The Jay Leno thing was so fucking scripted, it was painful to even watch. Of course, who expected anything different? Leno is the most milquetoast, inoffensive, script-following lapdog on the planet.
He ran on "we are going to be the most transparent administration in history" and then proceeded to be one of the most corrupt, opaque, anti-Constitutional administrations, ever (despite him being a Constitutional lawyer - go figure).
One would hope all the naive idiots who ran around like children at Christmas believing that they were going to change the world campaigning and voting for him would learn from this and become better and more demanding citizens. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen and neither will the old-guard become less party-affiliated and more principle-oriented.
That isn't what JesseMcDonald said. The Constitution is the highest law. In fact, the only "law" the POTUS is specifically and directly called on in his oath of office to defend and protect. Other laws, which violate the Constitution (we've had plenty of examples of violations of the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth -- and even possibly the third amendments) are fundamentally *illegal*, even if they are enacted.
Last time we brought this up on here, some jagoff went berzerk about how he was a respectable family man with a job who had never committed a felony blah blah blah.
The government and public education system has already won the war on the Bill of Rights by confusing and corrupting what they mean and what they're for in the minds of those they've churned out into society.
. . . Says Europe, which practically jizzed all over themselves upon the election of Obama.
No, only the most blinded Americans buy the Obama bullshit, just like only the most blinded bought the Bush bullshit.
But don't worry, after more than two centuries and dozens of shitty presidents, we are totally going to get an integrity-filled savior in 2016 who will save us from everything and not backtrack on or betray everything he ever said. We've just been desperately waiting for all those brilliant teenagers to finally come of age by the next voting cycle and they will save the world with their naive, inexperienced, easily swayed voting. Everything's gonna change in 2016 you guys!
Ssshhh. Don't interrupt while the internet is busy generalizing an entire continent.
Malaria is one of those basic things that it is a shame we haven't defeated long ago and will be on-par with efforts for clean water in so far as saving enormous populations of people. My aunt was a medical missionary -- running and teaching in several nursing hospitals -- across Zambia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe for twenty years. She contracted malaria about thirty years ago and though otherwise healthy, has had to be on blood pressure medication almost ever since as a result (though I don't believe long-term effects generally come from malaria).
Snuffing the predominance of malaria occurring on the African continent could have an almost unfathomable positive impact. This seems like a Norma Borlaug scale accomplishment.
The point is that the new consoles have built in capturing capability built in. Why would you setup a whole capture card and PC and everything on top of that, if you can avoid it?
Of course, that also bring sup the question -- if the machine that I bought and paid for is doing the actual work of capturing video and I am uploading those videos to the free twitch.tv service (which is what Microsoft is using), then . . . exactly what the fuck do I need a subscription to anything for? It's my machine that I already own capturing going to a free site... wtf...
Right, but that's why all content should be distributed to all outlets. The content owner benefits from an even wider audience and the customer benefits from meaningful competition and extensive libraries. Having ten separate sources and monthly bills to access all the content is really nonsense. I can go buy a DVD of any movie at any play that sells any movies at all. Same with books. Digital movies should be no different. They're bound to come to this conclusion, but who knows what decade that will happen in.
I don't believe for one second that the systems in place can be fooled by a mass flood of false data and that they don't have algorithms in place that help them determine the real content from the crap. It might even be reasonable to suggest the more bullshit data thrown at it, the better it would get at ignoring it.
When did you mistakenly believe that you had a choice? If a free society existed at the whim of the individual, every country would be free. It requires law and society to actively protect and uphold those freedoms. Just a few people willing to do anything, without the overwhelming support of their countrymen, are nothing more than martyrs, at best (probably not even that, after the media spin that is put on them).
This is why the whole idea of the second amendment as a tool partially intended to protect the people against tyranny is so ridiculous. It's a nice notion, but no realistic number of citizens with any realistic supply of weapons that are available to citizens have even the slightest chance to fight off "tyranny", when the government you're supposedly supposed to protect against has half a trillion dollar budgets, fighter jets, SEALs, missiles, tanks, attack helicopters, and a million troops.
Everything we value as an inherent and self-evident right is only really afforded to us at the whim of the government. Everything else -- including "but we ARE the government!" is just a quaint notion. It goes away as soon as the guy with more power takes it away.
