The Obama administration, with its liberal supporters have turned American into a neo-Puritanical state
Anything that they do not like they ban
Anyone that they do not like they punish, severely
To hell with Free Speech
To hell with Liberty
To hell with the Constitution of the United States of America
As long as they get to hold on to power, the neo-Puritans will ensure that everyone tow their line - or else !!
Go fuck yourself!
I am an American and I am SICK AND TIRED of your kind
It is your kind who is bringing America to ruins
What makes America special is the Constitution which provides protection against cruel and unusual punishment, which protects the citizens from the unruly government
Without the Constitution there will be no Liberty, and without Liberty America will be like any other despot state - such as China
Fuck you, and fuck your oppressive master, that motherfucking Obama !
I cannot tell you how many times I have wanted to apply the 'unwritten rule' and walk out on some PM that was just sucking all of the intelligence out of the room and keeping people from working
In the companies that I run I encourage my key people to learn public speaking skills. In fact, several of them have internal Toastmaster chapters, in which they get to hone the skill of giving speeches as well as learning ways to make whatever they want to convey comprehensible to the audiences - sweet and short
That is not to say that I haven't been into meetings that were time wasters - and every time I've encountered such meeting I just walk. straight. out. of. the. room.
That is all I need to do - as I do not like people wasting my time, I also do not like others' time being wasted, especially in meetings that have no apparent aim and are not going anywhere, fast
one that is a totally time waster is due to several factors -
1. The skill of the one holding (chairing) the meeting
2. The way the information being conveyed
Let's face it --- The purpose of having meeting is to convey messages and to encourage exchange of views of the participants - either top-down, bottom-up, horizontal, or all of the above
The skill of the one who chair the meeting is crucial - but unfortunately I have been to too many meetings whereby those who supposed to be leading the meeting don't even know why they are there to begin with
I have been in all kinds of meeting - from the ridiculous to the marvelous
Back in China where I was from, back when the cultural revolution was still raging, 'meeting' was a mean used by the 'elite' to spread their propaganda, and to 'enhance' the effect of those meeting, the elite will incorporate episodes of 'showing example' whereby they would parade those who have been accused of 'counter-revolutionary' and publicly punish them (sometimes ended with summary execution) in front of everyone
While that was taking place, the participants, no matter if they were horrified with what happened in front of them, were all enthusiastically applauding the 'elites' with their 'righteous acts'
.....
But I have been in excellent meetings as well, meetings that have been led by people who know what they are doing, and do it very well
People's attention span is short. A meeting can only be successfuly if it doesn't end up cramming the brains of the participants with all kinds of garbage
Information must be pre-sieved before any meeting has taken place so that the info that were being disseminated during the meeting can easily be digested and understood and absorbed
Powerpoint is only a tool - it is far from perfect
But for people who knows what they are doing, even an imperfect tool such as Powerpoint (and all the open-sourced variants) can aid in information dissemination
That is why a call for banning meeting and/or Powerpoint altogether is mindless to the very fucking core
It is very frustrating, and I don't know what the solution is, but blaming the parents is hogwash. I don't see that at all
Shanghai Bill, I have read a lot of the comments you post on/. and I gotta say that they are very balanced and informative
Okay, regarding this 'blame the parent' piece from Google there is nothing to understand --- What Google is trying to do, and in fact, what TPTB has been trying to do to all of us is to impart a sense of 'powerlessness' so that we, collectively, will have to ask them (aka TPTB) for help, to solve our powerlessness
It's just another brick on the wall, so to speak --- the entire thing is structured, piece by piece, to make us feel useless, make us feel that we essentially can't accomplish anything on our own
You see, first, they blame the "male-dominated society" for 'discouraging' the girls from participating in the tech
Then they set up programs exclusively for girls to 'learn the tech', as if to show us --- the male portion of the society, that they are taking power away from us
And to further gaining ground, they are accusing the parents for failing their girls
It's all part of the psy-ops that they are running against the citizens --- designed specifically to enhance their dominance over us, the people
Shanghai Bill, you have spent quite a lot of years outside of USA, your time away from the US enables you to see things from another perspective
And I, originally from China, came to America as a young refugee, also comes equipped with the ability to analyse the American phenomenon, with both the view of an outsider as well as that of an insider
What I am seeing in America, since my arrival in the early 1970's, is the increasing power of TPTB, and their overbearing dominance over the populace
Right now, as we speak, TPTB's plan is in their final stage --- their aim being turning the American society, a society supposed to be based on freedom and liberty, in to a society in which TPTB will become an essential part, a part in which the society can't exist without
That is why they are doing what they are doing
Unfortunately most of the Americans can't see what's going on
I hope you can see what I am seeing, Shanghai Bill
I think it's time the rest of the world told the US: we don't give a fuck about your business interests, we care about not putting toxic crap on our foods
Not to rain on your parade, son
Through their latest action the Europeans have proved to the world that they would rather kiss Uncle Sam's behind, no matter how smelly it is, than to stand up to that big. bad. fucking. bully.
