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You know you posted as AC, right?
You know there's no way to "private message" someone on slashdot, right?
Wow, so rather than manage himself in a civil manner, he created a second account, and you suggest he should be applauded for that?
I'm not suggesting we applaud him for that. I'm saying this shows how much he cares.
He constantly tries to champion "free market solutions" for everything he sees as wrong with the world. Here, he had a free market solution right in front of him that he chose not to exercise . He could have paid as little as five dollars to slashdot to become a subscriber, and he would have had an additional point that he could have added to every message he writes. Instead, because he's a damned hypocrite looking to spend as little of his own money as possible on everything, he opened a new account instead.
No, I have read his comments. I understand them well. The vague and incomplete understanding of his agenda that you demonstrate indicates that you are the one who needs to go back and spend some time with his comments.
Nope, that's you.
What you write - at least, if you are the same AC that has been defending roman_mir/udachny throughout - supports my point and thoroughly refutes yours.
Which may be why you are posting AC rather than signing up for an account...
No, that rant is about how expensive public education is, nothing about not wanting people to go to school or advocating human slavery.
Obviously, you did not read his rant. He stated several times that he wants people to not go to school, and go work for free instead. I cannot force you to read (or comprehend).
Here's a quote:
"People were able to buy their own health care, pay for their own education out of pocket. Students without means could work their way through college. I did get my higher education at UofT, worked all the way through it and except for the first semester of the first term never had to take a loan."
The UofT he refers to is University of Toronto, which is a highly subsidized state school. What he paid for tuition and fees there is a small fraction of the total cost of his education. He wants all those subsidies to go away, which will result in many people not being able to attain an education regardless of their abilities.
In other words, the statement shows that he so severely lacks empathy that he wants to take action to ensure that people cannot take advantage of the same government benefits that he himself has benefited from.
Thus, he cares for everyone. Thus, empathy.
No, he does not. Why would someone who genuinely cared for "everyone" actively try to ensure that people cannot have the same benefits they had from society? Or at the very least, if taking away benefits such as education and health care, not try to offer a meaningful solution in their place? He is advocating for human slavery, oppression of the middle class, and elimination of economic mobility. All in the name of reducing his own tax burden. That does not resemble empathy in any meaningful way.
No, actually he very much does not. Read his frequent comments about how he doesn't want people to go to school, or be paid for their work. Read his frequent comments where he discards opinions that do not fit his worldview by telling people that they are stupid, rather than having an actual discussion with them.
The one who needs to read is you.
No, I have read his comments. I understand them well. The vague and incomplete understanding of his agenda that you demonstrate indicates that you are the one who needs to go back and spend some time with his comments.
He doesn't say he doesn't want people to go to school or getting paid to work.
He just thinks that should only happen in a non-coercive, consensual manner.
Except that when you strip ALL rights from the workers - as he very plainly advocates - the exchange is most certainly coercive as all the power goes to the employer. Indeed one could make a very solid argument that the exchange fails to be consensual at that point as well.
If he really doesn't care, he wouldn't be posting so much (he even created a second account just to keep posting)
Wow, so rather than manage himself in a civil manner, he created a second account, and you suggest he should be applauded for that?
Telling people they are stupid doesn't mean he doesn't care either. It's just a different way of caring.
When you are completely and utterly unwilling to hold a discussion on your belief system then why even post it? He will likely gain no believers to his cause when he treats all non-believers as sub-human.
Thus, to him, he is presenting a model which (again, to him) is better for everyone. Thus, he is showing concern for everyone
It has been demonstrated many, many, times over that his model screws the vast majority of all people who are under it. No reasonable person could describe his model as "showing concern for everyone" when it is known that said model is toxic to the majority of the people who are under it.
roman_mir is very capable of recognizing the feelings of others. Namely, the feelings of being oppressed by government and having your freedom taken away.
No, that is a ruse at best. He advocates stripping more freedoms from more people to accelerate the wealth of a very small number of people.
He keeps track and links back to his own posts from months and years, and various videos and would not.
