You did not. All but the last one were overturned, and many of the victims were awarded money. The last link was for protesters, who weren't arrested for speaking poorly about Bush, but for breaking the laws regarding the actions that protesters can take.
Freedom of speech is still working in the USA.
Doesn't matter - the point is, if people can be arrested, bankrupted (what, you thought the courts existed to give some semblance of justice? Naïveté is cute),or otherwise have their livelihood destroyed for nothing more than unpopular speech, then "Freedom of Speech" is most definitely not working as intended.
An 8-cylinder engine running on 4 will still function, albeit like shit.
What I expect is that a "peace-loving religion" would not allow someone to preach hate an violence in a mosque. But they did, and we are not talking about a single event in a small mosque in a small town.
Abu Hamza preached hate and violence in the biggest Mosque in London for 5 years, Muslims did not stop him from preaching his message of hate (eventually he was arrested). The inaction by muslims shows that hate and violence are part of Islam.
So, I take it you condemn all Christians for "allowing" people like Terry Jones, Jack van Impe, Jerry Falwell, and a host of others to preach hate and violence in churches? If so, you're being a douche. If not, you're being a hypocritical douche.
Try applying the same rationale to some secular issues and see if it doesn't sound stupid:
All Americans are to blame for the war crimes of G.W. Bush, because we "allowed" him to commit them.
All Americans are to blame for the oppressive fascism of Obama, because we "allowed" him to expand the PATRIOT Act and TSA authority.
See, your problem here is that you want everyone but the assholes causing trouble to take responsibility for said trouble. That's not right, it's not an educated position to take, and it goes against every ideal this nation was founded upon. Shame on you.
Yes, exactly right. It is ok for people to burn the flag and chant dept to America. It's also ok for people to make crappy YouTube videos. That's what makes America exceptionally great.
Just because you haven't been programmed to hate "Christian" murderers like you have been with Muslims, doesn't mean they are innocent or somehow less evil.
FWIW, this has absolutely nothing to do with religion (ok, maybe a little), and everything to do with groups of ego-maniacal narcissists.
Seriously; Muslims aren't the first group to demand certain types of art be banned for stupid reasons (Ever hear of 'The Dark Ages?' Google it), and they will be far from the last.
You're right that we should never give in to any of the pricks who demand censorship of ideas they disagree with.
Also in London, a 14 year old girl fighting for her life after a Muslim put a bullet in her brain because she wanted to go school.
Lets count the number of British Imams condemning the Muslims who attacked her, lets count the number marching on the streets in protest.
What more needs to be said.
That most generalizations are false, including this one.
Unless you're also expecting every Christian to come out and publicly denounce every abortion clinic bombing, every child-molesting preacher, every douchebag protester at military funerals with signs reading "God killed your son," demanding every Muslim in the world denounce the sins of the small number who actually engage in negative behavior just makes you come off as a childish moron with absolutely no understanding of society or human nature.
That won't work, most of them haven't watched it anyway.
This is exactly why religion is bad. You take an invisible dude in a toga and put him in control of morality!!!!
Close, but not exactly right - the problem is not the "invisible dude in a toga," it's the very much corporeal confidence men who convince people that if they don't do what the confidence man tells them, the aforementioned invisible dude will make their lives miserable. Oh, and the people who allow themselves to be conned thusly; personal responsibility and all that.
FWIW, plenty of people go through life believing in some form of god without ever shoving their beliefs down anyone else's throat. You just never hear about these people because they aren't uptight, pompous dicks.
There is no left-wing in the US anymore, only 50 shades of right.
I think you got that one backwards.
To wit: When's the last time you heard of any politician actually trying to limit the overall size of government? The correct answer here, FYI, is "Never - they all want to limit the things they don't like, and expand the programs they do."
There is no such thing as a conservative politician anymore, if there ever really was to begin with.
I believe it was more along the lines of 47% of the people in the US that pay no federal tax...many of which are also on the dole...
You can believe what you want, but that doesn't make your belief fact. Here are Romney's exact words:
"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.... These are people who pay no income tax.... [M]y job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Frankly, anyone working (or able to work) should be working AND...have to pay SOME federal tax..I don't care if it is $10 or so....just as long as everyone has some skin in the game, eh?
We all have skin in the game, by virtue of the fact that, as American citizens, we are collectively affected by federal policy. That's a dumb phrase too often trotted out by asshole narcissists.
