I know, I know, but we have to remember, there are a bunch of other turds clogging up the toilet along with us. At least we can try and use it as fertilizer or something.
I can't say if people who post anti-u.s. stuff aren't doing anything to help, but it is frustrating to see all the posts. I mean, for those of us who live here, complaining on slashdot isn't going to change/stop all the corrupt politicians. We need to call our representatives (if you get a big enough group of people contacting their rep's - things can change - remember, the poly's want to stay in office, so they have to do what the majority wants) and vote for new ones if that is what it takes (and not just vote, but work to get ALL the people in your district to vote - or to agree with your views).
HEY! Everyone crying like little babies about the U.S.A. just stuff it! If you don't like it, try and get laws changed, try and get your lazy fucking friends to vote for a new party, try something besides sounding like a bunch of 3rd graders who've had their play time taken away.
The U.S. gov't isn't the only bad apple in this orchard. Governments of all countries have agendas. They have people working in them that want to help their country and they have those who are following personal agendas as well as possibly global conspiracy agendas. Repeat: ALL COUNTRIES HAVE THIS. Stop acting like your country is so much better.
The U.S.A.: Its a work in progress, either help out, or SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Listen, it isn't our fault that the rest of the countries who were in power before us FAILED! We didn't ask for it to be our turn but it happened. So yeah, we've made some mistakes. Shit happens. Maybe one of these other countries will step up and make the world a perfect place (like they havn't done...um, EVER). But I would bet that 100 years from now, the new superpower will be fucking up just like us, and hopefully my kids will be there shitting all over them, and telling them how fucked they are.
I would say you're the one with your head in the sand. You need to dig it out and face the fact that humans have been violent since we became humans, even before. We don't need video games to help us.
You are just reading about it, seeing it on TV, seeing it on the interent, and it seems like such a problem. In reality, it's just life, just like it has been for thousands of years.
How much violence is there in the bible? I say kids are violent because they read about it in the bible!
Imagine how many of these kids would be out causing trouble if they weren't glued to their TV's playing violent video games.
"And the plain fact is that over the last forty-fifty odd years, such interpersonal and societal violence has increased - sharply."
I'd like to see a source for this. Maybe the reporting of such violence, or the coverage of such violence has increased, or the total number of incidents has increased due to near exponential rise in population.
Klimanis said. "We have to go to work every day. We're constantly told to buy things we don't need, and just for a couple hours we have the freedom to do what we want to do."
Really? I'm free to do what I want (within the law and sometimes without) every minute of my life. What is with this bitching about (/voice cartoon baby): 'We're constantly told to buy things we don't need'. Jesus Christ, are you that feeble minded? If advertising hurts your life so much, you're gonna need more than this to help you.
No, for example, every inch of body armour may have a 2mm by 2mm (or smaller - nano) camera lense, and the rest taken up by some kind of 'screen' (but each screen is connected to a camera on the opposite side), and this is done all over the suit. Every 1 inch screen has its own camera on the opposite side. So from every angle, you would see what the cameras are recording on the exact opposite side (the camera is filming what you would have in your line of sight if the target was not standing in the way).
Basically the exterior of the suit would be made up of hundreds or thousands of nano cameras mixed with some kind of view-screens as well.
That is only because the population as a whole is too lazy to stop it (as it looks now). The constitution gives us the tools to keep it from happening. Remember we will get (in terms of our government and laws) only what we deserve.
This is just the simple example. Imagine thousands of nano-cameras ingrained all over your body armour, all linked to nano-screens ingrained on the exact opposite side of the armour. This is one way cloaking may be able to work someday.
The points you listed (and more) are the reasons I keep a straight face while I sing all that. I don't/didn't go to that school however.
We have the right to protest and, if we aren't lazy as fuck, have discussions and get laws/policies changed. Not everyone on this rock has those rights.
Remember this saying, and it comes the most true in the USA: "A country's people will always have the governemnt they deserve".
Also totally agree with being dumb about posting illegal stuff.
By the way, isn't this a public site (myspace). If you are so starved for attention that you have to post your dirty deeds online, then you should be expecting and aware of any and all repurcussions. If you don't like the laws that say you can't drink below a certain age, can't do drugs, etc., try and change the laws or don't go spouting off about them.
Take me for instance if I am too lazy and poor to change the law about marijuana being illegal, I will just do it in the privacy of my own home (I said 'if', I don't do that kine of stuff!), and not post it on a public forum. It isn't rocket science.
And i'm serious about not coming to the U.S.A. We will be falling as a nation soon, and when the Chinese invade, all of these pouting pussies who live here will be asking for 'time outs', 'do-overs' and saying 'this isn't fair, our governtment isn't responding fast enough!! waaaaa!!'
I don't like it when people use simple economic pressures or a lack there of to justify moral judgements or valuations. If the industrial revolution (driven by the discovery of coal)hadn't happened in the resource rich west there would be no freedom for women.
Huh? You do see the total contradiction that these two sentences (and hence, your argument) have for each other right?
