Not at all. I'm almost 100% sure he didn't use the Soapbox, ballot box, Jury box, and went straight for the ammo box. Shortcuts in life rarely work out well;)
Condemnation without understanding is one of the crimes humans are also capable of
I do not need to understand anti-Semitism to condemn it. I do not need to understand beheadings to condemn it. I don't care what people believe*, but I can condemn violent acts without needing to understand them.
While I would suggest to you, that I can see your thousands of shades of grey you're trying to paint with, without a line somewhere, you have no position to hold.
*I don't care that the KKK exists. Let the bigots be bigots. The moment I care is when they hang a dude because of the skin color, or burn a cross on someone else's property or otherwise cause harm to someone. And then I am all for a response. But if they want to march, try to collect more people, that is all fine and good. I would HOPE that my ability to use logic, reason and oratory skills would be able to convince more people that being a bigot is stupid. And if I can't, no amount of force justifies making bigots silent. Remember, I am a Libertarian, and liberty means freedom of thought, freedom of speech, even that which I detest.
Anything less is exactly the excuse tyrants use control their citizenry.
People rioting usually feel just in their actions, which is why they are rioting. By explaining their justification, you're giving tacit approval for that justification, especially if you also do not condemn it. News Reporting today "Trump needs to control his rhetoric to stop the violence", where those acting violently are protesting Trump. How is TRUMP responsible for the riots? It isn't HIS supporters rioting, is it? Trump's words are inciting violence, but not by his supporters.
Mind you, I do NOT like Trump, and will not be voting for him, however, blaming him for the riots of those protesting him is like blaming the girl because she asked to be raped with her clothing choices. No girl deserves to be raped, ever. Not even slutty tramps. Explaining it "She was wearing see through clothes" excuses the rapist at least partially. That "explanation" itself is a form of justification, where none should exist.
IMHO, the age of University is quickly dying. While it will likely never completely disappear, the structure is likely to really be different in the next 40 years. The whole world's knowledge is at our fingertips, all we have to do is look. Do not let school get in the way of your education.
Today, I've learned a little bit about AstroPhysics, Biology, Philosophy, and a tad about History. Yesterday, I learned something about cooking, gardening, and health/wellness.
I've learned more in the last year, than I did in four years of college. Because I am not prescribed a schedule of study, I can study a much broader scope, and as deep of a level as I want, on topics that interests me, than the university I attended 30 years ago could provide. There is NO piece of paper that can show what I know, because all that represents is a stagnate single point of time.
I don't know if your post is sarcasm or not. If it is sarcastic you didn't really do a very good job of being sarcastic. And if you weren't trying, it really looks like you were being sarcastic. Which leaves me wondering... and I would rather not assume one way or the other out of fear of being wrong.
Platitudes "We're the democrats, vote for us, we'll help you" ?
Before you cast stones, make sure the house isn't made of glass. Tell me, in the last 50 years, are blacks better off, worse off, or the same? Because from the sound of the BLM, Black Community leaders, and so on, everything is worse now than ever (I happen to agree). The problem is that a symptom is being treated, and not the disease. The death of the Black Family has crippled that community. But since you can't or won't admit that the problem is right there, and the cause is the racist view of lower expectations "We can help you because America is racist"...
Really, you say NOBODY in the Black Community actually wants to solve that problem.
People who are black, who talk like me, are called "uncle Tom" and worse. They are excommunicated from the rest of the Black Community and accused of being a race traitor. Self Fulfilling. So, when I say "nobody in the Black Community" I'm talking about those. Not every black person subscribes to the notion of a "black community" and thus aren't in the "black community" (see Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson et. al)
Well, actually, if you learned something, you'd realize that there has been a lot of welfare reform and modification over the years, from both sides of the table, and the effectiveness, well, you could read some information that gives you a different picture:
Anecdotal evidence isn't proof of anything. The proof is is, after 50+ years of Democratic Rule, the huge number of black people who are suffering remains nearly the same as it was then, probably worse off. While there may be a few that have escaped, the murder rate, incarceration rate, illiteracy rate, single parent rate are all worse now than 50 years ago. That is not a record anyone can defend, except by pointing to outliers.
