote R if an R is not a complete nutjob, and this is getting more difficult over the years), and Hillary has been pissing me off. From carpetbagging NY, to bullying Warren out of the running (but demonstrating how Warren is spineless, thanks I guess?) to this stupidity, and to the hawkishness she has cultivated over the years, and the forever drifting right or "whatever", I'm just plain tired of her shit.
She's /not/ a tech-illiterate. She thinks she can play dumb and the people will buy it, but she is tech savvy and a lot of us know it. There was no excuse for what she's done. It's slimy.
I will not be donating to her campaign, nor do any legwork. Bernie Sanders, even if he is a long-shot, is more worthy of my time, vote, and money. He actually has some integrity, which is a lot more than I can say for H.
he said that using unauthorized copies of the OS were really unsafe, so doing things like online banking or other sensitive stuff on such software could put users in serious danger.
He's right.
But the real reason not to pirate software is that it distorts the market by locking out alternatives in favor of the incumbents. We all know what Bill Gates said about piracy 10 years ago - "as long as they're going to steal it we want them to steal ours."
Make no mistake. Microsoft can make WGA bulletproof. They won't, though, and that's the reason why. The last thing they want you doing is using Linux
The day that Microsoft turns the WGA knob to 11, I will throw a Linux party.
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BMO
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I tend to vote D more than anything (I will vote R if an R is not a complete nutjob, and this is getting more difficult over the years), and Hillary has been pissing me off. From carpetbagging NY, to bullying Warren out of the running (but demonstrating how Warren is spineless, thanks I guess?) to this stupidity, and to the hawkishness she has cultivated over the years, and the forever drifting right or "whatever", I'm just plain tired of her shit.
She's /not/ a tech-illiterate. She thinks she can play dumb and the people will buy it, but she is tech savvy and a lot of us know it. There was no excuse for what she's done. It's slimy.
I will not be donating to her campaign, nor do any legwork. Bernie Sanders, even if he is a long-shot, is more worthy of my time, vote, and money. He actually has some integrity, which is a lot more than I can say for H.
Don't Pirate Software.
he said that using unauthorized copies of the OS were really unsafe, so doing things like online banking or other sensitive stuff on such software could put users in serious danger.
He's right.
But the real reason not to pirate software is that it distorts the market by locking out alternatives in favor of the incumbents. We all know what Bill Gates said about piracy 10 years ago - "as long as they're going to steal it we want them to steal ours."
Make no mistake. Microsoft can make WGA bulletproof. They won't, though, and that's the reason why. The last thing they want you doing is using Linux
The day that Microsoft turns the WGA knob to 11, I will throw a Linux party.
--
BMO