The telephone company and the government are essentially the same entity and are trying to strip you of your humanity and incorporate the aspects of you which are of interest to them.
And you SHALL use it in such a manner as PLEASES US or you SHALL be subject to the CONSEQUENCES fitting an irreverent deviant who would take liberties with such great art that he hardly has the right to behold from afar! The time for organic language has passed! By divine mandate we have been granted the power to engineer language and in turn engineer minds! Your instincts are irrelevant and must be put down!
Don't forget, censorship is the bane of humanity and you should recognize it in all of its forms.
You had no arguments. You just referenced some sources and took credit for something like "reading between the lines" for simply paraphrasing their content with absolutely no sign of critical thought.
You are a myopic little gremlin. You cannot be considered truly human, unless a parrot could also be considered so.
you lose. "I DECLARE NAME-CALLING, THIS EXEMPTS ME FROM JUSTIFY MY POINT OF VIEW EVEN TO MYSELF" brainlessness
There is no USA that stands alone. There is no nationalism in the upper echelons of western society. There is no benefit to that kind of thinking to people who conduct business across national borders, it would only be a hinderance in competition. There is no Europe that stands alone for the same reason. For big events, all is one. Only for small issues of governance is there any difference, and these are insignificant in the context of the events we are discussing here.
Do you see how this is a much bigger idea than yours and how it encompasses the scope of your entire conversation? You are clearly fixed on your habit of myopic examination of events that are fed to you pre-digested. You think you can defend your stupid view of the world by taking any comer and cherrypicking aspects of their rhetoric to "refute" with your insubstantial statements that jump away from the terms of the present conversation.
You have no idea how the world works. You are invested in a point of view that does not serve you. You probably have a decent job and all you need taken care of and this is all the reason you need to adopt dogma and destroy your own mind out of the cowardly fear that it would be taken against you by the enemies of the entity that provides for you. Wake up
Brainwashed idiots. Aren't they fun. Why is it that everyone with this signature: "Somewhere in Chicago a community is missing its organizer" is a completely unreasoning moron?
There is no USA that stands alone. There is no nationalism in the upper echelons of western society. There is no benefit to that kind of thinking to people who conduct business across national borders, it would only be a hinderance in competition. There is no Europe that stands alone for the same reason. For big events, all is one. Only for small issues of governance is there any difference, and these are insignificant in the context of the events we are discussing here.
Do you see how this is a much bigger idea than yours and how it encompasses the scope of your entire conversation? You are clearly fixed on your habit of myopic examination of events that are fed to you pre-digested. You think you can defend your stupid view of the world by taking any comer and cherrypicking aspects of their rhetoric to "refute" with your insubstantial statements that jump away from the terms of the present conversation.
You have no idea how the world works. You are invested in a point of view that does not serve you. You probably have a decent job and all you need taken care of and this is all the reason you need to adopt dogma and destroy your own mind out of the cowardly fear that it would be taken against you by the enemies of the entity that provides for you. Wake up
You are not using your senses. You are picking only one and assuming that everything is accessible through this one sense.
Propaganda is the context of the script of your life. You can't see it without being self-aware and self-critical (being a real human being, not an animalized human)
You have bought a bunch of propaganda without understanding the context from your own investigation.
Your declaration of "facts" is completely unsubstantiated. Your references are very high-level (generalized conclusions) and unsupportable. Your post in pure garbage on those grounds alone. Additionally your point of view is completely wrong and ignorant of several huge obvious facts about the world.
There is no USA that stands alone. There is no nationalism in the upper echelons of western society. There is no benefit to that kind of thinking to people who conduct business across national borders, it would only be a hinderance in competition. There is no Europe that stands alone for the same reason. For big events, all is one. Only for small issues of governance is there any difference, and these are insignificant in the context of the events we are discussing here.
America is the clearinghouse for military contracts originated throughout the western-controlled world. America's acquisitions are constant. Calling a piece of land part of the USA is an insignificant designation. At least official annexation is honest and true.
