The difference between the first choice we made is, we would also be involved in another dozen wars, crippling the economy and weakening the nation further, instead of winding them down and getting out. And Caribou Barbie would be poised to be President of a country falling to pieces, giving her reason to quit partway through and leave another Bush (Jeb) in the White House.
The difference with the second choice is, well - Romney? Really? Just a wealthier version of the doofus Obama replaced.
Is Obama perfect? Considering the alternatives, perhaps. Are there things I'd like to see done different? Who doesn't have that list?
And why does he include Heemeyer in when speaking of federal government?
The whole reason for Heemeyer's rampage was his own stupidity and greed. We're supposed to rally around that guy? You really want the law to allow you to go on a rampage if you, by your own greed, refuse a deal then get cut out of the final deal?
Consider the source. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but apparently would like to buy a drawer of his own. He wants to be paid somewhere between 3 and 700 dollars/hour for his time, due to getting off on a technicality. It could be he was let go more because the prosecutor couldn't figure out how to explain what he did, than anything else. Still, he wants what may be worth millions, or maybe only several hundreds, of dollars for his time and inconvenience.
Go big or go home, as they say. He was clearly paying at least half assed attention when that phrase came up somewhere. At the very least he knows how to get some attention here.
People who make business decisions based on dollars spent. Mac users buy stuff besides expensive Apple products. If you want to sell your product, they are a viable target audience. Even for software.
Well, one is a tyrannical leader and former KGB operative nostalgic for a more brutal time, infamous for terminating opponents (like journalists) with poison and parading around with his shirt off.
The other is known for exposing fraud and abuse by my government.
Nicely trolled.
So you're another Communist sympathizer eh? Yet you hate on Russia for acting on the will of ethnic Russians in Crimea? I'm not saying Crimea's ceding to Russia is or is not right or wrong. I am saying the evil communists that the US Government claimed would destroy the American way of life has not changed but the willingness of certain governments and corporations to turn a blind-eye is appalling. Obama makes Bush II look like an amateur in terms of destroying the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. For a legal scholar specialising in constitutional law Barack H. Obama is a traitor and deserves imprisonment in Club Gitmo with 24/7 video feed to the Internet so everyone can see the traitor slowly go insane due to complete isolation.
Oops. I read that. Now I think I have whiplash. This turned from an MH370 story to WTF so quickly, I am thankful I am still alive. I guess I better close the browser window before I hit another turn so sharp it snaps my neck or makes my head explode.
If we stop making enemies, pretty soon we stop waging wars.
If we stop waging war, the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower talked about goes belly up.
If the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower talked about goes belly up, say goodbye to the American economy, and soon thereafter, the world economy.
If we say goodbye to the economy, all infrastructure will implode, including the publishers of/.
If/. goes the way of the dodo bird, all the nerds and nerd wanna-be's that troll and otherwise vent their bile here get all backed up and start expressing themselves in other, darker and more brick-and-mortar-y ways.
You are a dumb ass. There is no racism involved here, you dumb asshole. Do you also think people are being "racist" when they talk about George W Bush or John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
etc.
Your response doesn't help. You are using gasoline to put out a fire.
Still, that person said some very hurtful things. I think, hurtful because they strike a bit too close to home.
The thing is, you disagree with this other person, and you really need to work around that, somehow. I suspect it may involve some growing up. I hope you are equal to the task of staying alive long enough to age sufficiently and learn enough about the world, and how to conduct yourself in it, to mature sufficiently to participate in a meaningful dialogue, some day, some where.
I really do, because you clearly have passion, and like smoke indicates there is a fire nearby, where there is passion, sometimes there is a thought worth expressing in the vicinity.
Unfortunately, the invective just above, from you, shows no proof of that. None of it.
Wait, the article made it look like they were learning to be CEOs.
CEO may be the only job they were already prepared for.
Be thankful they aren't being taught code and data structures, or half of you would be replaced by them in 5 years, and the other half would be turning your lunch money over to them.
Obama signed it. Its his constitutional responsibility to know whats in it.
Where in the constitution does it say the President shall be intimately familiar with all the details of every document pertaining to legislation that he signs?
