I'm saying Zionism is a culture full of attitudes, and those attitudes are evil, elitist, xenophobic and racist as well.
I don't judge people based on their race. But anyone who self-represents themselves as sharing these common values has self-identified as having these evil attitudes, and should be treated as an dangerously insane anti-social criminal.
If you're a Zionist, it's not your moms fault. It's YOUR fault.
A lot of people are driven by an inner need to do physical exertion on a regular basis. Gym memberships are full of such people. It's a rewarding pursuit to get up and do something physically active.
So there are all these people, engaging in utterly useless labour. They're picking up heavy things and putting them down over and over, running on treadmills, that sort of thing.
And I get to thinking... that we have all this stuff that could be done around here. Roads, housing, bridges, new infrastructure that could be built, that sort of thing. Stuff that benefits the community.
There are all these workplace safety people out there, specialized in making work safe, ergonomics, best practices, that sort of thing.
And there are all these physical therapists out there, designing exercise programs for people that are focused on being rewarding for the individual to participate in, where they're happily doing this labour out of a sense of enlightened self-interest.
It gets me to thinking...
If you organized community projects in a way where as many aspects of the tasks involved as possible were designed by a physical trainer to be purely beneficial to the individuals involved...
If one of the organizational mandates was that these tasks would not require specialized knowledge of workers who just showed up to get a workout...
If you made it so it would be brain dead easy for them to use the knowledge they have of their workout needs to find which tasks to do...
Could you create community projects that would be just as good for you as going to the gym?
Maybe managed by a core group of paid workers with expert knowledge?
If you had flexible time frames, if you had a complete lack of privately vested interest in the project and drove it purely at a community level so no one felt suckered when they participated but rather like they were getting an enjoyable workout first and making their neighborhood better as a nice side benefit...
Would people participate?
It would be interesting to see some people with more expert knowledge in those areas than I have give it a try...
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I was reading an article recently where people were looking for ways to explain what the problems are with digital rights management technology to non technically minded people.
Examples given tended to be along the lines of "I can't watch foreign released films, they were never released locally so I have no legal option, and I need this for my book report." and "You shouldn't have to pay for that song again, you already paid for it."
These are, quite frankly, not the most pressing examples I could think of.
Here's some examples you can show your mom and dad:
1) Broadcast news will be all be digitally signed by the big media companies.
The same technology used to cause your saved version of American Idol to self-destruct can be used after the fact to erase news right off your home electronics. It will also prevent it from being transferred to unprotected permanent media, or played back from any backup.
2) Medical software and data will all be digitally signed by the rights owners.
The same technology used to stop software piracy could be used after the fact to switch off hospitals and clinics that don't pay their bills. There is massive financial incentive to design this to happen automatically. Anyone who doubts the realism of this scenario need only look as far as the behavior of the existing drug companies.
3) Company files will all be digitally signed.
If you are being screwed over by your employer or any company you have business dealings with, they will be able to ensure that you don't make anyone else aware of it.
Anyone who thinks this technology is about protecting Britney Spears from Bluebeard the Pirate is missing the point. This is about totalitarianism.
Once again showing... that Canadians are more American than most Americans (I'm American which makes me ignorant by association and therefor an expert on the subject).
Once again showing that Americans define themselves more by what Hollywood tells them that they are than by how they as Americans actually act?
No, if you've taken the time to assemble a system to monitor them, you didn't trust them.
"If I trust people, they might screw me, so instead of trusting them, I'll make sure they can't so I don't have to." is a better way to describe what you're saying.
But then, if everyone worthwhile decides they'd rather just not work with you in response, you've kind of cut your own throat.
If you're trying to cultivate responsibility in young people, this isn't going to do it.
No, this was an expression of the fact that increasing centralized control erodes freedoms of the individual but empowers the state, and there are emergencies that can arise where that is in everyones enlightened self interest.
