How many times will your employer/wife/principal tolerate a couple of MiBs showing up at your job/home/school to "just ask you a few questions" before they persuade you to start re-thinking your life choices and how you spend your weekends and evenings? G'head, sue somebody for harassment. I've no doubt that'll work our just swell...
Actually, had the Tea Party rioted, they would have been better armed than your average suburban police force. Their "advanced age" would only mean they had had military service and were likely better shots than the cops. The Tea Party didn't riot because they aren't thugs and special snowflakes.
He got the majority of electoral college votes, which is -- quite literally -- all that matters in this election. The EC was designed in part to ensure it would be next to impossible for a candidate to win if they did not have the support of sparsely populated rural areas as well as densely populated urban areas. That's the way it's always been, and for good reason -- and that's why Idaho has the same number of senators as New York. Those complaining about it now sound like football coaches whining that they lost even though they accumulated more offensive yards then the other team. If the election WERE to be won by a majority vote, and that was stated at the outset, then Trump would have just campaigned in the urban areas like Clinton did, modified his platform accordingly, and he still would have beaten her. You can't change the rules after you lose...
He'll listen to what they want. And if they open some factories and offices in places like Detroit and Des Moines, he may even give them some of what they want.
You're talking about the Old Testament, and there aren't many of those. The whole premise of Christianity is that Christ's teaching in the NT overwrites the silly, angry, vengeful crazy stuff in the OT. The whole scenario you describe is an example of "OT God" getting an upgrade in the NT. This is basic, Theology 101 kind of stuff, and you really shouldn't make statements about what "many Christians" believe on big sites like slashdot without doing a minimum amount of study on the topic. You are embarrassing the many Christians who vote Left, and merely emboldening the ones who vote Right.
Your daily blogs are notable for their extreme brevity. As a result of these, your words get re-printed and quoted much more than those of your longer-essaying entrepreneur peers, which probably has the happy side effect of "boosting your brand" more. Is this by design or luck, and what advice would you give your longer-winded peers about brevity? Bonus Question: What effect has the popularity of Twitter (and its character limit) had on CEO blogging, and CEO communications in general?
Slashdot, we get that the Church of Climate Change vs. The Heretics drama is good for engagement and pageviews and whatever, but aren't you afraid you might be milking it a bit too hard? Once or twice a month, maybe you put some popcorn on the popper, trot out one of these "Sky is Falling! Repent Sinners!" articles, and watch the post count roll up, sure, but it seems like it's every week now... you're starting to wade into self-parody, and I know that can't be helpful...
[b] Hillary, like Obama, was anti-gay and gay marriage for decades before it became politically expedient to be "pro-gay." And her foundation routinely accepts donations not only from governments with capital punishment for homosexuality, but from some of the actual guys who have thrown the stones.
>>No, you go fuck yourself you both sided libertarian retard. Conservatives and libertarians (another kind of conservative) OWN this you lying psychopath and we need to make you PAY for your fucking evil habits.
Please tell me this was a parody of the Global-Warmist-as-Medieval-Inquisitor variety. If not, then you're really starting to scare us...
You should know by now that religious zealous like Christian Evangelicals, Islamic Wahabis and Global Warmists don't really respond well to rants about science. They feels what they feels, and just expect everyone else to toe their line -- or else...!
Yeah, he's a Robin Hood. Taking the books from all those evil fat authors and giving them to all those poor peasants absolutely starving for entertainment...
Of course he has an agenda. But that does not make what he is releasing not factual or a cause for concern. Because nobody has released anything on Trump doesn't mean we should ignore what's come out about Clinton. The woman was part of a rigged election vs. Sanders! How does that get a pass?
What is most amusing to me is that, when Assange's target was the U.S. Military during the Manning document dissemination, he was the darling of The Left and villified by The Right. Now that the leaks speak Truth to a Power of The Left, The Right is crowing and The Left is trying to intimidate those who support him.
The fact that he has so thoroughly infuriated knuckleheaded idealogues on both sides just validates what he has to say, IMHO.
I am reminded again of why music reviewers love video game reviewers. (Because up until video game reviews, music reviews were the lowest form of journalism.)
I have been posting here since back when Slashdot was Rob Malda's blog. Then, the politics of the posters, where discernible, was decidedly extremely left wing. But there were not that many posts on politics. There were, however, a lot of posts on Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
But there was also a lot of activity, period. Every day, numerous stories spawned 500, 600, 700 posts, easily. And these were stories about the latest tweaks on the linux kernel, the merits of one spreadsheet or another, the latest laptop specs, or -- of course -- Buffy.
