tazgecko

tazgecko

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Reply to Windows 8 = EPIC FAIL in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="90" id="3346252"]And you may say that people "correctly" think Win 8 is shitty, but really, judging a truly solid OS solely on its appearance is truly moronic. [/quote] Haven't seen anyone having a go at the OS, just the UI ... if you wish to call people morons because they have an opinion on what's broken and needs fixing, then I think you are more poorer for it. [quote who="Daiwa" reply="91" id="3346260"]Seems most 'journalists' h

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Reply to Price Gouging in Oz: MS, Adobe and Apple in Well Deserved Tight Spot. in Business WinCustomize Forums

At least Adobe was smart enough to say the extra cost was to provide marketing and a greater shopping 'experience', and apple try to justify the cost with production. This will give them an argument when the ACCC takes them to court. When MS came up with, they can create a price they thought they could get out of a market, and if someone doesn't like it they don't have to buy it ... OMG, their lawyers must be having a heart attack. They just gave the ACCC the s

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Reply to My job at Stardock in Business WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Leo the Lion" reply="4" id="3329494"]Now go play some golf, Brad and leave them to it! [/quote] Amen to that ... Strong leadership creates the culture of a workplace, enjoy your hard work ... Relax [e digicons]|-)[/e]

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Reply to The Wealth Inequality thread in Economics WinCustomize Forums

Focus should not be on the wealthy but on the lower classes. Without opportunity to improve, discontent will flourish. There should always be reward for those who strive, if this creates wealth for some, so be it. But for society to prosper there needs to be opportunity for the less fortunate to live a good life and feel content. History shows what happens to a society when the masses have had enough ... It's up to the government to get the balance right ... although

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Reply to Your Political Compass in Everything Else WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="90" id="3326140"]Very often, it seems, you scratch an atheist and a statist bleeds. And the problem with statists is that they want to use the government to enforce their world views (whether that be enviromentalism, health food, etc.).[/quote] Think you are forgetting that a population always had governments enforcing their ideology onto the population, including Christian 'values' ... I know plenty of atheist who want a 'small government'.

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Reply to Why your internet isn’t as good as it should be. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="Dr Guy" reply="38" id="3324289"] Indeed, the biggest threat to freedom is not business, but government.[/quote] We control the government, it represents us. If a government fails then it's our fault, people have fought to get a system where we have some control, complacency is the enemy of freedom ...

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Reply to Why your internet isn’t as good as it should be. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="25" id="3323226"]The only way to finance it is via the government or a consortium. Did anyone ever try to put one together? Did anyone bother to bring suit on the grounds that the company has to buy out what it owes to the people of Oz for the equipment and lines?[/quote] Telstra is too big. It was a giant profitable company before the government sold it, all they did was make a monopoly. The government first went to Telstra to build a fiber network, Te

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Reply to Why your internet isn’t as good as it should be. in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The OZ experience ... We had a company, Telstra, in charge of telecommunications in Australia which was run by the government, a huge company which basically had all of the copper and phone networks. Around twenty+ years ago a conservative government decided to privatize it, so there will be 'greater competition' in the market, prices will go down and there will be a greater choice in the market. The people of Australia didn't want it to happen, it was our company, our inf

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