How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?
Exactly as many times, as a happened to be a complete and utter drooling retard with no right to live, who should have long ago received a Darwin award! (I.e. never!)
Lol. If you care for "the evil eye", you're doin' it wrong! ^^
The hardest part? It is the easiest part. Because it does not matter at all! What matters, is how you say it. Usually, just go up to her with a fun attitude, and say whatever comes out. It will always be funny if you stay natural.:D
Hell, you can say "Hey! Like to fuck??", and if you say it in a way that she bursts out in laughter, it will be successful! (With things like that, I just look overly serious, as if I nearly couldn't hold the laughter myself. Meaning, she knows how it's meant.) Does it always work? Of course not! Does that matter? NO!:)
Oh boy... I'm sorry for the typos. I swear, I proofread it. It's just that this is the first thing I did in the morning. I should have proofeaten my breakfast first, perhaps. ^^
No, really! Are we really so weak and pathetic to care, whenever the designated crazy person of the world goes on again, declaring him a new set of rights?
I don't see this ever happening.
Oh, those who have a very twisted view of what is "politically correct", and the weakest spines in the whole universe, will cave in so the dwarf.
But unofficially, everyone will simply ignore them. Hell, look at Sarkozy. Officially: "Oh hell yeah, we need the 3 strikes law". Unofficially he shares so much music, that he already got caught. Twice
I bet money, that every single one of those who are so pathetic to officially support them, are unofficially the biggest file sharers on the planet. I mean imagine you being the manager of one of the big four for a whole continent or country! Will you just leave that huge back archive laying around? LOL. No. way. in. hell! ^^
And the rest of us? We couldn't even follow their fucked up rules, if we wanted!
This whole itty bitty tiny industry that is the music reproduction and artist extortion industry (hell, the toilet seat industry is bigger!), is in its final throes. Acting all crazy and funny. Meanwhile the musician industry is growing, rising, and more successful that it ever was.
Apparently you must be a very successful man then, because you seem to not know the dilemma of the intelligent human:
We can predict every bad outcome that our actions could take. A dozen a minute. Hundreds though the day. The dumb man just walks up to the hot girl, talking to her, thinking he is the greatest guy on earth. Which funnily draws others, including the girl, into that reality too. While we just stand around, playing through all the horrible ways that it could go wrong. Oh boy, and do we know many of those! ^^
So I congratulate you on your success and bow to you in envy!:P
P.S.: That's why alcohol is even better for intelligent people. Seriously. Of course, just assuming you're great (and then automatically trying to live up to that, celebrating the successes, and not getting pulled down by the failures), is much better in the long run.
I recommend this: If you go out to pick up a girl, plan on the first dozen times you talk to a girl going horribly bad. Make jokes about it. Try to make them even worse, just for the fun of it. Until you simply stop caring. It's all just fun anyway. And then suddenly, you will notice, how, because you just want to have fun, and walk up to girls with that idea, and all your glow of having all that fun, you will get very new, much nicer reactions. Before you know it, you're talking to a really hot girl, and she's the one trying to pick up you! ^^ (Of course: Be realistic though. This will not happen the first time you go out. ^^)
Why IQ tests are based on outdated values and concepts. Where logical reasoning is seen as somehow higher or better that the bazillon of other forms of abilities and intelligences that exist.
And the education system fully being concentrated on developing just that one concept of intelligence. (Actually more like:...on becoming a nice little drone with no own set of values, never questioning what it gets told, ready to be dominated.)
Policemen with books? Which planet are we talking about again?
Next you tell my, the employees of the TSA and the international bouncers association founded a high-IQ club for the pursuit of fairness and research on progressive moral values...;)
I bet he himself does not *want* to be more violent. No wouldn't it be the most fair thing to do, to help him against it, if he himself sees it as a disease? I mean, this is no different from any other genetic mutation where we as a community feel bound to help that person. Imagine this being your brother. Of course it would be wrong to put him in jail because he happens to have an unfortunate set of genes. But of course I'm not saying he should go around, killing people.
