Just because YOU see dots in front of YOUR eyes, and then choose to connect them, does not inherently imply that the dots themselves or your connection thereof are anything more than a side effect of your skewed perception.
You see evil/harmful people, lazy/careless people, and yourself. So noted. The rest of us have a bit more criteria, and are going to weigh the facts and discuss them BEFORE we start reducing the world to binary states.
At what point will people stop reporting that "more people are doing X and Y on the internet"? If you actually have to ask that question, I have to then question why you read Slashdot, let alone post to it.
I can think of no greater tragedy than to waste the limited time we have here together on earth by worshiping god. Oh, please... let's not be delusional. Humans are proven to be the ultimate time-wasting beasts. If the concept of god were to disappear tomorrow, people would automatically fall back to hating each other over the color of their skin, or their gender, or their geographical location, or their differences in height/weight, or their desires, or the differences in their conclusions based on observations of the natural world.
Having faith in the divine may not improve a person, but going ONLY with the same 5 senses we share with our cats and dogs, and having faith in what other humans say, is 100% GUARANTEED to keep a person mediocre.
Well, you can call it that if it makes you feel better, but the rest of us just call that "wishful thinking". Translation: 'those of us who are addicted to an entirely different set of myths call that "wishful thinking"'
If this **isn't** a big deal then it never would have resulted in his unlawful detention and arrest. You all keep missing the point entirely! THIS ***WASN'T*** a big deal until the guy insisted on aggravating the situation, first by unreasonably refusing to adhere to store policy and then for pointlessly involving an officer.
GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEADS: this CANNOT be reasonably compared to the civil rights movement. AT ALL. Stop trivializing the civil rights movement by bringing it up in the context of this moron's hysterical little tantrum! There was NOTHING righteous or even worthwhile about his "resistance". He was just making a nuisance of himself and was handled accordingly.
A huge number of you all have proven thay you desperately need a huge dose of perspective. Try urgently to at least RENT a clue if you simply cannot afford to buy one.
If you're referring to the article about the guy who idiotically refused to provide his receipt to the Circuit City security guy, and you're referring to THAT as "gestapo tactics", then yes... your every word comes wrapped in the shiny stuff.
If we abuse our society's checks and balances with silly, infantile tantrums like this, it is just as damaging to the value of those freedoms. Without a level of criteria and common sense, we lose sight of the important battles and allow every little thing to fuel a perpetual state of personal warfare with society itself. There is no good that can come of that. There is no good that can come of indulging some primadonna's little hissy fit.
So, let's review: guy with blog (i.e. a clear symptom of "look at me... I MATTER" syndrome) performs two overtly hysterical acts of zero-calorie, no-effort "civil disobedience", in the name of one's "rights", and ends up pissing off a wage slave and a cop in the process. And we should all cry for him, because he chose to favor that MASSIVE chip on his shoulder, when he could have very easily saved everyone time, money, and aggravation by just showing the wage slave his goddamn receipt and let him look in the goddamn bag. And a significant number of attendant pinheads here honestly believe that anyone who points out this little drama queen's ridiculous folly is just a tool of the evil ol' police state and corporate Big Brotherism. Yikes. So much for a level of criteria and common sense.
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Just because YOU see dots in front of YOUR eyes, and then choose to connect them, does not inherently imply that the dots themselves or your connection thereof are anything more than a side effect of your skewed perception.
You see evil/harmful people, lazy/careless people, and yourself. So noted. The rest of us have a bit more criteria, and are going to weigh the facts and discuss them BEFORE we start reducing the world to binary states.
Having faith in the divine may not improve a person, but going ONLY with the same 5 senses we share with our cats and dogs, and having faith in what other humans say, is 100% GUARANTEED to keep a person mediocre.
GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEADS: this CANNOT be reasonably compared to the civil rights movement. AT ALL. Stop trivializing the civil rights movement by bringing it up in the context of this moron's hysterical little tantrum! There was NOTHING righteous or even worthwhile about his "resistance". He was just making a nuisance of himself and was handled accordingly.
A huge number of you all have proven thay you desperately need a huge dose of perspective. Try urgently to at least RENT a clue if you simply cannot afford to buy one.
If you're referring to the article about the guy who idiotically refused to provide his receipt to the Circuit City security guy, and you're referring to THAT as "gestapo tactics", then yes... your every word comes wrapped in the shiny stuff.
If we abuse our society's checks and balances with silly, infantile tantrums like this, it is just as damaging to the value of those freedoms. Without a level of criteria and common sense, we lose sight of the important battles and allow every little thing to fuel a perpetual state of personal warfare with society itself. There is no good that can come of that. There is no good that can come of indulging some primadonna's little hissy fit.
So, let's review: guy with blog (i.e. a clear symptom of "look at me... I MATTER" syndrome) performs two overtly hysterical acts of zero-calorie, no-effort "civil disobedience", in the name of one's "rights", and ends up pissing off a wage slave and a cop in the process. And we should all cry for him, because he chose to favor that MASSIVE chip on his shoulder, when he could have very easily saved everyone time, money, and aggravation by just showing the wage slave his goddamn receipt and let him look in the goddamn bag. And a significant number of attendant pinheads here honestly believe that anyone who points out this little drama queen's ridiculous folly is just a tool of the evil ol' police state and corporate Big Brotherism. Yikes. So much for a level of criteria and common sense.
So, they know we exist, and are keeping themselves deliberately cloaked? Hm. OK. Sounds like the wisest approach to take.
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