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  1. somalia on The Far-Reaching Effects of Comcast v FCC · · Score: 1

    you ignorant moron

    that's what you get

    no government=no security, no stability, no progress, no prosperity, no education

    its mad max

    furthermore, government is self-creating. its an inevitable byproduct of humans in groups to regulate the group. if you magically removed all the governments in the world, after a period of great suffering, governments would reemerge

    all your words signify is that you are woefully out of touch with the reality of human nature

    you're just... dumb

  2. lol on The Far-Reaching Effects of Comcast v FCC · · Score: 1

    you imagine society and civilization is possible without government

    for your sake, i hope you are 13 years old, with a lot to learn in front of you. any older, and you're simply low iq

  3. michael mann? on Virginia AG Probing Michael Mann For Fraud · · Score: 1

    look, i know james cameron has been accused of politicization of environmental issues with avatar, but i struggle to understand what "public enemies", "miami vice", "heat", or "last of the mohicans" is offensive to right wing demagogues in the employ of oil companies

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mann_(director)#Filmography

  4. i stopped reading here on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "For example, legalizing marijuana isn't going to take drug profits away from organized crime; they'll just sell more hard drugs"

    this is low iq crap. you're root problem is your just not a very bright person

    but you keep on believing the policy is the problem, not the substance itself. go on with your bad self. you're not the first moron who draws breath and spouts nonsense, you won't be the last. when it comes to drug policy, you're an idiot, and you hurt yourself and those around with your ignorant beliefs

  5. what is racist about what i am saying? on Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes · · Score: 1, Insightful

    there isn't a shred anything remotely racist in anything i said. the tragedy is someone modded you up for hurling a smear which is completely bullshit

    and the rest of your post, you are responding to some sort of bogeyman that resembles absolutely nothing about what i said. try talking to me and what i say, instead of the demons in your head which i don't actually resemble, asshole

  6. lol on Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    it seems that you somehow believe that your grasp on reality and history is superior to mine. i await your indoctrination into the tired narrative of one side or the other being the malevolent player, and other such propaganda for low iq tools

  7. absolutely on The Far-Reaching Effects of Comcast v FCC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but i am not "refining" threats to capitalism or democracy, i am clarifying

    because currently there is a lot of fud out there that it is the government itself which is the enemy, when we both know that is a red herring

    if the people who believe that fud could see that (bought and paid for) demagogues are redirecting their righteous anger in the wrong direction, then maybe we could finally pull the curtain back and see the wizard for what he is

    financial influence in a democratic system warps and weakens it. we both see this. so let's keep hammering that point home so the fools who believe the blame lies somewhere else for our troubles wake the fuck up from their tea party delusions. their anger is valid. where they are directing their anger is invalid

  8. that's a nice strawman on Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    would you like to address what i actually said? or are you only capable of thinking in simpleminded extremes of position that have nothing to do with my actual words?

    the world is complicated, the middle east is involved in the west and west is involved in the middle east. nothing will ever change that

    so talking about binary choices is not something i am doing. it is what you are doing. you are criticizing me for a position i am not taking. you are criticizing me for a simpleminded interpretation of the world that only exists in your head. because your perceptual abilities are crude and limited

  9. so what would you have the west do? on Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    back out of the middle east?

    ok

    and the madmen in the middle east will do what then?

    celebrate and go to sleep?

    you suffer from a strange blindness

    they are not going away. and not opposing them means they only grow stronger. and they do intend you and your values harm. this really is the truth. you cannot solve this problem by avoiding it

    the substance of your complaint seems to be the death of civilians. which is a valid complaint, and the west does not desire those deaths. so the west should work mor eto avoid such deaths, i agree with that. but what is the other choice?

    in reality, real choices are not simple ones between rainbow unicorns and horrible violence. in the real world, its complicated grey areas between horrible violence and maybe a little less horrible violence. recognize reality, and see the west needs ot be involved in the middle east, because there are men in the middle east who most certainly are involved in the west. then form a coherent opinion. currently you represent nothing but simplemindedness, ignorance and naivete

