Comment Re:Nanny State... (Score 1) 407
I didn't say Google became part of the State. I'm talking about the mentality that everyone is stupid and needs taken care of. That mentality IS called "Nanny State", especially when the corporations doing is would LOVE to have state-like powers.
Comment Nanny State... (Score 2, Insightful) 407
This is what happens get when (collectively) we try too hard to coddle the idiots will believe anything, click on anything, and download anything.
Comment Star Trek quote... (Score 4, Insightful) 325
From IMDB:
[on whether to help the Klingons]
Captain James T. Kirk: They're animals.
Captain Spock: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.
Captain James T. Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
Captain Spock: They're dying.
Captain James T. Kirk: Let them die!
[pauses... Spock cocks his head in surprise.
Honestly, folks, what makes you think any Klingons, err, microsofties can be trusted in this day and age?
or maybe this is closer to home:
Steve Jobs (from Pirates of Silly Valley): "Dead culture in a crumbling castle"...
They're just saying "nice doggy" until they can find a rock. Maybe this is what the teachers meant when they said: "Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it".
Or how many times do you insist on touching that hot stove? Really. They need us more than we need them. Ignore them, move along, nothing to see...
Submission + - Bizarre Turn in Hans Reiser Murder Prosecution
An anonymous reader writes: Sean Sturgeon, ex-lover of Hans Reiser's missing wife Nina, confesses to eight unrelated killings: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/05/rei ser#
