10 guys really really passionate about an idea, no matter how loony, can prevail over 1000 other guys who just don't care
you can't really laugh loony tunes wackjobs off. they are dangerous, because they work really really hard to disseminate their idiocies and make more wackjobs and influence our laws
unfortunately, in this world, proving something to be true scientifically is not enough. your job doesn't end with a scientific proof, it only just begins there. you also have to prevail it upon the world as the truth, or some other guy will prevail some falsehood instead
the world is owned by, and ruled by, the passionate, not the logical. luckily, people still respect logic. so to your benefit, you'll have an easier time prevailing over the loony tunes. but it means you still ahve to try and prevail, you can't just get by with proving something logically, and that settles it. you still have to dictate your findings, show where they conflict with the loony tunes, and vanquish them. or elese the loony tunes will work long and hard to have logic vanquished instead
we live in a world, including the usa, where women are paid less, treated like cattle, have acid thrown on their face because they don't submit to some asshole, are prostituted out or married off in their early teens, or otherwise dominated and abused. this is incredibly fucking obvious
but you present us the opposite. that women somehow rule
ok! pffffft
all your words mean to me is you have some sort of gigantic personal issue
did a high school girlfriend drop you like a hot potato? is the alimony too high in your divorce proceedings? are you some sort of religious fuckwit?
what exactly, what part of your life experience is driving this obviously completely retarded view of women and power in this world?
i think plenty of countries with lower prison rates than the usa look at some of the out of control crime on their streets and in back rooms, and do not exalt in how superior their society is, but wish they could build some more jails and clean up their society too
the usa has plenty of problems. and jailing someone for smoking a marijuana joint is clearly wrong and stupid. but if you have a well-functioning criminal justice system, you're going to catch more criminals. it's that simple
i mean real, genuine transgressors of citizen's rights. its insults on human dignity that bother you, right? that's the concern that motivates your words, right? you don't see that happening from criminals, whether in boardrooms or in alleyways? we need to catch criminals and punish them, not cheer the fact we have little if any jails, right?
i would bet that the ideal amount of incarceration in an ideally functioning society is closer to the usa's rate, than it is to the rate of some country with a dysfunctional judiciary and corrupt police force, where criminals conduct their transgressions with impunity, whether white collar or blue collar
look: not all abuses of human rights are done by the state. most of it, in fact, throughout human history, is done by individuals and mafias. unless you consider getting robbed, raped, extorted or murdered not a human rights violation?
know that the average thug on the street is a threat to the dignity of mankind just as much as your waterboarding cia goon. and you fight that assault on human dignity, by throwing a heck of a lot more criminals in jail, in societies where currently the criminal justice system is subpar and broken
my whole point is: i don't understand someone who seems so motivated by human rights and human dignity in their words, but sees threats to that only emanating from governmental organizations, and not genuine criminal activity. you have a distorted view of what really threatens the principles that motivate you
i would be happy to pay teachers and school administrators 6 figure incomes, provided they churned out highly educated students
but i'm sorry, if a teacher sucks, they should be fired. and unfortunately, for standing against this common sense measure, the teacher's unions has made themselves an enemy of higher quality education
the usa will fall in this world while other countries with a better grasp on how serious education is will rise. there really is nothing wrong with spending a lot of money on education. but HOW that money is spent, without any accountability, is going to destroy this country
i begin to think less about the idea that we can seed the universe with hardy bacteria
and i begin to think less about the idea that life on earth was seeded exobiologically
i begin to think less about sending life out there, or about how life got here, and i instead think more about the idea that it simply doesn't matter, that it's been a wide four lane two way street forever, and everywhere, that life is boringly common
i begin to entertain the notion that the reality that is most likely, as we explore more and more outside our planet (and eventually, our solar system), that we're just going to find that the basic chemical machinery of life everywhere, dormant or vaguely active, is on the surface of everything, waiting to seed and grow on anything it touches
that life is simply mundane and ubiquitous (although mostly hibernating and waiting and unable to realize its full potential)
and then the REAL story will be looking for and finding what i'll call "complexity magnifiers": special intersections of energy source and hospitality (like liquid water and a sun) where the machinery of life is allowed to turn into amazing agglomerations of increasing complexity... until things like us humans can become reality
and then the real search, the ultimate game of discovery, will be to classify, find, and otherwise make contact with other "complexity magnifiers," wherever they may be or whatever they are, across the universe. and that this will be our ultimate promise in existence, what you could call our purpose (self-discovered)
whether we choose to exploit and destroy those "complexity magnifiers" and whatever or whomever we find there, and grow like a virus, or whether we choose to communicate with whatever is there already, as take care to hold our darker nature in sober check: that will be the ultimate commentary on the entire existence of homo sapiens: tragic mistake or wise benevolence?
