will all be about the fight to successfully manage the earth: its climate, its species, its fisheries, its water, its minerals, its energy sources etc
and those who just want to consume, consume, consume, with no forethought, and then: "hey, where'd all the stuff go?"
but in some areas of this country, when you talk about managing things intelligently and prudently, you're some sort of anti-american fascist liberty destroying socialist
why is that?
if that sort of propaganda is allowed to prevail, our grandchildren are going to live (or rather, mostly die) in some awfully brutal conditions
but just keep ignoring the fish stock depletions, the aquifer depletions, the increased consumption of oil that just gets deeper to dig up, the slowly rising thermostat... nah, none of things are problems! keep partying see? anyone who wants to manage these things is just a killjoy evil liburul!
more obfuscated, more sparse, more steganography, more secure, better hidden...
oh, you thought you were going to stop piracy instead?
you thought you were going to take a bunch of poor, technically astute, media hungry young folk, and get them to go "gee, all this arm twisting... maybe i should spend $200 a month i don't have on the media i want rather than stick it to an authoritarian internet freedom destroying parasitical antiquated UNNECESSARY corporate entity"
yeah, good luck with that RIMPAA
pass all the laws you want. all of them. this is the best you can do? you can't think of something more authoritarian and controlling for the sake of shoehorning yourself into our cultural space? c'mon, you can do better than that! buy some more legislators, hire some more lawyers. be all that you can be! go for the gold!
UNENFORCEABLE
let me repeat that, in case you didn't hear me
UN-EN-FORCE-ABLE
you ignorant, irrelevant pricks
go. snort your last coke off your last hookers' ass
YOU'RE OUT OF BUSINESS
YOU LOSE
BUHBYE
don't let the packet hit you on your ass on the way out the router
you libertarian idiots would be good comic relief if you weren't so dangerously serious with your stupidity
yes: corporations corrupt the government, just as you say
therefore, the job is to remove the corruption from the government, so THE ONLY TOOL YOU HAVE AGAINST CORPORATIONS works better for you. see how that works?
but no. you libertarian retards want to DESTROY government, thereby freeing corporations up from pesky regulations, and able to rape your rights even more than they already do. wtf?
look at your comment, look at your OWN stupid comment: you KNOW that the source of the problem here is a CORPORATE ENTITY. you say so yourself. you see the RIAA and the MPAA puling the strings. you KNOW them to be the source of the problem. you see the corporate entity infecting the government
yet instead of seeing this problem as what it is: an obvious example of corporations abusing power, somehow, magically, in your mind, it becomes an example of GOVERNMENT abuse
HOW DOES THAT WORK IN YOUR DIMWITTED MIND?!
and so you labor to REMOVE THE ONLY ENTITY THAT CAN PROTECT YOU FROM THE CORPORATE ABUSES YOU YOURSELF PERCEIVE
how the FUCK does that happen inside your head?
fact, solid rock of gibraltar fact: if you remove government power, the vacuum is replaced by corporations. an entity that you have no recourse to control and is not beholden to you in any way
fact, solid rock of gibraltar fact: every abuse you see governments doing that you dislike, if the government is whittled down libertarian morons, then the SAME abuses will continue to be committed, but by corporations instead. you do see that simple obvious truth, right?
and then add to that list of abuses you dislike a whole new list of abuses an unregulated, unrestrained corporate entity is now free and happy to inflict on you in their quest for profit at any cost to your liberties
that's the truth. that really is truth
why the FUCK can't you libertarian retards see that?
