Some people think that this is a trend that is just rising or started with Dubya. Not so. Ever since the the late 80s, the zealot Christians have been organizing and planning, preparing for the right time to make the changes they wanted to see.
Fact is, they learned to play the game of politics better than their counterparts. Dubya's election is a symptom of this, not the root cause.
Good news is that we fought the "silent majority" into the shadows once before, we can do it again.
Sad but true, that out of pride or embarrasment, these people would go after the person discovering their incompetence instead of praising someone for discovering the flaw and not exploiting it for nefarious means.
Seems par for the course when comes to these sort of things, sadly.
After using OO for nearly 6 months, I wonder why anyone is still using MS Office? Is it habit? If it is its like cigarettes, an expensive habit to keep that is bad for you.
Anti-itellectualism in the US has finally reached a point where it is really hurting us.
I mean why work hard and study when you see dimwitted athletes on MTV "Cribs" with large houses and expensive cars?
The root of the problem is that we don't value hard work and thirst for knowledge, we value "things." Why is a company going to research a cancer cure unless it can get a patent on it and make a boatlod of money in today's world?
Neo-cons like Bush and their reactionary politics and backwards religious thought is not the reason we are seeing this slow down. DaVinci studied anatomy in spite of the Catholic church's prohibition on using cadavers. I think the fact that neo-cons can dicate scientific policy is a symptom of current enviroment, where anything that is studied has have some sort of financial reward. We even tell our children to go to college, not for personal growth, but so they can get a good job and make lots of money.
The government (and the mega-corporations that lie in bed with government) have a conflict-of-interest here and sometimes with try and subvert the "freedom" of the press.
Free press is not free-as-in-beer, so a journalist may end up having to pay dearly for this freedom, such as jail (or in some cases in some countries) worse.
I define a journalist as someone who serves the public interest and is willing to take risks to do so. I don't think a lot bloggers fit the bill (although there are some that certainly do).
Certainly the spirit of GNU/Linux is freedom, but the Chinese government has a habit of taking things and molding it to suit their economic interests and removing things which may not be in the government's political interest.
See: Great Firewall of China. They've embraced the internet, but on their terms. It's likely that Chinese Linux will also follow suit.
Actually, it was pretty exagerrated, Kevin explained his side to/.ers here a while ago. If you read his books, he also alludes to the fact that some people have really blown-up his capabilities to trump up charges, or insipre FUD in the general, non-technical populous.
Truth is, Kevin Mitnick has become a poster boy for hackers, but he was by no means the most "dangerous" or the most skilled by any means. Most famous yes, most "powerful," no.
True, in many consumers mind, "quality" is usually not associated with "Made in China," because it used to be very true, but this is becoming less and less the case.
Even things made in countries known for quailty are being made with components made in China.
I wouldn't put it past them as far their motive, but most copies of Windows come preinstalled by OEMs, so I don't see how much sense this would make. Then again, who says that anything MS does has to make sense.
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Yes, will someone please think of the children.
Wait, actually RTFA before posting, unpossible!
Does good ol CmdrTaco turn 31?
Ricky Martin and the group Menudo are from Puerto Rico, not Mexico.
Welcome our new Disney overlords.
And insists on suing everyone on P2P, I would welcome the old days of BBS.
Cuts into all my other non-productive web surfing.
It is still a one-price-for-all on P2P, $0 per song, no DRM, after all...
A trick or treat?
Barring that, I don't see this taking off. It seems like a "me too" move after the crappy ROKR+iTunes fiasco.
Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to destroy the robots. THe could prove useful against these highly evolved sharks.
Fact is, they learned to play the game of politics better than their counterparts. Dubya's election is a symptom of this, not the root cause.
Good news is that we fought the "silent majority" into the shadows once before, we can do it again.
Seems par for the course when comes to these sort of things, sadly.
After using OO for nearly 6 months, I wonder why anyone is still using MS Office? Is it habit? If it is its like cigarettes, an expensive habit to keep that is bad for you.
I can replace my 200 MPG Carburetor!
So I guess we need to stop looking at pr0n on the internets and pick up a bible?
The food must really be bad.
4 gigs of pr0n to go? Sound like a winner to me.
I mean why work hard and study when you see dimwitted athletes on MTV "Cribs" with large houses and expensive cars?
The root of the problem is that we don't value hard work and thirst for knowledge, we value "things." Why is a company going to research a cancer cure unless it can get a patent on it and make a boatlod of money in today's world?
Neo-cons like Bush and their reactionary politics and backwards religious thought is not the reason we are seeing this slow down. DaVinci studied anatomy in spite of the Catholic church's prohibition on using cadavers. I think the fact that neo-cons can dicate scientific policy is a symptom of current enviroment, where anything that is studied has have some sort of financial reward. We even tell our children to go to college, not for personal growth, but so they can get a good job and make lots of money.
Free press is not free-as-in-beer, so a journalist may end up having to pay dearly for this freedom, such as jail (or in some cases in some countries) worse.
I define a journalist as someone who serves the public interest and is willing to take risks to do so. I don't think a lot bloggers fit the bill (although there are some that certainly do).
See: Great Firewall of China. They've embraced the internet, but on their terms. It's likely that Chinese Linux will also follow suit.
Truth is, Kevin Mitnick has become a poster boy for hackers, but he was by no means the most "dangerous" or the most skilled by any means. Most famous yes, most "powerful," no.
Even things made in countries known for quailty are being made with components made in China.
Or is it possible they leaked it to gauge reaction? Until wee know for sure, I have my tin-foil hat at the ready.
I wouldn't put it past them as far their motive, but most copies of Windows come preinstalled by OEMs, so I don't see how much sense this would make. Then again, who says that anything MS does has to make sense.