No, it's more like spending ten dollars on a few raffle tickets for a banana republic shirt, and erroneously getting exponentially more entries than you are supposed to, and then pissing and moaning when the mistake gets caught.
If they don't want to be recorded in situations that could spawn accusations that could potentially ruin someone's life, they may be hiding something. 'Serve and protect.' What a crock of shit.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Seems a group of nutty legislators getting a stick up their ass and going with a knee-jerk bass-ackwards response is something you can enjoy regardless of your nationality. Hell, there's a house resolution nearly every year here in the states in favor of a constitutional amendment against flag burning.
The next thing I knew, the discussion was onto the subject of fascism in America. Everybody was talking about police repression and the anxiety and paranoia as good folsk waited for the knock on the door and the descent of the knout on the nape of the neck. I couldn't make any sense out of it. . . . This was the mid-1960's. . . . [T]he folks were running wilder and freer than any people in history. For that matter, Krassner himself, in one of the strokes of exuberance for which he was well known, was soon to publish a slight hoax: an account of how Lyndon Johnson was so overjoyed about becoming President that he had buggered a wound in the neck of John F. Kennedy on Air Force One as Kennedy's body was being flown back from Dallas. Krassner presented this as a suppressed chapter from William Manchester's book Death of a President. Johnson, of course, was still President when it came out. Yet the merciless gestapo dragnet missed Krassner, who cleverly hid out onstage at Princeton on Saturday nights. . ..
Support [for Wolfe's view that fascism wasn't coming to America] came from a quarter I hadn't counted on. It was Grass, speaking in English.
"For the past hour, I have my eyes fixed on the doors here," he said. "You talk about fascism and police repression. In Germany when I was a student, they come through those doors long ago. Here they must be very slow."
Grass was enjoying himself for the first time all evening. He was not simply saying, "You really don't have so much to worry about." He was indulging his sense of the absurd. He was saying: "You American intellectuals — you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!"
He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
Not very nice, Günter! Not very nice, Jean-François! A bit supercilious, wouldn't you say! . ..
Perhaps it is our pointing out of this creeping fascism at every available opportunity that is slowing its progress here?
I know there are those who hype the child porn issue to such an extent that you are labeled a pedo if you post anything less than an extremist attack on child porn, but I'm not so concerned about those people that I need to be anonymous in order to speak out against what I see as retardation incarnate.
I'm not sure what being American has to do with anything. I mean clearly you can see everything from your little corner of the world where there's something magical about the stimulant caffeine to the point that it doesn't cause withdrawal, so check out: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/1740208/The-Scientific-Impotence-Excuse
It's easier to monitor three neurons than it is the complex neural networks of larger life forms. Kind of the same way it's easier to administrate a three-computer home network than it is to administrate google's infrastructure. Did you really need this spelled out to you?
The United States doesn't block websites, and our government, as hypocritical and backward as they are, certainly will not censor somebody for censorship.
This is when a rational person would do some research into both sides and think about it for themselves. Unfortunately, people on either side rarely do this, preferring instead to repeating each other and spreading misinformation, often degrading into namecalling and the like.
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No, it's more like spending ten dollars on a few raffle tickets for a banana republic shirt, and erroneously getting exponentially more entries than you are supposed to, and then pissing and moaning when the mistake gets caught.
Someone taking a sensible view instead of making a knee-jerk "they're out to get us" post calling for blood? Am I still on slashdot?
Government money gets spent studying fruit flies. The nerve.
In America?
Woosh.
Someone has to think of the children! Even if their parents are mice!
If they don't want to be recorded in situations that could spawn accusations that could potentially ruin someone's life, they may be hiding something. 'Serve and protect.' What a crock of shit.
But in the US all it would take is one catastrophic delay and there would be millions of dollars in lawsuits.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Seems a group of nutty legislators getting a stick up their ass and going with a knee-jerk bass-ackwards response is something you can enjoy regardless of your nationality. Hell, there's a house resolution nearly every year here in the states in favor of a constitutional amendment against flag burning.
The next thing I knew, the discussion was onto the subject of fascism in America. Everybody was talking about police repression and the anxiety and paranoia as good folsk waited for the knock on the door and the descent of the knout on the nape of the neck. I couldn't make any sense out of it. . . . This was the mid-1960's. . . . [T]he folks were running wilder and freer than any people in history. For that matter, Krassner himself, in one of the strokes of exuberance for which he was well known, was soon to publish a slight hoax: an account of how Lyndon Johnson was so overjoyed about becoming President that he had buggered a wound in the neck of John F. Kennedy on Air Force One as Kennedy's body was being flown back from Dallas. Krassner presented this as a suppressed chapter from William Manchester's book Death of a President. Johnson, of course, was still President when it came out. Yet the merciless gestapo dragnet missed Krassner, who cleverly hid out onstage at Princeton on Saturday nights. . . .
Support [for Wolfe's view that fascism wasn't coming to America] came from a quarter I hadn't counted on. It was Grass, speaking in English.
"For the past hour, I have my eyes fixed on the doors here," he said. "You talk about fascism and police repression. In Germany when I was a student, they come through those doors long ago. Here they must be very slow."
Grass was enjoying himself for the first time all evening. He was not simply saying, "You really don't have so much to worry about." He was indulging his sense of the absurd. He was saying: "You American intellectuals — you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!"
He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.
Not very nice, Günter! Not very nice, Jean-François! A bit supercilious, wouldn't you say! . . .
Perhaps it is our pointing out of this creeping fascism at every available opportunity that is slowing its progress here?
I know there are those who hype the child porn issue to such an extent that you are labeled a pedo if you post anything less than an extremist attack on child porn, but I'm not so concerned about those people that I need to be anonymous in order to speak out against what I see as retardation incarnate.
Clearly you aren't thinking of the children.
http://www.inquisitr.com/29390/jk-rowling-a-potential-pedophile-uk-laws-strike-again/
forgot about this one
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1243625/Businessman-Mirko-Fischer-sues-British-Airwars-treating-men-like-perverts.html Being seated next to a child on a plane also makes one suspect of being a kiddiefiddler. Come on guys, really?
Your mindset only counteracts physiology to a certain extent.
I'm not sure what being American has to do with anything. I mean clearly you can see everything from your little corner of the world where there's something magical about the stimulant caffeine to the point that it doesn't cause withdrawal, so check out:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/28/1740208/The-Scientific-Impotence-Excuse
Then:
http://www.google.com/search?q=caffeine+withdrawal+uk
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=caffeine+withdrawal+canada
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=caffeine+withdrawal+australia
You know, at this point it's just easier to call you an idiot
To use that analogy, we're still talking about two rather different "network protocols" and topologies, aren't we?
Same principles apply.
It's easier to monitor three neurons than it is the complex neural networks of larger life forms. Kind of the same way it's easier to administrate a three-computer home network than it is to administrate google's infrastructure. Did you really need this spelled out to you?
You're missing the point.
I guess I'm just a firm believer in one having a clue in hell what they are talking about. Call me old-fashioned.
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Reading is what I mean, as opposed to parroting the talking heads on TV and buying every piece of shit one side shovels down your throat.
Because you can't kill someone with a picture of mohammad between the eyes?
The United States doesn't block websites, and our government, as hypocritical and backward as they are, certainly will not censor somebody for censorship.
I'll buy that.
This is when a rational person would do some research into both sides and think about it for themselves. Unfortunately, people on either side rarely do this, preferring instead to repeating each other and spreading misinformation, often degrading into namecalling and the like.