gawd yeah...I'm up in northern illinois near chicago and it never fails, some idiot in a 4 wheel drive doing 60 through the snow. They never seem to grok until it's too late that four wheel drive might get you going quicker than me but it's not going to help you stop any quicker.
I've got an old IBM AT keyboard that's stayed around through 17 different computers. Those were TANKS! The body is sheet metal. When you type there is that huge satisfying 50 decibel CLICK! In the event of an emergency it can double as a device to batter down a door. I've never had a key stick. The ctrl button is like a yard wide. No stupid flying windows button. No "one touch internet" stupidity. I don't think I could come near to finding a comporable keyboard if it went down.
Anybody who'd care to point how the flaw in this line of economic reasoning?
yeah, it's called supply and demand. Do you really think these companys were passing on their labor savings to their consumers? The market charges the highest price that a product will sell for, if they can't make the product at a price that will meet demand they go under. That's capitalism, and unions are a part of that equation.
I give you the example of sweatshops in asia cranking out gap shirts at a cost of $1.25 in materials and labor and the price to the consumer somehow hits $35 by the time it hits a store in the US. If you would pay $500 for that pizza you were talking about it would cost $500.
What you are talking about is keynesian revisionism and adams smith's invisible hand came back and gave everyone the figure the last time we tried supply side in the US.
Sorry you had a bad experience with iatse. I was a "known associate" for 2 years. I was a stagehand, nice job, paid well..hell actually i went and got my card back a few years ago, just so i could work the kiss show and hang out backstage.
Unions are like anything else, there are good ones and bad ones.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
they fixed that little states right issue a few hundred years ago, you should try and keep up...
NSA folks don't claim to work for the DOD, they say they work for the State Department which is true, NSA is not military. As far as protocol goes if they get nailed down they can go ahead and say they work for the NSA. It's not that critical.
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Basics of negotiations: It's easier to negotiate individual changes/benefits if you are an individual. You have to be different from everyone else so you can justify these changes. Why do you deserve a raise? Because you're better/more efficient/more skilled/more important/etc. If you're not, then you're no different from the others who are not getting raises, and you won't get one either.
basis of negotiations....as an individual you mean jack shit. As DeGaul once said "the graveyard is full of indespencible men." If you really think your company would just fold and die without you, I seriously think you've been sold on your own hype.
The whole point of collective bargaining is that as a group you do mean something. It's alot harder to replace a department, especially when there is a picket line intimidating people from taking that vacant position. As a group, even though you are sooooo much better than all those scumbags who suck compared to indespensible you, you have real power. It works, I've organized for the international association of theatrical and stagehand workers, the carpenters union, and the laborers union locally.
You need to take a close look at who holds the cards, I really don't believe it's you. No matter what the hell you know, as an individual you can be replaced as long as there is a support staff there for your replacement to lean on while they learn. It's not there in a strike-scorched earth policy and if you don't realize it your managers do
I'm in illinois and i caught a dui a few years ago, i went ahead and blew the breathalyser and went to jail. My lawyer told me if you think there is the slightest chance that you are over the limit and they ask you to blow, you should just stick your hands out and wait for them to cuff you. Don't talk to them, just go and bail out. You will get your license suspended for refusing to consent to the breathalyser, but you probably won't be convicted of the dui.
I'm not sure about other states, but at least in illinois you aren't convicted of dui because you refused, you're convicted of refusing the test.
Of course, if you're drunk to the point of falling out of your car or staggering your way back to the police car you will get convicted of the dui based on video evidence from the car.
ummm, try again, he said "identical twins" which are always the rarer case of the egg being fertilized and spliting, which is exactly what cloning is.
I date an identical twin and they hate each other like no one else on the planet. Although nobody forced to zygote to split in a lab, they are for all intents and purposes clones. I don't think you would always find your clone to be good company, much less your obediant servant.
Non-lethals sterilizing people is paranoid? Maybe you should ask the irish about baton rounds. I can't find a link right now to save my life but baton rounds managed to castrate people at an rate that seemed to defy all odds.
Baton rounds were large chunks of plastic baton fired at the ground in front of crowds. On the rebound they never seemed to miss the testes.
The real crux of the problem is that non-lethals are never used for what they are intended, eg. tear gas in world war I, the gas was used to drive the enemy out and then pump bullets into him. Same in Southeast Asia thereafter. These weapons will find a lethal use or they will be phased out.
