And you'd be right. Look at how the idea of a national identifying number was introduced - the SSN. And look at how many things you *can't* do without an SSN, or an SSN equivalent.
The chip will go the same way, with gradual introduction to selected members eventually culminating into "don't have the chip? then we won't do business with you."
Well, I put my faith in the Norse gods and our mythology doesn't have any of that crap about the mark of the beast. Nosirree! In our mythology the beast up and EATS the gods, and everyone else just plain dies! Screw that pansy marking bit.
In the United States of America you still need PROOF of a crime in order to be convicted; or at least that's what they tell me. If the proof is destroyed with the partition there's no way the government can pin the crime on you. You don't even have a circumstantial case at that point.
And my answer to this is "so the fuck what?" What does it matter if a bunch of extremists in the Middle East destroy each other by nuclear or conventional means? It won't matter for dick to the citizens of the United States; whatever pissant tribe of nutbags ends up in control of the oil will *still* sell to us, so why should we give a damn?
Ah, I see. So you'd rather just come right out and act like a slave than try to remember that the government is here to do *your* bidding. Well, go ahead, give up; slap that collar around your neck. Some people weren't meant to shoulder the responsibility of liberty.
I still think KDE needs some work, especially in the ease-of-use department (too many settings presented to the user, some intelligent hiding would be appreciated)
If choice bothers you, go back to using Windows. It should be perfect for you needs.
And no, I *don't* give a shit if this choice confuses Joe Consumer. I'm not a zealot; I don't care if Joe Consumer uses Windows or Linux, and I don't want the development team for KDE catering to him. If ol' Joe can't be bothered with the idea of choice he doesn't have any business using Linux in the first place.
What you really need is two passwords. Password number one lets you into the partition; password number two *appears* to let you into the partition, but runs a program that completely scrambles the partition and destroys the data.
Give 'em password number two and then tell them it's nor your fault they screwed the pooch. Where's the proof that you booby-trapped the thing if the booby-trap is destroyed with the partition?
over a thousand innocent Israeli civilians will killed by palestinian terrorists in the same time frame.
That isn't our problem. That's Israel's problem. If Israel can't support it's own military and economy after more than fifty years of freedom, then it doesn't deserve statehood.
I say end all aid to Israel, now and forever. And aid to most of the other shitholes in the world as well. As an American citizen I'd much rather see that money spent at home on AMERICAN citizens, or returned to me through tax cuts.
A. Move the UN headquarters out of New York and to Europe without giving the U.S. the option to veto in the security council
Please, do so. I'd very much like to see the U.N. move to a place where it belongs, like Tobago.
B. Place the U.S. on probation to end its imperial ambitions or be removed from the security council
Oooooh, probation! As if that meant shit. It's not like there's a nation, or even a coalition of nations, capable of challenging the U.S. either militarily or economically and winning.
Go ahead, put us on "probation". Watch as we laugh our asses off at you.
C. If U.S. behavior continuesand eject the U.S.from the U.N. all together.
Sounds good to me. It's not like the jackasses in the U.N. are capable of stopping us from doing whatever the hell we feel like, whenever the hell we feel like it. The only thing on this Earth capable of putting the hurt on the U.S. is ourselves; and your only hope of ending 'U.S. imperialistic ambitions' is to appeal directly to U.S. citizens. Anything else is pissing into the wind.
...when do the people responsible for all of this illegal lying and cheating go to jail? Oh wait, you're telling me they'll *never* go to jail because they get to hide beyond the skirts of a corporation? So if I incorporate does that mean I can lie to the government just like Microsoft and never fear that I'll see the inside of a cell?
Yeah, when pigs fly and shit smells like chocolate.
Linux is coming along nicely too, but is definitely not ready for mom's desktop.
Tired old FUD. The same bullshit we here from apologists over and over again, "not ready for the desktop". Well, it certainly isn't beyond the grasp of several hundred 11-year-olds, as I know from personal experience. Beyond you, perhaps, but not beyond the average 11-year-old.
What's interesting here is that so many slashdotters are unaware of just how many assholes there are in management. A dime a dozen, boys; assholes promote other assholes, and soon the system is overrun. Motherfuckers run the whole system.
