Comment Re:IMPOSSIBLE. (Score 1, Insightful) 180
True communism hasn't really even been applied anywhere...
That's because rational people don't have to actually go through with it to see how toxic it is.
True communism hasn't really even been applied anywhere...
That's because rational people don't have to actually go through with it to see how toxic it is.
Yes but has she suffered a thousand deadly tweets from online misogynists every day like Anita Sarkeesian? NO
It's true. Instead of being a fraud, like Ms. Video Blogger, she's in a place where actual, real medieval misogynists do things like actually kill women for trying to have a real life. Yes, fielding trollish tweets is definitely worse than being shot in the head. Or being stoned for having been raped. Or having acid thrown in your face. Or having your teacher burned alive in front of you before you are gang raped. Or having a hundred of your fellow students killed for being part of a culture that isn't sufficiently backing a particular jihadist nutcase faction. Or being dragged off into the African jungle to be rented out as a twelve year old wife. Yeah, those tweets are for sure worse than that sort of stuff.
What's the value of an asshole that spends his evening judging the value of others he has never met?
You mean, like you're doing right now? Good question.
Because not believing, with little evidence, NK is competent enough to pull this off makes you a B357 K0r34n 1337 h4xx0r.
What on earth makes you think that NK has to have the native talent? The didn't figure out how to make nukes on their own either. They didn't home-grow their substantial currency counterfeiting operation, either. They likewise don't design and build their own military equipment. But that doesn't stop them from having nukes, from doing big business in phony currency, and sinking other people's ships.
They didn't steal
Sure they did. They stole time from millions of people. They deliberately screwed with the expectations and plans of millions of people, all for a little bit of cash and bragging rights among their fellow assholes.
The only victims here are the users who bought into a DRM'ed, locked down platform.
You're right, all those people should have chosen to buy fun, well-developed, richly supported gaming platforms from one of the many providers who offer open source, freedom-minded, anti-IP, systems that have a large selection of really cool massive multiplayer games with giant networks supporting all of that activity. There are so many to choose from that I'm sure it's why you just didn't have time to list them.
A door and windows are real.
It's idiots like you, who think that businesses, networks, people's entertainment time, and the like "aren't real" that give comfort and encouragement to idiots like the guys who pulled this. They did it to be dicks, just like other dicks might throw a rock through your window and nail your TV right before you were going to watch the World Cup match you've been waiting weeks to watch with your friends. Or, in a closer analogy, waiting until moments before the game starts, and then cutting the cable that services your house or apartment building.
Let me guess: that soccer game's not real! They're not at the stadium in person, so denying them the chance to watch it as they planned isn't actually harmful! Destruction of the time someone plans to use in a certain way is a theft more real, in many ways, than stealing physical objects. You'll never be able to replace the time. Which is one of the reasons these guys are dicks. Deliberate, purposeful, not noble in any way, dicks.
... Dragnet from 1968 or 1969 showing the situation after the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Except Michael Brown was no Martin Luther King. King would have been appalled by the circumstances into which Brown's family launched him through neglect of his character. King would have been disgusted by Brown, who spend the morning smoking dope, robbing a convenience store to get more supplies, and then assaulting a cop. King would likewise have been disgusted by people chanting in the streets about things that didn't happen, outraged by their willingness to destroy people's property and burn down their neighborhood businesses, or shout in large organized groups about wanting to see dead cops NOW!
No, things are very different now than they were even 20 years ago. Worse, when it comes to that sort of thing.
What was he supposed to do - fly in with super speed and drag Bin Laden off to prison?
Well I definitely give you points for being so tenacious in your attempt to pretend you still understand the conversation.
Another poster says that people are wrong to point out Obama's failures, because look at all of the things HE accomplished. Except, HE didn't do those things. He's not responsible for them. The Bin Laden take-down had essentially zero to do with him or any policy on his part, other than, "Yeah, keep doing what you started doing under Bush, until we get that guy." I'm pointing out that the person trying to fish around for some way to show Obama as a success, is attributing to him personally things for which he is not responsible. But you keep attacking that straw man, if it makes you feel better. Nobody is fooled, and I doubt you're even fooling yourself.
You see but you do not observe. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"