the guy sounds like an arrogant prick [...] somewhat arrogant [...] It seems like just another aspect of his narcissism [...] Assange was so stupid. Bottom line, this is all so fucking amateurish it's unbelievable. Assange is going to defeat his own purpose merely by being himself.
Well, someone sure has a solid belief about that person and is taking every bit of news as confirmation of that bias! Say, where did you people get your talking points from? It's clearly not coming from the facts, so that opinion was fed to you, but I haven't seen the source.
That's great. Someone comes forward with evidence of war crimes, and all anyone wants to talk about is his sexual habits.
Mission Accomplished! The "he's a narcissist and it's all about him" line wasn't doing enough to drown out the important info, so they had to up the level of shrill. And the fact that it made it to the paper faster than the speed of light? Pure unexplainable coincidence, not evidence of conspiratorial behavior at all.
secrecy really is necessary, under certain circumstances, for a government to operate. Neither you nor Assange seem to grasp this.
Letting people hide their crimes and get away with murder is not how a democracy is supposed to work. There is a legitimate need for secrecy and it is being ABUSED by governments, it's not ok to let them get away with that.
I hope you can see the difference, and I hope you'll understand why I don't think it's very funny.
Yes, Assange-Wikileaks releases confidential information getting good people killed in the process.
CITATION NEEDED
The murderers responsible for thousands of dead bodies are claiming that by exposing their acts he's the one getting people killed, and imbeciles are believing them. The pentagon said that it *could* lead to people getting killed (because they're careful word weasels) and you gladly swallowed that load, took it to the conclusion they were leading you to, and now you're making baseless claims that are getting modded up.
I got the map, but it looked to be getting slashdotted when I did (at around 30 comments in), and no wonder! A 2882.62 KB, 4450px × 2737px image on the front page of/.? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
The website says that "generous individuals" have donated enough that he can do it full time. Given Gates' well known financial commitments to education it wouldn't surprise me at all if Gates has donated.
Give Gates' use of tax-crediting 'charity' for self-promotion and aggrandizement, we'd know already if he'd given him money. There would pictures of enormous checks and handshakes.
The cynical view: Money you give to charity is money you would have had to give to income tax, but you get to look generous and to make sure it goes to causes that do not interfere with your investment strategies. Bill looks generous to you, to cynics he just looks calculating.
The majority of the protest signs carry racist sentiments.
Look, I think they're a bunch of retarded bigots roped into a quasi-fascist astroturf by media elites, but the "majority" of the signs? I think not. You may want to consider sample bias.
Thing is, geography is just kinda boring. It is route memorization, and not all that necessary to most people. This is even more true now, what with maps online and so easily accessible. If you need to know where something is, from a countries down to a street, it is easy to locate.
That's depressing. It's like intellectual laziness was somehow ok:(
I am not jumping on the exotic CIA plot against him bandwagon yet.
Exotic? The Pentagon has named him and said they don't like him. Then weird, bad things happen... It's not so much "exotic" as "at least they didn't drug him and push him out a window... yet".
I guess the promise of selling more papers was irresistable
Or maybe they just think it's what WikiLeaks would have done.
Ah? I just think they were purposefully trying to make "Assange = rape" go around in the newscycle. As in "I heard that guy raped and killed a girl in 1990..."
For everyone who has a disease that is not immediately visibly apparent: Die in a fire, you stupid insensitive piece of shit.
It's a freakin' JOKE. Christ, people...lighten up. the "ADHD MUTHA FUCKA" and the Clone High quote really didn't give it away? I realize that ADHD is a real condition, I realize that there are many people who struggle with it, and I realize there is no "one size fits all" solution.
Come on. I may be trollish and I may be rude, but I'm not stupid.
If you troll and flamebait, don't be surprised when people react with hostility. I wish I could let the idiot who modded you up know he should DIAF too.
Yes, you made a joke. About a disability. Go find someone in a wheelchair, and mock them from atop a staircase, and that too will be a joke. Hahaha, you're a funny one, with those jokes of yours, a funny one, and not a jerk at all.
but the process of diagnosing ADHD would condemn just about every kid who took the test. "Doctor, doctor! My child runs around uncontrollably, can't keep his attention on one thing at a time, and doesn't like school...oh Doctor, what do I do?" "ADHD, MUTHA FUCKA!"
