No, but thanks for the wild-ass guess at my motives, which, frankly, reveals more about yourself, Mr. Jedi, than me. I've made this exact same children/prisoners/military argument in many slashdot discussions over the years. I'm not sure where you got the medical paranoia thing from. However, these days, I see that strawmen are highly fashionable and the best way to attack someone is to fashion a false idea of what your brain tells you they think and then knock it down. Works almost every time.
The first three groups of people in any society who always give up their rights before anyone else:
Children and the elderly, because they cannot speak for themselves;
Prisoners, because they have forfeited their rights by harming the rest of us; and
Military, because they voluntarily relinquish their rights in order to serve the rest of us.
You're kidding yourself if you think wearing one of these won't be mandatory to qualify for a life insurance policy in 10 years. Without life insurance, you can't get a job, without a job, you can't get a citizen number, without a citizen number, you can't buy food from state-owned stores (because food distribution is too important to be left in the hands of crazed free market advocates). Fill in the blanks with snippets from the dystopian sci-fi writer of your choice.
This is something called reality that has to be dealt with. I know this is typically not what petition signers encounter in their daily lives, but endure this explanation. The truth is that critical applications depend on IE6 to function, and upgrading from IE6 would cause work to stop. They shouldn't have built their apps on IE6? Blame Microsoft, their ruthless tactics led to that situation.
Yeah, this isn't Grand Theft Auto Spray-n-Pray shop. Paint shops can do a really lousy job on your car. It's not as easy as drive in, drive out. And then you get to deal with shifty asshole salesmen: "Yah, but I'm sayin', that TruCoat, you don't get it and you get oxidization problems. It'll cost you a heck of lot more than five hundred!"
So - let me get this straight - it's OK to hate? As long as it's cultural? I just wanted to make sure, because I had heard that hate was unacceptable under any circumstances. But maybe that was just my P.C. upbringing talking.
Ordinary Americans have allowed themselves to become loathsome. Acutally, American people haven't changed. They're the same as ever. It's the vicious hatred like yours that has revealed itself in public in the last 10 years.
It's natural to despise such people. Yeah, they used to say the same things about the Cherokee, the Negroes, the Tibetans, etc etc. But I'm sure the hate is OK in your case.
Wow, the law of unintended consequences sure bit them hard? I mean, who would have guessed that combining anonymity with video cameras resulted in distasteful or illegal images? You would have had to be Al Gore to see that one coming. No ordinary person would have predicted this outcome.
You mean total pricks don't care about anyone, and in fact prefer to look down on us little people? Say it isn't so! Auntie Em, I'm getting the vapors!
The thing that really strikes me these days is the hatred for ordinary Americans by the elites. I mean, they've always considered us close to apes, but I don't think there has ever been this withering contempt. It's like, unless you agree with the entire groupthink that results in you purchasing Apple products and considering yourself superior, you are not even entitled to franchise or political opinions of any kind. It's really frightening to see respected newspaper editors (Apple owners!) admire one-party states and say they're rather uncomfortable with our representative government.
You know, one of Mao's favorite strategems was to take a reasonable argument, present it to the existing government, and then have his agitators provoke a police response. The ensuing response would be used as "evidence".
When you comes to police states, you have no clue what you're talking about. Get out of your tiny thought bubble and try living in one for a while.
Oh, bullshit. I'm sure it's exhilarating to push the +1 Insightful moderation, but I live in an actual police state. If I went to city hall with a group of people waving signs, we'd have the People's Armed Police up in our grill faster than you can say "Jiminy Cricket". I just cringe when Americans make idiot statements like yours.
Great insight, 100% accurate. I know a lot of people who have lived in China for a lot more than 7 years, and they haven't grasped these concepts yet, other than to become negative about it.
The big cheese is not the final user of the system or the web site. He would look at it at most for 5 minutes. Therefore, as long as it looks animated, seems to have a lot of functions and information, it'll be good. How it affects the end users is not his problem. So true, so true. I saw so many things that were screwed up at the World Expo, and my eye told me it was that way to please The Leaders.
