Freedom of speech is a human concept, not a western concept. Or I suppose your condescending patronizing opinion is that nonwesterners like being slaves?
Question: what is the greatest ally in the growth of Western Cultural influence in China?
Answer: The Chinese Central Government, for working so hard to make sure that Chinese Culture can't grow.
They think that controlling culture, and growing it, are compatible concepts. Culture grows when it freely crosspollinates with other world cultures. Japanese culture has freely been assimilating culture from around the world and we still recognize a distinctly Japanese culture. The game of controlling culture and "protecting" culture from "illegitimate" influences is the game of the insecure little person who believes Chinese culture is inferior. The person proud of being Chinese is freely dabbling in world culture, infusing their own thoughts, and defining Chinese culture as strong and new. Culture needs to crosspollinate to survive and grow. Sit on it, control it, keep it in a box, and your culture dies.
Look at what these ignorant insecure douchebags are doing:
I know: I can hear the typical snobby Western voice now: "I wish my government would censor the Kardashians and Jersey Shore."
And for thinking that way, you have merely identified yourself as knowing nothing about how culture actually works, and have allied yourself with authoritarianism. congratulations, you're ignorant and you're an asshole. i'd much rather have people watching jersey shore than some government entity telling them what to see and watch. and there is nothing wrong with the pursuit of empty guilty pleasures, that's a PERFECTLY VALID SEGMENT OF CULTURE. think of it as creative ferment from which greater cultural products spring forth. without the base of empty silly nonsense, the "higher" cultural products have nothing to grow out of.
Oh, you thought you were going to actually kill the average Chinese citizen's desire for free access to information? You didn't understand that a stronger Tor protocol or something even better than Tor is the actual result of your escalation of the arms race?
You're pretty ignorant about basic human nature, aren't you, you authoritarian assholes.
The reason you are lamenting the influence of Western culture on China, and not basking in pride at the influence of Chinese culture on the West, is because YOU CENSOR EVERYTHING IN YOUR CULTURE. So Chinese Culture is hobbled and decimated. Because you think you can control, nevermind why you think you should control, Chinese thought. Instead of a great big strong tree, you have a demented little broken bush. Because of YOUR efforts at preventing Chinese culture from growing, by censoring everything, you morons
You ignorant controlling douchebags. Your average Chinese citizen understands this, why don't you you stupid old and decrepit paranoid control freaks?
then you protest afterwards through legislative means. and make noise in the media. film it and put it on youtube. it makes no sense to protest the issue with the TSA grunts, they don't care. but if you get good video of a bad experience, that is worth gold, it creates blowback and bad press. everyone should do this when they are asked to submit: film it or have someone film your experience, then create noise about the absurdity
but protesting unfair rules on the spot means you wind up like this:
"As long as politicians are chosen by a popularity contest instead of an assessment of their skills, experience, and knowledge..."
wait... who is making that assessment? all you have introduced is another corruptible source of power. "We have found politician XYZ to be without skills because we got $15M in our bank accounts to say so." i know what you are talking about in theory, but in practice, you are just introducing another point of failure and corruption in the power structure. there is only one valid source of power: the people. so only they should determine who rules them via, i'm sorry, a popularity contest. not because they always vote with the best intelligence and interests. but because any other source of arbiting power is worse
"Instead, they should be responsible for collecting evidence from the public, industry, and others concerned about the legislation they propose..."
