So, the problem seems to be that Americans are doing it. And America is wrong to try to seek advantage for itself by denying others. Moral relativism at its finest.
They spy on those who declare themselves enemies of the US government. A lot of "human rights" groups use their status as a shield. Fun fact: did you know that Amnesty International started life as a group whose mission in life was to give aid and comfort to the Soviet Union, and to cause trouble for America whenever possible? Totally true.
In fact, a lot of what both nations did was illegal under their own laws. People had to be told quietly to break the laws, and these orders were never written down. Of course, the two regimes were different - The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for covering up the left-wing regime's genocide.
"Responding to criticisms that he and Khrushchev did not do enough to expose Stalin's crimes, former first deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan reportedly said: "We couldn't do that because then everyone would have known what scoundrels we were."
That, too, is the difference between Communism and Nazism: the Communist scoundrels understood who they were because they realised the gulf separating them from the ideals they revered; the Nazis liked being scoundrels - that was their ideal."
-- Alexander Mekhanik, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
It's taking over the brains of those who participate 24/7 in, for lack of a better word, might be called the Twittersphere. I'm not condemning Twitter in general, but the entire weltanschauung of the situation that people like Maryanne Wolfe live in. Anyone who doesn't exist in this false world (i.e. most of humanity) doesn't have this experience at all. They're able to read deep texts, and you bet your ass they'll be ready to supplant these feeble minds in the future.
The really scary part is that these Twitter minds lack the ability to see outside themselves. If it happens to me, then it happens to all of humanity. After all, all the people I know are in the Twittersphere, and that's the whole world...or at least the world worth knowing. Because if Maryanne Wolfe can't do it, that means the human brain is changing. Sad...but then again I find myself understanding why civilizations that have everything fall. It comes from taking it all for granted and neglecting the first principles that got us here...like realizing the world has an independent existence outside of you and your little buddies.
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
Correlation does not equal causation. Repeat this until you understand it. Darwin weeps to see science misused in this way - although as a Texan, you dumbasses have never understood science anyway.
Nah, it was a branding change. Global Warming got too much bad press and was in danger of being discredited, so it was rebranded to Climate Change. Sort of like how Arthur Andersen changed its name to Accenture after being convicted in the Enron scandal, or Liberals changed their name to Progressives to avoid the whole "destruction of the African-American family" guilt.
Isn't it funny how left-wing regimes get excuses? The moment they begin abusing their people, they're magically no longer left-wing. Strange, eh? It's a remarkably reproducible result. It's almost as if people want to make excuses for tyranny in order to not discredit left-wing thought...the same thought that inevitably leads to tyranny wherever it is tried.
First of all, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a left-wing regime, not a totalitarian regime, so let's just set that straight right off.
Second, DPRK doesn't listen to China. Their officials have been down for talks, which basically amounted to "Dude, you totally have to ditch the whole Marxism thing, it's bullshit and doesn't work. Do the free market thing! Seriously, you'll get filthy rich! We all did, come on and follow us!"
The DPRK was not into that at all. They'll keep their left-wing government, thankyouverymuch. They prefer self-destruction to abandoning their beliefs. One should admire such dedication - this is what has kept Cuba the success story it's been since 1959.
How did it take until version FOUR to do something as mind-blastingly obvious as take a screenshot? Even Windows has been able to do this as far as I can remember.
...except when science disagrees with Progressive fixed ideas. Then, suddenly, science is subjective and depends on the biased ideals the scientists don't realize they have. Just look at research on intelligence and culture. A lot of studies simply aren't taking place because the results will be politically unacceptable. But still, progressives tell themselves they're on the side of science. Sad, really.
It would have been great had Batista been replaced with a democratic government. Instead, Cuba got worse. At least Batista was an idealogical blank. Look up what Cuba did to black Africans. It ain't pretty.
If you're the same kind of "UI expert" that screwed up Google Maps on Android, I can safely say we don't need any of that crap and that OSS is doing fine. The problem is that you have a flawed metric for evaluating what's "right" and "wrong".
Have you asked some environmentalists or other leftists if the human race is a good thing that should spread? How about if we just keep the contamination limited to a single planet instead of moving elsewhere to destroy the environment like locusts? If there is even a single microbe on Mars, the entire planet should be off-limits to humans, forever. Including robot probes.
Nope! Nice try, though. They had a uniformed army and faced the British in set-piece battles. They didn't blow up schools and churches and all the other hallmarks of terrorist orgs.
