Dude...they were talking about Obama. You didn't pick up on that? Instead you just projected your feelings onto the nearest convenient hate receptacle? Please try not to conform in the future, and have your own thoughts that do not agree with the hivemind.
This is a stupid idea. This was done to death in antiquity. The Greek city-states had direct democracy and while a good idea, it had bugs. These bugs were discussed extensively and people came up with the idea of a republic instead. It is a loss of our Western culture if people have forgotten this process. We are just going to repeat the past if we don't learn from it. This is wisdom that is thousands of years old and yet the question asker has never heard of it. It's like if you had never heard of the luminiferious aether and thought that it solved several thorny problems in your field, unaware that it had already been disproven.
Abusive policing, with an anti-black bias? Nope. Far more black people are killed by other blacks than by any police officers. Sorry, but the facts are in, the debate is over. It's a false narrative, and if you're buying into it, you're just carrying water for the plantation owners.
In an earlier age, yes. But today the internet makes it easy to ask other people to do your homework for you. And there are tons of people out there just bursting with helpfulness who will actually do it. Doesn't help the student learn...but that's not the point. The point is to get the diploma, you can't get ahead without one.
Oh, this could not be more wrong. Male primates don't do this for shits and grins, they do it to gain females, or to gain power (which is pretty much the same thing when you think about it). These are unfit males that will not be successful, and in an earlier age they would have been outcast or killed for acting in this way. The only way in which we can hurt them these days is by public shaming, but their internet anonymity protects them. Now maybe we begin to understand why war was so popular in earlier ages, it did a wonderful job of cleansing society of these undesirable males.
Ah, yes, the typical left-wing response: get rid of the Constitution. You know, when you're bumping up against the restrictions of a document explicitly written as an anti-tyranny protection device, and yelling and screaming it's not letting you do what you want to do, maybe that's a clue that you're not the good guys. Bonus points for assuming anything other countries do is what we should slavishly follow. No thanks, we'll choose our own way. You tyrant-loving leftists can try to amend the Constitution the regular way. But since that requires broad agreement among the American people, you won't be doing that.
Nope. These videos, again and again, have been cited by convicted terrorists as the reason why they went from moderate Muslims to murderous Muslims. Ignoring them won't help, in fact such head-in-the-sand tactics are have a 100% chance of failure.
Does it even occur to you that the only reason that Islamic terrorism is so rare is because security services do an outstanding job of smothering it? This year there were something like 378 terrorist plots in France, of which 377 were successfully detected and disrupted.
Do you even understand how people's point of view changes depending on who they are? From my point of view, they're the foreigner. That's what the word "foreigner" means, someone from a country other than your own. It really pains me to deal with fixed-minded people who cannot flex adequately to process new data. I really feel sorry for your types. What torture it must be to live in a mental prison like that, day after day, year after year, and yet not even realize that you're crippled.
I remember in 1997-98 or so, shoutcast + winamp was the latest greatest thing. Stream from your own connection! Have your own radio station! I did it, too. I had a reasonably popular shoutcast station that had around 20 people connected at any one time. Then, there was icecast, which was the open source version. What happened with that?
I just remember that my 20 users was enough to keep me high enough in the standings on the shoutcast.com web page, but what happened was these losers started creating thousands of loopback connections to their own station so that it appeared they had thousands of listeners. Then they bumped all the legitimate users like me out of the rankings. They weren't all home users, either, there were radio stations in Czech and Brazil with "thousands" of users. I listened to a few of them...why would anyone ever tune in? Crappy music followed by ads in a foreign language. After a while I got bored and ended my station. I just assumed that I had been an early adopter and shoutcast would be taking of soon, but it never happened. What happened instead? Anyone know?
...and there it is. Fear makes us enact new, stupid laws which restrict freedoms, and on and on it goes, forever. I especially love how you call them "feedumbs", as if it were something that only stupid people care about. You and your fucking Trump supporters are ruining this country. Please, die in a fire.
Boyhood isn't Marvel and Star Wars. Boyhood is wandering outside, following streams and throwing rocks. But that is the madness of our age, isn't it? Things have to be a certain way, and if you don't conform, you're a weirdo who shouldn't be trusted. Don't let your boys play with Marvel heroes...that's right up there with child abuse. Keep your eyes open...they might be Christians or worse. If you see something, say something.
