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Re:Ajit Pai the corporate whore
Impeach Donald J. Trump: The Million American Petition
Need to Impeach. "Donald Trump has brought us to the brink of nuclear war, obstructed justice, and taken money from foreign governments. We need to impeach this dangerous president."
Demand impeachment of Donald J. Trump
Sign Robert Reich's petition: Impeach Donald Trump
Demand an Impeachment of Trump and Mike Pence, and All those associated with him, NOW!!!
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Re:My product sucks so
Impeach Donald J. Trump: The Million American Petition
Need to Impeach. "Donald Trump has brought us to the brink of nuclear war, obstructed justice, and taken money from foreign governments. We need to impeach this dangerous president."
Demand impeachment of Donald J. Trump
Sign Robert Reich's petition: Impeach Donald Trump
Demand an Impeachment of Trump and Mike Pence, and All those associated with him, NOW!!!
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Re:FEO
Exactly. Fighting misinformation posted widely is the most important form of journalism there is.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/14/06/21/231250/uk-man-sentenced-to-16-months-for-exporting-e-waste-despite-91-reuse
CBS 60 Minutes, PBS Frontline, CNN, John Stossel, everyone unanimously republished a stat in 2002 about "e-waste" exports which stated that 75%-80% of these exports were dumped and recycled in primitive conditions. Science Daily even reported that Agbogbloshie (city dump in Accra) was the "most toxic place on earth". And it was all bullshit, came from one ass-pulled stat in 2002 which the source actually now denies even saying. How would a correction to this bullshit ever happen? I guess if you were careful to cite the bad stats, Google would find them on your page and you could correct them. But if you simply provide correct information (2012 UNEP study 279 seized used electronics sea containers in 2009 imports found 91% repair and reuse), you'd be out of luck.
Please sign the petition btw #freehurricanebenson http://www.ipetitions.com/peti...
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Re:Shocking News - One Size Doesn't Fit All
On that note: http://www.ipetitions.com/peti...
Help stop "one size fits all" standards!
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Re:Standards Committees on Common Sense
I agree. Please help us in a tiny way by signing the petition. http://www.ipetitions.com/peti...
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Re:Standards
I feel your pain. I hope you'll join us in a very small way, by signing the petition. http://www.ipetitions.com/peti...
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Re:New Bill =/= Passing House Approved Bill
"You are correct, but there are still broad classes of people who are unable to own firearms... As 3D printing becomes more commonplace, these people will be able to obtain firearms for themselves."
Yes, but they are prohibited anyway. This has little or no bearing on their situations. They can make a firearm more easily by simply going to the hardware store. I don't see this as a valid argument. More on this below.
"I am personally not worried about it, as long as law-abiding citizens are able to legally own and carry firearms. There will be no epidemic of violence as long as this remains the case."
I agree completely.
We are adding whole classes of "mental illnesses" to prohibited categories.
You should view this as a big problem, not a good thing. Have you heard about "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition" (often called "DSM-5"), which came out this year? It is used as the standard for diagnosis by psychiatrists. According to the manual, YOU are probably mentally ill (and that could conceivably be used as a reason to deny you access to weapons).
According to the manual, nearly all women suffer from Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. It has expanded the definition of "autism" to a ridiculous degree... to the extent that just about anybody could be said to be autistic.
Even professional psychologists think it's ridiculous.
Just about every bad mood can now be called a "mental disorder".
If this doesn't bother you, it should, for the reasons at hand if for no other reason. If everybody is a criminal, nobody may have guns. If everybody has a mental disorder, nobody may have guns. Etc. -
And, If You Do NOT Like The New Gmail Composer
You can sign a web petition to ask Google to let people turn it off
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/say-no-to-the-new-gmail-composer/
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Re:Original Jedi Knight
It looks like one of the JK2 devs started a petition a while back requesting the release of Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 source. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/jkcoderelease/ Maybe we can get some
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Re:That's the price you pay
> but the ENTIRE TRANSACTION HISTORY OF EVERY BITCOIN is known to all. This is completely unacceptable.
You can't have authority without accountability.
Maybe if Congress / Government was accountable we wouldn't have over $1.1 TRILLION _missing_!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/missing_money/Or bank scandals:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/hsbc-money-laundering-argentina_n_2902430.html
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/brokerage/story/2011-12-08/mf-global-corzine/51732752/1Kind of sad when you have websites like this:
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Re:Poetic Justice
It's not limited to the US, either. The immigration and naturalization service in the Netherlands is trying to effectively kick all Iranians out of the country as we speak, even though they are in the country legally. The justification is the new set of sanctions that the EU is imposing, which contain no mention of people--only financial transactions and trade. Rather than just denying them iPads, it is threatening to ruin their careers and their chance to make a life for themselves outside of Iran.
