News flash -- The vast majority of Republicans are liberal. I'm not a Republican or a Democrat.
There are many elements of modern day liberalism (supporting totalitarianism, Marxism, hating Christians, etc). If you meet any of these conditions, you're a liberal -- because there can be no compromise when it comes to supporting freedom and justice.
What idiots like you delusion to be "educated", sane people call "brainwashed". You think you're original, yet you support ideas that have been prove to fail or be injust many times over the course of history.
I wasn't saying that you modded me down, but that by not being a liberal drone (of either the Republican or Democrat parties) and actually standing for justice and logic gets you modded down on here. I smile every time it happens. Why? Because the only way liberals ever win is in a rigged fight (such as the US election system).
Oh, I understand Marxism quite well, however I will never ignore reason and justice for the sake of being "cool" or "multicultural". I never said I "studied" it either, jackass. I said I read the site (meaning read articles and skim comments) a few times a day.
"Slashdot is made up to a large extent of fairly conservative types"
HAHAHA! Have you ever read most of their crap? Slashdot is the ultimate haven of liberal idiocy out there, even more so than CNN. Almost everytime that someone posts something that isn't supported by the DNC, it is modded down. I've only seen a handful of conservative / classic liberal posts on slashdot NOT get modded down (and I've read it multiple times a day for a LONG time now).
"It is as if everyone is acknowledging that the Wii already has a certain segment of the market sewn up and that gives the advantage in the three way battle for the rest of it."
It does already have a certain segment -- the same segment as the Gamecube did -- people who care about good game play and prices that won't cause you to bleed from your ass.
1) You don't have the right to vote away someone else's rights
2) There are very, very few necessary services (limited basically to roads and national defense)
Great. Just wanted to make sure we were clear that in your "ideal" world, the government owns everyone and everything and can do whatever they want with them, and if you have children and want to give them a better life, well you can kiss that dream goodbye because it might make someone else feel bad.
No, communism is about the government owning everything and taking to give everyone their "fair" share. If you're too fucking lazy to do the work, why the hell should you be rewarded for it? If you don't learn the material, you don't pass the test. You don't work, you don't get paid. It's very simple. Just because you're alive doesn't make you special.
If you want to give money to people to pay for their mistakes (and I personally know people who think people who work for money are a joke), that's your perogative. However, you have no right to steal money from everyone else just to make your Marxist dreams of an all powerful government come true.
If you think libertarianism and communism are even remotely similar, then you really need to pick up a book, instead of reading revisionist history on the internet.
Yes, libertarian "bullshit" like equal rights, freedom, and the right to your own property. There are plenty of ways that people can start over again if they royally fuck up WITHOUT VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS. I'm not compassionless -- I give away plenty to people who need things or are worse off than I am. The difference between you and me (on this issue anyways)? The fact that I believe in GIVING, you belive in FORCEFULLY TAKING.
Since when was there any mention of "treating everyone that isn't like them as less than human"? They are treating them as enemies -- I hardly think you'll claim that by treating the British as enemies during the Revolution that we treated them as less than human. Also, the game doesn't say that "it's ok to kill as long as you pray afterwards" -- merely that praying can help redeem you for sins (which, the Bible will tell you that also.....hell I'm fairly certain they have similar things in the Koran too).
I think you need to realize that games aren't (generally) supposed to reflect real life -- it's just a game. No one is saying "go do this in real life". Besides, think of how many killings are probably avoided because of killing in video games -- you get out stress by shooting people / things in a game instead of acting out your violent desires against a real person who's been begging for an ass kicking.
Yea, promoting people praying to Jesus over Allah / Mohammad or the almighty Al Gore is SO tasteless. Give me a fucking break. The only way you could say that it's tasteless is if they actually PROMOTED killing non-Christians (which they don't, it's merely a possible course of action -- which any time in real life killing someone is always a possible course of action........just not reccomended unless you want to go to a Federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison).
The issue is beyond me? That's amusing seeing as I'm the only one who's actually talked about what social "justice" (sarcastic qoutations marks, because there's nothing just about it) actually is. If my points are so wrong about how social justice is nothing but punishing success and rewarding laziness / poor choices, you'd be able to come up with a counter argument instead of just the typical slashdot bullshit of "Oh, you don't worship and all powerful government -- you're stupid". Everyone knows that social "justice" is just a way to drag down those who are successful and have made good choices so that those who are unsuccessful and have made poor choices can feel better about themselves. Oh, and for your comment of "I've taken a cursory look at this discussion and can't find anyone who even hinted that their intent is to steal the rightful possessions of hard working people and redistribute it" -- you've obviously never looked at how social security, medicare, welfare, etc work.
