you can't or are unable to judge my words on their merit or lack thereof
you only give your approval/ disapproval based on my standing as some sort of authority or not
i think that logic and reason is a superior way to judge the value of someone's words according to their social hierarchy status, especially in A FACELESS INTERNET THREAD, but that's just me
that i need to justify myself to you. who the hell are you? on what authority are you empowered to judge me?
i'm quite confident in who i am and what i am doing, and i need no approval or justification from you to know that
especially since you go out of your way to offer me your disapproval, without even knowing a damn thing about me. like i said: that act says a lot about your character, and none about mine
the world has enough negative judgmental assholes. try something new friend, its a tired boring game, and you only hurt yourself in the end
so many people who believe "this is the way life is" actually believe "this is the way MY life is"
the boundaries and limitations they perceive on themselves, they think apply to other people. they don't
what principles you believe in matters. for example: ghosts don't exist. but if you believe in ghosts, it alters your behavior, and therefore, your belief in ghosts matters. if enough people believe in ghosts, human society (not the natural world, but we're not talking about that: define your terms) is altered to match this
human society is self-emergent phenomenon. it is bound only by what people believe, not just natural laws. this makes it very powerful. if i believe in clothing, cities, electrical wires, court systems... then this is what i will live in, instead of a cave. this applies to technology... and principles of society
if you believe in something like, say, human dignity, that matters. you can say human dignity doesn't exist, and that's true, according to mother nature. she'll kill you in the most brutal sudden insulting ways, and carry on in a blink, your entire existence a forgotten joke. but in the realm of human society, belief in human dignity alters behavior such that human dignity becomes a REAL (in the bounds of human society) concept. people grieve. they write songs about your passing, they build pyramids: human dignity is a principle, and its effects are palpable, and so it matters
there also exists cynics, like yourself. they don't alter society, as a consequence of their own beliefs in not mattering. they live in the shadows, feeding off the positive efforts of others. they won't contribute: they don't believe in contributing to causes, but they're happy for the clothing, the cities, the electrical wires, the sense of justice, the notion of freedom, the human conscience, that others full of belief labored to build into edifices of human society. they're dead weight, they're parasites. they'll say your life has no meaning, but they won't apply that principle to themselves. they still love to live, a life that supposedly has no meaning, according to their words: hypocrites
those laboring under beliefs and principles are defining human society are actually making substantial differences. while those who simply sit there and deny that the effort matters in the end, only define the terms under which they themselves don't matter in the end
what you believe in comes to define your reality. so if you believe in nothing, you define your existence as nothing (but not my existence). your lack of faith and belief does not limit me, only you. meaning is a proof positive venture. so if you put nothing positive forth, your meaning is emptiness. that you have chosen, not me. but if i state my meaning as something that other people can understand and grasp and coordinate with me, then our meaning in life becomes the fruit of efforts laboring under a system of belief that we define. and that becomes real. the pyramids: someone built them, because someone believed in them. this boundary of belief, or lack thereof, is the only real limitation we labor in our entire lives. that you choose to believe in nothing, and do nothing, means you leave behind nothing... but the pyramids still exist. because someone believed in them. and your lack of belief did not negate them. you've only negated anything you could have done yourself
that's your place in this world: please understand that the callous limitations you have defined in human society are only limitations on your life. but not on mine. you've described the terms in which your life is empty and without meaning, but you haven't defined the terms under which my life does have meaning. and in the end, i'm the only one who matters, because i leave something positive that others can carry on and invest in further, and so, many generations down the road, you have tremendous societal constructs that millions live under in belief in, whether they be notions of liberty, generosity, freedom, fair play, or any other positive be
and cynicism is a fine philosophy until you figure out that principles actually do exist, because some people actually believe in them, and these people are the only ones who ever make a difference or matter
everyone else is as you describe: parasites playing the system, the status quo, stasis. but if the world is nothing but parasites, and no host, then the parasites die: nothing gets better, natural decay leads us to worse, and the parasites certainly won't labor to make our situation any better
so understand your place in the world because of the words you have written: a parasite, and understand why your life has no meaning or dignity
or understand there is no pride or happiness or anything of value in what you believe, and stop being such a fucking parasite
will be a bunch of whines about their government selling out its principles to corporate influence, and how nothing can stop chinese policy, and this is our future, and we live in a corporatocracy...
