User: circletimessquare

Re:yeah, we've been experimenting

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

wow

so countries with stricter gun control meaning less deaths... it just means nothing to you

what can one say to someone like you? the delusion is a sealed space, reality has no meaning or bearing

so if i said universal healthcare meant they spent less money and lived longer in other countries... different culture?

if they invest more in education and... oh why do i bother? it has no meaning to you

yeah, we've been experimenting

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

that's a nice code word for not actually doing it right: a lot tighter restrictions on guns

no matter how you or the propaganda you swallow without thought phrases it, we have a country with too much senseless gun death, and the solution is a lot more strict controls

now open your mind, open your eyes, and look at other countries and what happens to senseless deaths when guns are seriously and effectively curtailed

go ahead! do a google, look at wikipedia, report back

it is on your conscience, and people like you, death after senseless death in this country, people at a party when a hot head erupts, little kids playing when a gangbanger erupts... this is the america of not enough gun control

oh i know: your solution is to arm everyone. right! less death there! do you know how many armed law-abiding people were around giffords in gun-happy tucson?

a gun is not a magic totem. you don't have time to react, you aren't awake 24 hours a day, you don't have lightning reflexes and eyes at the back of your head: you arm more people, you get more senseless deaths. it's that simple

wake the fuck up

think it through

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

if the tool is weak, some other tool is used. you seem to believe malice can only come form the government

"Any group that can get enough people buying into what they say gets to wield it."

yeah. they are called the american people

such ignorance

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

take a look at death rates in the USA compared to countries with stricter gun control some time

thanks, moron

Re:you can still work in the system

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

no. the game people want to win is to work and get some rewards. the point of society is to better yourself

but if those with a lot of cash change the rules so now the point of society is to better the rich guy, and you are just going to tread water or fall behind even as you struggle, why play the game at all?

either society is fair, and self-interest is included in that, or society is unfair: it only exists to serve those who already have most. that is the struggle with the face of american political and social life right now

what amazes me is how few see through the lame demagoguery and not see their own standard of living suffering for the right wing idiocies they support

Re:you can still work in the system

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

i never understood the idea of state's rights. states can get things just as wrong, if not more wrong, than the feds. it's not freedom from the feds, it's just another form that can screw up and hurt the individual

and the constitution has been screwed up (prohibition, and reversed). which is my point of the living breathing document. so what's the argument? you agree with me

Re:you can still work in the system

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

the people will wake up. because less of them will have a job to go to and then less money to spend on relationships and hobbies as more middle class destroying policies get passed by the right wing. weakened government regulations on the financial sector mean more money concentrated in the hands of a few and a dying middle class

the sad part is that we have to come to that before we finally get economic sense, even though so many of us can see the inevitable

it's like climate change. we won't do anything until the damge has already been done. foresight and intelligence can't compete with inertia and ignorance and vested interests

Re:you can still work in the system

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

guns in america result in just a lot of senseless death

and if fascism comes to america, it won't be idiots in the countryside with guns saving us from it, they will be at the vanguard of the fascist takeover of our country, led by a demagogue frothing at the mouth about defense exactly as they go on the offense

the safeguards of our democracy is civilized discourse. guns are for the warzones, not main street, despite the fact so many paranoid schizophrenics want to make our main streets warzones

and ron paul is a fool and a tool for moneyed elites and so is any one who follows him. you need more economic facts and less economic myths

Re:you can still work in the system

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

a weakened and decentralized government creates a power vacuum that is filled by corporations

i never understood this lunatic idea "gee the patient is sick. so kill the patient and reward the virus"

because that's what you do when you respond to the corporate infestation of government by rewarding the corporations with a weakened government

it's "we the people", not "we the rich people and corporations". so cure the patient of the disease, don't help the disease kill the patient! the patient is YOUR government representing YOUR interests. oh, it doesn't do that very effectively? i agree! because of the exact same guys you want to reward for infecting that representation

insanity

Re:you can still work in the system

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

my opinion is that people who reach for guns instead of ideas and words are part of the problem, not the solution

they reach for guns because they live in a paranoid delusional fantasy land where "you are dealing with people that are armed to the teeth and have no issues killing civilians"

your verbiage has nothing to do with defense. it is offensive gun grabbing lunacy that would be agreed with by the likes of those who shot up giffords in tucson, not anyone prudent or rational

i find your words offensive to civilized discourse. talk of guns is the loser's way

as for ron paul:

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2960361&cid=40559793

his ideas are based on myth and fantasy and in the end aid the corporate powers that are destroying this country. not purposefully, but that is because he is a tool and a fool, his beliefs help them gain power by destroying the only protection we have against corporations: a strong government

a strong government is one where the agenda of the people is strongly represented, not one who totes guns and points them at the people. i have to state that obvious point only because i can clearly see how you will twist my words

Re:you can still work in the system

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

constitutional fundamentalism is not the answer. the constitution has changed on many things, and should change on many things. slavery, for example and women's suffrage, for example. get rid of the ridiculous electoral college, filibusters, etc. not that those who wish to make change don't occasionally screw up: prohibition, for example, but the constitution is a living breathing contract with the american people that should change over time, it's not some bible we can never question or doubt like religious fundamentalists. the basics are sound. i appreciate that. but surely you don't believe they are static documents and the brilliant founding fathers foresaw everything? they foresaw a lot, but not everything

ron paul is delusional. what he preaches aids the rich and corporations at the detriment of the poor and middle class. he doesn't believe this, you don't believe it, but it is the result of the ideology he preaches, whether or not you or him understands that. you need a government keeping the market fair, or the largest players abuse the smaller ones and consumers. study your economic history

finally, "defending yourself" is words that are used by many trigger happy confused people. of course you have every right to defend yourself. what you have to be careful of are the kooks who go offensive on innocent people and call it defending themselves

you can still work in the system

On: Thomas Drake: You're Automatically Suspicious Until Proven Otherwise

the idea is to cure our government of it's corporate disease, not condemn the whole thing. and replace it with what? no one controls a revolution. everyone suffers and what comes out on the other end can very well be worse

so, as much as i despise the corporate influence on our government, i would equally warn against the parent poster who seems a little too eager to grab his gun

think too much like the parent poster, with vicious enemies out to kill him around every corner, and this turns you not into the instigator of righteous revolution, this makes you a deluded paranoid schizophrenic shooting up a mall

Re:you don't see a business model

On: Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents

Legal status quos that do nothing for society and only generate busy work for lawyers is a simple matter of parasitism.

Of course there is valid and important work lawyers do for society.

Now be intellectually honest and admit there's a whole bunch of other lawyerly work which is unjustified, wasteful and useless.

I think the word they like is "frivolous".

you don't see a business model

On: Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents

But Apple's law firm does, and you nicely described all of the revenue generating functions.

Of course there's a difference between a business model predicated on bringing something of value to society and the business model of a rent seeking parasite that only owes its existence to an unaddressed inefficiency.

this is for macular degeneration, aka old people

On: Implant Gives Grayscale Vision To the Blind Using Lasers

do you think the thugs on the corner are scared of blind granny? not at all

but: do you think the thugs on the corner might be scared of granny with terminator style cybernetic laser eyeballs? she just has to learn how to say "hasta la vista, baby" or "i'll be back", the thugs will scatter in the wind

that's right

On: The Web Is Not the Internet

England is Great Britain, and Great Britain is the United Kingdom, and they speak American with a funny accent.

it is often the case in real life

On: How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind

that the butler controls the master

the advisor controls the king

the henchman controls the boss

when power and control flip between superior and underling, the power inversion is based on who has the most information, and who can therefore use control of information as a means of control, period

and google has all the information

"How Your Mind Is Becoming an Extension of Google" is the real story

Re:What I don't understand ... why just not leave?

On: Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses

What do you mean you don't have poutine, eh?

Good luck Marissa

On: Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo! CEO

Nobody expects Yahoo to return to its glory years, but if you can right the ship and steer it to stability, consider it a success. Aim high by shooting low.

Kim Dotcom is a scumbag

On: US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge

And yet the USA by their actions make him look saintly

better qualifications

On: Earth, Night Glow, Aurora and Atmosphere (Video)

"A fine art photographer who also has a PhD in Neuroscience from MIT... what better qualifications could there possibly be for astronauthood?"

Flight training.

I'm posting from my smart phone

On: How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything

And using the dictation option. But I can't create a post because every time I say g---m-- s----, all I see are a bunch of expletives in the comment box

it will be either a cool energy storage medium

On: East Texas Getting Compressed Air Energy Storage Plant

or the most unique way to asplode a salt dome yet invented

tech is tech

On: Entangled Histories: Climate Science and Nuclear Weapons Research

it can be used for good, it can be used for evil

Re:it's an overreaction, for sure

On: When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide

you're right, every actor in this situation is basically a douchebag apocalypse: everyone violating everyone else