rejecting the money is selfish, accepting the money is selfish, giving it to his mom is selfish, keeping it from his mom is selfish, etc. it all depends upon the motivation
all that i am saying is that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, so therefore whatever his motivation for rejecting the money, his mother probably shares the same motivations in her personality. therefore it is likely that she would be happiest with him rejecting the money. giving the money to his mother may very well be the absolute worst thing in the world he could ever do to his mother
so don't assume that your perspective is the only perspective that matters in situations like this, especially since you are not even in the situation. people are different, potentially very different from your own personality
he thinks he doesn't deserve the lion's share of the prize because there were others who contributed to his (their) achievement
the man has principles, that's for sure
all of our work, whatever we do, whether science, math, movies, music... we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, or on the shoulders of those working right next to us. often recognition for making a contribution is just a matter of luck, of being the one who accumulates the most media coverage for being at the tipping point when there was a tipping point to be had (as if anyone knows where or when the tipping points lie)
not that i'm denigrating grigory's contributions. HE is denigrating his own contributions. a genuinely humble man, even in the face of a cool million. he's more of an ascetic than i could ever be. he's married to his intellectual pursuits, he's foregone earthly indulgences because they will just get in the way of all he cares about doing. he knows that the money will ruin his mental discipline. locking himself in a room with his mind out of genuine intellectual passion
i admire him, i could never do that. i like the earthly indulgences too much
if on windows, set up your home computer to accept incoming rdp requests (and configure your router to pass that port to the right machine), and leave your home computer on the whole time
In June 2003, Poland Spring was sued for false advertising in a class action lawsuit charging that their water that supposedly comes from springs, is in fact heavily treated common ground water.[8] The suit also states, hydro-geologists hired by Nestlé found that another current source for Poland Spring water near the original site stands over a former trash and refuse dump, and below an illegal disposal site where human sewage was sprayed as fertilizer for many years.[8] The suit was settled in September 2003, with the company not admitting to the allegations, but agreeing to pay $10 million in charity donations and discounts over the next 5 years.[9] Nestlé continues to sell the same Maine water under the Poland Springs name.
that's one of those factoids that is either a 100% true hilarious joke on us all or a massively bold faced smear, i can't decide which
you are defending a legal status quo that cannot be enforced in a world with the internet. that's pretty much the beginning and the ending of this entire story
pass all the laws you want, buy all the legislators you want. it will all be routed around
what life was like for workers in the gilded age, before things like a 40 hour work week law, right?
there's no validity at all in your mind to the government putting the brakes on corporations devouring your entire life?
you think perhaps the idea of "balance" comes into play somewhere? or can you only think of my words in terms of the most far out preposterous communist idiocies?
you wouldn't like another week of vacation? really? you wouldn't like to stop worrying about healthcare and education costs? really?
i prefer the world to be centered on the happiness of the individual, not the bottom line of the ledger sheet. sorry if this offends you, because i'm not happy being just a cog in a machine
researchers have used this technique to uncover the shocking truth that a small hamlet in southern maine is actually the residence of tens of millions of people
socialism is a concept that has a positive meaning in most of the advanced industrialized nations
but for some reason, a certain group of mindless conservatives in the usa think the word "socialist" serves as some sort of epithet
you're propaganda image, for example, shows 3 people, two of whom are communists, one of whom is a fascist
if i took a picture of gw bush, osama bin laden, and hello kitty, and wrote in all caps "AMISH", that picture would have the same level of intelligence
do you know what socialism is? no, i mean the actual intellectual concept, not as defined by your tired empty propaganda. try thinking about what socialism really means. use your brain, open your mind, detach from your simplistic braindead associations
the government should step in and put the brakes on the excesses of capitalism, absolutely
remember children toiling in factories? remember pinkertons goons kneecapping union organizers? remember mandatory 60 hour workweeks? all for pennies?
never hear do the gilded age, huh? out of your ignorance of economic history you want repeat our past mistakes?
if the government does not step in and put limitations on what a company can demand from an employee, and demand rules of fair compensation, then the company will gladly work employees to death as slaves and pay them nickles, in the name of competition, just as you say. this is historical fact
so thanks for being an asshole who hasn't learned from history
it's all about hard fought for protections of THE INDIVIDUAL'S LIBERTY from outright abuse by powerful, unregulated corporations
LEARN YOUR HISTORICAL FACT SO YOU DO NOT REPEAT PAST MISTAKES YOU FOOL
we NEED government regulations to SAVE us from the excesses of corporations, which are a FAR greater threat to your liberties and freedoms than any government ever could be. read your history, you uneducated goon
and this is where you call me a fascist or a communist, when i'm just talking about regulationg C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-I-O-N-S, not individuals, you propagandized ignorant asshole
corporation != individual
corporate threat to individual > government threat to individual
LEARN YOUR FUCKING CONCEPTS, UNLEARN YOUR PROPAGANDIZED ASSOCIATIONS, THEN SPEAK
corporations, NOT governments, will happily destroy your freedoms. your democratically elected government is your only tool to protect yourself from them. THESE ARE FACTS OF LIFE. enough with the free market fundamentalist social darwinist libertarian fantasy fiction!
