don't do something you wouldn't want your mother to know about.
Well, that's almost a good life philosophy, but I'd rather put it like this: "Don't do anything you wouldn't want your girlfriend to know about - except jerking off to pr0n."
One's mom is of totally different generation and doesn't approve many things that one's own generation view as perfectly okay. For example, I for one think that smoking weed is perfectly okay, as do many others of my generation, whereas my mom would probably send me to rehab the second she found out I sometimes smoke.
Our thinking and strategy militarily has always centered around repeling a conqueroring invasion.
Forgive me for bursting your bubble, but this is simply bullshit. USA is not, repeat not what any sane person would consider a "peaceful country". USA began it's own imperialist adventures well before the 20th century, and after WWI and WWII leveraged it into a leading position, it has relentlessly sought military confrontation whenever there are (perceived) rewards to be reaped or (perceived) threats to thwart. Practically, USA has been in a constant war ever since WWII. And mostly, it has had nothing to do with defending itself or it's citizens.
But hey: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Hear hear, check out the pic link on the parent! Take a careful look. Now, imagine that HE is giving "sex tips" to geeks. Yikes!
Actually, I'm quite convinced that the whole sex tips thing and the slogan "Sex, software, science-fiction, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures..." on his extreme-right whacko blog page (http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/) are a crude attempt to lead people believe that ESR has actually had sex. Which, judging from the picture, is very unlikely!
"Your assumption is that China will "do bad things" if it becomes a superpower, but I don't think that is a given."
Given the things they've already done, they don't need to become a superpower to do bad things - ask a Tibetan
Given the things Americans have already done, they obviously need to be a superpower in order to do bad things - ask an American Indian. Or a Dominican. Or a Guatemalan. Or an Indonesian. Or a Chilean. Or a Brazilian. Or an Argentinean. Or an El Salvadorian. Or a Nicaraguan. Or a Panaman. Or a... Well, you get the point.
Has it occured to you, that the way to economical equilibrium is long and hard and littered with dead bodies and toxic dumps?
Globalization is driven by corpotations, because they can benefit from it in the form of low wages and non-existent worker rights. Equillibrium would ruin that. Thus, corporations will do everything in their power to avoid that. And trust me, corporations wield more than enough power!
Even if capitalism was that magic silver bullet we've been led (or should I say "indoctrinated" or even "brainwashed"?) to believe, it will take a considerable time to reach equilibrium. That will be millions and millions of lives ruined by uncertainty, debt and unemployment.
I've been there: I've seen my dad out of work and felt the economical blow. And right now I'm scared to death because of outsourcing: I owe the bank big time for my apartment and my employer has allready started offshoring work and treating it's local employees as dead weight. Most of you will get bitch-slapped by the oh-so-wonderful invisible hand of capitalism sooner or later. You are not special. You, too, are disposable.
Wealth is not a physical object, but it's value is based on goods and services. Which, in turn, are very real, and often in a sense, limited. Americans and most westerners are very efficiently indoctrinated to the belief that wealth materializes out of thin air (provided that capitalists are given free reign). This simply isn't true. Sure, a large portion of the economy is just hot air (stock market speculations, futures etc), but money is still just a currency for trading very real goods and services.
The current economical world order is starting to resemble a house of cards. And when all this outsourcing and cost-cutting reaches a certain level, the middle-class won't have enough purchasing power to keep the system afloat...
Yes, democracy. By the way, it was socialists who won democracy for the masses in Europe.
I understand that real democracy is hard to achieve, one of the reasons being that not all people will be interested in participating, let alone informed enough to make reasonable decisions. The point is, that if those who do participate don't represent those who don't, they always have the option to begin participating. Nice safeguard. Also, taking as much of decision-making to local level can greatly boost people's interest. (Umm, yes I do have a little anarcho-socialist twist in me.)
Quite funny how you deny all my statements based on lack of logic and/or evidence, yet there's none to back your own statement. Adding an ad hominem attack further discredits you.
What do you mean by "parasite"? I'm working class (though according to my income I'm probably middle class or upper middle class, but I think it's not simply a matter of income), ie. I work. That can hardly be said about many capitalists.
"To accomplish this act of universal emancipation is the historical mission of the modern proletariat." -- Friedrick Engels, Communism: Utopian and Scientific
I suppose you're saying that communism doesn't aim to benefit the bourgeoisie or the capitalist. You're partly right - but the point is, that if political power and means of production are under collective control, the privileged class simply disappears. If they, as individuals, do not have greater privileges, they essentially become proletariat - whom the communist utopia aims to serve!:)
The other alternative is, that you equate "Communism" with the USSR and similar totalitarian regimes that claim to be communist.
They earn? THEY earn? Anyone really making money makes it from other people's work. Fact!
