100% accurate description of what happens in countries like Spain, Portugal, and most of South America.
I always say that Spain is just as "sudaca" as Argentina. And that is a good thing. We have corrupt governments, big national debts, and a bunch of other big issues. But we live freely, and in a much better, unstructured way than the so called real first world.
We don't show have fear (or respect) for the police, the military, the church, the government, the corporations, or other special interests groups. The roots of Anarchy that are foundational to Spain are still there, and in Latin America too, even after they were massacred over and over again, and supposedly eradicated during the 30's. They are still there, and stronger than ever. They live in the population. This is what we are, and I wouldn't change it for anything else.
In resumed words: Bravo, España!
Now, off I go to download some Alex de la Iglesia films...;)
( Disclaimer: I was born and currently live in Argentina)
Most people that hate the jews, hate them on a political and social basis, not on religious grounds.
There's a common fallacy, which is that being against certain groups means that you are automatically Racist, just because those groups hide behind a given religion/race.
Anyone has the right to hate the Republicans, or the Democrats, or the Communists, or the Bankers, or any other political/economical group. We can disagree with their ideas, and consider their group good/bad/dangerous/whatever and judge their actions. It's part of our Freedom of speech.
Now, when that group hides behind a religion or a race, you suddenly can't do that anymore. One big example is Israel and the Jews. You can be against virtually any group that can be tagged. If you can name it, you can hate it. But if that group (that you are against because of political, economical, social or otherwise valid, non-racist reasons) has a particular religious/race, then you can't hate them, can't question them, can't be against them, or you are racist.
I hate the fucking jews, but I only hate those that actually belong to the sociopolitical group that identifies itself as "Judaism". I don't care where your parents where born, or what their genetic configuration was. I don't give a shit about your skin colour, shape of your eyes, or what invisible man in the sky you claim to telepathically communicate with. But I do care about your actions. So, if you are a member of a group that is responsible for so many crimes from mass murder to brainwashing, and that group keeps buying politicians to shape the laws at their own will, I have a problem with that group, and I have a problem with you.
It's not racism. If your parents where jews, but you don't belong to the religion or any other jew-only groups, then in my eyes, you are not a jew, just another guy.
Oh, and before Godwin's law kicks in, I hate the Nazis almost as much as the fucking Jews. They basically believe in the same race superiority, only happened to be of different races and fought over it.
When the solution (and who is responsible for the problem) are so obvious.
The one that should be held responsible for this is microsoft. No, I am not trolling. We are making Toyota responsible for all the incidents, and possible future incidents with their acceleration issues, aren't we? Why not hold microsoft responible for their own products too?
We've known for years that windows is directly responsible for all this security issues. It's an unreliable and insecure system, and the company refuses to patch vulnerabilities.
The solution, is obvious too: use another operating system.
Why do we have to spend so many resources, including government resources that we pay for with our taxes, for something that is a non-issue?
Spending time and money sending the FBI behind spammers because microsoft's software is insecure is at best stupid, and most probably absolutely corrupt.
Bullshit. They didn't preserve it during the dark ages.
They where the CAUSE of the dark age, and what they did wasn't preserving, they KEPT IT AWAY from the public. It's not quite the same.
And let's not even get started with the unbelievable amount of knowledge in the form of paintings, music, books, etc. That are hidden in the vatican and that they refuse to release or even inform of their existence.
We should be fighting all of them, but not individually.
We shouldn't focus on how stupid or harmful any given religion is. We have to focus on how Religion in itself i stupid and dangerous. When we attack scientology, christians point and laugh, while scientologists ignore it. When we attack christianity, Muslims laugh and christians ignore us.
We have to focus on getting rid of religion in general, past, present and future ones.
What better way to explain people how stupid THEIR religion is, than by comparing them to other very similar religions that they consider automatically stupid?
Now, what is the body count for christianity, islam, and judaism?. Aha...
Also, if you are talking about censorship, the scientologists have only been around for 80 years, and the best they can do to censor someone is send you a lawyer. And judging by the fact that you can find anything you want about them on the internet, and that Xenu isn't being taught in schools, I can say they have failed spectacularly.
