ferris209

MeBeJedi said:

If it's about "redistributing wealth", then I remind you that "trickle-down economics" was a way of "redistributing wealth" as well.


Sorry, but if "speading the wealth" is the best you've got, then you've got nothing.

No it is not. "trickle-down economics" runs on the premise that when rich people pay less taxes then they in turn invest the gains into other businesses or companies who thus hire people to work and giving many jobs and you products to buy. The wealth of the rich guy was invested and subsequently paid to a guy who put in a days work he took the money home to feed his family. Redistributing wealth? Yeah, but honorably and in everyone favor. That is my scenerio.

Obama's redistribution of wealth plan is that the rich guy has his money taken forcefully by taxes and then given to God knows who. Most likely someone who shirks work and feigns earning anything.

Nah, they'll keep bashing republicans, even at their own peril.

C3PX said:

Hmm, I find it interesting that everyone with C-3PO as their avatar are liberals.

 

Heh, that is funny!

I agree. Congrats to Obama. But let's HOPE he CHANGES and decides to bring the troops home in victory and not retreat.

Another positive is that our days of hearing the constant Bush bashing is coming to an end. But perhaps not, every mistake Obama makes he'll blame on Bush I'm sure. "Well, uh, this economy thing is still bad here in 2012, but, uh, you see, Bush left it this way and I had a lot to clean up. Uh, it's still bad and I need four more years to fix it, and maybe four more after that, becasue Bush sure made a mess!"

I wonder what she'll think in four years?

Mielr said:

True. Bush is most definitely not a conservative. I was greatly disappointed in many of the things he did (or rather, didn't do).

I like him as a person, but he's definitely responsible to a large extent to this protest vote/election that we have just witnessed.

I agree, almost everyone who even meets Bush, even if they supposedly hate him, like him as a person. I bet he'd be fun as hell to party with, I just wouldn't give him any gas money. His fiscal responsibility tells me that we'd stop every four miles in a Nissan to get gas.

Ziz said:

ferris209 said:

Truly a wonderful, and terrible, moment in America. While we succeeded in placing into office a black American, and thereby proven that we have achieved a post racial world, we also placed into office a socialist. It is a shame we had to sell out the American idea to break racial barriers.

"The American idea" - IOW, what we've had for the past several years...a country run like a conglomerate corporation, only concerned about the bottom line and the paychecks of its leaders, working towards their own ends instead of the prosperity of their employees, all the while throwing those employees the scraps and spare change, then wondering why those "valuable employees" aren't doing their jobs and aren't committed to turning things around.

 

People should not be afraid of their government.  Governments should be afraid of their people.

 

- V, "V for Vendetta"

 

I agree. Why is it conservative are constantly associated with Bush!?!?!? I DO NOT LIKE HOW BUSH HAS DONE!!! BUSH IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE!!! I AM A CONSERVATIVE!!! BUSH IS NOT!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI

I just did it to get folks goin', I've just always spelled it "ya'll", I honestly couldn't explain it.

Thanks on the sig!

PSYCHO_DAYV said:

OBAMA WINS !!!

Yeah, I know, it sucks.

Truly a wonderful, and terrible, moment in America. While we succeeded in placing into office a black American, and thereby proven that we have achieved a post racial world, we also placed into office a socialist. It is a shame we had to sell out the American idea to break racial barriers.

heh heh!

http://gizmodo.com/5076418/hidden-aero-shake-feature-cleans-up-the-clutter-in-windows-7

"Aero Shake" demoed.

At least if you don't like Communist societies and redistribution of wealth and people who associate with known terrorists, racists, and theives.

p.s.= I am a real southerner and this how we spell "ya'll"

negative1 said:

C3PX said:

 

First off -1, stop being such a ******wit. Thanks. Yes, I can type that with a straight face. ME worked great for me, after years of trouble with 98, ME felt like a great breath of fresh air. It basically felt like a version of 98 that didn't constantly plummet me into the blue screen of death. Also, it was the first one to have the compatibility mode feature, which I really liked, always worked well for me, and I use a lot of old programs.

that's odd, most of rest of the world (including microsoft) admitted that ME was a huge failure,

.....

