you profit off the common good of communities, and you have the arrogance to believe that the money you make is through some sort of magic of your own
continue being a parasite, good for you. but don't make believe that the money in your bank account is anything else than an abstract representation of the wealth of a community (that you are not part of, and you do not contribute to: a parasite)
the money of the country in your bank account continues to stay wealthy (and therefore its abstract representation, its currency, continues to have value) only because they tax members of that community to maintain the health of that community
i would bet you don't have Haitian Gourdes or Somalian Shillings in your bank accounts. because those currencies represent communities that are not invested in or maintained. so they stay poor. however, i bet you have some euros, pounds, or dollars in your bank accounts. because those currencies are abstract representations of communities that protected, invested, and maintained, through taxes. so the full effect of your "ideology" is to argue for the devaulation of your own bank accounts. doesn't make much sense does it?
you have fallen through the cracks. good for you, enjoy your nomadic existence. but don't make believe what you are is anything more than that of a freeloader. give something back to that which you take from, or cease to be a valid commentator on that which you do not contribute to
what i am saying is that because you do not give to the communities we are members of, you have no right to comment on them, because you have no stakes in them, because you do not contribute to them. the amazing arrogance is that you think you still have a right to comment. you've given up the right to matter, by ceasing to contribute
the question is, why do you think corporations would act any better?
what i'm saying is: list every abuse by government you hate
ok, now do you not see that corporations would do every abuse you have listed, and MORE, since they are not accountable to anyone? at least the government is accountable to its citizens, so it can be CLEANED UP
instead, you want to destroy governments, thereby handing all the power to corporations
in other words: your complaints about government abuses are valid, and i agree with your complaints
but your solution to the problem creates a problem which is WORSE than what we currently have
which derive their income in ways that do not touch only one class of taxes. like income tax, or sales tax, or any other tax: the only fair tax is one which taxes all sort of revenue flows
the only FAIR tax system is a COMPLEX tax system, simply because society itself is complex, and always will be complex, in a rich society
if you simplify the tax code like you want, you basically let entire classes of employment in this country get away paying no taxes. is this fair in your mind?
obviously the tax code can be simplified, but you don't want it to be just simplified, you want it made over in a brutal fundamentalist way. not because you understand anything better than anyone else, but because you have a very crude oversimplistic hamfisted way of looking at the problem in front of you
in other words, for all of the abuses you complain about under the current tax code, the way you want to run things has far far worse abuses
what incredible suspension of disbelief allows you to completely and utterly ignore the obvious and practical benefits of paying taxes?
i could call you low iq, because what you say is obviously unintelligent, but i am certain you are not a stupid person
what i want to know is how is it possible for you to have a mind, and yet encourage a behavior which you KNOW to be counter to the functioning of a society?
the need to pay taxes to support functions that you yourself take advantage of every day: its such a brain dead obvious observation. so i want to know how you can know this, yet somehow encourage a behavior which undermines those community functions
i know you are not stupid. so please come clean about why you believe what you say is coherent, when it obviously is not coherent
if china or al qaeda get information about where exoplanets are, its not like bin laden is going to go there to hide. there's little anyone can do about exoplanets right now except look at them, and it will be this way for generations to come
but if the scientific research were about nanotechnology or particle physics, meanwhile, i would expect everything to be censored, as it should be, even if funded with tax dollars
i applaud and endorse them ripping you off, and spitting in your food
be gracious to other human beings, no matter what their socioeconomic status, or suffer, and deserve, the same fate as marie antoinette, for the same reasons
this is not a western or capitalist smear job. communism simply results in dysfunction. it doesn't matter if the west is in love with communism or does everything it can to destroy it. the west doesn't matter. what matters is the intellectual failure of communism to accurately describe human behavior. communism will always fail, all on its own, all by itself
CREATE PROC QueryWithParams @a varchar(10) AS BEGIN SELECT field1, field2, field3, field4 FROM tables WHERE (@a="field1" AND field1 = True) OR (@a="field2" AND field2 = True) OR (@a="field3" AND field3 = True) OR (@a="field4" AND field4 = True) END
that's the use case i'm talking about. however, its clumsy. if you have 50 fields, you have a monstrosity
the problem being there is no simple way to say
WHERE @a=True
the idea being: the parameter is the name of the field you want tested
assuming scrubbed user input, how would one parameterize a field name? or rather, if this is not possible, what is the ingenious method i am not aware of for satisfying this common use case?
