And what Kurt never could abandon was his committment to the egalitarian fantasy.
Such people do have a place in society: Slaves.
They are born to serve, and such a life is far better than ending up in prison or living in a housing project.
Whether it is sweeping the streets, or providing amusement for those who are burdened by the demands of our complex society or the passion of the muses, such people free the more gifted from the constraints of the mundane.
In return, the inferior slave strata receive a purpose for their existence, as well as sustenance for life. Without higher forms of humanity, they would perish.
The egalitarian fantasy robs the nobility of freedom, and burdens the inferior with responsibilities they could never hope to achieve.
Or are you so self-absorbed that you assume that your own biases and foibles are representative of the entire first-world population?
Considering fat, lazy, idiotic fools comprise most of the first world population, I think the man simply is sticking to his guns about what is important in this world.
Learn it and learn it well: The rest of the world does not think exactly like you, and they pay in cash money, too.
The future of human civilization is not the subject of a popularity contest. Stupid, inane toys waste precious human life and are nothing more than modern circuses for the masses. We will fight for an ideal form of humanity, and your potato chip stuffing fat ass won't be able to do a damn thing about it.
The divisive, individualistic lifestyle that is the essence of the consumer behavior you endorse is unsustainable. It denies the duty every citizen has to the greater formation of the state, as well as the next generation of the inhabitants of our world.
Your creed has been tried. It is an unmitigated failure. The future belongs to us now. I suggest you get over yourself as there are just a few years left of the so-called freedom you now enjoy.
That isn't a given, and in the future it is almost certainly going to be false.
And now back to reality, for $620, you can buy ONE single external HDD drive with all the same storage, which you can use to carry data around faster, more efficient, safer, and most important: you can do it TODAY.,
Why is that? The world is filled with people who are human only in terms of their biology, but hardly live in any way we typically associate with humanity. Most of them would die anyway if it wasn't for the generosity and ingenuity of European peoples. Certainly, the level of suffering that exists in India didn't exist before the introduction of European technologies and civilizing elements.
We are not some happy brotherhood of equal men. The egalitarian fiction is nothing more than that, a fiction.
If a few must be sacrificed for the continuance of human civilization, so be it. When it comes to India, they certainly have the surplus population to spare.
I think this post speaks marvelously of how legalism is such a profound social disease. The term non-profit doesn't mean the organization doesn't make money. It means that for tax purposes, the corporation doesn't pay corporate income taxes.
Sure most people who work for non-profits make less than other companies, but the people at the top often do very well. They of course have an interest in perpetuating that. Further, this is a huge scandal these days as people at the top of these organizations are often making $1MM a year or more.
"Oh, you people of sound understandings," I replied, smiling, "are ever ready to exclaim, 'Extravagance, and madness, and intoxication!' You moral men are so calm and so subdued! You abhor the drunken man, and detest the extravagant; you pass by, like the Levite, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that you are not like one of them. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. And in private life, too, is it not intolerable that no one can undertake the execution of a noble or generous deed, without giving rise to the exclamation that the doer is intoxicated or mad? Shame upon you, ye sages!" -Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther
The arrogance of labelling a culture (any culture) as a failure astounds me. What do you mean "failure"? It is an interesting philisophical stance for you to take, labelling failure and success as absolute concepts. As if failure and success actually existed as empirical fact
I really don't see what culture has to do with race. Why don't you enlighten me on that one first.
As for culture, your pathetic mind which has been manipulated by years of propaganda doesn't know what culture is. You think of language, you think of chinese food, you think of funny outfits and rigid social customs. The most superficial aspects of culture are what you think of. None of that matters, and in a place like India it is highly variable anyhow.
Culture is a weapon, it is the very fabric of a people united in survival and the pursuit of prosperity. There are of course two measures here. Survival, the most basic, has very clear standards. You either live, or you die. In Eastern countries, survival is hardly guaranteed and most tend to live a shorter lifespan than the average citizen of the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago. In terms of survival, they are failures. I don't need to post evidence for this. Only a fool would claim otherwise and a casual stroll through any major city in India or anywhere in Southeast Asia would prove me right.
