which law was broken by offering jobs to people so they wouldn't run against an incumbent? Seems like a typical political favor to me. Disappointing, but not surprising in the least from a politician.
just as the poster you are replying too overestimates the liberalism of the country, you seem to overestimate the conservativeness. This is a midterm election, where the party in power is usually on poor ground, and the economy still sucks. That more than anything is responsible for their troubles. The rightward swing of the Republicans has more complicated causes, but it seems unlikely to me that it is because the American people as a whole are getting more conservative. The people who vote in primaries are a small minority.
businesses and academics are completely different. Its still bad he did that do businesses, but not nearly as bad as doing it to academics working in a field of immense public interest.
Except that there is no way to insure that this data doesn't go to the government. They buy a lot of data on citizens from private companies and knowing friendship networks actually is quite valuable information for Big Brother. Take a look at how Pakistan is fighting the Taliban there, it has a lot to do with knowing family networks. As someone with hippy friends, I don't want to be investigated if they join Sea Shepherd.
you have an interesting definition of Fascism, as you define it as any system that accounts for the externalities of corporations. I do not support Greenpeace in particular, as I believe their stance on nuclear power to be wrong, but I find your arguments against environmentalism to ignore the human costs associated with environmental catastrophes.
Environmentalism is not only about caring for animals. The way that I see it, life is rather hard to exterminate and that nature will eventually adapt to whatever way we change the planet. Chemical pollution poisons human water supplies while smog poisons our lungs. It is the poor that have to live with these consequences more than anyone. Is any law that protects us from mercury in our water supplies inherently fascist?
The Cultural Revolution was not historic or influential? Are you joking? It was the catastrophic failure of the Cultural Revolution that led to the capitalist transformation of China. Few events in our recent history have had such an impact. Additionally, you emphasize the activism present in the Cultural Revolution and imply that it was mutually exclusive with repression of individuality. The Red Guard enforced their revolutionary ideals on all. Individuality was suppressed even within the Red Guard as no one was safe from their attempts to root out anyone not fully committed to the ideals.
I sense much fear in you. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Political disagreements aside, such racism will lead only to more suffering. There are Americans that I know that are afraid of red states. They fear that religion will destroy science and corrupt academic knowledge. They fear that warhawks will pick a fight we not only can't win but might actually lose. This fear drives them to ponder if the blue states should just succeed even if it would require a war. You are underestimating the suffering that such hate can cause. Imagine if a powerful nation became afraid of you.
Troops were doing the arresting? I was under the impression that the reason we did not have evidence enough to legally imprison the detainees was that they were handed over to us by bounty hunters or foreign governments.
The government is not the only organization that can exert control on you and limit your freedom. By controlling the market some are capable of eliminating choice on services which in turn have a drastic impact on people's lives. If you cause enough financial harm to others you take away their ability to compete freely with you. Though it is more subtle, it does have a direct impact on personal freedom. To say that regulation is equivalent to censorship is a horrendous misrepresentation.
Interesting, one of the things blamed for declining CD sales was the increasing use of concerts by artists to make money. Content producers often do want monetary recognition of their work, though this is not universal, but the truth is that they are screwed over more by the content controllers than by P2P. Associations such as the RIAA were not formed in order to protect artists, they were formed because protecting artists was profitable and they wanted money. They protect artists whether they want it or not.
Heh, the point was that while they were from NH they did not recognize it and wanted to be independent. This lead to the splitting of NH and the formation of Vermont.
We cling to it because in the long run it works. We have a problem with expanding executive power, but its emphasis on personal liberty above governmental power is a necessary check that protects us from irreversible damage to our system in periods of brief instability.
There is a difference between Conservatives and Classical Liberals. Classical Liberals highly valued education and disagreed with each other quite openly. The connection you are making between the two would be more convincing if conservative celebrities like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter did not coordinate their messages so thoroughly. Why is it that after major political events they describe them with the same wording? I agree that hate speech laws are often supported by Liberals, for which I am ashamed of them, but I do not agree that they do not value dissent. What is the origin of the joke: "I don't belong to an organized political party, I'm a Democrat"?
I haven't been trolled recently so I'll bite. While I have no knowledge of any studies about how informed different voters are about the issues involved in elections, I have to disagree with the claim that Republicans are better educated. In fact, Democrats comprise a greater part of the college educated segment of the population. Isn't this why we are always accused (in many cases quite justly) of educational elitism? I thought this was why Republican candidates try to fit the everyman image while Democrats make much of their educational background.
The death of a murderer may be less tragic, but murder is not something that can be justified by the victim being a bad person. The justice system is in place for a reason, such retaliation is bad for society.
That's odd, I wasn't aware that the gradual build up in the number of players pointed to a hardcore blizzard fanbase. I always thought it meant that word of mouth spread as people heard from their friends about how good it was. Huh. Silly me.
