You just admitted that you are a supporter of Weev
Wow, it really would not take much to be convicted in a People's Court with you presiding... What would it be, your honor, 25 years of hard labor, or an execution in the basement?
Yes, Bernie Sanders is a Communist. And that particular article came out before he started to run for Presidency. The "Socialist" label he prefers is hardly better (Socialism is nothing but Communism-lite), but he was and remains a member and supporter of openly Communist organizations. As recently as 2014 Bernie Sanders was hailed by Democratic Socialists of America — a "New Left" organization comprised of what was left of the Socialist and Communist movements of the "Old Left". And he was not merely endorsed by these assholes (the way, Trump was endorsed by Duke) — Sanders was a distinguished speaker at a DSA gathering that year. On the same page the Senator is also called "DSA member".
The funny part is, most of his defenders would dispute — often angrily — the "Communist" label while also disagreeing, there is anything wrong with being a Communist. So, before going any further, please, state for the record, whether you are one of such people... Thanks!
While Fascism/Nazism is largely extinct from public life (though, sadly, not from government), Socialism/Communism — the far more murderous school of thought — is rearing its even uglier head... And not only on Slashdot.
NASA could have simply purchased already available software that other launch companies were using successfully, the agency decided to write its own.
Yeah, as if private enterprises have never made the same mistake...
This is simply more proof that SLS is nothing more than a pork-laden waste of money designed not to explore space but to generate non-productive jobs in congressional districts.
I'm no fan of government-run anything, but this is hardly "proof". The submitter's editorializing is, indeed, offensive — as if someone wanted to make an anti-Libertarian strawman for Statists to attack.
Yes, NASA ought to be privatized as a few companies — for- and non-profit alike. The folks, who wish to see "pure research" continue, can make donations to the non-profit without forcing others (via the IRS' implicit gunpoint) to do the same.
But this SLS-whatever is has little to do with the idea...
You never asked. And now the rest of the audience is gone and I don't feel particularly charitable towards someone, who planned to devise his own "unbreakable" phone just a short while ago in another thread.
So I'll leave it as an exercise for you. What is the program promising to do, that might justify its accessing of the user's incoming calls?
In addition to the usual lessons to app-developers, there is a lesson for users. Do not allow "apps" to know more, than what is required for them to fulfill the purpose you installed them for. And if they insist on such things (like access to your photographs), then do not install them.
With things like "true caller" it is bad enough that they know, who calls you — but they have a legitimate need to know. They do not need to know you, however.
we do not really know how to defend ourselves against what is happening, not without turning into savages ourselves
Of course, we do:
Enforce your visa laws.
Do not provide governmental assistance and deport those, who sneak in despite your efforts
There is nothing "savage" about either of the two measures. Whoever feels sympathetic to the people displaced by war or any other kind of disaster, is welcome to help them in any way they choose directly.
The current situation makes no sense at all. Ukraine, for example — itself a European country with customs quite similar to those of EU members — has been struggling to obtain a visa-free status with EU for years. Meanwhile, folks with completely different ideas of how to live (and dress and pray) are allowed to immigrate en masse.
To America's credit, we seem to be better at dealing with the "wonderful tapestry of diversity", but there is nothing "savage" about wanting less of it — diversity is not strength, it is an expensive luxury.
We know how to do it and there is nothing "savage" about saying "no". But our current elites just would not do it — whether due to some misplaced compassion or desire for cheaper gardeners and cherry-pickers.
If you don't understand the difference between the farmer shitting on his lettuce then selling it to you and the farmer providing clean lettuce to the grocer who then shits on it before selling it to you
Distinction without difference. If defecating into lettuce is wrong, then it does not matter, who does it — they are all wrong.
Netflix deciding to shit on their own customers was bad, but it has nothing at all to do with the ISP shitting on Netflix
If anything, the "farmer" — to continue your tortured analogy — poisoning his produce is even worse than a reseller doing it afterwards...
blinded by your love for allowing corporations to shit on everyone
I see, that you are one of my more fervent followers and fans. Would you like to subscribe to my newsletter?
rather trying to be consumer-friendly by helping customers avoid costly data cap overruns
Spin it however you want... Had they actually been worried about consumers, they would've advertised the feature back then — instead of inventing the excuse now.
Whatever. The fact remains: different content was served to people based solely on their IP-address.
"the ends justify the means, and all is fair in order to get them"...
Which means do you find so objectionable as to require justification?
this from the guy who's always bitching about government overreach.
Thank you for paying some attention. Had you actually been smarter, you would've noticed, that my objections are always to government doing, what it should not be doing at all.
Prosecuting actual murderers is not on the list...
typical conservative hypocrit.
