You could put it in with ancient mythology -- it's all speculation on how the world works / was created and all that rot, and about the same amount of proof all around.
"There is also the pesky fact that MOST of the people hounded by McCarthy were NOT listed in the releases from the VENONA Project and were in fact 100% innocent"
Yes, so we hear about in history books -- yet how come there has NEVER been a single person named who was wrongly accused by McCarthy? It's kind of odd that he supposedly accused all these innocent people, yet none of these innocent people can be named or come forth and speak out about it.
So, maybe you'd like to point out where your "real facts" are, because they obviously weren't in your comment.
There was also that pesky fact of the Venona Project proving McCarthy right about Soviet spies in the government........but who cares about pesky facts when there's so much blind hatred to throw around?
"They can't protect the citizens of this country from a confluence of physical forces, why should I think that they can protect us from sentient beings determined to kill as many of us as possible."
So, to use your own logic, since you cannot prevent yourself from sneezing you shouldn't be trusted with any sort of responsibility? Also, it was the LOCAL GOVERNMENTS fault that Katrina got as bad as it did, NOT the federal governments.
"And, even if they were so capable, why is it necessary for them to infringe on the civil liberties of hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans to do so?"
Please, give me names of these "thousands of innocent Americans". I know you can't, but I thought it would be useful to pointout the fact that you can't. You're merely regurgitating what you were told to by the DNC and their cronies at "the big three" stations and the NYT. The kissing Billy's butt comment was made in reference to your unquestioning faith in the DNC (like the vast majority of people on/.). I thought you might be able to pick up on that, but I guess not. You can blame someone else for you bad luck / poor choice of field of specialization (I don't know what your doctorate is in, but in something essentially useless to a capitalist economy like art or english I can understand the lack of employment), but it doesn't change the fact that they had nothing to do with it. Your comment about how the only way to be successful is to profit from someone else's loss shows that you are a Marxist and are completely clueless to the realities of life. My life sucks right now -- really bad. Why? Because I made some big mistakes -- but I'm not blaming the government for it or anyone else. Why? Because I take responsibility for my actions and my choices. Try doing the same
"This administration is destroying this country. Don't help them do it."
YES! Damn them for wanting to protect the citizens of this country from people who seek our total destruction! Damn them for supporting capitalism (mostly) and personal responsibility! Damn them for giving us the lowest unemployment in decades!
Really, I don't particularly care for Bush, but you need to stop kissing Billy's butt and wake up and realize that if it wasn't for people like them you'd be either be 1) dirt poor or jobless 2) in a gulag or 3) dead.
"But, no matter who you are, you have to admit that the ACLU prevents you from losing anything that might be considered a civil liberty." I dunno about some people like yourself, but I consider my right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion to be rather important -- and the ACLU tramples on both those rights (unless you're gay, muslim, black, an illegal immigrant, or atheist).
When, in ANY of your posts, did you provide an actual argument? You did the typical liberal "DENY! DENY! DENY!" several times, yet you never provided a single reason for why you dislike Microsoft.
I never said that there wasn't a reason for some to dislike it -- I said that the fanatical "BILL GATES MUST DIE" groups and such are merely jealous and have no basis for their zealous attacks on someone that they've never met and a company that, like it or not, actually does produce a decent product for the majority of people.
Hardly. I'd use Linux in a heartbeat -- if my games ran on it. Sorry, but I'm not going to give up playing games just because Linux lacks support from the whole computer industry. Just because I use a rational approach to my software choices instead of "MS SUCKS USE ANYTHING BUT MS!!", you call me a fanboy. My bad -- "fanboi" since you think mispelling wors on purpose is cool. If you want me to even consider your point of view, try providing an actual argument instead of that "I HATE MS!!".
I get irked with some of MS's business practices too, but they are doing nothing wrong or illegal. They may be dicks from time to time, but that doesn't change that they actually do make a decent product (considering the massive task that they have before them -- perfection is impossible and they do far better than you could reasonably expect from human beings). Has it ever occured to you that maybe you should try some MS stuff post 98? I've run XP Pro since the day it was released and NEVER had a crash. Maybe your hardware just sucks or you're incompetent?
When will you people just admit that you're pissed that you're not rich and stop hating MS for being successful? Apple implements a dozen more practices of a monopoly than microsoft, but since microsoft is focused on a different group of people (and therefore successful since they don't price gouge as a result) they're called a monopoly.
If I were running MS, I'd just use the hundreds of billions that they have and hire a private army to deal with libeling people out there (especially governments like the EU who just want to extort money to pay their debts off).
You mean there are people out there who actually buy Dell's willingly? I thought only poor people who can only afford a $300 peice of shit bought Dell's.
