I'd be happy to throw back just to the 1800s or so -- when poor people could actually save their way to wealth
That is the funniest thing I've read all day, thanks, it makes a change from the death and bombs.
I'd rather see all 3 go away, or at least just become part of the nanny-state economy, not my economies.
There is no separate economy that belongs to you. You are either in society and the actual economy, or you can live on a desert island somewhere and rot.
I sell physical goods and accept Bitcoin as a payment method. The volatility doesn't bug me at all. While it's only a tiny percentage of overall sales, it's still exciting to see a currency that can actually become a true bartering agent that is freed of non-market forces.
There is a direct correlation between having insane rightwing views and believing that a return to the Gold Standard will usher in a new kingdom of heaven on Earth.
Don't forget the IRA and their fundraisers in various US cities, including Boston.
The IRA were nasty. They wanted to cause alarm and panic, and they didn't mind too much if bystanders got hurt. But unlike the Muslims they did issue warnings. The killing and maiming was a not the primary aim, the panic and disruption was.
Yeah, it was just bad luck when a bomb they planted killed someone wasn't it?
Please.
The PIRA had the Public Relations sense to claim that they always gave adequate warnings and/or that they only ever targeted members of the army or police, but there were plenty of civilians who were maimed or killed anyway.
When they bombed pubs in Guildford because they were popular with squaddies, oddly enough there were civilians in those pubs too.
I suppose they had to at least appear "reasonable" terrorists in order to continue fleecing their braindead supporters in the US, who might have balked at the thought that their money was paying to cripple women and children.
and, i fully expect to be modded down for this: if we allow ourselves to be terrorized, the point of the action was successful. Locking down the entire city, ordering businesses closed, and shutting down the mass transit system is the very definition of "successful terrorist attack." No amount of national anthem sing-song is going to somehow magically avoid this fact.
I think when the police are effectively in hot pursuit of a terrorist suspect, you should expect a reasonable amount of heavy-handedness. It would be pretty pathetic if they just sent out a squad car who lost him when he did a sneaky u-turn somewhere.
Oh, give it a rest. For a few days I've been hearing the left talk about 'right wing nuts' blowing up the place because it was 15th of April, the tax day. I said on a few occasions that this had to do with the marathon, not with the date. If the marathon took place a day later or a day earlier, that's when the bombs would have gone off.
As a matter of interest, what is significant about the Boston marathon? I'm not American, so the tax day thing never meant much to me anyway.
Is it just that it's a public event and so they knew there would be cameras and hence publicity there?
A marathon race doesn't seem particularly embelmatic of US imperialism, or whatever you would assume Islamic terrorists were protesting about.
If I was the (real life) friend of a terrorist bomber, I would expect to be at least questioned by the authorities about him. Wouldn't you?
If "the government" just start rounding up and executing his online friends, that's a different matter, but then they'd be doing the same to his real ones anyway if they were that bad.
I don't see how the online aspect makes any difference at all.
Frankly, I hope they catch the second shooter, flay him alive, and then blow his friends in Pakistan to pieces. It's the only way we'll be able to stop them.
Good thinking, creating a martyr is bound to damage the terrorists' cause immeasurably.
I grew up in southie. Moved to upstate NH years ago. Its crazy how different things are up here. If there was a manhunt looking for someone with bombs and guns I can assure you we wouldn't be taking cover in our homes. We'd be on our porches ready. The news stories would be completely different I assure you.
Yes, I imagine the number of additional police and civilian casualties would be much, much higher.
Isn't the fact that we now live in a world with 24/7 live news coverage quite technologically interesting?
When I was growing up in the UK we had 3 TV channels and the radio. The thought of live streaming video (well, apparently on a delay in case there's too much violence) from America over the internet onto a mobile phone would have sounded like the wildest science fiction.
So slashdot should have just ignored any mention of the 9/11 attacks that day and subsequently and stuck to bashing Micro$oft and claiming that 2002 would be the year of the Linux desktop? Really?
TV news can only give a selective view of what's going on. The same is true of every other sort of media, but at least with a newspaper you get the opportunity to read about travel news, minority sport news, theatre review news, or many other types of niche interest (as well as a broader coverage of national and international news). And at least you are exposed to a variety of things, both good, bad and neutral.
But TV/internet news is good for immediacy, I just don't see why you feel your parents are being forced to watch it 24/7.
Seriously? Emergency medical technician, aka paramedic. The guy in the ambulance who does the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Yes, but everyone knows what "paramedic" means, and I've never heard of an "EMT" before. Leave jargon to those who use it professionally, and if you must introduce some new acronym, please explain it first.
Maybe you are so afraid of cognitive dissonance that you won't bother to look at the questions people are asking, or why they are asking. It's much easier to believe that Uncle Sam and the Media would never ever lie to you. Even though there is ample proof that both happen commonly, you will still vehemently deny that it happens. The fact that people behave that way goes back at least a couple thousand years, and is written in the Allegory of the Cave.
That's not what (Plato's) Allegory of the Cave means at all.
He believed there were eternal truths (e.g. the perfect idea of a circle), which we can only see the distorted reflections of. It's got nothing to do with governments or people lying to each other.
I think part of the problem with reporting is the influence of Cultural Marxism, also known as Political Correctness.
Anyone who thinks that the mainstream media, especially in the US, are Marxist should either seek psychiatric help, or perhaps just knock off the drugs.
And yes, I know he said "Cultural Marxism" so that he can pretend he meant something other than, er, marxism.
And this is why people are scared of Google Glass--it'll make an already existing problem worse; that is, the government will outsource its spying to the people.
If I see someone running away after mugging another person, am I acting as a "government spy" if I report it to the police and subsequently give evidence against them in court?
You paranoid rightwingers are so obsessed with the government being the fount of all evil that you lose touch with reality.
FYI, when someone asks for a citation, linking them to InfoWars.com is about as good as handing them a bologna sandwich. Alex Jones is a flipping nutcase.
It's a "boy who called wolf" problem. I don't know anything aout that site, but if it's run by a conspiracy nut, it's going to be hard for anyone to take it seriously. But the information they provide can be checked easily enough by others.
Anyway, I thought from the moment I saw the pictures of the 2 guys in combat boots and pants that they were some sort of undercover/off duty military types. Soldiers are notoriously bad at doing undercover work, it's hard for them not to show their training in the way they move, react or even stand. Plus they tend to get the clothes wrong.
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I'd be happy to throw back just to the 1800s or so -- when poor people could actually save their way to wealth
That is the funniest thing I've read all day, thanks, it makes a change from the death and bombs.
I'd rather see all 3 go away, or at least just become part of the nanny-state economy, not my economies.
There is no separate economy that belongs to you. You are either in society and the actual economy, or you can live on a desert island somewhere and rot.
I sell physical goods and accept Bitcoin as a payment method. The volatility doesn't bug me at all. While it's only a tiny percentage of overall sales, it's still exciting to see a currency that can actually become a true bartering agent that is freed of non-market forces.
There is but one god, and that god is the market.
There is a direct correlation between having insane rightwing views and believing that a return to the Gold Standard will usher in a new kingdom of heaven on Earth.
Don't forget the IRA and their fundraisers in various US cities, including Boston.
The IRA were nasty. They wanted to cause alarm and panic, and they didn't mind too much if bystanders got hurt. But unlike the Muslims they did issue warnings. The killing and maiming was a not the primary aim, the panic and disruption was.
Yeah, it was just bad luck when a bomb they planted killed someone wasn't it?
Please.
The PIRA had the Public Relations sense to claim that they always gave adequate warnings and/or that they only ever targeted members of the army or police, but there were plenty of civilians who were maimed or killed anyway.
When they bombed pubs in Guildford because they were popular with squaddies, oddly enough there were civilians in those pubs too.
I suppose they had to at least appear "reasonable" terrorists in order to continue fleecing their braindead supporters in the US, who might have balked at the thought that their money was paying to cripple women and children.
Just curious.
and, i fully expect to be modded down for this: if we allow ourselves to be terrorized, the point of the action was successful. Locking down the entire city, ordering businesses closed, and shutting down the mass transit system is the very definition of "successful terrorist attack." No amount of national anthem sing-song is going to somehow magically avoid this fact.
I think when the police are effectively in hot pursuit of a terrorist suspect, you should expect a reasonable amount of heavy-handedness. It would be pretty pathetic if they just sent out a squad car who lost him when he did a sneaky u-turn somewhere.
Oh, give it a rest. For a few days I've been hearing the left talk about 'right wing nuts' blowing up the place because it was 15th of April, the tax day. I said on a few occasions that this had to do with the marathon, not with the date. If the marathon took place a day later or a day earlier, that's when the bombs would have gone off.
As a matter of interest, what is significant about the Boston marathon? I'm not American, so the tax day thing never meant much to me anyway.
