There's no limit to her tone-deafness; that's why she picked Kaine as VP
Eh? I think most people might admit that this was maybe the only good move she made. I'd believe many Democrats wish they were voting Kaine for President rather than Hillary.
In my state(TN) it's demonstrably true and if you look at those swing states, the people voting for the independents clearly fucked it all up for the rest of us.
If Democrats are crying into their beer about how their candidate lost, then perhaps next time they ought to nominate a better candidate rather than blame folks who want to vote for a candidate who isn't quite as shitty.
But you keep on repeating that bullshit get out n vote crap, and I'll keep telling you it's bull. You need to show me my vote counts and I have yet to see that
Your vote counted. You were outvoted. That doesn't mean your vote didn't contribute.
You're strawmanning again. You keep bringing Hillary into the debate, the GP was talking about Trump's cabinet, not Hillary's. If someone doesn't like Trump's cabinet, the counter to that is NOT "but Hillary would be worse." That is the lowest bar you could possibly set.
Reagan rebuffed Gorbachev. It was his advisors who took advantage of his growing senility to try to defuse that.
Reagan could have rebuffed Gorbachev, but like with Kennedy and Khrushchev, what is said in public is different from what is said in private. It was Margaret Thatcher who convinced Reagan to deal with Gorbachev ("we can do business together"), and their first meetings were quite productive.
True, but Trump does that as well. He gives jobs to friends, people who helped him out and the owner of his favourite media organization. [boingboing.net]
The guy is incredibly corrupt. His only criteria for assigning jobs seems to be who as bought their way in with favours.
I'm not sure of that either. He doesn't seem to reward loyalty either, as the two most loyal guys close to him, Chris Cristie and Rudy Guilliani, are either kicked out or on the ropes.
"Trickle Down Economics" is not Capitalism, most capitalistic countries don't believe in it. It was an economic theory that gained prominence with Reagan's administration, though even George H.W. Bush called it "voodoo economics." Trickle-Down is the belief that if you slash taxes for the rich, they'll reinvest all their money and spur the economy.
We've had a good 40 years now to see that Trickle-Down is bullshit -- the rich kept their money in that time and the wealth gap is much further than it's been since the Gilded Age.
Do you know that FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt? Do you understand that "global warming is most likely not a real threat" is the opposite of spreading fear?
Fear: "Global warming is a hoax spread by income redistributors. Stopping the use of fossil fuels will negatively impact the pocketbooks of Americans." Uncertainty/Doubt: Pretty sure I don't need to explain those ones.
Ah. Hmm, I found the plastic back very smooth, especially in arid conditions when the fingers are also try. That's why I ended up cracking the glass by dropping mine on top of a volcano.
I just upgraded from an S3 to an S7. I did not have a case for my S3 and planned to not use one for the S7 either. After 1 week, I got a $12 case off Amazon because the S7 was so damn slick, I was afraid of accidentally tossing it.
I dropped my S3 a number of times because the back was so smooth and slick. Are you saying the S7 is even slipperier?
users that don't buy the phone outright are actually paying more for the phone. accidents happen regardless of how careful you are, some bumps your hand as you take it out of your pocket or you reach to grab something and the silk smooth casing makes it slip through your fingers, despite the so called gorilla glass it only takes a single slip and an awkward landing position for the phone and it is cracked.
No matter how careful I was, sometimes my old Galaxy S3 slipped out of my hands, and that cracked the screen. It was just unavoidable -- over the course of two years, it will happen several times. No case. When I got my S5 some time ago, I got an otterbox. No cracks of any kind after a number of falls.
ACORN has successor organizations. New names, same M.O.. Smaller groups, harder to identify, harder to sue, harder and less effective for law enforcement to track down and shut down. Also more difficult to generate concentrated bad publicity. It's much like the blooming of communist front groups in the mid 20th century.
You make them sound like organized crime the police would actually give two shits about shutting down.
