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Yea, the DNC appears to be attempting to destabilize the West just like Russia wants. Maybe they should stop taking orders from Putin?

Actually, the evidence I have seen suggests they are taking orders from Poroshenko.

"DNC denies working with Ukrainian government, but contractor floated anti-Trump material"
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0...

"Robert Mueller’s ’13 Russian trolls indictment’ is a COPY + PASTE job from 2015 Ukrainian Radio Free Europe post"
http://theduran.com/busted-rob...

Oh, and for good measure:

"Exclusive! Yanks To The Rescue. The Secret Story Of How American Advisers Helped Yeltsin Win"
https://img.timeinc.net/time/m...

'Victoria Nuland Admits: US Has Invested $5 Billion In The Development of Ukrainian "Democratic Institutions"'
http://www.informationclearing...

And:

"When Will the US Stop Organizing Foreign Coups?"
https://russia-insider.com/en/...

"Here's the short list of U.S.-backed coups over just the past seven-plus decades . . .

        Syria 1949.
        Guatemala 1954.
        Tibet 1955-1970s.
        Indonesia 1958.Cuba 1959.
        Iraq 1960-1963.
        Democratic Republic of the Congo 1960-1965.
        Dominican Republic 1962.
        Iran 1963.
        Guatemala 1963.
        South Vietnam 1963.
        Brazil 1964.
        Ghana 1966.
        Chile 1970-1973.
        Argentina 1976.
        Afghanistan 1979-1989.
        Turkey 1980.
        Poland 1980-1989.
        Ecuador 1981.
        Panama 1981.
        Nicaragua 1981-1990.
        Grenada 1983.
        Haiti 1991.
        Iraq 1992-1996.
        Venezuela 2002.
        Haiti 2004.
        Iran 2005-present.
        Honduras 2009.
        Libya 2011.
        Syria 2012-present.
        Ukraine 2014.

"Moreover, it's no secret that we're at it again right now with Venezuela, and a poorly-kept secret that Russia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Bolivia, probably another shot at Cuba, and recently added Kyrgyzstan, are also in the queue".

It's no wonder we're seeing more and more average people question, if not stand against, science. From their perspective, it just isn't reliable any longer.

It doesn't matter if we're talking about nutrition or climate change.

Negative. The problem with food is that there is a bullshit industry built around it that has nothing to do with science. It has everything to do with blaming, marketing, and agenda.

I forgot to add lies and bullshit.

All we have to do is look at advertisement. Today, we are starting to eat the healthy sugar again. A third of Americans are avoiding gluten, when only a small number are actually allergic to it. Remember how eating oatmeal was the great health food?

Then we need to talk to vegans, vegetarians, atkins and caveman people, the drink a shitload of water people, and all the other people who have decided that something something was going to make them live longer.

Time and time again average people have been told one thing based on scientific research, but then a short while later they're told that something totally contradictory to the first thing is now correct.

As far as food goes, precious little is science, and marketing and health shaming takes the lions share.

As far as science goes, bring up some of these completely contradictory science based sea changes, and we can discuss.

Science as a whole has a serious boy-who-cried-wolf problem. As scientists we need to be far more careful about the claims we're making, so that people continue to take us seriously.

And a whole lot of people are looking for an eternal truth, an unchanging universe. Religion is probably better for them, and they can reject any and all science, and that will probably satisfy their need.

We can't do what climate science did in the 1960s and 1970s, and predict imminent doom-and-gloom scenarios for the 1980s that don't come to pass, and haven't come to pass even 30 years after that.

A couple points on that. A lot of climate deniers like to bring up an article from the 1970's in time Magazine http://img.timeinc.net/time/ma... that they use as proof that scientists believed we were entering a new ice age. Scientists didn't - although I recall a really snowy winter in the Northeast. We've been treated to weird shit like this over the years, attributed to science, but actually designed to sell stuff to people. Imagine if the Cover of time had an article where the headline was "Scientists say we occasionally have a snowy and cold winter. Dramatic stuff indeed.

Now for ridiculous claims. Very few of the imminent climate doom claims have been put out by people who aren't paying attention, the equivalent of healthy food marketing.

But somehow that stuff gets translated to "In the 1970's all scientists first believe that we were in a new Ice age, then they all changed their minds and they all said we were going to be dead by the year 2000." Oddly enough, the same people often talk about the controversy in science, seamlessly shifting between the monolithic scientist meme, and the controversy as suits their argument.

An example not in the weather field is that many young earth creationists use the Piltdown man hoax to discredit all of science. The logic is Piltdown was a hoax, so the earth was created by the Abrahamic god in 4004 B.C.(E)

We can't say today that some food or substance is unhealthy and we should avoid eating it, but then a few years from now say it's healthy, and in fact we need to eat more of it.

