... confusion that confuses humanism with stupidity.
see, when one yells "let lives be spared, let there be no war" when hitler is continually invading one country after another during the times leading up to world war two, that someone is not being a humanist, s/he is being a total idiot.
when someone is yelling "let ethnicities continue their ethnic practices/religion/whatever unhampered" and allowing any and all factions do as they please in any country, like the "humanists" in netherlands, belgium, on the radical islamist fractions/minorities setting up "islamic" colleges and preaching discrimination of men and women, sharia rule (which is a totalitarian rule) UNDER the disguise of democratic rights, they are not being humanists, they are being IDIOTS.
there are limits to liberties indeed. the rights to liberties end just at the point where any group or person or nation attempts to deprave other groups/persons/nations of their liberties.
being passive aggressive does not always work. the ONLY major incident that it worked was in gandhi's case. if it had been 50 years earlier, in times that communications and newspaper publishing had had not developed that much yet, british colonial forces would have cramped down gandhi and his supporters to hell and noone would know or care about it.
so, in order to protect liberties and equality, one might need to take solid action from time to time.
indeed i did. even in the context you have spoken of, which was something i didnt know, my restarting listening to pop music can be explained.
with my earlier setup, classic music was something that i can keep on shuffle and continuous play and do not get irritated even at low volume levels.
with this set, i can listen to pop music as well. actually i am surprised to hear some pieces i have listened for a long time that different and rich in sounds.
The fact is that it's impossible to make a pair of speakers sound good both in the listening room and the room next to it, for fairly simple acoustical reasons.
this is the magic of this crap. just read a few reviews of altec lansing fx6021. they all speak of the same effect.
If stuff like "context" is brought into the equation, then you can expect all sort of perverted twists and turns to it.
for example, there is forced military service here in turkey. i am not saying mandatory, i am saying forced. and this is for male citizens. to gain the rights of full citizenship, you have to fulfill it.
it basically means being away from anything you love for 6-1.5 years, and getting orders from people some of whom think you are inferior as you are a civilian.
in addition to that, after college, you cant find work outright, and even if you find work, you get 1/3 the salary any college graduate of your profession finds, if you have not done military service yet. only going away for 1.5 years, which also means giving a pause to your career 1.5 years, you can claim a full time, real place in a company. also, you need 2 years experience in the field in order to get a real position. which means, you HAVE to work in the place of shit for 2 years because you havent gone to military service, and then go for 1.5 years to military service (or 1 year), and ONLY then, at the earliest 3 years after graduating from college, you can FOR THE FIRST TIME get a REAL job in your field.
however, women do not undergo this. women do not have to go through military service either to gain full citizenship rights, or to start their career.
female college graduates outright start in solid positions in companies to work in their fields. When males of their age come from military service at the earliest (and after garnering 2 years experience prior to that), they are now 3 years ahead of them in their career, and naturally get higher positions earlier.
yet, STILL, there are bitches around who are doing propaganda for "positive discrimination" for women, to set up full equality in the country.
see. its a matter of "context" here too. they are women, for god's sakes. how can you expect them to undergo a full military duty, which might require that they fight in the mountains against pkk terrorists, and die, and in a country which traditionally sees women weak and protects them even.
yet, NO women activist is coming up and saying "women should do military service". none. they are happy that they dont have to do military service, but still want to get more benefits in social life, by getting more "positive" discrimination.
of course we are not counting in the fact that letting a female go through a door first, opening the doors for them, giving your place in the que to a woman, being "polite" and "gentleman" are being pushed as factors of "civility" - they are not a matter of equality at all !
this is what happens when you introduce context.
this is just a simple pick as it is an all encompassing example. but, when bent on it, one can find much more terrorizing examples that can be put up under the guise of "equality", in the meanwhile being utterly discriminatory.
those "watchdog" groups have pressured nbc to fire a major radio persona. Why arent they utilizing the same kind of pressure on the record labels who accommodate such street crap, getting those broadcasted not only in u.s., but all over the world ?
First off, you're a libertarian, not a liberal, at least by your description. Otherwise, you left off the communist part of your description.
actually no affiliation or orientation in this world can describe my standing, but i tried my best. i dont like communism either.
Second off, you might want to learn to spell - it's hard to take someone seriously when there are constant errors in your text.
And geeze, is that the best ending line you can come up with? Wow yah you shocked the crap out of me...as in that little wuss line was all you could come up with? Where's 'nigger'? Or 'hymie'? or 'faggot'? being turkish, and having never lived for long in any other place but Antalya, Mediterranean, my spelling and street slang goes only so far.
BTW, I basically agree with you - I don't think Imus is any sort of saint, but to relentlessly pound him and then give a pass to the rappers or the black pathers simply because they are black, is a massive double standard.
Here's the REAL issue with it. It causes racism. The more I watch the news, the more pissed I get at black people in general. It's irrational - I think everyone sucks, black, white, purple, brown so there's no reason to single them out. HOWEVER - and this is the important part. Just like the muslims, they are complacent in what is happening. Where's the outrage with snoopy dog says nigger and ho? Where's the outrage when the black panthers say racist things? No where. It's ok cause it's against whitie - or in snoopy's case, other blacks which is just odd to me. Blacks are their own worst enemy as far as what's going on in this country. There's so little external racism these days (good lord, you end up crucified if you say anything racist...) what IS there is kept alive by the likes of sharpton and jackson.
If you fail to speak out when your people are doing the bad things and DO speak out when others do, it makes you part of the problem - and just as guilty. Worse really.
That's ridiculous. Of course Imus is free to say whatever he wants; but of course, people are just as free to disapprove of it, and - and this is important - the station he worked for is just as free to fire him for it.
those people (supposedly, watchdogs) are disapproving discriminatorily. that is the problem.
if they disapprove any and ALL kinds of that behaviour from ANYBODY, it would be ok. but none of them are coming up and pressuring any major labels to drop a black rap bastard who is demeaning not only his own race, but females in general.
if we allow insulting of people when one picks "equal adversary" it would be a double standard and betrayal of political correctness. people do not have to suffer insults from people who are at equal level with them, leave aside lower or higher levels.
hence i still defend that those "watchdogs" pressuring this guy to resign whereas turning a blind eye on disgusting rap clips that continually insult and demean their own race is a perfect form of doublespeak.
i do not listen to music titles, groups that go mainstream that way. classic music is rarely "compressed" so that it sounds "loud" and hence can be a hit.
this is the main scale i am judging this setup i have here. i have a tendency to take note of my very subtle "feelings" about any piece i listen. if i get even very slightly irritated by anything, i never listen. hence, such titles do not exist in my music collection.
Quiet sounds and loud sounds are now squashed together, decreasing the recording's dynamic range, raising the average loudness as much as possible
such a thing would be a suicide for any recording label thats doing a classic music piece. while listening classical music, one wants to be able to discern ANY and ALL variations of any and all instruments present in the orchestra, and even then wants to discern how the different performers are playing instruments of the same type in the same orchestra.
with the setup i have now, i can do this from in front of the computer. furthermore, despite this set is designed to be a "computer speaker", i can magically listen to them from any point in the room without losing the details and depth, and even from other rooms where i am watching television at the same time. its very awkward to be able to discern different instruments playing in a low volume in another room while watching Scrubs on the tv with comparably equal volume.
Schubert songs makes your heart go upbeat in excitement when the variations in female solist's voice go high pitch, like a nightingale, which the composer's works are famous for.
Internet is working, it is working well. There are stuff that conservatist shit around the world cant stomach, such as freedom, and the necessity that they will have to get up from their couches and do their parental duties, hence ripping them of their freedom of letting children loose at home.
most importantly, governments and ruling rich elite circles are ANNOYED with the level of freedom on the internet and how far it goes on exposing their shit.
that is the reason beyond "initiatives" like those. They want something suits their tastes, not peoples'.
heres the reason - you are paying more attention to the loudness it seems. those instruments that require moving a lot of air generally are bass instruments, and they are very few in number. bass guitar, obua, and a few more. not the rest 100 or so pieces in a philarmonic orchestra. for me, what matters is the quality of the sound, not loudness.
So, black rappers, black people, and other such and such groups are going to use some offensive slang ant it wont be counted as offensive, but when a white person uses them it will be SO bad an offense that it will cause them to be fired.
see, im a humanist. many of you morons in those watchdog groups do not know about danton, erasmus, rousseau, french revolution and what brought human civilization to this point in the scale of civility, but i do.
im also kinda a hippie. i dont condone divisions, labelings, agression and such.
i am also liberal. i want any group to live as they please as long as they dont become harmful.
so with all these qualifications, to the watchdog that caused this shit and the other watchdog groups who are supposedly maintain a vigile for civility, i tell this on that matter :
FUCK YOU.
morons. this is the point where your or any minorities' sensitivities and rights end.
you like any other group of the society are NOT allowed to discriminate. If some black person CAN use the a slang, a white man or an indian can ALSO use that slang. Carve these words into your heads.
from now on, i also will be using that slang, not because i particularly need to, but only for idiots like you, in your grand stupidity and ignorance, have offended ME and my freedoms as a human being, and i dont condone any group, black or white, to have more freedoms than me. if you dont like what you see below, you will have to stop black people saying those before ever having a chance of stopping me.
so, fuck of bitches, stop being a hoe and straighten up your black/white ass before some other guyz in the hood sorts those out with da' baskets.
i am getting spectacular sound with those speakers. they pack some new stuff, emulating what the equipment set up in concerts do.
sound is CRYSTAL clear, to the extent that it is unreal - i can now discern almost all instruments behind a closed door 5 m away from the room, while taking a load in the loo, amidst flushing noises and running water. it is really unreal.
for the first time in my life, touchy pieces sung by talented solists are emotionally arousing me. getting excited and stuff, increasing heartbeat. i didnt know of this kind of thing. and im not getting this effect by turning the volume high - i dont like high volume.
on another side, i started listening to modern music again, pop and such. i had had quit it earlier, and started listening classical music only.
Because there are the matters of sensitive data, and privacy.
even google risks orders from federal government for handing over user data. They might have fought and won, but it doesnt mean that they will always win.
As such, people will still hold sensitive data within their locale.
fantastic escape line, that is. why waste words on a debate when you are not intending to continue it in the first place. if you have something to say, speak. otherwise dont.
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... confusion that confuses humanism with stupidity.
see, when one yells "let lives be spared, let there be no war" when hitler is continually invading one country after another during the times leading up to world war two, that someone is not being a humanist, s/he is being a total idiot.
when someone is yelling "let ethnicities continue their ethnic practices/religion/whatever unhampered" and allowing any and all factions do as they please in any country, like the "humanists" in netherlands, belgium, on the radical islamist fractions/minorities setting up "islamic" colleges and preaching discrimination of men and women, sharia rule (which is a totalitarian rule) UNDER the disguise of democratic rights, they are not being humanists, they are being IDIOTS.
there are limits to liberties indeed. the rights to liberties end just at the point where any group or person or nation attempts to deprave other groups/persons/nations of their liberties.
being passive aggressive does not always work. the ONLY major incident that it worked was in gandhi's case. if it had been 50 years earlier, in times that communications and newspaper publishing had had not developed that much yet, british colonial forces would have cramped down gandhi and his supporters to hell and noone would know or care about it.
so, in order to protect liberties and equality, one might need to take solid action from time to time.
with my earlier setup, classic music was something that i can keep on shuffle and continuous play and do not get irritated even at low volume levels.
with this set, i can listen to pop music as well. actually i am surprised to hear some pieces i have listened for a long time that different and rich in sounds.
The fact is that it's impossible to make a pair of speakers sound good both in the listening room and the room next to it, for fairly simple acoustical reasons.
this is the magic of this crap. just read a few reviews of altec lansing fx6021. they all speak of the same effect.
Equality is there, or not.
If stuff like "context" is brought into the equation, then you can expect all sort of perverted twists and turns to it.
for example, there is forced military service here in turkey. i am not saying mandatory, i am saying forced. and this is for male citizens. to gain the rights of full citizenship, you have to fulfill it.
it basically means being away from anything you love for 6-1.5 years, and getting orders from people some of whom think you are inferior as you are a civilian.
in addition to that, after college, you cant find work outright, and even if you find work, you get 1/3 the salary any college graduate of your profession finds, if you have not done military service yet. only going away for 1.5 years, which also means giving a pause to your career 1.5 years, you can claim a full time, real place in a company. also, you need 2 years experience in the field in order to get a real position. which means, you HAVE to work in the place of shit for 2 years because you havent gone to military service, and then go for 1.5 years to military service (or 1 year), and ONLY then, at the earliest 3 years after graduating from college, you can FOR THE FIRST TIME get a REAL job in your field.
however, women do not undergo this. women do not have to go through military service either to gain full citizenship rights, or to start their career.
female college graduates outright start in solid positions in companies to work in their fields. When males of their age come from military service at the earliest (and after garnering 2 years experience prior to that), they are now 3 years ahead of them in their career, and naturally get higher positions earlier.
yet, STILL, there are bitches around who are doing propaganda for "positive discrimination" for women, to set up full equality in the country.
see. its a matter of "context" here too. they are women, for god's sakes. how can you expect them to undergo a full military duty, which might require that they fight in the mountains against pkk terrorists, and die, and in a country which traditionally sees women weak and protects them even.
yet, NO women activist is coming up and saying "women should do military service". none. they are happy that they dont have to do military service, but still want to get more benefits in social life, by getting more "positive" discrimination.
of course we are not counting in the fact that letting a female go through a door first, opening the doors for them, giving your place in the que to a woman, being "polite" and "gentleman" are being pushed as factors of "civility" - they are not a matter of equality at all !
this is what happens when you introduce context.
this is just a simple pick as it is an all encompassing example. but, when bent on it, one can find much more terrorizing examples that can be put up under the guise of "equality", in the meanwhile being utterly discriminatory.
those "watchdog" groups have pressured nbc to fire a major radio persona. Why arent they utilizing the same kind of pressure on the record labels who accommodate such street crap, getting those broadcasted not only in u.s., but all over the world ?
actually no affiliation or orientation in this world can describe my standing, but i tried my best. i dont like communism either.
Second off, you might want to learn to spell - it's hard to take someone seriously when there are constant errors in your text.
And geeze, is that the best ending line you can come up with? Wow yah you shocked the crap out of me...as in that little wuss line was all you could come up with? Where's 'nigger'? Or 'hymie'? or 'faggot'? being turkish, and having never lived for long in any other place but Antalya, Mediterranean, my spelling and street slang goes only so far. BTW, I basically agree with you - I don't think Imus is any sort of saint, but to relentlessly pound him and then give a pass to the rappers or the black pathers simply because they are black, is a massive double standard.
Here's the REAL issue with it. It causes racism. The more I watch the news, the more pissed I get at black people in general. It's irrational - I think everyone sucks, black, white, purple, brown so there's no reason to single them out. HOWEVER - and this is the important part. Just like the muslims, they are complacent in what is happening. Where's the outrage with snoopy dog says nigger and ho? Where's the outrage when the black panthers say racist things? No where. It's ok cause it's against whitie - or in snoopy's case, other blacks which is just odd to me. Blacks are their own worst enemy as far as what's going on in this country. There's so little external racism these days (good lord, you end up crucified if you say anything racist...) what IS there is kept alive by the likes of sharpton and jackson.
If you fail to speak out when your people are doing the bad things and DO speak out when others do, it makes you part of the problem - and just as guilty. Worse really.
yes.
those people (supposedly, watchdogs) are disapproving discriminatorily. that is the problem.
if they disapprove any and ALL kinds of that behaviour from ANYBODY, it would be ok. but none of them are coming up and pressuring any major labels to drop a black rap bastard who is demeaning not only his own race, but females in general.
if we allow insulting of people when one picks "equal adversary" it would be a double standard and betrayal of political correctness. people do not have to suffer insults from people who are at equal level with them, leave aside lower or higher levels.
hence i still defend that those "watchdogs" pressuring this guy to resign whereas turning a blind eye on disgusting rap clips that continually insult and demean their own race is a perfect form of doublespeak.
this is the main scale i am judging this setup i have here. i have a tendency to take note of my very subtle "feelings" about any piece i listen. if i get even very slightly irritated by anything, i never listen. hence, such titles do not exist in my music collection.
Quiet sounds and loud sounds are now squashed together, decreasing the recording's dynamic range, raising the average loudness as much as possible
such a thing would be a suicide for any recording label thats doing a classic music piece. while listening classical music, one wants to be able to discern ANY and ALL variations of any and all instruments present in the orchestra, and even then wants to discern how the different performers are playing instruments of the same type in the same orchestra.
with the setup i have now, i can do this from in front of the computer. furthermore, despite this set is designed to be a "computer speaker", i can magically listen to them from any point in the room without losing the details and depth, and even from other rooms where i am watching television at the same time. its very awkward to be able to discern different instruments playing in a low volume in another room while watching Scrubs on the tv with comparably equal volume.
