A guy in front of me in the line in Tampa was threatened that he might be going somewhere he didn't plan on, and staying longer than he wanted to, if the plastic ziploc baggie his 3oz toiletries were in was larger than the regulation 1 qt. size.
I almost laughed it was so stupid, but I felt like making my flight.
Not SYMBOLICALLY. The doctrine is that it is the TRUE flesh of Jesus. Google crackergate and see how seriously they take it, it's not a symbol, they equate desecrating the cracker to murder.
...to lower the minimum threshold for for terms "weasel," "scum sucking capitalist pigs" "lying corporate trash" and "fucking leeches on society" so as to encompass these pricks.
Oh come on. The guy had lived his life, was facing pain... for what? He wasn't a teenager, he wasn't middle aged. Doesn't a person have the right to decide when they've had enough?
You want to know selfish is? Selfish is expecting a terminally ill aged person to endure suffering to slightly prolong an existence that they no longer feel is tolerable, all so that a complete fucking stranger on the internet doesn't have to deal with a moment facing the reality that ALL PEOPLE DIE, before said geek clicks on to the next story, about robot porn or some shit.
The guy lived his life, saw the end coming and chose not to suffer. The only sad part is that our sick society is in such denial about the inevitability of death that he was forced to choose such a gruesome method rather than having the option of something more peaceful.
at least everyone's accounts are eFDIC insured up to $100k fake dollars. Good thing, too... this sort of thing could spark an virtual bank run resulting in an imaginary depression. Next thing you know, everyone would be forced to ride the rails as hoboes in Railroad Tycoon.
Amazon deletes legitimate unfavorable reviews. Why would you think they would care about the honesty of reviews? All they care about is sales. Fake positives are probably just fine with them.
Yeah, the eardrum bursting wasnt the bad part, actually relieved the pressure. It was the ear infection and buildup of pressure from pus inside before it finally burst that hurt.
Shit... I've been hit by a pickup truck, had a shattered pelvis, fractured skull, internal injuries. Had to learn to walk again. Went through withdrawal from Demerol. Had a total bowel obstruction that required emergency surgery. Had a catheter removed without the little balloon being deflated first. Broke my arm four times. Had a barium enema (doesn't sound like much but those fuckers HURT)
Those things took from days to months to repair and grow adequate scar tissue.
Broken heart? Well, I think I'm pretty much over it now... and it's only been 25 years. (Well, I'm over when she's not around anyway...)
has lived their entire lives online, they twitter about their bowel movements... I don;t think they even think about privacy as being something desirable.
Put a nuclear source up there hanging above our heads like that?
What if by chance something happens to the moon's orbit causing it to plummet into the Earth. If that were to happen and there was a big reactor on it, that could spell disaster!
If you want to change the country, the simplest way to do so is to change what the populace wants.
yeah, for example that's how we ended Jim Crow. We didn't send in federal troops to enforce civil rights... instead we educated white southerners and ended their feelings of racism.
I paid into social security. It's an insurance program.
You're paying into it too. As an insurance program. If you get disabled, you'll get disability and Medicare. As you should, because you paid into the insurance program.
I highly doubt you'll complain and decide not to take it.
Similarly, as you might have an insurance policy through your work, I highly doubt that you're upset with the people on that same policy who have needed care and used it even though "you're paying for it." I also doubt that you care that you're taking from the pool when you use your healthcare too.
But lets say I never worked and never paid into the pool, never paid for the insurance I'm now using. Say I was born disabled instead of having become disabled.
Are you saying that I should then just fuck off and die, that I don't deserve medical care?
Are you saying that anyone who is disabled should just fuck off and die? Are you saying that you are a self-made man, that you never use roads that other people's taxes paid for, that you never use products and medical services that other people's money paid to subsidize or research? That you don't use the FAA, you fly only in unmonitored, unsafe aircraft that you paid for yourself and that no NASA funds went into learning the aerodynamics of?
Are you saying that you went only to private schools that you paid for yourself and that got no government funding ever?'
Are you saying that we aren't a society? That we are instead simply selfish individual actors?
Are you saying that you're a childish asshole?
All the years I worked and paid into social security it never occurred to me to bitch about the disabled people getting medical care as a result of the program. In fact, I thought it was good that we as a society provided that protection.
Yeah, and there's also DARPA net, breaking up Bell, and several other things they've done that greatly benefited telecom technology. What's your point?
Too many people don't realize that there would be no internet at all as we know it today if not for the breakup of AT&T.
I'm disabled and have been on Medicare for a few years. I have to say, Medicare is better than any private insurance I ever had through work.
The only thing that changed when I went on medicare is that it costs me less. My co-pay is far less. I have the same doctors, I'm on the same meds... in fact I have more doctors and specialists, have had biopsies, tests, and I'm on more meds, because I'm aging and my health is deteriorating... but not due to lack of medical care.
I personally can't imagine how anyone could complain about Medicare - I see any doctors I want to, I get all the tests they feel I need, etc... and I have a lower co-pay than private insurance - my co-pays are so low it's essentially free.
OK, maybe Palm is not like 1984... but looking over your list is a little scary seeing as we seem to have 6 or 7 of the 8 conditions going on currently.
if your son is an ax murderer and he's about to kill someone and you could stop him but you don't, yes, you're incompetent, psychotic or evil.
if you can stop someone from committing murder and you chose not to, you're evil.
A God, supposedly being all powerful, could stop a murderer, could stop Hitler. Your God, as you all claim, could stop this, chooses not to to prove a point or some shit.
if you have a gun and your son has a gun and your son is threatening to shoot a toddler, and you could shoot him to stop it... but you say "go ahead, it's your choice, I won;t stop you, but if you choose to kill her, you'll probably learn that you go to prison..."
yeah, but... but... With all the countless planets in the universe, what are the odds that the one planet that managed to evolve life would coincidentally be the very one we're on so that we can be here to witness it?!?!
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A guy in front of me in the line in Tampa was threatened that he might be going somewhere he didn't plan on, and staying longer than he wanted to, if the plastic ziploc baggie his 3oz toiletries were in was larger than the regulation 1 qt. size.
I almost laughed it was so stupid, but I felt like making my flight.
Not SYMBOLICALLY. The doctrine is that it is the TRUE flesh of Jesus. Google crackergate and see how seriously they take it, it's not a symbol, they equate desecrating the cracker to murder.
Even if you restrict the use of the word conspiracy to situations where it has a negative connotation, it's STILL pretty routine.
Two people decide to rob a liquor store? It's a conspiracy.
Now look at lobbyists, politicians, prostitutes, perks, payoffs... and tell me there aren't many thousands of illegal conspiracies going on.
By another definition, the Internet is people communicating. Happy 4 millionth birthday, internet!
I call fake. She's shaved. Nobody was shaved back then!
You're the only person other than me who I've seen that realized that without the Carterphone decision, there would be no internet as we know it.
There were even books published in the 80s about how the AT&T breakup was a disaster for technology. Bet that author feels stupid now.
...to lower the minimum threshold for for terms "weasel," "scum sucking capitalist pigs" "lying corporate trash" and "fucking leeches on society" so as to encompass these pricks.
I had wondered about that
Oh come on. The guy had lived his life, was facing pain... for what? He wasn't a teenager, he wasn't middle aged. Doesn't a person have the right to decide when they've had enough?
You want to know selfish is? Selfish is expecting a terminally ill aged person to endure suffering to slightly prolong an existence that they no longer feel is tolerable, all so that a complete fucking stranger on the internet doesn't have to deal with a moment facing the reality that ALL PEOPLE DIE, before said geek clicks on to the next story, about robot porn or some shit.
The guy lived his life, saw the end coming and chose not to suffer. The only sad part is that our sick society is in such denial about the inevitability of death that he was forced to choose such a gruesome method rather than having the option of something more peaceful.
at least everyone's accounts are eFDIC insured up to $100k fake dollars.
Good thing, too... this sort of thing could spark an virtual bank run resulting in an imaginary depression. Next thing you know, everyone would be forced to ride the rails as hoboes in Railroad Tycoon.
Amazon deletes legitimate unfavorable reviews. Why would you think they would care about the honesty of reviews? All they care about is sales. Fake positives are probably just fine with them.
Yeah, the eardrum bursting wasnt the bad part, actually relieved the pressure. It was the ear infection and buildup of pressure from pus inside before it finally burst that hurt.
OH yeah, forgot the burst eardrum from an ear infection... um... oh yeah, the concussion and cracked ribs from another accident...
shit. I think maybe I should be more careful.
