I have a very hard time seeing that the same problem doesn't exists in Christianity and Judaism
Yeah, all of those contemporary examples of Christians and Jews doing things like shooting up rooms full of satirical journalists, and sending mentally challenged young women into vegetable markets with bombs strapped to them - they just won't stop doing that! All of those Christians and Jews that post online videos of themselves beheading their captive hostages, lining up villagers and gunning them down, burning teachers alive for daring to teach girls to read - it's definitely just like what all those thousands of Muslims are doing, no question.
“My statement to the Frederick News-Post regarding the use of my name was wrong and inappropriate. I’m not afraid to admit when I’m wrong,” Delauter says in the statement.
Until you focus on the individuals and their actual individual behaviour and drop the silly main stream media created party politics thing, you will achieve nothing.
That's the problem in the case I mentioned. A single party monoculture, run, effectively, by a handful of entrenched, corrupt individuals, has been preventing - through gerrymandering, union-backed vote blocking, etc - any given individual from within their own party or any other from in any way changing the status quo. That finally became so toxic and so transparent, that many in that part turned against the person their party's governor told them should be the next executive, and voted instead for an unlikely individual.
You are the problem with American politics
No, you are. Reading comprehension difficulties and deliberately low-information, knee-jerk opinion-spewing are why we are where we are. Please stop being yet another one of those people.
But if you knew ANYTHING about Maryland politics, you would know that the state has generally been a Democratic monoculture, with their party promoting and enacting and deficit-spending on the most ridiculous, corrupt, crazy crap imaginable. Even the predominantly Dem population of the state finally had enough of their own party's serial insanity, and voted in a shiny new Republican governor. Specifically because of things like counter-constitutional executive overreach and spectacular incompetence by the liberals who'd been running the show. The leftier counties in the state are infamous for the level of corruption and collusion between large government employee unions and the elected council members with whom they're in bed. It's off the charts, really. This local know-nothing on the council in one of our more rural, less-wealthy counties is really of no consequence, other than as a source of humor for the next couple of local new cycles. But we get to wear the entrenched one-party legislature in Annapolis full time, and it's going to take too long to undo the unspeakable (hilarious, if it weren't so evil) congressional district gerrymandering foisted on the state by the Dems a few years back.
So the guy is an ill-informed twit, a product of a typical Maryland public education. That's fine, because he's just a typical local guy who got a few dozen more votes than the next guy, and got a job as a minor league politician on a local county council.
But the problem is that we're seeing this sort of attitude (manifesting itself a bit differently) from the very top of the nation's executive branch. Lip service to promised "transparency," but in practice, draconian limitations on non-spin-approved access by journalists and photographers, reporters (and their entire organizations) being tapped and harassed if they don't convey the right message. Politicians have always had their favorite media contacts, but the ever-receding notion that they work for us is resulting in newly toxic levels of entitlement-itis and a sort of vaguely imperial bearing. That some elected officials have flirted with that from day one of the republic is not news, but the founders anticipated that and built in checks and balances. And some of those have been sorely tested, of late.
It will be interesting to see how the Attkisson suit plays out.
You'd almost think the perpetrators were simply homicidal maniacs who also happen to be Muslims.
Really? That's your theory? That three guys loaded for bear were just homicidal maniacs out to kill for the sake of killing, and by incredible coincidence, they happened to be Muslims shouting Islamic slogans and saying they were avenging the prophet? You're not even fooling yourself. Stop it.
That money in your hand isn't really worth anything, we just have faith that it does.
But we also put a lot of effort and energy in to establishing and maintaining systems and processes that make it viable as a way to avoid having to physically barter goods all day long. We don't have faith in the money, we have an appreciation for what we've done to make money a useful thing, and faith - if we must use that word - in the proposition that what worked yesterday (in the way of currency and financial instruments being a useful conveyor of value) will also work tomorrow. Which is to say, the trust is in the the civilization that arises from lots of people looking after their self interests, and wanting an efficient way to interact with each other. The proof that that trust isn't wildly misplaced is visible in the wildly superior standard of living that is enjoyed by cultures that get past walking sacks of goods to a market to trade for other goods every week. Boiling that all down to "faith in money" is too simple.
