when the rich change the laws so they stay rich, you have class warfare
you then see violence because the poor and middle class have no legal means to get the fair share that was stolen from them by the rich
now watch republican initiatives on tax cuts and corporate welfare and their support for rent seeking parasites (health insurers) that add nothing to society, and, in the case of health insurers, actually make money while the middle class dies. that it isn't a guy with a gun or a club doesn't mean there isn't a war, and it wasn't started by the poor and middle class
The dipole moment of water, the dipole moment of anything, ammonia for example, is necessary for life
Because life has to have something to work with chemically, a way in, a way that can lead to more complex chemistry.a dipole moment supplies this way in and way up
Therefore, I am voting against life on titan, as a bunch of hydrocarbons with no dipole moment offer no stepping stone to more advanced chemistry
none of which changes the fact society needs cops to keep criminals at bay. this includes you
that doesn't mean that american muslims should be treated badly. it means government policy in treating american muslims need to improve
because american muslims are treated badly, concluding "all cops are evil" just makes you an idiot
every civilization needs a police force. now, we define the rules they are bound to. get it? do you want to do that? or do you instead just enjoy saying ignorant things? what are you, seven years old?
well, you can take away people's liberty by putting them in grinding poverty so the moneyed class can make even more $. that's where our current political climate is headed
in a society where there is no route to get ahead, because somebody with lots of cash wants to make more, the sting and sourness and unfairness of that is going to lead people to believe in ideologies with communist principles. might i note, communism is just as bad as rapacious capitalism, and just as essentially stupid. the point is to find the happy middle road
But don't worry Canada, we have a brutal presidential election coming up. We'll try our best to out surpass you here on the Robocall douchebaggery scale. Your victory is only temporary Canada!
the question is WHEN and WHY do they do it. and the job for you is to base your opinion on those whens and whys, not base on your opinion on the fact that they can do this
for example, china will do it just to crush political dissent. invalid
the usa will do it to crush kiddie porn. valid. the usa might also do it to crush piracy. invalid. so THAT'S where oyu want to focus your criticism
but right now, your opinion just makes you look naive and ridiculous, you are not commenting intelligently on the issue. the basis for your opinion, a common invalid opinion, unfortunately, is that just because the government has this power, something is wrong. except that the government, any government, will always have this power. so that is why your opinion is invalid
you need to focus less on the fact that the police man has a gun at his side, and focus more on the procedures of his police department that say when it is valid for that police man to pick up his gun and shoot you
what you don't get, and never will get, is a police force who don't have guns
(this is not the time to point out the police forces in the world that don't actually carry guns. it's just an analogy, you don't dispel the usefulness of an analogy by being overly literal about it)
so now we see another uptick in anarchism, in a new gilded age, as worker's rights sink lower and lower and the predatory make off with vast sums of money
it's a pendulum in history, swinging back and forth
the next step, if we see historical parallels, is the rise of communism again
of course, social darwinistic capitalism, and communism, are both absurd brutal ideologies, on either end of a spectrum. the intelligent ideology is the middle road: socialism with capitalist engines attached, or capitalism with social safety net. but the communist see any sort of capitalism as a vile evil, and the free market fundamentalists see any sort of common sense social policies: healthcare, education, etc., as a vile evil, and so the middle road does not prevail, depending upon the politics of the day. either one or the other extreme leads to suffering, and the pendulum experiences pressure to swing back the other way
so, if the historical parallels play out, anarchism is really just the initial indicator of a change in direction of the pendulum, a sort of groping for some sense, what is the point of civilization? the point according to the predatory corporatists: enrichment of a moneyed class, is obviously not a valid meaning of existence. anarchists don't have the right answer, but they do have the right sense to know what is happening now as plutocrats gobble up everything is not right, the plutocrats enabled by this ridiculous quasireligious faith of free market fundamentalist fools who are blinded to the simple fact that markets without rules leads to dominance by a monopoly/ oligopoly, and society and the common man suffers
the ideal would be a society that locks in some simple rules: social darwinistic capitalism, and communism, are two extremes that both destroy society. therefore, economic and social policies must always hew to a middle road. but we will never get this common sense, as long as the fools who fervently believe in the extremes of capitalism (on the upswing now, in the past dormant) or communism (dormant now, on the upswing in the past, and perhaps the future) are allowed to exert influence. until the fools on either end of the pendulum are clamped down on with governmental rules about the kinds of economic and social policies that can be passed, we will constantly suffer this historical pendulum swing back and forth, back and forth, creating nothing but pain for us all
the solution is to have a job/ living location where you can walk or ride your bike back and forth. that is the now the evolutionary prerogative, once you consider oil price volatility as well
