However, with that said, "true science" and "true scientists" are rare. That kind of objectivity is lacking in virtually all humans which is why I don't find myself worshipping at the altar so to speak.
The thing I find most amusing is that scientists used to be branded as heretics. Now certain groups of them are going the branding.
When it comes to climate change, for instance, I can't simply find myself agreeing with an alternate hypothesis. Nope. I'm one of those "deniers" as if I was some kind of Jew murdering Nazi or something. Which, you know, is a really healthy way to handle the whole discussion.
Is there a reason "scientists" keep getting thrown inside of some singular bubble? Every scientist out there has not contributed useful things to society. Every scientist isn't credible. Everyone has personal bias, even our holy men of the lab coats.
It's like every other profession out there: some are self-serving douches and some are benevolent and others fall somewhere in the middle.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Democracy is in no way synonymous with a free society and frankly has been historically antithetical to liberty where it's practiced. So, I'm with you there.
The most disturbing thing about all this is how readily people in the "civilized" world continue to simply submit to this sort of nonsense and view it as an acceptable part of living.
What? This is heresy sir! We all know these so-called "Founding Fathers" were of a single hive mind that believed in a ruling class of Calvinists and thought all blacks should be slaves and all natives should be slaughtered. Dammit, that's what makes America great!
However, I do appreciate your comment on that note. Really wrapping the people who founded this nation into one big blanket and stamping it "Founding Fathers" is one of the worst things that's ever happened. Not that it matters... From America to China and Brazil to Russia people are just fucking stupid, period. They don't read nor attempt to understand history. They latch on to some popular groupthink abomination and base their entire lives around it.
Anyone calling the out of control corporatism we have now the "free market" is as deluded as they are stupid.
The bigger and more powerful an organization becomes--whether it be a government, business, union, religion, gang or family--the more corrupt it becomes. It just happens. Unions have become their own corrupt organisms. That's all.
I must say though... I prefer when a corrupt union is fighting with a corrupt corporation. In general, it keeps both of them from pestering me for a while.
The school administrators are useless. What's worse is that the school environment operates like a prison anyway with a code of silence against the administrators. You'll just get branded as a snitch.
My parents generally taught me how to fight back and, when I beat the crap out of a kid in middle school, took me out for dinner. That worked well. When I was younger my parents confronted the parents of a particularly nasty bully and that actually solved the problem. Of course, I felt like I could go to my parents which was a big advantage in the first place.
We have Internal Affairs don't we? You've seen the movies, cops don't trust those guys at all because they're always making it hard for the good, honest, hard-working heroes to do their job and keep us safe at night!
And most of these apes take an oath to uphold and defend the state and federal constitution. Any guesses as to how many of them have actually read the damn things?
The problem is, even the leadership in most police departments is clueless. I'm currently in a lawsuit with my local police department and in the process of discovery have obtained a copy of their procedure manual. It's FULL of stuff that's totally wrong. It's got everything from misinforming police as to the boundaries of a Terry Stop (as far as most of them are concerned, they can search anyone for weapons at any time as long as they FEEL they need to) to out and out lying about gun laws in this state.
This problem is further compounded by the post-9/11 hero worship that's been laid on these assholes (and virtually everyone else who works for the government). They act like an elevated class in society and they make their own rules because "they keep us safe at night and protect our freedom." What a bunch of bullshit.
There's no such thing as unbiased behavior anyway. I wish we'd stop pretending that the holy men in lab coats are somehow immune to a condition that afflicts all humans at every level.
1) The starvation of Russia by Stalin. 2) The cleansing of China by Mao.
I don't even need to keep trying because the body count of those two buries probably every religiously motivated atrocity ever. Even "religiously motivated" wars and atrocities have little to do with actual religion and everything to do with using religion as a vehicle for whatever the land/property/wealth grab of the day is against whatever the easy target minority or country is.
Nothing Hitler or Mao or Stalin did was motivated by anything beyond the natural human lust for greed and power. That's what motivated the Spanish Inquisition and it's what motivates priests to shag choirboys (well, that combined the with the psychological craziness that comes from denying yourself your most basic evolutionary urge beyond eating and shitting). We like power. We like control. We'll use any convenient argument to obtain them. That's who we are and that's what we do.
Atheists sure are quick to blame God and religion for everything but really, it's the same on every side of the fence. The human element is the problem. They're lying, cheating, greedy self-interested fuckwads. All of them. Every last one of the little hairless baboon motherfuckers.