As for prosperity, that is a bit different. And that I don't have time to prove. But since you clearly have no knowledge of the philosophical writings of which I speak, what would it matter anyhow? The notion of the platonic ideal forms which formed the basis of Western Culture still does not yet exist in the east. It is for this reason their people can merely absorb western culture and not create their own.
I'm not going to educate a fool like you in aesthetics, but suffice it to say it is a cornerstone of any healthy civilization. To understand that further will take much more reading than the last 10,000 posts on slashdot.
how did this racist dribble get modded "insightful"?
I think that primitive ad hominem attacks such as your own are unproductive. Clearly, Eastern countries, with the exception of China and Japan, and to a lessor extent Korea, are dismal failures. I am offering you a much more rational explanation. WHat is yours? Or do you consider a billion people living like animals a success? Or wait, you think they are genetically inferior and thus there is nothing we can do about it?
so who is shining beacon of truth in business? the oil industry? maybe tobacco?
I didn't say people in business don't lie. The difference is in many Eastern countries, it is considered normal and is to be expected. It is part of the bargaining process. In western countries, it is considered ethically wrong.
Since Antiquity, we have in the West upheld truth as the most noble of virtues. We have an entire study dedicated to it (epistemology). It is what allowed the west to transcend a clan based culture, and was one of the major advancements in human history.
I have offered a philosophical explanation for the collective failure of a people. You falsely believe I offered a biological one. So, if its not philosophical, and its not genetic... What then is the reason these people can't even build roads on par with those built by Rome 2,000 years ago? Why can't they provide simple food and shelter for their people, let alone the opportunity for greater pursuits? Enlighten me, please.
Their culture is exceedingly ancient,insi rigid in form, more ritual than personal expression. But culture is by definition the collective hopes, dreams, social customs, and ethical codes which a people share in their pursuit of survival.
Given the immense human suffering that takes place in most of this region of the world, I think it is safe to say that their culture is not merely a failure, but a direct cause of their misery.
The fact the predecessors that founded their countries once had unique artistic tastes is irrelevant. Most of these people are living in mud huts or shacks made of garbage. Their level of civility is far inferior to that achieved in Rome 2000 years ago, and the average citizen is more akin to a workhorse than an artisan.
Your false dichotomy demonstrates the lack of depth of your own aesthetic tastes.
Its not racist at all. Many cultures of eastern origin consider lying and deception a normal part of dealing with strangers, particularly in business transactions. It is one of the many reasons their cultures are total failures, with recent population growth allowed purely due to technology invented in Europe. It is also one of the reasons such primitive cultures value family connections above all else, those are the only relationships they trust.
There are specific cultural reasons for this behavior, and anyone who ignores them in furthering the grand egalitarian myth will be taken as a fool.
Listen to yourself. how have I supported any position Bush has taken? You are such a fucking puppet! it is rare the disease of parlimentarian politics is so painfully demonstrated.
I don't give a fuck about Republicans OR Democrats. All political parties should be banned, period. There should be no professional politicians.
The point is a simple one: you are not motivated by any principle or virtue. You are a political tool. You haven't made a single criticism of republicans that hasn't applied to democrats, sometimes more so. This tells me you are blind to the truth when it doesn't suit your agenda.
And as far as the coming battle, fuck off. I'll see you at the front. You pansy liberals will never survive the coming global crisis and breakdown of civil society. All your endless talk about rights, you don't give a fuck about duty and that's why you will all cry to your grave.
For your information, a casual look at the members of Bush's cabinet should make it quite clear he is no fascist. There is also the whole issue he was umm, elected. Fascism is the repudiation of democracy, and the rejection of egalitarianism. Of course to a brainwashed fool like you, it is just a political slam word, but it has real meaning, unlike "democratic".
