That's why I thought SoC was overrated. There's not a lot to do, and it's all very samey. Once you get tired of looking at things, the game is real quick and easy to beat. Or it would be, if it didn't take so much time to navigate. I swear I spent more time riding from colossus to colossus than actually fighting them. Yawn.
(I have a Python program running right now which will run for over a week, parsing the street address of every business in the US into a standard format. The parser is complex enough that rewriting it in C would be a big job. There's no "inner loop".)
This would be a good application for Perl. Perl handles regexps about 4 times faster than Python.
Sure, and Mafia bosses can afford huge teams of lawyers and all sorts of misdirection to avoid actually being implicated. This is what RICO is for. If you are a member of an organization that has a pattern of comitting crimes for profit you are guilty under RICO. It's obvious that this applies to Lloyd Blankfein.
No, the real reason Blankfein won't be charged is because our government is thoroughly corrupt.
Going on welfare keeps one alive, but it does nothing to help someone find a worthwhile way to spend their lives. Almost every job that exists in this economy exists only to extract value from you and return it to the people at the top. That doesn't produce meaningful work.
As long as exploitation is the basis of our economy, I can't blame anyone for opting out of work entirely. If you want people to want to work, let's create a cooperative economy.
Does it matter if Anonymous is less altruistic than the Civil Rights Movement? The important thing is that they're more altruisitic than our political, economic, and social leaders.
As soon as someone becomes unreasonable or selfish (either the manager or the union leader), then it's constant conflict time, alienating people.
So, better to just let the manager be unreasonable and selfish?
Someone gets power, and power tends to corrupt. No one wants to be a[nother] pawn in someone else's game.
Without a union, you definitely are a pawn in someone else's game.
This may apply only to Latin America, but unions there usually ally with a political party (for instance, the Socialist Party). That also alienates people.
Why do you care about alienating people who aren't interested in your welfare?
You assume that we have a choice that's not both corrupt and antidemocratic. The simple fact is, anyone who is not aiming for serious electoral reform is anti-democratic. It doesn't really matter if we have a free press, if we have the right to assemble, if there's no possible way that the ideas put forth in that press and assembly can prevail in elections.
The only choice we have is to expose the undemocratic nature of the system. That might mean that someone terrible will get into office, but that also means that people will be more and more aware of the tyranny in which we live. That's when we can actually start to do something about it.
There you go. That's the appropriate level of cynicism. Now are you going to keep voting for the same authoritarians, or are you going to make your voice heard by voting for a third party?
Solyndra is a drop in the bucket, and nothing compared to what both sides treat as business as usual. But somehow you don't hear Fox News decrying oil and corn subsidies.
Trotting out Solyndra only identifies you as a Fox News dittohead who has absolutely no idea what the true scale of corruption in this government is.
If you want to accuse Obama of crony capitalism, and you absolutely should, use a realistic complaint. E.g., how he's packed his cabinet with the same people who were behind the credit criss, and how he's failed to prosecute any senior banking execs for any of their crimes, all the while handing thier firms billion dollar bail outs which go right into the pockets of the same criminals as bonuses for criminal behavior. That's how you accuse Obama of crony capitalism.
People need a bigger purpose to work for than squeezing out trinkets for the ultra rich, or persuing empty materialism. This is why capitalism is fundamentally inhumane. When people are free from having to work to live, they will be free to live to work.
If we're worked to death, does it really matter whether it's by people who speak English or Chinese? The only allegiance that really matters is worker solidarity.
No, you only get evil as long as everyone chooses to vote for evil. As long as you are making excuses for voting for evil, you are a very large part of the problem.
You do those four things, and you won't need to cut off their banks to get them to the table. They'll be *running* to get to the table.
It's not hard to get them at the table. Iran has been negotiating, and the Egyptians even got an agreement out of them, but Obama chose to go forward with sanctions instead of accepting a deal that would have accomplished what the sanctions were intended to accomplish. Check out the March 8th Daily Show with Trita Parsi for details.
Also, I realize it's fashionable to claim that Democrat and Republicans are the same. They're not. That's bullshit. They may both fail similarly in some significant areas (e.g. the TSA), but the Republican party has devolved into thinly veiled bigotry, xenophobia, and crony capitalism.
Wheras the Democrats are kinder, gentler crony capitalists. When you vote for the lesser evil, you're still voting for evil. Does it really matter in the long run that Obama's only 98% evil instead of 99% evil? That's still too much evil for any good person to get behind.
When someone offers you a choice between a punch in the face and a kick in the balls, you don't sheepishly thank them for the punch in the face. You refuse the offer and fight back with everything you have.
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That's why I thought SoC was overrated. There's not a lot to do, and it's all very samey. Once you get tired of looking at things, the game is real quick and easy to beat. Or it would be, if it didn't take so much time to navigate. I swear I spent more time riding from colossus to colossus than actually fighting them. Yawn.
It is, but it's not 10 years in prison wrong.
You know, this isn't just your country. If I had a choice, I would reject plenty of folks from my country.
Those who think 10 years in prison is an acceptable punishment for adults engaged in name calling should be first to go.
