My wife has 3 sisters, with 5,4, and 2 kids apeice, and all of their hubby's have been snipped. My wife wants me to get it as well, but as a firm believer in Murphy's Lay I am fuilly convinced that the second I do anything irrevocable to my reproductive capacity my entire family will be wiped out in a freak accident.
And I don't want to hear about "reversible". Bullshit - 50% isn't good enough for me.
1) Why doesn't he release it anonymously? How hard is it to satrt an account on Sourceforge under the name of John Cocktosten and upload from an internet cafe?
2) He could be waiting for Tivo to go tits up, at which point the rest of the tivo hackers will release the flood of goodies they've been holding back out of respect/fear.
Not really. Is there any problem with Snap-On having a goal to have their tools in every toolbox in America?
If Snapon were MS, it would be ONLY Snapon tools, which fit specially in the Snapon drawers which are installed in every mechanic's toolchest. Craftsman and SK tools never really fit correctly when stored in a Snapon drawers.
"An election is not only about counting the votes, but the process being accountable and verifiable by every voter."
Huh? Once that paper is in the ballot box, Mr. "Every Voter" can't verify squat. This is precisely the strength of anonymous voting - no single vote can be tied to a single voter. That way, vote buying and coercion is reduced, and the votes can be examined in public for recaounts, etc.
There is also the fact that, in the US, idiots are allowed to claim special privileges because they are idiots. Remember the Butterfly Ballot fiasco? "The ballot was confusing, but I voted anyway, and now that my candidate lost, I want a re-vote because I'm not sure I filled out the ballot correctly."
E-voting does have one advantage in that it can give enough rope for idiots to hang themselves: "You have selected Bat Puchanon, the Independent candidate for President. Are you sure" [yes] "Are you really sure? [yes] "Are you absofuckingposilutely sure? Because this is it for the next 4 years? [yes] "Really" [yes] "Thank you for voting. Have a nice day"
"Once you vote, your vote is publically displayed on a website using some kind of voter ID. You can go home, look at your vote on the website and confirm that it's registered correctly"
What you suggest has been suggested here many times before, and the response is the same - it lends itself to vote buying and coercion.
Scenerio #1: Candidate A offers $10/vote. Go to campaign office after the election, give some intern at a computer your document showing your Voter ID, he punches it in, shows you voted for the Candidate, $10 cash and out the door. Bump it to $50 or $100 if you live in a particular district.
Scenario #2: Your Boss is a Republocrat, and you are a Democan. Boss implies that it would REALLY be in your best interest to vote his way, since he can't in good conscience employ someone from your party. If you refuse to give him your Voter ID number, you obviously don't trust him, and how can he employ someone who doesn't trust him?
Scenario #3 (just thought of this): You vote for Nalph Rader instead of the Democan. The Republocrat wins. You call up the election commision complaining that there was fraud - YOU certainly didn't vote for Rader, but that was how your vote was registered! (Butterfly Ballots, anyone?)
It is exactly because of the long history of vote buying, coercion, and fraud that voting is anonymous and secret. If an individual vote CAN'T be tied to an individual voter, then that voter is free to make their choice without concern for how it will affect their job, or will they get paid for their vote.
Perhaps you missed my argument- my criticism was that, in his desire to combat the stereotype taht all gays are potential child molesters, the activist made an equally outrageous claim that homosexuals are almost NEVER child molesters. He seemed to be implying that a man who is sexually attracted to other men is somehow immune to being attracted to boys.
You can't fight stereotypes with equally outrageous claims to the contrary - it just makes the arguer look stupid and diminishes his real, legitimate point.
I once heard a gay activist emphatically state that almost all child molesters were heterosexual, including the ones that molested boys. He was trying to battle the stereotype that gay=molester, but come on - this is the same community that goes around telling everyone that lots of gays are closeted or in denial, and that even if they have sex with women they are still gay. But have sex with a boy - that's an abberation, and that person is Totally heterosexual.
Someone close to me is an alcoholic, and now that their sober, probably spends as much time on the web as they did drinking.
Substitute the Internet for alcohol? Probably.
Internet as damaging as alcohol? Are the effin nuts?
There's addiction, and then there's addiction. The medical establishment trying to make all addictions equally bad is a ploy to scare up more patients.
