This, exactly. Because we need more and more debt on top of what we have - we've already forgotten Obama's 2006 criticism of Bush for extending the debt ceiling? Cite the Iraq war all you want, but under Obama, the fact is, the debt has grown far worse than it did prior. It makes sense to try to make some cuts somewhere. Blaming Bush and the Republicans for everything still, in 2013, priceless.
I noticed the bias of this article, the "Republican" lead shutdown.. Well, Obama and Reid didn't negotiate *one iota* on anything, had they done their job as elected officials and been willing to make a few compromises in this thing there probably wouldn't have been a shutdown; but they didn't even try, they utterly refused outright to budge on anything. How mature.
The Rs picked the wrong battlefield to make their stand, and for that, they too deserve blame, but not the whole enchilada by any stretch.
I'm not buying the mass media bullshit that this was entirely the Rights fault.
That's not what he said at all, that's a terrible analogy. He said much of the *bloat* is not needed, not that government isn't needed.
He may have overstated the fact, but OTOH, do you seriously think every single service and funding target of the feds is absolutely essential, and none of them might be basically just pork?
Easier said than done. I don't disagree with your sentiment one bit, but realistically, it's much more difficult and problematic, at least, if it were to be cut off suddenly.
Do you realize what would be affected by eschewing their oil? (Well, if you're Euroasian, anyway, the US doesn't rely all that much on mideast oil. )
Say goodbye to a lot of your energy and plastics; the repercussive impact on transportation alone, mostly trucking and aircargo, would cause every product and service to skyrocket in price, from food to clothes to computers. In turn, like a row of dominoes,the global economy could tank.
Someday, we won't need their oil anymore. But actually I'm not even sure that's a good thing or bad, because the sudden drop of their income and influence might cause them to lash out in desperation, and they'll have to the money to fund all kinds of attacks or mercenaries.
But my biggest worry though is that somehow, someday, in the future, they'll discover an abundant energy source in cheaply processing sand. Back to square one!
Verizon got a statewide franchise in New Jersey, yet they seem to have halted build out in the state. Meanwhile, in areas devastated by Sandy, Verizon refuses to rebuild ANY land line network.
Yeah, they pissed me off with that years ago. I saw a verizon tech working on lines on my street corner 2 years back (I'm in NJ), I approached him and asked, "Ooh, we finally getting FIOS?".. He laughed and said fat chance, it's dead.. never gonna happen, they pulled the plug on it; yet those bastards continue to advertise it. Mind you, I have no love for Comcast either.
Police have a huge amount of discretion in who they write up and for what. He could actually, y'know, work, and catch people posing some threat to those around him; but instead, he'd rather sit at a stop light and give tickets to fish in a barrel - To people at least trying to do the right thing and not text while driving (even if still technically "operating" their car).
So yeah, that still makes him a complete asshole. To all the good cops out there - This guy explains why we loathe you all so much. When you hear about shit like this, a good blanket party would do a world of wonders for your overall PR.
And I just lost my mod points yesterday, damn. This post is dead on.
Sounds to me like this guy is being a bully. There are essentially 3 reasons why anyone becomes a cop:
1) It's a family tradition - very common
2) They experienced a crime in their life that changed their life, and they've become altruistic (or a sanctioned vigilante) Not so common.
3) They're bullies who enjoy the authority and power over average people and can do so with near impunity. Too common, but not as much as #1
I don't mind getting up to go to the bathroom really, I usually fall right back asleep.
It was the recording of the dreams that woke me all the way up.
Interestingly, when I gotta pee, I usually dream that I have to pee, or am peeing even.
Fortunately, I don't for real, or.. my wife would've left me years ago.. lol. It's just my brain saying, "Dude, wake up, you gotta go!"
My most frequent dreams seem to either revolve around the house I grew up, and one or more of my parents (both died in the last 6 years); or, I dream about my house, but in the dream it's always radically different, it always has a lot more rooms in the dream, some that are cool hidden secret rooms I discover, or "forgotten" rooms and I'm going, "Why don't I come in here more often?"
I only wish my real house were that cool.
Problem this is, I often awake in the middle of the night (usually have to take a piss); I can remember dreams best right after I've had one,so I started immediately writing them down (kept a weak flashlight and journal by the bed for this) at like 3am for while but found that by the time I was done writing it all down, I was pretty much wide awake and had trouble going back to sleep.