Man, I freaking hate these "Ask Slashdot" questions that people give wonderfully unhelpful answers like, "use webmail", "use the built-in Microsoft client", and "no development, no problem!"
I have been trying to get rid of Thunderbird for a while now. Every time, instead of saying, "Oh, you should try this client", they come up with brilliant responses like the above. Webmail, seriously? The built-in MS client, really? Why do you need to change, really? Thunderbird is slow as a dog on Windows 8. Yeah, seeing as it's 2015, a text email client isn't an option. All of you who are still on text Linux - I salute you. Now utilize your brain the size of a planet to tell me what the graphical, performance-based, non-bloat email client of today is. Like the man asked.
No, that would be Obama, whose approval rating is down once again. No less than 70% of the American people think he is steering the country in the wrong direction. At this point, the people who approve of Obama are those who will support him no matter how poor of a job he does. He could knife an old lady in the street and they'd still approve of him. I think a cold bucket of reality is in order and everyone needs to realize just in what dire straits the country is currently in.
When women are raped, it is a tragedy. When men are raped, it is hilarious. 40 years of toxic feminism has brought us to this. Who among us can say that we wouldn't like this man to be raped in prison? We'd all cheer...sad, isn't it?
Yes, you're right...democracy is an idea that is anathema to leftists. Freedom of speech and voting allow non-leftists to gain power and do not result in positive outcomes. Much more important is freedom of justice, where hate speech is banned and elections always come out the correct way.
Private charities can look at the needs and allocate their resources accordingly. Government can't do that, it's going to be a political fight over pork barrel spending. Moreover, we the people should be able to goddamn well decide where we want to spend our own goddamned money without any goddamn government telling us it would be a better idea to give our money to them instead. In a culture of confiscation like you advocate, people like Gates and Zuckerberg would have never founded their companies in the first place and society would be mired in continuous poverty.
You know you've gone off the edge politically when you're arguing against charity. Seriously, what the fuck? You need to have a Heel Realization sooner rather than later.
Yes, but that won't happen. The union bosses will just start stealing the money collected as dues. Then, they will gain political power for themselves by bribing/donating to left-wing politicians. Then either the government refuses to investigate them because they like the patronage, or they start throwing them in jail, creating an image of union corruption. It's lose-lose either way.
I friggin' hate people who, on an Ask Slashdot, completely fail to answer the question and say something that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
And yes, I am aware of the irony of posting a comment like this to criticize one, so you needn't bother pointing that out.
Wow, another lecture from a Scandinavian about how great they are and how awful Americans are. Is this a hobby over there? It's pretty much all you hear, ever.
PS unions are not "voluntary" and I don't know where you got that idea. In pro-socialist states you either join the union or you can't get a job.
How do *any* of the technologies in Star Wars work, exactly? Where's the science? If there's no science then it's not science fiction.
The one explanation we got, midichlorians, was worse than not having any explanations. George Lucas went in for a blood test once and they did a white blood cell count and he was greatly impressed by this medical miracle. More white blood cells = higher infection = genius idea! Go go George!
Well, that's modern journalism for you. They are more interested in promoting a viewpoint and reciting a narrative than reporting the facts. Just watch some old BBC from 70s/80s on youtube...it's just a clipped glass accent telling you what happened, when, and to whom. A far cry from today.
And why not? This is a belief held widely throughout the world. I think you're just being racist towards your instructor and can't handle the fact that a strong female authority figure told you something that you disagree with.
No. It simply does not matter what America does. The real "climate change/global warming" fight is in the Third World, where people and governments freely pollute without a thought for the future. I know you don't believe me. Seriously, you would really benefit from a Critical Thinking course. A viewpoint is not invalid merely because the person who says it disagrees with you.
"The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse emissions, guess what -- that still wouldn't be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.
If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions... it wouldn't be enough, not when more than 65 percent of the world's carbon pollution comes from the developing world."
-- John Kerry, at the Paris Climate Summit, December 2015
What, again? We have to drop everything and adopt socialism NOW? This argument comes up every single time. The arguments are all different and they are worded in different ways but the ideas are the same and the last one is as wrong as the first."
