Your in college and find a strange device attached to your car. I don't know about you but I would have taken it apart to see what it was. I would have figured it was some joke a friend had made. If it wasn't marked as federal property how should I know?
You are right. I so hope this doesn't happen to be honest. Frankly this should still run into anti-trust issues. It could be seen as a clear attack on Apple PCs. Microsoft still has a huge share of the PC market and has already been convicted once of anti-trust. If anything Microsoft would have to keep producing Mac versions just as they do with Office. Frankly Microsoft going around and buying up companies is just annoying. Adobe really could use some compitions in those key markets and Microsoft if the made an effort could complete.
They don't test shuttle tanks in Mississippi. They could have tested in Florida and in fact did do some testing for a 240" solid booster in south Florida and they test Centaurs in West Palm to this day. The large space? They where building the VAB so building a production building in Florida would have been simple. There is a good reason for it to be Louisiana instead of say AZ. But the reason that it wasn't in Florida was to spread the "wealth" around. In many ways it isn't a bad idea if you look at maximizing the economic benefits or a program. But if you look at just the cost it adds up. That is one of the good things about a lot of big government programs like that. Yes they cost a lot of tax dollars but a good amount of that money gets recycled from the jobs that it creates. You also have the RnD benefit as well. I am not even saying that this is the worst or best way to do these projects. Just that is the way they are done.
Sorry but that is no solution. Frankly that is probably what happens now. To get a budget you must have Congress on your side so when you do a project like this the companies do pick where to put the sub contractors. And they pick the subs that are in the areas that have the congressional votes that they need. So you need to get the congressman from Idaho to change his vote on a figher plane? Simple you have the nose gear trailing link made in Rupert ID. Need the congress person from NE to change their vote? You buy your wire from his district.
Not so much graft by the contractors per say but graft by and for congress. Think about how spread out build projects are for anything in the government. KSC is where it is because of the law of physics and where land was available at the time. Very few people lived in that part of Florida in the 1940s so it was cheap to buy and it is far enough south to get a boost from the earth's spin and it is over the water. They built the tanks and the first stage of the Saturn V in Louisiana because.... They have mission control and training in Houston TX because.... Huntsville is there because that was where the Army started working on rockets after WWII. Why didn't they build the tanks at KSC and keep all the rest of NASA their? Simple if you spread the money around you get support. If you have a senator in North Dakota that just happens to have a factory that makes carpeting for the Space Shuttle you end up with a vote at budget time. Sad but true with just about every government project of any size. If you look at the hand outs the give congress they will show all the sub contractors and all the jobs for any big project.
Actually the DPI is not going up. The problem if you want to call it that is that HDTV is driving the Panel market. The majority of monitors are going to use the same resolution as HD TV. For most computer uses this is a less than ideal situation. For watching a video it is great. For reading a website, writing code, using word, editing photos not so much. Gaming it may be okay for as well.
Wow is all I can say. Really not helping out someone that will lose everything they own two a fire including letting their pets die? Wow you have a very different version of charity than I do. Of course I love that this is getting modded down. The extreme right will do it because. He should take responsibility for his actions. and the extreme left because I dare to use a biblical text.
We have 10,000 users of our software spread over every continent of the earth but Antarctica. They do not all work for the same company and do not all have dedicated IT people. Your experience is probably a lot applicable to our situation. Also a lot of file transfers will never benfit from bit torrent. Downloading an attachment from email is a good example or uploading video to youtube. torrents are great for send a lot of copies of a big file to lots of people all at once. It no benefit one on one.
If all browsers support it then we will probably think about supporting it as well but for a long time people that can use torrents outside of software that has it built in will be the minority of users.
Yea I know bible stuff doesn't go over well here but I do wonder if this will be what is taught in the churches of that county this Sunday. Just wondering if how many will people will like being goats?
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
"Think about the apps that had a really hard time working because of NAT. The games that could not peer-to-peer because both sides were behind NAT." And this costs my company money how?
Actually I really want ipv6 for what I do but that argument you made sounds like a positive for IPV6.
I would not say that being FOSS alone makes a program better. If the program doesn't function or do the job required it is not better. A good example is Solidworks. I have not found any FOSS software that works as well as Solidworks or can replace it. I would love to find a free program that does since Solidworks is so expensive. Frankly a FOSS world class 3d Cad system like Solidworks or ProE would probably benefit more people that just about any FOSS program yet created. But there are none. Another example that is less critical is FSX and X-Plane. FlightGear is the FOSS version of a flight sim but frankly it just isn't as good as those two. As to violating software licenses agreements or as it is commonly called piracy. Every time someone pirates they are actually hurting FOSS. When someone pirates a piece of software they are saying "this program is too valuable to live without but I am not going to pay for it." All that does is weakens that idea that FOSS is better and strengthens the argument for stronger DRM. Because if something is so valuable that you break the law to get it then all you need to do to get more profit is make it too hard to copy.
