... but if you have some spare computing power, PLEASE consider donating it to something that can help those of us who live on earth, like Folding@Home
Yeah, I found those survey questions to be extremely biased in their contexts and assumed "correct" answers.
I'm sure that you could conduct an equally biased list of questions that showed, for example, how non-fox news watchers didn't realize Barney Frank's active role in the fanny/freddie meltdown.
You really need to consume a number of different news sources to get a realistic picture of politics in the US. All of the main sources have their own biases that would create blind spots in your mental map of the political landscape.
I don't think Moore has ever denied that he has an agenda, and that he's telling the story his way.
Wait, are they stories or documentaries?
Because if they're stories, then that's cool. He can make stuff up all he wants. I think that a dinosaur on a rocket in Fahrenheit 911 would have been spectacular... but that's his call.
If they're documentaries (as they seem to be when it comes to awards time), then it would be great if they didn't take so many liberties with facts and stuff. I wouldn't call them documentaries any more than the "works" of James O’Keefe.
You have to ask yourself, does James O’Keefe make documentaries? If anyone thinks that only one of these guys makes documentaries, then you should look into the fallacy of special pleading.
Wow, that's a really sad example of how a big company can use its money and influence to squelch dissent as its product (quite possibly) causes an environmental calamity. It's also a sad example of how utterly useless our government is at protecting our environment against these kinds of threats. It's not like we don't spend enough money on it for it to be effective, it's just that we elect partisan idiots who make stupid decisions.
When will you be able to pay for a hooker with it? Not that I'm looking to do so; but once that's acceptable, I think that the project has reached a critical milestone.
Yeah, Ron Paul is a total loon. He's so crazy that I've heard him consistently espouse:
1. Having a government that operates within its budget. 2. Having a government that respects personal freedoms by not subjecting airline passengers to being irradiated and/or fondled. 3. Being honest about the Iraq war and how we got into it. 4. Ending our country's imperialistic bent by drawing down on our military deployments. 5. Taking a serious look at the secretive central banking system that is given extraordinary power to fuck with our economy with little oversight....
Just to get it straight, you're 99% against crazy whacky shit like this, right?
Given what you've posted so far, I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on your seeming out-of-left-field attack on Rand Paul. Didn't his recent political opponent actually dig up some dirt that Rand Paul was ANTI-CHRISTIAN? I think that Rand Paul then gave the required "I'm a good Christian" response to that, but my guess is the guy is probably an agnostic.
I don't understand is that potential that the money has could be equally useful to the target medicines and poor that are supposed to be helped
Can't we just look at Africa to see that throwing money, food, and medicine into poverty-stricken areas doesn't do any good?
I'd much rather have a foundation trying to rethink charity and use the donations in clever ways in order to help rebuild society rather than through a lousy band-aid at problems that haven't been significantly helped with that lousy band-aid before.
I've been using them for ages. They're a great bunch of engineers and they provide a high value service. In the decade that I've been using them, I've never ONCE thought, "I wonder if I should move my domains somewhere else?" I can't think of any other service provider in my life that I haven't reconsidered at least every once in a while.
If you have any DNS business to send their way, show them slashdot's support!
Yeah, I know what you mean. After an EQ addiction and then a a bout of WoW addiction, I realized that as fun as MMOs are, they throw your life out of balance. It's one thing to have an escape every once in a while; but when you live your life in escape, those memories just aren't meaty enough to have been worth it. Memories of time spent with my family are more valuable. Learning something about science, technology, politics, economics, or history is more valuable than having my brain filled with the prices of virtual pieces of magical armor in a virtual world.
It's kind of like a guitar hero addiction. Sure, have fun with it for a few hours here and there. If you have enough time to spend hours on it a day, though, why not take up playing a REAL guitar?
That said, I think I started to drool a little when I looked at the new WoW expansion and thought about spending my Xmas holidays in Azeroth.
How many billions and billions of dollars does spam cost in terms of hardware, bandwidth, and human effort? How much does the opportunity cost of these billions of dollars hurt the world in terms of more productive progress? How many financial lives are ruined through scams, trojans, and viruses that enter people's computers through spam?
This guy was likely responsible for ruining many lives.
Having dealt with an assortment of people dealing with emotional loss, whether because of molestation, rape, or financial ruin - I can tell you that it's all the same. The perpetrator of these crimes took perfectly good lives and damaged them, possibly destroying many.
By sitting on the sidelines and poo-pooing the true devastation that spam causes, you're complicit in society's failure to deal properly with its worst enemies.
Step 1) Sell the car at a loss. Step 2a) Renege on pension and compensation commitments to employees over the past 30 years. Step 2b) Pad the books with taxpayer money to let you IPO and to help your stock price go up. Step 3) Profit!!! **
That was during a perfect storm of an exploding US technology-driven expansion: we didn't start any wars so could downsize the military, we had a new conservative congress that was eager to show it was thrifty (for a few years at least), and a president who was shrewd enough (or too embedded in scandal to go against it) to roll with the semi-mandate that that new congress had.
