"Free" in this context means hidden, convoluted costs. It doesn't mean free. It's only "free" for you because others pay for the stuff. That's obvious, right?
And some of these will buy a LOT. It's essentially uncapped, they can easily spend more than 60$. Which is the model, which is why it's taking off. Not because "ohh boo hoo, stuff costs money" more like "fuck yeah, this shit MAKES money, and if we do it like this we can make even MORE money". Just because you may not be personally addicted doesn't mean you haven't adopted the narrative of turning that upside down just nicely. Sure, some people pay more than average for it, and they enable you to have a quick 1 hour splash over the weekend, but that doesn't mean you actually have to give it any serious thought before or after you defended it, does it? Nah, it's fun and you played with your new car, so it's super coo. Just chillax - they're not vampires because they haven't bitten you personally, or not that hard at least. It totally checks out! Nevermind the shambling zombies in their basement, or the bulging purses... "those servers cost money". You say that like they're running a fucking hospital or something... if I didn't need my pseudo anger to rant I'd laugh my ass off right now xD
I'd rather abolish lottery completely, even though IF I ever played it I would know what I'm getting into; because the people it's geared towards enticing generally don't. You can call me a fascist now, I don't give a fuck. I see what I see, the nature of the beast is evil, and a few heart-touching anecdotes (or fucking lame ones for that matter) don't mean squat in the face of having eyes, a brain and basic math skills.
And then there is the whole thing that in the crazy world I envision, you pay for a well defined product/service, not an arbitrary license of whateverness. I know I'm alone on this but I couldn't give a fuck. Just like it was evil of Microsoft to make several editions of their OS which differ in nothing but registry settings basically: they were all capable of the same stuff, just throttled in various ways so to speak -- I am extremely simplifying it but the point remains the same. It's bullshit, it's to make pricing more opaque and arbitrary, that's the goal and it's justified with whatever or even not at all.
It's more at the end of the spectrum where, say, astrology or healing cancer by stashing money into envelopes reside - than at the end where you buy 1$ for one bread and 2$ for two breads, or maybe 2.50$ for three breads because it's a special. It's just not honest business and not even trying to be, it's rather how Las Vegas operates. And if you can't see that then fuck you; you're a gullible fool at best and a cowardly enabler at worst. You're also a dime a dozen.
It is NOT done because they just can't find another way to give gamers the awesome games they crave, even though they'd actually earn more money in other jobs they'd like more... this stuff is calculated. And most game companies have plenty of time for that because so much they otherwise do is completely cookie-cutter. You might say that's where they actually focus attention and innovation, not so much in, you know, actual gameplay, but in how to bait and hook people more efficiently and more cheaply, how to market and manipulate. But then again you'd have to pay some attention to what is actually going on and apply the reasoning of someone, say, older than 12, instead of blindly defending something because you enjoy it. (Instead of proving you're not doing that, you kinda just dug yourself deeper, you know.)
They can dictate random prices for virtual goods whatever because people gobble it up, so they do. Not because "servers cost money" yadda yadda, but simply because people don't mind being manipulated that way on their way to their next fix. That's fine, because I don't mind that they don't mind, they and their handlers can go fuck themselves.
You know that South Park episode where old people keep calling in and telling a shameless piece of shit sh
God forbid you actually trust people to use their own money the way they want to
Dude, I just explained how that is a non-argument when you conveniently ignore the manipulation going on, or the fact that we don't even know why we play games (to this extent). "I like it" doesn't cut it outside of kindergarden or abusive relationships, so fuck off with your moaning. Repeating the same BS with more words and getting modded up for it just means I hit a nerve, you dumb fuck.
You're telling me
No, that's just strawmen you prop up so you have to address zero of my actual post. Can't be arsed to engage in any of that. The original post is still there for anyone actually able to deal with it.
If you're an invisible hand, sooner or later you'll start robbing people, if not worse. Invisibility and not having a body can fuck with your mind that way... reminds me of the song "I Wouldn't Pee On You Unless You Were A Invisible Hand Because Then People Could See You And Attach You To A Spare Body Which Would Make You Happy And Me Proud" by The Helpful.