And what does that indicate? Only that he is devoted to his cause. Hell he keeps linking back to his own comments likely because he has a massive ego and no concern for others. He also links to the same ron paul youtube videos ad nauseum because thinking people cannot honestly support such a tyrannical system.
Wow, how very courteous you are to start your post that way.
You would have to be ignoring the countless articles on global warming
Global warming is not liberal, it is scientific fact. Global temperature is on the rise. The truth has no political persuasion.
promoting the federal controlled internet takeover that is Network Neutrality
How is network neutrality a "federal controlled internet takeover"? That statement makes no sense.
Just because someone managed to post a breitbart link once does not a conservative site make
Nor did I claim that to be the only reason why slashdot is conservative. Read the front page regularly and you'll find articles pushing conservative agendas on a regular basis - it is rare to see less than 2 in a week.
I would bet that the article summary in that case made fun of what was on breitbart.
And you would lose that bet, badly. It used breitbart as an actual news source, even though there were plenty of others available.
Slashdot used to be more Libertarian, but those days are long gone.
If by libertarian you mean echoing everything that comes from Ron Paul, those days are not nearly gone, they are just not quite as loud since his campaign is over. Plenty of attention on slashdot still goes to his son and his party's nominee of Gary Johnson.
Complaining about slashdot's "conservative base" is sort of like complaining about Facebooks "tireless devotion to user privacy."
Only if you never read the front page here. At least once a week there is a story on the front page that pushes the conservative agenda - just a week or two ago a front page article even cited breitbart as a source. I challenge you to find a front page story here on slashdot that has a liberal agenda instead.
Electric, gas or hybrid, any car fully submerged in salt water is heading to the scrap yard. Why pick on Fiskar because it's a hybrid?
Because they need to provide a story on the front page that will make slashdot's conservative base happy. A story about hybrids - especially ones that can be tangentially connected to President Obama - catching on fire will give them a cause to celebrate regardless of the outcome of next week's election.
And yes, I know I will be moderated down for this. Likely it will be the conservatives with moderator points doing it, to show that they are more "right".
I don't know if you wrote that as a joke, or if you are actually roman_mir, or what. Your writing style does not support the latter possibility... Regardless, your statements do not agree with reality.
He cares a lot about the freedoms of other people. Of ALL people even (even when scientific research indicates the average person can only keep in touch with about ~200 people - friends, family, etc)
No, actually he very much does not. Read his frequent comments about how he doesn't want people to go to school, or be paid for their work. Read his frequent comments where he discards opinions that do not fit his worldview by telling people that they are stupid, rather than having an actual discussion with them. He supports corporate repression of regular people and the sale of the rule of law to for-profit institutions as well. That does not support freedom.
He cares a lot about the economy. Again, EVERYONE's economy instead of just his immediate surroundings
No. If he cared about the economy, then he would show concern for the ability of EVERYONE to progress in the economy. The model that he preaches, however, provides a lot of opportunity to a very small number of people and no opportunity to the vast majority of people. The model he preaches also very directly endorses human slavery. That is not caring about "everyone's economy" in any meaningful sense of the world.
He displays much emotional attachment to the concept of freedom for all
Not if you actually read his comments, he does not. He claims to, but the text he actually writes contradicts that directly.
In short, he looks at the "big picture" or the "greater good", something far beyond just himself
Now I'm more convinced than ever that you are making some kind of odd joke.
Caring so much for more than just yourself is the definition of having empathy.
Except he doesn't care for more than himself. Hence, he has no empathy. Thank you for supporting my point.
Furthermore, roman_mir has repeatedly say he is against tyranny, oppression, loss of freedom, etc.
... and then he contradicts himself in the same statement. At least, I don't know any reasonable person who would not consider slavery to be a kind of tyrannical oppression that takes away freedom.
Really, I would say roman_mir/udachny is the most empathetic person on slashdot.
I am not familiar with this strange new sense of "empathy" that you are applying here. I am used to seeing highly conservative people try to redefine every word they can, but here you seem to be applying exactly the opposite of empathy as your new definition of it.
The summary is that empathy - which you have basically none of - represses analytic thought. You claim this to be "obvious", which would indicate you agree with it and are analytical.
