"A Free Market = Free Press" -- wow, I guess reality must be a huge disappointment then.
Government financed news can possibly be fair, or at least non-commercial, but as soon as you put something out that is "free" the customer is the advertiser and the person consuming that media is the product. That's why Fox could run for a loss for ten years and pay to be played to build a market. And Wapo runs at a mega million loss each year. We have to wonder what's in it for the charitable backers to throw money at news. And how much does it cost to keep my misdeeds out of the news?
Nuclear power plants are not getting built because the cost/benefits are not there -- otherwise you'd see more than just the Georgia plant going up that is 3x what they projected to build it for.
I'm not an expert, but I do believe that MOST of the products of oil are put to use right now except for Benzene, which we have too much of but is put in gas as a good way to get rid of it (and we tolerate this, apparently). I don't think those plastics, or fertilizers are going to need the gasoline products -- so, those by-products are just going to get more expensive as the use for the gasoline fuel goes down (and, not an expert, but that's probably the most expensive and profit-making part). Thus, I'm betting gasoline will get cheaper as electric cars get more numerous, and Jet Fuel (kerosene) will get cheaper but plastics and such more expensive as now they are the principle profit source.
Anyway, solar and wind are just going to become more and more economical and we will probably solve the storage issue. Right now there's a solar panel that produces hydrogen -- you could have both on a rooftop and the hydrogen is used as a way to store energy when the wind and sun aren't producing any.
If we acted like our lives depended on it - we could really get carbon neutral in 20 years -- if we had the can-do attitude that took us to the moon or the Manhattan project that is.
In fact, Hillary talked more about retraining and finding people jobs than Trump did. But people don't know that because the number 1 media outlet is Fox News and Sinclair and CNN only sounds liberal on social issues -- not on economics so they weren't bending over to add any factual value and just covered the horse race.
So, it isn't the Dems NOT understanding and addressing the "flyover" states -- it's that nobody has their ear but the Oligarchy. Not saying that Hillary isn't also a spokeman for the lobbyists -- she just isn't as corrupt as Trump. But again, that probably sounds ridiculous to anyone watching Fox News.
The problem is propaganda is real, and it really works. Vote for a progressive -- they are all on this issue.
Let's stop calling it a "plea bargain". That's a misleading euphemism. Let's call it what it really is: coerced false confession.
Are we just recognizing this now because it's the privileged class in the cross-hairs -- or are law and order folks going to realize it's this way times 10 for the average citizen. I mean, you can get treated like a terrorist if you have overdue parking tickets?
Because people are coerced into pleading guilty otherwise they might face all the charges a DA can dream up.
Snopes isn't a crucial service. It's just another political shitshow pushing its bias....
Case in point of people poking their head out of their own echo chamber to attack the credibility of the source. There is NO INFORMATION that is credible but the right wing propaganda according to the right wing propaganda. This is so sad and tragic. Snopes is such a wonderful organization that does it's best -- and it is shit on by assholes who want to suck on the teat of tyranny.
I so appreciate your line of thought here -- it is beautiful and next level: but then your role shifts over time to being an injured bird that sings for crumbs
That's NPR. The idea of making Snopes part of public education is good and needed -- but that's what we used to have with the corporation for public broadcasting. And I do remember those "champions against government waste" -- the Republicans. Spending decades trying to get rid of it. We eventually learned about economics from some of the same wall street folks who were selling us out stocks and bonds. So nice of them to take time out of their busy schedule to get free advertising. And now NPR has supporters and the biggest ones are all the companies they USED TO blow the whistle on. -- just like with the news services who somehow treat all the companies with commercials better. Why do major corporations that don't sell to the public advertise on CNN and the like? So you don't hear about them.
Snopes would just get attacked as another "wasteful government program." A left-leaning one. Because it's not wasteful to be lied into a war, or have legislation that allows banks to speculate and become trillions of dollars over leveraged.
The problem is that we have people working for Oligarchs. We have to solve that before we can get "truth" back.
As a dude I can concur that I am along for the ride. I have not influenced one woman to wear makeup. I have not told anyone they were fat unless they asked.
I personally wash my hands of this nonsense that I'm somehow responsible for people feeling shamed about their body.
I'm in marketing though, so I'm probably guilty on a professional level.
The real victim in all this is the poor dude who wakes up next to that awesome young for her age GILF he met the night before and her pretty face is stuck to the pillow.