It had an inherent recognition built in that the emergency is a transient state and the measures are not intended to extend beyond that. The reaction wasn't "knee-jerk" at all, it was very wisely implemented.
The attempt by the Conservatives to exploit this emergency measure in a grab for more power over the citizenry wasn't knee-jerk either.
I think the idea of all laws being required to be re-ratified on a regular basis has a great deal of appeal, personally.
They all ought to come with a specification of what societal problems they were originally intended to compensate for.
Really, the very existence of a law represents a problem in society. In an ideal system, there would be no motivation to behave in an anti-social fashion in the first place, because it would be so well designed that there wouldn't be a person in it who felt they'd be better off going it alone than participating.
Not to suggest that we're ever going to live in an ideal world, build an ideal system or get rid of laws, but it's a useful yardstick nevertheless.
The reason focus() exists is to allow you to send the cursor to the field that needs correcting when you're doing form validation. It would suck if it wasn't available.
I will not attack you on the basis of your faith. I will only say, in my opinion, one of the intrinsic challenges that is going to have to be faced and overcome in creating a fundamental system that allows 6 billion people and growing to co-exist with freedom and happiness is going to be making it cater to Christians, Muslims, Jews and everyone else well enough that you can all in good heart set aside your divisive superstitions once and for all and come together as "one people living under a yellow star at the moment".
So... some guy whose passion is tinkering with chemicals, he's going to leave his job and go back to school and learn IT.
So he can begrudgingly do mediocre work for two years, quit because he's got 2 million dollars in the bank and is not worried about cash anymore, build a lab in the second garage behind his house and go back to his passion.
Sounds like a winning strategy to me. God bless Econ 101!
Democracy is never free of mistakes, but it is more likely to fix them more beneficially than other forms of government.
If you really wish to make us think about what we're doing, try asking us why even though greater 65% of us claim to be Christian, we seek to kill our enemies, which the teachings of Christ expressly condemn. Some of us here have been whispering this question because we fear for our lives. You, being on the outside, can yell it from the mountain tops without fear of reprisal.
So why don't you do that rather than assuming that we're all the same.
Honestly?
I yell it because I want you to stop, of course. I don't hate people, I hate stupidity, short-sightedness, blindness, and the vast sea of people who are working hard to sustain this stupid short-sighted blindness.
I want to forgive people, turn the other cheek, and help them all live together peacefully and well, but I'd like them to take their foot off my neck first.
I also want to piss you off enough to make you reveal the underlying motivations that the existing system fulfills for you instead of having a polite discussion that never gets past the surface mechanisms to the meat of why we do what we do.
It lets me polish my view of "how things ought to be" until there's a place for everyone, so when I'm older and at the apex of my personal and political power, I might have something to say that people can actually rally behind.
Walking into a place, talking to everyone there until I understand the underlying system of what they do and why they do it, designing infrastructure to support doing it in a way that's better for every participant, then walking away and letting them run with it, that's what I do.
Oh, and you're not simply whispering to save your life. You're whispering because you'd prefer to trade your life for the lives of the people outside your country who are suffering at the hands of the mechanisms you silently help sustain.
People aren't stupid, they understand that. That's why the "terrorists" who are trying to get the US military to go home have issued public calls for attacks on Canadian energy infrastructure.
We publicly condemn these aggressive wars, yet we are still silently supporting it by shipping oil and gas across the border. Therefore, have made attacking us into a legitimate defensive tactic for those who live in the middle east.
The actions of your nation, coupled together with the exploitation of corruptibility my nations administrative process, has put me personally under threat.
Your nation is under threat because your nation IS an ongoing threat. Clean up your mess so other people don't have to and you won't be attacked. Verbally or otherwise.
Whatever. 90% of people who work in offices aren't working, they're bossing people around, leveraging people against each other, and generally making problems for people.
People in capitalist cultures have a warped idea about what work is.
Think people who are cashiers are working? 100% of cashiers are producing nothing of any value. Cashier just watches the food to make sure you don't get any unless you obey via the money-mechanism, calls the cops if you make trouble, sits on their ass otherwise.
