If you are a potential threat, or just in the way when the cos are looking for headlines, you are toast. Remember the guy that was arrested for the Olympics bombing, Richard Jewel?
We've certainly come a long way in this country. It used to be only poor minorities could aspire to be scapegoats. Now everyone has the same chance.
adding a dimension of moral retribution, and intentionally skewing justice "to make an example" is the way we want to go, right?
What's sickening is that in a way, you are right. Dramatically overpunishing a few to cow the rest is much more efficient than dispensing justice fairly to all. Ask any dictator, junta, or Catholic schoolteacher.
Dunno -- seems to me Stallman has had a much longer time to look for a "replacement", which would again be folk with the same je ne sais quois. Torvalds has, from the start, claimed he is not irreplaceable. So what's behind that? I think S sees himself as a spiritual leader. T sees himself as a good project manager.
That *sounds* good, but who protects the freedom of speech & the human rights? Who defines them? "National Security" is an outgrowth of (not to put too fine a point on it) "Village Security". It ain't pretty, and I an't proud, but in times of actual danger people tend to delegate their authority over these things because it is necessary. The problem is authority rarely gives it back.
No, not CF, SD, etc. Hand-size pieces of cardboard with pictures and translations. They absolutely work, adults too.
Or, some sort of whiz-bang flash card program, of course.
That I have been too, anyway. Even the one stuffed in the corner of a supermarket in the booming metropolis of Owings Mills, Maryland. I used to be a consultant for high-priced & crappy ["maximise consultant's fees"] software... pretensiousness was our natural aroma.:)
I've a stack of p2-350 machines, each with 64 MB ram and 4GB scsi-1 hard drives. In their day (1998) they were pretty sweet workstations. In this day they are pretty nice machines running RedHat 7.0 or somesuch. They can be had at "junk shops" for less than US$50. Chuck in a monitor and some upgraded apps, etc, and you have a computer for children, libraries, and 80% of office workers.
G. Poster was referencing the book 1984, where "Big Brother" comes from, and the practice of denying that alliances ever shifted... "we have always been at war with Eurasia", etc.
Americans are equal to all and better than most, and nothing, not even contradictoring evidense, will convince us otherhow.
Ditto for the American governments, too.
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Every government diddles with the markets. The US pays farmers NOT to grow food. It put high tariffs on steel and, of all things, chocolate, gives tax breaks for various industries, etc etc etc.
As for Mexican immigration destroying the unskilled labor market -- remember that the southwest United States used to be part of Mexico, and people on both sides are pretty much the same folk; their legal status mostly luck & whatever laws were in effect at the time. I would point more to the Mexican government's devaluations over the last 25 years (from 6MXP:1$ in 1979 to 11,500MXP:1$ in 1994), and predatory "development" loans from US & European banks that caused them. Many Mexican workers are in the US because of that sharp disparity, and they send over $11 billion dollars a year to their families back home.
As for the rest -- protecting the enviroment is a luxury of industrial overcapacity, something the US as a whole didn't much care about until the late 1960's. Industrializing nations quite literally can't afford to worry too much about it. The same is roughly true for workers agitating for better conditions.
And maybe that's something congenital I should get checked out. Mr. Jesus had some good things to say about living & such, but he should have stopped there. From what I've seen, theologies that venerate an afterlife tend to cheapen life itself.... and we've got enough of that already. It's not a long road from "I and my community are saved/good/favored because we believe X" to "Screw 'em, they're just a bunch of pagan wogs". This trait, like much else, is "just there"; it doesn't need religion to manifest... but they often heterodyne.
As for putting yourself above God, why not? You find out pretty quick what's what. Children do this all the time... but they are not punished unto the last generation, etc... unless you consider their kids fit punishment.:) Original Sin is a terrible concept -- not because it's wrong, but because it's not used to help people understand their own nature, it's used as a bludgeon of control.
"While it is true that acts don't save or condemn us..."
"People are inherently condemned to hell already because all people sin."
Are you talking about the Original Sin thing? That was the deal-breaker for me. I can't accept a philosophy that preaches gaining knowledge is so horrible a crime you should be punished unto the last generation.
I do agree that the media portrays Christian beliefs wrongly... but the media portrays everything wrongly.
All their shows started at:05 and:35. I always thought it was funny, until I realised that you would never miss the begining of their shows, and always miss the begining of other channel's shows. It's the same kind of low cunning behind "$10.99"... really only effective if not everyone does it.
I was bored one night, downloaded random sections of the USC and did word counts:
~48,000 pages * 1,014 words per page
And that's just core federal laws... no case law, state or local laws, agency regulations, presidential directives, etc etc etc.... I would not be surprised to learn we are already up to 1Bn words.
chances are the x-prize would have been won a couple hundred years ago!
Or, the Old World would have succeeded in killing itself off through mechanised warfare (notice a trend in the applications of Leo's little sketches?) before Industrial Age tech was transferred over to the Americas. In that case, India would be the global industrialised power.:)
What's more, the 536M is about the size of the EU fine... so it's not really about the cash (what's a billion dollars to them?) it's about not letting *anyone*, any entity or government *anywhere*, tell them what to do.
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We've certainly come a long way in this country. It used to be only poor minorities could aspire to be scapegoats. Now everyone has the same chance.
