Then call me a sociopath.
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Rest assured, at some point in the future a society will look back and consider walking past a bum without a glance just as sociopathic as slavery and homophobia. If ignoring the poor makes me a sociopath, then I'll be a sociopath. I shouldn't have to concern myself with the poor when the government takes at least a third of my salary and claims (as part of its justification for taxing me) that it is using tax dollars to help the poor.
The hill billy's seemed convinced but I am not. All I know about the matter is what I read in TFA. I'm more interested in the fact that a professor from MIT has had a look at the device, and wants to explore the matter further. At the very least, if the inventor has managed to stump somebody knowledgeable, he's probably a better fraud that most at the very least.
At best he invented a high efficiency electric motor/generator. And if that's all he did, I say more power to him. Don't tell me we can't use more efficient electric motors and generators.
Apparently, both are, um, operating under the assumption that they are "operating systems." When did somebody else's assumptions become my problem? My guess is that Ubuntu and Fedora call their product an OS because "Grandma" doesn't want to know what a "Linux distribution" is. It might only confuse the poor dear, after all.
So you're implying that "Ubuntu" or "Fedora" are not "operating systems," in that they shouldn't be "touched directly by the average user"? Aren't you confusing "operating system" with "kernel"? No, he isn't. Ubuntu and Fedora aren't operating systems, but Linux distributions. They package up Linux, along with commonly used text and graphical userspace services and applications.
Are we level 70 internets debaters yet? I'm at level 69, but I learned Agnidyne, Mararagnidyne, and Megidolaon several levels ago. I've also got Drain Fire and Void Physical.:)
Yet, here we are, still arguing. It's cheaper than playing a MMORPG, and easier to hide at work.
After all, it's the internet, and everyone can lie. *meow* I'm actually a cat. My polydactylism allows me to emulate the human hand's opposable thumb to an extent that allows me to use any PC that uses a trackball.:)
Handling someone as in controlling them might not necessarily result in failure (submissive women DO exist, after all), but I would certainly agree that there's something unsavory about having to control someone else to feel good about yourself. It depends on what kind of control you're talking about, doesn't it? I don't see anything wrong with dominance/submission play between consenting adults. I partake in it myself.
I'll just stick to pointing out the idiocy of trying to pick up women on a site like slashdot You're preaching to the choir on that point. Remember what I said about how most of 'em are probably already in a relationship?
Meh. I'm debating whether to deconstruct exactly how wrong you are in every single one of your sentences, but I think it'll just be a waste of time. You're arguing on the internet, and you presume to talk about wasting time? Get over yourself. And check your own premises about women while you're at it, because they're wrong. Any man who tries to "handle" a woman is an idiot. Women, like cats, will do as they please and there isn't a damned thing that men can do about it without making fools of themselves.
You just can't handle an independent woman. Who are you trying to impress here? If there are any women on Slashdot, they're probably in a relationship already. Lay off the sensitive New Age guy routine, OK? You're not fooling anybody.
What authority decides who is a true Muslim and who isn't? Who cares? As far as I'm concerned, anybody who calls himself a Muslim is a Muslim. Let Allah sort 'em out.
Who cares what the Jews think? Their religion is probably a bastard offspring of Amenhotep IV's Aten cult. For all we know, Moses was a priest of Akhenaten who escaped the purges after Akhenaten's death and found fertile ground for his brand of bullshit.
White, check, male, check, rich no, powerful no. You have to be white, male, exclusively heterosexual (Kinsey 0), and a Protestant. Otherwise, you don't get to be rich and oppress women and 'colored folks'. Also, check your ancestry. If you can find nonwhite ancestors within 10 generations, you're out of the running.
If you want to experience a society where men aren't hated, go to Brazil. I don't see why you're bothered about misandry. Look upon it as an excuse to treat women with the contempt that most of them deserve.
The majority of these things paints males as much closer to barbaric creatures.
I see nothing wrong with that. I like being barbaric. I like to scratch my nuts when I first wake up in the morning. I like to just shrug it off when women talk about their feelings (Here's a clue, ladies. If you're not my wife, I don't give a flying fuck about your feelings). I like to eat leftover pizza for breakfast and wash it down with a colder beer. I like porn. I like loud, nasty rock 'n roll. I like sex and violence.