I'm saying: He needs help! Not punishment!
Damnit! We're not in the dark ages anymore, for god's sake!!
1. We ARE animals! Also: There is NO on/off step for "animal"/"human". Your view is outdated for at least a century now!
2. There is no such thing as responsibility or guilt (in what you mean with that). There is a cause. Obviously. But assigning any further properties to that, is plain ignorance of physical reality. Nobody in modern science can believe in these concepts with a straight face anymore. Because of the obvious rules of cause and effect:
These is how someone happens to do what he does: A) He thinks from the deepest depths of his heart, that this is right and good, and morally the absolute best thing he can do.
I) That view is based on basic genetic imprints.
II) The view is based on learned experiences. This includes an unusual life, or schizophrenia. B) He does not think it is OK, but he is forced by the situation to do it anyway. (Stealing to survive is such a situation.)
The basic rule is, that no human on this planet does something voluntary, that he thinks is wrong.
An important basis for this is, that there is no absolute right and wrong. None. Zero. Nada. Whatever helps the biomass to expand/reproduce best, is right. As this naturally creates conflicts, it creates conflicting rights and wrongs. But 1. because we are social beings, we often thrive for a win-win situation, and 2. beta humans consciously and unconsciously step back and leave alpha males in power. (Don't dare imposing any absolute "this is good" and "that is bad" views on those behaviors. Beta in this concepts is NOT related to "worse"! It's just a different strategy for people with different values.)
So if everyone does what he does, because he thinks it was the right thing, or because he was forced to, that leaves two results: A') Conflicting views. And as there is no absolute right and wrong, it is not possible to define who is "right". Everybody is right, according to himself. So it is resolved by the law of the jungle: The stronger one/group, tries to impose his views. As I said: Natural biomass, fighting for resources. B') The things that forced him to do what he did, are the real ones who "deserve to be punished". The problem is, that those chains often go back for generations, trough big wars, trough the reasons those wars happened, until either the beginning of all times, or to a A' situation.
What I told you now, is all modern knowledge on this topic. Study psychology and the recent scientific material behind justice, and you will get to the same statements.
So what can we do? First of all, we can ask ourselves: What is best for our expansion/reproduction? And what is best for humanity as a whole.
And to me, there are two simple ways to improve the best of all of us: A'') In case of disagreeing views, separate the groups. E.g. into different countries. And let them thrive happily with their own rules. The groups may be very different. But as long as they don't gave to fight for resources too much, or as long as the number of topics on which they agree is not too small, all can grow and live happily. B'') Free people from the situations that forced them to do things against their will. And cut the endless chain.
An example for both A' and B' is, how for example a child is killing someone who did something that was horribly evil and honestly deserved this reaction in his eyes, because its parents were created a world which made the child associated those actions to that reaction, because they passed on what others were forced to do to survive in the great war, because of the desperate situation that drove people into that pointless war, because of black death destroying communities, economy and creating famines, because of some random mutation 200 years earlier. Who do you punish for that? Hm?
See how primitive your statement sounds now? No offense, because I once thought exactly like you! Luckily, I found this out.
Let's see how a community with next to no competence in social and moral questions, with nearly everybody not being an expert in genetics, reacts to this article. ^^
Protip: If you still think that the concept of "guilt" exists, and/or that punishment is the best thing to do, then you are still in the dark ages, and not up-to-date on these topics.
P.S.: Notice how I do not exclude myself from this. I only learned some things that irreversibly changed my views on this forever. Hint: Try deducing everything that we do from the basic rules of cause and effect! Then you are likely to come up with, what is the modern scientific view on these topics.
Oh, and sue the road builders / owners for mass murder (the accidents), and owning weapons of mass destruction (the roads)! Pledge for the death penalty. ^^
Then sue every man for rape, because he obviously has the tools to do it!
You can also open a stand in front of the government offices, sell fast food, and also sell the smell of the food coming out of your stand. Now you can sue everyone passing by for childrapemurdercopytheft because they did inhale the smell without paying. And sue everyone else, because he could have inhaled it.
I, for one, am not buying into their bullshit. And if I have to, I will simply pipe everything that goes out or in of my computer through a encripted VPN, high-speed TOR, or something alike. Fuck those bastards! One should put them into a secured trailer with bullet-proof glass windows in the roof, together with a dozen dead pigs, in the Arizona sun! Then wait a week or so.
As if that would stop them. Did any of this stop them (I'm using the US as an example)?
Torture? Naaah. Raping the constitution? Nope. Mass-murder of over 40000 people? Not a chance. Conspiring with the banks to make the people slaves of them through the use of debts? Of course not. etc, etc, etc.
And that is just an average country. UK, China, North Korea, UAE, and many others are even worse.
If anything, it strengthens them. Walk this spin with me: 1. the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" will allow American children extradited to Japan if they watch an animated Japanese video! 2. American children are in danger! 3. We need more security! 4. Lock down the Internet, and put active and explosive beacons on everyone!
The media works a bit on getting it in the heads of the dumb masses... And there you have it... Even backed by the people...
The only weapons we have, are the Internet and mass psychology! Let's finally start USING them to move the masses in OUR direction! At least we are *for* them, instead of against them.
Yeah, way to go, mixing up two time scales, just to bash kdawson again. While I agree that he may not be the greatest story poster, this time, you was way over your head.
Because what he meant, is that when you apply the placebo, then because one expects the effect of a medicine to diminish after a certain time, the body simulates that for placebos too. And what you meant, is that placebos nowadays work better than they worked e.g. decades ago.
These are two totally different time scales. Imagine it as taking a big structure that looks like this:/| And putting lots of these tiny structures that look like this on its slope: |\ The first one is yours. The second one is his.
I just wondered why the Statcounter site showed without and images or stylesheets... Then I remembered that it was completely blocked in AdBlock. Because it's a nasty dirty disgusting privacy-raping piece of shit of a tracking site!
I would see their statistics as more than useless, as everyone with half a brain already blocks them and their nasty friends.
I can't believe, that nobody mentioned the rule from Fight Club:
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one. Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents? Narrator: You wouldn't believe. Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for? Narrator: A major one.
If you can call that "working". But I guess it's just like the users. Who themselves never ever really *used* a computer. (Where "using" means using it for what it was invented for: Automating things! Who of those so-called "users" actually automates his work? They all just do the same repetitive shit over and over. And the software even supports that behavior! It's more playing with it, than anything else. And then of course they complain, about how their computer does not even save them any time! Who woulda thunka that?)
You know what the difference is? About $291.99! (Or even $391.99.)
Just sayin': If you are outraged about what you get, when you get something that large for free, then you are obviously an egocentric ass, and I pity the people who try to give you gifts on Christmas. Whether it's Linux or Windows or OS X does not matter at all. It would be just as wrong to be pissed about getting Windows 7 for free.
Perhaps if you each payed $291.99 for Ubuntu, to deliver an upgrade (that's what Win7 is), then you'd get something better. Otherwise, just shut up or fix it yourselves!
What's next? Complaining about the low quality of your slaves? ^^
Exactly! The short version: Humans that are in power have a basic conflict: 1. Every human works only for himself, and everything he does either directly or indirectly (family, friends, etc) benefits himself.* And 2. He is supposed to work for the good of us all.
This is why communism failed. And it is why democracy is forced to fail. No exceptions. The only thing that can comply with those rules, is a automatism (like a computer) that is a true combination of the ideas of the people that it governs over. More like a tool, than a separate entity. More like a superposition of all people than a specific standpoint. And this is why, the bigger such a community gets, the worse problems will be. Because people will be more different, and nobody can tell anymore, what the definition for right and wrong, for that whole group, should be.