Like I've said, a look at the Democratic party record since WWII proves their party is a failure. Democracy is a failure and is failing all over the world. You are supporting a sinking ship. Republicans have had their decade, and it mostly sucks, but 10 years of failure is a far cry from nearly a half century.
Again, fuck the Boland Amendment. Congress has no power to restrict how the Comamander and Chief can fight utilize the active military.
Where were the democrats complaining about such activity with the Bay of Pigs Invasion? The Vietnam War? Korea? The endless missle strikes against various Arab targets in the middle east? Like there was congressional authorization for any of those activities? Typical democratic hypocricy.
There is a long and established tradition of American presidents, of both parties, aiding in wars like this. Given the tens of millions of people who have died under communism, that seems to be a worthy cause. The difference is, Republicans have ALWAYS been against communism. Democrats only supported anti-communism when it was proven half of Roosevelt's cabinet were communist traitors. Here you are whining about Watergate when Roosevelt sold out all of Eastern Europe and gave us the cold war. The Bay of Pigs invasion was just politics, simply to prove that Democrats weren't infact internationalist communists.
You are just a brainwashed idiot, who has listend to all of your liberal professors, and marvelled at the endless pro-Clinton propaganda on MTV. Get a grip! The democrats controlled congress for 40 years, and every program they ever advocated is a complete failure. The democratic party will never rise again, they are proven hypocrits, just as you are here. Focus on the future, not this warped vision of the past . The future is not the democratic party or their failed policies.
40 years of failure, that's what you want to return to?
And what is this ridiculous accuastion I am justifying anyone's crimes? To be perfectly honest, I'm a dedicated fascist and look at fools like you as evidence for why democracy must be abolished. The mere thought that someone like you has a say in the future of human civilization makes me sick. Its the pandering for votes from morons that corrupts politics and leadership.
A true leader acts because it is the right thing to do, irrespective of the popularity of his actions. Your political creed makes him a slave of the masses, and decay and destruction is the result.
Is the wolf greedy because it is hungry for the lamb?
Life is killing and exploitation. It is nature you wish to fight, not human vice or virture.
Until the unlimited right of reproduction is ended and intelligent selective breeding takes over, humans will fight over scarce resources, land, and abilities. Such is life.
Don't be a pussy, stand and defend yourself. To die in battle is one of the greatest honors. How will you die? A miserable wretch, alone in a dark room, an embarassment to the fucked up children you have spawned to replace yourself? It sounds to me that your conception of life is sick and pathetic. It is whining of a runt for the bone it can't have.
As for your "Democratic wars" theory - how about the way that those wars are started by Democrats, then prolonged indefinitely by Republicans (except WWII, which Democrats won)
What about World War I? Did you forget Wilson was a Democrat too? The same president who gave us every single major oppresive federal agency from the FBI down? And how did Nixon prolong the war? What did you want the guy to do? Just pull out? The fact remains he was re-elected, so if you believe in the powers of democracy, you should stand by the reality that the majority of americans in 1972 did not agree with you.
I don't follow either party, but the politics of the moment is class division. The rebranding of the Democratic party as the hip, peace party during the 1970's is one of the greatest scams of the 20th century. Wake up!
Also, the "illegal" sale of weapons to the Contras was by any reasonable measure an abuse of executive authority. The president has exclusive control over the military and ordinance, as well as foreign policy. It is hardly as cut and dry as you think. At the very least, it was on par with the indictment of Clinton.
The entire Iran Contra affair as far as the "Iran" part, and the story you discussed was retracted by the New York Times, the paper that originally published it. It was completely insane, and required George Bush I to fly to Iran on an SR-71 as it was the only plane capable of getting there and back in time. Have you read the original story? Its a joke. Now, I have no doubt Reagan was selling weapons to the Contras, but so what! They were communists, and the president has that authority.
And Vietnam? What history are YOU reading? Vietnam was a Democrat war, like all wars of the 20th century save the Iraq wars. Nixon was the one who got us OUT of the war! Duh, why were the riots at the democratic national convention in 1968? Because of Johnson and vietnam!