The United States is itself already pretty much fucked up, but in this caset, Europe, thanks to the "European Parliament", has become even more fucked up than the US
lol? India can't even keep the power on. They can't clean up their garbage. They can't clean up their water supply...
You guys always look down on countries in Asia / Africa such as India or Kenya
You guys always think that countries such as India can never catch up
I have news for you...
While it is true India does have its hands full with the myriad problems that it is facing, India has bean growing leaps and bounds in terms of improving its own infrastructures and in its talent pool for the past few decades, and THIS TREND IS RAPIDLY ACCELERATING IN SCALE
I know, because I do have businesses in India, and I go to India several times every year
To India and to all Indians - as you guys have seen for yourself the snobbery the "Western People" are towards India, isn't it time India stands up and show the world - especially those Western snobs - what you can
While FBI was pointing finger at the social media as one of the source of huge problems it forgets, - perhaps too conveniently, - that one of the biggest source of problems happens to be >o?the government of the United States of America
Do you really think that sheeples are capable of educating themselves??
The fact is that they remain sheeples because they...
1. They are not willing to change 2. They are satisfied with what / who they are 3. They do need some kind of 'leaders' to lead them 4. Their lives would be empty if they do not regurgitate whatever their 'leaders' told them
They do not under perform because of race. They under perform because the schools are crap, they don't get funding, can't get new school books, can't get good teachers (well they get some, but not a uniformly higher level)
I just have to laugh when reading the crap that you have written!
I came from China, and when I landed on the US soil, I actually went to Chinatown to work (kitchen helper) because I was practically penny-LESS at that time
I did not go to school for at least 8 months and when I did, I went to a public school where the blacks were like 80% of the school population
Don't you tell me about broken school, lack of new books and all those shits, I have been through all that
And yet, I went to college on my own (without any help from anybody) and from there I move up my career ladder
Do I have to tell you that I didn't speak one word of English (nor understand anything) when I arrived at the US of A?
I just have to laugh at you guys regurgitating the same old SHIT every single time when AA has been questioned --- if an Asian kid like me could move up, why can't the Blacks/Hispanics?
And no, I didn't have my "tiger mom" with me --- I came to USA by my own, as a refugee, my family was still in China at that time
Affirmative Action's original intent seeks to cease historical racism and racists/sexists from claiming that people of color or sex cannot attend a legal institution
Fuck you!
I am an Asian American and I will tell you to stuff that goddamn 'historical racist/sexist' excuse back where the sun never shines
I never need any affirmative action to get to where I am
I never applied for any aid, and never receive any either
And in academic study I never get - and never even thought of getting - any break just because I am a "minority"
I do not believe in the bullshit that because of some 'historical event' I am in any way 'disadvantaged'
And I will say the same "Fuck You!" to those who say that "Affirmative Action" is still needed
--- --- ---
That said, regarding the TFA, I do not know why they complaint about the 140 point above the White thing when the fact is that the Hispanic and the Blacks are being enrolled into ivy league colleges (and all other colleges as well) with really, and I mean, unbelievably low scores!
What they are doing is that they are forcing the talented individuals to share the same class with idiots, they are actually discriminating against those with genuine talents
I dunno man... This AA thing is a fucked up thing to begin with and it's 2015 and we still getting stuck with this fucked up thing
When will America grow up?