America dominated West Germany and Japan and is the beat stick of an empire, or America is not the arm of an empire and is it's own insular entity: pick one.
But to go down to your level: America's last land acquisition was not Hawaii. It was Iraq and Afghanistan.
I say again: Get rid of your idiotic view of nationalism. It isn't relevant and will never be again.
okay how do you know any of that? How does that fit in with them being highly educated highly paid highly popular highly successful members of society? you think they don't know anyone who seriously knows about any given industry? you don't think they are FRIENDS with such people? you think they don't talk to these people and get honest opinions?
Are you a sentient being? Seriously, your point of view is literally retarded. You. Are. The. Problem. You are too cowardly to look at things for what they obviously are. If you want to help, just stand aside, and shut up.
You are a HUGE part of this problem because you think about things like this. They are not ignorant. They know exactly what they are doing and also how it looks to you. That is their job. That is their purpose in life. You need to sit down and have a long, long think. Who is pressuring the government to be the hand that intercepts all communications and why? What is really done with this data? Who really has access to it? What are the possibilities of what could happen if a malicious and powerful entity had access to this data? This will no doubt yield some very dark answers if you bother to think it through. Or you could keep playing the fool and just shrug all that off and say "HUH I GUESS THEY'RE JUST SOME DUMMIES LOL". The truth is everyone with money is waging a war against you. You are being hunted like any beast.
They are winning the war without resistance. Apparently there was no backlash against mass surveillance. Now that they won that huge and pivotal "battle" (massacre) they are moving to round up the guerillas.
And no, you are not entitled to your opinion. This is not kindergarten. Don't you have a family depending on you? You "being entitled to your opinion" could cost them their future, and the future of everyone around you. You must have a realistic point of view. Opinions are for things that don't matter.
the philosophical question what "random" means is completely immaterial
Yes, just like ALL philosophical questions, isn't that right? We just need to get our job done and then EVERYTHING is just fine! We don't have to worry about anything else, ever. Curiosity killed the cat. Blinders on, job done, life good. This is how our ancestors went from common apes to homo sapiens. And anyway, what makes it doesn't keep it!
Or you could not be fucking retarded. It may be tempting to go with the flow, but the tradeoff is the loss of your humanity: that which made us human, that which makes us human: true curiosity, imagination, and critical thought.
The truest definition of "random" is "originating from dimensions beyond comprehension", but the common feeling of what "random" means is covered in several layers of ignorance over this. The problem with that is that the ability of people to comprehend generally varies wildly and this ability is always being improved secretly. So it's really a useless idea, and as with all useless things that get used, it is very detrimental.
Everything comes from something else. This idea is absolutely the central pillar of THE MEANING OF LIFE: uncovering the particular dimensions that give existence to the things that please your senses and consciousness and understanding them and then in turn uncovering the particular dimensions comprising those and so on. This is the origin of true power. Everything that everyone has ever done is an attempt to follow this principle. Unfortunately when most people are unable, after thorough investigation, to justify particular aspects of themselves in terms of finer dimensions they rarely draw the conclusion that that aspect of themselves is false and detrimental. This is because their emotion overwhelms their reason. This phenomenon is caused by the lack of resources which make a human most human: generally; freedom. This is the origin of the lesser kind of power that dominates our lives today.
I mean who can really disagree with this? It's the truth that rams you in the face every day, but how often do you take it by the horns?
what is "ludicrous" is that such things are being done while the food that could be fed to those who are starving is processed into alcohol. It's genocide.
Borders mean very little in this world. The west is for all purposes a unified government. Most African countries are owned by the west. "Independence" means absolutely nothing; it is just a show to placate stupid jealous subjects and to compartmentalize failure for the very rich and success for the less wealthy.
Russia and China are separate, yes. But they do not have many starving people in their lands.
