Why would you think a dangerous piece of shit with nuclear weapons is safer from being rubbed out (I won't say assassination) than a dangerous piece of shit without nuclear weapons? I don't understand the logic. If you drill through his syphilitic brain with a sniper round, you've eliminated the nut who might launch nukes at any whim of his insane raving mind. It's probably safer than just waiting til he does just that.
And even a looney tunes does not launch a literally suicidal nuclear attack because you're SPYING on him with drones or letting loose computer viruses. His fevered brain will dream up other reasons to launch, but it won't be because of such inconsequential actions.
It's the invisible hand of the market, friend. The invisible hand groping and raping consumers.
It doesn't cost a fucking penny more to make the drives in Korea or China than it did last year, but less are being made in Thailand; there is a general shortage, so the market pokes the consumer up the ass for *all* drives being made *anywhere*. Company X or plant Y is unaffected by the shortage at all, but the market sets that company's price the same as that of other companies. The market guarantees that selfish bastards gouge consumers.
Do you *really* think it costs over $100 to pump a barrel of oil out of the ground and sell it? It's the market being manipulated.
Yes. Even brand new all seasons are a lot better than 2-3 season used all seasons. He's got a point about ground clearance though. My Mk IV Golf has about 1/16" ground clearance. OK, it seems like that much, but seriously it's only 3.3" which is absurd for the snow belt.
The fact remains that the US does NOT get "most of its oil" from Canada and Mexico. Your parent is right, notwithstanding your name calling. 18% is not "most". It's not even most of the crude oil IMPORTS alone, not counting domestic. From the reference given, of the 2011 YTD crude oil imports, totaling 8464 tbpd just for the listed sources, crude oil imports from Canada and Mexico together total 3270 tbpd, which is 39% of the total imports.
We've been waiting more than 60 years for North Koreans to get a clue and a backbone, yet you think Iranians will wake up after half that time under the most cynically intolerant religious bootheel in living memory? It took being ground into dust by the world's two mightiest powers, with very outsize help from a third power that was no piker, to snap the people of the Third Reich and the militarized Japanese Empire out of their acquiescence to evil. And their respective religious fervor wasn't even driven by surrender of humanity to a supernatural deity in either case.
Let me know when they send an FBI agent with a flying wedge of marines to China for enforcement. That would probably take about two million marines and a trillion dollars before it was over, we'd be out several aircraft carriers and many hundreds of planes destroyed, and the general radioactivity level on the plant would be raised significantly.
What? I'm attacking the AC. Not the OP. Did you miss the trail?
It's the current shitty slashdot design that just completely disappears low scoring parts of the hierarchy without a trace so you can't tell who a post is referring to. Depending on their preferences, one user will see the correct parent and another will not. So we're reduced to putting in stupid blockquotes so everyone can see who we're replying to.
I had to click "Parent" to verify that you were in fact replying to some invisible coward.
Guess the ass end of the Microsoft dinosaur hasn't even got the word yet that the decision making center of Microsoft (I won't call it a brain) has already written off Silverlight.
I thought it was obvious I was talking about the U.S. literal War On Poverty program, which is a failure as it failed abjectly to achieve its aim. Please don't hate me for pointing out failures.
I just found out there are 5 corrupt states which do not allow write-ins currently. The only recourse there might be to request a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot or visit http://www.fvap.gov/ and try to vote there. I would just lie and say I was a U.S. citizen currently residing overseas. Use an overseas acquaintance for the address or an overseas web proxy for the web page.
To answer your question, in that particular case, I would find a libertarian and vote for him on principle. As it is, the reason I don't personally complain is that I do not even participate in the election process. That's probably why I can't name a set of them right now. You're entitled to hate me for this decision, but I still reserve the right to bitch about living under a corrupt government. I did fill out an all-libertarian ballot the only year in which I bothered to vote, and I do reserve the right to bitch about corruption as a non-participant in a corrupt process.
Thank you for helping me learn something today. And thank you for helping me get MAD AS HELL about this.
It was pretty stupid of me not to realize states varied. Checking, I think there are 5 states in that category. I had no idea there were states that corrupt. I don't know why such restrictions are even federally allowed in federal elections. I do find that if you are in the military on active duty (whether or not overseas), or if you are a U.S. citizen residing overseas, for federal elections and primaries, they can't stop you from getting a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB) and filling it in and returning it. As a matter of fact, you can go to Federal Voting Assistance Program and do it on-line.
I would just lie and tell them I am living overseas. I would use an overseas acquaintance for the mailing address, or an overseas web proxy to use the website. Or I would tell FVAP I need assistance because my state elections are run corruptly and they won't let me vote for my choice.
Or at least I like to think I would.
Can anyone tell me, for the sake of general knowledge, if there is any place in Europe as corrupt as this?
