It's my lawn too you retard. And let's not forget that it was your unchecked capitalism which caused the massive economic problems that Obama has to fix. Feel free to put the blame squarely where it belongs, the administration in power for the last 8 years. Obama is just stuck cleaning up their mess.
As for totalitarianism, take a look at the past administration as well. They presided over the biggest executive power grab and flaunting of the constitution that this nation has ever known. We are probably closer to a totalitarian government than at any other time in our country's history. The current President can read and understands the constitution. I'll take him over the idiot parade you seem to prefer any day.
And as for not knowing Fox News, I think you're lying. If you wouldn't have known about them then you would have said that earlier. Now you're just attempting to weasel out of the trap your own lies have created. In short, you're full of shit.
If it's your lawn too, why was it my unchecked capitalism that ruined it and not yours? You seem to be oblivious to the power grabs that Obama has already done and how it was massively larger than any President before him. So much so that the United States owns GM, etc. And no I'm not lying when I say I don't know what's on Fox News. It's not possible for me to know since I've never seen it. You sound like you've "figured it all out." I'm not exactly sure what you think you've figured out though, other than you think you are better than me.
Why would I claim to not know about Fox News when I don't? I have no fucking clue what they report so why should I defend any position based on that completely fabricated statement by you? I haven't lied, therefore I haven't fallen into a trap of my lies that I created. I'm not full of shit, but you come off as a complete shitbag. Good day sir.
I know of not this Fox News you speak of. If you don't think these TARP appropriations and bank bailouts are totalitarian moves away from a capitalist democracy (which we used to be) and toward a socialist dictatorship, I think you are one of the people that I claim to dislike.
I'm rather sick of defending my anti-totalitarianistic and anti-socialist positions to the totalitarians and socialist invaders. Go back to Europe where you belong please. Or rather... GET OFF MY LAWN!
Interesting, but how does that relate to my dislike for socialist corporatism?
It provides a grounding in fact and analysis for what would otherwise exist as an uninformed prejudice. It provides a leg to stand on against the smug spear-carriers for the existing system who roll their eyes and say they too want to make the world better, but that you just don't understand because you've never given these things any real study... and maybe even gives you the chance to lay out a case on their own terms for why their understanding is flawed and the science itself needs to be changed. Really, it is very useful.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "socialist corporatism" (government-business collusion is more properly an element of fascism, though maybe you mean corporate welfare), but your critique will be much more trenchant if you read up on how economics works. (I'm saying this as someone who shares a deep distrust of corporate America and of the misuses of economic rhetoric and ill-bought power.)
If nothing else, economics (like many other subjects) gives you a vocabulary to describe your views in a way that other people will understand, and it helps sharpen them a lot too in the study.
Agreed, and when I use the term corporatism I use it as Benito Mussolini described fascism. Do you have any suggested reading for me?
Citation needed for what? Nice try, but get a clue.
Citation that I watch Fox News, that I'm brainwashed, and that I can somehow manage to get my head into my ass.
It's hilarious to me that that's you socialist bastard's defacto defense.
Is that like Riddick? Sometimes you need evil to fight evil?
More like, sometimes you need to know what you're talking about to know what you're talking about.
Economists' predictions are quite often politically motivated rubbish, and the advanced mathematical models are usually the result of a scientistic quantification-fetish that doesn't really reflect reality. But the general understanding of supply and demand, the effect of money supply, the perception of value and its influence on human behaviors... there's a lot of useful knowledge that people have accumulated by looking closely at how people negotiate the allocation of scarce resources, and it's worthwhile to study it (if not to immediately rush off and become a technical currency trader or something).
Interesting, but how does that relate to my dislike for socialist corporatism?
Children do not fucking need longer exposure to the indoctrination of the socialist and corporatist SCUM invading our US society.
You are grotesquely undervaluing the importance of a grasp of (salt-water) economics.
Anyone who wants to avoid being indoctrinated needs to understand economic concepts, so they can tell when they're being misled and lied to.
Is that like Riddick? Sometimes you need evil to fight evil?
"being indoctrinated into the living-outside-of-your-means credit based lifestyle President Obama seems to be pushing for now. Fuck him and fuck that."
Feel free to pull your Fox News brainwashed head out of your ass.
Funny that this got rated insightful rather than flamebait, but there you go.
So we need to encourage our kids to aim lower? From what age should we tell kids that having aspirations is a bad thing? As a teacher, I have as yet to meet a kid who was both stupid and had unrealistic expectations. As for the rest, someone who puts in enough hard work studying will beat out a kid with talent but less industry nine times out of ten.
