Stop trying to fit. I don't. I'm an opinionated old bastard who actually enjoys mocking everyone on both sides of the lines. Few things make me happier than to have a liberal and a conservative both screaming for my head - in unison. Fuck 'em all - this is my country, a country that is supposed to belong to the citizens. Fuck both parties, don't give either one of them anything.
I've taken to voting libertarian, because that is the only party that might challenge the two big players. There is no one else on the charts. An occasional "independent", who is actually a progressive, or an unhappy conservative, but "independent" isn't a viable party.
Water and sewer lines are mostly made of iron and steel. They carry water, generally contaminated with things like flouride, and human waste. Corrosive stuff, for iron. In many places, those water and sewer lines are a hundred years old. Lots of corrosion.
Power and communication lines don't have much water flowing through them, nor contaminants. You can actually expect high quality copper with good insulation to last for a hundred years, especially if laid within covered concrete trenches. The last time I checked, electrons weren't known to corrode copper.
I understand that quite well. Here in my county, the longest "local" call is less than about 15 miles. I think I can call Wallace Community, and that's it. Any further is "long distance". Oddly, the emergency numbers at the county seat are "local" for billing purposes. That is about 18 miles as the crow flies, 22 to 25 miles by automobile. (no, the numbers aren't recognizable "toll free" numbers, the local exchange just recognizes those emergency numbers as "local") The phone company recognizes and uses county lines, so other homes as close as five miles are "long distance".
I will note that our phone company is a local one, and that the national telcos do not maintain any part of the system.
In an emergency, no one really cares about long distance. You need to call the local sheriff's office, the ambulance, or the fire station. Those are primary, above all else. Secondarily, you need to be able to call local people - relatives or not - who can assist each other immediately. No matter WHO lives six hundred miles away, calling him/her will have no bearing on your emergency situation, because he/she cannot help you in an emergency.
Calling your mother-in-law to inform her that your spouse has been injured or killed is very damned important, of course, but it doesn't quite rank up there with immediate disaster response.
The right to secede is still in the Constitution, despite a myriad of "laws" that would define secession as "treason".
As for the "subjects" thing - when I am disarmed, we'll discuss that again. Until then, I am a free man. I've watched policemen browbeat submissive people - and I've seen plenty of videos in which they physically beat them.
I refuse to be browbeaten, and no cop has ever felt confident enough to try physically beating me.
I am a free man. The fact that my neighbor may or may not choose to be free has no bearing on my status. If/when my neighbor surrenders his freedom, then he effectively surrenders his citizenship.
"Damn, J.D, you wrote some godawful shite here - my nephew could have written a better story! I guess you never did properly mature as an author. I was hoping that your final works would be worth reading. Oh well, maybe in whatever passes for your next life, you've actually learned how to write."
Really - they suck. As stand alone stories, they are worthless. If you actually know something about Salinger, and his life, then the stories might mean something.
First story: "I took my kid brother in to town for oysters, then we went to the beach, he swam for a bit, and he collapsed. Took him home, he died, end of story."
Unfortunately, my version is probably slightly more coherent than Salinger's version.
I'm all over these torrents. What are they going to do, sue me? Let me see - me and about 3000 other seeders, and a few hundred leeches. I don't own anything worth taking, and my working life is nearing an end - what do you think they can gain by suing me?
Funny thing - all the working magnets seem to be DHT and PeX. Interesting that. I wonder how many are using anonymizing programs on their torrent clients? Ha! Glancing through the list of peers, a fair number are coming through proxies that are easily recognizable as proxies.
I suspect that the reason we haven't heard of any high-profile suites over torrenting, is that the gestapos *IAA organizations can't reliably identify "infringers" any longer.
Whatever - I want to read the stories, and see what I think of them.
With a beginning statement such as that, I suspect that you aren't exactly "liberal" in the sense of today's party lines.
Hell, I have some liberal leanings myself. Liberalism isn't an entirely bad thing. Nor is conservatism. I object to where both parties stand today, and I strenuously object to the far right, just as much as I object to the far left.
Have you ever considered that you might be more "centrist" than you are "liberal"?
First, I'm not the Faux Noise fan that you presume me to be. The fact that I may echo some few of that crowd's observations does NOT put me into their camp.
Your reference to evolution? That is exactly what makes you, and people like you so fucking SCARY. You are a left wing zealot, who believes that you are better than your peers. Just as the dark ages priesthood believed that they were serving a higher purpose, for which they would sacrifice entire populations, you believe that YOU are a higher being, and that you serve a higher purpose.
You and the priesthood are equally full of shit.
Mankind hasn't changed measurably in the past ten thousand years, and we aren't going to change in the next ten thousand. Or the next hundred thousand - unless we intentionally intervene through eugenics.
