...because everyone in power takes it so seriously. If it were a real problem, it would be ignored or sidestepped in favor of a minor, more manageable issue. Our leaders haven't exactly made a reputation tackling the tough problems. But they have made it clear to everyone that they're willing to take our money and give it to their friends. I don't trust either side on the science, but I do trust that just about everyone in power these days is thoroughly corrupt.
No, I'm merely saying that an armed society is a polite society. In NY, where I grew up, guns are all but outlawed, nobody open carries, but the cops there are total assholes who over-react to everything. In fact, the only time I ever had a gun pulled on me was because I dared to ask a NYC cop for directions. In Colorado, this deputy treated us with respect, we treated him with respect and he even let us come back onto the property after an hour or so.
But my comment wasn't really so much about carrying a gun in public (which I don't personally do) as it was about carrying a smart phone and making sure that you have the numbers to make it unfeasible to confiscate anything. If he would have tried, he would have only gotten a few, while the others ran. THAT'S what makes them polite. Publicity is much scarier to them than any handgun.
A bunch of my friends got escorted off some property during our last protest by a sheriff's deputy. I was laughing my ass off because the second he came over to us, no less than 6 phones and an iPad were pulled out to record everything. No way was he confiscating shit. Especially as two of us were open carrying. By that point, he was quite friendly. There is strength in numbers.
Any of you Free Staters want to move out to Colorado instead, we'll welcome you with open arms. NH is too freakin' cold.
If people, especially authorities can't be recorded when in public, then there is nothing to prevent them from abusing their authority, doing anything they wish, and lying about it.
We've had C-SPAN for decades and it hasn't done anything to restrain congress from abusing its authority.
But of course I agree, we do have the right to monitor our employees.
Yeah, obviously streaming is the future, but I never understood why Netflix embraced it like they did. The obvious consequence was always going to be a loss of control over their business model and probable, eventual bankruptcy.
The movie studios will end up shooting themselves in the foot even worse than the RIAA did with all of this licensing bullshit. Now that TVs can play MKVs right out of the box, the studios are about to stir up a wave of piracy that they can't possibly imagine.
It is a new way of developing software that has been happening for a while now.
And that's the problem. It needlessly pisses people off. Who are the developers who start using this scheme when I don't know a single developer who thinks it makes sense?
Me too. Long time user who'll be officially switching this weekend. My distro isn't even on 4.0 yet for crying out loud. Although, it is nice to now be able to put a name to all this idiocy, Mr. Christian Legnitto.
Granted, chrome has the same ridiculous versioning scheme, but I'd rather use a leading product rather than a cheap copycat. They may have thought this would bring in more users, but I suspect the only result will soon be the downgrading of Firefox from major browser status.
Not sure I buy the premise. I went to a nerd college with few woman. Back then, before they shadowed PW files, I came across a lot of passwords. The two most common variants I found contained the words 'soccer' or 'jennifer.' Once again, I went to a nerd college with few women.
I apologize, I was just making a frustrated joke. Consider it directed at your reps. I've worked on a number of state initiatives here in Colorado that have also failed. So I do actually have a lot of respect for your attempt and I hope this isn't the end of it.
Seriously though, 3D games (of the 2D variety) are so late 1990s. Smart phones mean that sidescrollers are back. Given me Duke and Keen for Android (with a bird ray gun) and I'll be happy.
The main problem that we have with elections is that people wrongly believe that they've wasted their voted if they didn't vote for someone who was likely to win. I would argue that the only way to waste your vote is by giving it to someone who would have won without it.
By voting third party (or for a fringe democratic candidate, in your case), you can goad your mainstream compatriots into fishing for your votes, and moving in your same direction. See the Tea Party for an example.
Ok, but you might say that you just don't want to risk letting the other guy get elected. Me, I love when the other guy gets elected. They become an immediate poster child for my side. Bush was a disaster for conservatism, whereas Obama fuels it. Both Bush and Obama have so betrayed their respective ideologies, that no one even knows what a person means anymore when calling themselves a conservative or liberal.
Personally, I'd like to see something of an alliance between the Ron Paulers and the Dennis Kucinich fans. There is a lot both sides agree upon and they're really more alike than either side is with their respective party.
As a Republican, we faced the same issue with our party. They weren't practicing their rhetoric. But instead of pleading with people to stay the course, we formed something called the Tea Party (back during the Bush years) and decided that sticking to small government principles was more important than winning.
Obviously that Tea Party has now been fully co-opted by the mainstream GOP, noecons and social conservatives, but I'd really have more respect for the left if they at least tried the same thing on their side. You might not be able to get a Dennis Kucinich elected, but you can at least pull your party in the direction you want by supporting people like him.
What is this hero worship of Obama? He's Bush on steroids and you guys despised him. And yes, I do flip that question around for Bush-backing conservatives, because ideologically, there's very little difference between the two. Their buddies get rich while we the people get screwed. Giving the government more power won't change that, it'll only make it worse.
I don't consider it healthy, logical or reasonable to blindly believe anything. In this sense, it's not the conspiracy theorists who are saying "I know." They are saying, "I think," based on a limited set of facts. Limitations that even scientists have to deal with. The only people saying "I know" are the ones blindly rejecting theories because they are afraid how people might reject them if they do. They don't even take the time to disprove anything, because they think they just already know and that everyone else is stupid, and that's BS.
how long has it been from the kennedy assassination. no one, NO ONE, the vast conspiracy has issued a peep about it, even accidentally?
Actually, E. Howard Hunt, one of the engineers of the Watergate break-in, audio recorded a confession on his death bed to his son. He also implicated Cord Meyer, Frank Sturgis, David SÃnchez Morales, William King Harvey, a French gunman who worked for the Mafia, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He could have made it up, I suppose, but he's hardly some crackpot. He's someone who would have been in a position to carry it out. And since it was a deathbed confession, there was no glory to be hounded.
But you're right. Nobody cares or this would have been a much bigger story. People have been conditioned to blindly reject anything that might even hint of a conspiracy theory.
These numbers were from usdebtclock.org, which gets its figures form the treasury and the federal reserve. Hover over each figure to list the sources.
GDP is a far smaller number than national assets ($65 trillion less), but the problem with that discussion is that our government doesn't use the same generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that is expected of any large organization. They use cash, rather than accrual, accounting, which is highly inaccurate. In accrual accounting, all revenues and expenditures are counted right away, allowing for a complete picture of an organizations finances. If our government held itself to the same accounting principles that it expects of major corporations, then our debt is more like $127 trillion.
Do you have any idea just how much your life would suck right now had it not been for the banking system bailout?
It would have sucked only a fraction as bad as it will now eventually suck. All they've done is kick the can down the road and made the bubble even bigger. Nothing was fixed, just delayed.
I go to those sources when I want conservative numbers to use in an argument. I hardly go to those places (especially the CBO) for truth. That is, unless you believe that there's been no inflation in years and that the economy is only ever growing.
We are quite broke, so long as you don't engage in Enron style accounting. We have over $113 trillion in unfunded liabilities, over $14 trillion in immediate debt and this country's TOTAL national assets only amount to just under $79 trillion. We could sell off everything and still not offset our liabilities. That's pretty much the definition of broke. And this is with low interest rates, using government supplied numbers (meaning overly optimistic). Once those rates start to rise to historic norms (as they'll need to to attract lenders), expect to see another half a trillion added on each year.
Why should I give up the only quiet moment I get all day just because my co-workers are insecure and can't stop yapping for two seconds? Not to mention giving up the flexibility to eat when and where I want. I get along with everyone I work with, but I didn't sign up to be automatic friends just because I need a paycheck.
Since all it would take is just one alien species, capable of building a self-replicating robot ship, to populate the entire galaxy with probes in the astronomical blink of an eye, I'd say that there is likely another species out there shielding us from the discovery. Either that of there is no one else. In both cases, searching for signs of intelligent life is going to be a waste of time and money.
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...because everyone in power takes it so seriously. If it were a real problem, it would be ignored or sidestepped in favor of a minor, more manageable issue. Our leaders haven't exactly made a reputation tackling the tough problems. But they have made it clear to everyone that they're willing to take our money and give it to their friends. I don't trust either side on the science, but I do trust that just about everyone in power these days is thoroughly corrupt.
No, I'm merely saying that an armed society is a polite society. In NY, where I grew up, guns are all but outlawed, nobody open carries, but the cops there are total assholes who over-react to everything. In fact, the only time I ever had a gun pulled on me was because I dared to ask a NYC cop for directions. In Colorado, this deputy treated us with respect, we treated him with respect and he even let us come back onto the property after an hour or so.
But my comment wasn't really so much about carrying a gun in public (which I don't personally do) as it was about carrying a smart phone and making sure that you have the numbers to make it unfeasible to confiscate anything. If he would have tried, he would have only gotten a few, while the others ran. THAT'S what makes them polite. Publicity is much scarier to them than any handgun.
A bunch of my friends got escorted off some property during our last protest by a sheriff's deputy. I was laughing my ass off because the second he came over to us, no less than 6 phones and an iPad were pulled out to record everything. No way was he confiscating shit. Especially as two of us were open carrying. By that point, he was quite friendly. There is strength in numbers.
Any of you Free Staters want to move out to Colorado instead, we'll welcome you with open arms. NH is too freakin' cold.
If people, especially authorities can't be recorded when in public, then there is nothing to prevent them from abusing their authority, doing anything they wish, and lying about it.
We've had C-SPAN for decades and it hasn't done anything to restrain congress from abusing its authority.
But of course I agree, we do have the right to monitor our employees.
Yeah, obviously streaming is the future, but I never understood why Netflix embraced it like they did. The obvious consequence was always going to be a loss of control over their business model and probable, eventual bankruptcy.
The movie studios will end up shooting themselves in the foot even worse than the RIAA did with all of this licensing bullshit. Now that TVs can play MKVs right out of the box, the studios are about to stir up a wave of piracy that they can't possibly imagine.
Does it really matter what the version is?
Obviously it does. Have you not read the comments? Marketing that drives people away from your product is bad marketing.
It is a new way of developing software that has been happening for a while now.
And that's the problem. It needlessly pisses people off. Who are the developers who start using this scheme when I don't know a single developer who thinks it makes sense?
Me too. Long time user who'll be officially switching this weekend. My distro isn't even on 4.0 yet for crying out loud. Although, it is nice to now be able to put a name to all this idiocy, Mr. Christian Legnitto.
Granted, chrome has the same ridiculous versioning scheme, but I'd rather use a leading product rather than a cheap copycat. They may have thought this would bring in more users, but I suspect the only result will soon be the downgrading of Firefox from major browser status.
Not sure I buy the premise. I went to a nerd college with few woman. Back then, before they shadowed PW files, I came across a lot of passwords. The two most common variants I found contained the words 'soccer' or 'jennifer.' Once again, I went to a nerd college with few women.
Amen brother. If only I had the mod points.
Never played it. How many points do you get for snapping a chicken head?
I apologize, I was just making a frustrated joke. Consider it directed at your reps. I've worked on a number of state initiatives here in Colorado that have also failed. So I do actually have a lot of respect for your attempt and I hope this isn't the end of it.
Yes, apparently "everything is bigger in Texas" does not include balls.
Seriously though, 3D games (of the 2D variety) are so late 1990s. Smart phones mean that sidescrollers are back. Given me Duke and Keen for Android (with a bird ray gun) and I'll be happy.
The main problem that we have with elections is that people wrongly believe that they've wasted their voted if they didn't vote for someone who was likely to win. I would argue that the only way to waste your vote is by giving it to someone who would have won without it.
By voting third party (or for a fringe democratic candidate, in your case), you can goad your mainstream compatriots into fishing for your votes, and moving in your same direction. See the Tea Party for an example.
Ok, but you might say that you just don't want to risk letting the other guy get elected. Me, I love when the other guy gets elected. They become an immediate poster child for my side. Bush was a disaster for conservatism, whereas Obama fuels it. Both Bush and Obama have so betrayed their respective ideologies, that no one even knows what a person means anymore when calling themselves a conservative or liberal.
