I download music/movies/games (rarely, but happens): - when I want to listen to it first. If like it - I buy it. I won't buy anything I haven't tried first (esp. after seeing Avatar; what a steaming pile of dysenteric crap on a foggy morning; Cameron, kill yourself; sorry, got carried away); - when I'm just too lazy to go rummage through my entire collection for a song on a specific disc; - probably some other reason I consider which I can't think of right now....and I'm a thief that should be locked up? I probably have a bigger collection than you do. I'd tell you to go fuck yourself, but I'm afraid you'd find it satisfying.
"Doing right by your fellow human, rejecting avarice, and humility are individual choices. Once you simply impose them as government policy, they cease to be moral choices."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was imposed by your deity? The difference here being that the deity cannot make you (so you get to decide whether you will follow its rules, which you like), while the government can (which is what makes the idea a big "no-no-no").
"If you want to attack them, attack their reasoning, not their values and motives."
The values and motives are based on the reasoning and can be attacked as well.
"It depend of the metric you use. You can be right if you focus on the muscular mass, but you will be surprised if you test the precision and the resistance in the long term." I guess it depends on the sources you use.
"Systems in which the gap between the rich and poor is kept small by government fiat have been tried. It's called communism, and it has failed miserably." Can you provide any sources as to how big the gap was between the rich and the poor in, say, USSR?
"Business Insider and Salon as sources?" Your sources are much better of course. Oh, wait, you didn't provide any.
"You have no clue of the long-term devastating effect to society of young who never work in a real job." Yes, the effect of turning your country into a metal music heaven. Just look at the countries devastated by the black metal (Norway), the melodic death metal (Sweden) and symphonic and folk metal (Finland).
"So, I am i the middle of starting my own business. I am investing virtually all my savings, while I have a baby on the way, a year into a new mortgage, etc. So, I am going to risk everything I have to start a successful (hopefully) business and you want to limit what I can make off the business? Simply put, fuck you."
You have a baby on the way and you're a year into a new mortgage and you're investing all your savings in your own business... Smart... The failure rate for new businesses: http://www.statisticbrain.com/startup-failure-by-industry/ or "50 to 70 percent fail within the first 18 months" according to another source. So when you fail, please recall what your attitude was today and fuck yourself.
"I am currently on vacation in Sanya, on the Island of Hainan in southern China. There is a fruit and vegetable market two blocks from here. Anyone can bring their produce, set up a stand, and start selling. There is no fee, and no tax. There are typically hundreds of merchants, and thousands of customers (especially in the late afternoon). There is plenty of haggling, and it is easy to compare products, as a competitor is only a meter away. How is this market not free? This is not an obscure example. Billions of people shop in these sort of informal markets everyday."
"Speaking of looking at things selectively, that isn't really a communist achievement. That happened in basically every non-impovrished country around the globe. And most of them didn't try to follow Lysenkoism in the process......."
First, it is a communist achievement in the former communist countries. Before the communists nobody bothered to fight illiteracy there. Learn some history.
Second, speaking of being selective, please remind us what that small thing was that happened in a non-impoverished country like Germany about 80 years ago... Ah, right, nazism and ethnic cleansing just to start with. How about another non-impoverished country - Italy - a bit earlier? Oh, how about that, fascism. Or, let's take another one - USA - just about 40 years ago? Oh, my, racism. A bit earlier, say, 80-90 years ago? Forced sterilizations. Same as in a lot of other non-impoverished countries like Sweden, etc., by the way. But let's stay on subject. About 50 years ago in the US? Forced lobotomies and human experimentation. Should I go on, or you understand now that nobody's perfect? I hope you are under 20, otherwise you should have known this.
"Lots of people have survived far worse injuries without antibiotics both in modern times and back before antibiotics. There are many techniques for fighting infection besides antibiotics and they work." This is ridiculous. Even more people did not survive. Have you ever heard of such a thing as "history"? Google it. There are many "techniques for fighting infection", but antibiotics is the best way we have right now. Probably not the best we'll ever have though.
"NO! Anyone who has taken a first aid course will tell you not to sterilize an open wound. What-ever you put on to kill the bacteria will also kill the freshly-exposed cells causing the wound to take longer to heal. Water and mild soap is all that is needed (barring extreme situations such as being cut with a known contaminate, etc)."
This is interesting. I had some first responders training (a while back though), but I don't recall hearing this.
"...any key based encryption technique is breakable... it can eventually be brute forced." Sure. Anything can happen when "eventually" is "the age of the universe".
"Anyone who pays for tax software is probably an idiot." I guess you do your own dental cleaning, oil changes, plumbing, etc? You'd be an idiot otherwise, right?