He has other lawyers that augment his reading of onerously lengthy legislation, but I imagine he knows better than you what is in the ACA.
The article is about hidden text in a web page file, not the law. I think you misunderstood that.
This article is troll bait of the worst kind, non-news drawing out the haters and supporters of the objet d' Hate. The second paragraph says, in slightly different language, "this headline and paragraph are meaningless." I do not understand why it is posted in a public space. Personally, I'd be embarrassed to claim any ownership of the article up top.
Are there any examples where someone or group wasn't targeted because of an act of aggression or war?
yes. AFAIK, the American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was intentionally bombed in Yemen was inciting actions through hateful rhetoric, not building bombs or killing people. He was convicted in absentia of belonging to al-Qaida. It is not clear that killing him was a bad decision.
I grew up straddling the Mason Dixon line. There was plenty of racism. Since then I have lived North and I have lived South. I have always found plenty of racism. To pigeonhole the South as somehow having more racism is misleading. It may be more overt, but the covert is more insidious, and both are pervasive. here's been a lot of improvement over the past 5 decades, but it is still alarming when I hear racial stereotypes perpetuated, which I am currently doing on the Left Coast.
It is sad, but it is reason to keep working on it. Pointing fingers at "the bad places" is of limited utility. Be brave and learn something is a better approach.
-- snip -- the people put mental lightweight and frat party boy W. into the Whitehouse -- snip --
Sorry to interrupt, but the US Supreme Court but Bush 41 in place to lie and dissemble as Dick Cheney's beard. The American people lay back and took it. It's what we seem to do, any more. It's why the term "Sheeple" was coined by cynics. The most you can really blame the American people for is letting our political institutions get to the point where a few million dollars can almost win you the election, but mostly I mean the American people who've been elected to go to the House and Senate, when I say that.
continues to perform its work under contract to the Dept of Commerce. making it effectively just another part of the US Government.
IANA, perhaps. ICANN? I think not. Once they signed off on the Affirmation of Commitments, I believe ICANN began, or started working towards, reporting to the planet at large, essentially. It's been a while since I have followed them closely, but I know that was the plan. The DoC may still be involved with IANA, like I said - not been closely following. DoC was disconnected from ICANN years ago.
To finally have internet access on their submarines must be a godsend. I wonder how they avoid getting the cable tangled as the maneuver though.
You have to keep your submarine on the surface, and out in the deeper waters. Sadly, this means they may never see port again, but they do have faster downloads. And fake girlfriends.
This is a tragedy, and has massive potential in civil court. If you can turn someone with inside knowledge of what sounds like venal prosecution, Swartz' family could really bloody the nose of the DoJ and its' agents or assigns.
It won't bring back the brain that helped do so much good, though.
This is really just a sad sad story.
Give them books you loved at their age, and be prepared to talk to them about the ideas.
They are smaller, and very likely, smarter, versions of you. This means they will be able to deal with the darkness, or get past it more easily than you think.
Classic Sci-Fi becomes classic for a good reason: it is brilliantly conceived and executed. The ideas were just as dark back in the day, maybe you missed them because you weren't attuned to that, or maybe you just don't remember how you reacted to that aspect of the writing. Don't cheat your kids out of great literature (and the attendant props you earn for recommending it - this is of secondary import, but not to be totally dismissed out of hand) just because you don't know how they will react. Kids are pretty sturdy, creative about solving problems, and they have you at their back.
Give them the books, one or two or so at a time. If it turns out you've raised axe-murderers or woefully-ill-equipped-to-deal-with-ideas kids, you will know soon enough to switch them to a diet of Barney and Saturday morning cartoons./ugh
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The difference between the first choice we made is, we would also be involved in another dozen wars, crippling the economy and weakening the nation further, instead of winding them down and getting out. And Caribou Barbie would be poised to be President of a country falling to pieces, giving her reason to quit partway through and leave another Bush (Jeb) in the White House.
The difference with the second choice is, well - Romney? Really? Just a wealthier version of the doofus Obama replaced.
Is Obama perfect? Considering the alternatives, perhaps. Are there things I'd like to see done different? Who doesn't have that list?
