Well as long as a fact checker has said itâ(TM)s false we can all breath easier

Yes. Yes they are. I actually monitor both (and consider Al Jazeera to be the least biased). CNN is probably a little more unsubstantiated froth-at-the-mouth bullshit than RT but both full with obvious spin and bullshit. You are reading propaganda without even a hint that it is spin. Itâ(TM)d be worthwhile stopping and thinking. All American mainstream media that I watch is uncritical and full of propaganda to one extent or another. And yes, of course Russian media is. But youâ(TM)re an idiot if you think youâ(TM)re getting facts.

1965. And I endorse that post. Also this particular campaign contains the most intense propaganda Iâ(TM)ve ever seen including stuff I studied in school re wwi &wwii If you take ANYTHING at face value from msm, whether RT or CNN then youâ(TM)re a fool

Absolutely! Youâ(TM)re not so important that you get to put the entire company at risk.

So you suspect Korea ... or Trump?

Why ask me what the random combination is? Did I mention zinc? Step outside, calm down and take a breath. Your idea that itâ(TM)s all about redefining things is silly. Science is all about testing things, deciding what doesnâ(TM)t Work, and move on. It is not wrong to look at drug combinations. Thatâ(TM)s done all the time. I take a couple of pills, one which depends on another, and that other does nothing much on its own. I do remember zinc being suggested early on in connection with that malaria drug so it makes sense to test. If it doesnâ(TM)t pan out - cool. Science takes a step. Although itâ(TM)s important to look back occasionally. Thatâ(TM)s how we got stainless steel. But in this context - expecting you meant epidemiologist wasnâ(TM)t that ridiculous. But then, this is the Internet. Sensitive unthinking assholes are everywhere.

Lol âoeetymologistsâ probably are. I think you meant epidemiologists.

Itâ(TM)ll be another 5-10 more years before the next launch date. I donâ(TM)t expect to see IPv6 as anything more than a novelty in the next decade. Maybe when we get to the year of Linux on the desktop we can have a more concerted effort to use it. Iâ(TM)m actually more surprised that we donâ(TM)t see more bad actors utilising this as a protocol as itâ(TM)s on by default and no one much is monitoring it, as no one much is using it.

Curious.

Does your definition of "liberty" include forcing privately-owned and operated Web sites to carry and publish material that the proprietors may fundamentally disagree with?

Would the proprietors of these Web sites fall under your definition of "evil men that would do us harm" if they attempted to establish and enforce their own principles on their own private property?

There are a lot of places on Earth that have no functioning government (and therefore have no taxes). One would think that the the "taxation is theft" crowd would be flocking to these places en masse, but for some reason they are not. Interesting, that.

That was my first thought too.

There was a point in time (and it's well over a decade past) where Slashdot was the definitive go-to site for smart discussions, both on technical topics as well as society in the larger sense. I use the word "discussions" very deliberately, because then (as now) the articles were really just a jumping-off point for a conversation. Nobody ever actually read the articles; why bother? You had a lot of very intelligent people gathered together to share their experiences and impart their knowledge. That was what made Slashdot what is was.

These days, I very rarely visit this site, and this particular conversation is a prime example of why this is. The grandparent post, which at the current time has a score of 4, suggests that the media establishment is made up of (among others) "angry lesbians and transsexuals." Now, I have no doubt that you personally find this type of discourse to be "in-depth, intelligent, and rational." But there are lots of decent people, people who were here very early on and still remember how great this place used to be, who have simply grown tired of this kind of thing.

Most of the intelligent conversation here has been replaced by spoutings so deranged that they make The Protocols of the Elders of Zion read like the owner's manual to a 1987 Buick Skylark. And I'm not just talking about trolls here (although they've been around since the early days as well.) Today, this kind of semiliterate gibbering is just as likely to have a score of 5 as it is to be at -1. Now, I know what you're thinking; I'm either a unwitting tool of the "SJW establishment" or (gasp! dare one think it?) an SJW myself, and I'm just having troubles coming to terms with the fact that the old rules have been usurped and it's now finally permissible to get out The Truth about minorities, women, gays, etc.

The truth of the matter is that I'm just a regular guy who occasionally thinks about how nice it would be to have the old Slashdot back, before it became dominated by angry, pear-shaped, basement-dwelling virgins. Now, to be fair, there were doubtless plenty of basement-dwelling virgins on 1998 Slashdot as well. It's just that the 2016 variant has made the site essentially intolerable and a hollow shell of its former self.

You know, this issue tends to draw nutcases of all stripes out of the woodwork, but the fact that there's a "white males are the real victims!" post sitting at "Score 5: Insightful" is to Slashdot's eternal shame.

The conventional wisdom that it's political suicide in Florida to support normalization of relations with Cuba just isn't true any longer. 56% of Americans in general support it. That number increases to 62% if you focus only on responses from the Hispanic/Latino community, and it increases to 63% if you just ask people from Florida.

Here's the poll.

The "angry Scarface extra" demographic in Florida is dying (both metaphorically and literally.) The times, they are a-changing.