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321  Other / Off-topic / Re: How old are you? on: June 13, 2014, 07:52:41 PM
The options should follow this format:

15-20
21-25
26-30

Etc.; people with a 5 in their age have two options to pick from Tongue
322  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Top 10 Bitcoin Facts on: June 13, 2014, 10:04:32 AM
What's mysterious about it exactly? 'They' as in the haters commenting on that video making completely ignorant comments.

No, you misunderstand; the "they" that supposedly funded this "advertisement".
323  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Top 10 Bitcoin Facts on: June 13, 2014, 09:38:00 AM
I'm curious about this mysterious "they" everyone keeps referring to Shocked
324  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Net Neutraility - cancel your subscriptions, even if just for a month on: June 12, 2014, 07:41:13 AM
Oh, no, I wouldn't say most households in the U.S. have access to only 2 or less providers. Most people I know have access to quite a few of them, but their prices or speeds are just ridiculous and there is always only 1 more or less decent one that provides coverage where you live.

I only have access to Time Warner and AT&T Sad
325  Other / Politics & Society / Re: An Online, Distributed, Decentralized, Purely Democratic, CryptoGovernment on: June 12, 2014, 02:43:04 AM
OP's an egalitarian shithead

Karl Marx was also an egalitarian shithead

Coincidence?
326  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Net Neutraility - cancel your subscriptions, even if just for a month on: June 11, 2014, 11:24:53 PM
I'M MAD AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE

327  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Feminists Freak Out Over Suggestion Women Learn Self Defense to Avoid Rape on: June 11, 2014, 08:13:08 PM
Eliminating rape would be simple, but people don't have the guts to do it.  Rape exists because there is a genetic incentive.  Reverse that incentive and let evolution take its course.

Policy 1: mandatory abortion of all rape babies.

Policy 2: sterilize all rapists, all women who have or have had consensual sex with a rapist, women caught bringing a rape baby to term, and all children, siblings, nieces, and nephews of rapists.

There's a death penalty for rape in many areas, and not even this stops rape.  Your idea is a less extreme version of the death penalty, so it's highly unlikely it's going to work (and considering the consequences you've proposed, it's pretty important that we not employ policies that have no benefit.)

There is simply no fear-based solution that has ever caused someone to observe a law that they wouldn't already have observed.  The only way to stop rape is for women to treat their children with dignity and respect, i.e. as human beings, instead of beating them (esp. the boys much more often than the girls hint hint power struggle hint hint rape is an act of dominance hint hint) and treating them like they're inferior.  Until this happens, rape will continue all over the world.
328  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Feminists Freak Out Over Suggestion Women Learn Self Defense to Avoid Rape on: June 10, 2014, 11:06:55 PM
snip

http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2010/04/23/amanda-kijera-liberal-human-rights-activist-raped-in-haiti/

Seems to be old news.
329  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Feminists Freak Out Over Suggestion Women Learn Self Defense to Avoid Rape on: June 10, 2014, 10:48:10 PM
Makes sense; for feminism to grow and nourish, you need a weak and easily victimized "feminist woman."  To support self-defense among women weakens the feminist movement as it decreases the amount of ammo to be used in extracting taxes and moving laws in favor of a select group.  The movement to empower and equalize women is doing the exact opposite.
330  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do You smoke? on: June 06, 2014, 07:24:05 AM
thats just question begging. why did their peers get into it? you could say their piers but then the same question arises. eventally you have to dig down to a level where "their peers" cant be the answer. then what?

Everything people get addicted to is born from the need to self-medicate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbiq2-ukfhM

All other reasons are merely manifestations of this base need.

Yea sure i know. I have my own addictions if not tobacco. And i know why i have them. I have quite a bit of self knowledge also. Nothing fixes the need to self medicate. Even stef himself has no where near worked through all of his issues, it shines through if you know what to look for it when watching his stuff. (still a huge fan none the less)

Yes, agreed; this is why I'm so attracted to smoking, the nicotine makes me feel remotely normal, or in the very least not my typical self.  I could stop, but then I'd feel like shit again, so the negative health effects balance out with that.
331  Other / Off-topic / Re: The Real Reason You're Circumcised on: June 06, 2014, 07:19:52 AM
I wish I wasn't circumcised.  A person's stance on it is irrelevant; all that matters is that people have a choice about their bodies.  If the practice of whacking off a baby's foreskin is ended, I guarantee far fewer people would agree to it.
332  Other / Off-topic / Re: Learning C++? on: June 06, 2014, 06:50:55 AM
I learned from the book written by the inventor himself: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Principles-Practice-Using-C/dp/0321543726

It's for beginner programmers so you should get everything you need while learning the language.
333  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do You smoke? on: June 06, 2014, 06:47:55 AM
thats just question begging. why did their peers get into it? you could say their piers but then the same question arises. eventally you have to dig down to a level where "their peers" cant be the answer. then what?

Everything people get addicted to is born from the need to self-medicate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbiq2-ukfhM

All other reasons are merely manifestations of this base need.
334  Other / Off-topic / Re: Do You smoke? on: June 05, 2014, 07:47:53 PM
I smoke a pipe; it helps my focus.

