Just because someone pissed in a jar and labeled it 'Truth' and you drank it, doesn't mean the rest of us are that gullible, or base our opinions on single sources.
I know you're trolling with your CNN propaganda, but could you be less lazy about it?
We had the attorney general of the united states, meet with the spouse of a subject under active FBI investigation in a private meeting that lasted half an hour, and then refused to recuse herself afterwards. We have a director of the FBI who leaks his own internal memos, seemingly purposefully ignores evidence on laptops and celphones, ignores the destruction of the devices, and then claims that there was insufficient evidence of intent when that isn't even a factor to be considered under the statute.
We have immunity deals handed out, with witnesses like Cheryl Mills being proved a liar when she claims ignorance of the server, witnesses being allowed to serve as legal aid to Clinton during interviews, and even more oddities. There's other questions, such as if the donations to the campaign to Comey's wife may have had a bearing on how this investigation was handled.
But according to you this hearing is all to be a smokescreen for nothingburger TrumpRussia, for a news media that sat on the Urianium One story for over five years. Go peddle your bullshit elsewhere.
Above informative post should be upmodded. The full details of what occured in Niger have yet to be known, but there is many details surrounding Benghazi such as the injustice of jailing an innocent scapegoat that cry out for accountability.
Yeah, I agree that this ideal does not accurately reflect the reality, but I don't think it's insincerity when Gowdy says it. It is a phrase he repeats very often in his statements, in hearings that do not involve major political actors, etc. Just as I must allow the possibility that not all that swear an oath to uphold and defend the constitution are lying for political expediency, so too must I allow the possibility that not all capitol hill lawyers are self serving scum bags.
Gowdy is either a master at convincing performances who could have a lucrative career in acting, or he means what he says. I lean heavily towards the latter.
Destruction of evidence and lying to congress is considered to be criminal acts, and there seems to be an increasingly amount of evidence of that occurring. The immunity deals, the refusing to seize laptops as evidence, the allowing key witnesses to attend Clinton's unrecorded 'interview', needs to be examined under greater scrutiny. Of course the biggest question is why he declared the decision to not press for indictment occurred at the end of the investigation, and not months prior as the internal memo seems to indicate.
Maybe if we're lucky, we'll get another outburst of "We're not weasels!" from Mr.Comey after his mask of false sincerity begins to crack under pressure.
What does the Niger incident have to do with this, other than to serve as yet another 'whataboutism'.
You're complaining about a double standard, for a probe investigating a double standard, i.e. the unusual activities of the DOJ and the FBI in relation to Clinton. This kind of corruption spanning multiple branches of government can't be just brushed aside just because the parties involved were able to run out the clock. There needs to be answers, there needs to be accountability.
It happens to be democrats on the receiving end this time, and hopefully with republicans too there can be transparency and accountability with the public. I say a pox on both their houses, it is in the public interest to know the truth.
You mean the hearings where people like Clinton, Comey and Lynch are able to give nonanswers, declare ignorance in the face of questions they should be able to give answers to, and generally be completely evasive?
Have you ever watched those hearings? They only serve to show how unaccountable you are when your political faction can run interference.
Exactly. They're all-female / hermaphroditic. There can be no such thing as a naturally reproducing 'all-male' species by the very definition.
I understand your point about a species being all-male being unable to reproduce, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. You're straying into the territory of biological sex vrs. gender, which could vary among alien races as it does among humans. For a race that does have actual sexual dimorphism, being hermaphroditic and declaring yourself 'male' wouldn't be surprising.
Besides, can't you appreciate the humor of a incredibly stoic masculine character where incubating a giant egg by sitting on it is completely normal for him?
But as I said, scientific ignorance is yet another Trek tradition they're honouring here, intentionally or not. (Either way I still don't like it when they use 'science' my kids would laugh at)
It's science fiction, meant to entertain, not to present an accurate future reality. It's enough that these shows use terms like dark matter or pulsars or nuetrino, in context to at least spark curiosity as to what those things actually are.
