Well, I do worry about election hacking...but, man, do I ever wish I could vote via the internet. It is difficult to get away from work, drive across town, stand in line...etc. I'm a contract worker in IT, and time is money...and deadlines can't be missed...
Well, if your work is more important than voting, you don't deserve to vote, and deserve to get fucked in the ass as democracy gets subverted more and more by the bourgeois.
here's a difference between open and vulnerable, and it is a legal distinction.
Oxdung. A burglar won't get away with "but, your honour, his unlocked screen door was flapping in the wind, so I was able to go in his house without any effort".
FRANC3, FRANCHE, adj. I. Qui est libre. A. [En parlant d'une pers.] 1. Vieilli. Qui est libre; p. oppos. à serf, à esclave. Les gens de la ville, ceux de Vilschberg et de Hâzelbourg étaient de condition franche; mais (...) ceux des autres villages, tant hommes que femmes, étaient serfs (ERCKM.-CHATR., Hist. paysan, t. 1, 1870, p. 5). V. franchise ex. 1: 1. On a là [dans la Chanson des Loherains] un fort bel et fort distinct épisode de la vie féodale dans les premiers siècles : une scène de famille d'abord (...) une chasse en pleine forêt; une grande et noble figure de gentilhomme, de franc homme, séparé de sa suite (...) se défendant contre une bande de gens de rien enhardis par l'espoir du butin et d'une riche proie. SAINTE-BEUVE, Prem. lundis, t. 3, 1869, p. 152. Rem. À l'oppos. franc/esclave a été substituée l'oppos. libre esclave. 2. Qui n'a ni gêne, ni entrave; qui est sans contrainte.
Avoir les coudées franches. Ne pas être gêné à table par ses voisins. Il veut avoir ses coudées franches (Ac. 1835, 1878).
Au fig. Avoir l'esprit libre, ne pas être gêné par quelque contrainte (morale ou extérieure) que ce soit. M. Brisson s'est débarrassé de ses impedimenta de programmes pour avoir ses coudées franches dans la noble entreprise de rendre ce pays à lui-même (CLEMENCEAU, Iniquité, 1899, p. 441): 2. Je n'arrive pas à retrouver la tranquillité d'esprit dont j'aurais pourtant si besoin (...) je sens que si j'avais mes coudées franches, aucune des choses que je désespérais avant la guerre de pouvoir accomplir, ne résisterait à la pression d'une attention non préoccupée. DU BOS, Journal, 1922, p. 101.
Corps franc. Petit corps de troupe composé de volontaires pendant la guerre, et n'appartenant pas à l'armée régulière. Ton neveu (...) en 1815, a fait partie de ce régiment de brigands appelés corps francs, levé contre les Prussiens (STENDHAL, Lamiel, 1842, p. 60). Unité légère d'infanterie dotée d'une certaine autonomie, spécialement entraînée pour exécuter isolément des missions délicates. La région de Tabarca défendue par le corps franc du général de Monsabert et les tabors marocains (DE GAULLE, Mém. guerre, 1956, p. 99). Cf. franc-tireur.
Être franc de + subst. Être exempt de. Le roi ordonnait que les habitants de Greux et de Domremy fussent francs de toutes tailles, aides, subsides et subventions (FRANCE, J. d'Arc, t. 1, 1908, p. 524).
Au fig., vieilli. Être franc de toute passion, franc d'ambition.,,Libre et exempt de toute passion, d'ambition`` (Ac. 1798- 1932). Un rire si franc de coquetterie, qu'il devait être ou bien hardi, ou bien innocent (SOULIÉ, Mém. diable, t. 1, 1837, p. 119).
MAR. Barre franche.,,Barre de gouvernail que l'on manoeuvre directement à la main sans l'intermédiaire d'une roue`` (GRUSS 1952). Gouverner à barre franche (LITTRÉ).
SP. Coup* franc. 3. Qui est moralement libre; qui agit de sa propre volonté. Ayez le courage de me suivre, et si votre volonté est franche, si votre conscience est libre, si votre esprit sait unir deux propositions (PROUDHON, Propriété, 1840, p. 133).
Franc arbitre. Cf. franc- A 2 et libre-arbitre. B. [En parlant de qqc.] Qui est exempt de charges, de droits, de taxes; qui ne paie pas de taxes, d'impôts. Ici, vous cultivez des terres franches et libres, et ne travaillez que pour vous-même, puisque vous ne payez ni redevances, ni impositions (CRÈVECOEUR, Voyage, t. 3, 1801, p. 139).
