i would respectfully say that those who run aid the rise of ignorance. you should stay and fight for your country. because when you run away from problems they only grow. soon you'll be running away from wherever you ran to, when a palin pops up there too
people who run away from problems like palin, or avoid the subject, or don't vote out of ambivalence or cynicism: they aid the rise of ignorance. because if you don't fight ignorance, who will? take responsibility for YOUR country, and mold YOUR country in your image. or someone else will. and then you have no right to complain, because you didn't exert any effort. the image of the usa is up for grabs, its always up for grabs. and its image is claimed by those who exert effort to mold that image
if you give up in cynicism and do nothing or run away, then you are perhaps even worse than the idiots who follow palin: at least they are DOING something, even if a false cause. those who exert effort in a false cause are better than those who know what is right, but do nothing. i firmly believe that
there is no excuse for lack of effort, and then complaining when things don't go your way. your enemies are rich and powerful, yes. as if that should stop you in the noble fight for what is right. so get fighting, or be worse than a palin supporter, in my eyes at least
herbal alcoholic drinks are not indicated for rectal delivery to iguanas. however, as you indicate, you can shove as much bull shit into an iguana's anus as you want, no harm will be done
a falsis principiis proficisci: julian assange is a cia agent
Which means a couple of things: the Japanese need to learn that the harming of marine wildlife is NOT a party. And iguanas should not be given anything rectally. But most importantly, the anagrams show that Julian Paul Assange is obviously a CIA agent.
let's get something straight: the corporations are in control, not the government. the government is purchased by the corporations to do as they wish
if government were smaller, corporations would continue their abuses, and multiply them, since there is no one left to stop them from doing anything in the pursuit of profit
therefore, you need a strong government to counteract the power of the corporations. the difference is, you need a government immune from the corrupting power of corporate dollars. unfortunately, it is very hard to achieve that. but what you don't want to do, under any circumstances, is weaken the government, thereby allowing corporations to extend their abuses beyond what they can already do
the failure of your point of view is that you believe government is in control here. no, corporations are in control. corporations are your enemy, not government. you need government to, among other things, enforce regulations in the marketplace so that it is free and fair. if you have no government regulation, a weakened government, then the marketplace is merely abused by its largest players in all sorts of schemes. meanwhile, a corrupted government is merely a tool to enact that abuse: the regulations used to entrench their position are written by the corporations
so your goal is: strong government, corporate cash out of government. your goal is NOT less government, unless you want to be yet even more abused by corporations
you do understand that less government means corporations fill the power void, correct?
no, i screwed up. i had to enter the url by hand because slashdot wasn't accepting an url paste
maybe someone can chime in: paste seems to work, and then not work, in the new slashdot comment system. i'm using chrome, maybe a browser specific bug?
messing with governments gets mixed up in equivalency and nationalism and generates more heat than anything actually useful. iran is already saying wikileaks is an american plot
something that hurts the usa should be a subject of celebration in the iranian government, right? no. because people are so mixed up in their prejudices, any reveal of what a government did or said can always be conveniently reexplained with some creative thinking such that your prejudices are never really examined. whether pro-usa, or anti-usa, your opinion of the usa is completely unaffected by wikileaks, as iranian spin shows
wikileaks clearly shows that the great satan is not the one who hates them and wants their destruction: all their neighboring countries secretly push the usa to topple iran, while those countries say nothing publicly. that's what wikileaks shows. this challenges the narrative of the great satan plotting your downfall, and so proof that the great satan is not a great satan. therefore, wikileaks must be explained away with plots and conspiracies, where julian assange is actually an agent of the CIA. it would be hilarious, if maintaining the prejudicial narrative weren't such a deadly serious effort by those who love, or hate, the usa, for prejudicial reasons. so it's a complete wash: wikileaks has zero effect on the usa's standing in the world, or in the minds of committed pro-usa or anti-usa partisans.
