In a fascist society, the democratically elected government controls the corporations, not the other way around.
If only we had a fascist government... shovel these tyrannous oligarchs and their toadies and sycophants and sympathizers into some gas chambers... we'd have society fixed up in no time.
Unlike other countries, US property is respected enough to not need legions of gated communities.
This is your problem. You created a society where everything is so tied up in private property that, in the end, you have a few rich people who live like feudal lords, answerable to no one, and the rest of society live like serfs. And, you outsourced human reproduction to foreign countries so you could put your women to work like serfs too. Now it's all coming home to roost, and you're on a one way ticket to collapse.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people though!
Marriage is about subsidizing the creation of the next generation of mankind. Used to be, if you couldn't get pregnant together, you could get an annulment, and the marriage was considered dissolved.
My position, and, in a democratic society which runs on consensus, I don't actually need to defend it, is that if you get married, and enjoy the privileged status that that entails at my expense, you OWE me several well adjusted children to carry society forward when I retire, and if you get divorced, you OWE me for all the benefits you enjoyed at my expense. If you are infertile, you can't get married. If you are too old to have children, you can't get married. Live with who you want, fuck who you want, but marriage is about families, and if you're not interested in making and raising one, then leave it to others.
Religion really doesn't have anything to do with it. Homosexual marriage is an outrageously, ridiculously irrational thing all by itself.
No thanks. Try Mozilla's offices, I imagine you'll find a willing mouth there. Just don't ask the womyn, or we'll all have to read the story on every social network for weeks to come, and it'll just make everyone miserable.
When they fired the guy who invented Javascript because he believes, as I do, that marriage should be between a man and a woman... yes, that was the straw that broke the camels back.
But they were involved in that Gnome Outreach Program for Women fiasco too, if you need another example, and some if not all of the SJW's who were responsible for wasting all of Gnome's resources now work at Mozilla in positions of authority.
You're welcome to try to make a case for their values being superior to mine if you like, but you'd have to be willfully blind to not know that this is happening.
Query: Why is it that anyone with the word "wolf" in their name is almost guaranteed to be a pencil-dicked basement dweller who blames women for his inability to interact with them? I'm genuinely curious about this phenomenon.
Beats me... I'm on the 7th floor with a gorgeous view of the Rocky Mountains, I had a beautiful woman share my bed last night, and my dick is slightly thicker than a can of Red Bull.
Query: How many times did you follow strange men into their basement and check out their dicks before you noticed a pattern?
Maybe if they spent more time and resources on their project and less time and resources on "gender issues", they wouldn't be circling the toilet.
Their organization been corrupted at the highest levels. It's not going to be repaired. It'll just degenerate further until the project is forked or dies with a whimper.
Intelligent people tolerate the uncomfortable feeling of ignorance, while stupid people fill the gaps with whatever ridiculous crap pops into their tiny little brains.
Your refusal to acknowledge your own ignorance telegraphs the latter. Might want to do something about that.
Yeah, well, you go write an enterprise level application using modal windows and IFRAMES to do your AJAX calls, then see how impressed you are when people talk about how "innovative" web apps are.
It's less secure than its predecessors, allowing you to do more with it than you could before.
That sounds like a troll, but it's not. A lot of what's billed as innovation in this sphere was thought of by many people before, but the platform was intentionally designed to make it impossible for security reasons.
1) Compose your team entirely of specialists who are focused on one small piece of the puzzle 2) Find a psychopath who will make ethical compromises in the name of efficiency that well adjusted people would consider morally reprehensible to coordinate your team 3) Keep your team from seeing the big picture so they don't revolt 4) Keep outsiders from realizing how your efficiency is achieved so they don't shun you 5) Profit!
You get bonus points for setting all this up, making yourself the recipient of the inevitable rewards, keeping yourself ignorant of the particulars and sleeping like a baby.
I don't know why you would say this. There is a single platform that runs on almost all devices. It's called Android. Everything else is a bit player that you can safely ignore.
This does a great job of illustrating the advantage of "diversity", which ISN'T having people approach the problem from different perspectives.
Hand in hand with "diversity" is "inclusiveness", and "inclusiveness" is the real point.
If you have a town full of people that rely on "the town farmer" to grow the food, and they have this naive idea that food is something that grows on a supermarket shelf, they're going to govern themselves like idiots any time they're given a voice in how to handle the food supply.
This means that they'd be better off not to participate in a democracy and just make this guy their master because food is so important that they'll kill themselves if they make a mistake, which their ignorance practically guarantees.
So, for the sake of their own security, they need to be included.
BUT
They're ignorant as little babies. Their ideas are founded on nothing at all. There's a system that is providing for their food supply, and their purpose there is to learn it, not assert control over it.
They are there to become grounded in reality, and to surrender to reality, and to be absorbed into what is there.
