very intelligent, very rich, and they decided to kill a 14 year old just for the hell of it. why? because evil is real in this world, and it exists independent of poverty, neither as cause nor effect, and independent of stupidity, neither as cause nor effect
class != morality != intelligence
there are poor people who are good
there are dumb people who are rich
there are smart people who are evil
mix and match to your heart's content and please get your simpleminded idiotic way you think about your world out of your head
we punish criminals on PRINCIPLE. it's not about deterrence. it's not about revenge. it's about morality
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right now kickstarter is in the idealistic phase. you give money to people you don't know with great expectations. it doesn't take many silver tongued con artists to put a dent in those expectations. then the cynicism kicks in (no pun intended)
don't get me wrong, i love kickstarter, but this is the romance period, and after awhile people might become more jaded
i hope not, really, i hope not. and maybe eventually we can invent extra trust building methodologies to give people more confidence when they give
got it. me saying the right thing to do is wrong because you don't have a PGP signed certificate of my resume
why does it matter who i am? is what i say right, or wrong? isn't that all that matters on an anonymous forum?
is it that you don't act on any principles until someone else does first? so you are a blind follower? no? the why does it fucking matter WHO says something on an anonymous forum? if you have principles, you act on them, no matter who i am or what someone else does
this is where you say "i'll take that as a no" and completely miss the point. you don't know me, or what i am doing. but you'll pass judgment to satisfy your own smug desire to do nothing
"Do you seriously think we're ignoring everything else that's going on and focusing solely on video games? "
yes, i do actually believe that there are fat clueless spoiled pampered westerners who care more about videogames than reality
i don't go into videogame forums and scream about syria. but on the topic of syria itself, the cognitive dissonance is too much for me to put up with this
there really are more important things going on this world than the fucking framerate on your fps, you fat spoiled clueless fucks
i am so so sorry, to suggest on the topic of syria, that there might be something gee i dunno, slightly more fucking important than videogames right now?
and i'm glad the syrian can vent with some escapist black humor. he needs no reminding of what is most important, he sees and hears it around him every day. we owe it to him to acknowledge we know what is most important as well
escapist black humor does help. a syrian in syria needs no reminder of what is most important in syria right now. he can hear it and see it. we owe it to him to keep our minds focused on what is most important too, for his sake
on the subject of syria, it is absurd to focus on molehills instead of mountains. don't ask me, i would be willing to wager any syrian would agree with me here
on the subject of the usa in 2009, the involvement of the usa in afghanistan would be topic #1... in a topic thread about afghanistan. any afghani would agree with you on that
so if those topics you cite had to do directly with afghanistan, you would be correct
current events pop quiz for you: what is happening in syria right now?
how would rate the importance of that current event in regard to the topic of the videogame industry there?
scratch that: if a syrian game developer were in this comment thread right now (something that would actually endanger his life), do you think maybe he would be saying something like, gee, i dunno "HELLO, SPOILED FAT CLUELESS WESTERNERS, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT VIDEOGAMES, THEY ARE MURDERING US"
i too like to look at ants building small mounds on the side of the road instead of the fiery multicar pile up and people screaming for their lives two feet away
assad is a murderous tyrant, but we want to focus on sanctions george bush put on his regime... and its effects on the gaming industry? this is the important thing to talk about?
