US Medica controls the minds of the US. Yep. That's why 90% of press coverage in Iraq is critical of Bush's handling of the situation and 70% of Americans approve of Bush's handling of same.
Apathy towards Gov't. Yep, that's why California had a recall this year with the highest voter turnout in the state's history. Yep, people don't care.
Ignorance. I'll grant you this one; I read your post.
Patriotism. Yep. Saying that it is the US fault that 3000 of its citizens were killed by murdering thugs is a shining example of pure and noble dissent. See my observation on ignorance.
Special Interest Groups - PACs and other interests groups ARE the voice of the people. Jefferson called them factions and considered them essential to a healthy government. See my reference to ignorance above.
It is not the Republicans or Conservatives who have made the Orwellian phrase: It depends on what is is, their ideological motto, and it won't be from those ranks that an American dictator rises.
Germany was NOT a democracy when they started their aggression. Have you ever heard of Kristallenacht? That was the night the MINORITY Nazi party seized power in a coup and quickly killed and imprisoned their enemies.
The Japanese people lived under a terribly brutal military dictatorship. I lived in that country for 18 months about twenty years ago and had the opportunity to speak with a number of people who were alive during that time. The stories that strike me the most were from the man who was a nine-year old boy in Tokyo at the time. He told me of the night-time disappearances of people who were suspected of being American sympathizers, how using an american word like baseball in public could result in a beating or imprisonmnent. How women would spend hours straightening their hair so that they would not be thought to be copying American hairstyles, and finally, the hour he spent each morning before school doing bayonet practice so he could throw himself at an American soldier and kill him and be killed.
It was better than being boiled and eaten, which is what his teachers told him Americans did to Japanese children.
Finally, Hitler DID want war. War is a great way to bring an economy up out of depression. It gets the industry humming, and puts a lot of people to work.
Do you actually study any history, or just make things up that agree with your agenda?
As an actual smart person said: Except for ending slavery, communism, facism and nazism, war has never solved anything.
Peace happened in Germany when we killed those who wanted war; we didn't come to an understanding with them.
Peace happened in Japan when we killed those who wanted war; we didn't come to an understanding with them.
Peace will happen in Palestine when we kill those who want war; we cannot come to an understanding with them (hint: it ISN'T the Israelis who want war. The name of the man who wants war starts with Yassar and ends with Arafat.)
We will have peace in Iraq when we kill those who want war; can't come to an understanding with them.
This concept is only difficult for people who have adopted moral relativism as their world view.
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Because I'm a whimp and I don't want to go through the massive persecution of Christians that will accompany this. I think most other Christians are of the same ilk.
You forgot to add the word mockingly in your phrase call a fundamentalist.
BTW, no one will put the mark in a foot to ease the "fundies." They'll deliberately put it in the hand just to push it in their face. Remember, people will take the mark because they hate Christians and Christianity. A fair number of posters on this thread would already qualify.
-Given all of biblical history, why would anyone with decent critical thinking skills believe that God would suddenly, at the end of history, change his (unchangeable) personality and try to trick people into accepting the mark?-
Perhaps you should try practicing the critical thinking skills you actually accuse others of not having (nice touch of elitism, there, by the way.)
God isn't going to trick anyone into receiving the mark. They'll do it of their own free will because they reject him and embrace the anti-Christ. There are many, many people today (and some of them even make posts about unthinking religious nuts) who would gladly embrace someone who would stand and say: There is no God, I am your god, so follow me and reject all this idiotic Christian crap.
-And second, if you don't beleive in satan, how do you pledge your allegiance to him?-
A common misconception. It's not pledging allegience to satan, it's the wilful rejection of Christ. The term anti-Christ means against Christ. There have been many anti-Christs throughout history. The anti-Christ (drumroll, please) is simply the biggest, baddest, most seductive and nastiest of the lot.
You will not be pledging alliegience to satan, per se, you will be openly and defiantly rejecting Christ, which will actually probably be a very easy thing to do for many slashdotters, since they already have a lot of practice at it.
The music industry wants total lock in. The consumer wants total freedom. Neither will get what they want. After some pushing and pulling, we'll wind up with something similar to the DVD. The DRM will accomodate 90% of the consumer base, and satisfy 90% of the provider base.
