Other possibility is that this publication is doing what mainstream media has been doing for years:
Trying to create a trend or perception where there is none. Witness all those smarmy "the suit is back" articles.
In addition to accepting paid and free propaganda, trying to create public hysteria to influence political outcomes, the MSM survives on renting reader's eyeballs to advertisers. Whatever it takes to do that, they will do. Slashdot itself has fallen into that same cycle, with regular articles about "political" subjects sure to get 800 replies (and corresponding ad impressions) but with no valid technical content.
New SuperSig:
....
Make the requirements to vote the same as to own a gun.
Simply go to the polling place, fill out a Form 4473, show your ID, and the poll worker will check with the FBI database to make sure that you're not prohibited from voting. If everything is working correctly, you will be allowed to vote in a few minutes.
If the GCA/Brady system doesn't violate the rights of gun owners, then what possible objection could there be to implementing the same system for voting?
I keep hoping that some day the mainstream groupthink will come to realize that video games are no more immature a pasttime than watching television. The average American has no problem sitting in front of a TV for two hours a night, yet the same people act as if there's something wrong with an adult gaming for the same length of time.
The answer to the problem is inside your question.
Who controls mainstream groupthink?
The mainstream media, which includes TV.
These people obviously want you to keep watching TV, not going off and doing something else.
An enormous amount of work has gone into it, and it is being given away for free. There might be some issues to get thru, but they WILL be fixed, and the updates made (again) freely available.
The mind boggles that people exist who not only look the gift horse in the mouth, but also denigrate it.
Use the stanton finley install notes here if you want detailed instructions on core 5 setup.
The people in the party are Democrats. The party itself is the Democratic Party. In many parts of the US, calling it the "Democrat Party" is considered pejorative. Next time you may want to reword.
Good to know the democrats are freakishly sensitive about the slightest percieved insult.
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
.....
Hate to interrupt your uninformed rant, but persons who violate (b), (c), and (d) don't count as "prisoners of war". It's right there in the text of the geneva convention.
What you are describing is what IT was like in the mainframe world years ago. IT lost sight of the fact that they existed to serve the needs of users, and instead became convinced that IT would tell users how those users were going to do their jobs.
The PC was created exactly to get out from under the ossified IT Priesthood, and return power to the users. The wheel has now turned full circle, and todays IT regularly shows complete contempt for the users in a company who actually do work that brings in revenue. In this way they are very similar to government employees, except that at the moment most of them do not have a union.
The problem today is that there is no new "personal computer" on the horizon that will let workers just do their work without the "We Are Gods" attitude that many in IT bring to work with them every day.
I look forward to the flambe mod
that I will recieve from those unable to accept any criticism of the Ivory Tower. The rest of the posts in this thread modded +5 which drip condescention at the "stoopid" users will prove me right. IT thinks that it exists to serve itself. The fact is that few companies sell IT as a final product. In most companies IT is just like the guy
who services the milling center and turning center - important, but not in charge.
The people have a right to know! And so does everyone else in the world!
Chicago Tribune on the Danish Cartoons:
Excerpts found by searching for "danish cartoons"
in the Chicago Tribune search box. The stories themselves are not freely available.
Stephen Hobson
In any democracy the word "responsibility" must accompany the exercise of all our freedoms. The publication of the cartoons of Muhammad by the Danish press is just another example of someone falsely yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater without considering...
Ed Letchinger
Two editors of the Daily Illini were suspended from their posts following their publication of some of the Danish cartoons, and the Tribune and most other U.S. newspapers have avoided publishing them (Metro, Feb. 15). It is surprising to me that these...
In other words: We are being responsible by deciding what you the people don't need to see. We will make up your mind for you. Good dog.
A student at the school handed in an eight-page Arabic-language essay illustrated with a burning Star of David and a machine gun. In one passage, he wrote: "Without thinking, Ahmed took his M-16 machine gun and threw the bombs and he showered the Jews, this resulted in the killing of the soldiers." The teacher to whom the paper was submitted it returned it with the comment, "God bless you, your efforts are good."
After the incident was publicized, the Ontario Ministry of Education was investigated and two teachers were suspended.
