"We" is the people of the United State of America. What makes us special is that we've granted to ourselves the power to govern the country.
You've disingenuopusly defined "people of the United State of America" as being "everyone who agrees with me."
There is no question that we ought to govern the country, the only question is how.
Just saying that doesn't make it true.
Maybe you mean "I don't want anyone to questions whether or not we should govern, because the outcome of that debate may not turn out in my favor."
You'd give unrestricted rights to businesses to do what they want. Id restrict businesses from acting in ways detrimental to their customers or to the economy as a whole.
You've granted unlimited power to self-appointed rulers who presume to know the unknowable while pretending to rule "for the benefit of society as a whole."
Even worse, it's not even original in its deception. Just the same old tired trumped-up justifications for power that tyrants and their apoligists have been using for centuries. You could at least try to come up with something new for a change.
Nothing. They all have mental disorders relating to self image, usually due to being molested as a kid. Oops, did I just drop a big bag of reality on the discussion?
This. I'll never understand why when someone "thinks they're the opposite gender" we don't try and fix their mind to match their body but instead are willing to send them through some incredibly dangerous and life-shortening medical procedures to do the exact opposite.
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Also, there's far too much child sexual abuse in the world, with a disturbingly high fraction of they population complicit in one way or another, for society to talk honestly about the topic. There is a very vocal minority with an extremely strong incentive to divert any discussions away from that area.
It may not be obvious to you, but at least one of Facebook's advertisers decided the differences are worth marketing to individually so they asked Facebook to start measuring them.
Because, so far, every single thing that Snowden has said has turned out to be true
when cross-checked. And, so far, every NSA official spokesperson has been caught repeatedly
lying.
What? You're using logic and critical thinking? You must be a terrorist and/or traitor.
This is not the account I've heard about the Qt team being hostile to external input. I know someone working on a Qt application who frequently has to work around c++11 and javascript bugs, and is unable to get any of his patches accepted upstream.
If you were a business looking to make money on selling security equipment to power companies, or if you were an up-and-coming policitial player looking for a reason to start a new agency you can be the head of, you'd do the same thing.
The EISA should be called the "GE Payment for Services Rendered Act of 2007"
Same shit, different day. Large corporations help politicians gain power. Politicians return the favor by enacting legislation favorable to the bottom line of said companies. A story is invented to help sell the fleecing to a gullible public, and most of them are happy to be taken hook, line, and sinker, "Well if they say it's better for the environment then it obviously must be true. Think of the children!"
Not voting is a decision that gives consent to whatever happens as a result of your apathy.
Nope.
Not voting reveals the system for what it is: violence concealed by the division of labor.
Voting in an election is as moral as bidding in a slave auction. In both cases participation gives both processes the illusion of legitimacy they do not deserve.
Are you going to claim you had no hand in putting him there?
I've never voted in a presidential election, for exactly that reason.
What those people do in the District of Criminals has neither my approval nor my consent (not that the care about or require either - they just pretend to on camera because it's more profitable that way)
Mostly I was talking about the multiple calls on Twitter to hunt down the people who dared to star the repository on GitHub and seek to get their employment terminated.
Some people clearly can't take a joke, and are enraged that anyone else might, and will punish anyone who doesn't comply with their demands.
The purpose is to allow practitionors to show off verbal proficiency without requiring any intellectual rigour, or indeed saying anything falsifiable at all.
I've never learned any language for it's own sake, and I've always been interested in programming as long as I can remember.
Every time I've tried to learn a language just to know it, it's about as successful as pushing a string. As soon as I have some goal I'm excited about where not knowing a certain language is getting in my way of achieving it, I learn virtually effortlessly.
As a child, I learned a good deal about chemistry and explosives through DIY activities. Those childhood lessons (nobody got hurt) have gotten me some good jobs at major aerospace companies and at a space startup.
Slashdot Mirror
You've disingenuopusly defined "people of the United State of America" as being "everyone who agrees with me."
Just saying that doesn't make it true.
Maybe you mean "I don't want anyone to questions whether or not we should govern, because the outcome of that debate may not turn out in my favor."
You've granted unlimited power to self-appointed rulers who presume to know the unknowable while pretending to rule "for the benefit of society as a whole."
Even worse, it's not even original in its deception. Just the same old tired trumped-up justifications for power that tyrants and their apoligists have been using for centuries. You could at least try to come up with something new for a change.
