>> Why should we feel sorry for a criminal who chose to commit suicide rather than accept a a six month plea bargain for breaking and entering and accessing systems he shouldn't be accessing? >> Oh, and please mod me down. I am seriously trolling here, and it couldn't possibly be a legitimate question. I mean our heroes are allowed to do whatever they want without consequence, right?
Part of the reason he commited suicide is probably because... on this world, the likes of you.. exist. Sometimes it's really hard to deal with that fact. If he's gonna be branded a coward, it's only because he couldn't or didn't want to it anymore. This what he did is seriously wrong, but not from your standard stupid moral ideas, it's because the society in which we all live provide environment in which people could become desperate enough to do suicides.
So you're the criminal, Mr. AC, and all the other people that shaped this reality to be... this. What it is now. Where people with good intentions, not selfish, with a vision passion and will, end up comitting suicide.
And eventually, history will remember people like you to be no more then traitors of life and justice. For now, enjoy your "5 minutes" and go f y' self.
I got a pretty good laugh reading the article and the comments.
Don't feel bad man. But seriously. Like everybody else said.. spare batteries ? Everybody that have a phone which can't last at least one full day (you can charge your phone when you're sleeping) already are aware of the fact that you can actually carry spare battery with you.
It would be more creative if you said carry a 9" laptop in your backpack and hook up your phone to its usb connection while laptop is in stand-by mode.
And those mounts.. are just lame. No matter how fancy you could make them (these pictures you showed.. are far from being fancy).
But.. I got a pretty good laugh anyway, so not all is lost.
Said to me, today actually, cuz she have a "common flu" at this moment, is that usually she gets it in "cool season". Which means from December till February/March.
Raining season or hot season, no problems. But cool season*... problems.
Why wasn't it "leaked".. well.. before all this pressure to ban guns ? It's "published", not leaked. Intentionally. Probably to apply pressure on gun owners or to get them into trouble of having a gun, somehow.
What's next ? We gonna ban hammers as well ? I read there are many people killing other people with a hammer. Maybe we can ban sugar.. Hell, more people died from sugar then from guns (not counting the military or criminals that will still have guns regardless of you ban them or not).
People, shit happens, it's unavoidable. The world is full of good people and equally full of bad ones/psychotic-violent ones. Whatever you ban won't change that and mentioned ones are still gonna do their own thing.
In 20 years time you will need permission to go out of the house if the public allows these bans on everything to be carried out.
You guys should go and show em the way eh ? Maybe drop couple of thousands of bombs ah ?
Listen to me fucker ignorant asshole motherfucker that deserve to hang on gallows pole. I live in Thailand, I'm white. I'm not american or from any other colonial country on this world, but they see me the same as you. The fucker that came to "their" country and want to change the system to be what "HE THINKS" is good. For them. It's ok. I don't mind, although I'm ashamed. Oh... now I'm gonna get modded down. But I don't care. I excepted my role before I came here. I don't want to change anything, they are perfectly happy, even more so then every each one of you will be in your miserable lifetime.
Now to get back on topic. This King that you shit on, did more for this people then 50 of your puppet masters aka presidents will/did for you. The reason why everyone is gonna beat the shit ouf of the guy that shits on king is this one. He united them. He "protected them from your asshole bullshit psychopathic corporations" that you value so much, although many of them aren't aware of the details but they still know. My GF sells hats on the street and makes 2k USD a month. In bloody Thailand. Everybody is offered a chance. That's what the guy your shitting on gave them. Go pray to your obama//bush or whatever other war criminal to give their people the same opportunity to make a living, you ignorant colonialist motherfucker.
The sooner people like you(ONE dimensional retarded motherfuckers. Retarded by their own free will) fucking die the sooner this bloody planet will be a better place to live on.
They don't want only your phone number, they want everything personal about you. And step by step, they're getting it.
