A military junta is considering NOT empowering enterprising kids with some level of technological savvy? Call an ambulance, I'm having a heart attack!!! Next thing you know our own unelected military dictatorship will let all the black people drown, and make sure that 25% of the children in THIS country live below the poverty line.
This is simple human nature. Television has gotten increasingly shitty with reality shows over and over again on every channel, dozens of dumbed down and frequently WRONG documentaries, badly edited movies that sucked BEFORE being censored, and more commercials than any reasonable human could handle, even if they were in a coma. So naturally people are looking for other things to watch. Enter Bit Torrent and YouTube.
Television did not learn the mistakes that the music industry has STILL not learned. Movies are definitely starting to happen the same way as well.
Love it or Hate it, Loose Change would have been a block buster smash at the box office, but nobody funded it. Even so, millions have watched it over the Internet.
The corporations that run all of our media: TV, movies, music, and print, have tried for years to FORMULATE what people are going to like, and make it a simple numbers game. It's a stupid move. People ARE NOT STATISTICS. People like everything from tofu to greasy burgers. What's "hip" or "in" is a marker that is almost ALWAYS on the move, and never possible to peg with any kind of numbers game or statistic. Making money on trends, which is what most of our industry seems based on, is a foolish game that the house will always win, and in this case "the house" is the ever-changing real-time instant-here instant-gone fads that generally are impossible to capitalize on anyway.
If these corporations were really interested in making money, and not solely in making profit OFF OF NOTHING, they would fund real shows, real movies, real bands, real products, and real foods that are edible and healthy while tasting great. Their constant drive to spend less, rip off consumers, employees, governments, and as often as not shareholders is a game that can only prove profitable in the very short term, even DESPITE their monopolies!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
If someone offered a bad-ass little cell phone that doubled as ipod and camera, cost $100 and had a USB recharging interface on the computer and NO DRM, that someone would put MS, SONY, SAMSUNG, and every other shitty electronics corporation out of business.
At this point though, all those corporations have too high a vested interest in the MPAA, RIAA, and other bullshit political lobbies, and consequently make it impossible for themselves to make:
You get what you pay for. These corporations are not paying enough for what they are trying to sell, so naturally, their shit isn't selling.
Crying about it is just stupid. If you really want to make money, offer a decent product for a decent price, and STFU already.
There is still room for corporations to make money, but they better start making solid products that people want, and fast, because manufacturing prices will continue to go down, till everyone can manufacture whatever device they want without buying it from anyone, which has already happened in the software industry with FOSS (well, Firefox, and maybe Open Office, anyway...).
Playing the current game, with their refusal to innovate, or raise build quality, and eliminate DRM, ALL THESE CORPORATIONS are going to drive themselves out of business. Some frustrated consumer (like me!) is just going to design something decent for themselves, and give away the plans for free. Manufacturing is not going to suddenly become MORE expensive, so the writing is on the wall as to where this is going to lead:
The only way to make money will be in the service industry. People will still need to learn how to use things, and still need things fixed or built that they cannot make themselves. Beyond that, everything will probably end up open source, unless these companies really start innovating and offering valuable services and products.
Personally, my experience with FF and other "products" has been so great that I'm not crying one little bit.
Now whoever gets me that bad ass anti-DRM cell phone, will also get my money, and probably a grip of money from a lot of other people as well....
No, I completely agree! That's why I'm so hard-core anti-religion! Until people have at least a solid working knowledge of real ethics, and not some kind of mystical man in the sky voodoo, people are going to continue being killed left and right. I'm not even sure there IS a real solution, except separation of our physical bodies in space and time... But I DO know that religion has been helping people justify genocide for a couple millennia (sp?), so it's definitely not helping. Although I do like written words and music, which was ultimately church invented as far as we can tell.......since then, it's pretty much been down hill though, from the "god" talkers.
"Now all of life is underneath human control. Relentlessly, society will take it's toll."