however, the corporations, they need unmasking. a lot of people in the usa have this phony narrative of their poor neighbors and their government being the enemy of their prosperity. the real enemy of their prosperity: corporations. there is nothing wrong with capitalism, but corporatism is not capitalism. corporatism is buying off the government to permanently warp the markplace against the smaller players and to entrench your dominant position in it. the government is not the enemy, corporations are. the greatest enemy capitalism has ever known, in fact, is not communism, but corporatism, in all of economic history, the big players have always warped the markplace in their direction. yet so many fools believe this phony narrative of the government and poor people being the enemy of capitalism, and large corporations heroes, or at worst, harmless victims on the sidelines, of evil government regulations (that are written by those same corporations)
so hopefully, a reveal of how corporations are your real enemy, not your government, might open some foolish eyes, for once, i hope
protest movements like ross perot or the tea party are limited, but nothing is stopping one someday from swamping the entire republican/ democratic vote. as people grow more and more discontent, the impossible becomes possible
people are discontent, and there is growing discontent, as their own government increasingly represents corporate interests that screw them over. this will come to a head eventually
but corporate power is obviously a threat to it. the ideal solution is the election of representatives who will pass laws to limit corporate cash. the fucking supreme court doesn't help in that regard, so we must depend upon legislators
but in the public mind, limiting corporate power winds up as item #99 on a list of 99 concerns, and elected representatives are heroin addicts when it comes to corporate cash, so the issue is never addressed
so you do change the sucky status quo? i'm not interested in hyperbole, i'm interested in limiting corporate power effectively. and if the legislation can't do it, we must do it with populist movement
the purchase of the american government by corporations renders the government no longer a legitimate expression of the will of the people
the will of the people will not be denied. therefore, it is entirely legitimate to disobey laws, specifically, those laws which only exist to extend corporate power over the common man. this does not mean all laws should be disobeyed, such as the common sense laws about common sense morality, only those laws which are antidemocratic in nature in regards to extension of corporate power over civil life
the laws that have to do with the retention of power by corporate entities is not the will of the people, and therefore you actually have a duty to actively disobey them, if you wish to live in a democracy, and not a corporatocracy. to preserve the usa as close to a democratic entity as possible, nondemocratic poisons in our government must be sabotaged
all laws which extend corporate control over the common man, it is your moral duty to make a point of disobeying those laws, your government has been purchased, the gloves are off
capitalism is when people compete to win market share freely and fairly. corporatism is when the largest players dominate and warp the marketplace to suit their interests, crushing the smaller players so there is no competition and their dominance is unchallenged. ideally government would guard against corporatism and keep the market free and fair for capitalism. but in today's world, the government has been bought and sold to the largest corporations
so, you're the fool. because you don't understand that corporatism is not capitalism
knock down 1, 10 sprout up, knock down 10, 100 sprout up
intellectual property+internet=no more intellectual property. some people just need to learn the hard way. keep whacking the moles, government friends!
not just proclaiming our geek cred by poopooing poor p2p client choices
therefore, we need slashdot wisdom on THE filesharing client to use, for those reading this who are not in the know, and to generally get to know what everyone else is doing
thusly:
1. eMule for hard to get and nonessential downloads
2. bittorrent for easy pop stuff. use the Opera internet browser as a bittorrent client
disagree with what i just wrote?
then respond, with your own pointers to expand on our group wisdom
i just wanted to add to the list of costs others are pointing out that so much intrusive screening has on our liberties, that it also has a cost on our health
without getting an exact millirad number and translating it into an actual statistically valid numerical risk value, i can say that the risk is real, however large or however small
therefore, radioation exposure must also be taken into consideration when weighing the pros and cons of this new intrusiveness and whether or not it is actually worth it
is that those who get cancer from radiation exposure if these body scanners are more widely used, will be a number orders of magnitude greater than those killed by terrorists, if we had no security at all
hate america and americans all you want. just know that the reasons you give for doing so, you should hate yourself just as well, since you behave according to the same reasons you give for hating americans. your hypocrisy is enormous
either you are effectively trolling me or you are genuinely a humongous hypocrite
"if you act similarly as a group"
this is called racism, tribalism, nationalism. it is at the root of everything you hate about the usa. it is also not unique to the usa. what i say and do is radically different from what another american would say. he or she might sound like you. and in your own nationality, you will find people acting like me. in other words, with every word, you are simply revealing yourself to be, exactly what you say you hate
you are either that colossally stupid and hypocritical, or you are just trolling the hell about of me. either way: good job retard!