Do us all a favor and don't be an asshole narcissist.
I don't like it that a large block of people are just voting themselves more money out of the general tax fund.
Yea, well, then demand that corporate lobbyists be banned from DC. I know you must be talking about corporations, since the poor people you so blithely dismiss hardly have access to the resources required to "vote themselves more money."
It's a bit mind blowing, how much influence some people think the least of our populace have over the government, meanwhile dismissing the vast amount of overt corporate influence that actually exists.
False equivalency, noted. You have to go to North Korea to find anyone to the left as far as the Teabaggers are to the right.
Newton's Law (of politics): for every reactionary, there is an equal and opposite reactionary. You're lying to yourself if you think there's not a left-wing equivelant to the Tea Party. Those loser hippie trust-fund babies in NY who spent the better part of 2010 "occupying" their blogs and iPads come immediately to mind (in fact, they're pretty much identical to the Tea Party when it comes to stating one goal and trying to accomplish a completely different one).
The only way you'll get the nutjobs to actually listen to reason is to
...grind it into their heads that unacceptable doesn't become acceptable just because it's "your guy" doing it.
Yea, have fun with that, chief. Me, I'm done screaming at the wall. Let 'em find out the hard way.
That's how they get around paying Tolkien's estate.
How so? As The Hobbit is not illustrated, NZ coin designers would otherwise have to create the characters in their own vision, which would be considered an independent work, and thus, not subject to royalty.
Or I haven't had nearly enough caffeine today and thus, am way off base. So it goes.
Some Appeals Court or the Supreme Court will overturn this soon enough, and also rule that the libraries must turn over all their patron records to the Department of Homeland Surveillance.
Limbaugh is also a comedian. The difference is, neither he nor his audience know it.
That isn't quite true. Limbaugh exposes progressive ideas to ridicule, and both he and his audience get it. It is the subjects of the ridicule that don't get it.
The nation is releasing special commemorative coins depicting the actors who played the characters in the movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved book
This wiretaping rule is no problem to John Q. Public. As far as they're concerned this only affects people who are doing wong.
The only way to get the Obama Admin off of this is maybe make it a Tea Party issues - "Hey Teapartiers! That Socialist Obama has all these powers to spy on you God fearing Christians so he knows whose guns to take away!"
Really, I'm not joking. It WILL work!
No, it won't - I know, I spend a good portion of every day surrounded by that particular group of mental midgets, and lord know I've tried to convince them of such. See, those groups (ultra-right Tea Baggers, ultra-left Uber-Socialists) don't care what happens in the world, unless it's relayed to them by one of their self-appointed Minstries of Truth - in the case of RWNs, it's Newscorp and Rush Limbaugh; for the LWNs, you have Bill Maher and NBC.
The only way you'll get the nutjobs to actually listen to reason is to have their personal media messiah's express it in a way that convinces said nutjobs will accept reality; for example, call in to Limbaugh's program posing as a member of his audience base, and posit the idea in a way that makes Rush think he thought of it himself.
The iso should only have on it what is needed to get a network install going. In fact, all the live distros should cooperate and create a single bootstrap iso that presents you with a menu of what distro and what version you want to network install.
If you mean, "In addition to the standard all-in-one ISO," I wholeheartedly agree.
If you mean, "Instead of the standard all-in-one ISO," you're an idiot - not every computer in the universe has a network connection, and some of them, for damn good reason.
I have relatives in the Midwest of the US that apparently don't pay per litre, but in every other country I've ever been, water usage is metered just like electricity or any other utility.
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Did you even read up on of the stuff you posted?
You did not. All but the last one were overturned, and many of the victims were awarded money. The last link was for protesters, who weren't arrested for speaking poorly about Bush, but for breaking the laws regarding the actions that protesters can take.
Freedom of speech is still working in the USA.
Doesn't matter - the point is, if people can be arrested, bankrupted (what, you thought the courts existed to give some semblance of justice? Naïveté is cute),or otherwise have their livelihood destroyed for nothing more than unpopular speech, then "Freedom of Speech" is most definitely not working as intended.
An 8-cylinder engine running on 4 will still function, albeit like shit.
What I expect is that a "peace-loving religion" would not allow someone to preach hate an violence in a mosque. But they did, and we are not talking about a single event in a small mosque in a small town.
