the government merely needs to mandate to cell providers, phone makers, and car makers, a comprehensive set of standards of how these devices interact
your car starts, suddenly you can only do voice activation on your phone, for example. they already sense passengers for air bag activation, so passenger cells can be excluded
this being slashdot, some idiot will concoct some scenario about why it won't work "what if you want to call 911! (so 911 calls are always enabled, genius)" or how government is pure evil and can do no good (no witty comeback for that, just roll your eyes)
i bet the people angling to have these crops destroyed also count amongst their concerns fighting hunger, alternative fuel sources, better nutrition, fighting pollution, water conservation, etc.
all of which can be achieved through genetic engineering
If you live in a society you are not willing to fight for, the society you live in will not be healthy. It is a direct correlation. That fighting for your society might be difficult is utterly besides the point. You either fight for it, and you have a society you are happy to have your children grow up in, or you are not willing to fight for it, and you have a rotten carcass on the road to hell. True of every society on this planet, including the USA.
Or, more obviously: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
winning pakistanis approval might be the most noble goal, but so much of pakistan is so antagonistic to the usa's goals, nevermind the usa's methods, that earning scorn for our methods doesn't really amount to much, as we're already heavily scorned
i don't really understand an analysis of the usa's lack of moral loftiness when we are dealing with organizations within pakistan whose own methods make the usa's drones and cyberwarfare look like jaywalking. the goal is to defeat these organizations, not look like paragon of moral virtue
you might say that because we aren't acting as paragons of moral virtue we are losing public sympathy within pakistan. i am saying the public sympathy already was nonexistent and therefore disavowing something like drones and cyberwarfare wins us very little and loses us strategic abilities
i really don't understand an analysis of american actions that starts with the prerequisite that the usa always be morally lofty while engaged with enemies whose behavior is utterly amoral, within a populace that hates us no matter what we do while large sections of the society and body politic provide cover and cheer for the likes of lashkar-e-taiba
where is your analysis of their moral fibre?
i am not interested in hearing what the usa can do better to win over pakistanis. i am interested in hearing what pakistanis are willing to do to defeat the religious fanatics which will most certainly consume their country. if pakistanis cannot will themselves to see the usa is their ally in this struggle, then the let the chips fall where they may. there is no use wooing a society or a country where there is nothing to build upon in the first place. you cannot hide someone like bin laden in pakistan without tacit support within the establishment, and then jail the doctor for treason who revealed the mass murderer, and then expect to take seriously the idea that the usa's behavior is the problem here
you really have to wonder why pakistan is considered our ally when so much of their actions are that of an enemy. pakistan will be eaten alive form within by the likes of the religious fanatics, and pakistan currently seems to think that's not the most pressing problem. so i see no relationship to salvage. let the fake relationship fall, and i am not impressed by appeals to the lack of the usa's failure to be morally lofty. let us hear more of pakistan's failures, since that is the real story here
about animal lovers, is that the world, naturally, is a place of violence
although, what it isn't a place of, is cruelty. nature kills for hunger, and with no emotion. taking delight in another's suffering is the problem. the mechanics of the violence we are born and live in and die in is without cruelty, it just is
you see something like this shrimp, and you think: isn't this evil? and the answer is, no, because it is only hungry, it is not cruel. it is the human mind that perceives cruelty where there is none. much like those against eating meat
Tantalus (Greek , Tántalos) was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his eternal punishment in Tartarus: to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he could take a drink.
So if you are going to have a conflict mineral, whose mines are rooted in human suffering, it might as well be the mineral source for the chemical element named after someone damned to an eternity of torment.
There may be no sacred cows, but there is an appalling lack of common sense in your universe.
Remove the UN and there is no obvious replacement. So you just wind up removing the UN, you don't replace it. Please explain what would replace it and how the world powers would agree on it in a format that actually worked? Most world powers LIKE the problems that make the UN ineffective.
If a patient has gangrene in his foot, do you shoot him in the head or try to cure him first?
It's like the douchebags here in the USA that because of the problems with financial corruption, they want a revolution.
First, as if anyone has any control about what actually winds up the government that emerges out of revolution. No one controls a revolution. It could be a lot worse.