You are trying to make an excuse for why the men of the middle east can 'control' their women. The pure and simple fact is that it is because of the muslim religion, or at least the way it is interpreted by these ruling governments, and the cultural differences (which doesn't make it right).
Or maybe you're going to tell me the reason that women in the American Indian societies were equals (even in charge of the family units in some cases) was because they had a secret industrial complex.
Look, any society can have an excuse to have the women equal or keep them sub-servial. The choice is up to that society to do what's right.
I can't remember who said this, but I really like it: "A country's people always have the government they deserve". So yeah, I can't see why we are in Iraq, other than to test our network.
I was responding to other posts. It's all there to see. Yeah, somewhere along the line it got off topic, hell the original post I responded to was probably off topic, but I still had to respond.
The orginal post was talking about how a total deluge of networking (free internet information) to these countries was a great way to sort of win them over.
I was sort of agreeing and used human rights as an example of one of the things that might change within these countries if they could see how much of the world lived (via seeing it on the internet). Then someone tried to tell me that people's lives in these countries were just as valuable as lives in the U.S.A. I, of course never said they weren't, but then my point was, they weren't treated as though they were of equal value. And I gave a few (offtopic) examples.
If posts are off topic, then they can be modded, but no reason for them to be attacked, they weren't untrue.
Ok, anonymous coward, key word being coward. I was simply replying to someone's jealous comments, which in themselves were better suited for your post. I was defending my country, and I'll do it until it goes down in the flames of jealousy, either from with in or out.
Retard, when will you learn not to claim I did something that I never did, in this case try to tell me I tried to justify a war. Stop telling me I have said something I never did. You can never win an argument simply by making something up and saying I did it. Get a clue.
Wow, this is so funny. So, you want to point out that you never claimed that women over there enjoy the same freedom as those in the U.S., but then you try and shoot down my proof of that by claiming it is propaganda. Ok then, take any of the millions of other sources of proof. Whatever. It is true no matter what source you look at, and no matter what a fool like you says.
What, are you just in a bad mood cause you can't beat and rape your women over here like you can in your beloved oppresive muslim regimes?
So you've spouted your obviously ignorant opinion, which is fine, but when you throw out baseless accusations against me, that's were you fuck up. You don't have the faintest of clues about me, so how in the world do you come up with saying anything? I'm not impressed with the fact that you have lived "there" for any period of time. That doesn't make the nonsense you spout any less trivial.
If anything I've posted is wrong, prove it, or shut up.
Also, you can say what you want about the reports I linked. They are just a few of many, many to say the same thing, as well, as news media and people who actually have lived their. If you don't believe that women in these muslim arab countries don't have the same freedoms as women in the U.S.A. you are the moron.
I never said women's lives in those countries weren't as valuable as women i the U.S.A. Were are you people getting this? I said they did not have equal rights. It is a FACT!
Hey dumb fuck, I know we aren't attacking Iran, why don't you read the original post i responded to. As far as Iraq being the most secular nation in the whole region, that ain't saying too much. Ask some Iraqi women who have moved to the U.S.A. how great their rights were in Iraq. And while you are at it, go fuck yourself, I'm not a moron ya fuckin douche.
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Yeah, dude, the U.S. government and slashdot, as well as the whites, blacks, jews, and eskimos are all out to keep you down.
I mean every one knows that the U.S.A. is the cause of ALL problems in the world.
I can't say if people who post anti-u.s. stuff aren't doing anything to help, but it is frustrating to see all the posts. I mean, for those of us who live here, complaining on slashdot isn't going to change/stop all the corrupt politicians. We need to call our representatives (if you get a big enough group of people contacting their rep's - things can change - remember, the poly's want to stay in office, so they have to do what the majority wants) and vote for new ones if that is what it takes (and not just vote, but work to get ALL the people in your district to vote - or to agree with your views).
The U.S. gov't isn't the only bad apple in this orchard. Governments of all countries have agendas. They have people working in them that want to help their country and they have those who are following personal agendas as well as possibly global conspiracy agendas. Repeat: ALL COUNTRIES HAVE THIS. Stop acting like your country is so much better.
The U.S.A.: Its a work in progress, either help out, or SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Listen, it isn't our fault that the rest of the countries who were in power before us FAILED! We didn't ask for it to be our turn but it happened. So yeah, we've made some mistakes. Shit happens. Maybe one of these other countries will step up and make the world a perfect place (like they havn't done...um, EVER). But I would bet that 100 years from now, the new superpower will be fucking up just like us, and hopefully my kids will be there shitting all over them, and telling them how fucked they are.
You are just reading about it, seeing it on TV, seeing it on the interent, and it seems like such a problem. In reality, it's just life, just like it has been for thousands of years.
How much violence is there in the bible? I say kids are violent because they read about it in the bible!
Imagine how many of these kids would be out causing trouble if they weren't glued to their TV's playing violent video games.