Having lofty career goals doesn't automatically engender bad credit habits, either; it's more often those who are pursuing those trade-oriented jobs who have credit issues because the poor pay they get after their schooling doesn't live up to their expectations. As for huge student loans, that's the fault of the inflated cost of education at colleges and universities rather than people with the temerity to study there. We would do better to revamp the higher education system (per the topic of this conversation) regarding its financial expenses (maintaining expensive and unnecessary sports programs, for example) rather than blaming it on people who somehow manage to be smart enough to get a degree but not smart enough to get hired afterwards.
With you being a teacher, I'm not surprised at all that that you thought my post was flamebait, nor that you thought the gist of it was to "aim low." That fits completely with the idea that teachers are just as big a part of the problem as parents and government.
Since you're a teacher I guess I'll have to explain it to you again. Many of the current failures in our marketplace are your fault. Your job isn't just to educate, but to be a mentor for children and guide them toward successfully reaching realistic and obtainable goals. Everyone needs a pipe-dream, but those just that, dreams. You should be engaging the parents to find out their expectations, and breaking down their unrealistic goals for their own kids.
If it's easier for you to stick your fingers in your ears and yell LALALALALALLALALA and pretend that your way is working, and that increasing your hours is going to fix everything; all I can say is good luck with that.
"...Children do not fucking need longer exposure to the indoctrination of the socialist and corporatist SCUM invading our US society."
You are free to send your kids to the private school of your choice if you don't like the public options available to you.
And you free to take your love for totalitarianism and corporatism abroad, and I encourage you to.
I was also thinking maybe we need to stop pretending and telling our children that they can be fucking NASA scientists, or neurosurgeons, etc
If everybody told their kids that, there would be no fucking NASA scientists, or neurosurgeons, etc.
Is it fun to pick quotes out of context? I think you're stupid if your kid has the IQ of toast and you tell him "Johnny take the fork out of your eye and keep studying and you'll be a rocket scientist in no time!"
There is a huge difference between positive encouragement toward realistic goals, and betting your whole life on wishful thinking. Every parent wishes their child success, but they are apparently losing their grasp on reality when they keep thinking their D+/C- average student is a rocket scientist.
Maybe you'd be better off living in a country that's already socialist
You all would, but only becuase they pay more attention to education and health care. You can still get all that without changing the politics.
By the way, look up "socialist" in the dictionary - it means NOTHING without context, so I'm assuming here you mean "socialist democracy" like Norway, Sweden etc since there's really no other governments that fit the word. If you really mean Communist say Communist - it's something completely different. North Korea is a million miles and a sea of blood away from "socialist", as was the old USSR. There are many idiots that call Christian charity and Christian values "socialist" - be careful not to be mistaken for one of them.
No, we all wouldn't. That is precisely why we left Europe and came here (USA) in the first place. It's precisely why we kicked the asses of the British to keep our sovereignty. It's also precisely why I said maybe that poster would be better off living in a different country; I as a non-socialist, non-totalitarian, non-egalitarian, wouldn't dare tell someone how they should live their life (unless they are family of course).
The beauty of the United States was that if you didn't like something you could try to persuade the members of your community to enact a change. If that failed, you had the freedom to go somewhere else, be it a different state or country. We the people, those famous first words, DO NOT WANT to live under a socialist totalitarian regime. That is what Europe and Asia are for. If you are a citizen of the USA and you would rather live in that type of society, you certainly have the freedom to leave here and immigrate there, and I encourage you to.
Stop fucking around with our country. If you don't like it (and it's quite obvious that many of the liberals, leftists, egalitarians, totalitarians do not), fucking leave or SHUT THE FUCK UP. To be blunt, the truth is that we are not all equals, that society is divided into classes, and whether they are social or economic classes is irrelevant.
in a country that's already socialist, with full corporate sponsorship.
You have the most amazing case of bipolar view I've ever seen. Make up your mind, please! Are you worried about socialism or capitalism? Most people agree these are nearly opposites.
Perhaps you should read the post before you reply to it. I never said capitalism. I said socialism with corporate sponsorship.. Like here in the US we have capitalism with corporate sponsorship heavily creeping in. As in, our country is actually capitalist and fascist (Mussolini called it corporatism), but refuses to call it so out of fear.