Any interface we are currently using is vastly inferior to the interfaces of the future. In the future, you will say "Make coffee" out loud, and a computer (super computer by todays standards), will translate your words into a series of instructions, and give those instructions to a robot or other machine, possibly involving a molecular assembler, or some otherwise unimagined complex machine of the future, and a different machine or robot will hand deliver it.
The difference between getting in your car, driving to the ATM, withdrawing money, finding an open Starbucks, and paying a barrista to make a coffee for you, including possibly waiting in line before and after purchase....
That's just for a cup of coffee. There is NO DOUBT that human power will continue to expand exponentially, until more and more people literally have anything they want at their finger tips at any time.
To assume that our current interfaces to the world, mechanical, electric, electronic, and physical are in some kind of stasis is simply inexcusable. I didn't bother RTFA, but it's pretty clear that there was a huge gap in logic just based on the summary.
The automobile has revolutionized society, the phone, perhaps more so, the radio, television, internet, and science have all drastically altered our lifestyles, and will continue to do so for a long time. Computers have not even gotten within 1/100th of a percent of their full potential as a tool, imagine where they will be in 10 decades or less....
She was part of the whole "Artists against Piracy thing" back in the Metallica debacle. You can google it, there are articles about it, and a mention in wikipedia as well. Now, granted on many other issues she seems pretty cool, and even reasonably informed and on topic.
The simple fact is slouch musicians who can't deliver live are going to have to, or get out of the way. Making money off of a record is a dead horse. It'll be a quaint idea in 20 more years.
The only real losers are the record companies anyway, since artists usually make the bulk of their income off of live shows already.
What with Sony's rootkit shenanigans, and the over all AWFUL music that has been funded by the record companies over the last 50 years, well, I say good riddance.
I play in a band, and I'm prepared to give the album away at cost and make money on shows now. So should anybody else, unless they are lazy ingrates. If you can't do a live show you have no business making music anyway (I'm looking at YOU everyone on MTV and almost all of R&B!!).
Can you make it work and look pretty much exactly like Windows? It would be nice if the small army of windows trained teens I have running my business could install your distro instantly and easily like they seem to be able to do with Windows and whatever stupid game it is they are playing these days. GOD DAMNED KIDS! GET BACK TO WORK OR I'LL FIRE BOTH OF YOU AND HIRE ONE MILLION CHINESE SLAVES!
Maybe you can shit out some code for us over at ReactOS! Or hell with it, maybe just join any Linux distro dev team, and let's really bury redmond this time!
I'm sure Vista is over a million lines of code, so at one sheet of paper to a million lines of code, I'd guess you could code something really awesome with just 10 blank sheets of paper and a few burritos! But testing will be hard, since the bugs will be so small, but maybe we can kill them with the nano knives I read about 3 stories up.
I don't really know what 3.0 is going to be all about. I really don't know why everybody is SO up in arms about the lack of quality in FF.3-2.0. I've been using it the entire time (yes, I know it was called Phoenix back then), and frankly it is and has been since that day: The best Browser available for the Windows Operating System.
Having said all that, though, I do feel the gripes that some users are having, and I agree with them to a certain extent, so I'm going to give Mozilla a piece of free advice, call it even for all the free code you've given me over the years!
Just clean the hell out of it. Go through the code line by line, clean it up, fix every bug, and don't add a single thing but speed.
FF 2.0 is awesome. It's got spell check, and all the things that made FF great up to today, to boot. Now just fix the god damned memory leaks, fix the other security problems, make the code better documented and easier to read, and maybe make a couple of extensions like Adblock and Filterset.G automatic, since we're all using it anyway. Or don't bother, I'll install them myself later.
But seriously: I don't want ANY new features. Hardly ANYBODY DOES. Be the best browser there is on speed and security, and worry about new features after some other browser.
Thanks for all your hard work, and keep it up. Here's to the future clean/fast FF browser!
I recently accidentally deleted an entire hard drive with approximately 12,000 mp3s on it. After the crying, gnashing of teeth, and several small broken items near my desk, I began the laborious process of downloading the mp3s I had lost.
Now the bulk of my mp3 collection was from my actual CD collection (I have over 500 cds, and most have at least 12 tracks), but I'll be damned if I'm going to sit here and rip every single one again.
I mean, if I was going to do that, I'd pick OGG or something more sensible.......hmmm.....
Nah, I'll just finish these downloads and be golden again.
Now there's ANOTHER artist that I have to hate, even though I used to like their music.
The NEW list: 1. Metallica 2. Aimee Mann 3. Alanis Morissette 4. Christina Aguilera 5. Blink-182 6. Sarah McLachlan 7. Garth Brooks 8. Jethro Tull
When will these idiots learn that they are only ALIENATING any of their fans with decent usage of the cerebellum and a modicum of news reading?
OK, actually, seriously, after looking at that list again, I realized that each of those artists was probably the worst in their field, so maybe by losing all their educated fans, they're actually doing society a favor.
IDIOTS. If you can't make a living PLUS retirement with a 50 year copyright, then you are obviously shitty and most likely a moron.
I did not say religious people cause genocide. I do however emphatically state that religion is often THE essential ingredient for genocide.
I do have a "religion", and I certainly didn't start it. It's called REASON.
Furthermore, I like your wording, and vocabulary, but you are still sounding an awful lot like a troll, given your emphatic efforts to criticize me as a person, and not focus on the issues itself, which in the end, is really the issue isn't it?
If we had scientific leadership in charge of our nuclear arms, at the very least they would have knowledge concerning radioactive fallout and other global effects of nuclear war, and that knowledge alone might help prevent nuclear war.
My "malice" involves saving human lives by not allowing irrational religious people to run our nuclear programs.
Now "aggressive", I'll take fully. I think human life is an issue to be aggressive about.
I'm not being arrogant either, I hardly would state that *i* am the type of person to be in charge of nuclear weaponry, either. I do think though that rational humanists would be a better pick than religious types, and I do fit in that category.
Now, if you had used the term vitriolic, derogatory, or perhaps even offensive, or overly discrediting... Those would have been debatable. Malice however was simply not involved.
First of all, I don't have "beliefs". I attempt to act based on the best knowledge I have at any given time. Believing in shit is stupid. Plain and simple.
Furthermore, your examples are particularly egregious. Stalin and Pol Pot were clearly Dictators, or Fascists, which is on the opposite end of the political spectrum from Communism and it's precepts, regardless of what they called their ruling parties at the time. That was a dumb straw man on every level.
My propaganda is not malignant. I'm encouraging thought and study. That is hardly a malignant message, and I think history will back me up on that claim, even if you want to skip logic altogether, which seems rather apparent when you're throwing around OTHER straw men like mathematics and axioms, which is silly in the extreme.
Further, memorization is OFTEN a handicap to learning and study, rather than an asset. Nearly every various teaching method I've studied has proven that time and again.
Those who spend time memorizing the multiplication table end up shitty at multiplication quite often, as one example.
I could give you another 30 with regards to playing the violin, but unless you also study violin, they will most likely be in a completely foreign language.
I mentioned that very socio-economic connection in my earlier flame/troll! I didn't feel a need to go in depth, as it was OT, but I did mention it.
Furthermore, in rebuttal to the Dawkins discrediting, or what have you, In the nuclear age, men who believe in imaginary things should not hold the guns. Regardless of whether you are a carpet muncher (as signified by prayer) or not, you have to see the logic in allowing rational human beings who live their lives based on facts as a safer key turner to nuclear Armageddon.
Mark my words: If the bible-belt republicans, jihad Muslims, and invasion-happy jews retain nuclear power, as they currently seem to be doing, one of them will nuke one of the other ones, and it will be a VERY BAD THING for everybody on the planet. Particularly those of us who LIKE having just two eyes for us, and our children.
I think our government's current use of depleted uranium is yet another example of WHAT is WRONG with not only our political power structure, but the blind-faith idiots who currently reign in it as well.
Spraying nuclear waste all over a country you already shock and awed..... How are we the good guys on this one again?
Ignorant Bias!??!? Seriously? Religion has caused more genocide on this planet than any other single force, INCLUDING economics, which is really hugely telling. Our made up man in the sky is more important than all the life, liberty, and land we have.
I mean, comparing the master race theories to true science is enough of a disclaimer, but to assume anyone is biased, because they recognize the simple fact that religion has been a HUGE driver of genocide for as long as we can reasonably study.... Especially when there are so many GREAT examples of genocide going on RIGHT NOW based on religion...
I think you gave me the word to use for that: Ignorant. Look it up, and then when your finished look up CRUSADE on wikipedia. Then put the current middle east situation(s) in context. Then tell me I'm ignorant and biased. Ignorant of what? ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY?!? That's a huge statement to make, especially if you're arguing against ME, who at least gives a passing mention of the obvious connection between religion and genocide.
Also, with regards to your Hitler/Aryan straw man, which is ludicrous on so many obvious levels, well, Nazi Germany was COMPLETELY a religious thing as well. Their main symbol was religious in origin, for one, and their whole concept of "The MotherLand" etc.... Clearly these guys were Christian god-nuts, just like the bible belt of the US today, and in fact, THEY ALSO burned books!
I submit that it is YOU who are ignorant. Ignorant of history, ignorant of current world politics, ignorant of the socio-economic drivers behind religion AND genocide, and basically ignorant of fundamental logical processes.
Unless it is a seminary class, there should be NO room for religion in the class. Except history, maybe, to show how so many random tribes have used religion to justify genocide.
Seriously, learning and study are on the opposite end of memorization and faith. It's not just a simple difference of opinion among some "teachers". It's a fundamental difference between logic and reason, and blind retardation.
No person espousing any type of religious dogma should be considered a teacher by the simple definition of the word. They are not in fact a teacher at that point, but a malignant propagandist for a religious agenda that, 99% of the time is ignorant and bad for humanity, and the rest of the living things on the planet.
If there is debate between religion and science, it is no longer a class room but a seminary room involving a lame argument devolved between two parties where one side uses reason and logic, and the other side says, "The bible says so!".
It's stupid and pointless and if YOUR tax dollars are paying for it, you should be damned pissed off.
I certainly am.
God can go hang out wherever he wants, but not where my money is getting wasted by morons.
This guy is SUCH a douche. Why does ANYBODY listen to idiots like this? It just makes me ashamed of our species, and living organisms as a whole perhaps.
I for one DO NOT welcome our new power-tripping electricity-wielding police-state asshole overlords. Matter of fact, if it'd happened TO ME, I would have made sure an officer involved got the death penalty, in or OUT of court, as the case may be....
In the nuclear age, tolerating the ignorance that goes on due to religion is extremely dangerous. Look at the current situation we have with our own idiotic carpet muncher, and that bearded carpet muncher in Iran. None of this is cool. One of these idiots is going to claim that god told them to push the launch button.
We should have zero tolerance for these kind of people, particularly in positions of power.
I wouldn't argue that religion hasn't done something for us at some point in the past. But this is not the past. We need a "Best for all living things" approach now, and none of the religions or prehistoric dogmas are really up for that job. Science and reason are though. We just need to make them a bit more popular. Or wait for the gulf stream to stall, Europe and the Eastern US freeze, and then let it popularize itself.
I for one would very much like to get people on board with reason and off the sinking ship of religion NOW, and save a lot of lives (both human, and human food-stock as well) before some catastrophe like either of the two plausible ones I've outlined happen first.
God and Oil have had their day. Let's give science and solar a chance and see if it gets any better.
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A military junta is considering NOT empowering enterprising kids with some level of technological savvy? Call an ambulance, I'm having a heart attack!!! Next thing you know our own unelected military dictatorship will let all the black people drown, and make sure that 25% of the children in THIS country live below the poverty line.
Nah, that'll never happen, this is AMERICA!
I have two projectors and surround sound.
My address is:
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Come and get me coppers!
This is simple human nature. Television has gotten increasingly shitty with reality shows over and over again on every channel, dozens of dumbed down and frequently WRONG documentaries, badly edited movies that sucked BEFORE being censored, and more commercials than any reasonable human could handle, even if they were in a coma. So naturally people are looking for other things to watch. Enter Bit Torrent and YouTube.
Television did not learn the mistakes that the music industry has STILL not learned. Movies are definitely starting to happen the same way as well.
Love it or Hate it, Loose Change would have been a block buster smash at the box office, but nobody funded it. Even so, millions have watched it over the Internet.
The corporations that run all of our media: TV, movies, music, and print, have tried for years to FORMULATE what people are going to like, and make it a simple numbers game. It's a stupid move. People ARE NOT STATISTICS. People like everything from tofu to greasy burgers. What's "hip" or "in" is a marker that is almost ALWAYS on the move, and never possible to peg with any kind of numbers game or statistic. Making money on trends, which is what most of our industry seems based on, is a foolish game that the house will always win, and in this case "the house" is the ever-changing real-time instant-here instant-gone fads that generally are impossible to capitalize on anyway.
If these corporations were really interested in making money, and not solely in making profit OFF OF NOTHING, they would fund real shows, real movies, real bands, real products, and real foods that are edible and healthy while tasting great. Their constant drive to spend less, rip off consumers, employees, governments, and as often as not shareholders is a game that can only prove profitable in the very short term, even DESPITE their monopolies!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
If someone offered a bad-ass little cell phone that doubled as ipod and camera, cost $100 and had a USB recharging interface on the computer and NO DRM, that someone would put MS, SONY, SAMSUNG, and every other shitty electronics corporation out of business.
At this point though, all those corporations have too high a vested interest in the MPAA, RIAA, and other bullshit political lobbies, and consequently make it impossible for themselves to make:
Decent movies,
decent music,
decent hardware,
decent magazines,
decent television,
decent food.
You get what you pay for. These corporations are not paying enough for what they are trying to sell, so naturally, their shit isn't selling.
Crying about it is just stupid. If you really want to make money, offer a decent product for a decent price, and STFU already.
There is still room for corporations to make money, but they better start making solid products that people want, and fast, because manufacturing prices will continue to go down, till everyone can manufacture whatever device they want without buying it from anyone, which has already happened in the software industry with FOSS (well, Firefox, and maybe Open Office, anyway...).
Playing the current game, with their refusal to innovate, or raise build quality, and eliminate DRM, ALL THESE CORPORATIONS are going to drive themselves out of business. Some frustrated consumer (like me!) is just going to design something decent for themselves, and give away the plans for free. Manufacturing is not going to suddenly become MORE expensive, so the writing is on the wall as to where this is going to lead:
The only way to make money will be in the service industry. People will still need to learn how to use things, and still need things fixed or built that they cannot make themselves. Beyond that, everything will probably end up open source, unless these companies really start innovating and offering valuable services and products.
Personally, my experience with FF and other "products" has been so great that I'm not crying one little bit.
Now whoever gets me that bad ass anti-DRM cell phone, will also get my money, and probably a grip of money from a lot of other people as well....
rhY
No, I completely agree! That's why I'm so hard-core anti-religion! Until people have at least a solid working knowledge of real ethics, and not some kind of mystical man in the sky voodoo, people are going to continue being killed left and right. I'm not even sure there IS a real solution, except separation of our physical bodies in space and time... But I DO know that religion has been helping people justify genocide for a couple millennia (sp?), so it's definitely not helping. Although I do like written words and music, which was ultimately church invented as far as we can tell.... ...since then, it's pretty much been down hill though, from the "god" talkers.
"Now all of life is underneath human control.
Relentlessly, society will take it's toll."
rhY
Let me tell you why this is ludicrous:
Any interface we are currently using is vastly inferior to the interfaces of the future. In the future, you will say "Make coffee" out loud, and a computer (super computer by todays standards), will translate your words into a series of instructions, and give those instructions to a robot or other machine, possibly involving a molecular assembler, or some otherwise unimagined complex machine of the future, and a different machine or robot will hand deliver it.
The difference between getting in your car, driving to the ATM, withdrawing money, finding an open Starbucks, and paying a barrista to make a coffee for you, including possibly waiting in line before and after purchase....