and every single person making that comment, modding that comment up, or reading and nodding their heads ARE PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM
believe the world can be better. believe it. but if you only have that same tired easy typical empty cynicism that things are only getting worse, or that none of this situation can be changed YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM
yes, corporations and authoritarianism threaten your freedoms. the only question is: what the fuck are YOU going to do about it? if it is nothing but whine and ACCEPT THE STATUS QUO, then you are part of the fucking problem with what is wrong with this world. YOU ARE
there will always be threats to liberty and freedom. always, forever more. the existence of your liberties is a constant maintenance problem, forever. it is never, and never was, a concept that is fought for once, and then never worried about again. so now it falls on your shoulders form previous generations who actually fought for the legal status quo you enjoy. what are you fucking going to do about it?
the only question as to how far threats to your freedom goes is how far those who wish to defend the notion of liberty will push back. but if you don't push back, you just fucking whine and complain and accept with the typical lazy easy pessism and cynicism, and you want to know where your freedom went,
hollywood is worried about how another star vehicle film will perform at the box office
so they pull a few strings, make a few calls, and create anticipatory buzz in the press and the public by forcing the cia to prematurely close its multiyear investigation of russian spies at work in the usa
false association is the best sort of poll manipulation
for example, if the poll was
"do you believe obama is the antichrist?"
of course this wouldn't poll very high. even those who oppose obama, the vast majority do so for genuine reasons of policy, not out of some demented partisan bloodsport (although unfortunately, the unthinking zombie partisan hordes seem to be on the rise in this country)
but if the poll was
"if obama were the antichrist, should he be impeached?"
and of course, this will poll high. when of course the question is completely loaded bullshit. if ANYONE were the antichrist, they should be voted out of office. but this is exactly this sort of false association that goes on all the time with polling questions. albeit a lot more subtle than this, and usually preying on people's preexisting prejudices and simplistic ideological understandings. it leads them to completely useless answers, but answers that can then be twisted when reported upon, with cable news HD graphics and bombastic audio cues and cinematic announcers with heavy gravitas and serious, low voices:
"in a shocking new poll, the idea of impeaching obama polls high among a wide sampling of americans"
sometimes i'll look at my list of comments, and there will be an across the board "flamebait" or "offtopic" for 10 comments, across all commentary and different threads, all at the same time
it used to bother me, but it never really effects my karma, so now i take it as a form of demented compliment that someone should be so devoted to me (in hate, which is just the flip side of love. what we all really fear is being ignored)
the signal (the genuine mods) still drown out the noise (the troll modding), so slashdot still works for me. if the noise begins to drown out the signal though, indeed, slashdot is doomed
of course this will turn into a "bash the left" and a "bash the right" thread. when ideology isn't the point. polling is the idiocy in question
and the guy who manipulated the numbers is clearly an amateur. the way you do proper poll manipulation is LOAD THE QUESTION. you poll people with a question with the proper turn of phrase to lead them towards the answer you want. then, when you present the answers to the poll, you also cage the results in such a way to lead the audience in the way you want them to interpret the results
polling is fucking joke. all results from the left, or the right, is complete bullshit, and a waste of your time
this is an age old logical fallacy i'm sick of: "because grey areas exist, we can't say black isn't white"
porn exists, and is real. because there are grey areas doesn't mean we can't characterize something as porn
an analogy: abortion
at some point, its a just blob a woman is purging. at another point it is a human being you are murdering. ignoring for the moment the existence of the complete idiots who believe that when a sperm meets an egg you have a human life, or the complete idiots who think murdering a newborn is just late term abortion, there is a simple question for you: when exactly does a blob become a life?
of course, the ultimate answer is a complete grey area, and will always remain a grey area, forever. it is a completely subjective issue. and yet it requires definition, and is very important to define
that doesn't mean we should make early abortions illegal or make murdering newborns legal. what it means is that life is complicated, there are grey areas, and simply because grey areas exist and are complicated, you are not excused from making tough choices
so yes, there are grey areas: pornography or not? but just because that grey area exists, you are not allowed to chicken out and say "because there are grey areas, i will not take a stand and talk about what is pornography and what isn't." caging your cowardice in philosophical bloviating does not change the fact you are a coward
excusing yourself from the debate just makes you a cowardly asshole, standing on the sidelines does not mean you are morally superior. its just a cop out. take a fucking stand, whether on pornography, euthanasia, religious fundamentalism, free speech, abortion, etc.: grow a backbone, don't run and hide, and take a fucking stand on grey areas in this world
"It is only in the US that xxx is equivalent to porn. In other languages, xxx means crossed over or censored"
so in countries besides the usa sexuality isn't the biggest target for censorship?
