Slashdot Mirror


User: Archangel+Michael

Archangel+Michael's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
11,672
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 11,672

  1. Re:Movies are real! on House Bill Would Mandate Smart Gun Tech By U.S. Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    Voting third party works for me. Can't blame me for the mess we're in with the (D) and (R) people. My conscience is clear, and I can sleep at night. How does voting for the same thing over and over again expecting different results working out for you?

  2. Re:Waiting for the nanny statists on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Same can be said of seeing something that isn't there, right?

    Also, I don't think these issues are solely on the "Religious" types. I think it has to do with how observant one is (or isn't). Personally speaking, I'm concerned that plenty of people are okay with things that are BAD (tm) simply because the person doing it is their party, be it (R) or (D) ... or even (L)

  3. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    But there is no law against it, so .... what is going to compel us to perform in morally acceptable ways?

    BTW, Corporations are amoral by definition. They are only governed by what is legal.

  4. Re:Waiting for the nanny statists on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 2

    Is it paranoia if it is true?

    What is the opposite of paranoia? You know, seeing danger and not believing it is real?

  5. Re:I thought they were XMPP federation on Google Drops XMPP Support · · Score: 1

    But XMPP Federation is what makes XMPP interesting. I understand why Google would like to remove Federation, but that doesn't make it right. I would much rather Google provide a mechanism for providing XMPP Federation without the SPAM bots. Perhaps web of trust of some sort. Blind acceptance of Federation is not good, but there ought to be a way to make this work, simply and easily.

  6. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 0

    No, the real solution is transaction taxes, where you tax the movement of money between jurisdictions. Money that remains in a jurisdiction is taxed at that jurisdiction's rate. You have a tax haven in some back woods country, great, but you have to leave it there.

    Our idea of how we tax things needs to change.

  7. Re:Did they break any laws? on Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds · · Score: 1

    As I've been told by many a liberal ... you cannot legislate morality.

    So, which is it? Can you legislate morality, or not? This is not a trick question, it is the sad result of those that say one thing, until it conflicts with their version of morality. We call that "hypocrisy" in my neck of the woods.

  8. Re:Waiting for the nanny statists on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tyranny is already here. It is just masked in Bureaucracy. All you need to know is that the Powers that be, have already targeted "enemies of the state", simply because they oppose the Bureaucracy's over reaching power.

  9. Re:sweet on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: 2

    I use CyanogenMod, I have no carrier limitations. If I wanted a phone that came, out of the box without limitations, I would get Nexus 4. Of all the other complaints about Android, by Meego Fans, most of them are irrelevant (word of the day), because Android already does it, with the sole exception of X-Windows support. And quite frankly, that is irrelevant on a phone IMHO, that is unless X-Windows can do something better on a 4 in screen that Android, iOS or even Firefox does, it is more irrelevancy. At this point, it doesn't

  10. Re:sweet on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: -1, Troll

    MeeGo should be "MeeToo"

    Android Compatible, so why don't I just get an Android? Please tell me, other than being former Nokia tech, why this is interesting at all? What feature does the phone have that Android, iOS or heck even Firefox OS don't have?

  11. Re: Justice Department obtained records of Fox New on Yahoo Pinkie-Swears It Won't Ruin Tumblr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rather did himself in. He posted as news a flawed and forged story, because he "believed it to be true". Or did you forget what actually did Rather in? He then blamed it on his Producer(s), and that he was just reading the story. Or did you forget that part too?

  12. Re: Justice Department obtained records of Fox New on Yahoo Pinkie-Swears It Won't Ruin Tumblr · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Justifying bad behavior by pointing to other bad (but unrelated) behavior. Typical.

  13. Re:Does anyone have a list of the patents? on Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android · · Score: 1

    At this point in my life, I can probably say, I have been doing "computers" over 1/2 my life (over 25 years), and it always amuses me when people tell me I need to learn about how a computer works. Usually people who don't know how reality works.

    I'm not a shill for any company or technology. I've seen way too many products come and go to be emotionally tied to a piece of hardware or software. AND if you go through my posts, you'll find where I tell people that Microsoft is a dying "Windows" company, not a technology company. HOWEVER, ActiveSync is the one "cross platform" API that Microsoft has that just "works". That being said, I would drop ActiveSync in a heartbeat if there was something better. No, Linux doesn't have anything better. It has a bunch of tools we can approximate the functionality of Exchange, but nothing that replaces ActiveSync.

