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Comment Let's get this started (Score 1) 1482

What does what you're saying even have to do with the topic at hand?

OKCupid's actions are motivated and validated by Political Correctness.

Do you deny this?

What you're seeing are the social changes that are driving that change.

No, but I'm seeing lots of people like you tell me what you think is true when I see everyday people still interested in biological lives.

It's the freaks and geeks taking over the class, using guilt (political correctness; see above) to manipulate others into allowing them to do it.

In the meantime, the only real minority are those who can actually think, and they want no part of this illusion. The majority are either indifferent to it while planning to avoid it, or outright opposed to it.

You're just flailing about trying to resist it.

Why are so many leftists so sneeringly nasty? Again: it's a mental health condition, not a political philosophy.

Comment Political correctness is a mental disease (Score 1, Offtopic) 1482

PC is designed to invert reality, so that the strong are weak and the weak are strong.

There are many reasons to oppose liberal programs, but liberals want to not only disagree, but make those objections into a moral wrong.

They literally want to censor dissident voices out of existence by prohibiting them in advance of social changes, not wait for social changes to actually drive that change.

In the meantime, no parent ever said, "I'm so glad my child turned out gay!"

Comment Two blankets? (Score 1) 440

Two blankets and a handkerchief? Sounds experimental, more than anything else.

If they wanted to inundate the native in smallpox, they would have come up with hundreds of blankets or simply dumped a corpse in the water supply.

The biggest historical fact refuting this nonsense is that smallpox spread from the European settlers to the Amerinds without any deliberate attempts, and probably wiped out 90% of them.

The great European genocide of Amerinds myth is just that, a myth. I hadn't heard the high carrot diet one however. Too bad it's a myth, as I like carrots.

Submission + - How heavy metal influenced hackers (furious.com)

hessian writes: "[Y]oung hackers tend to imagine themselves as renegades living outside the law, so the music associated with that at the time was certainly heavy metal," Bloodaxe added when queried about the heavy metal connection. While he personally lived on a steady diet of Queensryche, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, he knew others had different tastes. And yet, there were still heavy metal connections.

"Most of the people in my peer group would be calling bulletin boards daily and were phone phreaks, so their long-distance calls were free. It was basically like being a regular on 4chan or Reddit, but thirty years ago. So we would talk about niche topics like metal that were very hard to find out about unless you, say, lived in a big city or college town and knew the right people/right places to go," said Grandmaster Ratte, a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow well-regarded in hacker circles. "Instead, you had access to people from all over the world, many of whom were very knowledgeable. I learned about tons of interesting subcultures via BBSs that I never would have known about until the Internet came along," he added.

Submission + - The death of "hacking" (hou2600.org)

hessian writes: Hacking is the Wild West. When the rules are stagnant, hackers appear and they do things in a way that is both (a) unorthodox according to method but (b) more realistic in terms of how technology is applied.

Comment We also must consider another vector (Score 1) 284

All very true. Thank you for your comment.

However, I think there's another dimension to this, which is the question of "what is speech"?

To me, protected speech is the ability to write and publish political, scientific, social, artistic, etc. ideas of some substance.

It would not include statements made in a crowded theater at all since that's not a public forum.

Regarding obscenity law, it would protect the ability to publish obscene material but perhaps not display it.

The main point as the founding fathers(tm) saw it was to protect political speech from being censored before it was able to reach its audience.

Submission + - "Piracy is stealing! Piracy is killing the ___ industry!" (bob-way.com)

hessian writes: I asked him how one went about trading software. He looked at me like total noob but he smiled anyway. “See those lists.” he said pointing to 8 foot tall listings of fan-folded paper hanging ceiling to floor behind most of the computers. “Just look down the list, find the disk number, go to the box and take the disk. Then copy it and put it back.”

Comment Some useful perspective (Score 1) 287

http://www.americanthinker.com...

Stalin was not the first and not the only Russian tyrant who was ready to turn the whole nation into âoecamp dust.â You may be interested to know that after the Crimean War of 1854â"56, the government of Tsar Nicholas I sold at auction for fertilizer the bleached bones of 38,000 Russian soldiers who fell in the battle of Sevastopol.

Today the world is threatened with a second Crimean War. The troops under the command of the new tsar of Russia are on alert.

Comment Do not let government define "free speech" (Score 3, Insightful) 284

This ruling makes sense when you consider the alternative:

Government would have to police each search engine to make sure it was permitting full free speech.

Then, the potential for abuse is huge. Government could simply drop something -- like, say, far-right information -- off the list and allow it to be censored while claiming it was legally not censorship.

Government could also force search engines to incorporate other information that is favored by government, and penalize them if that information didn't make it high in the rankings.

We don't want government in the business of determining what "free speech" is in legal terms.

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