So based on the +insightfuls and +informatives in this thread so far, the consensus seems to be boo twitter for moderating its users. On slashdot. Which moderates its users and buries spam/flamebait. If anyone bothered to have the level of interest on this site to follow its users around from thread to thread and reply to whatever they say with irrelevant screeds, slander, and so on i'd wager there'd be a bit more 'Hey what the hell mods, do something' and/or people quitting the site. Which is precisely what's occurring on twitter. If I follow a journalist on twitter and I bother to look at the comments and see some nazibots posting nazi crap I never want to read again - b/c I have no interest/regard for their opinion and really...who has time for that shit- me hitting that block/mute button is no different from filtering comments on slashdot for +1 or higher. And when that nazibot creates a new account/bot just to do the same again to circumvent their deserved ban, mute/block doesn't really matter much does it? And yes that's a significant problem on twitter today 2-12-17 that makes the experience on that site much shittier.
In summation, a whole lot of people on/. saying they want unfettered discussion while bitching on a very fettered discussion forum. So get out there ya wild, anti-SJW cowboys and create that unmoderated website, see how long it lasts, best of luck to you. I gather it'll resemble an unpatched PHP board from 2002 in no time but hey, yay freedom of speech right?
For that matter various despots and oligarchs that have their dough hidden in various ways and/or use state funds as their personal piggy banks. See House of Saud, Putin, the Khalifas, Mubarak and so on.
What a load of FUD. Without citing any evidence, this guy gets modded up to a +5 insightful, GGs slashdot. Clearly OP spent zero time looking at the papers before posting. https://panamapapers.icij.org/... sort by country and find your Nigerian.
A simpler explanation than the OP's conspiracy: someone that pays their fair share in taxes sees a litany of billionaires and millionaires not paying their fair share and/or pillaging already impoverished nations and has the wherewithal to expose that.
What would OP do in the leaker's shoes and had access to this information? Sit on it?
Just take CBS as the foremost example. 60 Minutes, Face the Nation, the more serious daily morning wake-up news- arguably the most credible news lineup of the major networks. But they put ex-CIA guys on editorial payroll- Mike Morell & John Miller. Charlie Rose has been carrying so much water for the anti-Apple and anti-Snowden people for the past year, you'd think he was on their payroll too. These guys are allowed on a regular basis to plead the government case with nary a whiff of contrasting opinion. The pro-encryption, limited govmt surveillance side gets barely a squeak in relative to the barrage of threatening ex-spooks warning of ever-present encryption-toting boogeymen.
In general, the media has become stenographers for government mouthpieces who frame the debate and mold the news cycle while questioning authority has become verboten since that loses access to sources.
It can't be surprising that the general public has had their opinion shaped the way it has when the debate is framed by technophobic dinosaurs & J. Edgar Hoover's torch-bearers. It had to be Apple that finally took a stand - if it were Samsung, ATT, Google, anybody else- the debate would be even more lopsided than it already is. Praise be to Tim Cook for picking up the fight where Lavabit couldn't.
More than half of americans that can be contacted by Pew, never bothered to add themselves to Do Not Call lists, have the time to answer surveys and don't mind giving their opinions to a stranger that called them unprompted. A full half of respondents had a landline - so half might as well be labeled as techno-illiterates whose opinion is as relevant to the matter at hand as Nebraskan's opinions on California nude beach policies.
L.A. in of itself can be a very isolating, soul-stealing place, let alone when you move into a manor such as his (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZhM56v9UVQ). Status obsessed vapid and shallow social climbers, hangers-on abound.
Move to Brooklyn. Eat good food, be around people that don't care who you are, find a nice lady thats a better person than you. Buy a banana hat in TF2,live happily ever after. Just a proposal.
So the parent got modded up....despite my pointing out the exact same thing a half dozen posts above, and the fact that the cnn article still exists.
wtf slashdot I need my karma back
Mod parent down, unless that's an ironic +5 funny ungrounded lightning has no clue what he's talking about.