Yes, it's sick to think that people have a right to what they earn. I know, damn me for not wanting to rob you of your rightful possessions! God, what a horrible person I am! See, this is why I get such a kick of of Liberaldot.org -- if you don't worship Uncle Stalin and Aunt Hitler, you get modded down. You don't bother to actually come up with an argument or read some history or anything else. Really, it's pathetic.
No, you're deluded into thinking that social justice isn't about bringing everyone down to a lower level. It's about jealously -- people being jealous that someone else worked harder and thinking that they deserve the reward for work that they didn't do. There's nothing just about punishing people for being successful.
True. Social justice is merely the absence of justice under the delusion that laws will make people smarter / stronger / cause them to spend their money wisely / etc.
AMD had a powerful lead over Intel for several years (from when the 939 Athlon64's came out until the Core 2 Duo's came out). Other than AM2 and going to a 90nm process, AMD hasn't really changed their design in 5 years. Which means that they've probably got something pretty damn good in the works.
Do you know why both attempts at using dollar coins have failed? Because people HATE coins. Coins are ridiculously annoying to have. Who wants a huge heavy pocketful of coins when you could have a much lighter wallet? Besides, have you ever seen paper money bounce off the floor when dropped and roll under a vending machine / down a crack where you can't get it / etc? If you want to suggest an overhaul of our money, get rid of coins entirely.
Jesus people, the only reasons anyone ever has for why PS3 or Xbox 360 are better is because they have "better graphics". Yea, there's a reason to drop down a few hundred on a console and $60 a game -- to look at pretty pictures while I beat my head through the wall due to crap gameplay. Yes, there are some good games (Sony has Final Fantasy, Xbox 360 has Gears of War), but so many games for those systems are merely ports of PC games that I can get to look much better on my computer than I can on a console. Nintendo may not have the most cutting edge graphics or the latest marketing ploy (blue-ray anyone?), but they have a higher percentage of quality games. That is why Nintendo is the better system -- because they know what real gamers want. Real gamers want a fun game and don't care if you can count the exact number of pores on someones face in the game.
is to not make a successful company -- the government will just fine the hell out of you and use you as their personal golden egg-laying goose.
Sure, Microsoft could do lots of things better, but fining them for being successful is bullshit. It's not a matter of business practices either. Apple would be sued just the same if they had that kind of money.
"Spend a little time and effort and educate yourself. People who have done so are convinced that evolution is the correct explanation for all the forms of life on the earth."
I have educated myself. I spend almost every free minute reading anything I can get my hands on (text books, classic literature, philosophy, science, anything). This is exactly why I DON'T believe in the myth of macro-evolution because every time that people claim to have found "absolute proof" of some "missing link" it's been proven to be either 1) the "scientist" was an idiot or 2) it was a hoax. According to the theory there should've been countless unfit creatures that would've become extinct -- so how come no one's been able to find any of these fossils? I'll believe it once there is solid evidence to support it. I'm sure you'll claim I'm some "religious freak" for expecting FACTS proving one idea is superior than another before I change my mind, but that's not the case. I don't know how things came about and I honestly couldn't care. Religious groups say that God / Allah / The Giant Spaghetti Monster made everything -- yet they can't prove it. Pesudoscientist groups and their "I want to be trendy" / "I'll believe whatever I'm told to without trying to find the truth" followers say that everything happend to evolve from this one organism (which they have no logical explanation for how that first one came about) -- yet they can't find any evidence to support it, just hypothetical "Well I can't figure it out so here's my guess" situations that they claim to be facts. As soon as someone can provide solid evidence, then I'll believe that.
Also, I love how anyone who actually forms their opinions based on facts and observations gets modded down on slashdot, while those who just blindly follow whatever the marxist establishment tells them to get modded insightful. It doesn't matter if it's Bill Gates, George Bush (who I despise), or anything else. If it's not Democratic National Comittee approved, it's flamebait and that's total bullshit -- just like those people at Columbia University recently acting like two year olds because someone disagreed with them.
I've read parts of it and while microevolution has been proved, macro-evolution hasn't and that's where my problem comes in. Darwin said that eventually fossils would be found to back him up. It's been over 150 years and still no fossils showing a 'transitional' animal.
I don't even have a problem believing in macro-evolution if they ever come up with real evidence for it.
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News flash -- The vast majority of Republicans are liberal. I'm not a Republican or a Democrat.
There are many elements of modern day liberalism (supporting totalitarianism, Marxism, hating Christians, etc). If you meet any of these conditions, you're a liberal -- because there can be no compromise when it comes to supporting freedom and justice.
