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First of all, getting a single square is NOT bingo, unless you have the most fucked up game of bingo I've ever heard, second don't insult me by calling me a libertarian, I'm a socialist thank you VERY much.

And you still haven't answered the fundamental question: How is voting supposed to do ANYTHING when both parties have identical views? How's that Hope and Change working out for ya? Who has held onto every nasty policy Bush supported, even taking them farther when he could? And now Obama says he has the right to assassination of Americans on American soil thanks to irrevocable "war powers" so you tell me, how EXACTLY is he ANY different than the man who preceded him?

This isn't about some political party Mr funny man, this is about the loss of the very essence of a free society! This is about using the government as the personal attack dogs of the corporations (15 years in jail for copyright infringement?) and when bad management and cronyism causes the business to implode simply labeling it "too big to fail" and handing them a blank check. You find ANYTHING at all funny about that? You currently "owe" about $78,000 thanks to the spending insanity of our leaders, you know this right?

And that is different from what we have now....how exactly? Abandonware sites gets run off or shut down all the time, try selling a disc of abandonware with DOSBox preset for running it and see how quickly the corps shut you down. If someone can't squeeze maximum profits from an IP then nobody is allowed to have it and groups like the BSA will go after abandonware even by corps that have long since gone tits up.

The ultimate goal should be pretty obvious to anyone by now, to lock the world behind a paywall. Nothing is free, anything and everything any person could possibly want to see, read, hear, or use, locked down behind a paywall so some ultramegacorp don't have to worry about competition with its products. Pretty nasty but since we no longer even have the rule of law in this country ( see how the president now claims the right to imprison or assassinate Americans without trial anywhere in the world including American soil under "war powers") the corps WILL get whatever their little greedy black hearts desire, period.

All that is left is to kill off free software (death by a thousand trolls, anyone?) and that is that, anything that can be useful or make a profit will be locked behind a paywall. Personally I predict the next "big thing" will be converting the existing commercial software, video, and music into SaaS where you won't be allowed to "own" anything (look at the EULA, in some ways that is already true) but instead you'll be forced to "rent" everything you use or watch or hear in perpetuity and the second you miss a payment your PC won't work, your movies won't play, etc. This serves the ultimate goal of "maximizing profit potential" and ensures they force you to consume the latest product by flipping the kill switch on the old. To put a current spin on an old song..."Freedoms just another word for, no people to screw..."

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

Nobody RTFPDF before stuffing the /. submission system with this crap because (A) Wikileaks just won a prestigious, rarely awarded Australian peace prize (see video here full of stuff to rile up the establishment) and (B) A US Grand jury into busting up transparency supporters, whistleblowers and Wikileaks is just warming up and calling people in to testify in secret. To negate these big-news headlines (on the world stage that is - not so much in the US it seems), the anti-whistleblower spin machine has had to invent extra negative stuff about WIkileaks today - hence this £12M "gag on it" spin. (BTW - Notice how the two factual stores on Wikileaks never made it even close to getting onto Slashdot submission. I agree with Nemyst post below - the Slashdot submission system appears to be all but owned).

Gee, Robert Gates doesn't agree with you. ([more analysis]).

You've also failed to point out the fact that the main *innocent* people who die are not our Afghani sympathizers, but american soldiers and Afghan civilians. Want to save american lives? Get the fuck out of afghanistan. It's over.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

True, the FBI appear to be doing their Cybecrime fighting well, keeping the government safe against whistlblowers. They usually get their man too.

True, the FBI appear to be doing their Cybecrime fighting well, keeping the government safe against whistlblowers. They usually get their man too.

Obama: "We're a nation of laws. We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law."
The impropriety of Obama's public pre-trial declaration of Manning's guilt ("He broke the law") is both gross and manifest. How can Manning possibly expect to receive a fair hearing from military officers when their Commander-in-Chief has already decreed his guilt?

Or this, an equally disturbing (though probably less obviously so because this concerns "foreigners":

When I saw that, I was going to ask how the NYT could possibly know that the people whose lives the U.S. just ended were "militants," but then I read further in the article and it said this: "A government official in North Waziristan told Pakistani reporters that five children and four women were among the 23 who were killed." So at least 9 of the 23 people we killed -- at least -- were presumably not "militants" at all, but rather innocent civilians (contrast how the NYT characterizes Libya’s attacks in its headlines: "Qaddafi Troops Fire Cluster Bombs Into Civilian Areas").