I thought slashdot was going downhill to until I realized I had just bumped my threshold back to 0 at some point on accident, I put it back to 1 and i've been pretty happy. I know I'm missing some good posts, but it's well worth it not to have to wade through that horrible mess that exists down there. Is that elistist? To hell with anonymous cowards, I'm not going to be bothered with setting my threshold lower to moderate them up, if it means I have to pick through those puerile, wierd posts. I understand the importance of having them, but please god don't give them 1 karma.
Walmart doesn't sell your favorite rap groups CD? Easy answer: Find someplace that will. Demanding that places carry music that *you* like is a form of censorship in itself.
But what happens when you live in the sticks and Wal-Mart comes to town? Statistically your little town turns into a feudal society where small business (eg. Record Stores, Hardware Stores, Book Stores, you name it) They will outprice the local music store until it shuts down and at that point you can't buy what you want. I see the internet as something of an equalizer in that you can buy mail-order fairly easy, but internet access isn't quite ubiquitous yet.
snip---->...the companies which have fenced off their portion of the commons, and pissed on whatever parcel they left the rest of us. Funny that they haven't taken down eToys.com yet:) ----snip
I was thinking the exact same thing, didn't anyone catch all the etoy agents buzzing around posting warning around usenet, slashdot, et all... saying "All etoy agents internic hasn't released the domain---defcon 5" and the messages moved down to 1 the saturday before this started. I'm not trying to pin this on the etoy people, but i was watching for them to do something. I suppose it's a red herring since etoys is still there, but just maybe they're warming up and grabbing attention for the coup de grace:) /paranoia mode off
I'm still trying to understand. I actually really enjoyed the hellmouth series, and I always stuck up for you back when Wired was halfway worth reading. Then you write some whining, petulant, article about being flamed. You raised the bar when you came here, slashdot was all about disecting stories for glossed over points, digging down and finding the "bullshit" quotient, that's why you read slashdot instead of just swallowing press releases and news stories. So as entertaining as it was tearing apart your stories (and you should have just looked at the attention you drew and felt satisfied) you get upset and look like some spoiled brat using you're ability to submit stories to inflict you're tale of how deeply wounded you were by a bunch of ac's saying "katz sux0rs" At this point, I have to wonder if you're trolling to.
ummm, ok, my computer needs a breathalyzer, feel free to moderate that post into oblivion. That was horrible, I need to learn to hit preview instead of trusting in my incredible typing and use of the english language
Yes, on every single count. If you buy a product, it is your's. For legal precedents look at ibm's attempts to keep anyone from manufacturing 3rd party hardware. Reverse engineering has a long history in copyright law. No, you can't sell someone something then tell them what they can and cannot do with it other than reproducing and selling it in the case of individual property. The point where the got crazy was because in trying to build a dvd player for linux (for free) these people didn't feel like spending the time to recreate the encryption after it was broken. What has been done has been absolutely legal and would have been avoidable if they had supported the linux community. They didn't, no laws have been broken, they can go straight to hell. If they would have kicked probably a minimum amount of cash or assistance into the opendvd project they would be much happier people right now, but they were arrogant and slothful and they lost out. I don't even know about lost out, I get so lost with all the misinformation as far as i know the only thing that was lost was a contract for someone to create linux dvd software. Sympathy for the MPAA is completely misplaced
Do you think that if this bill doesn't pass the treasury department is going to cut you a check for the savings? It's alot like when some huge multinational corporation puts up signs explaining how shoplifting really hurts the consumer because they have to raise prices to cover the shoplifted goods. That's not how capitalism works, you charge what the market will bear period. Your Government works the same way, it taxes you what you will bear before revolting in any way beyond making cranky anti-tax protests on slashdot. They're going to take your money anyway, why bitch when it gets used for something constructive instead of propping up puppet dictatorships in third world country with the proper attitude toward america and american industry, or the artificial economy of victimless crimes and the vast network of prisons and jails. I know this is never going to play in the libertarian, Ayn Rand worshiping slashdot crowd but I really do believe government could be good for something and if it wants to try for God's sake let it!
