Blaming all the problems of the world on one segment of the population based on race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, etc, is a teltale sign of a simple and weak mind. Such minds simply cannot comprehend the complexity of the world we live in. They want the world to be simple enough to understand it, so they are hell-bent on making it simple.
But it's not. OK ? It's not. The world is what it is, not what you want it to be.
Would-be tyrants love simpletons though. Simpletons are easily scared by things that a simple mind can identify immediately: Race, religion, culture, etc.
And scared people are easy to control, because they will believe anything that will aleviate their fears.
This is the result of entire generations of people never having known anything but life in a civilized world. They've never had to wake up to the sound of bombardement sirens in the middle of the night, they've never had strangers with governement badges bust down their door and take one of their loved ones away, never to be seen again. They've never had to call the police for an emergency, just to have police ask for bribes before they do anything, if they do anything, except maybe gang-rape their daughter in the next room.
They naively and stupidly think that the only life they've ever known is the normal state of human society, while its true normal state is police state, tyranny, civil war, fear, suffering and bloodshed.
When you ask them "How do you feel about the fact that the real-life equivalent of Lex Luthor is now your president, that he has the nuclear codes, and that you put him in the oval office, knowingly, and on purpose", their reply is either "meh" or "yeah, but it pisses off libruls, lol !"
It's apathy alright. Apathy of someone who's never had to care. Until now.
Do you know how to read ? Do you completely lack even basic understanding of the english language ?
Please point out to me where I said that I don't want the governement to have unbreakable encryption.
The governement will have unbreakable encryption. It is their duty, if only for national security reasons. But if the governement has it, then criminals and terrorists will also have it, because technologies never remain secret. Therefore, all the laws and regulations governements around the world are trying to pass to force tech companies to include a backdoor in their encrypted communication apps will be useless. They are already useless.
Please feel free to ask if you need me to dumb it down even further.
A technology only has to exist. Then it's just a matter of time before those who want it get their hands on it.
Same with encryption and encryption backdoors. If a backdoor is implemented, even if only for governement and law enforcement use, the backdoor will be cracked and used by criminals. If governement admits this and demands an uncrackable encryption without backdoor just for itself, again criminals and terrorists will get their hands on it and use it for themselves, making the backdoor useless to law enforcement.
In the end, only governements and criminals will have unbreakable encryption, and the backdoored encryption will be used only by ordinary honest citizens, to be spied on by their governement and victimized by criminals.
It seems to be impossible to read any post expressing a conservative viewpoint without the word "tax" appearing at least once in it.
Boy, you guys seem to really, really hate taxes, don't you ? In fact, you're beginning to sound like a broken record.
But still, I'll try to give an answer to your question:
Why not convince folks to switch to greener tech because it's *better*, rather than trying to ram it down their throats as a tax? The latter has a legacy of 40+ years of failure and division.
Because the former has a legacy of tens of thousands of years of failure and division. Special interest groups (particularly the filthy rich ones, like the oil industry) will always make sure that fails. Always.
But I'll agree with you on one thing though: We really should try something new.
People who brought forth the idea that the earth revolved around the sun back in the days were doing it out of a true desire to understand the world as it is and to expand human knowledge for the benefit of all mankind. It wasn't a deliberate plot to scam people out of their money.
There are people suggesting to possibility of some shady things playing out behind closed doors, and then there are people like Alex Jones, unapologetically admitting that all he says is bullshit for the sole purpose of "entertainement" (and money making).
I'm sorry people like you can't seem to be able to tell the difference.
And it's sad to see a sociopathic troll actually enjoying causing harm and distress to other people.
That being said, enjoy the rest of your life behind your keyboard in your mother's basement, troll. This post will be the last piece of entertainement you'll get from me.
Yes, please. get rid of those fucking flat-earthers and moon landing hoaxers. Seriously, they are not just people with "differing viewpoints". They are a concerted, well organized plague of trolls and con-artists who's goal if solely to flood every single channel about science, astronomy, space-exploration, etc, to infuriate people and direct them to their innane and pathetic videos, in order to generate views and ad revenue.
Rather than blocking ads from ideologies you disagree with
Is that the new buzz-phrase of the decade ? Cause I sure seem to hear it a lot.
Since when did disinformation, misleading propaganda and outright lies has become simply "ideologies we disagree with" ? And why should we tolerate them ? Because "freedom of speech" ? "civilized society" ? What next ? Racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia are just "differing viewpoints" ? Pedophilia, sex trade and slavery are just "alternative lifestyles" ?
Should tolerance, one of the fundamental principles of civilization, be pushed as far as tolerance of barbarism and savagery, things that said civilization has been working so hard to eradicate ?
I'll let you know when he stops antagonizing Russia.
Of course he does. Remember Helsinki ?
He only started apparently antagonising Russia since all the criticism he received after Helsinki. Before that, he was truly Putin's little bitch. And still is.
What better way to have a disfunctionnal U.S. than to have the most disfunctionnal man in the oval office ?
And of course, a disfunctionnal, polarized and divided U.S. is no longer a threat to Putin's ambitions of resurecting the U.S.S.R. You can take the director out of the KGB, but you can't take the KGB out of the ex-director.
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Well, that's only fair, since he's also to most abusive male on Twitter.
Well, I expect it to have exactly the filesystem drivers I compiled in.
And you're 100% certain, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the file system drivers you compiled in contain no vulnerabilities at all ?
So, is that the new excuse nowaday for being a foul-mouthed, ill-bred asshole ? "Local culture" ?
Blaming all the problems of the world on one segment of the population based on race, gender, sexual orientation, culture, etc, is a teltale sign of a simple and weak mind. Such minds simply cannot comprehend the complexity of the world we live in. They want the world to be simple enough to understand it, so they are hell-bent on making it simple.