Canadian Islamic groups are now protesting the inequity of the Ministry's actions. They are demanding that the Ministry investigate hate speech at Jewish schools. And as an example of what they are concerned about, the Canadian Islamic Congress issued a press release on Friday calling for the investigation of a Kingston-area Hebrew school. The reason? A nine-year-old student at the school published a letter in the Kingston newspaper, the Whig-Standard, charging that Palestinians wished "to push the Israelis into the sea."
According to the Islamic Congress, the views expressed in the child's letter are views "damaging to healthy relationships among many Canadians in our multicultural and pluralist society."
Maybe you remember that famous jibe of Anatole France's about the law with majestic impartiality forbidding both the rich and poor to sleep under bridges? In the same way, the Canadian Islamic Congress seems to believe that healthy multiculturalism should treat exactly equally an Islamic school that encourages young Muslims to fantasize about murdering Jews - and a Jewish school that teaches its students to object to being murdered.
Therein lies the danger. As Jefferson so aptly wrote centuries ago, the best cure for such speech is more free speech and the clear light of day. To involve the government in such matters can only result in direct government involvement in private political debate. In Canada, if the government objects to what one says, one is simply declared illegal. One must shut up or face the full sanction of the law.
No doubt this would please our liberal friends to no end, having thoroughly lost every public policy debate since around 1979.
We understand that freedom of speech is painful to liberals. We know what you're going through, having had to live through the era when you controlled the public debate and no dissenting voices to liberal orthodoxy were allowed into the hallowed halls of CBS News or the New York Times.
You can be sure that only white racists will be
prosecuted. Islamic hate will be tolerated, and no fines will be assesed on Canadian web sites that advocate the killing of infidels.
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Don't forget the copper jacketed lead bullets sparking when they hit things.
If they wanted to be realistic, they would give you loads where every
other bullet was a tracer round.
Israeli defense doctrine is to load a magazine so that tracer rounds alternate with regular rounds. In operation, the personnel aim by walking the tracers onto the target.
I thank you sir, for the courtesy, but I was a helpless sinner under the eye of the TV.
;)
Seriously, we had to put the TV away in it's box for 3 years to break the addiction. For months afterward I would reflexively reach for the now-missing remote control. And there were many projects around the house/cars/inventions/creating that I should or could have been doing instead of watching TV. But I would almost always choose to zombie out in front of the TV. Only brought the TV out again when we got a dvd player, and we never hooked up any antenna.
I'm sure I would enjoy watching shows if I let myself fall back into the habit into it. I'm sure I would "enjoy" heroin or nicotine if I tried them, too.
Considering how much trouble it was to break the TV addiction, I think I'll pass.
Since I don't mind losing 3 modpoints, I'll agree with you.
I'll go further, and say that the fact your perfectly reasonable comment got modded -1 flamebait, and the violent reactionary snide bitterness you got in the other replies, reminds me of the reaction of heroin addicts (or smokers in the 1950s) when you suggest they might perhaps be "addicted".
Funny how the mods and the replies have proved your point for you.
Yes, I've been broadcast-TV free for about 10 years now.
The new scam now is people calling doing "surveys".
These are immune from calling list
rules. In any case, I am amazed you spent 6 months of agro to solve a problem you could have solved for $100 with this:
What's it worth not to have to go over and look at the caller ID, or getting a call in the middle of the night and having it be a farking fax machine?
This device lets you program an action for each
phone number. Perhaps the coolest thing is that you can program a number to not ring the phone AND also not go to the answering machine.. it just rings (silently) forever.. useful for those people
who you don't want to hear from for any reason.
And yes, there is a 2 digit code a caller can punch in to make the device ring when they call from a non-included phone #.
Sorry this sounds like an ad, but considering the mac mini people are always writing ads masquerading as content, what the hell.
Really, when will enough be enough? Or are there so many state "workers" voting to keep things as they are that you have no escape?
First they took your guns, and you sat in the pub and said it was for the good of the people.
Then they effectively took away your right to self-defense (they took away the means in step one), and you locked yourself in your bathrooms when the burglars break into your occupied house.