There's a lot of people who "love the law" and talk about other people taking responsibility for their actions -- usually, that's people who think they will never have to deal with that end of the law.
And when these collections are so widespread and automated -- nobody can be innocent. You tell me how you are going to feel about the "system" if you can't pay your mortgage because you have to pay for the "unfortunate errors" that would cost too much to fix.
Personally, I would put up with an extra mugging each year if I didn't have to deal with all these companies robbing me with their terms of service. I'd rather get mugged than falsely arrested -- at least you can fight back and not go to jail for years.
The courts are overburdened so we can't afford to have a fair trial for every incident!
Funny, you would think with traffic court packed to the gills and them rubber stamping a case per minute there would be enough funds to pay for more courts and more judges.
Oh, but all those funds had to go to bullet proof vests because the criminals have gotten oh so desperate.
The only people who seem to pay for crimes in this country are the people doing stuff that seems harmless.
This is the WORST way to raise money. The problem is it is a self-reinforcing feedback loop. The taxes usually fall on the people least able to pay the fines -- or to protest them. The average citizen is happy because their taxes go down. The law enforcement group finds that it is harder to get tax money and easier to raise fines -- so they raise fines and eventually, more laws are enforced more tightly. So maybe someone is 2 miles over the posted speed limit. It becomes a revenue generating system rather than something that society needs to enforce to be happy and prosperous. Enforcement becomes just a revenue collection scheme so there can be police so they can enforce so they can collect revenue so pay for police and gadgets so they can enforce and fine.
Pretty soon you live in a neighborhood that has some shuttered doors because someone couldn't pay their fines. And nobody calls the cops when someone gets shot and nobody is a witness because they are alienated from a system they don't trust. Things break down but selective enforcement will mean that they are going after the crimes that bring in easy revenue. They don't actually want crime to go down -- just more opportunity for enforcement. Easier to lie on the stats.
You will learn that the system is working. Families and neighborhoods will be destroyed. Taxes will be low.
Well, getting laid off can be a death sentence in the good old USA - so it stands to reason that it takes a lot more to motivate Americans to protest.
What I see often is stories like this; the Panama Papers finally have an arrest -- the journalist who truthfully brought some attention to the evil being done.
Whereas I remember a few years ago that in France, they actually kidnapped a CEO of a company and protested for higher wages. No charges were filed. I think that is fucking enlightened if you ask me.
You don't want cameras spying on your every move as a pretense to security from a government that is not transparent? Tear them down!
Of course, in the USA, they'll just pony up a few billion and do this from satellite - and they are already probably doing it and just don't tell us to solve petty things like murders and crime and missing children. It's more important to control the citizens for protection of the Oligarchy than for the protection of the citizens.
I'm not sure who has the better case here, but I can predict that insurance companies are going to start auditing companies they insure for cyber damage to see if they have some resiliency.
No insurance company is going to want to cover a business that stores oil soaked rags and gasoline next to the furnace.
So you'd prefer Haiti or Honduras as they are free-market hell holes. Got it.
Personally, I'd prefer a socialist hell-hole like Iceland, but I'm sure they aren't taking Americans as refugees because; "Hounded by AT&T billing department" isn't enough of a tyranny for them.
Thank God we've stopped teachers from writing off school supplies to help children of low income parents. I also hope they've reduced those onerous fines of $75 at the coal mines for not having an oxygen tank handy when someone takes it upon themselves to goof off and have a collapse and a lack of clean air.
The more we can clamp down on the excesses of the working poor, the more we can upgrade the quality of the single malt scotch.
I'm always unsure of the stat of improvement for this reason; Cancer "survival" is measured as years after detection of the disease. So if you have earlier detection -- you have a longer survival rate. The REAL stat we need is; at what age do people die, on average, from Cancer? If the rich and poor die on average about the same age that they always have, that tells you that we've progressed on early detection, and have done bupkiss for Cancer. Having less access to get a diagnosis and an expensive placebo might be OK. But the opposite may be true and we would see wealthy people surviving because they got early treatment -- their life expectancy would be much higher.
The only thing we can conclude so far is that poor people don't get cancer screenings as much.
This is why we need a law making this kind of data collection illegal. It's an end-run around the right of privacy that would be illegal for a government to do -- so they can hand it off to a private company to abuse you for $ - so much more civilized. The data can't be returned and it an be used to manipulate people.
