Slashdot is not a person. Slashdot is a community, a community whose members often take wildly differing viewpoints on issues. Until you show me one person who has made both types of comments you mention, your point is worthless.
But who writes the tests? It's bad enough having College Board(who thinks that "if w*1=-3/5, what is w?" is a good SAT question) writing tests that help admissions officers decide on which students to allow into college, and you want people like them writing tests for lawmaking? But seriously, the testmakers will need to be watched. And so on, metaombudsmen and all that.
Actually, occasionally America has supported actual democracies during the Cold War, but Ronald Reagan the Ruiner made sure that the world was not safe for democracy through knee-jerk anti-communism. As for armed revolution, the only time that worked well was after decades of salutary neglect.
You have made the mistake of believing the founding fathers were a cohesive group. The founding fathers were many different people with many different opinions. They also had fierce debates that made Slashdot look tame. They all believed in slavery, though.;)
The BBC may be state-financed, but its operation is distinct from that of the government proper. Every Prime Minister since Churchhill has hated the BBC, which is proof they're doing something right.
That has never been true. The Internet was designed to be resilient against a nuclear attack, and although no nuclear attacks were launched on it, the Internet has shown itself to be resilient to censorship, which is more deadly than a nuclear missile. (Because a nuclear missile has so far only been used to end a war, but censorship has not shown itself to be so unused)
You're talking about a guy who is trying to claim the IRS is illegal. (So far, I haven't seen a better form of revenue collection than the IRS, and I also haven't seen a good argument that we can survive without a government) Anybody who thinks a second American Revolution would be a good thing has exited the real world and is squarely in Revolutionary Libertarian fantasyland.
Don't you understand? Pretending that your opponents actually have political power and political support in their respective nations is exactly like allowing unwilling nations to be unwillingly given to the worst(or at least close) dictator of the 20th century! Seriously, we need a dash of reason in the current administration--something we haven't had since Colin Powell...
I don't get it either. If I were MS, I'd unveil the list (and 225 seems a ridiculously low number). Their "we wouldn't be able to handle the tsunami of responses" excuse doesn't seem to make any sense at all... If I were Joseph McCarthy, I'd unveil the list(and 205 communists seems a ridiculously low number).
You do realize Kubuntu uses the exact same packages as Ubuntu, and is in fact part of the Ubuntu tree, right? Had you said Debian or Gentoo you may have had a point, but you don't, since it would be Mark Shuttleworth making the deals and they would apply to Kubuntu too.
Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff from Redmond does contain a lot of legal problems that can cause severe long-term damage to those who use them. As for.net/Mono, I prefer Python myself but if you really want to use Mono I guess you can. Though I guess preferring to use things I can always rely on to be open and free is "software religiousity" to you...
That it's compressed three times? (For those of you who don't use Linux or don't meddle in that part of the system, vmlinuz is the name for the Linux kernel compiled using gzip)
It's one of the (many) reasons I don't global warming doesn't hit my radar: if that many politicians worldwide are whining, then it can't possibly be an important issue. And besides, I remember when politicians whined that global cooling was going to kill us all... The biggest whining about global warming is coming not from politicians but from the scientists themselves. About half of the politicians are whining about global warming, but all the scientists in the relevant areas(Michael Crichton's training wasn't in the relevant areas but in preparing to become a doctor) are pretty sure global warming is happening.
Actually, it passed with "unanimous consent", which means that nobody in the room had any serious objections to it, which means it didn't really matter to anybody. Feingold probably wasn't even in the room at the time.
Age. The majority of Congressmen are far above the age mandated by the Constitution and this is not a good thing. The phrase "Never trust anybody over 30"? That includes the entirety of Congress(as mandated by the Constitution for Senators, and by "ey's inexperienced" mudslinging for the House)
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Slashdot is not a person. Slashdot is a community, a community whose members often take wildly differing viewpoints on issues. Until you show me one person who has made both types of comments you mention, your point is worthless.
If all you can complain about is the "creative spelling" of Microsoft, that means that you have no actual argument against him.
In that case, speech is never free. Anonymity was needed in the days of the fucking founding fathers, as in, when Washington was president.
Death may be a fact of life, but torture is not! (Say this like Christopher Judge for the full effect)
But who writes the tests? It's bad enough having College Board(who thinks that "if w*1=-3/5, what is w?" is a good SAT question) writing tests that help admissions officers decide on which students to allow into college, and you want people like them writing tests for lawmaking? But seriously, the testmakers will need to be watched. And so on, metaombudsmen and all that.
Actually, occasionally America has supported actual democracies during the Cold War, but Ronald Reagan the Ruiner made sure that the world was not safe for democracy through knee-jerk anti-communism. As for armed revolution, the only time that worked well was after decades of salutary neglect.
You have made the mistake of believing the founding fathers were a cohesive group. The founding fathers were many different people with many different opinions. They also had fierce debates that made Slashdot look tame. They all believed in slavery, though. ;)
The BBC may be state-financed, but its operation is distinct from that of the government proper. Every Prime Minister since Churchhill has hated the BBC, which is proof they're doing something right.
Bush is not incompetent. He is disgustingly competent at appearing incompetent.
That has never been true. The Internet was designed to be resilient against a nuclear attack, and although no nuclear attacks were launched on it, the Internet has shown itself to be resilient to censorship, which is more deadly than a nuclear missile. (Because a nuclear missile has so far only been used to end a war, but censorship has not shown itself to be so unused)
You're talking about a guy who is trying to claim the IRS is illegal. (So far, I haven't seen a better form of revenue collection than the IRS, and I also haven't seen a good argument that we can survive without a government) Anybody who thinks a second American Revolution would be a good thing has exited the real world and is squarely in Revolutionary Libertarian fantasyland.
I don't know, but I think the Ori have Prior art.
You're just like a dumbass Woodrow Wilson.
Pretty much the justice in firing disobedient concentration camp guards.
Don't you understand? Pretending that your opponents actually have political power and political support in their respective nations is exactly like allowing unwilling nations to be unwillingly given to the worst(or at least close) dictator of the 20th century! Seriously, we need a dash of reason in the current administration--something we haven't had since Colin Powell...
Soviet Russia called to collect their patent dues. They just patented YOU!
You do realize Kubuntu uses the exact same packages as Ubuntu, and is in fact part of the Ubuntu tree, right? Had you said Debian or Gentoo you may have had a point, but you don't, since it would be Mark Shuttleworth making the deals and they would apply to Kubuntu too.
Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff from Redmond does contain a lot of legal problems that can cause severe long-term damage to those who use them. As for .net/Mono, I prefer Python myself but if you really want to use Mono I guess you can. Though I guess preferring to use things I can always rely on to be open and free is "software religiousity" to you...
That it's compressed three times? (For those of you who don't use Linux or don't meddle in that part of the system, vmlinuz is the name for the Linux kernel compiled using gzip)
Actually, it passed with "unanimous consent", which means that nobody in the room had any serious objections to it, which means it didn't really matter to anybody. Feingold probably wasn't even in the room at the time.
How about bringing back the War on Poverty?
But the people passing this law are the sort of people who think that the net is something they receive from their staff unless the tubes are clogged.
Age. The majority of Congressmen are far above the age mandated by the Constitution and this is not a good thing. The phrase "Never trust anybody over 30"? That includes the entirety of Congress(as mandated by the Constitution for Senators, and by "ey's inexperienced" mudslinging for the House)