” Power does what it wants, and now they’re just more naked about it. Now they just put it right out front and say, ‘This is what we’re doing to you folks’. It’s, you know, this country is finished. It’s been sliding downhill a long time. “
“And everybody’s got a cell phone that makes pancakes, so they don’t want to rock the boat. They don’t want to make any trouble. The people have been bought off by gizmos and toys in this country, and no one questions things anymore.”
Meanwhile, most of us die from lack of proper personal health (diet, exercise, etc) or automobile wrecks, all of which are 100% within our ability to control.
In more promising news on the freedom front: if you try to limit the people's ability to buy large sodas, you'll find out just what kind of tyrannical monster you really are . . . And even Nixon knew he had to gave up on any kind of national health plan.
Jeez slashdot, three Simpsons references so far and no one's mentioned:
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by
small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
Except of course when a secret court grants the NSA permission to compel Microsoft to activate the video and audio sensors to conduct illegal suspicionless spying on American citizens.
Secret Court? Compel? Microsoft (and everyone else) willingly do it for profit.
I'm not a generally paranoid person, but damn it all to hell. You've got the DOJ and it appears members of the Obama administration targeting "enemies" and now you've got them on a run with them being able to do taps because of whatever they feel like. And people called Bush bad? This is right out of "how to create your own dictatorship." What's next? Said enemies start to disappear because they're not toeing the Obama line.
And are the Republicans in Congress busy applying checks and balances to stop this? No. But they are outraged about the IRS thing in Ohio. Outraged, I tell you.
Did the Democrats set a precedent for reigning in a President when Bush started pushing the surveillance beyond what was legal and Constitutional? Did they challenge the "Unitary Executive" concept? No.
Are the pure-as-driven-snow Paul boys out there putting their asses on the line to expose and stop this overreach? No.
I guess Ron Wyden occasionally makes a little peep, but you know, because of "national security" he's not at liberty to divulge what he knows. Bullshit. Oath to uphold the Constitution overrules that. Or not.
Will voting someone else in as President fix this? No, not if Congress isn't willing to keep them honest. We can't rely on some pinkie-swear by candidate-whoever to safeguard our Constitutional principles and not exceed their authority once they realize there's no penalty if they do. The division of government was supposed to prevent this kind of thing, because each branch would jealously guard their powers from the other two. This got broken.
The President -- and by that I mean whoever's in the office -- doesn't have "Enemies" in Congress to go after. They're all in on it. It's got more bi-partisan support than baseball and apple pie.
but it works realy well for tablets and touch-enabled devices.
How nice for you. But some of us need a desktop to actually get some work done. And there, it sucks.
I don't think it was the GP's decision for MS to (unwisely) try to unify desktop and touchscreen interfaces into one OS. He just pointed out that it worked well for him on a tablet. (And that he didn't like it on a desktop.) Why put the hate on him? You got the wrong guy. He didn't ruin your desktop.
BTW: Hey, Ubuntu team? You seem to be going in the same direction of merging tablet and desktop interfaces . . . I hope you're studying this debacle and learning from it.
The number one bullshit charge will be disorderly conduct (DO), . . . You flip them the finger, DO . ..
Flipping off the pigs can be fun and profitable. TL;DR? If you're charged with Disorderly Conduct for flipping off the local constabulary, call the ACLU, get found not guilty by The First Amendment, win several thousand dollars and cops get to take anger management course. (Which probably won't help with the 'roid rage, but will annoy them.)
Interesting breakdown. Scalia joined 3 of the 4 liberals (Ginsberg, Sotomayer, and Kagan. Breyer broke with the liberals and voted in favor of the opinion. It also means a rare moment where Thomas didn't vote in lockstep with Scalia.
I'm more surprised that the Scalito brothers didn't vote together.
E.T. Wasn't that bad of a game, it was just a terrible, terrible, terrible financial decision on Atari's part, neither was Pac-Man. But Atari paid a stupidly-high licensing fee for E.T. then rushed the production and then produced far more inventory than was needed for demand . ..
E.T. may not have been the worst 2600 game ever. I played some no-name cartridges picked up in a sale basket at the drug store that were worse. "Sneak and Peek" comes to mind. It was hide-and-seek. On TV. Seriously, one player looks away while another hides in one of the oh, four, available low-res hiding places. If you had a TV and a room for it, you'd have more fun just playing actual physical hide-and-seek in that room.