if you demonstrate an eagerness to talk about the usa and american actions, or GAMING, for crying out loud... on the topic of a country currently under the full force of mass murder of civilians by a true tyrant on a daily basis for months... you look like you are less motivated by actual principles and more like you are either obsessed with the usa or lack all proportionality in your ability to think about and understand the world you live in
really? the fucking gaming industry is the important issue here? i'm pretty fucking sure the entire syrian gaming industry would agree with me: "uhhh... that's a little unimportant right now, they are murdering us"
there are people dying in this world for rights that some people in the west take completely for granted... because obviously, it's more important to talk about fucking videogames, on the topic of syria right now
go ahead and threaten to kill someone. then later say you were just being emotional or joking. tell us how that works out for you
you don't joke about making threats of bodily harm. it isn't funny, because the "likelihood" of carrying out a threat is not something that anyone except the threat maker can know
if you threaten mayhem, it is a not a "thought crime" to catch you and punish you on that basis
if you threaten mayhem it is a statement of intent, for which you can, and should, be punished
for example, if i were to threaten the life of the president, i would get a visit from the secret service, and i should get such a visit, and i should be punished
if i call my girlfriend and tell her i am going to kill her, she should call the police, and the police should visit me, and they should visit me, and i should be punished
this is not rocket science here folks. if you make a statement of intent to do bodily harm, it is going to be taken seriously, and it should be taken seriously
now mod me troll and go back to being flabbergasted at a simple commonplace and normal legal convention
speak for your own nerd dreams. i'm mining Martian algae as an elixir that will give me eternal life, and I will destroy all stocks and mines I don't control to maintain a monopoly. And I will use this eternal life to destroy every civilization I find, including Earth, out of a personal vendetta against the girl who didn't talk to me in High School. that's my nerd dream
a slippery slope is based on fear. in your second paragraph, you basically enunciate what i should be afraid of, so i stopped reading there. i'm sorry, i understand that the people governed and people who govern can tell the difference between right and wrong
if you give a cop a gun, he can shoot an innocent man, but that is not a reason not to give him a gun
there is no such thing as a slippery slope. you, who call me scared. it's like saying if we let gay people marry, then people will marry animals and dead people: slippery slope. or we can't legalize marijuana because then meth and crack will be legal: slippery slope. the slippery slope argument based on irrationality and fear
the idea of a slippery slope assumes that the people governed and the people power have no brains and can't tell different things apart. only someone who wishes to appeal to fear believes in slippery slope. you who cast accusations of fear, seem to have a belief system with fear as it's primary motivating thought
the government is not an alien entity out to abuse you just for lulz. it's made of people, just like you and me, given powers, by you and me, to only do certain things. where and when they screw up and abuse their powers, we reveal them and punish them
now go ahead, detract form the reasonable words i just wrote with an appeal to fear, that granting the government a little authority to make honeypots will inevitably lead to unfettered abuse. hypocrite
oh no! slippery slope! fear! hysteria!
here's another useless retarded argument for you: you're more likely to die in a car crash than get abused by the police, so you don't have to worry about getting abused by the police
yes, power can be abused. power can be abused at a traffic stop too. so we should let people speed. power can be abused by the TSA. so let people bring anything on airplanes. power can be abused by any government entity with any authority. so we should have no government at all
pffffffffft
i'm not asking you to trust anyone. i'm asking you to see that discipline and rooting out bad apples is a separate issue that doesn't have any impact on the rationale for honeypots
that was an interesting post, and bears absolutely nothing to what i was talking about: a honeypot operation, where your own intent is the only thing that gets you involved
plus, there is always an abuse of authority. in every country, in ever period. this is an argument for maintaining discipline and cracking down on rotten apples, not a valid argument against a valid government function that is supported by the people
well i do. it's a honeypot. if you are inclined to mass murder civilians, that's the only way you will ever get wrapped up in this sort of thing. better an FBI fake front than genuinely malintentioned groups putting you to "use"
again, all you are revealing is how completely and utterly feeble your thinking is. no one is scared. people being in killed in car crashes doesn't mean a damn thing. really
you're not convincing anyone of anything on this topic except how clueless you are
now go ahead, keep talking about car crashes and people being scared. and therefore announce yourself as completely irrelevant. you're not saying anything to anyone that has any value or any insight or value to the topic. really
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there are people who grow up in grinding poverty who would never do anything unethical
then there are assholes like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_and_Loeb
very intelligent, very rich, and they decided to kill a 14 year old just for the hell of it. why? because evil is real in this world, and it exists independent of poverty, neither as cause nor effect, and independent of stupidity, neither as cause nor effect
class != morality != intelligence
there are poor people who are good
there are dumb people who are rich
there are smart people who are evil
mix and match to your heart's content and please get your simpleminded idiotic way you think about your world out of your head
we punish criminals on PRINCIPLE. it's not about deterrence. it's not about revenge. it's about morality
you'll get it some day, i hope
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An Elephant's trunk is very flexible. Even more amazing are the flexible snakes in the grass. Click this link to learn all about why bird's eggs are shaped the way they are.