Christianity, on the other hand, have been silencing people for 2000 years, and their methodology is murder and torture. They were able to hold back science completely for 600 years just so a few theories wouldn't disprove a few 'facts' on the bible. And Creationism is being taught in schools in more places everyday (Well, at least in undeveloped and illiterate countries like the US).
Also, if you are a kid, and you go to school and tell your teacher that you can feel the thetans in her blood stream, and that Xenu is a bad guy (or whatever bullshit they believe), you'll get counseling, and she'll call your parents to tell them you are delusional. But, if another kid goes to school and tells the teacher that he telepathically communicates with a dead jew carpenter that died 2000 years ago, and carries a little doll of the dead guy nailed to a cross hanging around his neck, the teacher will think he's adorable, and tell him praying is great.
Many adults believe in an invisible man in the sky. They are all equally delusional, and equally dangerous, and the organization behind them wants money, and will torture or kill for it if required. The scientologists are just like the rest, but they are the new kid on the block, so people say "come on.. really?" to their guy in the sky more often than about other invisible skyman. And their mafia practices are not as well accepted as other more established criminal practices, like bombing people because they have a different invisible man in the sky.
Wait, you mean there's another unit to measure liquids besides the Liter, or maybe cubic centimeters?
I heard in some very primitive places that are very religious and hate science, it's still used, namely, some small villages in Malaysia and the united states.
Just as I don't mind dying if that's what needs to happen, and if staying alive would mean trading in my dignity, I don't mind the whole of our species vanishing if it's what's bound to happen, and changing that would require loosing our dignity as species. Our intelligence and precise motor skills are our higher achievements. If surviving as a species means loosing that, If it's ONLY about surviving at any cost, cockroaches are better at that than any member of our society. I'd rather just go and leave just surviving to the insects.
I was born naturally, and at home. I never broke a bone, or underwent any kind of surgery. I haven't used any kind of medical services, or taken any kind of medications since I was a kid (under 15, when I left my parent's home, 11 years ago) and even back then it was only minor things for a cold. The biggest disease I've had in my life was a flu.
And guess what? NONE of that has ANYTHING to do with what I aid in my previous post.
I haven't said a thing against medicine, or against helping people that are sick. I was talking about curing dead. We all are affected by pathogens, accidents, and otherwise external factors. And fixing that seems reasonable.
On the other hand, some people are born in a state that is incompatible with life. Get that? I'm not saying "minor imperfection". I'm saying life-threatening conditions that would regularly cause immediate or very short term death, or conditions that would prevent the individual from surviving (such as a severe lack of cognitive abilities). This kind of conditions are genetic. That means that this people, and their offspring will probably require lifetime support by others in order to stay alive. That is what I call Christianity: A cult of the weak and diseased.
I'm not saying we have to kill this people, and I'm not saying we should not help them. Any such actions would be inhuman. What I'm saying is, just as we care for this individuals, we should care for the human race as a whole. To love another human and care for him/her, we first need to care for humanity itself. So, we should provide the required assistance to this individuals, while assisting our common interest too: Not perpetuating the debilitating features in this individuals. It's only logical.
And, let me tell you. If in the future, I have to die, I will. I will certainly NOT try to perpetuate my life by any means. Taking reasonable measures to stay alive is part of our instincts, and it's what keeps life going. Staying alive at all costs, even if that includes gargantuan facilities, larger than reasonable amount of resources, and the work of lots of other individuals just to have a chance of staying alive is unnatural, and destructive. Specially if it means you are perpetuating those weaknesses to future generations.
"I don't suspect we'll have completed the search for candidate objects until mid-2012, and then we may need up to a year of time to complete telescopic follow-up of those objects," said Kirkpatrick."
Too little, too late... If we've only started a few years before, we might have saved ourselves from 2012:P
Diversity is no good if there's no natural selection.
I'm not a racist, or a white supremacist, or any other crap, ok? To me, racism is utterly stupid. What 'race' you are doesn't have any kind of influence on the kind of person you are, except for the Check republic. In that case, I'm racist. They have the hottest babes in the world, and we need more of their genes (For the well being of our species, off course:D ).
But I'm genuinely concerned about the neutralizing of natural selection. I'm proud of my heritage. And I'm not talking about my parents, I'm talking about my great grandparents. I'm proud about the Pampas, and the Euskaldunak, and the French, and other people that long long ago are my parents too. And I'm very proud of some hominid that millions of years ago was a hunter-gatherer somewhere in Africa. I'm proud of being the son of some unicellular microorganism that lived in the depths of the oceans at the dawn of life in earth.
And I'm proud of them, because they all fought and died for us. We are here, because only the best of what was before made it into the future. We are all part of that collective consciousness.
We have the duty of doing our part in evolution. We have the world for ourselves, for a little while, and then we are gone forever, and we'll put the world in the hands of those that are unborn yet. Our purpose in life, is to make the best of that time we have, to return a better world to that collective consciousness. Only the very best, le crème de la crème, should perpetuate in what will be our next generation. Otherwise, we've failed as a species.
It's hard to accept, but that doesn't make it any less true.
If we kill natural selection completely, we are destined to disappear from the face of the planet.
They ARE contaminating the gene pool, and whether you like it or not, they should not be allowed to reproduce. Here's my idea: You want society's help? Get sterilized, and then we'll help you. We won't sterilize you forcefully, but if you want our help, that's our price.
In the past, weak people died, strong people lived, and eventually that lead us to where we are. Instinct brought us here, and It wasn't the instinct of the weak and diseased.
We, as a society, can help and fix the diseased, but doing that messes with evolution, effectively shutting it down. In today's society, the weakest, less intelligent and poorly educated reproduce more than the rest of us. Yes, there's a very funny movie about it that gets quoted just a little bit too often.
So, it's our duty to make up for that. We either stop treating them, stop giving them social help, etc. , or we help them fully, but make sure they don't reproduce. It's either that, or face our own destruction a few centuries from now, when most of us will be a hoard of diseased and retarded individuals.
I did watch the longer one. I watched 5 different videos about this crap. All that was relevant on youtube.
Look, a real testing video would be Outdoors, where they reach an altitude of at least 50m and travel at least 200m. There is no such video. All of them are small hovering indoors, and in many of them there's someone holding the aircraft.
If you really have a fucking inspector-gadget like persona helicopter, you would be flying it everywhere, and making videos of it, so that people would go crazy and go all the way to new zealand to get one.
This guys are not doing that. They show a few videos scarce on details. They've got lots of troubles with their little invention.
D&H has some exclusive Intel deal with Newegg. Newegg probably buys all of it's Intel stock from them. Neweggs success depends 100% on their relationship with their providers. Getting a good deal usually involves getting a few executives in a nice golfing trip, promising big sales volumes, and buying certain products exclusively from $company.
Some smartass at newegg said "Hey, we are paying X for this Intel processors, but this guys are selling them 15% cheaper!, I can increase our revenues substantially, and get a promotion!". They bought from the wrong guys. When the news got out about the fake processors, the guys at D&H immediately thought "hey, that's us", and tried to (stupidly) bully people to shut them up (while double-checking all their deliveries to Newegg for fake units). Newegg will probably has a lengthy apology to give to D&H, and will have to suck a few cocks to get things back in track.
The 0.001 difference means I don't believe that part about microsoft not being responsible for spam. 99% of all spam comes from botnets. Botnets are only possible because of their shitty, intentionally insecure operating system. They have to keep their friends at norton and similar companies in business, and they need their users to desperately buy the new version whenever it rolls out in a stupid attempt to finally make their computers stable and secure. So, they keep their OS insecure ON PURPOSE. And that's responsible for 99% of SPAM, malware, DDoS attacks, and other crap on the intertubes.
Slashdot Mirror
Or you can use a FLIR camera (Thermal). Off course, it's not good to look at naked ladies, but good enough to move around.
100% accurate description of what happens in countries like Spain, Portugal, and most of South America.
I always say that Spain is just as "sudaca" as Argentina. And that is a good thing. We have corrupt governments, big national debts, and a bunch of other big issues. But we live freely, and in a much better, unstructured way than the so called real first world.
We don't show have fear (or respect) for the police, the military, the church, the government, the corporations, or other special interests groups. The roots of Anarchy that are foundational to Spain are still there, and in Latin America too, even after they were massacred over and over again, and supposedly eradicated during the 30's. They are still there, and stronger than ever. They live in the population. This is what we are, and I wouldn't change it for anything else.
