I know Lucas bashing is fun, and its easier than thinking about what's actually being discussed, but the look of the thing combined with what its designed to do and way its being marketted basically means that Lucas *must* attempt to defend his copyright.
On an unrelated note, these things are dangerous as heck. People are going to blind themselves accidentally or worse. Really ought to be regulated. Definitely not something kids should be allowed to play with. There was a previous slashdot article about this.
Obviously there are some pragmatic issues (making sure the whole thing isn't gamed by one bot voting a million times), but it is an interesting attempt at allowing people to have a truely populist option for their representation.
In the past, true populism was very tough to come by...it was easy for an elected official to become 'out of touch'. However now, a more perfect representation of the views of the moment of people can be had, thanks to technology.
Of course, the other question is, is that even a good thing. Populism isn't always right. Slavery in the US was popular, it took Lincoln's strong leadership to move away from it. Many wars are unpopular, but some of them may be necessary (conversely, some wars may be popular but unnecessary, see US/Iraq Gulf War II).
Yeah, because its not like renewable energy is a good idea or anything.
And its sort of tragedy that Reid is in danger of losing his seat. If this country were any dumber it would need a wet nurse to wipe the drool off its chin.
Heck even not being Bush wasn't good enough in 2004. Let's face it, being outstanding leaders doesn't matter to the US people. More often than not, they will cave to the Republican lie machine.
Republicans = Good at winning elections Democrats = Good at running the country
The South will rise again and rewrite history. They will lie and lie and tell you it wasn't a moral issue or it wasn't about slavery. They will bully and lie until they get their way. Deal with it.
Holy crap! This got modded as insightful? This post is a fucking intelligence test. If you modded up, you fail.
Seriously, how dumb do you have to be to think that 'installing a puppet' would be the M.O. here? Stop watching your fucking TV and try a grow a second neuron.
This is sarcasm, right? You're being facetious? I know I shouldn't have to ask, but the prevalence of people who are really this stupid is just getting scarier by the minute.
A source of prosperity other than poppy production could change Afghanistan from being a perpetual failed state into a real developing nation. What this really means is that leaving is more appealing. Optimally, we could leave a military base there to monitor Pakistan and do the anti-terrorist stuff without bankrupting the US or having huge casualties.
And again I'm blown over by the modding. You got modded as +4 insightful? People reading your comment will actually get dumber if they are foolish enough to believe you. Please take some time and learn how polygraphy give false positives and how that isn't just because its a personal truth vs. objective truth you friggin moron.
The US has become a country ruled by rural hicks, led by their leader George Bush for 8 years. We have a country that has been convinced to give up on public schooling and convinced to give up on the middle class. Its hard to aspire to being a great researcher if you can't afford college.
You're crazy. The deficit went up orders of magnitude under Reagan, Bush and Bush II. And the reason is, Republicans are not fiscally responsible and break the budget spending on defense.
As far as process goes, the president can call for legislation, and minorities can introduce new bills. If overspending is a problem, the single most responsible party is the guy with the veto. So stop being a disingenuous lying dipshit and wake up to the fact that the right wing is raping this country.
He has changed, not killed the space program. Bang for your buck is in space astronomy and unmanned stuff anyways, and its not like we can afford everything we want these days. But hey, Obama bashing is in style these days, especially on Slashdot.
Its interesting that we have arguably one of the top 5 presidents every (certainly in the top 10) and yet if things keep going this way, we're going to get 1 term out of him followed by 8 years of Palin.
I remember seeing articles on how to make ball lightning in a microwave, complete with video. Then again, people may be lumping a lot of things under the header ball lightning.
Honestly, what you could create in a microwave wasn't that impressive, especially considering I had been brought up being read old Reader's Digest stories about ball lightning basically stalking people. I'd assumed that was just fiction (though they claimed it was true for whatever that's worth), but maybe there's something to the hallucination theory.
She was the Dean of Harvard Law School. That means she's an academic and also smarter than 99.99999% of the population where the law is concerned. She almost certainly knows more about the law, constitutional and otherwise than many of the sitting justices.
The linked blog suggests this will be a wonderful opportunity to obstruct getting anything else done. The presumption is, there is nothing they will agree with, their will be no common ground and they want none.
These attitudes are bad for the country. I may not like what Obama does concerning IP law (I think the whole concept of IP is a flawed construction), but other stuff needs to get done and doing nothing is fairly destructive.
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say China believes they're shooting down spy satellites. And China might be right.
I know Lucas bashing is fun, and its easier than thinking about what's actually being discussed, but the look of the thing combined with what its designed to do and way its being marketted basically means that Lucas *must* attempt to defend his copyright.
On an unrelated note, these things are dangerous as heck. People are going to blind themselves accidentally or worse. Really ought to be regulated. Definitely not something kids should be allowed to play with. There was a previous slashdot article about this.
Obviously there are some pragmatic issues (making sure the whole thing isn't gamed by one bot voting a million times), but it is an interesting attempt at allowing people to have a truely populist option for their representation.
