There's a difference between you and me: I may end up in prison, you already live in it. You have resigned yourself to the rule of those powers. You are a willing prisoner and slave. They own you, as a matter of fact, because you will never rebel against them.
The powers that be do not have a monopoly on violence, or we wouldn't have a crime problem. The industry goons can be invincible in the court, but it only takes a moment to end their lives and there's nothing they can do to remedy that, afterwards. They thrive on the fear they can strike in the populace's hearts through their legal juggernaut. I say, strike back.
Or learn to live in a prison without bars, "free" to be a replaceable cog of their moneymaking machine.
And that's why at this point violence is the only answer. They can shit all over our rights, they can buy any law they want, they can bypass any democratic process, they laugh at our votes but death is the great equalizer. No amount of money can bring them or their loved ones back from the dead.
How much is your money worth when your son is dead? That's how the war must be fought.
Buddy, the Italian political class is the one who managed to come up with stuff like "regulating.com domains" locally, ignoring how the thing is actually handled.
They've outlawed non-encrypted WiFi APs, you need to have your ID filed to use a computer at an Internet Point.
They came up with atrocities like the Italian Crackdown.
One of their ministers (Livia Turco) suggested to "bomb with viruses the pedophiles' websites".
Their current Foreign Affairs Minister, Franco Frattini, proposed worldwide internet censorship because "nobody needs to know how to build a bomb" and "the right not to be blown up is more important than the right to free speech". Interestingly, the Italian constitution provides for free speech but no constistution gives you the "right not to be blown up". Instead, it addresses the right to a job - which should make unemployment unconstitutional in Italy where, instead, it's common enough for some employers NOT to pay the wages (see the Eutelia affair for instance).
So, why are we taking anything related to the Internet that comes from Italy seriously? The threat their proposal pose should of course be considered, but it's like Switzerland proposing laws for maritime traffic (and they at least invented the bathyscaph).
Britain is the most violent country in the EU, beating even Southern Italy with its mafia problem. By contrast Switzerland, where gun laws are far less severe, is a far more peaceful and civilized place. I would say the problem lies entirely with the british people. It's because of the british hooliganism that the rest of the continent had to put more security in soccer stadiums than in prisons. There's absolutely nothing to be proud of in being british. On the contrary, the rest of the continent looks down on Old Blighty with good reasons.
Don't diss off impurities so fast, buddy. Those impurities enabled doctor Jekyll to keep turning back into his original self. When he had access to the "pure" chemicals, he lost the ability to avoid being locked into the Hyde personality.
Envious much? Did some of use beat you up a lot in high school? Did he bash your head against a wall? Did he shove you into a locker? Did he throw you heads-down into a toilet? Did he shit on your face?
Real jocks know that the best years of their lives are ahead of them and not behind, because their competitive spirit pushes them to more and more challenges. And that's why they keep themselves in top mental and physical shape, to the everlasting rage of the scrawny, bespectacled, pizza-faced, grease-haired nerds whose mere body odor causes blowflies to retch.
Now cry yourself into a corner of your mom's basement before I taunt you some more.
If you don't try something that is theorically possible to see how much it is practically possible, you will never find out. That's how progress moves, by bold moves, not by fearful step backwards. Accept that those people are smarter, better organized and braver that you could ever be and be inspired to dare. But that's how a jock thinks, so it's way above your level.
Correction: the plane doesn't have an autopilot nor, as it looks like, any self-leveling device. It looks very stable, however and most important the pilot is a Swiss Airforce pilot and hence a real jock. As a jock, his mental and physical shape is vastly superior to the average and his abilities are way beyond the lesser men to comprehend. I'm confident that he will be up to the challenge to the great envy and rage of the inferior speciment of humankind.
Do you know what the 24 hours Le Mans is? Look it up. And flying an airplane is different from driving a car: for instance, no idiot will stick himself to your rear bumber and crash into it, and you don't risk smashing yourself into a tree (unless you're flying too low). There are devices that will keep the plane in level flight, you know, so it's not that much of an issue either. The delicate parts are takeoff and, especially, landing. And it can and has been done in peacetime and wartime. Only because you cannot do it, it doesn't mean better men cannot as well.
As long as no-one on the planes wears individual shields. Firing one of those lasers at a shielded person would cause an explosive pyrotechnic (subatomic fusion) and vaporize the plane. Bring your kindjal or crysknife and practice the slow strike.
Send them pics of their kids playing, it will get the message across.
If it's not enough, ambush them on the way home and have a friendly chat. Bring a dozen pals. It's so easy for them to threaten people by mail, but being on the wrong side of a dozen mean guys willing and able to tear them apart is another thing entirely. If they persist, a good beating will set things straight. Break a bone or two, so they will know what the price of playing rough with the wrong crowd is.
And in the end, there's the old-fashioned practice of setting their offices on fire. If someone's inside, too bad for them.
You want to play Padrino, you've got to know there's more than one famiglia in town. Capisce?
Depends on how much you're willing to pay. Last time I went to my dentist, I paid in full. Since I'm in very good shape, I don't need medical insurance at all. Of course, a sickly geek probably needs insurance even for the tissues he soaks with his greenish snot. Too bad we can't simply give them a weedkiller injection into the brain through the eye. For the moment.
Student loans are to be repaid. Never needed one, and no-one I met at University had one as well. Transportation is a paid-for service, point invalid. Education is paid for as well. Transportation infrastructure? Paid for. Those who built them? They were paid for it. Nobody did it for "the greater good" or some other shit. I pay for ALL my facilities - if not directly I do it with taxes. If I don't like to pay too much in taxes, I move where they're not so high. By the way, taxes != quality of services. I've lived in European countries with very low taxes and top services, I daresay you don't understand your own arguments.
Why should I not rely on them? They're paid for that. Surgeons happen to be paid pretty well around here. I expect them to do their shit for their wage. They don't do that out of goodness, and sure as hell they pay someone else to do other stuff for them. I see you understood exactly nothing of my post, but then I expect nothing else from a loserboy nerd. If I want to be self-reliant, I move out into the wild. If I live in a community, I expect my relationship with it to be profitable for both, not a one-sided affair. If it's not the case, I find myself another community to live in or, if I have the resources, I found one myself. Why not?
"Saying we would never have happened upon velcro or microwaves without NASA just because that is historically what played out is simpleton logic."
Ah, the reasoning of the unworthy. Columbus himself had to deal with it, when a dumpload of Spanish buffoons told him that every fuckin' spaniard could have done the same as him. His answer? He beat up the spanish nerd and shit on his face. Sort of.
Would you rather have the stuff now or when some dude happens to think about it some decades after you're dead, POS? Without aerospace tech and the Cold War, you couldn't have that fancy GPS you use to get to your scat kiddie porn peddler. Without WW2 and tons of research into jet engines and radars, you couldn't get on a plane and fly to Thailand to have sex with underage boys. Your whole life as a pedophile geek would be miserable, even if less so than when I get my hands on you, rip your limbs from your torso and shit into your braincase. Afterwards, you will wish it could have been invented a thousand years in the future. Yes, you will THINK, because for the first time in your miserable life there will be something - my shit - doing the thinking in your moldy, maggot-infested skull.
Minimum wage and some sort of safety net for people who fall on hard times is neither charity or goodwill, its common sense. A way to get back into the job market and into a sustainable - not to mention respectable - lifestyle is a protection for the community itself because people who cannot sustain themselves by legal means will either suicide or resort to illegal means. Humans are animals for better or worse, and will fight like animals to survive. As a jock, I find this good. I like fighting spirit and I revel in competition. However, I know that we have game rules and referees for good reasons, and this applies everywhere. When a player is injured, we want him to recover so that he can keep on playing. Other than that, all is fair. And bench players get no head from cheerleaders.
Just how stupid can you be? If I lose my legs, I have insurance. If I die, my family will benefit from insurance as well. And you should examine how humans really work once you step out of retardedland: humans do not decide to choose to live in a society to work towards a "common good" or "help each other". Humans are animals who do what's best for them.
The trick to a successful society - often forgotten by loserboy nerdy politicians - is to balance it so that everyone striving to obtain advantage for themselves will result in a net gain for the community. If this doesn't happen, people will simply find a better community to live in or one which requires their skills so that there is reciprocal gain.
No-one does stuff to "help other people", no-one with half a neuron anyway. I'm not a blood donor because I like to help other people, but because giving blood is actually good for me. Apart from the health advantages, I get a medical check 4 times a year without me paying money for it, and keeping the blood bank supplied with my type increases the chances that there's some available should I need it. If someone else is helped by this, their luck. But I don't do that for them, I do it for myself.
Your "common good" does not exist. Get over it once the kindergarten kids are through with brown-swirling you.
Thank your own fabulous country for not having a manned space program, instead of dreaming to hitch a ride on someone else's spacecraft. That will teach you not to rely on others.
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There's a lot we can do, but it calls for harsh direct action against the industry mob.
There's a difference between you and me: I may end up in prison, you already live in it. You have resigned yourself to the rule of those powers. You are a willing prisoner and slave. They own you, as a matter of fact, because you will never rebel against them.
