You'd think so, but apparently even the rubber-stamp FISA court had too high of standards for Bush & Co
The really funny thing about FISA is that, during Clinton's reign, you couldn't get the right wing to shut up about how he had too much power and FISA was this super-secret court, yadda, yadda.
I for one refuse to base my vote off of the fear of what racists might do
Nobody told you to do that. My point is, contrary to the "conventional wisdom", racism is still very well alive in the US.
That Hillary is reduced to using this piece of FUD to make her case says volumes about how far she has fallen.
She fell earlier than that, when she showed herself to be fat-cat friendly authoritarian right-wing tool. I'm glad everybody seems to have woken to what a hosebeast she is, but the writing's been on the wall since she joined the Senate.
s that the ONLY reason why we shouldn't go for Obama? (I mean, other than that whole experience thing)
Um, yeah, he's black.
And before you mod me troll (I couldn't give a shit, just like I don't give a shit about skin colour), it's obviously still a pretty big deal for a lot of Americans.
Not necessarily. Good blueprints or other suitable "source code" will do just as well. Not to mention that you only have to scan something once, so the scanner's not much of a bottleneck.
I can definitely confirm that. Like a tampon factory from hell, among other things.
To be fair, the average female's visit to the WC probably takes a lot longer than the average male's, for a variety of reasons, so I'd expect the females to "rush it" more often.
I'd have to venture that being an editor here would suck, because of the unlimited mod points...
Okay, deep breath, clean the coffee off your screen, let me explain:
Something that's usually doled out in small amounts (leave 'em wanting more) becomes basically a janitor's job. Think you'd really like to spend your day applying mods to goatse and crapfloods? Sounds boring to me.
Mind you, I'm not saying that being a Slashdot editor sucks in general. I just wouldn't want the job.
That never made sense to me. Assuming what we've learned from running tech support (almost all my knowledge of this comes from/. as I've never called them), they keep notes on respective customers, like whether or not they're a douchebag idiot. How hard would it be to agree to a quick and easy ten point scale rating? That way, when a customer calls up, you can quickly see whether or not she's a senile and foul-mouthed octogenarian or a fairly bright kid who tried recommended practices first before calling in?
In the beginning of the 20th century, capitalism was exploiting "the worker"
The only thing you get right in your whole post. Just trying to be even.
but then it turned out to be wrong as the workers in capitalist country became wealthier and wealthier
No, it wasn't wrong. The workers just got organized, is all, and they changed things.
after WWII, the mantra changed and capitalist countries where exploiting "3rd world countries".
Not a mantra. Since they couldn't exploit at home anymore dues to pesky things like 'fair pay', 'safety rules', and democratic tenets such as freedom of expression, they just moved on to other countries that were either poor or totalitarian. This is why your country doesn't have a manufacturing base anymore.
Then globalization kicked in and the 3rd world countries got wealthier.
Yeah, I'm just gagging to move to China</sarcasm>
No problem! Capitalism now exploits "the environment".
Um, yeah, that's kinda how it works. Doing stuff without making a mess is a lot more costly than just dumping your crap wherever you want, that's basic numbers. And for a while, cheap crap was a lot more important than not shitting in our backyard. Unfortunately, all that shit piles up, and now you have to ask yourself how badly you want Wal-Mart prices if, say, your house gets Fubared due to climate change.
Show me, please, how does that benefit from including MS in the bucket?
Not THE FUCKING POINT I WAS MAKING! Re-read what I said and then go smack yourself in the forehead. I get modbombed, and clueless tripe like your post gets an Insightful? They'll let anyone mod these days...
Now, for this post here, go ahead and mod flamebait, but for the others, thanks for proving my point that you're clueless zealots.
See? There you go with the hyperbolic language. Yes, MS product sucks ass, but as long as the device allows him a modicum of networkability, along with the ability to run useful programs and store large amounts of information in a compact and easy to search format, he's ahead. The computer's the thing here, not its flavour.
No offence, but you OSS geeks need to get off your high horses and get out more. From your post:
The mission was, in his mind, always getting as many laptops as possible out there
Now, fully granting that this was not the 'intended' goal of OLPC and that it's a shame (honest, I'm a big, big fan of OSS) that more emphasis wasn't placed on Open Source software, I'm still pretty happy with that statement. The countries targeted by the OLPC project suffer from a technology gap, not a free software one, and getting the ball rolling on cheap, reliable and easy to use laptops is a great step in that direction. Just look at how Intel, MS and others are falling over themselves to get in on this.
Simply put, anything that helps accelerate empowerment to those that couldn't previously get it is a plus in my book.
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Even Ashcroft, who I disagree with totally, was an honest justice who put the Constitution before political gain
Not the first time I've thought this, but did anybody think we'd look back on Ashcroft's tenure as AG with a certain amount of fondness?
You'd think so, but apparently even the rubber-stamp FISA court had too high of standards for Bush & Co
The really funny thing about FISA is that, during Clinton's reign, you couldn't get the right wing to shut up about how he had too much power and FISA was this super-secret court, yadda, yadda.
Time magazine leftist? BWAHAHAHA!
You've been Punk'd.
I for one refuse to base my vote off of the fear of what racists might do
Nobody told you to do that. My point is, contrary to the "conventional wisdom", racism is still very well alive in the US.
That Hillary is reduced to using this piece of FUD to make her case says volumes about how far she has fallen.
