Now this is off topic? Why don't you answer the question instead? Come on mods, use your noggin, I want to know why this is NOT extortion as everything about the context is textbook protection money extortion. How is this different from a thug walking into a small store and knocking down your merchendize unless you agree to pay? How?
You are comparing apples to oranges. The Jewish population is hoplessly outnumbered while at the same time integrated into the population. Same problem with the japanese. So I congradulate you on picking the few situations that are completely impossible. Now lets get back to my actual question... where are the *civilizations* or *nations* or what have you that did not use the most advanced weapons of their time? This time, stop being pandantic over what's irrelevant to the question.
I mean that the government is not infalliable. It's right in my post, actually. I explain why, and that is because it's made out of people, and I suggest, very generally, how... use your brain against their brain. Any other questions?
This is painting a target on individuals for coordinated attacks by crime. Congradulations, New York, in one move you've sealed the fate of innocent people and have given *MORE* guns to criminals. Re-fucking-tards.
Humans are crafty and stupid at the same time. The 2nd amendment is perfectly suited for the moden age. Since the government is composed of people, it's possible to exploit the stupid if you exploit your own craftiness. Lather rince repeat. No govermnet is infalliable, and their mistake is to delude themselves into that position.
Can you please tell me, what happened throughtout history, when populations, on-mass, had denounced their 'efficient weaponry' of the time? (I'll give you a hint, they are not around to tell their stories).
Competence is gained through experience. In the race to the bottom to hire cheap, I've had the unfortunate "pleasure" of being that incompetent "lead developer". There was no time to become "competent", as it were, given that the whole platform was constantly on fire. In a setting such as this, competence was a delusion.
This guy's just pissed because he's trying to be a writer and can't fathom why he isn't automatically entitled to get paid, as if it's some god given right. There is no logic there, only the piss poor rhetoric of a starving artist.
Except no one is saying: ""freedom" and "if more people had guns things like this would never happen"", they're saying that it's a tool for specific situations.
No, the point is not how many died, the point is that a STUDENT put two bullets through this guy's head to stop him. Switzerland's population is armed to the teeth, they hardly share this problem.
Alright, if you insist on being an asshole, here we go:
Look - professional writers need to make income from their work. Period.
In the absence of income from their work, there will be no professional writers. Period.
How do you explain the existence of written works spanning millenia then?
I realize that most idiots sincerely believe that professional-quality writing is something that "anybody can do." Being idiots, they are, of course, completely, utterly, and profoundly wrong about that. In fact, there is only a relatively small percentage of the population who have the inherent talent to write well enough to eventually become professionals at it. Idiots like hazah are almost certainly not among them.
I said that? I said that's something "anybody can do?" Funny how I can't find that anywhere in my comment. Yes, a profoundly small percentage are capable of professional writing, yet a profoundly large percentage demands undeserved entitlement for utter shit (my actual point that you completely missed). You know nothing of my skills and I care not show you any, as it is moot and completely off the topic at hand.
And yet hazah has the chutzpah to proclaim, ex cathedra from his asshole, that Belial6 - with whose work he is almost unquestionably totally unfamiliar - has no right to profit from his hard work. Instead, presumably, hazah believes HE has a right to make Belial6 his entertainment slave. "Amuse me, vassal," he demands, from his lofty position atop Selfish Cunt Mountain.
Dagid li, achi, ata makir oti bichlal? I didn't say he "has no right", you've put words in my mouth again. He has a right to profit from whatever the hell he wishes from. The question is about entitlement. To say that I want an "entertainment slave" out of Belial6 is stupid. The intent of the phrase is to illustrate that I'd rather have him take his precious content and go elsewhere instead of jumping up and down telling me to give him money. Asking for payment would be my chosen method to accomplish that goal. It is up to the writer to sell me on their content, not the other way around, because as you admit, very few of them are actually good at it. And what the fuck is wrong with you? Did I hit a nerve so hard that you're literally foaming at the mouth? You're the one being a cunt here.
Writing is not easy. It is hard, hard work. The more effortless prose appears to be to the reader, nearly without exception, the more that prose has required long hours of drafting, re-drafting, and polishing to seem to flow that freely. Writing fiction at a professional level is an art form which requires a combination of creativity, vision, persistence, judgement, and stringent self-discipline. Any aspiring professional writer must have the right to charge his audience for the pleasure of reading his work, or there will BE no professional writers. Only amateurs. And what you will quickly create, in a world without professional writers, is a world without professional-quality writing.
I completely agree that a lot of work goes into professional writing. However you will have to explain away millenia of literature to assert that the world will be without professional writers.
So: no more Jules Vernes, no more Robert Heinleins, no more Iain M. Banks, and no more consistently high-quality streams of work from writers who are free to concentrate on writing, because their writing pays the bills, instead of being forced to focus on plumbing, or selling cars, or doing double-entry accounting, because the bills MUST be paid.
Verne: born into a wealthy family
Heinleins: navy
Iain M. Banks: he eludes me for the time being but I'll dig his orgins up too.
