I agree, Bush wasn't really a conservative in the classic sense. He made sweeping (and illegal) changes to the government, by stepping out of the framework of law I would call him a revolutionary. But Obama kept those changes in place, conserving them.
That is a really twisted interpretation of the word "progressive".
A progressive believes that the current system not working as well as it should, and that it must be improved from within.
Compare to revolutionary that believes that change is needed, but the system can not be changed from within.
Compare to a conservative who approves of the current state of government.
A Regressive believes that recent changes have been for the worse and seeks to repeal them.
None of these infer as to what direction they believe the change should be in. These are the meanings of these words untwisted by any personal and political agenda. Other political terms like liberal, right and left are somewhat more open to interpretation.
Notice how all of the fascist, unconstitutional and Anti-American policies that Bush and Cheney implemented (and should have legitimately resulted in impeachment and at least life sentences in prison ) are still in effect?
Nothing has changed, therefore conservative.
Obama is a conservative, not a liberal.
We have a far right wing fascist party and a moderate right wing fascist party.
I gave up trying to cure people of religion a long time ago.
A: It is every bit as egotistical as them attempting to impose their religion on others.
B: Religion is not malignant in most of the people that have it. It is even beneficial on rare occasions.
C: It doesn't work anyway. For those that are really harmed or harmful by their religion, their minds are so barred, chained and locked in ignorance and faith that they are unassailable by any morally acceptable action.
"guarantee users' privacy and safety when surfing, and forbids them to restrict any liberty whatsoever"
These two conflict. establishing privacy and safety require the users behavior and software be carefully configured and updated, and that impedes on ones liberty to have absolute control over their own behavior and property.
I was a gas station attendant for 3 years while getting my college degrees.
It was a nice easy job with fringe benefits like the ability to do homework on the job, free soda fountain mountain dew and access to jailbait.
At one time we had me - a CS major doing AI research and a Nuclear Physics major on her way to the Air Force Academy running the night shift.
Most of the people who can't handle the gas station clerk position think exactly like you do, except they don't realize that they have to do paperwork at the end of each shift and quit because division is to hard.
The only problem with paying cash for gas is that I generally like to fill up every time, and I don't have any buddies working the local gas station anymore, so there is no way anyone is going to let me fill up before I pay in cash.
What we need to do is make every debit and credit card use something like an RSA Secure ID token and make the user type in the pseudo random synced 6 digit code for every purchase. And then allow only one transaction for a card in that ~1 minute timeframe that the code is valid.
That would cut down on 99.99% of all opportunity for credit card fraud. You would either need the card/token on hand or have the algorithm and enough instance data to derive the key through brute force means.
The only downside to this is that recurring credit card charges would no longer work... So there is no downside.
Its not just people claiming to be liberals that try to strip away freedom for your own protection. Those claiming to be conservatives do it just as much, and most likely more.
The words liberal and conservative used to have very different meanings. Now they are just different flavors of fascism.
And I would argue that the benefit that I and people like me (even if not nearly as dedicated to learning as I became) would receive far outweighs the minor distractions that a larger number of individuals may "suffer" from.
Been a while, so no, I don't recall the address. And it would have been more appropriate to say a rural area near Great Falls rather than in the town itself.
One of the poorest countries on earth is a nuclear power with medium range ballistic missiles capable of devastating Japan and short range artillery capable of devastating S. Korea. This is a country that the US and S. Korea are still officially at war with, and they occasionally attack. I forgot to mention that it is run by a delusional god emperor known for kidnapping TV personalities from other nations for his own personal entertainment.
I grew up dirt poor. One of the places we lived in had a dirt floor and no insulation in Great Falls, Montana.
I got to eat meat year round because my father poached deer out of season.
I got to eat bread because my parents bought hogs feed at 5 cents/lb to grind to flour.
I got to eat vegetables because we would gleen the fields of industrial farms of low growing fruit/veggies after the harvester machines passed through.
My parents were to religiously conservative to teach me anything at home that didn't come from the bible.
When we got a computer, it opened up the world for me.
From that point on, I never learned anything in school until I started working on my second college degree.
This was because I had already learned it from exploring on my own by the time school had gotten around to teaching it.
My experience may be far from common, but it was invaluable for me that I had access to a computer.
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Unfortunately, No. HTML5 was designed by the guys that thought that XML was to hard, So they wrote a 5000 page spec that codified all the ways that browsers tried to handle broken syntax and made that the standard...
You think I am joking. I am not.
My hat of html05 know no limit. (ok, so thats a joke, but few here will get it.)
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Is a lot of the rabid bile unwarranted? Sure.
But not that bad? Perhaps in comparison, but we were promised better. We deserve better.
I agree, Bush wasn't really a conservative in the classic sense. He made sweeping (and illegal) changes to the government, by stepping out of the framework of law I would call him a revolutionary. But Obama kept those changes in place, conserving them.
That is a really twisted interpretation of the word "progressive".
A progressive believes that the current system not working as well as it should, and that it must be improved from within.
