It's about corruption. When the government is in jeopardy because it has a difficult time dealing with corruption, and then something like this hits the very top of the government, there's a major problem with the whole government. It's not just one cretin.
How the fuck does plagiarism equate to being corrupt?
So you are saying, because someone was too lazy to paraphrase, and copy word for word, that they are corrupt and easily bought?
No one wants us to be able to think for ourselves. Not the corporations, nor the Government. People that are able to reason, and think for themselves, see the bullshit that is going on, and will call it out. Unfortunately, the bullshit runs this country and the corporations.
Or you're like me, able to reason and so tired of how stupid most everyone else is, that you gave up and just going to watch the world go to hell.
The summary is so poorly written, assuming that the reader knows and cares about tiny details and any of players, that I am finally convinced the real Slashdot is dead.
Sorry to suck so badly. I'll try harder next time. Thought my name was good around here but apparently I'm the end of Slashdot. Care to rewrite the summary in a concise manner so I can take notes? It's really really easy to leave empty criticisms with no valid critiques and rhetoric about how Slashdot is dead. But someone's modding you up so I'll bite. You have zero submissions and 150 comments? I hate to say it but I think I've been registered on here a bit longer than you and have been a little more active (that's me on the hall of fame list for submitters)... but we who paraphrase, link, write book reviews and write comments with content, we're the ones who are ruining Slashdot? Got it.
Okay, you know more because you've been here longer, sure dude.
Why is it that some people believe that if they hide away from something that something ceases to exist?
Google is a business, they don't have to follow freedom of speech in youtube.
If the Terrorist really want to their videos being hosted, they will have to host it themselves, Youtube/Google isn't required by any laws to show them.
Youtube isn't a public forum to speak your mind, it's a business that can exclude anything they want.
Yep, it was a 50-year-old men. People in that demographic are infamous for avoiding medical treatment until it's too late.
That is because by the time we are that old, we know that most doctors don't actually know as much as they think (meaning they tend to guess alot), and don't want to pay the high price for that.
Why do we need this? The power savings is a plus, but the human brain can only "see" and distinquish an estimated 10 million colors ( http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/JenniferLeong.shtml ) and current display technologiy produces 16.7M colors (24-bit True Color). Having a display show 24M colors (50% increase) won't look any different since current technology already exceeds our ability to percieve the differences.
You answered your own question. It's worth it for the Power Savings, IMO, the fact that it shows colors possibly better then we can see them is just the bonus.
Bottled water is highly popular in the U.S., as far as I've been able to tell, because of a few reasons:..
3. It comes in a bottle. Yeah, you could carry your own bottle around everywhere, but how inconvenient is that? Having to hold on to it even though it's empty, having to rinse it out, etc. etc.
...
You rinse out a bottle that was carrying water? Really?
Curious, do you rinse it out with the nasty faucet water you were harping about?
Your definition of "a whole lot" seems to be wrong. Yes, they all contributed. But if they accomplished so much, why did it take the US Army to establish a European beach head? Why did it take the US Marine Corp to take back the conquests of Japan?
I would never doubt their contributions, however the Nazi's were winning until the U.S. stepped in.
Okay, lets look at this way.
Germany invaded Poland, bunch of country said, we are neutral.
England, France, some other countries, declared war, did some attacks, and France got invaded for it. And gave the frack up.
England wasn't really ready for a war and a full invasion, and considering that it kept getting bombed by Germany, they weren't having much luck.
US, on the other hand, had great industrial resources and weren't being bombed by anyone (till Pearl Harbor that is).
So ya, we turned the tide, but even if we hadn't, Russia was about to swoop down on their asses anyways.
So they way I see it, USA not only saved Europe from the Nazi's, we also saved you from being commies.
Imagine if every corporation adopts this sort of policy.
Restaurants - Tax for not wearing the right clothes. - Tax for asking for modification to your orders. Stores - Tax for not wearing the "approved" shoes, since you are causing more wear on the floor. Government - Tax for being obese. Tax for not being married. Tax for not belonging to the right religion. Schools - Taxed for being stupid.
I can go on.
Remember, this is:
Corporate Greed Policy. Coming soon to a corporation near you!
You pay cash? How does that help you when RFIDs in your driver's license or face recognition scanners at the supermarket checkout line identify you as Mr. R Smith of 2341 Maple Lane?
