Unless said company is a government contractor (in which case yes they do have lots of requirements, but that is more of an issue of the entrenched companies like Northrop and Lockheed lobbying for such restrictions to raise the bar of entry and protect their turf) there are no certifications or red tape you have to have to start or run your business.
Ever tried to be a tattoo artist? Or a hairstylist?
Do you not realize what's going on? The businesses are being squeezed by the government! If you only knew how many certifications, and mandatory courses, and paperwork, and bullshit, and red tape that the simplest business has to deal with, it would blow your mind. Stop blaming business, and start blaming the GOVERNMENT, who are the source of 90% of America's problems today.
Doesn't matter - the point is, if people can be arrested, bankrupted (what, you thought the courts existed to give some semblance of justice? Naïveté is cute),or otherwise have their livelihood destroyed for nothing more than unpopular speech, then "Freedom of Speech" is most definitely not working as intended.
Just the other day, the police showed up at a warrant to my house to search for a "stolen iPhone", which was stolen from a place I had not visited in 18+ months, and somehow mysteriously "pinged back" to my place, which rarely receives visitors. This is in a remote small town in which I have no enemies and rarely interact with anyone, spending most of my time tending to my business, studying math, and rabble rousing on Internet forums. After they turned the place inside out and found nothing but old Air Force uniforms, jeans with holes in them, a few pieces of musical equipment, a few scraps of used hand me down furniture, a pile of clothes, a mattress on the floor, and some body armor I still haven't returned from my Afghan tour, they seemed pretty ashamed and embarrassed about the whole deal and maybe a bit perplexed as what was going on.
I wasn't surprised at all when they showed up. A couple months prior I had received a visit from the FBI, knocking on my door and claiming I had insulted some poor GOP bigwig who felt threatened by my prediction that some day soon hordes of starving youths would likely drag him from his cozy office kicking and screaming, and thus decided it was in the taxpayer's best interest to send this fat bitch with a badge to harass me. That went nowhere of course since I don't talk to scumbags. BTW this was right about the time we were hearing about the U.S. Marine who was hauled off to an insane asylum and forcibly committed on account of some Facebook posts he had made about the Illuminati.
Not long after all this, maybe 6 weeks or so, I read this news story about a 16 year old who received a similar visit from these fuckers over a Ron Paul video he made, which was totally benign. I snapped and sent the FBI an email telling them exactly what I thought, that they were fascists, immature little pieces of shit, and that they needed to leave this kid alone. I then dared them to send another group of thugs to my house to harass me.
Guess what happened about 10 days later?
Coincidence? Alternate explanations? I racked my brain trying to figure an alternate explanation. There are none. I don't want to put all the facts out here on the net, but I have reviewed all of them, and there is only one logical conclusion: the FBI tried to set me up, and/or send me a "warning."
Naivete is not cute at all, from my perspective. It's gone way beyond cute, and now it's getting pretty fucking scary. These mother fuckers won't ever get me to shut up though. There is nowhere left in the world to run to; fascism is encroaching everywhere. If we want freedom we're going to have to make a stand for it, here and now. Fuck you, FBI, you are traitors to everything our country once stood for. You will never defeat me.
Free speech is based on the threat of violence indeed. You know NOTHING about modern American culture. Nothing.
Define "American" culture.
In the South, um....actually, yes, the politeness is due to the threat of violence. I'm from north Alabama and in my culture you don't run your mouth to people and act like a complete asshole (for long) because you will get popped in the mouth sooner or later. I have been to other parts of the country (living in Michigan now) and I've seen and heard things go down as commonplace that would have somebody outright get the shit kicked out of them if they said it to somebody where I'm from.
I recently read a book whose name and author escapes me but it actually explained this phenomenon quite well. It described how my part of the country was mostly settled by Scots (I'm about half-Scot myself) who are largely a herding culture, which the theory indicates vary from agricultural cultures in significant ways.
There was a study conducted which analyzed how southerners and northerners responded to insults, and aggravating/annoying people, etc. Basically they found that northerners are quick to make a wisecrack to the annoying person or to roll their eyes, etc. When insulted they tend to shrug it off or deflect it, not showing outward signs of stress and not acting aggressively, but in reality the insult did add to their stress levels.
