As a former republican, let me inform you. It is because they believe democrats and anyone they percieve to be associated are the antithesis of democracy. This often has to do with a self perception that they represent democratic values, and therefore anyone that opposes them does not. Therefore, they label them as a democrat rather than as democratic as a means of linguistically seperating the two ideas. The "Democrat Underground" slip could be freudian slip if they are being sneaky or an intentional mocking of what they believe to be a lie, it depends on the context. FYI, this is a generalization regarding party (or faction) loyalists of that particular party.
Keep in mind, former republicans will occasionally make this slip as well occasionally, especially if they are reluctant to support democrats. (I do. Sometimes it's intensional, like when I suspect authoritarian tendancies.)
I'll occasionally still use the term when talking to republicans, as calling them "democratic" to a republican is a big red flag that one is not on their team. This shuts down the debate, as most hardcore party (any party) supporters will insist on dictating rather than debating (or even just chatting about current events) when they percieve you as an opponent.
(Well, except for a lack of a verifiable paper trail)
Out here in Northern Virginia, I noticed that between primary day and today they up an decided to shuffle around the voting precincts. The voting cards we got last week show the new location, but the ones from earlier this year are now incorrect. I also noticed I was not the only one that showed up at the wrong polling place, others where softly complaining about it.
As for voting machines, the precincts I showed up at looking for my own (I didn't have my new card) appeared to have short waiting times and calm atmospheres (except for one Republican outside one of the polling places that was confronting voters as to whether or not they supported the marriage amendment). Voting without a drivers licence is possible, but a hassle (requires legal paperwork to be filled out). All the voting machines (Sequoia), from a glance, appeared to be in use, but had no verifiable paper trail.
This is a from my ass conjecture, but from my observations of people is you basically have a spectrum that runs from the rationals to the irrational.
-Rational being people that understand that something as complex as the world around them does not as a whole operate on a simplified ruleset, that they themselves can be wrong, and changes and compromizes are sometimes necessary to navigate complex problems.
-Irrational being people that think the world operates from a simplified ruleset they themselves comprehend nearly perfectly. These people usually come to the conclusion that the reason real world results to not match their own world view is because of other people that do not follow the irrational's demands or did not implament them perfectly enough. Thus, precipitating a uncontrolable urge to force others to convert, or be rendered irrelivant, by any means neccesary, in order to attain a more perfect invironment for their ruleset to operate on....and from my experience, most people can be manipulated using emmotional triggers and brainwashing towards being irrational. Anger works the best on a hostile person. Fear, especially paranoia, works best on a sympathetic person.
It is..uh... quite disturbing what you can manipulate people into doing (or not doing) that would be against their wills if they actually thought about it.
I think, perhaps, this is the reason for the simularities at the "extremes" so to speak. When you believe any means necessary is the way to go, well, the ideology is just the excuse for doing so.
I don't know where that 4.2 mag spec on the map was at in relation to the supposed test. But, it shows as being a 0 km depth quake. I wonder if that is a glitch or a real reading...
You apparently don't know about Jeff Gannon, Laura Slesinger, and Bush and Kerry's Daughter. Not to mention that report on what Bill and Monica did. Some good readin I hear...
"It had twice the storage capacity of an electric double-layer capacitor. And it delivered more than 100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery."
Uh, maybe I'm behind on my knowledge of current capacitor technology, but I'm under the impression that twice as much storage as a capacitor is not saying a whole lot. So, basically the thing can juice a large amount of amps, for what?...a split second for any resonable portable battery size?
If you want to use battery-like capacitors, I'd recomment the multiple farad aerogel capacitors. I wonder how this compaires.
...has a porn collection, gets their hard drive subpoenaed, had a file sharing client installed at somepoint on the PC, and deletes the pron because they feel they don't want their fetishes being a part of the public record; they are guilty by default?
Eh, granted, this is an out of my ass opinion, but my observations of people lead me to believe it is more base than that. Some people have deep seated insecurities over people in general "getting what they deserve." This often leads these people to seek to artificially punish people who are percieved to be deserving of it. And, often enough, to actively break not only moral and ethical rules to enact that punishment, but to also do so in order to get something they feel they deserve.
It is a dark sense of justice, perverted by jealousy and wrath, often with roots in pride, lust, greed, and envy.
For one I remember a system that took a good lightning hit, burned a nickle size hole clean through the motherboard. Worked like a charm except for the modem. Stuck in a new modem and she was good to go, soot, stains, and all. But more to what you where saying:
Reminds me of an old 486 I ran into in Highschool back in the days of the old AT hard wired power switches. The damn thing would turn on or off like one of those touch lamps whenever someone touced (and grounded, I assume) the case.
But the freakiest thing was the little 13 inch TV my parents owned that would turn itself off, and would then turn on again if, and not until, I yelled at it.
This is a bit off the mark. But, personally, I thought one of the major points of 1984 was that it didn't really matter if the government was fascist, communist, or theocratic, the end result was essentially the same. So, the simularities between authoritarian governments aren't really a surprise me.
There is also the problem of what may be beneficial for the mice may be harmful to other species. To explain, for example changing a sequence of 0's and 1's in an executable program may be beneficial to the operation of one program. Applying the same patch to another different program would very likely be detrimental to the operation of that other program.
It is promising, however, given the simularities in DNA code between species.
It does not help that any attempt at competition that does develope will have 50 gazillion soft patent and business stratagy patent mines to tiptoe around. You know, difficult to concieve of ideas like hosting auctions in a virtual environment, using a web interface to input currency amounts, making money by taking a cut of a transaction using a computer... you know inovative crap like that that apparently the government thinks no one ever thought of before. (...or worse, knows and is doing it anyway.)
(FYI: I don't know if those are real patents BTW....would not surprise me if they where.)
"Social conservatives (including religious right) say, "We don't want you to impose your social agenda on us (force us to pay for and participate in - via taxation, legal rulings, all the coercive power of the state,etc. - endorsement of lifestyle choices, standards of behavior, aesthetic agendas, etc.), even if you think we are swine and you are glowing and enlightened beings with a more highly evolved consciousness"."
Wrong. Both "sides" make the same kind of under siege argument when critisized. Where do you think the "it's for the children" red herring comes from in the first place? The "social conservatives" as you put it perceive the mear presence of something they consider subversive and/or immoral as an attempt to force them to conform it.
And, I do not need to be educated on what a nanny state is considering I tagged this so a few minutes after the story was first posted to the main page. Frankly I find you intellectual elitist tone rather offensive. You are not some glowing and enlightened being with a more highly evolved conciousness that can understand things I can not.
Oh, and nice try at trying to paint me as a supporter of this after I outright called for the removal of the people involved. I'm either with you or I'm with everyone else you have a difference of opinion with, eh?
This is what happens when one claims that the reason the opposition party is losing is because they are "immoral" as a whole and approving of measures that infringe on people's rights in order to inforce "morality." The polititians start acting super-extra-jackboots-all-in-your-business "moral" in order to try to convience you to vote for them.
There are people begging for authoritarian "morals" inforcement in this county. And because it seems they are the ones that decide elections, not the rest of us poor bastards, they are getting the attention. Regardless, I do not suffer people willing to steal my freedom for their personal profit.
I could see 35% of software _titles_ having their copyright infringed on. Heck, if you look at it that way, it's probably much more.
Which brings me to my point. They made their statement ambiguious. Probably intentionally so that if they where ever actually challenged, they could say, "Oh, we ment 35% of software titles, not installs!"...all the while spreading FUD and making it sound like they mean 35% of all sofware installs.
Well, I don't know who you had, but after 6 semesters of Physics (don't ask - Yes I passed) at 3 different schools, all of them had told me that there where problems with applying the theories in anything other than very simple and generalized situations. Other factors, unforseen variables, overgeneralizations, and experimental or calculation errors could quickly muck up even basic everyday sorts of situations.
(The spherical chickens come to mind.)
You probably could, if you genuinely found something, challenge your grade. But you would have to prove that your results where genuine and not due to error. That means replicating the results in a controlled situation, with some kind of evidence proving it could botch your original results even if the original experiment was done correctly.
Actually, I was with a few groups that successfully challenged the results we where getting, it ended up being defective/decaying equipment in those cases which where throwing the results. In those cases we where either allowed to transcribe the data from another group to calculate with, or if time permited, rerun the experiment on a different set of equipment.
"From the outset, let's be clear that this issue is not about objections to any specific cartoon characters. Instead, Dr. Dobson is concerned that these popular animated personalities are being exploited by an organization that's determined to promote the acceptance of homosexuality among our nation's youth."
It reads that a cartoon charactor is being used part of a conspiracy to turn kids gay by making it acceptable. Notice I did not post the oversimplified "Spongebob is gay" line for a reason. But, of course thinking before speaking would be too hard on you.
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I blame otherwise inept political demagogs for violence worldwide. Lets ban them!
Oh, shit, there goes the neighborhood.
Ad hominem attack leads more ad hominem attacks leads to more ad hominem attacks. News at 11.
As a former republican, let me inform you. It is because they believe democrats and anyone they percieve to be associated are the antithesis of democracy. This often has to do with a self perception that they represent democratic values, and therefore anyone that opposes them does not. Therefore, they label them as a democrat rather than as democratic as a means of linguistically seperating the two ideas. The "Democrat Underground" slip could be freudian slip if they are being sneaky or an intentional mocking of what they believe to be a lie, it depends on the context. FYI, this is a generalization regarding party (or faction) loyalists of that particular party.
Keep in mind, former republicans will occasionally make this slip as well occasionally, especially if they are reluctant to support democrats. (I do. Sometimes it's intensional, like when I suspect authoritarian tendancies.)
I'll occasionally still use the term when talking to republicans, as calling them "democratic" to a republican is a big red flag that one is not on their team. This shuts down the debate, as most hardcore party (any party) supporters will insist on dictating rather than debating (or even just chatting about current events) when they percieve you as an opponent.
(Well, except for a lack of a verifiable paper trail)
Out here in Northern Virginia, I noticed that between primary day and today they up an decided to shuffle around the voting precincts. The voting cards we got last week show the new location, but the ones from earlier this year are now incorrect. I also noticed I was not the only one that showed up at the wrong polling place, others where softly complaining about it.
As for voting machines, the precincts I showed up at looking for my own (I didn't have my new card) appeared to have short waiting times and calm atmospheres (except for one Republican outside one of the polling places that was confronting voters as to whether or not they supported the marriage amendment). Voting without a drivers licence is possible, but a hassle (requires legal paperwork to be filled out). All the voting machines (Sequoia), from a glance, appeared to be in use, but had no verifiable paper trail.
A whole article on the environment, and I can't spell environment correctly. I should just go to sleep.
This is a from my ass conjecture, but from my observations of people is you basically have a spectrum that runs from the rationals to the irrational.
...and from my experience, most people can be manipulated using emmotional triggers and brainwashing towards being irrational. Anger works the best on a hostile person. Fear, especially paranoia, works best on a sympathetic person.
..uh... quite disturbing what you can manipulate people into doing (or not doing) that would be against their wills if they actually thought about it.
-Rational being people that understand that something as complex as the world around them does not as a whole operate on a simplified ruleset, that they themselves can be wrong, and changes and compromizes are sometimes necessary to navigate complex problems.
-Irrational being people that think the world operates from a simplified ruleset they themselves comprehend nearly perfectly. These people usually come to the conclusion that the reason real world results to not match their own world view is because of other people that do not follow the irrational's demands or did not implament them perfectly enough. Thus, precipitating a uncontrolable urge to force others to convert, or be rendered irrelivant, by any means neccesary, in order to attain a more perfect invironment for their ruleset to operate on.
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I think, perhaps, this is the reason for the simularities at the "extremes" so to speak. When you believe any means necessary is the way to go, well, the ideology is just the excuse for doing so.
I don't know where that 4.2 mag spec on the map was at in relation to the supposed test. But, it shows as being a 0 km depth quake. I wonder if that is a glitch or a real reading...
You apparently don't know about Jeff Gannon, Laura Slesinger, and Bush and Kerry's Daughter. Not to mention that report on what Bill and Monica did. Some good readin I hear...
"MOST people holding public office are genuinely trying to do the right thing."
Most people holding public office are not in the federal government.
"It had twice the storage capacity of an electric double-layer capacitor. And it delivered more than 100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery."
...a split second for any resonable portable battery size?
Uh, maybe I'm behind on my knowledge of current capacitor technology, but I'm under the impression that twice as much storage as a capacitor is not saying a whole lot. So, basically the thing can juice a large amount of amps, for what?
If you want to use battery-like capacitors, I'd recomment the multiple farad aerogel capacitors. I wonder how this compaires.
Instead of this on a tshirt. How about "I fixed your vote."
Perhaps it's just the prospect of the vast majority of my private life being put out into public view because someone claims I did something wrong.
...has a porn collection, gets their hard drive subpoenaed, had a file sharing client installed at somepoint on the PC, and deletes the pron because they feel they don't want their fetishes being a part of the public record; they are guilty by default?
Eh, granted, this is an out of my ass opinion, but my observations of people lead me to believe it is more base than that. Some people have deep seated insecurities over people in general "getting what they deserve." This often leads these people to seek to artificially punish people who are percieved to be deserving of it. And, often enough, to actively break not only moral and ethical rules to enact that punishment, but to also do so in order to get something they feel they deserve.
It is a dark sense of justice, perverted by jealousy and wrath, often with roots in pride, lust, greed, and envy.
"As long as the blastocyst is healthy, no one should have any objections."
...or any combination of the above.
This assumes:
A) No one is ignorant.
B) No one is spiteful.
C) No one thinks a stem cell by itself is a viable human.
For one I remember a system that took a good lightning hit, burned a nickle size hole clean through the motherboard. Worked like a charm except for the modem. Stuck in a new modem and she was good to go, soot, stains, and all. But more to what you where saying:
Reminds me of an old 486 I ran into in Highschool back in the days of the old AT hard wired power switches. The damn thing would turn on or off like one of those touch lamps whenever someone touced (and grounded, I assume) the case.
But the freakiest thing was the little 13 inch TV my parents owned that would turn itself off, and would then turn on again if, and not until, I yelled at it.
This is a bit off the mark. But, personally, I thought one of the major points of 1984 was that it didn't really matter if the government was fascist, communist, or theocratic, the end result was essentially the same. So, the simularities between authoritarian governments aren't really a surprise me.
Fine, think of the same thing, but with using a modchip for one car in a different model.
There is also the problem of what may be beneficial for the mice may be harmful to other species. To explain, for example changing a sequence of 0's and 1's in an executable program may be beneficial to the operation of one program. Applying the same patch to another different program would very likely be detrimental to the operation of that other program.
It is promising, however, given the simularities in DNA code between species.
It does not help that any attempt at competition that does develope will have 50 gazillion soft patent and business stratagy patent mines to tiptoe around. You know, difficult to concieve of ideas like hosting auctions in a virtual environment, using a web interface to input currency amounts, making money by taking a cut of a transaction using a computer... you know inovative crap like that that apparently the government thinks no one ever thought of before. (...or worse, knows and is doing it anyway.)
...would not surprise me if they where.)
(FYI: I don't know if those are real patents BTW.
"Social conservatives (including religious right) say, "We don't want you to impose your social agenda on us (force us to pay for and participate in - via taxation, legal rulings, all the coercive power of the state,etc. - endorsement of lifestyle choices, standards of behavior, aesthetic agendas, etc.), even if you think we are swine and you are glowing and enlightened beings with a more highly evolved consciousness"."
Wrong. Both "sides" make the same kind of under siege argument when critisized. Where do you think the "it's for the children" red herring comes from in the first place? The "social conservatives" as you put it perceive the mear presence of something they consider subversive and/or immoral as an attempt to force them to conform it.
And, I do not need to be educated on what a nanny state is considering I tagged this so a few minutes after the story was first posted to the main page. Frankly I find you intellectual elitist tone rather offensive. You are not some glowing and enlightened being with a more highly evolved conciousness that can understand things I can not.
Oh, and nice try at trying to paint me as a supporter of this after I outright called for the removal of the people involved. I'm either with you or I'm with everyone else you have a difference of opinion with, eh?
This is what happens when one claims that the reason the opposition party is losing is because they are "immoral" as a whole and approving of measures that infringe on people's rights in order to inforce "morality." The polititians start acting super-extra-jackboots-all-in-your-business "moral" in order to try to convience you to vote for them.
There are people begging for authoritarian "morals" inforcement in this county. And because it seems they are the ones that decide elections, not the rest of us poor bastards, they are getting the attention. Regardless, I do not suffer people willing to steal my freedom for their personal profit.
Out with them all
I could see 35% of software _titles_ having their copyright infringed on. Heck, if you look at it that way, it's probably much more.
...all the while spreading FUD and making it sound like they mean 35% of all sofware installs.
Which brings me to my point. They made their statement ambiguious. Probably intentionally so that if they where ever actually challenged, they could say, "Oh, we ment 35% of software titles, not installs!"
Well, I don't know who you had, but after 6 semesters of Physics (don't ask - Yes I passed) at 3 different schools, all of them had told me that there where problems with applying the theories in anything other than very simple and generalized situations. Other factors, unforseen variables, overgeneralizations, and experimental or calculation errors could quickly muck up even basic everyday sorts of situations.
(The spherical chickens come to mind.)
You probably could, if you genuinely found something, challenge your grade. But you would have to prove that your results where genuine and not due to error. That means replicating the results in a controlled situation, with some kind of evidence proving it could botch your original results even if the original experiment was done correctly.
Actually, I was with a few groups that successfully challenged the results we where getting, it ended up being defective/decaying equipment in those cases which where throwing the results. In those cases we where either allowed to transcribe the data from another group to calculate with, or if time permited, rerun the experiment on a different set of equipment.
You'd think someone could read the f'ing websites I link to.
Why is Dr. Dobson objecting to a video featuring characters such as SpongeBob?
From his own website.
"From the outset, let's be clear that this issue is not about objections to any specific cartoon characters. Instead, Dr. Dobson is concerned that these popular animated personalities are being exploited by an organization that's determined to promote the acceptance of homosexuality among our nation's youth."
It reads that a cartoon charactor is being used part of a conspiracy to turn kids gay by making it acceptable. Notice I did not post the oversimplified "Spongebob is gay" line for a reason. But, of course thinking before speaking would be too hard on you.