I'm just glad that those of you who think that all conspiracies are just the product of paranoia weren't in charge of the Watergate invesitgation--or Iran/Contra, or the torture and extreme rendition allegations, etc. There is a big difference between thinking that black helicopters are circling your house monitoring your brainwaves and thinking that the CIA engages in operations against foreign individuals deemed a threat to U.S. interests.
I remember a guy who made a speech calling for a global currency to challenge the dollar. Turns out he became a rapist too, just a few months after making that speech in fact. Well, he was a rapist for a while anyway. The DA later admitted that the previously "rock solid" case against him was completely bogus--exactly three days after his successor at the IMF took office. Coincidental timing, I guess.
But then I guess I would be accused of wearing a tinfoil hat if I suggested that there was anything suspicious about the timing of some rape charges.
How often do you need to have your tin-foil hat refitted?
You know, believe it or not, there are actual conspiracies in this world that are real. And there are actually real spies and real saboteurs whose job it is to infiltrate organizations deemed national security threats. They get paid to do it and everything.
After all, what do you think 130,000 CIA employees do all day, sit around and stare at the walls?
Julian Assange may be a bit cocky, but keep in mind that a lot of this "Cult of Assange" shit and a lot of the infighting reports came from Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a person of VERY questionable motives and honesty--to say the least. His dubious book is the source of many of these reports.
Now personally, I've always strongly suspected that Domscheit-Berg was an intelligence plant at Wikileaks (working for the CIA, BND, or take your pick). He started to physically sabotage the organization pretty much from day one, acted a lot like an agent provocateur when he was there, destroyed some 3,500 unpublished whistleblower communications as he was leaving, immediately went on a campaign to discredit Wikileaks and Assange after he left, and then unsuccessfully tried to set up a leaks site himself that sounded suspiciously like a honeypot to me (send us your leaked documents and trust us to maybe release them to the press--or maybe just send some FBI agents to kick down your door). And apparently Assange suspected this too.
Much as I hate to side with MS (okay, I do like my Xbox), they've got a point on this one, even if they're doing it for all the wrong reasons. I do find it really fucking creepy that gmail is parsing my private email, no matter what their justification. I would hate to be conducting a search at work in front of my boss and have a bunch of "Hey, you're gay, so check this out!" advertising pop up because I sent some highly personal emails to a gay partner. Not to mention the fact that since they've established that they have the tech to parse emails for advertising, you know the government is going to come calling (probably already have) to make them parse emails for "national security" too. Fuck that noise.
Now go ahead and mod me down for daring to defend MS on slashdot. But you may want to think about this the next time google returns an ad that seems to know WAY too much about your personal life.
It was the biggest Ponzi scheme in history--all done with the blessing of the biggest banks in the world, cheering politicians, and a gullible public that bought into the idea that less regulation and oversight would somehow not incentivize corruption and fraud.
Obviously, you haven't been watching Fox News. They have assured me that it was the evil government, and not base greed and the free market, that caused the crash.
Obviously you don't appreciate how many nerdy quants there were on Wall Street painting over these bag-of-shit securities packages with a fresh coating of technical bullshit to make them look like roses.
Every now and then I see one of these ChromeOS stories, and it reminds me that ChromeOS exists. I'm not being catty there, I mean that I really do literally forget about it. That's probably not a good sign for Google. It not only hasn't made a big splash, it's barely made ANY splash at all.
You will find out that the majority of people do admire J.J. Abrams and believe that he is indeed talented
Irrespective of his talent (or lack thereof), Orson Welles wouldn't have deserved the slovenly ass-kissing that Hollywood has been bestowing on JJ Abrams of late.
First of all, that is the stupidest fucking idea I have ever heard, even by dumbass Hollywood standards. The whole point of the Portal games was for YOU to solve puzzles in creative and fun ways. Making that into a passive experience renders the whole thing absolutely pointless. I would rather watch an Adam Sandler movie while eating shards of glass, with Lindsay Lohan's week-old panties wrapped under my nose.