Southerners on the other hand were very polite up to a point, in both words and manner, but then at a certain point when somebody pushed the line too far, they would just snap and go off on somebody, which actually reduced their stress. When insulted, the study found they tended to act more aggressively and be more confrontational, in subtle ways even like body language and mannerisms. All of this totally jives with my own experience and observations, both of my own feelings and how I've observed others of my culture acting.
So the theory is, in herding cultures the different clans will sometimes attack and steal other's animals property, or commit other acts against them, and when insulted in such a way it's important to show a strong response, otherwise it marks one as weak and likely to be victimized further. The side effect of this mentality is people tend to be a lot more polite in general, more respectful in how they address other, etc.
There are some things you see in other parts of the country that just don't happen back home, and things back home you'd never see anywhere else, like how complete strangers will wave at you when you pass them on the highway. In my town you can leave your car unlocked in a parking lot all day, or all week even, and nobody will bother it. I've seen cars break down on the side of the road and sit there for days or even a week or two untouched. You can buy something at a store and not count your change, cause people rarely ever steal it, though they might miscount. You rarely ever hear about somebody being robbed. Being an armed robber in those parts is a dangerous hobby, cause even if you get away with it for a bit sooner or later some little old lady will put a slug through your chest, and nobody but your mama will mourn you. Etc. So the theory fits and makes a lot of sense to me.
Sorry, no, this is bullshit. Iran is being specifically targeted because they are specifically disliked by the fascists who rule America, for being non-conformists to our imperialist lust for control over their part of the world. Iran hasn't lied to anyone. Russia built their nuclear reactors under contract and Russia does not give a rats ass if Iran has nukes or not. Iranian's nuclear enrichment facilities and capabilities were entirely of their own development and are not at all dependent on any "trusting" partners.
Who the hell do you think you're talking about, anyway? This isn't Afghanistan, this is a Iran, a relatively modern and prosperous country, with thousands of years of history as the seat of empires. It may come as a shock to you to learn they are not ignorant savages, but in fact a highly educated, smart, and capable people. What, you think nukes technology is totally and completely beyond them if it weren't for us merciful Westerners to give them all our magic technology free, which they then BETRAYED by turning to EVIL SELF-DEFENSIVE purposes? LOL.
That is the dumbest thing I have read in a while. If the US wanted to invade Iran we would have done so all ready,
That's exactly the problem. The U.S. people by and large do not want to invade Iran. This fearmongering by Panetta and his ilk is one part of the establishment's attempt to change that.
the whole building nuclear weapons is more then enough reason to invade
Is it really? Now that is the stupidest thing I've read in this thread. Look at how colored your perception is by the establishment propaganda you absorb. No sane person, or person with expertise on this who doesn't have an agenda to push, thinks Iran is actually building a nuke. Although, if I were in their shoes.....I damn sure would be! The craziest thing is you idea that it's the U.S.'s job to police the world and decides who gets to have a nuke. Israel has 200+ nukes; why are they allowed to have them and Iran isn't? When was the last time Iran ever invaded or attacked a country, or even threatened to?
Where do you think Assad is getting his weapons from? Russia and Iran. Case closed.
LOLOLOL. So......(I'm picturing the 'Pondering Raptor' meme here)....if receiving weapons from a country that supports you is equivalent to being a puppet regime, and if a country is evil for supporting puppet regimes.....how evil is the U.S. for having multitudes of puppet regimes to which we regularly supply arms?
The US is not jumping into WW3. Iran is going to attack the US even if Israel does the bombing [businessinsider.com].
Insane hogwash. Utter ridiculousness. I retract my previous statement so that I may replace it with a stronger one: the United States is in much more serious trouble than I thought, if there truly are a lot of people out there like you among the ranks of the so-called "intellectuals" (i.e. Slashdot readers, as much as I'll be poked and prodded by the readership for making such an, in retrospect, obviously dumb assumption) who can be so easily fooled in believing such sensationalism, and not only believe it, but actively defend it on an Internet forum! It's not exaggeration to say you are nothing more than a puppet, a mouthpiece of the regime, a "useful idiot" as Stalin would say.
