Apparently the adapters run the risk of overheating and can be a fire and electrocution risk.
Oh just great. (reaches for power supply) Now I have to retur-{{{{ZOT}}}}
Slashdot UID #56 up for auction at Ebay -- again! Sale by family to help pay for electrical fire damage and getting the smell of crispy/. user #56 out of rug. Sale complete with charred remains of previous owner.
And what then when the customer wants some hard evidence about what has been done? What then? What will you provide to them? How does your irrational hatred of managers actually assure quality in concrete steps?
A good manager does all the detail work and keeps track of everything. My post was about what they haven't been doing much of lately.
I don't hate managers, and to suspect that I might by reading my previous post means you failed to understand it.
Quality in business comes from many different people in any given project. Software quality can be adversely affected by morale, and you guessed it -- programmers have some of the lowest morales in the business world today; they are often not respected by management, they have the highest workloads, and they have no time for social lives.
If managers listened, and remained silent or inquisitive instead of arbitrary or antagonistic, software quality would be up.
... Nobody's exactly sure why or how the FBI got warrants to take Indymedia's HDs, but their speculation tends to center around the fact that the Feds were spooked by the fact that Indymedia was able to publish RNC delegate names.
Yeah that freedom of speech thing is a real pain, isn't it?
It could happen just as easily to, say, the perl community.
Granted, you are correct, but I might add that while such things might happen to Open Source communities, since we aren't paying for such things, we are less offended when they break. When Microsoft fouls up, we all get mad because we've maybe paid too much money for the product/license to begin with so we believe it should function better than a free solution. Sadly the opposite is often more true!
More often than not, Open Source solutions operate better than Microsoft products for any given circumstance.
There's no patch yet, but in the meantime Microsoft is telling ASP.NET developers they can rewrite their applications to prevent exploits.
And that's why Microsoft is going to eventually lose the war against open source. Can you imagine the heated boardroom discussions going around the table now?
Dilbert: "Microsoft says we need to pull 20 programmers away from their current workloads to focus on fixing ASP.NET in all our websites. C-c-canon-ical-ization is what they are calling it."
Dogbert: "How long is this going to take? And who is making these words up anyway?"
Dilbert: "Two weeks." (I mean that's the standard response right?)
Dogbert: "Let's give all our programmers a holiday, effective yesterday. Shut the sites down in twenty minutes after I call our contact in Belize. It's time for EULA loophole #27. {{WAG!}}"
So do the math. And tell me, please, all ye Microsoft supporters, why Open Source lowers my ROI again!
UK folks use a soft 'g' for giblets, but Canadians and many Americans use a hard 'g' for giblets. Cooks likely use a soft 'g' because they are hoity-toity.:-)
They had better pronounce gibs correctly. It's not Jibs -- it's Gibs! (With a hard G, not a J.)
I hope they have some nods to the other great Id Games, where a zombie rides [gc]dolomite's rocket! Or, Ogre trips over his own pinaple.
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Will this advance revolutionize chemistry and computing the way electric gates revolutionized electronics and computing?
Not really, because it's basically a copy of the old way except utilizing fluid dynamics. The way electric gates revolutionized electronics was special because there was nothing like it before. What this will do, is enable better redundant designs for deep space probes. Also, a liquid computer likely doesn't get as hot or it won't be as much of a problem if it does.
Will 'fluid programmers' give new meaning to "flowchart"?"
No, we'll just fill all the systems with coffee and call ourselves The Happy Folk.
Google will demonstrate the technology Thursday, Oct. 7 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Now there is a clever piece of irony. Google is pioneering toward a paperless library and they show it off at a book fair. Authors will surely love this technology while publishers might not like it if it makes them redundant. How many of you remember the musty smell of an old library filled with books? Today's libraries have improved, yet tomorrow's libraries may have no books at all, only a small cube in the middle of it that wifis texts to people from their homes. It's only a matter of time before we don't need to scan thousands of pages to write papers (or even learn something for that matter), and it will make everyone much more productive and intelligent. Publishers have pretty much accepted electronic book formats, so what's wrong with the RIAA and the MPAA?
My company, Xamlon, has just released its flagship product, also called Xamlon.
Thank you for your nice advertisement. No seriously. Why post a story to Slashdot about your own product or service? That is what the millions of Slashdotters around the net are for. It's hard enough for one of us to get a story posted... now we have to compete with the source?