While we were jerking ourselves off in the streets over finally nailing Osama, we forgot to consider that he had already achieved what he wanted the better part of a decade before he was snuffed out. He's bogged us down in military action on at least two fronts that has gone on for over a decade and shows no signs of resolving (or gave certain government agents the justification to carry out actions they already desired in the first place), he's given politicians the tool of fear to leverage the American people into accepting the erosion of every vital liberty that we were founded on, and he has contributed to significantly speeding along our national debt to astronomical new heights.
The saddest part is that everyone playing Reddit-liberator in 2013 couldn't have given the slightest fuck when everyone else was screaming about what was being done the dozen years prior to this. Thus, we end up with things which dwarf The USA PATRIOT Act (which was to have sunsetted years ago, but like inch you give the government, will never be given back).
Frankly, I don't even know that any amount of dissent and disapproval from the citizens will ever amount to anything. If principles, law, and opinion mattered, they wouldn't have been doing these things in the dark to begin with. At best, a wave of overwhelming disapproval will scurry them all back into the dark (where they'd rather be, anyway) to carry on as they have for years with total disregard for the public.
Meanwhile, those who would risk exposing the government or make their dissent a focus of their attention wind up with the IRS being thrown at them like a rabid dog. They end up on no-fly lists. They end up on watch lists. They end up being investigated. Their entire histories end up being investigated. Their every association investigated. Intimidated. Threatened. They end up charged with espionage and treason. They end up running to other nations for their lives, for exposing those within a free government who are working to squelch the very freedom that government is meant to protect. The sad thing is, these are not the lunatic ravings of a paranoid conspiracy nut. Not any longer. These are documented incidents and practices in the mainstream press (and until the press were the victims of targets of these investigations, surveillances, intimidations, and threats -- even they weren't bothering to report on these stories). What was once the unthinkable fantasy-land of paranoid guys who see black helicopters everywhere is now both real and, apparently, accepted.
And that is why I say "you first" in response to the urging for civil disobedience, dissent, and political activism (at least as far as constitutional issues go). Because, when you take that bold step forward, most of your fellow citizens are taking a giant step back. Hell, half of them are flat out against you.
Fifteen years ago, I'd have been all for causing a disruption. Exercising my self-evident liberties and thwarting The Man, when he came down on me for it.
Now, I have a fucked up back from a car crash, a fucked up knee from wrestling, a mortgage, people depending on me, a professional career, and neighbors. The amount of ways they could absolutely obliterate my life at their slightest whim are uncountable. As much as I'm all about people doing something and not just playing "Reddit-pretend-rebel/protestor", we are beyond the time of, say, the 90s -- where civil disobedience and voicing your dissent or even just being a vocal weirdo just got you either a knock on the door or a two hour trip into and out of your local lockup. We're in a time where you become an instant "child molester" or you just disappear or your finances go all permanently wonky, or you get "investigated" and now your neighbors and employer and coworkers all wonder what you've been up to that has raised the interest of The Man.
Most people don't even have that option. You have one cable provider per region and you either sign up with them or you don't get cable (or internet, etc).
There's no reason it couldn't be done well as a TV series in the right hands. Give it to HBO or SHO and let them go dark and stick closer to the book. It's a story King does well, and often. The whole "cut people off from the rest of the world and tell the story in an enclosed space" thing -- only this time, the enclosed space is massive.
At least HBO or SHO would probably not make it Under The Microsoft Windows Phone.
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The Jay Leno thing was so fucking scripted, it was painful to even watch. Of course, who expected anything different? Leno is the most milquetoast, inoffensive, script-following lapdog on the planet.
He ran on "we are going to be the most transparent administration in history" and then proceeded to be one of the most corrupt, opaque, anti-Constitutional administrations, ever (despite him being a Constitutional lawyer - go figure).
One would hope all the naive idiots who ran around like children at Christmas believing that they were going to change the world campaigning and voting for him would learn from this and become better and more demanding citizens. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen and neither will the old-guard become less party-affiliated and more principle-oriented.
This is an endless cycle that will go on.
That isn't what JesseMcDonald said. The Constitution is the highest law. In fact, the only "law" the POTUS is specifically and directly called on in his oath of office to defend and protect. Other laws, which violate the Constitution (we've had plenty of examples of violations of the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth -- and even possibly the third amendments) are fundamentally *illegal*, even if they are enacted.
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Last time we brought this up on here, some jagoff went berzerk about how he was a respectable family man with a job who had never committed a felony blah blah blah.
The government and public education system has already won the war on the Bill of Rights by confusing and corrupting what they mean and what they're for in the minds of those they've churned out into society.
