Comment Re:I'm 4 of 5 (Score 2, Funny) 252
there isn't an IoTa of awareness
there isn't an IoTa of awareness
insane != abstract
you don't get to redefine words as their opposite meaning and expect to sound logically coherent
"i'm going to redefine 'wet' as 'dry' and continue talking about climatology and expect people to still take me seriously..."
okay, crackpot
i'm not willing to entertain the mental gymnastics whereby moderation is defined as an extreme
you're nuts dude
what have you "won" exactly?
You "win" Turkish citizens annoyed with their government -- a win in the only venue likely to be able to create change there.
i stopped reading there
how did that work with cuba? iran? north korea? china?
what you're asking for is massacred citizens
iran for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
no matter how many intelligent, forward thinking students you have agitating in the cities, the government just calls up busloads of basiji thugs from the countryside and cracks skulls until change seekers shut up in fear. or worse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
slow stead engagement is what really works
reactionary inflexibility simply means no change at all
welcome to reality
this is you:
http://www.politico.com/story/...
pragmatism, flexibility, realism, compromise always wins
inflexible ideological dogmatism is how you lose and are ignored
well yeah, by definition a rock star is very rare
so if you want a rockstar working for you, you better be ready to shell out big money or provide truly extraordinary perks
you can't just expect or demand rock star status from average or even above average programmers. you can't mold people's personalities like their technical proficiency. i suppose there does exist stress mitigating strategies someone can consciously adapt. but from the rock star i met, it is a sort of chilly immunity to even the concept of stress that is quite awesome to behold
that's why i quoted eisenhower
because when i met such a person, i immediately thought of someone functioning under the stresses of extreme combat. i thought of this person on the eastern front in wwii. what it would take to survive *real* stress, because stress in programming, while real, taken in perspective to something like fields of combat, is a joke
i always wondered if this person had indeed been in such an extreme stressful environment, like war. a sort of "once i've seen that, none of this shit impresses me." because indeed, nothing seemed to impress him. you could scream in his face and he would react the same as if you were casually discussing gardening. nothing phased the dude
I haven't met or heard of anybody who is a "rock star" by your criterion. The closest I met was a person of very resilient personality, capable of working hard and steady through great stress, and who had an average level of talent. Not a bad person to have as part of a team, but in no way a rock star.
i have met a person with that stress proof personality, and above average talent. they exist. those are the rockstars
not sure if joking (look around here, there are some socially autistic morons on slashdot)
if you are joking, thanks for the laugh
if not, the middle way and compromise as an extreme is... stupid. not even logically coherent
ok, let's say you prevail. zuckerberg gives turkey the middle finger and doesn't censor images
ok, now facebook is kicked out turkey
what have you "won" exactly?
how has turkey changed in any way? you've given the authoritarians a win: they've successfully excised the evil western cancer of facebook from glorious turkey
and how will turkey change in the future?
so you're for not opening diplomatic relations with cuba? we should just never ever ever reconcile or talk with cuba? how has that strategy paid off to change cuba?
we don't talk to iran? what is iran's attitude going to be then?
you are a dogmatic rigid ideologue
you are exactly the same as what you don't like in turkey
and the fruits of your ignorant stubbornness is you HELP the people you don't like
pragmatism always wins
"i know you are but what am i" went out of style as rhetorically effective sometime around the second grade of elementary school. you don't even make any logical sense
If you're locked up for years, despite having done nothing wrong, I'm not sure I see much difference.
And that doesn't even get into how your life could be ruined after the "oops, sorry about the imprisonment. You're free to go." Your old job definitely won't be available and new job opportunities might be skittish about hiring someone who went to prison. Even if they've expunged your record, people might still know you went to prison, might still think of you as guilty, and treat you as such. In short, your suffering might not end once you get out of jail.
There's a good reason that our justice system is supposed to be stacked in favor of the defendant.
people met on the street and in taverns and in private rooms, completely beyond the ability of anyone to eavesdrop
but enforcement against illegal activity proceeded by infiltrating groups and other methods
it seems the feds are complaining they might have to actually engage in hard work
do your damn job
if the positive influence outweighs the negative
the absence of facebook won't make those problems go away. how do you make those problems go away? with influence. like facebook. a bastardized influence, in order to exist, is still an influence, and better than no influence at all
this is called realism
it trumps ineffectual dogmatic idealism, which is just as authoritarian and extreme as what you are complaining about
compromise always wins
if you want to lose, hold fast to extreme adherence to difficult demands and never budge. there's no better way to make yourself marginalized, ineffectual, and ignored
they'll start blocking proxies
not possible?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...
yes, theoretically impossible to be watertight, but the whack-a-mole effort makes for a degraded dangerous existence for those seeking to use proxies
so you effectively banned facebook by forcing users to exert so much effort it's not worth it
culturally and politically, you've also antagonized turkey to go more silo
look at the constant "west is destroying us" ultranationalist bullshit in russia nowadays as an example of how turkey could go
so you let turkey have its way on the lightning rod topic of muhammad's face
then allow the more subtle influence to continue
time plus slow force can erode mountains
geologists should be in charge of topics like this
hard to tell if joking or not
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
if you're joking, thanks for the laugh
if not, well... you need help
you don't defeat authoritarianism or totalitarianism with the same sort of simplistic black-or-white ideological rigidity
it's not that simple
if he doesn't follow the laws turkey bans facebook. a facebook clone in turkey pops up instead. now all those connections to the outside world are greatly diminished. turkey becomes a social silo that stagnates
and so all the valuable positive subtle free speech influences that aren't live wire topics like muhammad's face are lost
by following turkey's authoritarian freedom crushing instructions that would otherwise get facebook banned, facebook remains influential in turkey in a positive way, in more subtle ways
you can't think of these nuanced complex issues in such blockheaded black-or-white "my way or the highway" rigid ways. that makes you something like turkey's authoritarianism actually
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein