Except it is being used to promote all the senseless violence that people watch all the time glorifying killing and beating the crap out of each other. You need to turn that shit off. It's the same technology used to exclude people as if they are not fit to belong culturally. They're the ones thet end up going into your schools, nightclubs and shopping malls killing people.
Add to it the commercials with billions of dollars worth of psychology behind them to fill people full of false ideals to buy buy buy things they do not need, politicians saying it's domestic terror when it is mass murder and nothing really changes and you arrive at the common point, media, television. Empty and inane, everyone else ends up with a feeling of hopelessness inside.
You already have the technology, it's just being used to program people that weapons and violence are the solution to any problem - go watch a documentary instead, better yet use the time for a real education or try reading a book. Gun laws won't change, media won't change so another spate of mass murders is inevitable, I am sorry to say.
If you're pushing the myth that the left and right wing are not two parts of the same bird, you most certainly are.
You will find comments from me saying *exactly* what you have said, here is a joke I made about it a few days ago. You will also find several of my posts over the years saying that left and right wing politics do not exist anymore. That structural issues that affect everybody have not been addressed and that very few laws are passed that reflect the interests of the populous i.e. corporal human beings.
There is no need to attack me, I am not your enemy.
I've read that homosexual relationships between Afghani men and boys are surprisingly common in Afghanistan, although forbidden and not entirely consensual.
Indeed, the practise is called bacha bazi or 'to be with the boy' or 'to have the boy' and it is a form of traditional institutionalised rape and a long term human rights violation that exists in the culture of the warlords and rich of the region. I don't think it is a religious practice.
Maybe this guy was in the category of less than consensual youth participant at some point and is having trouble with the cognitive dissonance of that experience.
None of them consent but it is a very interesting theory as these people are victimized even after they survive, however many die. It wouldn't be surprising if a political organization could achieve that form of manipulation.
What an insufferable twat. You really think you have it all figured out don't you?
Nobody likes having their illusions shattered, but yours (and the GP's) are fucking stupid, and you need it.
What I achieve and what you *think* I achieve are not the same thing. People getting involved and writing letters also means *they* get educated and the politicians know they are under observation because they know they won't get away with something unnoticed. Maybe, just maybe, they will do something or not do something.
I have no illusions to shatter, I know this system is corrupt and that what I am doing will probably fail. Reading and writing about these laws helps you see exactly what is going on behind the scenes and to understand what is going on because there are as much lessons in failure as there are in success. Frankly, it's more interesting than anything on the TV. You know the system as corrupt the difference is I have some ideas as to the depth of that corruption where it is and hasn't reached.
As you rightly pointed out, education. It starts with people educating themselves about what is going on, what is not reported in the news and, actually reading Bills that are drafted. Look at Burr-Feinstein and encryption, there was enough resistance to knock that over because it was stupid. However what you don't realize is that is the first round in this battle not to decrypt communications, but to record meta data through the definitions of data drafted in the bill - which will survive elsewhere because they went virtually unnoticed this time around. Has your cynicism produced enough insights to understand the state of play and look for where it will come up again?
The covert police state is revealing itself because the American Empire is on the verge of collapse and desperate to maintain control. Desperate sick animals are dangerous and often lash out. If you read the TPP you would see that it is a battering ram to legally pillage every country that is forced to interact with American corporations through ISDS. The TPP aims to spread the American Empire with desperate times and suffering ahead. We are in this together, are you prepared?
You say what I am doing is 'fucking stupid', but you have little idea why I do it. I don't accept anything you have said here. I have resisted the urge to patronise you in return because I read your posts when I see them and I respect your opinions but for all your vitriol I think you are criticizing me because you are afraid and I don't blame you, so am I.
What is your suggestion? What do you *do*? What have you done? Do you even have an answer?
Which one? The one who supports TPP or the other one who supports TPP?
Unfortunately, I know you are right. As hopeless as I thought it was, I still tried because at least the politicians will have to live with knowing that what they did is public record. It's also about what you learn in the process.