What idiots like you delusion to be "educated", sane people call "brainwashed". You think you're original, yet you support ideas that have been prove to fail or be injust many times over the course of history.
I wasn't saying that you modded me down, but that by not being a liberal drone (of either the Republican or Democrat parties) and actually standing for justice and logic gets you modded down on here. I smile every time it happens. Why? Because the only way liberals ever win is in a rigged fight (such as the US election system).
WOOHOO! I knew it was coming. Denounce Karl Marx and injustice and you get modded down by Liberaldot.org! Thanks for proving my point jackass.
Oh, I understand Marxism quite well, however I will never ignore reason and justice for the sake of being "cool" or "multicultural". I never said I "studied" it either, jackass. I said I read the site (meaning read articles and skim comments) a few times a day.
"Slashdot is made up to a large extent of fairly conservative types"
HAHAHA! Have you ever read most of their crap? Slashdot is the ultimate haven of liberal idiocy out there, even more so than CNN. Almost everytime that someone posts something that isn't supported by the DNC, it is modded down. I've only seen a handful of conservative / classic liberal posts on slashdot NOT get modded down (and I've read it multiple times a day for a LONG time now).
"It is as if everyone is acknowledging that the Wii already has a certain segment of the market sewn up and that gives the advantage in the three way battle for the rest of it."
It does already have a certain segment -- the same segment as the Gamecube did -- people who care about good game play and prices that won't cause you to bleed from your ass.
1) You don't have the right to vote away someone else's rights
2) There are very, very few necessary services (limited basically to roads and national defense)
Great. Just wanted to make sure we were clear that in your "ideal" world, the government owns everyone and everything and can do whatever they want with them, and if you have children and want to give them a better life, well you can kiss that dream goodbye because it might make someone else feel bad.
Libetarians don't "count" on generosity either. They merely point out that it's unjust to rob someone, regardless of where the money goes to.
No, communism is about the government owning everything and taking to give everyone their "fair" share. If you're too fucking lazy to do the work, why the hell should you be rewarded for it? If you don't learn the material, you don't pass the test. You don't work, you don't get paid. It's very simple. Just because you're alive doesn't make you special.
If you want to give money to people to pay for their mistakes (and I personally know people who think people who work for money are a joke), that's your perogative. However, you have no right to steal money from everyone else just to make your Marxist dreams of an all powerful government come true.
If you think libertarianism and communism are even remotely similar, then you really need to pick up a book, instead of reading revisionist history on the internet.
Yes, libertarian "bullshit" like equal rights, freedom, and the right to your own property. There are plenty of ways that people can start over again if they royally fuck up WITHOUT VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS. I'm not compassionless -- I give away plenty to people who need things or are worse off than I am. The difference between you and me (on this issue anyways)? The fact that I believe in GIVING, you belive in FORCEFULLY TAKING.
Since when was there any mention of "treating everyone that isn't like them as less than human"? They are treating them as enemies -- I hardly think you'll claim that by treating the British as enemies during the Revolution that we treated them as less than human. Also, the game doesn't say that "it's ok to kill as long as you pray afterwards" -- merely that praying can help redeem you for sins (which, the Bible will tell you that also.....hell I'm fairly certain they have similar things in the Koran too).
I think you need to realize that games aren't (generally) supposed to reflect real life -- it's just a game. No one is saying "go do this in real life". Besides, think of how many killings are probably avoided because of killing in video games -- you get out stress by shooting people / things in a game instead of acting out your violent desires against a real person who's been begging for an ass kicking.
Yea, promoting people praying to Jesus over Allah / Mohammad or the almighty Al Gore is SO tasteless. Give me a fucking break. The only way you could say that it's tasteless is if they actually PROMOTED killing non-Christians (which they don't, it's merely a possible course of action -- which any time in real life killing someone is always a possible course of action........just not reccomended unless you want to go to a Federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison).
The issue is beyond me? That's amusing seeing as I'm the only one who's actually talked about what social "justice" (sarcastic qoutations marks, because there's nothing just about it) actually is. If my points are so wrong about how social justice is nothing but punishing success and rewarding laziness / poor choices, you'd be able to come up with a counter argument instead of just the typical slashdot bullshit of "Oh, you don't worship and all powerful government -- you're stupid". Everyone knows that social "justice" is just a way to drag down those who are successful and have made good choices so that those who are unsuccessful and have made poor choices can feel better about themselves. Oh, and for your comment of "I've taken a cursory look at this discussion and can't find anyone who even hinted that their intent is to steal the rightful possessions of hard working people and redistribute it" -- you've obviously never looked at how social security, medicare, welfare, etc work.
