I never thought I'd see it, but here it is: two legs good, four legs better. Amazing. Someone insists that Slashdot is a politics site and moreover has been all along, when prior to CmdrTaco's retirement it never really went for politics. Now, there are plenty of mainstream politics stories with no tech connection. It wasn't always like this. But Orwell would have wrote it if it weren't true.
Witch hunt? Senator McCarthy didn't go on a witch hunt. We know now that there really were Communists in the State Department. The information came out after the Wall fell. McCarthy was right all along. Didn't you get the memo?
That is every other country in the entire fucking world. Saying Americans are uniquely evil for being just like everyone else is the height of hypocrisy.
Don't believe me? What if Americans suddenly got a bug for foreign travel and began heading overseas in great numbers? You'd bitch and moan just like you're doing now.
I don't know if you're keeping up with the latest trends in left-wing thought, but the idea these days is to limit the freedom of second-class citizens and double-digit IQs. When given freedom, all they do is make wrong choices. See Bloomberg's ban on cola drinks.
Oh, and by the way, capitalist countries didn't start slavery. Capitalist countries ended slavery.
Is THAT why you think Detroit failed? Suburbs? No. No, I don't know where you got your narrative from. Decades of one-party rule and open hostility to business did a much better job of driving people away.
LOL. "Gutless" conservatives? The moment that conservatives actually did something the media would be all over them like stink on shit, telling the world that they're terrorists no better than McVeigh. You remember McVeigh? Executed.
It is rather telling that you think that a terror campaign would be a good choice for the Right...you must know something they don't. I also like the "white trash" bigoted comment, shows your true colors. Stay classy!
Gosh, silly me, coming in to a Slashdot discussion about Antarctica and here we are again with the standard left-wing talking points, including the one that people who don't agree with us are stupid. Thanks for contributing to a greater scientific understanding of extreme cold weather.
That was Rob Hall. And the reason why was obvious: because he valued his "adventure" lifestyle more than he valued his family. Not so shocking these days, eh?
Quick question: what happened to various countries in the 20th century when they adopted the left-wing view and put workers in charge of the means of production?
A) It was all cool, things happened naturally, we got along great without those bastards
B) Left-wingers ordered the deaths of tens of millions of human beings in order to further the cause of socialism.
LOL. Sure. Wikipedia, source of all knowledge. That article was written by who, exactly? And what was their motivation? Look it's not like the Nazis weren't left-wingers - they were. It's that they were the wrong kind of left-wingers. 20th century history is chock-full of left-wingers who thought that other kinds of left-wingers were the real enemy. Purges were common, and true believers in left-wingism frequently found themselves in slave labor camps or executed altogether. But let's not believe some random internet commenter, let's ask those National Socialists themselves:
"We have backed the wrong horse in Spain. We would have done better to back the Republicans. They represent the people. We could always have converted these socialists into good National Socialists later. The people around Franco are all reactionary clerics, aristocrats, and moneybags Â-- they've nothing in common with us Nazis at all!"
-- Adolf Hitler, April 1938
"I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany which not only eliminates unemployment but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor.
The success of this policy of economic and social reconstruction of our people, which by systematically eliminating differences of rank and class, has a true peoples' community as the final aim of the world."
-- Adolf Hitler
We call ourselves a workers party because we want to rescue the word work from its current definition and give it back its original meaning. Anyone who creates value is a creator, that is, a worker. We refuse to distinguish kinds of work. Our only standard is whether the work serves the whole, or at least does not harm it, or if it is harmful. Work is service. If it works against the general welfare, then it is treason against the fatherland.
Marxist nonsense claimed to free labor, yet it degraded the work of its members and saw it as a curse and disgrace. It can hardly be our goal to abolish labor, but rather to give new meaning and content. The worker in a capitalist state Â-- and that is his deepest misfortune Â-- is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker.
He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces. Labor is for him only a way to survive, not a path to higher blessings, not a joy, not something in which to take pride, or satisfaction, or encouragement, or a way to build character.
We are a workers party because we see in the coming battle between finance and labor the beginning and the end of the structure of the twentieth century. We are on the side of labor and against finance. Money is the measuring rod of liberalism, work and accomplishment that of the socialist state. The liberal asks: What are you? The socialist asks: Who are you? Worlds lie between.
