Helianthus16

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by Helianthus16 16y ago
in certain ideologies subscribed to by some anti-imaginary-property proponents, this statement applies to the author of those words as well.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Bleh. The moment you start thinking "one of the most powerful and off putting military advantages that could have been deployed, in either Ancient, or Renaissance times, would have been hot air balloons." is the moment you start thinking '
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
there are two of us here, though this will be my last post. I already inserted the qualifier into the discussion, way back in response to Charuru. I clarified your point. Karma's not important, but it does demonstrate how many people res
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Yeah, I'm really impressed with g0atbutt's results so far.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I do not understand why giving feedback about the usability of the link deserves downvotes. I didn't even understand what had happened when I was suddenly at a google log-in, shrugged, and closed the tab.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
thank you.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
maybe it's because it's late, because i'm cranky, or because i'm feeling elitist. but i'm not going to read an opinion about physics on wired.com i've got to have some scientific standards, right? edit: ahahaha, i go to the link actually.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
While everything posted in the first tier of comments is true, so-called stealth mode is not a inherently bad idea. It just means you keep some things to yourself for a while. niyazpk demonstrates an actual use of the word stealth: you've g
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
that's overused. "do the exact opposite," that is. superficial understanding without an actual construction.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
if they feel like it.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
This is true, but doesn't mean there aren't coordinators, actually skilled hackers who embrace the directionlessness even as they give it direction. It isn't _just_ foot-soldiers.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
He thought that Anonymous was affiliated ("strongly linked") with Wikileaks, as if there was some secret backdoor agreement between them. Nutcase. There doesn't _need_ to be any agreement or promise between Anonymous and other parties.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
neat idea, long way away.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I wasn't using a linear scale; I was in fact rather pointing out that one shouldn't, and even if one did one could hardly conclude China was more advanced. Now we're getting a bit off-topic, so I'm going to close with the idea that women in
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
In other words, China has much the same problems as the West and much the same successes. I posted in response to the statement "Much better then it's neighbors and also the West." My point about foot-binding might have been off-topic, act
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Yeah, and the first act of the Indian intelligentsia was against sati. It's easy to be against the most obviously wrong. My point wasn't that reform hasn't happened, my point was objecting to the casual generalization of China as currently
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Add to this the fact that this vote _doesn't matter_ in the sense that deciding to turn it down isn't a final decision. This actually makes it easier for someone to vote against it for purposes of political expediency, knowing it won't aff
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
then you're listening to simplistic explanations of politics. the climate was such that the desire for Congress to do _something_ necessitated compromise for speed of decision. "No one actually read it" reflects the reality that the bill w
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Foot binding? Not saying things might not be generally 'equal' for women in China now, but things are generally 'equal' for women in the West. For certain values of generally. Seems to me societies have traditionally objectified/oppressed
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I don't know why you don't see the racism as a portrayal of casual American incidental racism. It is not (in my view) an endorsement of casual American racism. Yes, sez me. the point was to provide my opinion. It wasn't a humorless public
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I am using the artistic interpretive sense of the word 'analysis' here. The ideas presented in the commercial are a viewpoint. It is an analysis that is a sales pitch because it says: we're so confident that we can tell you _exactly_ what
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
It seems right now that liking it is the minority view, so I'll throw up what I like about it real quick. General advertising culture crassly manipulates desires in a way that I find insulting. This commercial purposely fucks that manipula
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
It is arbitrary but so far as it is my own, it is also most people's, tying into my point about clarity of definition. Chattel slavery means the public acceptance of slavery--slave markets, the fugitive slave act. Chattel is a legal term
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Yeah, I'm perfectly willing to admit I was being smug, though I might prefer the term coldly critical or openly irritated. Your deflection of my criticism does not address my criticism, it merely weakly attempts to declare it unimportant.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
speaking as someone whose college education was aided by a significant amount of AP credit, this is a silly thing to brag about. Schools will vary by which AP exams they accept and how many hours they award, and I'm sure this is true about
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Because all of what you said about how we think has nothing to do with the informational density of the two formats. Words trump pictures for complex ideas.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
It is possible to link all of these happenings by the single term "slavery" but that does not make it prudent for the course of communication. In your original post you elucidated images of chattel slavery, the actual written right to own
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
GDP is one measure of a country's power. I should point out that measuring the GDP of India prior to British imposition is a little bit hairy since India was not really a singular political entity. Besides, my point was never that India di
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I actually think it's just that difficult a problem. Whether we decide to contact them or not, in a sense we're still deciding _for_ them whether or not they will have access to technology that will fundamentally reshape their culture. In
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I'm not assuming anything, I'm making an assertion--an assertion that could be right or wrong. In particular I am not assuming/asserting that India or S.A. would not have made progress. I am saying that the effects of colonial rule are so

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