Fallacies are fake or deceptive arguments, arguments that prove nothing. Fallacies often seem superficially sound, and they far too often retain immense persuasive power even after being clearly exposed as false.
The only reason that Japan is doing this is because China is coming. The USA currently guarantees Japan's safety, but seeing as the Japanese hate the US military being on their soil, it's only a matter of time until they get kicked out, to thunderous applause. Then, it's back to the good old days of Japan/China relations.
Why are the Chinese doing what they're doing? Two reasons, the first being that they require external resources to power their economy. Without military control, they're under the domination of the international bankers, and we all know how well that turns out.
China's view is, "we were out of commission for 150 years, but now we're back, and it's time return to the old system where everyone acknowledges China as the center of the world (a far better translation of 'zhongguo' than the pathetic 'middle kingdom' literal translation). Oh, and we're bringing back the kowtow so be ready to knock your head on the floor when you visit us." They were wronged in the past, and now it is time for others to be wronged. Social justice in action. The second reason is to distract their population from the horrid job the Communist Party is doing. Growth is slowing, people are getting restless, and some of them are getting crazy ideas like they could do a better job running the government themselves rather than allowing the smart people to do it. The smart people have been ruthlessly fucking over the ordinary people and laughing about it. You can turn on Chinese TV any hour of the day or night and see at least 2-3 wartime dramas, all reminding the people about WWII. Sheesh, we Americans got sucker-punched by the Japanese but we paid them back in spades. China never got to do this...the Japanese surrendered and suffered few defeats in the mainland. So they do it on TV every day...the joke is that more Japanese soldiers die every month at TV studios than died during the whole war. And it is always the Communist Party doing the fighting, when the truth is that they wisely stayed out of the war and let the right-wingers do all the dying. You gotta hand it to them, they have a good plan and they're executing it well. Japan doesn't really have a choice but to re-arm, they want the Americans out and without defense, it will be Japan who will become a client of China.
LOL at the astounding amount of miscomprehension in this post. The only reason Japan is pacifist today is because the USA guaranteed its safety. In fact, both axis powers are still today under occupation. So, how 'bout those US forces in Okinawa, right? Get 'em out! And then suddenly Japan is responsible for its own defense and it's the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere all over again. Thinking the entire world is just like yourself and would never harm a fly is the worst kind of unworldly solipsism.
"Those who beat their swords into ploughshares plow for those who keep theirs."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, basically admitting it's a hoax. Yup. Look, the whole thing is a trojan horse to destroy capitalism. If it wasn't originally it sure is now. There is too much wealth in the world and people with their own money can't be controlled. So, impoverish them and the whole thing falls into line. Basically it's back to China 1952...only they promise they'll get it right THIS time and not murder tens of millions of people. Probably.
Have you considered the people who are not having their needs met ('bitch' in your parlance) are different people from the ones that wanted every bell and whistle? 'Users' aren't a monolithic group, but I suppose from your derogatory tone, you don't care. I hope you don't work for Mozilla, though I have a sneaking suspicion because it would explain a lot.
What the fuck...you just toss the Black Death out there like it was nothing...imagine ebola, happening to everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone in the world, forever. It kills more people than communism, but that's OK because the shattered, grieving survivors - the ones that are going to be killed in a few years when ebola makes a comeback - got moderately better labor conditions afterwards? Do you even hear yourself when you say these monstrous things?
No way, China has serious problems and would trade places with America in a heartbeat. They suffer the same problem that all leftist regimes do - they cannot allow their people to think freely, because to do so would be their own end. Taking the capitalist road to achieve socialism has bought them another couple of decades in power, but the rising prosperity has masked serious structural problems in China. Now that the prosperity is drying up, all their weaknesses will be exposed. They ain't gonna beat anyone in designing or anything involving ideas.
Jeez, once again, here we are with an Internet Outrage![tm] story about IP on Slashdot. And once again, it's some fucking moron who didn't even know better than to not rip off a major corporation's IP. Come on! You think just because you're not making any money they should allow it? By lawyer standards, they're losing money! It doesn't matter what makes sense!
God damn, how hard is it to make something new. Really hard, I guess! All these efforts on remakes and reimaginings and reboots. And supposedly creative people are better because they're constantly creating new ideas. I guess that's another treasured myth we're going to have to get rid of. I mean, seriously, the guy didn't expect that a mega-million dollar company was going to put a stop to his project? It's the most likely outcome.
In other words, in your ideal world people like this wouldn't be free to disagree with you. I'm glad we don't live in that world, and people can publish whatever they like, even if you disagree with it.
