so why should I (and millions of other customers) change our behavior?
Because they are going to get laws past that will send you to jail if you don't pay for their product, regardless if you want it or not as only Pirates wouldn't want to watch and pay for TV.
And yet, a lot of CEOs are regular people like you and me, and are as far from being psychopaths as anybody else. But, don't let any facts disrupt your polarizing delusions.
Shhh.. Don't tell anyone but I use to be the CEO of a small company... but "THIS IS SLASHDOT" voiced by King Leonidas of Sparta.
You would have to line all of them up and use blanks in some of the guns.
Using some blanks? Sounds like a missed opportunity to me...
Well...
Don't let something like logic or due process stop you... Buy a 50cal 'Hunting Rifle' and install a high quality scope. Then make your list, buy some ammo and take care of the problem.
While I agree with ae1294's observation that the AC who proposed executing CEOs is sociopathic, it seems too evident to merit that "+4 interesting" mod.
There is a lot of talk here about shooting evil CEO's, etc, etc but no one seems to care or understand that it would make no difference in their behavior because they do not think they are evil or are doing anything wrong. Nor do they feel empathy towards others which, should be transparent, since they act in such a manner that causes great harm to society.
The only real solution is to re-balance the justice system so we have something close to real justice. We clearly don't have that now. If you have enough money you can buy your way out of most anything. Perhaps we would do better if lawyers where appointed to people and corporations at random. There would be set compensation rates like many other professions have. We could group them by talent and reserve the 'better' ones for the more critical cases. You wouldn't get a $2000 an hour lawyer for stealing a TV but if you are on trial for murder you'd get one of the highly skilled units.
That idea should scare the hell out of anyone thinking of going to court which might be a good thing. Then again?
Even sociopaths may have a sense of self preservation.
Yes but shooting another sociopath will simply not mean anything to them. You would have to line all of them up and use blanks in some of the guns. Even if you did that it would not mean they would act morally afterward as they do not have an understanding of what that means.
Regardless it's human nature to disregard that something like that can happen to you. It's why capital punishment does not stop all murderers...
Really, the simplest and most effective solution is to line up a few greedy CEOs and shoot them dead. Then the ones that weren't executed will know you mean business, that they need to play fair. So, if CEOs are as smart as they are supposed to be, to hold those corporate positions, only a very few need to be executed, for the message to be thoroughly understood and acted-upon.
That wouldn't work, although we can give it a try anyway.
Sociopaths, by their very nature, do not see others as human beings equal in any way to themselves. They are unconcerned about any adverse consequences received by others due to their own actions or the actions of others.
My problem is that I disagree with the entire premise underlying his promises, which seem to revolve around spending money like a teenager with a credit card. I spent the last ten years paying-off my debt, so I could be free and clear, and now the government is going out and putting me deeper into debt ($120,000 now and rising to $200,000 per home in 2016). It makes me wonder why I even bothered to sacrifice. I'll be paying-off Chinese interest for the rest of my life.
You spent 10 years paying off your debit? Maybe you should have just filled for bankruptcy instead. Haven't you learned anything from our corporate overlords?
thats just what they want, so that the killsats can get a more precise lock on us!
The Crossbow Project. There's No Defense Like a Good Offense.
Our studies indicate the weapon is totally useless in warfare. It's not intended for use in your kind of warfare, Roy. It's the perfect peacetime weapon. That's why it's secret. So it's both immoral *and* unethical? Yes.
I and my brownshirts will be able to sweep-in to the Congress, declare emergency powers, turn-off the communication networks, and consolidate power with ease. Thank you Bill, George and Barak.
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln. Sadly that has long since perished and is now a rotted corpse which craves money and control instead of braaainsss.
I'd like to submit this patch to the source tree...
I've seen this kind of response so many times before...
Words can be very hurtful and it's horrible that anyone would write such harsh and hateful things when all I was trying to do was brighten up someones day (namely mine). What is slashdot coming to when the use of first post memes is forbidden? Clearly this article about making 'Rat Bastards' smarter should, by defecation, meet the requirements for my overlords comment...
#1 - He is intelligent and not a SlashBot, #2 - Has anything of value to contribute, #3 - He is even attempting to contribute, and then this is slashdot, it is 'cool' to spout unsubstantiated crap and troll.