Thats why I have the same ID that expired back in 1996.
Best part is, no one ever seems to have a problem that it's expired.
Plus, if you are worried about places reading RFID in ID, then don't carry the ID in the stores when you plan on paying cash. Leave it in the car, wrap it in foil, i don't know, i don't care. My ID is over 15 years old. lol.
So let me get this straight...you installed a TWELVE YEAR OLD OS and then are BITCHING because the company actually gave you patches instead of forcing you to upgrade like the OS you are singing the praises of? please stay with Linux, you are obviously too big of a dumbass to run Windows.
Okay, by your standards then, if all windows OS's are 12 years old, then linux is 21 years old.
Oh wait, the linux kernal has been updated during that time? Well, shit, the Windows kernal has been updated during that time.
So, exactly who is the dumbass here?
Plus this is certifcation problem, meaning as long as the computer thinks the certificate is good, then it doesn't matter if it's Windows Xp or Windows 8, it's going to accept it.
Some politician somewhere will try to outlaw the stuffing of cats. (And then go stuff dead cow flesh into his mouth while he walks-round in dead cow skin.) It is confusing why some animals are protected & their killing outlawed, while other animals get murdered in the billions.
And you are putting the enemy soldiers and the civilians of their nation together in the "the enemy" category. That, to many (including me) is inmoral.
Would you shoot some strangers baby in the face if the alternative was that he would shoot your baby in the face?
Can you explain how shooting a baby in the face will keep anyone from shooting yours? For that matter, how is shooting puppies or little old ladies going to help you win? It won't. If anything it just inspires the enemy. Which gets us to why "rules of war" exist: wars are extremely stressful situations, which cause people fighting in them to do unnecessary or even counterproductive cruelties. Rules of war and rules of engagement exist to try to prevent the more outrageous of these.
Now shut the fuck up.
Do you have some kind of personal stake here? Because you seem to be getting pretty emotional about the topic.
Okay, just because I think outside the box a bit, I can answer these questions.
You'd shoot a baby in the face in war, because babies have been used to explode stuff on soldiers when they get close to check it.
Shooting the baby in the face will help keep yours alive because you won't be dead, and thus able to continue protecting the good guys and killing the bad guys.
Rules are made to be broken. Mainly during war time, when you don't have society and the police breathing down your shoulders, and you've been given a gun and taught how to kill people. Oddly enough, the stress of war causes some people to do things they might not normally do in normal society. Let's take Viet nam, if you were drafted, you were probably pissed because you didn't want to be there. On top of it, they give you a gun, and people are shooting at you. I know if I was put in that situation, I'd be going home and I'd go home any way possible. I'd kill to make sure i'm safe. I'd be angry and not care, and take it out on the viet cong. Is that cool? Oh fuck no. It would bring out the worse of me, and even worse, i'd probably still be a dick when I got home (to be spit on and called a baby killer, which i probably am).
Fuck, people can't even follow rules (laws) in normal society, and that is everyone. Then we got the saying, "All is fair in love and war", which I"m sure all of us have heard and said one time of another.
Now i'm not saying this is right, in fact, it's a horrible shame, but it's part of war. You send people over with guns to kill, you are going to get some people who enjoy killing a bit more then they should. And you'll get people who want to survive, no matter the cost.
I'm sure most people would rather go home and face a trial for misconduct then not going home at all. Not saying it's right, saying that I understand how it happens.
Bullshit! Israel has had both nukes and conventional forces that could have attacked the Iranian programme for the last decade. They have chosen not to - instead giving time for diplomatic means until it is nearly too late. What the Israelis have been pointing out is that the Iranian nuclear weapon programme (for which more and more evidence getting uncovered as time goes on) is not an Israeli problem, it is in fact a threat to the whole World (which the rest of the World actually agrees with, finally). The Israelis have been making a lot of noise not because they want to start a war - it is because the US and Europeans are too damn apathetic to do anything about Iran apart from hand wringing. The Israelis don't want war, but they don't want Iran to be able to threaten them (and the Middle East, and Europe) with nukes either.
Israel is the problem with the middle east. They are the aggressors, and they have had nukes first.
They think they are the children of god, and thus being, have a "promised land" that they took originally from others. So yes, other Arab countries do NOT like them. They view them as a threat, because they took over parts of other countries and said, Fuck You, god told us to. And the USA said, Fuck ya, We love the Israels, so we back them.
