"Either it's because we don't feel like we have the power to stop it from happening, or because we've decided it's all right for the people in charge to break the law. Either way, we're fucked."
Maybe we're just to busy trying to stay afloat to track/deal with these government idiots constantly fucking up our lives. I'm sure it's just the way the idiots like it too.
"We know very well what they're doing in 95% of the cases. See the Freedom of Information Act for some guidance. It's amazing what we can get."
Yea, like the 95% blacked out pages you got during the Reagan and both bush administrations. And that was for the things they would release at all. The freedom of information act is severely limited and is often manipulated by various administrations/agencies to the detriment of public trust.
"Government officials are also citizens, just working for the government."
Officials/civil servants are citizens who work for the public under the guise of the word government. That's why their other name is public servants. Without those voluntary servants there is no government.
"Next to come: using Linux will be considered anti-American."
That's ok. There's the BSDs: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, MacOSX, etc. All "American" and the true children of UNIX. Let's not forget Plan9 either. We definitely won't run out of usable OSes if linux goes away.
"Consider the farmer. He owns his land, the equipment he uses to harvest his crops, the truck he uses to drive that product to the farmers' market where he sells it directly to the consumer."
You left out that corporations control the markets where farmers get their money to rent the land(much of it) to farm their crops, buy the equipment from corporations, and transport most of the crop to corporations where some of it eventually ends up on your table. All of the described isn't done without big loans from banks. Farmers markets are just a sideline to where the real money is made just so farmers can stay afloat. The few farmers that are left that is given the average age is near sixty. I have farmers all around and none of them are younger than me(I'm middle-aged) and the few that are close to my age aren't married. The farmers that irrigate are the only ones doing fairly well, at least until they tap out all the groundwater in which case this whole area will become little more than a no mans land. The levels have been dropping for years but like usual no one, especially no one in power cares as long as money is being made.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Farmville isn't real life.
"...Mother Earth, raped again! Hey, she was asking for it. -- Carlin
P.S. This leaves out land prices that contribute to high cost of entry(no young can afford), herbicide resistant weeds forcing change in farm practices, high operation costs, lack of social support(think women, family, education as most people have moved to the cities), political instability(farm programs), management of the business side when you barely have time just to do the work, and let's not forget the weather, disease, etc. Nevermind it's often extremely hard work, very few want to work 18 hours a day for an income that is often less than the greeters at Walmart in a profession that has a variety of risks(health and otherwise) year in-year out.
"Of course, I'm probably going to replace it with some flavour of Visa,..."
Mastercard and Visa are basically the same group. If you really want to send a message stop using credit. Do something that government obviously can't and live inside your means. If you and thousands of other people cut up their cards then the companies would listen otherwise you're just trolling as swapping cards does nothing.
WTF is the perfect nickname for both the CIA and Facebook. After all, they're both in essentially the same business. The CIA spies on foreign powers and Facebook spies on everybody. And both lie about it and have been caught.
When I see all articles from you folks of the old continent spelled right and grammatically correct. By the way, which english version are we using? The Queens English handheld reference or the American English weightlifter edition. Spelling and grammar are irrelevant if the message is understood by those intended to receive said message.
Kill all overbearing spelling and grammar checkers.(heil!)
STU did seem to get better but I was getting tired of everybody suffering all the time. At the rate it was going I was looking for group suicides next. It just seemed the writers wanted to abuse the characters as much as possible, might as well watch WWF at least they're more honest about it.
If you'd been watching the last few years, the network plight hasn't been imaginary. This plight will get worse without some form of control/regulation to ensure the net remains free of corporate dictatorship.
"It's perfectly legal to give an opinion, as well. It's perfectly legal to say "I think Oscar Mayer hot dogs taste like shit", but if you say "Oscar Mayer hot dogs contain shit" then Oscar Mayer would be perfectly within their rights to quash your lies."
Oddly enough both are opinions and protected under the 1st amendment. So where's the illegality come in? The reality is corporations have laws passed in their favor that in many point of views, if not outright, violate the intentions of the constitution.
"...The best you have are computer models with failed predictions, like the Arctic completely melting by 2006. Your "proof" that CO2 has anything to do with temperature, is that you took a vote (consensus) on it. Sorry, that isn't proof of any kind. If I got a group a school children (student scientists) to vote that pi was 12, would that really make it true?"
Why not just go there and see for yourself. I hear they can run cruise ships up there now. Remember motivating anyone to do anything in this world requires death or the imminent threat of death. It may not be 2006 but it's still happening and by the time imminent concerns us it will be too late to do anything. The article states some mitigation not that the temperature shift isn't happening. Even if overblown we're better off in the long run being responsible and cleaning up our act than acting like children in a candystore.
