Good. All we have to do is stop making cement and kill all the livestock. Once we do that we are golden. Until there are too many people. Once the population gets too high though we do not have to kill them. We can colonize another planet. Oh, Wait.
They were not very conservative. Bush I did not like. Patriot act, deficit spending, creation of homeland security and the TSA. He trampled all over our constitution, spent buttloads of cash and created no security, The only thing worse than what Bush did is what Obama is doing.
I would start with all kinds of shit. Dept of Education. Dept of Energy. Farm subsidies. Foreign aid. All gone till we can pay our own bills. I would also start prosecuting crony capitalism with a minimum of 10 years in a real prison. That would reduce the cost of the things we do need by a large amount. I would wipe out selective service. We do not use them why pay for it? There is a shit load of things we can reduce or totally wipe out.
What do you mean we are not broke? Are you one of those people who spends 50% more than you make but think you are doing well because you keep getting new credit cards? Or are you just lying?
NPR is not education. Even if you believed that it was it is not the only place to get that "education". There are many places you can go to other than NPR for the news.The defenders here and NPR all state that NPR can go on without government assistance.So again. Can you explain to this "fucking idiot" why exactly the government should be subsidizing something we can and do get somewhere else and something that will not go away if we stop subsidizing it? When we are broke!
I understand that where you are coming from. Free shit for everyone. Government info beamed to your head. Infinite cash for teachers that we are not allowed measure performance on. I bet you like public employee unions as well. You think that is a great idea don't you.
If I was as crass and had no better way of attacking I might stoop to your level and call you names. But I think you were defeated in the first question.
I would hope so. Why should one station in a market get government help and not all the others? And everyone is stating that NPR can get by fine without government funds. If they can survive without government funding and the US government is spending more than it takes in should we be funding it? If so why? Or would you rather just attack "people like me"?
Why NPR get government funding I have no idea. There are tons of radio stations out there. No need for the government to fund one. NPR is a relic and all government funding of it should be stopped. If it can survive without the funding then great. If it can not also great.
The money is being spent because it is profitable to spend it. These companies are not out there trowing their money away. They are investing. Just because you would hate it and see through the shiny coupon to the advertisement and rebel does not mean that most people will. Most people are fucking cattle. Cattle are profitable.Coupon! Must spend money.
The bolded section confuses me. For others who use my computer? Try Google.com/history when signed in. No one else who uses the computer has access to that data. It follows the account regardless of what computer you use. You must be thinking of browser history. That is the only history that can be accessed by others using the same computer. And because I am not an idiot I do know that wiping brought history removes nothing from Google.
The fact that Google made it exceedingly easy for you to delete the information it has on you did not make you a fan? And it was not an all or nothing thing either. I could choose what to delete and what to keep.
On the whole I agree. That is what his republican opposition was complaining about. That he was using a past job to garner more votes. Politician A: Lawyer Politician B: Astronaut Politician C: Farmer Who are you going to vote for? But, for astronauts I will give a couple of years to be able to put Astronaut as occupation. Even though technically he is not currently employed as an astronaut. And I 100% agree that he is manipulating people for votes.
You can always list it as a previous job. But some guy who was an astronaut 15 years ago and has spent the last 10 years as an office manager for an aerospace company should not list astronaut as his occupation.
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I love my gender. "It's not gay. It's two hot girls going at it! There is a truth there. You have to look for it though. For straight people. Men seeing man/man: Evil, Horrible, Don't make me watch! Men seeing man/woman: Crappy Porn Men seeing Woman/Woman: Fuckin Hot! Women seeing man/man: Ehh. Women seeing man/women: Ehh Women seeing Woman/Woman: Ehh.
But truth be told many more women are open to being or have been bi than men.
I agree with you mostly. Although there are limits I would say. Some career politician who did 4 years in the Army 25 years ago should not be able to put Soldier as his occupation. But if you were flying in space in the last few years. I think you can put astronaut as your occupation. Although in a few years when he runs again if he is just doing political stuff I do not think he should be able to use Astronaut as his occupation. He can though list it as a previous job.
I am stunned. You are in my opinion an open minded, decent human being. They are so rare. Everyone thinks they are one but it is so rare to ever see in someone else. I see it in you. Congratulations on being a superior human being.
Maybe we can agree that even after Katrina these people re proved themselves to be idiots. They rebuilt the city. Between an ocean with hurricanes and a huge fucking lake. And they built it lower than both! That was and is a city designed to be flooded.
Blaming the result of Katrina on poor black trash is hardly fair.
The whites and the rich are idiots there as well. Why is it that you felt the need to throw race in there? Is everyone who disagrees with you on any subject automatically a racist? And since I did not conveniently attack "poor black trash" you just threw it in there for me? But yes. They were set up to fail. As was the entire city of New Orleans. It is designed to fail. I have some water, some food, some emergency supplies and the ability to protect them. Not because I am waiting for a "global economic meltdown" or any other single society destroying thing. I have them because I know that between Governments, Societys, Man made disasters and Nature own ability to stand up and say "Fuck you" too us every once in a while that it would be fucking stupid of me not to have a little bit of an ability to provide for my family if something goes wrong.
In my view FEMA is useless. In a local disaster within a few days help can come from FEMA or neighboring areas. In something more than that. FEMA is going to be useless anyway. It is up to me and others who have prepared in small ways to go out and help our neighbors and provide for our families. If you are not that kind of person then that is on you. If you would rather break in to a Wal-Mart and steal LCD TVs and PS3s then you should be shot. Government should never be something you rely on in an emergency. In an emergency government is slow and inefficient. Get to know and depend on your community. If it is not a good community then make it one.
You can call misinterpretation all you want. The proof here is easy, You can not misread my comment and get strawman from it. Can not happen with any reasonably intelligent person. More likely, you did not read it at all. You skimmed, hated, and attacked. When called out on it you quickly changed to a new attack. An attack that because you call pedantic subjective you think can not be countered. Wrong. Pedantic can be subjective in a narrow area. This was not even close. Taking what someone said and believing it is not subjectively pedantic. If on the other hand I piked out a single word from his statement that was used wrongly and used that word change his statement to something I could attack, that would be subjectively pedantic. When the poster I am replying to states that thee US is "Fucking Evil" and I come back with the US is not "Evil" there is no room for you to say I am "Just being pedantic". My post was quite simple. You say "Strawman": Wrong. You re attack with: "Just being pedantic": Wrong
See. Both statements are designed be little my post. If the first was just an honest mistake it is a wonder that instead of acknowledging your mistake you just made another wrong headed attack to attempt to accomplish the same thing. Even in you last post you throw out the word "conspiracy" multiple times. A word used to dismiss the nut jobs. Only thing is again, I claimed no conspiracy. I am sure though you will state that conspiracy is subjective. It is not. I never hinted at you being in congress with any other people in an attempt to attack my posts. Only you. You with an agenda that is plain. No conspiracy.
You sir not only have a plain to see agenda to attack my post. It is simplistic and clumsy. Of course when you receive an education from a place where all the teachers are of the same mindset you are not taught the skills you need to have an intelligent debate. So, without the tools to debate and with the basic human drive to never be wrong you must attack that with which you do not agree with. At some point though, I hope that these discussions on slashdot will give you the tools that higher education failed to deliver. Slow down and quit with the fear. If you do not like what someone else posts, read it. Understand what they are saying. Turn it over. See if it makes sense. If not attack their statements with facts. Prove their statements as assumptions and defeat the assumptions with statements of fact. Argue, discuss and debate. Or attack that which scares you and you "know" is wrong.
So you are saying that there are some people in the US justice system that are evil and abuse it? I agree with that. I do not though misunderstand what evil is. Evil is not the US justice system. Evil is people slowly giving up their rights under the constitution and the US justice system because it is just easier to go along. Neither the US itself nor the US justice system in my opinion is evil. Taken care of by informed, watchful, and armed citizens who do stand up for their rights it is a beacon of good.
I think you're taking my comment a bit seriously here. "Blatant lie"? Really? What would I have to gain from that? Perhaps it was just a mistake?