But dollar for dollar, E.T. was amazingly awful, and set back movie-inspired video games by decades. I can only assume the decision not to release "Amadeus" on the 7800 was due to the E.T. fiasco.
I really don't understand why people are even discussing this anymore. I have this game, it sucked, it was 20 something years ago - no one should care. Moon Patrol was the shit.
There's often more to learn from failure than from success.
Also, the failure was spectacular. It's become sort of a legend, as spectacular events will.
I don't agree. Adventure was pretty highly regarded, and I dare you to find someone who can pick that one up in a minute without the manual.
How about this refinement, then?
Adventure did need some reading of the manual to figure out the mechanics, gameplay, etc. But, and this is the crucial difference: playing the game was rewarding after doing do. And things actually made a degree of sense. Some things were attracted to the magnet, some weren't. Different dragons behaved differently. Objects had specific purposes. And so on. And then there were the undocumented things which one had to discover the old-fashioned way: word of mouth, luck, or just lots of playtime.
E.T., on the other hand, when you read the manual was both difficult and boring. (Which I believe is how Niles Crane described dancing -- sadly I have to agree with him.)
The US is massively out of touch with the rest of the world on this issue, and in the long run, this could basically cut them off from other markets.
The rest of the world doesn't want your GMO any more than they want your stupid fucking IP laws.
Keep fiddling while the empire burns.
Don't be too smug . Both the GMO crops and the IP laws are products of our corporations. And by "our corporations" I mean yours and mine. These are multi-nationals that aren't particularly interested in the survival of anyone's empire, or any given nation for that matter. So you'd be wise to not be "fiddling" wherever you are either, but keeping heat on your government not to cave. Because, I assure you the big corporations are working the other side in your country, too.
Someone should tell them that wheat pollen is distributed by the wind.
But wheat seeds aren't to a great extent.
So it's actually pretty serious if one is concerned about the crop going wild: It's apparently not male-sterile and cross-pollination can pass on the Roundup resistance to unmodified plants. This lands somewhere between a hassle and extra expense for farmers who aren't growing wheat and can't use Roundup to prepare their fields for other crops, and a potential disaster for farmers who are growing conventional who get their crop sales potential -- and thus value -- reduced by unwittingly, unintentionally and unwillingly producing GMO wheat.
But... hang on a bit... how come 20 years ago this wasn't an issue?
Probably because 20 years ago you were young enough not to be worried about this stuff. Everybody's got a period in their minds when the problems we had today weren't such a big deal. That period is their childhood, when, for almost everybody, someone else worried about the problems for them.
Perhaps you would be happier if humans went back to living in caves? Nearly all industry causes some type of waste. There are ways to deal with it responsibly.
The problem isn't that it can't be dealt with responsibly. The problem is we fear -- the past being our guide -- that it won't, at least not until it's already caused us problems.
I know exactly what I think about fat people and It's not good.
I feel the same way about sanctimonious people. Sounds like you'll make a shitty doctor.
I don't think the OP's trying to be sanctimonious, but admitting to a bias. As they say, that's the first step.
There are, of course, too many docs who don't concern themselves with any aspect of a patient's health till they lose weight. Or quit smoking, or drinking, or doing drugs, or whatever. Sure, all those changes can dramatically affect overall health, but the "magic bullet" approach isn't the right one. Unless one's physician takes a comprehensive interest in your health rather than just tell you to "eat less, fatty", then it's gonna be hard to get the patient to comply with any advice. After all, if the doc just thinks of you as a fat guy (or smoker, etc.) then you'll just think of the doc as the "person who nags me about my weight." Hard to work as a team with that kind of rapport.
Slashdot Mirror
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Carlin on Countdown (in 2007)
” Power does what it wants, and now they’re just more naked about it. Now they just put it right out front and say, ‘This is what we’re doing to you folks’. It’s, you know, this country is finished. It’s been sliding downhill a long time. “
“And everybody’s got a cell phone that makes pancakes, so they don’t want to rock the boat. They don’t want to make any trouble. The people have been bought off by gizmos and toys in this country, and no one questions things anymore.”
Well, did it?
You have no idea what it has or has not prevented, which is the fact of the matter. For all you know the government thwarted several more 9/11s
Except I know it was really my anti-terror rock that stopped them.
Meanwhile, most of us die from lack of proper personal health (diet, exercise, etc) or automobile wrecks, all of which are 100% within our ability to control.