I'd like to see a source for this. Maybe the reporting of such violence, or the coverage of such violence has increased, or the total number of incidents has increased due to near exponential rise in population.
Really? I'm free to do what I want (within the law and sometimes without) every minute of my life. What is with this bitching about (/voice cartoon baby): 'We're constantly told to buy things we don't need'. Jesus Christ, are you that feeble minded? If advertising hurts your life so much, you're gonna need more than this to help you.
Basically the exterior of the suit would be made up of hundreds or thousands of nano cameras mixed with some kind of view-screens as well.
That is only because the population as a whole is too lazy to stop it (as it looks now). The constitution gives us the tools to keep it from happening. Remember we will get (in terms of our government and laws) only what we deserve.
This is just the simple example. Imagine thousands of nano-cameras ingrained all over your body armour, all linked to nano-screens ingrained on the exact opposite side of the armour. This is one way cloaking may be able to work someday.
We have the right to protest and, if we aren't lazy as fuck, have discussions and get laws/policies changed. Not everyone on this rock has those rights.
Remember this saying, and it comes the most true in the USA: "A country's people will always have the governemnt they deserve".
Also totally agree with being dumb about posting illegal stuff.
By the way, isn't this a public site (myspace). If you are so starved for attention that you have to post your dirty deeds online, then you should be expecting and aware of any and all repurcussions. If you don't like the laws that say you can't drink below a certain age, can't do drugs, etc., try and change the laws or don't go spouting off about them.
Take me for instance if I am too lazy and poor to change the law about marijuana being illegal, I will just do it in the privacy of my own home (I said 'if', I don't do that kine of stuff!), and not post it on a public forum. It isn't rocket science.
And i'm serious about not coming to the U.S.A. We will be falling as a nation soon, and when the Chinese invade, all of these pouting pussies who live here will be asking for 'time outs', 'do-overs' and saying 'this isn't fair, our governtment isn't responding fast enough!! waaaaa!!'
It isn't a two party system. At this time in history, there just happens to be two strong parties.
Douche.
Huh? You do see the total contradiction that these two sentences (and hence, your argument) have for each other right?
You are trying to make an excuse for why the men of the middle east can 'control' their women. The pure and simple fact is that it is because of the muslim religion, or at least the way it is interpreted by these ruling governments, and the cultural differences (which doesn't make it right).
Or maybe you're going to tell me the reason that women in the American Indian societies were equals (even in charge of the family units in some cases) was because they had a secret industrial complex.
Look, any society can have an excuse to have the women equal or keep them sub-servial. The choice is up to that society to do what's right.
I can't remember who said this, but I really like it: "A country's people always have the government they deserve". So yeah, I can't see why we are in Iraq, other than to test our network.
The orginal post was talking about how a total deluge of networking (free internet information) to these countries was a great way to sort of win them over.
I was sort of agreeing and used human rights as an example of one of the things that might change within these countries if they could see how much of the world lived (via seeing it on the internet). Then someone tried to tell me that people's lives in these countries were just as valuable as lives in the U.S.A. I, of course never said they weren't, but then my point was, they weren't treated as though they were of equal value. And I gave a few (offtopic) examples.
If posts are off topic, then they can be modded, but no reason for them to be attacked, they weren't untrue.
Ok, anonymous coward, key word being coward. I was simply replying to someone's jealous comments, which in themselves were better suited for your post. I was defending my country, and I'll do it until it goes down in the flames of jealousy, either from with in or out.
Retard, when will you learn not to claim I did something that I never did, in this case try to tell me I tried to justify a war. Stop telling me I have said something I never did. You can never win an argument simply by making something up and saying I did it. Get a clue.
What, are you just in a bad mood cause you can't beat and rape your women over here like you can in your beloved oppresive muslim regimes?
So you've spouted your obviously ignorant opinion, which is fine, but when you throw out baseless accusations against me, that's were you fuck up. You don't have the faintest of clues about me, so how in the world do you come up with saying anything? I'm not impressed with the fact that you have lived "there" for any period of time. That doesn't make the nonsense you spout any less trivial.
If anything I've posted is wrong, prove it, or shut up.
The U.S.A. is better and smarter than your country and N.A.S.A. is better than your space agency, assuming your country has one that is.
Also, you can say what you want about the reports I linked. They are just a few of many, many to say the same thing, as well, as news media and people who actually have lived their. If you don't believe that women in these muslim arab countries don't have the same freedoms as women in the U.S.A. you are the moron.
I think i mis-read your post. I don't think you were responding to mine. Sorry!
I never said women's lives in those countries weren't as valuable as women i the U.S.A. Were are you people getting this? I said they did not have equal rights. It is a FACT!
Hey dumb fuck, I know we aren't attacking Iran, why don't you read the original post i responded to. As far as Iraq being the most secular nation in the whole region, that ain't saying too much. Ask some Iraqi women who have moved to the U.S.A. how great their rights were in Iraq. And while you are at it, go fuck yourself, I'm not a moron ya fuckin douche.