Actually, I am a Hawaiian, and I'm more of an authority on Hawaiian culture and politics than these vile protesters:)
Btw, "Hawaiian" is an english word, you don't use the okina there. "Hawai'ian" is what a haole who thought they were being "authentic" would write:) Proper okina usage is for the word "Hawai'i", as in "He Hawai'i Au".
The protests are being held by liars who lie about the true multi-racial history of the Hawaiian Kingdom, in order to shakedown the government for money.
Using Mauna Kea to study the heavens is a righteous use of land, and a sacred continuation of the Hawaiian culture, that used stars to navigate the seas for hundreds of years. Any who claim it is a desecration are racist pigs who believe that any indigenous culture must be defined only as it was originally seen by white people, instead of honoring the right of people of all ancestries to grow and change over time.
The Kingdom of Hawaii was founded with a multi-racial coalition, was replaced by the internationally recognized Republic of Hawaii through internal means, and successfully sued for annexation in 1898 to the US. Insisting that one racial group, defined by a fractional drop of blood, should be able to dominate the decision making processes of the people of Hawaii is evil, and wrong.
You wouldn't let someone write java code without version controlling it - so version control your packer.io scripts and ansible scripts for building infrastructure.
You wouldn't let someone manually compile their java code instead of using maven - so script and automate everything from your OS build, to your middleware install, to your build/deploy, to your testing.
If you're a testing freak, you can add testing in there too - have automated validation of your OS, middleware, etc, etc.
So, it's quite simple, really - but clearly not well understood.
I'm a (bad) Catholic, and while certainly the Inquisition wasn't particularly *odd* at the time and place it happened, that doesn't mean I'm not embarrassed by it.
Having a broader contextual understanding of the horrors of various religious persecutions and wars doesn't make them any less embarrassing. Yes, Uncle Bob may be retarded, but watching him drool and hump the couch is still embarrassing.
Mod parent up. If you want to combat ISIS, you need to give clear and thorough critiques of sharia, and radical islam. Tamping down on "anti-muslim speech" or "pro-sharia speech" isn't the answer - having a robust marketplace of ideas is.
Who knows, maybe one day islam will have its reformation period, and violent jihadis will be just as embarrassing to them as the Inquisition is to catholics.
Okay, so let's just register people, and insist they inscribe their social security number onto everything they own - cars, guns, drones, clothes, computers, cell phones, baseballs, cakes, or anything else you could possibly misuse or cause damage with...this couldn't possibly get creepy, and then we'll have one universal identifier for each individual.
Maybe, just maybe, those people without those identifiers can be deported immediately, because obviously nobody would be able to actually *forge* any sort of universal identifier, right?
Sigh.
This is like anti-abortion folk being pro death penalty, and pro-choice folk being anti-death penalty. Your liberals would jump at the chance to register every person and take away every gun, and your conservatives would jump at the chance to register every person and deport every illegal immigrant - and both would see the other as some horrific injustice.
I'll bet you get more damage to property from poorly regulated baseballs thrown by children than drones.
Obviously, baseballs can hurt, and even kill people, and people play with them in public spaces all the time - we really need to get everyone registered properly so we can educate them and hold them responsible for the errant throw.
So, we generally work by the fiction that a "gun" is the lower receiver, and that is the part that is what we register.
Exactly what part of the drone are you going to serialize and register? The wings? The engine? The fuselage? Will you need to de-register when it breaks? Re-register it after it's repaired?
At what point will the government decide to have us "register" all of the home made cakes we bake in our ovens? The parts and technology for a cake are just as common and available as the parts and technology for a drone...
There you go again, pointing out truths that environmentalists don't want to hear:)
Don't worry, after they finally admit that CO2 doesn't drive global average temperatures or climactic swings, they'll find some *other* component of energy generation (say, magnetic fields, or plain old waste heat), and they'll demonize the hell out of that because it's causing a spotted tit-fox, or marsh trout to die off.
Warming, cooling, staying the same - none of it matters when it comes to "the consensus":)
I haven't paid for them yet (still waiting for the english translation of the latest issue), but I've read some of the past translations, and they're *hilarious*:)
Of course, I liked Borat and Team America, so YMMV.
I suppose it's a good thing that at least a few brave souls have done, and continue to do, the incomprehensible, so that the cowards like you can reap the rewards:)
Wasn't trying to push a button at all - I've got no problem with your cowardice, and obviously neither do you.
