this is not a matter of legislation, it is a matter of the nature of the internet
therefore, if you don't want something to be attached to you on the internet, DON'T PUT IT ON THE BLEEPING INTERNET, moron
its not about the policy of one site. there are mirrors and copies and caches, and all sorts of your data mixed up all over the place. not to mention that the bleeping government, who you are asking to protect you(?), is the biggest violator!
PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY is the answer. YOU control what gets up there and what doesn't. beyond that, GAME OVER. nobody can save you from your own stupidity except YOU
you can't legislate this issue, and to try reveals a colossal display of ignorance. you can't save people from their ignorant selves: "oh i put it up there but now i don't want it there"
really? good for you. welcome to the internet, moron
the trend is of countries previously under the thumb of european powers to reject their colonial names. for example, madras is now chennai, rhodesia is now zimbabwe, northwest territories is now nunavut, etc.
it's a healthy trend, but in burma/ myanmar's specific case the renaming happened under a regime which can fairly be called more brutal than anything that happened under colonialism there. many burmese themselves reject the renaming for this very reason
therefore you have the healthy desire to reject colonial names, but the unhealthy desire to embrace policies of a brutal kleptocratic genocidal military junta. thus, we have the uncertainty about what to call the place. we have to make up our own minds on the matter
i am going to call the place burma, to be in line with what actual burmese want to call the place, who are fighting the brutal military junta. if they do ever overthrow the junta, if they choose to call the place myanmar, or whatever, i will follow suit. but since i do respect the current regime in power in myanmar/ burma, i have to instead respect the wishes of those who are rightfully fighting the brutal kleptocrats
only an idiot finds it necessary to make note of the obvious. and the idea that "correlation is not causation" is only a remarkable revelation to an idiot
if you are in a roomful of moderately intelligent adults talking about the weather, no one needs to say "condensation causes clouds". if someone were to say this, they would immediately be labeling themselves as a fourth grader
so i suppose saying "correlation is not causation" is of value if the average slashdot reader is a 12 year old. but otherwise, making note of correlation not being causation in a conversation such as this thread is of no value whatsoever, other than conveniently labelling yourself for everyone else's sake as the idiot in the room
they could use that information to find people using apple products. and charge such people 9.5%. as long as the car was titanium white, such people would happily purchase at that rate
"Correlation is not equal to causation" is what an unintelligent person says when they wish to sound intelligent. it's something they once heard they thought was clever, and they think that by aping this simpleminded thought they are adding something to the conversation, when they are just generating useless noise
an intelligent person would actually be looking at the merits or lack thereof of the correlation, and talking about if causation is implied or not
" What's so wrong about wanting the person who will be representing me to actually represent me?"
you are only one constituent among many, and you are representing a colossal narcissism in your words. you are holding your vote hostage to an impossible demand, the only effect of which is that person who will actually represent you, will represent less of you than was possible if you only voted. and they will represent you, in reality. i know that in your lofty ivory tower you think you can retire from the world. how selfish of you. you don't represent the high road or a sense of nobility, you represent foolishness
you want the person who is the closest to your ideology. even if very far away, and only slightly closer than the other candidate
if you live forever, and see an infinite number of candidates, they will never represent you, ever, in any democracy, for all possible societies, for all future times. they will represent THEIR CONSTITUENTS, which will be at best an average of the ideologies of their district, and that will never overlap with only you
you are a vain narcissist, and the only real world effects of your choice not to vote is to doom whatever you believe to less representation, and therefore less realization
you are asking me to defend the impressions of the common oaf. of course i can't do that. but you aren't attacking the impressions of the common oaf, you are attacking the official antiterrorism effort
which is perfectly fine to attack and a perfectly valid target for criticism. but not on the grounds of racism, because it isn't racist
basically you can't seem to keep track of the issues, and this hamstrings your ability to form a coherent opinion
racism, antiterrorism... different things
official policy, the opinions of oafs... different things
these are all separate things and separate issues, and by confusing them all, you are only making your own thoughts to be muddled mess, and you're not much help to anyone
that supreme court was put in place by a previous president. the vote would have been 5-4 for gore, if someone in 1980 or 194 or 1988 had gotten off their duffs and voted
for example:
by a vote of 5-4 in january of this year, our supreme court said it is basically ok that corporations spend freely on elections. this is a supreme court put in place by bush. bush barely won the 2000 election
therefore, if the tiniest minority more had voted in 2000, gore would have won, we would not have invaded iraq, and the ridiculous pro-corporate dollars in elections decision in january would be 5-4 AGAINST
meaning YOUR VOTE MATTERS, IT REALLY DOES
when you don't vote, you are basically saying "i am completely happy with the way things are going, don't change a thing". if you think by not voting you are somehow being noble or acting principled, you are a complete and utter fool: corporations WANT you not to vote. an electorate that feels helpless and uninvolved is an electorate that can be raped
so the question is, since it is so awful, how do you steer society back to something better?