You are being ambiguous in your use of "choice". A normal brain can choose not to "want" their addictive substance/activity. For instance, I can say to myself "I don't want to drink tonight; I don't feel like it." A person who is addicted cannot choose NOT to want it - they will ALWAYS want their addictive stuff.
The crux is that, although addicted brains can't choose their cravings, they CAN choose theri actions. An alcoholic can choose not to drink - members of AA do that every day. It can work the other way as well - how many of us, when we don't really WANT to drink, choose to anyway, to be sociable, etc.
You say that addicts "no more have a choice to quit and than a parapelegic has a choice to walk. They literally lack the physiological capacity to do so." There are over a million AA members in the US alone who will beg to differ. You seem to have it backwards - the ONLY way to become sober/straight is to CHOOSE to do so. They can never get rid of the compulsion, but they can choose not to act on it.
1) I know it exists, whereas I'm not sure about Iranian/Persian porn 2) Intersections of language - one assumes the mullah's know arabic, since they have probably studied the Koran in the original text. 3) I know the Persians dislike the Arabs - hence the double attraction of watching an Arab man do something immoral, and an Arab woman be "defiled".
After all, can't interfere with the mullah's beating off to Arabic porn.
Before the slams about being racist: they are men in power. Men in power have always demanded and gotten exception from the rules, especially involving personal matters.
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"In most cases regarding local issues, the feds should be cutting checks to local governments then getting out of the way."
Why? The statement contains its own contradiction: if it's a local issue, why should Federal money be involved at all?
You want the money, but you don't want any strings attached. That is accountability? That is good governance?
Youngster - I remember watching MTV when it didn't HAVE commercials. So there!
Now get off my lawn!
OK, so the OS can operate off flash storage...
where are you going to store the terabytes of (totally legal) content?
My wife has 3 sisters, with 5,4, and 2 kids apeice, and all of their hubby's have been snipped. My wife wants me to get it as well, but as a firm believer in Murphy's Lay I am fuilly convinced that the second I do anything irrevocable to my reproductive capacity my entire family will be wiped out in a freak accident.
And I don't want to hear about "reversible". Bullshit - 50% isn't good enough for me.
Maybe that's the solution - block anything that DOESN'T have a v-chip signal.
2 comments:
1) Why doesn't he release it anonymously? How hard is it to satrt an account on Sourceforge under the name of John Cocktosten and upload from an internet cafe?
2) He could be waiting for Tivo to go tits up, at which point the rest of the tivo hackers will release the flood of goodies they've been holding back out of respect/fear.
Not really. Is there any problem with Snap-On having a goal to have their tools in every toolbox in America?
If Snapon were MS, it would be ONLY Snapon tools, which fit specially in the Snapon drawers which are installed in every mechanic's toolchest. Craftsman and SK tools never really fit correctly when stored in a Snapon drawers.
Now, now, let's not be too hasty. I'm sure the USSR and the Chinese have gone into space. It's only the US that lies about everything.
"An election is not only about counting the votes, but the process being accountable and verifiable by every voter."
Huh? Once that paper is in the ballot box, Mr. "Every Voter" can't verify squat. This is precisely the strength of anonymous voting - no single vote can be tied to a single voter. That way, vote buying and coercion is reduced, and the votes can be examined in public for recaounts, etc.
There is also the fact that, in the US, idiots are allowed to claim special privileges because they are idiots. Remember the Butterfly Ballot fiasco? "The ballot was confusing, but I voted anyway, and now that my candidate lost, I want a re-vote because I'm not sure I filled out the ballot correctly."
E-voting does have one advantage in that it can give enough rope for idiots to hang themselves:
"You have selected Bat Puchanon, the Independent candidate for President. Are you sure"
[yes]
"Are you really sure?
[yes]
"Are you absofuckingposilutely sure? Because this is it for the next 4 years?
[yes]
"Really"
[yes]
"Thank you for voting. Have a nice day"
"Once you vote, your vote is publically displayed on a website using some kind of voter ID. You can go home, look at your vote on the website and confirm that it's registered correctly"
What you suggest has been suggested here many times before, and the response is the same - it lends itself to vote buying and coercion.
Scenerio #1: Candidate A offers $10/vote. Go to campaign office after the election, give some intern at a computer your document showing your Voter ID, he punches it in, shows you voted for the Candidate, $10 cash and out the door. Bump it to $50 or $100 if you live in a particular district.