AND IMHO, the greatest racism we have in this country is the racism of low expectations. We, as a whole society, have basically said, "you poor black people, you can't make it without our help. Here let us help you."
When you look at a broken clock, and say "it is right" (twice a day even) it doesn't mean it isn't broken.
BTW, I would INSTANTLY help the black community start repairing the things it needs to repair to escape their current plight. But I can't help them until they understand the problem isn't "white america" or "racist america" or even "Uncle Tom Race Traitors". The problem here, is all attitude. Change the communities attitude and you'll change the community.
FYI, here is my quick diagnosis:
1) #1 indicator of poverty is lack of education. 2) #1 Inidcator of lack of education is parental involvement (both parents) 3) #1 Victim of poverty is Single Mothers (and their kids)
Broken Families = higher poverty. You want to fix the problems, fix the family. I don't know any program who's goal is "build a solid family", but IMHO it would be worth EVERY penny we could spend if we could do that one thing. Yeah, I don't want to help Black people, which is why I think I understand the root cause so well, and how to fix it. The best anyone has said to me about this plan is "Unrealistic", my response is "How do you know, unless you've tried. And unless you're willing to try, you're just making excuses as to why you don't even want to try"
How about, instead of obfuscating what your shit does in Buzzword Bingo based statements that end up being near meaningless, you simple say "our product does this, and what is novel about our approach is this patented bit right here. We feel this bit is really exciting, because it allows us to do this thing that nobody else can do this particular way. And we've see value in that technology".
IMHO "Leveraging Synergies" is meaningless, it tells me absolutely nothing, as it can apply to just about every Startup in existence. There are a couple good shows on MSNBC (Shark Tank, The Profit) that really expose people when they use meaningless catchphrases trying to entice investments.
"x'" has to be obfuscated into paragraphs of fluff.
This is all I learned from all the reports I did in school. The teachers/professors didn't actually want to know the information being imparted (most likely, because they already knew it, or just didn't care), but rather were looking for exactly what you described... "paragraphs of fluff". If you didn't say "Colorado Population: 5.356 Million as of 2014* " in a way that took up at least a paragraph (preferably a whole page) in your report, it was graded poorly.
And I never really understood the point of writing a report, fully expounding (fluffifying) the summation of another source. The point being reports end up being TL;DR nonesense with the sole purpose of teaching you how to write fluffy reports for people who are too lazy to actually read them in the first place. See Office Space; TPS Reports for insightful view of reports.
TL;DR version; This is what they were taught in school to expect in a report, so anything less than a fluff piece is rejected as "incomplete".**
*US Census Bureau, where you can find all sorts of other interesting facts about population of all sorts of places, not just Colorado. Imagine that! ** See what I did there?:-D
If something is understandable, it is justified by definition (IMHO). I do not understand rioting, looting as a form of protest. I understand that others find it understandable, but I find it completely horrific. There is NO justification that supports rioting in protest, because that solves NOTHING, and so, I don't understand it. I do understand people are frustrated, often exceedingly so. If that is a explanation that is understandable, that is itself tacit or implicit acceptance that rioting is a solution.
Now, if you're like me, rioting is not a solution for anything. It doesn't solve any problem, it doesn't bring the kind of attention that can solve problems. Rioting is simply a temper tantrum, and I refuse to give power to people having tantrums. Period.
I'll even go one step further, I've heard those supporting Rioting in every case I mentioned, as saying "at least it is bringing attention to _______ problem". THAT is also justification. "Trump is a racist, we're rioting to bring attention to the fact that Trump is a racist", and some people may nod their head in agreement that Trump is a racist, and give "understanding" to the riots, and not condemn it at all, they infact have given tacit and implicit support for rioting.
So, I am NOT confusing Justifiable and understanding. The first step in justification is creating a understandable reason why it happens. And what I know about humans, is we are very capable of justifying some of the most horrific crimes imaginable, because of our "understanding" (which is terribly flawed). So, no, I don't want to "understand" why people do horrific things, except to prevent it from happening again. And the only way that happens is if I condemn the action even if I support the cause. For the ends do not justify the means. EVER .
From experience, people generally move, and take their baggage with them. It is their own baggage they are fleeing, and yet they take it with them. We'll find that Mars ends up looking exactly like what they were fleeing here on earth, only with minor variances.
