An account repeatedly posting links to the same website, forbes.com. That website is full of ads, which are being shown to the audience that clicks through from Slashdot. The content is scienc-y stuff that would attract an audience's like Slashdot. I don't know what the ad was because the adblocker caught it, all I got was a forbes.com landing page and a famous quotation. Then I clicked to enter the article and was directed to http://www.forbes.com/sites/et... which is a "4-0-Forbes" error which means 404 not found.
The fact that this is happening again and again is no coincidence. There is clearly collusion and someone is getting paid. A shockingly low amount, I suspect. Or a favor is being repaid, or other non-monetary gain. But damn there are too many ads going off for it not to be. On the other hand, I don't really know how successful the operation is. You have to question the wisdom of an operation that doesn't even bother disguising the posting account, and then markets to the one audience in the world that is most enthusiastic about ad-blockers.
No, he wasn't speaking in hyperbole. There really are people on the Left who are absolutely convinced that they need to win every election, from now on, forever. If they don't, then it is license to pull out the big guns and start murdering people. They're not joking. Remember Geert Wilders? How bout the millions of people murdered by left-wing regimes in the last 100 years?
Obama has been working long and hard to dismantle the checks and balances of the American system. He is doing a good job of bypassing Congress and ruling directly by decree.
I also love how you assume, without any justification, that the side of politics that you happen to support is the side of justice, and anyone who disagrees with you must, by definition, be on the other side. You DO scrap the democratic system, because any system that produces incorrect results MUST be wrong. You want a system that ensures a "positive" i.e. hard left outcome every single time.
Being annoyed as fuck about a neighbor's dog that won't shut up doesn't mean there's anything wrong with your life - it means you can't even get any peace and quiet in your own home. On the annoyance scale it's right up there with the jackhammer but below a baby crying. Talking to the neighbor isn't going to make him play with his bored dog.
"The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who
might consider voting for Trump and say, 'This is Goebbels. This is the
final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you
before Election Day.' They're not going to listen to reason, so when
justice is gone, there's always force..."
If all the polls are saying that the side of justice is going to lose, then should you resort to force? After reason has failed, what else can you do against such reckless hate? Do you agree or disagree with the sentiment quoted above?
By the way, this is a real quote, posted by an ACLU Board Member. He was forced to resign but will face no legal issues from his incitement to shoot people who disagree with his political opinions.
It's the new normal for Millenials. They are not open-minded people who trust by default, like the older generations. Instead, they mistrust until they get some kind of confirmation that you're like them. The old "well, I just won't be on Facebook then!" excuse carries no water with them, if your life is not public then obviously you have something to hide.
No, Chinese law does not work like that. Yahoo is the junior partner and will never be allowed to own more than 49%. For some odd reason the Chinese don't allow foreigners to seize control of vital parts of their economy.
Honestly I had hoped that nethack would rest easy. After all, the game was essentially finished. There wasn't anywhere left to go and things were great. There's something to be said for a stable game that doesn't change no matter how often the players do. Unfortunately there is a rather loud group of people who want new, new, new and if it's old it sucks. "If it's not being developed, then it sucks!" and this attitude is a real problem IMO. ESR himself states quite plainly "I am pissed at them for being secretive and doing fuck-all with the codebase" as if there was a problem with that. This is the same attitude that led to Mozilla Firefox going off the rails, developing for the sake of developing instead of doing what's needed.
I've already heard nethack referred to as "an early, brutal roguelike, not recommended" which put a dagger in my heart. Now they're putting a bunch of Pratchett quotes in? Sheesh.
This sort of thing is coming whether you like it or not. Freedom of speech is the freedom to oppress, and it's headed for the dustbin of history. Not accompanied by wailing and gnashing of teeth, but to thunderous applause.
In its oft-cited Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the American Association of University Professors declares that "Teachers are entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of the results." In principle, this policy seems sound: It would not do for academics to have their research restricted by the political whims of the moment.
Yet the liberal obsession with "academic freedom" seems a bit misplaced to me. After all, no one ever has "full freedom" in research and publication. Which research proposals receive funding and what papers are accepted for publication are always contingent on political priorities. The words used to articulate a research question can have implications for its outcome. No academic question is ever "free" from political realities. If our university community opposes racism, sexism, and heterosexism, why should we put up with research that counters our goals simply in the name of "academic freedom"?
Instead, I would like to propose a more rigorous standard: one of "academic justice." When an academic community observes research promoting or justifying oppression, it should ensure that this research does not continue.
Women are innate liars? What is this, the sexist pig Olympics? Please try again, without mentioning the Garden of Eden myth. Have you even heard of Bluebeard?