What consequences? I'm the taxpayer and they're my fucking servants! They'd better goddamn well ACT like servants if they want a paycheck! The 'consequences', in this case, is that they'll need to use some of my taxes to pay their wages to apply a patch, rather than using my taxes to pay their wages while they're downloading kiddie porn!
And then there's the other side of the coin, where management is chock-full of fuckwads looking to whip out their willies and show all the other kids who has the biggest johnson. Firing people is a grand way to do this, especially older folks who often have some clue what they're doing and can easily make your ass look stupid without even trying.
It could just be that the boss in question hated Smith and was looking for any excuse to fire him. Given his extremely unpolitic comments I'd be more inclined to believe this than anything else.
Not if the employee handbook says that's the consequence. Not if Smith was doing other things deserving of termination.
Not if the manager can make himself look good by canning an employee just before his full retirement package kicks into effect. But that couldn't possibly have anything to do with the decision, now could it?
Well, as one of the public who's supposedly paying the salary of these asshats, I'd rather they spent the idle cpu time running seti@at.home or folding@at.home than playing Solitaire, downloading porn, surfing the web, or writing self-important ass-kissing memos back and forth to one another.
By heat death of the universe, you must mean that whole 70 years after the author's death.
According to the Constitution the idea of granting copyright in the first place is to allow the *author or creator* a chance to profit off his work. How exactly does an author profit off of continued copyright if he's dead?
Doesn't say a damned thing about his grandchildren profiting, by the way.
But I'm saying real liberals by definition are peaceful.
Funny, my dictionary doesn't include that characteristic as being core to the definition of 'liberal'. And last I checked, you aren't in any position to redefine the word to suit your own preconceptions.
Also, there's no reason to use foul language.
Sure there is. It wasn't silly. It was FUCKING silly.
Oh, and what is "more non-violent"? Did you mean less violent?
And on that I did fuck up. Oops, there I go again....
Redundant Array of Independent Webservers. Identical, strewn across jurisdictions.
Actually, think about this. With broadband being so widespread these days a group of volunteers could host bits and pieces of a favorite website across all of their machines, updated with regular automated backups. Not only would this prevent law enforcement from easily seizing the contents of the site, but the entire site itself could be reconstructed on another server in moments. Preferably one in another jurisdiction, or even another country.
And let's not forget Earth First!, known for numerous acts of sabotage including the spiking of trees - the sole purpose of which is to cause injury to loggers.
Nor those fucking freaks over at PETA whose goal is to force the rest of us to live our lives exactly as they command us to, and who make a point of vandalizing labs and sabotaging years of research because they can't be bothered to actually abide by laws that just about everyone else thinks are reasonable.
By definition, liberals are peaceful. No true liberal believes in using violence or the threat of violence to further their cause.
Okay, I call bullshit. There are whackos on both sides of the line. It doesn't matter whether an extremist supposedly sits on the left wing or the right wing, an extremist is an extremist and will do anything to enforce their views on others, up to and including the use of violence.
Trusting liberals to be any more non-violent than conservatives is fucking silly.
What does being _wanted_ have to do with being a baby? Are you not a human if people don't like you?
No, you aren't human until your wrinkled, squalling, ugly little ass is spat out of somebody's womb. You might dispute this, but who's to say your definition is any more valid than mine?
Every heard of adoption?
Ever hear of minding your own fucking business? You want to take adoption over abortion, go right ahead; just don't try to enforce your quaint moral views on others.
If someone kills a doctor to prevent them from performing an abortion, that is considered a "pro-life murder".
It's murder by a vile little douchebag who deserves to fry long and hard in the chair. People like this are the scum on the bottom of my shoe and should be treated as such.
but if you set up the category for "pro-life murders" you have to be willing to accept a similar category for "pro-abortion murder".
Wherever did you get that idea? You aren't in a position to insist that we accept anything of the sort.
Slashdot Mirror
And you'd be right. Look at how the idea of a national identifying number was introduced - the SSN. And look at how many things you *can't* do without an SSN, or an SSN equivalent.
The chip will go the same way, with gradual introduction to selected members eventually culminating into "don't have the chip? then we won't do business with you."