The only problem I have is your seeming insistence that others should share your cowardice. I get your point - I understand your argument about being cautious when dealing with over-sensitive and violent and/or powerful people.
Do you understand that others might value their principles over the caution you recommend? Or is that simply incomprehensible to you?
So, you're a coward who frankly doesn't care about what other people think about their cowardice - a perfectly rational point of view, and I congratulate you for it:)
That being said...
1) it's not just about depicting mohammad, it's about mocking him, and other core beliefs of islam;
2) german anti-free speech laws are part of their culture;
3) fair enough - there are arguments for liberalization, as well as criminalization.
Can you understand why other people might not share your cowardice? It seems that your underlying assertion is "I'm a coward, and anyone else who isn't is completely irrational and stupid"...which, of course, is your free speech right to say, in my book:)
Because expressing free speech is the moral equivalent of buying crack, right?:)
Your point of view is clear - you don't believe that either islamic culture, german culture, or drug laws should be changed.
Sounds like you're ready to say, "sure, go ahead, sit in the front of the segregated bus, while you're at it".
But hey, that's okay - if you want to be a coward, and just let the threats of the status quo determine the ability for people to exercise their freedoms, that's a perfectly reasonable position to take to minimize risk. Just don't expect people to be all that impressed with your point of view:)
Your imagined, unrealized externalities of the future may indeed be dire, but that has nothing to do with whether cheap energy is a good thing.
Let's, for a moment, imagine a dire, future externality of solar power - say the ivanpah generator, reflecting into space, attracts a violent alien civilization that comes and eats 90% of our population. Are you happy to pad the pockets of solar executives at the expense of the future?
Now, maybe if you had concrete, actual, real "externalities" that were paid by "all of us", like say, solar subsidies for bird zapping solar plants in nevada, or regulations that raised the cost of energy paid by "all of us", you'd have a case to make...but imaginary harms in some hypothetical future with tenuous attribution hardly make for good economics.
Got it, the "don't do risky stuff because people are crazy" line of thinking...
like don't wear a short skirt in a bad neighborhood if you don't want to be raped...
or don't be a black person whistling at a white woman if you don't want to be lynched...
or don't let people know you're gay if you don't want to be subject to chemical castration even if you happened to have saved millions of people during WWII with your code breaking work.
If I'm being to subtle, let me state it plainly - the problem isn't people who make fun of the holocaust or muhammad, it's the people who react against such speech in violent or oppressive ways. While we can raise our hands and just say, "well, that's just the way it is", if one truly believes in free speech, one must take up the fight against such backwards cultures, and not be intimidated by their threats that it will "not turn out well and stuff".
Seriously, though, cheap energy (in absolute terms, not massaged by the heavy hand of regulation), is a good thing. Great, so we don't invest in more oil drilling...until consumption goes up, prices go up, and it becomes profitable. This is a *feature* not a bug.
Prices are momentary signals, not eternal mandates.
And your point is that Germany sucks for being oppressive of free speech, or that Germany rocks for being oppressive of free speech?
Or, are you saying that Germany sucks for being oppressive of free speech, and then suddenly being all pro-free speech when it comes to Charlie Hebdo? If that's the case, then I agree - the world is filled with leftist hypocrites who imagine "freedom of speech" as only for the ideas they hold dear.
The whole "fighting words" thing seems like an excuse to infantilize adults. If someone literally says something like, "I'm going to take my gun out and shoot you in the head right now", maybe you've got a right to respond to that threat...but just insulting something sacred to them?
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Actually, I am a Hawaiian, and I'm more of an authority on Hawaiian culture and politics than these vile protesters :)
Btw, "Hawaiian" is an english word, you don't use the okina there. "Hawai'ian" is what a haole who thought they were being "authentic" would write :) Proper okina usage is for the word "Hawai'i", as in "He Hawai'i Au".
The protests are being held by liars who lie about the true multi-racial history of the Hawaiian Kingdom, in order to shakedown the government for money.
Using Mauna Kea to study the heavens is a righteous use of land, and a sacred continuation of the Hawaiian culture, that used stars to navigate the seas for hundreds of years. Any who claim it is a desecration are racist pigs who believe that any indigenous culture must be defined only as it was originally seen by white people, instead of honoring the right of people of all ancestries to grow and change over time.