Facebook offered like 2 euros or something in facebook credits if you entered your phone number. Youtube is forcing a channel name change to your real name or something like that, and when you decline they ask you why.. and in "reasons" offered, you can't choose "because of privacy" or whatever. They are pretending that giving your phone number/real name is a normal thing to do. And eventually they gonna brainwash people into thinking it is a normal thing to do, so everybody will do it without thinking twice.
When you see the current trend, you can extrapolate what the future will look like. Don't need to be bloody Einstein for it.
The "poor" / ordinary people / employees are modern day slave force. With some extra perks (in many cases... they just modern slaves).
You need to take them on a offer (a job) because you need money to live. However, especially in developed countries this is enough only to buy food and basic comfort. Like beer, cigarettes... in some countries not either that (on a daily basis I see cambodian slave workers (from 15 to 60, both male and female) making a building on +40c for 10 usd per day). In developed countries, you have a LOT more, but still IMHO you're nothing but a slave if you work more then 5 hrs.
The philosophy that some employers are trying to jam our throat is work 8hrs, do your stuff 8 hrs, sleep 8hrs. That's not realistic. Find me a guy that do this 10 years and is a fulfilled man with a happy life, and I'll admit I'm wrong. Everybody is trying to progress in a direction they work less/make more because it's foolish to think otherwise, unless you just started working. If you have experience in life, you want to make it easier for yourself because "there are more important things in life then bloody sitting in front of a computer in a cubicle or whatever/wherever".
Everything is propaganda for slave force to work. If there's a possibility of easy money.. it'll be sanctioned/made illegal/whatever. This guy beat the system. He'll get fucked for it, because the system can't allow that to happen.
And where did you pick that up ? On the last 50 tv shows/sci-fi movies that you looked.. ? You could just as easily say we're all dead. Both statements are dellusional, unfortunately influenced by above mentioned that influenced you to think this way.
Offtopic, but relevant in some sort of abstract way: Then people wonder why media can influence people opinion (to give a green light) when it comes to bombing 20 countries in 10 years.
And my personal opinion.. I consider you arrogant people guilty of war crimes, suffering, poverty, and everything else negative on this country. Fuck Bush and Obama what you are.
Rap today is same as R(nR) today. Read: Rap long time ago, was same as Rock long time ago, maybe not musically.. but it was creative and honest. I'm embarrased to say I listen to rock music for a long time now.
When something is honest it's not crap, and besides.. creation is never crap. Having prejudice and cutting off everything without knowing it's history is crap. This comes from someone who grew up with Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Howlin wolf, Led Zeppelin etc.
I respect creative and real rap music, lyrically (read again: I'm not talking about what you see on TV).
The story quotes database guru Mike Stonebraker saying, 'I think Facebook has the hardest information technology problem on the planet.'
Really? You think keeping track of some people's dinner plans is the hardest IT problem on the planet? How about YouTube storing and serving truly ludicrous amounts of video. Web search? Watson?
Facebook is utterly trivial compared to many problems out there.
+5 insightful ? Seems like slashdot have a bug somewhere. Should be +5 Ignorant. Seriously.. this is so wrong it's crazy.
Maybe in some years, someone makes an all-suicide-channel and uses it to "balance the stupid fucking budget". Maybe we'll have people signing in, if the channel gives them some free appliance.
Many reasons. I'm using Ubuntu. Lately some changes they did or plan to do, don't agree with me, so I'm just gonna say bye-bye and try some other desktop friendly distribution. Fortunately you have a freedom of choice, as opposed to let's say Windows.. where nobody gives a f what you want or what you like. If they decide to display ads on your desktop, you gonna have to adapt to it.
Same goes for desktop environments.. Like this Gnome 3 BS. You have 10 more to choose from, so if you personally.. subjectively, don't like something.. you just take 5 minutes to google a bit and you'll find alternative. Not all people like the same thing. Imagine if only outlook express existed.. or Thunderbird.. as a Email client. Or only Internet Explorer as a browser. Having possibility to choose is a good thing.
Some people do it for fun/experimentation... that's alright too.
