@ColombianMonkey: Okay, I just fully typed out my response, and a 500 error took it away. Im going abridged: You are saying what I was trying to but couldnt get out, here is how I represent it. +1=conservative 0=neutral 1=liberal (see, i even gave the conservatives the positive number) Provided we think of it this way, conservative + neutral (me) = +1. I dont get my neutrality, but the conservative still gets their way. Because of this I must behave as a liberal, then: Conservative + Person behaving as a liberal (me)= 0 This way, I get the neutrality I initially wanted. Now to apply this concept to actual america, make the curve 1,000,000,000 to -1,000,000,000. Id say 6 months ago america was at 500,000,000 (very conservative), today id say America is closer to 1,000,000 (still scared into reactionary beliefs, but working back to neutrality). Liberals and neutrals have not been speaking up in america, so the ones willing to speak up must augment our stances and I must behave like a radical to ultimately try and lend my two cents to make America neutral again. Sorry, I was a statistician for a year and a half and thats how I describe red vs blue in America. also I believe Hitler was a genious. I believe his vision was a hard pill to swallow, but was a very logical answer to, mainly, the issue of overpopulation. However that is the very thing that makes him dangerous to use in building your personal ideology. It might be logical, but it doesnt mean is right, and it doesnt mean it's something you want to foster, especially in yourself. I think he is a fascinating subject, but is simultaneously a subject that should be let go into the sands of time to better mankind. He is one of the rare cases that I dont say know your history or it will repeat itself. I think knowing his past presents a greater danger of someone retracing his footsteps. He is too powerful a model.
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I hate people. Everyone lies. People are also selfish. Everything any human being does (including myself) is firmly rooted in self advancing principles. That being said, I like anyone that can hear that and go "un huh", I like Zim. I like Camus. I like comic book movies. I like NIN. Registered 2008-10-19 22:21:55 Comment Karma: -5 Featured Comments: 0 Member of : |
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- Comment on Open Source Resistance 2 (2009-04-15 21:27:42)
@ColombianMonkey: Okay, I just fully typed out my response, and a 500 error took it away. Im going abridged: You are saying what I was trying to but couldnt get out, here is how I represent it. +1=conservative 0=neutral 1=liberal (see, i even gave the conservatives the positive number) Provided we think of it this way, conservative + neutral (me) = +1. I dont get my neutrality, but the conservative still gets their way. Because of this I must behave as a liberal, then: Conservative + Person behaving as a liberal (me)= 0 This way, I get the neutrality I initially wanted. Now to apply this concept to actual america, make the curve 1,000,000,000 to -1,000,000,000. Id say 6 months ago america was at 500,000,000 (very conservative), today id say America is closer to 1,000,000 (still scared into reactionary beliefs, but working back to neutrality). Liberals and neutrals have not been speaking up in america, so the ones willing to speak up must augment our stances and I must behave like a radical to ultimately try and lend my two cents to make America neutral again. Sorry, I was a statistician for a year and a half and thats how I describe red vs blue in America. also I believe Hitler was a genious. I believe his vision was a hard pill to swallow, but was a very logical answer to, mainly, the issue of overpopulation. However that is the very thing that makes him dangerous to use in building your personal ideology. It might be logical, but it doesnt mean is right, and it doesnt mean it's something you want to foster, especially in yourself. I think he is a fascinating subject, but is simultaneously a subject that should be let go into the sands of time to better mankind. He is one of the rare cases that I dont say know your history or it will repeat itself. I think knowing his past presents a greater danger of someone retracing his footsteps. He is too powerful a model. - Comment on Open Source Resistance 2 (2009-04-15 20:42:00)
@Tyger42: your "conspiracy nuts" is a sign of weakness. Why dont you say tar baby, or maverick, or "terra" a few times. Youre not arguing with logos. You are trying to argue with ethos that you have not earned. - Comment on Open Source Resistance 2 (2009-04-15 20:38:24)
@ColombianMonkey: when commenting @Annarchy: But you define it there. Hitler has many redeeming qualities to his character. However, the product of that was BAD, and you cant deny that. Are you saying because part of Hitler was sane, nay genius, what he did should not have been stopped? I dont think you are saying that, but some of your logic collides. - Comment on Open Source Resistance 2 (2009-04-15 20:35:37)