What's sickening is that in a way, you are right. Dramatically overpunishing a few to cow the rest is much more efficient than dispensing justice fairly to all. Ask any dictator, junta, or Catholic schoolteacher.
Dunno -- seems to me Stallman has had a much longer time to look for a "replacement", which would again be folk with the same je ne sais quois. Torvalds has, from the start, claimed he is not irreplaceable. So what's behind that? I think S sees himself as a spiritual leader. T sees himself as a good project manager.
Stallman considers himself indispensible; Linus makes jokes aout stepping in front of a bus.
Why, that's right! Amend II is self-contradictory. Is that why every gun-nut conveniently forgets the first half of it?
It was an interjection just like yours here that birthed the term "open source".
That *sounds* good, but who protects the freedom of speech & the human rights? Who defines them? "National Security" is an outgrowth of (not to put too fine a point on it) "Village Security". It ain't pretty, and I an't proud, but in times of actual danger people tend to delegate their authority over these things because it is necessary. The problem is authority rarely gives it back.
No, not CF, SD, etc. Hand-size pieces of cardboard with pictures and translations. They absolutely work, adults too. Or, some sort of whiz-bang flash card program, of course.
That I have been too, anyway. Even the one stuffed in the corner of a supermarket in the booming metropolis of Owings Mills, Maryland. I used to be a consultant for high-priced & crappy ["maximise consultant's fees"] software... pretensiousness was our natural aroma. :)
I've a stack of p2-350 machines, each with 64 MB ram and 4GB scsi-1 hard drives. In their day (1998) they were pretty sweet workstations. In this day they are pretty nice machines running RedHat 7.0 or somesuch. They can be had at "junk shops" for less than US$50. Chuck in a monitor and some upgraded apps, etc, and you have a computer for children, libraries, and 80% of office workers.
G. Poster was referencing the book 1984, where "Big Brother" comes from, and the practice of denying that alliances ever shifted... "we have always been at war with Eurasia", etc.
Americans are equal to all and better than most, and nothing, not even contradictoring evidense, will convince us otherhow.
Every government diddles with the markets. The US pays farmers NOT to grow food. It put high tariffs on steel and, of all things, chocolate, gives tax breaks for various industries, etc etc etc.
As for Mexican immigration destroying the unskilled labor market -- remember that the southwest United States used to be part of Mexico, and people on both sides are pretty much the same folk; their legal status mostly luck & whatever laws were in effect at the time. I would point more to the Mexican government's devaluations over the last 25 years (from 6MXP:1$ in 1979 to 11,500MXP:1$ in 1994), and predatory "development" loans from US & European banks that caused them. Many Mexican workers are in the US because of that sharp disparity, and they send over $11 billion dollars a year to their families back home.
As for the rest -- protecting the enviroment is a luxury of industrial overcapacity, something the US as a whole didn't much care about until the late 1960's. Industrializing nations quite literally can't afford to worry too much about it. The same is roughly true for workers agitating for better conditions.
You have to be able to handle a quill pen to use it.
With ink pots and nibs and everything. But, like fish-tickling and lice-picking, it's a dying art.
And maybe that's something congenital I should get checked out. Mr. Jesus had some good things to say about living & such, but he should have stopped there. From what I've seen, theologies that venerate an afterlife tend to cheapen life itself.... and we've got enough of that already. It's not a long road from "I and my community are saved/good/favored because we believe X" to "Screw 'em, they're just a bunch of pagan wogs". This trait, like much else, is "just there"; it doesn't need religion to manifest... but they often heterodyne.
As for putting yourself above God, why not? You find out pretty quick what's what. Children do this all the time... but they are not punished unto the last generation, etc... unless you consider their kids fit punishment. :) Original Sin is a terrible concept -- not because it's wrong, but because it's not used to help people understand their own nature, it's used as a bludgeon of control.
"While it is true that acts don't save or condemn us..."
"People are inherently condemned to hell already because all people sin."
Are you talking about the Original Sin thing? That was the deal-breaker for me. I can't accept a philosophy that preaches gaining knowledge is so horrible a crime you should be punished unto the last generation.
I do agree that the media portrays Christian beliefs wrongly... but the media portrays everything wrongly.
All their shows started at :05 and :35. I always thought it was funny, until I realised that you would never miss the begining of their shows, and always miss the begining of other channel's shows. It's the same kind of low cunning behind "$10.99"... really only effective if not everyone does it.
Just like elevators, but worse. NO one thinks they should wait another 2 minutes for the next one.
So, how many Libraries of Congress is tha.... Oh.
~48,000 pages * 1,014 words per page
And that's just core federal laws... no case law, state or local laws, agency regulations, presidential directives, etc etc etc.... I would not be surprised to learn we are already up to 1Bn words.
One of which must be a corporate or government shill.
Why do you think he got fired from Time, and vowed never to do "fishwrap" journalism?
Or, the Old World would have succeeded in killing itself off through mechanised warfare (notice a trend in the applications of Leo's little sketches?) before Industrial Age tech was transferred over to the Americas. In that case, India would be the global industrialised power. :)
What's more, the 536M is about the size of the EU fine... so it's not really about the cash (what's a billion dollars to them?) it's about not letting *anyone*, any entity or government *anywhere*, tell them what to do.