I'm using Linux on desktop for 11 years. Dual boot just so I can play games once in a year. The 'failure' of the linux desktop is that trivial stupid things like... sound, sometimes is not working OR is not working properly. Besides sound, some (other) desktop components are not working properly. And in every version there's a different problem. I'm not even gonna start talkin about consequences of upgrades (if it works for you, congratulations. Read below. It's not working for me and if you type in google the problem you're having you get 50 k results back).
Basically... it comes down to 'luck' with linux desktop. You might go about your life fine, without problems, or you might be experiencing them on every step. These trivial small things, in 2012, are a deal breaker. Not for me, because I'm barely using desktop environment so I just don't care. I'm so fucked up that I use console for everything (except web mail skype IM). If you're one of this kind of people, and you propagate how linux desktop is mature and working, and think it's great.. go take a cold shower and grow up. It is great and I for one am gonna continue using it, but it's shit at the same time and will continue to be shit for a very long time.
Compared to chrome, it's slower (on my laptop), and it takes more ram. Which is automatic turn off for me. Like playing fps game at 15 frames per second. Screw that.
On the other hand, when site is bringing my chrome down, i fire up firefox... and it works. Softlayers virtual server order page was the latest to cause problems for my chrome.
Something that was _not_ forbidden by law yesterday, may be forbidden tomorrow. Having said that, what do you think.. when there is no law on something that you also presume subjectively as a good thing (that there is no law about that something) today, and in few years they introduce the law, let's say, limiting people (including you) to do something that was fine to do yesterday. This is happening all the time, btw.
Will your viewpoint change then ? If not, then you're contradicting yourself, since at that point you'll stop following the law and only thing you can do to justify it, is saying something like "i know what's right".. which is hypocritical given your current opinion and self-righteous which is even worse. If yes, then you (sorry to say it like this) don't deserve a primary attribute us human beings have as a species. Individuality and capability of independent thought, higher intelligence. _The things that you're utilizing right now in this discussion_.
Stop being greedy self-centered asshole that main purpose in life is consumation. And it is main purpose in life for many of people. All those that, like George Carlin say, buy things they "DON'T NEED" with money they don't have.
I don't own a freaking iPod or iPad or 50 pairs of shoes and pants and big screen TV, and don't have a need to "get one" as soon as it starts hitting the media... if there's a practical need for me to get one, I'll get one. I'm not gonna go blindly buy everything. You may think this isn't related, but it is. 90 % of stuff you can buy/posses is BS. More worse, stupid BS. But as long as it's fancy and flashy... it's alright eh ?
When you stop simply consuming without thinking, all those factories will gonna close down. Lost jobs ? Oh well, you can't sit with one ass on two chairs. Stop bloody complaining, and do something about it.
They just gonna use this as an excuse to push some new law which will be (again, same as last... well, just look at last 15 years that's enough) in their interest(*) and for which you gonna pay up. By they I mean these centralized governments we have today. The others just follow that, even when they are not a part of it. If not, the centralized governments public relationship office, namely, mainstream media, wouldn't bombard people with these sort of thing all the time. They aren't doing it because they like you, certainly not. If you think this is some sort of conspiracy theory, then you retarded.
You'll see in few years. If you not think so, then like I said above.. look at the trend from last 15 years. Imagine how world will look like in 50.
(*) Money, power, duration of exploitation of planet/resources, something else.
Politics is a force that's moving into some direction. Politicians are just faces that speak for that force. I have no idea what it is, but I know politicians are not important. Look at the last 12 years in US. In reality, nothing changed, it's just following the flow, and things are happening and ending naturally.. one dude is not influencing those changes in any way.
Or look at the fcked up countries. In those, you have politicians that are really in power. In those cases, they run the country solely for personal interests.
In communists countries you can point a finger at someone when things go bad. Now in "democracy", when you point a finger at someone he gets replaced by another guy. Then you point a finger at him, then he gets replaced. Then you point finger again, then that guy get's replaced. And the things stay the same.
If you people had "ANY" honest politicians and if I'm wrong in my previous sentence, that guy would be on a function for life, eg. president for life, not just one or two terms. Why not if he's doing his job well ? The absurdity of "but come next election..." is that every 4 year people say that, and nothing changes, then they say it again.. and again and again...
