So basically instead of just writing a windows app, people are going to write IE-9 specific HTML 5 extended (or enhanced) pages that load only on Windows systems
...disable or otherwise fuck up using the back button with javascript douchebaggery: If I ever meet you in a dark alley, I won't simply beat you to a pulp, I will rip off your head and fuck your medulla oblongta with my engorged turgid penis which I will have lubricated with your tears that you shed begging for your life.
Or so the fantasy goes. Goddamn it, guys, stop it. Once I get burned by something like that, I *never* go back.
'It's an absolute disaster. It's impossible to tell who was kidding and who wasn't,' Curtis said."
Well, that is if the site works at all.
Voting is broken. Often. It breaks randomly. It is broken more often than not.
Commenting is broken. Often, and it's random. Sometimes you can comment one second, and then be utterly unable to comment the next, and you don't know until you hit "submit" and the comment just doesn't take.
These two things make the site more unreliable than a Commodore 64 BBS running off of a pair of 1541 drives. It is literally painful to use.
Now add to this censorship.
The censorship is ridiculous. People are reduced to leet-speak or "creative spacing" for words like "homosexuality" which occurs more than once in the Texas Republican Party Platform. Perfectly ordinary words are verboten. It's not just profanity that's filtered, it's ordinary English words, so much so that sometimes one can't tell *which* secret word is preventing a posting. One can spend 15 minutes rewording and still be unable to post.
Chris is not sure who is kidding and who isn't
Curtis hasn't read the Texas Republican Party Platform, a mishmash of xenophobia, self-contradiction, homophobia, and some real tinfoil-hat craziness (read the bit about RFID and GPS). If you had never known that the document itself was real, you'd assume it was parody. Poe's law.
Go ahead, read it. I dare you. I will bet you cannot make it to page 3 without saying "Wait, what? What the FUCK is this?"
If the national GOP is influenced by the Texas GOP, which is likely - as Texas goes, so does the national GOP, the GOP is looking at a good 40 years in the wilderness.
But I've digressed. Back to Americaspeakingout.com:
The actual good trolls that can be mistaken for loons are few and far between. The real whackos can be identified because they are so darned *earnest* in their opinions - humorless regurgitations of misunderstood and broken philosophy. Reposted ad-infinitum.
The current "most active member" aka "newmoon" is a barely literate bible thumpin' copy-pasta machine. Anything more than 3 lines is copy-pasted from elsewhere, anything from creationist screeds to political nuttery with nothing so much resembling a source url. He and his compatriots, many of whom are less intelligent, are the most prolific. Per capita, the amount of bovine excrement generated by them is astounding. Do not try to debate with them. They are fractally wrong.
Like Curtis, I don't see anything good being extracted from the pile of manure that is americaspeakingout.com. It is technologically broken (the dialog boxes even accept pure html - let your mind run wild with the implications) and it is lacking in any kind of design that promotes discussion and debate. Add to this the low quality of posters, the lack of intelligent posters, and the troll accounts, and you've got... something that needs to be hosed away.
It is an *utter failure* of a website. As I said above, a BBS from the early 1980s would run rings around it.
You missed the point entirely, but I don't expect much.
Not after 15 years of this crap.
The difference between random lunatics on Kos and elsewhere is that the Tea Party has money and is a political force. Random lunatics on Kos don't have any.
But thanks for playing the "false equivocation" fallacy. Just more of the same.
No, the reports are not exaggerated. They exist. They are out there. Whether directly observed with fancy optics or by red shift because of their stars wobbling around their centers of of gravity, they have been detected.
A star doesn't wobble if there is nothing to pull on it, and that means a mass.
We have even observed the spectra of some exoplanets to see what their atmospheres are like because they've passed between their star and ours.
The only exaggerations here are those of peoples' expectations. People want to see at least Voyager quality photographs. Well, it's not happening. Not until we go out there ourselves.
There is a lot about the universe that we have to measure indirectly because of distance and time scales. It doesn't mean that the methods are bogus. To say that not measuring up to popular expectation means "hurr there really isn't much evidence for exoplanets hurr" is bullshit.
