Yeah, I don't get it. Whenever I hear shit like this, I think "wait, why is this a problem?! Why are you using your REAL IDENTITY everywhere?!".
I mean, granted, I use my real first name -- but everyone knows I'm a fucktard within like two minutes of meeting me, so hiding my stupidity is sort of a lost cause.
Nothing can be done to enforce them. The idea that the population is somehow going to rise up and turn violent is absurd and outdated. The idea that it's merely a matter of voting the right guys is absurd as it hasn't happened in more than two centuries. The idea that we're supposed to be a system with three branches of government with checks and balances against each other and no one running and deciding everything is the right answer. Unfortunately, that concept has gone out the window in the last dozen years as the entire legislative branch have lost their spine and rolled over repeatedly, while granting more and more power to the executive branches during the Bush and then Obama presidencies.
Won't be the last, either. They need to setup a number of high profile incidents like this to justify use of drones to target these guys, once you and the media have fully riled up the fear level in the population. A handful more of these and we'll all be acclimated to the idea of their regular use and no longer debate it.
Can you imagine how much fucking worse it would be here with a flood of reddit retards, if slashdot allowed inline posting of images? Every other discussion forum on the net has been utterly corrupted by these fucking idiots who can't string a sentence together and only communicate in a serious of increasingly stupid pseudo-meme photos.
Sadly, true. As demonstrated by how every other discussion turns into the equivalent of the Disqus forums underneath any CBS or other news article that is linked to by drudgereport.com. If I wanted to hear a bunch of brain-numb mouth-breathers go on and on about "durp durp O'Bozo durp durp ha ha" and "libtards and republicrats dur durr durr", I'd just be clicking on CBS articles and reading the unemployed racist trailer trash commenting at the bottom; not coming to Slsahdot.
Even those who are die-hard fans of football . . . I don't see why "oh no, the facility lost electricity for a half hour" is such a compelling thing that it has to be talked about for a week or two and investigations have to be undertaken. What does it have to do with the game any more than the amount or expense of parking at the facilities the game is played at do?!
It's just this dumb, ridiculous, meaningless, trivial, idiotic thing that the whole media and all of society has somehow latched onto as being even remotely relevant or interesting at all.
I don't see the point in singling out Islam, however. The statement should also be equally inclusive to every ridiculous religion and fantasy, including Buddhism, Wicca, astrology, and numerology.
Which is why, after a certain point, tiling against the windmill of religion is a lost cause. The long term gain of simply offering people knowledge and education, Neil DeGrass Tyson style, and resources is far more beneficial.
As someone who isn't a democrat or liberal or whatever, I have to say that I don't see any inconsistency in being against killing a human being, but allowing people the choice with what to do with the contents of their body with what is not yet a human being. By your "logic" any sexual climax that doesn't end inside of a vagina is equal to killing a school full of toddlers. That isn't to say people should be flippant about such a personal choice, but you are being incredibly irrational and disingenuous with words like "UNBORN BABIES OH NOES!" How about all the women who have been stoned to death in the name of religion? How about all of the "unborn babies" that were killed, because women who might have gone on to get pregnant and have children were murdered before they could do so?
Your complaint is only meaningful when you apply an invalid word to it. You could apply the word "babies" to anything. That doesn't make it so. The sloppy and transparent religious method of discussing their disregard for *actual* human life by deflecting and saying "durp durp but sperm and eggs!" is disingenuous and dishonest.
They are free to believe what they want. They are just not free to coerce anyone to join their club.
They're entirely free to coerce people with words and information. They just shouldn't be able to legislate it with their political power and influence. That is, they should be able to be as not gay as they want and tell other people they shouldn't be gay as much as they want, too. They just shouldn't be able to use legislation to turn gay people into second-class citizens.
And it should be free for others to call out lies spread.
Should be. If you believe 2+2=5, you're stupid. If you believe the sun and stars and planets revolve around the Earth, you're stupid. If you believe in talking snakes, talking burning bushes, virgin births, an afterlife, angels, demons, ghosts, cramming every living species onto a tiny little boat, a man parting a sea with his hands, resurrection, and the consumption of a resurrected guy's blood and bones -- you are the pinnacle of decency and questioning all the absurd things you espouse makes you an intolerant and hateful bigot, because anything -- no matter how stupid -- is beyond reproach or criticism when couched in the words "faith" or "belief" or "religion".
I'm for educating people and instilling critical thinking skills in children from an early age so that we can eventually arrive at a point where religion and other nonsense that belongs to your person and not in government legislation or other aspects that impose your personal "beliefs" upon all of society often at the cost of the freedom of other persons are in the minority and common sense, knowledge, and focus on principals that are addressed in our constitution are more prevalent and relevant than what church you attend, what branch of what stupid religion you adhere to and how much you hate reality and the pursuit of knowledge.