The countries with the most starvation are more or less under the direct control of the west. And they are kept in that state for the sole reason that breaking their will by starvation is easier than fighting wars against them. Such situations result in a few powerful leaders that can easily be bought.
Save your "that's not what I learned in school" comments for yourself.
The sensations that come from our organs (other than the brain) profoundly influence our consciousness. Our mood, our thoughts, everything. What if our consciousness is not just centered in the brain but spread throughout the whole body? Do organs have their own consciousness that is a direct constituent of the highest-level consciousness of thought? Are there thoughts that you have that are a direct reflection of the sensation of a specific organ other than the ears, eyes, nose, and tongue?
People are trained like dogs to eschew these kinds of questions, for precisely the reason that they interfere with commerce. But they must be answered eventually or humanity's greed will catch up with it: we will develop arts too powerful and create something we don't understand that consumes us. Possible candidates so far are the media, nuclear energy, and artificial intelligence. What next?
The simple truth is this: some people are taking advantage of the relative standstill in the last ~2000 years of human moral development and education to do something horribly wrong, in every sense of the word, that they do not understand the implications of. Indeed, this is the story of modern civilization in general.
When you eat and what you eat should depend on when you are active and how you are active so that your blood is rich leading up to periods of increased activity. This situation molds an overall conditioned response to your daily routine in terms of hormone production, which, among just about everything else you feel, is what causes you to be hungry, meaning you're anticipating a workload and feel that you ought to fuel up.
But you don't have to eat for energy to be mobilized to the blood due to the fact that you have body fat. But it's not possible for some people to utilize this faculty due to their poor diet.
The root of the problem is that people jam up their hormones, especially insulin, by eating grain and sugar which makes the body produce hormones out of proportion to what is preferable. Hormones have multiple functions and triggering too much production of a hormone for one task will disrupt all of its other tasks. Simply put humans are not genetically suited to diets based on carbohydrates.
I'm afraid your ideas of the proportions of the population in terms of various designations of fervor about crime are askew.
Voting does not matter. The system has been broken. It's been figured out. The only candidates supplied are those that will follow the chain of command, or the only people voting are those that will follow the chain of command.
The only people who vote in local elections are, honestly, complete freaks. The do not vote out of honest concern, they vote to fit in. They vote to brag about what they vote for. They vote for revenge against innocents that they lump in with those who have given them so much as a small slight.
There is no democracy because there is no free will exercised in societal interaction. People have given up their faculties in order to fit in to a system that does not benefit them in any way. Survival is useless when it requires a stripped-down life. Giving up your freedom for pleasure ensures that your instincts will be useless to you and you will not achieve you potential in any way. It ensures that you have no discipline to apply your will to what is critical to your life. People save what tiny amount of free will they have left for their own petty concerns. Everything else is irrational conformity; triggered behavior from classical conditioning.
There is no such thing as "freedom for yourself". You rely on the competition caused by those that are also free. A world of slaves will quickly fail.
This is why it matters who wins the mayor and city council races. Localities do not have to accept this technology.
No. The reality is that there is a chain of command and that the most spineless lightweights occupy lower offices. They will do whatever they are pressured to do from the next level up, and so on.
Stop living under the delusion that there is democracy in the world. The only way you could argue that there is democracy is if 95+% of humans don't count as people. Which is pretty much the argument the top of the hierarchy makes.
Slashdot Mirror
Hardly the point.
The telephone company and the government are essentially the same entity and are trying to strip you of your humanity and incorporate the aspects of you which are of interest to them.
And you SHALL use it in such a manner as PLEASES US or you SHALL be subject to the CONSEQUENCES fitting an irreverent deviant who would take liberties with such great art that he hardly has the right to behold from afar!
The time for organic language has passed! By divine mandate we have been granted the power to engineer language and in turn engineer minds! Your instincts are irrelevant and must be put down!
Don't forget, censorship is the bane of humanity and you should recognize it in all of its forms.