yeah sure, if you take steroids or you bank your blood, you can win the cycling race or hit the balls harder
but why do people watch sports? because of the thrill of identification with the human being in the physical endeavour. but if its not the athlete doing the performance, just some drugs actually performing, then this undermines the basic premise for why sports are appealing to anyone at all in the first place
likewise, if you hire someone to generate your intellectual output, you undermine the very concept of a university education
why do people want to go to university? to broaden their minds, with the knowledge that success or failure at university is a product of your intellectual output. but if instead you cheat, and succeed, at university, then what is destroyed is the notion and validity of higher education itself. it makes the whole endeavour illegitimate and unappealing, like cheating in sports
sports governing bodies and institutions of higher learning are put in mortal danger by cheaters. if they let these cancers grow, they will find that their reason for being is discredited, and no one will go to sporting events or go to college anymore
either its an honest endeavour, or the endeavour ceases to be appealing or attractive to anyone, and fades as less are willing to support the fakery by sitting in stands or toiling for a diploma
so go ahead and support this asshole, if it is your desire to discredit and destroy the notion of a university education
Slashdot Mirror
we're doomed
Whose grandmother is buying them concert tickets to Sevendust or Sean Paul?
Can we trade grandmas?
Mine just buys me socks
will all be about the fight to successfully manage the earth: its climate, its species, its fisheries, its water, its minerals, its energy sources etc
and those who just want to consume, consume, consume, with no forethought, and then: "hey, where'd all the stuff go?"
but in some areas of this country, when you talk about managing things intelligently and prudently, you're some sort of anti-american fascist liberty destroying socialist
why is that?
if that sort of propaganda is allowed to prevail, our grandchildren are going to live (or rather, mostly die) in some awfully brutal conditions
but just keep ignoring the fish stock depletions, the aquifer depletions, the increased consumption of oil that just gets deeper to dig up, the slowly rising thermostat... nah, none of things are problems! keep partying see? anyone who wants to manage these things is just a killjoy evil liburul!
which is also in sulfuric acid, which is hazardous to your health, so sulfur should be illegal, and therefore fools gold should be illegal
also, iron is in steel, which is used in battleships, which are used to kill people, so that should be illegal too
so we need BETTER REGULATIONS
because NO REGULATIONS IS FAR worse
seriously, how stupid can you twatstains be?
do you NOT see that NO regulations means corporations do anything they want?
if you remove government power, can you not see that corporations take over the power vacuum?
why the FUCK can't you see that!!!???
for breeding greater industrial strength p2p apps
more obfuscated, more sparse, more steganography, more secure, better hidden...
oh, you thought you were going to stop piracy instead?
you thought you were going to take a bunch of poor, technically astute, media hungry young folk, and get them to go "gee, all this arm twisting... maybe i should spend $200 a month i don't have on the media i want rather than stick it to an authoritarian internet freedom destroying parasitical antiquated UNNECESSARY corporate entity"
yeah, good luck with that RIMPAA
pass all the laws you want. all of them. this is the best you can do? you can't think of something more authoritarian and controlling for the sake of shoehorning yourself into our cultural space? c'mon, you can do better than that! buy some more legislators, hire some more lawyers. be all that you can be! go for the gold!
