> If a child eats a dropped pellet at a service station
If a child sees dog crap in the middle of the woods and thinks it looks like a candy bar... his parents obviously had no intention of having a smart kid.
There are a ton of things in the world to be concerned about. If your kids are picking random things up off the ground and eating them, you are too concerned about the wrong things and SHOULD be concerned with making your child more intelligent.
You are nitpicking the wrong thing... A gallon of Gas and a "gallon" of hydrogen pellets (I'm an American, where gallon is for liquid measurements) are completely incomparable, as they are used in totally different ways, not to mention that they will have very different costs for a gallon of each.
> If they raised nearly a dollar in ~45 days what's going to happen in 10 years
The oil companies will buy the rest of the world. Oil prices raised a dollar because oil companies refuse to stop gouging. If they started making a reasonable return instead of the ass raping they give now, gasoline would be at a more reasonable price.
> The Punisher just wasn't a good movie. It could have been, but it just wasn't.
Unfortunately, for The Punisher to be filmed appropriately would require so much fake blood and body parts as to bankrupt the movie studio. Well, maybe just give the CEO a temporary.01% pay cut, which is just as unacceptable.
Now I pass for a moderately intelligent human, and I like to troll from time to time, but adding a retaliation clause to a copyright statement -- a document that is supposed to be held up as a shining beacon of software freedom -- is the most childish thing I have seen from a group of adults... umm... no, well, there's congress... the most childish thing I've seen any (adult) Open Source advocate seriously consider.
> Why would you use a less efficient system to swap legally available music? They wouldn't and you wouldn't.
Because you believe in the right to be anonymous. Yeah, I know, that's like a thousand people around the world, but does that mean those thousand don't matter?
Bitter, yes. Sad, yes. Jealous? Not of you, I don't know what you have.
If it was a joke, you probably would have said so in your first reply.
Sure, I COULD do something better than working at a tiny hospital ("pity party" or not). The fact that you raise that point tells me that you think money is the most important issue to you. It is not for me. I like most of the people I work with, and I like the fact that it helps people. Just that does not make one honorable, so it is not a contradiction.
Therefore, I AM a success in my career, just not life.
Also, it's rather conceited to tell me that I'm belittling women. No, I am belittling YOU. To most women, I am a very nice person. Unless they say something extremely stupid. Heck, I'm nice to most MEN too!
> If you want to rip up someone who spends her life supporting a war veteran left disabled
Wow, you are the master of logical fallacies. I am not ripping on you for taking care of someone, I didn't even KNOW you were taking care of someone. If Saddam Hussein (ignoring his captivity) gave away free health care for life to all the disabled Iraqi veterans, he would still be a terrible man despite a few kind acts. In case you were looking for another fallacy to use: no, I am not comparing you to Hussein.
0. Minor detail: I may rap, but I'm not anyone's "homie." No harm, tho
1. Females are not banned from the battlefield, nor are "birth defects." Obviously I don't know what defect you mean... I was born with a defect called "ugly," but the army would be more than happy to send me to die.
2. NORAD is NOT "the people." NORAD is part of the war machine (I am not using that phrase to be critical of anyone, nor to insinuate evil intention).
Cabling some building (don't know what DIA stands for, sorry for my ignorance on that one. Dulles International Airport?) is not serving your country. So you couldn't get into the military, fine. That means there is no one working in Iraq that's non-military? They don't need data infrastructure there? Sure, it's not as important as, say food and water, but that's not being delivered either.
What don't you do for the country? You don't die. Which is what over a thousand of our people HAVE done for Iraq (not for our country, for theirs). Not that I'm suggesting you try it; probably not much fun.
Southland? What the hell is that supposed to be? Please don't tell me you call the southern half of the U.S. "Southland"...
> And be careful who you talk to like this
Careful who you talk to? You made a blanket statement: "OUR SOLDIERS BELIEVE THEY ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING." Be careful who you tell THAT one to as well, there are quite a few AWOL soldiers and military families that would tell you to shove it up your ass. Just because five of your relatives believe something, it doesn't follow that everyone does. Most television won't show the soldiers that think we are doing the wrong thing, because they'll be labelled unpatriotic (also why many SOLDIERS won't say it). Plus, soldiers are trained to obey orders, not to think, so OF COURSE the majority will say what they are told to believe.
