I get most of my news from the state funded TV network's news section of their web site
No doubt there *are* a lot of excellent news aggregator services available online but it's getting harder and harder to find relevant news, especially news articles written by knowledgeable reporters, and news articles that report the news as it is - without added "bonus" such as biases.
Well... we live in a world where there are some schools which does not grade their students - for fearing of "discouraging those students who are under performing".
And then there are schools which bans "zero marks" - even for the students who failed at every single questions in the exam.
So I guess the answer to your question is a definite "YES".
He's getting booed because he's taking all the fun out of the game for the viewers
What Mr. Chu did did not take the fun out of the viewers who can keep up. On the contrary, those who could keep up with Mr. Chu's strategic moves find the whole thing very stimulating and refreshing.
It is those Joe Sixpacks who are so perplexed by the unconventional moves deployed by Mr. Chu who are doing all the booing.
We do not have "corruption commission" in the States, therefore we do not have any solid figure of how much corruption is costing the American taxpayers.
However, there are cases that are so notorious that they can't keep it secret any longer... such as that obamacare website that cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions - a website assigned to a company without any open bidding, and the company just so happened (yeah, right) to belong to a university classmate of Michelle Obama.
I'm getting the feeling that it is you who are unfamiliar with water. Whatever it takes, it dilutes to minuscule particles very quickly
I used to think that the ocean is a very VERY big place, that everything that gets into it will be diluted into minuscule particles, just like you said...
It wasn't until the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plant meltdown that I woke up from my errors.
The radioactive leaks that were poured into the ocean has impacted the ***BIGGEST*** ocean in the world, the Pacific.
It doesn't really matter when the thing started because agencies that ignore the existence of the Constitutions are malicious cancers that can one day kill the nation.
It is up to the President of the United States to SHUT DOWN the offending agency (and / or agencies) in order to stem the malicious progression of these dangerous agencies.
The fact that Obama refuses to shut it down says a lot about the lack of integrity of the individual. As the POTUS he has to answer not only to his own office, but also to the hundreds of millions of the Citizens of the United States of America - and in this role, Obama has failed his job as the POTUS, the oval office - the satus of which the POTUS represents, and, the ***NATION*** !
Because obviously less education is the solution. [/irony]
What we have here is that the US politicians representing a bunch of UN-EDUCATED FOOLS !
The US politicians don't seem to care that businesses are leaving USA.
By banning students from specific country to take ***FREE*** university courses offered by top universities from ***ALL OVER THE WORLD*** the United States of America is signifying to the world that "We Do Not Need Your Business Here".
With this kind of attitude coupled with the Snowden revelations, businesses _are_ leaving the United States.
The Saudis financed the war against Saddam Hussein with cash (actually, cash they got when they sold their oil to us).
And do you know what we paid with ?
We paid with the LIVES of our American boys and girls.
We paid with THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of ruined lives (those who were killed in the war, and those who came back with bodily and/or psychologically injuries)
And most importantly, we paid with the REPUTATION of the United States of America by telling ***BOLD FACE LIE*** to the world that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear bomb.
The people in Syria today suffered unnecessarily because of that fucking lie which has made the world suspicious of America.
In stead, let's compare with the US of, say, three decades ago -- when there were still two superpowers and the US had to at least pretend to be the good guys, to maintain support of its allies and at least some good will on the part of the non-aligned bloc.
I arrived at USA some thirty-odd years ago. At that time, for me at least, USA was a country where liberty of the citizens were respected.
If what you said is true... that is, USA did all that to gain support from its allies and to portray to the world that USA is the "Good Guy", then what about now ?
Does it mean that USA no longer has to pretend to be that "Good Guy" anymore ? That it can start wantonly violating the liberty of anybody it wants ?
If that turns out to be true, then USA no longer has the authority to criticize _anybody_else_ regarding human rights, regarding liberty, regarding democracy, regarding so many things that USA used to stand for.
Can you comprehend what kind of world we are living in now ?
