agreed. but january 2010 and the citizens united decision is a new acceleration in the direction of outrageous. at least before it was unbecoming and backroom manipulation. now they don't even bother pretending anymore. the american people better fucking wake up
you want an armed revolution... over intellectual property issues?
i am no friend of intellectual property, but at least i have enough functional neurons to know what's important in this world. revolutions are ugly beyond belief. look at syria. and no one, absolutely no one controls what comes out on the other end. it could be far less liberties
but losers like you are just looking for an excuse to start shooting people. you're no friend of freedom, liberty, or any of the principles of the founding fathers. you're just a dumb goon, whose masturbatorial fantasy life centers around gunsteel
in fact, you're eagerness, your itchy trigger finger, is fodder for the demagogues in this world. you're future fascist goon squad, and you don't even know. just manipulate a few easily located prejudices of yours, and out comes the guns. you're an embryonic stormtrooper, you fucking asshole. you're the enemy of this country and what it stands for. really
no one, no one interested in what is good and right in this world is so eager for violence. grow a fucking brain, you fucking cro magnon thug
of course the guy is a fuckwit. this is besides the point
you cannot and would not be able to stay stupid things and represent the people if in fact you were actually representing the people. however, our democracy is becoming plutocracy: you can't get elected unless you get a lot of money, and you can't get a lot of money until you kiss the feet of the moneyed aristocracy
i like democracy. i like my country. i recognize that it won't be easy. but somehow, we the people must win back our own country from financial interests. i said: it won't be easy. you basically want the guys strung out on the heroin of wealthy donors to pass laws against wealthy donors. good luck to us, we'll need it
it is however, the most valid fight before us as a people and a nation, and something the left and the right can join in together and find common cause in. that is in spite of those on the left and the right who swallow the corporate propaganda that keeps us divided against each other at both of our losses
it already is socially unacceptable
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i mean murder is obviously wrong, but it still happens. do you think making murder socially unacceptable will stop it? we're dealing with a kind of criminality, a transgression against someone else
A better approach is to actually address the problem. Identify sexism and racism, of any type, when they happen, and stop them. Make such things socially unacceptable. THAT's how you eliminate discrimination.
what does this even mean? this is a load of crap. something like affirmative action or progressive taxation or corrective hiring practices are actual real world concrete solutions. what you have written as a solution is a political paean, a nice vague soundbite that doesn't really say anything useful at all
this is a discussion board full of engineers. solve the problem concretely or fuck off, we don't take kindly to puff words that mean nothing
i never understood this thinking
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racist policies kept blacks out of career and education opportunities, with longstanding consequences. so: affirmative action
sexism is real and keeps women under a glass ceiling: so corrective hiring policies
classism is real and simple economics tells us money naturally gravitates to a few players. so: progressive tax rates to correct what otherwise would result in all wealth in society flowing to a few ultrawealthy
why are these simple prudent policies such a giant brainfuck for some people? why are they so hostile to these ideas?
women do keep each other down, perhaps more so than men keeping women down and definitely more so than men keeping other men down
the worst enemy of women is other women it seems
i'm not marginalizing sexism against women by men, i am just saying the negativity, hatred, and social violence by women towards other women is a real issue
And what is superior? Austerity? Not much of an economics guy are you?
And what got us into the mess? Deregulation of banking. Through Republican and Democratic terms, yes, but a concept most loved by the free market fundamentalist assholes who are trying so very hard to destroy the middle class in this country with their nonsense.
Economics is not a faith based religion. Grow a brain.
it's worse than that. the great republican governor of new jersey killed funding for a new tunnel between manhattan and midtown. it's expensive. apparently more expensive than the quality of life of thousands of new jersey residents who commute to manhattan
but there's no business case for it in a short sighted, easily quantified bottom line oriented way. but certain free market fundamentalist idiots believe this is the only valid way to look at any question of government policy. their stupid quasireligion of the free market will surely destroy this great nation
1/ When Apple fired him (for being an egomaniac), the company went in the toilet.
2. When Apple rehired him, it became a trillion dollar juggernaut.
3. When he died, it began it's slide into mediocrity (as the map app debacle illustrates).
It really makes you wonder what one man's outsized ego can do to the performance of a company and/ or a product line.
Perhaps Steve would have prevailed a month or two ago and said "our map app sucks, not ready for prime time." But now there is no such ego of equivalent standing in Apple.
And the mediocrity of consensus, rather than the exacting standards of the dictator with the right aesthetic, means Apple is doomed?
that basically boil down to "you have to respect me but i don't have to respect you"
for example, the muslim world has tons of hate against judaism and christianity which isn't punished. nevermind that mobs of jews and christians aren't threatening death and destruction because of it
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it seems like you beat the monster by becoming him
it's almost as if no one controls the language
leading to a constant fertile ground of imagination and invention of new words and shifting meanings
and this is a bad thing in your mind?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Can't tell if you're a parody or serious
It's a nice moralistic story but it doesn't pass the smell test
This is stalking
Its like calling arson vandalism
Identify the nature of the transgression correctly
you're not very bright are you?
