Am I the only one who's shocked that the "government" of Oklahoma had terabytes of confidential government data to begin with? If you've ever been to Oklahoma, you know what I mean. I would have thought you could fit all the government data in Oklahoma on a couple of 1.44mb floppy disks.
Also a good point. It was very entertaining last week when Lloyd Russell-Moyle (great name, btw) walked off with the Stick of Truth, or whatever it's called and there was much outrage and shouting. And I'm all for pig heads getting fucked by Prime Ministers and beloved TV stars being busted for diddling children. But that's more or less what we've come to expect from the UK. This kind of Trump/Caligula shit is new for us yanks, though. However, we're doing our best to go with the flow.
How about where Cohen tried to pay for manipulating online polls with a fucking grocery bag full of cash and some boxing gloves from a minor celebrity from his office at Trump tower. AND THAT DIDN'T COVER THE WHOLE BILL SO HE PAID THE REST WITH PERSONAL CHECKS!!!
Wow, you have a point. I have to admit sometimes I get into one of these articles and experience an overload of surreal insanity and miss some detail of Hunter S. Thompson weirdness like that. It's all so crazy it's hard to keep track of it all.
God, it's such a shame that we don't have Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadmen documenting this important moment in the history of the American Experience.
My favorite part of this story is that Cohen paid a guy who was recommended to him by Jerry Falwell Jr, to create a social media campaign called, "Women for Cohen", that promoted how sexy he was, like sexier than "Andy Garcia in The Godfather". It contained photos of Trump and Cohen together with the caption, "Two Handsome Men" and a photo of Cohen with Diamond & Silk (who are a pro-Trump minstrel show) captioned, "Look at that stud!"
You gotta admit, Trump only surrounds himself with the best people.
Oh, and since Jerry Falwell Jr's name is in this story, it's worth mentioning that Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife met an attractive pool boy while on vacation in Miami and ended up giving him $1.8 million for...something.
Part of me is really gonna miss Trump when he's gone. You gotta admit, he's done the "circuses" part of "bread and circuses" better than any president since WWII. You got your porn stars, you got your Putin, you got your Rudy Giuliani (who fucked his cousin), you got your evangelical leaders w/ pool boys, you got your Women for Cohen. Haberders. I don't know how I'm gonna be entertained when Trump is gone.
In other words, you are still feeding the monster they are.
I prefer to see it as us coming to an understanding.
Plus, FPB allows me to destroy and/or salt those lists of "interests". So they're not collecting anything of value from me. I have found a technological solution to a technological problem.
You don't care that they sell all of your data to everybody else, too?
I can understand why a lot of people would object to it, but at this point in my life, no, I don't really care very much. Maybe a little bit. I would however be more than happy to pay for a service like Facebook that did not collect my data.
A simple browser extension called "FB Purity" will make it so you never see another ad on Facebook. So I don't really care that Facebook knows that I like 1930's gypsy jazz and 1970s auteur films, because any ad they target me with is gonna be vaporized long before I see it, so fuck them. And it does a lot more than that to make Facebook more useful, too.
It's more sour grapes than anything, since it's just killing the online market because his share is decreasing.
I would never suggest Trump was doing things for rational reasons. He does it out of grievance and spite, which is how he does everything. It's why a certain subset of the population loves him, because theirs is the politics of grievance and spite.
Fortunately, enlightened self interest is starting to take hold, which is why his poll numbers are falling. Some people - some smalls subset of the small subset of Trump supporters - have learned that grievance and spite doesn't put food on the table. It just enables a guy who will ultimately let them all down.
There's no evidence for your claim that Donald Trump's Justice department made online gambling illegal due to Trump's past or potential future financial interests in casinos.
We can add this to the list of theories there is no evidence for.
Do you need evidence that Donald Trump had financial interests in casinos? It's public record, and he put his name on it in big letters.
Do you need evidence that Donald Trump's Justice Department just made online gambling illegal? It's right up there in the summary. So what do you need evidence for again? Those were to only assertions I made.
The fact that Trump has had an interest in several casinos in the past and says he seeks to be in the casino business again in the future has absolutely nothing to do with his Justice Department outlawing all online gambling.
At this point, Trump is just trying to fuck as much shit up as possible before he's exfiltrated back to Russia in a submarine and lives out his life in a dacha paid for by his sponsors.
Most things don't exist in their ideal forms, but that doesn't stop us from talking about democracies, art, or free markets.
Ah, but a "free market" that is operating at a slightly less than free state, will always become destructive. The part that's not free will always favor the powerful and rich to the detriment of all others.
The very idea of the "free market" was defective by design.
Removing the headphone jack certainly didn't stop or even slow down iPhone sales when it happened.
Well, we can't really say that. iPhone sales have been coming in under Apple expectations lately, which is part of the reason their stock has taken such a beating. Maybe the effect wasn't immediate, but it might be a lot bigger than we think.
You realize it was a free market and competition that birthed these services to begin with right?
Every so often I have to share these self-evident truths for you younger Slashdotters:
1) There is no free market 2) There has never been a free market 3) Free markets cannot exist, have never existed and will never exist. 4) The "free market" is a fiction created to keep people in servitude to the permanent ownership class.
Catering to the perpetually offended instead of your loyal gamer fanbase did not work out for you, EA?
I think you missed the point. It was the "loyal gamer fanbase" that was perpetually offended in this case. They got upset when they found out that some of their toy soldiers didn't have penises.
EA Games probably deserves to have these problems. Despite the hysterical tone of the gamergaters, I doubt it has anything to do with the fact that the game portrayed women in combat in WWII.
