Two ways to interpret what you wrote: 1) Why, are *you* going to use it? 2) *Why* are you going to use it?
As to 1), Are you kidding? I would never use software endorsed by the US government! And since I wouldn't use it, 2) doesn't then make any sense.
I want to know because this is exactly the kind of control mentality that causes most of the problems in the world. It is especially prevelent in the military.
A few contradictions in Christmas
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Like most of my thoughts, this essay will not make most people very comfortable. Unlike mainstream media, I have stopped trying to make you feel good. Rather, through my writing I am trying to get you to face the uncomfortable reality of what is really going on.
Christmas means different things to different people. Some people take it as simply a break from work, other people see Christmas as a religious time. However, the prevailing story we all have is the one our parents told us growing up: Christmas is when we all come together as a family and Santa comes and leaves presents under the tree.
Santa does not exist. There, I said it. He is a fictional character we have created and one that perpetuates a complex lie presented to our children. This story involves reindeer, presents, chimneys, and the North Pole. That part of Christmas is all a big fat lie. Any kindergartener could tell you that, if you were just honest with your kids.
Lets talk about trees. Another tradition most people have is killing a tree and bringing it into our house, you know, for decoration. Why are we killing trees? Is it so that for two weeks we can enjoy the smell and sight of something natural in our lives? What happened to going for a walk in the woods? I would say that arbitrarily killing a tree so you can see it in your living room is not really the best use of trees.
But there are far more disturbing issues surrounding Christmas then what happens to the trees. Lets talk about the children, and that lie. What does it tell your children that you intentionally and repeatedly lie to them? Gee, when people lie to me, I dont trust them any more. As an adult, I choose not to keep those people in my life. That question is a softball compared to what some families do with Santa: How many of you have heard, Be good, or Santa wont bring you any presents How do you react when people threaten you?
Im not going to discuss the obvious lies and blatant contradictions in Christianity. Ill save that for another essay, save one thought. How could any good Christian stand by idly and watch the most holy of their holidays turned into a commercial circus? How is it possible that a whole nation full of Christians who say they believe in the holy status of Jesus feel comfortable with Christmas of today? And if you are not comfortable, why do you play the game? Where are your essays? What keeps you from saying what you feel?
Lets talk about commercialism. Christmas is simply buying laid bare. Buying is expected, encouraged, and assumed. Christmas and consumption are synonymous. Sadly, it is understandable. Buying is a choice. But like most choices, the actions people take that perpetuate commercialism are not completely conscious. Typically people feel bad and make choices to feel better, and for most people, those feels are completely hidden from their consciousness. Sadly, most people are so unwilling to examine what is really going on in their lives; they simply keep buying to try and feel whole, important, and O.K. This is a much larger essay, but Christmas brings it out like no other time.
Why do children want presents so much? Well, most kids just want love and security. First off, people teach them the story that more is better. This underlying assumption in western thought is pervasive, and underlies most peoples core assumptions about security and success. Material wealth leads to security. Second, most parents translate love for their children into buying them stuff. Its much easier to buy toys then to make time to really understand and accept your children as complete people. The substitution of material things for parental love is another core theme in Christmas.
Why do people accept the contradictions? Why do people perpetuate a blatant lie to their children about Santa? Mostly people accept lies because its easier to do that that to address the more disturbing conclusions hidden underneath that lie. In this case, lying to yo
These dumb shits. go ahead sue your customers. Waste the common resources on lawsuits.
It may sound trite, but it's simply inevitable:
Information wants to be free. People will make it so. Technology will enable them.
They more deep pockets attack individuals, the more technology will enable distributed information sharing. When is someone going to write a simple mysql torrent database that rsyncs with peers. The next generation of p2p will include completely distributed search. Try and sue everyone you morons.
These people are so closed minded it's astounding... their business model is OVER. wake up, play ball with the rest of us. If they would simply realize that *can not control* distribution any longer, we would all be better off.
I'd like to know if the military controllers have the keys to decrypt and monitor the messages.
