Now for those who might think this post is "flamebait", I'd like to remind them that the Soviet Union, much of which became today's Russia had and still has the biggest, heaviest and highest-capacity flying aircraft in service today Indeed; and the craft it was purpose designed and built to lift was destroyed due to underfunding, poor maintenance and overall negligence. Eight people perished in this particular Russian space program disaster.
Contrast that with the Airbus A380 that the [TV] networks appeared not to get fed up of when it made its first commercial flight. Ok, but only because you insist: there was more than one A380 built and none of them have been destroyed in hanger collapses.
Humans are set up to recognise faces and most humans know this so behaving badly when your face is clearly visible to people is rationally a bad idea. Of course, folks on the road can also see the faces of aggressive drivers, and yet the antisocial behavior continues. Perhaps if every IP packet included not only your IP address, but also a photograph of your visage, we could hope to turn the volume down on the overwhelming, obscene antisocial internet behavior, reducing it to merely that which we see on our highways.
I think that killing anonymity to engender a cleaner, kinder internet will not improve people's manners any more than license plates do. Sorry.
This, unfortunately, ignores the simple human traits that a) they will take anything not nailed down When was the last time you saw a newspaper vending machine that prevented you from taking all of its papers even though you payed for only a single copy? It seems that your negative view of humanity is ill-informed, being unaware of the common newspaper vending machine...
b) perceived anonymity gives them an impetus to do things they wouldn't usually do (cf Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory...). It's just like road rage: if vehicles carried some sort of visible, unique identifier, drivers would afford others the same respect and caution that they expect to receive themselves.
I'm almost willing to bet that the reality (assuming this is actually the real document) is going to let down a lot of people You're almost willing to bet that wildly exaggerated expectations will not be met? How much exaggeration is required in order to exceed the reality of gitmo?
People are abducted from foreign nations with no legal recourse, on secret charges and secret evidence and placed in gitmo.
How are we to outdo this? Should I be expecting Bush to be abducting American citizens and liquidating them? Please, tell me again how the current situation is so innocuous that only the paranoid are worried.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200710020011>I'm going to have to go with media matters over the veritable battlefield of invective, vandalism and constant editing that is Rush Limbaugh's wikipedia article.
Limbaugh did not refer to MacBeth during his September 26 broadcast until 1 minute and 50 seconds after making his "phony soldiers" comment. Indeed, at no point during his September 26 radio show did Limbaugh refer to any soldiers he considered to be fake prior to making his "phony soldiers" comment.
My friend, please, for God's sake please stop drinking your own kool-aid. Take what Rush says with a grain of salt. He hasn't exactly proven himself to be the most sober, truthful, upright individual.
It's interesting that you link to a media matters article that covers one small aspect of this controversy. Let's see what they have to say about the situation and its broader context:
Washington, DC - As the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" comments continues to grow, Media Matters for America would like to highlight the falsehoods that Limbaugh, America's top conservative talk-radio host, has used to claim that he was taken out of context.
Limbaugh claims he referred only to Jesse MacBeth, but smeared other veterans
Misinformation: On September 28, Limbaugh asserted that his "phony soldiers" comment was a reference to Jesse MacBeth, who pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for pretending to be an injured Iraq war veteran.
Fact: Limbaugh did not refer to MacBeth during his September 26 broadcast until 1 minute and 50 seconds after making his "phony soldiers" comment. Indeed, at no point during his September 26 radio show did Limbaugh refer to any soldiers he considered to be fake prior to making his "phony soldiers" comment.
Moreover, as the blog Crooks and Liars and Media Matters noted, in the September 28 broadcast, Limbaugh expanded the group of "phony soldiers" to include Vietnam veteran Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) and Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, who is currently serving in Iraq. In asserting that he was originally "talking about a genuine phony soldier," Limbaugh went on to state: "And by the way, Jesse MacBeth's not the only one. How about this guy Scott Thomas who was writing fraudulent, phony things in The New Republic about atrocities he saw that never happened? How about Jack Murtha blanketly accepting the notion that Marines at Haditha engaged in wanton murder of innocent children and civilians?"