and i said "in countries besides the usa" not "my own special subset of liberal european countries i use to ridicule the usa's policies, rather than the full set of countries in the world, revealing that the usa is actually moderate or left of center on most issues, and even more left leaning on some free speech issues than supposedly liberal european countries"
i'm not talking about the religious nuts, i understand their point of view: they think a.xxx domain makes porn legitimate. as if not having a.xxx domain means POOF, all porn disappears. porn is a part of society, and some can argue it actually serves a valid purpose (harmless release of sexual frustrations). get used to it, (hypocritical) social conservatives, you have a better chance fighting the rising and falling of the tides. its not going away, ever
but i'm talking about the porn purveyors: why are they fighting this? it's not a ghettoization, its a domain. yes, it makes it easy to censor sexual content. and what's wrong with that? if i have some kids in my house, and i want to black hole all.xxx domains, i should be able to do that. if a nation wants to blackhole all.xxx domains at a national level meanwhile: ok, this nation is retarded. as if not having.xxx means they won't engage in idiotic censorship? you make it easier for them? do you see iran and china quaking in their boots because censorship is hard? get real: a committed censoring asshole is a committed censoring asshole, the issue of easy or hard to censor is an issue for people who want to block the domain for legitimate purposes (kids in the house), not an issue for those who will censor no matter what
and finally, there's the red herring of sexual content that shouldn't be grouped with porn, like sexual health. well if its sexual health, like how to put on a condom, its sexual health, end of discussion. its not pornography. yes, some assholes will try to group sexual health issues with porn. the existence of such assholes does not mean sexual health issues deserve to be with porn, just that there exists assholes in this world with harmful ideas about sexual health that you need to fight, and the existence or lack of existence of an.xxx domain does not change their existence or the need to fight them. in fact, let them make fools of themselves by trying to group sexual health topics with porn, and reveal to the thinking rational world what ignorant assholes they really are, bring their idiocy to the forefront
the REAL point is that pornography is not some GOTCHA that tries to sneak up on innocent teenagers and corrupt their souls, this is social conservative bullshit (and fails to understand human nature). clearly defining and delineating pornographic content simply underlines the most important point here: pornography is something that people choose to consume, and if some hypocritical social conservative asshole doesn't like that fact, or is ashamed of that fact, then don't click on an.xxx domain, end of story!
because no one is trying to trick you into recognizing that you have sexual urges
fly the new.xxx flag loud and proud. its simply a healthy recognition of the fact that we are sexual beings, and we are happy and comfortable making a space for this material on our internet. LACK OF recognition of the validity of porn is the REAL problem, lack of an.xxx domain is an act of misplaced shame, and that's the real motivation behind ignoring the issue, and denying porn its own domain
giving porn its own domain is sex positive, and good for society. really. every rational, self-aware human should celebrate this
Slashdot Mirror
what kind of infection are we talking about?
an adobe flash attack vector?
or hepatitis b?
you can't or are unable to judge my words on their merit or lack thereof
you only give your approval/ disapproval based on my standing as some sort of authority or not
i think that logic and reason is a superior way to judge the value of someone's words according to their social hierarchy status, especially in A FACELESS INTERNET THREAD, but that's just me
that i need to justify myself to you. who the hell are you? on what authority are you empowered to judge me?