That's one of the bugaboos of Asian language proficiency - what once was meaningless noise to you all the sudden becomes offensive, in-your-face advertising.
You have to realize that in China, the government is like the weather. It just sort of happens and nobody can do anything about it. Everyone's getting along fine, and the all the sudden one day, boom, a new policy is published and everything is turned upside down. There's no public discussions, no hints on what's in the pipeline, just the final policy. In my city, one day, boom, they banned motorcycles. The announcement was made through the pro-government media, and you had 30 days to figure out how to manage life without your crotch rocket. They changed a law that greatly affected truck taxi drivers, and there were actual protests, a thing that happens a lot more than you'd think in China. (protesting against the government is seen as a right-wing act and has been banned since the founding of the People's Republic).
Everything to do with the GFW is strange, too, because it's secret. They don't even bother to announce policies. Probably some faction of the Information Ministry (it used to be much cooler when it was called the Propaganda Ministry) won a power struggle against some other faction. If porn is unblocked, yay, better for me. I hate VPNs, I have never had a reliable experience with one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. VPNs also have terrible connectivity to sites inside China, which is where I spend a lot of my working time. Besides, it's just cooler to browse the web with a.cn IP address.
Why don't you go, chicken? Being an expat is a lot of tough work in areas it never even occurred to you to think of as tough. Whiners and moaners don't last long, and that's exactly what you're doing here, whining and moaning. Get it done, man. Make a plan, do it tomorrow. If you don't, you're yellow.
Unless, of course, you're all talk and just want to make insane moral equivalence statements like Australia is equal to North Korea.
Starvation is a problem in the game unless you MOVE MOVE MOVE. Keep moving and eat every corpse you create. Make a note of which corpses poison, sicken, or kill you, and avoid eating those your next game. You have to move down the stairs after fully exploring the level. Starvation is the game's way of keeping you from spending too much unproductive time in one spot.
Piracy isn't what it used to be in China. Things are getting cleaned up. The last time I went to the dodgy computer market, all the software which used to be in heaps of boxes was gone. This was kind of annoying as I needed the Chinese version of InDesign - ended up getting it from bittorrent instead.
Retail piracy in general is down, way down. The government is starting to crack down. Pressure from the US government is actually useful in this regard, as it gives the government a foreign bogeyman to blame for shutting down copyright infringement industries. The fake market in Shanghai that I used to buy all sorts of stuff from is a shadow of its former self. Half the junk I can get for cheaper in the States, anyway, because of the exchange rate.
China's contribution to the debris field in NEO is minuscule compared to the wholesale pollution practiced by the USA. When are people going to wake up and begin blaming American capitalists instead of The Yellow Peril?
Because it doesn't matter at all if it actually works, what matters is that we all felt good about it. P*sigh* The last 20 years of civilization and higher learning in a nutshell.
Does anyone understand what you just said, or are you so influenced by your own small-minded world that you lack the insight to see that you're incompetent? Let's review the unfamiliar (to everyone but you) terms used: DNF, peleton, transactional reductionist, generative learning potential, ostensibly, groused, as well as a bizarre strawman argument against libertarianism. I'm sure in your own tiny twitter world, these terms make perfect sense and are impossible to argue against. Heck, if you lived in the real world, you could hardly call yourself a Progressive, innit?
Yyyyyeah. There do exist those of us who would rather not fly Redneck Air. When you're approaching your destination and the FA's get on the PA and make a stupid rhyme about where you're about to land, the sane people in the world cringe (and try to ignore the smell of our seatmate). PS poetry hasn't rhymed for more than 100 years, you might want to inform Redneck Air's FAs about this "new" development.
