"On the other hand, if you are less efficient than the private sector (which doesn't require this), you are somehow morally inferior."
Morally inferior are not the right words. Rather, I would call it inherently unamerican in management.
As you and your wife are well aware, every little government-run agency and program, including our schools, are headed by management who know what the budget means to their jobs. You simply do not want to go over budget, or you get fired. If the organization does not meet its alloted budget through thriftness or smart spending, the budget for all of next year will get cut.
Here is part of the unamerican part I mentioned. The management for a federally funded drug prevention program office had a good deal of money left over in the budget. To avoid cuts that year, they purchased 10 computers (from my former employer) that they simply did not need, and used them to replace 10 computers that were only 2 years old. The older 10 computers went into storage somewhere, probably never to be seen again. I'm sorry, but they just squandered what I consider to be equal to a few years worth of federal income tax payments just so they wouldn't have to worry about loosing cash in their budget next year. They took my money and wasted it. These people that my tax dollars pay for and are supposed to be serving me are making horrendously selfish decisions that force me to serve them instead. IMHO, that money could have gone a long way in paying my own college education.
You hardly see this type of waste in well-run companies, big and small, because there is no bottomless pit of money that you can count on, and accountability is a key. Nobody inside the federal government cares when waste of federal money is concerned. Ernst and Young CAN'T EVEN AUDIT the US Department of Education! The USA's consficatory tax system provides federal agencies to spend like there is no tommorow with no attention to results, with the exception of this: "Did you meet the budget?".
The big problem is not the paperwork, but that nobody looks above the bottom line.
The efficency problems of the federal government starts at the top. They know the boss (that would be you and me) is asleep at the desk and we left our wallet by the door.
Noone would do it.
Emulators do a perfectly fine job of imitating NES hardware, and the cost of using old stock parts for the NES and sticking them on a PCI card isn't justified on a 486 or better PC. The thing I would like to try is to just build an interface to read the cartridges. I already built a PS Memory card reader/writer , shouldn't be much tougher;)
From what I've read, you can't even find a CD player that will read Dreamcast discs. Copyproof, readproof, futile for now. A PCI card would make no sense.
"Shit" is among the seven words the FCC has banned, and even the there's no way Warner Bros. would allow that on such a station. The only time I remember hearing the word "F*ck" on basic cable was when Jason Preiestly had a live interview on Fox News and was expressing his anger at the tabloids:)
Quite the opposite as far as censoring nudity in Japan. I've even seen a video game advertisement in a magazine for an "endorsed" tennis game on the SNES. It featured a woman dressed in stadard tennis garb, lifting up the back of her dress. Right above her bare butt, she was holding the end of the dress and a box of the game. And that's just a simple fringe example.
Most TV shows don't have a chance at decent syndication without at least 100 episodes. Gundam wing features less than 50 episodes and the follow-up movie "Endless Waltz". Dragonball Z was preceeded in Japan by the original Dragonball Series, and we still have a way to go before we get to Dragonball GT. Hundreds of Dragonball episodes are out there:)
Toonami is very hot property right now, and to keep putting the same stale-ing episodes of W up would be to waste tens of millions in profit by putting in new content, such as Sub6, the recent Tenchis, and maybe some of the other Gundam series;)
In case anyone is wondering why Gundam Wing was shown uncut at midnight but Tenchi won't be, it's because Cartoon Network has taken a firm stance that the network will be a "safe harbor" no matter when you tune in.
So, while it has a bit of violence and blood during action shows like Gundam Wing (whose uncut episodes only feature some blood), there are no explicit death scenes or the like. Tenchi has nudity, and the only shows with nudity in basic cable are on the discovery channel. Needless to say, Cartoon Network spent tons of money painting on swimsuits for the Tenchi bath scenes.
You know, the angel one. Denzel Washington, the computer newbie angel, runs into a computer opens up his heavenly handbook and turns it to a page where the Windows logo is "beatified":)...
This movie proves that not all of Hollywood has bitten the apple. Sorry, bad biblical reference, couldn't stop myself.....
Because the arts will die without government funding! (After all, the arts never existed before government funding!) Superb projects like this will disappear! Imagine the loss the world will feel when no longer an artist will be able to recreate a scene from "The Sound Of Music" with a videogame feel! The pain! The horror! Such artists would have to find a _real_ job! Like farming! Or military work! We are killing our artists and turning their corpses into government endorsed mass murders!