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Am I the only one who's shocked that the "government" of Oklahoma had terabytes of confidential government data to begin with? If you've ever been to Oklahoma, you know what I mean. I would have thought you could fit all the government data in Oklahoma on a couple of 1.44mb floppy disks.
Also a good point. It was very entertaining last week when Lloyd Russell-Moyle (great name, btw) walked off with the Stick of Truth, or whatever it's called and there was much outrage and shouting. And I'm all for pig heads getting fucked by Prime Ministers and beloved TV stars being busted for diddling children. But that's more or less what we've come to expect from the UK. This kind of Trump/Caligula shit is new for us yanks, though. However, we're doing our best to go with the flow.
I mean, who would make a Godfather reference and then pick a character from Godfather 3?
Although Joey Zasa seems like someone who could have been in the Trump orbit.
Wow, you have a point. I have to admit sometimes I get into one of these articles and experience an overload of surreal insanity and miss some detail of Hunter S. Thompson weirdness like that. It's all so crazy it's hard to keep track of it all.
God, it's such a shame that we don't have Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadmen documenting this important moment in the history of the American Experience.
My favorite part of this story is that Cohen paid a guy who was recommended to him by Jerry Falwell Jr, to create a social media campaign called, "Women for Cohen", that promoted how sexy he was, like sexier than "Andy Garcia in The Godfather". It contained photos of Trump and Cohen together with the caption, "Two Handsome Men" and a photo of Cohen with Diamond & Silk (who are a pro-Trump minstrel show) captioned, "Look at that stud!"
https://www.usatoday.com/story...
You gotta admit, Trump only surrounds himself with the best people.
Oh, and since Jerry Falwell Jr's name is in this story, it's worth mentioning that Jerry Falwell Jr and his wife met an attractive pool boy while on vacation in Miami and ended up giving him $1.8 million for...something.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/...
Part of me is really gonna miss Trump when he's gone. You gotta admit, he's done the "circuses" part of "bread and circuses" better than any president since WWII. You got your porn stars, you got your Putin, you got your Rudy Giuliani (who fucked his cousin), you got your evangelical leaders w/ pool boys, you got your Women for Cohen. Haberders. I don't know how I'm gonna be entertained when Trump is gone.
I prefer to see it as us coming to an understanding.
Plus, FPB allows me to destroy and/or salt those lists of "interests". So they're not collecting anything of value from me. I have found a technological solution to a technological problem.
I was smart enough to be able to figure out how to make a Slashdot account, though.
I can understand why a lot of people would object to it, but at this point in my life, no, I don't really care very much. Maybe a little bit. I would however be more than happy to pay for a service like Facebook that did not collect my data.
A simple browser extension called "FB Purity" will make it so you never see another ad on Facebook. So I don't really care that Facebook knows that I like 1930's gypsy jazz and 1970s auteur films, because any ad they target me with is gonna be vaporized long before I see it, so fuck them. And it does a lot more than that to make Facebook more useful, too.
Seriously, try this extension.
I would never suggest Trump was doing things for rational reasons. He does it out of grievance and spite, which is how he does everything. It's why a certain subset of the population loves him, because theirs is the politics of grievance and spite.
Fortunately, enlightened self interest is starting to take hold, which is why his poll numbers are falling. Some people - some smalls subset of the small subset of Trump supporters - have learned that grievance and spite doesn't put food on the table. It just enables a guy who will ultimately let them all down.
I just listed two unrelated and totally true facts. You're the one who made the connection.
I am of the "if it walks like a duck..." school.
I didn't make that claim. Read my comment again.
Do you need evidence that Donald Trump had financial interests in casinos? It's public record, and he put his name on it in big letters.
Do you need evidence that Donald Trump's Justice Department just made online gambling illegal? It's right up there in the summary. So what do you need evidence for again? Those were to only assertions I made.
The fact that Trump has had an interest in several casinos in the past and says he seeks to be in the casino business again in the future has absolutely nothing to do with his Justice Department outlawing all online gambling.
Nothing whatsoever.
You think a 1/8" jack costs more than bluetooth headphones?
Yes, but in the most awesome way possible. Also, don't hate me because you ain't me.
At this point, Trump is just trying to fuck as much shit up as possible before he's exfiltrated back to Russia in a submarine and lives out his life in a dacha paid for by his sponsors.
Shows what you know. I am an overeducated idiot.
Ah, but a "free market" that is operating at a slightly less than free state, will always become destructive. The part that's not free will always favor the powerful and rich to the detriment of all others.
The very idea of the "free market" was defective by design.
I have 1/8" audio jacks on equipment that I've used every day for the past 8 years and they're still perfect.
If the manufacturer uses a good-quality 1/8" jack, you won't see the kind of degradation you're talking about.
Well, we can't really say that. iPhone sales have been coming in under Apple expectations lately, which is part of the reason their stock has taken such a beating. Maybe the effect wasn't immediate, but it might be a lot bigger than we think.
Every so often I have to share these self-evident truths for you younger Slashdotters:
1) There is no free market
2) There has never been a free market
3) Free markets cannot exist, have never existed and will never exist.
4) The "free market" is a fiction created to keep people in servitude to the permanent ownership class.
Maybe the "free market" will work and more competition will mean better service and lower prices.
Nah, who am I'm kidding?
I think you missed the point. It was the "loyal gamer fanbase" that was perpetually offended in this case. They got upset when they found out that some of their toy soldiers didn't have penises.
EA Games probably deserves to have these problems. Despite the hysterical tone of the gamergaters, I doubt it has anything to do with the fact that the game portrayed women in combat in WWII.
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