This device does what most people want it to do. They don't give a flying fuck about "software freedom". They just want it to do cool shit. Which it does.
Yes, not thinking makes life a lot easier. But it doesn't make you alive.
I'm perfectly happy to allow the herd bop along with the EEG barely registering so long as they don't expect me to follow suit. Sadly, though, when 90% of the population is stupid, it does in fact affect the quality of life for the remaining 9%
The final 1% are the super-wealthy who push shit like iPads. That, and banks, -the other great invention which came into existence through another massive failure of the populace to think. Although, the bank problem is (slightly) excusable in that nobody had the opportunity to know they were being screwed. This time there is no excuse.
Oh, and the giant scam which is the banking system is why you happen to believe that selling and buying stuff is the only way you can survive in this world.
-FL
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You seem to be under the impression that the iPad is kept closed because Steve Jobs cares whether or not you get a virus.
I can see why somebody might think that. It's due to the well-cultivated impression that Apple cares about providing safe computers to their mindless drone users. Please allow me to offer you a dollop of "cynical". . .
The iPad, along with the rest of the Apple line of ultra-popular not-really-a-computer items, (iPods and iPhones), are all about putting price tags on content. This is why they are getting billions of dollars worth of free advertising from the media. The media loves the iPad! They believe it will save their sorry asses. If everybody uses an iPad, then television networks, newspapers and magazines will be saved with the new revenue stream! (Same as happened with the music distributors, though not, it should be noted, the actual musicians. As per usual.) This is why, even though the iPad is a piece of half-baked crud, the media is hailing it as the second coming, (well, the third coming, actually. The iPod was first, and the iPhone was second.)
But all of this glory is only possible when the hardware is locked down, when content is locked down, and when users have had their brains removed with a syringe or turned to pudding by a constant barrage of Wifi microwave noise. When the mighty Apple does all of your thinking for you, you can be a dumb-fuck consumer and still move money from your pockets to those of the media providers. And the dumber you are, the better, because you'll need the media more than ever to tell you what to think, feel and say.
So basically, Fuck Apple. Jobs has chosen which side he's on, and he picked the red light saber.
I lost interest when it became clear that the BBC was using the good doctor to push homosexual tendencies and politics onto children. Thats after its be found that the BBC previously used the Doctor to write anti thatcherite propaganda in one of its previous lives. The BBC is supposed to be a non biased organisation, paid for by the people. And yet it acts like a broadcast political wing of the left, and with leftist, and labour tendencies.
I love sci fi, however, when big brother and the 'state' and its values is being driven through the form, its a form I can't enjoy.
When Thatcherites are able with a straight face to declare that Liberalism = Big Brother, you know that they're either putting something in the water or that the notion of Liberalism has fallen a long way from what the con-artists running under its banner are practicing today. Liberalism, when done right, is the opposite of Big Brother. Heck, Orwell was a huge socialist. Read some of his letters and short essays some day.
Oh, and garbage bag aliens are part of the Doctor Who charm. It's supposed to be part "Muppet Show".
Doctor Who is my one weakness. Well, my big weakness, anyway.
It's what makes me a NERD! -Not just some garden variety geek fanboy, but a full-on Nerd. My girlfriend looks at me funny and wonders where the other me went when Doctor Who comes up. I don't expose that part of myself to her very often, but I did make her watch a couple of episodes just to show her what I was all excited about. She liked "The Girl in the Fireplace", and I described the Rose arc to her. -Her reaction to that was the correct one, (no, she didn't walk out on me. She fell into story-listener mode and caught her breath at all the right parts as I described them. I tell stories fairly well and can sometimes even do decent voices. This was one of those times). And I made her watch the first twenty minutes of this new Matt Smith show. Figured she'd like the food-tasting scene. She did.
Best two scenes in the episode. ..
Amelia: "I'm not scared!"
Doctor: "'Course your not, you're not scared of anything! - Box falls out of the sky, man falls out of the box, man eats fish custard... and look at you. Just sitting there. So you know what I think?"
Amelia: "What?"
Doctor: "Must be a helluva scary crack in your wall."
And. ..
Doctor: "Twelve years! I'm not six months late. I'm twelve years late."
Amy: "He's coming!"
Doctor: "You said six months. Why did you say six months?"
Amy: "We've got to go!"
Doctor: "This MATTERS. This is important! Why did you say six months?!"
Amy: "WELL WHY DID YOU SAY FIVE MINUTES?!"
Wonderfully done! When big, important characters meet each other for the first time in a story, it's important to make it explosive or at least interesting. This was one of the reasons in the Phantom Menace, when Obi Wan and Anakin first met, it was stunningly stupid. (Remember how that went? It was a hand shake.) But this meeting was fantastic!
Anyway, as I figured, it takes about three viewings to "click" with a new Doctor, assuming that the Doctor is worth clicking with. And I think he is; the production values, casting, writing and acting were all top-notch for Doctor Who, but the Newness of it all takes a bit getting used to and certainly colors a viewer's reactions. The first Tennant episode, for instance, left a sour taste in my mouth the first time I saw it. But after a season of Who, going back to it was a joy. This leads me to thinking that the enjoyment of a show or film is far, far more than the sum of its parts. This is where Joseph Campbell and his various theories regarding mythology come into play. By the third viewing, the characters become familiar and comfortable. Matt Smith was very well cast; he's confident enough to walk through a scene and own it, and the new girl is going to challenge him nicely. And I hope to see some of the people of that little town become semi-regulars in the future. (I really like the new idea that family and friends matter in the DW universe.)
This is going to be a wonderful ride, I think! Hats off to everybody who put this together. -And thank goodness for 'pirate' distribution. The US broadcast version was cut down, I heard, to fit in more commercials. Lame.
I don't suppose anyone here knows squat about the double taxation trap corporations face. Oh no, it's much more fun to rant and flame when you're uninformed.
Maybe I have missed it, but there don't seem to be any articles or reviews talking about the true cost of using the iPad. The "it's not for you, its for the masses" crowd doesn't seem to have a realistic understanding of the average joe's budget.
There's always money for beer and drugs, electronic or otherwise. Especially when the money is on credit. Among many aspects here, I find that the thing being expensive quite offensive. When selling drugs, isn't the first one supposed to be free? I guess the addiction is already well established and this is just a new kind of needle.
The populace has been so well trained into the mode of "stupid consumer" that this device will be welcomed with open arms. Go Humans! I'm SO proud of you.
