You're still suffering under the delusion that the U.S. are the "good guys"? lol.
"Since the 1979 Iranian revolution and the downfall of the US Puppet Ruler the Shah, Iran has been an Islamic state. In that interval of time, 1979 to the present, Iran has not invaded anyone. Not once. People of all religions live in peace in Iran, even Jews, who find life so comfortable in Iran they refused an offer by the government of Israel to emigrate!
In the same period of time, Israel, a self-declared Jewish state, attacked Iraq in 1981, bombing the power station at Osirik, claiming it was a clandestine weapons factory. Subsequent examination of the ruins following the 2003 invasion proved Israel had lied. In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. This led to the Massacres at Sabra and Shatilla. In February 2003 Israel staged incursions into Gaza and Nablus. In September 2007 Israel bombed Syria, again insisting they were destroying a clandestine weapons laboratory. Again there was no evidence to support Israel’s claims. In 2006, Israel attacked Lebanon, killing 1200, mostly civilians, several UN observers, and littering the landscape with land mines on their way out. In February 2008 Israel again raided Gaza, killing over 100. HAMAS agreed to a cease fire and kept it for 6 months until November 4, when Israel again attacked without warning, killing 6 HAMAS members, and launching operation CAST LEAD.
1300 Gazans, mostly civilians, were killed. Israel lost 13 soldiers. Violations of international law included the use of White Phosphorus incendiary bombs against civilians and non-military targets. The United Nations investigated, but Israel refused to cooperate. In May 2010, Israel attacked an international aid flotilla bringing food and medical supplies to Gaza in international waters. 9 people were murdered including an American from New York.
In the same period of time, the United States, officially a secular nation but predominantly Christian, attacked El Salvador (1980), Libya (1981), Sinai (1982), Lebanon (1982 1983), Egypt (1983), Grenada (1983), Honduras (1983), Chad (1983), Persian Gulf (1984), Libya (1986) , Bolivia (1986), Iran (1987), Persian Gulf (1987), Kuwait (1987), Iran (1988), Honduras (1988), Panama (1988), Libya (1989), Panama (1989), Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru (1989), Philippines (1989), Panama (1989-1990), Liberia (1990), Saudi Arabia (1990), Iraq (1991), Zaire (1991), Sierra Leone (1992), Somalia (1992), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1993 to present), Macedonia (1993), Haiti (1994), Macedonia (1994), Bosnia (1995), Liberia (1996), Central African Republic (1996), Albania (1997), Congo/Gabon (1997), Sierra Leon (1997), Cambodia (1997), Iraq (1998), Guinea/Bissau (1998), Kenya/Tanzania (1998 to 1999), Afghanistan/Sudan (1998), Liberia (1998), East Timor (1999), Serbia (1999), Sierra Leon (2000), Yemen (2000), East Timor (2000), Afghanistan (2001 to present), Yemen (2002), Philippines (2002) , Cote d’Ivoire (2002), Iraq (2003 to present), Liberia (2003), Georgia/Djibouti (2003), Haiti (2004), Georgia/Djibouti/Kenya/Ethiopia/Yemen/Eritrea War on Terror (2004), Pakistan drone attacks (2004 to present), Somalia (2007), South Ossetia/Georgia (2008), Syria (2008), Yemen (2009), Haiti (2010), etc. etc. etc. etc.
Who is making moral judgements? As long as some countries might become a threat in the future, every other country will spy. The alternative is to be caught off guard and lose a war. You don't have to like it, but pretending to be shocked makes you come off as incredibly naive.
Yeah, and? The U.S. has spent decades loudly vilifying the Chinese in news media for doing things like this...and now they're getting exposed for the liars and hypocrites they really are.
It's a big difference searching through a database of 9 faces than through a database of millions.
Not when you're the NSA, and you have a huge facility full of supercooled supercomputers ready at hand to do all the work for ya! Oh yeah and I forgot to mention....it's all paid for by us, the taxpayers!
Although I think this is a stupid policy, I have a very simple answer. I won't bother posting comments on The Huffington Post. It's not like I give a shit about them in the first place.
I have been banned from there for months. The place is a fascist shithole.
Anyone desiring to use Linux will be required to print out the entire Linux source code (on an Epson dot matrix printer), read every page, and then initial it to confirm their understanding. This will be mailed in to the FSF to track compliance.