The only problem with that is that you fail at analytics, too. You just regurgitated a bunch of right-wing talking points that any person with the most basic analytical skills could see are distorted to the point where a monkey could pilot a 747 straight through them. The claims you make from your (unsourced, of course) statements are not supported by the statements themselves, as the statements are not even vaguely thorough analyses of anything.
Hence in one post you showed that you have neither empathy* nor analytical skills. How on earth you could then conclude the statement that one suppresses the other to be "obvious" is puzzling.
* the conclusion that you have no empathy is also supported by the fact that your first account had its karma knocked to abysmal, and rather than show some empathy for fellow human beings (which would help bring your karma back up) you set up a new account to pursue the exact same aims.
The American Medical Schools select for automatons who can memorize and regurgitate vast amounts of data. Talk to any physician who graduated from med school in the past 20 years about what they took as undergrads and they'll most likely tell you they don't remember the courses specifically because they memorized them to pass (and then promptly forgot them).
The real question is whether or not this is the best way to train our future health care professionals. While indeed there are some really good physicians coming out of our med schools - and even some of those who memorized their way through undergrad will be great physicians - we have also excluded from selection many who would have been excellent caregivers based on their inability to memorize quite as quickly as their classmates.
if it knocks out power to any of the 26 nuclear power plants
I'm pretty sure the power plans have reliable sources of power, should they not be able to get any from the grid.
The storm must have skipped the seaboard and struck here already. Cars are flying off the road. Buildings and roads are crumbling. People are begging for money on the street while others are shouting religious mantras to nobody in particular. Cell phone service is spotty and gas prices are climbing.
Oh, wait. It's just Monday. This happens every Monday here. And Tuesday, and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Move along, nothing to see here.
If you want to limit that then reduce government power.
And that works so very, very, well. We reduced regulations on financial institutions and things came out so fucking honky-dory that we've all been shitting rainbows while riding our unicorns to work.
Oh, wait, that is fantasy land. Instead we reduced regulations on financial institutions and they damn near wrecked the entire fucking world as we know it. Yes, clearly, less government is the answer - provided the question is along the lines of how can we let in the wolves and then lock the door.
I'm sure that makes you feel better, but there's no evidence to support that assertion.
I'm actually astonished that in the conservative echo chamber that slashdot has become, he wasn't moderated up for saying that.
Since at least the time of Bill Clinton, and probably further back than that, the Democratic party main stream has been intensely friendly to business.
You must be new here. We don't let facts get in the way when politics are being discussed on slashdot. If you aren't at least as conservative as ron paul, you're a damned commie in these parts.
Why not the Modern Whig Party? You know the group that is actually on a platform of being moderate.
Because the conservatives that run the show - as both "democrats" and "republicans" - would just label them as "socialists" and they would be marginalized out of existence.
To paraphrase Lewis Black - the American political system is a bucket of shit looking at itself in the mirror.
Interesting that they show the green party candidate as being more libertarian than the libertarian candidate - and the libertarian candidate being more conservative than the republican candidate.
Just having someone cut from the cloth of Ron Paul and his cult should score one an instant win in fallacy bingo. They try to tell the country they are interesting in improving their situation, when the reality is anything but that.
If an ADHD drug is used to enhance studying abilities, but is managed by a competent physician, then that can be acceptable. On the other hand, if someone is purchasing it off the street - possibly depriving someone of their needed prescription or purchasing a questionable product - then the danger is significant.
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You know you posted as AC, right?
You know there's no way to "private message" someone on slashdot, right?
Wow, so rather than manage himself in a civil manner, he created a second account, and you suggest he should be applauded for that?
I'm not suggesting we applaud him for that. I'm saying this shows how much he cares.
He constantly tries to champion "free market solutions" for everything he sees as wrong with the world. Here, he had a free market solution right in front of him that he chose not to exercise . He could have paid as little as five dollars to slashdot to become a subscriber, and he would have had an additional point that he could have added to every message he writes. Instead, because he's a damned hypocrite looking to spend as little of his own money as possible on everything, he opened a new account instead.