Second, as if the process of revolution is glory and fun. It is misery and horrible suffering and senseless bloodshed.
I have ancestors who were soldiers in the Confederacy, and I have ancestors who were soldiers in the Union.
So I am speaking against my own blood here.
But I'm sorry, the Southern US has been a political and intellectual dead weight drag on this country since its founding.
Sometimes I wish the Confederacy won their independence, were allowed to descend to the impoverished nation status they so fervently desire. Go ahead, let them embrace economically and socially illiterate conservative policies they favor with religious (but not intellectual) fervor on their own. Enjoy your race to join Haiti on the development index.
These states suck up so much federal financial largesse from the West and East Coast (hypocrites) and in return we get nothing but backasswards social and political WHARGARBBBLE.
Canada, could you absorb some Northern US states please? I live in New York State. I feel more in common in terms of social and political values with Canadians than I do with Dixie. I know I am not alone.
Let's drop this dead weight Southern anchor and achieve greatness.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, matters more at winning wars than logistics. The lethal fighting force is but the edge of a vast engineering and distribution network. Or, if it is not the edge of such a network, it is soon a defeated lethal fighting force.
Right. This republican attitude might work in certain circles of callous and selfish, but those actualy interested in a better society, anyone with a heart and a brain, will try to our darnedest to make sure tea party douchebags like yourself dont get to make policy decisions.
Slashdot Mirror
what's sad is my original comment is rated one
such morons are here on slashdot
the government merely needs to mandate to cell providers, phone makers, and car makers, a comprehensive set of standards of how these devices interact
your car starts, suddenly you can only do voice activation on your phone, for example. they already sense passengers for air bag activation, so passenger cells can be excluded
this being slashdot, some idiot will concoct some scenario about why it won't work "what if you want to call 911! (so 911 calls are always enabled, genius)" or how government is pure evil and can do no good (no witty comeback for that, just roll your eyes)
Poor troll? Or worse wackjob?
You decide
i bet the people angling to have these crops destroyed also count amongst their concerns fighting hunger, alternative fuel sources, better nutrition, fighting pollution, water conservation, etc.
all of which can be achieved through genetic engineering
a sense of humor
an important thing in life
*whoosh*
how do you pronounce Hämäläinen , Räikkönen , or Jääskeläinen in Gaelic?
will you assholes in the rest of the world just speak the American language please?
it's like a goddamn Lord of the Rings movie in here
If you live in a society you are not willing to fight for, the society you live in will not be healthy. It is a direct correlation. That fighting for your society might be difficult is utterly besides the point. You either fight for it, and you have a society you are happy to have your children grow up in, or you are not willing to fight for it, and you have a rotten carcass on the road to hell. True of every society on this planet, including the USA.
Or, more obviously: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
winning pakistanis approval might be the most noble goal, but so much of pakistan is so antagonistic to the usa's goals, nevermind the usa's methods, that earning scorn for our methods doesn't really amount to much, as we're already heavily scorned
i don't really understand an analysis of the usa's lack of moral loftiness when we are dealing with organizations within pakistan whose own methods make the usa's drones and cyberwarfare look like jaywalking. the goal is to defeat these organizations, not look like paragon of moral virtue
you might say that because we aren't acting as paragons of moral virtue we are losing public sympathy within pakistan. i am saying the public sympathy already was nonexistent and therefore disavowing something like drones and cyberwarfare wins us very little and loses us strategic abilities
i really don't understand an analysis of american actions that starts with the prerequisite that the usa always be morally lofty while engaged with enemies whose behavior is utterly amoral, within a populace that hates us no matter what we do while large sections of the society and body politic provide cover and cheer for the likes of lashkar-e-taiba
where is your analysis of their moral fibre?