Max
Well, I put my faith in the Norse gods and our mythology doesn't have any of that crap about the mark of the beast. Nosirree! In our mythology the beast up and EATS the gods, and everyone else just plain dies! Screw that pansy marking bit.
Max
In the United States of America you still need PROOF of a crime in order to be convicted; or at least that's what they tell me. If the proof is destroyed with the partition there's no way the government can pin the crime on you. You don't even have a circumstantial case at that point.
Max
and fear makes people do crazy things.
And my answer to this is "so the fuck what?" What does it matter if a bunch of extremists in the Middle East destroy each other by nuclear or conventional means? It won't matter for dick to the citizens of the United States; whatever pissant tribe of nutbags ends up in control of the oil will *still* sell to us, so why should we give a damn?
Max
Ah, I see. So you'd rather just come right out and act like a slave than try to remember that the government is here to do *your* bidding. Well, go ahead, give up; slap that collar around your neck. Some people weren't meant to shoulder the responsibility of liberty.
Max
I still think KDE needs some work, especially in the ease-of-use department (too many settings presented to the user, some intelligent hiding would be appreciated)
If choice bothers you, go back to using Windows. It should be perfect for you needs.
And no, I *don't* give a shit if this choice confuses Joe Consumer. I'm not a zealot; I don't care if Joe Consumer uses Windows or Linux, and I don't want the development team for KDE catering to him. If ol' Joe can't be bothered with the idea of choice he doesn't have any business using Linux in the first place.
Max
What you really need is two passwords. Password number one lets you into the partition; password number two *appears* to let you into the partition, but runs a program that completely scrambles the partition and destroys the data.
Give 'em password number two and then tell them it's nor your fault they screwed the pooch. Where's the proof that you booby-trapped the thing if the booby-trap is destroyed with the partition?
Max
over a thousand innocent Israeli civilians will killed by palestinian terrorists in the same time frame.
That isn't our problem. That's Israel's problem. If Israel can't support it's own military and economy after more than fifty years of freedom, then it doesn't deserve statehood.
I say end all aid to Israel, now and forever. And aid to most of the other shitholes in the world as well. As an American citizen I'd much rather see that money spent at home on AMERICAN citizens, or returned to me through tax cuts.
Max
A. Move the UN headquarters out of New York and to Europe without giving the U.S. the option to veto in the security council
Please, do so. I'd very much like to see the U.N. move to a place where it belongs, like Tobago.
B. Place the U.S. on probation to end its imperial ambitions or be removed from the security council
Oooooh, probation! As if that meant shit. It's not like there's a nation, or even a coalition of nations, capable of challenging the U.S. either militarily or economically and winning.
Go ahead, put us on "probation". Watch as we laugh our asses off at you.
C. If U.S. behavior continuesand eject the U.S.from the U.N. all together.
Sounds good to me. It's not like the jackasses in the U.N. are capable of stopping us from doing whatever the hell we feel like, whenever the hell we feel like it. The only thing on this Earth capable of putting the hurt on the U.S. is ourselves; and your only hope of ending 'U.S. imperialistic ambitions' is to appeal directly to U.S. citizens. Anything else is pissing into the wind.
Max
...when do the people responsible for all of this illegal lying and cheating go to jail? Oh wait, you're telling me they'll *never* go to jail because they get to hide beyond the skirts of a corporation? So if I incorporate does that mean I can lie to the government just like Microsoft and never fear that I'll see the inside of a cell?
Yeah, when pigs fly and shit smells like chocolate.
Max
Linux is coming along nicely too, but is definitely not ready for mom's desktop.
Tired old FUD. The same bullshit we here from apologists over and over again, "not ready for the desktop". Well, it certainly isn't beyond the grasp of several hundred 11-year-olds, as I know from personal experience. Beyond you, perhaps, but not beyond the average 11-year-old.
Max
This is actually not as rare as you would think.
What's interesting here is that so many slashdotters are unaware of just how many assholes there are in management. A dime a dozen, boys; assholes promote other assholes, and soon the system is overrun. Motherfuckers run the whole system.
Max
What consequences? I'm the taxpayer and they're my fucking servants! They'd better goddamn well ACT like servants if they want a paycheck! The 'consequences', in this case, is that they'll need to use some of my taxes to pay their wages to apply a patch, rather than using my taxes to pay their wages while they're downloading kiddie porn!
