Re:"One issue" GWB voters are the reason.
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One issue voters are always trying to force their belief systems on me. "Hey, you can't do that! It says in the bible..blahablaalaba. We need a law that no one can walk around naked in their own house."
While I have nothing against the bible or people reading it, living it or whatever. I DO NOT want people telling me what I can, or can't do based on their 'bible beliefs'.
The regression of free speech is a sad tale of repressed morality, and low IQ. When I hear that a book/movie/music is banned, people are being put on 'probably going to be a crimminal' lists and held for no legal reason, and when GWB decides to go to war all by himself, I ask, "Where are the dissenting voices?"
What do these two thoughts have to do with each other?
they'll probably get advertisers to co-pay it so they can run their advertisements over your sight every 10 min
Funny, but not realistic. If I was blind and some company paid for me to see again, I wouldn't need to look at their ads *ever* and I would still buy from them every chance I could find and encourage all my friends to do the same.
Up until now, only Jesus had that kind of customer care (and resulting brand loyalty).
Right now it appears that religious conservatism is the greatest obstacle proper education about sex and HIV risks
Unfortunately, we had time to develop better solutions, and squandered it because of religious/political reasons.
I really don't think it makes sense to link politics and religion in regards to this problem. Politics more or less ignores HIV/AIDS and as a result it spreads. Religion did not need to respond any differently than it already was since it was already promoting the most effective AIDS control possible (abstinence).
And if you're thinking about making an argument that religion stifles open talk about sex, you might want to consider whether you are basing your opinion on the Christian church as it exists in the Western world or 'religion' as a whole.
Jesus: Who was his neighbor?
Some Dude: The man who helped him.
Jesus: Go and do likewise.
Takes place entirely within the mind of a soldier so crippled by a bomb blast that it is virtually impossible for him to communicate with the outside world. It definitely has dystopian elements (ie it's extremely depressing and ends with no hope for redemption), but I would hesitate to put it squarely in that category. Perhaps one of the most persuasive anti-war novels ever written.
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them" -Mark Twain
Prior to 1910 the law was used to protect the land owners and property owners, with numerous examples throughout the book of the courts upholding what were essentinally very unconstitutional laws favouring monied interests over blacks and poor whites (i.e. those without property) .
With the RIAA and the MPAA we are seing similar sorts of laws proposed, only this time to protect the monied interests (those that "own" intellectual property) against those who don't.
To me, this is all part of the tragedy of America these days.
Does anyone else find these statements incompatible somehow? If this has been going on for two hundred years, then it is not part of the tragedy of anything these days. Yes, this has been going on for years, so don't act like some new evil has arisen in the last decade. The monied interests control things because they have lots of money and they use it. We lose because we have lots of money and lots of votes, and we use neither. Who has more power, cars or pedestrians? Well, it depends on how many of each there are and whether you are in the street or on the sidewalk.
Young people continue to strive for the impossible - and achieve it - generation after generation.
In short, it will be the end of freedom as we have come to know it.
This is extreme even for Slashdot. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Which is more inaccurate: the fourteen year old uber-hacker who can hack into your filing cabinet from a pay-phone and steal your identity, or the OmniVox/UniCorp-meets-the-X-Files shadowy conspiracy linking every Fortune 500 CEO and PR rep with every elected or appointed official in every civilized country. The sky is not falling, but neither does it conceal MS satellites reading over your shoulder. There is no organized movement among government and business to eliminate all freedom and destroy humankind, and there is no silver bullet that geeks can invent that will magically cause all existing injustices and threats to freedom to disappear. The price of freedom is constant vigilance against those who abuse it. The only way to stop corporations from owning the political process is by making a majority of people want otherwise, and know that they want otherwise.
Words are situated midway between though and action, where they sometimes substitute for both.
Here's a clue: The power in America resides with those who control the law making process _and_ have control of the means to enforce the laws, that is, fine, lock up, or kill.
