"christian. and buddhist, and muslim, and jewish and sikh and jain and hindu and... all of it"
i'm inspired by all of it. there's no use in denying any of it, just revel in it, all of it. its just goofy stories you can be alternately inspired or amused by
the only problem with religion is when you say "i'm {pick a religion}, and its the only valid one." or imply that thought without outright saying it: an arrogant haughty sense of privilege and superiority can be seen dripping from your face like a wound, behind that smilesmirk. and that attitude is, actually, a spiritual wound
at that point, you're pretty much the source of all that is wrong with this world, and, as an ambassador of your religion, you've just made your religion odious and disgusting to all outsiders
as well as missing out on some really good inspiring stuff by excluding from your life experience the stories of other religions you've closed your mind to out of nothing but a weak character flaw: blind pride
people play identity politics with religion. even (and especially) atheists. and its all so silly and empty and vapid. full of buffoonery and irrelevant chest thumping
just be ALL religions, and nip the issue in the bud once and for all
which is inevitable as the economies improve, and with brazil, india, china, etc. beginning to consume gasoline like the west and with oil only getting deeper and deeper
it will be amazing how all of the nuanced negatives with reactors will fade away when the rules of economic reality come into play
2015, 2020: "why didn't we build these things awhile ago!"
your wallet, cash and credit cards: just swipe your cellphone
your house keys: just swipe your cellphone
your computer: the latest generation of cellphones rival desktops or laptops from 5 years ago, and surpass them in terms of functionality
your gps, your toll booth tag, your subway card, your taxes... everything
kids will get them when they enter kindergarten (and parents will watch their location). you'll carry a cellphone from cradle to grave, and won't be able to live in civilization without one
you practically won't even know your own name without a cellphone, or be able to organize your life, or be able to function in society
the problem is that this makes the cell phone absolutely essential, and therefore the privacy concerns will butt heads with the cellphone's unrivaled functionality, and so most people won't even blink
the only protection from this is a legal framework. no technological solution can exist: you're either on the network, or you're not. and if you are on the network, they control the entry to the network, they set the terms about what device you use, and therefore they own you
i suppose some wifi only concept will exist, but its functionality will be greatly reduced, and the networks will ensure that free wifi won't threaten their dominance
some sort of competition between providers will help keep them honest, so we don't want the world to be swallowed by verizon. but of course the government will be able to snoop on everything, and so, as i said before, only legal limitations on the government's power can possibly curtail this (and even then, they'll snoop with provisions for "reasonable" suspicion or "terrorist related" activity)
inevitable conclusion: the cell phone will kill the concept of privacy in modern society, and functioning in modern society will be impossible without a cellphone
recent tech from germany, many generations technologically removed form the 1960s era tech all of our china syndrome fears are based on
air cooled, passive safety system. there is no failure that can cause an accident, because anything and everything can fail and nothing bad will happen: you can just walk away from a pebble bed reactor, they are foolproof
the only issue is terrorism (not as in bombing the plant, but as in stealing fissile material and placing it in times square), so you need a really good inventory security apparatus
nuclear+electric cars is obviously the solution to our environmental, energy, and geopolitical problems
in toronto and montreal, they started building malls underground, and linking them up, so now you can practically roam the entire downtowns of these cities, all underground
in the distant future, us heroic stoic freedom fighting american movie hero archetypes will have to face invasions of the evolutionary future: the fearsome greater northern Canadian Humanoid Underground Dwellers
there is a fake me out there, with a fake name, a fake birthday, a fake home address, a fake mother's maiden name, a fake birth city, fake likes and dislikes, etc. every time i am asked for this info online, i consistently and continually use the fake alter ego
is that the crankiest, dumbest, lamest voices are also the loudest voices, on any issue
this PTC group consists of a handful of assholes who have self-appointed themselves as spokespeople for the rest of us, for our common decency, when the only thing they represent is a small shrill fringe of intrusive overcontrollling twatstains
12:45 interrupt: preemptive googlebot legal log crawler has identified a high criminal behavior correlation index in session id #4ddr-tg62-hh89. log and ip address forwarded to google-inbox@fbi.gov
who develop these attack vectors used half of their creativity on a legitimate purpose, they'd make 10x the money and earn it completely honestly
i mean this is a brilliant attack. so, whoever thought this up, why aren't you making millions in a respectable way? you obviously have the brains to do that
yes, most people would take the hint they aren't wanted/ needed/ liked, and walk away
but we're in a situation where we are usually dealing with characters with truly awful personalities
miserable vindictiveness might be the only reason they wake up in the morning. being honest with them, telling them the real reason they're being fired: "you have a horrible social disease, your attitude and personality are truly frightening" might just coalesce their entire purpose in life to punishing you for speaking the truth to them
honesty is not always the best policy. especially when dealing with certain people where an honest appraisal of their personalities just makes them go postal on you. some people walk around with a massive chip on their shoulder, just waiting for it to be knocked off
i've been privy to plenty of firing situations where incompetence/ a horrible attitude problem was the real issue, and the official reason was whatever they could trump up
why can't people use this amazing mental ability called compare and contrast when deriving their various lofty opinions?