She fell earlier than that, when she showed herself to be fat-cat friendly authoritarian right-wing tool. I'm glad everybody seems to have woken to what a hosebeast she is, but the writing's been on the wall since she joined the Senate.
In this day and age?
That's your problem right there. Hatred, racism and bigotry don't just disappear in a generation.
s that the ONLY reason why we shouldn't go for Obama? (I mean, other than that whole experience thing)
Um, yeah, he's black.
And before you mod me troll (I couldn't give a shit, just like I don't give a shit about skin colour), it's obviously still a pretty big deal for a lot of Americans.
n/t
Please tag this story !news.
/sad panda
Actually, this is news. Slashdot is snappy as hell for me, which I haven't seen in a long time. Nice work.
Oh wait, that just means I'm going to run into the lameness filter that much faster...
Well, first they need to invent 3d scanners
Not necessarily. Good blueprints or other suitable "source code" will do just as well. Not to mention that you only have to scan something once, so the scanner's not much of a bottleneck.
To play the Guitar, you only need to know the most basic information about a guitar, but to use the drums, you need to know how to play the drums.
Totally agreed. Get me on guitar and I can kick ass easily. Get me on the drums and I'm out in under a minute.
I can definitely confirm that. Like a tampon factory from hell, among other things.
To be fair, the average female's visit to the WC probably takes a lot longer than the average male's, for a variety of reasons, so I'd expect the females to "rush it" more often.
I've been getting 10 at a time the last couple of times, rather than 5.
Some people report getting 15 recently. Still, a drop in the bucket compared to the editors.
Man, it's a bad day to be a janitor.
/ex-janitor.
It's always a bad day to be a janitor.
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Hey! Leave my Mom out of this!
I'd have to venture that being an editor here would suck, because of the unlimited mod points...
Okay, deep breath, clean the coffee off your screen, let me explain:
Something that's usually doled out in small amounts (leave 'em wanting more) becomes basically a janitor's job. Think you'd really like to spend your day applying mods to goatse and crapfloods? Sounds boring to me.
Mind you, I'm not saying that being a Slashdot editor sucks in general. I just wouldn't want the job.
That never made sense to me. Assuming what we've learned from running tech support (almost all my knowledge of this comes from /. as I've never called them), they keep notes on respective customers, like whether or not they're a douchebag idiot. How hard would it be to agree to a quick and easy ten point scale rating? That way, when a customer calls up, you can quickly see whether or not she's a senile and foul-mouthed octogenarian or a fairly bright kid who tried recommended practices first before calling in?
That the best you can do? Pathetic.
llustrate my comment
Wow, your reading comprehension issues are worse than I thought.
Silly boy!
In the beginning of the 20th century, capitalism was exploiting "the worker"
The only thing you get right in your whole post. Just trying to be even.
but then it turned out to be wrong as the workers in capitalist country became wealthier and wealthier
No, it wasn't wrong. The workers just got organized, is all, and they changed things.
after WWII, the mantra changed and capitalist countries where exploiting "3rd world countries".
Not a mantra. Since they couldn't exploit at home anymore dues to pesky things like 'fair pay', 'safety rules', and democratic tenets such as freedom of expression, they just moved on to other countries that were either poor or totalitarian. This is why your country doesn't have a manufacturing base anymore.
Then globalization kicked in and the 3rd world countries got wealthier.
Yeah, I'm just gagging to move to China</sarcasm>
No problem! Capitalism now exploits "the environment".
Um, yeah, that's kinda how it works. Doing stuff without making a mess is a lot more costly than just dumping your crap wherever you want, that's basic numbers. And for a while, cheap crap was a lot more important than not shitting in our backyard. Unfortunately, all that shit piles up, and now you have to ask yourself how badly you want Wal-Mart prices if, say, your house gets Fubared due to climate change.
As the article states, there's way more cameras in use, or planned, in places like Shenzen than in all of London.
Show me, please, how does that benefit from including MS in the bucket?
Not THE FUCKING POINT I WAS MAKING! Re-read what I said and then go smack yourself in the forehead. I get modbombed, and clueless tripe like your post gets an Insightful? They'll let anyone mod these days...
Now, for this post here, go ahead and mod flamebait, but for the others, thanks for proving my point that you're clueless zealots.
LOL, thanks for that. After just dealing with clueless replies and modbombing in another thread, your comment really cheered me up. Thanks again.
They're being subjugated.
See? There you go with the hyperbolic language. Yes, MS product sucks ass, but as long as the device allows him a modicum of networkability, along with the ability to run useful programs and store large amounts of information in a compact and easy to search format, he's ahead. The computer's the thing here, not its flavour.
Now, fully granting that this was not the 'intended' goal of OLPC and that it's a shame (honest, I'm a big, big fan of OSS) that more emphasis wasn't placed on Open Source software, I'm still pretty happy with that statement. The countries targeted by the OLPC project suffer from a technology gap, not a free software one, and getting the ball rolling on cheap, reliable and easy to use laptops is a great step in that direction. Just look at how Intel, MS and others are falling over themselves to get in on this.
Simply put, anything that helps accelerate empowerment to those that couldn't previously get it is a plus in my book.
I think starting pay there is $9.50/hr.
Man, but inflation's a bitch. I was making half that at Mickey D's 20 years ago. And that was Canadian dollars!
Cries a little after re-reading '20 years ago'...
What about the GIs who also take a serious beating?
Well, obviously, you have to give up some form of frivolous pastime in order to show solidarity with them.