Yeah, what the other AC asks. When was the last time the cost of living went DOWN? It hasn't happened since I graduated high school in 1974. Unless you're a really, really, really old bastard, you've never seen it happen either.
Uhhh - maybe you hadn't noticed, but this IS a republic, rather than a democracy. Have you not noticed that the federal government simply ASSumes that they are justified in waging war against portions of the populace, here at home? Sure, dopeheads are idiots - but you don't imprison idiots on a whim. You certainly don't kill an idiot for running away when you arrive to bust them for smoking a doobie. And, you sure as HELL don't set up corporate prisons to milk those idiots by way of taxpayers.
Democracy? Keep dreaming. When our government stops killing and/or imprisoning people for using natural plants in natural (or unnatural) ways, THEN I'll entertain the idea that we actually have a democracy.
Correct. I grew up during the Viet Nam war. I graduated the year our soldiers came home. Every day, reports of body counts, in towns, villages, and provinces with unpronouncable names - but NEVER a question about "WTF are we even doing in some insignificant jungle country?"
Again, correct. We've been reading all our lives about the evil of drugs. The papers parrot the government's stance on drugs, report arrests, report numbers of deaths, report convictions and sentences. Never once does a newspaper ask, "WTF is the government doing outlawing an entire genus of plants, then killing and imprisoning people who come into contact with that genus?"
And, again, correct. Today, that "war on drugs" has claimed in excess of 40,000 casualties in Mexico. Which newspaper and/or news site and/or channel has reported such horrific details? To get such details, one must read them in Spanish, on Mexican news sites, of go to borderlandbeat.com CNN won't carry the news, Fox won't carry the news, even the BBC won't carry the news.
The newspapers have been irrelevant for decades. If they were relevant at all, they would KEEP public officials honest, rather than exposing dishonest officials. At the local, state, and federal levels, the reporters should be in-your-face with tough questions all the time, ensuring that officials vote as they promised their constituents to vote, ensuring that funds are properly spent, ensuring that every little lie is exposed.
Phhht. Corrupt officials aren't exposed until they step on the wrong toes, or they get so brazen that they just don't care any more. Newspapers aren't worth wrapping fish in, anymore.
You might want to get the man's name right, along with the factual errors that have been pointed out already. LINUS Torvalds created the LINUX operating system. I don't know, maybe you are referring to some younger man who was named after the Linux kernel?
As for your obsession with ethnic, racial, and national backgrounds - you might want to seek professional help. I'm sorry that you are so filled with insecurities, but there is nothing I can do to help you.
Right or wrong, I've long ago made up my mind that Palin is a skanky ole ho, who is just getting by on her history as a beauty queen. I've not read anything to make me like her, and I've read plenty to make me dislike her.
I can't see that sifting through her emails is going to improve my opinion of the ole ho. Like most other people, I'll just interpret the crap I find to reinforce my current opinion.
'Course, most other people can't admit that they'll do that, LMAO!!
"use strange hacks like Memmaker to trick my computer to use more than 640k"
Face it, Pal. The kids have no idea what you're talking about. Not a clue. Unless they looked it up on Wikipedia, of course. Know what I think? Those of us who DO remember memmaker should just go get a hunting license. When we find the little cretins on our lawns, we can just shoot them. Life will be better, believe me!
Ehhhh - smoke or not, someday, your kinfolk will walk into your home, and start divvying up your possessions. Sometime within ten days of your burial, before or after, it hardly matters. Eat, drink, smoke and be merry, for tomorrow you die. No point in worrying about those carcinogens.
Thank you, Jason. You come across with a mild sense of self rightousness, and you sound a little bit of a prick - but you're honest, and you're right. So, you're tolerable, and your opinion is appreciated.
I hate the ultra self-rightous pricks who feel it is their mission in life to save me, and other smokers, from our own stupidity. If the rest of the anti-smokers had your sense of proportion, they'd be a lot easier to live with!
Enough taxes, enough penalties, enough stigmatism attached to smoking. More than enough, already. As you point out, prohibition is the next step - and prohibition failed in the 1920's, and it has failed since the 1940's as well. A new prohibition will do no good for this country at all.
Oh, I agree. I didn't miss the GPL-3 at all. You are perfectly correct. Source in escrow sounds great to me! I merely established what I thought was a reasonable time period for protection of copyrighted works, which differed from your own by a fraction.;>)
What in hell does a moderation method, faulty or otherwise, have to do with the subject of this article? The subject happens to be an asshat, of the "goat-fucking son of a bitch" variety.