In resumed words: Bravo, España!
Now, off I go to download some Alex de la Iglesia films ... ;)
( Disclaimer: I was born and currently live in Argentina)
Most people that hate the jews, hate them on a political and social basis, not on religious grounds.
There's a common fallacy, which is that being against certain groups means that you are automatically Racist, just because those groups hide behind a given religion/race.
Anyone has the right to hate the Republicans, or the Democrats, or the Communists, or the Bankers, or any other political/economical group. We can disagree with their ideas, and consider their group good/bad/dangerous/whatever and judge their actions. It's part of our Freedom of speech.
Now, when that group hides behind a religion or a race, you suddenly can't do that anymore. One big example is Israel and the Jews. You can be against virtually any group that can be tagged. If you can name it, you can hate it. But if that group (that you are against because of political, economical, social or otherwise valid, non-racist reasons) has a particular religious/race, then you can't hate them, can't question them, can't be against them, or you are racist.
I hate the fucking jews, but I only hate those that actually belong to the sociopolitical group that identifies itself as "Judaism". I don't care where your parents where born, or what their genetic configuration was. I don't give a shit about your skin colour, shape of your eyes, or what invisible man in the sky you claim to telepathically communicate with. But I do care about your actions. So, if you are a member of a group that is responsible for so many crimes from mass murder to brainwashing, and that group keeps buying politicians to shape the laws at their own will, I have a problem with that group, and I have a problem with you.
It's not racism. If your parents where jews, but you don't belong to the religion or any other jew-only groups, then in my eyes, you are not a jew, just another guy.
Oh, and before Godwin's law kicks in, I hate the Nazis almost as much as the fucking Jews. They basically believe in the same race superiority, only happened to be of different races and fought over it.
Skynet is dead!
What is that? Oh, Sbinet! Nevermind then. Keep running, Connor.
Murder is infinitely easier to accomplish.
And way more satisfying :)
When the solution (and who is responsible for the problem) are so obvious.
The one that should be held responsible for this is microsoft. No, I am not trolling. We are making Toyota responsible for all the incidents, and possible future incidents with their acceleration issues, aren't we? Why not hold microsoft responible for their own products too?
We've known for years that windows is directly responsible for all this security issues. It's an unreliable and insecure system, and the company refuses to patch vulnerabilities.
The solution, is obvious too: use another operating system.
Why do we have to spend so many resources, including government resources that we pay for with our taxes, for something that is a non-issue?
Spending time and money sending the FBI behind spammers because microsoft's software is insecure is at best stupid, and most probably absolutely corrupt.
Bullshit. They didn't preserve it during the dark ages.
They where the CAUSE of the dark age, and what they did wasn't preserving, they KEPT IT AWAY from the public. It's not quite the same.
And let's not even get started with the unbelievable amount of knowledge in the form of paintings, music, books, etc. That are hidden in the vatican and that they refuse to release or even inform of their existence.
Nah, nah, nah, you are doing it all wrong!
It's not wrong for people to think scientologists are loonies. They are fucking loonies.
My point was that christians, and every other religious person is JUST AS MUCH of a TOTAL NUT as the scientologists.
We should point and laugh at their crazy ideas, it's only natural reaction to this kind of crazy.
But I'm against DISCRIMINATION. So, I don't discriminate among religions. I laugh at them all equally.
We should be fighting all of them, but not individually.
We shouldn't focus on how stupid or harmful any given religion is. We have to focus on how Religion in itself i stupid and dangerous. When we attack scientology, christians point and laugh, while scientologists ignore it. When we attack christianity, Muslims laugh and christians ignore us.
We have to focus on getting rid of religion in general, past, present and future ones.
Oh, it' extremely relevant to this thread.
What better way to explain people how stupid THEIR religion is, than by comparing them to other very similar religions that they consider automatically stupid?
What is the body count for Scientology?. Ok.
Now, what is the body count for christianity, islam, and judaism?. Aha ...
Also, if you are talking about censorship, the scientologists have only been around for 80 years, and the best they can do to censor someone is send you a lawyer. And judging by the fact that you can find anything you want about them on the internet, and that Xenu isn't being taught in schools, I can say they have failed spectacularly.
