if you can't afford a book, you can't afford to learn. and you can't afford a book if the only ones around are scribbled by monks. and so, a dummy, who can't read and knows nothing, you go work the fields, like your serf parents before you
fact: the printing press created the middle class as we know it today. the existence of a large middle class supports the notion of a democracy being an effect political possibility
the cities have always had craftsmen and tradesmen, since before roman and even egyptian times. but they were always tiny sectors, not the vast middle class we know today. that one of those tradesmen, gutenberg, invented the printing press, thereby resulting in the explosion of the middle class: this is solid historical fact
but thank you for cherry picking small fragments of reality to support a conception of history which is patently false. pfffft
because what you are saying is completely unenforceable
the future is the death of content producers. and by that i mean old school distributors. artists will produce directly, with financial outlays coming from passion. if it ignites in popularity, ancillary revenues: personalized content, concert gigs, cinema houses: these will provide a return on investment. and this does not mean we are forced to watch amateur youtube videos in the future. one of the most most expensive, and most profitable movie, ever made, avatar, made it all in cinema houses. this is a non-internet, controlled environment where you have to buy a ticket. this is never going away because no one enjoys watching movies by yourself in your basement. nothing is threatened except the dvd market. and why do we need constraints on our freedoms for the sake of propping up a dying media format and a dying business model?
there is no guarantee that an investment in the production of movies, music, or books will result in a financial return. nor should there ever be. most artists were starving, are starving, and will forever more starve. they make art out of passion, and that's all you ever need, and that's all that ever matters, and that's much more powerful than intellectual property law
apologies: i meant intellectual property in regards to only one kind of intellectual property: media
anything that is consumed as electronic bits: books, music, movies, should be completely devoid of any intellectual property conventions
but information that is not consumed electronically, that is, information that describes the creation of real world technologies: yes, that should continue to enjoy intellectual property law protections, because it concerns real world effort and expense
bought about the creation of the middle class, modern democracy, and the death of the feudal system and the aristocracy
it took awhile. the feudal system and the aristocracy in their time were just no brainer common sense, and the idea of challenging them was either something to be laughed at or you must be crazy to believe they could ever end or to doubt their validity
the internet means the death of the entire concept of intellectual property
it will take awhile. in our time some people just take the idea of intellectual property as just no brainer common sense, and the idea of challenging it is either something to be laughed at or you must be crazy to believe it could ever end or to doubt its validity
in today's age, stallman is but a distant voice in the wilderness, but he's actually 100% correct, just way ahead of his time, too far ahead, to gain any traction
the simple truth is that intellectual property is a completely flawed concept. it made sense before the internet when media had to be physically printed and physically distributed. much as the feudal system made sense when only a few could afford book knowledge
all that intellectual property has going for it now is legal and cultural inertia. it is of course completely philosophically untenable when media can be shared at zero cost at great distances with millions instantaneously. it will take time, but intellectual property is going down the tubes. the intartubes
"The large corporations would not have the power they have without a Federal government..."
you see the warping of the laws to serve corporations as something the government is guilty of, not corporations
"It is not corruption to pay someone to talk to a Congressman on your behalf"
(smacks forehead)
what the fuck is wrong with you? seriously: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU
you readily acknowledge the mechanism by which corporations warp government on their behalf, and you STILL think the root of the problem is the government
the government is supposed to represent the people. it doesn't: its warped by corporate influence to stack the deck in their favor. we both agree on that
then we radically part ways
you say: lets trash the government. ok, then what happens? now the corporations gleefully completely abuse you in every way you listed above, plus 50 more unseemly and degenerate ways you haven't even imagined yet that you can be abused, because YOU DESTROYED THE ONLY THING WHICH CAN STANDS BETWEEN YOU AND COMPLETE DOMINANCE BY CORPORATIONS: the government
i say: you should want to FIX the government, and have it work for you, which it what it is supposed to do and was made to do! not trash it and remove the only thing that can protect you from unhindered corporate abuse
i really don't understand people like you: you openly admit to the corporations and their financial influence being the ultimate source of the problem, but you still don't understand that the government, which is supposed to be of the people, is being corrupted to work against your interests rather than for your interests. so you should remove the corruption, right? no, you go "ok, let's finish the job and destroy the government completely so i can be completely butt raped by corporations in a world where they don't even have to pretend and work secretly by destroying my government"
i have 50 old and sick people. over the course of a year, 20 of them need to spend $1,000 on heathcare. now calculate what i should charge for premiums
THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE NOW
compared to:
i have 250 people of all ages and sicknesses. over the course of the year, 50 of them need to spend $1,000 on healthcare. now you calculate what i should charge for premiums
THAT'S UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
get it? insurance is about charging a spread across all of the insured to cover the costs for those who file claims. so if you only have the old and sick, you are charging high premiums. but if you have a mix of sick and healthy, your premiums, through simple math, goes down
if health insurance is voluntary, only those who need it get it: the old and sick, with high premiums. and then the young and healthy and poor go to the emergency room with broken arms and stiff the bills, so we have universal healthcare anyways, excpet paid in the most retarded way. with mandatory universal healthcare, the premiums are lower for anyone, and the young and poor aren't being taught you should stiff bills you can't afford
what you posted above is simply complete nonsense without the slightest idea of how insurance works. you've been misinformed from some sort of propaganda i think
thank you for the red herrings, i'm glad you like yelling at phantom bogeymen that exist in your head and not in my words. would you like actually address my point at some point?