hysterical weirdness has a life of its own. it requires no manipulation by dark forces. unless the hysterical weirdness in question is the huge dose of paranoid schizophrenia you manifest above, in which case I AM YOUR MASTER, OBEY
i'll make you a deal: i'll make believe i didn't get the movie reference in your joke if you make believe you didn't make the joke, and we'll both make believe we never saw the movie. erase our memories as it were
But Iran is continually making progress and is totally absent any kind of total wackiness.
would you mind contextualizing this statement of yours please?
what i see is a nation that a year ago gave up all pretense to democracy, violently suppressed democracy and freedom activists, solidified the control of the government by its military wing, and continues to be de facto run by holy men, and is actively pursuing nuclear bombs
that's "total wackiness" in my book. how about yours?
Instead, they're the only nation in the world besides Israel able to rival our military technology.
and? so what? what is that supposed to mean?
either you support iran, or you don't. do you support iran, or not?
whether you do or do not support iran should, in a morally coherent mind, be completely independent of anything the usa or israel does. you should, for example, be able to hate israel, hate the usa, AND hate iran, if what drives you is intellectual honesty. unfortunately, there seems to be people in this world with so much hatred for israel and the usa that they are willing to excuse far worse crimes by far worse regimes. that sounds like you
meanwhile, this is the beginning of iran's constitution:
Article 1
The form of government of Iran is that of an Islamic Republic, endorsed by the people of Iran on the basis of their longstanding belief in the sovereignty of truth and Qur'anic justice, in the referendum of Farwardin 9 and 10 in the year 1358 of the solar Islamic calendar, corresponding to Jamadi al-'Awwal 1 and 2 in the year 1399 of the lunar Islamic calendar (March 29 and 30, 1979], through the affirmative vote of a majority of 98.2% of eligible voters, held after the victorious Islamic Revolution led by the eminent marji' al-taqlid, Ayatullah al-Uzma Imam Khumayni.
Article 2
The Islamic Republic is a system based on belief in:
1.the One God (as stated in the phrase "There is no god except Allah"), His exclusive sovereignty and the right to legislate, and the necessity of submission to His commands; 2.Divine revelation and its fundamental role in setting forth the laws; 3.the return to God in the Hereafter, and the constructive role of this belief in the course of man's ascent towards God; 4.the justice of God in creation and legislation; 5.continuous leadership (imamah) and perpetual guidance, and its fundamental role in ensuring the uninterrupted process of the revolution of Islam; 6.the exalted dignity and value of man, and his freedom coupled with responsibility before God; in which equity, justice, political, economic, social, and cultural independence, and national solidarity are secured by recourse to: 1.continuous ijtihad of the fuqaha' possessing necessary qualifications, exercised on the basis off the Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Ma'sumun, upon all of whom be peace;
and this is a country where democracy has just been trumped by the revolutionary guards, where now you can wonder whether the country is a military autocracy or a theocracy. either way, officially, a bunch of grumpy old men interpret the will of god, somehow, and they now have their fingers on nuclear bombs. i don't care if you love the usa, hate the usa, love israel, hate israel, but a nuclear armed theocracy cum military autocracy should bother the hell out of you
but instead we have fools like you, who so hate the usa or israel, that they are willing to embrace an entity far far worse
friend: why can't you hate israel, hate the usa, AND hate iran?
why does your hatred of the usa and israel so blind your faculties that you wind up embracing a nuclear armed theocracy?
holy men who say they have a monopoly on interpretting the will of god, with nuclear weapons, isn't something that bothers you? no matter what the usa or israel does?
