is that a free market requires regulators. which seems like a contradiction, but only if your ideology is shallow
its a classic failure of libertarian and other anti-government ideologies to posit that things get more fair when you get rid of governmental intrusion. you need government in this world to keep things fair. of course bureaucracy and official corruption ruin plenty of things. its just that, without the government, things are far worse
certain large players abuse the system to their benefit. this ALWAYS happens. the whole notion of a free exchange of equals is pure fantasy. without an intrusive governmental system in place to actually keep things equal, things get very unequal very quick
the one good thing about the financial meltdown of 2008-9 is it puts a stake in the heart of the reagan era idea that the smaller the government the better. not that plenty of things about big government doesn't also suck. the truth of course is the government must maintain a certain presence and size, not to small or too large. but the idea that smaller is always better has been proven to be a failed ideology
hundreds commit suicide every day. hating the world and hating yourself are actually psychologically entwined. for example, dozens kill their parents/ lover/ children/ their classmates, and then off themselves, every day. its not exactly a weird alien concept, this sort of extreme hatred of self/ the world. plenty have it, its actually quite common: that the solution to our problems is to end it all
in fact, i would bet everyone reading this comment knows someone from their life experience who matches this description, this extreme hatred of selves/ the world. sounds pretty common the motivation to do this, no? a lot of people are self-loathing. a lot of people are self-loathing and hate the world and would consider ending it all- themselves, and including the rest of us, out of hatred for us, or even, in a twisted way, to help us end OUR suffering. to "put us out of our misery" not because we are in misery, but because the perp doesn't understand how anyone could escape the problems they are in. they project, and imagine all of us are suffering as horribly as they are and wish to die as much as they do. perception of reality is not a strong suit in this world, especially amongst those with mental disease and emotional problems
it wouldn't take much to find thousands with the motivation to do this. just look at the suicide bombers in the middle east. where do they find these people? these people are everwhere, they are exactly the same people, psychologically, who commit suicide by the thousands in japan. at any given time on this planet, a large population of people exists who hate themselves, the world, and are ready for death, of themselves, and the rest of us, and are highly motivated in these regards
all you have to do is find someone who values their life at zero, and with pressure, everyone else's life at zero as well, and then strap some c4, ball bearings, and rat poison on their chests. in fact, the very notion of religious extremism is all about valuing some sort of ridiculous religious standards of human behavior, seeing reality and how it falls far short of these ridiculous standards, and therefore, hating the world, and desiring to correct the world and its sins, even if it means so many deaths. 99% of religious people value humanity and human life more than the ridiculous standards that exist in their religious literature. the other 1% value those ridiculous religious standards more than human life. and they are actively killing in the name of that notion, right now, today, all over the world, by any means possible. belief in armageddeon is a self-fulfilling prophecy for these demented fucks: we all deserve to die, because we are impure according to some retarded standards, so lets go about making that happen. if they kill themselves in the process, well, even better: now they are a martyr in the eyes of whatever "god" they imagine approves of their demented bullshit
as for the skills to do this hack, and the opportunity, well, that's probably going to make this a lot harder to pull off
but considering the consequences, do you really want to find out? fixing the weaknesses that make the concept of hacking nuclear controls even theoretically possible is then obviously of the highest priority
and yet every single style of government other than democracy has weaknesses far worse than democracy
therefore, you embrace democracy, with all the flaws you mentioned. please note that next time you go on this tirade
and yes, government geeks, i understand the difference between a democracy and a republic, but the spirit of this man's post goes far beyond that difference, and directly attacks the legitimacy of consulting the people's will, that's what is wrong with his comment
so no one misses the damn fucking point: democracies manufacture legitimacy. when you consult the will of the people, the people are happy. legitimacy allows for stability, which allows for economic growth, security, education, etc. ANY other style of government decays in legitimacy over time, as the agenda of the people and the agenda of those entrusted to rule the people, for whatever aribtrary reason, begins to drift apart. this appies to technocrats in beijing or theocrats in tehran strong men in harare or kleptocratic generals in yangon
as soon as you tell me the people of a country are stupid and not to be entrusted and you need some special class of people who are better at judging what is good for the people than the peopl themselves, you have just committed a crime of stupidity worse than the worst mob rule and tyranny of the majority you can imagine. please make sure your comment, next time you post it or think it, which is a gateway to aristocratic thought, takes note of what history has taught us about a special class of people that are supposedly wiser than the people themselves. french revolution anyone?