But we're far from fucked. The view that nothing works, is pathetic bullshit. The obvious proof for this is: If nobody can change the world... then how the hell do those who do it right now, do it?? After all they are also just humans. Fact is: Everybody can change the world. He just has to be very, very, very self-confident. With the strongest set of values compared to all others he meets. Even in the face of complete disagreement and even hatred. Never cave to the masses! Never cave to the views of those still more powerful. But instead pull them into his view of reality! Never giving up or letting others stop him. Fuck bombs! Psychology is they key weapon in this world!
___ * Most people reject this because of faulty social conditioning, and because they falsely assume, that that would mean anti-"social" behavior. But from a biological standpoint (we're all just expanding bio-mass, in a fight for resources), it's obvious that life works like this. In fact, most people don't even know what "social" means, and assume, that others exploiting you, would mean being "social".
Not much. You just have a to have a couple of trained agents who are very good at psychology. At getting people to think how they like it. That's a profession and a job nowadays. Read up on that area. It's the WMD of the 21st century. More powerful than any money or any bank.
Churches were the most successful groups to exploit it. But we have far surpassed their techniques and knowledge, with modern mass psychology.
I really recommend getting a (hobbyist) professional in that area. It's like hacking. But with minds. The most powerful and complex computers on this planet! And the results are stunning. Now imagine the botnet equivalent of that! Yeah... now you're getting the relevance!
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Exactly. Especially the biggest advertiser on the Internet: Google!
No wonder they don't include an ad-blocker!
I think it's just like burning. After all it's only light. Like heat. So it's like a very browned spot on something you put in the oven.
Don't get confused by the obviously wrong image that came with TFS. (Cyan? Really?? FAIL!)
How many times have you bit into a piece of fruit only to find that you're also chomping on a sticker label?
Exactly as many times, as a happened to be a complete and utter drooling retard with no right to live, who should have long ago received a Darwin award! (I.e. never!)
Lol. If you care for "the evil eye", you're doin' it wrong! ^^
The hardest part? It is the easiest part. Because it does not matter at all! :D
What matters, is how you say it. Usually, just go up to her with a fun attitude, and say whatever comes out. It will always be funny if you stay natural.
Hell, you can say "Hey! Like to fuck??", and if you say it in a way that she bursts out in laughter, it will be successful! (With things like that, I just look overly serious, as if I nearly couldn't hold the laughter myself. Meaning, she knows how it's meant.) :)
Does it always work? Of course not! Does that matter? NO!
Actually, I have successfully tested them. I offer you a beer, and some assistance, in case you travel to my city. :)
Oh boy... I'm sorry for the typos. I swear, I proofread it. It's just that this is the first thing I did in the morning. I should have proofeaten my breakfast first, perhaps. ^^
But: Do we care?
No, really! Are we really so weak and pathetic to care, whenever the designated crazy person of the world goes on again, declaring him a new set of rights?
I don't see this ever happening.
Oh, those who have a very twisted view of what is "politically correct", and the weakest spines in the whole universe, will cave in so the dwarf.
But unofficially, everyone will simply ignore them. Hell, look at Sarkozy. Officially: "Oh hell yeah, we need the 3 strikes law". Unofficially he shares so much music, that he already got caught. Twice
I bet money, that every single one of those who are so pathetic to officially support them, are unofficially the biggest file sharers on the planet. I mean imagine you being the manager of one of the big four for a whole continent or country! Will you just leave that huge back archive laying around? LOL. No. way. in. hell! ^^
And the rest of us? We couldn't even follow their fucked up rules, if we wanted!
This whole itty bitty tiny industry that is the music reproduction and artist extortion industry (hell, the toilet seat industry is bigger!), is in its final throes. Acting all crazy and funny. Meanwhile the musician industry is growing, rising, and more successful that it ever was.
Great times lay ahead.