That got old fast so I stopped doing that. I do, however, have some cool doosies written down. Especially the dream where I was flying around at treetop level like superman. God I love those dreams, but they're so rare. Or the one with the super red electrical storm and volcanoes blowing up all around me. My subconscious rocks.
So supposedly the US and British found evidence that Syria had used sarin, but refused to divulge the details.
Well, that bit would make sense. If you divulge too many details, you leave clues as to how to came by your information which puts your spies and methods at risk.
Which leads me to the next part...
Now a mystery communication putting Iran and Syria together if attacked. First of all if they had intercepted this, why would they tell every one about it. Now Iran is going to find another form of communication since this one is compromised. The whole scenario is playing out like a bad 80's conspiracy movie.
Agreed, releasing this doesn't make much sense from a US standpoint, IMO; if we had this info, why the hell would we make it public knowledge that we had it !? Seems it would've been smarter if we had played dumb and covertly made preparations to thwart any such attacks.
Now we're talking, that would seem fair.. I'm fucking sick of people trying to make a hero out of this nobody punk because it gives them some elitist warm fuzzies about how supposedly enlightened, "open-minded", and socially mature they are. Long before the oceans will rise enough to engulf us, we'll be drowned in total stupidity.
If these martian organisms can survive the journey why are they still not covering Mars? The surface of Mars is far, far more hospitable to life than the cold, hard, irradiated vacuum of space. Indeed space probes going to Mars have to be disinfected because there are terran micro-organisms that would thrive there.
For your story to be correct you have to explain what sterilized the surface of Mars and removed all signs of life from it (or at least hid it well). It seems far, far more probable to me that live evolved here on Earth by a mechanism that we still imperfectly understand.
For starters, we don't want any Terran organisms contaminating the research, so naturally the equipment is disinfected. That doesn't presume that those organisms would thrive or last for thousands or years or more, but they'd last long enough to compromise and muddle the research.
A few decades in interplanetary space is probably no worse, if not better, than a billion years on Mars. Mars, unlike Earth has no magnetic field, nothing to protect it from the solar wind, radiation, and coronal mass ejections over that vast expanse of time, except a very thin atmosphere, and that's not enough - even a hundred years compared to a billion is nothing.
Think about it. Unless you live on the end of a low-population road, your electricity is probably more reliable than any other service you have.
Well, if you compare it to my telephone land line service, not even close. We have NEVER lost our land line connection, ever. (Not that I'd expect the electrical company to match a perfect record) I keep one old corded telephone around that plugs directly into the jack, and no matter what storm we've had (South Jersey) it has never been out of service once in the 21 years I've lived in this house.It's not even an upscale neighborhood. A lot of people -especially techies- think it's stupid and backwards to have a landline these days, but the thing just works, rock solid. And besides, my cell service sucks from the location of my house.
Funny anecdote: a few years back, we'd lose power or have a bad enough glitch to crash my computer (I finally got a UPS) about every two weeks. It was really getting annoying. PSEG blamed it on squirrels, which I thought was silly. Then one morning, we woke up to hearing a loud bbzzzt, our power stuttered, and a second later, we heard a soft, dull thud outside. We looked out the window, and right across the street was a freshly fried squirrel lying on the sidewalk right below a transformer. No problems since.:)
Exactly. It makes no sense that the brain would wink out in a microsecond just because the neck was severed. Unless it was severed at the brainstem maybe.
That is gruesome, but I'm quite certain that many victims of the guillotine or axe were actually conscious or semi-conscious for many seconds after their death. Seconds which would probably feel like hours.
That's some surreal shit right there. Imagine yourself in those shoes.. errrr.. hat. But maybe the brain goes into some kind of shock.
If I was going to be executed, I'd either hope for really good drugs, or to just have my head totally, suddenly smashed in by a lightning quick hydraulic press.
I think he meant those alleged instances where someone was legally dead, floating above their body looking down on themselves, doctors and nurses, and could later report what they saw... allegedly accurately. Makes it a bit harder to refute.. though not impossible of course, if they could still hear.
Actually, I thought I saw a bit of David Tennant in Capaldi. Like he could be Tennant's uncle or something, there's a passing resemblance. Not to mention the Scottish brogue, which is Tennant's true voice.
I dunno, I admit Capaldi's a bit older than I would've liked; but then again, any younger than Matt Smith would've been just too young.