You are claiming that it was a mistake on your part to call my argument "Strawman" when it was in direct response to a person calling the US Justice system evil. So. Was the mistake in not knowing what strawman meant or was it a result of not being able to comprehend my comment at all? I do not think it is much of a stretch for me to assume that a person that could make that "mistake" would not be able to type.
And what did I ignore? Perhaps I just accepted the mistake and moved on.
Perhaps. But you did not just move on. You just changed up the attack from "strawman" to "pedantic". To me this means that you have an agenda. That what you are accusing me of specifically is not the important thing. The important thing is the attack in and of itself.
Actually, it's not baseless: "pedantic" is a subjective term. I am of the opinion that you were and are being pedantic.
It is baseless. We have already shown that you would have to be a moron to accidentally get the strawman thing wrong. Coming back with a second attack that weak and that much of a stretch means we can pretty much say that it was done solely to find another route of attack. To go on. Currently? You are stating that my attack on you was based on trivial aspects of your post? I think not. I think that I pointed out that you attempted to belittle my entire post by calling it a strawman argument. Attacking the single most damaging part of your post against me and dismissing it as blatantly wrong is hardly what I or anyone else would truthfully call pedantic.
Oh? So you're pretending to know what I think now? I could easily do the same to you.
I am not pretending. I know that you must have at least enough intelligence to post and read. The fact that you are on slashdot and my original post was not complicated meant that I can assume you were able to comprehend it. Since I can now state that you did comprehend it we are left with you knowing you were wrong or you having no clue what "Strawman" means. Again being we are discussing this on slashdot I can safely assume you know the definition at least well enough to know it to be improperly used in this case. Then again maybe I am giving you too much credit.
You are so right. Never should a people be responsible for themselves. You should live your life so that if anything goes wrong you have a plan to sit on your porch and wait for a savior.
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Ummm....
Al Gore.
Good.
All we have to do is stop making cement and kill all the livestock.
Once we do that we are golden. Until there are too many people.
Once the population gets too high though we do not have to kill them. We can colonize another planet. Oh, Wait.
They were not very conservative.
Bush I did not like. Patriot act, deficit spending, creation of homeland security and the TSA.
He trampled all over our constitution, spent buttloads of cash and created no security,
The only thing worse than what Bush did is what Obama is doing.
What a shitty marriage you seem to have.
I feel bad for you.
I would start with all kinds of shit.
Dept of Education.
Dept of Energy.
Farm subsidies.
Foreign aid.
All gone till we can pay our own bills.
I would also start prosecuting crony capitalism with a minimum of 10 years in a real prison. That would reduce the cost of the things we do need by a large amount.
I would wipe out selective service. We do not use them why pay for it? There is a shit load of things we can reduce or totally wipe out.
What do you mean we are not broke? Are you one of those people who spends 50% more than you make but think you are doing well because you keep getting new credit cards? Or are you just lying?
NPR is not education. Even if you believed that it was it is not the only place to get that "education".
There are many places you can go to other than NPR for the news.The defenders here and NPR all state that NPR
can go on without government assistance.So again. Can you explain to this "fucking idiot" why exactly the
government should be subsidizing something we can and do get somewhere else and something that will not go away if we stop subsidizing it?
When we are broke!
I understand that where you are coming from.
Free shit for everyone. Government info beamed to your head. Infinite cash for teachers that we are not allowed measure performance on.
I bet you like public employee unions as well. You think that is a great idea don't you.
If I was as crass and had no better way of attacking I might stoop to your level and call you names. But I think you were defeated in the first question.
Everyone is saying that NPR can survive without taxpayer handouts.
Why give the money?
We are broke.
I would hope so.
Why should one station in a market get government help and not all the others?
And everyone is stating that NPR can get by fine without government funds.
If they can survive without government funding and the US government is spending more than it takes in should we be funding it? If so why?
Or would you rather just attack "people like me"?
Why NPR get government funding I have no idea.
There are tons of radio stations out there. No need for the government to fund one.
NPR is a relic and all government funding of it should be stopped.
If it can survive without the funding then great. If it can not also great.
The money is being spent because it is profitable to spend it.
These companies are not out there trowing their money away. They are investing.
