7 definitions by mta3000
Depending on your ideology, they're the basic rights to life, liberty, and acquiring/owning property, etc. you get from God that can't be taken away ("inalienable") or similar rights that are granted to you by (but CANNOT be exercised contrary to the will of) the United Nations.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..."
Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
"These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."
United Nations - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - December 10, 1948
Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776
"These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations."
United Nations - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - December 10, 1948
by mta3000 October 7, 2010
The idea that licentiousness among consenting adults (legalized drugs, prostitution, gambling, etc.) can co-exist with limited government (confined strictly to preventing anyone from infringing upon the life, liberty, and property rights of anyone else) under a constitutional republic in an environment free from interference by over-zealous right-wing Bible-thumpers, tax-and-spend liberals, or other external agents of oppression.
The main problem with this delusional notion of co-existence is that it runs afoul of an annoying immutable natural law - roughly translated as "nature abhors a vacuum" - that's understood and exploited by every drug pusher, credit card issuer, Las Vegas casino, and Madison Avenue marketer and even the bailout-happy U.S. Federal Reserve and which was summed up by Edmund Burke:
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.
"Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
-or as John Adams said:
“(The U.S.) constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other.”
The main problem with this delusional notion of co-existence is that it runs afoul of an annoying immutable natural law - roughly translated as "nature abhors a vacuum" - that's understood and exploited by every drug pusher, credit card issuer, Las Vegas casino, and Madison Avenue marketer and even the bailout-happy U.S. Federal Reserve and which was summed up by Edmund Burke:
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves.
"Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
-or as John Adams said:
“(The U.S.) constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other.”
Two tenets of Libertarianism taken from the Libertarian Party's Statement of Principles:
"We favor the repeal of all laws creating 'crimes' without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes."
"The only legitimate use of force is in defense of individual rights — life, liberty, and justly acquired property — against aggression"
"We favor the repeal of all laws creating 'crimes' without victims, such as the use of drugs for medicinal or recreational purposes."
"The only legitimate use of force is in defense of individual rights — life, liberty, and justly acquired property — against aggression"
by mta3000 March 18, 2010
The Darwinian notion that only those traits best suited to perpetuate the species will endure to be passed along indefinitely from generation to generation while those traits most detrimental to the good of the species will be phased out after a few generations.
This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. - Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
by mta3000 October 17, 2010
Media-dubbed moral authority on free speech by virtue of a March 6, 1978, assassination attempt on his life by a Georgia racist that left him wheelchair-bound. This status has earned him the right as a pornographic magazine publisher to preach in the media against intolerance from time to time as stories similar to his own have received public attention.
by mta3000 March 13, 2010
Not quite as good as Samsung's Galaxy S series of cellphones, the A10e's most prominent feature is the distracting "widow's peak" that houses its facial camera right along the top edge of the display screen.
Check out my Samsung A10e I got for free with this family plan promotion. Ohhh, I see why they're giving them away.
by mta3000 April 25, 2020
Online video-on-demand site whose movie selection is the modern online equivalent of the leftovers to be found on the shelf of a Blockbuster video store after 10 p.m. on a Friday night after all the half-decent stuff was already picked over back in the day.
Man, I sure miss USA Network's "Up All NIght" hosted by Gilbert Gottfired - those cheesy B slasher flicks and jiggle flicks were a riot.
Dude, where you been? All that stuff's on hulu now. You got zmobies from outer space, vampires, serial killers, werewolves, pumpkinheads, potheads and plenty of babes - it's all here, man!
Dude, where you been? All that stuff's on hulu now. You got zmobies from outer space, vampires, serial killers, werewolves, pumpkinheads, potheads and plenty of babes - it's all here, man!
by mta3000 September 4, 2011
An app for streaming endless dubious content to one's children on old cell phones no longer needed by their parents. While YouTube originally featured uploaded premium content for young audiences under 10 minutes in length - mostly famous cartoon shorts by Disney Pixar, Warner Bros., MGM, and other retro classics in their original format - the studios have since grown wise to their content being put out there and monetized by YouTubers rather than by themselves. In order to remedy this, YouTubers now have to make sure that premium content now has to be distorted in some way to be permitted on YouTube Kids be it presented in extreme close-up, as a clip with alternate intro/ending, inverted, or relegated to a small corner of the screen with stupid background graphics filling the other 3/4th of the video presentation.
Since familiar premium content has now by and large been removed from YouTube and YouTube Kids, it has become a repository of Eastern European CGI webjunk masquerading as popular kids cartoons containing psychotic or drug elements to terrify toddlers and people recording themselves spending 10 hours opening Pokemon Card packs.
Users intent on obtaining free premium content on the web have been compelled to turn to ever-dwindling warez sites instead to get retail DVD images of classic and latest releases thus circumventing YouTube Kids altogether.
Since familiar premium content has now by and large been removed from YouTube and YouTube Kids, it has become a repository of Eastern European CGI webjunk masquerading as popular kids cartoons containing psychotic or drug elements to terrify toddlers and people recording themselves spending 10 hours opening Pokemon Card packs.
Users intent on obtaining free premium content on the web have been compelled to turn to ever-dwindling warez sites instead to get retail DVD images of classic and latest releases thus circumventing YouTube Kids altogether.
No, Billy; I don't want you watching YouTube Kids. Last time I heard "Johnny, Johnny, Yes Papa", and "Wheels on the Bus" a dozen times with synthesizer soundtracks and graphics that will melt your brain.
Have you heard about the NY Times, Nov 4, 2017, article about the psycho Paw Patrol cartoon, “PAW PatrolBabies Pretend to Die Suicide by Annabelle Hypnotized", where some of the characters died crashing into a telephone pole and others walked off the roof after being hypnotized by a demon-possessed doll? You don't want your kids watching that! - Here, if you have a thumb drive, I'l put some Pixar shorts for them instead.
Jimmy, are you watching YouTube kids again? Give me the old phone so I can password-lock it! What the heck is this? Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse doing LSD? Turn it off!
Have you heard about the NY Times, Nov 4, 2017, article about the psycho Paw Patrol cartoon, “PAW PatrolBabies Pretend to Die Suicide by Annabelle Hypnotized", where some of the characters died crashing into a telephone pole and others walked off the roof after being hypnotized by a demon-possessed doll? You don't want your kids watching that! - Here, if you have a thumb drive, I'l put some Pixar shorts for them instead.
Jimmy, are you watching YouTube kids again? Give me the old phone so I can password-lock it! What the heck is this? Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse doing LSD? Turn it off!
by mta3000 November 21, 2017