All of which is a waste of time, since the majority in the U.S. will never care who they vote for, so long as they can vote for the one that promises they will not have to pay taxes and will taken care of by their government, for others will pay the taxes.
Yeah, that's the part I find really, really fucking strange. My dad will never be a millionaire, yet he votes Republican and defends their "no taxing the rich" strategy. That just doesn't make sense to me; "no taxing me" I get, but "no taxing someone taking advantage of me" just doesn't hit me the same way. Perhaps in 20 years or so I'll be going senile too.
A company has the responsibility to do what is best for the stockholders. There is NO law requiring publically traded companies to pursue profit above all other considerations.
You are correct that "there is no law". However, there are shareholders, and thus there are lawsuits.
For example, we don't allow people to sell human body parts because of the perverse incentives it would create.
Heard on NPR this morning that there's an auction going on to sell Elvis' tooth. The reporter made a point to ask, "Do you sell any other body parts?" So, you are quite wrong.
I would tend to agree with your sentiment, that most people who reject religion understand it far better than those who accept it. And, that does not come from avoidance; it's from the childhood attempts at acceptance, which fell flat when logic flew out the door. Answering your last two paragraphs, I don't need to study illogic to know that I should reject it. Sure, there may be useful lessons to be gleaned from mythology; but it is much harder separating the wheat from the chaff (from the exploding chaff) in mythology, than it is in science.
If you avoid contact with religion you are unlikely to be able to speak authoritatively about it. This is a basic philosophic principle that scientists should not forget; purposeful ignorance does not grant enlightenment.
I don't need to go to jail to understand that I don't want to.
Great, you've accomplished nothing. [...] (fbcdn.net and fbcdn.com)
Thanks for pointing out the flaws in a typical open source manner. I will fix my/etc/hosts. Are there any other Facebook sites that I should be bit-bucketing? Thanks in advance.
I think pretty much the only way is to involve an attorney so that you can have attorney client privileges and then have the attorney disclose those after you're dead.
Sucks if you and your attorney go out for a bite, and die in the same accident... Although I see no reason not to have two separate attorneys, apart from the cost.
It gets worse from there as you suggest we just set up an authoritarian regime that can rob you of everything you've worked for, because you got with a joint. You call that "a bit of a slippery slope"? ROFL, man I want what you're smoking!
Drug laws and false anti-pot propaganda only benefit the gangsters.
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"The tyrant fears the laugh more than the assassin's bullet." Heinlein, Our Fair City
We will laugh at the tyrant, even if he does things that aren't funny, because of the influence. We're above the influence: we're high above it! (Alternately, government is really just the winning gang, as expressed earlier here, more eloquently.)
According to the Constitution is what makes things un-Constitutional (not "which other laws"). If this is an amendment to the Constitution, then it should follow that process, including getting a certain number of states to vote for it. (I wish we decided our participation in wars like that...)
Yeah because cell-phone bombs go off all the time around me. How about: preserve rights, then the 99% won't want justice? Then we won't need to protect these motorcades that seem so self-important.
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Every time they've 'tweaked the algorithm' in the last few years, the quality of the default results seems to have gone down.
Exactly. Instead of "tweaking the default algorithm", perhaps they could just add some user controls so that we could customize our experience?
Well played, sir.
even though the book is much more informative and in-depth (obviously), the movie is more fun.
Curl your toes.
I've been wondering why I've been sleeping in the wet spot for a decade, with no action...
All of which is a waste of time, since the majority in the U.S. will never care who they vote for, so long as they can vote for the one that promises they will not have to pay taxes and will taken care of by their government, for others will pay the taxes.
Yeah, that's the part I find really, really fucking strange. My dad will never be a millionaire, yet he votes Republican and defends their "no taxing the rich" strategy. That just doesn't make sense to me; "no taxing me" I get, but "no taxing someone taking advantage of me" just doesn't hit me the same way. Perhaps in 20 years or so I'll be going senile too.