Anyway: ah yes the famous "I might be important enough to ruin your life" threat. Your bad luck, it's already fucked, but you probably guessed that: because yes, I am bitter much. I have probably pissed off people more important than you -- not that it is a badge of honor. I am not an honorable person, I never claimed to be. If "they" want to come kill me, or whatever, I invite them. Please do so. Soon. But don't make empty threats. Heck, someone who really DOES have that power probably rarely threatens, only acts.
But as for compassion for fellow man... I haven't ever received any myself, so it's hard to give: but I do. I work at a tiny community hospital and get paid jack sh*t for it. I could get paid more; I'm reasonably intelligent and am pretty darn good with computers, networks, programming, etc. I don't because this tiny hospital would be in a bit of trouble without me. Could they find another person? Yes, but would that person work as hard for so little? Maybe. Who would train them how to use the systems that only I fully understand?
Also, again, lowered karma is not sacrificing for your country. That is the part of your message that sparked my highly unreasonable and unreasoned rant. I still stand behind my statements as stubbornly as Bush refuses to accept that he made any bad decisions to go to war(s).
> I *am* someone who can demand just about anything I want, and get it
Really? You are freely admitting that you are a spoiled bitch? Then you have no idea what reality is like for everyone else, and your opinion is only worthwhile to other spoiled bitches and brats.
You published a book on how to make rockets??? YOU MUST BE "IN" WITH THE TERRORISTS!!! Okay, sorry, needed a half-second of half-levity...
It is truly mind boggling that someone can think the way that you do.
How many recent wars were started by Republicans? Now, Democrats? Nope, republicans seem to have more violence than the Dems. They are also the ones that are pro-gun rights (as am I), so who the fuck do you think you're fooling by claiming the left would shoot you? IT'S THE IGNORANT, REDNECK REPUBLICANS YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SHOOTING YOU. Or maybe their most respected priests will call for you to be killed. Go I am so scared of the "patriotic" republican Americans today.
Oh, and Republican media doesn't give a shit about making money, they are in it FOR THE PEOPLE.
jho -- "Sacrificing what you believe in"???
You arrogant bitch, your fucking Slashdot karma going down is NOT A FUCKING SACRIFICE! Why don't you pick up a gun and go to Iraq, now that is sacrifice. How dare you act like you are doing a fucking thing for this country, while you sit on your ass playing "I'm so damn self-righteous" on the Internet. YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM, STOP ACTING LIKE ONE. I don't pretend to be a victim, I don't pretend to be in favor of something I would not do myself, I don't pretend my opinion means shit to anyone outside myself.
Christ, you're worse than that media whore Cindy Sheehan. Who the hell is she to DEMAND to speak with the President of the USA... TWICE??? She already talked to him once, that's more than almost any other American gets: She isn't special (which is why Bush should tell her to piss off, but won't, due to politics), and neither are you.
> hey, who am I to let lack of evidence get in the way of a good story?
A troll, possibly...?
> A skull with a premortem hole might also indicate that these folks were pretty sadistic
You, evidently, have no idea how many cultures have drilled holes (successfully) into peoples' heads. Egyptians did a good bit of it. There are holes drilled into peoples' heads today. They are generally smaller and more precise, but it happens. Do you thing brain surgeons have magic tools that "phase" through the skull or something?
> If history is anything to follow, it's that empires and leaders do not remain at the top forever. It's only a matter of time
And socialist societies disperse, capitalist nomads die off, cannibalistic communes eat themselves... If history is anything to follow, everything ends.
> And once that's done, you may have expanded the deserts in some other part of the world,
But you've also expanded the jungles in OTHER parts of the world. All those cold areas get warmer and can now support life they once could not (once the vegetation spreads, of course). Not all climate change is inherently "bad." I suppose it isn't inherently anything...
> How is it easier to get from Mars to Earth than the other way around?
Granted, it's pretty far away, but would the sun's gravity have any (noticeable) effect? Of course, the microbes are probably too small to be affected by it.