Max
He works for government. Government doesn't employ mature adults in managerial positions.
Max
And then there's the other side of the coin, where management is chock-full of fuckwads looking to whip out their willies and show all the other kids who has the biggest johnson. Firing people is a grand way to do this, especially older folks who often have some clue what they're doing and can easily make your ass look stupid without even trying.
It could just be that the boss in question hated Smith and was looking for any excuse to fire him. Given his extremely unpolitic comments I'd be more inclined to believe this than anything else.
Max
Not if the employee handbook says that's the consequence. Not if Smith was doing other things deserving of termination.
Not if the manager can make himself look good by canning an employee just before his full retirement package kicks into effect. But that couldn't possibly have anything to do with the decision, now could it?
Max
Well, as one of the public who's supposedly paying the salary of these asshats, I'd rather they spent the idle cpu time running seti@at.home or folding@at.home than playing Solitaire, downloading porn, surfing the web, or writing self-important ass-kissing memos back and forth to one another.
Hey, but that's just me.
Max
By heat death of the universe, you must mean that whole 70 years after the author's death.
According to the Constitution the idea of granting copyright in the first place is to allow the *author or creator* a chance to profit off his work. How exactly does an author profit off of continued copyright if he's dead?
Doesn't say a damned thing about his grandchildren profiting, by the way.
Max
But I'm saying real liberals by definition are peaceful.
Funny, my dictionary doesn't include that characteristic as being core to the definition of 'liberal'. And last I checked, you aren't in any position to redefine the word to suit your own preconceptions.
Also, there's no reason to use foul language.
Sure there is. It wasn't silly. It was FUCKING silly.
Oh, and what is "more non-violent"? Did you mean less violent?
And on that I did fuck up. Oops, there I go again....
Max
Redundant Array of Independent Webservers. Identical, strewn across jurisdictions.
Actually, think about this. With broadband being so widespread these days a group of volunteers could host bits and pieces of a favorite website across all of their machines, updated with regular automated backups. Not only would this prevent law enforcement from easily seizing the contents of the site, but the entire site itself could be reconstructed on another server in moments. Preferably one in another jurisdiction, or even another country.
Max
They would probably use their superior intellect to craft chemical and biological weapons.
My, aren't you a riot. Defining liberals as those who possess "superior" intellects. Guess you're a sad, sad disappointment to the Left, eh?
Max
And let's not forget Earth First!, known for numerous acts of sabotage including the spiking of trees - the sole purpose of which is to cause injury to loggers.
Nor those fucking freaks over at PETA whose goal is to force the rest of us to live our lives exactly as they command us to, and who make a point of vandalizing labs and sabotaging years of research because they can't be bothered to actually abide by laws that just about everyone else thinks are reasonable.
Max
By definition, liberals are peaceful. No true liberal believes in using violence or the threat of violence to further their cause.
Okay, I call bullshit. There are whackos on both sides of the line. It doesn't matter whether an extremist supposedly sits on the left wing or the right wing, an extremist is an extremist and will do anything to enforce their views on others, up to and including the use of violence.
Trusting liberals to be any more non-violent than conservatives is fucking silly.
Max
What does being _wanted_ have to do with being a baby? Are you not a human if people don't like you?
No, you aren't human until your wrinkled, squalling, ugly little ass is spat out of somebody's womb. You might dispute this, but who's to say your definition is any more valid than mine?
Every heard of adoption?
Ever hear of minding your own fucking business? You want to take adoption over abortion, go right ahead; just don't try to enforce your quaint moral views on others.
If someone kills a doctor to prevent them from performing an abortion, that is considered a "pro-life murder".
It's murder by a vile little douchebag who deserves to fry long and hard in the chair. People like this are the scum on the bottom of my shoe and should be treated as such.
but if you set up the category for "pro-life murders" you have to be willing to accept a similar category for "pro-abortion murder".
Wherever did you get that idea? You aren't in a position to insist that we accept anything of the sort.
Max
Does sucking somebody's brains out with a vacuum and then crushing their skull count as a violent act?
Sure, if they've progressed beyond the fetus stage. Otherwise it's just housecleaning.
Max