You just described half the people I've known over my lifetime. Why would I expect socially advanced humans to grace the screen just because they happen to be in space?
And that was the very reason I couldn't stand BSG. Petty, self-serving, over-wrought people doing stupid things. I know art imitates life, but I'm loath to watching sad people do painful things on my computer screen when I can do that just by walking around downtown. It takes work to be happy and successful in life, and I want to see some decent examples, not a bunch of fictitious people mired in misery. I want to see people being their very best. That's why STTNG was so great! (Though, those old episodes seem extremely dated and abrupt today).
SGU, with all its high production values, was a huge leap over the super-fluff SG series, but where it won out in increased attention to detail, both social and technical, it lost through being so hopelessly derivative. It seemed like a production company's attempt to cobble together aspects from fan favored items, (BSG in a big way, and that Summer Glau clone who was even playing a character like River and that Terminator). The whole thing was disingenuous. Any good things in it were accidental bits of story which evolved on their own, though so many of the script ideas were Star Trek re-treads asking the question, "What if inadequate, burned-out miserable people were faced with Star Trek problems? Maybe the public will like that. They sure ate it up in BSG."
The one thing which did interest me was a bit of meta-story.
If the old SG1 McGyver crew were to have been dumped on the Destiny, they would have wrapped up the whole adventure in one or two episodes. They wouldn't have gotten stuck out in space for months on end. Why? Because they were happy and brilliant mythical figures and they would have found solutions. There was an episode where Young was being upbraided by McGyver for dragging his ass on the mission, and I was thinking, "Yeah, if McGyver had been there, none of this crap would have happened." -Now, I know it was not done on purpose, but it struck me that maybe when characters are happy, advanced and brilliant, their adventures just seem fluffier and more up-beat as a direct result of the character's outlook. Perhaps misery is linked to ones level of social advancement? I mean, honestly, can you see any of the old SG1 crew acting like selfish, whiny pricks?
Me neither.
The annoying part was that just as the characters in the show began showing some decent qualities, just as they were pulling together, and just as they were beginning to question the nature of reality itself, that's when the show got canned.
Those who haven't yet figured out that FOX News is for fools are, regrettably, too stupid to live, as is currently being demonstrated by the all-powerful engine of Reality which is at this very moment gobbling up your rights, homes, savings, jobs, food and fairly soon, your bodies.
So moving right along. . .
While FOX News ranks at the very tippy-top on the American Propaganda charts, it remains a further regrettable truth that NO news on TV is any damned good. There are huge realities which the human media shies away from like a powerless mother incapable of dealing a child's disobedience, or perhaps the horrible truth of a molesting father. In the same way, the media pretends a whole raft of astonishing truths simply do not exist, all in order to keep this weird little charade we call, "normal" puffed up with just enough air to keep all the slaves limping toward the death camps.
The result is that our entire society is completely mind-fucked. Surviving day to day in a state of cognitive dissonance where everybody is either acting with a fake smile or is so lost that they really believe their actions and minds are their own. We must pity those fools; They are the ones who spend time actually watching FOX News with a straight face.
There are specific, pragmatic reasons for this that have nothing whatsoever to do with either of these, and nearly everyone posting such things has never been cleared and has no idea what the relevant laws and regulations are here that would dictate such a step.
Well. . , I don't know how I'd define "Insanity" exactly, but a certain level of cognitive dissonance certainly seems to be required to enter into military work. But it's a state, I think, that one can emerge from.
In any case, laws and procedures don't make something sane. They just make it easy to feel like one is part of a rational entity while performing insane functions. I'm sure the cells in a mad man's muscles are little different than those in any other person.
Though in this instance, some of those cells seemed to be getting quizzical looks on their faces. I noted the part in the article where, "The defense official said blocking the New York Times was a misinterpretation of military guidance to avoid visiting websites that post classified material."
But as for Slashdot spiraling downward into the depths of ignorance. . .
I would very much like to argue with you on that point. I can't! I think it's a symptom of several larger problems. Fortunately, there are numerous examples of Slashdotters who are moving in the opposite direction. For some, seeing the world sink provides exactly the kind of Grist for the Mill which feeds the machine of awareness.
I'm sure the first typeset stories were pretty impressive. People probably wanted to see them and go, "Ooh. Ahhh!" simply for the production techniques.
While that was probably a fun period, it's also fun being able to live in a world awash with books where the quality of story-telling is the important thing, not the typesetting.
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong or if I'm missing information, but the whole idea behind a battery is that there are more electrons in the plate of metal at one end than there are at the other, right? The electrolyte just frees up the electrons and lets them move from one end of the battery to the other. So any fluid which allows a metal to break down and which can transport electrons is doing the job; even potato or lemon juices work.
So what exactly is so special about Lithium? What's wrong with salt water? Or lemon juice? --I'm not saying that I have some superior insight here, I'm honestly asking. And please don't jump in with the assumption that just because it is in use means it's the best idea and that I need to be punished for not agreeing with the herd; I need thinkers and skeptics here, not true believers.
Also, I've heard that regular Alkaline batteries can be recharged if you rig a charger to do it in stages with cool-down periods in between. That Alkaline chemistry doesn't fart out like Lithium does.
The conspiracy guy inside me is very dubious about all of this and wants to say that the industry is deliberately picking battery chemistry in order to maintain sales. (I mean, when you do the math, these rechargeable lithium batteries end up costing quite a lot more than alkaline in the long run.)
So what gives? Is there a valid reason for Lithium to sit between the metal plates rather than any other medium?
And. . .
Wouldn't it also make sense to just replace the plates and mineral water to a battery rather than try to recharge them? I'm not saying it should be done that way, but is there anything about that which makes it a poor option? Metal and minerals are pretty darned portable and water is pretty abundant. . .
You want big red behavioral warning flags? A really big one?
Dehumanizing other people in order to justify exterminating them is #1.
You think I've not considered this? Trust me; I've given it long hard thought.
Psychopaths are not people. They never were. This is entirely new. It's not racism, or nationalism or jingoism or propaganda or class warfare. No. This is a medical, clinically measurable reality. This is NEW.
Sociopaths have caused far less evil throughout history than fanatic idealists have. Sociopaths stop at "What benefits ME, personally"; idealists can rationalize mass murder and genocide in the name of their ideals.
