It's not splitting hairs to say there's a difference between hating our country and hating our government. I do care deeply for this country but, in fact, despise the assholes and their corporate pimps running the show in Washington - shameless bunch of bastards, to put it nicely - who have completely overlooked, forgotten, ignored, pissed on, what have you, our Constitution. If we got back to a mindset where the Constitution was the supreme law of the land, for all branches of the government, in all circumstances, rather than when it suits our purposes, I'd feel a little better about our government.
I agree with the other two, but which "regulation" are you cutting?
Financial regulation? We've seen that effective controls on what corporations can do is a "good thing." Gas prices went up, in part, due to unbridled speculation on the part of Goldman-Sachs, et al, who were given letters saying, "Fuck regulation - do what you want." GS loved it - the rest of us, not so much.
Environmental regulation? We can't trust Ford to dispose of leftover paint safely - it's now in peoples' yards in some parts of New Jersey because Ford had it dumped in abandoned mines - and do you really want Monsanto and Dow running free and naked over the environment?
Key word is effective regulation. No regulation is a license for companies to fuck us over to make a buck.
True, we may not have forgotten it, and I'll never forgive the treasonous assholes who foisted it on us, but that doesn't mean we did anything effective about it.
Why is this "too far"? Let's say SOPA gets made into law, through this guy's direct efforts. What do you suppose it will take to get our rights back? They certainly won't say, "Oh, shucks! You're right. Our bad." If an eventual SCOTUS ruling makes SOPA permanent, will it result in fighting in the streets over our freedoms? Who knows?
That's why SkyNet so badly wanted to go back in time and kill John Connor before he could become a powerful leader of the resistance.
Just curious: does this same line of reasoning justify me if I shoot a cop and get away with it? Because from what you wrote, I'm getting the message, "If you don't get caught, it's Ok."
Exactly. I was going to ask, above, "Didn't he, in fact, follow the order to disperse?" He left the group of people he was with. How far removed from the cops does he have to be? The next state over? How does he get there? Is he compelled to pay for public transportation to get far enough away? Why can't he just use his car - it's right there...
I feel your pain, but some cities manage to make mass transit work. Chicago, for example. There are trains that run up to 70 miles from downtown Chicago, and people commute back and forth each day for work. Within the city, the subway trains are always coming and going. I don't recall ever being annoyed by a lengthy wait.
Of course, that's a sample size of 1. Other cities haven't been as successful. It depends on the city authorities.
Seattle wasn't good: I spent way more time waiting for buses or trains than it took to drive. That was back in '96, so it might be better, now. Chicago was pretty good: two types of trains to bring you from way out in the 'burbs and back at almost all hours. Faster than driving, during rush hour. Not too expensive, either. NYC isn't too bad, somewhat like Chicago. Other towns, like Columbus, OH, or Buffalo, NY, are easier to drive. Not over-crowded, relatively easy to find what you need, but somewhat spread out so walking or riding a bike (Buffalo's winter weather) would be less convenient.
Not all events are the same. I've experienced "camera man rock star" treatment for a number of events, but some, like NYS wrestling finals, have a list of approved camera men, photographers, etc, and you have to beg for credentials to get on the list because they do check. Even if you're on the list, some places hassle you, anyway.
Friend of mine is a gym teacher in a rural area - median cost for a house might be upper 50's. Certainly not an expensive area. He makes above $80 Gs. He's about 25 years into his career, but $80 Gs for running a gym class in a dump of a school district? Similarly, there's a teacher aide - not even a teacher - in the same district that makes above $80 Gs. She's got a lot of years into it, but still. She doesn't do class planning, grading, extra activities like hall monitoring, etc.
Per contract, a total noob teacher at that district makes $39,500. Last I checked.
In contrast, if I could even find a job in my specialty (IT / development) in that area, it would top out around $50 Gs. With my 20 years of experience.
Teachers certainly deserve to be compensated well, but in my experience, they're not being exploited.
I got one for ya. I was subbing for a 7th grade class. Kid squeezes behind my desk and the wall - no reason to be behind me, anyway - and takes a mock swing at my head; I felt the breeze from his hand. I haul him down to the principal's office for punishment, restraining myself from knocking in his teeth. Later, momma shows up demanding to know why I'm bringing her precious child down to the office. Principal throws me under the bus. Last day I subbed, there.
I should be in bed, but I can't let this one pass.