Secondly, does JJ Abrams have blackmail photos of every studio head in Hollywood or something? Because the guy never struck me as particularly talented, certainly not enough to warrant letting him direct EVERY GODDAMNED MOVIE MADE FROM NOW ON. Not since Keanu Reeves has a less deserving motherfucker gotten so much.
The exact same thought occured to me when I read the summary. Yes, there are plenty of crazyball conspiracies out there (and plenty of paranoid nutcases who think every black helicopter in the sky is monitoring their brainwaves). But there are also sometimes when there are REAL ACTUAL conspiracies and cover-ups. It's very easy to become too quick to dismiss everyone who questions the most conventional narrative as a conspiracy nut. But imagine if the FBI had looked at the guys who broke into the Watergate, learned of their ties to the White House, and then promptly dismissed the whole idea that the break-ins were part of something much bigger as just a crazy conspiracy nutjob idea.
Most of the environmentalists I've known were just interesting in their own smug sense of self-righteousness. They told others (and themselves) that they were all about helping the environment, of course. but I suspect that was actually way down on the list far below "Feeling like I'm a hero", "Getting to look down on everyone else", "Impressing other environmentalists (and getting laid by the female ones)", "Having something to do besides get a boring job", etc.
That "Game of Thrones" show has been stealing blatantly from the "Song of Ice and Fire" book series for 2 years now.
But if you're going to flag anyone, how about you get those thieves at Fox for pirating music from Jonathan Coulton? I think a fine of $22,500 for everyone who downloaded the Glee version sounds about right.
as long as the ISPs care more about bumping their stock prices and giving their CEOs mega-bonuses than actually laying lines shit like this just ain't gonna fly.
Does laying lines of coke on hookers' backs count? Because with all that money, they're definitely doing that.
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Hey Laura, I'm sending you a picture of The Decider!
If I were going to join a cult, it would be the one worshiping Justin Bieber.
You sir, are worse than Godwin!
I'm just glad that those of you who think that all conspiracies are just the product of paranoia weren't in charge of the Watergate invesitgation--or Iran/Contra, or the torture and extreme rendition allegations, etc. There is a big difference between thinking that black helicopters are circling your house monitoring your brainwaves and thinking that the CIA engages in operations against foreign individuals deemed a threat to U.S. interests.
Do you honestly believe that the U.S. government regarded Assange as just "some random guy leaking confidential State Department cables"? Seriously?
Yeah, those rapists.
I remember a guy who made a speech calling for a global currency to challenge the dollar. Turns out he became a rapist too, just a few months after making that speech in fact. Well, he was a rapist for a while anyway. The DA later admitted that the previously "rock solid" case against him was completely bogus--exactly three days after his successor at the IMF took office. Coincidental timing, I guess.
But then I guess I would be accused of wearing a tinfoil hat if I suggested that there was anything suspicious about the timing of some rape charges.
How often do you need to have your tin-foil hat refitted?
You know, believe it or not, there are actual conspiracies in this world that are real. And there are actually real spies and real saboteurs whose job it is to infiltrate organizations deemed national security threats. They get paid to do it and everything.
After all, what do you think 130,000 CIA employees do all day, sit around and stare at the walls?
Julian Assange may be a bit cocky, but keep in mind that a lot of this "Cult of Assange" shit and a lot of the infighting reports came from Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a person of VERY questionable motives and honesty--to say the least. His dubious book is the source of many of these reports.
Now personally, I've always strongly suspected that Domscheit-Berg was an intelligence plant at Wikileaks (working for the CIA, BND, or take your pick). He started to physically sabotage the organization pretty much from day one, acted a lot like an agent provocateur when he was there, destroyed some 3,500 unpublished whistleblower communications as he was leaving, immediately went on a campaign to discredit Wikileaks and Assange after he left, and then unsuccessfully tried to set up a leaks site himself that sounded suspiciously like a honeypot to me (send us your leaked documents and trust us to maybe release them to the press--or maybe just send some FBI agents to kick down your door). And apparently Assange suspected this too.
Now, who's more evil? Google or Microsoft?