Apple is all about feel, and they have figured out how to tap into the minds of a large segment of the populace. I was talking to a guy the other day who had already ordered one of these devices. He wasn't even a Mac guy. He just wanted to be part of the herd and he liked how Apple felt. It "feels" successful and slick and friendly, and many of those who aren't part of that herd are going to feel left out and will want to convert. This is what Microsoft doesn't sell; community. Everybody needs community; it's hard-wired into us, and with the PC and everything surrounding that, the community is mapped on to it in an ad-hoc manner by naturally occurring forces. Apple, on the other hand, is deliberately sculpting it. They're pushing buttons. In short, they've figured out that they're not selling computers. They're selling a religion.
Think about it; it started off small, and they were persecuted, but their warm, "loving", non-confrontational approach has grown. It's the Christianity of computers, and they KNOW it. I doubt it was deliberately set up that way, but some bright spark in the marketing team saw the connection, and now they're tapping into it directly with gusto. And it's working. They even call their front line iPhone developer staff, "Evangelists", and they dress them like those door-to-door God people. (Pod-will-save-you? Ugh.)
And that 'Pod' word. That's another thing! They know exactly what they're doing, and it really depresses me. They're selling the Body Snatchers theme, offering people the choice between going deeper into sleep and waking up, and they know that roughly half of the population will choose sleep. -Especially if they can make sleep look like a respectable, successful thing. People can bullshit themselves into thinking that a medicated haze of happy nihilism is the right path. Apple makes me feel sick. It always has, but I could never put my finger on it before.
The whole global warming bugaboo has been one of the holes in my awareness. It became so utterly huge and confusing that I just stepped back and tuned it out figuring that when the dust settled, I'd wade back in and try to make sense of things. -That independent researchers who were smarter and more dedicated than me would be able to put the larger pieces together.
I find it no surprise that greed and a war of social control are driving the Carbon Trading scheme, but I think there is something more also hidden beneath it all.
Climate change is still with us; the weather is really peculiar. One theory which makes a lot of sense given numerous other big and weird things going on is that the whole bundle of confusion and corruption which is Climategate might be there simply to stop people from focusing on and asking what is really going on. What's up with the planet?
I agree that pirating won't stop, but I don't actually think that the real objective is to stop pirating or drug use.
I strongly suspect that this is only what they tell the enforcement people on the front lines and the various others who are not on board with the true agenda.
This is about control. When 1% of the population holds 99% of the wealth, a high level of fear must also exist that the 99% will catch on and cut off their heads. This is a recognized problem and the vast resources of the 1% have been used to sculpt solutions which are being exploited all around us right now.
(And if anybody manages to croak out the words, "conspiracy theorist" through the various knots of their mind-programming, well, guess what? Everybody I've ever met who remains paralyzed by such thinking has also been without fail riddled with a fabulous array of psychological fault lines and blind spots and the inevitably resulting broken/incomplete reasoning, all of which quickly becomes apparent even through the most fortified personality facades. To those people, I would ask in the interest of saving time and energy that before taking a swing at me, you spend a few moments to ask yourself if your criticisms will actually be able to hold up under rudimentary examination or if you are just throwing them out due to some emotionally driven impulse you think originates in your mind but which probably is just the remnants of some TV show you watched combined with the worry-lines etched into your brain through years of torment in junior high school. Thank you.)
And so. . .
One way to manage the 99% is through drugs, (either with chemicals or electronic media), and the second way, through the same vector, is to make sure that everybody is culpable for a crime. -This way, if anybody gets out of line, by say, talking back to the plantation master, (blogging?), there will always exist ample reason to throw that person in jail.
This isn't about protecting copyright or the minds and health of our youth. This is about ensuring a state of slavery without having to call it slavery. Everybody is in debt, and everybody is a criminal.
So, no, they are never going to decriminalize drugs and they are never going to adopt rational strategies for copyright. They are going to make sure everybody is addicted and that addiction is both expensive and illegal. It is simply another ploy among many which allow the 1% to remain the 1%.
The high-pitched whine TV's emit, (and which I was surprised to learn, many people cannot hear!), are often explained as being loose coils in power supplies which vibrate at the induction frequency, which basically makes the coils into speakers. It's audio, rather than EM.
Although. . , using an EM frequency to stimulate the nerve in the ear itself can be used to put a voice signal into somebody's head without vibrating air at all. It would be interesting to learn if that might not be going on in the case of some whining electronics.
But anyway. . .
I find that the experiences I've had with feeling the EM spectrum comes in a different form altogether. -I remember blithely walking into one of those department stores in a mall, and suddenly being nearly knocked on my arse. -It felt like I'd walked into a field of fuzz. Everything went dizzy and. . , it's hard to describe, but it was very strong. -Like when you take two North ends of two magnets and try to push them together. . , if my entire head had been the one of those magnets, that's sort of how it felt, but not in a physically resistive way. Anyway, I actually yelped out loud and staggered backwards, dazed. Then my head was instantly clear again.
I looked around trying to figure out what had just happened, and then realized that directly above that spot was a HUGE black & white television from the 70's with a security camera feed displayed on it. You know the kind, "We can see if you shoplift!"
Anyway, I was pretty blown away. I tried moving into and out of that field, and you could really feel it. My girlfriend was also very aware of it. It was really neat actually, like playing with a real-life force field. I don't know if I am sensitive to such things all the time; I'd certainly never experienced anything like that so intensely with consumer electronics before. Maybe my blood iron was really high that day or something. I'll have to head back to that mall sometime to check it out again.
Anyway, my suspicion is that even when we are not consciously aware of the influence of EM pollution, that it affects us nonetheless and that since it is affecting the brain, measuring it becomes tricky. Brain malfunctions can be hard to detect in oneself. It takes others observing objectively to really know.
Sure i'm a prick. But i get to do what i want. get paid for it. and i know i'm on the wrong side of an unwinnable war! I can get paid forever! DO almost nothing, FOREVER! I like free checks in the mail. Greed is good. Greed works.
Assuming you aren't just joking, then no, it's not "FOREVER". Psychopaths have, by design, a complete inability to project possible outcomes of their actions beyond the immediate future. A snake eating its own tail results in a dead snake and then nothing. But that's what the psychopath craves; the desire to consume free checks and DO nothing, as you say, is tantamount to craving entropy. Beneath all else, the dark side just wants to go back to sleep because it is too cowardly to embrace life.
Greed is a big part of this disease.