Sorry, just had to deliver a daily dose of sarcasim.
One size fits all works in clothing, but not necessarily software. The Debian installer is less refined and tailored to experts more than other peices of software, but so what? Technical people like technical solutions because it's easier to get desired results. The debian installer is far more flexible and usuable in unique situations than every other distro I've seen. If it's too much for you, get someone else to install it or wait for an alternative installer. Would you do anything less when it comes to rebuilding an engine or painting your house? As long as there's a choice in installation options, though, I'm okay with making a simpler interface. I just don't want to, by analogy, be forced to paint my house with a eyeliner....
Maybe all this is to remind us as individuals that we have much less control then we ever thought we have had when it comes to interacting with others.
A man was recently sentenced to 4 years in prison for having sex with a horse. (As Leno said, when will people learn that neigh means neigh?). It may have been on his own property with a horse he owned, but still he got sentenced to prison for it. The US is not -completely- free, nor does it people want that much freedom:)....
Here, there are people linking to matterial that, while it is technical and good hearted in it's nature and motives (okay, so not entirely), it is, like it or not, illegal material. Just as links to kitty porn and maps that show where hemp is being grown is. And standing out in the middle of the street naked is illegal to. The nudity thing is covered by other laws, but the DMCA was passes to put certain limits on what can legally be done by internet users, limits primarily desigined to uphold copyrights in the digital scheme of things.
To understand the government's point of view, you must look at several things.
1) The people are the government in the US, where majority rules. (Lobbying doesn't do sh!t, btw, I don't care what you hippies say.)
2) The internet is a form of a public utility, grown in the mysterious space where ownership is shared among the government and the telecommunictaions industry. Because the wires are laid over government land, the government has regulatory final say over everything that goes on over that network. And while first ammendment rights are on loan to a good deal of these utilities, the government reserves the right to impose restrictions of your rights in this area. This is what makes the DMCA possible.
3) Linking to illegal material makes you a criminal, at least in an accessorary way. Sorta like being the guy who hires a hitman to take out your enemy, but a much with less at stake.
"Your rights online" has always stuck me as something ridiculous for a title of this section. We have as many rights on the internet as we would inside of a government building, say the white house. To all governemnt lands are open to the public, and the government is free to restrict access in whatever way it wants to, and this power was granted to the governement from the very begining. People do, of course, have a say in it all. Ever see a city try to annex a suburban area? Not always an easy task, usually something determined by the public. If the public wants more rights and more freedom on the internet.... well, it shouldn't have voted to administration that pushed the DMCA through into office in the first place.;)
1) You can be arrested even if you didn't commit a crime. You are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. You can be arrested when under suspicion for a whole hell of a lot of stuff, but they usually won't hold you long if you are innocent or it can't really be proven in one way or another that you perpretrated a crime. But you can be placed under arrest for anything they want to arrest you for, even if it is only to clear up a bad situation.
2) The law was upheld to protect the townspeople of Philly. Nothing unamerican and stupid about that.
3) Most welfare recipients are able bodied people that weren't raised to be responsible or to make good choices (including welfare mothers who could have picked a better husband blindfolded than the jerry springeresque peice of trash they had). Yes, there are true hard luck cases out there, but most of those people rise above their problems, at least if they have half a brain and willpower.
First of all, dude, you -really- suck at reporting your story. Read a book once in a while, learn a little bit about how to effectively write.
It's not that I don't care so much about the protesters, many of whom are peacful. But, for many of the extremists, whose combined combined lack of wisdom, respect for the law, and care for anyone but themselves, coupled with an overall lack of personal responsibility... Well, excuse me if I personally think many of them are assholes.:)
#1: As made very clear by this story, the "protester's" main goal was to, more than anything, bring the police across as a horrible oppressive force meant to crush the little stupid guy. Sorry, I don't buy it. There's a difference between keeping an air of order and civility and attacking random citizens on the streets. If you refuse to help out those who protect the law and keep people the innnocent of the country safe, then you are an idiot. I'm sorry if you felt like your "rights were violated" when all they wanted to see was your ID. Legally, they couldn't force you to show it, and by all means, you weren't obligated by law to show it or answer any questions without your attourney. But it's your problem if you didn't bring your attourney with you. Trust me, they'll have no problem making one availiable for you (unless you get caught by the oh-so-realistic actors of NYPD Blue:P ). They are there to uphold the law and ensure public saftey, give me one damn good reason why you wouldn't cooperate right then and there. It's stupid. It's on public land patrolled by the police. It is their jurisdiction, and while they can't and won't violate your rights, there's no reason to be an asshole about helping them.... except... You _seem_ to think that being 'oppressed' by the police, when all they did was detain you for a little while during an overwhelmingly intense situation in that town, is either the best way to bring your point across. That, or you just happen to get your rocks off by being taped by the press while getting thrown in the paddy wagon. I don't know your reasons, and I don't care. You were not violated by the government in any way, nor were you physically harmed. Sounds like the police did a fine job to me.
