self censorship may or may not be helpful. however, this system is not working. its being used primarily for wrongdoing. it needs to be changed. self censorship doesnt seem too far off a change to try out.
not to mention that, they have explicitly said and advocated during their life that, slavery should be ended, and even if it was a radical change, it could still be done incrementally. numerous of them bought land to settle the slaves they freed, this includes lafayette, if im not mistaken, he partnered with franklin or washington.
Personally, I thought they were damn good ideas, but "sticking to founding ideals" for its own sake personally sounds like a horrible idea to me. The founding fathers were innovative politicans...not prophets.
then lets abolish equality, freedom of speech, freedom of choice, reinstitute slavery, reestablish feudalism, and repeal declaration of human rights.
so, diplo dispatches of a country should not be released publicly, because, what, precisely ? so that their administrators can safely betray their founding ideals ?
well, that was what they have been doing behind the pretense of national security for close to a century now. apparently, THAT DOESNT WORK.
it seems its better if they are released publicly.
yeah, usa is INDEED a STRONG ally to those countries that are strategically important to it.
so strong an ally that, it doesnt refrain from setting up secret organizations that are committed to assassinations, creating scandals, and even fake terror organizations in order to protect 'western interests'. naturally, you can understand that, western interests coincide with u.s. interests, as u.s. sees it fit.
And this is how freedom dies. With open and blatant moves by the ELECTED representatives keeping the public in the dark about their wrongdoings. Right up to the betrayal of the very ideas those countries were founded upon....
The appalling part is that, they are no longer doing this secretly. They have no issues going about in the open and being open about trying to keep people in the dark about what wrongdoings are committed. They slap 'national security' tag to it, and think that this is a magic word that totally stupefies the public and makes them impossible to understand wrong things are being committed....
Yes, Rosa Parks disobeyed the law, but her disobedience only served to highlight the illegitimacy of a law based on the color of one's skin.
you give this example, then proceed on to.... what exactly ?
the example above invalidates ALL the stuff you can say in objection to the parent poster.
rosa parks disobeyed the law. only her disobedience, AND others following her and refusing to use the public transportation system (which is basically another disobedience, totals to disruption of public peace in an organized fashion by the way), and, continual, organized disregard of laws for segregation by mlk and his comrades, had resulted in change of those practices.
else, rosa parks incident would just happen and die out.
Elect right wing governments out of fear of minorities, and they start ripping away people's freedoms for the benefit of corporations and rich, and will say that it is for justice and economic prosperity.
they dont need to. the pressure can make the console operators give more freedoms to their users with their hardware and software.
hell, even the pioneering 'home computers' of mid 80s have expansion cartridges and whatnot. you could attach mem to amigas. some of them could even have coprocessors attached.
with the current state of chip industry, it doesnt take any effort to make consoles upgradeable at least in a few respects, like cpu power, or, gpu power, or mem, and allow users more freedom.
and that would make additional revenue for console operators too. instead of hauling out entire platforms in every 3-4 years, they can speedily sell more cpus, gpus, mem units to the owners, both making more profits and also making them happy. also cutting design costs.
it wont take half a day until the backups of those sites are restored in european, russian or chinese domains, in those countries' hosting outlets, and tracking just like how they did before.
you morons not only cost u.s. the control of internet, and made ICANN come out like a lapdog of american government, instead of an INTERNATIONAL corporation you were pretending it to be, but also cost innumerable small and medium size web hosting and datacenter businesses their customers.
not to mention the effect when that sector shrinks it will affect a lot of jobs, ranging from network administration, to tech support, web development to web design.
better for all of us. what you are playing in consoles, have come to this point with the development of gaming tech, which was spearheaded always by pc. now, consoles are keeping it back. because console companies are increasingly lax in putting out new consoles.
actually to the contrary, in this case you have no possibility of competing. they have a larger capital to buy stuff, larger capital to sue you, larger capital to pre-patent everything conceivable ahead of you.
at this state, we are at the dawn of intellectual feudalism age. in such an age, there cant be any small companies or inventors. anyone would have to be subservient to whomever has the biggest capital.
the parallels in between the current situation, and the early middle ages in which feudalism has formed, are uncanny.
Who were defending patent system by this or that excuse or justification, by broad shooting or beautifying or rationalizing what was happening ?
Just a day ago someone justified some mishap with the system again, and attributed to this, that, and i have told him that the rate things are going is in front of us, the system is faulty, and it wouldnt take a few months before it would reach rock bottom.
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self censorship may or may not be helpful. however, this system is not working. its being used primarily for wrongdoing. it needs to be changed. self censorship doesnt seem too far off a change to try out.
not to mention that, they have explicitly said and advocated during their life that, slavery should be ended, and even if it was a radical change, it could still be done incrementally. numerous of them bought land to settle the slaves they freed, this includes lafayette, if im not mistaken, he partnered with franklin or washington.
early pioneers also had to formulate the representative democracy in the embodiment of the king. because, else, they would have been beheaded.
there would be no constitution by the founding fathers, had they not been able to incorporate slavery, unfortunately, into the constitution.