I propose people hang every politicians, together with his/her family, if he betrays and/or twists, in any way, ideas he propagated to get to the power. Why not ? There's a death penalty.. right ? Biggest penalty should be for politicians that manipulate and lie their own people, for personal/corporate/masters/whoever interests. In few years time there either wouldn't be any more politicians, or you would only have those few genuine ones. The problem with this is that the system would fall apart, since it's based on bullshit anyway.. we don't know how to live in anything else other then BS. - Taken from G. Carlin bit.
What marketing does Bill and Melinda Gates need? It's not like they're marketing for Microsoft - they're giving away their own money to help the world. Could you be any more selfish and bitter? What do you do for the good of the world?
And if you think that the only way to do good for the world is with money(seems there are entire cultures based on this - money is your god idea), then no wonder this planet's becoming a shit hole. What happened to just being good to each other, self sacrifice.. about actually "giving" and caring for people ? Maybe the guy you said this to is doing exactly that, but I guess that doesn't count in your eyes, yes ?
There are many ways in which you can do good. Don't fall for strict left/right, good/bad, good guys/bad guys philosophy of thinking. Everything matters. The only difference between us is that some people may do more to help, while other less, but that doesn't mean anything. We're collectively evolving and we're in a same boat, each every one of us.
Here's an article not related to contraception, but related to Gates foundation. It would be insightful read, since no one bothers anymore to research any topic by himself, before he forms an opinion..
Which is the problem. Not the power outage itself. If the power outage happened, and the servers where back let's say... in 30 minutes, 1hour... alright, but 9 freakin' hrs ?
In my specific case I didn't suffer as much because I have another instance in different zone with db replication and all that, serving as a backup server, and my project there, although very critical (20 people are getting wages out of it) is very low on resource usage... I can imagine there where quite a lot of people that lost quite a lot of money because of this. It's really unacceptable for a DC to have a 9 hrs downtime, whatever the reason is... because.. that's just the standard people are used to. I never experienced anything like this at any other company in the last 10 years I'm working as a linux admin.. although at all those companies, I used real servers.
Umm, I know whole lot of 'very intelligent' people, that aren't mathematicians or.. CS.. actually, most of them just have a high school, and they aren't gay. In fact, I don't know any gay people and I'm in IT for 11 years now.
Saying that smart people tend to be gay is.. retarded. Sorry. With all the popularity gay people are getting in last 5-10 years, i would imagine they would even make skewed "gay people are smart people" type of research, that perhaps isn't too much off, but I bet you it don't take all variables in equation (and probably is done by gay researchers/scientists like yourself that cherish the idea). Sorry man not attacking you, I'm just allergic to bias.
I know 20-30 "very intelligent" guys. Out of those 20, neither one of them is gay. Gay people are minority yes, but aren't 'special' in any way. Deal with it.
Mr Underbridge. With all due respect, please stop meddling in other people's affairs. I hate to repeat myself, but there's always one like you showing up on each topic like this. And it will be like that for a long long time. When you're imperialistic gov crumbles, new guys will spring up, and in no-time... our children will have the same discussion as we do now.
I understand that your perception of your country is different from perception of outside observer, but when it comes to "your foreign policy", outside observer has more to say then you, because your "foreign policy" affects _us_ more then you. I also reckon that you don't leave your country much, and if you do, you don't go out for long to notice what's really happening, if you did.. you wouldn't write what you just did.
If you want to comment, and propagate your opinions around, please make an effort to inform yourself at least, and by make an effort don't just turn on cnn/whatever, rather do some independent research. If you don't care for that, then please stfu. I don't care about gardening, and I ain't sticking my nose on gardening topics and annoying people there. Get the point ?
And last but not least... _please stop helping us, please_.
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>> Why should we feel sorry for a criminal who chose to commit suicide rather than accept a a six month plea bargain for breaking and entering and accessing systems he shouldn't be accessing?