So please, stop trying to turn everything into an "us vs. them" or "we're good, they're bad." It's rarely that simple. In most human conflicts both sides are corrupt. There's no reason both sides can't be wrong.
I think you're missing the point. You're on slashdot where people are only interested in personal freedoms where it doesn't interfere with any other given agenda--particularly those involving government controlled health care and global warming (sorry, I meant global climate change or whatever the fuck people are calling it nowadays).
You really need to learn to be modern, intellectual, enlightened and educated which means getting rid of the childish notion of governmental interference in your personal affairs. The government needs to be able to take care of us and make the proper decisions for us. That's why we made it! We elect that people that went to good schools with good smiles to tell us how to live. Isn't it obvious that they're better at it? It's for your own good really because you and me... we can't really make good decisions for one reason or another. Maybe it's faith in the flying spaghetti monster or devotion to archaic forms of government built around personal responsibility. Either way, you're a neanderthal in both the social and political sense and will soon be devoured by the more sophisticated monkeys that are here now.
Freedom. Ha! Next thing you know you're gonna mention some other ridiculous notion like the free market (oops, you did) or the idea that you should keep what you make. But you're just a selfish bastard who doesn't want to pay your fair share in propping up all those poor morons who just need a little extra help to get by. (Or, a lot.)
Embrace green and embrace regulation. After all, those who don't will be swept up in the apocalypse of... whatever. Humans really are repetitive, predictable fuckwads.
Nope. I don't even live in California and my laptop is worth more than my computer.
I do work regularly with the ACLU though and you'd be quite amazed at how that affects your perceptions of cops.
And sure, everyone out there claims to know a good cop here or a good cop there but ask any cop if they know a corrupt cop on the force. They'll say yes. They always say yes. Then ask them what they've done about it. When they tell you nothing you'll know that it's an axiom that every cop is corrupt. Every last one of the blue-lined motherfuckers.
Yeah. And there's no reason to do any "banging" anyway. Everyone I've ever wanted to get a password from just gave it to me when I showed them my tools!
The ultimate problem with the US collapsing economically is when half the developing industrial world depends on the profit margins extracted from the world's biggest glutton... well, I think it's gonna be much worse when we ultimately break down.
And don't forget, Germany had an economic breakdown too and it didn't "restore" anything. Sometimes things get even worse after a meltdown.
The Soviet collapse cambe cause they ran out of money.
I know this comes as a shock, no one cares WHY you run out of money. When people come to collect, when you can't afford bread and when you enter hyper-inflation, no one cares why and neither does reality because the end is exactly the same.
Whether you burned trillions in Iran or in government social programs that are a net loss... the end is the same. So whether it's the Republican fascists or the Democrat socialists burning the money, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if they spend it on pills or guns.
I don't know what's wrong with you people... sheesh.
The socialist programs in this country have found a solution to this "money problem." They just print more. Hell, some of the really smart ones just make notes in ledgers. Add a zero here or a zero there and... poof! Health care funded.
I mean, what's the worst that can happen? People bringing wheel barrels of currency into the grocery store just to pay for a loaf of bread? Like that would ever happen!
You wouldn't be referring to the same organization that awarded a Nobel Peace Prize to both Al Gore and Barack Obama would you? That well respected, completely objective and totally noble organization?
I guess I should stop taking Ghandi seriously too since he could never have sent a post card from Stockholm.
Sorry, gotta say, Stockholm hasn't exactly done a bang up job on the recent prizes. It's really hard to take an organization seriously that's as hit and miss as they are. You might as well as base someone's credibility on a popularity contest.
Here's the bitter pill of reality: when you're a gimp or a cripple (go ahead, mod me down for being not PC, don't care) there are certain things you're not going to be able to do or enjoy. No amount of bastardizing the language, feel good TV shows or legislation is going to change the fact that VIDEO games (much like pretty much everything else that is VIDEO) aren't going to be accessible to people lacking the sense that allows them to SEE.
Get over it. Just... gahhhhh.
The right thing to do... according to who? And the jackasses around here say creationists ignore reality. You think fucking dolts yourself are any better? You're just a different flavor of stupid and annoying. I hope this fucking bonehead has to pay Sony's attorney's fees.
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You get no argument out of me.
However, with that said, "true science" and "true scientists" are rare. That kind of objectivity is lacking in virtually all humans which is why I don't find myself worshipping at the altar so to speak.
The thing I find most amusing is that scientists used to be branded as heretics. Now certain groups of them are going the branding.
When it comes to climate change, for instance, I can't simply find myself agreeing with an alternate hypothesis. Nope. I'm one of those "deniers" as if I was some kind of Jew murdering Nazi or something. Which, you know, is a really healthy way to handle the whole discussion.
Is there a reason "scientists" keep getting thrown inside of some singular bubble? Every scientist out there has not contributed useful things to society. Every scientist isn't credible. Everyone has personal bias, even our holy men of the lab coats.
It's like every other profession out there: some are self-serving douches and some are benevolent and others fall somewhere in the middle.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Democracy is in no way synonymous with a free society and frankly has been historically antithetical to liberty where it's practiced. So, I'm with you there.
The most disturbing thing about all this is how readily people in the "civilized" world continue to simply submit to this sort of nonsense and view it as an acceptable part of living.
War is just terrorism with a bigger budget. (And better political spin.)
You call them unarmed civilians, we call them "collateral damage."
What? This is heresy sir! We all know these so-called "Founding Fathers" were of a single hive mind that believed in a ruling class of Calvinists and thought all blacks should be slaves and all natives should be slaughtered. Dammit, that's what makes America great!
However, I do appreciate your comment on that note. Really wrapping the people who founded this nation into one big blanket and stamping it "Founding Fathers" is one of the worst things that's ever happened. Not that it matters... From America to China and Brazil to Russia people are just fucking stupid, period. They don't read nor attempt to understand history. They latch on to some popular groupthink abomination and base their entire lives around it.
Anyone calling the out of control corporatism we have now the "free market" is as deluded as they are stupid.
There is a natural order among human beings:
The bigger and more powerful an organization becomes--whether it be a government, business, union, religion, gang or family--the more corrupt it becomes. It just happens. Unions have become their own corrupt organisms. That's all.
I must say though... I prefer when a corrupt union is fighting with a corrupt corporation. In general, it keeps both of them from pestering me for a while.
The school administrators are useless. What's worse is that the school environment operates like a prison anyway with a code of silence against the administrators. You'll just get branded as a snitch.
My parents generally taught me how to fight back and, when I beat the crap out of a kid in middle school, took me out for dinner. That worked well. When I was younger my parents confronted the parents of a particularly nasty bully and that actually solved the problem. Of course, I felt like I could go to my parents which was a big advantage in the first place.
What do you mean?
We have Internal Affairs don't we? You've seen the movies, cops don't trust those guys at all because they're always making it hard for the good, honest, hard-working heroes to do their job and keep us safe at night!
And most of these apes take an oath to uphold and defend the state and federal constitution. Any guesses as to how many of them have actually read the damn things?
The problem is, even the leadership in most police departments is clueless. I'm currently in a lawsuit with my local police department and in the process of discovery have obtained a copy of their procedure manual. It's FULL of stuff that's totally wrong. It's got everything from misinforming police as to the boundaries of a Terry Stop (as far as most of them are concerned, they can search anyone for weapons at any time as long as they FEEL they need to) to out and out lying about gun laws in this state.
This problem is further compounded by the post-9/11 hero worship that's been laid on these assholes (and virtually everyone else who works for the government). They act like an elevated class in society and they make their own rules because "they keep us safe at night and protect our freedom." What a bunch of bullshit.
I don't know if I had the same phone, but I had an old LG with that kind of ringer. It was crazy loud!
There's no such thing as unbiased behavior anyway. I wish we'd stop pretending that the holy men in lab coats are somehow immune to a condition that afflicts all humans at every level.
Atheists:
1) The starvation of Russia by Stalin.
2) The cleansing of China by Mao.
I don't even need to keep trying because the body count of those two buries probably every religiously motivated atrocity ever. Even "religiously motivated" wars and atrocities have little to do with actual religion and everything to do with using religion as a vehicle for whatever the land/property/wealth grab of the day is against whatever the easy target minority or country is.
Nothing Hitler or Mao or Stalin did was motivated by anything beyond the natural human lust for greed and power. That's what motivated the Spanish Inquisition and it's what motivates priests to shag choirboys (well, that combined the with the psychological craziness that comes from denying yourself your most basic evolutionary urge beyond eating and shitting). We like power. We like control. We'll use any convenient argument to obtain them. That's who we are and that's what we do.
Atheists sure are quick to blame God and religion for everything but really, it's the same on every side of the fence. The human element is the problem. They're lying, cheating, greedy self-interested fuckwads. All of them. Every last one of the little hairless baboon motherfuckers.
