"Save your energy to defend 'real' victims, not this guy."
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
It's funny that the title of the site is the complete opposite of what you get. Kind of like the "Happy Fun Goodtime" button being the trigger of an AK-47.
That said, I think the entire site has some good and some bad in it, of course. The site is a great place for people to find others with similar interests, as a prior poster mentioned. Just like some people join clubs with the purpose of finding friends, myspace is just another "club."
I've never been a strictly private person, keeping myself cloistered from human contact seemed foolish to me and I usually give away a bunch of details about my life, but nothing on the scale of most of the people on Myspace. That is the key to the whole thing though.
The difference between a club and Myspace is that Myspace is often times freakishly personal, to the point where it seems like the person posting has absolutely no concept of privacy. Just like "Reality" televison, this is perhaps a symptom of our voyeur society.
Have you ever have to stop when driving because everyone is looking at the scene of the crash? Ever watch the news, where most of the stuff they report is gruesome in order to capture your attention? (There is a lot to the news, this is just ONE aspect of it. If you want to bash the news, don't do it for JUST this reason.)
This extends beyond just individuals too! The Information Age has seen the rise of the internet, of things like Google, but it has also spawned companies like Acxiom. Acxiom's mission is to "create and deliver customer and information management solutions that enable many of the largest, most respected companies in the world to build great relationships with their customers. Acxiom achieves this by blending data, technology and services to provide the most advanced customer information infrastructure available in the marketplace today." http://www.acxiom.com/default.aspx?ID=1636&Display ID=18
It should be obvious to people that there are giant databases out there storing everything from what we buy to where we live, what our houses are worth, who are neighbors are, what kind of reputation we have, etc... The entire industry is dedicated to voyeurism, and of course they get away with it. Myspace is just another example of all this.
It's important to take the blame for your own choices and actions, but that doesn't always mean it's entirely your fault.
Yeah, I'm a bit lazy when it comes to homework, but that doesn't mean you should try to cram garbage down my throat and pretend like your teaching me something.
I wonder how many of the people were able to afford or even buy insurance. Oh, and yeah they probably should have left (if they could), but the whole purpose behind FEMA is in case of an emergency. They should be able to deal with that kind of situation by now, stupid people included.
Plenty of the people at the bottom end of income work hard and still recieve little for it. (Migrant Workers are one such example) While hard work should be enough to get you ahead, that isn't always true. Quotas do exist, and they are most certainly racist. A "good ole boy" network exists all over the place, in government or otherwise. Offshoring is a threat, because we are a much smaller world. WTF is beauty? The fact that you use the word shows your entrapment by it, and society is very much influenced by magazines. I agree with you about the Phillip-Morris and McDonalds thing partly, but I would like to point out that like many companies, they both try to use popular culture to influence your purchasing.
The courts are clogged for a lot of reasons, but the lawyers are a part of it. (It's a strategy to delay sometimes, don't try to deny that.)
You can't just say "Everyone is a victim" and pretend that a lot of people aren't getting screwed by society. We claim "Liberty and Justice for All" but we'll never reach that point if people just "suck it up and move on" because that's how progress is stopped. Slavery/Segregation/SomeFormsOfOppression took sacrifice to get rid of, not saying "life suck" and forgetting about it.
Who the hell are you to judge my struggle, saying that it's more/less that Monet's or Beethoven's? My struggle is just that, my struggle.
A friend of mine, who is the principal of a school, allows seniors to go off campus when they are not in class.
He knows that some students will abuse it, but he feel's thats not an excuse for not allowing the others. He simply has to take care of the people who abuse it.
The same goes with any freedom. There are plenty of people who abuse things like WiFi in the classroom, but that doesn't mean you should cut it off for everyone. If it's a problem, you should deal with it, not just treat the symptom.
"A rational search for the best answer to life, the universe and everything has caused many far more intelligent than you or I to conclude that some higher creator is a superior answer to the roll of some cosmic, trillion-faced dice."
*Whistle Being Blown* Red Card!
Logical Fallacy: Appeal To Authority
Please do not try to validate your argument by appealing to authority. It's against the rules.
The engine is completely silent, which might not go well with many motorcycle lovers.
This sure would make a drive-by easy though. I hate it when they run...
In other late breaking news, the FCC has issued the following statement:
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills."
Shortly afterwards, the RIAA responded with a subpeona, claiming the FCC stole this trademark speech from a copywrighted artist.
The FCC was unavailable for comment.
Slashdot Mirror
This one is up to date and real time, and it's designed to be with the actual frontline soldiers.
It's called Windows!
When we say something like "in the land of the blind..." we are generally assuming people would develop everything the same, which is just silly.
$0.02
Why was this modded informative?
"Save your energy to defend 'real' victims, not this guy."
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
The constitution doesn't mention two parties, they're actually what the framers were afraid of. (Majority/Minority Factions)
Why was this (parent) marked insightful?
That said, I think the entire site has some good and some bad in it, of course. The site is a great place for people to find others with similar interests, as a prior poster mentioned. Just like some people join clubs with the purpose of finding friends, myspace is just another "club."
I've never been a strictly private person, keeping myself cloistered from human contact seemed foolish to me and I usually give away a bunch of details about my life, but nothing on the scale of most of the people on Myspace. That is the key to the whole thing though.