Also, I'd like to know when the military will stop censoring the real images of war. Why is it not surprising that the communications system for troops can't send images. Technology? NO. Politics and spin -- probably. We gotta keep control over the people. The press can't even print all the images they want.... and this is what the shrub calls the "free society" in contrast to the others out there. Someone might see something or think something we're not supposed to. Or maybe there is a better "official explination"[sic] of why there are no images to send home.
I have to agree. the world will end up in the hands of the little people as long as information can flow freely. watch the monetary system. watch the revolution. we are in the middle of something as big as the fall of communism with the information stuff. I give it 4 years and all fucking hell with break loose with politics as people realize we don't need the governement any more. oh yeah -- and tin foil hats for EVERYONE!
what is taugh in US public schools is mostly just politicized conformity -- designed to produce older children that have... oh wait, it's not designed at all. it's pretty much all crap. and intelligent design. even in private schools and grad schools, no one ever is taught to really think for themselves as a part of the curriculum. physics is the closest. but to really think for yourself, you have to find your own teachers and they are not in "schools"
all the real learning I did after I left school, after I got 7 letters after my name... what a waste.
Moving the argument to a person insult is truly the purview of people fighting for ideals difficult to defend.
I also disagree from the "move to Canada" argument -- but only because it is a typical "if you don't like it, then leave" answer to fixing fundamental problems with what America is and has been doing.
I am completely opposed to your world view, Shakrai -- mostly because I feel you have bought into a whole pack of lies and propaganda about America and our role and moral high ground with our actions.
I believe that most "crises" that America has faced recently and ones we will face in the so-called "War" on terrorism are almost entirely caused by the actions of our own military and political leaders. Asking US citizens to partake and support these actions put most people with a broad context understanding of what is really going on globally in a very difficult situation.
Leaving does not help in the big picture. However, it does remove the individual from the dilemma of personal conflict. People do not leave because they are cowards -- they realize that the US system gives then NO VOICE in what is happening and they realize that they are being used to ends far beyond their control. They also realize that by staying they have almost no ability to change the situation significantly enough to change its effect on their own lives or their loved ones and children.
my wife has ct so bad while pregnant with our first kids that she eventally needed surgery.
several months she wore braces at night with a covered metal plate that ran the length of her forearm (strapped on) and the plate ran up over the underside of her wrist into her palm. The plate was bent over at the wrist to push her hands backward (like you are stopping a car with a hand signal). The device also tended to rotate the hands laterally (away from center line). The position gave her significant relief from ct symptoms.
the orientation of your wrists while typing on a laptop is typically very different than typing on a normal keyboard. I'd bet that the angle in your wrists while typing in the laptop is such that it afford more room in your carpal tunnel for the tendons and they don't rub around so much.
luckily [satire], our ability to control how we get tracked will quickly be going away. so the need to remember logins and passwords should be gone within a few years.
controlled hardware, compulory DRM, and biometrics will remove the need for remembering anything with respect to identity.
i think the real discussion here should not be about life+70 or life+50
it should about how absurd life+anything really is.
can't people see that the existence of widespread law breaking from copyright violation is a CLEAR signal that people do not see that the copyright contact is fair? it is so obviously not fair now that people blatantly and purposefully flaunt the laws.
as I put into another post, below. 15 years should be plenty.
India and China announced a bilateral agreement to take over the whole world. Together with over 40% of the worlds population, and a hungry, educated and thriving work force -- the superpower will soon dwarf all other countries.
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Two ways to interpret what you wrote:
1) Why, are *you* going to use it?
2) *Why* are you going to use it?
As to 1), Are you kidding? I would never use software endorsed by the US government! And since I wouldn't use it, 2) doesn't then make any sense.
I want to know because this is exactly the kind of control mentality that causes most of the problems in the world. It is especially prevelent in the military.
Like most of my thoughts, this essay will not make most people very comfortable. Unlike mainstream media, I have stopped trying to make you feel good. Rather, through my writing I am trying to get you to face the uncomfortable reality of what is really going on.
Christmas means different things to different people. Some people take it as simply a break from work, other people see Christmas as a religious time. However, the prevailing story we all have is the one our parents told us growing up: Christmas is when we all come together as a family and Santa comes and leaves presents under the tree.
