Imagine Ayn Rand with the understanding that we can't move to free-market capitalism ever
We had a free market in this country until the turn of the 20th century.
It resulted in feudalism in all but name.
It eventually collapsed, resulting in the government finally instituting social programs and a mixed economy.
Regulation is not to blame for the current mess. On the contrary, deregulation was a massive contributing factor, along with the "moral hazard" every libertarian/reaganite loves to try to cram into a closet whenever the people come to examine their policies.
Ah, yes. I questioned you opinion, so I must be a looney, right?
no, you said the (clearly corporatist) media was "liberal", an assertion about as blatantly out of touch with reality as pointing to the sky and screaming about how pink it is.
let me know when liberals you know start parroting self-serving corporate press releases and the right-wing echo chamber as if they were fact, not questioning why third party candidates are not present at debates, and not covering 85% of large scale protests in this country.
DON'T use a/. comment as proof for ANYTHING (we're all opinionated, remember?)
except you're referring to the political spectrum, which requires a point of view outside our nation. As someone outside America, his opinion counts and carries weight.
and don't link to comment that DOES state that "CNN trended left in the early 90's", as that's bad for your argument.
If only it did say that rather than quote and debunk it.
Don't think pseudo-intellectual pseudo-dissociated dissection of information you never read is very good for your untennable position.
if by "stolen" you mean rightfully retaken from monsters who have plundered our culture and shackled our tech sector...
It does well with that kind of content too. Look up the info, enter it manually and it works.
If you're getting music without metadata in huge, unmanageable chunks though, I suggest you really don't care about music at all and have some underlying psychological issues. That kind of behavior would be the internet equivalent of kleptomania. You grab loads of data and stockpile but never use it.
Sane democrats will label you extreme left Sane republicans will label you libertarian, or, if they're dogmatic, just dismissively call you a "liberal"
self-labeled "moderates" will laugh at you as a conspiracy nut with no sense of reality.
I propose the label: "exogenate"
People who look at things from a genuinely external perspective.
Where is the media outcry on the lack of third parties in the debate? Where is the dissection of press releases using their own independent research? Where are people who view the post as public service rather than a career?
People who run for office should be given a polygraph and asked that last question. If they're lying when they say they like the idea of being in a political office, they should be chucked off the ballot.
We're beginning to mold our own environment. We've been systematically eliminating threats to our existence, and building habitats which provide as close to ideal biological environments as possible.
In addition to this, the earth itself has been rather stable across the board.
In this environment, It's actually a GOOD thing that we preserve as many genetic "abnormalities" as possible.
When the next shock comes, each of these mutations increases our chance at survival as a species.
What might be disadvantageous in a "skilled working" environment may be just what we need for a radioactive winter in which the sum of our knowledge has been reduced to "how to make fire".
For anyone interested in examining the topic of stupidity, I highly suggest looking up, and obtaining in whichever way you choose, a recent CBC documentary on stupdity.
Really? So you're a Republican, then? Most of the major media outlets are amazingly liberal in their coverage, and historically left-leaning in their support...
Really? So you're a Republican, then? Most of the major media outlets are amazingly liberal in their coverage, and historically left-leaning in their support...
ladies and gentlemen, we've found another dingbat. Please call the party wagon and get the proper meds ready.
As anyone from outside the US how "liberal" the US media is, and you'll have to sedate them to stop the laughter.
Citation, please? Certainly a lot of room for debate [wikipedia.org] that the media is performing propaganda solely for either party, or that there is a monolithic bias to the entire industry. Yes, conventional wisdom says that Fox News slants conservative, and PBS slants liberal, and shame on BOTH of them for it.
PBS slants liberal because reality has a well known liberal bias.
Any "Debate" on wikipedia can be attributed to powerful political players paying astroturfers.
If you actually dig you'll see faux-news spewing more hogwash than the entire pork belly industry, and every other news organization slavishly lapping at their heels trying to "stay current", because concocting lies is much faster than actual investigative reporting.
There is a difference between telling friends face to face in a social environment, and publishing things wholesale to be found by complete strangers on the internet.
How many stories about companies, government agencies, etc spying on your profile with negative consequences do you need before you learn to stay away from social networking sites.
. I'm surprised that many people who normally are pro-freedom turn out to have very situational ethics when it comes to people they regard as political enemies.
when your political enemies run the media as a propaganda arm of their party, then whistle innocently or cry "tinfoil hat" when anyone points out the obvious.
When your political enemies start arresting people for wearing "give peace a chance" t-shirts in the mall.
When your political enemies create "free speech zones", and their partisan court appointees uphold the obvious constitutional breach
When your political enemies engage in domestic surveillance which makes watergate look like piss in the ocean.
When your political enemies give rise to a multi-billion dollar industry of astroturfing campaign firms trying to "manufacture" "public support" for their intolerant, totalitarian positions.
You have to fight dirty too. The age of honor is over.
Still, please explain why just because you got unlucky in life, I (or anyone else) should be forced to pay to take care of you?
kennedy had adison's disease. FDR was crippled Stephen hawking need an aide 24/7.
