They've gotten better in some areas, and worse in some areas... but I think they are also feeling the pinch of the content owners jacking up the licensing feeds dramatically upon renewal and things like Comcast pressing them to pay them for the bandwidth use of its customers that use Netflix.
Exactly. I live in the metro area of a major US city, and my only choices for home internet are ComCast and AT&T, and AT&T only became an option this past year.
Since when does a foreign citizen who actively works AGAINST the interests of the US government allowed freedoms to enter the United States?
Maybe so we don't look like hypocritical petty assholes who don't actually believe in things like freedom of speech, freedom to peacefully assemble, and freedom to voice our grievances.
The American principals that some of us were taught are that these aren't simply rights granted to citizens by the generosity of the state, but fundamental human rights and the state is specifically recognizing as such, and vowing to protect.
This isn't about left or right. Bush's administration had peaceful critics who were American citizens on no-fly lists. There has been abuse of power by the government in general.
I'm super critical of tea-party and libertarian types, but they aren't wrong about everything. They are speaking the truth when they say government is becoming too powerful and oppressive.
I think the perception of mod agree/disagree is not entirely in line with the reality. There is a degree of it, but I think that it's in the minority and is generally counteracted by the majority.
I know that I myself have voted up intelligently written and interesting posts that I disagreed with, but were good reads... and I've voted down posts I've disagreed with that were negative, condescending, trolling, etc.
When Bush did unconstitutional shit, conservatives defended him, denied it was unconstitutional, and argued it was needed, and that the contempt for Bush is uncalled for.
When Obama does unconstitutional shit, suddenly they concede that Bush did terrible things, but Obama is maintaining or expanding on the evil, and therefor is someone to be held in contempt. I can only assume that they felt that Bush was the right amount of evil, but Obama is too much.
But that doesn't matter. Both of them have hurt America, so who cares about the pissing contest? Vote all of these types out.
I've never driven in a high vehicle, but I once rode with a high driver...
But seriously, there are other reasons than status, height, etc. For one thing, SUVs are spacey and comfortable and spacious, and offer a lot of storage.
Also, while height offers advantages, it also has disadvantages. They also have fairly bad blind spots in certain directions, and make it even harder than normal to see some low objects (very small cars, bicyclists motorcyclists, etc).
Of the people I know who still play the game, most of them only do so to sell items for cash.
Apparently that's something they'd like to change.
Usually the goal is to bring in more players, not get rid of a group of paying customers...
Sometimes the goal isn't to just bring in more players, but to reduce the losses of players. Perhaps they felt that they were losing more players due to the existence of the RMAH than they would lose by getting rid of it.
The RMAH is one of the things I despised and made me lose interest in playing.
Oh, I disagree! The USG has established 100-mile 'non-Constitution' zones around the national borders. Due process and security of personal information is suspended.
How is that not shocking?
Yeah, but many of this have been fully aware of this for some time... Shocking news would be if the general public and mainstream media gave a fuck.
And more importantly, I think, even the best court systems we have do and will convict innocent people. This is unavoidable
My impression of what the founding fathers intended was the opposite; it should be unavoidable to err on the side of caution and that some guilty would go free in order to protect the liberty of innocents who are wrongly accused.
Besides, the court system convicting innocents is a moot point anyway. Hardly anyone goes to trial. The standard scenario these days is the District Attorney heaps on as many charges as they possibly can (regardless of how much of a stretch it is), threaten to ruin your life and put you away for obscene amounts of time, unless you are willing to compromise and plead to a lesser charge.
In the process, the government can lie and claim they have evidence that proves your guilt (which doesn't really exist) in order to pressure you into making the rational decision to choose for a known small life-handicapping punishment rather than a huge life destroying punishment.
The D.A. now looks good. He's tough on crime and has successfully gotten lots of "bad guys" convicted. He can get re-elected, or move on to a bigger office.
You're taking hyperbole literally. Unless you live in a country where reporting a rape can result in adultery charges.
I think what the GP is referring to is the common occurrence of rape victims often being judged for the things that they did to lead to the assault, or didn't do to prevent the rape... Was she drunk? What was she wearing? etc etc. Blaming the victim is not uncommon, unfortunately.
In the 1700's and 1800's we had a concept called fighting words
Or more recently than that...
In Georgia about 10 years ago, I had a friend who somehow got into an argument with another woman. My friend said, "fuck you" to the other woman. The other woman punched her in the mouth hard enough to knock out a tooth. My friend tried to press charges, but because she used "fighting words" the other woman got away with it completely.
Is there anything Yahoo! hasn't fucked up? First they killed Geocities; OK that one is probably not bad.
I hated to see GeoCities go... I didn't mind losing all the blink tags, but I used to use my GeoCities account for "cloud storage" before someone invented the "cloud". Too bad I didn't manage to get all my personal files (mostly university papers) before it shut down...
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As long as you don't transfer your data through sneakernet stored on your phone in the 44 states that allow this without a warrant...
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18983-police-can-search-your-phone-without-a-warrant
They've gotten better in some areas, and worse in some areas... but I think they are also feeling the pinch of the content owners jacking up the licensing feeds dramatically upon renewal and things like Comcast pressing them to pay them for the bandwidth use of its customers that use Netflix.
Exactly. I live in the metro area of a major US city, and my only choices for home internet are ComCast and AT&T, and AT&T only became an option this past year.
If only my post had been meant purely as a joke. I could have been spared the overwhelming sense of shame that I feel now. Woe.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what Christian fanatics (mostly republicans) want for America as well.
Not exactly. He'd be made a sex offender too and be forced to live in the woods or underneath a causeway.
That bit about the casting of the stone first was added after the fact by a scribe in the middle ages. It's not present in the original text.