and that is, you VOTE for the guy closest to this position
by not voting, all you do is ensure the status quo is continuing. by choosing not to vote, you are basically saying "the status quo is ok by me, we don't need to change it"
There just hasn't been a large enough outcry to fix the electoral system.
so be the outcry! or at least voting for the guy who is 1 millimeter closer to fixing the system than the guy who isn't. doing that is 1,000% better than not voting at all
look, by a vote of 5-4 in january of this year, our supreme court said it is basically ok that corporations spend freely on elections. this is a supreme court put in place by bush. bush barely won the 2000 election. if the tiniest minority more had voted in 2000, gore would have won, we would not have invaded iraq, and the ridiculous pro-corporate dollars in elections decision in january would be 5-4 AGAINST. meanign YOUR VOTE MATTERS, IT REALLY DOES
you matter, your vote matters. to say that is not true is to basically agree that we should be bought and sold like slaves: your thinking is the thinking of the slave who accepts his lot in life
don't be a slave. don't agree with the money in our democracy by being complicit by not voting. this is what the corporations WANT you to do. VOTE, or you are choosing to be a slave. its really true
every election, forever, to ever be held, in any society, forever more, will be a choice between two imperfect human beings who are compromised in one way or another
all you can EVER do is merely steer society in the direction you want by voting for the person who is closer to your way of thinking, even if only slightly closer, and even if only very distant from your beliefs
that's the best you will ever get, in any society, forever
terrorism of the largest variety right now in the world is religious in nature. not geopolitical. not socioeconomic. not tribal or racial. but theological
those who engage in terrorism are black, white, and every color. those who are victims of terrorism are black, white, and every color. the reasons given for fighting terrorism do not mention race. the reasons terrorists give for their grievances do not mention race
listen to me: you do not help any problem in this world if you don't even understand the problem
such a person doesn't exist. everyone lies, including you
every election, forever, to ever be held, in any society, forever more, will be a choice between two imperfect human beings
all you can EVER do is merely steer society in the direction you want by voting for the person who is closer to your way of thinking, even if only slightly closer, and even if only very distant from your beliefs
just make sure that your thinking is based on truth and reality, and not lies
otherwise, you are just a fool, a tool being used by special interests. and the people printing the lies are not the poor on the street, nor those agitating that we care for the poor: they can't afford it. some of the special interests have agendas that will mean that you too will be walking the streets poor soon
know the real enemy of the american people: it comes in a suit, and it lies. some of it is public unions (money to democrats). some of it is corporations (money to republicans)
but its not the poor. don't hate the poor, you might be poor soon too. of all the lies and propaganda and scaremongering and fearmongering, to me, those who attack policies which are only intended to take care of us, US i said, including the poor amongst us, that you may someday be too, that is the most odious and the most evil of political lies
care about your society, take care of it
or stop wondering why the world you live in is so brutal: you are the reason why, your society is merely a reflection of you. take responsibility for it
things like physics and math are not about choice, they follow rules that are not broken. belief has no meaning
but things like social policy: this is emergent phenomena. what that means is, the reality of the situation is created by the mass of those who believe in a reality, any reality. politics is simply self-fulfilling prophecy
so if you believe in agenda Y or position X, and you agitate for that, if enough other people believe the same, agenda Y or position X becomes the reality you live under
if, on the other hand, you believe it is not possible for you to have your beliefs be reflected in the policies of the society you live in, then that is self-fulfilling prophecy too: your own inaction ensures that what you say is true
so recognize that you have chosen the loser's path, not because it is forced on you, but because of what you have freely chosen to believe, about yourself
if in your mind "voting creates the illusion of consent", then you have told us all something powerful about your own failed psychology, and nothing at all about actual reality
in your words, is the perfect cattle of an authoritarian country, the perfect double plus good citizen
the simple truth of the matter is, if you wait for your perfect candidate, you will never vote. and even then you will find something wrong with them. every election, ever held, and will ever be held, will simply be a choice between the lesser of two evils. no one is pure, no one doesn't have lies spread about them
the real criminal is you: you who hold your candidates to impossible standards, and then complain no one meets those standards
what you are really doing is rationalizing your desire to absolve yourself of responsibility for the society you live in. you are detaching yourself from any crimes that happens in your society, absolving yourself of guilt: "i didn't choose our leaders"
and in a country composed of people who think like you, sits the happiest tyrant
go to work slave. don't ever complain again. even when they increase your workhours and decrease your salary. not your fault, right?