It allows for XAML development on all supported Windows platform, from Win98 through Longhorn.
That's an example of why you should allow journalists to do their job and report news. You forgot to pluralize platform. Your sentence should read, It allows for XAML development on supported Windows platforms.
Grammatically, you can't possibly list supported operating systems in the article by date without explaining yourself, so you should have linked to a page that would show the supported operating system. But even that page is scarce with info about supported operating systems and says: "The engine is.NET 1.1 compatible and runs on any.NET 1.1 platform (Windows 98 - Longhorn)", which is only specific if the reader knows which operating systems are included in the subset Windows 98 - Longhorn, and many do not. If you meant that you could support any operating system released since Windows 98, why didn't you just say that? It leads the reader to think that maybe there is an OS that is not supported somewhere in that subset, but you are not reporting it because of some business reasons.
Yes, I think your product seems quite wonderful. But you're going about promotion the wrong way. I happen to like the fact that you're competing with Microsoft based off their own specs!
FTA: Xamlon built the program from the published technical specifications of Microsoft's own user interface development software, which Microsoft itself doesn't plan to release until 2006.
Doesn't that open your company up for lawsuits? (IANAL)
Words mean things, and it's become obvious to me that you want words to mean whatever the hell the you want them to mean at the time. You are 100% wrong. Fascism:
exalts nation and sometimes race above the individual,
uses violence and modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition,
engages in severe economic and social regimentation, and
espouses nationalism and sometimes racism (ethnic nationalism).
You are using an incorrect word for its cheap emotional value.
Fine, nail me to the wall with your rhetoric. But I am not really nailed to the wall, am I? There is plenty of room to move. I am not bound by you or anything you say. Look at me! I'm over here! You can't stop me from speaking my mind. The first sign of fascists are their supporters who quickly point out that nothing is wrong with fascism -- or worse -- that nothing fascist is really happening. It's all good. Please ignore what those idiots are saying to you. Give us more power. Sign here, please. And then we get more Patriot Acts, more fun loving patriots, more war and more death. More profit for the select few. More dead soldiers. More orphaned children. More poverty.
Yup. Nothing wrong here!
I did not say that the US is fascist. I said that it is heading in that direction. It's merely a warning from an observant person. I am keen minded, sir. I can see the future and if things don't change in the States, they *are* headed for the fascist model. They will turn themselves into their worst enemy if they go that route because it's wrong and the good guys always win! Don't they?
The first, "everything in the State", refers to totalitarianism, which the US, despite its faults, is in no danger of becoming.
How nice for you to live in ignorance and bliss. But you are dead wrong. It seems that every time you turn around there is another twenty pound law encroaching on the freedoms of Americans. Maybe it won't go as far as other totalitarian states have in the past, but the similarities are unimpeachable. Perhaps you could look at them dancing on the edge of a vast abyss and just chuckle at it and think everything is okay, but I can't. I have to say something about it.
Have we been a fascist people for over three hundred years?
Hmmm. Slavery? CHECK! Civil War? CHECK! Leaders lying to do whatever they want? CHECK! Leaders assassinated for their peaceful ways? CHECK! Governments conspiring to overthrow foreign governments and mislead their entire nation into conflict to earn a buck? CHECK!
You tell me!
And you claim last quote, "Long live death", has been uttered by Bush in some form in every one of his speeches. Funny, I can't seem to recall it at all. Please document this, because no one else has.
You are taking the meaning of the motto out of context. It means long live sacrifice, and it says as much on Wikipedia.
Here are a few examples of what I'm talking about:
President Bush's Acceptance Speech, September 2, 2004:
That young man is right -- our men and women in uniform are doing a superb job for America. Tonight I want to speak to all of them -- and to their families: You are involved in a struggle of historic proportion. Because of your service and sacrifice, we are defeating the terrorists where they live and plan, and making America safer. Because of you, women in Afghanistan are no longer shot in a sports stadium. Because of you, the people of Iraq no longer fear being executed and left in mass graves. Because of you, the world is more just and will be more peaceful. We owe you our thanks, and we owe you something more. We will give you all the resources, all the tools, and all the support you need for victory.
"As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein." -- George W. Bush, 10/07/02
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
President George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United St
Can you still claim an "entertaining clients" business expense if the entertainment isn't legal?
