Anybody familiar with RMS knows this in nothing new for him.

Jesus Christ. There's no getting away from you assholes is there? Don't you guys know how ridiculous you sound? There's no secret cabal of feminists plotting to cut your balls off and make everyone dye their hair pink or whatever it is you think is going on.

Has it ever occurred to you geniuses that some people have had drastically different experiences in their lives than you? That just because there's a few black guys going to your college and we had a mixed-race president does not mean that everything is fine and dandy and all anyone wants now is to subjugate you poor, persecuted middle class white males. There's a saying that goes something like: "When you're born into a position of privilege, equality looks like oppression."

You're not the completely rational, grounded persons you believe yourselves to be. The environment we are born into determines our experiences in life, which in turn shape our thought processes and world view.

I used to think just like you. I believed that we all come into this world on an equal footing and we shaped our own destinies. As I stepped out into the world though, I realized this wasn't the case. Just because your advancement in life was so effortless doesn't mean it will be for everyone else, too. The truth is that if you are born into poverty, it is nearly impossible to escape. Racial prejudice and sexism are still very much a reality. You just don't see it because you've never had to deal with it. You don't believe systemic oppression exists because you don't truly understand it. You think you do, but I promise you that you don't.

There's a book titled "Black Like Me" that I think you should read. It really opened my eyes to the many ways we stack the deck against women and people of color. Oppression consists of much more than things like denial of voting rights and separate water fountains. It is also achieved through things like social norms and cultural traditions that can't simply be abolished by a Constitutional amendment or act of Congress.

Sadly, their attitude these days tends to "I AM the law".

I'd argue that it's better to have them spread out over numerous, more obscure sites than to allow mass-gatherings of extremists on one site. Seems like providing them a single site or forum just gives them the opportunity to circlejerk each other into a frenzy, which results in violence.

Sweet irony.

With an ax, usually.

Dude was probably desperate for money and possibly an illegal immigrant. That's pure speculation based on his name, and I could be completely wrong on that. I've known many people here "illegally" and they weren't all from Mexico or Central America.

I think this whole 'Gamergate' shitshow is the most ado I've ever seen be made about absolutely nothing.

/. is supposed to be my refuge, damn it! If I want to see a bunch of professional victims argue over who gets to be the Idiot King, I would go to reddit.

I'm gonna have to call for a citation on that one, homey.

I work in the construction industry, an industry especially notorious for the employment of illegal immigrants, so I have some personal experience in regards to illegal immigration. First of all, this picture Donald Trump has been painting of violent criminals and Mexican citizens coming here in droves to live off government welfare programs is just not true. These are blue-collar, hard-working, decent people who have come here to escape ruthless violence (fueled by American demand for illegal drugs) and extensive poverty. They have become the foundation that several sectors of the US economy are built on. What people like Donald Trump and his ilk need to realize is that the violent criminals, for the most part, have no real inclination to pack up and move themselves across the Rio Grande. It's much easier for these drug gangs to operate on their side of the border, where widespread corruption has enabled them to operate with near impunity, than it is for them to "invade" America, where they have to deal with state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies that are more motivated by arrest and seizure statistics than a personal bribe. Speaking from my own experiences, the career criminals that do come across the border end up being arrested over here, which results in their deportation back across the border. 99% of Mexicans here illegally are ordinary people simply trying to support themselves and their families. As things are now, these people live in constant fear that any encounter or interaction with police or government officials will end up with them sitting in a holding cell, awaiting deportation, while their wife and children remain in America. These families are torn apart, with wives and mothers suddenly finding themselves with 3 children to support and no source of income. One woman I know of has resorted to collecting scrap metal to support a 5 year-old son and infant daughter. The sight of a 5 year-old kid helping his mother load an old water heater into a truck so that they might be able to keep a roof over their heads is something that those arguing for tougher immigration enforcement never have, and probably never will, experience. The truth of the matter is that those working here illegally are not much different from the people who comprise our own working-class. In fact, Mexican workers that are paid "under-the-table" (as in they don't have anything taxes taken out of their paycheck) are relatively rare. Meaning they financially contribute to a system under which they are considered as faceless statistics and under which they have no voice. This has gotten long enough, so I'll stop here. Just remember, that just because someone is labeled "illegal" does not make them a criminal. P.S.: Before somebody decides to get pedantic with that last statement, I am aware that being here illegally means they are in violation of the law, and technically a criminal. What I was trying to illustrate was the absurdity that people are criminalized for simply providing for themselves and their loved ones.

Be honest. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion!

Glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought this.

I haven't yet read the article, but offhand it seems that the problem isn't so much with the car itself as it is the person driving it. The problem, to me, seems to stem from people with more money than driving skill. You wouldn't go out and buy a McLaren F1 if you can't drive a Camaro, for instance. This isn't a great analogy, but hopefully you understand my meaning. Porsche seems to have become associated more with status than with performance and racing these days. A great deal of the blame lies with Porsche themselves for taking this idea and running with it (Porsche SUV anybody?).

Try doing just that and let me know how it works out for you.

I am assuming you're refering to Pete Best, the original drummer, when you say "all 5 Beatles." It's not something I've ever heard said before or anything, but what do I know, I was born 4 years later than you. Back to the original point of my reply, you were born in early 1980 and John Lennon was shot in December of that year. You were so young you didn't even know who he was or that there was a world outside of your mother's tit, for that matter. So please don't go around trying to identify yourself via historical events that you were in no way capable of comprehending when they happened. Just because you were alive then, doesn't mean anything if you weren't even a year old yet.