Fox isn't necessarily right-wing. They just found an underserved section of the market and filled it. From what I understand, in China the Rupert Murdoch owned TV stations are the most pro-communist government leaning, because that's the viewpoint that was underserved in that market. It's just good business.
Downloading a bittorrent of Windows XP = "Not Stealing".
Violating copyright is viewed as about as serious as jaywalking on slashdot, unless the specific copyright you violate is the GPL, then it's worse than murder.
This isn't hypocrisy though, because we don't call it that. Hope that clears things up.:)
My point is that when you shoot said prostitute in the head, she dies, and falls to the ground in a pool of blood, i.e. you see the actual acts.
So apparently committing and seeing the details of cold-blooded murder will cause a bit of a ruckus, but no serious attempt at censorship. Committing and seeing consensual sex however, will force the government to step in.
These priorities seem more than a little fucked up. By that rationale if Justin Timberlake had punched Janet Jackson in the face at halftime of the Super Bowl, it wouldn't have been a fraction of the problem it was when he flashed her boob.
I find it quite telling that when GTA only allowed you to pay for sex and then murder the prostitute in cold blood to get your money back, it was commented on but there was no big push to governmentally censor games.
But now that you can actually see yourself engaging in consensual sex with your in-game girlfriend, we need to "protect the children".
Doesn't this seem a little backwards? Apparently violence and murder is completely fine, but a little sex and the pols all go batshit.
Thats not half as bad as the anti-tv zealots that feel a need to mention that they never watch tv every time it is mentioned just so they can feel superior.
I find that pretentiously referring to TV as "visual fiction" confuses the anti-TV zealots for long enough for me to escape the gravitational pull of their superiority field. YMMV.
The O'Reilly SELinux book is good, but it's pretty outdated now. It deals mostly with SELinux as implemented in Fedora Core 2, and the latest FC4 versions are quite different.
The book's good for a grounding in the theory of SELinux and MAC, but as far as implementation specifics it's a bit expired. Unfortunately, there aren't any other SELinux books that are more up-to-date.
I'd bet that if Bush could magically wave his hand and make the hurricane go away and the sun come back out, that a lot of people would complain about him raping the natural environment and heightening global warming.;)
At least technical talent. Burrows is right about one thing... any moron can download a compiler and load in a few files and become Mix Master Torvalds... and basically that is what has crippled the computer industry today.
The endless mind-numbing for loops... the ripped off switch statements droning on and on... and of course the obligatory function squeek.
Fine, you're not defending him.. But by assigning blame to his victims you are absolving him of the full measure of responsibility for the damage resulting from his actions.
If you leave your doors unlocked and wide open, why the fuck wouldn't you expect someone to walk right on in?
Walking straight into a stranger's house uninvited is a good way to get shot, whether his door was unlocked or not.
If you left your car parked on the street one night, and I came along and keyed the hell out of it, would it be partially your fault for leaving it out instead of locking it in your garage? Partially maybe, but it wouldn't make me any less of an antisocial asshole for keying it in the first place.
The full quote is "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
If I'm taking that out of context, you should tell every quotation site on the web that they're doing the exact same thing. The quote is consistent with Reagan's beliefs about big government, so I don't know how it could be taken out of context.
I asked you how I was taking the quote out of context out of genuine curiousity, and you respond by calling me names? WTF is your problem?
What they'll probably do in order to "fix" the problem is mandate some incredibly stupid solution that will make all of our lives worse. Just you watch. Whenever the Senate starts debating anything that has a technical component to it, a shiver goes up my spine. The best we can hope is that they don't make it worse.
Jocelyn Elders is your comparison point? Sorry but a Surgeon General hardly compares to a former National Security Advisor and current Secretary of State.
When Clinton named Madeline Albright Secretary Of State, the media fell all over themselves praising him for picking a woman. Bush picks Rice and all anyone heard was crickets chirping.
As an aside, why is is that whenever I argue with liberals on Slashdot, they immediately get personal and call me names? Does calling your opponents idiots ever actually bring anyone around to your point of view? The predictability of it is almost humorous to me at this point.
