The real problem is that for education, health care and security, the United States spends huge amounts of money in highly wasteful and inefficient ways. Yet defense and security spending are the only ones that get any real scrutiny. The other two are much better obfuscated.
Scrutiny?
The US spends as much on the military as the whole rest of the world combined.
Well, "we" did just assassinate an American citizen without due process of law... Just saying.
Law? They didn't charge him with anything, law never even entered into it. They just murdered him. One of their own citizens. And we all know how the US looks after their own, or at least the top 1%. The other 99% are expendable.
Same thing they did to Bin Laden, they had him in custody even, and just murdered him. Probably didn't want anyone to hear anything he might have to say.
What is interesting is that the U.S. can't afford teachers to educate their children, or health care to heal the sick, but it can spend money on pie in the sky security stuff.
Gotta protect ourselves from the people at any cost. Why? Because we are shitting on them in a big way and they're getting riled.
Actually, that sounds like a step in the right direction.
Basically, lose the linear rating system and moving to a more dimensional way of filtering posts. Yeah. I often look for posts that either agree or disagree with some premise in the article, depending on whether I'm looking for a fight or not.;^/ (And how much time I'm looking to waste.)
The moderation system seriously needs thinking and redone. It's constantly abused on Slashdot, up to the point where it really has started to annoy people. All the stories are filled with slashdot groupthink comments and it's always clear what kind of comments will be modded up and which down. This especially comes up within certain subjects - anything anti-piracy will get modded to -1, as does anything that says good things about Microsoft.
This really ruins the comment system as one is supposed to only have certain mindset and he is supposed to do all the same comments over and over again. Then there is the other mod abuse what happens when someone sees a comment he really doesn't like, so he goes on personal war against the poster and downmods all his comments from his comment profile, causing him bad karma and inability to post. Moderation system needs some serious work.
I agree with what you say. But none of this is a big secret. Your post would be useful if you suggested a fix.
Whenever I screwed up, well, all those powerful forces like God and the Devil were suspiciously absent and the fault was solely mine.
Hey, don't feel too bad. According to Wikipedia "The Westboro Baptist Church believes that Barack Obama is the Antichrist"
Well, he is murdering his own citizens now. I'm disappointed in him, but I wouldn't go that far. Not without checking the back of his head for numbers at least.
Besides, Dick Cheney is the Antichrist, I don't think there can be two.
You rarely hear opinions that disagree with that sentiment. The only thing Rogers has going for it is that it isn't Bell.
When they first started delivering internet, I had a dedicated IP, nice.
When they switched me to DHCP (with no notice) I was told by a help desk flunky that you can't get on the internet with Linux. I eventually learned that I had lost the dedicated IP.
Cable replaced transmitted TV just as the internet will (has) replaced cable.
Of course the cable companies will object, that changes nothing.
As for internet costs going up, they're already sky high here in Canada. I think we rank below #40 (price/bandwidth) for internet service in the world. Not very good.
The tablets are an endevaour by the Indian Government to reach out to the farmers as a means of communication to advise them about crops and similar kind of work.
I hope it's to tell them not to buy from Monsanto, and not the reverse.
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+1 insightful
We must not allow a mine shaft gap!
The real problem is that for education, health care and security, the United States spends huge amounts of money in highly wasteful and inefficient ways. Yet defense and security spending are the only ones that get any real scrutiny. The other two are much better obfuscated.
Scrutiny?
The US spends as much on the military as the whole rest of the world combined.
He isn't a wanted criminal. He's just a citizen, that's the point. He isn't charged with anything, he's just this guy you know?
NO CARRIER
That's what happens when you use dialup for subversive stuff.
You have to use dialup for subversive stuff. Broadband can penetrate the tinfoil hat and let the government read your mind.
Ack, it's so hard to stay ahead of the curve.
Thank you.
Well, "we" did just assassinate an American citizen without due process of law... Just saying.
Law? They didn't charge him with anything, law never even entered into it. They just murdered him. One of their own citizens. And we all know how the US looks after their own, or at least the top 1%. The other 99% are expendable.
Same thing they did to Bin Laden, they had him in custody even, and just murdered him. Probably didn't want anyone to hear anything he might have to say.
Who knows? You could be next.
NO CARRIER
That's what happens when you use dialup for subversive stuff.
What is interesting is that the U.S. can't afford teachers to educate their children, or health care to heal the sick, but it can spend money on pie in the sky security stuff.
Gotta protect ourselves from the people at any cost.
Why?
Because we are shitting on them in a big way and they're getting riled.
Basically, lose the linear rating system and moving to a more dimensional way of filtering posts. Yeah. I often look for posts that either agree or disagree with some premise in the article, depending on whether I'm looking for a fight or not. ;^/ (And how much time I'm looking to waste.)
I agree with this wholeheartedly. My home puter, which has more js restrictions on it, won't let me moderate. So I don't.
The moderation system seriously needs thinking and redone. It's constantly abused on Slashdot, up to the point where it really has started to annoy people. All the stories are filled with slashdot groupthink comments and it's always clear what kind of comments will be modded up and which down. This especially comes up within certain subjects - anything anti-piracy will get modded to -1, as does anything that says good things about Microsoft. This really ruins the comment system as one is supposed to only have certain mindset and he is supposed to do all the same comments over and over again. Then there is the other mod abuse what happens when someone sees a comment he really doesn't like, so he goes on personal war against the poster and downmods all his comments from his comment profile, causing him bad karma and inability to post. Moderation system needs some serious work.
I agree with what you say. But none of this is a big secret. Your post would be useful if you suggested a fix.
Whenever I screwed up, well, all those powerful forces like God and the Devil were suspiciously absent and the fault was solely mine.
Hey, don't feel too bad. According to Wikipedia "The Westboro Baptist Church believes that Barack Obama is the Antichrist"
Well, he is murdering his own citizens now. I'm disappointed in him, but I wouldn't go that far. Not without checking the back of his head for numbers at least.
Besides, Dick Cheney is the Antichrist, I don't think there can be two.
The repo may require it. If you don't have the rights (as another poster mentioned) then I guess you can't use the repo.
You rarely hear opinions that disagree with that sentiment. The only thing Rogers has going for it is that it isn't Bell.
When they first started delivering internet, I had a dedicated IP, nice. When they switched me to DHCP (with no notice) I was told by a help desk flunky that you can't get on the internet with Linux. I eventually learned that I had lost the dedicated IP.
Then they dropped the news server.
Now I have a cap.
They do packet inspection and throttle services.
I think those last two are illegal.
Rogers sucks.
Cable replaced transmitted TV just as the internet will (has) replaced cable.
Of course the cable companies will object, that changes nothing.
As for internet costs going up, they're already sky high here in Canada. I think we rank below #40 (price/bandwidth) for internet service in the world. Not very good.
Create a project on one of the FOSS repos. Flag it as needing a maintainer.
You may need to GPL it.
My first was a Sinclair. After I tired of slow basic, I programmed it in Machine code. That was cool.
The tablets are an endevaour by the Indian Government to reach out to the farmers as a means of communication to advise them about crops and similar kind of work.
I hope it's to tell them not to buy from Monsanto, and not the reverse.
My router runs Linux. Not the same version is shipped with, but it did ship with Linux installed.
Yeah OK, there are switches and wires and telephone poles and underground cables and satellites. We were talking OS's and I meant servers.
Aside from phones and desktops, It already is everywhere. It runs the internet.
You can do better than that, keep trying.
+1 Funny.
Whorey Jesuz's Your not gunna start bein' all smart 'n stuff air ya?
Ize guine ta havta git out my 'postrophe stencil 'n paint yer fourhed.
If it is as bad as Norton then uninstalling it might not be the easiest task.
Hmm, time to shell out for the anti-anti-virus software.