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  1. Re:America has socialism... for the rich on What Does the Future Hold for Low Emission Vehicles? · · Score: 1

    Libertarianism is one of the steps that smart young people go through in their political development these days.

    Yes, this freedom thing that kids believe in is just a fad.

  2. Re:yes on Usenet Archive from 1981 · · Score: 1

    What if your ISP doesn't carry a newsgroup you want? Sure you can ask them to add it, but that doesn't help me now.

  3. Re:Space program! on Salty Ocean On Europa Could Mean Life · · Score: 1

    I hear this fire thing isn't viable. And don't get me started on the wheel.

  4. Re:GOOD on Intel To Pull Plug on RAMBUS, Use SDRAM? · · Score: 1

    When in the motherboard with the micron k7 MP chipset going to be available?

  5. Re:Libertarianism: A flawed concept on Cyberselfish: Technolibertarianism · · Score: 1

    All you have done is reverse the concept of economic freedom to justify stealing by the government. Like I said before, its an arugement to support totalitarianism.

  6. Re:Selfish? on Cyberselfish: Technolibertarianism · · Score: 1

    A woman gets to choose whether to have a baby or not after conception. A man doesn't get that choice. Women are able to prevent men from having children and able to lock them down with 18 to 22 years of child support even when the man has never seen his child. Women do not deserve this authority over men.

  7. Re:Libertarianism: A flawed concept on Cyberselfish: Technolibertarianism · · Score: 1

    Because the average libertarian does not feel like they need to take responsibility for the actions of other people or corporations

    Absolutely. If I didn't murder someone, I don't need to take responsiblity for it. The person responsible is the one who commited the crime not random bystanders trying to live their lives.

    Never mind that freedom is in many ways incompatible with the idea of society

    Ah yes, the main arguement of totalitarianism.

  8. Re:Selfish? on Cyberselfish: Technolibertarianism · · Score: 1

    Incidentally it should be no surprise that most anti-abortion people are male.

    This is just more proof that abortion is nothing more than a weapon used against men. This is just an attempt to say that men and their opinions are worthless. Being a woman does not give any woman the right to lord over men.

  9. Another Contracdictory Katz article on Selfish Society · · Score: 1

    In this world she finds much hostility and paranoia, a world of "testosterone-poisoned guys with chips on their shoulders and too much time on their hands." Ouch.

    I had to start with this. It sounds like she is envious, but doesn't understand that we work for a living. [sarcasm]We all know that geeks are "tesosterone poisoned"[/sarcasm] When was the last time you heard of a geek beating his wife?

    I also love how Katz is lameting the fact that we have no unified philosophy/politics. The truth is neither does any group. Unlike those of us on the internet, their individuality gets subverted. Katz is basically complaining we are individuals.

    This techno-elite, taking sophisticated knowledge of technology for granted, has lost touch with the vast numbers of people in the world -- the elderly, the poor, foreign-born -- who don't share their skills and confidence.

    WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN/MINORITIES/(insert some other group here)? That is what Katz is basically saying. If the "foriegn born" aren't using technology, then how come so many of us work with them or are them?

    There are plenty of references to corporatism just like any other Katz article. I would be suprised that Columbine wasn't mentioned somewhere, but Katz suddenly decided to attack geeks this time. The KatzBot is either malfunctioning or was trying to gain our trust first.

  10. Re:WAP senarios on WAP Under Fire · · Score: 1

    WAP as a concept makes sense. The problem is the device it is most likely to be used by right now, cell phones. Unfortuneately, the problem with small screen size on cell phones is being interpreted as a problem with WAP. Solve the cell phone screen problem and WAP will be just fine.

  11. Re:WAP is here to stay on WAP Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Now of course the concept might be flawed (ie "nobody wants to surf on a 100x80 pixel screen with no keyboard or pointing device"), but that has nothing to do with WAP itself.

    This is the fundamental problem. I have a cell phone, but I don't use it for the internet at all. The screen is way too small for me to do anything useful other than read email. Even for reading email it is pretty bad. And what about responding to email? I am not even going to touch that one. Plus, I am never that far away from a desktop computer, unless I am driving or on vacation (in which case I wouldn't bother in the first place).

    This is where a webpad (like the Fic Aqua) device could become useful. Since it already has some type of wireless connection, adding cell phone capabilities would not be difficult. It already has a reasonable screen size for the internet. There is the problem of cell phone conversations not being private, but that seems like a better problem to solve than getting the internet through a cell phone screen. (Also, it should reduce the possiblity of getting tumors from cell phones.)

  12. Re:Open Media Promotes Good Media on Analysis: The Rise Of Open Media · · Score: 1

    I agree with you except that "Open Media" (aka Slashdot) brought us Katz/Katzbot.

  13. Is Katz pandering to us now? on Analysis: The Rise Of Open Media · · Score: 2

    Instead of giving us his standard useless article filled with errors, Katz with this article and the last is giving us a useless article filled with errors that panders to us. It is any suprise that his description of "open media" is basically slashdot. Who can seriously like long lines at goverment offices? I think he is actually worried about his job, or at least the Katzbot has more AI functions than we thought.

  14. Re:Multiprocessor Athlon Motherboards? on New Mega Alphas · · Score: 1

    I know, but can't that be solved with a slocket type thing? I know that there is some work with this concept, but since the athlon uses the EV6 is used by the athlons in theory with a new bios and the "slockets" it can be done. It would be better if the bios was open source. That way we wouldn't have to worry about support suddenly ending.

    At the very least I am suprised that alpha chipsets aren't being used as a basis for athlon multiprocessors.

  15. Multiprocessor Athlon Motherboards? on New Mega Alphas · · Score: 1

    Does anybody know if these can be used to make multiprocessor athlons? I know they use the same bus. Of course, it may be EV7 or 8 now, but there has to be EV6 boards out there. Maybe even running at 400Mhz???

  16. Next Katz Articles (CTP) on The Corporate Republic · · Score: 2

    That's close. Remember that Katz did say that this would be the first in a series. This was on the Coporate Republic so according the Civilization CTP timeline, Katz next articles should be "How a technocracy hurts women and minorities especialy children, Children, CHILDREN", "Good Reasons for an ecotopia (aka Save our Children), and "Creating a Virtual Democracy" (although it will seem like a socialist state from Katz's description) like you said.

  17. Re:The following quote is chilling on AOL Protects Kids From Liberals · · Score: 1

    Guns in the household are 43 times more likely to kill someone in the family than an intruder.

    Because people use guns to commit suicide, not because there is an epidemic of people shooting their families.

    Using a firearm to resist a violent assult increases your risk of injury.

    So does driving a car. So does anything that requires me to get out of bed in the morning.

    A household with a gun is 2.7 times more likely to experience a murder than a household without one.

    Criminals are more likely to be shot.

  18. Re:SGI's Linux Desktop - When? on 3D Benchmarks Under Linux · · Score: 1

    Anybody know when SGI is going to start selling this?

  19. Re:Research on Slashdot Meets The Pinkerton Corp. · · Score: 1

    I think there research is like in Dilbert when marketing does "research". It means that they asked their cat mittens.

  20. Re:g4s and pcs on 1-GHz Pentium III Due This Month · · Score: 1

    You just can't do Interent like that on a WinDead pc.

    This sounds like how Intel says the P3 will enhance your internet experience.