I ran away from China precisely because they did not (and still do not) respect the liberty of the citizen. If ever USA becomes a place just like China, I do not know where else people can aspire to be, if they were to run away from tyranny !
Yes, our boys and girls who serve in the Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force of the United States of America, went to fight a war in Iraq, because the Saudis are paying for it.
In other words, our military became a mercenary force, at least in the Desert Shied / Desert Storm era.
They're only worse in that there is no shame in what they do, but otherwise we are the worse ones. By building an illusion of "land of the free". But then again at least we have shame in that.
Tell you a secret...
We, the people, at least _some_ of us, are feeling shameful of the situation our country is marching towards.
However, those who rule us, the ones in the Washington D.C. and _their_,/i> masters, not only do not feel any shame whatsoever, they actually are feeling so damn proud of their so-called accomplishment !
Amongst the hundreds of Senators and Congressmen/women, how many of them actually feel that they have wronged the country, by voting in all these draconian laws, and by allowing the White House (no matter who's the POTUS), the NSA (and all the spooks) to violate the Constitution the way they have ?
When I wrote to my representatives (state and federal) exclaiming my exasperation of what is happening in America and to the Americans, do you know what they told me ?
The same old "We are doing that to fight terrorist" bullshit !
"Don't ask me no questions and I won't tell you no lies."
I am afraid to the government of United Police State of America this is no longer enough.
What is going on in the supposedly Western Democracy nowadays is that it is marching towards fascism. From the United States to France to England to many more lapdog countries, fascist tendency of the various governmental entities have arisen.
Used to be that one is innocent until found guilty, but no longer.
These days, we are all guilty, no matter if we have done everything. We are so guilty that they can charge us with _anything_ they like.
In other words, the difference between Russia/China and the Western Democracy is shrinking, and shrinking fast.
But at the very least, China and Russia never pretend to be "democratic".
This is going on in several European countries, too ( UK, NL ). Congratulations, BTW, for inventing a new terminus technicus: the normalized police state. As much as I hate the thought, I can not but admire the term. Yes, that is what we are going to live in, for the next years
Communism rolled into the Eastern part of Europe after the fall of Hitler's Nazi regime. That was in the 1940's.
Communism didn't fell until ***DECADES*** later, and they fell mainly because of fiduciary mismanagement (they ran out $$$).
On the other hand, the Western part of Europe (and now almost engulfing the entire European continent) managed their money better than the communists, which means, whatever form of "system" they want to run, it'll sure run much longer.
Now that the democratic Europe has morphed into "normalized police states", I sincerely think that the police state will get to continue for at least 50 or 70 more years in Europe.
In 1980's, when a white girl accompanied a black guy into a football game, nobody will do anything to that black guy.
But if a white girl accompanied an Asian guy into the same football game, something might happened, and it happened to me.
I was beaten up by a group of guys, black and white, just because I went to a football game with a friend of mine, who just happened to be a female, a white female.
Now you tell me Sir, you talked and talked and talked about the "discrimination against blacks", but at that instant, it was black _AND_ white ganged up beating an Asian kid.
You think we Asians got it easy in America ? You think we got it easier than the blacks ?
But are we Asians complaining as loud as the blacks ? Are we Asians keep on repeating on "Oh, you guys bully us" ad infinitum ?
Yes I was beaten up badly, and I ended up in the hospital, 2 weeks in the bed. To me, it was something that happened in the past - something that already happened, and no matter what I do now it ain't gonna change what had happened.
So I move on, and we Asians move on - and by moving on we can focus in embracing a much brighter future.
I do not understand why the need for the blacks and the latinos to linger on the "old bad times".
You mentioned that it was 1968 that the blacks couldn't vote. Well ? How many decades ago was that, Sir ?
MOVE ON, man, move on ! This is already year 2014 !!!
Snowden's guilt (if you can call that) was to point out how NSA is guilty of violating the Constitution of the United States of America.
And because NSA is part and parcel of the government of the United States of America, whatever crime that NSA has committed, the government of the United States must be the one liable.