Or, about a guy who hit a bicyclist in NYC causing "spinal cord injuries, bleeding from his brain and damage to his knee and scapula, according to court documents. Over the past six weeks he has suffered “disabling” spinal headaches and faces multiple surgeries for a herniated disc and plastic surgery to fix the scars he suffered in the accident."

This kind of egregious hit-and-run is, obviously, a very serious crime. Milo is incredulous at the suggestion from Erzinger’s attorneys “that Erzinger might have unknowingly suffered from sleep apnea”, and wants Erzinger to be charged with a felony. Justice must be served: the case “has always been about responsibility, not money”, he wrote to DA Mark Hurlbert.
Yet Hurlbert, looking at Erzinger’s wealth, decided that the case really was about the money after all:

“The money has never been a priority for them. It is for us,” Hurlbert said. “Justice in this case includes restitution and the ability to pay it.”
Hurlbert said Erzinger is willing to take responsibility and pay restitution.
“Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger’s profession, and that entered into it,” Hurlbert said. “When you’re talking about restitution, you don’t want to take away his ability to pay.”

In other words, Erzinger has bought his way out of a felony charge, over the strenuous objections of his victim; it’s very unlikely that online petitions will do any good at this point. Just another thing to add to the list of things that money can buy, I suppose. [The story continues here]

Or this about regulators who refused to regulate banks because fining them would hurt them financially. Or this about a state AG being bought by the mortgage lenders he's supposedly investigating/prosecuting. Or

Obama: "We're a nation of laws. We don't let individuals make their own decisions about how the laws operate. He broke the law."
The impropriety of Obama's public pre-trial declaration of Manning's guilt ("He broke the law") is both gross and manifest. How can Manning possibly expect to receive a fair hearing from military officers when their Commander-in-Chief has already decreed his guilt?

Or this, an equally disturbing (though probably less obviously so because this concerns "foreigners":

When I saw that, I was going to ask how the NYT could possibly know that the people whose lives the U.S. just ended were "militants," but then I read further in the article and it said this: "A government official in North Waziristan told Pakistani reporters that five children and four women were among the 23 who were killed." So at least 9 of the 23 people we killed -- at least -- were presumably not "militants" at all, but rather innocent civilians (contrast how the NYT characterizes Libya’s attacks in its headlines: "Qaddafi Troops Fire Cluster Bombs Into Civilian Areas").

Or, about a guy who hit a bicyclist in NYC causing "spinal cord injuries, bleeding from his brain and damage to his knee and scapula, according to court documents. Over the past six weeks he has suffered “disabling” spinal headaches and faces multiple surgeries for a herniated disc and plastic surgery to fix the scars he suffered in the accident."

This kind of egregious hit-and-run is, obviously, a very serious crime. Milo is incredulous at the suggestion from Erzinger’s attorneys “that Erzinger might have unknowingly suffered from sleep apnea”, and wants Erzinger to be charged with a felony. Justice must be served: the case “has always been about responsibility, not money”, he wrote to DA Mark Hurlbert.
Yet Hurlbert, looking at Erzinger’s wealth, decided that the case really was about the money after all:

“The money has never been a priority for them. It is for us,” Hurlbert said. “Justice in this case includes restitution and the ability to pay it.”
Hurlbert said Erzinger is willing to take responsibility and pay restitution.
“Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger’s profession, and that entered into it,” Hurlbert said. “When you’re talking about restitution, you don’t want to take away his ability to pay.”

In other words, Erzinger has bought his way out of a felony charge, over the strenuous objections of his victim; it’s very unlikely that online petitions will do any good at this point. Just another thing to add to the list of things that money can buy, I suppose. [The story continues here]

Or this about regulators who refused to regulate banks because fining them would hurt them financially. Or this about a state AG being bought by the mortgage lenders he's supposedly investigating/prosecuting. Or

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

"Stupid is a stupid does, sir."Google wasn't wasn't logging private information,

Yes, they were, Mr. Representative of Google Inc., Sir - and you know it. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/03/21/france_privacy_google_fined

"As we have said before, we are profoundly sorry for having mistakenly collected payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks," Google's Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer said in an e-mailed statement. "As soon as we realized what had happened, we stopped collecting all Wi-Fi data from our Street View cars and immediately informed the authorities."

