"clear" is an interesting judgement call. I am pretty sure that when used by the state in Arizona, this amounted to selective cultural bias and harassment. That would be constant with the other developments in that benighted corner of the US.
I bet if you talk like Andy Devine or Beauford T. Pusser, no one in Arizona schools bats an eye at your "accent" or worries about the "clarity" of pronunciation.
You forgot the part about how there is a private club, at the top of the pyramid, and no matter HOW selfish or brutal you are, or how uncharitable your own vision of humanity, you will NEVER be in that top club.
Instead, you will be trusted as the economic equivalent of a prison-camp guard, and allowed to have your own cot.
Malthusian? Malthus was a chief proponent of what became erringly called "Social Darwinism". I don't see advocacy for allowing the poor to be extinguished - or to extinguish themselves - as an argument in this piece.
Poverty is on the rise, in the US and other "western" economies, and had been since Thatcher and Reagan.
You are brainwashed into seeing table-crumbs as opportunity. You are robbed by BIG capital (read banks) and made to feel as though you have a vested interest in perpetrating their complete capture of Government.
When you hate Government? It's really just the straw man and proxy for giant banking interests. Is social security a ponzi scheme? No. But the entire notion of compound-interest IS. Completely unsustainable, and compulsory "growth" is simply a way to hide this eventuality, while simultaneously devaluing real worth with inflationary pressure (QE 2).
Ursula LeGuin: " Then there's Social Darwinism - bankers red in tooth and claw, surviving fitly, while small vermin live on the blood that trickles down... This metaphor, based on a vast misunderstanding of evolutionary process, hits its limit almost at once.
" In predatory competition, bigness is useful, but there are endless ways to get your dinner besides being bigger than it is. You can be smaller but smarter, smaller but faster, tiny but poisonous, winged... you can live inside it while you eat it... As for getting a mate, if combat were the only way to score, large size would help, but (despite our battle-fixation) most competition doesn't involve combat.
" You can win the reproductive race by dancing gracefully, by having a bluegreen tail decorated with eyes, by building a lovely bower for your bride, by knowing how to tell a joke...
" As for living space, you can crowd out your neighbors by outgrowing them, but it's cheaper and just as effective to corner all the water in the vicinity, like a juniper tree, or to be toxic to sea-anemones who aren't closely related to you...
" The competitive techniques of plants and animals are endless in variety and ingenuity. So why are we, clever we, stuck on one and one only?"
"Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich." -- Richard Falk "Post-Mubarak Revolutionary Chances", Aljazeera English 22nd Feb 2011
Sam Lowry: It's not the machine. There's a mismatch on the personnel code numbers... Tuttle should have had £31.06, debited against his account, not Buttle!
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This IS a bug. As in "I think this phone is bugged".
National security?
What do you need to secure? What is the threat?
"Were safe! No food, no jobs, no shelter, but we CANNOT be attacked!"
I look forward to the next LTS release of Ubuntu, which should include FireFox 731.
Yeah. I believe they delete the only dollar generating asset that they have.
Facebook and Google and all these crap 'services' are like a "welcome to the Hotel California".
Tracked by "+1" and "Like" buttons, forever.
Out! Out! Damned spot!
Facebook: New 'mark of the beast?'
Innovation or violation?
Once again, context is everything.
"clear" is an interesting judgement call. I am pretty sure that when used by the state in Arizona, this amounted to selective cultural bias and harassment. That would be constant with the other developments in that benighted corner of the US.
I bet if you talk like Andy Devine or Beauford T. Pusser, no one in Arizona schools bats an eye at your "accent" or worries about the "clarity" of pronunciation.
BEAVIS!
He said "Woodcock", you dillhole!
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Little Snitch
Better Privacy
Ghostery
Ad Block+
And a little personal diligence. That includes no Facebook usage or Google IDs, and a clean sweep whey time you exit Amazon, PayPal or an affiliate.
The price of Liberty... Etc., etc. ad nauseum
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"Self"
First Person F*cker!