The "original texts", which were wrote pseudonymously as disciples 100 to 300 years after the events supposedly took place?
Verse?
You must be new. The correct response is:
Citation?
only a few naive idiots think artists should keep almost 100% of the revenue they bring in
Absolutely right, because there are no numbers between 10 and 100!
In a democratic country that has a core value of free speech, dissent and criticism is the purest form of patriotism.
What part of "unalienable rights" do you not understand? Government doesn't give them to you, they are natural rights. At least, that was the idea.
Since when does a foreign citizen who actively works AGAINST the interests of the US government allowed freedoms to enter the United States?
Maybe so we don't look like hypocritical petty assholes who don't actually believe in things like freedom of speech, freedom to peacefully assemble, and freedom to voice our grievances.
The American principals that some of us were taught are that these aren't simply rights granted to citizens by the generosity of the state, but fundamental human rights and the state is specifically recognizing as such, and vowing to protect.
This isn't about left or right. Bush's administration had peaceful critics who were American citizens on no-fly lists. There has been abuse of power by the government in general.
I'm super critical of tea-party and libertarian types, but they aren't wrong about everything. They are speaking the truth when they say government is becoming too powerful and oppressive.
I guess we'll need a Geiger counter to figure out if they have a natural bioluminescent jellyfish glow, or if they are irradiated.
I think the perception of mod agree/disagree is not entirely in line with the reality. There is a degree of it, but I think that it's in the minority and is generally counteracted by the majority.
I know that I myself have voted up intelligently written and interesting posts that I disagreed with, but were good reads... and I've voted down posts I've disagreed with that were negative, condescending, trolling, etc.
Yeah, that's what we need. Teenage gamers who thnk they are playing an online game.
Starscream69 has killed RedBaron42.
RedBaron42: I'm on your team asshole!
StarScream69: u mad bro? lolz
It's funny when I see comments like this.
When Bush did unconstitutional shit, conservatives defended him, denied it was unconstitutional, and argued it was needed, and that the contempt for Bush is uncalled for.
When Obama does unconstitutional shit, suddenly they concede that Bush did terrible things, but Obama is maintaining or expanding on the evil, and therefor is someone to be held in contempt. I can only assume that they felt that Bush was the right amount of evil, but Obama is too much.
But that doesn't matter. Both of them have hurt America, so who cares about the pissing contest? Vote all of these types out.
I've never driven in a high vehicle, but I once rode with a high driver...
But seriously, there are other reasons than status, height, etc. For one thing, SUVs are spacey and comfortable and spacious, and offer a lot of storage.
Also, while height offers advantages, it also has disadvantages. They also have fairly bad blind spots in certain directions, and make it even harder than normal to see some low objects (very small cars, bicyclists motorcyclists, etc).
Of the people I know who still play the game, most of them only do so to sell items for cash.
Apparently that's something they'd like to change.
Usually the goal is to bring in more players, not get rid of a group of paying customers...
Sometimes the goal isn't to just bring in more players, but to reduce the losses of players. Perhaps they felt that they were losing more players due to the existence of the RMAH than they would lose by getting rid of it.
The RMAH is one of the things I despised and made me lose interest in playing.
We've been under a constant state of emergency since 1995. That's almost 20 years. This is shameful.
I feel ashamed that I didn't even realize that fact until I read your comment... wow...
But law enforcement is not allowed to break the law in order to enforce the law.
That's a quaint notion. If only that were true in practice.
I was wondering something similar... What can cause changes in an individual brain waves that are either benign or reasonably common place?
This isn't exactly shocking news.
Oh, I disagree! The USG has established 100-mile 'non-Constitution' zones around the national borders. Due process and security of personal information is suspended.
How is that not shocking?
Yeah, but many of this have been fully aware of this for some time... Shocking news would be if the general public and mainstream media gave a fuck.
And more importantly, I think, even the best court systems we have do and will convict innocent people. This is unavoidable
My impression of what the founding fathers intended was the opposite; it should be unavoidable to err on the side of caution and that some guilty would go free in order to protect the liberty of innocents who are wrongly accused.
Besides, the court system convicting innocents is a moot point anyway. Hardly anyone goes to trial. The standard scenario these days is the District Attorney heaps on as many charges as they possibly can (regardless of how much of a stretch it is), threaten to ruin your life and put you away for obscene amounts of time, unless you are willing to compromise and plead to a lesser charge.
In the process, the government can lie and claim they have evidence that proves your guilt (which doesn't really exist) in order to pressure you into making the rational decision to choose for a known small life-handicapping punishment rather than a huge life destroying punishment.
The D.A. now looks good. He's tough on crime and has successfully gotten lots of "bad guys" convicted. He can get re-elected, or move on to a bigger office.
Everybody knows this, right?
You're taking hyperbole literally. Unless you live in a country where reporting a rape can result in adultery charges.
I think what the GP is referring to is the common occurrence of rape victims often being judged for the things that they did to lead to the assault, or didn't do to prevent the rape... Was she drunk? What was she wearing? etc etc. Blaming the victim is not uncommon, unfortunately.
In the 1700's and 1800's we had a concept called fighting words
Or more recently than that...
In Georgia about 10 years ago, I had a friend who somehow got into an argument with another woman. My friend said, "fuck you" to the other woman. The other woman punched her in the mouth hard enough to knock out a tooth. My friend tried to press charges, but because she used "fighting words" the other woman got away with it completely.
Is there anything Yahoo! hasn't fucked up? First they killed Geocities; OK that one is probably not bad.
I hated to see GeoCities go... I didn't mind losing all the blink tags, but I used to use my GeoCities account for "cloud storage" before someone invented the "cloud". Too bad I didn't manage to get all my personal files (mostly university papers) before it shut down...