Coming into a situation with the attitude that you are there to bring something to the table and that your perspective deserves to be respected is demanding that reality be ignored in favor of making you feel comfortable and valued.
So, instead of learning to not rely on the farmer, you basically fire him in a fit of ego and then starve to death when you realize you don't know what the hell you're doing.
A lot of people miss the point on this, and they're running around with this idealistic position that they are doing a good thing by "transforming" cultures to make them more "diverse", and shoving arrogant ignoramuses into positions of authority and demanding that the people whose culture was formed around a set of problems abandon all of their hard won lessons and start playing politics as the systems that are their duty go to shit.
A mans contribution can be completed in a single night.
A womans contribution requires 9 months, during which time any distraction, disruption or stress can cause the "person creation" process to fail catastrophically.
This is the reason we systematically transform men into specialists instead of men. It is a waste of precious resources to turn a woman into a computer programmer when she's a lot more valuable as a mother.
It's not that women are incapable of being computer programmers. It's that they have more important duties, and when they neglect those duties, the entire human race suffers for it.
At the end of the day, the problem is people like you, who don't care about the fate of the human race as long as you get what you want out of life before you die, and, frankly, the solution is NOT diplomatic in nature.
People do get that the only thing that knocked RIM from the top of the heap was the lawsuit filed by patent troll NTP, right?
They weren't beaten on technical merits. They weren't beaten because they "don't understand consumers". They weren't beaten on style, or execution, or anything else.
They were beaten by a corrupt US legal system that forced the guys running the company to stop running the company, hang around in a court room for years and in the end pay over half a trillion dollars to patent trolls.
Looking back, what they should have done was shut down US operations immediately, allowed the US government to implode and gone on to greener pastures.
Moral of the story, don't do business with Americans. One way or another, they'll fuck you over in the end. That's how they got where they are today.
Smart men just don't do business with the sharpest horse trader in town.
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In a fascist society, the democratically elected government controls the corporations, not the other way around.
If only we had a fascist government... shovel these tyrannous oligarchs and their toadies and sycophants and sympathizers into some gas chambers... we'd have society fixed up in no time.
Is your mother dead yet?
Get a real job.
Unlike other countries, US property is respected enough to not need legions of gated communities.
This is your problem. You created a society where everything is so tied up in private property that, in the end, you have a few rich people who live like feudal lords, answerable to no one, and the rest of society live like serfs. And, you outsourced human reproduction to foreign countries so you could put your women to work like serfs too. Now it's all coming home to roost, and you're on a one way ticket to collapse.
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of people though!
I'm very frank about what kind of person I really am. Always have been.
You're the anonymous coward.
Of course I can.
Marriage is about subsidizing the creation of the next generation of mankind. Used to be, if you couldn't get pregnant together, you could get an annulment, and the marriage was considered dissolved.
My position, and, in a democratic society which runs on consensus, I don't actually need to defend it, is that if you get married, and enjoy the privileged status that that entails at my expense, you OWE me several well adjusted children to carry society forward when I retire, and if you get divorced, you OWE me for all the benefits you enjoyed at my expense. If you are infertile, you can't get married. If you are too old to have children, you can't get married. Live with who you want, fuck who you want, but marriage is about families, and if you're not interested in making and raising one, then leave it to others.
Religion really doesn't have anything to do with it. Homosexual marriage is an outrageously, ridiculously irrational thing all by itself.
Fuck Google. Or was that DoubleClick. Same thing now. Manipulative pricks. Shoot em in the fucking face.
No thanks. Try Mozilla's offices, I imagine you'll find a willing mouth there. Just don't ask the womyn, or we'll all have to read the story on every social network for weeks to come, and it'll just make everyone miserable.
When they fired the guy who invented Javascript because he believes, as I do, that marriage should be between a man and a woman... yes, that was the straw that broke the camels back.
But they were involved in that Gnome Outreach Program for Women fiasco too, if you need another example, and some if not all of the SJW's who were responsible for wasting all of Gnome's resources now work at Mozilla in positions of authority.
You're welcome to try to make a case for their values being superior to mine if you like, but you'd have to be willfully blind to not know that this is happening.
Query: Why is it that anyone with the word "wolf" in their name is almost guaranteed to be a pencil-dicked basement dweller who blames women for his inability to interact with them? I'm genuinely curious about this phenomenon.
Beats me... I'm on the 7th floor with a gorgeous view of the Rocky Mountains, I had a beautiful woman share my bed last night, and my dick is slightly thicker than a can of Red Bull.
Query: How many times did you follow strange men into their basement and check out their dicks before you noticed a pattern?
Maybe if they spent more time and resources on their project and less time and resources on "gender issues", they wouldn't be circling the toilet.
Their organization been corrupted at the highest levels. It's not going to be repaired. It'll just degenerate further until the project is forked or dies with a whimper.
You don't know anything about me, or how I feel.
