What a fucking boot-licker you are.

>nerd playground

Back when it was a "nerd playground" people used their real names more often than not. Because we didn't have to worry about morons like yourself. Because it was safe to do. Because we didn't have to worry about being pizza bombed or SWATted.

But that's entirely beside the point of idiots like you insisting that we should not have the right in e-space to call ourselves whatever the fuck we want as long as we're not trying to defraud anyone. THIS IS A RIGHT THAT EXISTS IN MEATSPACE you fucking tool.

Why is it that people such as yourself and FUCKING ERIC S. RAYMOND have a fucking huge problem with it? "They" - the people whose boots you are so willing to lick - do not give one flying fuck about you. Yet people like you and ESR want to give them the tools to remove any protections we have out here from criminals, corrupt politicians, police-states, and others. This war against anonymity is fucking odious, orwellian, and frankly fucking offensive as a wet fart on a hard wooden pew in church.

NO. FUCK YOU. IF YOU WANT TO USE YOUR REAL NAME, YOU GO RIGHT AHEAD AND USE IT. THE REST OF US WILL EXERCISE OUR RIGHTS IF WE CHOOSE TO. THE LIKES OF YOU AND ERIC S. RAYMOND AND HIS "HOTGIRL69 PROBLEM" CAN FUCK RIGHT OFF.

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PS put your signature line in your signature file

No.

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>microbes eating plastic

You're not the only one to ask that question.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/...

I picked that book up in the 70s and the story sorta stuck with me. Worth the read.

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My point wasn't that privacy is not important. My point is that YOU are not important...and I'm right. You're not.

Which is entirely beside the point.

You are irrelevant to The Man until you become a "problem" and all this data gathering is for instant dossiers on people who become a "problem." To nail the head that sticks up.

Privacy is a human right because without it people are unable to effect change - they remain powerless. There is nobody on the planet without a skeleton in the closet, and exposing that skeleton is what this is all really about. It's national-level Borking, to remove any kind of power from people who would oppose a police-state.

That's why.

You, sir, are a short-sighted douchebag and, through your apathy, an enemy to everyone on this planet.

Ta Ta.

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It all has to do with pricing and being "good enough" - not absolute quality.

Unix (Linux these days) taking over basically everything is because VMS was never Free or free, and if you thought "Unix Pricing" was expensive, you never saw "VMS Pricing" or "IBM Pricing" ($5,000 to snip a "blue" wire to enable a feature.) The latter two things are the driving force behind all these clusters of adapted off-the-shelf microcomputers in racks to used as "mainframes."

Unix (and now Linux) is "good enough" - it does the job and doesn't rape your pocketbook. Even proprietary Unix and Unix support contracts compared to VMS has always been less expensive than a full-blown installation and support contract of VMS.

The only ones who use VMS these days are businesses or other organizations with 40-year-old COBOL code and actually need the tools and security that VMS offers, and that "fucking with something that currently works" is anathema.

But that doesn't make Unix superior.

Anyone claiming that any flavor of Unix is better than VMS is either talking out of his asshole or never used VMS and Files-11. Furthermore, the Windows idiots claiming that Dave Cutler brought VMS technology to Windows are delusional - complete with the WNT=VMS+1 nonsense.

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As opposed to the private credit rating agencies that have all your personal credit information with zero transparency and accountability?

Remember the ol' "OH NOES DEATH PANELS" panic and propaganda that Fox, the Tea Pottyers, and Sarah Palin were trying to sow? I found it hilarious, considering I had HMO coverage through United Health at the time.

Even a 1% public interest (what this is) is better than the anti-public-interest we have right now.

Soviet-Canuckistan

We demand the freedom to be fucked by corporate interests! I demand to pay twice as much as Canadians do and get worse healthcare!

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No.

Longer answer: No and it's not as eco-friendly as people would like you to believe.

1. You need to farm it. Farms in general are never eco-friendly as they eliminate habitat.

2. You still need to use epoxy to bond the strands together. This epoxy is nearly identical to the epoxy used in carbon fiber and fiberglass and is just as nasty.

