This is actually very insightful, female dating behavior was based to a large part on having an abundance of potential mates to choose from, they were essentially buyers, whereas men traditionally acted as sellers trying to impress women ( I know I'm oversimplifying). Now with online dating, the market has basically evened out somewhat for men as women are openly competing for mates, thus they have become more like sellers, allowing men to start behaving somewhat more like buyers.
I think you were reading my post a little too literally. But anyways, there's no need for "we the people" to give in to cynicism and defeat ( I'm not saying you are, I'm just saying generally, cause it happens all the time) It could happen, probably slowly like medical marijuana or gay marriage or something like that.
How about if people propose and pass a law specifically banning ISPs from tracking their users or keeping logs on their web histories under any circumstances?
How does this get modded troll? It's actually very honest and insightful, even if you disagree with him, at least he's got the balls to tell the truth. This whole farce is based around tricking the people into believing the lie of scarcity, and this goes way beyond cheap entertainment, if people only know it also included food, and many other basic human resources, the whole world order might be up for change. Of course, the most important enforced scarcity of all is information, thus we have things like SOPA.
I hear this kind of argument quite a bit and it makes me wonder, no offence but, were you born yesterday? It comes off like you don't know anything about America, it's history or culture. I'll be honest, I didn't even notice he mentioned her race twice, the fact that you did, and that it made you lament that "true racism" is at play by "these people" in favor of minorities is a bit of a tell. To me it seems like you may have a distortion in your perception filters which makes you overly sensitive to instances of minorities using race to their advantage, which seems to be for you an injustice which offends to much to be permitted to go undenounced, at least in this case. I think you may wish to re-calibrate if you keep coming up with false positives as you did in this case. Anyway, you seem like someone passionate about right and wrong, I think it might be an interesting, even consciousness expanding exercise to examine how keenly your senses pick up, and how strongly you sense of justness is offended when you encounter instances of the majority abusing race in its favor.
I think most people after long consideration have come to conclude that the prequels really and genuinely did suck and suck hard, and that's with nearly all the fans heading to the theaters with a huge positive bias. I don't know if you've seen these already, but I think it's required watching for all Star Wars fans. http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/
"Your socialist revision of history is appalling."
You guys can mod me down all you want, but people who throw the word "Socialism" around as a slur come off sounding like they're confessing (crying out for help?) that their mind is dungeon where Rush Limbaugh and various Fox "news" hosts have taken turns torturing the intellectual and logical centers of their fettered consciousness. That, and that they have no idea what actual socialism is or means. It invokes feelings of pity and revulsion.
A "private" tag doesn't magically make a public item private.
Then what's the point of calling it private? It's misleading to do so isn't it? Also, the very nature of social networks operate on the basis of filtering, without which there's no point in having "friends" or groups etc, it would just be a giant cluster-fuck like the wild west days of the early internet which to some degree is why people flocked to social networks in the first place. I'm not saying it isn't a giant cluster-fuck on FB either btw, but just because a lot of people are ignorant about how the internet works, doesn't mean that they deserve to have their children or deceased family members images trawled and publicly monetized by multi-billion dollar corporations. Yes, I realize that's exactly what FB, Google, et. all are doing, but at least they do it privately, and supposedly anonymously, that's what makes them tolerable. After all, you can't escape unless you basically shun society as a whole, because even if you don't have a FB account, someone at sometime will take your photo and tag you online without your permission. Please tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm arguing that there has to be protections. That is the purpose of governments anyways, to provide protections for its members the citizens. I think the Australian government failed on this one.
There was a time in your life when you used basically the same arguments against your mother as she trained you to piss and crap in the bathroom as opposed to just going in your pants, you eventually learned to "put forth the effort" on that one, and you'll eventually learn to do the same on this one too.
My own experiences in college match exactly to your statement about the teachers lacking teaching skills or credibility. I took Calculus twice in college, the first time was in a class with over 40 students, the teacher was a guy from mainland China who was completely unintelligible due to his very poor English, it was joked that he might as well have taught the class in Chinese as no one would be able to tell the difference. The second time, was in a class with about 25 students, and instead of a teacher, we had a closed circuit TV parked in the front of the class, with some guy giving the lecture from another city. It was a fucking cruel joke to anybody with passion for the sciences.
I've got to say, at this point there's no contest as far as basic functionality goes, and for doing the things that "most people" tm do on their computers most of the time. Linux is clearly superior to Windows. I dare you to take a dual boot challenge.
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I like where you're your going, but why stop there, vivisections of all passengers is the only way to be sure.
Nice how you made this whole situation all about you.
Sorry no Mod points. Please mod up.
Yeah, but Germany doesn't have a trillion dollar military influencing many aspects of its society like the US does.
This is actually very insightful, female dating behavior was based to a large part on having an abundance of potential mates to choose from, they were essentially buyers, whereas men traditionally acted as sellers trying to impress women ( I know I'm oversimplifying). Now with online dating, the market has basically evened out somewhat for men as women are openly competing for mates, thus they have become more like sellers, allowing men to start behaving somewhat more like buyers.
"Jesus man, pot doesn't need a conspiracy theory. You're saying that pot laws drive illegal immegration purposefully? To what end?"
