You know, assuming the original cell donor has been compensated for their services and is not harmed in the process, I might be down for trying some vat-grown Long Pig. I'll bet there'd be a genuine novelty market.
They do not call for the "destruction" of Israel. They call for the dissolution of the political entity of Israel and the institution of a democratic government which grants citizenship equally to everyone born within the borders. A democratic one-state solution. But people like you can't differentiate a government from the people; that's why you're able to believe such ridiculous nonsense about the "threat" of Iran. Most Iranians are like most people anywhere - trying to build a prosperous life and be left the fuck alone by their own government and everyone else. Wake up! Groups of people are all basically the same!!
There is a fundamental and obvious difference between calling for the dissolution of a hostile government, and calling for the deaths of 7 million people.
This is what is repeated by Western media outlets ad nauseum, that is correct. I, for one, do not believe the vast majority of the things I read and hear. As for you, your sources are obviously Western mass media.
As for me, I read Ynet. I read Haaretz. I read Al Jazeera. I read Al-Manar. I read PressTV. I read Russia Today. I read McClatchey. I read UrukNet. I read the Army Times. I read Lebanon Star. I read several blogs, especially the Angry Arab.
You are repeating shit you heard on the idiot box and absorbed through cultural osmosis. I read dozens of sources and piece together my own narrative from opposing viewpoints. I do not believe these ridiculous, self-congratulatory stories about why it's a sad tragedy when Western nations kill Muslim civilians but it's demonic freedum-hating evil when Muslims kill Western civilians.
I think "Jews" are the second best example of a granfalloon in the world. IE: a meaningless category. In the Vonnegut book Cat's Cradle, a vapid woman latches on to the protagonist because they are both "Hoosiers." She spends the whole book making reference to the fact that they share some kind of imaginary similarity because they are both from Indiana.
People who claim to be Jews, well, what of it? If you meet someone on the internet and they claim to be a Jew, you have learned absolutely nothing about them. You don't know where they live, you don't know what they eat, you don't know what they believe religiously, you don't know how they spend their Sundays. You don't know what their ethnic heritage is or what other language they may speak. You have not learned anything about them as a person.
Hitler bought into the granfalloon of Jews just as foolishly as "the Jews" themselves have. "Jew" is an artificial category and an external identification for someone who doesn't have enough of themselves inside themselves to fill themselves up with themselves.
1. Lebanon is a RINO - Republic in Name Only. Consider the huge population of disefrachized Palestinians who have been living in camps for the past fifty years. Lebanon-born "Palestinians" have it as bad as they would have it in Israel. Jordan is also guilty of this.
2/ Why is Hezbollah a "terrorist" organization? They fight in wars to keep their land free of occupation. Wars result in civilian deaths. Is this news? IDF kills civilians. Hezbollah kills civilians. Hamas kills civilians. Islamic Jihad kills civilians. US Army kills civilians. Either one is terrorist or they all are; as for Hezbollah, at least they fight on their own land and not the land of others.
3. Whatever your opinion, Hezbollah has stated that while it receives funding and support from Iran, they are not a puppet and are Lebanese fighting for Lebanese sovereignty. Consider that in the last war Christians and Druze both fought in Hezbollah and supported Hezbollah by overwhelming majority. In fact, Hezbollah offers a non-confessional alternative to the country's entrenched political system which is based entirely and sickeningly on religion
No you can't. Zionism is a political agenda defined by racial politics and largely based on religious fairy tales. For these reasons I think it constitutes racism and should not be considered acceptable by civilized peoples. Zionism isn't some made-up boogeyman - it is a real thing, and the word is used by people who are Zionists! The word and idea did not spring fully-formed from Zeus' forehead and start posting on Stormfront one afternoon.
As to what constitutes neutrality on Hezbollah, I think the issue just goes to show there is no neutrality anywhere. Every article is going to have biases either explicit or implicit as all human beings have biases explicit or implicit. Hell, there was a months-long flamewar on the Brazil article on whether it constituted linguistic imperialism to spell it Brazil rather than Brasil. I didn't expect "neutrality" in the mythological sense, but what I did expect was that the words of the senior leadership of Hezbollah on their motivations and agenda be included in an article on their organization.