So.. the calculus is to get enough people hooked who will buy lots of crap that they -- as you just helpfully pointed out -- don't need, because it makes no difference other than instant gratification, to make at least as much if not more money by preying those than they would have made by, you know, making a product, and telling you up front how much it will cost to buy that product, so you can make a sensible decision 'n shit. And you think that refutes the post you replied to? WTF?
You're defending your dealer/pimp; that's sad but also predictable. I think we should bitch less at the dumbo corps and kleptocrats, and more at the skin bags who keep them afloat. Vampires can't really help being vampires, but I am getting real fucking tired of the village idiots letting them in, WTF is that even. That you enjoy it is completely irrelevant to the question wether it's evil and overdue to be ended or not.
Yeah, more like "not articifically deflated any longer".
I remember the the brick that was the 52mb external HD for my Amiga 500 haha... harddrives today could cost 10 times more and I'd still consider them crazy cheap, and moaning about their price seems kinda greedy... It's not like anyone with a real need for anything, or real money problems for that matter, ever does that. Or maybe I just missed it.
You know, even ignoring the whole question about wether free will exists in the first place; that's bullshit, no matter how many mediocre little fuckers keep repeating it.
Adults making an informed, rational decisions is not what Facebook and other such outfits are about, at all. You might even say that's counter to their aims.
Whenever someone brings up this defense, ask yourself this: did they use advertising? Do they use branding? Do they use euphemisms and sophistry? If so, how does "but people agreed to this" even apply? If you use methods designed to circumvent defense mechanisms of humans and deceive them, how can you then say "oh, but this is all strictly between consenting adults"?
You can't. Sure, the law is still to catch up to that, but I'm more than happy to educate bitches until then, haha.
self maintaining address book [..] you don't like it, go somewhere else!
I like the part where you basically say the value is in who else is on it, and then do the derpy "it's your choice!" thing again. That's so stupid it has to be genuine; kinda sad.
Appeasement doesn't work; how often do you have to get fucked until that dawns on you?
And how about "this is nowhere near enough" instead of "this is too much"?
If you don't deal with politricks, politricks will deal with you. So the very least you can do is to support those with more balls than you, while trying to grow a pair of your own.
(and no, I don't know or care about the details of this, I'm dealing with the convenient "let's crawl up the ass of power and patronize the people outside" crowd that always shows up in articles such as this)
Endangering those that endanger American citizens on a real big scale is technically "endangering American citizens"... maybe shove your wordplay/sophistry up your as and see if that helps you understand this at all.
Where did I call all Americans Nazis? And I'll call the ones who deserve it just that. There are 2 facets of Nazism, smug power and deluded, mislead bootlickers. Since the NSDAP stopped existing 1945 and not even the most right-wing extremists you could find are *real* Nazis, there is no real descriptive power anyway.
All this (squirming and moaning, instead of taking out the trash) reminded me of a quote I looked up real quick, and look who I basically paraphrased without knowing:
[Q: Isn't there a certain calculus that someone who is sitting in the shoes of a Condoleezza Rice can make, that they're responsible for the best outcome for American citizens, and there's an upside of going into Iraq which is we get one of the greatest material possessions in world's history, and there're downsides which are: we upset the international community, and maybe there's more terrorism. Couldn't you envision a calculus where they say, sure, that's the reason, and it's a good reason, let's do it. What's the flaw in the calculus?]
Oh, I think that's exactly their calculus. But then we ought to just be honest and say, "Look, we're a bunch of Nazis." So fine, let's just drop all the discussion, we save a lot of trees, we can throw out the newspapers and most of the scholarly literature, and just come out, state it straight, and tell the truth: we'll do whatever we want because we think we're gonna gain by it. And incidently, it's not American citizens who'll gain. They don't gain by this. It's narrow sectors of domestic power that the administration is serving with quite unusual dedication...