Iran has already been creating acts of war by killing our troops in Iraq and an assassination attempt on our ambassador and will pretty much do all of these things mentioned above.
#1 The war in Iraq? You mean the war which the United States provoked for no reason at all, which left a more or less stable, even in some ways thriving country, in utter ruin with millions dead, even now potentially about to relapse into civil war? They're wrong for interfering in our inteference in the affairs of a large country right next door to them (BTW) which they fully expected to be used as a tool against them by us--as had occurred before, in the case of the Iraq-Iran war for instance, in which millions of Iranians died and many more maimed--had we not totally and completely fucked it up by pissing off Iraqis to the point they would rather work with Iran than with us? Yeah, we're totally the good guys in that conflict and Iran is clearly evil for opposing our moral and righteous selves.
#2 Iran did not try to assassinate our ambassador, you fool. You were fooled. By parroting this propaganda, you are the textbook definition of a tool. Let me get this straight: Iran wants to carry out a high profile assassination. Looking around their own elite services and finding not one single person capable of organizing such an event or carrying out the attack, they decide to outsource it to the lowest bidder: a Mexican used car salesman from lower Texas. wat?
Thankfully the plot was uncovered by the DEA!
See, it came out during a routine drug transaction (the small timer was buying a few kilos of cocaine) that the guy also wanted to hire someone to kill these Ambassadors. There was a big todo about it on the news and everything! Well, for like a week. Now that story completely disappeared out of sight never to be seen again, just like so many others. Now all that's left of it is a core nugget of "truth": Those bastard Iranians tried to assassinate our ambassadaors!! Just one in another long line of pretended insults, manufactured out of thin air by our media overlords. Nevermind that the scenario is completely implausible in the extreme, I mean to the point of utter ridiculousness. Nevermind the fact that nobody can find or even name the guy suspected of doing this; he's disappeared from view along with the story. So when does this guy go to trial? Where is he being held? What is he being charged with? On the basis of what facts can we say that Iran tried to do a goddamn thing?
The next move would be for the whole middle east to have a new cold war and stock pile on nuclear weapons so in case the next war happens in the midd
You don't have as many "friends" as you think you do. I bet you're just a young person, inexperienced in life, who just doesn't have a clue what it means to be a friend with someone. All you have are acquaintances. Wait until you get into a tight situation and have to draw on people for real help. Watch how much of a burden it seems to put on them to give the smallest help, or how fast 95% of them just outright disappear.
In the end, what are you left with? People who are much like you, to some significant degree. Oftentimes it's family. Sometimes not even that. Life is a competition, and so-called "friendship" often evaporates when it gets in the way of our selfish ends. We are a selfish people, no matter how much every single person in America tries to deny and obfuscate it.
There is a privacy setting so you can't be added to groups without your permission which undercuts the claim that they were 'sophisticated users'. To be fair I think Facebook set this to false by default when they added the feature.
This is exactly the problem. These geeks are always swapping shit around and changing things. Every time I go into the Privacy settings menu it's different somehow, and guaranteed if I look hard enough I will find some option that I do NOT want enabled, but which has been added in the interim and given a default setting which leaves the info wide open to everyone.
Complete hogwash. I won't even bother responding to your post on a point by point basis, as it's clear you don't even have the foggiest clue what you're talking about. For example your statement of a "puppet government" in Syria. Syria has been ruled by the same family of dictators for a long, long time, and they are not puppets by any stretch of the word. You clearly really don't have the first clue about the Middle East or about Iran. It's sad as fuck how the U.S. is about to jump into WW3 with both feet because of cheering morons like yourself. This one is going to get really ugly.
In no way did the US or Israel try to damage Iranian infrastructure. All they were doing was trying to slow down Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program.
FTFY.
Of course, US and Israel and Europe also aren't trying to reduce Iran's population to starvation and destroy their economy....no no no....those oil sanctions are targeted at the oil industry. The fact that people will soon be starving, rioting, looting, etc is merely an inconsequential side effect, right?
Yet Israel isn't party to this treaty at all...and they already have 200+ nuclear weapon. Why aren't we invading and threatening THEM? Iran is the only one who needs to be invaded. Why? When was the last time Iran ever invaded or attacked a country?