No, I have read his comments. I understand them well. The vague and incomplete understanding of his agenda that you demonstrate indicates that you are the one who needs to go back and spend some time with his comments.
Nope, that's you.
What you write - at least, if you are the same AC that has been defending roman_mir/udachny throughout - supports my point and thoroughly refutes yours.
Which may be why you are posting AC rather than signing up for an account...
No, that rant is about how expensive public education is, nothing about not wanting people to go to school or advocating human slavery.
Obviously, you did not read his rant. He stated several times that he wants people to not go to school, and go work for free instead. I cannot force you to read (or comprehend).
Here's a quote:
"People were able to buy their own health care, pay for their own education out of pocket. Students without means could work their way through college. I did get my higher education at UofT, worked all the way through it and except for the first semester of the first term never had to take a loan."
The UofT he refers to is University of Toronto, which is a highly subsidized state school. What he paid for tuition and fees there is a small fraction of the total cost of his education. He wants all those subsidies to go away, which will result in many people not being able to attain an education regardless of their abilities.
In other words, the statement shows that he so severely lacks empathy that he wants to take action to ensure that people cannot take advantage of the same government benefits that he himself has benefited from.
Thus, he cares for everyone. Thus, empathy.
No, he does not. Why would someone who genuinely cared for "everyone" actively try to ensure that people cannot have the same benefits they had from society? Or at the very least, if taking away benefits such as education and health care, not try to offer a meaningful solution in their place? He is advocating for human slavery, oppression of the middle class, and elimination of economic mobility. All in the name of reducing his own tax burden. That does not resemble empathy in any meaningful way.
No, actually he very much does not. Read his frequent comments about how he doesn't want people to go to school, or be paid for their work. Read his frequent comments where he discards opinions that do not fit his worldview by telling people that they are stupid, rather than having an actual discussion with them.
The one who needs to read is you.
No, I have read his comments. I understand them well. The vague and incomplete understanding of his agenda that you demonstrate indicates that you are the one who needs to go back and spend some time with his comments.
He doesn't say he doesn't want people to go to school or getting paid to work.
He just went on a big rant a while ago about not wanting people to go to school. His same rant also effectively advocates for human slavery as well.
He just thinks that should only happen in a non-coercive, consensual manner.
Except that when you strip ALL rights from the workers - as he very plainly advocates - the exchange is most certainly coercive as all the power goes to the employer. Indeed one could make a very solid argument that the exchange fails to be consensual at that point as well.
If he really doesn't care, he wouldn't be posting so much (he even created a second account just to keep posting)
Wow, so rather than manage himself in a civil manner, he created a second account, and you suggest he should be applauded for that?
Telling people they are stupid doesn't mean he doesn't care either. It's just a different way of caring.
When you are completely and utterly unwilling to hold a discussion on your belief system then why even post it? He will likely gain no believers to his cause when he treats all non-believers as sub-human.
Thus, to him, he is presenting a model which (again, to him) is better for everyone. Thus, he is showing concern for everyone
It has been demonstrated many, many, times over that his model screws the vast majority of all people who are under it. No reasonable person could describe his model as "showing concern for everyone" when it is known that said model is toxic to the majority of the people who are under it.
roman_mir is very capable of recognizing the feelings of others. Namely, the feelings of being oppressed by government and having your freedom taken away.
No, that is a ruse at best. He advocates stripping more freedoms from more people to accelerate the wealth of a very small number of people.
He keeps track and links back to his own posts from months and years, and various videos and would not.
And what does that indicate? Only that he is devoted to his cause. Hell he keeps linking back to his own comments likely because he has a massive ego and no concern for others. He also links to the same ron paul youtube videos ad nauseum because thinking people cannot honestly support such a tyrannical system.
Total bullshit.
Wow, how very courteous you are to start your post that way.
You would have to be ignoring the countless articles on global warming
Global warming is not liberal, it is scientific fact. Global temperature is on the rise. The truth has no political persuasion.
promoting the federal controlled internet takeover that is Network Neutrality
How is network neutrality a "federal controlled internet takeover"? That statement makes no sense.