Stop reading the tabloids. Stop listening to Fox News who will get it wrong deliberately. Sky & Telescope and Astronomy (both SKY publications) are good enough to start with. And if you want to get it from the horse's mouth these days, you can now more than ever.
The fact is that the "tea party" and those that back it were utterly silent.
They were utterly silent when GWB enacted the PATRIOT Act and people like me are *traitors* for opposing it.
They were utterly silent when GWB suspended Habeas Corpus. Hello?
They are *utterly blind* when a Republican does something that is supposedly against their principles, but when a Democrat adopts a Republican idea, woe be unto him. He's a TRAITOR to the US.
They're just a branch of Republicanism and nothing more.
Do you really support continuation of both wars (one somewhat declared, another one not)
No.
continuation of executive power special privileges
What do you mean by "special" - the ones invented by Bush or earlier ones? It's funny how the party in power doesn't like to give it up and that the Tea Partiers had no problem with Bush exercising his.
, *new* PATRIOT act
What "new" patriot act? Enacted under Bush, that the Tea Party has no problem with? It's the same old thing. But I was *UNAMERICAN* for not backing it when it was enacted. Because the terrorists would win if we didn't curtail our rights. *spit*
absence of any move to de-criminalize recreational drugs
What has this got to do with anything? Of course I want drugs decriminalized. I'm tired of paying for people to be in prison for non-violent offenses. But I'm not going to hold my breath. And it sure doesn't look like the Tea Partiers are behind this anyway.
, bailouts of huge corporations,
Yeah? That was done by a "conservative" president, who the Tea Party alleges did no wrong. And oh, look, even Reagan bailed out Chrysler.
No. I'm not in favor of it. But I'm also in favor of *real* regulation so we *don't* have to keep bailing out the financial institutions. Funny though, the Tea Partiers and the GOP want Wall Street just go on like nothing ever happened. And then we will have no choice but to bail them out again, and again and again.
making people pay through their nose for their health insurance
I am in favor of Single Payer. Take out the friggin' insurance companies that screw small businesses and make it impossible for me to open a business because I need health insurance to live and I am utterly priced out/uninsurable by myself.
The hysteria surrounding Single Payer is puzzling to me, because EVERY SINGLE GRAY HAIRED TEA PARTIER belongs to a Single Payer Healthcare System. Indeed, study after study has shown that Medicare has been more efficient than even the most miserly for-profit insurance companies like United Health, the most evil one I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with.
We, as a nation, pay TWICE as much per capita for health care RIGHT NOW and every other major industrialized nation with Single Payer is healthier as a whole and pays LESS THAN HALF WHAT WE DO.
We also need to make it so that doctors don't put themselves into HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS of DEBT just to serve humanity. This more than *anything* is responsible for the insane growth of doctors' fees. They all have to pay back their incredible loans for DECADES. Nobody wants to be a GP anymore. Those who do are SAINTS because they don't make nearly what a specialist does and thus drive around in shitty old cars. I know, my GP has a 10 year old minivan.
Other industrialized countries value doctors and pay for them to go through school. We should too. Money should not be a barrier to education, because more education brings more value to the overall economy.
printing trillions of dollars of new money
Oh look, it's a "gold standard" guy. Really, this is a bogus argument especially since the Euro is down against the Dollar and has been for some time. What hurts America most is China's refusal to float their currency, thus subsidizing *every single import* into the US by fiat. Want manufacturing in the US to come back? Make China float their currency.
(if infusion of money into economy is *really* a solution, why not cancelling income tax for a year, instead of giving your buddies those trillions to "distribute", while taking a percentage off it?:) )?
Are you serious? I'll ask you this and give you my opinion at the end of this message: Do you think the tax policies of the 1950s were good? The 1950s were a spectacularly good economy wise.
Do you have anything better to say than calling people names?
Yet we see that the Teabagging right is perfectly fine with calling everyone around them that don't buy into the Teabagger philosophy "traitors" and go right out and buy books written by vile disgusting authors who have scads of time on national television (Anne Coulter) with that very word in the title.