Apple
Much as I hate to side with MS (okay, I do like my Xbox), they've got a point on this one, even if they're doing it for all the wrong reasons. I do find it really fucking creepy that gmail is parsing my private email, no matter what their justification. I would hate to be conducting a search at work in front of my boss and have a bunch of "Hey, you're gay, so check this out!" advertising pop up because I sent some highly personal emails to a gay partner. Not to mention the fact that since they've established that they have the tech to parse emails for advertising, you know the government is going to come calling (probably already have) to make them parse emails for "national security" too. Fuck that noise.
Now go ahead and mod me down for daring to defend MS on slashdot. But you may want to think about this the next time google returns an ad that seems to know WAY too much about your personal life.
It was the biggest Ponzi scheme in history--all done with the blessing of the biggest banks in the world, cheering politicians, and a gullible public that bought into the idea that less regulation and oversight would somehow not incentivize corruption and fraud.
Obviously, you haven't been watching Fox News. They have assured me that it was the evil government, and not base greed and the free market, that caused the crash.
Obviously you don't appreciate how many nerdy quants there were on Wall Street painting over these bag-of-shit securities packages with a fresh coating of technical bullshit to make them look like roses.
You can't seriously think that whether a product has made much impact on you determines its success in the wider market.
No, I just think it's probably a bad sign when a highly tech oriented person has to periodically be reminded that your tech product even exists.
Every now and then I see one of these ChromeOS stories, and it reminds me that ChromeOS exists. I'm not being catty there, I mean that I really do literally forget about it. That's probably not a good sign for Google. It not only hasn't made a big splash, it's barely made ANY splash at all.
You will find out that the majority of people do admire J.J. Abrams and believe that he is indeed talented
Irrespective of his talent (or lack thereof), Orson Welles wouldn't have deserved the slovenly ass-kissing that Hollywood has been bestowing on JJ Abrams of late.
At the end, it turns out that GlaDOS was actually a ghost the entire time.
First of all, that is the stupidest fucking idea I have ever heard, even by dumbass Hollywood standards. The whole point of the Portal games was for YOU to solve puzzles in creative and fun ways. Making that into a passive experience renders the whole thing absolutely pointless. I would rather watch an Adam Sandler movie while eating shards of glass, with Lindsay Lohan's week-old panties wrapped under my nose.
Secondly, does JJ Abrams have blackmail photos of every studio head in Hollywood or something? Because the guy never struck me as particularly talented, certainly not enough to warrant letting him direct EVERY GODDAMNED MOVIE MADE FROM NOW ON. Not since Keanu Reeves has a less deserving motherfucker gotten so much.
We must stop them from going back in time to the 1930's to sue E. E. Smith and Robert Heinlein!
The exact same thought occured to me when I read the summary. Yes, there are plenty of crazyball conspiracies out there (and plenty of paranoid nutcases who think every black helicopter in the sky is monitoring their brainwaves). But there are also sometimes when there are REAL ACTUAL conspiracies and cover-ups. It's very easy to become too quick to dismiss everyone who questions the most conventional narrative as a conspiracy nut. But imagine if the FBI had looked at the guys who broke into the Watergate, learned of their ties to the White House, and then promptly dismissed the whole idea that the break-ins were part of something much bigger as just a crazy conspiracy nutjob idea.
Most of the environmentalists I've known were just interesting in their own smug sense of self-righteousness. They told others (and themselves) that they were all about helping the environment, of course. but I suspect that was actually way down on the list far below "Feeling like I'm a hero", "Getting to look down on everyone else", "Impressing other environmentalists (and getting laid by the female ones)", "Having something to do besides get a boring job", etc.
That "Game of Thrones" show has been stealing blatantly from the "Song of Ice and Fire" book series for 2 years now.
But if you're going to flag anyone, how about you get those thieves at Fox for pirating music from Jonathan Coulton? I think a fine of $22,500 for everyone who downloaded the Glee version sounds about right.
The same people who buy books even though they can get them at the library for free?
I knew things were bad when a dragon in Skyrim asked me to bring him a cool, refreshing Coca Cola.
as long as the ISPs care more about bumping their stock prices and giving their CEOs mega-bonuses than actually laying lines shit like this just ain't gonna fly.
Does laying lines of coke on hookers' backs count? Because with all that money, they're definitely doing that.