Wow, you're in a nasty mood aren't you. Look I get the cynicism, I just think there is something else between hopeless and a shoot up. Your reaction has been carefully manicured and it is exactly what the money wants you to think. You have been manipulated. Step out of your fear, grow a pair.
It's a lot more difficult to use properly, and the American public has been undereducated for decades.
So what's your excuse? Have you tried?
Is that what they told you? You really are special, aren't you?
No, that's what I *did*, and have been *doing* for over 15 years. Including as much of the TPP my verge of vomit exhaustion could possibly absorb recently, even knowing it was probably hopeless. Those years include recommendations and analysis of *all* of the implemented terrorism acts, cyber security acts. I'm not special, I'm just fed up of people sitting around not doing anything claiming to be powerless so they can bludgeon people with their moral sanctity, stories about chem trails and da gubberment. Fuck that, at least I can try.
Look, kiddo, someone needs to explain to you how American "democracy" works, and it's not like this.
Kiddo? I don't remember ever patronizing you dp. I understand your anger, but I don't think you are going to get anywhere directing it at me.
Sometimes I have success and sometimes I don't, everytime I learn. Guaranteed, if you do nothing, nothing happens and you don't have a hope of getting anything done and you become part of the problem.
And if you can give me an explanation based on your experiences then I'd be interested in that.
And they give precisely as much of a shit about those other 99 people as they do about you.
From the amount of letters I got *back* from politicians saying, gee, I didn't know that about this sometimes, yes, the wordings of those laws were changed and sometimes rejected all together. In one case I wrote a detailed analysis of the implementation of a National security legislation and got a 4 page letter back from the AG so based on that evidence I'm inclined to disagree.
You think they did what they did because you said so? Wow, you really are special.
When you get a letter from a politician that pretty much tells you they are powerless it's more sobering in realization than sitting around in blissful ignorance making up conspiracy theories. Bottom line, I don't know, but I'll sleep with a light conscious. If you want to make excuses for apathy I'm not really interested, because it is the same as being Pwned.
Here's your problem. Most of the millennials, who are being screwed the hardest by this unholy alliance of corporations and government, have never even handled a gun. Basically, we're screwed.
Stop being so damn defeatist. You don't need a gun and you don't need violence, you need a pen. All you need to do, en masse, is get off your lazy ass and start lobbying politicians directly. Stop watching hours of moronic TV, get on your computer, fire up a word processor and start writing letters and tell them exactly what you want.
All of these paid lobby groups are minorities gambling that you will continue to sit there and have that exact attitude. There is no need to troll the politicians, be respectful and they will listen as 1 letter means about 100 people think that way, to them. That means 100 votes, and votes are currency just as much as money is to a politician as 100 votes is enough to make a difference in an election. I have had unexpected success on issues with politicians just by telling the *how* to address my concerns.
There is a reason why the adage goes The pen is mightier than the sword. Exercise your democratic right, stop whining and participate in your own future.
Heinlein wrote a very far-sighted story -- in 1941! -- called "Solution Unsatisfactory" that imagined a deadly weapon, "nuclear dust". Just drop the dust from an ordinary bomber, and anyone who breathes or touches the dust dies. All the animals and plants die too; the land becomes uninhabitable until the radiation dies away after many many years.
It's not very far away from fictional. You might be interested in [pdf warning, 2 pages] Project Pluto which was a supersonic nuclear powered ramjet cruise missle. Essentially the reactor that powered the missile was also the warhead.
Part of it's offensive plan was to simply fly, supersonically, at low altitudes where its shockwave would destroy anything underneath it and the radiation from its engine exhaust would also cause death to anything that survived its multi mach wake. It could effectively fly for weeks doing damage until it ran out of enough engine power to maintain altitude and it would then hit it's target with the now highly radioactive contents of its engines and explode.
Fortunately plans were shelved for this truely diabolical weapon as it would "deafen, flatten, and irradiate" allies enroute to the target.