First, you've got all those new solar panels absorbing photons from the sun, but only in one direction, and then you've got all of those wind farms and tidal hydro plants adding friction to things. Of course the earth is being slowed down. Every time some do-gooder plants a tree, what do you think happens? More friction. Friction slows down the planet and causes heat. Check it for yourself - try walking briskly to the fridge and back, and then try shuffling your feet on the carpet as you do the same. Heat! Slowing down! Exactly like what happens when the atmosphere has to slide over something that's in the way, like a rainforest. No matter how many coal-bearing mountains we smooth out to help with this problem, the infestation of "tiny houses" clustered around hipster-friendly towns just slows the air back down again.
The point is that we can't make mentally unbalanced people rational, so we restrict their access to firearms.
No, the point is that a loud minority irrationally think that it's objects (like guns) that make people mentally unbalanced, and so we should restrict them from everybody. That's no straw man, that's the sort of nonsense that we're routinely up against.
They think they're protesting against gun control, but they're actually making a powerful and probably effective protest for 3D printer control.
You're missing the point. It's a protest against control, especially the completely pointless kind. The empty-headed, nanny-state kind that thinks that controlling access to objects will make people nicer, make mentally unbalanced people rational, and make everyone safe all the time. That entire premise is flawed, but too many people are willing to overlook that when it comes to the emotionally low hanging fruit of something like a firearm. He's pointing out that going after the tool, as a form of prior restraint, is just silly. And he's daring them to make a (losing, for them) court case out of it. Sure, it's theater. But where's the usual breathless theater calling for control of kitchen knives after that woman killed half a dozen children with one just a couple weeks ago?
that's why things like limited liability corporations exist, to attempt to shield the owners from being personally liable, but the act itself is still criminal
Why do people keep trotting this out? It's wrong. An LLC (and other forms of business-forming) don't shield you personally from the consequences of criminal acts.
Yes but has she suffered a thousand deadly tweets from online misogynists every day like Anita Sarkeesian? NO
It's true. Instead of being a fraud, like Ms. Video Blogger, she's in a place where actual, real medieval misogynists do things like actually kill women for trying to have a real life. Yes, fielding trollish tweets is definitely worse than being shot in the head. Or being stoned for having been raped. Or having acid thrown in your face. Or having your teacher burned alive in front of you before you are gang raped. Or having a hundred of your fellow students killed for being part of a culture that isn't sufficiently backing a particular jihadist nutcase faction. Or being dragged off into the African jungle to be rented out as a twelve year old wife. Yeah, those tweets are for sure worse than that sort of stuff.
Because not believing, with little evidence, NK is competent enough to pull this off makes you a B357 K0r34n 1337 h4xx0r.
What on earth makes you think that NK has to have the native talent? The didn't figure out how to make nukes on their own either. They didn't home-grow their substantial currency counterfeiting operation, either. They likewise don't design and build their own military equipment. But that doesn't stop them from having nukes, from doing big business in phony currency, and sinking other people's ships.
Thank you, Brave Warrior for The People's Democracy! Your commemorative Kim Jong Un medallion will be delivered to you. In person. You may wear it your choice of northern work camps, where you may be able to trade it for a piece of moldy cabbage before you die.
Sure they did. They stole time from millions of people. They deliberately screwed with the expectations and plans of millions of people, all for a little bit of cash and bragging rights among their fellow assholes.
The only victims here are the users who bought into a DRM'ed, locked down platform.
You're right, all those people should have chosen to buy fun, well-developed, richly supported gaming platforms from one of the many providers who offer open source, freedom-minded, anti-IP, systems that have a large selection of really cool massive multiplayer games with giant networks supporting all of that activity. There are so many to choose from that I'm sure it's why you just didn't have time to list them.
It's idiots like you, who think that businesses, networks, people's entertainment time, and the like "aren't real" that give comfort and encouragement to idiots like the guys who pulled this. They did it to be dicks, just like other dicks might throw a rock through your window and nail your TV right before you were going to watch the World Cup match you've been waiting weeks to watch with your friends. Or, in a closer analogy, waiting until moments before the game starts, and then cutting the cable that services your house or apartment building.
Let me guess: that soccer game's not real! They're not at the stadium in person, so denying them the chance to watch it as they planned isn't actually harmful! Destruction of the time someone plans to use in a certain way is a theft more real, in many ways, than stealing physical objects. You'll never be able to replace the time. Which is one of the reasons these guys are dicks. Deliberate, purposeful, not noble in any way, dicks.