3. The claim that it would break down in landfills is bogus. Material decomposition in landfills is slow due to the anaerobic nature of landfills. Also, bamboo encased in epoxy isn't going to decompose like typical un-worked bamboo.

And since bamboo is weaker than carbon fiber, but more expensive than fiberglass, I expect it to never take the place of either, except in decorative modes.

Yes, I know, you can build a bamboo frame bicycle that performs well, but it's expensive and a novelty. When it's not done well....recoil in horror: http://www.instructables.com/i...

Yeah, I'll take a steel frame, plox.

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The intelligence community isn't doing this in bad faith.

Ho ho. If it wasn't in bad faith, why has Keith Alexander been lying through his teeth all this time?

Not everyone is your enemy just because you disagree on how to accomplish a goal.

When you're treated as the enemy as the American people have been by the intelligence community, what else would you expect the reaction to be? Rainbows and unicorns?

Sorry, but doubling down on Total Information Awareness in secret after it had been shouted down publicly and repeatedly is a sign of a rogue agency out for its own interests.

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>Just because you have a cable company and a DSL provider doesn't mean you have competition.

No shit. Isn't that what I said?

I have you foed because of your lack of reading comprehension.

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>Competition

Here in Concord NH, that Tea Potty Paradise, there is a duopoly

Expensive broadband that tops out at 15Mbps but with a company that sort-of caters to the consumer (no caps, no filtering of torrents, etc) - Fairpoint - a Verizon spinoff that was saddled with debt.

Or....

Comcast, a company that is mind-blowingly bad to deal with, has caps, will filter your torrents/other traffic, but has higher speeds.

Neither of which are really any good.

Competition? Where the fuck is it?

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The point that sailed clear over your head is that the Chinese are willing to put the effort into bringing the nation into the 21'st century, while we here in the west have some sort of fantasy that we'll somehow profit off of *their* efforts without having to do any of our own.

It's an entitlement mentality here in the West, one fostered by the so-called "investment" community that has laid waste to our own riches by selling our assets overseas for cheap and taking the cut off the top for the transactions.

Useful Idiots indeed.

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. China has advanced by exploiting cheap labor. Not innovation

And the "Colonies" exploited cheap and plentiful waterways, tons and tons of fossil fuel, and technology to create the Industrial Revolution in the US, thus releasing our dependence on expensive English and other "foreign" textiles and machinery.

China has learned what John Cabot and Samuel Slater learned - that innovation goes to where the production is. Where production goes, the scientific and engineering talent will follow. We, bucko, have largely forgotten that. We rested on our laurels starting in the late 60s and continue to do so.

In the 80s, Deng Xiaoping finally got people to listen to the fact that science & technology isn't just a "western" idea - that it's decidedly Chinese - and that it was time that the Chinese were no longer dependent on western interests. The only reason why China is behind Japan and Korea is that the Maoists held back China technologically and intellectually after WWII. Had Mao not had his Cultural Revolution, they'd probably be on the same level as Japan, technologically.

I read your comment and it's exactly what I heard about the Japanese and Koreans 40 years ago.

What good is a STEM education when it can't be fucking applied?

You and your ilk are the fucking problem.

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No, Obama doesn't get a pass. In order to "compromise" he threw all the other options off the table. Like he's done with just about everything.

The only difference between getting Romney elected last time and Obama is that Romney would have had us "boots on the ground" in Iran within two or three months of inauguration, because the neocon chicken-hawks had their hooks into him (Dan Senor said we'd invade Iran at the behest of Israel on Meet The Press and Romney never corrected him, for example.)

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You know, I read your reply to me, and I was going to logically take it apart piece by piece, but I've come to the conclusion you're an idiot.

3 replies:

1. The "appification" of the web needs to die. Yesterday.
2. If Firefox is just another "go along to get along" browser, then it should die too.
3. Your arguments are invalid.

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If Firefox did not support DRM directly, the content providers would offer a custom (closed source) tool that did."

So?

It's not their /job/ to do that. It's their job to make a F/OSS browser. It's in their fucking "Mozilla Manifesto"

DRM isn't Free. They have failed. And to somehow justify it by saying "someone else will do it anyway" is schoolyard "logic"/ rationalization.

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