Well, you kinda have to decide wether you'd want that to be free or "at a small price", because I ain't discussing shit when that just gets constantly switched ^_^
Yeah. I remember when some radicals held Europe hostage for drawing cartoons, and how the US bravely saved the day, not censoring South Park at all. Or how Obama supporters gleefully went on a hunt on racist little kids, bragging about destroying their careers because they exposed themselves as racists on Twitter. Free speech zones, and whatnot.
Nope. On paper maybe, and in your dreams. But nope.
That just means those who already have money will register any- and everything habitually, while amateurs get screwed over further for no reason other than corporations having easier access to their works.
"if your work is important to you then register it."
Why? Why not leave it as is?
If you find a photo and you don't know who made it -- what is it to you? Why do you need to be able to use it? If it's that important, pay a photographer to make a similar one, or make it yourself. Easy.
Germans don't care about freedom? What do you base this on, stories your grandfather told you? Haha..
Why do they think they can take over something that does no belong to them? Fucking Nazis.
I live in NZ.
Uhuh.
Anyways, so what's your claim in this? You have a passport from an English-speaking country, so your input on something invented in another English-speaking matters why, exactly? Is it the common bond of a history of murder and delusion, are you just bored, or are you just, again, trying to take over something that does not belong to you? Lulz.
I just realized, you consider yourself part of a group of people who for the most part don't even know you exist, and wouldn't even blink if you sunk tomorrow. That must be hard, and I can see how the internet makes you angry. It must be harsh to know of an outside world that is taking place far, far away:(
We will be a bunch of fat-ass couch potatoes eating chips watching CSI-dancing with the honey boo boo.
We are (d?)evolving into roughly two classes: the manipulated and the manipulators. Which isn't to say that everybody isn't a bit of both, but still: you are missing the "elite(s)" in that picture. I would argue they get dumber in their own ways, too, but they sure as fuck aren't sitting at home staring blankly at the TV. So that's a bit simplicistic, yeah?
Perhaps you do not so much believe in evolution as you do as creating a master race? I doubt I need to tell you where that leads.
It leads to exactly the situation we're in now, so what's your point? You don't honestly think the gap between individuals becoming more dumb/reliant, and organizations (and computations) more powerful, is anything but that? Or as George Carlin said, the Germans lost WW2, fascism won it.
Am I the only one finding it is easier to click somewhere you don't intend to of make other input mistakes when using one of these compared to a conventional 3 button mouse with a scroll wheel?
Nope. Can't do without a mouse. I guess a tablet (WACOM etc.) might be sweet too, but none of that other crap for me. It's just crap... I'm not even a gamer, but I have a somewhat gamer mouse; and that precision and speed is just something I would not want to miss. Flawless is a good word to describe it:)
Well, that would not be necessary, Mr. President. It could easily be accomplished with a computer. And a computer could be set and programmed to accept factors from youth, health, sexual fertility, intelligence, and a cross-section of necessary skills. Of course, it would be absolutely vital that our top government and military men be included to foster and impart the required principles of leadership and tradition. Naturally, they would breed prodigiously, eh? There would be much time, and little to do. Ha, ha.
I wish! I just hate a lot of people when I'm not in direct contact with them. I like 'em when they're near, or when considering them individually, but I hate them in theory and in numbers. So useless, and so full of shit.
Imagine a parent telling a kid about how hot the stove is, and that touching it, or even tripping and falling right in, is not a good idea. And the kid just gives a little self-important speech how it doesn't care, when it happens, it happens, and that "living in fear" wouldn't solve anything.
You see how that would be silly, right? NOBODY, other than you, suggested living in fear. What instead was suggested is learning a thing or two about how the world works, and making smarter choices maybe.
Because when shit gets flooded, not only adults who deliberately decided to stay ignorant are affected, but also kids (yes, I said kids, think of 'em etc.) and people who were misled by those "active fools". Not to mention the surrounding areas who get to feed and shelter the immigrants. Being a dumb fuck is not a personal lifestyle choice.
Fearmongering? If anything I'd hatemonger. Fuck you and anyone who walks and talks like you. Everybody is ignorant depending on the perspective, but being proud of ignorance is just fucking evil.
