I was so pleased when the UN finally told the US and Israel what they thought of the nice little Ghetto Israel had created for the Palestinians to slowly be eradicated in.
Frankly, I agree with Sir Gerald Kaufman of the UK in his views that Israel is no better than certain German Fascists in their treatment of the Palestinians.
“The current Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt among gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians,” Sir Gerald Kaufman, a veteran MP of the governing Labour Party and a long-time critic of Israel, said Thursday in parliament.
And before some butt-hurt heeb starts pulling out his "you disagree with Israel, you therefor are an anti-semite" card... Sir Gerald Kaufman is himself a Jew.
I hope that someday more land can be given to Palestine and both sides can learn to live in peace -- but considering this dispute seems driven by ultra-conservative religious wing-nuts on all sides, I don't think that will happen without total annihilation of the region.
I actually bothered to read the article, and the ex-employee in question RESIGNED by giving two weeks notice after being repeatedly passed over for promotion. Maybe in this day in age, we are now suposed to refer to anyone leaving a company as being terminated, but I for one think there is a profound difference between terminating an employee vs their departure on their own accord.
With that said -- seeing that this guy was butt-hurt enough to leave and commit these acts against his employer shows that he wasn't working with a full-deck. So I don't think the employer "had it coming" or provoked it -- since they seemed happy enough to employ him, but just didn't see him fit for a higher level position.
Moreover, there was the episode where the Cylons were dying of an encephalitis virus which was incurable and had a 100% fatality rate and which was so virulent, that it would infect the resurrection ship if any victims resurrected since it would be carried over.
Lee Adama put 2 and 2 together and hatched a plan to commit genocide against the Cylons, but Helo "Goody-Twoshoes" Agathon killed the captive Cylon victims before they could carry out the plan.
What I want to know is why Agathon was not blown out an airlock for that piece of mutiny that resulted in casualties against the humans due to an aborted attack.
I recall in that PKD story, they used a robotic housefly to conduct surveillance on people. And while we are safe for now, I am sure the CIA and FBI are wetting themselves thinking about the day they can get a power source with the energy density to power this fly sized drone without a tether and for hours at a time.
Why waste time with getting warrants for wiretaps when they can just let loose a few fly drones in the suspect's window?
I was under the impression that once something becomes a meme, it is essentially public domain since it's extensive public use would forfeit any intellectual rights the creators may have had.
From my point of view, they see that Warner Bros has lots of money and are making a cash grab even though they can't show any evidence of them trying to retain ownership of their creative works in the past. Where was the flurry of take down notices to the social sites these memes were propagated on? Where was the cease and desist letter to the Colbert show when Keyboard Cat was used numerous times there?
I'm all for the little guy being protected against the 800lb gorilla -- but in this case I hope the judge takes a sniff of this lawsuit and dismisses it outright.
I believe it is Sithic philosophy that states you are either absolutely for or absolutely against something. So I would not argue with Troyusrex, unless you want to get force choked.
It's nothing more than an enormous "fuck you" to the American public.
Yes it is, and one years in the making. The end game here is the end of Social Welfare. The GOP absolutely can not abide Social Welfare existing Social Security? Unemployment? This things are seen as an evil cancer destroying our society. And the GOP in Congress (declared themselves exempt from the Sequestration) will not stop until these programs are abolished.
However, Corporate Welfare is good, and will be increased in upcoming years while today's 30 somethings are forced to house and feed their unemployable parents who have moved in with them in their studio apartments.
Apple has already trademarked "Think Different" and the use of a "Reality Distortion Field" for a device to control the thought processes of it's user. As you can see, this "innovation" by Samsung is just repurposing the real innovation previously done by Apple.
Considering the fact that Netflix seems adept at making polished original productions -- I'd go with Amazon. Have you seen the "Pilots" for their original programs? God awful.
No -- but we have Ultra-Feminist Operatives (who prefer to be called "Joan of Arc") listening in on private conversations at Developer Conferences for "Trigger Words" in order to shame them via Social Media. This is of course after AdaInitiative has reviewed the topics covered and approved the content of the conference, removing any speaker or content that does not fit with the approved New Speak.
