Why must every single active thread on BF2s be derailed like this? It's not like you guys are derailing it in a good way, either -- EE chats, Trayvon Martin and now this one are about uziques drug habits. What the fuck. At least argue about something that has not been ddone literally a thousand times before. I'd rather spend my time banging my head against the wall than read all this shit.
If Uzique could shut up with his "herp derp drugs are all wonderful and only make wonderful people more wonderful with no negative impact at all on anyone ever whatsoever" herp-derpery we wouldn't have to endlessly point out that its not the case as evidenced by his personal history for one thing and endless 'acuhduhmic peeyah rahvoowed paypayhs n'shit' for another.
I do enjoy his 'I'm awesome on LSD but Macbeth is retarded' rants though. I'd like to see more of those.
I do enjoy his 'I'm awesome on LSD but Macbeth is retarded' rants though. I'd like to see more of those.
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй!
active bf2s dst poster spearhead complains about repetitive argumentsSpearhead wrote:
Why must every single active thread on BF2s be derailed like this? It's not like you guys are derailing it in a good way, either -- EE chats, Trayvon Martin and now this one are about uziques drug habits. What the fuck. At least argue about something that has not been ddone literally a thousand times before. I'd rather spend my time banging my head against the wall than read all this shit.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Uzi got banned for a while so that will help a bit.Spearhead wrote:
Why must every single active thread on BF2s be derailed like this? It's not like you guys are derailing it in a good way, either -- EE chats, Trayvon Martin and now this one are about uziques drug habits. What the fuck. At least argue about something that has not been ddone literally a thousand times before. I'd rather spend my time banging my head against the wall than read all this shit.
It's because they all believe having the last word somehow wins some imaginary argument no else cares about and only they read.Spearhead wrote:
Why must every single active thread on BF2s be derailed like this? It's not like you guys are derailing it in a good way, either -- EE chats, Trayvon Martin and now this one are about uziques drug habits. What the fuck. At least argue about something that has not been ddone literally a thousand times before. I'd rather spend my time banging my head against the wall than read all this shit.
The government IS NOT SPYING on its citizens.
http://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2013/08/ … terrorist/
How many thousands of people will now be googling "pressure cooker" and "backpack" every day?
http://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2013/08/ … terrorist/
How many thousands of people will now be googling "pressure cooker" and "backpack" every day?
The US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme. And 'to big to fail' is code speak for 'niahnahniahniahnah 99 percenters'
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/03/opinion/b … ?hpt=hp_t4
this is so fucking stupid. this is why I hate Orwell.It appears that the police now have a device that can read license plates and check if a car is unregistered, uninsured or stolen. We already know that the National Security Agency can dip into your Facebook page and Google searches. And it seems that almost every store we go into these days wants your home phone number and ZIP code as part of any transaction.
So when Edward Snowden -- now cooling his heels in Russia -- revealed the extent to which the NSA is spying on Americans, collecting data on phone calls we make, it's not as if we should have been surprised. We live in a world that George Orwell predicted in "1984." And that realization has caused sales of the 1949, dystopian novel to spike dramatically upward recently -- a 9,000% increase at one point on Amazon.com.
Comparisons between Orwell's novel about a tightly controlled totalitarian future ruled by the ubiquitous Big Brother and today are, in fact, quite apt. Here are a few of the most obvious ones.
Telescreens -- in the novel, nearly all public and private places have large TV screens that broadcast government propaganda, news and approved entertainment. But they are also two-way monitors that spy on citizens' private lives. Today websites like Facebook track our likes and dislikes, and governments and private individuals hack into our computers and find out what they want to know. Then there are the ever-present surveillance cameras that spy on the average person as they go about their daily routine.
The endless war -- In Orwell's book, there's a global war that has been going on seemingly forever, and as the book's hero, Winston Smith, realizes, the enemy keeps changing. One week we're at war with Eastasia and buddies with Eurasia. The next week, it's just the opposite. There seems little to distinguish the two adversaries, and they are used primarily to keep the populace of Oceania, where Smith lives, in a constant state of fear, thereby making dissent unthinkable -- or punishable. Today we have the so-called war on terror, with no end in sight, a generalized societal fear, suspension of certain civil liberties, and an ill-defined enemy who could be anywhere, and anything.
Doublethink -- Orwell's novel defines this as the act of accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct. It was exemplified by some of the key slogans used by the repressive government in the book: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. It has also been particularly useful to the activists who have been hard at work introducing legislation regulating abortion clinics. The claim is that these laws are only to protect women's health, but by forcing clinics to close because of stringent regulations, they are effectively shutting women off not only from abortion, but other health services.
