Americans are FINE ONES to be talking about "the wholesale slaughter of innocents is justified in the name of INSERT_POLITICAL_GRUDGE_HERE".
Hiroshima, Vietnam, Nagasaki, the Contras, supporting Pinochet, Iraq, Afghanistan. America has a lot of blood on its hands and is in no fit state to cry about its people being killed untill all of those countries which it has wronged have got a full apology.
And Liberal Democrat means "more left wing than most parties that the Yanks call left wing actually are".
Your country is corrupt. I'm sorry to say it, but it is. It is no longer the shining beacon of incorruptible democracy it once was. After its prodigious economic growth, all subsequent governments have done is to continue the status quo where the US is king, through little escapades like the crushing of Socialism/Communism, kicking the shit out of smaller countries for economic reasons and many other happy fun little things which are all designed to keep America at the top and everyone else at the bottom. The permanent members of the Security Council are more or less only there for token reasons right now. The world revolves around the US, and any number of countries could collapse if the US removed economic support and financial aid from them. before all the "RAH RAH RAH AMERICA RULES" crowd pipe up, look at the big picture. Both your major parties are the same. Your president is hated-reviled even-worldwide because he acts like a jackass. Your country is overreacting to one terrorist incident, which, in my eyes, your government deserved for its relentless campaign of the bombing, napalming and slaughtering of innocent civilian people to get its way, and your civil liberties, which the government and the people love to crow about, are being systematically removed from you. Government is in the pockets of the corporations: GE, Microsoft, Exxon et al all practically own all of the parties. Open your fucking eyes up. I know I may be preaching to the choir here on Slashdot (the/. populace generally have a fairly left wing bent anyway) but just look at what is around you and what is happening to your country.
My call to you is this. Do something about your government. Don't just vote Democrat, that will do nothing in the long run: vote Green or, if you wish, Libertarian. Heck, vote Communist! Go hog wild! Get involved in the political protest. Turn up at the White House lawn with a picket and protest. Mail your senators and congresscritters. Get active. Do something and end the US-inflicted nightmare that has descended on the world over the last century. Please. At least do it for the children, who you all seem to love making rash political decisions for:)
As for my politics, I am a very left wing Liberal Democrat in the UK. May as well say that to appease all the people who will probably cry "UNAMERICAN BITCH COMMUNIST SLUTWHORE":)
NTL support in the UK is a son of a bitch. That isn't to say the tech support staff are crap; they're usually very knowledgable and very helpful, but the service itself sucks.
You ring up, and you're asked to key in your phone number. Why couldn't they just get it through caller ID? Then you're guided through the familiar maze o' optiions(tm) until you wait for 20 minutes listening to Brian Eno shite interspersed with "Your call is valuable to us, so we put you on hold you dozy twat". Then you get to a person.
I remember one time my broadband had gone tits up. So I called up, got through, said I was using Linux and was told they didn't support it. End of story, they refused even to run generic ping tests, just no Linux ever. (The company is part owned by Microsoft btw). It just so happens I had a Windows XP partition which hadn't been booted for a month or two, so I booted that up and called support again. This was at the height of the Blaster outbreak, so they screened all the calls to make sure that all XP users had the patches etc. I said that I didn't, but it didn't really matter since the XP install had been untouched since a month or two ago and I just want to get some generic tests run anyway. What did they do?
They said I couldn't be put through to tech support and they wouldn't do anything because I didn't have the Blaster patches that I couldn't get for an OS I didn't use. The reason I needed the patches was because I might have a virus which can do no damage anyway because there was no Internet connection. So to get the patches for this virus which doesn't do anything, I need them to fix the internet connection, however they won't fix it as I didn't have the patches.
Sons of bitches. If anyone from NTL is reading this, GET SOME FUCKING LINUX SUPPORT YOU COCKS.
Ted Turner is a complete dude. He donated $1 BILLION to the UN (largest donation to any organisation ever), challenged Rupert Murdoch to a televised boxing match and started the whole concept of 24-hour news.
Plus he built his fortune up from nothing, which I have to admire. Probably my favourite billionaire.