I stopped even trying when I was editing the Hezbollah article for a little less bias and a little more clarity and then getting all my edits erased due to Wikipedia being run by editors of the Zionist persuasion. Finding out a few days later that the CIA was editing all kinds of articles on "terrorism" and other methods of opposing the agenda of the US government was just icing on the cake. The "neutral-viewpoint" promoted by Wikipedia almost always defines their own political agenda as neutrality and any other views as "biased" or "controversial."
What if the laws of physics aren't the same in all systems? I have occasionally toyed with the idea that the heliosphere acts as a kind of lens distorting the apparent operations of the outside universe. Sort of an updated sublunar/supralunar idea. How can we test if the laws of physics operate the same on all scales? Could the Voyager Anomaly be evidence that "local" physics is not universal?
Schwatzchild gave us the idea of black holes by postulating a region of infinite mass - because he divided by zero! Doesn't every grade school student know that dividing by zero gives an incoherent result?
1. Gravity is still spooky action at a distance with no causal mechanism defined.
2. I don't think time, as in "time lines" or some kind of unidirectional movement through a medium exists. Now exists, hypostatized out of a past (which stops existing when it stops being now) and which in turn hypostatizes the future (which does not exist.)
3. Electromagnetism is the dominant force in the heavens as it is on Earth.
4. Stars are organisms and they reproduce through fission.
5. Galaxies are powered by vast electric circuits; beads on a string.
Oh yes, a rational discussion with the SS goon arresting you just to take bodily material from you will work! If only we had thought of this before!
How naive can you be? Tyranny is irrational and it is imposed by paranoid radicals. I saw a farce of the US Homeland Security that showed the eagle holding a magnifying lens and wearing a tinfoil hat. The biggest conspiracy theorists of all are in the Axis governments - jumping at shadows, yelling about "terrorism" without cause, and spying on everyone. The government is having a psychotic episode.
Will any of you fight this intrusion into your persons by force? What's that? No? Even the Taliban are brave enough to try to defend their way of life against the demeaning incursions of the USA/British/Israeli Axis, but when it comes to the victims in the Home countries, well you just bend over for it every time. This is why I will always admire organizations like Hezbollah more than you, even if I don't agree with all of their ideas - at least they have the balls to stand up against your violent and intrusive regimes and define their cultures in opposition to it. Since none of you will ever go to the lengths necessary to protect your rights and human dignity, you had better pray to God that the economic collapse happens sooner than later and cuts off the ability of your malignant regimes to continue these debauches.
When the USSR fell, it fell largely peacefully - but I expect the US/UK/Israeli Axis regimes to wage total war on their own people before fading from history.
I get unsolicited mail in my snail mail box pretty much every day, and that does a hell of a lot more damage to the environment and productivity time (sorting, recycling, et c.) than spam does.
I vastly prefer a technological solution to one that comes at the point of a government gun. Look, if you own the router, it's your responsibility to accept or reject information going into it.
Brilliant! You have just created a mechanism by which the government can declare all dissent from its policies "noise" and thus be blocked.
Back in the USSR, they used to respond with dissent by calling it the result of mental illness. After all, the dictatorship of the proletariat always had the best interests of the common folk at heart. If you disagreed with its policies, it must be because you are a poor suffering victim of some kind of anti-social personality disorder.
It's funny to me that the people who complain about spam the most are also the "information wants to be free" types. You can't have it both ways. Freedom of speech, freedom of data transmission also applies to hawkers of Viiagr11a and c1la15!!) doesn't it? As to DDoS attacks, how many times are you allowed to knock on a church's door before it becomes illegal? Though you might agree with this particular case, it opens up the door for more intrusive precedents. Once you allow the government to ban heroin, you give them jurisdiction over your body that will become more and more intrusive.