I do not need reasons to dislike these people. Their views on politics, religion, science, and current events are not relevant to me. The last thing I need is for the neighbor that I'll spend much or most of my life dealing with to leave me with a bad taste in my mouth, because I see his constant stream of "libtards durp durp durp" and "republithugs durp durp" and "fuckin' pinko communist atheist scientists need to accept that the world is created by gawwwwd" every day.
You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious.
Legislation was diverse, but now it's not. Some countries abolished capital punishment to qualify for the EU, so that has some part in it.
Most didn't tho, they abolished it before the EU was even an idea - so that has no part in it? You just ignore that? Really, if you insist that European countries have abolished the death penalty because one central body forced them to, or because one lobby, one group of activists, made it that way, then I don't know what to tell you other than "lol?".
Consider laws as a scribbling on a piece of paper that is stuffed in a paper bag. Laws do nothing.
Duh. The "laws" we formulate are simply our attempts to describe and predict what we can observe. When you throw a ball, the simplified model of gravity and the ball you have in your head doesn't affect reality in any way other than helping you predict where the ball goes.
Who needs activism or lobbyists, when you can have hot brain-on-brain action? European countries always warred with each other, but also peacefully fertilized one another. Giving people you consider useful green cards isn't the same, and neither is sitting on an island with an actually serious concept of "non-Japanese". Sorry, but Europe isn't holding her breath. Cope with it.
Belarus is the last remaining country in Europe to practice the death penalty.
Last execution in the UK was in 1964. The last execution on British Overseas Territory occurred in Bermuda in 1977. Abolished for murder in 1969 in Great Britain and 1973 in Northern Ireland. Abolished for all remaining offences (high treason, piracy with violence and offences under military jurisdiction) in UK in 1998.
France: The death penalty was initially abolished by the Directory in 1795 but re-introduced by Napoleon in 1810. It was re-abolished in law in 1981 and by Constitution in 2007.
Spain: Abolished in 1978 by constitution except for military laws during wartime. Abolished from the military penal code in 1995.
Prohibited in West Germany by the Basic Law since 1949. US military authorities carried out an execution on West German territory in 1956. The now defunct GDR abolished the death penalty in 1987.
Italy On 30 November 1786 the Duchy of Tuscany (then independent, now a part of Italy) became the first state in the modern era to completely abolish the death penalty. The short lived Roman Republic of Feb-July 1849 abolished the death penalty before being overthrown by French troops. When the Kingdom of Italy was formed in 1860 all the constituent states except Tuscany allowed capital punishment until it was abolished from the civil code in 1889 â" although it was maintained under military and colonial law. In 1926 Mussolini reintroduced the death penalty into civil Italian law. It was re-abolished from the civil code except in time of war in 1948 (by the Constitution of the Italian Republic). Capital punishment was finally completely abolished by removing it from the military penal code in 1994. Constitution amended in 2007 to make reintroduction unconstitutional without a further constitutional amendment.
And last, but surely not least:
San Marino: Last Execution: 1468. Capital Punishment was abolished for civil crimes in 1848. The Death penalty was completely abolished for all crimes in 1865.
"the EU" - LOL! Europe motherfucker, do you speak it?
People who are directly empathic tend to be worse at evaluating indirect harm.
So you're moving the goal posts; can you at least clearly say what you're moving them to? What is "directly empathic"? I assume it's somehow magically different from what we were previously talking about, "having empathy" (which is simply an additional "thing" to have, like sight or hearing). But before I can engage you in this new, fascinating subject, please define what "directly empathic" means. Thanks:P
They may be able to weigh up one death against ten, but it's harder for them to weigh up one death against some minor savings to the cost of production of a million cars, which allow the buyers of those cars to work slightly shorter hours, which make them slightly less tired when driving, which leads to, on average, ten fewer deaths on the road.
Are you confusing empathy with lack of intelligence, or with being emotional?
Ideally you want someone who cares about humanity in the abstract
You know what, that reminds me so much of something I read just a few pages a ago in a book from Erich Fromm that I'm going to try to find and translate it. IIRC, it was something about those who believe "in humanity" (or as you put it, who "care in the abstract"), but not in humans.