For you Yanks =) some info: BT WAS owned by the government, but is now privatised and is on the stock exchange, thanks to that bitch^WIron Lady Thatcher.
Web doesn't have as much porn, kiddie or otherwise, as P2P.
It would be trivial for a kid to download eMule, install it. They then instantly have access to porn of every kind, ever.
Do parents care? No, since they're convinced their happy little filter is working. Do the (insanely small number of compared to column inches devoted to) paedophiles care? Yup, they have a new source of smut.
WTF??? I really hope that he was misquoted, or is this the same mentality that bans parents taking photos at school pantomimes because it might excite paedophiles?
Welcome to the perpetual moral panic that is Britain. On your left, you'll find the latest bullshit paedophile scare which has no grounding in reality. On your right, you'll find out how nobody wants sexually active kids to have safe(r) sex because they shouldn't be active in the first place, leading to an increase in teen pregnancy rates which forms the other moral panic just ahead of you.
It's been done, there was a book about it and there was, as always, a moral panic. "OMG, SHE ENDORSES PEDOPHILIA!!!!!!111". That was, quite literally, what the reaction was to any suggestion that child sexuality (note: not kids being fucked by adults, there is a difference) is a perfectly normal part of growing up, and that any restriction of it would lead to puritanical, morally warped adults.
Oh wait, that's what people want most of the time. Silly me.
You see, people want things both ways. They want no crime on the streets, and they want cannabis to remain illegal. They want rid of drunken behaviour, but still want the right to walk into any shop and walk out with some Guinness (mmm, Guinness).
Same thing here. They want rid of child porn, but would be very pissed as soon as undertrained medical patients injure one of their kids.
I love the public's double standards. I suppose it would be funny if it wasn't so deep-rooted and had so much grip on the nation.
Second, you're on the money about the "pedophiles are more common than they really are" thing. The UK media, BBC included, is locked in a perpetual state of moral panic, in which paedophiles lurk in every chat room, on every street corner and in every cereal box. A TV programme caused major (and I mean MAJOR-questions were asked in Parliament, tabloid newspapers went berserk-anybody who knows the Daily Mail knows what that means) outrage after it questioned the seemingly unfounded moral panic. I personally thought it was one of the funniest things ever made, but people were very offended, despite never having actually watched it.
So there you have it. We have a media which is currently in the middle of a massive deviancy amplification spiral, and this frankly fucking stupid move by BT is just an upshot of that.
I'm sure other Brits will back me up on this: it's all a load of crap.
Yeah, I'm sick of everybody going on as if they deserve music for free. Like you, I hate the RIAA. However, I still think that artists should be rewarded for their efforts, no matter how little of my money actually gets into their hands-at least they get something. I feel a little better knowing that Coldplay/the White Stripes/The Verve/Radiohead got something for their troubles.
It pisses me off also how the RIAA is trying to crack down on file sharing. I would never have bought any of those CDs if I hadn't heard them before. Hell, I'd probably never be listening to Coldplay or Radiohead in the first place! I see the Internet as a try before you buy medium, where you can see what you're getting before you take the plunge and fully buy an album. I think that is what the RIAA is missing out on, and I'd like to see them try and dispute it.
It sort of pisses me off to see all these people going around saying how they have all of Artist X's CDs, when really they just have a bunch of MP3s burnt onto CD. You can hardly call yourself a fan if that's what you do.
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The US is responsible for more pain, poverty and strife than any other nation on Earth.
Al-Qaeda is responsible for much less.
I find it ridiculous that nobody is standing back and saying "Why are they attacking us? What have we done in the past that might anger them?".
But no, we have politicians flinging rhetoric. Yay.
AHAHAHAHAH!
Americans are FINE ONES to be talking about "the wholesale slaughter of innocents is justified in the name of INSERT_POLITICAL_GRUDGE_HERE".
Hiroshima, Vietnam, Nagasaki, the Contras, supporting Pinochet, Iraq, Afghanistan. America has a lot of blood on its hands and is in no fit state to cry about its people being killed untill all of those countries which it has wronged have got a full apology.
And Liberal Democrat means "more left wing than most parties that the Yanks call left wing actually are".