i am not interested in hearing what the usa can do better to win over pakistanis. i am interested in hearing what pakistanis are willing to do to defeat the religious fanatics which will most certainly consume their country. if pakistanis cannot will themselves to see the usa is their ally in this struggle, then the let the chips fall where they may. there is no use wooing a society or a country where there is nothing to build upon in the first place. you cannot hide someone like bin laden in pakistan without tacit support within the establishment, and then jail the doctor for treason who revealed the mass murderer, and then expect to take seriously the idea that the usa's behavior is the problem here
you really have to wonder why pakistan is considered our ally when so much of their actions are that of an enemy. pakistan will be eaten alive form within by the likes of the religious fanatics, and pakistan currently seems to think that's not the most pressing problem. so i see no relationship to salvage. let the fake relationship fall, and i am not impressed by appeals to the lack of the usa's failure to be morally lofty. let us hear more of pakistan's failures, since that is the real story here
but the point is you wouldn't see the need for other choices if you understood eating meat isn't cruelty
about animal lovers, is that the world, naturally, is a place of violence
although, what it isn't a place of, is cruelty. nature kills for hunger, and with no emotion. taking delight in another's suffering is the problem. the mechanics of the violence we are born and live in and die in is without cruelty, it just is
you see something like this shrimp, and you think: isn't this evil? and the answer is, no, because it is only hungry, it is not cruel. it is the human mind that perceives cruelty where there is none. much like those against eating meat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalus
So if you are going to have a conflict mineral, whose mines are rooted in human suffering, it might as well be the mineral source for the chemical element named after someone damned to an eternity of torment.
Sick coincidence.
thank you, now you know you should have accepted the originally comment obediently
There may be no sacred cows, but there is an appalling lack of common sense in your universe.
Remove the UN and there is no obvious replacement. So you just wind up removing the UN, you don't replace it. Please explain what would replace it and how the world powers would agree on it in a format that actually worked? Most world powers LIKE the problems that make the UN ineffective.
If a patient has gangrene in his foot, do you shoot him in the head or try to cure him first?
It's like the douchebags here in the USA that because of the problems with financial corruption, they want a revolution.
First, as if anyone has any control about what actually winds up the government that emerges out of revolution. No one controls a revolution. It could be a lot worse.
Second, as if the process of revolution is glory and fun. It is misery and horrible suffering and senseless bloodshed.
You want to CURE the US govt, not revolt.
Same with the UN.
Grow a brain.
I agree!
The UN is deeply flawed.
Even deeply flawed, the world is a better place for it.
If you don't understand that, you don't understand enough of international affairs to comment intelligently on the subject matter.
Really.
just look at the map linked in the story above
I have heritage from the South and North.
I have ancestors who were soldiers in the Confederacy, and I have ancestors who were soldiers in the Union.
So I am speaking against my own blood here.
But I'm sorry, the Southern US has been a political and intellectual dead weight drag on this country since its founding.
Sometimes I wish the Confederacy won their independence, were allowed to descend to the impoverished nation status they so fervently desire. Go ahead, let them embrace economically and socially illiterate conservative policies they favor with religious (but not intellectual) fervor on their own. Enjoy your race to join Haiti on the development index.
These states suck up so much federal financial largesse from the West and East Coast (hypocrites) and in return we get nothing but backasswards social and political WHARGARBBBLE.
Canada, could you absorb some Northern US states please? I live in New York State. I feel more in common in terms of social and political values with Canadians than I do with Dixie. I know I am not alone.
Let's drop this dead weight Southern anchor and achieve greatness.
Can we build a wall?
cool ;-)
commemorate the occasion:
http://www.cafepress.com/fbod/297253 ;-P
lol
thank you
i wish i could say i knew all that before my blanket statement. i didn't
no. in fact you'll burn your retinas with the usual suspects (black garbage bags, three pairs of sunglasses, etc.)
just make a pinhole camera, it's easy
but if you really want to see it directly, buy yourself a pair of binoculars with real filters
Bummer
Just have to commit to living to 150 years then
Where's my jogging shoes?
'An army marches on its stomach.'
'C'est la soupe qui fait le soldat.'
Nothing, absolutely nothing, matters more at winning wars than logistics. The lethal fighting force is but the edge of a vast engineering and distribution network. Or, if it is not the edge of such a network, it is soon a defeated lethal fighting force.
You cant get addicted to jumping off highway overpasses
Well... Maybe you can. Then to rephrase: you cant take meth with a bungee cord
Right. This republican attitude might work in certain circles of callous and selfish, but those actualy interested in a better society, anyone with a heart and a brain, will try to our darnedest to make sure tea party douchebags like yourself dont get to make policy decisions.