I sincerely hope you speed up the process of your own death and let the rest of the sane world get on with growing in health and strength. You will be forgotten.
Everybody is jumping on you as though you'd cut yourself in a shark pool because you committed the error of being factually inaccurate in a forum full of geeks. Which doesn't make you right, but still. . .
I think you inadvertently raise an interesting point.
You just assume that MS is being sneaky. And you have EVERY reason to believe this to be the case. Can you imagine a world where search is ruled by the MS totalitarian approach to everything they touch? I have a very hard time trusting Google, and they've got a pretty good track record, but MS. . ?
~Shudder~
I wouldn't trust them with anybody's info for two seconds. You KNOW they'll abuse it for profit the moment Game Theory recommends that as the best option for world domination and monetary gain. That's simply how they work.
So your automatic distrust of MS, while factually off the mark, is based on more than two decades of rotten corporate behavior. That aspect of the human instinct will often point at the wrong specifics (because the conscious mind is over-eager to interpret the warning bells) but usually in the right overall direction.
I can't stand Facebook, though I completely understand its appeal, communities being what they are. But honestly. . , it reminds me of that noxious SIMS game. I can feel my face blister if I'm on it for more than a few minutes per month. It has the amazing ability to reduce complex and magnificent lives down to the tweet/soundbite level of mental activity. That instant messenger feature REALLY pisses me off. I hate seeing awkwardly keyed lines of text coming from people I know, love and respect. It's like trying to talk through a straw. You can't communicate anything of real substance, so why the hell is it even there?
All the most powerful and amazing people I know barely even maintain computers, let alone Facebook accounts. And it's not for any deliberate reason other than they are simply too busy DOING things to have time to spend on a computer. It'd kind of like asking Han Solo what his favorite flight simulator is.
But the thing I really don't like about Facebook is that many people have stopped using email. This leaves me pretty much forced to keep an account on that sketchy NSA-funded data vacuum. If it weren't for that, I'd feel a lot less antagonistic toward it.
It must have taken an act of heroic patience to not arrest these villains years ago.
If it were me, I'd have done something a lot earlier on. There are so many arguments. Broadcasters shouldn't be allowed to make it their primary mission to libel people. Criticism is necessary, but it takes an honest journalist and an impartial media to do that correctly. But it's another thing entirely to deliberately manufacture hate-speech in an effort to de-stabilize a nation at the beset of American corporate/CIA wishes.
Those idiots should be arrested for Treason.
Watch "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" to get an inside look at the last coup attempt in Venezuela. -A team of documentary makers while filming in the capitol were in the middle of shooting a different story when the presidential estate was seized by the dark side, and they kept on filming. The result is an astonishing documentary which shows the whole amazing ordeal. You get to see exactly what sort of nasty characters were pulling the strings. Among the many jaw-dropping parts was hearing those corporate political monkeys mouthing about freedom while striking down Chavez' education and property ownership reforms. Encouraging a population to read and inform themselves and know their rights and participate in politics? The people love him and the result is 99% literacy and high living standards. No wonder the land/oil barons hate him! No wonder the American media is trying to vilify the man.
I react to the word Gestapo because they killed my grandfather and reject idiots (no disrespect but that's you) who like to use the word as a literary flourish.
Really? You're going to pull that little maneuver and then gripe about people playing the holocaust card? I don't mind. Everybody should be allowed to bring personal data into forum. It informs a debate, but if you're going to get all sulky and hypocritical about it, then it will only make you look foolish. Because guess what? A LOT of people lost family to that war. I did. It's not a merit badge, or at least it shouldn't be used as one. It's simply a piece of history which nobody should be afraid to remember because Godwin says it's uncool to reference WWII. But the fact of the matter is that a small group of evil people managed to influence the behavior of whole nations into perpetrating war upon the world, and everybody suffered as a result. The headspace from which that kind of thinking and manipulation arises I label "Nazi" because it is. You can use any label you like, but Nazi captures it perfectly.
Here's the thing. . . I don't want to see all those hundreds of prison camps standing empty on U.S. soil, (the latest lot built by KBR), start to fill up with unwilling participants. I think we're probably too late to prevent it from happening, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't cry foul. And who knows? Maybe complaining will do some good. Slow the decay. The war for mind share over the whole torture debate is a good example. -That fight was kind of a draw because enough people were disgusted by it. The dark side pushed hard to sell that evil bill of goods to the public and turn torture into normal behavior, and while they didn't entirely pull it off, they did make a remarkable amount of headway. There are people now who I've seen salivate at the idea of visiting torment upon people, and they are willing to grasp at any excuse to do so. Dark side.
The way to fight this is to call it by its name, and "Gestapo" is as good a word for it as any. It's the same dark plant, it springs from the same dark place; it simply hasn't grown to quite the same degree. But it's a lot closer today than it was five years ago. The idea that Wikileaks editors should be hounded by the secret service and that people don't blink at this, or in your case, shower the victim with vitriol. . . Well, to me that says a lot.
Now go back to blaming the Jews for defending themselves. More symptoms of brain noise.
Hint: Those 'facts' you build your world view on. They are noise not signal. Your axioms are broken.
Ahh. Yes, I see what kind of programming you're struggling under. You were hit with that from childhood, no doubt, so your ability to see a clear picture of reality is going to be strained at best. I mean, we all get hit with mind-jobs as kids, but Jews get super-whammied. Basically, I know I'm right, and you think you are as well, and it's not likely that this can be resolved in a Slashdot debate, so I'm afraid you're on your own. But the casual 3rd party reading this stuff would do well to note your hair-trigger emotional reactions to single words, your lack of clear logic and your, "Fuck them right in the ear" commentary while determining which of us is dealing with the better hinged psyche profile, and who thereby will have been able to sort out the signal to noise ratio more rationally.
Yeah, people who get paid to develop full time are going to get there first. And slaves sure fill those cotton baskets faster than unionized workers. Nobody contests these facts.
But here's the thing; Open source projects, given enough time will generally get there.
When I started using Abiword, it crashed all the time. Now it's awesome; it's exactly what I want. A lightweight, reliable, intuitive dedicated word processor. I like how it scrolls; it doesn't automatically jump a document up to the center of the page when my cursor nears the bottom of the screen. You can't turn that shit off in other programs, but a 6 Meg word processor which I use all the time does just what I want and I didn't pay a dime for it. In fact, pretty much anything I need to do on my computer, I can type in, "[Random Application I Need] Open Source" and multiple choices will emerge. Generally I'll wind up using a very powerful and user-friendly bit of software whose creators have been honing to perfection for several years.
