It was sold to you by the food industry using self-funded studies hard-sold to pop science publications. If you haven't noticed the difference, it's not really my problem.
Enough of them have established sock puppet accounts to accumulate mod points and abuse the system. If you haven't noticed how site moderation has changed over the last three or four years, it's because you haven't been paying attention.
I notice Slashdot is the latest science/tech site to fall before the coordinated onslaught of relentless, right wing Global Warming deniers. Sensible people hardly ever bother commenting on Global Warming stories anymore. And increasingly, summaries getting posted are drawn from stories several iterations removed from original sources.
Oh, well. Technology marches on, and thanks to China, the cost of solar is now so low we're only a few storage innovations away from watching corporations that have been funding GW deniers either adapt or crash and burn.
Slowly but surely, these greedoids have been screwing down the controls. They might not exactly own every government in the world whose population wants access to this kind of entertainment, but they own enough parts of enough governments to be right on the verge of getting most people's computers under control.
For the next step, just look at China. I fully expect that within the next few years, VPN's will simply be outlawed in all the major markets "because kiddie porn" or "because terrorism" or "because drugs"...whatever bullshit they spread.
These people truly do not care about concepts like "free society" or "social good". They would roast your kids on a spit if it would add an extra dollar to their bottom line.
"Disney is promising about '10,000 live regional, national, and international games and events a year,' with individual sports packages available as well,"
They've obviously got the circuses part down. All we need now is the bread.
"They are a swath of the world's less-educated, online for the first time thanks to low-end smartphones, cheap data plans and intuitive apps that let them navigate despite poor literacy.
This would explain why Trump supporters troll this site so assiduously.
Why would the Russians be coming? They're already getting just about everything from Trump it's in his power to give. Putin's getting a green light to screw the Ukraine, Trump's handing him Syria on a plate, and even while Trump was yapping at China to control North Korea, his buddies in Russia increased trade with Kim's regime by 73% just in the first two months of this year.
The Russians are having a great time right where they are, thanks to their lap dog in the White House.
I can't help but notice the Trumpbots are particularly active on this thread. I've noticed over time such activity is often a reliable indicator of stories adding to the accumulating mountain of proof about Trump's unsavory links to Russia.
Insults about Trump's weakness for late-night Twitter rants and tendency to make unfortunate personnel choices don't seem to arouse the same level of "kicked hornet's nest" fury.
When Russia comes up, though, they sure come out of the woodwork.
Now your fantasy is getting detailed. I bet you know all about what they do in the Middle East. I bet you draw pictures and write stories...and flog it like a borrowed mule while you do it.
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The US has a larger percentage of its population behind bars than China. And even China doesn't have an equivalent to Guantanamo Bay.
So please spare me the outrage.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the most unintentionally ironic comment I've read here in weeks.
Since the "Patriot Act", main difference between China's thinly-veiled police state and America's thinly-veiled police state is geography.
It was sold to you by the food industry using self-funded studies hard-sold to pop science publications. If you haven't noticed the difference, it's not really my problem.
Enough of them have established sock puppet accounts to accumulate mod points and abuse the system. If you haven't noticed how site moderation has changed over the last three or four years, it's because you haven't been paying attention.
Please try to keep up.
Are all Anonymous Cowards douchebags, or just GW deniers without the balls to comment openly.
Breaking third-party software, then forcing their own version down your throat...that's the symptom.
Windows 10...THAT is the disease.
I notice Slashdot is the latest science/tech site to fall before the coordinated onslaught of relentless, right wing Global Warming deniers. Sensible people hardly ever bother commenting on Global Warming stories anymore. And increasingly, summaries getting posted are drawn from stories several iterations removed from original sources.
Oh, well. Technology marches on, and thanks to China, the cost of solar is now so low we're only a few storage innovations away from watching corporations that have been funding GW deniers either adapt or crash and burn.
Maybe it has something to do with stuff like this:
"Trump Administration Orders EPA to Remove Its Climate Change Web Page
The move adds to concerns that the administration will promote a denial of fundamental science within its agencies"
- Scientific American, January 2017 -
Slowly but surely, these greedoids have been screwing down the controls. They might not exactly own every government in the world whose population wants access to this kind of entertainment, but they own enough parts of enough governments to be right on the verge of getting most people's computers under control.
For the next step, just look at China. I fully expect that within the next few years, VPN's will simply be outlawed in all the major markets "because kiddie porn" or "because terrorism" or "because drugs"...whatever bullshit they spread.
These people truly do not care about concepts like "free society" or "social good". They would roast your kids on a spit if it would add an extra dollar to their bottom line.
"Disney is promising about '10,000 live regional, national, and international games and events a year,' with individual sports packages available as well,"
They've obviously got the circuses part down. All we need now is the bread.
"They are a swath of the world's less-educated, online for the first time thanks to low-end smartphones, cheap data plans and intuitive apps that let them navigate despite poor literacy.
This would explain why Trump supporters troll this site so assiduously.
...and never a peep from conservatives.
Actually, no. There's lots of evidence.
And then there's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections
The US has gone to war on less.
That animation gives me an incredible feeling of deja vu. I can't quite put my finger on it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYSOmYyNHpU
Russia did do something. The only people who don't know this have two-figure IQ's and still believe Mexico will pay for Trump's wall.
No, I don't mean that at all. Were charges laid, or has the right wing echo chamber forgotten that part, too?
Why would the Russians be coming? They're already getting just about everything from Trump it's in his power to give. Putin's getting a green light to screw the Ukraine, Trump's handing him Syria on a plate, and even while Trump was yapping at China to control North Korea, his buddies in Russia increased trade with Kim's regime by 73% just in the first two months of this year.
The Russians are having a great time right where they are, thanks to their lap dog in the White House.
You're wrong. The Russians are already here. And the guy in the White House is laundering money for them.
Because that's when right wing trolls flood the comments section of such stories with their drek and moderate all other posts into oblivion.
I see the woodwork still leaks...
Russia. Clearly.
I can't help but notice the Trumpbots are particularly active on this thread. I've noticed over time such activity is often a reliable indicator of stories adding to the accumulating mountain of proof about Trump's unsavory links to Russia.
Insults about Trump's weakness for late-night Twitter rants and tendency to make unfortunate personnel choices don't seem to arouse the same level of "kicked hornet's nest" fury.
When Russia comes up, though, they sure come out of the woodwork.
Well, it must be said that the pedophile in the pizza shop story just about got the owner of the place killed.
Now your fantasy is getting detailed. I bet you know all about what they do in the Middle East. I bet you draw pictures and write stories...and flog it like a borrowed mule while you do it.
Think of it as an act of corrective love. Like your priest told you.
I completely disagree. He should not spend a whole lot of time in an 8 x 10 cell by himself.
Shkreli should spend a whole lot of time in an 8 x 10 cell with a 300-pound oversexed lifer who's hung like a donkey.