The court has to determine the facts of the matter -- these facts can not be merely assumed as you seem to imply. Thus the court case, the Plaintiff claims that the Defendant was dishonest and caused harm -- so the court must now make a decision on these claims from the evidence and arguments submitted.
However, the fact that a lawyer and a barrister have both taken up her case Pro-Bono shows that her statements were indeed based upon fact.
Amazing to see a Bill that does an end run around the Constitution by allowing a contract (a software ToS Agreement") have the full force of law with FEDERAL CRIMINAL PENALTY.
It doesn't matter if this passes or not. The message is clear enough: The rights and liberties of US citizens are forfeit and we shall be placed under the dominion of the Corporations.
Other bills will come later when this doesn't pass, and more after that until the Corporations get what they are paying for -- full control and domain over the citizens of the US and the ability to place any arbitrary rule of law upon them that they see fit and to have the US Gov't be little more than the zealous enforcer of those arbitrary laws.
I think we need this. Maybe then this country will become so incensed as to violently take down a government so corrupt and out of control that no other means exist to change it and start again -- learning from our mistakes. Or maybe the people will become even more apathetic than they are now and just lay down and submit.
Either way -- major changes are coming for the people of the US, and none of them good.
I know -- it sounds like a joke in poor taste. But hear me out: By using a kinect to track the wand, you could have it control a shock collar by having it emit short pulses to create morse code. You can wear the collar as a bracelet and have it turned down super low.
I know -- "Ewwwww Apple! We Linux users haaaaaaate Apple -- Apple isn't leet!"
But hey - if you can get past all that, it will stream Netflix AND Hulu and stream iTunes music from your laptops and iPhones, not that you use iTunes or any other Apple stuff. But you get the streaming services you want on something that doesn't "crash here and there", and doesn't look like an eyesore homebrew project from spare parts. And it takes all of 5 minutes to set up.
And who knows, maybe one day the idea of being able to come home and stream the song you're playing on your iPhone over your Home Entertainment System via the AppleTV will be too much to resist.
Seeing that our Government already did an end run around our First Amendment Rights to Freedom of Association in 1950 with the Red Scare under a Republican President, it only goes to follow that we now embrace the Democrat's Gun Scare under Obama.
IT. IS. WHAT. THE. PEOPLE. WANT. AFTER. ALL.
I mean, haven't we already seen a handful of news organisations and blogs outing local gun owners to shame the thousands of gun owners and invite them to be harassed, assaulted or worse? Already, we rightly expell kids from the school system for pointing a finger and saying "pew pewpew" and even dodgeball is facing bannination from the school ground for it's abject violence -- and you better bury those FPS like CoD in your backyard before "we" find them.
Why you ask? Why not? Why not going after anyone who's ever used or owned a gun? After all, they must be bad people -- and if you know someone who owns a gun, you are probably a pretty bad person your self.
So choose your Facebook friends wisely, or you might have to suffer the "consequences".
Let's get some control on Congress and the Corporations -- like that will ever happen. If I recall -- Feinstein was among the members of Congress found to be actively engaged in INSIDER TRADING by dealing in information given to her by Industry Lobbyists in exchange for "favors" and GIVEN A PASS! These members of Congress had claimed that they didn't know that Insider Trading was bad and inappropriate -- no charges or even fines will ever be levied against the Members of Congress or the Lobbyists who supplied the information by the SEC or DoJ.
In the last 30 years Congress has redefined "The People" as the Corporate Entities and the.5%. They see their job as handing as much power and control over the Subjects of the US to them as possible. Controlling Freedom of Expresion and curtailing the Constitutional Rights of the Subjects is needed to achieve that end.
These constant actions by Congress to make ToS Violations Criminal Offenses sheds light on the true goal of major corporations to essentially take direct control of the population and do and end run around the American Legal System.
I am a professional contractor -- when a jackass client tries to weasel out paying because they got the specs wrong (which can happen when I subcontract for a shady jackass), and want me to pay for their fuckups, can I have them thrown in Jail for Breach of Contract? HELL NO.
But it seems that if you violate a ToS - which is nothing more than an agreement of conduct vis a vis a Contract -- it seems Congress thinks Corporate America should be able to have you thrown in jail for not playing by whatever arbitrary rules they concoct. And more startling these criminal sanctions will be FEDERAL OFFENSES, trumping State Rights. Essentially making the DoJ the strong arm of the Fortune 500.