or ride a train
but we live in a country where mass transit is some sort of socialist evil
therefore, the entire country is doomed according to your parameters
A. Sorry. The answer is absolutely. Sort of. Well, yes and no.
Q. Can you be like a little more specific?
A. For starters, you’re going to be hearing the phrase “Higgs boson” about 800 trillion times. You’ll be at a cocktail party talking about the Kardashians and someone will say, “OMG, Higgs boson!” and you’ll go, “No, no, no — please, no more with the Higgs boson.” So there’s that. Plus this Halloween, every other trick-or-treater is going to be dressed as — guess what? — the Higgs boson. What else? Ten bucks says Al Gore claims he discovered it. Another 10 says Mitt Romney picks it as his running mate. Romney-Higgs boson. Dream ticket. So, yes, it’s going to affect your everyday life. My advice? Deal with it.
Don't even try to read the rest of it, unless you like wasting your time.
Based on this famous quote:
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
That would put this sort of annoying Higgs boson chatter squarely in the realm of average minds.
They can usually come up with something good to say about events most of us understand. But they can't understand the Higgs boson. Doesn't matter: the media is all about generating copy, this is the highest imperative. Making sense is secondary. And so not understanding doesn't prevent them from trying to say something. Nor should it, according to the logic of their profession, since the logic of their profession says the editorial has to be filed on time, the column must fit so many square inches of space, the front page must have timely links about today's news.
And so they all come up with this WHARRGARBL like the NY Times story above. Welcome to the media industry.
But if I buy a paperback copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" for only $0.10 due to a flash crash in autogenerated stock prices, I metaphysically lose, society loses, civilization loses. The seller still wins, Mephistopheles wins, evil triumphs.
why did the hackers think they were ever going to get away with it?
it is a brutally effective hack, but...
1. they thought no one was going to notice? 2. and if they noticed, no one was going to do anything about it? 3. and if anyone was going to do anything about it, they didn't see the glaring weak point that would so easily undo all of their hard effort?
commandeer your rogue DNS server. duh!
how come these hackers spent so much time energy and effort in a scheme so easily undone?
this not a matter of "oh, it's easy to point problems in hindsight". these guys obviously had the intellectual capacity to think through the technical requirements of their hack. so they obviously had the intellectual capacity to think through the tactical requirements. none of them said "it will never work: single easy point of failure."
"These are the thoughts of Paul Vixie who worked with the FBI in intercepting servers used by a gang of Estonian hackers who made millions of dollars from redirecting internet users away from the websites they requested, directing them to advertisements instead."
well ok, jokes on me: they realized the weakness, and they bet the authorities were going to react slowly, and they won the bet
when the world pays attention, they glom onto name: ACTA
so just change the name, presto-bango: 90% of the popular opposition disappears because the general public just isn't that plugged in to translate their opposition to the new flavor-of-the-month rent seeking parasite legislation
The "I am a valid arbiter of your lifelong record" troll. You even throw in a dash of "balance" about the guy making decent posts. Oh, how kind of you.
by your logic, no one can ever criticize any other country in the world outside of their own, because their own country still has problems and always will
fucking bullshit
i can criticize any country i want, including my own, and it's not hypocrisy. because i am first and foremost a human being, concerned with human rights, and with a human conscience. nationalist silos may confine your thinking, but not mine
don't think the parameters of your own self-chosen provincialism has any bearing on me
your constant spamming of this site with your bullshit extremist economic and social views makes you the issue, not your mental vomit in this particular thread
what you say isn't really interesting anymore. your existence is the issue. you're the most prolific troll on slashdot
apparently, your experience in the soviet bloc has led to some wackjob views on capitalism
however, as per your last comment, you still retain the tribalism of the old soviet bloc: korea, red!
