You know what happens to people in real life when they are laid off, even if temporarily? They find another job.
And you're going to do that when there's six unemployed people for every job opening? Know how employers are reluctant to hire candidates that are "overqualified" for the position? How about hiring a worker that could be called back to his old job any day now?
So you care in effect complaining that Republicans are winning at the national level because Republicans are winning at the state level.
So you are in effect ignoring that gerrymandering takes place at a state level, making your attempted deflection moot and idiots out of the three people that modded you up. There is no justification for giving three quarters of a state's congressional districts to a party that got less than 60% of the vote.
No, not even in the US, when today's Democrats are to the right of Reagan.
that's voting down the proposed budgets to continue funding the Federal government
No, they keep voting down Republican attempts to defund a law that the Republicans don't have the votes to repeal. Rather a large distinction.
The Constitution only allows the House to originate bills for spending and taxing - and under the control of the Republican party, they're only originating bills that don't fund Obamacare. The Democrat-controlled Senate and White House are voting down and threatening to veto these budgets, and thus the partial government "shutdown".
It's the President that writes the federal budget and submitts it to Congress, not the House. Also rather relevant since the topic is passing the....federal budget.
Way I read it is this: Congress passed a budget, president then says
Because you listen to too much talk radio?
First, it's the office of the President that writes the budget, not Congress, Second, no bill has passed the House and the Senate for the president to sign.
Look I'm all for the solution we've now reached but the evidence was pretty solid that the Syrian government committed the atrocity
It's like Americans learned nothing, not a damned thing from the Iraq invasion. At least Bush presented actual evidence that Saddam was pursuing chemical and nuclear weapons. The evidence was made up shit, but it was presented.
Obama hasn't bothered to even go that far. He just makes assertions in a serious sounding voice and people believe him.
I don't know how one can really side with Russia's closed accusations, the demonstrably doctored videos and so forth that supposedly showed the launch, the delay in letting the inspectors out there and so forth. It's pathetic. Russia could tell you anything and you'd believe it.
As opposed to trusting Israel's audio surveillance when they admitted to doctoring audio from their assault on the freedom flotilla all of three years ago? Now, you were saying something about being pathetic?
Don't pretend you like to base your understanding on facts and evidence when you're ignoring the facts and evidence and feeding straight into bullshit with no evidence to back it up.
The White House asserted Sunday that a "common-sense test" dictates the Syrian government is responsible for a chemical weapons attack that President Barack Obama says demands a U.S. military response. But Obama's top aide says the administration lacks "irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence" that skeptical Americans, including lawmakers who will start voting on military action this week, are seeking.
Do tell us how it's "common sense" that Assad used chemical weapons now when he is winning the war, rather than last year when foreign-armed fighters and rebels were driving back his military.
Do tell us that it would have been "common sense" for Assad to order the use of chemical weapons the day that chemical weapons inspectors arrived.
Do tell us why it would make sense to use chemical weapons in his own capital city, close by his own forces.
Do tell us why he would use chemical weapons when Obama has made it very clear for a year or so now that he would dearly love to bomb Assad, not just arm Al Qaeda rebels, and that the use of CW's would give Obama the excuse to do so.
White phosphorus isn't considered a chemical weapon, it is an incendiary weapon. As to Vietnam, the US only used the equivalent of weed killer to thin out the jungle, and some tear gas, and that's it. The US didn't use lethal chemical weapons in Vietnam.
So when we use chemical compounds that kill and maim and cause birth defects for generations, they aren't "chemical weapons". That's only the bad guys, who aren't using the same chemical compounds, so they are chemical weapons. Typical hypocritical hackery.
Would that be when he (not wikileaks the org) offered to meet with prosecutors, just not in their custody on their terms....for mere "questioning"?
He's even offered to return to Sweden, if Sweden promises not to hand him over to the United States. That Sweden refuses to do so tells you all you need to know about what their intentions actually are and how much of a shit they give about the allegations.
Which is also a brave move on Asange's part, because while Sweden has great hippie health care and education, their justice system is straight up authoritarian. The state can hold suspects for extended periods of time without bail, and also incommunicado. So if Asange goes back he could be held for months without outside contact or an attorney.
Even with Wikileaks he made it about Julian Asange instead of about the leaks.
Repeating an assertion without evidence doesn't make it true. How has Asange made it about himself - it's not like he asked the Swedish government to cook up a witch hunt as a pretext to hand him over to the United States, after he asked for and was given permission to leave the country.
Considering he raped two women and has a head as big as the Goodyear blimp, that's not hard to do.