All freedom is intertwined. The freedom of speech, the freedom of trade, the freedom of contracts! Economic freedom and the right to self-defense are codependent. Spiritual freedom requires political freedom, and vice versa. Without the freedom to choose between employers, the freedom to hire people at will, the freedom to buy and sell goods at market value - the anarchy of statism takes control.
People like you do not trust human beings, you think they need to be directed by authorities. I contend against that; I think people are at their best when they are free. People form the best societies when they are organized at grassroots level and not by a Supreme Soviet in Moscow or Washington. Freedom is virtue. Freedom is prosperity. Freedom is peace.
Maybe it was always fascist, after all. Even our Founding Fathers kept slaves (disenfranchised class) and committed endless massacres against native peoples. I was just hoping someone could point out a two year period somewhere for me when America was not: 1) at war 2) disenfranchising some of its adult population 3) having made certain consumables illegal. I do not think there has ever been a two year period in which the Constitution was followed in any sense. I certainly do not idealize any period of American history, though I'm partial to Jefferson's struggle to keep the bankers out and Andrew Jackson sending them packing. But that's only a small good in a great evil.
I can't find it, but the old Italian's speech in Catch-22 sums it up best; what good is it being a superpower if you are always caught in a state of conflict and you're always in economic turmoil as a consequence? Nobody ever bothers Lichtenstein.
The Welfare-Warfare state creates several social classes which are entirely repugnant to the free man. The first class is, of course, the welfare class. America is awfully egalitarian when it comes to putting down social discontent with money - ghetto blacks and rural trailer trash whites share a common "benefactor" in the central government which does not discriminate racially like so many others. Our government funds its most likely opposition, and the same inner city blacks that suffer under the jackboot of ghetto "justice" fail to realize it is tied to the monthly handouts they receive.
Another repulsive class is the corporate parasite. Worse than the welfare bums, the corporate bums leverage the power of the state to protect their marketshare, patent basic inventions to stifle competition, and use lawyers to crush competitors even when they are in the right. This class is worse in many ways, as it is full of rabid conformist, pseudo-intellectuals who suckle on the teet of the state secondhand.
Then there is the intelligentsia that it installs in state-funded institution and rewards with state-funded grants for as long as the perpetrator blindly supports the state in all its doings. Paul Krugman, wrong about everything so far, is that you? Victor Davis Hanson? The big names of stupid and wrong congregate there.
Then there's the people freedom-lovers should despise the most: the yes men, the intellectual conformists, the button-smashing neanderthals who don't even benefit from the state they blindly support. They are in evidence everywhere in Slashdot, and they are set off most by new ideas. If these conformist robo-drones don't have a ready-made script for something you say, they become immediately hostile as thinking is totally anathema to them. They are generally well educated, or at least, good at repeating things they hear on the idiot box or at school or the inane ramblings of their elected officials. They can seem deceptively intelligent, but don't be fooled - is a router a sophisticated processor just because it transmits processed bits? Certainly not. They hear, repeat, and smash down anything they haven't heard and repeated before.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
America is, and pretty much always has been, a fascist nation. I think the recent bailouts of the banking giants and car manufacturers should prove that it is fascist now; Andrew Jackson himself was fighting fascism when it came to central banking back in the 1830's. War and weapons define the American economy. Boeing and Raytheon and Xi could be considered the ultimate achievement of which a fascist society is capable.
Lew Rockwell is fond of referring to the central government as the Welfare-Warfare state. Our country has always defined itself through these two socialist conspiracies against mankind - welfare both corporate and personal, which stunts economic growth and creates a class of victims wholly dependent on the largess of their tormentor - and warfare, which is the extension of corporate power through the state in order to secure resources overseas. We should abandon this socialism, this corporatism, this fascism - and create a government that exists only within strict Constitutional boundaries. Nothing else will do for the good of mankind.
This is just publisher's propaganda. Publishers would always be able to be successful even without copyright - people want a physical book, they want a signed physical book, they want a physical book on high quality paper, they want a physical book with hard covers and rich colored imagery - they'd just have to, you know, innovate to stay ahead.
