are the ones below 100 on the iq bell curve. its really not that complicated why expenditures that are clearly of benefit to the maintenance of a modern civilization make sense. they do in every other modern country, right?
well, those expenditures don't make sense if you aren't that bright, and corporations who are willing to do anything to make more cash, including sabotaging the society and workers that enable them, propagandize the low of iq on faux news channels, appealing to their emotions rather than their sense of reason
the crime is how money warps the political process with propaganda serving the interest of the moneyed making more money, and not very bright agreeing with the moneyed interests, even though it just means they get poorer, but they are too dumb to realize how important it is to maintain society's standards
ayn rand writes out of concern for the poor downtrodden captains of industry. it sounds like a joke. nominally, this is an audience of 0.001% of the population with every perk in life you can imagine
but aspirationally, everyone is a future captain of industry inside their own minds. so they actually sympathize with the captains of industry, their "peers." while the real world captains of industry are paying off their elected representatives to betray middle class interests to fatten corporate coffers (less safety regulations, lower wages, less healthcare responsibility, etc.)
joe blow imagines himself a big man, inside his own head. waiting for the day he wins the lottery and joins his rightful place alongside other great men like himself. so of course he happily shafts policies that effects his next door neighbors, his city and town, the future of his children and their education, and even himself, his healthcare. so blinded is he
it's a neat psychological trick: everyone is a legend in their own minds. and it is why political philosophies written for the benefit of ultrarich fat cats robbing the middle class blind are seen as normal and appealing to people who otherwise suffer through every day hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck, with nothing to show for the toil. sad and pathetic, in a way. and completely real, and common
it is not a liberal or democratic policy to cut education and healthcare spending. it is the right's policy. thus, without a doubt, the right and republicans are at war with the poor. the right and republicans are mostly supported by the lower middle class tea party types. they are whipped into a frenzy by faux news propaganda, paid for by fat cats and corporations, to bolster support for their agendas to make more profit off of all of our backs. out of fear, disgust, and revulsion, in panic at lowering standards of living, it is easier for some to tear down their even poorer neighbors, rather than demand some accountability from the corporations and fat cats that are causing their standards of living to decline. its especially easier because they are lied to, and their emotions, their fear and panic, are appealed to, rather than their logic and reason
the mostly lower middle class tea party types will understanding that declaring war on the poor and passing laws that reward the rich will actually damage this country far more than the social programs, high taxes, and labor unions they hate. let us hope this is not a third world country when they realize that
cuba jails political prisoners. period. do you find that acceptable?
iraq and afghanistan's governments are obviously orders of magnitude better than the governments they replaced. true or false?
i really don't have a problem with people who criticize the usa. what drives me nuts are morons who make out the usa's enemies as better than they really are, out of some misguided sense of false equivalency. the usa does plenty wrong in this world. true. but if that observation changes your perception of the usa'ss enemies, you're an idiot. cuba, china: far worse than the usa and vile entities which must have their governments overthrown. no matter what the usa does!
and yes, china won't revolt until the economy sours. since no economy grows forever, it will happen sooner rather than later. at which time, will you stand with the chinese people? or the chinese government?
do you stand with the cuban people? or the cuban government? and i'm sorry, but in a nondemocracy, those are two separate entities, and for failing to understand this fact in commenting on these countries, you're a moron
you would be correct to assert that western officials have their heads up their asses and won't immediately grasp that tor is a friend, not an enemy, and an excellent way to bring down beijing, tehran, havana, and harare cheaply. but they'll warm up to the possibilities
to tell us how unimportant and ridiculous the concern is, and everything is perfectly fine, its all just media hype?
let me be clear: the false alarmist is, indeed, a form of fool. hysteria, fear: it's adrenal glands on overload, not intelligence
but i assert that there is a second form of fool, that you often see posting on slashdot, on a number of different topics. "the sheeple are running and screaming about this, hahaha": the falsely complacent. equally foolish. the sky is not falling, indeed. but have you heard of hail? tornadoes? hurricanes? blizzards? lightning? rare. but not nonexistent
true intelligence rides a delicate moderate path between alarmism and complacency. the guy who freaks out too easily, and the guy who never worries at all: equally foolish idiots in my book. unfortunately, you often see the latter posting on this website smugly, all the time, on a range of topics. not intelligent people
an arrogant fool would said yes. an arrogant fool would say no. so i will say maybe. its a good bet, from my point of view, that an endless cycle of exclusivity, ubiquity, exclusivity, ubiquity, etc., will play out in the world of social networking on the internet. i could be wrong. i don't think i am. it is ok if you think i am. but you would be dead wrong if you were certain
i see you understand the resistance to myspace that made exclusivity attractive, but you say its better to have everyone on it. what i'd like you to consider is that you are only 120 degrees of an arc along a story that has an endless 360 degree circle. the story keeps going around and around: 1. desire for exclusivity, 2. desire for ubiquity, rinse, repeat
you are making the ubiquitous plumbing end game argument. remember compuserve? at one time, we had walled gardens you had to pay for like compuserve. all swept aside by a free and open internet. likewise, facebook can have all the inertia in the world, but it can't compete with free and open. and as time goes on, could take five years, could take ten years, you reach a tipping point, and it becomes a mass exodus. so facebook is not end game. end game is something like facebook, but free and open and not beholden to selling your personal info to keep running
you're talking about a social network protocol, like http, smtp, nntp, etc
the point is, we'd have many different internets today if it was started as different walled gardens you had to pay for. well, actually, that is the way it was: bbses, compuserve, etc. all of which died in favor of the free and the open
so end game for friendster/ myspace/ facebook is a free and open social network protocol. sntp sounds too confusingly like smtp so lets call it...
and my plan is to open a social network where whatever people talk about i sue them on the basis that what they said is my personal intellectual property. i'll make billions
actually, everybody commenting on this board is the many different personalities of one insane individual. only you are a different person, who has unwittingly descended into the petty internal arguments of a deranged mind
hmmm... that's actually a good plot for a matrixy inceptiony type movie
oh shit! intellectual property disclosed in public again! curses!
maybe i can sue you for billions for disclosure of intellectual property secrets on a public comment board. hmmm. the question is, what technology did you use to read my mind?
it's my belief that social networks will rise and fall, endlessly in succession. simply because ubiquity eventually becomes a liability amongst a crowd who views exclusion and superiority to be more important. eventually, one of these smaller exclusive networks becomes the object of envy for others to be "in" that exclusive group, and the long march to ubiquity begins, until you start all over again
its an empty vapid game. its also pretty much boilerplate sociological fact. consider nightclubs in cities: the small chic "in" club that everyone wants to get into, overexposure, then decline because the "cool" kids want their own exclusive club. rinse, repeat
and no, facebook will not become ubiquitous plumbing. because they need to make money to survive. to make that money, they need to sell the personal details of their members. which is a force that will drive people from facebook as they wise up to how creepy that really is: by feeding their personal details to the machine, they are telling their abuser how to abuse them
so be on the lookout for the next friendster/ myspace/ facebook. could be diaspora. or maybe being programmed right now in some dorm room. $$$ to the chaps who start/ find the right network at the right time, and ride that rocket all the way up
actually, i am a committed capitalist. the market is extremely efficient
however, unlike many free market fundamentalist retards, i understand that free market forces have their limits. for example, without regulation and enforcement, the market is not free: it tends towards monopolies, oligopolies, and other abuses in the market place by entrenched powers. additionally, the free market is not the answer to all things. health care and education, for example
we must suffer the deluge of free market retards in the usa, and beat them back until they grow a fucking brain. and i apologize to the rest of this world for this outbreak of historically and economically illiterate morons in my country
Slashdot Mirror
-"thoughts i had while sitting on the toilet"
a web upon the web
very poetic ;-)
are the ones below 100 on the iq bell curve. its really not that complicated why expenditures that are clearly of benefit to the maintenance of a modern civilization make sense. they do in every other modern country, right?
