No. I didn't. And even if I had, I don't believe democratically elected representatives represent their voters regardless of how is democracy implemented.
When it comes to representative democracy, it's impossible to emphasise enough that this can all be changed by voting differently.
That is false and naive.
As a simple proof, I challenge you to change it all by voting differently.
The mechanisms are there.
Nope.
So, ideologues, toadies and milquetoasts - please all go fuck yourselves and regenerate as something better - because it's time to build a society where there's a more equitable balance of power.
It must be funny to make a new product that kills a living being and then see how in a matter of years the being evolves to be immune to your product or to bypass it in some novel way.
It must be great to understand that your amazing attacks are avoided by a system that requires no intelligence. That you're being outsmarted by the natural algorithm of evolution.
Those were the good old days. How I miss when it took me one day at most to learn about all options I had to build a gaming computer, with enough detail to make an informed decision about what bits and pieces to built it with.
Nowadays just piercing the veil of lies, half truths, false reports and bought reviews, makes the entire process incredibly boring and frustrating.
Revolutions are nothing new... I just wish they weren't so damned violent and terrifying.
They don't have to be nor always are. We just remember the terrifying ones. A revolution can be as simple as the prime minister's medic giving him the wrong medicine, a senator being stabbed in the kidney with a small icepick, or an official car just turning the wrong corner into a bottleneck from which one less passenger gets out.
The aspect of the revolution isn't important, only the strength and extension of the idea. If half the population of a country wants someone dead, that person is dead. The law is but a consensus. Once the consented idea is that some thing MUST change, it just does.
That's the often ignored good of democracy. It serves to slowly conform society to the consensus, to avoid the quick ways.
There is no doubt that society eventually reaches consensus. However, after some millenia of blood and death, we've decided we can bear to wait a century or two if that allows us to avoid decimating the population.
The only problem is that to be happy you have to feel good for the people who will live in a society where there's no systemic corruption and where they'll remember it as we do slavery or absolute monarchy. Because none of us will live in that society. Because to do so, most of us would have to die. And when we did things that way we weren't happier.
You aren't the target audience. You aren't a real client. You are just content for their real clients.
This is made for those who already want to inform Facebook of what they're doing every single minute of their lives, with the hope that someone will be interested enough to read about them. Facebook could just create a Facebook bank, ask people to put in their salary and some people would do it.
The fact that someone who wouldn't even give them their real birthday isn't interested, is as irrelevant for Facebook as the opinion of a non-client is for any other business.
I really thought by this time they'd have hired someone whose only task was to stop everybody else in the corporation to piss off large sections of the customers.
Taking into account we are paying because we believe we should, while having the alternative to simply stop paying and watch everything on torrents.
They're a beggar spitting to the people who give him money.
Everyone disgusted by their country's research output should scam a Romanian journal. Or, even better, it doesn't even have to be related to science, it can be about everything. And it doesn't have to be a journal, you can all come here and shout it in the public square.
I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to Romania, open a window, stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!
I wonder how much of that money generated by the government, which it doesn't need, as it's obviously not spending more than it gets from taxes, will be distributed to each citizen.
I'm sure a simple division of the three billion dollars among the population would work, but maybe they come up with a distribution strategy that gives more to those who have less.
its hard to save without being at least indirectly effected.
Oh really? What exactly stops you from putting the money in a box or buying gold?
Maybe you mean "It's hard to play the same game they are playing, to create profit from my money without working for it, as they do, but to do it without the risks that they take.".
Because we, the people, end up bailing out these irresponsible fuckers who have turned Wallstreet into a casino.
Did you decide to bail anyone? Did you have any choice in whether to bail them? Did you have any power at all?
We, the people, didn't bail anything nor anyone. We were robbed of a fraction of our production by the powerful and THEY bailed the banks, because THEY are the ones with a lot of money inside those banks.
The next bailout better be paid in advance by those who caused it, hence a tax on gambling with stocks.
The next bailout will be paid by the government. And the people have no money, nor voice, nor power to stop that.
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You voted for them!
No. I didn't. And even if I had, I don't believe democratically elected representatives represent their voters regardless of how is democracy implemented.
When it comes to representative democracy, it's impossible to emphasise enough that this can all be changed by voting differently.
That is false and naive.
As a simple proof, I challenge you to change it all by voting differently.
The mechanisms are there.
Nope.
So, ideologues, toadies and milquetoasts - please all go fuck yourselves and regenerate as something better - because it's time to build a society where there's a more equitable balance of power.
Thank you for your useful input.
He simply believes he is a higher class of human being than the rest of us.
No wonder it's hard to explain to such people that the cattle doesn't like being fire branded.
Because, you know, bacteria aren't intelligent.
Have you considered that maybe it's you who just doesn't go to the kind of places the smart bacteria frequent?
It must be funny to make a new product that kills a living being and then see how in a matter of years the being evolves to be immune to your product or to bypass it in some novel way.
It must be great to understand that your amazing attacks are avoided by a system that requires no intelligence. That you're being outsmarted by the natural algorithm of evolution.
Those were the good old days. How I miss when it took me one day at most to learn about all options I had to build a gaming computer, with enough detail to make an informed decision about what bits and pieces to built it with.
Nowadays just piercing the veil of lies, half truths, false reports and bought reviews, makes the entire process incredibly boring and frustrating.
Revolutions are nothing new... I just wish they weren't so damned violent and terrifying.
They don't have to be nor always are. We just remember the terrifying ones. A revolution can be as simple as the prime minister's medic giving him the wrong medicine, a senator being stabbed in the kidney with a small icepick, or an official car just turning the wrong corner into a bottleneck from which one less passenger gets out.
The aspect of the revolution isn't important, only the strength and extension of the idea. If half the population of a country wants someone dead, that person is dead. The law is but a consensus. Once the consented idea is that some thing MUST change, it just does.
That's the often ignored good of democracy. It serves to slowly conform society to the consensus, to avoid the quick ways.
There is no doubt that society eventually reaches consensus. However, after some millenia of blood and death, we've decided we can bear to wait a century or two if that allows us to avoid decimating the population.
The only problem is that to be happy you have to feel good for the people who will live in a society where there's no systemic corruption and where they'll remember it as we do slavery or absolute monarchy. Because none of us will live in that society. Because to do so, most of us would have to die. And when we did things that way we weren't happier.
You aren't the target audience. You aren't a real client. You are just content for their real clients.
This is made for those who already want to inform Facebook of what they're doing every single minute of their lives, with the hope that someone will be interested enough to read about them. Facebook could just create a Facebook bank, ask people to put in their salary and some people would do it.
The fact that someone who wouldn't even give them their real birthday isn't interested, is as irrelevant for Facebook as the opinion of a non-client is for any other business.
So what's a better buzzword for that?
Thingternet!
Much more than 45 people died somewhere during the time it took you to write that post and you failed to even mention them. Nice.
If M$ does not shed the Ballmer curse soon, Apple will BUY them.
Actually, someone will get paid to take them and avoid total bankruptcy.
'MERICA?
Do you own an eye patch? yes or no
Do you own a little raft with an outboard motor and an RPG?
Do you believe the letter "R" is also a word?
If you answered yes to any of the above, we found our violator.
Your test makes no sense. So kids with a lazy eye in tiny boats, carrying a copy of D&D are rapists?
As always, that depends exclusively on the relative power of their law firms.
And we're talking about Apple here.
Do you think Apple signs contracts for "one season" without specifying exactly how many chapters of how many minutes?
Working in IT, I always assume every other corporation does things at least not worse than us. Not the opposite.
I really thought by this time they'd have hired someone whose only task was to stop everybody else in the corporation to piss off large sections of the customers.
Taking into account we are paying because we believe we should, while having the alternative to simply stop paying and watch everything on torrents.
They're a beggar spitting to the people who give him money.
Everyone disgusted by their country's research output should scam a Romanian journal. Or, even better, it doesn't even have to be related to science, it can be about everything. And it doesn't have to be a journal, you can all come here and shout it in the public square.
I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to Romania, open a window, stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!
"[...] and citations to new studies by Bernoulli and Laplace, both dead more than 180 years (Weber died in 1920)."
Bernoulli and Laplace, unlike Ortega and Gasset, are two people, which qualifies them to be "both".
I hate to think how much compound interest he will have accumulated while in jail.
If only he hadn't left the lights on at home...
Also, 10 micrometers are:
3.2808399 × 10^-5 feet.
6.18735316522 x 10^9 Plank lengths
1.0936133 × 10^-5 yards.
6.36942675 × 10^-8 itinerary stadia.
5.46806649 × 10^-6 fathoms
1.98838782 × 10^-6 rods
4.97096954 × 10^-8 furlongs
I same those comments as bookmarks. I wonder why there's not a "favorite" option to save them.
Everyone should have a single "Supermod" point once per month that would work as a normal mod point except it would allow going past +5.
So after the holidays we could quickly read the articles with only the very few +6+ posts.
I like making comments about comments about a story about comments about comments.
I wonder how much of that money generated by the government, which it doesn't need, as it's obviously not spending more than it gets from taxes, will be distributed to each citizen.
I'm sure a simple division of the three billion dollars among the population would work, but maybe they come up with a distribution strategy that gives more to those who have less.
its hard to save without being at least indirectly effected.
Oh really? What exactly stops you from putting the money in a box or buying gold?
Maybe you mean "It's hard to play the same game they are playing, to create profit from my money without working for it, as they do, but to do it without the risks that they take.".
Because we, the people, end up bailing out these irresponsible fuckers who have turned Wallstreet into a casino.
Did you decide to bail anyone?
Did you have any choice in whether to bail them?
Did you have any power at all?
We, the people, didn't bail anything nor anyone. We were robbed of a fraction of our production by the powerful and THEY bailed the banks, because THEY are the ones with a lot of money inside those banks.
The next bailout better be paid in advance by those who caused it, hence a tax on gambling with stocks.
The next bailout will be paid by the government. And the people have no money, nor voice, nor power to stop that.
So they get to play computer games, where the victims are ordinary people's savings, pensions, etc.
Only if those people give them their savings to play with.