Researching bird flight and it's applications: £2m
Developing autonomous swarming robots: £5m
Watching your prototype robots fly straight into the nearest window at high speed and die: Priceless
Equally, in Britain, who wouldn't support the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001?* There's something tragic about the way that on both sides of the Atlantic, our shared culture has lost or is losing all the things that made it great - individual liberty (and it's twin, responsibility), cultural confidence, distrust of authority and the same bullheaded stubbornness and refusal to submit that is the common factor from Hereward the Wake through to a few thousand men sitting shivering, starved and diseased in Valley Forge.
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt, indeed.
*Though at least our bills don't sound like something invented by 8 year old children.
The Russians went to all the trouble of invading their country, committing mass rape, murder and looting, deported thousands to the gulags and attempted to destroy their language, culture and history and the Estonians don't even feel grateful. It's a disgrace.
(Incidentally, why is it that Russians promote positive actions of the USSR, such as destroying the Nazis, as Russian, and negative ones, such as the gulags, as Soviet?)
A committed socialist who saw the effects of left wing totalitarianism in Barcelona (along with several thousand dead anarchists and Trotskyists who presented an obstacle to Stalin's desire to turn Spain into a Soviet protectorate)
Target dissidents. As the warfare state has triggered dissent, the campus has attracted increasing scrutiny--with student protesters in the cross hairs. The government's number-one target? Peace and justice organizations.
The Weathermen were a "peace and justice organization".
Many campus police departments are morphing into heavily armed garrisons, equipped with a wide array of weaponry, from Taser stun guns and pepper guns to shotguns and semiautomatic rifles.
Dear me, police armed with non lethal weapons? They have guns in a gun owning society? We're all doomed, I say, doomed.
Track foreign-born students; keep the undocumented out
Enforce the law against illegal immigrants? A horrific sign of incipient totalitarianism.
Take over the curriculum, the classroom and the laboratory
I'm shocked by this one, frankly (even more so than I was by the tasers). A government department wants to sponsor research within it's remit?
Privatize, privatize, privatize.
a) this has fuck all to do with repression of academia, just a left wing fear of the private sector b) giving contracts to private sector companies is not privatisation.
The new homeland security campus has proven itself unable to shut out public scrutiny or stamp out resistance to its latest Orwellian advances
Protip: Orwell wasn't warning about the right in 1984. If the average reader of the Nation got their way, only the targets would change. Any kulaks here?
Fuck me, it's like a Student Union bar in here. What next, comrades, do we storm the Winter Palace or just go and sell some copies of Socialist Worker?
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Friend Computer wishes to know.
Welcome our new femtosecond laser wielding butterfly overlords.
10 STEAL Money
20 GOTO 10
Out of boredom, and as my XP partition is just for gaming, I tried installing Silverlight and viewing the comics with Firefox - works fine.
VSS-Man, who possesses the mighty power of corrupting anything he touches.
Researching bird flight and it's applications: £2m
Developing autonomous swarming robots: £5m
Watching your prototype robots fly straight into the nearest window at high speed and die: Priceless
The digestive system isn't a dump truck - it's a series of tubes.
Couldn't laptop manufacturers just design the case around standardized hardware, thus making it easier to upgrade them
And who'd buy a new laptop then?
I eagerly await proper human-animal hybrids, albeit only for the opportunity to make a joke about the right to bear arms.
Was all the people who gave me + moderation for this comment.
Equally, in Britain, who wouldn't support the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001?* There's something tragic about the way that on both sides of the Atlantic, our shared culture has lost or is losing all the things that made it great - individual liberty (and it's twin, responsibility), cultural confidence, distrust of authority and the same bullheaded stubbornness and refusal to submit that is the common factor from Hereward the Wake through to a few thousand men sitting shivering, starved and diseased in Valley Forge.
Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt, indeed.
*Though at least our bills don't sound like something invented by 8 year old children.
Belongs in the same category as retroactive prosecution and bills of attainder - things your Constitution bars, doesn't it?.
I thought Vista was an interim OS between XP and Windows 7?
The Russians went to all the trouble of invading their country, committing mass rape, murder and looting, deported thousands to the gulags and attempted to destroy their language, culture and history and the Estonians don't even feel grateful. It's a disgrace.
(Incidentally, why is it that Russians promote positive actions of the USSR, such as destroying the Nazis, as Russian, and negative ones, such as the gulags, as Soviet?)
They're really getting the hang of foreign aid. I applaud OLPC for their quick adaption.
I'm assuming FOUO is For Own Use Only - wouldn't that break the GPL by banning redistribution or are internal controls allowed?
I can't wait to pay a license fee for my computer as well.
There's one Asian player with 5.5 million gold farming accounts.
Without kdawson's helpful comments, I can't make my mind up - was this elitist or egalitarian?
In this case, the urge to believe that there's an evil conspiracy keeping you down
Like possibly the class system in 1840s England? Marx's work is bullshit, but look at the conditions around him when he wrote it.
How do you say "the modalities are assured" in Spanish?
Are we the People's Party of Slashdot or the Slashdot People's Party?
A committed socialist who saw the effects of left wing totalitarianism in Barcelona (along with several thousand dead anarchists and Trotskyists who presented an obstacle to Stalin's desire to turn Spain into a Soviet protectorate)
Can't say I'm a great fan of TWAT, but even so:
Target dissidents. As the warfare state has triggered dissent, the campus has attracted increasing scrutiny--with student protesters in the cross hairs. The government's number-one target? Peace and justice organizations.
The Weathermen were a "peace and justice organization".
Many campus police departments are morphing into heavily armed garrisons, equipped with a wide array of weaponry, from Taser stun guns and pepper guns to shotguns and semiautomatic rifles.
Dear me, police armed with non lethal weapons? They have guns in a gun owning society? We're all doomed, I say, doomed.
Track foreign-born students; keep the undocumented out
Enforce the law against illegal immigrants? A horrific sign of incipient totalitarianism.
Take over the curriculum, the classroom and the laboratory
I'm shocked by this one, frankly (even more so than I was by the tasers). A government department wants to sponsor research within it's remit?
Privatize, privatize, privatize.
a) this has fuck all to do with repression of academia, just a left wing fear of the private sector
b) giving contracts to private sector companies is not privatisation.
The new homeland security campus has proven itself unable to shut out public scrutiny or stamp out resistance to its latest Orwellian advances
Protip: Orwell wasn't warning about the right in 1984. If the average reader of the Nation got their way, only the targets would change. Any kulaks here?
Fuck me, it's like a Student Union bar in here. What next, comrades, do we storm the Winter Palace or just go and sell some copies of Socialist Worker?