i'm going to go over there and ram my steel tipped boot down your miserable motherfucking throat you fucking piece of shit, how dare you fucking imply this great nation is full of unstable hotheaded individuals you miserable shitsucking asswipe
if you are a troll, congratulations, that was the best synthetic moron i've seen in a while
if you are real: please, for the sake of humanity, don't have children. to say you are out of touch with a kindergartener's ability at compare and contrast and devoid of a firm grasp of reality is putting it mildly
and if you consider the new york times a biased propaganda tool of the military industrial complex, you can find the same story from many other sources around the world. the reality of the abuses of north korea make the usa look like a cupcake
there is a true us, and then there is a lesser them. you've just elevated yourself above other human beings as superior for reasons which are contrived: not unique to christianity and certainly not adhered to by christians, especially "real" (hypocritical) christians
as soon as you draw a line: a superior "us" versus an inferior "them", you've dehumanized, and implicitly excused abuses against those who are "inferior"
this is how every pogrom, inquisition, and crusade got started. with the thinking you've just written. and right now, some muslim is writing EXACTLY what you write, and thereby implicitly beginning the excusing for atrocities
the truth, we're all weak, we're all human, and some of us are weak and human... with a massive need to feel superior
so many of these fantasy utopian ideologies like libertarianism are formed in a void of any understanding of history or real human nature. to be a true libertarian you have to be a philosophy major in college with too many books and no social experience, or an angry unemployed 40 something behind on his alimony payments adopting a "philosophy" that justifies why so many people hate his selfish ass
the libertarian "charities will take care of it" fudge fill-in-the-gray-area is classic "i don't know a damn thing about human nature but my fundamentalism will work because i say so"
libertarianism is just as dangerous as communism, perhaps more so, because its a homegrown domestic fundamentalist stupidity
there would be no corruption of the government, there would simply be no government to corrupt. instead, corporations would do their deeds completely unimpeded
if sanity were in power, the corruption of government that we both despise would be rooted out and the government would continue its vital function of regulation and enforcement to keep corporate power in check
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you profit off the common good of communities, and you have the arrogance to believe that the money you make is through some sort of magic of your own
continue being a parasite, good for you. but don't make believe that the money in your bank account is anything else than an abstract representation of the wealth of a community (that you are not part of, and you do not contribute to: a parasite)
the money of the country in your bank account continues to stay wealthy (and therefore its abstract representation, its currency, continues to have value) only because they tax members of that community to maintain the health of that community
i would bet you don't have Haitian Gourdes or Somalian Shillings in your bank accounts. because those currencies represent communities that are not invested in or maintained. so they stay poor. however, i bet you have some euros, pounds, or dollars in your bank accounts. because those currencies are abstract representations of communities that protected, invested, and maintained, through taxes. so the full effect of your "ideology" is to argue for the devaulation of your own bank accounts. doesn't make much sense does it?
you have fallen through the cracks. good for you, enjoy your nomadic existence. but don't make believe what you are is anything more than that of a freeloader. give something back to that which you take from, or cease to be a valid commentator on that which you do not contribute to
what i am saying is that because you do not give to the communities we are members of, you have no right to comment on them, because you have no stakes in them, because you do not contribute to them. the amazing arrogance is that you think you still have a right to comment. you've given up the right to matter, by ceasing to contribute
the question is, why do you think corporations would act any better?
what i'm saying is: list every abuse by government you hate
ok, now do you not see that corporations would do every abuse you have listed, and MORE, since they are not accountable to anyone? at least the government is accountable to its citizens, so it can be CLEANED UP
instead, you want to destroy governments, thereby handing all the power to corporations
in other words: your complaints about government abuses are valid, and i agree with your complaints
but your solution to the problem creates a problem which is WORSE than what we currently have
you should CLEAN UP government, not DESTROY it
i hope you can see the wisdom in these words
which derive their income in ways that do not touch only one class of taxes. like income tax, or sales tax, or any other tax: the only fair tax is one which taxes all sort of revenue flows
the only FAIR tax system is a COMPLEX tax system, simply because society itself is complex, and always will be complex, in a rich society
if you simplify the tax code like you want, you basically let entire classes of employment in this country get away paying no taxes. is this fair in your mind?