A typical Illiberal coward — posts anonymously so his precious down-mod survives...
The shortage of women among chess Grand Masters (GMs — players with rating above 2500) is so obvious, a new title (WGM) had to be created just for them — a woman needs only 2300 to qualify. With the individual chess ratings computed by the same open formulas for all, it can not be explained by sexism or other social injustices.
Whether the discrepancy is due to nature (such as hormonal differences affecting brain) or nurture (parents and society treating girls differently), the differences in pay are probably due to the same reason(s).
It may be useful to remember, that the particular phone in question was used by a terrorist — and the FBI's attempts to find his accomplices (if any) is as crispy clean from both legal and ethical point of view as virgin snow.
Israel — having won all of the "normal" wars waged against it by its neighbours — has been suffering from low-life terrorism for a very long time. Thus it is perfectly normal for an Israeli firm in particular to both have developed and be willing to apply the know-how to break into the assholes' electronics.
Stop shouting, Illiberal asshole... You aren't on an anti-Trump rally complaining about "not being heard".
And 10 are dead from water-borne Legionella.
They did not die on the first day the pipes got contaminated, did they? Not even the first month. Back then, somebody wishing to be sympathetic to the people involved in the mess could've said, the same thing: "Nobody got poisoned or sick in the end".
Today, somebody sympathetic towards the hackers, is making the same mistake making the same claim. Some of the chemicals involved in water treatment are nasty and messing with their levels may make the tap water poisonous as well. Whether anybody was, in fact, affected may not even be known, because, if it is the well off and White skinned folks, they are unlikely to attract much attention from media or government regulators. But to make the above claim was bogus — and that's my point.
Children exposed to lead are doomed to irreversible neurological damage, including lowered intelligence and a propensity for violence
Yes, yes, sure. All according to government "scientists", who also claimed for decades, that fat and cholesterol are bad for you...
You seem not to realize: Christians and Jews and Yezidi and if you want I google for the other Abrahmic religions: are not heathens.
True or not, this is not relevant. The point was, Muslims are compelled by their faith to actively spread it — including, even if not always, by violence. This makes Islam worse (to an objective observer) than Christianity or Judaism.
a) they are poor and have nothing to lose b) someone killed their family
That may be true about people in Afghanistan or Iraq, but it is decidedly not true about the terrorists in the West. Even Washington Post agrees. Najim Laachraoui — the maker of the Paris and Brussels bombs — immigrated from Morocco, grew up in Belgium and graduated a university. He was well off and his family was safely in Europe. The two homicide bombers also grew up in the rich Brussels (with all the "safety net" of a European country). Like millions of others, they had criminal records, but no prior ties to terrorism — no one in their family were killed. They got radicalized by something — but poverty is not it.
The San Bernardino murderers were also wealthy Americans. Tsarnaev brothers moved to the US at young age, but weren't poor. They did immigrate from a war-torn region, but had no one in their immediate family killed — and, if anyone was, it was not by the US.
So, your attempts to blame poverty and desire to avenge family thoroughly debunked, you are left with the two choices I gave you before: a) skin color; b) religion.
Your middle part was just nonsense.
The grace, with which you surrender your positions, continues to astound. It seems, we are done here.
First of all, thank you for quietly accepting my point about Koran prescribing world-wide Theocracy as the only acceptable shape of government (with Caliph at the top). You could've been more explicit about it, but for a fellow, who casually calls his opponents names, this is not bad.
No it does not. It is spreading the religion to "heathens"
Koran urges the faithful to convert the heathens by force if necessary.
just like the Christians do.
Although Christians have done the same, there is nothing in Christian scripture about it. So it is possible to be a good Christian without converting "heathens" at gun point. The same can not be said about Islam.
Wow, and that can not happen to Christians? Why?
Because Christian scripture, once again, asks the followers to "Cæsar's to Cæsar" — and not apply their faith to sæcular matters. Christians haven't always heeded that, obviously, but the fact remains — they aren't compelled to it by the faith. Unlike Muslims.
That said, it could, I suppose, happen to Christians too. It just hasn't happened to them in a looong while for some reason. And "poverty" or some other inequality — Illiberals' favorite excuse — are not the reasons. These and previous attackers were all from well off families, many either born or raised in the fithy-rich West. Having attended European universities, they had perfectly prosperous and fulfilling lives ahead of them, but chose to become terrorists instead.
The only things, that make them different from neighbors, are: a) slightly darker skin; b) religion. Which trait, in your opinion, is more likely to account for their evil?
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Wow, it really would not take much to be convicted in a People's Court with you presiding... What would it be, your honor, 25 years of hard labor, or an execution in the basement?
Yes, Bernie Sanders is a Communist. And that particular article came out before he started to run for Presidency. The "Socialist" label he prefers is hardly better (Socialism is nothing but Communism-lite), but he was and remains a member and supporter of openly Communist organizations. As recently as 2014 Bernie Sanders was hailed by Democratic Socialists of America — a "New Left" organization comprised of what was left of the Socialist and Communist movements of the "Old Left". And he was not merely endorsed by these assholes (the way, Trump was endorsed by Duke) — Sanders was a distinguished speaker at a DSA gathering that year. On the same page the Senator is also called "DSA member".
The funny part is, most of his defenders would dispute — often angrily — the "Communist" label while also disagreeing, there is anything wrong with being a Communist. So, before going any further, please, state for the record, whether you are one of such people... Thanks!
While Fascism/Nazism is largely extinct from public life (though, sadly, not from government), Socialism/Communism — the far more murderous school of thought — is rearing its even uglier head... And not only on Slashdot.
Yeah, as if private enterprises have never made the same mistake...
I'm no fan of government-run anything, but this is hardly "proof". The submitter's editorializing is, indeed, offensive — as if someone wanted to make an anti-Libertarian strawman for Statists to attack.
Yes, NASA ought to be privatized as a few companies — for- and non-profit alike. The folks, who wish to see "pure research" continue, can make donations to the non-profit without forcing others (via the IRS' implicit gunpoint) to do the same.
But this SLS-whatever is has little to do with the idea...
I wish I'd be able to do something like that some day — with Slashdot cheering for and supporting me.
You never asked. And now the rest of the audience is gone and I don't feel particularly charitable towards someone, who planned to devise his own "unbreakable" phone just a short while ago in another thread.
So I'll leave it as an exercise for you. What is the program promising to do, that might justify its accessing of the user's incoming calls?
Not "anybody"... What if he printed something like "Sanders2016" on all of those printers? You'd have those same folks defending him...
A former Jew turned neo-Communist is running for Presidency of the US. Big deal...
(OMG, did I just say it out loud? What an overrated flamebaiting troll... Off-topic too!)
Makers of the TrueCaller application. Hope, this helped.
In addition to the usual lessons to app-developers, there is a lesson for users. Do not allow "apps" to know more, than what is required for them to fulfill the purpose you installed them for. And if they insist on such things (like access to your photographs), then do not install them.
With things like "true caller" it is bad enough that they know, who calls you — but they have a legitimate need to know. They do not need to know you, however.
Of course, we do:
There is nothing "savage" about either of the two measures. Whoever feels sympathetic to the people displaced by war or any other kind of disaster, is welcome to help them in any way they choose directly.
The current situation makes no sense at all. Ukraine, for example — itself a European country with customs quite similar to those of EU members — has been struggling to obtain a visa-free status with EU for years. Meanwhile, folks with completely different ideas of how to live (and dress and pray) are allowed to immigrate en masse.
The US is different, but no less bizarre. For example, while the government actively prosecutes rich folks coming to US to give birth, who pay for it themselves and go back, the poor folks who can't afford healthcare themselves are effectively encouraged to come (illegally), give birth and stay . South Americans cross into the US daily while the Border Control intercepts only about 61%.
To America's credit, we seem to be better at dealing with the "wonderful tapestry of diversity", but there is nothing "savage" about wanting less of it — diversity is not strength, it is an expensive luxury.
We know how to do it and there is nothing "savage" about saying "no". But our current elites just would not do it — whether due to some misplaced compassion or desire for cheaper gardeners and cherry-pickers.
Wow... Hard to recall a truer statement on /. ... Congratulations, team!
Funny, I've never heard about any other interpretations, than "ears" — that's what my dad told me about them many years ago.
According to Wikipedia, they are called that in Israel...
My favorite is a nice homemade hamantash, you insensitive clods.
An earlier proposal — from Ms. Lampitt's fellow female Democrat from Essex — would've made it mandatory for bicycles to be registered in the State.
Kinda reflects badly on the national Party trying to portray itself as the defender of personal freedoms and individual rights.
Distinction without difference. If defecating into lettuce is wrong, then it does not matter, who does it — they are all wrong.
If anything, the "farmer" — to continue your tortured analogy — poisoning his produce is even worse than a reseller doing it afterwards...
I see, that you are one of my more fervent followers and fans. Would you like to subscribe to my newsletter?
Spin it however you want... Had they actually been worried about consumers, they would've advertised the feature back then — instead of inventing the excuse now.
Whatever. The fact remains: different content was served to people based solely on their IP-address.
Which means do you find so objectionable as to require justification?
Thank you for paying some attention. Had you actually been smarter, you would've noticed, that my objections are always to government doing, what it should not be doing at all.
Prosecuting actual murderers is not on the list...
A typical Illiberal coward — posts anonymously so his precious down-mod survives...
For what its worth, Netflix was among the net-neutrality supporters back in 2014... According to TFA, they were already deliberately degrading videos for certain customers then.
The shortage of women among chess Grand Masters (GMs — players with rating above 2500) is so obvious, a new title (WGM) had to be created just for them — a woman needs only 2300 to qualify. With the individual chess ratings computed by the same open formulas for all, it can not be explained by sexism or other social injustices.
Whether the discrepancy is due to nature (such as hormonal differences affecting brain) or nurture (parents and society treating girls differently), the differences in pay are probably due to the same reason(s).
Yeah, yeah, you just hate white...
It may be useful to remember, that the particular phone in question was used by a terrorist — and the FBI's attempts to find his accomplices (if any) is as crispy clean from both legal and ethical point of view as virgin snow.
Israel — having won all of the "normal" wars waged against it by its neighbours — has been suffering from low-life terrorism for a very long time. Thus it is perfectly normal for an Israeli firm in particular to both have developed and be willing to apply the know-how to break into the assholes' electronics.
Stop shouting, Illiberal asshole... You aren't on an anti-Trump rally complaining about "not being heard".
They did not die on the first day the pipes got contaminated, did they? Not even the first month. Back then, somebody wishing to be sympathetic to the people involved in the mess could've said, the same thing: "Nobody got poisoned or sick in the end".
Today, somebody sympathetic towards the hackers, is making the same mistake making the same claim. Some of the chemicals involved in water treatment are nasty and messing with their levels may make the tap water poisonous as well. Whether anybody was, in fact, affected may not even be known, because, if it is the well off and White skinned folks, they are unlikely to attract much attention from media or government regulators. But to make the above claim was bogus — and that's my point.
Yes, yes, sure. All according to government "scientists", who also claimed for decades, that fat and cholesterol are bad for you...
Che Guevara much? Please, don't hate...
True or not, this is not relevant. The point was, Muslims are compelled by their faith to actively spread it — including, even if not always, by violence. This makes Islam worse (to an objective observer) than Christianity or Judaism.
That may be true about people in Afghanistan or Iraq, but it is decidedly not true about the terrorists in the West. Even Washington Post agrees. Najim Laachraoui — the maker of the Paris and Brussels bombs — immigrated from Morocco, grew up in Belgium and graduated a university. He was well off and his family was safely in Europe. The two homicide bombers also grew up in the rich Brussels (with all the "safety net" of a European country). Like millions of others, they had criminal records, but no prior ties to terrorism — no one in their family were killed. They got radicalized by something — but poverty is not it.
The San Bernardino murderers were also wealthy Americans. Tsarnaev brothers moved to the US at young age, but weren't poor. They did immigrate from a war-torn region, but had no one in their immediate family killed — and, if anyone was, it was not by the US.
So, your attempts to blame poverty and desire to avenge family thoroughly debunked, you are left with the two choices I gave you before: a) skin color; b) religion.
The grace, with which you surrender your positions, continues to astound. It seems, we are done here.
Which of the facts I stated are you trying to question with the above rhetorical question?
Whatever. The point was, Catholicism has nothing to do with the terrorism mentioned by N1AK above.
First of all, thank you for quietly accepting my point about Koran prescribing world-wide Theocracy as the only acceptable shape of government (with Caliph at the top). You could've been more explicit about it, but for a fellow, who casually calls his opponents names, this is not bad.
Koran urges the faithful to convert the heathens by force if necessary.
Although Christians have done the same, there is nothing in Christian scripture about it. So it is possible to be a good Christian without converting "heathens" at gun point. The same can not be said about Islam.
Because Christian scripture, once again, asks the followers to "Cæsar's to Cæsar" — and not apply their faith to sæcular matters. Christians haven't always heeded that, obviously, but the fact remains — they aren't compelled to it by the faith. Unlike Muslims.
That said, it could, I suppose, happen to Christians too. It just hasn't happened to them in a looong while for some reason. And "poverty" or some other inequality — Illiberals' favorite excuse — are not the reasons. These and previous attackers were all from well off families, many either born or raised in the fithy-rich West. Having attended European universities, they had perfectly prosperous and fulfilling lives ahead of them, but chose to become terrorists instead.
The only things, that make them different from neighbors, are: a) slightly darker skin; b) religion. Which trait, in your opinion, is more likely to account for their evil?