I think you're defining things in such a way that everybody's brains can be considered defective.
Nope. It's about testability vs non-testability. We don't understand everything there is to know about evolution or gravity or electromagnetic fields. Doesn't matter, because those things are testable. As opposed to an invisible sky man, which is no more testable than Last Thursdayism, and never will be.
I wasn't aware of leaders of the GOP claiming Obama was born in Kenya. Oh? You made up that argument to make a point?
Of course you're aware of all the concern trolling from "leaders of the GOP" about birth certificates. And the only point of whining about birth certificates is to pretend that Obama was born in Kenya.
Troll.
Most blacks agree that voting should require ID.
You weren't doing so bad until you started blatantly pulling crap out of your ass. Thanks for making it clear that you're simply trolling, troll.
The list of photo ID requirements is huge, but only when it comes to voting its racist? You are an idiot.
Do you need ID to enter a church? To petition your representatives? Voting is a right, and rights come before showing ID. If you want to start prattling on about the 2nd Amendment, prattle about all of it, and not just the parts you like.
This from the party who uses the IRS to suppress political opponents
By investigating groups from both sides of the aisle? When the only group to actually be denied tax-exempt status was a liberal group? Do you have any smarter troll friends that could come in and take over for you, since you are the idiot here?
Finally, since you drug out the tired trope of Byrd's past as a racist, you also know full well that Byrd had an epiphany, and spent the rest of his adult life fighting racism. As opposed to Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, who were unrepentant racists till the end of their Republican days. Asshat.
Did 10% of Americans REALLY change their views in 5 years?
A lot more than that changed their minds on health insurance reform crafted by the Heritage Foundation. The Republicans who spent the better part of 20 years pushing it suddenly "realized" it was the lovechild of Stalin and Hitler. Democrats who used to mock Romneycare, and kicked Hillary out of the primaries for supporting the mandate, now think it's the Most Progressive Plan Evah.
"That's how it's meant to work" and "We will probably fix that in the next release (date unknown)" are both considered perfectly acceptable answers by Apple Enterprise Support.
Apple Hatebois: why is it that no other computing company has been able to use this newfangled "marketing" thingy or develop their own set of fanboys? You know, the competitors that produce products for half as much that perform twice as well...if only someone had thought of this 30 years ago and put Apple of business!
I respect your opinion and a number of observations you have made and they are true.
Dude, please. We can all see your UID.
However, the real target market is for the Mac Pro to be a magnet for the rich --- a fashion item that screams your status in the pecking order --- and Apple to take that to the bank.
Ah, the "fashion" canard. Have you and your fellow bridge dwellers come up with an explanation for why Apple's competitors, who supposedly make products that perform twice as well for half the money, haven't also made them fashionable and driven Apple out of business?
Here's the thing Hatebois seem to miss: zombie Steve is not holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy his products. I have no need for a truck with 18,000 lbs towing capacity - does that mean that F450's are overpriced crap and anyone who buys one is an effete snob chasing fashion?
If you don't need a monotower with PCI flash storage, then.....buy whatever it is that does what you want at the price you are willing to pay. Shocking concept I know, but feel free to try it sometime.
Tired, boilerplate anti-union propaganda needs to be repeated? Okay, if you say so. Problem: the people who earn the most money while working for a living are members of unions. The highest paid actor, director, professional athlete you can name? Union members.
There is nothing about being a member of a union that prevents you from making a good living. Nothing.
Luckyo: Please read up a bit on the current living conditions in Bolivia and Venezuela, and then come back here and rectify yourself.
You mean where the standard of living for the poor has risen dramatically, while the richest people in the country are still the richest people in the country? What about it, brownshirt?
And legal discrimination against ex-cons provides an incentive to (re)turn to a life of crime. Can't even get a job flipping burgers because McDonalds will just employ one of the other 5 unemployed applicants who don't have a criminal record. And you can't get food stamps to feed yourself, since you're an ex-con. So, what to do to feed yourself, what to do....
I guarantee you that our "friends" spy on us, especially for economic information.
Scale. Pervasiveness.
Funny how you survillance state apologists are always talking "gosh, everyone does this" but never talk about how New Zealand has tapped Obama's personal cell phone, or how Romania is monitoring every phone call and email sent by every American citizen. You don't because you can't.
Arguing that because Bumfuckistan has an intelligence agency, budget $3 million USD, so all things are equal is as asinine as saying that Canada has an army and a navy so it's equal with the United States. Nevermind the fact that the U.S. spends more than the rest of the world combined.
The push for more government interference (usually by those on the left but definitely involving those on the right and in between also) has long been something people have fought against and lost for the most part. Reagan used to say something along the lines of the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen which seems to be true.
Riiight. Because wanting government oversight to keep poison out of your food and consumer products is so comparable to having the NSA tap your phone without a warrant. Somewhere, in the mirror universe, there's a dumbasssome pontificating like this:
"Why do conservatives support business? Don't they know that slave traders were businessmen too? Hur hur, derp."
I think liberals have forgotten the meaning and just hurl ad homs as shaming language.
Not liberals. Obamabots. Who, by the process of keeping their heads up Obama's ass through all his leaps to the right (cutting SS and drone bombing weddings), are now right-wingers themselves.
How did he allow **his** signature legislation to be gutted? **He** never offered any legislation. He mentioned some broad guidelines during the campaign and immediately upon election turned it over to
...Max Baucus, corporate whore, and his staffer (former VP of lobbying for Wellpoint) to write the legislation on the Finance Committee. Not the Health and Human Services Committee or one headed by a senator supportive of the Public Option, much less Single Payer.
Obama spent all his time negotiating with right-wing Democrats like Nelson and Lincoln, and Republicans like Grassley and Snowe. Not with Harkin or Kennedy, a long-time supporter of Single Payer. Obama also killed the public option in a deal with the for-profit hospital lobby, kept single payer off the table even as a point of negotiation, and made the same backroom deal with the same lobbyist that he attacked in the 2008 campaign. And every public statement in support of a public option was accompanied by a statement praising amendments that would gut it (like Snowe's trigger). His OFA did jack and squat to demand a PO, and finally Obama press-ganged liberals like Kucinich into passing Romneycare via reconciliation, after spending a year insisting that 60 votes were needed to pass a PO.
Obama showed all kinds of leadership on betraying his own campaign promises. You could describe pretty much his entire presidency that way.
Indicate whether you think that previous health care reform efforts failed because the previous reform-oriented administrations A) didn't try hard enough; B) had the wrong approach and were justifiable opposed; C) accepted failure entirely against their best judgment lacking sufficient political power to ram the bill through (whether good/bad for America); or D) accepted failure when entrenched ideological opposition effectively made America ungovernable (a condition which shows no sign of abating any time soon).
Indicate whether you're aware that health insurance doubled several times between 1993 and 2008. Or that even Republican voters supported a Public Option, when asked about what it would actually do (provide huge non-profit pool to force down insurance costs) instead of media fear-mongering (death panels).
What if someone overheard the conversation you had at a restaurant last week?
What if you tried coming up with a relevant analogy? The person overhearing you
1) Isn't recording your conversation 2) Even if he is, it's not going in a massive cross-referenced database 3) And isn't tapping your phones and email in addition to eavesdropping 4) Doesn't have the power to arrest you or sic a trigger-happy SWAT team on your ass
IIRC, declaring martial law does require a war or insurrection.
Not just a war, but an invasion and/or insurrection. And the power to suspend habeas corpus is a power of Congress, not the President. So while the Civil War obviously qualified as an insurrection, Lincoln's suspension of HC was unconstitutional, since he did not go through Congress to do it.
I must have missed the part where the Article I grants the president the power to declare war (hint, it doesn't).
And they have. Time and time again. cf. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the War Powers Act, and the AUMF.
Only if the nation is under attack or about to be attacked. Authoritarians usually leave that part out, though. AUMF and Tonkin are red herrings since Congress gave their approval to the start of those wars.
Oh aren't you adorable. Since when has even a significant percentage of "everybody" cared about adherence to the Constitution? The reality, if you actually talk to people, is that the vast majority of Americans would applaud SCOTUS for helping keep us safe from terrorists.
