sire half a dozen kids he can't support at the standard of living he wants to. Same goes for dumbass poor Americans too, BTW. I'm sick and fucking tired of watching the world go to hell and seeing large corporations playing the poor off each other when all it takes to stop that is a little fsckin' birth control. If you want to stop being capitalism's fodder you've got to stop making so much of it. Don't bring children into a world you know is hell for your own selfish emotional needs or because you're just dumb.
Instead of competing like idiots while the rich fucks of the world are laughing all the way to the bank, why don't you do something smart for a change and make those bastards compete for you? Oh well, in a few years/decades there'll be a really nasty war again and I guess the survivors will have fun afterwards. Until they're done screwing themselves back to a surplus population again.
Not trolling, I'm just disgusted with the world situation. Two world wars and we didn't learn shit.
Pretty much every guy I know who's got married (and who isn't rich) had it ruin his life. Oh, sure, they won't admit it. Even to themselves. It's taboo to do so, because heaven forbid you admit you didn't want children. You should see the looks on people faces when he plainly tells people he didn't want a kid (obviously w/o the kid present). It's freakin hilarious.
What audience? Until recently only nobles new how to read. And just because something isn't unheard of doesn't make it a social norm.
Anti-polygamy laws are social structures meant to stablize society. I though my post made it clear they where a good idea. These _aren't_ stratagies! They're social constructs. Things humans do to get what they want. My whole point is we're reasoning creatures. It's just that right now it's the women who are doing the most effective reasoning. The men are just running scared.
The condom didn't break, they were drifting apart (mostly due to my brother being unwilling to spend the rest of his life busting his ass to support her), and the bitch heard from her mom that having a kid's a great way to cement a marriage. And My Brother is caring for the child. The woman skipped out. And if you only knew how beautifully she set him up. Finally, men are very much slaves to emotion too. I once asked him why he didn't bail sooner, and he replied: "dude, I was lonely and I was horny".
but the men are neglecting their responsibities after the divorice. Or worse (from our leaders perspectives), they're not marrying and having children. i.e. declining birthrates.
And is it any wonder men don't initiate divorce? A male divorcee is a dead man walking.
it's a husband. Woman want someone to look after them and the children. The worse ones are just lazy and self centered and don't want to work for a living. The better ones are just following biological instinct and the desire to have a child. The woman wants to know the man inside and out to determine if he's suitable for this purpose. People are not the kind, sweet, emotional beings they like to think they are. Most choices we like to think are emotional are usually practical.
1. Most societies arranged marriges for profit and convience. Love never factored into it. It's only recent that the quaint notion of love had any force beyond poems and books.
2. I guess my point about most wild animals could be argued, but in any case that is certainly how human society operates. Strong, weathly men get desirable mates (and in the absence of anti-Bigamy laws, lots of them). Any King's Harem will prove my point.
Also, human males have no "biological responsibilities" after sex. There is no biological need, and in all likelyhood no biological desire. From a survivablity stand point, it makes much more sense for a man to have as many mates as posible, and let nature and the woman sort out which ones survive. From a social standpoint, unwanted, unneeded children are dangerous burden. The exception to this is a farmer in need of laborers. But machines make this exception moot.
3. The figure comes from www.nomarrige.com, take it as you will. From my own imperical evidence, I have never met a woman who married down or even on par.
I say that love is an illusion. A pleasant one that's fun to indulge in, but a poor one to base a stable society on. In any case it's a social construct. My main concern is that love needs practical social constructs if it's going to hold up against the real world.
You give people in mass too much credit. Taken as a whole they're nasty, lazy, brutish and selfish. They act out of practical considerations. Right now a marrige isn't practical for men. By contrast, it is very practical for women. This isn't idle speculation, it's fact of law. In times past women recieved protection under law because they were limited in society. Those limits have been largely removed (just ask Carly Fiorina), but the protections remain.
But take everything I say with a grain of salt. As someone who has watched his brother methodically destroyed by an unwanted child and a scheming woman, I'm a tad bitter. Fortunately, I'm too much of a/. prowling loser to every let it happen to me:).
people who have a great deal of pent up sexual frustration can be made to work extremely hard in factories or whupped up into a frothy rage and charged at machine gun nests _much_ more easily than normal people. Plus normal people when engaging in State Approved Missionary style Vaginal intercourse spit out lots and lots of kids for the afformentioned factories and machine guns.
I'm only partly joking. Leaders of industrialized nations are busy trying to figure out how to stop declining birthrates so that they're nations don't get marginalized (and they don't lose much of their power) to rising nations. A bizzare example of this is a Vatican Approved Sex manual being passed around Italy. At a time when we have far too many people for society comfortably to bare these bastards are going around and encouraging poor, stupid fucks to make more.
