corruption is widespread in China and is mostly illegal, whereas in the US, corruption is not as widespread but is mostly legal That's one of the most insightful things I've seen in a long time.
Many racists are ignorant of the fact that they are being racists. If someone doesn't know that they're a racist, they're not racist. You can't say that a word by itself is racist, it's the intent behind it. Hence why when a black person says "nigger," they're NOT racist. It would be ridiculous for them to be racist against their own race. When a white person says it, on the other hand, you never know. By your logic, black people who say "nigger" are filled with self-loathing.
You must be young. There was a time when getting ones hands on quality porn was not easy for a kid. Must have been more than 50 years ago... At least as far back as 40 years ago it was easy.
I,m 50 and there wasn't an internet when i was 14. We had book and magazine stores which kept the playboy magazines in a brown paper wrapper behind the counter. Pornography was very hard to find and we certainly couldn't buy any. it was pops or the uncles stash we found, but at that age i wasn't really interested in porn,it was way easier to get a real girlfriend then porn when i was growing up.
We played sports,built plastic models,went fishing by myself or with friends,we all went to the high school football games every Friday nite. Didn't have to worry about drive byes and never herd about adults snatching kids,though i am sure it happened but no where near as much as today.
How the times have changed The good old days weren't always good, tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems - Billy Joel
Just because you didn't have porn and drive-bys when you were young doesn't mean other people didn't. My uncle (49) very much had to fear drive-bys when he was a kid... and my grandparents recently found a stash of porn from when he was a kid in his childhood room.
I, on the other hand (18), do NOT worry about drive-bys.
It has more to do with where grew up than with the time period. People in various areas have always done stupid stuff. To say otherwise, to say that people today are more "corrupt" than when you were young, is pure ignorance.
I'm sure someone is going to mod me for flamebait, but I never understand the zealots who insist religion/sports team/celebrity is the greatest religion/sports team/celebrity of the fan of the planet when there is plenty of proof that religion/sports team/celebrity is a religion/sports team/celebrity (for better or worse) on par with most religions/sports teams/celebrities. But my religion/sports team/celebrity actually IS the greatest religion/sports team/celebrity on the planet!
I love my firefox, but with Opera and Konq out there I found that Firefox crashed some but way less than Konqueror. I swear, Konqueror would crash every 10 minutes. Plus, for some reasons, download speeds in Konqueror were being limited (client-side, not server-side) to 5 kb/s, and apparently all the people on the Ubuntu forums were as baffled as I was. IIRC, I had lots of views, but 0 replies. So I use Firefox.
Perhaps we could get together and send Trujillo and Murdoch both somewhere nice? Or at least somewhere else. Iraq, perhaps. Iraq is a nice place for them. Well, at least, from my point of view.;)
To be in a position of power and *unelected*, one must show at least some competence for some length of time. What about Alberto "What did I have for dinner last night" Gonzales?
there's a tiny minority that regards playing nice as a sign of weakness, but unfortunately they control a few soon to be nuclear states I thought that the United States already had nuclear weapons?
If the fetus is not a person, then things get much simpler legally... but that is an extremely distasteful statement to most people I don't think that "most" means what you think it does. Generally, it refers to the group as a whole and not the group that you were familiar with. If you had said "most of the people I know," I would not argue, but saying "most people" is definitely false when 61% of the nation supports abortion.
The American taxpayers fund more for the United Nations than ALL of the other 177 member nations COMBINED. No, they don't. The UN receives 22% of its funds from the USA and 20% from Japan.
Which article of the constitution was that again? The 14th.
Last time I checked a woman's right to choose was protected by a Supreme Court decision, not the Constitution. Whether or not one supports abortion is another matter, but lets be clear on that. Last time I checked the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution, that is to say, tells us what it says. Whether or not one supports it is another matter, but lets be clear on that.
People are modding me as troll on these posts because they are shallowly political.
Yep, it had nothing to do with your blatant trolling. Merely partisanship!
