i am certain there have been PLENTY of CEO's/etc of HUGE corporations which have INFINITELY more effect on society and our lives, that have done either illegal or immoral shit that has come to light (and PLENTY more who have simply hidden it better); but ONLY tech execs are subject to being 'outed' and 'shunned' ? ? ? really, i DON'T think the tech sector is any more of a sparkle pony than 'regular' businesses (HINT: under unrestrained, rapacious capitalism, they are ALL going to oppress us, only you get to play beer pong at the tech companies), and why tech companies are supposed to be 'special' is beyond me... lastly, i wonder at the reaction the moral scolds would have if they found out their grrlfiend/wife went to vegas and had sex with someone else for $2500... 'oh, that's what you were up to ? you go grrl ! ! !' is THAT their metrosexual reaction ? ? ?
i don't disagree with your point, but i think you are wrong that it is 'mentally broken' people: PERFECTLY sane people commit suicide for perfectly rational reasons, at times...
further, you may want to wonder why military -you know, the bravest of the brave, blah blah blah- has a suicide rate 10 times the rest of us... i would contend there is a lot more going on than simple 'brave/coward' description...
is it surprising that in these debased times, suicide rates are spiking ? ? ? farmers are killing themselves instead of fighting a losing battle with gummint/societal policies which are destroying their livelihood (AND OUR HEALTH along with it)...
really kind of disconcerting the number of people who jump on a suicide victim with both feet like that... walk a mile in their shoes, kamper, and maybe suicide seems like the better answer at that time, too... judge not lest ye be judged...
silver, generally am right with you on most of your comments, but i think you are way off base on this, and it is reflected in nearly every post you made on the subject: suicide is cowardly, yet YOU would never contemplate it because it is so scary ? ? ? say what ? ? ? that statement is in direct contradiction to itself: like saying the terrorists who flew the planes into the twin towers were 'cowards', yet you could not imagine doing so yourself for any reason, 'cause you're scared... huh ? HOW do people square that circle in their brains ? ? ?
well, actually, YES, we CAN glean that from the following KNOWN FACTOID: it was HIS WISH to have the note circulated in public, SHE TOOK IT DOWN... REGARDLESS, of HER 'reasons', the simple fact is, SHE SCREWED WITH HIS LAST WISHES, which does not seem to bode well... *could it* be the husband was a total loon who was writing lies ? could be, COULD also be she is a total bitch who was rightfully excoriated in his parting shot... SINCE SHE DID -in fact- take it down, the implication is, she is a bitch reaching into his grave to fuck with him after he's dead, against his wishes... so, yes, THE FACT in evidence does not redound well to her... the implications, even more so...
i will only repeat this telling factoid (in fact, it may have even been an article i saw here, but maybe at the 'reason' site): in 2011 33 donut eaters were killed by gunshots...
we do NOT know how many thousands of citizens were killed by kops (and it IS in the thousands) because the (in)justice department just doesn't think it is, um, you know, prudent to keep track of such insignificant stats...
BUT, we DO KNOW you have about an 8-10 times better chance of being killed by a piggy than by a real, honest-to-allah terrorist...
further, that 33 kops killed, that is the lowest since -wait for it- 1887 when the population was a FRACTION of what it is now... 18-fucking-87 when most of us were still down on the farm, guns were no where near as plentiful, etc, etc, etc... disgusting...
piggies are the 'protected' klass, not citizens...
oh, and to all the donut eaters out there: you kick my door down and shoot my dogs, YOU BETTER kill me on the first shot, or SOME PIG is getting their throat justifiably, rightfully, and righteously ripped out... POS immoral pigs...
biggest cohort of freedom-hating, constitution-ignoring, bullying motherfuckers on the planet...
damn, dirty hippies... good thing we didn't listen to them about their totally unrealistic hysteria about global climate change, the benefits of a certain herb, stopping war-making, and a nascent police state... oh, wait...
nope, not buying it: WE commoners are 'guilty' if WE MIGHT have knowledge of someone, somewhere, maybe committing something that might be merely offensive to the powers that be, never mind an actual, real crime... HOWEVER, suddenly, that 'principle' is ignored or turned on its head when it comes to donut eaters, and i refuse to accept that: if ANYONE should be MORE responsible, MORE truthful, MORE willing to expose lies, it is the people given a badge, a gun, and INFINITELY WIDE LATITUDE to jack up ANYONE AT ANYTIME... yet, the opposite is what happens: piggies get away with crap a MILLION times more than they get caught at it... further, close to 100% of the kops KNOW who are the marginal/bad kops, but they don't say shit, do they ? ? ? THAT tars them ALL with the same corruption brush, as far as i'm concerned...
