who blame everything on Clinton, Carter, Johnson, Kennedy, Truman, or FDR (notice a pattern there?). C, C, J, K, T, F... C, C, J, K, T, F... I don't see it.
Wait, maybe you mean numerical pattern: 68, 68, 74, 75, 84, 70.
Still don't see it.
Clinton, Carter, Johnson, Kennedy, Truman, FDR.. Womanizer, Do-gooder, War President, Womanizer, Do-gooder, War President!!!
Not at all. After WWI ended the germans were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles that severely crippled them economically. It was mainly through the level of dissatisfaction people had with their quality of life (which was caused by the Treaty), that Hitler was able to gain power.
I give you a lot of credit for actually knowing that. Sadly, most people don't bother to see opposing sides and what drove people to such extremes. Most people just label "good" and "evil".
All of that being said, being poor has little to do with happiness nor driving people to wage war. It is usually relative wealth. Think about the "rich" kid in the slums, whose mother makes just a bit more than the other poor single moms, and can afford to give the kid a few extra luxuries. They feel rich because they're better off than everyone else they know. Germans knew they were in terrible shape compared to the rest of the world, and it's that thinking that really drives these things.
It's also evident in billionaires who "aren't rich enough" because their other billionaire friends have more money than them. I think this was already covered on/. but it's worth repeating.
Wow, I really, really want to agree with you. In fact, I do agree with you, but there's just one little thing:
"The reason you write an ammendment is to keep the government from doing something that otherwise it might have an inclination to do." Uhmm... The reason you write an amendment is, well just read this. An amendment is an "alteration of a writ or bill" (to remove its faults).
It comes from old french "amender" (to correct).
I think what you mean to say is that a rights were written into constitutional law to keep the government from infringing upon them. The bill of rights specifically was written as a set of amendments instead of as a part of the constitution for a lot of other reasons. Wikipedia says "It had been decided earlier that the Bill of Rights would be added to the Constitution in the form of amendments (the list of rights was not inserted into the text of the Constitution because it was feared that modifying the document's text would necessitate the rather painful process of re-ratifying the Constitution)."
In other words, the bill of rights is a set of amendments that attempt to ensure certain rights for citizens. Not all amendments ensure rights. Some take them away. This was evident in the 18th amendment, and will soon be evident in the 28th amendment. The 18th outlawed the sale and consumption of alcohol. The 28th is going to outlaw gay marriage. Did I say outlaw gay marriage? I meant it's going to protect the right of straight couples to marriage by ensuring that the term marriage is properly defined.
So to answer your question, the writers of the constitution didn't write an amendment to gurantee the right of the armed forces to be armed. It already wrote that in the constitution.
However, all that the media could seem to report is that for some "unexplainable" reason FEMA was keeping rescuers from the victims.
It's not unexplainable why the media does that, though. All politics and other bullshit aside, the media could either "blame the government" (always a winner) or "blame the victims". Which one would you rather be seen doing?
Are plenty of the "victims" to blame? Yes. There were people who refused to evacuate, and should've known what would happen. They're directly to blame, regardless of any self-inflicted loss or suffering they may have endured.
Were there people who were incapable of leaving? Yes, of course. And that's an issue that, in a fair society, would lead to gross criminal negligence charges against various mayors, governors, and emergency managers.
But my overall point is that the true victims are going to be what the media focuses on. They won't tell you about the people refusing to leave or making the situation worse for themselves. And they're ALWAYS going to blame the government when it's between an individual that people can sympathize with and the government. Period.
not able to offer anything more then standard responses (such as "really?" "I see" "that's good news" "that's bad news".
Really? That's worked for me with every girl I've ever dated. Maybe you're just not good enough at it?
Try memorizing these: "That looks great on you!" "No, that doesn't make you fat" "The red one(s) definitely go better with that" "That was an excellent meal." (Bonus points for memorizing something like "How can a man NOT be happy when he eats like that?") "She's not as ________ as you." "Why would she say that to you?!"... "What a bitch"... "No, not you, HER!"
Honestly, it shouldn't be very hard to memorize 20 or 30 of these and make most girls happy.
Why do I assume we're talking about women? If this robot was designed to cook, clean, and fuck, we wouldn't be discussing "meaningful conversation" right now, but rather crying that they're all sold out.
the article is about someone going to prison and I talk about someone going to prison. Whoever modded my comments off-topic needs to get a freakin' clue
You don't get it, do you?
If you had posted about the linux terminal your grandfather used for sending email from prison, you'd be a +5, Insightful.
A post about him using VAX could have been a +5, Interesting or a +5, Funny.
A story about meeting Linus Torvalds while you were both there visiting prisoners would've been a +5 of some sort and would've gotten you a free t-shirt. Fifty people would've added you as a friend.
And for the record, grow some balls and fight back. Screw the NOW; they're out to get us, and not in a good way!
I know nothing on the topic, but would be very surprised if Microsoft hasn't at least talked to someone from a TLA.
It wouldn't surprise me much either if someone from the Trial Lawyer's Association initiated negotations with Microsoft.
Tinfoil Hat: ON The following is übersecret//noleaky information I was able to obtain from my sources at the TLA.
Microsoft is secretly funded and run by an alien-controlled organization within the government. Their goal is to lower the defenses of the entire planet by disabling technology-based weapons while simultaneously turning the entire military into mindless drones via Death By Powerpoint.
The current status of this project can not be fully determined at this time, but several sources indicate that the success of this project has consistently exceeded the original timeline and expectations.
This project has also yielded several unexpected benefits for the alien-controlled organization: a) It has quickly become a cash cow, enabling the funding of many other projects. b) It serves as a collection point for the world's evil, improving recruitment for the future Army Against Humanity. c) It has created mass frustration with technology, stifling progress of the human race. d) It has made the term "innovation" laughable.
The information in this report was classified übersecret//noleaky by me. Please don't disseminate this information without first checking the credentials of the person you are sending it to. Thank you.
Tinfoil Hat:.. On second thought, maybe I should just leave it on.
The asshole redirected pics.jeremylevy.com to quarterlifeliving.com! Google confirms that gallery used to be run at that URL, but that site will not do any good to the/. community now.
Of course, it were a Microsoft product, the natural successor would be 'Gallery Super Uber Ultimate Edition'. The shorthand of that would be Microsoft Gallery 2004.
Here in Japan, we're regularly hit by super typhoons (which begin at levels just weaker than a category 5 hurricane). Some storms have hit with winds over 180mph! Yet there is rarely serious damage from these typhoons, because the buildings are all built for this. And it seems that all of the cities are above sea level. This is largely regarded as a Good Idea (TM) when building cities in island nations or close to the coast, especially in areas susceptible to large cyclonic storms.
Just common knowledge, though, nothing New Orleans should be considering while they're pondering rebuilding and the cheapest way to do it...
The press never mentions someone's race when they are white, but they do when they are not white.
What have YOU been smoking?! Every time there's a story about someone being mugged, raped, murdered, or robbed by one of those colored people there's a caucasian on TV whining about it. You never heard "two caucasians were gunned down yesterday by two dark-haired latino males"?! Come on. I hear that all the time on the news.
And how about that elizabeth smart girl? They said about 500 times that she was a caucasian, blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl.
What more could you ask for? White people get attention too!
As an aside, would most computer users be better off getting a real amplifier and real speakers and using them for 10 years rather than dealing with shitty PC speakers? I'm not talking audiophile stuff here, just stuff that you can pick up for a reasonable price. For gaming you'd probably want a decent surround system of course, but most other users?
Yes, absolutely! I used a system like this for several years. I had my entertainment center several feet away from my computer desk, and I had some awesome speakers setup. We're talking the 50+ pound variety. I believe they were rated at about 400W/piece. Anyways, I just ran a simple splitter from my computer into one of the inputs on my receiver and was good to go. Great for watching DVDs on the computer, playing Counter-Strike, or listening to MP3s! I highly recommend setups like this to anyone.
Even your standard crappy home theatre system is generally a lot better than the computer speakers being sold, and you can get used speakers pretty cheap. You don't need any of the spiffy new 7.1 channel digital receivers, so an old Harmon Kardon receiver should be pretty cheap to get too.
my blog peaked that time 3 people read it in one day
Sorry to be the one to tell you, but that was just a faulty counter. The first page hit was when you went to the site to post to the blog. The second was from you viewing the page after posting it, just to make sure everything came out right. Then the third was when you returned a few hours later to check for any replies.
Well, Wikipedia says they have the 5th largest defense budget in the world.
Sure, they have good defenses. I wouldn't be surprised if most of that money went into missile defenses, because that's probably their biggest future problem. This is aside from their huge sums of money that every developed country has to spend on salary/medical care/etc. for their troops.
Your source being a Japanese professor... Well, that settles it all. I remember some korean professors telling me that Japan stole their language from them, etc.
Anyways, back to figures again. Japan is probably the third most SECURE country on the planet. The overwhelming american military presence, combined with their location and high-tech military means it'd take one hell of a military to be able to actually invade the country.
But in terms of having a powerful military, not so much. I'd say America clearly has the most powerful military right now, Russia may still be second (they still have a lot of skilled troops and a ton of great equipment, they're just low on funding to fix it up and put diesel in it. That could change VERY quickly) but North Korea, China, and Israel all have extremely powerful militaries as well. And by extremely powerful, I mean they really could obliterate damned near any country not on this list. This is also ignoring Britain and Canada. People may laugh when I mention Canada, but their military is quite well equipped and very well trained. It's a small military, but extremely capable. And that means very powerful. I wouldn't want to fuck with them if I were most other countries.
its unlikely that they would have held off against the A-bomb for more than a couple of weeks.
I doubt we would've used the a-bomb against them. Firebombing killed a lot more people in Japan than The Bomb did. The allies never got into mass firebombing in Germany the way they did in Japan. I think it's because there's no way the citizens in America would've allowed it. They had too many family members in the country, and to be honest, germans are still white. Obviously that wasn't a big issue with "those damned japs", what with pearl harbor syndrome, a lot of casualties, and a bit of racism.
Then again, I could be wrong. The rest of this is all just semantics really.
It should be noted that kakistocracy refers to rule by incompetents, rather than outright evil or larcenous people, as is the case with a kleptocracy
I guess I didn't express myself clearly enough in my last post. I do know what kakistocracy means, I mean, look at my website...
and I agree, I think it's a huge problem. Hopefully we'll fix it someday.
I do see "well meaning" as pretty much the primary qualification for politics. It's been proven over and over that you don't need a background in politics to be successful at it; all you need is a little bit of intelligence, decent advisors, and the desire to fix shit. Oh, and some black magic to get you elected.
So I went out and bought a RAID card for my computer, but I can't get the software to recognize these partitions! It keeps asking for the other hard disks. What a stupid program!
Anyways, any suggestions? My friend said I needed to type "format c: y", but it says " is an illegal command or something.
Or maybe you could just login to my computer and do it for me? My password is jesussaves. It's real easy to remember, and I use that for everything!
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who blame everything on Clinton, Carter, Johnson, Kennedy, Truman, or FDR (notice a pattern there?).
C, C, J, K, T, F...
C, C, J, K, T, F...
I don't see it.
Wait, maybe you mean numerical pattern:
68, 68, 74, 75, 84, 70.
Still don't see it.
Clinton, Carter, Johnson, Kennedy, Truman, FDR..
Womanizer, Do-gooder, War President, Womanizer, Do-gooder, War President!!!
Was that it?
I give you a lot of credit for actually knowing that. Sadly, most people don't bother to see opposing sides and what drove people to such extremes. Most people just label "good" and "evil".
All of that being said, being poor has little to do with happiness nor driving people to wage war. It is usually relative wealth. Think about the "rich" kid in the slums, whose mother makes just a bit more than the other poor single moms, and can afford to give the kid a few extra luxuries. They feel rich because they're better off than everyone else they know. Germans knew they were in terrible shape compared to the rest of the world, and it's that thinking that really drives these things.
It's also evident in billionaires who "aren't rich enough" because their other billionaire friends have more money than them. I think this was already covered on
Wow, I really, really want to agree with you. In fact, I do agree with you, but there's just one little thing:
"The reason you write an ammendment is to keep the government from doing something that otherwise it might have an inclination to do."
Uhmm... The reason you write an amendment is, well just read this. An amendment is an "alteration of a writ or bill" (to remove its faults).
It comes from old french "amender" (to correct).
I think what you mean to say is that a rights were written into constitutional law to keep the government from infringing upon them. The bill of rights specifically was written as a set of amendments instead of as a part of the constitution for a lot of other reasons. Wikipedia says "It had been decided earlier that the Bill of Rights would be added to the Constitution in the form of amendments (the list of rights was not inserted into the text of the Constitution because it was feared that modifying the document's text would necessitate the rather painful process of re-ratifying the Constitution)."
In other words, the bill of rights is a set of amendments that attempt to ensure certain rights for citizens. Not all amendments ensure rights. Some take them away. This was evident in the 18th amendment, and will soon be evident in the 28th amendment. The 18th outlawed the sale and consumption of alcohol. The 28th is going to outlaw gay marriage. Did I say outlaw gay marriage? I meant it's going to protect the right of straight couples to marriage by ensuring that the term marriage is properly defined.
So to answer your question, the writers of the constitution didn't write an amendment to gurantee the right of the armed forces to be armed. It already wrote that in the constitution.
It's not unexplainable why the media does that, though. All politics and other bullshit aside, the media could either "blame the government" (always a winner) or "blame the victims". Which one would you rather be seen doing?
Are plenty of the "victims" to blame? Yes. There were people who refused to evacuate, and should've known what would happen. They're directly to blame, regardless of any self-inflicted loss or suffering they may have endured.
Were there people who were incapable of leaving? Yes, of course. And that's an issue that, in a fair society, would lead to gross criminal negligence charges against various mayors, governors, and emergency managers.
But my overall point is that the true victims are going to be what the media focuses on. They won't tell you about the people refusing to leave or making the situation worse for themselves. And they're ALWAYS going to blame the government when it's between an individual that people can sympathize with and the government. Period.
And maybe by constantly building small things YOU'RE really trying to compensate for something?
I feel it's important to note that it's primarily Texans bragging about size, and they consider themselves their own country anyways.
As long as you're not accusing mine of being inaccurate.
After reading your post, I laughed for a minute. Then I remembered that this was true.
I know nothing about your current employment status, but I wish I had a job to offer you right now.
Really? That's worked for me with every girl I've ever dated. Maybe you're just not good enough at it?
Try memorizing these:
"That looks great on you!"
"No, that doesn't make you fat"
"The red one(s) definitely go better with that"
"That was an excellent meal." (Bonus points for memorizing something like "How can a man NOT be happy when he eats like that?")
"She's not as ________ as you."
"Why would she say that to you?!"
Honestly, it shouldn't be very hard to memorize 20 or 30 of these and make most girls happy.
Why do I assume we're talking about women? If this robot was designed to cook, clean, and fuck, we wouldn't be discussing "meaningful conversation" right now, but rather crying that they're all sold out.
Do you really want to see a beowulf cluster of naked linux users?
You don't get it, do you?
If you had posted about the linux terminal your grandfather used for sending email from prison, you'd be a +5, Insightful.
A post about him using VAX could have been a +5, Interesting or a +5, Funny.
A story about meeting Linus Torvalds while you were both there visiting prisoners would've been a +5 of some sort and would've gotten you a free t-shirt. Fifty people would've added you as a friend.
And for the record, grow some balls and fight back. Screw the NOW; they're out to get us, and not in a good way!
It wouldn't surprise me much either if someone from the Trial Lawyer's Association initiated negotations with Microsoft.
Tinfoil Hat: ON
The following is übersecret//noleaky information I was able to obtain from my sources at the TLA.
Microsoft is secretly funded and run by an alien-controlled organization within the government. Their goal is to lower the defenses of the entire planet by disabling technology-based weapons while simultaneously turning the entire military into mindless drones via Death By Powerpoint.
The current status of this project can not be fully determined at this time, but several sources indicate that the success of this project has consistently exceeded the original timeline and expectations.
This project has also yielded several unexpected benefits for the alien-controlled organization:
a) It has quickly become a cash cow, enabling the funding of many other projects.
b) It serves as a collection point for the world's evil, improving recruitment for the future Army Against Humanity.
c) It has created mass frustration with technology, stifling progress of the human race.
d) It has made the term "innovation" laughable.
The information in this report was classified übersecret//noleaky by me. Please don't disseminate this information without first checking the credentials of the person you are sending it to. Thank you.
Tinfoil Hat:
The newest evidence hints that these types of dark matter galaxies are chiral in nature.
So THAT'S where the holes in my underwear came from!
The asshole redirected pics.jeremylevy.com to quarterlifeliving.com! Google confirms that gallery used to be run at that URL, but that site will not do any good to the /. community now.
I know I'm going to get modded down for this, but I think you're forgetting that the mods will mod do exactly what you ask of them.
Of course, it were a Microsoft product, the natural successor would be 'Gallery Super Uber Ultimate Edition'.
The shorthand of that would be Microsoft Gallery 2004.
No, there isn't. That was the problem.
You had me at "I've got a kegerator in the corner, with the tap mounted 2' from my main PC's keyboard."
You're entirely correct, just so you know.
Here in Japan, we're regularly hit by super typhoons (which begin at levels just weaker than a category 5 hurricane). Some storms have hit with winds over 180mph! Yet there is rarely serious damage from these typhoons, because the buildings are all built for this. And it seems that all of the cities are above sea level. This is largely regarded as a Good Idea (TM) when building cities in island nations or close to the coast, especially in areas susceptible to large cyclonic storms.
Just common knowledge, though, nothing New Orleans should be considering while they're pondering rebuilding and the cheapest way to do it...
The press never mentions someone's race when they are white, but they do when they are not white.
What have YOU been smoking?! Every time there's a story about someone being mugged, raped, murdered, or robbed by one of those colored people there's a caucasian on TV whining about it. You never heard "two caucasians were gunned down yesterday by two dark-haired latino males"?! Come on. I hear that all the time on the news.
And how about that elizabeth smart girl? They said about 500 times that she was a caucasian, blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl.
What more could you ask for? White people get attention too!
#3) Not letting your ex find out you did it on her computer?
Priceless.
Yes, absolutely! I used a system like this for several years. I had my entertainment center several feet away from my computer desk, and I had some awesome speakers setup. We're talking the 50+ pound variety. I believe they were rated at about 400W/piece. Anyways, I just ran a simple splitter from my computer into one of the inputs on my receiver and was good to go. Great for watching DVDs on the computer, playing Counter-Strike, or listening to MP3s! I highly recommend setups like this to anyone.
Even your standard crappy home theatre system is generally a lot better than the computer speakers being sold, and you can get used speakers pretty cheap. You don't need any of the spiffy new 7.1 channel digital receivers, so an old Harmon Kardon receiver should be pretty cheap to get too.
Sorry to be the one to tell you, but that was just a faulty counter. The first page hit was when you went to the site to post to the blog. The second was from you viewing the page after posting it, just to make sure everything came out right. Then the third was when you returned a few hours later to check for any replies.
Sure, they have good defenses. I wouldn't be surprised if most of that money went into missile defenses, because that's probably their biggest future problem. This is aside from their huge sums of money that every developed country has to spend on salary/medical care/etc. for their troops.
Your source being a Japanese professor... Well, that settles it all. I remember some korean professors telling me that Japan stole their language from them, etc.
Anyways, back to figures again. Japan is probably the third most SECURE country on the planet. The overwhelming american military presence, combined with their location and high-tech military means it'd take one hell of a military to be able to actually invade the country.
But in terms of having a powerful military, not so much. I'd say America clearly has the most powerful military right now, Russia may still be second (they still have a lot of skilled troops and a ton of great equipment, they're just low on funding to fix it up and put diesel in it. That could change VERY quickly) but North Korea, China, and Israel all have extremely powerful militaries as well. And by extremely powerful, I mean they really could obliterate damned near any country not on this list. This is also ignoring Britain and Canada. People may laugh when I mention Canada, but their military is quite well equipped and very well trained. It's a small military, but extremely capable. And that means very powerful. I wouldn't want to fuck with them if I were most other countries.
I doubt we would've used the a-bomb against them. Firebombing killed a lot more people in Japan than The Bomb did. The allies never got into mass firebombing in Germany the way they did in Japan. I think it's because there's no way the citizens in America would've allowed it. They had too many family members in the country, and to be honest, germans are still white. Obviously that wasn't a big issue with "those damned japs", what with pearl harbor syndrome, a lot of casualties, and a bit of racism.
Then again, I could be wrong. The rest of this is all just semantics really.
I guess I didn't express myself clearly enough in my last post. I do know what kakistocracy means, I mean, look at my website...
and I agree, I think it's a huge problem. Hopefully we'll fix it someday.
I do see "well meaning" as pretty much the primary qualification for politics. It's been proven over and over that you don't need a background in politics to be successful at it; all you need is a little bit of intelligence, decent advisors, and the desire to fix shit. Oh, and some black magic to get you elected.
So I went out and bought a RAID card for my computer, but I can't get the software to recognize these partitions! It keeps asking for the other hard disks. What a stupid program!
Anyways, any suggestions? My friend said I needed to type "format c: y", but it says " is an illegal command or something.
Or maybe you could just login to my computer and do it for me? My password is jesussaves. It's real easy to remember, and I use that for everything!
Thanks for any help you can provide!