This very topic is the very reason I was so pissed at Clinton and Gore those many years ago; and why I thought I could never vote Democrat. Notice the past tense.
Oh, in a time of war and extreme deficits, as well as 2 major disasters ongoing within the US. It's nice to know we have the spare resources to hunt down and frog march pornographers. Hell, don't take my word for it. From the article:
"I guess this means we've won the war on terror," said one FBI agent, speaking on condition of anonymity because poking fun at headquarters is not regarded as career-enhancing. "We must not need any more resources for espionage."
Among friends and trusted colleagues, an experienced national security analyst said, "it's a running joke for us."
A few of the printable samples:
"Things I Don't Want On My Resume, Volume Four."
"I already gave at home."
"Honestly, most of the guys would have to recuse themselves."
Heh...how's this for local standards? The next county over does ban bestiality porn. However, it considers molesting children LEGAL as long as thier clothes are not removed. WTmotherF!?! (I know because a former friend had a family problem with this. The person that did it eventually hanged himself, though.)
And why the fuck is a federal agency enforcing local laws!?! Isn't that blatently fucking unconstitutional? One of the major premises of the constitution is that the feds don't fuck in non-fed matters unless there is some kind of national emergency or a violation of the constitution, including amendments.
Oh, it is also worth noting that in many states, sex toys and masturbation are considered devient. I know sex toys are banned Alabama; and, yes, this law is enforced. And in Texas, women have been arrested for it dispite there being no law specifically banning them. I don't know about other states.
So, there is a good chance in some states that that pic or video with that hot chick and her vibrator can be considered "deviant." I wonder how many of these people realize that taking pleasure in denying sexual satisfaction is a fetish in itself, related to sadism.
I guess this means the war on terror is over, we've caught Osama bin Forgotten, and we are 100% disaster proof at this point. Hey, these jerkoffs keep telling me to look at the good side of things. I'm just doing that...
Oh, does this mean we get to search the computers of all these sexually repressed people? In Virginia, sex outside of marriage, not in dark, not vaginal, or not in the missionary position is considered deviant. That makes almost all porn "deviant."
Thankyou, you get today's paranoid ideologue award. Where the hell did I say or imply that all or the majority of corporations where evil? My comment was because a specific group of monopolies and lobbiests where bitching and licking their chops because they wanted the whole damn cake, no competition from anyone, damn the results or the practicality.
Infinately quicker? These guys just said that they wanted to wait and see. I assume that means they want to wait for the goverment to dole out a fat no-bid no oversight goverment hand out contract to them to do it. How many more people get to die so a subsidized monopoly can rake in just a little more?
For the record, many corporations have been in there, trying to deliver supplies before the feds even thought about providing significant relief there, at their own expence, only to get the fucking bird from FEMA. Some, however, are clearly trying to gouge and profiteer at the expence of lives.
People where taking the polititians to task because they where NOT providing relief and where outright hindering and blocking local and private relief efforts. They found it much more convienent to just say they where providing relief and accuse everyone else of playing politics, rather than actually providing relief IN REALITY.
Reminds me of a librarian in a school I worked for that kept complaining that software she was buying on CDs would not work in the school's computers. We had a look at the systems and couldn't find anything wrong with them. So she gives up and offers us some of her old CDs since she can't use them anyway. I take one out to look for scratches only to discover that she had stuck school library indentification stickers on the data side of all her CDs.
Actually, if I remember correctly, Mars has it's problems not because of it's size or mass, but because it has a weak magnetic field. Because of that, every solar storm that smacks into the planet shears off some of it's atmosphere. Linky.
Saturn's moon Titan has a radius of about 2570km and a mass of about 1.35e23kg and has a thick atmosphere. Linky
Mars's radius is about 3397km and has a mass of about 6.42e23kg and has a thin atmosphere.Linky
Q But don't you believe that the threat that bin Laden posed won't truly be eliminated until he is found either dead or alive?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, as I say, we haven't heard much from him. And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know where he is. I -- I'll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him. I know he is on the run. I was concerned about him, when he had taken over a country. I was concerned about the fact that he was basically running Afghanistan and calling the shots for the Taliban.
