People must have had to file pairs of shoes with this company that have already been taken off and searched. They should ask the TSA to ensure the safety of the shoes too.
I mounted an X-ray tube on my bike (behind the seat, pointing left) to discipline drivers that get too close. And I have a nuclear warhead on my handlebars rigged to go the first time some parallel parked idiot opens their car door into me. You really shouldn't put up with abuse from people in cars.
Liberals can sneak in under doors and windows, through vents, or through any opening to the outside. You need to cover all cracks and openings with duct tape at least until there is no airflow or any ventilation to the outside so they can't get in and take your guns away.
I find a good way to stop them from coming in from under a door is to stick a piece of duct tape across the bottom so that it just touches the floor. The overlords stick to it and won't establish a trail going underneath, which is handy when you're not in a welcoming mood.
It affects everyone here with an AT&T phone. Only one person has a razr at all; there are lots of people with iphones, though, getting dropped calls unless they run outside. Apple has a bunch of local facilities just up the street; maybe they use landlines? Everyone thinks it's bizarre.
But with all these people running around with new iphones, there are a lot of secondhand Verizon phones available dirt cheap for people who don't care about silly phones.
I was forced to drop AT&T (so I have a used razr here) only because of poor reception. There is no reception for AT&T phones where I work; calls are dropped after seconds, and everyone with an iphone is always running outside as soon as their phone rings. This is in Cupertino CA within walking distance of Apple headquarters.
I used to think like you, but the pride you speak of is one thing when you're proud of the minority you're in, and another when you're proud to be part of a majority group. It would be nice if we all thought of ourselves as being "Americans". (Conservative solutions to huge problems often involve having everybody deciding to behave in a certain way or to believe something.) But we don't. And there are lots of people who think they think that way, but they really don't. Show them a person of the wrong race, and "American" isn't the first thought that pops into their heads.
Many things that definitely are his job or at least partially his job (national budget, tax and tariff policies, war powers etc.) impact the economy to the point where he does bear some overall responsibility for it. Conventional wisdom since the Great Depression has held the economy to be a direct responsibility of the executive, and in general, I think most people would be surprised to hear that recessions are none of the president's business. Who knows, maybe he should listen to you and stop worrying about it. That would certainly help with the smoking.
C) The people who are going to fix the economy are people like you and I.
Who else is there?
D) Legalizing marijuana would also help reduce spending.
I think you might be a little disconnected from the realities of the lower class and their access to video cameras.
I immediately found a crappy one for $12. It would certainly be good enough for this. I found another one that's even crappier but will still let you upload short videos to YouTube for only $4. Either will let you participate in the "national discussion". It's a matter of style I guess.
When even disabling text comments on a YouTube video sparks talk of social injustice, we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find it.
That would be a good argument for banning the video comments as well.
There could easily be some other motivation at work here (besides callous indifference to the lower classes) for disabling text comments. Probably a stupid one. Maybe they figure they'll be buried in comments and forced to pick and choose and introduce a bias if they want to make the page look flashy and interesting.
Seriously, who cares. I wonder what's up with this dude sometimes, but in terms of signal to noise in Obama stories (a real problem), this story is pure noise.
I picked up a used cellphone with a camera in it for $20 off Craigslist. And I'm an ignorant bastard, so you see how easy it is.
This is simply not a serious barrier comparable to e.g. owning land which separates people into demographics (landowners vs renters) having legitimate and distinctly separate policy interests. Not being able to produce a video in order to comment on a stupid Obama Youtube stunt doesn't really place you into a protected minority. Youtube is a private entity, and private entities are free to discriminate. And a direct societal benefit is gained by discriminating against the wider class of people unwilling to produce a video- like myself, with better things to do. It cuts down on the number of responses from ignorant bastards like me, who would just show up and post something similar to the GP.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have worked very well.
Should a video camera be the price of admission for participating in an open government discussion, especially when issues may hit those with lower incomes the hardest?
Yes.
I think we can tolerate the absence of people who can afford computers and not cellphone cameras.
They'll probably just wire a standard flash chip shut with the same pin used for the write-protect switches that some of them come with. Then there will be some "hardhack" Slashdot story about someone who managed to put Ubuntu on an AOL or Microsoft flash chip after taking a soldering iron to it.
However for these morons like the poster above; that act as though if the US had just not had any involvement everything would be unicorns and rainbows in Iran.
That's your own straw man. He implied that U.S. involvement prevented unicorns and rainbows in Iran, but not that the unicorns and rainbows would necessarily show up if the U.S. were not involved.
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People must have had to file pairs of shoes with this company that have already been taken off and searched. They should ask the TSA to ensure the safety of the shoes too.
Oh, so you're the one! Well thanks for all the bacon, jackass!
I mounted an X-ray tube on my bike (behind the seat, pointing left) to discipline drivers that get too close. And I have a nuclear warhead on my handlebars rigged to go the first time some parallel parked idiot opens their car door into me. You really shouldn't put up with abuse from people in cars.
No, it isn't a mystery.... Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen 1:2 And the earth... and God saw that it was good.
Yeah, all right, what really happened? Tell the truth.