i'm quite confident in who i am and what i am doing, and i need no approval or justification from you to know that
especially since you go out of your way to offer me your disapproval, without even knowing a damn thing about me. like i said: that act says a lot about your character, and none about mine
the world has enough negative judgmental assholes. try something new friend, its a tired boring game, and you only hurt yourself in the end
but thanks for the vote of no confidence
that you vote no confidence, without even knowing me, actually says more about you than it does about me
so many people who believe "this is the way life is" actually believe "this is the way MY life is"
the boundaries and limitations they perceive on themselves, they think apply to other people. they don't
what principles you believe in matters. for example: ghosts don't exist. but if you believe in ghosts, it alters your behavior, and therefore, your belief in ghosts matters. if enough people believe in ghosts, human society (not the natural world, but we're not talking about that: define your terms) is altered to match this
human society is self-emergent phenomenon. it is bound only by what people believe, not just natural laws. this makes it very powerful. if i believe in clothing, cities, electrical wires, court systems... then this is what i will live in, instead of a cave. this applies to technology... and principles of society
if you believe in something like, say, human dignity, that matters. you can say human dignity doesn't exist, and that's true, according to mother nature. she'll kill you in the most brutal sudden insulting ways, and carry on in a blink, your entire existence a forgotten joke. but in the realm of human society, belief in human dignity alters behavior such that human dignity becomes a REAL (in the bounds of human society) concept. people grieve. they write songs about your passing, they build pyramids: human dignity is a principle, and its effects are palpable, and so it matters
there also exists cynics, like yourself. they don't alter society, as a consequence of their own beliefs in not mattering. they live in the shadows, feeding off the positive efforts of others. they won't contribute: they don't believe in contributing to causes, but they're happy for the clothing, the cities, the electrical wires, the sense of justice, the notion of freedom, the human conscience, that others full of belief labored to build into edifices of human society. they're dead weight, they're parasites. they'll say your life has no meaning, but they won't apply that principle to themselves. they still love to live, a life that supposedly has no meaning, according to their words: hypocrites
those laboring under beliefs and principles are defining human society are actually making substantial differences. while those who simply sit there and deny that the effort matters in the end, only define the terms under which they themselves don't matter in the end
what you believe in comes to define your reality. so if you believe in nothing, you define your existence as nothing (but not my existence). your lack of faith and belief does not limit me, only you. meaning is a proof positive venture. so if you put nothing positive forth, your meaning is emptiness. that you have chosen, not me. but if i state my meaning as something that other people can understand and grasp and coordinate with me, then our meaning in life becomes the fruit of efforts laboring under a system of belief that we define. and that becomes real. the pyramids: someone built them, because someone believed in them. this boundary of belief, or lack thereof, is the only real limitation we labor in our entire lives. that you choose to believe in nothing, and do nothing, means you leave behind nothing... but the pyramids still exist. because someone believed in them. and your lack of belief did not negate them. you've only negated anything you could have done yourself
that's your place in this world: please understand that the callous limitations you have defined in human society are only limitations on your life. but not on mine. you've described the terms in which your life is empty and without meaning, but you haven't defined the terms under which my life does have meaning. and in the end, i'm the only one who matters, because i leave something positive that others can carry on and invest in further, and so, many generations down the road, you have tremendous societal constructs that millions live under in belief in, whether they be notions of liberty, generosity, freedom, fair play, or any other positive be
and cynicism is a fine philosophy until you figure out that principles actually do exist, because some people actually believe in them, and these people are the only ones who ever make a difference or matter
everyone else is as you describe: parasites playing the system, the status quo, stasis. but if the world is nothing but parasites, and no host, then the parasites die: nothing gets better, natural decay leads us to worse, and the parasites certainly won't labor to make our situation any better
so understand your place in the world because of the words you have written: a parasite, and understand why your life has no meaning or dignity
or understand there is no pride or happiness or anything of value in what you believe, and stop being such a fucking parasite
will be a bunch of whines about their government selling out its principles to corporate influence, and how nothing can stop chinese policy, and this is our future, and we live in a corporatocracy...
and every single person making that comment, modding that comment up, or reading and nodding their heads ARE PART OF THE FUCKING PROBLEM
believe the world can be better. believe it. but if you only have that same tired easy typical empty cynicism that things are only getting worse, or that none of this situation can be changed YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM
yes, corporations and authoritarianism threaten your freedoms. the only question is: what the fuck are YOU going to do about it? if it is nothing but whine and ACCEPT THE STATUS QUO, then you are part of the fucking problem with what is wrong with this world. YOU ARE
there will always be threats to liberty and freedom. always, forever more. the existence of your liberties is a constant maintenance problem, forever. it is never, and never was, a concept that is fought for once, and then never worried about again. so now it falls on your shoulders form previous generations who actually fought for the legal status quo you enjoy. what are you fucking going to do about it?