"Leisure Suit Larry Goes All the Way!"
"what became"
You need to learn how to parse English sentences.
I see that you buy the false-promise of "people getting rich". This is less common than lightning strike, or lottery wins.
No. I'm happy for people's good fortune - if that's what it is.
I'm not glad that they're getting rich happens because they are complicit in the extinction of brown babies, far away.
Or that they get rich from the criminal destruction of entire classes of disenfranchised people at home.
Or that their richness in wealth is so seldom matched by a richness in the human spirit and in compassion.
I think a world is better off with another 100 welfare mothers, than 1 more Kennedy or Bush. Let's not mention Rockefellers.
My god man! Were you raised by wolves?
You don't think it "Euphoric" to die by being centrifugally-forced into shitting out your internal organs?
Yeah. Another century of eating frozen pizza, driving to the mall and playing Super Mario Brothers. What's not to like?
You forgot the part about how there is a private club, at the top of the pyramid, and no matter HOW selfish or brutal you are, or how uncharitable your own vision of humanity, you will NEVER be in that top club.
Instead, you will be trusted as the economic equivalent of a prison-camp guard, and allowed to have your own cot.
Malthusian? Malthus was a chief proponent of what became erringly called "Social Darwinism". I don't see advocacy for allowing the poor to be extinguished - or to extinguish themselves - as an argument in this piece.
Poverty is on the rise, in the US and other "western" economies, and had been since Thatcher and Reagan.
You are a rhetoric troll.
"What kind of world do you live in where the rich are not a subset of the people?"
What kind of world! Ha! There's a setup!
What kind of world do you live in where the KING are not a subset of the POPULACE?
There. Fixed it for you. Now, consult Ayn, and respond again.
You are brainwashed into seeing table-crumbs as opportunity. You are robbed by BIG capital (read banks) and made to feel as though you have a vested interest in perpetrating their complete capture of Government.
When you hate Government? It's really just the straw man and proxy for giant banking interests. Is social security a ponzi scheme? No. But the entire notion of compound-interest IS. Completely unsustainable, and compulsory "growth" is simply a way to hide this eventuality, while simultaneously devaluing real worth with inflationary pressure (QE 2).
Ursula LeGuin:
" Then there's Social Darwinism - bankers red in tooth and claw, surviving fitly, while small vermin live on the blood that trickles down... This metaphor, based on a vast misunderstanding of evolutionary process, hits its limit almost at once.
" In predatory competition, bigness is useful, but there are endless ways to get your dinner besides being bigger than it is. You can be smaller but smarter, smaller but faster, tiny but poisonous, winged... you can live inside it while you eat it... As for getting a mate, if combat were the only way to score, large size would help, but (despite our battle-fixation) most competition doesn't involve combat.
" You can win the reproductive race by dancing gracefully, by having a bluegreen tail decorated with eyes, by building a lovely bower for your bride, by knowing how to tell a joke...
" As for living space, you can crowd out your neighbors by outgrowing them, but it's cheaper and just as effective to corner all the water in the vicinity, like a juniper tree, or to be toxic to sea-anemones who aren't closely related to you...
" The competitive techniques of plants and animals are endless in variety and ingenuity. So why are we, clever we, stuck on one and one only?"
http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2011/09/19/clinging-desperately-to-a-metaphor/
Don't forget the part about eating Irish babies!
"Unless the people benefit, economic growth is a subsidy for the rich."
-- Richard Falk
"Post-Mubarak Revolutionary Chances", Aljazeera English 22nd Feb 2011
within the parameters of what we define
within the parameters of what we define
within the parameters of what we define
What is this "We", of which you speak?
Sam Lowry: It's not the machine. There's a mismatch on the personnel code numbers... Tuttle should have had £31.06, debited against his account, not Buttle!
Kurtzman: Oh my God, a mistake!
Sam Lowry: Well at least it's not ours.
Kurtzman: Isn't it? Whose is it?
Sam Lowry: Information Retrieval.
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