elitist assholes are far worse than mob rule, and your comment stinks of it. all of the flaws of democracy are no worse than the flaws of any other style of government. note that, and don't give me your fucking geek comment "republics are not democracies", i fucking understand that already. the problem is with arguing against the will of the people as the foundation of a government and a society. nothing should break that. nothing. or whatever you have is far worse
elitist assholes are far worse than mob rule, and your comment stinks of it. beware when you begin to distrust the people's will. you are the one has a problem at that point, not the people
with the right access (oh, i forgot, government bureaucrats are hard to bribe) can, in 33 milliseconds, change more ballots, invisible to audit, statistically untraceable, than an army of ballot box stuffers can do in 33 days (and of course, conspiracies of thousands of ballot box stuffers is always airtight)
now, also think about the attack vectors: for every scheme you can tell me for altering paper ballots, i can tell you 10 schemes for altering electronic ballots
that you can alter paper ballots is no argument against paper ballots, and that's the only point you made with your comment. electronic voting is inherently and irreducibly less secure than paper ballots, and hell of a lot more expensive, so what is the damn point of electronic ballots again? other than to sow seeds of doubt and destroy the legitimacy of a government? pffffffffft
and the industry shills who have sold their conscience:
you can screw with paper ballots. but a lot less easily and a lot less slower and with a lot more effort and a lot easier to trace than the effort required to mess with electronic voting
simply for the sake of the integrity of democracy, electronic voting should NEVER happen, in ANY country
do you really need any convincing about what can happen to a country if a vote is put in doubt considering recent events?
not that iran used electronic voting, but imagine how much LESS forensic evidence there would be if iran ever lets anyone independently monitor the results
there are morons in this world who will kneejerk explain away and excuse vile atrocities in this world committed by governments simply because they are enemies of the usa. likewise, there are morons in this world who will kneejerk explain away and excuse vile atrocities committed by the usa simply because they start with the starting assumption the usa can do no wrong
what i just described is real, and a large number of people, and a serious problem
the only valid morally and logically cohesive worldview is one which does not center on the usa, whether pro or anti usa, but is centered on principles instead. if you see this as a "black and white" point of view of mine, then go fuck yourself, because you are just smearing my larger point, and its not black and white at all
substitute iran for any other country, and you get my drift
heres is the only valid point of view in the world, which i wish more would adapt:
1. anti-american, anti-iran
that's my point: please, hate the usa. just don't let your hatred of the usa lead you to forgive other countries when they do bad, and sometimes far worse
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But the barbed adjectives didn't match the muted performance on display before the Judiciary Committee. Like the president who picked her, Sotomayor has been a model of professorial rationality. Besides, it's delicious watching Republicans go after Democrats for being too emotional and irrational given the G.O.P. shame spiral.
W. and Dick Cheney made all their bad decisions about Iraq, W.M.D.'s, domestic surveillance, torture, rendition and secret hit squads from the gut, based on false intuitions, fear, paranoia and revenge.
Sarah Palin is the definition of irrational, a volatile and scattered country-music queen without the music. Her Republican fans defend her lack of application and intellect, happy to settle for her emotional electricity.
Senator Graham said Sotomayor would be confirmed unless she had "a meltdown" -- a word applied mostly to women and toddlers until Mark Sanford proudly took ownership of it when he was judged about the wisdom of his Latina woman.
"Look--" he murmured, holding out his arm to stop Malfoy. Something bright white was gleaming on the ground. They inched closer. It was the unicorn all right, and it was dead. Harry had never seen anything so beautiful and sad. Its long, slender legs were stuck out at odd angles where it had fallen and its mane was spread pearly-white on the dark leaves. Harry had taken one step toward it when a slithering sound made him freeze where he stood. A bush on the edge of the clearing quivered. . . . Then, out of the shadows, a hooded figure came crawling across the ground like some stalking beast. Harry, Malfoy, and Fang stood transfixed. The cloaked figure reached the unicorn, lowered its head over the wound in the animal's side, and began to drink its blood. "AAAAAAAAAAARGH!" Malfoy let out a terrible scream and bolted--so did Fang. The hooded figure raised its head and looked right at Harry--unicorn blood was dribbling down its front. It got to its feet and came swiftly toward Harry--he couldn't move for fear.
