Are you saying you are so selfish personally that you would try to tack advantage of any collective for your own personal gain?
I don't try to do it. It just kinda happens... I don't lack a good heart, just self control. When a pleasure is placed in front of me that's too good to resist, I have no real choice in the matter. At the start I'm usually focused strongly on the altruistic goal. But over time this fades, because it inevitably is a desire for my own self-benefit clothed in "altruism".
How long in your perspective has it usually taken (in historical cases) for such collectives to be manipulated for personal gain?
From the inception of the collective. The person who starts it does it for personal gain, otherwise there would be no collective. Having established a number of minor groups in my lifetime, I can say they were all established for my own benefit - even if I initially saw that benefit as an altruistic one, I was only really ever considering my own pleasure.
Her body is not developing as a co-ordinated unit because her environment (humanity) isn't either. These kind of deviations within nature will continue to become more apparent as humans evolve. As long as we continue to grow egoistically, separated from one another, we will be as cancer cells rather than living tissue - working for the benefit of ourselves rather than each other. We are all complicit in her abnormality.
I disagree. The internal motive is the only thing that humans should scrutinise, because that is the source of all the external actions. The concept of "thought crime" within our establishments will only continue to increase until people take it upon themselves to correct their desires. Anything else is just an ineffective, temporary "solution".
Of course I am a hypocrite. I could give you half of my money Jane, but it would make no difference. The intention would ultimately be to prove myself better than you. And that is the kind of enslavement that I'm talking about.
The matter of which the Earth is composed is irrelevant, anon. All of reality is lifeless without human consciousness to animate it. It does not statically exist outside our own perception.
"Selfless collectivism" is a nice idea in theory, but fails in practice. Add enough people to an idea and the desire to use the collective for oneself (instead of others) becomes too great to ignore.
It just saddens me that man, after thousands years of dreaming of the stars, should not use space travel for anything other than the financial enslavement of his planetary brothers. Doesn't space travel put human pettiness into perspective for anybody?
Ah well. At least it will be great to see more pictures.
Sharing of passwords is prohibited in my company IT policy. This points towards the real reason of passwords in a corporate environment - confirmation of identity. If I make a change to a system, my company will in all cases assume it was me (for better or worse).
A password is more valuable as a political tool than a security tool.
As opposed to a society in which 0.1% can arbitrarily sentence the other 99.9% to death? At least with your option I have a decent chance of making my voice heard.
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Are you saying you are so selfish personally that you would try to tack advantage of any collective for your own personal gain?
I don't try to do it. It just kinda happens... I don't lack a good heart, just self control. When a pleasure is placed in front of me that's too good to resist, I have no real choice in the matter. At the start I'm usually focused strongly on the altruistic goal. But over time this fades, because it inevitably is a desire for my own self-benefit clothed in "altruism".
How long in your perspective has it usually taken (in historical cases) for such collectives to be manipulated for personal gain?
From the inception of the collective. The person who starts it does it for personal gain, otherwise there would be no collective. Having established a number of minor groups in my lifetime, I can say they were all established for my own benefit - even if I initially saw that benefit as an altruistic one, I was only really ever considering my own pleasure.
Haven't seen it. Any good?
Sorry smallfries.
No, soldiers die because they bleed too much.
Man, I've been through so many drugs I've almost become a Christian.
I smoke cause it gives me knowledge!
Her body is not developing as a co-ordinated unit because her environment (humanity) isn't either. These kind of deviations within nature will continue to become more apparent as humans evolve. As long as we continue to grow egoistically, separated from one another, we will be as cancer cells rather than living tissue - working for the benefit of ourselves rather than each other. We are all complicit in her abnormality.
I disagree. The internal motive is the only thing that humans should scrutinise, because that is the source of all the external actions. The concept of "thought crime" within our establishments will only continue to increase until people take it upon themselves to correct their desires. Anything else is just an ineffective, temporary "solution".
Of course I am a hypocrite. I could give you half of my money Jane, but it would make no difference. The intention would ultimately be to prove myself better than you. And that is the kind of enslavement that I'm talking about.
The matter of which the Earth is composed is irrelevant, anon. All of reality is lifeless without human consciousness to animate it. It does not statically exist outside our own perception.
"Selfless collectivism" is a nice idea in theory, but fails in practice. Add enough people to an idea and the desire to use the collective for oneself (instead of others) becomes too great to ignore.
No, it's evil. My own evil and hypocrisy saddens me too.
It just saddens me that man, after thousands years of dreaming of the stars, should not use space travel for anything other than the financial enslavement of his planetary brothers. Doesn't space travel put human pettiness into perspective for anybody?
Ah well. At least it will be great to see more pictures.
Sharing of passwords is prohibited in my company IT policy. This points towards the real reason of passwords in a corporate environment - confirmation of identity. If I make a change to a system, my company will in all cases assume it was me (for better or worse).
A password is more valuable as a political tool than a security tool.
I think the ones who took me seriously need to live a little. Thanks anon.
It was a joke. Sorry if it wasn't very funny :(
That's anecdotal, there is no scientific method in that statement. You can't trust pure sensation when science is involved.
PS correlation isn't causation.
At least she can have all the music she wants.
Wow, you feel guilt? Girls feel guilt. Pirates don't feel guilt. We feel rum. And freeeeeeeee yaaarr
Great answer. :)
It is the cheats who are responsible for their cheating, not the code publisher.
Two words. Making available :)
Yes. Windows Vista now comes bundled with Microsoft FTP Explorer 8.0. Incidentally, its HTML support is still better than 7.0...
Slashdot suffers just as badly from the same moronic posts an ill informed individuals that think there poorly thought out opinions are facts,
Yes, apparently it does.
That's why they call it "Jurisprudence" and not "Justice". See sig below.
As opposed to a society in which 0.1% can arbitrarily sentence the other 99.9% to death? At least with your option I have a decent chance of making my voice heard.