1. his movies are stylish and produced well, but the subject matter seems to be mostly 'string together some everyday scenes until ultra-violence is called for'... okay, sure am glad someone is covering *that* underserved genre... *snicker* 2. ? so he's not making the movie 'cause the script was read by about .00001% of the population ? ? ? i don't get it... HOW MANY movies are made based on books which i bet a FAR GREATER percentage of the movie-going public has already read ? ? ? 3. i guess he's said (petulantly enough) that he is going to re-write the script 2-3 times and *maybe* still make the movie... lucky us...
as i often do, i like to remind kampers that approx 25% of the population are abject authoritarians... you must ALWAYS keep that in mind when you consider how much of the public will get 'fed up', versus the militant authoritarians who will support WHATEVER Big Daddy says...
just saw your request, i will look for the article after i get done with some work; unfortunately, i'm not sure about tracking it down, since i skip around so many sites, i often forget where/when/who i saw a particular article... (thinking) i think this had to do with an 'adjunct' prof who was essentially harassed over nothing because he was a union rep, or spoke out of turn at some university meetings or such... then, they went on to explain how the whole adjunct prof racket was part-and-parcel of the whole system being debased to serve the needs of korporations, and how the whole 'academic freedom' was a crock, because EVERYONE -tenured or not- is AFRAID to rock the boat... i'll try to track it down...
w-e-l-l, that is assuming they are actually interested in 'higher education', truth, justice, fairness, and the 'merikan way ! ! ! just read an interesting article that -spoiler alert!- it is not just our public grade schools which are being run into the ground with the test regime idiocy (in case you don't know: running the public school system into the ground IS THE PURPOSE of all this testing bullshit and teacher bashing), but colleges/universities are being crushed from all sides...
guess whose line they have to toe to 'make it right' ? ? ? the korporadoes...
straus is just part of the overall program, kampers... WE'RE the idiots, still expecting that this conglomeration of people and land is supposed to be anything but a means of rich people getting our last pfennig...
perhaps not, but i think even superficial techies would be aghast at the amount of kludged code from the 60's/whenever, which is patched, band-aided, fudged, tricked, and otherwise 'fixed' with the programming equivalent of duct tape and bailing wire... in fact, MANY of the HUGE legacy systems are like that: so spaghettied up, NO ONE can untangle it, and so they just keep adding on to the mess until it collapses from the weight of the bugs... inertia is our default mode...
gates LITERALLY dumpster dove to STEAL the code he started out with... yes, he settled later to make the truth shut up, but that is how he started out: an IP 'THIEF' ! ! ! imagine that: one of the richest men in the world who got his leg up by thievery; i bet that's the first time *that* has ever happened ! ! !
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why is the tech industry so special ? ? ?
really, i DON'T think the tech sector is any more of a sparkle pony than 'regular' businesses (HINT: under unrestrained, rapacious capitalism, they are ALL going to oppress us, only you get to play beer pong at the tech companies), and why tech companies are supposed to be 'special' is beyond me...
lastly, i wonder at the reaction the moral scolds would have if they found out their grrlfiend/wife went to vegas and had sex with someone else for $2500...
'oh, that's what you were up to ? you go grrl ! ! !'
is THAT their metrosexual reaction ? ? ?
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further, you may want to wonder why military -you know, the bravest of the brave, blah blah blah- has a suicide rate 10 times the rest of us... i would contend there is a lot more going on than simple 'brave/coward' description...
is it surprising that in these debased times, suicide rates are spiking ? ? ? farmers are killing themselves instead of fighting a losing battle with gummint/societal policies which are destroying their livelihood (AND OUR HEALTH along with it)...
really kind of disconcerting the number of people who jump on a suicide victim with both feet like that... walk a mile in their shoes, kamper, and maybe suicide seems like the better answer at that time, too...
judge not lest ye be judged...
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suicide is cowardly,
yet YOU would never contemplate it because it is so scary ? ? ?
say what ? ? ?
that statement is in direct contradiction to itself:
like saying the terrorists who flew the planes into the twin towers were 'cowards', yet you could not imagine doing so yourself for any reason, 'cause you're scared...
huh ? HOW do people square that circle in their brains ? ? ?
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REGARDLESS, of HER 'reasons', the simple fact is, SHE SCREWED WITH HIS LAST WISHES, which does not seem to bode well...