That's just for a cup of coffee. There is NO DOUBT that human power will continue to expand exponentially, until more and more people literally have anything they want at their finger tips at any time.
To assume that our current interfaces to the world, mechanical, electric, electronic, and physical are in some kind of stasis is simply inexcusable. I didn't bother RTFA, but it's pretty clear that there was a huge gap in logic just based on the summary.
The automobile has revolutionized society, the phone, perhaps more so, the radio, television, internet, and science have all drastically altered our lifestyles, and will continue to do so for a long time. Computers have not even gotten within 1/100th of a percent of their full potential as a tool, imagine where they will be in 10 decades or less....
This story was so stupid I can't even fathom it.
rhY
She was part of the whole "Artists against Piracy thing" back in the Metallica debacle. You can google it, there are articles about it, and a mention in wikipedia as well. Now, granted on many other issues she seems pretty cool, and even reasonably informed and on topic.
The simple fact is slouch musicians who can't deliver live are going to have to, or get out of the way. Making money off of a record is a dead horse. It'll be a quaint idea in 20 more years.
The only real losers are the record companies anyway, since artists usually make the bulk of their income off of live shows already.
What with Sony's rootkit shenanigans, and the over all AWFUL music that has been funded by the record companies over the last 50 years, well, I say good riddance.
I play in a band, and I'm prepared to give the album away at cost and make money on shows now. So should anybody else, unless they are lazy ingrates. If you can't do a live show you have no business making music anyway (I'm looking at YOU everyone on MTV and almost all of R&B!!).
rhY
Don't be an asshole. This is /. There is no way he has a girlfriend, much less the full blown version of that disease: WIFE.
Way to rub it in, dick.
rhY
Can you make it work and look pretty much exactly like Windows? It would be nice if the small army of windows trained teens I have running my business could install your distro instantly and easily like they seem to be able to do with Windows and whatever stupid game it is they are playing these days. GOD DAMNED KIDS! GET BACK TO WORK OR I'LL FIRE BOTH OF YOU AND HIRE ONE MILLION CHINESE SLAVES!
-EA Games CEO
Maybe you can shit out some code for us over at ReactOS! Or hell with it, maybe just join any Linux distro dev team, and let's really bury redmond this time!
I'm sure Vista is over a million lines of code, so at one sheet of paper to a million lines of code, I'd guess you could code something really awesome with just 10 blank sheets of paper and a few burritos! But testing will be hard, since the bugs will be so small, but maybe we can kill them with the nano knives I read about 3 stories up.
rhY
I don't really know what 3.0 is going to be all about. I really don't know why everybody is SO up in arms about the lack of quality in FF .3-2.0. I've been using it the entire time (yes, I know it was called Phoenix back then), and frankly it is and has been since that day: The best Browser available for the Windows Operating System.
Having said all that, though, I do feel the gripes that some users are having, and I agree with them to a certain extent, so I'm going to give Mozilla a piece of free advice, call it even for all the free code you've given me over the years!
Just clean the hell out of it. Go through the code line by line, clean it up, fix every bug, and don't add a single thing but speed.
FF 2.0 is awesome. It's got spell check, and all the things that made FF great up to today, to boot. Now just fix the god damned memory leaks, fix the other security problems, make the code better documented and easier to read, and maybe make a couple of extensions like Adblock and Filterset.G automatic, since we're all using it anyway. Or don't bother, I'll install them myself later.
But seriously: I don't want ANY new features. Hardly ANYBODY DOES. Be the best browser there is on speed and security, and worry about new features after some other browser.
Thanks for all your hard work, and keep it up. Here's to the future clean/fast FF browser!
rhY
I recently accidentally deleted an entire hard drive with approximately 12,000 mp3s on it. After the crying, gnashing of teeth, and several small broken items near my desk, I began the laborious process of downloading the mp3s I had lost.
...hmmm.....
Now the bulk of my mp3 collection was from my actual CD collection (I have over 500 cds, and most have at least 12 tracks), but I'll be damned if I'm going to sit here and rip every single one again.