I do remember the natalie portman petrified moments, they also occured the week segfault finally shut down their comments section. The kiddies that put forth all that lovely garbage there screaming into slashdot but they got bored when they realized they weren't really getting through and making the incredible mess that destroyed segfault. I browse at 1, I rarely see first post anymore. I always read John Katz not because he's the brightest bulb in the tech journalism world, but because he tends to reach out into subjects that are less dry and when he says something extremely clueless it's amusing to watch it get torn apart. He's a brave man, he's being peer reviewed by some of the brightest, bigest egos on the planet who enjoy nothing more than dissecting and tearing apart flawed arguments. Actually I wouldn't mind seeing obvious abuse ip blocked. Everytime that comes up I wonder just what slashdotter is that clueless they couldn't work around that. I could do it with shell accounts 3 times a day for a month before I had to even had to get tricky. If a host deny is keeping you out your really in the wrong place here anyway.
I do remember the natalie portman petrified moments, they also occured the week segfault finally shut down their comments section. The kiddies that put forth all that lovely garbage there screaming into slashdot but they got bored when they realized they weren't really getting through and making the incredible mess that destroyed segfault. I browse at 1, I rarely see first post anymore. I always read John Katz not because he's the brightest bulb in the tech journalism world, but because he tends to reach out into subjects that are less dry and when he says something extremely clueless it's amusing to watch it get torn apart. He's a brave man, he's being peer reviewed by some of the brightest, bigest egos on the planet who enjoy nothing more than dissecting and tearing apart flawed arguments. Actually I wouldn't mind seeing obvious abuse ip blocked. Everytime that comes up I wonder just what slashdotter is that clueless they couldn't work around that. I could do it with shell accounts 3 times a day for a month before I had even had to get tricky. If a host deny is keeping you out your really in the wrong place here anyway.
I don't understand the inevitable fallback to using the space program to save mankind. Species go extinct, that's just evolution. This species has only existed a few tens of thousands of years. In another few tens of thousands our decendents as unlike us as homo erectus is to modern man. Personally the idea of humans in space always brings to mind fish's using motor driven aquariums to try and live on land. We're just too fragile we make too big a mess, it's not our environment. The machines we build to explore space will be our true descendents. It's just too bad that scientific exploration has to justified, knowledge is it's own reward. God, this a country that manages to find millions for helium reserves and subsidizing american beekeepers (we all remember how wildly fluctuating honey prices almost destroyed the economy), but the space program always gets looked at first for the budget axe because it's visible
ok, ok, yeah, that was puerile. The libertarian party is my spurned lover, I used to write for the local libertarian paper. I lash out sometimes at my fallen ideals. I've heard the arguments, I used to write the arguments, but they deny some important facts. Through the last 30 years the US has deregulated and "opened" markets. In the time since 1980 to present the average amount of hours worked has grown an incredible amount where in every other developed country the amount has dropped. At the same time standard of living hasn't raised to meet these long hours, it's actually dropped. Markets that would be considered "free" in a Adam Smith sence grow at a rate of 2.2% vs 2.1% for "protectionist" markets. I'll point out that the.1% gain in growth is statistically invalid. Probably the closest you could find to a truely free market in this century was the US in 1929 directly proceeding the great depression. Are those enough points to dislike the Cato Institute?
It's good to see Cato striking out for personal liberties again. In the last few years it seems that a coalition of more right than the right wing nazi's and brainwashed ayn randroids have taken over. I'm all for privacy and it looks like the libertarians and I are in agreement here, but I hate giving the Cato Institute any kind of props. I used to be a libertarian, I found out I just didn't hate poor people enough or have the necessary self-centered righteous greed.
--->For every Mother Theresa, there's a Torquemada. For every starving poor man fed, a thousand tortured and slaughtered. ---->(snip) I wouldn't throw Mother Theresa into the roles of history as a humanitarian...She spent her life doing her best to ease the suffering of people dying because of starvation and disease caused by overcrowding at the same time she was constantly doing everything in her power to keep birth control out of third world countrys. She reminds me of the serial killer who worked on the trauma unit at a hospital and would sabotage patients drug schedule to cause a situation where he could come in and "save them"
What the hell was that msnbc story? I'm pissed, it's not like I expected a quality piece from them but ""Slap them sanctions on now! No more running people out of business then jacking up the price!" one Slashdotter wrote."?! I can't decide if the author was targeting an audience with a third grade reading level or whether he was intentionally smearing us. The good thing is probably 90% of the people who hit that site followed the link from slashdot. Rob should get Alan Boyle in here for an interview ass chewing. That would be sweet...