In Japan, in Korea, in China they do not have AA --- and their economies are growing leaps and bounds and everybody can attest to their technological achievements
America should get rid of this fucked up AA thing, or else we can never catch up to those living in East Asia
In order to trade off some of A to get some of B, you have to actually get some of B. In this case, we've given a lot of A and gotten nothing for it
I have read many comments here and what you have said is so very true I just need to add to what you have written
I came from China
I left China back in the early 1970's, way back when the entire Chinese society was in a turmoil, where nobody can live in peace because the social contract between the government and the people had broken down
A political struggle at the top echelon resulted in a power-struggle at every level, and power grab was everywhere... the so-called 'Red Guard' was a by-product of power-grabbing exercises, mostly at the local level
Anyway, people at large in China had no say --- they kept on losing their liberty, their livelihood, even their lives, --- with some driven into madness and many simply committed suicide since they couldn't take it anymore
To put it in simple terms, to the average Chinese citizens, what they had gone through in between the late 1950's and the early 1970's was that everything they had was taken away, just like that... yep, without any tradeoff
Now that I am an American, I am alarmed at the current development within the United States of America
The people in the USA will be facing the same thing the people in China faced, if nothing is being done to stop TPTB
What happened back in China was that there was no one who could stop Mao. Zhou En Lai tried his best to slow Mao's incessant hunger for power but he just couldn't muster enough strength to halt Mao in his track. All Zhou could do was to do patchworks here and there
Even Zhou suffered greatly during the social turmoil. His own daughter was brutally slaughtered by Jiang Qin, that feisty wife of Mao, and even with his own daughter slaughtered, Zhou couldn't do anything
The experience from China should be a lesson to the Americans... that is, even if you have someone who has conscience INSIDE the power structure, it is still NOT ENOUGH when TPTB turns ugly
And if the Americans don't do something now --- frankly, even now, it may be too late --- they and their children will eventually be facing a similar fate the Chinese faced some 50 years ago
I certainly don't wish that to America, my adopted country, but I am afraid that too many of the Americans are way too brainwashed to be able to comprehend what is going on and what is going to come
When it's your job to catch bad guys, everyone starts looking like a bad guy
Anyone who follows the above approach ain't not going to catch many crooks
You simply do not catch crooks by hammering everybody and their dogs
Top crime investigators throughout history don't treat everybody like criminal. Instead, they put themselves in the shoes of the criminals so that they can get to see what the criminals see, think what the criminals think, and understand what the criminals gonna do next... and then all they have to do is to set a trap for those criminals
And in the case of this so-called 'chief' of FBI, all I can say that under his tutelage FBI ain't going to achieve anything meaningful
... We just want to have our own Islamic state in Arabia without interference from you foreigners...
If you guys want to have your own Islamic State in Saudi Arabia, nobody cares
You guys can take down the House of Saud
You guys can turn Mecca into whatever you want
Nobody cares
But no, you guys want to have your "Islamic State" in places where Islam is not the original religion --- In Northern Iraq and in Syria there were Christians and the Yazidis living there even before you goddamn pedophilic Mohammad was born --- and you guys attempt to build your so-called "Islamic State" by murdering the Christians, the Kurds, the Yazidis
Go back to your Saudi Arabia and do whatever fuck you want --- and stop meddling with other people's religion and stop slaughtering other people just because they do not agree with your version of Islam
That's the price all of us have to pay when we, the majority, cannot and/or dare not to, control the action of the few
No matter if it's USA or France of Belgium or the Netherlands or Germany, as long as our society can not (and/or dare not to) confront those Islamists and get them to ditch their barbaric behavior, all of us will suffer
You guys saw what happened in Garland Texas just days before
You guys saw the length the government of Germany has to go --- including canceling at least two public events --- just to prevent the events becoming a bloodbath by the hands of the Islamists
And that's not all... the Madrid train station bombing, the Boston Marathon bombing, the London Tube bombing, what happened to the World Trade Center of New York City, and so on...