What it is is politics, the art of the possible.
Good luck to you.
And why does he include Heemeyer in when speaking of federal government?
The whole reason for Heemeyer's rampage was his own stupidity and greed. We're supposed to rally around that guy? You really want the law to allow you to go on a rampage if you, by your own greed, refuse a deal then get cut out of the final deal?
Consider the source. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but apparently would like to buy a drawer of his own. He wants to be paid somewhere between 3 and 700 dollars/hour for his time, due to getting off on a technicality. It could be he was let go more because the prosecutor couldn't figure out how to explain what he did, than anything else. Still, he wants what may be worth millions, or maybe only several hundreds, of dollars for his time and inconvenience.
Go big or go home, as they say. He was clearly paying at least half assed attention when that phrase came up somewhere. At the very least he knows how to get some attention here.
2014 - 1776 = 238, so 103 = ~ 238 This must be the bew math I keep hearing about.
yah! spay or neuter the offender.
Finally, who gives a shit about Mac users?
People who make business decisions based on dollars spent. Mac users buy stuff besides expensive Apple products. If you want to sell your product, they are a viable target audience. Even for software.
Well, one is a tyrannical leader and former KGB operative nostalgic for a more brutal time, infamous for terminating opponents (like journalists) with poison and parading around with his shirt off. The other is known for exposing fraud and abuse by my government. Nicely trolled.
Do I hear idiot, moron, socialist, pin-headed, liars, cheating, stealing, democrats among us?
Probably. They may not actually be there, but that isn't what you asked, is it?
So you're another Communist sympathizer eh? Yet you hate on Russia for acting on the will of ethnic Russians in Crimea? I'm not saying Crimea's ceding to Russia is or is not right or wrong. I am saying the evil communists that the US Government claimed would destroy the American way of life has not changed but the willingness of certain governments and corporations to turn a blind-eye is appalling. Obama makes Bush II look like an amateur in terms of destroying the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. For a legal scholar specialising in constitutional law Barack H. Obama is a traitor and deserves imprisonment in Club Gitmo with 24/7 video feed to the Internet so everyone can see the traitor slowly go insane due to complete isolation.
Oops. I read that. Now I think I have whiplash. This turned from an MH370 story to WTF so quickly, I am thankful I am still alive. I guess I better close the browser window before I hit another turn so sharp it snaps my neck or makes my head explode.
Maybe the US should stop making enemies.
If we stop making enemies, pretty soon we stop waging wars.
If we stop waging war, the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower talked about goes belly up.
If the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower talked about goes belly up, say goodbye to the American economy, and soon thereafter, the world economy.
If we say goodbye to the economy, all infrastructure will implode, including the publishers of /.
If /. goes the way of the dodo bird, all the nerds and nerd wanna-be's that troll and otherwise vent their bile here get all backed up and start expressing themselves in other, darker and more brick-and-mortar-y ways.
So, bob's your uncle, and the world ends badly.
Nobody wants that.
The angry blurb at the end of some AC comments is really a classic. I should start collecting these.
Isn't that why we have /.? Did I miss something?
You are a dumb ass. There is no racism involved here, you dumb asshole. Do you also think people are being "racist" when they talk about George W Bush or John Fitzgerald Kennedy?
etc.
Your response doesn't help. You are using gasoline to put out a fire.
Still, that person said some very hurtful things. I think, hurtful because they strike a bit too close to home.
The thing is, you disagree with this other person, and you really need to work around that, somehow. I suspect it may involve some growing up. I hope you are equal to the task of staying alive long enough to age sufficiently and learn enough about the world, and how to conduct yourself in it, to mature sufficiently to participate in a meaningful dialogue, some day, some where.
I really do, because you clearly have passion, and like smoke indicates there is a fire nearby, where there is passion, sometimes there is a thought worth expressing in the vicinity.
Unfortunately, the invective just above, from you, shows no proof of that. None of it.
Good luck.
Wait, the article made it look like they were learning to be CEOs.
CEO may be the only job they were already prepared for.
Be thankful they aren't being taught code and data structures, or half of you would be replaced by them in 5 years, and the other half would be turning your lunch money over to them.