Christianity, on the other hand, have been silencing people for 2000 years, and their methodology is murder and torture. They were able to hold back science completely for 600 years just so a few theories wouldn't disprove a few 'facts' on the bible. And Creationism is being taught in schools in more places everyday (Well, at least in undeveloped and illiterate countries like the US).
Also, if you are a kid, and you go to school and tell your teacher that you can feel the thetans in her blood stream, and that Xenu is a bad guy (or whatever bullshit they believe), you'll get counseling, and she'll call your parents to tell them you are delusional.
But, if another kid goes to school and tells the teacher that he telepathically communicates with a dead jew carpenter that died 2000 years ago, and carries a little doll of the dead guy nailed to a cross hanging around his neck, the teacher will think he's adorable, and tell him praying is great.
Many adults believe in an invisible man in the sky. They are all equally delusional, and equally dangerous, and the organization behind them wants money, and will torture or kill for it if required. The scientologists are just like the rest, but they are the new kid on the block, so people say "come on .. really?" to their guy in the sky more often than about other invisible skyman. And their mafia practices are not as well accepted as other more established criminal practices, like bombing people because they have a different invisible man in the sky.
The Inside? Really?
Damn, I won't get one of those at home. If I snort too much, I can't get back in! Talk about an effective anti-drug campaign.
Must not click on link. Must not click on link. Must not click on link. Must not click on link.
(Manboobs are scary)
Wait, you mean there's another unit to measure liquids besides the Liter, or maybe cubic centimeters?
I heard in some very primitive places that are very religious and hate science, it's still used, namely, some small villages in Malaysia and the united states.
Ok, let's throw Oprah into the star.
Bullshit. Pity is a morbid and dangerous state of mind (So said Aristotle, Nietzsche agreed, and so do I).
It's christian in nature. Taking care of the weak and diseased. It's a cult of dead. We need to get rid of christianity, it's polluting our minds.
I think I love you.
Just as I don't mind dying if that's what needs to happen, and if staying alive would mean trading in my dignity, I don't mind the whole of our species vanishing if it's what's bound to happen, and changing that would require loosing our dignity as species. Our intelligence and precise motor skills are our higher achievements. If surviving as a species means loosing that, If it's ONLY about surviving at any cost, cockroaches are better at that than any member of our society. I'd rather just go and leave just surviving to the insects.
I was born naturally, and at home. I never broke a bone, or underwent any kind of surgery. I haven't used any kind of medical services, or taken any kind of medications since I was a kid (under 15, when I left my parent's home, 11 years ago) and even back then it was only minor things for a cold. The biggest disease I've had in my life was a flu.
And guess what? NONE of that has ANYTHING to do with what I aid in my previous post.
I haven't said a thing against medicine, or against helping people that are sick. I was talking about curing dead. We all are affected by pathogens, accidents, and otherwise external factors. And fixing that seems reasonable.
On the other hand, some people are born in a state that is incompatible with life. Get that? I'm not saying "minor imperfection". I'm saying life-threatening conditions that would regularly cause immediate or very short term death, or conditions that would prevent the individual from surviving (such as a severe lack of cognitive abilities). This kind of conditions are genetic. That means that this people, and their offspring will probably require lifetime support by others in order to stay alive. That is what I call Christianity: A cult of the weak and diseased.
I'm not saying we have to kill this people, and I'm not saying we should not help them. Any such actions would be inhuman. What I'm saying is, just as we care for this individuals, we should care for the human race as a whole. To love another human and care for him/her, we first need to care for humanity itself. So, we should provide the required assistance to this individuals, while assisting our common interest too: Not perpetuating the debilitating features in this individuals. It's only logical.
And, let me tell you. If in the future, I have to die, I will. I will certainly NOT try to perpetuate my life by any means. Taking reasonable measures to stay alive is part of our instincts, and it's what keeps life going. Staying alive at all costs, even if that includes gargantuan facilities, larger than reasonable amount of resources, and the work of lots of other individuals just to have a chance of staying alive is unnatural, and destructive. Specially if it means you are perpetuating those weaknesses to future generations.
"I don't suspect we'll have completed the search for candidate objects until mid-2012, and then we may need up to a year of time to complete telescopic follow-up of those objects," said Kirkpatrick."
