They pushed themselves as middleman to soak up all the people who didn't know better. Who gives a shit [about nothing except the question] if the shennagans are legal, other than spineless assholes or sociopaths?
Adult human beings have the obligation to not look the other way when double (or even no standards, just an opaque set of motives with spouted lip service you'd have to be a moron to believe), are applied to silence people, when people are preyed on, and so on.
What good is free speech to people who can't think? How does not being able to re-upload something someone else made restrict the actual speech of a person?
Artists should be careful of giving up their copyright, and if they can afford it, release things into the public domain. When they do that, and still get fucked with, we have something to talk about. As it is, it's a self-created problem by morons for morons, especially considering what crap all sorts of industries pump out. Fans could actually spend money on artists they want to support more directly, instead of rewarding layers of middlemen that mooch off it, and artists need to enable that. It's 2019 and people still sign up to labels to get distributed, which is fucking stupid. Cater to lamers, get lame shit.
I don't give two fucks if it's natural, but I recognize deluded, selfish junkies when I see 'em. The idea is that it's better for 100 people to live 100 years each, than for me to live 10000 years. The idea is to shit, get off the pot, and let someone else have a turn.
Instead of being cancer.
Just like power, longer lives will be utterly wasted by those who crave them the most. The people who would be pleasurable to have around longer, are fine with playing a mere not in a symphony. The people who do want it, are generally too fucked in the head to be allowed to get it.
You are either a shill or a moron, and this whole subthread is a festering infection of fuckwits.
What has been created by this half century of massive corporate propaganda is what's called "anti-politics". So that anything that goes wrong, you blame the government. Well okay, there's plenty to blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional change. That's exactly why all the anger and fear has been directed at the government. The government has a defect - it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect - they're pure tyrannies. So therefore you want to keep corporations invisible, and focus all anger on the government. So if you don't like something, you know, your wages are going down, you blame the government. Not blame the guys in the Fortune 500, because you don't read the Fortune 500. You just read what they tell you in the newspapers... so you don't read about the dazzling profits and the stupendous dizz, and the wages going down and so on, all you know is that the bad government is doing something, so let's get mad at the government.
Oh, now you're going from "can't reason above grade school level" to outright kindergarten sandbox, projecting and making shit up, awww ^^
Don't feel bad though, the world is full of dumb fucks who use superficial markers to delude themselves into believing they can reason themselves out of wet paperbag, you'll blend right in.
That's just a bunch of strawmen and a made up assertion: "people complaining about the decline of society are contributing more to it than anyone else" - oh yeah? Nietzsche, Erich Fromm and *thousands* others will still be read, and still have something worthwhile to say, when the last mirror of xkcd has blinked out of existence. Pah.
And you know, when I thought of "career" and "frozen eggs" I had to think of that particular bit in the opening of Idiocracy. If you think I was trying to claim freezing eggs will lead to the decline of human intelligence you're an idiot. I don't even think IQ necessarily has anything to do with how wise or how idiotic people are. It's like a really fast car, you can still drive in circles with it. Just really fast, yay.
Yes, and? You see, when the condescension is warranted, it's kind of your problem. When you start out with condescension and then whine about condescension in return, that's your problem and my comedy.
Well there you have it. One man's costs are another man's revenue, after all, so don't explain with stupidity what you can explain with the sheriff boning the wife of the CEO of the company that cleans the reservoir. It's the least he can do to ease his guilt.
Show me the government or corporation willing to invest into seed ships they don't control the fate of, and I'll start caring about the technical side of it. Technical feasability doesn't mean much, the problem is, as always, people.
So far it's just you talking... that's such a weird pattern, this fantasizing about opponents who never show up... your motives may be pure, but your equipment is kinda broken.
You steal the docs, you're responsible for their provenance afterward. Not a hard concept.
So if you're born as a Jew in Nazi Germany, you are responsible for not registering for deportation and whatever consequences that entails? It's not a hard concept indeed, it's just that what subscribing to this logic makes you is what's the trouble here.
Further: we all agree he handed them over to the Russians, right?
What are you even talking about?! He handed all he had in bulk over to two newspapers.
Doesn't being able to remember the faces of classmates and getting to know each other because that's what people do when they have even the slightest common bond inside a larger group of strangers, also suffice?