Some of the people we considered most valuable members of society suffer chronic conditions. Several of them currently enjoy the benefits of socialized medicine and are therefore able to contribute to our society when they would have been dead by now in the US system.
Didn't you hear? The Communists are now Democrats, the Democrats are now Republicans, and the Republicans are now Libertarians, and the Libertarians are shit out of luck.
I believe you have that backwards..
The communists are dead, the democrats are now republicans, the republicans are now the manifestations of orwell's worst nightmare, and the real "conservatives" are shit out of luck.
I mean.. i ate right, have never been overweight, got plenty of exercise, and was diagnosed with crohns at age 17.
Now im out of college, unable to get insurance of any kind, and suffering from excruciating pain, chronic diarrhea, and lethargy approaching narcolepsy, all because I can't get 2 perscriptions which would make it all go away
This is because of authoritarians like you who believe in "guilty until proven innocent"
I don't have government twits telling me what healthcare I can and can't have.
The government has screwed over the economy and used fear to enforce security and yet now we're supposed to trust them with our medical services?
No thank you.
Or to paraphrase... Those who are willing to give up medical freedom for medical security deserve neither.
Who said universal health care had to involve government administration?
Just pass strict new regulations:
A - you must charge a flat rate to all comers, subject to audits against gouging, and regulated the way utilities are regulated.
B - you must accept any applicant to your medical insurance program, no testing, your economic function is to spread risk not avoid it.
C - Anyone willing to subject themselves to a full financial audit by the IRS and SEC to prove they are unable to pay the national flat rate can receive a tax credit toward their coverage.
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Imagine Ayn Rand with the understanding that we can't move to free-market capitalism ever
We had a free market in this country until the turn of the 20th century.
It resulted in feudalism in all but name.
It eventually collapsed, resulting in the government finally instituting social programs and a mixed economy.
Regulation is not to blame for the current mess. On the contrary, deregulation was a massive contributing factor, along with the "moral hazard" every libertarian/reaganite loves to try to cram into a closet whenever the people come to examine their policies.
Ah, yes. I questioned you opinion, so I must be a looney, right?
no, you said the (clearly corporatist) media was "liberal", an assertion about as blatantly out of touch with reality as pointing to the sky and screaming about how pink it is.
let me know when liberals you know start parroting self-serving corporate press releases and the right-wing echo chamber as if they were fact, not questioning why third party candidates are not present at debates, and not covering 85% of large scale protests in this country.
DON'T use a /. comment as proof for ANYTHING (we're all opinionated, remember?)
except you're referring to the political spectrum, which requires a point of view outside our nation. As someone outside America, his opinion counts and carries weight.
and don't link to comment that DOES state that "CNN trended left in the early 90's", as that's bad for your argument.
If only it did say that rather than quote and debunk it.
Don't think pseudo-intellectual pseudo-dissociated dissection of information you never read is very good for your untennable position.
if by "stolen" you mean rightfully retaken from monsters who have plundered our culture and shackled our tech sector...
It does well with that kind of content too. Look up the info, enter it manually and it works.
If you're getting music without metadata in huge, unmanageable chunks though, I suggest you really don't care about music at all and have some underlying psychological issues.
That kind of behavior would be the internet equivalent of kleptomania. You grab loads of data and stockpile but never use it.
"locked down" in the 21st century doesn't mean anything, don't you know that? There's always some asshole somewhere that will hack / open it.
alas, this is not always the case.
Try to open a vault e-book on anything but a windows machine.
welcome fellow outlier voter!
Exactly!
Sane democrats will label you extreme left
Sane republicans will label you libertarian, or, if they're dogmatic, just dismissively call you a "liberal"
self-labeled "moderates" will laugh at you as a conspiracy nut with no sense of reality.
I propose the label:
"exogenate"
People who look at things from a genuinely external perspective.
Where is the media outcry on the lack of third parties in the debate?
Where is the dissection of press releases using their own independent research?
Where are people who view the post as public service rather than a career?
People who run for office should be given a polygraph and asked that last question. If they're lying when they say they like the idea of being in a political office, they should be chucked off the ballot.
While it may not behave that well on PC, the quicktime/itunes framework on the apple platform works incredibly well.
Most people outside the PC world stare down their nose the same way at windows media files.
We're beginning to mold our own environment. We've been systematically eliminating threats to our existence, and building habitats which provide as close to ideal biological environments as possible.
In addition to this, the earth itself has been rather stable across the board.
In this environment, It's actually a GOOD thing that we preserve as many genetic "abnormalities" as possible.
When the next shock comes, each of these mutations increases our chance at survival as a species.
What might be disadvantageous in a "skilled working" environment may be just what we need for a radioactive winter in which the sum of our knowledge has been reduced to "how to make fire".
he problem is that modern welfare programs protect the stupid, lazy, and generally incompetent
yep, the stupid, lazy, and generally incompetent, like stephen hawking.
Just because you got sick and lost functionality in one area, doesn't mean you are suddenly worthless to human development.
Please go back to your neo-nazi propaganda sites.
This is exactly right.
For anyone interested in examining the topic of stupidity, I highly suggest looking up, and obtaining in whichever way you choose, a recent CBC documentary on stupdity.
