Comment Re: Idle hands are the devil's plaything (Score 1) 107
People will have to find meaning outside of work. I think this is possible, but it requires good education, e.g. about philosophy and natural laws.
People will have to find meaning outside of work. I think this is possible, but it requires good education, e.g. about philosophy and natural laws.
No. Maybe threat number 8.
While this is also censorship and not good,
it changes all the time and is not comparable to top down controls by mighty states or corporations.
Also there are many communities, every community has the right to set its own standards.
This is a damaging form of whataboutitsm.
It distracts from the real dangers and points to social justice warriors.
These are often irritating, but it is a distraction from the the real threats.
Are you serious, or just making a parody out of the victim role these Trumpies tend to play?
It is especially important that the state is good for the people.
Being not too bad for business may be a part of that, but equating "good for business" with good policy in general, defeats the purpose of the state: the people, and its businesses purpose should also be the people in the end.
If not, you have a fascist state by definition.
Which implies that either the US somehow was able to mislead european experts, or european experts collaborated with hidden weaking of our own mobile network. Both are worrying.
They should be treated like ordinary thieves that caused large damage. A severe punishment, long jail time, is just, but making an example and death penality never is.
Making examples is always unjust, and if the justice system is not just, it will totally fail in the long run (and turn on its own citizens).
We want to keep our sovereignty as a nation, and don't want to be bullied into giving it up due to economic blackmail.
E.g. political donations by companies are banned in most democracies, and for a good reason. It would be disastrous if reasonable balance between free speech and money/advertisement would be disturbed by the forced import of US standards (that are not always the best in the world, to put it mildly).
Online hatred is a problem (offline as well). The solutions are often overreach and worse than the problem.
But this type of name calling against those that, at least partially, might be naive but have good intentions, is uncivilized and unnecessary.
We have seen times in history, where the hatred became a larger problem than the lack of free speech.
Please remain objective and don't think in ideological terms, including name calling from right against left and vice versa.
That destroys all of us.
then what, weapons?
No matter what we do, whether we can make nuclear engergy safe or not, we will have to change our way of life.
If we don't do it in time, and limit our growth and human activities, we will be forced to do so involuntarily.
It won't be pretty. It will be the least pretty for those that are the least to blame for the problem. Those consuming the most resources will be able to protect themselves longer, but it will be impossible for them too. By then it will be too late for everyone.
Yes, the truth remains inconventient. Many seem to continue to search for some way out to continue as we did.
The longer we try, the harder we will be hit.
It is therefore clear that the current global economic powers have little clue about how we can keep this going.
We have never seen "border" effects in the global economy in history before, there exists no validated economic theory that can account for those.
Things like depletion of natural resources, limited space, global warming and other global effects that mankind is causing, no economist knows how to deal with those. They are applying voodoo to a complex system and hope it will contiue to run well.
So you think it is ok that people are almost being forced into a pyramid scheme? This cannot end well.
Do you really think people with "freedom of expression" and to carry guns, could do anything against a government turned bad?
Better focus your time and power on preventing the goverment turns bad, than to protect people against a government that has turned bad.
All those right wing lunatics that want to "defend" the rights, have brought the US dangerously close to destroying all those rights through erecting a dictatorship.
Don't like both, but I strongly hope Google will fight this battle and destroy Murochs evil empire. That is what this really is about.
This is not a troll, even if you disagree. Where are the real moderators? Or should I just stop reading this site?
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