Is anyone not ignorant or misinformed? Scientists? Politicians? The People? The whole point of Democracy is not that it provides the "correct" result (that remains undefined, because it's entirely a value judgement), it's that the society you live in broadly reflects the interests and concerns of its citizens.
So you're basically saying you can't have both democracy and fox news.
Oh come on, I don't think a little professionalism is too much to ask. Any college graduate should be able to write with more subtlety than a lolcats macro.
The GPL lovers are hypocrites. They don't want to give people freedom. They simply want everyone else to be forced to make the same choices that THEY do.
Why is the GPL so hard for some people to understand? It seems like the divide exists simply because people want to use GPL'd software without following the GPL.
If you don't agree with the license, don't use the software. Nobody is forcing you to do anything.
The point is, he's not the target of insult of the 'n' word, so how the hell would he know which one would be more insulting? Is that so hard to understand?
Is your point that white people can't feel empathy, or just that you've never heard of the word? I'm not sure exactly where you're coming from, but it's kind of "black people can't be racist" creepy.
Seeing as a 60ish white guy has no ancestral relationship to either (besides marriage), I don't see how his opinion matters.
Not to be argumentative, and I'm going to leave aside your science blunder since it might be a religious thing, but what does his race have to do with his opinion?
If you have a reasonable job, there's not much excuse for not having a 6-12 month "oh shit" or "flip off the boss" fund, other than keeping up with the Joneses.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." -- Lennon
It really sounds like you (and the GP) just haven't lived enough to put yourself in other people's shoes. For every person still paying off their Hummer I'll find you ten that struggle with rent and food money every month.
Unfortunately, the socioeconomic narrative that's always been pushed in the US is that:
1) Hard work always pays off, and
2) If you're not getting the pay-off you're really not working hard
This is something people will hold to be Natural Law up until the point where it stops working for them. This is usually after their second minimum wage job as a teen or, if you're a libertarian, when mom and dad stop paying for college.
I think you're ignoring how latently suicidal a decent percentage of our population might be. Were I a terrorist I certainly wouldn't pick the christmas holidays as a time to commandeer anything.
Saudi Arabia and Iran were never exactly asshole buddies. A better headline for that leak would have been "Wikileaks exposes nuance in middle east to western readers."
Many people know the quote "My country right or wrong", but few seem to appreciate the context.
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
I feel that actors like Assange perform an invaluable role in "setting right" my country. We've been for far too long operating under the assumption that anything relating to the military is sacrosanct.
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Is anyone not ignorant or misinformed? Scientists? Politicians? The People? The whole point of Democracy is not that it provides the "correct" result (that remains undefined, because it's entirely a value judgement), it's that the society you live in broadly reflects the interests and concerns of its citizens.
So you're basically saying you can't have both democracy and fox news.
And Byronic because it was a grand romantic gesture that was ultimately self-serving and pointless.
One of us deserves a "whoosh", but I'm not sure which =)
Oh come on, I don't think a little professionalism is too much to ask. Any college graduate should be able to write with more subtlety than a lolcats macro.
Romeo killing himself was ironic.
I thought that was more Byronic.
Why should the US government be any different than the rest of the world?
The GPL lovers are hypocrites. They don't want to give people freedom. They simply want everyone else to be forced to make the same choices that THEY do.
Why is the GPL so hard for some people to understand? It seems like the divide exists simply because people want to use GPL'd software without following the GPL.
If you don't agree with the license, don't use the software. Nobody is forcing you to do anything.
Going by your UID I'm going to have to call you a horrible, horrible liar.
The point is, he's not the target of insult of the 'n' word, so how the hell would he know which one would be more insulting? Is that so hard to understand?
Is your point that white people can't feel empathy, or just that you've never heard of the word? I'm not sure exactly where you're coming from, but it's kind of "black people can't be racist" creepy.
Your ideas sound like a great way to drive the truly competent government employees into the private sector.
You'll end up with a work force that matches the military population:
10% devastatingly clear-headed people
10% fantastically apathetic people
80% angry drunks
Seeing as a 60ish white guy has no ancestral relationship to either (besides marriage), I don't see how his opinion matters.
Not to be argumentative, and I'm going to leave aside your science blunder since it might be a religious thing, but what does his race have to do with his opinion?
Any programmer that doesn't understand salts, hashing, and encrypting should not bother making software that handles logins, period.
Why should they have to? How many times are we going to reinvent this particular wheel anyhow?
Well, there's South Africa for starters.
If you have a reasonable job, there's not much excuse for not having a 6-12 month "oh shit" or "flip off the boss" fund, other than keeping up with the Joneses.
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." -- Lennon
It really sounds like you (and the GP) just haven't lived enough to put yourself in other people's shoes. For every person still paying off their Hummer I'll find you ten that struggle with rent and food money every month.
Unfortunately, the socioeconomic narrative that's always been pushed in the US is that:
1) Hard work always pays off, and
2) If you're not getting the pay-off you're really not working hard
This is something people will hold to be Natural Law up until the point where it stops working for them. This is usually after their second minimum wage job as a teen or, if you're a libertarian, when mom and dad stop paying for college.
I think you're ignoring how latently suicidal a decent percentage of our population might be. Were I a terrorist I certainly wouldn't pick the christmas holidays as a time to commandeer anything.
I'm not kidding.
tl;dr competency is fun.
Saudi Arabia and Iran were never exactly asshole buddies. A better headline for that leak would have been "Wikileaks exposes nuance in middle east to western readers."
Protection against brute forcing is a password that isn't in any dictionary attack database, or a l33t variant thereof.
So basically most Hotmail accounts have more secure usernames (a la 'HotAunt67') than passwords ('susan').
Who cares about the piddly amounts drained by NASA when we've got the cavernous sinkhole of our military sucking up every available resource.
Fuck, just make NASA a branch of the military and you assholes will salute every wheelbarrow of cash that trundles past.
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, "My country, right or wrong." In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
- Carl Schurz
I feel that actors like Assange perform an invaluable role in "setting right" my country. We've been for far too long operating under the assumption that anything relating to the military is sacrosanct.
But isn't a use tax basically the same as a VAT, which I have been recently told that I should hate by the glowing teevee box?
I'm starting to feel like ALL taxes are Socialism(tm) and that I should wall myself off in my compound, but nobody's told me to do that yet.
And behold, I found a really pretty red mushroom that I didst eat on an empty stomach.
Shouldn't I then be able to pay once for a license to listen to that song forever? Why shouldn't this be a two way street?
Microsoft controls my stuffed otter?
Who knew?
Honda Civic circa 1990s.
You're not remembering what condition Reagan was in when he left office. That wasn't a partisan dig, the man was unwell.