The only conclusion I can draw from stunts like this is that quadcopter enthusiasts want quadcopters eliminated. Because this is precisely this bullshit that is going to get them banned, and yet again and again we hear these stories. If they would just be cool, and be responsible with their quadcopters, things would be great. But noooooo, that's not happening. You'd figure the Dutch would be especially sensitive after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but noooooo. So, government is going to step in and take away their toys before we lose an airliner.
Really? That's all? Where's the smoking gun? Where is the correspondence with David Duke? Where is the message telling him when the next cross-burning is? How about telling him his KKK hood is ready for pickup at the cleaners? Where are the messages from the international bankers telling him to keep going? Are there any alien space bats? Where's the outrage? That's the best they could do?
A charismatic man is making relationships with less intelligent journalists (though I repeat myself) so that he can take advantage of them later? What, exactly, were we expecting?
Developers = people in charge. Use that big brain of yours to realize that the entire world isn't on the inside the ecosystem of whatever your software package is, and we don't always use your preferred terms. Just try to get the meaning, genius.
"there was an error on the server" "Our CRM system suffered a data loss" way to state the fact that a major company like Microsoft can't even run their own systems correctly. Well where are the fucking backups? Whoopsy-doodle! Looks like Microsoft is about as competent as a 15-man company at backing up critical data.
Well, it is No True Scotsman. The Left doesn't want the albatross of China hanging over its head, so they redefined socialism so as to exclude them.
China is a Communist Party that has taken the capitalist road. It's a heresy of socialism and has gotten them expelled from the Leftist camp. The CCP doesn't care, they had 40 years of correct Marxism and they realized that it meant nothing but poverty. Seriously, the Chinese people were better off under the Nationalist robber barons. They got more to eat, had more freedom to do whatever they wanted, etc.
At a certain point you have to go with the description of communism as it actually exists instead of some nebulous definition that has never actually appeared.
This is the worst kind of open source flaw. Developers are going to scratch their itch...and what they want has nothing to do with what users want. It's a damn shame to see things end up this way. They're just chasing the latest trend, late to the game as usual, and will end up making a terrible mess of things.
However the resumes of the people involved will be enhanced, and that's what it's all about. Sadly.
In fact, it is a breath of fresh air to see a diversity of opinion here. For too long Slashdot has been slave to SJWs and their divisive, hateful agendas. We can only have debates when there is a legitimate opposite opinion, and SJWs don't allow that kind of thinking.
Funny how you never protested when the off-topic, non-tech stories agreed with your point of view. The problem isn't that biased stories are being shown, is it? It's that these biased stories are biased in the wrong direction. By the way, how did you even get "right-wing" out of "North Korea is an insane Communist country"? It's not like that is even remotely controversial.
...and yet the nation they created became the most successful the world has ever seen. Honestly, at this point, you have to really question whether the United States is for you. It sounds like you would be much better off in a country that agrees with your left-wing politics, such as Bolivia, Venezuela, or Cuba. It's a good thing we live in a borderless world where global citizens can go wherever they want. There will be a period of cultural adjustment, of course, where you learn to deal with things that are unthinkable in America, like waiting in food lines and electricity being off at random hours during the day, but you'll get used to it just like everyone else there does. We all wish you well in your new home! Bon voyage!
You are simply stating that you agree. Journalism didn't used to tell everyone what to think, it used to report facts. The GP poster is probably an older fellow who still perceives that this should be the case today, which it is not. Journalists today freely bias their stories, as we saw in the Israel/Waze article earlier today.
Obama is Marxist, absolutely. His mentor was Bill Ayers, an extreme left-wing terrorist who blew up the US Capitol building with an actual bomb. No, really. Racist, for sure. His extremist pastor is a crazy man who thinks that DA JEWZ are out to get black people. A divider? Definitely. He has created a toxic atmosphere that makes everyone look at race before anything else. Whenever there's a disgusting crime anywhere, we all have to stop and consider the melanin content of the perp's skin before we can decide if he's a piece of shit or not.
Delusional? Sadly no. Realist? Well, this is what it has come to.
Seriously? An entire internet forum full of educated adults, and not one of them knows why we have sex offender registries? You should all be ashamed of yourselves. You are ignorant people who should know better.
Here's how it goes. Uncle Jorge is a wonderful man who is great with children. He's charming, the kids love him, and at some point he is able to engineer a situation where he is alone with children. Then, his cock comes out and he rapes the kids. Since rape is one of the most disgusting acts we humans can think of, right along with murder and treachery, we put Jorge in prison. After 8 years, in segregated population so the murderers and traitors don't kill him because he disgusts them so much, he is released, his debt to society paid. Right? Right. What happens next?