There's no ability to deter this once the data is collected because as we noted -- the company can sell it's assets and fold up shop, maybe go offshore and disappear in to the night. The liability needs to be on FaceBook or whomever has privileged information -- I'm looking at you data carriers and ISPs.
So your straw man wears a monocle and sips brandy?
So it's wrong for illegal aliens who aren't allowed to vote to try to influence our elections too, right?
Slashdot is going to Hell. We also can't prove Moon Men don't vote in the election because we can't be sure they don't have really good stealth technology and ID cards. I mean -- we can't SEE anyone on the moon, which is proof that they are really good at hiding.
I don't think he said he was "OK with it". It's just that what happened was illegal. We can debate the other ways elections are influenced and I'm already going to agree with you that it's wrong for parties outside to influence the vote.
He is merely pointing out that once again the goal posts have moved. "How dare you spread these lies about Trump!" Now it's; "How dare you hold Trump accountable for things that are similar to other things I don't like!" Just so that we all agree we aren't debating collusion anymore.
And this is what we predicted would happen -- and we have two more stages of bullshit to go as the goal posts are moved again. I can't wait for the money laundering to come out: "It's just a solid investment -- is he supposed to do a background check to make sure people aren't mobsters? This is just friends helping friends and holding hands across the oceans. Really, by accepting Russian mob money, he's bringing nations closer together -- and should't he be congratulated for that? And he made a profit -- how smart!"
The slippery slope argument: because there is some corruption, we can't hold anyone accountable to the rules.
By this logic, we can't throw someone in jail for murder because we allow our troops to commit murder. Objectively, we could argue that murder is murder. But practically, it means we can have no standards because what we have isn't perfect.
The situation with lobbyists is screwed up and corruption is legal and people outside the voting district or corporations influencing votes is wrong -- but that's the situation. It's legal. We can let it get worse or we can at least feebly uphold SOME standards.
If we don't impeach Trump, we will NEVER accept any impeachment of a Democrat -- ever, for any reason. That's the situation you folks are creating; "Fuck you, nothing matters." Well, if that's the standard now. No more moral outrage cards are going to be accepted.
And the Democrats chose the only candidate that could lose to a Republican. The Bush years trashed the economy and we had 8 years of well managed recovery. Jobs still don't pay a living wage for most people -- but that's a bipartisan issue that neither candidate was going to address -- let's be honest.
Whether the election was close or not or the Russians were effective or not does not matter. Nixon broke into the Watergate Hotel because he was paranoid and thought rules didn't apply to him -- it didn't do him much good in the scheme of things. He was impeached because he broke the law and could not be trusted with power.
After the Helsinki summit, is there any doubt that Putin has influence over Trump and that he is compromised? I've seen less cringe with molested alter boys receiving a private confessional.
You know this and I know this. But one side won't admit that they know the truth. Doesn't that bother you in the back of your head -- that you KNOW you are lying to yourself and everyone else? Is it that you don't want to embarrass yourself in front of people you think will hold it over you? How could it be any worse than the current situation? The emperor has no clothes. You are just pretending. And everyone knows you are pretending.
Wow, the Russians even traveled through time and got us to enact a second amendment. They are powerful!
At this moment, on Slashdot, a comment that completely misses the entire point of the prior comment is at labelled "(Score:4, Insightful)". The problem with America is that there are people who are just content to be wrong. And proud of it. And they cheer each other on. They support Trump not because they believe a damn thing he says -- but because he pisses off half the country. They have given up on fixing anything and are waiting for supply side Jesus to take them to Heaven during the Rapture and meanwhile they just want someone who can piss off Liberals. The important thing is pissing of Liberals.
There was absolutely nothing in the prior comment about guns, gun rights, or anything about your rights. It was about a foreign country influencing a private group to influence our politics. But again, some people are OK with that because the Russians are better than the Liberals. These are people who have given up on solving problems after all and just want to stick it to those know-it-alls.
Slashdot has been infected by cancer because your comment was labelled as insightful when they damn well know it wasn't. You didn't come for a discussion or friendship.
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Of course the need to vote against gaining knowledge because it has a well known liberal bias.
"A Free Market = Free Press" -- wow, I guess reality must be a huge disappointment then.