As long as we, the majority refuse to, or are too afraid of confronting them Islamists straight on, TPTB will formulate stuffs like the Patriot Act, NSA, and whatnots, in the name of 'tackling Islamic Terrorism', and at the end of the day, it is US, the non-Islamists, lost the most
If them Islamists want to live in the West, they better behave like the Western people do
I am not born in the States, I am from China. But as long as I am staying in the United States of America, I respect the society, the people, and the culture of America --- even though I may not see eye-to-eye with everything that they do
If the Islamists insist on behaving like animals they can go back to where they came from --- they get to do whatever they like in the wide sand fields of Saudi Arabia, I don't care
I am sick and tired of them Islamists --- they create trouble EVERYWHERE
Not only in the United States, Europe, they also make troubles in Australia, in Russia, in Thailand, in Kenya, in China, in Nigeria, and so on, and so forth
The world at large has been very tolerant with them, but there is a limit to everything
For a while, Salesforce seemed to be heading toward adopting PostgreSQL (e.g. they hired Tom Lane). Would have been great to see some open source goodness in the CRM space. But alas, it may not come to pass
The numero uno thing in all corporations is $$$, for without it, nothing else makes sense
For the bean counters, money is worth so much more than open source, so it should not surprise anyone of the imminent outcome
It might be a 'stupid sudoku solver', like you say, but at least, that is a program that does something, rather than the congress critters who do nothing but producing massive amount of HOT AIR
Slashdot Mirror
I guess you are not an American and you never heard of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
Here is the link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...
The Obama administration, with its liberal supporters have turned American into a neo-Puritanical state
Anything that they do not like they ban
Anyone that they do not like they punish, severely
To hell with Free Speech
To hell with Liberty
To hell with the Constitution of the United States of America
As long as they get to hold on to power, the neo-Puritans will ensure that everyone tow their line - or else !!
Go fuck yourself!
I am an American and I am SICK AND TIRED of your kind
It is your kind who is bringing America to ruins
What makes America special is the Constitution which provides protection against cruel and unusual punishment, which protects the citizens from the unruly government
Without the Constitution there will be no Liberty, and without Liberty America will be like any other despot state - such as China
Fuck you, and fuck your oppressive master, that motherfucking Obama !
... but then, kids who are interested in making their own computer programs should be allowed to do so
And about politicians ...
Most of them only knows how to make a lot of hot air, so I am not surprised at all at that outburst from that PM of the land from down-under
I cannot tell you how many times I have wanted to apply the 'unwritten rule' and walk out on some PM that was just sucking all of the intelligence out of the room and keeping people from working
In the companies that I run I encourage my key people to learn public speaking skills. In fact, several of them have internal Toastmaster chapters, in which they get to hone the skill of giving speeches as well as learning ways to make whatever they want to convey comprehensible to the audiences - sweet and short
That is not to say that I haven't been into meetings that were time wasters - and every time I've encountered such meeting I just walk. straight. out. of. the. room.
That is all I need to do - as I do not like people wasting my time, I also do not like others' time being wasted, especially in meetings that have no apparent aim and are not going anywhere, fast
one that is a totally time waster is due to several factors -
1. The skill of the one holding (chairing) the meeting
2. The way the information being conveyed
Let's face it --- The purpose of having meeting is to convey messages and to encourage exchange of views of the participants - either top-down, bottom-up, horizontal, or all of the above
The skill of the one who chair the meeting is crucial - but unfortunately I have been to too many meetings whereby those who supposed to be leading the meeting don't even know why they are there to begin with
I have been in all kinds of meeting - from the ridiculous to the marvelous
Back in China where I was from, back when the cultural revolution was still raging, 'meeting' was a mean used by the 'elite' to spread their propaganda, and to 'enhance' the effect of those meeting, the elite will incorporate episodes of 'showing example' whereby they would parade those who have been accused of 'counter-revolutionary' and publicly punish them (sometimes ended with summary execution) in front of everyone
While that was taking place, the participants, no matter if they were horrified with what happened in front of them, were all enthusiastically applauding the 'elites' with their 'righteous acts'
.....