Well then it's good that three different groups have to share that power now, isn't it? Actually, I think power resides with those who can inspire people. Inspiration gets more votes than policy any day, and regardless of how much money gets spent electing candidates, the person with the most votes still wins. If those who know better (and I'm tentatively including you in that category) can't find a way to do that despite all our technology of mass communication, then we will continue to lose battles like this.
The phrase should read, "Of the people, by the government, for the big business interests" which seems much more accurate of our historical reality. The really, truely sad thing is this has been true for so long and folks just don't want to acknowledge it.
Despite the fact that your paraphrase makes no sense in context and makes me wonder if you've read the Constitution, I'll acknowledge your point. OK, big business has too much power. You know it. I know it. Who are these "folks" you are referring to that don't? The one's that pay $20 for a CD? Yes! Well, why are you telling me instead of them? I already know! Or even more effective, remove big business from power. Remember business works just like politics, whoever gets the most votes wins, but you vote with money.
Ever wonder why those great states died even with the supposed strength of democracy? Here's a hint: The word "corruption."
To paraphrase Frank Herbert, "Power doesn't corrupt, power attracts the corruptible."
Luckily for those of us who still believe Democracy is the best solution to the problem of fallible people governing other fallible people, power also attracts idealists, visionaries, and good people who can't stand to see a good thing ruined by bad people. So if you have a problem with the way America is run, I suggest you either find one of these people or become one.
Ancient Greece, representative democracy. Rome, representative democracy for most of its existence.
Need to bone up on that history, Homer.
Rome was a "democracy" (of propertied aristocrats) for a little less than four hundred of its thousand year history (two thousand if you count Constantinople). Greece was not a democracy at all. Athens was a democracy, Sparta was a monarchy, as were most other city-states. Not to mention that Athens, the token democracy, became an imperial capital levying slaves and tribute from its provinces about forty years after it became a democracy. I know my history. Sorry to be harsh, but you asked for it.
"No army on earth can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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One issue voters are always trying to force their belief systems on me. "Hey, you can't do that! It says in the bible..blahablaalaba. We need a law that no one can walk around naked in their own house." While I have nothing against the bible or people reading it, living it or whatever. I DO NOT want people telling me what I can, or can't do based on their 'bible beliefs'.
The regression of free speech is a sad tale of repressed morality, and low IQ. When I hear that a book/movie/music is banned, people are being put on 'probably going to be a crimminal' lists and held for no legal reason, and when GWB decides to go to war all by himself, I ask, "Where are the dissenting voices?"
What do these two thoughts have to do with each other?
they'll probably get advertisers to co-pay it so they can run their advertisements over your sight every 10 min
Funny, but not realistic. If I was blind and some company paid for me to see again, I wouldn't need to look at their ads *ever* and I would still buy from them every chance I could find and encourage all my friends to do the same.
Up until now, only Jesus had that kind of customer care (and resulting brand loyalty).
Go ahead and change the name. Just think of the possibilities! I think it would be hilarious if there was an open source project called MoScrilla.
So, if two supersonic jets collide head on and the shock waves cancel each other out, does it make a sound?
Right now it appears that religious conservatism is the greatest obstacle proper education about sex and HIV risks
Unfortunately, we had time to develop better solutions, and squandered it because of religious/political reasons.
I really don't think it makes sense to link politics and religion in regards to this problem. Politics more or less ignores HIV/AIDS and as a result it spreads. Religion did not need to respond any differently than it already was since it was already promoting the most effective AIDS control possible (abstinence).
And if you're thinking about making an argument that religion stifles open talk about sex, you might want to consider whether you are basing your opinion on the Christian church as it exists in the Western world or 'religion' as a whole.
Jesus: Who was his neighbor? Some Dude: The man who helped him. Jesus: Go and do likewise.
_Johnny_Got_His_Gun_ by Dalton Trumbo.
Takes place entirely within the mind of a soldier so crippled by a bomb blast that it is virtually impossible for him to communicate with the outside world. It definitely has dystopian elements (ie it's extremely depressing and ends with no hope for redemption), but I would hesitate to put it squarely in that category. Perhaps one of the most persuasive anti-war novels ever written.