"they have no problems with reporting a suicide of a person with multiple gunshots to the head." Actually, suicides with two gunshots to the head are not unheard of. Not sure about more than two.
I use Pandora, Amazon, Netflix, etc. on my "smart" (though I'd rather call it "mildly retarded") TV. If I had a Roku/etc before I bought the TV, it would've been a different story. As for the phoning home, I only let those connections through my firewall that I want to go in and/or out. I don't think the TV can piggyback on the connections its apps establish.
"He was an engineer, designing systems for the nuclear missile throwing subs, with a deeply ingrained habit of weighing cost/benefit." Trebuchets on subs? Are you sure it's ok to talk about state secrets?
"Really, moron? I happen to be from the Mediterranean..." "Of course the main reason people drink is to get intoxicated. That is why wine exists. " 1. I don't care where you are from, but everyone I know (both in Europe - which includes Italy and France - and USA) drinks wine for the taste. 2. If people only cared about getting drunk, they would just drink vodka (or any other "hard liquor"). 3. Drinking wine to get drunk is idiotic. 4. If you think that intoxication is the only reason wine was invented, I have a surprise for you. It's called Google. Use it wisely, young padawan.
"As a society we have cultivated a "taste" for wine/single-malt scotch/whatever simply to justify our alcoholism and to make it more varied and fun." Since when is Russia considered the Mediterranean?
"Facebook is worse. It keeps asking me where I work, where I went to high school etc. It clearly has enough information to guess, as it makes suggestions which are pretty spot on based on my friends' data. " Just do what I did - make it up. It might take some effort to make FB accept the information, but it definitely won't be a big challenge (FB wouldn't accept R'lyeh as my place of birth, so I had to be more subtle, etc.).
"His contract said he could release the passwords to one person. Other people in the organization demanded the passwords after he left. He refused and they arrested him. When the one person to whom his contract allowed him to release his passwords asked, he gave it to him. For this, he was sent to prison."
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I download music/movies/games (rarely, but happens): ...and I'm a thief that should be locked up? I probably have a bigger collection than you do. I'd tell you to go fuck yourself, but I'm afraid you'd find it satisfying.
- when I want to listen to it first. If like it - I buy it. I won't buy anything I haven't tried first (esp. after seeing Avatar; what a steaming pile of dysenteric crap on a foggy morning; Cameron, kill yourself; sorry, got carried away);
- when I'm just too lazy to go rummage through my entire collection for a song on a specific disc;
- probably some other reason I consider which I can't think of right now.
"Doing right by your fellow human, rejecting avarice, and humility are individual choices. Once you simply impose them as government policy, they cease to be moral choices."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was imposed by your deity? The difference here being that the deity cannot make you (so you get to decide whether you will follow its rules, which you like), while the government can (which is what makes the idea a big "no-no-no").
"If you want to attack them, attack their reasoning, not their values and motives."
The values and motives are based on the reasoning and can be attacked as well.
"It depend of the metric you use. You can be right if you focus on the muscular mass, but you will be surprised if you test the precision and the resistance in the long term."
I guess it depends on the sources you use.
"We've tried rebelling."
You call that "rebelling"? Oh, kids these days...
"Systems in which the gap between the rich and poor is kept small by government fiat have been tried. It's called communism, and it has failed miserably."
Can you provide any sources as to how big the gap was between the rich and the poor in, say, USSR?
"Business Insider and Salon as sources?"
Your sources are much better of course. Oh, wait, you didn't provide any.
"You have no clue of the long-term devastating effect to society of young who never work in a real job."
Yes, the effect of turning your country into a metal music heaven. Just look at the countries devastated by the black metal (Norway), the melodic death metal (Sweden) and symphonic and folk metal (Finland).
"So, I am i the middle of starting my own business. I am investing virtually all my savings, while I have a baby on the way, a year into a new mortgage, etc.
So, I am going to risk everything I have to start a successful (hopefully) business and you want to limit what I can make off the business?
Simply put, fuck you."
You have a baby on the way and you're a year into a new mortgage and you're investing all your savings in your own business... Smart...
The failure rate for new businesses: http://www.statisticbrain.com/startup-failure-by-industry/ or "50 to 70 percent fail within the first 18 months" according to another source.
So when you fail, please recall what your attitude was today and fuck yourself.
"I am currently on vacation in Sanya, on the Island of Hainan in southern China. There is a fruit and vegetable market two blocks from here. Anyone can bring their produce, set up a stand, and start selling. There is no fee, and no tax. There are typically hundreds of merchants, and thousands of customers (especially in the late afternoon). There is plenty of haggling, and it is easy to compare products, as a competitor is only a meter away. How is this market not free? This is not an obscure example. Billions of people shop in these sort of informal markets everyday."