According to Murtha's biography on his congressional website, Murtha joined the Marines in 1952 and volunteered for service in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.
Limbaugh claims he was only speaking about one soldier, but used the plural
Misinformation: Limbaugh twice claimed that rather than speaking generally of soldiers who support withdrawal from Iraq, that he was "talking about one soldier with that 'phony soldier' comment, Jesse MacBeth."
Fact: As the transcript makes clear, Limbaugh actually referred to "phony soldiers," plural. Responding to a caller's statement that supporters of withdrawal "like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media," Limbaugh responded, "The phony soldiers" [emphasis added].
Limbaugh claims to be a victim of "selective" editing, then aired edited clip and posted edited transcript
Misinformation: Limbaugh further asserted that "Media Matters had the transcript, but they selectively choose what they want to make their point." To support this claim, Limbaugh purported to air the "entire" segment in question from the September 26 broadcast of his show. Prior to airing the edited clip, Limbaugh said: "Here is, it runs about 3 minutes and 13 seconds, the entire transcript, in context, that led to this so-called controversy." After the clip ended, Limbaugh stated: "That was the transcript from yesterday's program, talking about one phony soldier. The truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose, which is exactly the way the website Media Matters generated this story."
Fact: In fact, the clip he aired had been edited. Excised from the clip was a full 1 minute and 35 seconds of the 1 minute and 50 second discussion that occurred between Limbaugh's original "phony soldiers" comment and his reference to MacBeth, the full audio of which can be heard here:
"Dissenting" is not the proper word for people who lie... he quote in question has to do with soldiers who climed to have been present in certain places at certain times and were then proven to be liars. Back that up. Until you can, you're just another chickenhawk.
And this sort of hyperventilation is why I don't come to Slashdot for politics. Ah yes, the "you're a hysterical bitch" argument - always fair and balanced.
it would have also been seen as a complete waste of time Why? I'm not sorry that Kucinich taking away time from such important tasks as granting immunity to telecoms, subsidizing bridges to nowhere, molesting pages, starting wars, curtailing rights, denying net neutrality, approving nominees for attorney general who will not flat out state that waterboarding is torture, commending Rush Limbaugh for calling dissenting military personal "phony soldiers," rolling over to Bush on days that end with y...
This is one of the few worthwhile things happening in the US federal legislature. My friend, please, for God's sake please stop watching American television.
I don't know if I would want to hire a CS Student from MIT if they don't teach the KISS Concept. I've worked a few and the common traits are workaholism, narcissism and insecurity. But that's because they're men - I also observed that they appreciate an elegant design and kissing one, even more so...
What if I want to know some details on [whatever web comic] someone just mentioned to me? Maybe I want to know a handful of relevant links? Google is going to give me a bunch of irrelevant crap I don't want. What if you don't want to encounter a flood of spam? I agree that Wikipedia finds relevant info easily - because it's not an index of unmanaged junk. You are objecting to aspects of that management...
This is one of those keep ^ eat situations, and we are doing a little bit too much eating for your taste. That's just how it is with cake.
Apple's OS has to work with less different types of hardware Interesting. So it's "hardware differences" that require start to be clicked in order to shut down windows.
Look, windows isn't annoying to use because it has to run on a greater variety of hardware. It's annoying to use because it was designed by assholes.
It's important to carefully ensure that punishment is served justly in these cases, and fast is rarely careful. Think about how many appeals this went through - it's like a death penalty case, except the punishment is a slap on the wrist. Since justice is measured as the the ratio of trial length to severity of punishment, Microsoft is on the receiving end of a fuck ton of justice.
In the end, the free market will win and the internet will stop being free. It's to be expected given that the same thing has already happened in meat space.
The only thing left to do is to buy stock in the telcos. That way, you can preserve your dignity by claiming that whereas everyone else is merely raped by the telcos, you are actually raping yourself.
MS is NOT intentionally breaking XP and anyone who would think so should seek professionally counseling. I agree: anyone who assumes that MS is not breaking XP needs to see the bigger picture. They want to move customers to Vista; one way to do that is to make life difficult for those on XP. Remember NT 4 service pack 6? Remember how it "accidentally" broke 3rd party software left untouched by the latest 2k patches?
I've been using Windows since 3.11 Wow, no wonder you're so angry.
Vista would like to smack you in the face and call you names.
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Vista thinks you smell bad and have a tiny brain to boot.
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Vista vistas you so hard that your vista hurts when you walk.
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Vista makes you spend all your money, then claims that you gave it a virus and stops responding to you.
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*bows head in shame* Look, you can't say that there aren't Vista victims, because I am one. Yes, Vista victimized me. The worst part is that it claims it's my fault, because I was "totally asking for it." Don't let it happen to you.
Hello??? It's a digital protocol, it either makes it through or it doesn't. Ah, but you have to shield your digital cables well, lest the vicious digital packets rip your precious DNA to shreds. A digital packet stream emitting from a chinky cable is like mustard gas slowly filling your den, but without the telltale smell to warn you of the danger!
Really, what has arab world contributed to the science world? The Arabs exemplify the folly of handing the reigns of power to those who claim to be ordained by God. Could their be a more obvious critereon for unjust leadership? It truly is as Toynbee said in A Study of History. Wikipedia summarizes thusly:
[Toynbee] argues that the breakdown of civilizations is not caused by loss of control over the environment, over the human environment, or attacks from outside. Rather, it comes from the deterioration of the "Creative Minority," which eventually ceases to be creative and degenerates into merely a "Dominant Minority" (who forces the majority to obey without meriting obedience). He argues that creative minorities deteriorate due to a worship of their "former self," by which they become prideful, and fail to adequately address the next challenge they face.
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I think that killing anonymity to engender a cleaner, kinder internet will not improve people's manners any more than license plates do. Sorry.
Am I missing something or is some one trying to turn the long standing trend into an initial surge from the release of a new version?
From TFA: September [before Lepeord was released]... was itself the highest share Apple had managed to get so far in 2007.
So, to answer your question: no. To answer mine: I RIKE TO BUY MAC WHERE CAN I DO THIS HERE TAKE MY WINDOWS IT'S CLAP.
People are abducted from foreign nations with no legal recourse, on secret charges and secret evidence and placed in gitmo.
How are we to outdo this? Should I be expecting Bush to be abducting American citizens and liquidating them? Please, tell me again how the current situation is so innocuous that only the paranoid are worried.
Limbaugh did not refer to MacBeth during his September 26 broadcast until 1 minute and 50 seconds after making his "phony soldiers" comment. Indeed, at no point during his September 26 radio show did Limbaugh refer to any soldiers he considered to be fake prior to making his "phony soldiers" comment. My friend, please, for God's sake please stop drinking your own kool-aid. Take what Rush says with a grain of salt. He hasn't exactly proven himself to be the most sober, truthful, upright individual.
Limbaugh responds with 'The phony soldiers.'
It's interesting that you link to a media matters article that covers one small aspect of this controversy. Let's see what they have to say about the situation and its broader context:
Washington, DC - As the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's "phony soldiers" comments continues to grow, Media Matters for America would like to highlight the falsehoods that Limbaugh, America's top conservative talk-radio host, has used to claim that he was taken out of context.
Limbaugh claims he referred only to Jesse MacBeth, but smeared other veterans
Misinformation: On September 28, Limbaugh asserted that his "phony soldiers" comment was a reference to Jesse MacBeth, who pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for pretending to be an injured Iraq war veteran.
Fact: Limbaugh did not refer to MacBeth during his September 26 broadcast until 1 minute and 50 seconds after making his "phony soldiers" comment. Indeed, at no point during his September 26 radio show did Limbaugh refer to any soldiers he considered to be fake prior to making his "phony soldiers" comment.
Moreover, as the blog Crooks and Liars and Media Matters noted, in the September 28 broadcast, Limbaugh expanded the group of "phony soldiers" to include Vietnam veteran Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) and Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp, who is currently serving in Iraq. In asserting that he was originally "talking about a genuine phony soldier," Limbaugh went on to state: "And by the way, Jesse MacBeth's not the only one. How about this guy Scott Thomas who was writing fraudulent, phony things in The New Republic about atrocities he saw that never happened? How about Jack Murtha blanketly accepting the notion that Marines at Haditha engaged in wanton murder of innocent children and civilians?"