Americans are dumb, educated ONE stupid and they worship ONEism Evil. It is not immoral to kill believers, for the stupid bastards EVOLVE from son or daughter who precedes them. NOT one damn human adult has ever been created - for ONLY babies are CREATED - and every adult has within them the LIFE given by children who DIE to give-up their lives to their parent image - so their mom or Dad can live. Adults are EVIL to deny they evolved from children - a
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all of the horrible crimes you ascribe to the usa would still go on
please stop ascribing to american behavior that which is basically human behavior. its better to have an ideology that is based on some sort of principles, rather than mindless kneejerk anti-americanism
then you can still find america guilty of plenty of crimes, and rightfully so. but then you can extend that to find other countries guilty of many of those same crimes, without sounding like an idiot because you want to put forth the idea that the usa is somehow magically the originator of a crime someone else committed
example: the usa meddled in central america... therefore the usa is guilty of absolutely every crime committed there by every player ever since. the usa meddled in the middle east... therefore the usa is responsible for absolutely every crime committed there by every player ever since. etc., ad nauseum, and other such retarded thinking
dude: belgium is not "following the example of the United States". belgium is being retarded all by itself, all on its own. really
i now await the typical and retarded response: i'm a neocon imperialist dick cheney cocksucker, i'm from the lunatic right wing fringe. all because i ask for some logical coherence. can you tell the difference between a moderate opinion and a far right opinion?
please, go right on criticizing the usa. you may hate the usa all you want. go on with your bad self, be my guest, keep the venom flowing and the high holy moral outrage and indignation fresh. i fully support all the anti-american tirades you can muster. zzz
just try to notice at some point all of the other crimes committed by all the other countries in the world
assuming you think i'm a complete and utter retard, which obviously you do, do you really think a total retard can maintain all of the austrian cultural references correctly while missing the obvious geographic disconnect?
does not compute man
its hard to feign real stupidity. mainly because its hard to hide competency in full spectrum mental areas at the same time
for many reasons, but a not unimportant reason is to protect the rest of the organism from the cell possibly becoming cancerous (tiny chance, but stacks up with enough radiation exposure to enough cells)
so if cell suicide is prevented, expect an increase in various cancer rates weeks or months after initial radiation exposure
what's awful is that although its the most spectacular troll i've done in awhile, its this retired chestnut of a joke that should be old and tired and expired by now
i think this silly joke has been featured in at least 100 fark headlines over the years, no?
what you describe depends upon the existence of some mythical past where these elements of human nature were not present. on the contrary, the behavior you describe is part of every historical epoch, in every society. rather, what you describe is new to your personal experience, not new to humanity. you're projecting
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where investing in the arms race requires significant cost, and therefore favors large entrenched interests at the expense of smaller traders
in what alien universe is that "leveling the playing field"?
is that a free market requires regulators. which seems like a contradiction, but only if your ideology is shallow
its a classic failure of libertarian and other anti-government ideologies to posit that things get more fair when you get rid of governmental intrusion. you need government in this world to keep things fair. of course bureaucracy and official corruption ruin plenty of things. its just that, without the government, things are far worse
certain large players abuse the system to their benefit. this ALWAYS happens. the whole notion of a free exchange of equals is pure fantasy. without an intrusive governmental system in place to actually keep things equal, things get very unequal very quick
the one good thing about the financial meltdown of 2008-9 is it puts a stake in the heart of the reagan era idea that the smaller the government the better. not that plenty of things about big government doesn't also suck. the truth of course is the government must maintain a certain presence and size, not to small or too large. but the idea that smaller is always better has been proven to be a failed ideology
hundreds commit suicide every day. hating the world and hating yourself are actually psychologically entwined. for example, dozens kill their parents/ lover/ children/ their classmates, and then off themselves, every day. its not exactly a weird alien concept, this sort of extreme hatred of self/ the world. plenty have it, its actually quite common: that the solution to our problems is to end it all
in fact, i would bet everyone reading this comment knows someone from their life experience who matches this description, this extreme hatred of selves/ the world. sounds pretty common the motivation to do this, no? a lot of people are self-loathing. a lot of people are self-loathing and hate the world and would consider ending it all- themselves, and including the rest of us, out of hatred for us, or even, in a twisted way, to help us end OUR suffering. to "put us out of our misery" not because we are in misery, but because the perp doesn't understand how anyone could escape the problems they are in. they project, and imagine all of us are suffering as horribly as they are and wish to die as much as they do. perception of reality is not a strong suit in this world, especially amongst those with mental disease and emotional problems