335  Other / Off-topic / Re: God is Reality on: June 05, 2014, 07:07:10 PM
and that is your opinion

That's just it, reality is not up to personal preference.  Whether a person will be honest with themselves about what can be real and what cannot is a matter of preference, but what can be is not.  This is why people who are honest get so frustrated with people who aren't.  The following link sums up why it's improper to assert there is a God whilst insisting those who do not believe merely have a preference:

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof

Until this is resolved, any assertion of there existing a God is dishonest, and dishonest people are generally frowned upon in all areas except the one which the individual is being dishonest themselves (which is why atheists are always up-in-arms about it.)  The thing with religion is that people aren't told that it's dishonest; just the opposite, to assert that the given truth is not so will result in eternal damnation.  I'm certain bank robbers have a similar view; each member participating swears to uphold the asserted truth lest a terrible punishment ensue, the given truth being "We're all innocent."  It's not rational, it's fear-based, and we know that the truth is not a matter of consensus; the world was not flat because everyone thought it was, the sun did not revolve around the earth because it was popular opinion, and bank robbers aren't innocent because they believe themselves to be.  Yet we don't believe in those things, because people are brave enough to enforce a standard on what can and cannot be; but it's not an instant process, it takes years upon years for the truth to spread, and right now we're in passing between the gnostic belief of there being a God and the agnostic belief that the burden of proof lies on those who assert its existence.  All those who believe God is a matter of opinion are the same who insisted the shape of the world was, too, and I guarantee you the world's shape doesn't change based on belief.

That's not to say I agree that people who believe these things should be called insulting names, but it is important to acknowledge these standards and forge new beliefs based on changing circumstances; as said, to refuse to do so is dishonest.
336  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Truth About Bitcoin!! on: June 05, 2014, 06:40:09 PM
337  Other / Off-topic / Re: Ask me anything about being a sex addict. (Serious thread) on: June 02, 2014, 08:02:59 AM
Are you frequently worried about your health, or are you cautious with your partners?
338  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How long would it take for Anarchy to start working? on: June 02, 2014, 06:04:38 AM
You seem to have missed my point entirely. I don't deny that they (big fish) can easily take your freedom or goods (or even life for that matter) in a feudalistic system. But the power vacuum will be over pretty soon (provided there is no central power in the first place), some gang will ultimately take over and subdue other gangs. And if the society manages to keep its technological development, we will have the system not much different from what we have now (since it is most efficient from an economical point of view as of today)... Cool

If that dominant gang is a bunch of libertarians/anarchists whose beliefs overpower the beliefs of those who dominate through force and fear, you will have a far different system.  The vacuum of power is subsumed by a series of self-sovereign individuals, rather than a small minority of sociopaths brought into power by a majority of violent religious nutbags (i.e. not libertarians/anarchists) who think society could never work without coercion.

The reason why society appears to always resort to forced hierarchy is that you always use the same people of today in this future society, making it appear utopian no matter what changes are made; if you have a vanilla-chocolate swirl , but scrap it and make yourself another frozen yogurt with the same flavors, how many times would it take until you get strawberry-sherbet?  You'd always get a similar system of today in the end, because the system doesn't make the people, it's the people who make the system.  The breaking factor in this matter is the fact that "human nature" is a direct response to one's childhood: most children live in a forced-hiearchy retard-ethics microcosm, and learn to accept the same in the macrocosm.

Thus, the game of anarchy is won not through abolishing government, but to get everyone else to become disillusioned with the concept; this occurs when mankind is ready to treat children as though they were regular humans.  So, if it's anarchy one fears, they should treat their kids as horribly as possible, and ensure their neighbors do too: 100% success rate of achieving a totalitarian state or your kids' childhoods back guaranteed.

So, if you missed it: the basis of your argument is that anarchism always resorts back to our current system thus making it pointless; your argument is invalidated due to the fact that human behavior is not static: ergo, the current system is always the system the people want, and the system of tomorrow, whether monarchy or anarchy, always involves different people with different wants, just as the systems of the past reflected these alternate desires.  There is no such thing as an oppressed society, for there is never a government whose citizenry does not accept as just, except the one that's on its way out (hint hint.)
339  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Let's be honest. I love Bitcoin because... on: June 02, 2014, 05:33:20 AM
I'm in the same boat as you.
340  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Fidel Castro lived like a king in Cuba, book claims on: May 27, 2014, 08:39:36 PM
no one institution or group of people have complete ownership on corruption and greed... except for the human race. ancaps seem to think that "government" is the lowest common denominator, but it's actually just human nature.

Human nature is malleable.

yeah but so what? so he the role of government. either way, government and human nature are collectively fucked up.

What do you mean, "so what"?  Are you okay with the world is today?  Because obviously you think it's fucked up, and so do I.  So how do you fix it?  As I said, human nature is malleable, so if you seek a better world, you have to raise better humans.  Where does this primarily occur?  In parenting.  When parents raise their children peacefully and rationally, you get a generation of peaceful, rational children.  What do peaceful, rational children do?  They play nicely: they share, they don't hit, they don't lie, they respect each other's things.  Which system is a mirror of these values?  Anarchism and capitalism: statism necessitates a violation of property rights, and socialism (the "property is theft" sort) necessitates a violation of property rights, and people who will not put up with this support neither; because people today are raised constantly having their property violated, e.g. spanking, time-out, having things taken from them, on and on, these values are mirrored in the state: you have an entity which can punish, put in prison, and take things away such as taxes, and you have individuals who have to put up with it for the good of society.  It's a mirror; modern government is an extension of "human nature", as are all forms of social organization, including Anarcho-Capitalism.  So: who adheres to AnCap beliefs?  People who are going to raise their children peacefully and rationally, who will fix this world and shape a culture which doesn't accept where the world is going now.

I'm pointing out that your observations are shallow and your intentions are worthless, if you've yet to catch on.
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