It appears that you have done no real thinking or research on this subject whatsoever. You need to inform yourself. Also look up "Stockholm Syndrome" whilst you're at it. Do you understand who you are protecting here? Monsters. Abusers. Rapists. Murderers. And yes, those masquerading as fanatic idealists who, really, are just more sociopathic egomaniacs using chaotic social climates to find personal benefit.
Saying that sociopaths stop at "What benefits ME, personally" as though this were some sort of consolation or that it means they do not have a hand in the political sphere is, I'm sorry, entirely wishful and naive. Did you not read the article this story is attached to? Go back and read it and ask yourself if that psychopath stopping at "What benefits ME, personally" would have been a valid excuse to not identify and deal with him. If he had decided, as many clearly do, to seek "personal benefit" through the climbing of political ladders, (where there is great wealth, ego-power and the opportunity to bully and torment people to be gained), then do you think that, "What benefits ME, personally" will allow a real human standing in the way to escape unscathed? Or entire populations?
Apply some deductive reasoning please.
By the way, calling politicians you don't like "psychopaths", which you claim are inhuman monsters deserving of death, sounds just a bit over the line of reason to me.
That's because you are not using reason yet. How would you know where the line of reason is if you don't even understand what basic sociopathy encompasses?
I know that suggesting that we identify and destroy certain individuals is upsetting. Society has followed the road of dehumanizing people in order to justify genocide before. It's horrific. And that is what a purge looks like at the hands of a political psychopath. This is very different. For one thing, I am not dehumanizing anybody. If compassion is an essential part of the human equation, as I believe it is, then psychopaths were not human to begin with. Further, I have no desire to torment or extract punishment or pain. I just want to identify and remove non-humans from circulation because they are KILLING us. -Not metaphorically. Not in some jar-headed racist notion of the term. I mean Directly. They are directly responsible for the destruction of humanity both in the small sphere and the large. It is a plain fact that psychopaths cause harm as a basic function of their being, they cannot be rehabilitated, and they will not stop if they do not have to. If you don't want to kill them, then that's fine. Identify and contain them. That alone would prevent enormous suffering. We wouldn't have to go to war anymore. This is a world-wide issue.
This is what you need to understand. . . All of the old models of thinking about managing society fail because they assume that all the participants are Human Beings capable of compassion. We KNOW now that this is NOT the case. If we solve this oversight, then we solve just about everything.
1) The word 'Psychopath' is no longer the official name of the disorder you seem to be thinking about. I think the disorder you are thinking of is 'Antisocial Personality Disorder', Some psychologists argue that Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder are in fact two distinct disorders, but unless you have the expertise to take part in the debate
You didn't finish your sentence, but I'll go ahead and assume you meant to imply that not having a certificate in a given field means that I am not allowed to think or speak about a subject. That's bullshit. If you disagree with me, go for it, but I'm afraid pulling the idiotic, "Are you a doctor?" argument isn't going to work here. Are you a mathematician? No? Then you're not allowed to discuss math. Are you an astrophysicist? No? Then you're not allowed to discuss the solar system. This is a PUBLIC discussion forum, not a court of law.
In any case, the term "Psychopath" "sociopath" "Narcissist" are indeed labels which have numerous definitions depending on who you read. I'm only talking about those who were born incapable of experiencing compassion. Those who CHOOSE to suppress emotion are a whole other ball of wax, and I feel comfortable leaving them in the purview of the legal system. (Though, I'd feel a lot better if we purged the legal system of psychopaths first.)
2) Personality tests don't detect disorders. Diagnostic tests do. Personality tests analyze personality, not mental health. Disorders are not visible on brain scans either, unless they result from damage to the brain. In which case a brain scan would only tell you that there is damage which could cause a disorder but won't tell you what the disorder is exactly.
You're both wrong and you're splitting hairs at the same time. I would recommend a battery of "Diagnostic" (See? I used your word. Happy?) personality tests which look for warning flags, followed up with imaging scans which would determine whether or not the frontal lobe is active in a given subject.
3) No test is accurate enough to be used to "identify and put down" people. The tests are accurate, but there is a bit of room for a false-positive.
I agree. It's a huge hair ball of a challenge and one which is not best serviced by error-capable humans. But it is necessary. We identify child molesters and track them, we don't let them become teachers, etc. The issue here is that we are talking about a non-treatable genetic condition resulting in shrewd calculating biological machines with no community value, who by default, are highly destructive. AND we can start tracking from the moment of detection. We should make such tests mandatory for high public offices and law-enforcement professionals. (At which point, who cares about the label you choose? If there the person is only wearing the mask of sanity, they should be prevented from entering any office, period.) Further, if we prevented these types of biologicals from infesting our community systems, (including the medical and medical insurance fields), then I suspect misuse of these kinds of regulatory powers would be nowhere the problem it is today.
4) Killing people suffering from mental disorders is unethical. These people are not murderers, the disorder they suffer from (and never asked to have) is making them harm others.
Of course it's unethical. But I'm not talking about killing people. If you are a calculating shark in human form with no possibility of understanding ethics, let alone compassion, then you are not a person. You are a dangerous animal which should be treated as such. Extending compassion to biological Turing machines (which would kill you if they got the chance to do it and get away with it) is foolhardy. But I DO understand the difficulties you are expressing, and those difficulties are exactly why the psychopath has been able to f
I'm not surprised at all. While this is an extreme example, it remains standard practice.
The system, and by that I mean, "ALL HUMAN CULTURE" is designed to allow psychopaths to ply their trade. We are pre-programmed to let this kind of shit go, to avoid it, to assume that the aggressor really IS the victim. We think, "Nobody would behave so utterly contrary to the unspoken social laws which govern the tribe, therefore we must be perceiving this incorrectly." The bigger the lie, the easier the sell. It's true.
The truth is also, and yes, it does seem surprising but it's just the way of a psychopathic society, (and Yes, America the Competitive, IS a society based on the rules of the psychopaths who we allowed into politics and business). -That an innocent man can wind up in prison for not lifting his drawers for the airport security while a true monster can roam free for years before finally being locked up.
And this Borker freak is basically a failed model. His psychopathy was too extreme. There are MANY successful ones, who torment their victims and climb the success ladder without even a spark firing in their Frontal Lobes, all because they have better learned how to manipulate. Even Borker had learned how to extract the maximum amount of psychological pain from his victims while evading the traps of the law.
He says the case was dismissed but contends that since then, he's been careful not to make physical threats against customers -- Ms. Rodriguez included.
I mention that sending that photo of her apartment building sounds kind of threatening.
Nothing but an image he copied off of the Web, from Google Earth, Mr. Borker says. He says he sent it to her only to underscore that when it came time to hire a process server to commence litigation, he'd find her. The "hand in fire" threat? Metaphorical, he says. Then again, he acknowledges with a sly grin, if Ms. Rodriguez thought that Tony Russo seemed a little scary, that was fine.
But in his telling of events, he is her victim, not the other way around.
The psychopath always blames the victim of the very crimes committed against them. In the case of Bush and Cheney, they blamed the Iraqis and Afghans while merrily singing "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. . , Bomb, Bomb Iran." The lies are huge and ridiculous and the crimes are sickening, and because the rest of us are programmed to be human, we go along with it.
And that, folks, is why the world is as it is today. Because we haven't learned how to identify and put down our human waste.
There are tests, you know. Both brain scans and personality tests which are very accurate. We could have prevented the collapse of the economy and of several wars with ease, but we didn't. Consider that. There are people who are living on the street, starving in America and all over the world because we simply didn't know about the Psychopath. The false humans walking around among us who feed on the creation of misery.
Read that original article again, and recognize that this kind of behavior is happening everywhere, that you have encountered it many times in your life, and that the psychopath wishes to create a culture which is friendly toward psychopaths. That's why the banks are insane, why the government is insane, and why we have been killed by BP. (The Gulf is still leaking, folks.)
Did you not get your degree?;> According to this (half-baked) article, we're supposed to fear death less than others if we went to University.
Me, I'm looking forward to dying one day. Not yet; I've got lots of stuff to try to iron out, but heck, living forever in this pattern would be really tiresome after a while.
When you start to see the repeating cycles and you realize that NOTHING changes except your own emotional reactions to a repeating series of events, (people seem to revisit an event stream about five or six times at the most before the body or some other aspect becomes untenable and the soul releases), then you realize just how incredibly limited a single life is. Really, like a cog in a very big machine. It's fun and educational to visit and be one gear for a few cycles, but I think it's pretty vital that we move from body to body. It'd get incredibly tedious to be stuck in one cycle of events for freaking ever!
But hey, no worries. It takes a lot of prep-work to even figure out that the machine exists let along how we interact with it. Most never will this time around, that's for sure!
I don't know about everybody else, but I think people like you are dangerously stupid because. . .
A) You are apparently capable of saying patently ridiculous things without noticing. Example: "Conservatives outnumber you and then in the very same paragraph, "We don't like your advocacy of tyranny against the individual by the majority". That's stupid.
B) You mince words attempting to reconcile that Palin is not a smart person. (The short term, actually, is, "Retard"; A rose by any other name. And no, I don't say that in hatred. It's simply a cold fact. The woman is very, very dumb.) -And YET in spite of this recognition, you believe she has somehow managed to choose a core ideology which is NOT dumb? Newsflash: Stupid people do in fact believe stupid things. Those things are not stupid because I happen to disagree with them; they're stupid because they are demonstrably and logically flawed. I'm sure you've lost many an argument but simply re-booted your head and carried on as though nothing had changed because the core ideology was what mattered, not whether or not it actually works.
C) You evidently STILL have not yet worked out that it's not about Left or Right. ANYBODY who still falls for the divide and conquer technique of population control is a retard who deserves to suffer. You just happen to be the Republican variant.
D) You are capable in seriousness of saying things like, "You believe that Assange is a hero of some sort. While this may be the case if he were solely releasing secret information from tyrannical governments, he is more focused on damaging the credibility and security of nations in the west, most specifically the United States. "
No, no, no. Assange is an Israeli tool designed to sell lies about Arab nations sandwiched between irrelevant, previously known non-secrets, so as to better manipulate the West into bombing its enemies for them. Yes, people falling for Assange's hero bullshit are chumps. But you are a double chump because you haven't figured out yet that the entire U.S. leadership has been effectively blackmailed into playing along. Please research child prostitution rings in Washington to get a clue how this all works.
E) You are among those who think "Elitism" means "Educated", thereby exposing your low self-esteem which is probably why you use big words incorrectly throughout your little treatise. Sorry, (that's a low blow), but seriously. Funfact: The "Elite" are the banker families and their multi-billionaire managers of society who manipulate retarded people into playing the Liberal v.s. Conservative game in order to distract and rob them blind, (And build FEMA camps in the wings, among other things you don't have the emotional maturity to consider.)
Now. . .
You may go and re-boot.
"America is Great. Palin will give us back a nation we can be proud of."
Just repeat that idiocy three times and shut your eyes. You'll soon feel much better.
And for heaven's sake, try not to ask yourself how the world is supposed to pay back the debt accrued through fractional banking when all the money in existence was borrowed at interest from the banking cartels.
Is it just me, or does this story make No Damned Sense Whatsoever?
I mean. . , what the hell?
The governments all want Wikileaks dead, so clearly the obvious tack is to arrest and punish those who, um, support the government?
I guess vigilantism, people displaying any kind of power or initiative rather than staying meekly inside their little assigned boxes, is an even bigger crime than leaking state secrets. -Even IF you're doing it with your own Bat Computer and a snappy Gotham City identity handle.
And seriously? "The Jester" spelled with numbers? That's like my grandma's perception of computer hacking. Which is appropriate, as this whole performance is being put on for the benefit of retarded people. That's why it plays out like something from a (very) badly written Bruce Willis script. -As was the entirety of 9/11. (Planes into skyscrapers? Come on.) I suppose the trailer park Americans just won't accept anything as real if it doesn't feel like a WWF match.
And this latest twist is like the reality TV version of one of those extra Oswalds running around to confuse and complicate the issue; a favorite tactic of the creeps who organize this kind of psychological warfare bullshit. (And yes, this whole Wikileaks thing utterly stinks to me of psyops, through and through).
So please, after all this jumping up and down is over with, can we all still try to remember that this is about Israel looking to manipulate other countries into destroying the Arab populations for them?
