Last year, the police seized (Stole) more money and property than all criminal acts. Our property would actually now be SAFER, if there were no police.
I find it funny that all these people are saying that the puppy noms didn't win because 'They sucked', when so many of them, and their leaders freely admitted that they did NOT READ any of the puppy noms.
Because the politics of the author are more important than the story written.
Three Body Problem only won because the 'Rabid Puppies' voted for it as a block. Does that mean Three Body doesn't deserve it's award? That it sucks? And what about 'Guardians of the Galaxy'? That was a puppy nom, why didn't that get blackballed as well?
And lets not even mention the months and months of harassment and libel that has been taking place. I find the lying of the establishment to be pretty funny.
TOR has been running a slate for decades. They just did it behind the scenes where no one knew about it. The voting results (which were posted by Vox Day) made that very clear. Also, emails were circulated in private (not unlike journolist) to coordinate voting. Some of those emails were accidentally sent to the wrong people.
Sad Puppies is doing nothing wrong, nothing illegal. That can not be said however for the people who are complaining the loudest about all of this.
Wow, this post contains epic amounts of FUD and just pure lying. First of all, the Sad Puppies group started over two years ago. Second of all, the response was due to stories being subjected to an ideological purity test before being allowed to win. Third of all, the stories were no longer about telling a story, but were all about 'sending the right (approved) political message' which was killing the medium. Fourth of all, several of the awards went to things that not only had nothing to do with Science Fiction or Fantasy, but they sucked ('If you were a dinosaur my love'?? Really?)
Go read all the official Sad Puppies posts, make your own decision. Also I'm pretty sure there are more women nominated this year, than there were last year, and that's from the SP Slate. Don't forget as well, that the SP project was started by a minority.
Last note: The Hugo's have been gamed for a very long time now, look at how many were won by only one publisher. The author of 'Red Shirts' heavily gamed the system the year he won, but no one said a word about that. The promotion of 'message fiction' has seriously hurt the genre, and sales have been going down for years, because most of what's been winning the Hugo's the last five or so years has been crap. Heck, Terry Pratchet couldn't even win a Hugo!! The awards should be about GOOD stories, not about Politically Correct stories written by the 'RIGHT' person! The very fact that the person writing this story had to LIE about the reason for Sad Puppies, and is more focused on the sex and race of writers should make that pretty clear right off the top.
While they might look funny, strange, or even ugly to some, I have to wonder how soon we might start seeing these designs implemented. Fuel costs are becoming a major issue to the airline industry, if these airframes can be built for the same price as existing ones, Boeing will be all over this. Fuel economy is definitely becoming an important part of the game, also consider that if the aircraft uses less fuel it produces less emissions. Another attractive sales angle in today's society.
You're trying to reason with a bunch of far left cowards. These people will never risk their lives to stand up for anything, and they are too cowardly to even admit they owe a debt to those who have served and been injured in their service.
They simply look for excuses to ignore you, and make discouraging noises because like all cowards, they cannot admit their fear, while they live off the efforts of the brave who make sacrifices like the leaches they truly are.
Those who say you did not serve to protect their rights are the most ignorant. Those who say they would never do anything to protect their rights are already no better than slaves. They just haven't realized it yet.
I salute you for your service. I'm sorry you were injured in it.
You're also missing that google did recognize this holiday on foreign servers for foreign countries as well. Just not for American service men on their American servers.
What annoyed people is that Google recognized the equivalent holiday in other countries on their foreign servers, but would not recognize the American holiday on their American servers. Making it rather clear to everyone that while it was okay to recognize the sacrifice of foreign soldiers, it was not okay to recognize the sacrifice of American soldiers.
A fairly anti-American stance in many people's view.
So because the news says they're not linked to any terrorist organization, you don't want to call them terrorists. Well guess what, they are. The father of the shooter in Utah even asked who radicalized his son. Here's a hint: Muslim terrorism is spread through Mosques. Look at the mosques these people went to, there is the link, there is the terrorist organization, it's called -Islam-
And who knows how many more acts are being done daily? By refusing to report it, the press is doing it's best to keep it well hidden. If you don't think they're trying to come here, if you don't think that if we drop our guard they won't come here, then you are rather naive.
But because these people have been stopped for the more dangerous affairs you think 'oh they never could have succeeded!' Well no one thought the twin towers could be knocked down too. You're living in a pre 9/11 world. Yes maybe those guys couldn't have actually blown up the airport, but if they'd blown up the pipelines, which run through populated areas, it would have created a massive fire in the neighborhoods, and probably killed dozens, and left thousands homeless.
Nowadays we live in a world in which neurologists and psychologists have demonstrated that this is fundamentally flawed, that much of our decision making is unconscious, and that in reality there is rarely such a thing as a free choice.
The FSC has become highly political, often refusing things because they hate Bush. And to be honest the FSC is unconstitutional, it's a Congressionally imposed judical control of the excuctive branches powers, something that's not allowed for.
The Clinton claim is not a lie, stop drinking the coolaid. The Clinton claim is true because it happened to me. I was engaged with a group that was protesting the Brady bill. I ended up having my phone tapped and being put under survalence. They used the FSC as an excuse to tap my phone because I had made a phone call out of the country. Or at least my phone bill claimed I did. I thought it was all just a big mistke, until accosting someone who was taking my picture and following me around and having them pull out a BATF badge.
Clinton was famous for using his presidential powers to go after his critics. Just like Nixon. If you refuse to believe it, then you are the one who is being dishonest.
I'm pretty much ready to call BS on this one. We are not at war. There is no enemy trying to attack this country. Prove me wrong:
9/11 Afganistan Iraq
There, you've been proven wrong.
Before 9/11? Sheesh, remember the Embassy bombings? The Cole?
Since 9/11, all those Muslims spontaneously attacking and sometimes killing people? The guy in Utah? The guy at Chapel Hill? The guy in the LA airport? The Guy in Seattle? The guy in SF? All muslims, all killing in the name of Jihad. They even said so.
Failed attackes? Remember those guys they arrested a few months ago for plotting to blow up a few things?
Your head is so far in the sand you of course have missed all of this I'm sure. But it was on the news, it was reported, even if the MSM has been trying to play it down.
I know alot about it because it was done to me when Clinton was President because I used to protest him.
So please don't tell me that Clinton didn't do it. Please don't tell me it wasn't abused. After all, I wasn't a foreign agent and I wasn't calling foreign terrorists or suspected terrorists overseas. However oddly enough a phone call to Israel appeared on my phone bill one month. Then when I moved it appeared again. Funny that.
As for the rest of your rant on 'Foreigners' learn some english. If you are working for a foreign country, by definition you are a 'foreign agent'.
The reason why the 4th amendment doesn't apply to any of this, is because this is not about criminal cases. Understand?
This is about gathering intelligence to be used against foreign agents who are engaged in a war against us, and who are trying to kill Americans and attack this country. The executive branch has a legal and constitutional right to gather intelligence about our enemies and attacks on this country. These wiretaps remember are all dealing with people outside of the USA talking to people inside of it, or vice versa. To make things even more clear they've limited that scope further by only tapping those with known or suspected enemy agents.
None of what is gathered in these wiretaps can be used in a criminal court against you, to be honest I don't know if they could be used in a criminal court against anyone. They're solely for the purpose of gathering intelligence. Now I agree we should lean on the government to make sure that they're only used for that intelligence and not criminal proceedings, or harassment.
BTW, Clinton did this. So I'm very sure did all the prior Administrations. But the scope was much broader then, then they could use any phone call you made overseas as an excuse to tap all of your phone calls.
So your point basically is: the US may not be a democracy anymore, but it's not a problem because it's been like this for a long time, and Bush isn't responsible?
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Last year, the police seized (Stole) more money and property than all criminal acts.
Our property would actually now be SAFER, if there were no police.
How do you think he won HIS Hugo?
Yes, his fans are very quick to do what he tells them to do. Same for GRRM,
I find it funny that all these people are saying that the puppy noms didn't win because 'They sucked', when so many of them, and their leaders freely admitted that they did NOT READ any of the puppy noms.
Because the politics of the author are more important than the story written.