Open source software just keeps improving over time, and it doesn't vanish because a CEO decides to kill a product line because not enough Muggles are paying.
Right now, the model of our economy is such that everybody runs on money and debt. That model happens to be good at generating new technology quickly. Great. But the downside is that everybody is forced to work too hard and we are surrounded by toxic shit and psychopathic corporations and creepy Obama-droids who have learned how to charm people while accelerating Bush policies and passing backassward health care bills.
I wouldn't mind living with a slower lifestyle if it meant people could relax a bit and take better care of themselves and each other. In a perfect world, people would make great stuff without needing greed and fear and government to motivate them. I see that behavior in a lot of people already; that's where open source anything comes from. People wanting to build cool stuff themselves. Heck, I like to build cool stuff. But we can't devote ourselves fully to such projects so long as Captain Industry is at the helm and banks keep is debt.
If you want people to take you seriously you have got to stop yelling 'Nazi Nazi Nazi' whenever something happens that you don't like.
Except when it involves government spooks following you around with the intent to intimidate. That's a tactic used by oppressive regimes. It's the same kind of people, the same kind of thinking. If they could get away with it, do you really think it wouldn't evolve into innocent people 'suiciding' in the night with a bullet in the back of the head, (which should be mentioned, DOES indeed happen.)?
But you're willing to swear at the victim in a really disgusting way because of their word choice?
That's insane. And not just regular insanity, but programmed insanity, (which is good, because it's also the sort which you can un-program). Right now you are reacting to the word 'Gestapo' because you've been suckered into thinking that it's uncool to bring up the most universally understood words to describe such behavior. "Nazi" -Some idiot (Godwin) decided it would be funny to make up a half-baked meme, and because we're all pack animals, we are all genetically wired to be scared of being 'uncool'. And that goes double (or quadruple) for the Slashdot crowd because of the general treatment geeks get through school. So if some meme-creating idiot decides something is uncool, all the geeks flock to the other side of the gymnasium. (Or take up gun-ownership to bolster low self-esteem?)
It's the same reason everybody is terrified of pointing out Israel's genocidal tendencies and calling foul. Nobody wants to be caught being uncool wrt the populist belief that Jews can kill without repercussion because they are "special". Same silly deal; social engineering. I mean, honestly, who does it serve to NOT use the word Nazi when it is appropriate? Who does it serve to look the other way?
I reject that programming. I'll call a rose a rose and a Nazi a Nazi.
And anybody who is so cowardly (or confused) as to think that this is worth sneering at, simply isn't looking clearly at the world. Sorry. That's you. No disrespect; That only comes if you can't get over your ego and stop swearing at the world because some weenie named Godwin told you to. But now you know.
What do you think would have happened to someone in 1938ish Germany who had similar film and accusations regarding the Spanish civil war?
Would it have ended with monitoring?
Fuck Wikileaks and their hyperbole.
Would you also get angry if a woman screams to escape a would-be rapist? That unless she is actually raped, she shouldn't be making any noise to cause you discomfort?
Or is that example too intense for you? Is it too "Godwin-esque"?
It's exactly because they're ringing bells in a public forum that they aren't getting strong-armed. There are a LOT of cases where people have been abused by truncheon-wielding state and federal troops, residences raided, computers seized, people imprisoned, (the US has the highest percentage of its population in prison than any other nation on the planet). But those stories don't get a lot of ink, digital or otherwise, so you have to be awake and go looking. You can't just drift along in a dream state and expect to know a damned thing. The government is entirely capable of being draconian and it's getting more so with each passing year, and anybody like Wikileaks, who put themselves in harm's way in an effort to combat corruption would be insane not to take precautions, and they should be forgiven for being a bit jumpy.
Honestly. Some people are too stupid to even realize there's a problem. And that's exactly how the corporate/government likes it. Maybe you just slipped up today. I don't know. But that post was the sort of thing an Orwellian 'model citizen' would write.
I'm LMFAO over here. Those are some awesome animal metaphors. Please give me more!
High comedy. That's what got me started on Chinese astrology. People's behavior becomes so much easier to understand and predict when you know which animal they're walking around pretending to be without realize it. When you're annoyed with a person's behavior, it becomes really funny to see them being their animal, and when you are happy with them, it becomes endearing.
Or you not make up ridiculous xenophobic straw men.
Done!
Problem is. . . It's not all that ridiculous, is it?
Sigh.
It's not the people who steer me towards xenophobic tendencies. It's the particular flavor of social programming and resulting group behaviors which allows the rampant sociopathy to have its way with the world at large.
But like I said, the same thing occurs up here. It's just less. Probably because there's only 10% of the populace as compared to the U.S. and the same approximate space to put everybody. If the lunatics annoy, you have plenty of room to back up.
Monkeys are crafty, crazy, explosive, clever little bastards. Simple and clean just isn't fun enough. It's ONLY fun when somebody loses an eye!
So of course you're going to get a screw-ball health system which is hopelessly messed up. Monkeys are insane. They deserve the misery they create for themselves.
So, yeah, nice job.
The U.S. took a ridiculously simple concept and made it unbelievably complex and punishing.
BTW, Canada is a "Rabbit" --Cordial, diplomatic, comfy, but fundamentally selfish, and smart enough to slip it all past the radar with a smile.
Rabbits piss me off almost as much as Monkeys. Those selfish rodents will be your friend until there's no room in the life boat.
Awwww. Is the world being all loud and full of sunlight again? Does it rankle your precious, misunderstood sensibilities? Why is that, do you think? I know I've dealt with most of my shit, so it probably means you're the one full of stuff you haven't worked up the courage to face yet. Or who knows? Maybe I'm just an incorrigible extrovert intent on being alive. That seems to upset some people. But rather than descend into misery and sulkiness in order to please them, I think rather I'll just continue being me. Seems altogether healthier, I think.
In the future, for your own benefit, you might attempt to exert a little will-power and not read my posts.
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This device does what most people want it to do. They don't give a flying fuck about "software freedom". They just want it to do cool shit. Which it does.
Yes, not thinking makes life a lot easier. But it doesn't make you alive.