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You know, assuming the original cell donor has been compensated for their services and is not harmed in the process, I might be down for trying some vat-grown Long Pig. I'll bet there'd be a genuine novelty market.
They do not call for the "destruction" of Israel. They call for the dissolution of the political entity of Israel and the institution of a democratic government which grants citizenship equally to everyone born within the borders. A democratic one-state solution. But people like you can't differentiate a government from the people; that's why you're able to believe such ridiculous nonsense about the "threat" of Iran. Most Iranians are like most people anywhere - trying to build a prosperous life and be left the fuck alone by their own government and everyone else. Wake up! Groups of people are all basically the same!!
There is a fundamental and obvious difference between calling for the dissolution of a hostile government, and calling for the deaths of 7 million people.
This is what is repeated by Western media outlets ad nauseum, that is correct. I, for one, do not believe the vast majority of the things I read and hear. As for you, your sources are obviously Western mass media.
As for me, I read Ynet. I read Haaretz. I read Al Jazeera. I read Al-Manar. I read PressTV. I read Russia Today. I read McClatchey. I read UrukNet. I read the Army Times. I read Lebanon Star. I read several blogs, especially the Angry Arab.
You are repeating shit you heard on the idiot box and absorbed through cultural osmosis. I read dozens of sources and piece together my own narrative from opposing viewpoints. I do not believe these ridiculous, self-congratulatory stories about why it's a sad tragedy when Western nations kill Muslim civilians but it's demonic freedum-hating evil when Muslims kill Western civilians.
another sorry victim of CDS - Czarangelus Derangement Syndrome
What the fuck are you talking about?
I think "Jews" are the second best example of a granfalloon in the world. IE: a meaningless category. In the Vonnegut book Cat's Cradle, a vapid woman latches on to the protagonist because they are both "Hoosiers." She spends the whole book making reference to the fact that they share some kind of imaginary similarity because they are both from Indiana.
People who claim to be Jews, well, what of it? If you meet someone on the internet and they claim to be a Jew, you have learned absolutely nothing about them. You don't know where they live, you don't know what they eat, you don't know what they believe religiously, you don't know how they spend their Sundays. You don't know what their ethnic heritage is or what other language they may speak. You have not learned anything about them as a person.
Hitler bought into the granfalloon of Jews just as foolishly as "the Jews" themselves have. "Jew" is an artificial category and an external identification for someone who doesn't have enough of themselves inside themselves to fill themselves up with themselves.
You say "Jew," I say "So what?"
1. Lebanon is a RINO - Republic in Name Only. Consider the huge population of disefrachized Palestinians who have been living in camps for the past fifty years. Lebanon-born "Palestinians" have it as bad as they would have it in Israel. Jordan is also guilty of this.
2/ Why is Hezbollah a "terrorist" organization? They fight in wars to keep their land free of occupation. Wars result in civilian deaths. Is this news? IDF kills civilians. Hezbollah kills civilians. Hamas kills civilians. Islamic Jihad kills civilians. US Army kills civilians. Either one is terrorist or they all are; as for Hezbollah, at least they fight on their own land and not the land of others.
3. Whatever your opinion, Hezbollah has stated that while it receives funding and support from Iran, they are not a puppet and are Lebanese fighting for Lebanese sovereignty. Consider that in the last war Christians and Druze both fought in Hezbollah and supported Hezbollah by overwhelming majority. In fact, Hezbollah offers a non-confessional alternative to the country's entrenched political system which is based entirely and sickeningly on religion
No you can't. Zionism is a political agenda defined by racial politics and largely based on religious fairy tales. For these reasons I think it constitutes racism and should not be considered acceptable by civilized peoples. Zionism isn't some made-up boogeyman - it is a real thing, and the word is used by people who are Zionists! The word and idea did not spring fully-formed from Zeus' forehead and start posting on Stormfront one afternoon.
As to what constitutes neutrality on Hezbollah, I think the issue just goes to show there is no neutrality anywhere. Every article is going to have biases either explicit or implicit as all human beings have biases explicit or implicit. Hell, there was a months-long flamewar on the Brazil article on whether it constituted linguistic imperialism to spell it Brazil rather than Brasil. I didn't expect "neutrality" in the mythological sense, but what I did expect was that the words of the senior leadership of Hezbollah on their motivations and agenda be included in an article on their organization.
I stopped even trying when I was editing the Hezbollah article for a little less bias and a little more clarity and then getting all my edits erased due to Wikipedia being run by editors of the Zionist persuasion. Finding out a few days later that the CIA was editing all kinds of articles on "terrorism" and other methods of opposing the agenda of the US government was just icing on the cake. The "neutral-viewpoint" promoted by Wikipedia almost always defines their own political agenda as neutrality and any other views as "biased" or "controversial."
What if the laws of physics aren't the same in all systems? I have occasionally toyed with the idea that the heliosphere acts as a kind of lens distorting the apparent operations of the outside universe. Sort of an updated sublunar/supralunar idea. How can we test if the laws of physics operate the same on all scales? Could the Voyager Anomaly be evidence that "local" physics is not universal?
Schwatzchild gave us the idea of black holes by postulating a region of infinite mass - because he divided by zero! Doesn't every grade school student know that dividing by zero gives an incoherent result?
1. Gravity is still spooky action at a distance with no causal mechanism defined.
2. I don't think time, as in "time lines" or some kind of unidirectional movement through a medium exists. Now exists, hypostatized out of a past (which stops existing when it stops being now) and which in turn hypostatizes the future (which does not exist.)
3. Electromagnetism is the dominant force in the heavens as it is on Earth.
4. Stars are organisms and they reproduce through fission.
5. Galaxies are powered by vast electric circuits; beads on a string.
Oh yes, a rational discussion with the SS goon arresting you just to take bodily material from you will work! If only we had thought of this before!
How naive can you be? Tyranny is irrational and it is imposed by paranoid radicals. I saw a farce of the US Homeland Security that showed the eagle holding a magnifying lens and wearing a tinfoil hat. The biggest conspiracy theorists of all are in the Axis governments - jumping at shadows, yelling about "terrorism" without cause, and spying on everyone. The government is having a psychotic episode.
Will any of you fight this intrusion into your persons by force? What's that? No? Even the Taliban are brave enough to try to defend their way of life against the demeaning incursions of the USA/British/Israeli Axis, but when it comes to the victims in the Home countries, well you just bend over for it every time. This is why I will always admire organizations like Hezbollah more than you, even if I don't agree with all of their ideas - at least they have the balls to stand up against your violent and intrusive regimes and define their cultures in opposition to it. Since none of you will ever go to the lengths necessary to protect your rights and human dignity, you had better pray to God that the economic collapse happens sooner than later and cuts off the ability of your malignant regimes to continue these debauches.
When the USSR fell, it fell largely peacefully - but I expect the US/UK/Israeli Axis regimes to wage total war on their own people before fading from history.
I get unsolicited mail in my snail mail box pretty much every day, and that does a hell of a lot more damage to the environment and productivity time (sorting, recycling, et c.) than spam does.
I vastly prefer a technological solution to one that comes at the point of a government gun. Look, if you own the router, it's your responsibility to accept or reject information going into it.
Brilliant! You have just created a mechanism by which the government can declare all dissent from its policies "noise" and thus be blocked.
Back in the USSR, they used to respond with dissent by calling it the result of mental illness. After all, the dictatorship of the proletariat always had the best interests of the common folk at heart. If you disagreed with its policies, it must be because you are a poor suffering victim of some kind of anti-social personality disorder.
do you really want the government deciding which is which?
It's funny to me that the people who complain about spam the most are also the "information wants to be free" types. You can't have it both ways. Freedom of speech, freedom of data transmission also applies to hawkers of Viiagr11a and c1la15!!) doesn't it? As to DDoS attacks, how many times are you allowed to knock on a church's door before it becomes illegal? Though you might agree with this particular case, it opens up the door for more intrusive precedents. Once you allow the government to ban heroin, you give them jurisdiction over your body that will become more and more intrusive.
All freedom is intertwined. The freedom of speech, the freedom of trade, the freedom of contracts! Economic freedom and the right to self-defense are codependent. Spiritual freedom requires political freedom, and vice versa. Without the freedom to choose between employers, the freedom to hire people at will, the freedom to buy and sell goods at market value - the anarchy of statism takes control.
People like you do not trust human beings, you think they need to be directed by authorities. I contend against that; I think people are at their best when they are free. People form the best societies when they are organized at grassroots level and not by a Supreme Soviet in Moscow or Washington. Freedom is virtue. Freedom is prosperity. Freedom is peace.
Maybe it was always fascist, after all. Even our Founding Fathers kept slaves (disenfranchised class) and committed endless massacres against native peoples. I was just hoping someone could point out a two year period somewhere for me when America was not: 1) at war 2) disenfranchising some of its adult population 3) having made certain consumables illegal. I do not think there has ever been a two year period in which the Constitution was followed in any sense. I certainly do not idealize any period of American history, though I'm partial to Jefferson's struggle to keep the bankers out and Andrew Jackson sending them packing. But that's only a small good in a great evil.
I can't find it, but the old Italian's speech in Catch-22 sums it up best; what good is it being a superpower if you are always caught in a state of conflict and you're always in economic turmoil as a consequence? Nobody ever bothers Lichtenstein.
The Welfare-Warfare state creates several social classes which are entirely repugnant to the free man. The first class is, of course, the welfare class. America is awfully egalitarian when it comes to putting down social discontent with money - ghetto blacks and rural trailer trash whites share a common "benefactor" in the central government which does not discriminate racially like so many others. Our government funds its most likely opposition, and the same inner city blacks that suffer under the jackboot of ghetto "justice" fail to realize it is tied to the monthly handouts they receive.
Another repulsive class is the corporate parasite. Worse than the welfare bums, the corporate bums leverage the power of the state to protect their marketshare, patent basic inventions to stifle competition, and use lawyers to crush competitors even when they are in the right. This class is worse in many ways, as it is full of rabid conformist, pseudo-intellectuals who suckle on the teet of the state secondhand.
Then there is the intelligentsia that it installs in state-funded institution and rewards with state-funded grants for as long as the perpetrator blindly supports the state in all its doings. Paul Krugman, wrong about everything so far, is that you? Victor Davis Hanson? The big names of stupid and wrong congregate there.
Then there's the people freedom-lovers should despise the most: the yes men, the intellectual conformists, the button-smashing neanderthals who don't even benefit from the state they blindly support. They are in evidence everywhere in Slashdot, and they are set off most by new ideas. If these conformist robo-drones don't have a ready-made script for something you say, they become immediately hostile as thinking is totally anathema to them. They are generally well educated, or at least, good at repeating things they hear on the idiot box or at school or the inane ramblings of their elected officials. They can seem deceptively intelligent, but don't be fooled - is a router a sophisticated processor just because it transmits processed bits? Certainly not. They hear, repeat, and smash down anything they haven't heard and repeated before.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
America is, and pretty much always has been, a fascist nation. I think the recent bailouts of the banking giants and car manufacturers should prove that it is fascist now; Andrew Jackson himself was fighting fascism when it came to central banking back in the 1830's. War and weapons define the American economy. Boeing and Raytheon and Xi could be considered the ultimate achievement of which a fascist society is capable.
Lew Rockwell is fond of referring to the central government as the Welfare-Warfare state. Our country has always defined itself through these two socialist conspiracies against mankind - welfare both corporate and personal, which stunts economic growth and creates a class of victims wholly dependent on the largess of their tormentor - and warfare, which is the extension of corporate power through the state in order to secure resources overseas. We should abandon this socialism, this corporatism, this fascism - and create a government that exists only within strict Constitutional boundaries. Nothing else will do for the good of mankind.
This is just publisher's propaganda. Publishers would always be able to be successful even without copyright - people want a physical book, they want a signed physical book, they want a physical book on high quality paper, they want a physical book with hard covers and rich colored imagery - they'd just have to, you know, innovate to stay ahead.