Even if they aren't murdering people, they're still treating us all like cattle to be milked for traffic fines.
And there's no accountability most of the time when police mistreat non-police.
The us vs. them mentality towards non-police needs to end if police want to be supported by the public in the future. Go back to "protect and serve" the public. Protecting and serving police interests only isn't going to work out in the future.
"Totalitarians" (by which I assume they mean "People who are against concentration camps, stealing the children of desperate people, against people being executed because they're the wrong "race", against women being excluded from employment, etc")
This is exactly guilt-by-association. If you’re against censorship and guilt-by-association (definition: people being declared guilty of whatever random thing regardless of the fact that they didn't do that thing) then squiggleslash (and the hate movement squiggleslash is advancing) says you love concentration camps.
The squiggleslash message is: you will obey
If you ever want to make your own decisions or think your own thoughts in the future, you should reject censorship and guilt-by-association and other similar totalitarian tactics.
Is there any evidence Notch mistreated anyone based on their membership in a 'protected status' group? Any evidence at all? Who was mistreated? What was the date and time? What action did Notch take against this person? What indicates his motive in this incident?
Do any of the people complaining about Notch answer any of these questions?
Should someone who didn’t do anything to hurt anyone be considered guilty?
Notch brought joy to like half a billion people. What did Notch's detractors ever do for anyone?
Totalitarians like to proclaim guilt-by-association, just like that. Regardless of truth, they proclaim guilt. And if anyone questions them for proclaiming guilt, that makes the questioner guilty too.
So you figure costs to a producer DON'T figure into the cost of a product? I don't know where you went to school, but you should demand a refund.
This response is just dumb. Even children know the difference between an amount that's big enough to matter and an amount that's too small to care about. Animals know it too.
User lockout is stopped by regulation. Want to fix your own DVD player or root your own phone? Not if we can help it.
I'm not opining on companies being forced to "produce" tools and documents (that they already have) I'm opining on artificial user barriers.
Which is shitty enough to draw criticism without molemen pulling the strings.
Criticism isn't "legislation proposed in 20 states". Are there molemen?
I suppose forcing radium out of children's toys was financed by Big Safety's PR team?
I'm not 90 years old, so I have limited knowledge of this story. Why bring it up?
Where do you draw the line?
"Where do you draw the line?" is a question that presumes a perfect answer that fits every problem. I don't believe in such answers. I think people should mostly draw their own lines at their own discretion instead of having some mediocre government bureaucrats decide for them.
Is there an agenda for every complaint of a shitty situation? Every post on the internet that whined about something?
I'm only asking if there is an agenda for this. And if so, who? And why?
Slashdot is a technology site with a readership that contains many hobbyists, tinkerers and others who tend to want to repair things rather than throw the whole thing in the trash because one $0.50 component failed. So Right to Repair legislation is of interest to many of us.
That explains why some fraction of Slashdot readers care. How does that become "right to repair" legislation "has been proposed in 20 states"? Does that sort of effort happen without money and centralized organization?
...I am concerned about it...Some of us care about things....
Your emotional state and your opinion of yourself are your business. I'd say "congrats", but I'm sure you have congratulated yourself for your thoughts of concern many, many, many times already.
Don't you ever get tired of being manipulated by PR firms and media talking heads though? Does thinking ever interfere with the dopamine hit you get from emoting and then congratulating yourself for emoting (even though none of that emoting does anything for anyone else)? Do you ever wonder if there's more to the stories you are told to believe every day?
Why are there articles every day about a topic that 90+% of everyone doesn't care about? Does anyone know who is financing the "right to repair" PR and legislative agenda?
When it comes to tractors, 99.5% of people don't care about tractor repairs. But we get stories on Slashdot and Presidential candidates pandering about it.
It's very organized and strangely manipulative. Anyone know why?
I don't care about it much one way or the other, but I'm against the government bullying people on behalf of big companies who want to prevent you from doing repairs. And I'm against the government bullying big companies into producing tools and manuals to enable you to make repairs. Neither are necessary, so government should butt out.
I'm also against being manipulated by PR bullshit.
If Microsoft wants to pay for education, they don't need a tax. They can just write a check whenever they want.
Just like always, tax supporters — like Microsoft here — only support taxing themselves so they can benefit themselves by spending money other people earned. Every time.
Canada is country with a low population. Canada will do fine. Maybe even good. It will never be in the category of India or Latin America or China or Europe or other large blocks (unless Canada joins into an economic union of some sort with the U.K. and/or some other regional countries).
You will probably get your wish more and more. I follow a lot of companies. When they talk about opportunities, they never mention Europe. If Europe is mentioned at all, it's usually when they discuss the headwinds they face in their business.