The reason women were treated like property is that the only way to get a human male to stay with the wife and kids was to give him a sense of ownership. In the wild, in most cases the strongest male has all the women, and no responsibilty for the children. In society, men where made to 'own' the women so that they'd feel like they where losing something by leaving. Now that this sense of ownership is gone (and has been replaced by a new breed of woman who have all the privileges and none of the responsiblites of marriage), men are leaving in droves. Hence the high devorice rate and number of fathers who won't support their children.
Furthermore, women don't make choices to shift power around, but instead follow existing power. 90% of women marry up. That sexual freedom is a practical if not actual illusion. This is why societies need monogomous relationships. There's nothing more dangerous than a poor, desparate and horny guy with no family. People like that crash planes into buildings.
If anyone has a rightful place in the audio industry it's Aureal. Not trolling, I'm geniunely annoyed at the state of PC audio. It's not that the Audigy is bad, it's that for $200 bucks I expect a lot out of my Soundcard. My old Aureal was great, but Linux support was weak (at least at the time). Aureal was going to open the whole driver, but then they got bought out....
It's not just me, I've heard plenty of others complaing about the state of PC audio. You just don't have to try as hard when you're as far ahead as Creative. Yeah, recent C-media cards are pretty good (heck, for $7 bucks they're amazing). But creative's got name recognition and all. I'd just like to see PC audio competing a bit more like PC video.
but they're both iTunes clones if I understand right. Personally, what made juk so amazing for me was the ability to Sort, tag and move my collection all from one app. Dragging and dropping files to/from juk rocks. If iTunes under Linux can do that, I might be interested...
Also, and I know this is kinda silly, but I like using less than perfect software sometimes because it's fun to watch it improve from version to version.
and it's probably already been done. I know there where companies specializing in this crap, and like all businesses they've probably got scads of patents. If not, I smell money...
if you can't buy him his tools. You know how you go to work, and your boss has everthing you need to do your job? Or at least those tools that are so expensive you shouldn't be expected to buy them yourselves. i.e. when I was an apprentice Electrician, I wasn't expected to carry a $500 dollar voltmeter....
this will have the added benefit of thousands of modders going out and buying new Xboxes, w/o buying new games. Meaning MS loses money:). Yeah, I know, by making a strong stance against piracy they make devs happy and will make more in the long run. Still, it's nice to see MS not getting out of this scott free.
one of the main goals of the modern patent is to prevent small companies from bursting into and revolutionizing industries. This tends to suddently devalue stocks in older, bigger players. That's the reason we got software patents especially. Anyone can come along, be a mathamatical genious and start blowing established players out of the water. If you've got a 100 mil in Microsoft, the last thing you want is somebody like Redhat comming along and making that investment worthless. So you get on the patent bandwagon like everyone else and watch your stocks climb slow and steady. Are you gonna get rich this way? Who cares, the people making the decisions are already rich.
Once of the main reasons for the patent system in the first place was to discourage European style printer's guilds from hoarding all the knowledge. With patents, after a certain amount of time new ideas became publicly available after all. This isn't just perverting the system, this is turning it around 180 degrees. Pretty impressive I'd say.
Ok, people are going to be without power for a while, possibly a long while, and Walmart predicted the sale of nearly unperishable dry goods would rise? My God, the sheer genius of it baffles me!
Call me when they can Mathmatically prove which flavors are most popular in a Hurricane.
WWII was the worst thing to happen to the rich, powerful bastards that run things since the Black Plague. When you kill off half your workforce you've got to treat what's left pretty well. Plus there were all sorts of revolutions and power changing hands. Even if your average dumbass doesn't learn from histroy, the Dick Cheney's and Kim's of the world do. These people don't want revolutions and glorious wars, they want status quo and the power they have now.
Moreover, why the hell would you bother invading a country with troops when you can do it economically. A large part of America is owned by foreign gov'ts (especially the Saudi's I hear). When you own that much of a country, all you need to do is threaten to pull out your investments (and wreak the economy) and *bam*, you get whatever you want. Real power is telling someone what to do. How you get this power is irrelevant. Why bother with a messy, expensive war when a nice profitable economic war is so much easier?
to install all those things. Just install Windows, surf around like you normally would, and by the end of the week you'll have IRC, web, proxy and all sorts of servers running, with little or no user intervention. With other solutions, it can take weeks to set all that up!
I said what needs to be done, not what is going to be done. We're doomed. Get used to it. People are too selfish, greedy and dumb for there to be any hope. Maybe if it was two out of the three...