No, it is not. A war has defined "sides." Just because a word has been tossed about incorrectly to get people to support it, it does not automatically make it so.
> it's no more tragic if he's killed by the police or whether he's killed by a bomb.
How can you say that? Being blown up by a bomb is certainly not desired, but a bit of it is to be expected due to enemy confrontations. When a civilian is killed by the very people charged to protect him, that is entirely different! It shows these people are terrible at their jobs, especially after they lied about what happened.
Somewhat separately, anyone who works in public service who lies to the public should be immediately fired, and if it was serious enough, jailtime should ensue immediately.
Excuse my lack of understanding, but how do they fall under this definition? Maybe I don't understand the term, but from the individual words, it would appear that it means "an attempt to make all economic functions part of a government, by use of direct action." (strikes, sabotage are the d.a. examples from dictionary.com)
Overall, your points are good, but a few things struck me:
> In fact CCTV in London caught the suicide bombers there. After they delivered the attacks. Cameras are NOT used to STOP terrorist acts.
> They invaded Kuwait for no particular reason That's entirely untrue. There were reasons. They weren't good reasons, but alas, reasons existed.
> the WTC was attacked before the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan And The United States was sticking its dick in the Middle East LOOOOOONG before the WTC attacks.
> Another problem is that when you decide policy based on what the terrorists want And the terrorists don't want Americans to be clamped down on by their own government? Despite your statement, policies ARE being changed because of their actions!!!
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> If a child eats a dropped pellet at a service station
If a child sees dog crap in the middle of the woods and thinks it looks like a candy bar... his parents obviously had no intention of having a smart kid.
There are a ton of things in the world to be concerned about. If your kids are picking random things up off the ground and eating them, you are too concerned about the wrong things and SHOULD be concerned with making your child more intelligent.
You are nitpicking the wrong thing... A gallon of Gas and a "gallon" of hydrogen pellets (I'm an American, where gallon is for liquid measurements) are completely incomparable, as they are used in totally different ways, not to mention that they will have very different costs for a gallon of each.
> If they raised nearly a dollar in ~45 days what's going to happen in 10 years
The oil companies will buy the rest of the world. Oil prices raised a dollar because oil companies refuse to stop gouging. If they started making a reasonable return instead of the ass raping they give now, gasoline would be at a more reasonable price.
OK: one person didn't get a joke
bad: two people within 15 minutes didn't realize it was a joke.
> The Punisher just wasn't a good movie. It could have been, but it just wasn't.
.01% pay cut, which is just as unacceptable.
Unfortunately, for The Punisher to be filmed appropriately would require so much fake blood and body parts as to bankrupt the movie studio. Well, maybe just give the CEO a temporary
Now I pass for a moderately intelligent human, and I like to troll from time to time, but adding a retaliation clause to a copyright statement -- a document that is supposed to be held up as a shining beacon of software freedom -- is the most childish thing I have seen from a group of adults... umm... no, well, there's congress... the most childish thing I've seen any (adult) Open Source advocate seriously consider.
> Why would you use a less efficient system to swap legally available music? They wouldn't and you wouldn't.
Because you believe in the right to be anonymous. Yeah, I know, that's like a thousand people around the world, but does that mean those thousand don't matter?
The world is NOT "more unsafe," there are just more people living in the already unsafe AREAS.
> card being used within five minutes of being taken. This is now impossible
If that's impossible, how is ANY CC fraud possible? How can you not be able to use a card in five minutes, but can later?
Or did I completely misinterpret those two sentences?
Bitter, yes. Sad, yes. Jealous? Not of you, I don't know what you have.
If it was a joke, you probably would have said so in your first reply.
Sure, I COULD do something better than working at a tiny hospital ("pity party" or not). The fact that you raise that point tells me that you think money is the most important issue to you. It is not for me. I like most of the people I work with, and I like the fact that it helps people. Just that does not make one honorable, so it is not a contradiction.
Therefore, I AM a success in my career, just not life.
Also, it's rather conceited to tell me that I'm belittling women. No, I am belittling YOU. To most women, I am a very nice person. Unless they say something extremely stupid. Heck, I'm nice to most MEN too!
