Huh? How'd this make the front page? French internal politics? And such a narrow, parochial viewpoint, too. "A man named Francois Hollande"? That's the best we can do to characterize the man? How about this snippet from The Wikipedia, the Source of all Knowledge: "On 16 October 2011, Hollande was nominated to be the Socialist and Left Radical Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election." Funny how his party affiliation is omitted from the summary. What, it's not relevant?
And not a word about how his #1 rival for the Socialist candidacy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was very conveniently removed from contention from the French race by being arrested in New York on the shocking charge of rape. Let's quote The Holy Wikipedia again: "On June 30, 2011, the New York Times reported that the case was on the "verge of collapse" because of problems with the credibility of the alleged victim, who had, according to sources within the NYPD, repeatedly lied to the police since making her first statement.[57] According to prosecutors, the accuser admitted that she lied to a grand jury about the events surrounding the alleged attack." Had this rape accusation not happened, DSK would be the nominee going against Sarkozy and not "a man named Francois Hollande."
Hey, I'm not saying socialism is bad. It's been a good influence on Western culture in general. Pretty much every item on Marx's Communist Manifesto has been put into law in all Western countries as well as the United Nations. I'm saying let's put the party affiliation right up there where everyone can see...instead of referring to Hollande purely by gender as "a man". Is there anything to be ashamed of?
I'm also questioning the relevance of some random country's internal politics for a Slashdot front page story, even couched in terms of internet freedoms. And the "from the strategic-surrender-in-order-sometimes dept." part of the story is just a cheap shot. America wouldn't even be an independent republic without help from the French. We'd just be a constitutional monarchy like Canada, with a foreigner as our Head of State. What the hell, Slashdot?
Uh...the entire idea that The Holy Founders knew what was best is a conservative idea. How would a modern Progressive react to a Founder were he to suddenly materialize on the speaker's podium an OWS rally? They were slaveowners, remember? How can anything a slaveowner says be taken seriously in 2012? The lack of racial diversity among The Holy Founders is a damning accusation, one that pretty much discredits anything they ever said, being white men of privilege and all.
People who state that it's okay to hold a racial preference in dating are often unaware of the racist structure their preference is based on; that white media has done a great disservice to Asian men; that there are more tools to articulate white masculinity than there are to articulate Asian masculinity; that some of the most disparaging remarks about Asian men come from Asian women themselves, and are often based on nothing but bad stereotypes; that the world being what it is, an Asian woman simply walking down the street with a Caucasian boyfriend can send a negative message about Asian men.
Confirmation bias. It's because you're on the same side, the In Group. If you were in the Out Group, you would have gotten a lot nastier reception. Correlation does not mean causation, but correlation does mean correlation. I've certainly met vegans who were quite vocal. Who hasn't? What's the point of being morally superior to others if you don't mention it constantly?
Well, it follows the "living Constitution" philosophy. The Constitution doesn't mean what it means, it means whatever we *want* it to mean. Brought to you by liberals! Doesn't it suck when it comes back to bite you in the ass?
I love it. Some good news for Africa at last, and all you can think of is "they need fewer people". First world good, Africa bad. Ever consider the implied racism in this thinking?
What was the original price on one of these? How did it compare to its competitors? By competitors I mean other computers of the time, as this was obviously the first portable. What sort of premium did you have to pay for portability?
Wha?? Play games? This was a *portable* computer, it was made for serious work. Typing text really hasn't changed (except for that great *cough* HTMLization) and all a serious writer ever really needs is a text editor to do real work.
Huh? Microsoft users are expected to learn all sorts of things, from keyboard shortcuts, to proprietary interfaces, to quirky workflows - you name it, Microsoft provides no help, you're just expected to learn it yourself. Apple's the one with the "why jerk my neck around like a goon when Tyrranno-vision decides what I should look at?" thinking, where everything is decided beforehand and there are no confusing choices to be made.
Heck, this could actually be positive, as if Microsoft patents it, other companies can't use this odious method.
A general trend throughout revolutionary socialism from 1890 to 1914 was that the most revolutionary elements laid an increasing stress upon leadership, and downplayed the autonomous role of the toiling masses. This elitism was a natural outcome of the revolutionaries' ardent wish to have revolution and the stubborn disinclination of the working class to become revolutionary. Workers were instinctive reformists: they wanted a fair shake within capitalism and nothing more. Since the workers did not look as if they would ever desire a revolution, the small group of conscious revolutionaries would have to play a more decisive role than Marx had imagined. That was the conclusion of Lenin in 1902. It was the conclusion of Sorel. And it was the conclusion of the syndicalist Giuseppe Prezzolini whose works in the century's first decade Mussolini reviewed admiringly.
My little brother came to visit me recently (China). While we were out shopping for some silk for his girlie, I walked across the street, thinking nothing of it. I looked back, and there he was, still on the other side. He took what I thought was an inordinately long time to wait for a gap, then finally joined me. Evidently, from someone who lives in America, I had just walked out into dangerous traffic. To me, it was no big deal and it's how things are every day. Crosswalk? Are you joking?
Dad taught me to never, ever look for recognition when you do something good
So...here you are, on Slashdot, bragging about what a good person you are. I'll take the bumper sticker guy anyday. At least he's being honest and not a God-damned hypocrite.
Those are well-known in this community. DOTA isn't - but obviously it's well-known to whoever wrote the summary, and the summary writer has a small reference pool. It's amazing how otherwise-educated people can simply assume everyone in the world is Just. Like. Them.
Didn't you just say that nice guys are morons? Now you're accusing me of being an asshole in public, after publicly saying that you like being around assholes? Make up your mind, you're arguing against your self...and losing.
Doesn't it suck to be on a forum like Slashdot where people have the minds to take apart your bullshit ideas? I bet you have a much better time in the games, being a dick to people.
Yeah. You're the asshole. People like you are called 'griefers' as you're not playing the same game the rest of us are playing. You need to be charged more for the privilege of us allowing you to continue to exist in our ecosystem.
If something is happening, and the assholes say they don't like it, it's a sign that it was the right choice.
I love how you're posting this on the internet. Maybe follow your own advice and we'll listen. It's called "practicing what you preach." It's one of the reasons that climate change activists like Al Gore are taken so seriously.
What's wrong with that? Men have been hurting, punishing, humiliating and enslaving women for thousands of years. Let's try the opposite for, say, 100 years and see how it works out. You've got another 70 years to go. Just look at the progress that's been made in the past 30 years, and tell me that's a bad thing.
Let's see, this guy is a famous hotshot programmer who can pick and choose his jobs. Presumably, that's the tiny world he lives in. The view from the ivory tower is great, if you can get it. This sort of crap doesn't fly for the rest of us, who are happy to get any work. Some terms of the contract you can haggle, but NDAs are non-negotiable. Apparently he's forgotten what it's like for the Great Unwashed out in flyover territory. The title of the blog post is "Why I Won't Sign an NDA", after all.
Is this actually true, or is this just what you want to be true?
Funny, every time I see the "TEH CEOS ARE RUINING THE WORLD WHARRRRGARBL" kind of speech, the first thing they say is "the cake^H^H^H^H free market is a lie". And here you are with the implicit idea that the free market is valid, and TEH CEOS are distorting it. So, which is it? You can't have it both ways, eh?
The reason that confidence scams always work: they rely on the mark's willing compliance in a scheme that seems too good to be true. The mark thinks he's putting one over on the scammer.
Reality TV and reality television are two totally different concepts. I weep for our democracy that you can't (or worse, refuse to) see the difference.
It's a joke? No, it's not. The National Education Association, Michelle Obama, and many others fervently believe in this concept. Where'd you get the idea that it was a joke?
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Huh? How'd this make the front page? French internal politics? And such a narrow, parochial viewpoint, too. "A man named Francois Hollande"? That's the best we can do to characterize the man? How about this snippet from The Wikipedia, the Source of all Knowledge: "On 16 October 2011, Hollande was nominated to be the Socialist and Left Radical Party candidate in the 2012 presidential election." Funny how his party affiliation is omitted from the summary. What, it's not relevant?
And not a word about how his #1 rival for the Socialist candidacy, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was very conveniently removed from contention from the French race by being arrested in New York on the shocking charge of rape. Let's quote The Holy Wikipedia again: "On June 30, 2011, the New York Times reported that the case was on the "verge of collapse" because of problems with the credibility of the alleged victim, who had, according to sources within the NYPD, repeatedly lied to the police since making her first statement.[57] According to prosecutors, the accuser admitted that she lied to a grand jury about the events surrounding the alleged attack." Had this rape accusation not happened, DSK would be the nominee going against Sarkozy and not "a man named Francois Hollande."
Hey, I'm not saying socialism is bad. It's been a good influence on Western culture in general. Pretty much every item on Marx's Communist Manifesto has been put into law in all Western countries as well as the United Nations. I'm saying let's put the party affiliation right up there where everyone can see...instead of referring to Hollande purely by gender as "a man". Is there anything to be ashamed of?
I'm also questioning the relevance of some random country's internal politics for a Slashdot front page story, even couched in terms of internet freedoms. And the "from the strategic-surrender-in-order-sometimes dept." part of the story is just a cheap shot. America wouldn't even be an independent republic without help from the French. We'd just be a constitutional monarchy like Canada, with a foreigner as our Head of State. What the hell, Slashdot?
Uh...the entire idea that The Holy Founders knew what was best is a conservative idea. How would a modern Progressive react to a Founder were he to suddenly materialize on the speaker's podium an OWS rally? They were slaveowners, remember? How can anything a slaveowner says be taken seriously in 2012? The lack of racial diversity among The Holy Founders is a damning accusation, one that pretty much discredits anything they ever said, being white men of privilege and all.
People who state that it's okay to hold a racial preference in dating are often unaware of the racist structure their preference is based on; that white media has done a great disservice to Asian men; that there are more tools to articulate white masculinity than there are to articulate Asian masculinity; that some of the most disparaging remarks about Asian men come from Asian women themselves, and are often based on nothing but bad stereotypes; that the world being what it is, an Asian woman simply walking down the street with a Caucasian boyfriend can send a negative message about Asian men.
Confirmation bias. It's because you're on the same side, the In Group. If you were in the Out Group, you would have gotten a lot nastier reception. Correlation does not mean causation, but correlation does mean correlation. I've certainly met vegans who were quite vocal. Who hasn't? What's the point of being morally superior to others if you don't mention it constantly?
Well, it follows the "living Constitution" philosophy. The Constitution doesn't mean what it means, it means whatever we *want* it to mean. Brought to you by liberals! Doesn't it suck when it comes back to bite you in the ass?
I love it. Some good news for Africa at last, and all you can think of is "they need fewer people". First world good, Africa bad. Ever consider the implied racism in this thinking?
What was the original price on one of these? How did it compare to its competitors? By competitors I mean other computers of the time, as this was obviously the first portable. What sort of premium did you have to pay for portability?
Wha?? Play games? This was a *portable* computer, it was made for serious work. Typing text really hasn't changed (except for that great *cough* HTMLization) and all a serious writer ever really needs is a text editor to do real work.
Heck, this could actually be positive, as if Microsoft patents it, other companies can't use this odious method.
A general trend throughout revolutionary socialism from 1890 to 1914 was that the most revolutionary elements laid an increasing stress upon leadership, and downplayed the autonomous role of the toiling masses. This elitism was a natural outcome of the revolutionaries' ardent wish to have revolution and the stubborn disinclination of the working class to become revolutionary. Workers were instinctive reformists: they wanted a fair shake within capitalism and nothing more. Since the workers did not look as if they would ever desire a revolution, the small group of conscious revolutionaries would have to play a more decisive role than Marx had imagined. That was the conclusion of Lenin in 1902. It was the conclusion of Sorel. And it was the conclusion of the syndicalist Giuseppe Prezzolini whose works in the century's first decade Mussolini reviewed admiringly.
My little brother came to visit me recently (China). While we were out shopping for some silk for his girlie, I walked across the street, thinking nothing of it. I looked back, and there he was, still on the other side. He took what I thought was an inordinately long time to wait for a gap, then finally joined me. Evidently, from someone who lives in America, I had just walked out into dangerous traffic. To me, it was no big deal and it's how things are every day. Crosswalk? Are you joking?
Come on, you're getting up and saying others bad, me good. Don't retreat into "what the meaning of is is" language.
So...here you are, on Slashdot, bragging about what a good person you are. I'll take the bumper sticker guy anyday. At least he's being honest and not a God-damned hypocrite.
Those are well-known in this community. DOTA isn't - but obviously it's well-known to whoever wrote the summary, and the summary writer has a small reference pool. It's amazing how otherwise-educated people can simply assume everyone in the world is Just. Like. Them.
Doesn't it suck to be on a forum like Slashdot where people have the minds to take apart your bullshit ideas? I bet you have a much better time in the games, being a dick to people.
If something is happening, and the assholes say they don't like it, it's a sign that it was the right choice.
I love how you're posting this on the internet. Maybe follow your own advice and we'll listen. It's called "practicing what you preach." It's one of the reasons that climate change activists like Al Gore are taken so seriously.
If American's can't afford to eat
This link is for you, buddy.
What's wrong with that? Men have been hurting, punishing, humiliating and enslaving women for thousands of years. Let's try the opposite for, say, 100 years and see how it works out. You've got another 70 years to go. Just look at the progress that's been made in the past 30 years, and tell me that's a bad thing.
I gotta ask, do you have the same beard as the guy in the article?
Let's see, this guy is a famous hotshot programmer who can pick and choose his jobs. Presumably, that's the tiny world he lives in. The view from the ivory tower is great, if you can get it. This sort of crap doesn't fly for the rest of us, who are happy to get any work. Some terms of the contract you can haggle, but NDAs are non-negotiable. Apparently he's forgotten what it's like for the Great Unwashed out in flyover territory. The title of the blog post is "Why I Won't Sign an NDA", after all.
Funny, every time I see the "TEH CEOS ARE RUINING THE WORLD WHARRRRGARBL" kind of speech, the first thing they say is "the cake^H^H^H^H free market is a lie". And here you are with the implicit idea that the free market is valid, and TEH CEOS are distorting it. So, which is it? You can't have it both ways, eh?
The reason that confidence scams always work: they rely on the mark's willing compliance in a scheme that seems too good to be true. The mark thinks he's putting one over on the scammer.
Reality TV and reality television are two totally different concepts. I weep for our democracy that you can't (or worse, refuse to) see the difference.
It's a joke? No, it's not. The National Education Association, Michelle Obama, and many others fervently believe in this concept. Where'd you get the idea that it was a joke?