-- Noam Chomsky
Does he mean anti-semites? NO, HE ASSUMES ANY ADULT INTERESTED IN NOT BEING A CRIMINAL/MURDERER WILL PAY SOME FUCKING ATTENTION AND GET THE POINT.
Flamebait my ass; certain cunts wish it was. Tip of the iceberg, more like.
The good news is that if the opposite occurs and the civilians join forces with the guerrillas, it doesn't really matter -- you're already willing to treat them as hostile forces.
So if treating civilians as enemies makes them turn into enemies that's a good thing? What the fuck do you think you're conquering? You're being bled dry by a bunch of clowns making big money of expensive bombs, gullible soldiers, and heroin for all we know, while sponsoring the fucks who sponsor the fucks who radicalize people and turn them into cannon fodder, because that's a great excuse to, you know, make even more money from dumb, evil fucks like you.
Like in Viet Nam, we're trying to win at politics harder than we're trying to win at war, and using overwhelming force against a guerrilla force embedded in the civilian population results in too much collateral damage for the political leadership.
Well, that's the problem when you're a Nazi tool on offensive instead of being engaged in defensive war. So why not, you know, solve the main problem?
Much better, no 500 people needed. I wonder? Sure, they're sponsored by companies -- but I dare say they're sponsored to deliver great engineering, not to fucking fart around with logos and visions they then shamefully betray and whatnot. So fuck Ubuntu, the marketing and the noobs it rode on in.
So you're asking for more while not even able to address what you've already been served with? Nuh-uh.
It may come as a shock to you, but 'I don't like what you said, yet have no refutation other than pouting and implying "anti-american-ness"' is not a valid fucking argument.
... when everybody and their dog started meaning "Ubuntu" when they said "Linux" - I actually can remotely detect cancer in things that way hah. Not to mention the name "Canonical" -- wait, you mean you get to compile the canon out of what others made? Bullshit, that's my fucking job! But I digress. So now someone pointed out that sending local searches to amazon by default and without option or warning is fucking stupid, and instead of saying "Yes, you are correct, thanks for pointing that out", they're now crying and calling foul, while engaging in ad-hominems? What a bunch of poopyheads!
One thing softens the extreme rage I feel right now; I like how the summary mentions the comments on it to be interesting, not the actual article - haha! Canonical, stop hitting yourself.
I think of the government as theoretically, ideally "good" because it's a mutual social contract between all citizens. At least in theory government is simply people organizing themselves. If all people simply cooperated peacefully and honestly without coercion, then that decision of them would be what governs them and how they interact. You might as well ask what cooperation or self-restraint are useful for... isn't it obvious?
While I agree that "our" (this is true in most industrialized countries I'd assume, I don't mean a specific country here) political system is kinda bonkers and not even *trying* to be that structured expression of self-governance and mutual responsibility -- but if people buy into the whole "us vs. the government" mentality they're kinda fucked. THESE PEOPLE are where governments derive their justification from in the first place. You cannot let someone take your mirror image away and talk with and about it like it's not you. That's fucking crazy. Just because it's widely accepted to be sane doesn't make it less crazy.
The opposite of that would be... oh I dunno, societies split up in parties and groups who constantly bicker about who is utterly perfect, or who is to blame -- instead of simply agreeing we all are derps at heart, and seeing where we can go from there. Maybe it would even have lots and lots of mass media which constantly churn out trivial distractions or even fabricate blatant lies (by omission or otherwise). While a bunch of shark smile poopyheads use this disarray to stuff their jerkfaces full of delicious pie! Now that'd be a weak state of self-governance. Surely we must not let it come to th-- oh shit.
Anyways, freedom isn't the complete absence of all restraints, that'd just be entropy and death. It's rather the quest for a set of rules (not final, but quested for... let's go all out and call them "living agreements", which are confirmed constantly and gladly by those who enjoy their fruits, how's that for something warm and fuzzy) that allows all humans to thrive and live in peace, while still being free to do their own unique things, insofar that is possible without restricting the others.