1. There's quite a few very conservative professors at ucla, if you read the article you'd find a bunch of them pulled their support from that mouthbreather Andrew for pulling this stunt. There's more conservatives than marxists.
2. If you actually went to UCLA as a scholar, rather than a waste of 4-5 years while you got high and wasted mom and dad's cash, you wouldn't have a problem with whether your professor was conservative or liberal. A scholar will sit in a lecture and evaluate the professor's arguments on their own merits, not evaluate the professor. A moron, like courageous Andrew will sit there and whine about what a radical liberal or conservative the professor is without consideration of his/her ideas, then get a B or C and blame it on the professor's ideology.
3. I took several classes with those "brain washer" radical leftist professors, 3 of which show up on Andrew's poorly written website and yet I still managed to retain my conservatism while getting good grades. How my fragile mind withstood all that brainwashing I'll never know.
4. There is no 4
5. I'd like to see Andrew's mind numbingly horrible site taken down, moreso because it reads like essays I wrote in junior high, the guy has zero critical thinking and logical reasoning skills, and his arguments amount to Professor suchandsuch is a poopyhead b/c he lieks clinten [sic]. Its an insult to the political science department of UCLA that they graduated someone so incapable and pedantic.
are efforts to fight global warming by planting forests actually harming the environment?"
Efforts to plant forests to fight global warming? When did this happen? Last time I checked any forest thats planted is done so just to cut it down for timber, nothing to do with fighting global warming.
I was a student on two different UC campuses and have friends from every other campus, nobody, on any of the listens to college radio. Nobody.
Secondly, the only thing students care about DRM is circumventing it or avoiding it, if they even know what it is.
I'm not sure about box office results, but on Disney's primary portal http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/ for DVD & video sales Miyazaki movies don't even touch their other franchises. By far the most popular are the princess movies http://disney.go.com/princess/, Winnie the Pooh, and Kim Possible. Eisner opened the floodgates for making sequels to their older movies so there's been a lot of straight to video movies that have been successful relying on the older franchises (Lion King, Mulan, Tarzan) that can make up for lost profits on flops. It should also be noted that Disney has had a certain amount of success over the last couple years with 2003's Home On The Range likelastyear'sHomeOntheRange and last year's Brother Bear http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brotherbear.ht m which were pretty entertaining. So maybe its fair to say they've learned from Atlantis and Treasure Planet, although I'm not sure if the criticism leveled Disney calling these films disasters is merited. Most movies from all the major studios are lucky if they break even at the box office, once Disney decided to start releasing around an animated movie a year, they've ceased to be an exception to that rule.
From Mar. 30 LA Times- Justice Antonin Scalia also discounted the Betamax decision as a guide for the new case. Don't "waste your time on this," he advised Taranto. "This court is certainly not going to decide this case based on stare decisis," he said, citing the Latin term for stay as decided, or sticking with precedent.
Good luck with that idea. Looks like thats already been decided.
From (riaa.org)12:17 PM (WST):
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Thank you/. for my daily dose of irony.
I have the newest version of lavasoft and it didn't detect it. Morpheus' little redirect fairy wreaked all kinds of havoc on my comp when I used norton firewall to restrict access of the website they send you to- www.inmotiongolf.com. Once I restricted it, xp froze completely and after rebooting, it would freeze everytime once imapi.exe loaded. After a few hours of figuring out what the hell just happened, I reinstall my firewall, uninstall the superevil morpheus, delete c:\windows\bpboh.dll, c:\windows\rdxr020305.dat, and
c:\windows\system32\rdxr020305.dat. System clean, no more spyware, no more crashes, and I hope whatever ad wizard decided to throw that little component into the new Morpheus drowns in a pool of his own vomit or better yet stops by my place so I can beat him about the head and neck with my keyboard.