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Inclusive ?
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) has been grinding along for almost five years, so this is something of late news. Unlike the Australian commenter in the original article, the process is inclusive only as to governments, not people or even NGOs. This has the Internet Society (ISOC) worried enough that they have an online petition on it :
The UN Needs to Ensure an Open and Inclusive Approach to Internet Governance
(Yes, you will get a fundraising pitch at the end, but that's not the reason for this petition.)
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Watto Ellison
sign the petition! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/oracledropgooglelawsuit/
Larry Ellison's a Oraclarian. Internet petitions don't work on him, only money.
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Sign a petition
Members of the Java Community should protest this. I don't see this lawsuit doing anyone any good, not even Oracle. sign the petition! http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/oracledropgooglelawsuit/
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Re:Buy a Pre
Medical inhalers were exempt from the 1987 clean air treaty. The Bill Clinton government tried to get them banned in 1997 for environmental bragging rights but consumer backlash made them retract. Even if they had been banned, it was estimated that CFC emissions from inhalers were less that 2% of all CFC emissions.
George 'W' Bush removed the exemption as his ONLY major environmental policy change in his second to last year in office, deciding that HFA inhalers were a suitable alternative. Of course, that had less to do with the environment and more to do with it directly benefiting big pharma because the HFA patents didn't expire until 2009 (I think the two patents involved were January and March), one year after the deadline for ending the sale of CFC inhalers. Environment groups lauded the change, but the CFCs involved were really an insignificant source - this battle was and always has been all about money.
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WE WANT OUR FREE SERVICE BACK!!
Ohh this is funny, iPhony customers are already bitching on Googe groups http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs-help-text-messaging/topics
Someone even created an "Online Petition" http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/googlesms/
We wanz ourz free stuff back!!
lol
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Re:Let's rephrase : scientists say, kill manned sp
Watching his political shenanigans, up to and including his wife trying to "bail him out", made me sign the petition to get rid of him...
...of course, there's the flip side to that petition...
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Petition
Someone(not me) has created a petition to lift the SDK http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/iPhoneNDA/
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Re:The Hypocrisy is Stunning
Preaching: "God exists! Jesus exists! Accept Jesus and you will go to heaven!"
Teaching: "Some people believe in God and they believe that Jesus is the son of God. Other people instead believe
If you say you should censor religion too
I don't wish to censor religion for adults. I'm just pointing out the inconsistency that people want to ban or make things harder for adults "in case a child might see it", whilst thinking it fine to actively preach and expose religion to children.
Lets take the 10 commandments for example...
That's completely beside the point. Your claim was that irreligion implies amorality. Just because religion teaches morality does not imply that you need religion to teach morality. Perhaps they need to teach logic at school, too
I am also amused at the way that you have to misinterpret some of them. So, I am completely fulfilling commandment one if I stick to believing that "Christianity is a load of rubbish, I believe in and worship these other gods instead"? Blasphemy is not the same as swearing, and laws against blasphemy are of dubious ethics (we only recently repealed that law in the UK; shortly before then, the BBC had to defend a blasphemy, at great expense to them).
The sabbath means exactly that. In fact, it could mean exactly the opposite to what you claim - if my obligations involve work, then the commandment says that I should not do those on the sabbath.
As for the remaining points:
Saying that murder is wrong is a tautology, because murder is defined as immoral or unlawful killing - the difficult ethical question is what counts as murder? Saying adultery is unethical is fine, but note that that doesn't mean it should be illegal like it was and still is in some places; it also ignores the possibility of things like open marriages where it's consensual, but it often still gets counted as adultery.
And the rest of the Bible is mostly about Jesus and a few other commandments. There really is nothing morally messed up about it.
I was referring to things like stoning someone to death for working on the sabbath. Or in your case, stoning someone to death for not "fulfilling their obligations", which is still just as messed up (what if gathering sticks was his "obligation"? Looks like the almighty Lord doesn't agree with your interpretation). But given how you've misinterpretted the commandments, you probably read that in a completely different way too.
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Petition for Google Browser sync
Not that they'll listen, but someone has started a petition online to try to save the project. I've been using the browser sync for months and love it. I'm signing the petition. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/googlebrowsersyncff3/
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Petition Online...
Hello all, I put a petition up on iPetition for this issue. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ratemycop/ Thanks.
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Gov't Video/Poster on this + an online petitionI'm a foreign resident of Japan, and this policy is invasive enough that after years here as a tax-paying resident with a Japanese spouse and child, we are thinking of packing our things and moving back to Canada.
First off, I'd encourage everyone who opposes this policy to register their views with this online petition.