Yeah my bad. I don't see it as OT though. Obama's campaign slogan was "Change we can believe in." My joke was that with all this "change" no one will be able to make "change" for a dollar. Apparently my bad spelling of a proper name ruined it, or you are just uptight picky bastards!
Really? You see this happening to hundreds of thousands of students? What is your vantage point? From where I'm looking, the kids are alright.
If from where you are looking the kids are alright, you must be looking somewhere else. The largest technical college in my area is now charging $40,000 a year for a "computer networking" degree. It's a 4 year degree. The market is saturated with "computer networking" workers. On graduation day those students are walking out the door with $160,000 + interest in debt, and most of them have no immediate job prospects in that field. That's just an example I'm sure many/. readers can relate with.
Ahh, ok I get it. You're in the "that black bastard's not going to tell me what to do, even if it's stay in school" crowd. Good luck with that.
Wow, you must have been indoctrinated racist to extrapolate even a.0001% hint of racism towards anyone, let alone blacks, in any of my posts. I haven't had to add any/. foes but you are certainly a prime candidate for #1.
I'm pretty fucking sure that most parents know by the time their little brats are in middle (jr. highschool) school whether or not their child is college material, and should be adjusting their future goals accordingly instead of throwing on the blinders and being 110% supporting of their kids unrealistic goals.
Yeah, in fact, we should euthanize them if they're judged useless at this age.
Bitter jackass.
No, but I'm sure we could do without sarcastic bastards making snide remarks.
Yes, let's go back to less school and just accept the majority of our students being dumber.
I'm not sure I agree with that completely. Yes to less school, no to accepting the majority of students being dumber. Perhaps if students were focusing on the skills they were mediocre to good at, you wouldn't consider the majority of them being dumber. A certified auto-mechanic may never be able to replace a faulty heart valve, and conversely a heart surgeon may never be able to change bad exhaust valve. Saying either one is dumber than the other one is what is stupid, or to the point, saying that either one should aspire to be the other is stupid.
And, seriously, what the fuck is up with your last paragraph? Do you even understand the last 8 years? No? Maybe you'd be better off if you spent more time in school, learning some history and economics.
Children do not fucking need longer exposure to the indoctrination of the socialist and corporatist SCUM invading our US society. Longer school years and pretending everyone is going to grow up and be a doctor means longer exposure to the live-outside-your-means propaganda, and a higher likelihood of someone taking out a large student loan to pay for classes they should not even be in.
Do you even understand the last 40 years? No? Maybe you'd be better off living in a country that's already socialist, with full corporate sponsorship.
I was also thinking maybe we need to stop pretending and telling our children that they can be fucking NASA scientists, or neurosurgeons, etc. I firmly believe kid's heads are being filled with completely unrealistic aspirations in life. A good 75% of people in general will never require anything more than a technical degree in life. I'm pretty fucking sure that most parents know by the time their little brats are in middle (jr. highschool) school whether or not their child is college material, and should be adjusting their future goals accordingly instead of throwing on the blinders and being 110% supporting of their kids unrealistic goals. I see this happening to the point of tens (probably hundreds) of thousands of young adults being unfairly burdened with student loans when they are never going to use those degrees to pay back said loans.
If anything, shorten the school day/year so our people can go back to acquiring trade skills and progressing the nation; rather than being indoctrinated into the living-outside-of-your-means credit based lifestyle President Obama seems to be pushing for now. Fuck him and fuck that.
When I RTFS my heart went out to all the poor Japanese-American would-be burglars, and how ill-prepared they are for the AMERICAN SEIZURE SECURITY ALARM!
I think it's a sekrit ploy by Steve Jobs to focus the negative virus/malware based attention away from Apple and toward Microsoft.
What better way to add fuel to the "Apple doesn't get viruses" lie than to have Apple install not just an exploitable software, but a fucking web server, which can be used to proliferate more worms/malware/viruses on the Windows machines.
I would say that's exactly what is happening, especially when a different post here mentions that this "update" was "intended" for corporate IT administrators... I'm a systems administrator; do you have any fucking clue how pissed off I would be to find out that Apple just turned my network of workstations into a network of web servers? Thankfully we don't have any automatic updates turned on, and every time I update our images I intentionally neglect iTunes and Quicktime.
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Awesome! I very much appreciate this info. Too bad I can't mod users up like stackoverflow.com because you deserve it!
It's my lawn too you retard. And let's not forget that it was your unchecked capitalism which caused the massive economic problems that Obama has to fix. Feel free to put the blame squarely where it belongs, the administration in power for the last 8 years. Obama is just stuck cleaning up their mess.