Never ascribe to conspiracy what can adequately be explained by stupidity.
-A slight rewording of Hanlon's razor.
"Well... that, and a small army of bot accounts to vote your story up the firehose..." ...Wait, so are you saying Romney is a robotic overlord?
I for one plan to take a stand against this !!
I think you were reading my post a little too literally. But anyways, there's no need for "we the people" to give in to cynicism and defeat ( I'm not saying you are, I'm just saying generally, cause it happens all the time) It could happen, probably slowly like medical marijuana or gay marriage or something like that.
How about if people propose and pass a law specifically banning ISPs from tracking their users or keeping logs on their web histories under any circumstances?
How does this get modded troll? It's actually very honest and insightful, even if you disagree with him, at least he's got the balls to tell the truth. This whole farce is based around tricking the people into believing the lie of scarcity, and this goes way beyond cheap entertainment, if people only know it also included food, and many other basic human resources, the whole world order might be up for change. Of course, the most important enforced scarcity of all is information, thus we have things like SOPA.
You nailed it.
wish I still had mod points.
I hear this kind of argument quite a bit and it makes me wonder, no offence but, were you born yesterday? It comes off like you don't know anything about America, it's history or culture. I'll be honest, I didn't even notice he mentioned her race twice, the fact that you did, and that it made you lament that "true racism" is at play by "these people" in favor of minorities is a bit of a tell. To me it seems like you may have a distortion in your perception filters which makes you overly sensitive to instances of minorities using race to their advantage, which seems to be for you an injustice which offends to much to be permitted to go undenounced, at least in this case. I think you may wish to re-calibrate if you keep coming up with false positives as you did in this case. Anyway, you seem like someone passionate about right and wrong, I think it might be an interesting, even consciousness expanding exercise to examine how keenly your senses pick up, and how strongly you sense of justness is offended when you encounter instances of the majority abusing race in its favor.
"You had your "prequel blinders" on. :)"
I think most people after long consideration have come to conclude that the prequels really and genuinely did suck and suck hard, and that's with nearly all the fans heading to the theaters with a huge positive bias. I don't know if you've seen these already, but I think it's required watching for all Star Wars fans.
http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-wars/
"Your socialist revision of history is appalling."
You guys can mod me down all you want, but people who throw the word "Socialism" around as a slur come off sounding like they're confessing (crying out for help?) that their mind is dungeon where Rush Limbaugh and various Fox "news" hosts have taken turns torturing the intellectual and logical centers of their fettered consciousness. That, and that they have no idea what actual socialism is or means. It invokes feelings of pity and revulsion.
I think your comment is informative, but it's still a Whoosh!
A "private" tag doesn't magically make a public item private.
Then what's the point of calling it private? It's misleading to do so isn't it? Also, the very nature of social networks operate on the basis of filtering, without which there's no point in having "friends" or groups etc, it would just be a giant cluster-fuck like the wild west days of the early internet which to some degree is why people flocked to social networks in the first place. I'm not saying it isn't a giant cluster-fuck on FB either btw, but just because a lot of people are ignorant about how the internet works, doesn't mean that they deserve to have their children or deceased family members images trawled and publicly monetized by multi-billion dollar corporations. Yes, I realize that's exactly what FB, Google, et. all are doing, but at least they do it privately, and supposedly anonymously, that's what makes them tolerable. After all, you can't escape unless you basically shun society as a whole, because even if you don't have a FB account, someone at sometime will take your photo and tag you online without your permission. Please tell me if I'm wrong, but I'm arguing that there has to be protections. That is the purpose of governments anyways, to provide protections for its members the citizens. I think the Australian government failed on this one.
There was a time in your life when you used basically the same arguments against your mother as she trained you to piss and crap in the bathroom as opposed to just going in your pants, you eventually learned to "put forth the effort" on that one, and you'll eventually learn to do the same on this one too.
But the XinCheJian and CNN Go links are perhaps worth checking.
My own experiences in college match exactly to your statement about the teachers lacking teaching skills or credibility. I took Calculus twice in college, the first time was in a class with over 40 students, the teacher was a guy from mainland China who was completely unintelligible due to his very poor English, it was joked that he might as well have taught the class in Chinese as no one would be able to tell the difference. The second time, was in a class with about 25 students, and instead of a teacher, we had a closed circuit TV parked in the front of the class, with some guy giving the lecture from another city. It was a fucking cruel joke to anybody with passion for the sciences.
"Fun Fact: carry a old dumbphone in your car. When police pull you over turn off and hide your smartphone and hand them the dumbphone. If the dumbphone is dead tell'em the battery died and you don't have a car charger." Unfortunately, they've already got an app for that. http://thenextweb.com/us/2011/04/20/us-police-can-copy-your-iphones-contents-in-under-two-minutes/
As opposed to the speedy efficiency of government we enjoy now.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't health care, if it will save your life, fall under the the "Life" part of said unalienable rights?
My guess is that by the time we are capable of traveling to another solar system our bodies will have already been discarded.
I've got to say, at this point there's no contest as far as basic functionality goes, and for doing the things that "most people" tm do on their computers most of the time. Linux is clearly superior to Windows. I dare you to take a dual boot challenge.
I think you're also forgetting another important factor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight