"Posted anonymously because raising questions about Democrats can be risky business on Slashdot."
Normally I could care less what an AC has to say. But that is the most pathetic reason you could have come up with. And some say the Daemoncrats are whiners!
That is exactly how the UltraCons and Fundys operate. The only way they can feel important is if they can say they are being persecuted. "Those mean old liberals will hurt me if I say something they don't like." Which of course absolves them of all sin when they go out and beat a homo to death or blow up an abortion clinic.
We the people of this great Earth get to sift through the crap being thrown about by the politicos, who want to keep people afraid of something...anything, because they know frightened people are easier to herd. We also get to filter through the lies and disinformation coming from the polluting industries, who will do literally anything to keep those billions filling their pockets.
Is it any wonder at all that people are confused by all this climate change stuff? Is it any wonder that it has taken this long for some very basic information to finally make it into the mainstream media?
It will take quite some time yet before the cacophony subsides and the average person is able to trust any information they receive regarding climate change.
I myself am of the opinion "Better safe than sorry." I also believe that at the very least humans have muddied the waters with their pollution and are making it much more difficult to see what changes are natural and which are man made. I think that we in the US have lost out on our chance to be a world leader in a way that could actually mean something: leading the world in development of alternative and sustainable energy. Shortsightedness and greed have kept the very people capable of making a difference from doing so. Diverting even a quarter of the corporate welfare that the oil industry has received to R&D for alternative forms of energy would have virtually guaranteed the US a competative edge in the world market for what will become a major industry. That investment could have created tens of thousands of jobs in the manufacturing and construction industries, but instead it went into offshore accounts where it cannot even be taxed.
Thank you. I was looking into the Chinese Navy sailing around an iceless Arctic around 1421, and while there is mention of it in other sources, there does not seem to be much to back it up.
I know what you mean. I already donate to several "Get out the vote" projects. I write to my Congress Critters as well as to all of our local newspapers on a regular basis. It takes quite a bit of time, but it is certainly well worth it.
You're right, Nazi comparisons are overused and do not have the necessary shock value. Only problem is, what should replace it? Maybe the East German SS? The Soviet KGB?
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"...Because it's a pansy wall and we can build a much better one, just give us 20 years and we'll show you how it's done.
Comparing my grandmother's goulasch recipe with Nazi Germany is not a valid comparison.
Comparing the systematic erosion of our basic rights and liberties through the centralization and consolidation of power into the hands of a few people who use Christianity as a weapon against an entire subset of the population to Nazi Germany. That is most definitely a valid comparison.
That Godwin crap has become yet another tool to be used by UltraCons just like "if you're not with us you're with the terrorists", "You have to give up essential liberties for more security", and "Those Daemoncrats would invite the terrorists into our country and give them the bombs and weapons to use against us". In other words, it's completely worthless in any adult conversation.
Even though it is very easy for us to sit back and say "those SOBs, how dare they do this to us?" We are the lazy SOBs who didn't fight hard enough to keep those SOBs out of office. Now our fight will be 10 times more difficult and 10 times longer and require 10 times the sacrifice to undo what has been done. And this is not about republicans doing something that the Democrats would not. Even if by some Deibold miracle the Democrats should take back the House, Senate and eventually the White House, they will not feel sufficiently motivated to undo what the republicans have already done for fear of being labeled "soft on National Security". That just means that the republicans bide their time until the next shift in power when they can pick up where they left off. If we US citizens can pry ourselves away from our computers and tvs long enough to get involved in the workings of our government then we could possibly fix this horrible situation. I just don't see that happening, though, because as history has shown only the extremists and single issue pundits take the time and make the sacrifices to make their voices heard in congress.
The damage that is being done will not be undone no matter who is in power after the elections, unless there is a groundswell of pressure from the general population, and I just don't see that happening because 8 out of 10 people don't know and don't care what their government is doing.
"boobies? how about an old man being fisted in the ass while a woman stands her high heel on his balls? is that worse than neo-nazi propaganda? somehow i think that might do more damage than hate speech"
Racial hatred is not worse than consensual sex? Is that really what you want to say? I do not want my son seeing xxx websites, and I take measures to ensure he does not, but hate speak is many times worse and there is no way I want my son infected with that shit even for a moment.
I'm going to imagine for the sake of argument that you wrote that in all seriousness. So making the government explain itself is bad? Trying to make the government more transparent is bad? Or is it just bad that they failed, while 99% of the country sat with their thumbs up their asses watching "Survivor" without the slightest clue or even the desire to have a clue about what is going on around them in this country?
"Wouldn't that ensure that they go to the hot place instead? Working to bring about a collapse seems to me as working for the forces of evil."
That would be the logical way of looking at this, but unfortunately that does not fit the reality. I have close ties with some of those who pray for the Rapture, which is nothing to brag about, but they view anything they do to bring about the Rapture more quickly as righteous and heroic. Some people in power, and not just in the US, believe that it is their duty and obligation to hasten the coming of the Rapture, if it is by destroying our natural resources or bringing global war, they just see it as them doing their part.
We only go to visit them when we cannot avoid it and then only for as long as we absolutely have to.
"I believe the federal government needs to be reduced to it's Constitutional limits and that we need to abolish the biggest expenses first and foremost (and hint, it ain't the military... the military is a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend on socialism)."
Darn inhabitants of those parallel universes popping in uninvited again. Maybe we should build a fence around our universe to keep all those foreign/parallel universe entities out. I mean really all they do is bitch about socialism this, foreigner that, and terrorist lovers are everywhere! Their universe is just too small, dark and scary and I just want nothing to do with it, so let's just send them all back to their own universe so they can bitch and fuck up each others lives and leave us the hell alone.
If these illegal immigrants from their parallel universes can conform to the ways of our civilization and stop trying to turn it into their reptilian society then they can stay.
Then ISPs need to stop their false advertising and start telling their enemies, er, customers what bandwidth they are really paying for. Thinking they can have it both ways and attacking those around them when they don't get their way is the pathetic ranting of someone who sorely needs one hell of a spanking and a week or two in the time-out chair. You can't tell your customers that they are paying for 1.5Mbps, then let them burst to 1Mbps if they are lucky and throttle them at 750, once again if they are lucky. Then on top of that you get to arbitrarily decide what applications and protocols the customers can or cannot use? And we are not talking about guaranteeing bandwidth end to end, no one can do that, but guaranteeing bandwidth within your own network is definitely possible.
Tell the customers that they are getting a 500k connection and then give them the fucking bandwidth that they are paying for, whether it is P2P, http, ftp, or whatever the hell comes down the pipe. Bemoaning the situation of the poor poor ISP ignores the original problem.
I have to agree, even though I know it is by far the least popular stance to take in this discussion. To believe that the earth belongs to humans and is ours to do with what we wish is not at all realistic. Buying land does not mean you control it, otherwise there would be no mudslides, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, or forest fires because as our possession we would control what the land and the earth did and when it did it.
We are residents of the earth, and temporary ones at that unless we get our shit together. Someday, maybe we will be able to do some amazing things with the weather, but we will not control it. Just because a piece of paper says this chunk of land is yours does not mean you control it.
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"Posted anonymously because raising questions about Democrats can be risky business on Slashdot."
Normally I could care less what an AC has to say. But that is the most pathetic reason you could have come up with. And some say the Daemoncrats are whiners!
That is exactly how the UltraCons and Fundys operate. The only way they can feel important is if they can say they are being persecuted. "Those mean old liberals will hurt me if I say something they don't like." Which of course absolves them of all sin when they go out and beat a homo to death or blow up an abortion clinic.
We the people of this great Earth get to sift through the crap being thrown about by the politicos, who want to keep people afraid of something...anything, because they know frightened people are easier to herd. We also get to filter through the lies and disinformation coming from the polluting industries, who will do literally anything to keep those billions filling their pockets.
Is it any wonder at all that people are confused by all this climate change stuff? Is it any wonder that it has taken this long for some very basic information to finally make it into the mainstream media?
It will take quite some time yet before the cacophony subsides and the average person is able to trust any information they receive regarding climate change.
I myself am of the opinion "Better safe than sorry." I also believe that at the very least humans have muddied the waters with their pollution and are making it much more difficult to see what changes are natural and which are man made. I think that we in the US have lost out on our chance to be a world leader in a way that could actually mean something: leading the world in development of alternative and sustainable energy. Shortsightedness and greed have kept the very people capable of making a difference from doing so. Diverting even a quarter of the corporate welfare that the oil industry has received to R&D for alternative forms of energy would have virtually guaranteed the US a competative edge in the world market for what will become a major industry. That investment could have created tens of thousands of jobs in the manufacturing and construction industries, but instead it went into offshore accounts where it cannot even be taxed.
Thank you. I was looking into the Chinese Navy sailing around an iceless Arctic around 1421, and while there is mention of it in other sources, there does not seem to be much to back it up.
You are so right, that Goulasch was a crime against humanity.
Yup, you're correct. Sorry about the confusion.
I know what you mean. I already donate to several "Get out the vote" projects. I write to my Congress Critters as well as to all of our local newspapers on a regular basis. It takes quite a bit of time, but it is certainly well worth it.
You're right, Nazi comparisons are overused and do not have the necessary shock value. Only problem is, what should replace it? Maybe the East German SS? The Soviet KGB?
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" ...Because it's a pansy wall and we can build a much better one, just give us 20 years and we'll show you how it's done.
Of course, if you don't like the information it has to be fake.
Comparing my grandmother's goulasch recipe with Nazi Germany is not a valid comparison.
Comparing the systematic erosion of our basic rights and liberties through the centralization and consolidation of power into the hands of a few people who use Christianity as a weapon against an entire subset of the population to Nazi Germany. That is most definitely a valid comparison.
How in the hell is this left wing? You've never heard of the Libertarians?
Don't look now, but your anti-progressive ignorance is showing.
That Godwin crap has become yet another tool to be used by UltraCons just like "if you're not with us you're with the terrorists", "You have to give up essential liberties for more security", and "Those Daemoncrats would invite the terrorists into our country and give them the bombs and weapons to use against us". In other words, it's completely worthless in any adult conversation.
Even though it is very easy for us to sit back and say "those SOBs, how dare they do this to us?" We are the lazy SOBs who didn't fight hard enough to keep those SOBs out of office. Now our fight will be 10 times more difficult and 10 times longer and require 10 times the sacrifice to undo what has been done. And this is not about republicans doing something that the Democrats would not. Even if by some Deibold miracle the Democrats should take back the House, Senate and eventually the White House, they will not feel sufficiently motivated to undo what the republicans have already done for fear of being labeled "soft on National Security". That just means that the republicans bide their time until the next shift in power when they can pick up where they left off. If we US citizens can pry ourselves away from our computers and tvs long enough to get involved in the workings of our government then we could possibly fix this horrible situation. I just don't see that happening, though, because as history has shown only the extremists and single issue pundits take the time and make the sacrifices to make their voices heard in congress.
The damage that is being done will not be undone no matter who is in power after the elections, unless there is a groundswell of pressure from the general population, and I just don't see that happening because 8 out of 10 people don't know and don't care what their government is doing.
"boobies? how about an old man being fisted in the ass while a woman stands her high heel on his balls? is that worse than neo-nazi propaganda? somehow i think that might do more damage than hate speech"
Racial hatred is not worse than consensual sex? Is that really what you want to say? I do not want my son seeing xxx websites, and I take measures to ensure he does not, but hate speak is many times worse and there is no way I want my son infected with that shit even for a moment.
Get your fucking priorities straight.
I'm going to imagine for the sake of argument that you wrote that in all seriousness. So making the government explain itself is bad? Trying to make the government more transparent is bad? Or is it just bad that they failed, while 99% of the country sat with their thumbs up their asses watching "Survivor" without the slightest clue or even the desire to have a clue about what is going on around them in this country?
True and well said. Thank you.
1. Citizens as a whole can stop watching Survivor long enough to get involved in their local government.
2. Hell freezes.
3. Slashdot AC trolls are gathered up and given a one way paid vacation via CIA air to an undisclosed location.
That last one was just wishful thinking.
"Wouldn't that ensure that they go to the hot place instead? Working to bring about a collapse seems to me as working for the forces of evil."
That would be the logical way of looking at this, but unfortunately that does not fit the reality. I have close ties with some of those who pray for the Rapture, which is nothing to brag about, but they view anything they do to bring about the Rapture more quickly as righteous and heroic. Some people in power, and not just in the US, believe that it is their duty and obligation to hasten the coming of the Rapture, if it is by destroying our natural resources or bringing global war, they just see it as them doing their part.
We only go to visit them when we cannot avoid it and then only for as long as we absolutely have to.
"Also, this is the same administration that advocates for the creation and deployment of tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield"
They also happen to be "Rapture Ready Administration", and what better way to be ready for the Rapture than to bring it about yourself.
"I believe the federal government needs to be reduced to it's Constitutional limits and that we need to abolish the biggest expenses first and foremost (and hint, it ain't the military... the military is a drop in the bucket compared to what we spend on socialism)."
Darn inhabitants of those parallel universes popping in uninvited again. Maybe we should build a fence around our universe to keep all those foreign/parallel universe entities out. I mean really all they do is bitch about socialism this, foreigner that, and terrorist lovers are everywhere! Their universe is just too small, dark and scary and I just want nothing to do with it, so let's just send them all back to their own universe so they can bitch and fuck up each others lives and leave us the hell alone.
If these illegal immigrants from their parallel universes can conform to the ways of our civilization and stop trying to turn it into their reptilian society then they can stay.
Took the words right out of my mouth. I read that and all I could say was, wow.
Amen to that.
Then ISPs need to stop their false advertising and start telling their enemies, er, customers what bandwidth they are really paying for. Thinking they can have it both ways and attacking those around them when they don't get their way is the pathetic ranting of someone who sorely needs one hell of a spanking and a week or two in the time-out chair. You can't tell your customers that they are paying for 1.5Mbps, then let them burst to 1Mbps if they are lucky and throttle them at 750, once again if they are lucky. Then on top of that you get to arbitrarily decide what applications and protocols the customers can or cannot use? And we are not talking about guaranteeing bandwidth end to end, no one can do that, but guaranteeing bandwidth within your own network is definitely possible.
Tell the customers that they are getting a 500k connection and then give them the fucking bandwidth that they are paying for, whether it is P2P, http, ftp, or whatever the hell comes down the pipe. Bemoaning the situation of the poor poor ISP ignores the original problem.
//"Oh really? Well, I take a Bill O'Reilly every morning."
;-)
You take a suppository every morning?
I have to agree, even though I know it is by far the least popular stance to take in this discussion. To believe that the earth belongs to humans and is ours to do with what we wish is not at all realistic. Buying land does not mean you control it, otherwise there would be no mudslides, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, or forest fires because as our possession we would control what the land and the earth did and when it did it.
We are residents of the earth, and temporary ones at that unless we get our shit together. Someday, maybe we will be able to do some amazing things with the weather, but we will not control it. Just because a piece of paper says this chunk of land is yours does not mean you control it.