And an agency which uses civil assets forfeiture, and uses dragnet surveillance, and compromises security standards by controlling the standards process, and interrogates people via torture, and denies attorney-client privilege, and employs the purgery trap by not recording interrogations, and loses exonerating evidence,...
And, as the case of Jerry Drake Varnell, pressure individuals known to be clinically diagnosed with mental illness to commit acts of terrorism, and then make an arrest when the subject acts with the materials and instructions provided. For this ruthlessness, and the lack of oversight for the agency, every single terrorist event that does occur it has to be considered if the FBI had direct involvement in making it possible and simply let the subject they groomed carry it out. I'm cynical enough to believe they would in order to preserve the climate of fear that justifies their budgets.
First, I'd like whoever decided an 'all-male' species could be a thing without cloning or somesuch to take a basic biology course.
On our own little blue speck, Komodo dragons will reproduce via parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction. Female dragons held in captivity without access to a mate have been known to lay eggs where all of the viable ones are male. Another species of lizard has members that are all female.
On that note, I'd say that the 'all male' alien species actually isn't. One, since the show revolved around there being females of their race, and two, the male-appearance aliens would fit the definition of hermaphrodites since they can both lay eggs and fertilize them.
From the agency that utilizes parallel construction. Any law abiding citizen should rightfully wish to encrypt as much as their data as possible to give themselves at least some small measure of protection from these agencies, who demonstrate utter contempt for both the spirit and the letter of the very law they are tasked to enforce.
Next up, steel reinforced front doors should be outlawed, because it interferes with early-am no-knock armed raids on people suspected of jay walking.
Because of the open process, this is going to timidly filter out a little of the worst of the worst, and that's about it.
As if those with the power to censor speech won't redefine what constitutes as 'extreme'. There's no such thing as a slippery slope, is there? Your optimism and faith in government bureaucrats that this power won't be abused is remarkable.
Bureau of Labor statistics show that 60 percent of families with children have both parents working. Children are less supervised at home, and parents are less likely to take an active role in their child's education because they are busy being serfs in a society where.1% of the population keeps 90% of the wealth. The US leads in child poverty among developed nations.
In effect we have too many parents who thrust their special snowflakes unto the education system and expect it to raise their children for them. We have a culture that puts greater value on having multimillion dollar sports arenas than special programs. We have No Child Left Behind, which in the tradition of government named programs does the opposite of its namesake, and turns schools into just an assembly line of standardized testing.
But most of the blame falls to the teacher's unions. Yeah, right.
I'd like to see posts tagged when they've been modded by an editor, since they have unlimited mod points. I'm interested in fair debate among peers where posts are up modded for their own merits, rather than merely conforming to whatever editorial bias there may be. Slashdot as an ideological echo chamber is of no interest to me.
It's not a "both sides do it" thing, though. One side has the power to censor or bury content on Youtube, Google, Facebook, and so on. The enemy side doesn't. The Youtube "trending" news carousel has been exposed to be manipulated by the PC police, not an algorithm, and they can and do remove content they disagree with.
I sense this was modded troll because it doesn't acknowledge the propaganda efforts by 'the other side', but this is absolutely accurate in the sense that Youtube, Google and Facebook are not neutral parties but are actively manipulating.
Here is a Youtube employee discussing how the news carousel is curated for example, as they cut ad revenue from content creators and independent journalists who offer opposing viewpoints. What happened to James Damore exposed exactly the corporate culture at Google, which also removed the Gab app from Google Play because it didn't conform to their own censorship rules. Facebook has already been exposed to manipulating user's feeds for effect.
So in keeping with the GP's point about having blinders on in terms of the other 'side', this is inevitable, and from the perspective of conducting propaganda, very desirable. These platforms are massive and have the ability to define reality for a lot of people.
“People are getting more worried about the future, about technology replacing humans, eliminating jobs and widening the gap between the rich and the poor,” said Ma. “But I think these are empty worries."
"Rest assured," Ma continues, "that after the majority of the world's GDP is managed by just a few mega corporations, who also dominate the funding for political elections and the media, that they will only have the welfare of all people in mind. After all, even greed has its limits.