But I have been in excellent meetings as well, meetings that have been led by people who know what they are doing, and do it very well
People's attention span is short. A meeting can only be successfuly if it doesn't end up cramming the brains of the participants with all kinds of garbage
Information must be pre-sieved before any meeting has taken place so that the info that were being disseminated during the meeting can easily be digested and understood and absorbed
Powerpoint is only a tool - it is far from perfect
But for people who knows what they are doing, even an imperfect tool such as Powerpoint (and all the open-sourced variants) can aid in information dissemination
That is why a call for banning meeting and/or Powerpoint altogether is mindless to the very fucking core
It is very frustrating, and I don't know what the solution is, but blaming the parents is hogwash. I don't see that at all
Shanghai Bill, I have read a lot of the comments you post on /. and I gotta say that they are very balanced and informative
Okay, regarding this 'blame the parent' piece from Google there is nothing to understand --- What Google is trying to do, and in fact, what TPTB has been trying to do to all of us is to impart a sense of 'powerlessness' so that we, collectively, will have to ask them (aka TPTB) for help, to solve our powerlessness
It's just another brick on the wall, so to speak --- the entire thing is structured, piece by piece, to make us feel useless, make us feel that we essentially can't accomplish anything on our own
You see, first, they blame the "male-dominated society" for 'discouraging' the girls from participating in the tech
Then they set up programs exclusively for girls to 'learn the tech', as if to show us --- the male portion of the society, that they are taking power away from us
And to further gaining ground, they are accusing the parents for failing their girls
It's all part of the psy-ops that they are running against the citizens --- designed specifically to enhance their dominance over us, the people
Shanghai Bill, you have spent quite a lot of years outside of USA, your time away from the US enables you to see things from another perspective
And I, originally from China, came to America as a young refugee, also comes equipped with the ability to analyse the American phenomenon, with both the view of an outsider as well as that of an insider
What I am seeing in America, since my arrival in the early 1970's, is the increasing power of TPTB, and their overbearing dominance over the populace
Right now, as we speak, TPTB's plan is in their final stage --- their aim being turning the American society, a society supposed to be based on freedom and liberty, in to a society in which TPTB will become an essential part, a part in which the society can't exist without
That is why they are doing what they are doing
Unfortunately most of the Americans can't see what's going on
I hope you can see what I am seeing, Shanghai Bill
I think it's time the rest of the world told the US: we don't give a fuck about your business interests, we care about not putting toxic crap on our foods
Not to rain on your parade, son
Through their latest action the Europeans have proved to the world that they would rather kiss Uncle Sam's behind, no matter how smelly it is, than to stand up to that big. bad. fucking. bully.
The United States is itself already pretty much fucked up, but in this caset, Europe, thanks to the "European Parliament", has become even more fucked up than the US
lol? India can't even keep the power on. They can't clean up their garbage. They can't clean up their water supply...
You guys always look down on countries in Asia / Africa such as India or Kenya
You guys always think that countries such as India can never catch up
I have news for you...
While it is true India does have its hands full with the myriad problems that it is facing, India has bean growing leaps and bounds in terms of improving its own infrastructures and in its talent pool for the past few decades, and THIS TREND IS RAPIDLY ACCELERATING IN SCALE
I know, because I do have businesses in India, and I go to India several times every year
To India and to all Indians - as you guys have seen for yourself the snobbery the "Western People" are towards India, isn't it time India stands up and show the world - especially those Western snobs - what you can
Show 'em, India!!
... but I'm kind of glad we have people looking at these ridiculous scenarios and planning how to deal with them *just in case* ...
Those motherfucking assholes are the real life version of the keystone kops --- They always do the wrong thing
Had the assholes really know their stuffs that British soldier Lee Rigby would still be alive today
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
And the London tube wouldn't have been bombed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7...
The telecom company confirmed that it had not been aware of the hack when it signed the deal in December 2014
Does that mean had Telstra know anything about the hack the deal wouldn't have gone through?
While FBI was pointing finger at the social media as one of the source of huge problems it forgets, - perhaps too conveniently, - that one of the biggest source of problems happens to be >o?the government of the United States of America
We need to re-discover efficiency in programming
Why? There's a reason programming has become inefficient, and that's because in most cases it doesn't need to be. You can't fight evolution
To this old timer this sure ain't a case of "evolution"
It's much more closer to DE-volution
Something evolves to be better
But when something becomes worse, it DE volves
... then people are actually suffering from 'degradation effect' after they've grown up
... that "Please educate yourself" thing
Do you really think that sheeples are capable of educating themselves??
The fact is that they remain sheeples because they ...
1. They are not willing to change
2. They are satisfied with what / who they are
3. They do need some kind of 'leaders' to lead them
4. Their lives would be empty if they do not regurgitate whatever their 'leaders' told them
Where I was from it was 100% Asians
Where I am now it's a mix
Where I was in the HS it was 80% Blacks, less than 2% Asians
But when I get to the U the ones who can compete against me are the Whites
So don't gimme that " 95% Asian / 4.9% Caucasian " thing. You know it ain't true
It might probably be in the ratio of 30% Asian / 68% Caucasian / 2% others, but if that is what it is, I say let it be
They do not under perform because of race. They under perform because the schools are crap, they don't get funding, can't get new school books, can't get good teachers (well they get some, but not a uniformly higher level)
I just have to laugh when reading the crap that you have written!