After all is said and done, when you clear out all of the bullshit from these "Leaks", we note that nothing being touted in the media as significant is anything we didn't already know, but that in amongst the driftwood, the "New" intelligence happens to paint Iran and Pakistan and the various other people on Israel's hit-list in a bad light. It's the lie seeded in with the truth. People are being played like an entire string section to love and trust Wikileaks, so that when the warmongers who want to "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. . , Bomb, Bomb, Iran" (Remember that sick little Bushism?) want to offer up proof, they need only point to any of the lies being included in the Wikileaks fiasco which people will simply assume are part of the pre-existing landscape of established fact. That's what Israel does. The American Army School of Advanced Military Studies in a study drafted to examine the Palestinian/Israeli problem noted of the Mossad: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capablility to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."
THAT is what is going on with all of this shit.
The simple surface movie-reality we've been trained to accept is totally script driven. It's a lie.
There are no scandals in the wikileaks thing, just politics - why hasn't wikileaks been taken down yet? Even if they were simply handed the material, publishing classified information is illegal and the site is based in San Mateo, CA.
It hasn't been taken down yet because it serves Israel.
And anybody who bases what is and isn't appropriate simply on what happens to be 'Legal' without paying due respect to what is Right has failed to understand the purpose of the legal system.
Come on! Is EVERYBODY asleep today? The spy rings are not a fantasy; they're documented right out there in the open. The blackmail via child prostitution rings in Washington are not a fantasy; they're documented right out there in the open. The Zionist machinations to manipulate the U.S. and the world to achieve their own ends are not a fantasy; TONS of that shit is right out there in the open, documented. Just because it's done at a whisper doesn't make it not there. Just because the term, "Sayanem" has been scrubbed from Wikipedia doesn't make it not there.
For goodness sake. The Israeli press even says it right out loud:
As always, it is profitable to apply the age-old wisdom of asking; "Who Benefits?"
Wikileaks is Israel.
There is a TON of information available on this subject, but you are not going to hear it on your TV. The article below summed it up before it happened. . .
This is why people who study finance need to pull the camera back a bit.
Credit ratings are a bank rule. What we're suggesting here is that we FUCK the banks before they kill us all.
If this is done in time, their rules won't matter any more.
If governments started printing their own money, rather than borrowing it at interest from international bankers, then none of this bullshit would have occurred in the first place. You understand math, so work it out; Interest cannot be paid back, because all the money in existence was borrowed at interest; the only way to pay it back is to borrow more. Nobody sees it happening, because the pool of money is so big and always in flux, but there's a reason everybody is increasingly feeling the squeeze. It's a control scam, and that really is how it works. No industrialized nation on the planet prints their own money; it all comes from the banking cartel through one convoluted scheme or another, and it's all about rendering populations powerless. It's about slave creation.
They don't teach that in finance school, and there's a reason for it. The Elite need managers of slaves, so they teach a small sandbox of ideas which only work in the sandbox while ignoring reality.
So you can either be a slave, a manager of slaves, of if you find the wherewithal to get out of the sandbox and start thinking for yourself, you might instead get to be free.
I'd think carefully about talking loudly in support of the current financial structure. The world is waking up to the scam, and we are much closer to the point where people are going to be skinned alive and set on fire. Keep an eye on Ireland; it's the test model for the rest of the world; what happens there will be happening everywhere quite soon.
Or was it a universal feeling of entitlement while living in a welfare state?
You do realize you just described the billionaires? We ARE talking about handouts here, aren't we?
I don't understand those who hate the public. The regular people are the ones the billionaires made all their money by exploiting and yet despise. But that's how it goes; the slaves are always despised. Then they rise up and kill everybody. Ye grande olde cycle.
Your word-fu is strong. I had to look up "diriculous".
Anyway, sensationalism, while a bit tabloid, is standard fare for Slashdot and should be expected by now. In any case, the point behind the alarm is perfectly valid, and the on-line forum, which is still a pretty new and amazing cultural phenomenon, offers all the power necessary for readers to discuss any given concerns and thus find balance and truth.
It's not ideal or entirely mature, but it's colorful and it doesn't actually get in the way. I kind of enjoy it. Like movie posters.
This is a strategy of mine. If I act like a know it all, there is always someone (like that xkcd strip) who can't wait to correct me with real information. What a great way to pry important info out of someone and stroke their over inflated ego to boot! Win Win!
I find my problem is that while I am quite good at research and pattern recognition, I often get so involved in the process that I really do think I know what I'm talking about even during those times when my understanding is genuinely faulty. I can thank Slashdot and many other forums for pointing me in the right direction by asking hard questions and by pointing out flaws in my thinking. It works both ways of course, and more often than not, I find myself in a position of knowing more than the criticizing party, but this is by no means true all the time. In any case, whatever happens, any differential in data offers up for the taking the materials necessary to re-evaluate and build stronger knowledge structures. Once I started working on un-plugging my ego from the process, (hard to do and by no means a completed job!), the collection of clean knowledge sped up considerably.
Your comment is still modded zero, and I was correcting you, albeit in a very gentle way. It appears that you're living in your own reality where you're the perpetual hero, I think.
And this time the news bite you 'regurgitated' is also a fail, just bigger than before. -That's the problem with missing certain parts of your brain. It's difficult to quantify and qualify ideas which real humans naturally comprehend. It's like having no fashion sense, but in the arena of social cognition.
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You just described half the people I've known over my lifetime. Why would I expect socially advanced humans to grace the screen just because they happen to be in space?
And that was the very reason I couldn't stand BSG. Petty, self-serving, over-wrought people doing stupid things. I know art imitates life, but I'm loath to watching sad people do painful things on my computer screen when I can do that just by walking around downtown. It takes work to be happy and successful in life, and I want to see some decent examples, not a bunch of fictitious people mired in misery. I want to see people being their very best. That's why STTNG was so great! (Though, those old episodes seem extremely dated and abrupt today).
SGU, with all its high production values, was a huge leap over the super-fluff SG series, but where it won out in increased attention to detail, both social and technical, it lost through being so hopelessly derivative. It seemed like a production company's attempt to cobble together aspects from fan favored items, (BSG in a big way, and that Summer Glau clone who was even playing a character like River and that Terminator). The whole thing was disingenuous. Any good things in it were accidental bits of story which evolved on their own, though so many of the script ideas were Star Trek re-treads asking the question, "What if inadequate, burned-out miserable people were faced with Star Trek problems? Maybe the public will like that. They sure ate it up in BSG."
