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We used to know that, but we live in a nation where ArcadeMan destroys Chris Hedges.

So, based on past performance, the stream of edits should resume in about a week followed by another ten day ban in August of 2018 if the disruptive behaviour continues?

Why won't Donald Rumsfeld deny these allegations? We're not saying he is an alien lizard who eats Mexican babies -- In fact, we think he isn't! But I can't help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations, why won't he deny that he is an alien lizard who eats Mexican babies?

Hey, I'm just asking questions.

Al Gore, March 8, 1999, about 0.2 seconds later in the same interview "...I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." Wired magazine yanked that quote out of context and it has never been the same since.

You may want to look up the "High Performance Computing Act of 1991", also known as the "Gore Bill". That's the one which, among other things, funded the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation, without which we wouldn't have all of the nice toys we enjoy today.

Don't take my word for it. Why not ask Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, the computer science gurus who did get the Internet up and running? While they had been working on it for some time, the RFCs describing TCP and IP weren't published until 1981, and the "Flag Day" on which the old ARPANET switched to running on Internet Protocol was in 1983.

Al Gore was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 1976 and was pushing the ideas of high speed telecommunications in his first term. Unless you are counting the 57 computers on ARPANET at that time as "The Internet" it looks like you may want to revise that statement.

That's what tax money does. Taxes pay for things like civilized society, or in this case The Internet. And Al Gore was the guy who paid the bills for the people who created the Internet. He also paid the bills for the initial development of Internet Explorer and letting AOL users onto Usenet, so he does have a lot to make up for, but when he said that he was the man behind much of the US government's support of computing and telecommunication research which led to the modern Internet, he was right.

The skilled people are already there. They just aren't willing to work for "apprentice" rates.

It's good that we agree on that.

Post a short, general list of rules in several obvious places. Make them reasonable enough to cover most possible user needs but flexible enough to cover things that you haven't thought of yet. Any user who is stupid enough to break the rules by running fork bombs, torrents, mining, hiding stashes of lemur porn or anything else which a child of six could tell you was a bad idea, will have their accounts disabled as soon as they are discovered.

If they have a good excuse for abusing the systems then discuss it with them, suggest alternatives to running rendering jobs on the lab servers and keeping passwords on sticky notes or whatever else it is that they are doing wrong and then restore their access, trusting that they will know better. If you do it right, they may even decide that it is better to ask for permission than forgiveness next time.

If they don't, send a memo to their department head briefly outlining what they did, how it was detected, what action you have taken, and that you won't be reversing this decision until you see a presidential pardon come down from an appropriately high authority. It doesn't matter if they have Really Important Work which needs to be done by the end of the week or not, just cut them off until the proper User Apology and Restoration procedure has been completed.

There you go. This solution is licensed under the WTFPL which is compatible with the Open Source Definition and the Debian Free Software Guidelines so you can use it any way you want. You can even supply your own LART and display it prominently by the door of your office if that helps get the message across.

Are you saying that you have found a functioning economic system? Please share it, as the rest of the world has been trying to find one for the last six thousand years.

Yes. And when you put cereal into a bowl, it's called "breakfast".

Indeed.

"Heartwarming kitten found murdered -- Film at 11"

It just might have had something to do with being involved in a high speed chase, smashing into several other vehicles and then finally hitting a large metal pole sideways.

While some popular US vehicles might be able to drive away from that kind of collision, it seems that the Tesla model S isn't in the same league as far as survivability goes.

Just like /. posters are world famous for being able to remain on topic.

If by "some blogger" you mean "Kent Police Assistant Chief Constable Allyn Thomas" and by "wrote something" you mean "issued an official statement, which was reprinted in full at the bottom of the article", then yes, that is what happened. The rest of your claim doesn't seem to follow from that.