Too little, too late ... If we've only started a few years before, we might have saved ourselves from 2012 :P
Diversity is no good if there's no natural selection.
I'm not a racist, or a white supremacist, or any other crap, ok? To me, racism is utterly stupid. What 'race' you are doesn't have any kind of influence on the kind of person you are, except for the Check republic. In that case, I'm racist. They have the hottest babes in the world, and we need more of their genes (For the well being of our species, off course :D ).
But I'm genuinely concerned about the neutralizing of natural selection. I'm proud of my heritage. And I'm not talking about my parents, I'm talking about my great grandparents. I'm proud about the Pampas, and the Euskaldunak, and the French, and other people that long long ago are my parents too. And I'm very proud of some hominid that millions of years ago was a hunter-gatherer somewhere in Africa. I'm proud of being the son of some unicellular microorganism that lived in the depths of the oceans at the dawn of life in earth.
And I'm proud of them, because they all fought and died for us. We are here, because only the best of what was before made it into the future. We are all part of that collective consciousness.
We have the duty of doing our part in evolution. We have the world for ourselves, for a little while, and then we are gone forever, and we'll put the world in the hands of those that are unborn yet. Our purpose in life, is to make the best of that time we have, to return a better world to that collective consciousness. Only the very best, le crème de la crème, should perpetuate in what will be our next generation. Otherwise, we've failed as a species.
It's hard to accept, but that doesn't make it any less true.
If we kill natural selection completely, we are destined to disappear from the face of the planet.
They ARE contaminating the gene pool, and whether you like it or not, they should not be allowed to reproduce. Here's my idea: You want society's help? Get sterilized, and then we'll help you. We won't sterilize you forcefully, but if you want our help, that's our price.
In the past, weak people died, strong people lived, and eventually that lead us to where we are. Instinct brought us here, and It wasn't the instinct of the weak and diseased.
We, as a society, can help and fix the diseased, but doing that messes with evolution, effectively shutting it down. In today's society, the weakest, less intelligent and poorly educated reproduce more than the rest of us. Yes, there's a very funny movie about it that gets quoted just a little bit too often.
So, it's our duty to make up for that. We either stop treating them, stop giving them social help, etc. , or we help them fully, but make sure they don't reproduce.
It's either that, or face our own destruction a few centuries from now, when most of us will be a hoard of diseased and retarded individuals.
I did watch the longer one. I watched 5 different videos about this crap. All that was relevant on youtube.
Look, a real testing video would be Outdoors, where they reach an altitude of at least 50m and travel at least 200m. There is no such video. All of them are small hovering indoors, and in many of them there's someone holding the aircraft.
If you really have a fucking inspector-gadget like persona helicopter, you would be flying it everywhere, and making videos of it, so that people would go crazy and go all the way to new zealand to get one.
This guys are not doing that. They show a few videos scarce on details. They've got lots of troubles with their little invention.
The deal here goes probably along this lines:
D&H has some exclusive Intel deal with Newegg. Newegg probably buys all of it's Intel stock from them. Neweggs success depends 100% on their relationship with their providers. Getting a good deal usually involves getting a few executives in a nice golfing trip, promising big sales volumes, and buying certain products exclusively from $company.
Some smartass at newegg said "Hey, we are paying X for this Intel processors, but this guys are selling them 15% cheaper!, I can increase our revenues substantially, and get a promotion!". They bought from the wrong guys. When the news got out about the fake processors, the guys at D&H immediately thought "hey, that's us", and tried to (stupidly) bully people to shut them up (while double-checking all their deliveries to Newegg for fake units). Newegg will probably has a lengthy apology to give to D&H, and will have to suck a few cocks to get things back in track.
99.999% Agreed.
The 0.001 difference means I don't believe that part about microsoft not being responsible for spam. 99% of all spam comes from botnets. Botnets are only possible because of their shitty, intentionally insecure operating system. They have to keep their friends at norton and similar companies in business, and they need their users to desperately buy the new version whenever it rolls out in a stupid attempt to finally make their computers stable and secure. So, they keep their OS insecure ON PURPOSE. And that's responsible for 99% of SPAM, malware, DDoS attacks, and other crap on the intertubes.