As a temporary solution, I wonder if the old FEMA trailers have finished outgassing all their formaldehyde... perhaps someone has a collection of those going.
Do you find it offensive when a private contractor rips off the government?
Those 3 white supremacist dudes.. they're bad (at least in my public persona), BUT THOSE THOUSANDS!!!! UPON ENDLESS THOUSANDS OF LEFTIST THUGS ARE OUT OF CONTROL!
Won't someone think of the children and give those poor oppressed white supremacists their due time!
AI is improving every day, it far exceeds human capabiltiy at recognizing patterns and responding to them. When you watch what's happening with video games and how AI is beginning to trounce even the best players you can see how even in it's infancy AI needs to be treated with the same caution as you would a dangerous virus. Once the genie is out of the bottle it will be too late to discuss it.
The ironic part is I didn't mention a thing about political parties in my post. It's almost sad that the description I posted is so fitting to conservatives that it's a safe assumption.
The so-called "weather" "men" are just making up fake temperatures to try to make hard working Republicans look like the bad guys when we deliver value to our shareholders by lobbying against the EPA. So sad.
Is "the man" "keepin' you down" and preventing you from from screwing over every living soul you know and selling every scrap of resource you can to the highest bidder so you can be king of the trash pit.
This is all about consolidation of our media to a more "centralized" structure. You know the precursor to the state run that we always point to about OTHER countries that lack our "freedoms"
This administration is openly hostile to free press, so any move they make will be filtered through that lens.
This is in the middle of the fucking wilderness where there aren't any lights or people.
Um, that's the point... they want to **preserve** that. You see spaces like those are becoming more and more scarce and they are anticipating a time when developers may come descending one day and say "You know what... I envision a great development opportunity here! Let's start building!!!"
No, this is NOT about freedom of expression, this is about protecting THE TRUTH... the ability to separate facts from lies, to know where stories originate and the sources used so that they can be judged accurately... News IS about transparency.. and the subject at hand is NEWS, the information we consume about the world around us....not freedom of expression...
What good is expression when you live in a world of lies... nothing more than parlor tricks and slights of hand. That is something we need to fight against.
You seem to be missing the point, what's the difference between a company using IT'S OWN power to strong arm communities if there's nothing there to stop them and a well lobbied government allowing them to do it.
The government is there for the people's interest, if it's not working in the people's interests, it's up to THE PEOPLE to fix it, not dismantle the very tool they have to wield against such corruption.
Perhaps we're talking about the same solution from different perspectives.
Oh so you think that the government creating laws benefiting big corporations will be solved by taking power away from the government, thus increasing the power big business has? The government may be malfunctioning, but weakening it and giving power big business to do as it pleases without restriction isn't the answer. The problem of lobbying is the issue, not the government itself.
So ironic that you are confusing regulation and lobbying... it's the regulation that PREVENTS the very thing you're whining about. Companies like to strong arm small communities as presented in the article you linked to... that's not the government doing that.. it's the private sector. So you think that weakening the government and strengthening the private sector (who is doing the strong arming) is the solution????
I am absolutely stunned that a story like this exists. Officers conducting their duties should show some resistance to the current trend of this alternate form of force. Stories like these electrify the nation and enlighten us to serve as an outlet for moral outrage!
..it would be like having everyone's DNA unravel all at once, and all that would remain would be spaghetti code filling every corner of the conceivable universe!
Well then... let's remedy that so we can have some objective discussion.. what constitutes a "socialist" nation in your view and why
Yay for straw men. What would we do without them?
The same thing we're doing right now...
But OK, I'll agree that socialism doesn't always disasterously fail everyone, everywhere. And free markets don't always help everyone.
on that we are agreed at least.
But that doesn't mean we can't look at China today vs. Great Leap Forward China, or Venezuela before and after Chavez and learn some lessons.
...which brings me back to you defining your characteristics on what "socialism" means to you. Because that same word could have different meaning to you as opposed to me. I'll even go so far as to say that socialism vs free market can definitely co-exist in the same society. The real question is where do you draw the line and why. I like to think of them as tools, some things in our society work best as socialized entities, some work better as free market entities. When people talk socialism vs capitalism it's usually a very surface catch all meaning which doesn't do either side any good coming to a resolution.
For example, maybe only Scandinavians can succeed at socialism while everyone else is doomed to fail at it. So places where the population isn't nearly 100% Scandinavian should stay far away. That seems to fit the pattern.
Can you learn?
Can you not be pompous?.. I guess we'll find out. (this is Slashdot, so my hopes aren't high, but sometimes people do surprise me)
I'll agree that some cultures may be better suited to socialism than others. Everyone is different and assuming one system fits all is unrealistic. On that we are agreed... but again we need to define the parameters on what traits lead to a successful heavy socialist society vs a more heavy free market society.
Why would you take one failed 3rd world country and hold it up as an example of a system that has had successes in other parts of the world... Most of the western world is "socialist" to some degree or another. The Scandanavian countries have some of the highest standards of living in the world and would definitely be considered "socialist" by your view. It's also called being part of a society rather than some Randian utopia of self centered greed. At some point you're going to have to realize that the work OTHER people do and then claimed by the owner class is just as flawed philosophically...
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It's OK.. I get it. I struck a nerve when I outed your obvious nationality...
You're so Russian I can almost see the mix of vodka, shitty cigarettes, and worn out track suits through the screen....