Newspeak -- the fictional, stripped down English language, used to limit free thought. OMG, RU serious? That's so FUBAR. LMAO.
Memory hole -- this is the machine used in the book to alter or disappear incriminating or embarrassing documents. Paper shredders had been invented, but were hardly used when Orwell wrote his book, and the concept of wiping out a hard drive was years in the future. But the memory hole foretold both technologies.
Anti-Sex League -- this was an organization set up to take the pleasure out of sex, and to make sure that it was a mechanical function used for procreation only. Organizations that promote abstinence-only sex education, or want to ban artificial birth control, are the modern versions of this.
Okay I'll bite -- why do you hate orwell?
nobody likes a prophetSpearhead wrote:
Okay I'll bite -- why do you hate orwell?
The US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme. And 'to big to fail' is code speak for 'niahnahniahniahnah 99 percenters'
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013 … lice-taser
95 year old WWII vet killed by police in his retirement home.
95 year old WWII vet killed by police in his retirement home.
The US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme. And 'to big to fail' is code speak for 'niahnahniahniahnah 99 percenters'
has that guy even read orwell? or did he just read the wikipedia page?
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
He hasn't been relevant since the 50's. Still though people like to refer to him as some sort of genius and think comparing something to 1984 is a good debate strategy and winner. This same group doesn't know this guy was a democratic socialist and wouldn't consider healthcare reform as 1984 style tyranny.Spearhead wrote:
Okay I'll bite -- why do you hate orwell?
Oh and we all agree that Snowden did nothing wrong right?
Snowden is a patriot.
This is a government that is out of control and has been since 1972 when Nixon took us off the gold standard.
They are setting up a turnkey tyranny. Obama is just the face of this evil.
There is no republican party. Both parties are singing them same tune while flinging handfuls of feces at us, WE THE PEOPLE.
Do you think nothing will become of the fact that guys like Bill Gates, Ted Turner and other gazillionairs think we need a 95% population reduction?
Do you think all these gmo seeds that are being spread all over Africa are for the good of those people?
These Nazi bastards have simply devised a new and more effective killing machine; our food.
These crops will fail. Billions will starve. No dissension will be tolerated and soon you will not be able to purchase anything unless you are in the good graces of these neo-coms.
9-11 was no more than a signal that America was no longer the financial capital of the world. You think legalizing tens of millions of people into a " jobless recovery " will benefit anybody but the police state?
We are worse than 1984; we are Germany 1933 and we are poised to become The Fourth Reich.
This is a government that is out of control and has been since 1972 when Nixon took us off the gold standard.
They are setting up a turnkey tyranny. Obama is just the face of this evil.
There is no republican party. Both parties are singing them same tune while flinging handfuls of feces at us, WE THE PEOPLE.
Do you think nothing will become of the fact that guys like Bill Gates, Ted Turner and other gazillionairs think we need a 95% population reduction?
Do you think all these gmo seeds that are being spread all over Africa are for the good of those people?
These Nazi bastards have simply devised a new and more effective killing machine; our food.
These crops will fail. Billions will starve. No dissension will be tolerated and soon you will not be able to purchase anything unless you are in the good graces of these neo-coms.
9-11 was no more than a signal that America was no longer the financial capital of the world. You think legalizing tens of millions of people into a " jobless recovery " will benefit anybody but the police state?
We are worse than 1984; we are Germany 1933 and we are poised to become The Fourth Reich.
I've never been a fan of those who leak classified materials they've been entrusted with. Always just assumed spy agencies were, you know, spying as well. I guess I'm only a half-hearted cynic.Macbeth wrote:
Oh and we all agree that Snowden did nothing wrong right?
If the people 'classifying' the documents are doing it to cover their illegal asses, what then? Sometimes you have to man up, and take one for the team aka We the People. Snowden and Manning before him are very brave people.DesertFox- wrote:
I've never been a fan of those who leak classified materials they've been entrusted with. Always just assumed spy agencies were, you know, spying as well. I guess I'm only a half-hearted cynic.Macbeth wrote:
Oh and we all agree that Snowden did nothing wrong right?
The US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme. And 'to big to fail' is code speak for 'niahnahniahniahnah 99 percenters'
http://iwdrm.tumblr.com/
"From the age of Big Brother, from the age of the Thought Police, from a dead man … greetings."
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/a … CMP=twt_guThe partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London's Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro.
David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals.
The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 – over 97% – last less than an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours.
Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles.
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"This is a profound attack on press freedoms and the news gathering process," Greenwald said. "To detain my partner for a full nine hours while denying him a lawyer, and then seize large amounts of his possessions, is clearly intended to send a message of intimidation to those of us who have been reporting on the NSA and GCHQ. The actions of the UK pose a serious threat to journalists everywhere."