As for totalitarianism, take a look at the past administration as well. They presided over the biggest executive power grab and flaunting of the constitution that this nation has ever known. We are probably closer to a totalitarian government than at any other time in our country's history. The current President can read and understands the constitution. I'll take him over the idiot parade you seem to prefer any day.
And as for not knowing Fox News, I think you're lying. If you wouldn't have known about them then you would have said that earlier. Now you're just attempting to weasel out of the trap your own lies have created. In short, you're full of shit.
If it's your lawn too, why was it my unchecked capitalism that ruined it and not yours? You seem to be oblivious to the power grabs that Obama has already done and how it was massively larger than any President before him. So much so that the United States owns GM, etc. And no I'm not lying when I say I don't know what's on Fox News. It's not possible for me to know since I've never seen it. You sound like you've "figured it all out." I'm not exactly sure what you think you've figured out though, other than you think you are better than me.
Why would I claim to not know about Fox News when I don't? I have no fucking clue what they report so why should I defend any position based on that completely fabricated statement by you? I haven't lied, therefore I haven't fallen into a trap of my lies that I created. I'm not full of shit, but you come off as a complete shitbag. Good day sir.
I know of not this Fox News you speak of. If you don't think these TARP appropriations and bank bailouts are totalitarian moves away from a capitalist democracy (which we used to be) and toward a socialist dictatorship, I think you are one of the people that I claim to dislike.
I'm rather sick of defending my anti-totalitarianistic and anti-socialist positions to the totalitarians and socialist invaders. Go back to Europe where you belong please. Or rather... GET OFF MY LAWN!
Interesting, but how does that relate to my dislike for socialist corporatism?
It provides a grounding in fact and analysis for what would otherwise exist as an uninformed prejudice. It provides a leg to stand on against the smug spear-carriers for the existing system who roll their eyes and say they too want to make the world better, but that you just don't understand because you've never given these things any real study... and maybe even gives you the chance to lay out a case on their own terms for why their understanding is flawed and the science itself needs to be changed. Really, it is very useful.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "socialist corporatism" (government-business collusion is more properly an element of fascism, though maybe you mean corporate welfare), but your critique will be much more trenchant if you read up on how economics works. (I'm saying this as someone who shares a deep distrust of corporate America and of the misuses of economic rhetoric and ill-bought power.)
If nothing else, economics (like many other subjects) gives you a vocabulary to describe your views in a way that other people will understand, and it helps sharpen them a lot too in the study.
Agreed, and when I use the term corporatism I use it as Benito Mussolini described fascism. Do you have any suggested reading for me?
Citation needed for what? Nice try, but get a clue.
Citation that I watch Fox News, that I'm brainwashed, and that I can somehow manage to get my head into my ass. It's hilarious to me that that's you socialist bastard's defacto defense.
Is that like Riddick? Sometimes you need evil to fight evil?
More like, sometimes you need to know what you're talking about to know what you're talking about.
Economists' predictions are quite often politically motivated rubbish, and the advanced mathematical models are usually the result of a scientistic quantification-fetish that doesn't really reflect reality. But the general understanding of supply and demand, the effect of money supply, the perception of value and its influence on human behaviors... there's a lot of useful knowledge that people have accumulated by looking closely at how people negotiate the allocation of scarce resources, and it's worthwhile to study it (if not to immediately rush off and become a technical currency trader or something).
Interesting, but how does that relate to my dislike for socialist corporatism?
Hey! This is Slashdot! What are you doing cheering for Microsoft? You be cheering for...software patents? STOP CHEERING!
I had a double-shot cappuccino this morning instead of my usual single-shot, and I felt the urge to ripple the waters!
Children do not fucking need longer exposure to the indoctrination of the socialist and corporatist SCUM invading our US society.
You are grotesquely undervaluing the importance of a grasp of (salt-water) economics. Anyone who wants to avoid being indoctrinated needs to understand economic concepts, so they can tell when they're being misled and lied to.
Is that like Riddick? Sometimes you need evil to fight evil?
"being indoctrinated into the living-outside-of-your-means credit based lifestyle President Obama seems to be pushing for now. Fuck him and fuck that."
Feel free to pull your Fox News brainwashed head out of your ass.
Citation needed.
Funny that this got rated insightful rather than flamebait, but there you go.