and this is exactly right. they don't know everything. but they know how to assemble bright minds to help them decide. unfortunately, the concept of bright minds helping them decide is being replaced by pay-to-play in our democracy-rapidly-becoming-plutocracy
i'm joking but in all seriousness, i know a lot of slashdotters think of google as a darling, but google represents something else now: power. and all power is eventually corrupted
the code by which animals live in the serengeti has nothing really to do with how or why human beings choose to order their societies
but i'll be sure to kneecap you next time i see you walking down the street and just steal your stuff. i'm not interested in doing that, but since you are broadcasting to everyone that you believe this is the way society should be ordered: pure darwinism, then i'm just conforming to your wishes about how you think you should be treated
and i look froward to your reply, in which you engage in hollywood fantasies about how well armed and prepared you are 24/7 to survive in such a world and how perfect you will be in deflecting my attack. because you are omniscient and omnipotent, apparently. seems to me that's an intellectual failure to understand your essential weaknesses as an individual human being
so, maybe your professed darwinistic ideology really is evolution playing out: the less intelligent among us choosing a mode of "morality" that ensures your life (not my life, i'm not abiding by your beliefs) is brutish, mean, and short: darwinistic. thus ensuring you won't pass on your genes. and i, choosing the way of human morality, and respecting the physically weaker amongst us, who still contribute to society, and playing by the simple rules of decency and respect, amongst others playing by the same code of decency and respect, together, we will survive and define society, and reproduce this code
because in the contest of survival in this world, a well coordinated group of physically weak and average intelligence homo sapiens, but respectful of each other and coordinating with each other, outcompetes the lone superstrong supersmart who do not work well in groups. enjoy your extinction, inferior homo sapiens. genetics is over. memetics is the new game. play catch up or die off
until you figure out a better solution, accept that reality does not conform to your impossible ridiculous idealism about how things should work
grow up. your standards are not high. your standards are impossible. because you don't take into account what actually needs to happen to make things work
ignorant idealism is not morality nor intelligence
right, and that's exciting, and perfect for digestion by those people who will never care or be interested in the accurate details
so there's no harm. people need a gee whiz component. give it to them. science should not be completely inaccessible
because, if we abide by your standards of communication, what is said about science by scientists will be ignored: too dry and boring. and what is said in popular media will be taken over by those with anti-science agendas, and their lies and distortions will be believed. if we abide by your standards of communication
so inaccuracy is acceptable. raise your tolerance level. communicating the excitement is the most important thing
thinking like you is arrogant, and that's what people will understand about science and scientists. and they will come to dislike it and distrust it, and they will trust the charlatans and the antiscience liars, because they will speak their language
you really need an attitude adjustment. but so do a lot of scientists, when it comes to communicating with the common man. in the service of making science acceptable, accesible, exicting, and friendly, to the common man
or next you will wonder why the peasants are standing outside your offices with torches and pitchforks. or why your daughter is dying of whooping cough because herd immunity isn't protecting her anymore because people aren't immunizing the kids anymore. the proper reaction is not anger or arrogance at the "dumb"folk, but patience, kindness, respect, and COMMUNICATION
in terms of random chance, water is the most accessible medium for complex chemistry, and therefore life to evolve in, by orders of magnitude. however, it's not the only medium that can work, so there's plenty other little nooks and crannies to look into
basically, some chemists and physicists should get together, and say: for pressure X and temperature Y, solvent in which complex chemistry can evolve Z is possible. then look for those places, not just water
journalism is intended for easy digestion. criticizing journalism for not getting science accurate is actually a sign you don't understand what the purpose of journalism is
the constant harping on slashdot against journalism for not getting every technical detail accurate and in context is, frankly, stupid. on YOUR part. unless journalism is lying, or saying things completely misleading and way off base, not being entirely accurate is 100% fine. the purpose is COMMUNICATION, not RESEARCH PAPER ACCURACY
look at it this way: how would you describe this issue to a curious seven year old? would the words "earth-like" be acceptable? yes? then this is a completely ridiculous topic, drop it
10 months (metric nod), 36 days each. each week is 6 days, so there's always 6 weeks in every month. And you get these 10 months of perfect 6x6 squares. Bingo!
A leap week of 5 (or 6) days at year's end.
A work week is 4 days, with 2 days off. Fuck the Abrahamic Religions and their 7 day weeks. Yes, I know, for saying that I just went from one in a trillion chance of being adopted to one in a quadrillion.
When given a choice between tradition and intelligence, humanity always goes with tradition, no matter how stupid.
look at my sig. i am no friend of SOPA. having said that, suppressing political expression is not the same as an abusive monopoly warping laws to justify their technologically defunct existence
in other words, SOPA is evil. but suppressing political expression is much more evil
i can't share files in the usa, but i can call obama every vile slur i want 900 times a day for years. i can share files in china, but i can't say one thing about my leaders without risking severe repercussions
it's a completely different issue. it really is
and if you can't see that china is worthy of special condemnation without the bullshit "yeah but the usa..." no, the usa nothing: you are free to criticize your political leaders all you want, and any bullshit going on in the media industry warping our laws and buying off ignorant congresscritters whoring out their office IS evil, but a much smaller evil than what is going on in china. really
if you can't understand that, you really shouldn't comment on the subject matter, because you don't understand it
"If you don't want the enforcement agencies to kill the internet, then find another way to protest."
the logic of the enforcer goon
"If you don't want me to hit you, don't wear that dress."
