Well, yea but, how can we make this Obama's fault?

Well, yea but, how can we make this Obama's fault?

NATO! Not just for Cold Wars anymore. Never mind the legality.

What about World of Warcraft? There are lots of casual things to do besides raids or other hardcore gamer battles that involve killing things (but don't roll a toon on a pvp realm!). Of course, there's that $15/month bite. Each! Just a thought.

Yea science, seems slashdot comments are far too concerned with opinions and politics instead of science, facts, and, well evidence. Which, btw, this is actually big chunk of.

So on the one hand, the President insists Snowden is a crook while on the other hand promising to end government spying on citizens - which Snowden proved.

*brain explodes*

Being called a crook by Goldman Sachs is like being called an anti-Semite by Hitler!

Well, for example - ya don't think that the President of the USA calling him a "hacker", even though all he did was copy and email files, isn't part of the current FUD over "cyber-espionage"?

Tell me, with all this and the news of the massive NSA metadata trolling (even outsourcing to private companies), can anyone explain to me why U.S. veterans are waiting for years just to have their medical claims even looked at let alone processed in even the smallest way?

Anyone? Anyone at all?

Yea I hear that, it's like he just follows the narrative and accepts the conclusion! And he implies he's media savvy too. lol

[Dr. Evil Voice] Yeeaaaa riiiiiiight.

Remember kids, if WE do it it's to fight terrorism. When someone ELSE does it they are bad, bad people.

rotfl! I mean really? Really? Sure, smaller companies thrive on this sort of socialized creative commons. It's how ANY creative enterprise is actually innovative. Steve Jobs and Woz didn't do it all themselves, the collective hobby culture they were plugged into stimulated everything that they created. But, once anyone creates something that sells, the corporate 'buy out' crowd shows up (I'm looking at you Bill Gates!) and the CEOs take control. Of course everyone here is aware just how corporations swallow everything, so they can own it. That's their reason for existing.

The driving force of our consumer culture isn't innovation, it's markets. Corporations sometimes, in desperation, might spend some cash to fund innovative creation but why the fuck would creators just work-for-hire and give up their creations to their bosses? In the market place many are well aware that the creative, innovative business model functions for only as long till a corporation comes and buys it. That's the model! That's how most start-ups see their end game.

Besides, corporations often just wait for the government funded research to innovate so they can get that for a song, if not free, and then create that market. That's how computers and the Internet came to us in the first place.

imho, of course.

Everyone is going on and on about why this is happening and isn't this stupid. Well, if you want answers, follow the money. Who had the money and influence to make this happen in the first place? Who will make money off this in the future? After all, most of the money flowing around American public schools is corporate privatization efforts that use any and all ugly politics and fear to make a buck.

You don't really believe that they just made a mistake and didn't inform the parents until a week later, do yas?

Just to start yas off, Stanley Convergent Security Solutions has so many tentacles in government and corporate interests they make Bond villains look like amateurs.

My FUD-o-meter just went into the red.

Capitalism, the conservative definition - The free competition of business... except when we don't like it.