"Remember... corporations are people, and as such can be held accountable too."
“Technology exists for people. We worry about technology because we lack confidence in ourselves, and imagination for the future.”
"Trust us," Ma says with the utmost sincerity, "there really is nothing to worry about. Have faith that the Free Market, holy be thy name, along with unshackled Capitalism, will ensure that technology will never leave large swathes of people unemployable or underemployed, fighting for scraps and having to suffer abusive jobs and crippling debt for a lack of better alternatives."
"Just use your imagination! Imagine a blissful future for everyone!"
Those who seed files are already giving up some bandwidth and cpu cycles, for the sake of others that want to download them. Letting TPB mine bitcoin at a reasonable rate, while inefficient, would still be a method of supporting the site without donating to them directly.
I'll be sad the day TPB isn't around to show their middle finger in the face of the RIAA and the DRM pushers. It'll mean the wild wild web just became that much more pacified and regimented.
The Orwellian names they give these things are such a shiboleth. Anyone want to bet that the final version of the bill will be more of a threat to liberty than to actually preserve it?
Snowden is a hero. He proved without a doubt we were being lied to.
There is plenty documenting the events leading up to his residing in Russia, including the timing of his passport being revoked, so perhaps you should rethink that. Do you really believe that bravery means waiving your right to a fair trial and letting yourself be shipped off to a CIA blacksite to be tortured?
I'm reminded of Otellini's bronze plaque, the one you can still find on ebay if you search his name there. It commemorates Intel's 40 billion in revenue, and was handed out to all, even the drones in the production sweatshop. They'd seen perks cuts, heard all the excuses why they couldn't have bonuses and raises, and had been stretched thin from headcount reduction. It was meant to be a morale booster, but from what I had to hear from my friends at the time, it had the exact opposite effect.
I had to wonder about the level of disconnect that would be necessary between the c-suite carpet dwellers reaping the benefits, and the grunts toiling in the hostile work environment you described, for the idea of handing these things out to be considered a good idea.
I keep it on my desk as a reminder to be grateful that I don't have to work in that environment. It has a nice weight to it, making it a fitting symbol.
They've managed to accomplish in a couple years of "social engineering" what they couldn't do in 50 years of cold war.
And we're supposed to believe that they managed this amazing feat on a budget of 100k spent over the course of three years.
Yet another mole-hill-made-mountain brought to us thanks to those who desperately want the actual malfeasance exposed by the DNC emails to be forgotten. We're supposed to blame Russia for heightening racial tensions when our own media capitalizes on it and encourages it with terms like 'white hispanic', and we have an entire class of professional protesters.
This is the Russians pissing into the ocean, and then blaming them for the water tasting salty.
So do commercial aircraft, but people still line up to travel in them. GP was saying that personal VTOL craft will never happen because of the limits of current day internal combustion driven aircraft, and that just seems overly pessimistic.
Helicopters and cars which use internal combustion are mechanically complicated, compared to systems that uses electrical motors and batteries. A copper wire is much more reliable than a fuel line, and a brushless dc motor requires a lot less maintenance than a contraption that relies on camshafts and timing chains.
There is already proof of concept with modern quad-copter drones, so it is only a matter of time when the technology allows for light weight, energy dense batteries that would make a car sized unit practical. Incorporating safety systems, redundancy, and protocols for automated piloting that reduces risk does not strike me as an impossibility.
The left really fucking needs to learn a new tactic of persuasion other than bullying people into submission by calling them "racist".
Indeed. There is violence, and threats of violence, to stiffle speech on college campus and political events, even parades. In addition there is the current campaign of deplatforming and censorship of opposing voices (or whoever triggers them) at flagship services such as youtube and twitter. There is also the professional protesters.
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Are you completely ignorant that CNN lost all credibility when they are forced to retract stories about Trump Russia collusion with employees having to resign?
Just because someone pissed in a jar and labeled it 'Truth' and you drank it, doesn't mean the rest of us are that gullible, or base our opinions on single sources.
