The real sad truth is that the arrogance of Bush voters lets you think that putting that criminal in charge of the world, then lying us into the Iraq War, letting New Orleans drown, spending our surplus into $9-45 TRILLION debt, shredding American global credibility and an endless list of other stupid, evil and/or mindless acts is just a "disagreement".
That's your excuse, but turning your responsibility for electing that criminal into a "disagreement" with people who voted for a competent president, especially after 4 years of unmistakeable evidence, is just sad truth.
The sad truth is that about 50M Americans actually did vote for Bush twice, in 2000 and 2004. Most don't read Slashdot (can't even spell it), but those who do (or wish they did) are the same zombie army that does Bush dirty work for free, without even being asked. The kinds of suckers inspired by powerful bad guys who want to "be on the side that's winning", like copycat terrorists. Yeah, some of them probably do astroturf for VRWC "network associates", but there are lots of independent operators. It's a lot worse than just a few creeps.
Which reminds me that companies with actual competitors aren't found guilty of monopoly abuse, cartels, price fixing, or collusion. That hardly anyone is found guilty of those crimes even when they are guilty. That US jails are singularly empty of such people, while the markets are lousy with them.
That joke isn't "funny because it's true". It's funny because monopolists have a lousy sense of humor, and a great sense of excuses.
I'm reminded of the cartoon showing a robot working an assembly line, with its human boss looking on thinking "hmm, maybe if I paid it, I could sell it some more stuff".
What are you talking about? Gates has left Microsoft to go head up Novell. Where he's spearheading their new Vista wireless network system to challenge the Microsoft monopoly.
The "Murder Party" comes to town, I call the cops.
"Pirates" aren't just software bootleggers. They're murderers, kidnappers, slavers. They sail into my town, I call the cops.
In any event, my statement is hyperbolic, as recognized by the mods who rated it "Funny". The point that you cannot grasp, though obvious, is that "Pirate" is a bad name for a political party operating in the general public.
Please, when you start your own party, do call it the "clown" party. The cops don't need to know about it, but I'll be glad to throw pies at your speeches.
An Anonymous Coward posting lies defending fascism, demanding the destruction of the power and protections of the American people. Just because you predict someone will identify you as a fascist doesn't make me wrong, it underscores how right I am. Especially since you rely on the fascist tool of "the big lie", pure denial, to defend yourself from being exposed.
Fascism is corporate government. That totalitarianism you mention is what you people are working hard to get, despite America's (once) vast differences from it. You watched arrogant fascists a half-century ago blow it, so now you're too clever to admit it because it interferes with your propaganda on a population that can recognize the obvious signs.
The US didn't get along fine without Social Security. Old people used to die of starvation, easily treatable diseases, getting thrown out in the street. Or just spend their last decades starving, sick, or living in hellholes. That's why we produced it for ourselves: to protect ourselves. Now that the government is allowing corporations to renege on pension contracts (like airlines and others), Social Security owned by the people is even more important. Eliminating it means a substantial boom to the people who steal it, then a return to the bad old days.
I'm a champion of privacy, but I'm not a champion of corporate secrecy. Your fascist idealism ignores all the lessons of history, including the history of the past 5 years: Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Tyco, their accountants like Anderson. Those transactions must be watched, or they'll suck us all down the drain with their shredded records.
Private entities like corporations wield the government's violence monopoly. That what fascists like you produce. Like the American invasion of Somalia to support oil company policy. Or Iraq, or any of thousands of other corporate policy enforcements.
You're a fascist. Which makes you a total fool, or Dick Cheney - a fool either way.
When there's an existing law, it's harder to pass a new one to replace or revise it. Those who already passed it and those voting on it can say "Congress has spoken" instead of "let's try this for starters, and get it right later". Because most of the process isn't the structure (which of course does allow for revision), it's the rhetoric.
And no I don't talk about Republicans and Democrats as if they're totally different. But you are talking about them as if they are exactly the same. The fact is that when Democrats ran Congress, or even the whole government, they did not do the things we're getting from the Republican government. Like the Iraq war, our $9-45 TRILLION debt, shredding every amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Boxer represents Hollywood, which wants to own all content forever. She also represents Silicon Valley, some of which is just like Hollywood, some of which wants content to flow unimpeded - but which doesn't have the same power as the Hollywood that controls what's on our TV and movie screens already. If the Republican government actually let Boxer and other Democrats do anything but stand up and talk (like actually negotiate the content of the bills), it would matter what they said. Just like it used to matter what Republicans said, even when their minority was smaller than the current Democrats', because Democrats didn't abuse the rules to shut them out.