If you ask a nutritionist, most will tell you that you need a balanced diet, one with sufficient protein and carb mix, and amounts of vitamins and minerals. Its remarkably boring. And while there have been some changes over the years, most of what you are objecting to

One more compelling reason to give Marissa Mayer $44M dollars ?

... a bigger bag for my phone.

I get to choose between a Crazy Bastard and a Crooked Bitch.

I'm pretty sure that "Crazy Crooked Bastard" applies in this case:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/3...

http://dailycaller.com/2016/06...

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballo...

"Crooked Crazy Bastard" is also appropriate. I'm not sure why you'd think this indicates someone who would shake up the corrupt system.

http://img2.timeinc.net/people...

It seems that, he - that guy has learned a lesson.

PS: Impressive video.

Tell that to the people who used to live around Fukushima.

Here's the Oklahoma city bombing:
http://img.timeinc.net/time/ph...

It took a Semi truck filled with Ammonium nitrate, parked a few feet from the building to do that. Concrete is a heck of a building material. Attackers would have much better luck storming the building with rifles and planting much smaller devices inside the reactor itself. You can't do this job with drones.

And before that...

http://img.timeinc.net/time/ph...

Go out, find new and more disgusting images

Here you go.

that Obammy's wife looks like Mayday in "A View to a Kill?"

http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/bond_women/james_bond_women_06.jpg

There's even talk that Assange might be Time's "Man of the Year".

Certainly looks like Time is prepping him for that role.

Yes they do. And one of them, Lisa Randall of Harvard, is one I'd like to buttonhole a few times.

There seem to be boatloads of women running around with fashion model builds. As far as I know, that has always been the female definition of beauty, not the male.

Most of the guys I know want to see well defined hips and butt and the curve that goes with it along with plump firm breasts, preferably the naturally plump and firm breasts that can only exist on a girl between 17 and 23. However, the ideal we are looking for has that shapely figure but has it without the slightest hint of fat or cellulite.

The girls coming out of the younger generation seem to have the no fat or cellulite concept but they have no curves at all. Some are flat chested, some are not. More are than aren't although they usually fix that later with breast implants. Basically they have the build of a ten year old boy. They do seem to have nice skin though.

Lets look at Sarah Jessica Parker. A good example because we can see both in the same woman:

She has a hot body here (also referred to as a paper bag fuck because you'd stick a paper bag over the ugly face)

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/051028/13457__la_l.jpg

And yet by this she has totally lost her shape (although plastic surgery has made her less of a paper bag fuck)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/06/14/article-0-01C744D3000004B0-600_468x611.jpg

Why would she do this to herself? Well in her case its probably because she is older now and most women can't have a ripe hot body like that at her age, to keep hips that size and shape on someone over 35 means nasty cellulite in my experience. But 16 and 17 year old girls are imitating the same shapeless look and it is a waste.

I wonder if she is related. . .

I hear the FBI was installing software to track Slashdot posters. Is that true?

No, if that was the case uncyclopedia would be down. They host quite a few slashdot posters, here are some:

Good-evening,-Mr.-Gates
Microsoft Hates Apple
Bill Hitler
Microsoft's latest product after researching the black market
A Microsoft campaign to persuade people to install Vista
A screenshot of GNU/Linux® in use, with the GNU/X-Windows GNU/Ubuntu desktop
Rotating Gears, a game which comes preinstalled with Linux®. It is considered to be the best open-source game ever created, next to Russian Roulette.
Pimp Your Linux® ~ Use Fedora Core
Natalie Portman
Hot Grits
A Beowolf cluster
In Soviet Russia...

This is your Senator John McCain

This is your Senator John McCain on drugs.

This is your Senator John McCain

This is your Senator John McCain on drugs.

here

http://img.timeinc.net/popsci/images/wn/wn0805proj TV_730xslide1.jpg

• Anyone get a job off ComputerJobs.com? That's here.
• The CDC is here.
• We have the largest concentration of College educated African-Americans in the United States.
• We like to design lotsa weapons at Lockheed-Martin
• Hartsfield-Jackson, the worlds busiest airport is here.
• Georgia Tech and Emory are no slouch schools
• We are expecting 3% annual job growth through 2008
• Turner Broacasting Systems, CNN, Earthlink, Coca-Cola, UPS, Manhattan Associates, Radiant Systems, Home Depot, Newell-Rubbermaid, Southern Company, Georgia-Pacific, Bell South, Convergent Media Systems, and Delta are all headquartered here.