Which ones has he ended? Oh yea, Iraq is over -- I forgot. Obama officially declared the end of hostilities or something stupid like that some time ago -- a bit like Bush with the "Mission Accomplished" thingy. If you think Obama is anything other than an extension of Bush's policies, you're not paying attention.

Obama asserts the right to execute American citizens without any kind of trial, charges, or judicial oversight based on nothing but allegations, i.e., Obama says your are a terrorist -- you get murdered and don't get a chance to defend yourself. Look up Amendments 4-6 to the constitution to see just how breathtaking this is. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/10/02/assassinations/index.html

Then of course there is the refusal to prosecute the illegal wiretapping of the previous administration, but rather to immunize the evildoers: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/obama-sides-wit/

Closing Gitmo? Not. But worse, since the procedures at Gitmo have been declared unconstitutional, Obama is merely shifting operations to Bagram, as if the place in which one denies Habeas Corpus is of such great import: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/05/no-habeas-at-bagram/

Obama uses the state secrets doctrine to prevent civil lawsuits against American companies complicit in the plaintiffs' torture under Bush's rendition program: http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/09/suit_alleging_cia_torture_dism.html

Moral: If you hated Bush, you need to be hating Obama because he and Bush are brothers.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

'You see enemy soldiers not only brutalizing American civilians, but outright murdering a mother in front of her children and callously tossing corpses around,'

Oh, so pretty much what the US military does in many parts of the world every day. Making this game pernicious propaganda intended to demonise a universal enemy—"foreigners = bad guys"—along with its tag team of TV and Hollywood.

And it works very effectively: You quickly end up with Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, an astonishing rate of civilian massacre by flying robots piloted by laughing good ole boys, trophy killings for sport, and all the rest of the bloody, horrible theatre perpetrated by the world's most dangerous rogue state.

I don't see any data there from which I can conclude anything about the overall temperature trend of the Earth. Every piece of data I've seen shows warming. A climate skeptic analyzed temperature data recently and came to the same conclusion. Even though fellow skeptic Anthony Watts was in favor of this analysis, his immediately dismissed his results as soon as they showed warming. If you have data that shows something different than warming, let's see it.

it has been shown that the content creator receives very little for their efforts.

Freakin' citation please.

Courtney Love. Steve Albini.

Death threats against Democrats are given the "aw, shucks" treatment.

References, please. When did this happen? Who specifically said it was "aw, shucks" for a Democrat to receive death threats?

Because I remember the news media spending weeks chiding Republicans and Tea Party members for an "extreme tone", while the same news media was much less interested in actual death threats made against Republicans.

It was big news that Sarah Palin's campaign used marks to indicate cities on a map, and the news media endlessly discussed how serious it is that Sarah Palin used words like "target" and "reload" when talking about election plans. It wasn't news at all that Democrat ads have used bullseyes, or even put a crosshairs with reticle over a Republican. That crosshairs looks like a rifle scope to me.

I remember that it was big news when a Republican shouted "You lie!" at President Obama, but it was not big news when a Wisconsin Democrat shouted "You're f***king dead!" at a Wisconsin Republican. (Nobody thinks it was a sincere threat of murder, but it still seems like a poor example of the more civil "new tone" talked about in recent months.)

Are you telling me that the same news media that was all over the Republican "extreme tone" downplayed actual death threats against Democrats?

Citation needed.

Disclaimer: I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat; I am a minarchist libertarian. I am not a fan of extremist rhetoric on either side, I am not a fan of death threats, and I am not a fan of double standards.

steveha

.. and sell it under the wrong name!

There have been several cases that reflect on user-identified grocery store data.

The FBI went trawling through grocery club card data looking for possible Iranian terrorists -- based on what they supposedly eat.

A man was wrongly suspected of arson based on his club card records of having purchased fire starters, and was later exonerated.

There was another case where the supermarket itself, being sued by a customer who slipped, threatened to use his purchase records to show that he was a probable alcoholic.

I'm sure all of the affected people thought the same way you do -- "why should I care?".

But then this article is about Germany, where the citizens know exactly why they should care about dossiers on ordinary citizens.

I see your "artists are losing money" and raise you an "artists were never making money in the first place, media conglomerates were".

  http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html

Fuck that, I'm ALL IN: No one loses profits from piracy because pirates were never going to make those purchases in the first place. I thought this was proven already, by multiple independent studies around the world.

Piracy is the best defense against the deluge of pure shit being poured on us. I pirate every movie BEFORE I buy the DVD/Blu-Ray specifically because I will never pay ~$25 to test the waters.

Funny thing is, since the mid 90's almost every single PC game comes with a playable demo so I can test those waters free of charge.

When will the entertainment folks realize that in order for them to procure the rights to our cash, they must produce something worthy of making us part with said cash?

I see your "artists are losing money" and raise you an "artists were never making money in the first place, media conglomerates were".

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html

This one stands out as exceptionally silly to me, because I live in Wisconsin and nothing remotely like that has happened.

Really?

It seems like... ..you haven't been... ..paying attention.

Do you still want to stand by your claim that "nothing remotely like that has happened"?

Let me know if you're still not convinced. I can provide more evidence. As someone who owns a house near Palmyra, Wisconsin, I can tell you that a lot of people around here are pretty well informed about this thing that you claim is not happening.

So does that mean that JP Morgan has 25 Billion in cash?

Yes.

I bet they are borrowing the money from the government

No. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/01/14/us_earns_jpmorgan_chase

I see that posted a lot - mostly on Digg - I'm ashamed to say I read ....

BUT, the truth is even weirder...

Obama's idea of change when it comes the government's stance on "national security", i.e. torture and government accountability? No change is good change, keep things the same as Bush's administration. By continuing the former admin's policies, it looks to me like he's looking out for the old guard as well. He supported TARP, did he not? I voted for the bastard, so I can complain.

Face it women know the dangers of having sex before engaging. Don't let them about face when shit gets real. /flame

Really? Then why do the same general group of pro-lifers insist on not having proper sex education?

http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2004/02/24/abstinence/index.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/20/george-bush-teen-pregnancy-abstinence
http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-02-11/news/17229994_1_abstinence-comprehensive-sex-education-sexual-and-reproductive-health

Face it, the issue is religious and political and not about what's good for society.

Here's one

Here's another one.

Is getting asked to speak at a mostly Republican event, and getting "reimbursed for the flight and hotel" enough of a payout for you? How about if it was a first class flight and 5-star Penthouse room with "order anything you want from room service.". Sure, no cash exchanged hands, maybe he just got lobster dinners and got it "reimbursed" because he was traveling to be a guest speaker, and he surely had to eat right? Is that still kosher?

And Thomas' wife works with tea partiers and get money from them. OK, neutral much?

Here's one

Here's another one.

Is getting asked to speak at a mostly Republican event, and getting "reimbursed for the flight and hotel" enough of a payout for you? How about if it was a first class flight and 5-star Penthouse room with "order anything you want from room service.". Sure, no cash exchanged hands, maybe he just got lobster dinners and got it "reimbursed" because he was traveling to be a guest speaker, and he surely had to eat right? Is that still kosher?

And Thomas' wife works with tea partiers and get money from them. OK, neutral much?

Silly rabbit, laws are only for plebs, not people/goverment with money/power.

The government will either go with:
A) State secret and demand that its dismissed.
B) State that the people who could defend it are too busy to go to court and their for it needs to be dismissed
C) Get a retroactive FISA warrant.

I would posit that Anonymous is an ideology or attitude, and those are neither groups nor "nothing."

I agree with you that Anonymous is more of an ideology or philosophy than much else. Random people perform random acts of disobedience, some of them claim to be with the ethereal group "Anonymous". Non geeks look impressed and vision a dark sprawling underground organization.

The "false flag" for La Mano Negra (if it was indeed a false-flag situation) wasn't "La Mano Negra," it was "an anarchist group Things were done by that group and then used to justify attacks on other groups.

Just a quick correction: La Mano Negra by most accounts didn't exist. Much of the Spanish literature on the subject points to it being an invention of the government at the time. The "four crimes committed by La Mano Negra" are speculated to be the False Flag operations used by the government to justify an extremely violent suppression of the unarmed farming peasants - who were beginning to question serfdom and demand political recognition, following the lead from other European countries at the time.

Fine. But how do you apply that to a "group" that attacks disparate targets, seremingly at random, for contradictory reasons? Are you saying you can false flag as "random people on the Internet" in a meaningful way?