So please, stop trying to turn everything into an "us vs. them" or "we're good, they're bad." It's rarely that simple. In most human conflicts both sides are corrupt. There's no reason both sides can't be wrong.
I think you're missing the point. You're on slashdot where people are only interested in personal freedoms where it doesn't interfere with any other given agenda--particularly those involving government controlled health care and global warming (sorry, I meant global climate change or whatever the fuck people are calling it nowadays).
You really need to learn to be modern, intellectual, enlightened and educated which means getting rid of the childish notion of governmental interference in your personal affairs. The government needs to be able to take care of us and make the proper decisions for us. That's why we made it! We elect that people that went to good schools with good smiles to tell us how to live. Isn't it obvious that they're better at it? It's for your own good really because you and me... we can't really make good decisions for one reason or another. Maybe it's faith in the flying spaghetti monster or devotion to archaic forms of government built around personal responsibility. Either way, you're a neanderthal in both the social and political sense and will soon be devoured by the more sophisticated monkeys that are here now.
Freedom. Ha! Next thing you know you're gonna mention some other ridiculous notion like the free market (oops, you did) or the idea that you should keep what you make. But you're just a selfish bastard who doesn't want to pay your fair share in propping up all those poor morons who just need a little extra help to get by. (Or, a lot.)
Embrace green and embrace regulation. After all, those who don't will be swept up in the apocalypse of... whatever. Humans really are repetitive, predictable fuckwads.
I need lunch.
Nope. I don't even live in California and my laptop is worth more than my computer.
I do work regularly with the ACLU though and you'd be quite amazed at how that affects your perceptions of cops.
And sure, everyone out there claims to know a good cop here or a good cop there but ask any cop if they know a corrupt cop on the force. They'll say yes. They always say yes. Then ask them what they've done about it. When they tell you nothing you'll know that it's an axiom that every cop is corrupt. Every last one of the blue-lined motherfuckers.
No, it's 2009 and really... nothing's changed since 1967. They're still pigs.
Yeah. And there's no reason to do any "banging" anyway. Everyone I've ever wanted to get a password from just gave it to me when I showed them my tools!
That's optimistic of you.
The ultimate problem with the US collapsing economically is when half the developing industrial world depends on the profit margins extracted from the world's biggest glutton... well, I think it's gonna be much worse when we ultimately break down.
And don't forget, Germany had an economic breakdown too and it didn't "restore" anything. Sometimes things get even worse after a meltdown.
The Soviet collapse cambe cause they ran out of money.
I know this comes as a shock, no one cares WHY you run out of money. When people come to collect, when you can't afford bread and when you enter hyper-inflation, no one cares why and neither does reality because the end is exactly the same.
Whether you burned trillions in Iran or in government social programs that are a net loss... the end is the same. So whether it's the Republican fascists or the Democrat socialists burning the money, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if they spend it on pills or guns.
Does the police force, military or court system enslave anyone?
Seriously? Is there something else that generally does?
I don't know what's wrong with you people... sheesh.
The socialist programs in this country have found a solution to this "money problem." They just print more. Hell, some of the really smart ones just make notes in ledgers. Add a zero here or a zero there and... poof! Health care funded.
I mean, what's the worst that can happen? People bringing wheel barrels of currency into the grocery store just to pay for a loaf of bread? Like that would ever happen!
You wouldn't be referring to the same organization that awarded a Nobel Peace Prize to both Al Gore and Barack Obama would you? That well respected, completely objective and totally noble organization?
I guess I should stop taking Ghandi seriously too since he could never have sent a post card from Stockholm.
Sorry, gotta say, Stockholm hasn't exactly done a bang up job on the recent prizes. It's really hard to take an organization seriously that's as hit and miss as they are. You might as well as base someone's credibility on a popularity contest.
The right thing to do?
Here's the bitter pill of reality: when you're a gimp or a cripple (go ahead, mod me down for being not PC, don't care) there are certain things you're not going to be able to do or enjoy. No amount of bastardizing the language, feel good TV shows or legislation is going to change the fact that VIDEO games (much like pretty much everything else that is VIDEO) aren't going to be accessible to people lacking the sense that allows them to SEE.
Get over it. Just... gahhhhh.
The right thing to do... according to who? And the jackasses around here say creationists ignore reality. You think fucking dolts yourself are any better? You're just a different flavor of stupid and annoying. I hope this fucking bonehead has to pay Sony's attorney's fees.
And you didn't even mention the evil that is Internet Explorer!