the usa has plenty of problems. obviously. and don't you think any of the places you list don't have problems of their own, some of them obviously quite worse? some of them quite different? some of them leaving you just as angry and baffled as the problems in the usa? some of them just as complicated and difficult to solve as those in the usa?
furthermore, if you have a problem with a policy in your home country, instead of fleeing somewhere else, you should stay and fight for what you believe in. you're a sort of ideological parasite if you desire a certain social or legal standard, but instead of actually putting in the hard work to achieve it, you run away and instead depend upon people you don't even know in a foreign country to work hard to give you the rights and freedoms you desire
if you run off to canada and spout off to a canadian about supposed canadian superiority about this or that issue, the canadian isn't going to look at you admiringly and embrace and welcome you as some sort of secret brother in arms. no, they're going to go "well that's great that you say that. so why don't you not freeload off me here, and go back home and fight for that superior understanding you share with me, so we have a nicer neighbor to our south, okay?"
it says a lot about your supposed lofty standards that you won't even fight for them. you just run away when challenged. this is not ideological superiority, this is character weakness
imagine hypothetical ideology X. guess what: nowhere, ever, on any place in the world, will ideology X exist, unless someone actually stands their ground and fights for ideology X. if instead, the mass of believers in ideology X are only about running away and fleeing at the slightest menace to their much vaunted (and empty) beliefs, then ideology X isn't a real ideology at all, just some daydream of a philosophy student with little real world experience with actual human beings
expats, whether to the usa, or from the usa, or from any country {X} to any country {Y}, to me, you're just a coward. fight for what you believe in, and fight it where you are from. the world is never going to improve if the best keep leaving their home countries
and yes, in some places, like iran, that means you are facing certain death. if you are fleeing a truly horrible regime like in iran, that will torture and kill you for defying them, then you get a pass according to me, i don't criticize you. because i know you will continue to fight: the iranian expat community continues the struggle as best they can for their home country, because fighting from afar is weak, but its better than being dead
but, the wanker in the comment above, this is the kind of person who would never stand his ground and fight against a regime like in iran. he'll shit all over the horrid west, but if he were iranian, with his character, he would flee and cower somewhere else, never fight for the rights he says are so dear to him... in word only. or he would stay in tehran and dutifully obey every edict of the theocracy in iran, because the wanker i am responding to is obviously a spineless coward with no real allegiance to any true ideology
and right now, we must contrast such a flighty wanker with real freedom fighters, dying in iranian prisons right now, because they dare defy the regime and try to express freedoms we take for granted in the west every day
such true freedom fighters, young people with real ideals and real ideology, paying for those beliefs in their own blood and death: those dying in iranian prisons right now, in prison simply for saying what they believe, these iranians understand exactly what my comment here is all about
and would have nothing but disgust for the spineless wanker i am responding to
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are those who have to show up in a thread about lost and bash the show
i never got the show, but obsession with the show is completely harmless. i don't hold it against anyone
what bother me is people who don't like the show... but have to come in and shit all over someone else's harmless enjoyments
we all have our quirky likes and dislikes that are easy to ridicule or put down. so what? most socially well-adjusted folk don't have an irrational need to pick on others. if you do have such a need, this reveals nothing about lost, it reveals something about yourself: a poverty of character and some sort of unresolved self-hatred and self-loathing. lose your pathetic need to go out of your way to menace other people's harmless hobbies
oh who am i kidding... this is the internet. mindless negativity seems like that's what the internet was created for
carry on then, aggressively ultranegative losers. the internet is yours, unfortunately