Yes and very easily so - those random people have banded around the name "Anonymous", and that can be used against them. Your government want's to pass some extreme laws to militarize the internet or some such nonsense - all that is needed is some justification to wave around and scare enough people with to accept your laws without much question (Witness all the "Cyber war" rhetoric). If the "real" Anonymous idealists are not willing to do something destructive and unpopular enough, organize a false flag event or two and claim your the same Anonymous "members" that hacked the HBGary servers (Since they have already got widespread publicity that can be subverted). Do enough damage in the False Flag attack to give the political capital needed to pass your crappy laws, al-la Patriot Act style. After seeing the depth's HBGary were willing to stoop to, this does not sound very far fetched - it's a textbook False Flag attack. The point is: If I was the individual(s) who claimed to hack HBGary servers using the banner name Anonymous, I'd want the power to discredit anyone else claiming to do other acts in my name. PGP signatures on any and all public communications would give me that power (with no downside).

As an aside, 'al qaeda' is another ideology banded around by disparate, fragmented and disenfranchized groups who carry out random uncoordinated acts of misguided violence in it's name. Far from damaging the MIC, secretive governments and abusive corporations - they have indirectly helped to increase their power. Unlike Anonymous however, there is usually no need to use False Flags to get people whipped up into a fear frenzy. Even then, some creative non-standard False Flag events can go a long way to increasing your power base and guarantee further funding.

I'm sorry, but you're just wrong. Israel is even cracking down on interracial marriage, with Tel Aviv (aren't they a more liberal part of Israel?) running municipal (tax-funded) TV ads warning against dating Arabs. Don't forget the recently passed laws that disenfranchised interracial marriages, in essence deporting countless Arabs who had married Jews. You're putting your head in the sand if you pretend Israel doesn't have a problem on its hands.

About the pilots. Arab Muslim wants to Join IAF. Also a better article: Israel's Arab Problem Hits Home. By all standards he was qualified and had letters of recommendation better than most. Political pressure kept him from getting it in the end.

Oh, minister of sports. Yes, 20% of Israel is Arab and the highest any of them have ever gotten was minister of sports. Tokenism doesn't work. It's 2011 and America has a Black President, and Israel has not even gotten near the level of a Colin Powell.

Not exactly. Obama seems to be kicking it up a notch in the war against whistle-blowers.

That subpoena had originally been served but was then abandoned by the Bush DOJ, but its revitalization by the Obama administration was but one of many steps taken to dramatically expand the war on whistleblowers being waged by the current President

Not to mention that they're also torturing Manning as we speak http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning.

You're pretty uninformed.

(Sorry for double post)

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

With all the recent disclosures, does that apply anymore for anyone other that a naif?

Would you believe a plan to destroy a journalist's career simply because he supports Wikileaks? All just stupidity? The emails say otherwise.

Richard Nixon said "If the President does it, it is legal." We all know how that worked out for him. It sounds like you are substituting "government agency" for "President." No one is above the law, not a President, and not a government agency. Black Hat is Black Hat no matter who is doing it, or who they are doing it for.

Actually, in the US today, the President and government agencies *are* above the law.

Yesterday, in South Carolina, an Obama-appointed federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Padilla against former Bush officials Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Paul Wolfowitz and others. That suit alleges that those officials knowingly violated Padilla's Constitutional rights by ordering his due-process-free detention and torture. In dismissing Padilla's lawsuit, the court's opinion relied on the same now-depressingly-familiar weapons routinely used by our political class to immunize itself from judicial scrutiny: national security would be undermined by allowing Padilla to sue; "government officials could be distracted from their vital duties to attend depositions or respond to other discovery requests"; "a trial on the merits would be an international spectacle with Padilla, a convicted terrorist, summoning America's present and former leaders to a federal courthouse to answer his charges"; the litigation would risk disclosure of vital state secrets; and "discovery procedures could be used by our enemies to obtain valuable intelligence."

In other words, our political officials are Too Important, and engaged in far Too Weighty Matters in Keeping Us Safe, to subject them to the annoyance of the rule of law. It's much more important to allow them to Fight The Terrorists without restraints than to bother them with claims that they broke the law and violated the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Fortunately, other countries are not so squeamish about prosecuting war crimes, which is why Bush et al. will likely never set foot in the EU again.

Goodbye, leaders of the free world. It was nice while it lasted.

Richard Nixon said "If the President does it, it is legal." We all know how that worked out for him. It sounds like you are substituting "government agency" for "President." No one is above the law, not a President, and not a government agency. Black Hat is Black Hat no matter who is doing it, or who they are doing it for.

Actually, in the US today, the President and government agencies *are* above the law.

