It's why you are foaming at the mouth trying to characterize the first honest system by a failure that doesn't shake the system at all despite its magnitude.
so apparently some still cannot learn, either the easy way from the simple facts of economic history, nor the hard way: from the subject matter of the very story they are commenting under
but they need to be heavily regulated by the government, obviously
it seems like the entire story of bitcoin has been heavily propeled forward by naive, enthusiastic free market fundamentalist types. ideological children
and now they are learning what the rest of us know from economic history, but apparently their gullibility means they have to learn the simple lessons of history the hard way
the free market fairy does not actually solve all problems. that's a quasireligious statement of faith, and is in complete contradiction to our simple experiences with markets throughout human history
the venezuelan system doesn't work, and the people are organically angry about that, with the venezuelan govt
it has nothing to do with the usa
i don't know how or why you frame this as the usa doing something it did in the cold war, when all of the angry venezuelans on the street right now are in the street because of how fucked up the system is in venezuela is right now, because of something their own govt is screwing up. nothing to do with the usa at all
you don't really have any understanding of the situation in venezuela. you have the same tired old cold war thinking that the propaganda by the venezuelan government deploys. which, because as the existence of people like you show, still works as propaganda
but it has nothing at all to do with reality. the cold war is long over
1. the usa is pushing magic buttons in washington dc and making venezuelans revolt (and not the actual issues and problems about venezuela the people revolting articulate)
2. it's a tired bullshit cynical ploy that, unfortunately, still works with large enough of the population that it is still worth doing
or... i dunno, as an american, maybe i have dark magical powers over venezuela i have not fully explored
let's obsess over the cause of a fire that has nothing to do with the battery... and only happened once and probably has absolutely nothing to do with the car's engineering?
and let's ignore the thousands of accidents with gasoline every year that kill or maim?
you're doing exxon mobile proud, slashdot editors. thanks for featuring this "story" so prominently
i never said romney was extreme right. i said he *had to appeal to* the extreme right
he had to compete for votes from tea party loony toons with wackjobs like santorum and cain and bachmann
and romney's problem wasn't trying to be a democrat, that's called "trying to win the election by appealing to the moderate center," which, in your bias, you've called "trying to be a democrat"
which is exactly how and why the right will not win the white house in the future: they view being a moderate as some sort of RINO betrayal. this is how and why republicans lose elections, this ideological inquisition
and so, as a democrat, i say, "keep it up, tea party, thanks for destroying the republican party with your inflexible, intolerant, rigid extremism"
the point is you want politics to be something it never was and never will be
it's *politics*, not polite academic debate society
all of the ugliness in politics you dislike is the whole point of politics
all you are telling me here is you don't understand the subject matter. you can't just wave a magic wand and make people behave like robots. of course people aren't robots. but they behave like feral beasts in politics. of course people aren't feral beasts either. but in POLITICS they are
i'm sorry but the tea party is driven by people who actually believe what they say, as a genuine oppositional force, that you say does not exist
the struggle is real, the differences are real, the stakes are dramatic
and the difference in opinions results in dramatic differences in policy depending upon who wins
al gore would not have invaded iraq. john mccain would not have created obamacare. etc.
but don't worry about me. i'm a deluded fool who does not see The Real Truth (tm) like you: something something new world order. something something bilderberg group, teh j00s, etc.
i hate to break it to you, but politics was emotional, is emotional, and always will be emotional. the adults you seek never existed and never will. the only truth here is you fail to understand the ugly emotional game called politics. we're human beings, not robots
the last couple of decades has seen the rise of conservative news sources. which is good for morale. you fudge the truth a little, make things look rosier than they really are, and you galvanize your base
the problem is when you start believing your own bullshit
romney was fed the fudges the conservative echo chamber feeds itself, and was kept in the dark. so they were overconfident
there's a respected solid analyst called nate silver at the new york times, who is very good at forecasting elections with his methods
he called the election early, in september, for obama
the decision makers around romney chose to ignore cold analysis as liberal propaganda. romney had a chance to buckle down and maybe do something with his message in october and maybe eke out a win
but just look at rove on election night: he couldn't believe the news about ohio. because the right wing media echo chamber was operating on its own bullshit, and kneejerk rejecting bad news as liberal propaganda
again, conservative media is great for the morale of the average conservative voter. but when the conservative media is depended upon by the decision makers on the right, the right loses, because decisions based on lies are bad, losing decisions
Slashdot Mirror
the preceding post is an example of posturing
It's why you are foaming at the mouth trying to characterize the first honest system by a failure that doesn't shake the system at all despite its magnitude.
(facepalm)
the problem is you idiots have an effect on the rest of society. we have to bail your ignorant asses out when you inevitably fuck up. so grow a brain
payment processors getting together and colluding is an example of no regulation
your example supports govt control, it doesn't dispute it
you call yourself realistic and you persist with a naive simplistic belief that the basics of economic history disprove?
dealing with you free market fundamentalists is like dealing with creationists
no logic or reason, just irrational faith in a really bad idea
resulting in exactly the kind of story we are commenting under
so apparently some still cannot learn, either the easy way from the simple facts of economic history, nor the hard way: from the subject matter of the very story they are commenting under
a diehard true believer. endearing? pathetic?