American society embodies this wasteful shit, all symptoms of a culture where people actually feel like they're a sucker if they do anything useful without the motivation of the "long and subtle stick", and end up being willing to do anything to become the one wielding it instead of being hit by it. And of course, once they get there, the societal code says they must exploit it to its maximum capacity for personal gain or it will be taken away from them.
Anyone who is doing their job solely for money is an amoral and short-sighted individual who shouldn't be trusted with any authority over anyone or responsibility for anything.
How many hours they clock doesn't really have anything to do with it. It's a matter of perspective.
You want to see an example of it in action, look at how the interactions between Edison and Tesla played out, and how much of the foundations of modern American society came from that.
Call me a moron if you like. I'm looking forward to watching you all eat crow.
I dunno how people get SO into their jobs. I work to earn money to allow me to do and buy things I like. I have the opposite problem. I have to work hard to concentrate at work ON work....there are so many other things in life that interest me...
That's a very typical American viewpoint. That's why your culture is failing. The lot of you would rather woolgather and play than be an active part of your society.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, you'd collectively also rather massacre and pillage other cultures than be responsible human beings. That's why so many people from other nations hate people from yours.
Bill is saying that the thing that keeps the US rich is that once someone figures out how to do something smart, they make other nations pay them if they wish to also do something smart, and they bomb them if they refuse to participate in the scheme.
If you're not funneling wealth into the US, they'll do the best they can manage to keep your society operating at the level of savages.
Bill understands all this stuff perfectly. He knows that the role of the corporation is to be the well mannered mobster, and that the role of the government is to supply the raw research and the muscle.
The revolution was backed by those who felt the mandate of the local oil industry should be to benefit the society.
The coup was backed by the Iranians who felt the mandate of the local oil industry should be to benefit them, like it used to.
And of course, by America, who would much rather have Iranians subjugating Iranians than pay American soldiers to do it, if they could get away with it.
All these temporary visas for foreign workers that make less money, they're an attempt by the rich old people to play the aforementioned both ways and keep the crisis at bay until they're safely dead and in the ground.
This is the underlying justification for those visas that overcomes all other intelligent objections.
The answer is that the US has created an environment where
1) Their population is accustomed to a lifestyle that can only be sustained by having subject colonies sending wealth back to the center.
2) Their local population is not educated enough to enjoy intellectual pursuits and have been conditioned not to find them rewarding
3) Aside from these factors, their population has been in decline since the rise of modern feminism made careers and consumption more important than reproduction
4) The structure of society means that those who get educated early are specialized into getting more while those who don't get educated early are considered a poor investment, so most of the kids are born to the least educated in the population.
Americans have spent the last hundred years running their culture into the ground.
If they want to keep their societies critical infrastructure running, they're going to have to move in so much foreign population that their indigenous population, with all their social values, are in the minority. Those who were raised in the US will also be the least educated in the country. Democracy will then wipe their culture out.
If they don't go this way, their society will collapse as the baby boomers find there is no one to hand the reigns to and not enough young people to even keep the lights running.
Unless the young people in the culture take the reigns by force, the elder people will choose the first option because the old Americans with the political power care more about their personal comfort than their childrens future or their societies future, and they always have.
The IT shortage and all the accompanying noises are symptoms of this underlying rot.
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Canadians swear more than any other two cultures put together.
"Would you please fuck off already!!"
That's the Canadian way.
I wrote a letter to the Canadian Government too.
I told them I don't want them selling oil or energy or natural gas to war criminals anymore, and that I think we need a trade embargo on the US.
I did that last night and drove the thing halfway through my hand.
Think of the children is the most valid appeal to logic around. Translates to "consider what larger the consequences of this will be".
"If they're too dumb, fuck em", now that's an appeal to emotion. Selfishness and pride, among others.
Children are, after all, more important than freedom.
