Au contraire, it's the righties who keep using "Hillary lost" as a catch-all comeback to any and all criticism or attempt to hold them accountable for their words and actions. They wouldn't feel the need to do this if they weren't afraid deep down inside that the allegations tainting their "victory" might well be true.
Turning it back on them is just a little reminder that—successful or not—crimes are still crimes.
I strongly encourage such folks to try being on the other side of that issue sometime.
I hear the same sort of crap sometimes in Sweden. Had an interesting argument on the subject with a gentleman on the train a couple of years ago who made the mistake of starting up a rant about that whilst sitting next to me. After about 10 minutes, I decided I'd had enough, and I spoke up.
Turned out that he was chronically unemployed (and, I suspect, an alcoholic), and that I, the immigrant who'd come to steal his benefits, had in fact paid more in income taxes the previous year than he'd received in his pension. "So, my friend, it seems that some lazy foreign invader paid for your pension and you spent lot of it on beer, am I right?" Strangely enough, he had absolutely nothing else to say.
It was very quiet in that car for a long while afterwards, with lots of uncomfortable-looking faces, none of whom would look me in the eye.
I don't have any other accounts on Slashdot than this one. It's come to my attention recently that a couple of people are consistently modding my posts Overrated in the mistaken belief that I am using a sockpuppet to mod myself up. They apparently do not understand that accounts with high Karma post with an automatic bonus. I have had this account for 20 years and have excellent Karma, so I post at 2 by default. (You get more Karma by consistently making posts that other Slashdotters mod up.) So no need for me to have any sockpuppets, even if I were inclined to play those sorts of games, which I'm not. So you dumbasses can stop wasting those Overrated mods now.
APK, nobody is stalking you. The truth of the matter is that you scan stories looking for mentions of "host files", "APK", and other words/phrases which you seem to think are related, then starting spamming them with ads for your POS programme and/or attacks on Slashdotters to whom you've taken a dislike.
I summoned you by posting the magical phrase "host files". And of course you showed up. Everyone can see this is the case. I can't stop you from posting, but I sure as hell can make you show up whenever I feel like it, can't I?
I was not the one who suggested getting rid of ACs; in fact, I just went on record above as being against the idea. Even though this means we'll have to continue to put up with trolls such as yourself.
The only drugs I'm addicted to are caffeine and nicotine. I seldom drink alcohol, and I gave up cannabis or any other sort of chemical intoxicant a long time ago. Most people are capable of changing their behaviour, and so am I.
I have never threatened you with any sort of harm--you and I both know this--and I never will. Rather than attacking me, you should be grateful that I am an ethical being who tried to teach you a lesson that, for your own good, you really need to learn. One of these days, you are going to cross someone who isn't ethical. I will be sorry when this happens, because--unlike you--I do not enjoy the suffering of others. You should modify your behaviour before the consequences catch up with you. And, no, that is not a threat--just an observation.
Many people, including me, have tried to help you see the error of your ways. And in every case, you "thank" them by attacking them. The result is that is you turn people who are trying to be your friends into your enemies, and you deny yourself the chance for any positive change.
You've been doing this for at least the past 20 years or so that I've known you. Don't you think it's about time you tried to do things differently?
Yeah... and after that, they could just start storing the goods they have for sale in those spaces, where people could actually come and look at them and maybe even try them out before making their purchases.
One of the first sci-fi books I ever read as a kid was his collection Paingod, And Other Delusions. This included the title story as well as "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman". I also had the issue of IF magazine containing the first publication of "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream".
And it would be a crime not to mention "The City On The Edge of Forever", which was quite possibly the very best Star Trek episode, ever.
I have mixed feelings about this. I'd be happy for a lot of the AC spam to go away. We don't need hosts file crap, harassment of creimer, or anything like that. But there are legitimate reasons to post AC. There are also some people who feel more comfortable not logging in because of the degree to which we're tracked everywhere we go.
I absolutely agree. In my own case: I'm employed by $multinational and mostly satisfied with this (and them), but because I can post here under a pseudonym or even as an AC, I can (and sometimes do) express opinions which they might not care for without fear of negative repercussions on the job.
It's meant to distinguish between list items and clauses in a sentence. Alas, the ancient and hallowed Slashcode will not allow me to post an example here.
I'm pretty sure that the overwhelming majority of Slashdotters are not at all interested in your reindeer games and would quite happily watch the whole bloody lot of yas take a very long stroll down a very short pier.
It's not liberals who spew their social-darwinist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic garbage all over the web.
It's not liberals who promote and defend values that would have modern civilization revert back to the dark ages, when superstition trumped science, when men and women were constrained in predefined roles, as defined by men only, when the exploitation of the weak by the strong was considered normal.