Then you take the fact that America loves Oil. And being bullies, and thinking they they are in the right because they worship "God", and ya, you get them same Arabs who don't like Israel, not liking us any better. And honestly, I do NOT blame them.
America's policy used to be America's ours, rest of the world can do what it wants. And we should of stayed that way. Instead, we got it in our heads that we were better then everyone else and needed to fix the world.
yep, currently raining in Seattle (like that has never happened before, rain, seattle, who would of thought.).
But I can't look at the sun anyways, and I'm way too lazy to prick a hole in something and watch the shadow, so I guess I'll do what most of the world will do.
Why they insist on hermetically sealing them, though, that is baffling to me.
I believe it is that way for as a theft deterrent. The harder it is to open the harder it is to open in the aisle in the store and not get caught.
There are replacements for clamshells that do an even better job of this though and without the bodily injury that occurs from people trying to open stubborn clamshells.
Actually, it's easier to steal. You use a razor blade to cut open the package, and take out what's in it. What is really nice is places think that because it's a bitch to open, and has the tags on the inside that set off the detectors, so they don't pay attention to people as much. But a few quick swipes with a razor blade, while you pretend to be reading whats on it, and boom, you got the item in your hand.
Do not ask me how I know this exactly, it wasn't me, no matter what the video camera shows.
Frankly I'm surprised Obama didn't just order him assasinated. He's done it before with other criminals (including American citizens and a 16-year-old boy).
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It's about corruption. When the government is in jeopardy because it has a difficult time dealing with corruption, and then something like this hits the very top of the government, there's a major problem with the whole government. It's not just one cretin.
How the fuck does plagiarism equate to being corrupt?
So you are saying, because someone was too lazy to paraphrase, and copy word for word, that they are corrupt and easily bought?
Interesting, but not true.
No one wants us to be able to think for ourselves. Not the corporations, nor the Government. People that are able to reason, and think for themselves, see the bullshit that is going on, and will call it out. Unfortunately, the bullshit runs this country and the corporations.
Or you're like me, able to reason and so tired of how stupid most everyone else is, that you gave up and just going to watch the world go to hell.
The summary is so poorly written, assuming that the reader knows and cares about tiny details and any of players, that I am finally convinced the real Slashdot is dead.
Sorry to suck so badly. I'll try harder next time. Thought my name was good around here but apparently I'm the end of Slashdot. Care to rewrite the summary in a concise manner so I can take notes? It's really really easy to leave empty criticisms with no valid critiques and rhetoric about how Slashdot is dead. But someone's modding you up so I'll bite. You have zero submissions and 150 comments? I hate to say it but I think I've been registered on here a bit longer than you and have been a little more active (that's me on the hall of fame list for submitters) ... but we who paraphrase, link, write book reviews and write comments with content, we're the ones who are ruining Slashdot? Got it.
Okay, you know more because you've been here longer, sure dude.
You forgot, "Get off my lawn"
Why is it that some people believe that if they hide away from something that something ceases to exist?
Google is a business, they don't have to follow freedom of speech in youtube.
If the Terrorist really want to their videos being hosted, they will have to host it themselves, Youtube/Google isn't required by any laws to show them.
Youtube isn't a public forum to speak your mind, it's a business that can exclude anything they want.
Sure it was "leaked" document full of "stuff" for the Xbox.
More likely it was purposely leaked piece of FUD to make their competition (Sony) worry and work on stuff that doesn't matter.
I trust nothing about MS based on MS's history.
Still not as good at getting first posts, though.
ya, right, you're a computer, quit lying.
Yep, it was a 50-year-old men. People in that demographic are infamous for avoiding medical treatment until it's too late.
That is because by the time we are that old, we know that most doctors don't actually know as much as they think (meaning they tend to guess alot), and don't want to pay the high price for that.
Why do we need this? The power savings is a plus, but the human brain can only "see" and distinquish an estimated 10 million colors ( http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/JenniferLeong.shtml ) and current display technologiy produces 16.7M colors (24-bit True Color). Having a display show 24M colors (50% increase) won't look any different since current technology already exceeds our ability to percieve the differences.
You answered your own question. It's worth it for the Power Savings, IMO, the fact that it shows colors possibly better then we can see them is just the bonus.
Bottled water is a fairly poor example, though.