usa/japan experiences a significant decrease in power, or china experiences a significant decrease in power
countries like korea (well, north and south korea) suffer because they are being crushed between two powers. many other countries have seen enormous amounts of suffering due to being wedged between powerhouse empires. study the history of poland. the power struggle moved west of poland as the soviet union grew in power: result germany became the locus of struggle, and was divided. and then, when the soviet union collapsed, the center of power struggle moved east. result: germany was able to reunite, and now places like ukraine and georgia suffer for being the locus of power struggle between russia and the west: gerogia is being fractionated by russian military into tiny countries as it vies to define its sphere of influence outward
wherever empires meet, the buffer lands become a battlefield, and get fractionated by the aspirations for influence by either empires. its like beign crushed between giant boulders. in the case of korea, china will never let north korea collapse and become part of a seoul dominated single country, because now outside influences rub right up against their border. likewise, the usa and japan will never let south korea fall and be under the influence of a pyongyang dominated single country, for the same reasons, in reverse
the sad truth is that korea will be divided, exactly as long as china and usa/japan are at odds with each other as power centers in the world. if koreans want to be reunited as a single country, something i think they deserve, then koreans should pray or work hard to dramatically decrease the power of either china or usa/japan. then reunification will be natural and automatic
south korea only has glum relatives and miserly business contacts. north korea has loving adoration and sworn allegiance bonded in blood and exaltation for the perpetual people's struggle and revolutionary apparatus! like it! like it! like it!
our great shining leader tweets 5,000 times a day with 3 million followers 24 hours a day no time for sleep! the people's struggle provides as sleep! each tweet a pearl of wisdom his grateful followers pore over for eternal wisdom in philosophy, economics, military strategy, acupuncture, home economics, and closet organization! retweet! retweet! retweet!
the imperial aggressor america and her boot linking sycophant japan will suffer under the boot of the full force of the people's glorious tweeting and facebook friending struggle!
but in south america, cablevisión are the victimized
it has to do with everything in reverse in the antipodes: summer is winter, night is day, good is bad, and i believe gravity works in reverse down there
you would think you could sell this information to certain other parties for a lot more than that
and the potential for damage that can be done to the company's brand, and with all of the money the company has, you'd think they'd pay at least an order of magnitude more. and get a lot more interest in finding and reporting security flaws to boot
in which you think a completely unrelated point: that cops try to pad municipal budgets with law enforcement tricks, disproves the actual point: that speeding kills people
all you have done is changed the subject matter you moron
meanwhile, back on topic: show the fuck down you asshole, so you don't kill anyone in your hubristic ignorance
i'm sure that are a few dudes somewhere who can drive 90 mph all the time and never get in accidents... yet
i'm also sure there are plenty of dudes who say they can drive 90 mph all the time, out of a mix of testosterone, machismo, bravado, and bullshit, but can't
can you tell the difference?
look: the faster you drive, the greater your chance for crashing. so society picks a speed limit, and lives are saved
yes, a few supermen out there, now have their styles cramped. and for those superman, i have nothing but sympathy and tears for this heavy, heavy burden you must bear
truly life is so not fair to the supermen... or at least the hubristic assholes who kill other people because they think of themselves as supermen
obey the speed limits, asshole. you're no fucking superman
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meanwhile, if you can lose your deathgrip on rhetorical precision for a moment:
do you understand what i am trying to say?
