Nonsense. Two hundred years ago, Yankee whalers spent 3 and more years from land. Four hundred years ago, the British Navy circumnavigated the world. And Magellan before them. Yes, there were causalities.
American fur trappers would spend years away from their native cultures. People today spend decades in solitary confinement and come out relatively unscathed.
And any adventure these men and women underwent would have better health associated it with any of the above adventures mentioned. (Yes, adventure. The proper use of the word.) Further, there would be every anticipation that these people would be the best and the brightest that humanity has to offer.
There is too much mollycoddling and emphasis placed today on psychological wellbeing and, frankly, life. H. sapiens is a hardy group. We have survived pandemics, world wars, climate change, and every other predator on the planet. It's just a matter of effort to move to Mars. It should be done, and the sooner the better.
This latest Twitter account subpoena shouldn't be a surprise. Look at the way the Justice Department has been targeting and harassing people who oppose the 4th Amendment violating TSA. And now TSA is coming to WalMart?
De Tocqueville said "Men with a passion for physical pleasures are usually quicker to realize how the restless desire for freedom disturbs prosperity than to perceive how freedom itself serves to promote it. If the slightest rumor of public excitement threatens to intrude into the trivial pleasures of their private lives, they wake up and feel anxious. The fear of anarchy long holds them on tenderhooks and ever ready to jettison liberty at the slightest sign of disorder." This is the United States today. We jettisoned liberty and cheered.
Is this the United States of America that we grew up in, proud and self-assured? Is this the United States of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower? It is not. It has become clear to billions that since GW Bush the United States is no longer the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. It is now a nation like any other, dictatorial and corrupt.
We don't have long. Can this process be reversed through any process less than bullets and blood? I hope not. I know the people who have the bullets and many are not good people. In the event of an American revolution, we may lose the civil liberties gained over the 150 years and embrace a racist and theocratic regime like Iran. But it is coming. The Constitutional violations that take place daily cannot go on. Something has to give.
I hope Ron Paul runs for President again in 2012. He has my vote. If he does not, I will encourage and vote for his boy, Rand Paul. I am not sure many other men could get us out of this mess.
One I hit too hard with a keyboard wrist rest causing a hole to appear in the spacebar key after losing a boss battle in COH a few years ago when some tool wouldn't tank. But that keyboard and spacebar works perfectly, the hole being on the left side of the spacebar key.
And because some of us around here are right wingers, we'd like to know the day you first had sex, whether you used a condom, the most recent time you had sex, and any homosexual experiences or thoughts you may have had.
That's about it, too. Almost everything in China is illegal. It's illegal to own a butter knife. It's illegal to conduct most business transactions. It's certainly illegal to bribe, which is necessary to get anything done.
But that is what happens in a country that has so many laws. No one respects any laws.
A coworker told me how to replace a battery in an off brand of UPS. I went to this place, a teller line, and began to follow his instructions. Little did I realize that he was speaking of a slightly different model. In following his instructions, I took about twice as long as I needed to. And I only decided he was full of canal water when I arched the battery using a spring on the end of my screw driver. A flame shot out of my screw driver spring and scared two tellers half to death. I then completely disassembled the UPS, replaced the battery the correct way.
Or the time that I swapped out an external SCSI tape drive. "Just replace it" I was told. I knew that it was necessary to assign SCSI devices a number, but it slipped my mind as it was not included in the instructions. I brought that office to a close for 20 minutes while I worked out what I did wrong. Haven't made that mistake again.
As a printer tech, I was working on a 1 off network design (this was about 15 years ago). The place was using some sort of strange token ring connector to an NCR 5223 passbook printer. The up shot was every time a device was added to or removed from the network, the entire network went down. The problem was I was fixing a printer with a strange network connection that wasn't working and to test it, I had to put it on the network. I finally was kicked out. Found out the next day that the device didn't quite fit the printer properly and it had to be SLAMMED home to work.
Then there was the time I was absolutely confident my routing would work....
Yeah. I could keep going. Anyone who has been tech support for long enough has about a million of these. If they don't, they aren't computer dudes.
Considering that the PRC is working hard to make sure that the Chinese Internet is cordoned off from the rest of the Internet, I believe that this article makes some bad assumptions. The last time I was > availability of non-Chinese websites was very hit or miss. For example, I could not access CNN, BBC, Google News, or the Chicago Tribune. I could access the Chicago Sun Times, AP, and Altavista News.
With the poor results I was getting from Google, I actually ended up using Altavista for the first time in a decade.
Bull. Law enforcement doesn't know dick if they don't have to. Cops are concerned with getting raises, promotions, names in the papers. They are typically not concerned with justice. If its an open and shut case, they will happily send innocent men to jail. Unless they are forced to acknowledge it, an IP address is good enough to hang a man.
I'm just wondering when DHS actually cared about evidence. I've never seen anything from that unpatriotic anti-American organization that would make me think it even approaches Constitutional (or moral).