For everyone who has a disease that is not immediately visibly apparent: Die in a fire, you stupid insensitive piece of shit.
Spina bifida? Doesn't exist: kid's just lazy. Migraines? You're faking it.
We tried everything, from carrot to stick, to get him to just finish his homework. A 15 minute assignment would turn into a 2 hour ordeal. One time he came to me crying and upset that he just could not focus on his homework, no matter how badly he wanted to or how hard he tried.
I took him to a neurologist
Sometimes I'm really jealous of other people's parents, because "I'll give you something to really cry about" wasn't as constructive as your approach.
My adult test for ADHD is sex. As long as I have a 'task' which is her pleasure. I'm all into it. I'm concentrating on something. There is however, no such thing as relaxing. Because as soon as I'm told to 'relax' and it's my turn, ADHD kicks in. "Ooh MyTurn.This feels good, hrm I wonder what that car sound was
Ah! That sounds familiar. You wouldn't mind writing a pamphlet, would you? Something along the lines of "So you're dating someone with ADD...", 'cause it's IMPOSSIBLE to convince a girl that it's not because you don't think she's hot or because she's bad in bed, it's just that your brain won't shut up, ever, no matter how much you want it to stop.
According to my girlfriend (who's got ADHD), ritalin is a stimulant. It makes non-ADHD'ers hyperactive. The reason is that in an ADHD brain, the 'control'-part isn't working hard enough, making you very impulsive. And if you act on every impulse, you're hyperactive. So, you have to stimulate the 'control'-part of the brain, keeping the impulses in check.
Hi, I have ADD, without the H. I wasn't diagnosed as a kid, because I didn't misbehave, I just underperformed. I'd just like to inform you that attention-deficit isn't all about the hyperactivity.
People keep talking about steganography as if it didn't alter the look of the image so that it seemed to have been produced by a raster from the 80s: The least significant digit shows up visibly in gradients and fades. Sure, you have to know to look for it, it's a subtle effect to the untrained eye, but still.
No, that's just dumb. How could me showing a video cause more hostages to die? Your version makes no sense.
No, your face is dumb. The thing that the pentagon/police says does or doesn't make sense, but they're the one claiming that revealing the murders they committed will result in more murders, and the ones showing the murders have not actually murdered anyone. In your stupid version, there are bandits and cops, but no one revealing that the police shot more hostages than they claim.
The way you say it you've conflated Wikileaks and the Taliban, because you're biased against wikileaks and are actively trying to smear them, apparently.
I don't need to smear them - their (his) actions speak for themselves. I can see the point you think you're objecting to, though. No, in no part of that "allegory" did I conflate wikileaks with the Taliban. The Taliban doesn't pretend to care if their victims are innocent or not.
Yes, the Taliban pretends to care, and yes, you did conflate the murderous bad guys with wikipedia, you dishonest jerk. DIAF
people, armed, and descending on seats of government with the intent to kill treasonous legislators, judges, and executives, after deciding that no other recourse for their grievances was possible
I mean it: Taking up arms against the US government means that the best long-range armament ever known to man will be used against you. It doesn't matter how many people you can arm, if you can't hide your infrared signatures, you'll be gunned down and you won't even know where the bullets came from. And if you rely on "they wouldn't fire on patriots", you'd better ask yourself if the people who mistake a camera for a rocket launcher will be told you are traitors, terrorists, or patriots.
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the author's last few works have not been up to his previous standard
You mean he's done something different from his cyberpunk days? OH NOES!
Honestly,
No, not really, no.
the guy sounds like an arrogant prick [...] somewhat arrogant [...] It seems like just another aspect of his narcissism [...] Assange was so stupid. Bottom line, this is all so fucking amateurish it's unbelievable. Assange is going to defeat his own purpose merely by being himself.
Well, someone sure has a solid belief about that person and is taking every bit of news as confirmation of that bias! Say, where did you people get your talking points from? It's clearly not coming from the facts, so that opinion was fed to you, but I haven't seen the source.