well, those expenditures don't make sense if you aren't that bright, and corporations who are willing to do anything to make more cash, including sabotaging the society and workers that enable them, propagandize the low of iq on faux news channels, appealing to their emotions rather than their sense of reason
the crime is how money warps the political process with propaganda serving the interest of the moneyed making more money, and not very bright agreeing with the moneyed interests, even though it just means they get poorer, but they are too dumb to realize how important it is to maintain society's standards
ayn rand writes out of concern for the poor downtrodden captains of industry. it sounds like a joke. nominally, this is an audience of 0.001% of the population with every perk in life you can imagine
but aspirationally, everyone is a future captain of industry inside their own minds. so they actually sympathize with the captains of industry, their "peers." while the real world captains of industry are paying off their elected representatives to betray middle class interests to fatten corporate coffers (less safety regulations, lower wages, less healthcare responsibility, etc.)
joe blow imagines himself a big man, inside his own head. waiting for the day he wins the lottery and joins his rightful place alongside other great men like himself. so of course he happily shafts policies that effects his next door neighbors, his city and town, the future of his children and their education, and even himself, his healthcare. so blinded is he
it's a neat psychological trick: everyone is a legend in their own minds. and it is why political philosophies written for the benefit of ultrarich fat cats robbing the middle class blind are seen as normal and appealing to people who otherwise suffer through every day hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck, with nothing to show for the toil. sad and pathetic, in a way. and completely real, and common
keep them dumb enough to be in a constant state of propagandized anger, and make sure they die before they wise up
it is not a liberal or democratic policy to cut education and healthcare spending. it is the right's policy. thus, without a doubt, the right and republicans are at war with the poor. the right and republicans are mostly supported by the lower middle class tea party types. they are whipped into a frenzy by faux news propaganda, paid for by fat cats and corporations, to bolster support for their agendas to make more profit off of all of our backs. out of fear, disgust, and revulsion, in panic at lowering standards of living, it is easier for some to tear down their even poorer neighbors, rather than demand some accountability from the corporations and fat cats that are causing their standards of living to decline. its especially easier because they are lied to, and their emotions, their fear and panic, are appealed to, rather than their logic and reason
the mostly lower middle class tea party types will understanding that declaring war on the poor and passing laws that reward the rich will actually damage this country far more than the social programs, high taxes, and labor unions they hate. let us hope this is not a third world country when they realize that
thanks for your input, crackpot
they allowed him to publish his insane manifesto in a major newspaper, and sure enough, his brother recognized the mental wavelength
so i sense the possibility that they've profiled the murderer as someone who can't resist the desire to solve his own puzzles "anonymously"
ego: the downfall of so many, deserving and undeserving
cuba jails political prisoners. period. do you find that acceptable?
iraq and afghanistan's governments are obviously orders of magnitude better than the governments they replaced. true or false?
i really don't have a problem with people who criticize the usa. what drives me nuts are morons who make out the usa's enemies as better than they really are, out of some misguided sense of false equivalency. the usa does plenty wrong in this world. true. but if that observation changes your perception of the usa'ss enemies, you're an idiot. cuba, china: far worse than the usa and vile entities which must have their governments overthrown. no matter what the usa does!
and yes, china won't revolt until the economy sours. since no economy grows forever, it will happen sooner rather than later. at which time, will you stand with the chinese people? or the chinese government?
do you stand with the cuban people? or the cuban government? and i'm sorry, but in a nondemocracy, those are two separate entities, and for failing to understand this fact in commenting on these countries, you're a moron
everywhere
supported by western governments
you would be correct to assert that western officials have their heads up their asses and won't immediately grasp that tor is a friend, not an enemy, and an excellent way to bring down beijing, tehran, havana, and harare cheaply. but they'll warm up to the possibilities
he's stating it is safe in moment X, and look at all those idiots worrying
when he should be saying we better start worrying about moment X+1
and i'm the moron?
to tell us how unimportant and ridiculous the concern is, and everything is perfectly fine, its all just media hype?