Never vote "against" someone. Always vote for the person who closest matches your priorities. If the two party's can't represent you, find someone else. I highly recommend listening to the Libertarian Party (LP) candidate. Unless you're a committed statist that is.
1) I do vote, so my condemnation of the two major parties are fully justified on that alone 2) Even if I didn't vote, because I refuse to vote for lessor of two evils, doesn't mean I can't complain (1st Amendment) 3) Even if the first two don't apply, Liberty requires me being able to have my own mind, and be able to voice it. This is a HUMAN right.
Now, the people who say "You can't complain because of ________" are tyrants, pure and simple. They need to be confronted as such, in exactly those very terms. To the GP, "YOU ARE A TYRANT!". Just because they don't have power (yet) doesn't make it any less of a tyranny. Tyranny of one is still tyranny.
Don't forget the legacy of Sanders' wife on that other university. But since that was pie in the sky progressive logic that failed there, we'll ignore it. Besides, Bernie had nothing to do with it (being his wife and all that). Of course, Bernie's wife, Hillary's Husband are off limits, but Trumps Wife is fair game.
No, I am not voting for Trump, just pointing out that hypocrisy abounds in this election cycle.
I don't care, because once upon a time I did care, and was called "Racist" for pointing out the obvious. Because the only real "Black" family is completely dysfunctional and nobody in the Black Community actually wants to solve that problem because the problem itself doesn't reflect well on the black community as a whole. Black men killing each other, going to prison for hard crimes, and so on, leaving single women unable to get better educated because they are pregnant and on welfare because the dads are dead, in prison or simply hooked up with another woman.
The solution is simple, but labeled "racist". Fix the fucking family disintegration caused by all the "progressive programs" that are designed to "help" but instead lock people into a dysfunctional system, creating a feedback loop that looks impossible to solve otherwise. Yeah, I don't care anymore, because if THEY don't care about fixing the problem themselves, and resist my suggestions because I am "white" (and don't forget, racist), why should I actually care?
The Black population votes nearly lockstep (70-90%) with the DNC, which keeps offering the same tired solutions. One popular definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Tell me, how is THIS any different? 50 years and three or four generations of Progressive "Help" and the black community is in as bad a shape as it was 60 years ago. Perhaps worse. Tell me, how is that working out for you?
Someone steals your work (assuming that info is correct) The system doesn't care (assuming he reported it, and they all said "tough shit" or similar) You have two choices, take it in the ass like a bitch whore, or go on a rampage to bring attention to the cause.
Now, before you go down the road of picking one side or another, the common theme these days, for wrongs committed but never addressed by the powers that be is to riot. Ferguson, Philly, Trevon, hell, even Trump. And while murder itself wasn't a direct result (that we know of) of these violent acts of protest, they were and are all violent acts of protest, and all fairly excused by implied consent among large parts of the population.
No, I am not trolling here, the fact is, violent protests are more or less excused, and keep occurring because of that tacit approval that as long as the "wrong" is enough, violence is justifiable, at least to some degree.
Now, my view is that VIOLENCE is the last resort of a free people, not the first course of action; Boxes: soap, ballot, jury, ammo... in that order.
While most people, especially Progressives/Liberals would like to point out that the 1 and 10% are accumulating wealth at a huge rate (I am not denying it) they seem to think the cause is some sort of "Greed" factor, and not a function of anything else. I would suggest to you, that greed is in fact a symptom of the cause, but not the cause it self. Everyone has their own self interest at heart, from the manual labor worker to the Trump/Clinton types that exploit their wealth and power to accumulate even more wealth and power.
So, as power accumulates at the top (Central Planning, Big Federal Government etc) those people who have access to that power will use it to accumulate more wealth and more power. And the more power you grant these people (abdication of personal responsibility) the more you'll see this trend. This is the natural result of socialism, in just about every case.
People like Bernie, while identifying the symptom (the accumulation of wealth at the top) assume that creating a more powerful central government will solve the problem caused by... you guessed it, a powerful centralized government. This is how Venezuela with all its natural resources can be on the edge of financial ruin, with the very people Bernie wants to support, getting the shaft.
The solution is to free people from the shackles of government regulation that only stifles creative, enterprising, hard working people in the form of barriers to entry (see your typical shutdown of lemonade stands).