It's legal in Amsterdam, so if the business was in Amsterdam, then I assume it would be okay, although completely unethical. That reminds me of a story about this guy I used to work with who was fired for adding hookers to his expense reports. I think he put down that they were "travel guides". The funny thing was that it wasn't even an issue until the accounting dept. saw he purchased a bathtub full of Beluga caviar and two cases of Dom. Then they took a close look at the rest of the expenses and found the "travel guides" entry.
Man it was funny because it happened to someone else!
I figure the thing that will really get the space tourism biz going will be the first zero-g space brothel, where anything goes I assume since earth-based laws don't apply?
Yeah like I could claim that on my taxes. Maybe if they launched from Amsterdam and I brought some clients? Not sure what the legalities are of that sort of thing... hehe!
No thanks. I think I'll wait until there is an actual destination before going into space. Let me know when you find the dimensional rift that leads to Utopia and I'll sign up then. I would love to see Utopia! Oh my. I bet it's got lots of systems in it that can play Doom 3 in Ultra mode.:-)
I'm now positive that Lance Bass is finally going to go to space. Mentally the guy is already there! He was going to pay $20mil to go to space, and now all the dregs of society can do it for merely $100k. Oh poor Lance! Well at least he can go now.
Oh, yeah. Beer busts, beer blasts, keggers, stein hoists, AA meetings, beer night. It's wonderful, Marge. I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
And now he can stay up late drinking beer without passing out -- because it's got caffeine!
If you've been looking to blame your boss, this article from MSNBC says your ship has come in!
I think this little gem says it all. Strangely enough, it's today's Dilbert. Thing is, the buck-passers are who protect their own image or the image of those who write their cheques. The result? Too many projects are blamed on interns or programmers, rather than the truth coming to light.
Why? I think it's simple, really. Management often has no clue what they are doing in terms of managing a technical project so they make decisions about things like the exact features, and they often fight to get things a certain way -- unwittingly forcing programmers to code all the way around the block to get to the house next door, leaving problems in the wake.
The best case is when a programmer is given design autonomy. That's why Open Source is such a threat to large companies like Microsoft... because the guys who know what *can* be done, are the same guys doing it -- the result is 1111x better, and cheaper too.
I am so lucky to be working now for a company that allows me to have full autonomy with my projects. They tell me what the customer wants and I do it the way I think is best. Every single project done in this manner has resulted with happy customers and excellent systems.
To be clear, I did not say that the USA is fascist. I said that the US is rapidly becoming fascist. And I believe it is.
Could you please explain, in terms of the definition of fascism given by Wikipedia, why "the USA is rapidly becoming fascist"?
Sure I'll comment. If you point your browser to the Fascist mottos listed on Wikipedia, you will se a few interesting statements that seem to fit current US government attitudes.
Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato, "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
The US has pretty much had a divorce with the UN after invading Iraq. The intelligence leading to the Iraq invasion was unfounded and proven false. There were no WMDs; they lied to commit their military and hundreds of billions of dollars to fight a war over oil interests and to settle an old score. The recent Homeland Security measures, including the topic of making cell phone blackouts secret, is also is a throwback to this motto.
The Patriot Act appears to be in the spirit of the above motto, from start to finish.
Me ne frego, "I don't care," the Italian Fascist motto.
I think it's pretty heartless to attack a country for oil, don't you? It's pretty tactical and devoid of humanity to kill for resources, to kill for revenge.
Libro e moschetto - fascista perfetto, "Book and musket - perfect Fascist."
You could look at the Christian doctrines of most Americans and see tones from the above motto in many news items regarding gun toting Christians. Many American Christians are not over the top like Koresh was, but if you look at the attitudes after 9/11 on talk shows and news broadcasts, there was quite a bit of patriotism against muslim states such as Iraq and Iran.
Viva la Morte, "Long live death (sacrifice)."
I'm sure Bush has said something similar to this in every single one of his speeches.
The fact of the matter is, that when a state increases the power of its government over the freedom of its people, that state is moving toward the fascist model. When the state is more important than the liberties of the people, the state is no longer operating in the realm of the common good. When a president can usurp sovereignty by stealing an election, then there is cause to wonder if Democracy is alive anymore in the States. Maybe it's not fascism. Maybe it's not democracy. Maybe it's not feudalism. Maybe it's not communism. Maybe it's not tyranny. Maybe it's just corporatism, and the latest abomination.
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I wonder why it took them so long to get around to doing something about it?
Yup. The evidence kept disappearing in a cloud of smoke.
Apparently the adapters run the risk of overheating and can be a fire and electrocution risk.
/. user #56 out of rug. Sale complete with charred remains of previous owner.
Oh just great.
(reaches for power supply)
Now I have to retur-{{{{ZOT}}}}
Slashdot UID #56 up for auction at Ebay -- again! Sale by family to help pay for electrical fire damage and getting the smell of crispy
And what then when the customer wants some hard evidence about what has been done? What then? What will you provide to them? How does your irrational hatred of managers actually assure quality in concrete steps?
A good manager does all the detail work and keeps track of everything. My post was about what they haven't been doing much of lately.
I don't hate managers, and to suspect that I might by reading my previous post means you failed to understand it.
Quality in business comes from many different people in any given project. Software quality can be adversely affected by morale, and you guessed it -- programmers have some of the lowest morales in the business world today; they are often not respected by management, they have the highest workloads, and they have no time for social lives.
If managers listened, and remained silent or inquisitive instead of arbitrary or antagonistic, software quality would be up.
he has a lot to say about Quality Assurance in the software world
Quality Assurance in 4 easy steps!
Dear Managers,
1. Listen
2. Close your mouth
3. Plan everything around #1
4. Profit!!! (notice there is no line with ??? because you listened!)
no, he bought it on ebay.
I'm famous.
... Nobody's exactly sure why or how the FBI got warrants to take Indymedia's HDs, but their speculation tends to center around the fact that the Feds were spooked by the fact that Indymedia was able to publish RNC delegate names.
Yeah that freedom of speech thing is a real pain, isn't it?
Kodak, eh? Oh isn't Karma a bitch? :-)
It could happen just as easily to, say, the perl community.
Granted, you are correct, but I might add that while such things might happen to Open Source communities, since we aren't paying for such things, we are less offended when they break. When Microsoft fouls up, we all get mad because we've maybe paid too much money for the product/license to begin with so we believe it should function better than a free solution. Sadly the opposite is often more true!
More often than not, Open Source solutions operate better than Microsoft products for any given circumstance.
How is this flamebait? I think parent hit the nail on the head.
There's no patch yet, but in the meantime Microsoft is telling ASP.NET developers they can rewrite their applications to prevent exploits.
.NET in all our websites. C-c-canon-ical-ization is what they are calling it."
And that's why Microsoft is going to eventually lose the war against open source. Can you imagine the heated boardroom discussions going around the table now?
Dilbert: "Microsoft says we need to pull 20 programmers away from their current workloads to focus on fixing ASP
Dogbert: "How long is this going to take? And who is making these words up anyway?"
Dilbert: "Two weeks." (I mean that's the standard response right?)
Dogbert: "Let's give all our programmers a holiday, effective yesterday. Shut the sites down in twenty minutes after I call our contact in Belize. It's time for EULA loophole #27. {{WAG!}}"
So do the math. And tell me, please, all ye Microsoft supporters, why Open Source lowers my ROI again!
UK folks use a soft 'g' for giblets, but Canadians and many Americans use a hard 'g' for giblets. Cooks likely use a soft 'g' because they are hoity-toity. :-)
They had better pronounce gibs correctly. It's not Jibs -- it's Gibs! (With a hard G, not a J.)
I hope they have some nods to the other great Id Games, where a zombie rides [gc]dolomite's rocket! Or, Ogre trips over his own pinaple.
Will this advance revolutionize chemistry and computing the way electric gates revolutionized electronics and computing?
Not really, because it's basically a copy of the old way except utilizing fluid dynamics. The way electric gates revolutionized electronics was special because there was nothing like it before. What this will do, is enable better redundant designs for deep space probes. Also, a liquid computer likely doesn't get as hot or it won't be as much of a problem if it does.
Will 'fluid programmers' give new meaning to "flowchart"?"
No, we'll just fill all the systems with coffee and call ourselves The Happy Folk.
Google will demonstrate the technology Thursday, Oct. 7 at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Now there is a clever piece of irony. Google is pioneering toward a paperless library and they show it off at a book fair. Authors will surely love this technology while publishers might not like it if it makes them redundant. How many of you remember the musty smell of an old library filled with books? Today's libraries have improved, yet tomorrow's libraries may have no books at all, only a small cube in the middle of it that wifis texts to people from their homes. It's only a matter of time before we don't need to scan thousands of pages to write papers (or even learn something for that matter), and it will make everyone much more productive and intelligent. Publishers have pretty much accepted electronic book formats, so what's wrong with the RIAA and the MPAA?