I'm glad this article came up on Slashdot cause Lord knows Facebook is tired of my political commentary, and in the middle of the night too so maybe somebody will actually see my comment, and understand when I say this accusation IS COMPLETE HORSESHIT.
Iran did not launch any fucking "cyber attack." This is nothing more than a convenient excuse drummed up by the U.S. to help justify an invasion. They have been searching high and low for a good excuse for some time. Now the stage is set. When some massive cyberattack hits the U.S. (not really causing any real damage of course, at least not to anything seriously critically important) guess who will be blamed? Why, it must have been Iran! Leon Panetta with his far-rearching vision and insight pointed out not 6 months ago this might happen! Quick, to arms!
Marriage has been, and is always, a public statement of contract. It is basically civil in nature. Whatever religiosity that is thrown around it is mere window dressing. With this idea that the government should not be involved in validating marriages, you alienate *both* the religious nutjobs, and people like me who think one of the functions of government is to make things like contracts enforceable.
LOL.
So exactly how are you going to "enforce" a "marriage contract"?
Do you really believe that? Do you believe it enough to give him $10 to help him advertise this fact to others? No? Then is he really that great?
What if I don't have $10 to spare, because every dime I earn goes into politicians' pockets already, thanks to a system they've colluded to set up which puts such a ridiculous barrier to entry on newcomers who would like to participate and work to change the system?
Sounds like your diatribe is directed against the GOP and not voting in general.
Sorry, but this attitude is cynical bullshit. If citizens of the USA don't even believe voting is nothing more than crap, why are we starting wars with the stated purpose (admittedly after shifting the goalposts a few times) of bringing freedom to people and the right to vote?
..............Because voting is useless and we're stuck with the warmongering fascists whether we want them or not? Think about it.
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Unless said company is a government contractor (in which case yes they do have lots of requirements, but that is more of an issue of the entrenched companies like Northrop and Lockheed lobbying for such restrictions to raise the bar of entry and protect their turf) there are no certifications or red tape you have to have to start or run your business.
Ever tried to be a tattoo artist? Or a hairstylist?
Do you not realize what's going on? The businesses are being squeezed by the government! If you only knew how many certifications, and mandatory courses, and paperwork, and bullshit, and red tape that the simplest business has to deal with, it would blow your mind. Stop blaming business, and start blaming the GOVERNMENT, who are the source of 90% of America's problems today.
That sounds like a threat to me.
That's because a threat is what you want to hear.
Yeah, it was Tipping Point. Great author.
Doesn't matter - the point is, if people can be arrested, bankrupted (what, you thought the courts existed to give some semblance of justice? Naïveté is cute),or otherwise have their livelihood destroyed for nothing more than unpopular speech, then "Freedom of Speech" is most definitely not working as intended.
Just the other day, the police showed up at a warrant to my house to search for a "stolen iPhone", which was stolen from a place I had not visited in 18+ months, and somehow mysteriously "pinged back" to my place, which rarely receives visitors. This is in a remote small town in which I have no enemies and rarely interact with anyone, spending most of my time tending to my business, studying math, and rabble rousing on Internet forums. After they turned the place inside out and found nothing but old Air Force uniforms, jeans with holes in them, a few pieces of musical equipment, a few scraps of used hand me down furniture, a pile of clothes, a mattress on the floor, and some body armor I still haven't returned from my Afghan tour, they seemed pretty ashamed and embarrassed about the whole deal and maybe a bit perplexed as what was going on.
I wasn't surprised at all when they showed up. A couple months prior I had received a visit from the FBI, knocking on my door and claiming I had insulted some poor GOP bigwig who felt threatened by my prediction that some day soon hordes of starving youths would likely drag him from his cozy office kicking and screaming, and thus decided it was in the taxpayer's best interest to send this fat bitch with a badge to harass me. That went nowhere of course since I don't talk to scumbags. BTW this was right about the time we were hearing about the U.S. Marine who was hauled off to an insane asylum and forcibly committed on account of some Facebook posts he had made about the Illuminati.
