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I think you see where I'm going with this. It's easy to blame guns for what is really a social and cultural problem that exists in pockets of this country. You can go to places that have easy access to guns without having the homicide rate of Chicago.

It would be better if the Fed were actually a foreign entity. Then they would have a vested interest in the currency not getting torched. As it stands now, they are basically a branch of the government. The government deficit spends, the Fed conjures money out of thin air and buys the debt.

Then why don't the people who live in "the city over" have the same gun violence problem? Why don't the suburbs of Chicago (and the rest of Illinois) have multiple children shot to death every weekend?

Something like that. The point being is that Chicago gun laws are not the same as Illinois gun laws. They are much worse. The other guy (who clearly has all day to discuss this) doesn't understand that. We can go round and round and round and find every link we want that points to every...

The statement was made because he was comparing the gun laws of Chicago (a city) with a list that compares the gun laws of entire states. Excluding Chicago, Illinois really isn't that bad as far as gun laws. Take Chicago, by itself, and compare it to laws of other states.We just had a Supreme...

When you allow the government to get as large and powerful as it has, it's not surprising at all that it will violate your rights every chance it gets. The American people need to come to grips with the monster they've created. You can't have all the "free" stuff you asked for and your civil...

I don't really care if some random guy on the internet "respects" me or not. That's creepy and weird. The violence in Chicago is deplorable despite having harsh gun laws. Nothing that happens in NJ (despite being a dump) is comparable to Chicago despite you digging up an article that shows a...

The 8 brand is too tainted at this point. They should start work on 9 and go back to the drawing board. MSFT has a real problem on it's hands. Businesses are not going to spend money on upgrades of dubious value, especially in a lousy economy. There is no reason they can't coast on Windows 7...

Trenton is a sewer like parts of Chicago. The article said 4 homicides, not five to 10. Also, Chicago is not a state.

Why does Chicago specifically have this problem? Why doesn't my town have multiple young children shot to death every weekend? Why doesn't every other town have this problem?

I guess I don't quite understand what there is to debate. Why would a criminal choose to setup shop in the city with the harshest gun laws in the country? That makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever. I realize internet "debate" is a complete waste of time but this really takes the cake.

They took advantage of the city with some of the harshest laws in country? Makes a ton of sense. They must also like the weather in Chicago.

Absurd. Every American city and state doesn't have the gun violence problem Chicago has. I don't dodge bullets everyday and I'm sure few on this forum do either. Even the shittiest areas of NJ don't have 5-10 murders every weekend.

Sort of begs the question then. Why don't those cities and states have the same out-of-control gun violence problem?

The entire country is basically lawless because the "Justice Department" does nothing to enforce the law. Eric Holder should have been fired years ago.

I remember when everyone thought Wayne LaPierre was nuts for blaming video games for the crazies losing their marbles. Well, guess what everyone pays attention to now? That guy is crazy like a fox. The video game industry doesn't have an effective lobby so they are going to get burned...

This is the exact same non-sense they used to say about the dot-com bubble companies. They are "investing in themselves" or they are "buying marketshare." There was always an excuse as to why they weren't actually making money.

Pretty slick. Start collecting deposits and then be declared Too Big to Fail. You'll be on the taxpayer tit forever. Surprised Amazon hasn't tried this yet. They can lose money indefinitely.

The overall company operates at a loss. It's meaningless if certain divisions have profits. The profitable divisions aren't separate companies. More and more attention is going to be paid to Amazon's "business model" which is classic dot-com bubble nonsense: sell $100 bills for $99.99.

Stock buybacks are more often than not a complete waste of capital.

The first Half Life was and still is my favorite game of all time. The second one was really stupid. The story made no sense.

For a generic sysadmin, yeah, 100K isn't going to last. On the other hand, you wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find qualified, motivated people in the IT field. Those people (most of whom work for VARs/MSPs) are worth every penny of 100K.

Depends on where you live. However, you need to consider how much gets eaten up by income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, insurances, and all the other "mandatory" things I forgot. How much do you have left and how much should you save for retirement? You need to make closer to 100K to...

Things are already bad because of the cheap easy credit.

Well, somewhat indirectly. If the Fed wasn't artificially suppressing interest rates, it's unclear if Amazon's business model (which generates virtually no profits) would even be viable. The money that saver's aren't getting as interest is a stealth tax.

I'm curious if anyone here actually looks at the financials of this company...

The only way you'll see real outrage about this is when it's used against domestic political opposition.

Web apps are the greatest threat to Microsoft. They are OS independent.

Why Netflix even exists is beyond me. They are merely a middle-man, an aggregation service that provides little value. If the major content providers got their act together and cooperated, Netflix wouldn't even be in business. There is little unique about their offering. Anyone with...

There's another side to this. You just spent four years (at least) getting "educated" yet you have none of the skills required to operate in the workforce. What exactly did you spend your money on? If you believe the purpose of college is to become "enlightened" or an "educated citizen" then...

The enterprise division is carrying this company. The consumer side is slowly being eroded. Windows 8 RT makes absolutely zero sense. The entire Microsoft ecosystem is based on x86 apps and you release a tablet that won't run any of them. It was doomed to fail from day one. Consumers are...

Cancelling Technet made no real sense. I'm sure people are selling the keys on eBay. But how much money can they possibly be losing? You make tens of billions and possible lose tens of millions to people who probably weren't going to buy anyway. The upside is you have an entire ecosystem of...

Before 2008, when was the last time a housing bubble took out the entire US financial system?

The only "fact" present here is that Canada's banks are exposed to a housing bubble. It's not relevant if bubbles occur elsewhere. Bringing that up is called deflection.

Right. Canada has it's own massive housing bubble as well as some of the most indebted consumers in the world. http://www.crackshackormansion.com

I know. I'm pretty sure that's why Rahm's Wild West isn't a bigger news story. The gun grabbers can't make a case of it. Whatever happened to that guy that shot a bunch of people in California recently? How fast did that drop off the news?

Of course. But we are exasperating the problem in a pretty significant way. Creating black markets always lends itself to this.

That's what he's saying and I agree. A much better alternative is ending the nonsensical drug war we've been fighting and losing for 30+ years that fuels much of this activity. People in Chicago aren't shooting at each other to improve their marksmanship, they are doing it for drug turf.

Partnering with Microsoft has been a dodgy proposition historically. I'm surprised the Citrix relationship has lasted as long as it has.

I agree with the above post. I don't really see the alternative in an RDS/Citrix environment. You could roam the profile but re-direct some items out of it to save space. But not roaming stuff is going to cause user isues. I am not a fan of roaming profiles on regular desktops though. I...