The difference between a club and Myspace is that Myspace is often times freakishly personal, to the point where it seems like the person posting has absolutely no concept of privacy. Just like "Reality" televison, this is perhaps a symptom of our voyeur society.
Have you ever have to stop when driving because everyone is looking at the scene of the crash? Ever watch the news, where most of the stuff they report is gruesome in order to capture your attention? (There is a lot to the news, this is just ONE aspect of it. If you want to bash the news, don't do it for JUST this reason.)
This extends beyond just individuals too! The Information Age has seen the rise of the internet, of things like Google, but it has also spawned companies like Acxiom. Acxiom's mission is to "create and deliver customer and information management solutions that enable many of the largest, most respected companies in the world to build great relationships with their customers. Acxiom achieves this by blending data, technology and services to provide the most advanced customer information infrastructure available in the marketplace today." http://www.acxiom.com/default.aspx?ID=1636&Display ID=18
It should be obvious to people that there are giant databases out there storing everything from what we buy to where we live, what our houses are worth, who are neighbors are, what kind of reputation we have, etc... The entire industry is dedicated to voyeurism, and of course they get away with it. Myspace is just another example of all this.
It's important to take the blame for your own choices and actions, but that doesn't always mean it's entirely your fault.
Yeah, I'm a bit lazy when it comes to homework, but that doesn't mean you should try to cram garbage down my throat and pretend like your teaching me something.
I wonder how many of the people were able to afford or even buy insurance. Oh, and yeah they probably should have left (if they could), but the whole purpose behind FEMA is in case of an emergency. They should be able to deal with that kind of situation by now, stupid people included.
Plenty of the people at the bottom end of income work hard and still recieve little for it. (Migrant Workers are one such example) While hard work should be enough to get you ahead, that isn't always true. Quotas do exist, and they are most certainly racist. A "good ole boy" network exists all over the place, in government or otherwise. Offshoring is a threat, because we are a much smaller world. WTF is beauty? The fact that you use the word shows your entrapment by it, and society is very much influenced by magazines. I agree with you about the Phillip-Morris and McDonalds thing partly, but I would like to point out that like many companies, they both try to use popular culture to influence your purchasing.
The courts are clogged for a lot of reasons, but the lawyers are a part of it. (It's a strategy to delay sometimes, don't try to deny that.)
You can't just say "Everyone is a victim" and pretend that a lot of people aren't getting screwed by society. We claim "Liberty and Justice for All" but we'll never reach that point if people just "suck it up and move on" because that's how progress is stopped. Slavery/Segregation/SomeFormsOfOppression took sacrifice to get rid of, not saying "life suck" and forgetting about it.
Who the hell are you to judge my struggle, saying that it's more/less that Monet's or Beethoven's? My struggle is just that, my struggle.
Right.
Something goes wrong and not one person has said "Linux could solve this" yet!
Must be a record.
It would be a lot like Windows, I suppose. Corpses don't provide much computing power either.
A friend of mine, who is the principal of a school, allows seniors to go off campus when they are not in class. He knows that some students will abuse it, but he feel's thats not an excuse for not allowing the others. He simply has to take care of the people who abuse it. The same goes with any freedom. There are plenty of people who abuse things like WiFi in the classroom, but that doesn't mean you should cut it off for everyone. If it's a problem, you should deal with it, not just treat the symptom.
"A rational search for the best answer to life, the universe and everything has caused many far more intelligent than you or I to conclude that some higher creator is a superior answer to the roll of some cosmic, trillion-faced dice."
*Whistle Being Blown* Red Card!
Logical Fallacy: Appeal To Authority
Please do not try to validate your argument by appealing to authority. It's against the rules.
Yeah, but you can't take a desktop on a plain either...
If you're not going to use at least be kind enough to // it for all of the people who might think you're actually serious.
That's just sloppy coding there.
Unless of course you are serious, in which case your head needs to be examined by a trained medical official.
Everyone on slashdot will rant about how these people are taking away our freedoms, showing a lack of morals and scruples, etc...
The general public will nod and say "Sure... we understand, you're absolutely right," while rolling their eyes at our "insanity."
And of course, the people who propose this will get more money and the politicians who support this will get re-elected.
Educate the masses, don't just whine about it on Slashdot.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh, I thought we were dealing in the realm of possibility. My bad.
Very Well.
Can you imagine what would happen if you got hit by a blue screen? "Dear Lord this man is having a heart attack!" "Worse, his OS just crashed."
The RIAA has finally met their match...
The engine is completely silent, which might not go well with many motorcycle lovers. This sure would make a drive-by easy though. I hate it when they run...
" The FCC decision like most of their actions was made to preserve the standard of service that we've grown accustomed to..."
The government is trying to keep the industry the way it was, because the corporations are unwilling to change their business model.
There are plenty of people on /. that say the RIAA is using an archaic business model, and this is the same situation.
In other late breaking news, the FCC has issued the following statement: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." Shortly afterwards, the RIAA responded with a subpeona, claiming the FCC stole this trademark speech from a copywrighted artist. The FCC was unavailable for comment.
I wonder when Microsoft is going to sue them. Oh well, it could be worse. Think "Blue Screen of Death box"