MS Ownes chunk of apple, to A) keep them alive && B) make them play nice
MS keeps them playing off MS's homecourt and in the margins (publishers, technology-as-art-kooks etc)..as long as they intend to keep their revenue from hardware and not the MS-unfriendly OS arena, MS will leave them alone - they have an non-competitive arrangment of some kind (maybe informally, but effective)
if Apple ever takes up the gauntlet (..port osx to x86 maybe?) then MS withdraws Office && Explorer... and bankrupts them.
so you see, the Apple vs MS argument is moot, in fact, Apple && MS have decided to work together, to their mutal advantage A) MS gets to prop them up as competition && B) Apple is allowed to stay in business.
the point is THERE IS NO CHOICE. MS IS A MONOPOLY.
theyve driven everyone else out of the OS && Office Market. Outside of GNU/Linux, there are no OS choices... and GNU/Linux isnt prepared for the Every-Man* desktop just yet... its getting there, but not yet.
*its good for most, me included - but because I know how to use it... some people need more handholding to get ABC done, I can do ABC w/ GNU/Linux -- but it requires more expertise.
Being a convicted MONOPOLY, and an abusive one at that, Dumping and Preditory Pricing schemes should be looked at pretty negatively id say... where is your DoJ now?
It is quite obvious he is running these 'foundations' as personal $ sinks...
does anyone know how to get the financial details of his former foundation and this current foundation? id be very interested to know what he does with the money he recieves as memberships and donations.
...you mean, that the the advertisment DIDNT use real people telling real stories?! My god, they should fire all those advertising types because they mislead people...
happy to give them directions and greet them at the door... We would make a contribution ourselves to put them over the top
Very good on AOL's part - they have CoOpted what is a PROTEST AGAINST THEM into a positive PR spin. I fucking love it.
How disappointing, now when people hear about this, they will think these people were Beanie-baby-style impulse collectors of modern-consumer fare.. nothing radical, nice, warm, cozy farmiliar... how sad.
I disagree. Becuase he *has* played a "star-ship" captain it has forced him -- probably -- to have atleast thought about the subject. No one is asking him to provide a doctoral thesis on the subject, but his opinion is certianly as good as any other lay persons.
While I agree it may not provide much insight to hear WS's idle thoughts on the subject (because there is a difference between play-acting on TV and reality (that i agree needs to be mentioned))but you might just be surprised - maybe he *did* take an interest due to his exposer to the fictional canon on the subject.
...or he donsnt have any idea. but the question is atleast as good as the others i see up and down here.
hey wil, check your/etc/httpd/httpd.conf file for 'DocumentRoot' then chown the files there to the user:group (again from httpd.conf)... you might also like to change the permissions so the new owner can read...
but no sane food/drug company would risk the impact of such a level of carelessness/unconcern
And whats Good For GM is Good For the United States of America.
This 'trust' them attitude is absurd. In REALITY our friends at Monsanto have a history of astonishing irresponsible behaviour. As do our friends at Big Tobacco... as do any number of irresponsible private entities who took private gain in exchange for a "charge to the public".
DDT, Asbestos etc etc etc - in fact, history tells us that in time, some things will come to surprise us about their danger. What we are talking about here is exposing the future of the worlds FOOD SUPPLY to uncertainty. We already have the means to feed ourselves, this is not the issue, the issue is that the Monsantos of the worlds intend to use the "Food Market" to make profit -- this desire to make profit will cloud their vision (as it always does) and encourage them to take chances, cut corners and move 'forward'... the reality is that we must not let people, who's REAL motive is selfish (profit), expose OUR food supply to unnecessary risk.
Its far to big a chance (for 100% of the world) to take for No real gain (outside of a few very rich people getting far richer).
Would I support genetic research of food from a different motivation? Maybe, because the new risk analysis will exclude the Motivations of Capitalists -- it would therefore be lower... that *new* risk tolerance would have only public good as reward. Why would the public recieve only Risk in exchange for nothing?