As for Carter, his entire presidency was marked by double digit unemployment, inflation and interest rates. It was without a doubt, the worst time in American history since the depression. His presidency, by every reasonable measure, was a complete total failure and every year since has been remarkably better.
As usual, Carter and the democratic party was voted out of office because the American middle class was getting fucked, and making up all sorts of ridiculous stories like this does nothing to help your cause. You are the victim of the lies here jack, and unfortunately you just weren't alive when any of this happened so you don't know.
Simply put - the trees are not on a farm, they're first-growth temperate rainforest trees.
Total bullshit. You find an article describing rainforest trees being used for this purpose. The stuff is expensive and used for expensive furniture and musical instruments, not much else.
Create a lifeform from scratch. What happens then? Creating life is currently beyond our technical abilities. That doesn't mean that it is true for everyone, or more importantly, a higher power.
I think you aren't using enough imagination here.
One could also have argued that perhaps someday it will be possible to prove the existence of some deity.
I think you humanistic tendency to believe that A) humans are the most intelligent life forms and that B) there is no god clouds your judgment. Because you do not see the divine in the universe does not mean others have to close their eyes to the sublime.
But ultimately, the only way to prove that intelligent design is false is to PROVE THAT EVOLUTION OCURRS.
This should not be difficult with the variety of rapidly reproducing life forms that exist. But it hasn't happened, and until it does, this debate will continue.
Evolutionary theory makes predictions. In order for evolution to remain a contendor, there are other testable things which must hold true. So far, each prediction that has been tested has supported the theory. Evolution is a falsifiable theory that has yet to be falsified.
Predictions are not evidence. You find me one single study that shows a particular species of life forms mutating into another organism, that is wholly a new species. Guess what, you can't find it.
Evolution is a belief, no different than the belief in Santa Claus. Evolution may be true, but as of yet no one has seen it happen.
There is also the small matter of what causes species mutation. If it was as simple as selective pressure, we could easily replicate the process with small rapidly reproducing bacteria. Because there is a trend of new species appearing over time doesn't mean a thing. There is a trend of new kinds of automobiles and stone tools appearing over time. It doesn't mean one begat the other.
So far, the only predictions of which I am aware deal with this concept, by looking at fossil records over time and predicting a similar species appearing at a given time range. Duhh, that is about as scientific is stock trending.
I don't quite understand why this is so. Are you saying that we cannot prove that Henry Ford designed the Model T as well?
At the moment, evolution cannot falsified either since it has never been observed to ocurr.
Really, both the theories of intelligent design and evolution do not utilize the scientific method because empericism is irrelevant. Both are theories that use inductive logic to arrive at their conclusions.
Until someone observes spontaneous cross-species evolution, and not simple changes due to selective breeding like stone-age farmers used to give us modern cows and dogs, we will continue to have this debate. We really don't know anything more about the topic than the farmers of thousands of years ago.
Yes, but the problem is anyone who has been in an art museum knows that modern Greeks do not at all resemble the people who inhabited that land in antiquity. There is also the small manner of many Eastern influences, such as Greek music. Greeks today are primarily a Turkic/Slavic people, and most of their culture is derived from that ancestry.
The Greeks of antiquity are gone, assimilated with the many invaders which have conquered their land, and that is why today they contribute pretty much nothing in comparison to the past. Such is the legacy of all great people.
The answer to your question is rather simple: the US government and the American people ultimately bail out banks whenever they fuck up. This is why their security is pathetic and its so easy to steal identities.
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And what Kurt never could abandon was his committment to the egalitarian fantasy.
Such people do have a place in society: Slaves.
They are born to serve, and such a life is far better than ending up in prison or living in a housing project.
Whether it is sweeping the streets, or providing amusement for those who are burdened by the demands of our complex society or the passion of the muses, such people free the more gifted from the constraints of the mundane.
In return, the inferior slave strata receive a purpose for their existence, as well as sustenance for life. Without higher forms of humanity, they would perish.