And, yes, reducing the number of people who have no place in society will improve society. People are most dangerous when they're poor, desparate and have nothing to do with themselves. This is where you get guys willing to crash planes into buildings from.
I'd love to see Chinese style forced birth control, but it's not going to happen. Capitalists aren't stupid. They want plenty of fodder for their factories. Remember WWII? Things sucked for workers until after it, and the only real reason things got better was we killed so many healthy, young males that there weren't enough to go around. Well, you can thank the Baby Boomers for fucking their way back to a surplus population, and the Capitalist Pigs are primed to take advantage of this.
Do I want Marxism? Hell no. You're never gonna get past the dictatorship of the Proles. Russia didn't, China didn't, and we won't. What I want are lots of individuals who consider the long term, broad based impact of their decisions. Or at least a few with the power and willingness to force the dumb to stop being so dumb. Instead, I get Vatican approved Sex manuals trying to encourage poor dumb fucks to have lots of kids. Thanks Jesus.
and I don't see why people haven't realized this. Unions don't work when the employeer has the entire population of Earth to pick and choose scabs from. All it takes is the mere threat of moving away (a threat that can easily be backed up) to get your workers back in line. Modern building and transportation systems make dumping your workforce cheap and easy. Plus our society is increasingly modifing itself to streamline the process. How else do you think steel made in Korea and shipped to America can be that much cheaper?
The really scary part is, in the past people struggling for better working conditions generated a lot of press. People died for the 40 hour work week. Now, the employeer just leaves. No loud protests, no beatings or deaths. Just a lot of poor, starving idiots. Marx predicted this would happen, but all anyone can remember about him is that Mao and Stalin used his books for rhetoric.
If you really want change, stop supplying capitalism with cannon fodder: Stop breeding you dumb asses! I know, this is/., so this doesn't apply to most:), but seriously, the problem isn't that we can't feed everyone, it's that we won't. People need to stop bringing children into a world they already know is an awful place. There's no excuse for that.
just indirectly. When you buy used, you take a used copy out of the market, raising the value of both used and new copies of the game. If you really don't want to support them, pirate it.
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sire half a dozen kids he can't support at the standard of living he wants to. Same goes for dumbass poor Americans too, BTW. I'm sick and fucking tired of watching the world go to hell and seeing large corporations playing the poor off each other when all it takes to stop that is a little fsckin' birth control. If you want to stop being capitalism's fodder you've got to stop making so much of it. Don't bring children into a world you know is hell for your own selfish emotional needs or because you're just dumb.
Instead of competing like idiots while the rich fucks of the world are laughing all the way to the bank, why don't you do something smart for a change and make those bastards compete for you? Oh well, in a few years/decades there'll be a really nasty war again and I guess the survivors will have fun afterwards. Until they're done screwing themselves back to a surplus population again.
Not trolling, I'm just disgusted with the world situation. Two world wars and we didn't learn shit.
Pretty much every guy I know who's got married (and who isn't rich) had it ruin his life. Oh, sure, they won't admit it. Even to themselves. It's taboo to do so, because heaven forbid you admit you didn't want children. You should see the looks on people faces when he plainly tells people he didn't want a kid (obviously w/o the kid present). It's freakin hilarious.
What audience? Until recently only nobles new how to read. And just because something isn't unheard of doesn't make it a social norm.
Anti-polygamy laws are social structures meant to stablize society. I though my post made it clear they where a good idea. These _aren't_ stratagies! They're social constructs. Things humans do to get what they want. My whole point is we're reasoning creatures. It's just that right now it's the women who are doing the most effective reasoning. The men are just running scared.
The condom didn't break, they were drifting apart (mostly due to my brother being unwilling to spend the rest of his life busting his ass to support her), and the bitch heard from her mom that having a kid's a great way to cement a marriage. And My Brother is caring for the child. The woman skipped out. And if you only knew how beautifully she set him up. Finally, men are very much slaves to emotion too. I once asked him why he didn't bail sooner, and he replied: "dude, I was lonely and I was horny".
but the men are neglecting their responsibities after the divorice. Or worse (from our leaders perspectives), they're not marrying and having children. i.e. declining birthrates.
And is it any wonder men don't initiate divorce? A male divorcee is a dead man walking.
it's a husband. Woman want someone to look after them and the children. The worse ones are just lazy and self centered and don't want to work for a living. The better ones are just following biological instinct and the desire to have a child. The woman wants to know the man inside and out to determine if he's suitable for this purpose. People are not the kind, sweet, emotional beings they like to think they are. Most choices we like to think are emotional are usually practical.
