I recall a tasteless network that some acquaintances my mine used to have called "The oven". All of the computers on this network had to have Jewish names.
Yea, a holocaust joke. Hilarious.
Anyway, as tasteless as it was, it seems pretty ridiculous that those guys were guilty of a crime.
I actually agree that its mostly rhetoric intended to keep popularity up at home. Scapegoats are a great political tool.
That said, I still don't want them to have nukes. The last throes of power for their government could get really nasty if they have nukes, and Israel seems the likely target.
Is everyone honestly that upset that a scientist who specialized in the trigger mechanism for nuclear weapons working for a nation led by a holocaust denier was assassinated?
Moral cowardice. That's all this is. Nobody wants to imagine what could happen if Iran nukes Israel, so they're focusing in on something comprehensibly small. Killing this man may delay the development of a nuclear weapon by Iran, which may in tern save millions of lives.
I will not lose a moment of sleep if all of Iran's nuclear scientists are murdered. The alternative is worse.
That's so much worse than living in an area where explosive amputations aren't a strange occurrence, or where having the front of your head blown through the back of your head is a potential outcome of both supporting the local warlord and not supporting him.
Come the fuck on people. Its war. This is just like that Abu Ghraib bullshit. People die horribly all the time in these areas, and yet for some reason the thing that always outrages the moral cowards at home is when someone is humiliated. Its like the civilized mind cannot comprehend the atrocities of war, so they focus in on the level of wrong that they can identify with.
R Kelly never used a orphan as a human bomb, blew the legs off of another rapper, then had to watch him drag his intestines behind him while he bled out. But that fucker did pee on someone. Peeing on someone we can be outraged about. Peeing on someone we can understand.
You know what those guys who got peed on would really be upset about? Getting killed.
Well, to play devils advocate, the end of the walled garden is going to let the neighbors dog in. China is already paying people to make phony pro-government posts all over the internet, and within 10 years every single shithole in the world will be spreading propaganda in every corner of the internet. How do you prevent foreign interests from manipulating your population over the internet?
Do I agree with censorship to prevent this this? Of course not. I'm just trying to understand the fears driving these governments.
Its funny when you think about it. The media moguls pushing these laws are the very people who's vast empires are supposed to be helping protect us from tyranny via the free press.
It was fun while it lasted I guess. At this point anyone running for office who would fix this mess is either demonized by the media, or just outright ignored.
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I expected any external use of his writings whatsoever to cause him to roll-over in the grave which I can only assume he sleeps in every night.
*And to destroy our economy by getting said poor people mortgages they couldn't afford.
To be fair, they also cant be sure that the psychiatrist doesn't have a tape recorder in their pocket, or someone listening at the door.
So back to booze and weed self medication it is then.
Thanks doc!
Assuming that legit therapy can be attained this way of course.
Actually going to a psychiatrists office seems like a daunting task, but if the whole thing was done over VoIP... somehow it seems easier.
...in that its super expensive and basically useless on the ground...
No, wait, its the same.
If I am not a member of your religion then I don't want your stupid religious crap affecting me. In any way.
This can be applied to any religious group complaining about content offensive to their religion(I think we know the usual culprit here).
Speaking another language is great, they just have to speak English too.
Hell, Bush was fluent in Spanish.
The funny thing is that his game is looking like one of the ones you'd hold on to. At least if the demo is any indication.
Not true, we still like him in Arizona.
I guess I forgot this was slashdot and not erowid.
*clicks on article* ...Hmm, ok, no pictures here.
*googles it* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2090556/Life-Venus-Russian-scientist-claims-seen-scorpion-probe-photographs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml.
Yea... I'm no astrocryptozoologist, but that doesn't look like life to me.
...that this really is about as wrong as uploading a Michael Jackson song, and this time the punishments are the same.
I recall a tasteless network that some acquaintances my mine used to have called "The oven". All of the computers on this network had to have Jewish names.
Yea, a holocaust joke. Hilarious.
Anyway, as tasteless as it was, it seems pretty ridiculous that those guys were guilty of a crime.
I actually agree that its mostly rhetoric intended to keep popularity up at home. Scapegoats are a great political tool.
That said, I still don't want them to have nukes. The last throes of power for their government could get really nasty if they have nukes, and Israel seems the likely target.
Is everyone honestly that upset that a scientist who specialized in the trigger mechanism for nuclear weapons working for a nation led by a holocaust denier was assassinated?
Moral cowardice. That's all this is. Nobody wants to imagine what could happen if Iran nukes Israel, so they're focusing in on something comprehensibly small. Killing this man may delay the development of a nuclear weapon by Iran, which may in tern save millions of lives.
I will not lose a moment of sleep if all of Iran's nuclear scientists are murdered. The alternative is worse.
Of course! Because meth Heads always read signs.
A E-1 in the US military makes about 14k a year.
Professionals don't make 14k a year.
To be fair, Hollywood's propaganda isn't really pro-US, its mostly just pro-Democrat.
Yea, old Hollywood was pro-US, but those days are long over. One of the most common villains in movies these days is the corrupt Republican Senator.
That's so much worse than living in an area where explosive amputations aren't a strange occurrence, or where having the front of your head blown through the back of your head is a potential outcome of both supporting the local warlord and not supporting him.
Come the fuck on people. Its war. This is just like that Abu Ghraib bullshit. People die horribly all the time in these areas, and yet for some reason the thing that always outrages the moral cowards at home is when someone is humiliated. Its like the civilized mind cannot comprehend the atrocities of war, so they focus in on the level of wrong that they can identify with.
R Kelly never used a orphan as a human bomb, blew the legs off of another rapper, then had to watch him drag his intestines behind him while he bled out. But that fucker did pee on someone. Peeing on someone we can be outraged about. Peeing on someone we can understand.
You know what those guys who got peed on would really be upset about? Getting killed.
...is that for everyone who tries to make a career by abusing it, there's someone who's made a career by stopping people like them.
Well, to play devils advocate, the end of the walled garden is going to let the neighbors dog in. China is already paying people to make phony pro-government posts all over the internet, and within 10 years every single shithole in the world will be spreading propaganda in every corner of the internet. How do you prevent foreign interests from manipulating your population over the internet?
Do I agree with censorship to prevent this this? Of course not. I'm just trying to understand the fears driving these governments.
Its funny when you think about it. The media moguls pushing these laws are the very people who's vast empires are supposed to be helping protect us from tyranny via the free press.
It was fun while it lasted I guess. At this point anyone running for office who would fix this mess is either demonized by the media, or just outright ignored.
Something not working out at home? Blame either the US, Israel, or Islam if you're one of the first two.
Oh god damnit.
Clerks 2.
Clearks two isn't anything. And now my post looks dumb. Great.