Really, the solution was to leave the address bar the way it was. This type of functionality belongs in the search box, not the address bar. It totally slowed down my workflow not being able to see the alphabetically sorted list of url's that used to be displayed. If not for the fact that I'm writing Selenium tests, I too would have refused to upgrade.
This was a total "Stupid people who refuse to learn anything always keep typing shit in the wrong bar, so lets just jive with their expectations, even if it does break functionality for the loyal following." move.
Evil is when you engage in actions that damage or threaten the ongoing existence of humanity as a whole. The bankers, the propagandists, the war machine makers, the peddlers of sterility drugs, the businesses that protect their enterprises by preventing you from caring for yourselves, etc. All of these are evil.
Good is when you engage in actions that create children and help them to be self-reliant and able to assure the survival of themselves and their own young through the results of their own hands on labor.
Modern western civilization is evil. You can see the evidence in the closing schools, the shrinking cities, the gray hair everywhere. It is destroying itself and the people who are it's component parts. That is what evil is.
We hate those who are not evil. We consistently attempt to dominate them or destroy them. We will not permit them to exist as strong and independent people who raise large families and care for themselves with their own hands. We will not rest until they are sterilized with birth control, specialized until they are of no use to themselves and divided into special interest groups to be turned against one another.
I'm guessing Google and Scribd and many others could make enough off the ads to host everything without blinking an eye.
Why does everyone acknowledge that people are willing to pay a lot of money for propaganda, yet not make the connection that this propaganda is so effective at leading people astray that they'll pay a lot of money for it and recognize that inducing people to mindless behavior has a social cost of it's own? When you run an effective ad campaign and manipulate people behavior, it's basically induced insanity. It ought to be a criminal act.
Just what we need... surround ourselves with ourselves. That will challenge us and cause us to grow into intelligent, tolerant and well rounded individuals.
I don't find truth in the Bible. I think the existing religions are far more brutal regimes than is needful, and I don't like them. Never have. But I find the evolutionary advantages gained or lost through religion are a good deal more relevant to the question of how we should live than science is. Science is unable to answer such a question, because you cannot conduct experiments on human populations that span multiple human lifespans. Science is great for handling the easy questions.
I have been thinking on this subject for quite some time. My concept:
Every person in the country has the right to introduce a bill, or a plan, or a budget.
Every person in the country has the right to vote on every individual bill, plan or budget.
Every person in the country has the right to choose a representative to speak for them. Not just from a list of politicians on a piece of paper. They have the right to choose any citizen they wish to speak for them.
Every person in the country has the right to revoke their choice of representative at any time. Not just at a regular interval measured in years, but instantly, the very moment they realize that this person does not share their vision of how the system should operate.
Every vote, by every person, is public information. No secret ballot. It's just as public as if you were a Roman citizen, raising your hand to vote in the Colosseum in full sight of your peers.
This system will allow us to recreate the current conditions if we wish. We can choose to assemble ourselves into rigid vertically managed hierarchical structures if we see the justification, such as if we are under threat.
However, it would also allow us to gracefully decentralize our decision making without the need for revolution.
Power could flow in to the middle or out to the edges as the population saw fit, rather than our current structure, which ensures that there is an absolute authority running the show, even if we don't want or agree with such a hierarchy.
I'm still working on designing the infrastructure.
In science, you test the premise until it has proven it's utility as a tool that others can use, and then you disseminate it through the population. People who believe that science leads to actual truth are just as blind to the realities as any witch doctor. If I were wrong, we would never abandon any discovery made through the scientific process, ever. The fact that we do indeed disprove things that were considered scientific fact a scant generation ago is mute evidence that your position is wrong.
Please present the useful predictions that religion has made, or STFU.
It has predicted that the spirits of the dead will invade your body if you go to the house of the dead. Which is true. Though, nowadays, a person would say "you will be infected with the disease that killed that person if you go to their house without taking precautions".
Religion is a way of conveying real world knowledge, just like science. They just use personification metaphors instead of abstract technical language. That fact leads to a lack of precision and the possibility of misinterpreting the metaphor or reading too much into it. However, it also gives it a durability in that it can be propagated through the generations by those who do not fully understand it, and thus not be lost to mankind.