Oh yeah - that's where your ultra-left wing comes in. They want to define who is sane, who is rational, and selectively breed mankind so that those "sane and rational" people outnumber the rest of us.
Let's just call it what it is - genocide. Planned Parenthood has been pretty successful in decreasing the numbers of black and white people who are procreating, while certain brown peoples increase on the ages old geometric curve. Genocide.
"Sus papeles, por favor" my ass. It's either "Paper, Bitch!" or "Papers, Puta!" We speak English in the United States. And, we are not an especially polite people, either.
As for the people and the resources, we already have them. They are already paid for. Instead of patrolling the border, they are clustered at Fort Hood, among other places. There are a lot more such resources spread around the world. We need to evacuate Afghanistan, and draw down forces located at other places, such as Germany and Spain. We have the resources - all we need is for congress to pull it's collective head out of it's collective ass.
Our southern border remains as porous as sandstone. No one knows, or cares, how many people are infiltrating on the southern border. No one cares what their mental state might be, no one gives the slightest thought to their loyalties, or their purposes for crossing the border.
But, we must prevent some Canadian from entering the United States who just might possibly could do harm to herself!
There actually is valid reason to assess people's mental capacity and mental state though. A lot of the centrists and right wingers are agreeing that maybe it would make sense to keep crazy people from acquiring weapons.
The problem is though, as you hint, that left wingers are going to define "crazy". Already we see children being taken into custody for the act of play acting in schools.
Bite a pop-tart into the shape of a gun, and school officials call in the cops. Imagine that. Point a finger and say "POW", and you're marked for life as a crazy person prone to violence.
I suppose that some liberal will read your post, and mine, and be begging for the opportunity to drag us onto an analyst's couch.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan of bull dykes, at all. I've no use for them, and they have no use for me. But, a bull dyke is a woman, after all, and human.
That creature you refer to, who was running DHS, is a full fledged fascist pig, with an agenda of her own. She has no love for the United States, or any segment of the country's demographics.
As little as might like bull dykes, I would have preferred that there actually WAS a militant lesbian bull running DHS.
WTF does Manning have to do with Snowden? Seriously, WTF?
Manning released top secret intel to "get even" with his peers and supervisors. Manning is an immature little bitch, who isn't even sure what gender it is, or where it's loyalties lie, if it even HAS any loyalties.
Snowden, on the other hand, was outraged at obviously illegal activities, and exposed those activities to the world at large.
Jesus H. Christ - the world is a sad, sad place, when honorable men are confused with childish bitches.
Or, would it be more accurate to say that some of you people simply hate the United States, so you create heroes of anyone and everyone who opposes the government for any reason?
which organism in nature has developed an unassailable position, from which it cannot be dislodged?
The word "secure" implies that "I'm safe, and I don't need to worry about stuff". And, that is the attitude that most internet users seem to develop. Install some magical suite of software from a "reputable" vendor, and you are home free.
In fact, all organisms in nature are in constant battle with their environment. The hawk will starve if he doesn't eat, and the rabbit is dinner if he doesn't stay alert. The flowers in the garden are fighting for their own survival, warding off parasites, while luring pollinators, all the while maintaining their positions in the sun.
Security is a process, not a product. For instance, one cannot purchase some product that guarantees your online security, then babble endlessly on Facebook about your every bowel movement while expecting to be "secure". McCafee may promise that online stalkers can't track you, but your posts to Facebook informs that stalker where he can find you every afternoon at 1:30. Don't be surprised when he kicks the bathroom stall open, and has his way with you.
Yeah, it was happily parked, until I walked past, and laid a thermite grenade on the hood.
Your credibility (wait, AC and credibility?) takes a hit, when you claim that a parked vehicle burst into flames. I have seen a lot of vehicles on fire, but never a parked vehicle that just suddenly decided to warm itself up. I'll bet you didn't see the fire marshall's report, which probably made mention of an electronic device that was left turned on, or some other logical explanation.
We have some equipment at work, with factory and maintenance access codes. Those codes change, seemingly at random, until you know the secret. Date and time determines the proper access codes. I suppose that it would be a fairly simple matter to only allow access within certain time frames - that is, simply to null xx% of the now-valid codes.
This isn't a new system, by any means. The machinery runs SysV dated late 1990's.
I can't understand why the Senator is shocked that our spies lied to him. They are SPIES, after all! Do you really expect that spies are going to tell you the truth about anything?
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Stop trying to fit. I don't. I'm an opinionated old bastard who actually enjoys mocking everyone on both sides of the lines. Few things make me happier than to have a liberal and a conservative both screaming for my head - in unison. Fuck 'em all - this is my country, a country that is supposed to belong to the citizens. Fuck both parties, don't give either one of them anything.