9And he said to them: "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe[1] your own traditions! 10For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,'[2] and, 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'[3] 11But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban' (that is, a gift devoted to God), 12then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. 13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."
The important part is bold. It says very clearly that Moses instructed, Honour your Father and Mother - those who do not, who "curses their father and mother" must be put to death.
All this hulla-ballo about "not understanding", "making something up", "sprinkling with truth", "social security and your kids", "starve when they're too old to work" and all your other drivel is just that shite.
The FACT is the passage I mentioned is there -- in your Bible -- which you fools take as The Word Of God (tm)(c).
It is very funny that you would try and rationalize the passage with some mess about "old age security". In fact, the bible is RIDDLED with stern threats (...hmm, fear, the great controller) - the bible was a tool.. as is religion of all stripes. As for "Subtle Nuance careing about the truth"; the TRUTH is there is no God, Jesus was crucified with 200 others who claimed to be Gods on earth, and the bible is a collection of fiction, assembled through time to serve the priests who sought to control the masses... the TRUTH is people who have Faith (tm)(c) like yourself need to start thinking about why you believe in fairy tales - like your children believe in santa-claus, you believe in %religon%... only time, tradition, and a well constructed meme prevent grown-people from stepping back from the fiction.
Take your head out of your ass pal, religion -- every one of them -- is a put on, and your incapable of seeing reality.
like if you get slapped, turn the other cheek, as Jesus once said
Now that/. has given up its usual secular nature, and we have decided to listen to The Lord Baby Jesus (c)(tm) I thought I might find some other nuggets of Jesus Widsom (TM)(C) to follow, brothers please pray with me now:
As a lesson to those who have the audacity to show physical love for the same gender, God incinerated the genitals, mouths and every other orifice involved in such sexual practices in the towns of Sodom and Gomorra (Genesis 19:24-25).
As a lesson to those who are fat and sloppy, God struck a town of gluttons with a vicious plague which made that last drumstick taste none-too-good and wiped out every living person (Numbers 11:33-34).
As a lesson to youngsters who fail to be seen and not heard, God sent a bear to maul to death a couple dozen children who had teased a bald man (2 Kings 2:23-24).
During one particularly bad mood, God threw the lessons out the window and killed every man, woman, child and infant on the planet (except Noah's family) with a Great Flood (Genesis 7:23).
God told the Israelites to kill all the men and rape the women and children in the towns they invaded (Deuteronomy 20:13-16).
God told the Israelites to take any child who dared to disobey his parents to the town square and hurl stones at his body and head until the tot's corpse was lifeless (Deuteronomy 21:18-21).
Jesus told the apostles that He had not come to destroy the law of the prophets of old, rather, He had come to fulfill that law (Matthew 5:17).
Jesus approved of his Father's command that children who curse their parents are to be put to death (Matthew 15:3-4).
Jesus chastised the Pharisees for failing to kill those children who defied their parents' commands (Mark 7:9-13).
Jesus told us we are to live our lives in fear of God for God has the power not only to kill us, but to torture us forever in Hell (Luke 12:5).
The smell of blood and roasted corpses was pleasing to God, who especially enjoyed the aroma after the Great Flood (Genesis 8:21)
,br> Jesus told the disciples to bring before Him any man who didn't believe in Him, and to violently slaughter the non-believer while Jesus watched (Luke 19:27)
Jesus killed one man by having his body eaten by a swarm of worms because the man failed to give Jesus His due (Acts 12:23).
Jesus struck a Jew blind for thwarting His teachings (Acts 13:8-11).
He struck a man dumb for failing to listen well (Luke 1:20).
He took the lives of a husband and wife by scaring them to death for not forking over all the money they made on a real estate transaction (Acts 5:1-10).
During one particularly temperamental time when Jesus was hungry, He even killed a fig tree for failing to bear figs, even though Jesus knew figs weren't in season (Mark 11:12-14).
Those who practice sexual self-gratification are to chop off their arms. Those who have sexual thoughts for people other than their spouses are to gouge out their eyes (Mark 9:43-47).
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)."
Come Judgment Day, Sinners shall be gathered together and hurled into a furnace of fire where there will be uncontrollable wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:41-42, 50)
Entire cities of people who don't believe will suffer a fate worse than that of Sodom and Gomorra (Mark 6:11).
Jesus told us that God, who we already knew is subject to violent episodes, will take "vengeance on them that know not God" by burning them forever "in flaming fire" (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9).
Jesus, Himself, admitted that he is subordinate to the Father who rules over Him (1 Corinthians 11:3)
So my brothers, next time you think to yourself What would Jesus Do? RUN (dont walk) to your bible -- there are great lessons to be had.
Ants leave a pheromone scent-trail so their colony-mates can find them. Its like an invisible highway -- have you ever seen a trail of ants travellign two or three 'shoulder to shoulder' in both directions? -- bottom line, disincect (well) the entire area and dont put the ibook back there for some time... theve 'marked-up' the inside already.
Im surprised that so many americans become so indignant w/r/t the Cuban Missle crisis.
Ill say, by nature I am absolutely a pacifist... not only do I abhore violence, but Im not a big fan of Nation-States (which is really a game of Rich Man's "mine - yours") that takes us (poor pions) to war for their wealth.. so i can quickly see through the fog of 'us vs them' to see that I have no reason to want war with any nation...
But anyway, the Soviets moving missles into Cuba wasnt *really* a 'new or extreme' thing - the americans (as anyone who saw K.Constner's film knows) had similar arms in similar positions. The Americans, during the cold-war build up, were willing to unsettle the present condition of build-up by taking the soviets to task over the issue. In reality, this DESTABILIZED the situation... the "Cuban Missle Crisis" was -- by invention -- the result of American Hawks willing to push the issue a closer to the brink..
All in all, it was irresponsible - at that point, more missles simply meant more missles.. again nothing was out-of-the-ordinary... the Soviets should not have lied about the issue and said "yes, for Cuba's defense the missles are going there, just like America has them in X,Y,Z"
hey, slashdot is no better than anyplace else... they are trying to sell ads by driving generating traffic.
I dont know about you people, but I dont harbour any fantasy about Slashdot being my living room, full of 500,000 of my closest friends... dont slip into that fantasy.
Here's a question: how much $ did ?which? editors make on the VA Sale? Do you think their priorities/opinions are the same? Do you *really* think the goals of slashdot are the same since VA bought them...?
Frankly, this is another McCarthy straw man. Liberals (socialists) arent of the opinion you should be told what to do. Those are Fascists. There is a differnce. Have a look here: Political Compass to learn that economics and personal liberties are not the same, they are in fact seperate ideas.
An economy, run by those who would be selfish excludes the ability of those who would like to be selfless.
Your right to flail your arms about ends at my nose. For instance, your right as a 'consumer' or 'producer' ends at putting one micron of anything into the river or air that *we* dont approve. Your abusing *our* commons. By definition, societies and the individuals within them do not exist in a bubble. If you propose to do away with labour law, because it hinders your "getting paid", do you not realize it causes strife in others? your cousin? your neighbour? Unbridled capitalism and this independance fantasy is absolutely unsustainable... the reality is every time you make a profit, someone else paid too much and their standard of living decreased equal to your improvment... so, who deserves to live well?
Furthermore, why are there so many young people that are so conservative these days?
Because America is breeding a(nother?) generation of intolerant selfish greedy kids, where "i get paid" is the mantra. Concern for ones community, and the will to participate in making life better for your community is NOT American Conservative thinking, where in America, Conservative means "every person for himself."
Young people dont know what "Conservative" means, but they do know that Liberals are commie bastards who want to tell you you cant buy your 1123th pair of Nike sneakers because some kid in fucking Tim-buck-Taiwan (wherever man) made them... that kid should be happy to have a job, and because this is an American Kid, "NO ONE IS GOING TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO, UMMM, I WANT ANOTHER PAIR OF SNEAKERS DAMMIT".
