Comment Re:SMOB (Score 1) 28
Not to mention "collected" is not equal to "we have enough manpower to analyze correctly"
Not to mention "collected" is not equal to "we have enough manpower to analyze correctly"
Under "The only righteous authority beyond the animal world is one over one's self." there can be no law that escapes your own head- you can't write laws to cover other people, and there is no real restraint on your own behavior.
To fustakrakich, law is just an authoritarian attempt to restrain the individual. The only righteous government, is the government limited to the space between your own ears. Doesn't matter what anybody else does.
"The only righteous authority beyond the animal world is one over one's self."- Sound familiar? Taken all the way, that means you have no right to object to a murder committed by somebody else *at all*.
Ehh, you're missing the point. Besides, stanlyb was talking about an absolute ratio, not mass or volume.
"Absolute ratio"? Umm, there's nothing any more absolute about atom count than there is about mass, or volume (though volume is kind of squishy when it comes to molecules).
Nah, they'll only be free to continue for the next year or two. By which time they won't have any reason to import iPhone 4s and iPad 2s anyway.
I write too fast. Two times more than.... in the water
But it's not. In fact hydrogen makes up only slightly more than one-ninth of a water molecule.
The quote:
"Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.
"Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard's Rules. He is using the first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do."
So, arguably, the Wizard's First Rule is "People are stupid", though the rest of it makes clear that what Zedd actually meant is "People are credulous".
Oh no, I don't think you understand. I completely agree with you, and so do many others. The system will be changing, and soon. Watch this space.
"But not above the rule of law."
Laws are mere words on paper.
Application is everything.
" I wonder how long before foreign companies start ring-fencing America as just too expensive and corrupt to operate in."
That's hilarious. The world has always been corrupt, so the competitve solution is more effective corruption.
Get used to it. The genie is out of the bottle, it wont be going back in.
Instead of wasting resources on a losing battle to stop it, work around it.
They also like their shit to work, like not to be bombarded with popups and malware, and did I mention they like their shit to work?
Millions of PCs have likely been replaced due to malware and "Winrot".
LOTN (Linux On The Notebook) has arrived. It snuck in by the back door and it does the job.
We know this trend will never end, so might as well start planning for it now.
If we all encrypt, they can record as much as they want. It wont get them anywhere.
Nobody but geeks gives a flying fuck about the Windows monopoly, and most people wouldn't care if Ballmer filled the crawlspace under his home with dead Cub Scouts.
What they DO care about is not having to shitcan the time and effort they invested learning to use previous versions of Windows because MSFT decided that change = progress.
I install Classic Shell on every new PC my friends hand me for decrappification. They are Very Happy.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce