Bitcoin Forum
June 30, 2024, 08:23:21 PM *
News: Latest Bitcoin Core release: 27.0 [Torrent]
 
  Home Help Search Login Register More  
  Show Posts
Pages: « 1 ... 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 [352] 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 ... 562 »
7021  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why does the battle for gay rights stop at the borders of Islam? on: February 03, 2015, 08:08:31 PM
dont know wot the fuss is about i hath no problem if a man wants to put his willy up another mans bum islam can go and fuck themselves in their silly black gowns bunch of freaks


The fuss is the pink mafia, who's fight is for the right of a man who wants to put his willy up another mans bum, stops at the borders of islam, according to the article.

Cool

7022  Other / Politics & Society / Exclusive - The FAA: regulating business on the moon on: February 03, 2015, 08:04:22 PM





The United States government has taken a new, though preliminary, step to encourage commercial development of the moon.


According to documents obtained by Reuters, U.S. companies can stake claims to lunar territory through an existing licensing process for space launches.

The Federal Aviation Administration, in a previously undisclosed late-December letter to Bigelow Aerospace, said the agency intends to “leverage the FAA’s existing launch licensing authority to encourage private sector investments in space systems by ensuring that commercial activities can be conducted on a non-interference basis.”

In other words, experts said, Bigelow could set up one of its proposed inflatable habitats on the moon, and expect to have exclusive rights to that territory - as well as related areas that might be tapped for mining, exploration and other activities.

However, the FAA letter noted a concern flagged by the U.S. State Department that “the national regulatory framework, in its present form, is ill-equipped to enable the U.S. government to fulfill its obligations” under a 1967 United Nations treaty, which, in part, governs activities on the moon.

The United Nations Outer Space treaty, in part, requires countries to authorize and supervise activities of non-government entities that are operating in space, including the moon. It also bans nuclear weapons in space, prohibits national claims to celestial bodies and stipulates that space exploration and development should benefit all countries.

    “We didn’t give (Bigelow Aerospace) a license to land on the moon. We’re talking about a payload review that would potentially be part of a future launch license request. But it served a purpose of documenting a serious proposal for a U.S. company to engage in this activity that has high-level policy implications,” said the FAA letter’s author, George Nield, associate administrator for the FAA’s Office of Commercial Transportation.

“We recognize the private sector’s need to protect its assets and personnel on the moon or on other celestial bodies," the FAA wrote in the December letter to Bigelow Aerospace. The company, based in Nevada, is developing the inflatable space habitats. Bigelow requested the policy statement from the FAA, which oversees commercial space transportation in the U.S.

The letter was coordinated with U.S. departments of State, Defense, Commerce, as well as NASA and other agencies involved in space operations. It expands the FAA’s scope from launch licensing to U.S. companies’ planned activities on the moon, a region currently governed only by the nearly 50-year old UN space treaty.

But the letter also points to more legal and diplomatic work that will have to be done to govern potential commercial development of the moon or other extraterrestrial bodies.

“It’s very much a wild west kind of mentality and approach right now,” said John Thornton, chief executive of private owned Astrobotic, a startup lunar transportation and services firm competing in a $30 million Google-backed moon exploration XPrize contest.

Among the pending issues is lunar property and mineral rights, a topic that was discussed and tabled in the 1970s in a sister UN proposal called the Moon Treaty. It was signed by just nine countries, including France, but not the United States.

"It is important to remember that many space-faring nations have national companies that engage in commercial space activities. They will definitely want to be part of the rule making process," said Joanne Gabrynowicz, a professor of space law at University of Mississippi .

    Bigelow Aerospace is expected to begin testing a space habitat aboard the International Space Station this year. The company intends to then operate free-flying orbital outposts for paying customers, including government agencies, research organizations, businesses and even tourists. That would be followed by a series of bases on the moon beginning around 2025, a project estimated to cost about $12 billion.