I started to wonder if they were going to make doctors younger and younger until at some point, the next regeneration resulted in a baby, fetus, or embryo.. which just immediately regenerated again and then the whole thing started over again somehow, with an old Doctor. Reset the cycle, so to speak. Hmm.. Benjamin Button, the next Doctor Who.;-p
Well.. we'll see.. but to me, Tennant will always be THE Doctor. (I didn't really watch it when Baker was reigning, but he'd probably be my pick of the original Doctors) To each their own I suppose.
What planet are you from? No one loves big government, programs, and initiatives more than the Left, that's just well accepted. (well.. unless it's defense, then the Right sort of takes a lead)
No, I guessed it was a republican because this is slashdot, and some of us must make them look bad at every single, tiny, inconsequential opportunity.
This entire article is much ado about nothing, must be a slow news day; it's set to throw off suspicion of waste because they found *one* false positive, (stop the presses!) so they try to totally discredit the guy trying to prevent waste, while it's actually a good thing he's doing all in all. Sure, he screwed it up this time because the funding source wasn't what he thought, but there is truly stupid crap they catch too.
Lesson, kids: let's not try to prevent waste in government, that's just mean-spirited; instead, thou shalt not question the government's judgement in spending!
Wasteful spending of both Left and Right is something we should be on the lookout for, and crucifying a guy for a stupid mistake doesn't help.
Oh, and no, BTW, I'm not a Tea Partier.. I just think the accountability in gov't is sorely lacking, it's got a subculture of waste and negligence that needs to be addressed before it becomes the final straw.
Just another example of why totally and blindly trusting big government with your tax dollars is not well advised. What do they care? They treat that income as totally disposable. Tax money is like Doritos, tax payers like Frito-Lay corp: "They'll make more" (obscure reference to an old advertising campaign for Doritos)
Right- because you were already engaged in the war against Al Qaeda(sp?) and the Taliban, so there was nothing much to escalate to, really. You're separating battles which are part and parcel of the same war.
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This, exactly. Because we need more and more debt on top of what we have - we've already forgotten Obama's 2006 criticism of Bush for extending the debt ceiling? Cite the Iraq war all you want, but under Obama, the fact is, the debt has grown far worse than it did prior. It makes sense to try to make some cuts somewhere. Blaming Bush and the Republicans for everything still, in 2013, priceless.
I noticed the bias of this article, the "Republican" lead shutdown.. Well, Obama and Reid didn't negotiate *one iota* on anything, had they done their job as elected officials and been willing to make a few compromises in this thing there probably wouldn't have been a shutdown; but they didn't even try, they utterly refused outright to budge on anything. How mature.
The Rs picked the wrong battlefield to make their stand, and for that, they too deserve blame, but not the whole enchilada by any stretch. I'm not buying the mass media bullshit that this was entirely the Rights fault.
That's not what he said at all, that's a terrible analogy. He said much of the *bloat* is not needed, not that government isn't needed.
He may have overstated the fact, but OTOH, do you seriously think every single service and funding target of the feds is absolutely essential, and none of them might be basically just pork?
Easier said than done. I don't disagree with your sentiment one bit, but realistically, it's much more difficult and problematic, at least, if it were to be cut off suddenly.
Do you realize what would be affected by eschewing their oil? (Well, if you're Euroasian, anyway, the US doesn't rely all that much on mideast oil. )
Say goodbye to a lot of your energy and plastics; the repercussive impact on transportation alone, mostly trucking and aircargo, would cause every product and service to skyrocket in price, from food to clothes to computers. In turn, like a row of dominoes,the global economy could tank.
Someday, we won't need their oil anymore. But actually I'm not even sure that's a good thing or bad, because the sudden drop of their income and influence might cause them to lash out in desperation, and they'll have to the money to fund all kinds of attacks or mercenaries.
But my biggest worry though is that somehow, someday, in the future, they'll discover an abundant energy source in cheaply processing sand. Back to square one!
Verizon got a statewide franchise in New Jersey, yet they seem to have halted build out in the state. Meanwhile, in areas devastated by Sandy, Verizon refuses to rebuild ANY land line network.
Yeah, they pissed me off with that years ago. I saw a verizon tech working on lines on my street corner 2 years back (I'm in NJ), I approached him and asked, "Ooh, we finally getting FIOS?".. He laughed and said fat chance, it's dead.. never gonna happen, they pulled the plug on it; yet those bastards continue to advertise it. Mind you, I have no love for Comcast either.
Probably Elmer Fudd, specifically... :P
Senator Feinstein believes the program is legal, but wants to improve public confidence.
IOW, she's just going to put a spin on how she presents the program to the public, no actual changes to the program itself are intended.
Police have a huge amount of discretion in who they write up and for what. He could actually, y'know, work, and catch people posing some threat to those around him; but instead, he'd rather sit at a stop light and give tickets to fish in a barrel - To people at least trying to do the right thing and not text while driving (even if still technically "operating" their car). So yeah, that still makes him a complete asshole. To all the good cops out there - This guy explains why we loathe you all so much. When you hear about shit like this, a good blanket party would do a world of wonders for your overall PR.
And I just lost my mod points yesterday, damn. This post is dead on.
Sounds to me like this guy is being a bully. There are essentially 3 reasons why anyone becomes a cop:
Or, some combination of the three
Agreed.. . I was on Reddit once or twice.. does nothing for me.
I don't mind getting up to go to the bathroom really, I usually fall right back asleep. .. my wife would've left me years ago.. lol. It's just my brain saying, "Dude, wake up, you gotta go!"
It was the recording of the dreams that woke me all the way up.
Interestingly, when I gotta pee, I usually dream that I have to pee, or am peeing even.
Fortunately, I don't for real, or
My most frequent dreams seem to either revolve around the house I grew up, and one or more of my parents (both died in the last 6 years); or, I dream about my house, but in the dream it's always radically different, it always has a lot more rooms in the dream, some that are cool hidden secret rooms I discover, or "forgotten" rooms and I'm going, "Why don't I come in here more often?"
I only wish my real house were that cool.
Try Dolphin. I've been pretty happy with that.
Problem this is, I often awake in the middle of the night (usually have to take a piss); I can remember dreams best right after I've had one,so I started immediately writing them down (kept a weak flashlight and journal by the bed for this) at like 3am for while but found that by the time I was done writing it all down, I was pretty much wide awake and had trouble going back to sleep.
That got old fast so I stopped doing that. I do, however, have some cool doosies written down. Especially the dream where I was flying around at treetop level like superman. God I love those dreams, but they're so rare. Or the one with the super red electrical storm and volcanoes blowing up all around me. My subconscious rocks.
So supposedly the US and British found evidence that Syria had used sarin, but refused to divulge the details.
Well, that bit would make sense. If you divulge too many details, you leave clues as to how to came by your information which puts your spies and methods at risk. Which leads me to the next part...
Now a mystery communication putting Iran and Syria together if attacked. First of all if they had intercepted this, why would they tell every one about it. Now Iran is going to find another form of communication since this one is compromised. The whole scenario is playing out like a bad 80's conspiracy movie.
Agreed, releasing this doesn't make much sense from a US standpoint, IMO; if we had this info, why the hell would we make it public knowledge that we had it !? Seems it would've been smarter if we had played dumb and covertly made preparations to thwart any such attacks.
Now we're talking, that would seem fair.. I'm fucking sick of people trying to make a hero out of this nobody punk because it gives them some elitist warm fuzzies about how supposedly enlightened, "open-minded", and socially mature they are. Long before the oceans will rise enough to engulf us, we'll be drowned in total stupidity.
If these martian organisms can survive the journey why are they still not covering Mars? The surface of Mars is far, far more hospitable to life than the cold, hard, irradiated vacuum of space. Indeed space probes going to Mars have to be disinfected because there are terran micro-organisms that would thrive there. For your story to be correct you have to explain what sterilized the surface of Mars and removed all signs of life from it (or at least hid it well). It seems far, far more probable to me that live evolved here on Earth by a mechanism that we still imperfectly understand.
For starters, we don't want any Terran organisms contaminating the research, so naturally the equipment is disinfected. That doesn't presume that those organisms would thrive or last for thousands or years or more, but they'd last long enough to compromise and muddle the research.
A few decades in interplanetary space is probably no worse, if not better, than a billion years on Mars. Mars, unlike Earth has no magnetic field, nothing to protect it from the solar wind, radiation, and coronal mass ejections over that vast expanse of time, except a very thin atmosphere, and that's not enough - even a hundred years compared to a billion is nothing.
Think about it. Unless you live on the end of a low-population road, your electricity is probably more reliable than any other service you have.
Well, if you compare it to my telephone land line service, not even close. We have NEVER lost our land line connection, ever. (Not that I'd expect the electrical company to match a perfect record) I keep one old corded telephone around that plugs directly into the jack, and no matter what storm we've had (South Jersey) it has never been out of service once in the 21 years I've lived in this house.It's not even an upscale neighborhood. A lot of people -especially techies- think it's stupid and backwards to have a landline these days, but the thing just works, rock solid. And besides, my cell service sucks from the location of my house.
:)
Funny anecdote: a few years back, we'd lose power or have a bad enough glitch to crash my computer (I finally got a UPS) about every two weeks. It was really getting annoying. PSEG blamed it on squirrels, which I thought was silly. Then one morning, we woke up to hearing a loud bbzzzt, our power stuttered, and a second later, we heard a soft, dull thud outside. We looked out the window, and right across the street was a freshly fried squirrel lying on the sidewalk right below a transformer. No problems since.
Exactly. It makes no sense that the brain would wink out in a microsecond just because the neck was severed. Unless it was severed at the brainstem maybe.
That is gruesome, but I'm quite certain that many victims of the guillotine or axe were actually conscious or semi-conscious for many seconds after their death. Seconds which would probably feel like hours.
That's some surreal shit right there. Imagine yourself in those shoes.. errrr.. hat. But maybe the brain goes into some kind of shock.
If I was going to be executed, I'd either hope for really good drugs, or to just have my head totally, suddenly smashed in by a lightning quick hydraulic press.
I think he meant those alleged instances where someone was legally dead, floating above their body looking down on themselves, doctors and nurses, and could later report what they saw... allegedly accurately. Makes it a bit harder to refute.. though not impossible of course, if they could still hear.
The last time the magnetic field flipped (Feb 2001), Brendan Fraser starred in Monkeybone. What colossal box office flop awaits us this time around?
Monkeybone II starring Shia LaBeouf, obviously..
Actually, I thought I saw a bit of David Tennant in Capaldi. Like he could be Tennant's uncle or something, there's a passing resemblance. Not to mention the Scottish brogue, which is Tennant's true voice.
;-p
I dunno, I admit Capaldi's a bit older than I would've liked; but then again, any younger than Matt Smith would've been just too young.
I started to wonder if they were going to make doctors younger and younger until at some point, the next regeneration resulted in a baby, fetus, or embryo.. which just immediately regenerated again and then the whole thing started over again somehow, with an old Doctor. Reset the cycle, so to speak. Hmm.. Benjamin Button, the next Doctor Who.
Well.. we'll see.. but to me, Tennant will always be THE Doctor. (I didn't really watch it when Baker was reigning, but he'd probably be my pick of the original Doctors) To each their own I suppose.
We'll find out just how far we have evolved from chimps (hint: not very much).
When people start eating each other, how many proudly will abstain?
Not me! Mmmm... human flesh, the other, other white meat!
(..and no, that's not a reference to skin color, before some race baiter has a field day.)
What planet are you from? No one loves big government, programs, and initiatives more than the Left, that's just well accepted. (well.. unless it's defense, then the Right sort of takes a lead)
No, I guessed it was a republican because this is slashdot, and some of us must make them look bad at every single, tiny, inconsequential opportunity.
This entire article is much ado about nothing, must be a slow news day; it's set to throw off suspicion of waste because they found *one* false positive, (stop the presses!) so they try to totally discredit the guy trying to prevent waste, while it's actually a good thing he's doing all in all. Sure, he screwed it up this time because the funding source wasn't what he thought, but there is truly stupid crap they catch too.
Lesson, kids: let's not try to prevent waste in government, that's just mean-spirited; instead, thou shalt not question the government's judgement in spending!
Wasteful spending of both Left and Right is something we should be on the lookout for, and crucifying a guy for a stupid mistake doesn't help.
I'm going to sing the doom song now. Doom de doom de doom...
"Would you please ... stop.. singing..? " *drool*
Oh, and no, BTW, I'm not a Tea Partier.. I just think the accountability in gov't is sorely lacking, it's got a subculture of waste and negligence that needs to be addressed before it becomes the final straw.
Just another example of why totally and blindly trusting big government with your tax dollars is not well advised. What do they care? They treat that income as totally disposable. Tax money is like Doritos, tax payers like Frito-Lay corp: "They'll make more" (obscure reference to an old advertising campaign for Doritos)
Right- because you were already engaged in the war against Al Qaeda(sp?) and the Taliban, so there was nothing much to escalate to, really. You're separating battles which are part and parcel of the same war.