That demagoguery gets more and more pathetic the longer Swedish prosecutors refuse to interview Assange remotely or by visiting him in the embassy, and the longer the Swedish government refuses to say they wont extradite him to the United States.
If you guys actually gave a shit about the rape allegations, you'd be demanding that Sweden make it clear that it's just about those allegations and not an increasingly transparent pretext to hand him over to the United States.
That is so totally freaking innovative. I would never, ever have thought of building in a sensor to detect what type of headphones were plugged in.
Man, these guys are smart.
Everything is obvious, once someone else has done it. Magnetically attached power cords that don't rip your laptop off a table when your cat/kid/own clumsy self trips over the cable, for example.
But it took a good 25 years or so from the first laptops for someone to think of it.
If you bothered to read the previously linked story it shows he was directly connected to multiple plots.
If you bothered to read the story it's nothing more than a series of accusations. If we did domestically what we did overseas, you would have nodded sagely at the drone strike that took out Richard Jewell, because accusations == proof.
Al-Awlaki was quite open in his declarations.
What a pernicious hack you are. You wouldn't hesitate to argue that Israel is justified in fighting the existential threat posed by qassam rocket yet Muslims are just supposed to roll over and take it when they are bombed from the air by CIA pilots on the other side of the planet.
Considering that Arafat walked away from a deal with Rabin that met all of the PLO's demands I think he was really more concerned about maintaining a legacy as a freedom fighter rather than face the possibility of actually advancing that goal and becoming a lackuster first president of Palestine.
Consider that's Zionist revisionist history. Arafat was willing to make huge concessions to Israel, letting them keep a great deal of land illegally sized in the 1967 war. Israel kept moving the goalposts on the peace deal until it fell apart.
Because Israel doesn't want peace, it wants land and complete military dominance in the region. It's why Bibi is running around right now threatening Iran for having the nuclear weapons program his own minister of defense says Iran doesn't have.
Are you implying that us android users wouldn't be "up in arms"?
...on Slashdot where if Apple does something remotely questionable or unpopular, half a dozen people will pop in to say "now if this were Microsoft you'd all be up in arms".
You could even have most people calling Jobs an asshole, like when they pulled IDG books from Apple stores in a fit of pique over "iCon", but you'd still have the finger waggers come in saying "Now if this were Microsoft..."
If this was Apple, people would react the same way they are now. * fanboys would defend blindly
Why not Santa Clause or the chupacabra while we're talking about things that don't exist? All kinds of people like to bitch about "Apple Fanboys" on Slashdot, but can never point to any examples when pressed.
The ramifications of this are staggering and I for one have been in touch with my congressman and written to both my Senators to voice my opposition to it but the only way to fix this is to end the two party stranglehold of our government that has allowed this to happen behind closed doors.
Third parties are a red herring. The problem isn't that we have two parties, the problem is that we have corrupt parties entwined with corporate and MIC interests.
Just look at Europe: you can half half a dozen major parties and the majority of the populace against austerity, yet you keep getting austerity because all the parties have been subverted by corporate interests.
I've dumbed it down a bit, but you are still finding an prosecuting bad guys for doing illegal things. It is just done illegally. But they are not creating evidence out of thin air. It is still real evidence of real crimes.
Unless the crimes are trumped up bullshit, like threatening Swartz with 35 years in prison or prosecuting an 80 year old peace activist with terrorism charges when the most you could have hit her with was trespassing and graffiti. And how about those SWAT teams that might leave a few innocent people and family pets bleeding to death on your carpet when they come to arrest you for said trumped up BS.
I am an old geek and one with both a long background in sec matters and a law degree (though I'm pleased to say I don't actually use the later). None of this should be surprising or, in most ways, particularly annoying. A great deal of 'this' falls under a rational extension of the Plain View Doctrine (e.g. if you place your pot plant in your front bay window facing the sidewalk, you can not reasonably expect a foot patrol cop to avert his eyes...or complain when there is a knock on your door).
What are you even going on about. You say you're a lawyer, ever hear of the terms probable suspicion or probable cause? The cop that sees what looks like a pot plant in a window has probable suspicion to investigate. The Secret Service that gets a tip that someone threatened the President on Facebook has probable suspicion to look up the post in question.
What the USG is doing, on the other hand, is trying to collect and data mine every piece of information from every person on the planet without probable suspicion or cause.
So, to fix your Not Scottish analogy: the cops break into every person's house in the city to search for pot plants. Still feeling so comfortable and unannoyed?
Unless you are encrypting your datastream, you simply can't reasonably expect people (governments, especially) to avert their eyes from the waves of data washing over them.
