has already broken down because an early set of trolls got mod points and downmodded a valid post, yes, I'll stand up and say so.
And yes, I think the moderation system regularly breaks down in that way. A lightning-fast downmod by organized troll/partisan groups can bury a post with good, insightful, thought-provoking words and it may never recover without people willing to stand up and point out that the system has broken.
What's really painful is that there are two ways they do this:
#1 - steal a SSN #2 - make up an SSN (which usually results in a data-collision with whoever's SSN it is).
Now what REALLY makes this painful is that by "privacy" laws, your bank can see that someone else is using your SSN for accounts elsewhere... but they aren't allowed to tell you and if you try to pull your own credit report, the credit agencies won't tell you either.
The end result? A nightmare like this when the illegal who stole your SSN skips town on one of his bills, or else you apply for a job only to find out the thief works for the company somewhere else...
All the downmodders don't like hearing about it. Guess what? I had to deal with this myself when my SSN was stolen - from student application paperwork to UCLA - and 8 years later UCLA started sending debt collectors after ME demanding that I pay for the education of the illegals who'd taken out student loans using my SSN.
Those who modded my response on the impact of illegals on America "offtopic" may prefer to bury their heads in the "open borders" sand, but I don't have that luxury. I've already been fucked once and I'll be damned if I let them do it again.
And I completely disagree with your racist assessment (see how easy it is to cry "racism"?).
The GPP is entirely relevant, despite using language that is harsh for bleeding-hearts to take. It's not about being "ruling class", it's about not being subject to theft and crime and doing the best you can for your family.
Anyone who falls for it is a fool who thinks he's could be part of the ruling class if not for those damn (insert-non-favored-race-here). Look, I hate to tell you this but you can't. You might be the right color, but you aren't from the right family, and that club is very exclusive.
And here you go on a conspiracy-theorist rant. How this got modded "insightful" I'll never know.
Every illegal immigrant may not commit every singly offense against the US, but a large number are committing crimes and offenses and causing problems.
The language may be rough, but the points are insightful and valid.
Illegal immigrants depress wages for legal immigrants and citizens alike, and do contribute to crime. He linked to one famous case, but there are MANY famous cases of serial murderers and rapists who were known criminals in Mexico but jumped the border to the US to find a new playing field. And then there's the cross-border drug violence.
As for the Indians, I've also yet to have a good experience with Indians and any call center line - be it tech support, banking, warranty, or anything else. And I do feel especially cheated by companies who advertise "award-winning service" (I'm looking at you Dell) and then shift me off to some Indian who hasn't got the first clue on anything when my problem isn't on his "easy fix" script. If it was the accent barrier that'd be one thing, but there's definitely a competence barrier with regard to Indian call-center employees that I don't get when I get a call center in Idaho where they're hiring the Mormons.
"Free Trade" isn't free as long as the playing field with regard to wages, environmental, and worker safety concerns aren't level. Other posters in this discussion, including parent, are right - you "pay" for the lower wages of the "globalist free trade" setups in lost jobs, and then you pay again in the damage countries like India and China are doing to the environment (you think LA or Houston has bad smog? They're using gas masks just to bike around in Beijing and Bangladesh).
I can't believe nobody caught this one from the article:
When a consumer rips a song from a CD and gives the digital file a name, the computer hardware, ripping software and other digital data together create a digital file identified by a distinct hash code. If the user rips the same song with an older computer - even with the same software - the file will have a different hash code. The slightest change in the music source, computer hardware, ripping software, P2P protocol, file name or length of recording will change the hash code identifying the resulting MP3 file.
99% of all ripping software rips the track digitally from the CD and uses lame to encode it, setting up the id3 tag from a free online database. The processor and timing don't matter for shit. I say it's quite easy that 6 guys ripped a CD and came up with the same hash.
This is the level of "evidence" the MafiAA's been giving to judges, and they won cases? I wanna know how many whores and bags of cash did it take to buy those judges off?
Headline singles out AMD machines, body indicates that AMD and Intel are equally affected by various modes of crash.
Sounds like someone's trying to drum down AMD stock or something... nah, we'd never have a processor partisan writing for Slash would we?
LMAO.
There was a sockpuppet farm and POV pushers insisting they were "arab only" dishes (they're not, they're not exclusive to Israeli jews nor to Arabs, with plenty of eaters up the meditteranean coast as far as Italy).