Those damn Liberals only want to make us live in caves and crap...
The political discourse in America has devolved to the point where Black is white and White is black. Corporate Media will not entertain the notion that Whats good for GM is not necessarily good for America... not only are the interests of the Media Companies (plutocrats) THEMSELVES threatened by general Liberal causes (...like pollution control, Fair Trade..) but their advertisers (other Plutocrats(Conservatives)) cannot tolerate real Liberal Discourse.
Its gotten to the point in American Politics where there really is NO Liberal Party. The Republicans == Democrats and both are (really) simple Plutocrats.
So, in short
Liberals Encourage Selflessness Conservatives Encourage Selfishness Capitalism is Selfishness. Socialism is Selflessness
These days, when Joe wants to play a computer game, it'll install DirectX for him if he doesn't have the required version
Upgrading DirectX has caused so many problems for me that I almost cringe to do it sometimes. Nothing can destroy a Windows PC like a random un-repairable DX3D upgrade... almost always leads to restaging the PC...
Slashdot Mirror
...not unless he had 100 of the SAME machines, where he would a) build b) test c) clone.
gimme a break pal.
frankly, i think ur clueless.
MS Ownes chunk of apple, to A) keep them alive && B) make them play nice
MS keeps them playing off MS's homecourt and in the margins (publishers, technology-as-art-kooks etc)..as long as they intend to keep their revenue from hardware and not the MS-unfriendly OS arena, MS will leave them alone - they have an non-competitive arrangment of some kind (maybe informally, but effective)
if Apple ever takes up the gauntlet (..port osx to x86 maybe?) then MS withdraws Office && Explorer... and bankrupts them.
so you see, the Apple vs MS argument is moot, in fact, Apple && MS have decided to work together, to their mutal advantage A) MS gets to prop them up as competition && B) Apple is allowed to stay in business.
and I am tired of repeating this
earth to danheskett. earth to danheskett.
the point is THERE IS NO CHOICE. MS IS A MONOPOLY.
theyve driven everyone else out of the OS && Office Market. Outside of GNU/Linux, there are no OS choices... and GNU/Linux isnt prepared for the Every-Man* desktop just yet... its getting there, but not yet.
*its good for most, me included - but because I know how to use it... some people need more handholding to get ABC done, I can do ABC w/ GNU/Linux -- but it requires more expertise.
do you build apps w/ Office? or use it as a Word Processor, Spreadsheet && presentation software?
outside of scripting and Access (which is mostly a convenience and not a show-stopper) what does M$office do that you need?
95% of M$office users could very easily switch to OO.o -- like Ive directed everyone who used to ask me for Office.
Being a convicted MONOPOLY, and an abusive one at that, Dumping and Preditory Pricing schemes should be looked at pretty negatively id say... where is your DoJ now?
Who is this guy?
It is quite obvious he is running these 'foundations' as personal $ sinks...
does anyone know how to get the financial details of his former foundation and this current foundation? id be very interested to know what he does with the money he recieves as memberships and donations.
...you mean, that the the advertisment DIDNT use real people telling real stories ?! My god, they should fire all those advertising types because they mislead people...
Hello? McFly?
happy to give them directions and greet them at the door ... We would make a contribution ourselves to put them over the top
Very good on AOL's part - they have CoOpted what is a PROTEST AGAINST THEM into a positive PR spin. I fucking love it.
How disappointing, now when people hear about this, they will think these people were Beanie-baby-style impulse collectors of modern-consumer fare.. nothing radical, nice, warm, cozy farmiliar... how sad.
Reason #12319 To Shop at my Local Farmers Market:
The shopping-cart come consumer-awareness-experience-eXtreme-lifestyle.
please, say this is a joke.
..of course you'll have it insured, and it will be licensed like every other vehicle on the *ROAD* right...?
