That's odd. My dog has absolutely no interest in the mirror. He doesn't think it's another dog, he doesn't think it's him, and he certainly doesn't pay any attention to it at all. While he's not the brightest dog I have seen (or owned) he does have some interactions with us and with his environment that makes me believe he has some brains in that head (i.e. knowing which doors he can open by pushing or pulling, that he should check the sliding door for a screen before entering or exiting, etc).
But before you all go out into the street to dance, let me remind everyone that those paper ballots aren't exactly hand counted... those too are counted by... say it with me: ELECTRONIC machines. They have software. They are connected to a network. They have to store their results on media at some point.
Ahh yes, but the key point here is that I filled out a physical piece of paper that is *also* stored and can be counted later. Yes, cheating can and does happen but it's a lot fucking harder to fill out millions of bubble sheets and methodically insert them into various districts while removing the good ones than it is to have a piece of software print the physical sheets for the manual recount for you -- oh wait, there are no physical recounts because that doesn't exist w/the new e-voting machines.
What I want to know is why there is a picture at all. I have that fucking horseshit disabled on the front page.
In addition to the content being pointless (Malda, start wordpress.malda.com and put this bullshit there) there is also broken preferences and comment box sizes that only exist for idle.slashdot.org.
While I unsubscribed in the past for the bullshit that has gone on here, I might just fucking stop coming all together if idle doesn't get put somewhere else -- like not on slashdot's main page.
For example, the rowing team was sent to go train in Tibet because there it is at a high altitude. At high altitudes there is less oxygen so it trains the athletes' body to use oxygen more effectively.
Yet another item that's been known forever. That's nothing more than fluff. US Swimming's Olympic Training Center for swimming is located isn't located in Colorado Springs because it's an exciting town you know. I swam there for a few days before HS Nationals in 1997 before the meet which took place at the Air Force Academy. They were trying to get us prepped for swimming at altitude because, as the words placed in tiles on the wall said something like, "7,258 feet -- the air is rare"
I learned many of the underwater techniques used by the current greats which were developed while I was at the peak of my performance in HS. It wasn't Michael Phelps or this new scientist suddenly creating the underwater dolphin work you see now. In the mid 1990s (into the late 1990s when it was limited to 15m) you could go as far as you wanted underwater for every event (backstroke fell first to 15m and then the rest soon followed). Misty Hyman was one of the pioneers along with Denis Pankratov and they turned on their sides (much like Coughlin still does) to take the best advantage of the swirls of water that are created as you move through it.
As I posted above, this is all not new technology and it's not worth even talking about now 10-15 years after it was developed.
Everyone has known about this for years and I'm not quite sure why it's suddenly news now. There are plenty of pools out there that have 10+ lanes (in college we had 10+ lanes and we swam in the deep end of the pool for SCY races). It really seems like most of the discussions about the reasons for the WRs falling are more or less just to fill the time that the announcers have between events.
I realize that the general public doesn't understand how pools, suits, and training methods have evolved over the last 15 years but it's seriously not news worthy IMO. US Swimming is just trying to get people to pay attention to how cool swimming is so that they get the most out of the "Olympic Cycle". The "Olympic Cycle" is the phenomenon that occurs following every Olympic year where swim teams see a upswing in the number of youngsters trying out for swim teams because of all the coverage ("ohh, Mommy, I want to be Michael Phelps/Natalie Coughlin/Hall Jr/Krazelburg/Dolan/etc too!")
Another flash in the pan caused by mass media dumbing everything down to a mostly unaware public. Move along.
...as I listen to a local band cover the Grateful Dead.
You know, for years I touted the Grateful Dead as a band that was a pioneer in allowing the free taping and trading of their shows. Jerry was wise beyond his years saying that once they were done with a show it didn't matter what the fans did with it. In the years since his death (it seems like yesterday when I got word on IRC) the remaining members of the band have tightened the restrictions on the trading of their shows and now places like archive.org no longer distribute their shows in SBD format.