... Dragnet from 1968 or 1969 showing the situation after the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.... You take the afros and 60s cars out of that episode and it could have been made yesterday.
Except Michael Brown was no Martin Luther King. King would have been appalled by the circumstances into which Brown's family launched him through neglect of his character. King would have been disgusted by Brown, who spend the morning smoking dope, robbing a convenience store to get more supplies, and then assaulting a cop. King would likewise have been disgusted by people chanting in the streets about things that didn't happen, outraged by their willingness to destroy people's property and burn down their neighborhood businesses, or shout in large organized groups about wanting to see dead cops NOW!
No, things are very different now than they were even 20 years ago. Worse, when it comes to that sort of thing.
What was he supposed to do - fly in with super speed and drag Bin Laden off to prison?
Well I definitely give you points for being so tenacious in your attempt to pretend you still understand the conversation.
Another poster says that people are wrong to point out Obama's failures, because look at all of the things HE accomplished. Except, HE didn't do those things. He's not responsible for them. The Bin Laden take-down had essentially zero to do with him or any policy on his part, other than, "Yeah, keep doing what you started doing under Bush, until we get that guy." I'm pointing out that the person trying to fish around for some way to show Obama as a success, is attributing to him personally things for which he is not responsible. But you keep attacking that straw man, if it makes you feel better. Nobody is fooled, and I doubt you're even fooling yourself.
Accountants look at the operating costs of a retail store as part and parcel of that store's profitability. Locks on doors, anti-theft devices on displays - those security systems and the people who maintain and support them are costs that impact the profitability of the store. Nobody running a real business pretends that the costs of operating that retail store aren't part of that store's profitability picture. Multi-store overhead (like, say, a loss prevention specialist who spends time at all of the stores) is still part of that store's P&L - her salary is charged to multiple accounts, so that each store's bottom line feels that cost.
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I have a very hard time seeing that the same problem doesn't exists in Christianity and Judaism
Yeah, all of those contemporary examples of Christians and Jews doing things like shooting up rooms full of satirical journalists, and sending mentally challenged young women into vegetable markets with bombs strapped to them - they just won't stop doing that! All of those Christians and Jews that post online videos of themselves beheading their captive hostages, lining up villagers and gunning them down, burning teachers alive for daring to teach girls to read - it's definitely just like what all those thousands of Muslims are doing, no question.
From earlier this afternoon:
“My statement to the Frederick News-Post regarding the use of my name was wrong and inappropriate. I’m not afraid to admit when I’m wrong,” Delauter says in the statement.
A gun that lets novices make mile-long shots likes experts
So, some sort of AI built into the system, wired to prefer the company of experts? Or does it learn, over time, to like experts?
Until you focus on the individuals and their actual individual behaviour and drop the silly main stream media created party politics thing, you will achieve nothing.
That's the problem in the case I mentioned. A single party monoculture, run, effectively, by a handful of entrenched, corrupt individuals, has been preventing - through gerrymandering, union-backed vote blocking, etc - any given individual from within their own party or any other from in any way changing the status quo. That finally became so toxic and so transparent, that many in that part turned against the person their party's governor told them should be the next executive, and voted instead for an unlikely individual.
You are the problem with American politics
No, you are. Reading comprehension difficulties and deliberately low-information, knee-jerk opinion-spewing are why we are where we are. Please stop being yet another one of those people.
Most stories omit his party affiliation.
But if you knew ANYTHING about Maryland politics, you would know that the state has generally been a Democratic monoculture, with their party promoting and enacting and deficit-spending on the most ridiculous, corrupt, crazy crap imaginable. Even the predominantly Dem population of the state finally had enough of their own party's serial insanity, and voted in a shiny new Republican governor. Specifically because of things like counter-constitutional executive overreach and spectacular incompetence by the liberals who'd been running the show. The leftier counties in the state are infamous for the level of corruption and collusion between large government employee unions and the elected council members with whom they're in bed. It's off the charts, really. This local know-nothing on the council in one of our more rural, less-wealthy counties is really of no consequence, other than as a source of humor for the next couple of local new cycles. But we get to wear the entrenched one-party legislature in Annapolis full time, and it's going to take too long to undo the unspeakable (hilarious, if it weren't so evil) congressional district gerrymandering foisted on the state by the Dems a few years back.