  10. corporatism is not capitalism on The Far-Reaching Effects of Comcast v FCC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    in fact, any student of economic history knows that corporatism, monopolies, oligopolies are greater threats to capitalism than socialism or communism ever could be

    the libertarian naivete that a free market of equals is a natural balance and that governments can only interfere in that is nonsense

    the truth is that some players in the free market grow and begin to use their heft to suppress smaller players. this is completely natural. the way to fight that is to have a government with strong regulatory powers to enforce equality amongst 800 pound gorillas and tiny players. you want to be taxed to do this, and you want the "bureaucracy" that does this. or you will suffer far more than any inefficiency or waste in the government. fight the inefficiency and waste in government, don't fight government itself

    insomuch as the government is merely a tool of the big time players is the extent which corporate dollars warp and infect and corrupt the government that is supposed to regulate them

    in other words, if you are a true believer in capitalism, you will lose your libertarian naivete and insist on a strong regulatory government to keep the marketplace healthy

    and you will recognize the greatest threat to capitalism is not the government, it is corporations and their corruption OF government

    stop fighting government. start fighting corporations, or more exactly, the immoral infuence of corporate dollars on a government that is supposed to represent you, but is bought off by corporate dollars to work against you

    and i didn't say it was easy. but when you fight government itself, you are actually making it worse

    fight the corporate infection of government, even though you are working against powerful addicted junkies of corporate money and it is a hard fight. but please, stop fighting government itself. it is supposed to represent your interests, so get it to do that

  11. you're forgetting cocaine tea on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    used in the andes by bolivian indians for centuries. at low concentrations, more similar to nicotine addiction than powder cocaine or crack

    absolutely: concentration and delivery method (rate of acceleration in the bloodstream) has an affect on addiction rates

    but you're not arguing about that are you? what are saying is that yes, cocaine and crack have different addiction rates... ok, that means what? that means they should both be legal? in other words, you point to differences, but use that to argue for equivalent legal status? huh?

    if you admit there is a difference in drugs, then why can't you admit that they deserve different legal status? show some logical coherence

    here, i'll help you get started:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_assess_the_harm_of_drugs_(mean_physical_harm_and_mean_dependence).svg

    you're ignorant and naive in your attitudes, to yourself and any fool who listens to you

    drug addiction is serious, and it destroys lives. completely independent of any social or legal policy. recognize the fucking obvious, or be a complete fool

  12. when you complain about the men on Meet the Men Who Deploy Airstrikes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    who order truck bomb after truck bomb against iraqi civilians, killing many orders of magnitude more than the us (and on purpose, as oppposed to mistake), and now increasingly in pakistan and afghanistan, then i will listen to you

    or more exactly, when you develop an ability to actually stop those guys, then i will listen to you

    and i already known your answer: its all the fault of western imperialism, neocolonialism, oilthirst, etc

    fella: if the usa turned into a giant lake tomorrow, the madmen bombing in the middle east would not celebrate and turn into pastoral sheep farmers. they would step up their aggression, and they would sow more suffering and destruction, because now there is nothing to hold them back

    recognize that the fight going on the middle east is a lot larger than your small and simple recriminations

    and recognize that the madmen in the middle east are not some cartoonish reflection of what the west does. they are their own original manifestation of all that you detest, but, for some reason, only see in western actions. you suffer from a form of blindness, you see only menace in one direction, when the menace in the other direction is the real enemy of your values

  13. sorry for the shorthand, here's the logic: on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    low addiction, low inebriation: caffeine, legal

    low addiction, high inebriation: lsd, psilocybin, legal

    high addiction, low inebriation: nicotine, legal

    moderate addiction, moderate inebriation: marijuana, alcohol, legal

    high addiction, high inebriation: meth, heroin, coke, illegal

    the reason is that these substances themselves, no social policies, destroy lives. a human being cannot take a substance which significantly alters days and hours of their lives while at the same time locking them into hard pharmacological cravings... and maintain a relationship and a job at the same time. so they become freeloaders, because they are destroyed lives unable to feed and house themselves. nicotine is as addictive, but you are lucid while an addict. lsd is as inebriating, but its not addictive, so you can take it and forget about it

    but a chemical that blots out hours and days of your life and constantly interrupts your thoughts "need more", "need more": you've turned a functional human being into a zombie

    thus, certian substances are more costly to society than the war against them costs. other substances, like lsd and marijuana: the war is more costly than actual drug use, so they should be legal

    the idea meanwhile that all substances should be treated the same is a sort of hamfisted naivete. drugs are different, so drugs need to be treated differently, duh