Company founder Robert Bigelow said he intends to invest $300 million of his own funds, about $2.5 billion in hardware and services from Bigelow Aerospace and raise the rest from private investors.

The FAA’s decision “doesn’t mean that there’s ownership of the moon," Bigelow told Reuters. "It just means that somebody else isn’t licensed to land on top of you or land on top of where exploration and prospecting activities are going on, which may be quite a distance from the lunar station.”

Other companies could soon be testing rights to own what they bring back from the moon. Moon Express, another aspiring lunar transportation company, and also an XPrize contender, intends to return moon dust or rocks on its third mission.

“The company does not see anything, including the Outer Space Treaty, as being a barrier to our initial operations on the moon," said Moon Express co-founder and president Bob Richards. That includes "the right to bring stuff off the moon and call it ours.”


http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/03/us-usa-moon-business-idUSKBN0L715F20150203


7023  Other / Politics & Society / Why does the battle for gay rights stop at the borders of Islam? on: February 03, 2015, 04:58:36 PM



ou can tell when a battle has been won.  Read the Pink News or any other gay news site and you will see that there are almost no stories left to report.  A politician in Northern Ireland may be caught expressing an opinion on gay marriage which was the view of all mainstream UK political parties ten years ago.  There might be some gossip about various celebrities (so no different from any other newspapers).  But otherwise gay news sites are reduced to tentatively wondering if Transgender rights are the same as gay rights (the jury is out) and otherwise running mainstream politics stories which strangely favour the Lib Dems while expressing an inherited hostility towards the Tories and Ukip.  This is no tragedy.  It is a demonstration of the fact that after victory people get on with life as normal.

Of course not very far away there are people who take a quite different view of these matters.  In the newspapers today we can see photos of events in the Syrian town of Raqqa.  There Isis have just carried out another ‘execution’ of someone accused of being gay.  The victim – this time a man in his 50s – was thrown off the top floor of a seven-storey building.  He appears to have survived the fall and so was stoned to death by the crowd on the ground.

What are right-thinking people to do about this?  For most of them it isn’t easy because they don’t even know where to begin thinking about this and have been taught to be almost fearful about speaking about it.

I think we can probably say with some confidence that if an evangelical Christian group threw gays off towers in the Deep South, gay media outlets would currently be lambasting the Christian churches for a history of homophobia which had led to this pass.  There would be demands for every prominent and obscure Christian pastor to condemn this brutal act.  And they would.  If a group of group of deeply extrovert Jews did a similar thing we could, I think, expect a similarly stern response.  But the most that can be done with Isis is simply to report the facts and let them sit there, as though they come from nowhere.  As if the traditions of throwing gays off buildings or collapsing walls on them and so on are probably just accretions of colonial times with no connection to any religious tradition.  And so, anyway – back to minor stories about Tom Daley or Clare Balding.

There are those who believe that the fight for gay rights, or indeed human rights in general, stops at the borders of Islam.  Very few people seem to realise that they should not.  Of course we have legions of celebrities who are willing to sign letters calling for posthumous pardons for Alan Turing and others.  But how do these people select their targets?  Well, whenever I ask that question the best answer I hear is that people try to do things in their own societies because that is where they can make most difference.  Well, Alan Turing is dead.  It is hard to think of anything more tokenistic or pointless than ‘pardoning’ a man after he’s been tormented and many years after he has died.  But it is, of course, really really easy.

As for encouraging grass-roots responses on the ground (which is where everybody of course hopes it will come from), for the forseeable future is it hard to see the opportunities for a decent LGBT society to flourish in Isis-held territory.  So where are all these people who profess to care about gay rights?  Their absence suggests to me that agreement has broadly been reached that religious sensitivities trump human rights, as long as the sensitivities in question are Islamic.


http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/02/who-does-the-battle-for-gay-rights-stop-at-the-borders-of-islam/


---------------------------------------------------
"Faux news!!!!!!"
- Code pink

 Grin



7024  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Intelligence Operatives. Are they here? Make the case. on: February 03, 2015, 04:42:21 PM
it's the second oldest profession.  of course they are here.  it's foolish to suppose they aren't

I find it interesting how receptive this community is to these ideas. Not one person has come forward yet to call me a kook for even asking the question.