But to just say "fuck it, everybody do what they consider best, without organizing that at all", that'd be naive at best. To moan and whine about government all day (I don't mean you, I mean the general hipness of it) without lifting a finger to improve it is actually playing into the hands of much more sinister forces who would love to shed all these pesky regulations. As pitiful as our laws and our political practice may be, they're better than the abyss below them.
If the world was a village of 50 peeps, and the majority would allow 3 people to rule them who take food and work, and give lies and poison, while raping the women and beat the dudes -- and all of that works via words and obeying orders -- then they'd be just as, if not more guilty of what is going on than those 3 self-appointed, and tolerated, rulers. They're actually, literally, using our hands for it. The mind asplodes!/rant ^^
Reading what he is talking about, Stallman's description is absolutely correct. If I am doing a desktop search for local files, it is not be expectation that that search will be transmitted to servers without my consent, and that it does so makes it spyware even if we don't also take into consideration that it is being done to track my interests for monetary gain in the form of referral links. Good on him for calling attention to this functionality.
And the word pedophilia doesn't even occur anywhere on that page, not even once; wtf? Must be a bunch of evil perverts to talk about the actual topic like that, instead of obsessing about pedophilia like truly upstanding people are rightfully expected to.
Good we cleared that up! Merry Christmas, Keepers of the Brain, and thanks for keeping children everywhere safe from communism/pedophilia (same thing if you think about it, really).
Oh and cut the crap about not fulfilling requests for data.
ISP != website host.
And when it comes to websites, you're not allowed to store personal data without consent other than what's required to operate the website. So you can store IP addresses for a few hours/days to deal with spammers or whatever; but then you have to delete them.
I was absolutely thrilled when I got an email to that respect from my webhost, announcing the option to anonymize IP addresses before they even hit the apache logs. I'm not a big patriot but that's stuff I'm mildly proud of:)
And one thing is sure, pro pedos are at the forefront of acting all shocked. That's what I would do at least. While someone who isn't actually fucking children or making child porn, might be more prone to such statements.
Anyways, I find sophistry and shallow thinking abhorrent, too. And I actually think talking about messengers more than about messages is responsible for more suffering in just one year than pedophilia in a century. How's that for something to get your knickers in a twist about?
Don't mistake being able to concentrate in the face of horrible things, and reacting rudely to emotional cards being played in a non-sequitur fashion, with not finding them horrible. Actually, sometimes I might even play devil's advocate just to get those jokers out of the room.
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"Free" in this context means hidden, convoluted costs. It doesn't mean free. It's only "free" for you because others pay for the stuff. That's obvious, right?
And some of these will buy a LOT. It's essentially uncapped, they can easily spend more than 60$. Which is the model, which is why it's taking off. Not because "ohh boo hoo, stuff costs money" more like "fuck yeah, this shit MAKES money, and if we do it like this we can make even MORE money". Just because you may not be personally addicted doesn't mean you haven't adopted the narrative of turning that upside down just nicely. Sure, some people pay more than average for it, and they enable you to have a quick 1 hour splash over the weekend, but that doesn't mean you actually have to give it any serious thought before or after you defended it, does it? Nah, it's fun and you played with your new car, so it's super coo. Just chillax - they're not vampires because they haven't bitten you personally, or not that hard at least. It totally checks out! Nevermind the shambling zombies in their basement, or the bulging purses... "those servers cost money". You say that like they're running a fucking hospital or something... if I didn't need my pseudo anger to rant I'd laugh my ass off right now xD
I'd rather abolish lottery completely, even though IF I ever played it I would know what I'm getting into; because the people it's geared towards enticing generally don't. You can call me a fascist now, I don't give a fuck. I see what I see, the nature of the beast is evil, and a few heart-touching anecdotes (or fucking lame ones for that matter) don't mean squat in the face of having eyes, a brain and basic math skills.