If there are any bugs found then everyone who signed that page gets their license revoked.
I am sure with this fool proof plan the Linux userbase will double in no time!
I don't think there is such a thing. If he had burned the hotel to the ground and detonated a small nuclear device in the rubble, I'd admire his restraint.
The population is doing nothing of the kind. Republicans resent him because they are the party out of power.
Your head is so far up your ass you could perform your own dentistry work, without a mirror.
This has nothing to do with "Republicans", you mouth breathing retard.
I post anti-Obama rants to Facebook all the time, and guess what? College students, old people, the middle class, all of these people agree with what I'm saying. Many agree that Obama is a wannabe fascist dictator who would look a LOT better with his fucking head blown open with a good hollow point bullet.
The cost of college (at a state colleges) here has expanded because "we will cut your taxes" politicians kept getting elected, so the state cut their support of the colleges (20-odd% here from 2006-20011), so the colleges are now getting the money from the students.
Really? And who supplies the student loans for said students....the student loan fairy?
Actually I have found for my engineering classes that a heck of a lot of the information is not available online. So far it is the only thing I have not been able to find online. Many of the equations in my heat transfer books, fluid equations, thermo equations are just not found online.
The knowledge you get bumbling around the Internet, while useful and good to have, is in no way compares to a formal education.
Wrong, asshole.
I have a 1TB hard drive full of BOOKS which I have downloaded, for free, off bittorrent.
(And yes I am 100% proud of the fact that I got em free. Copyright apologists can go fuck themselves with a fence post driver.)
I was a kid in the BBS days and have literally grown up with the Internet. I am far more educated and smarter than 99.99999999999% (yes, all those nines are necessary) of you college apologists will ever dream of being.
Within ten years I will be a multi-millionaire for sure, and perhaps even a billionaire. Even while you college apologists starve in the gutter.
By the way, I can SING really good too....like as in "potential American Idol winner" good. Like as in "Prince ain't got shit" good. That comes from all the FREE MP3s I've downloaded online over the past 15 years, combined with a lot of practice. Had the Internet never existed, I would not even listen to music, let alone be able to sing. I still remember the first two MP3s my friend gave me back in the day: 2Pac - 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted and Collective Soul - Breathe.
You can take your "proper formal education" and shove it right up your asshole.....asshole.
As someone whose parents both retired recently from teaching at four-year universities, I don't buy that explanation. At all. It's pure and utter bulls**t. The fact is, most universities are barely holding on financially, having to cut entire programs to keep from going under. Professors' salaries barely keep up with inflation most of the time, if that, and staff salaries don't fare much better.
Really? And what do those administrators' salaries look like? Are they just barely scraping by too?
Except we don't live in a "free market", jackass. We live in a fucking state controlled centrally planned economy....which evil politicians have successfully brainwashed dumb ass useful idiots like yourself into believing is a "free market." What we have is called "mercantilism." Google mother fucker....do you use it?
What I simply don't understand is why US universities are so expensive. It's gotten to the point where it seems that any sort of education can only be gotten my pretty much taking on so much debt that you will be lucky to pay it back - which then forces the government to start putting in copious amounts of scholarships/funding to keep students there.
You got your cause and effect backwards! It's because of the "free" government aid to any and all, which has caused prices to go through the roof!
The new ratings system, which the president wants implemented before the 2015 school year, would evaluate colleges on a series of measures, including average tuition and student loan debt, graduation rates, and the average earnings of graduates. Obama is also seeking legislation to link the new ratings system to the way federal financial aid is awarded, with students attending highly-rated schools receiving larger grants and more affordable student loans.
Sounds great, right? Except Satan is in the details. The whole purpose of this program is to bring colleges and universities even closer to the bosom of Uncle Sam, while the educated idiots think they are getting a great deal.