how come the soviet economic policies have left you so scarred, but the soviet imperialism is something you still are aligned with, according to your last comment?
isn't soviet imperialism as equally destructive as it's communist ideology?
you don't see that. so you're some sort of eternal propaganda victim
strangely enough, you remind of ayn rand, whose own derangement on questions of capitalism, because of her formative years in the soviet bloc like you, led her to embrace an equally febrile and shrill fundamentalist extremism on what capitalism means
anyway, keep spamming slashdot. i guess as a captain of industry you can afford the time (!?)
The antipodes is a strange region of the Earth where everything is opposite: up is down, left is right, day is night, and most alarmingly, the water flushes down the toilet in the wrong direction. For this reason, you need to be very careful when trying to understand what an Australian is saying. Don't worry about people from New Zealand, they only talk to sheep.
So first:
"As an Australian, I'd like to announce a new definition of the 'Irony.'"
What this means is that we have a new definition of common sense. However, I am a little confused, because the person says "As an Australian." Australians usually indicate they are Australian by saying "I am not Australian."
Second:
"A government contractor put a list of users and details in the mail and it was lost. The list contained users subscribed to the government's privacy breach alert system."
Now, here in the Northern Hemisphere, this doesn't make any sense. But again, being as this happened in the antipodes, this is just common practical policy.
So this is a bit of a nonstory here. Which I am saying in the Northern Hemisphere sense, and not in the antipodean sense, where calling something a nonstory would indicate that this is really a notable story.
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when the rich change the laws so they stay rich, you have class warfare
you then see violence because the poor and middle class have no legal means to get the fair share that was stolen from them by the rich
now watch republican initiatives on tax cuts and corporate welfare and their support for rent seeking parasites (health insurers) that add nothing to society, and, in the case of health insurers, actually make money while the middle class dies. that it isn't a guy with a gun or a club doesn't mean there isn't a war, and it wasn't started by the poor and middle class
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
And that's why I will refrain from responding to this ignorant WHARRGARBL
And my positive contribution to a serious thread:
The dipole moment of water, the dipole moment of anything, ammonia for example, is necessary for life
Because life has to have something to work with chemically, a way in, a way that can lead to more complex chemistry.a dipole moment supplies this way in and way up
Therefore, I am voting against life on titan, as a bunch of hydrocarbons with no dipole moment offer no stepping stone to more advanced chemistry
there are bad cops
there are cops who screw up
none of which changes the fact society needs cops to keep criminals at bay. this includes you
that doesn't mean that american muslims should be treated badly. it means government policy in treating american muslims need to improve
because american muslims are treated badly, concluding "all cops are evil" just makes you an idiot
every civilization needs a police force. now, we define the rules they are bound to. get it? do you want to do that? or do you instead just enjoy saying ignorant things? what are you, seven years old?
well, you can take away people's liberty by putting them in grinding poverty so the moneyed class can make even more $. that's where our current political climate is headed
in a society where there is no route to get ahead, because somebody with lots of cash wants to make more, the sting and sourness and unfairness of that is going to lead people to believe in ideologies with communist principles. might i note, communism is just as bad as rapacious capitalism, and just as essentially stupid. the point is to find the happy middle road
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocall_scandal
But don't worry Canada, we have a brutal presidential election coming up. We'll try our best to out surpass you here on the Robocall douchebaggery scale. Your victory is only temporary Canada!