Yes, it's sick to think that people have a right to what they earn. I know, damn me for not wanting to rob you of your rightful possessions! God, what a horrible person I am! See, this is why I get such a kick of of Liberaldot.org -- if you don't worship Uncle Stalin and Aunt Hitler, you get modded down. You don't bother to actually come up with an argument or read some history or anything else. Really, it's pathetic.
No, you're deluded into thinking that social justice isn't about bringing everyone down to a lower level. It's about jealously -- people being jealous that someone else worked harder and thinking that they deserve the reward for work that they didn't do. There's nothing just about punishing people for being successful.
"Social justice != communism"
True. Social justice is merely the absence of justice under the delusion that laws will make people smarter / stronger / cause them to spend their money wisely / etc.
AMD had a powerful lead over Intel for several years (from when the 939 Athlon64's came out until the Core 2 Duo's came out). Other than AM2 and going to a 90nm process, AMD hasn't really changed their design in 5 years. Which means that they've probably got something pretty damn good in the works.
Wii Sports was never planned to be released. It was created to demo the system, but so many people found it fun that they decided to bundle it.
Do you know why both attempts at using dollar coins have failed? Because people HATE coins. Coins are ridiculously annoying to have. Who wants a huge heavy pocketful of coins when you could have a much lighter wallet? Besides, have you ever seen paper money bounce off the floor when dropped and roll under a vending machine / down a crack where you can't get it / etc? If you want to suggest an overhaul of our money, get rid of coins entirely.
Jesus people, the only reasons anyone ever has for why PS3 or Xbox 360 are better is because they have "better graphics". Yea, there's a reason to drop down a few hundred on a console and $60 a game -- to look at pretty pictures while I beat my head through the wall due to crap gameplay. Yes, there are some good games (Sony has Final Fantasy, Xbox 360 has Gears of War), but so many games for those systems are merely ports of PC games that I can get to look much better on my computer than I can on a console. Nintendo may not have the most cutting edge graphics or the latest marketing ploy (blue-ray anyone?), but they have a higher percentage of quality games. That is why Nintendo is the better system -- because they know what real gamers want. Real gamers want a fun game and don't care if you can count the exact number of pores on someones face in the game.
is to not make a successful company -- the government will just fine the hell out of you and use you as their personal golden egg-laying goose. Sure, Microsoft could do lots of things better, but fining them for being successful is bullshit. It's not a matter of business practices either. Apple would be sued just the same if they had that kind of money.
"Oh, beg to differ. Microsoft is a convicted monopoly abuser. And down comes your pretty house of cards."
He's talking in practice, not what some dipshit politician says in order to make more money for the government.
Yes, nothing like group conformity to help someone be an individual!
"Spend a little time and effort and educate yourself. People who have done so are convinced that evolution is the correct explanation for all the forms of life on the earth." I have educated myself. I spend almost every free minute reading anything I can get my hands on (text books, classic literature, philosophy, science, anything). This is exactly why I DON'T believe in the myth of macro-evolution because every time that people claim to have found "absolute proof" of some "missing link" it's been proven to be either 1) the "scientist" was an idiot or 2) it was a hoax. According to the theory there should've been countless unfit creatures that would've become extinct -- so how come no one's been able to find any of these fossils? I'll believe it once there is solid evidence to support it. I'm sure you'll claim I'm some "religious freak" for expecting FACTS proving one idea is superior than another before I change my mind, but that's not the case. I don't know how things came about and I honestly couldn't care. Religious groups say that God / Allah / The Giant Spaghetti Monster made everything -- yet they can't prove it. Pesudoscientist groups and their "I want to be trendy" / "I'll believe whatever I'm told to without trying to find the truth" followers say that everything happend to evolve from this one organism (which they have no logical explanation for how that first one came about) -- yet they can't find any evidence to support it, just hypothetical "Well I can't figure it out so here's my guess" situations that they claim to be facts. As soon as someone can provide solid evidence, then I'll believe that. Also, I love how anyone who actually forms their opinions based on facts and observations gets modded down on slashdot, while those who just blindly follow whatever the marxist establishment tells them to get modded insightful. It doesn't matter if it's Bill Gates, George Bush (who I despise), or anything else. If it's not Democratic National Comittee approved, it's flamebait and that's total bullshit -- just like those people at Columbia University recently acting like two year olds because someone disagreed with them.
I've read parts of it and while microevolution has been proved, macro-evolution hasn't and that's where my problem comes in. Darwin said that eventually fossils would be found to back him up. It's been over 150 years and still no fossils showing a 'transitional' animal.
I don't even have a problem believing in macro-evolution if they ever come up with real evidence for it.