obviously the tax code can be simplified, but you don't want it to be just simplified, you want it made over in a brutal fundamentalist way. not because you understand anything better than anyone else, but because you have a very crude oversimplistic hamfisted way of looking at the problem in front of you
in other words, for all of the abuses you complain about under the current tax code, the way you want to run things has far far worse abuses
what incredible suspension of disbelief allows you to completely and utterly ignore the obvious and practical benefits of paying taxes?
i could call you low iq, because what you say is obviously unintelligent, but i am certain you are not a stupid person
what i want to know is how is it possible for you to have a mind, and yet encourage a behavior which you KNOW to be counter to the functioning of a society?
the need to pay taxes to support functions that you yourself take advantage of every day: its such a brain dead obvious observation. so i want to know how you can know this, yet somehow encourage a behavior which undermines those community functions
i know you are not stupid. so please come clean about why you believe what you say is coherent, when it obviously is not coherent
if china or al qaeda get information about where exoplanets are, its not like bin laden is going to go there to hide. there's little anyone can do about exoplanets right now except look at them, and it will be this way for generations to come
but if the scientific research were about nanotechnology or particle physics, meanwhile, i would expect everything to be censored, as it should be, even if funded with tax dollars
like yours, for example
i stated it doesn't matter what the west believes, that communism fails on its own, so how can i be engaging in what you are describing?
especially since you yourself engaged in what you described in the post i am responding to?
are you capable of coherent thought?
i applaud and endorse them ripping you off, and spitting in your food
be gracious to other human beings, no matter what their socioeconomic status, or suffer, and deserve, the same fate as marie antoinette, for the same reasons
this is not a western or capitalist smear job. communism simply results in dysfunction. it doesn't matter if the west is in love with communism or does everything it can to destroy it. the west doesn't matter. what matters is the intellectual failure of communism to accurately describe human behavior. communism will always fail, all on its own, all by itself
that's my solution too, unfortunately. its not as fast as a parameterized query
what would be elegant though is if they allowed us to parameterize the names of fields
so we can do
WHERE field=@var
but it would be awesome to do
WHERE @var=True
that's my wish
that's clever
however that's not exactly the use case
so perhaps a mod:
CREATE PROC QueryWithParams
@a varchar(10)
AS
BEGIN
SELECT field1, field2, field3, field4
FROM tables
WHERE
(@a="field1" AND field1 = True) OR
(@a="field2" AND field2 = True) OR
(@a="field3" AND field3 = True) OR
(@a="field4" AND field4 = True)
END
that's the use case i'm talking about. however, its clumsy. if you have 50 fields, you have a monstrosity
the problem being there is no simple way to say
WHERE @a=True
the idea being: the parameter is the name of the field you want tested
assuming scrubbed user input, how would one parameterize a field name? or rather, if this is not possible, what is the ingenious method i am not aware of for satisfying this common use case?
hysterical weirdness has a life of its own. it requires no manipulation by dark forces. unless the hysterical weirdness in question is the huge dose of paranoid schizophrenia you manifest above, in which case I AM YOUR MASTER, OBEY
we should provide ourselves with a set of objects that would keep us out of danger without the objects having any obvious value
you can certainly parameterize like
SELECT * FROM blah WHERE [mybooleanfield]=@userinput
but sometimes i want the field i am checking to be variable
for example, say i have a dozen boolean fields, and i want to filter the result set based on the user choosing which boolean field to filter on
so i want SELECT * FROM blah WHERE @userinput=True
can't do that ;-(
i'll make you a deal: i'll make believe i didn't get the movie reference in your joke if you make believe you didn't make the joke, and we'll both make believe we never saw the movie. erase our memories as it were
But Iran is continually making progress and is totally absent any kind of total wackiness.
would you mind contextualizing this statement of yours please?
what i see is a nation that a year ago gave up all pretense to democracy, violently suppressed democracy and freedom activists, solidified the control of the government by its military wing, and continues to be de facto run by holy men, and is actively pursuing nuclear bombs
that's "total wackiness" in my book. how about yours?
