Every generation needs a scapegoat--someone to discriminate against. In history it has been people with disabilities, and women, and blacks, and after Vietnam it was veterans...
In today's society the easiest discrimination target for the people to vent their hate is homeless people.
I wonder what will happen when the government can't make the payments Taxes go up, every year.
the banks foreclose and take the country away The banks don't want to foreclose. This is their way of preserving their income. They have a system where rent is collected, automatically, from 301 million people. The politicians are paid handsomely to continue to keep up the ruse. Why would they want to foreclose?
Instead of paying the power company (and thereby the people) for your power usage, you could pay the owners of the power company to give you a huge discount. The power copmany then can just raise rates on consumers who have no say in who gives them power. Why am I reminded of the way insurance companies, the stock market, the.com bubble, and illegal Enron FBI domestic Patriot HP Martha Stewart DMCA wiretapping presidential elections when you say this?
There's a fine point there. No, the government does not print the money. The government buys the printed money from the Federal Reserve, which is a coalition of private bankers. When we look at the federal debt, and see that the federal government is $8.8 trillion dollars in debt, it's no different than a home loan. The federal government is $8.8 trillion dollars in debt to a bank which is allowed to set all the terms of repayment--including the interest rates used for all other major financial transactions in the nation.
We're all slaves! Yes, yes, yesweare.
Everything can be predicted by noting profit margins these days. If it's good for profit margin it will happen. If it's bad for profit margin it won't. The only consideration is to know which profits are allowed to tank to draw attention away from others which are being artificially inflated. That's the nature of insider trading.
While users on Slashdot can cover all bases of opinions the bottom line will be profit and acquiesance. Web apps will slowly replace desktop apps so long as desktop apps fail to turn the same profit that web apps and subscription services can. To some extent we can figure in the level to which users acquiesce to the transfer but the fact simply is that there are larger entities than end users calling the shots on this one. It's like pushing a bill through Congress: if at first they don't succeed they'll launch a campaign to poll the public for the conflicting arguments, they'll pay enough lip service to make people think that the issues have been resolved, and then they'll resubmit next year. If the major business partners on Wall Street decide that they're making more money from companies which offer web based applications then, slowly but surely, venture capital will be steered away from desktop application vendors and to world wide web application providers. We, the end users, have no control over this.
There may be ways to stop the steamroller from moving forward but they would require drastic changes in the way that our government, media, and Wall Street are integrated. If world events over the last ten years are any road sign, coupled with the absolute neutralization of any real authority of the American plebium to steer their own direction, then there's no chance of that happening. We the consumers simply do not control enough capital or enough financial resources to make our opinion even matter.
I have, for a number of years, theorized that the USA didn't win the Revolution of 1776 so much as the British said,"It's not worth fighting over. We still control the major banks and trading companies--the power of the purse--anyway. Go have your own little government."
Oh, but this is a conspiracy, and conspiracies don't happen all the time because they're un-possible Yeah. I'm quite familiar with the ridicule card. I may be ridiculed severely but I'm not wrong.
The political process was following this path even before the widespread availability of radio, though. Why is it that Americans, as a whole, have allowed the leaders to run roughshod over their Constitutionally drawn limitations on power? Why do the people acquiesce, against all wisdom, when an elected politician says,"Stay the course"?
Are Americans truly that stupid or is the curriculum in public schools so carefully chosen that they precondition each successive generation to buy into this horsesh*t?
If you follow that line of thinking to its conclusion then the only real solution to the abuse of government power is to simply do away with all of them. There is not a single compelling argument available to maintain that they're not all in it together--from the President through the cabinet to the Congress and right down to the state level politicians. It's one big pyramid scheme set up to keep Americans occupied while the politicobankers, and their cohorts on Wall Street, walk off with the profit from the nation's work.
I have actively avoided owning a firearm because, in all truthiness, there are too many people whom I should have a legitimate right to shoot--and I'm not convinced that I wouldn't have at some points in the past.
Right now I'm homeless. If I owned a gun the police would've taken it long ago and probably made me a felon for carrying it.
Some people may act surprised: they're the ones who knew about it ahead of time. Some people may genuinely be surprised: they're the ones who have willingly accepted all of the lies and bullsh*t coming from the politicians over the last twenty years.
So is anyone in trouble? Apparently not. Stanzel was careful to apportion blame widely and generically...
What is the penalty for violating internal White House policy, I asked? "I don't believe the staff manual contains penalties for failure to preserve," the lawyer said.
Stanzel, possibly unwittingly, offered one possible explanation for why the rule on preservation was flouted so widely: Because there was apparently no prospect of personal consequences. "There are no personal violations of the Presidential Records Act, but you can have a personal violation of the Hatch Act," he said.
The lawyer criticized the crystal-clear (to me) ban on using non-White House e-mail for official purposes as being "too concise" and described a new, more extensive White House policy No accountability, no responsibility, no repercussions for stepping over the line, no penalties, maybe they'll make some new rules as a token gesture of fixing the problem, they'll be sure to leave better loopholes with even less accountability in the new rules...
Our government has become everything that the first settlers to America were trying to get away from.
If you count up the history since I began this account it will be obvious that, more likely, it's the group of chuckleheads endlessly hounding me with crap comments like yours.
The politicians do care about witty words and self righteous indignation to the point where they want to promote the creation of even more forums where even more people can use even more witty words and express even more self righteous indignation because, as long as people are talking about it, they aren't actually doing anything about it--and that's what government is all about.
I've already taken my stand and they made me homeless by treating me like a third class citizen on the job and then spreading enough garbage to prevent anyone else from wanting to employ me when I left.
Nothing is ensured, though. If one random user can happen to stumble across a flaw then there are probably ten or twenty other flaws which can be found by more detailed analysis of the code.
The original software authors probably already know most of them and are happily passing that information along to their friends in political office--or to their cohorts on IRC.
all the things you describe are the result of something else Well, yes, of course, but realizing it and acting on that knowledge hasn't doing me much good. =/
In poker, if you call the other player's bluff, they're supposed to show their cards and you win the hand (if it was truly a bluff). In the real world, when you call their bluff, they have you removed from the table, rudely thrown outside (with you money still at the table), and then they continue playing with your money.
Soon there may be some real repercussions when I'm lounging on the concrete wall outside the library and the security guard comes around to say,"Hey! You can't be sleeping here!" *bzzt* OUCH!
especially origin IP address Gmail, and possibly other new webmail services, no longer include the X-Originating-IP field and actually go the opposite route--all e-mail I receive from gmail accounts appears to originate from an internal 10. IP address.
I cannot possibly come up with any viable justification for this. I can think of plenty of excuses and all of them rely on idiotic fallacies.
I would have just created a fake profile of the kid...(whilst dodging his parents) Or, more likely, the local district attorney and a neighborhood watch vigilante gang seeking to destroy him as a peeping lurker.
Maybe he lives in a private gated community and now his community council wants to pull his home mortgage from him.
Maybe not but the implications are still there. School kids don't realize how far and wide their joke can spread--in fact they're hoping for it. That only further illustrates that they don't realize just how complicated life can be.
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Every generation needs a scapegoat--someone to discriminate against. In history it has been people with disabilities, and women, and blacks, and after Vietnam it was veterans...
In today's society the easiest discrimination target for the people to vent their hate is homeless people.
The only solution is to stop giving them money and confine them to the strictest interpretation of the 9th and 10th amendments possible.
Everything can be predicted by noting profit margins these days. If it's good for profit margin it will happen. If it's bad for profit margin it won't. The only consideration is to know which profits are allowed to tank to draw attention away from others which are being artificially inflated. That's the nature of insider trading.
While users on Slashdot can cover all bases of opinions the bottom line will be profit and acquiesance. Web apps will slowly replace desktop apps so long as desktop apps fail to turn the same profit that web apps and subscription services can. To some extent we can figure in the level to which users acquiesce to the transfer but the fact simply is that there are larger entities than end users calling the shots on this one. It's like pushing a bill through Congress: if at first they don't succeed they'll launch a campaign to poll the public for the conflicting arguments, they'll pay enough lip service to make people think that the issues have been resolved, and then they'll resubmit next year. If the major business partners on Wall Street decide that they're making more money from companies which offer web based applications then, slowly but surely, venture capital will be steered away from desktop application vendors and to world wide web application providers. We, the end users, have no control over this.