Probably graduates from some San Francisco Law "School" and Noodle Shop. Pass the Bar with the minimum requisite score and set up an ambulance chasing practice that specializes in targeting minorities.
California has one of the harder bar exams in the US to pass. If they could pass the bar in California, then they have to know some law, at least.
You keep making that "deliberately lethal" charge, but no one else with any credibility is making that claim on either side. The intelligence agents, which is a bit of a misnomer in this case, had a plan -- two bombs. The first went off to force the crew to evacuate the ship, which they did. The second was intended to sink the ship, which it did. However, the agents did not anticipate people re-boarding the ship between the two bombings. It was inadvisable and bungled.
You can say that they INTENDED for people to reboard the ship between the small and larger bombs, but it makes no sense, and the French had nothing to gain. It didn't send a message, it was an enormous public embarrassment and very costly politically. And if they intended to kill all those people, then why a smaller bomb and then a larger one later? Just the larger one would have sufficed, and had a much better chance of actually killing people.
You seem to be assuming that this was some sort of incipient mental breakdown.
It certainly sounded like he was. Allegiance to a genocidal organization is hardly a sane act, especially in a country where people don't have a knife to your throat saying "convert or die."
A girl licking a boot sure isn't getting me hard either but allegedly that's considered porn by some people. Hell, there's people getting off to the weirdest shit you could imagine. I remember a story about a guy who gets off by sticking his dick into hamburger meat, does that mean every time I have a burger I'm essentially participating in hard vore?
No, but the moral is that you can qualify something without being a part of it. I don't particularly agree with the ruling, but what the judge said is that pornographic designation is subjective, that there is no hard and clear line, and judges are capable of making the distinction.
You can't be a member of the Yankees by saying you're a member of the Yankees. You can be a member of ISIS by proclaiming for ISIS. A bit more like Anonymous, not like the two groups share many similarities besides that.
1) no valid crime (in my opinion) was committed 2) it's a two year sentence, besides pissing off a bunch of people, what purpose does this serve?
It keeps him out of society, removing his ability to kill mass numbers of people -- a prime interest to IS sympathizers. But you're right, it definitely does not feel anywhere like enough of a sentence to have any real effect. You may also be right in that I think the authorities jumped the gun here. He should have been under intense surveillance from this point forward. Now what are we supposed to do with him? He's a radicalized jihadi, but hasn't committed acts of jihad yet. This will only make him more careful about the records he leaves behind, and harder to keep tabs on.
You can't change a person's ideologies by imprisoning them, not without brainwashing them.
I'm not sure I've seen reformed radicalized jihadis. At this point, maybe I'm less interested in this conversion, and more interested in keeping him out of civil society. My initial reaction is that if he loves ISIS so much, we might do the favor of airlifting him to ISIS strongholds. But IS is squatting on land from real countries who would not be thrilled with the idea of more jihadis on their doorstep. A cute little fantasy bubble that is easily popped.
Main difference between The Bible and The Koran: one of them urges followers to lie steal rape and murder anyone who is not of the faithful.
I'm pretty sure they both do, though the Koran is more firm about it. Modern Christians though just use the excuse "uh, well, Christ said somewhere we don't need to uhh.. need to do that anymore.
often access to childporn on these sites is obtained by submitting your own original content, which was the main driver behind one of the recent largest abuses in The Netherlands
Take your blinders off. This happens because, and only because, of the illegality.
I think at this point it's impossible to make the production of child porn non-illegal. You would have to entirely invalidate age of consent laws.
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There's no limit to her tone-deafness; that's why she picked Kaine as VP
Eh? I think most people might admit that this was maybe the only good move she made.
I'd believe many Democrats wish they were voting Kaine for President rather than Hillary.
In my state(TN) it's demonstrably true and if you look at those swing states, the people voting for the independents clearly fucked it all up for the rest of us.
If Democrats are crying into their beer about how their candidate lost, then perhaps next time they ought to nominate a better candidate rather than blame folks who want to vote for a candidate who isn't quite as shitty.
