Well, thank you Captain Obvious. I can't understand why the CIA doesn't just break down your door right now and drag you off to their secret training facilities, given your amazing abilities. I can't believe somebody actually found that Interesting. I think maybe they were looking for the "-1, Well Duh" moderation and clicked it by mistake.
I'm searching for the proofs in your statement, but all I see are a bunch of vague emotionally charged statements. I'm sorry, but I must have missed the evidence you provided to support the opinion above. Could you please point it out to a dummy like myself?
Why do you keep falling back on that? The justification going into the war was that Saddam posed a clear danger to the United States and that he had or was attempting to obtain WMD. No evidence has been found that any of these claims are true.
While your general statement about Saddam being a psychotic asshole is true, and nobody in their right mind is disputing it, that doesn't change the fact that it was not the reasoning behind the war. I find it amusing that people who support the war are frequently people who claim that Kerry waffles or some other nonsense, yet they keep going off on unrelated tangents like the one that you just tried to escape on. It's totally unrelated to the subject at hand, stop trying to change the subject.
Sorry; I guess it is just fun to waste time on/. sometimes.
Are you suggesting that there's any other way to spend time here? Seriously, look at this write up. I agree wholeheartedly that Bush and his cronies are lying, sniveling bastards, but this is ridiculous. This place just put up a declaration of fact as the title to an assumptive article with an editorial write up that couldn't possibly lean farther left if it had been written by Stalin himself (not that I'm suggesting Michael Sims is Stalin... I'd hate to be disrespectful of the dead).
Sorry, man... the only thing you can do in this hellhole of passionately uninformed opinion is waste time.
Yea, because I know that if I were trying to solve an important issue the first place I'd head out to talk about it is to Slashbot.
Angry with you? I couldn't give a shit less about you. I can't help it if you're one of the millions of drugged up, pill-popping drones who tries to foist personal responsibility off on society.
Are there STILL people like YOU who are too STUPID to grasp the concept of RESPONSIBILITY?
If it's going to fuck you up, don't drink it. Oh? You're an alcoholic? No. You were too fucking stupid to not drink beyond your limits, and now you can't stop. YOUR FAULT. You can't concentrate because you had too many cups of coffee? No, you were too fucking stupid to drink it in moderation. Them chemicals in your brain were all screwed up because you took acid and shot somebody? NO. YOU were too goddamn STUPID not to take it IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The only problem with people who are "addicted" to these things that screw up the human brain is that the jackasses were dumb enough to start taking them in the first place. We don't need to work on "cures" for mock diseases centered around addictions, we need to work on a cure for stupid so that stupid people don't get themselves addicted to things in the first place. If YOU picked up a bottle and started drinking, it's YOUR fault your an alcoholic. If YOU picked up a scoop of coffee and made a cup, it's YOUR fault your a jittery addict. If YOU went to the club and took ecstasy, IT'S YOUR OWN GODDAMN FAULT AND SO IS EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS AS A RESULT.
Clarification: pop-sci-med idiots who gradutated from med school because they want to rake brittle people over the coals and steal their money will immediately lunge at the opportunity to begin counseling people for "caffieneism" or something. The drug companies will pop up with "drugs" that do absolutely nothing but claim they cure this "problem". There will be advertisements showing how horribly, horribly messed up the caffeine addict's life is and the little bouncing face will bound out into the daylight after dutifully downing the most recent discovery of Dow chemicals (yes, that alliteration was quite intentional).
I think the only reason this hasn't happened for alcoholics is that the risk of being sued into the next millenium is to great when people realize the drugs don't do anything except cause new problems.
...who released a study that could result in the official classification of the condition as a mental disorder.
Seriously... is there ANYONE in ANY part of this country anymore that just takes a little bit of responsibility for their own goddamn actions? The idea that the effects of drinking a cup of coffee could even be considered being classified as a "disease" is absolutely ludicrous.
People are so pathetic these days. I think the only disease involved in all this "you're not an irresponsible jackass, you just need medical help!" attitude is an acute affliction of stupid.
I only know one of one human being that abysmally stupid on this planet. You don't happen to have been spanked in any presidential debates lately, have you?
You got modded -1, Flamebait for asking for evidence of that parent's claims. Nice. It's good to see that only a Troll or someone looking to incite a flame war would actually look for proof of a claim before accepting it as truth. Remember this the next time Gartner or Microsoft come out with a negative press release about Lunix.