In more promising news on the freedom front: if you try to limit the people's ability to buy large sodas, you'll find out just what kind of tyrannical monster you really are . . . And even Nixon knew he had to gave up on any kind of national health plan.
Jeez slashdot, three Simpsons references so far and no one's mentioned:
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
Except of course when a secret court grants the NSA permission to compel Microsoft to activate the video and audio sensors to conduct illegal suspicionless spying on American citizens.
Secret Court? Compel? Microsoft (and everyone else) willingly do it for profit.
I'm not a generally paranoid person, but damn it all to hell. You've got the DOJ and it appears members of the Obama administration targeting "enemies" and now you've got them on a run with them being able to do taps because of whatever they feel like. And people called Bush bad? This is right out of "how to create your own dictatorship." What's next? Said enemies start to disappear because they're not toeing the Obama line.
And are the Republicans in Congress busy applying checks and balances to stop this? No. But they are outraged about the IRS thing in Ohio. Outraged, I tell you.
Did the Democrats set a precedent for reigning in a President when Bush started pushing the surveillance beyond what was legal and Constitutional? Did they challenge the "Unitary Executive" concept? No.
Are the pure-as-driven-snow Paul boys out there putting their asses on the line to expose and stop this overreach? No.
I guess Ron Wyden occasionally makes a little peep, but you know, because of "national security" he's not at liberty to divulge what he knows. Bullshit. Oath to uphold the Constitution overrules that. Or not.
Will voting someone else in as President fix this? No, not if Congress isn't willing to keep them honest. We can't rely on some pinkie-swear by candidate-whoever to safeguard our Constitutional principles and not exceed their authority once they realize there's no penalty if they do. The division of government was supposed to prevent this kind of thing, because each branch would jealously guard their powers from the other two. This got broken.
The President -- and by that I mean whoever's in the office -- doesn't have "Enemies" in Congress to go after. They're all in on it. It's got more bi-partisan support than baseball and apple pie.
If retrieving your posts is that important to you, get a court order, so Facebook must give you access to download them.
If the government's archiving all digital communications, who needs a court order? Just file a FOIA for your old stuff.
but it works realy well for tablets and touch-enabled devices.
How nice for you. But some of us need a desktop to actually get some work done. And there, it sucks.
I don't think it was the GP's decision for MS to (unwisely) try to unify desktop and touchscreen interfaces into one OS. He just pointed out that it worked well for him on a tablet. (And that he didn't like it on a desktop.) Why put the hate on him? You got the wrong guy. He didn't ruin your desktop.
BTW: Hey, Ubuntu team? You seem to be going in the same direction of merging tablet and desktop interfaces . . . I hope you're studying this debacle and learning from it.
The number one bullshit charge will be disorderly conduct (DO), . . . You flip them the finger, DO . . .
Flipping off the pigs can be fun and profitable. TL;DR? If you're charged with Disorderly Conduct for flipping off the local constabulary, call the ACLU, get found not guilty by The First Amendment, win several thousand dollars and cops get to take anger management course. (Which probably won't help with the 'roid rage, but will annoy them.)
Interesting breakdown. Scalia joined 3 of the 4 liberals (Ginsberg, Sotomayer, and Kagan. Breyer broke with the liberals and voted in favor of the opinion. It also means a rare moment where Thomas didn't vote in lockstep with Scalia.
I'm more surprised that the Scalito brothers didn't vote together.
E.T. Wasn't that bad of a game, it was just a terrible, terrible, terrible financial decision on Atari's part, neither was Pac-Man. But Atari paid a stupidly-high licensing fee for E.T. then rushed the production and then produced far more inventory than was needed for demand . . .
E.T. may not have been the worst 2600 game ever. I played some no-name cartridges picked up in a sale basket at the drug store that were worse. "Sneak and Peek" comes to mind. It was hide-and-seek. On TV. Seriously, one player looks away while another hides in one of the oh, four, available low-res hiding places. If you had a TV and a room for it, you'd have more fun just playing actual physical hide-and-seek in that room.
But dollar for dollar, E.T. was amazingly awful, and set back movie-inspired video games by decades. I can only assume the decision not to release "Amadeus" on the 7800 was due to the E.T. fiasco.
I really don't understand why people are even discussing this anymore. I have this game, it sucked, it was 20 something years ago - no one should care. Moon Patrol was the shit.
There's often more to learn from failure than from success.
Also, the failure was spectacular. It's become sort of a legend, as spectacular events will.
I don't agree. Adventure was pretty highly regarded, and I dare you to find someone who can pick that one up in a minute without the manual.
How about this refinement, then?
Adventure did need some reading of the manual to figure out the mechanics, gameplay, etc. But, and this is the crucial difference: playing the game was rewarding after doing do. And things actually made a degree of sense. Some things were attracted to the magnet, some weren't. Different dragons behaved differently. Objects had specific purposes. And so on. And then there were the undocumented things which one had to discover the old-fashioned way: word of mouth, luck, or just lots of playtime.
E.T., on the other hand, when you read the manual was both difficult and boring. (Which I believe is how Niles Crane described dancing -- sadly I have to agree with him.)
and just make profiling part of the ticket purchase agreement
Do go on. We'd love to hear your brilliant plan. No, really.
If only they didn't detect "latest explosives" -- that would be understandable. It had been demonstrated many times that they don't detect shit.
To be fair, detecting shit wouldn't really help, what with everyone being -- literally -- full of it.
The US is massively out of touch with the rest of the world on this issue, and in the long run, this could basically cut them off from other markets.
The rest of the world doesn't want your GMO any more than they want your stupid fucking IP laws.
Keep fiddling while the empire burns.
Don't be too smug . Both the GMO crops and the IP laws are products of our corporations. And by "our corporations" I mean yours and mine. These are multi-nationals that aren't particularly interested in the survival of anyone's empire, or any given nation for that matter. So you'd be wise to not be "fiddling" wherever you are either, but keeping heat on your government not to cave. Because, I assure you the big corporations are working the other side in your country, too.
Someone should tell them that wheat pollen is distributed by the wind.
But wheat seeds aren't to a great extent.
So it's actually pretty serious if one is concerned about the crop going wild: It's apparently not male-sterile and cross-pollination can pass on the Roundup resistance to unmodified plants. This lands somewhere between a hassle and extra expense for farmers who aren't growing wheat and can't use Roundup to prepare their fields for other crops, and a potential disaster for farmers who are growing conventional who get their crop sales potential -- and thus value -- reduced by unwittingly, unintentionally and unwillingly producing GMO wheat.
By market forces do you mean foreign powers regulations?
Regulations are part of the market.
Unless by "market," you mean "laissez-faire free-market," which would, by definition, be unregulated.
But... hang on a bit... how come 20 years ago this wasn't an issue?
Probably because 20 years ago you were young enough not to be worried about this stuff. Everybody's got a period in their minds when the problems we had today weren't such a big deal. That period is their childhood, when, for almost everybody, someone else worried about the problems for them.
It may not come easy to hear this for Americans . . .
TFA is about alleged spying on Australia by China. OP to whom you were replying didn't mention his/her nationality.
Perhaps you would be happier if humans went back to living in caves? Nearly all industry causes some type of waste. There are ways to deal with it responsibly.
The problem isn't that it can't be dealt with responsibly. The problem is we fear -- the past being our guide -- that it won't, at least not until it's already caused us problems.
"anti-fat stigma is so prevalent and a significant barrier to the treatment of obesity"
Being fat-positive would help with the treatment of obesity?
You can't treat a patient you never see. If you know the doctor is just gonna nag you to lose weight again, why would you go back?
I know exactly what I think about fat people and It's not good.
I feel the same way about sanctimonious people. Sounds like you'll make a shitty doctor.
I don't think the OP's trying to be sanctimonious, but admitting to a bias. As they say, that's the first step.
There are, of course, too many docs who don't concern themselves with any aspect of a patient's health till they lose weight. Or quit smoking, or drinking, or doing drugs, or whatever. Sure, all those changes can dramatically affect overall health, but the "magic bullet" approach isn't the right one. Unless one's physician takes a comprehensive interest in your health rather than just tell you to "eat less, fatty", then it's gonna be hard to get the patient to comply with any advice. After all, if the doc just thinks of you as a fat guy (or smoker, etc.) then you'll just think of the doc as the "person who nags me about my weight." Hard to work as a team with that kind of rapport.
As of this posting, the vast majority of ACs took the opportunity to make disparaging comments about the overweight. Classy.
A good place to start would be on all of the federal highway signs.
Been there, done that. 1970s.