This AC has said about all there is to say on the subject. I'm as staunch an advocate of free speech as anyone. I think the "fire in a crowded theatre" canard is way overplayed, and I think national security exceptions to free speech endanger our national security in and of themselves. I'd rather see goatse on every billboard in the country than have any restrictions on obscenity whatsoever. Even I can't find a reason to be upset about parole violations leading to revocation of that parole.
Which is exactly why it's critical that the government fund as much research as possible, because it's not going to happen any other way. Put a 100% tax on every sporting event, movie, concert, and TV advertisment and put all of that towards research. That would get us in the ballpark of funding enough research.
And really...is there EVER a bad time to try to hone your people skills?
Any time I want to relax is a bad time for that. You're an extrovert, good for you. Not everyone appreciates having their quiet time interrupted by a chatty stranger.
Also, possession of personal quantities of just about every drug has been decriminalized in Portugal, for about 10 years now. The result has been a decrease in drug use and all associated problems.
Romney's ambition has always been to be President, but things have gotten so much worse in the last few years. He's kind of got no options - either join up with the devil and pretend to be one of them,
And he chose poorly. Emphasis on "chose". No one pushed Romney into anything.
Republicans love to say how great Regan was. Today, he wouldn't make it to the convention.
Hell, Obama is the closest thing we've had to Reagan since Reagan.
The RNC has completely self-destructed
No, the truth is that the Republicans have won so thoroughly over the past 30 years that they've completely destroyed the Democratic party. The Republican party in name might not have much of a future, but that doesn't matter because conservatives(in the Reagan/Thatcher sense) have completely dominated.
Thatcher was right, there really is no alternative. Not because there aren't any other good ideas, but because they won't let us vote for them.
Just so hollow and ineffectual, for the most part, is our ordinary conversation. Surface meets surface. When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not. In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post-office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.
I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters. It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
What bias? The media takes quotes from both candiates out of context to manufacture controversy and sell ads. The bias in our media isn't towards one candidate or the other, but towards the two party corporatist system in generaal.
Hell, the US will arrest foreign nationals in foreign countries who have no presence in the US whatsoever. Not to mention the assassinations of US citizens without any due process. There are vanishingly few circumstances where the US government can claim any sort of moral high ground.
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This AC has said about all there is to say on the subject. I'm as staunch an advocate of free speech as anyone. I think the "fire in a crowded theatre" canard is way overplayed, and I think national security exceptions to free speech endanger our national security in and of themselves. I'd rather see goatse on every billboard in the country than have any restrictions on obscenity whatsoever. Even I can't find a reason to be upset about parole violations leading to revocation of that parole.
I've done that by voting for no one at all. No one who wants that kind of power should have it.
Which is exactly why it's critical that the government fund as much research as possible, because it's not going to happen any other way. Put a 100% tax on every sporting event, movie, concert, and TV advertisment and put all of that towards research. That would get us in the ballpark of funding enough research.
That's a cute way to ignore that the surveillance is completely bipartisan.
That's a generous way to put on it. To put a finer point on it, the US government is monopartisan.
And what exactly is one to do that does count? Vote Obama?
National Security Letters are issued without judicial oversight and contain a gag order by default. Yes, it's that bad.
Get used to it, because there's nothing you can do about it.
Sure there is. Tor, AdBlock, NoScript, Ghostery, Jitsi, GPG, etc.
Good riddance to a company that hasn't had a single positive influence on the computer industry since the Apple II.
Indeed. Start paying engineers more than MBAs, and the problem will fix itself.
It's the same stuff. Where do you think the dirt on the bottom of your shoes comes from?
And really...is there EVER a bad time to try to hone your people skills?
Any time I want to relax is a bad time for that. You're an extrovert, good for you. Not everyone appreciates having their quiet time interrupted by a chatty stranger.
Sure it does, it just that they have a medical excuse.
So after both parties come apart at the seams, what's going to happen?
I'm guessing that's when the purges happen.
Also, possession of personal quantities of just about every drug has been decriminalized in Portugal, for about 10 years now. The result has been a decrease in drug use and all associated problems.
Romney's ambition has always been to be President, but things have gotten so much worse in the last few years. He's kind of got no options - either join up with the devil and pretend to be one of them,
And he chose poorly. Emphasis on "chose". No one pushed Romney into anything.
Republicans love to say how great Regan was. Today, he wouldn't make it to the convention.
Hell, Obama is the closest thing we've had to Reagan since Reagan.
The RNC has completely self-destructed
No, the truth is that the Republicans have won so thoroughly over the past 30 years that they've completely destroyed the Democratic party. The Republican party in name might not have much of a future, but that doesn't matter because conservatives(in the Reagan/Thatcher sense) have completely dominated.
Thatcher was right, there really is no alternative. Not because there aren't any other good ideas, but because they won't let us vote for them.
Thoreau covered this 150 years ago:
Torvalds became a US citizen and registered voter in 2010.
Jesus fucking christ.
Mormons are good people
Sorry, no one who belongs to an organization that oppresses homosexuals is a good person.
What bias? The media takes quotes from both candiates out of context to manufacture controversy and sell ads. The bias in our media isn't towards one candidate or the other, but towards the two party corporatist system in generaal.
He's closer to, say, a Texas Democrat or Oregon Republican (read: fairly moderate)
Indeed. We could expect him to govern just like Obama.
who was pushed into the feeding frenzy that is Washington politics.
Pushed into it? This has always been Romney's ambition. Romney chose not to stand for anything in order to get his chance to surpass his father.
Note how even Ron Paul also got pushed so hard to the right
No, that's the real Ron Paul and why no one in their right mind would vote for him.
One of my main criticisms behind the whole xxx TLD has been that it wouldn't really lessen the amount of porn under other TLD's.
Why is that in any way a good thing?
Everyone's first duty is to their conscience.
Hell, the US will arrest foreign nationals in foreign countries who have no presence in the US whatsoever. Not to mention the assassinations of US citizens without any due process. There are vanishingly few circumstances where the US government can claim any sort of moral high ground.
3) Comply with local law and sue your employer when they fire you for it.