>> Oh, and please mod me down. I am seriously trolling here, and it couldn't possibly be a legitimate question. I mean our heroes are allowed to do whatever they want without consequence, right?
Part of the reason he commited suicide is probably because... on this world, the likes of you.. exist. Sometimes it's really hard to deal with that fact.
If he's gonna be branded a coward, it's only because he couldn't or didn't want to it anymore. This what he did is seriously wrong, but not from your standard stupid moral ideas, it's because the society in which we all live provide environment in which people could become desperate enough to do suicides.
So you're the criminal, Mr. AC, and all the other people that shaped this reality to be ... this. What it is now.
Where people with good intentions, not selfish, with a vision passion and will, end up comitting suicide.
And eventually, history will remember people like you to be no more then traitors of life and justice. For now, enjoy your "5 minutes" and go f y' self.
I got a pretty good laugh reading the article and the comments.
Don't feel bad man. But seriously. Like everybody else said.. spare batteries ? Everybody that have a phone which can't last at least one full day (you can charge your phone when you're sleeping) already are aware of the fact that you can actually carry spare battery with you.
It would be more creative if you said carry a 9" laptop in your backpack and hook up your phone to its usb connection while laptop is in stand-by mode.
And those mounts.. are just lame. No matter how fancy you could make them (these pictures you showed.. are far from being fancy).
But.. I got a pretty good laugh anyway, so not all is lost.
Said to me, today actually, cuz she have a "common flu" at this moment, is that usually she gets it in "cool season". Which means from December till February/March.
Raining season or hot season, no problems. But cool season*... problems.
*= Cool .. 33 at day 22-25 at night, low humidity.
Why wasn't it "leaked" .. well.. before all this pressure to ban guns ?
It's "published", not leaked. Intentionally. Probably to apply pressure on gun owners or to get them into trouble of having a gun, somehow.
What's next ? We gonna ban hammers as well ? I read there are many people killing other people with a hammer. Maybe we can ban sugar.. Hell, more people died from sugar then from guns (not counting the military or criminals that will still have guns regardless of you ban them or not).
People, shit happens, it's unavoidable. The world is full of good people and equally full of bad ones/psychotic-violent ones. Whatever you ban won't change that and mentioned ones are still gonna do their own thing.
In 20 years time you will need permission to go out of the house if the public allows these bans on everything to be carried out.
You guys should go and show em the way eh ? Maybe drop couple of thousands of bombs ah ?
Listen to me fucker ignorant asshole motherfucker that deserve to hang on gallows pole. I live in Thailand, I'm white. I'm not american or from any other colonial country on this world, but they see me the same as you. The fucker that came to "their" country and want to change the system to be what "HE THINKS" is good. For them.
It's ok. I don't mind, although I'm ashamed. Oh... now I'm gonna get modded down. But I don't care. I excepted my role before I came here. I don't want to change anything, they are perfectly happy, even more so then every each one of you will be in your miserable lifetime.
Now to get back on topic. This King that you shit on, did more for this people then 50 of your puppet masters aka presidents will/did for you. The reason why everyone is gonna beat the shit ouf of the guy that shits on king is this one. He united them. He "protected them from your asshole bullshit psychopathic corporations" that you value so much, although many of them aren't aware of the details but they still know.
My GF sells hats on the street and makes 2k USD a month. In bloody Thailand. Everybody is offered a chance. That's what the guy your shitting on gave them.
Go pray to your obama//bush or whatever other war criminal to give their people the same opportunity to make a living, you ignorant colonialist motherfucker.
The sooner people like you(ONE dimensional retarded motherfuckers. Retarded by their own free will) fucking die the sooner this bloody planet will be a better place to live on.
They don't want only your phone number, they want everything personal about you. And step by step, they're getting it.
Facebook offered like 2 euros or something in facebook credits if you entered your phone number. Youtube is forcing a channel name change to your real name or something like that, and when you decline they ask you why.. and in "reasons" offered, you can't choose "because of privacy" or whatever. They are pretending that giving your phone number/real name is a normal thing to do. And eventually they gonna brainwash people into thinking it is a normal thing to do, so everybody will do it without thinking twice.