And then there is the whole thing that in the crazy world I envision, you pay for a well defined product/service, not an arbitrary license of whateverness. I know I'm alone on this but I couldn't give a fuck. Just like it was evil of Microsoft to make several editions of their OS which differ in nothing but registry settings basically: they were all capable of the same stuff, just throttled in various ways so to speak -- I am extremely simplifying it but the point remains the same. It's bullshit, it's to make pricing more opaque and arbitrary, that's the goal and it's justified with whatever or even not at all.
It's more at the end of the spectrum where, say, astrology or healing cancer by stashing money into envelopes reside - than at the end where you buy 1$ for one bread and 2$ for two breads, or maybe 2.50$ for three breads because it's a special. It's just not honest business and not even trying to be, it's rather how Las Vegas operates. And if you can't see that then fuck you; you're a gullible fool at best and a cowardly enabler at worst. You're also a dime a dozen.
It is NOT done because they just can't find another way to give gamers the awesome games they crave, even though they'd actually earn more money in other jobs they'd like more... this stuff is calculated. And most game companies have plenty of time for that because so much they otherwise do is completely cookie-cutter. You might say that's where they actually focus attention and innovation, not so much in, you know, actual gameplay, but in how to bait and hook people more efficiently and more cheaply, how to market and manipulate. But then again you'd have to pay some attention to what is actually going on and apply the reasoning of someone, say, older than 12, instead of blindly defending something because you enjoy it. (Instead of proving you're not doing that, you kinda just dug yourself deeper, you know.)
They can dictate random prices for virtual goods whatever because people gobble it up, so they do. Not because "servers cost money" yadda yadda, but simply because people don't mind being manipulated that way on their way to their next fix. That's fine, because I don't mind that they don't mind, they and their handlers can go fuck themselves.
You know that South Park episode where old people keep calling in and telling a shameless piece of shit sh
Dude, I just explained how that is a non-argument when you conveniently ignore the manipulation going on, or the fact that we don't even know why we play games (to this extent). "I like it" doesn't cut it outside of kindergarden or abusive relationships, so fuck off with your moaning. Repeating the same BS with more words and getting modded up for it just means I hit a nerve, you dumb fuck.
No, that's just strawmen you prop up so you have to address zero of my actual post. Can't be arsed to engage in any of that. The original post is still there for anyone actually able to deal with it.
"through of". That totally fucking figures.
So your post is flamebait, the post of the schmuck you replied to isn't? Must be opposite day in dumbfuck land.
If you're an invisible hand, sooner or later you'll start robbing people, if not worse. Invisibility and not having a body can fuck with your mind that way... reminds me of the song "I Wouldn't Pee On You Unless You Were A Invisible Hand Because Then People Could See You And Attach You To A Spare Body Which Would Make You Happy And Me Proud" by The Helpful.
So.. the calculus is to get enough people hooked who will buy lots of crap that they -- as you just helpfully pointed out -- don't need, because it makes no difference other than instant gratification, to make at least as much if not more money by preying those than they would have made by, you know, making a product, and telling you up front how much it will cost to buy that product, so you can make a sensible decision 'n shit. And you think that refutes the post you replied to? WTF?
You're defending your dealer/pimp; that's sad but also predictable. I think we should bitch less at the dumbo corps and kleptocrats, and more at the skin bags who keep them afloat. Vampires can't really help being vampires, but I am getting real fucking tired of the village idiots letting them in, WTF is that even. That you enjoy it is completely irrelevant to the question wether it's evil and overdue to be ended or not.
Yeah, more like "not articifically deflated any longer".
I remember the the brick that was the 52mb external HD for my Amiga 500 haha... harddrives today could cost 10 times more and I'd still consider them crazy cheap, and moaning about their price seems kinda greedy... It's not like anyone with a real need for anything, or real money problems for that matter, ever does that. Or maybe I just missed it.
You know, even ignoring the whole question about wether free will exists in the first place; that's bullshit, no matter how many mediocre little fuckers keep repeating it.
Adults making an informed, rational decisions is not what Facebook and other such outfits are about, at all. You might even say that's counter to their aims.
