Is your life so boring that you need to invent conspiracy theories to make it more interesting?
Hey, it's always worked for me. Did you hear the New York Times is secretly owned by the Church of Scientology, who channels the profits into providing arms and electric back massagers for the Flemish Independence Front? See, that was way more fun than flaming people on slashdot.
Manufacturers selling stuff in the U.S. are required to submit products to the FCC for evaluation to make sure that your mouse won't mess up your walkman's reception, to make sure your dish washer won't wipe out TV reception for your entire neighborhood, and to prevent your cordless phone from causing your router to reboot.
Isn't this something that could be accomplished by a private entity, or even a mutual agreement among manufacturers? After all, it's in the best interest of the dishwasher manufacturer to ensure that their product won't adversely affect the customer's other products. Enough such interference, and people will stop buying their stuff.
Okay, I have no way of knowing whether you're the original Anonymous Coward who spoke of evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaeda connection, or some other friendly AC stepping in to help. I suspect the latter, as the text of the report is a convincing argument against the original post:
"While administration figures have talked about a purported meeting in Prague between an al-Qaeda member and an Iraqi official, this does not constitute evidence that Saddam was working closely with al-Qaeda and, in any case, this purported meeting had been discredited by the U.S. intelligence community during the period of these polls."
Well, then assume I'm stupid and show me exactly where this evidence is. If there's so damn much of it, it shouldn't take you any time at all to provide examples.
I should clarify... they seek to avoid the mistakes of Gorbachev. I'm aware that Gorbachev wanted a smooth transition, but the particular reforms he implemented had a sort of domino effect that led to the unintended dissolution of the entire Soviet system.
That's a rather strange set of priorities. I can't pretend to know what the Tienamen Square protestors were thinking when they were staring down the tanks, but I can almost guarantee it wasn't something like, "Gee, this is pretty oppressive, but at least I can still buy the latest video games! If they ever take that away from us, we'll really be in trouble!"
China is already a thoroughly capitalist country-- that is, a state capitalist country, in which the whole country is basically run for the profit of the state-owned industry. It is already quite removed from the old Soviet system, and is largely devoid of the traditional Maoist rhetoric about the dictatorship of the proletariat et al. They also seem to be moving fairly rapidly (by Chinese standards) in the direction of a more traditionally capitalist economy, with more privately-owned companies and foreign investment. Of course, that hasn't really resulted in a decrease in the state authority over speech, the press, etc.; it's just that now the state uses its authority to ensure corporate profits rather than the victory of the workers' revolution.
There is a sense in which China is taking a realistic road: they realized decades ago that the Soviet-style command economy wasn't going to get them anywhere, but they were also keen enough to realize that rapid reforms like glasnost and perestroika led to the sudden decline of the Soviet state before a stable alternative economy could be developed, with the resulting economic hardships, explosion in organized crime, and civil unrest. So in a sense they're taking a gradual course out of traditional Communism to avoid the problems of Gorbachev. On the other hand, those in charge of the state-run industries aren't just going to give up that power, so they want to insure that in the post-Communist economy they're still the majority shareholders, so to speak.
The Nazis were elected to office in a nice democratic fashion.
No. Hitler was appointed Chancellor by von Hindenburg (after his Brownshirts ran a terrorist campaign to eliminate his political opponents). Then, following the convenient burning down of the Reichstag, he declared a state of emergency and replaced the elected Parliament with his personal appointees. There was nothing "democratic" about the rise of National Socialism in Germany.
Balderdash. I've been subsisting for four years now by hacking the legs off of live cows and fixing them up with tourniquets so they don't bleed to death.
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Is your life so boring that you need to invent conspiracy theories to make it more interesting?
Hey, it's always worked for me. Did you hear the New York Times is secretly owned by the Church of Scientology, who channels the profits into providing arms and electric back massagers for the Flemish Independence Front? See, that was way more fun than flaming people on slashdot.
I remember when it was first released the 486 was billed as the "Cray on a chip." There's just no underestimating the hubris of marketing.
I'm surprised CleverNickName hasn't chimed in, he being our resident expert on runaway nanites. :)
KarmaMB84 (and what the hell kind of a username is that?) is simply restating the opinions of a Mr. Alexis de Toqueville.
Well, then he should be modded down. We don't need some Microsoft-funded toady telling us Linux is stolen. Wait, why is everybody laughing at me?
Manufacturers selling stuff in the U.S. are required to submit products to the FCC for evaluation to make sure that your mouse won't mess up your walkman's reception, to make sure your dish washer won't wipe out TV reception for your entire neighborhood, and to prevent your cordless phone from causing your router to reboot.
