a troll is someone attempting to lure you into a trap by conscious effort. a crackpot just lures you into his scattershot mind out of evangelical zeal. countertrolling is more of the genuine crackpot variety of internet denizen it appears. talkative, ignorant, harmless
i'm sorry, but you need some SOME sort of legal framework
anarchy only works in the minds of the young, the dumb, and the drugged out utopian. although... it would work for punk as a sales point for their core audience i guess: "steal this song! down with the system!"
it is my belief artists are better off without mafiaa. the evil communist business model in question is... the same business model as good ol' radio from the 1950s: give your content away for free. should we dig up senator mccarthy and tell him wolfman jack was endorsing a communist business model? make cash in related ways: gigs, ancillary revenues, advertising, endorsements, etc. on the internet, you are giving away your digital content for free, for free advertising, exposure. then you capitalize on that
of course, not all artists will take that route. that's fine. i think copyleft content will take off regardless as a valid zone of content that pays dividends for everyone who is not the beetles or the rolling stones. because really, with the mafiaa, unless you are the beatles or the rolling stones, some middleman is making cash, not the artist. they write the contracts in such a way you're screwed as an artist unless you have clout
so we just need to reach artists, and rather than confront IP laws directly, just route around them with a new generation with a new understanding: artists who want exposure more than anything else
'Hagfish have been seen as deep as 16,405 feet (5000 m)'
do not doubt cthulhu's minions
even worse:
'Looking closer, one might discover an alarming sight: Those dead organisms resting on the deep sea floor are actually pulsating! What could cause such movements? Usually, it's a passel of scavenging hagfish feeding on the carcasses from the inside out.'
I would spare relatives the idea that human bodies would be found pulsating from within as they are consumed by hagfish. hagfish are the fate of all bodies that go to the deep. i don't want to know the details
i'm trying hard to figure out if you are satire of the useless "government is evil, man" crackpot i am talking about, or an actual crackpot. people need to label their sarcasm nowadays. on the internats, there's no way to tell lampoon from reality
when someone is skewering a uselessly broad way of thinking about problems, it helps not to respond to their comment by being "exhibit a" of exactly the kind of idiot they are talking about
it always amazes me the creative stretches stubborn minds will go to to smoosh reality into their ideology, rather than reflect and adjust their ideology to fit reality
"Food stamps are a government response to a problem created by government."
i stopped reading there. you are a grade aaa moron. there is no other response possible
An investment firm is hiring mathematicians. After the first round of interviews, three hopeful recent graduates - a pure mathematician, an applied mathematician, and a graduate in mathematical finance - are asked what starting salary they are expecting. The pure mathematician: "Would $30,000 be too much?" The applied mathematician: "I think $60,000 would be OK." The math finance person: "What about $300,000?" The personnel officer is flabberghasted: "Do you know that we have a graduate in pure mathematics who is willing to do the same work for a tenth of what you are demanding!?" "Well, I thought of $135,000 for me, $135,000 for you - and $30,000 for the pure mathematician who will do the work."
if you ever going to defeat any of the issues you complain about you have to develop a philosophy slighter deeper than "the government is evil, man"
the war on drugs has nothing to do with piracy. nothing. unless you are a stoned philosophy major. yes, then of course, it is the same thing. but if you understand how and why we are talking about different issues, you can begin to change the world. but if you continue to insist on the most broad of equivalencies, you're just another idiot who will never make a difference
than the fear and hysteria in the media, are comments like you see under slashdot articles about this nuclear tragedy claiming, basically "no big deal"
false alarmism: wrong
false complacency: equally wrong
do you know how much fucking radiation that plant is leaking into the environment? if an appreciation of how much nuclear radiation is going into the environment from fukushima does not sober you up, you are a grade aaa usless asshole
at least the hysterical can plead ignorance. what's your excuse asshole?
that's the whole atheist panic that eisenhower and others experienced during the cold war when confronted with the rise of the ussr. its the reason why separation of church and state was ignored and "under god" and "in god we trust" were hastily inserted in our mottos and pledges. that a bunch of atheist engineers were going to take over american society, in a reflection of the atheist communist revolutions sweeping the globe. that's what eisenhower is worried about: godlessness. that's what he means by a scientific-technological elite
but that's a hollow threat form a dead era. since the ussr has fallen, religion has reasserted itself globally, and especially domestically in the usa, religion is as strong as ever, perhaps greatest since the days of the religious pilgrims. the founding fathers were distrustful of religion, bless them (irony intended), but even that is being whitewashed with the more strident members of the american taliban to say the founding fathers founded this country as a christian country. fucking ignorants or liars, take your pick
so frankly, the "scientific-technological elite" eisenhower warns us about never materialized
or at least not here
china is basically a technocracy. china is exactly what eisenhower was worried about the usa becoming: godless technocrats in charge of an autocratic capitalist machine. and since china is going to surpass the usa in terms of economic power and therefore military power in a decade or two, eisenhower's words have resonance yet. we shall see how it all plays out. myself, i'm waiting for the average chinese citizen to wake up from their propaganda cocoon and realize they are basically being treated like slaves. their government certainly doesn't respect them: no right to vote. much of the world's coming history depends upon when the average chinese person wakes up
wake up chinese citizen! you deserve democracy. the rest of the world is tapping our toes waiting for you to demand that you stop being treated like cogs in a machine. chinese people aren't pets. and yet chinese people seem to accept that treatment from beijing. for now, while your economic might rises. when it plateaus, or dips, as it inevitably will, no economy balloons forever, maybe then we will see chinese people demand your simple human dignity, the right to choose your own leaders
here's an excerpt, but the whole thing is extraordinary and prescient and should be mandatory slashdot nerd reading
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense. We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security alone more than the net income of all United States cooperations -- corporations.
Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades. In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.
eisenhower, on the flip side, was the guy who put "in god we trust" as the motto of the usa and "under god" into the pledge. boooooo. i understand he was a religious guy, but he completely screwed up the whole separation of church and state. like any man, brilliant and some respects, moron in others
i think psd, psilocybin, peyote, etc: they should be legal too, as they are not addictive. although use is very dangerous (walk out a window, etc.)
i am not for the legalization of meth, coke, heroin
yes, i am aware of all the prohibition type problems associated with these drugs being outlawed: empowered mafia, alienated users, etc.
the problem is, by my determination, legalization will result in a larger number of users. this problem, in my mind, is more potent than all the bad side effects of prohibition. so prohibition should continue, with highly addictive drugs
those who are for legalizing everything seem to conveniently forget that the addictive potential of some drugs. look: people have problems. people always have problems: career, money, reliationships, etc. this causes pain. the solution to those problems is never to turn to substance abuse, and yet people always turn to substance abuse, to blot out reality and the pain of it. of course, you add addiction, and now you've just created more problems. its an attempt at escapism that results in being more trapped. so some people, by saying the highly addictive substances should be legalized, seem to be content saying that an entire subclass of humanity should effectively be denied the right to free will. because what is most certain about the relationship between drug addiction and freedom to me, is that no government ever existed that can rob you of freedom the way drug addiction does. in fact, imagine the most orwellian government possible, and it will be a government that uses highly addictive drugs to control the masses. highly addictive drugs are the greatest enemy to freedom in the history of the world. if you don't understand this, you understand nothing
in other words, when it comes to highly addictive substances, i am for continued outlawing, in the name of freedom. because highly addictive substances, let loos eupon society, will entrap countless lives. the drug does it
i expect anyone who responds to this comment to conveniently forget, marginalize, or belittle the powerful addictive properties of substances like meth, heroin, coke. typical. and wrong
the only thing as dangerous as false alarmism is a false sense of complacency. i'm not sure why you believe a bunch of religious nuts determined to kill you isn't a problem, just because they are low iq. that they are morons changes HOW you worry about them, yes, but it doesn't mean you stop worrying about them. a horde of low iq idiots committed to mass murder is still a problem
as another muslim who believes in a slightly modified version of islam. and that same muslim believes you to be an apostate as well. add some "my religion makes it praiseworthy to kill apostates" and you have a nice recipe for centuries of genocide. isn't religion grand?
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a troll is someone attempting to lure you into a trap by conscious effort. a crackpot just lures you into his scattershot mind out of evangelical zeal. countertrolling is more of the genuine crackpot variety of internet denizen it appears. talkative, ignorant, harmless
"Anarchy is all there is" he typed on his computer made possible by civilization
friends don't let friends post drunk
i'm sorry, but you need some SOME sort of legal framework
anarchy only works in the minds of the young, the dumb, and the drugged out utopian. although... it would work for punk as a sales point for their core audience i guess: "steal this song! down with the system!"
consumers are obviously better off without mafiaa
it is my belief artists are better off without mafiaa. the evil communist business model in question is... the same business model as good ol' radio from the 1950s: give your content away for free. should we dig up senator mccarthy and tell him wolfman jack was endorsing a communist business model? make cash in related ways: gigs, ancillary revenues, advertising, endorsements, etc. on the internet, you are giving away your digital content for free, for free advertising, exposure. then you capitalize on that
of course, not all artists will take that route. that's fine. i think copyleft content will take off regardless as a valid zone of content that pays dividends for everyone who is not the beetles or the rolling stones. because really, with the mafiaa, unless you are the beatles or the rolling stones, some middleman is making cash, not the artist. they write the contracts in such a way you're screwed as an artist unless you have clout
so we just need to reach artists, and rather than confront IP laws directly, just route around them with a new generation with a new understanding: artists who want exposure more than anything else
http://www.whaletimes.org/hagfish.htm
'Hagfish have been seen as deep as 16,405 feet (5000 m)'
do not doubt cthulhu's minions
even worse:
'Looking closer, one might discover an alarming sight: Those dead organisms resting on the deep sea floor are actually pulsating! What could cause such movements? Usually, it's a passel of scavenging hagfish feeding on the carcasses from the inside out.'
http://www.jyi.org/volumes/volume5/issue7/features/lee.html
I would spare relatives the idea that human bodies would be found pulsating from within as they are consumed by hagfish. hagfish are the fate of all bodies that go to the deep. i don't want to know the details
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/basalfish/myxini.html
'The adjective which best describes the Myxini is "Lovecraftian".'
insert your own samuel l jackson joke
http://www.seasky.org/deep-sea/atlantic-hagfish.html
the ocean's morticians, always found near the dead
nastiest things on earth
is best humor
i'm trying hard to figure out if you are satire of the useless "government is evil, man" crackpot i am talking about, or an actual crackpot. people need to label their sarcasm nowadays. on the internats, there's no way to tell lampoon from reality
when someone is skewering a uselessly broad way of thinking about problems, it helps not to respond to their comment by being "exhibit a" of exactly the kind of idiot they are talking about
it always amazes me the creative stretches stubborn minds will go to to smoosh reality into their ideology, rather than reflect and adjust their ideology to fit reality
"Food stamps are a government response to a problem created by government."
i stopped reading there. you are a grade aaa moron. there is no other response possible
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2067216&cid=35703166
thank you, SilverHatHacker (1381259) for the joke
if you ever going to defeat any of the issues you complain about you have to develop a philosophy slighter deeper than "the government is evil, man"
the war on drugs has nothing to do with piracy. nothing. unless you are a stoned philosophy major. yes, then of course, it is the same thing. but if you understand how and why we are talking about different issues, you can begin to change the world. but if you continue to insist on the most broad of equivalencies, you're just another idiot who will never make a difference
never heard of food stamps huh?
"the meaning is that instead of us using the tools, we are being used by the tools"
far out man, you are a freakin' genius!
pass the doobage on the left hand side
science is the cure to the scientific-technological complex
you just seem to have a bunch of ludditism
than the fear and hysteria in the media, are comments like you see under slashdot articles about this nuclear tragedy claiming, basically "no big deal"
false alarmism: wrong
false complacency: equally wrong
do you know how much fucking radiation that plant is leaking into the environment? if an appreciation of how much nuclear radiation is going into the environment from fukushima does not sober you up, you are a grade aaa usless asshole
at least the hysterical can plead ignorance. what's your excuse asshole?