Personally, I'd like to see something of an alliance between the Ron Paulers and the Dennis Kucinich fans. There is a lot both sides agree upon and they're really more alike than either side is with their respective party.
As a Republican, we faced the same issue with our party. They weren't practicing their rhetoric. But instead of pleading with people to stay the course, we formed something called the Tea Party (back during the Bush years) and decided that sticking to small government principles was more important than winning.
Obviously that Tea Party has now been fully co-opted by the mainstream GOP, noecons and social conservatives, but I'd really have more respect for the left if they at least tried the same thing on their side. You might not be able to get a Dennis Kucinich elected, but you can at least pull your party in the direction you want by supporting people like him.
What is this hero worship of Obama? He's Bush on steroids and you guys despised him. And yes, I do flip that question around for Bush-backing conservatives, because ideologically, there's very little difference between the two. Their buddies get rich while we the people get screwed. Giving the government more power won't change that, it'll only make it worse.
I don't consider it healthy, logical or reasonable to blindly believe anything. In this sense, it's not the conspiracy theorists who are saying "I know." They are saying, "I think," based on a limited set of facts. Limitations that even scientists have to deal with. The only people saying "I know" are the ones blindly rejecting theories because they are afraid how people might reject them if they do. They don't even take the time to disprove anything, because they think they just already know and that everyone else is stupid, and that's BS.
how long has it been from the kennedy assassination. no one, NO ONE, the vast conspiracy has issued a peep about it, even accidentally?
Actually, E. Howard Hunt, one of the engineers of the Watergate break-in, audio recorded a confession on his death bed to his son. He also implicated Cord Meyer, Frank Sturgis, David SÃnchez Morales, William King Harvey, a French gunman who worked for the Mafia, and Lyndon B. Johnson. He could have made it up, I suppose, but he's hardly some crackpot. He's someone who would have been in a position to carry it out. And since it was a deathbed confession, there was no glory to be hounded.
But you're right. Nobody cares or this would have been a much bigger story. People have been conditioned to blindly reject anything that might even hint of a conspiracy theory.
These numbers were from usdebtclock.org, which gets its figures form the treasury and the federal reserve. Hover over each figure to list the sources.
GDP is a far smaller number than national assets ($65 trillion less), but the problem with that discussion is that our government doesn't use the same generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) that is expected of any large organization. They use cash, rather than accrual, accounting, which is highly inaccurate. In accrual accounting, all revenues and expenditures are counted right away, allowing for a complete picture of an organizations finances. If our government held itself to the same accounting principles that it expects of major corporations, then our debt is more like $127 trillion.
Do you have any idea just how much your life would suck right now had it not been for the banking system bailout?
It would have sucked only a fraction as bad as it will now eventually suck. All they've done is kick the can down the road and made the bubble even bigger. Nothing was fixed, just delayed.
I go to those sources when I want conservative numbers to use in an argument. I hardly go to those places (especially the CBO) for truth. That is, unless you believe that there's been no inflation in years and that the economy is only ever growing.
We are quite broke, so long as you don't engage in Enron style accounting. We have over $113 trillion in unfunded liabilities, over $14 trillion in immediate debt and this country's TOTAL national assets only amount to just under $79 trillion. We could sell off everything and still not offset our liabilities. That's pretty much the definition of broke. And this is with low interest rates, using government supplied numbers (meaning overly optimistic). Once those rates start to rise to historic norms (as they'll need to to attract lenders), expect to see another half a trillion added on each year.
Why should I give up the only quiet moment I get all day just because my co-workers are insecure and can't stop yapping for two seconds? Not to mention giving up the flexibility to eat when and where I want. I get along with everyone I work with, but I didn't sign up to be automatic friends just because I need a paycheck.
Since all it would take is just one alien species, capable of building a self-replicating robot ship, to populate the entire galaxy with probes in the astronomical blink of an eye, I'd say that there is likely another species out there shielding us from the discovery. Either that of there is no one else. In both cases, searching for signs of intelligent life is going to be a waste of time and money.