The egalitarian fantasy robs the nobility of freedom, and burdens the inferior with responsibilities they could never hope to achieve.
No, I think you are quite mistaken. Read up on Hybrid Drives.
The future of laptop hardrive technology is going to be a mixture of hard disk and flash memory technology.
Or are you so self-absorbed that you assume that your own biases and foibles are representative of the entire first-world population?
Considering fat, lazy, idiotic fools comprise most of the first world population, I think the man simply is sticking to his guns about what is important in this world.
Learn it and learn it well: The rest of the world does not think exactly like you, and they pay in cash money, too.
The future of human civilization is not the subject of a popularity contest. Stupid, inane toys waste precious human life and are nothing more than modern circuses for the masses. We will fight for an ideal form of humanity, and your potato chip stuffing fat ass won't be able to do a damn thing about it.
The divisive, individualistic lifestyle that is the essence of the consumer behavior you endorse is unsustainable. It denies the duty every citizen has to the greater formation of the state, as well as the next generation of the inhabitants of our world.
Your creed has been tried. It is an unmitigated failure. The future belongs to us now. I suggest you get over yourself as there are just a few years left of the so-called freedom you now enjoy.
So, given Blu-Ray discs will be extra expensive,
That isn't a given, and in the future it is almost certainly going to be false.
And now back to reality, for $620, you can buy ONE single external HDD drive with all the same storage, which you can use to carry data around faster, more efficient, safer, and most important: you can do it TODAY.,
You are short sighted
Why is that? The world is filled with people who are human only in terms of their biology, but hardly live in any way we typically associate with humanity. Most of them would die anyway if it wasn't for the generosity and ingenuity of European peoples. Certainly, the level of suffering that exists in India didn't exist before the introduction of European technologies and civilizing elements.
We are not some happy brotherhood of equal men. The egalitarian fiction is nothing more than that, a fiction.
If a few must be sacrificed for the continuance of human civilization, so be it. When it comes to India, they certainly have the surplus population to spare.
I think this post speaks marvelously of how legalism is such a profound social disease. The term non-profit doesn't mean the organization doesn't make money. It means that for tax purposes, the corporation doesn't pay corporate income taxes.
Sure most people who work for non-profits make less than other companies, but the people at the top often do very well. They of course have an interest in perpetuating that. Further, this is a huge scandal these days as people at the top of these organizations are often making $1MM a year or more.
What a thoroughly banal post.
I think ultimately, your post is proof that you were not sufficiently stirred.
Perhaps next time, you should be shaken?
"Oh, you people of sound understandings," I replied, smiling, "are ever ready to exclaim, 'Extravagance, and madness, and intoxication!' You moral men are so calm and so subdued! You abhor the drunken man, and detest the extravagant; you pass by, like the Levite, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that you are not like one of them. I have been more than once intoxicated, my passions have always bordered on extravagance: I am not ashamed to confess it; for I have learned, by my own experience, that all extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been decried by the world as drunken or insane. And in private life, too, is it not intolerable that no one can undertake the execution of a noble or generous deed, without giving rise to the exclamation that the doer is intoxicated or mad? Shame upon you, ye sages!" -Goethe, Sorrows of Young Werther
The arrogance of labelling a culture (any culture) as a failure astounds me. What do you mean "failure"? It is an interesting philisophical stance for you to take, labelling failure and success as absolute concepts. As if failure and success actually existed as empirical fact
I really don't see what culture has to do with race. Why don't you enlighten me on that one first.
As for culture, your pathetic mind which has been manipulated by years of propaganda doesn't know what culture is. You think of language, you think of chinese food, you think of funny outfits and rigid social customs. The most superficial aspects of culture are what you think of. None of that matters, and in a place like India it is highly variable anyhow.
Culture is a weapon, it is the very fabric of a people united in survival and the pursuit of prosperity. There are of course two measures here. Survival, the most basic, has very clear standards. You either live, or you die. In Eastern countries, survival is hardly guaranteed and most tend to live a shorter lifespan than the average citizen of the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago. In terms of survival, they are failures. I don't need to post evidence for this. Only a fool would claim otherwise and a casual stroll through any major city in India or anywhere in Southeast Asia would prove me right.