People who think religious texts are literal and not a metaphor based technical language in and of themselves do not get it. God is a label, it means the universe.
The achievement of "the one true god" as opposed to a different polytheistic religion for each tribe was to create a more universal technical language that would allow people from different tribes to share knowledge about the nature of the universe, aka "the nature of god". Prior to this achievement, I would discover something about the sun and express my discovery to my fellows by telling them I had discovered an unknown thing about the nature of my tribe's sun gods personality. My fellows, who understood this technical language, would get what I was saying. But someone from the next tribe over would not understand, because they have an entirely different technical language. I would need to translate by expressing that I had discovered something about the nature of the chariot which is the sun, or whatever, before they could understand.
Frequently, both in religion and in science, the humans behind it all get it wrong. We "misunderstand the nature of the universe", we "misunderstand the nature of God". Same thing.
Until you appreciate these subtleties, you cannot begin to understand religious texts. Unfortunately, the scientific nor the religious communities are both chock full of people who do not understand, and they spend their life arguing semantics and perceiving nothing. The fact that the vast majority of social structures in history led to the death of the civilizations that adhered to them, and yet a few did not, that is very important, and should be given a greater level of respect by intelligent men than it currently is.
Oh, and I'll shut the fuck up when you come make me, you ignorant asshole.
If you don't have 12 paper cheques around here, you can't get a lease. Need them to set up direct deposit of your pay, need them to set up direct deposit for your health insurance, need them for all sorts of things.
This is wrong. Scientists already reexamine facts constantly. ID does not add anything useful to the discussion, because it postulates a "theory" that can neither be proven nor disproven, and doesn't make any kinds of useful predictions. That's like saying "postulating sock gnomes requires you to reexamine the facts of where you left your socks yesterday." It doesn't.
I'm not a religious man, but I'm going to play devils advocate here.
To say that these religious systems don't make useful predictions is false. These systems must be useful, or they would have driven their adherents to extinction many generations ago. History is littered with ways of looking at the world that have killed their adherents and thus destroyed themselves. Yet these systems have not done so, but rather have led their adherents to dominance. To dismiss this fact is to dismiss evolution. Scientists believe that they can intelligently design a social framework for sharing knowledge about the nature of reality and governing human behavior that is better than evolution can achieve. They might be wrong. Their perspectives might lead their people to extinction in a handful of generations of man. We will never know.
* I do not attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary College.
they're faithfully participating in a system which is intentionally insane. It's not that hard to understand...
And yet, I'd bet you still vote in elections.....
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
You'd bet wrong. To participate in an election is to agree to be bound by it's outcome. I do not support the system, I do not agree to be bound, and therefore I have never voted.
I also have never paid taxes. I have been punished for this, just as I knew I would be.
A few years more labor and I will have entirely disenfranchised myself from this monstrosity, and will provide for my own needs in every way. Then I'll give the Feds something to really be concerned about... I'll teach others to do the same and give them the tools to do so as a gift. The most dangerous thing to these tyrants is neither violence nor protest. The most dangerous thing is to render them and the continued function of the systems they represent obsolete and irrelevant.
This is completely beyond my comprehension that the Feds are surprised by this. I just assumed that they were doing this on purpose to achieve some grander goal. It's either that, or they are retarded. In fact, there are many things that are happening now which makes me think: "Are they doing this on purpose? Or are they retarded?"
They're faithfully participating in a system which is intentionally insane. It's not that hard to understand...
The original Hel was the goddess of death to the Nordic pagans, who ruled over a domain entitled Hel, which was in Niflheim. Dante was on hallucinogenics.
We as in the group you identified, 1st world nations. If you live in a 1st world nation, you're part of the we. What you personally do with your pop cans after you drink them is irrelevant when you're referring to groups of nations of which you are a part, and you were the one who made your point relate to the national level, so stop being disingenuous.
Actually, it could be trash from anywhere, carried by the ocean currents that circle the world. The US and most 1st world nations actually do a good job of safely disposing of our trash. Travel to any 3rd world country and you will be amazed by the amount of garbage that is everywhere, except the westernized 'green' zones.
Yeah, we do a great job. We pay capitalists and other varieties of dictators in poor countries to let us dump things there instead.
Software doesn't think and isn't self aware, comparing to slavery is ridiculous. Please, as you said, call a spade a spade.