But now it's not Just Some Guy's Blog anymore, it's gotta make money for somebody. And that somebody who bought it got handed a bag of snakes, because operating a "community website" in this post-Facebook web world is a job for a buggy-whip manufacturer. So, yeah, the editors obviously got a mandate to do whatever they can to drive traffic/eyeballs/impressions or whatever web marketers are driving these these days, And Politics stories -- especially in this End Of Days Election Season we are going through -- do that.
As far as an answer to the question, "Where have all the Slashdot Lefties from the 90's gone?" I suppose the answer is either [a] they're still here but they've all grown up and become Righties, [b] fled to their online safespaces and echo chambers because engaging in a level exchange of ideas is anathema to them, or [c] a little of both.
I'll make note of that. But I'm really waiting to hear from the guy who draws "Garfield." I usually don't make any kind of meaningful decision until I know what he thinks about it.
>>but let's not pretend he's doing/being something noble.
Sure he is. In fact, he is providing a vital service. He is shining a big searing spotlight on how free speech is being restricted on college campuses, and all the hypocrisy that entails. Of course, one has to be outlandish and outrageous to cut through all the noise and attempts to dampen the message, but that seems to be something Milo revels in, so maybe he is uniquely qualified for the job.
>> white supremacist neo-nazi hate monger
You Social Justice Warriors really need another smokescreen other than race and fascism to throw down every time your views are questioned. The country has pretty much caught on to the tactic. (You can thank the violent BLM movement for expediting its demise; boy, what a miscalculation THAT was, wasn't it?) Y'all should try being, I dunno, entertaining. Like Milo.
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>>To some people, mass murder is a political view.
And to some people, cannibalism is a diet choice. What's your point?
Who says you will be arrested?
Who says you *need* to be arrested?
How many times will your employer/wife/principal tolerate a couple of MiBs showing up at your job/home/school to "just ask you a few questions" before they persuade you to start re-thinking your life choices and how you spend your weekends and evenings? G'head, sue somebody for harassment. I've no doubt that'll work our just swell...
OMG! That's simply not true! Horses!? WTF? You're either lying or willfully ignorant. Here are just a handful of citations that support my statement:
http://dailysignal.com/2016/11...
http://www.history.com/topics/...
http://www.historycentral.com/...
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/...
Show me what you got that supports your Horseback premise. Take your time...
Actually, had the Tea Party rioted, they would have been better armed than your average suburban police force. Their "advanced age" would only mean they had had military service and were likely better shots than the cops. The Tea Party didn't riot because they aren't thugs and special snowflakes.
He got the majority of electoral college votes, which is -- quite literally -- all that matters in this election. The EC was designed in part to ensure it would be next to impossible for a candidate to win if they did not have the support of sparsely populated rural areas as well as densely populated urban areas. That's the way it's always been, and for good reason -- and that's why Idaho has the same number of senators as New York. Those complaining about it now sound like football coaches whining that they lost even though they accumulated more offensive yards then the other team. If the election WERE to be won by a majority vote, and that was stated at the outset, then Trump would have just campaigned in the urban areas like Clinton did, modified his platform accordingly, and he still would have beaten her. You can't change the rules after you lose...
Let it go, son... just... just... let it go... It's getting tedious...
He'll listen to what they want. And if they open some factories and offices in places like Detroit and Des Moines, he may even give them some of what they want.
>>To many Christians who take the bible literally
You're talking about the Old Testament, and there aren't many of those. The whole premise of Christianity is that Christ's teaching in the NT overwrites the silly, angry, vengeful crazy stuff in the OT. The whole scenario you describe is an example of "OT God" getting an upgrade in the NT. This is basic, Theology 101 kind of stuff, and you really shouldn't make statements about what "many Christians" believe on big sites like slashdot without doing a minimum amount of study on the topic. You are embarrassing the many Christians who vote Left, and merely emboldening the ones who vote Right.
Actually, Slashdot is becoming anti-religion, much to the Church of Global Warming's ire.
And by "flushed" don't you mean "burnt at the stake," Parson?
Your daily blogs are notable for their extreme brevity. As a result of these, your words get re-printed and quoted much more than those of your longer-essaying entrepreneur peers, which probably has the happy side effect of "boosting your brand" more. Is this by design or luck, and what advice would you give your longer-winded peers about brevity? Bonus Question: What effect has the popularity of Twitter (and its character limit) had on CEO blogging, and CEO communications in general?
