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People in science have government agencies like the NSF, NIH, DoD, NSA, etc funding their research, in addition to the pay they get from universities. People in literature by and large don't have this funding.
This is a ridiculous line of reasoning and it is even more ridiculous that people are upvoting it. No government in the history of the world has ever written in its constitution a provision for its own demise. Say what you will about self-defense or individual liberties, but there is no fucking way the Founders intended for the people to have guns so they could overthrow the government.
President Obama refuses to call for additional gun control today, despite being a DEMOCRATIC party president with major political capital from just being emphatically reelected. The Democrats have abandoned this issue en masse. The gun lobby already has answers prepared (if people at the school had guns the only dead person would be the shooter, etc.) and they have traction among the population. Federal court struck down a concealed carry law in Illinois 2 days ago and it doesn't seem likely that the Supreme Court will roll that back.
It's clear the NRA has won on this issue. I don't think anyone can deny that, no matter what political party they belong to.
So when you bug Boeing jets and put backdoors into Microsoft Windows, it's all well and good and DEFENDING GLORIOUS FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY because it's your side doing it?
Funny how the Slashdot hivemind is on the wrong side of the discussion yet again, although as usual they were so entirely convinced of their correctness.
So when you guys bug Boeing jets and backdoor Microsoft Windows, this is all well and good, but there might be a backdoor in a Chinese made chip, and it's pitchforks and torches?
As usual the Western hypocrisy reveals itself again. But of course, just like in a sports match, your team has never committed a foul, while everything the other team does is a foul?
The only reason there are negative comments in this thread is because China proposed this, so it must be a nefarious ploy by the Evil Red Menace to destroy America. If this were proposed by the American government all of you would be fainting from excitement.
We will not let this act of naked Western aggression stand without retaliation, and Anonymous is not going to win. They will soon have their own medicine shoved back in their face, and good riddance to bad rubbish.
Sure looks like it here. An Israeli organization is telling the American legal system to crack down, through Twitter, on terrorist organizations which are only minor threats to the US (and in the case of Shabab, not even a threat to Israel).
It's routine for the Americans to insist on other countries to do things for them, but they're now tolerating a Israel telling them to do something for Israel's benefit?
So the great Apple company resorts to patent trolling, through a shell company to obfuscate their intentions. Where is the Slashdot outrage over this? Or does the hivemind still think that Apple can do no evil?