So the guy is an ill-informed twit, a product of a typical Maryland public education. That's fine, because he's just a typical local guy who got a few dozen more votes than the next guy, and got a job as a minor league politician on a local county council.
But the problem is that we're seeing this sort of attitude (manifesting itself a bit differently) from the very top of the nation's executive branch. Lip service to promised "transparency," but in practice, draconian limitations on non-spin-approved access by journalists and photographers, reporters (and their entire organizations) being tapped and harassed if they don't convey the right message. Politicians have always had their favorite media contacts, but the ever-receding notion that they work for us is resulting in newly toxic levels of entitlement-itis and a sort of vaguely imperial bearing. That some elected officials have flirted with that from day one of the republic is not news, but the founders anticipated that and built in checks and balances. And some of those have been sorely tested, of late.
It will be interesting to see how the Attkisson suit plays out.
You'd almost think the perpetrators were simply homicidal maniacs who also happen to be Muslims.
Really? That's your theory? That three guys loaded for bear were just homicidal maniacs out to kill for the sake of killing, and by incredible coincidence, they happened to be Muslims shouting Islamic slogans and saying they were avenging the prophet? You're not even fooling yourself. Stop it.
That money in your hand isn't really worth anything, we just have faith that it does.
But we also put a lot of effort and energy in to establishing and maintaining systems and processes that make it viable as a way to avoid having to physically barter goods all day long. We don't have faith in the money, we have an appreciation for what we've done to make money a useful thing, and faith - if we must use that word - in the proposition that what worked yesterday (in the way of currency and financial instruments being a useful conveyor of value) will also work tomorrow. Which is to say, the trust is in the the civilization that arises from lots of people looking after their self interests, and wanting an efficient way to interact with each other. The proof that that trust isn't wildly misplaced is visible in the wildly superior standard of living that is enjoyed by cultures that get past walking sacks of goods to a market to trade for other goods every week. Boiling that all down to "faith in money" is too simple.
First, you've got all those new solar panels absorbing photons from the sun, but only in one direction, and then you've got all of those wind farms and tidal hydro plants adding friction to things. Of course the earth is being slowed down. Every time some do-gooder plants a tree, what do you think happens? More friction. Friction slows down the planet and causes heat. Check it for yourself - try walking briskly to the fridge and back, and then try shuffling your feet on the carpet as you do the same. Heat! Slowing down! Exactly like what happens when the atmosphere has to slide over something that's in the way, like a rainforest. No matter how many coal-bearing mountains we smooth out to help with this problem, the infestation of "tiny houses" clustered around hipster-friendly towns just slows the air back down again.
The point is that we can't make mentally unbalanced people rational, so we restrict their access to firearms.
No, the point is that a loud minority irrationally think that it's objects (like guns) that make people mentally unbalanced, and so we should restrict them from everybody. That's no straw man, that's the sort of nonsense that we're routinely up against.
They think they're protesting against gun control, but they're actually making a powerful and probably effective protest for 3D printer control.
You're missing the point. It's a protest against control, especially the completely pointless kind. The empty-headed, nanny-state kind that thinks that controlling access to objects will make people nicer, make mentally unbalanced people rational, and make everyone safe all the time. That entire premise is flawed, but too many people are willing to overlook that when it comes to the emotionally low hanging fruit of something like a firearm. He's pointing out that going after the tool, as a form of prior restraint, is just silly. And he's daring them to make a (losing, for them) court case out of it. Sure, it's theater. But where's the usual breathless theater calling for control of kitchen knives after that woman killed half a dozen children with one just a couple weeks ago?
that's why things like limited liability corporations exist, to attempt to shield the owners from being personally liable, but the act itself is still criminal
Why do people keep trotting this out? It's wrong. An LLC (and other forms of business-forming) don't shield you personally from the consequences of criminal acts.
True communism hasn't really even been applied anywhere...
That's because rational people don't have to actually go through with it to see how toxic it is.
Yes but has she suffered a thousand deadly tweets from online misogynists every day like Anita Sarkeesian? NO
It's true. Instead of being a fraud, like Ms. Video Blogger, she's in a place where actual, real medieval misogynists do things like actually kill women for trying to have a real life. Yes, fielding trollish tweets is definitely worse than being shot in the head. Or being stoned for having been raped. Or having acid thrown in your face. Or having your teacher burned alive in front of you before you are gang raped. Or having a hundred of your fellow students killed for being part of a culture that isn't sufficiently backing a particular jihadist nutcase faction. Or being dragged off into the African jungle to be rented out as a twelve year old wife. Yeah, those tweets are for sure worse than that sort of stuff.