My company, Xamlon, has just released its flagship product, also called Xamlon.
.NET 1.1 compatible and runs on any .NET 1.1 platform (Windows 98 - Longhorn)", which is only specific if the reader knows which operating systems are included in the subset Windows 98 - Longhorn, and many do not. If you meant that you could support any operating system released since Windows 98, why didn't you just say that? It leads the reader to think that maybe there is an OS that is not supported somewhere in that subset, but you are not reporting it because of some business reasons.
Thank you for your nice advertisement. No seriously. Why post a story to Slashdot about your own product or service? That is what the millions of Slashdotters around the net are for. It's hard enough for one of us to get a story posted... now we have to compete with the source?
It allows for XAML development on all supported Windows platform, from Win98 through Longhorn.
That's an example of why you should allow journalists to do their job and report news. You forgot to pluralize platform. Your sentence should read, It allows for XAML development on supported Windows platforms.
Grammatically, you can't possibly list supported operating systems in the article by date without explaining yourself, so you should have linked to a page that would show the supported operating system. But even that page is scarce with info about supported operating systems and says: "The engine is
Yes, I think your product seems quite wonderful. But you're going about promotion the wrong way. I happen to like the fact that you're competing with Microsoft based off their own specs!
FTA: Xamlon built the program from the published technical specifications of Microsoft's own user interface development software, which Microsoft itself doesn't plan to release until 2006.
Doesn't that open your company up for lawsuits? (IANAL)
You are 100% wrong.
Fascism:
- exalts nation and sometimes race above the individual,
- uses violence and modern techniques of propaganda and censorship to forcibly suppress political opposition,
- engages in severe economic and social regimentation, and
- espouses nationalism and sometimes racism (ethnic nationalism).
How is this not the USA of today?How would you like to be the one guy who voted no?
Fine, nail me to the wall with your rhetoric. But I am not really nailed to the wall, am I? There is plenty of room to move. I am not bound by you or anything you say. Look at me! I'm over here! You can't stop me from speaking my mind. The first sign of fascists are their supporters who quickly point out that nothing is wrong with fascism -- or worse -- that nothing fascist is really happening. It's all good. Please ignore what those idiots are saying to you. Give us more power. Sign here, please. And then we get more Patriot Acts, more fun loving patriots, more war and more death. More profit for the select few. More dead soldiers. More orphaned children. More poverty.
Yup. Nothing wrong here!
I did not say that the US is fascist. I said that it is heading in that direction. It's merely a warning from an observant person. I am keen minded, sir. I can see the future and if things don't change in the States, they *are* headed for the fascist model. They will turn themselves into their worst enemy if they go that route because it's wrong and the good guys always win! Don't they?
The first, "everything in the State", refers to totalitarianism, which the US, despite its faults, is in no danger of becoming.
How nice for you to live in ignorance and bliss. But you are dead wrong. It seems that every time you turn around there is another twenty pound law encroaching on the freedoms of Americans. Maybe it won't go as far as other totalitarian states have in the past, but the similarities are unimpeachable. Perhaps you could look at them dancing on the edge of a vast abyss and just chuckle at it and think everything is okay, but I can't. I have to say something about it.
Have we been a fascist people for over three hundred years?
Hmmm. Slavery? CHECK! Civil War? CHECK! Leaders lying to do whatever they want? CHECK! Leaders assassinated for their peaceful ways? CHECK! Governments conspiring to overthrow foreign governments and mislead their entire nation into conflict to earn a buck? CHECK!
You tell me!
And you claim last quote, "Long live death", has been uttered by Bush in some form in every one of his speeches. Funny, I can't seem to recall it at all. Please document this, because no one else has.
You are taking the meaning of the motto out of context. It means long live sacrifice, and it says as much on Wikipedia.
Here are a few examples of what I'm talking about:
President Bush's Acceptance Speech, September 2, 2004:
Can you still claim an "entertaining clients" business expense if the entertainment isn't legal?
It's legal in Amsterdam, so if the business was in Amsterdam, then I assume it would be okay, although completely unethical. That reminds me of a story about this guy I used to work with who was fired for adding hookers to his expense reports. I think he put down that they were "travel guides". The funny thing was that it wasn't even an issue until the accounting dept. saw he purchased a bathtub full of Beluga caviar and two cases of Dom. Then they took a close look at the rest of the expenses and found the "travel guides" entry.
