the left won the popular vote. moron gw bush who got us in a stupid war gore would not have won with florida cheats and the electoral college bullshit that should be abolished

you do realize that while yes, one party is deep throating plutocrat cock, the other is taking it in all 3 holes

you vote strategically, not idealistically

which means you steer your country in the better direction. not stand there like an air head and refuse to participate until the entire political establishment matches your ideology perfectly

or vote for the party that has no chance and only serves to rob votes from the party closer to you ideologically that actually has a chance, thereby making sure the even worse party wins. see: nader, bush, and gore in 2000

we all can have our buttons pushed and sent over the edge. it doesn't matter how frail or unstable aaron was, the morally corrupt legal system that serves the bottom line of some fossilized ignorant corporate counsel and some asshole DA with something to prove: their moral bankruptcy, is the culprit that pushed him over the edge

if you're on the edge of a cliff and a guy pushes you slightly and you fall, is he somehow less culpable than a guy who has to pick you up and drag you kicking and screaming and throw you over the cliff? the malice is the same in both cases, even if the effort is less in one

it's like the death of aaaron swartz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

these fucking companies have a business model which depends upon an outdated understanding of how information is shared, then they utterly destroy the financial lives, or actually jail, young entrepreneurs who see the future. they could make deals with these guys and take over their companies for their "crimes", and benefit thataways

instead we have these pigheaded, shortsighted, cruel "punishments" for the crime of showing ignorant old fossils that their business models suck in the internet age

this is the worst of lawyers, corporations, and the legal status quo, and i hope these judges, lawyers, and corporate sycophants can sleep at night, because blood is on their hands

what you describe means you treat your significant other like a parent or a cop or a prison warden

which is an incompatible with true love

the feeling you call "true love" about the person you sneak around on is on the level of the shallow infatuations of an immature teenage douchebag. you've never actually known true love because true love is only possible straight and honest. what you have isn't just different, it's shallow and inferior as compared to the genuine article. you lead an incomplete life which is to be pitied

much of the problems in this world are rooted in human weakness

and i'm not going to be all holier-than-thou: i have weaknesses too. we all do

it's just nice not to have a mediocre garden variety weakness like being fearful of appearances or inability to say "fuck you, i'm out of here" when appropriate. the sunk cost fallacy

http://skepdic.com/sunkcost.ht...

i didn't know any of that

then again, i really don't give a shit what people think i do

which could mean i do boring things, or it could mean i have enough integrity to say "this is what i'm doing, fuck you if you don't like it"

a lot of this sneaking around with ashley madison is people who just need to grow a backbone and say "fuck you, i'm out of here"

if you have kids or you fear a large alimony:

well you can arrange to see the kids legally, and what are you teaching your kids when you live a quasi half life as an unhappy person? the kids probably already think it's better, for you, for them, if you leave. unhappiness is not hidden from you kids

and exactly how much are you paying now to be chained in quasi half life where you don't get to be the person you are? in that case, the alimony is actually cheaper

life is short. happiness is more important than money or shallow appareances

your problem seems to be garden variety drama queen

i was actually referring to the wackjobs who are borderline paranoid schizophrenics

there's gullibility, where someone trusts people they shouldn't

there's shrewdness, where someone will intelligently verify someone before gradually trusting them

then there's a sort of toxic level of distrust which is not intelligent and is just as hobbling to your life as gullibility. even though those with toxic levels of distrust see themselves as somehow more intelligent than the cluelessly naive and gullible, they aren't really, they are the same level of foolishness which is unintelligent and ruins your life

whether or not it works is if people consume the resource despite the advertising

there are other models to pay for a resource. if they do better than an advertising model in terms of raising cash to support the resource that's great. it is just a matter of what works

of course advertising sucks. so avoid it if you want to. and if a resource you want uses advertising, you have to go to alternative products of similar quality that don't use advertising, or you'll have to suck it up and deal with the advertising

