So, as Al Jazeera reported, a Muslim that bombs a building is a terrorist and does terrorism; a xenophobic, Christian fundamentalist, Caucasian is an extremist and causes massacres. It disgusted me a lot, to be honest.
So, calling it a "massacre" and the perp an "exteremist" is a whitewash? Neither word really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about 80 or 90 people being killed by a nutjob
So basically what you are saying is if someone utters a death threat to someone else, like a guy to his ex-wife, then it's ok if the police don't do anything since they can arrest him AFTER she gets killed. Yes, that seems like the way it should work.
Of course they would investigate (and you can bet the guy who threatened Obama would get a very thorough investigation). After they determined he was just a blowhard, they'd give him a warning. And he'd be on file forever after.
But pixel mapped displays should last longer than scanning tubes. The electron guns, valves and other components in a CRT display degraded over time.
My CRT TV is well over 10 years old. 20 years is not uncommon for CRT TVs to be still working reliably. I only upgraded my 1999 17" Studio Display CRT monitor last year when it finally gave out. (And the problem could probably have been fixed with a bit of soldering, but cost more a new LCD monitor.)
CRT is a very mature technology. It's pretty reliable. Only the high humidity here kills a lot of electronics causing condensation and shorts and mould, and bugs.....
When the content they want is blocked, they will. They'll complain in whatever forums, social media they use and will be directed to a how-to to fix it.
In no time there will be Firefox plugins, etc to make it completely painless.
Can we block redneck bigots from this site?
You are aware that the word redneck evolved as a racial slur for people who were born in the United States to mixed parents of Native American and Caucasian descent right?
WTF? Do you have a citation for your etymology, aside from "pulled out of your ass". Mine is below. It's about white-skinned field workers who got sunburnt necks.
redneck
"cracker," 1893; attested 1830 in more specialized sense ("This may be ascribed to the Red Necks, a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians in Fayetteville," from Ann Royall, "Southern Tour I," p.148). According to various theories, red perhaps from anger, or from pellagra, but most likely from mule farmers' outdoors labor in the sun, wearing a shirt and straw hat, with the neck exposed.
*Snicker* That's delightful. So you want to start all Americans off with a moderation handicap because of the cruel words of one American?
*Hee haw* No, it was "irony", demonstrating how idiotic the original post was by making an equally stupid and bigoted suggestion. Though responses like yours make it seem more reasonable.
Yes, and irrespective of how questionable you think it is for a business to use a free domain, it might take a bit more than 10 minutes to let everyone you advertised to know what your new website address is.
The.co.cc website will still work, any customers who have bookmarked it will still be able to use it. Anyone who sees your ad and types in the address will still get there. The only difference is that it won't appear on Google searches. So you can open a new site and put a notice and redirect at the old one and lose nothing.
So writing is only allowed on one site on the Internet, even if it's just some small time blog? The article also clearly cites where it came from.
Of course he's allowed to write whatever he likes. I'm talking about using Slashdot to present his copy of a copy of an original news story here, with the obvious motive of scoring some advertising hits. He added nothing, left out quite a lot, and thus "parasitic linkspamming blogger" he is.
It's Slashdot's shame that it allows this to happen when a minute checking the story would have given them the actual source(s).
Just remove the big-government, central-command-and-control, high-tax/high regulation, nanny-state yoke from around the neck of entrepreneurs and small/medium-sized small businesses. Lower or eliminate capital gains taxes, particularly those associated with small business and start-up investment and financing. Simplify and lower corporate tax rates.
Yeah, right. Like Bush did. He (and Clinton too) took the "nanny-state yoke from around the neck" of the bankers and they fucked the system for all it was worth, and then smart ones cashed out before the crash. So of course, your plan is "do it again" and let another bunch of vultures fuck the country over. Governments exist basically to protect the people who can't protect themselves. Your prescription is pure dog-eat-dog.
Thats a bit harsh isn't it. I'm sure there is at least one legitimate.co.cc domain
If it bothers them being excluded from Google, they can move to another free domain in 10 minutes. If you use a free domain you ave no security anyway. I've used one for several years for a single-issue website at cjb.net. But now they keep hassling me to reconfirm it every month. If I miss one of those, it's gone.
I have a better idea: let's leave them the fuck alone completely and let them find their own way in the world. Not only are we not the global police, we're also not the global parent.
You did that in the 90s. Then Osama set up shop there, and so you had to go back in 2001, not now as a friend as you had been after you helped get rid of the Russians, but as as an enemy invader.
You broke Afghanistan, Now you have to fix it. What other option? Genocide?
I can't afford to buy the geek icons when they're new, but a few years later you can get them for pennies on the dollar. I have, and use regularly, a 1995 HP laserjet 5MP I bought for $5, an IBM Thinkpad X24, a Palm Pilot (collecting dust now, but I gave it a few months of intensive use). One thing is while they have all been overtaken by technology, most still perform perfectly well, have a very high build quality and are repairable and easy to find parts for, unlike most of their cheaper (new price), faster and flimsier descendants. I bought a 1990s vintage hifi CD player for my father, $10 in a charity store. New price was US$500. So thanks early adopters, I'll be buying your stuff after you upgrade.
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So, as Al Jazeera reported, a Muslim that bombs a building is a terrorist and does terrorism; a xenophobic, Christian fundamentalist, Caucasian is an extremist and causes massacres. It disgusted me a lot, to be honest. So, calling it a "massacre" and the perp an "exteremist" is a whitewash? Neither word really makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about 80 or 90 people being killed by a nutjob
So basically what you are saying is if someone utters a death threat to someone else, like a guy to his ex-wife, then it's ok if the police don't do anything since they can arrest him AFTER she gets killed. Yes, that seems like the way it should work.
Of course they would investigate (and you can bet the guy who threatened Obama would get a very thorough investigation). After they determined he was just a blowhard, they'd give him a warning. And he'd be on file forever after.
Shame him into moving to China where he would be more comfortable
The Chinese are just as bigoted against blacks as Americans. So probably not.
do you seriously believe that there isn't a HUGE proportion of immigrants in South Africa?
If you go back far enough, they're all "native Africans". Even the whites. There might be a few whose families never left.
Our whole country is basically immigrants if you look far enough back...
Every country. Except perhaps South Africa.
Hopefully they can also stop bad spellers from entering the country.
Is Timothy an illigal? Or just an illiterate?
But pixel mapped displays should last longer than scanning tubes. The electron guns, valves and other components in a CRT display degraded over time.
My CRT TV is well over 10 years old. 20 years is not uncommon for CRT TVs to be still working reliably. I only upgraded my 1999 17" Studio Display CRT monitor last year when it finally gave out. (And the problem could probably have been fixed with a bit of soldering, but cost more a new LCD monitor.)
CRT is a very mature technology. It's pretty reliable. Only the high humidity here kills a lot of electronics causing condensation and shorts and mould, and bugs.....
What's odd is that it's in English, not Arabic script.
Seriously. I expected at least a 6MP (25 preferrably, but I'm willing to go small), tack sharp photo... And I'd prefer a D3x, thankyouverymuch.
How "tack sharp" would your D3X be of a rock 9,000 miles away?
My point is that they will not see the need.
When the content they want is blocked, they will. They'll complain in whatever forums, social media they use and will be directed to a how-to to fix it.
In no time there will be Firefox plugins, etc to make it completely painless.
Say rather that the users who are interested will quickly learn.
There will be simple one-click apps to do it for the rest. And shortly after, Trojans masquerading as such.
Can we block redneck bigots from this site? You are aware that the word redneck evolved as a racial slur for people who were born in the United States to mixed parents of Native American and Caucasian descent right?
WTF? Do you have a citation for your etymology, aside from "pulled out of your ass". Mine is below. It's about white-skinned field workers who got sunburnt necks.
redneck
"cracker," 1893; attested 1830 in more specialized sense ("This may be ascribed to the Red Necks, a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians in Fayetteville," from Ann Royall, "Southern Tour I," p.148). According to various theories, red perhaps from anger, or from pellagra, but most likely from mule farmers' outdoors labor in the sun, wearing a shirt and straw hat, with the neck exposed.
*Snicker* That's delightful. So you want to start all Americans off with a moderation handicap because of the cruel words of one American?
*Hee haw* No, it was "irony", demonstrating how idiotic the original post was by making an equally stupid and bigoted suggestion. Though responses like yours make it seem more reasonable.
Can't we block foreign IPs from this website? Or at least foreign IPs posting as AC?
Can we block redneck bigots from this site? Or at least start Americans with karma -1 by default?
s/scrupulous/neurotic/
Because those next-generation bombers and submarines can't possibly be used for anything other than nuclear warheads.
Well, design them for the mission they are needed for.
Yes, and irrespective of how questionable you think it is for a business to use a free domain, it might take a bit more than 10 minutes to let everyone you advertised to know what your new website address is.
The .co.cc website will still work, any customers who have bookmarked it will still be able to use it. Anyone who sees your ad and types in the address will still get there. The only difference is that it won't appear on Google searches. So you can open a new site and put a notice and redirect at the old one and lose nothing.
So writing is only allowed on one site on the Internet, even if it's just some small time blog? The article also clearly cites where it came from.
Of course he's allowed to write whatever he likes. I'm talking about using Slashdot to present his copy of a copy of an original news story here, with the obvious motive of scoring some advertising hits. He added nothing, left out quite a lot, and thus "parasitic linkspamming blogger" he is.
It's Slashdot's shame that it allows this to happen when a minute checking the story would have given them the actual source(s).
A Blimp. A Really Big, Shade Producing Blimp.
Right,. The government is going to be real happy to allow that to make demonstrating against it easier.
This "Ask Slashdot" is even more stupid and obvious pandering to the audience than usual.
I do not view banking as the same as private enterprise,
.... right.
Just remove the big-government, central-command-and-control, high-tax/high regulation, nanny-state yoke from around the neck of entrepreneurs and small/medium-sized small businesses. Lower or eliminate capital gains taxes, particularly those associated with small business and start-up investment and financing. Simplify and lower corporate tax rates.
Yeah, right. Like Bush did. He (and Clinton too) took the "nanny-state yoke from around the neck" of the bankers and they fucked the system for all it was worth, and then smart ones cashed out before the crash. So of course, your plan is "do it again" and let another bunch of vultures fuck the country over. Governments exist basically to protect the people who can't protect themselves. Your prescription is pure dog-eat-dog.
Thats a bit harsh isn't it. I'm sure there is at least one legitimate .co.cc domain
If it bothers them being excluded from Google, they can move to another free domain in 10 minutes. If you use a free domain you ave no security anyway. I've used one for several years for a single-issue website at cjb.net. But now they keep hassling me to reconfirm it every month. If I miss one of those, it's gone.
The ORIGINAL FUCKING STORY IS ON THE REGISTER
For fuck's sake, stop this linking to every scumbag linkspamming plaigiarising blogger who submits his crappy blog to scam some ad hits.
I have a better idea: let's leave them the fuck alone completely and let them find their own way in the world. Not only are we not the global police, we're also not the global parent.
You did that in the 90s. Then Osama set up shop there, and so you had to go back in 2001, not now as a friend as you had been after you helped get rid of the Russians, but as as an enemy invader.
You broke Afghanistan, Now you have to fix it. What other option? Genocide?
... an early adopter of obsolete devices...
I can't afford to buy the geek icons when they're new, but a few years later you can get them for pennies on the dollar. I have, and use regularly, a 1995 HP laserjet 5MP I bought for $5, an IBM Thinkpad X24, a Palm Pilot (collecting dust now, but I gave it a few months of intensive use). One thing is while they have all been overtaken by technology, most still perform perfectly well, have a very high build quality and are repairable and easy to find parts for, unlike most of their cheaper (new price), faster and flimsier descendants. I bought a 1990s vintage hifi CD player for my father, $10 in a charity store. New price was US$500. So thanks early adopters, I'll be buying your stuff after you upgrade.
none of them make me wait while they ping their mothership to check for updates.
Maybe they don't MAKE you, but they pop up the suggestion to upgrade and make doing so the default and imply not doing so is dangerous..