In a thousand years, those names will STILL be part of Western culture. Whether Western culture will be around in a thousand years, who can say. But who's going to remember Xena? It went off the air 15 years ago, for Chrissake, and even when it was on the air it was a barely watched show. Heaven forfend those crazy scientists should actually care about long established rules instead of flavor-of-the-month idiocy from internet voters.
SS7...wow, that takes me back. I thought it had gone out with the landline. Yeah, SS7 has to know your number, that's kind of the whole point of the system, to be able to set up and tear down the call, and to bill correctly. Out-of-band signalling was the death of the oldschool phone phreak, who depended on being able to send tones down the line to control the call. Good ol' Phrack. And idiotic Phrack writers who didn't know what they were talking about. It's a good thing they didn't have comment sections back then, only a periodic publication. Erik Bloodaxe, Voyager, Sirsyko, and when Mudge wasn't an establishment tool. Netta Gilboa. RBOCs. Dumpster diving behind the phone company's central offices. Good times.
The frightening part isn't Sanders himself. It's the people who surround him, the ones who will receive patronage positions if the worst happens and he is elected President. It's like a who's who of the hate-filled Left. A law firm is just the tip of the iceberg, there are some seriously scary people who are staunchly pro-Sanders and will be in the government if he wins. We're talking about people who consider Venezuela and Cuba success stories.
Well, uh, there is the inconvenient truth that at the time the act was passed, Communists really were attempting to overthrow the US government. It wasn't some crazy paranoia. Paranoia is an irrational fear. And why couldn't it have happened? Communists in China undermined the government from within for decades and it all culminated in a fantastic victory for the international Left. This happened a mere five years before 1954. By contrast, consider that the Syrian Civil War started five years ago and think about laws we might pass in reaction to that.
That's what just slays me about listening to old music on Youtube. Singers like the Andrews Sisters, or the Statler Brothers, or even someone like Willie Nelson, (here seen in his extremely rare "young" look) damn all of them sang every note without autotune, or lip-synching, or any external help whatsoever. It's baffling, how could they have done that? I suppose it's just part of the culture that the West has lost, along with young people being able to be exposed to opinions that disagree with their own without fainting.
So, in conclusion, it IS ok to call Trump Hitler, but not OK to call Sanders a Marxist. I'm glad you could clear that up for us. Free speech for me, but not for thee.
Join the Communist Party USA right here. Website hosted right in the USA. Clearly, these people should be in prison, but aren't. Sounds like you're just making up bullshit, how on Earth did you get +5 Informative?
So why haven't these been shut down? How many of them asked Trump's permission before using his likeness? Let me guess: free speech for me, but not for thee, right?
Uh, because American government should make decisions that benefit Americans? Just like the Venezuelan government need only made decisions that benefit their people, and the Bolivian government need not take the interests of international corporations into account before taking actions that benefit their own people. I really don't get what is so controversial about helping your own side. The entire world does it. That's pretty much the entire point of a government, if they don't represent their own people then they're not legitimate and shouldn't exist.
Well, apparently in the summary there is no link to the source. I thought our new Slashdot overlords were going to do that from now on? So I took it upon myself to do so, to let everyone judge for themselves. Don't want to see the original graphic that sparked this discussion? Why not? Afraid of the truth?
Here is Liberty Maniacs main page at libertymaniacs.com. The link to the shirt that Bernie's Brownshirts are trying to shut down is here. The other shirts on the site are mocking Donald Trump "We Shall Overcomb", the NSA "the only part of the government that listens", a T-shirt depicting police officers beating the shit out of a citizen, another Trump "Idiocracy", Trump again mocking his hair, "Carlin was Right", "I'm Ready for Oligarchy", a stormtrooper with the words "Support the Troops", a picture of that one guy in the crowd with his arms crossed refusing to Heil Hitler, and Hillary for Prison. Oh, and the Sanders "Bernie is my Comrade" parody.
Seriously, if anyone has a problem with this site, I really don't see it. Most of the merchandise is clearly mocking the Right, with only two there that the Left could possibly be offended about. And honestly those are probably just there to cover their bases and not lose any sales. The Sanders one is pretty uncreative, I mean it's an obvious joke to add his face to the famous "parade of Marxists" seeing as Bernie's own views are quite close to theirs. Don't believe me, ask real-live Marxists what they think about him. Spoiler alert: he's not far enough left for their taste. Anyone who wants to suppress T-shirt is just a thin-skinned asshole who can dish out the mockery but not take it. Guess what: that sort of thing cuts both ways. Feel the Bern!