You, however, will likely never be in that 90%. That doesn't make your morally superior to everyone else, it just makes you stubborn and inflexible.
I have completely lost patience with these jackasses who go on and on about the horrible American institution of slavery. I want to grab their face and shove it into the soil of Antietam, or Gettysburg, or any of the other hundreds of battlefields where the life blood of over three hundred thousand union soldiers was shed to end slavery in this nation. That's three hundred thousand DEAD. Three hundred THOUSAND. Not three hundred like in Iraq. Three hundred THOUSAND.
Gettysburg: 23,000 Chickamauga: 16,000 Chancellorsville: 17,000 Spotsylvania: 18,000 Antietam: 12,410 Battle of The Wilderness: 17,666 Battle of Second Manassas: 16,054 Battle of Stone's River: 12,906 Battle of Shiloh: 13,047
Name me any other nation in the history of this world that shed its own blood and spilled the blood of its own people to end slavery.
We have paid the debt, in full, a thousand times over for slavery in this country, and I refuse to acknowledge the credibility of any person who still has the shameless gaul to bring it up to feed their petty little hatreds and jealousies or advance their personal power and influence.
One contested election One quart hysteria A pinch of conspiracy theory A dash of racism One cup of political opportunism One pound punch card ballot junk science
Pour junk science into bowl. Add hysteria and whip until frothing. Add conspiracy and racism. Fold in political opportunism until it cannot be seen.
Until the Coke bottle lands. Then suddenly everyone wants that, because it is so useful to them and makes their life so easier.
So guess what? Even those people had wants. Human nature is human nature regardless of whether you're a black human in deep Africa, or a white human in suburban Chicago.
Today's wants are tomorrow's needs. You really ought to read some Adam Smith.
The desire for goods and services will never go away. When food becomes free, people will take that money and spend it on other things. When those things become free, people will spend it on yet other things.
If robots manufactured every material thing in the world for free, people would pay money for ideas. Or for the human touch of service, or for the nostalgia or curiosity of non-robot manufactured items.
To want is a basic foundation of human nature. To say that some day we will never want (which is basically what your post maintains), is to completely ignore a fundamental human trait.
A shoot the messenger fallacy is attempting to discredit an argument by questioning the motives, character, etc. of the entity or person proposing the argument, rather than addressing the actual argument itself.
No kidding. The ones who crack me up the most are the gullible fools who buy into the whole covert ops/FBI/Secret Police monitoring your every move/Court orders and criminal wiretap prosecutions don't exist conspiracy theories.
-There is a basic conflict of interest between a corporations who are focused on profit above all else, and the public good which is focused on dependability and quality above all else.-
Because we all know that the best way to acheive profits is to put out a crappy, unreliable product.
Don't submitters even review the articles they submit?
From the first paragraph:...created an artificial virus based on a real one in just two weeks' time.
The time is kind of cool, but this isn't even close to from scratch. Come back and talk to me when you create a virus from some elemental atoms (carbon, hydrogen, etc.)
Ah, a classic, textbook case of a "poisoning the well," fallacy.
Too bad people like Mendel, Newton, da Vinci, Pascal, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Bach, Handel, Michelangelo, Lincoln, Livingstone, etc. so inconveniently fail to adhere to your conclusions.
-And sometimes I wish I could send people like you to a place where private interests are free to operate without government (people's) oversight...someplace like Afghanistan where warlords operate their private fiefdoms similarly to the old feudal system. That's what pure private property rights gets you.-
Um, a trip to Hong Kong would be very nice, thank you. Your example, of course has nothing to do with private property rights. A warlord is a government entity, thank you. A government entity, BTW, who denies private property rights to the people under his rule.
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US Medica controls the minds of the US. Yep. That's why 90% of press coverage in Iraq is critical of Bush's handling of the situation and 70% of Americans approve of Bush's handling of same.
Apathy towards Gov't. Yep, that's why California had a recall this year with the highest voter turnout in the state's history. Yep, people don't care.
Ignorance. I'll grant you this one; I read your post.
Patriotism. Yep. Saying that it is the US fault that 3000 of its citizens were killed by murdering thugs is a shining example of pure and noble dissent. See my observation on ignorance.
Special Interest Groups - PACs and other interests groups ARE the voice of the people. Jefferson called them factions and considered them essential to a healthy government. See my reference to ignorance above.