Frankly, I find this startling and to be unashamedly over-dramatic -- a testimony of the true intent of the US Congress and their Masters to enslave the unwashed masses of the US into a captive audience for the American Citizens -- the Corporations and the.5% subject to criminal persecution and Federal Mandates to buy products (insurance and whatever else they decide to create "free markets" for of US Corporate Cartels)
At this point it doesn't matter if this Bill passes or not -- a very clear message has been sent: COMMON PEOPLE ARE NOT WHO CONGRESS SERVES AND CONGRESS IS WORKING AS HARD AS IT CAN TO ELIMINATE COMMONERS RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AND SUBJECT THEM TO THE WILL OF THEIR CORPORATE MASTERS.
Why would "Unified Korea" tell the US to leave? A unified Korea would clearly be run from Seoul who are very friendly with the US and the US has maintained a policy of having bases everywhere they can (over 200 worldwide) to maintain power across the globe. If anything, the US would open MORE military bases in the region to help with "peace keeping" and "humanitarian aid" in the impoverished North as the adjusted to a new way of life. No way would Seoul agree to a Russian or Chinese occupation.
Or were you thinking the unified Korea would be run by Pyongyang with the direct aid of the Russians and Chinese?
And 11 million lives in Seoul that are pretty much forfeit in under 5 minutes when the shelling starts. No profit for Haliburton and other Contractors if all that's left is a smoking hole in the ground. Read up on the Korean DMZ, then you'll see exactly why te USMIC doesn't want to touch this. And exactly why they DIDN'T touch it under Bush and his warmonger cronies when they had clear evidence that N Korea was seeking Nuclear Capability.
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I'm not saying it's aliens, but that "ridge" was clearly a space craft docking terminal used by ancient aliens and their flying saucers.
I was so pleased when the UN finally told the US and Israel what they thought of the nice little Ghetto Israel had created for the Palestinians to slowly be eradicated in.
Frankly, I agree with Sir Gerald Kaufman of the UK in his views that Israel is no better than certain German Fascists in their treatment of the Palestinians.
“The current Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt among gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians,” Sir Gerald Kaufman, a veteran MP of the governing Labour Party and a long-time critic of Israel, said Thursday in parliament.
And before some butt-hurt heeb starts pulling out his "you disagree with Israel, you therefor are an anti-semite" card...
Sir Gerald Kaufman is himself a Jew.
I hope that someday more land can be given to Palestine and both sides can learn to live in peace -- but considering this dispute seems driven by ultra-conservative religious wing-nuts on all sides, I don't think that will happen without total annihilation of the region.
I actually bothered to read the article, and the ex-employee in question RESIGNED by giving two weeks notice after being repeatedly passed over for promotion.
Maybe in this day in age, we are now suposed to refer to anyone leaving a company as being terminated, but I for one think there is a profound difference between terminating an employee vs their departure on their own accord.
With that said -- seeing that this guy was butt-hurt enough to leave and commit these acts against his employer shows that he wasn't working with a full-deck.
So I don't think the employer "had it coming" or provoked it -- since they seemed happy enough to employ him, but just didn't see him fit for a higher level position.
Moreover, there was the episode where the Cylons were dying of an encephalitis virus which was incurable and had a 100% fatality rate and which was so virulent, that it would infect the resurrection ship if any victims resurrected since it would be carried over.
Lee Adama put 2 and 2 together and hatched a plan to commit genocide against the Cylons, but Helo "Goody-Twoshoes" Agathon killed the captive Cylon victims before they could carry out the plan.
What I want to know is why Agathon was not blown out an airlock for that piece of mutiny that resulted in casualties against the humans due to an aborted attack.
I recall in that PKD story, they used a robotic housefly to conduct surveillance on people. And while we are safe for now, I am sure the CIA and FBI are wetting themselves thinking about the day they can get a power source with the energy density to power this fly sized drone without a tether and for hours at a time.
Why waste time with getting warrants for wiretaps when they can just let loose a few fly drones in the suspect's window?