Fine. I stand corrected on the poverty issue. I knew about the ice skating, and the classical piano. Rice is also an expert on the former Soviet Union.
I find Ms. Rice to be very impressive, and I find your "facts" against her to be highly partisan interpretations of events. I believe that if Rice were a Democrat, she'd be touted as the second coming of MLK.
I'm not even going to get into the whole Iraq thing, it just isn't worth it. Those who cry about "no WMDs" generally aren't worth trying to educate about the war beyond their strict viewpoint. I used to think liberals cared about human rights, but not when human rights are promoted by a Republican apparently.
> > and most importantly it's been shown that Bush would have ultimately won any Florida recount anyway!
> That is a lie.
Tell CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A comprehensive study of the 2000 presidential election in Florida suggests that if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a statewide vote recount to proceed, Republican candidate George W. Bush would still have been elected president.
What are you talking about?? Clinton administration policy was for regime change in Iraq, Gore is on record before 2000 calling for regime change in Iraq, and most importantly it's been shown that Bush would have ultimately won any Florida recount anyway!
What's so bad about Condoleeza Rice? You'd think people would be impressed by a strong black woman from Alabama rising from poverty to become Secretary of State.
<sarcasm>Oh right. Sorry. She's a Republican, which makes her a deluded tool of the system. We all know she couldn't have come by her opinions honestly, they're fed to her by BushCoRoveHitler.</sarcasm>
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Fox isn't necessarily right-wing. They just found an underserved section of the market and filled it. From what I understand, in China the Rupert Murdoch owned TV stations are the most pro-communist government leaning, because that's the viewpoint that was underserved in that market. It's just good business.
Are you new here? It's the slashdot way.
:)
MS legally using BSD licensed code = "Stealing".
Downloading a bittorrent of Windows XP = "Not Stealing".
Violating copyright is viewed as about as serious as jaywalking on slashdot, unless the specific copyright you violate is the GPL, then it's worse than murder.
This isn't hypocrisy though, because we don't call it that. Hope that clears things up.
My point is that when you shoot said prostitute in the head, she dies, and falls to the ground in a pool of blood, i.e. you see the actual acts.
So apparently committing and seeing the details of cold-blooded murder will cause a bit of a ruckus, but no serious attempt at censorship. Committing and seeing consensual sex however, will force the government to step in.
These priorities seem more than a little fucked up. By that rationale if Justin Timberlake had punched Janet Jackson in the face at halftime of the Super Bowl, it wouldn't have been a fraction of the problem it was when he flashed her boob.
I find it quite telling that when GTA only allowed you to pay for sex and then murder the prostitute in cold blood to get your money back, it was commented on but there was no big push to governmentally censor games.
But now that you can actually see yourself engaging in consensual sex with your in-game girlfriend, we need to "protect the children".
Doesn't this seem a little backwards? Apparently violence and murder is completely fine, but a little sex and the pols all go batshit.
You can't double the storage capacity of a CD-ROM with a hole puncher though. ;)
Actually I'll be glad when floppies are completely gone, it drives me batshit when people refer to 3.5" floppies as "hard disks". Argh!
Thats not half as bad as the anti-tv zealots that feel a need to mention that they never watch tv every time it is mentioned just so they can feel superior.
I find that pretentiously referring to TV as "visual fiction" confuses the anti-TV zealots for long enough for me to escape the gravitational pull of their superiority field. YMMV.
The O'Reilly SELinux book is good, but it's pretty outdated now. It deals mostly with SELinux as implemented in Fedora Core 2, and the latest FC4 versions are quite different.
The book's good for a grounding in the theory of SELinux and MAC, but as far as implementation specifics it's a bit expired. Unfortunately, there aren't any other SELinux books that are more up-to-date.
I'd bet that if Bush could magically wave his hand and make the hurricane go away and the sun come back out, that a lot of people would complain about him raping the natural environment and heightening global warming. ;)
Dennis replied by saying "Come see the violence inherent in the system. Help, help, I'm being repressed."