You had no arguments. You just referenced some sources and took credit for something like "reading between the lines" for simply paraphrasing their content with absolutely no sign of critical thought.
You are a myopic little gremlin. You cannot be considered truly human, unless a parrot could also be considered so.
you lose. "I DECLARE NAME-CALLING, THIS EXEMPTS ME FROM JUSTIFY MY POINT OF VIEW EVEN TO MYSELF"
brainlessness
There is no USA that stands alone. There is no nationalism in the upper echelons of western society. There is no benefit to that kind of thinking to people who conduct business across national borders, it would only be a hinderance in competition. There is no Europe that stands alone for the same reason. For big events, all is one. Only for small issues of governance is there any difference, and these are insignificant in the context of the events we are discussing here.
Do you see how this is a much bigger idea than yours and how it encompasses the scope of your entire conversation? You are clearly fixed on your habit of myopic examination of events that are fed to you pre-digested. You think you can defend your stupid view of the world by taking any comer and cherrypicking aspects of their rhetoric to "refute" with your insubstantial statements that jump away from the terms of the present conversation.
You have no idea how the world works. You are invested in a point of view that does not serve you.
You probably have a decent job and all you need taken care of and this is all the reason you need to adopt dogma and destroy your own mind out of the cowardly fear that it would be taken against you by the enemies of the entity that provides for you.
Wake up
Brainwashed idiots. Aren't they fun.
Why is it that everyone with this signature: "Somewhere in Chicago a community is missing its organizer" is a completely unreasoning moron?
There is no USA that stands alone. There is no nationalism in the upper echelons of western society. There is no benefit to that kind of thinking to people who conduct business across national borders, it would only be a hinderance in competition. There is no Europe that stands alone for the same reason. For big events, all is one. Only for small issues of governance is there any difference, and these are insignificant in the context of the events we are discussing here.
Do you see how this is a much bigger idea than yours and how it encompasses the scope of your entire conversation? You are clearly fixed on your habit of myopic examination of events that are fed to you pre-digested. You think you can defend your stupid view of the world by taking any comer and cherrypicking aspects of their rhetoric to "refute" with your insubstantial statements that jump away from the terms of the present conversation.
You have no idea how the world works. You are invested in a point of view that does not serve you.
You probably have a decent job and all you need taken care of and this is all the reason you need to adopt dogma and destroy your own mind out of the cowardly fear that it would be taken against you by the enemies of the entity that provides for you.
Wake up
thanks for drawing attention to the most important problem in the world for most people.
Can we take this opportunity to admit that Slashdot is a willing outlet for propaganda and that it could stand up for itself but doesn't?
Let's play Spot the Person with a Raging Inferiority Complex!
You are totally insane
>Only recently has society been able to start loosening that grip and begin the path to becoming the nation we were intended to be
Mass surveillance.
Stuff yourself down the incinerate chute.
Propaganda is the air around you.
How can it be pointed to?
You are not using your senses. You are picking only one and assuming that everything is accessible through this one sense.
Propaganda is the context of the script of your life. You can't see it without being self-aware and self-critical (being a real human being, not an animalized human)
You have bought a bunch of propaganda without understanding the context from your own investigation.
Your declaration of "facts" is completely unsubstantiated. Your references are very high-level (generalized conclusions) and unsupportable. Your post in pure garbage on those grounds alone.
Additionally your point of view is completely wrong and ignorant of several huge obvious facts about the world.
There is no USA that stands alone. There is no nationalism in the upper echelons of western society. There is no benefit to that kind of thinking to people who conduct business across national borders, it would only be a hinderance in competition. There is no Europe that stands alone for the same reason. For big events, all is one. Only for small issues of governance is there any difference, and these are insignificant in the context of the events we are discussing here.
America is the clearinghouse for military contracts originated throughout the western-controlled world. America's acquisitions are constant. Calling a piece of land part of the USA is an insignificant designation.