you, all by yourself, no one else to blame, have given up the right to complain, by choosing not to do the ONE TINY THING that guarantees that you live in a free country: VOTE
the common cold is an immune system overreaction. the virus does not cause the cold, our own bodies overreact to the cold, and that causes ALL symptoms. which explains why cold medicines work: they modulate the immune response, they don't actually fight the virus
But, as medical science has realized over the past few decades, the most prevalent cold viruses in fact do little direct harm to our cells. In one experiment in 1984, researchers at the University of Copenhagen performed biopsies on nasal tissue taken from people suffering severe colds, then did the same after the subjects had recovered. To the scientists’ surprise, none of the samples showed any sign of damage to the nasal tissue. Further vindicating the viruses themselves was another study around the same time showing that rhinoviruses infect only a small number of cells lining the nasal passages.
so the virus comes in, borrows some cellular machinery for a few days, makes a few copies, and then leaves. our body's response is to call out the entirety of the navy, the marines, the army, the air force, the cavalry, mortar batteries, drone predators, and tactical nuclear strikes. for a crime which amounts to a homeless guy squatting in an unused home for a day or two
if you are going to do worm therapy, you have to get off the immune inhibitors
which is of course no small deal
so the worm therapy would be a huge jump. only think about trying it someday if you are in a really good spot in life emotionally/ relationship wise/ financially, and can stomach the risk, pun intended
Slashdot Mirror
if it gets on the internet, it lives forever
this is not a matter of legislation, it is a matter of the nature of the internet
therefore, if you don't want something to be attached to you on the internet, DON'T PUT IT ON THE BLEEPING INTERNET, moron
its not about the policy of one site. there are mirrors and copies and caches, and all sorts of your data mixed up all over the place. not to mention that the bleeping government, who you are asking to protect you(?), is the biggest violator!
PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY is the answer. YOU control what gets up there and what doesn't. beyond that, GAME OVER. nobody can save you from your own stupidity except YOU
you can't legislate this issue, and to try reveals a colossal display of ignorance. you can't save people from their ignorant selves: "oh i put it up there but now i don't want it there"
really? good for you. welcome to the internet, moron
the trend is of countries previously under the thumb of european powers to reject their colonial names. for example, madras is now chennai, rhodesia is now zimbabwe, northwest territories is now nunavut, etc.
it's a healthy trend, but in burma/ myanmar's specific case the renaming happened under a regime which can fairly be called more brutal than anything that happened under colonialism there. many burmese themselves reject the renaming for this very reason
therefore you have the healthy desire to reject colonial names, but the unhealthy desire to embrace policies of a brutal kleptocratic genocidal military junta. thus, we have the uncertainty about what to call the place. we have to make up our own minds on the matter
i am going to call the place burma, to be in line with what actual burmese want to call the place, who are fighting the brutal military junta. if they do ever overthrow the junta, if they choose to call the place myanmar, or whatever, i will follow suit. but since i do respect the current regime in power in myanmar/ burma, i have to instead respect the wishes of those who are rightfully fighting the brutal kleptocrats
only an idiot finds it necessary to make note of the obvious. and the idea that "correlation is not causation" is only a remarkable revelation to an idiot
if you are in a roomful of moderately intelligent adults talking about the weather, no one needs to say "condensation causes clouds". if someone were to say this, they would immediately be labeling themselves as a fourth grader
so i suppose saying "correlation is not causation" is of value if the average slashdot reader is a 12 year old. but otherwise, making note of correlation not being causation in a conversation such as this thread is of no value whatsoever, other than conveniently labelling yourself for everyone else's sake as the idiot in the room
they could use that information to find people using apple products. and charge such people 9.5%. as long as the car was titanium white, such people would happily purchase at that rate
"Correlation is not equal to causation" is what an unintelligent person says when they wish to sound intelligent. it's something they once heard they thought was clever, and they think that by aping this simpleminded thought they are adding something to the conversation, when they are just generating useless noise
an intelligent person would actually be looking at the merits or lack thereof of the correlation, and talking about if causation is implied or not
" What's so wrong about wanting the person who will be representing me to actually represent me?"
