When you think about harm, you are ignoring one thing: frequency. Frankly, I'd rather be beaten up once than having to hear every day, for 6 years, "loser" by everyone around me, and that is the power of bullying in schools. While I agree with you that making a fuss out of every time a kid swears at another is stupid, constant psychological pressure is something that has an effect. If armies can use this to manipulate their soldiers and countries can use this to manipulate their citizens, then children can use it to hurt other children.
Have you never heard about Plato's tale of the cave? Part of the work of a teacher is turning some (not all, some) of the lazy people into hardworking ones, with a combination of curiousity-inducing and forcing. It's not easy to do, and admittedly, that was why I was a bad teacher at the time (at some point, I realized I just prefer to let the lazy ones fuck themselves up and only have fun with the ones who want to learn).
How is this law going to censor the nuts you are talking about? The only effect of this law will be to prevent small companies from opening interactive sites, reducing the internet gradually into television. The nuts will still have their place, because they bring eyeballs.
Another thing that young people support is the idea of "all or nothing", things like "either we can't censor anything at all or "we must censor both pedophiles and copyright violators and close the internet down". In real life, most people believe that there's a place for in-betweens and this is how laws are enacted.
I really hope that laws like this and the closed garden culture will eventually lead some people to create another web/gopher/usenet within the internet, which will be freer than this one. Yes, I know this a naive hope, but let me dream.
Because american ultra capitalist culture admires greed, treachery, and deceit. Until social norms will change, what you call "lying-ass trash" will continue to be celebrated as heroes.
Regarding the conquering of Africa, you are correct, Christianity has a major part in this. Regarding our ecological problems, I think that capitalism (or maybe, if you insist on religion, Protestantism) is more responsible than religion in general. Don't get me wrong, religion has plenty of problems, but I honestly don't think that it it just disappeared things would be better. I guess what I'm wondering is: what will replace it? Would you really prefer a world where SJW/alt-right wars are the new crusades?
Isn't what you are making a typical "no true scotsman" argument? Just as you can select intelligent atheists, I can select intelligent religious people.
So its OK to be crazy as long as you produce OTHER stuff that works? =P
As long one can easily isolate the crazy from the non-crazy and use the non-crazy to better society, and as long as the crazy doesn't violently hurt one, yes. Hell, even if the crazy contributes nothing, but does not hurt anyone, it is ok to be crazy.
Capitalism, freedom, individualism, genderism, social justice, all as much as fantasies as religion, their temples celebrated and funded by secular people.
On the evening of 11th of August 2018, Terry was walking alongside some railroad tracks in the city of The Dalles, when he was accidentally struck by a Union Pacific train coming from behind.
While there are many problems with religion, I wonder if modern secularism really offers anything better. Sure, these idiots believe in god, but we believe in 60 genders and in infinite growth. They burn innocent women and rape children, but we cause global warming that will kill much more people in the end, not to mention all the shit we enabled in africa and china just to get cheaper products. They repsect community and friendships, while we... sit alone behind our screen, drenching ourselves in consumerism and pills, trying to forget.
Are you sure that the secular west managed to do something better? Hell, even Newton and Einstein were partially religious, and not rabid hateful atheists.
If I remember correctly, his OS was written completely from scratch and had a few interesting ideas:
1) All code is compiled JIT, this means that C looks just like a scripting language and you can always break into a debugger. 2) He made his own dialect of C called HolyC, which was a version of C with small fixes to make it more low-level and accurate. 3) If I remember correctly symbol tables were global, so that processes could access each other's variables by names, thus allowing libraries to simply work by changing global variables.
I am sure that somewhere, in his code, there's something to learn from.
Slashdot has it's own problems, but reddit is an alternate reality where cretins mod and high five other cretins in a mutual circlejerk to such an extent where finding actual truthful information becomes an exorcise in pointlessness.
Slashdot is just the same as reddit in that regard, but with more power given to the right in comparison to reddit. I suspect that the reason you dislike reddit and like slashdot because you are just enough right wing. (This is not a criticism against right/left, this is just me stating that people find "better" what resonates better with their opinions).
.. like 90% of the channels you can tell people of low education and people who are young tend to be moderators. AKA people with lots of free time.
How is this different from most online forums?
The whole thing thrives off putting people of various ages and education backgrounds together and watching them go at it. It's just a battle royal, to a large extent.
How is this different from the rest of the internet?
I remember that in the past, "no matter who you are, you can speak your mind and only be judged by your words" was a good thing, but apparently now the trend is neo conservatism (from both the left and the right) and a desire to see the return of noblety (whether blue blooded or academic).
Actually, considering the fact that an american business would force both american (can't say n****) and local (can't insult the ruler) restrictions, while a local would only force local restrictions, it is possible that a local business would allow more freedom of speech.
I am not a lazy programmer, and because I am not a lazy programmer, I use a computer as it was meant, as a tool to reduce work from humans. Manually checking everything and being proud of it, even when it gives no major speed benefit, is not being hard working, it is being mentally lazy.
In other words, the rich give the poor the choice between either breeding or survive, presentig it as if it was part of a fair game, or part of nature. How smart they are, learning from the turkish mistake with the armanians. Instead of making a group of people extinct directly, just prevent them from breeding.
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When you think about harm, you are ignoring one thing: frequency. Frankly, I'd rather be beaten up once than having to hear every day, for 6 years, "loser" by everyone around me, and that is the power of bullying in schools. While I agree with you that making a fuss out of every time a kid swears at another is stupid, constant psychological pressure is something that has an effect. If armies can use this to manipulate their soldiers and countries can use this to manipulate their citizens, then children can use it to hurt other children.