its a simple point:
"I don't support forcing people to buy healthcare"
let me be perfectly clear:
you HAVE to buy health insurance
if you are in perfect health, but you break your arm, it is not possible for an ethical society to turn you away from treatment. therefore, you will be saddled with a large bill if you don't have insurance. a select few will be able to pay for it, but the most can't handle the bill, and simply won't pay. this is not speculation, this is reality: most people live paycheck to paycheck, and a sudden $2,000 bill from the hospital is something they can't afford
do you disagree with any of that?
because WE ALREADY HAVE universal healthcare, it is simply paid for in the most retarded wasteful way possible. simple payer means lower rates (you are insuring everyone, not just the old and sick), and you will have LESS paperwork (not a competing morass of healthcare companies trying to profit off of your sickness) and we will have financial incentives for PREVENTATIVE medicine, not emergency end-of-life medicine at huge expense. so instead of spending $10,000 to cut off peoples fingers for diabetes, we'll simply prevent people from getting diabetes
this is called COMMON SENSE. not anti-american socialist fascism
is it right to drive a car without insurance? what happens if you get an accident and can't afford the repairs?
likewise, if you are a young kid with perfect health, but you break your arm, should hospitals not treat you if you have no insurance?
or should they treat you, send you a bill... and nobody pays?
because that's what currently happens: everyone goes to the emergency room, they get treated and bills are never paid. so hospitals are always on the verge of bankruptcy, and are constantly being bailed out WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS. this has been going on for decades. did the corporate funded propaganda you believe for some reason make you aware of that status quo?
in other words, we ALREADY have universal healthcare, but we are doing it in the most inefficient wasteful way, because a few fools like yourself don't like the idea that simple common sense social safety nets are evil and of the devil or whatever. common sense common good gets certain people's panties in a giant twist. why?! don't you realize the alternatives are far worse?
you don't have to like it, but you have to admit it is clearly positioned to deliver higher quality healthcare cheaper than the bullshit we have right now
that's the thing that amazes me: so many people are angry about obamacare, but on every single criticism they have of it, the current healthcare system we have IS OBVIOUSLY WORSE. pricing: are you kidding? paperwork and bureaucracy? and most definitely: government (sic corporate) death panels?
all of the critics of obamacare: its as if they have had a lobotomy and are unable to recognize the COMPLETELY broken reality of our OBVIOUSLY WORSE healthcare system we have right now when formulating an opinion on obamacare
they look at obamacare, and its a house with boarded up windows and a hornets nest above the front door and they scream "hell no!"... when currently, they are living in a house sinking into a swamp
obamacare critics: any of you want to defend our current health care system?
(crickets)
of course obamacare will have problems. it will have LESS problems than our current system. welcome to reality: the choice isn't black and white, don't let the corporate propaganda fool you
The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, usually shortened to the Pinkertons, was a private U.S. security guard and detective agency established by Allan Pinkerton in 1850. Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the Civil War.[citation needed] Pinkerton's agents performed services ranging from security guarding to private military contracting work. At its height, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more agents than there were members of the standing army of the United States of America, causing the state of Ohio to outlaw the agency due to fears it could be hired as a private army or militia.[citation needed] Pinkerton was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power.[1]
blackwater anyone?
