I think it's a lot more sad that you think this kind of crap passes without bi-partisan support. You're just as misguided as the media you seek to criticize. Until you realize it's two halves of the same party, you're lost.
"Racism" can be found wherever you look for it. Of course, not hiring someone because of skin color is not necessarily racism. Racism is the believe that people of one race are intrinsically superior to people of other races, not one race not hiring a person of another race - that's discrimination.
In a free country, people are allowed to discriminate, but the government is not. Here, we have it the other way around - government is allowed to discriminate but people are not. If someone doesn't want to hire me because of my race, bfd. There are plenty of jobs, and they'll be worse off over the long haul for such narrow minded practices.
Discrimination is kept alive by people like Jesse Jackson, who otherwise would be out of a career. Discrimination is propped up by "affirmative action" laws. Want to end it? Let's get back to a government that truly has equal protection under the law.
... to get more people using encryption is because it will make it that much more difficult for them to ban it later.
To all the "you don't need encryption unless you have something to hide" people. Wow. I'm truly astounded by those people who have failed to learn anything from history.
Fighting the drug dealers was the excuse in the 80s. In the 90s it was saving the children. Now it's fighting terrorism. Please, keep up to date on the latest doublespeak - otherwise it's harder for the government to strip us of our rights.
Based on that, it could be more reasonable to point out that since World War II, large-scale foreign attacks on US soil were always foiled...until the GW Bush administration.
Yeah, let's ignore the FIRST attack on the WTC... after all, clinton was a leftist, you're a leftist, so... you kinda have to forgive him?
Where were the secret courts in the 40s? The secret charges? The ability to secretly rummage through our houses, take all our financial records, medical records, purchase records, gun ownership records, etc without court order?
Yes, there were some bad things done during WWII, but every single right was not systematically shat on, and you are naive if you think we've done a "good job of balancing liberty and security."
We fought two world wars and defeated world communism without a "patriot act", but now we can't defeat a few arabs hiding in a cave without 1984?
I concur with your ABB rant, the idea that both parties aren't totally in cahoots on this is ludicrous - both parties whole heartedly supported all of this, and frankly I'm amazed they're even feigning interest in protecting our rights this late in the game.
Don't worry, the patriot act will get renewed, and we'll lose our rights permanently.
Congress+Bush have done far more damage than a million OBLs could've hoped to accomplish in a million lifetimes. Between ransacking our rights and pillaging our money with obscene tax rates, the muslim fanatics won't have much to be jealous of the United States for very long!
Well, most of you. Most of you voted for the idiots that did this. Most people want to feel safe and secure, and they'll believe *any* load of bullshit out of politicians and vote away *any* rights they can think of. We're in the bread-and-circuses stage - nobody gives a crap because they've got mindless TV and sports to watch.
If there are a few left that aren't, they will be over the next few years.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
"Recently, certain peers have been disconnected from their direct connection to the Level 3 IP network. Some disconnected peers may elect to block access to certain IP addresses as a result of the disconnection. If a peer elects not to restore connectivity to the Level 3 network through alternative means, customers seeking continued access to the Level 3 network should make alternate arrangements."
They're saying Cogent is intentionally not advertising routes to them via other providers, presumably because they're upset about not having a peering agreement in place. Anyone affected by this presumably needs to harass Cogent.
You act as if you're surprised that it's led by democrats. Democrats/leftists/liberals, whatever you want to call them, are NOT liberals. The only Liberals around these days are the Libertarians. Democrats are only about free speech as long as they agree with it. As soon as they don't, they introduce things like the Fairness Doctrine to deal with it, all in the name of "open-mindedness":)
It's amazing, just a quick online form and they get a huge chunk of money I earned. I'm so glad the federal government decided to branch off into the free insurance business at my expense.
Hey, at least providing for national defense was an intended function of the federal government. I don't recall the founders discussing nationalized mandatory insurance.
But yes, both bother me - a lot. Your problem is you argue that stealing money for X is okay because we steal money for Y. Your argument should be that stealing money is wrong.
"Humanity" - that would imply charity, not stealing my money at gun point to pay for someone else's stupidity. Yes, gun point. Try not paying your taxes, then try to prevent everything you own from being taken without due process. You'll end up at gun point very quickly.
If we weren't all forced to pay an average of 55% of our income in total taxes (TOTAL, not income), there'd be a hell of a lot more money to go to CHARITY.
That's why the government continues to take your money for things like Iraq, because you don't give enough of a damn to do anything, so you vote for one of the two big parties with the understanding that a large chunk of *my* money will be stolen for something you want, in exchange for a large chunk of *your* money being stolen for something your neighbor wants.
Want it all to stop? Stop voting for the two big parties. I'm tired of paying for ALL of this crap - be it corporate welfare, wars that don't make any sense, or continually paying to rebuild some idiot's house he insists on rebuilding on the Florida coast every two years because *I* have to pay for it!
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When I say Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I at first mistakenly thought they were supportive of basic human rights.
Holy crap! They were missing four fingers and toes and some sick bastard amputated the ones they had?!
It's not really free software now that I'm being forced to pay for it.
I think it's a lot more sad that you think this kind of crap passes without bi-partisan support. You're just as misguided as the media you seek to criticize. Until you realize it's two halves of the same party, you're lost.
You probably voted for one of the halves of the ruling demopublican party, and I doubt you contacted anyone to complain.
