>Who let the all the people unable to make this distinction loose on the internet? AOL...
>Why are there so many? In the 1980's laws changed, and the mentally ill are no longer confined against their will unless they pose an immediate threat of bodily harm to themselves or others.
>Why are there so many who insist on making the correction in the wrong direction? The voices inside their head compel them.
You're forgetting the Battle of The Atlantic - the sub blockade had Britain within inches of starvation, even with US help - without it... my mother was English, and told me about those times... grim doesn't even begin to describe it.
>you have no idea if it wouldn't have been 10,000 under Gore/Lieberman...
Of course I don't - but 3000+ have died in a neo-con planned war, and your number is fantasy. Mine is real. I'll stick with that.
There are lots of things that are worse here in the States because Bush won. Nader bears some responsibility for his election - a small part, but still part.
Your opinion is different than mine. Enjoy the right to freely speak while we still have it.
If Nader comes to campaign in my town, I will be there with placards and a bullhorn. My right. I have already emailed his campaign and told them exactly that.
I used to contribute money and time to his organizations. That stopped in 2001.
Not pointless. Your debating partner just brought up the most interesting proposal, worthy of serious consideration:
>"NASA spent 500,000 dollars today to secure the passage of three adult entertainment stars on the space shuttle today, hoping to determine the impact of space on threesomes."
This is the sort of innovation that made this country great. NASA's budget problems could disappear overnight.
It was an inspiring accident! A Microsoft CIO bumped into a Yahoo! CTO in the hallway...
"Hey! I got some of my 'sucks' on your 'blows'!" "I got some of my 'blows' on your 'sucks'!" "You know, combining 'sucks' and 'blows' is a great taste!"
I'm free to filter your opinions out, too, which I have done.
From this point on, I won't even see your puerile, whiny, "Oh! Come see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!" responses.
Thank Taco, Slashdot lets me filter bile like yours out.
The documents give the financial details of folks who are (allegedly) evading taxes by using the bank's services, and also tell of the bank's harassment of the (probable) whistleblower.
I'd not even heard of these events before WikiLeaks was attacked.
Do you vote? if you do, you have opted-in to the system where a plurality of voters pick representatives who determine government policy.
Or you don't vote, because you feel that the system is a terrible, violent, mess that oppresses you. You have freedom of movement, so you should travel to a place where such awful things as apportioning a piece of your money for joint efforts doesn't happen.
I suggest you move to Sealand.
While, you're here, though (wherever it is you live), please refrain from looting the stores and raping small children. Those nasty, gun-toting police might hold you.
Every initial credit-card contract offer I've been able to read, and sign (ink or electronically) before I got the card....and the consideration they give me is the cash value of the loan.
I hate the mouse-trap nature of the contracts, and their changing of terms, and they are very anti-customer, but they are valid, consented-to contracts, damn them.
Take a step towards unrestricted bandwidth, build a new economy based on the innovative development of new business models using this bandwidth as a utility.
Or
Allow the telecommunications oligopoly to produce a network ghetto, stove-piped and metered, and watch the US economy stagnate, and fall behind the rest of the developed world.
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>Who let the all the people unable to make this distinction loose on the internet?
AOL...
>Why are there so many?
In the 1980's laws changed, and the mentally ill are no longer confined against their will unless they pose an immediate threat of bodily harm to themselves or others.
>Why are there so many who insist on making the correction in the wrong direction?
The voices inside their head compel them.
You're forgetting the Battle of The Atlantic - the sub blockade had Britain within inches of starvation, even with US help - without it... my mother was English, and told me about those times... grim doesn't even begin to describe it.
>you have no idea if it wouldn't have been 10,000 under Gore/Lieberman...
Of course I don't - but 3000+ have died in a neo-con planned war, and your number is fantasy. Mine is real. I'll stick with that.
There are lots of things that are worse here in the States because Bush won. Nader bears some responsibility for his election - a small part, but still part.
Your opinion is different than mine. Enjoy the right to freely speak while we still have it.
If Nader comes to campaign in my town, I will be there with placards and a bullhorn. My right.
I have already emailed his campaign and told them exactly that.
I used to contribute money and time to his organizations. That stopped in 2001.
You are correct; there is too little attention paid to proper capitalization.