Obama signed it. Its his constitutional responsibility to know whats in it.
Where in the constitution does it say the President shall be intimately familiar with all the details of every document pertaining to legislation that he signs?
He has other lawyers that augment his reading of onerously lengthy legislation, but I imagine he knows better than you what is in the ACA.
The article is about hidden text in a web page file, not the law. I think you misunderstood that.
This article is troll bait of the worst kind, non-news drawing out the haters and supporters of the objet d' Hate. The second paragraph says, in slightly different language, "this headline and paragraph are meaningless." I do not understand why it is posted in a public space. Personally, I'd be embarrassed to claim any ownership of the article up top.
Ruining BEER to get gas and oil!
ok, now I am awake. this must be stopped. beer is sacrosanct.
i have no sympathy for them. they can rot in hell.
You and me, both, but not because of this story.
Are there any examples where someone or group wasn't targeted because of an act of aggression or war?
yes. AFAIK, the American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was intentionally bombed in Yemen was inciting actions through hateful rhetoric, not building bombs or killing people. He was convicted in absentia of belonging to al-Qaida. It is not clear that killing him was a bad decision.
I grew up straddling the Mason Dixon line. There was plenty of racism. Since then I have lived North and I have lived South. I have always found plenty of racism. To pigeonhole the South as somehow having more racism is misleading. It may be more overt, but the covert is more insidious, and both are pervasive. here's been a lot of improvement over the past 5 decades, but it is still alarming when I hear racial stereotypes perpetuated, which I am currently doing on the Left Coast. It is sad, but it is reason to keep working on it. Pointing fingers at "the bad places" is of limited utility. Be brave and learn something is a better approach.
-- snip -- the people put mental lightweight and frat party boy W. into the Whitehouse -- snip --
Sorry to interrupt, but the US Supreme Court but Bush 41 in place to lie and dissemble as Dick Cheney's beard. The American people lay back and took it. It's what we seem to do, any more. It's why the term "Sheeple" was coined by cynics. The most you can really blame the American people for is letting our political institutions get to the point where a few million dollars can almost win you the election, but mostly I mean the American people who've been elected to go to the House and Senate, when I say that.
continues to perform its work under contract to the Dept of Commerce. making it effectively just another part of the US Government.
IANA, perhaps. ICANN? I think not. Once they signed off on the Affirmation of Commitments, I believe ICANN began, or started working towards, reporting to the planet at large, essentially. It's been a while since I have followed them closely, but I know that was the plan. The DoC may still be involved with IANA, like I said - not been closely following. DoC was disconnected from ICANN years ago.
Why doesn't anybody nitpick any more?
To finally have internet access on their submarines must be a godsend. I wonder how they avoid getting the cable tangled as the maneuver though.
You have to keep your submarine on the surface, and out in the deeper waters. Sadly, this means they may never see port again, but they do have faster downloads. And fake girlfriends.
Isn't that how we got Facebook? All the info in the student db was accessible, and so he used it to make a site for commentary?
This is a tragedy, and has massive potential in civil court. If you can turn someone with inside knowledge of what sounds like venal prosecution, Swartz' family could really bloody the nose of the DoJ and its' agents or assigns. It won't bring back the brain that helped do so much good, though. This is really just a sad sad story.
Damn it! I had C# in the pool. I KNEW I should have gone FLAT!
They are smaller, and very likely, smarter, versions of you. This means they will be able to deal with the darkness, or get past it more easily than you think.
Classic Sci-Fi becomes classic for a good reason: it is brilliantly conceived and executed. The ideas were just as dark back in the day, maybe you missed them because you weren't attuned to that, or maybe you just don't remember how you reacted to that aspect of the writing. Don't cheat your kids out of great literature (and the attendant props you earn for recommending it - this is of secondary import, but not to be totally dismissed out of hand) just because you don't know how they will react. Kids are pretty sturdy, creative about solving problems, and they have you at their back.
Give them the books, one or two or so at a time. If it turns out you've raised axe-murderers or woefully-ill-equipped-to-deal-with-ideas kids, you will know soon enough to switch them to a diet of Barney and Saturday morning cartoons. /ugh