Journalism is for the rich. They typically force interns to work for free -- and only the rich can afford to pay for their kids to work for nothing for months of years on end.
Because journalism is full of rich-arses, they sympathise with the class interests of the rich. Should anybody be surprised?
Remember that the ruling classes in the UK are wealthy, blonde, blue-blooded, old-money jocks who either work in the City or in "media" (the smart ones), or join the Army (the dumb ones). Typically the entitled tossers who created the 2008 financial crisis through their ego and sense of self-entitlement, and then are outraged that we don't worship them as the John Galt titans they imagine themselves to be.
Feral rich idiots. Treat this story with the distain that it deserves.
I think the Democrats fucked up. They tried throwing in all sorts of sweeteners for the Righties, because they foolishly thought that the Republicans would act in good faith, and exercise some bipartisanship, especially given that Obamacare was invented by Mike Huckabee.
The Dems fucked up because they were naive and didn't count on the Tea Party, who are just hell bent on anarchy and watching the world burn.
If it were me, I would have introduced a very slim, very simple law: introduce single-payer for all, funded out of the federal budget. And then let people go out and buy gold-plated private insurance if they want to choose their doctor. Like every other civilized country on Earth. The conservatives would've hated it, but the Dems could have just rammed it through (abolishing the filibuster if necessary), and one signed into law, it would have been absolutely impossible to wind back.
He's blown a whole lot of trust as it is, by stabbing his country in the back so spectacularly.
What makes him think that everyone should believe him now?
The Russians have taken in traitors/defectors from the West; but they know that traitors are the scum of the Earth, and can never, ever be fully trusted.
I can see how the lack of outrage upsets the psychotics. Their egos depend on ginning up as much outrage as possible; the more outrage, the more important they feel.
Greenwald and his bum buddies screwed up the timing of the releases. They're trying to leak damaging material times to causes maximum chaos and damage. Unfortunately for them, Congress have knocked their capers off the front page, and unsurprisingly, they're feeling angry and butthurt.
That old furphy about the cops being "unarmed" again...
The bobbies on the beat may not actually carry firearms on patrol, but they can go from zero to Rambo in a split second. The only places I've seen so many cops with machine guns was 1) in Korea near the DMZ, and 2) London immediately after the 7/7 terrorist attacks.
Oh, and I suppose you haven't heard of Operation Kratos either... the police here are authorised to shoot people in the head if they suspect they're about to carry out a suicide bombing.
At least SOMEBODY in the West remembers how to make things and innovate (and I don't mean 'innovate' in the sense of wizarding up even more financial and managerial bullshit).
Management and finance don't create value, techies and innovators do. Unfortunately, stupid, spoilt rich kids head into law and finance, so our clueless overlords prioritize that.
The Euro was a brilliant, clever strategy by those in favour of a Federal Europe. They deliberately engineered it so that once it was introduced, it would be painful to get rid of (they never even bothered figuring out the mechanisms to do so). And the only way to deal with crises, is ever-closer (fiscal) union, with the weak being supported with transfer payments. This already happens in both Europe and the US anyway (and anybody who's been to eastern Europe and seen the big EU gusher of public money building brand new infrastructure, knows what I'm talking about).
This drives the idiots and small-minded nationalists on the Right crazy, and it's sometimes funny to watch them foam at the mouth. Unfortunately, people like UKIP have real power and a real support base.
The absolute torrent of economically illiterate nonsense that comes out of American commenters on the net is a FANTASTIC public endorsement of the quality of the US educational system.
Agreed. OP should check the traffic on his own network before jumping to conclusions. As far as congestion goes, if there's a bot on his network pumping out huge amounts of outbound traffic, then that'll stuff his connection just as surely as if some script kiddie was DDoSing him.
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Journalism is for the rich. They typically force interns to work for free -- and only the rich can afford to pay for their kids to work for nothing for months of years on end.
Because journalism is full of rich-arses, they sympathise with the class interests of the rich. Should anybody be surprised?
Remember that the ruling classes in the UK are wealthy, blonde, blue-blooded, old-money jocks who either work in the City or in "media" (the smart ones), or join the Army (the dumb ones). Typically the entitled tossers who created the 2008 financial crisis through their ego and sense of self-entitlement, and then are outraged that we don't worship them as the John Galt titans they imagine themselves to be.