The Kingdom of Hawaii was founded with a multi-racial coalition, was replaced by the internationally recognized Republic of Hawaii through internal means, and successfully sued for annexation in 1898 to the US. Insisting that one racial group, defined by a fractional drop of blood, should be able to dominate the decision making processes of the people of Hawaii is evil, and wrong.
DevOps is treating infrastructure as development.
You wouldn't let someone write java code without version controlling it - so version control your packer.io scripts and ansible scripts for building infrastructure.
You wouldn't let someone manually compile their java code instead of using maven - so script and automate everything from your OS build, to your middleware install, to your build/deploy, to your testing.
If you're a testing freak, you can add testing in there too - have automated validation of your OS, middleware, etc, etc.
So, it's quite simple, really - but clearly not well understood.
I'm a (bad) Catholic, and while certainly the Inquisition wasn't particularly *odd* at the time and place it happened, that doesn't mean I'm not embarrassed by it.
Having a broader contextual understanding of the horrors of various religious persecutions and wars doesn't make them any less embarrassing. Yes, Uncle Bob may be retarded, but watching him drool and hump the couch is still embarrassing.
Mod parent up. If you want to combat ISIS, you need to give clear and thorough critiques of sharia, and radical islam. Tamping down on "anti-muslim speech" or "pro-sharia speech" isn't the answer - having a robust marketplace of ideas is.
Who knows, maybe one day islam will have its reformation period, and violent jihadis will be just as embarrassing to them as the Inquisition is to catholics.
Sure, you'll find islamic hate. You'll find christian hate. You'll find anti-gay hate.
But what's going to happen to all the SJWs who use violent rhetoric? Or the Jeremiah Wrights preaching that #blacklivesmatter?
Eventually, the only people left on the web will be Mormons and Buddhists.
Okay, so let's just register people, and insist they inscribe their social security number onto everything they own - cars, guns, drones, clothes, computers, cell phones, baseballs, cakes, or anything else you could possibly misuse or cause damage with...this couldn't possibly get creepy, and then we'll have one universal identifier for each individual.
Maybe, just maybe, those people without those identifiers can be deported immediately, because obviously nobody would be able to actually *forge* any sort of universal identifier, right?
Sigh.
This is like anti-abortion folk being pro death penalty, and pro-choice folk being anti-death penalty. Your liberals would jump at the chance to register every person and take away every gun, and your conservatives would jump at the chance to register every person and deport every illegal immigrant - and both would see the other as some horrific injustice.
I'll bet you get more damage to property from poorly regulated baseballs thrown by children than drones.
Obviously, baseballs can hurt, and even kill people, and people play with them in public spaces all the time - we really need to get everyone registered properly so we can educate them and hold them responsible for the errant throw.
So, we generally work by the fiction that a "gun" is the lower receiver, and that is the part that is what we register.
Exactly what part of the drone are you going to serialize and register? The wings? The engine? The fuselage? Will you need to de-register when it breaks? Re-register it after it's repaired?
At what point will the government decide to have us "register" all of the home made cakes we bake in our ovens? The parts and technology for a cake are just as common and available as the parts and technology for a drone...
...to play in the superbowl. It just really really really helps.
There is a difference between coding, and coding *well*. Math counts, literally.
There you go again, pointing out truths that environmentalists don't want to hear :)
Don't worry, after they finally admit that CO2 doesn't drive global average temperatures or climactic swings, they'll find some *other* component of energy generation (say, magnetic fields, or plain old waste heat), and they'll demonize the hell out of that because it's causing a spotted tit-fox, or marsh trout to die off.
Warming, cooling, staying the same - none of it matters when it comes to "the consensus" :)
But...but...you can never run out of *other* people's money! /sarc
This smells like a desperate attempt by the MSM to try and spin away the shellacking the greenie Ds got last year.
I haven't paid for them yet (still waiting for the english translation of the latest issue), but I've read some of the past translations, and they're *hilarious* :)
Of course, I liked Borat and Team America, so YMMV.
Fair enough.
I suppose it's a good thing that at least a few brave souls have done, and continue to do, the incomprehensible, so that the cowards like you can reap the rewards :)
Wasn't trying to push a button at all - I've got no problem with your cowardice, and obviously neither do you.