In other words, Snowden is a witness to a crime, and he opted to share the evidence of that crime to the world than to keep it a secret.
If I were to use an analogy - Snowden witnessed and took video of a robbery carried out by a group of cops, and instead of turning the video evidence to the police (whom Snowden already know are baddies), he released that video online, and it went viral.
Now the police are accusing Snowden guilty of releasing that "supposedly secret" video, but conveniently forgot to mention that very crime whereby a group of cops carried that robbery.
That is why, before Snowden plead guilty of releasing that "secret video" (which imho Snowden is NOT guilty of anything, but that's beside the point), the cops have to answer for that robbery in the first place.
But I am stressing this one point - that rigged system is opened to ALL who play that game.
The blacks are not only one who play it. Others have participated in that game as well.
The one thing that differentiated the blacks from all others who had (past participle) played that game is that the others decided to leave, while the blacks are afraid of leaving.
Why ?
Actually it's very simple.
For others, leaving that game loses them nothing.
The welfare checks were provided to the blacks as well as the Vietnamese. The Social Security system covered the blacks as well as the poor whites, the native americans, the vietnamese, the newly arrived refugees such as those from afghanistan and somalia, but... and this is a big factor here... the blacks will lose big if they leave that game.
How ?
Well... that "NAACP" thing survived solely on the "black people are oppressed" tenet, and if the blacks (and I do not mean all the black people, what I mean is, a large enough portion of black people) decide to move up that ladder, that same old song that NAACP has played for the past 60 years will gone flat.
I do have friends, black friends, who have decided to leave that game. They are as capable as anybody else. There is no genetic defectiveness in the black that prevented them from leaving the game.
The one thing that hold them in is the BLACK LEADERS, leaders like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, will not let the blacks leave the welfare black hole or they will lose all credibility.
It is them, the black leaders, who are keeping the blacks from improving themselves.
In other words, 1% of the black people are suppressing the other 99% of the black people because the 1% needs "NUMBER" to boost their "credibility".
It will be hard to find a more unfortunate sentence than that on/. today
I know that I am full of shit, but even with full of shit that I am, I still am interested in why you think that that sentence that i wrote turned out to be a very unfortunate sentence on today's edition of slashdot ?
What I am interested in is... where you do think I am wrong ?
Are you saying that the Chinese are far superior to the Jews ?
I am a Chinese, and as a Chinese I compare what my culture brought, and what I learned from the Jewish culture (I learned them from many Jewish friends, many of them are very well verse in Jewish tradition / culture / history), and the result was a devastating defeat for the Chinese.
You told us that you are from a Jewish family and then you start sprouting off the same old "blacks are being oppressed" tune.
Oh, come on !
You also stated the following:
So how do you account for the fact that the Vietnamese are not a particularly successful immigrant group?
How often have you gone to the Vietnamese community, Sir ?
When you said what you said above, immediately I know that you are full of shit !
The Vietnamese arrived at America with practically nothing. They were almost at the same situation as me when I arrived.
And yet, throughout the years (and yes, I do keep an eye on the Vietnamese) they climbed up the social ladder, while... your favorite group, the Black People, are still, for one reason or another, still stuck at the bottom.
Now, please give us a satisfactory explanation on why the Vietnamese can go up while that special group of people can't (or don't want to) ?
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Bruce Perens tried that, as well as others. None of the /. altenatives last.
I get most of my news from the state funded TV network's news section of their web site
No doubt there *are* a lot of excellent news aggregator services available online but it's getting harder and harder to find relevant news, especially news articles written by knowledgeable reporters, and news articles that report the news as it is - without added "bonus" such as biases.
... but in this case I won't fault anyone if they have to download the essential patches from pirate sites.
Is it politically incorrect now to play to win?
Well ... we live in a world where there are some schools which does not grade their students - for fearing of "discouraging those students who are under performing".
And then there are schools which bans "zero marks" - even for the students who failed at every single questions in the exam.
So I guess the answer to your question is a definite "YES".
"Chu" may sound like a Chinese name, but it could also be a Korean surname.
While racial factors do play a role in many aspects of the American life, I do not think it's significant in Mr. Chu's _tenure_ in Jeopardy.
You don't need to become part of the hivemind if you don't want to.
Seriously !
He's getting booed because he's taking all the fun out of the game for the viewers
What Mr. Chu did did not take the fun out of the viewers who can keep up. On the contrary, those who could keep up with Mr. Chu's strategic moves find the whole thing very stimulating and refreshing.
It is those Joe Sixpacks who are so perplexed by the unconventional moves deployed by Mr. Chu who are doing all the booing.
We do not have "corruption commission" in the States, therefore we do not have any solid figure of how much corruption is costing the American taxpayers.
However, there are cases that are so notorious that they can't keep it secret any longer ... such as that obamacare website that cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions - a website assigned to a company without any open bidding, and the company just so happened (yeah, right) to belong to a university classmate of Michelle Obama.
I'm getting the feeling that it is you who are unfamiliar with water. Whatever it takes, it dilutes to minuscule particles very quickly
I used to think that the ocean is a very VERY big place, that everything that gets into it will be diluted into minuscule particles, just like you said...
It wasn't until the Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plant meltdown that I woke up from my errors.
The radioactive leaks that were poured into the ocean has impacted the ***BIGGEST*** ocean in the world, the Pacific.
It doesn't really matter when the thing started because agencies that ignore the existence of the Constitutions are malicious cancers that can one day kill the nation.
It is up to the President of the United States to SHUT DOWN the offending agency (and / or agencies) in order to stem the malicious progression of these dangerous agencies.
The fact that Obama refuses to shut it down says a lot about the lack of integrity of the individual. As the POTUS he has to answer not only to his own office, but also to the hundreds of millions of the Citizens of the United States of America - and in this role, Obama has failed his job as the POTUS, the oval office - the satus of which the POTUS represents, and, the ***NATION*** !
"What next, giving one to Jethro Tull?!"
nah, give one to Cross eyed Mary instead...
Actually, by awarding the "Peace Prize" to Obama the Nobel Peace Prize committee has permanently tarnished the reputation of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The only redeeming thing that the committee can do is to TAKE BACK the Peace Prize that they have awarded Barack Hussein Obama.
Without taking back that peace prize from Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize has become essentially meaningless.
Because obviously less education is the solution. [/irony]
What we have here is that the US politicians representing a bunch of UN-EDUCATED FOOLS !
The US politicians don't seem to care that businesses are leaving USA.
By banning students from specific country to take ***FREE*** university courses offered by top universities from ***ALL OVER THE WORLD*** the United States of America is signifying to the world that "We Do Not Need Your Business Here".
With this kind of attitude coupled with the Snowden revelations, businesses _are_ leaving the United States.
The Saudis financed the war against Saddam Hussein with cash (actually, cash they got when they sold their oil to us).
And do you know what we paid with ?
We paid with the LIVES of our American boys and girls.
We paid with THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of ruined lives (those who were killed in the war, and those who came back with bodily and/or psychologically injuries)
And most importantly, we paid with the REPUTATION of the United States of America by telling ***BOLD FACE LIE*** to the world that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear bomb.
The people in Syria today suffered unnecessarily because of that fucking lie which has made the world suspicious of America.
Nobody would believe the US anymore !!
In stead, let's compare with the US of, say, three decades ago -- when there were still two superpowers and the US had to at least pretend to be the good guys, to maintain support of its allies and at least some good will on the part of the non-aligned bloc.
I arrived at USA some thirty-odd years ago. At that time, for me at least, USA was a country where liberty of the citizens were respected.
If what you said is true... that is, USA did all that to gain support from its allies and to portray to the world that USA is the "Good Guy", then what about now ?
Does it mean that USA no longer has to pretend to be that "Good Guy" anymore ? That it can start wantonly violating the liberty of anybody it wants ?
If that turns out to be true, then USA no longer has the authority to criticize _anybody_else_ regarding human rights, regarding liberty, regarding democracy, regarding so many things that USA used to stand for.
Can you comprehend what kind of world we are living in now ?
I ran away from China precisely because they did not (and still do not) respect the liberty of the citizen. If ever USA becomes a place just like China, I do not know where else people can aspire to be, if they were to run away from tyranny !
Do you know who financed the invasion of Iraq ?
The Saudis.
Yes, our boys and girls who serve in the Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force of the United States of America, went to fight a war in Iraq, because the Saudis are paying for it.
In other words, our military became a mercenary force, at least in the Desert Shied / Desert Storm era.
They're only worse in that there is no shame in what they do, but otherwise we are the worse ones. By building an illusion of "land of the free". But then again at least we have shame in that.
Tell you a secret ...
We, the people, at least _some_ of us, are feeling shameful of the situation our country is marching towards.
However, those who rule us, the ones in the Washington D.C. and _their_,/i> masters, not only do not feel any shame whatsoever, they actually are feeling so damn proud of their so-called accomplishment !
Amongst the hundreds of Senators and Congressmen/women, how many of them actually feel that they have wronged the country, by voting in all these draconian laws, and by allowing the White House (no matter who's the POTUS), the NSA (and all the spooks) to violate the Constitution the way they have ?
When I wrote to my representatives (state and federal) exclaiming my exasperation of what is happening in America and to the Americans, do you know what they told me ?
The same old "We are doing that to fight terrorist" bullshit !
"Don't ask me no questions and I won't tell you no lies."
I am afraid to the government of United Police State of America this is no longer enough.
What is going on in the supposedly Western Democracy nowadays is that it is marching towards fascism. From the United States to France to England to many more lapdog countries, fascist tendency of the various governmental entities have arisen.
Used to be that one is innocent until found guilty, but no longer.
These days, we are all guilty, no matter if we have done everything. We are so guilty that they can charge us with _anything_ they like.
In other words, the difference between Russia/China and the Western Democracy is shrinking, and shrinking fast.
But at the very least, China and Russia never pretend to be "democratic".
This is going on in several European countries, too ( UK, NL ). Congratulations, BTW, for inventing a new terminus technicus: the normalized police state. As much as I hate the thought, I can not but admire the term. Yes, that is what we are going to live in, for the next years
Communism rolled into the Eastern part of Europe after the fall of Hitler's Nazi regime. That was in the 1940's.
Communism didn't fell until ***DECADES*** later, and they fell mainly because of fiduciary mismanagement (they ran out $$$).
On the other hand, the Western part of Europe (and now almost engulfing the entire European continent) managed their money better than the communists, which means, whatever form of "system" they want to run, it'll sure run much longer.
Now that the democratic Europe has morphed into " normalized police states ", I sincerely think that the police state will get to continue for at least 50 or 70 more years in Europe.
In 1980's, when a white girl accompanied a black guy into a football game, nobody will do anything to that black guy.
But if a white girl accompanied an Asian guy into the same football game, something might happened, and it happened to me.
I was beaten up by a group of guys, black and white, just because I went to a football game with a friend of mine, who just happened to be a female, a white female.
Now you tell me Sir, you talked and talked and talked about the "discrimination against blacks", but at that instant, it was black _AND_ white ganged up beating an Asian kid.
You think we Asians got it easy in America ? You think we got it easier than the blacks ?
But are we Asians complaining as loud as the blacks ? Are we Asians keep on repeating on "Oh, you guys bully us" ad infinitum ?
Yes I was beaten up badly, and I ended up in the hospital, 2 weeks in the bed. To me, it was something that happened in the past - something that already happened, and no matter what I do now it ain't gonna change what had happened.
So I move on, and we Asians move on - and by moving on we can focus in embracing a much brighter future.
I do not understand why the need for the blacks and the latinos to linger on the "old bad times".
You mentioned that it was 1968 that the blacks couldn't vote. Well ? How many decades ago was that, Sir ?
MOVE ON, man, move on ! This is already year 2014 !!!
... prosecuted ??