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gawd yeah...I'm up in northern illinois near chicago and it never fails, some idiot in a 4 wheel drive doing 60 through the snow. They never seem to grok until it's too late that four wheel drive might get you going quicker than me but it's not going to help you stop any quicker.
I've got an old IBM AT keyboard that's stayed around through 17 different computers. Those were TANKS! The body is sheet metal. When you type there is that huge satisfying 50 decibel CLICK! In the event of an emergency it can double as a device to batter down a door. I've never had a key stick. The ctrl button is like a yard wide. No stupid flying windows button. No "one touch internet" stupidity. I don't think I could come near to finding a comporable keyboard if it went down.
Anybody who'd care to point how the flaw in this line of economic reasoning?
yeah, it's called supply and demand. Do you really think these companys were passing on their labor savings to their consumers? The market charges the highest price that a product will sell for, if they can't make the product at a price that will meet demand they go under. That's capitalism, and unions are a part of that equation.
I give you the example of sweatshops in asia cranking out gap shirts at a cost of $1.25 in materials and labor and the price to the consumer somehow hits $35 by the time it hits a store in the US. If you would pay $500 for that pizza you were talking about it would cost $500.
What you are talking about is keynesian revisionism and adams smith's invisible hand came back and gave everyone the figure the last time we tried supply side in the US.
Sorry you had a bad experience with iatse. I was a "known associate" for 2 years. I was a stagehand, nice job, paid well..hell actually i went and got my card back a few years ago, just so i could work the kiss show and hang out backstage.
Unions are like anything else, there are good ones and bad ones.
ummm, yeah, but.....
Amendment XIV
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
they fixed that little states right issue a few hundred years ago, you should try and keep up...
NSA folks don't claim to work for the DOD, they say they work for the State Department which is true, NSA is not military. As far as protocol goes if they get nailed down they can go ahead and say they work for the NSA. It's not that critical.
Basics of negotiations: It's easier to negotiate individual changes/benefits if you are an individual. You have to be different from everyone else so you can justify these changes. Why do you deserve a raise? Because you're better/more efficient/more skilled/more important/etc. If you're not, then you're no different from the others who are not getting raises, and you won't get one either.
basis of negotiations....as an individual you mean jack shit. As DeGaul once said "the graveyard is full of indespencible men." If you really think your company would just fold and die without you, I seriously think you've been sold on your own hype.
The whole point of collective bargaining is that as a group you do mean something. It's alot harder to replace a department, especially when there is a picket line intimidating people from taking that vacant position. As a group, even though you are sooooo much better than all those scumbags who suck compared to indespensible you, you have real power. It works, I've organized for the international association of theatrical and stagehand workers, the carpenters union, and the laborers union locally.
You need to take a close look at who holds the cards, I really don't believe it's you. No matter what the hell you know, as an individual you can be replaced as long as there is a support staff there for your replacement to lean on while they learn. It's not there in a strike-scorched earth policy and if you don't realize it your managers do
I'm in illinois and i caught a dui a few years ago, i went ahead and blew the breathalyser and went to jail. My lawyer told me if you think there is the slightest chance that you are over the limit and they ask you to blow, you should just stick your hands out and wait for them to cuff you. Don't talk to them, just go and bail out. You will get your license suspended for refusing to consent to the breathalyser, but you probably won't be convicted of the dui.
I'm not sure about other states, but at least in illinois you aren't convicted of dui because you refused, you're convicted of refusing the test.
Of course, if you're drunk to the point of falling out of your car or staggering your way back to the police car you will get convicted of the dui based on video evidence from the car.
ummm, try again, he said "identical twins" which are always the rarer case of the egg being fertilized and spliting, which is exactly what cloning is.
I date an identical twin and they hate each other like no one else on the planet. Although nobody forced to zygote to split in a lab, they are for all intents and purposes clones. I don't think you would always find your clone to be good company, much less your obediant servant.
Non-lethals sterilizing people is paranoid? Maybe you should ask the irish about baton rounds. I can't find a link right now to save my life but baton rounds managed to castrate people at an rate that seemed to defy all odds.
Baton rounds were large chunks of plastic baton fired at the ground in front of crowds. On the rebound they never seemed to miss the testes.
The real crux of the problem is that non-lethals are never used for what they are intended, eg. tear gas in world war I, the gas was used to drive the enemy out and then pump bullets into him. Same in Southeast Asia thereafter. These weapons will find a lethal use or they will be phased out.