-- "Those Damned Nazis", by Joseph Goebbels (1932)
This is the first time I or anyone else on the planet Earth heard the Luddites described as "just wanting an angle". They were uneducated people opposed to Progress - you know, the kind that today we call Progressives. Out with the old, in with the new! Fuck conservatives and Luddites alike - after all, Luddites are just extreme conservatives.
That's an interesting idea you have there. Since the planet's maximum capability of humans is about 500 million, and we're at 7 billion and growing, what would be your solution? I like your "just get over it" solution. How can we make this work?
00000000 is just as random as any other code. My grandfather used to play 1-2-3-4-5-6 in the lottery, and when someone would point out that that number would never come up, he'd gleefully educate that person on probability.
Besides, the code that WOPR was trying to crack was a 12-digit alphanumeric string of the style JPE-1704-TKS.
Sounds like a 60s radical. Wrong then, and wrong today. Go ahead and try that "land of the free" bullshit anywhere else on the planet, No, really, go and try it.
As a man who has been around the periphery, I can assure you that artistic circles are entirely the opposite of open-minded and tolerant. In fact, if you don't agree with their politics you are quite quickly ostracized. Sad but true.
All of this anti-Obama anti-government, shit is getting old. You sound like the militia movement from the 1990s. Put a sock in it, this is a civilized website where smart people talk.
The atomic bombings and the Soviet declaration of war were referred to as "the twin shocks" and were equally influential to Japan's decision to surrender.
The Manchuria campaign wasn't lost because of incompetence, it was because all of the good troops had been stripped away and sent to die in the Pacific. Besides it only lasted a short time.
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I thought it was Razz-a-ma-tazz. The extra syllable makes it extra fun. Try saying it out loud a few times.
So...I can't help but notice you left the word "slavery" out of your description of the glorious Incan Empire. Huh. That's odd, why could that be?
Never heard of any of them. Are you sure they're as famous as you think they are?
The Palestinians have been doing this for decades. Sad that your experience is so small that you think that everyone copies from TV.
I never thought I'd see it, but here it is: two legs good, four legs better. Amazing. Someone insists that Slashdot is a politics site and moreover has been all along, when prior to CmdrTaco's retirement it never really went for politics. Now, there are plenty of mainstream politics stories with no tech connection. It wasn't always like this. But Orwell would have wrote it if it weren't true.
Witch hunt? Senator McCarthy didn't go on a witch hunt. We know now that there really were Communists in the State Department. The information came out after the Wall fell. McCarthy was right all along. Didn't you get the memo?
That is every other country in the entire fucking world. Saying Americans are uniquely evil for being just like everyone else is the height of hypocrisy.
Don't believe me? What if Americans suddenly got a bug for foreign travel and began heading overseas in great numbers? You'd bitch and moan just like you're doing now.
Oh, and by the way, capitalist countries didn't start slavery. Capitalist countries ended slavery.
Is THAT why you think Detroit failed? Suburbs? No. No, I don't know where you got your narrative from. Decades of one-party rule and open hostility to business did a much better job of driving people away.
LOL. "Gutless" conservatives? The moment that conservatives actually did something the media would be all over them like stink on shit, telling the world that they're terrorists no better than McVeigh. You remember McVeigh? Executed.
It is rather telling that you think that a terror campaign would be a good choice for the Right...you must know something they don't. I also like the "white trash" bigoted comment, shows your true colors. Stay classy!
Gosh, silly me, coming in to a Slashdot discussion about Antarctica and here we are again with the standard left-wing talking points, including the one that people who don't agree with us are stupid. Thanks for contributing to a greater scientific understanding of extreme cold weather.
That was Rob Hall. And the reason why was obvious: because he valued his "adventure" lifestyle more than he valued his family. Not so shocking these days, eh?
A) It was all cool, things happened naturally, we got along great without those bastards
B) Left-wingers ordered the deaths of tens of millions of human beings in order to further the cause of socialism.