Neither I or my colleagues are in any way anti-social or socially awkward. Being a developer is a job the same as any other.
I think there is some confusion about being a nerd and being a geek. Nerds get paid better and geeks get chicks and have friends. It's up to the individual what they value and who they are.
Geeks have enough emotional intelligence to be able to talk to nerds and other people. Geeks are able to understand and relate to nerds because they suspend judgement. Usually geeks are the only friends that nerds have. That's the good thing about being a geek, getting nerds out of their shell and sometimes suggesting that deodourant is a good idea so that you can keep going with a coding session. They can do this because geeks aren't dicks to nerds.
The people who don't understand this are usually vapid and somewhat shallow marketing types. Geeks can get on with them, the difference is a geek will only think they are a dick, whereas a nerd will tell them, often to their face, that they are a dick. That is also one of the things that geeks like about nerds, they know that a nerd won't have any hesitation saying it like it is. For the record, I'm a geek and I like my nerd friends.
From a non-geek or nerd perspective, most of the time a marketer comes across as an asshole, except when they treat a geek like a nerd. Then everyone just thinks the marketing person is a cunt.
On a more serious note, I do have some vicarious experiences of friends who have suffered this disease and I hope that this turns out to be a cure for them and their Windows 10 problems. shit, I did it again, help me!!
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no one in Australian politics is even remotely as evil as the best US politics has to offer
BWAAAAhahahahahahahahaha - shows how fucking clueless you are- bwaaaahahahahahaha!
Go back to stumbling aimlessly around wondering what is going on
It is an unverified rumor that Trump will name his hair piece as his running mate and potential Vice President.
You should be ashamed of yourself. Trump has wanted hair like that ever since he was a little girl.
Don't bring former Prime Minister Abbot into this. He is a version of evil you don't want to contend with.
Except it is being used to promote all the senseless violence that people watch all the time glorifying killing and beating the crap out of each other. You need to turn that shit off. It's the same technology used to exclude people as if they are not fit to belong culturally. They're the ones thet end up going into your schools, nightclubs and shopping malls killing people.
Add to it the commercials with billions of dollars worth of psychology behind them to fill people full of false ideals to buy buy buy things they do not need, politicians saying it's domestic terror when it is mass murder and nothing really changes and you arrive at the common point, media, television. Empty and inane, everyone else ends up with a feeling of hopelessness inside.
You already have the technology, it's just being used to program people that weapons and violence are the solution to any problem - go watch a documentary instead, better yet use the time for a real education or try reading a book. Gun laws won't change, media won't change so another spate of mass murders is inevitable, I am sorry to say.
Don't take it out on me, I'm not *your* enemy.
If you're pushing the myth that the left and right wing are not two parts of the same bird, you most certainly are.
You will find comments from me saying *exactly* what you have said, here is a joke I made about it a few days ago. You will also find several of my posts over the years saying that left and right wing politics do not exist anymore. That structural issues that affect everybody have not been addressed and that very few laws are passed that reflect the interests of the populous i.e. corporal human beings.
There is no need to attack me, I am not your enemy.
I've read that homosexual relationships between Afghani men and boys are surprisingly common in Afghanistan, although forbidden and not entirely consensual.
Indeed, the practise is called bacha bazi or 'to be with the boy' or 'to have the boy' and it is a form of traditional institutionalised rape and a long term human rights violation that exists in the culture of the warlords and rich of the region. I don't think it is a religious practice.
Maybe this guy was in the category of less than consensual youth participant at some point and is having trouble with the cognitive dissonance of that experience.
None of them consent but it is a very interesting theory as these people are victimized even after they survive, however many die. It wouldn't be surprising if a political organization could achieve that form of manipulation.
Lobbying == bribery, and if you want to counter-balance a lobbying group, you need to out-spend them.
No you don't, you need to out-lobby them.
Anybody who takes enough colloidal silver to turn blue really fucked up. Consider it their "stupid sign."
Or that they identify as a smurf.
What an insufferable twat. You really think you have it all figured out don't you?