I may not be a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure the Seventh Amendment trumps the Supreme Court
Nope.
The US Constitution is a very old piece of paper sitting in a museum.
The Supreme Court is a group of people.
A piece of paper is an inanimate object - it can't do anything.
I don't understand why people can publicly advocate fascism and expect to not be called out on it.
Who is "we" and what makes them so special such that it's legitmate for them to give orders to other people?
Your explaination is reasonable and reveals the headline, and 99% of the comments on this article, as being inaccurate and misguided.
I predict it will be ignored because the audience is more interested reasons to scream at each other and push agendas instead of facts.
Nothing. They all have mental disorders relating to self image, usually due to being molested as a kid. Oops, did I just drop a big bag of reality on the discussion?
This. I'll never understand why when someone "thinks they're the opposite gender" we don't try and fix their mind to match their body but instead are willing to send them through some incredibly dangerous and life-shortening medical procedures to do the exact opposite.
$$$
Also, there's far too much child sexual abuse in the world, with a disturbingly high fraction of they population complicit in one way or another, for society to talk honestly about the topic. There is a very vocal minority with an extremely strong incentive to divert any discussions away from that area.
Can't be that long. It was considered wrong when I was in school and that wasn't that long ago.
Shakesphere used "their" as a singular. What you learned in school was revisionism.
It may not be obvious to you, but at least one of Facebook's advertisers decided the differences are worth marketing to individually so they asked Facebook to start measuring them.
Better link: http://data.bitcoinity.org/mar...
Because, so far, every single thing that Snowden has said has turned out to be true when cross-checked. And, so far, every NSA official spokesperson has been caught repeatedly lying.
What? You're using logic and critical thinking? You must be a terrorist and/or traitor.
In theory it's possible to provide more bandwith if there's more revene coming in topay for the infrastructure.
Since the wireless market is a cartel enforced by licensing AT&T has little to no incentive to behave well.
No, I guess I should have taken a screenshot or something.
This is not the account I've heard about the Qt team being hostile to external input. I know someone working on a Qt application who frequently has to work around c++11 and javascript bugs, and is unable to get any of his patches accepted upstream.
Based on the Qt team's complete lack of willingness to fix security bugs apparently when you render with Qt, you're rendering with the NSA.
If you were a business looking to make money on selling security equipment to power companies, or if you were an up-and-coming policitial player looking for a reason to start a new agency you can be the head of, you'd do the same thing.
Don't neglect the increased energy needed to manufacture more complex lighting devices.
The EISA should be called the "GE Payment for Services Rendered Act of 2007"
Same shit, different day. Large corporations help politicians gain power. Politicians return the favor by enacting legislation favorable to the bottom line of said companies. A story is invented to help sell the fleecing to a gullible public, and most of them are happy to be taken hook, line, and sinker, "Well if they say it's better for the environment then it obviously must be true. Think of the children!"
Leave the farm
Nope.
Not voting reveals the system for what it is: violence concealed by the division of labor.
Voting in an election is as moral as bidding in a slave auction. In both cases participation gives both processes the illusion of legitimacy they do not deserve.
Voting election is like bidding in a slave auction.
Any form of participation in the event gives it legitimacy it doesn't deserve.
I've never voted in a presidential election, for exactly that reason.
What those people do in the District of Criminals has neither my approval nor my consent (not that the care about or require either - they just pretend to on camera because it's more profitable that way)
Mostly I was talking about the multiple calls on Twitter to hunt down the people who dared to star the repository on GitHub and seek to get their employment terminated.
Some people clearly can't take a joke, and are enraged that anyone else might, and will punish anyone who doesn't comply with their demands.
No, that's the point of postmodern language.
The purpose is to allow practitionors to show off verbal proficiency without requiring any intellectual rigour, or indeed saying anything falsifiable at all.
Indeed.
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire
Now we know.
I've never learned any language for it's own sake, and I've always been interested in programming as long as I can remember.
Every time I've tried to learn a language just to know it, it's about as successful as pushing a string. As soon as I have some goal I'm excited about where not knowing a certain language is getting in my way of achieving it, I learn virtually effortlessly.
You and Gordon Moore
I don't know what to do except keep my passport up to date. Western civilization is slowly comitting suidice, on many fronts.