Oh yeah, and Sarah Palin and Anne Coulter are never going to sleep with you.
Piss off, teabagger. Anyone with more than a few brain cells see that the Teabagger movement is philosophically, factually, and morally bankrupt.
It's the name you gave yourselves until you eventually found out to your dismay what it meant.
Now you're stuck with it.
Have a nice day.
Signed:
A traitor scum liberal douchebag going-to-hell-athist communist nazi socialist jew from Canada (or something) as described by the incessant idiocy on the Right.
Slashdot Mirror
Why the smoke and mirrors?
See what you wrote above:
So basically instead of just writing a windows app, people are going to write IE-9 specific HTML 5 extended (or enhanced) pages that load only on Windows systems
That.
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As if sponging off your mom and refusing money to make her life easier is not a form of elderly abuse.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
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...disable or otherwise fuck up using the back button with javascript douchebaggery: If I ever meet you in a dark alley, I won't simply beat you to a pulp, I will rip off your head and fuck your medulla oblongta with my engorged turgid penis which I will have lubricated with your tears that you shed begging for your life.
Or so the fantasy goes. Goddamn it, guys, stop it. Once I get burned by something like that, I *never* go back.
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Give it to his elderly mother, who is taking care of him.
She deserves it.
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I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).
bootploog
Canadian, eh?
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It's funny how this is flamebait.
Just because you don't like the opinion doesn't mean that it's flamebait.
Obviously the teabaggers can't stand that someone is pointing at their emporer (the RNC) and saying he has no clothes. Good luck with that.
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'It's an absolute disaster. It's impossible to tell who was kidding and who wasn't,' Curtis said."
Well, that is if the site works at all.
Voting is broken. Often. It breaks randomly. It is broken more often than not.
Commenting is broken. Often, and it's random. Sometimes you can comment one second, and then be utterly unable to comment the next, and you don't know until you hit "submit" and the comment just doesn't take.
These two things make the site more unreliable than a Commodore 64 BBS running off of a pair of 1541 drives. It is literally painful to use.
Now add to this censorship.
The censorship is ridiculous. People are reduced to leet-speak or "creative spacing" for words like "homosexuality" which occurs more than once in the Texas Republican Party Platform. Perfectly ordinary words are verboten. It's not just profanity that's filtered, it's ordinary English words, so much so that sometimes one can't tell *which* secret word is preventing a posting. One can spend 15 minutes rewording and still be unable to post.
Chris is not sure who is kidding and who isn't
Curtis hasn't read the Texas Republican Party Platform, a mishmash of xenophobia, self-contradiction, homophobia, and some real tinfoil-hat craziness (read the bit about RFID and GPS). If you had never known that the document itself was real, you'd assume it was parody. Poe's law.
http://static.texastribune.org/media/documents/FINAL_2010_STATE_REPUBLICAN_PARTY_PLATFORM.pdf
Go ahead, read it. I dare you. I will bet you cannot make it to page 3 without saying "Wait, what? What the FUCK is this?"
If the national GOP is influenced by the Texas GOP, which is likely - as Texas goes, so does the national GOP, the GOP is looking at a good 40 years in the wilderness.
But I've digressed. Back to Americaspeakingout.com:
The actual good trolls that can be mistaken for loons are few and far between. The real whackos can be identified because they are so darned *earnest* in their opinions - humorless regurgitations of misunderstood and broken philosophy. Reposted ad-infinitum.
The current "most active member" aka "newmoon" is a barely literate bible thumpin' copy-pasta machine. Anything more than 3 lines is copy-pasted from elsewhere, anything from creationist screeds to political nuttery with nothing so much resembling a source url. He and his compatriots, many of whom are less intelligent, are the most prolific. Per capita, the amount of bovine excrement generated by them is astounding. Do not try to debate with them. They are fractally wrong.
Like Curtis, I don't see anything good being extracted from the pile of manure that is americaspeakingout.com. It is technologically broken (the dialog boxes even accept pure html - let your mind run wild with the implications) and it is lacking in any kind of design that promotes discussion and debate. Add to this the low quality of posters, the lack of intelligent posters, and the troll accounts, and you've got ... something that needs to be hosed away.