Every time I had to "talk" with AGK, he was insisting that I shouldn't report known and blatant sockpuppets that must have been his friends' work. The bit above by Moryath shows you what's really going on.
legislation in states such as Illinois and Tennessee that would require schools that get a certain number of notices to begin installing deep packet monitoring equipment
Meaning, the RIAA can send a bunch of fraudulent notices, and then have added pressure on the overworked IT guys.
"Nice network youse gots here... pity if something should... HAPPEN... to it..."
MafiAA can rot in hell along with the assholes who put up red-light cameras and then drop the yellow light time below the state safety requirements to increase their ticket count.
you may be a foul-mouthed jerk but here you go anyways.
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk149/M1rth/agk.jpg
Text of what he sent me:
That's it. I am ridding wikipedia of your muslim-hating racist ass. It's apparent that you are getting in the way and your mere presence is
disrupting good editors who are trying to stop Jewish POV-pushing. You obviously haven't learned your place in the pecking order. Try making a new account once you can figure that out and stay the hell off of articles you don't belong in.
-AGK
I can't attach the email screenshot to a slashdot reply. How do you suggest I send it? The abusive AGK has already blocked my account from wikipedia and his crony locked and blanked my talk page when I posted about what he had sent me there.
The actual article's about a little witch-hunt they've been having, because the resident anti-semite core on Wikipedia is deathly afraid of people coming in to fix and undo their little hatefest.
I mailed proof positive (full emails + screenshots) of malfeasance by editor AGK acting in league with anti-semitic editors after he emailed me gloating; Wikipedia's arbcom response was two "fuck you" emails and one "we don't care" email from their arbitration committee members, showing me what a bunch of anti-semitic people they really are.
who go to violence and insist that anyone who disagrees with them shouldn't be allowed to speak, while paradoxically insisting that their own "right to free speech" is paramount.
#1 - Power architecture got more performance per clock? Fine. IBM couldn't get it to ramp up clockspeed though, so it couldn't keep up with higher-clocked Intels that were still faster in genuine terms. That's why Apple dumped them in the first place.
#2 - Just-in-time x86 emulation... ahh, you mean Itanic! We all remember how well THAT little experiment on Intel's part went over; you had a processor of 1.5+ Ghz that ran x86 apps about as well as a 386sx processor.
#3 - Compilers deal in RISC more easily because the instruction set is less... but it takes you more instructions (and more clock cycles) to get the same operation done if the instruction isn't in the set. See also Cache Misses and performance degradation. RISC architecture is fine when you can accurately predict what the most-used instructions are and be sure they will be included, but if you miss one, performance hurts. Sure, in a single-case scenario like a PDA, RISC might work well, but on the scale of a desktop, you never know when someone will come up with a program that uses a heck of a lot of instructions that aren't in your RISC set, and that's where CISC will blow your little RISC chip out of the water.
Side note: this is why the major gaming platforms use the PPC architecture; because when you're writing games, the vast majority of programming options are known quantities and you can just make sure they are in your instruction set.
#4 - BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY. I recognize you tried to include this with your quip about just-in-time compilation, but no emulation or alternative compilation is ever flawless (as Microsoft is discovering the hard way and emulation programmers have known for years). If you're running similar architecture, you've got a better chance of older programs still working.
Jimbo gets donations from a bunch of groups like CAIR, suddenly facts that are "not so complimentary" to Islam vanish from the Islam-related pages and editors who try to put them back start getting attacked.
Jimbo gets donations from Virgin Unite (aka The Virgin Foundation) and their page suddenly becomes this big advertising page for their "charity."
The same thing happens every time. Either Jimbo gets a "donation" and someone magically has their wikipedia entr(ies) scrubbed squeaky clean, or someone threatens a lawsuit and they just remove the page entirely.
Wikipedia's worth the toilet paper it's printed on, and not a penny more.
whether or not Starcraft: Ghost will be what they originally portrayed, a spiritual successor/equivalent to BattleZone 2, or if it's just going to be yet another crappy FPS.
The Boy Scouts have done more good for the world, through millions of boys given a better life and taught to be good citizens both of their nations and world, than the American Criminal Liberties Union ever has.
The fact that someone attacked them for sticking by a moral position is just disgusting.
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how it is you think that would "break" the mod system.
If anything, it ought to serve as notice that someone else is trying to screw the system and abusing their mod points.
has already broken down because an early set of trolls got mod points and downmodded a valid post, yes, I'll stand up and say so.