I disagree. Becuase he *has* played a "star-ship" captain it has forced him -- probably -- to have atleast thought about the subject. No one is asking him to provide a doctoral thesis on the subject, but his opinion is certianly as good as any other lay persons.
While I agree it may not provide much insight to hear WS's idle thoughts on the subject (because there is a difference between play-acting on TV and reality (that i agree needs to be mentioned))but you might just be surprised - maybe he *did* take an interest due to his exposer to the fictional canon on the subject.
...or he donsnt have any idea. but the question is atleast as good as the others i see up and down here.
Re : wilwheaton.net
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf file for 'DocumentRoot' then chown the files there to the user:group (again from httpd.conf)... you might also like to change the permissions so the new owner can read...
hey wil, check your
but no sane food/drug company would risk the impact of such a level of carelessness/unconcern
And whats Good For GM is Good For the United States of America.
This 'trust' them attitude is absurd. In REALITY our friends at Monsanto have a history of astonishing irresponsible behaviour. As do our friends at Big Tobacco... as do any number of irresponsible private entities who took private gain in exchange for a "charge to the public".
DDT, Asbestos etc etc etc - in fact, history tells us that in time, some things will come to surprise us about their danger. What we are talking about here is exposing the future of the worlds FOOD SUPPLY to uncertainty. We already have the means to feed ourselves, this is not the issue, the issue is that the Monsantos of the worlds intend to use the "Food Market" to make profit -- this desire to make profit will cloud their vision (as it always does) and encourage them to take chances, cut corners and move 'forward'... the reality is that we must not let people, who's REAL motive is selfish (profit), expose OUR food supply to unnecessary risk.
Its far to big a chance (for 100% of the world) to take for No real gain (outside of a few very rich people getting far richer).
Would I support genetic research of food from a different motivation? Maybe, because the new risk analysis will exclude the Motivations of Capitalists -- it would therefore be lower... that *new* risk tolerance would have only public good as reward. Why would the public recieve only Risk in exchange for nothing?
You can press Ctrl-Alt-Delete with one finger?
Well, to quote Mark 7:9-13 is this:
... only time, tradition, and a well constructed meme prevent grown-people from stepping back from the fiction.
9And he said to them: "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe[1] your own traditions! 10For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,'[2] and, 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'[3] 11But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban' (that is, a gift devoted to God), 12then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. 13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."
The important part is bold. It says very clearly that Moses instructed, Honour your Father and Mother - those who do not, who "curses their father and mother" must be put to death.
All this hulla-ballo about "not understanding", "making something up", "sprinkling with truth", "social security and your kids", "starve when they're too old to work" and all your other drivel is just that shite.
The FACT is the passage I mentioned is there -- in your Bible -- which you fools take as The Word Of God (tm)(c).
It is very funny that you would try and rationalize the passage with some mess about "old age security". In fact, the bible is RIDDLED with stern threats (...hmm, fear, the great controller) - the bible was a tool.. as is religion of all stripes. As for "Subtle Nuance careing about the truth"; the TRUTH is there is no God, Jesus was crucified with 200 others who claimed to be Gods on earth, and the bible is a collection of fiction, assembled through time to serve the priests who sought to control the masses... the TRUTH is people who have Faith (tm)(c) like yourself need to start thinking about why you believe in fairy tales - like your children believe in santa-claus, you believe in %religon%
Take your head out of your ass pal, religion -- every one of them -- is a put on, and your incapable of seeing reality.
like if you get slapped, turn the other cheek, as Jesus once said
/. has given up its usual secular nature, and we have decided to listen to The Lord Baby Jesus (c)(tm) I thought I might find some other nuggets of Jesus Widsom (TM)(C) to follow, brothers please pray with me now:
Now that
As a lesson to those who have the audacity to show physical love for the same gender, God incinerated the genitals, mouths and every other orifice involved in such sexual practices in the towns of Sodom and Gomorra (Genesis 19:24-25).