"If you don't want me to shoot protestors, accept your dictator."
"If you think the idea of the need for a media conglomerate to extract cash for distributing files is just antiquated pre-Internet nonsense, confine your activities to writing harshly worded letters to your congresscritter whore (already purchased by said antiquated conglomerate)."
how about no, and i share these files, and fuck you
in their obstinance to defy anything obama tries to do, no matter how good or bad for the american people, the republican leadership is willing to oppose a tax CUT
because the tax cut is not for rich people?
republican robots: if you define yourself as "i'm everything that guy is not" and that guy is actually decent, where does that leave your political future?
millions of global media hungry technology savvy and most importantly POOR teenagers has made this so, and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do this short of destroying the internet
not that they won't try, and not that they understand or accept this, but maybe someone should scream into these ignorant fucking media dinosaur's ears until they understand that no amount of purchased congresscritter whores, hired tech hacks, or lawyer goons can stop this
game over morons. please don't destroy the most imporatnt media invention since the written word and the printing press in your disability to comprehend fucking reality
the government should treat drug addiction as a healthcare issue, not a crime issue, that's what i think
i don't think you understand what you are talking about. let's put it this way: the most oppressive government imaginable is less freedom destroying than drug addiction, UNLESS you had a government that handed out free opium
there is no better way to enslave mankind than there is through drug addiction. that is the proper relationship between freedom, tyranny, and drug addiction. you don't win the war for more personal freedom by accepting drug addiction, the most potent destroyer of personal freedom possible. go ahead and fight the good fight against tyranny and oppression. but please don't excuse or condone something even worse than that: drug addiction
i think you are gay. you are a closeted homosexual who has not come to grips with the contrast between his upbringing and what your family and society expects of you and your true innate homosexual impulses. i'm being serious
look: as a heterosexual male, homosexuality or gay men have no effect on me. it doesn't frighten me. it doesn't arouse me. it doesn't confuse me. it doesn't do anything for me at all. i feel nothing. make me watch gay porn for hours and what will i do? i will fall asleep. BECAUSE I'M NOT GAY
now show some me a pair of full breasts or a nice ass, and i will get promptly aroused and excited. because i'm a heterosexual male. duh! show me two guys kissing and what do i feel? anger? arousal? confusion? no, i feel nothing
so whenever i see someone getting REALLY upset at this hypothetical shower scenario, i think: you are a closeted homosexual. if you were straight, you simply would not care
and in fact i think a lot of homophobia is driven by people like you: deeply closeted gay men deeply in the closet, projecting their internal psychological struggle onto the outside world. we suffer, because you haven't come to grips and made peace with the fact you are a gay man. accept it, deal with, move on, and stop forcing us to bear witness to your ugly struggle between the societal expectations you have internalized and your true identity
i'm 100% serious. the greatest loudest homophobes in this world are deeply closeted gay men. no one else except them care so much about homosexuality. i'm looking at you rick santorum
the answer is more and better and stronger regulation
idiots like you believe in cheap circus tricks like the one you just mentioned that amount to no regulation at all
insane, stupid beyond belief. the road to the destruction of our economy
that's what your beliefs represent. i'm sure you don't understand why. because your beliefs exist without a sound understanding of some simple facts of economics and economic history
bank runs and bank panics, the utopia of ron paul and his nutty believers
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Freedom of speech is a human concept, not a western concept. Or I suppose your condescending patronizing opinion is that nonwesterners like being slaves?
Question: what is the greatest ally in the growth of Western Cultural influence in China?
Answer: The Chinese Central Government, for working so hard to make sure that Chinese Culture can't grow.
They think that controlling culture, and growing it, are compatible concepts. Culture grows when it freely crosspollinates with other world cultures. Japanese culture has freely been assimilating culture from around the world and we still recognize a distinctly Japanese culture. The game of controlling culture and "protecting" culture from "illegitimate" influences is the game of the insecure little person who believes Chinese culture is inferior. The person proud of being Chinese is freely dabbling in world culture, infusing their own thoughts, and defining Chinese culture as strong and new. Culture needs to crosspollinate to survive and grow. Sit on it, control it, keep it in a box, and your culture dies.
