Ron Paul is a loon. Like a broken clock he's right twice a day, as in Liberty'O'Clock. But other than that, he's quite literally batshit crazy.
... But the people who keep voting in the same oligarchs, time and time again, expecting said aristocracy to actually do things differently at some point, are not somehow 'batshit crazy?' Or are you silently acknowledging that the D and R voters are just-as-if-not-moreso crazy than those who vote for
Paul?
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results" -- Albert Einstein
How about doing it with a Steam download that runs on _any_ modern Linux?
Last I checked (Saturday), the current build is confirmed to be working on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, Debian Squeeze, and the latest Arch distro.
Some folks have had luck installing the.deb on Fedora, but this is unconfirmed by me.
Side note - There are, of course, some driver issues, mostly in the graphics department; I can't run TF2 on my old Dell laptop, as there is apparently no current nor intended support for older Intel GM45 series video cards:(
â" n
1. any right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with an authoritarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism
Now the Republicans have been philabustering every single bill that comes up, thereby circumventing the democratic process. Who's the fascist? Hint: It ain't O.
That is not an accepted definition of fascism - the real definition has absolutely nothing to do with concepts such as "right-wing" or "liberal."
Methinks perhaps thou art the one who doesn't understand what's being said - I would recommend getting your definitions from accepted authorities on the matter, like a dictionary, instead of whatever politically motivated blog you pulled that offal from.
Thanks for the link, I'm going to bookmark if for the next time one of my engineer friends makes a wisecrack about Stirling engines being "useless little toys."
Y'know guys... if there's an overwhelming number of petitions to dramatically change things, maybe, just maybe, you should consider actually fixing shit that's constantly being petitioned about instead of saying "no, fuck you", and closing the petition.
Okay. How about if there's an overwhelming number of petitions for ridiculous garbage like building Death Stars or annexing Canada? What should they consider doing then?
How about giving the legitimate petitions real answers, instead of boilerplate political bullshit?
As I recall, the first few batches of petitions were quite serious indeed, but the answers we received were not. It's hilarious irony - the White House brought this upon themselves, started the idiocy, then bitch about people not taking it seriously.
This isn't a democracy - it's a Constitutional Republic with democratically elected Representation. Worlds of difference.
While I might not agree with the Death Star petition, nor the Sharia for USA petition, it doesn't mean that people shouldn't have the chance to put anything to their fellow citizens and have the White House consider them without raising the threshold to un-democratically restrictive levels.
Strawman - nowhere do the articles or summary make that statement.
I'm confused. Oh wait, I'm not, it's the scientist who are.
No, sorry, it's just you.
Seems you did it to yourself, even...
They know nothing, they just guess, and then say they need more money to study it!
Um... you do know the definition of "hypothesis" is "an educated guess," right? As in, all scientists "just guess," albeit with a much better understanding of the topic than you or I.
Also worth noting: the statement is "the combustion product could be warming the world twice as much as previously thought."
Regarding polls and popular opinion:
If our government were a democracy, you'd have a point. However, it is not; America is a Constitutional Republic, and her laws are based on written policy, not the whims of today. For example, take the Jim Crow laws of the 1950's and 60's - the majority of Americans supported the laws, and wanted to keep "Separate but Equal" as the defacto standard. However, the SCOTUS of the time realized that such laws were in violation of the Constitution, and thus, struck them down, regardless of public sentiment.
Roe v. Wade had a similar issue - the majority of people wanted to keep abortion criminalized, but the SCOTUS realized that the state had no power to decide what medical procedures a person could receive, and thus, upheld the lower court decision.
According to your rationale, blacks should still be forced to use seperate facilities for everything, and women shouldn't have a right to choose what to do with their own bodies. Do you really think that way? I doubt it; rather, I think you're trying to act like this issue is somehow different, even though armament ownership is protected under the same document as equal rights and free speech.
Hypocrisy, in other words.
What's your motivation?
Namely, ensuring that coddled, idiot suburbanites who are under the impression that every American lives in a situation identical to their own do not take away my Constitutional right to protect myself.
