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We were not a Christian Nation per say, but we were a people with a deeply held fear of the lord almighty. This has been replaced with a deeply held belief in the power of the state. With the church of secularism we hold the power of the government most high and acknowledge that it can solve all the social ill caused by those evil deists.

If it were up to me, the conservative Christian right would unite with the conservative Muslim right along with the conservative Jews to wipe out and destroy those godless heathens in the East. Let's unite all the children of Abraham and destroy those non-believers.

-For you Pastafarians, we will accept you into our holy Jihad, as long as you acknowledge that there is only One Flying Spaghetti monster and only He can provide you with Divine Spaghetti. Jedi's are exempt because you do not believe in a divine God Head, and instead believe in some kind of goofy 'force shit'

Why fight amongst oursleves?

Windows started out as a convenient wrapper for Dos, and now we're here. We have updates that are non-negotiable, apps that are installed by default, integration with a video game console, and an entire ecosystem of advertising built-in to the UI. Theres powershell, Linux BASH, and ssh as well as a talking assistant.

after 197 mergers or takeovers in its history its taken Microsoft just 15 years to pedal themselves to an early grave, and windows 10's schitzophrenic laundry list of things it seeks to achieve for the user is an excellent barometer of the companies 'significant changes' after Ballmer was quietly hustled out to the parking lot. There really isnt any direction, but a very obvious pattern.
1. a trend emerges, catches on, and becomes a hit.
2. Microsoft, four years later, creates its own version of the product or technology at the center of the trend.
3. The product, (zune, windows phone, market) is brutalized for three or four more years while microsoft keeps it on X-Box revenue life support.
4. MS quietly shuffles the technology under the rug four more years later, abandoning and alienating nontrivial numbers of users and sacking the entire division that once handled the product.

Hololens, minecraft, the self driving car, surface, phone, cloud -- these are all things that have existed better and cheaper in many cases than microsofts version yet still unaccountably exist as a microsoft offering seemingly just out of spite. Bing was a 7 year attempt at a hostile takeover that is entirely powered by yahoo engine patents and screen scrapes from Google and it still hands out some of the least meaningful or relevant garbage results. The walk-in microsoft store is a godless abortion of over-illuminated copy-paste from whatevers going on in an Apple store, and its performance is so dismal its being rolled into Best Buy stores as a kiosk.

So the question still remains. after 15 years, where the hell do you want to go today, Microsoft? because everywhere isnt a direction.

You fell right into that old bastard's trap! You must be one of them young fellers :) He may have wanted you to infer that but he's really not that smart. A quick perusal of his posting history will tell you that he's just shitting on Obama again, because he hates blacks or some such nonsense. I live in the southern US. I deal with dudes like this guy daily. What he is bitching about is what all the bible thumpin republitard nigger haters down here bitch about. If you ask them what is Obama's foreign policy, not a one could tell you anything substantial. What you will hear them say is something along the lines of "He goes around the world apologizing for Americans acting like Americans, especially to them godless ragheads." All Windbag wanted to do here was turn this into another Obama/liberal shitstorm like he always does!

I'll give you that McCain and Romney were were the more moderate choices of the candidates they ran against in the primaries. But by today's standards, Reagan would be a Democrat. I mean, he even raised taxes. Nixon advocated universal health care and started the EPA. If he was around today he'd be thrown out of the Republican Party and called a godless communist bastard. By any other western country's standards, Hillary would be a center-right candidate. Cruz would be extreme right-winger. Sanders would be a leftist but not in the extreme. Trump would still be Trump.

Just to play Devil's advocate a bit here, but isn't this exactly the way the system is supposed to work?

Having information on someone is what puts them in the "no security interest" category, rather than the "unknown" category. In reviewing that information, crimes like copyright infringement may be discovered, and that puts the person in a different category entirely.

Now, if understand the typical Slashdotter's perspective, the government shouldn't be allowed to gather information on people of "no security interest", but they can't know who that is without gathering information. Naturally, then, we will lobby to prohibit all gathering of information, and when successful, we will mock the government's eventual failure to find people who are of "security interest" with their then-nonexistent capabilities.

The problem is that "security interest" changes over time.

Once upon a time, in the Weimar Republic, there was no security interest in people with a certain sexual orientation, political party membership, or ethnic heritage. It's just census data tabulated by IBM: Until it became a matter of security interest

Once upon a time, in Canada and the United States, thousands of American and Canadian citizens - and their children - were doing just fine until they, too, became a matter of security interest

Once upon a time, in a country called Cambodia, it was safe to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a banker. Or a Buddhist, Muslim, or Christian. Democratic Kampuchea regarded all non-agrarian workers as matter of security interests, and liquidated two million people -- about 20% of the country's population.

If you're a Republican who feels that "religious liberty" is important - imagine Hillary or Sanders as President. Still wanna preach fire and brimstone against the godless heathens?

If you're a Democrat who feels that the separation of church and state is important - imagine Trump's notion of deporting all the Muslims, or Ted Cruz and his advisers who believe that homosexuality is a threat to the nation's moral fiber.