They haven't eliminated the ability to write in a candidate on the ballot yet. Not only that, but almost every non local election has a variety of third party and independent candidates to choose from if it's too hard to write a name in.
I'm sorry, but there is only one place to put the blame for the electing the shit we have representing us. The poor, dumb fuck *VOTER*.
The number of voters who will actually vote their conscience and write someone in if necessary is infinitesimal. They have been brainwashed that that will mean their vote will be "wasted", whatever the fuck that means. Actually, those are the only votes that are emphatically *NOT* wasted.
Are you serious? MAD - mutual assured destruction? That's laughable. Nobody claims Iran has nuclear weapons yet. *IF* NATO launches nuclear ballistic missiles against Iran in response to ballistic missiles from Iran which can only be non-nuclear (which by the way is an absurd speculation), the only place getting destroyed is going to be Iran. That's not "mutual".
Not sure what I had to do on my Webkeepers CentOS5 VM, but it's using Plesk 9.3. I think at some point I told them Plesk didn't work right, and they told me something I had to do to update it.
So you don't think "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods", which is the first merriam-webster.com definition of socialism, describes the USSR and PRC? Interesting.
Bucky24 is probably using the traditional definition of Socialist [wikipedia.org] which is a system where the workers control the means of production. In the former USSR and the current PRC, the average worker does not have a say in how the factory/business/etc is run. So by this definition, these are not Socialist countries. Of course the term Socialist has been distorted over the past century to become almost meaningless in present day political discussions.
Quite possibly you are right about Bucky24's definition, but he didn't specify, so normally one would assume the dictionary definition. Merriam-webster.com's first definition for socialism is "1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods", and that is what I was taught. Even your wikipedia reference elaborates: '"Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises, common ownership, direct public ownership or autonomous State enterprises.', and State enterprises certainly covers the USSR and the PRC through most of its history, though the latter has become more tempered lately.
Yeah, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the People's Republic of China, and the Third Reich, embodying the National Socialist Workers Party, REALLY were governed by the people, weren't they? Socialism is like all the other forms of government in one way. Whether a government is tyrannical or not has nothing to do with its broad form. It has to do with its implementation and how corrupt it is.
Wrong. Recent history tells us, when he presses the point, the D President always wins showdowns with the R or 1/2 R Congress. Both this President and the last.
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Why would you think a dangerous piece of shit with nuclear weapons is safer from being rubbed out (I won't say assassination) than a dangerous piece of shit without nuclear weapons? I don't understand the logic. If you drill through his syphilitic brain with a sniper round, you've eliminated the nut who might launch nukes at any whim of his insane raving mind. It's probably safer than just waiting til he does just that.
And even a looney tunes does not launch a literally suicidal nuclear attack because you're SPYING on him with drones or letting loose computer viruses. His fevered brain will dream up other reasons to launch, but it won't be because of such inconsequential actions.
It's the invisible hand of the market, friend. The invisible hand groping and raping consumers.
It doesn't cost a fucking penny more to make the drives in Korea or China than it did last year, but less are being made in Thailand; there is a general shortage, so the market pokes the consumer up the ass for *all* drives being made *anywhere*. Company X or plant Y is unaffected by the shortage at all, but the market sets that company's price the same as that of other companies. The market guarantees that selfish bastards gouge consumers.
Do you *really* think it costs over $100 to pump a barrel of oil out of the ground and sell it? It's the market being manipulated.
Yes. Even brand new all seasons are a lot better than 2-3 season used all seasons. He's got a point about ground clearance though. My Mk IV Golf has about 1/16" ground clearance. OK, it seems like that much, but seriously it's only 3.3" which is absurd for the snow belt.
I think what he was "trying" to say is simply that your statement was not correct. See: this post.
The fact remains that the US does NOT get "most of its oil" from Canada and Mexico. Your parent is right, notwithstanding your name calling. 18% is not "most". It's not even most of the crude oil IMPORTS alone, not counting domestic. From the reference given, of the 2011 YTD crude oil imports, totaling 8464 tbpd just for the listed sources, crude oil imports from Canada and Mexico together total 3270 tbpd, which is 39% of the total imports.
It doesn't matter, because they would virtually all jump at the chance to make a buck by helping to shackle the people of Iran.
We've been waiting more than 60 years for North Koreans to get a clue and a backbone, yet you think Iranians will wake up after half that time under the most cynically intolerant religious bootheel in living memory? It took being ground into dust by the world's two mightiest powers, with very outsize help from a third power that was no piker, to snap the people of the Third Reich and the militarized Japanese Empire out of their acquiescence to evil. And their respective religious fervor wasn't even driven by surrender of humanity to a supernatural deity in either case.