Maybe some of us believe bitcoin (its mankind paradigm shift ideal, not just BTCBTCBTCBTC) is the greater good for the future, no matter our political and religious views, now. Most of us have very passionate debates about a lot of stuff. If they come after us because of our speech then it is over, not just for this forum... You forget one thing: the tool you are using to post on this forum might already be compromised. Remember to talk and speak here the way you would in normal life and you should be fine, perhaps  Wink



7025  Other / Politics & Society / Re: WIKI WAR: The 100 Most-Edited Wikipedia Articles on: February 03, 2015, 04:31:08 PM

Not surprisingly, Bush isn’t the only political figure to attract factual controversy. The Wikipedia entry on Barack Obama has been revised 23,514 times — just slightly ahead of Adolf Hitler (23,499 revisions). Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln and Bill Clinton all make it into the top 100 (Sarah Palin falls just short, in 104th place).

Articles on religion, including Jehovah’s Witnesses and Muhammed, or about specific countries, such as the United States and Israel, attract plenty of revisions. More surprising, however, is that World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) features in more revised articles than any other single body — seven — and is responsible for the second-most-revised article: list of WWE personnel.

Does all this reflect how controversial some topics are in society at large, or merely which topics are most contested by the people who edit Wikipedia? I had a strong suspicion it was mostly the latter (although I didn’t think the typical Wikipedia volunteer would also be a big WWE enthusiast), but it’s difficult to know.


http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-100-most-edited-wikipedia-articles

Interesting topic

I find it kind of amusing that the Old US president has that many edits while Obama just beat Hitler in edits even though he has been dead for so long, as for why those pages are edited the most they tend to represent the most controversial aspects of society
Well with some exceptions not sure on the WWE personnel and the List of Omnitrix Aliens? Surprised Ben 10 made that listing.




That page is amusing to read too...  Grin
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Sanger&offset=&limit=500&action=history



Wiki links define the uncertainty of the very fabric of the universe  Cheesy



7026  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It's funny to see these thugs in Ferguson bitching about how they have nothing on: February 03, 2015, 04:21:45 PM
Let's start to stop saying African American for every black in America when they are not even from Africa sometimes or they have been in the States for centuries. It's racist!


... Or call our president "african american" when his mom was white and his father had no slaves born in america, or brazil, in his long ancestry...

Can anyone prove me wrong and find that elusive 0bama slave from the american cotton fields, or the brazilian sugar cane fields?


7027  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Reddit’s science forum banned climate deniers. on: February 03, 2015, 04:08:13 PM
A quick video on what will happen to "climate deniers".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Mw5_EBk0g


ISIS approves...


7028  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Real War on Women... on: February 03, 2015, 04:06:32 PM



German Imam In Berlin Mosque: Women Should Be Confined To The Home And Never Say No To Sex With Husband…



According to the Imam the ban on refusing sex includes when she has her period.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQvtJihSVwk



7029  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Obama Backs Government-Run Internet on: February 03, 2015, 06:41:22 AM



FCC chief prepares to overrule state Web laws



The head of the Federal Communications Commissionis urging his fellow commissioners to block state laws that would prevent cities and towns from building out their own government-run Internet services.

Chairman Tom Wheeler this week will circulate a draft decision to nullify laws in Tennessee and North Carolina, after receiving a request from towns in each of those states.

Cities across the country “should be able to make their own decisions about building the networks they need to thrive,” Wheeler said in a statement on Monday.

