um.. MODERATORS.. would you please either moderate this guy up, or moderate down the knob calling all the protestors "crackheads" and basically spewing out the myopic opinion that the media fed to his stupid ass?
I was in Seattle as well, and I'm fucking AMAZED at all these people who watched CNN and think they just KNOW ALL ABOUT what happened, who apologize for the police, and generally just toss it off as "crackpot stuff", not worth thinking about really.. busybusybusy..
oh and nevermind the fact that the constitution was suspended in Seattle. that too, water under the bridge in Amerika. just goes to show you that there is a reason to worry about media concentration/distortion : because there really ARE legions of dunces out there who can't be bothered to really look into something, and are going to swallow the prefabricated corporate perspectives no questions asked.
Some Cato Institute refs: Too Many Sanctions A Chance to Rethink Sanctions Stuck in Sanctions Time to Stop Sanctioning the World
HAHAHA! the Cato institute eh? we are talking about the same shamelessly biased right-wing "think-tank" here are we not?
you can show me hundreds upon thousands of pages of material cranked out by the Cato Institute, and you will objectively prove absolutely nothing to me besides something I already know:
Money talks. And bullshit walks.
the only place you're going to see the Cato Institute, or anyone who serves them, taken seriously, is in the usual mega-mass-media joints, where there is obviously a vested interest in pushing this Free Market (tm) crap down everyone's throats, while filtering out all that nasty dissent that is so hard to swallow.. oh and have a closer look at who funds and works for Cato sometime too.. probably should be doing that before you cite them as some sort of authority rather than the propaganda-machine they are..
etoy was not cybersquatting. they were not cynically trying to cash in on etoys.com. etoys was being a bully, to an art site no less. as if the chance that someone might forget the letter "s" in there means that "etoy" is immediately and retroactively the property of Disney and Friends.
now, these domain-selling wh0res are a dime-a-dozen. snapping up domain names en masse and then reselling/auctioning. this is the same mindset that has turned the net into a commercial wasteland, and has made idiotic marketing-wet- dream concepts like "virtual real estate" a profitable reality.
apparently you lot of right-libertarian scum (an even more unfortunate dark side of slashdot than the hypocritical zealots) are more than happy to flag wave for anybody who serves the same pragmatic god as you - money. You'd probably call these domain-reselling bottom-feeders Entreprenuers, Industrious, etc.
I would tend to agree with the person who said that we can rely on Linus to be a 'benevolent despot'. In a very real sense, I think we CAN trust him to be of a higher class than myopic freemarket whores like you lot, and bureaucratic machines like Etoys.com.
one of you said he's sick of the "so-called intellectuals" being such "hypocrits". there is no hypocrisy in supporting Linus on this one.
you guys are thinking in black-and-white. you call it "hypocrisy" only cause you're looking to find a way to preach you own dogma in every ./ post - just like the people you criticize. had you bothered to consider the CONTEXT, and the very significant differences between the situations you are trying to claim to be identical, then you wouldn't have had anything to whine about would you?
ah but those are all just details. and a preacher has no use for details. and neither does a right-libbie, or he'd "check his premises".
Notice how people who are offering critiques of Katz with substance are being tagged "Troll" "Flamebait" etc by the moderators (albeit with reasonable scores most of the time)..then when the bootlickers come out from the woodwork to praise him as a guy who speaks for us all, is worthy of immense respect, sticks to his guns, yaddayadda, they are immediately "Insightful".
Funny that. I always thought having insight meant looking deep into something, beyond the immediate and superficial (ie the hype) as many people are when they give Katz the criticism he so richly deserves.
Although I suppose that the posters could be considered Insightful after all, in the sense that they are well aware that the moderators will just pour the karma down upon them for towing the ./ Jon-Katz-Is-Worthy-Of-The-Attention-He-Gets line.
bullshit. Katz is about as radical as my grandma, and a piss poor writer to boot.
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um.. MODERATORS.. would you please either
moderate this guy up, or moderate down the
knob calling all the protestors "crackheads"
and basically spewing out the myopic opinion
that the media fed to his stupid ass?
