Ah, come on! Admit it! Everyone, just for once, admit that all those stereotypes and straw men are true and accurate reflections of reality. Something like:
"I'm a Christian and while I haven't eaten a child all day, I must admit that one would certainly hit the spot right about now."
Or:
"I'm an atheist. You can tell by the 'Will commit murder for a quarter.' sign around my neck."
This is slashdot, we KNOW the truth anyway. No reason to hide it.
>The idea is on entry to the US you hook people up to an MRI scanner and then show them a quick >"America fuck yeah" type montage. Patriotic stuff - cheerleaders and so on.
But images are just images. The reactions you can measure are dependent on the meanings derived from those images. Cheerleaders may be a patriotic image for you, but others may get evil "Revenge of the Nerds"/"Texas Cheerleader Mom" meanings from that same image. And that's perfectly reasonable.
The problem with this approach (and lie detectors too) is that they rely on the ability to make reliable, applicable generalizations about acceptable reactions. But human thought and reaction is not that trivial.
> I think it was Linus who lucked into success due to Stallman's efforts.
"WOW! I've got a functioning kernel and it's being used by millions of people. That sure was LUCKY!"
L. Torvalds, 1995
You have to have blind trust that you're doing the right thing and that the orders you got are good to go...
Not true. The orders you recieve have to be lawful. You can get in trouble for following unlawful orders. Blind trust is what the guards at Auschwitz had. The UCMJ was written with that in mind.
People without a military background need to post less and read more.
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Or just skip the reading and listen to Rush Limbaugh, Michael Moore or Ann Coulter. Still insightful. Or at least they told me they were.
Only on slashdot can someone claim that 2 wrongs make a right and get modded "insightful".
Ah, come on! Admit it! Everyone, just for once, admit that all those stereotypes and straw men are true and accurate reflections of reality. Something like: "I'm a Christian and while I haven't eaten a child all day, I must admit that one would certainly hit the spot right about now." Or: "I'm an atheist. You can tell by the 'Will commit murder for a quarter.' sign around my neck." This is slashdot, we KNOW the truth anyway. No reason to hide it.
>The idea is on entry to the US you hook people up to an MRI scanner and then show them a quick >"America fuck yeah" type montage. Patriotic stuff - cheerleaders and so on.
But images are just images. The reactions you can measure are dependent on the meanings derived from those images. Cheerleaders may be a patriotic image for you, but others may get evil "Revenge of the Nerds"/"Texas Cheerleader Mom" meanings from that same image. And that's perfectly reasonable.
The problem with this approach (and lie detectors too) is that they rely on the ability to make reliable, applicable generalizations about acceptable reactions. But human thought and reaction is not that trivial.
> I think it was Linus who lucked into success due to Stallman's efforts. "WOW! I've got a functioning kernel and it's being used by millions of people. That sure was LUCKY!" L. Torvalds, 1995
You have to have blind trust that you're doing the right thing and that the orders you got are good to go ...
Not true. The orders you recieve have to be lawful. You can get in trouble for following unlawful orders. Blind trust is what the guards at Auschwitz had. The UCMJ was written with that in mind.
People without a military background need to post less and read more.