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What You Can't Say
dtolton writes "Paul Graham has an excellent article posted on the subject of things you can't say. His article explores what ideas are generally considered heresy, and whether or not those ideas might be true nonetheless. He also presents advice for handling heretical ideas. Considering that many of the ideas in technology in general and Open Source specifically are near heresy, it's well worth a read."
Congratulations, you're a zealot. Even your sig mentions "learning the truth," suggesting that you consider your own beliefs to be absolute truth and that people that disagree are wrong. You also obviously paint yourself as a political conservative in your comments. Considering the topic we're on, I find it ironic that you are so angry about these subjects; it shows that you are afraid of being wrong. I would call you a troll, but it seems that you are being completely sincere. Perhaps you should spend less time being angry and more time trying to examine what is the truth vs. what is predictable banter from zealots (the former is pretty hard to find, while the latter is everywhere).
so long as this absurdity called "government" is restrained from causing yet more harm.
All of histories attorictices could not have been commpted without big goverment.
Hitler's Germany
Stallin's Russia
Napolian's France
The Queen's Empire
Letft to their own devices, individials kill a neighbor now and then, but group them together and call them an army and they can kill millions.
Big Government is very dangerous - in addition to being expensive.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Why would the Israelis participate in terrorism against the U.S.? It doesn't add up.
Under Rabin, probably not. But under Sharon? Absolutely it makes sense. Sharon has set a course for Israel that necessarily requires many if not most (or all) Arabs in the region to die. With its 200+ nukes, Israel could of course effect this unilaterally, but the retribution would probably destroy the nation. However, roping the U.S. in to do the bulk of the fighting for them, and using conventional arms, achieves their aims without spilling Israeli blood and without bearing the brunt of international criticism.
It makes perfect sense, if you're a madman, and that's what Sharon is.
As for it being hate speech, I hate to tell you, but that strawman hasn't scored for a long time now, particularly when used to defend Israel, which, after all, actually carries out hate by killing and torturing innocent Palestinians and stealing their homes and land. That's hate. Speaking out against such action is not.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Hey, I'm just telling you how I feel. Like I said, no offense. I do respect your right to be an idiot (even though you should probably be shot). There I got that off my chest. Peace.
---Technology will liberate us if it doesn't enslave us first.
Jews to Belsen, Muslims to Guantanamo Bay... The Nazi concentration camps weren't death camps to begin with. It took several years between the start of the policy of vilification of Muslims - sorry, I meant Jews - and the start of the policy of extermination. But it's a process, and one which the United States has clearly begun. Like the Jews at Belsen, the Muslims at Guantanamo Bay have been made Untermensch, outside the protection of normal law.
Muslim citizens in the United States are already subject to arbitrary arrest and detention without charge. They're subject to invasive searches and monitoring when they travel. They're already subject to threats and abuse from their neighbours. This is just what the Jews in Germany were experiencing in the late twenties and early thirties. And the first concentration camp has now been operating for over a year.
Remember:
They're coming for the muslims now. What are you going to do?
I'm old enough to remember when discussions on Slashdot were well informed.