Ever been to bear country? I'm guessing no. Had you have, you would realize that, in certain areas of this nation, there is a need for high caliber, semi-automatic rifles in order to protect our families and livelihoods from apex predator attack. Ever wonder why you hear about mountain lions in California taking down joggers and bikers on a regular basis, but you never hear those type of stories coming from Montana or Iowa? It's because in the midwest, we recognize that a bolt-action rifle will do nothing but piss one of these large, killer animals off, whereas a semi-automatic has the potential to actually kill the thing before it kills us.
I know it's asking a lot to expect people to realize that opinions are subjective, and that your living arrangements do not accurately reflect the situations of all 360,000,000 Americans, but that won't ever stop me from trying to enlighten.
You know what the most serious source of revenue for a publication is? Readership.
The heart of the problem is that readership is no longer an adequate source of revenue. The Atlantic's actions should be seen as an act of desperation, not a sell-out.
Readership is still the key determining factor in the survivability of a publication, because advertisers base their decisions regarding where to place their adverts based on readership (or hits, or visits, or whatever term for "people who see this material" you want to use). No readers (site visitors) == no advertisements == no money.
We are all losers if it becomes unfeasible to perform the quality of journalism that the Atlantic built its reputation on.
I take it you don't watch any of the 24-hour-cycle media networks, do you? Low quality journalism coupled with near-constant advertisement is pretty much the name of the game these days, and you're right - human social progression loses as a result.
Me and the mouse in my pocket will be over here, with the rest of the adults.
Poll title:
CNN Poll: Majority approve of Obama and Biden in advance of gun control announcement
Let me guess, you went to Google, punched in something like "Majority approve gun control poll," and C&P'd the first legitimate looking link you saw, without even taking 2 seconds to read the damn page title.
Brilliant work there, Hoss. Tell ya what, you keep living a fantasy, reveling in your narcissistic, falsely inflated sense of mental superiority, and I'll keep laughing my ass off at your pathetic attempts to denigrate me.
You will very soon find that I speak for the majority of Americans when I say "enough is enough".
Bull. Shit.
As I said before, you speak for no one other than yourself and that mouse that apparently inhabits your pocket.
Assault rifles have no place in the hands of amateurs.
Assault rifles, i.e. military rifles with full-auto or burst firing, are not available to civilians. Of course, you know that, and are failing to make the distinction not out of ignorance, but rather as a malicious attempt to further your political agenda at the expense of everyone else's rights.
Thankfully, you don't get to decide what my rights are.
Arguments to the contrary, though they may be shrill and frequent, are pitiful in their desperation.
Ah, yes, the 'neener-neener boo-boo, you're a doody-head' argument. Classy.
My apologies, I did not realize I was talking to a child, or rather, a person with the reasoning skills of a child. From now on, I'll do my best to stick to monosyllabics, so that maybe you'll be able to comprehend some of the big-boy topics being discussed.
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Considering we only ever get to pick from two hand selected candidates
That's not true - in the majority of states, there were no less than 4 candidates on the ballot.
That you, and people that think like you, don't consider third-party candidates as viable is part of the fucking problem, you know.
Who owns the code?
Well, let's see... It was written by public employees, for the public election of a public official, paid for by public monies...
Who honestly has to ask that question? "Honestly" being the key word in that sentence.
Who are we to tell them what to do with their software?
The fucking owners, that's who.
Ron Paul is a loon. Like a broken clock he's right twice a day, as in Liberty'O'Clock. But other than that, he's quite literally batshit crazy.
... But the people who keep voting in the same oligarchs, time and time again, expecting said aristocracy to actually do things differently at some point, are not somehow 'batshit crazy?' Or are you silently acknowledging that the D and R voters are just-as-if-not-moreso crazy than those who vote for Paul?
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results" -- Albert Einstein
You already burned us once, PayPal.
You will not be given another opportunity.
How about doing it with a Steam download that runs on _any_ modern Linux?
Last I checked (Saturday), the current build is confirmed to be working on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, Debian Squeeze, and the latest Arch distro.
.deb on Fedora, but this is unconfirmed by me.