The great lesson of the 20th century is that you are far more likely to be murdered by your own government - whether it be right wing or left wing doesn't matter - than you are by a random person on the street, a terrorist, or even an enemy soldier during a time of warfare. A state that wishes to protect its people must view data as a toxic liability, not as an asset: data collected today, even if such collection is done with the best of intentions and most stringent of safeguards -- can be lethal tomorrow. It has happened before and it will happen again. No society is immune. Not even ours.

He was chosen by JESUS to lead this nation back to GOD again. We need a wall. We need it now. We need to have a border again. When Noah was asked by god to build the HOLY ARK, everybody laughed at him. Now, everybody laughs at Trump. First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Trump repeats this quote all the time AND HE IS SO RIGHT. Trump will build an ARK that is as great as our great nation united under GOD and it will SWIM when the big FLOOD is coming that washes away all the SINNERS AND GODLESS from this earth.

camel. eye. needle.

Think Bill with Global Mother Fucking Spyware can defeat God's creations?

So, say theoretically I could pick the science teacher for my kids' school. The science teacher can be: A) Bill Nye Science Guy, or B) Sarah Palin. Hmmm.. which to pick, which to pick....

Yeah, except there are a whole lot of people who would pick B, so long as she brings her Bible to every class, because that's all they need, not that godless commie pinko LGBT science stuff.

Last time, GOD became fire, and rained upon the cities of SODOM and GOMORAH to punish the sinful and godless heathen praising sinners living in those cities.

They fund lots of science. Instead of accepting GOD'S GIFTS we invent machines to replace him. Scientists don't believe GOD exists, that's why they build those machines. They are godless.

Trump will be our savior. He will deliver us from the democrats and cleanse this nation from the SINNERS AND GODLESS.

Let me guess... By triggering Yellowstone artificially?

Trump will be our savior. He will deliver us from the democrats and cleanse this nation from the SINNERS AND GODLESS.

Climate change is a fake. It was invented by the godless to lead us into temptation.

Lots of questions about the Iraq war. Why are conservatives soo eager to go to war and in debt to fight religious fundumentalist who believe in family values. Why are liberals sooo eager to defend people who want women to walk 6 steps behind their men.

Why are liberals soo eager to fund entitlement programs that ultimately benefit the rich white entitled like Hillary Clinton, while the underclass gets just enough scraps to keep them alive and needing more. Why are the soo called republicans who are supposed to be evil and heartless so against the entitlement programs. It seems to me they are a great way to keep the lower class down and accepting handouts from the rich privileged elite.

The thing that can unify these differing points of view is a national space program. Let's band together and head for the stars. Stop fighting against ourselves. Let's beet those Godless Chi-coms and the homosexual hating Putinites to colonize Mars first. If we can place a couple orbiting missile and energy batteries that can reign hell down on the space aliens that choose to invade Earth, I am all for it.

Filthy Space aliens are right now plotting to abduct and sexually molest your women. We need to bring the fight to them first. Space NOW.

During the cold war, especially after Sputnik was launched, the US panicked and decided that the education system needed immense change lest we be beaten by those Godless commies. And it worked, science programs improved and got larger budgets, math was given priority, and even outside of math and science there were improvements, you could learn one of several foreign languages for example, music programs abounded. Then it started petering out again once there was no competition. We're down to one foreign language offering (Spanish) if you're lucky, music programs are being dropped, and people are pushing to drop the math and science as inappropriate to tomorrow's service industry. The US has given up on being competitive, it's like we'll be happy asking the Chinese to come over and build stuff for us.

Hell, they're not even the party of William Safire or William F. Buckley anymore. As recently as the 1990s, you could disagree with a republican on issues of governance without immediately being accused as a godless communist, closet muslim, anti-american, or spawn of satan and hitler.

The question is who would they vote of instead now?
If they go towards a more moderate candidate or a crazy nut?
Fox News has done an excellent job at radicalizing the base, making sure Democrats are hated as godless communist who wants to control every aspect of your life.

Why do you hate America you godless commie ?
I'm serious. You are the reason this great nation is going down the tubes.
Move to Russia.

"It's a war." Oh really? Except In THIS "war", the US and its allies (especially Saudi Arabia) are the ones who engineered the enemy--specifically, the US sought to engender fundamentalism in the arab world in order to battle those godless soviets, and now the birds have come home to roost. All the while Turkey and the Saudis very openly arm ISIS while we look the other way. So spare me your "this is war' WWII analogy bullshit.

Yeah. American legal rights. Such as the alleged assumption that you're innocent until proven guilty.

Not everyone in Gitmo was captured on the battlefield or in an act of war. Some got there because US "Allies" railroaded them. Some people who would now commit acts of terror wouldn't have if they hadn't been stuffed in prison without due process. Just to get even.

The Home of the Brave sees terrorists as magical supermen immune to the normal means of handling criminals and enemies alike. Never before in the history of the USA have we been so terrified, not even of the Godless Communists of the Soviet Evil Empire that we had to invent a whole new classification ("Enemy Combatant" and system (of which Guantanmo is only one part).

I won't say that the USA has run out of brave people entirely, but it's obvious that it's now the land of the Chickens, run by the Chickens.