So in other words, your morality is superior and that enables you to silence disagreeable groups, because it's in our best interest (or at least what you consider to be so). Nice one, there. You're not so different from them. Not so different at all. Do you know what a "heel realization" is?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1906)
Nope, she works for the Los Angeles Times, a reputable newspaper whose halo of truth shines on all its journalists. Her book is 544 pages, of which 30 contain this account. If she's making it up, then we must conclude that the Los Angeles Times and a whole lot of other reputable journalists make shit up on a regular basis, and we know this simply isn't true. Journalists are only allowed to print facts that have been independently verified by their editors. Get some knowledge before you spout off anti-journalist conspiracy theories, you stupid teabagger.
You are aware, of course, that the "living constitution" argument is abused by the worst kinds of people, in order to say, "the constitution means whatever the hell we want it to mean." The Founders were much wiser and less grasping than our current crop of leaders. Just imagine the horrors of the US constitution, if a new congressional congress was held and it was written anew.
This is just "activists" taking the easiest path instead of a path that's actually challenging. It's easy to sue anyone in America, and the insane American legal system is feared worldwide.
Let's put the shoe on the other foot, shall we? Suppose you received a summons from the Intermediate People's Court of Zhengjiang County, China. A Chinese person is suing you because you supplied parts that were assembled into buses that police used to arrive at the scene of a civil disturbance, where the plaintiff was unlawfully injured (by unlawfully, I mean under Chinese law). Suing the local government is right out, so they sued you instead. What would you say to this? (A) Oh boy, this is serious, I had better go to this country, hire a lawyer, and spend a couple of months in-country fighting these charges to clear my name. (B) What the hell authority does some foreign court have over me? I've never been there and I'm never going there.
Oh, and if an American company had refused to comply with the cutoff order, it would be cultural imperialism and interfering with the internal affairs of another country. We can't impose our (false) values of "freedom" on other cultures, remember?
Wow, you mean they're going to replace Unix pipes with some new system based on javascript? Good riddance to old rubbish! What have Unix pipes ever done for anyone?
Now that's funny - isn't it against political correctness to say that one point of view is right and another is wrong? Aren't we supposed to respect the views of all cultures and not judge others? What happened here to make all this hatred socially acceptable?
Huh. Really? Here in China, they had socialism for fifty years and everyone was dirt-poor. The real kind of socialism, the kind where it was illegal to make profit. Ever since Deng Xiaoping hijacked the people's revolution onto the capitalist road, each year has been better than the last, and it's showing no signs of stopping. Workers work a lot, but get paid a heck of a lot better than back on the farm. The last time I was in a small village, there was construction going on everywhere. New houses being built by money sent home from factory work.
China already has a union for the workers. Didn't you get the memo?
You weren't alive during the Carter administration, I see. He was a hick from the sticks with a hick accent, and nobody but rednecks enjoyed seeing him in the White House (Billy). Carter: Malaise Forever. Reagan: "My vision for the cold war? We win, they lose." Obama: "I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."
Gosh, you mean being at a private school that can cherry-pick its students just isn't enough? And serving a public purpose? What the hell? It certainly serves nobody but the elites themselves.
Yeah, I know, it's not talking about public schools, it's the ancient concept of noblesse oblige. They see themselves as uniquely progressive, and take this wonderfully noble obligation upon themselves to "better" the rest of us. Anyone ever think that the rest of us might have "better" lives if elites just left us the fuck alone?
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis
Wow, you mean a coordinated group of people who play together all the time can dominate a team composed of random players? Amazing. "Playing the game as intended," an interesting choice of words. That's what clans are for, jerk.
Here's the text of Apple's famous 1984 ad, it seems oddly appropriate to Clinton's proposal:
"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"
You know that the novel 1984 was based on George Owell's experience with left wingers, right?
If you went to China or Japan or France and still only sought out American-style food, you would likely be outcast
Total bullshit, you just pulled that out of your ass. Foreign food is quite popular in China. A friend of mine opened an American cafe (pizza, sandwiches, beer) and it's packed every day. KFC and McDonald's always have a line. Pete's Tex-Mex in Chengdu has four locations and you can't get a table on weekends.