Really? So you're a Republican, then? Most of the major media outlets are amazingly liberal in their coverage, and historically left-leaning in their support...
I refer you here
Really? So you're a Republican, then? Most of the major media outlets are amazingly liberal in their coverage, and historically left-leaning in their support...
ladies and gentlemen, we've found another dingbat. Please call the party wagon and get the proper meds ready.
As anyone from outside the US how "liberal" the US media is, and you'll have to sedate them to stop the laughter.
Citation, please? Certainly a lot of room for debate [wikipedia.org] that the media is performing propaganda solely for either party, or that there is a monolithic bias to the entire industry. Yes, conventional wisdom says that Fox News slants conservative, and PBS slants liberal, and shame on BOTH of them for it.
PBS slants liberal because reality has a well known liberal bias.
Any "Debate" on wikipedia can be attributed to powerful political players paying astroturfers.
If you actually dig you'll see faux-news spewing more hogwash than the entire pork belly industry, and every other news organization slavishly lapping at their heels trying to "stay current", because concocting lies is much faster than actual investigative reporting.
I've used the dock on OS X (a little bit, anyway) and it's wonderful, except that you can't tell if something is running or not.
except for those bright, glowing, blue-white dots with drop shadows next to or under the icons of the running apps.
There is a difference between telling friends face to face in a social environment, and publishing things wholesale to be found by complete strangers on the internet.
How many stories about companies, government agencies, etc spying on your profile with negative consequences do you need before you learn to stay away from social networking sites.
It wouldn't need much traction though.
If the only difference between the fork and the original is a few comment indicators, one person could easily do it and post major builds.
. I'm surprised that many people who normally are pro-freedom turn out to have very situational ethics when it comes to people they regard as political enemies.
when your political enemies run the media as a propaganda arm of their party, then whistle innocently or cry "tinfoil hat" when anyone points out the obvious.
When your political enemies start arresting people for wearing "give peace a chance" t-shirts in the mall.
When your political enemies create "free speech zones", and their partisan court appointees uphold the obvious constitutional breach
When your political enemies engage in domestic surveillance which makes watergate look like piss in the ocean.
When your political enemies give rise to a multi-billion dollar industry of astroturfing campaign firms trying to "manufacture" "public support" for their intolerant, totalitarian positions.
You have to fight dirty too.
The age of honor is over.
Except the summary states "the location-tracking technology... will be built into the forthcoming Firefox 3.1."
I'd much rather this remain a separately downloadable add-on.
and it also says you can make sure sites get "nothing at all"
Additionally, being open source, you can grab the SRC and make builds of it minus that code.
Who says it was genetic, by the way?
None of my living progenitors have ever had the disease, and nobody has pinned down definitive a cause.
It could be related to a food additive some company slipped by the FDA, and don't act like it hasn't happened before.
The addon has to be manually installed.
It's not a piece of malware, it's not surreptitiously installed by remote servers. It's strictly voluntary.
The only privacy concerns which arise from this are if people are not careful enough with the addon to disable it.
Still, please explain why just because you got unlucky in life, I (or anyone else) should be forced to pay to take care of you?
kennedy had adison's disease.
FDR was crippled
Stephen hawking need an aide 24/7.
Some of the people we considered most valuable members of society suffer chronic conditions.
Several of them currently enjoy the benefits of socialized medicine and are therefore able to contribute to our society when they would have been dead by now in the US system.
Except it SHOULD cover pre-existing conditions.
I should not be forced to pay double any time I switch coverage for a condition beyond my control.
I bought a laptop from a guy in singapore on ebay.
The thing stayed in a customs warehouse for 20 days because someone tacked some arbitrarily arrived at "extra" duty in addition to the official ones.
Didn't you hear? The Communists are now Democrats, the Democrats are now Republicans, and the Republicans are now Libertarians, and the Libertarians are shit out of luck.
I believe you have that backwards..
The communists are dead, the democrats are now republicans, the republicans are now the manifestations of orwell's worst nightmare, and the real "conservatives" are shit out of luck.
I'm such a leech.
I mean.. i ate right, have never been overweight, got plenty of exercise, and was diagnosed with crohns at age 17.
Now im out of college, unable to get insurance of any kind, and suffering from excruciating pain, chronic diarrhea, and lethargy approaching narcolepsy, all because I can't get 2 perscriptions which would make it all go away
This is because of authoritarians like you who believe in "guilty until proven innocent"
I don't have government twits telling me what healthcare I can and can't have.
The government has screwed over the economy and used fear to enforce security and yet now we're supposed to trust them with our medical services?
No thank you.
Or to paraphrase...
Those who are willing to give up medical freedom for medical security deserve neither.
Who said universal health care had to involve government administration?
Just pass strict new regulations:
A - you must charge a flat rate to all comers, subject to audits against gouging, and regulated the way utilities are regulated.
B - you must accept any applicant to your medical insurance program, no testing, your economic function is to spread risk not avoid it.
C - Anyone willing to subject themselves to a full financial audit by the IRS and SEC to prove they are unable to pay the national flat rate can receive a tax credit toward their coverage.