First step in their master plan was to raise tuition rates through the roof, which was easily achieved by spreading the "everyone MUST go to college meme", then giving away "free" government money to anyone and everyone who wants to go, to study 18th century Russian poetry or whatever bullshit fairy tale dream they want to pursue. This has been successful, as most ordinary people can no longer afford to go to college without this government "aid." Now the next stage of their plan is to make sure this government "aid" only goes to the "right" people. Those institutions which "toe the line" and do what the government tells them to do, and preach whatever lies that the government demands they preach, and are successful in raising their kids up to be good little obedient Nazis and willing corporate slaves, will be the ones which receive higher ratings and more money. On the other hand any educational institution which has the nerve to speak out against the government will find themselves with poor ratings, no money, and thus no students.
So OUR tax dollars go to support the government-friendly ass kissing institutions, and to help those kids who are picked and chosen by the elites to be accepted there, while little to none of it goes to those who teach kids to be independent, critical thinkers, to kids who are not part of the elite, or to those whose families are political enemies of the corrupt fascists in D.C. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer....by design.
Yet another SCAM from the great Liar In Chief....and leagues of 20 year old useful idiots scream in ecstasy about how wonderful it all is and what a great visionary Obomber is. They begged for slavery, and slavery is exactly what they will get. Good for them.
Because she (Manning) was presumably born in the USA, her genitals were likely already mutilated at birth.
You misspelled "he." Or perhaps you weren't aware that Bradley Manning is a male?
Secondly, the organ between your ears also has gender just the same as the organ between your legs. The process of HRT brings one's hormone levels in line with normal female levels, so I don't understand why you think anything is going "out of whack."
In practice, we as a species don't seem to be able to create and sustain the requisite human and material support structures for truly safe nuclear power.
It has nothing to do with the species. I am perfectly capable of creating and sustaining a safe nuclear power station. There are others out there like me. We can (and will) get together and form our own nation which does this effectively and safely. Others will go extinct. When fire was invented, I guarantee only 20-30% of hominins back then had what it took (mentally, genetically) to safely use fire. I bet after the first few tribes burned themselves and their whole forest to the ground there were people like you who threw their hands up in the air and exclaimed that hominins would never be able to safely use this mysterious force. Those people went extinct.
There are people out there reading our comments right now. They are reading what you say, what I say, what others say, and they are forming opinions. They then share these opinions with their friends and families, influencing them. Every word we speak changes the world.
the amount of 'abuse' by the NSA compared to the amount of clearly legal searches they do is tiny. They do 100s of millions of 'searchs', and 22,000 were either questionable or out and out wrong.
That's actual a good ratio.
Those "statistics" were purposely massaged and released so that clueless shills such as yourself would fail to engage your brains before loudly commenting on places like Slashdot defending the fucking cocksuckers' actions and claiming that all is well and good. Obviously it worked beautifully. If wickedness could be beautiful, that is.
That's the same logical nonsense as 'Phram doesn't wna ti to be legal' or 'Tovbaccoa doesn't want it to be legal'.
Those industries and entrenched companies would make a lot of money.
Please yourself.
What makes you think a TOBACCO COMPANY has any interest in learning to produce marijuana?
What makes you think a LUMBER COMPANY has any interest in learning to grow hemp?
What makes you think MICROSOFT CORPORATION will ever jump fully on the open source bandwagon and build its own *NIX based OS, rather than continuing to pour all their resources into Windows while smearing and opposing Linux at every turn?
The U.S. Government has declared marijuana to have absolutely no medicinal use....the same mother fuckers who themselves hold a PATENT on the use of marijuana as medicine. Oh yeah, AND they allow their favorite pharmaceutical company to produce and offer cannabis-based medicines (Sativex, etc) on the market....while everyone continues to declare it has no medicinal use whatsoever.
I guess I might have conflated heroin and morphine, for both being opiates doesn't mean they are classified the same way of course. The latter clearly has medicinal use.
Heroin was invented and popularized as a less addictive form of morphine.
Slashdot Mirror
You're still suffering under the delusion that the U.S. are the "good guys"? lol.
"Since the 1979 Iranian revolution and the downfall of the US Puppet Ruler the Shah, Iran has been an Islamic state. In that interval of time, 1979 to the present, Iran has not invaded anyone. Not once. People of all religions live in peace in Iran, even Jews, who find life so comfortable in Iran they refused an offer by the government of Israel to emigrate!
