I think most of us expect blatant inaccuracies from the "Your Rights Online" section, news from black helicopter spotters. The truth is I think most of the people here have a fetish for these kinds of anti-government stories. The people here feed on each other's paranoia.
I don't think that would work, a lot of people would justifiably complain that they paid a great deal of money for their once legal vehicles, and now they can drive them on the road. But I do think we could regulate the speed differently for heavier vehicles the way we regulate the speed for large transport trucks now. You could even impose a momentum limit: the heavier your vehicle, the slower you must go and you have to drive in the right-lane. Or, a separate speed limit for vehicles over a certain mass, since math is hard and we don't want to confuse people.;)
This would also reduce the consumption of gasoline which would, in theory, cut demand and therefore cut prices.
My theory has always been that it's a time of day issue. Lots of people don't like to much brightness/luminosity from their monitors, but I think that's because they do most of their coding late at night or in buildings without windows. But I think people who code during the day would probably benefit from dark on bright.
1. The Sept 11 bombers were Muslim. (Using an outsider's definition, not getting what a real Muslim is just like I don't take pains to define a real Christian.) 2. Anyone who bombed the US in the Sept 11 attacks hate the West. 3. Therefore, all Muslims hate the West. Invalid
Damn, guy, get yourself a couple of logic and critical thinking books before you start calling bullshit. Don't be stupid.
Too bad my mod points just expired, but I found your post very insightful. I think your analysis is accurate and corrects the assumption I made before I read your post.
If 'unity' means 'agreeing with people who advocate theocracy', then I'm against it. If it means 'Americans working together to make their country and the world a better place', I'm for it. Consider the idea that all this extremism you're reacting to is mostly (a) something manufactured and created for political ends*, and (b) reactions to other extremists. Most people actually start out very moderate until they become enraged by rather extremist views. That is, people move further to the left in reaction to extremist rightwing views; and they move further to the right in reaction to extremist leftwing views.
So, I think unification is a good thing, before we all end up falling off the ends of the political spectrum.
* I can't remember the name for this, but I'm referring in part to the strategy of, in order to get a bill passed that the public thinks is too extreme, begin campaigning for an even more extreme bill or position that makes the former bill appear moderate in comparison. Basically, divide and conquer is how politics is won in our country and they'll never thank you for helping them.
It's not going to happen again, no matter who wins. McCain isn't Bush. He's a much more respectable candidate with actual competence. I think this might be the first win-win election we've had in a long time.
The way I see it, whether you harbor prejudices or biases is up to you decide for yourself. It's just that this whole climate here as well as elsewhere is just horrible.
No, I haven't looked at any of the links; the argument was invalid and, as far as I'm concerned, that's all there is to it. But, no matter how bad that link was, any of this obtuse yelling and screaming can't be justified by it. I keep seeing the word "bullshit" in response to these posts and it just shows that no one is actually thinking in this thread.
So we can't assume someone is a racist if they pass out racist material? Apparently the slashdot mods either don't understand what logical validity is, or don't care when the issue of racism comes up, but they are wrong and so are you. Look it up if you don't understand the concept, and then take another look at the post.
What you ignore is that genuine racists put up a lot of effort to confuse and distort the issues, and a lot of people fall for it.
People who propogate racist shit like that are racists themselves or unbelievably and undeniably stupid, which is nearly the same thing. Uh huh. And what you've just said is unbelievably and undeniably stupid. Therefore, you are (nearly) a racist.
That's called a reduction to absurdity, by the way. I don't actually believe you're a racist. But, with the witch hunts, it's hard to tell the difference, isn't it?
You can be against racism, I'm not up on it either. But you can only claim the high ground by sticking to what is justifiable with reason and not get carried away by passion.
It strongly suggests that you yourself are quite comfortable with overt racism and pathological hate. And it leads me to the conclusion, Mr. Cornelius, that you are engaged in a crude form of psychological rationalization [wikipedia.org] for your own unstated racist sentiments. Invalid argument. It could be the case that he is comfortable with overt racism because he is regularly exposed to it, not necessarily that he engages in it.
The worst thing about anti-racism are the witch hunts that result from it. On an online forum, we aren't going to put the burden on people to prove they're not racists, okay?
You know, you don't absolutely have to use and buy that hardware with the proprietary drivers, you know? And, if you find a free alternative, that might give them incentive to make their drivers free, which gives us knowledge about how their hardware works benefiting all of us. Let them write the drivers, it's their hardware.
I don't really see what the iPhone has to do with this [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS]when we already know what the future will look like[/url]. It doesn't surprise me at all that "multi-touch" will be the wave of the future. Now we just have to wait for the flat-colored palette and rounded corners to come in vogue.;)
But an agnostic also believes that the term "god" is a clearly understood concept, something that I think is questionable. I think some agnostics won't admit to this, when they say that they don't or can't know whether god exists, usually it just means that they aren't even sure what it would mean for god to exist.
Look at it this way, let's take an undefined and therefore meaningless term, and ask whether it exists. Do blargs exist? Well, I don't know, that depends on what "blarg" means. But that doesn't make me an agnostic as to whether blargs exist.
So that's why I'm usually skeptical about agnostics. Usually the question is: how do they live? Do they live as if there's a god watching over them, evaluating every action, thought, and feeling you have; or as if they are free and live a life of inquiry? When put this way, there's no such thing as an agnostic.
If they were photographing inside people's homes that would be one thing. But the streets are called public places for a reason. One of us doesn't understand the right to privacy, but I don't it's me. And no, I don't respect people's obsession with their appearance.
Which leads to the question has he now put Superman in danger from every 2 bit criminal with enough money to order atrificial Kriptonite? You mean, like, Lex Luther?