Wow, what a crazy idea...bin Laden might be a bad person. Defending the world's #1 religious fanatic, here live in Slashdot. Isn't this the place where theists are regularly trashed for hypocrisy and guilt is presumed for any offense?
Meh. You want real Serious Business, watch this film Devil at Your Heels, a documentary shot in 1981. Screw jetpacks, this guy had a ROCKET CAR. He was going to jump a river from Canada to America with a TEN-STORY RAMP. For real! If you have a spare 100 minutes, I highly recommend the film. At least watch the first five minutes about the rose bushes. If you have an engineering background, the opening shot of the ramp plus an unaerodynamic car going 250mph...make your predictions about how the film ends. The guy Ken Carter is full of unintentional humor. Fans of Napoleon Dynamite or School of Rock will love it. And unlike these two films, the subject is 100% in earnest. Filme Board du Canada didn't make that sort of film back then.
Oh, come on. It's not a "brain warmup". It's "OMG I've been asleep for eight hours WHAT HAPPENED WHILE I WAS OFFLINE! I must know!" I took a trip to an offshore island where there was no cell phone service, and one of my companions was beside herself because she couldn't check facebook, couldn't update her status to tell everyone she was on an island, couldn't upload photos and get jealous comments from her acquaintances. This is a person who took shots of every dish we were served at dinner...WTF? Halfway through the ferry trip to the mainland, her phone got service again. You should have seen her face, she was ecstatic like a serious journalist on Obama's election night.
Well, we see here the award isn't given to honor the recipient, it's given to make the elites of Sydney feel good. The Dalai Lama is a rather unsavory character in many respects, although you'll never hear anything against him in the Western media as the narrative has firmly been established and anyone who says otherwise must be insane. Naming Nelson Mandela was another feelgood exercise. Daisaku Ikeda is a religious freak. Religion! What the hell? How on earth does any religion get any honor at all? I thought everyone was in agreement that religious people are total morons? Did this change overnight? Daisaku Ikeda's cult is like Scientology, members have made bomb threats against rival cults (the source is the New York Times, so you know it's true because they're fact-checked). He's a big player in Japan's New Komeito political party, sort of like how the Koch brothers influence American politics in a negative direction. And now we have Assange's award, another totally political statement.
This Sydney Peace Medal is just more bullshit, just elites scratching each other's backs. It means nothing...sort of like the Nobel Peace Prize in that respect (note the similarity of names...a total coincidence I'm sure).
The solution: socialism! It's amazing how many times it can be repeatedly proven that the market doesn't work, and yet socialism still hasn't taken hold. Those damn rich capitalist countries, creating wealth from nothing!
I agree. The risk of contaminating another planet is just too great. We need to stay on our own planet and not fuck up the rest of the solar system. Defund NASA space exploration and put the money towards starving children.
Once, I asked about the train ticket from Houston to Austin. The bus was $19, Southwest Airlines discount fare was $79, and I was hoping for something better as I was a broke college student and I hated the bus. I called Amtrak. Guess how much the fare was? $119. I was floored. Just for shits and grins, I asked the nice lady on the phone the schedule. "Oh, the train comes next Tuesday," she said brightly.
Next Tuesday, huh? OK, at that point I had learned everything I ever needed to know about Amtrak. I never bothered with them again.
Ha, this is a laugh. Google and the other Ph.Ds are going to sit down and dream up some (what seems to them to be) good ideas. Then those ideas will die in a hail of lawsuits when they encounter hard, cold reality. The Ph.Ds write a paper about how people like us are too smart to have our ideas understood, and move on to the next conference, hopefully in Aspen this time (Crystal City, ugh if it were in the midwest it'd be flyover territory).
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So in other words, your morality is superior and that enables you to silence disagreeable groups, because it's in our best interest (or at least what you consider to be so). Nice one, there. You're not so different from them. Not so different at all. Do you know what a "heel realization" is?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (1906)
a thick "network cyst, preventing packets from spreading further into the network" is growing around locations like China and Iran.