let me be clear: the false alarmist is, indeed, a form of fool. hysteria, fear: it's adrenal glands on overload, not intelligence
but i assert that there is a second form of fool, that you often see posting on slashdot, on a number of different topics. "the sheeple are running and screaming about this, hahaha": the falsely complacent. equally foolish. the sky is not falling, indeed. but have you heard of hail? tornadoes? hurricanes? blizzards? lightning? rare. but not nonexistent
true intelligence rides a delicate moderate path between alarmism and complacency. the guy who freaks out too easily, and the guy who never worries at all: equally foolish idiots in my book. unfortunately, you often see the latter posting on this website smugly, all the time, on a range of topics. not intelligent people
an arrogant fool would said yes. an arrogant fool would say no. so i will say maybe. its a good bet, from my point of view, that an endless cycle of exclusivity, ubiquity, exclusivity, ubiquity, etc., will play out in the world of social networking on the internet. i could be wrong. i don't think i am. it is ok if you think i am. but you would be dead wrong if you were certain
i see you understand the resistance to myspace that made exclusivity attractive, but you say its better to have everyone on it. what i'd like you to consider is that you are only 120 degrees of an arc along a story that has an endless 360 degree circle. the story keeps going around and around: 1. desire for exclusivity, 2. desire for ubiquity, rinse, repeat
well yeah. you do all the hard work implementing it, then we just sue you claiming you stole our idea and we take your cash
you are making the ubiquitous plumbing end game argument. remember compuserve? at one time, we had walled gardens you had to pay for like compuserve. all swept aside by a free and open internet. likewise, facebook can have all the inertia in the world, but it can't compete with free and open. and as time goes on, could take five years, could take ten years, you reach a tipping point, and it becomes a mass exodus. so facebook is not end game. end game is something like facebook, but free and open and not beholden to selling your personal info to keep running
you're talking about a social network protocol, like http, smtp, nntp, etc
the point is, we'd have many different internets today if it was started as different walled gardens you had to pay for. well, actually, that is the way it was: bbses, compuserve, etc. all of which died in favor of the free and the open
so end game for friendster/ myspace/ facebook is a free and open social network protocol. sntp sounds too confusingly like smtp so lets call it...
vytp
vapid yammering transfer protocol
exactly!
and my plan is to open a social network where whatever people talk about i sue them on the basis that what they said is my personal intellectual property. i'll make billions
actually, everybody commenting on this board is the many different personalities of one insane individual. only you are a different person, who has unwittingly descended into the petty internal arguments of a deranged mind
hmmm... that's actually a good plot for a matrixy inceptiony type movie
oh shit! intellectual property disclosed in public again! curses!
hey! that's my plan!
maybe i can sue you for billions for disclosure of intellectual property secrets on a public comment board. hmmm. the question is, what technology did you use to read my mind?
anyone remember friendster?
it's my belief that social networks will rise and fall, endlessly in succession. simply because ubiquity eventually becomes a liability amongst a crowd who views exclusion and superiority to be more important. eventually, one of these smaller exclusive networks becomes the object of envy for others to be "in" that exclusive group, and the long march to ubiquity begins, until you start all over again
its an empty vapid game. its also pretty much boilerplate sociological fact. consider nightclubs in cities: the small chic "in" club that everyone wants to get into, overexposure, then decline because the "cool" kids want their own exclusive club. rinse, repeat
and no, facebook will not become ubiquitous plumbing. because they need to make money to survive. to make that money, they need to sell the personal details of their members. which is a force that will drive people from facebook as they wise up to how creepy that really is: by feeding their personal details to the machine, they are telling their abuser how to abuse them
so be on the lookout for the next friendster/ myspace/ facebook. could be diaspora. or maybe being programmed right now in some dorm room. $$$ to the chaps who start/ find the right network at the right time, and ride that rocket all the way up
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
of course, you haven't made a list of the benefits, just the abuses
of course there will be abuses. but no id at all is worse than an id, with the accompanying benefits and abuses
so you are going to have to make peace with the id, because its not going away, sorry
actually, i am a committed capitalist. the market is extremely efficient
however, unlike many free market fundamentalist retards, i understand that free market forces have their limits. for example, without regulation and enforcement, the market is not free: it tends towards monopolies, oligopolies, and other abuses in the market place by entrenched powers. additionally, the free market is not the answer to all things. health care and education, for example
we must suffer the deluge of free market retards in the usa, and beat them back until they grow a fucking brain. and i apologize to the rest of this world for this outbreak of historically and economically illiterate morons in my country