The sheer chutzpah of trying to simulate 'Leadership' may stagger you
I have 437 Slashdot "fans" -- now that's completely simulated leadership -- and purely generated by my chutzpah in publicly posting my ill-informed rants for others to rate.
(If it was real leadership, they'd send me money or women, right? Or, ok, it's Slashdot, mobos and Star wars figurines.;) )
I will be sending my comments immediately by email. They'll know who I am.
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And yes, we do know who you are, Citizen!
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It's not news that the "outsourcing" issue draws heavily on thinly-veiled racial scapegoating. But I'm not sure who is making less of an attempt to conceal it: you or this idiot.
I think you missed my point, friend.
I'm not scapegoating the Indian worker: he's making a rational decision to take a better job so he can better feed his family, and you or I would do the same in his place.
My point was to demonstrate that -- whether the issue is outsourcing of the IT sector, or John Ashcroft's cavalier (roundhead?) attitude toward civil liberties, or the DMCA, or anything else -- those who blithely ignore politics quickly sooner or later find themselves at the mercy of those who do pay attention.
Many of us in the "tech sector" pretend to disdain politics -- it's a luxury when can just barely afford to get away with as the "American Century" draws to a close.
But one way or another, the butcher's bill comes due, either at Omaha Beach or at Tarawa or Concord or Lexington, or to mix metaphors, in a bread line.
OK, but how do I register with the Republican party so I can get my QUID PRO QUO job. Do I have to work for Halliburton?
I'm afraid the good paying Halliburton jobs are taken, at least until Ayman al-Zawahri creates a few new openings -- in the necks on the next two unfortunate contractors who couldn't find a safe state-side job in Bush's economy.
But the way things are going, the Republican party will ensure you a job if you GO ARMY!
Doesn't really matter, because IT has become such a neccessity [sic], and such a commodity, that it's silly to say "who should I vote for? who will support IT the most?". It's a non-issue. It's like saying "gee, which party will support accountants more?" or "which party supports telephone use?". It just isn't one of those economic sectors that[']s on one side of the spectrum politically, like trial lawyers.
Oh, so much I am agreeing with you sir!
Very truly, do not be bothering yourself about your politicians' votes, sir!
IT is being a necessity, yes, indeed, as necessary as a bowl of curry when you are hungry!
Please to keep ignoring it and calling it to be a non-issue, sir, and I will be being happy to do your job for ten percent of your pay!
So much I thank you for ensuring my economic future by throwing away your heritage as a citizen of a democracy!
Soon you will not have to worry about the IT sector at all sir! And I would be glad to teach the rudiments of selling apples on the street for five cents each, or begging for alms in the hot Calcutta slums!
--Yours most sincerely, Apu Babu Singh Mahadressi Mumbai, India
Would the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan make it harder to declare war on, say, Iran or North Korea if the need exists?
No. The 535 senators and Congressmen who would vote to declare war have as yet suffered not a single casualty in the Iraq war!
And since only about three of those 535 actually have kids in the military -- and only a very few, like Lindsey Graham are actually in the military themselves -- (as opposed to the many more with kids employed by defense industries or lobbyists), the war has had no real effect on out stalwart Leaders Washington!
However thanks to Bush's foolishness and Rumsfeld's stubbornness, while we will still be able to declare war easily, there will far damn fewer grunts willing -- or able -- to fight.
Your follow-up questions should therefore be: when does Congress reinstate the draft -- and are the rumors that it will extend to people as old as 34, and preferentially those in "needed professions" like IT, true?
To me as a young voter this is the most discouraging aspect of trying to stay involved in the political process: my elected representatives make laws that represent my views as a citizen
So you're a young voter who
doesn't smoke pot,
drives slowly
isn't worried about paying for college
and stands to benefit from tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%?
Because that's what your "representatives" are voting for: more drug laws, more prisons, and more corporate wealfare.
And your biggest worry isn't getting laid, or getting into a good school, getting a decent job when you graduate or avoiding having to join the Army and go to Iraq, it's the gasp unelected judiciary "promot[ing] their own political and social agendas"?
Come the fuck on!
Is there anyone reading the parent post who thinks it wasn't written by Karl Rove or Jerry Falwell and then pressed into this "young voter's" sweaty palm by rich Daddy, who told him, "now go out and make Dubya proud"?
Don't piss down my leg and tell me that it's raining, frat boy.
