But legally bludgeoning people to shut them up, rob them, pimp slap them publicly and perform live human sacrifices to educate the rest of the sheeple that if they step out of line the big bad wolves will serve them up with mint jelly is easy, common and the system stinks with it. And it won't change, because the lawyers like it this way, and the people who make our laws are almost to a person lawyers or ex-lawyers with friends still in the business and happy to fund a political campaign. Worse, the corporations like it this way because it gives them unlimited power to crush little people under their thumbs. So, the only answer is for the people to shout "Whoa! The system is broken and the lawyers have raped and pillaged what the bankers haven't razed to the ground."
Short of a French Revolution redux, we need to explain with extreme prejudice that we as a society are no longer amused and in fact the random thought of heads in baskets suddenly seems rather amusing.
Actually the real translation is, nobody seemed at all interested in paying a left testicle and their first born male child for this service.... Go figure.
Of course for profit prisons have become America's new answer to global slave labor, we're now competitive with the worst confined labor environments in the world, by just throwing people into jail for decades at a time for pot, then using them as slave labor for large corporations... talk about a sweat heart deal, could you ask for better!
Face facts. He tilted at windmills because he put his dignity ahead of his well being. The people that took umbrage at his behavior wanted him dispensed with. Dead is just fine, it meets the bottom line. 30 years in prison would have been fine too. This was a political assassination plain and simple. The people who've made it their jobs to deny you any civil rights chalk up another in the win column.
Exactly, you would be much more likely to see bad men creating biotoxins like botulina toxin keyed to a specific persons genome. The Perfect assassination tool. Go after entire families. The stuff of science fiction!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning what happened at Ruby Ridge or Wako, the government mishandled that grotesquely. That said, anyone who didn't think the Branch Davidians weren't a burger shy a happy meal, forgets the Jim Jones event that informed the Governments actions. You talk about Americans fighting Americans... we call that a feud. Its illegal for a reason, innocent bystanders get killed and the violence grows. It doesn't help if the folks armed to the teeth are in fact nut jobs, terrorist and murderers, anybody here remember the Oklahoma bombing? Or the white supremacists. Or the American Nazis? We could do this all day. there are more wing-nuts that there are bolts to fasten them to.
The government now watches them from a distance, to avoid stupid from happening. A good plan. As long as the Doodles play nice by themselves, aren't hurting anybody, and haven't marched on the local Higglety Pigglety, no need to send in the FBI. That said, the general populace is antsy. We can smell bad news on the wind and the folks making decisions keep making bad ones. It is perhaps time for us all to say enough is too much and take back what is ours to begin with. The government is here to serve us. Its not been doing that for a while now. Guns aren't the answer, at least not until you've tried and failed with every other option first.
Did you vote? So the guys in Washington D.C. are people you and your neighbors put there, yes? The people manning the Government didn't fall out a parallel dimension. They weren't hatched. They are your neighbors and friends and got there because they were more popular (or better backed by heads of business, and we the mouth breathing public picked them because of their superior advertising campaign.)
If the nation is so far gone that the government is forced to turn on the people, you don't think there'll already be rioting in the streets and hundred or even thousands of small coalitions fighting one another? The government my friend is the least of your worries. Perhaps you might stop polishing that side arm for a few and invest that time in making this a more fit society for your children to live in. Rather than planning for the shit hitting the fan, let's get together, clean up the shit and turn off the fan.
Iraq failed because Rumsfeld couldn't find his own rear end with arrows in his panties to guide the way.
We aren't currently winning Afghanistan because the country is a nasty mountainous, hell hole that's chewed the ass off every army that ever marched through it. Nobody has ever won a war against the locals, because it always degenerates to a guerrilla war with people who know the home field better than you and are willing to make it a war of attrition over decades to wear you down. Worse, if we'd have just spent a lousy $12,000,000 when the Afghan's kicked the Russian out, we would have precluded the Taliban, The World Trade Center, and the current conflict. So we just keep bringing stupid to the party and paying large for it a decade down the road.
Its even worse than that... you seen the armed camps in Wyoming and Montana? You think any one of them could play nice with another for more than a Fortnight? Sorry, once you start playing the "My way or the Highway" game you're gonna have 5,000 little pissed off fifedoms yanking in different directions. The larger organized system will swat you like a bunch of flies.
All of this presumes the government has any intention of doing anything to you at all. If it all went to hell tomorrow, what makes you think the government would just fold?
And one of the other articles today is about the folks of the world being a little antsy about the US building death-bots. Unless you know where they keep the off switch, fight Cylons is gonna suck.
Those leaders were being informed that if they applied weapons of mass destruction on their own people they'd have the UN and the US climbing up their nethers... Who would threaten the US Guberment that way???
Who still think they're going to be able to win a war against their own government which is armed with binary nerve agents, chain guns, drones and tactical nukes... uh yeah.
Just put all wars on the moon, make sure all sides have robots (and the Pentagon will he happy to sell them to you if you don't have access to your own.) Then let them have at it. No more dead soldiers, no more collateral damage, looser picks up brewskies after the fight. A new era of world peace ensues.
So who do you think the next CEO is going to be? I hear they're courting the Wachowskys. I can see the HP commercials now... "There's a splinter in your brain..."
Fortunately or unfortunately, only agents of the *AA can report infringement. The system cannot be turned against itself. Arguably this is unfair to all copyright holders who are not part of the *AA, but the flip side is that you can pirate non-AA content with impunity.
So let's get completely clear about this... ISPs are just doing what they do to make a profit. They look at the cost of fighting *AAs, and the impact of fighting vs. not fighting on their customers, then they optimize for profit. And let's not forget the not so subtle and significant pressure from government who panders to *AAs and less obviously, the government wouldn't mind having technology installed that could be used later to crawl up every American's ass to have a look see at what we collectively had for dinner. And there you are, the status quo.
You want to fight this. Sweet. Convince Branson, or Buffet, or some other bastard with deep pockets who can be persuaded that the *AA is corrupt, evil, and a bankrupt business model. Build a stable of 1,000 or so Indie Artists from all genres (and I mean top talent including top artists from the 70s, 80s, 90s who're no longer doing the radio dance.) Create a new wide open business model with concerts, tours, special venues and intimate play parties. Create not just a new label, but a new way of serving consumers that lets them choose how to enjoy and gives them the power to support what they love. Watch the thing take off and crush the competition. Of course the *AA will try to legislate it out of existence. They'll do every dirty deed in the book to resist what's inevitable. They're just to stupid and stubborn to notice that they're already dead and the sediment is raining down on them and they won't give us the satisfaction of just laying down and becoming part of the fossil record.
There you go, there's a record they can dominate... the fossil record!
DUDE! That thing sticking outta the side of his head... is his tongue in his cheek... next you're supposed to laugh... and now we know why there are no savant comedians...
Every time I run into a Fundy who has problems with evolution. I find one of these bruhahas, gently grab the Fundy's head and say "You see those guys over there slinging handfuls of shit, tell me in any meaningful way how they differ from Chimpanzees? Didn't think so." And another soul is forced to confront secular rationality.
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But legally bludgeoning people to shut them up, rob them, pimp slap them publicly and perform live human sacrifices to educate the rest of the sheeple that if they step out of line the big bad wolves will serve them up with mint jelly is easy, common and the system stinks with it. And it won't change, because the lawyers like it this way, and the people who make our laws are almost to a person lawyers or ex-lawyers with friends still in the business and happy to fund a political campaign. Worse, the corporations like it this way because it gives them unlimited power to crush little people under their thumbs. So, the only answer is for the people to shout "Whoa! The system is broken and the lawyers have raped and pillaged what the bankers haven't razed to the ground."
Short of a French Revolution redux, we need to explain with extreme prejudice that we as a society are no longer amused and in fact the random thought of heads in baskets suddenly seems rather amusing.
Actually the real translation is, nobody seemed at all interested in paying a left testicle and their first born male child for this service.... Go figure.
Of course for profit prisons have become America's new answer to global slave labor, we're now competitive with the worst confined labor environments in the world, by just throwing people into jail for decades at a time for pot, then using them as slave labor for large corporations... talk about a sweat heart deal, could you ask for better!
Face facts. He tilted at windmills because he put his dignity ahead of his well being. The people that took umbrage at his behavior wanted him dispensed with. Dead is just fine, it meets the bottom line. 30 years in prison would have been fine too. This was a political assassination plain and simple. The people who've made it their jobs to deny you any civil rights chalk up another in the win column.
I doubt it, no booze or shotguns were involved...
Exactly, you would be much more likely to see bad men creating biotoxins like botulina toxin keyed to a specific persons genome. The Perfect assassination tool. Go after entire families. The stuff of science fiction!
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning what happened at Ruby Ridge or Wako, the government mishandled that grotesquely. That said, anyone who didn't think the Branch Davidians weren't a burger shy a happy meal, forgets the Jim Jones event that informed the Governments actions. You talk about Americans fighting Americans... we call that a feud. Its illegal for a reason, innocent bystanders get killed and the violence grows. It doesn't help if the folks armed to the teeth are in fact nut jobs, terrorist and murderers, anybody here remember the Oklahoma bombing? Or the white supremacists. Or the American Nazis? We could do this all day. there are more wing-nuts that there are bolts to fasten them to.
The government now watches them from a distance, to avoid stupid from happening. A good plan. As long as the Doodles play nice by themselves, aren't hurting anybody, and haven't marched on the local Higglety Pigglety, no need to send in the FBI. That said, the general populace is antsy. We can smell bad news on the wind and the folks making decisions keep making bad ones. It is perhaps time for us all to say enough is too much and take back what is ours to begin with. The government is here to serve us. Its not been doing that for a while now. Guns aren't the answer, at least not until you've tried and failed with every other option first.
