Us here on the old continent can't understand why in the world anyone would ever vote for the Republican party that so clearly is the political wing of the wealthiest 5%.

Cause those of us here on the new continent have been close to both sides long enough to know that the only real difference between the republicans and the democrats is that the republicans are more obvious/less stealthy about what they are doing and the democrats are much better at covering their agenda.

They really aren't any different in general, both suck, but you occasionally have one side doing the right thing and so you take that into account, vote accordingly for the 'best' on either side and stop voting based on which 'team'. The only intelligent voters left in America are the ones who don't check the 'default party' checkbox and actually vote for a PERSON that does what they feel is right rather than for the red or blue team.

This would mean that leftists are more informed, and the right wing is more ignorant.

Depending on how you determine ignorance, I'm certain that your statement can be made true.

It could also be proven false.

Using a different set of questions to measure the knowledges of those being surveyed would result in an entirely different outcome.

I'm inclined to believe that if you asked 100 people technology and world history questions, those leaning to the left would do well, and the right would probably rank lower.

I'm also inclined to believe that if you asked those same 100 people how to do various jobs related more to lower class work and manual labor, you'll likely to fine that the right leaning people turn up far better informed.

The questions alone can be biased enough to make the whole survey worthless.

I don't see any way to spin this in favor of either Fox News or conservatism.

Of course you don't, you aren't a conservative person. Its not hard to figure that one out, you have a very narrow view of the world. That doesn't make you wrong, but it doesn't make you right, it does prevent you from seeing the world as it is however.

I could easily make a survey in which slashdot would show up as complete idiots on average and the 'ignorant right wing rednecks' would be the shown as geniuses. Its simply really, here goes:

Describe from your own personal experience what a vagina looks like.

Now, the girls on slashdot should get it right, and they'll be a couple guys who will, but the rest of you will fail utterly, proving slashdotters, who are clearly leaning to the left ... are ignorant.

Okay, so that was obviously wrong, but the point stands, change the subject matter of the survey and you'll get an entirely different answer that is just as correct as this one. Neither one of them will be 'wrong', the only part that gets it 'wrong' is the ignorant person that thinks the stupid survey is an accurate measure of the overall knowledge as person has.

It's a pretty serious charge against an academic to claim that his research is garbage because of a political agenda.

Its pretty ignorant to think that an academic is any different than anyone else with regards to being biased by their own agenda, political or otherwise.

Academics are just people, nothing more. They are no different than anyone else. They do not have a magic 'unbias' gene. They are most CERTAINLY biased, some may do a better job of trying to present a balanced assessment, but as human beings its impossible for them to remove all bias.

You need to stop thinking of certain groups of people as actually being different than other groups of people. All people are more or less the same, everything is done to further their own personal agenda, even charity is for their own personal agenda. Once you realize that, you'll find it gets a whole lot easier to analyze the world around you and make sense of what people are doing and why.

UT just a game slapped on top of the engine, its not really meant to be a best seller. Its designed for modding and being used in other games. UT2k4 selling like it did was just a nice bonus.

I'm sorry but saying that 'work' implies 'not having DRM' isn't valid.

You can qualify the word work in statements with a lot of things that are a stretch, but throwing DRM into it isn't acceptable.

You can say it doesn't work on OS BLAH because it is DRM'd, but saying that DRM makes it completely broken just makes you seem childish, like you always expect to get your way.

I'm not sure why this is news? They realized a weakness and asked someone they thought had more knowledge for help. Thats what I EXPECT them to do.

When I know I'm out of my league and well beyond my knowledge base I ask someone else who's been doing it longer or more for some input.

Go on ya, Aussies, hope we gave you something useful. Maybe one day you can return the favor for some of the things you're better than us at.

As the song goes, Thats what friends are for.

Ironically, had the fucking moron Torrented it from the start, there would be no issue.

Except he purposefully didn't, knowing that hosting it on US Amazon servers would of course eventually take them off-line.