i'm not a paranoid, but corporations have a lot of money, that can buy a lot of influence, and that's something reasonable to fear, because it is very genuinely pointed against the rights and desires of the general public. do you know what it took to win a 40 hour workweek in this country? vacations? outlaw indentured servitude? outlaw child labor? safe work conditions? these are not jokes, these were all about corporations who would be very happy we be uneducated machines without rights existing only to make them profit. just look at china, the suicides at foxconn
and there are people who actively argue against government regulation of industry? they call themselves libertarians, they champion the rights of individuals, but the real world effect of their agenda is to merely unleash corporatism
corporatism!=capitalism. i am NOT attacking capitalism. in fact, in all of economic history, socialism and communism are not the greatest enemies of capitalism, monopolies and oligopolies are: corporatism. the greatest enemy of small struggling businesses in this country are not government taxes or socialist healthcare: it is large entrenched businesses who don't want the competition and rig the market to work for them. it is perhaps the greatest trick of corporate propaganda that capitalism and corporatism has been conflated as the same thing in some minds, and socialism demonified as the enemy (because it might mean a corporation somewhere has to spend more on the well-being of their workers), when the truth is socialism is merely a few social safety nets, and corporatism sucks the life out of marketplaces and genuinely free and fair capitalist competition
the freedoms and rights of corporations!=the freedoms and rights of individuals. except in all the speechifying and demonizing going on in the political right in this country about immigrants, the poor, homosexuals, etc., NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THE THREATS TO LIBERTY AND FREEDOM FROM CORPORATIONS
why is that?
i don't hate the right, i think some forces from the right, like religious organizations, have, in the past, spoken out and fought against corporatism, out of concern for the welfare of the people. but so many on the right i think are just duped into not seeing the real enemy of the american people: corporations that will ship your job to china and india in the name of the bottom line, and yet claim the mantle of patriotism
corporations, hands down, are the greatest threat to the well-being of our democracy with their financial influence, and i really wish i saw more voices on the right see this to be the truth of the matter, and stop with the scapegoats and willfully know nothing simpleminded appeals to the government being the enemy, when there is an obvious puppeteer behind the government pulling the strings in their favor
a small vocal minority can ram through its agenda by being the craziest, loudest, most passionate in your face types around
the tragedy of our existence is yes, just as you say, the majority of people are too busy leaving quiet, good lives to be bothered with this nonsense. unfortunately, the lives of this vast majority of quiet and good can be made more difficult by a small committed group who do not represent their interests, but the interests of whatever demagogue whips them into a frenzy
when you see the vicious, fear-addled, hysterical fearmongering and demagoguery going on in the usa, you can easily grow despondent and depressed about the future of this country
and then you see that the antidote to this vile sleaze, the ray of sunshine, is simple humor, and irony, and sarcasm
the antidote to the poisons of the lowest basest emotions and motivations from the human character are the fruits of the higher faculties, and simple cheerfulness and confidence
if the drek you see being assembled into herds of mindlessly angry propagandized partisan sheep on the far right depresses you, do not give up heart, nor give up hope: just give a good laugh, and smile, and beat the zombie horde back into the dustbin of history where they belong
might be used against someone you love, you would never sell out, at any price
the idea that everyone has a price is a very nihilistic way of looking at the world, and simply isn't true, simply because not everyone is nihilist. some people actually believe in something. now you may ridicule what they believe in, that it has no merit. and you may even be right about their beliefs having no merit. however, that doesn't change the fact they still believe in those things nonetheless. and therefore, they don't have a price, no matter what you promise them
and thankfully such people exist
because when reading your words, i would much rather this world be populated by people who believe in magical sky fairies, even though i myself don't believe in magical sky fairies, than a world populated by someone like you, who doesn't believe in anything at all, and loves no one and no thing, except your own selfish ignorant self. you are an asshole, and without any redeeming qualities as a human being, because of what you wrote above that you believe about your fellow human beings. what you wrote is actually less instructive about your fellow human beings, and much more instructive about how only one person thinks: you. and the way think is known in some circles, as evil. and although such crude terminology is mostly not very useful in understanding one another, i make an exception for you. you suck, asshole, you really do, for what you find acceptable, which is never acceptable, ever
dig it up and refine it secretly, so not even satellites could see it happening
and all you really need i think is some thick walls of lead, a nice shipping container on a ship headed to a port that handles millions of shipping containers, and boom. how do you detect a bomb through thick walls of lead?
