Your observation because one really good moral "based on superstition and mythology" is to help and serve, such as adopting behaviors/norms/laws which reduce poverty and working to alleviate the suffering of Others
There is a stark diffrence between morales based on mutual aid, respect for the human condition, equality, and universal human rights, based on observation based facts, using controlled studies to determine cause and effect, than those based on superstition and mythology.
The fact that we as a nation cannot tell the diffrence is part of the reason why we have such a high poverty rate, such a high incarceration rate, glorify criminals, and criminalize reformers.
The biggest threat to our children is not some creep, pedophile, terrorist, or musician. Its school administrators, politicians, facebook, google, and rouge fire-and-brimestone preachers.
Dems do the exact same thing. mainstream politics have next to no credibility. The 2004 elections where a complete shitshow, with the dems doubling down heavy on things like a supposed nazi connection of the Bush family(turned out to be false, it was a smear campaign from the 30s), and conspiracy grade material
meanwhile there was so much low hanging fruit they sort of ignored. They finally got their ducks in a row with Obama in 2008, and Obama won by a landslide because most Americans are fed up with the patriot act, never ending war, the TSA, and the security state.
If you really need to vote democrat and for a vote woman, it should be noted that Elizabeth Warren is also a woman, also is part of the Democratic party, and is far less of a shitbag.
Oh, and Warren is also an accomplished Politician, and I agree with her on many issues that don't involve gun control, and I widely prefer her to Hillary any day.
Oh, wait, it seems that we only care about "protecting the children", when its an excuse to cram morals based on superstition and mythology, or we want to ban something with the intent of arresting people, or give the police new powers to arrest people, harshen sentances, or errode the rights of the accused.
But really, there are some pretty loud crickets when the state gets a hardon for arresting/harrassing children.
No one promises pork spending. They just do it and don't tell you. Things like this are never really election items and if they are, they are ignored post election.
We don't have the congress we deserve, we don't have a democracy in any useful sense, and we don't have freedom in any useful sense of the word.
As long as the cops in the USA have the "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality, swatting will always be a problem. SWATing exploits the fact that cops are fucking stupid, scared animals, who are prone to alarmism, and itch for an excuse to use excessive force. They see no problem in roughing up many innocents to get a small handful of small time criminals. They are easy to trick, slow to think, quick to act.
The solution is to re-examine SWAT team usage nation wide, and how they are used and for what. Until we do, SWATing will always be a threat. The solution is to fix the vulernbility by replacing a dangerous and broken system with one that works better.
you're going to have to bring up some citations, because when the government gave AT&T a monopoly, they might have done some shitty things, and blocked some innovation, but the quality of service was second to none. They had a phrase called "five nines" to describe their uptime. To date, no other information system can match the 99.999% reliability of Ma Bell. You picked up the phone and the dial tone was always there. No exceptions. They also pushed innovation and gave back to the community. UNIX for example was given away for Free when they had a monopoly. They didn't care, they just wrote it off. AT&T Bell Labs was the envy of the fucking world, and the state of the art for electronic engineering for 5 fucking decades.
I'd like to see actual sources to back up the usual rhetoric, because your information is lacking.
you made me laugh. FULL TITLE 2 REGULATION. Do you even know what that means. I mean, look how restrictive the phone system was regulated as title 2.
Don't say anything, because the internet was already tapped and regulated before title 2. The only thing title 2 did was prevent comcast from adding additional private regulations.
There is really no diffrence from the government dictating rules and comcast doing it, and the only person who really looses out is comcast, and only in their ability to fuck with the end user.
I've been browsing slashdot since 1997, for most of history you goose-steppers where not welcome, and today again, you are not welcome, go back to stormfront.
Slashdot was always full of politics. Believe it or not, it use to be even more political, and even more radical. It is we, the originals who are taking it back, and you goosesteppers are the invaders who are no longer welcome.
I'm talking about the days when it was "geeks vs suits", the microsoft icon was the borg-bill gates, and the trolls where "natilie portman" and "hot grits". This is when "Free Kevin" stickers where the norm, and instead of PRiSM, it was CARNIVORE and RAPTOR.
another unlike association. Republicans again, seem to only really take a stand against "government regulation" when it suits them.