I'm perfectly happy to allow the herd bop along with the EEG barely registering so long as they don't expect me to follow suit. Sadly, though, when 90% of the population is stupid, it does in fact affect the quality of life for the remaining 9%
The final 1% are the super-wealthy who push shit like iPads. That, and banks, -the other great invention which came into existence through another massive failure of the populace to think. Although, the bank problem is (slightly) excusable in that nobody had the opportunity to know they were being screwed. This time there is no excuse.
Oh, and the giant scam which is the banking system is why you happen to believe that selling and buying stuff is the only way you can survive in this world.
-FL
You seem to be under the impression that the iPad is kept closed because Steve Jobs cares whether or not you get a virus.
I can see why somebody might think that. It's due to the well-cultivated impression that Apple cares about providing safe computers to their mindless drone users. Please allow me to offer you a dollop of "cynical". . .
The iPad, along with the rest of the Apple line of ultra-popular not-really-a-computer items, (iPods and iPhones), are all about putting price tags on content. This is why they are getting billions of dollars worth of free advertising from the media. The media loves the iPad! They believe it will save their sorry asses. If everybody uses an iPad, then television networks, newspapers and magazines will be saved with the new revenue stream! (Same as happened with the music distributors, though not, it should be noted, the actual musicians. As per usual.) This is why, even though the iPad is a piece of half-baked crud, the media is hailing it as the second coming, (well, the third coming, actually. The iPod was first, and the iPhone was second.)
But all of this glory is only possible when the hardware is locked down, when content is locked down, and when users have had their brains removed with a syringe or turned to pudding by a constant barrage of Wifi microwave noise. When the mighty Apple does all of your thinking for you, you can be a dumb-fuck consumer and still move money from your pockets to those of the media providers. And the dumber you are, the better, because you'll need the media more than ever to tell you what to think, feel and say.
So basically, Fuck Apple. Jobs has chosen which side he's on, and he picked the red light saber.
What a shithead.
-FL
I lost interest when it became clear that the BBC was using the good doctor to push homosexual tendencies and politics onto children.
Thats after its be found that the BBC previously used the Doctor to write anti thatcherite propaganda in one of its previous lives. The BBC is supposed to be a non biased organisation, paid for by the people. And yet it acts like a broadcast political wing of the left, and with leftist, and labour tendencies.
I love sci fi, however, when big brother and the 'state' and its values is being driven through the form, its a form I can't enjoy.
When Thatcherites are able with a straight face to declare that Liberalism = Big Brother, you know that they're either putting something in the water or that the notion of Liberalism has fallen a long way from what the con-artists running under its banner are practicing today. Liberalism, when done right, is the opposite of Big Brother. Heck, Orwell was a huge socialist. Read some of his letters and short essays some day.
Oh, and garbage bag aliens are part of the Doctor Who charm. It's supposed to be part "Muppet Show".
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Doctor Who is my one weakness. Well, my big weakness, anyway.
It's what makes me a NERD! -Not just some garden variety geek fanboy, but a full-on Nerd. My girlfriend looks at me funny and wonders where the other me went when Doctor Who comes up. I don't expose that part of myself to her very often, but I did make her watch a couple of episodes just to show her what I was all excited about. She liked "The Girl in the Fireplace", and I described the Rose arc to her. -Her reaction to that was the correct one, (no, she didn't walk out on me. She fell into story-listener mode and caught her breath at all the right parts as I described them. I tell stories fairly well and can sometimes even do decent voices. This was one of those times). And I made her watch the first twenty minutes of this new Matt Smith show. Figured she'd like the food-tasting scene. She did.
Best two scenes in the episode. . .
Amelia: "I'm not scared!"
Doctor: "'Course your not, you're not scared of anything! - Box falls out of the sky, man falls out of the box, man eats fish custard... and look at you. Just sitting there. So you know what I think?"
Amelia: "What?"
Doctor: "Must be a helluva scary crack in your wall."
And. . .
Doctor: "Twelve years! I'm not six months late. I'm twelve years late."
Amy: "He's coming!"
Doctor: "You said six months. Why did you say six months?"
Amy: "We've got to go!"
Doctor: "This MATTERS. This is important! Why did you say six months?!"
Amy: "WELL WHY DID YOU SAY FIVE MINUTES?!"
Wonderfully done! When big, important characters meet each other for the first time in a story, it's important to make it explosive or at least interesting. This was one of the reasons in the Phantom Menace, when Obi Wan and Anakin first met, it was stunningly stupid. (Remember how that went? It was a hand shake.) But this meeting was fantastic!
Anyway, as I figured, it takes about three viewings to "click" with a new Doctor, assuming that the Doctor is worth clicking with. And I think he is; the production values, casting, writing and acting were all top-notch for Doctor Who, but the Newness of it all takes a bit getting used to and certainly colors a viewer's reactions. The first Tennant episode, for instance, left a sour taste in my mouth the first time I saw it. But after a season of Who, going back to it was a joy. This leads me to thinking that the enjoyment of a show or film is far, far more than the sum of its parts. This is where Joseph Campbell and his various theories regarding mythology come into play. By the third viewing, the characters become familiar and comfortable. Matt Smith was very well cast; he's confident enough to walk through a scene and own it, and the new girl is going to challenge him nicely. And I hope to see some of the people of that little town become semi-regulars in the future. (I really like the new idea that family and friends matter in the DW universe.)
This is going to be a wonderful ride, I think! Hats off to everybody who put this together. -And thank goodness for 'pirate' distribution. The US broadcast version was cut down, I heard, to fit in more commercials. Lame.
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I don't suppose anyone here knows squat about the double taxation trap corporations face. Oh no, it's much more fun to rant and flame when you're uninformed.
What double taxation do you mean?
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Maybe I have missed it, but there don't seem to be any articles or reviews talking about the true cost of using the iPad. The "it's not for you, its for the masses" crowd doesn't seem to have a realistic understanding of the average joe's budget.
There's always money for beer and drugs, electronic or otherwise. Especially when the money is on credit. Among many aspects here, I find that the thing being expensive quite offensive. When selling drugs, isn't the first one supposed to be free? I guess the addiction is already well established and this is just a new kind of needle.
The populace has been so well trained into the mode of "stupid consumer" that this device will be welcomed with open arms. Go Humans! I'm SO proud of you.
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People will buy anything if it feels right.