Then, they sent letter to the shopkeepers telling them not to bother reporting thefts of less than 75 pounds and not to detain thieves.
You have cameras installed in every orfice, officious busybodies poking noses into your every affair.
Your medical system is refusing treatment to patients who are over weight (gasp) or smoke (the horror) in order to save money. An un-assimilated population of immigrants is holding up signs saying "wait for the real holocaust"
What will it take to push you over the edge, the banning of cricket?
Wake up, it is already too late, and you better get cracking on fixing things.
Reading it, you see it gives lie to the "all quagmire, all the time" reporting that is fashionable in certain quarters. I would expect it
to be ignored by those whose orthodoxy it challanges. Why would you expect that the people doing the filtering for you will include facts which are inconveniant to them?
The value of Blogs comes from a LACK of control and filtering.
We don't need to impose a cathedral upon the bazzar.
Now all this thread needs is some hoser to chime in with "Cue the Islamophobics and Muslim Haters" as a transparent attempt to shut down valid debate or criticism, (in the same way that "RACIST!!" is used on campus to shut up those who would dare to question the dominant orthodoxy) and this thread will be complete.
Interesting how the vast majority of the MSM
has voided their flaccid bowels rather than actually publishing the cartoons, leaving the only
source of, you know, actual relevant information, to publications by bloggers.
The current paint in the ass inconveniances are petty compared to
the stoning of gays and beheading of adulterers and rape victims, which will be de rigur when sharia law is imposed.
Slashdot Mirror
linky:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=madd+staff+sobri ety+checkpoint&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_ epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr =all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&as_rights= &safe=images
As part of their neo-prohibitionist plan for an alcohol free America.
Trying to create a trend or perception where there is none. Witness all those smarmy "the suit is back" articles.
In addition to accepting paid and free propaganda, trying to create public hysteria to influence political outcomes, the MSM survives on renting reader's eyeballs to advertisers. Whatever it takes to do that, they will do. Slashdot itself has fallen into that same cycle, with regular articles about "political" subjects sure to get 800 replies (and corresponding ad impressions) but with no valid technical content.
New SuperSig:
Make the requirements to vote the same as to own a gun.
Simply go to the polling place, fill out a Form 4473, show your ID, and the poll worker will check with the FBI database to make sure that you're not prohibited from voting. If everything is working correctly, you will be allowed to vote in a few minutes.
If the GCA/Brady system doesn't violate the rights of gun owners, then what possible objection could there be to implementing the same system for voting?
Robert Racansky
To paraphrase:
Wee Won! Wee Won! Neener! Neener! Neener!
This whole "debate" thing is a lot easier when you just declare that all other viewpoints are invalid, huh?
Hey, whatever generates ad impressions for ya.
(or would, if we all weren't running privoxy and noscript)
The "xenophobia" cry, like the "racism" canard, are simply techniques to try to stifle discussion or criticism.
The cases of China spying on the US and stealing US technology are too numerous to link to, and I am sure you are well aware of them.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all& q=iran+hang+girl&btnG=Search
Does anyone expect they are concerned about any other human rights?
Sheesh people, wake up and smell the Sharia.
The answer to the problem is inside your question.
Who controls mainstream groupthink?
The mainstream media, which includes TV.
These people obviously want you to keep watching TV, not going off and doing something else.
QED.
Sheesh, what else?
An enormous amount of work has gone into it, and it is being given away for free. There might be some issues to get thru, but they WILL be fixed, and the updates made (again) freely available.
The mind boggles that people exist who not only look the gift horse in the mouth, but also denigrate it.
Use the stanton finley install notes here if you want detailed instructions on core 5 setup.
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installati on_notes.html
Good to know the democrats are freakishly sensitive about the slightest percieved insult.
Sheeh.
That does not mean they are making a good choice.
These are the same people that are going to be eating dog food and living on the street in a box after they retire.
If you want to do something with your money, put it in an IRA and go for a jog instead of sitting on the couch waiting for the heart attack.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm
Geneva Convention Article 4
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c) That of carrying arms openly;
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
Hate to interrupt your uninformed rant, but persons who violate (b), (c), and (d) don't count as "prisoners of war". It's right there in the text of the geneva convention.