#2: Which brings me to my second point. Bashing the police for doing thier job is unamerican and stupid. I understand protests and revolts, but I do not understand undermining the law of this country, when the people of the country as a whole, through their vote and public expression of their opinion, shapes the law of the land. The police are doing the bidding of the people of a whole. Attacking the police is dumb. They enforce the law, they don't write it.
#3: Maybe your positions really are wrong. And maybe the majority of Americans have come to that conclusion. (People with difereng political views can skip the rest, lest they get mad. Don't say I didn't warn you.) Anti-poverty coalitions? Hell, get off your butt and work if you don't want to be poor. Welfare rights? Complain to God if you think that you should get money and food without struggling or working to get it at all. He's the one who created the world, not the damn government. Just because it can be done nowadays DOES NOT mean it should be done. Partial birth abortion. Guys, my daughter was born at less than 25 weeks old, and managed to make it. There are babies that will never get that chance because of partial birth abortion, and they will be much older than my daughter ever got before birth. It is _WRONG_, and it is murder. Just ask my daughter what she thinks of it. If you can't be responsible for your own child, then find someone who can be. Equal Rights? Try removing affirmative action. The governement should at least be color blind before we can expect our people to be color blind.
Maybe a lot of the protesters just don't get it, and thier target audience understands it.
Of course, this is all just my opinion, I could be wrong.
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I live in a world of perfect happy people. And yes, it is called Texas. The only thing here that can possible fsck up this great land is the federal governemt, IMHO:)
That's just my opinion, of course.... I _could_ be wrong.
First fact, you will never be able to show me a __SINGLE__ peice of legistlation approved by the Clinton administration that improved the nations economy in any way. Just try it.
Secondly, you need to first brush up on Economics and economic history of the united states, and look at how much impact economic policies implemented by Ronald Regan's administration, known as "Regannomics", have been continually reshapping the economic fitness of America as a whole. We would not have had last's years budget surplus if the groundwork wasn't laid by Regan.
Third, the new tech economy has been the cherry on top of the cake. If anything, The Clinton/Gore has done several steps to screw it up, from spending millions on ridiculous lawsuits such as the Microsoft antitrust case to taking credit for creating the internet as a whole! (An yes, I said ridiculous. Microsoft did participate in unfair buisness practices, but a monoply requires totalitarian control of a product's resources, usually governemnt granted ones at that (railroad land, air and wire transmission services, domain names). Anybody can hire a programmer, however, and the fact that other operating systems are in very wide use, notably MacOS, a monopoly is really a stupid argument, not worth millions of dollars of my tax money.)
"Easy to bitch, easy to moan, easy to cry, harder to work, harder to strive, harder to be glad to be alive." - Cowboy Mouth, "Easy"
Every single poor person that I know (and I know plenty) simply does not have what it takes to become successful in a country ripe with oppritunity. It is much easier to sit on your ass all day and drink beer than it is to go out and work harder to improve your life.
The elderly poor got where they are, "eating dog food", because in all thier hippie wisdom, living in the moment became more important than being responisble for their future.
Odly enough, my grandfather started out on his independant life at 15, broke and on his own. Making a living farming, worked hard until he was satisfied with what he accompished, and retired a millionaire, and is happy as ever. He earned his living, and so should everyone else. It's called responsibility
And don't you fscking dare start on single welfare mothers (which would definitely have been the next thread of this argument.). Show me one case outside of death of thier spouse (if they _ever_ got married) where they didn't reap what they sew, and yes, I am including picking a louse for a husband. And, on the widow argument, even if their husband works at mcdonalds, there's no reason he can't put back half of a dollar every day for a heck life insurance. It'll cost more if he's in bad health, but once again, you _do_ reap what you sew.