The fact that he chose to exercise his constiutionally protected right to a trial is no excuse to subject him to unconstitutionally cruel punishment.
(I have a Python program running right now which will run for over a week, parsing the street address of every business in the US into a standard format. The parser is complex enough that rewriting it in C would be a big job. There's no "inner loop".)
This would be a good application for Perl. Perl handles regexps about 4 times faster than Python.
Sure, and Mafia bosses can afford huge teams of lawyers and all sorts of misdirection to avoid actually being implicated. This is what RICO is for. If you are a member of an organization that has a pattern of comitting crimes for profit you are guilty under RICO. It's obvious that this applies to Lloyd Blankfein.
No, the real reason Blankfein won't be charged is because our government is thoroughly corrupt.
Going on welfare keeps one alive, but it does nothing to help someone find a worthwhile way to spend their lives. Almost every job that exists in this economy exists only to extract value from you and return it to the people at the top. That doesn't produce meaningful work.
As long as exploitation is the basis of our economy, I can't blame anyone for opting out of work entirely. If you want people to want to work, let's create a cooperative economy.
Can I use "Bias Intimidation" against the bigoted drug warriors who threaten to throw me in jail for my lifestyle?
Does it matter if Anonymous is less altruistic than the Civil Rights Movement? The important thing is that they're more altruisitic than our political, economic, and social leaders.
Cons:
As soon as someone becomes unreasonable or selfish (either the manager or the union leader), then it's constant conflict time, alienating people.
So, better to just let the manager be unreasonable and selfish?
Someone gets power, and power tends to corrupt. No one wants to be a[nother] pawn in someone else's game.
Without a union, you definitely are a pawn in someone else's game.
This may apply only to Latin America, but unions there usually ally with a political party (for instance, the Socialist Party). That also alienates people.
Why do you care about alienating people who aren't interested in your welfare?
The lesson here is, try before you buy. Cohabitate for half a decade or more, that's plenty of time for the crazy to become evident.
If it wasn't about how many bits you used, there would be no use for the giant cluster they are building.
How many bits should we use for encryption now?
You assume that we have a choice that's not both corrupt and antidemocratic. The simple fact is, anyone who is not aiming for serious electoral reform is anti-democratic. It doesn't really matter if we have a free press, if we have the right to assemble, if there's no possible way that the ideas put forth in that press and assembly can prevail in elections.
The only choice we have is to expose the undemocratic nature of the system. That might mean that someone terrible will get into office, but that also means that people will be more and more aware of the tyranny in which we live. That's when we can actually start to do something about it.
There you go. That's the appropriate level of cynicism. Now are you going to keep voting for the same authoritarians, or are you going to make your voice heard by voting for a third party?
Don't worry. If you break US law, I'm sure Canada will be happy to extradite you.
Please. Wake me up when Lloyd Blankfein gets charged under RICO.
Solyndra is a drop in the bucket, and nothing compared to what both sides treat as business as usual. But somehow you don't hear Fox News decrying oil and corn subsidies.
Trotting out Solyndra only identifies you as a Fox News dittohead who has absolutely no idea what the true scale of corruption in this government is.
If you want to accuse Obama of crony capitalism, and you absolutely should, use a realistic complaint. E.g., how he's packed his cabinet with the same people who were behind the credit criss, and how he's failed to prosecute any senior banking execs for any of their crimes, all the while handing thier firms billion dollar bail outs which go right into the pockets of the same criminals as bonuses for criminal behavior. That's how you accuse Obama of crony capitalism.
People need a bigger purpose to work for than squeezing out trinkets for the ultra rich, or persuing empty materialism. This is why capitalism is fundamentally inhumane. When people are free from having to work to live, they will be free to live to work.
If we're worked to death, does it really matter whether it's by people who speak English or Chinese? The only allegiance that really matters is worker solidarity.
No, you only get evil as long as everyone chooses to vote for evil. As long as you are making excuses for voting for evil, you are a very large part of the problem.
You do those four things, and you won't need to cut off their banks to get them to the table. They'll be *running* to get to the table.
It's not hard to get them at the table. Iran has been negotiating, and the Egyptians even got an agreement out of them, but Obama chose to go forward with sanctions instead of accepting a deal that would have accomplished what the sanctions were intended to accomplish. Check out the March 8th Daily Show with Trita Parsi for details.
Exactly. They can't enforce their will through the legal system so they're setting up an extra-legal process with no protections for the end user.
it had in HUGE text what the damned expiration on it was
What happens when your ID expires? Do you turn into someone else?
Also, I realize it's fashionable to claim that Democrat and Republicans are the same. They're not. That's bullshit. They may both fail similarly in some significant areas (e.g. the TSA), but the Republican party has devolved into thinly veiled bigotry, xenophobia, and crony capitalism.
Wheras the Democrats are kinder, gentler crony capitalists. When you vote for the lesser evil, you're still voting for evil. Does it really matter in the long run that Obama's only 98% evil instead of 99% evil? That's still too much evil for any good person to get behind.
When someone offers you a choice between a punch in the face and a kick in the balls, you don't sheepishly thank them for the punch in the face. You refuse the offer and fight back with everything you have.