When you see the current trend, you can extrapolate what the future will look like. Don't need to be bloody Einstein for it.
The "poor" / ordinary people / employees are modern day slave force. With some extra perks (in many cases... they just modern slaves).
You need to take them on a offer (a job) because you need money to live. However, especially in developed countries this is enough only to buy food and basic comfort. Like beer, cigarettes... in some countries not either that (on a daily basis I see cambodian slave workers (from 15 to 60, both male and female) making a building on +40c for 10 usd per day). In developed countries, you have a LOT more, but still IMHO you're nothing but a slave if you work more then 5 hrs.
The philosophy that some employers are trying to jam our throat is work 8hrs, do your stuff 8 hrs, sleep 8hrs. That's not realistic. Find me a guy that do this 10 years and is a fulfilled man with a happy life, and I'll admit I'm wrong. Everybody is trying to progress in a direction they work less/make more because it's foolish to think otherwise, unless you just started working. If you have experience in life, you want to make it easier for yourself because "there are more important things in life then bloody sitting in front of a computer in a cubicle or whatever/wherever".
Everything is propaganda for slave force to work. If there's a possibility of easy money.. it'll be sanctioned/made illegal/whatever.
This guy beat the system. He'll get fucked for it, because the system can't allow that to happen.
Now go to sleep.
>> Barring catastrophe, we will eventually do it.
And where did you pick that up ? On the last 50 tv shows/sci-fi movies that you looked .. ?
You could just as easily say we're all dead. Both statements are dellusional, unfortunately influenced by above mentioned that influenced you to think this way.
Offtopic, but relevant in some sort of abstract way: Then people wonder why media can influence people opinion (to give a green light) when it comes to bombing 20 countries in 10 years.
And my personal opinion.. I consider you arrogant people guilty of war crimes, suffering, poverty, and everything else negative on this country. Fuck Bush and Obama what you are.
Rap today is same as R(nR) today. Read: Rap long time ago, was same as Rock long time ago, maybe not musically.. but it was creative and honest.
I'm embarrased to say I listen to rock music for a long time now.
When something is honest it's not crap, and besides .. creation is never crap. Having prejudice and cutting off everything without knowing it's history is crap.
This comes from someone who grew up with Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Howlin wolf, Led Zeppelin etc.
I respect creative and real rap music, lyrically (read again: I'm not talking about what you see on TV).
The story quotes database guru Mike Stonebraker saying, 'I think Facebook has the hardest information technology problem on the planet.'
Really? You think keeping track of some people's dinner plans is the hardest IT problem on the planet? How about YouTube storing and serving truly ludicrous amounts of video. Web search? Watson?
Facebook is utterly trivial compared to many problems out there.
+5 insightful ? Seems like slashdot have a bug somewhere. Should be +5 Ignorant. Seriously.. this is so wrong it's crazy.
Maybe in some years, someone makes an all-suicide-channel and uses it to "balance the stupid fucking budget".
Maybe we'll have people signing in, if the channel gives them some free appliance.
Youtube George Carlin for reference.
Creatures that steal underpants... for profit.
Many reasons. I'm using Ubuntu. Lately some changes they did or plan to do, don't agree with me, so I'm just gonna say bye-bye and try some other desktop friendly distribution. Fortunately you have a freedom of choice, as opposed to let's say Windows.. where nobody gives a f what you want or what you like. If they decide to display ads on your desktop, you gonna have to adapt to it.
Same goes for desktop environments.. Like this Gnome 3 BS. You have 10 more to choose from, so if you personally.. subjectively, don't like something.. you just take 5 minutes to google a bit and you'll find alternative. Not all people like the same thing. Imagine if only outlook express existed.. or Thunderbird .. as a Email client. Or only Internet Explorer as a browser. Having possibility to choose is a good thing.
Some people do it for fun/experimentation... that's alright too.
... WHO ?!?!?
