I don't need to "dodge responsibility" for North Korea any more than you need to do the same for Saudi Arabia. But any dunce can see that South Korea is way more liberal than North Korea.
While we're making fun of all the psychotic shit in North Korea, half of us are carrying cellphones assembled by slaves in factories with suicide nets installed under the windows.
A well-regulated incandescence, being necessary for the illumination of a free state, the right of the people to use shitty light bulbs shall not be infringed!
Sure- a computer guided missile fired from 60,000 feet above Pyongyang comes crashing through Un's bedroom window, but no one will suspect it was us because we classified documents.
It reminds me of ten years ago when Alexander Litvinenko died of polonium-210 poisoning after having tea with some KGB agents in London. Hmmm, who could have been behind that one?
Quantum entanglement can result in faster-than-light effects. But not faster than light *communication*. Basically, to decrypt the "message", you have to walk over to the other guy and compare his observations to yours before you can "read" the message he sent.
Which kind of idiots raise their children on Klingon as their main language?
Terrorists, that's who! It's the language they use when they conspire on the Internet.
CBS/Paramount received a subpoena from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which issued the following statement: "You [CBS and Paramount] have invented a tool that allows terrorists to communicate to each other in the dark, secretly, and law enforcement has no way to interpret what they're saying. You were smart enough to invent the language, so you can surely modify it so that it sounds just like English if the FBI listens in. We don't need it to sound like English to *everybody*, just the U.S. government."
CBS replied that this is impossible, so the committee planned to bring them to court and force them to make Klingon sound like English. They were about to be taken to court when the FBI announced it had found a third party who had been raised speaking Klingon.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't specifically mandate a two-party system, and it poses no *legal* barriers to form a third party. But unlike a parliamentary democracy, the winner-take-all elections proscribed in the Constitution guarantee that third parties will fail.
We all revere the parts of the Constitution that we like (the Bill of Rights) but the main part of the U.S. Constitution has some major design errors. Winner-take-all elections are one of those. The writers of the Constitution weren't looking carefully for such flaws, because back then, constitutions were things that you wrote, used for a while, then crumpled up and rewrote at another convention. It was widely assumed the document would be rewritten or at least amended, perhaps during their own lifetimes. Everyone "knew" that back then.
But over time the U.S. Constitution has gained the aura of a religious text written by ancient prophets. The people who wrote it would have been shocked if you told them that it would last more than 200 years, and that every word in their letters to each other would be endlessly analyzed and reinterpreted like the Apostle Paul's Letter to the Romans. Since they knew they wouldn't live forever, they specified that the interpretation of their document would be the job of the Supreme Court. Recently the Court started ignoring case law and started holding seances to divine what the opinions of these dead men would be about current issues. But 21st century jurisprudence wasn't a responsibility that they expected to shoulder from beyond the grave.
If they had known two centuries ago that medical progress would lengthen the lives of judges well into their years of senility, they might have reconsidered lifetime appointments for them. They certainly didn't expect that judges would become senile enough to extend First Amendment protections specifically to the solicitation of bribes by members of Congress- effectively *mandating* that a Congressman's first duty is no longer legislating, but asking people for bribes, in the name of "free speech".
The framers were smart enough to put in a mechanism for adding Amendments, and this worked for a long time. But like so many other things in the Constitution, this has gotten hollowed out and rendered meaningless in a thousand little different ways. There is realistically no chance that any Amendment will ever get passed again.
No great empire can support itself for more than several centuries before forgetting its roots and entering decline; that has been true throughout human history- for the Romans, the Mayans, the Ottomans, the ancient Egyptians, and now the US and Western Europe. The United States has entered a new phase, where a plutocratic oligarchy governs with an iron fist while still operating within the hollowed-out structure of the former democracy that it replaced.
You know what? My doctor said years ago I'd get lung cancer from smoking. He kept saying, those things are going to kill you, you'll get lung cancer!
So now that it's years and years later, of course he's flip flopping and saying it's emphysema that's killing me. And before that, cigarettes are what the doctors said they ordered!!! This is all just to force their radical pro-lung agenda and so of course they have to make up this stuff as they go along!
...so I've been flooding the house with pure oxygen. It also keeps everyone else in the house super healthy because its so nutritious.
