I guess if there's one thing you can count on with slashdot, it's that there'll always be a bunch of people over-thinking what you say and and thinking it's the most serious issue in the world.
Jesus Christ. It was an excuse to take a shot at Fox News.
I actually don't believe in morals either. I like things that are tangible and absolute, cause if something isn't completely true then it's not true. so while some morals may possibly be based on the absolute, all they say is 'don't do this cause you'll regret it' or even deeper into the vague, 'it's wrong and bad to do this' which is based on dualism, so there's no ground whatsoever.
Just pointing out that 'moral' is, by definition, relative.
Yep. I tend to feel like a dirty whore whenever I go to the CD store these days. Knowing I'm essentially bending over and taking it from a record-industry psycho in a suit, and even worse, giving him money, keeps me away from stores entirely.
Shyeah. I'm a Mac user, but this is the tech-world equivalent to 'are light-skinned people smarter than black-skinned people? The story on Fox News at 11'
Heh, yeah, the DMCA is stupid, but to make a law restricting foreigners in music? That's so much stupider that I think Canada's in no place to bitch about 'silly' laws.
they actually seem to do something with the tax dollars besides 'defence' spending.
Gyahaha, I can't be offended when it's painfully true. But even then I'm way too skeptical; there's no way in Hell Canada's scam-tax rate is that much lower than ours.
Did you know that kids exist outside of school? And that the school yard would be the stupidest place to do that? Sorry if the shock from hearing that gives you a heart attack or something.
Dictionary.com tell us 'Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character'
So it pretty much is subjective, which is all good, but if you made a concrete set of morals, you'd only be pressing your own experiences and judgments (of that experience) on everyone else.
It's sort of the way laws should be made to help the people defend themselves, rather than to make every person a potential criminal. Nobody needs a dictator telling them how to think and live.
Well, what would you do if somebody revealed you were an idiot? (I'm not actually talking about you here) You'd probably be infuriated and take it out on the whistle-blower one way or another.
So, an administrator went up in flames and called the police.
True, in fact I was in a typing class during 7th grade and hacked into the school's network. In fact it was hardly 'hacking'; it was dos and there were no passwords or permissions, so all I had to do was type 'e: f: g: h:' and so on till I found the right drives. I actually found an unencrypted text file with everyone's network passwords and looked through peoples' files freely.
Then I got into high school. They were using Windows 95, which had SO many security holes and no competent 'nanny' software. I could freely go about deleting teachers' shared files when I wanted, finding them using nothing more than 'e: f: g:...'
I dunno what good it does to know all this, but maybe some school network administrators can realize that as much as the school system tries to make kids stupid and naive, you won't have much luck relying on their ignorance.
Great, now someone's trying to turn morality into something real and not abstract/relative. Heh, and better yet, trying to get it to have anything to do with the law. Now I've heard everything and then some.
Problem with the 'tag criminals' idea is that you'll have so many tags wandering around that you won't know what to look out for. We (Americans at least) live in a country where you can go to prison for bringing a camcorder into a theater, and all someone needs to do to make you a convicted sex offender is call the police and cry rape. If you set up a tracking system based on who the government decides is a criminal/terrorist and whatnot, you'll be left with only a few people including aristocrats and politicians who have no tracking devices.
Actually people are learning that they don't need incompetent software anymore. The idea behind these predictions is that people will remain in the dark and only get the OS that's by the biggest company, spending money on whatever the advertisements say to spend it on.
The reality is that you can only fool the public for so long. Just look at AOL, who did the same thing and thought that everyone would continue thinking 'oooh, they sent me a free CD! Now I want to use their heavily overpriced internet service' and that they'd one day become the ultimate ISP used by everyone around the world.
Now we've learned better and AOL has dropped to the lower depths of the internet world where hardly anyone takes a second glance at it. You can't expect people to fall for the 'incompetent but popular' trick for too long.
Pretty much everyone's encouraged to be. The thing is that people like to think their country is special because they use different and more-or-less effective methods of brainwashing. A lot of Americans just happen to know it when they see it. The above post talks as though America is special in this field, and is - more than anything - proof of how nonsensical this thinking is by giving no reason or logic to back it.
Oh, hey, sure we're less free, but look at China and Syria! They're way worse than us!
Gyahahaha, I've actually gotten that one too. Talk about counter-productive. Oh yeah, we're so great, we're more free than the most oppressive countries in the world! We're more free than laboratory rats! We roxors your soxors!
Tomorrow it'll be 'At least we're better than that secluded African tribe run by Oog and his collection of shrunken heads.'
So, since the f-word and the s-word are traditionally not heard on the airwaves (for various reasons), why is there so BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
Sorry, you're not allowed to say the forthcoming words because certain cave dwellers and rednecks wish not to hear it. Words like 'commotion' pollute our society and kill our children. Here's a fine for 5,000 dollars. Don't let this happen again.:)
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Not a defense (spelt with 's'), just pointing out the painfully obvious. If somebody took offense to it then I'm sure there's a pill for that.
I guess if there's one thing you can count on with slashdot, it's that there'll always be a bunch of people over-thinking what you say and and thinking it's the most serious issue in the world.
Jesus Christ. It was an excuse to take a shot at Fox News.
Yeah, and somehow banning kids from video games is going to make them NOT want to shoot the police.
Cencorship logic. What an awesome oxymoron.