That's great. Someone comes forward with evidence of war crimes, and all anyone wants to talk about is his sexual habits.
Mission Accomplished! The "he's a narcissist and it's all about him" line wasn't doing enough to drown out the important info, so they had to up the level of shrill. And the fact that it made it to the paper faster than the speed of light? Pure unexplainable coincidence, not evidence of conspiratorial behavior at all.
secrecy really is necessary, under certain circumstances, for a government to operate. Neither you nor Assange seem to grasp this.
Letting people hide their crimes and get away with murder is not how a democracy is supposed to work. There is a legitimate need for secrecy and it is being ABUSED by governments, it's not ok to let them get away with that.
I hope you can see the difference, and I hope you'll understand why I don't think it's very funny.
Yes, Assange-Wikileaks releases confidential information getting good people killed in the process.
CITATION NEEDED
The murderers responsible for thousands of dead bodies are claiming that by exposing their acts he's the one getting people killed, and imbeciles are believing them. The pentagon said that it *could* lead to people getting killed (because they're careful word weasels) and you gladly swallowed that load, took it to the conclusion they were leading you to, and now you're making baseless claims that are getting modded up.
I got the map, but it looked to be getting slashdotted when I did (at around 30 comments in), and no wonder! A 2882.62 KB, 4450px × 2737px image on the front page of /.? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
it is a real net loss to give to charity, not a break even.
You get to deduce up to 50% of your gross income with charity deductions.
See Publication 526
The website says that "generous individuals" have donated enough that he can do it full time. Given Gates' well known financial commitments to education it wouldn't surprise me at all if Gates has donated.
Give Gates' use of tax-crediting 'charity' for self-promotion and aggrandizement, we'd know already if he'd given him money. There would pictures of enormous checks and handshakes.
The cynical view: Money you give to charity is money you would have had to give to income tax, but you get to look generous and to make sure it goes to causes that do not interfere with your investment strategies. Bill looks generous to you, to cynics he just looks calculating.
In other words, it's not chance that many academics don't use LaTeX.
That's for sure! The greatest minds wasted to syphilis, again! What a shame.
The majority of the protest signs carry racist sentiments.
Look, I think they're a bunch of retarded bigots roped into a quasi-fascist astroturf by media elites, but the "majority" of the signs? I think not. You may want to consider sample bias.
Thing is, geography is just kinda boring. It is route memorization, and not all that necessary to most people. This is even more true now, what with maps online and so easily accessible. If you need to know where something is, from a countries down to a street, it is easy to locate.
That's depressing. It's like intellectual laziness was somehow ok :(
Shoeboxes in your house? Wow, that's the least amount of effort he could possibly muster.
Everyone knows you're supposed to bury treasure boxes!
I am not jumping on the exotic CIA plot against him bandwagon yet.
Exotic? The Pentagon has named him and said they don't like him. Then weird, bad things happen... It's not so much "exotic" as "at least they didn't drug him and push him out a window... yet".
he can stay holed up in a cheateau somewhere unbeknownst to all but a handful of people and continue to get the message out.
If you put "cave" where you mistyped "chateau", that sounds just like Ossama bin Laden's modus operandi.
I guess the promise of selling more papers was irresistable
Or maybe they just think it's what WikiLeaks would have done.
Ah? I just think they were purposefully trying to make "Assange = rape" go around in the newscycle. As in "I heard that guy raped and killed a girl in 1990..."
For everyone who has a disease that is not immediately visibly apparent: Die in a fire, you stupid insensitive piece of shit.
It's a freakin' JOKE. Christ, people...lighten up. the "ADHD MUTHA FUCKA" and the Clone High quote really didn't give it away? I realize that ADHD is a real condition, I realize that there are many people who struggle with it, and I realize there is no "one size fits all" solution.
Come on. I may be trollish and I may be rude, but I'm not stupid.
If you troll and flamebait, don't be surprised when people react with hostility. I wish I could let the idiot who modded you up know he should DIAF too.