It's really disappointing that one of the leaders in the free music world and a band that shaped a movement in free access to some of their best music regressed towards a closed format. My favorite quote of the article linked above was, "Technically and policy-wise, it has been invigorating as you can probably appreciate. We have made changes in the past and we will make changes again."
While I have yet made it to the point of no return and have not yet stopped listening entirely, I have begun to support other bands that have room to grow upwards and don't seem to have plans to regress to the draconian limits imposed by the typical mainstream bands. If the Grateful Dead's remaining members continue to stomp on the traditions started by Jerry all those years ago, I will be forced to change my username, my personal domain, and my listening habits much to my great disappointment.
As for the fight going on with the RIAA. While I applaud people who are standing up to them for the rest of us, I really wonder if it will change anything. We are seeing a slow change in the tide (just like we did with other bullies like SCO) but it's really unfortunate that while the record companies are finally getting stepped on, the bands themselves -- especially bands who used to allow and encourage nearly unlimited use of their live material, are starting to bend to the commercial pressures that shouldn't exist.
I still go to live shows of bands that adhere to archaic distribution methods in the hopes that their growing fanbase might be able to change their closed stance (hey, it's happened!) but I mainly support only those bands that allow the free trading of at least some of their music (They Might Be Giants for example -- who are coming to Minneapolis in September and playing at First Ave for those of you interested, Dark Star Orchestra, etc).
If we all keep up the pressure, from all angles, everyone -- including the bands that seem so hellbent on profits -- may come around, someday.
I get better e-mails than that to my own personal website. I "review" restaurants for fun and routinely end up with resumes for job applicants, complaints about overcharges, questions about hosting events there, and sometimes even death threats from the owners themselves.
If this is the best Slashdot can do (BTW, why the fuck is the comment box ~35 characters wide?) then I'm disappointed.
If you live in an area where your garbage man (and/or neighbors) will not take items like that, check and see if your area has electronics recycling programs. Here in Minnesota it's required by law and WasteManagement makes a big deal of it when they have the drop off days. From what I understand, Best Buy is also accepting items to be recycled at a few of the stores as a pilot. If you can't do either of those, Goodwill will take them.
I started cleaning out the garage before the winter (which comes early here) and I have 5 monitors, a TV, and various other electronic parts that need to go. I have two more monitors, another TV, and two DVD players that need to go. Ugh.
Maybe those people are trying, and failing, to make a positive change on Slashdot which has been overdue for at least 5 years? I stopped being a subscriber when Slashdot became a haven for duplicates, poorly "edited" articles, and even more douchebaggery than ever existed before (even when GNAA and the Stephen King death meme's were so very popular).
While I don't go to Digg or Fark or where ever the fuck else others may, I do know about tech news sometimes weeks in advance of when it shows up on Slashdot. This is 2008, news for nerds and stuff that matters happened days ago -- once it's 48 hours old it doesn't matter to anyone except Slashdot's advertisers.
I still come here to have an outlet to bitch but for you to claim that at least attempting to point out Slashdot's major flaws (regardless of their choice on how to deliver that message) is somehow wrong, is just ridiculous.
The summary has it at least partially right: The problem isn't that Blue-ray isn't better, the problem is that without good source material, a large hi-def TV and a viewing arrangement where you can actually make out the additional detail, it is difficult or even impossible for a viewer to appreciate the extra capability. With the economy tanking, I rather doubt the first thing on everyone's list is to go out and get an HDTV.
It wasn't even close to being the first thing on my list anyway. You know why? Because HDTV's just aren't that great for anything other than sports (mainly only NFL at that). Yeah, I know you're going to say, but but but what about movies?! I'm going to say that if the movie is any good, it's not going to make one fuck of a difference what it looks like because it will actually have an interesting plot and good acting and no matter what screen you watch it on and no matter what sound system you have, you'll be able to properly appreciate the movie for what it's worth.