Except for a few spurts and a few people admittedly on the fringe of the party will we see anyone tackle the real issues.
Just like conspiracy theories will talk about mass internment camps being set up by FEMA, but no one wants to talk about the mass internment camps that are very real actual prisons and some of the silly things that get people sent to jail for very long sentances, and the very low burden of proof that a good chunk of these people didn't even do the petty crimes they are accused for for such long jail times.
No one wants to talk about the kangroo court systems, corrupt law enforcement agencies, private prisons, all of which is plainly obvious.
What internet taxes and content control?
I hope your not talking about net neutrality, because this is entirely unrelated.
Stuff like this has been going on long before net neutrality.
This religious freedom thing in Indiana is bullshit.
Oh, it totally, is, but after re-reading Carly Fiorina's epic burn, I can't fault her on anything. Give the devil her due, she's actually right. We do business with far worse than the state of Indiana, and in the name of "religious tollerance", we tollerate far worse.
Among all the people who read my comment, you're the only person unable to connect the dots, yet I'm the one with problems. Suuure...
your connecting dots that don't exist. I generally believe we call this paranoid schitzophrenia
You adopt the Obama's past platform without taking the effort to understand why he changed nor why you think he was wrong to do so. Your only justification being some childish sense of outrage.
the unlike association argument. Do you like trains running on time? Do you know who else liked the trains running on time. We all know why that didn't work. Please stop using logical fallicies.
No attempt at justifying why your current platform has been disavowed by the man elected president upon it years ago, just trite remarks?
The reason is because he was never serious about it in the first place, and anyone who understood his history knew that he was simply saying things to get elected. Your logic presumes that the current president is an infinite or even good spout of wisdom, which he was not and never was.
If nothing else, it signifies our political system is broken, and the population has no real dirrect effect on policy through election. If president Obama was sincere in his 2008 election promises, the most obvious answer to his "change of heart" is less "logic", something notoriously absent in politics, and more "special intrests demanded it", or "someone made him a deal he couldn't refuse".
I don't understand why you insinuate that political decisions are made with logic? Many are clearly not, given how often science and policy dirrectly clash, but special intrests and policy align.
My latest flash of insight is that you never graduated kindergarten & are jealous of those who have
perhaps you have heard about the old parable about the pot and the kettle?
They also seemed good enough to accept US aid durring the syrian civil war.
Cold hard reality is we support groups like this just as often as we oppose them.
The reason we have a problem with religious nuts is we allow it. Truth is, we tollerate religeious nuts far more than we tollerate secular nuts to the point all would be dissent knows that religeon is the only real path.
Its time to stop treating religeon as special from any other form of ideaology or philosophical creed.
I see that you are a connect the dots deficient person. No surprise there given your kindergarten playground level of reasoning.
No, your just being extremely shitty at explaining your point.
Obama's speeches pre-election were completely in line with what you parroted above. His speeches and above all actions since then have done a complete 180. The difference between Obama pre-election & Obama post-election is that he was made aware of many things that he ignored and discounted the danger of.
I understand this completely. I did not vote for the man either times. I niether said nor implied I did. I see someone is connecting dots that don't exist.
Given that you are continuing to parrot the old, ignorant Obama, I had assumed that it was because you felt that you were more intelligent than he is. I see now that you are just a poor ideological parrot incapable of learning from others.
A politician goes back on his word and now is being described as a flash of insight? sweet shit. Did you graduate kingergarten?
What the fuck are you even talking about, how does this have to do with Obama, who was first elected quite a bit sooner than a decade, and why am I supposed to run for president with no money, no donors, no political standing and no visibility in the public.
Somewhere, somehow your logic train de-railed, you need to fix this.
Except its really not. Don't believe the hype, intellegence agencies have all the power they need without trampling citizens rights.
What they are doing is looking for dissent, and moonlighting for private companies. 60% of all surivailence is economic according to Snowden. They're spying on your business for your competitors who are paying moonlighting NSA agents.