Jorge moves to another state thousands of miles away, where nobody knows him. He then repeats his earlier crimes. Heck, he takes photos and uploads them to the Dark Web, because why not? Since Jorge had the forethought to move to a liberal state, this time he only gets 18 months in prison.
What happens next? The same thing. Move to where nobody knows him, make everyone trust him, RAPE RAPE RAPE, etc. You know the drill by now. And what is it that everyone says? "If only we had known that Jorge was a convicted child molester, we would have never allowed him access to our children!" This is where the sex offender registry was born. Not out of some sick desire to excessively punish felons, although that line of thought is irresistible to certain kinds of people and indeed we see this all over the comment thread here. No, it's to keep their own goddamn children safe.
Look, you can't change pedophiles. They are men whose sexual desire is towards children. You take one of them, put him in a room with a fertile, sexy 21 year old in a short skirt, and the lady runs her fingers through his hair and says, "Mmm, you look nice, handsome" and what happens? Nothing. He can't pop a stiffy. Why? He's not attracted to that kind of woman. He's attracted to children. That's all there is to it. It's exactly the same as if you put a homosexual man in a room with a the same woman, there will be no attraction and no erection, and hence no sex. That's not what he wants.
Sex offender registries exist so that the rest of us can protect our children against predators. THAT'S IT. There is no other reason. It's not some sick desire to hurt people, it's the fact that We The People have passed laws that we consider to be in our own interest. If you know who the pedophiles are, you can keep your kids away from them and stop them from reoffending. That's it. That's why these laws exist. It is distressing and depressing to see so many people making self-righteous arguments without any knowledge. It's embarrassing for educated people to be so ignorant.
Thanks for displaying the exact same contempt and hate for the American people that is leading Trump to victory. We know you despise us, and Trump is going to fuck your shit up.
Have you considered which country you're going to leave for yet? I suggest a leftist that shares your views, such as Venezuela, Bolivia, or Cuba. There will be some adjustments like no Netflix or having to wait in food lines, but anything will be better than living in an America that is being run for the benefit of its own citizens, amirite?
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Fallacies are fake or deceptive arguments, arguments that prove nothing. Fallacies often seem superficially sound, and they far too often retain immense persuasive power even after being clearly exposed as false.
The only reason that Japan is doing this is because China is coming. The USA currently guarantees Japan's safety, but seeing as the Japanese hate the US military being on their soil, it's only a matter of time until they get kicked out, to thunderous applause. Then, it's back to the good old days of Japan/China relations.
Why are the Chinese doing what they're doing? Two reasons, the first being that they require external resources to power their economy. Without military control, they're under the domination of the international bankers, and we all know how well that turns out.
China's view is, "we were out of commission for 150 years, but now we're back, and it's time return to the old system where everyone acknowledges China as the center of the world (a far better translation of 'zhongguo' than the pathetic 'middle kingdom' literal translation). Oh, and we're bringing back the kowtow so be ready to knock your head on the floor when you visit us." They were wronged in the past, and now it is time for others to be wronged. Social justice in action. The second reason is to distract their population from the horrid job the Communist Party is doing. Growth is slowing, people are getting restless, and some of them are getting crazy ideas like they could do a better job running the government themselves rather than allowing the smart people to do it. The smart people have been ruthlessly fucking over the ordinary people and laughing about it. You can turn on Chinese TV any hour of the day or night and see at least 2-3 wartime dramas, all reminding the people about WWII. Sheesh, we Americans got sucker-punched by the Japanese but we paid them back in spades. China never got to do this...the Japanese surrendered and suffered few defeats in the mainland. So they do it on TV every day...the joke is that more Japanese soldiers die every month at TV studios than died during the whole war. And it is always the Communist Party doing the fighting, when the truth is that they wisely stayed out of the war and let the right-wingers do all the dying. You gotta hand it to them, they have a good plan and they're executing it well. Japan doesn't really have a choice but to re-arm, they want the Americans out and without defense, it will be Japan who will become a client of China.
I notice how you completely failed to refute the point I made.
LOL at the astounding amount of miscomprehension in this post. The only reason Japan is pacifist today is because the USA guaranteed its safety. In fact, both axis powers are still today under occupation. So, how 'bout those US forces in Okinawa, right? Get 'em out! And then suddenly Japan is responsible for its own defense and it's the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere all over again. Thinking the entire world is just like yourself and would never harm a fly is the worst kind of unworldly solipsism.
"Those who beat their swords into ploughshares plow for those who keep theirs."