> If you want to rip up someone who spends her life supporting a war veteran left disabled
Wow, you are the master of logical fallacies. I am not ripping on you for taking care of someone, I didn't even KNOW you were taking care of someone. If Saddam Hussein (ignoring his captivity) gave away free health care for life to all the disabled Iraqi veterans, he would still be a terrible man despite a few kind acts. In case you were looking for another fallacy to use: no, I am not comparing you to Hussein.
I am not made of bits...
0. Minor detail: I may rap, but I'm not anyone's "homie." No harm, tho
1. Females are not banned from the battlefield, nor are "birth defects." Obviously I don't know what defect you mean... I was born with a defect called "ugly," but the army would be more than happy to send me to die.
2. NORAD is NOT "the people." NORAD is part of the war machine (I am not using that phrase to be critical of anyone, nor to insinuate evil intention).
Cabling some building (don't know what DIA stands for, sorry for my ignorance on that one. Dulles International Airport?) is not serving your country. So you couldn't get into the military, fine. That means there is no one working in Iraq that's non-military? They don't need data infrastructure there? Sure, it's not as important as, say food and water, but that's not being delivered either.
What don't you do for the country? You don't die. Which is what over a thousand of our people HAVE done for Iraq (not for our country, for theirs). Not that I'm suggesting you try it; probably not much fun.
Southland? What the hell is that supposed to be? Please don't tell me you call the southern half of the U.S. "Southland"...
> And be careful who you talk to like this
Careful who you talk to? You made a blanket statement: "OUR SOLDIERS BELIEVE THEY ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING." Be careful who you tell THAT one to as well, there are quite a few AWOL soldiers and military families that would tell you to shove it up your ass. Just because five of your relatives believe something, it doesn't follow that everyone does. Most television won't show the soldiers that think we are doing the wrong thing, because they'll be labelled unpatriotic (also why many SOLDIERS won't say it). Plus, soldiers are trained to obey orders, not to think, so OF COURSE the majority will say what they are told to believe.
Anyway: ah yes the famous "I might be important enough to ruin your life" threat. Your bad luck, it's already fucked, but you probably guessed that: because yes, I am bitter much. I have probably pissed off people more important than you -- not that it is a badge of honor. I am not an honorable person, I never claimed to be. If "they" want to come kill me, or whatever, I invite them. Please do so. Soon. But don't make empty threats. Heck, someone who really DOES have that power probably rarely threatens, only acts.
But as for compassion for fellow man... I haven't ever received any myself, so it's hard to give: but I do. I work at a tiny community hospital and get paid jack sh*t for it. I could get paid more; I'm reasonably intelligent and am pretty darn good with computers, networks, programming, etc. I don't because this tiny hospital would be in a bit of trouble without me. Could they find another person? Yes, but would that person work as hard for so little? Maybe. Who would train them how to use the systems that only I fully understand?
Also, again, lowered karma is not sacrificing for your country. That is the part of your message that sparked my highly unreasonable and unreasoned rant. I still stand behind my statements as stubbornly as Bush refuses to accept that he made any bad decisions to go to war(s).
> I *am* someone who can demand just about anything I want, and get it
Really? You are freely admitting that you are a spoiled bitch? Then you have no idea what reality is like for everyone else, and your opinion is only worthwhile to other spoiled bitches and brats.
You published a book on how to make rockets??? YOU MUST BE "IN" WITH THE TERRORISTS!!! Okay, sorry, needed a half-second of half-levity...
It is truly mind boggling that someone can think the way that you do.
How many recent wars were started by Republicans? Now, Democrats? Nope, republicans seem to have more violence than the Dems. They are also the ones that are pro-gun rights (as am I), so who the fuck do you think you're fooling by claiming the left would shoot you? IT'S THE IGNORANT, REDNECK REPUBLICANS YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SHOOTING YOU. Or maybe their most respected priests will call for you to be killed. Go I am so scared of the "patriotic" republican Americans today.
Oh, and Republican media doesn't give a shit about making money, they are in it FOR THE PEOPLE.
jho -- "Sacrificing what you believe in"???