In the past, true populism was very tough to come by...it was easy for an elected official to become 'out of touch'. However now, a more perfect representation of the views of the moment of people can be had, thanks to technology.
Of course, the other question is, is that even a good thing. Populism isn't always right. Slavery in the US was popular, it took Lincoln's strong leadership to move away from it. Many wars are unpopular, but some of them may be necessary (conversely, some wars may be popular but unnecessary, see US/Iraq Gulf War II).
Yeah, because its not like renewable energy is a good idea or anything.
And its sort of tragedy that Reid is in danger of losing his seat. If this country were any dumber it would need a wet nurse to wipe the drool off its chin.
I can't wait to read page upon page of bashing. The evil have successful pulled the wool over the eyes of the ignorant in this country yet again.
Heck even not being Bush wasn't good enough in 2004. Let's face it, being outstanding leaders doesn't matter to the US people. More often than not, they will cave to the Republican lie machine.
Republicans = Good at winning elections
Democrats = Good at running the country
You are fucking stupid. End of fucking story. The parties as we know them are not the same as they were 100+ years ago.
The Democrats were the major force behind the civil rights movement, only liars like yourself dispute this.
The South will rise again and rewrite history. They will lie and lie and tell you it wasn't a moral issue or it wasn't about slavery. They will bully and lie until they get their way. Deal with it.
Holy crap! This got modded as insightful? This post is a fucking intelligence test. If you modded up, you fail.
Seriously, how dumb do you have to be to think that 'installing a puppet' would be the M.O. here? Stop watching your fucking TV and try a grow a second neuron.
This is sarcasm, right? You're being facetious? I know I shouldn't have to ask, but the prevalence of people who are really this stupid is just getting scarier by the minute.
A source of prosperity other than poppy production could change Afghanistan from being a perpetual failed state into a real developing nation. What this really means is that leaving is more appealing. Optimally, we could leave a military base there to monitor Pakistan and do the anti-terrorist stuff without bankrupting the US or having huge casualties.
And again I'm blown over by the modding. You got modded as +4 insightful? People reading your comment will actually get dumber if they are foolish enough to believe you. Please take some time and learn how polygraphy give false positives and how that isn't just because its a personal truth vs. objective truth you friggin moron.
The US has become a country ruled by rural hicks, led by their leader George Bush for 8 years. We have a country that has been convinced to give up on public schooling and convinced to give up on the middle class. Its hard to aspire to being a great researcher if you can't afford college.
Idiotic body. Idiotic tagline. And you're modded up to two? Oooohh slashdot. You've fallen so far from grace.
I'd pay you to shut the hell up and stop spewing anti-intellectualism bullcrap that's probably making everyone else dumber.
Naw...actually I wouldn't. I'd just kick you in the nuts.
I mustn't run away
I mustn't run away
I mustn't run away
In case people are wondering, AT Field = Absolute Terror Field. Or at least that's what they called 'the barrier between people'.
You're crazy. The deficit went up orders of magnitude under Reagan, Bush and Bush II. And the reason is, Republicans are not fiscally responsible and break the budget spending on defense.
As far as process goes, the president can call for legislation, and minorities can introduce new bills. If overspending is a problem, the single most responsible party is the guy with the veto. So stop being a disingenuous lying dipshit and wake up to the fact that the right wing is raping this country.
He has changed, not killed the space program. Bang for your buck is in space astronomy and unmanned stuff anyways, and its not like we can afford everything we want these days. But hey, Obama bashing is in style these days, especially on Slashdot.
Its interesting that we have arguably one of the top 5 presidents every (certainly in the top 10) and yet if things keep going this way, we're going to get 1 term out of him followed by 8 years of Palin.
I remember seeing articles on how to make ball lightning in a microwave, complete with video. Then again, people may be lumping a lot of things under the header ball lightning.
Honestly, what you could create in a microwave wasn't that impressive, especially considering I had been brought up being read old Reader's Digest stories about ball lightning basically stalking people. I'd assumed that was just fiction (though they claimed it was true for whatever that's worth), but maybe there's something to the hallucination theory.
She was the Dean of Harvard Law School. That means she's an academic and also smarter than 99.99999% of the population where the law is concerned. She almost certainly knows more about the law, constitutional and otherwise than many of the sitting justices.
Its a tragedy that a post this insightful only has two mod points.
This.
How the hell that happened is a different question. Why rednecks (many of whom are flat earthers) are even on the internet is a better question.
Your hackery gets modded as insightful? Really?
blah blah blah comparing Obama to a cult figure blah blah blah
What a load. Its embarrassing how stupid the people on this site are.
The linked blog suggests this will be a wonderful opportunity to obstruct getting anything else done. The presumption is, there is nothing they will agree with, their will be no common ground and they want none.
These attitudes are bad for the country. I may not like what Obama does concerning IP law (I think the whole concept of IP is a flawed construction), but other stuff needs to get done and doing nothing is fairly destructive.