As a lesson to those who are fat and sloppy, God struck a town of gluttons with a vicious plague which made that last drumstick taste none-too-good and wiped out every living person (Numbers 11:33-34).
As a lesson to youngsters who fail to be seen and not heard, God sent a bear to maul to death a couple dozen children who had teased a bald man (2 Kings 2:23-24).
During one particularly bad mood, God threw the lessons out the window and killed every man, woman, child and infant on the planet (except Noah's family) with a Great Flood (Genesis 7:23).
God told the Israelites to kill all the men and rape the women and children in the towns they invaded (Deuteronomy 20:13-16).
God told the Israelites to take any child who dared to disobey his parents to the town square and hurl stones at his body and head until the tot's corpse was lifeless (Deuteronomy 21:18-21).
Jesus told the apostles that He had not come to destroy the law of the prophets of old, rather, He had come to fulfill that law (Matthew 5:17).
Jesus approved of his Father's command that children who curse their parents are to be put to death (Matthew 15:3-4).
Jesus chastised the Pharisees for failing to kill those children who defied their parents' commands (Mark 7:9-13).
Jesus told us we are to live our lives in fear of God for God has the power not only to kill us, but to torture us forever in Hell (Luke 12:5).
The smell of blood and roasted corpses was pleasing to God, who especially enjoyed the aroma after the Great Flood (Genesis 8:21)
,br>
Jesus told the disciples to bring before Him any man who didn't believe in Him, and to violently slaughter the non-believer while Jesus watched (Luke 19:27)
Jesus killed one man by having his body eaten by a swarm of worms because the man failed to give Jesus His due (Acts 12:23).
Jesus struck a Jew blind for thwarting His teachings (Acts 13:8-11).
He struck a man dumb for failing to listen well (Luke 1:20).
He took the lives of a husband and wife by scaring them to death for not forking over all the money they made on a real estate transaction (Acts 5:1-10).
During one particularly temperamental time when Jesus was hungry, He even killed a fig tree for failing to bear figs, even though Jesus knew figs weren't in season (Mark 11:12-14).
Those who practice sexual self-gratification are to chop off their arms. Those who have sexual thoughts for people other than their spouses are to gouge out their eyes (Mark 9:43-47).
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)."
Come Judgment Day, Sinners shall be gathered together and hurled into a furnace of fire where there will be uncontrollable wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:41-42, 50)
Entire cities of people who don't believe will suffer a fate worse than that of Sodom and Gomorra (Mark 6:11).
Jesus told us that God, who we already knew is subject to violent episodes, will take "vengeance on them that know not God" by burning them forever "in flaming fire" (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9).
Jesus, Himself, admitted that he is subordinate to the Father who rules over Him (1 Corinthians 11:3)
So my brothers, next time you think to yourself What would Jesus Do? RUN (dont walk) to your bible -- there are great lessons to be had.
More information can be found @ landoverbaptist.com
Ants leave a pheromone scent-trail so their colony-mates can find them. Its like an invisible highway -- have you ever seen a trail of ants travellign two or three 'shoulder to shoulder' in both directions? -- bottom line, disincect (well) the entire area and dont put the ibook back there for some time... theve 'marked-up' the inside already.
Im surprised that so many americans become so indignant w/r/t the Cuban Missle crisis.
Ill say, by nature I am absolutely a pacifist... not only do I abhore violence, but Im not a big fan of Nation-States (which is really a game of Rich Man's "mine - yours") that takes us (poor pions) to war for their wealth.. so i can quickly see through the fog of 'us vs them' to see that I have no reason to want war with any nation...
But anyway, the Soviets moving missles into Cuba wasnt *really* a 'new or extreme' thing - the americans (as anyone who saw K.Constner's film knows) had similar arms in similar positions. The Americans, during the cold-war build up, were willing to unsettle the present condition of build-up by taking the soviets to task over the issue. In reality, this DESTABILIZED the situation... the "Cuban Missle Crisis" was -- by invention -- the result of American Hawks willing to push the issue a closer to the brink..
All in all, it was irresponsible - at that point, more missles simply meant more missles.. again nothing was out-of-the-ordinary... the Soviets should not have lied about the issue and said "yes, for Cuba's defense the missles are going there, just like America has them in X,Y,Z"
Does anyone else see it this way?
This is my favorite Canadian XPrize entry. Simple and efficient. Have a look.
Isnt this pic showing the manned module (propelled by 4 jato-type rockets) disengaging from first stage while still on the ground.
Someone needs to re-explain the whatnots of this proposal to the artist who build this artist's impression... don t we think?
hey, slashdot is no better than anyplace else... they are trying to sell ads by driving generating traffic.
I dont know about you people, but I dont harbour any fantasy about Slashdot being my living room, full of 500,000 of my closest friends... dont slip into that fantasy.
Here's a question: how much $ did ?which? editors make on the VA Sale? Do you think their priorities/opinions are the same? Do you *really* think the goals of slashdot are the same since VA bought them...?
Slashdot as an entitiy (such as it is) is amoral.
Frankly, this is another McCarthy straw man. Liberals (socialists) arent of the opinion you should be told what to do. Those are Fascists. There is a differnce. Have a look here: Political Compass to learn that economics and personal liberties are not the same, they are in fact seperate ideas.
An economy, run by those who would be selfish excludes the ability of those who would like to be selfless.
Your right to flail your arms about ends at my nose. For instance, your right as a 'consumer' or 'producer' ends at putting one micron of anything into the river or air that *we* dont approve. Your abusing *our* commons. By definition, societies and the individuals within them do not exist in a bubble. If you propose to do away with labour law, because it hinders your "getting paid", do you not realize it causes strife in others? your cousin? your neighbour? Unbridled capitalism and this independance fantasy is absolutely unsustainable... the reality is every time you make a profit, someone else paid too much and their standard of living decreased equal to your improvment... so, who deserves to live well?
Furthermore, why are there so many young people that are so conservative these days?
Because America is breeding a(nother?) generation of intolerant selfish greedy kids, where "i get paid" is the mantra. Concern for ones community, and the will to participate in making life better for your community is NOT American Conservative thinking, where in America, Conservative means "every person for himself."
Young people dont know what "Conservative" means, but they do know that Liberals are commie bastards who want to tell you you cant buy your 1123th pair of Nike sneakers because some kid in fucking Tim-buck-Taiwan (wherever man) made them... that kid should be happy to have a job, and because this is an American Kid, "NO ONE IS GOING TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO, UMMM, I WANT ANOTHER PAIR OF SNEAKERS DAMMIT".
Those damn Liberals only want to make us live in caves and crap...
The political discourse in America has devolved to the point where Black is white and White is black. Corporate Media will not entertain the notion that Whats good for GM is not necessarily good for America... not only are the interests of the Media Companies (plutocrats) THEMSELVES threatened by general Liberal causes (...like pollution control, Fair Trade..) but their advertisers (other Plutocrats(Conservatives)) cannot tolerate real Liberal Discourse.
Its gotten to the point in American Politics where there really is NO Liberal Party. The Republicans == Democrats and both are (really) simple Plutocrats.
So, in short
Liberals Encourage Selflessness
Conservatives Encourage Selfishness
Capitalism is Selfishness.
Socialism is Selflessness
Apparently the union is not that powerful in Vegas
Ok, Ill bite. Why would the Taxi Drivers Union be opposed to this? Wouldnt they just ask for retraining and a kind transition into Monorail-Employees?
Unions do not retard progress. Thats an opinionated assertion... utter bollocks.
These days, when Joe wants to play a computer game, it'll install DirectX for him if he doesn't have the required version
Upgrading DirectX has caused so many problems for me that I almost cringe to do it sometimes. Nothing can destroy a Windows PC like a random un-repairable DX3D upgrade... almost always leads to restaging the PC...
which sucks