somewhere on a nice beach on the west coast of Mexico and tall (or short) black haired, big round eyed girls bring you a constant supply of Negra Modelo and guacamole with habanero chilis...and of course using a Mac. Some Oaxacan sinsemillan would be a nice touch.
What do you mean heading? The American government has always been authoritarian. Nothing has changed. Individual rights has always met up with great resistance, and it has always taken a great deal of violence to acquire those rights. Try to think of even one that was wasn't. The only thing that seperates the American government from the rest is the amount of hypocrisy. But all governments are authoritarian. And most people think that's ok. If freedom lovers actually recieve a significant amount of votes, I will believe otherwise. But they don't.
Simply because humans are predisposed to violence (which is still under debate by our brainy science dudes) does not imply that we should not strive for a world without war.
There should be no debate. Of course humans are predisposed to violence, just like every other life form. No more, no less. And just everything else, we let our DNA do are thinking for us. The only debate should be whether or not we have a choice. All indications are the answer is "no". In this physical universe "might makes right" will always rule the day. Strive all you will to bring peace, but always sleep with one eye open.
We don't have to "create" unlimited resources. They're already there. We just have to manage them, like transporting them where needed. Water is the best example I can come up with. We have roughly the same amount as when the planet was formed. Our failure is in management. We can process and transport it to any spot on earth. We haven't even touched more than two percent of it. That we fight like the elephants over the watering hole is a matter of choice. A perfectly natural choice seeing as that we still live like animals. And that's why "that's the way it will always be". But it doesn't have to be. If we all decide to be nice and happy, we will be. Unlike the animals, we have that choice...in theory. But in reality, you're probably right. We will always be "Pavlov's dog", and we might not really have a choice to do anything about it. If that's the case, then maybe the next life is something to look forward to. Refusing to fight does not make you a slave. On the contrary, you will be freer than most. Otherwise you are being a slave to this life. Doing whatever it takes to stay alive does not make you any better. You're just being a "survivor whore". All things considered, it really doesn't make a bit of difference. I'm going to keep my life pleasant, otherwise, what's the point? Death is perfectly acceptable if you have to spend your whole life looking over your shoulder and fighting off the attackers. If that's the kind of life you want , then you're welcome to it. I will die free, absolutely free. And the slaves can fend for themselves on this animal planet. Just because this is the only life we know, doesn't preclude that there might be something better after this one is over. I'm willing to take my chances...or I might scream like a wuss when facing the inevitable...or I might react instinctively and pick up some sticks and stones. As Ted Kennedy once said, "I'll drive off that bridge when I get to it." Either way I ain't fightin' your water wars.
That was never the intention. It's strictly for tracking purposes. But now that it can be so easily spoofed, it won't serve that purpose very well either. It will serve to plant false evidence though, and many organizations, non-government and government alike, will "need" that.
I am really just waiting for someone to tell me why I should believe anything a reporter says when their source is completely unknown due to total anonymity.
Like with medical advice, get a second opinion. Do what you can to verify the story, but don't dismiss it out of hand. With new secret laws on the books, anonymity is more important than ever. With secret laws come secret people. If it's ok for a cop to wear a mask and avoid identification while on the job, then everybody else needs the same protections, for the same reasons. If we must open up for the government, then they must open up for us. Yes, I am obsessed with that silly equal protection thing, especially in a country that preaches such things ad nauseum.
...blame the legal system that is swayed by wealth.
Built and sustained by voters even more swayed by promised wealth. If you improperly install a piece of plumbing and it pops loose, what are you going to blame? The pipe? Only you and your neighbors can resolve this. Don't look for some outside savior. But don't blame people who are only following the voters' wishes, especially when the voters constantly re-elect them. If all politics is local, then make sure the politician's influence remains local. Don't give them so much power. If you don't watch over them, they will crap all over your carpet. So put 'em outside, and more importantly, keep them on a leash. I don't want them crapping on my lawn.
should the drivers built in. It would definitely shorten boot up time. The present method is such a kludge. I don't understand why it happened that way in the first place. Now if I can only get a car that includes the driver...
It took over 4 billion years to get an opposable thumb. You expect the brain understand the dangers of that kind of new tech in 5,000? You give humans too much credit. You're underestimating the power of hundreds of millions of years of instinct.
How are their voices not heard? How are our voices not heard?
Because you don't speak up as one. You're all fighting each other. Divide and Conquer, works every time. When comes to election time, you all still vote mainstream, supporting the status quo. You're afraid of change. It could get worse. Better to work with the devil you know. You accept these things, when you should reject them out of hand. You act instinctively. You follow the herd, giving Microsoft 95% of the market. Don't make waves. Don't rock the boat. We still have cable. What's the problem? There's always a bag of weed or coke around the corner, any corner. Easier to get than a beer after hours. Turn on and tune out. That's how they deal. And take solice that it's all perfectly natural. It can't happen any other way. The universe has a fixed set or rules, and we haven't broken a single one, and we're not about to anytime soon.
...We respond just like animals to systems of rewards and punishments. Our decision making, our free will, is simply that. We respond to outside stimulii and respond accordingly. Free will is basically dead in many forms of behavioural psychology. Free will is simply the blanket term we substitute for millions of predictable calculations that occur within the brain.
The March 2005 issue of Net Geo has a great, short, and sweet article on the brain: "The mind is what the brain does". In reality what you say is very true, and to me, very depressing. We are preprogrammed. There really is no "breaking free". Physical life is set in stone. And other than the tracks we leave behind, there is absolutely nothing about us that exists outside our own bodies. I deal with this by moving to a place with a nice climate, and do my best not to think about it. And all this leads me back to why I don't care much about how the press tells the story of the world around me. It's just so much pap-("...diet that does not require chewing...", perfect description from the dictionary). I just do my best to make mine and my neighbors lives a little easier. If I can reduce the harm I cause, then everything else, besides information on how to do that, and a couple of beers, is irrelevent, and I pray that the life/death cycle is not infinite.
Four and a half billion years? Or 13 billion? I'm for the 13. When does the "big crunch" begin, so we have something to look forward to? This whole physical universe thing needs a little more de-bugging before it's ready for prime time. Otherwise it will just happen all over again. Pocahantis, all of it.
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that Sony has a built in sound?" he said. "Did you know that Toshiba has one?"
Ill bet nobody knew the Mac has one. Just in case that hasn't been beaten to death already.
Who?
somewhere on a nice beach on the west coast of Mexico and tall (or short) black haired, big round eyed girls bring you a constant supply of Negra Modelo and guacamole with habanero chilis...and of course using a Mac. Some Oaxacan sinsemillan would be a nice touch.
What do you mean heading? The American government has always been authoritarian. Nothing has changed. Individual rights has always met up with great resistance, and it has always taken a great deal of violence to acquire those rights. Try to think of even one that was wasn't. The only thing that seperates the American government from the rest is the amount of hypocrisy. But all governments are authoritarian. And most people think that's ok. If freedom lovers actually recieve a significant amount of votes, I will believe otherwise. But they don't.
then we mutated. I guess I'm down with that.
except in horseshoes, hand grenades, and atom bombs...
Simply because humans are predisposed to violence (which is still under debate by our brainy science dudes) does not imply that we should not strive for a world without war.
There should be no debate. Of course humans are predisposed to violence, just like every other life form. No more, no less. And just everything else, we let our DNA do are thinking for us. The only debate should be whether or not we have a choice. All indications are the answer is "no". In this physical universe "might makes right" will always rule the day. Strive all you will to bring peace, but always sleep with one eye open.
We don't have to "create" unlimited resources. They're already there. We just have to manage them, like transporting them where needed. Water is the best example I can come up with. We have roughly the same amount as when the planet was formed. Our failure is in management. We can process and transport it to any spot on earth. We haven't even touched more than two percent of it. That we fight like the elephants over the watering hole is a matter of choice. A perfectly natural choice seeing as that we still live like animals. And that's why "that's the way it will always be". But it doesn't have to be. If we all decide to be nice and happy, we will be. Unlike the animals, we have that choice...in theory. But in reality, you're probably right. We will always be "Pavlov's dog", and we might not really have a choice to do anything about it. If that's the case, then maybe the next life is something to look forward to. Refusing to fight does not make you a slave. On the contrary, you will be freer than most. Otherwise you are being a slave to this life. Doing whatever it takes to stay alive does not make you any better. You're just being a "survivor whore". All things considered, it really doesn't make a bit of difference. I'm going to keep my life pleasant, otherwise, what's the point? Death is perfectly acceptable if you have to spend your whole life looking over your shoulder and fighting off the attackers. If that's the kind of life you want , then you're welcome to it. I will die free, absolutely free. And the slaves can fend for themselves on this animal planet. Just because this is the only life we know, doesn't preclude that there might be something better after this one is over. I'm willing to take my chances...or I might scream like a wuss when facing the inevitable...or I might react instinctively and pick up some sticks and stones. As Ted Kennedy once said, "I'll drive off that bridge when I get to it." Either way I ain't fightin' your water wars.
EU?
That was never the intention. It's strictly for tracking purposes. But now that it can be so easily spoofed, it won't serve that purpose very well either. It will serve to plant false evidence though, and many organizations, non-government and government alike, will "need" that.
I am really just waiting for someone to tell me why I should believe anything a reporter says when their source is completely unknown due to total anonymity.
Like with medical advice, get a second opinion. Do what you can to verify the story, but don't dismiss it out of hand. With new secret laws on the books, anonymity is more important than ever. With secret laws come secret people. If it's ok for a cop to wear a mask and avoid identification while on the job, then everybody else needs the same protections, for the same reasons. If we must open up for the government, then they must open up for us. Yes, I am obsessed with that silly equal protection thing, especially in a country that preaches such things ad nauseum.
...blame the legal system that is swayed by wealth.
Built and sustained by voters even more swayed by promised wealth. If you improperly install a piece of plumbing and it pops loose, what are you going to blame? The pipe? Only you and your neighbors can resolve this. Don't look for some outside savior. But don't blame people who are only following the voters' wishes, especially when the voters constantly re-elect them. If all politics is local, then make sure the politician's influence remains local. Don't give them so much power. If you don't watch over them, they will crap all over your carpet. So put 'em outside, and more importantly, keep them on a leash. I don't want them crapping on my lawn.
Think EPROMs, and break that old UV light. Oh, those were the days.
should the drivers built in. It would definitely shorten boot up time. The present method is such a kludge. I don't understand why it happened that way in the first place. Now if I can only get a car that includes the driver...
...the terrorist machine.
A rather ambiguous term...if you catch my drift.
It's a small handful of people that are giving the US military a bad image...
But those people are in Washington.
And it's free.
Kill the waaabit
Kill the waaabit...
They were trespassing. Book 'em, Danno.
...5,000 years...
is but a picosecond.
It took over 4 billion years to get an opposable thumb. You expect the brain understand the dangers of that kind of new tech in 5,000? You give humans too much credit. You're underestimating the power of hundreds of millions of years of instinct.
How are their voices not heard? How are our voices not heard?
Because you don't speak up as one. You're all fighting each other. Divide and Conquer, works every time. When comes to election time, you all still vote mainstream, supporting the status quo. You're afraid of change. It could get worse. Better to work with the devil you know. You accept these things, when you should reject them out of hand. You act instinctively. You follow the herd, giving Microsoft 95% of the market. Don't make waves. Don't rock the boat. We still have cable. What's the problem? There's always a bag of weed or coke around the corner, any corner. Easier to get than a beer after hours. Turn on and tune out. That's how they deal. And take solice that it's all perfectly natural. It can't happen any other way. The universe has a fixed set or rules, and we haven't broken a single one, and we're not about to anytime soon.
When I read that, "agree more" was cut out by a Read the rest of this comment... link, and I got completely the wrong impression.
That's funny. I think if you set the "Comment Byte Limit" to the max(1024), that problem should go away until the comments get really long.
Sorry to respond twice...
...We respond just like animals to systems of rewards and punishments. Our decision making, our free will, is simply that. We respond to outside stimulii and respond accordingly. Free will is basically dead in many forms of behavioural psychology. Free will is simply the blanket term we substitute for millions of predictable calculations that occur within the brain.
The March 2005 issue of Net Geo has a great, short, and sweet article on the brain: "The mind is what the brain does". In reality what you say is very true, and to me, very depressing. We are preprogrammed. There really is no "breaking free". Physical life is set in stone. And other than the tracks we leave behind, there is absolutely nothing about us that exists outside our own bodies. I deal with this by moving to a place with a nice climate, and do my best not to think about it. And all this leads me back to why I don't care much about how the press tells the story of the world around me. It's just so much pap-("...diet that does not require chewing...", perfect description from the dictionary). I just do my best to make mine and my neighbors lives a little easier. If I can reduce the harm I cause, then everything else, besides information on how to do that, and a couple of beers, is irrelevent, and I pray that the life/death cycle is not infinite.
Four and a half billion years? Or 13 billion? I'm for the 13. When does the "big crunch" begin, so we have something to look forward to? This whole physical universe thing needs a little more de-bugging before it's ready for prime time. Otherwise it will just happen all over again. Pocahantis, all of it.
We'll have a patent on "FREE". Is that a paradox, or an oxymoron?
...Lieberman's not on the fringe...
That's the sad part, that most people think it's ok to continue doing what we are doing. Freedom be damned. Extremism is now mainstream.