I thought slashdot was going downhill to until I realized I had just bumped my threshold back to 0 at some point on accident, I put it back to 1 and i've been pretty happy. I know I'm missing some good posts, but it's well worth it not to have to wade through that horrible mess that exists down there. Is that elistist?
To hell with anonymous cowards, I'm not going to be bothered with setting my threshold lower to moderate them up, if it means I have to pick through those puerile, wierd posts. I understand the importance of having them, but please god don't give them 1 karma.
Walmart doesn't sell your favorite rap groups CD? Easy answer: Find someplace that will. Demanding that places carry music that *you* like is a form of censorship in itself.
But what happens when you live in the sticks and Wal-Mart comes to town? Statistically your little town turns into a feudal society where small business (eg. Record Stores, Hardware Stores, Book Stores, you name it) They will outprice the local music store until it shuts down and at that point you can't buy what you want.
I see the internet as something of an equalizer in that you can buy mail-order fairly easy, but internet access isn't quite ubiquitous yet.
snip---->...the companies which have fenced off their portion of the commons, and pissed on whatever parcel they left the rest of us. :) ----snip
... saying "All etoy agents internic hasn't released the domain---defcon 5" and the messages moved down to 1 the saturday before this started. I'm not trying to pin this on the etoy people, but i was watching for them to do something. I suppose it's a red herring since etoys is still there, but just maybe they're warming up and grabbing attention for the coup de grace :)
Funny that they haven't taken down eToys.com yet
I was thinking the exact same thing, didn't anyone catch all the etoy agents buzzing around posting warning around usenet, slashdot, et all
/paranoia mode off
I'm still trying to understand. I actually really enjoyed the hellmouth series, and I always stuck up for you back when Wired was halfway worth reading. Then you write some whining, petulant, article about being flamed. You raised the bar when you came here, slashdot was all about disecting stories for glossed over points, digging down and finding the "bullshit" quotient, that's why you read slashdot instead of just swallowing press releases and news stories. So as entertaining as it was tearing apart your stories (and you should have just looked at the attention you drew and felt satisfied) you get upset and look like some spoiled brat using you're ability to submit stories to inflict you're tale of how deeply wounded you were by a bunch of ac's saying "katz sux0rs" At this point, I have to wonder if you're trolling to.
ummm, ok, my computer needs a breathalyzer, feel free to moderate that post into oblivion. That was horrible, I need to learn to hit preview instead of trusting in my incredible typing and use of the english language
Yes, on every single count. If you buy a product, it is your's. For legal precedents look at ibm's attempts to keep anyone from manufacturing 3rd party hardware. Reverse engineering has a long history in copyright law. No, you can't sell someone something then tell them what they can and cannot do with it other than reproducing and selling it in the case of individual property.
The point where the got crazy was because in trying to build a dvd player for linux (for free) these people didn't feel like spending the time to recreate the encryption after it was broken. What has been done has been absolutely legal and would have been avoidable if they had supported the linux community. They didn't, no laws have been broken, they can go straight to hell. If they would have kicked probably a minimum amount of cash or assistance into the opendvd project they would be much happier people right now, but they were arrogant and slothful and they lost out.
I don't even know about lost out, I get so lost with all the misinformation as far as i know the only thing that was lost was a contract for someone to create linux dvd software. Sympathy for the MPAA is completely misplaced
Do you think that if this bill doesn't pass the treasury department is going to cut you a check for the savings? It's alot like when some huge multinational corporation puts up signs explaining how shoplifting really hurts the consumer because they have to raise prices to cover the shoplifted goods. That's not how capitalism works, you charge what the market will bear period.
Your Government works the same way, it taxes you what you will bear before revolting in any way beyond making cranky anti-tax protests on slashdot. They're going to take your money anyway, why bitch when it gets used for something constructive instead of propping up puppet dictatorships in third world country with the proper attitude toward america and american industry, or the artificial economy of victimless crimes and the vast network of prisons and jails.
I know this is never going to play in the libertarian, Ayn Rand worshiping slashdot crowd but I really do believe government could be good for something and if it wants to try for God's sake let it!
I do remember the natalie portman petrified moments, they also occured the week segfault finally shut down their comments section. The kiddies that put forth all that lovely garbage there screaming into slashdot but they got bored when they realized they weren't really getting through and making the incredible mess that destroyed segfault.