Thank you for clearing up all of the confusion.
Hey... By-the-way friend would you be interested in buying some cheap V1agra?
It's a possibility, but I don't think so. The receptors don't use a lot of energy. The baseline cost of maintaining the neurons won't change. So the main incremental cost will be the pump costs for repolarizing after action potentials. But it doesn't seem likely that overall firing is massively increased, or they'd probably be seizing.
When I read this post the voice in my head was that of Geordi La Forge.
If my karma ever drops below Excellent I will simply post a few messages saying how great the PS3 is or maybe a few about how the iPhone is so much better than any other phone, or I could just discuss how horrible Micro$oft and the Government are.
Thanks for standing up for us, the little guys, who see memes posted day after day but are unable to do anything about it. You, sir, have surely stopped, once and for all, this abuse of popular culture.
Well, bribing these Rat Bastards with cheese is much cheaper than bribing our old masters with large campaign contributions, blackjack and of coarse the strippers.
Nevertheless, it raises an interesting question: if intelligence can be increased by something so simple as an increase in the expression of a single NMDA receptor subunit, why hasn't it already happened? Presumably, there is a selective advantage to improved learning and memory. Presumably, there is some kind of downside that balances that selective advantage.
The downside is that now the Rats crave human brains...
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so why should I (and millions of other customers) change our behavior?
Because they are going to get laws past that will send you to jail if you don't pay for their product, regardless if you want it or not as only Pirates wouldn't want to watch and pay for TV.
And yet, a lot of CEOs are regular people like you and me, and are as far from being psychopaths as anybody else. But, don't let any facts disrupt your polarizing delusions.
Shhh.. Don't tell anyone but I use to be the CEO of a small company... but "THIS IS SLASHDOT" voiced by King Leonidas of Sparta.
You would have to line all of them up and use blanks in some of the guns.
Using some blanks? Sounds like a missed opportunity to me...
Well...
Don't let something like logic or due process stop you... Buy a 50cal 'Hunting Rifle' and install a high quality scope. Then make your list, buy some ammo and take care of the problem.
Nothing is really stopping you...
This is why I install Turbo Lasers and Shielding on all of my fully operational battle stations.
Your Master,
Emperor Palpatine
Why did Hitler want genocide on the Jews anyway?
Because they didn't like his paintings and it was the in thing to do at the time...
While I agree with ae1294's observation that the AC who proposed executing CEOs is sociopathic, it seems too evident to merit that "+4 interesting" mod.
There is a lot of talk here about shooting evil CEO's, etc, etc but no one seems to care or understand that it would make no difference in their behavior because they do not think they are evil or are doing anything wrong. Nor do they feel empathy towards others which, should be transparent, since they act in such a manner that causes great harm to society.
The only real solution is to re-balance the justice system so we have something close to real justice. We clearly don't have that now. If you have enough money you can buy your way out of most anything. Perhaps we would do better if lawyers where appointed to people and corporations at random. There would be set compensation rates like many other professions have. We could group them by talent and reserve the 'better' ones for the more critical cases. You wouldn't get a $2000 an hour lawyer for stealing a TV but if you are on trial for murder you'd get one of the highly skilled units.
That idea should scare the hell out of anyone thinking of going to court which might be a good thing. Then again?
Even sociopaths may have a sense of self preservation.
Yes but shooting another sociopath will simply not mean anything to them. You would have to line all of them up and use blanks in some of the guns. Even if you did that it would not mean they would act morally afterward as they do not have an understanding of what that means.
Regardless it's human nature to disregard that something like that can happen to you. It's why capital punishment does not stop all murderers...
Really, the simplest and most effective solution is to line up a few greedy CEOs and shoot them dead. Then the ones that weren't executed will know you mean business, that they need to play fair. So, if CEOs are as smart as they are supposed to be, to hold those corporate positions, only a very few need to be executed, for the message to be thoroughly understood and acted-upon.
That wouldn't work, although we can give it a try anyway.
Sociopaths, by their very nature, do not see others as human beings equal in any way to themselves. They are unconcerned about any adverse consequences received by others due to their own actions or the actions of others.
My problem is that I disagree with the entire premise underlying his promises, which seem to revolve around spending money like a teenager with a credit card. I spent the last ten years paying-off my debt, so I could be free and clear, and now the government is going out and putting me deeper into debt ($120,000 now and rising to $200,000 per home in 2016). It makes me wonder why I even bothered to sacrifice. I'll be paying-off Chinese interest for the rest of my life.
You spent 10 years paying off your debit? Maybe you should have just filled for bankruptcy instead. Haven't you learned anything from our corporate overlords?
can you point to ANY politician in history whom upon rising to power actually DID what what was previously promised?
Genghis Khan?
thats just what they want, so that the killsats can get a more precise lock on us!
The Crossbow Project. There's No Defense Like a Good Offense.
Our studies indicate the weapon is totally useless in warfare.
It's not intended for use in your kind of warfare, Roy. It's the perfect peacetime weapon. That's why it's secret.
So it's both immoral *and* unethical?
Yes.
I and my brownshirts will be able to sweep-in to the Congress, declare emergency powers, turn-off the communication networks, and consolidate power with ease. Thank you Bill, George and Barak.
Signed, Napoleon the X
Dick Cheney is that you????
I voted for Nader. In 2000. In Florida. My bad.
Don't worry about it. It's clear to most that it was rigged anyhow.
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln.
Sadly that has long since perished and is now a rotted corpse which craves money and control instead of braaainsss.
I'd like to submit this patch to the source tree...
I've seen this kind of response so many times before ...
Words can be very hurtful and it's horrible that anyone would write such harsh and hateful things when all I was trying to do was brighten up someones day (namely mine). What is slashdot coming to when the use of first post memes is forbidden? Clearly this article about making 'Rat Bastards' smarter should, by defecation, meet the requirements for my overlords comment...
Please think of the children next time...
#1 - He is intelligent and not a SlashBot,
#2 - Has anything of value to contribute,
#3 - He is even attempting to contribute,
and then this is slashdot, it is 'cool' to spout unsubstantiated crap and troll.
Thank you for clearing up all of the confusion.
Hey... By-the-way friend would you be interested in buying some cheap V1agra?
It's a possibility, but I don't think so. The receptors don't use a lot of energy. The baseline cost of maintaining the neurons won't change. So the main incremental cost will be the pump costs for repolarizing after action potentials. But it doesn't seem likely that overall firing is massively increased, or they'd probably be seizing.
When I read this post the voice in my head was that of Geordi La Forge.
Actually, I applaud you for using your user name!
Why? What could possibly go wrong?
If my karma ever drops below Excellent I will simply post a few messages saying how great the PS3 is or maybe a few about how the iPhone is so much better than any other phone, or I could just discuss how horrible Micro$oft and the Government are.
Coarse strippers are rough!
Yes my spelling function currently has a few memory leaks but I am hoping that the service pack takes care of that...
Thanks for standing up for us, the little guys, who see memes posted day after day but are unable to do anything about it. You, sir, have surely stopped, once and for all, this abuse of popular culture.
I for one, welcome our new meme overlords!
I find it easier to bread things using, err, bread.
Slashdot - NEWS FOR NERDS. STUFF THAT MATERS. NO SPELLING MISTAKES ALLOWED!
**yes filter bot I am yelling at you**
However, do those rats run Linux? Maybe we would need memory-enhanced penguins instead. But those don't breed as fast ...
You must be doing something wrong...
You are trying to bread the penguins with OTHER penguins right?
welcome our new Rat Bastard overlords!
New?
Well, bribing these Rat Bastards with cheese is much cheaper than bribing our old masters with large campaign contributions, blackjack and of coarse the strippers.
Biological overclocking. How long before they try nitrogen cooling?
Uhmmm, Nitrogen is the largest single constituent of the Earth's atmosphere (78.082% by volume, 75.3% by weight) so they already have.
Nevertheless, it raises an interesting question: if intelligence can be increased by something so simple as an increase in the expression of a single NMDA receptor subunit, why hasn't it already happened? Presumably, there is a selective advantage to improved learning and memory. Presumably, there is some kind of downside that balances that selective advantage.
The downside is that now the Rats crave human brains...