I came from China, and when I landed on the US soil, I actually went to Chinatown to work (kitchen helper) because I was practically penny-LESS at that time
I did not go to school for at least 8 months and when I did, I went to a public school where the blacks were like 80% of the school population
Don't you tell me about broken school, lack of new books and all those shits, I have been through all that
And yet, I went to college on my own (without any help from anybody) and from there I move up my career ladder
Do I have to tell you that I didn't speak one word of English (nor understand anything) when I arrived at the US of A?
I just have to laugh at you guys regurgitating the same old SHIT every single time when AA has been questioned --- if an Asian kid like me could move up, why can't the Blacks/Hispanics?
And no, I didn't have my "tiger mom" with me --- I came to USA by my own, as a refugee, my family was still in China at that time
Affirmative Action's original intent seeks to cease historical racism and racists/sexists from claiming that people of color or sex cannot attend a legal institution
Fuck you!
I am an Asian American and I will tell you to stuff that goddamn 'historical racist/sexist' excuse back where the sun never shines
I never need any affirmative action to get to where I am
I never applied for any aid, and never receive any either
And in academic study I never get - and never even thought of getting - any break just because I am a "minority"
I do not believe in the bullshit that because of some 'historical event' I am in any way 'disadvantaged'
And I will say the same "Fuck You!" to those who say that "Affirmative Action" is still needed
--- --- ---
That said, regarding the TFA, I do not know why they complaint about the 140 point above the White thing when the fact is that the Hispanic and the Blacks are being enrolled into ivy league colleges (and all other colleges as well) with really, and I mean, unbelievably low scores!
What they are doing is that they are forcing the talented individuals to share the same class with idiots, they are actually discriminating against those with genuine talents
I dunno man ... This AA thing is a fucked up thing to begin with and it's 2015 and we still getting stuck with this fucked up thing
When will America grow up?
In Japan, in Korea, in China they do not have AA --- and their economies are growing leaps and bounds and everybody can attest to their technological achievements
America should get rid of this fucked up AA thing, or else we can never catch up to those living in East Asia
The guy is asking for a job which is offshore proof, and you guys go off tangent talking about cost of offshoring to five-eye countries ...
Anyway, the one and only way to ensure that what you do does not and will never go offshore is to create that career for yourself
You can never rely on somebody else ... ie., and employer ... because they are there to make a profit
So, pick a field, a field which you know you are very capable in, and start your own business in that field
And since it's YOUR OWN BUSINESS, you, as the boss, get to have the final say on whether you gonna offshore the operation of your own company, or not
In order to trade off some of A to get some of B, you have to actually get some of B. In this case, we've given a lot of A and gotten nothing for it
I have read many comments here and what you have said is so very true I just need to add to what you have written
I came from China
I left China back in the early 1970's, way back when the entire Chinese society was in a turmoil, where nobody can live in peace because the social contract between the government and the people had broken down
A political struggle at the top echelon resulted in a power-struggle at every level, and power grab was everywhere ... the so-called 'Red Guard' was a by-product of power-grabbing exercises, mostly at the local level
Anyway, people at large in China had no say --- they kept on losing their liberty, their livelihood, even their lives, --- with some driven into madness and many simply committed suicide since they couldn't take it anymore
To put it in simple terms, to the average Chinese citizens, what they had gone through in between the late 1950's and the early 1970's was that everything they had was taken away, just like that ... yep, without any tradeoff
Now that I am an American, I am alarmed at the current development within the United States of America
The people in the USA will be facing the same thing the people in China faced, if nothing is being done to stop TPTB
What happened back in China was that there was no one who could stop Mao. Zhou En Lai tried his best to slow Mao's incessant hunger for power but he just couldn't muster enough strength to halt Mao in his track. All Zhou could do was to do patchworks here and there
Even Zhou suffered greatly during the social turmoil. His own daughter was brutally slaughtered by Jiang Qin, that feisty wife of Mao, and even with his own daughter slaughtered, Zhou couldn't do anything