Think for a second. Why would a capitalist employ you? (Or anyone?) To make money for himself, that's right! And how does he make that money? By paying you less than what your work is worth, so that he can keep a "healthy" profit margin. Thus, every single capitalist is getting richer by stealing from the working class. Some people think that they're entitled to that, since they're providing the means (capital, infrastructure, whatever) of production. But what are they getting compensated for? For being born rich? Don't give me any bullshit about the American Dream and how anyone can make a fortune by being smart and hard-working. USA is a stagnant class society, just like any capitalist society. A huge majority of capitalists are born capitalists, just like people born poor usually die poor. And to add injury to the insult, the society is dishing out privileges and tax cuts for the elite at every possible turn - because the society is being run by the elite. How many working class senators or presidents can you name?!
A capitalist society is inherently undemocratic and unjust.
Uh, but what you're talking about is Communism and it's inherently eeeevil. Surely you see that a society which aims for a good and secure life for all it's citizens instead of amassing wealth to a few old, hopelessly white and male Republican assholes, is truly a Domain of Evil!
Well, seriously... I think humanity has already passed the technical milestone after which it could ensure life and liberty to everyone. But sadly it's not in the best interest of those in power. So, no Star Trek utopia for the time being. Duh.
And no, I don't miss Soviet Union a bit. I am a socialist, which is worlds apart from stalinists/maioists. Socialism/marxism really is about building a better society - something loooong overdue.
NIO is a JDK1.4 feature, and the "official" native JDK is 1.3... Let's hope it won't be long until 1.4, there are already "unofficial" source releases which, AFAIK, are beginning to be quite functional.
The Evolution vs Creation dispute is dead and buried here in Finland, and I guess in other Nordic and a majority of other European countries as well. Been so for decades. Naturally there are different "fringe cults" which are fanatically creationist, but they're insignificant.
1) Not true. I used to frequently read the mailing lists and people were generally being very helpful. 2) RTFM. The friendly FreeBSD folks actually document stuff.
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You're an American, right?
In honor of the creators of X-Com, 115 should be called Gollopium.
Howzabout the EU go capture the US flag? Ha ha, that'd be the ultimate Capture The Flag game!
Second that! Actually, I'm downloading Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works II" as I type this.
Where are my mod points when I need them?! Mod parent through the roof!
Well, that's almost a good life philosophy, but I'd rather put it like this: "Don't do anything you wouldn't want your girlfriend to know about - except jerking off to pr0n."
One's mom is of totally different generation and doesn't approve many things that one's own generation view as perfectly okay. For example, I for one think that smoking weed is perfectly okay, as do many others of my generation, whereas my mom would probably send me to rehab the second she found out I sometimes smoke.
Get your facts straight. They don't have welfare in "Red" China.
Umm, you're not talking about anime, are you?
DUH! It's for use against the evil socialist pinko cheese-eating surrender monkey Yuropians, stupid!!!
Our thinking and strategy militarily has always centered around repeling a conqueroring invasion.
Forgive me for bursting your bubble, but this is simply bullshit. USA is not, repeat not what any sane person would consider a "peaceful country". USA began it's own imperialist adventures well before the 20th century, and after WWI and WWII leveraged it into a leading position, it has relentlessly sought military confrontation whenever there are (perceived) rewards to be reaped or (perceived) threats to thwart. Practically, USA has been in a constant war ever since WWII. And mostly, it has had nothing to do with defending itself or it's citizens.
But hey:
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Moderators are simply no good these days... MOD PARENT UP!
Hear hear, check out the pic link on the parent! Take a careful look. Now, imagine that HE is giving "sex tips" to geeks. Yikes!
Actually, I'm quite convinced that the whole sex tips thing and the slogan "Sex, software, science-fiction, politics, and firearms. Life's simple pleasures..." on his extreme-right whacko blog page (http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/) are a crude attempt to lead people believe that ESR has actually had sex. Which, judging from the picture, is very unlikely!
"Your assumption is that China will "do bad things" if it becomes a superpower, but I don't think that is a given."
Given the things they've already done, they don't need to become a superpower to do bad things - ask a Tibetan
Given the things Americans have already done, they obviously need to be a superpower in order to do bad things - ask an American Indian. Or a Dominican. Or a Guatemalan. Or an Indonesian. Or a Chilean. Or a Brazilian. Or an Argentinean. Or an El Salvadorian. Or a Nicaraguan. Or a Panaman. Or a... Well, you get the point.
Has it occured to you, that the way to economical equilibrium is long and hard and littered with dead bodies and toxic dumps?
Globalization is driven by corpotations, because they can benefit from it in the form of low wages and non-existent worker rights. Equillibrium would ruin that. Thus, corporations will do everything in their power to avoid that. And trust me, corporations wield more than enough power!