but whining about the existence of advertising is just immature and useless. just avoid resources that advertise

no one is forcing you to see advertising. just avoid it if you don't like it. no big deal

this is your problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

of course, in a sane society, rather than tearing down state employees for their lavish benefits and income, people would be insisting their own salaries be raised to match, to reverse how their salaries and benefits have been gutted the last few decades so the CEO can buy more gold toilets and mistresses

look to scott walker's effort to gut unions: there's a lot more of that from his playbook coming across republican controlled state houses soon

unfortunately the average american is a hate filled small minded seflish bigot, and would rather tear others down to their level than work together and build a sane society. good job, crab mentality assholes. plutocrats take more and more, you get less and less, and all you can do is boil and hate and rage and tear everyone else down around you

question is why anyone sane and intelligent ever votes republican. not that the democrats are much better but they obvious ARE better

rather than holding out for ideological perfection that will never come, vote strategically: push society closer in the direction you want, don't expect to society to arrive at where you are automatically with one vote, and you're just holding out for that magic vote that will never come

almost as bad as hate filled propagandized fox news watching crab mentality bigots is ivory tower ideological dreamers who will never get involved and only judge in acid cynicism from a distance. the real world is about compromises and corners, never perfection you airheads

vote strategically

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from the same micahel crichton who gave us jurassic park

awesomely, there will be a new westworld tv series coming up soon on HBO, so it's not going to be soft

written by jonathan nolan, christopher nolan's borther, who cowrote a lot of his brother's movies (interstellar, batman movies)

jj abrams will executive produce

anthony hopkins, ed harris, james marsden, evan rachel wood, jeffrey wright, thandie newton, rodrigo santoro...

that's a lot of heavy talent lined up here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Described as "a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin,"[4] the series tells the story of a futuristic theme park called Westworld.

looks good!

If I were an asshole - which I really try not to be - I would summarily dump all the information I just dug up about you (starting from trivially accessed semi-public log data) right here.

that's as far as i read

go ahead

"if i were an asshole, which i'm not but watch me act like one with a pathetic threat in the same sentence..." yeah, ok, i see what kind of shitbag i'm dealing with

you can't exactly maintain the moral high ground when you reveal you would happily defy what you purport to stand for

example:

"we should nuke ISIS to prove we are more civilized than them"

notice the problem? good, now notice you have the same problem asswipe

being that you are morally bankrupt, there's nothing to do except to tell you to fuck off. you have no merit and you're beneath contempt

i don't have an aggressive stance. i have an understanding of the reality of the nature of information. which you lack. you have a fervent quasireligious hopeful belief in an impossible goal

good luck to you and your windmills don quixote

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

we're not talking about medical records you stupid fuck. we're talking about already publicly available information. changing the topic is a sign of losing an argument, that you're conceding a point but you don't have the intellectual honesty to admit it

if you want to continue the charade that people who are curious about you don't know what a proxy is, be my guest. but it makes you look stupid and weakly insecure

are you east german? do you think the stasi are still around? what a paranoid loser

learn your own european history jackass, it doesn't work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

this is rock of gibraltar truth: you can't delete what is public information. once it gets out there. it stays out there. no take backs. not because i say so, but because of the nature of reality. you're not arguing with me. you're arguing with the facts of life. but go ahead and shoot the messenger you stupid douchebag

if someone pushes you out a window, what can you do? can you arrest, prosecute, sue the person that did that did that to you? yes. can you magically say "pushing me out a window was wrong, so magically i want to make it so i never fell out a window." that's exactly what you sound like. that's the same as your position on publicly available information

you either understand and accept the reality, the basic facts, of the world you live in. or wage an impossible war against the inevitable, like trying to fight the rising and setting of the sun

your choice, but you currently look like an airhead moron. your great right to be forgotten law is a figleaf for technologically illiterate idiots. this is all you really get:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

learn form your own literature, cervantes described you well you ignorant piece of shit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...