After I'm done with my day's work I like to fire up a game and beat the everloving shit out of anything that gets in my way. I don't see anything wrong with this. After all, it's not like I'm at a bar getting drunk and picking fights with other patrons. I'm not hurting anybody or damaging other people's property. Of course, now it's an 'addiction', so I'm sure that there are women and some men who are traitors to their sex who will think that I and other gamers 'need help'.
I don't need help, and I sure as hell don't want any. I like being a barbaric, sex-crazed, gamer who eats too much, drives too fast, and has the volume up way too high. I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it!
But what you're saying a few posts above is less like that and more like saying people should never have elected FDR at all, because Teddy Roosevelt had been president previously. Not quite. Franklin would have been a distant cousin to Theodore at best, and old Teddy was long dead when Franklin ran. The Bushes are father and son, the Clintons husband and wife.
So again, the schools you attended need work, and I'm sure many others do as well, but to say the system is so screwed we need to scrap it is ridiculous. The schools are not screwed; for the most part they're working as designed. They are factories meant to take real boys and girls, and process them until they are nothing but puppets. You got lucky and had teachers that were human enough to teach you to think for yourself. I'm happy for you. Most kids in the US don't get that.
Nice to see that you took care to make efficient use of the fuel, but did you guys find the remains of any Elder Things?. What about shoggoths? They're pretty nasty if you thaw 'em out.
You on the other hand think we're better off with a bunch of uneducated morons running around that won't be able to take care of themselves.
We already have that, in case you haven't noticed. You never did address my point about the difference between schooling and education. Mark Twain knew not to let the former interfere with the latter. Do you?
You can say a lot about young adults graduating from public school, and even from college, but I doubt you can call them 'well-educated'. I would know; I did my time in government-run schools. At best, they're 'well-schooled'. Most of them will do what they're told, as long as they consider the person telling them what to do to be a legitimate authority. They will go where they're told to go, and be there when they're told they're supposed to be there. That doesn't make them well-educated. It just makes them useful if you need compliant workers, or compliant taxpayers, or compliant consumers.
I must not have made myself clear. I said nothing about term limits. I would prefer that the people themselves did not allow people to remain in office too long. A person who is unwilling to step down after a term or two should be voted out of office because allowing him to remain only increases the probability that he will be corrupted by his authority.
The other practical problem for me is that the presidency is a hard job. There aren't many people qualified to do it, and the people who can do it can often make a lot more money doing it elsewhere. We're left with a field of people who want to serve and people who are attracted to power.
I'm not sure that anybody is qualified to be President, but that's a different argument. Frankly, I think that both elected office and traditional civil service jobs tend to attract the power-hungry. I would prefer to do away with elections, at the very least. If we're willing to fill our juries from pools of randomly selected citizens, then why not other positions in government? Why not use a lottery to choose the President from a pool of every native-born citizen over the age of 35? Why not fill the Senate and the House in the same way, using state-wide lotteries to pick from a pool of eligible citizens?
Frankly, I think political office should be as onerous as possible for those who occupy it. If office is no longer a prize to be won after months of media-saturated campaigning, but a burden to be thrust upon an unlucky individual who can only be excused if he has already served a term, the power-hungry might have to go elsewhere to get their fix.
I'm 29, I'm married, and I still play games. Granted, I don't spend entire weekends playing the way I did as a kid, but I still play. I doubt I'll be playing Duke Nukem Forever, though. It'll probably suck ten thousand times harder than Daikatana.
Not to get into the "dynasties" debate, but there's a big difference between electing the same person over and over again because you think he's doing a good job and electing somebody else from the same family because you liked the last guy. You're right, but let me ask you a question. Do you think it's in anybody's best interest to tolerate the existence of professional politicians? I know it's a romantic fantasy, but politics should be a dirty, thankless job that one should take on only because it has to be done. One should do the job, and then go back to real life. Instead, we have people who focus all of their ambition on getting people to give them authority over others.