The one thing which did interest me was a bit of meta-story.
If the old SG1 McGyver crew were to have been dumped on the Destiny, they would have wrapped up the whole adventure in one or two episodes. They wouldn't have gotten stuck out in space for months on end. Why? Because they were happy and brilliant mythical figures and they would have found solutions. There was an episode where Young was being upbraided by McGyver for dragging his ass on the mission, and I was thinking, "Yeah, if McGyver had been there, none of this crap would have happened." -Now, I know it was not done on purpose, but it struck me that maybe when characters are happy, advanced and brilliant, their adventures just seem fluffier and more up-beat as a direct result of the character's outlook. Perhaps misery is linked to ones level of social advancement? I mean, honestly, can you see any of the old SG1 crew acting like selfish, whiny pricks?
Me neither.
The annoying part was that just as the characters in the show began showing some decent qualities, just as they were pulling together, and just as they were beginning to question the nature of reality itself, that's when the show got canned.
-FL
Those who haven't yet figured out that FOX News is for fools are, regrettably, too stupid to live, as is currently being demonstrated by the all-powerful engine of Reality which is at this very moment gobbling up your rights, homes, savings, jobs, food and fairly soon, your bodies.
So moving right along. . .
While FOX News ranks at the very tippy-top on the American Propaganda charts, it remains a further regrettable truth that NO news on TV is any damned good. There are huge realities which the human media shies away from like a powerless mother incapable of dealing a child's disobedience, or perhaps the horrible truth of a molesting father. In the same way, the media pretends a whole raft of astonishing truths simply do not exist, all in order to keep this weird little charade we call, "normal" puffed up with just enough air to keep all the slaves limping toward the death camps.
The result is that our entire society is completely mind-fucked. Surviving day to day in a state of cognitive dissonance where everybody is either acting with a fake smile or is so lost that they really believe their actions and minds are their own. We must pity those fools; They are the ones who spend time actually watching FOX News with a straight face.
-FL
There are specific, pragmatic reasons for this that have nothing whatsoever to do with either of these, and nearly everyone posting such things has never been cleared and has no idea what the relevant laws and regulations are here that would dictate such a step.
Well. . , I don't know how I'd define "Insanity" exactly, but a certain level of cognitive dissonance certainly seems to be required to enter into military work. But it's a state, I think, that one can emerge from.
In any case, laws and procedures don't make something sane. They just make it easy to feel like one is part of a rational entity while performing insane functions. I'm sure the cells in a mad man's muscles are little different than those in any other person.
Though in this instance, some of those cells seemed to be getting quizzical looks on their faces. I noted the part in the article where, "The defense official said blocking the New York Times was a misinterpretation of military guidance to avoid visiting websites that post classified material."
But as for Slashdot spiraling downward into the depths of ignorance. . .
I would very much like to argue with you on that point. I can't! I think it's a symptom of several larger problems. Fortunately, there are numerous examples of Slashdotters who are moving in the opposite direction. For some, seeing the world sink provides exactly the kind of Grist for the Mill which feeds the machine of awareness.
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I'm sure the first typeset stories were pretty impressive. People probably wanted to see them and go, "Ooh. Ahhh!" simply for the production techniques.
While that was probably a fun period, it's also fun being able to live in a world awash with books where the quality of story-telling is the important thing, not the typesetting.
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You want to know where the next terrorist act will take place?
Just ask the Mossad.
Fer feck's saik!
Is anybody really still fooled by this bullshit? Because, as we know, governments NEVER plan in secret or attempt to manipulate the populace.
Why haven't those monsters been hauled out by their scrotums yet?
Sheesh.
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What's the deal with battery chemistry, anyway?
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong or if I'm missing information, but the whole idea behind a battery is that there are more electrons in the plate of metal at one end than there are at the other, right? The electrolyte just frees up the electrons and lets them move from one end of the battery to the other. So any fluid which allows a metal to break down and which can transport electrons is doing the job; even potato or lemon juices work.
So what exactly is so special about Lithium? What's wrong with salt water? Or lemon juice? --I'm not saying that I have some superior insight here, I'm honestly asking. And please don't jump in with the assumption that just because it is in use means it's the best idea and that I need to be punished for not agreeing with the herd; I need thinkers and skeptics here, not true believers.
Also, I've heard that regular Alkaline batteries can be recharged if you rig a charger to do it in stages with cool-down periods in between. That Alkaline chemistry doesn't fart out like Lithium does.
The conspiracy guy inside me is very dubious about all of this and wants to say that the industry is deliberately picking battery chemistry in order to maintain sales. (I mean, when you do the math, these rechargeable lithium batteries end up costing quite a lot more than alkaline in the long run.)
So what gives? Is there a valid reason for Lithium to sit between the metal plates rather than any other medium?
And. . .
Wouldn't it also make sense to just replace the plates and mineral water to a battery rather than try to recharge them? I'm not saying it should be done that way, but is there anything about that which makes it a poor option? Metal and minerals are pretty darned portable and water is pretty abundant. . .
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You want big red behavioral warning flags? A really big one?
Dehumanizing other people in order to justify exterminating them is #1.
You think I've not considered this? Trust me; I've given it long hard thought.
Psychopaths are not people. They never were. This is entirely new. It's not racism, or nationalism or jingoism or propaganda or class warfare. No. This is a medical, clinically measurable reality. This is NEW.
Sociopaths have caused far less evil throughout history than fanatic idealists have. Sociopaths stop at "What benefits ME, personally"; idealists can rationalize mass murder and genocide in the name of their ideals.
It appears that you have done no real thinking or research on this subject whatsoever. You need to inform yourself. Also look up "Stockholm Syndrome" whilst you're at it. Do you understand who you are protecting here? Monsters. Abusers. Rapists. Murderers. And yes, those masquerading as fanatic idealists who, really, are just more sociopathic egomaniacs using chaotic social climates to find personal benefit.
Saying that sociopaths stop at "What benefits ME, personally" as though this were some sort of consolation or that it means they do not have a hand in the political sphere is, I'm sorry, entirely wishful and naive. Did you not read the article this story is attached to? Go back and read it and ask yourself if that psychopath stopping at "What benefits ME, personally" would have been a valid excuse to not identify and deal with him. If he had decided, as many clearly do, to seek "personal benefit" through the climbing of political ladders, (where there is great wealth, ego-power and the opportunity to bully and torment people to be gained), then do you think that, "What benefits ME, personally" will allow a real human standing in the way to escape unscathed? Or entire populations?
