Obama lucked into an "out" for the predicament he put himself in by drawing the 'red lines' without first thinking through the implications if he was ever called on it.
He is one lucky SOB, that's for sure....an on camera/mike gaffe essentially by Kerry yesterday, turned into a way out for the administration.
If they will do this and confirm it, then it is likely the best thing that would happen, get the chemical weapons out, destroy them and keep them out of the hands of Asad (if he wins) or out of the terrorist groups if they win out.
But man, Big O got lucky again on this one, and look, the media coverage on this has dropped the:
1. IRS scandals
2. NSA privacy breach scandals
3. The hunt and loss of Snowden
4. The upcoming problems and costs assoc. with Obamacare implementation.
On that last one, he gets another gift, this time from the CBO...saying he can save about $35B or so over the next 10 years, if he also puts off the individual mandate for a year.....and doing that will possibly save Dem. seats up for grabs in 2014.
Anyone who wants to can label their food "Non-GMO". People can buy what they want.
Well, the problem is that it is not mandated.
Why should it not be mandated, just like they have to have ingredient labels on canned foods?
And should the impetus be on those that manipulate 'normal' foods and label them as being altered?
The norm should be un-modified foods, and those that splice in genes from other species (often unrelated to the food source in question) should be required to label their foods as being such or containing GMO ingredients.
Personally I have no problem with GM food and think this golden rice is a wonderful idea.
I think, at least in the 1st world countries, the US in particular....if they would just allow/mandate the labeling of GMO vs natural foods it would solve a lot of the uproar. Why not give the consumer this information?
I mean, hell, we have other labeling laws, we have to label seafood with country of origin (I like this one a lot), pretty soon, they're going to have one tracking beef.
Why not GMO? If the producers have no fear of GMO foods, what wrong with letting the consumer choose better what they want to consume?
I'm curious, as that I've not played around with them in years, but are the nym servers, and the mixmaster and other anonymous remailers out there still functioning and useful?
I tend to disagree on this one. I was there back in the day: the WWW was a lonely place filled with homepages that did not convey any useful information, Gopher was a commercial project (hence the reason why it failed), and the communities on Usenet were just as rude as most web fora nowadays.
Protocols were insecure and didn't scale well (local BBS'es and freenets were constantly occupied, Usenet lacked structure and moderation to facilitate large community discussions, etc.)
The internet has changed, and largely for the better. I don't miss the days when the Internet was an obscure little research network.
However, in the days before the internet was so commercialized, the govt largely stayed out of it and out of the way. We now have the govt passing laws trying to keep up the old ways and end up hindering progress, in order to protect commerce on the internet.
I think that the vast commercialization was what opened the door to the world govts trying to interfere and control the internet.
Also, the basic idea behind the internet, that any computer could hook onto the network and become a peer with all other computers is becoming largely lost in the great shuffle of 'progress'. I remember when my TOS for ISP was very simple (essentially don't do anything illegal), but there were no ports blocked, you could run servers (I cut my teeth a bit back in those days, trying to learn apache, postfix/sendmail,mixmaster, etc) on your home network and no one got pissed off that you were doing this.
But now, the providers and govt. continue to squeeze these freedoms and ideals the internet early on had in abundance, and are trying to limit and redefine what you connection is or should be.
I don't doubt that sadly, in the not far enough away future, that you will have to have some soft of govt issued ID just to connect, and likely you will have less and less control over your computer, and of course...more monitoring.
This will be all in the name of:
1. Think of the children
2. Security from the terrorists
3. The need to protect the online revenue generators.
We see this already today. Heck, the first two alone give them the "keys to the Constitution" here in the US, which opens the flood gates to even more anti-user freedom legislation.
Nor (I hope) were you ostracised by someone telling a joke that was in poor taste, or treating you as a stereotype.
Well, it wouldn't bother me, I certainly wouldn't get my panties all up in a wad.
Tell, all the honkey/cracker jokes you want, it seriously won't cause me any harm at all, but don't get all upset and act like the world is going to end if I tell the same type jokes or use the same ethnic descriptive terms on other races, ok?
over active people also wear out their body parts with the exertion. there is a happy medium though and i think that it just needed to be clarified. if you run several super marathons every year its going to kill you early... if you run a 5k it's all good.
I think more studies are showing that intermittent interval sorts of exercise are the best.
You do explosive runs for short bursts...and then do slow walking, lower activities in between, but these short intense explosions of activity mixed with low intensity activity seems to have the best effect on the human body.
But your assertion that the reaction to this case is something new is, in the context of this story, is just plain wrong. The name of the app presented contains a word which was part of a Supreme court ruling regulating indecency 35 years ago.
Tits?? Like from Carlin's 7 words you can't say on TV?
Tits isn't a bad word, sounds like a snack?
No...not your usual 'sexist' remark, I mean like "New Nabisco Tits!!
Cheese Tits....
Onion Tits...
Tater Tits!!!
:)
And really...this wasn't on TV, and you can say tits on tv today without an FCC fine....haven't we moved past that yet?
I find it confusing that we're beginning to be so accepting of so many things and behaviors today, which is a good thing, but we're also becoming very constricted about words and what you can say without raising someone's eyebrow. Things you could say freely only a decade ago, gets you branded all sorts of things now.
I find it sad we're more and more restricting what words you can or can't say.....they're just words.
Not only that, but George Lucas held off on DVD issue of Star Wars for a very long time. In the case of your Laserdisc you did have something with value others could buy, but not easily after Laserdiscs waned from the market.
I actually have my original Star Wars Trilogy laserdisc set...is nice to pull out every once in awhile, is is letterbox format, and before Lucas started messing with the film, old explosions, Han still shoots first, no extra characters added to scenes later, and at the end, old Anakin with Yoda and Ben....not the young kid spliced in from the prequels.
Hmm...I might have to look and dig out the old LD player and that box set for a watch.
Unlike our parents generation, which told were told fuck jokes by their kindergarten teachers so they would be prepared for the real world.
No...but you weren't ostracized by some for telling a joke that might be in slightly questionable taste, or find humor in a stereotype or said one of the words that today "dare not be uttered", and aren't even 4-letter words?!?!
In my line of work we take a dim view of being on the bleeding edge of technology. These people are not simply embracing it, but doing so for their own personal reasons i.e. Be first on the block to have one (which is a damn silly thing to do with a considerable investment, which most iPhones are.)
Well, you see this behavior for other things too.
I mean, I've never understood people siting and waiting in line to see a movie (Harry Potter, SW, LOTR, Hobbit, etc). I mean, frankly, I would rather wait to see it later without all the fscking crowd and hassle, that is...if I even bother to see it in a movie theater at all.
I generally wait till out on BluRay and watch it on my large plasma tv, with a great soundsystem and fully stocked bar nearby.
No, he's not omnipotent, he's just speaking from a position of human decency and explaining what, from the point of view of prefering the world not be full of exclusionist assholes, was wrong with what these people did.
Who was being exclusionists here?
These guys were just telling a joke, base on how Men see Women. Men see women and think about sex with them, plain and simple. Men know this, Women know this.
It isn't exclusion to make jokes, especially when not based on something everyone knows is true in this world.
The problem with this is another example of political correctness gone haywire and a big blow up was made over nothing.
I seriously doubt it would be such a controversy if two women had come up with an app that poked fun at Men, maybe an app for rating guys with an asshole factor, or penis size compared to car they drove. I'm sure we'd never have heard an apology for such a presentation.
It was funny.....and it is sad these days that political correctness stands in the way of anything funny being said anymore, unless, of course, you are poking fun at white men, then that's perfectly acceptable on any forum.
If nothing else, witness all the "dumb white guys" as befuddled husbands on many commercials on tv today.
That's perfectly ok, but if you were to insinuate a dumb blonde chick was doing something stupid, you'd hear calls for the ad creators heads to roll and boycotts of the products.
Because they talk about going after racists and racist actions.
Are you saying it is ONLY racist if it is white on black, but black on white is not racist?
The promote themselves as against racism and for equality and going after anyone that does things that violate a civil right of a person, or against hate crimes.
They don't promote themselves as going ONLY after white on black wrongdoing...but they sure act that way.
No, drug use does not indicate him being a bad person. His attacking someone out on the street indicates he was a bad person. His portrayed persona of being a gangsta wannabe with pictures of him holding guns gives some indication that he wanted to be a bad person. His racial slurs indicates he has little respect for other tells me he was a bad person. I don't miss him and think it is good he was shot. More like him should get what they have coming.
And funny...you don't see Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson raising a ruckus over the recent killing of a white man from Australia, by some black kids...shooting him in the back with no interaction at all. One of the black kids, has posts out that are extremely racist.
But then again..that won't put money in Al or Jesse's pocket.
The civil rights "movement" has become the civil rights "industry" where there is money to be made by black "leaders" race baiting blacks against whites.
Hell, if MLK's dream came true...they'd be out of a fucking job.
Why don't we stay the fuck out of syria. Neither side likes us. We can't 'win' anything.
We're going to piss away a bunch more lives and money we don't have, for what?
I think as much as anything else...it is because Obama shot his mouth off about drawing a "Red Line" in the sand without first thinking through the implications.
If he doesn't act, he loses face in the world theater.
I think it may also be as much about his ego as anything else.
President Obama mucked this up because frankly he just is not a good president....He seems like a good guy but he should have done a few terms in Congress to get educated about the world outside of being an "activist organizer".
No, but I do blame the perverse incentives that create suburbs that will decay into a similar state of social disorder across a few decades, while generating other social costs along the way.
What perverse incentives are you talking about?
I know there are quality of life issues, often more price friendly housing (especially at first), and it is nice to have a yard to enjoy, and not have to share a wall with neighbors, have pets enjoy a fenced in back yard, etc.
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Obama lucked into an "out" for the predicament he put himself in by drawing the 'red lines' without first thinking through the implications if he was ever called on it.
He is one lucky SOB, that's for sure....an on camera/mike gaffe essentially by Kerry yesterday, turned into a way out for the administration.
If they will do this and confirm it, then it is likely the best thing that would happen, get the chemical weapons out, destroy them and keep them out of the hands of Asad (if he wins) or out of the terrorist groups if they win out.
But man, Big O got lucky again on this one, and look, the media coverage on this has dropped the:
1. IRS scandals
2. NSA privacy breach scandals
3. The hunt and loss of Snowden
4. The upcoming problems and costs assoc. with Obamacare implementation.
On that last one, he gets another gift, this time from the CBO...saying he can save about $35B or so over the next 10 years, if he also puts off the individual mandate for a year.....and doing that will possibly save Dem. seats up for grabs in 2014.
He is sure a lucky one....
Well, the problem is that it is not mandated.
Why should it not be mandated, just like they have to have ingredient labels on canned foods?
And should the impetus be on those that manipulate 'normal' foods and label them as being altered?
The norm should be un-modified foods, and those that splice in genes from other species (often unrelated to the food source in question) should be required to label their foods as being such or containing GMO ingredients.
Well, regardless of their reason (reasoned or not) why would not giving the masses the information to make their choices be a bad thing?
It should matter the reason someone wants or want to avoid GMO foods, but give the info and the consumer will decide with their pocket book.
I think, at least in the 1st world countries, the US in particular....if they would just allow/mandate the labeling of GMO vs natural foods it would solve a lot of the uproar. Why not give the consumer this information?
I mean, hell, we have other labeling laws, we have to label seafood with country of origin (I like this one a lot), pretty soon, they're going to have one tracking beef.
Why not GMO? If the producers have no fear of GMO foods, what wrong with letting the consumer choose better what they want to consume?
...meth is a hell of a drug....
I'm curious, as that I've not played around with them in years, but are the nym servers , and the mixmaster and other anonymous remailers out there still functioning and useful?
However, in the days before the internet was so commercialized, the govt largely stayed out of it and out of the way. We now have the govt passing laws trying to keep up the old ways and end up hindering progress, in order to protect commerce on the internet.
I think that the vast commercialization was what opened the door to the world govts trying to interfere and control the internet.
Also, the basic idea behind the internet, that any computer could hook onto the network and become a peer with all other computers is becoming largely lost in the great shuffle of 'progress'. I remember when my TOS for ISP was very simple (essentially don't do anything illegal), but there were no ports blocked, you could run servers (I cut my teeth a bit back in those days, trying to learn apache, postfix/sendmail,mixmaster, etc) on your home network and no one got pissed off that you were doing this.
But now, the providers and govt. continue to squeeze these freedoms and ideals the internet early on had in abundance, and are trying to limit and redefine what you connection is or should be.
I don't doubt that sadly, in the not far enough away future, that you will have to have some soft of govt issued ID just to connect, and likely you will have less and less control over your computer, and of course...more monitoring.
This will be all in the name of:
1. Think of the children
2. Security from the terrorists
3. The need to protect the online revenue generators.
We see this already today. Heck, the first two alone give them the "keys to the Constitution" here in the US, which opens the flood gates to even more anti-user freedom legislation.
Well, it wouldn't bother me, I certainly wouldn't get my panties all up in a wad.
Tell, all the honkey/cracker jokes you want, it seriously won't cause me any harm at all, but don't get all upset and act like the world is going to end if I tell the same type jokes or use the same ethnic descriptive terms on other races, ok?
Words are just words.
What? Everyone only lives till age 21?
(from the original book, much better than the lame movie).
I think more studies are showing that intermittent interval sorts of exercise are the best.
You do explosive runs for short bursts...and then do slow walking, lower activities in between, but these short intense explosions of activity mixed with low intensity activity seems to have the best effect on the human body.
At least from what I'm reading these days...
Tits?? Like from Carlin's 7 words you can't say on TV?
Tits isn't a bad word, sounds like a snack?
No...not your usual 'sexist' remark, I mean like "New Nabisco Tits!!
Cheese Tits....
Onion Tits...
Tater Tits!!!
And really...this wasn't on TV, and you can say tits on tv today without an FCC fine....haven't we moved past that yet?
I find it confusing that we're beginning to be so accepting of so many things and behaviors today, which is a good thing, but we're also becoming very constricted about words and what you can say without raising someone's eyebrow. Things you could say freely only a decade ago, gets you branded all sorts of things now.
I find it sad we're more and more restricting what words you can or can't say.....they're just words.
I actually have my original Star Wars Trilogy laserdisc set...is nice to pull out every once in awhile, is is letterbox format, and before Lucas started messing with the film, old explosions, Han still shoots first, no extra characters added to scenes later, and at the end, old Anakin with Yoda and Ben....not the young kid spliced in from the prequels.
Hmm...I might have to look and dig out the old LD player and that box set for a watch.
No...but you weren't ostracized by some for telling a joke that might be in slightly questionable taste, or find humor in a stereotype or said one of the words that today "dare not be uttered", and aren't even 4-letter words?!?!
Words are just words people, they won't kill you.
Well, you see this behavior for other things too.
I mean, I've never understood people siting and waiting in line to see a movie (Harry Potter, SW, LOTR, Hobbit, etc). I mean, frankly, I would rather wait to see it later without all the fscking crowd and hassle, that is...if I even bother to see it in a movie theater at all.
I generally wait till out on BluRay and watch it on my large plasma tv, with a great soundsystem and fully stocked bar nearby.
Who was being exclusionists here?
These guys were just telling a joke, base on how Men see Women. Men see women and think about sex with them, plain and simple. Men know this, Women know this.
It isn't exclusion to make jokes, especially when not based on something everyone knows is true in this world.
The problem with this is another example of political correctness gone haywire and a big blow up was made over nothing.
I seriously doubt it would be such a controversy if two women had come up with an app that poked fun at Men, maybe an app for rating guys with an asshole factor, or penis size compared to car they drove. I'm sure we'd never have heard an apology for such a presentation.
It was funny.....and it is sad these days that political correctness stands in the way of anything funny being said anymore, unless, of course, you are poking fun at white men, then that's perfectly acceptable on any forum.
If nothing else, witness all the "dumb white guys" as befuddled husbands on many commercials on tv today.
That's perfectly ok, but if you were to insinuate a dumb blonde chick was doing something stupid, you'd hear calls for the ad creators heads to roll and boycotts of the products.
Are you saying it is ONLY racist if it is white on black, but black on white is not racist?
The promote themselves as against racism and for equality and going after anyone that does things that violate a civil right of a person, or against hate crimes.
They don't promote themselves as going ONLY after white on black wrongdoing...but they sure act that way.
And funny...you don't see Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson raising a ruckus over the recent killing of a white man from Australia, by some black kids...shooting him in the back with no interaction at all. One of the black kids, has posts out that are extremely racist.
But then again..that won't put money in Al or Jesse's pocket.
The civil rights "movement" has become the civil rights "industry" where there is money to be made by black "leaders" race baiting blacks against whites.
Hell, if MLK's dream came true...they'd be out of a fucking job.
Shouldn't this stuff be in the public domain by now??
Reminds me of Python's Life of Brian....
"This calls for immediate....discussion!!!"
Pretty simple to get a business account that allows all the hosting you wish.
I have mine for $69/mo....low level SLA, and they are responsive too.
I dunno why most people don't just pony up a tad more and get a business acct.
I think as much as anything else...it is because Obama shot his mouth off about drawing a "Red Line" in the sand without first thinking through the implications.
If he doesn't act, he loses face in the world theater.
I think it may also be as much about his ego as anything else.
THIS
Hey, we might as well...
I mean, we've got most of the people over here, why shouldn't we get the land that goes with them too?
What perverse incentives are you talking about?
I know there are quality of life issues, often more price friendly housing (especially at first), and it is nice to have a yard to enjoy, and not have to share a wall with neighbors, have pets enjoy a fenced in back yard, etc.
What's perverse about that?