Might have something to do with past products working well for these people, to the point they can be fairly certain the next product will continue the trend, but don't let that get in the way of a complex conspiracy theory involving brainwashing and insanity.
I'm with you until the second paragraph. That would be a little rough on our troops, and what would we gain? A bloodbath? More terrorism? The rioters are animals. They aren't going to respond well to repeated taunting, any more than a feral cat responds well to being poked with a stick. That little plan ends in Glass Parking Lot. Is that what you want for an outcome?
We should be celebrating this colossal win for freedom of speech in America! Those people were martyred to prove that our right to free speech is intact!
Our differing lists of who is credible is at the root of the problem, and telling the rioters to cite their authority or "go on home and fer crissakes PUT that embassy staffer DOWN" isn't going to be respected.
When the lists don't match, it inevitably comes down to force.
Do you have any sympathy for those that were killed by the army of crazy?
If you had the power to not release that video, and the knowledge that the people would die, would you have saved their lives by not uploading the video?
If you knew it were you that would be killed, would you have uploaded it?
You'd have to weigh against what the world gained by seeing that video. I haven't seen it, and probably won't, so I can't really say what important truths it may contain. Uploading it does let us say "we'll support free speech with our blood", which is pretty compelling and fierce, but against that you have people basically getting torn apart by animals. Then again, there is merit in the idea that censoring it could send us down the slippery slope into more censorship, but against that we could all slide further down the slippery slope of people freaking out and tearing each other apart more often.
Censorship sucks. People tearing each other apart sucks.
In this particular case, a media bomb, with the intent of starting a voilent shitstorm among the rabble, was launched from our country and detonated in the middle east. Property damage ensued. People died. This video is the very essence of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater and causing a panic.
How would this play in the media if some guy in Saudi Arabia trolled a bunch of bible thumpers or skinheads into something horrible?
I would not upload that video. If it mattered anymore, I would support censoring it. If I had a time machine, I would go back and fix it.
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Buh but the free stuff isn't a good as the paid stuff that I claim has no value!
More like they don't have the balls to steal hardware.
...might quiet things down out there.
Dubstep is replacing them slowly...wub wub wub!
...so many other things that need fixing, and they're whacking off about internet search.
If I want to search the internet, I pull up google and search. That crap has no business on my desktop
I suspect it was too late to stop it even if we had gone all-in at the first warning. We're up against a wall of wombs ten miles high.
If only it did't hitch up and crash so much.
I still use my first gen ipod touch. Battery is good, and it works fine.
I don't understand why I would want to fuck it up with linux. Linux is for my servers.
Might have something to do with past products working well for these people, to the point they can be fairly certain the next product will continue the trend, but don't let that get in the way of a complex conspiracy theory involving brainwashing and insanity.
...ten thousand neckbeards cried "SHEEPLE!"
...with lots of automated violence. It's more casual than something like Pikmin by miles.
Ok hero, you go hang out in Cairo and see how you feel about that.
I'm with you until the second paragraph. That would be a little rough on our troops, and what would we gain? A bloodbath? More terrorism? The rioters are animals. They aren't going to respond well to repeated taunting, any more than a feral cat responds well to being poked with a stick. That little plan ends in Glass Parking Lot. Is that what you want for an outcome?
20? Really?
Cold.
It was made to create pain. It is a media molotov.
I dunno... ask Julian Assange.
Don't piss him off. He might riot.
When we tolerate as our fellow citizens assholes of that magnitude, maybe we don't deserve to say what we want.
We should be celebrating this colossal win for freedom of speech in America! Those people were martyred to prove that our right to free speech is intact!
USA! USA! USA!
...on someone that can be referred to by the pronoun 'them'.
Our differing lists of who is credible is at the root of the problem, and telling the rioters to cite their authority or "go on home and fer crissakes PUT that embassy staffer DOWN" isn't going to be respected.
When the lists don't match, it inevitably comes down to force.
I'm sure they're hunting down the rabble over there now too, and will prosecute them in the way they do those things over there.
And what about the people that got something horrible done to them. Any thought for them?
I would watch such a show avidly.
Because we can blame somebody other than the perpetrator for the result.
Do you have any sympathy for those that were killed by the army of crazy?
If you had the power to not release that video, and the knowledge that the people would die, would you have saved their lives by not uploading the video?
If you knew it were you that would be killed, would you have uploaded it?
You'd have to weigh against what the world gained by seeing that video. I haven't seen it, and probably won't, so I can't really say what important truths it may contain. Uploading it does let us say "we'll support free speech with our blood", which is pretty compelling and fierce, but against that you have people basically getting torn apart by animals. Then again, there is merit in the idea that censoring it could send us down the slippery slope into more censorship, but against that we could all slide further down the slippery slope of people freaking out and tearing each other apart more often.
Censorship sucks.
People tearing each other apart sucks.
In this particular case, a media bomb, with the intent of starting a voilent shitstorm among the rabble, was launched from our country and detonated in the middle east. Property damage ensued. People died. This video is the very essence of yelling "fire" in a crowded theater and causing a panic.
How would this play in the media if some guy in Saudi Arabia trolled a bunch of bible thumpers or skinheads into something horrible?
I would not upload that video. If it mattered anymore, I would support censoring it. If I had a time machine, I would go back and fix it.