And before you mention Somalia (a very tired strawman) , I'll counter with North Korea, China, Greece and the aforementioned Venezuela as great examples of socialism's end result.
Oh yes, and we want dirty air and polluted water. We want people starving and general social Darwinism/sarcasm
IMHO, this is a case where going "BitCoin" might be an option. If Paypal started offering BitCoin (or other CryptoCurrency) option instead of localized currency there is no way that Turkey could stop them, since they couldn't tell if the technology was in country or out of country. But then again, Paypal wouldn't do such a thing, since it would leave the proprietary bits of Paypal on the threshing room floor
SMS, How Quaint. Using technology designed to use back channel communications for instant messaging that now runs over IP based networks, that does not provide realtime messaging.
There are much much better options available out there that have way better support for things like better Group support, audio/video support, chatbots and automated responses.
I saved the file, so I could watch it on an airplane. Or going through a tunnel. Or on the camping trip in the middle of nowhere (besides the why are you going camping then argument)..
spirit of the terms
All of which are in the "Spirit" of the terms of the examples I just gave (IMHO) . Hedging your response with vagueness doesn't really help move the conversation along. The problem is, that vague terms lead to vague ambiguities that lead to people doing things like downloading a video to watch offline at another time, while maintaining in the "spirit" of the terms;)
BitCoin is, by definition, deflationary currency. Because MOST people, including economists have no working knowledge of a deflationary currency, most people don't understand the value in human liberty. By working hard, accumulating currency that grows in value over time (rather than lose value) it allows people to be free from government manipulation of nominal fiat currency. And that is what you are seeing in China, and why you are seeing it.
You can have a Yuan that can buy an egg today, but require two Yuan's tomorrow, or you can get BitCoin, and buy two eggs for a BitCoin tomorrow. Which one do you choose?
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Not at all. I'm almost 100% sure he didn't use the Soapbox, ballot box, Jury box, and went straight for the ammo box. Shortcuts in life rarely work out well ;)
Condemnation without understanding is one of the crimes humans are also capable of
I do not need to understand anti-Semitism to condemn it. I do not need to understand beheadings to condemn it. I don't care what people believe*, but I can condemn violent acts without needing to understand them.
While I would suggest to you, that I can see your thousands of shades of grey you're trying to paint with, without a line somewhere, you have no position to hold.
*I don't care that the KKK exists. Let the bigots be bigots. The moment I care is when they hang a dude because of the skin color, or burn a cross on someone else's property or otherwise cause harm to someone. And then I am all for a response. But if they want to march, try to collect more people, that is all fine and good. I would HOPE that my ability to use logic, reason and oratory skills would be able to convince more people that being a bigot is stupid. And if I can't, no amount of force justifies making bigots silent. Remember, I am a Libertarian, and liberty means freedom of thought, freedom of speech, even that which I detest.
Anything less is exactly the excuse tyrants use control their citizenry.
People rioting usually feel just in their actions, which is why they are rioting. By explaining their justification, you're giving tacit approval for that justification, especially if you also do not condemn it. News Reporting today "Trump needs to control his rhetoric to stop the violence", where those acting violently are protesting Trump. How is TRUMP responsible for the riots? It isn't HIS supporters rioting, is it? Trump's words are inciting violence, but not by his supporters.
Mind you, I do NOT like Trump, and will not be voting for him, however, blaming him for the riots of those protesting him is like blaming the girl because she asked to be raped with her clothing choices. No girl deserves to be raped, ever. Not even slutty tramps. Explaining it "She was wearing see through clothes" excuses the rapist at least partially. That "explanation" itself is a form of justification, where none should exist.
IMHO, the age of University is quickly dying. While it will likely never completely disappear, the structure is likely to really be different in the next 40 years. The whole world's knowledge is at our fingertips, all we have to do is look. Do not let school get in the way of your education.
Today, I've learned a little bit about AstroPhysics, Biology, Philosophy, and a tad about History. Yesterday, I learned something about cooking, gardening, and health/wellness.
I've learned more in the last year, than I did in four years of college. Because I am not prescribed a schedule of study, I can study a much broader scope, and as deep of a level as I want, on topics that interests me, than the university I attended 30 years ago could provide. There is NO piece of paper that can show what I know, because all that represents is a stagnate single point of time.
