1) All evidence for the curtains points to cost-savings since they had previously been renting them for events that they covered the statues in the room for and...
2) Those curtains were put up a year and a half after he jumped on board and...
3) "Republicans" and "Democrats" may as well be the same thing as far as sense and sanity go. Both groups are led by crackpot morons. I have my reservations about Libertarians too. What's that leave? Socialists? Communists? Nazis? Yea... that's a lot better...
This guy basically just looked at something that a LOT of people shell out their hard earned money for and said "I don't like it, let's crack down".
This guy is absolutely off his fucking rocker. I want to know what he bases this crackdown on? Has a large portion of the consenting adult population suddenly decided to go on a porn-free diet? Does he have persuasive documentation to show that a significant number of children are being adversely affected by pornography despite a reasonable effort from parents to monitor their children?
I don't know how many more people I speak for when I say this. But, Mr. Ashcroft. Get the fuck out of my life. If you don't have better things to do with your time than this, you don't have anything worthwhile to do with your time, and I'm tired of paying your salary.
Hmmm... STOP continuing terrorist attacks... PREVENT any terrorist attacks... and we're talking about a country that is "under direct attack" from a certain group because of one precipitating event, in effect. And, it's hypothetical. And, Spain announced a pull out after the bombs went off. And, Iraq wasn't a terrorist's wet dream until we got done punching it up.
Congratulations. Your post is 100% content free. For good measure, I suggest you toss in some fear-mongering bullshit about 9/11 or how "all" the Muslims hate us for "no reason".
If you'd really like to go for the gold, you could also sling one of these meaningless labels at random to try and make me look like a crackpot:
Liberal.
Conservative.
Communist.
Terrorist.
Appeaser.
Bonus points if you can somehow work in a plug for your candidate of choice.
mozingod and mad poster! Working together toward a 100% braindead Slashdot!
Hey, post bullshit, you get bullshit in return. Why should I try to argue with this person intelligently when they were responding to things I didn't even say? I'm not going to waste my time typing up an intelligent response to someone who's too stupid to even take a minute to actually digest what was written. It's not worth the effort, and I certainly don't hold Slashdot in high enough esteem to concern myself with how I might look to other participants.
Man I am sick of this kind of horseshit about cheap ass whiners who hate paying their taxes.
Kind of a moron, aren't you?
Because shit costs money...
Maybe it's the whole "paying for shit" part, that bothers cheap-ass whiners like me who are so full of horseshit?
Then watch as terrorists come in and take over your state...
Like... who? Al Quaeda? So.... your theory here is that the people who are pissed off BECAUSE OF our federal government would be over here kicking our asses if the federal government hadn't had the resources to piss them off in the first place? Uh huh. That makes sense. I think we need a new Godwin-type law for dumbasses like you who think "terrorism" can just be slipped into any conversation so easily despite the simple fact that, well... it's totally irrelevant.
Do us all a favor and go hop off a tall bridge. People like you are dragging down the world's average IQ...
... oh... but if you care to actually respond to my post instead of just making shit up about what you THINK I said and flying off the handle about it, feel free. But please, I insist that you read it next time. Oh, and listen to some classical music between now and then. I hate dealing with drooling morons.
The one thing that I always come back to when I read these things is "yes, it's performing a useful, valid task NOW.... but what will it be doing in 10 years?"
The government (any government, actually) likes to introduce things like this in legitimate areas. They say "oh, we're just hunting down tax evaders, nothing you need to concern yourself with. It's GOOD for you."
Bear in mind, however... there was no permanent federal income tax until 1913. Country did just fine for almost 140 years with no income tax except in dire situations (read: when war broke out). Then, they said "oh, this is for your own good - you need to pay for the war in Europe to protect freedom and blah blah blah".
Well... here we sit, 91 years later, saying "well... it's for the best."
It's not a forgone conclusion that it will be abused. No, of course not. But it IS a possibility... and history is not on our side when it comes to the U.S. government abusing newfound powers...
They is plural. It would not make sense to use it to refer to a single poster.
Them is only singular when it's being used as a substitute for gender-neutral "he". However, because a lot of whiny weirdos find that offensive for "perpetuating gender bias", the gender-neutral version of 'he' has become an increasingly uncommon usage over the last century.
I don't know if you joke or not, but I am SERIOUSLY entertaining the idea of my first gun purchase lately. I used to think those psychos in Montana were out of their minds. I still think they were, but more and more, I fear that they weren't/aren't.
This sort of thing occurs in steps - gradually. However, eventually, a lot of people may well wake up one morning and say "Holy shit! It's 1984!"
I have a question for you Mr/Ms AC. At exactly WHAT point in time can you stop holding a government's transgressions against it?
That was nearly 70 years ago. There's a difference between REMEMBERING the past and living in it. You, like many others, unfortunately, cannot tell that difference. I encourage you to grow up and to move on with your life. Remember it, revile it. Don't hold it against the current generation.
Cadium, Cadmium, Camdium... something like that. Whatever it was, it's Apache based.
That's the PAGE content that came back, though. There's no guarantee that's actually the response the server sent. It may have sent back a 400 and the server was just using a custom document, I can't remember.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I telnet'd to a box the other day to do a HEAD request and hit backspace which, of course, is not good. It sent gibberish and that's how the server responded.
I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
You either failed to realize that you can't get a patent on "screwing someone's mom" without having prior art, or you did get it and that's an amazingly subtle joke that most OTHER people won't get.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and buy you a round next time you're in the neighborhood!
I wonder if you realize the irony of posting non-evidence as proof anonymously? Oh, whoops, I'm sorry... are you an idiot? Did you forget that I'm not the one making the claim, so it's not my responsibility to expend time, effort, and money backing it up? Go away, moron.
My worst job ever was the time I was hired to break some guy's knee caps to keep him quiet about a little hanky panky going on in the money room of a strip club.
The son of a bitch split the day before I got there, and I never got paid. I had to hang out with the strippers to get my fix and drunk. Bastard...
I sure hope you don't base that belief on the article you linked. I read it. There's exactly no context at all in it. And, since you have to buy the full report, and I didn't, I see no reason to consider that article as any sort of evidence for your claim that the government should get involved in managed health care.
And the RIAA members would make a lot of money if they embraced the Internet and P2P.
And, I suppose you have plenty of market research in your dresser drawer to back that statement up, right? Oh, wait. Of course not. This is Slashdot. What a stupid thing to say. I forgot that we're full of marketing/investment/legal geniuses who all happen to know just what would be best for all these companies that don't know those things themselves.
You know, call me crazy, but I'd say that the statement above is just as intelligent as the statements from the RIAA saying p2p is the cause of their woes. Hmmm.... Slashdotter presents a wild postulate with no rhyme or reason? +5 Insightful (though, I note that at this very moment you, in particular, haven't been modded up thankfully). RIAA spokesman presents some wild postulate with no rhyme or reason, Slashdot screams about how illogical and fallacious it is.
In other news, did I happen to mention that I could run this country better than anybody else anywhere just because I said so on Slashdot just now?
"quick" is a relative term. 228 years goes by faster than the Universe can see it, but consider this: even if someone was 5 years old in 1776 and didn't have a child until they were 60, and that child lived to be 120, they didn't even live long enough to see most of the civil rights movement. I don't know about you, but my PARENTS barely remember any part of the civil rights movement, let alone what I know of it. Consider then that that inhumanly long-lived family lost it's last semi-personal connection to 1776 at a time when many of our parents weren't even old enough to remember the somewhat less monumental (world history wise, not necessarily American history wise) events of the late 50s and 60s.
Not too many people have much of a connection, even an indirect one, if ANY, to what happened in 1776. Given the continued erosion of our educational system, I don't find it the least bit surprising that many people my age have no visual concept of what happened in 1776, or, that many of them probably can't even tell you why that year is significant. Not surprised in the least. Kind of puts some perspective on all these idiots who are willing to erode and ignore the constitution just to FEEL safer (security through obscurity - this administration has got it down to a T and a lot of boneheads in this country march happily along to the beat of their drum anyway).
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Larry Flynt comes into your house, kicks you in the nuts, puts a porno in your VCR, then makes a bunch of callback requests to sex lines.
Now... with the nut-kicking thing... there is the little issue of him being a cripple, of course....
1) All evidence for the curtains points to cost-savings since they had previously been renting them for events that they covered the statues in the room for and...
2) Those curtains were put up a year and a half after he jumped on board and...
3) "Republicans" and "Democrats" may as well be the same thing as far as sense and sanity go. Both groups are led by crackpot morons. I have my reservations about Libertarians too. What's that leave? Socialists? Communists? Nazis? Yea... that's a lot better...
This is truly a disturbing parellel.
This guy basically just looked at something that a LOT of people shell out their hard earned money for and said "I don't like it, let's crack down".