My alarmist neighbor said that the house would go up in fire within a week. And that was TWO WEEKS AGO. Oops! Oh, it looks so burned up in here, right? I can smell the smoke as I type this! Ha ha! Still here, libtard!
I also unplugged the refrigerator yesterday to save on electricity. The wife said that all these bad things would happen, like the milk would be sour by now. Well guess what, it still tastes fine! Don't listen to these alarmists, they've proven time and again they don't know anything about science.
There does need to be some kind of reform when it comes to campaigns and financing and all of that, but it is very difficult to do. See, we have this thing called the First Amendment.
The First Amendment was the name for what we had for the first 222 years of our existence. Then they redefined it to include bribery, and now I don't know what you call this thing.
He's referring to that "Snowmageddon" storm that was predicted to hit the East Coast, but the wind blew east and the snow landed offshore. Which, of course, isn't what the weatherman said just the day before so why do these scientists think they can predict 30 years into the future? And why does Al Gore live in such a nice house?
The *company* that invented web browsing? Back when everyone was using Mosaic? Netscape Navigator would crash your machine when people didn't close HTML tags, and IE popped out later like an afterbirth.
Former employees would probably be liable to a civil suit if they did this. I'm pretty sure Apple makes you sign legal documents when you get a job there.
Do these same people support the 1950s Hollywood (private company) blacklists of communists and fellow-travelers?
I may not approve of what you say, but you have the right to say it. The same goes for blacklisting. I don't approve of what movie studios did, but they did have a right to refuse to hire people based on political alignment.
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Even if the Earth turns into Venus, how many jobs could there really be for climatologists? You don't need that many.
What we need to do is train kids to spray sulfur aerosols into the upper stratosphere! We have enough bad software engineers already.
Couldn't they just suspend a huge sheet of graphene from two helicopters?
I don't need to "dodge responsibility" for North Korea any more than you need to do the same for Saudi Arabia. But any dunce can see that South Korea is way more liberal than North Korea.
While we're making fun of all the psychotic shit in North Korea, half of us are carrying cellphones assembled by slaves in factories with suicide nets installed under the windows.
It makes me wonder who put together my Samsung!
A well-regulated incandescence, being necessary for the illumination of a free state, the right of the people to use shitty light bulbs shall not be infringed!
Sure- a computer guided missile fired from 60,000 feet above Pyongyang comes crashing through Un's bedroom window, but no one will suspect it was us because we classified documents.
It reminds me of ten years ago when Alexander Litvinenko died of polonium-210 poisoning after having tea with some KGB agents in London. Hmmm, who could have been behind that one?
Heh- it reminds me of their national anthem.
Actually Swiss cheese is my favorite... but North Korean Swiss? They probably get the milk from political prisoners.
When North Korea cracks down on freedom, Slashdot rushes to their defense to try to debunk the story.
That's because every story out of North Korea sounds like it was made up by someone on LSD.
We're facing a dangerous regime which is under the control of a guy who still uses a trackball mouse. How is that not news for nerds?
Donald? Is that you?
North Korea is leftist in much the same way that the Andromeda Galaxy is gluten free.
Quantum entanglement can result in faster-than-light effects. But not faster than light *communication*. Basically, to decrypt the "message", you have to walk over to the other guy and compare his observations to yours before you can "read" the message he sent.
Which kind of idiots raise their children on Klingon as their main language?
Terrorists, that's who! It's the language they use when they conspire on the Internet.
CBS/Paramount received a subpoena from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which issued the following statement: "You [CBS and Paramount] have invented a tool that allows terrorists to communicate to each other in the dark, secretly, and law enforcement has no way to interpret what they're saying. You were smart enough to invent the language, so you can surely modify it so that it sounds just like English if the FBI listens in. We don't need it to sound like English to *everybody*, just the U.S. government."
CBS replied that this is impossible, so the committee planned to bring them to court and force them to make Klingon sound like English. They were about to be taken to court when the FBI announced it had found a third party who had been raised speaking Klingon.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't specifically mandate a two-party system, and it poses no *legal* barriers to form a third party. But unlike a parliamentary democracy, the winner-take-all elections proscribed in the Constitution guarantee that third parties will fail.