You don't even know what socialism means. It means work. People who don't work...socialists will coldheartedly let them starve. Yup! For realsies! Check into your own history.
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Dude...they were talking about Obama. You didn't pick up on that? Instead you just projected your feelings onto the nearest convenient hate receptacle? Please try not to conform in the future, and have your own thoughts that do not agree with the hivemind.
This is a stupid idea. This was done to death in antiquity. The Greek city-states had direct democracy and while a good idea, it had bugs. These bugs were discussed extensively and people came up with the idea of a republic instead. It is a loss of our Western culture if people have forgotten this process. We are just going to repeat the past if we don't learn from it. This is wisdom that is thousands of years old and yet the question asker has never heard of it. It's like if you had never heard of the luminiferious aether and thought that it solved several thorny problems in your field, unaware that it had already been disproven.
Abusive policing, with an anti-black bias? Nope. Far more black people are killed by other blacks than by any police officers. Sorry, but the facts are in, the debate is over. It's a false narrative, and if you're buying into it, you're just carrying water for the plantation owners.
In an earlier age, yes. But today the internet makes it easy to ask other people to do your homework for you. And there are tons of people out there just bursting with helpfulness who will actually do it. Doesn't help the student learn...but that's not the point. The point is to get the diploma, you can't get ahead without one.
Oh, this could not be more wrong. Male primates don't do this for shits and grins, they do it to gain females, or to gain power (which is pretty much the same thing when you think about it). These are unfit males that will not be successful, and in an earlier age they would have been outcast or killed for acting in this way. The only way in which we can hurt them these days is by public shaming, but their internet anonymity protects them. Now maybe we begin to understand why war was so popular in earlier ages, it did a wonderful job of cleansing society of these undesirable males.
Ah, yes, the typical left-wing response: get rid of the Constitution. You know, when you're bumping up against the restrictions of a document explicitly written as an anti-tyranny protection device, and yelling and screaming it's not letting you do what you want to do, maybe that's a clue that you're not the good guys. Bonus points for assuming anything other countries do is what we should slavishly follow. No thanks, we'll choose our own way. You tyrant-loving leftists can try to amend the Constitution the regular way. But since that requires broad agreement among the American people, you won't be doing that.
Nope. These videos, again and again, have been cited by convicted terrorists as the reason why they went from moderate Muslims to murderous Muslims. Ignoring them won't help, in fact such head-in-the-sand tactics are have a 100% chance of failure.
Does it even occur to you that the only reason that Islamic terrorism is so rare is because security services do an outstanding job of smothering it? This year there were something like 378 terrorist plots in France, of which 377 were successfully detected and disrupted.
You live in such a sad, caustic world if you've never had an occasion to celebrate your own kind.
Do you even understand how people's point of view changes depending on who they are? From my point of view, they're the foreigner. That's what the word "foreigner" means, someone from a country other than your own. It really pains me to deal with fixed-minded people who cannot flex adequately to process new data. I really feel sorry for your types. What torture it must be to live in a mental prison like that, day after day, year after year, and yet not even realize that you're crippled.
I remember in 1997-98 or so, shoutcast + winamp was the latest greatest thing. Stream from your own connection! Have your own radio station! I did it, too. I had a reasonably popular shoutcast station that had around 20 people connected at any one time. Then, there was icecast, which was the open source version. What happened with that?
I just remember that my 20 users was enough to keep me high enough in the standings on the shoutcast.com web page, but what happened was these losers started creating thousands of loopback connections to their own station so that it appeared they had thousands of listeners. Then they bumped all the legitimate users like me out of the rankings. They weren't all home users, either, there were radio stations in Czech and Brazil with "thousands" of users. I listened to a few of them...why would anyone ever tune in? Crappy music followed by ads in a foreign language. After a while I got bored and ended my station. I just assumed that I had been an early adopter and shoutcast would be taking of soon, but it never happened. What happened instead? Anyone know?
...and there it is. Fear makes us enact new, stupid laws which restrict freedoms, and on and on it goes, forever. I especially love how you call them "feedumbs", as if it were something that only stupid people care about. You and your fucking Trump supporters are ruining this country. Please, die in a fire.