The powers that be do not have a monopoly on violence, or we wouldn't have a crime problem. The industry goons can be invincible in the court, but it only takes a moment to end their lives and there's nothing they can do to remedy that, afterwards. They thrive on the fear they can strike in the populace's hearts through their legal juggernaut. I say, strike back.
Or learn to live in a prison without bars, "free" to be a replaceable cog of their moneymaking machine.
And that's why at this point violence is the only answer. They can shit all over our rights, they can buy any law they want, they can bypass any democratic process, they laugh at our votes but death is the great equalizer. No amount of money can bring them or their loved ones back from the dead.
How much is your money worth when your son is dead? That's how the war must be fought.
Buddy, the Italian political class is the one who managed to come up with stuff like "regulating .com domains" locally, ignoring how the thing is actually handled.
They've outlawed non-encrypted WiFi APs, you need to have your ID filed to use a computer at an Internet Point.
They came up with atrocities like the Italian Crackdown.
One of their ministers (Livia Turco) suggested to "bomb with viruses the pedophiles' websites".
Their current Foreign Affairs Minister, Franco Frattini, proposed worldwide internet censorship because "nobody needs to know how to build a bomb" and "the right not to be blown up is more important than the right to free speech". Interestingly, the Italian constitution provides for free speech but no constistution gives you the "right not to be blown up". Instead, it addresses the right to a job - which should make unemployment unconstitutional in Italy where, instead, it's common enough for some employers NOT to pay the wages (see the Eutelia affair for instance).
So, why are we taking anything related to the Internet that comes from Italy seriously? The threat their proposal pose should of course be considered, but it's like Switzerland proposing laws for maritime traffic (and they at least invented the bathyscaph).
Britain is the most violent country in the EU, beating even Southern Italy with its mafia problem. By contrast Switzerland, where gun laws are far less severe, is a far more peaceful and civilized place.
I would say the problem lies entirely with the british people. It's because of the british hooliganism that the rest of the continent had to put more security in soccer stadiums than in prisons.
There's absolutely nothing to be proud of in being british. On the contrary, the rest of the continent looks down on Old Blighty with good reasons.
Very well. So we will soon be witnessing the live-on-the-web execution of a copyright gestapo member by necklacing.
That was Alan Shepard on Apollo 14, loserboy.
Don't diss off impurities so fast, buddy. Those impurities enabled doctor Jekyll to keep turning back into his original self. When he had access to the "pure" chemicals, he lost the ability to avoid being locked into the Hyde personality.
Envious much? Did some of use beat you up a lot in high school? Did he bash your head against a wall? Did he shove you into a locker? Did he throw you heads-down into a toilet? Did he shit on your face?
Real jocks know that the best years of their lives are ahead of them and not behind, because their competitive spirit pushes them to more and more challenges. And that's why they keep themselves in top mental and physical shape, to the everlasting rage of the scrawny, bespectacled, pizza-faced, grease-haired nerds whose mere body odor causes blowflies to retch.
Now cry yourself into a corner of your mom's basement before I taunt you some more.
If you don't try something that is theorically possible to see how much it is practically possible, you will never find out. That's how progress moves, by bold moves, not by fearful step backwards. Accept that those people are smarter, better organized and braver that you could ever be and be inspired to dare. But that's how a jock thinks, so it's way above your level.
"There's no industry-wide way to determine if your new coder is a hack or an artist."
There is. If your shit is valid, everybody will download it. If it's not, you go and work for some big company.
Correction: the plane doesn't have an autopilot nor, as it looks like, any self-leveling device. It looks very stable, however and most important the pilot is a Swiss Airforce pilot and hence a real jock. As a jock, his mental and physical shape is vastly superior to the average and his abilities are way beyond the lesser men to comprehend. I'm confident that he will be up to the challenge to the great envy and rage of the inferior speciment of humankind.
Do you know what the 24 hours Le Mans is? Look it up. And flying an airplane is different from driving a car: for instance, no idiot will stick himself to your rear bumber and crash into it, and you don't risk smashing yourself into a tree (unless you're flying too low). There are devices that will keep the plane in level flight, you know, so it's not that much of an issue either. The delicate parts are takeoff and, especially, landing. And it can and has been done in peacetime and wartime.
Only because you cannot do it, it doesn't mean better men cannot as well.
Do you mean, wring their hands, cave in and get over it? Because that's the trend lately.
Dispatch war rocket "Ajax" to bring back his body!
As long as no-one on the planes wears individual shields. Firing one of those lasers at a shielded person would cause an explosive pyrotechnic (subatomic fusion) and vaporize the plane.
Bring your kindjal or crysknife and practice the slow strike.
... It can be a multiplayer game.