Three Body Problem only won because the 'Rabid Puppies' voted for it as a block. Does that mean Three Body doesn't deserve it's award? That it sucks? And what about 'Guardians of the Galaxy'? That was a puppy nom, why didn't that get blackballed as well?
And lets not even mention the months and months of harassment and libel that has been taking place. I find the lying of the establishment to be pretty funny.
Hey, you people voted for these morons.
Now you get to live with it.
TOR has been running a slate for decades. They just did it behind the scenes where no one knew about it.
The voting results (which were posted by Vox Day) made that very clear.
Also, emails were circulated in private (not unlike journolist) to coordinate voting. Some of those emails were accidentally sent to the wrong people.
Sad Puppies is doing nothing wrong, nothing illegal. That can not be said however for the people who are complaining the loudest about all of this.
Wow, this post contains epic amounts of FUD and just pure lying.
First of all, the Sad Puppies group started over two years ago.
Second of all, the response was due to stories being subjected to an ideological purity test before being allowed to win.
Third of all, the stories were no longer about telling a story, but were all about 'sending the right (approved) political message' which was killing the medium.
Fourth of all, several of the awards went to things that not only had nothing to do with Science Fiction or Fantasy, but they sucked ('If you were a dinosaur my love'?? Really?)
Go read all the official Sad Puppies posts, make your own decision. Also I'm pretty sure there are more women nominated this year, than there were last year, and that's from the SP Slate. Don't forget as well, that the SP project was started by a minority.
Last note: The Hugo's have been gamed for a very long time now, look at how many were won by only one publisher. The author of 'Red Shirts' heavily gamed the system the year he won, but no one said a word about that. The promotion of 'message fiction' has seriously hurt the genre, and sales have been going down for years, because most of what's been winning the Hugo's the last five or so years has been crap. Heck, Terry Pratchet couldn't even win a Hugo!!
The awards should be about GOOD stories, not about Politically Correct stories written by the 'RIGHT' person! The very fact that the person writing this story had to LIE about the reason for Sad Puppies, and is more focused on the sex and race of writers should make that pretty clear right off the top.
While they might look funny, strange, or even ugly to some, I have to wonder how soon we might start seeing these designs implemented. Fuel costs are becoming a major issue to the airline industry, if these airframes can be built for the same price as existing ones, Boeing will be all over this. Fuel economy is definitely becoming an important part of the game, also consider that if the aircraft uses less fuel it produces less emissions. Another attractive sales angle in today's society.
So we could see these in as little as ten years.
Yup, videos of Jihadists killing American Soldiers can stay up. Videos recruiting terrorists can stay up.
Of course videos that are against Jihad MUST be taken down as well.
Gotta wonder about the people at You-Tube, they really seem to hate freedom.
You're trying to reason with a bunch of far left cowards. These people will never risk their lives to stand up for anything, and they are too cowardly to even admit they owe a debt to those who have served and been injured in their service.
They simply look for excuses to ignore you, and make discouraging noises because like all cowards, they cannot admit their fear, while they live off the efforts of the brave who make sacrifices like the leaches they truly are.
Those who say you did not serve to protect their rights are the most ignorant. Those who say they would never do anything to protect their rights are already no better than slaves. They just haven't realized it yet.
I salute you for your service. I'm sorry you were injured in it.
-(Another vet)
+1
You're also missing that google did recognize this holiday on foreign servers for foreign countries as well. Just not for American service men on their American servers.
What annoyed people is that Google recognized the equivalent holiday in other countries on their foreign servers, but would not recognize the American holiday on their American servers. Making it rather clear to everyone that while it was okay to recognize the sacrifice of foreign soldiers, it was not okay to recognize the sacrifice of American soldiers.
A fairly anti-American stance in many people's view.
A USAF veteran.
Actually no, children do not fear heights. They will crawl right out a window or over a cliff. Happens with windows all the time in big cities.
I was going to post this very thing then I saw that you had. If i had mod points you'd get a +1 insightful
So because the news says they're not linked to any terrorist organization, you don't want to call them terrorists. Well guess what, they are. The father of the shooter in Utah even asked who radicalized his son. Here's a hint: Muslim terrorism is spread through Mosques. Look at the mosques these people went to, there is the link, there is the terrorist organization, it's called -Islam-
And who knows how many more acts are being done daily? By refusing to report it, the press is doing it's best to keep it well hidden. If you don't think they're trying to come here, if you don't think that if we drop our guard they won't come here, then you are rather naive.
