Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 1) 135
right of conscious,
Gah! Should have been "conscience". Curse you, autocorrect!
right of conscious,
Gah! Should have been "conscience". Curse you, autocorrect!
Send a crooked (redundant ?) lawyer to jail.
Isn't there anything in the law to penalize frivolous claims of ownership as harassment? Copyright does not need to be defended as voraciously as trademark, so there is no need for them to keep pumping the entire Youtube side through algorithms and blindly send takedown notices.
Even if there were, well-- you'll have to hire employees to vet the hits. That's the cost of doing business.
Does it ensure it, or is it simply a basic characteristic? I think of the market-driven economy as amoral, but largely effective -- certainly better than any other solution we've seen to date. But your use of the term "ensure" connotes intent, and intent implies moral cause.
I meant 'ensure' in the sense that the structure of laws and government are designed to have the least impact and/or influence possible while maintaining a reasonably fair and level playing field. I understand the point you make and agree. The only 'morality' involved is in basic natural law like penalties for theft, fraud, etc that almost any kind of remotely functional system would demand.
I don't disagree with the larger point here, but sometimes I think pro-market people slip into thinking that markets are positively moral, rather than simply fair through consistency (so long as laws are justly enforced). Markets are not immoral, which socialism is. Markets are baseline neutral, and allow for positive moral decisions because people can do what they wish with charitable or humanitarian use of private property.
Spot on, sir. Could not agree more.
It's very hard to convey detailed meaning & nuance across a wee bit of text on some internet discussion forum concerning deep and fundamental concepts and principles. Intents and viewpoints can be easily and honestly misinterpreted.
Forgive me if my phrasing and choices in necessary brevity caused any misunderstanding or confusion.
Strat
Did anyone seriously doubt that psychoactive drugs can and do affect just about all decision making processes ?
act surprised when they pick controversial locations.
How is it controversial to add concentration camps as "historic locations and monuments"?
Because they were one of the results of fascism, but fascism seems to be coming back into fashion (see: US, UK, NSA, GCHQ, secret courts, 'crony capitalism', destruction of encryption/anonymity online, destruction of private property rights, destruction of right of conscious, domestic paramilitary SWAT for non-violent misdemeanor offenses, etc etc etc) so being reminded of them makes those wishing to control what others do uncomfortable to think about.
The US is making striking parallels to the former Wiemar Republic across multiple areas of government, economy, and society.
It's an ideological 'lalalala I can't hear you!'.
Strat
Capitalism uses the power of the state to ensure its corporations can oppress its citizens.
Incorrect, or maybe incomplete. "Capitalism" without a framework of equably-enforced reasonable and just laws is anarchy and chaos, not capitalism.
What you seem to be talking about is our current system which bears only passing resemblance to capitalism. Fascist oligarchy or crony-capitalism would be more accurate terms.
The larger the government, the more it controls both in wealth and power to control, the more tempting a target it is for corruption and the bigger the payoff when successful, so efforts to corrupt become intense and extreme.
Nobody is interested in buying off someone with little power to benefit them and will spend little or no effort to do so in that case, particularly if criminal penalties are severe for the attempt. And, with a less corrupt system overall, prosecution and conviction becomes a real possibility for all involved.
Corporations use the power and reach of government from lawmaking/enforcement to regulations on everything under the sun to enable them to remove wealth, liberty, privacy, and choice. Corporations can't kick in your doors with a paramilitary force. Yet. Not until the people allow government to become just a bit more powerful, then that will likely change.
A fairly well-run capitalist society ensures that as many people as practically and realistically possible have the opportunity, if they so choose to do so, to create a business/corporation *of their own* with hard work, sacrifice, and whatever other capital they can invest, and with a good business plan, have a chance at competing with others in the market.
The US used to be a fairly-well run capitalist society (compared to most) to which people from around the world took extreme measures to emigrate to. That has not been true for decades.
Strat
advocating siccing agents of evil on innocents
Yes, I and many others realize the government considers the people they are allowed to govern by consent of those very same people "agents of evil" if they do not give up their civil rights without push back
Your entire diatribe is based on false assumptions and strawman arguments.
NSA IRS CIA
Neither myself, nor anyone in my particular agency, has anything to do with violating any U.S. person's civil rights.
You work for the government. At this point so much of the government is corrupt and has assumed powers it does not have that it's highly likely the agency/dept. you work for should not exist in the first place.
same persons you wish will murder my family.
I don't wish anyone murdered. I want your activities and associations brought out into the sunlight, as it needs a thorough disinfection. The people most likely to "murder your family" work for the same government you do.
none of which changes our responsibility to protect you
I'll take my chances, thank you very much, as it seems to the government to be a free license to remove liberty, privacy, and civil rights. Please STOP.
Strat
You have one hell of an unconscious if it can code.
If you would be so kind as to not make me and my family an assassination or harassment target because I happen to work for a defense agency protecting your own family, I would be most grateful.
You misspelled "committing unconstitutional civil rights violations against me and my family".
If these programs were actually aimed at stopping domestic acts of foreign terror then the Tsarnaev brothers would have been caught, as well as the perpetrators of other terrorist acts. All you are protecting are fascist oligarchs' lust for power.
Sorry, I do not feel kindness towards those complicit in enabling those who violate my civil constitutional rights.
I have a suggestion: If you don't wish to reap the consequences then don't work for those who commit such acts. If you cannot remain employed at your current position without committing or being complicit in such acts, either find new employment or be prepared to reap the consequences.
I have absolutely zero sympathy. Grow a set or live with the consequences of being an unprincipled coward.
Strat
Where are the hardware skills?
'Tech skills' don't mean much without hardware.
Strat
Yep could easily see that.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