I'm saying Zionism is a culture full of attitudes, and those attitudes are evil, elitist, xenophobic and racist as well.
I don't judge people based on their race. But anyone who self-represents themselves as sharing these common values has self-identified as having these evil attitudes, and should be treated as an dangerously insane anti-social criminal.
If you're a Zionist, it's not your moms fault. It's YOUR fault.
I don't know what the big deal is... Wonder Woman has had this stuff for years.
This reminds me of a recent blog post I made...
A lot of people are driven by an inner need to do physical exertion on a regular basis. Gym memberships are full of such people. It's a rewarding pursuit to get up and do something physically active.
So there are all these people, engaging in utterly useless labour. They're picking up heavy things and putting them down over and over, running on treadmills, that sort of thing.
And I get to thinking... that we have all this stuff that could be done around here. Roads, housing, bridges, new infrastructure that could be built, that sort of thing. Stuff that benefits the community.
There are all these workplace safety people out there, specialized in making work safe, ergonomics, best practices, that sort of thing.
And there are all these physical therapists out there, designing exercise programs for people that are focused on being rewarding for the individual to participate in, where they're happily doing this labour out of a sense of enlightened self-interest.
It gets me to thinking...
If you organized community projects in a way where as many aspects of the tasks involved as possible were designed by a physical trainer to be purely beneficial to the individuals involved...
If one of the organizational mandates was that these tasks would not require specialized knowledge of workers who just showed up to get a workout...
If you made it so it would be brain dead easy for them to use the knowledge they have of their workout needs to find which tasks to do...
Could you create community projects that would be just as good for you as going to the gym?
Maybe managed by a core group of paid workers with expert knowledge?
If you had flexible time frames, if you had a complete lack of privately vested interest in the project and drove it purely at a community level so no one felt suckered when they participated but rather like they were getting an enjoyable workout first and making their neighborhood better as a nice side benefit...
Would people participate?
It would be interesting to see some people with more expert knowledge in those areas than I have give it a try...
I was reading an article recently where people were looking for ways to explain what the problems are with digital rights management technology to non technically minded people.
Examples given tended to be along the lines of "I can't watch foreign released films, they were never released locally so I have no legal option, and I need this for my book report." and "You shouldn't have to pay for that song again, you already paid for it."
These are, quite frankly, not the most pressing examples I could think of.
Here's some examples you can show your mom and dad:
1) Broadcast news will be all be digitally signed by the big media companies.
The same technology used to cause your saved version of American Idol to self-destruct can be used after the fact to erase news right off your home electronics. It will also prevent it from being transferred to unprotected permanent media, or played back from any backup.
2) Medical software and data will all be digitally signed by the rights owners.
The same technology used to stop software piracy could be used after the fact to switch off hospitals and clinics that don't pay their bills. There is massive financial incentive to design this to happen automatically. Anyone who doubts the realism of this scenario need only look as far as the behavior of the existing drug companies.
3) Company files will all be digitally signed.
If you are being screwed over by your employer or any company you have business dealings with, they will be able to ensure that you don't make anyone else aware of it.
Anyone who thinks this technology is about protecting Britney Spears from Bluebeard the Pirate is missing the point. This is about totalitarianism.
Vista has built-in DRM.
My current OS does not.
Therefore, my current OS is superior to Vista, because I can safely rely on it.
Nothing trumps that.
I wouldn't install it if it was free.
Maybe if he'd posted an Idea instead of a Rant, it might have stayed up.
Once again showing ... that Canadians are more American than most Americans (I'm American which makes me ignorant by association and therefor an expert on the subject).
Once again showing that Americans define themselves more by what Hollywood tells them that they are than by how they as Americans actually act?
No, if you've taken the time to assemble a system to monitor them, you didn't trust them.
"If I trust people, they might screw me, so instead of trusting them, I'll make sure they can't so I don't have to." is a better way to describe what you're saying.
But then, if everyone worthwhile decides they'd rather just not work with you in response, you've kind of cut your own throat.