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I think most of us expect blatant inaccuracies from the "Your Rights Online" section, news from black helicopter spotters. The truth is I think most of the people here have a fetish for these kinds of anti-government stories. The people here feed on each other's paranoia.
I don't think that would work, a lot of people would justifiably complain that they paid a great deal of money for their once legal vehicles, and now they can drive them on the road. But I do think we could regulate the speed differently for heavier vehicles the way we regulate the speed for large transport trucks now. You could even impose a momentum limit: the heavier your vehicle, the slower you must go and you have to drive in the right-lane. Or, a separate speed limit for vehicles over a certain mass, since math is hard and we don't want to confuse people. ;)
This would also reduce the consumption of gasoline which would, in theory, cut demand and therefore cut prices.
You're essentially correct, we aren't all brainless vegetables.
But, they let the brainless vegetables vote too. How sure are you that they don't outnumber the rest of us?
Has anyone else wondered how it is that those "Vote for X!" signs in people's lawns could actually work?
Nah, twitter is for people who don't have the attention span for a TV commercial.
It amazes me what the attention-deficient online think is too long.
Many of you will never get this far in this post :)
I'll sell my vote to anyone under the condition that you vote the same way I do. Bidding starting now.
No, that would be the Internet. It's very important not to confuse the two.
No, that would be MSN, AOL, Yahoo, Google, etc. The Internet was a neat idea but has a crappy ad campaign.
My theory has always been that it's a time of day issue. Lots of people don't like to much brightness/luminosity from their monitors, but I think that's because they do most of their coding late at night or in buildings without windows. But I think people who code during the day would probably benefit from dark on bright.
1. The Sept 11 bombers were Muslim. (Using an outsider's definition, not getting what a real Muslim is just like I don't take pains to define a real Christian.)
2. Anyone who bombed the US in the Sept 11 attacks hate the West.
3. Therefore, all Muslims hate the West. Invalid
Damn, guy, get yourself a couple of logic and critical thinking books before you start calling bullshit. Don't be stupid.
Too bad my mod points just expired, but I found your post very insightful. I think your analysis is accurate and corrects the assumption I made before I read your post.
Sure, as long as you know the correct placement of the giant yellow duck. It's the details that really made the Enterprise work.
So, I think unification is a good thing, before we all end up falling off the ends of the political spectrum.
* I can't remember the name for this, but I'm referring in part to the strategy of, in order to get a bill passed that the public thinks is too extreme, begin campaigning for an even more extreme bill or position that makes the former bill appear moderate in comparison. Basically, divide and conquer is how politics is won in our country and they'll never thank you for helping them.
It's not going to happen again, no matter who wins. McCain isn't Bush. He's a much more respectable candidate with actual competence. I think this might be the first win-win election we've had in a long time.
I have skin covering all the important parts.
The way I see it, whether you harbor prejudices or biases is up to you decide for yourself. It's just that this whole climate here as well as elsewhere is just horrible.
No, I haven't looked at any of the links; the argument was invalid and, as far as I'm concerned, that's all there is to it. But, no matter how bad that link was, any of this obtuse yelling and screaming can't be justified by it. I keep seeing the word "bullshit" in response to these posts and it just shows that no one is actually thinking in this thread.
You know, if you want to make faster progress I suggest you consult the experts of all things cube.
What you ignore is that genuine racists put up a lot of effort to confuse and distort the issues, and a lot of people fall for it. People who propogate racist shit like that are racists themselves or unbelievably and undeniably stupid, which is nearly the same thing. Uh huh. And what you've just said is unbelievably and undeniably stupid. Therefore, you are (nearly) a racist.
That's called a reduction to absurdity, by the way. I don't actually believe you're a racist. But, with the witch hunts, it's hard to tell the difference, isn't it?
You can be against racism, I'm not up on it either. But you can only claim the high ground by sticking to what is justifiable with reason and not get carried away by passion.
The worst thing about anti-racism are the witch hunts that result from it. On an online forum, we aren't going to put the burden on people to prove they're not racists, okay?
Why? I want a humor death!
You know, you don't absolutely have to use and buy that hardware with the proprietary drivers, you know? And, if you find a free alternative, that might give them incentive to make their drivers free, which gives us knowledge about how their hardware works benefiting all of us. Let them write the drivers, it's their hardware.
They have to wait for the latest generation of brainwashed Apple fanboy clones to be harvested before they can give the next iPhone a proper release.
I don't really see what the iPhone has to do with this [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS]when we already know what the future will look like[/url]. It doesn't surprise me at all that "multi-touch" will be the wave of the future. Now we just have to wait for the flat-colored palette and rounded corners to come in vogue. ;)
But an agnostic also believes that the term "god" is a clearly understood concept, something that I think is questionable. I think some agnostics won't admit to this, when they say that they don't or can't know whether god exists, usually it just means that they aren't even sure what it would mean for god to exist.
Look at it this way, let's take an undefined and therefore meaningless term, and ask whether it exists. Do blargs exist? Well, I don't know, that depends on what "blarg" means. But that doesn't make me an agnostic as to whether blargs exist.
So that's why I'm usually skeptical about agnostics. Usually the question is: how do they live? Do they live as if there's a god watching over them, evaluating every action, thought, and feeling you have; or as if they are free and live a life of inquiry? When put this way, there's no such thing as an agnostic.
If they were photographing inside people's homes that would be one thing. But the streets are called public places for a reason. One of us doesn't understand the right to privacy, but I don't it's me. And no, I don't respect people's obsession with their appearance.
Seriously, cut the bullshit.