LOL. Sure. Wikipedia, source of all knowledge. That article was written by who, exactly? And what was their motivation? Look it's not like the Nazis weren't left-wingers - they were. It's that they were the wrong kind of left-wingers. 20th century history is chock-full of left-wingers who thought that other kinds of left-wingers were the real enemy. Purges were common, and true believers in left-wingism frequently found themselves in slave labor camps or executed altogether. But let's not believe some random internet commenter, let's ask those National Socialists themselves:
"We have backed the wrong horse in Spain. We would have done better to back the Republicans. They represent the people. We could always have converted these socialists into good National Socialists later. The people around Franco are all reactionary clerics, aristocrats, and moneybags Â-- they've nothing in common with us Nazis at all!"
-- Adolf Hitler, April 1938
"I, on the other hand, have been striving for twenty years with a minimum of intervention and without destroying our production, to arrive at a new Socialist order in Germany which not only eliminates unemployment but also permits the worker to receive an ever greater share of the fruits of his labor.
The success of this policy of economic and social reconstruction of our people, which by systematically eliminating differences of rank and class, has a true peoples' community as the final aim of the world."
-- Adolf Hitler
We call ourselves a workers party because we want to rescue the word work from its current definition and give it back its original meaning. Anyone who creates value is a creator, that is, a worker. We refuse to distinguish kinds of work. Our only standard is whether the work serves the whole, or at least does not harm it, or if it is harmful. Work is service. If it works against the general welfare, then it is treason against the fatherland.
Marxist nonsense claimed to free labor, yet it degraded the work of its members and saw it as a curse and disgrace. It can hardly be our goal to abolish labor, but rather to give new meaning and content. The worker in a capitalist state Â-- and that is his deepest misfortune Â-- is no longer a living human being, a creator, a maker.
He has become a machine. A number, a cog in the machine without sense or understanding. He is alienated from what he produces. Labor is for him only a way to survive, not a path to higher blessings, not a joy, not something in which to take pride, or satisfaction, or encouragement, or a way to build character.
We are a workers party because we see in the coming battle between finance and labor the beginning and the end of the structure of the twentieth century. We are on the side of labor and against finance. Money is the measuring rod of liberalism, work and accomplishment that of the socialist state. The liberal asks: What are you? The socialist asks: Who are you? Worlds lie between.
-- "Those Damned Nazis", by Joseph Goebbels (1932)
This is the first time I or anyone else on the planet Earth heard the Luddites described as "just wanting an angle". They were uneducated people opposed to Progress - you know, the kind that today we call Progressives. Out with the old, in with the new! Fuck conservatives and Luddites alike - after all, Luddites are just extreme conservatives.
That's an interesting idea you have there. Since the planet's maximum capability of humans is about 500 million, and we're at 7 billion and growing, what would be your solution? I like your "just get over it" solution. How can we make this work?
Bad guys are impulsive men who mostly grew up without fathers. It doesn't occur to them to think ahead. Your scenario won't be a problem.
Getting crumbs from what other people do? Parasitism? Sounds just like China to me. They copied their entire economy wholesale, down to the faults.
00000000 is just as random as any other code. My grandfather used to play 1-2-3-4-5-6 in the lottery, and when someone would point out that that number would never come up, he'd gleefully educate that person on probability.
Besides, the code that WOPR was trying to crack was a 12-digit alphanumeric string of the style JPE-1704-TKS.
Sounds like a 60s radical. Wrong then, and wrong today. Go ahead and try that "land of the free" bullshit anywhere else on the planet, No, really, go and try it.
As a man who has been around the periphery, I can assure you that artistic circles are entirely the opposite of open-minded and tolerant. In fact, if you don't agree with their politics you are quite quickly ostracized. Sad but true.
None of that excuses you from your racist anti-Obama views. Plenty of UKians are openly bigoted.
All of this anti-Obama anti-government, shit is getting old. You sound like the militia movement from the 1990s. Put a sock in it, this is a civilized website where smart people talk.
The UN's "laws" have no weight and mean nothing. What do they have to do with the US Constitution? They're totally separate entities.
Moreover only conservatives worship the Constitution. You sound like one of them.
The atomic bombings and the Soviet declaration of war were referred to as "the twin shocks" and were equally influential to Japan's decision to surrender.
The Manchuria campaign wasn't lost because of incompetence, it was because all of the good troops had been stripped away and sent to die in the Pacific. Besides it only lasted a short time.