The US copyright holder would be totally undercut, since he gets no meaningful profits from the Strongbadian copies, which are made against his will by third parties, and are cheaper than US-made and authorized copies.
So let me get this straight: it's wrong for me to buy music from Russia where I can get it more cheaply, because I'd be undercutting the honest American business man?
But it's right for American businesses to outsourced my job to India where they can get labor more cheaply, because that's streamlining business and creating efficiency?
Man!
One day I want to live somewhere where real, living, breathing -- and maybe starving -- people have as many rights as faceless, soulless, corporations.
But I guess it's fair, those corporations paid good money -- money they made by charging customers like me more -- to buy the politicians who wrote them the favorable laws.
Has anybody ever actually had the supposed editor-on-duty respond when they pointed out it was a dupe?
I reported a plagiarized article, submitted by a troll as his own work, to Taco -- and never got a response.
I also notified the real author, who did get back to me.
To Slashdot's credit, the article was eventually corrected to note it had been plagiarized.
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And the problems with these times are a carryover from the Clinton administration's disastrous policies.
Yeah, that damn tech boom really sucked for me -- this job as a contractor in Iraq is so much better!
Libruls, don't lose your head blaming Bush!
Speaking of which, rebeka thomas (673264), your comment seems a bit muffled -- is it because your head is so far up your ass, or is it just because it's so far up Bush's ass?
and the births of (von Braun, Riedel, etc.) its ethos single handedly launched the world into the space age.
Yeah. Pretty good for war criminals using slave labour.
The US protected war criminal von Braun in order to outrace the Soviets.
A (possibly apocryphal) story goes that one time after the war, von Braun's plane, flying from Europe to the US, developed mechanical troubles and the pilot was about to divert to England, when von Braun informed him that he, von Braun, was still subject to arrest in the United Kingdom for War Crimes.
European astronomers have taken what may be the first picture of an extra-solar planet. The possible planet orbits a brown dwarf star 230 light years away.
The picture looks disturbingly like one often posted at Slashdot.
Not sure if this is for real or not, but for what it's worth, it seems like a Democratic PAC is letting people vote on where to spend US$10k of its money.... Is this a good example of trying to harness the wisdom of crowds?
This has nothing to do with the wisdom of crowds.
It has everything to do with generating publicity for this PAC, and getting the people arguing for one state over another personally invested in the argument, so they'll have a personal, emotional reason to contribute even more money to the PAC.
A somewhat devious but likely workable strategy. As always in politics, follow the money.
And in case you are adverse to evaluating arguments without knowing the biases of the person offering those arguments, I'm all for Kerry, or indeed, Anybody But Bush.
Both of you need to be modded down for failing to recognize that the parent's post refers to events in The Search for Spock, not The Wrath of Khan. I believe I've out-nerded you.
Yes, you... win...
...a lifetime of being alone, in your mother's basement...
...text messaging Comic Book Guy while he pretends to be a cheerleader named "Tyffani".
Slashdot used to be a forum to discuss technology issues
Friend, you can ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.
Technology is all about politics: copyright law, patent law, outsourcing, regulation of the wireless spectrum, requirements for "broadcast bits", use of technology to support (or defend against) the police state or rampant corporatism.
Hell, model rocketry has been effectively outlawed to protect us against "terrorism".
Clinton tried to outlaw cryptography.
And Bill Gates would love to establish crippling insurance or certification requirements to stamp out hobbyist GPL projects.
Sure, ignore.
The more you ignore it, the quicker it'll affect your life.
In World War II, Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar, "This Machine Kills Fascists".
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The sheer chutzpah of trying to simulate 'Leadership' may stagger you
;) )
I have 437 Slashdot "fans" -- now that's completely simulated leadership -- and purely generated by my chutzpah in publicly posting my ill-informed rants for others to rate.
(If it was real leadership, they'd send me money or women, right? Or, ok, it's Slashdot, mobos and Star wars figurines.
We want all your papers, please!
And yes, we do know who you are, Citizen!
CC: PATRIOT DATABASE, REICHSMINISTRY OF INFORMATION
It's not news that the "outsourcing" issue draws heavily on thinly-veiled racial scapegoating. But I'm not sure who is making less of an attempt to conceal it: you or this idiot.
I think you missed my point, friend.
I'm not scapegoating the Indian worker: he's making a rational decision to take a better job so he can better feed his family, and you or I would do the same in his place.