the only question as to how far threats to your freedom goes is how far those who wish to defend the notion of liberty will push back. but if you don't push back, you just fucking whine and complain and accept with the typical lazy easy pessism and cynicism, and you want to know where your freedom went,
look in the fucking mirror
I have pretty much come down on the side of the summary having major issues with the lack of grammar that a good summary has and may never have.
if you throw a party, you have to put out crackers
they have a stupid angelina jolie spy theme movie coming out, where she is a russian spy deep under cover in the usa:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(film)
with the recent bombing of tom cruise and cameron diaz's knight and day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_and_Day#Critical_response
hollywood is worried about how another star vehicle film will perform at the box office
so they pull a few strings, make a few calls, and create anticipatory buzz in the press and the public by forcing the cia to prematurely close its multiyear investigation of russian spies at work in the usa
now that's power
that word is a horror motif
you can be born/ not born, which is the proper schrodinger scenario you are referring to
but its some sort of cthulhu ritual to contemplate the process of being UNborn
i guess its like being undead: not alive, but still moving
unborn: you never were born, but you still exist! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA
false association is the best sort of poll manipulation
for example, if the poll was
"do you believe obama is the antichrist?"
of course this wouldn't poll very high. even those who oppose obama, the vast majority do so for genuine reasons of policy, not out of some demented partisan bloodsport (although unfortunately, the unthinking zombie partisan hordes seem to be on the rise in this country)
but if the poll was
"if obama were the antichrist, should he be impeached?"
and of course, this will poll high. when of course the question is completely loaded bullshit. if ANYONE were the antichrist, they should be voted out of office. but this is exactly this sort of false association that goes on all the time with polling questions. albeit a lot more subtle than this, and usually preying on people's preexisting prejudices and simplistic ideological understandings. it leads them to completely useless answers, but answers that can then be twisted when reported upon, with cable news HD graphics and bombastic audio cues and cinematic announcers with heavy gravitas and serious, low voices:
"in a shocking new poll, the idea of impeaching obama polls high among a wide sampling of americans"
polls are nothing but propaganda
sometimes i'll look at my list of comments, and there will be an across the board "flamebait" or "offtopic" for 10 comments, across all commentary and different threads, all at the same time
it used to bother me, but it never really effects my karma, so now i take it as a form of demented compliment that someone should be so devoted to me (in hate, which is just the flip side of love. what we all really fear is being ignored)
the signal (the genuine mods) still drown out the noise (the troll modding), so slashdot still works for me. if the noise begins to drown out the signal though, indeed, slashdot is doomed
of course this will turn into a "bash the left" and a "bash the right" thread. when ideology isn't the point. polling is the idiocy in question
and the guy who manipulated the numbers is clearly an amateur. the way you do proper poll manipulation is LOAD THE QUESTION. you poll people with a question with the proper turn of phrase to lead them towards the answer you want. then, when you present the answers to the poll, you also cage the results in such a way to lead the audience in the way you want them to interpret the results
polling is fucking joke. all results from the left, or the right, is complete bullshit, and a waste of your time
that's why we don't need .org or .gov or .mil or .us or .au or .uk or .edu etc...
in fact we don't have to categorize anything. we can just throw web pages out there randomly and let google take care of it
pfffffffft
"Thanks for bringing the discussion down to youtube comments level, you childish cunt."
hypocritical troll is obvious troll
there are plenty of situations in life where the transition process is painful, but the new status quo is far superior to the old
is it easier for you if the supermarket scattered the cereal boxes all over the store?
or if they had one aisle labelled "cereal"?
it's a rather simple point that most people easily grasp: better categorization has all sorts of benefits for all sorts of reasons
is that it is usually brittle minds who can't deal with a little noise in their signal
by filtering people like you out of my life by poisoning the signal with a little noise, i get to deal with minds that are usually more flexible
saves you time, and saves me time, win win
what took me 200
please someone mod parent up
"Who defines porn, anyway? What is it, exactly?"