Apply some deductive reasoning please.
By the way, calling politicians you don't like "psychopaths", which you claim are inhuman monsters deserving of death, sounds just a bit over the line of reason to me.
That's because you are not using reason yet. How would you know where the line of reason is if you don't even understand what basic sociopathy encompasses?
I know that suggesting that we identify and destroy certain individuals is upsetting. Society has followed the road of dehumanizing people in order to justify genocide before. It's horrific. And that is what a purge looks like at the hands of a political psychopath. This is very different. For one thing, I am not dehumanizing anybody. If compassion is an essential part of the human equation, as I believe it is, then psychopaths were not human to begin with. Further, I have no desire to torment or extract punishment or pain. I just want to identify and remove non-humans from circulation because they are KILLING us. -Not metaphorically. Not in some jar-headed racist notion of the term. I mean Directly. They are directly responsible for the destruction of humanity both in the small sphere and the large. It is a plain fact that psychopaths cause harm as a basic function of their being, they cannot be rehabilitated, and they will not stop if they do not have to. If you don't want to kill them, then that's fine. Identify and contain them. That alone would prevent enormous suffering. We wouldn't have to go to war anymore. This is a world-wide issue.
This is what you need to understand. . . All of the old models of thinking about managing society fail because they assume that all the participants are Human Beings capable of compassion. We KNOW now that this is NOT the case. If we solve this oversight, then we solve just about everything.
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1) The word 'Psychopath' is no longer the official name of the disorder you seem to be thinking about. I think the disorder you are thinking of is 'Antisocial Personality Disorder', Some psychologists argue that Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder are in fact two distinct disorders, but unless you have the expertise to take part in the debate
You didn't finish your sentence, but I'll go ahead and assume you meant to imply that not having a certificate in a given field means that I am not allowed to think or speak about a subject. That's bullshit. If you disagree with me, go for it, but I'm afraid pulling the idiotic, "Are you a doctor?" argument isn't going to work here. Are you a mathematician? No? Then you're not allowed to discuss math. Are you an astrophysicist? No? Then you're not allowed to discuss the solar system. This is a PUBLIC discussion forum, not a court of law.
In any case, the term "Psychopath" "sociopath" "Narcissist" are indeed labels which have numerous definitions depending on who you read. I'm only talking about those who were born incapable of experiencing compassion. Those who CHOOSE to suppress emotion are a whole other ball of wax, and I feel comfortable leaving them in the purview of the legal system. (Though, I'd feel a lot better if we purged the legal system of psychopaths first.)
2) Personality tests don't detect disorders. Diagnostic tests do. Personality tests analyze personality, not mental health.
Disorders are not visible on brain scans either, unless they result from damage to the brain. In which case a brain scan would only tell you that there is damage which could cause a disorder but won't tell you what the disorder is exactly.
You're both wrong and you're splitting hairs at the same time. I would recommend a battery of "Diagnostic" (See? I used your word. Happy?) personality tests which look for warning flags, followed up with imaging scans which would determine whether or not the frontal lobe is active in a given subject.
3) No test is accurate enough to be used to "identify and put down" people. The tests are accurate, but there is a bit of room for a false-positive.
I agree. It's a huge hair ball of a challenge and one which is not best serviced by error-capable humans. But it is necessary. We identify child molesters and track them, we don't let them become teachers, etc. The issue here is that we are talking about a non-treatable genetic condition resulting in shrewd calculating biological machines with no community value, who by default, are highly destructive. AND we can start tracking from the moment of detection. We should make such tests mandatory for high public offices and law-enforcement professionals. (At which point, who cares about the label you choose? If there the person is only wearing the mask of sanity, they should be prevented from entering any office, period.) Further, if we prevented these types of biologicals from infesting our community systems, (including the medical and medical insurance fields), then I suspect misuse of these kinds of regulatory powers would be nowhere the problem it is today.
4) Killing people suffering from mental disorders is unethical. These people are not murderers, the disorder they suffer from (and never asked to have) is making them harm others.
Of course it's unethical. But I'm not talking about killing people. If you are a calculating shark in human form with no possibility of understanding ethics, let alone compassion, then you are not a person. You are a dangerous animal which should be treated as such. Extending compassion to biological Turing machines (which would kill you if they got the chance to do it and get away with it) is foolhardy. But I DO understand the difficulties you are expressing, and those difficulties are exactly why the psychopath has been able to f
I'm not surprised at all. While this is an extreme example, it remains standard practice.
The system, and by that I mean, "ALL HUMAN CULTURE" is designed to allow psychopaths to ply their trade. We are pre-programmed to let this kind of shit go, to avoid it, to assume that the aggressor really IS the victim. We think, "Nobody would behave so utterly contrary to the unspoken social laws which govern the tribe, therefore we must be perceiving this incorrectly." The bigger the lie, the easier the sell. It's true.
The truth is also, and yes, it does seem surprising but it's just the way of a psychopathic society, (and Yes, America the Competitive, IS a society based on the rules of the psychopaths who we allowed into politics and business). -That an innocent man can wind up in prison for not lifting his drawers for the airport security while a true monster can roam free for years before finally being locked up.
And this Borker freak is basically a failed model. His psychopathy was too extreme. There are MANY successful ones, who torment their victims and climb the success ladder without even a spark firing in their Frontal Lobes, all because they have better learned how to manipulate. Even Borker had learned how to extract the maximum amount of psychological pain from his victims while evading the traps of the law.
He says the case was dismissed but contends that since then, he's been careful not to make physical threats against customers -- Ms. Rodriguez included.
I mention that sending that photo of her apartment building sounds kind of threatening.
Nothing but an image he copied off of the Web, from Google Earth, Mr. Borker says. He says he sent it to her only to underscore that when it came time to hire a process server to commence litigation, he'd find her. The "hand in fire" threat? Metaphorical, he says. Then again, he acknowledges with a sly grin, if Ms. Rodriguez thought that Tony Russo seemed a little scary, that was fine.
But in his telling of events, he is her victim, not the other way around.
