Sorry, but Slashdot is a news service and has the right to use logos when it runs stories about companies and products. Have you ever watched TV news and noticed how they show company logos when they do news stories about them? What Slashdot does isn't any different.
Rumor has it that the anarchism is being taken out of V is for Vendetta. That's too bad. When will Hollywood understand that good movies are based on the good shit that authors dream up, not what placates some test audience?
"I hope they get their kit back, but I think this "journalist" defence won't have any legs. There may well be excellent journalists working for indymedia, but responsible journalists do not allow anonymous, unchecked "facts" into their news output."
I'm not sure how this got modded up to +5 Interesting, but it displays an amazing amount of ignorance about how mainstream journalism works and how Indymedia is journalism. There is this widespread myth that the corporate and mainstream media "check facts" because they are journalists. This may be the case with many newspapers, but we've seen in recent years how often journalists can make up stories that go unchecked. The fact is that newspapers and other big media DON'T check facts. Most often this is a result of media having to accomodate the need to squeeze profits for owners and shareholders. When you have to keep the costs down, one of the first things to go are editors, proofreaders, and fact checkers. Lastly, many so-called media these days publish company press releases verbatim as "news." Let's not get into the factual problems with this practice.
Indymedia is a form of journalism, just like the Washington Post and CNN.
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Globalization has NOT been happening for hundreds of years. Globalization is part of neoliberalism, which is a recent process of international capitalism whereby free trade agreements and development aid are used to make the transfer of resources and wealth from poor countries to rich one easier.
"Even ignoring the fact that it stopped the war early, the use of the nuclear weapons both saved American lives, and saved the lives of countless Japanese civilians who would've been killed in the firestorm that followed a mass bombing of those cities."
Ah yes, the standard propaganda line supporting the discredited argument that the destruction of these two cities were necessary to "end the war." Japan was on the ropes by the time the atomic bombs were dropped. These bombs were dropped to threaten the Soviet Union and the rest of the world. These bombs were the first shots of the Cold War and the subsequent war to build U.S. empire.
The dropping of the atomic bombs were war crimes, as were the attacks on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. It's a shame that Truman and other U.S. leaders never saw jail time for thier war crimes.
Shame on Slashdot for featuring this nonsense. Your homework for the weekend is to read "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould.
Bad ideas from the 19th century should not be featured as science in the 21st century.
One of the main reasons why Microsoft became so huge is because of piracy. Many millions of people got hooekd on Windows and MS Office software because geeks like myself took the one licensed copy of the software and loaded it on all of the office computers. People got hooked on something that was more visual than DOS and it looked like Macs. When it came time to upgrade the software, or "comply" with piracy threats, all of these companies and organizations started paying Microsoft full price for each seat license.
The Microsoft empire was built on piracy. Let's not forget that.
If me not getting a job depends on suits and clothing, then I don't want to work for somebody as shallow-minded as yourself. I'd rather hustle another way to pay the rent than work for a boos like you who thinks that workers are interchangeable. Odds are that the people working for you are very unhappy and that you are clueless about your turnover problem.
As a librarian in my late 30s, I'll point out that not only did librarians and library workers provide help in finding information, but people were well-read and were themselves sources of information. People read lots of books, studied, did research, and were generally much more intelligent than the current generations. Knowledge is not just a collection of facts, it is more than the sum of the facts that you have collected.
I used to work in a state-of-the-art I.M. Pei-designed smart building in downtown Washington, DC. There were many things to like about the building, including its interesting assymetrical design. The funny thing is that the "smart" features of the building were actually stupid, like the smart elevators that grouped people in the lobby together by their floor. This was supposed to save energy, bit what it created was a balkanized organizational culture. People who worked on different floors seldom took the same elevator together, thus no casual conversations. People joked that the only time they saw people from other departments was at the annual holiday party.
My favorite "smart" design feature in this building was the fact that I could open my windows. This meant that a smart human could regulate the temperatur in the office, especially during the Spring and Fall, instead of having to run the HVAC constantly.
Tradition is sometimes smarter than 21st century "smart".
Librarians are opposed to the Patriot Act because they know what the FBI will do given an inch. American librarians successfully fought off the FBI in the 1970s, when it wanted to peek at library records to determine who was reading subsversive materials. In the 1990s, I personally witnessed FBI personnel violate patron privacy in a library with the help of library staff who were not librarians versed in the principles of patron privacy. Just because there aren't any public incidents, don't assume that the FBI isn't using the Patriot Act to intimidate librarians. The FBI has done it before, they will do it again, and they are probably doing it now.
It really doesn't matter if the US signs the treaty or not, because everybody knows that the US is a rogue state that thinks it is above international law.
It's a real shame that our grandchildren will have to suffer terribly because ignorant and greedy neoconservaties are running the US right now.
In other words, since you defend the whacked out right wign conspiracy theory that global warming isn't happening, then average Americans should be excused for their ignorance.
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
-- Emma Goldman
You mean that some web developer has the time to annoy people with his arrogance that web developers hsould never steal, borrow, or copy from other developers? I've been a webmaster and web developer since 1995 and I've freely borrowed designs, graphics and so on from other websites. The guy who runs "Pirated Sites" is just ignorant about how the creative process works. EVERY artist borrows, steals and is influenced by other artists. There is seldom anything that is truly "original."
It really sounds like the Pirated Sites guy is bucking for a job with the intelectual property fascists at MPAA.
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Just wait until they smuggle this evil puppy out of the Initech offices!
Why has Hollywood removed the anarchism from this movie?
Sorry, but Slashdot is a news service and has the right to use logos when it runs stories about companies and products. Have you ever watched TV news and noticed how they show company logos when they do news stories about them? What Slashdot does isn't any different.
