if comments in this thread are indicative, then western culture and education has denigrated to the point where individuals therein are, ignorant (esp of their own, and others, rich, highly creative, mainly religious, traditions), unimaginative, with totally empty spiritual lives, (with lot of them stunted in to believing(note that this is a mere belief) in all encompassing primacy of reason and science), and (as a result of above ) imprisoned in a purely materialistic world-view, with half baked materialistic ethics. half baked because such ethics are perforce contradictory, since an intellectually honest materialist world view can rationally lead only to nihilism; objective existence of good or evil, valid beyond 1 person at 1 instance of time, can not proved (any more than existence of god), therefore there cannot be any morality to a truly rational materialistic person)
so invading countries that had no connection to 9/11, drone killing innocent children, and torturing unarmed , spying on people fighting terrorists, are all ok in western sheeple eyes? after that kind of comment here, it is clear who are the real "authoritarian governments" are.
"Circumstantial evidence such as snippets of Persian comments in the code helped investigators conclude that Iran was the source of the attacks." if this is true(and is not an another false claim to ramp-up rhetoric against iran),it seems these so called "investigators" are easy dupes. that should really worry people as much as hacking itself
are you denying that usa is currently is invading countries ( and leeching on their resources) , instigating coups, drone killing children , running torture camps, spying on everyone etc etc? or are all that mere " radical left wing propaganda"? btw economic well being ( as in usa) can be achieved in variety of ways. and certainly propaganda blinds people to reality of how and why they are "better" off in one place than other.
er.. economic migrants go to places due to economic reasons. political refugees go everywhere . hear about a nsa whitleblower? or thousands who join isis ?
on what basis are some "authoritarian governments"? on the basis of propaganda coming from western governments that self style themselves as 'liberal democratic"? in fact, in past and now, their actual actions show western governments are same(if not worse) in terms of unjust use of authority as any other government that exist at present. at present, in terms of their actions, in the past british empire and usa were much worse than present day china, and currently there is no significant difference between russia or usa. actions should be the criteria not propaganda.
agree with almost all of your comment except "baseless fears" part. fears are not baseless. but fact that there are solid grounds for fear in general, does not mean government/community has a right to restrict specific individual rights,
i thought marriage ceremony was about people making binding commitments(made scared based on ones' religious beliefs) to each other as individuals before community. and not some ceremony to make a political point about religion or lack of it, and rights. would a marriage performed before church of the flying spaghetti monster, be 1st or 2nd? if 2nd, would it really be a marriage however legal?
fact that even a resource poor government, like bangladesh's, can block and censor content in so called 'social media' as required, proves that they are not much deferent from all other media. much hyped claims about social media ushering in a new era, is just hype and marketing, plus spoutings of academics living in ivory towers removed from reality.
everywhere, when it matters, all mass media serves governments and establishments. sure there are dissident alternative media, but accessing them requires effort on the part of audience. both these facts are true off all media, both traditional and so called 'social media'.
time to drop the 'social', and refer to all as just 'media'.
since subsides that can affect markets were a recent invention, your argument fails. world developed well enough without significant subsidies well into 20th century. and lot of areas that still advance vigorously are without any significant subsidies. indeed, only in stagnant, inefficient parts of economy, will you find subsidies. electric car are an excellent example.
lol. as can be seen in the thread linked (read all the comments if anyone is interested) Zontar The Mindless ' comments there directly contradict each other. Zontar shows that his rationality is severely impaired. in such a situation, as i explained there, only response is indeed, lol the point must have hit home, if he follows me around posting absurd off topic replies to me here. lol
Anonymous is becoming willing tool of modern western so called 'liberal' establishment, in its fights against anyone and anything that oppose the said establishment. terrorist scum in IS arose due to, and fights (barbarically) against, western establishments equally barbaric and inept invasions and mass murders to leech rest of world resources; Anonymous which has effectively done nothing against these western invasions, coups, torture camps, drone killing of children, mass surveillance, etc etc, are on board enthusiastically to support western efforts to crush IS. western establishment is ruffled by donald trump, Anonymous wants to do it a favor by preventing voters from deciding, by censoring trump' web outlets.
see the pattern.
would, given its tool status, Anonymous be as stupidly ineffective as western establishments other recent tools in have been? certainly Anonymous' silly failed twitter efforts against IS indicate it is well on its way to be latest failed tool of west.
fact that others are subsidized (or allegedly subsidized) is not an argument for subsidies. stop all subsidies. why should taxpayers pay for businesses that can't stand on their own? "It is the build-out of showrooms, giga-factory, and Superchargers, that cost them". er... all that is part of cars' cost. so cars are unprofitable without subsidies. ah the ignorance of reality!
this is a huge bet on a unknown product in an unknown market with unknown profits. it is what entrepreneurship is all about, but i hope only the risk takers will take the loses if it fails; investors and a town that has not learned its lesson. unfortunately whole electric car business(in spite of its popularity hereabouts in slashdot) is subsidy driven (meaning losses are on tax payers).
