Well, the next time you're pulled over, flash your tits to the nice officer. If you're a woman, you'll probably get off with a warning. If you're a man, he'll let you go... because you're nuts... and scary. Helps if you've got a beard, too. Either way, it works!
This is something that the damned Yankees would do as prelude to invading Iran -- to stop all the bloggers from documenting the invasion and getting the rest of the Arab and Muslim worlds up in arms. Drop a few million copies of The God Delusion in the Muslim world. Hell, drop a few million copies of The Root of All Evil?, too. Maybe then we'll see some progress.
You remember, back when PGP was making the news, how the government freaked out over it... until they realized most people didn't - still don't - care enough to actually use it? The situation hasn't changed.
O'course, this means that your recipient must have PGP in order to read your message, which can get inconvenient when talking to grandma. Why should gradma use PGP? She has nothing to hide... and she doesn't care enough to learn how to.
How much do we spend yearly on the pentagon again? Yeah, I mean, who gives a shit about the troops--right? Fuck 'em all--right? They're all dumb kids that would've ended up in prison if a recruiter hadn't talked them into enlisting--right?
It's easy to ignore the human face of the United States military when you sling around the word "pentagon". Speaking in terms of buildings and bullets lets you forget the young men & woman serving.
I was loose with my words, I'll admit that, but the principle still holds. As for my knowledge of BT, ah... I'd rather not comment. Interpret that however you want.:)
If you have a listing in your living room of where one could go to buy coke, and you leave your doors wide open[...] I'd meet a ton of new people every day?
Nothing has been downloaded through the Pirate bay's site. They run the tracker? Yes? Then, yes, the crap has been download through their site/tracker.
I'm sure a lawyer can chime in here, but it's my understanding that if I allow illegal acts to be performed on my property... then I can be held responsible for it.
Example: if I let someone sell coke in my living room, I can be charged. Not sure with what, but the "I didn't know!" excuse won't hold up - especially if there are bags and bags of the crap out in the open for anyone to see.
To take the example further: if I tell someone where they can buy coke - specifically tell them from whom and where, I'm sure I could get charged, too.
Pissing, bitching and moaning on/., while fun and a good exercise in futility, won't change the fact that TPB boys are screwed.
That which to us seems perfectly obvious will some day be revealed as silly superstition. Like what? Please, great prophet, what truth will be revealed to be false? Have your god(s) spoken to you?
Outside of the USA which is rife with that form of silly supernaturalism called 'christianity', of course. And Islam and Judaism.
You were referring mainly to Europe? No, because Europe - Britain, at least - will be Islamic within a few generations. Have fun with Sharia, because it's a helluva lot worse than anything the Christian crazies could ever dream of.
I'd use the term "holier than thou" to describe your attitude, but I fear that the phrase alludes to what you likely term as superstition. Wrap it up in a ceremony while you're at it. Maybe include a sacrifice, too?
Let's invade an enemy country, kidnap some virgins, and sacrifice them to the Sky God, okay?! After we're done and we've been arrested by The White Man, we can scream "racism" and blame the American hegemony!
"STFU you intolerant, elitist, arrogant asshead" I'd consider that a compliment, actually. Thanks.:)
while certainly applicable, just seems a bit too harsh. Reality is a bitch.
The last thing the primitives need is to have their dead/dying culture kept alive on life support.
Note to the primitives: y'all lost. Suck it. Suck. It. Hard.
This isn't flamebait, merely an expression of one man's frustration from having to deal with the pathetic primitives that can't accept the fact that the world has evolved past the sillier forms of supernaturalism.
A lot of these Chinese students have been taught all their lives that Americans are barbarians, decadent, corrupt, etc,etc... Which is largely true.
Most American's are obsessed with idiotic physical competitions, are in debt up to their ass to pay for toys they don't need, and haven't ever lost sleep over the Fermi paradox.
Don't get me wrong, please. I love America and the idea of America, I simply have a problem with most of the people occupying the land itself.:)
Some of the Indians are that way too when they first get to the US. It's part culture shock and part xenophobia. Speaking strictly from personal experience, most Indian's - dots, not feathers - have been some of the most adaptable people I've known. Again, personal experience.
The only time I can remember having a problem with an Indian was back in grade school. There was this cute Indian girl and her father went nuts whenever he caught us together. But, ah, I don't think that had anything to do with "culture shock" or "xenophobia". Ha!
A lot of them get over it once they've been exposed to our culture and people for a while, and they realize what they were told before coming to the US is just one side of the story. Translation: they bang a couple dumb, slutty white girls and get good jobs.;)
How about if you put them all in FLAC for $0.10 each? - No, I want the fucking artist to sing it live for me. In my fucking house. At MY convenience. I'll give you a quarter if it's Britney Spears -- as long as she's naked & drunk.:)
Whatever your point(s), why would anyone care what a random guy on the internet thinks? Because you may recognize him offline and tell your friends "hey, there's that moron from the tubes!", of course! Duh!
Hillary voted for $1 Million for a Woodstock museum - doesn't it make more sense to fund a huge, cheap project that could potentially help save the entire Earth from annihilation than a museum about a rockin' sex-fest? Not if you're a nihilistic hippie that hopes the world will come to a horrible end.:)
Seriously, do you think the people that were fuckin' and druggin' their brains out at Woodstock give a shit about the future? I'm talking about the majority of people there, since - I'm sure - there are a couple that actually got their lives together and made something out of themselves. No, I'm talking about the majority of people that went to Woodstock and did the entire "hippie thing".
Druggies and the rest are too focused on the short-term (eg: let's get high and fuck - let's not even think about the possibility that someone in the orgy has an STD or that someone may get pregnant or that they drugs we're doing probably came from some not-too-nice person or that we're supporting the exploitation of third word farmers that are practically slaves to the drug barons) to think about a big ass rock hitting the Earth within the next couple thousand years. Building a Spaceguard-style system will take long-term thinking.
And before someone accuses me of just attacking the Left (since, really, how many Repubs actually went to Woodstock?), remember that President Bush has been in office for apx seven years. And he hasn't done shit about this potential threat. His bitches seem too focused on duct tape and stem cells to worry about something as trivial as an extinction-level event.
So, yeah, I'm voting for Gumby & Pokey next time around.
I heard, from a mutual friend, that she didn't like her victim's to be "into it". Something about the "fun not being there" when the victim begs for more.
After 9/11, untold thousands of New Yorkers bought machines that detect traces of biological, chemical, and radiological weapons. But a lot of these machines didn't work right, and when they registered false alarms, the police had to spend millions of dollars chasing bad leads and throwing the public into a state of raw panic. The individuals that bought malfunctioning machines should sue the manufacturers. Maybe even the responding agencies (eg: police, fire, NSA) could have a part in the action.
OK, none of that has actually happened. Wait, what?
But Richard Falkenrath, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, knows that it's just a matter of time. Really? Are we doing pre-crime, now?
That's why he and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have asked the City Council to pass a law requiring anyone who wants to own such detectors to get a permit from the police first. How about the manufacturers creating a certifying body that would certify the devices? You know, sorta like the UL (Underwriters' Lab) seal, but for NBC detectors?
I know that would kill off this new source of funds for the guv'ment - permits aren't free, folks - but it would prevent the situation precog'ed by Falkenrath from happening.
Want to test for pollution in low-income neighborhoods with high rates of childhood asthma? Gotta ask the cops for permission. Why? So you "will not lead to excessive false alarms and unwarranted anxiety," the first draft of the law states. Yeah, see, if you went with my idea: you'd know your detector was working and - should it detect something - you'd have damn good reason to be anxious.
Of course, this really isn't about "excessive false alarms and unwarranted anxiety". This is about the guv'ment exploiting public fear for a new revenue stream.
Oh, yeah, it's also another attack on the Informed Individual. There's nothing the guv'ment hates worse than a little peon who knows too much.
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Well, the next time you're pulled over, flash your tits to the nice officer. If you're a woman, you'll probably get off with a warning. If you're a man, he'll let you go... because you're nuts... and scary. Helps if you've got a beard, too. Either way, it works!
See subject. I'm depressed. :(
Osprey.
Alert the press! Alert the watchdog groups!
This can't be allowed to happen, again!
Same problem, new decade. Sigh.
It's easy to ignore the human face of the United States military when you sling around the word "pentagon". Speaking in terms of buildings and bullets lets you forget the young men & woman serving.
Asshole.
Which one, man, there are so many!
I prefer HornyHobbit, personally.
I'm sure a lawyer can chime in here, but it's my understanding that if I allow illegal acts to be performed on my property... then I can be held responsible for it.
Example: if I let someone sell coke in my living room, I can be charged. Not sure with what, but the "I didn't know!" excuse won't hold up - especially if there are bags and bags of the crap out in the open for anyone to see.
To take the example further: if I tell someone where they can buy coke - specifically tell them from whom and where, I'm sure I could get charged, too.
Pissing, bitching and moaning on
Anyone want to start a wig fund for them?
Look, you're singing to the choir. We can't even get rid of the sillier forms of supernaturalism, you think we have a chance against Christianity?
We've got to start somewhere - might as well be with the fringe, "native" religions.
Let's invade an enemy country, kidnap some virgins, and sacrifice them to the Sky God, okay?! After we're done and we've been arrested by The White Man, we can scream "racism" and blame the American hegemony! "STFU you intolerant, elitist, arrogant asshead" I'd consider that a compliment, actually. Thanks.
The last thing the primitives need is to have their dead/dying culture kept alive on life support.
The young need textbooks, not textiles.
Note to the primitives: y'all lost. Suck it. Suck. It. Hard.
This isn't flamebait, merely an expression of one man's frustration from having to deal with the pathetic primitives that can't accept the fact that the world has evolved past the sillier forms of supernaturalism.
Most American's are obsessed with idiotic physical competitions, are in debt up to their ass to pay for toys they don't need, and haven't ever lost sleep over the Fermi paradox.
Don't get me wrong, please. I love America and the idea of America, I simply have a problem with most of the people occupying the land itself.
The only time I can remember having a problem with an Indian was back in grade school. There was this cute Indian girl and her father went nuts whenever he caught us together. But, ah, I don't think that had anything to do with "culture shock" or "xenophobia". Ha! A lot of them get over it once they've been exposed to our culture and people for a while, and they realize what they were told before coming to the US is just one side of the story. Translation: they bang a couple dumb, slutty white girls and get good jobs.
Seriously, do you think the people that were fuckin' and druggin' their brains out at Woodstock give a shit about the future? I'm talking about the majority of people there, since - I'm sure - there are a couple that actually got their lives together and made something out of themselves. No, I'm talking about the majority of people that went to Woodstock and did the entire "hippie thing".
Druggies and the rest are too focused on the short-term (eg: let's get high and fuck - let's not even think about the possibility that someone in the orgy has an STD or that someone may get pregnant or that they drugs we're doing probably came from some not-too-nice person or that we're supporting the exploitation of third word farmers that are practically slaves to the drug barons) to think about a big ass rock hitting the Earth within the next couple thousand years. Building a Spaceguard-style system will take long-term thinking.
And before someone accuses me of just attacking the Left (since, really, how many Repubs actually went to Woodstock?), remember that President Bush has been in office for apx seven years. And he hasn't done shit about this potential threat. His bitches seem too focused on duct tape and stem cells to worry about something as trivial as an extinction-level event.
So, yeah, I'm voting for Gumby & Pokey next time around.
I heard, from a mutual friend, that she didn't like her victim's to be "into it". Something about the "fun not being there" when the victim begs for more.
Argh! Women! They remain the eternal mystery!
I know that would kill off this new source of funds for the guv'ment - permits aren't free, folks - but it would prevent the situation precog'ed by Falkenrath from happening. Want to test for pollution in low-income neighborhoods with high rates of childhood asthma? Gotta ask the cops for permission. Why? So you "will not lead to excessive false alarms and unwarranted anxiety," the first draft of the law states. Yeah, see, if you went with my idea: you'd know your detector was working and - should it detect something - you'd have damn good reason to be anxious.
Of course, this really isn't about "excessive false alarms and unwarranted anxiety". This is about the guv'ment exploiting public fear for a new revenue stream.
Oh, yeah, it's also another attack on the Informed Individual. There's nothing the guv'ment hates worse than a little peon who knows too much.
zing!
Another vote for NFS.