Not long after all this, maybe 6 weeks or so, I read this news story about a 16 year old who received a similar visit from these fuckers over a Ron Paul video he made, which was totally benign. I snapped and sent the FBI an email telling them exactly what I thought, that they were fascists, immature little pieces of shit, and that they needed to leave this kid alone. I then dared them to send another group of thugs to my house to harass me.
Guess what happened about 10 days later?
Coincidence? Alternate explanations? I racked my brain trying to figure an alternate explanation. There are none. I don't want to put all the facts out here on the net, but I have reviewed all of them, and there is only one logical conclusion: the FBI tried to set me up, and/or send me a "warning."
Naivete is not cute at all, from my perspective. It's gone way beyond cute, and now it's getting pretty fucking scary. These mother fuckers won't ever get me to shut up though. There is nowhere left in the world to run to; fascism is encroaching everywhere. If we want freedom we're going to have to make a stand for it, here and now. Fuck you, FBI, you are traitors to everything our country once stood for. You will never defeat me.
Free speech is based on the threat of violence indeed. You know NOTHING about modern American culture. Nothing.
Define "American" culture.
In the South, um....actually, yes, the politeness is due to the threat of violence. I'm from north Alabama and in my culture you don't run your mouth to people and act like a complete asshole (for long) because you will get popped in the mouth sooner or later. I have been to other parts of the country (living in Michigan now) and I've seen and heard things go down as commonplace that would have somebody outright get the shit kicked out of them if they said it to somebody where I'm from.
I recently read a book whose name and author escapes me but it actually explained this phenomenon quite well. It described how my part of the country was mostly settled by Scots (I'm about half-Scot myself) who are largely a herding culture, which the theory indicates vary from agricultural cultures in significant ways.
There was a study conducted which analyzed how southerners and northerners responded to insults, and aggravating/annoying people, etc. Basically they found that northerners are quick to make a wisecrack to the annoying person or to roll their eyes, etc. When insulted they tend to shrug it off or deflect it, not showing outward signs of stress and not acting aggressively, but in reality the insult did add to their stress levels.
Southerners on the other hand were very polite up to a point, in both words and manner, but then at a certain point when somebody pushed the line too far, they would just snap and go off on somebody, which actually reduced their stress. When insulted, the study found they tended to act more aggressively and be more confrontational, in subtle ways even like body language and mannerisms. All of this totally jives with my own experience and observations, both of my own feelings and how I've observed others of my culture acting.
So the theory is, in herding cultures the different clans will sometimes attack and steal other's animals property, or commit other acts against them, and when insulted in such a way it's important to show a strong response, otherwise it marks one as weak and likely to be victimized further. The side effect of this mentality is people tend to be a lot more polite in general, more respectful in how they address other, etc.
There are some things you see in other parts of the country that just don't happen back home, and things back home you'd never see anywhere else, like how complete strangers will wave at you when you pass them on the highway. In my town you can leave your car unlocked in a parking lot all day, or all week even, and nobody will bother it. I've seen cars break down on the side of the road and sit there for days or even a week or two untouched. You can buy something at a store and not count your change, cause people rarely ever steal it, though they might miscount. You rarely ever hear about somebody being robbed. Being an armed robber in those parts is a dangerous hobby, cause even if you get away with it for a bit sooner or later some little old lady will put a slug through your chest, and nobody but your mama will mourn you. Etc. So the theory fits and makes a lot of sense to me.
Only a (soon to be deceased) moron brings fists to a gunfight.
Sorry, no, this is bullshit. Iran is being specifically targeted because they are specifically disliked by the fascists who rule America, for being non-conformists to our imperialist lust for control over their part of the world. Iran hasn't lied to anyone. Russia built their nuclear reactors under contract and Russia does not give a rats ass if Iran has nukes or not. Iranian's nuclear enrichment facilities and capabilities were entirely of their own development and are not at all dependent on any "trusting" partners.
Who the hell do you think you're talking about, anyway? This isn't Afghanistan, this is a Iran, a relatively modern and prosperous country, with thousands of years of history as the seat of empires. It may come as a shock to you to learn they are not ignorant savages, but in fact a highly educated, smart, and capable people. What, you think nukes technology is totally and completely beyond them if it weren't for us merciful Westerners to give them all our magic technology free, which they then BETRAYED by turning to EVIL SELF-DEFENSIVE purposes? LOL.