try evaluating people as individuals. when you assume things about people based on nationality, you are the genesis of the all the sins you yourself hate. you are tribal chest thumping asshole, and a hypocrite to boot
make a list about what you hate about americans. look in the mirror: you are a tribal thinking prejudiced person. therefore, you are guilty of the sins you dislike
finally, you are a moron, based on your precedigin comment. low iq, ignorant. stupid
and i don't need to know your nationality to know that honey. you are certainly no credit to whatever nationality you are
are democracies. we aren't enriching a democracy with china, we are contributing to the rising power of an autocracy. if china were a democracy, i would celebrate this rise. and if china became democratic, i would cheer china's rise
but if what in power in beijing is all command and control, no respect for the individual, no rule by consensus, no tolerance of dissent, no freedom of political expression, then i fear we are feeding a beast that will only hurt us in the future
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i would respectfully say that those who run aid the rise of ignorance. you should stay and fight for your country. because when you run away from problems they only grow. soon you'll be running away from wherever you ran to, when a palin pops up there too
people who run away from problems like palin, or avoid the subject, or don't vote out of ambivalence or cynicism: they aid the rise of ignorance. because if you don't fight ignorance, who will? take responsibility for YOUR country, and mold YOUR country in your image. or someone else will. and then you have no right to complain, because you didn't exert any effort. the image of the usa is up for grabs, its always up for grabs. and its image is claimed by those who exert effort to mold that image
if you give up in cynicism and do nothing or run away, then you are perhaps even worse than the idiots who follow palin: at least they are DOING something, even if a false cause. those who exert effort in a false cause are better than those who know what is right, but do nothing. i firmly believe that
there is no excuse for lack of effort, and then complaining when things don't go your way. your enemies are rich and powerful, yes. as if that should stop you in the noble fight for what is right. so get fighting, or be worse than a palin supporter, in my eyes at least
you are correct
herbal alcoholic drinks are not indicated for rectal delivery to iguanas. however, as you indicate, you can shove as much bull shit into an iguana's anus as you want, no harm will be done
a falsis principiis proficisci: julian assange is a cia agent
is an anagram for
Iguanas Anal Juleps
and
Japans Sealing Luau
Which means a couple of things: the Japanese need to learn that the harming of marine wildlife is NOT a party. And iguanas should not be given anything rectally. But most importantly, the anagrams show that Julian Paul Assange is obviously a CIA agent.
sunnis hate shiites, since before the usa even existed
but its nice to know an idiot outside of iran actually believes the "great satan" narrative
ask the average arab what they think of iran. go ahead, get educated
let's get something straight: the corporations are in control, not the government. the government is purchased by the corporations to do as they wish
if government were smaller, corporations would continue their abuses, and multiply them, since there is no one left to stop them from doing anything in the pursuit of profit
therefore, you need a strong government to counteract the power of the corporations. the difference is, you need a government immune from the corrupting power of corporate dollars. unfortunately, it is very hard to achieve that. but what you don't want to do, under any circumstances, is weaken the government, thereby allowing corporations to extend their abuses beyond what they can already do
the failure of your point of view is that you believe government is in control here. no, corporations are in control. corporations are your enemy, not government. you need government to, among other things, enforce regulations in the marketplace so that it is free and fair. if you have no government regulation, a weakened government, then the marketplace is merely abused by its largest players in all sorts of schemes. meanwhile, a corrupted government is merely a tool to enact that abuse: the regulations used to entrench their position are written by the corporations
so your goal is: strong government, corporate cash out of government. your goal is NOT less government, unless you want to be yet even more abused by corporations
you do understand that less government means corporations fill the power void, correct?