If only it *WAS* funny ...
Let me know when they send an FBI agent with a flying wedge of marines to China for enforcement. That would probably take about two million marines and a trillion dollars before it was over, we'd be out several aircraft carriers and many hundreds of planes destroyed, and the general radioactivity level on the plant would be raised significantly.
It's the current shitty slashdot design that just completely disappears low scoring parts of the hierarchy without a trace so you can't tell who a post is referring to. Depending on their preferences, one user will see the correct parent and another will not. So we're reduced to putting in stupid blockquotes so everyone can see who we're replying to.
I had to click "Parent" to verify that you were in fact replying to some invisible coward.
Guess the ass end of the Microsoft dinosaur hasn't even got the word yet that the decision making center of Microsoft (I won't call it a brain) has already written off Silverlight.
I thought it was obvious I was talking about the U.S. literal War On Poverty program, which is a failure as it failed abjectly to achieve its aim. Please don't hate me for pointing out failures.
I just found out there are 5 corrupt states which do not allow write-ins currently. The only recourse there might be to request a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot or visit http://www.fvap.gov/ and try to vote there. I would just lie and say I was a U.S. citizen currently residing overseas. Use an overseas acquaintance for the address or an overseas web proxy for the web page.
To answer your question, in that particular case, I would find a libertarian and vote for him on principle. As it is, the reason I don't personally complain is that I do not even participate in the election process. That's probably why I can't name a set of them right now. You're entitled to hate me for this decision, but I still reserve the right to bitch about living under a corrupt government. I did fill out an all-libertarian ballot the only year in which I bothered to vote, and I do reserve the right to bitch about corruption as a non-participant in a corrupt process.
Thank you for helping me learn something today. And thank you for helping me get MAD AS HELL about this.
It was pretty stupid of me not to realize states varied. Checking, I think there are 5 states in that category. I had no idea there were states that corrupt. I don't know why such restrictions are even federally allowed in federal elections. I do find that if you are in the military on active duty (whether or not overseas), or if you are a U.S. citizen residing overseas, for federal elections and primaries, they can't stop you from getting a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB) and filling it in and returning it. As a matter of fact, you can go to Federal Voting Assistance Program and do it on-line.
I would just lie and tell them I am living overseas. I would use an overseas acquaintance for the mailing address, or an overseas web proxy to use the website. Or I would tell FVAP I need assistance because my state elections are run corruptly and they won't let me vote for my choice.
Or at least I like to think I would.
Can anyone tell me, for the sake of general knowledge, if there is any place in Europe as corrupt as this?
Or the war on poverty. Biggest failure of them all.
They haven't eliminated the ability to write in a candidate on the ballot yet. Not only that, but almost every non local election has a variety of third party and independent candidates to choose from if it's too hard to write a name in.
I'm sorry, but there is only one place to put the blame for the electing the shit we have representing us. The poor, dumb fuck *VOTER*.
The number of voters who will actually vote their conscience and write someone in if necessary is infinitesimal. They have been brainwashed that that will mean their vote will be "wasted", whatever the fuck that means. Actually, those are the only votes that are emphatically *NOT* wasted.
I'm just curious. What do you think a "YellowCake" warhead is? For that matter, what do you think yellow cake is?
Are you serious? MAD - mutual assured destruction? That's laughable. Nobody claims Iran has nuclear weapons yet. *IF* NATO launches nuclear ballistic missiles against Iran in response to ballistic missiles from Iran which can only be non-nuclear (which by the way is an absurd speculation), the only place getting destroyed is going to be Iran. That's not "mutual".
Not sure what I had to do on my Webkeepers CentOS5 VM, but it's using Plesk 9.3. I think at some point I told them Plesk didn't work right, and they told me something I had to do to update it.
So you don't think "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods", which is the first merriam-webster.com definition of socialism, describes the USSR and PRC? Interesting.
Quite possibly you are right about Bucky24's definition, but he didn't specify, so normally one would assume the dictionary definition. Merriam-webster.com's first definition for socialism is "1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods", and that is what I was taught. Even your wikipedia reference elaborates: '"Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises, common ownership, direct public ownership or autonomous State enterprises.', and State enterprises certainly covers the USSR and the PRC through most of its history, though the latter has become more tempered lately.
Yeah, right, AAAAANYTHING you say. So in other words you have no argument.
Yeah, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the People's Republic of China, and the Third Reich, embodying the National Socialist Workers Party, REALLY were governed by the people, weren't they? Socialism is like all the other forms of government in one way. Whether a government is tyrannical or not has nothing to do with its broad form. It has to do with its implementation and how corrupt it is.
Wrong. Recent history tells us, when he presses the point, the D President always wins showdowns with the R or 1/2 R Congress. Both this President and the last.