(BTW, love your .sig.)
A company has the responsibility to do what is best for the stockholders. There is NO law requiring publically traded companies to pursue profit above all other considerations.
You are correct that "there is no law". However, there are shareholders, and thus there are lawsuits.
I married a trysexual. Learned a few things. Got divorced.
For example, we don't allow people to sell human body parts because of the perverse incentives it would create.
Heard on NPR this morning that there's an auction going on to sell Elvis' tooth. The reporter made a point to ask, "Do you sell any other body parts?" So, you are quite wrong.
I would tend to agree with your sentiment, that most people who reject religion understand it far better than those who accept it. And, that does not come from avoidance; it's from the childhood attempts at acceptance, which fell flat when logic flew out the door. Answering your last two paragraphs, I don't need to study illogic to know that I should reject it. Sure, there may be useful lessons to be gleaned from mythology; but it is much harder separating the wheat from the chaff (from the exploding chaff) in mythology, than it is in science.
"Nature abhors anthropomorphism."
If you avoid contact with religion you are unlikely to be able to speak authoritatively about it. This is a basic philosophic principle that scientists should not forget; purposeful ignorance does not grant enlightenment.
I don't need to go to jail to understand that I don't want to.
Great, you've accomplished nothing. [...] (fbcdn.net and fbcdn.com)
Thanks for pointing out the flaws in a typical open source manner. I will fix my /etc/hosts. Are there any other Facebook sites that I should be bit-bucketing? Thanks in advance.
I think pretty much the only way is to involve an attorney so that you can have attorney client privileges and then have the attorney disclose those after you're dead.
Sucks if you and your attorney go out for a bite, and die in the same accident... Although I see no reason not to have two separate attorneys, apart from the cost.
We, the non-terrorist side in that war, are the good guys.
Our "freedom fighters" are the other side's "terrorists". We are not "the good guys", not by a long stretch.
These people can kill themselves (though if they use marijuana, I find that unlikely) while using their drugs for all I care.
Generally, they will live longer than the non-smokers. Thanks to cancer.
It gets worse from there as you suggest we just set up an authoritarian regime that can rob you of everything you've worked for, because you got with a joint. You call that "a bit of a slippery slope"? ROFL, man I want what you're smoking!
Perhaps, just perhaps, ... you don't.
Drug laws and false anti-pot propaganda only benefit the gangsters.
--
"The tyrant fears the laugh more than the assassin's bullet." Heinlein, Our Fair City
We will laugh at the tyrant, even if he does things that aren't funny, because of the influence. We're above the influence: we're high above it! (Alternately, government is really just the winning gang, as expressed earlier here, more eloquently.)
I just spent my mod points (in another thread). Someone, please mod parent up as Insightful.
As I read about the poisoned DNS entries, I pause to edit /etc/hosts
Yeah, a while ago (3 months and a day, my comment shows) I stopped Facebook's ability to monitor me, at least from this computer. Added to /etc/hosts:
# screw facebook 2011-07-31
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
I'll likely do the same once the details of this are known...
According to the Constitution is what makes things un-Constitutional (not "which other laws"). If this is an amendment to the Constitution, then it should follow that process, including getting a certain number of states to vote for it. (I wish we decided our participation in wars like that...)
Not sure why this is marked troll; I'm glad I kept my 100k. Will follow with interest; will not invest.
when a law is struck down as unconstitutional, fine all the reps and senators that voted for it
Harsher penalties are called for than financial; this is akin to treason.
Yeah because cell-phone bombs go off all the time around me. How about: preserve rights, then the 99% won't want justice? Then we won't need to protect these motorcades that seem so self-important.
The AMA, for example, is a union focusing on the high end of the pay scale and going a great job at it.
By outlawing traditional remedies, you mean, so that they can sell higher-priced side-effect-ridden drugs?
You might not know, but you really can't say. It rhymes better that way.