Only trolls want proof!
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Oh goody. Now all the uninformed environmental saviours of humanity can all hear the word "nu-cu-lar" and start jumping up and down and spasming.
I can't wait until this comes out. I'd be afraid to push the technology for fear that some moron would try to regulate it into oblivion or ban it outright just because it uses a nuclear energy source.
Never mind the incredible jump in effeciency to reduce used landfill space. Never mind the chemicals that are in current solutions, what with the fact that they're highly dangerous and all. This is NUCLEAR people! Fear it!
Maybe I'm just being pessimistic... but I fear that legitimate, useful technologies like this will be blown away by wannabe "do gooders" before they get a chance to really prove just how much better a solution they are both environmentally and economically.
There is nothing amoral about them leveraging their strengths against their competition's weaknesses. There's nothing amoral about them partnering with a company that has a mutual competitor.
This writeup is just the babbling nonsense of your typical Operating System zealot who thinks Linux, which, frankly, IMHO, is not all that great anyway, deserves to be left go to run free in the computing world without challenges from competition.
Because Sun would certainly come out and say "Hey everybody! Look! We're going to start a smear campaign against xyz tomorrow! And we beat up small children and steal their milk money too!"
Christ...
Its plan? Attack Red Hat, use control over the operating system and the platform to disrupt competitors' pricing and business models, out-engineer everybody in the x86 space and use an alliance with Microsoft to fight a common enemy: IBM.
Oh my god! They're going to act like a company! Quick, run and hide!
Seriously, this idiotic, childish nonsense is exactly the reason that nobody likes to talk about Linux in any serious, business capacity. You have a couple success stories to tout, but Microsoft is still firmly in control of THE sweet spot of computing: the desktop market. Why? Because of crap like this entire stupid writeup.
If this had been about how to respond to a threat from Sun, or a mere analysis of Sun's business strategy (like the article is), that would be fine. This? This is crap. This is some submitter trying to shoot pimply-faced geeks' blood pressure up high enough to pop their zits just from reading Slashdot.
Honest to god... if you Linux zealots would just step back, take a breath, and F.O.C.U.S. on a goal, you'd be MUCH better off...
... no, nothing is "very clear to you" in the realm of international policy. That's why you've not been hired to manage it.
Pray tell.. answer me this question... how do you expect the people of Iraq to be "infected" by "freedom" when many don't even have the basic necessities of life that they had before we came galloping across their desert like a bunch of drunken rejects from ancient Athens?
The amazing thing about you people that support this absolutely preposterous approach to "nation building" and "securing the homeland" is that none of you seem to ever consider the fact that YOU are living in freedom in the comfort of a heated, likely air conditioned home with plenty to eat and a steady job, or at least a decent amount of government assistance to help you get a steady job. The people in Iraq, by comparison, are suffering rather high unemployment and a quite serious lack of basic infrastructure thanks to the United States. Call me crazy, but blowing up people's pipe lines and letting a bunch of insurgents and terrorists flood a country doesn't seem like it's the best way to go about making the place friendly.
Does it ever occur to you people that maybe not everyone likes the same things you do?
Honest - other people have opinions, they really do. Maybe YOU don't prefer Opera, but the original poster does. Mentioning the benefits and your opinion of Firefox is fine, but don't be a condescending jackass just because they prefer Opera.
Cripes.. if you like Firefox, fine - I love Firefox, it's my absolute number one browser of choice, but that doesn't mean I'm so utterly wrapped up in myself and my own thought processes that I don't recognize that maybe some other people don't like it the same way I do.
If it is the bomb that Duke has found, the question now is what, if anything, should be done with it?
Obviously, we need to get it back and get rid of it. If an arab group or someone else with a chip on their shoulder got their filthy hands on it, there's no telling what could happen.
You might think that they couldn't dig it back up, but remember: if it's too unstable to remove, they could send suicide... divers... to fetch it and just wreak havoc by messing with it on the ocean floor.
They call it piracy because, just like the traditional pirates people think of, the people who insist on stealing movies and music have the same general disdain for other people's property and rights as the pirates. It's the same general social dysfunction, it's just a smaller scale.
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Well, thank you Captain Obvious. I can't understand why the CIA doesn't just break down your door right now and drag you off to their secret training facilities, given your amazing abilities. I can't believe somebody actually found that Interesting. I think maybe they were looking for the "-1, Well Duh" moderation and clicked it by mistake.