Schubert songs makes your heart go upbeat in excitement when the variations in female solist's voice go high pitch, like a nightingale, which the composer's works are famous for.
this :
"If it aint broke, DONT fix it"
Internet is working, it is working well. There are stuff that conservatist shit around the world cant stomach, such as freedom, and the necessity that they will have to get up from their couches and do their parental duties, hence ripping them of their freedom of letting children loose at home.
most importantly, governments and ruling rich elite circles are ANNOYED with the level of freedom on the internet and how far it goes on exposing their shit.
that is the reason beyond "initiatives" like those. They want something suits their tastes, not peoples'.
heres the reason - you are paying more attention to the loudness it seems. those instruments that require moving a lot of air generally are bass instruments, and they are very few in number. bass guitar, obua, and a few more. not the rest 100 or so pieces in a philarmonic orchestra. for me, what matters is the quality of the sound, not loudness.
So, black rappers, black people, and other such and such groups are going to use some offensive slang ant it wont be counted as offensive, but when a white person uses them it will be SO bad an offense that it will cause them to be fired.
see, im a humanist. many of you morons in those watchdog groups do not know about danton, erasmus, rousseau, french revolution and what brought human civilization to this point in the scale of civility, but i do.
im also kinda a hippie. i dont condone divisions, labelings, agression and such.
i am also liberal. i want any group to live as they please as long as they dont become harmful.
so with all these qualifications, to the watchdog that caused this shit and the other watchdog groups who are supposedly maintain a vigile for civility, i tell this on that matter :
FUCK YOU.
morons. this is the point where your or any minorities' sensitivities and rights end.
you like any other group of the society are NOT allowed to discriminate. If some black person CAN use the a slang, a white man or an indian can ALSO use that slang. Carve these words into your heads.
from now on, i also will be using that slang, not because i particularly need to, but only for idiots like you, in your grand stupidity and ignorance, have offended ME and my freedoms as a human being, and i dont condone any group, black or white, to have more freedoms than me. if you dont like what you see below, you will have to stop black people saying those before ever having a chance of stopping me.
so, fuck of bitches, stop being a hoe and straighten up your black/white ass before some other guyz in the hood sorts those out with da' baskets.
Wikipedia beats the hell outta most school textbooks, heck, even college textbooks by a large margin.
Stop discriminating against grammatically challenged !
i am getting spectacular sound with those speakers. they pack some new stuff, emulating what the equipment set up in concerts do.
sound is CRYSTAL clear, to the extent that it is unreal - i can now discern almost all instruments behind a closed door 5 m away from the room, while taking a load in the loo, amidst flushing noises and running water. it is really unreal.
for the first time in my life, touchy pieces sung by talented solists are emotionally arousing me. getting excited and stuff, increasing heartbeat. i didnt know of this kind of thing. and im not getting this effect by turning the volume high - i dont like high volume.
on another side, i started listening to modern music again, pop and such. i had had quit it earlier, and started listening classical music only.
what if we take the police as an "organization", as concept ?
Because there are the matters of sensitive data, and privacy.
even google risks orders from federal government for handing over user data. They might have fought and won, but it doesnt mean that they will always win.
As such, people will still hold sensitive data within their locale.
im getting quite spectacular sound with this card. maybe its your speakers that are not fitting well with the card.
its so that i stopped listening to my pioneer music set with 3 way 2 column speakers and started listening these.
New Creative Xtreme music is THE Card. i put this in, got an altec lansing fx6021, and its gold.
against seats. front row, middle row, rear row, i accept them as they are.
theres latin grammar police in slashdot too now eh ?
In other news : alea jacta est
too. If they dont, "other parts of the world" will be continuing to "acquire" their stuff from "different sources".
After watergate, one would think that noone would be stupid enough to think that pulling such a "i lost them" trick would serve his/her cause.
and i was thinking maybe i should move to united states in order to escape the ever increasing conservatist tendencies in turkey, mainly censorship.
fantastic escape line, that is. why waste words on a debate when you are not intending to continue it in the first place. if you have something to say, speak. otherwise dont.