Oh, is that why calls were 100 to 1 against giving telecoms immunity for their illegal spying, from both the left and the right. So put away the FUD already.
It isn't that the 4th Amendment isn't being enforced, but rather that there are conflicting ideas about how the 4th Amendment applies.
Bullshit. The Bush Administration claimed that water boarding wasn't torture. Do you need to see a court case to see that they were lying, or can you do that by yourself since you have a semi-functioning cerebral cortex? How about if tomorrow the military demands you let them bunk some soliders at your place. Would you need to see a court ruling that "homes" includes "apartments, condos and timeshares", or could you figure that one out for yourself?
The Fourth Amendment leaves zero wiggle room as both the person and place have to be named in warrants.
It is entirely possible, maybe even likely that they will win at the trial court and lose on appeal. Only time will tell.
Again, bullshit. The 4th Amendment is crystal clear on this:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
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Nope. It's about testability vs non-testability. We don't understand everything there is to know about evolution or gravity or electromagnetic fields. Doesn't matter, because those things are testable. As opposed to an invisible sky man, which is no more testable than Last Thursdayism, and never will be.
Of course you're aware of all the concern trolling from "leaders of the GOP" about birth certificates. And the only point of whining about birth certificates is to pretend that Obama was born in Kenya.
Troll.
You weren't doing so bad until you started blatantly pulling crap out of your ass. Thanks for making it clear that you're simply trolling, troll.
Do you need ID to enter a church? To petition your representatives? Voting is a right, and rights come before showing ID. If you want to start prattling on about the 2nd Amendment, prattle about all of it, and not just the parts you like.
By investigating groups from both sides of the aisle? When the only group to actually be denied tax-exempt status was a liberal group? Do you have any smarter troll friends that could come in and take over for you, since you are the idiot here?
Finally, since you drug out the tired trope of Byrd's past as a racist, you also know full well that Byrd had an epiphany, and spent the rest of his adult life fighting racism. As opposed to Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, who were unrepentant racists till the end of their Republican days. Asshat.
A lot more than that changed their minds on health insurance reform crafted by the Heritage Foundation. The Republicans who spent the better part of 20 years pushing it suddenly "realized" it was the lovechild of Stalin and Hitler. Democrats who used to mock Romneycare, and kicked Hillary out of the primaries for supporting the mandate, now think it's the Most Progressive Plan Evah.
Mindless political hacks, all of them.
Which is different from Microsoft or Oracle, how?
Apple Hatebois: why is it that no other computing company has been able to use this newfangled "marketing" thingy or develop their own set of fanboys? You know, the competitors that produce products for half as much that perform twice as well...if only someone had thought of this 30 years ago and put Apple of business!
Dude, please. We can all see your UID.
Ah, the "fashion" canard. Have you and your fellow bridge dwellers come up with an explanation for why Apple's competitors, who supposedly make products that perform twice as well for half the money, haven't also made them fashionable and driven Apple out of business?
No, there's no shortage of Hatebois on this site. Why do you ask?
Here's the thing Hatebois seem to miss: zombie Steve is not holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy his products. I have no need for a truck with 18,000 lbs towing capacity - does that mean that F450's are overpriced crap and anyone who buys one is an effete snob chasing fashion?
If you don't need a monotower with PCI flash storage, then.....buy whatever it is that does what you want at the price you are willing to pay. Shocking concept I know, but feel free to try it sometime.
Tired, boilerplate anti-union propaganda needs to be repeated? Okay, if you say so. Problem: the people who earn the most money while working for a living are members of unions. The highest paid actor, director, professional athlete you can name? Union members.
There is nothing about being a member of a union that prevents you from making a good living. Nothing.
You mean where the standard of living for the poor has risen dramatically, while the richest people in the country are still the richest people in the country? What about it, brownshirt?
And legal discrimination against ex-cons provides an incentive to (re)turn to a life of crime. Can't even get a job flipping burgers because McDonalds will just employ one of the other 5 unemployed applicants who don't have a criminal record. And you can't get food stamps to feed yourself, since you're an ex-con. So, what to do to feed yourself, what to do....