Slashdot Mirror
this kind of irrational thinking could be your onset of alzheimer's
if you can't afford a book, you can't afford to learn. and you can't afford a book if the only ones around are scribbled by monks. and so, a dummy, who can't read and knows nothing, you go work the fields, like your serf parents before you
fact: the printing press created the middle class as we know it today. the existence of a large middle class supports the notion of a democracy being an effect political possibility
the cities have always had craftsmen and tradesmen, since before roman and even egyptian times. but they were always tiny sectors, not the vast middle class we know today. that one of those tradesmen, gutenberg, invented the printing press, thereby resulting in the explosion of the middle class: this is solid historical fact
but thank you for cherry picking small fragments of reality to support a conception of history which is patently false. pfffft
because what you are saying is completely unenforceable
the future is the death of content producers. and by that i mean old school distributors. artists will produce directly, with financial outlays coming from passion. if it ignites in popularity, ancillary revenues: personalized content, concert gigs, cinema houses: these will provide a return on investment. and this does not mean we are forced to watch amateur youtube videos in the future. one of the most most expensive, and most profitable movie, ever made, avatar, made it all in cinema houses. this is a non-internet, controlled environment where you have to buy a ticket. this is never going away because no one enjoys watching movies by yourself in your basement. nothing is threatened except the dvd market. and why do we need constraints on our freedoms for the sake of propping up a dying media format and a dying business model?
there is no guarantee that an investment in the production of movies, music, or books will result in a financial return. nor should there ever be. most artists were starving, are starving, and will forever more starve. they make art out of passion, and that's all you ever need, and that's all that ever matters, and that's much more powerful than intellectual property law
see this post:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1796976&cid=33675310
apologies: i meant intellectual property in regards to only one kind of intellectual property: media
anything that is consumed as electronic bits: books, music, movies, should be completely devoid of any intellectual property conventions
but information that is not consumed electronically, that is, information that describes the creation of real world technologies: yes, that should continue to enjoy intellectual property law protections, because it concerns real world effort and expense
bought about the creation of the middle class, modern democracy, and the death of the feudal system and the aristocracy
it took awhile. the feudal system and the aristocracy in their time were just no brainer common sense, and the idea of challenging them was either something to be laughed at or you must be crazy to believe they could ever end or to doubt their validity
the internet means the death of the entire concept of intellectual property
it will take awhile. in our time some people just take the idea of intellectual property as just no brainer common sense, and the idea of challenging it is either something to be laughed at or you must be crazy to believe it could ever end or to doubt its validity
in today's age, stallman is but a distant voice in the wilderness, but he's actually 100% correct, just way ahead of his time, too far ahead, to gain any traction
the simple truth is that intellectual property is a completely flawed concept. it made sense before the internet when media had to be physically printed and physically distributed. much as the feudal system made sense when only a few could afford book knowledge
all that intellectual property has going for it now is legal and cultural inertia. it is of course completely philosophically untenable when media can be shared at zero cost at great distances with millions instantaneously. it will take time, but intellectual property is going down the tubes. the intartubes
let us work hard to hasten its demise
you will be endowed with the gift of martian gab
of course, that could be just a bunch of blarney
2. old news
uggh
"The large corporations would not have the power they have without a Federal government..."
you see the warping of the laws to serve corporations as something the government is guilty of, not corporations
"It is not corruption to pay someone to talk to a Congressman on your behalf"
(smacks forehead)
what the fuck is wrong with you? seriously: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU
you readily acknowledge the mechanism by which corporations warp government on their behalf, and you STILL think the root of the problem is the government
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
"when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you"
cookies by steganography?
game over
i suppose you can browse without flash, javascript, cookies, AND images disabled. but that's not exactly a rockin' web experience
so you agree with the philosophy of universal healthcare, you just have a problem with the implementation?
because your strategic thinking sucks
the government is supposed to represent the people. it doesn't: its warped by corporate influence to stack the deck in their favor. we both agree on that
then we radically part ways
you say: lets trash the government. ok, then what happens? now the corporations gleefully completely abuse you in every way you listed above, plus 50 more unseemly and degenerate ways you haven't even imagined yet that you can be abused, because YOU DESTROYED THE ONLY THING WHICH CAN STANDS BETWEEN YOU AND COMPLETE DOMINANCE BY CORPORATIONS: the government
i say: you should want to FIX the government, and have it work for you, which it what it is supposed to do and was made to do! not trash it and remove the only thing that can protect you from unhindered corporate abuse
i really don't understand people like you: you openly admit to the corporations and their financial influence being the ultimate source of the problem, but you still don't understand that the government, which is supposed to be of the people, is being corrupted to work against your interests rather than for your interests. so you should remove the corruption, right? no, you go "ok, let's finish the job and destroy the government completely so i can be completely butt raped by corporations in a world where they don't even have to pretend and work secretly by destroying my government"
wtf?!
