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Comment Re:This is great news! (Score 5, Informative) 485

Really? REALLY? I'm sorry, perhaps you need to review how we got into Iraq, started two conflicts by choice at the same time, while having completely unrealistic expectations on how things would go. How many trillions of dollars were spent? What about the sheer millions of dollars given to Iraqi politicians, money larger than what we spend on education or infrastructure that have completely disappeared. Obama has done some stupid shit, but NOTHING compares to what George W. Bush has done in his 8 years as president. The only person who can even compete with Bush is Reagan.

Comment Re:This is great news! (Score 4, Informative) 485

You do remember the last 8 years of Republican presidential rule right? How much money was spent? How much more laws were enabled? How fucked up did our economy get? How much hubris did we generate running around trying to be pretend we know how to be an empire while still try to be all gooey and heroic about it?

Comment Re:This is great news! (Score 1, Flamebait) 485

I don't remember that at all. You can trace back when that whole Contract with America started and Newt changed the ideology of the Republican party. They win elections now, but they are batshit crazy. They also set up personality cults like our friend Reagan, who would be drummed out of the party today because he's way too moderate.

Comment Re:This is great news! (Score 0, Troll) 485

yes, the the old trope of 'both sides do it'. Jeezus. The scale of the crap that the Republican party does is completely fucked up. In fact, they are more geared towards trying to win elections than actually trying to do any legislation. They are completely bankrupt on ideas. What new ideas have they come up with on economic policy, foreign policy or anything else for that matter? Their ideas is to sell the old 1950s and go back to the good ol days (which wasn't that great) Lord. Conservatives are idealess, idealogues. :P

Comment Re:Why at a place of learning? (Score 1) 1007

Your comment and the parent comment are both completely full of shit. Columbus knew exactly where he was going and all educated people of Europe already knew the earth was round hundreds of years beforehand.

You seem to have been stuck on some themes that I have not even addressed. I never talked about 'round world' theory. Columbus had no idea he was going to land on the West Indies, he thought he was going to find a faster way to the spice lands. That was his intention, he didn't think he was going to discover any new land. Unless you think they somehow divined that considering only perhaps the Vikings may have found the new world. So to wit, Columbus decided to go a different direction to get to India and ended up discovering the West Indies.

Comment Re: How about we hackers? (Score 1) 863

A reasonable complaint. Participation in making it better is way better than just bellyaching. I suggest you file a bug and help shape journalctl to what you think it should be based on your experience. They do need that kind of feedback.

If I thought it would do any good. Needing feedback isn't the same as accepting it.

I have, in a long and evil career, encountered all sorts of development groups. Some were very friendly and open to suggestion. The Commodore Amiga team, Objectweb's JOnAS group. More commonly, there are groups who'll either ignore suggestions, or get outright hostile at the mere thought that anyone could be so uncultured and stupid as to not realize that they'd done everything Exactly Perfect and if there was a problem, it was a personal deficiency on the part of the consumer.

Filing a bug report on such projects is an exercise in futility. The best you can do is make a lot of noise in public spaces and hope that enough other people do too that either some other group feels motivated to find a better solution or that the original group realizes that they're never going to get any love and becomes more accomodating.

Well that is certainly a cynical method of doing it. :-) I prefer to use social engineering and do it that way. It always depends on how you coach the problem if you want people to take it seriously.

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