2 of 3 of your examples had a means to support their hobbies outside of strict sales of their material. Pretty much the OPPOSITE of what you're trying to sa
While my original comment squarly put a label on the man, I'm not personally convinced that he is an actual psychopath/sociopath. The trait in question is really what I'm getting at. A lack of empathy is a red flag, one that must be investigated further if we ever hope to prevent this from happening again.
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No one is helping the killers. They find reasons all on their own, because they're killers.
Sounds like insecurity is ripe within Islam.
Irony? "and would probably ask if it is already "in"."
Now this is off topic? Why don't you answer the question instead? Come on mods, use your noggin, I want to know why this is NOT extortion as everything about the context is textbook protection money extortion. How is this different from a thug walking into a small store and knocking down your merchendize unless you agree to pay? How?
How the fuck is this Flamebait, I'm asking a question based on what is being discussed.
You are comparing apples to oranges. The Jewish population is hoplessly outnumbered while at the same time integrated into the population. Same problem with the japanese. So I congradulate you on picking the few situations that are completely impossible. Now lets get back to my actual question... where are the *civilizations* or *nations* or what have you that did not use the most advanced weapons of their time? This time, stop being pandantic over what's irrelevant to the question.
Hahahahahahahaha, oh you're so funny that I just shat myself.
I mean that the government is not infalliable. It's right in my post, actually. I explain why, and that is because it's made out of people, and I suggest, very generally, how... use your brain against their brain. Any other questions?
In general, around these here parts, you don't have much of a choice in ISP. So for an amaizingly large number of people, that is not the case.
This is painting a target on individuals for coordinated attacks by crime. Congradulations, New York, in one move you've sealed the fate of innocent people and have given *MORE* guns to criminals. Re-fucking-tards.
So, you're saying Shaw is just another thug asking for protection money?
Guess you missed the part where it's pointed out it's a money grab?
That's about all they got, actually.
Humans are crafty and stupid at the same time. The 2nd amendment is perfectly suited for the moden age. Since the government is composed of people, it's possible to exploit the stupid if you exploit your own craftiness. Lather rince repeat. No govermnet is infalliable, and their mistake is to delude themselves into that position.
Can you please tell me, what happened throughtout history, when populations, on-mass, had denounced their 'efficient weaponry' of the time? (I'll give you a hint, they are not around to tell their stories).
Competence is gained through experience. In the race to the bottom to hire cheap, I've had the unfortunate "pleasure" of being that incompetent "lead developer". There was no time to become "competent", as it were, given that the whole platform was constantly on fire. In a setting such as this, competence was a delusion.
Someone gets it! :)
Everyone. Clearly.
This guy's just pissed because he's trying to be a writer and can't fathom why he isn't automatically entitled to get paid, as if it's some god given right. There is no logic there, only the piss poor rhetoric of a starving artist.
Except no one is saying: ""freedom" and "if more people had guns things like this would never happen"", they're saying that it's a tool for specific situations.
Why are you bringing religion into this?
Yes, the situation is flabbergastingly disgusting to say the least, but it doesn't stop logic from being logic.
No, the point is not how many died, the point is that a STUDENT put two bullets through this guy's head to stop him. Switzerland's population is armed to the teeth, they hardly share this problem.
Alright, if you insist on being an asshole, here we go:
How do you explain the existence of written works spanning millenia then?
I said that? I said that's something "anybody can do?" Funny how I can't find that anywhere in my comment. Yes, a profoundly small percentage are capable of professional writing, yet a profoundly large percentage demands undeserved entitlement for utter shit (my actual point that you completely missed). You know nothing of my skills and I care not show you any, as it is moot and completely off the topic at hand.
Dagid li, achi, ata makir oti bichlal? I didn't say he "has no right", you've put words in my mouth again. He has a right to profit from whatever the hell he wishes from. The question is about entitlement. To say that I want an "entertainment slave" out of Belial6 is stupid. The intent of the phrase is to illustrate that I'd rather have him take his precious content and go elsewhere instead of jumping up and down telling me to give him money. Asking for payment would be my chosen method to accomplish that goal. It is up to the writer to sell me on their content, not the other way around, because as you admit, very few of them are actually good at it. And what the fuck is wrong with you? Did I hit a nerve so hard that you're literally foaming at the mouth? You're the one being a cunt here.
I completely agree that a lot of work goes into professional writing. However you will have to explain away millenia of literature to assert that the world will be without professional writers.
Verne: born into a wealthy family
Heinleins: navy
Iain M. Banks: he eludes me for the time being but I'll dig his orgins up too.
2 of 3 of your examples had a means to support their hobbies outside of strict sales of their material. Pretty much the OPPOSITE of what you're trying to sa
While my original comment squarly put a label on the man, I'm not personally convinced that he is an actual psychopath/sociopath. The trait in question is really what I'm getting at. A lack of empathy is a red flag, one that must be investigated further if we ever hope to prevent this from happening again.