To quote the Prophet Bueller, "Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself."
You're cute. Facetiousness does not amount to a "personal attack." True, both can be considered DoS. But I maintain that comparing the organizers' intentions is silly at best. Greensboro was about equality. This is about, what, revenge? Sticking it to the man? What is it they intend to accomplish besides general disorder?
Unless your personal timeframe happens to be moving counter to the rest of the world, um, no. He stated a specific form of protest used in the particular circumstance of bringing about desegregation. He even linked to an article all about it. Do you understand the concept of "before and after"? Are you getting enough oxygen?
It's a matter of scale. Wikileaks is releasing information, not fundamentally changing society. Anyone who thinks this is on the same level as that really needs to get some perspective.
You make an excellent point. However moronic it may be to counter childish behavior with childish behavior, it seems to be all we, as a species, are capable of. At least they are consistent.
It amuses me that the same people who are anti-big government are usually pro-big business and don't even realize the sad irony. Wait, amuses is the wrong word. Depresses? Terrifies? Drives to stuttering rage?
Then there's the American way to fail, deregulate systems that work so they can be exploited and regulate systems that don't work so they can be exploited more. Smith was an optimist.
Simple golden rule. In this case, would one of these programmers or whoever want to be subjected to startlingly loud advertisements every 6.5 minutes? Probably not. Don't inflict it on others. Seems pretty simple to me.
I'd remind you that it was Hollywood that lobbied for those regulations in the first place, but I don't think it'd really matter. You seem pretty opposed to information that doesn't fit in with your rigidly defined world view.
That's not the point. The point is the problem shouldn't exist in the first place. It'd be nice if people just knew what they shouldn't do, or more to the fact, actually didn't do things they knew they shouldn't do, but people are ignorant bastards. So they need to be regulated.
Smith made the same mistake Marx did. He assumed people WOULDN'T be greedy, selfish, self-absorbed bastards only concerned with elevating themselves and fuck everybody else. Both of their idealized systems require idealized people to make it work. A genuine free market is the same thing as the workers' paradise, an impossible, and naive, fantasy.
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To quote the Prophet Bueller, "Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself."
And String theory doesn't count. It's about as scientific as Astrology.
Oh come now, it's at least as scientific as alchemy.
your comprehension skills are very telling.
ur mum's face fail.
you're an idiot.
You're cute. Facetiousness does not amount to a "personal attack." True, both can be considered DoS. But I maintain that comparing the organizers' intentions is silly at best. Greensboro was about equality. This is about, what, revenge? Sticking it to the man? What is it they intend to accomplish besides general disorder?
Unless your personal timeframe happens to be moving counter to the rest of the world, um, no. He stated a specific form of protest used in the particular circumstance of bringing about desegregation. He even linked to an article all about it. Do you understand the concept of "before and after"? Are you getting enough oxygen?
lolwut?
get a grip
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It's a matter of scale. Wikileaks is releasing information, not fundamentally changing society. Anyone who thinks this is on the same level as that really needs to get some perspective.
actually, why not? couldn't turn out any fucking worse than now
You make an excellent point. However moronic it may be to counter childish behavior with childish behavior, it seems to be all we, as a species, are capable of. At least they are consistent.
you're comparing this to anti-segregation protests??? dude, get a grip
and mindless idiots to boot
with their coordination they could do something helpful, but they'd rather act like the fucking adolescents they are
It amuses me that the same people who are anti-big government are usually pro-big business and don't even realize the sad irony. Wait, amuses is the wrong word. Depresses? Terrifies? Drives to stuttering rage?
That's a deliberate obfuscation of the issue since amount and type of traffic are directly related.
Then there's the American way to fail, deregulate systems that work so they can be exploited and regulate systems that don't work so they can be exploited more. Smith was an optimist.
And if that society has both broken capitalism and rule of law, what then? You get what we have now. Merry Christmas.
Simple golden rule. In this case, would one of these programmers or whoever want to be subjected to startlingly loud advertisements every 6.5 minutes? Probably not. Don't inflict it on others. Seems pretty simple to me.
Yeah. Ideally. I think I said that. He also overestimated the "enlightened" portion of the enlightened self-interest factor.
And then Hollywood would have gotten its way by other means and we still wouldn't be able to download shows without commercials.
Smith is best seen as a leading economist of his time, and not some idealist visionary.
Depends who you talk to. I've known capitalist sycophants who think he was Jesus and Buddha all mushed together.
I'd remind you that it was Hollywood that lobbied for those regulations in the first place, but I don't think it'd really matter. You seem pretty opposed to information that doesn't fit in with your rigidly defined world view.
That's not the point. The point is the problem shouldn't exist in the first place. It'd be nice if people just knew what they shouldn't do, or more to the fact, actually didn't do things they knew they shouldn't do, but people are ignorant bastards. So they need to be regulated.
Smith made the same mistake Marx did. He assumed people WOULDN'T be greedy, selfish, self-absorbed bastards only concerned with elevating themselves and fuck everybody else. Both of their idealized systems require idealized people to make it work. A genuine free market is the same thing as the workers' paradise, an impossible, and naive, fantasy.
that's a good one. was that from one of his books?
word.