It is an *utter failure* of a website. As I said above, a BBS from the early 1980s would run rings around it.
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Please mod this down. I don't know what I was thinking.
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I plead lack of coffee.
Must have some.
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"As well they should. "
Really.
Well then fuck you too, Mr Anonymous Coward "I can't be bothered to stand behind my words" asshole.
The name Anonymous Coward is pretty fitting in this regard.
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You missed the point entirely, but I don't expect much.
Not after 15 years of this crap.
The difference between random lunatics on Kos and elsewhere is that the Tea Party has money and is a political force. Random lunatics on Kos don't have any.
But thanks for playing the "false equivocation" fallacy. Just more of the same.
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The above response was triggered by the summary, not by the article itself which is pretty good.
Yeah, yet another bogus Slashdot headline.
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No, the reports are not exaggerated. They exist. They are out there. Whether directly observed with fancy optics or by red shift because of their stars wobbling around their centers of of gravity, they have been detected.
A star doesn't wobble if there is nothing to pull on it, and that means a mass.
We have even observed the spectra of some exoplanets to see what their atmospheres are like because they've passed between their star and ours.
The only exaggerations here are those of peoples' expectations. People want to see at least Voyager quality photographs. Well, it's not happening. Not until we go out there ourselves.
There is a lot about the universe that we have to measure indirectly because of distance and time scales. It doesn't mean that the methods are bogus. To say that not measuring up to popular expectation means "hurr there really isn't much evidence for exoplanets hurr" is bullshit.
Stop reading the tabloids. Stop listening to Fox News who will get it wrong deliberately. Sky & Telescope and Astronomy (both SKY publications) are good enough to start with. And if you want to get it from the horse's mouth these days, you can now more than ever.
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This is late but...
The fact is that the "tea party" and those that back it were utterly silent.
They were utterly silent when GWB enacted the PATRIOT Act and people like me are *traitors* for opposing it.
They were utterly silent when GWB suspended Habeas Corpus. Hello?
They are *utterly blind* when a Republican does something that is supposedly against their principles, but when a Democrat adopts a Republican idea, woe be unto him. He's a TRAITOR to the US.
They're just a branch of Republicanism and nothing more.
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I think it's hilarious that this is modded troll by the butthurt teabaggers.
Here, mod this one down while you're at it.
Here's a clue: SARAH PALIN WILL NEVER SLEEP WITH YOU. STOP WORSHIPING HER AS IF SHE WILL.
*snicker*
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Oh yeah, and one last thing.
Where were the Tea Partiers when Bush suspended Habeas Corpus? Where was the outrage? The silence on the right was *deafening.*
The Tea Party is full of hypocritical scumbags who would rather fling rhetoric and call people like me a *traitor* of all things.
So fuck them. Fuck them with a glass-encrusted dildo.
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Do you really support continuation of both wars (one somewhat declared, another one not)
No.
continuation of executive power special privileges
What do you mean by "special" - the ones invented by Bush or earlier ones? It's funny how the party in power doesn't like to give it up and that the Tea Partiers had no problem with Bush exercising his.
, *new* PATRIOT act
What "new" patriot act? Enacted under Bush, that the Tea Party has no problem with? It's the same old thing. But I was *UNAMERICAN* for not backing it when it was enacted. Because the terrorists would win if we didn't curtail our rights. *spit*
absence of any move to de-criminalize recreational drugs
What has this got to do with anything? Of course I want drugs decriminalized. I'm tired of paying for people to be in prison for non-violent offenses. But I'm not going to hold my breath. And it sure doesn't look like the Tea Partiers are behind this anyway.
, bailouts of huge corporations,
Yeah? That was done by a "conservative" president, who the Tea Party alleges did no wrong. And oh, look, even Reagan bailed out Chrysler.