Liberals can sneak in under doors and windows, through vents, or through any opening to the outside. You need to cover all cracks and openings with duct tape at least until there is no airflow or any ventilation to the outside so they can't get in and take your guns away.
Yeah but how do we know he's a real, licensed astronomer?
I find a good way to stop them from coming in from under a door is to stick a piece of duct tape across the bottom so that it just touches the floor. The overlords stick to it and won't establish a trail going underneath, which is handy when you're not in a welcoming mood.
I was half ready to head over there myself and make a video about the mental health care that the moderators on Slashdot need.
It affects everyone here with an AT&T phone. Only one person has a razr at all; there are lots of people with iphones, though, getting dropped calls unless they run outside. Apple has a bunch of local facilities just up the street; maybe they use landlines? Everyone thinks it's bizarre.
But with all these people running around with new iphones, there are a lot of secondhand Verizon phones available dirt cheap for people who don't care about silly phones.
I was forced to drop AT&T (so I have a used razr here) only because of poor reception. There is no reception for AT&T phones where I work; calls are dropped after seconds, and everyone with an iphone is always running outside as soon as their phone rings. This is in Cupertino CA within walking distance of Apple headquarters.
and it is the Principle that should get hammered
The principAL should get hammered principALly as a matter of principLE.
I used to think like you, but the pride you speak of is one thing when you're proud of the minority you're in, and another when you're proud to be part of a majority group. It would be nice if we all thought of ourselves as being "Americans". (Conservative solutions to huge problems often involve having everybody deciding to behave in a certain way or to believe something.) But we don't. And there are lots of people who think they think that way, but they really don't. Show them a person of the wrong race, and "American" isn't the first thought that pops into their heads.
A) That's not his job.
Many things that definitely are his job or at least partially his job (national budget, tax and tariff policies, war powers etc.) impact the economy to the point where he does bear some overall responsibility for it. Conventional wisdom since the Great Depression has held the economy to be a direct responsibility of the executive, and in general, I think most people would be surprised to hear that recessions are none of the president's business. Who knows, maybe he should listen to you and stop worrying about it. That would certainly help with the smoking.
C) The people who are going to fix the economy are people like you and I.
Who else is there?
D) Legalizing marijuana would also help reduce spending.
LOL not in my house.
During the election, about 95% of African-Americans voted for Barack Hussein Obama due solely to the color of his skin.
Yeah, but 95% of McCain voters voted for John McCain due solely to the color of Barack Hussein Obama's skin.
In Soviet Russia, when Michael Jackson overdoses, YOU are still dead on the news all next week
I think you might be a little disconnected from the realities of the lower class and their access to video cameras.
I immediately found a crappy one for $12. It would certainly be good enough for this.
I found another one that's even crappier but will still let you upload short videos to YouTube for only $4.
Either will let you participate in the "national discussion". It's a matter of style I guess.
When even disabling text comments on a YouTube video sparks talk of social injustice, we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find it.
That would be a good argument for banning the video comments as well. There could easily be some other motivation at work here (besides callous indifference to the lower classes) for disabling text comments. Probably a stupid one. Maybe they figure they'll be buried in comments and forced to pick and choose and introduce a bias if they want to make the page look flashy and interesting.
Seriously, who cares. I wonder what's up with this dude sometimes, but in terms of signal to noise in Obama stories (a real problem), this story is pure noise.
I picked up a used cellphone with a camera in it for $20 off Craigslist. And I'm an ignorant bastard, so you see how easy it is.
This is simply not a serious barrier comparable to e.g. owning land which separates people into demographics (landowners vs renters) having legitimate and distinctly separate policy interests. Not being able to produce a video in order to comment on a stupid Obama Youtube stunt doesn't really place you into a protected minority. Youtube is a private entity, and private entities are free to discriminate. And a direct societal benefit is gained by discriminating against the wider class of people unwilling to produce a video- like myself, with better things to do. It cuts down on the number of responses from ignorant bastards like me, who would just show up and post something similar to the GP.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have worked very well.
Should a video camera be the price of admission for participating in an open government discussion, especially when issues may hit those with lower incomes the hardest?
Yes.
I think we can tolerate the absence of people who can afford computers and not cellphone cameras.
I believed it all up until the beginning of this year when I decided to actually look at the data. The evidence just does not exist.
Well color me convinced.
They'll probably just wire a standard flash chip shut with the same pin used for the write-protect switches that some of them come with. Then there will be some "hardhack" Slashdot story about someone who managed to put Ubuntu on an AOL or Microsoft flash chip after taking a soldering iron to it.
Yeah but Occam is always on that side so who cares what he says.
However for these morons like the poster above; that act as though if the US had just not had any involvement everything would be unicorns and rainbows in Iran.
That's your own straw man. He implied that U.S. involvement prevented unicorns and rainbows in Iran, but not that the unicorns and rainbows would necessarily show up if the U.S. were not involved.
If we go and build enough wind turbines to power the world (and its growing energy demands), that energy needs to come from somewhere.
It will come from the government running large energy deficits year after year. All those kilowatt-hours will eventually be repaid by our children.
"Everyone else said your dad watched porn?"
There... I hope I just saved someone some trouble.