Compare to revolutionary that believes that change is needed, but the system can not be changed from within.
Compare to a conservative who approves of the current state of government.
A Regressive believes that recent changes have been for the worse and seeks to repeal them.
None of these infer as to what direction they believe the change should be in. These are the meanings of these words untwisted by any personal and political agenda. Other political terms like liberal, right and left are somewhat more open to interpretation.
I know exactly what you mean.
Who told you that authoritarian dictatorships that use the lie of communism to disenfranchise the people for personal gain are a left wing ideal?
Notice how all of the fascist, unconstitutional and Anti-American policies that Bush and Cheney implemented (and should have legitimately resulted in impeachment and at least life sentences in prison ) are still in effect?
Nothing has changed, therefore conservative.
Obama is a conservative, not a liberal.
We have a far right wing fascist party and a moderate right wing fascist party.
I was waiting for someone to notice that. My humor is subtle, occasionally odd and frequently mixed in with other conversation.
I gave up trying to cure people of religion a long time ago.
A: It is every bit as egotistical as them attempting to impose their religion on others.
B: Religion is not malignant in most of the people that have it. It is even beneficial on rare occasions.
C: It doesn't work anyway. For those that are really harmed or harmful by their religion, their minds are so barred, chained and locked in ignorance and faith that they are unassailable by any morally acceptable action.
"guarantee users' privacy and safety when surfing, and forbids them to restrict any liberty whatsoever"
These two conflict. establishing privacy and safety require the users behavior and software be carefully configured and updated, and that impedes on ones liberty to have absolute control over their own behavior and property.
I was a gas station attendant for 3 years while getting my college degrees.
It was a nice easy job with fringe benefits like the ability to do homework on the job, free soda fountain mountain dew and access to jailbait.
At one time we had me - a CS major doing AI research and a Nuclear Physics major on her way to the Air Force Academy running the night shift.
Most of the people who can't handle the gas station clerk position think exactly like you do,
except they don't realize that they have to do paperwork at the end of each shift and quit because division is to hard.
The only problem with paying cash for gas is that I generally like to fill up every time, and I don't have any buddies working the local gas station anymore, so there is no way anyone is going to let me fill up before I pay in cash.
What we need to do is make every debit and credit card use something like an RSA Secure ID token and make the user type in the pseudo random synced 6 digit code for every purchase. And then allow only one transaction for a card in that ~1 minute timeframe that the code is valid.
That would cut down on 99.99% of all opportunity for credit card fraud. You would either need the card/token on hand or have the algorithm and enough instance data to derive the key through brute force means.
The only downside to this is that recurring credit card charges would no longer work... So there is no downside.
Religion can't be all bad...
It made me the atheist I am today.
I worded that sentence very badly.
"they" was supposed to mean NK military, who have attacked and sunk a few SK ships over the years.
Most democrats are bible-thumping "conservatives" too.
Its not just people claiming to be liberals that try to strip away freedom for your own protection. Those claiming to be conservatives do it just as much, and most likely more.
The words liberal and conservative used to have very different meanings. Now they are just different flavors of fascism.
I know how it works.
But it works wrong.
There are vastly better ways to handle fail over.
And who says that you shouldn't be able to use a video as a link?
radio is becoming increasingly irrelevant thanks to clearchannel...
And I would argue that the benefit that I and people like me (even if not nearly as dedicated to learning as I became) would receive far outweighs the minor distractions that a larger number of individuals may "suffer" from.
Been a while, so no, I don't recall the address. And it would have been more appropriate to say a rural area near Great Falls rather than in the town itself.
I believe that these things aim automatically, but require a command to fire. So technically they are partially autonomous.
One of the poorest countries on earth is a nuclear power with medium range ballistic missiles capable of devastating Japan and short range artillery capable of devastating S. Korea. This is a country that the US and S. Korea are still officially at war with, and they occasionally attack. I forgot to mention that it is run by a delusional god emperor known for kidnapping TV personalities from other nations for his own personal entertainment.
Where is James Bond when you need him.
There is truth in that, they were off by nearly two decades!
I grew up dirt poor. One of the places we lived in had a dirt floor and no insulation in Great Falls, Montana.
I got to eat meat year round because my father poached deer out of season.
I got to eat bread because my parents bought hogs feed at 5 cents/lb to grind to flour.
I got to eat vegetables because we would gleen the fields of industrial farms of low growing fruit/veggies after the harvester machines passed through.
My parents were to religiously conservative to teach me anything at home that didn't come from the bible.
When we got a computer, it opened up the world for me.
From that point on, I never learned anything in school until I started working on my second college degree.
This was because I had already learned it from exploring on my own by the time school had gotten around to teaching it.
My experience may be far from common, but it was invaluable for me that I had access to a computer.
Unfortunately, No. HTML5 was designed by the guys that thought that XML was to hard, So they wrote a 5000 page spec that codified all the ways that browsers tried to handle broken syntax and made that the standard...
You think I am joking. I am not.
My hat of html05 know no limit. (ok, so thats a joke, but few here will get it.)