In the meantime I'll just have to disagree. Having empathy makes some things require and induce more personal growth, sure, and that growth is often enough accompanied by pain, of course; but that's the whole fucking point of living basically, to grow.* All those "number decisions" you cite ultimately (should) serve to enable actual individual people to live their actual individual lives, with their actual individual thoughts and deeds. We eat to live, we don't live to eat, and there is no abstract humanity. There's just you and me, the people next door, the people all over the world. That doesn't mean statistics or math aren't useful, or that hard decisions don't have to be made; which brings us back to empathy and rationality/intelligence not being mutually exclusive... but if you mistake your mental, simplified models with the actual thing they're supposed to represent, then you're drifting not into the realm of increased efficiency, you're simply loosing the plot.
* So no, you don't really want the ones who don't ever bat an eyelid to make those "hard" (one might say "non-trivial") decisions; they learn nothing from them, and in gamer-speak you'd basically be wasting XP points on units who can't level up. Instead, let the others level up, and after some initial insecurity they'll outperform the "detached" people in more ways than not. I know that's hardly how to construct a good argument, but I like that comparison anyway. Haha.
and, particularly unlike the standard psychopath, has no great love for themself.
I hate to be a pain, but I also disagree on this one. I think respect of others without self-respect is a lie, a delusion. Selfishness no, but self-love.. of course! Don't trust anyone too proud or too humble...
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Well, you kinda have to decide wether you'd want that to be free or "at a small price", because I ain't discussing shit when that just gets constantly switched ^_^
Verily, verily..
-- Matthew 10:16
Clearly, too many people focus on the "be harmless" part.
Yeah. I remember when some radicals held Europe hostage for drawing cartoons, and how the US bravely saved the day, not censoring South Park at all. Or how Obama supporters gleefully went on a hunt on racist little kids, bragging about destroying their careers because they exposed themselves as racists on Twitter. Free speech zones, and whatnot.
Nope. On paper maybe, and in your dreams. But nope.
That just means those who already have money will register any- and everything habitually, while amateurs get screwed over further for no reason other than corporations having easier access to their works.
"if your work is important to you then register it."
Why? Why not leave it as is?
If you find a photo and you don't know who made it -- what is it to you? Why do you need to be able to use it? If it's that important, pay a photographer to make a similar one, or make it yourself. Easy.
"You don't need an alternative DNS, you need an alternative DNS server"
What do you not understand about that?
Germans don't care about freedom? What do you base this on, stories your grandfather told you? Haha..
Uhuh.
Anyways, so what's your claim in this? You have a passport from an English-speaking country, so your input on something invented in another English-speaking matters why, exactly? Is it the common bond of a history of murder and delusion, are you just bored, or are you just, again, trying to take over something that does not belong to you? Lulz.
I just realized, you consider yourself part of a group of people who for the most part don't even know you exist, and wouldn't even blink if you sunk tomorrow. That must be hard, and I can see how the internet makes you angry. It must be harsh to know of an outside world that is taking place far, far away :(
We are (d?)evolving into roughly two classes: the manipulated and the manipulators. Which isn't to say that everybody isn't a bit of both, but still: you are missing the "elite(s)" in that picture. I would argue they get dumber in their own ways, too, but they sure as fuck aren't sitting at home staring blankly at the TV. So that's a bit simplicistic, yeah?
It leads to exactly the situation we're in now, so what's your point? You don't honestly think the gap between individuals becoming more dumb/reliant, and organizations (and computations) more powerful, is anything but that? Or as George Carlin said, the Germans lost WW2, fascism won it.
Nope. Can't do without a mouse. I guess a tablet (WACOM etc.) might be sweet too, but none of that other crap for me. It's just crap... I'm not even a gamer, but I have a somewhat gamer mouse; and that precision and speed is just something I would not want to miss. Flawless is a good word to describe it :)
Give private tabs a fat, colorful border. Or make them negative even (white text on black bg). Surely there are a million ways to make this obvious.
I like to fuck my cat.
I love the internet.
That's not perfectly clear, that's fucking idiotic.
I wish! I just hate a lot of people when I'm not in direct contact with them. I like 'em when they're near, or when considering them individually, but I hate them in theory and in numbers. So useless, and so full of shit.