I know you're trolling with your CNN propaganda, but could you be less lazy about it?
We had the attorney general of the united states, meet with the spouse of a subject under active FBI investigation in a private meeting that lasted half an hour, and then refused to recuse herself afterwards. We have a director of the FBI who leaks his own internal memos, seemingly purposefully ignores evidence on laptops and celphones, ignores the destruction of the devices, and then claims that there was insufficient evidence of intent when that isn't even a factor to be considered under the statute.
We have immunity deals handed out, with witnesses like Cheryl Mills being proved a liar when she claims ignorance of the server, witnesses being allowed to serve as legal aid to Clinton during interviews, and even more oddities. There's other questions, such as if the donations to the campaign to Comey's wife may have had a bearing on how this investigation was handled.
But according to you this hearing is all to be a smokescreen for nothingburger TrumpRussia, for a news media that sat on the Urianium One story for over five years. Go peddle your bullshit elsewhere.
Above informative post should be upmodded. The full details of what occured in Niger have yet to be known, but there is many details surrounding Benghazi such as the injustice of jailing an innocent scapegoat that cry out for accountability.
Yeah, I agree that this ideal does not accurately reflect the reality, but I don't think it's insincerity when Gowdy says it. It is a phrase he repeats very often in his statements, in hearings that do not involve major political actors, etc. Just as I must allow the possibility that not all that swear an oath to uphold and defend the constitution are lying for political expediency, so too must I allow the possibility that not all capitol hill lawyers are self serving scum bags.
Gowdy is either a master at convincing performances who could have a lucrative career in acting, or he means what he says. I lean heavily towards the latter.
Destruction of evidence and lying to congress is considered to be criminal acts, and there seems to be an increasingly amount of evidence of that occurring. The immunity deals, the refusing to seize laptops as evidence, the allowing key witnesses to attend Clinton's unrecorded 'interview', needs to be examined under greater scrutiny. Of course the biggest question is why he declared the decision to not press for indictment occurred at the end of the investigation, and not months prior as the internal memo seems to indicate.
Maybe if we're lucky, we'll get another outburst of "We're not weasels!" from Mr.Comey after his mask of false sincerity begins to crack under pressure.
What does the Niger incident have to do with this, other than to serve as yet another 'whataboutism'.
You're complaining about a double standard, for a probe investigating a double standard, i.e. the unusual activities of the DOJ and the FBI in relation to Clinton. This kind of corruption spanning multiple branches of government can't be just brushed aside just because the parties involved were able to run out the clock. There needs to be answers, there needs to be accountability.
It happens to be democrats on the receiving end this time, and hopefully with republicans too there can be transparency and accountability with the public. I say a pox on both their houses, it is in the public interest to know the truth.
You mean the hearings where people like Clinton, Comey and Lynch are able to give nonanswers, declare ignorance in the face of questions they should be able to give answers to, and generally be completely evasive?
Have you ever watched those hearings? They only serve to show how unaccountable you are when your political faction can run interference.
Exactly. They're all-female / hermaphroditic. There can be no such thing as a naturally reproducing 'all-male' species by the very definition.
I understand your point about a species being all-male being unable to reproduce, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. You're straying into the territory of biological sex vrs. gender, which could vary among alien races as it does among humans. For a race that does have actual sexual dimorphism, being hermaphroditic and declaring yourself 'male' wouldn't be surprising.
Besides, can't you appreciate the humor of a incredibly stoic masculine character where incubating a giant egg by sitting on it is completely normal for him?
But as I said, scientific ignorance is yet another Trek tradition they're honouring here, intentionally or not. (Either way I still don't like it when they use 'science' my kids would laugh at)
It's science fiction, meant to entertain, not to present an accurate future reality. It's enough that these shows use terms like dark matter or pulsars or nuetrino, in context to at least spark curiosity as to what those things actually are.
And an agency which uses civil assets forfeiture, and uses dragnet surveillance, and compromises security standards by controlling the standards process, and interrogates people via torture, and denies attorney-client privilege, and employs the purgery trap by not recording interrogations, and loses exonerating evidence, ...
And, as the case of Jerry Drake Varnell, pressure individuals known to be clinically diagnosed with mental illness to commit acts of terrorism, and then make an arrest when the subject acts with the materials and instructions provided. For this ruthlessness, and the lack of oversight for the agency, every single terrorist event that does occur it has to be considered if the FBI had direct involvement in making it possible and simply let the subject they groomed carry it out. I'm cynical enough to believe they would in order to preserve the climate of fear that justifies their budgets.
First, I'd like whoever decided an 'all-male' species could be a thing without cloning or somesuch to take a basic biology course.
On our own little blue speck, Komodo dragons will reproduce via parthenogenesis, asexual reproduction. Female dragons held in captivity without access to a mate have been known to lay eggs where all of the viable ones are male. Another species of lizard has members that are all female.
On that note, I'd say that the 'all male' alien species actually isn't. One, since the show revolved around there being females of their race, and two, the male-appearance aliens would fit the definition of hermaphrodites since they can both lay eggs and fertilize them.
From the agency that utilizes parallel construction. Any law abiding citizen should rightfully wish to encrypt as much as their data as possible to give themselves at least some small measure of protection from these agencies, who demonstrate utter contempt for both the spirit and the letter of the very law they are tasked to enforce.
Next up, steel reinforced front doors should be outlawed, because it interferes with early-am no-knock armed raids on people suspected of jay walking.
an open process run by a government
This seems like a contradiction in terms.
Because of the open process, this is going to timidly filter out a little of the worst of the worst, and that's about it.
As if those with the power to censor speech won't redefine what constitutes as 'extreme'. There's no such thing as a slippery slope, is there? Your optimism and faith in government bureaucrats that this power won't be abused is remarkable.
The main problem is the teacher's union, is it?
Bureau of Labor statistics show that 60 percent of families with children have both parents working. Children are less supervised at home, and parents are less likely to take an active role in their child's education because they are busy being serfs in a society where .1% of the population keeps 90% of the wealth. The US leads in child poverty among developed nations.
In effect we have too many parents who thrust their special snowflakes unto the education system and expect it to raise their children for them. We have a culture that puts greater value on having multimillion dollar sports arenas than special programs. We have No Child Left Behind, which in the tradition of government named programs does the opposite of its namesake, and turns schools into just an assembly line of standardized testing.
But most of the blame falls to the teacher's unions. Yeah, right.
I'd like to see posts tagged when they've been modded by an editor, since they have unlimited mod points. I'm interested in fair debate among peers where posts are up modded for their own merits, rather than merely conforming to whatever editorial bias there may be. Slashdot as an ideological echo chamber is of no interest to me.
Same here, capslock is better used as an additional enter key. I find autohotkey to be very useful for remapping.
It's not a "both sides do it" thing, though. One side has the power to censor or bury content on Youtube, Google, Facebook, and so on. The enemy side doesn't. The Youtube "trending" news carousel has been exposed to be manipulated by the PC police, not an algorithm, and they can and do remove content they disagree with.
I sense this was modded troll because it doesn't acknowledge the propaganda efforts by 'the other side', but this is absolutely accurate in the sense that Youtube, Google and Facebook are not neutral parties but are actively manipulating.
Here is a Youtube employee discussing how the news carousel is curated for example, as they cut ad revenue from content creators and independent journalists who offer opposing viewpoints. What happened to James Damore exposed exactly the corporate culture at Google, which also removed the Gab app from Google Play because it didn't conform to their own censorship rules. Facebook has already been exposed to manipulating user's feeds for effect.
So in keeping with the GP's point about having blinders on in terms of the other 'side', this is inevitable, and from the perspective of conducting propaganda, very desirable. These platforms are massive and have the ability to define reality for a lot of people.
“People are getting more worried about the future, about technology replacing humans, eliminating jobs and widening the gap between the rich and the poor,” said Ma. “But I think these are empty worries."
"Rest assured," Ma continues, "that after the majority of the world's GDP is managed by just a few mega corporations, who also dominate the funding for political elections and the media, that they will only have the welfare of all people in mind. After all, even greed has its limits.
"Remember... corporations are people, and as such can be held accountable too."
“Technology exists for people. We worry about technology because we lack confidence in ourselves, and imagination for the future.”
"Trust us," Ma says with the utmost sincerity, "there really is nothing to worry about. Have faith that the Free Market, holy be thy name, along with unshackled Capitalism, will ensure that technology will never leave large swathes of people unemployable or underemployed, fighting for scraps and having to suffer abusive jobs and crippling debt for a lack of better alternatives."
"Just use your imagination! Imagine a blissful future for everyone!"
Those who seed files are already giving up some bandwidth and cpu cycles, for the sake of others that want to download them. Letting TPB mine bitcoin at a reasonable rate, while inefficient, would still be a method of supporting the site without donating to them directly.
I'll be sad the day TPB isn't around to show their middle finger in the face of the RIAA and the DRM pushers. It'll mean the wild wild web just became that much more pacified and regimented.
Case in point: the so called "USA Liberty Act"
The Orwellian names they give these things are such a shiboleth. Anyone want to bet that the final version of the bill will be more of a threat to liberty than to actually preserve it?
Snowden is a hero. He proved without a doubt we were being lied to.
There is plenty documenting the events leading up to his residing in Russia, including the timing of his passport being revoked, so perhaps you should rethink that. Do you really believe that bravery means waiving your right to a fair trial and letting yourself be shipped off to a CIA blacksite to be tortured?
I'm reminded of Otellini's bronze plaque, the one you can still find on ebay if you search his name there. It commemorates Intel's 40 billion in revenue, and was handed out to all, even the drones in the production sweatshop. They'd seen perks cuts, heard all the excuses why they couldn't have bonuses and raises, and had been stretched thin from headcount reduction. It was meant to be a morale booster, but from what I had to hear from my friends at the time, it had the exact opposite effect.
I had to wonder about the level of disconnect that would be necessary between the c-suite carpet dwellers reaping the benefits, and the grunts toiling in the hostile work environment you described, for the idea of handing these things out to be considered a good idea.
I keep it on my desk as a reminder to be grateful that I don't have to work in that environment. It has a nice weight to it, making it a fitting symbol.
They've managed to accomplish in a couple years of "social engineering" what they couldn't do in 50 years of cold war.
And we're supposed to believe that they managed this amazing feat on a budget of 100k spent over the course of three years.
Yet another mole-hill-made-mountain brought to us thanks to those who desperately want the actual malfeasance exposed by the DNC emails to be forgotten. We're supposed to blame Russia for heightening racial tensions when our own media capitalizes on it and encourages it with terms like 'white hispanic', and we have an entire class of professional protesters.
This is the Russians pissing into the ocean, and then blaming them for the water tasting salty.
So do commercial aircraft, but people still line up to travel in them. GP was saying that personal VTOL craft will never happen because of the limits of current day internal combustion driven aircraft, and that just seems overly pessimistic.
Helicopters and cars which use internal combustion are mechanically complicated, compared to systems that uses electrical motors and batteries. A copper wire is much more reliable than a fuel line, and a brushless dc motor requires a lot less maintenance than a contraption that relies on camshafts and timing chains.
There is already proof of concept with modern quad-copter drones, so it is only a matter of time when the technology allows for light weight, energy dense batteries that would make a car sized unit practical. Incorporating safety systems, redundancy, and protocols for automated piloting that reduces risk does not strike me as an impossibility.
The left really fucking needs to learn a new tactic of persuasion other than bullying people into submission by calling them "racist".
Indeed. There is violence, and threats of violence, to stiffle speech on college campus and political events, even parades. In addition there is the current campaign of deplatforming and censorship of opposing voices (or whoever triggers them) at flagship services such as youtube and twitter. There is also the professional protesters.
I'd say they're really branching out.