BOHICA.
Perhaps you should read up on some of the ways the Apache used to torture others.
While two wrongs don't make a right, they weren't exactly sweet innocent people living peacefully with others.
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"Racism" can be found wherever you look for it. Of course, not hiring someone because of skin color is not necessarily racism. Racism is the believe that people of one race are intrinsically superior to people of other races, not one race not hiring a person of another race - that's discrimination.
In a free country, people are allowed to discriminate, but the government is not. Here, we have it the other way around - government is allowed to discriminate but people are not. If someone doesn't want to hire me because of my race, bfd. There are plenty of jobs, and they'll be worse off over the long haul for such narrow minded practices.
Discrimination is kept alive by people like Jesse Jackson, who otherwise would be out of a career. Discrimination is propped up by "affirmative action" laws. Want to end it? Let's get back to a government that truly has equal protection under the law.
... That they're using *our* money to pay for toys for another country?
I guess we haven't sent South Korea enough over the last 56 years.
... to get more people using encryption is because it will make it that much more difficult for them to ban it later.
To all the "you don't need encryption unless you have something to hide" people. Wow. I'm truly astounded by those people who have failed to learn anything from history.
Terrorist.
Fighting the drug dealers was the excuse in the 80s. In the 90s it was saving the children. Now it's fighting terrorism. Please, keep up to date on the latest doublespeak - otherwise it's harder for the government to strip us of our rights.
Based on that, it could be more reasonable to point out that since World War II, large-scale foreign attacks on US soil were always foiled...until the GW Bush administration.
Yeah, let's ignore the FIRST attack on the WTC... after all, clinton was a leftist, you're a leftist, so... you kinda have to forgive him?
When tyranny comes, it will come as a protector.
Where were the secret courts in the 40s? The secret charges? The ability to secretly rummage through our houses, take all our financial records, medical records, purchase records, gun ownership records, etc without court order?
Yes, there were some bad things done during WWII, but every single right was not systematically shat on, and you are naive if you think we've done a "good job of balancing liberty and security."
We fought two world wars and defeated world communism without a "patriot act", but now we can't defeat a few arabs hiding in a cave without 1984?
I concur with your ABB rant, the idea that both parties aren't totally in cahoots on this is ludicrous - both parties whole heartedly supported all of this, and frankly I'm amazed they're even feigning interest in protecting our rights this late in the game.
Don't worry, the patriot act will get renewed, and we'll lose our rights permanently.
Congress+Bush have done far more damage than a million OBLs could've hoped to accomplish in a million lifetimes. Between ransacking our rights and pillaging our money with obscene tax rates, the muslim fanatics won't have much to be jealous of the United States for very long!
Err... uh, so... get back to you when it's too late ?
Well, most of you. Most of you voted for the idiots that did this. Most people want to feel safe and secure, and they'll believe *any* load of bullshit out of politicians and vote away *any* rights they can think of. We're in the bread-and-circuses stage - nobody gives a crap because they've got mindless TV and sports to watch.
If there are a few left that aren't, they will be over the next few years.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
- Ayn Rand
Why won't Cogent just change their route advertisements?
"Recently, certain peers have been disconnected from their direct connection to the Level 3 IP network. Some disconnected peers may elect to block access to certain IP addresses as a result of the disconnection. If a peer elects not to restore connectivity to the Level 3 network through alternative means, customers seeking continued access to the Level 3 network should make alternate arrangements."
They're saying Cogent is intentionally not advertising routes to them via other providers, presumably because they're upset about not having a peering agreement in place. Anyone affected by this presumably needs to harass Cogent.
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How the terrorists won? Set off a few bombs, and we get a police state.
Don't complain too much, you voted them in.
You act as if you're surprised that it's led by democrats. Democrats/leftists/liberals, whatever you want to call them, are NOT liberals. The only Liberals around these days are the Libertarians. Democrats are only about free speech as long as they agree with it. As soon as they don't, they introduce things like the Fairness Doctrine to deal with it, all in the name of "open-mindedness" :)
It's amazing, just a quick online form and they get a huge chunk of money I earned. I'm so glad the federal government decided to branch off into the free insurance business at my expense.
Hey, at least providing for national defense was an intended function of the federal government. I don't recall the founders discussing nationalized mandatory insurance.
But yes, both bother me - a lot. Your problem is you argue that stealing money for X is okay because we steal money for Y. Your argument should be that stealing money is wrong.
"Humanity" - that would imply charity, not stealing my money at gun point to pay for someone else's stupidity. Yes, gun point. Try not paying your taxes, then try to prevent everything you own from being taken without due process. You'll end up at gun point very quickly.
If we weren't all forced to pay an average of 55% of our income in total taxes (TOTAL, not income), there'd be a hell of a lot more money to go to CHARITY.
That's why the government continues to take your money for things like Iraq, because you don't give enough of a damn to do anything, so you vote for one of the two big parties with the understanding that a large chunk of *my* money will be stolen for something you want, in exchange for a large chunk of *your* money being stolen for something your neighbor wants.
Want it all to stop? Stop voting for the two big parties. I'm tired of paying for ALL of this crap - be it corporate welfare, wars that don't make any sense, or continually paying to rebuild some idiot's house he insists on rebuilding on the Florida coast every two years because *I* have to pay for it!
Does it bother anyone else that our tax dollars will be used to pay for people who didn't have insurance?