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them" -Mark Twain
If it's that large, it's probably a millipede.
Prior to 1910 the law was used to protect the land owners and property owners, with numerous examples throughout the book of the courts upholding what were essentinally very unconstitutional laws favouring monied interests over blacks and poor whites (i.e. those without property) .
With the RIAA and the MPAA we are seing similar sorts of laws proposed, only this time to protect the monied interests (those that "own" intellectual property) against those who don't.
To me, this is all part of the tragedy of America these days.
Does anyone else find these statements incompatible somehow? If this has been going on for two hundred years, then it is not part of the tragedy of anything these days. Yes, this has been going on for years, so don't act like some new evil has arisen in the last decade. The monied interests control things because they have lots of money and they use it. We lose because we have lots of money and lots of votes, and we use neither. Who has more power, cars or pedestrians? Well, it depends on how many of each there are and whether you are in the street or on the sidewalk.
Young people continue to strive for the impossible - and achieve it - generation after generation.
In short, it will be the end of freedom as we have come to know it.
This is extreme even for Slashdot. You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
Which is more inaccurate: the fourteen year old uber-hacker who can hack into your filing cabinet from a pay-phone and steal your identity, or the OmniVox/UniCorp-meets-the-X-Files shadowy conspiracy linking every Fortune 500 CEO and PR rep with every elected or appointed official in every civilized country. The sky is not falling, but neither does it conceal MS satellites reading over your shoulder. There is no organized movement among government and business to eliminate all freedom and destroy humankind, and there is no silver bullet that geeks can invent that will magically cause all existing injustices and threats to freedom to disappear. The price of freedom is constant vigilance against those who abuse it. The only way to stop corporations from owning the political process is by making a majority of people want otherwise, and know that they want otherwise.
Words are situated midway between though and action, where they sometimes substitute for both.
Here's a clue: The power in America resides with those who control the law making process _and_ have control of the means to enforce the laws, that is, fine, lock up, or kill.
Well then it's good that three different groups have to share that power now, isn't it? Actually, I think power resides with those who can inspire people. Inspiration gets more votes than policy any day, and regardless of how much money gets spent electing candidates, the person with the most votes still wins. If those who know better (and I'm tentatively including you in that category) can't find a way to do that despite all our technology of mass communication, then we will continue to lose battles like this.
The phrase should read, "Of the people, by the government, for the big business interests" which seems much more accurate of our historical reality. The really, truely sad thing is this has been true for so long and folks just don't want to acknowledge it.
Despite the fact that your paraphrase makes no sense in context and makes me wonder if you've read the Constitution, I'll acknowledge your point. OK, big business has too much power. You know it. I know it. Who are these "folks" you are referring to that don't? The one's that pay $20 for a CD? Yes! Well, why are you telling me instead of them? I already know! Or even more effective, remove big business from power. Remember business works just like politics, whoever gets the most votes wins, but you vote with money.
Ever wonder why those great states died even with the supposed strength of democracy? Here's a hint: The word "corruption."
To paraphrase Frank Herbert, "Power doesn't corrupt, power attracts the corruptible."
Luckily for those of us who still believe Democracy is the best solution to the problem of fallible people governing other fallible people, power also attracts idealists, visionaries, and good people who can't stand to see a good thing ruined by bad people. So if you have a problem with the way America is run, I suggest you either find one of these people or become one.
Ancient Greece, representative democracy. Rome, representative democracy for most of its existence.
Need to bone up on that history, Homer.
Rome was a "democracy" (of propertied aristocrats) for a little less than four hundred of its thousand year history (two thousand if you count Constantinople). Greece was not a democracy at all. Athens was a democracy, Sparta was a monarchy, as were most other city-states. Not to mention that Athens, the token democracy, became an imperial capital levying slaves and tribute from its provinces about forty years after it became a democracy. I know my history. Sorry to be harsh, but you asked for it.
"No army on earth can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.