That is the dumbest thing I have read in a while. If the US wanted to invade Iran we would have done so all ready,
That's exactly the problem. The U.S. people by and large do not want to invade Iran. This fearmongering by Panetta and his ilk is one part of the establishment's attempt to change that.
the whole building nuclear weapons is more then enough reason to invade
Is it really? Now that is the stupidest thing I've read in this thread. Look at how colored your perception is by the establishment propaganda you absorb. No sane person, or person with expertise on this who doesn't have an agenda to push, thinks Iran is actually building a nuke. Although, if I were in their shoes.....I damn sure would be! The craziest thing is you idea that it's the U.S.'s job to police the world and decides who gets to have a nuke. Israel has 200+ nukes; why are they allowed to have them and Iran isn't? When was the last time Iran ever invaded or attacked a country, or even threatened to?
Where do you think Assad is getting his weapons from? Russia and Iran. Case closed.
LOLOLOL. So......(I'm picturing the 'Pondering Raptor' meme here)....if receiving weapons from a country that supports you is equivalent to being a puppet regime, and if a country is evil for supporting puppet regimes.....how evil is the U.S. for having multitudes of puppet regimes to which we regularly supply arms?
The US is not jumping into WW3. Iran is going to attack the US even if Israel does the bombing [businessinsider.com].
Insane hogwash. Utter ridiculousness. I retract my previous statement so that I may replace it with a stronger one: the United States is in much more serious trouble than I thought, if there truly are a lot of people out there like you among the ranks of the so-called "intellectuals" (i.e. Slashdot readers, as much as I'll be poked and prodded by the readership for making such an, in retrospect, obviously dumb assumption) who can be so easily fooled in believing such sensationalism, and not only believe it, but actively defend it on an Internet forum! It's not exaggeration to say you are nothing more than a puppet, a mouthpiece of the regime, a "useful idiot" as Stalin would say.
Iran has already been creating acts of war by killing our troops in Iraq and an assassination attempt on our ambassador and will pretty much do all of these things mentioned above.
#1 The war in Iraq? You mean the war which the United States provoked for no reason at all, which left a more or less stable, even in some ways thriving country, in utter ruin with millions dead, even now potentially about to relapse into civil war? They're wrong for interfering in our inteference in the affairs of a large country right next door to them (BTW) which they fully expected to be used as a tool against them by us--as had occurred before, in the case of the Iraq-Iran war for instance, in which millions of Iranians died and many more maimed--had we not totally and completely fucked it up by pissing off Iraqis to the point they would rather work with Iran than with us? Yeah, we're totally the good guys in that conflict and Iran is clearly evil for opposing our moral and righteous selves.
#2 Iran did not try to assassinate our ambassador, you fool. You were fooled. By parroting this propaganda, you are the textbook definition of a tool. Let me get this straight: Iran wants to carry out a high profile assassination. Looking around their own elite services and finding not one single person capable of organizing such an event or carrying out the attack, they decide to outsource it to the lowest bidder: a Mexican used car salesman from lower Texas. wat?
Thankfully the plot was uncovered by the DEA!
See, it came out during a routine drug transaction (the small timer was buying a few kilos of cocaine) that the guy also wanted to hire someone to kill these Ambassadors. There was a big todo about it on the news and everything! Well, for like a week. Now that story completely disappeared out of sight never to be seen again, just like so many others. Now all that's left of it is a core nugget of "truth": Those bastard Iranians tried to assassinate our ambassadaors!! Just one in another long line of pretended insults, manufactured out of thin air by our media overlords. Nevermind that the scenario is completely implausible in the extreme, I mean to the point of utter ridiculousness. Nevermind the fact that nobody can find or even name the guy suspected of doing this; he's disappeared from view along with the story. So when does this guy go to trial? Where is he being held? What is he being charged with? On the basis of what facts can we say that Iran tried to do a goddamn thing?
The next move would be for the whole middle east to have a new cold war and stock pile on nuclear weapons so in case the next war happens in the midd
You don't have as many "friends" as you think you do. I bet you're just a young person, inexperienced in life, who just doesn't have a clue what it means to be a friend with someone. All you have are acquaintances. Wait until you get into a tight situation and have to draw on people for real help. Watch how much of a burden it seems to put on them to give the smallest help, or how fast 95% of them just outright disappear.
In the end, what are you left with? People who are much like you, to some significant degree. Oftentimes it's family. Sometimes not even that. Life is a competition, and so-called "friendship" often evaporates when it gets in the way of our selfish ends. We are a selfish people, no matter how much every single person in America tries to deny and obfuscate it.
Stop projecting.
There is a privacy setting so you can't be added to groups without your permission which undercuts the claim that they were 'sophisticated users'. To be fair I think Facebook set this to false by default when they added the feature.
This is exactly the problem. These geeks are always swapping shit around and changing things. Every time I go into the Privacy settings menu it's different somehow, and guaranteed if I look hard enough I will find some option that I do NOT want enabled, but which has been added in the interim and given a default setting which leaves the info wide open to everyone.
This is why Facebook is evil and must be completely, and utterly destroyed, through a war of attrition.
Challenge accepted.
Complete hogwash. I won't even bother responding to your post on a point by point basis, as it's clear you don't even have the foggiest clue what you're talking about. For example your statement of a "puppet government" in Syria. Syria has been ruled by the same family of dictators for a long, long time, and they are not puppets by any stretch of the word. You clearly really don't have the first clue about the Middle East or about Iran. It's sad as fuck how the U.S. is about to jump into WW3 with both feet because of cheering morons like yourself. This one is going to get really ugly.
In no way did the US or Israel try to damage Iranian infrastructure. All they were doing was trying to slow down Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program.
FTFY.
Of course, US and Israel and Europe also aren't trying to reduce Iran's population to starvation and destroy their economy....no no no....those oil sanctions are targeted at the oil industry. The fact that people will soon be starving, rioting, looting, etc is merely an inconsequential side effect, right?
Yet Israel isn't party to this treaty at all...and they already have 200+ nuclear weapon. Why aren't we invading and threatening THEM? Iran is the only one who needs to be invaded. Why? When was the last time Iran ever invaded or attacked a country?
How perceptive. Now observe as I do the same.
I'm glad this article came up on Slashdot cause Lord knows Facebook is tired of my political commentary, and in the middle of the night too so maybe somebody will actually see my comment, and understand when I say this accusation IS COMPLETE HORSESHIT.
Iran did not launch any fucking "cyber attack." This is nothing more than a convenient excuse drummed up by the U.S. to help justify an invasion. They have been searching high and low for a good excuse for some time. Now the stage is set. When some massive cyberattack hits the U.S. (not really causing any real damage of course, at least not to anything seriously critically important) guess who will be blamed? Why, it must have been Iran! Leon Panetta with his far-rearching vision and insight pointed out not 6 months ago this might happen! Quick, to arms!
Marriage has been, and is always, a public statement of contract. It is basically civil in nature. Whatever religiosity that is thrown around it is mere window dressing. With this idea that the government should not be involved in validating marriages, you alienate *both* the religious nutjobs, and people like me who think one of the functions of government is to make things like contracts enforceable.
LOL.
So exactly how are you going to "enforce" a "marriage contract"?
Sorry, no, you're wrong. Ron Paul wants the government OUT of marriage entirely.
Except Obama has arrested and imprisoned more drug users than Bush ever did.
Republicans: fascists
Democrats: fascists
Do you really believe that? Do you believe it enough to give him $10 to help him advertise this fact to others? No? Then is he really that great?
What if I don't have $10 to spare, because every dime I earn goes into politicians' pockets already, thanks to a system they've colluded to set up which puts such a ridiculous barrier to entry on newcomers who would like to participate and work to change the system?
But where would you move to? Everywhere else is just as bad. The days of running from our problems are over. It's time to stand and fight.
Sounds like your diatribe is directed against the GOP and not voting in general.
Sorry, but this attitude is cynical bullshit. If citizens of the USA don't even believe voting is nothing more than crap, why are we starting wars with the stated purpose (admittedly after shifting the goalposts a few times) of bringing freedom to people and the right to vote?
..............Because voting is useless and we're stuck with the warmongering fascists whether we want them or not? Think about it.
How is this a troll?