As for prosperity, that is a bit different. And that I don't have time to prove. But since you clearly have no knowledge of the philosophical writings of which I speak, what would it matter anyhow? The notion of the platonic ideal forms which formed the basis of Western Culture still does not yet exist in the east. It is for this reason their people can merely absorb western culture and not create their own.
I'm not going to educate a fool like you in aesthetics, but suffice it to say it is a cornerstone of any healthy civilization. To understand that further will take much more reading than the last 10,000 posts on slashdot.
how did this racist dribble get modded "insightful"?
I think that primitive ad hominem attacks such as your own are unproductive. Clearly, Eastern countries, with the exception of China and Japan, and to a lessor extent Korea, are dismal failures. I am offering you a much more rational explanation. WHat is yours? Or do you consider a billion people living like animals a success? Or wait, you think they are genetically inferior and thus there is nothing we can do about it?
so who is shining beacon of truth in business? the oil industry? maybe tobacco?
I didn't say people in business don't lie. The difference is in many Eastern countries, it is considered normal and is to be expected. It is part of the bargaining process. In western countries, it is considered ethically wrong.
Since Antiquity, we have in the West upheld truth as the most noble of virtues. We have an entire study dedicated to it (epistemology). It is what allowed the west to transcend a clan based culture, and was one of the major advancements in human history.
I have offered a philosophical explanation for the collective failure of a people. You falsely believe I offered a biological one. So, if its not philosophical, and its not genetic... What then is the reason these people can't even build roads on par with those built by Rome 2,000 years ago? Why can't they provide simple food and shelter for their people, let alone the opportunity for greater pursuits? Enlighten me, please.
Their culture is exceedingly ancient,insi rigid in form, more ritual than personal expression. But culture is by definition the collective hopes, dreams, social customs, and ethical codes which a people share in their pursuit of survival.
Given the immense human suffering that takes place in most of this region of the world, I think it is safe to say that their culture is not merely a failure, but a direct cause of their misery.
The fact the predecessors that founded their countries once had unique artistic tastes is irrelevant. Most of these people are living in mud huts or shacks made of garbage. Their level of civility is far inferior to that achieved in Rome 2000 years ago, and the average citizen is more akin to a workhorse than an artisan.
Your false dichotomy demonstrates the lack of depth of your own aesthetic tastes.
Its not racist at all. Many cultures of eastern origin consider lying and deception a normal part of dealing with strangers, particularly in business transactions. It is one of the many reasons their cultures are total failures, with recent population growth allowed purely due to technology invented in Europe. It is also one of the reasons such primitive cultures value family connections above all else, those are the only relationships they trust.
There are specific cultural reasons for this behavior, and anyone who ignores them in furthering the grand egalitarian myth will be taken as a fool.
Listen to yourself. how have I supported any position Bush has taken? You are such a fucking puppet! it is rare the disease of parlimentarian politics is so painfully demonstrated.
I don't give a fuck about Republicans OR Democrats. All political parties should be banned, period. There should be no professional politicians.
The point is a simple one: you are not motivated by any principle or virtue. You are a political tool. You haven't made a single criticism of republicans that hasn't applied to democrats, sometimes more so. This tells me you are blind to the truth when it doesn't suit your agenda.
And as far as the coming battle, fuck off. I'll see you at the front. You pansy liberals will never survive the coming global crisis and breakdown of civil society. All your endless talk about rights, you don't give a fuck about duty and that's why you will all cry to your grave.
For your information, a casual look at the members of Bush's cabinet should make it quite clear he is no fascist. There is also the whole issue he was umm, elected. Fascism is the repudiation of democracy, and the rejection of egalitarianism. Of course to a brainwashed fool like you, it is just a political slam word, but it has real meaning, unlike "democratic".
Like I've said, a look at the Democratic party record since WWII proves their party is a failure. Democracy is a failure and is failing all over the world. You are supporting a sinking ship. Republicans have had their decade, and it mostly sucks, but 10 years of failure is a far cry from nearly a half century.
Again, fuck the Boland Amendment. Congress has no power to restrict how the Comamander and Chief can fight utilize the active military.
Where were the democrats complaining about such activity with the Bay of Pigs Invasion? The Vietnam War? Korea? The endless missle strikes against various Arab targets in the middle east? Like there was congressional authorization for any of those activities? Typical democratic hypocricy.
There is a long and established tradition of American presidents, of both parties, aiding in wars like this. Given the tens of millions of people who have died under communism, that seems to be a worthy cause. The difference is, Republicans have ALWAYS been against communism. Democrats only supported anti-communism when it was proven half of Roosevelt's cabinet were communist traitors. Here you are whining about Watergate when Roosevelt sold out all of Eastern Europe and gave us the cold war. The Bay of Pigs invasion was just politics, simply to prove that Democrats weren't infact internationalist communists.
You are just a brainwashed idiot, who has listend to all of your liberal professors, and marvelled at the endless pro-Clinton propaganda on MTV. Get a grip! The democrats controlled congress for 40 years, and every program they ever advocated is a complete failure. The democratic party will never rise again, they are proven hypocrits, just as you are here. Focus on the future, not this warped vision of the past . The future is not the democratic party or their failed policies.
40 years of failure, that's what you want to return to?
And what is this ridiculous accuastion I am justifying anyone's crimes? To be perfectly honest, I'm a dedicated fascist and look at fools like you as evidence for why democracy must be abolished. The mere thought that someone like you has a say in the future of human civilization makes me sick. Its the pandering for votes from morons that corrupts politics and leadership.
A true leader acts because it is the right thing to do, irrespective of the popularity of his actions. Your political creed makes him a slave of the masses, and decay and destruction is the result.
I'll see you at the front.
Is the wolf greedy because it is hungry for the lamb?
Life is killing and exploitation. It is nature you wish to fight, not human vice or virture.
Until the unlimited right of reproduction is ended and intelligent selective breeding takes over, humans will fight over scarce resources, land, and abilities. Such is life.
Don't be a pussy, stand and defend yourself. To die in battle is one of the greatest honors. How will you die? A miserable wretch, alone in a dark room, an embarassment to the fucked up children you have spawned to replace yourself? It sounds to me that your conception of life is sick and pathetic. It is whining of a runt for the bone it can't have.
As for your "Democratic wars" theory - how about the way that those wars are started by Democrats, then prolonged indefinitely by Republicans (except WWII, which Democrats won)
What about World War I? Did you forget Wilson was a Democrat too? The same president who gave us every single major oppresive federal agency from the FBI down? And how did Nixon prolong the war? What did you want the guy to do? Just pull out? The fact remains he was re-elected, so if you believe in the powers of democracy, you should stand by the reality that the majority of americans in 1972 did not agree with you.
I don't follow either party, but the politics of the moment is class division. The rebranding of the Democratic party as the hip, peace party during the 1970's is one of the greatest scams of the 20th century. Wake up!
Also, the "illegal" sale of weapons to the Contras was by any reasonable measure an abuse of executive authority. The president has exclusive control over the military and ordinance, as well as foreign policy. It is hardly as cut and dry as you think. At the very least, it was on par with the indictment of Clinton.
It was partisan politics, nothing more.
The entire Iran Contra affair as far as the "Iran" part, and the story you discussed was retracted by the New York Times, the paper that originally published it. It was completely insane, and required George Bush I to fly to Iran on an SR-71 as it was the only plane capable of getting there and back in time. Have you read the original story? Its a joke. Now, I have no doubt Reagan was selling weapons to the Contras, but so what! They were communists, and the president has that authority.