that's the whole atheist panic that eisenhower and others experienced during the cold war when confronted with the rise of the ussr. its the reason why separation of church and state was ignored and "under god" and "in god we trust" were hastily inserted in our mottos and pledges. that a bunch of atheist engineers were going to take over american society, in a reflection of the atheist communist revolutions sweeping the globe. that's what eisenhower is worried about: godlessness. that's what he means by a scientific-technological elite
but that's a hollow threat form a dead era. since the ussr has fallen, religion has reasserted itself globally, and especially domestically in the usa, religion is as strong as ever, perhaps greatest since the days of the religious pilgrims. the founding fathers were distrustful of religion, bless them (irony intended), but even that is being whitewashed with the more strident members of the american taliban to say the founding fathers founded this country as a christian country. fucking ignorants or liars, take your pick
so frankly, the "scientific-technological elite" eisenhower warns us about never materialized
or at least not here
china is basically a technocracy. china is exactly what eisenhower was worried about the usa becoming: godless technocrats in charge of an autocratic capitalist machine. and since china is going to surpass the usa in terms of economic power and therefore military power in a decade or two, eisenhower's words have resonance yet. we shall see how it all plays out. myself, i'm waiting for the average chinese citizen to wake up from their propaganda cocoon and realize they are basically being treated like slaves. their government certainly doesn't respect them: no right to vote. much of the world's coming history depends upon when the average chinese person wakes up
wake up chinese citizen! you deserve democracy. the rest of the world is tapping our toes waiting for you to demand that you stop being treated like cogs in a machine. chinese people aren't pets. and yet chinese people seem to accept that treatment from beijing. for now, while your economic might rises. when it plateaus, or dips, as it inevitably will, no economy balloons forever, maybe then we will see chinese people demand your simple human dignity, the right to choose your own leaders
i'm confused
this is either a whoosh on my part or people don't know about eisenhower's famous speech
everyone should read eisenhower's farewell speech
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/dwightdeisenhowerfarewell.html
here's an excerpt, but the whole thing is extraordinary and prescient and should be mandatory slashdot nerd reading
eisenhower, on the flip side, was the guy who put "in god we trust" as the motto of the usa and "under god" into the pledge. boooooo. i understand he was a religious guy, but he completely screwed up the whole separation of church and state. like any man, brilliant and some respects, moron in others
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-eisenhower-signs-in-god-we-trust-into-law
i think psd, psilocybin, peyote, etc: they should be legal too, as they are not addictive. although use is very dangerous (walk out a window, etc.)
i am not for the legalization of meth, coke, heroin
yes, i am aware of all the prohibition type problems associated with these drugs being outlawed: empowered mafia, alienated users, etc.
the problem is, by my determination, legalization will result in a larger number of users. this problem, in my mind, is more potent than all the bad side effects of prohibition. so prohibition should continue, with highly addictive drugs
those who are for legalizing everything seem to conveniently forget that the addictive potential of some drugs. look: people have problems. people always have problems: career, money, reliationships, etc. this causes pain. the solution to those problems is never to turn to substance abuse, and yet people always turn to substance abuse, to blot out reality and the pain of it. of course, you add addiction, and now you've just created more problems. its an attempt at escapism that results in being more trapped. so some people, by saying the highly addictive substances should be legalized, seem to be content saying that an entire subclass of humanity should effectively be denied the right to free will. because what is most certain about the relationship between drug addiction and freedom to me, is that no government ever existed that can rob you of freedom the way drug addiction does. in fact, imagine the most orwellian government possible, and it will be a government that uses highly addictive drugs to control the masses. highly addictive drugs are the greatest enemy to freedom in the history of the world. if you don't understand this, you understand nothing
in other words, when it comes to highly addictive substances, i am for continued outlawing, in the name of freedom. because highly addictive substances, let loos eupon society, will entrap countless lives. the drug does it
i expect anyone who responds to this comment to conveniently forget, marginalize, or belittle the powerful addictive properties of substances like meth, heroin, coke. typical. and wrong
my favorite fake slashdot story all day
awesome: "there's no need to stand against the things that make people justify their atrocities because people suck"
thanks for not believing in progress, asshole
this is an interesting example of someone who confuses analogy and reality
the only thing as dangerous as false alarmism is a false sense of complacency. i'm not sure why you believe a bunch of religious nuts determined to kill you isn't a problem, just because they are low iq. that they are morons changes HOW you worry about them, yes, but it doesn't mean you stop worrying about them. a horde of low iq idiots committed to mass murder is still a problem
as another muslim who believes in a slightly modified version of islam. and that same muslim believes you to be an apostate as well. add some "my religion makes it praiseworthy to kill apostates" and you have a nice recipe for centuries of genocide. isn't religion grand?
it's April Fools day
not April Mad Libs day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Libs