With the retiring baby boomers, increasing global competition, and a generally stupid voting population; we're probably not going to see a perfect storm again soon.
The only people even talking about reducing the debt these days are some of the Tea Party folks. Between their eccentric individuals and the media's seeming zeal of taking them down, I don't have much hope that the good part of their message will go far.
Don't you think this argument is a bit religious when you name a bunch of "big government" problems that have caused the debt we have yet you attack the opposite societal configuration of capitalism anyway?
Big government is the root of the problem. Big government has become too easily controlled by big corporations. Now we have to fight both of them combined (corporatism) as they try to take away our money and every single one of our freedoms that prevents them from controlling us properly.
How bad does this have to get before people wake the fuck up and slash the hell out of this government until it isn't powerful enough to hurt us anymore?
I don't know where I stand on net neutrality some days, but I do know that with the government, you're screwed if you don't like their policy (ie, law). At least with corporations you can go to their competitors.
Seriously, how anyone can think that copyright doesn't encourage content creation is beyond me. The whole point of copyright is to make sure that content creators get paid by the people using and enjoying their creations.
That said, I'm not in favor of the never ending copyright extensions over the past years.
I think that after the first 10-20 years, you don't get much of an effect of content creation. But getting rid of copyright completely isn't the answer.
Why do you think that the US has dominated so much of the world in content creation: software, music, movies, etc.? It's because we made our content creators wealthy and made the pursuit of that wealth the goal of so many people.
It has nothing to do whether or not they're making a profit. It has everything to do with their intent to break copyright law and not care if they were hurting content providers.
And I'm sure that your average mob money laundering restaurant actually serves a decent veal parmesan. That doesn't justify the illegality of the overall venture.
I think it comes down more to deliberate purpose and intent of the maintainers rather than some magic ratio.
It's more persuasive to those of us who want to see content creators encouraged.
To those who don't care about content creation, invention, innovation, ethics, and general societal advancement -- a lot of what I have to say is just "blah blah blah".
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"capital" letters... :)
Yeah, I found those survey questions to be extremely biased in their contexts and assumed "correct" answers.
I'm sure that you could conduct an equally biased list of questions that showed, for example, how non-fox news watchers didn't realize Barney Frank's active role in the fanny/freddie meltdown.
You really need to consume a number of different news sources to get a realistic picture of politics in the US. All of the main sources have their own biases that would create blind spots in your mental map of the political landscape.
XKCD nails it once again.
I don't think Moore has ever denied that he has an agenda, and that he's telling the story his way.
Wait, are they stories or documentaries?
Because if they're stories, then that's cool. He can make stuff up all he wants. I think that a dinosaur on a rocket in Fahrenheit 911 would have been spectacular... but that's his call.
If they're documentaries (as they seem to be when it comes to awards time), then it would be great if they didn't take so many liberties with facts and stuff. I wouldn't call them documentaries any more than the "works" of James O’Keefe.
You have to ask yourself, does James O’Keefe make documentaries? If anyone thinks that only one of these guys makes documentaries, then you should look into the fallacy of special pleading.
That's a really apt metaphor, since those with that attitude are burning everything down all around us with incendiary politics.
Congratulations. You win a burnt-out society that could have really been something great if you had applied reason to our problems instead of fire.
Wow, that's a really sad example of how a big company can use its money and influence to squelch dissent as its product (quite possibly) causes an environmental calamity. It's also a sad example of how utterly useless our government is at protecting our environment against these kinds of threats. It's not like we don't spend enough money on it for it to be effective, it's just that we elect partisan idiots who make stupid decisions.
They all need to be fired so we can start over.
Shhhh... people prefer to reinforce their preconceptions. Don't make them try to think.
RTFA
When will you be able to pay for a hooker with it? Not that I'm looking to do so; but once that's acceptable, I think that the project has reached a critical milestone.
Yeah, Ron Paul is a total loon. He's so crazy that I've heard him consistently espouse:
1. Having a government that operates within its budget. ...
2. Having a government that respects personal freedoms by not subjecting airline passengers to being irradiated and/or fondled.
3. Being honest about the Iraq war and how we got into it.
4. Ending our country's imperialistic bent by drawing down on our military deployments.
5. Taking a serious look at the secretive central banking system that is given extraordinary power to fuck with our economy with little oversight.
Just to get it straight, you're 99% against crazy whacky shit like this, right?
Given what you've posted so far, I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on your seeming out-of-left-field attack on Rand Paul. Didn't his recent political opponent actually dig up some dirt that Rand Paul was ANTI-CHRISTIAN? I think that Rand Paul then gave the required "I'm a good Christian" response to that, but my guess is the guy is probably an agnostic.