Did you vote? So the guys in Washington D.C. are people you and your neighbors put there, yes? The people manning the Government didn't fall out a parallel dimension. They weren't hatched. They are your neighbors and friends and got there because they were more popular (or better backed by heads of business, and we the mouth breathing public picked them because of their superior advertising campaign.)
If the nation is so far gone that the government is forced to turn on the people, you don't think there'll already be rioting in the streets and hundred or even thousands of small coalitions fighting one another? The government my friend is the least of your worries. Perhaps you might stop polishing that side arm for a few and invest that time in making this a more fit society for your children to live in. Rather than planning for the shit hitting the fan, let's get together, clean up the shit and turn off the fan.
Iraq failed because Rumsfeld couldn't find his own rear end with arrows in his panties to guide the way.
We aren't currently winning Afghanistan because the country is a nasty mountainous, hell hole that's chewed the ass off every army that ever marched through it. Nobody has ever won a war against the locals, because it always degenerates to a guerrilla war with people who know the home field better than you and are willing to make it a war of attrition over decades to wear you down. Worse, if we'd have just spent a lousy $12,000,000 when the Afghan's kicked the Russian out, we would have precluded the Taliban, The World Trade Center, and the current conflict. So we just keep bringing stupid to the party and paying large for it a decade down the road.
Its even worse than that... you seen the armed camps in Wyoming and Montana? You think any one of them could play nice with another for more than a Fortnight? Sorry, once you start playing the "My way or the Highway" game you're gonna have 5,000 little pissed off fifedoms yanking in different directions. The larger organized system will swat you like a bunch of flies.
All of this presumes the government has any intention of doing anything to you at all. If it all went to hell tomorrow, what makes you think the government would just fold?
And one of the other articles today is about the folks of the world being a little antsy about the US building death-bots. Unless you know where they keep the off switch, fight Cylons is gonna suck.
Those leaders were being informed that if they applied weapons of mass destruction on their own people they'd have the UN and the US climbing up their nethers... Who would threaten the US Guberment that way???
Who still think they're going to be able to win a war against their own government which is armed with binary nerve agents, chain guns, drones and tactical nukes... uh yeah.
For foreigners visiting... avoid the third shell if you are male... it removed tampons automatically.
Oh yeah, cuz 'm betting the rest of the planet admires and is impressed with our fascination for steel underground zombie apocalypse shelters...
Just put all wars on the moon, make sure all sides have robots (and the Pentagon will he happy to sell them to you if you don't have access to your own.) Then let them have at it. No more dead soldiers, no more collateral damage, looser picks up brewskies after the fight. A new era of world peace ensues.
Wake me up when the processors are so fast that they can warp the space time continuum...
So who do you think the next CEO is going to be? I hear they're courting the Wachowskys. I can see the HP commercials now... "There's a splinter in your brain..."
Exactly.. this is one case where getting FORKED is a good thing!
Fortunately or unfortunately, only agents of the *AA can report infringement. The system cannot be turned against itself. Arguably this is unfair to all copyright holders who are not part of the *AA, but the flip side is that you can pirate non-AA content with impunity.
So let's get completely clear about this... ISPs are just doing what they do to make a profit. They look at the cost of fighting *AAs, and the impact of fighting vs. not fighting on their customers, then they optimize for profit. And let's not forget the not so subtle and significant pressure from government who panders to *AAs and less obviously, the government wouldn't mind having technology installed that could be used later to crawl up every American's ass to have a look see at what we collectively had for dinner. And there you are, the status quo.
You want to fight this. Sweet. Convince Branson, or Buffet, or some other bastard with deep pockets who can be persuaded that the *AA is corrupt, evil, and a bankrupt business model. Build a stable of 1,000 or so Indie Artists from all genres (and I mean top talent including top artists from the 70s, 80s, 90s who're no longer doing the radio dance.) Create a new wide open business model with concerts, tours, special venues and intimate play parties. Create not just a new label, but a new way of serving consumers that lets them choose how to enjoy and gives them the power to support what they love. Watch the thing take off and crush the competition. Of course the *AA will try to legislate it out of existence. They'll do every dirty deed in the book to resist what's inevitable. They're just to stupid and stubborn to notice that they're already dead and the sediment is raining down on them and they won't give us the satisfaction of just laying down and becoming part of the fossil record.
There you go, there's a record they can dominate... the fossil record!
How big is your KEY, Baaabbeee!
Never claimed to be a prophet, just on rare occasions see the promised land.
DUDE! That thing sticking outta the side of his head... is his tongue in his cheek... next you're supposed to laugh... and now we know why there are no savant comedians...
Every time I run into a Fundy who has problems with evolution. I find one of these bruhahas, gently grab the Fundy's head and say "You see those guys over there slinging handfuls of shit, tell me in any meaningful way how they differ from Chimpanzees? Didn't think so." And another soul is forced to confront secular rationality.