But because these people have been stopped for the more dangerous affairs you think 'oh they never could have succeeded!' Well no one thought the twin towers could be knocked down too. You're living in a pre 9/11 world. Yes maybe those guys couldn't have actually blown up the airport, but if they'd blown up the pipelines, which run through populated areas, it would have created a massive fire in the neighborhoods, and probably killed dozens, and left thousands homeless.
So, because we've been doing such a good job NOW at keeping terrorism at bay, you think that means no one is trying?
Since 9/11 there have been more people killed by martians than by jet airplanes flown into buildings too.
Your strange logic proves nothing.
Let me guess, you're a liberal, aren't you?
And you think that stopped him from abusing it? Really now. That court is highly political.
The FSC has become highly political, often refusing things because they hate Bush. And to be honest the FSC is unconstitutional, it's a Congressionally imposed judical control of the excuctive branches powers, something that's not allowed for.
The Clinton claim is not a lie, stop drinking the coolaid. The Clinton claim is true because it happened to me. I was engaged with a group that was protesting the Brady bill. I ended up having my phone tapped and being put under survalence. They used the FSC as an excuse to tap my phone because I had made a phone call out of the country. Or at least my phone bill claimed I did. I thought it was all just a big mistke, until accosting someone who was taking my picture and following me around and having them pull out a BATF badge.
Clinton was famous for using his presidential powers to go after his critics. Just like Nixon. If you refuse to believe it, then you are the one who is being dishonest.
9/11
Afganistan
Iraq
There, you've been proven wrong.
Before 9/11? Sheesh, remember the Embassy bombings? The Cole?
Since 9/11, all those Muslims spontaneously attacking and sometimes killing people? The guy in Utah? The guy at Chapel Hill? The guy in the LA airport? The Guy in Seattle? The guy in SF? All muslims, all killing in the name of Jihad. They even said so.
Failed attackes? Remember those guys they arrested a few months ago for plotting to blow up a few things?
Your head is so far in the sand you of course have missed all of this I'm sure. But it was on the news, it was reported, even if the MSM has been trying to play it down.
I know alot about it because it was done to me when Clinton was President because I used to protest him.
So please don't tell me that Clinton didn't do it. Please don't tell me it wasn't abused. After all, I wasn't a foreign agent and I wasn't calling foreign terrorists or suspected terrorists overseas. However oddly enough a phone call to Israel appeared on my phone bill one month. Then when I moved it appeared again. Funny that.
As for the rest of your rant on 'Foreigners' learn some english. If you are working for a foreign country, by definition you are a 'foreign agent'.
The reason why the 4th amendment doesn't apply to any of this, is because this is not about criminal cases. Understand?
This is about gathering intelligence to be used against foreign agents who are engaged in a war against us, and who are trying to kill Americans and attack this country. The executive branch has a legal and constitutional right to gather intelligence about our enemies and attacks on this country. These wiretaps remember are all dealing with people outside of the USA talking to people inside of it, or vice versa. To make things even more clear they've limited that scope further by only tapping those with known or suspected enemy agents.
None of what is gathered in these wiretaps can be used in a criminal court against you, to be honest I don't know if they could be used in a criminal court against anyone. They're solely for the purpose of gathering intelligence. Now I agree we should lean on the government to make sure that they're only used for that intelligence and not criminal proceedings, or harassment.
BTW, Clinton did this. So I'm very sure did all the prior Administrations. But the scope was much broader then, then they could use any phone call you made overseas as an excuse to tap all of your phone calls.
Another Point worth Discussing.
Excuse me for using LOGIC here, but if Bush was cracking down on free speech, then how come the people accussing him of it aren't being censored?
Or those against the war?
Or those against Gitmo?
Or those giving away national security secrets?
Or those violent protesting?
Or those saying 9/11 was an inside job?
With all those examples of anti-bush free speech going on, only a fool would claim it's being stiffled here and only a bigger fool would believe it.
The US was never a democracy, it's a Republic.