hopefully a warning, an alternative reality future, where social conservatives overwhelm the usa: flight by hypocritical americans to canada for abortions
in reality today, daughters of conservative politicians just go to more liberal areas of the usa to have their abortions today anonymously, not canada
but in a future where the usa is overrun by the zombified morons of social conservativism, that is what is going to happen, as well as other challenges to canadian integrity. man the bulwarks, canucks
and i would respond by saying that a society lorded over by social conservatives is better than a society without any standards
in other words, i understand your point, but you don't understand mine
yes, you need standards. but what i am asking for are standards that take in actual truth of human nature. for example: "teenagers: use protection when you have sex." that's a standard, and it recognizes teenagers will have sex no matter what you do. and when they do have sex, they won't get stds and get pregnant
but a social conservative will say: "teenagers: just don't have sex." but then they do anyway, that's what teenagers do. and because you haven't prepared for it, you get teenagers with clamydia and babies. in fact, in traditionally social conservative areas of the united states, teenage birthrates are higher than more liberal areas. what does that tell you? just look at sarah palin's daughter: my point is right up there for all to see about the failure of social conservative teachings: it doesn't stop teenagers from having sex. the desire for teenagers to explore their budding sexuality is a hardwired biological desire that no morality will ever overcome, or ever should try to overcome. if sarah palin had liberal leanings, she would have given her daughter a condom, and there would be no teenage mother up on stage with sarah palin screaming as a symbol for anyone with a true moral compass: "HYPOCRISY"
the point is NOT to have no standards. lack of responsibility, accountability, and outright evil trangressive criminality are horrible, and yes, are worse than social conservativism, i agree with that. a society with horrible crude abusive social conservative standards IS better than no standards at all
what i am asking is not to excuse the inexcusable, to have no standards, what i am asking is to have the RIGHT standards, which are often more complex, involve recognizing certain aspects of human nature you don't want to admit, and incorporate those realizations into your principles
for example: it is not lack of responsibility, lack of accountability, or criminal transgressive behavior when two men or two women have sex. so why prosecute people who do so? why tell teenagers sex is bad? homosexuality or teenagers having sex IS NOT WRONG. but social conservatism tells us they ARE bad. that is homosexuality is criminal. that teenagers having sex is irresponsible. but the genuine truth is that homosexuality is COMPLETELY NORMAL AND OK and that teenagers having sex IS COMPLETELY NORMAL AND OK
you look at me and see someone who is trying to destroy morality. no: i am making morality BETTER. we NEED morality. what we don't need is simpleminded social conservative morality, we NEED BETTER MORE INTELLIGENT MORALITY
look, i'm all for privacy, but too many expect the impossible
even if google publicly announced it was keeping no logs, this wouldn't be good enough for some people. you'd complain about something, anything. because you want to complain, not because you have anything useful to say
some people's standards are too insane
look: if you go to the store, and buy a can of coke, someone knows you went and bought a can of coke. deal wtih it, that's life: you leak personal info all the time in disjointed ways. there is some exposure you get just for living, your privacy is inherently compromised just by the facts of life, and you just need to be comfortable with it, because a more flexible approach results in benefits, such as being able to use a search engine. yes, you expose your thoughts. yes, you get links to what you want to think about it. its a tradeoff, and its a fundamental one you are not going to get around. so just accept it
look: google's ssl search is WONDERFUL, AMAZING. so celebrate, and be thankful
but no, instead you find something to still complain about, which makes you just another impossible to satisfy whiner, not useful or insightful about anything
realism and practicality trumps naive idealism, on every issue
social conservatism is all about a simplistic model of human behavior: teenagers, just don't have sex, homosexuals, just stop being homosexual, just say no to drugs, etc.