1. Most societies arranged marriges for profit and convience. Love never factored into it. It's only recent that the quaint notion of love had any force beyond poems and books.
/. prowling loser to every let it happen to me :).
2. I guess my point about most wild animals could be argued, but in any case that is certainly how human society operates. Strong, weathly men get desirable mates (and in the absence of anti-Bigamy laws, lots of them). Any King's Harem will prove my point.
Also, human males have no "biological responsibilities" after sex. There is no biological need, and in all likelyhood no biological desire. From a survivablity stand point, it makes much more sense for a man to have as many mates as posible, and let nature and the woman sort out which ones survive. From a social standpoint, unwanted, unneeded children are dangerous burden. The exception to this is a farmer in need of laborers. But machines make this exception moot.
3. The figure comes from www.nomarrige.com, take it as you will. From my own imperical evidence, I have never met a woman who married down or even on par.
I say that love is an illusion. A pleasant one that's fun to indulge in, but a poor one to base a stable society on. In any case it's a social construct. My main concern is that love needs practical social constructs if it's going to hold up against the real world.
You give people in mass too much credit. Taken as a whole they're nasty, lazy, brutish and selfish. They act out of practical considerations. Right now a marrige isn't practical for men. By contrast, it is very practical for women. This isn't idle speculation, it's fact of law. In times past women recieved protection under law because they were limited in society. Those limits have been largely removed (just ask Carly Fiorina), but the protections remain.
But take everything I say with a grain of salt. As someone who has watched his brother methodically destroyed by an unwanted child and a scheming woman, I'm a tad bitter. Fortunately, I'm too much of a
people who have a great deal of pent up sexual frustration can be made to work extremely hard in factories or whupped up into a frothy rage and charged at machine gun nests _much_ more easily than normal people. Plus normal people when engaging in State Approved Missionary style Vaginal intercourse spit out lots and lots of kids for the afformentioned factories and machine guns.
I'm only partly joking. Leaders of industrialized nations are busy trying to figure out how to stop declining birthrates so that they're nations don't get marginalized (and they don't lose much of their power) to rising nations. A bizzare example of this is a Vatican Approved Sex manual being passed around Italy. At a time when we have far too many people for society comfortably to bare these bastards are going around and encouraging poor, stupid fucks to make more.
The reason women were treated like property is that the only way to get a human male to stay with the wife and kids was to give him a sense of ownership. In the wild, in most cases the strongest male has all the women, and no responsibilty for the children. In society, men where made to 'own' the women so that they'd feel like they where losing something by leaving. Now that this sense of ownership is gone (and has been replaced by a new breed of woman who have all the privileges and none of the responsiblites of marriage), men are leaving in droves. Hence the high devorice rate and number of fathers who won't support their children.
Furthermore, women don't make choices to shift power around, but instead follow existing power. 90% of women marry up. That sexual freedom is a practical if not actual illusion. This is why societies need monogomous relationships. There's nothing more dangerous than a poor, desparate and horny guy with no family. People like that crash planes into buildings.
If anyone has a rightful place in the audio industry it's Aureal. Not trolling, I'm geniunely annoyed at the state of PC audio. It's not that the Audigy is bad, it's that for $200 bucks I expect a lot out of my Soundcard. My old Aureal was great, but Linux support was weak (at least at the time). Aureal was going to open the whole driver, but then they got bought out....
It's not just me, I've heard plenty of others complaing about the state of PC audio. You just don't have to try as hard when you're as far ahead as Creative. Yeah, recent C-media cards are pretty good (heck, for $7 bucks they're amazing). But creative's got name recognition and all. I'd just like to see PC audio competing a bit more like PC video.
Yeah, won't help for online play, but what kind of idiot plays pirated games online anyway?
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but they're both iTunes clones if I understand right. Personally, what made juk so amazing for me was the ability to Sort, tag and move my collection all from one app. Dragging and dropping files to/from juk rocks. If iTunes under Linux can do that, I might be interested...
Also, and I know this is kinda silly, but I like using less than perfect software sometimes because it's fun to watch it improve from version to version.
if they can survive 3 weeks in Jersey they can take anything else the Universe can dish out.
What, this far into the thread and you weren't expecting cracks about Jersey?
and it's probably already been done. I know there where companies specializing in this crap, and like all businesses they've probably got scads of patents. If not, I smell money...