Look at what these ignorant insecure douchebags are doing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/world/asia/censors-pull-reins-as-china-tv-chasing-profit-gets-racy.html?pagewanted=all
I know: I can hear the typical snobby Western voice now: "I wish my government would censor the Kardashians and Jersey Shore."
And for thinking that way, you have merely identified yourself as knowing nothing about how culture actually works, and have allied yourself with authoritarianism. congratulations, you're ignorant and you're an asshole. i'd much rather have people watching jersey shore than some government entity telling them what to see and watch. and there is nothing wrong with the pursuit of empty guilty pleasures, that's a PERFECTLY VALID SEGMENT OF CULTURE. think of it as creative ferment from which greater cultural products spring forth. without the base of empty silly nonsense, the "higher" cultural products have nothing to grow out of.
for helping us build more robust Tor protocols
Oh, you thought you were going to actually kill the average Chinese citizen's desire for free access to information? You didn't understand that a stronger Tor protocol or something even better than Tor is the actual result of your escalation of the arms race?
You're pretty ignorant about basic human nature, aren't you, you authoritarian assholes.
Oh, and btw you grumpy old shitbags:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/world/asia/chinas-president-pushes-back-against-western-culture.html
The reason you are lamenting the influence of Western culture on China, and not basking in pride at the influence of Chinese culture on the West, is because YOU CENSOR EVERYTHING IN YOUR CULTURE. So Chinese Culture is hobbled and decimated. Because you think you can control, nevermind why you think you should control, Chinese thought. Instead of a great big strong tree, you have a demented little broken bush. Because of YOUR efforts at preventing Chinese culture from growing, by censoring everything, you morons
You ignorant controlling douchebags. Your average Chinese citizen understands this, why don't you you stupid old and decrepit paranoid control freaks?
and you die, and the process of growing old sucks
but stephen hawking at 85 is 100x the mental state of snooki at 25. it's all relative
accept your mortality, accept your essential human frailties and weaknesses, deal with it, move on, enjoy your life
death smiles on us all. all a man can do is smile back
then you protest afterwards through legislative means. and make noise in the media. film it and put it on youtube. it makes no sense to protest the issue with the TSA grunts, they don't care. but if you get good video of a bad experience, that is worth gold, it creates blowback and bad press. everyone should do this when they are asked to submit: film it or have someone film your experience, then create noise about the absurdity
but protesting unfair rules on the spot means you wind up like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menezes
so work the media and the congresscritters AFTERWARDS. don't work the TSA grunts, it's pointless
"As long as politicians are chosen by a popularity contest instead of an assessment of their skills, experience, and knowledge..."
wait... who is making that assessment? all you have introduced is another corruptible source of power. "We have found politician XYZ to be without skills because we got $15M in our bank accounts to say so." i know what you are talking about in theory, but in practice, you are just introducing another point of failure and corruption in the power structure. there is only one valid source of power: the people. so only they should determine who rules them via, i'm sorry, a popularity contest. not because they always vote with the best intelligence and interests. but because any other source of arbiting power is worse
"Instead, they should be responsible for collecting evidence from the public, industry, and others concerned about the legislation they propose..."
