Comment Re:That's awesome (Score 1) 372
You're right. Para-military thugs work just as well.
You're right. Para-military thugs work just as well.
Maybe this has changed in the United States of Fascism, but every where else in the world, if someone is hired to stalk you 24/7, that is generally considered spying. Even if they only observe you when you're in public.
The dictionary doesn't do shit. the definition for treason in the US is specifically defined in the US constitution and limited to that definition. As the GP said, it is close to that definition.
Seeing as he did not levy war against the US the only grounds for treason would be if you claimed he was aiding the enemy. Since he did not give the enemy (and which speciously defined group is that anyway?) means to avoid surveillance (if anything we've learned there is no avoiding it at all), it's not anywhere close to the definition given in the constitution.
Given that the Patriot Act was passed 98 to 1 in an evenly split Senate, you don't get to blame the Republicans. They ALL voted yes.
And you expect this government to be only unreasonable? That fairy dust you're snorting must be powerful stuff indeed.
has no place here on slashdot, which is supposed to be an inclusive social environment.
Poe's Law?
Look, we developed our own nuclear weapons in the 1940s, without computers
No we didn't. Try reading Feynman's biography sometime. His job at the project was performing calculations on computers for the implosion-bomb desig.
Nonsense. The Clash could actually play their instruments. If the Sex Pistols were that popular without even being able to play, it is necessarily true that they were objectively better. QED.
The benefits of the rice are so obvious that you have to be somewhat blind to completely oppose its use in Africa.
The benefits are obvious, but the downsides are subtle.
Namely: If poor farmers do not own their seeds, they must grow cash crops to buy new seeds every year. This has two main negative effects: 1) less arable land is devoted to food production in a region ALREADY suffering from calorie deficiency, 2) The farmers are effectively enslaved to the production of that cash crop--they are now less self-sufficient and can never stop growing that crop without finding another wage earning job to replace it.
These two consequences would, in general, be disastrous for the poorest subsistence farmers in these countries.
Or at least, they will have in ten years when the OpenBSD codebase catches up.
Where's the -1 "I don't know if it's racist or not" mod?
Dammit, where are my mod points...
Time to go listen to Excitable Boy again.
Being a ward of the Bureau of Prisons is not the same as working for the fed.
Having been to both, I'd pick Vietnam any day. Foreigners at least are treated much better there, by everyone (not just the government).
Don't mention the war.
WAR!
What is it good for?
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
