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Antivirus Pioneer John McAfee Arrested In Belize
First time accepted submitter rebelwarlock writes "McAfee lives in Belize and he says that he has become a target of the Gang Suppression Unit. He says the GSU came busting into his research facility in Orange Walk, killed his dog, took his passport, handcuffed him and arrested him on a bogus weapons charge. McAfee says he's a victim because he didn't donate money to a known U.D.P. Orange Walk politician."
Surely if you grew up, lived and benefitted from a free society, it should be your moral imperative that you return to that society so that others can benefit as you did? Of course, as it's a free "society" you don't have to, and can leave to some other country.
Or maybe, there is just no such thing as society, and we're all individuals looking out for ourselves.
PS Slaves? Marxist? I'm surpisised you didn't mention the Nazis (Damn Godwin and his laws!)
try to make ends meet, you're a slave to money, then you die
Javascript is a client-side scripting language that allows us to modify the DOM (the visible webpage) and make API calls to get data. Without it, there is a hell of lot we just simply cannot do anymore.
None of which we actually need to do. The web is simply a better experience when you block javascript. It's not actually useful for anything that wouldn't be better done client/server or as a compiled native application. For example, I still haven't found a web forum anywhere that is anywhere near as nice to use as a USENET client was.
Keep in mind, some of that pretty makes it fairly damned functional by creating UI that are not possible with server side only implementations.
Such as? I have never met a site that wasn't improved by turning off javascript, except for those that were deliberately crippled into requiring javascript.
Whether you like it or not we are going to continue moving towards browsers being merely dynamic front ends for applications and that simply requires client side code. Period.
That doesn't make it a good idea. The internet will continue to regress, and there's nothing I can do about it. That's true, but it's still a regression.
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