In the same period of time, Israel, a self-declared Jewish state, attacked Iraq in 1981, bombing the power station at Osirik, claiming it was a clandestine weapons factory. Subsequent examination of the ruins following the 2003 invasion proved Israel had lied. In 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. This led to the Massacres at Sabra and Shatilla. In February 2003 Israel staged incursions into Gaza and Nablus. In September 2007 Israel bombed Syria, again insisting they were destroying a clandestine weapons laboratory. Again there was no evidence to support Israel’s claims. In 2006, Israel attacked Lebanon, killing 1200, mostly civilians, several UN observers, and littering the landscape with land mines on their way out. In February 2008 Israel again raided Gaza, killing over 100. HAMAS agreed to a cease fire and kept it for 6 months until November 4, when Israel again attacked without warning, killing 6 HAMAS members, and launching operation CAST LEAD.
1300 Gazans, mostly civilians, were killed. Israel lost 13 soldiers. Violations of international law included the use of White Phosphorus incendiary bombs against civilians and non-military targets. The United Nations investigated, but Israel refused to cooperate. In May 2010, Israel attacked an international aid flotilla bringing food and medical supplies to Gaza in international waters. 9 people were murdered including an American from New York.
In the same period of time, the United States, officially a secular nation but predominantly Christian, attacked El Salvador (1980), Libya (1981), Sinai (1982), Lebanon (1982 1983), Egypt (1983), Grenada (1983), Honduras (1983), Chad (1983), Persian Gulf (1984), Libya (1986) , Bolivia (1986), Iran (1987), Persian Gulf (1987), Kuwait (1987), Iran (1988), Honduras (1988), Panama (1988), Libya (1989), Panama (1989), Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru (1989), Philippines (1989), Panama (1989-1990), Liberia (1990), Saudi Arabia (1990), Iraq (1991), Zaire (1991), Sierra Leone (1992), Somalia (1992), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1993 to present), Macedonia (1993), Haiti (1994), Macedonia (1994), Bosnia (1995), Liberia (1996), Central African Republic (1996), Albania (1997), Congo/Gabon (1997), Sierra Leon (1997), Cambodia (1997), Iraq (1998), Guinea/Bissau (1998), Kenya/Tanzania (1998 to 1999), Afghanistan/Sudan (1998), Liberia (1998), East Timor (1999), Serbia (1999), Sierra Leon (2000), Yemen (2000), East Timor (2000), Afghanistan (2001 to present), Yemen (2002), Philippines (2002) , Cote d’Ivoire (2002), Iraq (2003 to present), Liberia (2003), Georgia/Djibouti (2003), Haiti (2004), Georgia/Djibouti/Kenya/Ethiopia/Yemen/Eritrea War on Terror (2004), Pakistan drone attacks (2004 to present), Somalia (2007), South Ossetia/Georgia (2008), Syria (2008), Yemen (2009), Haiti (2010), etc. etc. etc. etc.
So, who is the danger to world peace?"
Who is making moral judgements? As long as some countries might become a threat in the future, every other country will spy. The alternative is to be caught off guard and lose a war. You don't have to like it, but pretending to be shocked makes you come off as incredibly naive.
Yeah, and? The U.S. has spent decades loudly vilifying the Chinese in news media for doing things like this...and now they're getting exposed for the liars and hypocrites they really are.
If you think your over-literal interpretation of my generalization makes you intelligent, you're probably one of the 70% I was referring to.
It's a big difference searching through a database of 9 faces than through a database of millions.
Not when you're the NSA, and you have a huge facility full of supercooled supercomputers ready at hand to do all the work for ya! Oh yeah and I forgot to mention....it's all paid for by us, the taxpayers!
Although I think this is a stupid policy, I have a very simple answer. I won't bother posting comments on The Huffington Post. It's not like I give a shit about them in the first place.
I have been banned from there for months. The place is a fascist shithole.
Anyone desiring to use Linux will be required to print out the entire Linux source code (on an Epson dot matrix printer), read every page, and then initial it to confirm their understanding. This will be mailed in to the FSF to track compliance.
If there are any bugs found then everyone who signed that page gets their license revoked.
I am sure with this fool proof plan the Linux userbase will double in no time!
I don't think there is such a thing. If he had burned the hotel to the ground and detonated a small nuclear device in the rubble, I'd admire his restraint.
I say we blast off and nuke em from orbit.
The problem I see is that the hotel taking him to court puts even more media attention on the hotel being infested.