Yesterday, in South Carolina, an Obama-appointed federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by Padilla against former Bush officials Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, Paul Wolfowitz and others. That suit alleges that those officials knowingly violated Padilla's Constitutional rights by ordering his due-process-free detention and torture. In dismissing Padilla's lawsuit, the court's opinion relied on the same now-depressingly-familiar weapons routinely used by our political class to immunize itself from judicial scrutiny: national security would be undermined by allowing Padilla to sue; "government officials could be distracted from their vital duties to attend depositions or respond to other discovery requests"; "a trial on the merits would be an international spectacle with Padilla, a convicted terrorist, summoning America's present and former leaders to a federal courthouse to answer his charges"; the litigation would risk disclosure of vital state secrets; and "discovery procedures could be used by our enemies to obtain valuable intelligence."

In other words, our political officials are Too Important, and engaged in far Too Weighty Matters in Keeping Us Safe, to subject them to the annoyance of the rule of law. It's much more important to allow them to Fight The Terrorists without restraints than to bother them with claims that they broke the law and violated the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

Fortunately, other countries are not so squeamish about prosecuting war crimes, which is why Bush et al. will likely never set foot in the EU again.

Goodbye, leaders of the free world. It was nice while it lasted.

Oh, please, stop the drama.

As long as you do it BIG ENOUGH you not only do not get 'caught' (wtf?) but you get tens or more BILLIONS of dollars and gov't "thank you"s, not jail. Jail is so 'early last century', it doesn't happen for defrauding government anymore.

What's 'defrauding' anyway? Who cares today if you steal some money that the Fed prints? Nobody cares. US is destroying its currency with all that printing - nobody is going to jail for that one, and that will end up taking down the entire economy.

They have been doing it for years online. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29040299/ns/us_news-military/ http://www.slate.com/id/2126479/
The next gen would be very direct http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/01/15/sunstein
The old Office of Strategic Influence:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0219-01.htm

If you weren't trolling there... well... don't know how to break it to you... then you are pretty darn clueless.

My point, both people deserve privacy even if they are "celebrities".

Except one of those people gave away their privacy willingly, readily, repeatedly and continuously in exchange for "fame and fortune" - and we should for some reason be sad cause it is coming to haunt them now.

And the other one was a victim of an assault... who has her privacy pretty much intact and locked up tight.
So protected in fact, that it's left to public imagination to come up how "brutal and sustained" and "sexual" it was.
Ranging from groping to a "gang rape by up to 20 muslim egyptians".

 
 
P.S. Don't know about you, but I find it absolutely hilarious how Rosen was forced to resign his fellowship at New York University - for committing a thoughtcrime.
Truly a land of the free...

Anonymous seems to have stumbled upon a much bigger problem. Read Glen Greenwald's piece on the collaboration between DoJ, BoA and rogue 'security' companies. Greenwald was to be personally targeted, and now he's taking names:

It's impossible to imagine the DOJ ever, ever prosecuting a huge entity like Bank of America for doing something like waging war against WikiLeaks and its supporters. These massive corporations and the firms that serve them have no fear of law or government because they control each. That's why they so freely plot to target those who oppose them in any way. They not only have massive resources to devote to such attacks, but the ability to act without limits.

It's his most powerful piece to date.

You do not really seem to be in the know. Also here is a lot moreinformation. To sum it all up for you. Mr Barr was planning on selling false information to the FBI in the name of "Research" which had wrong names connected to innocent people, and also wanted journalists of free press silenced.

Which market is better to exploit / market fear? A young, highly educated market or a older less-educated market?

The differences may be more quantifiable than that.

http://salon.com/a/s3yEfAA

"Specifically, the research shows that people with conservative tendencies have a larger amygdala and a smaller anterior cingulate than other people. The amygdala -- typically thought of as the "primitive brain" -- is responsible for reflexive impulses, like fear. The anterior cingulate is thought to be responsible for courage and optimism."

I would look into all the people the State Department are working with; MSNBC, CBS, gosh, MTV.

Just say it, every news outlet but Fox, right? It's the only thing stopping you from busting out the "trust no one" hyperbole, right?

Maybe we should start watching those networks a little bit and seeing what their news coverage is like.

Why don't we watch all of them and judge them fairly against each other? Or do you just want scrutiny only on the networks you're not on?

Who are these groups? Who are they? Are they right, are they left, are they clean, are they dirty, are they front groups? I don't know.

Wait, wait, wait, so what are you accusing them of? Absolutely nothing? And if you don't know then why are you telling us to investigate them? Maybe because you know nobody will do it and instead they'll just continue listening to you? "Is Glenn Beck, good, bad, is he left, is he right, is he clean, is he dirty? I don't know. Maybe you should keep your eye on him?"

May I recommend, if you're doing your own homework, don't do a Google search. Seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government. Maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries?

My god, would you please just make a statement instead of repeated leading questions?! How is Google any more "in bed" with the government than Microsoft or Yahoo?

Are they just a shill now for the United States government? Who is Jared Cohen? Is he private citizen or government operative? And isn't this the second Google guy we've found? This is the second Google executive now being exposed as an instigator of a revolution.

Your little pointer stick and board didn't do much to lead to conclusive evidence that Cohen has "instigated a revolution."

I couldn't get the MM site to load but the Youtube version worked for me and holy crap what a load of horseshit. I saw Glenn Beck on TV in a waiting room once and thought it was a joke. The amount of faulty, leading, incomplete logic here is just staggering, even in this video. Instead of wasting my time itemizing everything wrong about what he's saying and pointing out the obvious, I should have just taken Salon's advice and done something more constructive.

and the colonists who rebelled against Britain to form the USA were what, exactly? oh, that's right. they were terrorists. terrorism is essentially a meaningless term.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/02/19/terrorism

In sum: a Muslim who attacks military targets, including in war zones or even in their own countries that have been invaded by a foreign army, are Terrorists. A non-Muslim who flies an airplane into a government building in pursuit of a political agenda is not, or at least is not a Real Terrorist with a capital T -- not the kind who should be tortured and thrown in a cage with no charges and assassinated with no due process. Nor are Christians who stand outside abortion clinics and murder doctors and clinic workers. Nor are acts undertaken by us or our favored allies designed to kill large numbers of civilians or which will recklessly cause such deaths as a means of terrorizing the population into desired behavioral change -- the Glorious Shock and Awe campaign and the pummeling of Gaza. Except as a means for demonizing Muslims, the word is used so inconsistently and manipulatively that it is impoverished of any discernible meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_warfare#The_American_Revolutionary_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Norfolk

When revolutionary forces forced their way into Norfolk, Virginia, and used waterfront buildings as cover for shots at British vessels out in the river, the response of destruction of those buildings was ingeniously used to the advantage of the rebels, who encouraged the spread of fire throughout the largely Loyalist town, and spread propaganda blaming it on the British. Shortly afterwards they destroyed the remaining houses, on the grounds that they might provide cover for British soldiers.

how long before we're far enough down the slippery slope that all these powers are used to stifle domestic political dissent on a large scale? I don't want to live in Hosni Mubarak's America.

not long given that they're already used to stifle domestic political dissent on a small scale by claiming that e.g. anti-IMF protesters are "terrorists" and spying on / imprisoning them.

www.class.uidaho.edu/gillham/research/MTAM%20COPY%20EDIT.doc

hey, the contractors that perform some of these tasks are already trying to freelance outside direct government authority.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/11/campaigns/index.html
http://www.salon.com/about/inside_salon/2011/02/11/threats_against_glenn_greenwald_wikileaks/index.html

how long before we're far enough down the slippery slope that all these powers are used to stifle domestic political dissent on a large scale? I don't want to live in Hosni Mubarak's America.

not long given that they're already used to stifle domestic political dissent on a small scale by claiming that e.g. anti-IMF protesters are "terrorists" and spying on / imprisoning them.

www.class.uidaho.edu/gillham/research/MTAM%20COPY%20EDIT.doc

hey, the contractors that perform some of these tasks are already trying to freelance outside direct government authority.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/11/campaigns/index.html
http://www.salon.com/about/inside_salon/2011/02/11/threats_against_glenn_greenwald_wikileaks/index.html

you could have voted for Kucinich, Gravel, or Paul and gotten genuine and positive change in these areas. Oh, but today's Tammany Hall said those choices weren't "serious" and that they "couldn't win".

it's time to form a new center that actually gives a damn out of the far right and far left.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/09/tea_party/index.html

After all WTVT, a Fox Broadcasting Company has already successfully defended what they claim is their right to falsify news. Add incredebly ignorant commenters as Bill O'Reilly and you're left wondering how anyone can take them seriously.