Your country is corrupt. I'm sorry to say it, but it is. It is no longer the shining beacon of incorruptible democracy it once was. After its prodigious economic growth, all subsequent governments have done is to continue the status quo where the US is king, through little escapades like the crushing of Socialism/Communism, kicking the shit out of smaller countries for economic reasons and many other happy fun little things which are all designed to keep America at the top and everyone else at the bottom. The permanent members of the Security Council are more or less only there for token reasons right now. The world revolves around the US, and any number of countries could collapse if the US removed economic support and financial aid from them. before all the "RAH RAH RAH AMERICA RULES" crowd pipe up, look at the big picture. Both your major parties are the same. Your president is hated-reviled even-worldwide because he acts like a jackass. Your country is overreacting to one terrorist incident, which, in my eyes, your government deserved for its relentless campaign of the bombing, napalming and slaughtering of innocent civilian people to get its way, and your civil liberties, which the government and the people love to crow about, are being systematically removed from you. Government is in the pockets of the corporations: GE, Microsoft, Exxon et al all practically own all of the parties. Open your fucking eyes up. I know I may be preaching to the choir here on Slashdot (the /. populace generally have a fairly left wing bent anyway) but just look at what is around you and what is happening to your country.
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My call to you is this. Do something about your government. Don't just vote Democrat, that will do nothing in the long run: vote Green or, if you wish, Libertarian. Heck, vote Communist! Go hog wild! Get involved in the political protest. Turn up at the White House lawn with a picket and protest. Mail your senators and congresscritters. Get active. Do something and end the US-inflicted nightmare that has descended on the world over the last century. Please. At least do it for the children, who you all seem to love making rash political decisions for
As for my politics, I am a very left wing Liberal Democrat in the UK. May as well say that to appease all the people who will probably cry "UNAMERICAN BITCH COMMUNIST SLUTWHORE"
What, like the US?
Puh-lease. The dictatorships should have a say too.
I know that, it doesn't make the IT tagline any better or worse! :)
Slashdot needs a full redesign anyway, the whole fucking site hurts my eyes. I'm willing to do something about it if need be!
A better idea would probably be a Netscape branded Firefox. That would kick ass.
Please, change it back to News For Nerds, Stuff That Matters! That really is GODAWFUL!
(oops, there goes my karma!)
NTL support in the UK is a son of a bitch. That isn't to say the tech support staff are crap; they're usually very knowledgable and very helpful, but the service itself sucks.
You ring up, and you're asked to key in your phone number. Why couldn't they just get it through caller ID? Then you're guided through the familiar maze o' optiions(tm) until you wait for 20 minutes listening to Brian Eno shite interspersed with "Your call is valuable to us, so we put you on hold you dozy twat". Then you get to a person.
I remember one time my broadband had gone tits up. So I called up, got through, said I was using Linux and was told they didn't support it. End of story, they refused even to run generic ping tests, just no Linux ever. (The company is part owned by Microsoft btw). It just so happens I had a Windows XP partition which hadn't been booted for a month or two, so I booted that up and called support again. This was at the height of the Blaster outbreak, so they screened all the calls to make sure that all XP users had the patches etc. I said that I didn't, but it didn't really matter since the XP install had been untouched since a month or two ago and I just want to get some generic tests run anyway. What did they do?
They said I couldn't be put through to tech support and they wouldn't do anything because I didn't have the Blaster patches that I couldn't get for an OS I didn't use. The reason I needed the patches was because I might have a virus which can do no damage anyway because there was no Internet connection. So to get the patches for this virus which doesn't do anything, I need them to fix the internet connection, however they won't fix it as I didn't have the patches.
Sons of bitches. If anyone from NTL is reading this, GET SOME FUCKING LINUX SUPPORT YOU COCKS.
Or as it is now known, Willwaukee.
I thought this is what containerization was for, so you could transport freight using generic trucks and trailers on road and rail.
It's far too ugly. Nobody'll ride it. Neat idea, let down by overenthusiastic designers wanting something futuristic.
I like Luxi fonts, but for some reason they anti-alias like shit on Gentoo, meaning that I can't use them for daily use.
Irritates the ass out of me, it does.