It's not liberals who are 911-truthers, climate-change deniers, 6000-year-earthers, creationists, moon-landings hoaxers, flat-earthers.
Your complaining about mainstream media and tech companies being biased against conservatives is like cancer cells complaining that the immune system is biased against them compared to the rest of the body cells. Of course mainstream media and tech companies are biased against conservatives. And for anyone who values reality over superstition, collaboration over competition, compassion over heartlessness, collectivism over individualism, civilization over barbarism, this is exactly how it should be.
Thank you! You have stated the case very well indeed. +10,000.
If it's possible for illegals to obtain what passes for welfare benefits in the US, then perhaps the US benefits system needs to be fixed. In other countries I've lived in, you're required to show proof that you're a citizen or legal resident before the social assistance people will even talk to you for help with anything other than maybe a one-way ticket home (and you'll be expected to pay them back for it).
You conveniently ignore the fact that many of those folks from Central/South America are trying to escape pretty desperate circumstances--dictatorships, guerrilla warfare, gang violence. In addition, you fail to acknowledge that those conditions can very often be traced back to US policies that encouraged and in some cases *installed* right-wing dictatorships in those countries and the US War On Drugs. Not to mention the fact that local economies were often ruined by US-based multinational corporations backed by US power. Some search terms to get you started: Allende, Somoza, United Fruit Co.
No disrespect intended to your relatives who went into Auschwitz and never came out again, but I think you're sounding a whole lot like "I know nothing of the relevant history but I'll spout off anyway", as well as a little like "I've got mine".
Yet I suspect that you are perfectly willing to go along with calling people who display the hammer & sickle and go around quoting Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin "Communists", in spite of the fact that they weren't yet born when Stalin (or even Mao) was still alive.
Your Opposite-Land characterisation of social-justice types isn't very convincing, either.
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Except Obama did absolutely nothing of the sort, so you've not "fixed" anything, Jackson. Thanks for playing.
Au contraire, it's the righties who keep using "Hillary lost" as a catch-all comeback to any and all criticism or attempt to hold them accountable for their words and actions. They wouldn't feel the need to do this if they weren't afraid deep down inside that the allegations tainting their "victory" might well be true.
Turning it back on them is just a little reminder that—successful or not—crimes are still crimes.
Congratulations, you've been trolled by a fake account.
It's not just new stuff. For example, try to find someplace where you can buy the complete Sun Ra discography...
Depends on where the immigrants come from. Also bear in mind that someone who moves between EU member states is no longer counted as an immigrant.
I strongly encourage such folks to try being on the other side of that issue sometime.
I hear the same sort of crap sometimes in Sweden. Had an interesting argument on the subject with a gentleman on the train a couple of years ago who made the mistake of starting up a rant about that whilst sitting next to me. After about 10 minutes, I decided I'd had enough, and I spoke up.
Turned out that he was chronically unemployed (and, I suspect, an alcoholic), and that I, the immigrant who'd come to steal his benefits, had in fact paid more in income taxes the previous year than he'd received in his pension. "So, my friend, it seems that some lazy foreign invader paid for your pension and you spent lot of it on beer, am I right?" Strangely enough, he had absolutely nothing else to say.
It was very quiet in that car for a long while afterwards, with lots of uncomfortable-looking faces, none of whom would look me in the eye.
Gave me a warm feeling inside.
I don't have any other accounts on Slashdot than this one. It's come to my attention recently that a couple of people are consistently modding my posts Overrated in the mistaken belief that I am using a sockpuppet to mod myself up. They apparently do not understand that accounts with high Karma post with an automatic bonus. I have had this account for 20 years and have excellent Karma, so I post at 2 by default. (You get more Karma by consistently making posts that other Slashdotters mod up.) So no need for me to have any sockpuppets, even if I were inclined to play those sorts of games, which I'm not. So you dumbasses can stop wasting those Overrated mods now.
APK, nobody is stalking you. The truth of the matter is that you scan stories looking for mentions of "host files", "APK", and other words/phrases which you seem to think are related, then starting spamming them with ads for your POS programme and/or attacks on Slashdotters to whom you've taken a dislike.
I summoned you by posting the magical phrase "host files". And of course you showed up. Everyone can see this is the case. I can't stop you from posting, but I sure as hell can make you show up whenever I feel like it, can't I?
I was not the one who suggested getting rid of ACs; in fact, I just went on record above as being against the idea. Even though this means we'll have to continue to put up with trolls such as yourself.
The only drugs I'm addicted to are caffeine and nicotine. I seldom drink alcohol, and I gave up cannabis or any other sort of chemical intoxicant a long time ago. Most people are capable of changing their behaviour, and so am I.
I have never threatened you with any sort of harm--you and I both know this--and I never will. Rather than attacking me, you should be grateful that I am an ethical being who tried to teach you a lesson that, for your own good, you really need to learn. One of these days, you are going to cross someone who isn't ethical. I will be sorry when this happens, because--unlike you--I do not enjoy the suffering of others. You should modify your behaviour before the consequences catch up with you. And, no, that is not a threat--just an observation.
Many people, including me, have tried to help you see the error of your ways. And in every case, you "thank" them by attacking them. The result is that is you turn people who are trying to be your friends into your enemies, and you deny yourself the chance for any positive change.
You've been doing this for at least the past 20 years or so that I've known you. Don't you think it's about time you tried to do things differently?
Yeah... and after that, they could just start storing the goods they have for sale in those spaces, where people could actually come and look at them and maybe even try them out before making their purchases.
I think you might be on to something here!
That's going to go well with AmazonOS, FireOS, AlexaOS, ShippingOS, DroneOS and UnderpaidminionsOS!
MalpractOS
I'm pretty sure Elizabeth Holmes already has the last one covered.
Yours certainly does.
One of the first sci-fi books I ever read as a kid was his collection Paingod, And Other Delusions. This included the title story as well as "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman". I also had the issue of IF magazine containing the first publication of "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream".
And it would be a crime not to mention "The City On The Edge of Forever", which was quite possibly the very best Star Trek episode, ever.
O RLY?
I have mixed feelings about this. I'd be happy for a lot of the AC spam to go away. We don't need hosts file crap, harassment of creimer, or anything like that. But there are legitimate reasons to post AC. There are also some people who feel more comfortable not logging in because of the degree to which we're tracked everywhere we go.
I absolutely agree. In my own case: I'm employed by $multinational and mostly satisfied with this (and them), but because I can post here under a pseudonym or even as an AC, I can (and sometimes do) express opinions which they might not care for without fear of negative repercussions on the job.
It's meant to distinguish between list items and clauses in a sentence. Alas, the ancient and hallowed Slashcode will not allow me to post an example here.
I'm pretty sure that the overwhelming majority of Slashdotters are not at all interested in your reindeer games and would quite happily watch the whole bloody lot of yas take a very long stroll down a very short pier.
It's not liberals who spew their social-darwinist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic garbage all over the web.
It's not liberals who promote and defend values that would have modern civilization revert back to the dark ages, when superstition trumped science, when men and women were constrained in predefined roles, as defined by men only, when the exploitation of the weak by the strong was considered normal.
It's not liberals who are 911-truthers, climate-change deniers, 6000-year-earthers, creationists, moon-landings hoaxers, flat-earthers.
Your complaining about mainstream media and tech companies being biased against conservatives is like cancer cells complaining that the immune system is biased against them compared to the rest of the body cells. Of course mainstream media and tech companies are biased against conservatives. And for anyone who values reality over superstition, collaboration over competition, compassion over heartlessness, collectivism over individualism, civilization over barbarism, this is exactly how it should be.
Thank you! You have stated the case very well indeed. +10,000.
If it's possible for illegals to obtain what passes for welfare benefits in the US, then perhaps the US benefits system needs to be fixed. In other countries I've lived in, you're required to show proof that you're a citizen or legal resident before the social assistance people will even talk to you for help with anything other than maybe a one-way ticket home (and you'll be expected to pay them back for it).
You conveniently ignore the fact that many of those folks from Central/South America are trying to escape pretty desperate circumstances--dictatorships, guerrilla warfare, gang violence. In addition, you fail to acknowledge that those conditions can very often be traced back to US policies that encouraged and in some cases *installed* right-wing dictatorships in those countries and the US War On Drugs. Not to mention the fact that local economies were often ruined by US-based multinational corporations backed by US power. Some search terms to get you started: Allende, Somoza, United Fruit Co.
No disrespect intended to your relatives who went into Auschwitz and never came out again, but I think you're sounding a whole lot like "I know nothing of the relevant history but I'll spout off anyway", as well as a little like "I've got mine".
I'd always heard this attributed to Winston Churchill.
As for Hitler--I thought everybody knew that he retired to a bed & breakfast in England.
I'd like to see Western languages adopt enumeration commas, myself.
B-b-b-b-but host files!
"He who smelt it, dealt it."
What amazon really is doing is mitigating its risk.
Known to the trade as externalising the costs.
Yet I suspect that you are perfectly willing to go along with calling people who display the hammer & sickle and go around quoting Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin "Communists", in spite of the fact that they weren't yet born when Stalin (or even Mao) was still alive.
Your Opposite-Land characterisation of social-justice types isn't very convincing, either.
Butt-hurt script-kiddy detected.
Well, yeah--that's sort of the *point*, genius.