Funny. I see more "censorship" actively on the left than on the right. It is called Political Correctness. That, and I've heard more left wing commentators crying for people like Rush and Beck to be tossed off the air, simply because they didn't like what they heard.
Yeah, I know it is easy to bash "Christians" and all, but when are you going to start bashing those on the left for doing the same thing you're accusing the right of?
[The]idea that they can choose on behalf of others is a reminder of why religious rather than rational reasoning is so dangerous and has no place in politics.
It isn't just the "religious" that do this. Plenty of "rational reasoning" people do this too. They call it "progressive". And it is as pervasive as the "religious" right is.
If you want liberty, then fight the fight, against group identity politics.
It is scientific fraud. Like Global Warming. If the facts don't support your view, simply make them up.
What is passing for "Science" is much like the religions they supposedly make fun of. I haven't seen the article, but I doubt, really doubt they show the bits and pieces they found and where each bit was when it was found.
Because people would instantly realize the fairytale that is passing itself off as science.
This is where you err... " Until we require a judge to review every classification for legality (and I mean every one from presidential orgies to black ops) the abuses will continue."
You put the sole responsibility upon ONE individual, a dictatorship. The problem, is that if you put the responsibility onto a group, eventually the group will break its confidence and expose that which it is charged to protect.
The problem is, man (in general) is corrupt. Men, even the "best" among us, has critical flaws which can be exploited and exposed.
Believing that government is a fix to the problem(s) it creates is just as flawed as anything else. Government cannot fix character flaws, it can only shift them elsewhere.
A good IT Dept can and should do cost analysis as part of their justification. If you're not improving efficiency, you're not doing at least part of your job.
Nothing speaks more to IT department than how well does things work, and what happens when shit breaks (and it will break).
Presently I'm working on streamlining notification systems. But now that I'm doing that, I'm looking at increasing communication/notification capability so that we can lower costs or increase revenue elsewhere.
It sounds like over kill, until you realize that if we can cut mailing costs by even 10%, we can pay for the entire system in less than 12 months, while improving our chances increasing the quality and the number of contact points to the public.
It becomes one of those "why didn't we do this sooner" moments. Basically, we can't afford NOT to this.
BTW, I'm an IT guy, with a Bachelor's in Finance. I became the IT guy when I knew computers better than the IT dept, and could explain them to CEO types in terms they could understand ($$$).
"you missed the point" is cliche, and in your case, ironic. Because YOU missed the point, which was my point, but missed by you again. So, you've missed the point, twice, in a twist of irony to boot.
Socialism is great until you realize that eventually you run out of other people's money (Greece). It is a ponzi scheme. The US has already crossed over that threshold to failure of the system.
Of course that doesn't matter to the dimwits on the left, they just think everyone elses taxes are too low.
There aren't enough people paying taxes and they don't make enough money to pay for all the things people want. We're going to have to do with LESS, but nobody is willing to preach that to the amen choir.
I just love it when people speak for me without my permission. Thanks.
You have no idea what Liberty is do you? Health Care is a right? Where is your healthcare when you're stranded on an island or dying in the desert?
The moment you demand of others that which you're unwilling, or unable to secure for yourself, you've become a tyrant. Any government that gives you everything you want, can (and will)take everything you have. Tyrants are like that.
"Your in for a rude shock when you get your first real job kid. You can state, scream, shout, draw diagrammes, write reports all you want explaining how shit has to be, but management will still go "Yeah whatever nerd, get it finished by tomorrow and no you cant have that memory upgrade, and no you cant have a dev server, code repository or any other word we cant understand here in accounting. Anyway, my son said you dont need it, and he's the top in his senior high computing class."."
And that is why we have Millions of Barrels of Oil filling the Gulf of Mexico. Because some idiot wouldn't say "NO FUCKING WAY", and calling their senator or congress critter to warn.... oh wait.. there's the problem right there...
You're right, just for the wrong reasons... so, never mind.
You forgot Philippines, which unlike the other three places, was a full protectorate of the United States of America(Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands etc).
They asked us to leave, we left. The Military Bases are still there, mostly overgrown, but still there.
I'm all for regulating a business like GM, who is "too big to fail" the moment we can regulate the Unions that are actually running the company.
Otherwise, the Unions and GM deserve the exact same fate... to fail and go away.
Well, if the government ever runs a "private" business, it is doomed to failure or forever leaching off everyone out by continuous bailouts and subsidies. All one needs to do is take a quick look at how the Feds ran the Mustang Ranch into the ground in less than a year after seizing it.
I mean, if you can't run a whore house right, being whores yourself (politicians) then you've go no business being in any business nor telling anyone how to run a business.
