we've established what you are, now we're just haggling over how much.
that story about that gent that asked a lady if she'd sleep with him for a million dollars, after she agreed she would he asked if she'd do it for 5. she was outraged at the low price and refused asking, 'what kind of woman do you take me for?'
the response was they'd already established what kind of woman she was with the first question, now they were just negotiating the price.
cheating a friend, and killing a man, once you know they're willing to do it, it's just matter of what circumstances would make them cross that line with you.
... never... first responders and aid workers first priority is their own safety. if they aren't looking out for number one, often it means that's one more person that the rest will need to save.
i'm not that worried about it, the president is not a king. the wild excesses of ron paul, bernie sanders or even donald trump would be pretty tamped down by congress.
unless we vote in a supermajority in senate... in which case there might be a problem.
just read through the press-release by the fbi director.
he's saying he's not recommending charges be brought, and my reading of that is because they are not sure what charges might apply, because it was deemed unintentional and not willfully malicious.
and that people had hacked people she was talking to, but they hadn't seen evidence of them hacking her, but that she did access her email from countries that would be capable of it etc... unless the russia or the chinese weren't doing their jobs, they have more of her emails than we do essentially.
on the other point. yes, i've heard about the boy that cried wolf. and yes i question their motives, but the benghazi thing was more partisan and more about obama i think. initially at least.
also, the broken clock is right twice a day... disregarding an argument because of the source is the height of laziness.
and that story ends with the boy getting eaten... by a wolf.
from what i gather, people are saying she redirected all state department correspondence through her private email server. effectively. she instructed her subordinates to redact parts of classified documents and send them to her unsecured server... the parts of the classified documents that said they were classified.
I also question the motives of the people saying she should not be indicted. the DOJ of a friendly administration and an FBI director that doesn't necessarily want to rock the boat before a presidential election.
that's also a concern, but part of me feels that if she'd be indicted if she weren't the presumptive democratic nominee for the presidential election, she should be indicted if she is.
i've been following tangentially on slashdot and NPR. and fuck her, if she was doing what people are saying she did, yeah, she should get charged for it.
no fox news necessary. if she did what people say she did, then she said "fuck you" to national security ostensibly to hide what she was doing from the american people.
makes sense to me, prove that you've got a shot at changing the outcome essentially. if you can't muster up enough people who, if they were all just straight up added to your side in a repeat vote, could win it for you, why even bother letting you revote on the issue.
no, in all cases a local government is better at dealing with those things than a far-away government.
you're trying to conflate far-away with big, not the same thing.
the best way to make sure your representative has your best interests in mind, is if you eat at the same restaurants as he does, you live a few in on the same street as he does, and your daughter goes to the same school his does.
you want him to be as fucking anxious to save your town as you are. that's the goal of having government extremely local.
your use of usexit, which, you know, incidentally sounds like a very inappropriate iphone app of some kind, gives away your bias toward American, rather than Texan.
given a terrestrial origin, there are only so many paths and tools to increasing survivability. weapons good, fire good, cutting good, pounding good. etc etc.
there's a reason why there's convergence in nature, the eye evolved multiple times multiple ways, flight several ways... what makes you think that there would not be convergence in technological evolution too?
i think the first technological step of any intelligence of terrestrial origin is going to be stone tools. easy, super useful, and terrestrial means you've almost certainly got easy access to materials.
so the fossil record is incomplete, yet we have evidence of stone tools from 2.6 million years ago. our fossil record from 2.6 million years ago is incomplete to the same degree essentially as our fossil record from 62 million years ago. higher percentage lower percentage, quantitative differences rather than qualitative.
Yet we've found it, we've found it, we've found it.
at some point you've also really gotta define what you mean by technology. because it seems like something of a moving target.
what are they using to pen in the dinos, and what were they made of?
chopping tools? slicing tools? stone is harder than nail.
i think chipping rocks with other rocks to make primitive knives... is one of those things we're going to find as a technological step in any civilization we'll come across.
cutting things, puncturing things, killing things. rocks are essentially fossils to begin with.
before you make a bow, you really do need something to cut the branch.
also, apparently wikipedia puts recognizable stone tools at the 2.6 mya mark.
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we've established what you are, now we're just haggling over how much.
that story about that gent that asked a lady if she'd sleep with him for a million dollars, after she agreed she would he asked if she'd do it for 5. she was outraged at the low price and refused asking, 'what kind of woman do you take me for?'
the response was they'd already established what kind of woman she was with the first question, now they were just negotiating the price.
cheating a friend, and killing a man, once you know they're willing to do it, it's just matter of what circumstances would make them cross that line with you.
hey baby, now we're just haggling over the price.
