Oh, and stop referring to bloggers in a way that makes them sound like inconsequential political entities. The most motivated and effectual political activists on the planet communicate through such mediums these days, and to minimize their impact is willfully obtuse at best.
There is a difference between criticism and unadulterated horseshit. Folks like Breitbart, Ailes, etc are not part of a genuine opposition movement. It's like calling the tomato chuckers at an old European execution legitimate commentators.
I might not agree with every word of Barry's message (I'm way to far to the left for that shit) but I've gotta say your characterization of his response is bunk. I, for one, believe it is the prerogative of the POTUS to respond publically to public criticisms and statements regarding his administration, so long as his criticism does not stifle the public discourse, or the freedom of expression of the American public. This goes doubly when the criticisms are of a demonstrably fallacious and/or factually bankrupt nautre.
Or are you saying that Hopey intimidates you into silence? Because, I'd REALLY have to call bullshit on that one.
So, you believe that the ongoing interpretation of the Constitution with regard to legal precedent has no substantive impact on the way "most American's live," and that such concerns are not to be taken into account by SCOTUS?
The only way for BP to recoup their losses from this would be through an across the board, upward price shift. I wonder if there is an international, let's just call it, organization of petroleum exporting countries that could make that happen for them to the benefit of the entire industry...hmmm...
When I was a kid, just going to pick up a new game was an event that added to the experience. I'd roll on into Babbages with a fistful of allowance and lawn cash, and change it in for a shiny box full of a game and awesome goodies. Jump in the car (or city bus, or whatever) at the end of the shopping trip, and all the way home I'd pour over the stories and instructions, and by the time I actually sat down to install/load the software, I already had a feel for the game, and its universe. Made it better. I actually got Civ 1 for Xmas when on vacation in Florida, with my computer hundreds of miles and a week away. By the time I got home...holy shit did I want to play that damn thing.
Without that tactile, physical presence...the evidence of ownership and impending experience? I just don't think it'll be the same when all that is crammed into a 30 second trailer and a tutorial level.
Nothing starts a fracas like snark. Well, perhaps attempting to use irony in a room of conservatives...hm. Is that a subclass of snark or a field of comedy unto itself? I suppose that would be predicated on the presence/non-presence of furries. But I digress. Technically, you're both correct.
The profit motive is used a justification to tax (owner dividends) and control (lobbying efforts to deregulate.).
There's nothing a corporate body wants more than money and control. Ergo, it's in the interests of the wider business community to say 'nope, nothing wrong here, and because it isn't, we're raising dividends and burning more coal next to your house. Gotta feed that monkey, ya know. It's for your own good.'
(The astute reader can guess my position on the matter of the previous argument, but the above statement is independent of my own sense of derison.)
And why can't it be both, man? Let's make bread and circuses outta that shit. Got my gubmint ripple, my gubmint Reds and my Gubmint.45. WOOOOOO!!!!! I'll vote for anything!
Screw it. Give it unlimited data, and leave it at home plugged in. Want it to be portable? Get another one to take with you. Based on current pricing at Sprint, that's $140/month (sans taxes and whatnot, so call it $170) for personal unlimited wireless everything, home internet (8 wi-fi connections is plenty for most households, at leaqst outside of this site's readership), TV (if you're willing to give up first run shows and whatnot), and a dedicated home phone. A bit pricey on the front end with equipment costs, but It'd pay itself off in a hurry if you spend a lot of time jacked in.
From the link: 1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
The presence of elected representational bodies and offices does not preclude the presence of definitional democracy within a state. Nor does the presence of rebublican elements supercede it. The proper presence and application of citizen action and public support can affect any change within any of these nations, whether that be through the direct application of referndum, or through the free election of representatives, thus making their governments democratic in nature.
Hold on...let me go back for a second. Did you just say..."A republic, on the other hand can use democratic principles in choosing representatives"? How is a representative government, which operates on democratic prinicples, not a democratic form of government?
Uhh...seriously? I mean...for real? OK, so none of these is a direct democracy, as per ancient Athens, but each of the three has a democratic form of government, albiet mitigated by the essential iniquities engendered by socio-economic divisions.
Short Version: Dixiecrats needed a place to run to when their party picked up the civil rights banner and later picked a Papist for the national ticket. They took with them with them the low information voters they'd been buying off for years in the southern states the represented. Nixon was more than happy to have those states in his camp, even though he was far to cynical to embrace their evangelism in the same way later Republican candidates did. Hence, the Party of Lincoln became something else entirely as the Military Indutrialists made nice with the worst face of modern Christianity, regardless of the deep and inherent conflicts that exist between the Mixed Testament Biblical and Lassaiez Faire Corporatist philosophies.
The greatest difference in cost of doing business in the US vs overseas isn't actually labor related expense...it's environmental compliance. What's really dragging us down is all this brerathable air and drinkable water. Ditch that crap and we'll get past the Chinese in NO TIME BABY! WOOO!
Or we could do both. Scrip debt and asbestos/mercury poisoning for EVERYBODY! WOOO AGAIN SUCKAS!!!!
True. But someday the exact wrong combo of people will have control, and on that day net neutrality, as a concept that applies to the wider populace, will die (perhaps to later be resurrected, but by then, the damage is done). Then, everybody is selling bullshit. Google is positioning itself for that day. If they can emerge as the top dog when it ceases to be a question of personal freedom/privacy and begins a new life as an issue of corporate volition (due, in no small part to the political boondoggle that is corporate personhood), they'll be the top dog for a looooooong time to come.
Christ, I'm negative today.
Find out the liscencing cost for somebody else's implementation, get your budget written for 30% over that, buy the damn thing and get your ass to Maui. Quote two weeks on your way out the door and tell them you'll be coding it at home.
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Nuclear fire. That is all.
for suggesting climate change deniers will jump all over this as proof of their POV in 3...2...1...
Oh, and stop referring to bloggers in a way that makes them sound like inconsequential political entities. The most motivated and effectual political activists on the planet communicate through such mediums these days, and to minimize their impact is willfully obtuse at best.
There is a difference between criticism and unadulterated horseshit. Folks like Breitbart, Ailes, etc are not part of a genuine opposition movement. It's like calling the tomato chuckers at an old European execution legitimate commentators.
I might not agree with every word of Barry's message (I'm way to far to the left for that shit) but I've gotta say your characterization of his response is bunk. I, for one, believe it is the prerogative of the POTUS to respond publically to public criticisms and statements regarding his administration, so long as his criticism does not stifle the public discourse, or the freedom of expression of the American public. This goes doubly when the criticisms are of a demonstrably fallacious and/or factually bankrupt nautre.
Or are you saying that Hopey intimidates you into silence? Because, I'd REALLY have to call bullshit on that one.
Let the great age of Apple IIe emulation last forevermore.
So, you believe that the ongoing interpretation of the Constitution with regard to legal precedent has no substantive impact on the way "most American's live," and that such concerns are not to be taken into account by SCOTUS?
The only way for BP to recoup their losses from this would be through an across the board, upward price shift. I wonder if there is an international, let's just call it, organization of petroleum exporting countries that could make that happen for them to the benefit of the entire industry...hmmm...
When I was a kid, just going to pick up a new game was an event that added to the experience. I'd roll on into Babbages with a fistful of allowance and lawn cash, and change it in for a shiny box full of a game and awesome goodies. Jump in the car (or city bus, or whatever) at the end of the shopping trip, and all the way home I'd pour over the stories and instructions, and by the time I actually sat down to install/load the software, I already had a feel for the game, and its universe. Made it better. I actually got Civ 1 for Xmas when on vacation in Florida, with my computer hundreds of miles and a week away. By the time I got home...holy shit did I want to play that damn thing.
Without that tactile, physical presence...the evidence of ownership and impending experience? I just don't think it'll be the same when all that is crammed into a 30 second trailer and a tutorial level.
Nothing starts a fracas like snark. Well, perhaps attempting to use irony in a room of conservatives...hm. Is that a subclass of snark or a field of comedy unto itself? I suppose that would be predicated on the presence/non-presence of furries. But I digress. Technically, you're both correct.
Public funding/socialism/'Founding Fathers'/NOBAMA is bailing out Salman Rushdie etc etc. (BTW...if my nick escaped your notice...)
3...2...
...hand him a tenner?
Holy crap! We both got the same door prize!? Oh, wait...no. Yours it totally a kettle.
The profit motive is used a justification to tax (owner dividends) and control (lobbying efforts to deregulate.).
There's nothing a corporate body wants more than money and control. Ergo, it's in the interests of the wider business community to say 'nope, nothing wrong here, and because it isn't, we're raising dividends and burning more coal next to your house. Gotta feed that monkey, ya know. It's for your own good.'
(The astute reader can guess my position on the matter of the previous argument, but the above statement is independent of my own sense of derison.)
And why can't it be both, man? Let's make bread and circuses outta that shit. Got my gubmint ripple, my gubmint Reds and my Gubmint .45. WOOOOOO!!!!! I'll vote for anything!
Screw it. Give it unlimited data, and leave it at home plugged in. Want it to be portable? Get another one to take with you. Based on current pricing at Sprint, that's $140/month (sans taxes and whatnot, so call it $170) for personal unlimited wireless everything, home internet (8 wi-fi connections is plenty for most households, at leaqst outside of this site's readership), TV (if you're willing to give up first run shows and whatnot), and a dedicated home phone. A bit pricey on the front end with equipment costs, but It'd pay itself off in a hurry if you spend a lot of time jacked in.
From the link:
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
The presence of elected representational bodies and offices does not preclude the presence of definitional democracy within a state. Nor does the presence of rebublican elements supercede it. The proper presence and application of citizen action and public support can affect any change within any of these nations, whether that be through the direct application of referndum, or through the free election of representatives, thus making their governments democratic in nature.
Hold on...let me go back for a second. Did you just say..."A republic, on the other hand can use democratic principles in choosing representatives"? How is a representative government, which operates on democratic prinicples, not a democratic form of government?
Uhh...seriously? I mean...for real? OK, so none of these is a direct democracy, as per ancient Athens, but each of the three has a democratic form of government, albiet mitigated by the essential iniquities engendered by socio-economic divisions.
Oily taint. That is all.
That means they aren't Juggalos...i'm stumped.
Short Version: Dixiecrats needed a place to run to when their party picked up the civil rights banner and later picked a Papist for the national ticket. They took with them with them the low information voters they'd been buying off for years in the southern states the represented. Nixon was more than happy to have those states in his camp, even though he was far to cynical to embrace their evangelism in the same way later Republican candidates did. Hence, the Party of Lincoln became something else entirely as the Military Indutrialists made nice with the worst face of modern Christianity, regardless of the deep and inherent conflicts that exist between the Mixed Testament Biblical and Lassaiez Faire Corporatist philosophies.
Short Short Version: Politcal expedience.
I can re-purpose my Hammer Pants for something!
The greatest difference in cost of doing business in the US vs overseas isn't actually labor related expense...it's environmental compliance. What's really dragging us down is all this brerathable air and drinkable water. Ditch that crap and we'll get past the Chinese in NO TIME BABY! WOOO!
Or we could do both. Scrip debt and asbestos/mercury poisoning for EVERYBODY! WOOO AGAIN SUCKAS!!!!
True. But someday the exact wrong combo of people will have control, and on that day net neutrality, as a concept that applies to the wider populace, will die (perhaps to later be resurrected, but by then, the damage is done). Then, everybody is selling bullshit. Google is positioning itself for that day. If they can emerge as the top dog when it ceases to be a question of personal freedom/privacy and begins a new life as an issue of corporate volition (due, in no small part to the political boondoggle that is corporate personhood), they'll be the top dog for a looooooong time to come. Christ, I'm negative today.
Find out the liscencing cost for somebody else's implementation, get your budget written for 30% over that, buy the damn thing and get your ass to Maui. Quote two weeks on your way out the door and tell them you'll be coding it at home.
Pedantic, condescending...yup. Learn to teach without insulting, you pusillanimous twit.