Slashdot Mirror
So based on the +insightfuls and +informatives in this thread so far, the consensus seems to be boo twitter for moderating its users. On slashdot. Which moderates its users and buries spam/flamebait. If anyone bothered to have the level of interest on this site to follow its users around from thread to thread and reply to whatever they say with irrelevant screeds, slander, and so on i'd wager there'd be a bit more 'Hey what the hell mods, do something' and/or people quitting the site. Which is precisely what's occurring on twitter. If I follow a journalist on twitter and I bother to look at the comments and see some nazibots posting nazi crap I never want to read again - b/c I have no interest/regard for their opinion and really...who has time for that shit- me hitting that block/mute button is no different from filtering comments on slashdot for +1 or higher. And when that nazibot creates a new account/bot just to do the same again to circumvent their deserved ban, mute/block doesn't really matter much does it? And yes that's a significant problem on twitter today 2-12-17 that makes the experience on that site much shittier.
In summation, a whole lot of people on /. saying they want unfettered discussion while bitching on a very fettered discussion forum. So get out there ya wild, anti-SJW cowboys and create that unmoderated website, see how long it lasts, best of luck to you. I gather it'll resemble an unpatched PHP board from 2002 in no time but hey, yay freedom of speech right?
For that matter various despots and oligarchs that have their dough hidden in various ways and/or use state funds as their personal piggy banks. See House of Saud, Putin, the Khalifas, Mubarak and so on.
What a load of FUD. Without citing any evidence, this guy gets modded up to a +5 insightful, GGs slashdot. Clearly OP spent zero time looking at the papers before posting. https://panamapapers.icij.org/... sort by country and find your Nigerian.
A simpler explanation than the OP's conspiracy: someone that pays their fair share in taxes sees a litany of billionaires and millionaires not paying their fair share and/or pillaging already impoverished nations and has the wherewithal to expose that.
What would OP do in the leaker's shoes and had access to this information? Sit on it?
Just take CBS as the foremost example. 60 Minutes, Face the Nation, the more serious daily morning wake-up news- arguably the most credible news lineup of the major networks. But they put ex-CIA guys on editorial payroll- Mike Morell & John Miller. Charlie Rose has been carrying so much water for the anti-Apple and anti-Snowden people for the past year, you'd think he was on their payroll too. These guys are allowed on a regular basis to plead the government case with nary a whiff of contrasting opinion. The pro-encryption, limited govmt surveillance side gets barely a squeak in relative to the barrage of threatening ex-spooks warning of ever-present encryption-toting boogeymen. In general, the media has become stenographers for government mouthpieces who frame the debate and mold the news cycle while questioning authority has become verboten since that loses access to sources. It can't be surprising that the general public has had their opinion shaped the way it has when the debate is framed by technophobic dinosaurs & J. Edgar Hoover's torch-bearers. It had to be Apple that finally took a stand - if it were Samsung, ATT, Google, anybody else- the debate would be even more lopsided than it already is. Praise be to Tim Cook for picking up the fight where Lavabit couldn't.
More than half of americans that can be contacted by Pew, never bothered to add themselves to Do Not Call lists, have the time to answer surveys and don't mind giving their opinions to a stranger that called them unprompted. A full half of respondents had a landline - so half might as well be labeled as techno-illiterates whose opinion is as relevant to the matter at hand as Nebraskan's opinions on California nude beach policies.
Think you mean Washingon Times, the Post is pretty middle of the road.
L.A. in of itself can be a very isolating, soul-stealing place, let alone when you move into a manor such as his (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZhM56v9UVQ). Status obsessed vapid and shallow social climbers, hangers-on abound. Move to Brooklyn. Eat good food, be around people that don't care who you are, find a nice lady thats a better person than you. Buy a banana hat in TF2,live happily ever after. Just a proposal.
Why not just add more archivists? Problem solved.
Amazing what you can learn by reading that thing.