I don't know if your post is sarcasm or not. If it is sarcastic you didn't really do a very good job of being sarcastic. And if you weren't trying, it really looks like you were being sarcastic. Which leaves me wondering ... and I would rather not assume one way or the other out of fear of being wrong.
Platitudes "We're the democrats, vote for us, we'll help you" ?
Before you cast stones, make sure the house isn't made of glass. Tell me, in the last 50 years, are blacks better off, worse off, or the same? Because from the sound of the BLM, Black Community leaders, and so on, everything is worse now than ever (I happen to agree). The problem is that a symptom is being treated, and not the disease. The death of the Black Family has crippled that community. But since you can't or won't admit that the problem is right there, and the cause is the racist view of lower expectations "We can help you because America is racist" ...
Yeah, I can't help you understand.
Maybe the Democrats created the welfare state ... as Johnson said "Keep those niggers voting for us for the next 200 years".
Oh wait, that doesn't fit the narrative you want to portray?
Really, you say NOBODY in the Black Community actually wants to solve that problem.
People who are black, who talk like me, are called "uncle Tom" and worse. They are excommunicated from the rest of the Black Community and accused of being a race traitor. Self Fulfilling. So, when I say "nobody in the Black Community" I'm talking about those. Not every black person subscribes to the notion of a "black community" and thus aren't in the "black community" (see Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson et. al)
Well, actually, if you learned something, you'd realize that there has been a lot of welfare reform and modification over the years, from both sides of the table, and the effectiveness, well, you could read some information that gives you a different picture:
Anecdotal evidence isn't proof of anything. The proof is is, after 50+ years of Democratic Rule, the huge number of black people who are suffering remains nearly the same as it was then, probably worse off. While there may be a few that have escaped, the murder rate, incarceration rate, illiteracy rate, single parent rate are all worse now than 50 years ago. That is not a record anyone can defend, except by pointing to outliers.
AND IMHO, the greatest racism we have in this country is the racism of low expectations. We, as a whole society, have basically said, "you poor black people, you can't make it without our help. Here let us help you."
When you look at a broken clock, and say "it is right" (twice a day even) it doesn't mean it isn't broken.
BTW, I would INSTANTLY help the black community start repairing the things it needs to repair to escape their current plight. But I can't help them until they understand the problem isn't "white america" or "racist america" or even "Uncle Tom Race Traitors". The problem here, is all attitude. Change the communities attitude and you'll change the community.
FYI, here is my quick diagnosis:
1) #1 indicator of poverty is lack of education.
2) #1 Inidcator of lack of education is parental involvement (both parents)
3) #1 Victim of poverty is Single Mothers (and their kids)
Broken Families = higher poverty. You want to fix the problems, fix the family. I don't know any program who's goal is "build a solid family", but IMHO it would be worth EVERY penny we could spend if we could do that one thing. Yeah, I don't want to help Black people, which is why I think I understand the root cause so well, and how to fix it. The best anyone has said to me about this plan is "Unrealistic", my response is "How do you know, unless you've tried. And unless you're willing to try, you're just making excuses as to why you don't even want to try"
How about, instead of obfuscating what your shit does in Buzzword Bingo based statements that end up being near meaningless, you simple say "our product does this, and what is novel about our approach is this patented bit right here. We feel this bit is really exciting, because it allows us to do this thing that nobody else can do this particular way. And we've see value in that technology".
IMHO "Leveraging Synergies" is meaningless, it tells me absolutely nothing, as it can apply to just about every Startup in existence. There are a couple good shows on MSNBC (Shark Tank, The Profit) that really expose people when they use meaningless catchphrases trying to entice investments.
"x'" has to be obfuscated into paragraphs of fluff.
This is all I learned from all the reports I did in school. The teachers/professors didn't actually want to know the information being imparted (most likely, because they already knew it, or just didn't care), but rather were looking for exactly what you described ... "paragraphs of fluff". If you didn't say "Colorado Population: 5.356 Million as of 2014* " in a way that took up at least a paragraph (preferably a whole page) in your report, it was graded poorly.