Santa does not exist. There, I said it. He is a fictional character we have created and one that perpetuates a complex lie presented to our children. This story involves reindeer, presents, chimneys, and the North Pole. That part of Christmas is all a big fat lie. Any kindergartener could tell you that, if you were just honest with your kids.
Lets talk about trees. Another tradition most people have is killing a tree and bringing it into our house, you know, for decoration. Why are we killing trees? Is it so that for two weeks we can enjoy the smell and sight of something natural in our lives? What happened to going for a walk in the woods? I would say that arbitrarily killing a tree so you can see it in your living room is not really the best use of trees.
But there are far more disturbing issues surrounding Christmas then what happens to the trees. Lets talk about the children, and that lie. What does it tell your children that you intentionally and repeatedly lie to them? Gee, when people lie to me, I dont trust them any more. As an adult, I choose not to keep those people in my life. That question is a softball compared to what some families do with Santa: How many of you have heard, Be good, or Santa wont bring you any presents How do you react when people threaten you?
Im not going to discuss the obvious lies and blatant contradictions in Christianity. Ill save that for another essay, save one thought. How could any good Christian stand by idly and watch the most holy of their holidays turned into a commercial circus? How is it possible that a whole nation full of Christians who say they believe in the holy status of Jesus feel comfortable with Christmas of today? And if you are not comfortable, why do you play the game? Where are your essays? What keeps you from saying what you feel?
Lets talk about commercialism. Christmas is simply buying laid bare. Buying is expected, encouraged, and assumed. Christmas and consumption are synonymous. Sadly, it is understandable. Buying is a choice. But like most choices, the actions people take that perpetuate commercialism are not completely conscious. Typically people feel bad and make choices to feel better, and for most people, those feels are completely hidden from their consciousness. Sadly, most people are so unwilling to examine what is really going on in their lives; they simply keep buying to try and feel whole, important, and O.K. This is a much larger essay, but Christmas brings it out like no other time.
Why do children want presents so much? Well, most kids just want love and security. First off, people teach them the story that more is better. This underlying assumption in western thought is pervasive, and underlies most peoples core assumptions about security and success. Material wealth leads to security. Second, most parents translate love for their children into buying them stuff. Its much easier to buy toys then to make time to really understand and accept your children as complete people. The substitution of material things for parental love is another core theme in Christmas.
Why do people accept the contradictions? Why do people perpetuate a blatant lie to their children about Santa? Mostly people accept lies because its easier to do that that to address the more disturbing conclusions hidden underneath that lie. In this case, lying to yo
These dumb shits. go ahead sue your customers. Waste the common resources on lawsuits.
It may sound trite, but it's simply inevitable:
Information wants to be free. People will make it so. Technology will enable them.
They more deep pockets attack individuals, the more technology will enable distributed information sharing. When is someone going to write a simple mysql torrent database that rsyncs with peers. The next generation of p2p will include completely distributed search. Try and sue everyone you morons.
These people are so closed minded it's astounding... their business model is OVER. wake up, play ball with the rest of us. If they would simply realize that *can not control* distribution any longer, we would all be better off.
I'd like to know if the military controllers have the keys to decrypt and monitor the messages.
... and this is what the shrub calls the "free society" in contrast to the others out there. Someone might see something or think something we're not supposed to. Or maybe there is a better "official explination"[sic] of why there are no images to send home.
Also, I'd like to know when the military will stop censoring the real images of war. Why is it not surprising that the communications system for troops can't send images. Technology? NO. Politics and spin -- probably.
We gotta keep control over the people. The press can't even print all the images they want.
nerdy, but at least useful.
This story I'd have to sy is _at least_ as nerdy...
for FUCKS sake
in case anyone still had delusions that we lived in a sane world...
*SIGH*
-- left the US on 11/6/04
still gone
I have to agree. the world will end up in the hands of the little people as long as information can flow freely. watch the monetary system. watch the revolution. we are in the middle of something as big as the fall of communism with the information stuff. I give it 4 years and all fucking hell with break loose with politics as people realize we don't need the governement any more. oh yeah -- and tin foil hats for EVERYONE!
Why don't people teach this in schools?