This guy is absolutely off his fucking rocker. I want to know what he bases this crackdown on? Has a large portion of the consenting adult population suddenly decided to go on a porn-free diet? Does he have persuasive documentation to show that a significant number of children are being adversely affected by pornography despite a reasonable effort from parents to monitor their children?
I don't know how many more people I speak for when I say this. But, Mr. Ashcroft. Get the fuck out of my life. If you don't have better things to do with your time than this, you don't have anything worthwhile to do with your time, and I'm tired of paying your salary.
Hmmm... STOP continuing terrorist attacks... PREVENT any terrorist attacks... and we're talking about a country that is "under direct attack" from a certain group because of one precipitating event, in effect. And, it's hypothetical. And, Spain announced a pull out after the bombs went off. And, Iraq wasn't a terrorist's wet dream until we got done punching it up.
Congratulations. Your post is 100% content free. For good measure, I suggest you toss in some fear-mongering bullshit about 9/11 or how "all" the Muslims hate us for "no reason".
If you'd really like to go for the gold, you could also sling one of these meaningless labels at random to try and make me look like a crackpot:
Bonus points if you can somehow work in a plug for your candidate of choice.
mozingod and mad poster! Working together toward a 100% braindead Slashdot!
Hey, post bullshit, you get bullshit in return. Why should I try to argue with this person intelligently when they were responding to things I didn't even say? I'm not going to waste my time typing up an intelligent response to someone who's too stupid to even take a minute to actually digest what was written. It's not worth the effort, and I certainly don't hold Slashdot in high enough esteem to concern myself with how I might look to other participants.
Man I am sick of this kind of horseshit about cheap ass whiners who hate paying their taxes.
Kind of a moron, aren't you?
Because shit costs money...
Maybe it's the whole "paying for shit" part, that bothers cheap-ass whiners like me who are so full of horseshit?
Then watch as terrorists come in and take over your state...
Like... who? Al Quaeda? So.... your theory here is that the people who are pissed off BECAUSE OF our federal government would be over here kicking our asses if the federal government hadn't had the resources to piss them off in the first place? Uh huh. That makes sense. I think we need a new Godwin-type law for dumbasses like you who think "terrorism" can just be slipped into any conversation so easily despite the simple fact that, well... it's totally irrelevant.
Do us all a favor and go hop off a tall bridge. People like you are dragging down the world's average IQ...
... oh... but if you care to actually respond to my post instead of just making shit up about what you THINK I said and flying off the handle about it, feel free. But please, I insist that you read it next time. Oh, and listen to some classical music between now and then. I hate dealing with drooling morons.
Wow. If that post was any less valid or intelligent, it would actually kill braincells....
I agree with you, but I agree with this guy too.
The one thing that I always come back to when I read these things is "yes, it's performing a useful, valid task NOW.... but what will it be doing in 10 years?"
The government (any government, actually) likes to introduce things like this in legitimate areas. They say "oh, we're just hunting down tax evaders, nothing you need to concern yourself with. It's GOOD for you."
Bear in mind, however... there was no permanent federal income tax until 1913. Country did just fine for almost 140 years with no income tax except in dire situations (read: when war broke out). Then, they said "oh, this is for your own good - you need to pay for the war in Europe to protect freedom and blah blah blah".
Well... here we sit, 91 years later, saying "well... it's for the best."
It's not a forgone conclusion that it will be abused. No, of course not. But it IS a possibility... and history is not on our side when it comes to the U.S. government abusing newfound powers...
They is plural. It would not make sense to use it to refer to a single poster.
Them is only singular when it's being used as a substitute for gender-neutral "he". However, because a lot of whiny weirdos find that offensive for "perpetuating gender bias", the gender-neutral version of 'he' has become an increasingly uncommon usage over the last century.
Ha! I'm more pedantic than yoooouuuu are.
What's scarier? That s/he posted that, or that I take him/her seriously?
I used to be highly anti-gun...
I don't know if you joke or not, but I am SERIOUSLY entertaining the idea of my first gun purchase lately. I used to think those psychos in Montana were out of their minds. I still think they were, but more and more, I fear that they weren't/aren't.
This sort of thing occurs in steps - gradually. However, eventually, a lot of people may well wake up one morning and say "Holy shit! It's 1984!"
I, for one, am not willing to let that happen.
And, still.... I do not post A/C....
I have a question for you Mr/Ms AC. At exactly WHAT point in time can you stop holding a government's transgressions against it?