*could it* be the husband was a total loon who was writing lies ? could be, COULD also be she is a total bitch who was rightfully excoriated in his parting shot...
SINCE SHE DID -in fact- take it down, the implication is, she is a bitch reaching into his grave to fuck with him after he's dead, against his wishes...
so, yes, THE FACT in evidence does not redound well to her... the implications, even more so...
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in 2011 33 donut eaters were killed by gunshots...
we do NOT know how many thousands of citizens were killed by kops (and it IS in the thousands) because the (in)justice department just doesn't think it is, um, you know, prudent to keep track of such insignificant stats...
BUT, we DO KNOW you have about an 8-10 times better chance of being killed by a piggy than by a real, honest-to-allah terrorist...
further, that 33 kops killed, that is the lowest since -wait for it- 1887 when the population was a FRACTION of what it is now... 18-fucking-87 when most of us were still down on the farm, guns were no where near as plentiful, etc, etc, etc... disgusting...
piggies are the 'protected' klass, not citizens...
oh, and to all the donut eaters out there: you kick my door down and shoot my dogs, YOU BETTER kill me on the first shot, or SOME PIG is getting their throat justifiably, rightfully, and righteously ripped out... POS immoral pigs...
biggest cohort of freedom-hating, constitution-ignoring, bullying motherfuckers on the planet...
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good thing we didn't listen to them about their totally unrealistic hysteria about global climate change, the benefits of a certain herb, stopping war-making, and a nascent police state...
oh, wait...
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WE commoners are 'guilty' if WE MIGHT have knowledge of someone, somewhere, maybe committing something that might be merely offensive to the powers that be, never mind an actual, real crime...
HOWEVER, suddenly, that 'principle' is ignored or turned on its head when it comes to donut eaters, and i refuse to accept that: if ANYONE should be MORE responsible, MORE truthful, MORE willing to expose lies, it is the people given a badge, a gun, and INFINITELY WIDE LATITUDE to jack up ANYONE AT ANYTIME...
yet, the opposite is what happens: piggies get away with crap a MILLION times more than they get caught at it...
further, close to 100% of the kops KNOW who are the marginal/bad kops, but they don't say shit, do they ? ? ?
THAT tars them ALL with the same corruption brush, as far as i'm concerned...
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okay, sure am glad someone is covering *that* underserved genre... *snicker*
2. ? so he's not making the movie 'cause the script was read by about .00001% of the population ? ? ?
i don't get it...
HOW MANY movies are made based on books which i bet a FAR GREATER percentage of the movie-going public has already read ? ? ?
3. i guess he's said (petulantly enough) that he is going to re-write the script 2-3 times and *maybe* still make the movie...
lucky us...
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{i wouldn't have been as polite...)
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you must ALWAYS keep that in mind when you consider how much of the public will get 'fed up', versus the militant authoritarians who will support WHATEVER Big Daddy says...
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(when will they put the 'arbeit macht frei' signs where we work ? ? ?)
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besides, if they really wanted conjoined twins, they'd simply conjoin them themselves, they wouldn't wait for some to come along...
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(thinking)
i think this had to do with an 'adjunct' prof who was essentially harassed over nothing because he was a union rep, or spoke out of turn at some university meetings or such...
then, they went on to explain how the whole adjunct prof racket was part-and-parcel of the whole system being debased to serve the needs of korporations, and how the whole 'academic freedom' was a crock, because EVERYONE -tenured or not- is AFRAID to rock the boat...
i'll try to track it down...
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just read an interesting article that -spoiler alert!- it is not just our public grade schools which are being run into the ground with the test regime idiocy (in case you don't know: running the public school system into the ground IS THE PURPOSE of all this testing bullshit and teacher bashing), but colleges/universities are being crushed from all sides...
guess whose line they have to toe to 'make it right' ? ? ?
the korporadoes...
straus is just part of the overall program, kampers...
WE'RE the idiots, still expecting that this conglomeration of people and land is supposed to be anything but a means of rich people getting our last pfennig...
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in fact, MANY of the HUGE legacy systems are like that: so spaghettied up, NO ONE can untangle it, and so they just keep adding on to the mess until it collapses from the weight of the bugs...
inertia is our default mode...
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yes, he settled later to make the truth shut up, but that is how he started out: an IP 'THIEF' ! ! ! imagine that: one of the richest men in the world who got his leg up by thievery; i bet that's the first time *that* has ever happened ! ! !
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