and this is exactly right. they don't know everything. but they know how to assemble bright minds to help them decide. unfortunately, the concept of bright minds helping them decide is being replaced by pay-to-play in our democracy-rapidly-becoming-plutocracy
phase ii/ order 66: do only evil
MUAHAHAHAHA
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Order_66
i'm joking but in all seriousness, i know a lot of slashdotters think of google as a darling, but google represents something else now: power. and all power is eventually corrupted
physically inferior
for example, stephen hawking is worth more to society than 100,000 physically able randroids
the code by which animals live in the serengeti has nothing really to do with how or why human beings choose to order their societies
but i'll be sure to kneecap you next time i see you walking down the street and just steal your stuff. i'm not interested in doing that, but since you are broadcasting to everyone that you believe this is the way society should be ordered: pure darwinism, then i'm just conforming to your wishes about how you think you should be treated
and i look froward to your reply, in which you engage in hollywood fantasies about how well armed and prepared you are 24/7 to survive in such a world and how perfect you will be in deflecting my attack. because you are omniscient and omnipotent, apparently. seems to me that's an intellectual failure to understand your essential weaknesses as an individual human being
so, maybe your professed darwinistic ideology really is evolution playing out: the less intelligent among us choosing a mode of "morality" that ensures your life (not my life, i'm not abiding by your beliefs) is brutish, mean, and short: darwinistic. thus ensuring you won't pass on your genes. and i, choosing the way of human morality, and respecting the physically weaker amongst us, who still contribute to society, and playing by the simple rules of decency and respect, amongst others playing by the same code of decency and respect, together, we will survive and define society, and reproduce this code
because in the contest of survival in this world, a well coordinated group of physically weak and average intelligence homo sapiens, but respectful of each other and coordinating with each other, outcompetes the lone superstrong supersmart who do not work well in groups. enjoy your extinction, inferior homo sapiens. genetics is over. memetics is the new game. play catch up or die off
excitement sells stories. sales pays journalists
until you figure out a better solution, accept that reality does not conform to your impossible ridiculous idealism about how things should work
grow up. your standards are not high. your standards are impossible. because you don't take into account what actually needs to happen to make things work
ignorant idealism is not morality nor intelligence
right, and that's exciting, and perfect for digestion by those people who will never care or be interested in the accurate details
so there's no harm. people need a gee whiz component. give it to them. science should not be completely inaccessible
because, if we abide by your standards of communication, what is said about science by scientists will be ignored: too dry and boring. and what is said in popular media will be taken over by those with anti-science agendas, and their lies and distortions will be believed. if we abide by your standards of communication
so inaccuracy is acceptable. raise your tolerance level. communicating the excitement is the most important thing
thinking like you is arrogant, and that's what people will understand about science and scientists. and they will come to dislike it and distrust it, and they will trust the charlatans and the antiscience liars, because they will speak their language
you really need an attitude adjustment. but so do a lot of scientists, when it comes to communicating with the common man. in the service of making science acceptable, accesible, exicting, and friendly, to the common man
or next you will wonder why the peasants are standing outside your offices with torches and pitchforks. or why your daughter is dying of whooping cough because herd immunity isn't protecting her anymore because people aren't immunizing the kids anymore. the proper reaction is not anger or arrogance at the "dumb"folk, but patience, kindness, respect, and COMMUNICATION
we'll find it by surprise, in some ferrous sulfate or ammonia based medium, or whatever:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry
in terms of random chance, water is the most accessible medium for complex chemistry, and therefore life to evolve in, by orders of magnitude. however, it's not the only medium that can work, so there's plenty other little nooks and crannies to look into
basically, some chemists and physicists should get together, and say: for pressure X and temperature Y, solvent in which complex chemistry can evolve Z is possible. then look for those places, not just water
journalism is intended for easy digestion. criticizing journalism for not getting science accurate is actually a sign you don't understand what the purpose of journalism is
the constant harping on slashdot against journalism for not getting every technical detail accurate and in context is, frankly, stupid. on YOUR part. unless journalism is lying, or saying things completely misleading and way off base, not being entirely accurate is 100% fine. the purpose is COMMUNICATION, not RESEARCH PAPER ACCURACY
look at it this way: how would you describe this issue to a curious seven year old? would the words "earth-like" be acceptable? yes? then this is a completely ridiculous topic, drop it
my homebrew:
10 months (metric nod), 36 days each. each week is 6 days, so there's always 6 weeks in every month. And you get these 10 months of perfect 6x6 squares. Bingo!
A leap week of 5 (or 6) days at year's end.
A work week is 4 days, with 2 days off. Fuck the Abrahamic Religions and their 7 day weeks. Yes, I know, for saying that I just went from one in a trillion chance of being adopted to one in a quadrillion.
When given a choice between tradition and intelligence, humanity always goes with tradition, no matter how stupid.
look at my sig. i am no friend of SOPA. having said that, suppressing political expression is not the same as an abusive monopoly warping laws to justify their technologically defunct existence
in other words, SOPA is evil. but suppressing political expression is much more evil
i can't share files in the usa, but i can call obama every vile slur i want 900 times a day for years. i can share files in china, but i can't say one thing about my leaders without risking severe repercussions
it's a completely different issue. it really is
and if you can't see that china is worthy of special condemnation without the bullshit "yeah but the usa..." no, the usa nothing: you are free to criticize your political leaders all you want, and any bullshit going on in the media industry warping our laws and buying off ignorant congresscritters whoring out their office IS evil, but a much smaller evil than what is going on in china. really
if you can't understand that, you really shouldn't comment on the subject matter, because you don't understand it
"If you don't want the enforcement agencies to kill the internet, then find another way to protest."
the logic of the enforcer goon
"If you don't want me to hit you, don't wear that dress."