I mean, if I was going to do that, I'd pick OGG or something more sensible....
Nah, I'll just finish these downloads and be golden again.
rhY
Now there's ANOTHER artist that I have to hate, even though I used to like their music.
The NEW list:
1. Metallica
2. Aimee Mann
3. Alanis Morissette
4. Christina Aguilera
5. Blink-182
6. Sarah McLachlan
7. Garth Brooks
8. Jethro Tull
When will these idiots learn that they are only ALIENATING any of their fans with decent usage of the cerebellum and a modicum of news reading?
OK, actually, seriously, after looking at that list again, I realized that each of those artists was probably the worst in their field, so maybe by losing all their educated fans, they're actually doing society a favor.
IDIOTS. If you can't make a living PLUS retirement with a 50 year copyright, then you are obviously shitty and most likely a moron.
rhY
I did not say religious people cause genocide. I do however emphatically state that religion is often THE essential ingredient for genocide.
I do have a "religion", and I certainly didn't start it. It's called REASON.
Furthermore, I like your wording, and vocabulary, but you are still sounding an awful lot like a troll, given your emphatic efforts to criticize me as a person, and not focus on the issues itself, which in the end, is really the issue isn't it?
If we had scientific leadership in charge of our nuclear arms, at the very least they would have knowledge concerning radioactive fallout and other global effects of nuclear war, and that knowledge alone might help prevent nuclear war.
rhY
My "malice" involves saving human lives by not allowing irrational religious people to run our nuclear programs.
Now "aggressive", I'll take fully. I think human life is an issue to be aggressive about.
I'm not being arrogant either, I hardly would state that *i* am the type of person to be in charge of nuclear weaponry, either. I do think though that rational humanists would be a better pick than religious types, and I do fit in that category.
Now, if you had used the term vitriolic, derogatory, or perhaps even offensive, or overly discrediting... Those would have been debatable. Malice however was simply not involved.
rhY
First of all, I don't have "beliefs". I attempt to act based on the best knowledge I have at any given time. Believing in shit is stupid. Plain and simple.
Furthermore, your examples are particularly egregious. Stalin and Pol Pot were clearly Dictators, or Fascists, which is on the opposite end of the political spectrum from Communism and it's precepts, regardless of what they called their ruling parties at the time. That was a dumb straw man on every level.
My propaganda is not malignant. I'm encouraging thought and study. That is hardly a malignant message, and I think history will back me up on that claim, even if you want to skip logic altogether, which seems rather apparent when you're throwing around OTHER straw men like mathematics and axioms, which is silly in the extreme.
Further, memorization is OFTEN a handicap to learning and study, rather than an asset. Nearly every various teaching method I've studied has proven that time and again.
Those who spend time memorizing the multiplication table end up shitty at multiplication quite often, as one example.
I could give you another 30 with regards to playing the violin, but unless you also study violin, they will most likely be in a completely foreign language.
rhY
I mentioned that very socio-economic connection in my earlier flame/troll! I didn't feel a need to go in depth, as it was OT, but I did mention it.
Furthermore, in rebuttal to the Dawkins discrediting, or what have you, In the nuclear age, men who believe in imaginary things should not hold the guns. Regardless of whether you are a carpet muncher (as signified by prayer) or not, you have to see the logic in allowing rational human beings who live their lives based on facts as a safer key turner to nuclear Armageddon.
Mark my words: If the bible-belt republicans, jihad Muslims, and invasion-happy jews retain nuclear power, as they currently seem to be doing, one of them will nuke one of the other ones, and it will be a VERY BAD THING for everybody on the planet. Particularly those of us who LIKE having just two eyes for us, and our children.
I think our government's current use of depleted uranium is yet another example of WHAT is WRONG with not only our political power structure, but the blind-faith idiots who currently reign in it as well.
Spraying nuclear waste all over a country you already shock and awed..... How are we the good guys on this one again?
rhY
Ignorant Bias!??!? Seriously? Religion has caused more genocide on this planet than any other single force, INCLUDING economics, which is really hugely telling. Our made up man in the sky is more important than all the life, liberty, and land we have.
