Can't argue with that. Now how about the fact that we have 3% of the world's population, yet 25% of its prisoners. Sounds like either the U.S. has the worst scumbag citizens on earth....or there's a lot of de facto revolutionaries out there.
And encyclopedias are bad too, because instead of getting quick overview on a subject and going on about my life, I should spend 10x the time and effort reading through all the available literature on a given subject and learn every detail about it, whether I needed all that information or not.
Well I would, for one. Apparently you don't understand just how serious a felony is. No stupid broken egg is worth taking away years of someone's life, their right to vote, and their right to bear arms.
Why does someone have to go to PRISON and be BARRED FROM LIFE from VOTING and GUN OWNERSHIP, just to suffer "consequences" for breaking a goddamn phone?
Nice rant, but you did absolutely nothing to argue against the GP's statement.
By the way: if you ever walk up to me with an iPhone as a paparazzi, trying to snap pics and video against my permission, you'll be lucky if it's just your phone that gets thrown through a window. You can bitch and cry and moan all you like but when you fuck with other people, expect to get fucked up.
can i run visual studio or Siemens Step 7 on an ipad?
You're gonna feel so damn foolish and naive when in less than two years, you CAN (easily) write a program every bit as fancy as anything you can produce on a PC, on a tablet or phone even.
My thinking is, these guys have been in business hundreds of years selling the same old shit in the same old way. Not exactly the kind of company that attracts bright, innovative young minds. Companies evolve much the same way organisms do. We humans don't have tails any more cause we don't need them. Likewise, an encyclopedia manufacturer doesn't attract or need smart, forward-thinking people.....up until the day it does. Meanwhile all the procedures, beauracracy, and politics of the business have been solidified and set in stone over the years making it damn near impossible for anyone to change anything even if they wanted. So when the Internet revolutionized everything, taking the above into account, it's not too hard to see why these guys were unable to respond effectively.
To add to your point, this is Afghanistan we're talking about here. Ever bought some "Kush" off your dealer? Yeah, that name comes from the Hindu Kush mountains, a mountain range whose ruggedness makes just about every other mountain range look like a joke. Seriously, I have never seen so many god damn rocks in my entire life. Pebbles, stones, boulders, you name it--everywhere.
The vast majority of the people in this country live way the hell out in the sticks, I'm talking tiny villages stuck way up in the ass crack of some ridge, damn near only accessible by helicopter, with zero means of communications with anywhere else. They by and large don't know much of anything about the world or anything else other than their little tribe and village. They don't know how to read or write. They live in mud houses.
These people cannot be held responsible for the actions of their government.
U.S. citizens on the other hand, are a different story...
Want to talk about greedy? How about an airline that charges $1600 for a one way ticket, and doesn't even have enough room on the plane for my ONE bag? They could have left out a couple of seats and made some extra room, but no, that would impact their bottom line too much. They could have measured my bag and told me it wouldn't fit before I even got on the plane, but no, they didn't bother. How the fuck is it *my* responsibility to know the exact measurements of every airplane I might potentially get on, and measure my bag to ensure it fits? Isn't that the airline's job? Don't they do this shit for a living?
1) I'm not a soldier dipshit, though I was once an airman. I was in plain clothes just like every other person.
2) No I don't ask for nor expect special treatment. What a stupid ASSumption on your part.
3) I don't give a flying fuck if they want to charge for extra luggage. That isn't my complaint. My complaint was the douchebags LET ME ON THE FLIGHT with a bag which I later found out would not fit under the seat, resulting in a huge inconvenience to me.
4) I only brought one goddamn bag on the plane. As I stated elsewhere, I don't fly very often, so I don't know all the ins and outs of packing for flights. I flew IN on a goddamn C-17...ever been on one of those cramped up bastards? The whole "flying out on a state of the art 777 (without room for my ONE bag)" deal is new to me. So how the fuck is this situation my fault?
The problem is, you're not going to be able to affect their government unless you affect their people somehow as well.>
No, that is not "the" problem. That is "a" problem, "if" you decide that it's necessary and justified to hurt their government. The actual problem is: it's not.
Ultimately, short of an all-out war and occupation, there's no way to remove a government that represents a danger to other countries other than forcing their people to face up to it and do the work to change things
And that government is......Iran? Care to justify that statement, based on something more than some vague reference made in a politically charged speech years ago about "wiping Israel off the map"? Or the "Death to Israel" phrase, which is common in Iran right alongside similar phrases "Death to traffic", "Death to long lines", and "Death to taxes"?
Are these really good enough reasons to justify deliberately working to ensure people starve to death? Especially considering the vast majority of evidence indicates Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon nor planning to invade anyone?
Wow, I am having such a deja vu right now of the months leading up to the Iraq invasion, when Saddam was pleading on national TV that he didn't have any chemical weapons and asking for inspectors to come verify it. Our government said he was just "stalling for time" but there was no time to wait cause an attack was imminent. Sound familiar?
And right now, people are trying to avoid a war.