Rich people are not simply given money. Around 40% personal income goes sraight to taxes.
Meanwhile, the poor get paid by the government to sit on thier ass. Not even an an ounce of community service or anything in return is expected or given.
No, the rich may not have it 'bad', but things would certainly be better _for the country as a whole_ if they could give more of thier money to their employees rather than just piping it to unproductive welfare recipients.
Who pays for your time and labor? Who writes the paycheck?
If it's a corporation, then you are biting the hands that feed you.
If it's the government, then guess who foots most of the taxes?
And trust me, there is _nothing_ keeping you from starting your own buisness, how do you think most of the rich got where they are?
My _point_ is this. Why should the rich be treated any differently than the poor in this country by the governemnt anyway? The large majority of poor people earned their place in the US economy. I've yet to hear of a entrepenuer who got where he is by sitting on his ass all the way to the top.
In the United States, the rich are getting screwed over far more than the poor will ever be. Why should the rich be forced to pay so much to the unproductive black hole of welfare, when they could be spending that money hiring more people instead?
Right now, the American government bends over backwards to service the lazy and the poor while forcing the rich to foot the entire bill. It is personally my belief that the government, for the people and of the people, should treat _everybody_ the same, regardless of income or other factors.
Are the rich evil? No more than you are ignorant. But, of course, that's my opinion:).
Of course you think he's an empty suit. So would anyone else who actually hasn't taken a good look at him and his record, or lived in his state. I've lived here all throughout his governer-ship, and I'm very impressed. He's done a hell of a lot of good for Texas, and is very active in supporting this state.
Don't pass judgement on a person before you find out more about them. I'm sorry, but America already knows al gore, they've known him for 8 years, and the know that keeping the CLinton legacy in office is just going to send the country down the tubes more and more...
Gore - Takes credit for the internet.
Bush - Shares credit for everything done in Texas among it's entire poltical system.
Gore - Leans to the left and the right, just depending on how the polls are going.
Bush - Takes a stance and hasn't changed them to fit the ideas expressed by the largely uninformed public, including CmdrTaco, in polls.
Gore - Believes in equality across the board in everything. In other words, equal in misery, no matter how hard you try.
Bush - Believes in equal oppritunity, by not garunteed results. People have the chance to make their own future, not just to plug a hole created by the government quotas.
Gore - Pro-Abortion
Bush - Pro Life, but has said to only act on the partial birh abortion bill. Quite simple, I agree with his stance, because my daughter was born a micro-premie, and while she survived, many children older than she was at birth will never have the chance to live.
Gore - Social Responsibility
Bush - Personal Responsibility
Gore - Taking credit for the new economy, which is really a result of the economic policies created during the Regan Era and the new tech economy
Bush - Understands that, but knows that 90% of the american people don't know jack shit about how economics works, so won't argue that point.
I'm sorry, but you should be able to tell who I'm voting for.
If you want socialism, go to Cuba.
Are debian related. I am fairly sure that Debian's perl packagers thought people would never use the CPAN module. I swear, once it upgraded Perl to 5.6.0, leaving the existing perl modules and libraries in debian filesystem hell (I don't care what it's compliant with), things were never the same. Anyway, that's my bitch for the day:).
BTW, the CPAN module itself is great. To camel newbies, after you set up "perl -MCPAN -e shell", installing new modules is a snap...
Sometimes, we still must use the source, Luke...
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Mojo Jojo HATE them powerpuffs.
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"I am MOOOOJOOOO JOJO. And once the Powerpuff Movie that is being made will be released after it is finished filming, the film that is being filmed, then I will go to the theater and purchase a ticket for one to see the Powerpuff Movie, and the one ticket that I have purchased will be used for my admittance so I can see the movie. I will then proceed to go into the theater to see the Powerpuff Movie and NOT the new Charlie's Angels movie and NOT the new Cheerleader movie, that peice of crap about the cheerleaders at a competition, however, I will proceed to enter the Powerpuff theater and walk into the doors, which will be opened, for if they are not, than I shall open them so they will be opened......"
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Morally inferior are not the right words. Rather, I would call it inherently unamerican in management.
As you and your wife are well aware, every little government-run agency and program, including our schools, are headed by management who know what the budget means to their jobs. You simply do not want to go over budget, or you get fired. If the organization does not meet its alloted budget through thriftness or smart spending, the budget for all of next year will get cut.
Here is part of the unamerican part I mentioned. The management for a federally funded drug prevention program office had a good deal of money left over in the budget. To avoid cuts that year, they purchased 10 computers (from my former employer) that they simply did not need, and used them to replace 10 computers that were only 2 years old. The older 10 computers went into storage somewhere, probably never to be seen again. I'm sorry, but they just squandered what I consider to be equal to a few years worth of federal income tax payments just so they wouldn't have to worry about loosing cash in their budget next year. They took my money and wasted it. These people that my tax dollars pay for and are supposed to be serving me are making horrendously selfish decisions that force me to serve them instead. IMHO, that money could have gone a long way in paying my own college education.
You hardly see this type of waste in well-run companies, big and small, because there is no bottomless pit of money that you can count on, and accountability is a key. Nobody inside the federal government cares when waste of federal money is concerned. Ernst and Young CAN'T EVEN AUDIT the US Department of Education! The USA's consficatory tax system provides federal agencies to spend like there is no tommorow with no attention to results, with the exception of this: "Did you meet the budget?".
The big problem is not the paperwork, but that nobody looks above the bottom line.
The efficency problems of the federal government starts at the top. They know the boss (that would be you and me) is asleep at the desk and we left our wallet by the door.
Noone would do it. ;)
Emulators do a perfectly fine job of imitating NES hardware, and the cost of using old stock parts for the NES and sticking them on a PCI card isn't justified on a 486 or better PC. The thing I would like to try is to just build an interface to read the cartridges. I already built a PS Memory card reader/writer , shouldn't be much tougher
From what I've read, you can't even find a CD player that will read Dreamcast discs. Copyproof, readproof, futile for now. A PCI card would make no sense.
"Shit" is among the seven words the FCC has banned, and even the there's no way Warner Bros. would allow that on such a station. The only time I remember hearing the word "F*ck" on basic cable was when Jason Preiestly had a live interview on Fox News and was expressing his anger at the tabloids :)
Quite the opposite as far as censoring nudity in Japan. I've even seen a video game advertisement in a magazine for an "endorsed" tennis game on the SNES. It featured a woman dressed in stadard tennis garb, lifting up the back of her dress. Right above her bare butt, she was holding the end of the dress and a box of the game. And that's just a simple fringe example.
Most TV shows don't have a chance at decent syndication without at least 100 episodes. Gundam wing features less than 50 episodes and the follow-up movie "Endless Waltz". Dragonball Z was preceeded in Japan by the original Dragonball Series, and we still have a way to go before we get to Dragonball GT. Hundreds of Dragonball episodes are out there :)
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Toonami is very hot property right now, and to keep putting the same stale-ing episodes of W up would be to waste tens of millions in profit by putting in new content, such as Sub6, the recent Tenchis, and maybe some of the other Gundam series
In case anyone is wondering why Gundam Wing was shown uncut at midnight but Tenchi won't be, it's because Cartoon Network has taken a firm stance that the network will be a "safe harbor" no matter when you tune in.
So, while it has a bit of violence and blood during action shows like Gundam Wing (whose uncut episodes only feature some blood), there are no explicit death scenes or the like. Tenchi has nudity, and the only shows with nudity in basic cable are on the discovery channel. Needless to say, Cartoon Network spent tons of money painting on swimsuits for the Tenchi bath scenes.
You know, the angel one. Denzel Washington, the computer newbie angel, runs into a computer opens up his heavenly handbook and turns it to a page where the Windows logo is "beatified" :)...
This movie proves that not all of Hollywood has bitten the apple. Sorry, bad biblical reference, couldn't stop myself.....
Because the arts will die without government funding! (After all, the arts never existed before government funding!) Superb projects like this will disappear! Imagine the loss the world will feel when no longer an artist will be able to recreate a scene from "The Sound Of Music" with a videogame feel! The pain! The horror! Such artists would have to find a _real_ job! Like farming! Or military work! We are killing our artists and turning their corpses into government endorsed mass murders! Sorry, just had to deliver a daily dose of sarcasim.