If you'd taken the blue pill, you'd know there is no moon... er, I mean spoon.
Not too shabby. I actually had quite a chuckle in response to that comment.
Go ahead and tell them about the twinkie.
Pounds of TNT? That'd be a big number. The typical reference given is in kilotons of TNT, not individual pounds.
I'm searching for the proofs in your statement, but all I see are a bunch of vague emotionally charged statements. I'm sorry, but I must have missed the evidence you provided to support the opinion above. Could you please point it out to a dummy like myself?
Why do you keep falling back on that? The justification going into the war was that Saddam posed a clear danger to the United States and that he had or was attempting to obtain WMD. No evidence has been found that any of these claims are true.
While your general statement about Saddam being a psychotic asshole is true, and nobody in their right mind is disputing it, that doesn't change the fact that it was not the reasoning behind the war. I find it amusing that people who support the war are frequently people who claim that Kerry waffles or some other nonsense, yet they keep going off on unrelated tangents like the one that you just tried to escape on. It's totally unrelated to the subject at hand, stop trying to change the subject.
Sorry; I guess it is just fun to waste time on /. sometimes.
Are you suggesting that there's any other way to spend time here? Seriously, look at this write up. I agree wholeheartedly that Bush and his cronies are lying, sniveling bastards, but this is ridiculous. This place just put up a declaration of fact as the title to an assumptive article with an editorial write up that couldn't possibly lean farther left if it had been written by Stalin himself (not that I'm suggesting Michael Sims is Stalin... I'd hate to be disrespectful of the dead).
Sorry, man... the only thing you can do in this hellhole of passionately uninformed opinion is waste time.
Yea, because I know that if I were trying to solve an important issue the first place I'd head out to talk about it is to Slashbot.
Angry with you? I couldn't give a shit less about you. I can't help it if you're one of the millions of drugged up, pill-popping drones who tries to foist personal responsibility off on society.
Are there STILL people like YOU who are too STUPID to grasp the concept of RESPONSIBILITY?
If it's going to fuck you up, don't drink it. Oh? You're an alcoholic? No. You were too fucking stupid to not drink beyond your limits, and now you can't stop. YOUR FAULT. You can't concentrate because you had too many cups of coffee? No, you were too fucking stupid to drink it in moderation. Them chemicals in your brain were all screwed up because you took acid and shot somebody? NO. YOU were too goddamn STUPID not to take it IN THE FIRST PLACE.
The only problem with people who are "addicted" to these things that screw up the human brain is that the jackasses were dumb enough to start taking them in the first place. We don't need to work on "cures" for mock diseases centered around addictions, we need to work on a cure for stupid so that stupid people don't get themselves addicted to things in the first place. If YOU picked up a bottle and started drinking, it's YOUR fault your an alcoholic. If YOU picked up a scoop of coffee and made a cup, it's YOUR fault your a jittery addict. If YOU went to the club and took ecstasy, IT'S YOUR OWN GODDAMN FAULT AND SO IS EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS AS A RESULT.
Huh? I thought there was already a precedent for beating Starbucks employees due to the fact that... well.... they're starbucks employees.
Clarification: pop-sci-med idiots who gradutated from med school because they want to rake brittle people over the coals and steal their money will immediately lunge at the opportunity to begin counseling people for "caffieneism" or something. The drug companies will pop up with "drugs" that do absolutely nothing but claim they cure this "problem". There will be advertisements showing how horribly, horribly messed up the caffeine addict's life is and the little bouncing face will bound out into the daylight after dutifully downing the most recent discovery of Dow chemicals (yes, that alliteration was quite intentional).
I think the only reason this hasn't happened for alcoholics is that the risk of being sued into the next millenium is to great when people realize the drugs don't do anything except cause new problems.
Seriously... is there ANYONE in ANY part of this country anymore that just takes a little bit of responsibility for their own goddamn actions? The idea that the effects of drinking a cup of coffee could even be considered being classified as a "disease" is absolutely ludicrous.
People are so pathetic these days. I think the only disease involved in all this "you're not an irresponsible jackass, you just need medical help!" attitude is an acute affliction of stupid.
Good point. I'm voting for this "Helen" chick in November.
Stupid troll. If I were a dingo, I'd eat your babies.
Save lives.... by killing people?
I only know one of one human being that abysmally stupid on this planet. You don't happen to have been spanked in any presidential debates lately, have you?