:(
Some folks have had luck installing the
Side note - There are, of course, some driver issues, mostly in the graphics department; I can't run TF2 on my old Dell laptop, as there is apparently no current nor intended support for older Intel GM45 series video cards
Burglars also tend to find sloppy locking. So, will they a get out of jail card?
Burglars typically go to jail for the act of burglary, not the finding of poor locks.
When did threats become illegal?
Blackmail/extortion has pretty much always been illegal, Chief.
*The More You Know*
The first computer I ever used was a Compaq Portable from about 1984, but the first computer I ever loved was a //e.
I think you don't understand what you are saying.
fascism (ËfæÊfÉzÉ(TM)m)
â" n 1. any right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with an authoritarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism
Now the Republicans have been philabustering every single bill that comes up, thereby circumventing the democratic process. Who's the fascist? Hint: It ain't O.
That is not an accepted definition of fascism - the real definition has absolutely nothing to do with concepts such as "right-wing" or "liberal."
Methinks perhaps thou art the one who doesn't understand what's being said - I would recommend getting your definitions from accepted authorities on the matter, like a dictionary, instead of whatever politically motivated blog you pulled that offal from.
They don't always use thermocouples. Sometimes the energy capture is via Stirling generator: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_radioisotope_generator
Thanks for the link, I'm going to bookmark if for the next time one of my engineer friends makes a wisecrack about Stirling engines being "useless little toys."
Can Obama be held accountable for the judicial branch of the government?
The President gets to appoint the AG and certain high-level judicial posts, so yea, I'd say he can be, to a certain degree.
If you support authoritarian policies, you are an authoritarian. QED.
Probably a fascist, too, since most authoritarians are fascists by definition.
Okay. How about if there's an overwhelming number of petitions for ridiculous garbage like building Death Stars or annexing Canada? What should they consider doing then?
How about giving the legitimate petitions real answers, instead of boilerplate political bullshit?
As I recall, the first few batches of petitions were quite serious indeed, but the answers we received were not. It's hilarious irony - the White House brought this upon themselves, started the idiocy, then bitch about people not taking it seriously.
In a democracy
This isn't a democracy - it's a Constitutional Republic with democratically elected Representation. Worlds of difference.
While I might not agree with the Death Star petition, nor the Sharia for USA petition, it doesn't mean that people shouldn't have the chance to put anything to their fellow citizens and have the White House consider them without raising the threshold to un-democratically restrictive levels.
Caveat - I completely agree.
However, you don't need democracy for that - the Constitution guarantees your right, as an individual, to petition the government for redress of grievances. Group participation is not a requirement.
We aren't TRYING to be a class-segregated society.
Well, most of us aren't, and rather unsuccessfully to boot.
So it's not the cars causing global warming?
Strawman - nowhere do the articles or summary make that statement.
I'm confused. Oh wait, I'm not, it's the scientist who are.
No, sorry, it's just you.
Seems you did it to yourself, even...
They know nothing, they just guess, and then say they need more money to study it!
Um... you do know the definition of "hypothesis" is "an educated guess," right? As in, all scientists "just guess," albeit with a much better understanding of the topic than you or I.
Also worth noting: the statement is "the combustion product could be warming the world twice as much as previously thought."
"could be" != "is"
If our government were a democracy, you'd have a point. However, it is not; America is a Constitutional Republic, and her laws are based on written policy, not the whims of today. For example, take the Jim Crow laws of the 1950's and 60's - the majority of Americans supported the laws, and wanted to keep "Separate but Equal" as the defacto standard. However, the SCOTUS of the time realized that such laws were in violation of the Constitution, and thus, struck them down, regardless of public sentiment.
Roe v. Wade had a similar issue - the majority of people wanted to keep abortion criminalized, but the SCOTUS realized that the state had no power to decide what medical procedures a person could receive, and thus, upheld the lower court decision.
According to your rationale, blacks should still be forced to use seperate facilities for everything, and women shouldn't have a right to choose what to do with their own bodies. Do you really think that way? I doubt it; rather, I think you're trying to act like this issue is somehow different, even though armament ownership is protected under the same document as equal rights and free speech.
Hypocrisy, in other words.