Government financed news can possibly be fair, or at least non-commercial, but as soon as you put something out that is "free" the customer is the advertiser and the person consuming that media is the product. That's why Fox could run for a loss for ten years and pay to be played to build a market. And Wapo runs at a mega million loss each year. We have to wonder what's in it for the charitable backers to throw money at news. And how much does it cost to keep my misdeeds out of the news?
Nuclear power plants are not getting built because the cost/benefits are not there -- otherwise you'd see more than just the Georgia plant going up that is 3x what they projected to build it for.
I'm not an expert, but I do believe that MOST of the products of oil are put to use right now except for Benzene, which we have too much of but is put in gas as a good way to get rid of it (and we tolerate this, apparently). I don't think those plastics, or fertilizers are going to need the gasoline products -- so, those by-products are just going to get more expensive as the use for the gasoline fuel goes down (and, not an expert, but that's probably the most expensive and profit-making part). Thus, I'm betting gasoline will get cheaper as electric cars get more numerous, and Jet Fuel (kerosene) will get cheaper but plastics and such more expensive as now they are the principle profit source.
Anyway, solar and wind are just going to become more and more economical and we will probably solve the storage issue. Right now there's a solar panel that produces hydrogen -- you could have both on a rooftop and the hydrogen is used as a way to store energy when the wind and sun aren't producing any.
If we acted like our lives depended on it - we could really get carbon neutral in 20 years -- if we had the can-do attitude that took us to the moon or the Manhattan project that is.
How do you know she was talking about you?
In fact, Hillary talked more about retraining and finding people jobs than Trump did. But people don't know that because the number 1 media outlet is Fox News and Sinclair and CNN only sounds liberal on social issues -- not on economics so they weren't bending over to add any factual value and just covered the horse race.
So, it isn't the Dems NOT understanding and addressing the "flyover" states -- it's that nobody has their ear but the Oligarchy. Not saying that Hillary isn't also a spokeman for the lobbyists -- she just isn't as corrupt as Trump. But again, that probably sounds ridiculous to anyone watching Fox News.
The problem is propaganda is real, and it really works. Vote for a progressive -- they are all on this issue.
Let's stop calling it a "plea bargain". That's a misleading euphemism. Let's call it what it really is: coerced false confession.
Are we just recognizing this now because it's the privileged class in the cross-hairs -- or are law and order folks going to realize it's this way times 10 for the average citizen. I mean, you can get treated like a terrorist if you have overdue parking tickets?
Because people are coerced into pleading guilty otherwise they might face all the charges a DA can dream up.
Snopes isn't a crucial service. It's just another political shitshow pushing its bias. ...
Case in point of people poking their head out of their own echo chamber to attack the credibility of the source. There is NO INFORMATION that is credible but the right wing propaganda according to the right wing propaganda. This is so sad and tragic. Snopes is such a wonderful organization that does it's best -- and it is shit on by assholes who want to suck on the teat of tyranny.
I so appreciate your line of thought here -- it is beautiful and next level:
but then your role shifts over time to being an injured bird that sings for crumbs
That's NPR. The idea of making Snopes part of public education is good and needed -- but that's what we used to have with the corporation for public broadcasting. And I do remember those "champions against government waste" -- the Republicans. Spending decades trying to get rid of it. We eventually learned about economics from some of the same wall street folks who were selling us out stocks and bonds. So nice of them to take time out of their busy schedule to get free advertising. And now NPR has supporters and the biggest ones are all the companies they USED TO blow the whistle on. -- just like with the news services who somehow treat all the companies with commercials better. Why do major corporations that don't sell to the public advertise on CNN and the like? So you don't hear about them.
Snopes would just get attacked as another "wasteful government program." A left-leaning one. Because it's not wasteful to be lied into a war, or have legislation that allows banks to speculate and become trillions of dollars over leveraged.
The problem is that we have people working for Oligarchs. We have to solve that before we can get "truth" back.
As a dude I can concur that I am along for the ride. I have not influenced one woman to wear makeup. I have not told anyone they were fat unless they asked.
I personally wash my hands of this nonsense that I'm somehow responsible for people feeling shamed about their body.
I'm in marketing though, so I'm probably guilty on a professional level.
The real victim in all this is the poor dude who wakes up next to that awesome young for her age GILF he met the night before and her pretty face is stuck to the pillow.