Just when the laws of the United States of America has officially turned into "prosecuting the little guys but leaving the big fish untouched" ?
The law is the law, and it applies to everybody, even to the president of the United States of America.
If the president is guilty, he should face the music, same as anybody else.
It's time we start a total clean-up of those who rule over us --- they are taking our country to the dogs.
Snowden's guilt (if you can call that) was to point out how NSA is guilty of violating the Constitution of the United States of America.
And because NSA is part and parcel of the government of the United States of America, whatever crime that NSA has committed, the government of the United States must be the one liable.
In other words, Snowden is a witness to a crime, and he opted to share the evidence of that crime to the world than to keep it a secret.
If I were to use an analogy - Snowden witnessed and took video of a robbery carried out by a group of cops, and instead of turning the video evidence to the police (whom Snowden already know are baddies), he released that video online, and it went viral.
Now the police are accusing Snowden guilty of releasing that "supposedly secret" video, but conveniently forgot to mention that very crime whereby a group of cops carried that robbery.
That is why, before Snowden plead guilty of releasing that "secret video" (which imho Snowden is NOT guilty of anything, but that's beside the point), the cops have to answer for that robbery in the first place.
Oh wow ! Really ?!
I never would have thought that I became that old Donald Duck, by chance !!
Perhaps I should start learning how to walk like a duck ...
When you're in a rigged game ...
I do not deny that the game is rigged.
But I am stressing this one point - that rigged system is opened to ALL who play that game.
The blacks are not only one who play it. Others have participated in that game as well.
The one thing that differentiated the blacks from all others who had (past participle) played that game is that the others decided to leave, while the blacks are afraid of leaving.
Why ?
Actually it's very simple.
For others, leaving that game loses them nothing.
The welfare checks were provided to the blacks as well as the Vietnamese. The Social Security system covered the blacks as well as the poor whites, the native americans, the vietnamese, the newly arrived refugees such as those from afghanistan and somalia, but ... and this is a big factor here ... the blacks will lose big if they leave that game.
How ?
Well ... that "NAACP" thing survived solely on the "black people are oppressed" tenet, and if the blacks (and I do not mean all the black people, what I mean is, a large enough portion of black people) decide to move up that ladder, that same old song that NAACP has played for the past 60 years will gone flat.
I do have friends, black friends, who have decided to leave that game. They are as capable as anybody else. There is no genetic defectiveness in the black that prevented them from leaving the game.
The one thing that hold them in is the BLACK LEADERS, leaders like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, will not let the blacks leave the welfare black hole or they will lose all credibility.
It is them, the black leaders, who are keeping the blacks from improving themselves.
In other words, 1% of the black people are suppressing the other 99% of the black people because the 1% needs "NUMBER" to boost their "credibility".
It will be hard to find a more unfortunate sentence than that on /. today
I know that I am full of shit, but even with full of shit that I am, I still am interested in why you think that that sentence that i wrote turned out to be a very unfortunate sentence on today's edition of slashdot ?
What I am interested in is ... where you do think I am wrong ?
Are you saying that the Chinese are far superior to the Jews ?
I am a Chinese, and as a Chinese I compare what my culture brought, and what I learned from the Jewish culture (I learned them from many Jewish friends, many of them are very well verse in Jewish tradition / culture / history), and the result was a devastating defeat for the Chinese.
You told us that you are from a Jewish family and then you start sprouting off the same old "blacks are being oppressed" tune.
Oh, come on !
You also stated the following:
So how do you account for the fact that the Vietnamese are not a particularly successful immigrant group?
How often have you gone to the Vietnamese community, Sir ?
When you said what you said above, immediately I know that you are full of shit !
The Vietnamese arrived at America with practically nothing. They were almost at the same situation as me when I arrived.
And yet, throughout the years (and yes, I do keep an eye on the Vietnamese) they climbed up the social ladder, while ... your favorite group, the Black People, are still, for one reason or another, still stuck at the bottom.
Now, please give us a satisfactory explanation on why the Vietnamese can go up while that special group of people can't (or don't want to) ?