How about this? Astronomers agree with the ruling class that a gigantic hoax would have "positive" effects on society. The heat of the asteroid entering the atmosphere would heat the entire planet beyond habitability range. They then fudge or fabricate data to support this "asteroid warming" theory. Everyone supports the warming theory due to the alarmism it creates, thus putting in place the necessary social capital to bring radical changes to life as we know it, all to thwart the theorized "asteroid warming" theory. The entire ruling class is happy with this except for the people being ruled governed. Anyone who dared to question the ruling class would be demonized in the press and slapped with a dehumanizing label like "asteroid warming denialist". A brave whistleblower leaks damning information - which would would probably be dubbed "Asteroidgate" - in which it is revealed that astronomers know it's all bullshit but think that the climate of urgency fostered by the "asteroid" would enable the ruling class to smite its enemies among the common people who dare to speak back.
Animal testing has never really worked. Animal tests proved penicillin
deadly, strychnine safe and aspirin dangerous.
In fact, 90 percent of medications approved for human use after animal
testing later proved ineffective or harmful to humans in clinical trials. It is
humbling to realize that the flipping of a coin would have proved five times
more accurate and much cheaper. Animal-tested drugs have killed, disabled or
harmed millions of people and lead to costly delays as well. Among the most
publicized are the delays of a polio vaccine by over three decades and a
four-year delay in the use of protease inhibitors for HIV treatment - after
animal testing showed these interventions to be useless.
We have spent billions of dollars to cure cancer in mice, but so far have
failed to replicate human cancer in any animal, let alone close in on a cure.
All but a very few diseases are species-unique, and the only efficient and
effective way to discover cures and create vaccines is through the use of the
same species cells, tissues and organs.
The use of animals as models for the development of human medications and
disease almost always fails, simply because humans and animals have different
physiologies.
As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year. Much of the experimentation-including pumping chemicals into rats' stomachs, hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs, and putting baby monkeys in isolation chambers far from their mothers-is paid for by you, the American taxpayer and consumer, yet you can't visit a laboratory and see how the government has spent your money. You can't even get an accurate count on the number of animals killed every year because experimenters and the government have decided that mice and rats and certain other animals don't even have to be counted.
It's time to insist that they stop harming defenseless animals and wasting our precious health care dollars so they can get busy saving our lives by embracing technologies that work.
Animal experimentation is a multibillion-dollar industry fueled by massive public funding and involving a complex web of corporate, government, and university laboratories, cage and food manufacturers, and animal breeders, dealers, and transporters. The industry and its people profit because animals, who cannot defend themselves against abuse, are legally imprisoned and exploited.
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No, but thanks for the wild-ass guess at my motives, which, frankly, reveals more about yourself, Mr. Jedi, than me. I've made this exact same children/prisoners/military argument in many slashdot discussions over the years. I'm not sure where you got the medical paranoia thing from. However, these days, I see that strawmen are highly fashionable and the best way to attack someone is to fashion a false idea of what your brain tells you they think and then knock it down. Works almost every time.
You're kidding yourself if you think wearing one of these won't be mandatory to qualify for a life insurance policy in 10 years. Without life insurance, you can't get a job, without a job, you can't get a citizen number, without a citizen number, you can't buy food from state-owned stores (because food distribution is too important to be left in the hands of crazed free market advocates). Fill in the blanks with snippets from the dystopian sci-fi writer of your choice.
This is something called reality that has to be dealt with. I know this is typically not what petition signers encounter in their daily lives, but endure this explanation. The truth is that critical applications depend on IE6 to function, and upgrading from IE6 would cause work to stop. They shouldn't have built their apps on IE6? Blame Microsoft, their ruthless tactics led to that situation.
Yeah, this isn't Grand Theft Auto Spray-n-Pray shop. Paint shops can do a really lousy job on your car. It's not as easy as drive in, drive out. And then you get to deal with shifty asshole salesmen: "Yah, but I'm sayin', that TruCoat, you don't get it and you get oxidization problems. It'll cost you a heck of lot more than five hundred!"
So - let me get this straight - it's OK to hate? As long as it's cultural? I just wanted to make sure, because I had heard that hate was unacceptable under any circumstances. But maybe that was just my P.C. upbringing talking.