right now kickstarter is in the idealistic phase. you give money to people you don't know with great expectations. it doesn't take many silver tongued con artists to put a dent in those expectations. then the cynicism kicks in (no pun intended)
don't get me wrong, i love kickstarter, but this is the romance period, and after awhile people might become more jaded
i hope not, really, i hope not. and maybe eventually we can invent extra trust building methodologies to give people more confidence when they give
got it. me saying the right thing to do is wrong because you don't have a PGP signed certificate of my resume
why does it matter who i am? is what i say right, or wrong? isn't that all that matters on an anonymous forum?
is it that you don't act on any principles until someone else does first? so you are a blind follower? no? the why does it fucking matter WHO says something on an anonymous forum? if you have principles, you act on them, no matter who i am or what someone else does
this is where you say "i'll take that as a no" and completely miss the point. you don't know me, or what i am doing. but you'll pass judgment to satisfy your own smug desire to do nothing
"Do you seriously think we're ignoring everything else that's going on and focusing solely on video games? "
yes, i do actually believe that there are fat clueless spoiled pampered westerners who care more about videogames than reality
i don't go into videogame forums and scream about syria. but on the topic of syria itself, the cognitive dissonance is too much for me to put up with this
there really are more important things going on this world than the fucking framerate on your fps, you fat spoiled clueless fucks
i am so so sorry, to suggest on the topic of syria, that there might be something gee i dunno, slightly more fucking important than videogames right now?
and i'm glad the syrian can vent with some escapist black humor. he needs no reminding of what is most important, he sees and hears it around him every day. we owe it to him to acknowledge we know what is most important as well
no, i suggest russia and china grow a human conscience and allow INTERNATIONAL forces to intervene, as with libya, with good success
escapist black humor does help. a syrian in syria needs no reminder of what is most important in syria right now. he can hear it and see it. we owe it to him to keep our minds focused on what is most important too, for his sake
on the subject of syria, it is absurd to focus on molehills instead of mountains. don't ask me, i would be willing to wager any syrian would agree with me here
on the subject of the usa in 2009, the involvement of the usa in afghanistan would be topic #1... in a topic thread about afghanistan. any afghani would agree with you on that
so if those topics you cite had to do directly with afghanistan, you would be correct
current events pop quiz for you: what is happening in syria right now?
how would rate the importance of that current event in regard to the topic of the videogame industry there?
scratch that: if a syrian game developer were in this comment thread right now (something that would actually endanger his life), do you think maybe he would be saying something like, gee, i dunno "HELLO, SPOILED FAT CLUELESS WESTERNERS, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT VIDEOGAMES, THEY ARE MURDERING US"
what do you think?
this is reality, asshole:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135413/Syrian-rebel-buried-alive-gunpoint-horrific-video-emerge-brutal-civil-war.html
this guy was buried alive because he was passing video of what is going on in syria to news organizations
now go ahead, keep on talking about fucking videogames
clueless, fat, spoiled, coddled, useless westerners
i too like to look at ants building small mounds on the side of the road instead of the fiery multicar pile up and people screaming for their lives two feet away
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+1 insightful
did you see the part of the story summary where it focuses on the sanctions under the bush govt?
or is it more important to you to call people sanctimonious twats on the basis of reactions that only exist inside your head?
assad is a murderous tyrant, but we want to focus on sanctions george bush put on his regime... and its effects on the gaming industry? this is the important thing to talk about?
if you demonstrate an eagerness to talk about the usa and american actions, or GAMING, for crying out loud... on the topic of a country currently under the full force of mass murder of civilians by a true tyrant on a daily basis for months... you look like you are less motivated by actual principles and more like you are either obsessed with the usa or lack all proportionality in your ability to think about and understand the world you live in
really? the fucking gaming industry is the important issue here? i'm pretty fucking sure the entire syrian gaming industry would agree with me: "uhhh... that's a little unimportant right now, they are murdering us"
there are people dying in this world for rights that some people in the west take completely for granted... because obviously, it's more important to talk about fucking videogames, on the topic of syria right now
wake the fuck up, you coddled fat suburbanites
"Once that person kills you, then the police can actually do something. Paradoxal, but that's how it is."