Man it was funny because it happened to someone else!
I figure the thing that will really get the space tourism biz going will be the first zero-g space brothel, where anything goes I assume since earth-based laws don't apply?
Yeah like I could claim that on my taxes. Maybe if they launched from Amsterdam and I brought some clients? Not sure what the legalities are of that sort of thing... hehe!
I think I'd throw that cap away....
Throw it away? Are you NUTS?!?!
Ebay!!!!! (with no warranties or liabilities, of course)
Last one into space is a rotten egg!
:-)
No thanks. I think I'll wait until there is an actual destination before going into space. Let me know when you find the dimensional rift that leads to Utopia and I'll sign up then. I would love to see Utopia! Oh my. I bet it's got lots of systems in it that can play Doom 3 in Ultra mode.
I'm now positive that Lance Bass is finally going to go to space. Mentally the guy is already there! He was going to pay $20mil to go to space, and now all the dregs of society can do it for merely $100k. Oh poor Lance! Well at least he can go now.
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson...
Oh, yeah. Beer busts, beer blasts, keggers, stein hoists, AA meetings, beer night. It's wonderful, Marge. I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined.
And now he can stay up late drinking beer without passing out -- because it's got caffeine!
If you've been looking to blame your boss, this article from MSNBC says your ship has come in!
I think this little gem says it all. Strangely enough, it's today's Dilbert. Thing is, the buck-passers are who protect their own image or the image of those who write their cheques. The result? Too many projects are blamed on interns or programmers, rather than the truth coming to light.
Why? I think it's simple, really. Management often has no clue what they are doing in terms of managing a technical project so they make decisions about things like the exact features, and they often fight to get things a certain way -- unwittingly forcing programmers to code all the way around the block to get to the house next door, leaving problems in the wake.
The best case is when a programmer is given design autonomy. That's why Open Source is such a threat to large companies like Microsoft... because the guys who know what *can* be done, are the same guys doing it -- the result is 1111x better, and cheaper too.
I am so lucky to be working now for a company that allows me to have full autonomy with my projects. They tell me what the customer wants and I do it the way I think is best. Every single project done in this manner has resulted with happy customers and excellent systems.
To be clear, I did not say that the USA is fascist. I said that the US is rapidly becoming fascist. And I believe it is.
Could you please explain, in terms of the definition of fascism given by Wikipedia, why "the USA is rapidly becoming fascist"?
Sure I'll comment. If you point your browser to the Fascist mottos listed on Wikipedia, you will se a few interesting statements that seem to fit current US government attitudes.
Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato, "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
The US has pretty much had a divorce with the UN after invading Iraq. The intelligence leading to the Iraq invasion was unfounded and proven false. There were no WMDs; they lied to commit their military and hundreds of billions of dollars to fight a war over oil interests and to settle an old score. The recent Homeland Security measures, including the topic of making cell phone blackouts secret, is also is a throwback to this motto.
The Patriot Act appears to be in the spirit of the above motto, from start to finish.
Me ne frego, "I don't care," the Italian Fascist motto.
I think it's pretty heartless to attack a country for oil, don't you? It's pretty tactical and devoid of humanity to kill for resources, to kill for revenge.
Libro e moschetto - fascista perfetto, "Book and musket - perfect Fascist."
You could look at the Christian doctrines of most Americans and see tones from the above motto in many news items regarding gun toting Christians. Many American Christians are not over the top like Koresh was, but if you look at the attitudes after 9/11 on talk shows and news broadcasts, there was quite a bit of patriotism against muslim states such as Iraq and Iran.
Viva la Morte, "Long live death (sacrifice)."
I'm sure Bush has said something similar to this in every single one of his speeches.
The fact of the matter is, that when a state increases the power of its government over the freedom of its people, that state is moving toward the fascist model. When the state is more important than the liberties of the people, the state is no longer operating in the realm of the common good. When a president can usurp sovereignty by stealing an election, then there is cause to wonder if Democracy is alive anymore in the States. Maybe it's not fascism. Maybe it's not democracy. Maybe it's not feudalism. Maybe it's not communism. Maybe it's not tyranny. Maybe it's just corporatism, and the latest abomination.