There's a difference between "not being professional" and "being a dick", and clearly good ol' Linus doesn't understand it. I don't wear a suit and a tie to go about my daily business, yet somehow I manage not to be an obnoxious git to people I disagree with.
If you act like a jerk, people are not going to pay attention to any arguments you have, they're going to remember you acting like a jerk.
I, for one, hope none of the more... rabid MLP fans show up here. They were run off of Somethingawful for being really fucking creepy, a first for a non-Japanese show.
If you had actually read the post, instead of just the first line, you'd know it was a decent post, one that deserves the +3 insightful a lot more than yours. Don't drag your stupid drama from other games onto Slashdot.
I'm amazed people are arguing against IBM in this case. This seems fairly straightforward: If you buy something, you have to pay for it. The only reason people are heaping on IBM is because of knee-jerk anti-corporatism.
I think this shows where the priorities of the UK government is. Millions of pounds to collect even more money from the citizens, but not one pence to solve the chav problem.
It amuses me how many Slashdot users hate the US so much that they have to make up things that the US -MIGHT- do to "prove" why the EU or the UN should have a say over the Internet.
"blah blah blah US censor this censor that tax this tax that"
I'd rather stick with an organization that hasn't PUBLICALLY made noises about taxing and censoring the net for the most part, as opposed to the UN and the EU, which have. This is a matter of public record. Feel free to look it up if you don't believe me.
Seriously, you people complaining the US might use the Internet to put economic pressure on countries are so full of shit. The US didn't even chop off Iraq's internet when they invaded-- what makes you think they'd do it to gain a trade advantage with some pissant South American country?
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There's a difference between "not being professional" and "being a dick", and clearly good ol' Linus doesn't understand it. I don't wear a suit and a tie to go about my daily business, yet somehow I manage not to be an obnoxious git to people I disagree with.
If you act like a jerk, people are not going to pay attention to any arguments you have, they're going to remember you acting like a jerk.
This is a bit disingenous. Cesium quickly goes through the human system and thus isn't really a problem in small quantities.
I, for one, hope none of the more... rabid MLP fans show up here. They were run off of Somethingawful for being really fucking creepy, a first for a non-Japanese show.
You've just contributed to a website where people argue constantly over who's poop should appear as a picture in the article about poop.
Do you know how many children are kidnapped in the US?
About 240.
Buying one of these stupid things isn't going to make your kid any safer, but it will teach him that you're an overprotective control freak.
If you had actually read the post, instead of just the first line, you'd know it was a decent post, one that deserves the +3 insightful a lot more than yours. Don't drag your stupid drama from other games onto Slashdot.
Harlan Ellison accusing someone ELSE of being arrogant is hilarious.
A nerd that doesn't know when to shut up? WHY I NEVER
I'm amazed people are arguing against IBM in this case. This seems fairly straightforward: If you buy something, you have to pay for it. The only reason people are heaping on IBM is because of knee-jerk anti-corporatism.
You just lost The Game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(game)
I think this shows where the priorities of the UK government is. Millions of pounds to collect even more money from the citizens, but not one pence to solve the chav problem.
It amuses me how many Slashdot users hate the US so much that they have to make up things that the US -MIGHT- do to "prove" why the EU or the UN should have a say over the Internet.
"blah blah blah US censor this censor that tax this tax that"
I'd rather stick with an organization that hasn't PUBLICALLY made noises about taxing and censoring the net for the most part, as opposed to the UN and the EU, which have. This is a matter of public record. Feel free to look it up if you don't believe me.
Seriously, you people complaining the US might use the Internet to put economic pressure on countries are so full of shit. The US didn't even chop off Iraq's internet when they invaded-- what makes you think they'd do it to gain a trade advantage with some pissant South American country?
Sonar is too useful for the Navy to accept restrictions on how it's used. This suit will go nowhere.
Why would I want to pay an average of 15-20 bucks every time I go out somewhere just because the taxi runs cleaner?
In before first hippy gushing about renewable power without talking about how much space all those damn fans and dams and solar panels take up...
I for one welcome our new satellite overlords.