What's the value of an asshole that spends his evening judging the value of others he has never met?
You mean, like you're doing right now? Good question.
Because not believing, with little evidence, NK is competent enough to pull this off makes you a B357 K0r34n 1337 h4xx0r.
What on earth makes you think that NK has to have the native talent? The didn't figure out how to make nukes on their own either. They didn't home-grow their substantial currency counterfeiting operation, either. They likewise don't design and build their own military equipment. But that doesn't stop them from having nukes, from doing big business in phony currency, and sinking other people's ships.
Thank you, Brave Warrior for The People's Democracy! Your commemorative Kim Jong Un medallion will be delivered to you. In person. You may wear it your choice of northern work camps, where you may be able to trade it for a piece of moldy cabbage before you die.
They didn't steal
Sure they did. They stole time from millions of people. They deliberately screwed with the expectations and plans of millions of people, all for a little bit of cash and bragging rights among their fellow assholes.
The only victims here are the users who bought into a DRM'ed, locked down platform.
You're right, all those people should have chosen to buy fun, well-developed, richly supported gaming platforms from one of the many providers who offer open source, freedom-minded, anti-IP, systems that have a large selection of really cool massive multiplayer games with giant networks supporting all of that activity. There are so many to choose from that I'm sure it's why you just didn't have time to list them.
A door and windows are real.
It's idiots like you, who think that businesses, networks, people's entertainment time, and the like "aren't real" that give comfort and encouragement to idiots like the guys who pulled this. They did it to be dicks, just like other dicks might throw a rock through your window and nail your TV right before you were going to watch the World Cup match you've been waiting weeks to watch with your friends. Or, in a closer analogy, waiting until moments before the game starts, and then cutting the cable that services your house or apartment building.
Let me guess: that soccer game's not real! They're not at the stadium in person, so denying them the chance to watch it as they planned isn't actually harmful! Destruction of the time someone plans to use in a certain way is a theft more real, in many ways, than stealing physical objects. You'll never be able to replace the time. Which is one of the reasons these guys are dicks. Deliberate, purposeful, not noble in any way, dicks.
... Dragnet from 1968 or 1969 showing the situation after the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. ... You take the afros and 60s cars out of that episode and it could have been made yesterday.
Except Michael Brown was no Martin Luther King. King would have been appalled by the circumstances into which Brown's family launched him through neglect of his character. King would have been disgusted by Brown, who spend the morning smoking dope, robbing a convenience store to get more supplies, and then assaulting a cop. King would likewise have been disgusted by people chanting in the streets about things that didn't happen, outraged by their willingness to destroy people's property and burn down their neighborhood businesses, or shout in large organized groups about wanting to see dead cops NOW!
No, things are very different now than they were even 20 years ago. Worse, when it comes to that sort of thing.
What was he supposed to do - fly in with super speed and drag Bin Laden off to prison?
Well I definitely give you points for being so tenacious in your attempt to pretend you still understand the conversation.
Another poster says that people are wrong to point out Obama's failures, because look at all of the things HE accomplished. Except, HE didn't do those things. He's not responsible for them. The Bin Laden take-down had essentially zero to do with him or any policy on his part, other than, "Yeah, keep doing what you started doing under Bush, until we get that guy." I'm pointing out that the person trying to fish around for some way to show Obama as a success, is attributing to him personally things for which he is not responsible. But you keep attacking that straw man, if it makes you feel better. Nobody is fooled, and I doubt you're even fooling yourself.
Accountants look at the operating costs of a retail store as part and parcel of that store's profitability. Locks on doors, anti-theft devices on displays - those security systems and the people who maintain and support them are costs that impact the profitability of the store. Nobody running a real business pretends that the costs of operating that retail store aren't part of that store's profitability picture. Multi-store overhead (like, say, a loss prevention specialist who spends time at all of the stores) is still part of that store's P&L - her salary is charged to multiple accounts, so that each store's bottom line feels that cost.
In other words, you don't have anything germane to say on the subject, just snark that's disconnected from reality. That's exactly my point.
As I asked another poster: is a company's retail store a profit center? Are the locks on the front door part of that profit center?