Maybe that's because government *is* evil and will happily crush anyone in its path? Especially in highly left-wing cities like San Francisco, where by default people -especially those who couldn't cut it in real life and resorted to government jobs - *really do* think that companies are evil, evil, evil and want to make profit by throwing babies into wood chippers.
Nope! Nice try, though. They hate us because we put troops in Saudi Arabia after Gulf War I. No government was overthrown, much less a democratic one. Allah doesn't like democracy, the One True Way is in the holy book.
Ah, yes, as soon as I saw this topic I knew someone would be along to blame it all on America.
Can you imagine a world without America? There wouldn't be *any* problems, anywhere. Especially in Mexico, all of whose problems are entirely caused by the "gringos" (foreigners). Amazing, eh? When America blames its problems on foreigners, it's a ruse to divert attention from the real problems...but when Mexico does it it's different. Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to America.
I thought that the "best and brightest" would go wherever they were needed. Are you telling me that in actual fact they're shallow people who don't want to live outside a small number of metropolises where they can live among people like themselves? Where's the diversity? These people aren't small-minded, and yet here you are telling me otherwise. I don't believe it.
Reactionary Maoists? You've got that backwards...Maoists are Progressives. Look into the tenets of Maoism to find out why it's such a popular mode of political thought in Western universities. It's a living philosophy, about as far from reactionary as you can get.
But with open source, to many eyes all bugs are shallow. The ease of fixing broken parts of the software is one of the main strengths of open source software. Oh, was that all just a gigantic lie? LOL.
The dismissive, sarcastic, "screw you" attitude of the parent post is precisely why I long ago gave up on reporting bugs in open source software. It's just not worth it to deal with aspies who heartily enjoy abusing people who aren't in their "ecosystem". I had hoped that things had changed in the past 10 years, but unfortunately no progress has been made.
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So, the problem seems to be that Americans are doing it. And America is wrong to try to seek advantage for itself by denying others. Moral relativism at its finest.
Almost. You've got that backwards, though.
They spy on those who declare themselves enemies of the US government. A lot of "human rights" groups use their status as a shield. Fun fact: did you know that Amnesty International started life as a group whose mission in life was to give aid and comfort to the Soviet Union, and to cause trouble for America whenever possible? Totally true.
In fact, a lot of what both nations did was illegal under their own laws. People had to be told quietly to break the laws, and these orders were never written down. Of course, the two regimes were different - The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for covering up the left-wing regime's genocide.
"Responding to criticisms that he and Khrushchev did not do enough to expose Stalin's crimes, former first deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan reportedly said: "We couldn't do that because then everyone would have known what scoundrels we were."
That, too, is the difference between Communism and Nazism: the Communist scoundrels understood who they were because they realised the gulf separating them from the ideals they revered; the Nazis liked being scoundrels - that was their ideal."
-- Alexander Mekhanik, Rossiyskaya Gazeta
It's taking over the brains of those who participate 24/7 in, for lack of a better word, might be called the Twittersphere. I'm not condemning Twitter in general, but the entire weltanschauung of the situation that people like Maryanne Wolfe live in. Anyone who doesn't exist in this false world (i.e. most of humanity) doesn't have this experience at all. They're able to read deep texts, and you bet your ass they'll be ready to supplant these feeble minds in the future.
The really scary part is that these Twitter minds lack the ability to see outside themselves. If it happens to me, then it happens to all of humanity. After all, all the people I know are in the Twittersphere, and that's the whole world...or at least the world worth knowing. Because if Maryanne Wolfe can't do it, that means the human brain is changing. Sad...but then again I find myself understanding why civilizations that have everything fall. It comes from taking it all for granted and neglecting the first principles that got us here...like realizing the world has an independent existence outside of you and your little buddies.
"One of the things I have always found troubling about Westerners doing business in emerging market countries is that they sometimes take an almost perverse pride in discussing payoffs to government officials. It is as though their having paid a bribe is a symbol of their international sophistication and insider knowledge. Yet, countless times when I am told of the bribe, I know the very same thing could almost certainly have been accomplished without a bribe."
--Dan Harris, chinalawblog.com
If journalists were not so reliably despicable, I might have some sympathy with this position.
But no, I've just checked, and...nothing. Fuck them.
Correlation does not equal causation. Repeat this until you understand it. Darwin weeps to see science misused in this way - although as a Texan, you dumbasses have never understood science anyway.