in addition to lack of innovation and creativity, westerners of european heritage are totally clueless about sense of humor. when was the last time you saw a non jewish original comedian in west? westerners need tags, cue cards, and laugh tracks, to tell them when to laugh and smile.
wouldn't be surprised if i am given examples of allegedly non jewish comedians in reply to this. no tags here.
neural networks and machine learning are not 'artificial intelligence'. anyone who confuse these with AI are just parroting hype. refer to them by their proper names. and leave vaguely defined 'artificial intelligence (AI)' out of any serious article until there is actual intelligence artificially created.
i am tired of seeing western copycats like google and apple (totally lacking in innovation) copying technology developed by non west (usually asian ). from paper, to paper money, to rockets, to now this. everything is copied. instead of copying others, people of european heritage (usually white) need to develop a culture that encourage new inventions and creativity, so far they have failed utterly. maybe it is not just culture but genetics. but to say that would be racist. no wonder white liberals are all for political correctness.
nobody can lose any arguments to zontar , since he is unable to make arguments. obvious irrationality and inconsistency (as in zontar's comments in this thread and especially compared to each other) can only be laughed at. so yes lol.
nor does iran. or any nuclear power threaten others explicitly. with nuclear weapons, one doesn't have to threaten others explicitly, to be threatening. too hard for you?
while this example of government selected (as opposed to free market selected) corporate welfare proves itself to be both expansive and unreliable, soyuz launches regularly takes place both cheaply and more reliably (though far from slashdot notice) . there is no free market here and as such whole idea of privatizing this is flawed. this is same as a government program, with whole cost on government and all profits, regardless of success, to corporates.
seems there will always be sheeple who swallow and parrot whatever is told them regardless of facts. according to fantasy land sheeple live in, barbaric ruler shah was rightful head of state and that his coup was not a coup but US and UK backed restoration. forget that ousted Prime Minister was nationalizing US and UK owned oil resource. forget that west(and its lapdogs like isreal) looted iran before islamic revolution. isreal is the friendliest country in world and treat people it comes in to contact well, instead of ethnic cleansing them, grabbing their land, and creating apartheid walls, building nuclear weapons to threaten others, etc etc .
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if comments in this thread are indicative, then western culture and education has denigrated to the point where individuals therein are,
ignorant (esp of their own, and others, rich, highly creative, mainly religious, traditions),
unimaginative, with totally empty spiritual lives, (with lot of them stunted in to believing(note that this is a mere belief) in all encompassing primacy of reason and science),
and (as a result of above ) imprisoned in a purely materialistic world-view, with half baked materialistic ethics. half baked because such ethics are perforce contradictory, since an intellectually honest materialist world view can rationally lead only to nihilism; objective existence of good or evil, valid beyond 1 person at 1 instance of time, can not proved (any more than existence of god), therefore there cannot be any morality to a truly rational materialistic person)
so invading countries that had no connection to 9/11, drone killing innocent children, and torturing unarmed , spying on people fighting terrorists, are all ok in western sheeple eyes?
after that kind of comment here, it is clear who are the real "authoritarian governments" are.
"Circumstantial evidence such as snippets of Persian comments in the code helped investigators conclude that Iran was the source of the attacks."
if this is true(and is not an another false claim to ramp-up rhetoric against iran),it seems these so called "investigators" are easy dupes. that should really worry people as much as hacking itself
are you denying that usa is currently is invading countries ( and leeching on their resources) , instigating coups, drone killing children , running torture camps, spying on everyone etc etc? or are all that mere " radical left wing propaganda"?
btw economic well being ( as in usa) can be achieved in variety of ways. and certainly propaganda blinds people to reality of how and why they are "better" off in one place than other.
thanks for confirming your status as a mindless feeder of western conspiracy theory ridden propaganda.
er .. economic migrants go to places due to economic reasons. political refugees go everywhere . hear about a nsa whitleblower? or thousands who join isis ?
on what basis are some "authoritarian governments"? on the basis of propaganda coming from western governments that self style themselves as 'liberal democratic"?
in fact, in past and now, their actual actions show western governments are same(if not worse) in terms of unjust use of authority as any other government that exist at present. at present, in terms of their actions, in the past british empire and usa were much worse than present day china, and currently there is no significant difference between russia or usa.
actions should be the criteria not propaganda.
subsidy junkie tesla pays well
agree with almost all of your comment except "baseless fears" part. fears are not baseless.
but fact that there are solid grounds for fear in general, does not mean government/community has a right to restrict specific individual rights,
i thought marriage ceremony was about people making binding commitments(made scared based on ones' religious beliefs) to each other as individuals before community.
and not some ceremony to make a political point about religion or lack of it, and rights.
would a marriage performed before church of the flying spaghetti monster, be 1st or 2nd? if 2nd, would it really be a marriage however legal?