Like racism, homophobia, and sexism (the actual kind, meaning discrimination) -- it's the sort of thing that doesn't happen all at once and has to slowly shift over decades, as each generation crawls a little further out from the dark ages.
The whole "all sorts of bad shit happened because of a stupid offensive youtube video" thing has been fully debunked by now. Not only debunked, but admitted to by the US government after using it as an escape goat for the violence that was occurring in places at the time. Yet, no matter what, we get a story that comments on it almost every week on Slashdot, in which the bullshit of the first two weeks of lies after Benghazi are perpetuated. It's like nobody even reads the news anymore.
My only thought on this whole event was... "OH MY GOD! A sporting event went without lights for a whole half of an hour! WHAT A TRAGEDY?! THERE MUST BE INVESTIGATIONS! Someone MUST be held accountable! WE WILL NEVER FORGET!" *yawn*
In the states, our foremost vital constitutional right is that of free speech, which means you can say that your competition sucks if you like. Or not say it. Or say yours is great. Or say both. Or neither.
How about all the people that were involved in these financial manipulations and catastrophes and have been given (some after the matter) vital government positions?
Hey, just because all of my forum stuff comes from Disqus, my word of mouth spreading comes from twitter, facebook, and google plus integrations, and my content comes from automatic AP feeds doesn't mean I don't provide anything myself! I . . . . uh . . . .
Register account, to keep someone else from using my name (it happens, I've had internet stalkers for over a decade that have done things like register domains, show up at my door, etc).
Disable everything that it's possible to disable. Set to notify me by email of private messages, just in case. Disable ability to tag me in photos, post on my wall, etc, etc.
Put up a user photo on account that says "I DO NOT USE FB. SEND ME AN EMAIL AT >email addy".
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Yeah, I don't get it. Whenever I hear shit like this, I think "wait, why is this a problem?! Why are you using your REAL IDENTITY everywhere?!".
I mean, granted, I use my real first name -- but everyone knows I'm a fucktard within like two minutes of meeting me, so hiding my stupidity is sort of a lost cause.
Nothing can be done to enforce them. The idea that the population is somehow going to rise up and turn violent is absurd and outdated. The idea that it's merely a matter of voting the right guys is absurd as it hasn't happened in more than two centuries. The idea that we're supposed to be a system with three branches of government with checks and balances against each other and no one running and deciding everything is the right answer. Unfortunately, that concept has gone out the window in the last dozen years as the entire legislative branch have lost their spine and rolled over repeatedly, while granting more and more power to the executive branches during the Bush and then Obama presidencies.
Won't be the last, either. They need to setup a number of high profile incidents like this to justify use of drones to target these guys, once you and the media have fully riled up the fear level in the population. A handful more of these and we'll all be acclimated to the idea of their regular use and no longer debate it.
Can you imagine how much fucking worse it would be here with a flood of reddit retards, if slashdot allowed inline posting of images? Every other discussion forum on the net has been utterly corrupted by these fucking idiots who can't string a sentence together and only communicate in a serious of increasingly stupid pseudo-meme photos.
And how much is a "stone", again? Because every time I read an article about a person in a UK paper, it gives their weight in stones.
Sadly, true. As demonstrated by how every other discussion turns into the equivalent of the Disqus forums underneath any CBS or other news article that is linked to by drudgereport.com. If I wanted to hear a bunch of brain-numb mouth-breathers go on and on about "durp durp O'Bozo durp durp ha ha" and "libtards and republicrats dur durr durr", I'd just be clicking on CBS articles and reading the unemployed racist trailer trash commenting at the bottom; not coming to Slsahdot.
Don't we have enough stupid and meaningless excuses to not work without adding more days to the list?
Even those who are die-hard fans of football . . . I don't see why "oh no, the facility lost electricity for a half hour" is such a compelling thing that it has to be talked about for a week or two and investigations have to be undertaken. What does it have to do with the game any more than the amount or expense of parking at the facilities the game is played at do?!
It's just this dumb, ridiculous, meaningless, trivial, idiotic thing that the whole media and all of society has somehow latched onto as being even remotely relevant or interesting at all.
I don't see the point in singling out Islam, however. The statement should also be equally inclusive to every ridiculous religion and fantasy, including Buddhism, Wicca, astrology, and numerology.
Which is why, after a certain point, tiling against the windmill of religion is a lost cause. The long term gain of simply offering people knowledge and education, Neil DeGrass Tyson style, and resources is far more beneficial.
