Just live a good life! Happiness is a way of living, not a goal.
It seems that if you are in search of happiness, you are discontent, and will be subject to manipulation by whomever promises the Holy Grail of Happiness (just buy the book, OK?).
Contentment, now that's where it's at. You can then be happy anywhere, anytime, you don't dance to the marketers' tunes, plus you get to have a virtue.
I have a very low threshold for boredom. Everything bores the crap out of me. Even the fun stuff like gaming and being with my girlfriend.
Do I need a shrink or something?
No, you just missed your calling in Marketing and Advertising.
How often do they consider how it would feel if these laws were applied to them?
Uhh, the State (that is, someone working as an agent of the State) gets to do all sorts of things that are illegal for us non-State individuals to do. Nice job.
Check out the vocabulary and grammar. I hope we're educating comparable citizens in similar proportions today to what it was then, but somehow I doubt it...
It's not to the State's benefit to have such well-educated independent thinkers. And guess who does the educating nowdays?
Government is a cartell, trying to work out how much they can screw you over without being overturned.
Government is a "legal" monopoly on violence in a geographical area. If we all didn't simply accept it's existence on blind faith, we'd see it as the mafia-like protection racket that it is.
This underscores why the greatest dangers to our freedoms, including our freedom of speech, doesn't come from our government (although it is a threat, as current trends toward greater authoritariansim in the terrorist hysteria left by the wake of 9/11), but from private enterprise, corporations, and simple, unfettered greed.
Maybe. Who _enforces_ these laws, except the State with it's arsenal of weaponry and jails? What is sad is how the State, powerful as it is, is now the toady of the global corporate managers.
So is it the Mafia Don, or his thugs, that are the danger? I guess both working together. Without the Don, the thugs are still dangerous, but the Don gives the direction, the vision, the coordination to the thug rabble. And that's _really_ dangerous.
Look at this: you have the Dems, who just adore the State, and the Repubs, who just adore Big Business. And they fit together now like a hand and a glove (an Iron Fist, eh?)
That's why a global state really scares me. There is no opt out. You have an offer you can't refuse.
Successfully preserving freedom depends on the creation of regulations that specifically reserve rights to the people.
Question: what do you do when the State _creates_ the regulations, _interprets_ them, and _enforces_ them? You're hosed: everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing
against the state. An insightful post, though.
13) Discourage common courtesy - glorify rudeness and arrogance as being "forceful and dynamic". However, make sure that anybody who dares to critisize somebody for their rudeness is called "intolerant". Manners are the oil that lubricates society - throw as much grit in there as you can.
Now, criticizing rudeness is really quite rude, according to Miss Manners. The problem is that the rude people are too clueless to understand polite put-downs. The end (good manners) doesn't justify the means (bad manners). I think there's nothing you can do: Western Civ as we know it is DEAD DEAD DEAD by suicide.
Why would you post a cut and paste from 4 days ago, then why do the moderators follow along as good little sheep and mod it up as interesting and insightful?
Because the editors dropped the ball on reposting the story the next day?
Well in order for them to take any legal action on my behalf (along with the millions of other Americans with phones), I'd have to join their class action lawsuit. Which I wouldn't do even if it were the last class action lawsuit in the world, or even if me and their class action lawsuit were stranded on a desert island together.
There are lots of people who would join. The 12 jurors on the OJ Simpson case come to mind.
The government should make the bottom of the river a national park. This would ensure that the ships are preserved as long as our country.
The old Tacoma Narrows bridge ("Galloping Gertie") that went down in high winds in 1940(?) is a protected underwater landmark. You've all seen the video, right? Wouldn't want the souvenir hunters stripping it to nothing. Although why a collapsed bridge should be preserved is beyond me. It has no historical value at all. It's just a massive engineering failure.
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No he does not--you do. He equated ability to communicate with fitness for a job.
And if everyone ignored the naysayers, we'd still have Microsoft Bob.
Mitnick cracked their system, stole the docs, but they were in e-book format, so he used Slyarov's software to decrypt it.
It seems that if you are in search of happiness, you are discontent, and will be subject to manipulation by whomever promises the Holy Grail of Happiness (just buy the book, OK?).
Contentment, now that's where it's at. You can then be happy anywhere, anytime, you don't dance to the marketers' tunes, plus you get to have a virtue.
No, you just missed your calling in Marketing and Advertising.
This is a hoot. NO ONE posting here on /. seems to think that. We are all incredibly happy, pursuing our loves, heedless of money. I know I am!
Uhh, the State (that is, someone working as an agent of the State) gets to do all sorts of things that are illegal for us non-State individuals to do. Nice job.
It's not to the State's benefit to have such well-educated independent thinkers. And guess who does the educating nowdays?
Government is a "legal" monopoly on violence in a geographical area. If we all didn't simply accept it's existence on blind faith, we'd see it as the mafia-like protection racket that it is.
"Pow! Zoom!"
"One of these days, Alice!"
Can a state legislature do so? For its own state? After all, the BoR says "Congress".
Maybe. Who _enforces_ these laws, except the State with it's arsenal of weaponry and jails? What is sad is how the State, powerful as it is, is now the toady of the global corporate managers. So is it the Mafia Don, or his thugs, that are the danger? I guess both working together. Without the Don, the thugs are still dangerous, but the Don gives the direction, the vision, the coordination to the thug rabble. And that's _really_ dangerous.
Look at this: you have the Dems, who just adore the State, and the Repubs, who just adore Big Business. And they fit together now like a hand and a glove (an Iron Fist, eh?)
That's why a global state really scares me. There is no opt out. You have an offer you can't refuse.
Question: what do you do when the State _creates_ the regulations, _interprets_ them, and _enforces_ them? You're hosed: everything in the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. An insightful post, though.
For someone who poses as "radicalsubversiv" you sure do parrot the Statist Establishment Status Quo quite well.
Now, criticizing rudeness is really quite rude, according to Miss Manners. The problem is that the rude people are too clueless to understand polite put-downs. The end (good manners) doesn't justify the means (bad manners). I think there's nothing you can do: Western Civ as we know it is DEAD DEAD DEAD by suicide.
Because the editors dropped the ball on reposting the story the next day?
Ahh, Wal-Mart. The place to go to feel thin again.
There are lots of people who would join. The 12 jurors on the OJ Simpson case come to mind.
Good idea, but the DMA already has been using it for a long time now.
Is that an oblique reference to B*** G****?
They're already harassing you for free.
It just might be easier to download RedHat, install it, and maintain it with your RNH account. Then your problem's gone!
Because that's often how God does things--Tolkein was a devout Catholic, and his views of how God works (providence) permeate the LOTR.
LOTR is a Heroic Epic. Why would Jackson wreck one of the heroes? Maybe he was talking with Jar Jar.
The old Tacoma Narrows bridge ("Galloping Gertie") that went down in high winds in 1940(?) is a protected underwater landmark. You've all seen the video, right? Wouldn't want the souvenir hunters stripping it to nothing. Although why a collapsed bridge should be preserved is beyond me. It has no historical value at all. It's just a massive engineering failure.