Comment Re: Who was it again who said... (Score 1) 74
Side loading is the only reason to buy stuff like, for example, a Fire tablet
Comment Does anyone here care? (Score 1) 329
Hard to imagine more than one percent of Slashdot readers giving a lick about this. Although ESPN is about the only thing on cable or satellite that you can't get elsewhere.
Comment Re:God, Not Another One (Score 1) 325
Why shouldn't a charity earn its own money by leasing its property rather than going out begging? More charities need to earn their way.
Comment Gotta Love the Hypocrisy (Score 1, Troll) 1819
Reading through these comments, it amazes me how many of them are along the line of "He deserved it" or "He tried to provoke it". If that had been President Bush or Vice-President Cheney that this incident occurred to, I would have seen the word "Nazi" in many forms at least 200 times by now in these comments. This underlines the point that the vast majority of US campuses support free speech, as long as it is left speech.
Journal Journal: Thoughts on Farenheit 9/11 1
It's absolutely amazing what people will believe. The general rule of thumb of the liberal point-of-view is that if it goes along with the popular world-view of my peers, I will support it whole-heartedly. This is true despite the fact that the liberal world-view is full of contradictions and confusions. The ability to stand back and analyze a thought, belief, theory, doctrine, etc., etc. in a coherent world view is all but non-existant.