And if I said "possibly increasing our risk of more unusual weather", you'd freak out at that, you fucking Anonymous denial Coward. There you go again, proving the Greenhouse denial stereotype - and killing us with your insanity.
Why don't you just read the article we're discussing, and click on its link to the National Academy of Sciences, which produced both the research and the Congressional testimony concluding that humans have made the Earth warmer than in 400 years, maybe thousands?
The solution to that problem is mass magazines like PC World telling people not to use any remote storage unless they're using a client scrambler that's been examined by plenty of experienced people without an direct interest in the remote storage provider. There are plenty of encrypted filesystems and drivers that could front for remote servers that they could recommend people use. Which is why my original post criticized PC World, not the technology. PC World should be part of the solution, not the problem.
I can't believe that while the headlines are filling with reports of spilled personal ID data, PC World would even consider recommending any distributed data service that doesn't encrypt your data locally before sending it over the network for storage. Instead, they include the weak "Be sure to encrypt all files holding personal data", when of course that's the first feature that every service should automate. PC World influences millions of naive PC users around the world, and flipping off security like that is causing people to take serious risks that can't be undone. It's like a car magazine ignoring the flashy new models failure to include door locks, with an afterthought "be sure to remove all your valuables from your car".
Every distributed or remote data service must include automatic default scrambling features on the client. Probably in open source, to be sure they're really scrambling it, and not just spinning it around with some untested scrambling function. That's the starting point. After that, those minimally secure services can compete on other features.
What a load of crap. Especially starting with "Galileo and Einstein had to fight against the consensus for years". Galileo fought against the Church which controlled every aspect of an illiterate society for years, not scientists. Just like scientists are fighting the oil companies and the governments and corporate media they own. Galileo wasn't de-excommunicated by the Church for a half millenium, during which time the scientific civilization he helped found deposed the Church's power. Einstein was recognized as a revolutionary from the beginning of his publications - the "Photoelectric Effect" paper in 1904 pushed physics over the edge.
The temperature record isn't just that recorded as it happened over the past few years - it's recorded in arctic ice and other longlived stable deposits.
I'm not even going to dignify the rest of your garbage with detailed examination.
Keep revising reasonable paragraphs into gibberish lies. It's your least weak point, though it is a disgusting mess.
People who say things like that at this stage of the game aren't just not reading the reports. They're deep in denial. It's good that enough of us are charitable enough to think they're just ignorant, but they're really deeply stupid, or worse.
Surviving extinction through an Ice Age and "coping" are two different fates. Thinking it's OK to pollute our civilization into destruction, or even just double the hurricanes, is truly nutty.
If you don't stop fooling with all that electricity, Zeus will blast your arrogant ass to hades. He's already pissed about your ignoring him - can't you tell from all the bad weather?
It didn't get "a 5" for Funny. It got 5 moderators who thought it was funny. Slashdot's moderation system is broken in a lot of ways, and the popularity of a given mod doubling as the degree of that mod is one of them.
Of course, our preoccupation with such infitesimal trivia as Slashdot moderation while we burn the planet is pretty disgusting. Especially considering all the CO2 we're pumping into the atmosphere posting this discussion. But it's clear that the only real obstacle to stopping the pollution before it's too late is the vast inertia among most people. The only way we have to deal with each other without deepening the defensive denial is to kid and kibbitz with each other, while keeping committed to stopping the pollution.
An Anonymous Coward responds to scientific evidence that it's abnormally warm by sarcastically posting that it was warm for them, so therefore it's not abnormally warm.
This thread proves nothing about the climate. It says everything about people who deny environmental science.
If all you have to do is lisp to avoid Chinese government censors to connect Chinese people to the rest of the planet, then Spain is going to take over the world again.
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The real sad truth is that the arrogance of Bush voters lets you think that putting that criminal in charge of the world, then lying us into the Iraq War, letting New Orleans drown, spending our surplus into $9-45 TRILLION debt, shredding American global credibility and an endless list of other stupid, evil and/or mindless acts is just a "disagreement".
That's your excuse, but turning your responsibility for electing that criminal into a "disagreement" with people who voted for a competent president, especially after 4 years of unmistakeable evidence, is just sad truth.
