Your ideals are noble but your efforts misguided. Rome wasn't built in one day and the US political system will not change overnight simply because Obama (or ANY politician) suddently decides to rage against the machine. Once elected, Obama can enact REAL change and retroactively remove the immunity if it is even worth it.
I personally don't believe single-issue voters have ever, or WILL ever decide an election and therefore Obama has made a shrewd political move insuring his electability. The Republican propaganda machine THRIVES on perceived fears of terrorism; giving them prime ammunition like "Obama voted against finding terrists!",while the bill is GUARANTEED TO PASS ANYWAY, achieves nothing.
Idealist never achieve anything; the only vote that has lasting effect is from the rooftop. The restis all decided by the leaders-that-be, and solely themselves.
What COULD he do? As a Senator, he could only do 3 things; Vote for amendments eliminating the immunity provision (He did) Vote against the bill, denying law enforcements precious tools (He didn't) Vote FOR the bill and bide his time (He did)
Make no mistake, Obama has clearly stated he is against granting the telecoms immunity; there's simply nothing yuo can do when OTHER blue dog democrats with cushy incumbent seats wantto retain their fat lobbyist paychecks and vote with their wallets. rather than their constituent's values, defeating perfectly logical amendments.
The democratic republic SYSTEM insures two-party status. There's simply no way for a third party to have any really meaningful impact besides voter dilution. Now, if you were to switch to a constitutionnal monarchy like Canada or a true democracy then you could have more than 2 parties, coalitions, all that jazz. As it stands, the POTUS represents one party and everybody is either in his party or against it.
Principles rarely translate to profits. Besides, nobody is forcing these companies to relinquish their patents. I'm merely stating that the buyer will rarely, if ever, have an impact on the transaction. The amount paid will likely be the deciding factor - hence why this tactical pooling of ressources is a shrewd business move.
The mainstream "DID CLINTON GET A SLOPPY BLOWJOB????" media, *favoring* democrats? The mainstream "Let's only mention Bush's failings in passing and never his party" media?
There's a reason Republicans (much like yourself, I suspect) blame the "liberal media bias"; reality has a very well-known liberal bias towards not tolerating disgusting slimeballs.
The reason you don't see as many democrats scandals on tv is there aren't as many freaking pedophiles, perverts and corrupted assholes in the Democratic party.
As a little interesting homework, try and make a list of recent indicted Democrats. Then indicted Republicans. Compare. Ponder the "influence of the media on the judges" or whatever apologist bullshit you want to blame THAT on.
Think about it. By NOT working for them you've possibly denied them the breakthrough in weapons researc hthat would have
A) Created a completly non-lethal but entirely effective weapon with no lasting side effects
B) Created a weapon of mass destruction so powerful it would prevent any conflict as long as you are its sole possessor.
Therefore, you aare responsible for all the deaths that WILL occur resulting from your inaction on weapons reasearch.
Thanks to Blackcobra's Fabulous Head-trauma-forget-o-rama (patent pending), you TOO can become a drooling idiot! Just a few swift blows to the head and you will FEEL that knowledge slipping away!
State your position on this topic and the ABSOLUTELY CURRENT justification behind it. You wouldn't happen to be a hypocrite lambasting the opposition for beating you to the punch, would you?
The past does not GUARANTEE the future - but only the insane repeat their mistakes expecting different results.
If you have "Keeping-up-with-the-Jones" syndrome then no, you will never be satisfied with WoW because there will ALWAYS be someone with more time to lose on the game than you. The same applied to "skill-based" mmorpgs like UO; the more you practiced and accumulated wealth the more advantaged you became.
The fuses were shipped in 2006, according to TFA. How come we're JUST NOW getting informed of this?
If the US government was made aware of it, why was this matter of national security not revealed and those responsible fired?
If the US government wasn't informed until just now, what good is the their inspection certifying no tampering has occured? It's far too easy to completly disassemble and reasssemble something when you have 18 months to do it..
I believe that, should thought-scanning laws ever be made, they will be solely to allow the government to retroactively absolve themselves of any invasion of privacy they might have enacted with it.
Unles she wins it by a 99-to-1 margin, no, she won't get the nomination. In fact, unless she gets 72-25 wins in every single primary left, she won`t get the nomination. That is, assuming Obama's super-delegates aren't bought out by Clintonites.
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Removing the immunity ex post facto is no more legal than granting it in the first place.
Electronic copyright violation.
Yarr, I be a clever pirate.
Your ideals are noble but your efforts misguided. Rome wasn't built in one day and the US political system will not change overnight simply because Obama (or ANY politician) suddently decides to rage against the machine. Once elected, Obama can enact REAL change and retroactively remove the immunity if it is even worth it.
I personally don't believe single-issue voters have ever, or WILL ever decide an election and therefore Obama has made a shrewd political move insuring his electability. The Republican propaganda machine THRIVES on perceived fears of terrorism; giving them prime ammunition like "Obama voted against finding terrists!",while the bill is GUARANTEED TO PASS ANYWAY, achieves nothing.
Idealist never achieve anything; the only vote that has lasting effect is from the rooftop. The restis all decided by the leaders-that-be, and solely themselves.
What COULD he do? As a Senator, he could only do 3 things;
Vote for amendments eliminating the immunity provision (He did)
Vote against the bill, denying law enforcements precious tools (He didn't)
Vote FOR the bill and bide his time (He did)
Make no mistake, Obama has clearly stated he is against granting the telecoms immunity; there's simply nothing yuo can do when OTHER blue dog democrats with cushy incumbent seats wantto retain their fat lobbyist paychecks and vote with their wallets. rather than their constituent's values, defeating perfectly logical amendments.
The democratic republic SYSTEM insures two-party status. There's simply no way for a third party to have any really meaningful impact besides voter dilution. Now, if you were to switch to a constitutionnal monarchy like Canada or a true democracy then you could have more than 2 parties, coalitions, all that jazz. As it stands, the POTUS represents one party and everybody is either in his party or against it.
In Soviet Australia, games don't rate YOU!
:/
Wait, pretty much that way everywhere....
All Google has to do is show they're trying to supress unauthorized verbing. It's for the best, really.
Verbing weirds nouns.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Principles rarely translate to profits. Besides, nobody is forcing these companies to relinquish their patents. I'm merely stating that the buyer will rarely, if ever, have an impact on the transaction. The amount paid will likely be the deciding factor - hence why this tactical pooling of ressources is a shrewd business move.
Does it even matter? I personnally wouldn't care if the dumptruck-full-of-cash has a logo on it or not.
Better yet, how about some football fields/Library of Congress equivalent units?
Hydro-Quebec seems to be working out just fine here in Quebec. We wouldn't mind yet another Quebec crown company owning a monopoly :)
God was the FIRST advocate of limiting free speech. "Thou shalt not take THY LORD's name in vain"? Come on....
Ironically, the captcha for this post was "praying".
The mainstream "DID CLINTON GET A SLOPPY BLOWJOB????" media, *favoring* democrats? The mainstream "Let's only mention Bush's failings in passing and never his party" media?
There's a reason Republicans (much like yourself, I suspect) blame the "liberal media bias"; reality has a very well-known liberal bias towards not tolerating disgusting slimeballs.
The reason you don't see as many democrats scandals on tv is there aren't as many freaking pedophiles, perverts and corrupted assholes in the Democratic party.
As a little interesting homework, try and make a list of recent indicted Democrats. Then indicted Republicans. Compare. Ponder the "influence of the media on the judges" or whatever apologist bullshit you want to blame THAT on.
Thank God we don't have anything like that here in democratic America. Excuse me, I have to go get my...laundry...from the lobbyists.
Think about it. By NOT working for them you've possibly denied them the breakthrough in weapons researc hthat would have
A) Created a completly non-lethal but entirely effective weapon with no lasting side effects B) Created a weapon of mass destruction so powerful it would prevent any conflict as long as you are its sole possessor.
Therefore, you aare responsible for all the deaths that WILL occur resulting from your inaction on weapons reasearch.
Take this with a cubic meter of salt.
Thanks to Blackcobra's Fabulous Head-trauma-forget-o-rama (patent pending), you TOO can become a drooling idiot! Just a few swift blows to the head and you will FEEL that knowledge slipping away!
State your position on this topic and the ABSOLUTELY CURRENT justification behind it. You wouldn't happen to be a hypocrite lambasting the opposition for beating you to the punch, would you?
The past does not GUARANTEE the future - but only the insane repeat their mistakes expecting different results.
If you have "Keeping-up-with-the-Jones" syndrome then no, you will never be satisfied with WoW because there will ALWAYS be someone with more time to lose on the game than you. The same applied to "skill-based" mmorpgs like UO; the more you practiced and accumulated wealth the more advantaged you became.
Your problem is envy, not mmorpg design.
The fuses were shipped in 2006, according to TFA. How come we're JUST NOW getting informed of this?
If the US government was made aware of it, why was this matter of national security not revealed and those responsible fired?
If the US government wasn't informed until just now, what good is the their inspection certifying no tampering has occured? It's far too easy to completly disassemble and reasssemble something when you have 18 months to do it..
I believe that, should thought-scanning laws ever be made, they will be solely to allow the government to retroactively absolve themselves of any invasion of privacy they might have enacted with it.
but those these robotic snake overlords run Linux?
Now I get to feel the XX of YY (random creature) (random body part) I just picked up!
Unles she wins it by a 99-to-1 margin, no, she won't get the nomination. In fact, unless she gets 72-25 wins in every single primary left, she won`t get the nomination. That is, assuming Obama's super-delegates aren't bought out by Clintonites.