And Vietnam? What history are YOU reading? Vietnam was a Democrat war, like all wars of the 20th century save the Iraq wars. Nixon was the one who got us OUT of the war! Duh, why were the riots at the democratic national convention in 1968? Because of Johnson and vietnam!
As for Carter, his entire presidency was marked by double digit unemployment, inflation and interest rates. It was without a doubt, the worst time in American history since the depression. His presidency, by every reasonable measure, was a complete total failure and every year since has been remarkably better.
As usual, Carter and the democratic party was voted out of office because the American middle class was getting fucked, and making up all sorts of ridiculous stories like this does nothing to help your cause. You are the victim of the lies here jack, and unfortunately you just weren't alive when any of this happened so you don't know.
But that means you work in a suburban office.
I work in midtown Manhattan. I can go outside to talk to friends who won't care, but what about serious phone call?
Simply put - the trees are not on a farm, they're first-growth temperate rainforest trees.
Total bullshit. You find an article describing rainforest trees being used for this purpose. The stuff is expensive and used for expensive furniture and musical instruments, not much else.
How do you prove ID false?
Create a lifeform from scratch. What happens then? Creating life is currently beyond our technical abilities. That doesn't mean that it is true for everyone, or more importantly, a higher power.
I think you aren't using enough imagination here.
One could also have argued that perhaps someday it will be possible to prove the existence of some deity.
I think you humanistic tendency to believe that A) humans are the most intelligent life forms and that B) there is no god clouds your judgment. Because you do not see the divine in the universe does not mean others have to close their eyes to the sublime.
But ultimately, the only way to prove that intelligent design is false is to PROVE THAT EVOLUTION OCURRS.
This should not be difficult with the variety of rapidly reproducing life forms that exist. But it hasn't happened, and until it does, this debate will continue.
Evolutionary theory makes predictions. In order for evolution to remain a contendor, there are other testable things which must hold true. So far, each prediction that has been tested has supported the theory. Evolution is a falsifiable theory that has yet to be falsified.
Predictions are not evidence. You find me one single study that shows a particular species of life forms mutating into another organism, that is wholly a new species. Guess what, you can't find it.
Evolution is a belief, no different than the belief in Santa Claus. Evolution may be true, but as of yet no one has seen it happen.
There is also the small matter of what causes species mutation. If it was as simple as selective pressure, we could easily replicate the process with small rapidly reproducing bacteria. Because there is a trend of new species appearing over time doesn't mean a thing. There is a trend of new kinds of automobiles and stone tools appearing over time. It doesn't mean one begat the other.
So far, the only predictions of which I am aware deal with this concept, by looking at fossil records over time and predicting a similar species appearing at a given time range. Duhh, that is about as scientific is stock trending.
Being non-falsifiable, it isn't even a model.
I don't quite understand why this is so. Are you saying that we cannot prove that Henry Ford designed the Model T as well?
At the moment, evolution cannot falsified either since it has never been observed to ocurr.
Really, both the theories of intelligent design and evolution do not utilize the scientific method because empericism is irrelevant. Both are theories that use inductive logic to arrive at their conclusions.
Until someone observes spontaneous cross-species evolution, and not simple changes due to selective breeding like stone-age farmers used to give us modern cows and dogs, we will continue to have this debate. We really don't know anything more about the topic than the farmers of thousands of years ago.
I still haven't found out how to apply a filter in Photoshop.
I think the most likely explanation is that you are lying for rhetorical effect, or you are in fact, an idiot.
Yes, but the problem is anyone who has been in an art museum knows that modern Greeks do not at all resemble the people who inhabited that land in antiquity. There is also the small manner of many Eastern influences, such as Greek music. Greeks today are primarily a Turkic/Slavic people, and most of their culture is derived from that ancestry.
The Greeks of antiquity are gone, assimilated with the many invaders which have conquered their land, and that is why today they contribute pretty much nothing in comparison to the past. Such is the legacy of all great people.
The answer to your question is rather simple: the US government and the American people ultimately bail out banks whenever they fuck up. This is why their security is pathetic and its so easy to steal identities.