You know what's even worse than the Streisand Effect?
I don't know but I bet being Barbra Streisand is probably worse.
But it gives a peace of mind that you aren't going to be hurt too badly financially, and reduces the penalty if college just didn't work out for you.
Sure....while putting YOUR burden on someone else's shoulders.
Go find another country to pimp your bullshit....comrade.
The population is doing nothing of the kind. Republicans resent him because they are the party out of power.
Your head is so far up your ass you could perform your own dentistry work, without a mirror.
This has nothing to do with "Republicans", you mouth breathing retard.
I post anti-Obama rants to Facebook all the time, and guess what? College students, old people, the middle class, all of these people agree with what I'm saying. Many agree that Obama is a wannabe fascist dictator who would look a LOT better with his fucking head blown open with a good hollow point bullet.
I guess it's because they're all racists, right?
The cost of college (at a state colleges) here has expanded because "we will cut your taxes" politicians kept getting elected, so the state cut their support of the colleges (20-odd% here from 2006-20011), so the colleges are now getting the money from the students.
Really? And who supplies the student loans for said students....the student loan fairy?
Actually I have found for my engineering classes that a heck of a lot of the information is not available online. So far it is the only thing I have not been able to find online. Many of the equations in my heat transfer books, fluid equations, thermo equations are just not found online.
Sure they are.
http://pirateproxy.net/torrent/4745001/Machinery_s_Handbook__27th_Edition_-_(Malestrom)
I own a physical copy, but if I didn't I'd just download one.
The knowledge you get bumbling around the Internet, while useful and good to have, is in no way compares to a formal education.
Wrong, asshole.
I have a 1TB hard drive full of BOOKS which I have downloaded, for free, off bittorrent.
(And yes I am 100% proud of the fact that I got em free. Copyright apologists can go fuck themselves with a fence post driver.)
I was a kid in the BBS days and have literally grown up with the Internet. I am far more educated and smarter than 99.99999999999% (yes, all those nines are necessary) of you college apologists will ever dream of being.
Within ten years I will be a multi-millionaire for sure, and perhaps even a billionaire. Even while you college apologists starve in the gutter.
By the way, I can SING really good too....like as in "potential American Idol winner" good. Like as in "Prince ain't got shit" good. That comes from all the FREE MP3s I've downloaded online over the past 15 years, combined with a lot of practice. Had the Internet never existed, I would not even listen to music, let alone be able to sing. I still remember the first two MP3s my friend gave me back in the day: 2Pac - 2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted and Collective Soul - Breathe.
You can take your "proper formal education" and shove it right up your asshole.....asshole.
As someone whose parents both retired recently from teaching at four-year universities, I don't buy that explanation. At all. It's pure and utter bulls**t. The fact is, most universities are barely holding on financially, having to cut entire programs to keep from going under. Professors' salaries barely keep up with inflation most of the time, if that, and staff salaries don't fare much better.
Really? And what do those administrators' salaries look like? Are they just barely scraping by too?
Free market systems are the root of it.
Except we don't live in a "free market", jackass. We live in a fucking state controlled centrally planned economy....which evil politicians have successfully brainwashed dumb ass useful idiots like yourself into believing is a "free market." What we have is called "mercantilism." Google mother fucker....do you use it?
And in the religion of statism, if the economy is failing that must be because we don't have enough rules and regulations and mother fucking red tape.
What a stupid dipshit you are.
What I simply don't understand is why US universities are so expensive. It's gotten to the point where it seems that any sort of education can only be gotten my pretty much taking on so much debt that you will be lucky to pay it back - which then forces the government to start putting in copious amounts of scholarships/funding to keep students there.
You got your cause and effect backwards! It's because of the "free" government aid to any and all, which has caused prices to go through the roof!
The new ratings system, which the president wants implemented before the 2015 school year, would evaluate colleges on a series of measures, including average tuition and student loan debt, graduation rates, and the average earnings of graduates. Obama is also seeking legislation to link the new ratings system to the way federal financial aid is awarded, with students attending highly-rated schools receiving larger grants and more affordable student loans.
Sounds great, right? Except Satan is in the details. The whole purpose of this program is to bring colleges and universities even closer to the bosom of Uncle Sam, while the educated idiots think they are getting a great deal.