ironically, social conservatives always wind up breaking their own principles. just examine the folly of anti-homosexual activists found in homosexual situations form throughout history, especially recent, for examples. and you can bet the daughters of politicians who rail against abortion are secretly flown to canada when a "problem" happens
social conservatism is always "do as i say, not as i do". and there isn't really any malice in their simple-mindedness. most of them sincerely believe their own dunderheaded takes on human nature, and then wind up paying the price for their simpleminded edicts on human behavior
human nature is complex, and when forced into simplistic models, you just wind up causing more suffering than you are attempting to stop. this isn't an attempt to excuse lack of responsibility or criminal activity, its a simple obvious statement that the real world is more complex than very simpleminded teachings
social conservatives are not evil, they're just stupid
assuming you are in windows, highlight it and hit ctrl-c, then hit ctrl-v
define to me the cost involved
it does not matter that someone says mp3s are worth 1 cent each or 2 trillion dollars each. i am not talking about what you think they are worth. i am not talking about what i think they are worth. i am talking about what THEY ARE ACTUALLY WORTH
so we have your poorly thought out ideology. and we have my simple economic reality. you tell me who is going to win this contest
Slashdot Mirror
when someone asks what my religion i am, i say
"christian. and buddhist, and muslim, and jewish and sikh and jain and hindu and... all of it"
i'm inspired by all of it. there's no use in denying any of it, just revel in it, all of it. its just goofy stories you can be alternately inspired or amused by
the only problem with religion is when you say "i'm {pick a religion}, and its the only valid one." or imply that thought without outright saying it: an arrogant haughty sense of privilege and superiority can be seen dripping from your face like a wound, behind that smilesmirk. and that attitude is, actually, a spiritual wound
at that point, you're pretty much the source of all that is wrong with this world, and, as an ambassador of your religion, you've just made your religion odious and disgusting to all outsiders
as well as missing out on some really good inspiring stuff by excluding from your life experience the stories of other religions you've closed your mind to out of nothing but a weak character flaw: blind pride
people play identity politics with religion. even (and especially) atheists. and its all so silly and empty and vapid. full of buffoonery and irrelevant chest thumping
just be ALL religions, and nip the issue in the bud once and for all
is to riff upon the concepts of intelligence, education, creativity, mobility, and technology
basically, you can say just about anything within that huge scattershot area... and signify absolutely no thought of any value whatsoever
just about when gasoline hits $10/gallon
which is inevitable as the economies improve, and with brazil, india, china, etc. beginning to consume gasoline like the west and with oil only getting deeper and deeper
it will be amazing how all of the nuanced negatives with reactors will fade away when the rules of economic reality come into play
2015, 2020: "why didn't we build these things awhile ago!"
pffft
mankind seems to be short on foresight
your wallet, cash and credit cards: just swipe your cellphone
your house keys: just swipe your cellphone
your computer: the latest generation of cellphones rival desktops or laptops from 5 years ago, and surpass them in terms of functionality
your gps, your toll booth tag, your subway card, your taxes... everything
kids will get them when they enter kindergarten (and parents will watch their location). you'll carry a cellphone from cradle to grave, and won't be able to live in civilization without one
you practically won't even know your own name without a cellphone, or be able to organize your life, or be able to function in society
the problem is that this makes the cell phone absolutely essential, and therefore the privacy concerns will butt heads with the cellphone's unrivaled functionality, and so most people won't even blink
the only protection from this is a legal framework. no technological solution can exist: you're either on the network, or you're not. and if you are on the network, they control the entry to the network, they set the terms about what device you use, and therefore they own you
i suppose some wifi only concept will exist, but its functionality will be greatly reduced, and the networks will ensure that free wifi won't threaten their dominance
some sort of competition between providers will help keep them honest, so we don't want the world to be swallowed by verizon. but of course the government will be able to snoop on everything, and so, as i said before, only legal limitations on the government's power can possibly curtail this (and even then, they'll snoop with provisions for "reasonable" suspicion or "terrorist related" activity)
inevitable conclusion: the cell phone will kill the concept of privacy in modern society, and functioning in modern society will be impossible without a cellphone
ugly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor
recent tech from germany, many generations technologically removed form the 1960s era tech all of our china syndrome fears are based on
air cooled, passive safety system. there is no failure that can cause an accident, because anything and everything can fail and nothing bad will happen: you can just walk away from a pebble bed reactor, they are foolproof
the only issue is terrorism (not as in bombing the plant, but as in stealing fissile material and placing it in times square), so you need a really good inventory security apparatus
nuclear+electric cars is obviously the solution to our environmental, energy, and geopolitical problems
you mean in the autumn?