You're asking why a "city boy" can't understand hunting. First, I'm not a city boy. I grew up in rural western NY under a father that loved to hunt and fish. I did both, as well, up to a point. I have no less than five guns in my house. I have three shotguns (12 ga), a double-barrel shotgun (12 ga), and a.22, which is my favorite. I've also had a 30-06 and a rifle.45. My house butts up to the bottom of the hill on which I spent a large part of my childhood and have seen shit-tons of deer, turkey, squirrel, rabbit, etc.
I'm one of six boys in the family. Four of us hunt, two do not. I see my youngest brother, a fat, lazy slob - but otherwise a nice guy - go out and take down Nature's finest with the single pull of a trigger. He's gotta huff and puff his ass out to a tree stand and then wait for some dumb deer to walk in front of him. Having wrestled and played lacrosse, I don't consider that "sporting." It's blood lust, plain and simple. If he wants to feel good about killing that deer, let him do it Nature's way: chase it down and kill it with his bare hands. I'd even let him use a knife, since the deer's hooves can be pretty sharp. That would even the fight.
Either way, he doesn't have to shoot the deer; he can survive just fine without it. The deer, otherwise left alone, could go on to do his own thing, have babies of his own, get eaten by wolves, whatever. That's Nature.
You put feed out to attract them to your slaughter points, just like you stalk salt licks, waiting for deer to show up. If you were really humane, you wouldn't draw them to an area where they couldn't survive without your traps. They'd migrate where the food was naturally more plentiful.
Guys like you, and my brothers, just want to shoot the shit out of every thing that moves, showing off your "manhood" in an unfair battle. Ok, it's not illegal. But don't expect me to support your barbarianism, or your rationalization that what you're doing is "good fer the critters." It ain't.
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Very nice. Reminds me of the scene from Animal House:
"You'll get your chance, smart-guy!"
"You can bad-mouth me and my fraternity, but I will not let you sit here and bad-mouth the United States of America! Gentlemen!"
It's not splitting hairs to say there's a difference between hating our country and hating our government. I do care deeply for this country but, in fact, despise the assholes and their corporate pimps running the show in Washington - shameless bunch of bastards, to put it nicely - who have completely overlooked, forgotten, ignored, pissed on, what have you, our Constitution. If we got back to a mindset where the Constitution was the supreme law of the land, for all branches of the government, in all circumstances, rather than when it suits our purposes, I'd feel a little better about our government.
I agree with the other two, but which "regulation" are you cutting?
Financial regulation? We've seen that effective controls on what corporations can do is a "good thing." Gas prices went up, in part, due to unbridled speculation on the part of Goldman-Sachs, et al, who were given letters saying, "Fuck regulation - do what you want." GS loved it - the rest of us, not so much.
Environmental regulation? We can't trust Ford to dispose of leftover paint safely - it's now in peoples' yards in some parts of New Jersey because Ford had it dumped in abandoned mines - and do you really want Monsanto and Dow running free and naked over the environment?
Key word is effective regulation. No regulation is a license for companies to fuck us over to make a buck.
My brother works for the TSA. I refuse to talk to him.
Maybe I should talk with him, though. That whole, "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" thing.
Further off-topic:
Sure you can. Apple wasn't even close to being the first with their mp3 players or their smart-phones. Similar analogies exist in other markets.
How do you define "seriously"? http://www.michaelparenti.org/stolenelections.html
Two words: PATRIOT Act.
True, we may not have forgotten it, and I'll never forgive the treasonous assholes who foisted it on us, but that doesn't mean we did anything effective about it.
Why is this "too far"? Let's say SOPA gets made into law, through this guy's direct efforts. What do you suppose it will take to get our rights back? They certainly won't say, "Oh, shucks! You're right. Our bad." If an eventual SCOTUS ruling makes SOPA permanent, will it result in fighting in the streets over our freedoms? Who knows?
That's why SkyNet so badly wanted to go back in time and kill John Connor before he could become a powerful leader of the resistance.
Funny. "Fucking iPhone" doesn't show up on store.apple.com. Is that a special "OEM model" or something?
Just curious: does this same line of reasoning justify me if I shoot a cop and get away with it? Because from what you wrote, I'm getting the message, "If you don't get caught, it's Ok."
The judge roughed you up, too? WTF! Tough court...
Exactly. I was going to ask, above, "Didn't he, in fact, follow the order to disperse?" He left the group of people he was with. How far removed from the cops does he have to be? The next state over? How does he get there? Is he compelled to pay for public transportation to get far enough away? Why can't he just use his car - it's right there...
Amen to this. Perl's like that, too, to some extent: write code, save file, run script, see immediate output. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Unlike the inexcusably broken Xcode 4.3, which won't even run - not even doing anything, just sitting there! - longer than five minutes on my machine.