Without countless hours of crude amateur porn, what will Egyptians masturbate to now?
The same thing repressed Christians have been jerking off to for centuries -- little boys.
You are delusional.
As someone who isn't a democrat or liberal or whatever, I have to say that I don't see any inconsistency in being against killing a human being, but allowing people the choice with what to do with the contents of their body with what is not yet a human being. By your "logic" any sexual climax that doesn't end inside of a vagina is equal to killing a school full of toddlers. That isn't to say people should be flippant about such a personal choice, but you are being incredibly irrational and disingenuous with words like "UNBORN BABIES OH NOES!" How about all the women who have been stoned to death in the name of religion? How about all of the "unborn babies" that were killed, because women who might have gone on to get pregnant and have children were murdered before they could do so?
Your complaint is only meaningful when you apply an invalid word to it. You could apply the word "babies" to anything. That doesn't make it so. The sloppy and transparent religious method of discussing their disregard for *actual* human life by deflecting and saying "durp durp but sperm and eggs!" is disingenuous and dishonest.
They are free to believe what they want. They are just not free to coerce anyone to join their club.
They're entirely free to coerce people with words and information. They just shouldn't be able to legislate it with their political power and influence. That is, they should be able to be as not gay as they want and tell other people they shouldn't be gay as much as they want, too. They just shouldn't be able to use legislation to turn gay people into second-class citizens.
And it should be free for others to call out lies spread.
Should be. If you believe 2+2=5, you're stupid. If you believe the sun and stars and planets revolve around the Earth, you're stupid. If you believe in talking snakes, talking burning bushes, virgin births, an afterlife, angels, demons, ghosts, cramming every living species onto a tiny little boat, a man parting a sea with his hands, resurrection, and the consumption of a resurrected guy's blood and bones -- you are the pinnacle of decency and questioning all the absurd things you espouse makes you an intolerant and hateful bigot, because anything -- no matter how stupid -- is beyond reproach or criticism when couched in the words "faith" or "belief" or "religion".
I'm for educating people and instilling critical thinking skills in children from an early age so that we can eventually arrive at a point where religion and other nonsense that belongs to your person and not in government legislation or other aspects that impose your personal "beliefs" upon all of society often at the cost of the freedom of other persons are in the minority and common sense, knowledge, and focus on principals that are addressed in our constitution are more prevalent and relevant than what church you attend, what branch of what stupid religion you adhere to and how much you hate reality and the pursuit of knowledge.
Like racism, homophobia, and sexism (the actual kind, meaning discrimination) -- it's the sort of thing that doesn't happen all at once and has to slowly shift over decades, as each generation crawls a little further out from the dark ages.
The whole "all sorts of bad shit happened because of a stupid offensive youtube video" thing has been fully debunked by now. Not only debunked, but admitted to by the US government after using it as an escape goat for the violence that was occurring in places at the time. Yet, no matter what, we get a story that comments on it almost every week on Slashdot, in which the bullshit of the first two weeks of lies after Benghazi are perpetuated. It's like nobody even reads the news anymore.
My only thought on this whole event was... "OH MY GOD! A sporting event went without lights for a whole half of an hour! WHAT A TRAGEDY?! THERE MUST BE INVESTIGATIONS! Someone MUST be held accountable! WE WILL NEVER FORGET!" *yawn*
Why can't you let us have any fun?
Oh, I thought it was an initialism of what they call the Canadian guys with the huge hats that ride horsies.
Frankly, I don't care. The more stupid people there are in the world, the fewer people the rest of us have to compete with for meaningful employment.
In the states, our foremost vital constitutional right is that of free speech, which means you can say that your competition sucks if you like. Or not say it. Or say yours is great. Or say both. Or neither.
How about all the people that were involved in these financial manipulations and catastrophes and have been given (some after the matter) vital government positions?
Hey, just because all of my forum stuff comes from Disqus, my word of mouth spreading comes from twitter, facebook, and google plus integrations, and my content comes from automatic AP feeds doesn't mean I don't provide anything myself! I . . . . uh . . . .
Serves every one of these websites for being Facebook lemmings.
It has your connections.
Huh? You don't filter that crap? I filter out all that FB and +1 crap.
Exactly.
My use of facebook is as follows:
Register account, to keep someone else from using my name (it happens, I've had internet stalkers for over a decade that have done things like register domains, show up at my door, etc).
Disable everything that it's possible to disable. Set to notify me by email of private messages, just in case. Disable ability to tag me in photos, post on my wall, etc, etc.
Put up a user photo on account that says "I DO NOT USE FB. SEND ME AN EMAIL AT >email addy".
Never touch Facebook again.