Isn't this something that could be accomplished by a private entity, or even a mutual agreement among manufacturers? After all, it's in the best interest of the dishwasher manufacturer to ensure that their product won't adversely affect the customer's other products. Enough such interference, and people will stop buying their stuff.
Hey guys! This is one of those few stories on Slashdot where we can talk about nazis without anyone invoking Godwin's law!
Fascist.
You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship.
Okay, I have no way of knowing whether you're the original Anonymous Coward who spoke of evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaeda connection, or some other friendly AC stepping in to help. I suspect the latter, as the text of the report is a convincing argument against the original post:
"While administration figures have talked about a purported meeting in Prague between an al-Qaeda member and an Iraqi official, this does not constitute evidence that Saddam was working closely with al-Qaeda and, in any case, this purported meeting had been discredited by the U.S. intelligence community during the period of these polls."
Thank you.
Well, then assume I'm stupid and show me exactly where this evidence is. If there's so damn much of it, it shouldn't take you any time at all to provide examples.
Oh, go bother Captain Kangaroo, you anonymous twit.
50% of Americans are stupid enough to ignore the overwhelming evidence of the connection between al-Qaeda and Saddam
Care to share this "overwhelming evidence" with us, oh great Anonymous Coward?
Is that people who steal your neck-vein?
I should clarify... they seek to avoid the mistakes of Gorbachev. I'm aware that Gorbachev wanted a smooth transition, but the particular reforms he implemented had a sort of domino effect that led to the unintended dissolution of the entire Soviet system.
Stomping out dissent is low. This is even lower.
That's a rather strange set of priorities. I can't pretend to know what the Tienamen Square protestors were thinking when they were staring down the tanks, but I can almost guarantee it wasn't something like, "Gee, this is pretty oppressive, but at least I can still buy the latest video games! If they ever take that away from us, we'll really be in trouble!"
China is already a thoroughly capitalist country-- that is, a state capitalist country, in which the whole country is basically run for the profit of the state-owned industry. It is already quite removed from the old Soviet system, and is largely devoid of the traditional Maoist rhetoric about the dictatorship of the proletariat et al. They also seem to be moving fairly rapidly (by Chinese standards) in the direction of a more traditionally capitalist economy, with more privately-owned companies and foreign investment. Of course, that hasn't really resulted in a decrease in the state authority over speech, the press, etc.; it's just that now the state uses its authority to ensure corporate profits rather than the victory of the workers' revolution.
There is a sense in which China is taking a realistic road: they realized decades ago that the Soviet-style command economy wasn't going to get them anywhere, but they were also keen enough to realize that rapid reforms like glasnost and perestroika led to the sudden decline of the Soviet state before a stable alternative economy could be developed, with the resulting economic hardships, explosion in organized crime, and civil unrest. So in a sense they're taking a gradual course out of traditional Communism to avoid the problems of Gorbachev. On the other hand, those in charge of the state-run industries aren't just going to give up that power, so they want to insure that in the post-Communist economy they're still the majority shareholders, so to speak.
The Nazis were elected to office in a nice democratic fashion.
No. Hitler was appointed Chancellor by von Hindenburg (after his Brownshirts ran a terrorist campaign to eliminate his political opponents). Then, following the convenient burning down of the Reichstag, he declared a state of emergency and replaced the elected Parliament with his personal appointees. There was nothing "democratic" about the rise of National Socialism in Germany.
Is that like when the Japanese do a bad translation from Spanish into English?
Is sex with a person other than your wife a crime?
Yes. It's called adultery.
To get animal flesh we must kill the animal.
Balderdash. I've been subsisting for four years now by hacking the legs off of live cows and fixing them up with tourniquets so they don't bleed to death.
2. It calls Windows 3.1 "the second OS with a GUI" (after the Mac), as if 3.1 was the first version of windows ever.
Yeah, and as if Xerox PARC hadn't done that all before.
this is an in-between generation caught between the brutal and primitive and the advanced.
Half measures are the curse of it. A civilized society would either kill Bradbury or put him to use.
One big questions to me that remains with all these species dying off, new ones forming, why are humans the only one with intelligence?
Why are elephants the only ones with trunks? Why is it a failure of the theory of evolution for there to be species with unique traits?
human who shows some of the signs of our incredible intelligence, but not as much.
I meet those every day.
It appears it's already up on ebay.
Would you mind corroborating this by, oh, I don't know, say, posting a link to the auction?
is clearly nonsense, since "ego" isn't written "I" in Latin.
d'oh!