People run in circles to try and have god added to the picture
Are you talking to me? Pah. I call out broken logic when I see it, is all. And I also note the hybris of pretending to have any sort of "full picture" that makes any sense at all, defending it from introducing elements which don't. That's some pretty dumb shit, and the strawmen about religious people are expected compensation.
because in the next heartbeat they then want to tell us all about exactly what he's like
Right now, you are telling me how I am like -- take your idiotic projections to someone else, you will have no fun here.
Finding something is exciting when it's how you find out something exists -- if it just confirms what you more or less knew anyway, it's not really.
But oh well, I don't really have time to discuss: somewhere out there, there are two stones with a bigger stone in the middle that has exactly the same mass as the two other stones. The three stones form a 17Â angle. I know it doesn't sound like much when I say it, but just wait until I found that formation.
What goal did I shift, from where to where? You could repeat unfounded claims like that as often as you want, and I won't ever have to concede fuck all:(
A few times a week, I realize that everything is everything, any further claims are likely to be false. What we consider objects or individuals is just an aspect of everything, indivisible from the rest. It's just that this would leave me with nothing to do, so I shake it off quickly ^^
Time is such a universal concept... in that it only applies inside the universe, as far as we know. Furthermore, since undoubtedly something exists, we either have to assume it's possible for something to come out of nothing, or for something to have existed since forever, "just because". So then why not grant this to a theoretical god, too? It's not really logic when you apply it that selectively.
I think even the weirdest god you could dream up would not make reality any weirder, it'd be like a drop in the ocean. Considering that, it's hilarious with how much seriousness we debate what is real or true and who is right when it comes to the final things, and if there is no higher being to see this and have a good chuckle at it, it would have need to be invented.
You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid... You refuse to do it because you want to live longer... You're afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you're afraid someone will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand.
Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you're just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.
Well, because when one is making up arbitrary things, they might as well be remotely interesting, and based on my whims.
Seriously though, that it is teeming with life is the *one* thing that sets Earth apart from the other planets we know so far. That's kind of the whole big deal about it. If this criterion doesn't matter, then why care about "Earth-like" at all? What about the Jupiter-like and Neptune-like and Venus-like planets being discovered all the time?
Oh wait, that would be silly, because we already know the universe is incredibly big, and just about anything we just define by size, orbit and mass is going to exist in abundance, including round things roughly the size of Earth.
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They pushed themselves as middleman to soak up all the people who didn't know better. Who gives a shit [about nothing except the question] if the shennagans are legal, other than spineless assholes or sociopaths?
Adult human beings have the obligation to not look the other way when double (or even no standards, just an opaque set of motives with spouted lip service you'd have to be a moron to believe), are applied to silence people, when people are preyed on, and so on.
What good is free speech to people who can't think? How does not being able to re-upload something someone else made restrict the actual speech of a person?
Artists should be careful of giving up their copyright, and if they can afford it, release things into the public domain. When they do that, and still get fucked with, we have something to talk about. As it is, it's a self-created problem by morons for morons, especially considering what crap all sorts of industries pump out. Fans could actually spend money on artists they want to support more directly, instead of rewarding layers of middlemen that mooch off it, and artists need to enable that. It's 2019 and people still sign up to labels to get distributed, which is fucking stupid. Cater to lamers, get lame shit.
I don't give two fucks if it's natural, but I recognize deluded, selfish junkies when I see 'em. The idea is that it's better for 100 people to live 100 years each, than for me to live 10000 years. The idea is to shit, get off the pot, and let someone else have a turn.
Instead of being cancer.
Just like power, longer lives will be utterly wasted by those who crave them the most. The people who would be pleasurable to have around longer, are fine with playing a mere not in a symphony. The people who do want it, are generally too fucked in the head to be allowed to get it.
Exactly!
How does mass surveillance of private communications prevent DDOS attacks?
Blackhats are on the same "side" from the perspective of the innocent people they are attacking, even when they fight against each other.
"Makers are Evil, Takers are Good?"
You are either a shill or a moron, and this whole subthread is a festering infection of fuckwits.
-- Noam Chomsky
http://fadeyev.net/moral-desig...