There may be ways to stop the steamroller from moving forward but they would require drastic changes in the way that our government, media, and Wall Street are integrated. If world events over the last ten years are any road sign, coupled with the absolute neutralization of any real authority of the American plebium to steer their own direction, then there's no chance of that happening. We the consumers simply do not control enough capital or enough financial resources to make our opinion even matter.
and yet you foed me. :(
The political process was following this path even before the widespread availability of radio, though. Why is it that Americans, as a whole, have allowed the leaders to run roughshod over their Constitutionally drawn limitations on power? Why do the people acquiesce, against all wisdom, when an elected politician says,"Stay the course"?
Are Americans truly that stupid or is the curriculum in public schools so carefully chosen that they precondition each successive generation to buy into this horsesh*t?
If you follow that line of thinking to its conclusion then the only real solution to the abuse of government power is to simply do away with all of them. There is not a single compelling argument available to maintain that they're not all in it together--from the President through the cabinet to the Congress and right down to the state level politicians. It's one big pyramid scheme set up to keep Americans occupied while the politicobankers, and their cohorts on Wall Street, walk off with the profit from the nation's work.
I have actively avoided owning a firearm because, in all truthiness, there are too many people whom I should have a legitimate right to shoot--and I'm not convinced that I wouldn't have at some points in the past.
Right now I'm homeless. If I owned a gun the police would've taken it long ago and probably made me a felon for carrying it.
What is the penalty for violating internal White House policy, I asked? "I don't believe the staff manual contains penalties for failure to preserve," the lawyer said.
Stanzel, possibly unwittingly, offered one possible explanation for why the rule on preservation was flouted so widely: Because there was apparently no prospect of personal consequences. "There are no personal violations of the Presidential Records Act, but you can have a personal violation of the Hatch Act," he said.
The lawyer criticized the crystal-clear (to me) ban on using non-White House e-mail for official purposes as being "too concise" and described a new, more extensive White House policy No accountability, no responsibility, no repercussions for stepping over the line, no penalties, maybe they'll make some new rules as a token gesture of fixing the problem, they'll be sure to leave better loopholes with even less accountability in the new rules...
Our government has become everything that the first settlers to America were trying to get away from.
If you count up the history since I began this account it will be obvious that, more likely, it's the group of chuckleheads endlessly hounding me with crap comments like yours.
The politicians do care about witty words and self righteous indignation to the point where they want to promote the creation of even more forums where even more people can use even more witty words and express even more self righteous indignation because, as long as people are talking about it, they aren't actually doing anything about it--and that's what government is all about.
I've already taken my stand and they made me homeless by treating me like a third class citizen on the job and then spreading enough garbage to prevent anyone else from wanting to employ me when I left.
Because nobody could have ever thought of this before.
Nothing is ensured, though. If one random user can happen to stumble across a flaw then there are probably ten or twenty other flaws which can be found by more detailed analysis of the code.
The original software authors probably already know most of them and are happily passing that information along to their friends in political office--or to their cohorts on IRC.
That'll happen the same day the government accepts penalty and responsibility for laws passed outside of its jurisdiction.
In poker, if you call the other player's bluff, they're supposed to show their cards and you win the hand (if it was truly a bluff). In the real world, when you call their bluff, they have you removed from the table, rudely thrown outside (with you money still at the table), and then they continue playing with your money.
Soon there may be some real repercussions when I'm lounging on the concrete wall outside the library and the security guard comes around to say,"Hey! You can't be sleeping here!" *bzzt* OUCH!
I cannot possibly come up with any viable justification for this. I can think of plenty of excuses and all of them rely on idiotic fallacies.
Maybe he lives in a private gated community and now his community council wants to pull his home mortgage from him.
Maybe not but the implications are still there. School kids don't realize how far and wide their joke can spread--in fact they're hoping for it. That only further illustrates that they don't realize just how complicated life can be.
Hm. Looks like a twarner block. Someone slipped through the botnet assimilation.