Rumor has it that the anarchism is being taken out of V is for Vendetta. That's too bad. When will Hollywood understand that good movies are based on the good shit that authors dream up, not what placates some test audience?
Capitalism causes more headaches and problems for me and my friends than anything hackers do.
"I hope they get their kit back, but I think this "journalist" defence won't have any legs. There may well be excellent journalists working for indymedia, but responsible journalists do not allow anonymous, unchecked "facts" into their news output."
I'm not sure how this got modded up to +5 Interesting, but it displays an amazing amount of ignorance about how mainstream journalism works and how Indymedia is journalism. There is this widespread myth that the corporate and mainstream media "check facts" because they are journalists. This may be the case with many newspapers, but we've seen in recent years how often journalists can make up stories that go unchecked. The fact is that newspapers and other big media DON'T check facts. Most often this is a result of media having to accomodate the need to squeeze profits for owners and shareholders. When you have to keep the costs down, one of the first things to go are editors, proofreaders, and fact checkers. Lastly, many so-called media these days publish company press releases verbatim as "news." Let's not get into the factual problems with this practice.
Indymedia is a form of journalism, just like the Washington Post and CNN.
Globalization has NOT been happening for hundreds of years. Globalization is part of neoliberalism, which is a recent process of international capitalism whereby free trade agreements and development aid are used to make the transfer of resources and wealth from poor countries to rich one easier.
"Even ignoring the fact that it stopped the war early, the use of the nuclear weapons both saved American lives, and saved the lives of countless Japanese civilians who would've been killed in the firestorm that followed a mass bombing of those cities." Ah yes, the standard propaganda line supporting the discredited argument that the destruction of these two cities were necessary to "end the war." Japan was on the ropes by the time the atomic bombs were dropped. These bombs were dropped to threaten the Soviet Union and the rest of the world. These bombs were the first shots of the Cold War and the subsequent war to build U.S. empire. The dropping of the atomic bombs were war crimes, as were the attacks on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. It's a shame that Truman and other U.S. leaders never saw jail time for thier war crimes.
Shame on Slashdot for featuring this nonsense. Your homework for the weekend is to read "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould. Bad ideas from the 19th century should not be featured as science in the 21st century.
That's an original one. Post the list of your Friendster friends and call it the list of top blogging celebrities.
One of the main reasons why Microsoft became so huge is because of piracy. Many millions of people got hooekd on Windows and MS Office software because geeks like myself took the one licensed copy of the software and loaded it on all of the office computers. People got hooked on something that was more visual than DOS and it looked like Macs. When it came time to upgrade the software, or "comply" with piracy threats, all of these companies and organizations started paying Microsoft full price for each seat license. The Microsoft empire was built on piracy. Let's not forget that.
So which Taco Bell location do you manage?
If me not getting a job depends on suits and clothing, then I don't want to work for somebody as shallow-minded as yourself. I'd rather hustle another way to pay the rent than work for a boos like you who thinks that workers are interchangeable. Odds are that the people working for you are very unhappy and that you are clueless about your turnover problem.
As a librarian in my late 30s, I'll point out that not only did librarians and library workers provide help in finding information, but people were well-read and were themselves sources of information. People read lots of books, studied, did research, and were generally much more intelligent than the current generations. Knowledge is not just a collection of facts, it is more than the sum of the facts that you have collected.
I used to work in a state-of-the-art I.M. Pei-designed smart building in downtown Washington, DC. There were many things to like about the building, including its interesting assymetrical design. The funny thing is that the "smart" features of the building were actually stupid, like the smart elevators that grouped people in the lobby together by their floor. This was supposed to save energy, bit what it created was a balkanized organizational culture. People who worked on different floors seldom took the same elevator together, thus no casual conversations. People joked that the only time they saw people from other departments was at the annual holiday party.
My favorite "smart" design feature in this building was the fact that I could open my windows. This meant that a smart human could regulate the temperatur in the office, especially during the Spring and Fall, instead of having to run the HVAC constantly.
Tradition is sometimes smarter than 21st century "smart".
Librarians are opposed to the Patriot Act because they know what the FBI will do given an inch. American librarians successfully fought off the FBI in the 1970s, when it wanted to peek at library records to determine who was reading subsversive materials. In the 1990s, I personally witnessed FBI personnel violate patron privacy in a library with the help of library staff who were not librarians versed in the principles of patron privacy. Just because there aren't any public incidents, don't assume that the FBI isn't using the Patriot Act to intimidate librarians. The FBI has done it before, they will do it again, and they are probably doing it now.
Hack into Lizzy McGuire's bank account. Not only would that help you relate to the young ones, but it would get the girls interested in programming.
Check it out:
http://www.infoshop.org/sf/index.php/Main_Page
It really doesn't matter if the US signs the treaty or not, because everybody knows that the US is a rogue state that thinks it is above international law. It's a real shame that our grandchildren will have to suffer terribly because ignorant and greedy neoconservaties are running the US right now.
In other words, since you defend the whacked out right wign conspiracy theory that global warming isn't happening, then average Americans should be excused for their ignorance. "The most violent element in society is ignorance." -- Emma Goldman
You mean that some web developer has the time to annoy people with his arrogance that web developers hsould never steal, borrow, or copy from other developers? I've been a webmaster and web developer since 1995 and I've freely borrowed designs, graphics and so on from other websites. The guy who runs "Pirated Sites" is just ignorant about how the creative process works. EVERY artist borrows, steals and is influenced by other artists. There is seldom anything that is truly "original." It really sounds like the Pirated Sites guy is bucking for a job with the intelectual property fascists at MPAA.