I was in Seattle as well, and I'm fucking
AMAZED at all these people who watched CNN and
think they just KNOW ALL ABOUT what happened,
who apologize for the police, and generally
just toss it off as "crackpot stuff", not
worth thinking about really.. busybusybusy..
oh and nevermind the fact that the constitution
was suspended in Seattle. that too, water under
the bridge in Amerika. just goes to show you
that there is a reason to worry about media
concentration/distortion : because there really
ARE legions of dunces out there who can't be
bothered to really look into something, and
are going to swallow the prefabricated
corporate perspectives no questions asked.
easier on the noggin to do that I guess..
SIEG HEIL, and hurrah for the US of A!
Some Cato Institute refs: Too Many Sanctions A Chance to Rethink Sanctions Stuck in Sanctions Time to Stop Sanctioning the World
HAHAHA! the Cato institute eh? we are talking about the same shamelessly biased right-wing "think-tank" here are we not?
you can show me hundreds upon thousands of pages of material cranked out by the Cato Institute, and you will objectively prove absolutely nothing to me besides something I already know:
Money talks. And bullshit walks.
the only place you're going to see the Cato Institute, or anyone who serves them, taken seriously, is in the usual mega-mass-media joints, where there is obviously a vested interest in pushing this Free Market (tm) crap down everyone's throats, while filtering out all that nasty dissent that is so hard to swallow.. oh and have a closer look at who funds and works for Cato sometime too.. probably should be doing that before you cite them as some sort of authority rather than the propaganda-machine they are..
alright, listen up.
etoy was not cybersquatting. they were not
cynically trying to cash in on etoys.com.
etoys was being a bully, to an art site no
less. as if the chance that someone might
forget the letter "s" in there means that
"etoy" is immediately and retroactively
the property of Disney and Friends.
now, these domain-selling wh0res are a
dime-a-dozen. snapping up domain names en masse
and then reselling/auctioning. this is the same
mindset that has turned the net into a commercial
wasteland, and has made idiotic marketing-wet-
dream concepts like "virtual real estate" a
profitable reality.
apparently you lot of right-libertarian scum
(an even more unfortunate dark side of slashdot
than the hypocritical zealots) are more than
happy to flag wave for anybody who serves the
same pragmatic god as you - money. You'd probably
call these domain-reselling bottom-feeders
Entreprenuers, Industrious, etc.
I would tend to agree with the person who said
that we can rely on Linus to be a 'benevolent
despot'. In a very real sense, I think we CAN
trust him to be of a higher class than myopic
freemarket whores like you lot, and bureaucratic
machines like Etoys.com.
one of you said he's sick of the "so-called
intellectuals" being such "hypocrits". there
is no hypocrisy in supporting Linus on this
one.
you guys are thinking in black-and-white. you
call it "hypocrisy" only cause you're looking
to find a way to preach you own dogma in every
./ post - just like the people you criticize.
had you bothered to consider the CONTEXT, and
the very significant differences between the
situations you are trying to claim to be
identical, then you wouldn't have had anything
to whine about would you?
ah but those are all just details. and a preacher
has no use for details. and neither does a
right-libbie, or he'd "check his premises".
Notice how people who are offering critiques ..then when the bootlickers come out
of Katz with substance are being tagged
"Troll" "Flamebait" etc by the moderators
(albeit with reasonable scores most of the
time)
from the woodwork to praise him as a guy who
speaks for us all, is worthy of immense
respect, sticks to his guns, yaddayadda,
they are immediately "Insightful".
Funny that. I always thought having insight meant
looking deep into something, beyond the immediate
and superficial (ie the hype) as many people are
when they give Katz the criticism he so richly deserves.
Although I suppose that the posters could be
considered Insightful after all, in the sense
that they are well aware that the moderators will
just pour the karma down upon them for towing the
./ Jon-Katz-Is-Worthy-Of-The-Attention-He-Gets
line.
bullshit. Katz is about as radical as my grandma,
and a piss poor writer to boot.
and now, down to -1 hell I go.