or in the spectacular screaming descent towards land?
they would spend billions on a potentially game-altering piece of technology and just let it drop into the open ocean and forget about it?
where any nation with a submarine can retrieve it and copy it?
i can't believe that to be the case
seriously
in toronto and montreal, they started building malls underground, and linking them up, so now you can practically roam the entire downtowns of these cities, all underground
in the distant future, us heroic stoic freedom fighting american movie hero archetypes will have to face invasions of the evolutionary future: the fearsome greater northern Canadian Humanoid Underground Dwellers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D.
it works both ways, for the mother too
you carry some cells of your mother's genetic profile, and your mother carries some cells of your genetic profile
i wonder how long after birth these genetic transfers persist?
years maybe? a cell or two here and there?
weird for the father too: have a child with a woman, and something with half of your genetic profile persists in her body
a little in the spleen there... a little in the brain here
creepy
the future os is the browser
the future os programming language is javascript
enjoy!
there is a fake me out there, with a fake name, a fake birthday, a fake home address, a fake mother's maiden name, a fake birth city, fake likes and dislikes, etc. every time i am asked for this info online, i consistently and continually use the fake alter ego
this is the future of privacy: aliases
is that the crankiest, dumbest, lamest voices are also the loudest voices, on any issue
this PTC group consists of a handful of assholes who have self-appointed themselves as spokespeople for the rest of us, for our common decency, when the only thing they represent is a small shrill fringe of intrusive overcontrollling twatstains
session id #4ddr-tg62-hh89
12:30 https initiated begin session
12:31 "divorce lawyer"
12:34 "divorce lawyer low cost"
12:34 "hitman hire"
12:36 "hitman low cost"
12:37 "assassination do-it-yourself"
12:40 "polonium-210 availability"
12:41 "legal anthrax"
12:41 "ricin suppliers"
12:42 "arsenic wholesale"
12:43 "legal mustard gas"
12:43 "cheap readily available poisons"
12:46 "antifreeze toxicity"
12:49 "brainstorming murder scenarios"
12:52 "how to run hose from exhaust to passenger compartment"
12:55 "wits end"
12:41 "chloroform wholesalers"
12:45 "shovel hacksaw garbage bags"
12:45 interrupt: preemptive googlebot legal log crawler has identified a high criminal behavior correlation index in session id #4ddr-tg62-hh89. log and ip address forwarded to google-inbox@fbi.gov
1:05 "stalling law enforcement"
1:06 "good indoor hiding places"
1:06 "proper handgun usage"
1:26 session timed out
who develop these attack vectors used half of their creativity on a legitimate purpose, they'd make 10x the money and earn it completely honestly
i mean this is a brilliant attack. so, whoever thought this up, why aren't you making millions in a respectable way? you obviously have the brains to do that
some people just have to be assholes
yes, most people would take the hint they aren't wanted/ needed/ liked, and walk away
but we're in a situation where we are usually dealing with characters with truly awful personalities
miserable vindictiveness might be the only reason they wake up in the morning. being honest with them, telling them the real reason they're being fired: "you have a horrible social disease, your attitude and personality are truly frightening" might just coalesce their entire purpose in life to punishing you for speaking the truth to them
honesty is not always the best policy. especially when dealing with certain people where an honest appraisal of their personalities just makes them go postal on you. some people walk around with a massive chip on their shoulder, just waiting for it to be knocked off
i've been privy to plenty of firing situations where incompetence/ a horrible attitude problem was the real issue, and the official reason was whatever they could trump up
why can't people use this amazing mental ability called compare and contrast when deriving their various lofty opinions?
the usa has plenty of problems. obviously. and don't you think any of the places you list don't have problems of their own, some of them obviously quite worse? some of them quite different? some of them leaving you just as angry and baffled as the problems in the usa? some of them just as complicated and difficult to solve as those in the usa?