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I just finished watching the trailer, and I couldn't help thinking that the plot seemed just a bit familar.
Indeed. It looks awfully like the general plot of 30 years old heavy-metal comic Les oiseaux du maître, where spatio-temporal agents Valérian and Laureline crash upon a planet ruled by a huge gelatinous blob (sorry, Planet-Express didn't invent anything) who enslaves the population into feeding it, by threatening to zombify them with it's army of "crazy birds", who turn anyone they bite into crazyness.
But once the heroes get bitten, are they really crazy? I guess not, since they manage to scare the huge gelatinous blob away from the planet...
Its mutual. France would probably not be here either, if not for us. Are we so single minded that we forget our recent history of world wars?
Well, ACTUALLY, the USA didn't do much to help France during world-war II. And that, thanks to that überbastard extraordinaire sonovabitch, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
First of all, the US waited two fucking years before getting involved,
Second, instead of backing the Free French who pursued the fight against the nazis, the US backed the Vichy fascist régime of nazi-occupied France, at least until the end of 1944, then the US grudigingly accepted to recognize the legitimity of Free France, but still not without considerably hindering Free France's fighting efforts. Heck, Roosevelt even decided to let the nazis re-occupy Strasbourg and retreat (luckily, top military brass was appalled as such cowardice - only a utter coward would lob atomic bombs on civilians - and the allies managed to insure that Strasbourg would not get re-occupied again).
Third, when it "liberated" France, the Roosevelt wanted in reality to occupy it and destroy it's industrial capability, in order to make them dependent on US industrial products...
It was not until that Charles de Gaulle drove home the point that the Résistance - which was so instrumental in bringing down the nazis - would turn against the yankees that the US finally relented and decided to abandon it's wrecking plans.
Of course, the funny thing with all this is that those idiots who first thought up of "freedom fries" and "freedom toast" have basically introduced a "France == Freedom" meme into the national psyche. (Which is fitting, since it is part of the national motto: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité)
Heck, FRANCE, the word itself, means FREE, as free from slavery.
Mere logic screams that this is all oxdung.
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The mere idea of a "stock broker" peddling stocks to suck^h^h^h^h clients to make a living screams of illogicity. If the "stock broker" was any really "competent", why would he do that for others? He only needs to sit in his corner and do it for himself!
It's exactly like somebody selling a formula for winning the lottery: why doesn't he keeps it for himself????
We have the power to crush and destroy those fuckers. If we **ALL SHARE OUR MUSIC**, we can bring those scumbags to their knees and have them reduced to utter helplessness. The true power lies in the hands of the People; if we act together, we can topple the fucking bastards that suck everything they can.
(Reposted in account of two assholes moderating it as "troll" and "flamebait". Thanks however to whomever moderated it as "interesting")...
We have the power to crush and destroy those fuckers. If we **ALL SHARE OUR MUSIC**, we can bring those scumbags to their knees and have them reduced to utter helplessness. The true power lies in the hands of the People; if we act together, we can topple the fucking bastards that suck everything they can.
IMHO, a better idea, compared to imposing taxes on email, would be to create a new infrastructure for exchanging of "email", where things like forged headers, open relays and spammers would be a thing of the past.
I've seen, on news.admin.net-abuse.email (just can't find the posting itself - will the actual author will stand up?) a proposal where e-mail could simply consist of a delivery notice being sent, whereas the actual e-mail itself would be held on the sender's server itself, until the recipient decides to get the message.
This way, the sender will pay the actual cost of sending proportionnaly to his volume, and since the identification of the sender's server could imply a traceable protocol of some sort with regards to the sender's identification, spammers could no longer use guerilla hit-and-run approaches to send their shit.
This way, you only retrieve the mail you want.
And if you refuse mail from someone, your e-mail client could answer back the sender by telling him to shove his message up his database...
Actually you're wrong. I am under an HMO and I chose the PCP (Primary care provider) that I go to. And guess what, when I needed a specialists help (gastro) I looked one up, and asked for a referral, and I got it. So your "CANNOT CHOOSE" arguments falls quicker than a dress on prom night.
Lucky you! The same cannot be said for those who can't choose which doctor they go to under their HMO rules, and to those who aren't insured at all.
Or how about that time that we were busy bombing the crap out of the Nazis while the US was happily being isolationist for 2 years while he tried to take over the world?
And not only that, but actively supporting the Nazi government of Vichy, too!!!
1) Your total average tax rates are higher than ours, although it appears that by 2005, that might change.
