No,

How about "to hell" with using government money for self enrichment. IF you take a grant or whatever funding to get you MRI, your discovery belongs to the people of the USA, and no yourself. That way, anyone can use the technology that everyone paid for, without having to worry about royalties to people who used public funds to enrich themselves.

I didn't have mod points for years when I was commenting a lot. As far as wasting them, that horizontal scroll bar makes everything but journals unreadable. Fucking beta wasn't even as bad. Wasting /. mod points is like wasting mud.

I've seen no evidence that they have, and I doubt they will. They started it because of slashdot's infamous beta and the goal was a better slashdot than slashdot. There seem to be fewer morons over there, although one or two stupid comments crop up occasionally.

"Subsidized" doesn't mean "Pay less". It does mean "given money to, by the government".

And I love how keeping money you earn is considered "subsidy" by the left, as if government has the right to all of your money, but allows you to keep some of it. Good job guys.

Yes, those things are MENTIONED, but science and technology were never a function OF government, at least directly.

And as a libertarian, I would be HAPPY to support government grants via taxes on patents discovered / created / inventions that were the result of (directly or indirectly) of those government grants. The problem is, government gives a grant to University to do _________, which leads to discovery ______, which is used in patent _________ which is used to generate all sorts of revenue, none of which ever makes it back to the government program that created the grant used in step 1.

I simply oppose using government largess to enrich private parties at the expense of tax payers, regardless of the benefit to those tax payers. It is simply unfair that the tax payers continue to get screwed by government / corporate complex.

This assumes that Taxes are a right of government, and not the consent of the governed.

Considering that we (the USA) were formed on the basis of a tax revolution (at least in part), because we weren't being represented by those in government (a lot like now), this (protesting, avoiding taxes) is our national heritage.

If Europeans want to continue paying their masters, that is fine. I don't want to be a serf to those in government.

Actually, Saddam was a CIA appointed dictator that left the reservation.

And like all the other petty dictators that we stopped supporting (Shah of Iran, Qaddafi, Mubarak ... ) it was replaced by something much much worse.

And I know that the Left loves to blame the USA for "meddling" into the affairs of radical Islamists, but I would like to point out that when the USA was a new country, having its merchant ships being attacked by the Pirates of Tripoli, it responded and thus formed the Marine Corps. In other words, if you're going to start issuing ridiculous "we started it" logic, go back to the beginning, and realize that it was Radical Islam that forced us into a permanent military class ;)

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Microsoft's influence over anything is slipping away. I'm finding less need for anything Microsoft in my IT world these days. The behemoth of each APP is crushing the life out of the lungs.

The problem you have, is that OFFICE is such a behemoth that it is almost unusable, but everyone requires people to use Apps like Word, when all they need is WordPad.

Google seems to get it just about right. The only complaint I have with Google is that they will whore out just about any AD, regardless of utility.

Do a search for MalwareBytes and take a look at the the ADs. Useful?

Right.

What if you're one of those people who has gone around the track long enough to understand that sex divorced from reproduction is meaningless, who always wanted to have that family that everyone seems to want to be "liberated" from taking responsibility for?

Because, honestly, that's how I feel, and I've quite literally given up on women, and sex.

Reproductive sex isn't boring, like something out of a Puritan movie. It's just as nasty and wild and passionate and kinky as it always was. But, it's overlaid with the knowledge that, in that moment, you're like God, reaching down to create life, and your dick is his finger, and this might be the moment that your child is created. It's like taking everything that was pleasant about sex and elevating it to a spiritual level without taking anything away from it.

Contraception takes all that away, and renders sex with a woman no different from sex with an apple pie, or a man, or a dog.

It should be the first letter in the acronym. SLGBT, with the first letter representing the word "Sterile".

I used to spend my free time chasing a mate. Now that I realize I'd have an easier time finding a unicorn in this culture than a woman who will truly commit to creating a family, I find it hard to find reasons not to sit and grow moss.

But hey, thanks for setting us all free.

Since I rarely post at slashdot any more, instead going to soylent where they're not run by corporate morons who are STUPID enough to add horizontal scrolls it seems I always have mod points.

I used a few in one of your journals, but it was one of the right wing trolls I moderated.

Slashdot has nearly run me completely off of this site.

Nim is just yet another statically-typed GC language with an unsafe escape hatch. I can get the same thing (and much better syntax) with Java and JNI or C# and P/Invoke. Yawn.

Rust, on the other hand, is something genuinely new: it provides completely memory safety without a requiring a garbage collector at all. It's sad to seeing people switch from Rust to Nim: they're often too inexperienced to know what they're giving up, and I feel like they're seeking (syntactic) novelty, not a programming environment that's actually useful.