They used to sell a service where you could subscribe to Slashdot [slashdot.org] for some nominal fee per 1,000 page loads. The fact that they quit selling this service is their own problem, the scaffolding is all there. It just needs to be turned back on and made worth the investment.

I subscribed to Slashdot right up until their subscription system broke.

My second official act as the new owner of Slashdot (after tearing out the videos and replacing them with fish tanks) will be making sure that goddamn subscription system works again. It was easy as pie and occasionally I would even pick some insightful commenter and gift him 5000 page loads.

When Slashdot started refusing my subscription requests, I figured it was only a matter of time until they'd get sold. Fortunately, I had sufficient bottle caps, pre-war money and Legion Denarius to purchase the site. Once the sale goes through, things are gonna be different around here, lemme tell you.

So, it's

• C) You're a fascist and an authoritarian shill

as there is no D. Well, that and you DGAF about the infinitely greater lawbreaking revealed by Snowden. That kinda outs you.

cold fjord & Rei must be on vacation. Either that or they are modding, as the fascist trolls and bootlicking authoritarians keep getting uprated.

Snowden was about advancing HIS image and person and not so much about exposing something that was wrong.

20 pounds of fascist dumbfuck in a 5 pound shill sack.

What Snowden did was no doubt wrong

Only if you're a bootlicking fascist. A bootlicking fascist ignoring the billions of felonies committed by the USG with their warrantless spying. A bootlicking fascist ignoring the felonies from the USG and the Oath of Office that Snowden took, which required him to do exactly what he did.

I disagree that he is not liberal

Not possible. Obama could have challenged any of his Republican predecessors from the right. The far right. Unless you're still an Obamabot in 2015, and believing the words coming out of his mouth while ignoring his actions.

Once his feet hit US soil, he will have a criminal trial just like anybody else.

Not "just like anybody else", as the Espionage Act prevents Snowden from arguing his actions were justified. A U.S. trial is a one-way ticket to spending the rest of his life in prison.

Definition of fascist bootlicker. Snowden took an oath to defend the Constitution - an oath that required him to do exactly what he did. You clowns also reveal yourself when you DGAF over the billions of felonies committed by the USG, but want Snowden strung up by his toenails.

And all three of which went to prison for their technically illegal actions.

Wrong. Martin Luther King, Jr, Rosa Parks and Susan B. Anthony did NOT go to prison. They were arrested, booked and released. MLK spent some time in a local jail, but that's not the same as being sent to prison.

A better example for Snowden would be Daniel Ellsberg, who is now seen as a hero.

He should have gone on the Sunday talk shows and say, "the government is doing really sleazy, illegal and unconstitutional shit, and I am violating my oath and the law by telling you exactly what they are."

When your oath to the government requires you to keep government wrongdoing secret, the problem is not with the whistleblower, but with the government.

My reply is more to administration spokesperson Lisa Monaco, who needs to get in the fookin' sea.

Well as payment, I use it to read data from an Omron sleep monitor and check the state of my Suica card (a stored value card handy for travelling in Japan).

From what I read back when the last time this was a story, a few people were saying, "It seems to be generating thrust, but on the other hand, the amount of thrust we're measuring is basically within the margin of error, so... we need to keep testing this."

When I buy Slashdot, first thing I'm going to do is tear out all the videos and put in fish tanks.

He committed treason/espionage which carries the death penalty in certain circumstances.

And we know this is true because the government whose crimes Snowden exposed says it's true.