Ordinary Americans have allowed themselves to become loathsome.
Acutally, American people haven't changed. They're the same as ever. It's the vicious hatred like yours that has revealed itself in public in the last 10 years.
It's natural to despise such people.
Yeah, they used to say the same things about the Cherokee, the Negroes, the Tibetans, etc etc. But I'm sure the hate is OK in your case.
Wow, the law of unintended consequences sure bit them hard? I mean, who would have guessed that combining anonymity with video cameras resulted in distasteful or illegal images? You would have had to be Al Gore to see that one coming. No ordinary person would have predicted this outcome.
You mean total pricks don't care about anyone, and in fact prefer to look down on us little people? Say it isn't so! Auntie Em, I'm getting the vapors!
The thing that really strikes me these days is the hatred for ordinary Americans by the elites. I mean, they've always considered us close to apes, but I don't think there has ever been this withering contempt. It's like, unless you agree with the entire groupthink that results in you purchasing Apple products and considering yourself superior, you are not even entitled to franchise or political opinions of any kind. It's really frightening to see respected newspaper editors (Apple owners!) admire one-party states and say they're rather uncomfortable with our representative government.
You know, one of Mao's favorite strategems was to take a reasonable argument, present it to the existing government, and then have his agitators provoke a police response. The ensuing response would be used as "evidence".
When you comes to police states, you have no clue what you're talking about. Get out of your tiny thought bubble and try living in one for a while.
Oh, bullshit. I'm sure it's exhilarating to push the +1 Insightful moderation, but I live in an actual police state. If I went to city hall with a group of people waving signs, we'd have the People's Armed Police up in our grill faster than you can say "Jiminy Cricket". I just cringe when Americans make idiot statements like yours.
The big cheese is not the final user of the system or the web site. He would look at it at most for 5 minutes. Therefore, as long as it looks animated, seems to have a lot of functions and information, it'll be good. How it affects the end users is not his problem.
So true, so true. I saw so many things that were screwed up at the World Expo, and my eye told me it was that way to please The Leaders.
That's one of the bugaboos of Asian language proficiency - what once was meaningless noise to you all the sudden becomes offensive, in-your-face advertising.
You have to realize that in China, the government is like the weather. It just sort of happens and nobody can do anything about it. Everyone's getting along fine, and the all the sudden one day, boom, a new policy is published and everything is turned upside down. There's no public discussions, no hints on what's in the pipeline, just the final policy. In my city, one day, boom, they banned motorcycles. The announcement was made through the pro-government media, and you had 30 days to figure out how to manage life without your crotch rocket. They changed a law that greatly affected truck taxi drivers, and there were actual protests, a thing that happens a lot more than you'd think in China. (protesting against the government is seen as a right-wing act and has been banned since the founding of the People's Republic).
Everything to do with the GFW is strange, too, because it's secret. They don't even bother to announce policies. Probably some faction of the Information Ministry (it used to be much cooler when it was called the Propaganda Ministry) won a power struggle against some other faction. If porn is unblocked, yay, better for me. I hate VPNs, I have never had a reliable experience with one that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. VPNs also have terrible connectivity to sites inside China, which is where I spend a lot of my working time. Besides, it's just cooler to browse the web with a .cn IP address.
Unless, of course, you're all talk and just want to make insane moral equivalence statements like Australia is equal to North Korea.
Starvation is a problem in the game unless you MOVE MOVE MOVE. Keep moving and eat every corpse you create. Make a note of which corpses poison, sicken, or kill you, and avoid eating those your next game. You have to move down the stairs after fully exploring the level. Starvation is the game's way of keeping you from spending too much unproductive time in one spot.
Piracy isn't what it used to be in China. Things are getting cleaned up. The last time I went to the dodgy computer market, all the software which used to be in heaps of boxes was gone. This was kind of annoying as I needed the Chinese version of InDesign - ended up getting it from bittorrent instead.