Nah, it was a branding change. Global Warming got too much bad press and was in danger of being discredited, so it was rebranded to Climate Change. Sort of like how Arthur Andersen changed its name to Accenture after being convicted in the Enron scandal, or Liberals changed their name to Progressives to avoid the whole "destruction of the African-American family" guilt.
Isn't it funny how left-wing regimes get excuses? The moment they begin abusing their people, they're magically no longer left-wing. Strange, eh? It's a remarkably reproducible result. It's almost as if people want to make excuses for tyranny in order to not discredit left-wing thought...the same thought that inevitably leads to tyranny wherever it is tried.
First of all, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a left-wing regime, not a totalitarian regime, so let's just set that straight right off.
Second, DPRK doesn't listen to China. Their officials have been down for talks, which basically amounted to "Dude, you totally have to ditch the whole Marxism thing, it's bullshit and doesn't work. Do the free market thing! Seriously, you'll get filthy rich! We all did, come on and follow us!"
The DPRK was not into that at all. They'll keep their left-wing government, thankyouverymuch. They prefer self-destruction to abandoning their beliefs. One should admire such dedication - this is what has kept Cuba the success story it's been since 1959.
How did it take until version FOUR to do something as mind-blastingly obvious as take a screenshot? Even Windows has been able to do this as far as I can remember.
...except when science disagrees with Progressive fixed ideas. Then, suddenly, science is subjective and depends on the biased ideals the scientists don't realize they have. Just look at research on intelligence and culture. A lot of studies simply aren't taking place because the results will be politically unacceptable. But still, progressives tell themselves they're on the side of science. Sad, really.
It would have been great had Batista been replaced with a democratic government. Instead, Cuba got worse. At least Batista was an idealogical blank. Look up what Cuba did to black Africans. It ain't pretty.
If you're the same kind of "UI expert" that screwed up Google Maps on Android, I can safely say we don't need any of that crap and that OSS is doing fine. The problem is that you have a flawed metric for evaluating what's "right" and "wrong".
Have you asked some environmentalists or other leftists if the human race is a good thing that should spread? How about if we just keep the contamination limited to a single planet instead of moving elsewhere to destroy the environment like locusts? If there is even a single microbe on Mars, the entire planet should be off-limits to humans, forever. Including robot probes.
Repeat this until you internalize it: "Just because I think something, or have a certain reaction, does not make it so."
Nope! Nice try, though. They had a uniformed army and faced the British in set-piece battles. They didn't blow up schools and churches and all the other hallmarks of terrorist orgs.
Maybe that's because government *is* evil and will happily crush anyone in its path? Especially in highly left-wing cities like San Francisco, where by default people -especially those who couldn't cut it in real life and resorted to government jobs - *really do* think that companies are evil, evil, evil and want to make profit by throwing babies into wood chippers.
Nope! Nice try, though. They hate us because we put troops in Saudi Arabia after Gulf War I. No government was overthrown, much less a democratic one. Allah doesn't like democracy, the One True Way is in the holy book.
Ah, yes, as soon as I saw this topic I knew someone would be along to blame it all on America.
Can you imagine a world without America? There wouldn't be *any* problems, anywhere. Especially in Mexico, all of whose problems are entirely caused by the "gringos" (foreigners). Amazing, eh? When America blames its problems on foreigners, it's a ruse to divert attention from the real problems...but when Mexico does it it's different. Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to America.
How about being anti-gun and then being arrested by the FBI for being an illegal gun-runner? Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal.
I thought that the "best and brightest" would go wherever they were needed. Are you telling me that in actual fact they're shallow people who don't want to live outside a small number of metropolises where they can live among people like themselves? Where's the diversity? These people aren't small-minded, and yet here you are telling me otherwise. I don't believe it.
Reactionary Maoists? You've got that backwards...Maoists are Progressives. Look into the tenets of Maoism to find out why it's such a popular mode of political thought in Western universities. It's a living philosophy, about as far from reactionary as you can get.
But with open source, to many eyes all bugs are shallow. The ease of fixing broken parts of the software is one of the main strengths of open source software. Oh, was that all just a gigantic lie? LOL.
The dismissive, sarcastic, "screw you" attitude of the parent post is precisely why I long ago gave up on reporting bugs in open source software. It's just not worth it to deal with aspies who heartily enjoy abusing people who aren't in their "ecosystem". I had hoped that things had changed in the past 10 years, but unfortunately no progress has been made.