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Other / Politics & Society / Re: "ObamaPhone Lady" now thinks Obama was a Scam
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on: April 09, 2013, 12:03:24 AM
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My grandfather converted to LDS late in his life.
So in other words, someone of whom you share relation belonged to X-religion, and thus, you're biased. And no, I hate no religion; you're putting words in my mouth, and I'd appreciate you not do that. I do, however, understand religion, and I understand what it is used for, and how politicians use it to their advantage. Mormonism just happens to have a soft spot in my heart for having the silliest conception of all common religion (and say what you will, 14,000,000+ mormons is not a small religion. In comparison? Sure. Compared to the "religion" of me? Well!--how could 14 million Mormons be wrong to my 1-member religion?) And what makes you so sure I have a "particular denomination"? I take offence to that. Unlike those with "denominations", I prefer to ask my own questions and get my own answers. This is what religion doesn't teach you. But that's the tragedy of religion; if one were trained to think, as opposed to sponge, religion would cease to be. There is no religion that will train you to be an individual. There is only the religion, and what you can do for the religion (under the guise of helping yourself, too--but if you could help yourself, what good is religion?) Having been raised under such circumstances, I simply hope you'll either know what I'm saying, or trust I know what I'm talking about. For example: Bill is a Christian. Jane isn't; Jane isn't anything. So what is Jane? I guess she's just Jane. And Bill? Well, Bill's a Christian. Now: because Bill is a Christian, we expect Bill to do Christian-like things. Because that's what Bill subscribed to, and it shouldn't be over our heads to expect him to understand the word of Christ yadda yadda. Jane? Who fuckin knows, I guess you'll have to get to know her. Since Jane's an individual, and has no such title (and by that, I mean, to those non-religious; any Theist will name anyone who is not a Theist an Atheist, as Theists love their titles and -isms) we can safely assume that she either knows better, or has yet to be converted. To the religious, it must always be the latter--else, the religious individual is having second thoughts, which is, of course, preferable, signifying someone who stopped simply listening and spent some good, quality time thinking (and if it goes well, it always ends up with a discarding of said religion, if not all religion.) To the non-religious, it can very well be both: and that's the difference between the two.I really don't care if Romney was Mormon, Catholic, Jew, Islamic, or Hindu. Because he subscribes to another man's logic (and again, I refer to the conception of Mormonism as the real killer here,) this says enough about his ability to lead. And before you ask: no, I don't like Obama, either. They're both completely terrible. Say; did you know there's more than two candidates in every election? And yet nobody can name the others (except for R. Paul.) Why do you believe this is? And why do both candidates always subscribe to the stupidity of the left, or the stupidity of the right? And why is it--if we're to put the above to practice, about religion and being apart of something greater--always, always, always, those who are left, or those who are right, are religious?
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Bitcoin / Press / Re: 2013-04-08 How to Mine Bitcoins
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on: April 08, 2013, 11:31:19 PM
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I don't remember using Beanie Babies as money.
Does anyone else have any records of Beanie Babies being used as money? Google doesn't seem to know what the fuck he's talking about, so I assume only he does.
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: "ObamaPhone Lady" now thinks Obama was a Scam
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on: April 08, 2013, 07:12:48 PM
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I suppose supporters on either end of the spectrum will find any way they can to rationalize the bank-approved candidates for presidency.
Romney's a Mormon. He's even held positions in the cult's various churches. If that's not a red flag, all is explained.
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Economy / Economics / Re: What would YOU do?
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on: April 08, 2013, 04:46:07 PM
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Pizzaforcoins isn't selling pizza; they're selling a service. The surcharge is for their service, not so they can profit off someone's want to use BTC.
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Should a Jewish resturant owner be forced to serve a skinhead?
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on: April 08, 2013, 04:41:49 PM
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I like the motto: "Everyone gets the same rights, or nobody does." Jews don't get special treatment. Skinneads don't get special treatment. Blacks don't get special treatment. Whites don't get special treatment. But the government, in all its holiness, enables special treatment. It enables abuse; gives racists an excuse for their racism. Just another non-service the government provides.
Nobody should be forced one way or another. To believe it's okay to force, is to be a fascist. There's a surprising amount of those in a country which propagates freedom.
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Should a Jewish resturant owner be forced to serve a skinhead?
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on: April 08, 2013, 04:06:23 PM
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Skinheads are still around? That's amazing! Thought they went extinct like 90's pop music.
Anyway, a skinhead knows what he's getting into when he goes to a Jewish establishment. If the skinhead deems it appropriate, he's probably just looking for some eats. If he acts up, the owner should kick him out.
I don't understand "rights". The jewish owner should do what's best for his establishment. There is no right to kick a rowdy customer out; there is simply the most logical decision. Protect your current clientelle by keeping the peace. If, however, the skinhead eats and is peaceful and pays, it would be bad business to tell him not to come back. Of course you want him to come back; he's a paying customer, he's hungry, personal beliefs need not apply. If the Jewish owner wants to shoot himself in the foot, why does the government deem it inappropriate? It's already a hit to his business to turn clients away; if he has a good reason, he should do it.
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Economy / Economics / Re: FB Phone, Anyone looked at their sources?
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on: April 08, 2013, 06:06:12 AM
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Good news, everyone! Ubuntu is releasing a mobile OS. So if you've been saying "fuck windows" and "fuck apple" for some time now, I believe you'll be pleasantly surprised a completely open mobile OS is around the corner. Joy.
Didn't know FB was trying to release a phone. Hasn't everyone moved onto tumblr and twitter and whatever by now?
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Libertarian my ass!
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on: April 08, 2013, 06:03:54 AM
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This is something that I've always laughed about, right wing capitalists calling themselves libertarian. The term that they came up with, "anarcho-capitalist", is a hilarious oxymoron. They have even taken to using the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist flags, replacing the red with gold. I'm not making that up. As explained by the OP, to the libertarian the free market is wage slavery, which is directly equivalent to chattel slavery.
I don't have time to read it, but I can imagine the amount of ignorance that is displayed in this thread from those who misuse the term. Page one was bad enough.
Where exactly are you getting this from? And I don't mean this as a hypothetical; there must be some publication somewhere which has mislead you. You should take a moment to actually understand; nobody who identifies with AnCap considers themselves anywhere close to either "wing". If you've always laughed about it, it's troubling knowing you've been under a misconception for some time. I'm well aware the current system we're under is slavery, which is why I advocate anarchism to begin with. There's nothing I despise more than wage slavery; if the government sanctions on monopolies and oligarchies are torn down, you'll see the poor and the rich classes coincide and melt into one another; people work for themselves, not a boss, or their boss, or their boss. The free market is exactly that: a market without government intervention. How this translates into wage slavery is beyond me.
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Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Is the goal of milliBit parity irrational?
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on: April 08, 2013, 05:14:53 AM
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I'm gonna call them Mickeys. $0.17 a Mickey doesn't sound expensive at all; it would be the new dollar, when BTC hit $1k a pop. Most people don't buy whole gold bars; they'll buy ounces, whenever they can. So it shouldn't seem all that expensive.
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Political Standing (yours)
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on: April 08, 2013, 04:50:38 AM
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Also left-right is relative to country. From European viewpoint USA seems to be right-far right on the scale.
More exact labels would be good, but in some ways they might be rather far from real politics and misunderstood.
The only real politics are the politics that take place outside the farm.
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Other / Beginners & Help / Re: Who controls bitcoin?
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on: April 08, 2013, 04:11:56 AM
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Honestly though, could anyone answer what sort of process goes on for any given change to the protocol? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Improvement_ProposalsThis wiki page states that the decision lies with the majority. Do I, as a participant with the clients, have to review every version change log and review the changes to decide whether I agree with that or not. It would be a pretty good idea. But usually, if something's really bad, there will be an uproar.
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Other / Politics & Society / Re: Anti-capitalists my ass!
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on: April 08, 2013, 12:16:07 AM
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I find it funny that this technology has attracted anti-capitalists. They have always wanted to abolish money. "...houses, fields, and factories will no longer be private property, and that they will belong to the commune or the nation and money, wages, and trade would be abolished." — Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread 4. The End of the Money Trick Two features of capitalism are essential to its existence—the wages system and a thorough and all-reaching system of money relationships. Unfortunately men are now so used to living by money that they find it difficult to imagine life without it. Yet it should be obvious that no libertarian and equalitarian society could make use of money. Syndicalism, as well as ending the wages system, also aims at the destruction of money relationships. WAGES. The abolition of all wages and the establishment of the principle of equal income for all. What that income would be cannot be expressed in money terms, the only terms known to capitalist society, but it should certainly be more than double the present average wage. EDUCATION. Education will be free to all able to benefit from it and wishing to enjoy it, free from kindergarten to university. Classes would be smaller, equipment improved and new schools built. The recent trend of education from coercion and terrorism to freedom and co-operation of teacher and scholar would be accelerated. MEDICINE. Medical treatment would be free—medicine, attendance, clinics and hospitals. But the new society would increase the health of all, not by a new flood of physic, but, in main, by a better diet, right working and living conditions and the end of industrial fatigue. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b3QPiFzdlAcJ:libcom.org/library/principles-of-syndicalism-tom-brown+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-aKarl Marx hypothesized that, as the productive forces and technology continued to advance, socialism would eventually give way to a communist stage of social development. Communism would be a classless, stateless, moneyless society based on common ownership and the principle of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarxismIt is embarrassing that someone in the 21st century can hold these views. Go on.
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