That was nearly 70 years ago. There's a difference between REMEMBERING the past and living in it. You, like many others, unfortunately, cannot tell that difference. I encourage you to grow up and to move on with your life. Remember it, revile it. Don't hold it against the current generation.
Yea, and they'd probably get raped by an octopus or something. Not everything about Japanese culture is cool.
Cadium, Cadmium, Camdium... something like that. Whatever it was, it's Apache based.
That's the PAGE content that came back, though. There's no guarantee that's actually the response the server sent. It may have sent back a 400 and the server was just using a custom document, I can't remember.You'd think so, wouldn't you? But I telnet'd to a box the other day to do a HEAD request and hit backspace which, of course, is not good. It sent gibberish and that's how the server responded.
I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
You either failed to realize that you can't get a patent on "screwing someone's mom" without having prior art, or you did get it and that's an amazingly subtle joke that most OTHER people won't get.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and buy you a round next time you're in the neighborhood!
But I think there is work on extending the TCP/IP protocols for interplanetary missions, so timeouts etc might be OK?
I'm pretty sure you'd get 100% packet loss trying to use avian carriers for interplanetary communication.
I guess when the bird died, it would send an ICMP message back about the timeout by falling on your head.
I wonder if you realize the irony of posting non-evidence as proof anonymously? Oh, whoops, I'm sorry... are you an idiot? Did you forget that I'm not the one making the claim, so it's not my responsibility to expend time, effort, and money backing it up? Go away, moron.
My worst job ever was the time I was hired to break some guy's knee caps to keep him quiet about a little hanky panky going on in the money room of a strip club.
The son of a bitch split the day before I got there, and I never got paid. I had to hang out with the strippers to get my fix and drunk. Bastard...
I sure hope you don't base that belief on the article you linked. I read it. There's exactly no context at all in it. And, since you have to buy the full report, and I didn't, I see no reason to consider that article as any sort of evidence for your claim that the government should get involved in managed health care.
So, got proof?
Yes, you're absolutely right. It's not double jeopardy.
It's just abusive, unncessary bullshit.
And the RIAA members would make a lot of money if they embraced the Internet and P2P.
And, I suppose you have plenty of market research in your dresser drawer to back that statement up, right? Oh, wait. Of course not. This is Slashdot. What a stupid thing to say. I forgot that we're full of marketing/investment/legal geniuses who all happen to know just what would be best for all these companies that don't know those things themselves.
You know, call me crazy, but I'd say that the statement above is just as intelligent as the statements from the RIAA saying p2p is the cause of their woes. Hmmm.... Slashdotter presents a wild postulate with no rhyme or reason? +5 Insightful (though, I note that at this very moment you, in particular, haven't been modded up thankfully). RIAA spokesman presents some wild postulate with no rhyme or reason, Slashdot screams about how illogical and fallacious it is.
In other news, did I happen to mention that I could run this country better than anybody else anywhere just because I said so on Slashdot just now?
No, not dumb... just.... a bit of a prolix post if you don't mind that unncessary and gratuitous, but also ironic, use of an uncommon word.
"quick" is a relative term. 228 years goes by faster than the Universe can see it, but consider this: even if someone was 5 years old in 1776 and didn't have a child until they were 60, and that child lived to be 120, they didn't even live long enough to see most of the civil rights movement. I don't know about you, but my PARENTS barely remember any part of the civil rights movement, let alone what I know of it. Consider then that that inhumanly long-lived family lost it's last semi-personal connection to 1776 at a time when many of our parents weren't even old enough to remember the somewhat less monumental (world history wise, not necessarily American history wise) events of the late 50s and 60s.
Not too many people have much of a connection, even an indirect one, if ANY, to what happened in 1776. Given the continued erosion of our educational system, I don't find it the least bit surprising that many people my age have no visual concept of what happened in 1776, or, that many of them probably can't even tell you why that year is significant. Not surprised in the least. Kind of puts some perspective on all these idiots who are willing to erode and ignore the constitution just to FEEL safer (security through obscurity - this administration has got it down to a T and a lot of boneheads in this country march happily along to the beat of their drum anyway).
Soooo.... your theory is that we need more honest criminals?
Or, that we just need less criminals, and more honest people?
So, isn't it safe to break that entire thing down to: "if people were honest we wouldn't need lawyers and this wouldn't be an issue?"
You typed an awful lot there without really saying a whole lot. You sure you're not a lawyer? :-p