At least official annexation is honest and true.
America dominated West Germany and Japan and is the beat stick of an empire, or America is not the arm of an empire and is it's own insular entity: pick one.
But to go down to your level:
America's last land acquisition was not Hawaii. It was Iraq and Afghanistan.
I say again: Get rid of your idiotic view of nationalism. It isn't relevant and will never be again.
You seem really stupid and dogmatic.
What is wrong with hate as motivation? How is it necessarily irrational?
uh yeah try convincing capitalism of that
Wow. Usually they conceal their bullshit attempts to change public opinion at least slightly.
This site is part of this propaganda machine and you trust in more than you should.
Well did you?
okay how do you know any of that? How does that fit in with them being highly educated highly paid highly popular highly successful members of society?
you think they don't know anyone who seriously knows about any given industry? you don't think they are FRIENDS with such people? you think they don't talk to these people and get honest opinions?
Are you a sentient being? Seriously, your point of view is literally retarded.
You. Are. The. Problem.
You are too cowardly to look at things for what they obviously are. If you want to help, just stand aside, and shut up.
You are a HUGE part of this problem because you think about things like this.
They are not ignorant. They know exactly what they are doing and also how it looks to you. That is their job. That is their purpose in life.
You need to sit down and have a long, long think.
Who is pressuring the government to be the hand that intercepts all communications and why? What is really done with this data? Who really has access to it? What are the possibilities of what could happen if a malicious and powerful entity had access to this data?
This will no doubt yield some very dark answers if you bother to think it through.
Or you could keep playing the fool and just shrug all that off and say "HUH I GUESS THEY'RE JUST SOME DUMMIES LOL".
The truth is everyone with money is waging a war against you. You are being hunted like any beast.
They are winning the war without resistance. Apparently there was no backlash against mass surveillance. Now that they won that huge and pivotal "battle" (massacre) they are moving to round up the guerillas.
And no, you are not entitled to your opinion. This is not kindergarten. Don't you have a family depending on you? You "being entitled to your opinion" could cost them their future, and the future of everyone around you. You must have a realistic point of view. Opinions are for things that don't matter.
And you should care why
Yes, just like ALL philosophical questions, isn't that right?
We just need to get our job done and then EVERYTHING is just fine! We don't have to worry about anything else, ever. Curiosity killed the cat. Blinders on, job done, life good. This is how our ancestors went from common apes to homo sapiens. And anyway, what makes it doesn't keep it!
Or you could not be fucking retarded.
It may be tempting to go with the flow, but the tradeoff is the loss of your humanity: that which made us human, that which makes us human: true curiosity, imagination, and critical thought.
The truest definition of "random" is "originating from dimensions beyond comprehension", but the common feeling of what "random" means is covered in several layers of ignorance over this. The problem with that is that the ability of people to comprehend generally varies wildly and this ability is always being improved secretly. So it's really a useless idea, and as with all useless things that get used, it is very detrimental.
Everything comes from something else.
This idea is absolutely the central pillar of THE MEANING OF LIFE: uncovering the particular dimensions that give existence to the things that please your senses and consciousness and understanding them and then in turn uncovering the particular dimensions comprising those and so on. This is the origin of true power. Everything that everyone has ever done is an attempt to follow this principle.
Unfortunately when most people are unable, after thorough investigation, to justify particular aspects of themselves in terms of finer dimensions they rarely draw the conclusion that that aspect of themselves is false and detrimental. This is because their emotion overwhelms their reason. This phenomenon is caused by the lack of resources which make a human most human: generally; freedom. This is the origin of the lesser kind of power that dominates our lives today.
I mean who can really disagree with this? It's the truth that rams you in the face every day, but how often do you take it by the horns?
Some dogs go BARK BARK BARK
the mangiest go NO NO NO
mod you down
what is "ludicrous" is that such things are being done while the food that could be fed to those who are starving is processed into alcohol.