So I disagree with you there. When you violate someone's license you are weakening the argument that FLOSS is better.
But that is must my opinion and my logic behind it.
Depends on what you mean by controversial. They did take down the Church that was going to burn the Koran site which I have at best mixed feelings over. Rackspace does have strict polices on hate speech, child porn, and wares. I have no problem with that at all. I do not know how they would feel about Cryptome. I would not put that site in any of those categories. I do know that they have good service and support.
Actually I have no problem with Cryptome at all. I have a problem with blaming people and cooking up conspiracy theories. Cryptome was blaming the host and says they can not trust them. Why did they pick them? They are blaming their email provider. Well you picked those as well. When you run a site the ultimate responsibility for security is you. You choose your hosting. Maybe they should pick a better host and move on.
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So when it all blows up Iran will pay Russia to build it again for a pile of cash... Repeat until done. Also you might want to read up a bit. Russia has decided not to sell Iran a state of the art SAM system this week. Oh and Germany. If it blows up they will again buy more stuff form them.
Your high profile site got hacked and you blame everyone else. Well you did pick your ISP and email provider. Honestly folks might I suggest RackSpace? We use them and they have been great if a little expensive but you get what you pay for.
I never said they where stupid but as you pointed out you helped those people. Try supporting 10,000 or 100,000. When you do that then things change. If there is a 1 in a 1000 chance of them having an issue that means we hear about it 10 times a day. I still say it will not see wide spread support until it is built in everywhere and then it will take a while. Also for a lot of people it will not really help at all. If you talking about a few meg update to a few people then it is just no benefit.
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I wouldn't even say most likely the US or Israel. I don't think there are many nations that want a Nuclear Iran. The list should include. China Russia India All of the EU Egypt Most of the Middle East. I mean really this list is long and while this worm is probably outside the limits for some guy with a grudge it isn't outside the limits for any nation with a large university with a good CS department.
Yes just the requirement for simulating it and debugging it says to me that Babbage didn't finish his machine. It smacks of when Bell and Curtis "debugged" Langley's aerodrome to show that he really "invented" the airplane first. As it is Babbage is known as the father of Computers which he does deserve. Just the fact that he dreamed up this massive machine when he did shows what a great mind he had. Now building one is a great idea. Shouldn't be too hard to simulate with modern cad and then use rapid prototyping to make the parts.
Ha ha. No RMS wouldn't pirate Left4Dead. There is a group of clueless people that use FOSS and the ideas behind the GPL for a misguided excuse to pirate. You will see things like "Information must be free" and other such nonsense. And you are correct they do not get it. If you are really militant pro gpl and FOSS then you would never pirate. Using closed source software even if you pay for it would be counter to your ideas. I do believe that even RMS says he will use Closed Source when their isn't an open alternative but I could be wrong on that.
If you wish change rabid to "stupid misguided" or even "stupid hypocritical" supporters you may. But I in no way was trying to say that the group of which I was speaking was an all inclusive set of the people that follow RMS. On a personal note I am not really comfortable with people that are comfortable calling themselves followers of any person that that is another subject.
I guess if you are willing to live on volcano there must be some benefits. "and when you take a shower there you smell like rotten eggs". And that is not one of them IMHO.
While I too feel that wind and solar have limited potential right now, but they do not have zero. I wouldn't dismiss them so quickly. Geothermal like you are talking about is also not really currently practical. The depth makes the cost actually higher than wind and or solar. We should exploit geothermal where it is practical as well as wind, solar, and nuclear. Only the ignorant dismisses the idea that we need to diversify our sources of energy.
Torrent users == outliers not the people I am talking about. I think you spend to much time with techies and not enough in the real world. It has this long just to get people comfortable with installing Firefox! Torrents may become more common but they will not be the default method until every browser has built in support. Easy wins. That is why most music is still in MP3s and people send.doc files in email "which sucks! folks make a PDF if I don't have to edit it!"
You have never seen someone that pirates in the name of RMS? Wow you must not read Slashdot much.
If you really believe that you should only use FOSS then be my guest. I personally believe that is impossible in the modern world. At some point if you drive a car, use a microwave, or watch TV you will use and or own closed source code.