Business leaders have a lot of places they want to to do business. Increasingly those places don't include Europe because Europe is expensive and stagnant.
Europe's policies have already largely turned Europe into a backwater as far as technological and business innovation. This is just more of the same protectionist, anti-innovation policy.
Once second to the US, now behind China, look for Europe to be economically overtaken by Latin America then India, an independent Eastern Europe, and then even the Middle East (if the EU hasn't disintegrated by then).
Soo.... you claim that the dossier, that has generated massive news coverage, wasn't leaked because the press would find it uninteresting???
It wasn't news. Unsubstantiated allegations aren't news. Buzzfeed published it. They have zero standards.
Read Rathergate for the last time someone tried a similar thing before an election. It ended several careers.
To which I repeat the question... why write a fake dossier to win an election if you're not going to leak it?
He wrote it because the Hilary campaign paid him to write it. Maybe they thought they could use it. Maybe they thought they could get an investigation started and the investigators would find something real — they didn't.
Hopefully we will hear testimony under oath about it.
Then why didn't they leak that dossier before the election? You know, when it would have actually been useful.
Used for what? To make news? Because the story would read like this:
"Someone you never heard of has just given us a file containing a bunch of innuendo and amazing claims with no supporting facts. It's about one of the Presidential candidates. That candidate has denied the allegations in the file."
Funny how none of the Trumpists can never answer that iceberg sized plot hole.
Funny how you guys make up stories and decide to believe they're true, and then when they are proven false, you just make up new stories. The real world and what really occurs never seem to matter.
Not really, he would have declared that, even if he were in handcuffs going to jail for life.
But instead, he'll be on TV giving speeches about how the whole Russian collusion story was a total lie, and telling everyone not to listen to anything those people say about anything, because they are liars.
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Even if they aren't murdering people, they're still treating us all like cattle to be milked for traffic fines.
And there's no accountability most of the time when police mistreat non-police.
The us vs. them mentality towards non-police needs to end if police want to be supported by the public in the future. Go back to "protect and serve" the public. Protecting and serving police interests only isn't going to work out in the future.
There's blood in the water and the frenzy is on and you're trying to argue against it with words.
"Totalitarians" (by which I assume they mean "People who are against concentration camps, stealing the children of desperate people, against people being executed because they're the wrong "race", against women being excluded from employment, etc")
This is exactly guilt-by-association. If you’re against censorship and guilt-by-association (definition: people being declared guilty of whatever random thing regardless of the fact that they didn't do that thing) then squiggleslash (and the hate movement squiggleslash is advancing) says you love concentration camps.
The squiggleslash message is: you will obey
If you ever want to make your own decisions or think your own thoughts in the future, you should reject censorship and guilt-by-association and other similar totalitarian tactics.
Wrongthink is exactly the right term.
We should ask ourselves:
Is there any evidence Notch mistreated anyone based on their membership in a 'protected status' group? Any evidence at all? Who was mistreated? What was the date and time? What action did Notch take against this person? What indicates his motive in this incident?
Do any of the people complaining about Notch answer any of these questions?
Should someone who didn’t do anything to hurt anyone be considered guilty?
Notch brought joy to like half a billion people. What did Notch's detractors ever do for anyone?
If it was google, there would be no question. Everyone knows they are true believers.
in white supremacist rhetoric and memes
Totalitarians like to proclaim guilt-by-association, just like that. Regardless of truth, they proclaim guilt. And if anyone questions them for proclaiming guilt, that makes the questioner guilty too.
This is my favorite tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/not...
I wonder if Microsoft is in CYA mode or full totalitarian true believer mode?
For a $2 loaf of bread, how much of that $2 do you the think is "tractor repairs"?
What PR firms? What talking heads?
That's my original question. Does anyone know?
So you figure costs to a producer DON'T figure into the cost of a product? I don't know where you went to school, but you should demand a refund.
This response is just dumb. Even children know the difference between an amount that's big enough to matter and an amount that's too small to care about. Animals know it too.
User lockout is stopped by regulation. Want to fix your own DVD player or root your own phone? Not if we can help it.
I'm not opining on companies being forced to "produce" tools and documents (that they already have) I'm opining on artificial user barriers.
Which is shitty enough to draw criticism without molemen pulling the strings.
Criticism isn't "legislation proposed in 20 states". Are there molemen?
I suppose forcing radium out of children's toys was financed by Big Safety's PR team?
I'm not 90 years old, so I have limited knowledge of this story. Why bring it up?
Where do you draw the line?
"Where do you draw the line?" is a question that presumes a perfect answer that fits every problem. I don't believe in such answers. I think people should mostly draw their own lines at their own discretion instead of having some mediocre government bureaucrats decide for them.