Bottled water is highly popular in the U.S., as far as I've been able to tell, because of a few reasons: ..
3. It comes in a bottle. Yeah, you could carry your own bottle around everywhere, but how inconvenient is that? Having to hold on to it even though it's empty, having to rinse it out, etc. etc.
...
You rinse out a bottle that was carrying water? Really?
Curious, do you rinse it out with the nasty faucet water you were harping about?
Your definition of "a whole lot" seems to be wrong. Yes, they all contributed. But if they accomplished so much, why did it take the US Army to establish a European beach head? Why did it take the US Marine Corp to take back the conquests of Japan?
I would never doubt their contributions, however the Nazi's were winning until the U.S. stepped in.
Okay, lets look at this way.
Germany invaded Poland, bunch of country said, we are neutral.
England, France, some other countries, declared war, did some attacks, and France got invaded for it. And gave the frack up.
England wasn't really ready for a war and a full invasion, and considering that it kept getting bombed by Germany, they weren't having much luck.
US, on the other hand, had great industrial resources and weren't being bombed by anyone (till Pearl Harbor that is).
So ya, we turned the tide, but even if we hadn't, Russia was about to swoop down on their asses anyways.
So they way I see it, USA not only saved Europe from the Nazi's, we also saved you from being commies.
... Let's get Tuttle, next.
God I love that movie.
for those who don't know or haven't seen it, it's a must.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(film)
... if you need money fast, rob a bank. 1/5 chances of getting caught, as long as you don't do it again.
This comes down to greed. Nothing else.
Imagine if every corporation adopts this sort of policy.
Restaurants - Tax for not wearing the right clothes. - Tax for asking for modification to your orders.
Stores - Tax for not wearing the "approved" shoes, since you are causing more wear on the floor.
Government - Tax for being obese. Tax for not being married. Tax for not belonging to the right religion.
Schools - Taxed for being stupid.
I can go on.
Remember, this is:
Corporate Greed Policy. Coming soon to a corporation near you!
You pay cash? How does that help you when RFIDs in your driver's license or face recognition scanners at the supermarket checkout line identify you as Mr. R Smith of 2341 Maple Lane?
Thats why I have the same ID that expired back in 1996.
Best part is, no one ever seems to have a problem that it's expired.
Plus, if you are worried about places reading RFID in ID, then don't carry the ID in the stores when you plan on paying cash. Leave it in the car, wrap it in foil, i don't know, i don't care. My ID is over 15 years old. lol.
So let me get this straight...you installed a TWELVE YEAR OLD OS and then are BITCHING because the company actually gave you patches instead of forcing you to upgrade like the OS you are singing the praises of? please stay with Linux, you are obviously too big of a dumbass to run Windows.
Okay, by your standards then, if all windows OS's are 12 years old, then linux is 21 years old.
Oh wait, the linux kernal has been updated during that time? Well, shit, the Windows kernal has been updated during that time.
So, exactly who is the dumbass here?
Plus this is certifcation problem, meaning as long as the computer thinks the certificate is good, then it doesn't matter if it's Windows Xp or Windows 8, it's going to accept it.
disgusting old homos
So other homo's that are into disgusting things can hook up?
My question is, why do you browse that section?
>>>So what confuses you here?
Some politician somewhere will try to outlaw the stuffing of cats. (And then go stuff dead cow flesh into his mouth while he walks-round in dead cow skin.) It is confusing why some animals are protected & their killing outlawed, while other animals get murdered in the billions.
Cats have a better union.
Does China use the MM/DD/YY system? For some reason I thought this was exclusive to the US only.
It should be YYYY/MM/DD.
that is the only logical way to do it, world wide. Yes, it is a pet peeve of mine.
Here's a dose of perspective:
"Fuck the US, and fuck the US government."
Hey look, not only am I still alive and unharmed, I still have all my rights!
Try that in China, and see what happens.
I'm pretty sure China says Fuck the US and fuck the US government all the time. Probably required by law to say that.
And you are putting the enemy soldiers and the civilians of their nation together in the "the enemy" category. That, to many (including me) is inmoral.
That's why we call them terrorist now.
Can you explain how shooting a baby in the face will keep anyone from shooting yours? For that matter, how is shooting puppies or little old ladies going to help you win? It won't. If anything it just inspires the enemy. Which gets us to why "rules of war" exist: wars are extremely stressful situations, which cause people fighting in them to do unnecessary or even counterproductive cruelties. Rules of war and rules of engagement exist to try to prevent the more outrageous of these.
Do you have some kind of personal stake here? Because you seem to be getting pretty emotional about the topic.
Okay, just because I think outside the box a bit, I can answer these questions.
You'd shoot a baby in the face in war, because babies have been used to explode stuff on soldiers when they get close to check it.
Shooting the baby in the face will help keep yours alive because you won't be dead, and thus able to continue protecting the good guys and killing the bad guys.
Rules are made to be broken. Mainly during war time, when you don't have society and the police breathing down your shoulders, and you've been given a gun and taught how to kill people. Oddly enough, the stress of war causes some people to do things they might not normally do in normal society. Let's take Viet nam, if you were drafted, you were probably pissed because you didn't want to be there. On top of it, they give you a gun, and people are shooting at you. I know if I was put in that situation, I'd be going home and I'd go home any way possible. I'd kill to make sure i'm safe. I'd be angry and not care, and take it out on the viet cong. Is that cool? Oh fuck no. It would bring out the worse of me, and even worse, i'd probably still be a dick when I got home (to be spit on and called a baby killer, which i probably am).
Fuck, people can't even follow rules (laws) in normal society, and that is everyone. Then we got the saying, "All is fair in love and war", which I"m sure all of us have heard and said one time of another.
Now i'm not saying this is right, in fact, it's a horrible shame, but it's part of war. You send people over with guns to kill, you are going to get some people who enjoy killing a bit more then they should. And you'll get people who want to survive, no matter the cost.
I'm sure most people would rather go home and face a trial for misconduct then not going home at all. Not saying it's right, saying that I understand how it happens.
Bullshit! Israel has had both nukes and conventional forces that could have attacked the Iranian programme for the last decade. They have chosen not to - instead giving time for diplomatic means until it is nearly too late. What the Israelis have been pointing out is that the Iranian nuclear weapon programme (for which more and more evidence getting uncovered as time goes on) is not an Israeli problem, it is in fact a threat to the whole World (which the rest of the World actually agrees with, finally). The Israelis have been making a lot of noise not because they want to start a war - it is because the US and Europeans are too damn apathetic to do anything about Iran apart from hand wringing. The Israelis don't want war, but they don't want Iran to be able to threaten them (and the Middle East, and Europe) with nukes either.
Israel is the problem with the middle east. They are the aggressors, and they have had nukes first.
They think they are the children of god, and thus being, have a "promised land" that they took originally from others. So yes, other Arab countries do NOT like them. They view them as a threat, because they took over parts of other countries and said, Fuck You, god told us to. And the USA said, Fuck ya, We love the Israels, so we back them.
Then you take the fact that America loves Oil. And being bullies, and thinking they they are in the right because they worship "God", and ya, you get them same Arabs who don't like Israel, not liking us any better. And honestly, I do NOT blame them.
America's policy used to be America's ours, rest of the world can do what it wants. And we should of stayed that way. Instead, we got it in our heads that we were better then everyone else and needed to fix the world.
And we see how that is going.
Bummer
Just have to commit to living to 150 years then
Where's my jogging shoes?
yep, currently raining in Seattle (like that has never happened before, rain, seattle, who would of thought.).
But I can't look at the sun anyways, and I'm way too lazy to prick a hole in something and watch the shadow, so I guess I'll do what most of the world will do.
Read about it online, maybe see a video.
Internet rocks.
Why they insist on hermetically sealing them, though, that is baffling to me.
I believe it is that way for as a theft deterrent. The harder it is to open the harder it is to open in the aisle in the store and not get caught.
There are replacements for clamshells that do an even better job of this though and without the bodily injury that occurs from people trying to open stubborn clamshells.
Actually, it's easier to steal. You use a razor blade to cut open the package, and take out what's in it. What is really nice is places think that because it's a bitch to open, and has the tags on the inside that set off the detectors, so they don't pay attention to people as much. But a few quick swipes with a razor blade, while you pretend to be reading whats on it, and boom, you got the item in your hand.
Do not ask me how I know this exactly, it wasn't me, no matter what the video camera shows.
...
Frankly I'm surprised Obama didn't just order him assasinated. He's done it before with other criminals (including American citizens and a 16-year-old boy).
let's see some proof dude.