I was under the impression that once something becomes a meme, it is essentially public domain since it's extensive public use would forfeit any intellectual rights the creators may have had.
From my point of view, they see that Warner Bros has lots of money and are making a cash grab even though they can't show any evidence of them trying to retain ownership of their creative works in the past. Where was the flurry of take down notices to the social sites these memes were propagated on? Where was the cease and desist letter to the Colbert show when Keyboard Cat was used numerous times there?
I'm all for the little guy being protected against the 800lb gorilla -- but in this case I hope the judge takes a sniff of this lawsuit and dismisses it outright.
I believe it is Sithic philosophy that states you are either absolutely for or absolutely against something.
So I would not argue with Troyusrex, unless you want to get force choked.
It's nothing more than an enormous "fuck you" to the American public.
Yes it is, and one years in the making. The end game here is the end of Social Welfare. The GOP absolutely can not abide Social Welfare existing
Social Security? Unemployment? This things are seen as an evil cancer destroying our society. And the GOP in Congress (declared themselves exempt from the Sequestration) will not stop until these programs are abolished.
However, Corporate Welfare is good, and will be increased in upcoming years while today's 30 somethings are forced to house and feed their unemployable parents who have moved in with them in their studio apartments.
Is to place heavy fines on any one caught driving while in possession of a mobile device.
Just think of the added revenue!
Apple has already trademarked "Think Different" and the use of a "Reality Distortion Field" for a device to control the thought processes of it's user. As you can see, this "innovation" by Samsung is just repurposing the real innovation previously done by Apple.
Considering the fact that Netflix seems adept at making polished original productions -- I'd go with Amazon.
Have you seen the "Pilots" for their original programs? God awful.
No -- but we have Ultra-Feminist Operatives (who prefer to be called "Joan of Arc") listening in on private conversations at Developer Conferences for "Trigger Words" in order to shame them via Social Media. This is of course after AdaInitiative has reviewed the topics covered and approved the content of the conference, removing any speaker or content that does not fit with the approved New Speak.
New means to populate their Suspected Terrorist Database?
The court has to determine the facts of the matter -- these facts can not be merely assumed as you seem to imply. Thus the court case, the Plaintiff claims that the Defendant was dishonest and caused harm -- so the court must now make a decision on these claims from the evidence and arguments submitted.
However, the fact that a lawyer and a barrister have both taken up her case Pro-Bono shows that her statements were indeed based upon fact.
Amazing to see a Bill that does an end run around the Constitution by allowing a contract (a software ToS Agreement") have the full force of law with FEDERAL CRIMINAL PENALTY.
It doesn't matter if this passes or not. The message is clear enough: The rights and liberties of US citizens are forfeit and we shall be placed under the dominion of the Corporations.
Other bills will come later when this doesn't pass, and more after that until the Corporations get what they are paying for -- full control and domain over the citizens of the US and the ability to place any arbitrary rule of law upon them that they see fit and to have the US Gov't be little more than the zealous enforcer of those arbitrary laws.
I think we need this. Maybe then this country will become so incensed as to violently take down a government so corrupt and out of control that no other means exist to change it and start again -- learning from our mistakes. Or maybe the people will become even more apathetic than they are now and just lay down and submit.
Either way -- major changes are coming for the people of the US, and none of them good.
I know -- it sounds like a joke in poor taste. But hear me out: By using a kinect to track the wand, you could have it control a shock collar by having it emit short pulses to create morse code. You can wear the collar as a bracelet and have it turned down super low.
Implying that angry mobs are either "just" or "good".
I know -- "Ewwwww Apple! We Linux users haaaaaaate Apple -- Apple isn't leet!"
But hey - if you can get past all that, it will stream Netflix AND Hulu and stream iTunes music from your laptops and iPhones, not that you use iTunes or any other Apple stuff. But you get the streaming services you want on something that doesn't "crash here and there", and doesn't look like an eyesore homebrew project from spare parts. And it takes all of 5 minutes to set up.
And who knows, maybe one day the idea of being able to come home and stream the song you're playing on your iPhone over your Home Entertainment System via the AppleTV will be too much to resist.