but they need to be heavily regulated by the government, obviously
it seems like the entire story of bitcoin has been heavily propeled forward by naive, enthusiastic free market fundamentalist types. ideological children
and now they are learning what the rest of us know from economic history, but apparently their gullibility means they have to learn the simple lessons of history the hard way
the free market fairy does not actually solve all problems. that's a quasireligious statement of faith, and is in complete contradiction to our simple experiences with markets throughout human history
sorry libertarians
the venezuelan system doesn't work, and the people are organically angry about that, with the venezuelan govt
it has nothing to do with the usa
i don't know how or why you frame this as the usa doing something it did in the cold war, when all of the angry venezuelans on the street right now are in the street because of how fucked up the system is in venezuela is right now, because of something their own govt is screwing up. nothing to do with the usa at all
you don't really have any understanding of the situation in venezuela. you have the same tired old cold war thinking that the propaganda by the venezuelan government deploys. which, because as the existence of people like you show, still works as propaganda
but it has nothing at all to do with reality. the cold war is long over
with venezuela, the kneejerk "blame america" is pretty swift and is standard
when venezuelans started protesting last week, they kicked out some american diplomats in response
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/17/...
either:
1. the usa is pushing magic buttons in washington dc and making venezuelans revolt (and not the actual issues and problems about venezuela the people revolting articulate)
2. it's a tired bullshit cynical ploy that, unfortunately, still works with large enough of the population that it is still worth doing
or... i dunno, as an american, maybe i have dark magical powers over venezuela i have not fully explored
FILTHY HUMAN SHELL:
We order you to procure more monosaccharides and disaccharides of appropriate molecular conformation.
Or we shall consume you and find a superior performing shell.
well your sig is accurate
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
i know that bigots and racists are real
i know they say and think racist and bigoted things
i also question the sanity or intent of anyone who wants to make believe they don't exist, for whatever reason
saying that accusations of racism and bigotry is just a ploy: that's the strawman
because racists and bigots are real
you act like racism and bigotry don't exist, and it's just a ploy to smear people
that's some convoluted psychological denial going on there
let's obsess over the cause of a fire that has nothing to do with the battery... and only happened once and probably has absolutely nothing to do with the car's engineering?
and let's ignore the thousands of accidents with gasoline every year that kill or maim?
you're doing exxon mobile proud, slashdot editors. thanks for featuring this "story" so prominently
WHARGARBBBL
Huntsman was a solid moderate candidate.
Therefore, in the modern Republican party, he has no chance of making it on the ballot.
Huntsman could have won.
Thank you Tea Party!
if you could keep your fiscal conservatism, but get rid of the social conservatism, yes, you have a winning strategy
but good luck to you trying to do that though
for some reason the social conservative morons always seem to crop up in your precincts and sabotage your chances
keep believing as you do, i love you
i'm not even remotely joking
you help democrats win
xoxoxoxox
i never said romney was extreme right. i said he *had to appeal to* the extreme right
he had to compete for votes from tea party loony toons with wackjobs like santorum and cain and bachmann
and romney's problem wasn't trying to be a democrat, that's called "trying to win the election by appealing to the moderate center," which, in your bias, you've called "trying to be a democrat"
which is exactly how and why the right will not win the white house in the future: they view being a moderate as some sort of RINO betrayal. this is how and why republicans lose elections, this ideological inquisition
and so, as a democrat, i say, "keep it up, tea party, thanks for destroying the republican party with your inflexible, intolerant, rigid extremism"
the point is you want politics to be something it never was and never will be
it's *politics*, not polite academic debate society
all of the ugliness in politics you dislike is the whole point of politics
all you are telling me here is you don't understand the subject matter. you can't just wave a magic wand and make people behave like robots. of course people aren't robots. but they behave like feral beasts in politics. of course people aren't feral beasts either. but in POLITICS they are
we got a conspiratard here folks
i'm sorry but the tea party is driven by people who actually believe what they say, as a genuine oppositional force, that you say does not exist
the struggle is real, the differences are real, the stakes are dramatic
and the difference in opinions results in dramatic differences in policy depending upon who wins
al gore would not have invaded iraq. john mccain would not have created obamacare. etc.
but don't worry about me. i'm a deluded fool who does not see The Real Truth (tm) like you: something something new world order. something something bilderberg group, teh j00s, etc.
i hate to break it to you, but politics was emotional, is emotional, and always will be emotional. the adults you seek never existed and never will. the only truth here is you fail to understand the ugly emotional game called politics. we're human beings, not robots
please don't shoot the messenger
they didn't ignore the data, they had bad data
the last couple of decades has seen the rise of conservative news sources. which is good for morale. you fudge the truth a little, make things look rosier than they really are, and you galvanize your base
the problem is when you start believing your own bullshit
romney was fed the fudges the conservative echo chamber feeds itself, and was kept in the dark. so they were overconfident
there's a respected solid analyst called nate silver at the new york times, who is very good at forecasting elections with his methods
he called the election early, in september, for obama
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.n...
this analysis was pilloried on the right as a propaganda. even though he was just applying cold hard analysis
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
when in fact, the right was the one creating propaganda, and silver called them out on it:
http://www.businessinsider.com...
the decision makers around romney chose to ignore cold analysis as liberal propaganda. romney had a chance to buckle down and maybe do something with his message in october and maybe eke out a win
but just look at rove on election night: he couldn't believe the news about ohio. because the right wing media echo chamber was operating on its own bullshit, and kneejerk rejecting bad news as liberal propaganda
again, conservative media is great for the morale of the average conservative voter. but when the conservative media is depended upon by the decision makers on the right, the right loses, because decisions based on lies are bad, losing decisions