So, you can take your teenage "everyone hates you attacks"
This shows a lack of reading comprehension. It was less "everyone hates you" and more "everyone else sees right through you, too."
all you people are just eating up like dogs eating a bowl of beef stew. It's just pathetic. At the end of it, you'll be hog twisted and tied up by the very people you defend, in the name of world piece, global warming, or whatever other stupid cause you lefties wind up following onto.
I? See below, please. I made no mention of my personal opinions.
Here's a clue for you. The Democrats have held the House for a year now, and where's the legislation to repeal the USA PATRIOT Act? Where's that repeal? Where's the repeal of the homeland security acts? That's just undoing recent stuff. All we've gotten is what, some new laws that restrict my freedom to buy a good car, some ideas for laws to take more of my money, some laws that allow the government to spy on my carbon dioxide output...
You might want to reread my post. Nowhere did I mention liberals, leftists, Democrats, Republicans, righties, conservatives, or neoconservatives, except when I was quoting you. You think that it doesn't bother me that we still have the PATRIOT Act, when these people were all about repealing it until they got elected? You need to wake up. If you hadn't made some good points, I'd call you a frothing-at-the-mouth loony. Instead, I'll stick to frothing-at-the-mouth semi-loony.
to get the government to oppress the people that you don't like
There is more to government than oppressing people. A utopian government - the government our founding fathers wanted - would prevent the oppression of people. We have, sadly, moved too far from that.
Just because the government doesn't oppress you, doesn't mean its right, and that's the lesson you won't learn.
Oh really? Are you sure about that? Because I, personally, am not affected by Bush's wiretapping - and yet I don't like it and don't think it's right. Therefore, you're wrong. Q.E.D.
Freedom isn't about, only putting other people's guys in jail.
Where have I advocated locking anyone up?
Freedom is about accepting that you might be in some way impinged upon
Actually, you're the one who doesn't seem to realize that. You keep insinuating that anything that impinges upon you is wrong, that your individual needs should take precedence over everyone else's. I disagree. I believe there should be a balance - THAT is what government is for. It is to prevent the abuse of people's rights.
you are allowed to do the same to others as well, and if you are big enough to live fairly, then you won't need a bunch of pigs, ooops, I mean police, breathing down your back.
So, basically, Ayn Rand? Every man for himself? Fuck the little guy? "I hate poor people"? All that jazz?
F-ck you lefties and your supposed civil liberties...
Yeah, um, I seem to have noticed that you have been using leftie as if it was synonymous with Democrat. They're two VERY different things. First of all, one is a mindset. The other is a political party. Rarely, even, is the Democratic party the party of "lefties" - rather, it tends to be the party of moderates - or, at least, it's elected officials are. Lefties associate themselves with it because it is the most left party in the United States of America, which is not saying much. That hardly makes it leftist. What the Democratic party says and does can generally be described as being the actions of the Democratic party. Not some large, unnamed block of "lefties".
In general, your post was one large straw man. You came up with long (usually nonsensical) rants reply to t
That's monitoring. Just because the information was publicly available (and really, why is that?), doesn't change the nature of the activity. You're right, it doesn't. But by your logic looking things up in a book (or Wikipedia) is monitoring since that's essentially what they did.
Wikileaks asks people to steal information from their collegues, then, misrepresent that they did so to them. Thus, they want you to lie. No, they don't. They ask people to expose lies, fraud, and illegal activities.
You could own a site like wikipedia and grab their IP. Or you could look in the phone book or buy a social networking company that you use. Neither a phone book nor IP addresses will tell who my friends are. And I don't use social networking sites. And it bears no relevance to the matter at hand since, AFAIK, my friends have not been in the news. Honestly, if you're against this, you must be against ALL name use in the news. So presumably you're against Monica Lewinsky's and Bill Clinton's name being released when she gave Clinton a blowjob. What would you have preferred? "Today an unnamed man committed acts of marital infidelity"? Hardly newsworthy. Or how about Watergate? "Today a person used an agency to do things that it should not have been used for."