better terminator identification
(said in flat austrian accent:)
"I'm a cybernetic organism: living tissue over metal endoskeleton"
10 guys really really passionate about an idea, no matter how loony, can prevail over 1000 other guys who just don't care
you can't really laugh loony tunes wackjobs off. they are dangerous, because they work really really hard to disseminate their idiocies and make more wackjobs and influence our laws
unfortunately, in this world, proving something to be true scientifically is not enough. your job doesn't end with a scientific proof, it only just begins there. you also have to prevail it upon the world as the truth, or some other guy will prevail some falsehood instead
the world is owned by, and ruled by, the passionate, not the logical. luckily, people still respect logic. so to your benefit, you'll have an easier time prevailing over the loony tunes. but it means you still ahve to try and prevail, you can't just get by with proving something logically, and that settles it. you still have to dictate your findings, show where they conflict with the loony tunes, and vanquish them. or elese the loony tunes will work long and hard to have logic vanquished instead
we live in a world, including the usa, where women are paid less, treated like cattle, have acid thrown on their face because they don't submit to some asshole, are prostituted out or married off in their early teens, or otherwise dominated and abused. this is incredibly fucking obvious
but you present us the opposite. that women somehow rule
ok! pffffft
all your words mean to me is you have some sort of gigantic personal issue
did a high school girlfriend drop you like a hot potato? is the alimony too high in your divorce proceedings? are you some sort of religious fuckwit?
what exactly, what part of your life experience is driving this obviously completely retarded view of women and power in this world?
however, i would rather live in a country concerned with the rights of women as EQUALS, rather than a society that treats its women like cattle
i think plenty of countries with lower prison rates than the usa look at some of the out of control crime on their streets and in back rooms, and do not exalt in how superior their society is, but wish they could build some more jails and clean up their society too
the usa has plenty of problems. and jailing someone for smoking a marijuana joint is clearly wrong and stupid. but if you have a well-functioning criminal justice system, you're going to catch more criminals. it's that simple
i mean real, genuine transgressors of citizen's rights. its insults on human dignity that bother you, right? that's the concern that motivates your words, right? you don't see that happening from criminals, whether in boardrooms or in alleyways? we need to catch criminals and punish them, not cheer the fact we have little if any jails, right?
i would bet that the ideal amount of incarceration in an ideally functioning society is closer to the usa's rate, than it is to the rate of some country with a dysfunctional judiciary and corrupt police force, where criminals conduct their transgressions with impunity, whether white collar or blue collar
look: not all abuses of human rights are done by the state. most of it, in fact, throughout human history, is done by individuals and mafias. unless you consider getting robbed, raped, extorted or murdered not a human rights violation?
know that the average thug on the street is a threat to the dignity of mankind just as much as your waterboarding cia goon. and you fight that assault on human dignity, by throwing a heck of a lot more criminals in jail, in societies where currently the criminal justice system is subpar and broken
my whole point is: i don't understand someone who seems so motivated by human rights and human dignity in their words, but sees threats to that only emanating from governmental organizations, and not genuine criminal activity. you have a distorted view of what really threatens the principles that motivate you
i would be happy to pay teachers and school administrators 6 figure incomes, provided they churned out highly educated students
but i'm sorry, if a teacher sucks, they should be fired. and unfortunately, for standing against this common sense measure, the teacher's unions has made themselves an enemy of higher quality education
the usa will fall in this world while other countries with a better grasp on how serious education is will rise. there really is nothing wrong with spending a lot of money on education. but HOW that money is spent, without any accountability, is going to destroy this country
wide-eyed, pointing and shrieking in a high pitched nasal tone
a fuzzyfuzzyfungus
buried inside a rock or freely floating in and out of the exosphere and drifting on down
smoke this first
i begin to think less about the idea that we can seed the universe with hardy bacteria
and i begin to think less about the idea that life on earth was seeded exobiologically
i begin to think less about sending life out there, or about how life got here, and i instead think more about the idea that it simply doesn't matter, that it's been a wide four lane two way street forever, and everywhere, that life is boringly common
i begin to entertain the notion that the reality that is most likely, as we explore more and more outside our planet (and eventually, our solar system), that we're just going to find that the basic chemical machinery of life everywhere, dormant or vaguely active, is on the surface of everything, waiting to seed and grow on anything it touches
that life is simply mundane and ubiquitous (although mostly hibernating and waiting and unable to realize its full potential)
and then the REAL story will be looking for and finding what i'll call "complexity magnifiers": special intersections of energy source and hospitality (like liquid water and a sun) where the machinery of life is allowed to turn into amazing agglomerations of increasing complexity... until things like us humans can become reality
and then the real search, the ultimate game of discovery, will be to classify, find, and otherwise make contact with other "complexity magnifiers," wherever they may be or whatever they are, across the universe. and that this will be our ultimate promise in existence, what you could call our purpose (self-discovered)
whether we choose to exploit and destroy those "complexity magnifiers" and whatever or whomever we find there, and grow like a virus, or whether we choose to communicate with whatever is there already, as take care to hold our darker nature in sober check: that will be the ultimate commentary on the entire existence of homo sapiens: tragic mistake or wise benevolence?