The people who use it and end up dependent upon it while not having access to the recipe are self aware. But then, you understood that, you're just trying to confound the issue...
GPL: We don't allow the keeping of slaves around here.
BSD: I don't keep slaves. But I don't mind if you do.
If you actually think BSD is more open because it gives plantation owners more flexibility, you're insane. Please understand, I don't mean you to read that as "I don't like what you're saying." I mean you to read that as "You have a dangerous and fundamental disconnect with reality".
Quit with the doublethink and just be honest enough to call a spade a spade, ok? Just say "I'm just a little guy and it's a harsh and fucked up world out there and I will do what I have to do to feed myself even if it takes away other peoples freedom" and stop twisting reality to make yourself feel better about yourself.
They rebranded it from "Radio Shack" to "The Source" in Canada years and years ago. But everyone I know still refers to it as "Radio Shack". I can't even remember the name "The Source" well enough to tell someone how to find the place... I had to check online before I made this post.
Yes, I understand all of these things. That is why we need to get rid of money, and the marketplace, entirely. They are a poor means by which to represent value and leads to collective actions which are insane and against everyone's best interest. Destroying food, destroying cars, destroying houses, all because the system requires it to continue functioning. It's a bad system.
Have you ever called up a call center and tried to give them some information and they told you "I'm sorry, but the system doesn't allow us to consider that." and thought "Wow, what a bad system. If I had designed that system, it wouldn't be so inflexible and unable to account for this important information. They should replace it."
That is what the money system is. A bad system that destroys wealth and prosperity because it is insane.
When you're a creative person, and you love it and will create spontaneously for the rest of your life as much as you can because you love it, the idea of making a living selling your music or art or whatever seems very appealing.
But when you're sitting around the house with your bills behind schedule and no money in your pocket, and you are hungry, and you go "Ok, I'm going to make a new song so I can eat", you realize that the idea of trading in something as ethereal as music to meet your essential needs is rather, well, insane.
Entertaining and recreational pursuits are not industrious pursuits. Entertaining though they may be, they are not a way to assure your safety and survival, and creating legal fictions to give them that appearance doesn't serve the best interests of anyone.
We should all be able to meet our needs with our own direct effort and have ample time remaining to express ourselves with music and art and other creative works. We have the knowledge, we have the technology. We CAN be "Techno-Amish".
When an individual runs out of money, is buried deep in debts that they cannot realistically repay, they are forced into bankruptcy (or prison, in nations that don't allow bankruptcy). What I'd like to know is: what happens when a country is buried in debts they cannot repay ? Is there a collections agency that deals with insolvable nations ?
If they are lucky, they owe the debt in their own currency. If that is true, they can issue $100 into circulation for every $1 currently in circulation and destroy their debt by hyper inflating their currency.
It's all about destroying wealth and increasing peoples need, thus motivating them to keep slaving away. They're bulldozing houses and crushing cars and giving out paper notes. If I stimulated you to come out of early retirement by burning your house down in the evening and offering you a job in the morning, that would be an accurate parallel.
Oh, and when you tell me how I can achieve immortality and have limitless time to learn everything there is that can be known, that's when I'll stop resenting your time-wasting pedantic outbursts...
Pedantic is French for "stop making me aware of my ignorance!". Grammar snob/nazi and prescriptivist, likewise.
Don't apologize for correcting someone's error. If they are offended, that's their insecurity.
Every person is ignorant, because there is more to know than anyone can know. Every person chooses where they will focus their attention, and in all other areas they are ignorant. Pedantic people like to believe that they are not ignorant like other people, which they are able to believe because they are extremely sheltered and actually more ignorant than the next person. They generally also have serious insecurity issues, which they mitigate by wasting other peoples time, correcting them on facts whose relevance is too trivial to justify the attention required to correct the ignorance. This sort of behavior leads others to avoid them because they always waste your time, which leads to a spiraling cycle of isolation, ignorance and further insecurity. The worst part is, they don't understand their own nature, and are trapped by a belief that their narrow bit of knowledge makes them superior to their fellows. Truly pitiable creatures.