As for the Gulf Spill, Corporate Death Penalty for all incompetent parties involved, including the those running the Federal Government Response (or lack thereof). If this was GWB as President, the media would be skewering him if he was out playing golf and cavorting with Paul McCartney.
I find it kind of funny that people promoting "gay marriage" are often atheists or at least agnostic. Why is this funny? Because "marriage" is a sacred institution, meaning it is of religious value only.
Additionally, those that promote Government being involved in marriage are beholden by that ideal to the Roman Catholic Church, which was the first time the "State" had any part of the "Marriage" institution.
And it is often as much as not, that when someone brings up polygamy into a conversation for "gay marriage", people supporting gay marriage are often against it. Even though historically there is much more evidence for polygamous marriages than gay ones.
My personal view is that government should get the hell out of sacred institutions, including rest on Sabbath (both Saturday/Jewish and Sunday/Christian) as "rest" days are a reflection of this sacred institution as well.
It is stupid that people bring up "religion" and hate every institution that it entails until it is something they actually want; Marriage, Resting, Holy Days (holidays) etc.
I'll just address that one thing. If you're in the desert, stranded and all alone, do you have a "right" to clean water? How do you go about getting "clean water" when there is none to be had?
Human rights are a fallacy, as you've described. A right exists on its own and doesn't require another to secure or provide it to you. It just "is".
Of the things you listed, only two are "Freedoms" (rights), and are based upon the idea that they exist on their own, and doesn't requires anyone else to secure or provide something for you. There is no lack of either of those if you're stranded in the desert.
The moment you realize that a right and liberty exists on its own, then you can begin to understand the rights and responsibility of each individual.
The moment you demand of me, something you yourself lack, is the moment you've stepped into tyranny.
Liberty is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner, and the sheep grabbing his gun to contest the vote.
As for me and poor people, that is between me and the poor people, and not between the poor and you to decide for me. My point, and the original question I asked was designed to point you to the idea that "poor" is a subjective quality, not quantitative as you suggest. What classified as "Poor" here in the US would be considered "Wealthy" in places like the Philippines, or even in the US 100 years ago.
Society has a responsibility to promote welfare, not provide it. The responsibility comes from the right to self determination, not the determination of tyrants, which demands provision without responsibility.
Hogwash. Faith (true faith) requires a great deal of contemplation. The fact that some (perhaps even most) people YOU might know are blindly faithful, is besides the point.
How many "rational" people have blindly accepted the premise of AGW?
When finally, someone with a critical eye took a look, and found all the research tainted by manipulation without explanation and no historical records to verify the changes, what happened? There are those that are "rational" that are still running around crying "the sky is falling" like chicken little.
But hey, if it makes you feel better thinking you think more than someone of faith then, good for you!
Suffice it to say, "Not thinking" is a human condition, and falls equally across religious and non-religious alike.
Science is often its own religion. Don't let people tell you otherwise. People have an unbelievable faith that science can solve almost any problem, perfectly.
Define "poor" in such a way that society as a whole would agree, and now define it in such a way that government bureaucracy can verify that a person is 1) poor 2) hungry while maintaining things like "dignity" and "feelings".
Look, I don't mind helping people who are down and out. I just mind helping people too damn lazy to get up off their 400 lb asses because we've made it so easy for them to be "poor" and "hungry" that they become 400lb disabled by fat, professional TV watchers.
And when most of the world is "poor" and "hungry", people in western society have a lot of gall trying to suggest that people are even capable of starving to death here.
Color me jaded, but I think that is just a crock people trot out when trying to manipulate people into tyrannical social programs.
But I have the patent and trademark on CATFI (wifi on a cat). In fact, I've Patented all technology related to cats through my "On a Cat" patented process, which automatically inserts any technology into "________ on a cat" process.
The problem with Democracy and most other forms of governance is tyranny.
We try to keep tyranny of the majority from affecting the rights of the minorities, and then we end up with tyranny of the minority, which infringes upon the rights of the majority.
LIBERTY, is the ONLY governance that works. It says each is responsible for his own actions, to the end that he doesn't infringe upon the liberty of others.
The problem with Liberty, is that all the do-gooders who want to tell others how to live, because they think they know better, and those that want to rescue everyone from themselves.
That is why we have things like "war on drugs" and "war on poverty" (porn, terror, big oil, pharma etc) and all the "do it for the children" and whatnot being the driving forces of laws that infringe upon everyone's rights and liberties.
So, the fight is always against tyranny, which is the natural course for man.
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Funny. I see more "censorship" actively on the left than on the right. It is called Political Correctness. That, and I've heard more left wing commentators crying for people like Rush and Beck to be tossed off the air, simply because they didn't like what they heard.