furthermore, if you have a problem with a policy in your home country, instead of fleeing somewhere else, you should stay and fight for what you believe in. you're a sort of ideological parasite if you desire a certain social or legal standard, but instead of actually putting in the hard work to achieve it, you run away and instead depend upon people you don't even know in a foreign country to work hard to give you the rights and freedoms you desire
if you run off to canada and spout off to a canadian about supposed canadian superiority about this or that issue, the canadian isn't going to look at you admiringly and embrace and welcome you as some sort of secret brother in arms. no, they're going to go "well that's great that you say that. so why don't you not freeload off me here, and go back home and fight for that superior understanding you share with me, so we have a nicer neighbor to our south, okay?"
it says a lot about your supposed lofty standards that you won't even fight for them. you just run away when challenged. this is not ideological superiority, this is character weakness
imagine hypothetical ideology X. guess what: nowhere, ever, on any place in the world, will ideology X exist, unless someone actually stands their ground and fights for ideology X. if instead, the mass of believers in ideology X are only about running away and fleeing at the slightest menace to their much vaunted (and empty) beliefs, then ideology X isn't a real ideology at all, just some daydream of a philosophy student with little real world experience with actual human beings
expats, whether to the usa, or from the usa, or from any country {X} to any country {Y}, to me, you're just a coward. fight for what you believe in, and fight it where you are from. the world is never going to improve if the best keep leaving their home countries
and yes, in some places, like iran, that means you are facing certain death. if you are fleeing a truly horrible regime like in iran, that will torture and kill you for defying them, then you get a pass according to me, i don't criticize you. because i know you will continue to fight: the iranian expat community continues the struggle as best they can for their home country, because fighting from afar is weak, but its better than being dead
but, the wanker in the comment above, this is the kind of person who would never stand his ground and fight against a regime like in iran. he'll shit all over the horrid west, but if he were iranian, with his character, he would flee and cower somewhere else, never fight for the rights he says are so dear to him... in word only. or he would stay in tehran and dutifully obey every edict of the theocracy in iran, because the wanker i am responding to is obviously a spineless coward with no real allegiance to any true ideology
and right now, we must contrast such a flighty wanker with real freedom fighters, dying in iranian prisons right now, because they dare defy the regime and try to express freedoms we take for granted in the west every day
such true freedom fighters, young people with real ideals and real ideology, paying for those beliefs in their own blood and death: those dying in iranian prisons right now, in prison simply for saying what they believe, these iranians understand exactly what my comment here is all about
and would have nothing but disgust for the spineless wanker i am responding to
are those who have to show up in a thread about lost and bash the show
i never got the show, but obsession with the show is completely harmless. i don't hold it against anyone
what bother me is people who don't like the show... but have to come in and shit all over someone else's harmless enjoyments
we all have our quirky likes and dislikes that are easy to ridicule or put down. so what? most socially well-adjusted folk don't have an irrational need to pick on others. if you do have such a need, this reveals nothing about lost, it reveals something about yourself: a poverty of character and some sort of unresolved self-hatred and self-loathing. lose your pathetic need to go out of your way to menace other people's harmless hobbies
oh who am i kidding... this is the internet. mindless negativity seems like that's what the internet was created for
carry on then, aggressively ultranegative losers. the internet is yours, unfortunately
hopefully a warning, an alternative reality future, where social conservatives overwhelm the usa: flight by hypocritical americans to canada for abortions
in reality today, daughters of conservative politicians just go to more liberal areas of the usa to have their abortions today anonymously, not canada
but in a future where the usa is overrun by the zombified morons of social conservativism, that is what is going to happen, as well as other challenges to canadian integrity. man the bulwarks, canucks
and i would respond by saying that a society lorded over by social conservatives is better than a society without any standards
in other words, i understand your point, but you don't understand mine
yes, you need standards. but what i am asking for are standards that take in actual truth of human nature. for example: "teenagers: use protection when you have sex." that's a standard, and it recognizes teenagers will have sex no matter what you do. and when they do have sex, they won't get stds and get pregnant