Apple is all about feel, and they have figured out how to tap into the minds of a large segment of the populace. I was talking to a guy the other day who had already ordered one of these devices. He wasn't even a Mac guy. He just wanted to be part of the herd and he liked how Apple felt. It "feels" successful and slick and friendly, and many of those who aren't part of that herd are going to feel left out and will want to convert. This is what Microsoft doesn't sell; community. Everybody needs community; it's hard-wired into us, and with the PC and everything surrounding that, the community is mapped on to it in an ad-hoc manner by naturally occurring forces. Apple, on the other hand, is deliberately sculpting it. They're pushing buttons. In short, they've figured out that they're not selling computers. They're selling a religion.
Think about it; it started off small, and they were persecuted, but their warm, "loving", non-confrontational approach has grown. It's the Christianity of computers, and they KNOW it. I doubt it was deliberately set up that way, but some bright spark in the marketing team saw the connection, and now they're tapping into it directly with gusto. And it's working. They even call their front line iPhone developer staff, "Evangelists", and they dress them like those door-to-door God people. (Pod-will-save-you? Ugh.)
And that 'Pod' word. That's another thing! They know exactly what they're doing, and it really depresses me. They're selling the Body Snatchers theme, offering people the choice between going deeper into sleep and waking up, and they know that roughly half of the population will choose sleep. -Especially if they can make sleep look like a respectable, successful thing. People can bullshit themselves into thinking that a medicated haze of happy nihilism is the right path. Apple makes me feel sick. It always has, but I could never put my finger on it before.
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It's comforting to me to see that some things can still be relied upon.
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Thanks for the info.
The whole global warming bugaboo has been one of the holes in my awareness. It became so utterly huge and confusing that I just stepped back and tuned it out figuring that when the dust settled, I'd wade back in and try to make sense of things. -That independent researchers who were smarter and more dedicated than me would be able to put the larger pieces together.
I find it no surprise that greed and a war of social control are driving the Carbon Trading scheme, but I think there is something more also hidden beneath it all.
Climate change is still with us; the weather is really peculiar. One theory which makes a lot of sense given numerous other big and weird things going on is that the whole bundle of confusion and corruption which is Climategate might be there simply to stop people from focusing on and asking what is really going on. What's up with the planet?
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I agree that pirating won't stop, but I don't actually think that the real objective is to stop pirating or drug use.
I strongly suspect that this is only what they tell the enforcement people on the front lines and the various others who are not on board with the true agenda.
This is about control. When 1% of the population holds 99% of the wealth, a high level of fear must also exist that the 99% will catch on and cut off their heads. This is a recognized problem and the vast resources of the 1% have been used to sculpt solutions which are being exploited all around us right now.
(And if anybody manages to croak out the words, "conspiracy theorist" through the various knots of their mind-programming, well, guess what? Everybody I've ever met who remains paralyzed by such thinking has also been without fail riddled with a fabulous array of psychological fault lines and blind spots and the inevitably resulting broken/incomplete reasoning, all of which quickly becomes apparent even through the most fortified personality facades. To those people, I would ask in the interest of saving time and energy that before taking a swing at me, you spend a few moments to ask yourself if your criticisms will actually be able to hold up under rudimentary examination or if you are just throwing them out due to some emotionally driven impulse you think originates in your mind but which probably is just the remnants of some TV show you watched combined with the worry-lines etched into your brain through years of torment in junior high school. Thank you.)
And so. . .
One way to manage the 99% is through drugs, (either with chemicals or electronic media), and the second way, through the same vector, is to make sure that everybody is culpable for a crime. -This way, if anybody gets out of line, by say, talking back to the plantation master, (blogging?), there will always exist ample reason to throw that person in jail.
This isn't about protecting copyright or the minds and health of our youth. This is about ensuring a state of slavery without having to call it slavery. Everybody is in debt, and everybody is a criminal.
So, no, they are never going to decriminalize drugs and they are never going to adopt rational strategies for copyright. They are going to make sure everybody is addicted and that addiction is both expensive and illegal. It is simply another ploy among many which allow the 1% to remain the 1%.
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Just a couple of points. . .
The high-pitched whine TV's emit, (and which I was surprised to learn, many people cannot hear!), are often explained as being loose coils in power supplies which vibrate at the induction frequency, which basically makes the coils into speakers. It's audio, rather than EM.
Although. . , using an EM frequency to stimulate the nerve in the ear itself can be used to put a voice signal into somebody's head without vibrating air at all. It would be interesting to learn if that might not be going on in the case of some whining electronics.
But anyway. . .
I find that the experiences I've had with feeling the EM spectrum comes in a different form altogether. -I remember blithely walking into one of those department stores in a mall, and suddenly being nearly knocked on my arse. -It felt like I'd walked into a field of fuzz. Everything went dizzy and. . , it's hard to describe, but it was very strong. -Like when you take two North ends of two magnets and try to push them together. . , if my entire head had been the one of those magnets, that's sort of how it felt, but not in a physically resistive way. Anyway, I actually yelped out loud and staggered backwards, dazed. Then my head was instantly clear again.
I looked around trying to figure out what had just happened, and then realized that directly above that spot was a HUGE black & white television from the 70's with a security camera feed displayed on it. You know the kind, "We can see if you shoplift!"
Anyway, I was pretty blown away. I tried moving into and out of that field, and you could really feel it. My girlfriend was also very aware of it. It was really neat actually, like playing with a real-life force field. I don't know if I am sensitive to such things all the time; I'd certainly never experienced anything like that so intensely with consumer electronics before. Maybe my blood iron was really high that day or something. I'll have to head back to that mall sometime to check it out again.
Anyway, my suspicion is that even when we are not consciously aware of the influence of EM pollution, that it affects us nonetheless and that since it is affecting the brain, measuring it becomes tricky. Brain malfunctions can be hard to detect in oneself. It takes others observing objectively to really know.
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Electromagnetic sensitivity has been thoroughly debunked as a complete bullshit myth.
Hm. No.
But maybe if you try saying it again in all caps. . ?
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Sure i'm a prick. But i get to do what i want. get paid for it. and i know i'm on the wrong side of an unwinnable war! I can get paid forever! DO almost nothing, FOREVER! I like free checks in the mail. Greed is good. Greed works.
Assuming you aren't just joking, then no, it's not "FOREVER". Psychopaths have, by design, a complete inability to project possible outcomes of their actions beyond the immediate future. A snake eating its own tail results in a dead snake and then nothing. But that's what the psychopath craves; the desire to consume free checks and DO nothing, as you say, is tantamount to craving entropy. Beneath all else, the dark side just wants to go back to sleep because it is too cowardly to embrace life.
Greed is a big part of this disease.