And I never really understood the point of writing a report, fully expounding (fluffifying) the summation of another source. The point being reports end up being TL;DR nonesense with the sole purpose of teaching you how to write fluffy reports for people who are too lazy to actually read them in the first place. See Office Space; TPS Reports for insightful view of reports.
TL;DR version; This is what they were taught in school to expect in a report, so anything less than a fluff piece is rejected as "incomplete".**
*US Census Bureau, where you can find all sorts of other interesting facts about population of all sorts of places, not just Colorado. Imagine that! :-D
** See what I did there?
If something is understandable, it is justified by definition (IMHO). I do not understand rioting, looting as a form of protest. I understand that others find it understandable, but I find it completely horrific. There is NO justification that supports rioting in protest, because that solves NOTHING, and so, I don't understand it. I do understand people are frustrated, often exceedingly so. If that is a explanation that is understandable, that is itself tacit or implicit acceptance that rioting is a solution.
Now, if you're like me, rioting is not a solution for anything. It doesn't solve any problem, it doesn't bring the kind of attention that can solve problems. Rioting is simply a temper tantrum, and I refuse to give power to people having tantrums. Period.
I'll even go one step further, I've heard those supporting Rioting in every case I mentioned, as saying "at least it is bringing attention to _______ problem". THAT is also justification. "Trump is a racist, we're rioting to bring attention to the fact that Trump is a racist", and some people may nod their head in agreement that Trump is a racist, and give "understanding" to the riots, and not condemn it at all, they infact have given tacit and implicit support for rioting.
So, I am NOT confusing Justifiable and understanding. The first step in justification is creating a understandable reason why it happens. And what I know about humans, is we are very capable of justifying some of the most horrific crimes imaginable, because of our "understanding" (which is terribly flawed). So, no, I don't want to "understand" why people do horrific things, except to prevent it from happening again. And the only way that happens is if I condemn the action even if I support the cause. For the ends do not justify the means. EVER .
Only to bring Earth's Politics to mars ;)
From experience, people generally move, and take their baggage with them. It is their own baggage they are fleeing, and yet they take it with them. We'll find that Mars ends up looking exactly like what they were fleeing here on earth, only with minor variances.
Or, you can watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt03... which touches on that very topic.
Never vote "against" someone. Always vote for the person who closest matches your priorities. If the two party's can't represent you, find someone else. I highly recommend listening to the Libertarian Party (LP) candidate. Unless you're a committed statist that is.
1) I do vote, so my condemnation of the two major parties are fully justified on that alone
2) Even if I didn't vote, because I refuse to vote for lessor of two evils, doesn't mean I can't complain (1st Amendment)
3) Even if the first two don't apply, Liberty requires me being able to have my own mind, and be able to voice it. This is a HUMAN right.
Now, the people who say "You can't complain because of ________" are tyrants, pure and simple. They need to be confronted as such, in exactly those very terms. To the GP, "YOU ARE A TYRANT!". Just because they don't have power (yet) doesn't make it any less of a tyranny. Tyranny of one is still tyranny.
Don't forget the legacy of Sanders' wife on that other university. But since that was pie in the sky progressive logic that failed there, we'll ignore it. Besides, Bernie had nothing to do with it (being his wife and all that). Of course, Bernie's wife, Hillary's Husband are off limits, but Trumps Wife is fair game.
No, I am not voting for Trump, just pointing out that hypocrisy abounds in this election cycle.
I don't care, because once upon a time I did care, and was called "Racist" for pointing out the obvious. Because the only real "Black" family is completely dysfunctional and nobody in the Black Community actually wants to solve that problem because the problem itself doesn't reflect well on the black community as a whole. Black men killing each other, going to prison for hard crimes, and so on, leaving single women unable to get better educated because they are pregnant and on welfare because the dads are dead, in prison or simply hooked up with another woman.
The solution is simple, but labeled "racist". Fix the fucking family disintegration caused by all the "progressive programs" that are designed to "help" but instead lock people into a dysfunctional system, creating a feedback loop that looks impossible to solve otherwise. Yeah, I don't care anymore, because if THEY don't care about fixing the problem themselves, and resist my suggestions because I am "white" (and don't forget, racist), why should I actually care?