The experience from China should be a lesson to the Americans ... that is, even if you have someone who has conscience INSIDE the power structure, it is still NOT ENOUGH when TPTB turns ugly
And if the Americans don't do something now --- frankly, even now, it may be too late --- they and their children will eventually be facing a similar fate the Chinese faced some 50 years ago
I certainly don't wish that to America, my adopted country, but I am afraid that too many of the Americans are way too brainwashed to be able to comprehend what is going on and what is going to come
When it's your job to catch bad guys, everyone starts looking like a bad guy
Anyone who follows the above approach ain't not going to catch many crooks
You simply do not catch crooks by hammering everybody and their dogs
Top crime investigators throughout history don't treat everybody like criminal. Instead, they put themselves in the shoes of the criminals so that they can get to see what the criminals see, think what the criminals think, and understand what the criminals gonna do next ... and then all they have to do is to set a trap for those criminals
And in the case of this so-called 'chief' of FBI, all I can say that under his tutelage FBI ain't going to achieve anything meaningful
If you guys want to have your own Islamic State in Saudi Arabia, nobody cares
You guys can take down the House of Saud
You guys can turn Mecca into whatever you want
Nobody cares
But no, you guys want to have your "Islamic State" in places where Islam is not the original religion --- In Northern Iraq and in Syria there were Christians and the Yazidis living there even before you goddamn pedophilic Mohammad was born --- and you guys attempt to build your so-called "Islamic State" by murdering the Christians, the Kurds, the Yazidis
Go back to your Saudi Arabia and do whatever fuck you want --- and stop meddling with other people's religion and stop slaughtering other people just because they do not agree with your version of Islam
... everyone suffers
That's the price all of us have to pay when we, the majority, cannot and/or dare not to, control the action of the few
No matter if it's USA or France of Belgium or the Netherlands or Germany, as long as our society can not (and/or dare not to) confront those Islamists and get them to ditch their barbaric behavior, all of us will suffer
You guys saw what happened in Garland Texas just days before
You guys saw the length the government of Germany has to go --- including canceling at least two public events --- just to prevent the events becoming a bloodbath by the hands of the Islamists
And that's not all ... the Madrid train station bombing, the Boston Marathon bombing, the London Tube bombing, what happened to the World Trade Center of New York City, and so on ...
As long as we, the majority refuse to, or are too afraid of confronting them Islamists straight on, TPTB will formulate stuffs like the Patriot Act, NSA, and whatnots, in the name of 'tackling Islamic Terrorism', and at the end of the day, it is US, the non-Islamists, lost the most
If them Islamists want to live in the West, they better behave like the Western people do
I am not born in the States, I am from China. But as long as I am staying in the United States of America, I respect the society, the people, and the culture of America --- even though I may not see eye-to-eye with everything that they do
If the Islamists insist on behaving like animals they can go back to where they came from --- they get to do whatever they like in the wide sand fields of Saudi Arabia, I don't care
I am sick and tired of them Islamists --- they create trouble EVERYWHERE
Not only in the United States, Europe, they also make troubles in Australia, in Russia, in Thailand, in Kenya, in China, in Nigeria, and so on, and so forth
The world at large has been very tolerant with them, but there is a limit to everything
For a while, Salesforce seemed to be heading toward adopting PostgreSQL (e.g. they hired Tom Lane). Would have been great to see some open source goodness in the CRM space. But alas, it may not come to pass
The numero uno thing in all corporations is $$$, for without it, nothing else makes sense
For the bean counters, money is worth so much more than open source, so it should not surprise anyone of the imminent outcome
It might be a 'stupid sudoku solver', like you say, but at least, that is a program that does something, rather than the congress critters who do nothing but producing massive amount of HOT AIR
Netherlands gun violence is high by European standards
And guess who is doing the shooting...
https://www.google.com/search?...
Those Moroccan kids here in the "gangs" are NOT MUSLIMS
Bold Faced Liesshould never be tolerated, so ... lemme get you guys the link ...
... http://lmgtfy.com/?q=percentag...
There
Click on the link above, son
Them Moroccan gangbangers are not moslems? Or you prefer to categorize them as Buddhists / Hindus, or even ... Christians?
I do not like NSA
I do not like the corrupted US politicians
And I do not like what the US government is doing to the citizens of the United States of America
Will I get arrested for posting the above in /.?