And we get SERVICES in return. Not just catering to the richest croporations.
2) It's about being FORCED into your medical program. That's not freedom.
The ability to choose one's doctor is the cornerstone of the canadian public health-care system.
The people in the US without medical coverage, as well as those who are under HMOs CANNOT CHOOSE which doctor to go. That's not freedom.
3) We like guns. You guys used to.
We ceased to like them when we realized that they are used to kill people. Oh, you're allowed to have guns to kill animals, but not guns that kills people (who'd use an UZI for hunting???)...
It also has a chilling impact on comedians and serious public discourse. The Ayn Rand Institute had its information blocked by Canadian officials from shipment to the U. of Toronto.
And rightfully so. Ayn Rand is nothing but a shill for those monied barbarians who want to gut the state of all power so they can rape and plunder the people to their exclusive benefit.
Perhaps that kind of "philosophy" worked well then were less than 1 billion humans on the planet, but right now, when we are close to 6 billion with only perhaps 10% eating properly every day, it is time to curb the capacity of a little rapacious minority to accummulate wealth at the expense of majority.
In the US, police have been using roadblocks to check for seat belt compliance
No right have been violated by that. You see, driving a car is not a right, but a mere privilege, and as such, it can be curtailed as much as the States deems necessary.
If a federal election candidate (in Canada) ran on the platform of lower taxes (ala bush) at the expense of healthcare, they would have their careers abruptly terminated.
This just happenned in Québec, where Mario Ducon's party, the "action 'démocratique'", whose platform includes gutting the public health care system, was destroyed into oblivion in the Québec election three weeks ago...
I wonder why the terms "left" and "right" exist. There are thousands of issues where people can have an opinion, even if one allowed the unrealistic simplification of classifying each one along a single line, it's still meaningless to try and map N-dimensional space to 1D.
This comes from the French (like much more things than people would care to know).
Right after the (first) Revolution, in the resulting assembly, the conservatives sat on the right side of the chamber, and the revolutionaries sat on the left side.
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Okay, so when are those gonna include a career chip ???? That would be the perfect thing to track delivery boys ...
Who doesn't???
This looks like the perfect rig for watching pr0n!!! All it misses is a few chains, nuts and bolts...
We shall crush all chickenboners to oblivion!!!
And Franc means honest in French, not free.
: : ,,Libre et exempt de toute passion, d'ambition`` (Ac. 1798- 1932). Un rire si franc de coquetterie, qu'il devait être ou bien hardi, ou bien innocent (SOULIÉ, Mém. diable, t. 1, 1837, p. 119). ,,Barre de gouvernail que l'on manoeuvre directement à la main sans l'intermédiaire d'une roue`` (GRUSS 1952). Gouverner à barre franche (LITTRÉ). ,,Repas qu
FRANC3, FRANCHE, adj.
I. Qui est libre.
A. [En parlant d'une pers.]
1. Vieilli. Qui est libre; p. oppos. à serf, à esclave. Les gens de la ville, ceux de Vilschberg et de Hâzelbourg étaient de condition franche; mais (...) ceux des autres villages, tant hommes que femmes, étaient serfs (ERCKM.-CHATR., Hist. paysan, t. 1, 1870, p. 5). V. franchise ex. 1
1. On a là [dans la Chanson des Loherains] un fort bel et fort distinct épisode de la vie féodale dans les premiers
siècles : une scène de famille d'abord (...) une chasse en pleine forêt; une grande et noble figure de gentilhomme, de franc homme, séparé de sa suite (...) se défendant contre une bande de gens de rien enhardis par l'espoir du butin et d'une riche proie.
SAINTE-BEUVE, Prem. lundis, t. 3, 1869, p. 152.
Rem. À l'oppos. franc/esclave a été substituée l'oppos. libre esclave.
2. Qui n'a ni gêne, ni entrave; qui est sans contrainte.
Avoir les coudées franches. Ne pas être gêné à table par ses voisins. Il veut avoir ses coudées franches (Ac. 1835, 1878).
Au fig. Avoir l'esprit libre, ne pas être gêné par quelque contrainte (morale ou extérieure) que ce soit. M. Brisson s'est débarrassé de ses impedimenta de programmes pour avoir ses coudées franches dans la noble entreprise de rendre ce pays à lui-même (CLEMENCEAU, Iniquité, 1899, p. 441)
2. Je n'arrive pas à retrouver la tranquillité d'esprit dont j'aurais pourtant si besoin (...) je sens que si j'avais mes
coudées franches, aucune des choses que je désespérais avant la guerre de pouvoir accomplir, ne résisterait à la pression d'une attention non préoccupée.