At least technical talent. Burrows is right about one thing... any moron can download a compiler and load in a few files and become Mix Master Torvalds... and basically that is what has crippled the computer industry today.
The endless mind-numbing for loops... the ripped off switch statements droning on and on... and of course the obligatory function squeek.
Christ... enough is enough!!
This post remixed by PaxTech.
Yes, and he'll be safely hidden in a safehouse in Encino with Pauly Shore and Samwise Gamgee.
I'd be extremely surprised if someone shot at him and *missed*, that's for sure. ;)
Fine, you're not defending him.. But by assigning blame to his victims you are absolving him of the full measure of responsibility for the damage resulting from his actions.
If you leave your doors unlocked and wide open, why the fuck wouldn't you expect someone to walk right on in?
Walking straight into a stranger's house uninvited is a good way to get shot, whether his door was unlocked or not.
If you left your car parked on the street one night, and I came along and keyed the hell out of it, would it be partially your fault for leaving it out instead of locking it in your garage? Partially maybe, but it wouldn't make me any less of an antisocial asshole for keying it in the first place.
He's GNU/Angry!
The full quote is "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - Ronald Reagan
If I'm taking that out of context, you should tell every quotation site on the web that they're doing the exact same thing. The quote is consistent with Reagan's beliefs about big government, so I don't know how it could be taken out of context.
I asked you how I was taking the quote out of context out of genuine curiousity, and you respond by calling me names? WTF is your problem?
How is it taken out of context?
If they actually helped, I'd be for it.
What they'll probably do in order to "fix" the problem is mandate some incredibly stupid solution that will make all of our lives worse. Just you watch. Whenever the Senate starts debating anything that has a technical component to it, a shiver goes up my spine. The best we can hope is that they don't make it worse.
Yep, that'll help. Except for all those criminals who don't obey the law.
Ronald Reagan was right, the most frightening words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."
Jocelyn Elders is your comparison point? Sorry but a Surgeon General hardly compares to a former National Security Advisor and current Secretary of State.
When Clinton named Madeline Albright Secretary Of State, the media fell all over themselves praising him for picking a woman. Bush picks Rice and all anyone heard was crickets chirping.
As an aside, why is is that whenever I argue with liberals on Slashdot, they immediately get personal and call me names? Does calling your opponents idiots ever actually bring anyone around to your point of view? The predictability of it is almost humorous to me at this point.
Fine. I stand corrected on the poverty issue. I knew about the ice skating, and the classical piano. Rice is also an expert on the former Soviet Union.
I find Ms. Rice to be very impressive, and I find your "facts" against her to be highly partisan interpretations of events. I believe that if Rice were a Democrat, she'd be touted as the second coming of MLK.
I'm not even going to get into the whole Iraq thing, it just isn't worth it. Those who cry about "no WMDs" generally aren't worth trying to educate about the war beyond their strict viewpoint. I used to think liberals cared about human rights, but not when human rights are promoted by a Republican apparently.
> > and most importantly it's been shown that Bush would have ultimately won any Florida recount anyway!
s tories/main.html
> That is a lie.
Tell CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A comprehensive study of the 2000 presidential election in Florida suggests that if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a statewide vote recount to proceed, Republican candidate George W. Bush would still have been elected president.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida.ballots/
If she were a Democrat, she'd be touted as the next coming of Martin Luther King, Jr. That's all I'm saying.
Most of the criticism I hear of her, like yours, is highly partisan.
What are you talking about?? Clinton administration policy was for regime change in Iraq, Gore is on record before 2000 calling for regime change in Iraq, and most importantly it's been shown that Bush would have ultimately won any Florida recount anyway!
What's so bad about Condoleeza Rice? You'd think people would be impressed by a strong black woman from Alabama rising from poverty to become Secretary of State.
<sarcasm>Oh right. Sorry. She's a Republican, which makes her a deluded tool of the system. We all know she couldn't have come by her opinions honestly, they're fed to her by BushCoRoveHitler.</sarcasm>