I actually don't believe in morals either. I like things that are tangible and absolute, cause if something isn't completely true then it's not true. so while some morals may possibly be based on the absolute, all they say is 'don't do this cause you'll regret it' or even deeper into the vague, 'it's wrong and bad to do this' which is based on dualism, so there's no ground whatsoever.
Just pointing out that 'moral' is, by definition, relative.
Yep. I tend to feel like a dirty whore whenever I go to the CD store these days. Knowing I'm essentially bending over and taking it from a record-industry psycho in a suit, and even worse, giving him money, keeps me away from stores entirely.
So many anonymous cowards out and about these days. Read more and think more. General statistics are, as implied in the definition, untrue.
I was talking about the article that the article referred to.
Shyeah. I'm a Mac user, but this is the tech-world equivalent to 'are light-skinned people smarter than black-skinned people? The story on Fox News at 11'
Heh, yeah, the DMCA is stupid, but to make a law restricting foreigners in music? That's so much stupider that I think Canada's in no place to bitch about 'silly' laws.
Good so we're even.
they actually seem to do something with the tax dollars besides 'defence' spending.
Gyahaha, I can't be offended when it's painfully true. But even then I'm way too skeptical; there's no way in Hell Canada's scam-tax rate is that much lower than ours.
Yep, you sure wrote that alright.
Did you know that kids exist outside of school? And that the school yard would be the stupidest place to do that? Sorry if the shock from hearing that gives you a heart attack or something.
Dictionary.com tell us 'Of or concerned with the judgment of the goodness or badness of human action and character'
So it pretty much is subjective, which is all good, but if you made a concrete set of morals, you'd only be pressing your own experiences and judgments (of that experience) on everyone else.
It's sort of the way laws should be made to help the people defend themselves, rather than to make every person a potential criminal. Nobody needs a dictator telling them how to think and live.
Well, what would you do if somebody revealed you were an idiot? (I'm not actually talking about you here) You'd probably be infuriated and take it out on the whistle-blower one way or another.
So, an administrator went up in flames and called the police.
True, in fact I was in a typing class during 7th grade and hacked into the school's network. In fact it was hardly 'hacking'; it was dos and there were no passwords or permissions, so all I had to do was type 'e: f: g: h:' and so on till I found the right drives. I actually found an unencrypted text file with everyone's network passwords and looked through peoples' files freely.
...'
Then I got into high school. They were using Windows 95, which had SO many security holes and no competent 'nanny' software. I could freely go about deleting teachers' shared files when I wanted, finding them using nothing more than 'e: f: g:
I dunno what good it does to know all this, but maybe some school network administrators can realize that as much as the school system tries to make kids stupid and naive, you won't have much luck relying on their ignorance.
"The Theory of Morality"
Great, now someone's trying to turn morality into something real and not abstract/relative. Heh, and better yet, trying to get it to have anything to do with the law. Now I've heard everything and then some.
Damn. You know how many lines of code it takes to make a hyperlink parsing mechanism? THREE
I dedicated an entire ten seconds to making that.
'd tell 'em they have it when they're old enough to understand. And if they don't like, when they're old enough they can take it out themselves.
Of course, by that time they'll be so familiar with cutting their wrists that it should be no problem at all.
Problem with the 'tag criminals' idea is that you'll have so many tags wandering around that you won't know what to look out for. We (Americans at least) live in a country where you can go to prison for bringing a camcorder into a theater, and all someone needs to do to make you a convicted sex offender is call the police and cry rape. If you set up a tracking system based on who the government decides is a criminal/terrorist and whatnot, you'll be left with only a few people including aristocrats and politicians who have no tracking devices.
But a school, however, isn't lurking in a car somewhere watching your kids and they're the ones who SHOULD know where their students are, right?
Don't worry, the guy lurking in the car is probably the one with the RFID tracker.
Actually people are learning that they don't need incompetent software anymore. The idea behind these predictions is that people will remain in the dark and only get the OS that's by the biggest company, spending money on whatever the advertisements say to spend it on.
The reality is that you can only fool the public for so long. Just look at AOL, who did the same thing and thought that everyone would continue thinking 'oooh, they sent me a free CD! Now I want to use their heavily overpriced internet service' and that they'd one day become the ultimate ISP used by everyone around the world.
Now we've learned better and AOL has dropped to the lower depths of the internet world where hardly anyone takes a second glance at it. You can't expect people to fall for the 'incompetent but popular' trick for too long.
Pretty much everyone's encouraged to be. The thing is that people like to think their country is special because they use different and more-or-less effective methods of brainwashing. A lot of Americans just happen to know it when they see it. The above post talks as though America is special in this field, and is - more than anything - proof of how nonsensical this thinking is by giving no reason or logic to back it.
Another mindless 'we festering cannibals have a better culture than you' post. Methinks it could use a moderation.
Gyahahaha, I've actually gotten that one too. Talk about counter-productive. Oh yeah, we're so great, we're more free than the most oppressive countries in the world! We're more free than laboratory rats! We roxors your soxors!
Tomorrow it'll be 'At least we're better than that secluded African tribe run by Oog and his collection of shrunken heads.'
So, since the f-word and the s-word are traditionally not heard on the airwaves (for various reasons), why is there so BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP
:)
Sorry, you're not allowed to say the forthcoming words because certain cave dwellers and rednecks wish not to hear it. Words like 'commotion' pollute our society and kill our children. Here's a fine for 5,000 dollars. Don't let this happen again.