Please, name one "right-wing mass-murderer". All those fascists the liberals support? Yea, they're lefties. Communism and socialism are the primary cause of totalitarianism -- which completely explains why you guys love North Korea so much. Oh, also, remind me which group supports the mass-murder of babies......which in the past 23 years has racked up a death toll of nearly 50 million dead babies. As for the "cancer vaccine" -- yea, when commies want to dick them over into LOSING money because they spent hundreds of millions in creating that vaccine, they're not going to sell it. It's called good business practices. Businesses exist to make money -- not to lose money. Git.
Are there any moderators here who haven't sucked the dick of every guy in the DNC? Just curious, because it's really funny how anyone who's not a communist and doesn't hate Bill Gates for being successful always gets modded a Troll or Flamebait.
Hardly. Stalin embraced the epitomy of modern liberalism -- communism. Your beloved communism and socialism are what lead to totalitarianism -- not capitalism. Try reading something not written by Al Franken for once.
Man, gotta love how slashdot is the headquarters for Michael Moore asskissers. The day one of you schmucks has an original thought will be the day that Michael Moore goes on a diet.
Wait........you mean Java doesn't cure cancer and improve my sex life?!?! DAMNIT! My professors have been lying to me all along........I knew there was something wrong when they didn't teach anything in C!
Good point. I have a feeling that Ruby will be a few years off from being well known enough for companies to start adopting it. One of my professors this semester made us do a project in Ruby just so we could see what it was like. It's pretty cool, but the IDE's still have a way to go before they're as useful as IDE's for other languages. The main reason behind that is that up until a few years ago Ruby was only used as a scripting language, while now it's starting to become used as a regular OO language (everything in Ruby is an object.....primitives don't exist at all). So, I'd say once the community that Ruby already has improves their IDE's it'll help Ruby take off.
I couldn't remember if IPv6 would affect them or not, which is why I said "possibly". That only means that the $25-$75 billion figure is definitely a bunch of bs then.
Except that the war in Iraq costs very little compared to most wars we've fought, homeland security is a joke, and we do nothing to secure the borders. That means we have plenty of money for IPv6 (although the government isn't responsible for maitaining the internet anways....).
Essentially it means increasing the length of IP addresses (because we only have a finite number and with IPv6 they claim there's enough IP address for every grain of sand on the planet) and IPv6 includes more information in the header to allow for better efficiency / functionality. As a result of this you'd need new routers, switches, and possibly network cards. The new routers and such would have to be IPv6 and IPv4 compatible because you can't switch them all at the same time. Obviously, it will cost money to make the change, but I think the $25-$75 billion is just plain made up to try to scare people.
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You could put it in with ancient mythology -- it's all speculation on how the world works / was created and all that rot, and about the same amount of proof all around.
"Keep science to science."
Exactly, which is why neither creationism, ID, OR evolution should be taught in our public indoctrination system.
"There is also the pesky fact that MOST of the people hounded by McCarthy were NOT listed in the releases from the VENONA Project and were in fact 100% innocent" Yes, so we hear about in history books -- yet how come there has NEVER been a single person named who was wrongly accused by McCarthy? It's kind of odd that he supposedly accused all these innocent people, yet none of these innocent people can be named or come forth and speak out about it. So, maybe you'd like to point out where your "real facts" are, because they obviously weren't in your comment.
There was also that pesky fact of the Venona Project proving McCarthy right about Soviet spies in the government........but who cares about pesky facts when there's so much blind hatred to throw around?
So, to use your own logic, since you cannot prevent yourself from sneezing you shouldn't be trusted with any sort of responsibility? Also, it was the LOCAL GOVERNMENTS fault that Katrina got as bad as it did, NOT the federal governments.
"And, even if they were so capable, why is it necessary for them to infringe on the civil liberties of hundreds of thousands of innocent Americans to do so?"
Please, give me names of these "thousands of innocent Americans". I know you can't, but I thought it would be useful to pointout the fact that you can't. You're merely regurgitating what you were told to by the DNC and their cronies at "the big three" stations and the NYT. The kissing Billy's butt comment was made in reference to your unquestioning faith in the DNC (like the vast majority of people on /.). I thought you might be able to pick up on that, but I guess not. You can blame someone else for you bad luck / poor choice of field of specialization (I don't know what your doctorate is in, but in something essentially useless to a capitalist economy like art or english I can understand the lack of employment), but it doesn't change the fact that they had nothing to do with it. Your comment about how the only way to be successful is to profit from someone else's loss shows that you are a Marxist and are completely clueless to the realities of life. My life sucks right now -- really bad. Why? Because I made some big mistakes -- but I'm not blaming the government for it or anyone else. Why? Because I take responsibility for my actions and my choices. Try doing the same
YES! Damn them for wanting to protect the citizens of this country from people who seek our total destruction! Damn them for supporting capitalism (mostly) and personal responsibility! Damn them for giving us the lowest unemployment in decades!
Really, I don't particularly care for Bush, but you need to stop kissing Billy's butt and wake up and realize that if it wasn't for people like them you'd be either be 1) dirt poor or jobless 2) in a gulag or 3) dead.