I've taken to voting libertarian, because that is the only party that might challenge the two big players. There is no one else on the charts. An occasional "independent", who is actually a progressive, or an unhappy conservative, but "independent" isn't a viable party.
Water and sewer lines are mostly made of iron and steel. They carry water, generally contaminated with things like flouride, and human waste. Corrosive stuff, for iron. In many places, those water and sewer lines are a hundred years old. Lots of corrosion.
Power and communication lines don't have much water flowing through them, nor contaminants. You can actually expect high quality copper with good insulation to last for a hundred years, especially if laid within covered concrete trenches. The last time I checked, electrons weren't known to corrode copper.
I understand that quite well. Here in my county, the longest "local" call is less than about 15 miles. I think I can call Wallace Community, and that's it. Any further is "long distance". Oddly, the emergency numbers at the county seat are "local" for billing purposes. That is about 18 miles as the crow flies, 22 to 25 miles by automobile. (no, the numbers aren't recognizable "toll free" numbers, the local exchange just recognizes those emergency numbers as "local") The phone company recognizes and uses county lines, so other homes as close as five miles are "long distance".
I will note that our phone company is a local one, and that the national telcos do not maintain any part of the system.
In an emergency, no one really cares about long distance. You need to call the local sheriff's office, the ambulance, or the fire station. Those are primary, above all else. Secondarily, you need to be able to call local people - relatives or not - who can assist each other immediately. No matter WHO lives six hundred miles away, calling him/her will have no bearing on your emergency situation, because he/she cannot help you in an emergency.
Calling your mother-in-law to inform her that your spouse has been injured or killed is very damned important, of course, but it doesn't quite rank up there with immediate disaster response.
There's a lot of stuff happening underground, right?
The right to secede is still in the Constitution, despite a myriad of "laws" that would define secession as "treason".
As for the "subjects" thing - when I am disarmed, we'll discuss that again. Until then, I am a free man. I've watched policemen browbeat submissive people - and I've seen plenty of videos in which they physically beat them.
I refuse to be browbeaten, and no cop has ever felt confident enough to try physically beating me.
I am a free man. The fact that my neighbor may or may not choose to be free has no bearing on my status. If/when my neighbor surrenders his freedom, then he effectively surrenders his citizenship.
"subjects of the USA"
Stop trying to pass yourself off as an American citizen. There are no subjects of the USA. Never were, never will be - at least not as long as I live.
Great Britain has subjects. A lot of other countries have subjects. The US only has citizens.
Are you working for the New World Order, or what? Why would you want to be a subject, rather than a free man?
Hmmm - your "conversation" might continue thus:
"Damn, J.D, you wrote some godawful shite here - my nephew could have written a better story! I guess you never did properly mature as an author. I was hoping that your final works would be worth reading. Oh well, maybe in whatever passes for your next life, you've actually learned how to write."
Really - they suck. As stand alone stories, they are worthless. If you actually know something about Salinger, and his life, then the stories might mean something.
First story: "I took my kid brother in to town for oysters, then we went to the beach, he swam for a bit, and he collapsed. Took him home, he died, end of story."
Unfortunately, my version is probably slightly more coherent than Salinger's version.
The other two stories aren't any better.
So, WTF do you get this Limbaugh/Coulter shit from?
I'm all over these torrents. What are they going to do, sue me? Let me see - me and about 3000 other seeders, and a few hundred leeches. I don't own anything worth taking, and my working life is nearing an end - what do you think they can gain by suing me?
Funny thing - all the working magnets seem to be DHT and PeX. Interesting that. I wonder how many are using anonymizing programs on their torrent clients? Ha! Glancing through the list of peers, a fair number are coming through proxies that are easily recognizable as proxies.
I suspect that the reason we haven't heard of any high-profile suites over torrenting, is that the gestapos *IAA organizations can't reliably identify "infringers" any longer.
Whatever - I want to read the stories, and see what I think of them.
"I could be described as liberal,"
With a beginning statement such as that, I suspect that you aren't exactly "liberal" in the sense of today's party lines.
Hell, I have some liberal leanings myself. Liberalism isn't an entirely bad thing. Nor is conservatism. I object to where both parties stand today, and I strenuously object to the far right, just as much as I object to the far left.
Have you ever considered that you might be more "centrist" than you are "liberal"?
Poor Andy - you're so very wrong.
First, I'm not the Faux Noise fan that you presume me to be. The fact that I may echo some few of that crowd's observations does NOT put me into their camp.
Your reference to evolution? That is exactly what makes you, and people like you so fucking SCARY. You are a left wing zealot, who believes that you are better than your peers. Just as the dark ages priesthood believed that they were serving a higher purpose, for which they would sacrifice entire populations, you believe that YOU are a higher being, and that you serve a higher purpose.