You arrogant bitch, your fucking Slashdot karma going down is NOT A FUCKING SACRIFICE! Why don't you pick up a gun and go to Iraq, now that is sacrifice. How dare you act like you are doing a fucking thing for this country, while you sit on your ass playing "I'm so damn self-righteous" on the Internet. YOU ARE NOT A VICTIM, STOP ACTING LIKE ONE. I don't pretend to be a victim, I don't pretend to be in favor of something I would not do myself, I don't pretend my opinion means shit to anyone outside myself.
Christ, you're worse than that media whore Cindy Sheehan. Who the hell is she to DEMAND to speak with the President of the USA... TWICE??? She already talked to him once, that's more than almost any other American gets: She isn't special (which is why Bush should tell her to piss off, but won't, due to politics), and neither are you.
> hey, who am I to let lack of evidence get in the way of a good story?
A troll, possibly...?
> A skull with a premortem hole might also indicate that these folks were pretty sadistic
You, evidently, have no idea how many cultures have drilled holes (successfully) into peoples' heads. Egyptians did a good bit of it. There are holes drilled into peoples' heads today. They are generally smaller and more precise, but it happens. Do you thing brain surgeons have magic tools that "phase" through the skull or something?
> I've personally been playing the same game for two years now with little change
I agree: I've been playing StarCraft since 1998!
> If history is anything to follow, it's that empires and leaders do not remain at the top forever. It's only a matter of time
And socialist societies disperse, capitalist nomads die off, cannibalistic communes eat themselves... If history is anything to follow, everything ends.
> And once that's done, you may have expanded the deserts in some other part of the world,
But you've also expanded the jungles in OTHER parts of the world. All those cold areas get warmer and can now support life they once could not (once the vegetation spreads, of course). Not all climate change is inherently "bad." I suppose it isn't inherently anything...
> How is it easier to get from Mars to Earth than the other way around?
Granted, it's pretty far away, but would the sun's gravity have any (noticeable) effect? Of course, the microbes are probably too small to be affected by it.
Guess what: IQ has NEVER been an indicator of work performance!!!
In fact, it doesn't mean anything after you are done with schooling. IOW, Mensa is total B.S.
Ah, distributed printing, why didn't I think of that :)
Still, for a thousand pages, 5 minutes isn't all that long, your point is valid either way.
> If you are doing something private on the subway sytem, you should be arrested.
Thinking is generally a private activity... Wait, you must be in charge of "Homeland Security?"
> It's a war
No, it is not. A war has defined "sides." Just because a word has been tossed about incorrectly to get people to support it, it does not automatically make it so.
> it's no more tragic if he's killed by the police or whether he's killed by a bomb.
How can you say that? Being blown up by a bomb is certainly not desired, but a bit of it is to be expected due to enemy confrontations. When a civilian is killed by the very people charged to protect him , that is entirely different! It shows these people are terrible at their jobs, especially after they lied about what happened.
Somewhat separately, anyone who works in public service who lies to the public should be immediately fired, and if it was serious enough, jailtime should ensue immediately.
> engages in syndicalist corporatism.
Excuse my lack of understanding, but how do they fall under this definition? Maybe I don't understand the term, but from the individual words, it would appear that it means "an attempt to make all economic functions part of a government, by use of direct action." (strikes, sabotage are the d.a. examples from dictionary.com)
Overall, your points are good, but a few things struck me:
> In fact CCTV in London caught the suicide bombers there.
After they delivered the attacks. Cameras are NOT used to STOP terrorist acts.
> They invaded Kuwait for no particular reason
That's entirely untrue. There were reasons. They weren't good reasons, but alas, reasons existed.
> the WTC was attacked before the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan
And The United States was sticking its dick in the Middle East LOOOOOONG before the WTC attacks.
> Another problem is that when you decide policy based on what the terrorists want
And the terrorists don't want Americans to be clamped down on by their own government? Despite your statement, policies ARE being changed because of their actions!!!
> And because I have an infantile sense of humour
:)
Fair enough; I do too.
Where would one find this amazing 2000 page-per-minute laser printer?