The psychopath always blames the victim of the very crimes committed against them. In the case of Bush and Cheney, they blamed the Iraqis and Afghans while merrily singing "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. . , Bomb, Bomb Iran." The lies are huge and ridiculous and the crimes are sickening, and because the rest of us are programmed to be human, we go along with it.
And that, folks, is why the world is as it is today. Because we haven't learned how to identify and put down our human waste.
There are tests, you know. Both brain scans and personality tests which are very accurate. We could have prevented the collapse of the economy and of several wars with ease, but we didn't. Consider that. There are people who are living on the street, starving in America and all over the world because we simply didn't know about the Psychopath. The false humans walking around among us who feed on the creation of misery.
Read that original article again, and recognize that this kind of behavior is happening everywhere, that you have encountered it many times in your life, and that the psychopath wishes to create a culture which is friendly toward psychopaths. That's why the banks are insane, why the government is insane, and why we have been killed by BP. (The Gulf is still leaking, folks.)
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Stupid, fluffy escapism gets big.
"Fred and Ginger" for ninety minutes beats focusing on the gnawing hunger in your gut.
'Think of these games as a sandbox where everybody has the same tools, yet everyone achieves different results,'
You mean like Life? And isn't there a money component to these games as well? Like, if you have cash, you can leapfrog the third world?
The only difference is that the dangers are imaginary and the rewards are fake. But the energy wasted is quite real.
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Did you not get your degree? ;> According to this (half-baked) article, we're supposed to fear death less than others if we went to University.
Me, I'm looking forward to dying one day. Not yet; I've got lots of stuff to try to iron out, but heck, living forever in this pattern would be really tiresome after a while.
When you start to see the repeating cycles and you realize that NOTHING changes except your own emotional reactions to a repeating series of events, (people seem to revisit an event stream about five or six times at the most before the body or some other aspect becomes untenable and the soul releases), then you realize just how incredibly limited a single life is. Really, like a cog in a very big machine. It's fun and educational to visit and be one gear for a few cycles, but I think it's pretty vital that we move from body to body. It'd get incredibly tedious to be stuck in one cycle of events for freaking ever!
But hey, no worries. It takes a lot of prep-work to even figure out that the machine exists let along how we interact with it. Most never will this time around, that's for sure!
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Wow. I just re-read what I wrote here.
Please pardon me. That was altogether too mean and not in the least bit encouraging.
You're not stupid. Just ignorant, and ignorance is not a crime.
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The more the liberals foam at the mouth against her, the more I find myself supporting her!
Because the health and strength of your nation are less important than the enjoyment you derive from teasing and upsetting people.
That's fucked up.
Sociopaths should be shot for treason.
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I don't know about everybody else, but I think people like you are dangerously stupid because. . .
A) You are apparently capable of saying patently ridiculous things without noticing. Example: "Conservatives outnumber you and then in the very same paragraph, "We don't like your advocacy of tyranny against the individual by the majority". That's stupid.
B) You mince words attempting to reconcile that Palin is not a smart person. (The short term, actually, is, "Retard"; A rose by any other name. And no, I don't say that in hatred. It's simply a cold fact. The woman is very, very dumb.) -And YET in spite of this recognition, you believe she has somehow managed to choose a core ideology which is NOT dumb? Newsflash: Stupid people do in fact believe stupid things. Those things are not stupid because I happen to disagree with them; they're stupid because they are demonstrably and logically flawed. I'm sure you've lost many an argument but simply re-booted your head and carried on as though nothing had changed because the core ideology was what mattered, not whether or not it actually works.
C) You evidently STILL have not yet worked out that it's not about Left or Right. ANYBODY who still falls for the divide and conquer technique of population control is a retard who deserves to suffer. You just happen to be the Republican variant.
D) You are capable in seriousness of saying things like, "You believe that Assange is a hero of some sort. While this may be the case if he were solely releasing secret information from tyrannical governments, he is more focused on damaging the credibility and security of nations in the west, most specifically the United States. "
No, no, no. Assange is an Israeli tool designed to sell lies about Arab nations sandwiched between irrelevant, previously known non-secrets, so as to better manipulate the West into bombing its enemies for them. Yes, people falling for Assange's hero bullshit are chumps. But you are a double chump because you haven't figured out yet that the entire U.S. leadership has been effectively blackmailed into playing along. Please research child prostitution rings in Washington to get a clue how this all works.
E) You are among those who think "Elitism" means "Educated", thereby exposing your low self-esteem which is probably why you use big words incorrectly throughout your little treatise. Sorry, (that's a low blow), but seriously. Funfact: The "Elite" are the banker families and their multi-billionaire managers of society who manipulate retarded people into playing the Liberal v.s. Conservative game in order to distract and rob them blind, (And build FEMA camps in the wings, among other things you don't have the emotional maturity to consider.)
Now. . .
You may go and re-boot.
"America is Great. Palin will give us back a nation we can be proud of."
Just repeat that idiocy three times and shut your eyes. You'll soon feel much better.
And for heaven's sake, try not to ask yourself how the world is supposed to pay back the debt accrued through fractional banking when all the money in existence was borrowed at interest from the banking cartels.
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Is it just me, or does this story make No Damned Sense Whatsoever?
I mean. . , what the hell?
The governments all want Wikileaks dead, so clearly the obvious tack is to arrest and punish those who, um, support the government?
I guess vigilantism, people displaying any kind of power or initiative rather than staying meekly inside their little assigned boxes, is an even bigger crime than leaking state secrets. -Even IF you're doing it with your own Bat Computer and a snappy Gotham City identity handle.
And seriously? "The Jester" spelled with numbers? That's like my grandma's perception of computer hacking. Which is appropriate, as this whole performance is being put on for the benefit of retarded people. That's why it plays out like something from a (very) badly written Bruce Willis script. -As was the entirety of 9/11. (Planes into skyscrapers? Come on.) I suppose the trailer park Americans just won't accept anything as real if it doesn't feel like a WWF match.
And this latest twist is like the reality TV version of one of those extra Oswalds running around to confuse and complicate the issue; a favorite tactic of the creeps who organize this kind of psychological warfare bullshit. (And yes, this whole Wikileaks thing utterly stinks to me of psyops, through and through).
So please, after all this jumping up and down is over with, can we all still try to remember that this is about Israel looking to manipulate other countries into destroying the Arab populations for them?
