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Patriotism and nationalism are two of the greatest diseases that humankind has ever known. I bet The Jester is as middle-class as the LulzSec people.
by omouse 15y ago
Patriotism and nationalism are two of the greatest diseases that humankind has ever known.
I bet The Jester is as middle-class as the LulzSec people.
- hugh3 15y agoI bet The Jester is as middle-class as the LulzSec people Well, almost certainly. I doubt he'd claim to be anything else (isn't everybody middle-class nowadays? [1]) so I'm not sure the point of this comment. [1] OK, not everybody is middle-class. The people who aren't are either too uneducated to use a computer, or too busy snorting coke off hookers asses on their private jets to be interested in this crap.
- omouse 15y agoMy point is that the upper-class is fighting a different war and being divided from others by nationalism and protecting a war-mongering police state from other middle-class folks is retarded. There's a bigger game that's being played: making the internet safe for commerce. The Jester is not playing that game, he's going to be playing the "middle-class squabbles" game that distracts people from the bigger game.
- hugh3 15y agoOh fab, another conspiracy theory wacko. I really thought HN needed some of them!
- omouse 15y agouh there's no conspiracy theory, what I say is in plain sight. Who benefits from the DMCA, PATRIOT ACT, TSA patdowns, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Surely not us who are in the middle class. I like the ad hominem though, keep it coming.
- hugh3 15y agoYou are, nonetheless, attributing to malice what could easily be attributed to incompetence.
- omouse 15y agoAfter decades of this kind of stuff, you have to start attributing it to malice. I'm pretty young but even I know about the CALEA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...) from 1994. Seriously, at what point can we start attributing things to malice? Attributing such large things to incompetence is kinda scary; we're hiring or voting for morons. That doesn't frighten you?
- jbooth 15y agoYou ever hear the one about how you can't possibly make someone understand something if his job depends on not understanding it?