fact that even a resource poor government, like bangladesh's, can block and censor content in so called 'social media' as required, proves that they are not much deferent from all other media. much hyped claims about social media ushering in a new era, is just hype and marketing, plus spoutings of academics living in ivory towers removed from reality.
everywhere, when it matters, all mass media serves governments and establishments. sure there are dissident alternative media, but accessing them requires effort on the part of audience. both these facts are true off all media, both traditional and so called 'social media'.
time to drop the 'social', and refer to all as just 'media'.
since subsides that can affect markets were a recent invention, your argument fails.
world developed well enough without significant subsidies well into 20th century. and lot of areas that still advance vigorously are without any significant subsidies. indeed, only in stagnant, inefficient parts of economy, will you find subsidies. electric car are an excellent example.
lol. as can be seen in the thread linked (read all the comments if anyone is interested) Zontar The Mindless ' comments there directly contradict each other. Zontar shows that his rationality is severely impaired. in such a situation, as i explained there, only response is indeed, lol
the point must have hit home, if he follows me around posting absurd off topic replies to me here.
lol
Anonymous is becoming willing tool of modern western so called 'liberal' establishment, in its fights against anyone and anything that oppose the said establishment.
terrorist scum in IS arose due to, and fights (barbarically) against, western establishments equally barbaric and inept invasions and mass murders to leech rest of world resources; Anonymous which has effectively done nothing against these western invasions, coups, torture camps, drone killing of children, mass surveillance, etc etc, are on board enthusiastically to support western efforts to crush IS.
western establishment is ruffled by donald trump, Anonymous wants to do it a favor by preventing voters from deciding, by censoring trump' web outlets.
see the pattern.
would, given its tool status, Anonymous be as stupidly ineffective as western establishments other recent tools in have been? certainly Anonymous' silly failed twitter efforts against IS indicate it is well on its way to be latest failed tool of west.
fact that others are subsidized (or allegedly subsidized) is not an argument for subsidies. stop all subsidies. why should taxpayers pay for businesses that can't stand on their own?
"It is the build-out of showrooms, giga-factory, and Superchargers, that cost them". er... all that is part of cars' cost. so cars are unprofitable without subsidies.
ah the ignorance of reality!
this is a huge bet on a unknown product in an unknown market with unknown profits. it is what entrepreneurship is all about, but i hope only the risk takers will take the loses if it fails; investors and a town that has not learned its lesson.
unfortunately whole electric car business(in spite of its popularity hereabouts in slashdot) is subsidy driven (meaning losses are on tax payers).
in addition to lack of innovation and creativity, westerners of european heritage are totally clueless about sense of humor. when was the last time you saw a non jewish original comedian in west?
westerners need tags, cue cards, and laugh tracks, to tell them when to laugh and smile.
wouldn't be surprised if i am given examples of allegedly non jewish comedians in reply to this.
no tags here.
lol @ irrationality and inconsistency. don't argue.
neural networks and machine learning are not 'artificial intelligence'. anyone who confuse these with AI are just parroting hype. refer to them by their proper names. and leave vaguely defined 'artificial intelligence (AI)' out of any serious article until there is actual intelligence artificially created.
i am tired of seeing western copycats like google and apple (totally lacking in innovation) copying technology developed by non west (usually asian ).
from paper, to paper money, to rockets, to now this. everything is copied.
instead of copying others, people of european heritage (usually white) need to develop a culture that encourage new inventions and creativity, so far they have failed utterly. maybe it is not just culture but genetics. but to say that would be racist. no wonder white liberals are all for political correctness.
nobody can lose any arguments to zontar , since he is unable to make arguments.
obvious irrationality and inconsistency (as in zontar's comments in this thread and especially compared to each other) can only be laughed at. so yes lol.
logic is not your strong suit. example your comment . lol
nor does iran. or any nuclear power threaten others explicitly.
with nuclear weapons, one doesn't have to threaten others explicitly, to be threatening.
too hard for you?
while this example of government selected (as opposed to free market selected) corporate welfare proves itself to be both expansive and unreliable, soyuz launches regularly takes place both cheaply and more reliably (though far from slashdot notice) .
there is no free market here and as such whole idea of privatizing this is flawed. this is same as a government program, with whole cost on government and all profits, regardless of success, to corporates.
seems there will always be sheeple who swallow and parrot whatever is told them regardless of facts.
according to fantasy land sheeple live in,
barbaric ruler shah was rightful head of state and that his coup was not a coup but US and UK backed restoration.
forget that ousted Prime Minister was nationalizing US and UK owned oil resource.
forget that west(and its lapdogs like isreal) looted iran before islamic revolution.
isreal is the friendliest country in world and treat people it comes in to contact well, instead of ethnic cleansing them, grabbing their land, and creating apartheid walls, building nuclear weapons to threaten others, etc etc .
yeah right! lol