Just because someone managed to post a breitbart link once does not a conservative site make
Nor did I claim that to be the only reason why slashdot is conservative. Read the front page regularly and you'll find articles pushing conservative agendas on a regular basis - it is rare to see less than 2 in a week.
I would bet that the article summary in that case made fun of what was on breitbart.
And you would lose that bet, badly. It used breitbart as an actual news source, even though there were plenty of others available.
Slashdot used to be more Libertarian, but those days are long gone.
If by libertarian you mean echoing everything that comes from Ron Paul, those days are not nearly gone, they are just not quite as loud since his campaign is over. Plenty of attention on slashdot still goes to his son and his party's nominee of Gary Johnson.
Slashdot's conservative base
Sorry, are you really that new here?
Your account is marginally older than this one.
Complaining about slashdot's "conservative base" is sort of like complaining about Facebooks "tireless devotion to user privacy."
Only if you never read the front page here. At least once a week there is a story on the front page that pushes the conservative agenda - just a week or two ago a front page article even cited breitbart as a source. I challenge you to find a front page story here on slashdot that has a liberal agenda instead.
Electric, gas or hybrid, any car fully submerged in salt water is heading to the scrap yard. Why pick on Fiskar because it's a hybrid?
Because they need to provide a story on the front page that will make slashdot's conservative base happy. A story about hybrids - especially ones that can be tangentially connected to President Obama - catching on fire will give them a cause to celebrate regardless of the outcome of next week's election.
And yes, I know I will be moderated down for this. Likely it will be the conservatives with moderator points doing it, to show that they are more "right".
... I don't think you can be both.
He cares a lot about the freedoms of other people. Of ALL people even (even when scientific research indicates the average person can only keep in touch with about ~200 people - friends, family, etc)
No, actually he very much does not. Read his frequent comments about how he doesn't want people to go to school, or be paid for their work. Read his frequent comments where he discards opinions that do not fit his worldview by telling people that they are stupid, rather than having an actual discussion with them. He supports corporate repression of regular people and the sale of the rule of law to for-profit institutions as well. That does not support freedom.
He cares a lot about the economy. Again, EVERYONE's economy instead of just his immediate surroundings
No. If he cared about the economy, then he would show concern for the ability of EVERYONE to progress in the economy. The model that he preaches, however, provides a lot of opportunity to a very small number of people and no opportunity to the vast majority of people. The model he preaches also very directly endorses human slavery. That is not caring about "everyone's economy" in any meaningful sense of the world.
He displays much emotional attachment to the concept of freedom for all
Not if you actually read his comments, he does not. He claims to, but the text he actually writes contradicts that directly.
In short, he looks at the "big picture" or the "greater good", something far beyond just himself
Now I'm more convinced than ever that you are making some kind of odd joke.
Caring so much for more than just yourself is the definition of having empathy.
Except he doesn't care for more than himself. Hence, he has no empathy. Thank you for supporting my point.
Furthermore, roman_mir has repeatedly say he is against tyranny, oppression, loss of freedom, etc.
Really, I would say roman_mir/udachny is the most empathetic person on slashdot.
I am not familiar with this strange new sense of "empathy" that you are applying here. I am used to seeing highly conservative people try to redefine every word they can, but here you seem to be applying exactly the opposite of empathy as your new definition of it.
The summary is that empathy - which you have basically none of - represses analytic thought. You claim this to be "obvious", which would indicate you agree with it and are analytical.
The only problem with that is that you fail at analytics, too. You just regurgitated a bunch of right-wing talking points that any person with the most basic analytical skills could see are distorted to the point where a monkey could pilot a 747 straight through them. The claims you make from your (unsourced, of course) statements are not supported by the statements themselves, as the statements are not even vaguely thorough analyses of anything.
Hence in one post you showed that you have neither empathy* nor analytical skills. How on earth you could then conclude the statement that one suppresses the other to be "obvious" is puzzling.
* the conclusion that you have no empathy is also supported by the fact that your first account had its karma knocked to abysmal, and rather than show some empathy for fellow human beings (which would help bring your karma back up) you set up a new account to pursue the exact same aims.