Yeah, I know it is easy to bash "Christians" and all, but when are you going to start bashing those on the left for doing the same thing you're accusing the right of?
The hypocrisy is thick.
It isn't just the "religious" that do this. Plenty of "rational reasoning" people do this too. They call it "progressive". And it is as pervasive as the "religious" right is.
If you want liberty, then fight the fight, against group identity politics.
It is scientific fraud. Like Global Warming. If the facts don't support your view, simply make them up.
What is passing for "Science" is much like the religions they supposedly make fun of. I haven't seen the article, but I doubt, really doubt they show the bits and pieces they found and where each bit was when it was found.
Because people would instantly realize the fairytale that is passing itself off as science.
This is where you err ... " Until we require a judge to review every classification for legality (and I mean every one from presidential orgies to black ops) the abuses will continue."
You put the sole responsibility upon ONE individual, a dictatorship. The problem, is that if you put the responsibility onto a group, eventually the group will break its confidence and expose that which it is charged to protect.
The problem is, man (in general) is corrupt. Men, even the "best" among us, has critical flaws which can be exploited and exposed.
Believing that government is a fix to the problem(s) it creates is just as flawed as anything else. Government cannot fix character flaws, it can only shift them elsewhere.
Raising Taxes is the correct solution to all these problems. Typical Answer
"What happens when the URL is no longer valid?" [Citation Needed]
A good IT Dept can and should do cost analysis as part of their justification. If you're not improving efficiency, you're not doing at least part of your job.
Nothing speaks more to IT department than how well does things work, and what happens when shit breaks (and it will break).
Presently I'm working on streamlining notification systems. But now that I'm doing that, I'm looking at increasing communication/notification capability so that we can lower costs or increase revenue elsewhere.
It sounds like over kill, until you realize that if we can cut mailing costs by even 10%, we can pay for the entire system in less than 12 months, while improving our chances increasing the quality and the number of contact points to the public.
It becomes one of those "why didn't we do this sooner" moments. Basically, we can't afford NOT to this.
BTW, I'm an IT guy, with a Bachelor's in Finance. I became the IT guy when I knew computers better than the IT dept, and could explain them to CEO types in terms they could understand ($$$).
You should change your name to Captain Irony.
"you missed the point" is cliche, and in your case, ironic. Because YOU missed the point, which was my point, but missed by you again. So, you've missed the point, twice, in a twist of irony to boot.
Hardly Splendid ... Captain. ;)
Socialism is great until you realize that eventually you run out of other people's money (Greece). It is a ponzi scheme. The US has already crossed over that threshold to failure of the system.
Of course that doesn't matter to the dimwits on the left, they just think everyone elses taxes are too low.
There aren't enough people paying taxes and they don't make enough money to pay for all the things people want. We're going to have to do with LESS, but nobody is willing to preach that to the amen choir.
Privacy requires censorship.
And one man's news is another man's invasion of privacy.
I just love it when people speak for me without my permission. Thanks.
You have no idea what Liberty is do you? Health Care is a right? Where is your healthcare when you're stranded on an island or dying in the desert?
The moment you demand of others that which you're unwilling, or unable to secure for yourself, you've become a tyrant. Any government that gives you everything you want, can (and will)take everything you have. Tyrants are like that.
But you're on /. so ... show tits or I vote you down!
"Your in for a rude shock when you get your first real job kid. You can state, scream, shout, draw diagrammes, write reports all you want explaining how shit has to be, but management will still go "Yeah whatever nerd, get it finished by tomorrow and no you cant have that memory upgrade, and no you cant have a dev server, code repository or any other word we cant understand here in accounting. Anyway, my son said you dont need it, and he's the top in his senior high computing class."."
And that is why we have Millions of Barrels of Oil filling the Gulf of Mexico. Because some idiot wouldn't say "NO FUCKING WAY", and calling their senator or congress critter to warn .... oh wait.. there's the problem right there ...
You're right, just for the wrong reasons ... so, never mind.
You forgot Philippines, which unlike the other three places, was a full protectorate of the United States of America(Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands etc).
They asked us to leave, we left. The Military Bases are still there, mostly overgrown, but still there.
We need to hire Alice
Flying cars? Velocity? Would those be European or African Flying cars?
I'm all for regulating a business like GM, who is "too big to fail" the moment we can regulate the Unions that are actually running the company.
Otherwise, the Unions and GM deserve the exact same fate ... to fail and go away.
Well, if the government ever runs a "private" business, it is doomed to failure or forever leaching off everyone out by continuous bailouts and subsidies. All one needs to do is take a quick look at how the Feds ran the Mustang Ranch into the ground in less than a year after seizing it.
I mean, if you can't run a whore house right, being whores yourself (politicians) then you've go no business being in any business nor telling anyone how to run a business.
