Yes, I know, but Argentina didn't censor a million blogs, Argentina censored two blogs and the ISPs censored the rest because they're either incompetent or negligent. I feel that there is a distinction to be made there. The headline is deliberately misleading to make it seem as if the Argentinian Government just went on a million blog banning spree, and that's not at all what happened.
Yes but the headline is written in such a way as to imply that the Argentinian Government is censoring a million blogs. That's not true, the AG is censoring two blogs, and the idiot ISPs just said fuck it and shut down everything, not because they were trying to kill a "million blogs", but because they're stupid asses and either didn't know what they were doing or didn't care to do it right. The headline is deliberately written to make it seem like a Great Firewall of Argentina just went up or something, which is what I was saying...the fact that the headline is deliberately sensational.
I really don't know for sure; I never spoke to anyone even peripherally connected to those people at all, they were like the uber Christians that the regular Christians even found a little creepy, like the main character and the mom from Carrie...but we conjectured that they got together and talked about how awesome not having sex is and read stories about other people who loved not having sex so much they wanted to talk to others about it.
Yes but it doesn't seem like it was malicious, i.e., they were censored for content. They were censored because the ISPs are fucking retarded. Still worthy of getting angry about, for sure, but it's certainly not the government's fault, and the headline certainly comes across like it's the government doing the censoring.
Of course, if the government is involved for some reason in some shadowy way, then by all means, burn that mother down...
I had a Biology teacher that went out of her way to tell us all that the state mandated teachings on evolution were crap and that if she had a choice she wouldn't teach it at all, then proceeded to tell us the "real truth" about where we came from, cracked the bible she carried with her everywhere she went, and proceeded to spend a week on teaching us Creationism, complete with quizzes to make sure we'd properly absorbed the knowledge. She did everything she could to gloss over evolution.
Granted, this is the other extreme, this woman also ran the Bible Club, the Abstinence Club (boy was that a hit) and was in charge of a prayer circle that met every day right in front of the school, complete with speaking in tongues. This was in a public school in Georgia, mind you.
There was grumbling in my class, and there was grumbling every year about her, but frankly, the Christians outnumbered the rest of us so complaints were useless. Our entire faculty was Christian; our principle had biblical scriptures hanging on the walls of his office.
I'm willing to bet that for every public school that's going after religious teachings with a hatchet there's 3 that are going completely the opposite way, so I wouldn't worry at all, honestly...the religious people are winning the war and the indoctrination will continue. If you want to learn real science, though, it may be time to start looking into private schools.
The Driver series hasn't been relevant since the PS1 days. Hell, I don't think they were even relevant then. This is just Ubisoft trying to drum up attention for another failed property they own that nobody cares about.
Exactly. I have 2 TB full of movies and music on a USB 2.0 external I move around with as I need to, and yeah, it's slow as dogshit, 5400 RPM over USB ain't ever gonna be very fast, but with media files what difference does it make?
I don't know anyone that's completely eschewed regular HDDs for SSDs, and even with these rare earth elements becoming harder to get, I doubt the price is going to come anywhere near SSDs enough to encourage mainstream adoption anyway. SSDs are great, but they've got a ways to go before their appeal goes beyond the fringe.
If pictures of the topic offended them, why were they on the topic in the first place? If you don't want to see pictures of vaginas, maybe you shouldn't look up vaginas?
If Big Oil wants to secure oil reserves in countries hostile to the US they should hire their own army of mercenaries and pay for it themselves.
Not to mention, that would make AWESOME TV!
Honestly, given the current cultural climate here in the US, I bet a large percentage of people would actually enjoy watching a show about mercenaries beating up on the indigenous population because to them they're all terrorists anyway.
Sales tax ain't shit compared to their markup, though...
Even a 10% sales tax (never seen one that high in my life, but for the sake of argument) is going to bring the price up from $599.99 to $659.99, so I can see the frustration. Hell, you'd think it would be cheaper in Australia...it's not like they're bringing them here and then shipping them back to Australia, they're all coming out of China.
I wonder what they charge for a Mac Mini in Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia.
No, I am basing my opinion on my experiences. I know that these people are not true Libertarians, but that doesn't stop them from checking that box on the polls or telling everyone around them that they're Libertarian, does it?