The American Medical Schools select for automatons who can memorize and regurgitate vast amounts of data. Talk to any physician who graduated from med school in the past 20 years about what they took as undergrads and they'll most likely tell you they don't remember the courses specifically because they memorized them to pass (and then promptly forgot them).
The real question is whether or not this is the best way to train our future health care professionals. While indeed there are some really good physicians coming out of our med schools - and even some of those who memorized their way through undergrad will be great physicians - we have also excluded from selection many who would have been excellent caregivers based on their inability to memorize quite as quickly as their classmates.
if it knocks out power to any of the 26 nuclear power plants
I'm pretty sure the power plans have reliable sources of power, should they not be able to get any from the grid.
The storm must have skipped the seaboard and struck here already. Cars are flying off the road. Buildings and roads are crumbling. People are begging for money on the street while others are shouting religious mantras to nobody in particular. Cell phone service is spotty and gas prices are climbing.
Oh, wait. It's just Monday. This happens every Monday here. And Tuesday, and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Move along, nothing to see here.
ICANN is an epic failure. The UN couldn't be more incompetent if they set out with that as a goal.
Bank accounts with high interest rates which hold currencies with high inflation. Not so useful as you'd imagine.
That's a matter of perspective. If you compare the Australian Dollar to the US Dollar, you'll see that with the exception of a big dip in 2009, the two have kept pretty steady exchange rates. I have seen Australian savings accounts paying 8%, which is well above the annual fluctuation of the two currencies against each other.
So we get iTunes downloads cheaper, you have bank accounts that actually pay meaningful interest rates. Maybe we can work out a trade?
If you want to limit that then reduce government power.
And that works so very, very, well. We reduced regulations on financial institutions and things came out so fucking honky-dory that we've all been shitting rainbows while riding our unicorns to work.
Oh, wait, that is fantasy land. Instead we reduced regulations on financial institutions and they damn near wrecked the entire fucking world as we know it. Yes, clearly, less government is the answer - provided the question is along the lines of how can we let in the wolves and then lock the door.
I'm sure that makes you feel better, but there's no evidence to support that assertion.
I'm actually astonished that in the conservative echo chamber that slashdot has become, he wasn't moderated up for saying that.
Since at least the time of Bill Clinton, and probably further back than that, the Democratic party main stream has been intensely friendly to business.
You must be new here. We don't let facts get in the way when politics are being discussed on slashdot. If you aren't at least as conservative as ron paul, you're a damned commie in these parts.
Looks like someone finally realized I was making a joke. Admittedly it wasn't a great joke, but it was indeed a joke.
Why not the Modern Whig Party? You know the group that is actually on a platform of being moderate.
Because the conservatives that run the show - as both "democrats" and "republicans" - would just label them as "socialists" and they would be marginalized out of existence.
To paraphrase Lewis Black - the American political system is a bucket of shit looking at itself in the mirror.
Interesting that they show the green party candidate as being more libertarian than the libertarian candidate - and the libertarian candidate being more conservative than the republican candidate.
Just having someone cut from the cloth of Ron Paul and his cult should score one an instant win in fallacy bingo. They try to tell the country they are interesting in improving their situation, when the reality is anything but that.
Don't go anywhere - continue to be right here!
If an ADHD drug is used to enhance studying abilities, but is managed by a competent physician, then that can be acceptable. On the other hand, if someone is purchasing it off the street - possibly depriving someone of their needed prescription or purchasing a questionable product - then the danger is significant.
mingle on social networking apps that are not available to them
That's OK, I'm the last person on earth (or so I'm repeatedly told) who is not on facebook. So I have no need for your social networking apps.
take higher-resolution photos,
I have a camera for that.
and effortlessly navigate streets
I can read a map just fine on my own, thank you. I have a GPS for when I really need it, and it has a better display than a phone for that situation.
and the Internet - with better GPS and faster browsing
My crackberry does 802.11g, and I'm too cheap to pay for a data plan.
I'll keep my crackberry, thank you very much.