@ColombianMonkey: I agree with you. Here is how I explain myself. I dont speak from my beliefs. I speak louder than how I actually feel. Kind of as how I said to Kerney before, You can believe cameras are fine UNTIL they are in your apartment, but if you wait till the next step is a camera in your apartment, its already too late to stop it. I do not claim to have a purely neutral mind, but I do believe that most people have extreme minds. If you are a neutral, and you are in a conservative world, being neutral will not spread your ideology. You have to behave as a liberal to push the flow back to a point of neutrality. During Vietnam, the buddists who set themselves on fire did not want radical liberties, they wanted neutrality and freedom, but in order to achieve that for the masses, they had to make a radical statement. Now im not saying id ever be that level of myrter... I just hope that kind of helps to convey what im saying. My true baseline. Have public cameras. Footage can only be used in felony cases. Citations are performed by actual people, not computers. However, I strongly believe that as long as people like Sheriff Arpio exist, the cameras and the tyranny and totalitarianism will not stop at that baseline. - Comment on Open Source Resistance 2 (2009-04-15 20:00:45)
@Tyger42: You are wrong. A camera CAN misinterpret what it saw, see my first comment. - Comment on Open Source Resistance 2 (2009-04-15 19:59:47)
@Tyger42: See lukes first post @dieAntagonista: I dont expect you to be able to decypher which posts im replying to but: Omg, that quote is... where did you get it, I want to read. Exchange, book?/ @HoChunk: I was a psych major at ASU for a short bout. Skinner was the antichrist and he gave SCARY tools to control people with no regard for consequence. He is one of the most infamous people of all time in my book. @Tyger42: I wish you could develop some ability in cause and effect. First it was I want my privacy. Then it was fine, police can patrol my streets, then it was a federal agent can enter my home without probable cause (where the line was crossed), then it was that every public motion I make is recorded. The push and pull of liberty never goes away, and the push to destroy it is on a roll. You can decide where you WANT it to stop, but that doesnt mean it will. Why does the PD really need physical evidence of your every public move? What have you done that gives them the right? Because they certainly took my right to privacy. @Paul Kersey: You contradict yourself. Will facts and real world be the new order, or images projected off of a harddrive? If a picture is a fact, then photoshop is god. Just because the trend is headed that way doesnt mean its right and doesnt mean we should embrace it. And yes, I would call myself chaotic neutral. At this point, I give up trying to make responses to all I missed, even though I love all the conversation so much. It makes me happy for, as Kersey puts it, us to have an "intellegent shitstorm". Ive been looking at my country for 21 years looking for real conversation and concern about important topics and this is one of the first times ive actually seen it without logicless and emotional arguments. Thank you all. - Comment on Open Source Resistance 2 (2009-04-15 19:08:08)
I have lots of reading to do, I may have more responses, but till then, @dieAntagonista: Austria? well I am still quite young and ignorant of the world, so I wouldnt know if you give clear signs that you hail from Austria, but yes, this is the issue with the cameras. Dont get me wrong, Im not saying I like cops. There are wack job cops out there. Again, I think I can say in Arizona, we have some of the worst god complex cops in Arizona, just google Sheriff Arpio and see what you come up with. The man is an insane paranoid man who thinks hes god. He is also currently under investigation by the Federal Government, but for some reason he keeps getting reelected. However, if you have a police officer, you have some degree of defense, a man to disagree with, a man to bring to court as you defend yourself. They treat the computer like its infallible. There is no method that I know of to contest a ticket that has been generated by the automated system. How can you have a system of checks and balances if the authority doesn't have a face? - Comment on Open Source Resistance 2 (2009-04-15 14:35:21)
@Puulaahi: If it doesnt get completely stripped out, I plan on doing at least one or 2 more of these just because i usually dont find things to post, but I like posting. @dieAntagonista: I agree actually. I think they were making their point, but I think giving the flag a negative connotation doesnt help the situation any. And perhaps I am more liking of the first one because I dont know if you are in Arizona, but they have put cameras on EVERY street corner and at every half mile on the express ways. I got laid off, and immediately got a ticket for not "stopping fully" for a right hand turn on red on an empty road. I watched the video and I think its disgressionary at best if I stopped or not (It could be decided that it was a rolling stop). But the worst part is that since the camera cant interpret a situation, I got charged with running a red when my offense was improper right hand turn. Thank god 2 months ago was my 2 year anniversary of my first driving school, so I was able to go again and have the charges dropped. I dont trust camera's in place of officers. - Comment on NICE!!!!!! (2009-04-14 09:06:33)