Just because you would hate it and see through the shiny coupon to the advertisement and rebel does not mean that most people will.
Most people are fucking cattle. Cattle are profitable.Coupon! Must spend money.
The bolded section confuses me. For others who use my computer?
Try Google.com/history
when signed in. No one else who uses the computer has access to that data. It follows the account regardless of what computer you use.
You must be thinking of browser history. That is the only history that can be accessed by others using the same computer.
And because I am not an idiot I do know that wiping brought history removes nothing from Google.
The fact that Google made it exceedingly easy for you to delete the information it has on you did not make you a fan?
And it was not an all or nothing thing either. I could choose what to delete and what to keep.
I do not pay ABC, NBC, CBS, or any of the local broadcaster anything.
They are funded 100% by Ads.
On the whole I agree. That is what his republican opposition was complaining about.
That he was using a past job to garner more votes.
Politician A: Lawyer
Politician B: Astronaut
Politician C: Farmer
Who are you going to vote for?
But, for astronauts I will give a couple of years to be able to put Astronaut as occupation. Even though technically he is not currently employed as an astronaut.
And I 100% agree that he is manipulating people for votes.
You can always list it as a previous job. But some guy who was an astronaut 15 years ago and has spent the last 10 years as an office manager for an aerospace company should not list astronaut as his occupation.
My favorite part of that page was this statement.
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Purely Awesome.
I love my gender.
"It's not gay. It's two hot girls going at it!
There is a truth there. You have to look for it though.
For straight people.
Men seeing man/man: Evil, Horrible, Don't make me watch!
Men seeing man/woman: Crappy Porn
Men seeing Woman/Woman: Fuckin Hot!
Women seeing man/man: Ehh.
Women seeing man/women: Ehh
Women seeing Woman/Woman: Ehh.
But truth be told many more women are open to being or have been bi than men.
All evil comes from the right, You should know this.
Left = Good
Right = Evil
I agree with you mostly.
Although there are limits I would say.
Some career politician who did 4 years in the Army 25 years ago should not be able to put Soldier as his occupation.
But if you were flying in space in the last few years. I think you can put astronaut as your occupation.
Although in a few years when he runs again if he is just doing political stuff I do not think he should be able to use Astronaut as his occupation.
He can though list it as a previous job.
I am stunned.
You are in my opinion an open minded, decent human being.
They are so rare. Everyone thinks they are one but it is so rare to ever see in someone else.
I see it in you.
Congratulations on being a superior human being.
Maybe we can agree that even after Katrina these people re proved themselves to be idiots.
They rebuilt the city. Between an ocean with hurricanes and a huge fucking lake. And they built it lower than both!
That was and is a city designed to be flooded.
Blaming the result of Katrina on poor black trash is hardly fair.
The whites and the rich are idiots there as well. Why is it that you felt the need to throw race in there? Is everyone who disagrees with you on any subject automatically a racist? And since I did not conveniently attack "poor black trash" you just threw it in there for me?
But yes. They were set up to fail. As was the entire city of New Orleans. It is designed to fail.
I have some water, some food, some emergency supplies and the ability to protect them.
Not because I am waiting for a "global economic meltdown" or any other single society destroying thing.
I have them because I know that between Governments, Societys, Man made disasters and Nature own ability to stand up and say "Fuck you" too us every once in a while that it would be fucking stupid of me not to have a little bit of an ability to provide for my family if something goes wrong.
In my view FEMA is useless.
In a local disaster within a few days help can come from FEMA or neighboring areas.
In something more than that. FEMA is going to be useless anyway.
It is up to me and others who have prepared in small ways to go out and help our neighbors and provide for our families.
If you are not that kind of person then that is on you. If you would rather break in to a Wal-Mart and steal LCD TVs and PS3s then you should be shot.
Government should never be something you rely on in an emergency. In an emergency government is slow and inefficient. Get to know and depend on your community. If it is not a good community then make it one.
You can call misinterpretation all you want.
The proof here is easy, You can not misread my comment and get strawman from it. Can not happen with any reasonably intelligent person.
More likely, you did not read it at all. You skimmed, hated, and attacked. When called out on it you quickly changed to a new attack.