If you're trying to cultivate responsibility in young people, this isn't going to do it.
If they can't be trusted, they shouldn't be working in such an agency.
No, this was an expression of the fact that increasing centralized control erodes freedoms of the individual but empowers the state, and there are emergencies that can arise where that is in everyones enlightened self interest.
It had an inherent recognition built in that the emergency is a transient state and the measures are not intended to extend beyond that. The reaction wasn't "knee-jerk" at all, it was very wisely implemented.
The attempt by the Conservatives to exploit this emergency measure in a grab for more power over the citizenry wasn't knee-jerk either.
I think the idea of all laws being required to be re-ratified on a regular basis has a great deal of appeal, personally.
They all ought to come with a specification of what societal problems they were originally intended to compensate for.
Really, the very existence of a law represents a problem in society. In an ideal system, there would be no motivation to behave in an anti-social fashion in the first place, because it would be so well designed that there wouldn't be a person in it who felt they'd be better off going it alone than participating.
Not to suggest that we're ever going to live in an ideal world, build an ideal system or get rid of laws, but it's a useful yardstick nevertheless.
The reason focus() exists is to allow you to send the cursor to the field that needs correcting when you're doing form validation. It would suck if it wasn't available.
I will not attack you on the basis of your faith. I will only say, in my opinion, one of the intrinsic challenges that is going to have to be faced and overcome in creating a fundamental system that allows 6 billion people and growing to co-exist with freedom and happiness is going to be making it cater to Christians, Muslims, Jews and everyone else well enough that you can all in good heart set aside your divisive superstitions once and for all and come together as "one people living under a yellow star at the moment".
So... some guy whose passion is tinkering with chemicals, he's going to leave his job and go back to school and learn IT.
So he can begrudgingly do mediocre work for two years, quit because he's got 2 million dollars in the bank and is not worried about cash anymore, build a lab in the second garage behind his house and go back to his passion.
Sounds like a winning strategy to me. God bless Econ 101!
Unfortunately, most people are too busy working down at a call center trying to justify why they should be fed this week to invest in their passions.
Thus...
Democracy is never free of mistakes, but it is more likely to fix them more beneficially than other forms of government.
If you really wish to make us think about what we're doing, try asking us why even though greater 65% of us claim to be Christian, we seek to kill our enemies, which the teachings of Christ expressly condemn. Some of us here have been whispering this question because we fear for our lives. You, being on the outside, can yell it from the mountain tops without fear of reprisal.
So why don't you do that rather than assuming that we're all the same.
Honestly?
I yell it because I want you to stop, of course. I don't hate people, I hate stupidity, short-sightedness, blindness, and the vast sea of people who are working hard to sustain this stupid short-sighted blindness.
I want to forgive people, turn the other cheek, and help them all live together peacefully and well, but I'd like them to take their foot off my neck first.
I also want to piss you off enough to make you reveal the underlying motivations that the existing system fulfills for you instead of having a polite discussion that never gets past the surface mechanisms to the meat of why we do what we do.
It lets me polish my view of "how things ought to be" until there's a place for everyone, so when I'm older and at the apex of my personal and political power, I might have something to say that people can actually rally behind.
Walking into a place, talking to everyone there until I understand the underlying system of what they do and why they do it, designing infrastructure to support doing it in a way that's better for every participant, then walking away and letting them run with it, that's what I do.
Oh, and you're not simply whispering to save your life. You're whispering because you'd prefer to trade your life for the lives of the people outside your country who are suffering at the hands of the mechanisms you silently help sustain.
People aren't stupid, they understand that. That's why the "terrorists" who are trying to get the US military to go home have issued public calls for attacks on Canadian energy infrastructure.
We publicly condemn these aggressive wars, yet we are still silently supporting it by shipping oil and gas across the border. Therefore, have made attacking us into a legitimate defensive tactic for those who live in the middle east.
The actions of your nation, coupled together with the exploitation of corruptibility my nations administrative process, has put me personally under threat.