it wouldn't take much to find thousands with the motivation to do this. just look at the suicide bombers in the middle east. where do they find these people? these people are everwhere, they are exactly the same people, psychologically, who commit suicide by the thousands in japan. at any given time on this planet, a large population of people exists who hate themselves, the world, and are ready for death, of themselves, and the rest of us, and are highly motivated in these regards
all you have to do is find someone who values their life at zero, and with pressure, everyone else's life at zero as well, and then strap some c4, ball bearings, and rat poison on their chests. in fact, the very notion of religious extremism is all about valuing some sort of ridiculous religious standards of human behavior, seeing reality and how it falls far short of these ridiculous standards, and therefore, hating the world, and desiring to correct the world and its sins, even if it means so many deaths. 99% of religious people value humanity and human life more than the ridiculous standards that exist in their religious literature. the other 1% value those ridiculous religious standards more than human life. and they are actively killing in the name of that notion, right now, today, all over the world, by any means possible. belief in armageddeon is a self-fulfilling prophecy for these demented fucks: we all deserve to die, because we are impure according to some retarded standards, so lets go about making that happen. if they kill themselves in the process, well, even better: now they are a martyr in the eyes of whatever "god" they imagine approves of their demented bullshit
as for the skills to do this hack, and the opportunity, well, that's probably going to make this a lot harder to pull off
but considering the consequences, do you really want to find out? fixing the weaknesses that make the concept of hacking nuclear controls even theoretically possible is then obviously of the highest priority
1959, 1969, 1979, 1989, or 1999?
hyperbole on meth
this is clearly a horrible case of bloatware
is 100% accurate
and yet every single style of government other than democracy has weaknesses far worse than democracy
therefore, you embrace democracy, with all the flaws you mentioned. please note that next time you go on this tirade
and yes, government geeks, i understand the difference between a democracy and a republic, but the spirit of this man's post goes far beyond that difference, and directly attacks the legitimacy of consulting the people's will, that's what is wrong with his comment
so no one misses the damn fucking point: democracies manufacture legitimacy. when you consult the will of the people, the people are happy. legitimacy allows for stability, which allows for economic growth, security, education, etc. ANY other style of government decays in legitimacy over time, as the agenda of the people and the agenda of those entrusted to rule the people, for whatever aribtrary reason, begins to drift apart. this appies to technocrats in beijing or theocrats in tehran strong men in harare or kleptocratic generals in yangon
as soon as you tell me the people of a country are stupid and not to be entrusted and you need some special class of people who are better at judging what is good for the people than the peopl themselves, you have just committed a crime of stupidity worse than the worst mob rule and tyranny of the majority you can imagine. please make sure your comment, next time you post it or think it, which is a gateway to aristocratic thought, takes note of what history has taught us about a special class of people that are supposedly wiser than the people themselves. french revolution anyone?
elitist assholes are far worse than mob rule, and your comment stinks of it. all of the flaws of democracy are no worse than the flaws of any other style of government. note that, and don't give me your fucking geek comment "republics are not democracies", i fucking understand that already. the problem is with arguing against the will of the people as the foundation of a government and a society. nothing should break that. nothing. or whatever you have is far worse
elitist assholes are far worse than mob rule, and your comment stinks of it. beware when you begin to distrust the people's will. you are the one has a problem at that point, not the people
with the right access (oh, i forgot, government bureaucrats are hard to bribe) can, in 33 milliseconds, change more ballots, invisible to audit, statistically untraceable, than an army of ballot box stuffers can do in 33 days (and of course, conspiracies of thousands of ballot box stuffers is always airtight)
now, also think about the attack vectors: for every scheme you can tell me for altering paper ballots, i can tell you 10 schemes for altering electronic ballots
that you can alter paper ballots is no argument against paper ballots, and that's the only point you made with your comment. electronic voting is inherently and irreducibly less secure than paper ballots, and hell of a lot more expensive, so what is the damn point of electronic ballots again? other than to sow seeds of doubt and destroy the legitimacy of a government? pffffffffft
and the industry shills who have sold their conscience:
you can screw with paper ballots. but a lot less easily and a lot less slower and with a lot more effort and a lot easier to trace than the effort required to mess with electronic voting
simply for the sake of the integrity of democracy, electronic voting should NEVER happen, in ANY country
do you really need any convincing about what can happen to a country if a vote is put in doubt considering recent events?
