Can never be honest during their terms of office. It's always after they retire and lose the chance to change anything. Heh, as if they really give a damn.

D'oh!

For login try

https://slashdot.org/users.pl

That's where the old Add journal button used to be, but it's gone now. And I guess I actually have to manually tag the JE to get the icon I want, instead of using the nice pull-down list we used to have..

:-) Maybe you'll want to take another look at that picture.. Anyway I found the edit button, but it's still not the same page. These people are really mucking things up. I don't want to, but maybe I have to turn off D2

It may seem like complex human behavior, but it's really just part of the natural desire for domination. The motivation couldn't be simpler. The singularity that connects everything in this universe. We are not unique.

Do they?

Who funded Al Queda?

Who funded the Muslim Brotherhood?

Who funded the Islamic terrorist network all around the world?

That's how they play ball. Their 'funds' provide plausible deniability for the west. It enables the 'our' governments to keep an iron fist on us, imposing austerity, while maintaining their little charade of 'freedom'. Turns out perpetual war is very good business.

"Maximizing our Interweb experience", eh? You guys are hilarious.. The stuff is still spyware.. for advertisers and government alike...

And I notice all the other posts mentioning that Google products are spyware are getting modded down. No surprise there. Watch what happens to this one. Why do think their stuff is 'free'?

The internet is nothing like the physical world where it takes a lot of money and resources to build something.

Is that so?

...the changes were positive...

Oh? For whom?

I don't think it's Japan and China as much as Apple and Caterpillar and Walmart etc. that ended the tarrifs. The predators are domestic, right here in our own house.

Will this do anything to mitigate the spamming problem? Of course not! Motherfuckers...

I believe the same is true of quantum computers

You take a metaphorical check?

Not just him. If you aren't bought, you can never be president. At best you'll be a noisy congressman with absolutely no power