DU BOS, Journal, 1922, p. 101.
Corps franc. Petit corps de troupe composé de volontaires pendant la guerre, et n'appartenant pas à l'armée régulière. Ton neveu (...) en 1815, a fait partie de ce régiment de brigands appelés corps francs, levé contre les Prussiens (STENDHAL, Lamiel, 1842, p. 60). Unité légère d'infanterie dotée d'une certaine autonomie, spécialement entraînée pour exécuter isolément des missions délicates. La région de Tabarca défendue par le corps franc du général de Monsabert et les tabors marocains (DE GAULLE, Mém. guerre, 1956, p. 99). Cf. franc-tireur.
Être franc de + subst. Être exempt de. Le roi ordonnait que les habitants de Greux et de Domremy fussent francs de toutes tailles, aides, subsides et subventions (FRANCE, J. d'Arc, t. 1, 1908, p. 524).
Au fig., vieilli. Être franc de toute passion, franc d'ambition.
MAR. Barre franche.
SP. Coup* franc.
3. Qui est moralement libre; qui agit de sa propre volonté. Ayez le courage de me suivre, et si votre volonté est franche, si votre conscience est libre, si votre esprit sait unir deux propositions (PROUDHON, Propriété, 1840, p. 133).
Franc arbitre. Cf. franc- A 2 et libre-arbitre.
B. [En parlant de qqc.] Qui est exempt de charges, de droits, de taxes; qui ne paie pas de taxes, d'impôts. Ici, vous cultivez des terres franches et libres, et ne travaillez que pour vous-même, puisque vous ne payez ni redevances, ni impositions (CRÈVECOEUR, Voyage, t. 3, 1801, p. 139).
Familier
Franche lippée (vieilli)
But once the heroes get bitten, are they really crazy? I guess not, since they manage to scare the huge gelatinous blob away from the planet...
First of all, the US waited two fucking years before getting involved,
Second, instead of backing the Free French who pursued the fight against the nazis, the US backed the Vichy fascist régime of nazi-occupied France, at least until the end of 1944, then the US grudigingly accepted to recognize the legitimity of Free France, but still not without considerably hindering Free France's fighting efforts. Heck, Roosevelt even decided to let the nazis re-occupy Strasbourg and retreat (luckily, top military brass was appalled as such cowardice - only a utter coward would lob atomic bombs on civilians - and the allies managed to insure that Strasbourg would not get re-occupied again).
Third, when it "liberated" France, the Roosevelt wanted in reality to occupy it and destroy it's industrial capability, in order to make them dependent on US industrial products...
It was not until that Charles de Gaulle drove home the point that the Résistance - which was so instrumental in bringing down the nazis - would turn against the yankees that the US finally relented and decided to abandon it's wrecking plans.
It's exactly like somebody selling a formula for winning the lottery: why doesn't he keeps it for himself????
The guy's name is Muhammad Faisal. So he must be a terrorist!!!!
(Reposted in account of two assholes moderating it as "troll" and "flamebait". Thanks however to whomever moderated it as "interesting")...
We have the power to crush and destroy those fuckers. If we **ALL SHARE OUR MUSIC**, we can bring those scumbags to their knees and have them reduced to utter helplessness. The true power lies in the hands of the People; if we act together, we can topple the fucking bastards that suck everything they can.
This way, the sender will pay the actual cost of sending proportionnaly to his volume, and since the identification of the sender's server could imply a traceable protocol of some sort with regards to the sender's identification, spammers could no longer use guerilla hit-and-run approaches to send their shit.
This way, you only retrieve the mail you want.
And if you refuse mail from someone, your e-mail client could answer back the sender by telling him to shove his message up his database...
Hitler wins the war.
The people in the US without medical coverage, as well as those who are under HMOs CANNOT CHOOSE which doctor to go. That's not freedom. 3) We like guns. You guys used to. We ceased to like them when we realized that they are used to kill people. Oh, you're allowed to have guns to kill animals, but not guns that kills people (who'd use an UZI for hunting???)...
Perhaps that kind of "philosophy" worked well then were less than 1 billion humans on the planet, but right now, when we are close to 6 billion with only perhaps 10% eating properly every day, it is time to curb the capacity of a little rapacious minority to accummulate wealth at the expense of majority.
Right after the (first) Revolution, in the resulting assembly, the conservatives sat on the right side of the chamber, and the revolutionaries sat on the left side.
It is as simple and as stupid as that.