My point was to demonstrate that -- whether the issue is outsourcing of the IT sector, or John Ashcroft's cavalier (roundhead?) attitude toward civil liberties, or the DMCA, or anything else -- those who blithely ignore politics quickly sooner or later find themselves at the mercy of those who do pay attention.
Many of us in the "tech sector" pretend to disdain politics -- it's a luxury when can just barely afford to get away with as the "American Century" draws to a close.
But one way or another, the butcher's bill comes due, either at Omaha Beach or at Tarawa or Concord or Lexington, or to mix metaphors, in a bread line.
OK, but how do I register with the Republican party so I can get my QUID PRO QUO job. Do I have to work for Halliburton?
I'm afraid the good paying Halliburton jobs are taken, at least until Ayman al-Zawahri creates a few new openings -- in the necks on the next two unfortunate contractors who couldn't find a safe state-side job in Bush's economy.
But the way things are going, the Republican party will ensure you a job if you GO ARMY!
Doesn't really matter, because IT has become such a neccessity [sic], and such a commodity, that it's silly to say "who should I vote for? who will support IT the most?". It's a non-issue. It's like saying "gee, which party will support accountants more?" or "which party supports telephone use?". It just isn't one of those economic sectors that[']s on one side of the spectrum politically, like trial lawyers.
Oh, so much I am agreeing with you sir!
Very truly, do not be bothering yourself about your politicians' votes, sir!
IT is being a necessity, yes, indeed, as necessary as a bowl of curry when you are hungry!
Please to keep ignoring it and calling it to be a non-issue, sir, and I will be being happy to do your job for ten percent of your pay!
So much I thank you for ensuring my economic future by throwing away your heritage as a citizen of a democracy!
Soon you will not have to worry about the IT sector at all sir! And I would be glad to teach the rudiments of selling apples on the street for five cents each, or begging for alms in the hot Calcutta slums!
--Yours most sincerely,
Apu Babu Singh Mahadressi
Mumbai, India
It sounds more like a really bad translation from a Japanese instruction manual.
Wait, I didn't see anything about all my base are belong to Microsoft!
Oh, right, that's assumed.
Who decides what is moral
John David Ashcroft, at the direction of Jesus H. Christ!
Any questions?
Ask 'em in Guantanamo!
Would the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan make it harder to declare war on, say, Iran or North Korea if the need exists?
No. The 535 senators and Congressmen who would vote to declare war have as yet suffered not a single casualty in the Iraq war!
And since only about three of those 535 actually have kids in the military -- and only a very few, like Lindsey Graham are actually in the military themselves -- (as opposed to the many more with kids employed by defense industries or lobbyists), the war has had no real effect on out stalwart Leaders Washington!
However thanks to Bush's foolishness and Rumsfeld's stubbornness, while we will still be able to declare war easily, there will far damn fewer grunts willing -- or able -- to fight.
Your follow-up questions should therefore be: when does Congress reinstate the draft -- and are the rumors that it will extend to people as old as 34, and preferentially those in "needed professions" like IT, true?
So you're a young voter who
- doesn't smoke pot,
- drives slowly
- isn't worried about paying for college
- and stands to benefit from tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%?
Because that's what your "representatives" are voting for: more drug laws, more prisons, and more corporate wealfare.And your biggest worry isn't getting laid, or getting into a good school, getting a decent job when you graduate or avoiding having to join the Army and go to Iraq, it's the gasp unelected judiciary "promot[ing] their own political and social agendas"?
Come the fuck on!
Is there anyone reading the parent post who thinks it wasn't written by Karl Rove or Jerry Falwell and then pressed into this "young voter's" sweaty palm by rich Daddy, who told him, "now go out and make Dubya proud"?
Don't piss down my leg and tell me that it's raining, frat boy.
Assuming the rights of the voters are protected, I would gladly cast my vote online.
Assuming the moon was made of green cheese, I would eat it.
Assuming Natalie Portman couldn't keep her hands off me, I'd do her.
Assuming this gun isn't loaded, I'll gladly put it in mouth a and pull the *KA-Booom*
Kid, you're assuming an awful lot -- and I'm almost convinced you don't deserve to vote given how readily you assume the unlikely or impossible.
The US copyright holder would be totally undercut, since he gets no meaningful profits from the Strongbadian copies, which are made against his will by third parties, and are cheaper than US-made and authorized copies.
So let me get this straight: it's wrong for me to buy music from Russia where I can get it more cheaply, because I'd be undercutting the honest American business man?
