Why Linux is not (yet) ready for the desktop

[Robert Holtzman]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Brian Fahrlander wrote:

>    You can have no ambition in Britian; they call it socialism. It's a
> popular thing, being sold as a panacea of pleasure...it's really not.
> Since world war 2, America's growth has been something like 10% larger
> than European nations. Tons of things were created or enhanced by
> American technology and/or innovation. How can anyone forget the
> post-war boom?

Which was caused by a bunch of pent up cash due to the scarcity of goods 
during the war.

>    But in places where they wait for the government to provide
> all...you can never really be safe, now, can ya? Time and again those
> depending on others to survive have had the longer poverty, the harder
> life. Just popped into my head was the scene from Excalibur (1980) where
> they country people were impoverished and starving when the nights were
> gone. Sure, the castle was well provisioned; the people ran around
> hungry at 80 pounds, moaning.
>
>    I'm just not ready to discard decades...perhaps a couple of
> centuries of how one doing his own thing and culturally making leftovers
> available to his fellow man can be outclassed by the people we were JUST
> joking about, paying $600 for a toilet seat.

Don't you people ever get tired of trotting out the $600 toilet seat and 
the $400 hammer etc? Why don't you do a little research and find out why 
those items cost so much?

>>
>    Well, we do, too.  We accept *anyone* who comes into an emergency room.
>
>    The problem is, when John Q. Public arrives with federally-backed
> Medicare (or is it Medicade?) funding, things that cost $500 wind up
> being re-imbursed by that supposedly philanthropic federal organization
> with $38.  That's why aspirins cost the rest of us $8.
>
>    The health system, just like the banking system, has been crushed by
> Congress. Had they intended to HELP healthcare, they would pay the going
> rate for such things. Instead, they underfunded, intentionally.  Later
> with hospitals becoming empty properties, they'll swoop in as if they
> didn't crush the hospital and decide to buy it! "We'll save the day!
> Trust Us!"
>
>    Then, having killed off the free-standing hospitals who have, and
> will take anyone, won't take ANYONE until it's their turn.  Broken
> arm...what do Canadians wait now, siz weeks?

That's another old chestnut you people like to trot out.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about or are you just 
parroting what you hear from Rush Limpdick? Long waits are for 
elective or non-emergency procedures.

>    You really need to spend more time here. There's a very good reason
> why so much argument goes on about religion here: it's dying. Much like
> the areas of London becoming run by Sharia Law, Christians here are
> trying to keep it a part of our nature as it's been since our founding.

By trying to shove it down *everyone's* throat by way of legislation.

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Bob Holtzman
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