The sad truth is that about 50M Americans actually did vote for Bush twice, in 2000 and 2004. Most don't read Slashdot (can't even spell it), but those who do (or wish they did) are the same zombie army that does Bush dirty work for free, without even being asked. The kinds of suckers inspired by powerful bad guys who want to "be on the side that's winning", like copycat terrorists. Yeah, some of them probably do astroturf for VRWC "network associates", but there are lots of independent operators. It's a lot worse than just a few creeps.
Which reminds me that companies with actual competitors aren't found guilty of monopoly abuse, cartels, price fixing, or collusion. That hardly anyone is found guilty of those crimes even when they are guilty. That US jails are singularly empty of such people, while the markets are lousy with them.
That joke isn't "funny because it's true". It's funny because monopolists have a lousy sense of humor, and a great sense of excuses.
I'm reminded of the cartoon showing a robot working an assembly line, with its human boss looking on thinking "hmm, maybe if I paid it, I could sell it some more stuff".
What are you talking about? Gates has left Microsoft to go head up Novell. Where he's spearheading their new Vista wireless network system to challenge the Microsoft monopoly.
Disagreement among competitors is good: that's competition.
Worry when they all agree: that's a cartel.
Anonymous Greenhouse denier Coward is using posts incorrectly to deny the evidence that makes science different than religion.
Unsurprising tactics pacakge, but still disgusting.
Oh yeah, I wrote a report about the human genome in college for my English class, so I know better than the vast consensus of geneticists.
They teach college debaters to win debates regardless of whether they're right or wrong. I guess you didn't get that part.
Are you telling me that you're a lawyer? Or a climatodebater?
You're a clown.
The "Murder Party" comes to town, I call the cops.
"Pirates" aren't just software bootleggers. They're murderers, kidnappers, slavers. They sail into my town, I call the cops.
In any event, my statement is hyperbolic, as recognized by the mods who rated it "Funny". The point that you cannot grasp, though obvious, is that "Pirate" is a bad name for a political party operating in the general public.
Please, when you start your own party, do call it the "clown" party. The cops don't need to know about it, but I'll be glad to throw pies at your speeches.
You're a fascist.
An Anonymous Coward posting lies defending fascism, demanding the destruction of the power and protections of the American people. Just because you predict someone will identify you as a fascist doesn't make me wrong, it underscores how right I am. Especially since you rely on the fascist tool of "the big lie", pure denial, to defend yourself from being exposed.
Fascism is corporate government. That totalitarianism you mention is what you people are working hard to get, despite America's (once) vast differences from it. You watched arrogant fascists a half-century ago blow it, so now you're too clever to admit it because it interferes with your propaganda on a population that can recognize the obvious signs.
The US didn't get along fine without Social Security. Old people used to die of starvation, easily treatable diseases, getting thrown out in the street. Or just spend their last decades starving, sick, or living in hellholes. That's why we produced it for ourselves: to protect ourselves. Now that the government is allowing corporations to renege on pension contracts (like airlines and others), Social Security owned by the people is even more important. Eliminating it means a substantial boom to the people who steal it, then a return to the bad old days.
I'm a champion of privacy, but I'm not a champion of corporate secrecy. Your fascist idealism ignores all the lessons of history, including the history of the past 5 years: Enron, WorldCom, Global Crossing, Tyco, their accountants like Anderson. Those transactions must be watched, or they'll suck us all down the drain with their shredded records.
Private entities like corporations wield the government's violence monopoly. That what fascists like you produce. Like the American invasion of Somalia to support oil company policy. Or Iraq, or any of thousands of other corporate policy enforcements.
You're a fascist. Which makes you a total fool, or Dick Cheney - a fool either way.
When there's an existing law, it's harder to pass a new one to replace or revise it. Those who already passed it and those voting on it can say "Congress has spoken" instead of "let's try this for starters, and get it right later". Because most of the process isn't the structure (which of course does allow for revision), it's the rhetoric.
And no I don't talk about Republicans and Democrats as if they're totally different. But you are talking about them as if they are exactly the same. The fact is that when Democrats ran Congress, or even the whole government, they did not do the things we're getting from the Republican government. Like the Iraq war, our $9-45 TRILLION debt, shredding every amendment in the Bill of Rights.
Boxer represents Hollywood, which wants to own all content forever. She also represents Silicon Valley, some of which is just like Hollywood, some of which wants content to flow unimpeded - but which doesn't have the same power as the Hollywood that controls what's on our TV and movie screens already. If the Republican government actually let Boxer and other Democrats do anything but stand up and talk (like actually negotiate the content of the bills), it would matter what they said. Just like it used to matter what Republicans said, even when their minority was smaller than the current Democrats', because Democrats didn't abuse the rules to shut them out.