So the parent got modded up....despite my pointing out the exact same thing a half dozen posts above, and the fact that the cnn article still exists. wtf slashdot I need my karma back
I always get excited when I read positive stuff like this on slashdot. Although, it was even more exciting the first time I read about it on slashdot... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/2 4/064246
Mod parent down, unless that's an ironic +5 funny ungrounded lightning has no clue what he's talking about. 1. There's quite a few very conservative professors at ucla, if you read the article you'd find a bunch of them pulled their support from that mouthbreather Andrew for pulling this stunt. There's more conservatives than marxists. 2. If you actually went to UCLA as a scholar, rather than a waste of 4-5 years while you got high and wasted mom and dad's cash, you wouldn't have a problem with whether your professor was conservative or liberal. A scholar will sit in a lecture and evaluate the professor's arguments on their own merits, not evaluate the professor. A moron, like courageous Andrew will sit there and whine about what a radical liberal or conservative the professor is without consideration of his/her ideas, then get a B or C and blame it on the professor's ideology. 3. I took several classes with those "brain washer" radical leftist professors, 3 of which show up on Andrew's poorly written website and yet I still managed to retain my conservatism while getting good grades. How my fragile mind withstood all that brainwashing I'll never know. 4. There is no 4 5. I'd like to see Andrew's mind numbingly horrible site taken down, moreso because it reads like essays I wrote in junior high, the guy has zero critical thinking and logical reasoning skills, and his arguments amount to Professor suchandsuch is a poopyhead b/c he lieks clinten [sic]. Its an insult to the political science department of UCLA that they graduated someone so incapable and pedantic.
I was a student on two different UC campuses and have friends from every other campus, nobody, on any of the listens to college radio. Nobody. Secondly, the only thing students care about DRM is circumventing it or avoiding it, if they even know what it is.
Somehow I'm not surprised it was the Dutch that found the secret boobies.
I'm not sure about box office results, but on Disney's primary portal http://disneyvideos.disney.go.com/ for DVD & video sales Miyazaki movies don't even touch their other franchises. By far the most popular are the princess movies http://disney.go.com/princess/, Winnie the Pooh, and Kim Possible. Eisner opened the floodgates for making sequels to their older movies so there's been a lot of straight to video movies that have been successful relying on the older franchises (Lion King, Mulan, Tarzan) that can make up for lost profits on flops. It should also be noted that Disney has had a certain amount of success over the last couple years with 2003's Home On The Range likelastyear'sHomeOntheRange and last year's Brother Bear http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=brotherbear.ht m which were pretty entertaining. So maybe its fair to say they've learned from Atlantis and Treasure Planet, although I'm not sure if the criticism leveled Disney calling these films disasters is merited. Most movies from all the major studios are lucky if they break even at the box office, once Disney decided to start releasing around an animated movie a year, they've ceased to be an exception to that rule.
No beer No TV make homer something something.
From Mar. 30 LA Times-
Justice Antonin Scalia also discounted the Betamax decision as a guide for the new case. Don't "waste your time on this," he advised Taranto. "This court is certainly not going to decide this case based on stare decisis," he said, citing the Latin term for stay as decided, or sticking with precedent.
Good luck with that idea. Looks like thats already been decided.
If you want to log in, don't hold your breath- they aren't opening until the end of the month. /dangerfield>
ba-dum-ching
Reminds me of my wife.
Blame Marvin the Martian and all those "just add water" footsoldiers of his.
From (riaa.org)12:17 PM (WST): HTTP Error 403 403.9 Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected This error can be caused if the Web server is busy and cannot process your request due to heavy traffic. Please try to connect again later. Please contact the Web server's administrator if the problem persists. Thank you /. for my daily dose of irony.
I have the newest version of lavasoft and it didn't detect it. Morpheus' little redirect fairy wreaked all kinds of havoc on my comp when I used norton firewall to restrict access of the website they send you to- www.inmotiongolf.com. Once I restricted it, xp froze completely and after rebooting, it would freeze everytime once imapi.exe loaded. After a few hours of figuring out what the hell just happened, I reinstall my firewall, uninstall the superevil morpheus, delete c:\windows\bpboh.dll, c:\windows\rdxr020305.dat, and c:\windows\system32\rdxr020305.dat. System clean, no more spyware, no more crashes, and I hope whatever ad wizard decided to throw that little component into the new Morpheus drowns in a pool of his own vomit or better yet stops by my place so I can beat him about the head and neck with my keyboard.