Is there an agenda for every complaint of a shitty situation? Every post on the internet that whined about something?
I'm only asking if there is an agenda for this. And if so, who? And why?
Slashdot is a technology site with a readership that contains many hobbyists, tinkerers and others who tend to want to repair things rather than throw the whole thing in the trash because one $0.50 component failed. So Right to Repair legislation is of interest to many of us.
That explains why some fraction of Slashdot readers care. How does that become "right to repair" legislation "has been proposed in 20 states"? Does that sort of effort happen without money and centralized organization?
Expensive tractor repairs are a contributor when you wonder why your grocery bill is so damned high.
Food is cheaper here and now than it has ever been anywhere for anyone.
Why would anyone believe "expensive tractor repairs" make a significant difference? Who is saying they do?
...I am concerned about it...Some of us care about things....
Your emotional state and your opinion of yourself are your business. I'd say "congrats", but I'm sure you have congratulated yourself for your thoughts of concern many, many, many times already.
Don't you ever get tired of being manipulated by PR firms and media talking heads though? Does thinking ever interfere with the dopamine hit you get from emoting and then congratulating yourself for emoting (even though none of that emoting does anything for anyone else)? Do you ever wonder if there's more to the stories you are told to believe every day?
Why are there articles every day about a topic that 90+% of everyone doesn't care about? Does anyone know who is financing the "right to repair" PR and legislative agenda?
When it comes to tractors, 99.5% of people don't care about tractor repairs. But we get stories on Slashdot and Presidential candidates pandering about it.
It's very organized and strangely manipulative. Anyone know why?
I don't care about it much one way or the other, but I'm against the government bullying people on behalf of big companies who want to prevent you from doing repairs. And I'm against the government bullying big companies into producing tools and manuals to enable you to make repairs. Neither are necessary, so government should butt out.
I'm also against being manipulated by PR bullshit.
If Microsoft wants to pay for education, they don't need a tax. They can just write a check whenever they want.
Just like always, tax supporters — like Microsoft here — only support taxing themselves so they can benefit themselves by spending money other people earned. Every time.
Who cares? It's off topic.
Canada is country with a low population. Canada will do fine. Maybe even good. It will never be in the category of India or Latin America or China or Europe or other large blocks (unless Canada joins into an economic union of some sort with the U.K. and/or some other regional countries).
You will probably get your wish more and more. I follow a lot of companies. When they talk about opportunities, they never mention Europe. If Europe is mentioned at all, it's usually when they discuss the headwinds they face in their business.
Business leaders have a lot of places they want to to do business. Increasingly those places don't include Europe because Europe is expensive and stagnant.
Europe's policies have already largely turned Europe into a backwater as far as technological and business innovation. This is just more of the same protectionist, anti-innovation policy.
Once second to the US, now behind China, look for Europe to be economically overtaken by Latin America then India, an independent Eastern Europe, and then even the Middle East (if the EU hasn't disintegrated by then).
Which leads to the questions: are you just dumb? Do you not understand how you sound when you talk about "true" forgeries?
You don't sound honest. You don't sound like a sane person. You don't sound like someone an honest or sane person would take seriously.
You sound like someone talking about how NASA faked the moon landing.
Soo.... you claim that the dossier, that has generated massive news coverage, wasn't leaked because the press would find it uninteresting???
It wasn't news. Unsubstantiated allegations aren't news. Buzzfeed published it. They have zero standards.
Read Rathergate for the last time someone tried a similar thing before an election. It ended several careers.
To which I repeat the question... why write a fake dossier to win an election if you're not going to leak it?
He wrote it because the Hilary campaign paid him to write it. Maybe they thought they could use it. Maybe they thought they could get an investigation started and the investigators would find something real — they didn't.
Hopefully we will hear testimony under oath about it.
Then why didn't they leak that dossier before the election? You know, when it would have actually been useful.
Used for what? To make news? Because the story would read like this:
"Someone you never heard of has just given us a file containing a bunch of innuendo and amazing claims with no supporting facts. It's about one of the Presidential candidates. That candidate has denied the allegations in the file."
Funny how none of the Trumpists can never answer that iceberg sized plot hole.
Funny how you guys make up stories and decide to believe they're true, and then when they are proven false, you just make up new stories. The real world and what really occurs never seem to matter.
Not really, he would have declared that, even if he were in handcuffs going to jail for life.
But instead, he'll be on TV giving speeches about how the whole Russian collusion story was a total lie, and telling everyone not to listen to anything those people say about anything, because they are liars.
Now picture Homer Simpson watching that soccer game: "A tie? Everyone's a loser".
You will be surprised when Trump declares complete victory then.