Feral rich idiots. Treat this story with the distain that it deserves.
I think the Democrats fucked up. They tried throwing in all sorts of sweeteners for the Righties, because they foolishly thought that the Republicans would act in good faith, and exercise some bipartisanship, especially given that Obamacare was invented by Mike Huckabee.
The Dems fucked up because they were naive and didn't count on the Tea Party, who are just hell bent on anarchy and watching the world burn.
If it were me, I would have introduced a very slim, very simple law: introduce single-payer for all, funded out of the federal budget. And then let people go out and buy gold-plated private insurance if they want to choose their doctor. Like every other civilized country on Earth. The conservatives would've hated it, but the Dems could have just rammed it through (abolishing the filibuster if necessary), and one signed into law, it would have been absolutely impossible to wind back.
You just quoted WUWT in a scientific discussion with a straight face?
Not to mention 1b+ Indians, who are notorious goldbugs.
Off your meds??
It's not so much they got caught, but some egotistical libertarian fuckwit leaked it to the press.
You are a sad individual indeed, if you have nothing better to do and stalk pro-Western posters on Slashdot.
France is 5% Muslim, and given how feral and out-of-control their minorities are, I'd say they're fair game.
He's blown a whole lot of trust as it is, by stabbing his country in the back so spectacularly.
What makes him think that everyone should believe him now?
The Russians have taken in traitors/defectors from the West; but they know that traitors are the scum of the Earth, and can never, ever be fully trusted.
One positive development is the possibility of the Republicans developing a split between normal conservatives, and the unelectable raving loonies.
Hope they make an example out of the little slag. And her useless parents too.
I can see how the lack of outrage upsets the psychotics. Their egos depend on ginning up as much outrage as possible; the more outrage, the more important they feel.
Greenwald and his bum buddies screwed up the timing of the releases. They're trying to leak damaging material times to causes maximum chaos and damage. Unfortunately for them, Congress have knocked their capers off the front page, and unsurprisingly, they're feeling angry and butthurt.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those :-p
First person to say 'Farnsworth Fusor' gets a punch in the face.
I see the Ayn Rand science fiction book club are quite busy today.
Yawn. As always. Nothing to see here. Move on.
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Are you a Muslim?
That old furphy about the cops being "unarmed" again...
The bobbies on the beat may not actually carry firearms on patrol, but they can go from zero to Rambo in a split second. The only places I've seen so many cops with machine guns was 1) in Korea near the DMZ, and 2) London immediately after the 7/7 terrorist attacks.
Oh, and I suppose you haven't heard of Operation Kratos either... the police here are authorised to shoot people in the head if they suspect they're about to carry out a suicide bombing.
At least SOMEBODY in the West remembers how to make things and innovate (and I don't mean 'innovate' in the sense of wizarding up even more financial and managerial bullshit).
Management and finance don't create value, techies and innovators do. Unfortunately, stupid, spoilt rich kids head into law and finance, so our clueless overlords prioritize that.
The Euro was a brilliant, clever strategy by those in favour of a Federal Europe. They deliberately engineered it so that once it was introduced, it would be painful to get rid of (they never even bothered figuring out the mechanisms to do so). And the only way to deal with crises, is ever-closer (fiscal) union, with the weak being supported with transfer payments. This already happens in both Europe and the US anyway (and anybody who's been to eastern Europe and seen the big EU gusher of public money building brand new infrastructure, knows what I'm talking about).
This drives the idiots and small-minded nationalists on the Right crazy, and it's sometimes funny to watch them foam at the mouth. Unfortunately, people like UKIP have real power and a real support base.
The absolute torrent of economically illiterate nonsense that comes out of American commenters on the net is a FANTASTIC public endorsement of the quality of the US educational system.
And the Russians absolutely know they they're using energy as a tool of foreign policy. They even joke about it on TV.
Agreed. OP should check the traffic on his own network before jumping to conclusions. As far as congestion goes, if there's a bot on his network pumping out huge amounts of outbound traffic, then that'll stuff his connection just as surely as if some script kiddie was DDoSing him.
We've had this debate about a Bill of Rights in Australia. There are valid legal arguments, both for and against putting such a beast into writing.
That's a strange thing to say.
I thought the ENTIRE basis of the common law tradition, is that what isn't explicitly banned is allowed.