Any movie that require you to have a rocking and expensive home theater to appreciate their benefits is really not worth anyone's time except the MPAA.
Boy, I sure am glad that those detectives won't be wasting their time tracking down those with lapsed insurance and emissions tests so that they can instead be freed up to work on important things instead.
Oh wait, they wouldn't have done it in the first place and now it's just made a nearly unnecessary job a lot easier to generate revenue for the city and headaches for people who are already short on cash for various real-world reasons. Awesome.
Yay, America is safe from those horrendous evils and now officially sucks as bad as 1956 Russia.
Paying $2700 for a fiber connection may seem like a lot, but plenty of people spend more than that on other high-tech gadgets. High-end gaming machines and laptops still cost more than $2700. And, Wu notes, a fiber connection will probably sell with the house; a couple thousand dollars is a pittance compared with the amounts many customers pay for remodeled kitchens and bathrooms, new windows, and the like.
I have fiber running less than 100 feet from my house. Why the fuck can't I just access that? I realize that they are talking about Ottawa Canada here, but why can't someone just ask me if I want to pay money to tap into the cables that are so close to me? While I don't believe $2700 is at all reasonable for what they are asking (especially in the United States) and I couldn't tell you more than a handful of people that would even know what Fiber to your door means let alone have it be a selling point, I still want someone to come to me and say, "hey, you can use that McLeod fiber that is right there -- today -- enjoy."
You know, I haven't tasted the food that they list but the menu options honestly don't sound that bad. While I am a capable cook, we typically rotate the same meals throughout every two weeks. What they were offering looked like a great and varied selection.
Perhaps the immobility is what's making this person grumpy about everything else?
The beef is in spam. If I search for myself, which on Google returns the root page of my website first and then some random page (I'm not sure why it's that particular post since it's so fucking old) under that. The next 10 to 12 links are also me. Seems good enough.
On Cuil though, the first hits are random spam pages and deep linked pages on my site that I have had around for years. Seriously? They might have more pages available in their index but they're shit and irrelevant. Oh, and the fucking random images next to the links aren't relevant and aren't even from the posts they are next to. Stupid.
This doesn't show that the bubble is back -- it shows that someone released a shitty ass product and got press for it for some unknown reason.
And quite pointless with people moving to mobile devices instead of desktops. While mobile Internet connections are increasing in availability and bandwidth, they are not mainstream enough to allow Windows to be completely replaced by the model.
Obviously it won't stop all infringement, but it's a much saner response than suing your customers.
Woah, wait a minute there tiger! They never said they were going to stop suing their customers, nope. All they said was that they were going to setup a site that will rank poorly on Google and will likely be poorly designed so that they can say that they are providing a service to their customers that those customers say they want.
A sane response would be to provide DRM and commercial free media to your customers that are filled with quality content (holy fucking God Almighty in heaven, I know, crazy right?!) While I haven't seen anything except the leaked first 6 minutes of the Dark Knight, those 6 minutes were decent enough for me to be interested in the film -- the first time I have had any interest in a MPAA released film in quite some time.
Well, in my case I whined about SAS via Twitter and got a response the next day from their VP of R&D. I was so impressed I mentioned SAS' response to my friends (and again via Twitter) and Aaron Landry used it as an example in his Web 2.0 101 presentation about how company interactions are changing the face of customer service.
While I still think Comcast sucks, the close monitoring ofsocial networks, blogs, etc is a big step.
No, I think that the poster was hoping that the commonsense ruling and notation made by the Dutch court would somehow transcend political and oceanic boundaries to the United States. But, unfortunately, it probably never would and if it did, the judge making the ruling would be condemned as a traitor and heretic.
No, what's sad is that both of you were modded +5 insightful (as of when I wrote this comment). When I read his remark about the feds at the door I laughed, because I know the odds *against* that happening in the US are astronomical.