It is not the Republicans or Conservatives who have made the Orwellian phrase: It depends on what is is, their ideological motto, and it won't be from those ranks that an American dictator rises.
Germany was NOT a democracy when they started their aggression. Have you ever heard of Kristallenacht? That was the night the MINORITY Nazi party seized power in a coup and quickly killed and imprisoned their enemies.
The Japanese people lived under a terribly brutal military dictatorship. I lived in that country for 18 months about twenty years ago and had the opportunity to speak with a number of people who were alive during that time. The stories that strike me the most were from the man who was a nine-year old boy in Tokyo at the time. He told me of the night-time disappearances of people who were suspected of being American sympathizers, how using an american word like baseball in public could result in a beating or imprisonmnent. How women would spend hours straightening their hair so that they would not be thought to be copying American hairstyles, and finally, the hour he spent each morning before school doing bayonet practice so he could throw himself at an American soldier and kill him and be killed.
It was better than being boiled and eaten, which is what his teachers told him Americans did to Japanese children.
Finally, Hitler DID want war. War is a great way to bring an economy up out of depression. It gets the industry humming, and puts a lot of people to work.
Do you actually study any history, or just make things up that agree with your agenda?
As an actual smart person said: Except for ending slavery, communism, facism and nazism, war has never solved anything.
Peace happened in Germany when we killed those who wanted war; we didn't come to an understanding with them.
Peace happened in Japan when we killed those who wanted war; we didn't come to an understanding with them.
Peace will happen in Palestine when we kill those who want war; we cannot come to an understanding with them (hint: it ISN'T the Israelis who want war. The name of the man who wants war starts with Yassar and ends with Arafat.)
We will have peace in Iraq when we kill those who want war; can't come to an understanding with them.
This concept is only difficult for people who have adopted moral relativism as their world view.
Apple provides an ASCII quicktime movie player, here:
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There's nothing quite like watching the Matrix trailer in ASCII glory.
Because I'm a whimp and I don't want to go through the massive persecution of Christians that will accompany this. I think most other Christians are of the same ilk.
You forgot to add the word mockingly in your phrase call a fundamentalist.
BTW, no one will put the mark in a foot to ease the "fundies." They'll deliberately put it in the hand just to push it in their face. Remember, people will take the mark because they hate Christians and Christianity. A fair number of posters on this thread would already qualify.
-Given all of biblical history, why would anyone with decent critical thinking skills believe that God would suddenly, at the end of history, change his (unchangeable) personality and try to trick people into accepting the mark?-
Perhaps you should try practicing the critical thinking skills you actually accuse others of not having (nice touch of elitism, there, by the way.)
God isn't going to trick anyone into receiving the mark. They'll do it of their own free will because they reject him and embrace the anti-Christ. There are many, many people today (and some of them even make posts about unthinking religious nuts) who would gladly embrace someone who would stand and say: There is no God, I am your god, so follow me and reject all this idiotic Christian crap.
-And second, if you don't beleive in satan, how do you pledge your allegiance to him?-
A common misconception. It's not pledging allegience to satan, it's the wilful rejection of Christ. The term anti-Christ means against Christ. There have been many anti-Christs throughout history. The anti-Christ (drumroll, please) is simply the biggest, baddest, most seductive and nastiest of the lot.
You will not be pledging alliegience to satan, per se, you will be openly and defiantly rejecting Christ, which will actually probably be a very easy thing to do for many slashdotters, since they already have a lot of practice at it.
-There is no reason why a determined thief would prefer to remove an implanted RFID chip instead of removing an eyeball, a finger or a hand.-
Oh, please. A determined theif would just put a knife against your ribs at the ATM machine and say: Give me five hundred bucks or I'll stick you.
The music industry wants total lock in. The consumer wants total freedom. Neither will get what they want. After some pushing and pulling, we'll wind up with something similar to the DVD. The DRM will accomodate 90% of the consumer base, and satisfy 90% of the provider base.
You, however, will likely never be in that 90%. That doesn't make your morally superior to everyone else, it just makes you stubborn and inflexible.
