The worst thing you can do for a philosopher is give him answers. It is like giving a chronic Onanist a girlfriend - he wouldn't know what to do with it, and besides, he's having too much fun already.
Security is not for your protection, it is for the (bank's, government's, employer's) protection. They can't profit from a mutually co-operative society, only a divided and individualistic one.
Every cell in your body shares its entire sustenance with its neighbours. When a cell doesn't, it is called cancer. Hence the slow and painful death of our society.
It gets even better. My corporation is covered under the Microsoft HUP, which means I can get a disc or download of Office 2010 for $AUD15. The cost is so small that it is piracy for all intents and purposes.
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Grow a backbone and come join the other mammals when you're ready.
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What exactly is it that makes people say Assange is an egomaniac as opposed to say, Palin, Lieberman, or any of the self congratulating US "news" crowd
Jealousy. Plain, obvious, jealousy. That's why they say they agree with what he's doing, but not how he's doing it.
Einstein said "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Also, "A human being is part of a whole, called by us universe – a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Nobody can fulfill this task to the end, but just the efforts to reach this goal are a part of liberation and a foundation for inner confidence."
Also, "Man’s real value is defined by the degree to which he has liberated himself from egoism and by the means he used to attain it."
There are further relationships between Einstein, Kabbalah, and the Torah, but I will not bore you with them. It will be enough to say that Einstein was not living in a vacuum.
You're right, religious people are misguided. Religion is a convenient illusion that was created to ultimately prepare the world for a true understanding of nature. Even though it may be misguided, it is not without its purpose.
If you're an atheist, and you reject society's childish beliefs, you are already much closer to the truth than all the religious masses put together.
We don't shame children for believing in Santa Claus, and so we shouldn't shame the religious for believing in a man on a cloud. When they graduate from this belief, they will understand the necessity of illusion and how it offers protection before maturity.
The Bible was created in this way to provide both revelation and concealment. Neither one provides the whole truth - it is the current alternating between them that develops us.
Sodom and Gomorrah anyone? Why is the bible a good book?
At face value, the Bible is a good example. However, concealed within this outwardly perverted tome lies a body of great spiritual knowledge. Those stories use symbols to describe spiritual concepts (see Aggadah). These profound concepts can be learnt by anyone so inclined. I'm not saying it shouldn't be banned, I personally think there are better ways to enter spirituality - just that the overwhelming majority would leave it unmolested.
I understand that you may be not be spiritual, suffice it to say that many are.
Until Selena Kitt can justify her stories as more than base masturbation material, the great unwashed will unfortunately perceive it as a threat to the species. For a primer on biological repugnance, check out something like Origin of Emotions (Mark Devon, Harvard University).
It is very interesting how the unconscious cannot separate fact from fiction. This is true within the human body (as detailed by your friendly neighbourhood psychologist) and human society in general, as each individual element reflects the whole. These unconscious people sleepwalk their way through life, chasing pleasure and shrinking from pain like mere children. And like any child in the family, they rule society with an iron fist. This is the law of nature.
The clause in question does NOT really criminalize failure to get insurance, it simply requires those that fail to buy a insurance to pay the government cash.
You say this, but then in the same breath you say
They get caught up in words like 'require' but don't bother to look at what the law actually does.
How about you look at what the law actually does before you rush to defend your precious government?
Better yet, couldn't you just include the torrent hash encoded in base64, upload to a free website, let Google cache it and have them act as the indexer? It's not like they can do anything illegal.
How is the modded insightful? It's just playing with semantics. One could simply state that Amazon is denying others the right to do business with WikiLeaks. Of course that is their perogative, and they are within the bounds of the law. LOIC is outside the bounds of the law.
What a startling coincidence! A corporation is within the bounds of the law... and the people are outside of it! Wow. Who would've thought... no wait. Who made that law again? Oh yeah. You wanna talk about double standards...
How about if instead of asking me to submit I ask THEM to submit?
That has to be the first brave comment in this entire discussion.
I can tell which ones were bullied in school, because their first reaction is just to "ignore him, and he will go away." But that's a lie, and everyone knows it.
Life doesn't change after high school. You have your jocks, willing to stand up for what they believe in yet arrogant and retarded, and your nerds - intelligent, ethical, and completely emasculated. Both utterly powerless to defend against exploitation.
Wedged firmly in the middle is Picard.
You think Picard would take this shit lying down? No. Fucking. Way. Motherfuckers. He would tear this shit up at the first sign of injustice, combining fire and heart in a way that would make Captain Planet weep tears of bitter cowardice. He may be just a sweet fiction, but I think he could teach a few of these folks a lesson.
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The worst thing you can do for a philosopher is give him answers. It is like giving a chronic Onanist a girlfriend - he wouldn't know what to do with it, and besides, he's having too much fun already.
Security is not for your protection, it is for the (bank's, government's, employer's) protection. They can't profit from a mutually co-operative society, only a divided and individualistic one.
Every cell in your body shares its entire sustenance with its neighbours. When a cell doesn't, it is called cancer. Hence the slow and painful death of our society.
It gets even better. My corporation is covered under the Microsoft HUP, which means I can get a disc or download of Office 2010 for $AUD15. The cost is so small that it is piracy for all intents and purposes.
Grow a backbone and come join the other mammals when you're ready.
What exactly is it that makes people say Assange is an egomaniac as opposed to say, Palin, Lieberman, or any of the self congratulating US "news" crowd
Jealousy. Plain, obvious, jealousy. That's why they say they agree with what he's doing, but not how he's doing it.
It's a natural reaction to close your eyes when a ball is about to hit you in the face. Can't blame people for following their instincts.
Einstein said "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Also, "A human being is part of a whole, called by us universe – a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a prison, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Nobody can fulfill this task to the end, but just the efforts to reach this goal are a part of liberation and a foundation for inner confidence."
Also, "Man’s real value is defined by the degree to which he has liberated himself from egoism and by the means he used to attain it."
The Kabbalist Rambam (Maimonides), a rabbi with whom the Jewish Einstein was certainly familiar, asserted that when the Creator created the universe, he created matter, and that time was one of its qualities (Motion in Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Comparisons with Classical Views)
There are further relationships between Einstein, Kabbalah, and the Torah, but I will not bore you with them. It will be enough to say that Einstein was not living in a vacuum.
You're right, religious people are misguided. Religion is a convenient illusion that was created to ultimately prepare the world for a true understanding of nature. Even though it may be misguided, it is not without its purpose.
If you're an atheist, and you reject society's childish beliefs, you are already much closer to the truth than all the religious masses put together.
We don't shame children for believing in Santa Claus, and so we shouldn't shame the religious for believing in a man on a cloud. When they graduate from this belief, they will understand the necessity of illusion and how it offers protection before maturity.
The Bible was created in this way to provide both revelation and concealment. Neither one provides the whole truth - it is the current alternating between them that develops us.
Sodom and Gomorrah anyone? Why is the bible a good book?
At face value, the Bible is a good example. However, concealed within this outwardly perverted tome lies a body of great spiritual knowledge. Those stories use symbols to describe spiritual concepts (see Aggadah). These profound concepts can be learnt by anyone so inclined. I'm not saying it shouldn't be banned, I personally think there are better ways to enter spirituality - just that the overwhelming majority would leave it unmolested.
I understand that you may be not be spiritual, suffice it to say that many are.
Until Selena Kitt can justify her stories as more than base masturbation material, the great unwashed will unfortunately perceive it as a threat to the species. For a primer on biological repugnance, check out something like Origin of Emotions (Mark Devon, Harvard University).
It is very interesting how the unconscious cannot separate fact from fiction. This is true within the human body (as detailed by your friendly neighbourhood psychologist) and human society in general, as each individual element reflects the whole. These unconscious people sleepwalk their way through life, chasing pleasure and shrinking from pain like mere children. And like any child in the family, they rule society with an iron fist. This is the law of nature.
The one with the waxed moustache and lazy eye.
If the biggest scandal we can come up with is the Secretary of State using spies on the head of the UN, you know we run a pretty tight ship.
Don't worry, there's still another 250,000 documents to be released. WikiLeaks will save the best till last.
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark
But even so, wise dogs don't bark.
Only mongrels make it hard
For the milkman to come up the yard.
Apple, by its own admission, doesn't produce things that work well. They produce things that "just work".
The clause in question does NOT really criminalize failure to get insurance, it simply requires those that fail to buy a insurance to pay the government cash.
You say this, but then in the same breath you say
They get caught up in words like 'require' but don't bother to look at what the law actually does.
How about you look at what the law actually does before you rush to defend your precious government?
Just in time for Saturnalia! The Titan-sized moon didn't fall into Saturn's atmosphere - it was swallowed.
Better yet, couldn't you just include the torrent hash encoded in base64, upload to a free website, let Google cache it and have them act as the indexer? It's not like they can do anything illegal.
In other words, we're so close to losing all our freedom that we might as well shut up and take it.
A message from your friendly gubbermint.
"But I was just following orders" didn't work the nazis. Godwin'd
How is the modded insightful? It's just playing with semantics. One could simply state that Amazon is denying others the right to do business with WikiLeaks. Of course that is their perogative, and they are within the bounds of the law. LOIC is outside the bounds of the law.
What a startling coincidence! A corporation is within the bounds of the law... and the people are outside of it! Wow. Who would've thought... no wait. Who made that law again? Oh yeah. You wanna talk about double standards...
How about if instead of asking me to submit I ask THEM to submit?
That has to be the first brave comment in this entire discussion.
I can tell which ones were bullied in school, because their first reaction is just to "ignore him, and he will go away." But that's a lie, and everyone knows it.
Life doesn't change after high school. You have your jocks, willing to stand up for what they believe in yet arrogant and retarded, and your nerds - intelligent, ethical, and completely emasculated. Both utterly powerless to defend against exploitation.
Wedged firmly in the middle is Picard.
You think Picard would take this shit lying down? No. Fucking. Way. Motherfuckers. He would tear this shit up at the first sign of injustice, combining fire and heart in a way that would make Captain Planet weep tears of bitter cowardice. He may be just a sweet fiction, but I think he could teach a few of these folks a lesson.
The time for grandstanding and media whoring is over.
And apparently, the time for paragraphs too.
Then man up, ya poof. People have died for their country and you're mincing around like a woman.
Hey, do you mind if my bear sleeps in your bed tonight?. Don't worry, he's on a chain.
Well, I believe a dagger has been struck into the very heart of internet piracy. Sweet RIAA, rest easy my noble lords. Piracy is no more.