What's your motivation?
Namely, ensuring that coddled, idiot suburbanites who are under the impression that every American lives in a situation identical to their own do not take away my Constitutional right to protect myself.
Ever been to bear country? I'm guessing no. Had you have, you would realize that, in certain areas of this nation, there is a need for high caliber, semi-automatic rifles in order to protect our families and livelihoods from apex predator attack. Ever wonder why you hear about mountain lions in California taking down joggers and bikers on a regular basis, but you never hear those type of stories coming from Montana or Iowa? It's because in the midwest, we recognize that a bolt-action rifle will do nothing but piss one of these large, killer animals off, whereas a semi-automatic has the potential to actually kill the thing before it kills us.
I know it's asking a lot to expect people to realize that opinions are subjective, and that your living arrangements do not accurately reflect the situations of all 360,000,000 Americans, but that won't ever stop me from trying to enlighten.
You know what the most serious source of revenue for a publication is? Readership.
The heart of the problem is that readership is no longer an adequate source of revenue. The Atlantic's actions should be seen as an act of desperation, not a sell-out.
Readership is still the key determining factor in the survivability of a publication, because advertisers base their decisions regarding where to place their adverts based on readership (or hits, or visits, or whatever term for "people who see this material" you want to use). No readers (site visitors) == no advertisements == no money.
We are all losers if it becomes unfeasible to perform the quality of journalism that the Atlantic built its reputation on.
I take it you don't watch any of the 24-hour-cycle media networks, do you? Low quality journalism coupled with near-constant advertisement is pretty much the name of the game these days, and you're right - human social progression loses as a result.
You know what the most serious source of revenue for a publication is? Readership.
Piss off your readers, they'll go somewhere else for news.
If your readers go somewhere else, so will your advertisers.
If The Atlantic takes a major fiscal hit over this (which I certainly hope they do), they've got no one to blame but themselves.
You will very soon find that I speak for the majority of Americans when I say "enough is enough".
Bull. Shit.
Oh look, how timely: a poll showing that a majority of Americans want stricter gun controls:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/16/cnn-poll-majority-approve-of-obama-biden-in-advance-of-gun-control-announcement/?hpt=hp_t1
Me and the mouse in my pocket will be over here, with the rest of the adults.
Poll title:
CNN Poll: Majority approve of Obama and Biden in advance of gun control announcement
Let me guess, you went to Google, punched in something like "Majority approve gun control poll," and C&P'd the first legitimate looking link you saw, without even taking 2 seconds to read the damn page title.
Brilliant work there, Hoss. Tell ya what, you keep living a fantasy, reveling in your narcissistic, falsely inflated sense of mental superiority, and I'll keep laughing my ass off at your pathetic attempts to denigrate me.
Already posted, so I can't give you the +1 Funny you so rightly deserve!
They kicked Taco out, dude. He's now wasting time at the Washington Post or something.
Delivering papers in mom's station wagon != working at the Washington Post.
You've been Bazinga'd, Taco.
"Also you can still get 30 round magazines at the normal $15.00 each price."
Link please!
Yea, I'd like to see that myself. Conversely, we have some 30-rnd PMAGs still in stock, albeit for the slightly higher price of $34.95/ea.
You will very soon find that I speak for the majority of Americans when I say "enough is enough".
Bull. Shit.
As I said before, you speak for no one other than yourself and that mouse that apparently inhabits your pocket.
Assault rifles have no place in the hands of amateurs.
Assault rifles, i.e. military rifles with full-auto or burst firing, are not available to civilians. Of course, you know that, and are failing to make the distinction not out of ignorance, but rather as a malicious attempt to further your political agenda at the expense of everyone else's rights.
Thankfully, you don't get to decide what my rights are.
Arguments to the contrary, though they may be shrill and frequent, are pitiful in their desperation.
Ah, yes, the 'neener-neener boo-boo, you're a doody-head' argument. Classy.
My apologies, I did not realize I was talking to a child, or rather, a person with the reasoning skills of a child. From now on, I'll do my best to stick to monosyllabics, so that maybe you'll be able to comprehend some of the big-boy topics being discussed.