How about spending the 300 billion on researching basic sciences and attracting more and capable minds to it. You can't honestly tell me that doubling the amount of capable people working on understanding the universe won't accelerate our understanding of the same (not to mention unforeseen applied sciences advantages)
Time / Is America Flunking Science
Government spending on research
Also I know that there isn't a 1:1 correlation the point is the more you expand scientific knowledge of all kinds, the larger the potential for new discoveries (standing on the shoulders of giants and all that)

The whole thing is sponsered by Microsoft, for those that didn't see it in, here's a direct link to the image in TFA: http://img.timeinc.net/popsci/images/topmiddle.gif

http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicms.gif

http://i.timeinc.net/time/images/covers/1101050523 _120.jpg

I love Bugmenot.com, gives you all sorts of logins for sites that require you to register.

Login here, enjoy.

Damn, she's hot and smart too.

The majority of us use Mac/Photoshop

Which is probably why that old Time Magazine cover about The Love Bug virus showed Mac hardware, instead of a PC.

*boggle*

I remember seeing Clinton before he was elected, and then pictures of him at the end of his term. He got old FAST.

1992
2000

I can't run my games

Then play Tux Racer, Frozen Bubble, StepMania, any of several GBA titles in emulation, et cetera. Oh, you want specific titles? Well I can't run my favorite games on Windows either; that's why I bought a console. Besides, who in Russia or Vietnam can afford to give up food that costs as much as a copy of a PC game?

or a chat program that I like

What IM network do you use that isn't compatible with the latest version of Gaim or Kopete? What functionality do you need out of a client that the current free clients don't support?

I do understand institutional inertia, but still, what self-respecting health care provider would standardize on a proprietary platform without considering an exit strategy should the vendor go mammaries-up? Besides, Microsoft Three Windows At a Time isn't for health care facilities.

And about that image.. what's the point of linking to that?

Four words: Safe for work Goatse.

I will admit that I don't run Linux on my primary machine, but that's because not enough public information exists to allow writing a driver for one of my peripherals. However, if the choice were between Microsoft Three Windows At a Time and any of several GNU/Linux operating systems, I'd pick the Linux.

But the purpous of a computer/OS is to run the programs that the user has.

No, the purpose of a computer is to get work done, whether this work be balancing a company's books, preparing a typescript of an essay, or just socializing with fellow geeks.

If I've got a library of software

... which a first-time computer buyer does not have ...

why would I want to replace it all with stuff I'm not used to?

Because your library of software is one big security hole.

See this month's issue of Time.

And so began down the path to the Dark side.

2. The shot of Carrie Fisher and her stunt double? Whoa.

Regardless of the fact that they weren't aligned with the soviets, they were behind the iron curtain [only such map i could find showing southern europe, i apologize for the low quality.]

Here it is.

Hey there Slashbots,

Well it's me. Rob Malda. Again. Admin of Slashdot: News for..., well, you know the drill. If I don't seem my chirpy, normal self, it's because I'm in a state of shock. I can't believe what happened yesterday. I got in in the morning only to find the place in uproar. There was this e-mail from Michael:

"Dear All,"


"Included below is the response that I started writing, and choked down, a few weeks ago. I think I had the thought that I ought not to escalate, perhaps the trolls would come to their senses and realize how utterly and totally offensive it was to be constantly reminded of my shabby and shameful Censorware.org BASTARDry. "

"In any case, since Taco has so kindly provided the trolls with platform for the cruelest criticism I've ever received, I shall never hear the end of it. Thanks, Rob. You're a real friend."

"Slashdot.org is now closed."

"If I am to be continuously accused of evil deeds, I might as well do them. Certainly there is no perceptible downside to doing them; I shall be punished as I have been, by constant attack from trolls. And doing them provides a certain measure of satisfaction."

"I believe there are lessons learned by first-year law students which involve human behavior in the face of over-zealous punishments - specifically, the concept that since the punishment for minor crimes was death, if a serf were to be accused of a such a crime, he would go on a rampage, settling old debts with violence while the opportunity existed. "

"Michael Sims - Formerly of the Censorware Project - http://censorware.org"
"Formerly of Your Rights Online - http://yro.slashdot.org/""

Well, you can imagine. I was bloody livid. Michael had kindly offered to renew our domain registration in his name when it came up and I just let him get on with it. I forgot all about his past form. So anyway, I tracked the little bastard down to the stationary cupboard, which he had locked himself in. I told him through the keyhole: Slashdot is a collective and we all have an interest in it's work product, the domain and the goodwill and page hits it had achieved. The decision to shut us down was not his to make. At this point he began muttering to himself about deja vu and then hysterically accused me of being Seth Finklestein in disguise.

Anyway, the crisis was averted when some corporate oddbods from VA Software came whizzing down in the Slashdot PT Cruiser and began slapping people around. Michael has refused to come out his cupboard for three days straight, surviving by licking the glue off post-it notes. The local fire department refused to free him, citing "safety concerns". Michael continues to alternate between bouts of crying, hysterical laughter, moaning and sucking his trousers. The worst of it is, he's got my stapler in there with him and I need it.