Uhm, but isn't that all of them?
These reviews basically scientifically prove how much the prequels suck: http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/
Imagine a parent telling a kid about how hot the stove is, and that touching it, or even tripping and falling right in, is not a good idea. And the kid just gives a little self-important speech how it doesn't care, when it happens, it happens, and that "living in fear" wouldn't solve anything.
You see how that would be silly, right? NOBODY, other than you, suggested living in fear. What instead was suggested is learning a thing or two about how the world works, and making smarter choices maybe.
Because when shit gets flooded, not only adults who deliberately decided to stay ignorant are affected, but also kids (yes, I said kids, think of 'em etc.) and people who were misled by those "active fools". Not to mention the surrounding areas who get to feed and shelter the immigrants. Being a dumb fuck is not a personal lifestyle choice.
Fearmongering? If anything I'd hatemonger. Fuck you and anyone who walks and talks like you. Everybody is ignorant depending on the perspective, but being proud of ignorance is just fucking evil.
Most didn't tho, they abolished it before the EU was even an idea - so that has no part in it? You just ignore that? Really, if you insist that European countries have abolished the death penalty because one central body forced them to, or because one lobby, one group of activists, made it that way, then I don't know what to tell you other than "lol?".
Duh. The "laws" we formulate are simply our attempts to describe and predict what we can observe. When you throw a ball, the simplified model of gravity and the ball you have in your head doesn't affect reality in any way other than helping you predict where the ball goes.
So?
Who needs activism or lobbyists, when you can have hot brain-on-brain action? European countries always warred with each other, but also peacefully fertilized one another. Giving people you consider useful green cards isn't the same, and neither is sitting on an island with an actually serious concept of "non-Japanese". Sorry, but Europe isn't holding her breath. Cope with it.
Legislation IS diverse, you're just making stuff up about it instead of looking at it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_capital_punishment_by_country#Europe
And last, but surely not least:
"the EU" - LOL! Europe motherfucker, do you speak it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoA :)
So you're moving the goal posts; can you at least clearly say what you're moving them to? What is "directly empathic"? I assume it's somehow magically different from what we were previously talking about, "having empathy" (which is simply an additional "thing" to have, like sight or hearing). But before I can engage you in this new, fascinating subject, please define what "directly empathic" means. Thanks :P
Are you confusing empathy with lack of intelligence, or with being emotional?
You know what, that reminds me so much of something I read just a few pages a ago in a book from Erich Fromm that I'm going to try to find and translate it. IIRC, it was something about those who believe "in humanity" (or as you put it, who "care in the abstract"), but not in humans.
In the meantime I'll just have to disagree. Having empathy makes some things require and induce more personal growth, sure, and that growth is often enough accompanied by pain, of course; but that's the whole fucking point of living basically, to grow.* All those "number decisions" you cite ultimately (should) serve to enable actual individual people to live their actual individual lives, with their actual individual thoughts and deeds. We eat to live, we don't live to eat, and there is no abstract humanity. There's just you and me, the people next door, the people all over the world. That doesn't mean statistics or math aren't useful, or that hard decisions don't have to be made; which brings us back to empathy and rationality/intelligence not being mutually exclusive... but if you mistake your mental, simplified models with the actual thing they're supposed to represent, then you're drifting not into the realm of increased efficiency, you're simply loosing the plot.
* So no, you don't really want the ones who don't ever bat an eyelid to make those "hard" (one might say "non-trivial") decisions; they learn nothing from them, and in gamer-speak you'd basically be wasting XP points on units who can't level up. Instead, let the others level up, and after some initial insecurity they'll outperform the "detached" people in more ways than not. I know that's hardly how to construct a good argument, but I like that comparison anyway. Haha.
I hate to be a pain, but I also disagree on this one. I think respect of others without self-respect is a lie, a delusion. Selfishness no, but self-love.. of course! Don't trust anyone too proud or too humble...
You're either fucking stupid or fucking evil; pick one.
http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/10/14340090-suicide-is-epidemic-for-american-indian-youth-what-more-can-be-done
http://www.google.com/search?q=suicide+rates+native+indians