I sincerely hope you speed up the process of your own death and let the rest of the sane world get on with growing in health and strength. You will be forgotten.
Bye now.
-FL
Everybody is jumping on you as though you'd cut yourself in a shark pool because you committed the error of being factually inaccurate in a forum full of geeks. Which doesn't make you right, but still. . .
I think you inadvertently raise an interesting point.
You just assume that MS is being sneaky. And you have EVERY reason to believe this to be the case. Can you imagine a world where search is ruled by the MS totalitarian approach to everything they touch? I have a very hard time trusting Google, and they've got a pretty good track record, but MS. . ?
~Shudder~
I wouldn't trust them with anybody's info for two seconds. You KNOW they'll abuse it for profit the moment Game Theory recommends that as the best option for world domination and monetary gain. That's simply how they work.
So your automatic distrust of MS, while factually off the mark, is based on more than two decades of rotten corporate behavior. That aspect of the human instinct will often point at the wrong specifics (because the conscious mind is over-eager to interpret the warning bells) but usually in the right overall direction.
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No kidding!
I can't stand Facebook, though I completely understand its appeal, communities being what they are. But honestly. . , it reminds me of that noxious SIMS game. I can feel my face blister if I'm on it for more than a few minutes per month. It has the amazing ability to reduce complex and magnificent lives down to the tweet/soundbite level of mental activity. That instant messenger feature REALLY pisses me off. I hate seeing awkwardly keyed lines of text coming from people I know, love and respect. It's like trying to talk through a straw. You can't communicate anything of real substance, so why the hell is it even there?
All the most powerful and amazing people I know barely even maintain computers, let alone Facebook accounts. And it's not for any deliberate reason other than they are simply too busy DOING things to have time to spend on a computer. It'd kind of like asking Han Solo what his favorite flight simulator is.
But the thing I really don't like about Facebook is that many people have stopped using email. This leaves me pretty much forced to keep an account on that sketchy NSA-funded data vacuum. If it weren't for that, I'd feel a lot less antagonistic toward it.
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Agreed.
It must have taken an act of heroic patience to not arrest these villains years ago.
If it were me, I'd have done something a lot earlier on. There are so many arguments. Broadcasters shouldn't be allowed to make it their primary mission to libel people. Criticism is necessary, but it takes an honest journalist and an impartial media to do that correctly. But it's another thing entirely to deliberately manufacture hate-speech in an effort to de-stabilize a nation at the beset of American corporate/CIA wishes.
Those idiots should be arrested for Treason.
Watch "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" to get an inside look at the last coup attempt in Venezuela. -A team of documentary makers while filming in the capitol were in the middle of shooting a different story when the presidential estate was seized by the dark side, and they kept on filming. The result is an astonishing documentary which shows the whole amazing ordeal. You get to see exactly what sort of nasty characters were pulling the strings. Among the many jaw-dropping parts was hearing those corporate political monkeys mouthing about freedom while striking down Chavez' education and property ownership reforms. Encouraging a population to read and inform themselves and know their rights and participate in politics? The people love him and the result is 99% literacy and high living standards. No wonder the land/oil barons hate him! No wonder the American media is trying to vilify the man.
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I react to the word Gestapo because they killed my grandfather and reject idiots (no disrespect but that's you) who like to use the word as a literary flourish.
Really? You're going to pull that little maneuver and then gripe about people playing the holocaust card? I don't mind. Everybody should be allowed to bring personal data into forum. It informs a debate, but if you're going to get all sulky and hypocritical about it, then it will only make you look foolish. Because guess what? A LOT of people lost family to that war. I did. It's not a merit badge, or at least it shouldn't be used as one. It's simply a piece of history which nobody should be afraid to remember because Godwin says it's uncool to reference WWII. But the fact of the matter is that a small group of evil people managed to influence the behavior of whole nations into perpetrating war upon the world, and everybody suffered as a result. The headspace from which that kind of thinking and manipulation arises I label "Nazi" because it is. You can use any label you like, but Nazi captures it perfectly.
Here's the thing. . . I don't want to see all those hundreds of prison camps standing empty on U.S. soil, (the latest lot built by KBR), start to fill up with unwilling participants. I think we're probably too late to prevent it from happening, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't cry foul. And who knows? Maybe complaining will do some good. Slow the decay. The war for mind share over the whole torture debate is a good example. -That fight was kind of a draw because enough people were disgusted by it. The dark side pushed hard to sell that evil bill of goods to the public and turn torture into normal behavior, and while they didn't entirely pull it off, they did make a remarkable amount of headway. There are people now who I've seen salivate at the idea of visiting torment upon people, and they are willing to grasp at any excuse to do so. Dark side.
The way to fight this is to call it by its name, and "Gestapo" is as good a word for it as any. It's the same dark plant, it springs from the same dark place; it simply hasn't grown to quite the same degree. But it's a lot closer today than it was five years ago. The idea that Wikileaks editors should be hounded by the secret service and that people don't blink at this, or in your case, shower the victim with vitriol. . . Well, to me that says a lot.
Now go back to blaming the Jews for defending themselves. More symptoms of brain noise.
Hint: Those 'facts' you build your world view on. They are noise not signal. Your axioms are broken.
Ahh. Yes, I see what kind of programming you're struggling under. You were hit with that from childhood, no doubt, so your ability to see a clear picture of reality is going to be strained at best. I mean, we all get hit with mind-jobs as kids, but Jews get super-whammied. Basically, I know I'm right, and you think you are as well, and it's not likely that this can be resolved in a Slashdot debate, so I'm afraid you're on your own. But the casual 3rd party reading this stuff would do well to note your hair-trigger emotional reactions to single words, your lack of clear logic and your, "Fuck them right in the ear" commentary while determining which of us is dealing with the better hinged psyche profile, and who thereby will have been able to sort out the signal to noise ratio more rationally.
Good luck out there.
-FL
Yeah, people who get paid to develop full time are going to get there first. And slaves sure fill those cotton baskets faster than unionized workers. Nobody contests these facts.
But here's the thing; Open source projects, given enough time will generally get there.
When I started using Abiword, it crashed all the time. Now it's awesome; it's exactly what I want. A lightweight, reliable, intuitive dedicated word processor. I like how it scrolls; it doesn't automatically jump a document up to the center of the page when my cursor nears the bottom of the screen. You can't turn that shit off in other programs, but a 6 Meg word processor which I use all the time does just what I want and I didn't pay a dime for it. In fact, pretty much anything I need to do on my computer, I can type in, "[Random Application I Need] Open Source" and multiple choices will emerge. Generally I'll wind up using a very powerful and user-friendly bit of software whose creators have been honing to perfection for several years.