Trying to avoid a war.....by ramping up war propaganda?
Trying to avoid a war.....by assassinating innocent scientists? People who had wives, kids, many years of education and experience, blown to pieces by a car bomb in the middle of traffic right next to a station wagon full of kids?
Trying to avoid war.....by dragging up the exact same tired old rhetoric and false propaganda that led us into the last foolish and costly war, not even 10 years ago?
Trying to avoid war by.....surrounding a nation by threatening military hardware on all sides? By spying via drone? By positioning aircraft carriers and attacks fleets all along their coast?
Trying to avoid war by......starving a nation full of innocent citizens, who are already miserable enough already?
Trying to avoid war by.....rallying said citizens behind the theocratic government we claim to WANT to get rid of, through the exact same imperialistic and arrogant policies said government has been telling them for years we engage in?
Yeah, I can totally see what you mean.
Iran is different. They are actively working to destabilize Israel and Iraq, and all of this is happening in the powderkeg of the Middle East. If Iran was like Israel and just sort of could be trusted to keep its nukes on the down low and not threaten the existence of other countries, that might be different.
No it's not. You sir are the sad victim of media propaganda.
By his standards, the world is simple: it's your fault if your government does something evil, and you should suffer for it.
"Should", and "fault", have nothing at all to do with it. The fact is if your government does something evil, someone (probably you) will suffer, either now or later. It's also a fact that they will do this unless YOU (citizen) do something about it, because nobody else is going to. Therefore, yes, it could be concluded that it's your "fault" if they do something evil, if you choose to not even speak your mind (thus broadcasting your opinion to others) to combat it.
But regardless of whose fault it is, the fact still remains that momentum applies to politics just as much as to an asteroid floating through space. If if you do nothing to help chip away at that momentum through whatever means at your disposal, then you have to simply be content with where gravity decides to take things.
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If the law was fair and just, then you might have a justification in calling Kim a "crook" for evading it. But it's not.
Can't argue with that. Now how about the fact that we have 3% of the world's population, yet 25% of its prisoners. Sounds like either the U.S. has the worst scumbag citizens on earth....or there's a lot of de facto revolutionaries out there.
The truth is pretty damn ugly. Do some research on all the evil that is privatized prisons.
Who said anything about C?
And encyclopedias are bad too, because instead of getting quick overview on a subject and going on about my life, I should spend 10x the time and effort reading through all the available literature on a given subject and learn every detail about it, whether I needed all that information or not.
Unprofessional people are defensive. A good person will listen and learn when he can.
FTFY
Come on , mods! This was funny, if for no other reason the perfect use of "caw on"... bravo sir.
P.S. you're wrong.
They call this being "penny wise, and pound foolish"
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Well I would, for one. Apparently you don't understand just how serious a felony is. No stupid broken egg is worth taking away years of someone's life, their right to vote, and their right to bear arms.
Why would I want my democracy's rules to be determined by the same people who've proven they don't care about the rules?
Because your "democracy's" rules are wrong
It's not yours, so you can't snatch it
I don't like people telling me what I can and cannot do. You meekly telling me I "can't" certainly has zero bearing on anything.
Become a paparazzi and stalk me. Find out how fast your iPhone gets shoved up your ass sideways.
I have rights too, you know.
Geeks, you need to be more proud of the law, it is much more geeky than most of us think.
Why would you ever be proud of something which is specifically designed to enslave people (prison) and ruin their lives?
Why does someone have to go to PRISON and be BARRED FROM LIFE from VOTING and GUN OWNERSHIP, just to suffer "consequences" for breaking a goddamn phone?
Nice rant, but you did absolutely nothing to argue against the GP's statement.
By the way: if you ever walk up to me with an iPhone as a paparazzi, trying to snap pics and video against my permission, you'll be lucky if it's just your phone that gets thrown through a window. You can bitch and cry and moan all you like but when you fuck with other people, expect to get fucked up.
can i run visual studio or Siemens Step 7 on an ipad?
You're gonna feel so damn foolish and naive when in less than two years, you CAN (easily) write a program every bit as fancy as anything you can produce on a PC, on a tablet or phone even.
If it's worthless, then maybe I can give you my address so you can mail me a free one.
My thinking is, these guys have been in business hundreds of years selling the same old shit in the same old way. Not exactly the kind of company that attracts bright, innovative young minds. Companies evolve much the same way organisms do. We humans don't have tails any more cause we don't need them. Likewise, an encyclopedia manufacturer doesn't attract or need smart, forward-thinking people.....up until the day it does. Meanwhile all the procedures, beauracracy, and politics of the business have been solidified and set in stone over the years making it damn near impossible for anyone to change anything even if they wanted. So when the Internet revolutionized everything, taking the above into account, it's not too hard to see why these guys were unable to respond effectively.
it may be slightly tedious, but really, no, it's not a big deal
Yeah today it isn't, but things weren't always that way.
Your thoughts on J++?