Yes, you made a joke. About a disability. Go find someone in a wheelchair, and mock them from atop a staircase, and that too will be a joke. Hahaha, you're a funny one, with those jokes of yours, a funny one, and not a jerk at all.
but the process of diagnosing ADHD would condemn just about every kid who took the test. "Doctor, doctor! My child runs around uncontrollably, can't keep his attention on one thing at a time, and doesn't like school...oh Doctor, what do I do?" "ADHD, MUTHA FUCKA!"
For everyone who has a disease that is not immediately visibly apparent: Die in a fire, you stupid insensitive piece of shit.
Spina bifida? Doesn't exist: kid's just lazy.
Migraines? You're faking it.
etc.
We tried everything, from carrot to stick, to get him to just finish his homework. A 15 minute assignment would turn into a 2 hour ordeal. One time he came to me crying and upset that he just could not focus on his homework, no matter how badly he wanted to or how hard he tried.
I took him to a neurologist
Sometimes I'm really jealous of other people's parents, because "I'll give you something to really cry about" wasn't as constructive as your approach.
My adult test for ADHD is sex. As long as I have a 'task' which is her pleasure. I'm all into it. I'm concentrating on something. There is however, no such thing as relaxing. Because as soon as I'm told to 'relax' and it's my turn, ADHD kicks in. "Ooh MyTurn.This feels good, hrm I wonder what that car sound was
Ah! That sounds familiar. You wouldn't mind writing a pamphlet, would you? Something along the lines of "So you're dating someone with ADD...", 'cause it's IMPOSSIBLE to convince a girl that it's not because you don't think she's hot or because she's bad in bed, it's just that your brain won't shut up, ever, no matter how much you want it to stop.
According to my girlfriend (who's got ADHD), ritalin is a stimulant. It makes non-ADHD'ers hyperactive. The reason is that in an ADHD brain, the 'control'-part isn't working hard enough, making you very impulsive. And if you act on every impulse, you're hyperactive. So, you have to stimulate the 'control'-part of the brain, keeping the impulses in check.
Hi, I have ADD, without the H. I wasn't diagnosed as a kid, because I didn't misbehave, I just underperformed. I'd just like to inform you that attention-deficit isn't all about the hyperactivity.
Of course! Securing employment as a Swedish tabloid columnist: That was his plan all along!
It's so obvious, now...
People keep talking about steganography as if it didn't alter the look of the image so that it seemed to have been produced by a raster from the 80s: The least significant digit shows up visibly in gradients and fades. Sure, you have to know to look for it, it's a subtle effect to the untrained eye, but still.
This is the honest version of your allegory.
No, that's just dumb. How could me showing a video cause more hostages to die? Your version makes no sense.
No, your face is dumb. The thing that the pentagon/police says does or doesn't make sense, but they're the one claiming that revealing the murders they committed will result in more murders, and the ones showing the murders have not actually murdered anyone. In your stupid version, there are bandits and cops, but no one revealing that the police shot more hostages than they claim.
The way you say it you've conflated Wikileaks and the Taliban, because you're biased against wikileaks and are actively trying to smear them, apparently.
I don't need to smear them - their (his) actions speak for themselves. I can see the point you think you're objecting to, though. No, in no part of that "allegory" did I conflate wikileaks with the Taliban. The Taliban doesn't pretend to care if their victims are innocent or not.
Yes, the Taliban pretends to care, and yes, you did conflate the murderous bad guys with wikipedia, you dishonest jerk. DIAF
people, armed, and descending on seats of government with the intent to kill treasonous legislators, judges, and executives, after deciding that no other recourse for their grievances was possible
Helicopter flying high,
the sound of gunfire;
falling leaves.
I mean it: Taking up arms against the US government means that the best long-range armament ever known to man will be used against you. It doesn't matter how many people you can arm, if you can't hide your infrared signatures, you'll be gunned down and you won't even know where the bullets came from. And if you rely on "they wouldn't fire on patriots", you'd better ask yourself if the people who mistake a camera for a rocket launcher will be told you are traitors, terrorists, or patriots.
It is really sad. I want to like Obama, I really do
Like him or not, the military-industrial-congress complex was in charge before he got elected and it will still be in charge when he's done.