I'm using Linux on desktop for 11 years. Dual boot just so I can play games once in a year. The 'failure' of the linux desktop is that trivial stupid things like ... sound, sometimes is not working OR is not working properly.
Besides sound, some (other) desktop components are not working properly. And in every version there's a different problem. I'm not even gonna start talkin about consequences of upgrades (if it works for you, congratulations. Read below. It's not working for me and if you type in google the problem you're having you get 50 k results back).
Basically... it comes down to 'luck' with linux desktop. You might go about your life fine, without problems, or you might be experiencing them on every step. These trivial small things, in 2012, are a deal breaker. Not for me, because I'm barely using desktop environment so I just don't care. I'm so fucked up that I use console for everything (except web mail skype IM). If you're one of this kind of people, and you propagate how linux desktop is mature and working, and think it's great.. go take a cold shower and grow up. It is great and I for one am gonna continue using it, but it's shit at the same time and will continue to be shit for a very long time.
Compared to chrome, it's slower (on my laptop), and it takes more ram. Which is automatic turn off for me. Like playing fps game at 15 frames per second. Screw that.
On the other hand, when site is bringing my chrome down, i fire up firefox... and it works. Softlayers virtual server order page was the latest to cause problems for my chrome.
Something that was _not_ forbidden by law yesterday, may be forbidden tomorrow. Having said that, what do you think.. when there is no law on something that you also presume subjectively as a good thing (that there is no law about that something) today, and in few years they introduce the law, let's say, limiting people (including you) to do something that was fine to do yesterday. This is happening all the time, btw.
Will your viewpoint change then ? If not, then you're contradicting yourself, since at that point you'll stop following the law and only thing you can do to justify it, is saying something like "i know what's right".. which is hypocritical given your current opinion and self-righteous which is even worse.
If yes, then you (sorry to say it like this) don't deserve a primary attribute us human beings have as a species. Individuality and capability of independent thought, higher intelligence. _The things that you're utilizing right now in this discussion_.
Stop being greedy self-centered asshole that main purpose in life is consumation. And it is main purpose in life for many of people. All those that, like George Carlin say, buy things they "DON'T NEED" with money they don't have.
I don't own a freaking iPod or iPad or 50 pairs of shoes and pants and big screen TV, and don't have a need to "get one" as soon as it starts hitting the media... if there's a practical need for me to get one, I'll get one. I'm not gonna go blindly buy everything. You may think this isn't related, but it is. 90 % of stuff you can buy/posses is BS. More worse, stupid BS. But as long as it's fancy and flashy ... it's alright eh ?
When you stop simply consuming without thinking, all those factories will gonna close down. Lost jobs ? Oh well, you can't sit with one ass on two chairs.
Stop bloody complaining, and do something about it.
They just gonna use this as an excuse to push some new law which will be (again, same as last ... well, just look at last 15 years that's enough) in their interest(*) and for which you gonna pay up. By they I mean these centralized governments we have today. The others just follow that, even when they are not a part of it.
If not, the centralized governments public relationship office, namely, mainstream media, wouldn't bombard people with these sort of thing all the time. They aren't doing it because they like you, certainly not. If you think this is some sort of conspiracy theory, then you retarded.
You'll see in few years. If you not think so, then like I said above.. look at the trend from last 15 years. Imagine how world will look like in 50.
(*) Money, power, duration of exploitation of planet/resources, something else.
Politics is a force that's moving into some direction. Politicians are just faces that speak for that force. I have no idea what it is, but I know politicians are not important. Look at the last 12 years in US. In reality, nothing changed, it's just following the flow, and things are happening and ending naturally.. one dude is not influencing those changes in any way.
Or look at the fcked up countries. In those, you have politicians that are really in power. In those cases, they run the country solely for personal interests.
In communists countries you can point a finger at someone when things go bad. Now in "democracy", when you point a finger at someone he gets replaced by another guy. Then you point a finger at him, then he gets replaced. Then you point finger again, then that guy get's replaced. And the things stay the same.