“After looking carefully at petitions by two community broadband providers asking the FCC to preempt provisions of state laws preventing expansion of their very successful networks, I recommend approval by the commission so that these two forward-thinking cities can serve the many citizens clamoring for a better broadband future.”
The move to preempt state laws limiting municipal broadband was long expected, and comes amid a broader effort by Wheeler to exert federal authority over people’s access to the Internet.



http://thehill.com/policy/technology/231422-fcc-will-move-to-block-state-laws


7030  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It's funny to see these thugs in Ferguson bitching about how they have nothing on: February 03, 2015, 06:29:49 AM



Hilarious! #BlackLivesMatter Protests Al Sharpton At His National Action Network Office In NYC











In other related news:

Records Show Every Business Started By Al Sharpton Has Been Closed For Failing To Pay Taxes…





Records show that Sharpton’s beleaguered for-profit entities often overlap and intertwine, some sharing ties with the reverend’s nonprofit organization, National Action Network. Their financial records are copious, confusing, and sometimes outright bizarre, and together, they depict persistent financial woes for Sharpton, who also personally owes New York State nearly $596,000, according to active tax warrants.

n that’s available to us — to have a history of noncompliance with tax obligations,” says Bernadette Schopfer, the director of taxation at New York’s Maier Markey & Justic, a certified public-accounting firm that has had no dealings with Sharpton or National Action Network. “It appears that [Sharpton] does not file [taxes for his businesses], and then opens up something else. At all the entities we see he has opened up, he has not been compliant with the obligations of the owner of a business. . . . He’s either willful in his behavior, or he’s just sloppy.”

Sharpton, who was traveling internationally, was unavailable for an interview, despite NRO’s numerous queries over several days.



http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397681/busted-jillian-kay-melchior



7031  Other / Politics & Society / Re: WIKI WAR: The 100 Most-Edited Wikipedia Articles on: February 03, 2015, 06:20:11 AM
No mention of Palestine in the top 100!
I am surprised Islam and Israel are so low down in the order.

Not more surprising than cat videos on youtube with millions of views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTasT5h0LEg


7032  Other / Politics & Society / Re: It's funny to see these thugs in Ferguson bitching about how they have nothing on: February 03, 2015, 06:14:21 AM



Infighting Alert! Al Sharpton Asks If Young Black Protesters Are Stupid, Compares Them To Whores Being ‘Pimped’ By Others





[...]
Today, the 60-year-old reverend responded to the growing challenge by lashing out at younger activists, addressing them in a speech to his congregants.

“They are pimping you,” he said, referring to activists who he said were trying to divide young protesters from the older generation of activists.

“I’ve been meeting with them and talking with them since. And they were told, ‘Your problem is Al Sharpton and the other guys.’ Anytime you have movements, whether it’s in Ferguson, whether it’s in New York, whether it’s in Denver, wherever it is, when they got you more angry at your parents then they got you at the vote you’re supposed to be out there for, you’re being tricked and you’re trying to turn the community into tricks. And they are pimping you, to do the Willie Lynch in our community.”

“And why they got y’all arguing about old or young in Ferguson, they running an election and y’all ain’t got a candidate in the race. Cause you’re busy arguing with your mommy and daddy when they re-electing a mayor, and re-electing a prosecutor. They got you arguing about who going to lead a march—the old or the young—when they cutting up the city budget. You can’t be that stupid! You more worried about who going to lead [National Action Network] than who going to be the governor with a multi-billion dollar budget that you got to pay state tax in. You can’t be that stupid.

Sharpton added, “It’s the disconnect that is the strategy to break the movement. And they play on your ego. ‘Oh, you young and hip, you’re full of fire. You’re the new face.’ All the stuff that they know will titillate your ears. That’s what a pimp says to a ho.”

“They tell them what they want to hear,” he said. “They don’t tell you ‘I’m going to turn you out.’ They tell you ‘You’re beautiful. Nobody appreciates you like I do. Look at you. You deserve all these material things. You’re not being in that London Fog coat. You should be in minks. You should have diamonds. You should have earnings [and] all you’ve got to do is come with me. We can have a brand new car together. We can buy a house in the suburbs together.’ And after they seduce you, they reduce you. And I’m not going to sit here and let them reduce our children.”

[...]
In a statement to Capital following Sharpton’s speech,[young protester Josmar] Trujillo wrote, “In New York, specifically in the majority of the work happening in the last year, Sharpton’s brand is largely seen as destructive at worst– irrelevant at best.”

Trujillo also said, “As we move ahead here in New York, inspired by Ferguson youth, we’re speaking truth to power. Sharpton, and others like him, are in fact much too cozy with power to fill that role. For the former informant to paternalistically admonish younger, more dynamic leaders by comparing them to ‘hoes’ is just another self-serving attempt to squash dissent as he wrestles for control of a movement that’s leaving him behind.”



http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/01/8561365/amid-tensions-sharpton-lashes-out-younger-activists



7033  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: February 03, 2015, 05:00:40 AM


Feminist 'Music' is the Funniest Thing Ever!





I guess this is why the #GamerGate crowd are so petrified of feminists taking control of their art form.


-------------------------------
 Cheesy Grin Grin Cheesy



7034  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Study: Everyone hates environmentalists and feminists on: February 03, 2015, 04:48:39 AM






In the latest issue of Sierra magazine, The Sierra Club argues that an “even more potent ally” than President Obama in their fight against the Keystone XL pipeline is the House of Saud, the largest exporter of petroleum liquids in the world.

“Environmentalists are depending on President Barack Obama's veto pen to block the project--at least until the State Department issues its final ruling in the matter,” writes Sierra’s Paul Rauber. “But we have another, even more potent ally in the fight: the House of Saud.”

This new-found ally—which owns 16% of the world's oil reserves and has the world's largest crude oil production capability—Rauber explains, is helping to thwart the progress of the pipeline deal:

Rather than cutting back production in order to stabilize oil prices, the world's largest oil producer is keeping its petroleum taps wide open, hoping to drown upstart competitors in Canada, North Dakota, and Russia in a sea of cheap oil.

The dramatically cheaper crude oil, Rauber explains, is “sure to stifle new production--and put the hurt on sellers of expensive, dirty oil to new customers.”

According to Rauber’s logic, the way to combat “dirty oil” is to make that “dirty oil” more inexpensive and thus more accessible globally. (Or maybe this is really only a war on “dirty American oil.”) Rauber acknowledges the glaring contradiction, but maintains that this is all the more reason to champion Obama’s oppressive new fuel economy standards:

Of course, this "sea of cheap oil" has its own severe environmental downsides. Sales of gas-guzzling vehicles are rebounding, for example, creating a bind for automakers who are under federal mandates to increase the fuel-efficiency of their vehicle fleets. This is when we see the real value of higher fuel economy rules[…]


http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/sierra-club-our-most-potent-ally-against-keystone-xl-house-saud


7035  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Venezuelan Army Can Shoot Protesters, Effective Immediately on: February 03, 2015, 04:17:28 AM

The formula is always the same. Yet people fall to the same trap. Over. And over...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1aYxCzepI



7036  Other / Politics & Society / Re: New police radars can 'see' inside homes on: February 02, 2015, 04:21:47 PM
Its more like something that doesn't allow them to see through the walls, but only detect if some one is inside a home or if there is any movement.

Naive. They aren't going to tell you what they REALLY have.  Smiley

Trusting the police on what they say.... Not easy.  Smiley

Anyway you need to hold this thing in hands and try to use it to tell if it really works. Is this just a prototype or this for sell? Is it possible to buy it?

I'll have to point you back to the first post and follow the link of the original article.