the question is WHEN and WHY do they do it. and the job for you is to base your opinion on those whens and whys, not base on your opinion on the fact that they can do this
for example, china will do it just to crush political dissent. invalid
the usa will do it to crush kiddie porn. valid. the usa might also do it to crush piracy. invalid. so THAT'S where oyu want to focus your criticism
but right now, your opinion just makes you look naive and ridiculous, you are not commenting intelligently on the issue. the basis for your opinion, a common invalid opinion, unfortunately, is that just because the government has this power, something is wrong. except that the government, any government, will always have this power. so that is why your opinion is invalid
you need to focus less on the fact that the police man has a gun at his side, and focus more on the procedures of his police department that say when it is valid for that police man to pick up his gun and shoot you
what you don't get, and never will get, is a police force who don't have guns
(this is not the time to point out the police forces in the world that don't actually carry guns. it's just an analogy, you don't dispel the usefulness of an analogy by being overly literal about it)
whoosh
no, i didn't get it, i didn't catch that.
you and someone else in this thread pointed me out to who buckley is
(egg on face)
ok, got it, thanks for the heads up
then he should stick to his day job, as that was weak sauce
was the late 1800s. this was a period of workers demanding rights, as the gilded age saw the plutocrats consume all of the productivity of society
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anarchism#The_First_International_and_Collectivist_Anarchism
so now we see another uptick in anarchism, in a new gilded age, as worker's rights sink lower and lower and the predatory make off with vast sums of money
it's a pendulum in history, swinging back and forth
the next step, if we see historical parallels, is the rise of communism again
of course, social darwinistic capitalism, and communism, are both absurd brutal ideologies, on either end of a spectrum. the intelligent ideology is the middle road: socialism with capitalist engines attached, or capitalism with social safety net. but the communist see any sort of capitalism as a vile evil, and the free market fundamentalists see any sort of common sense social policies: healthcare, education, etc., as a vile evil, and so the middle road does not prevail, depending upon the politics of the day. either one or the other extreme leads to suffering, and the pendulum experiences pressure to swing back the other way
so, if the historical parallels play out, anarchism is really just the initial indicator of a change in direction of the pendulum, a sort of groping for some sense, what is the point of civilization? the point according to the predatory corporatists: enrichment of a moneyed class, is obviously not a valid meaning of existence. anarchists don't have the right answer, but they do have the right sense to know what is happening now as plutocrats gobble up everything is not right, the plutocrats enabled by this ridiculous quasireligious faith of free market fundamentalist fools who are blinded to the simple fact that markets without rules leads to dominance by a monopoly/ oligopoly, and society and the common man suffers
the ideal would be a society that locks in some simple rules: social darwinistic capitalism, and communism, are two extremes that both destroy society. therefore, economic and social policies must always hew to a middle road. but we will never get this common sense, as long as the fools who fervently believe in the extremes of capitalism (on the upswing now, in the past dormant) or communism (dormant now, on the upswing in the past, and perhaps the future) are allowed to exert influence. until the fools on either end of the pendulum are clamped down on with governmental rules about the kinds of economic and social policies that can be passed, we will constantly suffer this historical pendulum swing back and forth, back and forth, creating nothing but pain for us all
the solution is to have a job/ living location where you can walk or ride your bike back and forth. that is the now the evolutionary prerogative, once you consider oil price volatility as well
or ride a train
but we live in a country where mass transit is some sort of socialist evil
therefore, the entire country is doomed according to your parameters
absolutely. we are here on slashdot, doing the same thing
but we pretend at least to understand the topic
having said that, now that you've pierced the irony... please don't pierce the hypocrisy! ;-)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/q-and-a-the-higgs-boson-and-you.html
Don't even try to read the rest of it, unless you like wasting your time.
Based on this famous quote:
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
That would put this sort of annoying Higgs boson chatter squarely in the realm of average minds.
They can usually come up with something good to say about events most of us understand. But they can't understand the Higgs boson. Doesn't matter: the media is all about generating copy, this is the highest imperative. Making sense is secondary. And so not understanding doesn't prevent them from trying to say something. Nor should it, according to the logic of their profession, since the logic of their profession says the editorial has to be filed on time, the column must fit so many square inches of space, the front page must have timely links about today's news.
And so they all come up with this WHARRGARBL like the NY Times story above. Welcome to the media industry.