Too much hassle. I'll just turn down / off my cochlear implant. Then I'll be as annoying as ever!
I feel your pain, but some cities manage to make mass transit work. Chicago, for example. There are trains that run up to 70 miles from downtown Chicago, and people commute back and forth each day for work. Within the city, the subway trains are always coming and going. I don't recall ever being annoyed by a lengthy wait.
Of course, that's a sample size of 1. Other cities haven't been as successful. It depends on the city authorities.
Seattle wasn't good: I spent way more time waiting for buses or trains than it took to drive. That was back in '96, so it might be better, now.
Chicago was pretty good: two types of trains to bring you from way out in the 'burbs and back at almost all hours. Faster than driving, during rush hour. Not too expensive, either.
NYC isn't too bad, somewhat like Chicago.
Other towns, like Columbus, OH, or Buffalo, NY, are easier to drive. Not over-crowded, relatively easy to find what you need, but somewhat spread out so walking or riding a bike (Buffalo's winter weather) would be less convenient.
On the other hand, they'd be much easier to pick out of fur, or step on if they're in the carpet.
Serious question: if not C++, then what?
Not all events are the same. I've experienced "camera man rock star" treatment for a number of events, but some, like NYS wrestling finals, have a list of approved camera men, photographers, etc, and you have to beg for credentials to get on the list because they do check. Even if you're on the list, some places hassle you, anyway.
Re: #1 - the Feds are too busy raiding Native American smoke shops' K2 and Spice, among other things.
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article739114.ece
Friend of mine is a gym teacher in a rural area - median cost for a house might be upper 50's. Certainly not an expensive area. He makes above $80 Gs. He's about 25 years into his career, but $80 Gs for running a gym class in a dump of a school district? Similarly, there's a teacher aide - not even a teacher - in the same district that makes above $80 Gs. She's got a lot of years into it, but still. She doesn't do class planning, grading, extra activities like hall monitoring, etc.
Per contract, a total noob teacher at that district makes $39,500. Last I checked.
In contrast, if I could even find a job in my specialty (IT / development) in that area, it would top out around $50 Gs. With my 20 years of experience.
Teachers certainly deserve to be compensated well, but in my experience, they're not being exploited.
I got one for ya. I was subbing for a 7th grade class. Kid squeezes behind my desk and the wall - no reason to be behind me, anyway - and takes a mock swing at my head; I felt the breeze from his hand. I haul him down to the principal's office for punishment, restraining myself from knocking in his teeth. Later, momma shows up demanding to know why I'm bringing her precious child down to the office. Principal throws me under the bus. Last day I subbed, there.
There's an easy fix for this: MS, Google, et al, can just stop producing content that people want to copy.
"Administrative Policy!" That makes it extra-special. Kinda like "extra-ordinary rendition."
I should be in bed, but I can't let this one pass.
You're asking why a "city boy" can't understand hunting. First, I'm not a city boy. I grew up in rural western NY under a father that loved to hunt and fish. I did both, as well, up to a point. I have no less than five guns in my house. I have three shotguns (12 ga), a double-barrel shotgun (12 ga), and a .22, which is my favorite. I've also had a 30-06 and a rifle .45. My house butts up to the bottom of the hill on which I spent a large part of my childhood and have seen shit-tons of deer, turkey, squirrel, rabbit, etc.
I'm one of six boys in the family. Four of us hunt, two do not. I see my youngest brother, a fat, lazy slob - but otherwise a nice guy - go out and take down Nature's finest with the single pull of a trigger. He's gotta huff and puff his ass out to a tree stand and then wait for some dumb deer to walk in front of him. Having wrestled and played lacrosse, I don't consider that "sporting." It's blood lust, plain and simple. If he wants to feel good about killing that deer, let him do it Nature's way: chase it down and kill it with his bare hands. I'd even let him use a knife, since the deer's hooves can be pretty sharp. That would even the fight.
Either way, he doesn't have to shoot the deer; he can survive just fine without it. The deer, otherwise left alone, could go on to do his own thing, have babies of his own, get eaten by wolves, whatever. That's Nature.
You put feed out to attract them to your slaughter points, just like you stalk salt licks, waiting for deer to show up. If you were really humane, you wouldn't draw them to an area where they couldn't survive without your traps. They'd migrate where the food was naturally more plentiful.
Guys like you, and my brothers, just want to shoot the shit out of every thing that moves, showing off your "manhood" in an unfair battle. Ok, it's not illegal. But don't expect me to support your barbarianism, or your rationalization that what you're doing is "good fer the critters." It ain't.