Seeing that our Government already did an end run around our First Amendment Rights to Freedom of Association in 1950 with the Red Scare under a Republican President, it only goes to follow that we now embrace the Democrat's Gun Scare under Obama.
IT. IS. WHAT. THE. PEOPLE. WANT. AFTER. ALL.
I mean, haven't we already seen a handful of news organisations and blogs outing local gun owners to shame the thousands of gun owners and invite them to be harassed, assaulted or worse? Already, we rightly expell kids from the school system for pointing a finger and saying "pew pewpew" and even dodgeball is facing bannination from the school ground for it's abject violence -- and you better bury those FPS like CoD in your backyard before "we" find them.
Why you ask? Why not? Why not going after anyone who's ever used or owned a gun?
After all, they must be bad people -- and if you know someone who owns a gun, you are probably a pretty bad person your self.
So choose your Facebook friends wisely, or you might have to suffer the "consequences".
Let's get some control on Congress and the Corporations -- like that will ever happen. If I recall -- Feinstein was among the members of Congress found to be actively engaged in INSIDER TRADING by dealing in information given to her by Industry Lobbyists in exchange for "favors" and GIVEN A PASS! These members of Congress had claimed that they didn't know that Insider Trading was bad and inappropriate -- no charges or even fines will ever be levied against the Members of Congress or the Lobbyists who supplied the information by the SEC or DoJ.
In the last 30 years Congress has redefined "The People" as the Corporate Entities and the .5%. They see their job as handing as much power and control over the Subjects of the US to them as possible. Controlling Freedom of Expresion and curtailing the Constitutional Rights of the Subjects is needed to achieve that end.
These constant actions by Congress to make ToS Violations Criminal Offenses sheds light on the true goal of major corporations to essentially take direct control of the population and do and end run around the American Legal System.
I am a professional contractor -- when a jackass client tries to weasel out paying because they got the specs wrong (which can happen when I subcontract for a shady jackass), and want me to pay for their fuckups, can I have them thrown in Jail for Breach of Contract? HELL NO.
But it seems that if you violate a ToS - which is nothing more than an agreement of conduct vis a vis a Contract -- it seems Congress thinks Corporate America should be able to have you thrown in jail for not playing by whatever arbitrary rules they concoct. And more startling these criminal sanctions will be FEDERAL OFFENSES, trumping State Rights. Essentially making the DoJ the strong arm of the Fortune 500.
Frankly, I find this startling and to be unashamedly over-dramatic -- a testimony of the true intent of the US Congress and their Masters to enslave the unwashed masses of the US into a captive audience for the American Citizens -- the Corporations and the .5% subject to criminal persecution and Federal Mandates to buy products (insurance and whatever else they decide to create "free markets" for of US Corporate Cartels)
At this point it doesn't matter if this Bill passes or not -- a very clear message has been sent: COMMON PEOPLE ARE NOT WHO CONGRESS SERVES AND CONGRESS IS WORKING AS HARD AS IT CAN TO ELIMINATE COMMONERS RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS AND SUBJECT THEM TO THE WILL OF THEIR CORPORATE MASTERS.
Why would "Unified Korea" tell the US to leave? A unified Korea would clearly be run from Seoul who are very friendly with the US and the US has maintained a policy of having bases everywhere they can (over 200 worldwide) to maintain power across the globe. If anything, the US would open MORE military bases in the region to help with "peace keeping" and "humanitarian aid" in the impoverished North as the adjusted to a new way of life. No way would Seoul agree to a Russian or Chinese occupation.
Or were you thinking the unified Korea would be run by Pyongyang with the direct aid of the Russians and Chinese?
And 11 million lives in Seoul that are pretty much forfeit in under 5 minutes when the shelling starts. No profit for Haliburton and other Contractors if all that's left is a smoking hole in the ground. Read up on the Korean DMZ, then you'll see exactly why te USMIC doesn't want to touch this. And exactly why they DIDN'T touch it under Bush and his warmonger cronies when they had clear evidence that N Korea was seeking Nuclear Capability.
You said "forked"!!!! Why does this sight have to be so offensively sexist?
We need Valerie Aurora and Adia Richards to come to the rescue!
Two people doing the same amount of work as 50 or 60 Cylons?
Stop your shit-talking you Colonial elitist.