But if I buy a paperback copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" for only $0.10 due to a flash crash in autogenerated stock prices, I metaphysically lose, society loses, civilization loses. The seller still wins, Mephistopheles wins, evil triumphs.
why did the hackers think they were ever going to get away with it?
it is a brutally effective hack, but...
1. they thought no one was going to notice?
2. and if they noticed, no one was going to do anything about it?
3. and if anyone was going to do anything about it, they didn't see the glaring weak point that would so easily undo all of their hard effort?
commandeer your rogue DNS server. duh!
how come these hackers spent so much time energy and effort in a scheme so easily undone?
this not a matter of "oh, it's easy to point problems in hindsight". these guys obviously had the intellectual capacity to think through the technical requirements of their hack. so they obviously had the intellectual capacity to think through the tactical requirements. none of them said "it will never work: single easy point of failure."
"These are the thoughts of Paul Vixie who worked with the FBI in intercepting servers used by a gang of Estonian hackers who made millions of dollars from redirecting internet users away from the websites they requested, directing them to advertisements instead."
well ok, jokes on me: they realized the weakness, and they bet the authorities were going to react slowly, and they won the bet
when the world pays attention, they glom onto name: ACTA
so just change the name, presto-bango: 90% of the popular opposition disappears because the general public just isn't that plugged in to translate their opposition to the new flavor-of-the-month rent seeking parasite legislation
Interesting type of troll.
The "I am a valid arbiter of your lifelong record" troll. You even throw in a dash of "balance" about the guy making decent posts. Oh, how kind of you.
every country can improve
by your logic, no one can ever criticize any other country in the world outside of their own, because their own country still has problems and always will
fucking bullshit
i can criticize any country i want, including my own, and it's not hypocrisy. because i am first and foremost a human being, concerned with human rights, and with a human conscience. nationalist silos may confine your thinking, but not mine
don't think the parameters of your own self-chosen provincialism has any bearing on me
Clap, clap, clap
Ladies and gentleman: the hardest working troll on slashdot!
Take a bow, wackjob
your constant spamming of this site with your bullshit extremist economic and social views makes you the issue, not your mental vomit in this particular thread
what you say isn't really interesting anymore. your existence is the issue. you're the most prolific troll on slashdot
apparently, your experience in the soviet bloc has led to some wackjob views on capitalism
however, as per your last comment, you still retain the tribalism of the old soviet bloc: korea, red!
how come the soviet economic policies have left you so scarred, but the soviet imperialism is something you still are aligned with, according to your last comment?
isn't soviet imperialism as equally destructive as it's communist ideology?
you don't see that. so you're some sort of eternal propaganda victim
strangely enough, you remind of ayn rand, whose own derangement on questions of capitalism, because of her formative years in the soviet bloc like you, led her to embrace an equally febrile and shrill fundamentalist extremism on what capitalism means
anyway, keep spamming slashdot. i guess as a captain of industry you can afford the time (!?)
Explain the role of the UN in the Korean War.
It involves a foreign power dictating terms you agree to bind American behavior to. Like a law, or a regulation.
The antipodes is a strange region of the Earth where everything is opposite: up is down, left is right, day is night, and most alarmingly, the water flushes down the toilet in the wrong direction. For this reason, you need to be very careful when trying to understand what an Australian is saying. Don't worry about people from New Zealand, they only talk to sheep.
So first:
"As an Australian, I'd like to announce a new definition of the 'Irony.'"
What this means is that we have a new definition of common sense. However, I am a little confused, because the person says "As an Australian." Australians usually indicate they are Australian by saying "I am not Australian."
Second:
"A government contractor put a list of users and details in the mail and it was lost. The list contained users subscribed to the government's privacy breach alert system."
Now, here in the Northern Hemisphere, this doesn't make any sense. But again, being as this happened in the antipodes, this is just common practical policy.
So this is a bit of a nonstory here. Which I am saying in the Northern Hemisphere sense, and not in the antipodean sense, where calling something a nonstory would indicate that this is really a notable story.