Boyhood isn't Marvel and Star Wars. Boyhood is wandering outside, following streams and throwing rocks. But that is the madness of our age, isn't it? Things have to be a certain way, and if you don't conform, you're a weirdo who shouldn't be trusted. Don't let your boys play with Marvel heroes...that's right up there with child abuse. Keep your eyes open...they might be Christians or worse. If you see something, say something.
Man, I freaking hate these "Ask Slashdot" questions that people give wonderfully unhelpful answers like, "use webmail", "use the built-in Microsoft client", and "no development, no problem!"
I have been trying to get rid of Thunderbird for a while now. Every time, instead of saying, "Oh, you should try this client", they come up with brilliant responses like the above. Webmail, seriously? The built-in MS client, really? Why do you need to change, really? Thunderbird is slow as a dog on Windows 8. Yeah, seeing as it's 2015, a text email client isn't an option. All of you who are still on text Linux - I salute you. Now utilize your brain the size of a planet to tell me what the graphical, performance-based, non-bloat email client of today is. Like the man asked.
No, that would be Obama, whose approval rating is down once again. No less than 70% of the American people think he is steering the country in the wrong direction. At this point, the people who approve of Obama are those who will support him no matter how poor of a job he does. He could knife an old lady in the street and they'd still approve of him. I think a cold bucket of reality is in order and everyone needs to realize just in what dire straits the country is currently in.
When women are raped, it is a tragedy. When men are raped, it is hilarious. 40 years of toxic feminism has brought us to this. Who among us can say that we wouldn't like this man to be raped in prison? We'd all cheer...sad, isn't it?
Yes, you're right...democracy is an idea that is anathema to leftists. Freedom of speech and voting allow non-leftists to gain power and do not result in positive outcomes. Much more important is freedom of justice, where hate speech is banned and elections always come out the correct way.
Private charities can look at the needs and allocate their resources accordingly. Government can't do that, it's going to be a political fight over pork barrel spending. Moreover, we the people should be able to goddamn well decide where we want to spend our own goddamned money without any goddamn government telling us it would be a better idea to give our money to them instead. In a culture of confiscation like you advocate, people like Gates and Zuckerberg would have never founded their companies in the first place and society would be mired in continuous poverty.
You know you've gone off the edge politically when you're arguing against charity. Seriously, what the fuck? You need to have a Heel Realization sooner rather than later.
Yes, but that won't happen. The union bosses will just start stealing the money collected as dues. Then, they will gain political power for themselves by bribing/donating to left-wing politicians. Then either the government refuses to investigate them because they like the patronage, or they start throwing them in jail, creating an image of union corruption. It's lose-lose either way.
I friggin' hate people who, on an Ask Slashdot, completely fail to answer the question and say something that has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
And yes, I am aware of the irony of posting a comment like this to criticize one, so you needn't bother pointing that out.
Wow, another lecture from a Scandinavian about how great they are and how awful Americans are. Is this a hobby over there? It's pretty much all you hear, ever.
PS unions are not "voluntary" and I don't know where you got that idea. In pro-socialist states you either join the union or you can't get a job.
How do *any* of the technologies in Star Wars work, exactly? Where's the science? If there's no science then it's not science fiction.
The one explanation we got, midichlorians, was worse than not having any explanations. George Lucas went in for a blood test once and they did a white blood cell count and he was greatly impressed by this medical miracle. More white blood cells = higher infection = genius idea! Go go George!
Well, that's modern journalism for you. They are more interested in promoting a viewpoint and reciting a narrative than reporting the facts. Just watch some old BBC from 70s/80s on youtube...it's just a clipped glass accent telling you what happened, when, and to whom. A far cry from today.
And why not? This is a belief held widely throughout the world. I think you're just being racist towards your instructor and can't handle the fact that a strong female authority figure told you something that you disagree with.
What, again? We have to drop everything and adopt socialism NOW? This argument comes up every single time. The arguments are all different and they are worded in different ways but the ideas are the same and the last one is as wrong as the first."
You don't even know what socialism means. It means work. People who don't work...socialists will coldheartedly let them starve. Yup! For realsies! Check into your own history.