Firstly, they were not anarchists, they were white supremacists, who tend to be populist/socialist in their politics. Though don’t let that confuse you with the facts, your mind is obviously made up.

Secondly, they attacked a government facility, which automatically makes their attack NOT terrorism, since the definition of terrorism is to attack civillians to put them into a state of terror. Attacking government facilities is a legitimate act of lawful warfare, ergo the Oklahoma City bombing was not terrorism, no matter what the media and the government claim.

However, the Murrah Building bombing WAS a War Crime under the Geneva Conventions, because McVeigh specifically detonated his bomb when he knew the daycare center for government employees was in operation. So McVeigh deserved to die for his crime.

However, the Geneva Conventions also state that it’s a War Crime for a government to use non-government persons or civilians as human shields to protect themselves against attacks. So the US Government is as much a war criminal for the deaths at the Murrah building as Tim McVeigh is.

If you are not going to listen, either will I.

Tech-tards of course abound in SL, but i disagree that the masses don’t try new things. They’ve learned to swipe cards and bank online and check stock online and everything else. It’s not the specialized arcane knowledge that the tekkies imagine.

The only rule of the entire land is (in general) live and let live. This is enforced by LL…some would say inconsistantly, but it’s the thought that counts I guess

Despite the few bad apples that this system naturally creates (script-wielding griefers and their more stealthy counterparts the social griefers and “busy-bodies”) I think it’s working. People can make their money or play war or be as fruity as they wanna be.

There is always going to be waste in any type of productive society. The only thing the rest of us can do is try to convert that waste into someone that has value to be added to the community they choose to take up space in.

HOWEVER, I don’t think this would work on a large scale such as the “real world”. For all it’s diversity, all SL residents have a couple things in common: they have at least a basic knowledge of technology and they are (or were at one time before they got bitter) willing to try new things and explore new ideas.

A majority of the world’s population doesn’t share these characteristics.

The consumerist “tech-tard” (I’m coining a new, cooler phraze as of NOW) utopian philosophy isn’t based on reality and is somewhat ethnocentric. Sure these new technologies will let people in Africa or Honduras or Afghanistan communicate and have the same level of visibility as a kid in Malibu, but what are the tech-tards doing to help everyone even AFFORD it?

I hate to agree with Bill Gates but he summed it up with his criticism of the “Laptop for Every Child” program. He said that this program was pointless because what good is a laptop to a kid who that can’t get enough to eat and has no home?

This was a great article. I wish there were more things like this coming out of the Herald!

more nakie robots PLEEZE!

this is played out boring shit

Ohh so because 2 people who share a philosophy with countless others bomb and kill people we need to paint them ALL with the same bush? You, are a bigot. Mind you conservatives bomb abortion clinics because a few did. All Christians protest funerals of dead solders because a few do it. Are all socialists and collectivists Nazis?

Also, you might need to do your homework again, McVeigh and Nichoals are/were not anarchists.

>Europeans are less religious than Americans, not because they know more about science, but they know more about religion.

who cares?

>If you read something anarchist crap touted here, remember while reading, that money is owned by the state and managed by the central bank.

Wrong. Lindens are backed with some kind of currency and are non inflationary (at least in world) because Linden doesn’t inflate the money supply leik a central bank does.

>I bet that Europeans know more about politics too, as a result of Darwinian processes.

No, that’s called battered wife syndrome. Socialism and collectivism has put shackles on the Europeans for hundreds of years and abused and in one case slaughters millions of Jews. Yet for some reason they keep going back to it. Not to say America is a shiny beacon of liberty either, but at least I can still carry a gun to protect me from big government.

>Your text flood combined with ignorance amazes me. Often people who don’t restrict their productivity with critical intelligence are “productive” but useless.

Well, I’m trying to have a rational debate with you about the non-aggression axiom and your lobbing cat shit faster than Pokofy. Notice how I never called you names or ad hominem attacks. Because you do, i can assume that you feel threatened and are conceding the debate.

@Jim Schack

Your text flood combined with ignorance amazes me. Often people who don’t restrict their productivity with critical intelligence are “productive” but useless.

“What activity do people engage in that is NOT selfish? There is nothing that humans do that is not in their own interest.”

That’s so common myth that I bother to educate readers: Individuals are not selfish, their genes (etc.) are.

I don’t believe that peeps in LL have sufficient brainpower to model any kind of society. They are followers, not leaders and lack the capability to anticipate.
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And about reading anarchist crap.

If you read something anarchist crap touted here, remember while reading, that money is owned by the state and managed by the central bank.
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Europeans are less religious than Americans, not because they know more about science, but they know more about religion. I bet that Europeans know more about politics too, as a result of Darwinian processes.

—correction—
According to the New England Skeptical Sociality’s list of 20 logical fallacies you manage to break 4 in the post.

that’s still 1/5 of the top logical fallacies.

Cute. You prove my point.

GOOD DAY SIR!