  14. recreational drugs on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    have been used since antiquity, and recreational drugs will be continued to be used forever

    lsd, psilocybin, and marijuana should be legalized, because the war against them is more costly than their cost in use

    but for heroin, cocaine, and meth, the costs to society of use is greater than the costs to society of war on them

    i suppose your position is that heroin cocaine and meth are wonderful lifestyle accessories with no downside whatsoever

    everyone is a responsible thoughtful human being, even with substances that destroy responsibility and thought!

    and everyone's desire to use these substances always comes from the most noble of instincts! never are they used in a ploy to destroy oneself, to plug pain with relief (that always bottoms out to yet more pain), a slow motion suicide, that also consumes other innocent individuals along with the user, the family, the friends, communities, and society as a whole

    do you deny the costs of use you fucking ignorant twatstain?

    i've known them. i've known them probably better than you, like any blissfully ignorant freeloading user who thinks they have a right to be supported while they consume themselves in an ignorant choice

    right? naaahh.... you've got me pegged, i'm just a cartoon character from another era. there's no validity or points to what i am saying at all, right?

  15. that's right on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: 0, Troll

    just dismiss me with a clownish characterature

    there's no real substance to my concerns is there?

    everyone is always wonderfully responsible with brain altering addictive substances, there's no danger or downside whatsoever, its all unicorns and rainbows

    ignorant irresponsible asshole

  16. i drink coffee on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: 1

    i've done psilocybin, marjiuana, and alcohol. all should be legal and none of which i mind, because they don't produce addicts aggressively (alcohol, and to a much lesser extent marijuana, are only moderately addicting)

    but what i don't tolerate is the idea that the use of any of this, including coffee, somehow enhances your life, somehow enhances your pleasure. your pleasure is maximized when you lose all drugs in your life. complete abstinence is the ultimate drug

    and furthermore, the highly addictive and inebriating drugs (not nicotine: its highly addictive but not inebriating, so you dont lose your job and relationships) mean you lose your job and your relationships: they must be waged war on forever, because it is not my job to take care of freeloaders. im talking about heroin, cocaine, meth: the on those drugs will never end

  17. yes on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: 1

    and to do it at other people's expense, to risk becoming a zombie addict unable to maintain a job and keep a relationship, is not something i will allow, because i and many others don't want to support the useless zombies. we'd rather prevent them from becoming zombies: its cheaper

    freeloading is not an option

  18. very intelligent != crazy on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: 1

    "so smart that it caused mental disorder"

    no, this is an exoticization and a glamorization, like "a beautiful mind"

    there are smart people

    and there are crazy people

    then there smart and crazy people

    its an overlapping of types, not a cuase or effect anywhere in there

    there is no such thing as smart -> crazy and there is no such thing as crazy -> smart

    the man was brilliant and gifted. he had also had paranoid schizophrenic tendencies. this was not a cause of his intelligence, or an effect, this was merely a cofactor in what made philip k dick philip k dick. obviously he would not create what he created were he not paranoid and schizophrenic. joan of arc and joseph smith also had schizophrenic visions, and the world is radically changed because of them too. but it is, in the end, a sickness and a kind of suffering

    stop exoticizing and glamoring mental illness as some sort of gift. philip k dick, for one, would not see it that way