Looks a bit like the world's most disturbing website, Superbad.
Sorta reminds me of Radiohead's equally strange website.
Uhh, dude: lawyers and ethics don't mix. I thought we all knew that.
Ted Turner is a complete dude. He donated $1 BILLION to the UN (largest donation to any organisation ever), challenged Rupert Murdoch to a televised boxing match and started the whole concept of 24-hour news.
Plus he built his fortune up from nothing, which I have to admire. Probably my favourite billionaire.
No, but it could kick the shit out of aptitude, dselect, synaptic et al; maybe even Gentoo's porthole.
British satire constantly pwns everybody elses :)
Indeed.
For you Yanks =) some info: BT WAS owned by the government, but is now privatised and is on the stock exchange, thanks to that bitch^WIron Lady Thatcher.
Web doesn't have as much porn, kiddie or otherwise, as P2P.
It would be trivial for a kid to download eMule, install it. They then instantly have access to porn of every kind, ever.
Do parents care? No, since they're convinced their happy little filter is working. Do the (insanely small number of compared to column inches devoted to) paedophiles care? Yup, they have a new source of smut.
Arse. I just realised you talked about the programme. Oh well, I linkied it for you :)
WTF??? I really hope that he was misquoted, or is this the same mentality that bans parents taking photos at school pantomimes because it might excite paedophiles?
:)
Welcome to the perpetual moral panic that is Britain. On your left, you'll find the latest bullshit paedophile scare which has no grounding in reality. On your right, you'll find out how nobody wants sexually active kids to have safe(r) sex because they shouldn't be active in the first place, leading to an increase in teen pregnancy rates which forms the other moral panic just ahead of you.
Any wonder why I want to move to Canada?
It's been done, there was a book about it and there was, as always, a moral panic. "OMG, SHE ENDORSES PEDOPHILIA!!!!!!111". That was, quite literally, what the reaction was to any suggestion that child sexuality (note: not kids being fucked by adults, there is a difference) is a perfectly normal part of growing up, and that any restriction of it would lead to puritanical, morally warped adults.
Oh wait, that's what people want most of the time. Silly me.
You see, people want things both ways. They want no crime on the streets, and they want cannabis to remain illegal. They want rid of drunken behaviour, but still want the right to walk into any shop and walk out with some Guinness (mmm, Guinness).
Same thing here. They want rid of child porn, but would be very pissed as soon as undertrained medical patients injure one of their kids.
I love the public's double standards. I suppose it would be funny if it wasn't so deep-rooted and had so much grip on the nation.
First off, I submitted the article :)
Second, you're on the money about the "pedophiles are more common than they really are" thing. The UK media, BBC included, is locked in a perpetual state of moral panic, in which paedophiles lurk in every chat room, on every street corner and in every cereal box. A TV programme caused major (and I mean MAJOR-questions were asked in Parliament, tabloid newspapers went berserk-anybody who knows the Daily Mail knows what that means) outrage after it questioned the seemingly unfounded moral panic. I personally thought it was one of the funniest things ever made, but people were very offended, despite never having actually watched it.
So there you have it. We have a media which is currently in the middle of a massive deviancy amplification spiral, and this frankly fucking stupid move by BT is just an upshot of that.
I'm sure other Brits will back me up on this: it's all a load of crap.
Yeah, I'm sick of everybody going on as if they deserve music for free. Like you, I hate the RIAA. However, I still think that artists should be rewarded for their efforts, no matter how little of my money actually gets into their hands-at least they get something. I feel a little better knowing that Coldplay/the White Stripes/The Verve/Radiohead got something for their troubles.
It pisses me off also how the RIAA is trying to crack down on file sharing. I would never have bought any of those CDs if I hadn't heard them before. Hell, I'd probably never be listening to Coldplay or Radiohead in the first place! I see the Internet as a try before you buy medium, where you can see what you're getting before you take the plunge and fully buy an album. I think that is what the RIAA is missing out on, and I'd like to see them try and dispute it.
It sort of pisses me off to see all these people going around saying how they have all of Artist X's CDs, when really they just have a bunch of MP3s burnt onto CD. You can hardly call yourself a fan if that's what you do.