So it was OK when they called Trump literally Hitler, but a work of satire calling Sanders a Marxist isn't OK? How does that even work? Free speech for me, but not for thee?
It's important that stories like this are widely publicized so that the public can see the true face of Sanders before it's too late. Your reaction is worrying as well, instead of taking the opportunity to have a conversation about what's right and what's not, even when your own side does it, your first impulse is to deny everyone the ability to talk about it. If there's nothing wrong with what Sanders is doing, then certainly there's nothing wrong with making it public.
It's called the Jumbotron test. Imagine you saying this at a stadium and your words flashing up on the Jumbotron for everyone to see. Are you embarrassed or proud? If you feel bad, that's a good sign you're on the wrong side. Sanders is clearly wrong here because you feel ashamed the story is here. The solution isn't to suppress the news, the solution is to stop saying despicable things.
So, maybe you understand what it's like to be on the other side now. It doesn't matter what you call yourself, your opposition can freely smear you with horrid inaccurate labels. You're offended, alarmed, and a little bit scared the opposition might have a point. I believe the hard left calls this "social justice". How does it feel, now that the shoe is on the other foot?
It really is private and market driven. Contracts are determined by price and efficiency. Do you think the world exists in some sort of vacuum? You an economics major or something? There's a little something you should look into called "risk" and another called "political stability". Both of these are huge, huge factors in pricing. Namely, being priced out of the market. Want to open a factory in a cheap area that's not stable? There's an excellent chance the locals will look at you like a lion looks at a sick gazelle. You can put numbers on these factors and they'll tell you to build somewhere cheaper, i.e. less risky. Texas is an excellent place to do business, they don't look at companies as the enemy - which is not the case in many states in America.
That's because in a few years, nobody is going to remember a couple of TV characters from an obscure show. But we'll still be stuck with the stupid names. Just imagine if they had done this in earlier generations...there would be moons called Stu Bailey and Lucas McCain. No idea who those are? Exactly my point. And these shows were FAR more popular and widely watched than the entire output of UPN and WB put together. When we name things, we name them for future generations, not so some internet morons can chuckle for 30 seconds and then move on.
And then we wonder if that is the case, why did we bother with all the speeches, campaigning, expense, and voting. If the government of the United States is not going to represent the will of the people, then why does it exist? No government is legitimate that does not exist without the consent of the governed.
You're talking about a different form of government called tyranny.
What an idiotic point of view. "Slashdot" doesn't have an opinion, the people who post do. Security updates are different from updates where features are removed and performance suffers. Or are you not sufficiently intellectually prepared to understand differences like that? VOTE SANDERS 2016!
You just replied to a troll. Please help keep Slashdot clean of trolls by giving them the one thing they hate the most: silence. Seeing their posts without replies makes trolls cry.
Sanders is an unelectable political extremist whose followers broke up an opposition rally with violence, straight out of Munich 1927. Adolf Hitler would approve.
Have you even read the Left's defenses of Hillary in this thread? Seriously? They've got a million and one excuses. She's still the last, best hope for peace. She'll still appoint leftists to the IRS, DOJ, and other agencies that will make Americans' lives hell and deny them the right to organize politically. How many of Bernie's Brownshirts and community organizers will receive real positions of power in a Clinton II administration?
I thought we need to air out these opinions, and have these discussions? Well that's what was said during the last SJW post, which was, what, a couple of hours ago? Suddenly we need to shut up.
If it were anyone but the Left's best hope for the Presidency, she'd be in jail. What if Ted Cruz had set up his own email server and received any material at all, not even classified? Just trying to avoid public records requests? There are one set of standards for us and another for your kind. That's the huge issue here.
If it were one of us who set up our own email server to send our work-related classified emails to, in order to ensure our own privacy and evade public records requests, we would be on year 3 of a federal prison term.
Classified, shmassified. Any classification of emails whatsoever would have been grounds for immediate revocation of security clearance, firing from your federal job, and prosecution by a hardass prosecutor who would not budge an inch because he knows he has you cold.
There is this fallacious, persistent belief that if somehow the EU could get hold of more money, all their problems would be solved. This is not the case. When a government, at any level from local to supra-national, gets more money, what happens? They blow it immediately on stupid crap, or use it to fortify their own power. Then, the money is gone and it will never come back. However now that they are used to the higher income level, the quest for more money begins anew.
