It's also about: Can you trust your partner in having similar values. The U.S. is shitting on their allies who believed in "western democracy"

Was always weary about Wired - they are doing a great job now. https://freedom.press/issues/w...

And there was some expertise in tanks... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Thanks for your kind words. Rarely visit Slashdot but vim is software i use daily. And those vi-emacs meme-jokes feel out of place.

Because, in a perfect world, you'd never have to exit.

Spot on. And that's the funny thing: the Communist Party of China is all out "Consumerist", deviating from Marxism and pushing a nationalist agenda.

I rather prefer unruly youths beating the electricity out of our robots overlords.

It's about the welfare-stereotype. Actuallly a good example of how how Charlie works. They use what's in the news and transform it into a tasteless absurdity.
See here... http://www.quora.com/What-was-...

Charlie Hebdo is a cultural icon in France. Besides that, if you don't follow french politics/discourse you won't get most of their jokes. Here's an interview with R. Crumb which puts some perspective on the issue: http://observer.com/2015/01/le...
the gist of it:
Q: These guys were not trying not to offend, and that’s what an American media-conditioned mind cannot understand. The idea that yes, you offend those who abuse power.
A: [Laughs.] No, they can’t.

That's the price you have to pay for revolting against the overlords. I, for one, do not welcome our new beta.

Seconded.

For about 400 years most of today's Austria was part of the Roman Empire. So it's the other way round. Noricum (a celtic kingdom - roughly Austria) was incorporated into the Roman Empire in 16 BC and supplied Roman Armies with weaponry (Noric Steel). Apart of that 'detail' I think your point stands.

At least they could have looked up the wikipedia entry on email. More trustable than a random claim or news article.

'nuff said.

I actually enjoyed

Seriously, is SOCA known for taking down sites? On there website they have

It kinda sounds fishy to me.. Anyway now they're collecting tons of IP-addresses of Slashdotters who can't resist to click on links.

"One who believes as I do, that free intellect is the chief engine of human progress, cannot but be fundamentally opposed to Bolshevism as much as to the Church of Rome. The hopes which inspire communism are, in the main, as admirable as those instilled by the Sermon on the Mount, but they are held as fanatically and are as likely to do as much harm."

Bertrand Russel, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920)

"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. Unless the concept of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it can hardly hope to succeed."

Albert Einstein, "Atomic War or Peace" part II (1947)