In fact, the private sector routinely trades your "private" information as a commodity like so much shoes. Yes. That is true. Does that make it right? Nope. Many times when they do that it's in violation of their own privacy policy.
No, you are just being a zealot, where, you are so caught up in your cause that you can't see that you are any different. Of course, if you admitted that you were, it would hardly be as lucrative.... Yes, I am a zealot. You know, have you looked at your own posting history? In this topic alone you have six threads marked either Troll or Flamebait and the rest are unmarked, probably because people have realized your Karma is already at rock bottom. You have referred to "lefties" as being "thugs," "two year olds," "retards," and "igorant," called the UN "a mouthpiece for anti-American propaganda," said that watchdog groups "jealously lack imagination" and are in it for the money (ignoring the fact that most are nonprofit), and have insinuated that all lefties are about "money and power." Tell me, who is the zealot?
You represent everything that is fundamentally wrong with American society. You're selfish, egotistical, ignorant, stupid, vapid, greedy, blind, and lazy. Why don't you move to somewhere else? Please? We don't want you here. America is supposed to be a nation of lofty ideals, educated and optimistic people, and, most importantly, free people. You stand for NONE of that. You're ruining our country and we don't want you here. Go back to whatever rock you crawled out of.
However, these people are now tracking people on the internet and monitoring communications themselves. How else does Wikileaks find out who is posting what, unless, they are monitoring traffic of people? It might have helped had you RTFA. There was no "monitoring of traffic." Things like Wikipedia attach the IP of the editor to edits. They looked at all the edits made by the IP assigned to Guantanamo.
And, to get people to turn over goodies, they encourage them to lie in the workplace about what they are doing. Where did this come from? There was nothing in TFA about lying.
So, in order for these people to save privacy, they throw privacy away even more Two VERY DIFFERENT THINGS. "These people," as you call them, are looking at information that the people from Guantanamo posted on the internet. That is to say, it is a published action. However, there is no way to claim that two people's private phone call is a published action. They're two very different things that cannot be compared. Apples to oranges. Or, to use more slashdotter-ly terminology, a BMW to a submarine.
In order for these people to save honesty, they encourage people to lie. I have seen no lies in TFA. Only the exposing of lies.
And now, you defend someone's right to publicize another person's contact information, but, if someone else ran a web site with names addresses of people that you liked, you would be up in arms. The only way for people to get names and addresses of people that I liked would be to do things illegal. Again, apples to oranges. You're comparing the gathering of freely available information and forming a conclusion based on it to wiretapping.
There's only one thing to conclude: The only thing to conclude is that you are incapable of rational and logical thought. You started with wrong assumptions and then used bad analogies and illogic to come to an even worse conclusion.
all while of course, your email is hidden. What a hypocrite you are! That doesn't qualify as hypocritical... you might want to look up the definition of hypocritical.
hypocritical: Characterized by hypocrisy or being a hypocrite.
hypocrisy: The claim, pretense, or false representation of holding beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not actually possess. The only way it could POSSIBLY qualify as hypocrisy was if he, too, was a military mass communications officer who was being paid to spread propaganda on the internet. Which I doubt.
KDE also has the advantage of being ugly as fuck. The fact that you equate fuck to ugly shows that you have never experienced it. Congratulations! You gained 42 Slashdot points!
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Chuck Norris is neither the plaintiff or the defendant.
He's the judge and the jury.
We played sports,built plastic models,went fishing by myself or with friends,we all went to the high school football games every Friday nite. Didn't have to worry about drive byes and never herd about adults snatching kids,though i am sure it happened but no where near as much as today.
How the times have changed The good old days weren't always good, tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems - Billy Joel
Just because you didn't have porn and drive-bys when you were young doesn't mean other people didn't. My uncle (49) very much had to fear drive-bys when he was a kid... and my grandparents recently found a stash of porn from when he was a kid in his childhood room.