There is a wonderful short story, called The Rocking Horse Winner, about just this situation. I urge all of you to read it, it's only 5-10 minutes and is well worth the time. More money doesn't fix anything, it just generates demand for even more money.
In many European countries, paternity tests are illegal. Seriously, importing a home paternity test has the same legal status as trying to import opium poppies. Surely if cuckoldry is so rare, then there is no need for these laws.
Recently, a French journalist was astounded by the fact that in America, paternity testing is 100% safe and 100% legal. He stated that such ideas are inconceivable in France. That puts a whole new twist on the popular American conception of French people as free-spirited and open in every way when it comes to sex and relationships.
Left unsaid is why a woman would do this to the man she loves. Why would she go outside of her relationship and deliberately allow herself to be impregnated by another man, one she does not love? The whole thing is baffling to educated people. More research is clearly called for...but I bet it won't happen.
This is why you don't run an evil corporation and get a bad reputation. It sticks with you for years, and years, and decades afterwards. There are people today who are still angry at the Ford Motor Company for what they did with the Ford Pinto, and that was in the 1970s. Calling for a megabillion dollar corporation to be treated fairly, when they themselves never felt any obligation to do any such thing, is asking rather a lot.
So, the next time the Indian people get uppity, or vote the wrong way, the payment system experiences "technical difficulties" and the wrongdoers are instantly punished. Or they can use the carrot instead of the stick and people who voted the correct way suddenly find their account awash in rupees. Either way the government becomes bigger, stronger, more powerful, and gains a reach into the day-to-day lives of its subjects. I mean, citizens. What could possibly go wrong?
Fun fact: the US military was going full-on for the invasion of the Japanese home islands. The atom bomb was top-secret, remember? Casualty estimates were huge for both sides. The Japanese had a defense plan, and it was a good one. They had correctly predicted what the Americans were going to do. It would have been a bloodbath. When the Japanese surrendered it was a huge relief to both sides.
August 5, 1963
Dear Kup:
I appreciated most highly your column of July 30th, a copy of which you sent me.
I have been rather careful not to comment on the articles that have been written on the dropping of the bomb for the simple reason that the dropping of the bomb was completely and thoroughly explained in my Memoirs, and it was done to save 125,000 youngsters on the American side and 125,000 on the Japanese side from getting killed and that is what it did. It probably also saved a half million youngsters on both sides from being maimed for life.
You must always remember that people forget, as you said in your column, that the bombing of Pearl Harbor was done while we were at peace with Japan and trying our best to negotiate a treaty with them.
All you have to do is to go out and stand on the keel of the Battleship in Pearl Harbor with the 3,000 youngsters underneath it who had no chance whatever of saving their lives. That is true of two or three other battleships that were sunk in Pearl Harbor. Altogether, there were between 3,000 and 6,000 youngsters killed at that time without any declaration of war. It was plain murder.
I knew what I was doing when I stopped the war that would have killed a half a million youngsters on both sides if those bombs had not been dropped. I have no regrets and, under the same circumstances, I would do it again -- and this letter is not confidential
Slashdot Mirror
In a thousand years, those names will STILL be part of Western culture. Whether Western culture will be around in a thousand years, who can say. But who's going to remember Xena? It went off the air 15 years ago, for Chrissake, and even when it was on the air it was a barely watched show. Heaven forfend those crazy scientists should actually care about long established rules instead of flavor-of-the-month idiocy from internet voters.
SS7...wow, that takes me back. I thought it had gone out with the landline. Yeah, SS7 has to know your number, that's kind of the whole point of the system, to be able to set up and tear down the call, and to bill correctly. Out-of-band signalling was the death of the oldschool phone phreak, who depended on being able to send tones down the line to control the call. Good ol' Phrack. And idiotic Phrack writers who didn't know what they were talking about. It's a good thing they didn't have comment sections back then, only a periodic publication. Erik Bloodaxe, Voyager, Sirsyko, and when Mudge wasn't an establishment tool. Netta Gilboa. RBOCs. Dumpster diving behind the phone company's central offices. Good times.
The frightening part isn't Sanders himself. It's the people who surround him, the ones who will receive patronage positions if the worst happens and he is elected President. It's like a who's who of the hate-filled Left. A law firm is just the tip of the iceberg, there are some seriously scary people who are staunchly pro-Sanders and will be in the government if he wins. We're talking about people who consider Venezuela and Cuba success stories.