Most users even ones that program do not fix bugs. I have a few times but even for me it is rare that I will have the time to do more than make a bug report. Just like you do with closed source.
Even if you try to make the effort to used only FOSS on your pc what about the BIOS? Did you replace that with the a FOSS BIOS? What about your video controller? The microcode on the CPU?
I am also anti elitism and smugness. I do like and support FOSS including contributing code to FOSS projects. I use Linux as my main OS at home and try to help people leave the mess that is Windows and to stop paying for expensive software they don't need. But Heck yea I will put Flash on for them so they can use all the Flash games on the web and watch Hulu.
Why? Because it is better for them to have a good experience and not go back to paying for Windows, office, and anti-virus software then it is for them to be pure. And if they must use a piece of software that only runs under Windows? Then I set them up the best I can under Windows with Firefox, Thunderbird, OO.org, and GIMP so that they can move if a good replacement is ever available. Or if they are a little tech savy I might hook them up with VituralBox and let them run Windows on.
This whole wrapping the FOSS with the idea of freedom is just over the top really. Freedom is about choice. If I choose to pay for closed source software because it is better then the open source solution then that is freedom. If I choose to write FOSS and give it away that is also Freedom.
What isn't freedom is the idea that if I don't live the way you think is right I am not free.
You are free to not use or right closed source software. Be my guest but I hate to tell you will have to stop posting on Slashdot. You see Slash is FOSS but Slashdot uses a proprietary theme and some proprietary plug ins according to Wikipedia. If that isn't out of date then by posing on Slashdot you are using Closed Source software.
I found most extremists to be more harmful than helpful. Let's take examples of two extremists. They are extremist FOSS supporters. One writes coded for for a FOSS project and helps people when they have issues with Open Software.
The other gets on Slashdot and posts about how evil closed source is and then hits pirates bay for the latest movies and video games. The problem is that the first is rare while the second are as common a cockroaches and just as pleasant.
I can take devoted but polite which in my dealings RMS was. I can not deal with arrogant hypocritical idiots all that well.
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Your in college and find a strange device attached to your car.
I don't know about you but I would have taken it apart to see what it was. I would have figured it was some joke a friend had made.
If it wasn't marked as federal property how should I know?
You are right. I so hope this doesn't happen to be honest. Frankly this should still run into anti-trust issues. It could be seen as a clear attack on Apple PCs. Microsoft still has a huge share of the PC market and has already been convicted once of anti-trust.
If anything Microsoft would have to keep producing Mac versions just as they do with Office. Frankly Microsoft going around and buying up companies is just annoying. Adobe really could use some compitions in those key markets and Microsoft if the made an effort could complete.
They don't test shuttle tanks in Mississippi.
They could have tested in Florida and in fact did do some testing for a 240" solid booster in south Florida and they test Centaurs in West Palm to this day.
The large space? They where building the VAB so building a production building in Florida would have been simple.
There is a good reason for it to be Louisiana instead of say AZ. But the reason that it wasn't in Florida was to spread the "wealth" around.
In many ways it isn't a bad idea if you look at maximizing the economic benefits or a program. But if you look at just the cost it adds up.
That is one of the good things about a lot of big government programs like that.
Yes they cost a lot of tax dollars but a good amount of that money gets recycled from the jobs that it creates.
You also have the RnD benefit as well.
I am not even saying that this is the worst or best way to do these projects. Just that is the way they are done.
Sorry but that is no solution.
Frankly that is probably what happens now.
To get a budget you must have Congress on your side so when you do a project like this the companies do pick where to put the sub contractors. And they pick the subs that are in the areas that have the congressional votes that they need.
So you need to get the congressman from Idaho to change his vote on a figher plane? Simple you have the nose gear trailing link made in Rupert ID.
Need the congress person from NE to change their vote? You buy your wire from his district.
Not so much graft by the contractors per say but graft by and for congress.
Think about how spread out build projects are for anything in the government.
KSC is where it is because of the law of physics and where land was available at the time. Very few people lived in that part of Florida in the 1940s so it was cheap to buy and it is far enough south to get a boost from the earth's spin and it is over the water.
They built the tanks and the first stage of the Saturn V in Louisiana because....
They have mission control and training in Houston TX because....
Huntsville is there because that was where the Army started working on rockets after WWII.
Why didn't they build the tanks at KSC and keep all the rest of NASA their?
Simple if you spread the money around you get support.
If you have a senator in North Dakota that just happens to have a factory that makes carpeting for the Space Shuttle you end up with a vote at budget time.
