No, they're not. People are raised in different types of cultures, with different belief systems, and different ideas of what right and wrong are. People really are different.
You shout that those of us who recognize this are acting like sheep, when your insistence on treating human beings like identical widgets is far more dehumanizing. You do sound like a perfect choice to work in Human Resources, though.
The only place that people are, or even should be, equal is before the law.
There is nothing stopping any of us from taking advantage of these low paid programmer or engineers.
Nothing except honor, self-respect, and human dignity.
But they don't talk about that in business school, right? So fuck 'em, right?
As I get older, I seem to be getting more cynical (or less naive). It seems like there is no rule of law, no consistency, no fairness - only self-interest, hypocrisy, betrayal, etc. Judges decide whatever they want, damn the plain reading of prior cases, or the law. Politicians flagrantly violate the law, without consequence. Average people cheat, steal, commit crimes, and otherwise screw over others, with little or no consequence. Maybe I'm the last boy scout. Tell me why I'm wrong if I am. Otherwise, maybe I should just do whatever the hell I want without any regard for others, the law, etc.
You're not wrong. Everything is as bad as you say it is, and you are one of the last boy scouts.
But we need boy scouts.
We need people who will still point out how flagrantly wrong and self-serving decisions like these are, even though doing so seems pointless. No, pointing this stuff out will not chance a thing. But having people recognize that things like this are wrong, is the necessary pre-condition for even the possibility of change to exist. If no one speaks up, then evils such as this would become the new standard of what "right and normal" is. And if that happens, then it would never occur to anyone else that things should, or even could be different.
Yeah, fighting against the tide rolling in seems utterly pointless. But at least the tide knows that you did not consent, you did not give in, and you went down fighting. Sometimes, that's enough to let a future generation pick up those ideals later on, and start the fight anew, and maybe even win next time.
The 'concession' from the EU is only not to try to convert retail beer measurements to litres rather than a wholesale recognition that affection for alternative units of measure might be a cultural expression of freedom.
Well the EU isn't exactly interested in cultural expressions of freedom. If the UK wanted to keep its culture, the best bet would be to invade Belgium and burn Brussels to the ground.
Trying to stop kiddie porn from being given away (which is what Usenet is) is hopeless and pointless. What is needed is to find and prosecute the criminals who produce it, the ones who are abusing living children, not the (literal) wankers who download images. It's a distraction, a way to pretend they're doing something that won't help one single child.
But that's precisely what they want - to pretend they're doing something. They don't want to actually stop kiddie porn. If they stopped it, they wouldn't have this wonderful excuse to snoop on everyone. They wouldn't have the justification to censor the other things they want expunged. They wouldn't have the public's roaring consent to increase their control. And that is what they really want.
Also, the police, the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and other similar groups, don't want the problem to go away. If it did, their paychecks would go away! (I'm sure the low-level volunteers at groups like the Center truly are working to "solve" the problem; I'm talking about the execs at such places who draw a hefty paycheck.) Does anyone really think that these folks care if a few eastern European or third-world children get every orifice violated three ways to Sunday? Of course they don't, as long as they keep making a living off of crying about it.
Lewis seems to be just plain wrong, which is kind of upsetting for "chief researcher" at a firm like Gartner, especially when the correct information is freely available.
Gartner is always wrong. I have never seen them get anything right, unless it's about as obvious at what direction the sun will rise in the morning.
I do enjoy Gartner's existence, though, as it's helpful to know where some of the morons are stockpiled.
My old man went to WWII to shoot fuckers that ran their government like this, but it seems one too many people came back from enthralled with the shiny black uniforms of the SS. Well, you have to admit that the uniforms were pretty cool.
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People are all just people.
No, they're not. People are raised in different types of cultures, with different belief systems, and different ideas of what right and wrong are. People really are different.
You shout that those of us who recognize this are acting like sheep, when your insistence on treating human beings like identical widgets is far more dehumanizing. You do sound like a perfect choice to work in Human Resources, though.
The only place that people are, or even should be, equal is before the law.
There is nothing stopping any of us from taking advantage of these low paid programmer or engineers. Nothing except honor, self-respect, and human dignity. But they don't talk about that in business school, right? So fuck 'em, right?
You're not wrong. Everything is as bad as you say it is, and you are one of the last boy scouts.
But we need boy scouts.
We need people who will still point out how flagrantly wrong and self-serving decisions like these are, even though doing so seems pointless. No, pointing this stuff out will not chance a thing. But having people recognize that things like this are wrong, is the necessary pre-condition for even the possibility of change to exist. If no one speaks up, then evils such as this would become the new standard of what "right and normal" is. And if that happens, then it would never occur to anyone else that things should, or even could be different.
Yeah, fighting against the tide rolling in seems utterly pointless. But at least the tide knows that you did not consent, you did not give in, and you went down fighting. Sometimes, that's enough to let a future generation pick up those ideals later on, and start the fight anew, and maybe even win next time.
"Inflation, in small doses, is a good thing because it encourages you to use your money rather than hide it under the mattress where it loses value."
Of course, if there weren't any inflation, it wouldn't lose value even if you did hide it in the mattress.
Well the EU isn't exactly interested in cultural expressions of freedom. If the UK wanted to keep its culture, the best bet would be to invade Belgium and burn Brussels to the ground.
But that's precisely what they want - to pretend they're doing something. They don't want to actually stop kiddie porn. If they stopped it, they wouldn't have this wonderful excuse to snoop on everyone. They wouldn't have the justification to censor the other things they want expunged. They wouldn't have the public's roaring consent to increase their control. And that is what they really want.
Also, the police, the Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and other similar groups, don't want the problem to go away. If it did, their paychecks would go away! (I'm sure the low-level volunteers at groups like the Center truly are working to "solve" the problem; I'm talking about the execs at such places who draw a hefty paycheck.) Does anyone really think that these folks care if a few eastern European or third-world children get every orifice violated three ways to Sunday? Of course they don't, as long as they keep making a living off of crying about it.
Gartner is always wrong. I have never seen them get anything right, unless it's about as obvious at what direction the sun will rise in the morning.
I do enjoy Gartner's existence, though, as it's helpful to know where some of the morons are stockpiled.
And it's next to impossible to fit a body in one, believe me. That's why blenders have a "Purée" setting.