Is it just that it's a public event and so they knew there would be cameras and hence publicity there?
A marathon race doesn't seem particularly embelmatic of US imperialism, or whatever you would assume Islamic terrorists were protesting about.
When they fight the Russians, they are "freedom fighters." When they fight the US, they are "terrorists."
Got it, now?
Because Russia wasn't the Evil Commie USSR anymore, no one in the West gave a shit about the Chechens' struggle for independence from Russia.
la la ...muslim...la la... bombing...la la... Islam
If "the government" just start rounding up and executing his online friends, that's a different matter, but then they'd be doing the same to his real ones anyway if they were that bad.
I don't see how the online aspect makes any difference at all.
Frankly, I hope they catch the second shooter, flay him alive, and then blow his friends in Pakistan to pieces. It's the only way we'll be able to stop them.
Good thinking, creating a martyr is bound to damage the terrorists' cause immeasurably.
I grew up in southie. Moved to upstate NH years ago. Its crazy how different things are up here. If there was a manhunt looking for someone with bombs and guns I can assure you we wouldn't be taking cover in our homes. We'd be on our porches ready. The news stories would be completely different I assure you.
Yes, I imagine the number of additional police and civilian casualties would be much, much higher.
When I was growing up in the UK we had 3 TV channels and the radio. The thought of live streaming video (well, apparently on a delay in case there's too much violence) from America over the internet onto a mobile phone would have sounded like the wildest science fiction.
Russian in fact. That should confuse everybody nicely.
So slashdot should have just ignored any mention of the 9/11 attacks that day and subsequently and stuck to bashing Micro$oft and claiming that 2002 would be the year of the Linux desktop? Really?
But TV/internet news is good for immediacy, I just don't see why you feel your parents are being forced to watch it 24/7.
To quote the Ninja Turtles cartoon:
"Dog bites man? that's not news, Man Bites dog, that's news!"
That was around a long time before the Ninja Turtles ever hatched. As in, the late Nineteenth, early Twentieth century.
Seriously? Emergency medical technician, aka paramedic. The guy in the ambulance who does the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Yes, but everyone knows what "paramedic" means, and I've never heard of an "EMT" before. Leave jargon to those who use it professionally, and if you must introduce some new acronym, please explain it first.
Maybe you are so afraid of cognitive dissonance that you won't bother to look at the questions people are asking, or why they are asking. It's much easier to believe that Uncle Sam and the Media would never ever lie to you. Even though there is ample proof that both happen commonly, you will still vehemently deny that it happens. The fact that people behave that way goes back at least a couple thousand years, and is written in the Allegory of the Cave.
That's not what (Plato's) Allegory of the Cave means at all.
He believed there were eternal truths (e.g. the perfect idea of a circle), which we can only see the distorted reflections of. It's got nothing to do with governments or people lying to each other.
I think part of the problem with reporting is the influence of Cultural Marxism, also known as Political Correctness.
Anyone who thinks that the mainstream media, especially in the US, are Marxist should either seek psychiatric help, or perhaps just knock off the drugs.
And yes, I know he said "Cultural Marxism" so that he can pretend he meant something other than, er, marxism.
Take a look at his nose and the black bushy hair. Light skinned, but definitely middle-eastern decent of some sort.
If he's a decent sort, he's unlikely to be a cold-blooded terrorist.
And this is why people are scared of Google Glass--it'll make an already existing problem worse; that is, the government will outsource its spying to the people.
If I see someone running away after mugging another person, am I acting as a "government spy" if I report it to the police and subsequently give evidence against them in court?
You paranoid rightwingers are so obsessed with the government being the fount of all evil that you lose touch with reality.
If only MIT had armed profs, a cop's life could have been saved.
a Slashdotter claiming a female bed partner? Now we know you're hiding something behind those lies.
I don't think a blow up doll is much of a witness anyway.
FYI, when someone asks for a citation, linking them to InfoWars.com is about as good as handing them a bologna sandwich. Alex Jones is a flipping nutcase.
It's a "boy who called wolf" problem. I don't know anything aout that site, but if it's run by a conspiracy nut, it's going to be hard for anyone to take it seriously. But the information they provide can be checked easily enough by others.
Anyway, I thought from the moment I saw the pictures of the 2 guys in combat boots and pants that they were some sort of undercover/off duty military types. Soldiers are notoriously bad at doing undercover work, it's hard for them not to show their training in the way they move, react or even stand. Plus they tend to get the clothes wrong.