Alright then!
We'll start with you!
A 2 year testing phase should be enough, to determine if we release your idea to the general public.
Apparently you must be a very successful man then, because you seem to not know the dilemma of the intelligent human:
We can predict every bad outcome that our actions could take. A dozen a minute. Hundreds though the day.
The dumb man just walks up to the hot girl, talking to her, thinking he is the greatest guy on earth. Which funnily draws others, including the girl, into that reality too.
While we just stand around, playing through all the horrible ways that it could go wrong. Oh boy, and do we know many of those! ^^
So I congratulate you on your success and bow to you in envy! :P
P.S.:
That's why alcohol is even better for intelligent people. Seriously.
Of course, just assuming you're great (and then automatically trying to live up to that, celebrating the successes, and not getting pulled down by the failures), is much better in the long run.
I recommend this: If you go out to pick up a girl, plan on the first dozen times you talk to a girl going horribly bad. Make jokes about it. Try to make them even worse, just for the fun of it. Until you simply stop caring. It's all just fun anyway. And then suddenly, you will notice, how, because you just want to have fun, and walk up to girls with that idea, and all your glow of having all that fun, you will get very new, much nicer reactions. Before you know it, you're talking to a really hot girl, and she's the one trying to pick up you! ^^ (Of course: Be realistic though. This will not happen the first time you go out. ^^)
Why IQ tests are based on outdated values and concepts. Where logical reasoning is seen as somehow higher or better that the bazillon of other forms of abilities and intelligences that exist.
And the education system fully being concentrated on developing just that one concept of intelligence. (Actually more like: ...on becoming a nice little drone with no own set of values, never questioning what it gets told, ready to be dominated.)
Policemen with books? Which planet are we talking about again?
Next you tell my, the employees of the TSA and the international bouncers association founded a high-IQ club for the pursuit of fairness and research on progressive moral values... ;)
I bet he himself does not *want* to be more violent. No wouldn't it be the most fair thing to do, to help him against it, if he himself sees it as a disease?
I mean, this is no different from any other genetic mutation where we as a community feel bound to help that person.
Imagine this being your brother. Of course it would be wrong to put him in jail because he happens to have an unfortunate set of genes.
But of course I'm not saying he should go around, killing people.
I'm saying: He needs help! Not punishment!
Damnit! We're not in the dark ages anymore, for god's sake!!
Where do you live? It the 60s??
1. We ARE animals! Also: There is NO on/off step for "animal"/"human". Your view is outdated for at least a century now!
2. There is no such thing as responsibility or guilt (in what you mean with that). There is a cause. Obviously. But assigning any further properties to that, is plain ignorance of physical reality. Nobody in modern science can believe in these concepts with a straight face anymore. Because of the obvious rules of cause and effect:
These is how someone happens to do what he does:
A) He thinks from the deepest depths of his heart, that this is right and good, and morally the absolute best thing he can do.
I) That view is based on basic genetic imprints.
II) The view is based on learned experiences. This includes an unusual life, or schizophrenia.
B) He does not think it is OK, but he is forced by the situation to do it anyway. (Stealing to survive is such a situation.)
The basic rule is, that no human on this planet does something voluntary, that he thinks is wrong.
An important basis for this is, that there is no absolute right and wrong. None. Zero. Nada.
Whatever helps the biomass to expand/reproduce best, is right. As this naturally creates conflicts, it creates conflicting rights and wrongs. But 1. because we are social beings, we often thrive for a win-win situation, and 2. beta humans consciously and unconsciously step back and leave alpha males in power. (Don't dare imposing any absolute "this is good" and "that is bad" views on those behaviors. Beta in this concepts is NOT related to "worse"! It's just a different strategy for people with different values.)
So if everyone does what he does, because he thinks it was the right thing, or because he was forced to, that leaves two results:
A') Conflicting views. And as there is no absolute right and wrong, it is not possible to define who is "right". Everybody is right, according to himself. So it is resolved by the law of the jungle: The stronger one/group, tries to impose his views. As I said: Natural biomass, fighting for resources.