I can understand the impulse to want to reelect an incumbent because you think he's doing a good job. George Washington probably could have been President for the rest of his life, if he wanted to. FDR died in the middle of his fourth term. I can understand wanting to stick with a known quantity, but I don't think this is a good idea. I think it's dangerous to let somebody hold authority over others for too long. Power corrupts, remember?
I see, so because the implementation may be broken, we scrap the idea. I'm glad that you, sitting here on/., are smarter than one of the Founders of this country. The founders were human beings, not demigods. Care to prove to me ho
Tell me, what books have you written pondering liberty and freedom? You first, friend. What books have you written. Let's see how big your dick is.
I mean, if you think Obama or McCain or whoever will be a better president, by all means, vote for them, but you've got something loose in the head if you're doing it because OMG the Bush dynasty needs to end. So, how many times would you have voted to re-elect FDR, if you had been around in the 30s and 40s?
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Who cares what the Jews think? Their religion is probably a bastard offspring of Amenhotep IV's Aten cult. For all we know, Moses was a priest of Akhenaten who escaped the purges after Akhenaten's death and found fertile ground for his brand of bullshit.
It's already tagged "mountainsofmadness". What more do you want?
I see nothing wrong with that. I like being barbaric. I like to scratch my nuts when I first wake up in the morning. I like to just shrug it off when women talk about their feelings (Here's a clue, ladies. If you're not my wife, I don't give a flying fuck about your feelings). I like to eat leftover pizza for breakfast and wash it down with a colder beer. I like porn. I like loud, nasty rock 'n roll. I like sex and violence.
After I'm done with my day's work I like to fire up a game and beat the everloving shit out of anything that gets in my way. I don't see anything wrong with this. After all, it's not like I'm at a bar getting drunk and picking fights with other patrons. I'm not hurting anybody or damaging other people's property. Of course, now it's an 'addiction', so I'm sure that there are women and some men who are traitors to their sex who will think that I and other gamers 'need help'.
I don't need help, and I sure as hell don't want any. I like being a barbaric, sex-crazed, gamer who eats too much, drives too fast, and has the volume up way too high. I'm an asshole, and I'm proud of it!
Nice to see that you took care to make efficient use of the fuel, but did you guys find the remains of any Elder Things?. What about shoggoths? They're pretty nasty if you thaw 'em out.
We already have that, in case you haven't noticed. You never did address my point about the difference between schooling and education. Mark Twain knew not to let the former interfere with the latter. Do you?
You can say a lot about young adults graduating from public school, and even from college, but I doubt you can call them 'well-educated'. I would know; I did my time in government-run schools. At best, they're 'well-schooled'. Most of them will do what they're told, as long as they consider the person telling them what to do to be a legitimate authority. They will go where they're told to go, and be there when they're told they're supposed to be there. That doesn't make them well-educated. It just makes them useful if you need compliant workers, or compliant taxpayers, or compliant consumers.
I must not have made myself clear. I said nothing about term limits. I would prefer that the people themselves did not allow people to remain in office too long. A person who is unwilling to step down after a term or two should be voted out of office because allowing him to remain only increases the probability that he will be corrupted by his authority.
The other practical problem for me is that the presidency is a hard job. There aren't many people qualified to do it, and the people who can do it can often make a lot more money doing it elsewhere. We're left with a field of people who want to serve and people who are attracted to power.I'm not sure that anybody is qualified to be President, but that's a different argument. Frankly, I think that both elected office and traditional civil service jobs tend to attract the power-hungry. I would prefer to do away with elections, at the very least. If we're willing to fill our juries from pools of randomly selected citizens, then why not other positions in government? Why not use a lottery to choose the President from a pool of every native-born citizen over the age of 35? Why not fill the Senate and the House in the same way, using state-wide lotteries to pick from a pool of eligible citizens?
Frankly, I think political office should be as onerous as possible for those who occupy it. If office is no longer a prize to be won after months of media-saturated campaigning, but a burden to be thrust upon an unlucky individual who can only be excused if he has already served a term, the power-hungry might have to go elsewhere to get their fix.
I'm 29, I'm married, and I still play games. Granted, I don't spend entire weekends playing the way I did as a kid, but I still play. I doubt I'll be playing Duke Nukem Forever, though. It'll probably suck ten thousand times harder than Daikatana.