It's genocide.
Borders mean very little in this world. The west is for all purposes a unified government. Most African countries are owned by the west. "Independence" means absolutely nothing; it is just a show to placate stupid jealous subjects and to compartmentalize failure for the very rich and success for the less wealthy.
Russia and China are separate, yes.
But they do not have many starving people in their lands.
The countries with the most starvation are more or less under the direct control of the west. And they are kept in that state for the sole reason that breaking their will by starvation is easier than fighting wars against them. Such situations result in a few powerful leaders that can easily be bought.
Save your "that's not what I learned in school" comments for yourself.
The sensations that come from our organs (other than the brain) profoundly influence our consciousness. Our mood, our thoughts, everything.
What if our consciousness is not just centered in the brain but spread throughout the whole body?
Do organs have their own consciousness that is a direct constituent of the highest-level consciousness of thought? Are there thoughts that you have that are a direct reflection of the sensation of a specific organ other than the ears, eyes, nose, and tongue?
People are trained like dogs to eschew these kinds of questions, for precisely the reason that they interfere with commerce. But they must be answered eventually or humanity's greed will catch up with it: we will develop arts too powerful and create something we don't understand that consumes us. Possible candidates so far are the media, nuclear energy, and artificial intelligence. What next?
The simple truth is this: some people are taking advantage of the relative standstill in the last ~2000 years of human moral development and education to do something horribly wrong, in every sense of the word, that they do not understand the implications of.
Indeed, this is the story of modern civilization in general.
When you eat and what you eat should depend on when you are active and how you are active so that your blood is rich leading up to periods of increased activity. This situation molds an overall conditioned response to your daily routine in terms of hormone production, which, among just about everything else you feel, is what causes you to be hungry, meaning you're anticipating a workload and feel that you ought to fuel up.
But you don't have to eat for energy to be mobilized to the blood due to the fact that you have body fat. But it's not possible for some people to utilize this faculty due to their poor diet.
The root of the problem is that people jam up their hormones, especially insulin, by eating grain and sugar which makes the body produce hormones out of proportion to what is preferable.
Hormones have multiple functions and triggering too much production of a hormone for one task will disrupt all of its other tasks. Simply put humans are not genetically suited to diets based on carbohydrates.
I'm afraid your ideas of the proportions of the population in terms of various designations of fervor about crime are askew.
Voting does not matter. The system has been broken. It's been figured out. The only candidates supplied are those that will follow the chain of command, or the only people voting are those that will follow the chain of command.
The only people who vote in local elections are, honestly, complete freaks. The do not vote out of honest concern, they vote to fit in. They vote to brag about what they vote for. They vote for revenge against innocents that they lump in with those who have given them so much as a small slight.
There is no democracy because there is no free will exercised in societal interaction. People have given up their faculties in order to fit in to a system that does not benefit them in any way. Survival is useless when it requires a stripped-down life. Giving up your freedom for pleasure ensures that your instincts will be useless to you and you will not achieve you potential in any way. It ensures that you have no discipline to apply your will to what is critical to your life. People save what tiny amount of free will they have left for their own petty concerns. Everything else is irrational conformity; triggered behavior from classical conditioning.
There is no such thing as "freedom for yourself". You rely on the competition caused by those that are also free. A world of slaves will quickly fail.
No. The reality is that there is a chain of command and that the most spineless lightweights occupy lower offices. They will do whatever they are pressured to do from the next level up, and so on.
Stop living under the delusion that there is democracy in the world.
The only way you could argue that there is democracy is if 95+% of humans don't count as people. Which is pretty much the argument the top of the hierarchy makes.
LOL
Ok now try to explain that to some one who bought into it unknowingly and structured their life assuming that it was true.
This is the intent behind such advertisement campaigns. To force as many people as possible into a weak position for the benefit of the advertiser.
Google is basically an appendage of the US government for almost every practical intent and purpose.