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pete_dushenski: at the turn of the 19th century, european INDIVIDUALS - (companies shmumpanies) - invested in technology because they had the
freedom and inclination to do so, unlike the chinese, apparently.
pete_dushenski: being an idiot slave to what you perceive is a worthwhile master can perfectly compensate for the lack of
freedom.
BingoBoingo: It's because the lower party members at Yale can and MUST envy the relative
freedom of the proles
mircea_popescu: some orc screamed at some prof something to the effect of "this is not about intellectual
freedom, this is about making a home, do you get that"
BingoBoingo: From the comments: "We mustn't let this fat fuck fork the blockchain. Death to Bitcoin XT! Long live
freedom and anonymity!"
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 05:27:05; mircea_popescu: "from my tower built out of old fishwraps atop slightly fresher fishwraps, the chinese
freedom of navigation exercises all around japan are entirely invisible"
mircea_popescu: "from my tower built out of old fishwraps atop slightly fresher fishwraps, the chinese
freedom of navigation exercises all around japan are entirely invisible"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is like saying "abundance makes lazy apes want to watch tv". guess what ? it doesn't have to! nobody forces you to misuse your
freedom!
mircea_popescu: (but ftr, china is land of the
freedom. they actually and specifically do not do any of the aml bs.)
mircea_popescu: "That's the history of America: come here for the
freedom; stay for the cash; and if things get hairy say only God can judge you."
pete_dushenski: heh. jack baruth riffs off my 'middle class' article : "We inmates of the middle class envy the rich for obvious reasons but we also envy the poor, because they have
freedom."
mircea_popescu: the notion of
freedom you carry most closely approximates death.
punkman: "At the click of a button he sends it to a thousand matches. After half an hour no-one has responded. Worse, there’s a bounce message from some stuck-up arsehole saying he’s been blocked. He tries to argue with the bounce message, threatening to report it to the Internet Police for curtailing his
Freedom of Expression. “We int doing nuffink wrong” Shithead mutters."
ascii_field: or does fr refuse citizens the sacred
freedom to pollute ?
mircea_popescu: and that was a rather direct result of "
freedom to experiment".
mircea_popescu: that was a place where very much such
freedom to experiment.
mircea_popescu: and since we're picking on the structure of reality, why not the
freedom to be a different height. maybe if you could experiment with height you'd have more pleasant urinatory experiences or who knows what.
mircea_popescu: yeah. except the absence of this
freedom is no proof that the
freedom would benefit, and your hypotheses as presented are unpersuasive.
cazalla: "It is not compulsory to live in Australia, if you find Australian values are, you know, unpalatable, then there's a big wide world out there and people have got
freedom of movement," Mr Turnbull said.
mircea_popescu: the
freedom to waste time is not equivalent to lack of accountability.
assbot: Muslims Say They Will Make It Legal to Rape White Christian Women When They Take Over Europe -
Freedom Outpost ... (
http://bit.ly/1Z26jSf )
ag3nt_zer0: "An investigation of how political correctness has impinged on
freedom of speech and intellectual diversity on college campuses."
mats: with the familiar garnish of Tiananmen Sq mention, so readers are reminded chinese people also hate
freedom trinque: shinohai: obama will surely pardon ulbricht after enough awareness is raised by these
freedom fighters.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 05:51:36; mircea_popescu: which is why i am not ever giving it up. the
freedom to threaten is not merely my fundamental, unassailable sovereign property, but moreover essential for the construction of effectual instruments to squash the socialists and their golums.
☟︎ trinque: may require
freedom-of-speech friendly hosting, depending on what's bought and sold
mircea_popescu: allowing the common man some semblance of
freedom and import for a short interval.
phf: it's probably heinlein point, true
freedom exists only at frontier, but because folk are preoccupied with practical things like "how to survive" rather then "my neighbor is smoking weed and ~gasp~ enjoying it"
trinque: looks a lot like this glorious land of
freedom we've got
mircea_popescu: ;;google
freedom's just another name for nothing left to lose
trinque: that
freedom is why the story made me smile, horrible though it is
trinque: there is
freedom in that, but I'm not ready to articulate it
mircea_popescu: the entire fancy with western society and emancipation and
freedom and have you rests on the reserve, no matter how muted, that "it's either this or we rape you". it needs to sit there like the nuclear option needs to sit on the table, for once it goes away, twelve fucking year olds choose, of their own fucking free will, to join the pakis for an all night / all weekend / all the years to come anal stretching, caned bu
mircea_popescu: universal access to the Internet would provide a countervailing force against the centralisation and concentration in government and the mass media which act to constrain
freedom of expression and unrestricted access to information. Further, the Internet, properly used, could actually roll back government and corporate encroachment on individual
freedom by allowing information to flow past the barriers erected by tota
mircea_popescu: "Over the last two years I have become deeply and increasingly pessimistic about the future of liberty and
freedom of speech, particularly in regard to the Internet. This is a complete reversal of the almost unbounded optimism I felt during the 1994–1999 period when public access to the Internet burgeoned and innovative new forms of communication appeared in rapid succession. In that epoch I was firmly convinced that
mircea_popescu: nor is there, nor was there ever, nor will there exist for as long as fucking life on earth a "right to speak".
freedom to speak, yes, but this is very fucking different.
assbot: Logged on 28-07-2015 04:00:01; coderwill: it's amazing how private companies have effectively firewalled
freedom of thought/speech through broadcast frequencies
coderwill: it's amazing how private companies have effectively firewalled
freedom of thought/speech through broadcast frequencies
☟︎ mircea_popescu: see ? not so fun for the stupid. "true
freedom" comes from a neglect of consequences.
gribble: wn: jealousy n 1: a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival) [syn: {jealousy}, {green-eyed monster}] 2: zealous vigilance; "cherish their official political
freedom with fierce jealousy"-Paul Blanshard
trinque: and really, is there any higher
freedom than pyrotechnic
freedom?
decimation: "we were intending to bring peace and
freedom, not exploit the colony's resources"
decimation: why doesn't vice/roshida jones cover actual abridgement of
freedom of expression
kakobrekla:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-33378778 << The Catholic Church wrote in comments submitted after the bill was proposed: "Should
freedom of expression go so far as to mean that the identity of a person of faith can be freely insulted, then personal
freedom - as individuals or groups - is undermined."
midnightmagic: So? Opinion doesn't mean action; and it doesn't follow that I'd waste my time reporting, or even communicating with an inverted totalitarianist state, given the literal costs of doing so in terms of
freedom and money.
trinque: well, suppose for example someone hates
freedom and steals deedbot.org from me
decimation: "This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected commit- tee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extrav- agant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most im- portant liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the
freedom to govern themselves."
trinque: wouldn't it be nice for a man to call a command a command, so you know what
freedom you actually have
trinque: there's no
freedom to define reality itself
mircea_popescu: hint : you're well aware that eliberation is not necessarily the path to
freedom. nuland's all about eliberations after all :D
trinque: still chewing on that discussion of
freedom lobbes: and meanwhile they're making theorems illegal << just keep running? debatable if that is true
freedom, but arguably you wouldn't run out of places to run before end of life
lobbes: still, you have the
freedom to throw the crown off and sit on thumbs for a year
mircea_popescu: horse's notion of
freedom is "the ability to run where it will". nevertheless, absent a ground to push him up and an atmosphere to push him down, the horse's
freedom's not quite what he imagined, but rather painful if short an affair.
mircea_popescu: take the sexual metaphor. sure, sexual
freedom would supperficially appear to be that situation where "the cunt;'s your own to do as you please". however, the cunt so liberated from a context wherein cocks make demands upon it is not in any sense something for you to do as you please, it's just a painful bit of bleeding garbage enbittering your existence.
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 05:12:34; decimation: heh there are amusing layers here > "In 1854, when sculptor Thomas Crawford was preparing models for sculpture for the United States Capitol, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later to be the President of the Confederate States of America) insisted that a Phrygian cap not be included on a Statue of
Freedom, on the grounds that "American liberty is original and not the liberty of the freed slave". "
trinque: "
freedom from terrorism" is a particularly insidious concept
trinque revels in this new watershed of
freedom post-lapse of the patriot act
Hasimir: cazalla, we don't have a formal position on firearms, but we generally favour individual
freedom decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/05/nicholas_vincen.html < "The myth, even as early as the 12th century, that the English are freeborn people--it's a load of nonsense; they come from Troy; they are the exiles from ancient Troy defeated by the Greeks: they go off and they found this kingdom of England from which they eventually get a king called Arthur. But they are a
freedom-loving people. They live under liberty and
freedom. Of
decimation: why don't we have someone here from egypt derping about arab
freedom assbot: Logged on 19-05-2015 19:21:04; decimation: mircea seems to credit the german geography for why 'nordic
freedom' 'seems to work'. but I suggest it is the people themselves - having been beaten by the romans for centuries, and then forced by the church to mate outside their immediate family, they developed a concept of 'kinship' beyond L2 cousins
decimation: mircea seems to credit the german geography for why 'nordic
freedom' 'seems to work'. but I suggest it is the people themselves - having been beaten by the romans for centuries, and then forced by the church to mate outside their immediate family, they developed a concept of 'kinship' beyond L2 cousins
☟︎ decimation: if the magic to living the 'nordic
freedom' dream is 50% tax plus redistribution, why doesn't that seem to work in somalia? are they too stupid to understand the concept?
williamdunne: It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not
freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.