What the hell are you talking about? Citation, please? Or did you just make that up because it sounded cool?
Nope, she works for the Los Angeles Times, a reputable newspaper whose halo of truth shines on all its journalists. Her book is 544 pages, of which 30 contain this account. If she's making it up, then we must conclude that the Los Angeles Times and a whole lot of other reputable journalists make shit up on a regular basis, and we know this simply isn't true. Journalists are only allowed to print facts that have been independently verified by their editors. Get some knowledge before you spout off anti-journalist conspiracy theories, you stupid teabagger.
You are aware, of course, that the "living constitution" argument is abused by the worst kinds of people, in order to say, "the constitution means whatever the hell we want it to mean." The Founders were much wiser and less grasping than our current crop of leaders. Just imagine the horrors of the US constitution, if a new congressional congress was held and it was written anew.
Oh, is she like the Ph.D's at my mom's work? The ones who send her email worms, chain letters, and forwarded hoaxes?
Let's put the shoe on the other foot, shall we? Suppose you received a summons from the Intermediate People's Court of Zhengjiang County, China. A Chinese person is suing you because you supplied parts that were assembled into buses that police used to arrive at the scene of a civil disturbance, where the plaintiff was unlawfully injured (by unlawfully, I mean under Chinese law). Suing the local government is right out, so they sued you instead. What would you say to this? (A) Oh boy, this is serious, I had better go to this country, hire a lawyer, and spend a couple of months in-country fighting these charges to clear my name. (B) What the hell authority does some foreign court have over me? I've never been there and I'm never going there.
Oh, and if an American company had refused to comply with the cutoff order, it would be cultural imperialism and interfering with the internal affairs of another country. We can't impose our (false) values of "freedom" on other cultures, remember?
Wow, you mean they're going to replace Unix pipes with some new system based on javascript? Good riddance to old rubbish! What have Unix pipes ever done for anyone?
Now that's funny - isn't it against political correctness to say that one point of view is right and another is wrong? Aren't we supposed to respect the views of all cultures and not judge others? What happened here to make all this hatred socially acceptable?
Huh. Really? Here in China, they had socialism for fifty years and everyone was dirt-poor. The real kind of socialism, the kind where it was illegal to make profit. Ever since Deng Xiaoping hijacked the people's revolution onto the capitalist road, each year has been better than the last, and it's showing no signs of stopping. Workers work a lot, but get paid a heck of a lot better than back on the farm. The last time I was in a small village, there was construction going on everywhere. New houses being built by money sent home from factory work.
China already has a union for the workers. Didn't you get the memo?
You weren't alive during the Carter administration, I see. He was a hick from the sticks with a hick accent, and nobody but rednecks enjoyed seeing him in the White House (Billy). Carter: Malaise Forever. Reagan: "My vision for the cold war? We win, they lose." Obama: "I'm always worried about using the word 'victory,' because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur."
You know, back then, we always used the cracked version, even for software we owned. I don't know what could be more authentic. Dumb hipsters.
Gosh, you mean being at a private school that can cherry-pick its students just isn't enough? And serving a public purpose? What the hell? It certainly serves nobody but the elites themselves.
Yeah, I know, it's not talking about public schools, it's the ancient concept of noblesse oblige. They see themselves as uniquely progressive, and take this wonderfully noble obligation upon themselves to "better" the rest of us. Anyone ever think that the rest of us might have "better" lives if elites just left us the fuck alone?
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis
Wow, you mean a coordinated group of people who play together all the time can dominate a team composed of random players? Amazing. "Playing the game as intended," an interesting choice of words. That's what clans are for, jerk.
Ah, the no true Scotsman fallacy. Where would modern leftists be without it?
"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"
You know that the novel 1984 was based on George Owell's experience with left wingers, right?
Total bullshit, you just pulled that out of your ass. Foreign food is quite popular in China. A friend of mine opened an American cafe (pizza, sandwiches, beer) and it's packed every day. KFC and McDonald's always have a line. Pete's Tex-Mex in Chengdu has four locations and you can't get a table on weekends.
Wow, what a crazy idea...bin Laden might be a bad person. Defending the world's #1 religious fanatic, here live in Slashdot. Isn't this the place where theists are regularly trashed for hypocrisy and guilt is presumed for any offense?
Meh. You want real Serious Business, watch this film Devil at Your Heels, a documentary shot in 1981. Screw jetpacks, this guy had a ROCKET CAR. He was going to jump a river from Canada to America with a TEN-STORY RAMP. For real! If you have a spare 100 minutes, I highly recommend the film. At least watch the first five minutes about the rose bushes. If you have an engineering background, the opening shot of the ramp plus an unaerodynamic car going 250mph...make your predictions about how the film ends. The guy Ken Carter is full of unintentional humor. Fans of Napoleon Dynamite or School of Rock will love it. And unlike these two films, the subject is 100% in earnest. Filme Board du Canada didn't make that sort of film back then.
Oh, come on. It's not a "brain warmup". It's "OMG I've been asleep for eight hours WHAT HAPPENED WHILE I WAS OFFLINE! I must know!" I took a trip to an offshore island where there was no cell phone service, and one of my companions was beside herself because she couldn't check facebook, couldn't update her status to tell everyone she was on an island, couldn't upload photos and get jealous comments from her acquaintances. This is a person who took shots of every dish we were served at dinner...WTF? Halfway through the ferry trip to the mainland, her phone got service again. You should have seen her face, she was ecstatic like a serious journalist on Obama's election night.
"I once preached peaceful coexistence with Windows. You may laugh at my expense - I deserve it."
-- Jean-Louis Gassée, CEO Be, Inc.
Well, we see here the award isn't given to honor the recipient, it's given to make the elites of Sydney feel good. The Dalai Lama is a rather unsavory character in many respects, although you'll never hear anything against him in the Western media as the narrative has firmly been established and anyone who says otherwise must be insane. Naming Nelson Mandela was another feelgood exercise. Daisaku Ikeda is a religious freak. Religion! What the hell? How on earth does any religion get any honor at all? I thought everyone was in agreement that religious people are total morons? Did this change overnight? Daisaku Ikeda's cult is like Scientology, members have made bomb threats against rival cults (the source is the New York Times, so you know it's true because they're fact-checked). He's a big player in Japan's New Komeito political party, sort of like how the Koch brothers influence American politics in a negative direction. And now we have Assange's award, another totally political statement.
This Sydney Peace Medal is just more bullshit, just elites scratching each other's backs. It means nothing...sort of like the Nobel Peace Prize in that respect (note the similarity of names...a total coincidence I'm sure).
The solution: socialism! It's amazing how many times it can be repeatedly proven that the market doesn't work, and yet socialism still hasn't taken hold. Those damn rich capitalist countries, creating wealth from nothing!
I agree. The risk of contaminating another planet is just too great. We need to stay on our own planet and not fuck up the rest of the solar system. Defund NASA space exploration and put the money towards starving children.
Once, I asked about the train ticket from Houston to Austin. The bus was $19, Southwest Airlines discount fare was $79, and I was hoping for something better as I was a broke college student and I hated the bus. I called Amtrak. Guess how much the fare was? $119. I was floored. Just for shits and grins, I asked the nice lady on the phone the schedule. "Oh, the train comes next Tuesday," she said brightly.
Next Tuesday, huh? OK, at that point I had learned everything I ever needed to know about Amtrak. I never bothered with them again.
Ha, this is a laugh. Google and the other Ph.Ds are going to sit down and dream up some (what seems to them to be) good ideas. Then those ideas will die in a hail of lawsuits when they encounter hard, cold reality. The Ph.Ds write a paper about how people like us are too smart to have our ideas understood, and move on to the next conference, hopefully in Aspen this time (Crystal City, ugh if it were in the midwest it'd be flyover territory).