And yes, I think the moderation system regularly breaks down in that way. A lightning-fast downmod by organized troll/partisan groups can bury a post with good, insightful, thought-provoking words and it may never recover without people willing to stand up and point out that the system has broken.
What's really painful is that there are two ways they do this:
#1 - steal a SSN
#2 - make up an SSN (which usually results in a data-collision with whoever's SSN it is).
Now what REALLY makes this painful is that by "privacy" laws, your bank can see that someone else is using your SSN for accounts elsewhere... but they aren't allowed to tell you and if you try to pull your own credit report, the credit agencies won't tell you either.
The end result? A nightmare like this when the illegal who stole your SSN skips town on one of his bills, or else you apply for a job only to find out the thief works for the company somewhere else...
All the downmodders don't like hearing about it. Guess what? I had to deal with this myself when my SSN was stolen - from student application paperwork to UCLA - and 8 years later UCLA started sending debt collectors after ME demanding that I pay for the education of the illegals who'd taken out student loans using my SSN.
Those who modded my response on the impact of illegals on America "offtopic" may prefer to bury their heads in the "open borders" sand, but I don't have that luxury. I've already been fucked once and I'll be damned if I let them do it again.
I'm requesting moderation for the insighful comments, and downmodding for the trolls like you.
And I completely disagree with your racist assessment (see how easy it is to cry "racism"?).
The GPP is entirely relevant, despite using language that is harsh for bleeding-hearts to take. It's not about being "ruling class", it's about not being subject to theft and crime and doing the best you can for your family.
Anyone who falls for it is a fool who thinks he's could be part of the ruling class if not for those damn (insert-non-favored-race-here). Look, I hate to tell you this but you can't. You might be the right color, but you aren't from the right family, and that club is very exclusive.
And here you go on a conspiracy-theorist rant. How this got modded "insightful" I'll never know.
MOD PARENT DOWN.
Hmmmm.
This?
How about this?
Or this?
Every illegal immigrant may not commit every singly offense against the US, but a large number are committing crimes and offenses and causing problems.
And that doesn't address the various scams they run, like insurance fraud. (also here or here or here).
This is "insightful"? Far from it, it's just a post insulting parent. MOD DOWN.
The language may be rough, but the points are insightful and valid.
Illegal immigrants depress wages for legal immigrants and citizens alike, and do contribute to crime. He linked to one famous case, but there are MANY famous cases of serial murderers and rapists who were known criminals in Mexico but jumped the border to the US to find a new playing field. And then there's the cross-border drug violence.
As for the Indians, I've also yet to have a good experience with Indians and any call center line - be it tech support, banking, warranty, or anything else. And I do feel especially cheated by companies who advertise "award-winning service" (I'm looking at you Dell) and then shift me off to some Indian who hasn't got the first clue on anything when my problem isn't on his "easy fix" script. If it was the accent barrier that'd be one thing, but there's definitely a competence barrier with regard to Indian call-center employees that I don't get when I get a call center in Idaho where they're hiring the Mormons.
"Free Trade" isn't free as long as the playing field with regard to wages, environmental, and worker safety concerns aren't level. Other posters in this discussion, including parent, are right - you "pay" for the lower wages of the "globalist free trade" setups in lost jobs, and then you pay again in the damage countries like India and China are doing to the environment (you think LA or Houston has bad smog? They're using gas masks just to bike around in Beijing and Bangladesh).
I can't believe nobody caught this one from the article: When a consumer rips a song from a CD and gives the digital file a name, the computer hardware, ripping software and other digital data together create a digital file identified by a distinct hash code. If the user rips the same song with an older computer - even with the same software - the file will have a different hash code. The slightest change in the music source, computer hardware, ripping software, P2P protocol, file name or length of recording will change the hash code identifying the resulting MP3 file. 99% of all ripping software rips the track digitally from the CD and uses lame to encode it, setting up the id3 tag from a free online database. The processor and timing don't matter for shit. I say it's quite easy that 6 guys ripped a CD and came up with the same hash. This is the level of "evidence" the MafiAA's been giving to judges, and they won cases? I wanna know how many whores and bags of cash did it take to buy those judges off?
Headline singles out AMD machines, body indicates that AMD and Intel are equally affected by various modes of crash. Sounds like someone's trying to drum down AMD stock or something... nah, we'd never have a processor partisan writing for Slash would we?
