THE MORE RESTRICTIONS, THE MORE MORONS


We are all Idiots who Have to be Saved from Themselves

 

“Forced by the verdict of a German court, a long-established fishmonger in Hamburg had to attach a sign above his shop’s counter recently, which informs his customers that “fish may contain fish bones”. Packs of peanuts meanwhile contain, as requested by law, the hint that they “may contain traces of nuts”. For the same reason, irons nowadays often bear the request to please not iron things while one is wearing them. Who would have thought?”

 

The above is from a recent report in the Austrian press. German best-seller author and journalist at “Der Spiegel”, Alexander Neubacher notes in his new book “Total Beschränkt” (“totally restricted”) that this “over-protective policy” actually creates the very helplessness which it ascribes to citizens. He asserts: “Prohibitions are triumphing over reason – the more restrictions, the more morons” (in the German language, the sentence lends itself to word play: “je mehr Beschränkungen, desto mehr Beschränkte”).

He points out that “the State wants to wean us from thinking with ever more regulations, and makes us into idiot citizens who have to be saved from themselves”. The paternalistic infantilization of citizens by the Nanny State is nothing new, but it has become such a scourge in Europe that it has actually spawned an entire literary genre of complaints by now, one that is apparently selling extremely well.

 

wmiccjCitizen, you clearly need help: the image Europe’s bureaucrats have of their fellow men

(Photo via taringa.net / Author unknown)

 

According to the article, Mr. Neubacher’s book should be regarded as the new “standard work” on the topic. The bureaucratic nannies in the EU have provided him with a formidable wealth of material.

Thus the reader learns e.g. that on German territory, bicyclists using an electric bicycle that “only supports pedaling” may have a blood alcohol level of up to 1.6 per mil without being in danger of losing their driver’s license, whereas drunkards using an electric bicycle that “also works while idling” may not exceed a 0.5 per mil threshold. In parts of Berlin, no second bathrooms, no open chimneys and no elevators may be added in apartment renovations; on drilling platforms and wind farms in the North Sea there not only have to be medical supplies and cookies in storage in case of emergencies, but also a “pack of cards”. Prohibitions, says Neubacher, are generally overrunning our daily lives like “knotweed on a cemetery wall”.

 

knotweedBeware the giant knotweed

(Photo via phyllophilus.blogspot.co.at)

 

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Montesquieu, who died in 1755, formulated a general rule for a well-run state that has been long forgotten: “If it is not necessary to make a law, it is necessary not to make a law”.

Neubacher not only provides an extensive encyclopedia of the protective siege, he also names those responsible and their motives: politicians, he says, believe they need to be seen to “do something” – and it is easier to pass rules and regulations concerning completely unimportant details of life, than actually doing something substantive. So these regulations are in a way decoys, designed to distract from the politicians’ ineptitude.

 

portrait-of-charlesmontesquieuCharles de Montesquieu: purveyor of good advice that has been ignored

(Image © Bridgeman Art Library / Versailles)

 

With regard to this, we would however note that we are even more worried that they might actually do something “substantive”, so our concerns certainly differ from Mr. Neubacher’s in this particular respect.

Neubacher also points out that an entire industry has sprung up under the guise of supposed “consumer protection”, with numerous influential industry lobbies benefiting greatly from regulations and paternalism, which have created “profitable, crisis-resistant business segments, that make a lot of money on the back of Nanny State regulations”.

This is e.g. immediately obvious when considering the ban prohibiting the use of incandescent light bulbs in the EU: allegedly introduced to “save the planet”, the ban’s man aim has always been to “increase the profits of Osram”, which along with other lighting producers lobbied heavily for its introduction. Ever since, Europe’s citizens have been forced to sit in lighting reminiscent of a morgue. As Lord Christopher Monckton remarked to this, given that this morgue-like lighting is highly likely to discourage reading, the continued dumbing down of the population has probably been given a major shot in the arm by the light bulb ban.

Among the many examples for connoisseurs of the prohibitions and regulations created by the “preventative-bureaucratic complex” in Neubacher’s book, we also find the recent establishment of a cemetery for lesbian women in Berlin – where men, you guessed it, are prohibited from being buried. Thus the bureaucrats have ensured peace of mind for members of Berlin’s lesbian community even after they have shuffled off this mortal coil. One cannot even escape the nannies by dying anymore.

 

Germany-opens-lesbian-only-cemetery.-Photo-SMHInauguration ceremony of the new “lesbians only” cemetery in Berlin.

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Stucky

Regulated to death in the Land Of The Free, USA!USA!USA!

I like this new law going into effect today — ” Addition of Namibia to the List of Countries Eligible to Export Meat Products to the United States ”

And I ain’t bullshitting! — http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201410&RIN=0583-AD51

mmmmmm …. Nambian meat! ….. yummy ….. wish I had some Namibian baboon meat for my goulash I’m making today!
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With Everyone Focused on Ferguson, Obama Quietly Passing 3,400 New Regulations Before Thanksgiving

November 25th, 2014

Although the government and mainstream media perfectly timed the Ferguson grand jury decision to go off right after President Obama passed executive amnesty (which, magically, no one in the mainstream media is talking about anymore), it also works out well for the White House that this event transpired right before the upcoming holiday.

Why, you might ask?

Because the Obama administration has prepared, for the fifth time now, to oh-so-quietly release 3,415 brand spanking new regulations right before Thanksgiving while everyone just so happens to be totally distracted and focusing on the orchestrated civil disorder going on in Ferguson.

Via The Daily Caller:

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The federal Unified Agenda is the Obama administration’s regulatory road map, and it lays out thousands of regulations being finalized in the coming months. Under President Barack Obama, there has been a tradition of releasing the agenda late on Friday — and right before a major holiday.

“It’s become an unfortunate tradition of this administration and others to drop these regulatory agendas late on a Friday and right before a holiday,” Matt Shudtz, executive director of the Center for Progressive Reform, told The Hill newspaper.

The White House’s regulatory agenda for spring 2014 was released on the eve of the Memorial Day weekend, when millions of people set out on weekend getaways or family vacations.

“It’s unfortunate because it’s an update on protections for Americans of all stripes,” Shudtz told the Hill. “It lays out the administration’s plan and it deserves more attention.”

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Nice, right? You can find a detailed list of the new regulations here.

http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaMain?operation=OPERATION_GET_AGENCY_RULE_LIST&currentPub=true&agencyCode&showStage=active&agencyCd=0000&Image58.x=50&Image58.y=25&Image58=Submit

Apparently, this release comes new and improved with even more regulations than last time, and it even comes complete with the added bonus of having 189 rules which come with a nice fat price tag of $100 million.

Who knows what evil will be lurking in those 3,415 new regulations. No, really. Who knows? Hardly anyone knows, because these regs will be slipped in under cover of concocted protests in Ferguson, a plate full of turkey stuffing, and a football game.

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/with-everyone-focused-on-ferguson-obama-quietly-passing-3400-new-regulations-before-thanksgiving_112014

TE
TE

Jeebus cripes Stucky, the shit never stops, does it?

Funny, regulations create dumber humans, at the exact same time we have intentionally dumbed down education to make the masses think they were meant to be rocket scientists.

Idiocracy was prescient, not comedy.

Intentionally dumbed down, intentionally chemically lobotomized and restrictions and lowering IQs prove the plans are exceedingly successful.

Stucky

My own life has been dominated by three lifeforms which have prevented me from posting here recently … or even working on some original stuff.

Lifeform #1: A blob of cells approximately 138 hours old known as Rena.

Lifeform #2: A blob of cells approximately 779,640 hours old known as my pappa.

Lifeform #3: A motherfucking virus known as Scareware that affected my new baby named Toshiba.

I waited a few days to install my anti-spyware software (I couldn’t find my original disk). So, within days up pops this graphic that takes up most of the screen with a message somewhat like this …. YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED CALL IMMEDIATELY!!! …. purporting to be from Microsoft Corporation. Shit. Well, I just close the annoying screen. An hour later it pops up again. Close it. A day or so later it starts popping up every 5-10 minutes. fuckmedead. I call the number. The call lasts a minute or two and pretty much goes like this;

Them: “Hello, how can I help you?” …….. (in a very thick fucking DOTHEAD Indian accent!!! fuck fuck fuckity fuck. At this point I’m 99.999999999% certain is is a fucking scam. As a side note, I would not allow even one more skank curry eating dothead into this country.)

Me: I got this message that my computer has a virus and I should call you. So, I’m calling.

Dothead: What does it say?

Me: It says my computer has a virus. Am I calling Microsoft?

Dothead: Yes, we are Microsoft Engineers.

Me: That’s not what I asked. I asked if I am talking to someone who works for Microsoft, the company.

Dothead: No. But, they authorize us to talk to you on their behalf.

Me: Uh huh.

Dothead: So, just press the control key and the windows key at the same time and just enter the command I give you.

Me: What will that do?

Dothead: It will give me access to your computer. That is the only way I can fix your problem.

Me: No shit. I don’t know who in the hell you really are and you want me to give you access to MY computer??? (I’m kind of talking loudly at this point.)

Dothead: Yes, we are Microsoft Experts and we only want to help you.

Me: Uh huh. And how much will this help cost me?

Dothead: Don’t worry about it. We’ll just bill your credit card. (I swear to God, he said that).

Me: (I let out a string of fuck-you’s that would have made Smokey blush. For good measure I insulted the guy’s manhood, called him a faggetfuk, and insulted both his parents. Then I slammed down the phone.)

Dothead: (HE CALLS BACK!!! … like nothing happened) I think we got disconnected. (Acting as if I didn’t call his mother a skank whore who fucks cows when she’s not blowing pigdiks.) OK, did you press the control key and windows key?

Me: Listen you scamfuk dothead piece of shit. I obviously have your phone number. If you call back one more time I’m going to file a report with my state’s attorney general and I will hunt you down and cutoff your shriveled little pecker. Got it!!!??? Click.

He didn’t call back.

Eventually, I couldn’t even close the window when it popped up. The system would freeze and I’d have to do a reboot. But, between those popups I loaded half a dozen different anti-spyware programs (Spybot, Malewarebytes, Adaware, Avast, Hitman, Bitdefender) … did full system scans with each of them …. and eventually something worked. Computer has been working like a champ going on the third day now. Soooo …. fuck you you fucking dothead cocksucker.

Word to the wise: If you don’t have spyware protection …. AND, if you don’t run Malewarebytes weekly (it’s free and is the best tool out there for finding shit AFTER it affected your computer — in other words, no spyware can catch EVERY instance, and that’s where Malwarebytes comes in) ….. well, if you don’t have ACTIVE protection, you’re nuts and just asking for trouble eventually.

Satori
Satori

the dumbing down of the public has been made official

the courts have actually ruled on it

Court rules Michigan has no responsibility to provide quality public education

http://michigancitizen.com/court-rul…lic-education/

Satori
Satori

EXCELLENT advice Stucky
especially about Malware Bytes
that program has saved my butt several times now when nothing else would work
get the free version
or even better pay for the full version
it is worth EVERY penny

John
John

Like the courts mentioning that the horse is already out of the barn is significant? Last court functioning please feel free to mention that alot of good they did stopping everyone from going over the cliff.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

The best dumbing down of the USA was in 2008….when idiots checked the box that said Obozo.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

Good story, Stucky! I get about 2 or 3 calls a month from some dot-head saying they’re from “Windows” (not Microsoft) and telling me I have a virus on my computer. Last time when the fucker said he was from “Windows” I said no you’re not and slammed down the phone. Haven’t had a call since.
And your advice on Malwarebytes is spot-on. I bought a computer that came with the paid version a couple of years ago and it’s great. Scans in the background on schedule and advises if it found any bugs, plus it blocks known malicious websites, giving you the option to override if you want. It’s saved my ass many times and I highly recommend it.

Things That Go Plump In The Night
Things That Go Plump In The Night

The answer is surprisingly simple: Resist. For those who find direct confrontation too formidable a challenge, resist. Drag your feet. Learn the law, not so that justice might be done for all but so that the Machine picks on others who are less capable of defending themselves. Never offer to do anything the Machine wants, be cunning in how you can find perfectly reasonable ways to fail to give it what it wants. Turn off the TV and think, man, think!

The Machine is not supported by force primarily. It is supported by volunteerism. We volunteer to keep it going. Don’t feel like torching a police outpost with your best bud? OK, not worries…don’t do things that support the police if your department is abusive. If they’re not? Find ways to make sure their actions are imitated by other less benevolent Brothers in Blue.

Tax compliance is a favorite. There are many ways to close down revenue streams to Unca Sam besides claiming you’re Kunta Kinte’s illegitimate white son and you’re claiming reparations on half your income.

Be quiet. Observe. Velvet glove when needed, a shiv in the forehead pressed through to back of the skull when possible. The world’s your oyster…don’t be sad!

Stucky

It bears repeating, Malewarebytes is REACTIVE (after the fact) and NOT active.

My active virus scanner is a paid version of Adaware AND Avast. Normally, running two anti-virus software isn’t advised as they can compete for identical system resources and thus slow down the computer. Those two products have different approaches (and strengths) in stopping spyware, so as of yet, I’ve had zero problems running both simultaneously. And if I do, it’s easy enough to shut either one down.

People don’t understand that youtube is a big source of virus infection.

Youtube itself is fairly solid. The problem is they show a lot of advertisements (revenue!) and these ads are by nature dynamic. This leads to issues where the advertisement can link to a malicious website, or even dynamically download javascript to your browser which can then run whatever code it chooses to either exploit your machine directly or download malware. I believe that’s what happened to me. You can disable javascript but that’s too limiting for my liking. So, I go with two anti-virus softwares. Works great.

Now all I need is some software to protect me from myself.

I’m cooking up a storm for tomorrow. None of us really likes turkey, so I’m making a goulash. It calls for two heaping tablespoons of paprika. SWEET paprika. Unfortunately, I bought hot paprika, which I realized far too late. After an hour or so of simmering I took a taste …. holy shit, it was like tasting fire. Adding cream helped a little. Adding some Vodka (seriously) helped more. So, I added even more Vodka (my parents can’t handle any hotness). I had to add more than I wanted. I think my little old mom is gonna be drunk as a skunk after dinner. That should be funny.

dilligaf

You tube has ads?

My god man, adblock is your friend.

IndenturedServant

I almost never see ads on da interwebs these days. The ones that still get through are those annoying little autorun videos. How the hell do I kill those?

Welcome back Stuck. Whenever you get a new computer or have to format the old one, one of the VERY FIRST things you do is install the antivirus software of your choice. ALWAYS!

Stucky

How to Enable or Disable autoplay in Windows 7

IndenturedServant

Thanks Stuck, I’ll look into that later tonight. Gotta get ready for werk!

Llpoh
Llpoh

I route all my email through an offsite spam/virus blocker. Everything gets scanned before it hits my machine. So far it is 100% at catching viruses, and it catches 98% of spam. I have had it going for years.

What it will not stop is the spam you more or less sign up for – ie that stuff that comes in an endless stream once you buy something from somewhere on line. Gotta stop that stuff yourself.

I highly recommend the off-site blocker. Backed up by a good virus checker on site, of course.

eugend66
eugend66

Bitdefender rocks !! Using it for seven years now and had no problems with virii.
25 Yellen bucks per year – hell yeah 🙂

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