One size fits all works in clothing, but not necessarily software. The Debian installer is less refined and tailored to experts more than other peices of software, but so what? Technical people like technical solutions because it's easier to get desired results. The debian installer is far more flexible and usuable in unique situations than every other distro I've seen. If it's too much for you, get someone else to install it or wait for an alternative installer. Would you do anything less when it comes to rebuilding an engine or painting your house? As long as there's a choice in installation options, though, I'm okay with making a simpler interface. I just don't want to, by analogy, be forced to paint my house with a eyeliner....
Maybe all this is to remind us as individuals that we have much less control then we ever thought we have had when it comes to interacting with others. :)....
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A man was recently sentenced to 4 years in prison for having sex with a horse. (As Leno said, when will people learn that neigh means neigh?). It may have been on his own property with a horse he owned, but still he got sentenced to prison for it. The US is not -completely- free, nor does it people want that much freedom
Here, there are people linking to matterial that, while it is technical and good hearted in it's nature and motives (okay, so not entirely), it is, like it or not, illegal material. Just as links to kitty porn and maps that show where hemp is being grown is. And standing out in the middle of the street naked is illegal to. The nudity thing is covered by other laws, but the DMCA was passes to put certain limits on what can legally be done by internet users, limits primarily desigined to uphold copyrights in the digital scheme of things.
To understand the government's point of view, you must look at several things.
1) The people are the government in the US, where majority rules. (Lobbying doesn't do sh!t, btw, I don't care what you hippies say.)
2) The internet is a form of a public utility, grown in the mysterious space where ownership is shared among the government and the telecommunictaions industry. Because the wires are laid over government land, the government has regulatory final say over everything that goes on over that network. And while first ammendment rights are on loan to a good deal of these utilities, the government reserves the right to impose restrictions of your rights in this area. This is what makes the DMCA possible.
3) Linking to illegal material makes you a criminal, at least in an accessorary way. Sorta like being the guy who hires a hitman to take out your enemy, but a much with less at stake.
"Your rights online" has always stuck me as something ridiculous for a title of this section. We have as many rights on the internet as we would inside of a government building, say the white house. To all governemnt lands are open to the public, and the government is free to restrict access in whatever way it wants to, and this power was granted to the governement from the very begining. People do, of course, have a say in it all. Ever see a city try to annex a suburban area? Not always an easy task, usually something determined by the public. If the public wants more rights and more freedom on the internet.... well, it shouldn't have voted to administration that pushed the DMCA through into office in the first place.
1) You can be arrested even if you didn't commit a crime. You are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. You can be arrested when under suspicion for a whole hell of a lot of stuff, but they usually won't hold you long if you are innocent or it can't really be proven in one way or another that you perpretrated a crime. But you can be placed under arrest for anything they want to arrest you for, even if it is only to clear up a bad situation.
2) The law was upheld to protect the townspeople of Philly. Nothing unamerican and stupid about that.
3) Most welfare recipients are able bodied people that weren't raised to be responsible or to make good choices (including welfare mothers who could have picked a better husband blindfolded than the jerry springeresque peice of trash they had). Yes, there are true hard luck cases out there, but most of those people rise above their problems, at least if they have half a brain and willpower.
Also, I still love the fact that the highlight of the article is at the end, when he was bragging about getting on TV. Just a note :)
but I kinda don't.
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:P ). They are there to uphold the law and ensure public saftey, give me one damn good reason why you wouldn't cooperate right then and there. It's stupid. It's on public land patrolled by the police. It is their jurisdiction, and while they can't and won't violate your rights, there's no reason to be an asshole about helping them.... except... You _seem_ to think that being 'oppressed' by the police, when all they did was detain you for a little while during an overwhelmingly intense situation in that town, is either the best way to bring your point across. That, or you just happen to get your rocks off by being taped by the press while getting thrown in the paddy wagon. I don't know your reasons, and I don't care. You were not violated by the government in any way, nor were you physically harmed. Sounds like the police did a fine job to me.
First of all, dude, you -really- suck at reporting your story. Read a book once in a while, learn a little bit about how to effectively write.
It's not that I don't care so much about the protesters, many of whom are peacful. But, for many of the extremists, whose combined combined lack of wisdom, respect for the law, and care for anyone but themselves, coupled with an overall lack of personal responsibility... Well, excuse me if I personally think many of them are assholes.