UNENFORCEABLE
let me repeat that, in case you didn't hear me
UN-EN-FORCE-ABLE
you ignorant, irrelevant pricks
go. snort your last coke off your last hookers' ass
YOU'RE OUT OF BUSINESS
YOU LOSE
BUHBYE
don't let the packet hit you on your ass on the way out the router
fucking parasites
you libertarian idiots would be good comic relief if you weren't so dangerously serious with your stupidity
yes: corporations corrupt the government, just as you say
therefore, the job is to remove the corruption from the government, so THE ONLY TOOL YOU HAVE AGAINST CORPORATIONS works better for you. see how that works?
but no. you libertarian retards want to DESTROY government, thereby freeing corporations up from pesky regulations, and able to rape your rights even more than they already do. wtf?
look at your comment, look at your OWN stupid comment: you KNOW that the source of the problem here is a CORPORATE ENTITY. you say so yourself. you see the RIAA and the MPAA puling the strings. you KNOW them to be the source of the problem. you see the corporate entity infecting the government
yet instead of seeing this problem as what it is: an obvious example of corporations abusing power, somehow, magically, in your mind, it becomes an example of GOVERNMENT abuse
HOW DOES THAT WORK IN YOUR DIMWITTED MIND?!
and so you labor to REMOVE THE ONLY ENTITY THAT CAN PROTECT YOU FROM THE CORPORATE ABUSES YOU YOURSELF PERCEIVE
how the FUCK does that happen inside your head?
fact, solid rock of gibraltar fact: if you remove government power, the vacuum is replaced by corporations. an entity that you have no recourse to control and is not beholden to you in any way
fact, solid rock of gibraltar fact: every abuse you see governments doing that you dislike, if the government is whittled down libertarian morons, then the SAME abuses will continue to be committed, but by corporations instead. you do see that simple obvious truth, right?
and then add to that list of abuses you dislike a whole new list of abuses an unregulated, unrestrained corporate entity is now free and happy to inflict on you in their quest for profit at any cost to your liberties
that's the truth. that really is truth
why the FUCK can't you libertarian retards see that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)#Causes_of_sinking
the end of intellectual property
because if the concept of IP is not discredited, corporations will strangle the cultural space, and intellectual progress will cease
what are you, some sort of imbecile child?
grow up
he should spend it on ice cream, duh
rejecting the money is selfish, accepting the money is selfish, giving it to his mom is selfish, keeping it from his mom is selfish, etc. it all depends upon the motivation
all that i am saying is that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, so therefore whatever his motivation for rejecting the money, his mother probably shares the same motivations in her personality. therefore it is likely that she would be happiest with him rejecting the money. giving the money to his mother may very well be the absolute worst thing in the world he could ever do to his mother
so don't assume that your perspective is the only perspective that matters in situations like this, especially since you are not even in the situation. people are different, potentially very different from your own personality
is pretty damn proud of him, for doing the math, AND rejecting the prize
his value system came from somewhere
he thinks he doesn't deserve the lion's share of the prize because there were others who contributed to his (their) achievement
the man has principles, that's for sure
all of our work, whatever we do, whether science, math, movies, music... we all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, or on the shoulders of those working right next to us. often recognition for making a contribution is just a matter of luck, of being the one who accumulates the most media coverage for being at the tipping point when there was a tipping point to be had (as if anyone knows where or when the tipping points lie)
not that i'm denigrating grigory's contributions. HE is denigrating his own contributions. a genuinely humble man, even in the face of a cool million. he's more of an ascetic than i could ever be. he's married to his intellectual pursuits, he's foregone earthly indulgences because they will just get in the way of all he cares about doing. he knows that the money will ruin his mental discipline. locking himself in a room with his mind out of genuine intellectual passion
i admire him, i could never do that. i like the earthly indulgences too much
then install windows xp on an old junk machine just for browsing remotely
pay zero attention to security
then wipe the thing when you get home
if on windows, set up your home computer to accept incoming rdp requests (and configure your router to pass that port to the right machine), and leave your home computer on the whole time
login remotely, and surf anywhere you want
but since my opinion has collided with your unquestionable authority, i am crushed at the complete and utter reversal of my opinion
pac man is a form of absurdist art. the dadaists would have loved it
you can't tell me otherwise
that poland spring is on top of a dump?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland_spring#Controversies
that's one of those factoids that is either a 100% true hilarious joke on us all or a massively bold faced smear, i can't decide which
its the sound of inevitability
you are defending a legal status quo that cannot be enforced in a world with the internet. that's pretty much the beginning and the ending of this entire story
pass all the laws you want, buy all the legislators you want. it will all be routed around
welcome to dustbin of history, you're irrelevant
what life was like for workers in the gilded age, before things like a 40 hour work week law, right?
