Posted 04/22/2009 at 07:34:39pm

 The Kingdom is marketed through lovely things like social security, and other items we are far too weak and foolish to manage for ourselves, or things that are far more important to be left up to an individuals own decisions. Now they have enough programs in the nosering that almost everyone feels the tug and chooses to avoid the pain. Carrots never really were the issue.

Jim

Posted 04/22/2009 at 07:25:24pm

 The few I skimmed through didn't seem paritisan--But partisanism (being anti-bush, anti-conservative) is the license which both sides of the houses have been using to do their damage. --  Giving the executive a break: The house is where the real power is. This shown by their power to grant greater power to the executive...

Jim

Posted 03/31/2009 at 10:29:27am

Let us textually stick our chins out that we may lash at one another. Parties separately feeling unreached and unreachable. Fallaciously minimized or superiorized as our delusions dictate. Keeping our teeth which grow in ways unseen by the biter.
 
Jim 

Posted 10/30/2007 at 01:36:01am

I would like to point out the Bill the Gates' Genius has always been his licensing agreements, not his pursuit of quality software. Of course they had to make leaps in their product quality at times, such as when forced to compete with Apple in the 80s. Even during these times, however, all of their attention was focused on licensing. Between crushings of Mac, Netscape and many others, they have relatively enjoyed times of market increase via improved product. But this type of expansion through marketing an improved product has only been relative to their licensing maneuvers in the court rooms and strong-armed licensing tactics with software developers. It is through these tactics that developers allow M$ to incorporate key portions of their programs into the OS, in order to be granted a license which will allow their products to be marketed. In other words, M$ strong-arms license rights from developers so that developers can make their money. With M$ it has always been about licensing. Apparently, it always will be. It's WAY past time to have other viable options. Let's make a path for developers to see that they don't have to sell their souls to M$. Go Linux! As has been referenced in other's comments, I would ask Linux developers to come up with a slick hardware detection, driver updating tool, and widely available driver databases. Of course, hardware suppliers could (should) help with this effort. I think this would go a very long way to change the way things are done. Thanks, Jim.