IMHO - WinXP is not quite there yet. I give 15 years for copyright protection. We can all argue the fine points of this thing, but at least we're talking the same language. Patent holders, on the other hand, speak some kind of gibberish.
Jew rat lawyers? Come on, AC - the Jews may own a few of these patents and copyrights, but it's been a free-for-all all along. If you MUST dump on the Jews, go ahead - but save some dumping for white, black, brown, English, French, American, etc etc ad nauseum. I believe in equal opportunity!
No patents for software, period. Copyright protection is the only proper protection for software. I cannot compromise on that position. And, yes, copyright protections should be limited for software, as well. There is really almost nothing in the world today more than 15 years old which NEEDS protecting! It's so obsolete that no one wants to use it. It should be publicly available, and in the public domain, for student's use, more than anything.
The 24/7/365 surveillance is a critical tool in Orwell's as well as the Drake story I mentioned. You're entirely correct that George wove many other tools into the story, they all pretty much depend on the surveillance.
From accounts that I have heard and/or read, both the East German and the old Soviet governments used another somewhat less critical tool from 1984. They brainwashed schoolchildren into "tattling" on their parents. If Daddy got drunk, and ran at the mouth with anti-government ideas, the next day, little Ingrid would tell the teacher about it. And, the teacher would promptly inform higher authority.
So, yes, lots of tools - but most of them rely in one way or another on that surveillance.
Uhhh, actually, no, we haven't reached 1984 yet. Great Britian seems to be about 15 years ahead of us, and they haven't quite reached it. Getting close, though. When they reach the point that every family "on the dole" has multiple surveillance cameras throughout their homes, then we will have reached 1984.
However, I don't think we're going the way of 1984, so much, as in the direction that David Drake portrays in some of his short stories. Specifically, 'Nation Without Wall'.
That story may be a little hard to find, unless you're a criminal who knows how to use torrents . . .
I don't like the video either. I think it blows. But - hey - I think a lot of things are equally stupid, juvenile, and generally lacking in taste. Want some examples? Well, you could start with a google of "rap", or almost any celebrity's name, or "blockbuster", or "action movie". Jack Christie's little video is mildly offensive to my sensibilities, but I can find more offensive material at any theater for which people pay good money.
The school is most definitely overstepping what limited authority is rightfully theirs. And, Jack's freedom of speech and freedom of expression is most definitely being violated.
Wow. What a story. Got any bears left? I haven't had a bear steak in ages. Don't ruin those good bears with gay little vienna sausages though - I'll pass on them!
Young Manning doesn't have to be guilty of the various laws which you have attempted to cite. Mr. Manning is and was subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. He broke many regulations under that code. It remains to be seen whether the advocates can or will press the case as a capital case. They COULD.
And, before you try to tell me that the UCMJ doesn't authorize capital punishment - it does. In fact, a summary court martial followed by an immediate execution is unheard of today, but the UCMJ still supports it. (summary court martial effectively being an abbreviated court in number and rank of court officers)
What wikileaks did was illegal? Please, cite some laws that they broke. If you actually find some laws that you think that they broke, then PLEASE follow up with your rationale for US jurisdiction over wikileaks and/or Julian Assange. I would really prefer if you could keep it rational, and paint a nice clear picture for dummies to understand.
Before you start, allow me to point out that Julian is not a US citizen, nor is wikileaks a US company, corporation, organization, nonprofit, or any other such entity. That should both simplify, and complicate your task - but if you really understand that they are not subject to US jurisdiction, then you'll appreciate my effort here.
East Texas is a nice place. I'm trying to think of places I've liked better - ohhhh - the Cascade Mountains, Nova Scotia, Alaska, Montana, Scotland, West Texas, maybe a couple of others. East Texas isn't my first choice for a retirement home, but it comes in a LONG way ahead of Florida, Massachussets, California, Arizona, Virginia, or several other states.
While you're busy hating on Texans, maybe you should look in your own backyard, maybe do a little investigating. There are plenty of douches living in YOUR home town, your county, your state. Or - do you happen to agree with all the laws to which you are subject?
If you need IE to download Firefox, then you should turn in your Geek card. Even a retarded, comatose, braindead geek has a damned flash drive with Firefox and a couple dozen other "must have" applications on it - that is, IF he doesn't have a server to pull them from.
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Yeah, what the other AC asks. When was the last time the cost of living went DOWN? It hasn't happened since I graduated high school in 1974. Unless you're a really, really, really old bastard, you've never seen it happen either.