Regardless of the action (or inaction) of the government on this type of matter is irrelevant. All that matters is that someone is fearful that there may be retaliation. That should be unacceptable in the United States of America.
The fact that you are so blindly supporting the successes of the current administration's antics to cause exactly this fear is horrendous. While I could give a fuck less if I was modded -1 or +5 after what I said, the fact that anyone moderated your comment as insightful is anything but laughable. If anything you should moderated +5 (-1?) "If they don't come for us, it's ok."
Money is all that most of them understand. Money gets them elected. Money gets them re-elected.
Just like the money they all received by the telecommunication companies that paid them (a very small sum IMO) for breaking with the Constitution that they were required to uphold when they took office.
For the small number of voters who would have paid but now will not because the assholes voted for this shit, it probably won't make up for what they were paid by the companies who don't want their asses sued.
Sadly, it's a reflection that middle America isn't concerned.
As a registered Republican who's disgusted with the New Aged GOP, I was fully planning on voting for Obama in November until this vote. I chatted with a pro-DFLer who is a huge Obama supporter and told him my change and why. You know what he said? He told me that because Obama is now the candidate he has to make sure he has support from both sides. Ugh. I'm not sure how you can support both sides when you vote for this intrusion and retroactive law. I just can't understand how they can uphold the Constitution (as required by them being elected to office by the people) when they vote for a law that goes against it.
I cannot vote for any candidate that voted in favor of this and now I'm not sure what to do. I'm no longer voting for the lesser of two evils as they both are. I have lost what tiny little bit of faith that still remained following the failure of Congress/Senate and our fear-creating leader.
The only option at this point is to begin militant action against our failed government institution. Unfortunately we would have no backing because the TV still spews its garbage and the people are sated.
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That's odd. My dog has absolutely no interest in the mirror. He doesn't think it's another dog, he doesn't think it's him, and he certainly doesn't pay any attention to it at all. While he's not the brightest dog I have seen (or owned) he does have some interactions with us and with his environment that makes me believe he has some brains in that head (i.e. knowing which doors he can open by pushing or pulling, that he should check the sliding door for a screen before entering or exiting, etc).
But before you all go out into the street to dance, let me remind everyone that those paper ballots aren't exactly hand counted... those too are counted by... say it with me: ELECTRONIC machines. They have software. They are connected to a network. They have to store their results on media at some point.
Ahh yes, but the key point here is that I filled out a physical piece of paper that is *also* stored and can be counted later. Yes, cheating can and does happen but it's a lot fucking harder to fill out millions of bubble sheets and methodically insert them into various districts while removing the good ones than it is to have a piece of software print the physical sheets for the manual recount for you -- oh wait, there are no physical recounts because that doesn't exist w/the new e-voting machines.
I just removed it all together -- whew. Much better. Thanks for making that option available.
What I want to know is why there is a picture at all. I have that fucking horseshit disabled on the front page.
In addition to the content being pointless (Malda, start wordpress.malda.com and put this bullshit there) there is also broken preferences and comment box sizes that only exist for idle.slashdot.org.
While I unsubscribed in the past for the bullshit that has gone on here, I might just fucking stop coming all together if idle doesn't get put somewhere else -- like not on slashdot's main page.
For example, the rowing team was sent to go train in Tibet because there it is at a high altitude. At high altitudes there is less oxygen so it trains the athletes' body to use oxygen more effectively.
Yet another item that's been known forever. That's nothing more than fluff. US Swimming's Olympic Training Center for swimming is located isn't located in Colorado Springs because it's an exciting town you know. I swam there for a few days before HS Nationals in 1997 before the meet which took place at the Air Force Academy. They were trying to get us prepped for swimming at altitude because, as the words placed in tiles on the wall said something like, "7,258 feet -- the air is rare"
I learned many of the underwater techniques used by the current greats which were developed while I was at the peak of my performance in HS. It wasn't Michael Phelps or this new scientist suddenly creating the underwater dolphin work you see now. In the mid 1990s (into the late 1990s when it was limited to 15m) you could go as far as you wanted underwater for every event (backstroke fell first to 15m and then the rest soon followed). Misty Hyman was one of the pioneers along with Denis Pankratov and they turned on their sides (much like Coughlin still does) to take the best advantage of the swirls of water that are created as you move through it.