Well, uh, there is the inconvenient truth that at the time the act was passed, Communists really were attempting to overthrow the US government. It wasn't some crazy paranoia. Paranoia is an irrational fear. And why couldn't it have happened? Communists in China undermined the government from within for decades and it all culminated in a fantastic victory for the international Left. This happened a mere five years before 1954. By contrast, consider that the Syrian Civil War started five years ago and think about laws we might pass in reaction to that.
That's what just slays me about listening to old music on Youtube. Singers like the Andrews Sisters, or the Statler Brothers, or even someone like Willie Nelson, (here seen in his extremely rare "young" look) damn all of them sang every note without autotune, or lip-synching, or any external help whatsoever. It's baffling, how could they have done that? I suppose it's just part of the culture that the West has lost, along with young people being able to be exposed to opinions that disagree with their own without fainting.
So, in conclusion, it IS ok to call Trump Hitler, but not OK to call Sanders a Marxist. I'm glad you could clear that up for us. Free speech for me, but not for thee.
Join the Communist Party USA right here. Website hosted right in the USA. Clearly, these people should be in prison, but aren't. Sounds like you're just making up bullshit, how on Earth did you get +5 Informative?
So why haven't these been shut down? How many of them asked Trump's permission before using his likeness? Let me guess: free speech for me, but not for thee, right?
Uh, because American government should make decisions that benefit Americans? Just like the Venezuelan government need only made decisions that benefit their people, and the Bolivian government need not take the interests of international corporations into account before taking actions that benefit their own people. I really don't get what is so controversial about helping your own side. The entire world does it. That's pretty much the entire point of a government, if they don't represent their own people then they're not legitimate and shouldn't exist.
Well, apparently in the summary there is no link to the source. I thought our new Slashdot overlords were going to do that from now on? So I took it upon myself to do so, to let everyone judge for themselves. Don't want to see the original graphic that sparked this discussion? Why not? Afraid of the truth?
Here is Liberty Maniacs main page at libertymaniacs.com. The link to the shirt that Bernie's Brownshirts are trying to shut down is here. The other shirts on the site are mocking Donald Trump "We Shall Overcomb", the NSA "the only part of the government that listens", a T-shirt depicting police officers beating the shit out of a citizen, another Trump "Idiocracy", Trump again mocking his hair, "Carlin was Right", "I'm Ready for Oligarchy", a stormtrooper with the words "Support the Troops", a picture of that one guy in the crowd with his arms crossed refusing to Heil Hitler, and Hillary for Prison. Oh, and the Sanders "Bernie is my Comrade" parody.
Seriously, if anyone has a problem with this site, I really don't see it. Most of the merchandise is clearly mocking the Right, with only two there that the Left could possibly be offended about. And honestly those are probably just there to cover their bases and not lose any sales. The Sanders one is pretty uncreative, I mean it's an obvious joke to add his face to the famous "parade of Marxists" seeing as Bernie's own views are quite close to theirs. Don't believe me, ask real-live Marxists what they think about him. Spoiler alert: he's not far enough left for their taste. Anyone who wants to suppress T-shirt is just a thin-skinned asshole who can dish out the mockery but not take it. Guess what: that sort of thing cuts both ways. Feel the Bern!
So it was OK when they called Trump literally Hitler, but a work of satire calling Sanders a Marxist isn't OK? How does that even work? Free speech for me, but not for thee?
It's called the Jumbotron test. Imagine you saying this at a stadium and your words flashing up on the Jumbotron for everyone to see. Are you embarrassed or proud? If you feel bad, that's a good sign you're on the wrong side. Sanders is clearly wrong here because you feel ashamed the story is here. The solution isn't to suppress the news, the solution is to stop saying despicable things.
So, maybe you understand what it's like to be on the other side now. It doesn't matter what you call yourself, your opposition can freely smear you with horrid inaccurate labels. You're offended, alarmed, and a little bit scared the opposition might have a point. I believe the hard left calls this "social justice". How does it feel, now that the shoe is on the other foot?
It really is private and market driven. Contracts are determined by price and efficiency. Do you think the world exists in some sort of vacuum? You an economics major or something? There's a little something you should look into called "risk" and another called "political stability". Both of these are huge, huge factors in pricing. Namely, being priced out of the market. Want to open a factory in a cheap area that's not stable? There's an excellent chance the locals will look at you like a lion looks at a sick gazelle. You can put numbers on these factors and they'll tell you to build somewhere cheaper, i.e. less risky. Texas is an excellent place to do business, they don't look at companies as the enemy - which is not the case in many states in America.
