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  1. Re:Censoring vs. Educating on 'Why YouTube's New Plan to Debunk Conspiracy Videos Won't Work' (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    The phone companies are not monopolies, and are not government, should they be able to censor your calls, or your messages, or the websites you visit?

  2. Friday, March 09, 2018
    Microplastics found in 73 percent of fish in the Northwest Atlantic, according to latest research

    https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-09-microplastics-found-in-73-of-fish-in-the-northwest-atlantic-according.html

  3. Not loving google censorship & search manipula on Google Will Ban All Cryptocurrency-related Advertising (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't care about cryptocurrencies.

    No happy about google's insane censorship, and manipulation of search results.

    JMHO.

  4. Re:systemd dependancy on GNOME 3.28 'Chongqing' Linux Is Here (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just use Devuan with XFCE. Better in every way.

  5. Re:systemd dependancy on GNOME 3.28 'Chongqing' Linux Is Here (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Systemd and Gnome3 are not about "progress"

    It all about redhat lock-in.

  6. Re:I'm sticking with MATE on GNOME 3.28 'Chongqing' Linux Is Here (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    IMO: MATE blows Gnome out of the water.

  7. Re:Fedora users on GNOME 3.28 'Chongqing' Linux Is Here (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I use Calculate Linux, which is based n Gentoo.

    Supposedly Calculate is all Gentoo under the hood.

    I practically never compile anything. I just use emerge. Binary versions are out there.

  8. Reddit is better than facebook/twitter/google on Reddit and the Struggle To Detoxify the Internet (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Not saying reddit is perfect, or even very good.

    But reddit is *much* better than the out-of-control leftist ideologues on facebook, twitter, google/youtube.

     

  9. If there's money in it, why not?

    Even if the money isn't direct. There is all sorts of preferential treatment that you can get by complaining.

    The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

  10. Re:First poster to mention SJW gets smacked on 'Women At Microsoft Are Sexualized By Their Male Managers,' Lawsuit Alleges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    > Nothing more ridiculous than fat, well-paid white men complaining about other people asking to be treated fairly.

    But it's okay for *you* to discriminate, and fat shame?

    If you said that sort of thing about women, there would be outrage.

    Now who is not treating people fairly?

  11. Re:Who is left to be accused? on 'Women At Microsoft Are Sexualized By Their Male Managers,' Lawsuit Alleges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    White heterosexual conservative males, especially Christians, are still the world's whipping boy.

    Is it okay to say "boy?" I'm so sorry if it's not.

  12. Milking the sexual cash cow? on 'Women At Microsoft Are Sexualized By Their Male Managers,' Lawsuit Alleges (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Just say you were harassed or or discriminated against or "sexualized" and Ca-Ching!

    Easiest money you could ever make.

    Or maybe I'm just being cynical?

  13. Article is just leftist propaganda on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    I use youtube everyday. I watch conservative videos all time. I don't get any far-right neo-Nazi crap recommended.

    Considering that youtube censors even moderate conservatives, I find it hard to believe there is all that much far--right stuff out there.

    This is just the leftist NYT calling for more censorship. The left just *loves* censorship.

  14. Vids about vegetarianism led 2 vids about veganism on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    The horror! The horror!

  15. Something Islamic on What Image Should Represent All of Humanity On Wikipedia? (wired.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    That is the way the world is going.

  16. Devuan is true Debian on Debian 9.4 Released (debian.org) · · Score: 3

    Devuan is Debian without selling out to that systemd crap.

    Devuan is Debian should be.

    At least take a look at it, you might be surprised.

    https://devuan.org/

    Feb 28, 2018
    Quick Look at Devuan Linux
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF_fEtiJkzU

  17. Re:I ditched Windows for Ubuntu... on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 1 Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    I agree that MATE is a great environment if you like Gnome 2.

    But why have that systemd crap?

  18. 10.04 was my last Ubuntu distro on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Beta 1 Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    10.04 was awesome. Back then, Ubuntu got better with each new release.

    After that, Canonical ruined Ubuntu. First with the " Gnome 3 Unity" abomination, and then with systemd.

    I use Calculate Linux now.

  19. Is it this expensive in other countries? on California Bullet Train Costs Soar To $77.3 Billion, Will Take 5 Years Longer To Complete · · Score: 1

    Did other countries pay comparable money for bullet trains?

    BTW: the price will likely keep going up. Figure around $300B by the time it's finished.

  20. Youtube's excuse for brazen censorship on YouTube Is Full of Easy-To-Find Neo-Nazi Propaganda (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Why was Pat Condell's most recent video censored? Why was Mark Dice demonetized? Why have PragerU videos been censored? Why did Sargon of Akkad have his channel removed, and I could go on.

    None of those channels post anything close to "hate speech" and certainly never call for violence.

    Youtube censors any content that does fit google's far left agenda. Even the moderate left has there videos censored.

    Then they come up with this bullshit about armies of neo-Nazis posting hate speech to justify politically biased censorship.

    I can only hope that people are not stupid enough to believe that crap.

  21. Disney has ruined Starwars.

  22. Re:Kali is not well-known? Change your password... on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > I don't see how any one group or company could even have any significant influence on Linux

    You don't? Really? Maybe you should move out of your cave.

    Redhat took control of Linux years ago. In the enterprise space it's all Potteringware. That is entirely because of Redhat and their partner Microsoft.

    Sure there are a few distros that the enterprise will not go near: like Slackware and Gentoo. But in government, and industry, all Linux marches to Redhat's beat.

  23. Try to think beyond the desktop.

    For example, Linux probably runs the internet more than any other OS.

  24. Re:Microsoft is an old zombie now. on Ask Slashdot: Should We Worry Microsoft Will 'Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish' Linux? (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    WTF? MS is huge. MS is still one of the biggest tech companies on earth. MS still controls about 90% of the desktop. I would think the MS is easily the biggest OS seller, and office product seller, on earth.

    MS is partnered with Redhat, and they are working together to stomp out real Linux, and replace it with Poetteringware.

  25. > How is Microsoft "extending" Linux when a bunch of Linux vendors provide their own distributions in the Linux store?

    By partnering with Redhat, and forcing systemd on enterprise Linux.