Sad but true with just about every government project of any size. If you look at the hand outs the give congress they will show all the sub contractors and all the jobs for any big project.
Actually the DPI is not going up.
The problem if you want to call it that is that HDTV is driving the Panel market. The majority of monitors are going to use the same resolution as HD TV.
For most computer uses this is a less than ideal situation.
For watching a video it is great. For reading a website, writing code, using word, editing photos not so much.
Gaming it may be okay for as well.
Wow is all I can say.
Really not helping out someone that will lose everything they own two a fire including letting their pets die?
Wow you have a very different version of charity than I do.
Of course I love that this is getting modded down.
The extreme right will do it because.
He should take responsibility for his actions.
and the extreme left because I dare to use a biblical text.
We have 10,000 users of our software spread over every continent of the earth but Antarctica. They do not all work for the same company and do not all have dedicated IT people. Your experience is probably a lot applicable to our situation.
Also a lot of file transfers will never benfit from bit torrent.
Downloading an attachment from email is a good example or uploading video to youtube.
torrents are great for send a lot of copies of a big file to lots of people all at once.
It no benefit one on one.
If all browsers support it then we will probably think about supporting it as well but for a long time people that can use torrents outside of software that has it built in will be the minority of users.
Yea I know bible stuff doesn't go over well here but I do wonder if this will be what is taught in the churches of that county this Sunday.
Just wondering if how many will people will like being goats?
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
So as you can see I was not talking out of my butt as you sort of put it.
I was using rabid to represent a different class of users than you thought.
"Think about the apps that had a really hard time working because of NAT. The games that could not peer-to-peer because both sides were behind NAT."
And this costs my company money how?
Actually I really want ipv6 for what I do but that argument you made sounds like a positive for IPV6.
I would not say that being FOSS alone makes a program better. If the program doesn't function or do the job required it is not better.
A good example is Solidworks. I have not found any FOSS software that works as well as Solidworks or can replace it.
I would love to find a free program that does since Solidworks is so expensive.
Frankly a FOSS world class 3d Cad system like Solidworks or ProE would probably benefit more people that just about any FOSS program yet created. But there are none.
Another example that is less critical is FSX and X-Plane. FlightGear is the FOSS version of a flight sim but frankly it just isn't as good as those two.
As to violating software licenses agreements or as it is commonly called piracy.
Every time someone pirates they are actually hurting FOSS. When someone pirates a piece of software they are saying "this program is too valuable to live without but I am not going to pay for it." All that does is weakens that idea that FOSS is better and strengthens the argument for stronger DRM.
Because if something is so valuable that you break the law to get it then all you need to do to get more profit is make it too hard to copy.
So I disagree with you there. When you violate someone's license you are weakening the argument that FLOSS is better.
But that is must my opinion and my logic behind it.
Depends on what you mean by controversial. They did take down the Church that was going to burn the Koran site which I have at best mixed feelings over.
Rackspace does have strict polices on hate speech, child porn, and wares.
I have no problem with that at all.
I do not know how they would feel about Cryptome. I would not put that site in any of those categories.
I do know that they have good service and support.
Actually I have no problem with Cryptome at all.
I have a problem with blaming people and cooking up conspiracy theories.
Cryptome was blaming the host and says they can not trust them. Why did they pick them?
They are blaming their email provider. Well you picked those as well.
When you run a site the ultimate responsibility for security is you. You choose your hosting.
Maybe they should pick a better host and move on.
So when it all blows up Iran will pay Russia to build it again for a pile of cash...
Repeat until done.
Also you might want to read up a bit. Russia has decided not to sell Iran a state of the art SAM system this week.
Oh and Germany. If it blows up they will again buy more stuff form them.
Your high profile site got hacked and you blame everyone else.
Well you did pick your ISP and email provider. Honestly folks might I suggest RackSpace? We use them and they have been great if a little expensive but you get what you pay for.
I never said they where stupid but as you pointed out you helped those people. Try supporting 10,000 or 100,000.
When you do that then things change.
If there is a 1 in a 1000 chance of them having an issue that means we hear about it 10 times a day.
I still say it will not see wide spread support until it is built in everywhere and then it will take a while.
Also for a lot of people it will not really help at all. If you talking about a few meg update to a few people then it is just no benefit.
I wouldn't even say most likely the US or Israel. I don't think there are many nations that want a Nuclear Iran.
The list should include.
China
Russia
India
All of the EU
Egypt
Most of the Middle East.