We all revere the parts of the Constitution that we like (the Bill of Rights) but the main part of the U.S. Constitution has some major design errors. Winner-take-all elections are one of those. The writers of the Constitution weren't looking carefully for such flaws, because back then, constitutions were things that you wrote, used for a while, then crumpled up and rewrote at another convention. It was widely assumed the document would be rewritten or at least amended, perhaps during their own lifetimes. Everyone "knew" that back then.
But over time the U.S. Constitution has gained the aura of a religious text written by ancient prophets. The people who wrote it would have been shocked if you told them that it would last more than 200 years, and that every word in their letters to each other would be endlessly analyzed and reinterpreted like the Apostle Paul's Letter to the Romans. Since they knew they wouldn't live forever, they specified that the interpretation of their document would be the job of the Supreme Court. Recently the Court started ignoring case law and started holding seances to divine what the opinions of these dead men would be about current issues. But 21st century jurisprudence wasn't a responsibility that they expected to shoulder from beyond the grave.
If they had known two centuries ago that medical progress would lengthen the lives of judges well into their years of senility, they might have reconsidered lifetime appointments for them. They certainly didn't expect that judges would become senile enough to extend First Amendment protections specifically to the solicitation of bribes by members of Congress- effectively *mandating* that a Congressman's first duty is no longer legislating, but asking people for bribes, in the name of "free speech".
The framers were smart enough to put in a mechanism for adding Amendments, and this worked for a long time. But like so many other things in the Constitution, this has gotten hollowed out and rendered meaningless in a thousand little different ways. There is realistically no chance that any Amendment will ever get passed again.
No great empire can support itself for more than several centuries before forgetting its roots and entering decline; that has been true throughout human history- for the Romans, the Mayans, the Ottomans, the ancient Egyptians, and now the US and Western Europe. The United States has entered a new phase, where a plutocratic oligarchy governs with an iron fist while still operating within the hollowed-out structure of the former democracy that it replaced.
You know what? My doctor said years ago I'd get lung cancer from smoking. He kept saying, those things are going to kill you, you'll get lung cancer!
So now that it's years and years later, of course he's flip flopping and saying it's emphysema that's killing me. And before that, cigarettes are what the doctors said they ordered!!! This is all just to force their radical pro-lung agenda and so of course they have to make up this stuff as they go along!
[Pauses to light bong...]
...so I've been flooding the house with pure oxygen. It also keeps everyone else in the house super healthy because its so nutritious.
My alarmist neighbor said that the house would go up in fire within a week. And that was TWO WEEKS AGO. Oops! Oh, it looks so burned up in here, right? I can smell the smoke as I type this! Ha ha! Still here, libtard!
I also unplugged the refrigerator yesterday to save on electricity. The wife said that all these bad things would happen, like the milk would be sour by now. Well guess what, it still tastes fine! Don't listen to these alarmists, they've proven time and again they don't know anything about science.
There does need to be some kind of reform when it comes to campaigns and financing and all of that, but it is very difficult to do. See, we have this thing called the First Amendment.
The First Amendment was the name for what we had for the first 222 years of our existence. Then they redefined it to include bribery, and now I don't know what you call this thing.
He's referring to that "Snowmageddon" storm that was predicted to hit the East Coast, but the wind blew east and the snow landed offshore. Which, of course, isn't what the weatherman said just the day before so why do these scientists think they can predict 30 years into the future? And why does Al Gore live in such a nice house?
...pwned!
The thing I love about leftists is the more certain they are the more you can be sure they're wrong.
This is totally off topic but I read that and can't resist asking: what is your opinion on climate change?
The *company* that invented web browsing? Back when everyone was using Mosaic? Netscape Navigator would crash your machine when people didn't close HTML tags, and IE popped out later like an afterbirth.
Former employees would probably be liable to a civil suit if they did this. I'm pretty sure Apple makes you sign legal documents when you get a job there.
Well the Gear VR costs $99 to strap onto a Samsung phone. I was actually pretty impressed until a carrier update bricked it one night.
Do these same people support the 1950s Hollywood (private company) blacklists of communists and fellow-travelers?
I may not approve of what you say, but you have the right to say it. The same goes for blacklisting. I don't approve of what movie studios did, but they did have a right to refuse to hire people based on political alignment.