I browse at 1, I rarely see first post anymore. I always read John Katz not because he's the brightest bulb in the tech journalism world, but because he tends to reach out into subjects that are less dry and when he says something extremely clueless it's amusing to watch it get torn apart. He's a brave man, he's being peer reviewed by some of the brightest, bigest egos on the planet who enjoy nothing more than dissecting and tearing apart flawed arguments.
Actually I wouldn't mind seeing obvious abuse ip blocked. Everytime that comes up I wonder just what slashdotter is that clueless they couldn't work around that. I could do it with shell accounts 3 times a day for a month before I had to even had to get tricky. If a host deny is keeping you out your really in the wrong place here anyway.
I do remember the natalie portman petrified moments, they also occured the week segfault finally shut down their comments section. The kiddies that put forth all that lovely garbage there screaming into slashdot but they got bored when they realized they weren't really getting through and making the incredible mess that destroyed segfault.
I browse at 1, I rarely see first post anymore. I always read John Katz not because he's the brightest bulb in the tech journalism world, but because he tends to reach out into subjects that are less dry and when he says something extremely clueless it's amusing to watch it get torn apart. He's a brave man, he's being peer reviewed by some of the brightest, bigest egos on the planet who enjoy nothing more than dissecting and tearing apart flawed arguments.
Actually I wouldn't mind seeing obvious abuse ip blocked. Everytime that comes up I wonder just what slashdotter is that clueless they couldn't work around that. I could do it with shell accounts 3 times a day for a month before I had even had to get tricky. If a host deny is keeping you out your really in the wrong place here anyway.
I don't understand the inevitable fallback to using the space program to save mankind. Species go extinct, that's just evolution. This species has only existed a few tens of thousands of years. In another few tens of thousands our decendents as unlike us as homo erectus is to modern man.
Personally the idea of humans in space always brings to mind fish's using motor driven aquariums to try and live on land. We're just too fragile we make too big a mess, it's not our environment. The machines we build to explore space will be our true descendents.
It's just too bad that scientific exploration has to justified, knowledge is it's own reward. God, this a country that manages to find millions for helium reserves and subsidizing american beekeepers (we all remember how wildly fluctuating honey prices almost destroyed the economy), but the space program always gets looked at first for the budget axe because it's visible
ok, ok, yeah, that was puerile. The libertarian party is my spurned lover, I used to write for the local libertarian paper. I lash out sometimes at my fallen ideals. .1% gain in growth is statistically invalid. Probably the closest you could find to a truely free market in this century was the US in 1929 directly proceeding the great depression.
I've heard the arguments, I used to write the arguments, but they deny some important facts. Through the last 30 years the US has deregulated and "opened" markets. In the time since 1980 to present the average amount of hours worked has grown an incredible amount where in every other developed country the amount has dropped. At the same time standard of living hasn't raised to meet these long hours, it's actually dropped.
Markets that would be considered "free" in a Adam Smith sence grow at a rate of 2.2% vs 2.1% for "protectionist" markets. I'll point out that the
Are those enough points to dislike the Cato Institute?
It's good to see Cato striking out for personal liberties again. In the last few years it seems that a coalition of more right than the right wing nazi's and brainwashed ayn randroids have taken over.
I'm all for privacy and it looks like the libertarians and I are in agreement here, but I hate giving the Cato Institute any kind of props. I used to be a libertarian, I found out I just didn't hate poor people enough or have the necessary self-centered righteous greed.
I had your job, our solution was to use all NeXT systems. Try and get IM loaded on that :)
--->For every Mother Theresa, there's a Torquemada. For every starving poor man fed, a thousand tortured and slaughtered.
---->(snip)
I wouldn't throw Mother Theresa into the roles of history as a humanitarian...She spent her life doing her best to ease the suffering of people dying because of starvation and disease caused by overcrowding at the same time she was constantly doing everything in her power to keep birth control out of third world countrys.
She reminds me of the serial killer who worked on the trauma unit at a hospital and would sabotage patients drug schedule to cause a situation where he could come in and "save them"
What the hell was that msnbc story? I'm pissed, it's not like I expected a quality piece from them but ""Slap them sanctions on now! No more running people out of business then jacking up the price!" one Slashdotter wrote."?! I can't decide if the author was targeting an audience with a third grade reading level or whether he was intentionally smearing us.
The good thing is probably 90% of the people who hit that site followed the link from slashdot. Rob should get Alan Boyle in here for an interview ass chewing. That would be sweet...