HTH
HAND
The PC was created exactly to get out from under the ossified IT Priesthood, and return power to the users. The wheel has now turned full circle, and todays IT regularly shows complete contempt for the users in a company who actually do work that brings in revenue. In this way they are very similar to government employees, except that at the moment most of them do not have a union.
The problem today is that there is no new "personal computer" on the horizon that will let workers just do their work without the "We Are Gods" attitude that many in IT bring to work with them every day.
I look forward to the flambe mod that I will recieve from those unable to accept any criticism of the Ivory Tower. The rest of the posts in this thread modded +5 which drip condescention at the "stoopid" users will prove me right. IT thinks that it exists to serve itself. The fact is that few companies sell IT as a final product. In most companies IT is just like the guy who services the milling center and turning center - important, but not in charge.
The people have a right to know! And so does everyone else in the world!
Chicago Tribune on the Danish Cartoons:
Excerpts found by searching for "danish cartoons" in the Chicago Tribune search box. The stories themselves are not freely available.
Stephen Hobson
In any democracy the word "responsibility" must accompany the exercise of all our freedoms. The publication of the cartoons of Muhammad by the Danish press is just another example of someone falsely yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater without considering...
Ed Letchinger
Two editors of the Daily Illini were suspended from their posts following their publication of some of the Danish cartoons, and the Tribune and most other U.S. newspapers have avoided publishing them (Metro, Feb. 15). It is surprising to me that these...
In other words: We are being responsible by deciding what you the people don't need to see. We will make up your mind for you. Good dog.
After the incident was publicized, the Ontario Ministry of Education was investigated and two teachers were suspended.
Canadian Islamic groups are now protesting the inequity of the Ministry's actions. They are demanding that the Ministry investigate hate speech at Jewish schools. And as an example of what they are concerned about, the Canadian Islamic Congress issued a press release on Friday calling for the investigation of a Kingston-area Hebrew school. The reason? A nine-year-old student at the school published a letter in the Kingston newspaper, the Whig-Standard, charging that Palestinians wished "to push the Israelis into the sea." According to the Islamic Congress, the views expressed in the child's letter are views "damaging to healthy relationships among many Canadians in our multicultural and pluralist society." Maybe you remember that famous jibe of Anatole France's about the law with majestic impartiality forbidding both the rich and poor to sleep under bridges? In the same way, the Canadian Islamic Congress seems to believe that healthy multiculturalism should treat exactly equally an Islamic school that encourages young Muslims to fantasize about murdering Jews - and a Jewish school that teaches its students to object to being murdered.
Therein lies the danger. As Jefferson so aptly wrote centuries ago, the best cure for such speech is more free speech and the clear light of day. To involve the government in such matters can only result in direct government involvement in private political debate. In Canada, if the government objects to what one says, one is simply declared illegal. One must shut up or face the full sanction of the law. No doubt this would please our liberal friends to no end, having thoroughly lost every public policy debate since around 1979. We understand that freedom of speech is painful to liberals. We know what you're going through, having had to live through the era when you controlled the public debate and no dissenting voices to liberal orthodoxy were allowed into the hallowed halls of CBS News or the New York Times.
linky:
http://newsisyphus.blogspot.com/2005/04/canada-and -hate-speech-codes.html
You can be sure that only white racists will be prosecuted. Islamic hate will be tolerated, and no fines will be assesed on Canadian web sites that advocate the killing of infidels.
If they wanted to be realistic, they would give you loads where every other bullet was a tracer round.
Israeli defense doctrine is to load a magazine so that tracer rounds alternate with regular rounds. In operation, the personnel aim by walking the tracers onto the target.
Linky:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi_submachine_gun
Here's a thought Hollywood, stop making movies about gay cowboys and pimps.
What you said:
And by "agree with him totally" you really mean "get the gays and the blacks out of movies!"
The fact that "pimp" and "black" are synonyms in your mind makes every decent person on /. sick.
Go sit in the corner and think about what is going on in your head.
