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#202 Dec 19 2010 at 1:07 AM Rating: Good
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This thread got really dumb really fast.
I heard that's why the call it the asylum.
#203 Dec 19 2010 at 4:40 AM Rating: Good
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Soooooooo I'm not quite sure how I'm the only one who missed that fact..
Well, let's see. If I'm ******** around, but, you think I'm serious, then you missed the fact. If you think I was trying to convince you of something, when I was ******** around, then you think I was serious. This shouldn't be a tough connection, even for you.
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#204 Dec 19 2010 at 5:05 AM Rating: Decent
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I do believe I gave you a benefit without a doubt because I'm me and I know what I was thinking. You said in that very post that you didn't give it much thought, which means that you just picked a side for the sake of picking a side and if you gave it more thought, it's possible that your opinion would change.

So, after reading that, I thought ok, maybe this person isn't a complete idiot and just is just going with the flow. That is what I meant by you picking the wrong side. That wrong side is the "laugh/disagree at Alma." When you replied with simply "You're an idiot" with no substance, then I realized that you are just a mindless idiot.


That you think any of that had to do with my opinion on the subject of Assange affirms my belief that you're an idiot. The only reason I even mentioned him was to point out that your post wasn't humorous. I could simply not care less about this topic. I have been talking about you the entire time. You should be flattered that you have finally solicited my attention.

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So where is this substance again?


You just quoted it, so I have to assume that you actually read it and it went over your head. Surprise, surprise.

If I told you a joke that you (and everyone else in the room) didn't receive as a joke, and you told me that it wasn't funny anyways, what would you think if I responded by telling you, "It is SO funny! Humor is subjective! My friends think it's funny! You just don't think it's funny because you're a conservative!" Would you possibly think that I was being argumentative, idiotic, or even both? Maybe even rudely presumptuous?

That's how you come across to me, and strongly at that.
#205 Dec 19 2010 at 7:11 AM Rating: Default
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So by saying that no country wouldn't be upset that their secrets would be released, you are also including the countries that have no problem killing people they disagree with. So, from there you can't attack my statement as if it represents me or the U.S. Furthermore, that my statement, while was just a joke, represents the truth.


Sure I can Smiley: lol

You agreed that just because they're upset about something doesn't mean a country would take action. If "being upset" doesn't mean they'd take action, then it's not sufficient to make the next step (jumps? leaps in logic?). You're making that jump, and by using North Korea seem to be arguing that they're planning on offing Assange. AND you supplied your own opinion*, obviously, that you think he should be offed, so I'm calling you out on saying it doesn't apply to you or the US (as several politiicans and talking heads have called for his arrest, trial, and execution).

TLDR; Nice try, but no. A, B, and C might be valid points, but it does not follow that they lead to each other in the nice trail you set up... thus making A... irrelevant Smiley: nod

Also, if it was a joke it's the fault of the teller (you) for not making it come across as such rather than the audience which overwhelmingly (read: everyone) took you at face value instead of trying to be "funny."

*If this isn't true and you think Assange should be free to do as he wishes, then my apologies for misunderstanding your need to defend him being killed by governments.

Edited, Dec 19th 2010 1:19am by LockeColeMA


Nice try, but I wasn't the one who initially made that jump. I do recall posters said that I was aligning myself to certain countries. Well guess what? How can I be aligning myself to a country unless you believe that they would do such a thing? Your only counter(which I can't believe you're actually now arguing) is that NO COUNTRY would do such a crime! Else, if there exist a country who would do such a crime, then that jump of logic is substantiated. Since history has proven that there are countries that would "illegally" kill, you are obviously wrong.

I've said numerous times over that it's not a coincidence that the people who think he's innocent didn't think that was funny and for the people who think he's guilty thought it was funny. If by "everyone", you mean the 3-4 posters who commented on the joke, then yes "everyone", but that doesn't mean anything. You're just saying "everyone" to make it seem like a large number.

* Also, who said anything about governments doing the killing? You're the one making all of these assumptions!

#206 Dec 19 2010 at 7:22 AM Rating: Good
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So you support vigilante justice then.
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#207 Dec 19 2010 at 7:34 AM Rating: Decent
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Soooooooo I'm not quite sure how I'm the only one who missed that fact..
Well, let's see. If I'm ******** around, but, you think I'm serious, then you missed the fact. If you think I was trying to convince you of something, when I was ******** around, then you think I was serious. This shouldn't be a tough connection, even for you.


Once again man.. IT WAS A TWO PERSON CONVERSATION!! How can I possibly take you serious if we're the only people talking? You were trolling and played along.

Maybe you missed the context of my statement. I was referencing your TROLLING to another poster as you're nothing to take seriously. So, apparently you're the one who missed a fact. This shouldn't be a tough connection, even for you.

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[/quote]That you think any of that had to do with my opinion on the subject of Assange affirms my belief that you're an idiot. The only reason I even mentioned him was to point out that your post wasn't humorous. I could simply not care less about this topic.


I read that over multiple times and that doesn't make sense. You didn't find the post humorous, got it. You can't try to prove that it isn't funny to anyone, especially when people found it funny.

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I have been talking about you the entire time. You should be flattered that you have finally solicited my attention.


Flattered? I was the one who told you from the beginning that you were a victim of the laugh at Alma fad. You wrote an entire block paragraph on how you weren't a victim of that fad and you were an independent thinker. When I proved you wrong that I did give you a benefit without a doubt, you reverted to say that you were talking about me the whole time...both can't be true...

So, obviously, you're just another clone, because you refuse to admit to defeat just the same.

You're right though, I'm flattered. I was successful in getting yet another puppet poster to debate with. Sometimes I impress myself. Excuse me while I go look at myself in the mirror.

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You just quoted it, so I have to assume that you actually read it and it went over your head. Surprise, surprise.

If I told you a joke that you (and everyone else in the room) didn't receive as a joke, and you told me that it wasn't funny anyways, what would you think if I responded by telling you, "It is SO funny! Humor is subjective! My friends think it's funny! You just don't think it's funny because you're a conservative!" Would you possibly think that I was being argumentative, idiotic, or even both? Maybe even rudely presumptuous?

That's how you come across to me, and strongly at that.


What? The person who looks stupid is the person who tries to debate that the joke wasn't funny after I said it was a joke. Most of the times, when a joke isn't "funny", you give off a weird look and say something like "uhh yea" and you move on. You on the other hand tried to prove that the joke is inherently not funny through psychology.

Besides, I asked you to justify my comparison to Varus. You haven't said anything.


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#208 Dec 19 2010 at 7:40 AM Rating: Decent
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So you support vigilante justice then.


I simply stated a fact that just happen to be funny if you think he's guilty and people over-exaggerated that fact by making stupid assumptions.

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Maybe you missed the context of my statement. I was referencing your TROLLING to another poster as you're nothing to take seriously. So, apparently you're the one who missed a fact.
Yea, I caught that part. You're still the one who referenced it as me trying to convince you, when I was joking around. If you thought it was a joke, why would you think it was made top be convincing?
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#210 Dec 19 2010 at 7:42 AM Rating: Good
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So you support vigilante justice then.


I simply stated a fact that just happen to be funny if you think he's guilty and people over-exaggerated that fact by making stupid assumptions.

It wasn't funny, and I think he's guilty.
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Maybe you missed the context of my statement. I was referencing your TROLLING to another poster as you're nothing to take seriously. So, apparently you're the one who missed a fact.
Yea, I caught that part. You're still the one who referenced it as me trying to convince you, when I was joking around. If you thought it was a joke, why would you think it was made top be convincing?


So, I guess the connection is too tough for you... It was a choice of words.. instead of saying "this is the guy who was talking to me but said that he wasn't talking to me", I chose to say that you were trying to convince me that you weren't talking to me. Given that the theme was "Ugly is a troll not to be taken seriously", you can't say that I was taking you seriously.

That's like if you and me were the only two people in a room and you drop a silent bomb and you say that it wasn't you. I can later say in a group, "Yea, I was standing there and smelled something beyond foul, I looked over there at Ugly and he tried to convince me that it wasn't him, but I know only he can produce a stench so gut retching". You know and I know that you weren't serious, it's just a phrase.

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It wasn't funny, and I think he's guilty.


I wasn't talking to you.
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I know only he can produce a stench so gut retching
Have you been spying on me? My stomach medication isn't as effective as it should be.
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#213 Dec 19 2010 at 12:52 PM Rating: Good
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Professor shintasama wrote:
This thread got really dumb really fast.
I heard that's why the call it the asylum.
I was expecting more insanity, less pointless semantics over unimportant crap.


So anyways, any chance we could talk about the actual implications of paying the military industrial complex 0.7 trillion dollars a year to "defend" the united states intrests only to have them increase western resentment and terrorist recruitment by killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, killing journalists, bullying other nations, torturing prisoners, and funding said terrorists while we slowly sink into unrecoverable debt at home?
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So anyways, any chance we could talk about the actual implications of paying the military industrial complex 0.7 trillion dollars a year to "defend" the united states intrests only to have them increase western resentment and terrorist recruitment by killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, killing journalists, bullying other nations, torturing prisoners, and funding said terrorists while we slowly sink into unrecoverable debt at home?



We could try, but I dont think Alma would understand.
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#215 Dec 19 2010 at 2:18 PM Rating: Good
How about a military centric one then? How does Alma feel about wikileaks revealing civilian contractors are using US tax dollars to bribe Taliban warlords to attack military patrols rather than their convoys?
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Get some ******* perspective people.
#217 Dec 19 2010 at 7:31 PM Rating: Decent
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If Assange is let go, that sends out messages to the world that "oh, it's ok to publish classified information".


And if Assange is detained or mysteriously dies, what does that say about freedom of speech and freedoms of information.

I dunno if you have read some of that crap but 90% of it is useless rubbish. Hell the **** in there about canada is mostly.

Mr. President in canada their dollar is called a loonie. They also have colored money....yes exactly like monopoly.
They speak french and English.
Toronto seems to want to try really hard to be like new york.
etc etc etc

There is a few small jabs at some foreign ministers and such but big deal.

This whole thing was totally blown out of proportion. But I know why, It because its US documents, if it was **** from another country like say Brazil, or Spain, or Canada that was trashing Americans do you think it would be at the same level on the give a **** scale.


.....Actually it probably would because anything that mentions the US would be a direct insult and front against the american way of life.

Long story short, you can only pile **** under the house for so long, eventually you will start to smell like it.
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#218 Dec 20 2010 at 3:53 PM Rating: Good
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If Assange is let go, that sends out messages to the world that "oh, it's ok to publish classified information".


And if Assange is detained or mysteriously dies, what does that say about freedom of speech and freedoms of information.

I dunno if you have read some of that crap but 90% of it is useless rubbish. Hell the sh*t in there about canada is mostly.

Mr. President in canada their dollar is called a loonie. They also have colored money....yes exactly like monopoly.
They speak french and English.
Toronto seems to want to try really hard to be like new york.
etc etc etc

There is a few small jabs at some foreign ministers and such but big deal.

This whole thing was totally blown out of proportion. But I know why, It because its US documents, if it was sh*t from another country like say Brazil, or Spain, or Canada that was trashing Americans do you think it would be at the same level on the give a sh*t scale.


.....Actually it probably would because anything that mentions the US would be a direct insult and front against the american way of life.

Long story short, you can only pile sh*t under the house for so long, eventually you will start to smell like it.


No. There is a lot of powerful Information there, and we can benefit from it.

This guy goes into a few specifics
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If Assange is let go, that sends out messages to the world that "oh, it's ok to publish classified information".


And if Assange is detained or mysteriously dies, what does that say about freedom of speech and freedoms of information.


It would say nothing at all about freedom of speech and freedom of information. What it would do is speak volumes to the stupidity of soliciting people to send you classified military information so you can publish it to the public. Personally, I don't see that as a bad message to get across.


Let me ask you a question: If there was a website dedicated to publishing peoples personal information, would you feel the same? Assume that it existed solely so that disgruntled medical workers, bankers, retail employees, DMV workers, and whatnot could pass along people's medical records, social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card PINs, and a host of other private information and the website would make that information freely available to everyone in the world.

Would you defend that as free speech?
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Its no personal information, it is a public sector and the public has a right to know its goings on. Both Classified and un-Classified. The public pays these peoples wages, the public is their boss. These people deserve no right to secrecy. Hell Celebrities PRIVATE lives, are more public than the majority of the crap that happens in the PUBLIC sector.

If your boss asked you for your weekely reports, and you said sorry sir that is classified information, what would he say to?


(since public information, is not personal information your question is redundant.)
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#221 Dec 20 2010 at 4:27 PM Rating: Good
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If Assange is let go, that sends out messages to the world that "oh, it's ok to publish classified information".


And if Assange is detained or mysteriously dies, what does that say about freedom of speech and freedoms of information.


It would say nothing at all about freedom of speech and freedom of information. What it would do is speak volumes to the stupidity of soliciting people to send you classified military information so you can publish it to the public. Personally, I don't see that as a bad message to get across.

Let me ask you a question: If there was a website dedicated to publishing peoples personal information, would you feel the same? Assume that it existed solely so that disgruntled medical workers, bankers, retail employees, DMV workers, and whatnot could pass along people's medical records, social security numbers, bank account numbers, credit card PINs, and a host of other private information and the website would make that information freely available to everyone in the world.

Would you defend that as free speech?


But it's not that type of Information. It's not vault codes to fort Knox. It's mostly evidence of bureaucrats not doing their ******* job.
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Its no personal information, it is a public sector and the public has a right to know its goings on. Both Classified and un-Classified.


So you don't believe that any information held by the government should be classified and kept secret from the public? I'm honestly curious how far you'll go down this rabbit hole.
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But it's not that type of Information. It's not vault codes to fort Knox. It's mostly evidence of bureaucrats not doing their @#%^ing job.


No. It's mostly information about the day to day operations of various military and diplomatic operations. The bulk of which is boring and mundane. Um... but at the risk of explaining the point to classified data, if you only classify the important stuff it's kinda easy for people to know what to steal. I suspect that a lot of people don't really get this and that leads them to believe some of the more amusing conspiracy theories about this stuff.
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So you don't believe that any information held by the government should be classified and kept secret from the public? I'm honestly curious how far you'll go down this rabbit hole.


I should be allowed access to it if I want it. The same way my boss can check up on my time spent at work and see what I have been doing. These people are public servants, not the other way around.

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Now obviously not being an american citizen I should not have access to american govt goings on, I dont vote them, i dont pay them, and the same could be said of Mr Assange, he is also not an american, but someone who is has been giving him this information. It is not Assange the US should be worried about, it is whomever keeps leaking the information outside the nations borders.

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So you don't believe that any information held by the government should be classified and kept secret from the public? I'm honestly curious how far you'll go down this rabbit hole.


I should be allowed access to it if I want it.


Does that go for the identities of say undercover CIA operatives?


And yes, I'm assuming someone who is a citizen of a given country
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Identities of Them yes, Identities of their families and/or significant others, no.
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