Yes, that is G W Bush, not Clinton, his daddy, or anyone else.
Is it worth courting a few potential swing voters that normally vote for the other guys by default while alienating your base and many moderates as well into voting 3rd party or not at all?
I get the feeling that these guys took Clinton's success and decided more Republican-like = more votes, and eventually started even trying to outdue the Republicans on some issues like the recent emminent domain ruling and this "let's censor the intarweb" crap.
Support a different Democrat in that state's primaries, if you don't want to support a Republican. Of course, assuming he isn't a whore, too. Almost no one votes in primaries, your voice and vote would actually matter.
Heh, actually this is why Tom Delay is in hot water. He laundered in direct corporate money and managed to break Texas's 2 sentence election finance law in order to funnel millions into Republican candidates in the state. Then, after he bought enough wins they pushed to redistrict Texas 8 years too early. Then, when the remaining democrats refused to play ball and left the state, he used the Department of Homeland Security to track them down to a Denny's in Oklahoma.
Or, at least he was in hot water, before the Republican controlled US House decided the bi-partisan House Ethics Committee should be stacked with people that took money from Delay and should never be schedualed any time to meet.
I'd like to point out that this crap usually comes out of the Democratic Leadership Council, the socially conservative, pro-corporate freedom wing of the party....and they have been in control since Clinton. Their stratagy seems to be to out Republican the Republicans on just about everything but the military industrial complex. These guys are the reason that while I'm currently alienated from the Republican party, I still dispise the Democrat party. I'm leary about the fringe, too. But, that goes for both parties.
*To the general public: And, dispite what the Rushes of country have been telling people, the "liberal" wing of the party has been busy scattered in 10,000 different directions for over a decade and couldn't find it's ass with 2 hands. The grassroots seem to be finally getting organized on it's own. But, It may be too late.
"I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but this is actually truer than you think: it's called traffic.... Private toll roads have become popular in some metro areas because they keep traffic low for those who care enough to pay the premium; people who don't mind the traffic as much can stick to the normal roads."
Yes, because we all know how fun toll plazas are. I can't wait to stop every few miles because I crossed from farmer Joe's to Billy Bob's Tollway.
I know how to goad the normally corporate asskissing stooges in DC to do something to fix this little mess they spawned from their loins from their whoring around. I'm going to trademark "Democrat" and "Republican" as well as the elephant and donkey symbols. Then I'm going to sue as many so called partisans as possible.;P
But, they'll probably just send me to Gitmo for my trouble... Or, if I really tick them off, I'll be "rendered" to Uzbekistan where they can boil me alive.
It is already an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Violating the oath to uphold the constitution is an impeachable offence to say the very least. And, yes, they can be impeached.
Didn't anyone else figure out that you heat up the area more by freezing the water into ice than you remove with the ice melting back to water. You know, Basic Inefficiency 101?
The only way I see this working is if freezer making the ice is outside....or by cooling one room at the expense of making the rest of the house hotter.
Since when did autocratic and totalitarian dictatorships care if their policies make sence? Read 1984 again, particularly the parts about doublethink. And, for some overall understanding, the comparisons between the 3 superpower governments therein, the facists, the communists, and the theocrats.
Oh, and if it helps, even government run businesses need some kind of management hierarchy.
I went looking on the CSPAN website for it. And the 1 hour 30 minute video from May 16th 2005 they say they have on it appears to have been replaced with an archived 57 minute video from 2003 instead. WTF?
"Their information came from a knowledgeable U.S. government source, and before deciding whether to publish it we approached two separate Defense Department officials for comment. One declined to give us a response; the other challenged another aspect of the story but did not dispute the Qur'an charge."
Oh, and I wasn't trying to be particular to the US or to this time in my original comment. Heck, wasn't this about a media company bowing to mainland Chinese pressure? Although, I do think, personally, that the current situation in the US is much worse than the past concerning passive censorship, I did not want to bring it up. I was trying to mearly point out that it is possible to exist without specific laws to the point, not to start up some kind of political pissing contest. I am aware of such tactics also being used in other countries. Again, I don't want to get into specific ones here.