Open source software just keeps improving over time, and it doesn't vanish because a CEO decides to kill a product line because not enough Muggles are paying.
Right now, the model of our economy is such that everybody runs on money and debt. That model happens to be good at generating new technology quickly. Great. But the downside is that everybody is forced to work too hard and we are surrounded by toxic shit and psychopathic corporations and creepy Obama-droids who have learned how to charm people while accelerating Bush policies and passing backassward health care bills.
I wouldn't mind living with a slower lifestyle if it meant people could relax a bit and take better care of themselves and each other. In a perfect world, people would make great stuff without needing greed and fear and government to motivate them. I see that behavior in a lot of people already; that's where open source anything comes from. People wanting to build cool stuff themselves. Heck, I like to build cool stuff. But we can't devote ourselves fully to such projects so long as Captain Industry is at the helm and banks keep is debt.
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If you want people to take you seriously you have got to stop yelling 'Nazi Nazi Nazi' whenever something happens that you don't like.
Except when it involves government spooks following you around with the intent to intimidate. That's a tactic used by oppressive regimes. It's the same kind of people, the same kind of thinking. If they could get away with it, do you really think it wouldn't evolve into innocent people 'suiciding' in the night with a bullet in the back of the head, (which should be mentioned, DOES indeed happen.)?
But you're willing to swear at the victim in a really disgusting way because of their word choice?
That's insane. And not just regular insanity, but programmed insanity, (which is good, because it's also the sort which you can un-program). Right now you are reacting to the word 'Gestapo' because you've been suckered into thinking that it's uncool to bring up the most universally understood words to describe such behavior. "Nazi" -Some idiot (Godwin) decided it would be funny to make up a half-baked meme, and because we're all pack animals, we are all genetically wired to be scared of being 'uncool'. And that goes double (or quadruple) for the Slashdot crowd because of the general treatment geeks get through school. So if some meme-creating idiot decides something is uncool, all the geeks flock to the other side of the gymnasium. (Or take up gun-ownership to bolster low self-esteem?)
It's the same reason everybody is terrified of pointing out Israel's genocidal tendencies and calling foul. Nobody wants to be caught being uncool wrt the populist belief that Jews can kill without repercussion because they are "special". Same silly deal; social engineering. I mean, honestly, who does it serve to NOT use the word Nazi when it is appropriate? Who does it serve to look the other way?
I reject that programming. I'll call a rose a rose and a Nazi a Nazi.
And anybody who is so cowardly (or confused) as to think that this is worth sneering at, simply isn't looking clearly at the world. Sorry. That's you. No disrespect; That only comes if you can't get over your ego and stop swearing at the world because some weenie named Godwin told you to. But now you know.
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Ignoring the Godwin in the headline.
What do you think would have happened to someone in 1938ish Germany who had similar film and accusations regarding the Spanish civil war?
Would it have ended with monitoring?
Fuck Wikileaks and their hyperbole.
Would you also get angry if a woman screams to escape a would-be rapist? That unless she is actually raped, she shouldn't be making any noise to cause you discomfort?
Or is that example too intense for you? Is it too "Godwin-esque"?
It's exactly because they're ringing bells in a public forum that they aren't getting strong-armed. There are a LOT of cases where people have been abused by truncheon-wielding state and federal troops, residences raided, computers seized, people imprisoned, (the US has the highest percentage of its population in prison than any other nation on the planet). But those stories don't get a lot of ink, digital or otherwise, so you have to be awake and go looking. You can't just drift along in a dream state and expect to know a damned thing. The government is entirely capable of being draconian and it's getting more so with each passing year, and anybody like Wikileaks, who put themselves in harm's way in an effort to combat corruption would be insane not to take precautions, and they should be forgiven for being a bit jumpy.
Honestly. Some people are too stupid to even realize there's a problem. And that's exactly how the corporate/government likes it. Maybe you just slipped up today. I don't know. But that post was the sort of thing an Orwellian 'model citizen' would write.
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I'm LMFAO over here. Those are some awesome animal metaphors. Please give me more!
High comedy. That's what got me started on Chinese astrology. People's behavior becomes so much easier to understand and predict when you know which animal they're walking around pretending to be without realize it. When you're annoyed with a person's behavior, it becomes really funny to see them being their animal, and when you are happy with them, it becomes endearing.
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I have mod points today, but there's no "Awesome" modifier, so instead I opted to make a note of it here.
Great info! Thanks for sharing.
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Or you not make up ridiculous xenophobic straw men.
Done!
Problem is. . . It's not all that ridiculous, is it?
Sigh.
It's not the people who steer me towards xenophobic tendencies. It's the particular flavor of social programming and resulting group behaviors which allows the rampant sociopathy to have its way with the world at large.
But like I said, the same thing occurs up here. It's just less. Probably because there's only 10% of the populace as compared to the U.S. and the same approximate space to put everybody. If the lunatics annoy, you have plenty of room to back up.
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The US was 'Born' a Monkey.
Monkeys are crafty, crazy, explosive, clever little bastards. Simple and clean just isn't fun enough. It's ONLY fun when somebody loses an eye!
So of course you're going to get a screw-ball health system which is hopelessly messed up. Monkeys are insane. They deserve the misery they create for themselves.
So, yeah, nice job.
The U.S. took a ridiculously simple concept and made it unbelievably complex and punishing.
BTW, Canada is a "Rabbit" --Cordial, diplomatic, comfy, but fundamentally selfish, and smart enough to slip it all past the radar with a smile.
Rabbits piss me off almost as much as Monkeys. Those selfish rodents will be your friend until there's no room in the life boat.
The West deserves itself.
-FL
please, go away
Awwww. Is the world being all loud and full of sunlight again? Does it rankle your precious, misunderstood sensibilities? Why is that, do you think? I know I've dealt with most of my shit, so it probably means you're the one full of stuff you haven't worked up the courage to face yet. Or who knows? Maybe I'm just an incorrigible extrovert intent on being alive. That seems to upset some people. But rather than descend into misery and sulkiness in order to please them, I think rather I'll just continue being me. Seems altogether healthier, I think.
In the future, for your own benefit, you might attempt to exert a little will-power and not read my posts.
-FL