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which law was broken by offering jobs to people so they wouldn't run against an incumbent? Seems like a typical political favor to me. Disappointing, but not surprising in the least from a politician.
just as the poster you are replying too overestimates the liberalism of the country, you seem to overestimate the conservativeness. This is a midterm election, where the party in power is usually on poor ground, and the economy still sucks. That more than anything is responsible for their troubles. The rightward swing of the Republicans has more complicated causes, but it seems unlikely to me that it is because the American people as a whole are getting more conservative. The people who vote in primaries are a small minority.
businesses and academics are completely different. Its still bad he did that do businesses, but not nearly as bad as doing it to academics working in a field of immense public interest.
its all good, I was just happy to finally have the info I needed. I'm glad I can play the beta now :)
thank you, I tried that search yesterday and got no useful results.
anyone know if a macbook would be able to run it, however shittily?
Except that there is no way to insure that this data doesn't go to the government. They buy a lot of data on citizens from private companies and knowing friendship networks actually is quite valuable information for Big Brother. Take a look at how Pakistan is fighting the Taliban there, it has a lot to do with knowing family networks. As someone with hippy friends, I don't want to be investigated if they join Sea Shepherd.
I've never seen a major road clear of construction for long anywhere they get snow.
you have an interesting definition of Fascism, as you define it as any system that accounts for the externalities of corporations. I do not support Greenpeace in particular, as I believe their stance on nuclear power to be wrong, but I find your arguments against environmentalism to ignore the human costs associated with environmental catastrophes. Environmentalism is not only about caring for animals. The way that I see it, life is rather hard to exterminate and that nature will eventually adapt to whatever way we change the planet. Chemical pollution poisons human water supplies while smog poisons our lungs. It is the poor that have to live with these consequences more than anyone. Is any law that protects us from mercury in our water supplies inherently fascist?
interesting that the housing bubble occurred under Bush then...
So you believe that because such authority can sometimes be justified that an instance where reasonable options were untried is justified?
The Cultural Revolution was not historic or influential? Are you joking? It was the catastrophic failure of the Cultural Revolution that led to the capitalist transformation of China. Few events in our recent history have had such an impact. Additionally, you emphasize the activism present in the Cultural Revolution and imply that it was mutually exclusive with repression of individuality. The Red Guard enforced their revolutionary ideals on all. Individuality was suppressed even within the Red Guard as no one was safe from their attempts to root out anyone not fully committed to the ideals.
I sense much fear in you. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Political disagreements aside, such racism will lead only to more suffering. There are Americans that I know that are afraid of red states. They fear that religion will destroy science and corrupt academic knowledge. They fear that warhawks will pick a fight we not only can't win but might actually lose. This fear drives them to ponder if the blue states should just succeed even if it would require a war. You are underestimating the suffering that such hate can cause. Imagine if a powerful nation became afraid of you.
Troops were doing the arresting? I was under the impression that the reason we did not have evidence enough to legally imprison the detainees was that they were handed over to us by bounty hunters or foreign governments.
The government is not the only organization that can exert control on you and limit your freedom. By controlling the market some are capable of eliminating choice on services which in turn have a drastic impact on people's lives. If you cause enough financial harm to others you take away their ability to compete freely with you. Though it is more subtle, it does have a direct impact on personal freedom. To say that regulation is equivalent to censorship is a horrendous misrepresentation.
If I had the points I would mod you up. Well said.
Interesting, one of the things blamed for declining CD sales was the increasing use of concerts by artists to make money. Content producers often do want monetary recognition of their work, though this is not universal, but the truth is that they are screwed over more by the content controllers than by P2P. Associations such as the RIAA were not formed in order to protect artists, they were formed because protecting artists was profitable and they wanted money. They protect artists whether they want it or not.
Heh, the point was that while they were from NH they did not recognize it and wanted to be independent. This lead to the splitting of NH and the formation of Vermont.
We cling to it because in the long run it works. We have a problem with expanding executive power, but its emphasis on personal liberty above governmental power is a necessary check that protects us from irreversible damage to our system in periods of brief instability.
There is a difference between Conservatives and Classical Liberals. Classical Liberals highly valued education and disagreed with each other quite openly. The connection you are making between the two would be more convincing if conservative celebrities like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter did not coordinate their messages so thoroughly. Why is it that after major political events they describe them with the same wording? I agree that hate speech laws are often supported by Liberals, for which I am ashamed of them, but I do not agree that they do not value dissent. What is the origin of the joke: "I don't belong to an organized political party, I'm a Democrat"?
I haven't been trolled recently so I'll bite. While I have no knowledge of any studies about how informed different voters are about the issues involved in elections, I have to disagree with the claim that Republicans are better educated. In fact, Democrats comprise a greater part of the college educated segment of the population. Isn't this why we are always accused (in many cases quite justly) of educational elitism? I thought this was why Republican candidates try to fit the everyman image while Democrats make much of their educational background.
The death of a murderer may be less tragic, but murder is not something that can be justified by the victim being a bad person. The justice system is in place for a reason, such retaliation is bad for society.
This is a Flying Spaghetti Monster reference, for those who didn't get it.
My god, someone get this man on the phone with Blizzard!
That's odd, I wasn't aware that the gradual build up in the number of players pointed to a hardcore blizzard fanbase. I always thought it meant that word of mouth spread as people heard from their friends about how good it was. Huh. Silly me.