Posts by Not Needed

And so we begin the tech sector's journey into the Heart of Darkness

Not so bad

Ashlee,

I think you've taken a small selection of tech companies and focused on the bad ones. Intel released their numbers and beat analysts expectations. Oracle has consistently smashed earnings records. Google is a newer company and freely states in their annual reports that everything they do is pretty darn risky and in new territory. Speaking of Google has missed earnings expections in the past, and it didn't phase them.

Then you look at the companies that put all these technologies together like IBM and Accenture and notice that they continue to post very strong results. The "mature" players have grown up from the dot com bubble and learned the importance of running your tech company like an actual business and not have razer scooters as a form of transportation at the office (Lycos anyone?). And the companies with an international presence have learned how to diversify themselves to weather a slowing US economy.

The overall downward trend is to be expected as investors become risk averse. All stocks are taking a hit. Basing the performance of a company purely on its stock price and a single quater of results doesn't make for a very good propectus.

The terrorists I party with

Confused

I don't get it Greene. You spent your first two articles blasting the Bush administration citing American news sources over their handling of the war. And now, in this article you blast the very same news sources that you relied on to make your arguments. Are you for real?

Being an American and watching the news daily, I can say with 100% confidence that you are guilty of what you just claimed the American media is. You cherry picked a few small circumstances of the media repeating white house statements and passing them as facts. However, what you completely miss is how much the media in America, just like yourself, criticizes the Bush administration. Its 99% negative coverage of what happens in Iraq.

And I'll say it again, these articles have no place on The Register. No one comes here to get their daily dose of politics, and The Register shouldn't give a forum for people like this.

Can Osama keep Bush afloat?

Still no proof

So I've been called an idiot, a retard, a liar, and blind. Yet, not a single person here has been able to show any of the following:

1) AQ planned 9/11

2) Bush purposefully hurts people

3) Bush/Cheney personally profits from the wars

4) The United States is taking over the world

All conspiracy theories. Link me to solid evidence, by a reliable news source (not some crackpots blog) that proves this. You can't just give me some random statement like "look at the facts!!!", what facts? The "facts" I look at tell me a different story. Or my personal favorite, "THINK ABOUT IT!" I have, and I think you're on medication.

As for everyone having their own opinion, I agree completely. But does that mean I'm not allowed to tell you your opinion sucks? Because then we only are allowed our own opinion when you agree with it, right?

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Now the whole WW2 thing is completely separate and being how much I have studied and love learning about WW2, I will comment on the previous statement about America wanting nothing to do with WW2.

You are absolutely 100% correct, America did want to stay out of WW2. We took a stance of help economically by donating money and war supplies to Britian, but refused to send troops due to not having enough support. Before the Pearl Harbor attacks, there were those who favored becoming involved and those who opposed, and the majority opposed. Our country was in the middle of a depression and people felt we had to focus on issues at home and rely on diplomacy (an interesting parallel to today, right?) Well, low and behold, on December 7th, 1940, the Japanese Empire launched a surprise attack killing a couple thousand Americans (sounds familiar yet?) As FDR called it a day that would live in infamy, the country suddenly become 100% committed to defeating the Axis.

We declared war on Japan. A few days later, Germany and Italy took it upon themselves to declare war on the US. On Omaha beach in Normandy, the German defenses were perfectly laid out, well entrenched, they literally did everything right. The only way we defeated them was sheer American will power (we took amazingly heavy losses, and that didn't one bit stop the boys from pushing forward). This type of bravery was seen again in Bastogne at the battle of the bulge, where the 101st airborne single handedly held back the entire German army.

This isn't to say the British and Canadian forces didn't perform miracles themselves, because they did. The battle of Britain is one of the most amazing stories in history. I'm merely just trying to make a point.

what?

Bush benefited from 9/11? How? What proof can you offer? Which corporate backers got the benefit?

Bush is arming Sunni Al Qaeda? Where? How is Bush personally doing it? Can you prove it?

This doesn't belong on The Register. People are saying Bush is an evil genius planning world domination and in the same paragraph people explaining how he is such an idiot. These comments are made by conspiracy theorists who just rant about crap. If you can offer up proof to back any of these ridiculous claims, then do so. Otherwise you sound like a bat raving lunatic.

Why?

It is still beyond me how so many Europeans take it upon themselves to criticize American politicians (actually just Bush and Cheney). Do you guys even try to find any media resources that support anything America does? Just because your media says Bush is an evil dictator (which is laughable) doesn't make it true. If you took the time to question your own biases, you might actually be quite surprised as to what you will find.

Europe is desperately trying to keep themselves out of conflict. With the problems of the first two world war's and the cold war, I don't blame them. However, Europe has gone back to a pre-WWII mentality of if I leave them alone, they will leave me alone. It's easy to think this, many of us Americans did, until nearly 3,000 people were killed one early morning. So while Europe continues to huddle in their narrow world perspective and turtle behind their "superior morals", countries like the US, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan will continue to realize we are in a global economy and our global investments need to be protected and expanded. Hope you guys enjoys 3rd world status.

And this is a tech site. Take your wanna be understanding of American politics elsewhere.

Breakfast with bin Laden

Not Needed

"Oh come on Not Needed, if you paid *any* attention you should know about the technological relation of all the fear-mongering. Or read Maureen Webb if you don't."

Please explain it to me. This article is akin to a democratic talking point. How is it tech related? Thomas Greene was making it very clear he isn't a fan of President Bush (and being from Ireland, I don't see why he cares). It was bad article to post on a tech website.

Tech news?

Since when did the Register become a political commentary site? I think The Register should stick to what it does best, reporting on *tech news* and thumbing their nose at it. There are far better political websites out there.

Rivals torture consumers via Microsoft

Vista search is OK

Actually, google desktop (which includes an indexed searching service like that built into vista) comes pre-installed on quite a few retail PCs (mainly Gateway).

As for the Vista search feature, I agree that its actually pretty good. Its the same thing as MSN search available to xp users but it is built into the start menu. Anyone who claims it takes longer than XP is doing something wrong. XP doesn't index your files, e-mails, etc like Vista does. My Vista searches are exponentially faster than my XP searches. Leaps and bounds.