I would also encourage you to write a letter to the Ministry of Justice at:General Affairs Division, Immigration Bureau, Ministry of Justice
1-1-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, 100-8977, Japan
Tel: +81 (0)3-3580-4111
URL: http://www.moj.go.jp/
Also, send a copy to the Japanese National Tourist Organization, making clear the impact on tourism, at their Japanese headquarters and your regional office listed at the URL below:Japan National Tourist Organization
10th Floor, Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan Building, 2-10-1 Yurakucho,
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0006, Japan
Tel: +81 (0)3-3201-3331
URL: http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/contact/regional_offices.html
Not only is this policy an invasion of privacy, but also discriminatory in its application. Of the major terrorist incidents in Japan, none has been committed by a foreigner -- 1995 Tokyo Sarin Gas attacks, bombing of government office buildings in Hokkaido in the 70s, assassination of the Mayor of Nagasaki... all perpetrated by Japanese nationals.
Further, fingerprinting is dubious at best in preventing terrorist attacks. A terrorist organization capable of a serious attack on Japan is capable of entering the country without passing through immigration. From the point of view of politics, however, fingerprinting foreigners is an easy way to make it appear as though you're getting tough on terrorism and foreign crime.
Lastly, The Japanese government has produced an introductory video on the new scheme that you really have to see to believe. As the guy in the video says "I'll pass it on to all my friends". I get the feeling this won't have the effect the Japanese government intends it to have.
They've also put out a PDF version of the poster for this program. -
PLEASE HELP US TO FREE MAINACTOR !
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But what about tablets?
When I was in the market for a new notebook, I thought about getting a macbook but what I really wanted was a tablet. I do a lot of drawing, and being able to draw directly onto my screen-canvas was a godsend.
There was an on-line petition which aimed to convince Apple to make a Tablet Mac, but until they release one I had to go with a Toshiba Satelite. It ran about $1100, which wasn't too bad and I'm satisfied with it.
What are the chances a Tablet Mac would be in the same price range? -
Re:changing face of the internetI'm working on the changing face by trying to have one of the better online comic strips declared the national cartoon, in the same way we have a national flower and national tree. The chances are extremely high that nobody will take this petition seriously (which is just as well), but then the chances are also extremely high that nobody will take the censorship story seriously either, or any efforts to counter censorship. My efforts will therefore be no less successful than anyone else's but is at least good for an occasional smirk.
Seriously, if you don't want censorship, why are you using IPv4 (which never had security in mind)? Some of you run servers, why aren't they IPv6+IPSec enabled? If you don't want censors reading your email, why are you using plain SMTP and not servers that support SMTP-over-SSL or SMTP-over-TLS? If you don't want censors monitoring the websites you visit, why aren't you proxying through squid? For that matter, why are you using plain HTTP and not HTTPS or S/HTTP (which is a different protocol)? Yes, your internet provider monitors for encryption. So why are you using them and not someone else? If there isn't a someone else, and it's such a big issue for many people, then why aren't you building a cooperative that will damn-well be that someone else?
In other words, many people talk a good talk about privacy without doing bugger all when tens of millions of credit card details get lifted in the break-ins that seem to be increasing in frequency, without doing bugger all when the IETF sets up a working body to examine an issue relating to privacy or security (how many have you joined?), without doing bugger all when the opportunity arises to do things differently, and without doing bugger all when the petitions start to get drawn up for what's on each State's ballot.
I do a little more - I actually follow the work that is being done and experiment with it - but mostly I end up feeling that campaigning for a national cartoon is a far more productive use of time and effort. If people wanted security, we'd already have it. It's not hard, the software already exists, the only thing that is left to do is use it. If that's not happened in the past ten years of a deteriorating privacy and security situation due to negligent corporations, it's unlikely to happen in the next ten.
Spare yourselves the pain. If you can't stop things becoming a joke, then at least make it inescapable that it's a joke.
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Re:Psuedo-science at best
The most vacuous thing you've ever read? This ought to help expand your horizons.
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Stop the madness!
Moving to Canada, an offshore rig or Timbuktu is not a solution.
Let's stop this madness.
Write your Congressional representative.
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Petition to save internet radio
Here is a link to the petition to save internet radio. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveinternetra
d io/ Please go sign it. The more people the better. -
Re:iPhone will have secure boot
A simple petition to ask iPhone development for everybody... probably useless, but...
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Re:Stroustrup is the problem
Perhaps then it is time to sign this petition for adding garbage collection to C++...
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Re:How do we fight back?
Go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/aintnohobbitwi
t houtPJ/ and add your name and comments to the petition.
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Won't be planets according to the IAU definition''... solar systems which contain planets like a 'Hot Jupiter' have a higher chance of also containing Earth-like planets.''
According to the new IAU definition of a Planet, an Earth-like planet must orbit our Sun. Due the IAU's poor definition of a planet (one that restricts the term to only objects that orbit our Sun) one cannot even refer to Earth-like planets around other stars because they cannot fit the IAU's new definition.
I wish this was a troll post, but it is not. It is am example of the problems with the recent IAU resolution. It is the reason why I joined a number of astronomers and signed the Petition Protesting the IAU Planet Definition.
Finally, to improve the on topic-ness of this post, permit me to add this note about the significance of idea, if it turns out to have merit:
Over the past 10 to 15 years, many astronomers assumed that one needed a Jupiter-like object in a stable near-circular orbit, preferably beyond a "life forming zone", before Earth-like objects could stay in the "life forming zone" long enough to form life. This new idea suggests that such Earth-like objects can arise where there are Jupiter-like objects orbiting very close to a star. If their idea is correct, then this means that a number of the stars with known "things-formerly-known-as-extra-solar-planets" containing a Hot Jupiter may also contain a stable Earth-like object in a "life forming zone".
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Great..now to persuade those C++ hotheads!
Garbage collection is truly necessary to write apps effectively and quickly. I admit some types of apps do not need garbage collection...but most of them do.
So let's all sign the following petition, and maybe those C++ hotheads can be persuaded to include garbage petition in C++:
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Osmanagich apparently not a scientist
"Osmanagich is a construction contractor from Texas who came to the US when the Bosnian war started. He has no education whatsoever in any science. "
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NoPyramidsInBos nia/
Now that's almost as silly as voting in an Oil Whore (tm) for president, and then wondering why they want to kick ass in an oil rich country. Yea, that'd never happen. -
Crackpot archeology
Osmaganic is a metal shop worker. A crackpot. There's a real effort among the Bosnian archeologists to stop the destruction of Visoko pre-neolitic site by Osmanagic's gang. Here's the petition:
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Online petition
There's an online petition to change the name back at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/wii_sucks that will be sent to nintendo's customer feedback in three days.
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Please sign the petition!Really!
It's doubtful that Apple currently has any real intention to follow through with this.
So Please! Encourage them a bit http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/tablet_mac/.
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Re:This brings back the DynaBook, Alan Kay and mayThis patent is ancient history, as Apple applied for it a couple of years ago and it hit the rumor site then.
There is a guy that made a tablet from one functioning and one non-functioning iBook. It's really do-able I'm in the process of doing it myself, which is why I have the sig I have.
If you're really serious though you should sign the petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/campaigns/tablet_mac/.
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This is not the first time!This is not the "first time in the history of TV" this has happened. I pledged $40 to keep Farscape on the air.
I don't know that that was the first time either. I really wish people would stop equating "the first time I've heard of it" with "the first time in history."
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Put that money to good use....
Perhaps you will think about pledging some of that cash toward funding a fifth season of Farscape. If enough people participate, maybe it would sweeten the deal enough to get the show picked up by one of the networks.
Television that is funded purely by advertising is getting worse every year (witness the descent into "reality TV" hell). If the viewers care about having good shows to watch, it may be time that we step up and do something about it. -
Re:Might be attainable
The article explained that the Sci-Fi Channel offered the producers a "lower fee than expected" to produce the fifth season--a fee low enough that the producers didn't think they could produce it. Although this wasn't mentioned in the article, it seems to me like a good idea would be, instead of trying to fund whole episodes or seasons using pledge funds from the viewer consortium campaign, why not use the viewer funds to cover the shortfall, which must be much less than it costs to fund a whole season.
I pledged $20 because I'd really like to see us shift from advertiser- and subscriber-funded programming (the former obsoleted by TiVo, etc., the second represents not very much money) to viewer-funded programming. Because with the ROI on advertising going down, and with subscriber fees not amounting to much, we're going to be stuck with a whole slate of unscripted, underproduced shows like I'm a Celebrity... et al. Which is fine if that's where your tastes lie, but I'd prefer to have choices.
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Sci-Fi cancells Farscape (MLP)
By yanisa
Sat Sep 7th, 2002 at 05:46:41 AM CSTSci-Fi network shocks viewers: Farscape, its flagship series, has been cancelled.
Fanbase reacts; join them!
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In a surprise chat yesterday night, David Kemper, Richard Manning and Ben Browder announced Sci-Fi network's decision to cancel Farscape, critically acclaimed and much beloved SF series, now in its fourth season.
Although Sci-Fi has previously contracted for two more seasons of Farscape, they have now excercised an out-clause. This was made known to the creators and cast only after they have finished filming the last episode of Season 4, which means that they have had no chance of even finishing the story. Farscape will thus end with a cliffhanger and unfinished story threads.
Needles to say, the fanbase is in an uproar and the cast is shocked.
And not suprisingly, Dilbert has seen it coming.
If you like Farscape and would like to see it go on, add your voice to the enraged masses.
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