usa/japan experiences a significant decrease in power, or china experiences a significant decrease in power
countries like korea (well, north and south korea) suffer because they are being crushed between two powers. many other countries have seen enormous amounts of suffering due to being wedged between powerhouse empires. study the history of poland. the power struggle moved west of poland as the soviet union grew in power: result germany became the locus of struggle, and was divided. and then, when the soviet union collapsed, the center of power struggle moved east. result: germany was able to reunite, and now places like ukraine and georgia suffer for being the locus of power struggle between russia and the west: gerogia is being fractionated by russian military into tiny countries as it vies to define its sphere of influence outward
wherever empires meet, the buffer lands become a battlefield, and get fractionated by the aspirations for influence by either empires. its like beign crushed between giant boulders. in the case of korea, china will never let north korea collapse and become part of a seoul dominated single country, because now outside influences rub right up against their border. likewise, the usa and japan will never let south korea fall and be under the influence of a pyongyang dominated single country, for the same reasons, in reverse
the sad truth is that korea will be divided, exactly as long as china and usa/japan are at odds with each other as power centers in the world. if koreans want to be reunited as a single country, something i think they deserve, then koreans should pray or work hard to dramatically decrease the power of either china or usa/japan. then reunification will be natural and automatic
has most facebook friends! has most tweets!
south korea only has glum relatives and miserly business contacts. north korea has loving adoration and sworn allegiance bonded in blood and exaltation for the perpetual people's struggle and revolutionary apparatus! like it! like it! like it!
our great shining leader tweets 5,000 times a day with 3 million followers 24 hours a day no time for sleep! the people's struggle provides as sleep! each tweet a pearl of wisdom his grateful followers pore over for eternal wisdom in philosophy, economics, military strategy, acupuncture, home economics, and closet organization! retweet! retweet! retweet!
the imperial aggressor america and her boot linking sycophant japan will suffer under the boot of the full force of the people's glorious tweeting and facebook friending struggle!
the joke is always on you, so you might as well laugh back
in north america, cablevision are the victimizers
but in south america, cablevisión are the victimized
it has to do with everything in reverse in the antipodes: summer is winter, night is day, good is bad, and i believe gravity works in reverse down there
but this, this is a conspiracy
investigate the hell out of whoever made the accusation, follow the trail of money, expose the manipulative assholes
do you understand the concept you fucking retard?
I have no doubt you're one of the good guys. But not everyone is
thanks for the clarification
you want to be deputized
very old american wild west type stuff
good luck ;-)
you would think you could sell this information to certain other parties for a lot more than that
and the potential for damage that can be done to the company's brand, and with all of the money the company has, you'd think they'd pay at least an order of magnitude more. and get a lot more interest in finding and reporting security flaws to boot
they are playing pennies for gems of information
in which you think a completely unrelated point: that cops try to pad municipal budgets with law enforcement tricks, disproves the actual point: that speeding kills people
all you have done is changed the subject matter you moron
meanwhile, back on topic: show the fuck down you asshole, so you don't kill anyone in your hubristic ignorance
capisce?
because it now costs $0 to distribute it
furthermore, what motivates people to write a song? love of music, love of fame, or just trying to get in a girl's pants
the point is, you can consume media, because media costs nothing, and those who make it, make it for love
i'm sure that are a few dudes somewhere who can drive 90 mph all the time and never get in accidents... yet
i'm also sure there are plenty of dudes who say they can drive 90 mph all the time, out of a mix of testosterone, machismo, bravado, and bullshit, but can't
can you tell the difference?
look: the faster you drive, the greater your chance for crashing. so society picks a speed limit, and lives are saved
yes, a few supermen out there, now have their styles cramped. and for those superman, i have nothing but sympathy and tears for this heavy, heavy burden you must bear
truly life is so not fair to the supermen... or at least the hubristic assholes who kill other people because they think of themselves as supermen
obey the speed limits, asshole. you're no fucking superman
they're even called, somewhere, a "slow child" (laff):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_bump