Oracle of Bandwidth - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I'll go ahead and say it (Score 1) 925

by Oracle of Bandwidth on Monday June 22, 2009 @02:33AM (#28417595) Attached to: US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan

It's a good thing we don't have a concept like minority rights, I mean it'd be silly if someone could interfere with my life liberty or happiness just because more people on their side thought they were right.

Comment Re:I'll go ahead and say it (Score 1) 925

by Oracle of Bandwidth on Monday June 22, 2009 @02:31AM (#28417581) Attached to: US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan

Thanks, I as I was re-thinking this in my head I thought it sounded high.

Comment Re:I'll go ahead and say it (Score 4, Insightful) 925

by Oracle of Bandwidth on Saturday June 20, 2009 @08:12PM (#28405919) Attached to: US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan

If it is so popular there should be no need to mandate participation, right? People will just opt in because they love it so much.

Comment Re:I'll go ahead and say it (Score 2, Insightful) 925

by Oracle of Bandwidth on Saturday June 20, 2009 @07:38PM (#28405583) Attached to: US House Democrats Unveil a Health Care Plan

Except that national health care is highly unlikely to be unpopular. In countries that have national health care, again such as Britain and Germany, the national health care program is enormously popular. This is part of why the Republicans are fighting the idea so hard; they know that, much like Social Security, once a large national program is established to provide for everyone something that they want (cheaper health care), it will be impossible to kill again later.

Wait? People like Social Security? That pit my employer and I throw money into every month? You realize in the United States there is a huge industry to actually save for retirement because we have no illusion that social security works right? If I could opt out tomorrow I'd be waiting in the queue before dawn. 15% from me, 15% from my employer and 100% worthless.

Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns" 423

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @08:26PM from the distinctive-Hawking-radiation dept.

David Shiga writes "If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring — forming a microscopic 'black Saturn'. This could happen if extra dimensions exist, as string theory suggests, and if they are large enough." An evocative excerpt from the article: "...there is an outside chance that in a few years in a tunnel near Geneva, physicists will make a black hole far smaller than a proton and circled by a squashed four-dimensional black doughnut."

Feed New RIAA Site Pimps P2P Malware (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @08:12PM

P2PLawsuits.com, registered recently by the Recording Industry Association of America, serves up ads for nasty file-sharing clients. The site is described in a leaked strategy letter allegedly sent by the group. In Listening Post.

Web Censorship Proposed For Norway 338

Posted by kdawson on Monday February 12, 2007 @11:36PM from the great-firewall dept.

Aqwis writes "A Norwegian Web filtering system (link in Norwegian), comparable to the Great Firewall of China, has been proposed to the Norwegian legislature. It would, if enacted, block all Web sites and servers that contain hate material (racial hate, pro-Nazi sites, hate towards the government, etc.), most kinds of pornography (not only child pornography), foreign gambling sites, and sites that share copyrighted or other material that it is not legal to share (such as most BitTorrent sites and services such as LimeWire). Reactions have been mixed; however they are mostly negative."

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