Scenario #2: Your Boss is a Republocrat, and you are a Democan. Boss implies that it would REALLY be in your best interest to vote his way, since he can't in good conscience employ someone from your party. If you refuse to give him your Voter ID number, you obviously don't trust him, and how can he employ someone who doesn't trust him?
Scenario #3 (just thought of this): You vote for Nalph Rader instead of the Democan. The Republocrat wins. You call up the election commision complaining that there was fraud - YOU certainly didn't vote for Rader, but that was how your vote was registered! (Butterfly Ballots, anyone?)
It is exactly because of the long history of vote buying, coercion, and fraud that voting is anonymous and secret. If an individual vote CAN'T be tied to an individual voter, then that voter is free to make their choice without concern for how it will affect their job, or will they get paid for their vote.
Nope.
Long Duk Dong.
AKA - The Donger
So a Federal agency is paying for these with Federal dollars - what's unfunded about this?
You may be thinking about the REAL-ID program, which is indeed an unfunded mandate. But this isn't it.
Thanks for the flamebait anyway.
Perhaps you missed my argument- my criticism was that, in his desire to combat the stereotype taht all gays are potential child molesters, the activist made an equally outrageous claim that homosexuals are almost NEVER child molesters. He seemed to be implying that a man who is sexually attracted to other men is somehow immune to being attracted to boys.
You can't fight stereotypes with equally outrageous claims to the contrary - it just makes the arguer look stupid and diminishes his real, legitimate point.
I once heard a gay activist emphatically state that almost all child molesters were heterosexual, including the ones that molested boys. He was trying to battle the stereotype that gay=molester, but come on - this is the same community that goes around telling everyone that lots of gays are closeted or in denial, and that even if they have sex with women they are still gay. But have sex with a boy - that's an abberation, and that person is Totally heterosexual.
Ooops, missed the "web" part. Was picturing the undead in the car next to me in the morning commute.
For that matter, with the way we all look and act in the AM, no one would recognize a real zombie if it reared up and bit you on the brain.
And it made me crash my car last week!
(As I reconsider my practice of checking email on my Treo at highway speeds...)
If they are posting stuff on the Internet and sound like an expert, they are most likely NOT an expert.
Someone close to me is an alcoholic, and now that their sober, probably spends as much time on the web as they did drinking.
Substitute the Internet for alcohol? Probably.
Internet as damaging as alcohol? Are the effin nuts?
There's addiction, and then there's addiction. The medical establishment trying to make all addictions equally bad is a ploy to scare up more patients.
You are being ambiguous in your use of "choice". A normal brain can choose not to "want" their addictive substance/activity. For instance, I can say to myself "I don't want to drink tonight; I don't feel like it." A person who is addicted cannot choose NOT to want it - they will ALWAYS want their addictive stuff.
The crux is that, although addicted brains can't choose their cravings, they CAN choose theri actions. An alcoholic can choose not to drink - members of AA do that every day. It can work the other way as well - how many of us, when we don't really WANT to drink, choose to anyway, to be sociable, etc.
You say that addicts "no more have a choice to quit and than a parapelegic has a choice to walk. They literally lack the physiological capacity to do so." There are over a million AA members in the US alone who will beg to differ. You seem to have it backwards - the ONLY way to become sober/straight is to CHOOSE to do so. They can never get rid of the compulsion, but they can choose not to act on it.
Hmmm, let me think:
Sex...Videogame?
Sex...Videogame?
Sex...Videogame?
WTF - what idiot would pick "videogame"?
I referred to Arabic porn because:
1) I know it exists, whereas I'm not sure about Iranian/Persian porn
2) Intersections of language - one assumes the mullah's know arabic, since they have probably studied the Koran in the original text.
3) I know the Persians dislike the Arabs - hence the double attraction of watching an Arab man do something immoral, and an Arab woman be "defiled".
After all, can't interfere with the mullah's beating off to Arabic porn.
Before the slams about being racist: they are men in power. Men in power have always demanded and gotten exception from the rules, especially involving personal matters.
And all men beat off.
Easy - Steve's not her real Dad?
"IINAMHS"
But I expect you are AHR (a Heinlein Reader). See post below on "Waldo"