You and the priesthood are equally full of shit.
Mankind hasn't changed measurably in the past ten thousand years, and we aren't going to change in the next ten thousand. Or the next hundred thousand - unless we intentionally intervene through eugenics.
Oh yeah - that's where your ultra-left wing comes in. They want to define who is sane, who is rational, and selectively breed mankind so that those "sane and rational" people outnumber the rest of us.
Let's just call it what it is - genocide. Planned Parenthood has been pretty successful in decreasing the numbers of black and white people who are procreating, while certain brown peoples increase on the ages old geometric curve. Genocide.
"Sus papeles, por favor" my ass. It's either "Paper, Bitch!" or "Papers, Puta!" We speak English in the United States. And, we are not an especially polite people, either.
As for the people and the resources, we already have them. They are already paid for. Instead of patrolling the border, they are clustered at Fort Hood, among other places. There are a lot more such resources spread around the world. We need to evacuate Afghanistan, and draw down forces located at other places, such as Germany and Spain. We have the resources - all we need is for congress to pull it's collective head out of it's collective ass.
Our southern border remains as porous as sandstone. No one knows, or cares, how many people are infiltrating on the southern border. No one cares what their mental state might be, no one gives the slightest thought to their loyalties, or their purposes for crossing the border.
But, we must prevent some Canadian from entering the United States who just might possibly could do harm to herself!
There actually is valid reason to assess people's mental capacity and mental state though. A lot of the centrists and right wingers are agreeing that maybe it would make sense to keep crazy people from acquiring weapons.
The problem is though, as you hint, that left wingers are going to define "crazy". Already we see children being taken into custody for the act of play acting in schools.
Bite a pop-tart into the shape of a gun, and school officials call in the cops. Imagine that. Point a finger and say "POW", and you're marked for life as a crazy person prone to violence.
I suppose that some liberal will read your post, and mine, and be begging for the opportunity to drag us onto an analyst's couch.
That creature was no bull dyke.
Now, don't get me wrong. I'm not a fan of bull dykes, at all. I've no use for them, and they have no use for me. But, a bull dyke is a woman, after all, and human.
That creature you refer to, who was running DHS, is a full fledged fascist pig, with an agenda of her own. She has no love for the United States, or any segment of the country's demographics.
As little as might like bull dykes, I would have preferred that there actually WAS a militant lesbian bull running DHS.
WTF does Manning have to do with Snowden? Seriously, WTF?
Manning released top secret intel to "get even" with his peers and supervisors. Manning is an immature little bitch, who isn't even sure what gender it is, or where it's loyalties lie, if it even HAS any loyalties.
Snowden, on the other hand, was outraged at obviously illegal activities, and exposed those activities to the world at large.
Jesus H. Christ - the world is a sad, sad place, when honorable men are confused with childish bitches.
Or, would it be more accurate to say that some of you people simply hate the United States, so you create heroes of anyone and everyone who opposes the government for any reason?
Pathetic . . .
which organism in nature has developed an unassailable position, from which it cannot be dislodged?
The word "secure" implies that "I'm safe, and I don't need to worry about stuff". And, that is the attitude that most internet users seem to develop. Install some magical suite of software from a "reputable" vendor, and you are home free.
In fact, all organisms in nature are in constant battle with their environment. The hawk will starve if he doesn't eat, and the rabbit is dinner if he doesn't stay alert. The flowers in the garden are fighting for their own survival, warding off parasites, while luring pollinators, all the while maintaining their positions in the sun.
There is no "security" in nature - none.
Security is a process, not a product. For instance, one cannot purchase some product that guarantees your online security, then babble endlessly on Facebook about your every bowel movement while expecting to be "secure". McCafee may promise that online stalkers can't track you, but your posts to Facebook informs that stalker where he can find you every afternoon at 1:30. Don't be surprised when he kicks the bathroom stall open, and has his way with you.
Yeah, it was happily parked, until I walked past, and laid a thermite grenade on the hood.
Your credibility (wait, AC and credibility?) takes a hit, when you claim that a parked vehicle burst into flames. I have seen a lot of vehicles on fire, but never a parked vehicle that just suddenly decided to warm itself up. I'll bet you didn't see the fire marshall's report, which probably made mention of an electronic device that was left turned on, or some other logical explanation.
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We have some equipment at work, with factory and maintenance access codes. Those codes change, seemingly at random, until you know the secret. Date and time determines the proper access codes. I suppose that it would be a fairly simple matter to only allow access within certain time frames - that is, simply to null xx% of the now-valid codes.
This isn't a new system, by any means. The machinery runs SysV dated late 1990's.
I can't understand why the Senator is shocked that our spies lied to him. They are SPIES, after all! Do you really expect that spies are going to tell you the truth about anything?