LMAO. There was a sockpuppet farm and POV pushers insisting they were "arab only" dishes (they're not, they're not exclusive to Israeli jews nor to Arabs, with plenty of eaters up the meditteranean coast as far as Italy). Every time I had to "talk" with AGK, he was insisting that I shouldn't report known and blatant sockpuppets that must have been his friends' work. The bit above by Moryath shows you what's really going on.
legislation in states such as Illinois and Tennessee that would require schools that get a certain number of notices to begin installing deep packet monitoring equipment
Meaning, the RIAA can send a bunch of fraudulent notices, and then have added pressure on the overworked IT guys.
"Nice network youse gots here... pity if something should... HAPPEN... to it..."
MafiAA can rot in hell along with the assholes who put up red-light cameras and then drop the yellow light time below the state safety requirements to increase their ticket count.
you may be a foul-mouthed jerk but here you go anyways. http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk149/M1rth/agk.jpg Text of what he sent me: That's it. I am ridding wikipedia of your muslim-hating racist ass. It's apparent that you are getting in the way and your mere presence is disrupting good editors who are trying to stop Jewish POV-pushing. You obviously haven't learned your place in the pecking order. Try making a new account once you can figure that out and stay the hell off of articles you don't belong in. -AGK
I can't attach the email screenshot to a slashdot reply. How do you suggest I send it? The abusive AGK has already blocked my account from wikipedia and his crony locked and blanked my talk page when I posted about what he had sent me there.
The actual article's about a little witch-hunt they've been having, because the resident anti-semite core on Wikipedia is deathly afraid of people coming in to fix and undo their little hatefest.
I mailed proof positive (full emails + screenshots) of malfeasance by editor AGK acting in league with anti-semitic editors after he emailed me gloating; Wikipedia's arbcom response was two "fuck you" emails and one "we don't care" email from their arbitration committee members, showing me what a bunch of anti-semitic people they really are.
who go to violence and insist that anyone who disagrees with them shouldn't be allowed to speak, while paradoxically insisting that their own "right to free speech" is paramount.
#1 - Power architecture got more performance per clock? Fine. IBM couldn't get it to ramp up clockspeed though, so it couldn't keep up with higher-clocked Intels that were still faster in genuine terms. That's why Apple dumped them in the first place.
#2 - Just-in-time x86 emulation... ahh, you mean Itanic! We all remember how well THAT little experiment on Intel's part went over; you had a processor of 1.5+ Ghz that ran x86 apps about as well as a 386sx processor.
#3 - Compilers deal in RISC more easily because the instruction set is less... but it takes you more instructions (and more clock cycles) to get the same operation done if the instruction isn't in the set. See also Cache Misses and performance degradation. RISC architecture is fine when you can accurately predict what the most-used instructions are and be sure they will be included, but if you miss one, performance hurts. Sure, in a single-case scenario like a PDA, RISC might work well, but on the scale of a desktop, you never know when someone will come up with a program that uses a heck of a lot of instructions that aren't in your RISC set, and that's where CISC will blow your little RISC chip out of the water.
Side note: this is why the major gaming platforms use the PPC architecture; because when you're writing games, the vast majority of programming options are known quantities and you can just make sure they are in your instruction set.
#4 - BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY. I recognize you tried to include this with your quip about just-in-time compilation, but no emulation or alternative compilation is ever flawless (as Microsoft is discovering the hard way and emulation programmers have known for years). If you're running similar architecture, you've got a better chance of older programs still working.
oh big surprise. I don't like wikipedia, so my comment is modded down.
Boo hoo. Slashfucks can rot.
Jimbo gets donations from a bunch of groups like CAIR, suddenly facts that are "not so complimentary" to Islam vanish from the Islam-related pages and editors who try to put them back start getting attacked.
Jimbo gets donations from Virgin Unite (aka The Virgin Foundation) and their page suddenly becomes this big advertising page for their "charity."
The same thing happens every time. Either Jimbo gets a "donation" and someone magically has their wikipedia entr(ies) scrubbed squeaky clean, or someone threatens a lawsuit and they just remove the page entirely.
Wikipedia's worth the toilet paper it's printed on, and not a penny more.
whether or not Starcraft: Ghost will be what they originally portrayed, a spiritual successor/equivalent to BattleZone 2, or if it's just going to be yet another crappy FPS.
The Boy Scouts have done more good for the world, through millions of boys given a better life and taught to be good citizens both of their nations and world, than the American Criminal Liberties Union ever has.
The fact that someone attacked them for sticking by a moral position is just disgusting.
In Conclusion,
Fuck You.
I can just see his parents putting green makeup on him for Halloween some year after he sees The Hulk for the first time...