Even if capitalism was that magic silver bullet we've been led (or should I say "indoctrinated" or even "brainwashed"?) to believe, it will take a considerable time to reach equilibrium. That will be millions and millions of lives ruined by uncertainty, debt and unemployment.
I've been there: I've seen my dad out of work and felt the economical blow. And right now I'm scared to death because of outsourcing: I owe the bank big time for my apartment and my employer has allready started offshoring work and treating it's local employees as dead weight.
Most of you will get bitch-slapped by the oh-so-wonderful invisible hand of capitalism sooner or later. You are not special. You, too, are disposable.
Wealth is not a physical object, but it's value is based on goods and services. Which, in turn, are very real, and often in a sense, limited. Americans and most westerners are very efficiently indoctrinated to the belief that wealth materializes out of thin air (provided that capitalists are given free reign). This simply isn't true. Sure, a large portion of the economy is just hot air (stock market speculations, futures etc), but money is still just a currency for trading very real goods and services.
The current economical world order is starting to resemble a house of cards. And when all this outsourcing and cost-cutting reaches a certain level, the middle-class won't have enough purchasing power to keep the system afloat...
Yes, democracy. By the way, it was socialists who won democracy for the masses in Europe.
I understand that real democracy is hard to achieve, one of the reasons being that not all people will be interested in participating, let alone informed enough to make reasonable decisions. The point is, that if those who do participate don't represent those who don't, they always have the option to begin participating. Nice safeguard. Also, taking as much of decision-making to local level can greatly boost people's interest. (Umm, yes I do have a little anarcho-socialist twist in me.)
Quite funny how you deny all my statements based on lack of logic and/or evidence, yet there's none to back your own statement. Adding an ad hominem attack further discredits you.
What do you mean by "parasite"? I'm working class (though according to my income I'm probably middle class or upper middle class, but I think it's not simply a matter of income), ie. I work. That can hardly be said about many capitalists.
"To accomplish this act of universal emancipation is the historical mission of the modern proletariat."
:)
-- Friedrick Engels, Communism: Utopian and Scientific
I suppose you're saying that communism doesn't aim to benefit the bourgeoisie or the capitalist. You're partly right - but the point is, that if political power and means of production are under collective control, the privileged class simply disappears. If they, as individuals, do not have greater privileges, they essentially become proletariat - whom the communist utopia aims to serve!
The other alternative is, that you equate "Communism" with the USSR and similar totalitarian regimes that claim to be communist.
They earn? THEY earn? Anyone really making money makes it from other people's work. Fact!
Think for a second. Why would a capitalist employ you? (Or anyone?) To make money for himself, that's right! And how does he make that money? By paying you less than what your work is worth, so that he can keep a "healthy" profit margin. Thus, every single capitalist is getting richer by stealing from the working class. Some people think that they're entitled to that, since they're providing the means (capital, infrastructure, whatever) of production. But what are they getting compensated for? For being born rich? Don't give me any bullshit about the American Dream and how anyone can make a fortune by being smart and hard-working. USA is a stagnant class society, just like any capitalist society. A huge majority of capitalists are born capitalists, just like people born poor usually die poor. And to add injury to the insult, the society is dishing out privileges and tax cuts for the elite at every possible turn - because the society is being run by the elite. How many working class senators or presidents can you name?!
A capitalist society is inherently undemocratic and unjust.
Uh, but what you're talking about is Communism and it's inherently eeeevil. Surely you see that a society which aims for a good and secure life for all it's citizens instead of amassing wealth to a few old, hopelessly white and male Republican assholes, is truly a Domain of Evil!
Well, seriously... I think humanity has already passed the technical milestone after which it could ensure life and liberty to everyone. But sadly it's not in the best interest of those in power. So, no Star Trek utopia for the time being. Duh.
And no, I don't miss Soviet Union a bit. I am a socialist, which is worlds apart from stalinists/maioists. Socialism/marxism really is about building a better society - something loooong overdue.
NIO is a JDK1.4 feature, and the "official" native JDK is 1.3... Let's hope it won't be long until 1.4, there are already "unofficial" source releases which, AFAIK, are beginning to be quite functional.
The Evolution vs Creation dispute is dead and buried here in Finland, and I guess in other Nordic and a majority of other European countries as well. Been so for decades. Naturally there are different "fringe cults" which are fanatically creationist, but they're insignificant.
Evolution won. Period.
It would explain why the AK-47 was the weapon of choice, though, wouldn't it.
How about the fact that AK-47 is more reliable, more powerful and considerably cheaper than, say, M-16?
1) Not true. I used to frequently read the mailing lists and people were generally being very helpful.
2) RTFM. The friendly FreeBSD folks actually document stuff.
No, you've got it totally wrong. It's all the others that are evil. Uh, and most Christians... and a great deal of socialists.
But I'm good! Promise!