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Comment Re:What a shame (Score 1) 189

ALl this man did was help build a search enging allowing people to share.

This only benefits society.

they did way more than that. they openly challenged (and btw totally pissed off, with unparallelled style) a greedy and indecent establishment that doesn't give a shit about benefits for society. in doing that they set an example to follow at the very beginning of an era change. sadly, society was not ready and did nothing to protect them. but that's how society evolves, slowly, often thanks to and at the expense of guys like them.

Comment the new community manager (Score 1) 669

If the Pope says (confirming what mainstream Christians have believed for a long time)

what mainstream christians?

i read the pope's quote yesterday, it later came to mind when i stumbled on yet-another-creationism-thread here on slashdot, about michigan state university hosting a conference and such. do us citizens realize that this is a problem with us christians *only*? they are not mainstream at all! that this ongoing charade is possible in a developed country is startling. you won't find such widespread intellectual insult among western christians elsewhere. not even in spain, with an extreme national-catholic background still deeply entrenched in power and pretty low scores in education, does this find a minimum audience. not even on junk tv. in us it spread from the university!? dudes, ...

that homosexuals aren't bad, and now Evolution and Big Bang are consistent with orthodox Catholic thought, what the heck else are we going to build our strawmen attacks out of? ...because you don't really think this will change anyone's mind about how they feel about religion, do you?

francisco is cool, exactly the worst pope to have. ratzinger's rancid fundamentalism was just fine, it drove many lost souls away. too bad, the roman catholic church must have had an epiphany, because they realized this too. now they have a celebrity!

Comment Re:Fuck Snowden (Score 1) 221

Snowden isn't some harmless guy "just doing his thing." He committed crimes that carry the death penalty. Snowden screwed America and its citizens, much of Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, even if you don't recognize it, or even cheer him for it.

he just publicly showed proof of how rotten government is in america and much of europe. it's those governments who screwed their citizens.

if you believe this deserves death penalty _for_the_messager_ then you are the traitor, but more than that you are a sick piece of shit.

Comment Re:Not just "unreasonable". (Score 1) 221

while there are so many medieval crazies running around alternately shouting Hallelujah, Death To The Great Satan and beheading followers and non-believers alike, the Patriot Act will stay.

isn't that why they produced those medieval crazies in the first place, and why they're producing more of them by the minute?

Comment Re:Make it a plugin for local mail clients (Score 1) 173

not at all. the content of course is disclosed, that's just ok or else it would be encrypted.

however your use of the content is private matter too. that's as safe as it could be on local storage if using a respectful client. of course this includes also your full contact list, your habits, location and probably system and device information, if not more. this is inevitably leaked with any imaginable online client, and if you also choose gmail that's an explicit statement that privacy means shit to you. note: your's and your contact's.

just saying, not wanting to argue or playing right-minded. i just can't get used to the way people boldly dismiss this issue, as if it made it nonexistent. the fact that lots of people tend to do will have have far reaching impact on society, already has. people should be made aware, not misinformed. then they can do as they please, and of course take responsibility.

Comment Re:At least Emacs can open files over 2 MB in size (Score 1) 156

i had a ver similar experience. :) it was amusing.

no, it's not viable as a heavy duty editor yet, by far. however it's remarkable that such apps are at all possible grinding the dom in a browser. the setup for desktop integration is awkward, but keep in mind that this is a pure standard html webapp. you can easily embed that thing in any webpage to be used in any browser, considering this fact both functionality and performance are quite remarkable.

oh, and i'm afraid you don't know anything about javascript, but better don't ask those "fellow javascripters" of yours! :) no pressing either, atom will probably come and go, but you will be hearing A LOT about javascript/ecmascript in the future.

Comment troll the troll (Score 1) 555

see, it's easy to tell what the average user does. it's also easy to make a fool of oneself trying to guess what a particular stranger on the net does, like you just did.

but anyway your conclusion seems to be that since we both use cotton and microelectronics in some way we both should use windows? or that voting one mafia over the other will bring us ... wait a minute, this is gorgeous ... "control over our lives"? and, hey! we get to complain as a bonus! no shit!

hehe, hilarious. too bad you didn't like my propaganda. yours was spot on.

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