I'm a vegetarian. I just don't like hypocrisy or counterproductive actions.
Are you sure you're a vegetarian? Those two sentences don't go together. Are you some sort of isolated country vegetarian who has never talked to other vegetarians online? Seriously, hypocrisy and counterproductive actions are what you people are all about. As long as you get to express your hatred of meat-eating people, it's all good.
Third-rate wannabe? No, there are plenty of third-rate wannabe terrorist groups and none of them have successfully attacked Paris and the continental USA. The Islamic State isn't the "jayvee" as your wonderful Obama stated. Get with the program, stop believing the President, get some facts into your brain, and THINK.
No problem for the well-off, they'll just buy a second car with different plates. It's what people did in Beijing. It won't help with the pollution, though it will help with the "fuck what you want, commoners" attitude that is so prevalent in governments today.
Really? Scandinavia again? How about being a bit less racist. Of course if you think a land inhabited completely by whites where everyone can share is heaven, then I think I don't have to say any more.
Why could that be? What has socialism done to give it such a horrible name? Go ahead and list a few items. You realize that the major victims of socialism were leftists just like yourself? You ended up in the gulag right along with the rightists you helped to put there.
In what way is making fun of dumb movies impossible today? It's a rich source of comedy. Oh, and major dick move putting politics in there, it is hatred like that that keeps alternative choices alive and well. Anything that the mainstream despises so publicly must be worth checking out.
So, you're saying France - the one with a Socialist president - is going to become a dictatorship? WTF is wrong with you people, everything since 9/11 means dictatorship. We're still not there, you'd figure at least ONE Western nation would have fallen by now. But apparently we're still having elections and whatnot. So, when are we going fascist? Tell me because I want to try those snappy uniforms and get in on the cronyism.
I hope you can recognize the role you just played. Defending the powerful! Are you familiar with the phrase, "comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable"? Why the F are you carrying water for the President of the fucking USA? The world's largest oppressor! I really don't get this...you need to be on the side of the people, not the government. Were you were lied to and used to further someone else's agenda? Or at worst you deliberately set out to deceive in order to further your agenda...and how can your agenda be to assist those already in power? None of this makes any sense.
The problem is, for years now, we have been assured that Open Source was the cure for problems. Just notify someone, and wait, and your problem will be fixed. I had it happen so many times in the old days. Now, developers apparently have stopped caring about this and care only about developing products for themselves. Sad, but what are you going to do? The concepts that made Open Source a big hit are being abandoned. Open Source isn't going away but it is definitely becoming less popular. Good news for commercial software companies that listen to their customers.
You're aware that the Soviets themselves regarded their own propaganda as full of lies and considered anyone who listened to them as idiots. You are aware of this fact, right? I love your infantile comment on Ronald Reagan's attitude towards the Soviet Union. Let's compare and contrast it to Obama's modern attitude.
"Here's my strategy for the Cold War: We win. They lose."
-- Ronald Reagan
"I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."
-- Barack Obama
Note: Hirohito was not present when the surrender was signed aboard the Battleship Missouri.
It makes me sick to see the phrase, "Western-backed rebel forces". These are Islamists. When Russia says they're only going after the terrorists, they aren't lying. See, there aren't two sides in Syria's civil war, there are three (major ones). There is Assad's government, who represent a minority that would get massacred if they ever lose power (Russia is backing them), the Islamist rebels (we're backing them *puke*), and ISIS (against everyone). There aren't any good guys. The Syrians who want Western democracy? Laughable.
It continues to amaze me, year after year, all the journalists who simply do not comprehend that there are three (major) sides in the battle. When Russia bombs the Islamists, this is nothing more than a proxy war. Putin thinks Obama is finished, weak, and America is ready to be swept aside. This is all Obama's own fault, of course, for his miserable failure during the Syrian nerve gas crisis of 2013. His "red line" was shown to be nothing that anyone need be afraid of. Russia saw weakness and swooped in. According to Putin, this was America's "Suez Moment" and without it Russia would today not be in the civil war and NATO wouldn't have just shot down one of their aircraft.
Business schools in the last 20 years have really been a disaster. It's the progressive idea that things should always be improving. They teach the role of a businessman isn't to create value, it is to maximize value. A staid old company with the same employees for 30 years and a steady profit? Out the window! This maximizing progressive attitude goes towards everything, all the way down until they finally get around to skimping on toilet paper.
The woman thing comes from the changes in male-female power due to the punitive divorce laws in America. Rather than have to give up his money in a divorce, he married his dumpy Asian girlfriend. Isn't there a word for white men who prefer Asian women? Isn't it derogatory?