but a social conservative will say: "teenagers: just don't have sex." but then they do anyway, that's what teenagers do. and because you haven't prepared for it, you get teenagers with clamydia and babies. in fact, in traditionally social conservative areas of the united states, teenage birthrates are higher than more liberal areas. what does that tell you? just look at sarah palin's daughter: my point is right up there for all to see about the failure of social conservative teachings: it doesn't stop teenagers from having sex. the desire for teenagers to explore their budding sexuality is a hardwired biological desire that no morality will ever overcome, or ever should try to overcome. if sarah palin had liberal leanings, she would have given her daughter a condom, and there would be no teenage mother up on stage with sarah palin screaming as a symbol for anyone with a true moral compass: "HYPOCRISY"
the point is NOT to have no standards. lack of responsibility, accountability, and outright evil trangressive criminality are horrible, and yes, are worse than social conservativism, i agree with that. a society with horrible crude abusive social conservative standards IS better than no standards at all
what i am asking is not to excuse the inexcusable, to have no standards, what i am asking is to have the RIGHT standards, which are often more complex, involve recognizing certain aspects of human nature you don't want to admit, and incorporate those realizations into your principles
for example: it is not lack of responsibility, lack of accountability, or criminal transgressive behavior when two men or two women have sex. so why prosecute people who do so? why tell teenagers sex is bad? homosexuality or teenagers having sex IS NOT WRONG. but social conservatism tells us they ARE bad. that is homosexuality is criminal. that teenagers having sex is irresponsible. but the genuine truth is that homosexuality is COMPLETELY NORMAL AND OK and that teenagers having sex IS COMPLETELY NORMAL AND OK
you look at me and see someone who is trying to destroy morality. no: i am making morality BETTER. we NEED morality. what we don't need is simpleminded social conservative morality, we NEED BETTER MORE INTELLIGENT MORALITY
look, i'm all for privacy, but too many expect the impossible
even if google publicly announced it was keeping no logs, this wouldn't be good enough for some people. you'd complain about something, anything. because you want to complain, not because you have anything useful to say
some people's standards are too insane
look: if you go to the store, and buy a can of coke, someone knows you went and bought a can of coke. deal wtih it, that's life: you leak personal info all the time in disjointed ways. there is some exposure you get just for living, your privacy is inherently compromised just by the facts of life, and you just need to be comfortable with it, because a more flexible approach results in benefits, such as being able to use a search engine. yes, you expose your thoughts. yes, you get links to what you want to think about it. its a tradeoff, and its a fundamental one you are not going to get around. so just accept it
look: google's ssl search is WONDERFUL, AMAZING. so celebrate, and be thankful
but no, instead you find something to still complain about, which makes you just another impossible to satisfy whiner, not useful or insightful about anything
realism and practicality trumps naive idealism, on every issue
social conservatism is all about a simplistic model of human behavior: teenagers, just don't have sex, homosexuals, just stop being homosexual, just say no to drugs, etc.
ironically, social conservatives always wind up breaking their own principles. just examine the folly of anti-homosexual activists found in homosexual situations form throughout history, especially recent, for examples. and you can bet the daughters of politicians who rail against abortion are secretly flown to canada when a "problem" happens
social conservatism is always "do as i say, not as i do". and there isn't really any malice in their simple-mindedness. most of them sincerely believe their own dunderheaded takes on human nature, and then wind up paying the price for their simpleminded edicts on human behavior
human nature is complex, and when forced into simplistic models, you just wind up causing more suffering than you are attempting to stop. this isn't an attempt to excuse lack of responsibility or criminal activity, its a simple obvious statement that the real world is more complex than very simpleminded teachings
social conservatives are not evil, they're just stupid
an asteroid 5-10 km in diameter is roughly 40-160 cubic library of congresses
take an mp3
assuming you are in windows, highlight it and hit ctrl-c, then hit ctrl-v
define to me the cost involved
it does not matter that someone says mp3s are worth 1 cent each or 2 trillion dollars each. i am not talking about what you think they are worth. i am not talking about what i think they are worth. i am talking about what THEY ARE ACTUALLY WORTH
so we have your poorly thought out ideology. and we have my simple economic reality. you tell me who is going to win this contest
adapt, or die
thinking outside the box!