Whenever someone brings up this defense, ask yourself this: did they use advertising? Do they use branding? Do they use euphemisms and sophistry? If so, how does "but people agreed to this" even apply? If you use methods designed to circumvent defense mechanisms of humans and deceive them, how can you then say "oh, but this is all strictly between consenting adults"?
You can't. Sure, the law is still to catch up to that, but I'm more than happy to educate bitches until then, haha.
I like the part where you basically say the value is in who else is on it, and then do the derpy "it's your choice!" thing again. That's so stupid it has to be genuine; kinda sad.
I'll kinda miss that meme :( But I'm sure a suitable replacement will be found.
Appeasement doesn't work; how often do you have to get fucked until that dawns on you?
And how about "this is nowhere near enough" instead of "this is too much"?
If you don't deal with politricks, politricks will deal with you. So the very least you can do is to support those with more balls than you, while trying to grow a pair of your own.
(and no, I don't know or care about the details of this, I'm dealing with the convenient "let's crawl up the ass of power and patronize the people outside" crowd that always shows up in articles such as this)
Endangering those that endanger American citizens on a real big scale is technically "endangering American citizens"... maybe shove your wordplay/sophistry up your as and see if that helps you understand this at all.
Where did I call all Americans Nazis? And I'll call the ones who deserve it just that. There are 2 facets of Nazism, smug power and deluded, mislead bootlickers. Since the NSDAP stopped existing 1945 and not even the most right-wing extremists you could find are *real* Nazis, there is no real descriptive power anyway.
All this (squirming and moaning, instead of taking out the trash) reminded me of a quote I looked up real quick, and look who I basically paraphrased without knowing:
Does he mean anti-semites? NO, HE ASSUMES ANY ADULT INTERESTED IN NOT BEING A CRIMINAL/MURDERER WILL PAY SOME FUCKING ATTENTION AND GET THE POINT.
Flamebait my ass; certain cunts wish it was. Tip of the iceberg, more like.
So if treating civilians as enemies makes them turn into enemies that's a good thing? What the fuck do you think you're conquering? You're being bled dry by a bunch of clowns making big money of expensive bombs, gullible soldiers, and heroin for all we know, while sponsoring the fucks who sponsor the fucks who radicalize people and turn them into cannon fodder, because that's a great excuse to, you know, make even more money from dumb, evil fucks like you.
Well, that's the problem when you're a Nazi tool on offensive instead of being engaged in defensive war. So why not, you know, solve the main problem?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSUSE_Project
Much better, no 500 people needed. I wonder? Sure, they're sponsored by companies -- but I dare say they're sponsored to deliver great engineering, not to fucking fart around with logos and visions they then shamefully betray and whatnot. So fuck Ubuntu, the marketing and the noobs it rode on in.
Damn straight!
So you're asking for more while not even able to address what you've already been served with? Nuh-uh.
It may come as a shock to you, but 'I don't like what you said, yet have no refutation other than pouting and implying "anti-american-ness"' is not a valid fucking argument.
... when everybody and their dog started meaning "Ubuntu" when they said "Linux" - I actually can remotely detect cancer in things that way hah. Not to mention the name "Canonical" -- wait, you mean you get to compile the canon out of what others made? Bullshit, that's my fucking job! But I digress. So now someone pointed out that sending local searches to amazon by default and without option or warning is fucking stupid, and instead of saying "Yes, you are correct, thanks for pointing that out", they're now crying and calling foul, while engaging in ad-hominems? What a bunch of poopyheads!
One thing softens the extreme rage I feel right now; I like how the summary mentions the comments on it to be interesting, not the actual article - haha! Canonical, stop hitting yourself.
I think of the government as theoretically, ideally "good" because it's a mutual social contract between all citizens. At least in theory government is simply people organizing themselves. If all people simply cooperated peacefully and honestly without coercion, then that decision of them would be what governs them and how they interact. You might as well ask what cooperation or self-restraint are useful for... isn't it obvious?