Your nation is under threat because your nation IS an ongoing threat. Clean up your mess so other people don't have to and you won't be attacked. Verbally or otherwise.
Think I like having to say shit like this?
Whatever. 90% of people who work in offices aren't working, they're bossing people around, leveraging people against each other, and generally making problems for people.
People in capitalist cultures have a warped idea about what work is.
Think people who are cashiers are working? 100% of cashiers are producing nothing of any value. Cashier just watches the food to make sure you don't get any unless you obey via the money-mechanism, calls the cops if you make trouble, sits on their ass otherwise.
American society embodies this wasteful shit, all symptoms of a culture where people actually feel like they're a sucker if they do anything useful without the motivation of the "long and subtle stick", and end up being willing to do anything to become the one wielding it instead of being hit by it. And of course, once they get there, the societal code says they must exploit it to its maximum capacity for personal gain or it will be taken away from them.
Anyone who is doing their job solely for money is an amoral and short-sighted individual who shouldn't be trusted with any authority over anyone or responsibility for anything.
How many hours they clock doesn't really have anything to do with it. It's a matter of perspective.
You want to see an example of it in action, look at how the interactions between Edison and Tesla played out, and how much of the foundations of modern American society came from that.
Call me a moron if you like. I'm looking forward to watching you all eat crow.
I dunno how people get SO into their jobs. I work to earn money to allow me to do and buy things I like. I have the opposite problem. I have to work hard to concentrate at work ON work....there are so many other things in life that interest me...
That's a very typical American viewpoint. That's why your culture is failing. The lot of you would rather woolgather and play than be an active part of your society.
Unfortunately for the rest of us, you'd collectively also rather massacre and pillage other cultures than be responsible human beings. That's why so many people from other nations hate people from yours.
It's not going to last, you know...
Bill is saying that the thing that keeps the US rich is that once someone figures out how to do something smart, they make other nations pay them if they wish to also do something smart, and they bomb them if they refuse to participate in the scheme.
If you're not funneling wealth into the US, they'll do the best they can manage to keep your society operating at the level of savages.
Bill understands all this stuff perfectly. He knows that the role of the corporation is to be the well mannered mobster, and that the role of the government is to supply the raw research and the muscle.
The revolution was backed by those who felt the mandate of the local oil industry should be to benefit the society.
The coup was backed by the Iranians who felt the mandate of the local oil industry should be to benefit them, like it used to.
And of course, by America, who would much rather have Iranians subjugating Iranians than pay American soldiers to do it, if they could get away with it.
All these temporary visas for foreign workers that make less money, they're an attempt by the rich old people to play the aforementioned both ways and keep the crisis at bay until they're safely dead and in the ground.
This is the underlying justification for those visas that overcomes all other intelligent objections.
The answer is that the US has created an environment where
1) Their population is accustomed to a lifestyle that can only be sustained by having subject colonies sending wealth back to the center.
2) Their local population is not educated enough to enjoy intellectual pursuits and have been conditioned not to find them rewarding
3) Aside from these factors, their population has been in decline since the rise of modern feminism made careers and consumption more important than reproduction
4) The structure of society means that those who get educated early are specialized into getting more while those who don't get educated early are considered a poor investment, so most of the kids are born to the least educated in the population.
Americans have spent the last hundred years running their culture into the ground.
If they want to keep their societies critical infrastructure running, they're going to have to move in so much foreign population that their indigenous population, with all their social values, are in the minority. Those who were raised in the US will also be the least educated in the country. Democracy will then wipe their culture out.
If they don't go this way, their society will collapse as the baby boomers find there is no one to hand the reigns to and not enough young people to even keep the lights running.
Unless the young people in the culture take the reigns by force, the elder people will choose the first option because the old Americans with the political power care more about their personal comfort than their childrens future or their societies future, and they always have.
The IT shortage and all the accompanying noises are symptoms of this underlying rot.