Oh, now you're going from "can't reason above grade school level" to outright kindergarten sandbox, projecting and making shit up, awww ^^
Don't feel bad though, the world is full of dumb fucks who use superficial markers to delude themselves into believing they can reason themselves out of wet paperbag, you'll blend right in.
That's just a bunch of strawmen and a made up assertion: "people complaining about the decline of society are contributing more to it than anyone else" - oh yeah? Nietzsche, Erich Fromm and *thousands* others will still be read, and still have something worthwhile to say, when the last mirror of xkcd has blinked out of existence. Pah.
And you know, when I thought of "career" and "frozen eggs" I had to think of that particular bit in the opening of Idiocracy. If you think I was trying to claim freezing eggs will lead to the decline of human intelligence you're an idiot. I don't even think IQ necessarily has anything to do with how wise or how idiotic people are. It's like a really fast car, you can still drive in circles with it. Just really fast, yay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I love the irony of such shallow thinking to no end.
Yes, and? You see, when the condescension is warranted, it's kind of your problem. When you start out with condescension and then whine about condescension in return, that's your problem and my comedy.
Well there you have it. One man's costs are another man's revenue, after all, so don't explain with stupidity what you can explain with the sheriff boning the wife of the CEO of the company that cleans the reservoir. It's the least he can do to ease his guilt.
Show me the government or corporation willing to invest into seed ships they don't control the fate of, and I'll start caring about the technical side of it. Technical feasability doesn't mean much, the problem is, as always, people.
So far it's just you talking... that's such a weird pattern, this fantasizing about opponents who never show up... your motives may be pure, but your equipment is kinda broken.
So if you're born as a Jew in Nazi Germany, you are responsible for not registering for deportation and whatever consequences that entails? It's not a hard concept indeed, it's just that what subscribing to this logic makes you is what's the trouble here.
What are you even talking about?! He handed all he had in bulk over to two newspapers.
You're a dumb, cowardly fuck, is all.
Doesn't being able to remember the faces of classmates and getting to know each other because that's what people do when they have even the slightest common bond inside a larger group of strangers, also suffice?
Are you talking to me? Pah. I call out broken logic when I see it, is all. And I also note the hybris of pretending to have any sort of "full picture" that makes any sense at all, defending it from introducing elements which don't. That's some pretty dumb shit, and the strawmen about religious people are expected compensation.
Right now, you are telling me how I am like -- take your idiotic projections to someone else, you will have no fun here.
Finding something is exciting when it's how you find out something exists -- if it just confirms what you more or less knew anyway, it's not really.
But oh well, I don't really have time to discuss: somewhere out there, there are two stones with a bigger stone in the middle that has exactly the same mass as the two other stones. The three stones form a 17Â angle. I know it doesn't sound like much when I say it, but just wait until I found that formation.
What goal did I shift, from where to where? You could repeat unfounded claims like that as often as you want, and I won't ever have to concede fuck all :(
A few times a week, I realize that everything is everything, any further claims are likely to be false. What we consider objects or individuals is just an aspect of everything, indivisible from the rest. It's just that this would leave me with nothing to do, so I shake it off quickly ^^
Time is such a universal concept... in that it only applies inside the universe, as far as we know. Furthermore, since undoubtedly something exists, we either have to assume it's possible for something to come out of nothing, or for something to have existed since forever, "just because". So then why not grant this to a theoretical god, too? It's not really logic when you apply it that selectively.
I think even the weirdest god you could dream up would not make reality any weirder, it'd be like a drop in the ocean. Considering that, it's hilarious with how much seriousness we debate what is real or true and who is right when it comes to the final things, and if there is no higher being to see this and have a good chuckle at it, it would have need to be invented.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... )
Not sure if continuing to not buy something you wouldn't buy anyway qualifies as boycott, but it's the thought that counts :)
Well, because when one is making up arbitrary things, they might as well be remotely interesting, and based on my whims.
Seriously though, that it is teeming with life is the *one* thing that sets Earth apart from the other planets we know so far. That's kind of the whole big deal about it. If this criterion doesn't matter, then why care about "Earth-like" at all? What about the Jupiter-like and Neptune-like and Venus-like planets being discovered all the time?
Oh wait, that would be silly, because we already know the universe is incredibly big, and just about anything we just define by size, orbit and mass is going to exist in abundance, including round things roughly the size of Earth.