Nobody likes having their illusions shattered, but yours (and the GP's) are fucking stupid, and you need it.
What I achieve and what you *think* I achieve are not the same thing. People getting involved and writing letters also means *they* get educated and the politicians know they are under observation because they know they won't get away with something unnoticed. Maybe, just maybe, they will do something or not do something.
I have no illusions to shatter, I know this system is corrupt and that what I am doing will probably fail. Reading and writing about these laws helps you see exactly what is going on behind the scenes and to understand what is going on because there are as much lessons in failure as there are in success. Frankly, it's more interesting than anything on the TV. You know the system as corrupt the difference is I have some ideas as to the depth of that corruption where it is and hasn't reached.
As you rightly pointed out, education. It starts with people educating themselves about what is going on, what is not reported in the news and, actually reading Bills that are drafted. Look at Burr-Feinstein and encryption, there was enough resistance to knock that over because it was stupid. However what you don't realize is that is the first round in this battle not to decrypt communications, but to record meta data through the definitions of data drafted in the bill - which will survive elsewhere because they went virtually unnoticed this time around. Has your cynicism produced enough insights to understand the state of play and look for where it will come up again?
The covert police state is revealing itself because the American Empire is on the verge of collapse and desperate to maintain control. Desperate sick animals are dangerous and often lash out. If you read the TPP you would see that it is a battering ram to legally pillage every country that is forced to interact with American corporations through ISDS. The TPP aims to spread the American Empire with desperate times and suffering ahead. We are in this together, are you prepared?
You say what I am doing is 'fucking stupid', but you have little idea why I do it. I don't accept anything you have said here. I have resisted the urge to patronise you in return because I read your posts when I see them and I respect your opinions but for all your vitriol I think you are criticizing me because you are afraid and I don't blame you, so am I.
What is your suggestion? What do you *do*? What have you done? Do you even have an answer?
get off your lazy ass and sit down to write a letter ROFL
Ahh, the moral superiority of a coward.
Sounds great, have you *done* anything about it?
I didn't live in the american revolution, I live in the 21st century. My concerns are with the here and now.
Which one? The one who supports TPP or the other one who supports TPP?
Unfortunately, I know you are right. As hopeless as I thought it was, I still tried because at least the politicians will have to live with knowing that what they did is public record. It's also about what you learn in the process.
Seriously, that is so freaken cute that you think your government gives one single fuck what you write or think.
It doesn't matter what they think, all that matters is what you *do*.
It's a lot more difficult to use properly, and the American public has been undereducated for decades.
So what's your excuse? Have you tried?
Is that what they told you? You really are special, aren't you?
No, that's what I *did*, and have been *doing* for over 15 years. Including as much of the TPP my verge of vomit exhaustion could possibly absorb recently, even knowing it was probably hopeless. Those years include recommendations and analysis of *all* of the implemented terrorism acts, cyber security acts. I'm not special, I'm just fed up of people sitting around not doing anything claiming to be powerless so they can bludgeon people with their moral sanctity, stories about chem trails and da gubberment. Fuck that, at least I can try.
Look, kiddo, someone needs to explain to you how American "democracy" works, and it's not like this.
Kiddo? I don't remember ever patronizing you dp. I understand your anger, but I don't think you are going to get anywhere directing it at me.
Sometimes I have success and sometimes I don't, everytime I learn. Guaranteed, if you do nothing, nothing happens and you don't have a hope of getting anything done and you become part of the problem.
And if you can give me an explanation based on your experiences then I'd be interested in that.
And they give precisely as much of a shit about those other 99 people as they do about you.
From the amount of letters I got *back* from politicians saying, gee, I didn't know that about this sometimes, yes, the wordings of those laws were changed and sometimes rejected all together. In one case I wrote a detailed analysis of the implementation of a National security legislation and got a 4 page letter back from the AG so based on that evidence I'm inclined to disagree.
You think they did what they did because you said so? Wow, you really are special.