The Black population votes nearly lockstep (70-90%) with the DNC, which keeps offering the same tired solutions. One popular definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. Tell me, how is THIS any different? 50 years and three or four generations of Progressive "Help" and the black community is in as bad a shape as it was 60 years ago. Perhaps worse. Tell me, how is that working out for you?
It is pointless to argue with an idiot, as they will inevitably try to drag you down to their level, where they can beat you with experience.
Someone steals your work (assuming that info is correct)
The system doesn't care (assuming he reported it, and they all said "tough shit" or similar)
You have two choices, take it in the ass like a bitch whore, or go on a rampage to bring attention to the cause.
Now, before you go down the road of picking one side or another, the common theme these days, for wrongs committed but never addressed by the powers that be is to riot. Ferguson, Philly, Trevon, hell, even Trump. And while murder itself wasn't a direct result (that we know of) of these violent acts of protest, they were and are all violent acts of protest, and all fairly excused by implied consent among large parts of the population.
No, I am not trolling here, the fact is, violent protests are more or less excused, and keep occurring because of that tacit approval that as long as the "wrong" is enough, violence is justifiable, at least to some degree.
Now, my view is that VIOLENCE is the last resort of a free people, not the first course of action; Boxes: soap, ballot, jury, ammo ... in that order.
While most people, especially Progressives/Liberals would like to point out that the 1 and 10% are accumulating wealth at a huge rate (I am not denying it) they seem to think the cause is some sort of "Greed" factor, and not a function of anything else. I would suggest to you, that greed is in fact a symptom of the cause, but not the cause it self. Everyone has their own self interest at heart, from the manual labor worker to the Trump/Clinton types that exploit their wealth and power to accumulate even more wealth and power.
So, as power accumulates at the top (Central Planning, Big Federal Government etc) those people who have access to that power will use it to accumulate more wealth and more power. And the more power you grant these people (abdication of personal responsibility) the more you'll see this trend. This is the natural result of socialism, in just about every case.
People like Bernie, while identifying the symptom (the accumulation of wealth at the top) assume that creating a more powerful central government will solve the problem caused by ... you guessed it, a powerful centralized government. This is how Venezuela with all its natural resources can be on the edge of financial ruin, with the very people Bernie wants to support, getting the shaft.
The solution is to free people from the shackles of government regulation that only stifles creative, enterprising, hard working people in the form of barriers to entry (see your typical shutdown of lemonade stands).
And before you mention Somalia (a very tired strawman) , I'll counter with North Korea, China, Greece and the aforementioned Venezuela as great examples of socialism's end result.
Oh yes, and we want dirty air and polluted water. We want people starving and general social Darwinism /sarcasm
IMHO, this is a case where going "BitCoin" might be an option. If Paypal started offering BitCoin (or other CryptoCurrency) option instead of localized currency there is no way that Turkey could stop them, since they couldn't tell if the technology was in country or out of country. But then again, Paypal wouldn't do such a thing, since it would leave the proprietary bits of Paypal on the threshing room floor
SMS, How Quaint. Using technology designed to use back channel communications for instant messaging that now runs over IP based networks, that does not provide realtime messaging.
There are much much better options available out there that have way better support for things like better Group support, audio/video support, chatbots and automated responses.
And this differs how again, except semantics? Can I move it from Laptop (where I have 10GB download) to my phone/tablet which ... doesn't?
I saved the file, so I could watch it on an airplane. Or going through a tunnel. Or on the camping trip in the middle of nowhere (besides the why are you going camping then argument) ..
spirit of the terms
All of which are in the "Spirit" of the terms of the examples I just gave (IMHO) . Hedging your response with vagueness doesn't really help move the conversation along. The problem is, that vague terms lead to vague ambiguities that lead to people doing things like downloading a video to watch offline at another time, while maintaining in the "spirit" of the terms ;)
BitCoin is, by definition, deflationary currency. Because MOST people, including economists have no working knowledge of a deflationary currency, most people don't understand the value in human liberty. By working hard, accumulating currency that grows in value over time (rather than lose value) it allows people to be free from government manipulation of nominal fiat currency. And that is what you are seeing in China, and why you are seeing it.
You can have a Yuan that can buy an egg today, but require two Yuan's tomorrow, or you can get BitCoin, and buy two eggs for a BitCoin tomorrow. Which one do you choose?