But you keep on repeating that bullshit get out n vote crap, and I'll keep telling you it's bull. You need to show me my vote counts and I have yet to see that
Your vote counted. You were outvoted. That doesn't mean your vote didn't contribute.
Hillary lost. Get over it.
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You're strawmanning again. You keep bringing Hillary into the debate, the GP was talking about Trump's cabinet, not Hillary's.
If someone doesn't like Trump's cabinet, the counter to that is NOT "but Hillary would be worse." That is the lowest bar you could possibly set.
Reagan rebuffed Gorbachev. It was his advisors who took advantage of his growing senility to try to defuse that.
Reagan could have rebuffed Gorbachev, but like with Kennedy and Khrushchev, what is said in public is different from what is said in private.
It was Margaret Thatcher who convinced Reagan to deal with Gorbachev ("we can do business together"), and their first meetings were quite productive.
True, but Trump does that as well. He gives jobs to friends, people who helped him out and the owner of his favourite media organization. [boingboing.net]
The guy is incredibly corrupt. His only criteria for assigning jobs seems to be who as bought their way in with favours.
I'm not sure of that either. He doesn't seem to reward loyalty either, as the two most loyal guys close to him, Chris Cristie and Rudy Guilliani, are either kicked out or on the ropes.
"Trickle Down Economics" is not Capitalism, most capitalistic countries don't believe in it. It was an economic theory that gained prominence with Reagan's administration, though even George H.W. Bush called it "voodoo economics." Trickle-Down is the belief that if you slash taxes for the rich, they'll reinvest all their money and spur the economy.
We've had a good 40 years now to see that Trickle-Down is bullshit -- the rich kept their money in that time and the wealth gap is much further than it's been since the Gilded Age.
Do you know that FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt? Do you understand that "global warming is most likely not a real threat" is the opposite of spreading fear?
Fear: "Global warming is a hoax spread by income redistributors. Stopping the use of fossil fuels will negatively impact the pocketbooks of Americans."
Uncertainty/Doubt: Pretty sure I don't need to explain those ones.
This is why you troll people on the Internet, not to their face.
This year they mixed it up, voting in someone who's incompetent but not popular.
That's what happens when you get two "incompetent but not popular" figures in the final election.
"Space Nutters" was always a stupid charge to make, but some people here take that very seriously.
Ah. Hmm, I found the plastic back very smooth, especially in arid conditions when the fingers are also try. That's why I ended up cracking the glass by dropping mine on top of a volcano.
Ever play games with Bluetooth headphones? The audio delay is terrible! By the time I hear whether or not I got him, he got me. :(
Most quality headsets use RF or something like that rather than bluetooth.
I just upgraded from an S3 to an S7. I did not have a case for my S3 and planned to not use one for the S7 either. After 1 week, I got a $12 case off Amazon because the S7 was so damn slick, I was afraid of accidentally tossing it.
I dropped my S3 a number of times because the back was so smooth and slick. Are you saying the S7 is even slipperier?
users that don't buy the phone outright are actually paying more for the phone. accidents happen regardless of how careful you are, some bumps your hand as you take it out of your pocket or you reach to grab something and the silk smooth casing makes it slip through your fingers, despite the so called gorilla glass it only takes a single slip and an awkward landing position for the phone and it is cracked.
No matter how careful I was, sometimes my old Galaxy S3 slipped out of my hands, and that cracked the screen. It was just unavoidable -- over the course of two years, it will happen several times. No case. When I got my S5 some time ago, I got an otterbox. No cracks of any kind after a number of falls.
ACORN has successor organizations. New names, same M.O.. Smaller groups, harder to identify, harder to sue, harder and less effective for law enforcement to track down and shut down. Also more difficult to generate concentrated bad publicity. It's much like the blooming of communist front groups in the mid 20th century.
You make them sound like organized crime the police would actually give two shits about shutting down.