"If you don't want me to shoot protestors, accept your dictator."
"If you think the idea of the need for a media conglomerate to extract cash for distributing files is just antiquated pre-Internet nonsense, confine your activities to writing harshly worded letters to your congresscritter whore (already purchased by said antiquated conglomerate)."
how about no, and i share these files, and fuck you
how's that answer strike you, you goon?
leads to losing real world identity
literally and figuratively
in their obstinance to defy anything obama tries to do, no matter how good or bad for the american people, the republican leadership is willing to oppose a tax CUT
because the tax cut is not for rich people?
republican robots: if you define yourself as "i'm everything that guy is not" and that guy is actually decent, where does that leave your political future?
the internet killed it
it is unenforceable law
millions of global media hungry technology savvy and most importantly POOR teenagers has made this so, and there is absolutely nothing anyone can do this short of destroying the internet
not that they won't try, and not that they understand or accept this, but maybe someone should scream into these ignorant fucking media dinosaur's ears until they understand that no amount of purchased congresscritter whores, hired tech hacks, or lawyer goons can stop this
game over morons. please don't destroy the most imporatnt media invention since the written word and the printing press in your disability to comprehend fucking reality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Venus%23Induced_magnetosphere
what are you talking about?
the government should treat drug addiction as a healthcare issue, not a crime issue, that's what i think
i don't think you understand what you are talking about. let's put it this way: the most oppressive government imaginable is less freedom destroying than drug addiction, UNLESS you had a government that handed out free opium
there is no better way to enslave mankind than there is through drug addiction. that is the proper relationship between freedom, tyranny, and drug addiction. you don't win the war for more personal freedom by accepting drug addiction, the most potent destroyer of personal freedom possible. go ahead and fight the good fight against tyranny and oppression. but please don't excuse or condone something even worse than that: drug addiction
figure it out, and get back to us with your findings
i think you are gay. you are a closeted homosexual who has not come to grips with the contrast between his upbringing and what your family and society expects of you and your true innate homosexual impulses. i'm being serious
look: as a heterosexual male, homosexuality or gay men have no effect on me. it doesn't frighten me. it doesn't arouse me. it doesn't confuse me. it doesn't do anything for me at all. i feel nothing. make me watch gay porn for hours and what will i do? i will fall asleep. BECAUSE I'M NOT GAY
now show some me a pair of full breasts or a nice ass, and i will get promptly aroused and excited. because i'm a heterosexual male. duh! show me two guys kissing and what do i feel? anger? arousal? confusion? no, i feel nothing
so whenever i see someone getting REALLY upset at this hypothetical shower scenario, i think: you are a closeted homosexual. if you were straight, you simply would not care
and in fact i think a lot of homophobia is driven by people like you: deeply closeted gay men deeply in the closet, projecting their internal psychological struggle onto the outside world. we suffer, because you haven't come to grips and made peace with the fact you are a gay man. accept it, deal with, move on, and stop forcing us to bear witness to your ugly struggle between the societal expectations you have internalized and your true identity
i'm 100% serious. the greatest loudest homophobes in this world are deeply closeted gay men. no one else except them care so much about homosexuality. i'm looking at you rick santorum
the answer is more and better and stronger regulation
idiots like you believe in cheap circus tricks like the one you just mentioned that amount to no regulation at all
insane, stupid beyond belief. the road to the destruction of our economy
that's what your beliefs represent. i'm sure you don't understand why. because your beliefs exist without a sound understanding of some simple facts of economics and economic history
bank runs and bank panics, the utopia of ron paul and his nutty believers
so you reform the regulations right?
you don't GET RID OF THE REGULATIONS. right?!
it's insane the way people like you think:
"the lock on the bank door didn't work"
"buy a better lock?"
"no, just stop locking the door"
insane! that's the solution to our economic problems some idiots actually believe
you REFORM the regulations, you don't get rid of them