They are spying on your kids who fed up with the system. They're making up terrorist plots to bust, with intellegence being used to help frame people
They looking for complainers, and harrassing activists. They are not preventing you, or your loved ones from dying horribly. You are more likely to die at their hands, or have you or your loved one have their life destroyed at by them then you are having them protect said lives.
I don't feel any fucking safer, in fact I feel less safe.
no. we are only empowering non-techies at the expense of programmers. While I might urge people to take action, and agitate, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and of course, anti-sexist ideas in tech, the concept that we allow this sort of politics in tech is unacceptable. The reason is not to tollerate sexist ideas, but to prevent the framework for the type of political witch hunts, strong-arm bully tactics, that proffesional activist/vanguardists allow a few non-productive conpersons to exploit and industry for personal gain at the expense of the workers.
Even if a programmer is harmful, it does not make his work inherently harmful.
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Your observation because one really good moral "based on superstition and mythology" is to help and serve, such as adopting behaviors/norms/laws which reduce poverty and working to alleviate the suffering of Others
There is a stark diffrence between morales based on mutual aid, respect for the human condition, equality, and universal human rights, based on observation based facts, using controlled studies to determine cause and effect, than those based on superstition and mythology.
The fact that we as a nation cannot tell the diffrence is part of the reason why we have such a high poverty rate, such a high incarceration rate, glorify criminals, and criminalize reformers.
The biggest threat to our children is not some creep, pedophile, terrorist, or musician. Its school administrators, politicians, facebook, google, and rouge fire-and-brimestone preachers.
a vote for hillary is a vote for wall street. Lets be frank where most of our problems begin.
meanwhile there was so much low hanging fruit they sort of ignored. They finally got their ducks in a row with Obama in 2008, and Obama won by a landslide because most Americans are fed up with the patriot act, never ending war, the TSA, and the security state.
If you really need to vote democrat and for a vote woman, it should be noted that Elizabeth Warren is also a woman, also is part of the Democratic party, and is far less of a shitbag.
Oh, and Warren is also an accomplished Politician, and I agree with her on many issues that don't involve gun control, and I widely prefer her to Hillary any day.
But really, there are some pretty loud crickets when the state gets a hardon for arresting/harrassing children.
No one promises pork spending. They just do it and don't tell you. Things like this are never really election items and if they are, they are ignored post election.
We don't have the congress we deserve, we don't have a democracy in any useful sense, and we don't have freedom in any useful sense of the word.
The solution is to re-examine SWAT team usage nation wide, and how they are used and for what. Until we do, SWATing will always be a threat. The solution is to fix the vulernbility by replacing a dangerous and broken system with one that works better.
I'd like to see actual sources to back up the usual rhetoric, because your information is lacking.
Don't say anything, because the internet was already tapped and regulated before title 2. The only thing title 2 did was prevent comcast from adding additional private regulations.
There is really no diffrence from the government dictating rules and comcast doing it, and the only person who really looses out is comcast, and only in their ability to fuck with the end user.
your concept of freedom fighter is limited to corporate influence aparantly.
Slashdot was always full of politics. Believe it or not, it use to be even more political, and even more radical. It is we, the originals who are taking it back, and you goosesteppers are the invaders who are no longer welcome.
I'm talking about the days when it was "geeks vs suits", the microsoft icon was the borg-bill gates, and the trolls where "natilie portman" and "hot grits". This is when "Free Kevin" stickers where the norm, and instead of PRiSM, it was CARNIVORE and RAPTOR.
Except for a few spurts and a few people admittedly on the fringe of the party will we see anyone tackle the real issues.
Just like conspiracy theories will talk about mass internment camps being set up by FEMA, but no one wants to talk about the mass internment camps that are very real actual prisons and some of the silly things that get people sent to jail for very long sentances, and the very low burden of proof that a good chunk of these people didn't even do the petty crimes they are accused for for such long jail times.
No one wants to talk about the kangroo court systems, corrupt law enforcement agencies, private prisons, all of which is plainly obvious.
except its not in soviet russia. its right here in the USA, paid for by public relations agents.
What internet taxes and content control? I hope your not talking about net neutrality, because this is entirely unrelated. Stuff like this has been going on long before net neutrality.
This religious freedom thing in Indiana is bullshit.
Oh, it totally, is, but after re-reading Carly Fiorina's epic burn, I can't fault her on anything. Give the devil her due, she's actually right. We do business with far worse than the state of Indiana, and in the name of "religious tollerance", we tollerate far worse.
Take Star Trek, for example. It led the way into devices we take for granted.
No, hardworking engineers made the devices possible. As much as I adore star trek, please give credit where credit is due.
Among all the people who read my comment, you're the only person unable to connect the dots, yet I'm the one with problems. Suuure...
your connecting dots that don't exist. I generally believe we call this paranoid schitzophrenia
You adopt the Obama's past platform without taking the effort to understand why he changed nor why you think he was wrong to do so. Your only justification being some childish sense of outrage.
the unlike association argument. Do you like trains running on time? Do you know who else liked the trains running on time. We all know why that didn't work. Please stop using logical fallicies.
No attempt at justifying why your current platform has been disavowed by the man elected president upon it years ago, just trite remarks?
The reason is because he was never serious about it in the first place, and anyone who understood his history knew that he was simply saying things to get elected. Your logic presumes that the current president is an infinite or even good spout of wisdom, which he was not and never was.
If nothing else, it signifies our political system is broken, and the population has no real dirrect effect on policy through election. If president Obama was sincere in his 2008 election promises, the most obvious answer to his "change of heart" is less "logic", something notoriously absent in politics, and more "special intrests demanded it", or "someone made him a deal he couldn't refuse".
I don't understand why you insinuate that political decisions are made with logic? Many are clearly not, given how often science and policy dirrectly clash, but special intrests and policy align.
My latest flash of insight is that you never graduated kindergarten & are jealous of those who have
perhaps you have heard about the old parable about the pot and the kettle?
I can think of one video game, "portal", where both the sole protagonist and antagonist are female.
They also seemed good enough to accept US aid durring the syrian civil war.
Cold hard reality is we support groups like this just as often as we oppose them.
The reason we have a problem with religious nuts is we allow it. Truth is, we tollerate religeious nuts far more than we tollerate secular nuts to the point all would be dissent knows that religeon is the only real path.
Its time to stop treating religeon as special from any other form of ideaology or philosophical creed.
I see that you are a connect the dots deficient person. No surprise there given your kindergarten playground level of reasoning.
No, your just being extremely shitty at explaining your point.
Obama's speeches pre-election were completely in line with what you parroted above. His speeches and above all actions since then have done a complete 180. The difference between Obama pre-election & Obama post-election is that he was made aware of many things that he ignored and discounted the danger of.
I understand this completely. I did not vote for the man either times. I niether said nor implied I did. I see someone is connecting dots that don't exist.
Given that you are continuing to parrot the old, ignorant Obama, I had assumed that it was because you felt that you were more intelligent than he is. I see now that you are just a poor ideological parrot incapable of learning from others.
A politician goes back on his word and now is being described as a flash of insight? sweet shit. Did you graduate kingergarten?
Somewhere, somehow your logic train de-railed, you need to fix this.
What they are doing is looking for dissent, and moonlighting for private companies. 60% of all surivailence is economic according to Snowden. They're spying on your business for your competitors who are paying moonlighting NSA agents.
They are spying on your kids who fed up with the system. They're making up terrorist plots to bust, with intellegence being used to help frame people
They looking for complainers, and harrassing activists. They are not preventing you, or your loved ones from dying horribly. You are more likely to die at their hands, or have you or your loved one have their life destroyed at by them then you are having them protect said lives.
I don't feel any fucking safer, in fact I feel less safe.
She made an important scientific breakthrough.
In my opinion, thats very sexy. 10/10, five stars.
I'm just waiting to be "rescued" from political and social ideas that don't jive with facebooks political and advertising partners.
Even if a programmer is harmful, it does not make his work inherently harmful.