I, on the other hand (18), do NOT worry about drive-bys.
It has more to do with where grew up than with the time period. People in various areas have always done stupid stuff. To say otherwise, to say that people today are more "corrupt" than when you were young, is pure ignorance.
People are modding me as troll on these posts because they are shallowly political.
Yep, it had nothing to do with your blatant trolling. Merely partisanship!
So, you can take your teenage "everyone hates you attacks"
This shows a lack of reading comprehension. It was less "everyone hates you" and more "everyone else sees right through you, too."
all you people are just eating up like dogs eating a bowl of beef stew. It's just pathetic. At the end of it, you'll be hog twisted and tied up by the very people you defend, in the name of world piece, global warming, or whatever other stupid cause you lefties wind up following onto.
I? See below, please. I made no mention of my personal opinions.
Here's a clue for you. The Democrats have held the House for a year now, and where's the legislation to repeal the USA PATRIOT Act? Where's that repeal? Where's the repeal of the homeland security acts? That's just undoing recent stuff. All we've gotten is what, some new laws that restrict my freedom to buy a good car, some ideas for laws to take more of my money, some laws that allow the government to spy on my carbon dioxide output...
You might want to reread my post. Nowhere did I mention liberals, leftists, Democrats, Republicans, righties, conservatives, or neoconservatives, except when I was quoting you. You think that it doesn't bother me that we still have the PATRIOT Act, when these people were all about repealing it until they got elected? You need to wake up. If you hadn't made some good points, I'd call you a frothing-at-the-mouth loony. Instead, I'll stick to frothing-at-the-mouth semi-loony.
to get the government to oppress the people that you don't like
There is more to government than oppressing people. A utopian government - the government our founding fathers wanted - would prevent the oppression of people. We have, sadly, moved too far from that.
Just because the government doesn't oppress you, doesn't mean its right, and that's the lesson you won't learn.
Oh really? Are you sure about that? Because I, personally, am not affected by Bush's wiretapping - and yet I don't like it and don't think it's right. Therefore, you're wrong. Q.E.D.
Freedom isn't about, only putting other people's guys in jail.
Where have I advocated locking anyone up?
Freedom is about accepting that you might be in some way impinged upon
Actually, you're the one who doesn't seem to realize that. You keep insinuating that anything that impinges upon you is wrong, that your individual needs should take precedence over everyone else's. I disagree. I believe there should be a balance - THAT is what government is for. It is to prevent the abuse of people's rights.
you are allowed to do the same to others as well, and if you are big enough to live fairly, then you won't need a bunch of pigs, ooops, I mean police, breathing down your back.
So, basically, Ayn Rand? Every man for himself? Fuck the little guy? "I hate poor people"? All that jazz?
F-ck you lefties and your supposed civil liberties...
Yeah, um, I seem to have noticed that you have been using leftie as if it was synonymous with Democrat. They're two VERY different things. First of all, one is a mindset. The other is a political party. Rarely, even, is the Democratic party the party of "lefties" - rather, it tends to be the party of moderates - or, at least, it's elected officials are. Lefties associate themselves with it because it is the most left party in the United States of America, which is not saying much. That hardly makes it leftist. What the Democratic party says and does can generally be described as being the actions of the Democratic party. Not some large, unnamed block of "lefties".
In general, your post was one large straw man. You came up with long (usually nonsensical) rants reply to t
You represent everything that is fundamentally wrong with American society. You're selfish, egotistical, ignorant, stupid, vapid, greedy, blind, and lazy. Why don't you move to somewhere else? Please? We don't want you here. America is supposed to be a nation of lofty ideals, educated and optimistic people, and, most importantly, free people. You stand for NONE of that. You're ruining our country and we don't want you here. Go back to whatever rock you crawled out of.
As long as computer support exists, people won't need to get better at using tools.
:)
You're causing your own problem! And, simultaneously, keeping yourself employed.
Touché. :/