But it's right for American businesses to outsourced my job to India where they can get labor more cheaply, because that's streamlining business and creating efficiency?
Man!
One day I want to live somewhere where real, living, breathing -- and maybe starving -- people have as many rights as faceless, soulless, corporations.
But I guess it's fair, those corporations paid good money -- money they made by charging customers like me more -- to buy the politicians who wrote them the favorable laws.
Has anybody ever actually had the supposed editor-on-duty respond when they pointed out it was a dupe?
I reported a plagiarized article, submitted by a troll as his own work, to Taco -- and never got a response.
I also notified the real author, who did get back to me.
To Slashdot's credit, the article was eventually corrected to note it had been plagiarized.
And the problems with these times are a carryover from the Clinton administration's disastrous policies.
Yeah, that damn tech boom really sucked for me -- this job as a contractor in Iraq is so much better!
Libruls, don't lose your head blaming Bush!
Speaking of which, rebeka thomas (673264), your comment seems a bit muffled -- is it because your head is so far up your ass, or is it just because it's so far up Bush's ass?
Interview with Tom, Lord of Arch Revision System
Sci-fi/Fantasy collision imminent: does that make him a Go'ald System Lord or a Tollkien High Elf?
Me too.
It was a decent movie, but what really brings back the memories is that...
...I got my first kiss ever after watching a replay of it...
...at a science fiction convention...
...while dressed as a "medieval" priest...
...from a girl I'd met the day before by going up to her and "blessing" her.
Yes, I am an unrepentant geek.
;)
That was, what, some nineteen years ago.
And as an unrepentant geek, I hope one day to get my second kiss.
In all seriousness though, Sandi Lynn E., here's to you, wherever you are after all these years.
If the special effects make you woozy, take some Milk of Magnesia.
I saw the movie; now I want Milk of Amnesia.
That's ninety minutes I'd prefer to forget.
Who's that? I know Ralph Nader was taken off the ballot, but Nadar? Never heard of him...
Has Slashdot sunk to a new nadir?
Except it would only be 13 inches for 6 to 12 hours at a time.
Well, you did say you wanted an elevator.
and the births of (von Braun, Riedel, etc.) its ethos single handedly launched the world into the space age.
Yeah. Pretty good for war criminals using slave labour.
The US protected war criminal von Braun in order to outrace the Soviets.
A (possibly apocryphal) story goes that one time after the war, von Braun's plane, flying from Europe to the US, developed mechanical troubles and the pilot was about to divert to England, when von Braun informed him that he, von Braun, was still subject to arrest in the United Kingdom for War Crimes.
European astronomers have taken what may be the first picture of an extra-solar planet. The possible planet orbits a brown dwarf star 230 light years away.
The picture looks disturbingly like one often posted at Slashdot.
Where exactly were the cameras aimed again?
The FCC has exclusive rights
Dear mods, the parent post has the answer. Please try to make sure it ends up with a score higher than two.
Flabberghastedly yours as always,
orthogonal
Not sure if this is for real or not, but for what it's worth, it seems like a Democratic PAC is letting people vote on where to spend US$10k of its money.... Is this a good example of trying to harness the wisdom of crowds?
This has nothing to do with the wisdom of crowds.
It has everything to do with generating publicity for this PAC, and getting the people arguing for one state over another personally invested in the argument, so they'll have a personal, emotional reason to contribute even more money to the PAC.
A somewhat devious but likely workable strategy. As always in politics, follow the money.
And in case you are adverse to evaluating arguments without knowing the biases of the person offering those arguments, I'm all for Kerry, or indeed, Anybody But Bush.
Yes, you... win...
Slashdot used to be a forum to discuss technology issues
Friend, you can ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.
Technology is all about politics: copyright law, patent law, outsourcing, regulation of the wireless spectrum, requirements for "broadcast bits", use of technology to support (or defend against) the police state or rampant corporatism.
Hell, model rocketry has been effectively outlawed to protect us against "terrorism".
Clinton tried to outlaw cryptography.
And Bill Gates would love to establish crippling insurance or certification requirements to stamp out hobbyist GPL projects.
Sure, ignore.
The more you ignore it, the quicker it'll affect your life.
In World War II, Woody Guthrie wrote on his guitar, "This Machine Kills Fascists".
What's written on your computer?
...Dr. David Marcus, head of the Genesis Project....
;)
Mod parent +5 Great Big Nerd for being able to remember the fake technology of Wrath of Khan after all these years.