His Chinese is terrible and sounds like a fourth grader. He's just so, so desperate to show off in front of everyone. In a cringeworthy moment, he actually asked Xi Jinping in front of people if he'd name his child. Xi obviously declined, the question should never have been posed in the first place. But he managed to embarrass himself in Chinese, so cool. Not.
Looking down on other humans isn't cool. Not when you do it, not when Zuckerberg does it.
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An account repeatedly posting links to the same website, forbes.com. That website is full of ads, which are being shown to the audience that clicks through from Slashdot. The content is scienc-y stuff that would attract an audience's like Slashdot. I don't know what the ad was because the adblocker caught it, all I got was a forbes.com landing page and a famous quotation. Then I clicked to enter the article and was directed to http://www.forbes.com/sites/et... which is a "4-0-Forbes" error which means 404 not found.
The fact that this is happening again and again is no coincidence. There is clearly collusion and someone is getting paid. A shockingly low amount, I suspect. Or a favor is being repaid, or other non-monetary gain. But damn there are too many ads going off for it not to be. On the other hand, I don't really know how successful the operation is. You have to question the wisdom of an operation that doesn't even bother disguising the posting account, and then markets to the one audience in the world that is most enthusiastic about ad-blockers.
No, he wasn't speaking in hyperbole. There really are people on the Left who are absolutely convinced that they need to win every election, from now on, forever. If they don't, then it is license to pull out the big guns and start murdering people. They're not joking. Remember Geert Wilders? How bout the millions of people murdered by left-wing regimes in the last 100 years?
Obama has been working long and hard to dismantle the checks and balances of the American system. He is doing a good job of bypassing Congress and ruling directly by decree.
I also love how you assume, without any justification, that the side of politics that you happen to support is the side of justice, and anyone who disagrees with you must, by definition, be on the other side. You DO scrap the democratic system, because any system that produces incorrect results MUST be wrong. You want a system that ensures a "positive" i.e. hard left outcome every single time.
Being annoyed as fuck about a neighbor's dog that won't shut up doesn't mean there's anything wrong with your life - it means you can't even get any peace and quiet in your own home. On the annoyance scale it's right up there with the jackhammer but below a baby crying. Talking to the neighbor isn't going to make him play with his bored dog.
If all the polls are saying that the side of justice is going to lose, then should you resort to force? After reason has failed, what else can you do against such reckless hate? Do you agree or disagree with the sentiment quoted above?
By the way, this is a real quote, posted by an ACLU Board Member. He was forced to resign but will face no legal issues from his incitement to shoot people who disagree with his political opinions.
It's the new normal for Millenials. They are not open-minded people who trust by default, like the older generations. Instead, they mistrust until they get some kind of confirmation that you're like them. The old "well, I just won't be on Facebook then!" excuse carries no water with them, if your life is not public then obviously you have something to hide.
No, Chinese law does not work like that. Yahoo is the junior partner and will never be allowed to own more than 49%. For some odd reason the Chinese don't allow foreigners to seize control of vital parts of their economy.
Honestly I had hoped that nethack would rest easy. After all, the game was essentially finished. There wasn't anywhere left to go and things were great. There's something to be said for a stable game that doesn't change no matter how often the players do. Unfortunately there is a rather loud group of people who want new, new, new and if it's old it sucks. "If it's not being developed, then it sucks!" and this attitude is a real problem IMO. ESR himself states quite plainly "I am pissed at them for being secretive and doing fuck-all with the codebase" as if there was a problem with that. This is the same attitude that led to Mozilla Firefox going off the rails, developing for the sake of developing instead of doing what's needed.
I've already heard nethack referred to as "an early, brutal roguelike, not recommended" which put a dagger in my heart. Now they're putting a bunch of Pratchett quotes in? Sheesh.
Open source game. Who do they sue?
This sort of thing is coming whether you like it or not. Freedom of speech is the freedom to oppress, and it's headed for the dustbin of history. Not accompanied by wailing and gnashing of teeth, but to thunderous applause.
Contact her family secretly and buy from them direct. You won't get a fake and you'll get best price. What are you, nuts?
Women are innate liars? What is this, the sexist pig Olympics? Please try again, without mentioning the Garden of Eden myth. Have you even heard of Bluebeard?
I'm a vegetarian. I just don't like hypocrisy or counterproductive actions.
Are you sure you're a vegetarian? Those two sentences don't go together. Are you some sort of isolated country vegetarian who has never talked to other vegetarians online? Seriously, hypocrisy and counterproductive actions are what you people are all about. As long as you get to express your hatred of meat-eating people, it's all good.