And if I said "possibly increasing our risk of more unusual weather", you'd freak out at that, you fucking Anonymous denial Coward. There you go again, proving the Greenhouse denial stereotype - and killing us with your insanity.
Why don't you just read the article we're discussing, and click on its link to the National Academy of Sciences, which produced both the research and the Congressional testimony concluding that humans have made the Earth warmer than in 400 years, maybe thousands?
The solution to that problem is mass magazines like PC World telling people not to use any remote storage unless they're using a client scrambler that's been examined by plenty of experienced people without an direct interest in the remote storage provider. There are plenty of encrypted filesystems and drivers that could front for remote servers that they could recommend people use. Which is why my original post criticized PC World, not the technology. PC World should be part of the solution, not the problem.
If I scramble my data with a password using well-examined software before I send it to the remote storage, I don't have to trust them at all.
Using remote storage with open-source local scrambling clients that many cryptologists have studied automates that process for the masses.
The security isn't a sticky problem. Publishing even minimally responsible journalism seems to be the sticky part.
I can't believe that while the headlines are filling with reports of spilled personal ID data, PC World would even consider recommending any distributed data service that doesn't encrypt your data locally before sending it over the network for storage. Instead, they include the weak "Be sure to encrypt all files holding personal data", when of course that's the first feature that every service should automate. PC World influences millions of naive PC users around the world, and flipping off security like that is causing people to take serious risks that can't be undone. It's like a car magazine ignoring the flashy new models failure to include door locks, with an afterthought "be sure to remove all your valuables from your car".
Every distributed or remote data service must include automatic default scrambling features on the client. Probably in open source, to be sure they're really scrambling it, and not just spinning it around with some untested scrambling function. That's the starting point. After that, those minimally secure services can compete on other features.
Pascal's wager is purely a priori - a mindgame.
Manmade Greenhouse is science using evidence.
What a load of crap. Especially starting with "Galileo and Einstein had to fight against the consensus for years". Galileo fought against the Church which controlled every aspect of an illiterate society for years, not scientists. Just like scientists are fighting the oil companies and the governments and corporate media they own. Galileo wasn't de-excommunicated by the Church for a half millenium, during which time the scientific civilization he helped found deposed the Church's power. Einstein was recognized as a revolutionary from the beginning of his publications - the "Photoelectric Effect" paper in 1904 pushed physics over the edge.
The temperature record isn't just that recorded as it happened over the past few years - it's recorded in arctic ice and other longlived stable deposits.
I'm not even going to dignify the rest of your garbage with detailed examination.
Keep revising reasonable paragraphs into gibberish lies. It's your least weak point, though it is a disgusting mess.
You should get a head start and move to Siberia now.
People who say things like that at this stage of the game aren't just not reading the reports. They're deep in denial. It's good that enough of us are charitable enough to think they're just ignorant, but they're really deeply stupid, or worse.
Surviving extinction through an Ice Age and "coping" are two different fates. Thinking it's OK to pollute our civilization into destruction, or even just double the hurricanes, is truly nutty.
If you don't stop fooling with all that electricity, Zeus will blast your arrogant ass to hades. He's already pissed about your ignoring him - can't you tell from all the bad weather?
It didn't get "a 5" for Funny. It got 5 moderators who thought it was funny. Slashdot's moderation system is broken in a lot of ways, and the popularity of a given mod doubling as the degree of that mod is one of them.
Of course, our preoccupation with such infitesimal trivia as Slashdot moderation while we burn the planet is pretty disgusting. Especially considering all the CO2 we're pumping into the atmosphere posting this discussion. But it's clear that the only real obstacle to stopping the pollution before it's too late is the vast inertia among most people. The only way we have to deal with each other without deepening the defensive denial is to kid and kibbitz with each other, while keeping committed to stopping the pollution.
It's not much, but it's all we've got.
An Anonymous Coward responds to scientific evidence that it's abnormally warm by sarcastically posting that it was warm for them, so therefore it's not abnormally warm.
This thread proves nothing about the climate. It says everything about people who deny environmental science.
If all you have to do is lisp to avoid Chinese government censors to connect Chinese people to the rest of the planet, then Spain is going to take over the world again.
Maybe these fake redaction follies are just marketing for Adobe's pay version, which some have claimed really deletes the blacked-out data.