-- Benjamin Franklin
Yeah, basically admitting it's a hoax. Yup. Look, the whole thing is a trojan horse to destroy capitalism. If it wasn't originally it sure is now. There is too much wealth in the world and people with their own money can't be controlled. So, impoverish them and the whole thing falls into line. Basically it's back to China 1952...only they promise they'll get it right THIS time and not murder tens of millions of people. Probably.
Myst? That was the "game" that was all graphics, no substance. How is anyone going to be impressed with that today?
Have you considered the people who are not having their needs met ('bitch' in your parlance) are different people from the ones that wanted every bell and whistle? 'Users' aren't a monolithic group, but I suppose from your derogatory tone, you don't care. I hope you don't work for Mozilla, though I have a sneaking suspicion because it would explain a lot.
What the fuck...you just toss the Black Death out there like it was nothing...imagine ebola, happening to everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone in the world, forever. It kills more people than communism, but that's OK because the shattered, grieving survivors - the ones that are going to be killed in a few years when ebola makes a comeback - got moderately better labor conditions afterwards? Do you even hear yourself when you say these monstrous things?
No way, China has serious problems and would trade places with America in a heartbeat. They suffer the same problem that all leftist regimes do - they cannot allow their people to think freely, because to do so would be their own end. Taking the capitalist road to achieve socialism has bought them another couple of decades in power, but the rising prosperity has masked serious structural problems in China. Now that the prosperity is drying up, all their weaknesses will be exposed. They ain't gonna beat anyone in designing or anything involving ideas.
Jeez, once again, here we are with an Internet Outrage![tm] story about IP on Slashdot. And once again, it's some fucking moron who didn't even know better than to not rip off a major corporation's IP. Come on! You think just because you're not making any money they should allow it? By lawyer standards, they're losing money! It doesn't matter what makes sense!
God damn, how hard is it to make something new. Really hard, I guess! All these efforts on remakes and reimaginings and reboots. And supposedly creative people are better because they're constantly creating new ideas. I guess that's another treasured myth we're going to have to get rid of. I mean, seriously, the guy didn't expect that a mega-million dollar company was going to put a stop to his project? It's the most likely outcome.
In other words, in your ideal world people like this wouldn't be free to disagree with you. I'm glad we don't live in that world, and people can publish whatever they like, even if you disagree with it.
The only conclusion I can draw from stunts like this is that quadcopter enthusiasts want quadcopters eliminated. Because this is precisely this bullshit that is going to get them banned, and yet again and again we hear these stories. If they would just be cool, and be responsible with their quadcopters, things would be great. But noooooo, that's not happening. You'd figure the Dutch would be especially sensitive after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, but noooooo. So, government is going to step in and take away their toys before we lose an airliner.
Really? That's all? Where's the smoking gun? Where is the correspondence with David Duke? Where is the message telling him when the next cross-burning is? How about telling him his KKK hood is ready for pickup at the cleaners? Where are the messages from the international bankers telling him to keep going? Are there any alien space bats? Where's the outrage? That's the best they could do?
A charismatic man is making relationships with less intelligent journalists (though I repeat myself) so that he can take advantage of them later? What, exactly, were we expecting?
Quick sanity test: is the New York Times a liberal newspaper?
There is one and only one correct answer to this question. Fail it, and...well...you've failed comprehension.
Developers = people in charge. Use that big brain of yours to realize that the entire world isn't on the inside the ecosystem of whatever your software package is, and we don't always use your preferred terms. Just try to get the meaning, genius.
"there was an error on the server" "Our CRM system suffered a data loss" way to state the fact that a major company like Microsoft can't even run their own systems correctly. Well where are the fucking backups? Whoopsy-doodle! Looks like Microsoft is about as competent as a 15-man company at backing up critical data.
Well, it is No True Scotsman. The Left doesn't want the albatross of China hanging over its head, so they redefined socialism so as to exclude them.
China is a Communist Party that has taken the capitalist road. It's a heresy of socialism and has gotten them expelled from the Leftist camp. The CCP doesn't care, they had 40 years of correct Marxism and they realized that it meant nothing but poverty. Seriously, the Chinese people were better off under the Nationalist robber barons. They got more to eat, had more freedom to do whatever they wanted, etc.
At a certain point you have to go with the description of communism as it actually exists instead of some nebulous definition that has never actually appeared.
This is the worst kind of open source flaw. Developers are going to scratch their itch...and what they want has nothing to do with what users want. It's a damn shame to see things end up this way. They're just chasing the latest trend, late to the game as usual, and will end up making a terrible mess of things.
However the resumes of the people involved will be enhanced, and that's what it's all about. Sadly.
In fact, it is a breath of fresh air to see a diversity of opinion here. For too long Slashdot has been slave to SJWs and their divisive, hateful agendas. We can only have debates when there is a legitimate opposite opinion, and SJWs don't allow that kind of thinking.
Funny how you never protested when the off-topic, non-tech stories agreed with your point of view. The problem isn't that biased stories are being shown, is it? It's that these biased stories are biased in the wrong direction. By the way, how did you even get "right-wing" out of "North Korea is an insane Communist country"? It's not like that is even remotely controversial.
...and yet the nation they created became the most successful the world has ever seen. Honestly, at this point, you have to really question whether the United States is for you. It sounds like you would be much better off in a country that agrees with your left-wing politics, such as Bolivia, Venezuela, or Cuba. It's a good thing we live in a borderless world where global citizens can go wherever they want. There will be a period of cultural adjustment, of course, where you learn to deal with things that are unthinkable in America, like waiting in food lines and electricity being off at random hours during the day, but you'll get used to it just like everyone else there does. We all wish you well in your new home! Bon voyage!
You are simply stating that you agree. Journalism didn't used to tell everyone what to think, it used to report facts. The GP poster is probably an older fellow who still perceives that this should be the case today, which it is not. Journalists today freely bias their stories, as we saw in the Israel/Waze article earlier today.
Russia stopped being red 25 years ago. Didn't you get the memo? Today the reds are all in America and doing quite well.
Obama is Marxist, absolutely. His mentor was Bill Ayers, an extreme left-wing terrorist who blew up the US Capitol building with an actual bomb. No, really. Racist, for sure. His extremist pastor is a crazy man who thinks that DA JEWZ are out to get black people. A divider? Definitely. He has created a toxic atmosphere that makes everyone look at race before anything else. Whenever there's a disgusting crime anywhere, we all have to stop and consider the melanin content of the perp's skin before we can decide if he's a piece of shit or not.
Delusional? Sadly no. Realist? Well, this is what it has come to.
Seriously? An entire internet forum full of educated adults, and not one of them knows why we have sex offender registries? You should all be ashamed of yourselves. You are ignorant people who should know better.
Here's how it goes. Uncle Jorge is a wonderful man who is great with children. He's charming, the kids love him, and at some point he is able to engineer a situation where he is alone with children. Then, his cock comes out and he rapes the kids. Since rape is one of the most disgusting acts we humans can think of, right along with murder and treachery, we put Jorge in prison. After 8 years, in segregated population so the murderers and traitors don't kill him because he disgusts them so much, he is released, his debt to society paid. Right? Right. What happens next?
Jorge moves to another state thousands of miles away, where nobody knows him. He then repeats his earlier crimes. Heck, he takes photos and uploads them to the Dark Web, because why not? Since Jorge had the forethought to move to a liberal state, this time he only gets 18 months in prison.
What happens next? The same thing. Move to where nobody knows him, make everyone trust him, RAPE RAPE RAPE, etc. You know the drill by now. And what is it that everyone says? "If only we had known that Jorge was a convicted child molester, we would have never allowed him access to our children!" This is where the sex offender registry was born. Not out of some sick desire to excessively punish felons, although that line of thought is irresistible to certain kinds of people and indeed we see this all over the comment thread here. No, it's to keep their own goddamn children safe.
Look, you can't change pedophiles. They are men whose sexual desire is towards children. You take one of them, put him in a room with a fertile, sexy 21 year old in a short skirt, and the lady runs her fingers through his hair and says, "Mmm, you look nice, handsome" and what happens? Nothing. He can't pop a stiffy. Why? He's not attracted to that kind of woman. He's attracted to children. That's all there is to it. It's exactly the same as if you put a homosexual man in a room with a the same woman, there will be no attraction and no erection, and hence no sex. That's not what he wants.
Sex offender registries exist so that the rest of us can protect our children against predators. THAT'S IT. There is no other reason. It's not some sick desire to hurt people, it's the fact that We The People have passed laws that we consider to be in our own interest. If you know who the pedophiles are, you can keep your kids away from them and stop them from reoffending. That's it. That's why these laws exist. It is distressing and depressing to see so many people making self-righteous arguments without any knowledge. It's embarrassing for educated people to be so ignorant.
Have you considered which country you're going to leave for yet? I suggest a leftist that shares your views, such as Venezuela, Bolivia, or Cuba. There will be some adjustments like no Netflix or having to wait in food lines, but anything will be better than living in an America that is being run for the benefit of its own citizens, amirite?