According to Murtha's biography on his congressional website, Murtha joined the Marines in 1952 and volunteered for service in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.
Limbaugh claims he was only speaking about one soldier, but used the plural
Misinformation: Limbaugh twice claimed that rather than speaking generally of soldiers who support withdrawal from Iraq, that he was "talking about one soldier with that 'phony soldier' comment, Jesse MacBeth."
Fact: As the transcript makes clear, Limbaugh actually referred to "phony soldiers," plural. Responding to a caller's statement that supporters of withdrawal "like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media," Limbaugh responded, "The phony soldiers" [emphasis added].
Limbaugh claims to be a victim of "selective" editing, then aired edited clip and posted edited transcript
Misinformation: Limbaugh further asserted that "Media Matters had the transcript, but they selectively choose what they want to make their point." To support this claim, Limbaugh purported to air the "entire" segment in question from the September 26 broadcast of his show. Prior to airing the edited clip, Limbaugh said: "Here is, it runs about 3 minutes and 13 seconds, the entire transcript, in context, that led to this so-called controversy." After the clip ended, Limbaugh stated: "That was the transcript from yesterday's program, talking about one phony soldier. The truth for the left is fiction that serves their purpose, which is exactly the way the website Media Matters generated this story."
Fact: In fact, the clip he aired had been edited. Excised from the clip was a full 1 minute and 35 seconds of the 1 minute and 50 second discussion that occurred between Limbaugh's original "phony soldiers" comment and his reference to MacBeth, the full audio of which can be heard here:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200709280010
Fact: The transcript (subscription required) of the first segment of the first hour of his September 28 broadcast posted on L
This is one of the few worthwhile things happening in the US federal legislature. My friend, please, for God's sake please stop watching American television.
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This is one of those keep ^ eat situations, and we are doing a little bit too much eating for your taste. That's just how it is with cake.
Look, windows isn't annoying to use because it has to run on a greater variety of hardware. It's annoying to use because it was designed by assholes.
It's important to carefully ensure that punishment is served justly in these cases, and fast is rarely careful. Think about how many appeals this went through - it's like a death penalty case, except the punishment is a slap on the wrist. Since justice is measured as the the ratio of trial length to severity of punishment, Microsoft is on the receiving end of a fuck ton of justice.
In the end, the free market will win and the internet will stop being free. It's to be expected given that the same thing has already happened in meat space.
The only thing left to do is to buy stock in the telcos. That way, you can preserve your dignity by claiming that whereas everyone else is merely raped by the telcos, you are actually raping yourself.
I have a gap in my butt. Let's get that looked at, too.
Way to add distracting snark. Face it, you're not John Stewart.
Vista would like to smack you in the face and call you names.
Cancel/Allow?
Vista thinks you smell bad and have a tiny brain to boot.
Cancel/Allow?
Vista vistas you so hard that your vista hurts when you walk.
Cancel/Allow?
Vista makes you spend all your money, then claims that you gave it a virus and stops responding to you.
Cancel/Allow?
*bows head in shame* Look, you can't say that there aren't Vista victims, because I am one. Yes, Vista victimized me. The worst part is that it claims it's my fault, because I was "totally asking for it." Don't let it happen to you.
In other news, cars are physical products whereas a software product is a pile of bits.
Not surprisingly, the_skywise's head explodes, but his lack of brain does not reduce his ability to contrive inane car analogies.
Come on, why would you even consider using such a thing?
[Toynbee] argues that the breakdown of civilizations is not caused by loss of control over the environment, over the human environment, or attacks from outside. Rather, it comes from the deterioration of the "Creative Minority," which eventually ceases to be creative and degenerates into merely a "Dominant Minority" (who forces the majority to obey without meriting obedience). He argues that creative minorities deteriorate due to a worship of their "former self," by which they become prideful, and fail to adequately address the next challenge they face.