As for the Gulf Spill, Corporate Death Penalty for all incompetent parties involved, including the those running the Federal Government Response (or lack thereof). If this was GWB as President, the media would be skewering him if he was out playing golf and cavorting with Paul McCartney.
I find it kind of funny that people promoting "gay marriage" are often atheists or at least agnostic. Why is this funny? Because "marriage" is a sacred institution, meaning it is of religious value only.
Additionally, those that promote Government being involved in marriage are beholden by that ideal to the Roman Catholic Church, which was the first time the "State" had any part of the "Marriage" institution.
And it is often as much as not, that when someone brings up polygamy into a conversation for "gay marriage", people supporting gay marriage are often against it. Even though historically there is much more evidence for polygamous marriages than gay ones.
My personal view is that government should get the hell out of sacred institutions, including rest on Sabbath (both Saturday/Jewish and Sunday/Christian) as "rest" days are a reflection of this sacred institution as well.
It is stupid that people bring up "religion" and hate every institution that it entails until it is something they actually want; Marriage, Resting, Holy Days (holidays) etc.
No, there is no hypocrisy at all!
Clean water is a "Human right" ???
I'll just address that one thing. If you're in the desert, stranded and all alone, do you have a "right" to clean water? How do you go about getting "clean water" when there is none to be had?
Human rights are a fallacy, as you've described. A right exists on its own and doesn't require another to secure or provide it to you. It just "is".
Of the things you listed, only two are "Freedoms" (rights), and are based upon the idea that they exist on their own, and doesn't requires anyone else to secure or provide something for you. There is no lack of either of those if you're stranded in the desert.
The moment you realize that a right and liberty exists on its own, then you can begin to understand the rights and responsibility of each individual.
The moment you demand of me, something you yourself lack, is the moment you've stepped into tyranny.
Liberty is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner, and the sheep grabbing his gun to contest the vote.
As for me and poor people, that is between me and the poor people, and not between the poor and you to decide for me. My point, and the original question I asked was designed to point you to the idea that "poor" is a subjective quality, not quantitative as you suggest. What classified as "Poor" here in the US would be considered "Wealthy" in places like the Philippines, or even in the US 100 years ago.
Society has a responsibility to promote welfare, not provide it. The responsibility comes from the right to self determination, not the determination of tyrants, which demands provision without responsibility.
Hogwash. Faith (true faith) requires a great deal of contemplation. The fact that some (perhaps even most) people YOU might know are blindly faithful, is besides the point.
How many "rational" people have blindly accepted the premise of AGW?
When finally, someone with a critical eye took a look, and found all the research tainted by manipulation without explanation and no historical records to verify the changes, what happened? There are those that are "rational" that are still running around crying "the sky is falling" like chicken little.
But hey, if it makes you feel better thinking you think more than someone of faith then, good for you!
Suffice it to say, "Not thinking" is a human condition, and falls equally across religious and non-religious alike.
Science is often its own religion. Don't let people tell you otherwise. People have an unbelievable faith that science can solve almost any problem, perfectly.
Yes, we should kill the top offender(s). And using concrete (shoes) to do it should suffice.
Define "poor" in such a way that society as a whole would agree, and now define it in such a way that government bureaucracy can verify that a person is 1) poor 2) hungry while maintaining things like "dignity" and "feelings".
Look, I don't mind helping people who are down and out. I just mind helping people too damn lazy to get up off their 400 lb asses because we've made it so easy for them to be "poor" and "hungry" that they become 400lb disabled by fat, professional TV watchers.
And when most of the world is "poor" and "hungry", people in western society have a lot of gall trying to suggest that people are even capable of starving to death here.
Color me jaded, but I think that is just a crock people trot out when trying to manipulate people into tyrannical social programs.
But I have the patent and trademark on CATFI (wifi on a cat). In fact, I've Patented all technology related to cats through my "On a Cat" patented process, which automatically inserts any technology into "________ on a cat" process.
The problem with Democracy and most other forms of governance is tyranny.
We try to keep tyranny of the majority from affecting the rights of the minorities, and then we end up with tyranny of the minority, which infringes upon the rights of the majority.
LIBERTY, is the ONLY governance that works. It says each is responsible for his own actions, to the end that he doesn't infringe upon the liberty of others.
The problem with Liberty, is that all the do-gooders who want to tell others how to live, because they think they know better, and those that want to rescue everyone from themselves.
That is why we have things like "war on drugs" and "war on poverty" (porn, terror, big oil, pharma etc) and all the "do it for the children" and whatnot being the driving forces of laws that infringe upon everyone's rights and liberties.
So, the fight is always against tyranny, which is the natural course for man.