Thank fuck I got Jamie to make up that emergency Slashdot imitator last Autumn, which automatically creates a new story about porting Linux to something, then dupes it three or four times in a two hour period. We managed to run the bugs out when we turned it on for all of December '03- February '04. Having it on for just the 6 hours Slashdot was down was easy.

Thank goodness I can work off all this stress and aggro at the gym. I've been going to the local YMCA to use the facilities for almost 3 years now. It's amazing really, looking at all the pale European tourist back-packer guys around me. Limp white bodies, junkie thin. Christ, they'd probably do anything for a few dollars. Lucky I'm such a rich guy, in that I don't have to do that sort of stuff to keep my head above water. I like to contribute a few dollars to those charity hostels. I do shit like that because I'm a giver, not a taker.

Anyway, I'll let you know when that crazy little shit comes out of his cupboard. He better not have shat on my new stapler.

Logging off, it's Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda! later, dudes!

Dear Slashbots

It's only me, fully hetero Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, main admin 'dude' *high 5!!* at Slashdot.org [slashdort.org] [slashdot.org]: News for Nerds, Stuff that matters. And once more, I'm here to keep you abreast of the work that most of us (excl. Michael) get up to "behind the green curtain" in the backroom of Slashdot. All work to make your browsing experience as hassle free and easy as possible.

Now you may have read recently about radical changes I aim to make to the karma system in my fantastic journal. I said I was thinking of scrapping the whole -1 to +5 karma score system in favour of a vaguely defined alternative. I couldn't give more details then and there, because I was making it up as I go along, but at last I can finally unveil the basics of the new system, the better system to replace karma.

It was while I was recieving a soothing massage from my Shorinji Kempo partner (In case you're interested, it's a type of martial arts that focuses on massage as well as fighting. It's surprisingly good at toning and building muscles - my partner Curt is a particularly muscular and well developed and oiled man.) that I first came up with the idea I'm about to relate.

My aim in all of this would be to take the aggro out of the system. At the moment, people are always whining about this karma loss, or this unfair moderation, or this persons smoking crack, or this person needs more crack that I'm totally sick of the lot of you.

OK, from now on, instead of assigning a bullshit phrase that is poorly understood like "Insightful", Slashdot will let mods say "I don't like this" or "I like this". Simple is good. And so there's no abuse, you will be able to see on each comment who modded you down so you can discuss amicably where or why your post was unlikable.

This is obviously a recipe for good success and cheer! Everyone will be happy to see why they are modded down, and will probably remember next time they post or get mod points who it was who did so. The last thing we want is the status quo, with the vicious backbiting, infighting and stupid cliques.

Anyway, let me know what you think. We really value your feedback. The new system starts next Tuesday though, so make sure your messages are short and to the point. You can feedback in my fantastic journal, as long as you are on my friend list i.e. one of the other admin staff. (Michael, I'll put you back on friend when you put my stapler back. I *bought* that stapler with *my* money.)

Til next Tuesday: Taco out!!

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. (Right click and select "Save Image". Then right click on your desktop, and select "properties". In the "background" tab select "browse", find the file and click OK, then "Tile" in the dialog box, then OK again.)


Addendum:
Owing to unforeseen difficulties, we are forced to withdraw our Open Source Slashdot Google Alternative. Sadly, users looking for pages on aardvark were directed to an all to familiar gaping rectal cavity. Ironically the "Arsehole" term was stuffed with URLs of aardvark pictures. Curse you trolls. Is nothing sacred? AND I AM NOT GAY.

P.P.S. Shorinji Kempo IN ACTION!!!

Helicopter drones acting as quick messengers in crowded cities (substituting motorcycle carriers for legal documents, small product purchases, etc.)

Something like this?

They outsource YOUR jobs to countries where they are free to abuse workers

Image of sweatshop in India (from Time Magazine's latest issue)

To get hard now, I have to look at pikchers like this.

Heheh, your mistake is believing that what you put in bold wasn't completely intentional. It is exactly the movie Verhoeven wanted it to be.

Die, Bugs, I mean, Dixie Chicks, die!

Only 70? I live in Florida. When I moved in I brought the average age down to 85.

Most of these folks would be very happy with the old booth and flick-a-switch machine, the one that closed and opened the curtain for the occupant.

Here's Jon Katz from this article which is as clear as anything I've seen him write, even though it's translated from French. I definitely see the Spike Lee resemblance.

Speaking of Agent Smith, did you notice this? According to the caption, he can now replicate himself. That should make for some juicy action sequences.