But it's not. OK ? It's not. The world is what it is, not what you want it to be.
Would-be tyrants love simpletons though. Simpletons are easily scared by things that a simple mind can identify immediately: Race, religion, culture, etc.
And scared people are easy to control, because they will believe anything that will aleviate their fears.
This is the result of entire generations of people never having known anything but life in a civilized world. They've never had to wake up to the sound of bombardement sirens in the middle of the night, they've never had strangers with governement badges bust down their door and take one of their loved ones away, never to be seen again. They've never had to call the police for an emergency, just to have police ask for bribes before they do anything, if they do anything, except maybe gang-rape their daughter in the next room.
They naively and stupidly think that the only life they've ever known is the normal state of human society, while its true normal state is police state, tyranny, civil war, fear, suffering and bloodshed.
When you ask them "How do you feel about the fact that the real-life equivalent of Lex Luthor is now your president, that he has the nuclear codes, and that you put him in the oval office, knowingly, and on purpose", their reply is either "meh" or "yeah, but it pisses off libruls, lol !"
It's apathy alright. Apathy of someone who's never had to care. Until now.
So in order to cure to patient from his cancer, you're going to kill the patient ?
Do you know how to read ? Do you completely lack even basic understanding of the english language ?
Please point out to me where I said that I don't want the governement to have unbreakable encryption.
The governement will have unbreakable encryption. It is their duty, if only for national security reasons. But if the governement has it, then criminals and terrorists will also have it, because technologies never remain secret. Therefore, all the laws and regulations governements around the world are trying to pass to force tech companies to include a backdoor in their encrypted communication apps will be useless. They are already useless.
Please feel free to ask if you need me to dumb it down even further.
A technology only has to exist. Then it's just a matter of time before those who want it get their hands on it.
Same with encryption and encryption backdoors. If a backdoor is implemented, even if only for governement and law enforcement use, the backdoor will be cracked and used by criminals. If governement admits this and demands an uncrackable encryption without backdoor just for itself, again criminals and terrorists will get their hands on it and use it for themselves, making the backdoor useless to law enforcement.
In the end, only governements and criminals will have unbreakable encryption, and the backdoored encryption will be used only by ordinary honest citizens, to be spied on by their governement and victimized by criminals.
It seems to be impossible to read any post expressing a conservative viewpoint without the word "tax" appearing at least once in it.
Boy, you guys seem to really, really hate taxes, don't you ? In fact, you're beginning to sound like a broken record.
But still, I'll try to give an answer to your question:
Why not convince folks to switch to greener tech because it's *better*, rather than trying to ram it down their throats as a tax? The latter has a legacy of 40+ years of failure and division.
Because the former has a legacy of tens of thousands of years of failure and division. Special interest groups (particularly the filthy rich ones, like the oil industry) will always make sure that fails. Always.
But I'll agree with you on one thing though: We really should try something new.
People who brought forth the idea that the earth revolved around the sun back in the days were doing it out of a true desire to understand the world as it is and to expand human knowledge for the benefit of all mankind. It wasn't a deliberate plot to scam people out of their money.
There are people suggesting to possibility of some shady things playing out behind closed doors, and then there are people like Alex Jones, unapologetically admitting that all he says is bullshit for the sole purpose of "entertainement" (and money making).
I'm sorry people like you can't seem to be able to tell the difference.
And it's sad to see a sociopathic troll actually enjoying causing harm and distress to other people.
That being said, enjoy the rest of your life behind your keyboard in your mother's basement, troll. This post will be the last piece of entertainement you'll get from me.
By the tone of your reply, I can tell there's a troll, or wannabe-troll, in there somewhere.
All I'm guilty of is wanting a world without sociopaths. I can see why that would displease people like you.
Yes, please. get rid of those fucking flat-earthers and moon landing hoaxers. Seriously, they are not just people with "differing viewpoints". They are a concerted, well organized plague of trolls and con-artists who's goal if solely to flood every single channel about science, astronomy, space-exploration, etc, to infuriate people and direct them to their innane and pathetic videos, in order to generate views and ad revenue.
They are a disease, a cancer of youtube.
It makes me wonder: Would you have been as much critical if the article in question was about a man, and not a woman ?
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Bread and circuses. Keep the population well fed and entertained, and you shall rule the world.
Why do you words ?
Trump also appointed former Fox News journalist Heather Nauert as ambassador to the UN.
What's up with that ? Didn't he claim that journalists were the "ennemy of the people" ?
Oh, it's just liberal journalists. Ok, got it !
Rather than blocking ads from ideologies you disagree with
Is that the new buzz-phrase of the decade ? Cause I sure seem to hear it a lot.
Since when did disinformation, misleading propaganda and outright lies has become simply "ideologies we disagree with" ? And why should we tolerate them ? Because "freedom of speech" ? "civilized society" ? What next ? Racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia are just "differing viewpoints" ? Pedophilia, sex trade and slavery are just "alternative lifestyles" ?
Should tolerance, one of the fundamental principles of civilization, be pushed as far as tolerance of barbarism and savagery, things that said civilization has been working so hard to eradicate ?
I'll let you know when he stops antagonizing Russia.
Of course he does. Remember Helsinki ? He only started apparently antagonising Russia since all the criticism he received after Helsinki. Before that, he was truly Putin's little bitch. And still is. What better way to have a disfunctionnal U.S. than to have the most disfunctionnal man in the oval office ? And of course, a disfunctionnal, polarized and divided U.S. is no longer a threat to Putin's ambitions of resurecting the U.S.S.R. You can take the director out of the KGB, but you can't take the KGB out of the ex-director.