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Hell, here's an article for you since you don't know basic search engine techniques.
This very topic is the very reason I was so pissed at Clinton and Gore those many years ago; and why I thought I could never vote Democrat. Notice the past tense.
Oh, in a time of war and extreme deficits, as well as 2 major disasters ongoing within the US. It's nice to know we have the spare resources to hunt down and frog march pornographers. Hell, don't take my word for it. From the article:
Heh...how's this for local standards? The next county over does ban bestiality porn. However, it considers molesting children LEGAL as long as thier clothes are not removed. WTmotherF!?! (I know because a former friend had a family problem with this. The person that did it eventually hanged himself, though.)
And why the fuck is a federal agency enforcing local laws!?! Isn't that blatently fucking unconstitutional? One of the major premises of the constitution is that the feds don't fuck in non-fed matters unless there is some kind of national emergency or a violation of the constitution, including amendments.
Oh, it is also worth noting that in many states, sex toys and masturbation are considered devient. I know sex toys are banned Alabama; and, yes, this law is enforced. And in Texas, women have been arrested for it dispite there being no law specifically banning them. I don't know about other states.
So, there is a good chance in some states that that pic or video with that hot chick and her vibrator can be considered "deviant." I wonder how many of these people realize that taking pleasure in denying sexual satisfaction is a fetish in itself, related to sadism.
I guess this means the war on terror is over, we've caught Osama bin Forgotten, and we are 100% disaster proof at this point. Hey, these jerkoffs keep telling me to look at the good side of things. I'm just doing that...
Oh, does this mean we get to search the computers of all these sexually repressed people? In Virginia, sex outside of marriage, not in dark, not vaginal, or not in the missionary position is considered deviant. That makes almost all porn "deviant."
Thankyou, you get today's paranoid ideologue award. Where the hell did I say or imply that all or the majority of corporations where evil? My comment was because a specific group of monopolies and lobbiests where bitching and licking their chops because they wanted the whole damn cake, no competition from anyone, damn the results or the practicality.
Infinately quicker? These guys just said that they wanted to wait and see. I assume that means they want to wait for the goverment to dole out a fat no-bid no oversight goverment hand out contract to them to do it. How many more people get to die so a subsidized monopoly can rake in just a little more?
For the record, many corporations have been in there, trying to deliver supplies before the feds even thought about providing significant relief there, at their own expence, only to get the fucking bird from FEMA. Some, however, are clearly trying to gouge and profiteer at the expence of lives.
"Telecom executives and analysts, though, aren't so sure it's the right time or place."
Talk about looting a corpse! Do these people have NO shame? Wait, don't answer that...
Anything for a fucking dollar. That's probably why we're in this shit in the first place.
People where taking the polititians to task because they where NOT providing relief and where outright hindering and blocking local and private relief efforts. They found it much more convienent to just say they where providing relief and accuse everyone else of playing politics, rather than actually providing relief IN REALITY.
Reminds me of a librarian in a school I worked for that kept complaining that software she was buying on CDs would not work in the school's computers. We had a look at the systems and couldn't find anything wrong with them. So she gives up and offers us some of her old CDs since she can't use them anyway. I take one out to look for scratches only to discover that she had stuck school library indentification stickers on the data side of all her CDs.
...or so people can't use a monitor that doesn't have a special "Microsoft Approved!" sticker on a Windows PC?
Actually, if I remember correctly, Mars has it's problems not because of it's size or mass, but because it has a weak magnetic field. Because of that, every solar storm that smacks into the planet shears off some of it's atmosphere. Linky.
Saturn's moon Titan has a radius of about 2570km and a mass of about 1.35e23kg and has a thick atmosphere. Linky
Mars's radius is about 3397km and has a mass of about 6.42e23kg and has a thin atmosphere.Linky
...by giving themselves free access. Does this mean the government approves of all those password websites?
Anyone remember Osama Bin Forgoten?
From the Whitehouse website (3/13/2002 4PM):
Yes, that is G W Bush, not Clinton, his daddy, or anyone else.
Is it worth courting a few potential swing voters that normally vote for the other guys by default while alienating your base and many moderates as well into voting 3rd party or not at all?
I get the feeling that these guys took Clinton's success and decided more Republican-like = more votes, and eventually started even trying to outdue the Republicans on some issues like the recent emminent domain ruling and this "let's censor the intarweb" crap.
It would if say, certain newspapers had a tax that was 5 times the normal tax placed on them because a polititian didn't like what it printed.
Support a different Democrat in that state's primaries, if you don't want to support a Republican. Of course, assuming he isn't a whore, too. Almost no one votes in primaries, your voice and vote would actually matter.
"He got up, and . . . he read the Bill of Rights, and sat back down. I have been a fan of his ever since."
Did he skip the first part?
Heh, actually this is why Tom Delay is in hot water. He laundered in direct corporate money and managed to break Texas's 2 sentence election finance law in order to funnel millions into Republican candidates in the state. Then, after he bought enough wins they pushed to redistrict Texas 8 years too early. Then, when the remaining democrats refused to play ball and left the state, he used the Department of Homeland Security to track them down to a Denny's in Oklahoma.
Or, at least he was in hot water, before the Republican controlled US House decided the bi-partisan House Ethics Committee should be stacked with people that took money from Delay and should never be schedualed any time to meet.
Gotta round up dem terr'rists, right?
I'd like to point out that this crap usually comes out of the Democratic Leadership Council, the socially conservative, pro-corporate freedom wing of the party. ...and they have been in control since Clinton. Their stratagy seems to be to out Republican the Republicans on just about everything but the military industrial complex. These guys are the reason that while I'm currently alienated from the Republican party, I still dispise the Democrat party. I'm leary about the fringe, too. But, that goes for both parties.
*To the general public:
And, dispite what the Rushes of country have been telling people, the "liberal" wing of the party has been busy scattered in 10,000 different directions for over a decade and couldn't find it's ass with 2 hands. The grassroots seem to be finally getting organized on it's own. But, It may be too late.
"I know you're trying to be sarcastic, but this is actually truer than you think: it's called traffic. ... Private toll roads have become popular in some metro areas because they keep traffic low for those who care enough to pay the premium; people who don't mind the traffic as much can stick to the normal roads."
Yes, because we all know how fun toll plazas are. I can't wait to stop every few miles because I crossed from farmer Joe's to Billy Bob's Tollway.
I know how to goad the normally corporate asskissing stooges in DC to do something to fix this little mess they spawned from their loins from their whoring around. I'm going to trademark "Democrat" and "Republican" as well as the elephant and donkey symbols. Then I'm going to sue as many so called partisans as possible. ;P
But, they'll probably just send me to Gitmo for my trouble... Or, if I really tick them off, I'll be "rendered" to Uzbekistan where they can boil me alive.
It is already an amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Violating the oath to uphold the constitution is an impeachable offence to say the very least. And, yes, they can be impeached.
Didn't anyone else figure out that you heat up the area more by freezing the water into ice than you remove with the ice melting back to water. You know, Basic Inefficiency 101?
...or by cooling one room at the expense of making the rest of the house hotter.
The only way I see this working is if freezer making the ice is outside.
Since when did autocratic and totalitarian dictatorships care if their policies make sence? Read 1984 again, particularly the parts about doublethink. And, for some overall understanding, the comparisons between the 3 superpower governments therein, the facists, the communists, and the theocrats.
Oh, and if it helps, even government run businesses need some kind of management hierarchy.
I went looking on the CSPAN website for it. And the 1 hour 30 minute video from May 16th 2005 they say they have on it appears to have been replaced with an archived 57 minute video from 2003 instead. WTF?
t =1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=Rogers+Brown
http://www.c-span.org/Search/basic.asp?ResultStar
Oh, and I wasn't trying to be particular to the US or to this time in my original comment. Heck, wasn't this about a media company bowing to mainland Chinese pressure? Although, I do think, personally, that the current situation in the US is much worse than the past concerning passive censorship, I did not want to bring it up. I was trying to mearly point out that it is possible to exist without specific laws to the point, not to start up some kind of political pissing contest. I am aware of such tactics also being used in other countries. Again, I don't want to get into specific ones here.