Personally, I thought they were damn good ideas, but "sticking to founding ideals" for its own sake personally sounds like a horrible idea to me. The founding fathers were innovative politicans...not prophets.
then lets abolish equality, freedom of speech, freedom of choice, reinstitute slavery, reestablish feudalism, and repeal declaration of human rights.
excuse me.
what part of the irrelevance in between
"diplomatic dispatches arent released publicly"
and
"betraying a country's founding ideals"
you dont understand?
and the unfathomable importance of the latter ?
so, diplo dispatches of a country should not be released publicly, because, what, precisely ? so that their administrators can safely betray their founding ideals ?
well, that was what they have been doing behind the pretense of national security for close to a century now. apparently, THAT DOESNT WORK.
it seems its better if they are released publicly.
we have a lot of tea partiers in this thread.
yeah, usa is INDEED a STRONG ally to those countries that are strategically important to it.
so strong an ally that, it doesnt refrain from setting up secret organizations that are committed to assassinations, creating scandals, and even fake terror organizations in order to protect 'western interests'. naturally, you can understand that, western interests coincide with u.s. interests, as u.s. sees it fit.
See how STRONG an ally usa is below :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
before ALL of these, come the question that whether the administration of a country is BETRAYING its FOUNDING ideals, or not.
And this is how freedom dies. With open and blatant moves by the ELECTED representatives keeping the public in the dark about their wrongdoings. Right up to the betrayal of the very ideas those countries were founded upon ....
The appalling part is that, they are no longer doing this secretly. They have no issues going about in the open and being open about trying to keep people in the dark about what wrongdoings are committed. They slap 'national security' tag to it, and think that this is a magic word that totally stupefies the public and makes them impossible to understand wrong things are being committed....
yeah.
and how much wb, virgin, emi and others ripped off ?
how much daily is being ripped off, by unilever, procter&gamble, bp, wal mart ?
in a world where ripping off others is the basis of the society, the only way ordinary people can cope up becomes ripping off others.
until people choose a REAL left wing 'extremist'.
it should be noted that ANY level of left wing 'extremism' in usa, would fall WAY too much towards the right of the spectrum than it should.
im asking about the fools who have brain cells. in case you havent noticed, i have ceased replying to those who has not. one of them being, you.
this is the final reply you will get from me. but, feel free to post like a frenzied maniac.
Yes, Rosa Parks disobeyed the law, but her disobedience only served to highlight the illegitimacy of a law based on the color of one's skin.
you give this example, then proceed on to .... what exactly ?
the example above invalidates ALL the stuff you can say in objection to the parent poster.
rosa parks disobeyed the law. only her disobedience, AND others following her and refusing to use the public transportation system (which is basically another disobedience, totals to disruption of public peace in an organized fashion by the way), and, continual, organized disregard of laws for segregation by mlk and his comrades, had resulted in change of those practices.
else, rosa parks incident would just happen and die out.
Elect right wing governments out of fear of minorities, and they start ripping away people's freedoms for the benefit of corporations and rich, and will say that it is for justice and economic prosperity.
they dont need to. the pressure can make the console operators give more freedoms to their users with their hardware and software.
hell, even the pioneering 'home computers' of mid 80s have expansion cartridges and whatnot. you could attach mem to amigas. some of them could even have coprocessors attached.
with the current state of chip industry, it doesnt take any effort to make consoles upgradeable at least in a few respects, like cpu power, or, gpu power, or mem, and allow users more freedom.
and that would make additional revenue for console operators too. instead of hauling out entire platforms in every 3-4 years, they can speedily sell more cpus, gpus, mem units to the owners, both making more profits and also making them happy. also cutting design costs.
well done. what have you done ? NOTHING.
it wont take half a day until the backups of those sites are restored in european, russian or chinese domains, in those countries' hosting outlets, and tracking just like how they did before.
you morons not only cost u.s. the control of internet, and made ICANN come out like a lapdog of american government, instead of an INTERNATIONAL corporation you were pretending it to be, but also cost innumerable small and medium size web hosting and datacenter businesses their customers.
not to mention the effect when that sector shrinks it will affect a lot of jobs, ranging from network administration, to tech support, web development to web design.
morons.
u.k. is the clone of u.s. a more fascist one.
it has come down to seizing top level domain names, supposedly governed by an INTERNATIONAL corporation that is supposed to be INTERNATIONAL.
REGARDLESS of the excuse, they are de facto CENSORING the internet. ENTIRE internet.
one has to be a witless moron, to realize that, this thing hasnt hit rock bottom yet.
it should be done asap.
in 3, 2, 1 ...
better for all of us. what you are playing in consoles, have come to this point with the development of gaming tech, which was spearheaded always by pc. now, consoles are keeping it back. because console companies are increasingly lax in putting out new consoles.
actually to the contrary, in this case you have no possibility of competing. they have a larger capital to buy stuff, larger capital to sue you, larger capital to pre-patent everything conceivable ahead of you.
at this state, we are at the dawn of intellectual feudalism age. in such an age, there cant be any small companies or inventors. anyone would have to be subservient to whomever has the biggest capital.
the parallels in between the current situation, and the early middle ages in which feudalism has formed, are uncanny.
things that award ownership of THOUGHT to private individuals, can NOT work.
its the fools who try to make it go around, with justifications and excuses and 'but maybe's.
the first comment did not appear for a long time. i still havent seen it yet.
Who were defending patent system by this or that excuse or justification, by broad shooting or beautifying or rationalizing what was happening ?
Just a day ago someone justified some mishap with the system again, and attributed to this, that, and i have told him that the rate things are going is in front of us, the system is faulty, and it wouldnt take a few months before it would reach rock bottom.
and lo. it didnt even take a day.