Jita Park Speakers Corner

I think 20 people might be a bit of an underestimation, but thanks for the idea. It was interesting to watch and compare to Sins of a Solar Spymaster.

Confirming my beloved pet hamster, Larry, was held hostage by Goons until I provided screenshots of my voting for The Mittani..

But they still didnt give Larry back

People are being banned left and right from the forums, some for 90 days or more, for supporting their own candidates. If you can't post your lossmails you can't get reimbursement, so a large amount of money is being denied to anyone that speaks up

They are also keeping tabs on how individual corps are voting through their own exit polling system, and publishing the stats so that those who refuse to toe the line can be mocked publicly.

Proof (truth)
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A proof is sufficient evidence or argument for the truth of a proposition.

The concept arises in a variety of areas, with both the nature of the evidence or justification and the criteria for sufficiency being area-dependent. In the area of oral and written communication such as conversation, dialog, rhetoric, etc., a proof is a persuasive perlocutionary speech act, which demonstrates the truth of a proposition.

Perlocutionary act
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A perlocutionary act (or perlocutionary effect) is a speech act, as viewed at the level of its psychological consequences, such as persuading, convincing, scaring, enlightening, inspiring, or otherwise getting someone to do or realize something. This is contrasted with locutionary and illocutionary acts (which are other levels of description, rather than different types of speech acts)

Unlike the notion of locutionary act, which describes the linguistic function of an utterance, a perlocutionary effect is in some sense external to the performance. It may be thought of, in a sense, as the effect of the illocutionary act via the locutionary act. Therefore, when examining perlocutionary acts, the effect on the hearer or reader is emphasized

As an example, consider the following utterance: "By the way, I have a CD of Debussy; would you like to borrow it?" Its illocutionary function is an offer, while its intended perlocutionary effect might be to impress the listener, or to show a friendly attitude, or to encourage an interest in a particular type of music.

I really want to keep rolling with this gimmick but it's starting to strain my suspension of disbelief.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else which thinks at least as logically as it does. The easiest way to fool a completely logical robot is to feed it the same stimulus sequence over and over again so it gets locked in a loop. This was best demonstrated by the famous Herring Sandwich experiments conducted millennia ago at MISPWOSO (The MaxiMegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious).

A robot was programmed to believe that it liked herring sandwiches. This was actually the most difficult part of the whole experiment. Once the robot had been programmed to believe that it liked herring sandwiches, a herring sandwich was placed in front of it. Whereupon the robot thought to itself, "Ah! A herring sandwich! I like herring sandwiches."

It would then bend over and scoop up the herring sandwich in its herring sandwich scoop, and then straighten up again. Unfortunately for the robot, it was fashioned in such a way that the action of straightening up caused the herring sandwich to slip straight back off its herring sandwich scoop and fall on to the floor in front of the robot. Whereupon the robot thought to itself, "Ah! A herring sandwich..., etc., and repeated the same action over and over and over again. The only thing that prevented the herring sandwich from getting bored with the whole damn business and crawling off in search of other ways of passing the time was that the herring sandwich, being just a bit of dead fish between a couple of slices of bread, was marginally less alert to what was going on than was the robot.

The scientists at the Institute thus discovered the driving force behind all change, development and innovation in life, which was this: herring sandwiches. They published a paper to this effect, which was widely criticised as being extremely stupid. They checked their figures and realised that what they had actually discovered was "boredom", or rather, the practical function of boredom.

i'm glad that you confidently reassure yourself of your intellectual superiority by using words like "Goonsheep" and quoting Wikipedia articles

Do you feel "Goonsheep" is on par with "sheeple?"

Sheeple (a portmanteau of "sheep" and "people") is a term of disparagement in which people are likened to sheep, a herd animal. The term is used to describe those who voluntarily acquiesce to a suggestion without critical analysis or research. By doing so, they undermine their own individuality and may willingly give up their rights.

While "Sheeple" is incredibly similar for what my intentions for the term "Goonsheep" are. I really am not smart enough to coin a term that will be used 60+ years later.

Sheeple

If you had even the slightest idea how the formation of government worked you'd know how stupid this definition is, but its nice to know that Wikipedia is such an authority on all things to provide us with their insight on a word that stupid people use.

your beliefs don't count hth