Seems to me that true Libertarians need to start distancing themselves from all the fakers, but I doubt that'll ever happen because the only way they're gonna gain any ground in this country is with the faker's votes, which of course ends up diluting the parties ideals even more as they try to broaden their appeal. When all is said and done, what you end up with is a bunch of Tea Partiers rallying under the Libertarian banner. Look at Glenn Beck for Christ's sake...
I've already pretty much given up on console gaming in lieu of MMO's because I want more than 10 hours of content in a game, and now they're pushing to make games shorter??
To be fair, Steve Jobs has a lot of bitchslaves. He must be doing something right to have millions of people ready to die in ritual combat defending his legacy.
My point was originally that people have a very bad idea of what Libertarianism is and just disregard it without further thought.
A lot of the self-professed "Libertarians" out there have a very bad idea of what Libertarianism is.
In my experiences (which I admit may not be the same as everyone else's) most of the people that identify themselves as Libertarians are nothing but Republicans that jumped that particular ship after the colossal stupidity of George W. Bush tainted the party. Every political view they have is exactly the same as it was before, the only difference is now they're "Libertarian" so they can distance themselves from that stigma.
Every once in a while I'll actually meet a Libertarian that takes a position that contradicts the typical GOP party line on something (drug prohibition, foreign policy, etc), but that's rare. Usually they're just standard Republicans that don't praise Jesus every chance they get.
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Yes, I know, but Argentina didn't censor a million blogs, Argentina censored two blogs and the ISPs censored the rest because they're either incompetent or negligent. I feel that there is a distinction to be made there. The headline is deliberately misleading to make it seem as if the Argentinian Government just went on a million blog banning spree, and that's not at all what happened.
Yes but the headline is written in such a way as to imply that the Argentinian Government is censoring a million blogs. That's not true, the AG is censoring two blogs, and the idiot ISPs just said fuck it and shut down everything, not because they were trying to kill a "million blogs", but because they're stupid asses and either didn't know what they were doing or didn't care to do it right. The headline is deliberately written to make it seem like a Great Firewall of Argentina just went up or something, which is what I was saying...the fact that the headline is deliberately sensational.
I really don't know for sure; I never spoke to anyone even peripherally connected to those people at all, they were like the uber Christians that the regular Christians even found a little creepy, like the main character and the mom from Carrie...but we conjectured that they got together and talked about how awesome not having sex is and read stories about other people who loved not having sex so much they wanted to talk to others about it.
Yes but it doesn't seem like it was malicious, i.e., they were censored for content. They were censored because the ISPs are fucking retarded. Still worthy of getting angry about, for sure, but it's certainly not the government's fault, and the headline certainly comes across like it's the government doing the censoring.
Of course, if the government is involved for some reason in some shadowy way, then by all means, burn that mother down...
I had a Biology teacher that went out of her way to tell us all that the state mandated teachings on evolution were crap and that if she had a choice she wouldn't teach it at all, then proceeded to tell us the "real truth" about where we came from, cracked the bible she carried with her everywhere she went, and proceeded to spend a week on teaching us Creationism, complete with quizzes to make sure we'd properly absorbed the knowledge. She did everything she could to gloss over evolution.
Granted, this is the other extreme, this woman also ran the Bible Club, the Abstinence Club (boy was that a hit) and was in charge of a prayer circle that met every day right in front of the school, complete with speaking in tongues. This was in a public school in Georgia, mind you.
There was grumbling in my class, and there was grumbling every year about her, but frankly, the Christians outnumbered the rest of us so complaints were useless. Our entire faculty was Christian; our principle had biblical scriptures hanging on the walls of his office.
I'm willing to bet that for every public school that's going after religious teachings with a hatchet there's 3 that are going completely the opposite way, so I wouldn't worry at all, honestly...the religious people are winning the war and the indoctrination will continue. If you want to learn real science, though, it may be time to start looking into private schools.
Anything is possible in today's litigious society, but one has to account for the fact that this lawsuit was based in California.
Give my experiences in GA and the deep south, especially as regards religion in schools, I don't think we would have seen a ruling like this there...
The Driver series hasn't been relevant since the PS1 days. Hell, I don't think they were even relevant then. This is just Ubisoft trying to drum up attention for another failed property they own that nobody cares about.
Exactly. I have 2 TB full of movies and music on a USB 2.0 external I move around with as I need to, and yeah, it's slow as dogshit, 5400 RPM over USB ain't ever gonna be very fast, but with media files what difference does it make?
I don't know anyone that's completely eschewed regular HDDs for SSDs, and even with these rare earth elements becoming harder to get, I doubt the price is going to come anywhere near SSDs enough to encourage mainstream adoption anyway. SSDs are great, but they've got a ways to go before their appeal goes beyond the fringe.
Based on my understanding of what a chav is, that name would have been somewhat appropriate.
If pictures of the topic offended them, why were they on the topic in the first place? If you don't want to see pictures of vaginas, maybe you shouldn't look up vaginas?
If Big Oil wants to secure oil reserves in countries hostile to the US they should hire their own army of mercenaries and pay for it themselves.
Not to mention, that would make AWESOME TV!
Honestly, given the current cultural climate here in the US, I bet a large percentage of people would actually enjoy watching a show about mercenaries beating up on the indigenous population because to them they're all terrorists anyway.
America, Fuck Yeah!
After all, it stands to reason that nature would have already worked out the most efficient way to collect solar energy eons ago.
Hell, I'd be happy if our defense budget was actually spent on our defense, and not proxy wars on behalf of international corporations.
If Big Oil wants to secure oil reserves in countries hostile to the US they should hire their own army of mercenaries and pay for it themselves.
Sales tax ain't shit compared to their markup, though...
Even a 10% sales tax (never seen one that high in my life, but for the sake of argument) is going to bring the price up from $599.99 to $659.99, so I can see the frustration. Hell, you'd think it would be cheaper in Australia...it's not like they're bringing them here and then shipping them back to Australia, they're all coming out of China.
I wonder what they charge for a Mac Mini in Thailand and the rest of Southeast Asia.
Canada seems to be picking up the US's bad habits lately....
I guess by simply looking at it you tacitly agree that it's worth looking at or something...I think that's the gist of the argument.
I mean, maybe some other people care, but this is /.
I can practically GUARANTEE that you are less than 37 years old.
Eh? Why's that?
Coincidentally, I am, but not by much...
No, I am basing my opinion on my experiences. I know that these people are not true Libertarians, but that doesn't stop them from checking that box on the polls or telling everyone around them that they're Libertarian, does it?
Seems to me that true Libertarians need to start distancing themselves from all the fakers, but I doubt that'll ever happen because the only way they're gonna gain any ground in this country is with the faker's votes, which of course ends up diluting the parties ideals even more as they try to broaden their appeal. When all is said and done, what you end up with is a bunch of Tea Partiers rallying under the Libertarian banner. Look at Glenn Beck for Christ's sake...
I've already pretty much given up on console gaming in lieu of MMO's because I want more than 10 hours of content in a game, and now they're pushing to make games shorter??
Jesus. Gaming sure is starting to suck...
To be fair, Steve Jobs has a lot of bitchslaves. He must be doing something right to have millions of people ready to die in ritual combat defending his legacy.
I love the fact that you're modded +5, Informative.
Don't ever change, /.
Aaron Barr's new site?
I suspect that this site is going to be of the "pissing in an ocean of piss" variety in about 3 days.
My point was originally that people have a very bad idea of what Libertarianism is and just disregard it without further thought.
A lot of the self-professed "Libertarians" out there have a very bad idea of what Libertarianism is.
In my experiences (which I admit may not be the same as everyone else's) most of the people that identify themselves as Libertarians are nothing but Republicans that jumped that particular ship after the colossal stupidity of George W. Bush tainted the party. Every political view they have is exactly the same as it was before, the only difference is now they're "Libertarian" so they can distance themselves from that stigma.
Every once in a while I'll actually meet a Libertarian that takes a position that contradicts the typical GOP party line on something (drug prohibition, foreign policy, etc), but that's rare. Usually they're just standard Republicans that don't praise Jesus every chance they get.