Intelligent people tolerate the uncomfortable feeling of ignorance, while stupid people fill the gaps with whatever ridiculous crap pops into their tiny little brains.
Your refusal to acknowledge your own ignorance telegraphs the latter. Might want to do something about that.
Yeah, well, you go write an enterprise level application using modal windows and IFRAMES to do your AJAX calls, then see how impressed you are when people talk about how "innovative" web apps are.
HTML5 is really about pushing pervasive DRM.
It's less secure than its predecessors, allowing you to do more with it than you could before.
That sounds like a troll, but it's not. A lot of what's billed as innovation in this sphere was thought of by many people before, but the platform was intentionally designed to make it impossible for security reasons.
1) Compose your team entirely of specialists who are focused on one small piece of the puzzle
2) Find a psychopath who will make ethical compromises in the name of efficiency that well adjusted people would consider morally reprehensible to coordinate your team
3) Keep your team from seeing the big picture so they don't revolt
4) Keep outsiders from realizing how your efficiency is achieved so they don't shun you
5) Profit!
You get bonus points for setting all this up, making yourself the recipient of the inevitable rewards, keeping yourself ignorant of the particulars and sleeping like a baby.
I would pay 1500 for the device if all it did was cause you to try to knock it off my nose. I like fighting, and a self defense defense is gold.
I would have bought one ages ago if they'd fucking sell them outside the US.
They should have realized that Americans would be the least receptive people on earth to this thing.
Stratasys have been making reliable rapid prototyping machines for many years, and that making another one isn't a noteworthy achievement.
The compelling thing about 3D printing is that there are open source, non patent encumbered implementations available.
Making an open source non patent encumbered 3D printer that is significantly more reliable would be newsworthy. This isn't.
It's all open source code. Google couldn't pull a MS with Android. So, your point is moot.
I don't know why you would say this. There is a single platform that runs on almost all devices. It's called Android. Everything else is a bit player that you can safely ignore.
This does a great job of illustrating the advantage of "diversity", which ISN'T having people approach the problem from different perspectives.
Hand in hand with "diversity" is "inclusiveness", and "inclusiveness" is the real point.
If you have a town full of people that rely on "the town farmer" to grow the food, and they have this naive idea that food is something that grows on a supermarket shelf, they're going to govern themselves like idiots any time they're given a voice in how to handle the food supply.
This means that they'd be better off not to participate in a democracy and just make this guy their master because food is so important that they'll kill themselves if they make a mistake, which their ignorance practically guarantees.
So, for the sake of their own security, they need to be included.
BUT
They're ignorant as little babies. Their ideas are founded on nothing at all. There's a system that is providing for their food supply, and their purpose there is to learn it, not assert control over it.
They are there to become grounded in reality, and to surrender to reality, and to be absorbed into what is there.
Coming into a situation with the attitude that you are there to bring something to the table and that your perspective deserves to be respected is demanding that reality be ignored in favor of making you feel comfortable and valued.
So, instead of learning to not rely on the farmer, you basically fire him in a fit of ego and then starve to death when you realize you don't know what the hell you're doing.
A lot of people miss the point on this, and they're running around with this idealistic position that they are doing a good thing by "transforming" cultures to make them more "diverse", and shoving arrogant ignoramuses into positions of authority and demanding that the people whose culture was formed around a set of problems abandon all of their hard won lessons and start playing politics as the systems that are their duty go to shit.
I said that about Windows 2000.
Then the starving artists got their hooks into the open source desktops and fucked them all up.
Windows 7 it is.
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30% Overrated
20% Flamebait
Final result? -2 Troll
Looks like this isn't moderation "by the people" any more...
Men and women both contribute to creating people.
A mans contribution can be completed in a single night.
A womans contribution requires 9 months, during which time any distraction, disruption or stress can cause the "person creation" process to fail catastrophically.
This is the reason we systematically transform men into specialists instead of men. It is a waste of precious resources to turn a woman into a computer programmer when she's a lot more valuable as a mother.
It's not that women are incapable of being computer programmers. It's that they have more important duties, and when they neglect those duties, the entire human race suffers for it.
At the end of the day, the problem is people like you, who don't care about the fate of the human race as long as you get what you want out of life before you die, and, frankly, the solution is NOT diplomatic in nature.
People do get that the only thing that knocked RIM from the top of the heap was the lawsuit filed by patent troll NTP, right?
They weren't beaten on technical merits. They weren't beaten because they "don't understand consumers". They weren't beaten on style, or execution, or anything else.
They were beaten by a corrupt US legal system that forced the guys running the company to stop running the company, hang around in a court room for years and in the end pay over half a trillion dollars to patent trolls.
Looking back, what they should have done was shut down US operations immediately, allowed the US government to implode and gone on to greener pastures.
Moral of the story, don't do business with Americans. One way or another, they'll fuck you over in the end. That's how they got where they are today.
Smart men just don't do business with the sharpest horse trader in town.