you are only one constituent among many, and you are representing a colossal narcissism in your words. you are holding your vote hostage to an impossible demand, the only effect of which is that person who will actually represent you, will represent less of you than was possible if you only voted. and they will represent you, in reality. i know that in your lofty ivory tower you think you can retire from the world. how selfish of you. you don't represent the high road or a sense of nobility, you represent foolishness
you want the person who is the closest to your ideology. even if very far away, and only slightly closer than the other candidate
if you live forever, and see an infinite number of candidates, they will never represent you, ever, in any democracy, for all possible societies, for all future times. they will represent THEIR CONSTITUENTS, which will be at best an average of the ideologies of their district, and that will never overlap with only you
you are a vain narcissist, and the only real world effects of your choice not to vote is to doom whatever you believe to less representation, and therefore less realization
ok
only if you change your slashdot moniker from "SQL Error" to "SCJ Error" ;-)
you are asking me to defend the impressions of the common oaf. of course i can't do that. but you aren't attacking the impressions of the common oaf, you are attacking the official antiterrorism effort
which is perfectly fine to attack and a perfectly valid target for criticism. but not on the grounds of racism, because it isn't racist
basically you can't seem to keep track of the issues, and this hamstrings your ability to form a coherent opinion
racism, antiterrorism... different things
official policy, the opinions of oafs... different things
these are all separate things and separate issues, and by confusing them all, you are only making your own thoughts to be muddled mess, and you're not much help to anyone
i'm just asking you to be coherent
that supreme court was put in place by a previous president. the vote would have been 5-4 for gore, if someone in 1980 or 194 or 1988 had gotten off their duffs and voted
for example:
by a vote of 5-4 in january of this year, our supreme court said it is basically ok that corporations spend freely on elections. this is a supreme court put in place by bush. bush barely won the 2000 election
therefore, if the tiniest minority more had voted in 2000, gore would have won, we would not have invaded iraq, and the ridiculous pro-corporate dollars in elections decision in january would be 5-4 AGAINST
meaning YOUR VOTE MATTERS, IT REALLY DOES
when you don't vote, you are basically saying "i am completely happy with the way things are going, don't change a thing". if you think by not voting you are somehow being noble or acting principled, you are a complete and utter fool: corporations WANT you not to vote. an electorate that feels helpless and uninvolved is an electorate that can be raped
so the question is, since it is so awful, how do you steer society back to something better?
and that is, you VOTE for the guy closest to this position
by not voting, all you do is ensure the status quo is continuing. by choosing not to vote, you are basically saying "the status quo is ok by me, we don't need to change it"
There just hasn't been a large enough outcry to fix the electoral system.
so be the outcry! or at least voting for the guy who is 1 millimeter closer to fixing the system than the guy who isn't. doing that is 1,000% better than not voting at all
look, by a vote of 5-4 in january of this year, our supreme court said it is basically ok that corporations spend freely on elections. this is a supreme court put in place by bush. bush barely won the 2000 election. if the tiniest minority more had voted in 2000, gore would have won, we would not have invaded iraq, and the ridiculous pro-corporate dollars in elections decision in january would be 5-4 AGAINST. meanign YOUR VOTE MATTERS, IT REALLY DOES
you matter, your vote matters. to say that is not true is to basically agree that we should be bought and sold like slaves: your thinking is the thinking of the slave who accepts his lot in life
don't be a slave. don't agree with the money in our democracy by being complicit by not voting. this is what the corporations WANT you to do. VOTE, or you are choosing to be a slave. its really true
every election, forever, to ever be held, in any society, forever more, will be a choice between two imperfect human beings who are compromised in one way or another
all you can EVER do is merely steer society in the direction you want by voting for the person who is closer to your way of thinking, even if only slightly closer, and even if only very distant from your beliefs
that's the best you will ever get, in any society, forever
deal with it, what i just wrote is pure reality
absolutely true
but if you do not vote, you only guarantee you matter even less
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm
the results of the 2000 elections were decided by a razor slim margin. meaning those who chose not to vote had a real effect: they helped bush win
and if you say "politicians are all the same": tell me with a straight face gore would have invaded iraq
those who don't care, or don't want to be involved, are just as guilty as everyone else for the sorry state of the world, if not more so
designed to make you laugh
not guide your thinking
terrorism of the largest variety right now in the world is religious in nature. not geopolitical. not socioeconomic. not tribal or racial. but theological