After all is said and done, when you clear out all of the bullshit from these "Leaks", we note that nothing being touted in the media as significant is anything we didn't already know, but that in amongst the driftwood, the "New" intelligence happens to paint Iran and Pakistan and the various other people on Israel's hit-list in a bad light. It's the lie seeded in with the truth. People are being played like an entire string section to love and trust Wikileaks, so that when the warmongers who want to "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. . , Bomb, Bomb, Iran" (Remember that sick little Bushism?) want to offer up proof, they need only point to any of the lies being included in the Wikileaks fiasco which people will simply assume are part of the pre-existing landscape of established fact. That's what Israel does. The American Army School of Advanced Military Studies in a study drafted to examine the Palestinian/Israeli problem noted of the Mossad: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capablility to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."
THAT is what is going on with all of this shit.
The simple surface movie-reality we've been trained to accept is totally script driven. It's a lie.
Thank-you.
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There are no scandals in the wikileaks thing, just politics - why hasn't wikileaks been taken down yet? Even if they were simply handed the material, publishing classified information is illegal and the site is based in San Mateo, CA.
It hasn't been taken down yet because it serves Israel.
And anybody who bases what is and isn't appropriate simply on what happens to be 'Legal' without paying due respect to what is Right has failed to understand the purpose of the legal system.
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I wonder if this will be big enough news to distract people from the scandals arising from the Wikileaks thing.
Also, look for Octo-Moms to lead police on high-speed chases in Black SUVs over the coming days. Down a well.
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Come on! Is EVERYBODY asleep today? The spy rings are not a fantasy; they're documented right out there in the open. The blackmail via child prostitution rings in Washington are not a fantasy; they're documented right out there in the open. The Zionist machinations to manipulate the U.S. and the world to achieve their own ends are not a fantasy; TONS of that shit is right out there in the open, documented. Just because it's done at a whisper doesn't make it not there. Just because the term, "Sayanem" has been scrubbed from Wikipedia doesn't make it not there.
For goodness sake. The Israeli press even says it right out loud:
As always, it is profitable to apply the age-old wisdom of asking; "Who Benefits?"
Wikileaks is Israel.
There is a TON of information available on this subject, but you are not going to hear it on your TV. The article below summed it up before it happened. . .
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/27/gordon-duff-wikileak-predictions-sticking-my-neck-out-2/
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Wow. A perceptive person among a flock of the blind. Good for you. That's a very hard thing to achieve these days.
But I would suggest that you are off just a bit. (Seeing as the U.S. isn't managed by the U.S.)
As always, it is profitable to apply the age-old wisdom of asking; "Who Benefits?"
Wikileaks is Israel.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/27/gordon-duff-wikileak-predictions-sticking-my-neck-out-2/
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This is why people who study finance need to pull the camera back a bit.
Credit ratings are a bank rule. What we're suggesting here is that we FUCK the banks before they kill us all.
If this is done in time, their rules won't matter any more.
If governments started printing their own money, rather than borrowing it at interest from international bankers, then none of this bullshit would have occurred in the first place. You understand math, so work it out; Interest cannot be paid back, because all the money in existence was borrowed at interest; the only way to pay it back is to borrow more. Nobody sees it happening, because the pool of money is so big and always in flux, but there's a reason everybody is increasingly feeling the squeeze. It's a control scam, and that really is how it works. No industrialized nation on the planet prints their own money; it all comes from the banking cartel through one convoluted scheme or another, and it's all about rendering populations powerless. It's about slave creation.
They don't teach that in finance school, and there's a reason for it. The Elite need managers of slaves, so they teach a small sandbox of ideas which only work in the sandbox while ignoring reality.
So you can either be a slave, a manager of slaves, of if you find the wherewithal to get out of the sandbox and start thinking for yourself, you might instead get to be free.
I'd think carefully about talking loudly in support of the current financial structure. The world is waking up to the scam, and we are much closer to the point where people are going to be skinned alive and set on fire. Keep an eye on Ireland; it's the test model for the rest of the world; what happens there will be happening everywhere quite soon.
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Or was it a universal feeling of entitlement while living in a welfare state?
You do realize you just described the billionaires? We ARE talking about handouts here, aren't we?
I don't understand those who hate the public. The regular people are the ones the billionaires made all their money by exploiting and yet despise. But that's how it goes; the slaves are always despised. Then they rise up and kill everybody. Ye grande olde cycle.
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Seriously?
EVERY word in use was at one time an uncertain clump of noises groping awkwardly toward common usage. Why, even Shakespeare's...
Oh whatever. You fill in the rest.
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Your word-fu is strong. I had to look up "diriculous".
Anyway, sensationalism, while a bit tabloid, is standard fare for Slashdot and should be expected by now. In any case, the point behind the alarm is perfectly valid, and the on-line forum, which is still a pretty new and amazing cultural phenomenon, offers all the power necessary for readers to discuss any given concerns and thus find balance and truth.
It's not ideal or entirely mature, but it's colorful and it doesn't actually get in the way. I kind of enjoy it. Like movie posters.
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This is a strategy of mine. If I act like a know it all, there is always someone (like that xkcd strip) who can't wait to correct me with real information. What a great way to pry important info out of someone and stroke their over inflated ego to boot! Win Win!
I find my problem is that while I am quite good at research and pattern recognition, I often get so involved in the process that I really do think I know what I'm talking about even during those times when my understanding is genuinely faulty. I can thank Slashdot and many other forums for pointing me in the right direction by asking hard questions and by pointing out flaws in my thinking. It works both ways of course, and more often than not, I find myself in a position of knowing more than the criticizing party, but this is by no means true all the time. In any case, whatever happens, any differential in data offers up for the taking the materials necessary to re-evaluate and build stronger knowledge structures. Once I started working on un-plugging my ego from the process, (hard to do and by no means a completed job!), the collection of clean knowledge sped up considerably.
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Um. Define "Eating it up".
Your comment is still modded zero, and I was correcting you, albeit in a very gentle way. It appears that you're living in your own reality where you're the perpetual hero, I think.
And this time the news bite you 'regurgitated' is also a fail, just bigger than before. -That's the problem with missing certain parts of your brain. It's difficult to quantify and qualify ideas which real humans naturally comprehend. It's like having no fashion sense, but in the arena of social cognition.
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