Have you never heard about Plato's tale of the cave? Part of the work of a teacher is turning some (not all, some) of the lazy people into hardworking ones, with a combination of curiousity-inducing and forcing. It's not easy to do, and admittedly, that was why I was a bad teacher at the time (at some point, I realized I just prefer to let the lazy ones fuck themselves up and only have fun with the ones who want to learn).
How is this law going to censor the nuts you are talking about? The only effect of this law will be to prevent small companies from opening interactive sites, reducing the internet gradually into television. The nuts will still have their place, because they bring eyeballs.
I don't fucking understand how copyrights now trump everything else
Because the west bases more and more of its economy on intellectual property while the production of physical property is moved to the third world.
Another thing that young people support is the idea of "all or nothing", things like "either we can't censor anything at all or "we must censor both pedophiles and copyright violators and close the internet down". In real life, most people believe that there's a place for in-betweens and this is how laws are enacted.
I really hope that laws like this and the closed garden culture will eventually lead some people to create another web/gopher/usenet within the internet, which will be freer than this one. Yes, I know this a naive hope, but let me dream.
Because american ultra capitalist culture admires greed, treachery, and deceit. Until social norms will change, what you call "lying-ass trash" will continue to be celebrated as heroes.
Regarding the conquering of Africa, you are correct, Christianity has a major part in this. Regarding our ecological problems, I think that capitalism (or maybe, if you insist on religion, Protestantism) is more responsible than religion in general. Don't get me wrong, religion has plenty of problems, but I honestly don't think that it it just disappeared things would be better. I guess what I'm wondering is: what will replace it? Would you really prefer a world where SJW/alt-right wars are the new crusades?
Ok, so most of humanity is the problem, what do we do next? How do we solve this/
Isn't what you are making a typical "no true scotsman" argument? Just as you can select intelligent atheists, I can select intelligent religious people.
When people lived in tribes or whatever, didn't they have rules? Can't you say that these rules defined good and evil?
So its OK to be crazy as long as you produce OTHER stuff that works? =P
As long one can easily isolate the crazy from the non-crazy and use the non-crazy to better society, and as long as the crazy doesn't violently hurt one, yes. Hell, even if the crazy contributes nothing, but does not hurt anyone, it is ok to be crazy.
Capitalism, freedom, individualism, genderism, social justice, all as much as fantasies as religion, their temples celebrated and funded by secular people.
According to wikipedia:
On the evening of 11th of August 2018, Terry was walking alongside some railroad tracks in the city of The Dalles, when he was accidentally struck by a Union Pacific train coming from behind.
While there are many problems with religion, I wonder if modern secularism really offers anything better. Sure, these idiots believe in god, but we believe in 60 genders and in infinite growth. They burn innocent women and rape children, but we cause global warming that will kill much more people in the end, not to mention all the shit we enabled in africa and china just to get cheaper products. They repsect community and friendships, while we... sit alone behind our screen, drenching ourselves in consumerism and pills, trying to forget.
Are you sure that the secular west managed to do something better? Hell, even Newton and Einstein were partially religious, and not rabid hateful atheists.
If I remember correctly, his OS was written completely from scratch and had a few interesting ideas:
1) All code is compiled JIT, this means that C looks just like a scripting language and you can always break into a debugger.
2) He made his own dialect of C called HolyC, which was a version of C with small fixes to make it more low-level and accurate.
3) If I remember correctly symbol tables were global, so that processes could access each other's variables by names, thus allowing libraries to simply work by changing global variables.
I am sure that somewhere, in his code, there's something to learn from.
Slashdot gave me 15 mod points after posting a few posts that got upmodded. It's really not that good, and can be abused (karma burning).
Slashdot has it's own problems, but reddit is an alternate reality where cretins mod and high five other cretins in a mutual circlejerk to such an extent where finding actual truthful information becomes an exorcise in pointlessness.
Slashdot is just the same as reddit in that regard, but with more power given to the right in comparison to reddit. I suspect that the reason you dislike reddit and like slashdot because you are just enough right wing. (This is not a criticism against right/left, this is just me stating that people find "better" what resonates better with their opinions).
I got someone to pay me to not mute him in a forum. Also, it got me nude pics from girls and a few friends.
.. like 90% of the channels you can tell people of low education and people who are young tend to be moderators. AKA people with lots of free time.
How is this different from most online forums?
The whole thing thrives off putting people of various ages and education backgrounds together and watching them go at it. It's just a battle royal, to a large extent.
How is this different from the rest of the internet?
I remember that in the past, "no matter who you are, you can speak your mind and only be judged by your words" was a good thing, but apparently now the trend
is neo conservatism (from both the left and the right) and a desire to see the return of noblety (whether blue blooded or academic).
Actually, considering the fact that an american business would force both american (can't say n****) and local (can't insult the ruler) restrictions, while a local would only force local restrictions, it is possible that a local business would allow more freedom of speech.
But what good is it to torture students with Lisp and Prolog when they never will use it in a job either
A university is not a trade school.
Nowadays, with the advance of mobile devices, are they still powerful enough to do that?
I am not a lazy programmer, and because I am not a lazy programmer, I use a computer as it was meant, as a tool to reduce work from humans. Manually checking everything and being proud of it, even when it gives no major speed benefit, is not being hard working, it is being mentally lazy.
In other words, the rich give the poor the choice between either breeding or survive, presentig it as if it was part of a fair game, or part of nature. How smart they are, learning from the turkish mistake with the armanians. Instead of making a group of people extinct directly, just prevent them from breeding.