Send them pics of their kids playing, it will get the message across.
If it's not enough, ambush them on the way home and have a friendly chat. Bring a dozen pals. It's so easy for them to threaten people by mail, but being on the wrong side of a dozen mean guys willing and able to tear them apart is another thing entirely. If they persist, a good beating will set things straight. Break a bone or two, so they will know what the price of playing rough with the wrong crowd is.
And in the end, there's the old-fashioned practice of setting their offices on fire. If someone's inside, too bad for them.
You want to play Padrino, you've got to know there's more than one famiglia in town. Capisce?
Depends on how much you're willing to pay. Last time I went to my dentist, I paid in full. Since I'm in very good shape, I don't need medical insurance at all. Of course, a sickly geek probably needs insurance even for the tissues he soaks with his greenish snot. Too bad we can't simply give them a weedkiller injection into the brain through the eye. For the moment.
Student loans are to be repaid. Never needed one, and no-one I met at University had one as well. Transportation is a paid-for service, point invalid. Education is paid for as well. Transportation infrastructure? Paid for. Those who built them? They were paid for it. Nobody did it for "the greater good" or some other shit. I pay for ALL my facilities - if not directly I do it with taxes. If I don't like to pay too much in taxes, I move where they're not so high. By the way, taxes != quality of services. I've lived in European countries with very low taxes and top services, I daresay you don't understand your own arguments.
Why should I not rely on them? They're paid for that. Surgeons happen to be paid pretty well around here. I expect them to do their shit for their wage. They don't do that out of goodness, and sure as hell they pay someone else to do other stuff for them. I see you understood exactly nothing of my post, but then I expect nothing else from a loserboy nerd. If I want to be self-reliant, I move out into the wild. If I live in a community, I expect my relationship with it to be profitable for both, not a one-sided affair. If it's not the case, I find myself another community to live in or, if I have the resources, I found one myself. Why not?
"Saying we would never have happened upon velcro or microwaves without NASA just because that is historically what played out is simpleton logic."
Ah, the reasoning of the unworthy. Columbus himself had to deal with it, when a dumpload of Spanish buffoons told him that every fuckin' spaniard could have done the same as him. His answer? He beat up the spanish nerd and shit on his face. Sort of.
Would you rather have the stuff now or when some dude happens to think about it some decades after you're dead, POS? Without aerospace tech and the Cold War, you couldn't have that fancy GPS you use to get to your scat kiddie porn peddler.
Without WW2 and tons of research into jet engines and radars, you couldn't get on a plane and fly to Thailand to have sex with underage boys.
Your whole life as a pedophile geek would be miserable, even if less so than when I get my hands on you, rip your limbs from your torso and shit into your braincase. Afterwards, you will wish it could have been invented a thousand years in the future. Yes, you will THINK, because for the first time in your miserable life there will be something - my shit - doing the thinking in your moldy, maggot-infested skull.
Minimum wage and some sort of safety net for people who fall on hard times is neither charity or goodwill, its common sense. A way to get back into the job market and into a sustainable - not to mention respectable - lifestyle is a protection for the community itself because people who cannot sustain themselves by legal means will either suicide or resort to illegal means. Humans are animals for better or worse, and will fight like animals to survive. As a jock, I find this good. I like fighting spirit and I revel in competition. However, I know that we have game rules and referees for good reasons, and this applies everywhere. When a player is injured, we want him to recover so that he can keep on playing.
Other than that, all is fair. And bench players get no head from cheerleaders.
Just how stupid can you be? If I lose my legs, I have insurance. If I die, my family will benefit from insurance as well. And you should examine how humans really work once you step out of retardedland: humans do not decide to choose to live in a society to work towards a "common good" or "help each other". Humans are animals who do what's best for them.
The trick to a successful society - often forgotten by loserboy nerdy politicians - is to balance it so that everyone striving to obtain advantage for themselves will result in a net gain for the community. If this doesn't happen, people will simply find a better community to live in or one which requires their skills so that there is reciprocal gain.
No-one does stuff to "help other people", no-one with half a neuron anyway. I'm not a blood donor because I like to help other people, but because giving blood is actually good for me. Apart from the health advantages, I get a medical check 4 times a year without me paying money for it, and keeping the blood bank supplied with my type increases the chances that there's some available should I need it. If someone else is helped by this, their luck. But I don't do that for them, I do it for myself.
Your "common good" does not exist. Get over it once the kindergarten kids are through with brown-swirling you.
Finders keepers. Those resources are a far better reason for going to war than any nation-building nonsense.
Thank your own fabulous country for not having a manned space program, instead of dreaming to hitch a ride on someone else's spacecraft. That will teach you not to rely on others.