Probably graduates from some San Francisco Law "School" and Noodle Shop. Pass the Bar with the minimum requisite score and set up an ambulance chasing practice that specializes in targeting minorities.
California has one of the harder bar exams in the US to pass. If they could pass the bar in California, then they have to know some law, at least.
There is a third option.
Move to a third world country where the government doesn't have the resources to waste on this kind of shit.
The problem is third world countries tend to be stomping grounds for the 1st and 2nd world countries.
You keep making that "deliberately lethal" charge, but no one else with any credibility is making that claim on either side. The intelligence agents, which is a bit of a misnomer in this case, had a plan -- two bombs. The first went off to force the crew to evacuate the ship, which they did. The second was intended to sink the ship, which it did. However, the agents did not anticipate people re-boarding the ship between the two bombings. It was inadvisable and bungled.
You can say that they INTENDED for people to reboard the ship between the small and larger bombs, but it makes no sense, and the French had nothing to gain. It didn't send a message, it was an enormous public embarrassment and very costly politically. And if they intended to kill all those people, then why a smaller bomb and then a larger one later? Just the larger one would have sufficed, and had a much better chance of actually killing people.
You seem to be assuming that this was some sort of incipient mental breakdown.
It certainly sounded like he was. Allegiance to a genocidal organization is hardly a sane act, especially in a country where people don't have a knife to your throat saying "convert or die."
A girl licking a boot sure isn't getting me hard either but allegedly that's considered porn by some people. Hell, there's people getting off to the weirdest shit you could imagine. I remember a story about a guy who gets off by sticking his dick into hamburger meat, does that mean every time I have a burger I'm essentially participating in hard vore?
No, but the moral is that you can qualify something without being a part of it. I don't particularly agree with the ruling, but what the judge said is that pornographic designation is subjective, that there is no hard and clear line, and judges are capable of making the distinction.
FFS were talking about a country which in cold blood sank a ship and killed a photographer for planning to protest against a nuclear test!
Holy smokes, if that's your threshold for "aggression," I think I can name a few dozen countries far more aggressive than that!
You can't be a member of the Yankees by saying you're a member of the Yankees. You can be a member of ISIS by proclaiming for ISIS. A bit more like Anonymous, not like the two groups share many similarities besides that.
For two reasons:
1) no valid crime (in my opinion) was committed
2) it's a two year sentence, besides pissing off a bunch of people, what purpose does this serve?
It keeps him out of society, removing his ability to kill mass numbers of people -- a prime interest to IS sympathizers. But you're right, it definitely does not feel anywhere like enough of a sentence to have any real effect. You may also be right in that I think the authorities jumped the gun here. He should have been under intense surveillance from this point forward. Now what are we supposed to do with him? He's a radicalized jihadi, but hasn't committed acts of jihad yet. This will only make him more careful about the records he leaves behind, and harder to keep tabs on.
You can't change a person's ideologies by imprisoning them, not without brainwashing them.
I'm not sure I've seen reformed radicalized jihadis. At this point, maybe I'm less interested in this conversion, and more interested in keeping him out of civil society.
My initial reaction is that if he loves ISIS so much, we might do the favor of airlifting him to ISIS strongholds. But IS is squatting on land from real countries who would not be thrilled with the idea of more jihadis on their doorstep. A cute little fantasy bubble that is easily popped.
Main difference between The Bible and The Koran: one of them urges followers to lie steal rape and murder anyone who is not of the faithful.
I'm pretty sure they both do, though the Koran is more firm about it.
Modern Christians though just use the excuse "uh, well, Christ said somewhere we don't need to uhh.. need to do that anymore.
often access to childporn on these sites is obtained by submitting your own original content, which was the main driver behind one of the recent largest abuses in The Netherlands
Take your blinders off. This happens because, and only because, of the illegality.
I think at this point it's impossible to make the production of child porn non-illegal.
You would have to entirely invalidate age of consent laws.