Here's something else: you only need to run Wayland if you want to. If you still want to use X, then just run that. Choice, remember?
And how long will it be an option and not default? We all know the direction this is going. Eventually everyone will switch and wayland will eat up all the resources leaving the Xorg project, like Xfree before it, to die a slow death whether its still needed by people or not. Even if resources are provided to Xorg the interest will be with wayland and Xorg will still die a bit rot death being dropped by most oses/distros again like xfree86. Bling will win out and needed features X had for twenty years will have to be kludged in with mixed results and stability.
Maybe they should get regular college graduates or even high schoolers. That way they can have more of them and force the patents to actually be readable by the public. Never mind about affording enough people to do the job.
Oh yeah, Tesla did get the patents, well some anyway, the court assigned them after he died.
The many just have to borrow a couple of guillotines(per country) from France and use them during the half-time of national football games(soccer/american). The rich/manipulative, as the cause of this shit and therefore initially responsible, go first. The politicians who are also responsible for not listening to the many will switch quick once they realize they're next. Ah hell, both at the same time with twice the fun in half the time. Once the body politic is directly held accountable for its behavior this shit goes away. You want to hold the big seat, pay the big price.
Problem fixed.
"Humans are not competent to govern themselves on a national level."
We've done it a hell of a lot longer than you now buzz off skynet!
An indian declares war on a priest over coffee. What happened? Someone spill the cream? Lid fall off the sugar? Get over it already! Damn oversensitive babies!
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"Either it's because we don't feel like we have the power to stop it from happening, or because we've decided it's all right for the people in charge to break the law. Either way, we're fucked."
Maybe we're just to busy trying to stay afloat to track/deal with these government idiots constantly fucking up our lives. I'm sure it's just the way the idiots like it too.
"No, there's another word for that: diplomacy. That's how diplomacy works."
How was it quoted to me, something about diplomacy is just direct combat behind a mask.
"We know very well what they're doing in 95% of the cases. See the Freedom of Information Act for some guidance. It's amazing what we can get."
Yea, like the 95% blacked out pages you got during the Reagan and both bush administrations. And that was for the things they would release at all. The freedom of information act is severely limited and is often manipulated by various administrations/agencies to the detriment of public trust.
"Government officials are also citizens, just working for the government."
Officials/civil servants are citizens who work for the public under the guise of the word government. That's why their other name is public servants. Without those voluntary servants there is no government.
"Next to come: using Linux will be considered anti-American."
That's ok. There's the BSDs: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, MacOSX, etc. All "American" and the true children of UNIX. Let's not forget Plan9 either. We definitely won't run out of usable OSes if linux goes away.
"Consider the farmer. He owns his land, the equipment he uses to harvest his crops, the truck he uses to drive that product to the farmers' market where he sells it directly to the consumer."
You left out that corporations control the markets where farmers get their money to rent the land(much of it) to farm their crops, buy the equipment from corporations, and transport most of the crop to corporations where some of it eventually ends up on your table. All of the described isn't done without big loans from banks. Farmers markets are just a sideline to where the real money is made just so farmers can stay afloat. The few farmers that are left that is given the average age is near sixty. I have farmers all around and none of them are younger than me(I'm middle-aged) and the few that are close to my age aren't married. The farmers that irrigate are the only ones doing fairly well, at least until they tap out all the groundwater in which case this whole area will become little more than a no mans land. The levels have been dropping for years but like usual no one, especially no one in power cares as long as money is being made.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Farmville isn't real life.
"...Mother Earth, raped again! Hey, she was asking for it. -- Carlin
P.S. This leaves out land prices that contribute to high cost of entry(no young can afford), herbicide resistant weeds forcing change in farm practices, high operation costs, lack of social support(think women, family, education as most people have moved to the cities), political instability(farm programs), management of the business side when you barely have time just to do the work, and let's not forget the weather, disease, etc. Nevermind it's often extremely hard work, very few want to work 18 hours a day for an income that is often less than the greeters at Walmart in a profession that has a variety of risks(health and otherwise) year in-year out.
"Of course, I'm probably going to replace it with some flavour of Visa,..."
Mastercard and Visa are basically the same group. If you really want to send a message stop using credit. Do something that government obviously can't and live inside your means. If you and thousands of other people cut up their cards then the companies would listen otherwise you're just trolling as swapping cards does nothing.
WTF is the perfect nickname for both the CIA and Facebook. After all, they're both in essentially the same business. The CIA spies on foreign powers and Facebook spies on everybody. And both lie about it and have been caught.