You got modded -1, Flamebait for asking for evidence of that parent's claims. Nice. It's good to see that only a Troll or someone looking to incite a flame war would actually look for proof of a claim before accepting it as truth. Remember this the next time Gartner or Microsoft come out with a negative press release about Lunix.
Only trolls want proof!
Oh goody. Now all the uninformed environmental saviours of humanity can all hear the word "nu-cu-lar" and start jumping up and down and spasming.
I can't wait until this comes out. I'd be afraid to push the technology for fear that some moron would try to regulate it into oblivion or ban it outright just because it uses a nuclear energy source.
Never mind the incredible jump in effeciency to reduce used landfill space. Never mind the chemicals that are in current solutions, what with the fact that they're highly dangerous and all. This is NUCLEAR people! Fear it!
Maybe I'm just being pessimistic... but I fear that legitimate, useful technologies like this will be blown away by wannabe "do gooders" before they get a chance to really prove just how much better a solution they are both environmentally and economically.
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Replying to me is the kiss of karmic death.
There is nothing amoral about them leveraging their strengths against their competition's weaknesses. There's nothing amoral about them partnering with a company that has a mutual competitor.
This writeup is just the babbling nonsense of your typical Operating System zealot who thinks Linux, which, frankly, IMHO, is not all that great anyway, deserves to be left go to run free in the computing world without challenges from competition.
Because Sun would certainly come out and say "Hey everybody! Look! We're going to start a smear campaign against xyz tomorrow! And we beat up small children and steal their milk money too!"
Christ...
Oh my god! They're going to act like a company! Quick, run and hide!
Seriously, this idiotic, childish nonsense is exactly the reason that nobody likes to talk about Linux in any serious, business capacity. You have a couple success stories to tout, but Microsoft is still firmly in control of THE sweet spot of computing: the desktop market. Why? Because of crap like this entire stupid writeup.
If this had been about how to respond to a threat from Sun, or a mere analysis of Sun's business strategy (like the article is), that would be fine. This? This is crap. This is some submitter trying to shoot pimply-faced geeks' blood pressure up high enough to pop their zits just from reading Slashdot.
Honest to god... if you Linux zealots would just step back, take a breath, and F.O.C.U.S. on a goal, you'd be MUCH better off...
Does your mommy know you're out trolling instead of doing your homework?
... no, nothing is "very clear to you" in the realm of international policy. That's why you've not been hired to manage it.
Pray tell.. answer me this question... how do you expect the people of Iraq to be "infected" by "freedom" when many don't even have the basic necessities of life that they had before we came galloping across their desert like a bunch of drunken rejects from ancient Athens?
The amazing thing about you people that support this absolutely preposterous approach to "nation building" and "securing the homeland" is that none of you seem to ever consider the fact that YOU are living in freedom in the comfort of a heated, likely air conditioned home with plenty to eat and a steady job, or at least a decent amount of government assistance to help you get a steady job. The people in Iraq, by comparison, are suffering rather high unemployment and a quite serious lack of basic infrastructure thanks to the United States. Call me crazy, but blowing up people's pipe lines and letting a bunch of insurgents and terrorists flood a country doesn't seem like it's the best way to go about making the place friendly.
But hey, maybe that's just me....
Does it ever occur to you people that maybe not everyone likes the same things you do?
Honest - other people have opinions, they really do. Maybe YOU don't prefer Opera, but the original poster does. Mentioning the benefits and your opinion of Firefox is fine, but don't be a condescending jackass just because they prefer Opera.
Cripes.. if you like Firefox, fine - I love Firefox, it's my absolute number one browser of choice, but that doesn't mean I'm so utterly wrapped up in myself and my own thought processes that I don't recognize that maybe some other people don't like it the same way I do.
If it is the bomb that Duke has found, the question now is what, if anything, should be done with it?
Obviously, we need to get it back and get rid of it. If an arab group or someone else with a chip on their shoulder got their filthy hands on it, there's no telling what could happen.
You might think that they couldn't dig it back up, but remember: if it's too unstable to remove, they could send suicide... divers... to fetch it and just wreak havoc by messing with it on the ocean floor.
Red Hat is doing quite well on bringing themselves down without anyone else's help.
They call it piracy because, just like the traditional pirates people think of, the people who insist on stealing movies and music have the same general disdain for other people's property and rights as the pirates. It's the same general social dysfunction, it's just a smaller scale.