B') The things that forced him to do what he did, are the real ones who "deserve to be punished". The problem is, that those chains often go back for generations, trough big wars, trough the reasons those wars happened, until either the beginning of all times, or to a A' situation.
What I told you now, is all modern knowledge on this topic. Study psychology and the recent scientific material behind justice, and you will get to the same statements.
So what can we do?
First of all, we can ask ourselves: What is best for our expansion/reproduction? And what is best for humanity as a whole.
And to me, there are two simple ways to improve the best of all of us:
A'') In case of disagreeing views, separate the groups. E.g. into different countries. And let them thrive happily with their own rules. The groups may be very different. But as long as they don't gave to fight for resources too much, or as long as the number of topics on which they agree is not too small, all can grow and live happily.
B'') Free people from the situations that forced them to do things against their will. And cut the endless chain.
An example for both A' and B' is, how for example a child is killing someone who did something that was horribly evil and honestly deserved this reaction in his eyes, because its parents were created a world which made the child associated those actions to that reaction, because they passed on what others were forced to do to survive in the great war, because of the desperate situation that drove people into that pointless war, because of black death destroying communities, economy and creating famines, because of some random mutation 200 years earlier. Who do you punish for that? Hm?
See how primitive your statement sounds now? No offense, because I once thought exactly like you! Luckily, I found this out.
Let's see how a community with next to no competence in social and moral questions, with nearly everybody not being an expert in genetics, reacts to this article. ^^
Protip: If you still think that the concept of "guilt" exists, and/or that punishment is the best thing to do, then you are still in the dark ages, and not up-to-date on these topics.
P.S.: Notice how I do not exclude myself from this. I only learned some things that irreversibly changed my views on this forever. Hint: Try deducing everything that we do from the basic rules of cause and effect! Then you are likely to come up with, what is the modern scientific view on these topics.
Oh, and sue the road builders / owners for mass murder (the accidents), and owning weapons of mass destruction (the roads)! Pledge for the death penalty. ^^
Then sue every man for rape, because he obviously has the tools to do it!
You can also open a stand in front of the government offices, sell fast food, and also sell the smell of the food coming out of your stand. Now you can sue everyone passing by for childrapemurdercopytheft because they did inhale the smell without paying. And sue everyone else, because he could have inhaled it.
I, for one, am not buying into their bullshit. And if I have to, I will simply pipe everything that goes out or in of my computer through a encripted VPN, high-speed TOR, or something alike. Fuck those bastards! One should put them into a secured trailer with bullet-proof glass windows in the roof, together with a dozen dead pigs, in the Arizona sun! Then wait a week or so.
As if that would stop them. Did any of this stop them (I'm using the US as an example)?
Torture? Naaah.
Raping the constitution? Nope.
Mass-murder of over 40000 people? Not a chance.
Conspiring with the banks to make the people slaves of them through the use of debts? Of course not.
etc, etc, etc.
And that is just an average country. UK, China, North Korea, UAE, and many others are even worse.
If anything, it strengthens them. Walk this spin with me:
1. the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" will allow American children extradited to Japan if they watch an animated Japanese video!
2. American children are in danger!
3. We need more security!
4. Lock down the Internet, and put active and explosive beacons on everyone!
The media works a bit on getting it in the heads of the dumb masses...
And there you have it... Even backed by the people...
The only weapons we have, are the Internet and mass psychology! Let's finally start USING them to move the masses in OUR direction! At least we are *for* them, instead of against them.
Yeah, way to go, mixing up two time scales, just to bash kdawson again.
While I agree that he may not be the greatest story poster, this time, you was way over your head.
Because what he meant, is that when you apply the placebo, then because one expects the effect of a medicine to diminish after a certain time, the body simulates that for placebos too.