As a temporary solution, I wonder if the old FEMA trailers have finished outgassing all their formaldehyde... perhaps someone has a collection of those going.
Do you find it offensive when a private contractor rips off the government?
You know what you sound like?
Those 3 white supremacist dudes.. they're bad (at least in my public persona), BUT THOSE THOUSANDS!!!! UPON ENDLESS THOUSANDS OF LEFTIST THUGS ARE OUT OF CONTROL!
Won't someone think of the children and give those poor oppressed white supremacists their due time!
Gold and diamond have practical uses. Bitcoin is useless and deliberately wasteful.
Currency has practical uses, where it gets it's scarcity based value is a moot point.
...blanket dismissals without any reasoning are equally non compelling.
AI is improving every day, it far exceeds human capabiltiy at recognizing patterns and responding to them. When you watch what's happening with video games and how AI is beginning to trounce even the best players you can see how even in it's infancy AI needs to be treated with the same caution as you would a dangerous virus. Once the genie is out of the bottle it will be too late to discuss it.
You've been signed up your whole life. You just don't realize it yet.
The ironic part is I didn't mention a thing about political parties in my post. It's almost sad that the description I posted is so fitting to conservatives that it's a safe assumption.
The so-called "weather" "men" are just making up fake temperatures to try to make hard working Republicans look like the bad guys when we deliver value to our shareholders by lobbying against the EPA. So sad.
Is "the man" "keepin' you down" and preventing you from from screwing over every living soul you know and selling every scrap of resource you can to the highest bidder so you can be king of the trash pit.
This is all about consolidation of our media to a more "centralized" structure. You know the precursor to the state run that we always point to about OTHER countries that lack our "freedoms" This administration is openly hostile to free press, so any move they make will be filtered through that lens.
...and the big oops moment becomes the opening scene from Prometheus...
One thing I love about Tartars is the delicious sauce.. The *Tatars*on the other hand share the same facts as you posted.
This is in the middle of the fucking wilderness where there aren't any lights or people.
Um, that's the point... they want to **preserve** that. You see spaces like those are becoming more and more scarce and they are anticipating a time when developers may come descending one day and say "You know what... I envision a great development opportunity here! Let's start building!!!"
No, this is NOT about freedom of expression, this is about protecting THE TRUTH... the ability to separate facts from lies, to know where stories originate and the sources used so that they can be judged accurately... News IS about transparency.. and the subject at hand is NEWS, the information we consume about the world around us....not freedom of expression... What good is expression when you live in a world of lies... nothing more than parlor tricks and slights of hand. That is something we need to fight against.
You seem a little triggered there comrade.
...and how do we know you're not the very kind of foreign propaganda troll the article mentions, trying to discredit our own media?
well then.. lets get some REAL transparency going Mr. "Anonymous Coward"... you don't have anything to HIDE do you?
You seem to be missing the point, what's the difference between a company using IT'S OWN power to strong arm communities if there's nothing there to stop them and a well lobbied government allowing them to do it.
The government is there for the people's interest, if it's not working in the people's interests, it's up to THE PEOPLE to fix it, not dismantle the very tool they have to wield against such corruption.
Perhaps we're talking about the same solution from different perspectives.
Oh so you think that the government creating laws benefiting big corporations will be solved by taking power away from the government, thus increasing the power big business has? The government may be malfunctioning, but weakening it and giving power big business to do as it pleases without restriction isn't the answer. The problem of lobbying is the issue, not the government itself.
So ironic that you are confusing regulation and lobbying... it's the regulation that PREVENTS the very thing you're whining about. Companies like to strong arm small communities as presented in the article you linked to... that's not the government doing that.. it's the private sector. So you think that weakening the government and strengthening the private sector (who is doing the strong arming) is the solution????
I am absolutely stunned that a story like this exists. Officers conducting their duties should show some resistance to the current trend of this alternate form of force. Stories like these electrify the nation and enlighten us to serve as an outlet for moral outrage!
..it would be like having everyone's DNA unravel all at once, and all that would remain would be spaghetti code filling every corner of the conceivable universe!
Not sure what you think "my view" is
Well then... let's remedy that so we can have some objective discussion.. what constitutes a "socialist" nation in your view and why
Yay for straw men. What would we do without them?
The same thing we're doing right now...
But OK, I'll agree that socialism doesn't always disasterously fail everyone, everywhere. And free markets don't always help everyone.
on that we are agreed at least.
But that doesn't mean we can't look at China today vs. Great Leap Forward China, or Venezuela before and after Chavez and learn some lessons.
For example, maybe only Scandinavians can succeed at socialism while everyone else is doomed to fail at it. So places where the population isn't nearly 100% Scandinavian should stay far away. That seems to fit the pattern.
Can you learn?
Can you not be pompous?.. I guess we'll find out. (this is Slashdot, so my hopes aren't high, but sometimes people do surprise me)
I'll agree that some cultures may be better suited to socialism than others. Everyone is different and assuming one system fits all is unrealistic. On that we are agreed... but again we need to define the parameters on what traits lead to a successful heavy socialist society vs a more heavy free market society.
Why would you take one failed 3rd world country and hold it up as an example of a system that has had successes in other parts of the world... Most of the western world is "socialist" to some degree or another. The Scandanavian countries have some of the highest standards of living in the world and would definitely be considered "socialist" by your view. It's also called being part of a society rather than some Randian utopia of self centered greed. At some point you're going to have to realize that the work OTHER people do and then claimed by the owner class is just as flawed philosophically...