So we need to encourage our kids to aim lower? From what age should we tell kids that having aspirations is a bad thing? As a teacher, I have as yet to meet a kid who was both stupid and had unrealistic expectations. As for the rest, someone who puts in enough hard work studying will beat out a kid with talent but less industry nine times out of ten.
Having lofty career goals doesn't automatically engender bad credit habits, either; it's more often those who are pursuing those trade-oriented jobs who have credit issues because the poor pay they get after their schooling doesn't live up to their expectations. As for huge student loans, that's the fault of the inflated cost of education at colleges and universities rather than people with the temerity to study there. We would do better to revamp the higher education system (per the topic of this conversation) regarding its financial expenses (maintaining expensive and unnecessary sports programs, for example) rather than blaming it on people who somehow manage to be smart enough to get a degree but not smart enough to get hired afterwards.
With you being a teacher, I'm not surprised at all that that you thought my post was flamebait, nor that you thought the gist of it was to "aim low." That fits completely with the idea that teachers are just as big a part of the problem as parents and government.
Since you're a teacher I guess I'll have to explain it to you again. Many of the current failures in our marketplace are your fault. Your job isn't just to educate, but to be a mentor for children and guide them toward successfully reaching realistic and obtainable goals. Everyone needs a pipe-dream, but those just that, dreams. You should be engaging the parents to find out their expectations, and breaking down their unrealistic goals for their own kids.
If it's easier for you to stick your fingers in your ears and yell LALALALALALLALALA and pretend that your way is working, and that increasing your hours is going to fix everything; all I can say is good luck with that.
"...Children do not fucking need longer exposure to the indoctrination of the socialist and corporatist SCUM invading our US society." You are free to send your kids to the private school of your choice if you don't like the public options available to you.
And you free to take your love for totalitarianism and corporatism abroad, and I encourage you to.
If everybody told their kids that, there would be no fucking NASA scientists, or neurosurgeons, etc.
Is it fun to pick quotes out of context? I think you're stupid if your kid has the IQ of toast and you tell him "Johnny take the fork out of your eye and keep studying and you'll be a rocket scientist in no time!"
There is a huge difference between positive encouragement toward realistic goals, and betting your whole life on wishful thinking. Every parent wishes their child success, but they are apparently losing their grasp on reality when they keep thinking their D+/C- average student is a rocket scientist.
It's a heck of a lot more efficient than typing out the counter-argument. I'm sure you've come up with a few on your own already.
And I quote, "Your mom!"
You all would, but only becuase they pay more attention to education and health care. You can still get all that without changing the politics. By the way, look up "socialist" in the dictionary - it means NOTHING without context, so I'm assuming here you mean "socialist democracy" like Norway, Sweden etc since there's really no other governments that fit the word. If you really mean Communist say Communist - it's something completely different. North Korea is a million miles and a sea of blood away from "socialist", as was the old USSR. There are many idiots that call Christian charity and Christian values "socialist" - be careful not to be mistaken for one of them.
No, we all wouldn't. That is precisely why we left Europe and came here (USA) in the first place. It's precisely why we kicked the asses of the British to keep our sovereignty. It's also precisely why I said maybe that poster would be better off living in a different country; I as a non-socialist, non-totalitarian, non-egalitarian, wouldn't dare tell someone how they should live their life (unless they are family of course).
The beauty of the United States was that if you didn't like something you could try to persuade the members of your community to enact a change. If that failed, you had the freedom to go somewhere else, be it a different state or country. We the people, those famous first words, DO NOT WANT to live under a socialist totalitarian regime. That is what Europe and Asia are for. If you are a citizen of the USA and you would rather live in that type of society, you certainly have the freedom to leave here and immigrate there, and I encourage you to.
Stop fucking around with our country. If you don't like it (and it's quite obvious that many of the liberals, leftists, egalitarians, totalitarians do not), fucking leave or SHUT THE FUCK UP. To be blunt, the truth is that we are not all equals, that society is divided into classes, and whether they are social or economic classes is irrelevant.
For Microsoft!
Yet another college hater. Sigh.
Yet another arrogant asswipe thinking that his life and life's lessons can and should apply to all. Sigh.
in a country that's already socialist, with full corporate sponsorship. You have the most amazing case of bipolar view I've ever seen. Make up your mind, please! Are you worried about socialism or capitalism? Most people agree these are nearly opposites.