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Really, the solution was to leave the address bar the way it was. This type of functionality belongs in the search box, not the address bar. It totally slowed down my workflow not being able to see the alphabetically sorted list of url's that used to be displayed. If not for the fact that I'm writing Selenium tests, I too would have refused to upgrade.
This was a total "Stupid people who refuse to learn anything always keep typing shit in the wrong bar, so lets just jive with their expectations, even if it does break functionality for the loyal following." move.
Evil is when you engage in actions that damage or threaten the ongoing existence of humanity as a whole. The bankers, the propagandists, the war machine makers, the peddlers of sterility drugs, the businesses that protect their enterprises by preventing you from caring for yourselves, etc. All of these are evil.
Good is when you engage in actions that create children and help them to be self-reliant and able to assure the survival of themselves and their own young through the results of their own hands on labor.
Modern western civilization is evil. You can see the evidence in the closing schools, the shrinking cities, the gray hair everywhere. It is destroying itself and the people who are it's component parts. That is what evil is.
We hate those who are not evil. We consistently attempt to dominate them or destroy them. We will not permit them to exist as strong and independent people who raise large families and care for themselves with their own hands. We will not rest until they are sterilized with birth control, specialized until they are of no use to themselves and divided into special interest groups to be turned against one another.
If you want to see evil, go look in the mirror.
I'm guessing Google and Scribd and many others could make enough off the ads to host everything without blinking an eye.
Why does everyone acknowledge that people are willing to pay a lot of money for propaganda, yet not make the connection that this propaganda is so effective at leading people astray that they'll pay a lot of money for it and recognize that inducing people to mindless behavior has a social cost of it's own? When you run an effective ad campaign and manipulate people behavior, it's basically induced insanity. It ought to be a criminal act.
Just what we need... surround ourselves with ourselves. That will challenge us and cause us to grow into intelligent, tolerant and well rounded individuals.
I don't find truth in the Bible. I think the existing religions are far more brutal regimes than is needful, and I don't like them. Never have. But I find the evolutionary advantages gained or lost through religion are a good deal more relevant to the question of how we should live than science is. Science is unable to answer such a question, because you cannot conduct experiments on human populations that span multiple human lifespans. Science is great for handling the easy questions.
I have been thinking on this subject for quite some time. My concept:
Every person in the country has the right to introduce a bill, or a plan, or a budget.
Every person in the country has the right to vote on every individual bill, plan or budget.
Every person in the country has the right to choose a representative to speak for them. Not just from a list of politicians on a piece of paper. They have the right to choose any citizen they wish to speak for them.
Every person in the country has the right to revoke their choice of representative at any time. Not just at a regular interval measured in years, but instantly, the very moment they realize that this person does not share their vision of how the system should operate.
Every vote, by every person, is public information. No secret ballot. It's just as public as if you were a Roman citizen, raising your hand to vote in the Colosseum in full sight of your peers.
This system will allow us to recreate the current conditions if we wish. We can choose to assemble ourselves into rigid vertically managed hierarchical structures if we see the justification, such as if we are under threat.
However, it would also allow us to gracefully decentralize our decision making without the need for revolution.
Power could flow in to the middle or out to the edges as the population saw fit, rather than our current structure, which ensures that there is an absolute authority running the show, even if we don't want or agree with such a hierarchy.
I'm still working on designing the infrastructure.
In science, you test the premise until it has proven it's utility as a tool that others can use, and then you disseminate it through the population. People who believe that science leads to actual truth are just as blind to the realities as any witch doctor. If I were wrong, we would never abandon any discovery made through the scientific process, ever. The fact that we do indeed disprove things that were considered scientific fact a scant generation ago is mute evidence that your position is wrong.
Please present the useful predictions that religion has made, or STFU.
It has predicted that the spirits of the dead will invade your body if you go to the house of the dead. Which is true. Though, nowadays, a person would say "you will be infected with the disease that killed that person if you go to their house without taking precautions".
Religion is a way of conveying real world knowledge, just like science. They just use personification metaphors instead of abstract technical language. That fact leads to a lack of precision and the possibility of misinterpreting the metaphor or reading too much into it. However, it also gives it a durability in that it can be propagated through the generations by those who do not fully understand it, and thus not be lost to mankind.
People who think religious texts are literal and not a metaphor based technical language in and of themselves do not get it. God is a label, it means the universe.
The achievement of "the one true god" as opposed to a different polytheistic religion for each tribe was to create a more universal technical language that would allow people from different tribes to share knowledge about the nature of the universe, aka "the nature of god". Prior to this achievement, I would discover something about the sun and express my discovery to my fellows by telling them I had discovered an unknown thing about the nature of my tribe's sun gods personality. My fellows, who understood this technical language, would get what I was saying. But someone from the next tribe over would not understand, because they have an entirely different technical language. I would need to translate by expressing that I had discovered something about the nature of the chariot which is the sun, or whatever, before they could understand.
Frequently, both in religion and in science, the humans behind it all get it wrong. We "misunderstand the nature of the universe", we "misunderstand the nature of God". Same thing.
Until you appreciate these subtleties, you cannot begin to understand religious texts. Unfortunately, the scientific nor the religious communities are both chock full of people who do not understand, and they spend their life arguing semantics and perceiving nothing. The fact that the vast majority of social structures in history led to the death of the civilizations that adhered to them, and yet a few did not, that is very important, and should be given a greater level of respect by intelligent men than it currently is.
Oh, and I'll shut the fuck up when you come make me, you ignorant asshole.
If you don't have 12 paper cheques around here, you can't get a lease. Need them to set up direct deposit of your pay, need them to set up direct deposit for your health insurance, need them for all sorts of things.
This is wrong. Scientists already reexamine facts constantly. ID does not add anything useful to the discussion, because it postulates a "theory" that can neither be proven nor disproven, and doesn't make any kinds of useful predictions. That's like saying "postulating sock gnomes requires you to reexamine the facts of where you left your socks yesterday." It doesn't.
I'm not a religious man, but I'm going to play devils advocate here.
To say that these religious systems don't make useful predictions is false. These systems must be useful, or they would have driven their adherents to extinction many generations ago. History is littered with ways of looking at the world that have killed their adherents and thus destroyed themselves. Yet these systems have not done so, but rather have led their adherents to dominance. To dismiss this fact is to dismiss evolution. Scientists believe that they can intelligently design a social framework for sharing knowledge about the nature of reality and governing human behavior that is better than evolution can achieve. They might be wrong. Their perspectives might lead their people to extinction in a handful of generations of man. We will never know.
* I do not attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary College.
they're faithfully participating in a system which is intentionally insane. It's not that hard to understand...
.....
And yet, I'd bet you still vote in elections
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
You'd bet wrong. To participate in an election is to agree to be bound by it's outcome. I do not support the system, I do not agree to be bound, and therefore I have never voted.
I also have never paid taxes. I have been punished for this, just as I knew I would be.
A few years more labor and I will have entirely disenfranchised myself from this monstrosity, and will provide for my own needs in every way. Then I'll give the Feds something to really be concerned about... I'll teach others to do the same and give them the tools to do so as a gift. The most dangerous thing to these tyrants is neither violence nor protest. The most dangerous thing is to render them and the continued function of the systems they represent obsolete and irrelevant.
Meet the new boss.
This is completely beyond my comprehension that the Feds are surprised by this. I just assumed that they were doing this on purpose to achieve some grander goal. It's either that, or they are retarded. In fact, there are many things that are happening now which makes me think: "Are they doing this on purpose? Or are they retarded?"
They're faithfully participating in a system which is intentionally insane. It's not that hard to understand...
The original Hel was the goddess of death to the Nordic pagans, who ruled over a domain entitled Hel, which was in Niflheim. Dante was on hallucinogenics.
What's this 'we' business?
We as in the group you identified, 1st world nations. If you live in a 1st world nation, you're part of the we. What you personally do with your pop cans after you drink them is irrelevant when you're referring to groups of nations of which you are a part, and you were the one who made your point relate to the national level, so stop being disingenuous.
Actually, it could be trash from anywhere, carried by the ocean currents that circle the world. The US and most 1st world nations actually do a good job of safely disposing of our trash. Travel to any 3rd world country and you will be amazed by the amount of garbage that is everywhere, except the westernized 'green' zones.
Yeah, we do a great job. We pay capitalists and other varieties of dictators in poor countries to let us dump things there instead.
Software doesn't think and isn't self aware, comparing to slavery is ridiculous. Please, as you said, call a spade a spade.