One at a time, man. One at a time...
I don't understand is that potential that the money has could be equally useful to the target medicines and poor that are supposed to be helped
Can't we just look at Africa to see that throwing money, food, and medicine into poverty-stricken areas doesn't do any good?
I'd much rather have a foundation trying to rethink charity and use the donations in clever ways in order to help rebuild society rather than through a lousy band-aid at problems that haven't been significantly helped with that lousy band-aid before.
I've been using them for ages. They're a great bunch of engineers and they provide a high value service. In the decade that I've been using them, I've never ONCE thought, "I wonder if I should move my domains somewhere else?" I can't think of any other service provider in my life that I haven't reconsidered at least every once in a while.
If you have any DNS business to send their way, show them slashdot's support!
Yeah, I know what you mean. After an EQ addiction and then a a bout of WoW addiction, I realized that as fun as MMOs are, they throw your life out of balance. It's one thing to have an escape every once in a while; but when you live your life in escape, those memories just aren't meaty enough to have been worth it. Memories of time spent with my family are more valuable. Learning something about science, technology, politics, economics, or history is more valuable than having my brain filled with the prices of virtual pieces of magical armor in a virtual world.
It's kind of like a guitar hero addiction. Sure, have fun with it for a few hours here and there. If you have enough time to spend hours on it a day, though, why not take up playing a REAL guitar?
That said, I think I started to drool a little when I looked at the new WoW expansion and thought about spending my Xmas holidays in Azeroth.
How many billions and billions of dollars does spam cost in terms of hardware, bandwidth, and human effort?
How much does the opportunity cost of these billions of dollars hurt the world in terms of more productive progress?
How many financial lives are ruined through scams, trojans, and viruses that enter people's computers through spam?
This guy was likely responsible for ruining many lives.
Having dealt with an assortment of people dealing with emotional loss, whether because of molestation, rape, or financial ruin - I can tell you that it's all the same. The perpetrator of these crimes took perfectly good lives and damaged them, possibly destroying many.
By sitting on the sidelines and poo-pooing the true devastation that spam causes, you're complicit in society's failure to deal properly with its worst enemies.
Well, I know your missing steps:
Step 1) Sell the car at a loss.
Step 2a) Renege on pension and compensation commitments to employees over the past 30 years.
Step 2b) Pad the books with taxpayer money to let you IPO and to help your stock price go up.
Step 3) Profit!!! **
** for the executives' compensation packages
That was during a perfect storm of an exploding US technology-driven expansion: we didn't start any wars so could downsize the military, we had a new conservative congress that was eager to show it was thrifty (for a few years at least), and a president who was shrewd enough (or too embedded in scandal to go against it) to roll with the semi-mandate that that new congress had.
With the retiring baby boomers, increasing global competition, and a generally stupid voting population; we're probably not going to see a perfect storm again soon.
The only people even talking about reducing the debt these days are some of the Tea Party folks. Between their eccentric individuals and the media's seeming zeal of taking them down, I don't have much hope that the good part of their message will go far.
Don't you think this argument is a bit religious when you name a bunch of "big government" problems that have caused the debt we have yet you attack the opposite societal configuration of capitalism anyway?
Big government is the root of the problem. Big government has become too easily controlled by big corporations. Now we have to fight both of them combined (corporatism) as they try to take away our money and every single one of our freedoms that prevents them from controlling us properly.
How bad does this have to get before people wake the fuck up and slash the hell out of this government until it isn't powerful enough to hurt us anymore?
I don't know where I stand on net neutrality some days, but I do know that with the government, you're screwed if you don't like their policy (ie, law). At least with corporations you can go to their competitors.
And since when did the mission of DHS become copyright enforcement?
Yeah, I came in to wonder about that part. More liberty-threatening, tax-guzzling, constitution-thrashing government scope creep.
Copyright encourages content creation.
Seriously, how anyone can think that copyright doesn't encourage content creation is beyond me. The whole point of copyright is to make sure that content creators get paid by the people using and enjoying their creations.
That said, I'm not in favor of the never ending copyright extensions over the past years.
I think that after the first 10-20 years, you don't get much of an effect of content creation. But getting rid of copyright completely isn't the answer.
Why do you think that the US has dominated so much of the world in content creation: software, music, movies, etc.? It's because we made our content creators wealthy and made the pursuit of that wealth the goal of so many people.
It has nothing to do whether or not they're making a profit. It has everything to do with their intent to break copyright law and not care if they were hurting content providers.
And I'm sure that your average mob money laundering restaurant actually serves a decent veal parmesan. That doesn't justify the illegality of the overall venture.
I think it comes down more to deliberate purpose and intent of the maintainers rather than some magic ratio.
It's more persuasive to those of us who want to see content creators encouraged.
To those who don't care about content creation, invention, innovation, ethics, and general societal advancement -- a lot of what I have to say is just "blah blah blah".