    Thanks for making me laugh though, I appreciate it. :-D

  14. Re:Yawn on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    Criminals will always get weapons. Even if it is a hammer. We going to ban Hammers because they kill more people than rifles?

  15. Re:Yawn on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bingo! From Petty criminals to mass murdering despots. The only problem for both is when the victim can fight back.

  16. Re:This is the best way of gun control on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    And yet, gun crimes are much less of a problem than car crimes. And all those safety features, licensing and training of cars and drivers haven't made cars safer than guns. How does that compute in your world that we need more gun laws? Shouldn't we be looking at cars some more?

  17. Re:This is the best way of gun control on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    You realize that you're much much more likely to be killed by a car than in a gun crime? I mean, it is not even close to the same level of danger. The fact that cars kill more people, while being less in number than guns, should also scare the crap out of you every time you drive to work. Chicago and DC not withstanding.

  18. Re:This is the best way of gun control on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    I would go one more. Entertainment is not a right, Liberty is. Guns ensure Liberty, Entertainment doesn't. I personally value Liberty over being entertained. Those who don't, will be enslaved and pacified by those providing entertainment in exchange for liberty.

  19. Re:This is the best way of gun control on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    And yet, cars kill more people than guns do (including suicides). It is even more alarming when you remove suicides from Gun Deaths. And even slightly more alarming when you remove all others leaving just gun crime deaths. Guns are loud scary items, and emotions count more than facts. Take Emotion out of the debate, and the anti-gun crowd is left a huge empty bag of nothing. It is all they have.

  20. Re:This is the best way of gun control on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    The 30K deaths, include about 20K suicides by gun. They grossly inflate gun deaths, and equate all of them with gun crimes. If you want to piss them off, quote this little factoid, people using clubs and hammers kill more people than people using rifles do.

    And if they claim that gun suicides should be included, then ask them what the rate of suicides is in gun controlled countries compared to the US. To give you a clue, total suicides in the UK are only .2 per 100,000 less than the US (and all the guns). This proves, people committing suicide will use whatever they can get to kill themselves, and gun control will have no effect on suicides, and therefore shouldn't be included in any gun control debates.

    Gun Crime has been going down over the last 20 years, but that doesn't fit the narrative that gun people are loons. However, of the high profile gun killings, most of the people who did those are (D) or voted (D) in elections. I would suggest that (D)s shouldn't own guns. Of the cities that have gun control laws, most of them vote (D) and also have the highest gun crime rates (Chicago, DC). Again, suggesting that (D)s should not be allowed guns (using any number of their logic points).

    It is pretty easy to deconstruct the emotional arguments Liberals make, because it is nothing short of scare tactics and feel good emotionalism.

    Do it for the Children!

  21. Re:Here's the difference... on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    "Linux"

    "GNU/LINUX"

  22. Re:Yawn on Printable Gun Downloads Top 100k In 2 Days, Thanks to Kim Dotcom · · Score: 1

    The whole "OMG cheap guns for criminals" angle is pure FUD.

    For now. Tech will get better, faster, cheaper, always.

  23. Re:Third-party nominations? on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 1

    Wrong. if you hate, you're giving power to the other person. You are giving them the power to manipulate you via your emotions. If you give them power, it is you that will lose. Be strong, and don't give a shit. It is the best revenge possible, but by then, you won't care about revenge. You get what you think you want now, but when you get it, you don't care.

    Don't waste energy hating. Turn your hate into indifference to those you hate, and into caring for others that you love. Love everyone.

  24. Re:Does anyone have a list of the patents? on Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ActiveSync works. With Exchange. It just works. But it is easily replaced by going to GMAIL and GCalendars. ActiveSync is what killed BlackBerry servers, as it does most everything most people want or need. Not everything, but good enough.

    Trust me when I say this, nothing else comes close to Exchange for total functionality. Problem is, it is Microsoft, and horribly expensive. Someone making a ground up replacement to Exchange would make a killing, especially if they give it away for free (j/k).

  25. Re:Third-party nominations? on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You obviously are wasting your energy on people who should no longer matter to you. Suggestion, best revenge is to stop caring, and move on. Or, think of it this way, your "ex" still has power over you, do you want that?