"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'"
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-- George Orwell
This is all a big brouhaha over nothing. The Fifth Amendment has a remaining lifespan measured in years, not decades. There was already a call to give up on the Constitution, naming the document "downright evil". Now we have Bloomberg saying that the Boston bombing will have to change the way we 'interpret' the Constitution. No, I'm not kidding, the Mayor of New York City really said these words:
"The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry," Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. "But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change. Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. What we cant do is let the protection get in the way of us enjoying our freedoms. You still want to let people practice their religion, no matter what that religion is. And I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terrorist. That's not true... That would let the terrorists win. That's what they want us to do."
Encryption keys? It's arguing about the wrong topic. These silly arguments about the Fifth Amendment will soon be about as relevant to our lives as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Try this one: "Whenever liberals talk about tolerance, they are never talking about themselves." It's remarkably consistent. Just look at the recent outbreaks of spittle-flecked hatred towards conservatives and the statement makes a lot of sense.
Why would they betray their own community? It can't be out of loyalty to the government - the same government that is guilty of genocide against the First Peoples. Personal grudge perhaps? In a multicultural country, citizens define themselves by which groups they belong to.
Arthur C Clarke retired to Sri Lanka in order to spend his retirement buggering tight young Tamil boys. Let's not fling mud against gay scifi authors, eh? Leave George Takei alone while you're at it.
Ah, you're one of those idiots who confuses "America" with the continent of "North America" or the supercontinent of "the Americas". We can safely continue the discussion without your willfully ignorant opinions. DERP DERP
The power to tax is the power to destroy. Thank you, US Congress, for rescuing me from the evils of convenient online ordering. Because we all know that the government will spend this new revenue wisely, and not at all immediately squander it buying votes and then borrow against 10 years of future revenue and squander that too. Eh, as long as the correct party keeps getting elected.
You know, it's something I've often thought about. IIRC there was a Dutch colonel in charge. If he had disobeyed his orders (lawful to do when your orders charge you to commit a war crime HURR HURR EUROPEANS) and resisted the Serbs, it would have been incredible. He could have drawn a line in the sand with a sword (or a bayonet), like Colonel Travis at the Alamo, and asked any soldiers willing to die to step across it. The rest would have been free to leave, as ordered. The Dutch would have been all killed by the Serbs, of course. However, in death they would achieve immortality, and the European Union would have had its sorely-needed founding myth to unify its people. Even red-blooded Americans like me would have been screaming "HOLL-EH-LAND, FUCK YEAH!" Of course, maybe that was the problem in the first place.
Nah, it didn't happen. What did we get instead? "VE VAS ONLY FOLLOWINK ORDERS, JA!" And thousands died in an act of genocide.
It's easy as long as you remember this helpful maxim: "America is always wrong." Once you have that in mind, you work backwards from the conclusion to the premise. White ruling-class Americans absolutely love wallowing in hatred towards their working class people. Just ask any university professor about what he thinks of his countrymen and you'll get an earful.
But everything the US does abroad is wrong. People who are more intelligent than you have that view - how are you to say that they're wrong? They've done the research, you haven't.
Really? The Ayatollah Khomeni wanted to overthrow the Shah because of the '53 revolution? That's news to me, are you sure that was the theocrats' motivation?
Removing gerrymandering would be racist at its core. Districting ensures that minorities receive representatives from their own community.
Removing plea bargains ensures that our courts would be clogged until the next century with meritless cases, where the defendant is clearly guilty but he's going to go ahead with a jury trial anyway just for that 0.01% chance of acquittal or jury nullification.
Gosh, it's almost like people can do anything they want. Even if you (for various values of "you") find that it's wrong. Hey, buck up, a good tyranny would erase all these negative things and we can go back to presenting people with only "positive" (for various values of positive) options.
I am a moderator who gave him a +1 for that question. It will be undone, of course, because I posted in this thread. It was a good question that I wanted an answer to. Now that it got up to +4, someone answered it. If it was still sitting at Score:1 where it was before I gave it mod points, would anyone have bothered to answer?
I'm disappointed in the parent poster for dissing the moderation system because it worked as intended.
Ooh, did you just make a casual comparison where you said that Catholics are the same as Nazis? You din't do that!
Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." Once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.
This is because focus groups bitch and moan about startup times. Seriously, they HATE it. Thus, MS does what it thinks their customers are asking for. Rational people know that computers need to start up and who really cares, but such people don't get into focus groups. Funny how the same impatient people will patiently click through five splash screens and two intros just to play an Xbox game.
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That is a horrid, racist remark. Reported to administrators.
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'"
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."
-- Mao Tse-Tung
"That rifle on the wall of the laborer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-- George Orwell
Encryption keys? It's arguing about the wrong topic. These silly arguments about the Fifth Amendment will soon be about as relevant to our lives as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Q: Why is starting a comment in the Subject: line incredibly irritating?
Another white people problem solved by other whites.
How about accomplishing something meaningful for minorities for a change?
Try this one: "Whenever liberals talk about tolerance, they are never talking about themselves." It's remarkably consistent. Just look at the recent outbreaks of spittle-flecked hatred towards conservatives and the statement makes a lot of sense.
Why would they betray their own community? It can't be out of loyalty to the government - the same government that is guilty of genocide against the First Peoples. Personal grudge perhaps? In a multicultural country, citizens define themselves by which groups they belong to.
Arthur C Clarke retired to Sri Lanka in order to spend his retirement buggering tight young Tamil boys. Let's not fling mud against gay scifi authors, eh? Leave George Takei alone while you're at it.
Ah, you're one of those idiots who confuses "America" with the continent of "North America" or the supercontinent of "the Americas". We can safely continue the discussion without your willfully ignorant opinions. DERP DERP
The power to tax is the power to destroy. Thank you, US Congress, for rescuing me from the evils of convenient online ordering. Because we all know that the government will spend this new revenue wisely, and not at all immediately squander it buying votes and then borrow against 10 years of future revenue and squander that too. Eh, as long as the correct party keeps getting elected.
The "behavioral based interviews" are thinly veiled racial profiling. Illegal in America, so we can't use that method.
Huh? The French-speaking part of America is in the south, Louisiana. Though that French can hardly be called French at all.
"I, a free man, wish to enter into a contract which may or may not benefit me, but goddamit it's my choice and I'm the one making it."
"Thankfully, my masters have removed my free will and will decide for me what is good and what is not. Praise to my betters!"
You know, it's something I've often thought about. IIRC there was a Dutch colonel in charge. If he had disobeyed his orders (lawful to do when your orders charge you to commit a war crime HURR HURR EUROPEANS) and resisted the Serbs, it would have been incredible. He could have drawn a line in the sand with a sword (or a bayonet), like Colonel Travis at the Alamo, and asked any soldiers willing to die to step across it. The rest would have been free to leave, as ordered. The Dutch would have been all killed by the Serbs, of course. However, in death they would achieve immortality, and the European Union would have had its sorely-needed founding myth to unify its people. Even red-blooded Americans like me would have been screaming "HOLL-EH-LAND, FUCK YEAH!" Of course, maybe that was the problem in the first place.
Nah, it didn't happen. What did we get instead? "VE VAS ONLY FOLLOWINK ORDERS, JA!" And thousands died in an act of genocide.
It's easy as long as you remember this helpful maxim: "America is always wrong." Once you have that in mind, you work backwards from the conclusion to the premise. White ruling-class Americans absolutely love wallowing in hatred towards their working class people. Just ask any university professor about what he thinks of his countrymen and you'll get an earful.
But everything the US does abroad is wrong. People who are more intelligent than you have that view - how are you to say that they're wrong? They've done the research, you haven't.
Really? The Ayatollah Khomeni wanted to overthrow the Shah because of the '53 revolution? That's news to me, are you sure that was the theocrats' motivation?
Removing gerrymandering would be racist at its core. Districting ensures that minorities receive representatives from their own community.
Removing plea bargains ensures that our courts would be clogged until the next century with meritless cases, where the defendant is clearly guilty but he's going to go ahead with a jury trial anyway just for that 0.01% chance of acquittal or jury nullification.
Changing the subject. Capitalism sucks and as long as companies are allowed to do what they want, these injustices will keep happening.
Those evil bastards. Giving away their services for free! The nerve of them. And then monetizing it a different way! Capitalism sucks.
I suppose everyone has forgotten when webmail had a 10Mb storage limit.
Gosh, it's almost like people can do anything they want. Even if you (for various values of "you") find that it's wrong. Hey, buck up, a good tyranny would erase all these negative things and we can go back to presenting people with only "positive" (for various values of positive) options.
I am a moderator who gave him a +1 for that question. It will be undone, of course, because I posted in this thread. It was a good question that I wanted an answer to. Now that it got up to +4, someone answered it. If it was still sitting at Score:1 where it was before I gave it mod points, would anyone have bothered to answer?
I'm disappointed in the parent poster for dissing the moderation system because it worked as intended.
Ooh, did you just make a casual comparison where you said that Catholics are the same as Nazis? You din't do that!
Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." Once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.
Burn...
This is because focus groups bitch and moan about startup times. Seriously, they HATE it. Thus, MS does what it thinks their customers are asking for. Rational people know that computers need to start up and who really cares, but such people don't get into focus groups. Funny how the same impatient people will patiently click through five splash screens and two intros just to play an Xbox game.
Hint: the USSR didn't collapse due to the Truman Doctrine. It collapsed under its own weight because its system didn't fucking work.