... never... first responders and aid workers first priority is their own safety. if they aren't looking out for number one, often it means that's one more person that the rest will need to save.
well, people are fallible.
and yams are nutritious.
i'm not that worried about it, the president is not a king. the wild excesses of ron paul, bernie sanders or even donald trump would be pretty tamped down by congress.
unless we vote in a supermajority in senate... in which case there might be a problem.
just read through the press-release by the fbi director.
he's saying he's not recommending charges be brought, and my reading of that is because they are not sure what charges might apply, because it was deemed unintentional and not willfully malicious.
and that people had hacked people she was talking to, but they hadn't seen evidence of them hacking her, but that she did access her email from countries that would be capable of it etc... unless the russia or the chinese weren't doing their jobs, they have more of her emails than we do essentially.
on the other point. yes, i've heard about the boy that cried wolf. and yes i question their motives, but the benghazi thing was more partisan and more about obama i think. initially at least.
also, the broken clock is right twice a day... disregarding an argument because of the source is the height of laziness.
and that story ends with the boy getting eaten... by a wolf.
from what i gather, people are saying she redirected all state department correspondence through her private email server. effectively. she instructed her subordinates to redact parts of classified documents and send them to her unsecured server... the parts of the classified documents that said they were classified.
I also question the motives of the people saying she should not be indicted. the DOJ of a friendly administration and an FBI director that doesn't necessarily want to rock the boat before a presidential election.
that's also a concern, but part of me feels that if she'd be indicted if she weren't the presumptive democratic nominee for the presidential election, she should be indicted if she is.
caesars wife must be above suspicion.
i've been following tangentially on slashdot and NPR. and fuck her, if she was doing what people are saying she did, yeah, she should get charged for it.
no fox news necessary. if she did what people say she did, then she said "fuck you" to national security ostensibly to hide what she was doing from the american people.
i'm signing this thing.
i learned something today... i learned that there are people out there that really suck at tetris.
simply that even private companies aren't at their liberty to do as they want when it's been established that it's against the public interest.
the government steps in when companies exhibit anticompetitive behavior, maybe they should also step in when they exhibit censorious behavior.
makes sense to me, prove that you've got a shot at changing the outcome essentially. if you can't muster up enough people who, if they were all just straight up added to your side in a repeat vote, could win it for you, why even bother letting you revote on the issue.
no, in all cases a local government is better at dealing with those things than a far-away government.
you're trying to conflate far-away with big, not the same thing.
the best way to make sure your representative has your best interests in mind, is if you eat at the same restaurants as he does, you live a few in on the same street as he does, and your daughter goes to the same school his does.
you want him to be as fucking anxious to save your town as you are. that's the goal of having government extremely local.
100-200 vs 30 is not a brawl. that's one step away from a lynching.
cops were there to protect the nazis, because the nazis had a fucking permit to assemble that day.
yeah, very endearing counter-protesters.
http://www.latimes.com/busines...
i'd prefer slight economic damage to them deciding for me what i can and cannot see.
wait, why can't google only list its own products and not its competitors?
private entity and all.
OMG, it's true, even slashdot is in on the censoring.
i thought it was snowflakes, not cupcakes.
the naming scheme would be Texit.
your use of usexit, which, you know, incidentally sounds like a very inappropriate iphone app of some kind, gives away your bias toward American, rather than Texan.
wow, amimojo's position... is pretzel logic at its finest isn't it?
they've found choppers and hand axes in asia. just not more complex stone tools.
given a terrestrial origin, there are only so many paths and tools to increasing survivability. weapons good, fire good, cutting good, pounding good. etc etc.
there's a reason why there's convergence in nature, the eye evolved multiple times multiple ways, flight several ways... what makes you think that there would not be convergence in technological evolution too?
i think the first technological step of any intelligence of terrestrial origin is going to be stone tools. easy, super useful, and terrestrial means you've almost certainly got easy access to materials.
i'd say you can't have your cake and eat it too.
so the fossil record is incomplete, yet we have evidence of stone tools from 2.6 million years ago. our fossil record from 2.6 million years ago is incomplete to the same degree essentially as our fossil record from 62 million years ago. higher percentage lower percentage, quantitative differences rather than qualitative.
Yet we've found it, we've found it, we've found it.
at some point you've also really gotta define what you mean by technology. because it seems like something of a moving target.
what step? 2.6 million years ago we had stone tools. almost before homo sapien came about.
you know, jackasses get enough flattery, they don't need your flattery too.
what are they using to pen in the dinos, and what were they made of?
chopping tools? slicing tools? stone is harder than nail.
i think chipping rocks with other rocks to make primitive knives... is one of those things we're going to find as a technological step in any civilization we'll come across.
cutting things, puncturing things, killing things. rocks are essentially fossils to begin with.
before you make a bow, you really do need something to cut the branch.
also, apparently wikipedia puts recognizable stone tools at the 2.6 mya mark.