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if you can't buy him his tools. You know how you go to work, and your boss has everthing you need to do your job? Or at least those tools that are so expensive you shouldn't be expected to buy them yourselves. i.e. when I was an apprentice Electrician, I wasn't expected to carry a $500 dollar voltmeter....
this will have the added benefit of thousands of modders going out and buying new Xboxes, w/o buying new games. Meaning MS loses money :). Yeah, I know, by making a strong stance against piracy they make devs happy and will make more in the long run. Still, it's nice to see MS not getting out of this scott free.
one of the main goals of the modern patent is to prevent small companies from bursting into and revolutionizing industries. This tends to suddently devalue stocks in older, bigger players. That's the reason we got software patents especially. Anyone can come along, be a mathamatical genious and start blowing established players out of the water. If you've got a 100 mil in Microsoft, the last thing you want is somebody like Redhat comming along and making that investment worthless. So you get on the patent bandwagon like everyone else and watch your stocks climb slow and steady. Are you gonna get rich this way? Who cares, the people making the decisions are already rich.
Once of the main reasons for the patent system in the first place was to discourage European style printer's guilds from hoarding all the knowledge. With patents, after a certain amount of time new ideas became publicly available after all. This isn't just perverting the system, this is turning it around 180 degrees. Pretty impressive I'd say.
Ok, people are going to be without power for a while, possibly a long while, and Walmart predicted the sale of nearly unperishable dry goods would rise? My God, the sheer genius of it baffles me!
Call me when they can Mathmatically prove which flavors are most popular in a Hurricane.
WWII was the worst thing to happen to the rich, powerful bastards that run things since the Black Plague. When you kill off half your workforce you've got to treat what's left pretty well. Plus there were all sorts of revolutions and power changing hands. Even if your average dumbass doesn't learn from histroy, the Dick Cheney's and Kim's of the world do. These people don't want revolutions and glorious wars, they want status quo and the power they have now.
Moreover, why the hell would you bother invading a country with troops when you can do it economically. A large part of America is owned by foreign gov'ts (especially the Saudi's I hear). When you own that much of a country, all you need to do is threaten to pull out your investments (and wreak the economy) and *bam*, you get whatever you want. Real power is telling someone what to do. How you get this power is irrelevant. Why bother with a messy, expensive war when a nice profitable economic war is so much easier?
to install all those things. Just install Windows, surf around like you normally would, and by the end of the week you'll have IRC, web, proxy and all sorts of servers running, with little or no user intervention. With other solutions, it can take weeks to set all that up!
I said what needs to be done, not what is going to be done. We're doomed. Get used to it. People are too selfish, greedy and dumb for there to be any hope. Maybe if it was two out of the three...
And, yes, reducing the number of people who have no place in society will improve society. People are most dangerous when they're poor, desparate and have nothing to do with themselves. This is where you get guys willing to crash planes into buildings from.
I'd love to see Chinese style forced birth control, but it's not going to happen. Capitalists aren't stupid. They want plenty of fodder for their factories. Remember WWII? Things sucked for workers until after it, and the only real reason things got better was we killed so many healthy, young males that there weren't enough to go around. Well, you can thank the Baby Boomers for fucking their way back to a surplus population, and the Capitalist Pigs are primed to take advantage of this.
Do I want Marxism? Hell no. You're never gonna get past the dictatorship of the Proles. Russia didn't, China didn't, and we won't. What I want are lots of individuals who consider the long term, broad based impact of their decisions. Or at least a few with the power and willingness to force the dumb to stop being so dumb. Instead, I get Vatican approved Sex manuals trying to encourage poor dumb fucks to have lots of kids. Thanks Jesus.
and I don't see why people haven't realized this. Unions don't work when the employeer has the entire population of Earth to pick and choose scabs from. All it takes is the mere threat of moving away (a threat that can easily be backed up) to get your workers back in line. Modern building and transportation systems make dumping your workforce cheap and easy. Plus our society is increasingly modifing itself to streamline the process. How else do you think steel made in Korea and shipped to America can be that much cheaper?
/., so this doesn't apply to most :), but seriously, the problem isn't that we can't feed everyone, it's that we won't. People need to stop bringing children into a world they already know is an awful place. There's no excuse for that.
The really scary part is, in the past people struggling for better working conditions generated a lot of press. People died for the 40 hour work week. Now, the employeer just leaves. No loud protests, no beatings or deaths. Just a lot of poor, starving idiots. Marx predicted this would happen, but all anyone can remember about him is that Mao and Stalin used his books for rhetoric.
If you really want change, stop supplying capitalism with cannon fodder: Stop breeding you dumb asses! I know, this is
just indirectly. When you buy used, you take a used copy out of the market, raising the value of both used and new copies of the game. If you really don't want to support them, pirate it.