I have completely lost patience with these jackasses who go on and on about the horrible American institution of slavery. I want to grab their face and shove it into the soil of Antietam, or Gettysburg, or any of the other hundreds of battlefields where the life blood of over three hundred thousand union soldiers was shed to end slavery in this nation. That's three hundred thousand DEAD. Three hundred THOUSAND. Not three hundred like in Iraq. Three hundred THOUSAND.
Gettysburg: 23,000
Chickamauga: 16,000
Chancellorsville: 17,000
Spotsylvania: 18,000
Antietam: 12,410
Battle of The Wilderness: 17,666
Battle of Second Manassas: 16,054
Battle of Stone's River: 12,906
Battle of Shiloh: 13,047
Name me any other nation in the history of this world that shed its own blood and spilled the blood of its own people to end slavery.
We have paid the debt, in full, a thousand times over for slavery in this country, and I refuse to acknowledge the credibility of any person who still has the shameless gaul to bring it up to feed their petty little hatreds and jealousies or advance their personal power and influence.
Oooh. Here are some more. Which party has the most powerful black woman in the world? (Condoleeza Rice)
Which party has the most powerful black man in the world? (Clarence Thomas)
Which party is the only one with a black man in a position of congressional leadership? ( JC Watts)
Which party is the one filibustering Miguel Estrada because, in their own words: He's a latino?
Believe me. A lot of conservatives aren't too happy about it, either.
Yeah, and all of us who lived on campus before the Internet died.
Give me a break.
Ingredients:
One contested election
One quart hysteria
A pinch of conspiracy theory
A dash of racism
One cup of political opportunism
One pound punch card ballot junk science
Pour junk science into bowl. Add hysteria and whip until frothing. Add conspiracy and racism. Fold in political opportunism until it cannot be seen.
Simmer in the press for six months.
You don't understand how human wants work. What if I want something you also want?
How do we determine if I want it more than you? Through money. I'll pay more for it than you will, or you'll surrender it to me for money.
Money is a way to quantize our wants, and as long as a demand for something exceeds its supply, money will exist.
Until the Coke bottle lands. Then suddenly everyone wants that, because it is so useful to them and makes their life so easier.
So guess what? Even those people had wants. Human nature is human nature regardless of whether you're a black human in deep Africa, or a white human in suburban Chicago.
Today's wants are tomorrow's needs. You really ought to read some Adam Smith.
The desire for goods and services will never go away. When food becomes free, people will take that money and spend it on other things. When those things become free, people will spend it on yet other things.
If robots manufactured every material thing in the world for free, people would pay money for ideas. Or for the human touch of service, or for the nostalgia or curiosity of non-robot manufactured items.
To want is a basic foundation of human nature. To say that some day we will never want (which is basically what your post maintains), is to completely ignore a fundamental human trait.
A shoot the messenger fallacy is attempting to discredit an argument by questioning the motives, character, etc. of the entity or person proposing the argument, rather than addressing the actual argument itself.
No kidding. The ones who crack me up the most are the gullible fools who buy into the whole covert ops/FBI/Secret Police monitoring your every move/Court orders and criminal wiretap prosecutions don't exist conspiracy theories.
Your statement is nothing more than a rephrased "shoot the messenger" fallacy.
Judge the articles based on their content, not who authored them.
-There is a basic conflict of interest between a corporations who are focused on profit above all else, and the public good which is focused on dependability and quality above all else.-
Because we all know that the best way to acheive profits is to put out a crappy, unreliable product.
Don't submitters even review the articles they submit?
...created an artificial virus based on a real one in just two weeks' time.
From the first paragraph:
The time is kind of cool, but this isn't even close to from scratch. Come back and talk to me when you create a virus from some elemental atoms (carbon, hydrogen, etc.)
Ah, a classic, textbook case of a "poisoning the well," fallacy.
Too bad people like Mendel, Newton, da Vinci, Pascal, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Bach, Handel, Michelangelo, Lincoln, Livingstone, etc. so inconveniently fail to adhere to your conclusions.
-And sometimes I wish I could send people like you to a place where private interests are free to operate without government (people's) oversight...someplace like Afghanistan where warlords operate their private fiefdoms similarly to the old feudal system. That's what pure private property rights gets you.-
Um, a trip to Hong Kong would be very nice, thank you. Your example, of course has nothing to do with private property rights. A warlord is a government entity, thank you. A government entity, BTW, who denies private property rights to the people under his rule.
Thank you for proving my point.