Third-rate wannabe? No, there are plenty of third-rate wannabe terrorist groups and none of them have successfully attacked Paris and the continental USA. The Islamic State isn't the "jayvee" as your wonderful Obama stated. Get with the program, stop believing the President, get some facts into your brain, and THINK.
No problem for the well-off, they'll just buy a second car with different plates. It's what people did in Beijing. It won't help with the pollution, though it will help with the "fuck what you want, commoners" attitude that is so prevalent in governments today.
Really? Scandinavia again? How about being a bit less racist. Of course if you think a land inhabited completely by whites where everyone can share is heaven, then I think I don't have to say any more.
Why could that be? What has socialism done to give it such a horrible name? Go ahead and list a few items. You realize that the major victims of socialism were leftists just like yourself? You ended up in the gulag right along with the rightists you helped to put there.
In what way is making fun of dumb movies impossible today? It's a rich source of comedy. Oh, and major dick move putting politics in there, it is hatred like that that keeps alternative choices alive and well. Anything that the mainstream despises so publicly must be worth checking out.
So, you're saying France - the one with a Socialist president - is going to become a dictatorship? WTF is wrong with you people, everything since 9/11 means dictatorship. We're still not there, you'd figure at least ONE Western nation would have fallen by now. But apparently we're still having elections and whatnot. So, when are we going fascist? Tell me because I want to try those snappy uniforms and get in on the cronyism.
I hope you can recognize the role you just played. Defending the powerful! Are you familiar with the phrase, "comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable"? Why the F are you carrying water for the President of the fucking USA? The world's largest oppressor! I really don't get this...you need to be on the side of the people, not the government. Were you were lied to and used to further someone else's agenda? Or at worst you deliberately set out to deceive in order to further your agenda...and how can your agenda be to assist those already in power? None of this makes any sense.
The problem is, for years now, we have been assured that Open Source was the cure for problems. Just notify someone, and wait, and your problem will be fixed. I had it happen so many times in the old days. Now, developers apparently have stopped caring about this and care only about developing products for themselves. Sad, but what are you going to do? The concepts that made Open Source a big hit are being abandoned. Open Source isn't going away but it is definitely becoming less popular. Good news for commercial software companies that listen to their customers.
You're aware that the Soviets themselves regarded their own propaganda as full of lies and considered anyone who listened to them as idiots. You are aware of this fact, right? I love your infantile comment on Ronald Reagan's attitude towards the Soviet Union. Let's compare and contrast it to Obama's modern attitude.
Note: Hirohito was not present when the surrender was signed aboard the Battleship Missouri.
It makes me sick to see the phrase, "Western-backed rebel forces". These are Islamists. When Russia says they're only going after the terrorists, they aren't lying. See, there aren't two sides in Syria's civil war, there are three (major ones). There is Assad's government, who represent a minority that would get massacred if they ever lose power (Russia is backing them), the Islamist rebels (we're backing them *puke*), and ISIS (against everyone). There aren't any good guys. The Syrians who want Western democracy? Laughable.
It continues to amaze me, year after year, all the journalists who simply do not comprehend that there are three (major) sides in the battle. When Russia bombs the Islamists, this is nothing more than a proxy war. Putin thinks Obama is finished, weak, and America is ready to be swept aside. This is all Obama's own fault, of course, for his miserable failure during the Syrian nerve gas crisis of 2013. His "red line" was shown to be nothing that anyone need be afraid of. Russia saw weakness and swooped in. According to Putin, this was America's "Suez Moment" and without it Russia would today not be in the civil war and NATO wouldn't have just shot down one of their aircraft.
Business schools in the last 20 years have really been a disaster. It's the progressive idea that things should always be improving. They teach the role of a businessman isn't to create value, it is to maximize value. A staid old company with the same employees for 30 years and a steady profit? Out the window! This maximizing progressive attitude goes towards everything, all the way down until they finally get around to skimping on toilet paper.
The newest thing in Slashdot posts: don't even include an article. Nobody reads them anyway, so why bother? More professionalism from Dice.com staff.
The woman thing comes from the changes in male-female power due to the punitive divorce laws in America. Rather than have to give up his money in a divorce, he married his dumpy Asian girlfriend. Isn't there a word for white men who prefer Asian women? Isn't it derogatory?
His Chinese is terrible and sounds like a fourth grader. He's just so, so desperate to show off in front of everyone. In a cringeworthy moment, he actually asked Xi Jinping in front of people if he'd name his child. Xi obviously declined, the question should never have been posed in the first place. But he managed to embarrass himself in Chinese, so cool. Not.
Looking down on other humans isn't cool. Not when you do it, not when Zuckerberg does it.