I would suggest that every male citizen of the United States buy a rifle caliber 5.56x45 NATO (or if your really enjoy life 7.62x51 NATO) to prepare for your eventual induction.
I went through the Freedom Fondle today, as I was flying somewhere. The gentlemen who did it was polite and explained what would happen. I told him I understood but did not accept that he had the right to do this. He did it anyway. I didn't mind much. I suppose I should just accept that the 4th Amendment means nothing any longer and that this is not the country I grew up in.
During the groping, I mentioned to him that he had become what his civics teacher had warned him about. He paused, and then continued.
Heh. Misunderstanding. He's referring to the several states that make up the United States. The several states were supposed to have representation in the Congress through the Senate. The Senate was to be the voice of the several states, thereby limiting Federal influence in State concerns, or put more effectively, limiting the likelihood of Federal interference in the reserved rights of the several states.
The 17th Amendment. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I also don't believe anyone really thought it through.
Be wary of some of the modern day radical right opponents of the 17th Amendment such as Glenn Beck. They are merely obfuscating their true objective, which is to create a protestant theocracy. They're as bad as Karl Marx in that way. They'll say there needs to be small government, and then outlaw individual activities that government has no business interfering in. Lies and half-truths surround them, but the objective mind sees them for what they are.
Bravo sir. There was a time in our Republic's history that the State Department and War Department were required to explain their actions and budget to the people and the several states. The people elected the Representatives and the states, jealous of their right to govern, elected Senators.
But today we have a Department of Defense and direct election of Senators. No one serves the interests of the local governments, but instead all elected officials have exclusively the short term interests of their constituents in mind. There is no concern for preserving the long term interests of the Republic, but rather voting the people demand bread and circuses. (Long term unemployment benefits?)
The impotent fury, bordering on paroxysm, of the United States' response to the released cables is astounding and concerning. It has become evident that in the 21st century, the people serve the government.
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Nonsense. Two hundred years ago, Yankee whalers spent 3 and more years from land. Four hundred years ago, the British Navy circumnavigated the world. And Magellan before them. Yes, there were causalities.
American fur trappers would spend years away from their native cultures. People today spend decades in solitary confinement and come out relatively unscathed.
And any adventure these men and women underwent would have better health associated it with any of the above adventures mentioned. (Yes, adventure. The proper use of the word.) Further, there would be every anticipation that these people would be the best and the brightest that humanity has to offer.
There is too much mollycoddling and emphasis placed today on psychological wellbeing and, frankly, life. H. sapiens is a hardy group. We have survived pandemics, world wars, climate change, and every other predator on the planet. It's just a matter of effort to move to Mars. It should be done, and the sooner the better.
That could be hilarious. Oh won't someone think of the children at risk!
What happened to this country?
This latest Twitter account subpoena shouldn't be a surprise. Look at the way the Justice Department has been targeting and harassing people who oppose the 4th Amendment violating TSA. And now TSA is coming to WalMart?
De Tocqueville said "Men with a passion for physical pleasures are usually quicker to realize how the restless desire for freedom disturbs prosperity than to perceive how freedom itself serves to promote it. If the slightest rumor of public excitement threatens to intrude into the trivial pleasures of their private lives, they wake up and feel anxious. The fear of anarchy long holds them on tenderhooks and ever ready to jettison liberty at the slightest sign of disorder." This is the United States today. We jettisoned liberty and cheered.
Is this the United States of America that we grew up in, proud and self-assured? Is this the United States of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower? It is not. It has become clear to billions that since GW Bush the United States is no longer the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. It is now a nation like any other, dictatorial and corrupt.
We don't have long. Can this process be reversed through any process less than bullets and blood? I hope not. I know the people who have the bullets and many are not good people. In the event of an American revolution, we may lose the civil liberties gained over the 150 years and embrace a racist and theocratic regime like Iran. But it is coming. The Constitutional violations that take place daily cannot go on. Something has to give.
I hope Ron Paul runs for President again in 2012. He has my vote. If he does not, I will encourage and vote for his boy, Rand Paul. I am not sure many other men could get us out of this mess.
Precisely. That's why I have 5.
One I hit too hard with a keyboard wrist rest causing a hole to appear in the spacebar key after losing a boss battle in COH a few years ago when some tool wouldn't tank. But that keyboard and spacebar works perfectly, the hole being on the left side of the spacebar key.
When they dumped Syd. Yeah, that's when it happened.
And because some of us around here are right wingers, we'd like to know the day you first had sex, whether you used a condom, the most recent time you had sex, and any homosexual experiences or thoughts you may have had.
That would be the formal tableware type.
According to Ron Paul, he undergoes a Freedom Fondle every time he flies due to a replacement knee.
That's about it, too. Almost everything in China is illegal. It's illegal to own a butter knife. It's illegal to conduct most business transactions. It's certainly illegal to bribe, which is necessary to get anything done.
But that is what happens in a country that has so many laws. No one respects any laws.