not that iran used electronic voting, but imagine how much LESS forensic evidence there would be if iran ever lets anyone independently monitor the results
there are morons in this world who will kneejerk explain away and excuse vile atrocities in this world committed by governments simply because they are enemies of the usa. likewise, there are morons in this world who will kneejerk explain away and excuse vile atrocities committed by the usa simply because they start with the starting assumption the usa can do no wrong
what i just described is real, and a large number of people, and a serious problem
the only valid morally and logically cohesive worldview is one which does not center on the usa, whether pro or anti usa, but is centered on principles instead. if you see this as a "black and white" point of view of mine, then go fuck yourself, because you are just smearing my larger point, and its not black and white at all
just please make sure to hate all the other countries in the world
i don't mind that people hate the usa. i mind when they use they're hatred of the usa to forgive bad behavior by others
from the perspective of iran and the usa, this is the majority of assholes in the world, and they are all morons:
1. anti-american, pro-iran
2. pro-american, anti-iran
substitute iran for any other country, and you get my drift
heres is the only valid point of view in the world, which i wish more would adapt:
1. anti-american, anti-iran
that's my point: please, hate the usa. just don't let your hatred of the usa lead you to forgive other countries when they do bad, and sometimes far worse
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all of the horrible crimes you ascribe to the usa would still go on
please stop ascribing to american behavior that which is basically human behavior. its better to have an ideology that is based on some sort of principles, rather than mindless kneejerk anti-americanism
then you can still find america guilty of plenty of crimes, and rightfully so. but then you can extend that to find other countries guilty of many of those same crimes, without sounding like an idiot because you want to put forth the idea that the usa is somehow magically the originator of a crime someone else committed
example: the usa meddled in central america... therefore the usa is guilty of absolutely every crime committed there by every player ever since. the usa meddled in the middle east... therefore the usa is responsible for absolutely every crime committed there by every player ever since. etc., ad nauseum, and other such retarded thinking
dude: belgium is not "following the example of the United States". belgium is being retarded all by itself, all on its own. really
i now await the typical and retarded response: i'm a neocon imperialist dick cheney cocksucker, i'm from the lunatic right wing fringe. all because i ask for some logical coherence. can you tell the difference between a moderate opinion and a far right opinion?
please, go right on criticizing the usa. you may hate the usa all you want. go on with your bad self, be my guest, keep the venom flowing and the high holy moral outrage and indignation fresh. i fully support all the anti-american tirades you can muster. zzz
just try to notice at some point all of the other crimes committed by all the other countries in the world
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assuming you think i'm a complete and utter retard, which obviously you do, do you really think a total retard can maintain all of the austrian cultural references correctly while missing the obvious geographic disconnect?
does not compute man
its hard to feign real stupidity. mainly because its hard to hide competency in full spectrum mental areas at the same time
the first couple of trolled fools were funny
but after awhile, and after the modded up comments below revealing the troll, its just pathetic
unless... your lame explication of 3rd grade geography is also a troll?
urrgh, troll has become trolled
so what you are telling me is, you're skeptical of medical advice you get in the comment section of slashdot?
for many reasons, but a not unimportant reason is to protect the rest of the organism from the cell possibly becoming cancerous (tiny chance, but stacks up with enough radiation exposure to enough cells)
so if cell suicide is prevented, expect an increase in various cancer rates weeks or months after initial radiation exposure
what's awful is that although its the most spectacular troll i've done in awhile, its this retired chestnut of a joke that should be old and tired and expired by now
i think this silly joke has been featured in at least 100 fark headlines over the years, no?
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it must be freudian thing
it must be a freudian thing
what with Sasha Baron Cohen making a contentious movie about a flamboyant gay Australian
and their favorite Australian son, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is having major troubles in Caleefornya
but Australians will always have the Sound of Music, Mozart, the Tyrolean Alps, and Hitler
what you describe depends upon the existence of some mythical past where these elements of human nature were not present. on the contrary, the behavior you describe is part of every historical epoch, in every society. rather, what you describe is new to your personal experience, not new to humanity. you're projecting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(film)
although the rich billionaire's plot is not defined as definitively true or false