Instead, they're the only nation in the world besides Israel able to rival our military technology.
and? so what? what is that supposed to mean?
either you support iran, or you don't. do you support iran, or not?
whether you do or do not support iran should, in a morally coherent mind, be completely independent of anything the usa or israel does. you should, for example, be able to hate israel, hate the usa, AND hate iran, if what drives you is intellectual honesty. unfortunately, there seems to be people in this world with so much hatred for israel and the usa that they are willing to excuse far worse crimes by far worse regimes. that sounds like you
you didn't happen to notice the military suppression of democracy activists exactly a year ago in iran?
the usa does plenty of evil in the world, and is full of bible thumping assholes, but this is its first amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/estabinto.htm
meanwhile, this is the beginning of iran's constitution:
http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/government/constitution-1.html
and this is a country where democracy has just been trumped by the revolutionary guards, where now you can wonder whether the country is a military autocracy or a theocracy. either way, officially, a bunch of grumpy old men interpret the will of god, somehow, and they now have their fingers on nuclear bombs. i don't care if you love the usa, hate the usa, love israel, hate israel, but a nuclear armed theocracy cum military autocracy should bother the hell out of you
but instead we have fools like you, who so hate the usa or israel, that they are willing to embrace an entity far far worse
friend: why can't you hate israel, hate the usa, AND hate iran?
why does your hatred of the usa and israel so blind your faculties that you wind up embracing a nuclear armed theocracy?
holy men who say they have a monopoly on interpretting the will of god, with nuclear weapons, isn't something that bothers you? no matter what the usa or israel does?
i'm going to go over there and ram my steel tipped boot down your miserable motherfucking throat you fucking piece of shit, how dare you fucking imply this great nation is full of unstable hotheaded individuals you miserable shitsucking asswipe
if you are a troll, congratulations, that was the best synthetic moron i've seen in a while
if you are real: please, for the sake of humanity, don't have children. to say you are out of touch with a kindergartener's ability at compare and contrast and devoid of a firm grasp of reality is putting it mildly
here, read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/world/asia/10koreans.html
and if you consider the new york times a biased propaganda tool of the military industrial complex, you can find the same story from many other sources around the world. the reality of the abuses of north korea make the usa look like a cupcake
i'm not kidding
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2482/are-camp-lanterns-radioactive
there is a true us, and then there is a lesser them. you've just elevated yourself above other human beings as superior for reasons which are contrived: not unique to christianity and certainly not adhered to by christians, especially "real" (hypocritical) christians
as soon as you draw a line: a superior "us" versus an inferior "them", you've dehumanized, and implicitly excused abuses against those who are "inferior"
this is how every pogrom, inquisition, and crusade got started. with the thinking you've just written. and right now, some muslim is writing EXACTLY what you write, and thereby implicitly beginning the excusing for atrocities
the truth, we're all weak, we're all human, and some of us are weak and human... with a massive need to feel superior
so many of these fantasy utopian ideologies like libertarianism are formed in a void of any understanding of history or real human nature. to be a true libertarian you have to be a philosophy major in college with too many books and no social experience, or an angry unemployed 40 something behind on his alimony payments adopting a "philosophy" that justifies why so many people hate his selfish ass
the libertarian "charities will take care of it" fudge fill-in-the-gray-area is classic "i don't know a damn thing about human nature but my fundamentalism will work because i say so"
libertarianism is just as dangerous as communism, perhaps more so, because its a homegrown domestic fundamentalist stupidity
there would be no corruption of the government, there would simply be no government to corrupt. instead, corporations would do their deeds completely unimpeded
if sanity were in power, the corruption of government that we both despise would be rooted out and the government would continue its vital function of regulation and enforcement to keep corporate power in check
now what again am i not ready to understand?
try to draw an equivalency between north korea and the usa
it would be hilarious, if you weren't being so serious
the usa has committed plenty of crimes, and continues to do so, and you should castigate the usa for that
but dude: you fail at reality if you fail to see that north korea is well beyond the usa in the evil behavior department. really