That's because in a few years, nobody is going to remember a couple of TV characters from an obscure show. But we'll still be stuck with the stupid names. Just imagine if they had done this in earlier generations...there would be moons called Stu Bailey and Lucas McCain. No idea who those are? Exactly my point. And these shows were FAR more popular and widely watched than the entire output of UPN and WB put together. When we name things, we name them for future generations, not so some internet morons can chuckle for 30 seconds and then move on.
And then we wonder if that is the case, why did we bother with all the speeches, campaigning, expense, and voting. If the government of the United States is not going to represent the will of the people, then why does it exist? No government is legitimate that does not exist without the consent of the governed.
You're talking about a different form of government called tyranny.
What an idiotic point of view. "Slashdot" doesn't have an opinion, the people who post do. Security updates are different from updates where features are removed and performance suffers. Or are you not sufficiently intellectually prepared to understand differences like that? VOTE SANDERS 2016!
You just replied to a troll. Please help keep Slashdot clean of trolls by giving them the one thing they hate the most: silence. Seeing their posts without replies makes trolls cry.
Sanders is an unelectable political extremist whose followers broke up an opposition rally with violence, straight out of Munich 1927. Adolf Hitler would approve.
Have you even read the Left's defenses of Hillary in this thread? Seriously? They've got a million and one excuses. She's still the last, best hope for peace. She'll still appoint leftists to the IRS, DOJ, and other agencies that will make Americans' lives hell and deny them the right to organize politically. How many of Bernie's Brownshirts and community organizers will receive real positions of power in a Clinton II administration?
I thought we need to air out these opinions, and have these discussions? Well that's what was said during the last SJW post, which was, what, a couple of hours ago? Suddenly we need to shut up.
If it were anyone but the Left's best hope for the Presidency, she'd be in jail. What if Ted Cruz had set up his own email server and received any material at all, not even classified? Just trying to avoid public records requests? There are one set of standards for us and another for your kind. That's the huge issue here.
If it were one of us who set up our own email server to send our work-related classified emails to, in order to ensure our own privacy and evade public records requests, we would be on year 3 of a federal prison term.
Classified, shmassified. Any classification of emails whatsoever would have been grounds for immediate revocation of security clearance, firing from your federal job, and prosecution by a hardass prosecutor who would not budge an inch because he knows he has you cold.
There is this fallacious, persistent belief that if somehow the EU could get hold of more money, all their problems would be solved. This is not the case. When a government, at any level from local to supra-national, gets more money, what happens? They blow it immediately on stupid crap, or use it to fortify their own power. Then, the money is gone and it will never come back. However now that they are used to the higher income level, the quest for more money begins anew.
There is a wonderful short story, called The Rocking Horse Winner, about just this situation. I urge all of you to read it, it's only 5-10 minutes and is well worth the time. More money doesn't fix anything, it just generates demand for even more money.
In many European countries, paternity tests are illegal. Seriously, importing a home paternity test has the same legal status as trying to import opium poppies. Surely if cuckoldry is so rare, then there is no need for these laws.
Recently, a French journalist was astounded by the fact that in America, paternity testing is 100% safe and 100% legal. He stated that such ideas are inconceivable in France. That puts a whole new twist on the popular American conception of French people as free-spirited and open in every way when it comes to sex and relationships.
Left unsaid is why a woman would do this to the man she loves. Why would she go outside of her relationship and deliberately allow herself to be impregnated by another man, one she does not love? The whole thing is baffling to educated people. More research is clearly called for...but I bet it won't happen.
This is why you don't run an evil corporation and get a bad reputation. It sticks with you for years, and years, and decades afterwards. There are people today who are still angry at the Ford Motor Company for what they did with the Ford Pinto, and that was in the 1970s. Calling for a megabillion dollar corporation to be treated fairly, when they themselves never felt any obligation to do any such thing, is asking rather a lot.
So, the next time the Indian people get uppity, or vote the wrong way, the payment system experiences "technical difficulties" and the wrongdoers are instantly punished. Or they can use the carrot instead of the stick and people who voted the correct way suddenly find their account awash in rupees. Either way the government becomes bigger, stronger, more powerful, and gains a reach into the day-to-day lives of its subjects. I mean, citizens. What could possibly go wrong?
Fun fact: the US military was going full-on for the invasion of the Japanese home islands. The atom bomb was top-secret, remember? Casualty estimates were huge for both sides. The Japanese had a defense plan, and it was a good one. They had correctly predicted what the Americans were going to do. It would have been a bloodbath. When the Japanese surrendered it was a huge relief to both sides.