I mean really this list is long and while this worm is probably outside the limits for some guy with a grudge it isn't outside the limits for any nation with a large university with a good CS department.
Yes just the requirement for simulating it and debugging it says to me that Babbage didn't finish his machine. It smacks of when Bell and Curtis "debugged" Langley's aerodrome to show that he really "invented" the airplane first.
As it is Babbage is known as the father of Computers which he does deserve. Just the fact that he dreamed up this massive machine when he did shows what a great mind he had.
Now building one is a great idea. Shouldn't be too hard to simulate with modern cad and then use rapid prototyping to make the parts.
Ha ha.
No RMS wouldn't pirate Left4Dead.
There is a group of clueless people that use FOSS and the ideas behind the GPL for a misguided excuse to pirate.
You will see things like "Information must be free" and other such nonsense.
And you are correct they do not get it.
If you are really militant pro gpl and FOSS then you would never pirate. Using closed source software even if you pay for it would be counter to your ideas.
I do believe that even RMS says he will use Closed Source when their isn't an open alternative but I could be wrong on that.
If you wish change rabid to "stupid misguided" or even "stupid hypocritical" supporters you may. But I in no way was trying to say that the group of which I was speaking was an all inclusive set of the people that follow RMS.
On a personal note I am not really comfortable with people that are comfortable calling themselves followers of any person that that is another subject.
I guess if you are willing to live on volcano there must be some benefits.
"and when you take a shower there you smell like rotten eggs". And that is not one of them IMHO.
While I too feel that wind and solar have limited potential right now, but they do not have zero.
I wouldn't dismiss them so quickly. Geothermal like you are talking about is also not really currently practical. The depth makes the cost actually higher than wind and or solar.
We should exploit geothermal where it is practical as well as wind, solar, and nuclear.
Only the ignorant dismisses the idea that we need to diversify our sources of energy.
Torrent users == outliers not the people I am talking about. I think you spend to much time with techies and not enough in the real world. .doc files in email "which sucks! folks make a PDF if I don't have to edit it!"
It has this long just to get people comfortable with installing Firefox!
Torrents may become more common but they will not be the default method until every browser has built in support. Easy wins. That is why most music is still in MP3s and people send
You have never seen someone that pirates in the name of RMS?
Wow you must not read Slashdot much.
If you really believe that you should only use FOSS then be my guest. I personally believe that is impossible in the modern world. At some point if you drive a car, use a microwave, or watch TV you will use and or own closed source code.
Most users even ones that program do not fix bugs.
I have a few times but even for me it is rare that I will have the time to do more than make a bug report. Just like you do with closed source.
Even if you try to make the effort to used only FOSS on your pc what about the BIOS?
Did you replace that with the a FOSS BIOS?
What about your video controller? The microcode on the CPU?
I am also anti elitism and smugness.
I do like and support FOSS including contributing code to FOSS projects.
I use Linux as my main OS at home and try to help people leave the mess that is Windows and to stop paying for expensive software they don't need.
But Heck yea I will put Flash on for them so they can use all the Flash games on the web and watch Hulu.
Why? Because it is better for them to have a good experience and not go back to paying for Windows, office, and anti-virus software then it is for them to be pure.
And if they must use a piece of software that only runs under Windows? Then I set them up the best I can under Windows with Firefox, Thunderbird, OO.org, and GIMP so that they can move if a good replacement is ever available.
Or if they are a little tech savy I might hook them up with VituralBox and let them run Windows on.
This whole wrapping the FOSS with the idea of freedom is just over the top really. Freedom is about choice. If I choose to pay for closed source software because it is better then the open source solution then that is freedom.
If I choose to write FOSS and give it away that is also Freedom.
What isn't freedom is the idea that if I don't live the way you think is right I am not free.
You are free to not use or right closed source software. Be my guest but I hate to tell you will have to stop posting on Slashdot.
You see Slash is FOSS but Slashdot uses a proprietary theme and some proprietary plug ins according to Wikipedia.
If that isn't out of date then by posing on Slashdot you are using Closed Source software.
I found most extremists to be more harmful than helpful. Let's take examples of two extremists.
They are extremist FOSS supporters.
One writes coded for for a FOSS project and helps people when they have issues with Open Software.
The other gets on Slashdot and posts about how evil closed source is and then hits pirates bay for the latest movies and video games.
The problem is that the first is rare while the second are as common a cockroaches and just as pleasant.
I can take devoted but polite which in my dealings RMS was.
I can not deal with arrogant hypocritical idiots all that well.