Retail piracy in general is down, way down. The government is starting to crack down. Pressure from the US government is actually useful in this regard, as it gives the government a foreign bogeyman to blame for shutting down copyright infringement industries. The fake market in Shanghai that I used to buy all sorts of stuff from is a shadow of its former self. Half the junk I can get for cheaper in the States, anyway, because of the exchange rate.
I just love being required to use a SECURE PASSWORD for something totally meaningless like a forum or shopping cart. It usually goes like this: 1) Password rejected! All passwords must contain numbers. 2) Password rejected! All passwords must contain mixed case. 3) Password rejected! All passwords must contain at least one symbol. 4) Password rejected! Use only ASCII, ¥ and © are not allowed. 5) Password rejected! Your account has been disabled and a 24 hour block has been placed on your IP address. Please call customer service, the number is on another page of our website.
Wow, I get these link-building SEO spams all the time on my Drupal website, but I'm surprised to see one here on slashdot.
China's contribution to the debris field in NEO is minuscule compared to the wholesale pollution practiced by the USA. When are people going to wake up and begin blaming American capitalists instead of The Yellow Peril?
Because it doesn't matter at all if it actually works, what matters is that we all felt good about it. P*sigh* The last 20 years of civilization and higher learning in a nutshell.
You obviously do not comprehend the raging contempt for ordinary people shown by your ruling class.
Does anyone understand what you just said, or are you so influenced by your own small-minded world that you lack the insight to see that you're incompetent? Let's review the unfamiliar (to everyone but you) terms used: DNF, peleton, transactional reductionist, generative learning potential, ostensibly, groused, as well as a bizarre strawman argument against libertarianism. I'm sure in your own tiny twitter world, these terms make perfect sense and are impossible to argue against. Heck, if you lived in the real world, you could hardly call yourself a Progressive, innit?
Yyyyyeah. There do exist those of us who would rather not fly Redneck Air. When you're approaching your destination and the FA's get on the PA and make a stupid rhyme about where you're about to land, the sane people in the world cringe (and try to ignore the smell of our seatmate). PS poetry hasn't rhymed for more than 100 years, you might want to inform Redneck Air's FAs about this "new" development.
Hey, just a theory.
Animal testing has never really worked. Animal tests proved penicillin deadly, strychnine safe and aspirin dangerous.
In fact, 90 percent of medications approved for human use after animal testing later proved ineffective or harmful to humans in clinical trials. It is humbling to realize that the flipping of a coin would have proved five times more accurate and much cheaper. Animal-tested drugs have killed, disabled or harmed millions of people and lead to costly delays as well. Among the most publicized are the delays of a polio vaccine by over three decades and a four-year delay in the use of protease inhibitors for HIV treatment - after animal testing showed these interventions to be useless.
We have spent billions of dollars to cure cancer in mice, but so far have failed to replicate human cancer in any animal, let alone close in on a cure. All but a very few diseases are species-unique, and the only efficient and effective way to discover cures and create vaccines is through the use of the same species cells, tissues and organs.
The use of animals as models for the development of human medications and disease almost always fails, simply because humans and animals have different physiologies.
As many as 115 million animals are experimented on and killed in laboratories in the U.S. every year. Much of the experimentation-including pumping chemicals into rats' stomachs, hacking muscle tissue from dogs' thighs, and putting baby monkeys in isolation chambers far from their mothers-is paid for by you, the American taxpayer and consumer, yet you can't visit a laboratory and see how the government has spent your money. You can't even get an accurate count on the number of animals killed every year because experimenters and the government have decided that mice and rats and certain other animals don't even have to be counted.
It's time to insist that they stop harming defenseless animals and wasting our precious health care dollars so they can get busy saving our lives by embracing technologies that work.
Animal experimentation is a multibillion-dollar industry fueled by massive public funding and involving a complex web of corporate, government, and university laboratories, cage and food manufacturers, and animal breeders, dealers, and transporters. The industry and its people profit because animals, who cannot defend themselves against abuse, are legally imprisoned and exploited.