How many people do you think live on Earth now?
"Speaking of looking at things selectively, that isn't really a communist achievement. That happened in basically every non-impovrished country around the globe. And most of them didn't try to follow Lysenkoism in the process......."
First, it is a communist achievement in the former communist countries. Before the communists nobody bothered to fight illiteracy there. Learn some history.
Second, speaking of being selective, please remind us what that small thing was that happened in a non-impoverished country like Germany about 80 years ago... Ah, right, nazism and ethnic cleansing just to start with. How about another non-impoverished country - Italy - a bit earlier? Oh, how about that, fascism. Or, let's take another one - USA - just about 40 years ago? Oh, my, racism. A bit earlier, say, 80-90 years ago? Forced sterilizations. Same as in a lot of other non-impoverished countries like Sweden, etc., by the way. But let's stay on subject. About 50 years ago in the US? Forced lobotomies and human experimentation. Should I go on, or you understand now that nobody's perfect? I hope you are under 20, otherwise you should have known this.
"Lots of people have survived far worse injuries without antibiotics both in modern times and back before antibiotics. There are many techniques for fighting infection besides antibiotics and they work."
This is ridiculous. Even more people did not survive. Have you ever heard of such a thing as "history"? Google it.
There are many "techniques for fighting infection", but antibiotics is the best way we have right now. Probably not the best we'll ever have though.
"NO! Anyone who has taken a first aid course will tell you not to sterilize an open wound. What-ever you put on to kill the bacteria will also kill the freshly-exposed cells causing the wound to take longer to heal. Water and mild soap is all that is needed (barring extreme situations such as being cut with a known contaminate, etc)."
This is interesting. I had some first responders training (a while back though), but I don't recall hearing this.
"...any key based encryption technique is breakable... it can eventually be brute forced."
Sure. Anything can happen when "eventually" is "the age of the universe".
"Anyone who pays for tax software is probably an idiot."
I guess you do your own dental cleaning, oil changes, plumbing, etc? You'd be an idiot otherwise, right?
"they have no problems with reporting a suicide of a person with multiple gunshots to the head."
Actually, suicides with two gunshots to the head are not unheard of. Not sure about more than two.
I'd mod this up if I had modpoints.
I use Pandora, Amazon, Netflix, etc. on my "smart" (though I'd rather call it "mildly retarded") TV. If I had a Roku/etc before I bought the TV, it would've been a different story.
As for the phoning home, I only let those connections through my firewall that I want to go in and/or out. I don't think the TV can piggyback on the connections its apps establish.
"The US has the lowest tax rate of all developed countries."
Did you actually try to look up the numbers?
"He was an engineer, designing systems for the nuclear missile throwing subs, with a deeply ingrained habit of weighing cost/benefit."
Trebuchets on subs? Are you sure it's ok to talk about state secrets?
Aren't you a delight :)
I think - even if that were true - you'd need to literally live on soy to get that effect.
Juice also has tons (figuratively) of sugar. I'd stick with the fresh berries.
"Really, moron? I happen to be from the Mediterranean..."
"Of course the main reason people drink is to get intoxicated. That is why wine exists. "
1. I don't care where you are from, but everyone I know (both in Europe - which includes Italy and France - and USA) drinks wine for the taste.
2. If people only cared about getting drunk, they would just drink vodka (or any other "hard liquor").
3. Drinking wine to get drunk is idiotic.
4. If you think that intoxication is the only reason wine was invented, I have a surprise for you. It's called Google. Use it wisely, young padawan.
"As a society we have cultivated a "taste" for wine/single-malt scotch/whatever simply to justify our alcoholism and to make it more varied and fun."
Since when is Russia considered the Mediterranean?
Are you available for kids parties? :)
"Facebook is worse. It keeps asking me where I work, where I went to high school etc. It clearly has enough information to guess, as it makes suggestions which are pretty spot on based on my friends' data. "
Just do what I did - make it up. It might take some effort to make FB accept the information, but it definitely won't be a big challenge (FB wouldn't accept R'lyeh as my place of birth, so I had to be more subtle, etc.).
"As you somehow didn't manage to recall, that system worked perfectly during the two weeks before the Mayor's "coming to save the day" stunt."
As you somehow didn't manage to think of it, what would happen if it didn't "work perfectly" and they needed urgent (as in "NOW") access?
"His contract said he could release the passwords to one person. Other people in the organization demanded the passwords after he left. He refused and they arrested him. When the one person to whom his contract allowed him to release his passwords asked, he gave it to him. For this, he was sent to prison."
Perhaps you should read this - http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/A129583.PDF