While I agree that "our" (this is true in most industrialized countries I'd assume, I don't mean a specific country here) political system is kinda bonkers and not even *trying* to be that structured expression of self-governance and mutual responsibility -- but if people buy into the whole "us vs. the government" mentality they're kinda fucked. THESE PEOPLE are where governments derive their justification from in the first place. You cannot let someone take your mirror image away and talk with and about it like it's not you. That's fucking crazy. Just because it's widely accepted to be sane doesn't make it less crazy.
In the sense of self-governance and mutual cooperation a "strong government" simply means a healthy society. Not that every single bit is regulated; ("the more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state") but let's say if someone commits an utter atrocity, punishment (or even better, repair) will be sure and swift. Aha!
The opposite of that would be... oh I dunno, societies split up in parties and groups who constantly bicker about who is utterly perfect, or who is to blame -- instead of simply agreeing we all are derps at heart, and seeing where we can go from there. Maybe it would even have lots and lots of mass media which constantly churn out trivial distractions or even fabricate blatant lies (by omission or otherwise). While a bunch of shark smile poopyheads use this disarray to stuff their jerkfaces full of delicious pie! Now that'd be a weak state of self-governance. Surely we must not let it come to th-- oh shit.
Anyways, freedom isn't the complete absence of all restraints, that'd just be entropy and death. It's rather the quest for a set of rules (not final, but quested for... let's go all out and call them "living agreements", which are confirmed constantly and gladly by those who enjoy their fruits, how's that for something warm and fuzzy) that allows all humans to thrive and live in peace, while still being free to do their own unique things, insofar that is possible without restricting the others.
But to just say "fuck it, everybody do what they consider best, without organizing that at all", that'd be naive at best. To moan and whine about government all day (I don't mean you, I mean the general hipness of it) without lifting a finger to improve it is actually playing into the hands of much more sinister forces who would love to shed all these pesky regulations. As pitiful as our laws and our political practice may be, they're better than the abyss below them.
If the world was a village of 50 peeps, and the majority would allow 3 people to rule them who take food and work, and give lies and poison, while raping the women and beat the dudes -- and all of that works via words and obeying orders -- then they'd be just as, if not more guilty of what is going on than those 3 self-appointed, and tolerated, rulers. They're actually, literally, using our hands for it. The mind asplodes! /rant ^^
*chirping crickets* + downmod = "yeah, thought so ^_^"
Meanwhile, look at what HN is doing with the exact same story:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4888851
Here's the current top comment:
And the word pedophilia doesn't even occur anywhere on that page, not even once; wtf? Must be a bunch of evil perverts to talk about the actual topic like that, instead of obsessing about pedophilia like truly upstanding people are rightfully expected to.
Good we cleared that up! Merry Christmas, Keepers of the Brain, and thanks for keeping children everywhere safe from communism/pedophilia (same thing if you think about it, really).
LOLNOPE.
Hah thanks ^^
It's "Asperger's", you dumb fucking coward!! >:[
ISP != website host.
And when it comes to websites, you're not allowed to store personal data without consent other than what's required to operate the website. So you can store IP addresses for a few hours/days to deal with spammers or whatever; but then you have to delete them.
I was absolutely thrilled when I got an email to that respect from my webhost, announcing the option to anonymize IP addresses before they even hit the apache logs. I'm not a big patriot but that's stuff I'm mildly proud of :)
And one thing is sure, pro pedos are at the forefront of acting all shocked. That's what I would do at least. While someone who isn't actually fucking children or making child porn, might be more prone to such statements.
Anyways, I find sophistry and shallow thinking abhorrent, too. And I actually think talking about messengers more than about messages is responsible for more suffering in just one year than pedophilia in a century. How's that for something to get your knickers in a twist about?
Don't mistake being able to concentrate in the face of horrible things, and reacting rudely to emotional cards being played in a non-sequitur fashion, with not finding them horrible. Actually, sometimes I might even play devil's advocate just to get those jokers out of the room.
So he's an asshole. That still leaves the question what this has to do with anything...