there's no validity at all in your mind to the government putting the brakes on corporations devouring your entire life?
you think perhaps the idea of "balance" comes into play somewhere? or can you only think of my words in terms of the most far out preposterous communist idiocies?
you wouldn't like another week of vacation? really? you wouldn't like to stop worrying about healthcare and education costs? really?
i prefer the world to be centered on the happiness of the individual, not the bottom line of the ledger sheet. sorry if this offends you, because i'm not happy being just a cog in a machine
researchers have used this technique to uncover the shocking truth that a small hamlet in southern maine is actually the residence of tens of millions of people
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=poland%20spring
i believe in the common good
socialism is a concept that has a positive meaning in most of the advanced industrialized nations
but for some reason, a certain group of mindless conservatives in the usa think the word "socialist" serves as some sort of epithet
you're propaganda image, for example, shows 3 people, two of whom are communists, one of whom is a fascist
if i took a picture of gw bush, osama bin laden, and hello kitty, and wrote in all caps "AMISH", that picture would have the same level of intelligence
do you know what socialism is? no, i mean the actual intellectual concept, not as defined by your tired empty propaganda. try thinking about what socialism really means. use your brain, open your mind, detach from your simplistic braindead associations
the government should step in and put the brakes on the excesses of capitalism, absolutely
remember children toiling in factories? remember pinkertons goons kneecapping union organizers? remember mandatory 60 hour workweeks? all for pennies?
never hear do the gilded age, huh? out of your ignorance of economic history you want repeat our past mistakes?
if the government does not step in and put limitations on what a company can demand from an employee, and demand rules of fair compensation, then the company will gladly work employees to death as slaves and pay them nickles, in the name of competition, just as you say. this is historical fact
so thanks for being an asshole who hasn't learned from history
start here, you corporatist asshole:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_and_employment_law
it's all about hard fought for protections of THE INDIVIDUAL'S LIBERTY from outright abuse by powerful, unregulated corporations
LEARN YOUR HISTORICAL FACT SO YOU DO NOT REPEAT PAST MISTAKES YOU FOOL
we NEED government regulations to SAVE us from the excesses of corporations, which are a FAR greater threat to your liberties and freedoms than any government ever could be. read your history, you uneducated goon
and this is where you call me a fascist or a communist, when i'm just talking about regulationg C-O-R-P-O-R-A-T-I-O-N-S, not individuals, you propagandized ignorant asshole
corporation != individual
corporate threat to individual > government threat to individual
LEARN YOUR FUCKING CONCEPTS, UNLEARN YOUR PROPAGANDIZED ASSOCIATIONS, THEN SPEAK
corporations, NOT governments, will happily destroy your freedoms. your democratically elected government is your only tool to protect yourself from them. THESE ARE FACTS OF LIFE. enough with the free market fundamentalist social darwinist libertarian fantasy fiction!
yeah sure, if you take steroids or you bank your blood, you can win the cycling race or hit the balls harder
but why do people watch sports? because of the thrill of identification with the human being in the physical endeavour. but if its not the athlete doing the performance, just some drugs actually performing, then this undermines the basic premise for why sports are appealing to anyone at all in the first place
likewise, if you hire someone to generate your intellectual output, you undermine the very concept of a university education
why do people want to go to university? to broaden their minds, with the knowledge that success or failure at university is a product of your intellectual output. but if instead you cheat, and succeed, at university, then what is destroyed is the notion and validity of higher education itself. it makes the whole endeavour illegitimate and unappealing, like cheating in sports
sports governing bodies and institutions of higher learning are put in mortal danger by cheaters. if they let these cancers grow, they will find that their reason for being is discredited, and no one will go to sporting events or go to college anymore
either its an honest endeavour, or the endeavour ceases to be appealing or attractive to anyone, and fades as less are willing to support the fakery by sitting in stands or toiling for a diploma
so go ahead and support this asshole, if it is your desire to discredit and destroy the notion of a university education
it will be made of wiper blades, tire covers, and window seals. they're gathering the parts now:
http://www.nztourmaps.com/blog/index.php/2009/09/01/kea-car-attack/