I mean, comparing the master race theories to true science is enough of a disclaimer, but to assume anyone is biased, because they recognize the simple fact that religion has been a HUGE driver of genocide for as long as we can reasonably study.... Especially when there are so many GREAT examples of genocide going on RIGHT NOW based on religion...
I think you gave me the word to use for that: Ignorant. Look it up, and then when your finished look up CRUSADE on wikipedia. Then put the current middle east situation(s) in context. Then tell me I'm ignorant and biased. Ignorant of what? ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY?!? That's a huge statement to make, especially if you're arguing against ME, who at least gives a passing mention of the obvious connection between religion and genocide.
Also, with regards to your Hitler/Aryan straw man, which is ludicrous on so many obvious levels, well, Nazi Germany was COMPLETELY a religious thing as well. Their main symbol was religious in origin, for one, and their whole concept of "The MotherLand" etc.... Clearly these guys were Christian god-nuts, just like the bible belt of the US today, and in fact, THEY ALSO burned books!
I submit that it is YOU who are ignorant. Ignorant of history, ignorant of current world politics, ignorant of the socio-economic drivers behind religion AND genocide, and basically ignorant of fundamental logical processes.
STFU, and RTFM:
www.wikipedia.org
rhY
Unless it is a seminary class, there should be NO room for religion in the class. Except history, maybe, to show how so many random tribes have used religion to justify genocide.
Seriously, learning and study are on the opposite end of memorization and faith. It's not just a simple difference of opinion among some "teachers". It's a fundamental difference between logic and reason, and blind retardation.
No person espousing any type of religious dogma should be considered a teacher by the simple definition of the word. They are not in fact a teacher at that point, but a malignant propagandist for a religious agenda that, 99% of the time is ignorant and bad for humanity, and the rest of the living things on the planet.
If there is debate between religion and science, it is no longer a class room but a seminary room involving a lame argument devolved between two parties where one side uses reason and logic, and the other side says, "The bible says so!".
It's stupid and pointless and if YOUR tax dollars are paying for it, you should be damned pissed off.
I certainly am.
God can go hang out wherever he wants, but not where my money is getting wasted by morons.
rhY
This guy is SUCH a douche. Why does ANYBODY listen to idiots like this? It just makes me ashamed of our species, and living organisms as a whole perhaps.
rhY
I for one DO NOT welcome our new power-tripping electricity-wielding police-state asshole overlords. Matter of fact, if it'd happened TO ME, I would have made sure an officer involved got the death penalty, in or OUT of court, as the case may be....
That's great, but can I get a Quake 3 fps? Or any kind of real world bench mark? Folding@Home? Thanks!
rhY
Well that's a fair criticism, but seriously, you have NOT tasted my cooking, and I HAVE spent some time in and around a kitchen.
rhY
Also loved that South Park. I think that the scientific method is a lot less likely to cause warfare than random prehistoric cults.
So this retarded fish-frog butt-fucked a monkey.....
rhY
Lame comment. Nice painting, though. :D imminent nuclear war.
In the nuclear age, tolerating the ignorance that goes on due to religion is extremely dangerous. Look at the current situation we have with our own idiotic carpet muncher, and that bearded carpet muncher in Iran. None of this is cool. One of these idiots is going to claim that god told them to push the launch button.
We should have zero tolerance for these kind of people, particularly in positions of power.
I wouldn't argue that religion hasn't done something for us at some point in the past. But this is not the past. We need a "Best for all living things" approach now, and none of the religions or prehistoric dogmas are really up for that job. Science and reason are though. We just need to make them a bit more popular. Or wait for the gulf stream to stall, Europe and the Eastern US freeze, and then let it popularize itself.
I for one would very much like to get people on board with reason and off the sinking ship of religion NOW, and save a lot of lives (both human, and human food-stock as well) before some catastrophe like either of the two plausible ones I've outlined happen first.
God and Oil have had their day. Let's give science and solar a chance and see if it gets any better.
rhY