Were you wearing a brown shirt as you vomited out that other chunk of wisdom? You're talking as if this is about people having a conversation with megaphones in an FBI office and then wondering why it isn't private, rather than the USG snooping on literally every one it can in blatant violation of the 4th Amendment.
You say you don't practice, but I want to hire your services as an attorney just so I can file a complaint with your state bar.
My wife is a chronic pain patient. I can't think of a single doctor that is 'afraid' to prescribe her high dosage opioids. They don't even hesitate a little bit. More often than not, if she ends up with a new doctor, the first thing she has to tell them is 'no, I don't want a higher dosage'.
Interesting story. Do you also sell oceanfront property in Kansas?
Funny that no other technology company has been able to make their products fashionable or hire marketing firms.
hey didn't make the first MP3 player, and certainly not the first portable music player, but they made it cool.
You mean they made it better. First company to use 5 GB micro hard drives, when everyone else was using tiny flash storage or bulky notebook or even desktop hard drives. And used a 400 Mpbs interface when everyone else was using 11 Mpbs USB or even parallel. And a software interface that didn't suck hairy goat balls.
Now that's great... Until it stops working. Fashion is a very fickle market. What is fashionable today is passe tomorrow, often with no warning. Your brand and look isn't fashionable anymore and you have to move products based on other things.
And yet Apple has either remained dominant or competitive in the markets it has chosen to pursue, long after bell bottoms have fallen in and out of fashion and back again. Almost as if they make decent products after all, and you're just casually playing the 'fashion' card to deny them any legitimacy.
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And you're going to do that when there's six unemployed people for every job opening? Know how employers are reluctant to hire candidates that are "overqualified" for the position? How about hiring a worker that could be called back to his old job any day now?
So you are in effect ignoring that gerrymandering takes place at a state level, making your attempted deflection moot and idiots out of the three people that modded you up. There is no justification for giving three quarters of a state's congressional districts to a party that got less than 60% of the vote.
No, not even in the US, when today's Democrats are to the right of Reagan.
No, they keep voting down Republican attempts to defund a law that the Republicans don't have the votes to repeal. Rather a large distinction.
It's the President that writes the federal budget and submitts it to Congress, not the House. Also rather relevant since the topic is passing the....federal budget.
Sorry wrong link.
Not the honest way when the issue is passing the budget, which is written by the Executive Branch, not the House.
Because you listen to too much talk radio?
First, it's the office of the President that writes the budget, not Congress, Second, no bill has passed the House and the Senate for the president to sign.
Even Israelis admit it it's Apartheid.
Cowardly demagoguery, whether it's coming out of the mouths of Zionists crying about the anti-semetic wolf, or Rush Limbaugh.
It's like Americans learned nothing, not a damned thing from the Iraq invasion. At least Bush presented actual evidence that Saddam was pursuing chemical and nuclear weapons. The evidence was made up shit, but it was presented.
Obama hasn't bothered to even go that far. He just makes assertions in a serious sounding voice and people believe him.
As opposed to trusting Israel's audio surveillance when they admitted to doctoring audio from their assault on the freedom flotilla all of three years ago? Now, you were saying something about being pathetic?
You first.
Do tell us how it's "common sense" that Assad used chemical weapons now when he is winning the war, rather than last year when foreign-armed fighters and rebels were driving back his military.
Do tell us that it would have been "common sense" for Assad to order the use of chemical weapons the day that chemical weapons inspectors arrived.
Do tell us why it would make sense to use chemical weapons in his own capital city, close by his own forces.
Do tell us why he would use chemical weapons when Obama has made it very clear for a year or so now that he would dearly love to bomb Assad, not just arm Al Qaeda rebels, and that the use of CW's would give Obama the excuse to do so.
So when we use chemical compounds that kill and maim and cause birth defects for generations, they aren't "chemical weapons". That's only the bad guys, who aren't using the same chemical compounds, so they are chemical weapons. Typical hypocritical hackery.
And WikiLeaks hasn't outed their sources. Manning wasn't betrayed by Asange, but by Lamo, who looks like a drugged up informant if there ever was one.
He's even offered to return to Sweden, if Sweden promises not to hand him over to the United States. That Sweden refuses to do so tells you all you need to know about what their intentions actually are and how much of a shit they give about the allegations.
Which is also a brave move on Asange's part, because while Sweden has great hippie health care and education, their justice system is straight up authoritarian. The state can hold suspects for extended periods of time without bail, and also incommunicado. So if Asange goes back he could be held for months without outside contact or an attorney.