An attack that because you call pedantic subjective you think can not be countered.
Wrong. Pedantic can be subjective in a narrow area.
This was not even close. Taking what someone said and believing it is not subjectively pedantic.
If on the other hand I piked out a single word from his statement that was used wrongly and used that word change his statement to something I could attack, that would be subjectively pedantic.
When the poster I am replying to states that thee US is "Fucking Evil" and I come back with the US is not "Evil" there is no room for you to say I am "Just being pedantic".
My post was quite simple.
You say "Strawman": Wrong.
You re attack with: "Just being pedantic": Wrong
See. Both statements are designed be little my post.
If the first was just an honest mistake it is a wonder that instead of acknowledging your mistake you just made another wrong headed attack to attempt to accomplish the same thing.
Even in you last post you throw out the word "conspiracy" multiple times. A word used to dismiss the nut jobs.
Only thing is again, I claimed no conspiracy.
I am sure though you will state that conspiracy is subjective. It is not. I never hinted at you being in congress with any other people in an attempt to attack my posts. Only you. You with an agenda that is plain. No conspiracy.
You sir not only have a plain to see agenda to attack my post. It is simplistic and clumsy.
Of course when you receive an education from a place where all the teachers are of the same mindset you are not taught the skills you need to have an intelligent debate. So, without the tools to debate and with the basic human drive to never be wrong you must attack that with which you do not agree with.
At some point though, I hope that these discussions on slashdot will give you the tools that higher education failed to deliver.
Slow down and quit with the fear. If you do not like what someone else posts, read it. Understand what they are saying. Turn it over. See if it makes sense. If not attack their statements with facts. Prove their statements as assumptions and defeat the assumptions with statements of fact.
Argue, discuss and debate. Or attack that which scares you and you "know" is wrong.
So you are saying that there are some people in the US justice system that are evil and abuse it?
I agree with that.
I do not though misunderstand what evil is. Evil is not the US justice system.
Evil is people slowly giving up their rights under the constitution and the US justice system because it is just easier to go along.
Neither the US itself nor the US justice system in my opinion is evil.
Taken care of by informed, watchful, and armed citizens who do stand up for their rights it is a beacon of good.
I think you're taking my comment a bit seriously here. "Blatant lie"? Really? What would I have to gain from that? Perhaps it was just a mistake?
You are claiming that it was a mistake on your part to call my argument "Strawman" when it was in direct response to a person calling the US Justice system evil.
So. Was the mistake in not knowing what strawman meant or was it a result of not being able to comprehend my comment at all?
I do not think it is much of a stretch for me to assume that a person that could make that "mistake" would not be able to type.
And what did I ignore? Perhaps I just accepted the mistake and moved on.
Perhaps. But you did not just move on. You just changed up the attack from "strawman" to "pedantic".
To me this means that you have an agenda. That what you are accusing me of specifically is not the important thing. The important thing is the attack in and of itself.
Actually, it's not baseless: "pedantic" is a subjective term. I am of the opinion that you were and are being pedantic.
It is baseless. We have already shown that you would have to be a moron to accidentally get the strawman thing wrong. Coming back with a second attack that weak and that much of a stretch means we can pretty much say that it was done solely to find another route of attack. To go on. Currently? You are stating that my attack on you was based on trivial aspects of your post? I think not. I think that I pointed out that you attempted to belittle my entire post by calling it a strawman argument. Attacking the single most damaging part of your post against me and dismissing it as blatantly wrong is hardly what I or anyone else would truthfully call pedantic.
Oh? So you're pretending to know what I think now? I could easily do the same to you.
I am not pretending. I know that you must have at least enough intelligence to post and read. The fact that you are on slashdot and my original post was not complicated meant that I can assume you were able to comprehend it. Since I can now state that you did comprehend it we are left with you knowing you were wrong or you having no clue what "Strawman" means. Again being we are discussing this on slashdot I can safely assume you know the definition at least well enough to know it to be improperly used in this case.
Then again maybe I am giving you too much credit.
You are so right.
Never should a people be responsible for themselves.
You should live your life so that if anything goes wrong you have a plan to sit on your porch and wait for a savior.