Being as we lost more freedom when your guy was in the white house then any time that we've had a democrat in the white house, there is actually a small shred of reality in that statement. Far more legislation was passed into law during terms with republicans in the white house than during terms with democrats there.

Considering how quickly you were tripping over yourself to praise him:

When there is no evidence of him performing any such "acts of charity" - and indeed plenty of records of him performing acts for people at the opposite end of the economic scale - I stand by my statement.

That is another nice double standard, there. When you evaluate a democrat you insist that they spend their free time conspiring to impose a new world fascist regime, while when you evaluate a republican you insist that they spend their free time working at soup kitchens and building orphanages.

Funny thing is, though, most of a governor's time is reported in one way or another. I haven't heard anything of him investing his spare time in helping less fortunate people.

For some time the tapes that were readily available had a huge capacity advantage over hard drives. That advantage is quickly shrinking. While there is still an edge in cost-per-TB for tape, that is decaying quickly as well. If tape can't reestablish that advantage we might see LTO and any other remaining formats go the way of the dodo while data centers change to spinning HDDs or even SSDs as the price of the latter continues to come down (while its long-term reliability goes up).

The people own the means of production. This isn't about the state, and more to the point this is not about a huge mega-state. He plainly stated that he does not admire large homogeneous states where power over a large number of people is wielded by a small group.

Property and means of production are not the same.

A representative sample of actual information, only in the sense that you are starting with actual information. You start with a snippet of what he actually said. However, you quickly overextend it.

No. You wouldn't stand for a quote from Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, Michael Steele, or Reince Priebus as being indicative of "overall commitment to veracity" for your side, would you? Yet here you have a quote from someone who doesn't hold anywhere remotely near as much power relative to the democratic party as any of those four guys and you insist that he somehow is indicative of the entire party.

I should have mentioned also that the AC response to your comment, which listed an alleged list of other sites the certificate was valid for, was interesting:

I haven't bothered to look to see if that is the case or not as I don't plan to use deals.slashdot.org anyways, but it could be an interesting story if it is true...

Read the comments? Why would they start doing that? Hell, they don't even read the text of the articles they post to the front page (or, for that matter, sometimes even the summary)!.

That said I was mostly mocking the very idea that they'd be able to make money off of this. Hell I would wager most slashdot readers are using ABP to block all the conservative advertising that pollutes the front page, so their further attempts to sell stuff through here would not likely be more successful.

I actually get most of my tech news through google news now anyways. I come here mostly when I want to see what the latest conservative spin on reality is, and it rarely disappoints. Watching those same slashdot conservatives proceed to stuff their fingers in their ears when actual information is presented to them reminds me why there is no point in signing up for an account on newsmax, townhall, or any of the other conservative sites.

Hence slashdot is saving me time, in a roundabout way.

That is the second time in as many weeks that it has been broken and fixed. If it goes down again this week, and then is neglected for the extended weekend, I expect they will lose some traffic that will never come back.

To the best of my knowledge there is no record of Scott Walker helping the less fortunate on an individual basis, either. Meanwhile his actions are directly hurting the less fortunate on a much wider basis. Walker is supposed to be a leader, but he is not presenting any examples of helping the less fortunate. Rather, he is presenting examples of helping himself.

There's a whole lot of conjecture, there. It does seem I have made the mistake of confusing this particular politician with being an actual leader of men, though. You don't have to be Jesus to help people.

The point was in his statement on the Bourgeoisie building the entire planet into a series of identical nation-states.

No, they actually do not. In fact here Marx is damning the Bourgeoisie for doing exactly that.

The contradiction lies between your assumptions of Communism and what Marx has actually written. Marx does not aspire to the creation of a giant homogeneous state.

Have you heard a statement from anyone who was on the grand jury? I know I haven't. Just because the grand jury reached a verdict does not mean they endorse the sentence you just wrote. I haven't seen all the evidence that was presented to them, either; I don't know how much you may have seen. We need to close the tabs to the various spin sites we each prefer for the case and wait until we actually hear more from the jury and the lawyers who presented to them. The decision of the grand jury is not the final word in this case, it only means that these charges will not be going any further.

We the public don't yet know all the facts. Nonetheless, it was an immensely difficult case to build for the prosecutor as the only person alive who knew what happened was the one who pulled the trigger. Obviously the cop isn't going to say anything against his own case, and in the fog of the moment he might not remember the course of events accurately anyways. We can armchair quarterback this all we want but in the end it was extremely unlikely for any other result to come out; and that would have been the case regardless of the races of each person involved.

Soul? What kind of soul does Walker have left to risk? He's already crapped all over the future of most of his state. Didn't Jesus have something to say about helping out the less fortunate, or something about the eternal fate of those who worry only about their own financial house?