Scale. Pervasiveness.
Funny how you survillance state apologists are always talking "gosh, everyone does this" but never talk about how New Zealand has tapped Obama's personal cell phone, or how Romania is monitoring every phone call and email sent by every American citizen. You don't because you can't.
Arguing that because Bumfuckistan has an intelligence agency, budget $3 million USD, so all things are equal is as asinine as saying that Canada has an army and a navy so it's equal with the United States. Nevermind the fact that the U.S. spends more than the rest of the world combined.
Sure you want to go throwing stones there? Brazil has universal health care - the United States does not.
Riiight. Because wanting government oversight to keep poison out of your food and consumer products is so comparable to having the NSA tap your phone without a warrant. Somewhere, in the mirror universe, there's a dumbasssome pontificating like this:
"Why do conservatives support business? Don't they know that slave traders were businessmen too? Hur hur, derp."
...when Apple's competitors ship devices that don't have SD slots or tool-less replaceable batteries.
Funny how that wars with the lack of Ogg Vorbis support in the "I Don't Give A Shit" department for the vast majority of consumers.
Not liberals. Obamabots. Who, by the process of keeping their heads up Obama's ass through all his leaps to the right (cutting SS and drone bombing weddings), are now right-wingers themselves.
Obama spent all his time negotiating with right-wing Democrats like Nelson and Lincoln, and Republicans like Grassley and Snowe. Not with Harkin or Kennedy, a long-time supporter of Single Payer. Obama also killed the public option in a deal with the for-profit hospital lobby, kept single payer off the table even as a point of negotiation, and made the same backroom deal with the same lobbyist that he attacked in the 2008 campaign. And every public statement in support of a public option was accompanied by a statement praising amendments that would gut it (like Snowe's trigger). His OFA did jack and squat to demand a PO, and finally Obama press-ganged liberals like Kucinich into passing Romneycare via reconciliation, after spending a year insisting that 60 votes were needed to pass a PO.
Obama showed all kinds of leadership on betraying his own campaign promises. You could describe pretty much his entire presidency that way.
Indicate whether you're aware that health insurance doubled several times between 1993 and 2008. Or that even Republican voters supported a Public Option, when asked about what it would actually do (provide huge non-profit pool to force down insurance costs) instead of media fear-mongering (death panels).
What if you tried coming up with a relevant analogy? The person overhearing you
1) Isn't recording your conversation
2) Even if he is, it's not going in a massive cross-referenced database
3) And isn't tapping your phones and email in addition to eavesdropping
4) Doesn't have the power to arrest you or sic a trigger-happy SWAT team on your ass
Not just a war, but an invasion and/or insurrection. And the power to suspend habeas corpus is a power of Congress, not the President. So while the Civil War obviously qualified as an insurrection, Lincoln's suspension of HC was unconstitutional, since he did not go through Congress to do it.
Only if the nation is under attack or about to be attacked. Authoritarians usually leave that part out, though. AUMF and Tonkin are red herrings since Congress gave their approval to the start of those wars.
Oh, is that why calls were 100 to 1 against giving telecoms immunity for their illegal spying, from both the left and the right. So put away the FUD already.
Bullshit. The Bush Administration claimed that water boarding wasn't torture. Do you need to see a court case to see that they were lying, or can you do that by yourself since you have a semi-functioning cerebral cortex? How about if tomorrow the military demands you let them bunk some soliders at your place. Would you need to see a court ruling that "homes" includes "apartments, condos and timeshares", or could you figure that one out for yourself?
The Fourth Amendment leaves zero wiggle room as both the person and place have to be named in warrants.
Again, bullshit. The 4th Amendment is crystal clear on this:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Oh, I'm sure you can come back with more baseless FUD, propaganda, and tautologies, just as soon as you get the next set of talking points.
Pedant fail. The basis for OS X was NeXTSTEP, and the basis for NeXTSTEP was BSD.
Have you considered switching to fucking decaf? Then you might notice that operating systems are more than just a kernel.