As I posted above, this is all not new technology and it's not worth even talking about now 10-15 years after it was developed.
Everyone has known about this for years and I'm not quite sure why it's suddenly news now. There are plenty of pools out there that have 10+ lanes (in college we had 10+ lanes and we swam in the deep end of the pool for SCY races). It really seems like most of the discussions about the reasons for the WRs falling are more or less just to fill the time that the announcers have between events.
I realize that the general public doesn't understand how pools, suits, and training methods have evolved over the last 15 years but it's seriously not news worthy IMO. US Swimming is just trying to get people to pay attention to how cool swimming is so that they get the most out of the "Olympic Cycle". The "Olympic Cycle" is the phenomenon that occurs following every Olympic year where swim teams see a upswing in the number of youngsters trying out for swim teams because of all the coverage ("ohh, Mommy, I want to be Michael Phelps/Natalie Coughlin/Hall Jr/Krazelburg/Dolan/etc too!")
Another flash in the pan caused by mass media dumbing everything down to a mostly unaware public. Move along.
...as I listen to a local band cover the Grateful Dead.
You know, for years I touted the Grateful Dead as a band that was a pioneer in allowing the free taping and trading of their shows. Jerry was wise beyond his years saying that once they were done with a show it didn't matter what the fans did with it. In the years since his death (it seems like yesterday when I got word on IRC) the remaining members of the band have tightened the restrictions on the trading of their shows and now places like archive.org no longer distribute their shows in SBD format.
It's really disappointing that one of the leaders in the free music world and a band that shaped a movement in free access to some of their best music regressed towards a closed format. My favorite quote of the article linked above was, "Technically and policy-wise, it has been invigorating as you can probably appreciate. We have made changes in the past and we will make changes again."
While I have yet made it to the point of no return and have not yet stopped listening entirely, I have begun to support other bands that have room to grow upwards and don't seem to have plans to regress to the draconian limits imposed by the typical mainstream bands. If the Grateful Dead's remaining members continue to stomp on the traditions started by Jerry all those years ago, I will be forced to change my username, my personal domain, and my listening habits much to my great disappointment.
As for the fight going on with the RIAA. While I applaud people who are standing up to them for the rest of us, I really wonder if it will change anything. We are seeing a slow change in the tide (just like we did with other bullies like SCO) but it's really unfortunate that while the record companies are finally getting stepped on, the bands themselves -- especially bands who used to allow and encourage nearly unlimited use of their live material, are starting to bend to the commercial pressures that shouldn't exist.
I still go to live shows of bands that adhere to archaic distribution methods in the hopes that their growing fanbase might be able to change their closed stance (hey, it's happened!) but I mainly support only those bands that allow the free trading of at least some of their music (They Might Be Giants for example -- who are coming to Minneapolis in September and playing at First Ave for those of you interested, Dark Star Orchestra, etc).
If we all keep up the pressure, from all angles, everyone -- including the bands that seem so hellbent on profits -- may come around, someday.
I get better e-mails than that to my own personal website. I "review" restaurants for fun and routinely end up with resumes for job applicants, complaints about overcharges, questions about hosting events there, and sometimes even death threats from the owners themselves.
If this is the best Slashdot can do (BTW, why the fuck is the comment box ~35 characters wide?) then I'm disappointed.
We needs JonKatz back to up the annoyance ante!
If you live in an area where your garbage man (and/or neighbors) will not take items like that, check and see if your area has electronics recycling programs. Here in Minnesota it's required by law and WasteManagement makes a big deal of it when they have the drop off days. From what I understand, Best Buy is also accepting items to be recycled at a few of the stores as a pilot. If you can't do either of those, Goodwill will take them.