i have 50 old and sick people. over the course of a year, 20 of them need to spend $1,000 on heathcare. now calculate what i should charge for premiums
THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE NOW
compared to:
i have 250 people of all ages and sicknesses. over the course of the year, 50 of them need to spend $1,000 on healthcare. now you calculate what i should charge for premiums
THAT'S UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
get it? insurance is about charging a spread across all of the insured to cover the costs for those who file claims. so if you only have the old and sick, you are charging high premiums. but if you have a mix of sick and healthy, your premiums, through simple math, goes down
if health insurance is voluntary, only those who need it get it: the old and sick, with high premiums. and then the young and healthy and poor go to the emergency room with broken arms and stiff the bills, so we have universal healthcare anyways, excpet paid in the most retarded way. with mandatory universal healthcare, the premiums are lower for anyone, and the young and poor aren't being taught you should stiff bills you can't afford
what you posted above is simply complete nonsense without the slightest idea of how insurance works. you've been misinformed from some sort of propaganda i think
if you insure only the old and sick, your premiums will be high
if you insure everyone, including the young and healthy, your premiums will go down, naturally
and this doesn't hurt the insurance companies: they still have a business model in which to make an honest living
thank you for the red herrings, i'm glad you like yelling at phantom bogeymen that exist in your head and not in my words. would you like actually address my point at some point?
its a simple point:
"I don't support forcing people to buy healthcare"
let me be perfectly clear:
you HAVE to buy health insurance
if you are in perfect health, but you break your arm, it is not possible for an ethical society to turn you away from treatment. therefore, you will be saddled with a large bill if you don't have insurance. a select few will be able to pay for it, but the most can't handle the bill, and simply won't pay. this is not speculation, this is reality: most people live paycheck to paycheck, and a sudden $2,000 bill from the hospital is something they can't afford
do you disagree with any of that?
because WE ALREADY HAVE universal healthcare, it is simply paid for in the most retarded wasteful way possible. simple payer means lower rates (you are insuring everyone, not just the old and sick), and you will have LESS paperwork (not a competing morass of healthcare companies trying to profit off of your sickness) and we will have financial incentives for PREVENTATIVE medicine, not emergency end-of-life medicine at huge expense. so instead of spending $10,000 to cut off peoples fingers for diabetes, we'll simply prevent people from getting diabetes
this is called COMMON SENSE. not anti-american socialist fascism
is it right to drive a car without insurance? what happens if you get an accident and can't afford the repairs?
likewise, if you are a young kid with perfect health, but you break your arm, should hospitals not treat you if you have no insurance?
or should they treat you, send you a bill... and nobody pays?
because that's what currently happens: everyone goes to the emergency room, they get treated and bills are never paid. so hospitals are always on the verge of bankruptcy, and are constantly being bailed out WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS. this has been going on for decades. did the corporate funded propaganda you believe for some reason make you aware of that status quo?
in other words, we ALREADY have universal healthcare, but we are doing it in the most inefficient wasteful way, because a few fools like yourself don't like the idea that simple common sense social safety nets are evil and of the devil or whatever. common sense common good gets certain people's panties in a giant twist. why?! don't you realize the alternatives are far worse?
you don't have to like it, but you have to admit it is clearly positioned to deliver higher quality healthcare cheaper than the bullshit we have right now
that's the thing that amazes me: so many people are angry about obamacare, but on every single criticism they have of it, the current healthcare system we have IS OBVIOUSLY WORSE. pricing: are you kidding? paperwork and bureaucracy? and most definitely: government (sic corporate) death panels?
all of the critics of obamacare: its as if they have had a lobotomy and are unable to recognize the COMPLETELY broken reality of our OBVIOUSLY WORSE healthcare system we have right now when formulating an opinion on obamacare
they look at obamacare, and its a house with boarded up windows and a hornets nest above the front door and they scream "hell no!"... when currently, they are living in a house sinking into a swamp
obamacare critics: any of you want to defend our current health care system?