A coworker told me how to replace a battery in an off brand of UPS. I went to this place, a teller line, and began to follow his instructions. Little did I realize that he was speaking of a slightly different model. In following his instructions, I took about twice as long as I needed to. And I only decided he was full of canal water when I arched the battery using a spring on the end of my screw driver. A flame shot out of my screw driver spring and scared two tellers half to death. I then completely disassembled the UPS, replaced the battery the correct way.
Or the time that I swapped out an external SCSI tape drive. "Just replace it" I was told. I knew that it was necessary to assign SCSI devices a number, but it slipped my mind as it was not included in the instructions. I brought that office to a close for 20 minutes while I worked out what I did wrong. Haven't made that mistake again.
As a printer tech, I was working on a 1 off network design (this was about 15 years ago). The place was using some sort of strange token ring connector to an NCR 5223 passbook printer. The up shot was every time a device was added to or removed from the network, the entire network went down. The problem was I was fixing a printer with a strange network connection that wasn't working and to test it, I had to put it on the network. I finally was kicked out. Found out the next day that the device didn't quite fit the printer properly and it had to be SLAMMED home to work.
Then there was the time I was absolutely confident my routing would work....
Yeah. I could keep going. Anyone who has been tech support for long enough has about a million of these. If they don't, they aren't computer dudes.
Considering that the PRC is working hard to make sure that the Chinese Internet is cordoned off from the rest of the Internet, I believe that this article makes some bad assumptions. The last time I was > availability of non-Chinese websites was very hit or miss. For example, I could not access CNN, BBC, Google News, or the Chicago Tribune. I could access the Chicago Sun Times, AP, and Altavista News.
With the poor results I was getting from Google, I actually ended up using Altavista for the first time in a decade.
My Freedom Fondle two weeks ago was a cheap way to strip me of my 4th Amendment rights.
Bull. Law enforcement doesn't know dick if they don't have to. Cops are concerned with getting raises, promotions, names in the papers. They are typically not concerned with justice. If its an open and shut case, they will happily send innocent men to jail. Unless they are forced to acknowledge it, an IP address is good enough to hang a man.
I'm not sure we're American citizens any more. I know this is not the country I grew up in.
I sometimes look around and wonder. Sometimes it feels like I'm the last American left.
I'm just wondering when DHS actually cared about evidence. I've never seen anything from that unpatriotic anti-American organization that would make me think it even approaches Constitutional (or moral).
Iran thought that, but sneakernets are capable of transmitting viruses behind airwalls.
Actually, that occurred at the end of the Spanish American War with the passage of the Dick Act (no, really, that's what its named - it's not a clever backronym). All male citizens of the United States of the age 18 to the age 45 are members of the Reserve Militia.
I would suggest that every male citizen of the United States buy a rifle caliber 5.56x45 NATO (or if your really enjoy life 7.62x51 NATO) to prepare for your eventual induction.
Now if only my balls were safe.
I was Freedom Fondled last week. When were you? Remember, it's unpatriotic not to Opt Out!
And when you are standing in the Opt Out Line, make certain to introduce yourself and shake the hand of your fellow Opt Out patriots.
I'll confirm this as standard practice.
I understood why. I was wearing a fedora and a tie. I was obviously dangerous.
I went through the Freedom Fondle today, as I was flying somewhere. The gentlemen who did it was polite and explained what would happen. I told him I understood but did not accept that he had the right to do this. He did it anyway. I didn't mind much. I suppose I should just accept that the 4th Amendment means nothing any longer and that this is not the country I grew up in.
During the groping, I mentioned to him that he had become what his civics teacher had warned him about. He paused, and then continued.
Heh. Misunderstanding. He's referring to the several states that make up the United States. The several states were supposed to have representation in the Congress through the Senate. The Senate was to be the voice of the several states, thereby limiting Federal influence in State concerns, or put more effectively, limiting the likelihood of Federal interference in the reserved rights of the several states.
The 17th Amendment. I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I also don't believe anyone really thought it through.
Be wary of some of the modern day radical right opponents of the 17th Amendment such as Glenn Beck. They are merely obfuscating their true objective, which is to create a protestant theocracy. They're as bad as Karl Marx in that way. They'll say there needs to be small government, and then outlaw individual activities that government has no business interfering in. Lies and half-truths surround them, but the objective mind sees them for what they are.
Bravo sir. There was a time in our Republic's history that the State Department and War Department were required to explain their actions and budget to the people and the several states. The people elected the Representatives and the states, jealous of their right to govern, elected Senators.
But today we have a Department of Defense and direct election of Senators. No one serves the interests of the local governments, but instead all elected officials have exclusively the short term interests of their constituents in mind. There is no concern for preserving the long term interests of the Republic, but rather voting the people demand bread and circuses. (Long term unemployment benefits?)
The impotent fury, bordering on paroxysm, of the United States' response to the released cables is astounding and concerning. It has become evident that in the 21st century, the people serve the government.
Because it is not.
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