I thank you sir, for the courtesy, but I was a helpless sinner under the eye of the TV.
;)
Seriously, we had to put the TV away in it's box for 3 years to break the addiction. For months afterward I would reflexively reach for the now-missing remote control. And there were many projects around the house/cars/inventions/creating that I should or could have been doing instead of watching TV. But I would almost always choose to zombie out in front of the TV. Only brought the TV out again when we got a dvd player, and we never hooked up any antenna.
I'm sure I would enjoy watching shows if I let myself fall back into the habit into it. I'm sure I would "enjoy" heroin or nicotine if I tried them, too.
Considering how much trouble it was to break the TV addiction, I think I'll pass.
I'll go further, and say that the fact your perfectly reasonable comment got modded -1 flamebait, and the violent reactionary snide bitterness you got in the other replies, reminds me of the reaction of heroin addicts (or smokers in the 1950s) when you suggest they might perhaps be "addicted".
Funny how the mods and the replies have proved your point for you.
Yes, I've been broadcast-TV free for about 10 years now.
Most tenacious monkey I ever had on my back.
That is what this box does.. you wire it first in the phone line, and all other phones plug into it..
These are immune from calling list rules. In any case, I am amazed you spent 6 months of agro to solve a problem you could have solved for $100 with this:
http://www.privacycorps.com/products/?id=20
What's it worth not to have to go over and look at the caller ID, or getting a call in the middle of the night and having it be a farking fax machine?
This device lets you program an action for each phone number. Perhaps the coolest thing is that you can program a number to not ring the phone AND also not go to the answering machine.. it just rings (silently) forever.. useful for those people who you don't want to hear from for any reason.
And yes, there is a 2 digit code a caller can punch in to make the device ring when they call from a non-included phone #.
Sorry this sounds like an ad, but considering the mac mini people are always writing ads masquerading as content, what the hell.
Disney has lots of it.
Additional benefits are who would be pissed off at this: someone who thinks Tom and Jerry cartoons are a Zionist plot.
Linky:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=1940 9_Iranian_Madness_Watch&only
First they took your guns, and you sat in the pub and said it was for the good of the people.
Then they effectively took away your right to self-defense (they took away the means in step one), and you locked yourself in your bathrooms when the burglars break into your occupied house.
Then, they sent letter to the shopkeepers telling them not to bother reporting thefts of less than 75 pounds and not to detain thieves.
Linky:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006060516,00 .html
You have cameras installed in every orfice, officious busybodies poking noses into your every affair.
Your medical system is refusing treatment to patients who are over weight (gasp) or smoke (the horror) in order to save money. An un-assimilated population of immigrants is holding up signs saying "wait for the real holocaust"
What will it take to push you over the edge, the banning of cricket?
Wake up, it is already too late, and you better get cracking on fixing things.
6 - Many of the worst blogs die away as the good reading tools (and people using them) ignore them
And who decides what is crap? Some snobby elite with a political axe to grind? We have that today and call it the main stream media.
Here is the latest post from Michael J. Totten in Iraq.
http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001064.html
Reading it, you see it gives lie to the "all quagmire, all the time" reporting that is fashionable in certain quarters. I would expect it to be ignored by those whose orthodoxy it challanges. Why would you expect that the people doing the filtering for you will include facts which are inconveniant to them?
The value of Blogs comes from a LACK of control and filtering. We don't need to impose a cathedral upon the bazzar.
Now all this thread needs is some hoser to chime in with "Cue the Islamophobics and Muslim Haters" as a transparent attempt to shut down valid debate or criticism, (in the same way that "RACIST!!" is used on campus to shut up those who would dare to question the dominant orthodoxy) and this thread will be complete.
Interesting how the vast majority of the MSM has voided their flaccid bowels rather than actually publishing the cartoons, leaving the only source of, you know, actual relevant information, to publications by bloggers.
The silicon parts rarely go bad.
Porn
Booze
Foreskins
Pork Rinds
etc...
The current paint in the ass inconveniances are petty compared to the stoning of gays and beheading of adulterers and rape victims, which will be de rigur when sharia law is imposed.