It stopped interesting me when it became clear it wasn't about getting the word out, it was about keeping douche bag in the spot light.

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'the wrong side'

no, I won't be on the side of the idiot 12 year old douche bags who think a DDoS is some form of protest. You're telling me I don't have courage ... yet I'm not the pussy hiding behind a computer monitor sending 'Anonymous' little packets to hurt someone else.

Just remember, when the shit hits the fan, I'll still be able to kick your ass and I don't have to try to hide to say it. Your nothing but an angsty little pussy, already too stupid to know which side 'the wrong side' is.

And 99,595,000 of them were created by bots for spamming.

Only about 50k of those have been on any day following the day the account was created.

The company I work for runs a website with about 3 million registered users ... we see about 15k of them on a day to day basis, probably 2.5 million of them have never logged in after they created their account, and the rest only use it once or twice and never come back.

You can certainly say its because people aren't interested in what we offer, and you'd certainly be right, however I think you'll find our numbers probably have a ratio about the same as twitter.

People will sign up for new free shit just to try it and never come back, or they'll sign up with multiple accounts so they can reserve names or because they forgot they registered previously or have a new email address or any of a bunch of other reasons.

If twitter would work with me a little bit, we could probably create 300 million new accounts in a few days using a script ... and the script would use the website just as much as the 300 million new accounts created, that is ... none at all.

Then you aren't an attention whore.

Attention whoring is what twitter is for, thats all. Its so people who think someone else gives a shit about what they can say in half a thought have a place to spew their ignorant incoherent incomplete thoughts.

Other than that, its about the biggest step backwards in communications ability I think we've experienced in history. I think a world wide EMP that wiped out all electronics would be less damaging than twitter and SMS in general.

Yes, except speeding is dangerous (not due to the speed itself always, but due to the fact that you're behaving in an unpredictable manner which other drivers may misjudge or you may be incapable of handling), selling your watch isn't.

Great comparison though ...

Heh, funny part is, as soon as I saw the original story, noticed who posted it, I instantly determined it to not be true.

From that point I went and looked deeper and find it highly unlikely that much of the story as currently told is true.

It looks more to me like the email from Gregory Perry is either spoofed, or that he has an agenda.

The 'agenda' part stems from the fact that he's the 'CEO' of 'GoVirtual Education' a company selling VMware training ... and he happens to be taking pop shots at a guy who promotes using OpenBSD VMs ...

I'm sure in the end, this will turn out to be just another silly thing that isn't true and is exactly why I blocked kdawson in the first place.

It would seem that others at slashdot seem to realize no one reads the retarded crap he approves and have taken it on themselves to post followups to link back to his stories or posting submissions from him directly.

Dear slashdot, please give me a way to not see anything that in any way relates to kdawson or timothy, it always turns out to be wrong, most of the time its unbelievably wrong.

Yea, and probably 2.5 million of them will be peeing their pants by morning so there goes a bunch of them as well.

Computer courage disappears quickly once you realize you aren't nearly as 'anonymous' as you think you are.

Guess he should have thought of that before committing a military crime while he was an active member of the military service. He is governed by a different set of laws that aren't nearly as nice as civilian laws.

Or at least, he might have thought of that BEFORE HE STARTED FUCKING BRAGGING ABOUT IT.

extraordinary influence (coersion? CIA blackmail?) the US wields.

Its astonishing that you assume the US is the one putting pressure on them.

If anything you should have gotten out of the retarded 'cablegate' crap is that most of the time what appears to be the agenda of the US is really the agenda of someone else that the US doesn't seem to care about taking the blame for.

American politicians just happen to be the ones that have the balls to call him a douche in public, they certainly aren't the only ones to think it and you're an idiot if you think they are the only ones that want to shut him up.

Its fairly clear you've already made up your mind however and are fine with ignoring facts in favor of seeing only things that fit in line with your view of how the world works. Thats your business, but don't be surprised that you can never seem to understand how the world works and why everyone does things you don't think make sense.