"But, no matter who you are, you have to admit that the ACLU prevents you from losing anything that might be considered a civil liberty." I dunno about some people like yourself, but I consider my right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion to be rather important -- and the ACLU tramples on both those rights (unless you're gay, muslim, black, an illegal immigrant, or atheist).
When, in ANY of your posts, did you provide an actual argument? You did the typical liberal "DENY! DENY! DENY!" several times, yet you never provided a single reason for why you dislike Microsoft. I never said that there wasn't a reason for some to dislike it -- I said that the fanatical "BILL GATES MUST DIE" groups and such are merely jealous and have no basis for their zealous attacks on someone that they've never met and a company that, like it or not, actually does produce a decent product for the majority of people.
Hardly. I'd use Linux in a heartbeat -- if my games ran on it. Sorry, but I'm not going to give up playing games just because Linux lacks support from the whole computer industry. Just because I use a rational approach to my software choices instead of "MS SUCKS USE ANYTHING BUT MS!!", you call me a fanboy. My bad -- "fanboi" since you think mispelling wors on purpose is cool. If you want me to even consider your point of view, try providing an actual argument instead of that "I HATE MS!!".
I get irked with some of MS's business practices too, but they are doing nothing wrong or illegal. They may be dicks from time to time, but that doesn't change that they actually do make a decent product (considering the massive task that they have before them -- perfection is impossible and they do far better than you could reasonably expect from human beings). Has it ever occured to you that maybe you should try some MS stuff post 98? I've run XP Pro since the day it was released and NEVER had a crash. Maybe your hardware just sucks or you're incompetent?
When will you people just admit that you're pissed that you're not rich and stop hating MS for being successful? Apple implements a dozen more practices of a monopoly than microsoft, but since microsoft is focused on a different group of people (and therefore successful since they don't price gouge as a result) they're called a monopoly. If I were running MS, I'd just use the hundreds of billions that they have and hire a private army to deal with libeling people out there (especially governments like the EU who just want to extort money to pay their debts off).
You mean there are people out there who actually buy Dell's willingly? I thought only poor people who can only afford a $300 peice of shit bought Dell's.
A weeks worth of detentions would have been an apropriate punishment, not this bullshit lawsuit.
I've never owned an Intel and most likely never will.......
Please, name one "right-wing mass-murderer". All those fascists the liberals support? Yea, they're lefties. Communism and socialism are the primary cause of totalitarianism -- which completely explains why you guys love North Korea so much. Oh, also, remind me which group supports the mass-murder of babies......which in the past 23 years has racked up a death toll of nearly 50 million dead babies. As for the "cancer vaccine" -- yea, when commies want to dick them over into LOSING money because they spent hundreds of millions in creating that vaccine, they're not going to sell it. It's called good business practices. Businesses exist to make money -- not to lose money. Git.
Are there any moderators here who haven't sucked the dick of every guy in the DNC? Just curious, because it's really funny how anyone who's not a communist and doesn't hate Bill Gates for being successful always gets modded a Troll or Flamebait.
Hardly. Stalin embraced the epitomy of modern liberalism -- communism. Your beloved communism and socialism are what lead to totalitarianism -- not capitalism. Try reading something not written by Al Franken for once.
Man, gotta love how slashdot is the headquarters for Michael Moore asskissers. The day one of you schmucks has an original thought will be the day that Michael Moore goes on a diet.
Yup, "right wing morons" like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Jon Il......oh wait, they're all liberals...........
Great! Now that we've got these, how long till I can put a hyperdrive in my Mazda?
Wait........you mean Java doesn't cure cancer and improve my sex life?!?! DAMNIT! My professors have been lying to me all along........I knew there was something wrong when they didn't teach anything in C!
Good point. I have a feeling that Ruby will be a few years off from being well known enough for companies to start adopting it. One of my professors this semester made us do a project in Ruby just so we could see what it was like. It's pretty cool, but the IDE's still have a way to go before they're as useful as IDE's for other languages. The main reason behind that is that up until a few years ago Ruby was only used as a scripting language, while now it's starting to become used as a regular OO language (everything in Ruby is an object.....primitives don't exist at all). So, I'd say once the community that Ruby already has improves their IDE's it'll help Ruby take off.
I couldn't remember if IPv6 would affect them or not, which is why I said "possibly". That only means that the $25-$75 billion figure is definitely a bunch of bs then.
Except that the war in Iraq costs very little compared to most wars we've fought, homeland security is a joke, and we do nothing to secure the borders. That means we have plenty of money for IPv6 (although the government isn't responsible for maitaining the internet anways....).
Essentially it means increasing the length of IP addresses (because we only have a finite number and with IPv6 they claim there's enough IP address for every grain of sand on the planet) and IPv6 includes more information in the header to allow for better efficiency / functionality. As a result of this you'd need new routers, switches, and possibly network cards. The new routers and such would have to be IPv6 and IPv4 compatible because you can't switch them all at the same time. Obviously, it will cost money to make the change, but I think the $25-$75 billion is just plain made up to try to scare people.