yes, i will. my weapons are words, because i am a man, secure in my self
you could say something different about the insecurities of a manchild who goes so easily to violence
save yourself: those who go easily to violence, there is a word for such hotheads amongst the demagogues who collect easily manipulated goons
cannon fodder
agreed. but january 2010 and the citizens united decision is a new acceleration in the direction of outrageous. at least before it was unbecoming and backroom manipulation. now they don't even bother pretending anymore. the american people better fucking wake up
kill his name, kill his reputation, kill his standing in the community. yes
you want an armed revolution... over intellectual property issues?
i am no friend of intellectual property, but at least i have enough functional neurons to know what's important in this world. revolutions are ugly beyond belief. look at syria. and no one, absolutely no one controls what comes out on the other end. it could be far less liberties
but losers like you are just looking for an excuse to start shooting people. you're no friend of freedom, liberty, or any of the principles of the founding fathers. you're just a dumb goon, whose masturbatorial fantasy life centers around gunsteel
in fact, you're eagerness, your itchy trigger finger, is fodder for the demagogues in this world. you're future fascist goon squad, and you don't even know. just manipulate a few easily located prejudices of yours, and out comes the guns. you're an embryonic stormtrooper, you fucking asshole. you're the enemy of this country and what it stands for. really
no one, no one interested in what is good and right in this world is so eager for violence. grow a fucking brain, you fucking cro magnon thug
through any rhetorical and organizational means possible. the vote
no violent means, you ignorant gun loving assholes
of course the guy is a fuckwit. this is besides the point
you cannot and would not be able to stay stupid things and represent the people if in fact you were actually representing the people. however, our democracy is becoming plutocracy: you can't get elected unless you get a lot of money, and you can't get a lot of money until you kiss the feet of the moneyed aristocracy
i like democracy. i like my country. i recognize that it won't be easy. but somehow, we the people must win back our own country from financial interests. i said: it won't be easy. you basically want the guys strung out on the heroin of wealthy donors to pass laws against wealthy donors. good luck to us, we'll need it
it is however, the most valid fight before us as a people and a nation, and something the left and the right can join in together and find common cause in. that is in spite of those on the left and the right who swallow the corporate propaganda that keeps us divided against each other at both of our losses
you will see bright flashes in the sky just as predicted
iran and israel bombing each other
"obfuscant" is right
a nation's budget doesn't work like a household's budget
here, start with an education:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/opinion/krugman-europes-austerity-madness.html
i mean murder is obviously wrong, but it still happens. do you think making murder socially unacceptable will stop it? we're dealing with a kind of criminality, a transgression against someone else
what does this even mean? this is a load of crap. something like affirmative action or progressive taxation or corrective hiring practices are actual real world concrete solutions. what you have written as a solution is a political paean, a nice vague soundbite that doesn't really say anything useful at all
this is a discussion board full of engineers. solve the problem concretely or fuck off, we don't take kindly to puff words that mean nothing
mod parent up
racist policies kept blacks out of career and education opportunities, with longstanding consequences. so: affirmative action
sexism is real and keeps women under a glass ceiling: so corrective hiring policies
classism is real and simple economics tells us money naturally gravitates to a few players. so: progressive tax rates to correct what otherwise would result in all wealth in society flowing to a few ultrawealthy
why are these simple prudent policies such a giant brainfuck for some people? why are they so hostile to these ideas?
women do keep each other down, perhaps more so than men keeping women down and definitely more so than men keeping other men down
the worst enemy of women is other women it seems
i'm not marginalizing sexism against women by men, i am just saying the negativity, hatred, and social violence by women towards other women is a real issue
(9,000 hysterical responses in defense of free speech.)
People: you're not much of a defender of free speech if you don't have a brain.
And what is superior? Austerity? Not much of an economics guy are you?
And what got us into the mess? Deregulation of banking. Through Republican and Democratic terms, yes, but a concept most loved by the free market fundamentalist assholes who are trying so very hard to destroy the middle class in this country with their nonsense.
Economics is not a faith based religion. Grow a brain.
it's worse than that. the great republican governor of new jersey killed funding for a new tunnel between manhattan and midtown. it's expensive. apparently more expensive than the quality of life of thousands of new jersey residents who commute to manhattan
but there's no business case for it in a short sighted, easily quantified bottom line oriented way. but certain free market fundamentalist idiots believe this is the only valid way to look at any question of government policy. their stupid quasireligion of the free market will surely destroy this great nation
1/ When Apple fired him (for being an egomaniac), the company went in the toilet.
2. When Apple rehired him, it became a trillion dollar juggernaut.
3. When he died, it began it's slide into mediocrity (as the map app debacle illustrates).
It really makes you wonder what one man's outsized ego can do to the performance of a company and/ or a product line.
Perhaps Steve would have prevailed a month or two ago and said "our map app sucks, not ready for prime time." But now there is no such ego of equivalent standing in Apple.
And the mediocrity of consensus, rather than the exacting standards of the dictator with the right aesthetic, means Apple is doomed?
Why are Europeans so hung up on food?
that basically boil down to "you have to respect me but i don't have to respect you"
for example, the muslim world has tons of hate against judaism and christianity which isn't punished. nevermind that mobs of jews and christians aren't threatening death and destruction because of it