"...you colonials to finally learn how to spell?"
When I see all articles from you folks of the old continent spelled right and grammatically correct. By the way, which english version are we using? The Queens English handheld reference or the American English weightlifter edition. Spelling and grammar are irrelevant if the message is understood by those intended to receive said message.
Kill all overbearing spelling and grammar checkers.(heil!)
"Lost" for "Stargate" lost!
Film at ... aw who cares.
STU did seem to get better but I was getting tired of everybody suffering all the time. At the rate it was going I was looking for group suicides next. It just seemed the writers wanted to abuse the characters as much as possible, might as well watch WWF at least they're more honest about it.
"...an imaginary network plight.."
If you'd been watching the last few years, the network plight hasn't been imaginary. This plight will get worse without some form of control/regulation to ensure the net remains free of corporate dictatorship.
"It's perfectly legal to give an opinion, as well. It's perfectly legal to say "I think Oscar Mayer hot dogs taste like shit", but if you say "Oscar Mayer hot dogs contain shit" then Oscar Mayer would be perfectly within their rights to quash your lies."
Oddly enough both are opinions and protected under the 1st amendment. So where's the illegality come in? The reality is corporations have laws passed in their favor that in many point of views, if not outright, violate the intentions of the constitution.
"...The best you have are computer models with failed predictions, like the Arctic completely melting by 2006. Your "proof" that CO2 has anything to do with temperature, is that you took a vote (consensus) on it. Sorry, that isn't proof of any kind. If I got a group a school children (student scientists) to vote that pi was 12, would that really make it true?"
Why not just go there and see for yourself. I hear they can run cruise ships up there now. Remember motivating anyone to do anything in this world requires death or the imminent threat of death. It may not be 2006 but it's still happening and by the time imminent concerns us it will be too late to do anything. The article states some mitigation not that the temperature shift isn't happening. Even if overblown we're better off in the long run being responsible and cleaning up our act than acting like children in a candystore.
Here's something else: you only need to run Wayland if you want to. If you still want to use X, then just run that. Choice, remember?
And how long will it be an option and not default? We all know the direction this is going. Eventually everyone will switch and wayland will eat up all the resources leaving the Xorg project, like Xfree before it, to die a slow death whether its still needed by people or not. Even if resources are provided to Xorg the interest will be with wayland and Xorg will still die a bit rot death being dropped by most oses/distros again like xfree86. Bling will win out and needed features X had for twenty years will have to be kludged in with mixed results and stability.
"...but their responses have generally been "oh, more bacteria...yay.""
Tell them the new life forms ate the researchers and are on their way here. If they still don't care, find someone who isn't an animated corpse.
"They like people with Master's degrees."
To point out grade school stupidity.
Maybe they should get regular college graduates or even high schoolers. That way they can have more of them and force the patents to actually be readable by the public. Never mind about affording enough people to do the job.
Oh yeah, Tesla did get the patents, well some anyway, the court assigned them after he died.
"...injustice for the many."
The many just have to borrow a couple of guillotines(per country) from France and use them during the half-time of national football games(soccer/american). The rich/manipulative, as the cause of this shit and therefore initially responsible, go first. The politicians who are also responsible for not listening to the many will switch quick once they realize they're next. Ah hell, both at the same time with twice the fun in half the time. Once the body politic is directly held accountable for its behavior this shit goes away. You want to hold the big seat, pay the big price.
Problem fixed.
"Humans are not competent to govern themselves on a national level."
We've done it a hell of a lot longer than you now buzz off skynet!
"...people who understand..."
You mean slashdot is staffed by people, you can't tell by the summaries.
"A Microsoft Unix 2013 Professional Edition..."
So much for my four day constipation. Now I've just got to get what you said out of my mind so I can eat.
(And unblock the loo.)
"being the aspirational losers of the intellectual landscape,.."
And without us keeping everything running your arrogant people gonads would be in a sling.
"Question 1. How much bandwidth do you need to avoid getting slashdotted?"
The answer is still none as even if you have had enough bandwidth your web server farm would become molten slag.
How is this any different than the PBI package system PCBSD (pcbsd.org) has been using for years? (That is other than it's for linux.)
"You wanna live forever?"
Actually, YES!!
"Its not a Linux/FreeBSD/Windows web app, its a freaking web app."
Ya, it's an IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, web app.
Fixed that for you.
An indian declares war on a priest over coffee. What happened? Someone spill the cream? Lid fall off the sugar? Get over it already! Damn oversensitive babies!