this is an age old logical fallacy i'm sick of: "because grey areas exist, we can't say black isn't white"
porn exists, and is real. because there are grey areas doesn't mean we can't characterize something as porn
an analogy: abortion
at some point, its a just blob a woman is purging. at another point it is a human being you are murdering. ignoring for the moment the existence of the complete idiots who believe that when a sperm meets an egg you have a human life, or the complete idiots who think murdering a newborn is just late term abortion, there is a simple question for you: when exactly does a blob become a life?
of course, the ultimate answer is a complete grey area, and will always remain a grey area, forever. it is a completely subjective issue. and yet it requires definition, and is very important to define
that doesn't mean we should make early abortions illegal or make murdering newborns legal. what it means is that life is complicated, there are grey areas, and simply because grey areas exist and are complicated, you are not excused from making tough choices
so yes, there are grey areas: pornography or not? but just because that grey area exists, you are not allowed to chicken out and say "because there are grey areas, i will not take a stand and talk about what is pornography and what isn't." caging your cowardice in philosophical bloviating does not change the fact you are a coward
excusing yourself from the debate just makes you a cowardly asshole, standing on the sidelines does not mean you are morally superior. its just a cop out. take a fucking stand, whether on pornography, euthanasia, religious fundamentalism, free speech, abortion, etc.: grow a backbone, don't run and hide, and take a fucking stand on grey areas in this world
"It is only in the US that xxx is equivalent to porn. In other languages, xxx means crossed over or censored"
so in countries besides the usa sexuality isn't the biggest target for censorship?
and i said "in countries besides the usa" not "my own special subset of liberal european countries i use to ridicule the usa's policies, rather than the full set of countries in the world, revealing that the usa is actually moderate or left of center on most issues, and even more left leaning on some free speech issues than supposedly liberal european countries"
i'm not talking about the religious nuts, i understand their point of view: they think a .xxx domain makes porn legitimate. as if not having a .xxx domain means POOF, all porn disappears. porn is a part of society, and some can argue it actually serves a valid purpose (harmless release of sexual frustrations). get used to it, (hypocritical) social conservatives, you have a better chance fighting the rising and falling of the tides. its not going away, ever
but i'm talking about the porn purveyors: why are they fighting this? it's not a ghettoization, its a domain. yes, it makes it easy to censor sexual content. and what's wrong with that? if i have some kids in my house, and i want to black hole all .xxx domains, i should be able to do that. if a nation wants to blackhole all .xxx domains at a national level meanwhile: ok, this nation is retarded. as if not having .xxx means they won't engage in idiotic censorship? you make it easier for them? do you see iran and china quaking in their boots because censorship is hard? get real: a committed censoring asshole is a committed censoring asshole, the issue of easy or hard to censor is an issue for people who want to block the domain for legitimate purposes (kids in the house), not an issue for those who will censor no matter what
and finally, there's the red herring of sexual content that shouldn't be grouped with porn, like sexual health. well if its sexual health, like how to put on a condom, its sexual health, end of discussion. its not pornography. yes, some assholes will try to group sexual health issues with porn. the existence of such assholes does not mean sexual health issues deserve to be with porn, just that there exists assholes in this world with harmful ideas about sexual health that you need to fight, and the existence or lack of existence of an .xxx domain does not change their existence or the need to fight them. in fact, let them make fools of themselves by trying to group sexual health topics with porn, and reveal to the thinking rational world what ignorant assholes they really are, bring their idiocy to the forefront
the REAL point is that pornography is not some GOTCHA that tries to sneak up on innocent teenagers and corrupt their souls, this is social conservative bullshit (and fails to understand human nature). clearly defining and delineating pornographic content simply underlines the most important point here: pornography is something that people choose to consume, and if some hypocritical social conservative asshole doesn't like that fact, or is ashamed of that fact, then don't click on an .xxx domain, end of story!
because no one is trying to trick you into recognizing that you have sexual urges
fly the new .xxx flag loud and proud. its simply a healthy recognition of the fact that we are sexual beings, and we are happy and comfortable making a space for this material on our internet. LACK OF recognition of the validity of porn is the REAL problem, lack of an .xxx domain is an act of misplaced shame, and that's the real motivation behind ignoring the issue, and denying porn its own domain
giving porn its own domain is sex positive, and good for society. really. every rational, self-aware human should celebrate this
kgb c u but usa no c u!
you're a funny one