#1: As made very clear by this story, the "protester's" main goal was to, more than anything, bring the police across as a horrible oppressive force meant to crush the little stupid guy. Sorry, I don't buy it. There's a difference between keeping an air of order and civility and attacking random citizens on the streets. If you refuse to help out those who protect the law and keep people the innnocent of the country safe, then you are an idiot. I'm sorry if you felt like your "rights were violated" when all they wanted to see was your ID. Legally, they couldn't force you to show it, and by all means, you weren't obligated by law to show it or answer any questions without your attourney. But it's your problem if you didn't bring your attourney with you. Trust me, they'll have no problem making one availiable for you (unless you get caught by the oh-so-realistic actors of NYPD Blue
#2: Which brings me to my second point. Bashing the police for doing thier job is unamerican and stupid. I understand protests and revolts, but I do not understand undermining the law of this country, when the people of the country as a whole, through their vote and public expression of their opinion, shapes the law of the land. The police are doing the bidding of the people of a whole. Attacking the police is dumb. They enforce the law, they don't write it.
#3: Maybe your positions really are wrong. And maybe the majority of Americans have come to that conclusion. (People with difereng political views can skip the rest, lest they get mad. Don't say I didn't warn you.) Anti-poverty coalitions? Hell, get off your butt and work if you don't want to be poor. Welfare rights? Complain to God if you think that you should get money and food without struggling or working to get it at all. He's the one who created the world, not the damn government. Just because it can be done nowadays DOES NOT mean it should be done. Partial birth abortion. Guys, my daughter was born at less than 25 weeks old, and managed to make it. There are babies that will never get that chance because of partial birth abortion, and they will be much older than my daughter ever got before birth. It is _WRONG_, and it is murder. Just ask my daughter what she thinks of it. If you can't be responsible for your own child, then find someone who can be. Equal Rights? Try removing affirmative action. The governement should at least be color blind before we can expect our people to be color blind.
Maybe a lot of the protesters just don't get it, and thier target audience understands it.
Of course, this is all just my opinion, I could be wrong.
:) :)
... I _could_ be wrong.
I live in a world of perfect happy people. And yes, it is called Texas. The only thing here that can possible fsck up this great land is the federal governemt, IMHO
That's just my opinion, of course.
First fact, you will never be able to show me a __SINGLE__ peice of legistlation approved by the Clinton administration that improved the nations economy in any way. Just try it.
Secondly, you need to first brush up on Economics and economic history of the united states, and look at how much impact economic policies implemented by Ronald Regan's administration, known as "Regannomics", have been continually reshapping the economic fitness of America as a whole. We would not have had last's years budget surplus if the groundwork wasn't laid by Regan.
Third, the new tech economy has been the cherry on top of the cake. If anything, The Clinton/Gore has done several steps to screw it up, from spending millions on ridiculous lawsuits such as the Microsoft antitrust case to taking credit for creating the internet as a whole! (An yes, I said ridiculous. Microsoft did participate in unfair buisness practices, but a monoply requires totalitarian control of a product's resources, usually governemnt granted ones at that (railroad land, air and wire transmission services, domain names). Anybody can hire a programmer, however, and the fact that other operating systems are in very wide use, notably MacOS, a monopoly is really a stupid argument, not worth millions of dollars of my tax money.)
"Easy to bitch, easy to moan, easy to cry, harder to work, harder to strive, harder to be glad to be alive." - Cowboy Mouth, "Easy"
Every single poor person that I know (and I know plenty) simply does not have what it takes to become successful in a country ripe with oppritunity. It is much easier to sit on your ass all day and drink beer than it is to go out and work harder to improve your life.
The elderly poor got where they are, "eating dog food", because in all thier hippie wisdom, living in the moment became more important than being responisble for their future.
Odly enough, my grandfather started out on his independant life at 15, broke and on his own. Making a living farming, worked hard until he was satisfied with what he accompished, and retired a millionaire, and is happy as ever. He earned his living, and so should everyone else. It's called responsibility
And don't you fscking dare start on single welfare mothers (which would definitely have been the next thread of this argument.). Show me one case outside of death of thier spouse (if they _ever_ got married) where they didn't reap what they sew, and yes, I am including picking a louse for a husband. And, on the widow argument, even if their husband works at mcdonalds, there's no reason he can't put back half of a dollar every day for a heck life insurance. It'll cost more if he's in bad health, but once again, you _do_ reap what you sew.