The people who use it and end up dependent upon it while not having access to the recipe are self aware. But then, you understood that, you're just trying to confound the issue...
GPL: We don't allow the keeping of slaves around here.
BSD: I don't keep slaves. But I don't mind if you do.
If you actually think BSD is more open because it gives plantation owners more flexibility, you're insane. Please understand, I don't mean you to read that as "I don't like what you're saying." I mean you to read that as "You have a dangerous and fundamental disconnect with reality".
Quit with the doublethink and just be honest enough to call a spade a spade, ok? Just say "I'm just a little guy and it's a harsh and fucked up world out there and I will do what I have to do to feed myself even if it takes away other peoples freedom" and stop twisting reality to make yourself feel better about yourself.
They rebranded it from "Radio Shack" to "The Source" in Canada years and years ago. But everyone I know still refers to it as "Radio Shack". I can't even remember the name "The Source" well enough to tell someone how to find the place... I had to check online before I made this post.
Yes, I understand all of these things. That is why we need to get rid of money, and the marketplace, entirely. They are a poor means by which to represent value and leads to collective actions which are insane and against everyone's best interest. Destroying food, destroying cars, destroying houses, all because the system requires it to continue functioning. It's a bad system.
Have you ever called up a call center and tried to give them some information and they told you "I'm sorry, but the system doesn't allow us to consider that." and thought "Wow, what a bad system. If I had designed that system, it wouldn't be so inflexible and unable to account for this important information. They should replace it."
That is what the money system is. A bad system that destroys wealth and prosperity because it is insane.
When you're a creative person, and you love it and will create spontaneously for the rest of your life as much as you can because you love it, the idea of making a living selling your music or art or whatever seems very appealing.
But when you're sitting around the house with your bills behind schedule and no money in your pocket, and you are hungry, and you go "Ok, I'm going to make a new song so I can eat", you realize that the idea of trading in something as ethereal as music to meet your essential needs is rather, well, insane.
Entertaining and recreational pursuits are not industrious pursuits. Entertaining though they may be, they are not a way to assure your safety and survival, and creating legal fictions to give them that appearance doesn't serve the best interests of anyone.
We should all be able to meet our needs with our own direct effort and have ample time remaining to express ourselves with music and art and other creative works. We have the knowledge, we have the technology. We CAN be "Techno-Amish".
When an individual runs out of money, is buried deep in debts that they cannot realistically repay, they are forced into bankruptcy (or prison, in nations that don't allow bankruptcy). What I'd like to know is: what happens when a country is buried in debts they cannot repay ? Is there a collections agency that deals with insolvable nations ?
If they are lucky, they owe the debt in their own currency. If that is true, they can issue $100 into circulation for every $1 currently in circulation and destroy their debt by hyper inflating their currency.
It's all about destroying wealth and increasing peoples need, thus motivating them to keep slaving away. They're bulldozing houses and crushing cars and giving out paper notes. If I stimulated you to come out of early retirement by burning your house down in the evening and offering you a job in the morning, that would be an accurate parallel.
Oh, and when you tell me how I can achieve immortality and have limitless time to learn everything there is that can be known, that's when I'll stop resenting your time-wasting pedantic outbursts...
If your post has any truth to it, teachers and instructors of all kinds and levels are 'truly pitiable creatures'.
Totally agree. Been saying that for years.
Pedantic is French for "stop making me aware of my ignorance!". Grammar snob/nazi and prescriptivist, likewise.
Don't apologize for correcting someone's error. If they are offended, that's their insecurity.
Every person is ignorant, because there is more to know than anyone can know. Every person chooses where they will focus their attention, and in all other areas they are ignorant. Pedantic people like to believe that they are not ignorant like other people, which they are able to believe because they are extremely sheltered and actually more ignorant than the next person. They generally also have serious insecurity issues, which they mitigate by wasting other peoples time, correcting them on facts whose relevance is too trivial to justify the attention required to correct the ignorance. This sort of behavior leads others to avoid them because they always waste your time, which leads to a spiraling cycle of isolation, ignorance and further insecurity. The worst part is, they don't understand their own nature, and are trapped by a belief that their narrow bit of knowledge makes them superior to their fellows. Truly pitiable creatures.