I started cleaning out the garage before the winter (which comes early here) and I have 5 monitors, a TV, and various other electronic parts that need to go. I have two more monitors, another TV, and two DVD players that need to go. Ugh.
Maybe those people are trying, and failing, to make a positive change on Slashdot which has been overdue for at least 5 years? I stopped being a subscriber when Slashdot became a haven for duplicates, poorly "edited" articles, and even more douchebaggery than ever existed before (even when GNAA and the Stephen King death meme's were so very popular).
While I don't go to Digg or Fark or where ever the fuck else others may, I do know about tech news sometimes weeks in advance of when it shows up on Slashdot. This is 2008, news for nerds and stuff that matters happened days ago -- once it's 48 hours old it doesn't matter to anyone except Slashdot's advertisers.
I still come here to have an outlet to bitch but for you to claim that at least attempting to point out Slashdot's major flaws (regardless of their choice on how to deliver that message) is somehow wrong, is just ridiculous.
The summary has it at least partially right: The problem isn't that Blue-ray isn't better, the problem is that without good source material, a large hi-def TV and a viewing arrangement where you can actually make out the additional detail, it is difficult or even impossible for a viewer to appreciate the extra capability. With the economy tanking, I rather doubt the first thing on everyone's list is to go out and get an HDTV.
It wasn't even close to being the first thing on my list anyway. You know why? Because HDTV's just aren't that great for anything other than sports (mainly only NFL at that). Yeah, I know you're going to say, but but but what about movies?! I'm going to say that if the movie is any good, it's not going to make one fuck of a difference what it looks like because it will actually have an interesting plot and good acting and no matter what screen you watch it on and no matter what sound system you have, you'll be able to properly appreciate the movie for what it's worth.
Any movie that require you to have a rocking and expensive home theater to appreciate their benefits is really not worth anyone's time except the MPAA.
Boy, I sure am glad that those detectives won't be wasting their time tracking down those with lapsed insurance and emissions tests so that they can instead be freed up to work on important things instead.
Oh wait, they wouldn't have done it in the first place and now it's just made a nearly unnecessary job a lot easier to generate revenue for the city and headaches for people who are already short on cash for various real-world reasons. Awesome.
Yay, America is safe from those horrendous evils and now officially sucks as bad as 1956 Russia.
Paying $2700 for a fiber connection may seem like a lot, but plenty of people spend more than that on other high-tech gadgets. High-end gaming machines and laptops still cost more than $2700. And, Wu notes, a fiber connection will probably sell with the house; a couple thousand dollars is a pittance compared with the amounts many customers pay for remodeled kitchens and bathrooms, new windows, and the like.
I have fiber running less than 100 feet from my house. Why the fuck can't I just access that? I realize that they are talking about Ottawa Canada here, but why can't someone just ask me if I want to pay money to tap into the cables that are so close to me? While I don't believe $2700 is at all reasonable for what they are asking (especially in the United States) and I couldn't tell you more than a handful of people that would even know what Fiber to your door means let alone have it be a selling point, I still want someone to come to me and say, "hey, you can use that McLeod fiber that is right there -- today -- enjoy."
Ah, my dreams.
You know, I haven't tasted the food that they list but the menu options honestly don't sound that bad. While I am a capable cook, we typically rotate the same meals throughout every two weeks. What they were offering looked like a great and varied selection.
Perhaps the immobility is what's making this person grumpy about everything else?
Safe harbor ONLY applies when the ISP doesn't bias network traffic.
They provided a safe harbor for the Bush Administration to conduct wiretaps. I'm sure that the Republicans will let any minor infractions slide.
The beef is in spam. If I search for myself, which on Google returns the root page of my website first and then some random page (I'm not sure why it's that particular post since it's so fucking old) under that. The next 10 to 12 links are also me. Seems good enough.