7037  Other / Politics & Society / Re: there is no debt on: February 02, 2015, 04:19:27 PM


Sounds like a poll made to support the upcoming Podemos party in spain, a follow up in what happened in greece recently. We we live in 'interesting' time  Cool

If you want to erase 'debts' in the world, switch the word 'debt' with the words 'future investment'. Done  Cheesy


7038  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Counterinteligene Operatives. Are they real? Are they here? Make the case. on: February 02, 2015, 04:09:14 PM
The creation of this thread was prompted by this comment https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12156.msg10307877#msg10307877

The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)

http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

I found it to be a very interesting read. I have personally never encountered anyone that I thought was a counterintelligence operative but I am open minded. If you know of someone who you believe is a counter intelligence operative, make your best case. Alternatively I'll leave this thread open to more general discussion on this topic.

Turning on moderation just to have it as an option in case I decide later but I don't plan on using it.


Technique #5 - 'ANGER TROLLING'

Statistically, there is always a percentage of the forum posters who are more inclined to violence. In order to determine who these individuals are, it is a requirement to present a image to the forum to deliberately incite a strong psychological reaction. From this the most violent in the group can be effectively singled out for reverse IP location and possibly local enforcement tracking. To accomplish this only requires posting a link to a video depicting a local police officer massively abusing his power against a very innocent individual. Statistically of the million or so police officers in America there is always one or two being caught abusing there powers and the taping of the activity can be then used for intelligence gathering purposes - without the requirement to 'stage' a fake abuse video. This method is extremely effective, and the more so the more abusive the video can be made to look. Sometimes it is useful to 'lead' the forum by replying to your own posting with your own statement of violent intent, and that you 'do not care what the authorities think!!' inflammation. By doing this and showing no fear it may be more effective in getting the more silent and self-disciplined violent intent members of the forum to slip and post their real intentions. This can be used later in a court of law during prosecution.


Wow! Professional baiting indeed


7039  Other / Politics & Society / Re: THE NEW RAPE RULES WHICH WILL INFANTILISE WOMEN AND CRIMINALISE INNOCENT MEN on: February 02, 2015, 04:02:34 PM
It's the system desperately trying to balance itself out. To western/developed countries it definitely feels unfair but with the world tending to 'oneness' you gotta look at the system as a whole. Statistically rape cases are overwhelmingly in favor of men. In places like India, gang-raping women is a daily business and most of the time the men get away with it. In the rare cases where the woman wins, she still loses because her life within society is pretty much over anyway.

So if this is the case, and you have all that information, how come all those feminists can't read the same data and help their sisters out in india and in all those countries women are killed and stoned to death on a whim?

Let me give you some examples:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=777707.0


Oneness to the image of whom?




As a fair warning you're probably not gonna like what I'm about to say  Cheesy
 
First off, a 'cause' that needs defending is never worth fighting for. A truly legitimate 'cause' exists in and of itself without any perceived external support. The only analogy that can adequately paint a picture of this statement is this: The seamless integration of life with it's environment in a virgin (human-free) ecosystem.
The reason feminists are not rushing over to help their 'sisters' is simple, they're fighting a cause borne of artificiality which means they need to draw the line somewhere. And this line will invariably be at a safe distance from their physical selves (here I mean physical as an all-encompassing self).  

Now my answer to your second question is gonna stretch the limits of credibility even further.
I'll start off with the grounds for oneness. This is pure logic and shouldn't be hard to grasp. Humans have been treading the path of knowledge for a while now. The nature of knowledge is to systematically swallow and incorporate into itself everything it encounters. Since the earth is only finite, it was always going to be a matter of time before awareness seeped into every nook and cranny. We are now in the age of unification with the 'world' working to strengthen the bind on its parts and concretizing it's 'self'. Cars, planes, ships (etc) for the physical aspect and books, phones and internet (etc) for mental. One world.

It would've been easier if you hadn't included that last bit 'to the image of whom'  Cheesy The answer is 'the world'. Emergence of sentience.


If I understand you correctly:


A) Earth/Gaia is better off without humans. Even though Gaia, as far as science tells us in 2015, is responsible for the creation of humans through a slow process of millions of years of evolution... The seamless integration of life with it's environment in a virgin (human-free) ecosystem.


