It would be foolish to expect Google to stand up for you any more than their bottom line dictates
That's the exact same line we've heard for decades excusing evil acts from all sorts of corporations. That is exactly the kind of reasoning Google should avoid if they were ever serious about "Don't Be Evil". Turns out that they weren't.
Then why does every religious service I've ever been to (Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Baptist) resemble Carlin's speech much, much more closely than your response to it?
Religious faith isn't what causes the bad effects of religion. Misguided belief in failed ideologies does that.
The only way to avoid the bad effects of religion is to avoid misguided belief. The only way to avoid misguided belief is to support your beliefs with evidence. This is inconsistent with faith, which is belief without evidence.
It's not "religious faith" that's bad, it's just faith that's bad.
On the scale of nastiness, kamikaze is pretty tame. At least these people had the conviction to die with the people they killed. That's far more honorable than dropping bombs from an RC plane half way across the world.
This leads to the confusion between what the nutters are saying and what Christianity is really about.
So tell me, is the following represent what the "nutters" say or is it what Christianity is really about?
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!
I'm not condemning Hitchens for having an opinion that's different than mine. I'm condemning Hitchens for promoting a war that's left at least a hundred thousand civilians dead.
Because investing makes money quicker than actually working does. If labor needs to work to eat, and you don't, you have the advantage in negotiations. You own the machines labor needs to use to create value, so you get most of the value from that labor.
It's not the tool that's shit, it's the hardware that's shit. It should be dead simple to delete data from a storage device, any storage device that makes it complicated is garbage.
Its my contention that forcing cell phone out of the hands (some states even forbid hands free phoning) represents a cure worse than the disease. Too many people fear a ticket for talking, and they compensate by texting from their lap (or below the level of window).
Easy solution. Ticket them for reckless driving, which is what we should have done to people on cell phones in the first place.
The wealthy don't need any help from the government to capture more wealth. The simple economic truth is that money makes money more than labor does. As long as that is true, wealth will always migrate towards the rich. The only way to circumvent this process is to legislate against it.
This is tyranny of propaganda. Everyone, if well informed would support legalization. The facts in favor of it are simply that strong. The fact that drugs have been prohibited for so many decades is a testament to the power of the American propaganda system and the ability of the entrenched power structure to withstand any sort of reform no matter how beneficial it may be.
Just government is based on the consent of the people. Consent isn't valid if it's made with bad information.
I can't think of a better illustration than the SOPA, ACTA, DMCA et cetera garbage that has been getting pushed through lately with bipartisan support and almost zero outcry or media coverage.
I can. The War on Drugs. This policy has been a complete and utter failure for at least 40 years. No independent group of experts has ever recommended this policy. There is not, nor has there ever been an honest, well meaning argument in favor of the War on Drugs. 40 years later we can see the carnage this policy has wraught, and we cannot even get our politicians to discuss the possibility of change.
If you want to see how totalitarian America really is, look no further than the War on Drugs.
However it must be noted that currently the Left is far more into promoting statist ideals than the Right (which was body-checked by the Tea Party over this issue).
One more thing. Barack Obama is not a leftist. He is a center rightist, somewhere between Reagan and Nixon.
The true left hasn't had a voice in Washington in the past 30 years.
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It would be foolish to expect Google to stand up for you any more than their bottom line dictates
That's the exact same line we've heard for decades excusing evil acts from all sorts of corporations. That is exactly the kind of reasoning Google should avoid if they were ever serious about "Don't Be Evil". Turns out that they weren't.
On what grounds? Google is entirely within their rights to take down any video on YouTube for any reason whatsoever. Quoth the TOS:
Horrible, but less evil than, say, the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Then why does every religious service I've ever been to (Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Baptist) resemble Carlin's speech much, much more closely than your response to it?
What exactly do you think the difference between "fission" and "decay" is?
Religious faith isn't what causes the bad effects of religion. Misguided belief in failed ideologies does that.
The only way to avoid the bad effects of religion is to avoid misguided belief. The only way to avoid misguided belief is to support your beliefs with evidence. This is inconsistent with faith, which is belief without evidence.
It's not "religious faith" that's bad, it's just faith that's bad.
Right. And so the vast majority of religious people are nutters.
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence. Unfortunately, Cristopher Hitchens was anything but incompetent.
On the scale of nastiness, kamikaze is pretty tame. At least these people had the conviction to die with the people they killed. That's far more honorable than dropping bombs from an RC plane half way across the world.
Why don't they just ask God to clarify?
This leads to the confusion between what the nutters are saying and what Christianity is really about.
So tell me, is the following represent what the "nutters" say or is it what Christianity is really about?
I'm not condemning Hitchens for having an opinion that's different than mine. I'm condemning Hitchens for promoting a war that's left at least a hundred thousand civilians dead.
Because investing makes money quicker than actually working does. If labor needs to work to eat, and you don't, you have the advantage in negotiations. You own the machines labor needs to use to create value, so you get most of the value from that labor.
Sure. We could talk about his shameless shilling for the Iraq war. Hitchens can rot in hell for that as far as I'm concerned.
It's not the tool that's shit, it's the hardware that's shit. It should be dead simple to delete data from a storage device, any storage device that makes it complicated is garbage.
What I want to know is why a media player needs a gui. Data in, audio out is all you really need.
At least he's whoring it out for science.
that just saying "reckless driving" is vague and unenforceable
If that's the case, then reckless driving should be clarified. If you're not watching the road, you're driving recklessly.
In the end, Montana had to drop their idiotic "reasonable and prudent" and institute a normal numerical speed limit like everyone else.
Or they should have stopped pulling people over who weren't driving unsafely.
The two parties are part of the same coin. We have a right party, and an ultra right pary.
Its my contention that forcing cell phone out of the hands (some states even forbid hands free phoning) represents a cure
worse than the disease. Too many people fear a ticket for talking, and they compensate by texting from their lap (or below
the level of window).
Easy solution. Ticket them for reckless driving, which is what we should have done to people on cell phones in the first place.
The natural tendency for wealth to trickle upwards.
The wealthy don't need any help from the government to capture more wealth. The simple economic truth is that money makes money more than labor does. As long as that is true, wealth will always migrate towards the rich. The only way to circumvent this process is to legislate against it.
This is tyranny of propaganda. Everyone, if well informed would support legalization. The facts in favor of it are simply that strong. The fact that drugs have been prohibited for so many decades is a testament to the power of the American propaganda system and the ability of the entrenched power structure to withstand any sort of reform no matter how beneficial it may be.
Just government is based on the consent of the people. Consent isn't valid if it's made with bad information.
I can't think of a better illustration than the SOPA, ACTA, DMCA et cetera garbage that has been getting pushed through lately with bipartisan support and almost zero outcry or media coverage.
I can. The War on Drugs. This policy has been a complete and utter failure for at least 40 years. No independent group of experts has ever recommended this policy. There is not, nor has there ever been an honest, well meaning argument in favor of the War on Drugs. 40 years later we can see the carnage this policy has wraught, and we cannot even get our politicians to discuss the possibility of change.
If you want to see how totalitarian America really is, look no further than the War on Drugs.
However it must be noted that currently the Left is far more into promoting statist ideals than the Right (which was body-checked by the Tea Party over this issue).
One more thing. Barack Obama is not a leftist. He is a center rightist, somewhere between Reagan and Nixon.
The true left hasn't had a voice in Washington in the past 30 years.