The only person who had dispensation from that was e.e. cummings.
>Nader was the only hope for anything different...
Indeed. The stockholders of Halliburton thank you.
The 3000+ dead soldiers, not so much.
Obviously these students need to be indoctrinated in the latest Internet memes:
There were no rickrolls, and not even a single Longcat reference.
You insensitive clod. I have just returned from Charlie's funeral. He was a good man, but had a weak heart.
How about just the naughty bits?
There are two particles involved, differentiated by spin - light and dark.
They will inevitably come to the dark side.
>Our new goal is to "organize all the useful information in the universe and serve it to you on a lightly salted cracker."
I'm in!
Not pointless. Your debating partner just brought up the most interesting proposal, worthy of serious consideration:
>"NASA spent 500,000 dollars today to secure the passage of three adult entertainment stars on the space shuttle today, hoping to determine the impact of space on threesomes."
This is the sort of innovation that made this country great. NASA's budget problems could disappear overnight.
Everyone knows that technology is driven by pr0n.
Actually, the U.S. Government is beginning to roll out IPv6 now, internally.
They have even cloned a bunch of IPv6 evangelists to convince PHB types.
>>How do you pronounce Gi-Fi? "guy-fie"? "giffy"? "jiffy"?
...and get them for you.
>I think: Goofy! Then it can even apply to wireless fetching of your shoes.
Wouldn't that be Pluto?
Of course, Goofy is an amiable guy - he'd probably say "Golly, gee, Mickey! Hyuck!"
Back in the Windows 3.1 days, I built some small utilities and put them out in the 'freeware' boards as the 'Ed Norton Utilities.'
The program names were 'Captain Video', 'Vest', 'Floppy Hat', and 'Bowling Ball'.
It's too bad that reality got in the way of a silly joke.
Then again, the vagaries of Slashdot editors will always be risible.
>Nice White, Microsoft product manager...
...and videotape his unedited response?
Could some please inform Dave Chapelle of this person's name?
It was an inspiring accident! A Microsoft CIO bumped into a Yahoo! CTO in the hallway...
"Hey! I got some of my 'sucks' on your 'blows'!"
"I got some of my 'blows' on your 'sucks'!"
"You know, combining 'sucks' and 'blows' is a great taste!"
Oh, you're free to complain.
You're just not free to ignore your obligations.
You just don't like to pay your bills.
I'm free to filter your opinions out, too, which I have done.
From this point on, I won't even see your puerile, whiny, "Oh! Come see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!" responses.
Thank Taco, Slashdot lets me filter bile like yours out.
The documents give the financial details of folks who are (allegedly) evading taxes by using the bank's services, and also tell of the bank's harassment of the (probable) whistleblower.
I'd not even heard of these events before WikiLeaks was attacked.
Gunpoint.
Right.
Do you vote? if you do, you have opted-in to the system where a plurality of voters pick representatives who determine government policy.
Or you don't vote, because you feel that the system is a terrible, violent, mess that oppresses you. You have freedom of movement, so you should travel to a place where such awful things as apportioning a piece of your money for joint efforts doesn't happen.
I suggest you move to Sealand.
While, you're here, though (wherever it is you live), please refrain from looting the stores and raping small children. Those nasty, gun-toting police might hold you.
At gunpoint.
This is more what I meant - the comparison to the freeway system is apt.
I did not mean infinite bandwidth, as some posters seem to have mistaken my intent.
Those boxes you use to defend your freedom, we've already failed on soap, ballot, and jury.
Damn, and I'm out of practice on the last one.
Actually they do.
...and the consideration they give me is the cash value of the loan.
Every initial credit-card contract offer I've been able to read, and sign (ink or electronically) before I got the card.
I hate the mouse-trap nature of the contracts, and their changing of terms, and they are very anti-customer, but they are valid, consented-to contracts, damn them.
The FCC faces this choice:
Take a step towards unrestricted bandwidth, build a new economy based on the innovative development of new business models using this bandwidth as a utility.
Or
Allow the telecommunications oligopoly to produce a network ghetto, stove-piped and metered, and watch the US economy stagnate, and fall behind the rest of the developed world.
My agreement was made at the cash register.
I gave the store money, they handed me a box of software.