Uhhh - maybe you hadn't noticed, but this IS a republic, rather than a democracy. Have you not noticed that the federal government simply ASSumes that they are justified in waging war against portions of the populace, here at home? Sure, dopeheads are idiots - but you don't imprison idiots on a whim. You certainly don't kill an idiot for running away when you arrive to bust them for smoking a doobie. And, you sure as HELL don't set up corporate prisons to milk those idiots by way of taxpayers.
Democracy? Keep dreaming. When our government stops killing and/or imprisoning people for using natural plants in natural (or unnatural) ways, THEN I'll entertain the idea that we actually have a democracy.
" papers that won't address the real issues,"
Correct. I grew up during the Viet Nam war. I graduated the year our soldiers came home. Every day, reports of body counts, in towns, villages, and provinces with unpronouncable names - but NEVER a question about "WTF are we even doing in some insignificant jungle country?"
Again, correct. We've been reading all our lives about the evil of drugs. The papers parrot the government's stance on drugs, report arrests, report numbers of deaths, report convictions and sentences. Never once does a newspaper ask, "WTF is the government doing outlawing an entire genus of plants, then killing and imprisoning people who come into contact with that genus?"
And, again, correct. Today, that "war on drugs" has claimed in excess of 40,000 casualties in Mexico. Which newspaper and/or news site and/or channel has reported such horrific details? To get such details, one must read them in Spanish, on Mexican news sites, of go to borderlandbeat.com CNN won't carry the news, Fox won't carry the news, even the BBC won't carry the news.
The newspapers have been irrelevant for decades. If they were relevant at all, they would KEEP public officials honest, rather than exposing dishonest officials. At the local, state, and federal levels, the reporters should be in-your-face with tough questions all the time, ensuring that officials vote as they promised their constituents to vote, ensuring that funds are properly spent, ensuring that every little lie is exposed.
Phhht. Corrupt officials aren't exposed until they step on the wrong toes, or they get so brazen that they just don't care any more. Newspapers aren't worth wrapping fish in, anymore.
You might want to get the man's name right, along with the factual errors that have been pointed out already. LINUS Torvalds created the LINUX operating system. I don't know, maybe you are referring to some younger man who was named after the Linux kernel?
As for your obsession with ethnic, racial, and national backgrounds - you might want to seek professional help. I'm sorry that you are so filled with insecurities, but there is nothing I can do to help you.
Well, at least AC isn't lost. He's on slashdot, and he can't be bothered to RTFA, RTFS, or even to RTFN of the poster he responds to.
not Dug :>)
Right or wrong, I've long ago made up my mind that Palin is a skanky ole ho, who is just getting by on her history as a beauty queen. I've not read anything to make me like her, and I've read plenty to make me dislike her.
I can't see that sifting through her emails is going to improve my opinion of the ole ho. Like most other people, I'll just interpret the crap I find to reinforce my current opinion.
'Course, most other people can't admit that they'll do that, LMAO!!
"use strange hacks like Memmaker to trick my computer to use more than 640k"
Face it, Pal. The kids have no idea what you're talking about. Not a clue. Unless they looked it up on Wikipedia, of course. Know what I think? Those of us who DO remember memmaker should just go get a hunting license. When we find the little cretins on our lawns, we can just shoot them. Life will be better, believe me!
I think that the media should help Microsoft out some. Publicize some good old fashioned BSOD's so that people start feeling nostalgic for Windows.
Ehhhh - smoke or not, someday, your kinfolk will walk into your home, and start divvying up your possessions. Sometime within ten days of your burial, before or after, it hardly matters. Eat, drink, smoke and be merry, for tomorrow you die. No point in worrying about those carcinogens.
Thank you, Jason. You come across with a mild sense of self rightousness, and you sound a little bit of a prick - but you're honest, and you're right. So, you're tolerable, and your opinion is appreciated.
I hate the ultra self-rightous pricks who feel it is their mission in life to save me, and other smokers, from our own stupidity. If the rest of the anti-smokers had your sense of proportion, they'd be a lot easier to live with!
Enough taxes, enough penalties, enough stigmatism attached to smoking. More than enough, already. As you point out, prohibition is the next step - and prohibition failed in the 1920's, and it has failed since the 1940's as well. A new prohibition will do no good for this country at all.
Oh, I agree. I didn't miss the GPL-3 at all. You are perfectly correct. Source in escrow sounds great to me! I merely established what I thought was a reasonable time period for protection of copyrighted works, which differed from your own by a fraction. ;>)
What in hell does a moderation method, faulty or otherwise, have to do with the subject of this article? The subject happens to be an asshat, of the "goat-fucking son of a bitch" variety.