understand your real enemy here, please
no, i screwed up. i had to enter the url by hand because slashdot wasn't accepting an url paste
maybe someone can chime in: paste seems to work, and then not work, in the new slashdot comment system. i'm using chrome, maybe a browser specific bug?
regardless, the real link is
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153259.html
and i pasted that just now. pasting was not possible in the top level comment ?!
messing with governments gets mixed up in equivalency and nationalism and generates more heat than anything actually useful. iran is already saying wikileaks is an american plot
http://www.presstv.ir/details/153259.html
something that hurts the usa should be a subject of celebration in the iranian government, right? no. because people are so mixed up in their prejudices, any reveal of what a government did or said can always be conveniently reexplained with some creative thinking such that your prejudices are never really examined. whether pro-usa, or anti-usa, your opinion of the usa is completely unaffected by wikileaks, as iranian spin shows
wikileaks clearly shows that the great satan is not the one who hates them and wants their destruction: all their neighboring countries secretly push the usa to topple iran, while those countries say nothing publicly. that's what wikileaks shows. this challenges the narrative of the great satan plotting your downfall, and so proof that the great satan is not a great satan. therefore, wikileaks must be explained away with plots and conspiracies, where julian assange is actually an agent of the CIA. it would be hilarious, if maintaining the prejudicial narrative weren't such a deadly serious effort by those who love, or hate, the usa, for prejudicial reasons. so it's a complete wash: wikileaks has zero effect on the usa's standing in the world, or in the minds of committed pro-usa or anti-usa partisans.
however, the corporations, they need unmasking. a lot of people in the usa have this phony narrative of their poor neighbors and their government being the enemy of their prosperity. the real enemy of their prosperity: corporations. there is nothing wrong with capitalism, but corporatism is not capitalism. corporatism is buying off the government to permanently warp the markplace against the smaller players and to entrench your dominant position in it. the government is not the enemy, corporations are. the greatest enemy capitalism has ever known, in fact, is not communism, but corporatism, in all of economic history, the big players have always warped the markplace in their direction. yet so many fools believe this phony narrative of the government and poor people being the enemy of capitalism, and large corporations heroes, or at worst, harmless victims on the sidelines, of evil government regulations (that are written by those same corporations)
so hopefully, a reveal of how corporations are your real enemy, not your government, might open some foolish eyes, for once, i hope
yes
is tired, circa 2002
it's 2010 folks, google is the evil beast you want to take down. yes, i know some of you still look at google like the darling it was... in 2002
some of you really need to update your kneejerk prejudices for the new decade, thanks
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5636472
more accurately:
Do not want
for a very long time
protest movements like ross perot or the tea party are limited, but nothing is stopping one someday from swamping the entire republican/ democratic vote. as people grow more and more discontent, the impossible becomes possible
people are discontent, and there is growing discontent, as their own government increasingly represents corporate interests that screw them over. this will come to a head eventually
i believe in democracy, it works
but corporate power is obviously a threat to it. the ideal solution is the election of representatives who will pass laws to limit corporate cash. the fucking supreme court doesn't help in that regard, so we must depend upon legislators
but in the public mind, limiting corporate power winds up as item #99 on a list of 99 concerns, and elected representatives are heroin addicts when it comes to corporate cash, so the issue is never addressed
so you do change the sucky status quo? i'm not interested in hyperbole, i'm interested in limiting corporate power effectively. and if the legislation can't do it, we must do it with populist movement
the purchase of the american government by corporations renders the government no longer a legitimate expression of the will of the people
the will of the people will not be denied. therefore, it is entirely legitimate to disobey laws, specifically, those laws which only exist to extend corporate power over the common man. this does not mean all laws should be disobeyed, such as the common sense laws about common sense morality, only those laws which are antidemocratic in nature in regards to extension of corporate power over civil life
the laws that have to do with the retention of power by corporate entities is not the will of the people, and therefore you actually have a duty to actively disobey them, if you wish to live in a democracy, and not a corporatocracy. to preserve the usa as close to a democratic entity as possible, nondemocratic poisons in our government must be sabotaged
all laws which extend corporate control over the common man, it is your moral duty to make a point of disobeying those laws, your government has been purchased, the gloves are off
it's actually called corporatism
capitalism is when people compete to win market share freely and fairly. corporatism is when the largest players dominate and warp the marketplace to suit their interests, crushing the smaller players so there is no competition and their dominance is unchallenged. ideally government would guard against corporatism and keep the market free and fair for capitalism. but in today's world, the government has been bought and sold to the largest corporations
so, you're the fool. because you don't understand that corporatism is not capitalism
knock down 1, 10 sprout up, knock down 10, 100 sprout up
intellectual property+internet=no more intellectual property. some people just need to learn the hard way. keep whacking the moles, government friends!
1. Quark gluon plasmas are rare in Switzerland
2. Canadians are rare in Switzerland
3. Therefore, anything related to quark gluon plasmas is intrinsically Canadian in nature
this is all perfectly logical
not just proclaiming our geek cred by poopooing poor p2p client choices
therefore, we need slashdot wisdom on THE filesharing client to use, for those reading this who are not in the know, and to generally get to know what everyone else is doing
thusly:
1. eMule for hard to get and nonessential downloads
2. bittorrent for easy pop stuff. use the Opera internet browser as a bittorrent client
disagree with what i just wrote?
then respond, with your own pointers to expand on our group wisdom
my post was hyperbole, not reality
i just wanted to add to the list of costs others are pointing out that so much intrusive screening has on our liberties, that it also has a cost on our health
without getting an exact millirad number and translating it into an actual statistically valid numerical risk value, i can say that the risk is real, however large or however small
therefore, radioation exposure must also be taken into consideration when weighing the pros and cons of this new intrusiveness and whether or not it is actually worth it
is that those who get cancer from radiation exposure if these body scanners are more widely used, will be a number orders of magnitude greater than those killed by terrorists, if we had no security at all
drop dead, prejudiced tribal chest thumper
hate america and americans all you want. just know that the reasons you give for doing so, you should hate yourself just as well, since you behave according to the same reasons you give for hating americans. your hypocrisy is enormous
LOL
either you are effectively trolling me or you are genuinely a humongous hypocrite
"if you act similarly as a group"
this is called racism, tribalism, nationalism. it is at the root of everything you hate about the usa. it is also not unique to the usa. what i say and do is radically different from what another american would say. he or she might sound like you. and in your own nationality, you will find people acting like me. in other words, with every word, you are simply revealing yourself to be, exactly what you say you hate
you are either that colossally stupid and hypocritical, or you are just trolling the hell about of me. either way: good job retard!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
"discussion with an american"
try evaluating people as individuals. when you assume things about people based on nationality, you are the genesis of the all the sins you yourself hate. you are tribal chest thumping asshole, and a hypocrite to boot
make a list about what you hate about americans. look in the mirror: you are a tribal thinking prejudiced person. therefore, you are guilty of the sins you dislike
finally, you are a moron, based on your precedigin comment. low iq, ignorant. stupid
and i don't need to know your nationality to know that honey. you are certainly no credit to whatever nationality you are
xoxoxoxoxoxox
you're an idiot
that's exactly the way things are now, moron, with the usa and brazil on the list
are democracies. we aren't enriching a democracy with china, we are contributing to the rising power of an autocracy. if china were a democracy, i would celebrate this rise. and if china became democratic, i would cheer china's rise
but if what in power in beijing is all command and control, no respect for the individual, no rule by consensus, no tolerance of dissent, no freedom of political expression, then i fear we are feeding a beast that will only hurt us in the future