those who engage in terrorism are black, white, and every color. those who are victims of terrorism are black, white, and every color. the reasons given for fighting terrorism do not mention race. the reasons terrorists give for their grievances do not mention race
listen to me: you do not help any problem in this world if you don't even understand the problem
such a person doesn't exist. everyone lies, including you
every election, forever, to ever be held, in any society, forever more, will be a choice between two imperfect human beings
all you can EVER do is merely steer society in the direction you want by voting for the person who is closer to your way of thinking, even if only slightly closer, and even if only very distant from your beliefs
that's the best you will ever get
deal with it
just make sure that your thinking is based on truth and reality, and not lies
otherwise, you are just a fool, a tool being used by special interests. and the people printing the lies are not the poor on the street, nor those agitating that we care for the poor: they can't afford it. some of the special interests have agendas that will mean that you too will be walking the streets poor soon
know the real enemy of the american people: it comes in a suit, and it lies. some of it is public unions (money to democrats). some of it is corporations (money to republicans)
but its not the poor. don't hate the poor, you might be poor soon too. of all the lies and propaganda and scaremongering and fearmongering, to me, those who attack policies which are only intended to take care of us, US i said, including the poor amongst us, that you may someday be too, that is the most odious and the most evil of political lies
care about your society, take care of it
or stop wondering why the world you live in is so brutal: you are the reason why, your society is merely a reflection of you. take responsibility for it
you can tell yourself that you don't matter
i tell myself that i matter
things like physics and math are not about choice, they follow rules that are not broken. belief has no meaning
but things like social policy: this is emergent phenomena. what that means is, the reality of the situation is created by the mass of those who believe in a reality, any reality. politics is simply self-fulfilling prophecy
so if you believe in agenda Y or position X, and you agitate for that, if enough other people believe the same, agenda Y or position X becomes the reality you live under
if, on the other hand, you believe it is not possible for you to have your beliefs be reflected in the policies of the society you live in, then that is self-fulfilling prophecy too: your own inaction ensures that what you say is true
so recognize that you have chosen the loser's path, not because it is forced on you, but because of what you have freely chosen to believe, about yourself
but not about me
if in your mind "voting creates the illusion of consent", then you have told us all something powerful about your own failed psychology, and nothing at all about actual reality
your words say more about your own failed psychology than it says anything about the actual reality we live in
as an american, i say thank you for your words
mod parent up
and get off your lazy asses, AND FUCKING VOTE
in your words, is the perfect cattle of an authoritarian country, the perfect double plus good citizen
the simple truth of the matter is, if you wait for your perfect candidate, you will never vote. and even then you will find something wrong with them. every election, ever held, and will ever be held, will simply be a choice between the lesser of two evils. no one is pure, no one doesn't have lies spread about them
the real criminal is you: you who hold your candidates to impossible standards, and then complain no one meets those standards
what you are really doing is rationalizing your desire to absolve yourself of responsibility for the society you live in. you are detaching yourself from any crimes that happens in your society, absolving yourself of guilt: "i didn't choose our leaders"
and in a country composed of people who think like you, sits the happiest tyrant
go to work slave. don't ever complain again. even when they increase your workhours and decrease your salary. not your fault, right?
you, all by yourself, no one else to blame, have given up the right to complain, by choosing not to do the ONE TINY THING that guarantees that you live in a free country: VOTE
much of antiterrorism activity is an overreaction yes
but antiterrorism is not racism
you can't defeat the abuses you see in your world by completely misidentifying what they actually are
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/opinion/05ackerman.html
i just read this last month
the common cold is an immune system overreaction. the virus does not cause the cold, our own bodies overreact to the cold, and that causes ALL symptoms. which explains why cold medicines work: they modulate the immune response, they don't actually fight the virus
so the virus comes in, borrows some cellular machinery for a few days, makes a few copies, and then leaves. our body's response is to call out the entirety of the navy, the marines, the army, the air force, the cavalry, mortar batteries, drone predators, and tactical nuclear strikes. for a crime which amounts to a homeless guy squatting in an unused home for a day or two
well yeah
if you are going to do worm therapy, you have to get off the immune inhibitors
which is of course no small deal
so the worm therapy would be a huge jump. only think about trying it someday if you are in a really good spot in life emotionally/ relationship wise/ financially, and can stomach the risk, pun intended
good luck man