The only problem I have is your seeming insistence that others should share your cowardice. I get your point - I understand your argument about being cautious when dealing with over-sensitive and violent and/or powerful people.
Do you understand that others might value their principles over the caution you recommend? Or is that simply incomprehensible to you?
So, you're a coward who frankly doesn't care about what other people think about their cowardice - a perfectly rational point of view, and I congratulate you for it :)
That being said...
1) it's not just about depicting mohammad, it's about mocking him, and other core beliefs of islam;
2) german anti-free speech laws are part of their culture;
3) fair enough - there are arguments for liberalization, as well as criminalization.
Can you understand why other people might not share your cowardice? It seems that your underlying assertion is "I'm a coward, and anyone else who isn't is completely irrational and stupid"...which, of course, is your free speech right to say, in my book :)
Because expressing free speech is the moral equivalent of buying crack, right? :)
Your point of view is clear - you don't believe that either islamic culture, german culture, or drug laws should be changed.
Sounds like you're ready to say, "sure, go ahead, sit in the front of the segregated bus, while you're at it".
But hey, that's okay - if you want to be a coward, and just let the threats of the status quo determine the ability for people to exercise their freedoms, that's a perfectly reasonable position to take to minimize risk. Just don't expect people to be all that impressed with your point of view :)
Yes, I deny the apocalypse is going to be "soon", and that we must pray to your gods for forgiveness before the "end times" :)
In the meantime, cheap energy means a better quality of life for billions of people so poor you can't even recognize them.
Ah, the "externalities" trope.
Your imagined, unrealized externalities of the future may indeed be dire, but that has nothing to do with whether cheap energy is a good thing.
Let's, for a moment, imagine a dire, future externality of solar power - say the ivanpah generator, reflecting into space, attracts a violent alien civilization that comes and eats 90% of our population. Are you happy to pad the pockets of solar executives at the expense of the future?
Now, maybe if you had concrete, actual, real "externalities" that were paid by "all of us", like say, solar subsidies for bird zapping solar plants in nevada, or regulations that raised the cost of energy paid by "all of us", you'd have a case to make...but imaginary harms in some hypothetical future with tenuous attribution hardly make for good economics.
Got it, the "don't do risky stuff because people are crazy" line of thinking...
like don't wear a short skirt in a bad neighborhood if you don't want to be raped...
or don't be a black person whistling at a white woman if you don't want to be lynched...
or don't let people know you're gay if you don't want to be subject to chemical castration even if you happened to have saved millions of people during WWII with your code breaking work.
If I'm being to subtle, let me state it plainly - the problem isn't people who make fun of the holocaust or muhammad, it's the people who react against such speech in violent or oppressive ways. While we can raise our hands and just say, "well, that's just the way it is", if one truly believes in free speech, one must take up the fight against such backwards cultures, and not be intimidated by their threats that it will "not turn out well and stuff".
Well, what you said was:
"Do you think drawing cartoons of Muhammad and making fun of him is "something that almost certainly needs to be said?"
"Shouldn't you go, right now, and draw funny cartoons that deny the Holocaust?"
My answer to both, is yes.
Whether or not you actually were trying to make a point with your questions, I suppose is an open question :)
Did you have a point?
...damn, we all better stop using computers!
Seriously, though, cheap energy (in absolute terms, not massaged by the heavy hand of regulation), is a good thing. Great, so we don't invest in more oil drilling...until consumption goes up, prices go up, and it becomes profitable. This is a *feature* not a bug.
Prices are momentary signals, not eternal mandates.
And your point is that Germany sucks for being oppressive of free speech, or that Germany rocks for being oppressive of free speech?
Or, are you saying that Germany sucks for being oppressive of free speech, and then suddenly being all pro-free speech when it comes to Charlie Hebdo? If that's the case, then I agree - the world is filled with leftist hypocrites who imagine "freedom of speech" as only for the ideas they hold dear.
I believe significantly differently.
Yes.
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Fuck the Germans and their stupid free speech restrictions imposed to assuage their guilt of Hitler.
The whole "fighting words" thing seems like an excuse to infantilize adults. If someone literally says something like, "I'm going to take my gun out and shoot you in the head right now", maybe you've got a right to respond to that threat...but just insulting something sacred to them?
Fuck that.