Shit... I've been hit by a pickup truck, had a shattered pelvis, fractured skull, internal injuries. Had to learn to walk again. Went through withdrawal from Demerol. Had a total bowel obstruction that required emergency surgery. Had a catheter removed without the little balloon being deflated first.
Broke my arm four times. Had a barium enema (doesn't sound like much but those fuckers HURT)
Those things took from days to months to repair and grow adequate scar tissue.
Broken heart? Well, I think I'm pretty much over it now... and it's only been 25 years. (Well, I'm over when she's not around anyway...)
That's a brilliant idea! Why didn't I think of that?
Put my dick on a lanyard!
has lived their entire lives online, they twitter about their bowel movements... I don;t think they even think about privacy as being something desirable.
What the hell are they thinking?!?!
Put a nuclear source up there hanging above our heads like that?
What if by chance something happens to the moon's orbit causing it to plummet into the Earth. If that were to happen and there was a big reactor on it, that could spell disaster!
If you want to change the country, the simplest way to do so is to change what the populace wants.
yeah, for example that's how we ended Jim Crow. We didn't send in federal troops to enforce civil rights... instead we educated white southerners and ended their feelings of racism.
Oh wait...
I paid into social security. It's an insurance program.
You're paying into it too. As an insurance program. If you get disabled, you'll get disability and Medicare. As you should, because you paid into the insurance program.
I highly doubt you'll complain and decide not to take it.
Similarly, as you might have an insurance policy through your work, I highly doubt that you're upset with the people on that same policy who have needed care and used it even though "you're paying for it." I also doubt that you care that you're taking from the pool when you use your healthcare too.
But lets say I never worked and never paid into the pool, never paid for the insurance I'm now using. Say I was born disabled instead of having become disabled.
Are you saying that I should then just fuck off and die, that I don't deserve medical care?
Are you saying that anyone who is disabled should just fuck off and die?
Are you saying that you are a self-made man, that you never use roads that other people's taxes paid for, that you never use products and medical services that other people's money paid to subsidize or research? That you don't use the FAA, you fly only in unmonitored, unsafe aircraft that you paid for yourself and that no NASA funds went into learning the aerodynamics of?
Are you saying that you went only to private schools that you paid for yourself and that got no government funding ever?'
Are you saying that we aren't a society? That we are instead simply selfish individual actors?
Are you saying that you're a childish asshole?
All the years I worked and paid into social security it never occurred to me to bitch about the disabled people getting medical care as a result of the program. In fact, I thought it was good that we as a society provided that protection.
Maybe I need to take selfish asshole lessons.
Yeah, and there's also DARPA net, breaking up Bell, and several other things they've done that greatly benefited telecom technology. What's your point?
Too many people don't realize that there would be no internet at all as we know it today if not for the breakup of AT&T.
What's wrong with Medicare?
I'm disabled and have been on Medicare for a few years. I have to say, Medicare is better than any private insurance I ever had through work.
The only thing that changed when I went on medicare is that it costs me less. My co-pay is far less. I have the same doctors, I'm on the same meds... in fact I have more doctors and specialists, have had biopsies, tests, and I'm on more meds, because I'm aging and my health is deteriorating... but not due to lack of medical care.
I personally can't imagine how anyone could complain about Medicare - I see any doctors I want to, I get all the tests they feel I need, etc... and I have a lower co-pay than private insurance - my co-pays are so low it's essentially free.
OK, maybe Palm is not like 1984... but looking over your list is a little scary seeing as we seem to have 6 or 7 of the 8 conditions going on currently.
if your son is an ax murderer and he's about to kill someone and you could stop him but you don't, yes, you're incompetent, psychotic or evil.
if you can stop someone from committing murder and you chose not to, you're evil.
A God, supposedly being all powerful, could stop a murderer, could stop Hitler. Your God, as you all claim, could stop this, chooses not to to prove a point or some shit.
if you have a gun and your son has a gun and your son is threatening to shoot a toddler, and you could shoot him to stop it... but you say "go ahead, it's your choice, I won;t stop you, but if you choose to kill her, you'll probably learn that you go to prison..."
YOU will go to prison too.
yeah, but... but...
With all the countless planets in the universe, what are the odds that the one planet that managed to evolve life would coincidentally be the very one we're on so that we can be here to witness it?!?!
Well as long as it doesn't allow government to start meddling in my Medicare program...