IMHO - WinXP is not quite there yet. I give 15 years for copyright protection. We can all argue the fine points of this thing, but at least we're talking the same language. Patent holders, on the other hand, speak some kind of gibberish.
Jew rat lawyers? Come on, AC - the Jews may own a few of these patents and copyrights, but it's been a free-for-all all along. If you MUST dump on the Jews, go ahead - but save some dumping for white, black, brown, English, French, American, etc etc ad nauseum. I believe in equal opportunity!
No patents for software, period. Copyright protection is the only proper protection for software. I cannot compromise on that position. And, yes, copyright protections should be limited for software, as well. There is really almost nothing in the world today more than 15 years old which NEEDS protecting! It's so obsolete that no one wants to use it. It should be publicly available, and in the public domain, for student's use, more than anything.
Salutes. I don't know why I've never stumbled over thefifthimperium. Thanks for the link!
The 24/7/365 surveillance is a critical tool in Orwell's as well as the Drake story I mentioned. You're entirely correct that George wove many other tools into the story, they all pretty much depend on the surveillance.
From accounts that I have heard and/or read, both the East German and the old Soviet governments used another somewhat less critical tool from 1984. They brainwashed schoolchildren into "tattling" on their parents. If Daddy got drunk, and ran at the mouth with anti-government ideas, the next day, little Ingrid would tell the teacher about it. And, the teacher would promptly inform higher authority.
So, yes, lots of tools - but most of them rely in one way or another on that surveillance.
Uhhh, actually, no, we haven't reached 1984 yet. Great Britian seems to be about 15 years ahead of us, and they haven't quite reached it. Getting close, though. When they reach the point that every family "on the dole" has multiple surveillance cameras throughout their homes, then we will have reached 1984.
However, I don't think we're going the way of 1984, so much, as in the direction that David Drake portrays in some of his short stories. Specifically, 'Nation Without Wall'.
That story may be a little hard to find, unless you're a criminal who knows how to use torrents . . .
I don't like the video either. I think it blows. But - hey - I think a lot of things are equally stupid, juvenile, and generally lacking in taste. Want some examples? Well, you could start with a google of "rap", or almost any celebrity's name, or "blockbuster", or "action movie". Jack Christie's little video is mildly offensive to my sensibilities, but I can find more offensive material at any theater for which people pay good money.
The school is most definitely overstepping what limited authority is rightfully theirs. And, Jack's freedom of speech and freedom of expression is most definitely being violated.
Wow. What a story. Got any bears left? I haven't had a bear steak in ages. Don't ruin those good bears with gay little vienna sausages though - I'll pass on them!
Young Manning doesn't have to be guilty of the various laws which you have attempted to cite. Mr. Manning is and was subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. He broke many regulations under that code. It remains to be seen whether the advocates can or will press the case as a capital case. They COULD.
And, before you try to tell me that the UCMJ doesn't authorize capital punishment - it does. In fact, a summary court martial followed by an immediate execution is unheard of today, but the UCMJ still supports it. (summary court martial effectively being an abbreviated court in number and rank of court officers)
What wikileaks did was illegal? Please, cite some laws that they broke. If you actually find some laws that you think that they broke, then PLEASE follow up with your rationale for US jurisdiction over wikileaks and/or Julian Assange. I would really prefer if you could keep it rational, and paint a nice clear picture for dummies to understand.
Before you start, allow me to point out that Julian is not a US citizen, nor is wikileaks a US company, corporation, organization, nonprofit, or any other such entity. That should both simplify, and complicate your task - but if you really understand that they are not subject to US jurisdiction, then you'll appreciate my effort here.
Homophobic reference to Steve? I would - but I ain't scared of that little queer!
East Texas is a nice place. I'm trying to think of places I've liked better - ohhhh - the Cascade Mountains, Nova Scotia, Alaska, Montana, Scotland, West Texas, maybe a couple of others. East Texas isn't my first choice for a retirement home, but it comes in a LONG way ahead of Florida, Massachussets, California, Arizona, Virginia, or several other states.
While you're busy hating on Texans, maybe you should look in your own backyard, maybe do a little investigating. There are plenty of douches living in YOUR home town, your county, your state. Or - do you happen to agree with all the laws to which you are subject?
In short, don't be a douche.
If you need IE to download Firefox, then you should turn in your Geek card. Even a retarded, comatose, braindead geek has a damned flash drive with Firefox and a couple dozen other "must have" applications on it - that is, IF he doesn't have a server to pull them from.