Perhaps you should read the post before you reply to it. I never said capitalism. I said socialism with corporate sponsorship.. Like here in the US we have capitalism with corporate sponsorship heavily creeping in. As in, our country is actually capitalist and fascist (Mussolini called it corporatism), but refuses to call it so out of fear.
Yeah my bad. I don't see it as OT though. Obama's campaign slogan was "Change we can believe in." My joke was that with all this "change" no one will be able to make "change" for a dollar. Apparently my bad spelling of a proper name ruined it, or you are just uptight picky bastards!
Really? You see this happening to hundreds of thousands of students? What is your vantage point? From where I'm looking, the kids are alright.
If from where you are looking the kids are alright, you must be looking somewhere else. The largest technical college in my area is now charging $40,000 a year for a "computer networking" degree. It's a 4 year degree. The market is saturated with "computer networking" workers. On graduation day those students are walking out the door with $160,000 + interest in debt, and most of them have no immediate job prospects in that field. That's just an example I'm sure many /. readers can relate with.
Ahh, ok I get it. You're in the "that black bastard's not going to tell me what to do, even if it's stay in school" crowd. Good luck with that.
Wow, you must have been indoctrinated racist to extrapolate even a .0001% hint of racism towards anyone, let alone blacks, in any of my posts. I haven't had to add any /. foes but you are certainly a prime candidate for #1.
I'm pretty fucking sure that most parents know by the time their little brats are in middle (jr. highschool) school whether or not their child is college material, and should be adjusting their future goals accordingly instead of throwing on the blinders and being 110% supporting of their kids unrealistic goals.
Yeah, in fact, we should euthanize them if they're judged useless at this age.
Bitter jackass.
No, but I'm sure we could do without sarcastic bastards making snide remarks.
Yes, let's go back to less school and just accept the majority of our students being dumber.
I'm not sure I agree with that completely. Yes to less school, no to accepting the majority of students being dumber. Perhaps if students were focusing on the skills they were mediocre to good at, you wouldn't consider the majority of them being dumber. A certified auto-mechanic may never be able to replace a faulty heart valve, and conversely a heart surgeon may never be able to change bad exhaust valve. Saying either one is dumber than the other one is what is stupid, or to the point, saying that either one should aspire to be the other is stupid.
And, seriously, what the fuck is up with your last paragraph? Do you even understand the last 8 years? No? Maybe you'd be better off if you spent more time in school, learning some history and economics.
Children do not fucking need longer exposure to the indoctrination of the socialist and corporatist SCUM invading our US society. Longer school years and pretending everyone is going to grow up and be a doctor means longer exposure to the live-outside-your-means propaganda, and a higher likelihood of someone taking out a large student loan to pay for classes they should not even be in.
Do you even understand the last 40 years? No? Maybe you'd be better off living in a country that's already socialist, with full corporate sponsorship.
I was also thinking maybe we need to stop pretending and telling our children that they can be fucking NASA scientists, or neurosurgeons, etc. I firmly believe kid's heads are being filled with completely unrealistic aspirations in life. A good 75% of people in general will never require anything more than a technical degree in life. I'm pretty fucking sure that most parents know by the time their little brats are in middle (jr. highschool) school whether or not their child is college material, and should be adjusting their future goals accordingly instead of throwing on the blinders and being 110% supporting of their kids unrealistic goals. I see this happening to the point of tens (probably hundreds) of thousands of young adults being unfairly burdened with student loans when they are never going to use those degrees to pay back said loans.
If anything, shorten the school day/year so our people can go back to acquiring trade skills and progressing the nation; rather than being indoctrinated into the living-outside-of-your-means credit based lifestyle President Obama seems to be pushing for now. Fuck him and fuck that.
for a US dollar anyone? Anyone? Buhler?
When I RTFS my heart went out to all the poor Japanese-American would-be burglars, and how ill-prepared they are for the AMERICAN SEIZURE SECURITY ALARM!
I think it's a sekrit ploy by Steve Jobs to focus the negative virus/malware based attention away from Apple and toward Microsoft.
What better way to add fuel to the "Apple doesn't get viruses" lie than to have Apple install not just an exploitable software, but a fucking web server, which can be used to proliferate more worms/malware/viruses on the Windows machines.
I would say that's exactly what is happening, especially when a different post here mentions that this "update" was "intended" for corporate IT administrators... I'm a systems administrator; do you have any fucking clue how pissed off I would be to find out that Apple just turned my network of workstations into a network of web servers? Thankfully we don't have any automatic updates turned on, and every time I update our images I intentionally neglect iTunes and Quicktime.