This is acceptable to you?
go ahead and threaten to kill someone. then later say you were just being emotional or joking. tell us how that works out for you
you don't joke about making threats of bodily harm. it isn't funny, because the "likelihood" of carrying out a threat is not something that anyone except the threat maker can know
if you threaten mayhem, it is a not a "thought crime" to catch you and punish you on that basis
if you threaten mayhem it is a statement of intent, for which you can, and should, be punished
for example, if i were to threaten the life of the president, i would get a visit from the secret service, and i should get such a visit, and i should be punished
if i call my girlfriend and tell her i am going to kill her, she should call the police, and the police should visit me, and they should visit me, and i should be punished
this is not rocket science here folks. if you make a statement of intent to do bodily harm, it is going to be taken seriously, and it should be taken seriously
now mod me troll and go back to being flabbergasted at a simple commonplace and normal legal convention
speak for your own nerd dreams. i'm mining Martian algae as an elixir that will give me eternal life, and I will destroy all stocks and mines I don't control to maintain a monopoly. And I will use this eternal life to destroy every civilization I find, including Earth, out of a personal vendetta against the girl who didn't talk to me in High School. that's my nerd dream
a slippery slope is based on fear. in your second paragraph, you basically enunciate what i should be afraid of, so i stopped reading there. i'm sorry, i understand that the people governed and people who govern can tell the difference between right and wrong
if you give a cop a gun, he can shoot an innocent man, but that is not a reason not to give him a gun
good day, fear-addled hypocrite
there is no such thing as a slippery slope. you, who call me scared. it's like saying if we let gay people marry, then people will marry animals and dead people: slippery slope. or we can't legalize marijuana because then meth and crack will be legal: slippery slope. the slippery slope argument based on irrationality and fear
the idea of a slippery slope assumes that the people governed and the people power have no brains and can't tell different things apart. only someone who wishes to appeal to fear believes in slippery slope. you who cast accusations of fear, seem to have a belief system with fear as it's primary motivating thought
the government is not an alien entity out to abuse you just for lulz. it's made of people, just like you and me, given powers, by you and me, to only do certain things. where and when they screw up and abuse their powers, we reveal them and punish them
now go ahead, detract form the reasonable words i just wrote with an appeal to fear, that granting the government a little authority to make honeypots will inevitably lead to unfettered abuse. hypocrite
oh no! slippery slope! fear! hysteria!
here's another useless retarded argument for you: you're more likely to die in a car crash than get abused by the police, so you don't have to worry about getting abused by the police
LOL
world's coolest sushi maker?
yes, power can be abused. power can be abused at a traffic stop too. so we should let people speed. power can be abused by the TSA. so let people bring anything on airplanes. power can be abused by any government entity with any authority. so we should have no government at all
pffffffffft
i'm not asking you to trust anyone. i'm asking you to see that discipline and rooting out bad apples is a separate issue that doesn't have any impact on the rationale for honeypots
that was an interesting post, and bears absolutely nothing to what i was talking about: a honeypot operation, where your own intent is the only thing that gets you involved
plus, there is always an abuse of authority. in every country, in ever period. this is an argument for maintaining discipline and cracking down on rotten apples, not a valid argument against a valid government function that is supported by the people
well i do. it's a honeypot. if you are inclined to mass murder civilians, that's the only way you will ever get wrapped up in this sort of thing. better an FBI fake front than genuinely malintentioned groups putting you to "use"
again, all you are revealing is how completely and utterly feeble your thinking is. no one is scared. people being in killed in car crashes doesn't mean a damn thing. really
you're not convincing anyone of anything on this topic except how clueless you are
now go ahead, keep talking about car crashes and people being scared. and therefore announce yourself as completely irrelevant. you're not saying anything to anyone that has any value or any insight or value to the topic. really