Ya... the shape is perfect, but this would still feel too big. I would feel like I have full size boxing bags attacking me. - Comment on Open Source Resistance (2009-04-11 20:39:25)
@nyokki: Oh... youre an idiot? I dont know why you would say that, but dont let me stand in the way of your bliss. - Comment on Open Source Resistance (2009-04-11 11:28:23)
@nyokki: I dont know of your celebrity on this site, but "to what end"... what ultimate consequence... I dont know, perhaps if you dont want an answer, dont ask a question? Just an idea. - Comment on Open Source Resistance (2009-04-10 19:38:13)
@thelotuseater725: I will take it as a compliment, thank you! You know Erwin Schrödinger (after his "Schrödinger's Cats" craziness) went to the college he taught at and told them they were going to bankroll a shack in the mountains for him for 2 years, and a shit ton of math books so that he could teach himself advanced algebra so he could mathematically calculate the orbit of an electron around a nucleus. The calculation isnt done by hand anymore, quantum physics departments across the nation all have to use computer programs to do the calculations. Now that tid but MAY be bullshit, its what my Chem 142 teacher told us about him. Case in point, look back at ANY influential character or man called a genius, and they were batshit crazy. I'm not claiming I am... I just like that someday I could conceivably be. - Comment on Open Source Resistance (2009-04-10 14:54:07)
@Blondie: Okay Mr./Mrs. Edumucated. First of all, for your little Puulaahi bitchfit, did you site a person you know through research or experience? No, you made a GENERALIZED metaphor of a specific situation you wish existed. Looks like you paid a lot of money... your intelligence didn't increase enough to even learn simple syntax or logic or the parameters of a fallacy. You are the problem with higher education in the United States. You are the person that gives America a bad name. You sir/madame, you fail. Do everyone a favor and put yourself out of our misery. - Comment on Open Source Resistance (2009-04-10 09:23:09)
@dieAntagonista: Your quote is PERFECT. And I have immense respect for your parents. - Comment on Open Source Resistance (2009-04-10 09:19:47)
@nyokki: nyokki, I can tell you to what end. People have started seeing voicing an opinion, or identifying a wrong turn as "going against the grain for nothing but to be annoying". SOOOOOO many people just let the Patriot Act and many things of the like just go through because they didnt want to fight "for the sake of fighting". They felt that their voice wouldnt make a difference. The problem is with that is that most of the ideas get squished out. If we follow one leader blindly and fully, they may even get it right 80% of the time, but I can damn near guarentee you that there is no man on this earth who could lead a country and make the correct choice or come up with the perfect solution 100% of the time. So how to we buffer that good solution rate? Bounce opposing and similar views off of it, deliberate, make compromise. Dont just say "this is merrica" or "we need change" and be done with it. If you love him or you hate him, challenge your leader. Obama asks us to challenge him and give him feed back. Thats the difference between a rich man given a job and a leader. A rich man who who was given a job sees dissent as an insult, works against dissenting forces and punishes them for the insult. A leader sees the dissent, considers the dissenting view against his own, and usually finds a middle ground that was better than both of the extremes combined. Bush told me not to speak out against him and just go with the grain, as did my entire mormon highschool. I did not obey. Obama asked me to help him and if I have a problem with something he does, let him know. I am more than willing to. However my voice alone doesnt carry very far, so we need others to start getting their ideas out there so possibly we can have a better tomorrow where every 15th person on the street doesnt have a job, where the environment isnt comming down around us, and where a man can have an actual freedom, and there is no need to constantly have him gps-ed, videoed, and recorded for every waking moment of his life. That got long but wasnt written in an angry or frenzied tone. It was me describing "to what end" I posted this in HOPING that some good conversation broke out. The simple tagline that I agree with to no end: Don't buy what I'm selling you. That's not what I'm telling you to do. Just wake up, and give a shit. (www.iamtryingtobelieve.com, good metaphor for what I think is also adding to this. Anti-anxiety and anti-depression pills. I was on "parapin" for 2 years, and going off was EXACTLY as he describes going off Parapin. I think we are a numb nation for the same reason the Pharmaceutical companies are so big.)