If you people had "ANY" honest politicians and if I'm wrong in my previous sentence, that guy would be on a function for life, eg. president for life, not just one or two terms. Why not if he's doing his job well ? The absurdity of "but come next election..." is that every 4 year people say that, and nothing changes, then they say it again.. and again and again...
I propose people hang every politicians, together with his/her family, if he betrays and/or twists, in any way, ideas he propagated to get to the power.
Why not ? There's a death penalty.. right ? Biggest penalty should be for politicians that manipulate and lie their own people, for personal/corporate/masters/whoever interests. In few years time there either wouldn't be any more politicians, or you would only have those few genuine ones.
The problem with this is that the system would fall apart, since it's based on bullshit anyway.. we don't know how to live in anything else other then BS. - Taken from G. Carlin bit.
What marketing does Bill and Melinda Gates need? It's not like they're marketing for Microsoft - they're giving away their own money to help the world. Could you be any more selfish and bitter? What do you do for the good of the world?
And if you think that the only way to do good for the world is with money(seems there are entire cultures based on this - money is your god idea), then no wonder this planet's becoming a shit hole.
What happened to just being good to each other, self sacrifice.. about actually "giving" and caring for people ? Maybe the guy you said this to is doing exactly that, but I guess that doesn't count in your eyes, yes ?
There are many ways in which you can do good.
Don't fall for strict left/right, good/bad, good guys/bad guys philosophy of thinking. Everything matters. The only difference between us is that some people may do more to help, while other less, but that doesn't mean anything. We're collectively evolving and we're in a same boat, each every one of us.
Here's an article not related to contraception, but related to Gates foundation. It would be insightful read, since no one bothers anymore to research any topic by himself, before he forms an opinion..
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html
Which is the problem. Not the power outage itself. ... in 30 minutes, 1hour... alright, but 9 freakin' hrs ?
If the power outage happened, and the servers where back let's say
In my specific case I didn't suffer as much because I have another instance in different zone with db replication and all that, serving as a backup server, and my project there, although very critical (20 people are getting wages out of it) is very low on resource usage... I can imagine there where quite a lot of people that lost quite a lot of money because of this. It's really unacceptable for a DC to have a 9 hrs downtime, whatever the reason is... because.. that's just the standard people are used to.
I never experienced anything like this at any other company in the last 10 years I'm working as a linux admin.. although at all those companies, I used real servers.
Umm, I know whole lot of 'very intelligent' people, that aren't mathematicians or .. CS .. actually, most of them just have a high school, and they aren't gay. In fact, I don't know any gay people and I'm in IT for 11 years now.
Saying that smart people tend to be gay is .. retarded. Sorry. With all the popularity gay people are getting in last 5-10 years, i would imagine they would even make skewed "gay people are smart people" type of research, that perhaps isn't too much off, but I bet you it don't take all variables in equation (and probably is done by gay researchers/scientists like yourself that cherish the idea). Sorry man not attacking you, I'm just allergic to bias.
I know 20-30 "very intelligent" guys. Out of those 20, neither one of them is gay. Gay people are minority yes, but aren't 'special' in any way. Deal with it.
Mr Underbridge. With all due respect, please stop meddling in other people's affairs. I hate to repeat myself, but there's always one like you showing up on each topic like this. And it will be like that for a long long time. When you're imperialistic gov crumbles, new guys will spring up, and in no-time... our children will have the same discussion as we do now.
I understand that your perception of your country is different from perception of outside observer, but when it comes to "your foreign policy", outside observer has more to say then you, because your "foreign policy" affects _us_ more then you. I also reckon that you don't leave your country much, and if you do, you don't go out for long to notice what's really happening, if you did.. you wouldn't write what you just did.
If you want to comment, and propagate your opinions around, please make an effort to inform yourself at least, and by make an effort don't just turn on cnn/whatever, rather do some independent research. If you don't care for that, then please stfu. I don't care about gardening, and I ain't sticking my nose on gardening topics and annoying people there. Get the point ?
And last but not least... _please stop helping us, please_.