Rich people are not simply given money. Around 40% personal income goes sraight to taxes.
Meanwhile, the poor get paid by the government to sit on thier ass. Not even an an ounce of community service or anything in return is expected or given.
No, the rich may not have it 'bad', but things would certainly be better _for the country as a whole_ if they could give more of thier money to their employees rather than just piping it to unproductive welfare recipients.
Who pays for your time and labor? Who writes the paycheck?
:).
If it's a corporation, then you are biting the hands that feed you.
If it's the government, then guess who foots most of the taxes?
And trust me, there is _nothing_ keeping you from starting your own buisness, how do you think most of the rich got where they are?
My _point_ is this. Why should the rich be treated any differently than the poor in this country by the governemnt anyway? The large majority of poor people earned their place in the US economy. I've yet to hear of a entrepenuer who got where he is by sitting on his ass all the way to the top.
In the United States, the rich are getting screwed over far more than the poor will ever be. Why should the rich be forced to pay so much to the unproductive black hole of welfare, when they could be spending that money hiring more people instead?
Right now, the American government bends over backwards to service the lazy and the poor while forcing the rich to foot the entire bill. It is personally my belief that the government, for the people and of the people, should treat _everybody_ the same, regardless of income or other factors.
Are the rich evil? No more than you are ignorant. But, of course, that's my opinion
Slashdot would probably screw up on reporting my leaving the island, too.
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"Gervase is apparantly going to be the survivor"...
Surething,
Of course you think he's an empty suit. So would anyone else who actually hasn't taken a good look at him and his record, or lived in his state. I've lived here all throughout his governer-ship, and I'm very impressed. He's done a hell of a lot of good for Texas, and is very active in supporting this state.
Don't pass judgement on a person before you find out more about them. I'm sorry, but America already knows al gore, they've known him for 8 years, and the know that keeping the CLinton legacy in office is just going to send the country down the tubes more and more...
Gore - Takes credit for the internet.
Bush - Shares credit for everything done in Texas among it's entire poltical system.
Gore - Leans to the left and the right, just depending on how the polls are going.
Bush - Takes a stance and hasn't changed them to fit the ideas expressed by the largely uninformed public, including CmdrTaco, in polls.
Gore - Believes in equality across the board in everything. In other words, equal in misery, no matter how hard you try.
Bush - Believes in equal oppritunity, by not garunteed results. People have the chance to make their own future, not just to plug a hole created by the government quotas.
Gore - Pro-Abortion
Bush - Pro Life, but has said to only act on the partial birh abortion bill. Quite simple, I agree with his stance, because my daughter was born a micro-premie, and while she survived, many children older than she was at birth will never have the chance to live.
Gore - Social Responsibility
Bush - Personal Responsibility
Gore - Taking credit for the new economy, which is really a result of the economic policies created during the Regan Era and the new tech economy
Bush - Understands that, but knows that 90% of the american people don't know jack shit about how economics works, so won't argue that point.
I'm sorry, but you should be able to tell who I'm voting for.
If you want socialism, go to Cuba.
Are debian related. I am fairly sure that Debian's perl packagers thought people would never use the CPAN module. I swear, once it upgraded Perl to 5.6.0, leaving the existing perl modules and libraries in debian filesystem hell (I don't care what it's compliant with), things were never the same. Anyway, that's my bitch for the day :).
BTW, the CPAN module itself is great. To camel newbies, after you set up "perl -MCPAN -e shell", installing new modules is a snap...
Sometimes, we still must use the source, Luke...
And your comments make no sense when applied to my post :)
"I am MOOOOJOOOO JOJO. And once the Powerpuff Movie that is being made will be released after it is finished filming, the film that is being filmed, then I will go to the theater and purchase a ticket for one to see the Powerpuff Movie, and the one ticket that I have purchased will be used for my admittance so I can see the movie. I will then proceed to go into the theater to see the Powerpuff Movie and NOT the new Charlie's Angels movie and NOT the new Cheerleader movie, that peice of crap about the cheerleaders at a competition, however, I will proceed to enter the Powerpuff theater and walk into the doors, which will be opened, for if they are not, than I shall open them so they will be opened......"