Guys, I didn't begin this thread to have a pissing match about previous versions of Windows, I simply wanted to have some discussion about the upcoming Windows 7. Windows ME was a dog IMHO, but if it works for C3PX, who the hell cares, he's happy! My only complaint on this thread is that Windows 7 should be an SP of Vista, outside of that I don't give one iota of a damn about XP vs. ME or ME vs. 98 or 3.1 vs. 1.0!! Let's talk about Windows 7!!!

http://lifehacker.com/5075076/new-windows-7-taskbar-peek-feature-look-awesome

New task bar and "peek" fature looks cool, honestly guys, I'm kind of jazzed about this release, much more so than when Vista was released. I begrudgingly transistioned to Vista because being the family network administrator over about fourteen computers, I found that everyone was buying new laptops or desktops with Vsita installed and I had to learn to use it, but I liked it after I finally ought my Dell and used it for a while. But it seems that Vista was a tease for Windows 7.

LJ, you've curcumvated my point. I like Vista, I just think Windows 7 ought to be a standard SP upgrade to Vista. I know how to get a hold of WIndows XP, I own three copies. I am not complaining about drivers or this or that, just that WIndows 7 should be an SP pack of Vista. I brought up the drivers explanation because Microsoft tried so hard to shove Vista down everybodys throat and just when they finally succeed, they announce they will release a new OS, when just as you said it is not a new OS, merely an upgrade of the current OS. That is my point.

negative1 said:

C3PX said:

-1, if I could use two words to describe you, it would be "yes-man". You seem to be of the "bend over and take it philosophy". Not that there is anything wrong with that, from what I understands it makes life a hell of a lot easier.

easier ? no its the exact opposite....

You're Steve Ballmer, aren't you?

Hey Jay,

No big deal, but if it would be easy to do, I'd like to see those three little blue arrows up next to my "private messages" link only show up when I have new messages. Sort of like a visual notification of sorts.

I wouldn't mind so much if they didn't try so hard to force Vista down our throats, not that I don't like it, but it is damn near impossible to buy a new computer with XP installed. Even if you find one that will install it, like Dell, then you're not 100% sure that the drivers will work, like in my new Dell E6400. If they had made the Vista a purely optional deal, then yeah I wouldn't mind so much.

negative1 said:

ferris209 said:

vbangle said:

Darth Chaltab said:

They're leaving the basic architecture the same as Vista, but I think they're going to target the issues a lot of people had with it.

 

Which is why this release is *******. Instead of a new $300 OS this should of been SP2 or SP3...regardless it's a complete bend over and take it in the **** moment from Uncle Bill again.....no thanks.

 

That's my main point, I didn't see anything wrong with making all these improvements to Vista as SP3, even if they wanted to get away from the whole tainted "Vista" name they could have easily had SP3 re-title Vista to Windows 7 and even make the whole SP3 a big marketing campaign, but it all comes down to the almighty dollar.

and you think that since service packs are free, that this major upgrade should be free???

Yes, I do.

vbangle said:

Darth Chaltab said:

They're leaving the basic architecture the same as Vista, but I think they're going to target the issues a lot of people had with it.

 

Which is why this release is bullshit. Instead of a new $300 OS this should of been SP2 or SP3...regardless it's a complete bend over and take it in the ass moment from Uncle Bill again.....no thanks.

That's my main point, I didn't see anything wrong with making all these improvements to Vista as SP3, even if they wanted to get away from the whole tainted "Vista" name they could have easily had SP3 re-title Vista to Windows 7 and even make the whole SP3 a big marketing campaign, but it all comes down to the almighty dollar.

lordjedi said:

ferris209 said:

All that aside, I am pretty stoked about it, it looks like all the kinks are, or will be, worked out from their flawed Vista release (although it ain't that bad to me).

What kinks would those be?  Pretty much all the things that were wrong with Vista have been fixed with SP1.  I certainly hope you're running SP1.  SP2 will probably be out in the next month or so.

I've had no trouble running Vista in my test environment at work.  Not a single crash or hang.

 

I didn't mean that I thought it had kinks, but the blogosphere seems to think so, I've been happy with Vista myself, I'd just like to see all the Windows 7 "improvements" brought to Vista.

http://www.slashgear.com/windows-7-gui-multitouch-media-center-more-2920723/