  19. drug use degrades cognition, it does not enhance on Philip K. Dick's Exegesis To Be Published In 2011 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    that being said, a little noise in the system, a little lowering of inhibitions, a slight variation in waves, and an already great mind might go to a new and wonderful place. but that's rare. in fact, many great minds have been destroyed by drugs, and many great minds will tell you they did their best work in spite of the drug use, not because of it. that is, if they used less drugs, they'd do more brilliant things

    in other words, for 99.99% of people, and 99.99% of the time for the remaining 0.01%, drug use is just a path to loss of quality of life

    drugs do not enhance life, they degrade it

    cheap empty devotion to drugs such as with your thinking is just a pathway to a less fruitful life, for you and any fool naive enough to take you seriously

    most drug use in this world is done by people trying to fill a void in their life and only making a greater void, the idea is to fill your void in your life without resorting to drugs, because most of the time you are simply left with more problems than whatever problems drove you to take them

    the glamorization of obliteration is ignorant. i'm sick of the wasted empty lives on drugs. what those people could have been and might have done had they not turned into zombies

    so fuck you and your ignorant attitude towards drugs, which really are up there with religious fundamentalism, totalitarian government, war, poverty, and disease in terms of wasted human lives in the entire history of mankind

    some people just have to glorify this brain deadening chemistry. fucking losers in the most literal sense of the word. and that means you too and your glamorization of drugs, asshole

  20. more on Japanese Researchers Make Plastic Out of Water · · Score: 5, Funny

    natural

    breast

    implants

    that is all

  21. yes on US Says 4.3 Billion People Live With Bad IP Laws · · Score: 5, Insightful

    some of those countries have no respect for the patented gene sequences found in species in their countries by western scientists

    ip law is a way of saying that every thought and utterance is not the common good of mankind but is a monopoly that must be respected, and everyone must contribute cash because you were the first to register something many others probably thought of as well, or in a slightly different form. ip law is a farce. it reards distributors and entrenched corporate powers, definitely at the expense of artists and inventors (NOT in support of them). it overly legalizes and bureaucratizes with hefty intrusions into basic freedoms a byzantine scheme to compartmentalize a process which has been free for the vast majority of humankind's existence: the exchange of simple information

    and its not even enforceable. no warchest in all the first world nations can adequately shore up the artificial patronage system ip law defenders imagine. nevermind that ip law doesn't even make economic sense, because with all that intrusive controlling, less is earned than simply letting information go wherever its wanted, and profitting off of ancillary revenue streams created by letting it all hang out instead

    ip law is an absurd joke, and is not to be respected. it is your moral duty to ignore it or actively undermine or destroy it

  22. i have a similar technology for 3rd world solar on Purple Pokeberries Yield Cheap Solar Power · · Score: 5, Funny

    my tech is extremely advanced

    what i do is a store the construction information for a prefab nanoscale solar cell set up in a small protected sphere. with a little coaxing, the information stored in the sphere will begin assembling the solar array in a progressive manner that scales well in a fractal pattern that also maximizes solar exposure, including proprietary feedback mechanisms that is highly sensitive intellectual proerty. the solar assemblies are also plant based like the pokeberry mentioned one and are easily configured to various 3rd world climates

    the solar technology i employ even cleans up greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and converts it into oxygen, water, and an energy storage compound which also happens to taste delicious. this solar product can be utilized as an energy source by 3rd world peoples in a variety of ways, including direct reconstitution to carbon via a high energy oxygen based deconstruction process that also produces a form of heating, or- get this, this is the part i'm most proud of- the 3rd world residents can consume the solar arrays DIRECTLY and their own bodies can utilize the energy storage medium for biological sustenance

    how come nobody thought of this tech before?

  23. no fair australia on Australian Government Delays Internet Filter Legislation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the usa has long been a world leader in hypocritical simplistic moralizing "christians"

    don't be nosing in on our turf and our monopoly now

  24. wait on FDA Approves Vaccine For Prostate Cancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    jenny mccarthy told me vaccines give me prostate cancer

    no thanks, i'll pass. i get my health advice from mtv hosts

  25. that big game hunter was from south africa on NASA's Space Balloon Smashes Car In Australia · · Score: 1

    where they speak a dialect of australian

    "clever girl..."