When you get a letter from a politician that pretty much tells you they are powerless it's more sobering in realization than sitting around in blissful ignorance making up conspiracy theories. Bottom line, I don't know, but I'll sleep with a light conscious. If you want to make excuses for apathy I'm not really interested, because it is the same as being Pwned.
Don't take it out on me, I'm not *your* enemy.
The boy needs therapy. He is crazy in the coconut.
Lie down on the couch, what does that mean?
We need a revolution in this country.
Here's your problem. Most of the millennials, who are being screwed the hardest by this unholy alliance of corporations and government, have never even handled a gun. Basically, we're screwed.
Stop being so damn defeatist. You don't need a gun and you don't need violence, you need a pen. All you need to do, en masse, is get off your lazy ass and start lobbying politicians directly. Stop watching hours of moronic TV, get on your computer, fire up a word processor and start writing letters and tell them exactly what you want.
All of these paid lobby groups are minorities gambling that you will continue to sit there and have that exact attitude. There is no need to troll the politicians, be respectful and they will listen as 1 letter means about 100 people think that way, to them. That means 100 votes, and votes are currency just as much as money is to a politician as 100 votes is enough to make a difference in an election. I have had unexpected success on issues with politicians just by telling the *how* to address my concerns.
There is a reason why the adage goes The pen is mightier than the sword. Exercise your democratic right, stop whining and participate in your own future.
Heinlein wrote a very far-sighted story -- in 1941! -- called "Solution Unsatisfactory" that imagined a deadly weapon, "nuclear dust". Just drop the dust from an ordinary bomber, and anyone who breathes or touches the dust dies. All the animals and plants die too; the land becomes uninhabitable until the radiation dies away after many many years.
It's not very far away from fictional. You might be interested in [pdf warning, 2 pages] Project Pluto which was a supersonic nuclear powered ramjet cruise missle. Essentially the reactor that powered the missile was also the warhead.
Part of it's offensive plan was to simply fly, supersonically, at low altitudes where its shockwave would destroy anything underneath it and the radiation from its engine exhaust would also cause death to anything that survived its multi mach wake. It could effectively fly for weeks doing damage until it ran out of enough engine power to maintain altitude and it would then hit it's target with the now highly radioactive contents of its engines and explode.
Fortunately plans were shelved for this truely diabolical weapon as it would "deafen, flatten, and irradiate" allies enroute to the target.
Neither I or my colleagues are in any way anti-social or socially awkward. Being a developer is a job the same as any other.
I think there is some confusion about being a nerd and being a geek. Nerds get paid better and geeks get chicks and have friends. It's up to the individual what they value and who they are.
Geeks have enough emotional intelligence to be able to talk to nerds and other people. Geeks are able to understand and relate to nerds because they suspend judgement. Usually geeks are the only friends that nerds have. That's the good thing about being a geek, getting nerds out of their shell and sometimes suggesting that deodourant is a good idea so that you can keep going with a coding session. They can do this because geeks aren't dicks to nerds.
The people who don't understand this are usually vapid and somewhat shallow marketing types. Geeks can get on with them, the difference is a geek will only think they are a dick, whereas a nerd will tell them, often to their face, that they are a dick. That is also one of the things that geeks like about nerds, they know that a nerd won't have any hesitation saying it like it is. For the record, I'm a geek and I like my nerd friends.
From a non-geek or nerd perspective, most of the time a marketer comes across as an asshole, except when they treat a geek like a nerd. Then everyone just thinks the marketing person is a cunt.
It was a serious question, sorry if it came across as a troll, however I really was interested in your experiences.
A lot of the time, math looks like a bunch of greek to me.
That's three words, and if you are going to get a sex change, you would want an expert changing it.
Agreed, this guy needs to be stabbed in the face with a rusty crab.
Hey!, think of the crabs!
I tried to resist - honestly I did!
On a more serious note, I do have some vicarious experiences of friends who have suffered this disease and I hope that this turns out to be a cure for them and their Windows 10 problems. shit, I did it again, help me!!