On Cuil though, the first hits are random spam pages and deep linked pages on my site that I have had around for years. Seriously? They might have more pages available in their index but they're shit and irrelevant. Oh, and the fucking random images next to the links aren't relevant and aren't even from the posts they are next to. Stupid.
This doesn't show that the bubble is back -- it shows that someone released a shitty ass product and got press for it for some unknown reason.
web-based == subscription model.
And quite pointless with people moving to mobile devices instead of desktops. While mobile Internet connections are increasing in availability and bandwidth, they are not mainstream enough to allow Windows to be completely replaced by the model.
Obviously it won't stop all infringement, but it's a much saner response than suing your customers.
Woah, wait a minute there tiger! They never said they were going to stop suing their customers, nope. All they said was that they were going to setup a site that will rank poorly on Google and will likely be poorly designed so that they can say that they are providing a service to their customers that those customers say they want.
A sane response would be to provide DRM and commercial free media to your customers that are filled with quality content (holy fucking God Almighty in heaven, I know, crazy right?!) While I haven't seen anything except the leaked first 6 minutes of the Dark Knight, those 6 minutes were decent enough for me to be interested in the film -- the first time I have had any interest in a MPAA released film in quite some time.
Well, in my case I whined about SAS via Twitter and got a response the next day from their VP of R&D. I was so impressed I mentioned SAS' response to my friends (and again via Twitter) and Aaron Landry used it as an example in his Web 2.0 101 presentation about how company interactions are changing the face of customer service.
While I still think Comcast sucks, the close monitoring ofsocial networks, blogs, etc is a big step.
No, I think that the poster was hoping that the commonsense ruling and notation made by the Dutch court would somehow transcend political and oceanic boundaries to the United States. But, unfortunately, it probably never would and if it did, the judge making the ruling would be condemned as a traitor and heretic.
My favorite Family Guy episode: I Never Met the Dead Man.
Stewie: "Fare thee well, Broccoli."
No, what's sad is that both of you were modded +5 insightful (as of when I wrote this comment). When I read his remark about the feds at the door I laughed, because I know the odds *against* that happening in the US are astronomical.
Regardless of the action (or inaction) of the government on this type of matter is irrelevant. All that matters is that someone is fearful that there may be retaliation. That should be unacceptable in the United States of America.
The fact that you are so blindly supporting the successes of the current administration's antics to cause exactly this fear is horrendous. While I could give a fuck less if I was modded -1 or +5 after what I said, the fact that anyone moderated your comment as insightful is anything but laughable. If anything you should moderated +5 (-1?) "If they don't come for us, it's ok."
I think I hear the feds at my door for having read that.
Isn't it sad that you felt compelled to write that?
Money is all that most of them understand. Money gets them elected. Money gets them re-elected.
Just like the money they all received by the telecommunication companies that paid them (a very small sum IMO) for breaking with the Constitution that they were required to uphold when they took office.
For the small number of voters who would have paid but now will not because the assholes voted for this shit, it probably won't make up for what they were paid by the companies who don't want their asses sued.
Sadly, it's a reflection that middle America isn't concerned.
As a registered Republican who's disgusted with the New Aged GOP, I was fully planning on voting for Obama in November until this vote. I chatted with a pro-DFLer who is a huge Obama supporter and told him my change and why. You know what he said? He told me that because Obama is now the candidate he has to make sure he has support from both sides. Ugh. I'm not sure how you can support both sides when you vote for this intrusion and retroactive law. I just can't understand how they can uphold the Constitution (as required by them being elected to office by the people) when they vote for a law that goes against it.
I cannot vote for any candidate that voted in favor of this and now I'm not sure what to do. I'm no longer voting for the lesser of two evils as they both are. I have lost what tiny little bit of faith that still remained following the failure of Congress/Senate and our fear-creating leader.
The only option at this point is to begin militant action against our failed government institution. Unfortunately we would have no backing because the TV still spews its garbage and the people are sated.