First step in their master plan was to raise tuition rates through the roof, which was easily achieved by spreading the "everyone MUST go to college meme", then giving away "free" government money to anyone and everyone who wants to go, to study 18th century Russian poetry or whatever bullshit fairy tale dream they want to pursue. This has been successful, as most ordinary people can no longer afford to go to college without this government "aid." Now the next stage of their plan is to make sure this government "aid" only goes to the "right" people. Those institutions which "toe the line" and do what the government tells them to do, and preach whatever lies that the government demands they preach, and are successful in raising their kids up to be good little obedient Nazis and willing corporate slaves, will be the ones which receive higher ratings and more money. On the other hand any educational institution which has the nerve to speak out against the government will find themselves with poor ratings, no money, and thus no students.
So OUR tax dollars go to support the government-friendly ass kissing institutions, and to help those kids who are picked and chosen by the elites to be accepted there, while little to none of it goes to those who teach kids to be independent, critical thinkers, to kids who are not part of the elite, or to those whose families are political enemies of the corrupt fascists in D.C. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer....by design.
Yet another SCAM from the great Liar In Chief....and leagues of 20 year old useful idiots scream in ecstasy about how wonderful it all is and what a great visionary Obomber is. They begged for slavery, and slavery is exactly what they will get. Good for them.
Because she (Manning) was presumably born in the USA, her genitals were likely already mutilated at birth.
You misspelled "he." Or perhaps you weren't aware that Bradley Manning is a male?
Secondly, the organ between your ears also has gender just the same as the organ between your legs. The process of HRT brings one's hormone levels in line with normal female levels, so I don't understand why you think anything is going "out of whack."
Paid for at taxpayer expense? I don't think so.
I hope you starve in the fucking streets, maggot.
In practice, we as a species don't seem to be able to create and sustain the requisite human and material support structures for truly safe nuclear power.
It has nothing to do with the species. I am perfectly capable of creating and sustaining a safe nuclear power station. There are others out there like me. We can (and will) get together and form our own nation which does this effectively and safely. Others will go extinct. When fire was invented, I guarantee only 20-30% of hominins back then had what it took (mentally, genetically) to safely use fire. I bet after the first few tribes burned themselves and their whole forest to the ground there were people like you who threw their hands up in the air and exclaimed that hominins would never be able to safely use this mysterious force. Those people went extinct.
Thank you. I wish slashdot would put in a damn edit button.
There are people out there reading our comments right now. They are reading what you say, what I say, what others say, and they are forming opinions. They then share these opinions with their friends and families, influencing them. Every word we speak changes the world.
the amount of 'abuse' by the NSA compared to the amount of clearly legal searches they do is tiny. They do 100s of millions of 'searchs', and 22,000 were either questionable or out and out wrong.
That's actual a good ratio.
Those "statistics" were purposely massaged and released so that clueless shills such as yourself would fail to engage your brains before loudly commenting on places like Slashdot defending the fucking cocksuckers' actions and claiming that all is well and good. Obviously it worked beautifully. If wickedness could be beautiful, that is.
Please.
That's the same logical nonsense as 'Phram doesn't wna ti to be legal' or 'Tovbaccoa doesn't want it to be legal'.
Those industries and entrenched companies would make a lot of money.
Please yourself.
What makes you think a TOBACCO COMPANY has any interest in learning to produce marijuana?
What makes you think a LUMBER COMPANY has any interest in learning to grow hemp?
What makes you think MICROSOFT CORPORATION will ever jump fully on the open source bandwagon and build its own *NIX based OS, rather than continuing to pour all their resources into Windows while smearing and opposing Linux at every turn?
The U.S. Government has declared marijuana to have absolutely no medicinal use....the same mother fuckers who themselves hold a PATENT on the use of marijuana as medicine. Oh yeah, AND they allow their favorite pharmaceutical company to produce and offer cannabis-based medicines (Sativex, etc) on the market....while everyone continues to declare it has no medicinal use whatsoever.
You are naive.
I guess I might have conflated heroin and morphine, for both being opiates doesn't mean they are classified the same way of course. The latter clearly has medicinal use.
Heroin was invented and popularized as a less addictive form of morphine.
lol