(crickets)
of course obamacare will have problems. it will have LESS problems than our current system. welcome to reality: the choice isn't black and white, don't let the corporate propaganda fool you
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkertons
blackwater anyone?
i'm not a paranoid, but corporations have a lot of money, that can buy a lot of influence, and that's something reasonable to fear, because it is very genuinely pointed against the rights and desires of the general public. do you know what it took to win a 40 hour workweek in this country? vacations? outlaw indentured servitude? outlaw child labor? safe work conditions? these are not jokes, these were all about corporations who would be very happy we be uneducated machines without rights existing only to make them profit. just look at china, the suicides at foxconn
and there are people who actively argue against government regulation of industry? they call themselves libertarians, they champion the rights of individuals, but the real world effect of their agenda is to merely unleash corporatism
corporatism!=capitalism. i am NOT attacking capitalism. in fact, in all of economic history, socialism and communism are not the greatest enemies of capitalism, monopolies and oligopolies are: corporatism. the greatest enemy of small struggling businesses in this country are not government taxes or socialist healthcare: it is large entrenched businesses who don't want the competition and rig the market to work for them. it is perhaps the greatest trick of corporate propaganda that capitalism and corporatism has been conflated as the same thing in some minds, and socialism demonified as the enemy (because it might mean a corporation somewhere has to spend more on the well-being of their workers), when the truth is socialism is merely a few social safety nets, and corporatism sucks the life out of marketplaces and genuinely free and fair capitalist competition
the freedoms and rights of corporations!=the freedoms and rights of individuals. except in all the speechifying and demonizing going on in the political right in this country about immigrants, the poor, homosexuals, etc., NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THE THREATS TO LIBERTY AND FREEDOM FROM CORPORATIONS
why is that?
i don't hate the right, i think some forces from the right, like religious organizations, have, in the past, spoken out and fought against corporatism, out of concern for the welfare of the people. but so many on the right i think are just duped into not seeing the real enemy of the american people: corporations that will ship your job to china and india in the name of the bottom line, and yet claim the mantle of patriotism
corporations, hands down, are the greatest threat to the well-being of our democracy with their financial influence, and i really wish i saw more voices on the right see this to be the truth of the matter, and stop with the scapegoats and willfully know nothing simpleminded appeals to the government being the enemy, when there is an obvious puppeteer behind the government pulling the strings in their favor
i'm a communist socialist fascist secret muslim (rolls eyes)
a small vocal minority can ram through its agenda by being the craziest, loudest, most passionate in your face types around
the tragedy of our existence is yes, just as you say, the majority of people are too busy leaving quiet, good lives to be bothered with this nonsense. unfortunately, the lives of this vast majority of quiet and good can be made more difficult by a small committed group who do not represent their interests, but the interests of whatever demagogue whips them into a frenzy
when you see the vicious, fear-addled, hysterical fearmongering and demagoguery going on in the usa, you can easily grow despondent and depressed about the future of this country
and then you see that the antidote to this vile sleaze, the ray of sunshine, is simple humor, and irony, and sarcasm
the antidote to the poisons of the lowest basest emotions and motivations from the human character are the fruits of the higher faculties, and simple cheerfulness and confidence
if the drek you see being assembled into herds of mindlessly angry propagandized partisan sheep on the far right depresses you, do not give up heart, nor give up hope: just give a good laugh, and smile, and beat the zombie horde back into the dustbin of history where they belong
might be used against someone you love, you would never sell out, at any price
the idea that everyone has a price is a very nihilistic way of looking at the world, and simply isn't true, simply because not everyone is nihilist. some people actually believe in something. now you may ridicule what they believe in, that it has no merit. and you may even be right about their beliefs having no merit. however, that doesn't change the fact they still believe in those things nonetheless. and therefore, they don't have a price, no matter what you promise them
and thankfully such people exist
because when reading your words, i would much rather this world be populated by people who believe in magical sky fairies, even though i myself don't believe in magical sky fairies, than a world populated by someone like you, who doesn't believe in anything at all, and loves no one and no thing, except your own selfish ignorant self. you are an asshole, and without any redeeming qualities as a human being, because of what you wrote above that you believe about your fellow human beings. what you wrote is actually less instructive about your fellow human beings, and much more instructive about how only one person thinks: you. and the way think is known in some circles, as evil. and although such crude terminology is mostly not very useful in understanding one another, i make an exception for you. you suck, asshole, you really do, for what you find acceptable, which is never acceptable, ever
you let pinball technology fall in the hands of terrorists?
said the random troll who's mindless negativity makes him an authority on something, somehow
dig it up and refine it secretly, so not even satellites could see it happening
and all you really need i think is some thick walls of lead, a nice shipping container on a ship headed to a port that handles millions of shipping containers, and boom. how do you detect a bomb through thick walls of lead?