... oh wait, it's not designed at all. it's pretty much all crap. and intelligent design. even in private schools and grad schools, no one ever is taught to really think for themselves as a part of the curriculum. physics is the closest. but to really think for yourself, you have to find your own teachers and they are not in "schools"
what is taugh in US public schools is mostly just politicized conformity -- designed to produce older children that have
all the real learning I did after I left school, after I got 7 letters after my name... what a waste.
I have lots of mod points -- I'd like to see:
-2 Karma Whore
with all the creativity of the sd crowd... oh wait.. forget it.
and copyright restrictions are in force on papers published after 1923
in case anyone was still left who thought copyright laws were reasonable....
the technology developed at MS research to get the paperclip (the office help animate hate attractor) to work is based on a bayes net.
t ml
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,43065,00.h
this so applies to me too.
I want to be able to GM a game with tools to help, and voice (like teamspeak) connections to the team.
maybe even have a library of images available to use to show what monsters, vistas, maps, treasures etc.
god I'm still a geek at heart.
The pumping will be done for you.
most people join these sites so the pumping will be done to you
I have an MBE box (now UPS). just pay them $5+shipping and they will re-ship anything you receive. no need to come to the US at all!
one time pad systems, baby. tell the snooping feds thhthththbbbbbbbtt
just need the client api to generate bits fast... plus a few other social steps
**My other post is protected under the 5th Amendment**
I protect mine under the 2nd Amendment
heh
Moving the argument to a person insult is truly the purview of people fighting for ideals difficult to defend.
I also disagree from the "move to Canada" argument -- but only because it is a typical "if you don't like it, then leave" answer to fixing fundamental problems with what America is and has been doing.
I am completely opposed to your world view, Shakrai -- mostly because I feel you have bought into a whole pack of lies and propaganda about America and our role and moral high ground with our actions.
I believe that most "crises" that America has faced recently and ones we will face in the so-called "War" on terrorism are almost entirely caused by the actions of our own military and political leaders. Asking US citizens to partake and support these actions put most people with a broad context understanding of what is really going on globally in a very difficult situation.
Leaving does not help in the big picture. However, it does remove the individual from the dilemma of personal conflict. People do not leave because they are cowards -- they realize that the US system gives then NO VOICE in what is happening and they realize that they are being used to ends far beyond their control. They also realize that by staying they have almost no ability to change the situation significantly enough to change its effect on their own lives or their loved ones and children.
posting a phone number for anyone on /. seems like a really awful thing to do
either this was fixed right quick, or this person has done an intentional salshdotting of their own site to rev subscriptions.
seems to be working fine now. 7pm PST 2/25
my wife has ct so bad while pregnant with our first kids that she eventally needed surgery.
several months she wore braces at night with a covered metal plate that ran the length of her forearm (strapped on) and the plate ran up over the underside of her wrist into her palm. The plate was bent over at the wrist to push her hands backward (like you are stopping a car with a hand signal). The device also tended to rotate the hands laterally (away from center line). The position gave her significant relief from ct symptoms.
the orientation of your wrists while typing on a laptop is typically very different than typing on a normal keyboard. I'd bet that the angle in your wrists while typing in the laptop is such that it afford more room in your carpal tunnel for the tendons and they don't rub around so much.
luckily [satire], our ability to control how we get tracked will quickly be going away. so the need to remember logins and passwords should be gone within a few years.
controlled hardware, compulory DRM, and biometrics will remove the need for remembering anything with respect to identity.
i think the real discussion here should not be about life+70 or life+50
it should about how absurd life+anything really is.
can't people see that the existence of widespread law breaking from copyright violation is a CLEAR signal that people do not see that the copyright contact is fair? it is so obviously not fair now that people blatantly and purposefully flaunt the laws.
as I put into another post, below. 15 years should be plenty.
copyrights would actually create a Balanced contract between composition, profits vs. public good.
life of the author plus 50 is already absurd.
how about, say 15 years? That sounds good to me.
10?
India and China announced a bilateral agreement to take over the whole world. Together with over 40% of the worlds population, and a hungry, educated and thriving work force -- the superpower will soon dwarf all other countries.
more at 11.
it would have been nice to rot13 the next to last paragraph after the word but...