Abu Hamza preached hate and violence in the biggest Mosque in London for 5 years, Muslims did not stop him from preaching his message of hate (eventually he was arrested). The inaction by muslims shows that hate and violence are part of Islam.
So, I take it you condemn all Christians for "allowing" people like Terry Jones, Jack van Impe, Jerry Falwell, and a host of others to preach hate and violence in churches? If so, you're being a douche. If not, you're being a hypocritical douche.
Try applying the same rationale to some secular issues and see if it doesn't sound stupid:
See, your problem here is that you want everyone but the assholes causing trouble to take responsibility for said trouble. That's not right, it's not an educated position to take, and it goes against every ideal this nation was founded upon. Shame on you.
Yes, exactly right. It is ok for people to burn the flag and chant dept to America. It's also ok for people to make crappy YouTube videos. That's what makes America exceptionally great.
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Oh, maybe that's why Christian extremists are not painted as killers.
They should be:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Tiller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(film)#Attack_on_Saint_Michel_theater.2C_Paris
Texas fundie "spanks" 7-year-old to death
Just because you haven't been programmed to hate "Christian" murderers like you have been with Muslims, doesn't mean they are innocent or somehow less evil.
FWIW, this has absolutely nothing to do with religion (ok, maybe a little), and everything to do with groups of ego-maniacal narcissists.
Seriously; Muslims aren't the first group to demand certain types of art be banned for stupid reasons (Ever hear of 'The Dark Ages?' Google it), and they will be far from the last.
You're right that we should never give in to any of the pricks who demand censorship of ideas they disagree with.
Also in London, a 14 year old girl fighting for her life after a Muslim put a bullet in her brain because she wanted to go school.
Lets count the number of British Imams condemning the Muslims who attacked her, lets count the number marching on the streets in protest.
What more needs to be said.
That most generalizations are false, including this one.
Unless you're also expecting every Christian to come out and publicly denounce every abortion clinic bombing, every child-molesting preacher, every douchebag protester at military funerals with signs reading "God killed your son," demanding every Muslim in the world denounce the sins of the small number who actually engage in negative behavior just makes you come off as a childish moron with absolutely no understanding of society or human nature.
No, I'm the Messiah, and so is my wife
No, I am Sparticus...
Whoops, wrong movie.
This is exactly why religion is bad. You take an invisible dude in a toga and put him in control of morality!!!!
Close, but not exactly right - the problem is not the "invisible dude in a toga," it's the very much corporeal confidence men who convince people that if they don't do what the confidence man tells them, the aforementioned invisible dude will make their lives miserable. Oh, and the people who allow themselves to be conned thusly; personal responsibility and all that.
FWIW, plenty of people go through life believing in some form of god without ever shoving their beliefs down anyone else's throat. You just never hear about these people because they aren't uptight, pompous dicks.
There is no left-wing in the US anymore, only 50 shades of right.
I think you got that one backwards.
To wit: When's the last time you heard of any politician actually trying to limit the overall size of government? The correct answer here, FYI, is "Never - they all want to limit the things they don't like, and expand the programs they do."
There is no such thing as a conservative politician anymore, if there ever really was to begin with.
I believe it was more along the lines of 47% of the people in the US that pay no federal tax...many of which are also on the dole...
You can believe what you want, but that doesn't make your belief fact. Here are Romney's exact words:
Frankly, anyone working (or able to work) should be working AND...have to pay SOME federal tax..I don't care if it is $10 or so....just as long as everyone has some skin in the game, eh?
We all have skin in the game, by virtue of the fact that, as American citizens, we are collectively affected by federal policy. That's a dumb phrase too often trotted out by asshole narcissists.
Do us all a favor and don't be an asshole narcissist.
I don't like it that a large block of people are just voting themselves more money out of the general tax fund.
Yea, well, then demand that corporate lobbyists be banned from DC. I know you must be talking about corporations, since the poor people you so blithely dismiss hardly have access to the resources required to "vote themselves more money."
It's a bit mind blowing, how much influence some people think the least of our populace have over the government, meanwhile dismissing the vast amount of overt corporate influence that actually exists.
False equivalency, noted. You have to go to North Korea to find anyone to the left as far as the Teabaggers are to the right.
Newton's Law (of politics): for every reactionary, there is an equal and opposite reactionary. You're lying to yourself if you think there's not a left-wing equivelant to the Tea Party. Those loser hippie trust-fund babies in NY who spent the better part of 2010 "occupying" their blogs and iPads come immediately to mind (in fact, they're pretty much identical to the Tea Party when it comes to stating one goal and trying to accomplish a completely different one).
Yea, have fun with that, chief. Me, I'm done screaming at the wall. Let 'em find out the hard way.
That's how they get around paying Tolkien's estate.
How so? As The Hobbit is not illustrated, NZ coin designers would otherwise have to create the characters in their own vision, which would be considered an independent work, and thus, not subject to royalty.
Or I haven't had nearly enough caffeine today and thus, am way off base. So it goes.
You are mixing your metaphors. The sayings are "If it walks like a duck. . ." and "call a spade a spade".
Where I come from, "calling a spade a spade" has obvious racist overtones, and is thus often avoided in polite conversation.
A relative free market reigns in some parts of the economy, but not in all.
Then it's not a free market economy, it's a regulated market. Period.
An economy either is or isn't free-market, there is no grey area here.
Some Appeals Court or the Supreme Court will overturn this soon enough, and also rule that the libraries must turn over all their patron records to the Department of Homeland Surveillance.
FTFY. Let's call a duck a duck, shall we?
free market
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
Limbaugh is also a comedian. The difference is, neither he nor his audience know it.
That isn't quite true. Limbaugh exposes progressive ideas to ridicule, and both he and his audience get it. It is the subjects of the ridicule that don't get it.
Don't forget about Limbaugh's tendency to lead his audience into believing some seriously whacked-out bullshit, for example that environmentalists planted a bomb on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in 2010.
Where I come from, junkies are not to be taken seriously.
Maher is a comedian. Kind of like Jon Stewart, except with less rigorous fact-checking. Their audiences know this.
Stewart's audience, yes (mostly); Maher's I'm not so sure about, from listening to them talk...
I'm certain there's a better example of a lunatic fringe left-wing demagogue than Maher, but I couldn't think of any off the top of my head.
That's an implementation problem, not a theoretical one.
So could we say that a "feature" of communism is the inability to implement it?
No, that's a 'feature' of human nature, not communism.
Remember, inanimate objects and concepts are, by definition, incapable of exhibiting human characteristics such as greed and avarice.
The nation is releasing special commemorative coins depicting the actors who played the characters in the movie adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved book
FTFY.
This wiretaping rule is no problem to John Q. Public. As far as they're concerned this only affects people who are doing wong.
The only way to get the Obama Admin off of this is maybe make it a Tea Party issues - "Hey Teapartiers! That Socialist Obama has all these powers to spy on you God fearing Christians so he knows whose guns to take away!"
Really, I'm not joking. It WILL work!
No, it won't - I know, I spend a good portion of every day surrounded by that particular group of mental midgets, and lord know I've tried to convince them of such. See, those groups (ultra-right Tea Baggers, ultra-left Uber-Socialists) don't care what happens in the world, unless it's relayed to them by one of their self-appointed Minstries of Truth - in the case of RWNs, it's Newscorp and Rush Limbaugh; for the LWNs, you have Bill Maher and NBC.
The only way you'll get the nutjobs to actually listen to reason is to have their personal media messiah's express it in a way that convinces said nutjobs will accept reality; for example, call in to Limbaugh's program posing as a member of his audience base, and posit the idea in a way that makes Rush think he thought of it himself.
Communism is not theoretically sound because it fails to account for the basics of human nature.
I never said it was theoretically sound; my exact words were
The "basics of human nature" that you claim is the antithesis of communism also invalidate the thesis of capitalism, fascism, et. al.
The iso should only have on it what is needed to get a network install going. In fact, all the live distros should cooperate and create a single bootstrap iso that presents you with a menu of what distro and what version you want to network install.
If you mean, "In addition to the standard all-in-one ISO," I wholeheartedly agree.
If you mean, "Instead of the standard all-in-one ISO," you're an idiot - not every computer in the universe has a network connection, and some of them, for damn good reason.
You forgot the "some pigs are more equal than others" at the bottom.
That's an implementation problem, not a theoretical one.
On paper, communism is just as theoretically sound as any other socioeconomic principle.
I have relatives in the Midwest of the US that apparently don't pay per litre, but in every other country I've ever been, water usage is metered just like electricity or any other utility.
Yea, we call that "having a well."
FYI, having a well is far from free.