No. I'm not in favor of it. But I'm also in favor of *real* regulation so we *don't* have to keep bailing out the financial institutions. Funny though, the Tea Partiers and the GOP want Wall Street just go on like nothing ever happened. And then we will have no choice but to bail them out again, and again and again.
making people pay through their nose for their health insurance
I am in favor of Single Payer. Take out the friggin' insurance companies that screw small businesses and make it impossible for me to open a business because I need health insurance to live and I am utterly priced out/uninsurable by myself.
The hysteria surrounding Single Payer is puzzling to me, because EVERY SINGLE GRAY HAIRED TEA PARTIER belongs to a Single Payer Healthcare System. Indeed, study after study has shown that Medicare has been more efficient than even the most miserly for-profit insurance companies like United Health, the most evil one I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with.
We, as a nation, pay TWICE as much per capita for health care RIGHT NOW and every other major industrialized nation with Single Payer is healthier as a whole and pays LESS THAN HALF WHAT WE DO.
We also need to make it so that doctors don't put themselves into HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS of DEBT just to serve humanity. This more than *anything* is responsible for the insane growth of doctors' fees. They all have to pay back their incredible loans for DECADES. Nobody wants to be a GP anymore. Those who do are SAINTS because they don't make nearly what a specialist does and thus drive around in shitty old cars. I know, my GP has a 10 year old minivan.
Other industrialized countries value doctors and pay for them to go through school. We should too. Money should not be a barrier to education, because more education brings more value to the overall economy.
printing trillions of dollars of new money
Oh look, it's a "gold standard" guy. Really, this is a bogus argument especially since the Euro is down against the Dollar and has been for some time. What hurts America most is China's refusal to float their currency, thus subsidizing *every single import* into the US by fiat. Want manufacturing in the US to come back? Make China float their currency.
(if infusion of money into economy is *really* a solution, why not cancelling income tax for a year, instead of giving your buddies those trillions to "distribute", while taking a percentage off it? :) )?
Are you serious? I'll ask you this and give you my opinion at the end of this message: Do you think the tax policies of the 1950s were good? The 1950s were a spectacularly good economy wise.
Do you have anything better to say than calling people names?
You dare say that, after all the name
Every Single Health Care Reform Idea is... ... a Republican idea.
You seem to forget that the National health reform model is modeled after the Massachusetts one, instigated by Mitt Romney, a Republican.
The Republican Party is only out for itself. If it's their idea,
Oh fuckit. I'm not writing this for the billionth time. Fuck the GOP, Fuck the Teabaggers, and Fuck you and your fucking short term memory.
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Yet we see that the Teabagging right is perfectly fine with calling everyone around them that don't buy into the Teabagger philosophy "traitors" and go right out and buy books written by vile disgusting authors who have scads of time on national television (Anne Coulter) with that very word in the title.
Oh yeah, and Sarah Palin and Anne Coulter are never going to sleep with you.
Piss off, teabagger. Anyone with more than a few brain cells see that the Teabagger movement is philosophically, factually, and morally bankrupt.
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You have to be careful where you put the hyphen
Gay-unicorn rapist
Gay unicorn-rapist
There is a distinction between the two.
"and live in harmony harmony oh love!!!"
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It's the name you gave yourselves until you eventually found out to your dismay what it meant.
Now you're stuck with it.
Have a nice day.
Signed:
A traitor scum liberal douchebag going-to-hell-athist communist nazi socialist jew from Canada (or something) as described by the incessant idiocy on the Right.
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>unilateral contract change, effectively a contract of adhesion
A customer cannot unilaterally change the contract with Verizon.
What gives Verizon the right to play Calvinball with contract law?
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"She should have predicted this when she signed up for Verizon"
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You're an amateur.
Use Google Translate to find more different porn.
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Incidentally, xxx comes from our movie rating system, where xxx is the most obscene type of porn.
No it isn't.
X is the rating. There is another rating nearly equivalnet, NC-17, which was brought about because X became to mean porn.
XXX is movie publisher hype and gibberish.
What this new domain will do: Nothing. It's a boondoggle for someone to rake in money for duplicate registrations.
ICANN continues to break the DNS system through its stupid politics. Who, honestly, operates a web business solely registered under the TLD .biz?
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