To add to your point, this is Afghanistan we're talking about here. Ever bought some "Kush" off your dealer? Yeah, that name comes from the Hindu Kush mountains, a mountain range whose ruggedness makes just about every other mountain range look like a joke. Seriously, I have never seen so many god damn rocks in my entire life. Pebbles, stones, boulders, you name it--everywhere.
The vast majority of the people in this country live way the hell out in the sticks, I'm talking tiny villages stuck way up in the ass crack of some ridge, damn near only accessible by helicopter, with zero means of communications with anywhere else. They by and large don't know much of anything about the world or anything else other than their little tribe and village. They don't know how to read or write. They live in mud houses.
These people cannot be held responsible for the actions of their government.
U.S. citizens on the other hand, are a different story...
If a record low crime rate is due to the effectiveness of police
It's not
Want to talk about greedy? How about an airline that charges $1600 for a one way ticket, and doesn't even have enough room on the plane for my ONE bag? They could have left out a couple of seats and made some extra room, but no, that would impact their bottom line too much. They could have measured my bag and told me it wouldn't fit before I even got on the plane, but no, they didn't bother. How the fuck is it *my* responsibility to know the exact measurements of every airplane I might potentially get on, and measure my bag to ensure it fits? Isn't that the airline's job? Don't they do this shit for a living?
1) I'm not a soldier dipshit, though I was once an airman. I was in plain clothes just like every other person.
2) No I don't ask for nor expect special treatment. What a stupid ASSumption on your part.
3) I don't give a flying fuck if they want to charge for extra luggage. That isn't my complaint. My complaint was the douchebags LET ME ON THE FLIGHT with a bag which I later found out would not fit under the seat, resulting in a huge inconvenience to me.
4) I only brought one goddamn bag on the plane. As I stated elsewhere, I don't fly very often, so I don't know all the ins and outs of packing for flights. I flew IN on a goddamn C-17...ever been on one of those cramped up bastards? The whole "flying out on a state of the art 777 (without room for my ONE bag)" deal is new to me. So how the fuck is this situation my fault?
The problem is, you're not going to be able to affect their government unless you affect their people somehow as well.>
No, that is not "the" problem. That is "a" problem, "if" you decide that it's necessary and justified to hurt their government. The actual problem is: it's not.
Ultimately, short of an all-out war and occupation, there's no way to remove a government that represents a danger to other countries other than forcing their people to face up to it and do the work to change things
And that government is......Iran? Care to justify that statement, based on something more than some vague reference made in a politically charged speech years ago about "wiping Israel off the map"? Or the "Death to Israel" phrase, which is common in Iran right alongside similar phrases "Death to traffic", "Death to long lines", and "Death to taxes"?
Are these really good enough reasons to justify deliberately working to ensure people starve to death? Especially considering the vast majority of evidence indicates Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon nor planning to invade anyone?
Wow, I am having such a deja vu right now of the months leading up to the Iraq invasion, when Saddam was pleading on national TV that he didn't have any chemical weapons and asking for inspectors to come verify it. Our government said he was just "stalling for time" but there was no time to wait cause an attack was imminent. Sound familiar?
And right now, people are trying to avoid a war.
Trying to avoid a war.....by ramping up war propaganda?
Trying to avoid a war.....by assassinating innocent scientists? People who had wives, kids, many years of education and experience, blown to pieces by a car bomb in the middle of traffic right next to a station wagon full of kids?
Trying to avoid war.....by dragging up the exact same tired old rhetoric and false propaganda that led us into the last foolish and costly war, not even 10 years ago?
Trying to avoid war by.....surrounding a nation by threatening military hardware on all sides? By spying via drone? By positioning aircraft carriers and attacks fleets all along their coast?
Trying to avoid war by......starving a nation full of innocent citizens, who are already miserable enough already?
Trying to avoid war by.....rallying said citizens behind the theocratic government we claim to WANT to get rid of, through the exact same imperialistic and arrogant policies said government has been telling them for years we engage in?
Yeah, I can totally see what you mean.
Iran is different. They are actively working to destabilize Israel and Iraq, and all of this is happening in the powderkeg of the Middle East. If Iran was like Israel and just sort of could be trusted to keep its nukes on the down low and not threaten the existence of other countries, that might be different.
No it's not. You sir are the sad victim of media propaganda.
By his standards, the world is simple: it's your fault if your government does something evil, and you should suffer for it.
"Should", and "fault", have nothing at all to do with it. The fact is if your government does something evil, someone (probably you) will suffer, either now or later. It's also a fact that they will do this unless YOU (citizen) do something about it, because nobody else is going to. Therefore, yes, it could be concluded that it's your "fault" if they do something evil, if you choose to not even speak your mind (thus broadcasting your opinion to others) to combat it.
But regardless of whose fault it is, the fact still remains that momentum applies to politics just as much as to an asteroid floating through space. If if you do nothing to help chip away at that momentum through whatever means at your disposal, then you have to simply be content with where gravity decides to take things.