And what you meant, is that placebos nowadays work better than they worked e.g. decades ago.
These are two totally different time scales. /|
Imagine it as taking a big structure that looks like this:
And putting lots of these tiny structures that look like this on its slope: |\
The first one is yours. The second one is his.
No conflict at all. Just a knee-jerk reaction.
I just wondered why the Statcounter site showed without and images or stylesheets... Then I remembered that it was completely blocked in AdBlock. Because it's a nasty dirty disgusting privacy-raping piece of shit of a tracking site!
I would see their statistics as more than useless, as everyone with half a brain already blocks them and their nasty friends.
I can't believe, that nobody mentioned the rule from Fight Club:
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Woman on plane: Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator: You wouldn't believe.
Woman on plane: Which car company do you work for?
Narrator: A major one.
Gentoo has no versions, you insensitive clod!!
The other 10% run SELinux! ^^
If you can call that "working". But I guess it's just like the users. Who themselves never ever really *used* a computer. (Where "using" means using it for what it was invented for: Automating things! Who of those so-called "users" actually automates his work? They all just do the same repetitive shit over and over. And the software even supports that behavior! It's more playing with it, than anything else. And then of course they complain, about how their computer does not even save them any time! Who woulda thunka that?)
You know what the difference is? About $291.99! (Or even $391.99.)
Just sayin': If you are outraged about what you get, when you get something that large for free, then you are obviously an egocentric ass, and I pity the people who try to give you gifts on Christmas.
Whether it's Linux or Windows or OS X does not matter at all. It would be just as wrong to be pissed about getting Windows 7 for free.
Perhaps if you each payed $291.99 for Ubuntu, to deliver an upgrade (that's what Win7 is), then you'd get something better.
Otherwise, just shut up or fix it yourselves!
What's next? Complaining about the low quality of your slaves? ^^
Exactly! The short version: Humans that are in power have a basic conflict: 1. Every human works only for himself, and everything he does either directly or indirectly (family, friends, etc) benefits himself.* And 2. He is supposed to work for the good of us all.
This is why communism failed. And it is why democracy is forced to fail. No exceptions.
The only thing that can comply with those rules, is a automatism (like a computer) that is a true combination of the ideas of the people that it governs over. More like a tool, than a separate entity. More like a superposition of all people than a specific standpoint.
And this is why, the bigger such a community gets, the worse problems will be. Because people will be more different, and nobody can tell anymore, what the definition for right and wrong, for that whole group, should be.
But we're far from fucked. The view that nothing works, is pathetic bullshit. The obvious proof for this is:
If nobody can change the world... then how the hell do those who do it right now, do it?? After all they are also just humans.
Fact is: Everybody can change the world. He just has to be very, very, very self-confident. With the strongest set of values compared to all others he meets. Even in the face of complete disagreement and even hatred. Never cave to the masses! Never cave to the views of those still more powerful. But instead pull them into his view of reality! Never giving up or letting others stop him. Fuck bombs! Psychology is they key weapon in this world!
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* Most people reject this because of faulty social conditioning, and because they falsely assume, that that would mean anti-"social" behavior. But from a biological standpoint (we're all just expanding bio-mass, in a fight for resources), it's obvious that life works like this. In fact, most people don't even know what "social" means, and assume, that others exploiting you, would mean being "social".
Not much. You just have a to have a couple of trained agents who are very good at psychology. At getting people to think how they like it.
That's a profession and a job nowadays. Read up on that area. It's the WMD of the 21st century. More powerful than any money or any bank.
Churches were the most successful groups to exploit it. But we have far surpassed their techniques and knowledge, with modern mass psychology.
I really recommend getting a (hobbyist) professional in that area. It's like hacking. But with minds. The most powerful and complex computers on this planet! And the results are stunning.
Now imagine the botnet equivalent of that! Yeah... now you're getting the relevance!
How can a true hacker not be drawn to that? ^^