Repeating an assertion without evidence doesn't make it true. How has Asange made it about himself - it's not like he asked the Swedish government to cook up a witch hunt as a pretext to hand him over to the United States, after he asked for and was given permission to leave the country.
That demagoguery gets more and more pathetic the longer Swedish prosecutors refuse to interview Assange remotely or by visiting him in the embassy, and the longer the Swedish government refuses to say they wont extradite him to the United States.
If you guys actually gave a shit about the rape allegations, you'd be demanding that Sweden make it clear that it's just about those allegations and not an increasingly transparent pretext to hand him over to the United States.
That's exactly what innovation is: taking existing ideas and using them in new ways.
Which goes back to my point: if it's so obvious, why wasn't HP or Dell doing this 10 years ago.
Everything is obvious, once someone else has done it. Magnetically attached power cords that don't rip your laptop off a table when your cat/kid/own clumsy self trips over the cable, for example.
But it took a good 25 years or so from the first laptops for someone to think of it.
If you bothered to read the story it's nothing more than a series of accusations. If we did domestically what we did overseas, you would have nodded sagely at the drone strike that took out Richard Jewell, because accusations == proof.
What a pernicious hack you are. You wouldn't hesitate to argue that Israel is justified in fighting the existential threat posed by qassam rocket yet Muslims are just supposed to roll over and take it when they are bombed from the air by CIA pilots on the other side of the planet.
Aside from that, there's the slight problem of Awlaki speech calling for resistance being a Constitutionally protected right.
Consider that's Zionist revisionist history. Arafat was willing to make huge concessions to Israel, letting them keep a great deal of land illegally sized in the 1967 war. Israel kept moving the goalposts on the peace deal until it fell apart.
Because Israel doesn't want peace, it wants land and complete military dominance in the region. It's why Bibi is running around right now threatening Iran for having the nuclear weapons program his own minister of defense says Iran doesn't have.
You could even have most people calling Jobs an asshole, like when they pulled IDG books from Apple stores in a fit of pique over "iCon", but you'd still have the finger waggers come in saying "Now if this were Microsoft..."
Why not Santa Clause or the chupacabra while we're talking about things that don't exist? All kinds of people like to bitch about "Apple Fanboys" on Slashdot, but can never point to any examples when pressed.
Third parties are a red herring. The problem isn't that we have two parties, the problem is that we have corrupt parties entwined with corporate and MIC interests.
Just look at Europe: you can half half a dozen major parties and the majority of the populace against austerity, yet you keep getting austerity because all the parties have been subverted by corporate interests.
Unless the crimes are trumped up bullshit, like threatening Swartz with 35 years in prison or prosecuting an 80 year old peace activist with terrorism charges when the most you could have hit her with was trespassing and graffiti. And how about those SWAT teams that might leave a few innocent people and family pets bleeding to death on your carpet when they come to arrest you for said trumped up BS.
What are you even going on about. You say you're a lawyer, ever hear of the terms probable suspicion or probable cause? The cop that sees what looks like a pot plant in a window has probable suspicion to investigate. The Secret Service that gets a tip that someone threatened the President on Facebook has probable suspicion to look up the post in question.
What the USG is doing, on the other hand, is trying to collect and data mine every piece of information from every person on the planet without probable suspicion or cause.
So, to fix your Not Scottish analogy: the cops break into every person's house in the city to search for pot plants. Still feeling so comfortable and unannoyed?
Were you wearing a brown shirt as you vomited out that other chunk of wisdom? You're talking as if this is about people having a conversation with megaphones in an FBI office and then wondering why it isn't private, rather than the USG snooping on literally every one it can in blatant violation of the 4th Amendment.
You say you don't practice, but I want to hire your services as an attorney just so I can file a complaint with your state bar.
Interesting story. Do you also sell oceanfront property in Kansas?
And the only group to actually be denied tax-exempt status was a "liberal" group. Didn't heart much about that, either.
Funny that no other technology company has been able to make their products fashionable or hire marketing firms.
You mean they made it better. First company to use 5 GB micro hard drives, when everyone else was using tiny flash storage or bulky notebook or even desktop hard drives. And used a 400 Mpbs interface when everyone else was using 11 Mpbs USB or even parallel. And a software interface that didn't suck hairy goat balls.
And yet Apple has either remained dominant or competitive in the markets it has chosen to pursue, long after bell bottoms have fallen in and out of fashion and back again. Almost as if they make decent products after all, and you're just casually playing the 'fashion' card to deny them any legitimacy.
Huh, interesting.