B) The third wave feminists draw a line that is strangely compatible with other third wave feminists that are able to use the same tools to define their all-encompassing cosmos: twitter feeds and facebook 'friends'. If you cannot have the $$$ for the latest smart phone, a high speed internet connection, or if english is not your first language, then you are out of this beautiful all-encompassing third wave feminist universe, A.K.A. the Coca Cola, Pepsi, Apple, Google, 500 channels cable subscription on your latest Samsung LED 4K UHD TV, grass juice every morning, only cooking in FAIR TRADE coconut oil, groupon, Pilates exercises before jumping to the subway, listening to spotify while reading what oprah told the third wave feminist to read on their kindle... ... universe.


C) Oneness is defined by: Cars, planes, ships (etc) for the physical aspect and books, phones and internet (etc) for mental. One world.. If you are a woman and you carry your produce on your head for 20 miles, bare foot, to meet potential buyers to the village's market, everyday, you are not part of Oneness. The flies bothering your little donkey carrying 100s of pounds of your hard labor are not part of Oneness either. Actually you WILL be part of Oneness, voluntary or not, as Oneness is whatever the 'superior culture' is when it destroys and swallow you whole, you and your traditions, your little donkey, flies included. BUT the swallowing will be for the good of your tribe. Oneness will tell you to stop killing those cute seals you used to feed yourself on because it is barbaric and uncooked... Oneness will tell you how many you can kill per month, then will send you food stamps for that brand new mini market shaped as a container it has sent you... Oneness will tell you no one from your village is free to roam in 'your' forest anymore, the way your ancestors did for thousands of years, as it is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site...


No fair warning for all those indigenous people around the globe, they probably not gonna like what your definition of Oneness is about to do to them, as Oneness is a pretty small club of narrow minded selfish bunch of Caramel Brulée Frappuccino® Blended Coffee drinking humans with a Wifi connection...

Cool












Your stance is commendable and noble  Smiley

However you underestimate the implications of my comment.

Knowledge, therefore the current world, thrives exclusively on 'differences'. If everything is the same, then there is nothing to learn and the illusion of power fades.
Money (is power | includes all forms of barter be it physical or emotional) is the primary means for spreading knowledge. Humans can be from any walks of life and belong to any schools of thought but the underlying structure that supports the (human) way of life is the same for all: knowledge. If knowledge thrives on differences then it's not hard to imagine that the greater the differences the more knowledge there exists. And if knowledge is synonymous with power, then the greater the differences the more power there exists.
In the context of the current world, money only works because of the difference between the rich and poor. The bigger the gap between those 2 extremities the more knowledge the 'world' gains, the faster science progresses.
Outwardly it would appear that rich people are privileged and have it easy but this is only the age-old illusion of 'the grass is always greener on the other side'. Rich people long for freedom and poor people long for money. Truth is nobody has a say in any of this, not really anyway. For as long as you play the game of knowledge, you will be bound by its terms whether you be a fat cat or a lowly peasant.


We obviously belong to the rich people class as we both know what a bitcoin is, what a frappuccino is, what buying fair trade coconut oil means. For very poor people, having $10000 or $100000 or $1000000 or $1000000000 of asset is the same for them, when they look at us.

We love our definition of Oneness. "Oneness to the image of whom?" I asked. The answer was simple: our image.


Rich people long for not losing the power they have, poor people long for happiness they've yet to have...

 Cool

7040  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Venezuelan Army Can Shoot Protesters, Effective Immediately on: February 02, 2015, 06:43:07 AM


I have updated my old thread regarding venezuela, to keep the information together.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330687.0


The Real Time Socialist Train Wreck (again) Happening Now in Venezuela is slowly rolling to its logical end. Again. And again. And again.

How sad.





Pages: « 1 ... 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 [352] 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 ... 562 »
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP Powered by SMF 1.1.19 | SMF © 2006-2009, Simple Machines Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!