There's a lot of people who "love the law" and talk about other people taking responsibility for their actions -- usually, that's people who think they will never have to deal with that end of the law.
And when these collections are so widespread and automated -- nobody can be innocent. You tell me how you are going to feel about the "system" if you can't pay your mortgage because you have to pay for the "unfortunate errors" that would cost too much to fix.
Personally, I would put up with an extra mugging each year if I didn't have to deal with all these companies robbing me with their terms of service. I'd rather get mugged than falsely arrested -- at least you can fight back and not go to jail for years.
The courts are overburdened so we can't afford to have a fair trial for every incident!
Funny, you would think with traffic court packed to the gills and them rubber stamping a case per minute there would be enough funds to pay for more courts and more judges.
Oh, but all those funds had to go to bullet proof vests because the criminals have gotten oh so desperate.
The only people who seem to pay for crimes in this country are the people doing stuff that seems harmless.
This is the WORST way to raise money. The problem is it is a self-reinforcing feedback loop. The taxes usually fall on the people least able to pay the fines -- or to protest them. The average citizen is happy because their taxes go down. The law enforcement group finds that it is harder to get tax money and easier to raise fines -- so they raise fines and eventually, more laws are enforced more tightly. So maybe someone is 2 miles over the posted speed limit. It becomes a revenue generating system rather than something that society needs to enforce to be happy and prosperous. Enforcement becomes just a revenue collection scheme so there can be police so they can enforce so they can collect revenue so pay for police and gadgets so they can enforce and fine.
Pretty soon you live in a neighborhood that has some shuttered doors because someone couldn't pay their fines. And nobody calls the cops when someone gets shot and nobody is a witness because they are alienated from a system they don't trust. Things break down but selective enforcement will mean that they are going after the crimes that bring in easy revenue. They don't actually want crime to go down -- just more opportunity for enforcement. Easier to lie on the stats.
You will learn that the system is working. Families and neighborhoods will be destroyed. Taxes will be low.
Well, getting laid off can be a death sentence in the good old USA - so it stands to reason that it takes a lot more to motivate Americans to protest.
What I see often is stories like this; the Panama Papers finally have an arrest -- the journalist who truthfully brought some attention to the evil being done.
Whereas I remember a few years ago that in France, they actually kidnapped a CEO of a company and protested for higher wages. No charges were filed. I think that is fucking enlightened if you ask me.
You don't want cameras spying on your every move as a pretense to security from a government that is not transparent? Tear them down!
Of course, in the USA, they'll just pony up a few billion and do this from satellite - and they are already probably doing it and just don't tell us to solve petty things like murders and crime and missing children. It's more important to control the citizens for protection of the Oligarchy than for the protection of the citizens.
I'm not sure who has the better case here, but I can predict that insurance companies are going to start auditing companies they insure for cyber damage to see if they have some resiliency.
No insurance company is going to want to cover a business that stores oil soaked rags and gasoline next to the furnace.
So you'd prefer Haiti or Honduras as they are free-market hell holes. Got it.
Personally, I'd prefer a socialist hell-hole like Iceland, but I'm sure they aren't taking Americans as refugees because; "Hounded by AT&T billing department" isn't enough of a tyranny for them.
/s is now mandatory as there are people who will unironically endorse the most stupid position.
People can't do a background check to determine sarcasm and apparently someone has a team of monkeys typing comments on Slashdote.
It was dry sarcasm but sarcasm nonetheless.
Really did need the /s
Thank God we've stopped teachers from writing off school supplies to help children of low income parents. I also hope they've reduced those onerous fines of $75 at the coal mines for not having an oxygen tank handy when someone takes it upon themselves to goof off and have a collapse and a lack of clean air.
The more we can clamp down on the excesses of the working poor, the more we can upgrade the quality of the single malt scotch.
I'm always unsure of the stat of improvement for this reason; Cancer "survival" is measured as years after detection of the disease. So if you have earlier detection -- you have a longer survival rate. The REAL stat we need is; at what age do people die, on average, from Cancer? If the rich and poor die on average about the same age that they always have, that tells you that we've progressed on early detection, and have done bupkiss for Cancer. Having less access to get a diagnosis and an expensive placebo might be OK. But the opposite may be true and we would see wealthy people surviving because they got early treatment -- their life expectancy would be much higher.
The only thing we can conclude so far is that poor people don't get cancer screenings as much.
This is why we need a law making this kind of data collection illegal. It's an end-run around the right of privacy that would be illegal for a government to do -- so they can hand it off to a private company to abuse you for $ - so much more civilized. The data can't be returned and it an be used to manipulate people.
There's no ability to deter this once the data is collected because as we noted -- the company can sell it's assets and fold up shop, maybe go offshore and disappear in to the night. The liability needs to be on FaceBook or whomever has privileged information -- I'm looking at you data carriers and ISPs.
So your straw man wears a monocle and sips brandy?
So it's wrong for illegal aliens who aren't allowed to vote to try to influence our elections too, right?
Slashdot is going to Hell. We also can't prove Moon Men don't vote in the election because we can't be sure they don't have really good stealth technology and ID cards. I mean -- we can't SEE anyone on the moon, which is proof that they are really good at hiding.
I don't think he said he was "OK with it". It's just that what happened was illegal. We can debate the other ways elections are influenced and I'm already going to agree with you that it's wrong for parties outside to influence the vote.
He is merely pointing out that once again the goal posts have moved. "How dare you spread these lies about Trump!" Now it's; "How dare you hold Trump accountable for things that are similar to other things I don't like!" Just so that we all agree we aren't debating collusion anymore.
And this is what we predicted would happen -- and we have two more stages of bullshit to go as the goal posts are moved again. I can't wait for the money laundering to come out: "It's just a solid investment -- is he supposed to do a background check to make sure people aren't mobsters? This is just friends helping friends and holding hands across the oceans. Really, by accepting Russian mob money, he's bringing nations closer together -- and should't he be congratulated for that? And he made a profit -- how smart!"
The slippery slope argument: because there is some corruption, we can't hold anyone accountable to the rules.
By this logic, we can't throw someone in jail for murder because we allow our troops to commit murder. Objectively, we could argue that murder is murder. But practically, it means we can have no standards because what we have isn't perfect.
The situation with lobbyists is screwed up and corruption is legal and people outside the voting district or corporations influencing votes is wrong -- but that's the situation. It's legal. We can let it get worse or we can at least feebly uphold SOME standards.
If we don't impeach Trump, we will NEVER accept any impeachment of a Democrat -- ever, for any reason. That's the situation you folks are creating; "Fuck you, nothing matters." Well, if that's the standard now. No more moral outrage cards are going to be accepted.
And the Democrats chose the only candidate that could lose to a Republican. The Bush years trashed the economy and we had 8 years of well managed recovery. Jobs still don't pay a living wage for most people -- but that's a bipartisan issue that neither candidate was going to address -- let's be honest.
Whether the election was close or not or the Russians were effective or not does not matter. Nixon broke into the Watergate Hotel because he was paranoid and thought rules didn't apply to him -- it didn't do him much good in the scheme of things. He was impeached because he broke the law and could not be trusted with power.
After the Helsinki summit, is there any doubt that Putin has influence over Trump and that he is compromised? I've seen less cringe with molested alter boys receiving a private confessional.
You know this and I know this. But one side won't admit that they know the truth. Doesn't that bother you in the back of your head -- that you KNOW you are lying to yourself and everyone else? Is it that you don't want to embarrass yourself in front of people you think will hold it over you? How could it be any worse than the current situation? The emperor has no clothes. You are just pretending. And everyone knows you are pretending.
Wow, the Russians even traveled through time and got us to enact a second amendment. They are powerful!
At this moment, on Slashdot, a comment that completely misses the entire point of the prior comment is at labelled "(Score:4, Insightful)". The problem with America is that there are people who are just content to be wrong. And proud of it. And they cheer each other on. They support Trump not because they believe a damn thing he says -- but because he pisses off half the country. They have given up on fixing anything and are waiting for supply side Jesus to take them to Heaven during the Rapture and meanwhile they just want someone who can piss off Liberals. The important thing is pissing of Liberals.
There was absolutely nothing in the prior comment about guns, gun rights, or anything about your rights. It was about a foreign country influencing a private group to influence our politics. But again, some people are OK with that because the Russians are better than the Liberals. These are people who have given up on solving problems after all and just want to stick it to those know-it-alls.
Slashdot has been infected by cancer because your comment was labelled as insightful when they damn well know it wasn't. You didn't come for a discussion or friendship.