Slashdot, we get that the Church of Climate Change vs. The Heretics drama is good for engagement and pageviews and whatever, but aren't you afraid you might be milking it a bit too hard? Once or twice a month, maybe you put some popcorn on the popper, trot out one of these "Sky is Falling! Repent Sinners!" articles, and watch the post count roll up, sure, but it seems like it's every week now... you're starting to wade into self-parody, and I know that can't be helpful...
[a] Trump is not nor has ever been "anti-gay."
[b] Hillary, like Obama, was anti-gay and gay marriage for decades before it became politically expedient to be "pro-gay." And her foundation routinely accepts donations not only from governments with capital punishment for homosexuality, but from some of the actual guys who have thrown the stones.
>>No, you go fuck yourself you both sided libertarian retard. Conservatives and libertarians (another kind of conservative) OWN this you lying psychopath and we need to make you PAY for your fucking evil habits.
Please tell me this was a parody of the Global-Warmist-as-Medieval-Inquisitor variety. If not, then you're really starting to scare us...
You should know by now that religious zealous like Christian Evangelicals, Islamic Wahabis and Global Warmists don't really respond well to rants about science. They feels what they feels, and just expect everyone else to toe their line -- or else...!
Whose Scientists? Theirs or Ours?
He is not "making information available for free." He's putting authors' novels on the internet without being given the distribution rights.
Yeah, he's a Robin Hood. Taking the books from all those evil fat authors and giving them to all those poor peasants absolutely starving for entertainment...
Of course he has an agenda. But that does not make what he is releasing not factual or a cause for concern. Because nobody has released anything on Trump doesn't mean we should ignore what's come out about Clinton. The woman was part of a rigged election vs. Sanders! How does that get a pass?
What is most amusing to me is that, when Assange's target was the U.S. Military during the Manning document dissemination, he was the darling of The Left and villified by The Right. Now that the leaks speak Truth to a Power of The Left, The Right is crowing and The Left is trying to intimidate those who support him.
The fact that he has so thoroughly infuriated knuckleheaded idealogues on both sides just validates what he has to say, IMHO.
Explain. You think the e-mails he is disseminating have been falsified? If not, what is your point?
but no one wants to actually be near the "people of walmart" in person.
They're not so bad. It's the judgmental classist hipsters that most people are afraid of running into.
I am reminded again of why music reviewers love video game reviewers. (Because up until video game reviews, music reviews were the lowest form of journalism.)
I have been posting here since back when Slashdot was Rob Malda's blog. Then, the politics of the posters, where discernible, was decidedly extremely left wing. But there were not that many posts on politics. There were, however, a lot of posts on Buffy the Vampire Slayer...
But there was also a lot of activity, period. Every day, numerous stories spawned 500, 600, 700 posts, easily. And these were stories about the latest tweaks on the linux kernel, the merits of one spreadsheet or another, the latest laptop specs, or -- of course -- Buffy.
But now it's not Just Some Guy's Blog anymore, it's gotta make money for somebody. And that somebody who bought it got handed a bag of snakes, because operating a "community website" in this post-Facebook web world is a job for a buggy-whip manufacturer. So, yeah, the editors obviously got a mandate to do whatever they can to drive traffic/eyeballs/impressions or whatever web marketers are driving these these days, And Politics stories -- especially in this End Of Days Election Season we are going through -- do that.
As far as an answer to the question, "Where have all the Slashdot Lefties from the 90's gone?" I suppose the answer is either [a] they're still here but they've all grown up and become Righties, [b] fled to their online safespaces and echo chambers because engaging in a level exchange of ideas is anathema to them, or [c] a little of both.
I'll make note of that. But I'm really waiting to hear from the guy who draws "Garfield." I usually don't make any kind of meaningful decision until I know what he thinks about it.
>>but let's not pretend he's doing/being something noble.
Sure he is. In fact, he is providing a vital service. He is shining a big searing spotlight on how free speech is being restricted on college campuses, and all the hypocrisy that entails. Of course, one has to be outlandish and outrageous to cut through all the noise and attempts to dampen the message, but that seems to be something Milo revels in, so maybe he is uniquely qualified for the job.
>> white supremacist neo-nazi hate monger
You Social Justice Warriors really need another smokescreen other than race and fascism to throw down every time your views are questioned. The country has pretty much caught on to the tactic. (You can thank the violent BLM movement for expediting its demise; boy, what a miscalculation THAT was, wasn't it?) Y'all should try being, I dunno, entertaining. Like Milo.