Funny, the leaders he has been channeling remind me far more of certain European leaders from a time before I was alive.
. . . Says Europe, which practically jizzed all over themselves upon the election of Obama.
No, only the most blinded Americans buy the Obama bullshit, just like only the most blinded bought the Bush bullshit.
But don't worry, after more than two centuries and dozens of shitty presidents, we are totally going to get an integrity-filled savior in 2016 who will save us from everything and not backtrack on or betray everything he ever said. We've just been desperately waiting for all those brilliant teenagers to finally come of age by the next voting cycle and they will save the world with their naive, inexperienced, easily swayed voting. Everything's gonna change in 2016 you guys!
Yeah, assholes! You should just stay home and pray your children's illness away you neanderthals!
*eyeroll*
Ssshhh. Don't interrupt while the internet is busy generalizing an entire continent.
Malaria is one of those basic things that it is a shame we haven't defeated long ago and will be on-par with efforts for clean water in so far as saving enormous populations of people. My aunt was a medical missionary -- running and teaching in several nursing hospitals -- across Zambia, Kenya, and Zimbabwe for twenty years. She contracted malaria about thirty years ago and though otherwise healthy, has had to be on blood pressure medication almost ever since as a result (though I don't believe long-term effects generally come from malaria).
Snuffing the predominance of malaria occurring on the African continent could have an almost unfathomable positive impact. This seems like a Norma Borlaug scale accomplishment.
Until concerned parents boycott the vaccine because they think it causes autism.
I don't think that is going to be a big problem in Africa.
. . . where people allegedly believe raping virgins is a cure for AIDs...?
This is an interesting idea from the wrong company.
Boy, that exciting and compelling Ouya game library!
The point is that the new consoles have built in capturing capability built in. Why would you setup a whole capture card and PC and everything on top of that, if you can avoid it?
Of course, that also bring sup the question -- if the machine that I bought and paid for is doing the actual work of capturing video and I am uploading those videos to the free twitch.tv service (which is what Microsoft is using), then . . . exactly what the fuck do I need a subscription to anything for? It's my machine that I already own capturing going to a free site... wtf...
Right, but that's why all content should be distributed to all outlets. The content owner benefits from an even wider audience and the customer benefits from meaningful competition and extensive libraries. Having ten separate sources and monthly bills to access all the content is really nonsense. I can go buy a DVD of any movie at any play that sells any movies at all. Same with books. Digital movies should be no different. They're bound to come to this conclusion, but who knows what decade that will happen in.
I don't believe for one second that the systems in place can be fooled by a mass flood of false data and that they don't have algorithms in place that help them determine the real content from the crap. It might even be reasonable to suggest the more bullshit data thrown at it, the better it would get at ignoring it.
When did you mistakenly believe that you had a choice? If a free society existed at the whim of the individual, every country would be free. It requires law and society to actively protect and uphold those freedoms. Just a few people willing to do anything, without the overwhelming support of their countrymen, are nothing more than martyrs, at best (probably not even that, after the media spin that is put on them).
This is why the whole idea of the second amendment as a tool partially intended to protect the people against tyranny is so ridiculous. It's a nice notion, but no realistic number of citizens with any realistic supply of weapons that are available to citizens have even the slightest chance to fight off "tyranny", when the government you're supposedly supposed to protect against has half a trillion dollar budgets, fighter jets, SEALs, missiles, tanks, attack helicopters, and a million troops.
Everything we value as an inherent and self-evident right is only really afforded to us at the whim of the government. Everything else -- including "but we ARE the government!" is just a quaint notion. It goes away as soon as the guy with more power takes it away.
While we were jerking ourselves off in the streets over finally nailing Osama, we forgot to consider that he had already achieved what he wanted the better part of a decade before he was snuffed out. He's bogged us down in military action on at least two fronts that has gone on for over a decade and shows no signs of resolving (or gave certain government agents the justification to carry out actions they already desired in the first place), he's given politicians the tool of fear to leverage the American people into accepting the erosion of every vital liberty that we were founded on, and he has contributed to significantly speeding along our national debt to astronomical new heights.
The saddest part is that everyone playing Reddit-liberator in 2013 couldn't have given the slightest fuck when everyone else was screaming about what was being done the dozen years prior to this. Thus, we end up with things which dwarf The USA PATRIOT Act (which was to have sunsetted years ago, but like inch you give the government, will never be given back).
Frankly, I don't even know that any amount of dissent and disapproval from the citizens will ever amount to anything. If principles, law, and opinion mattered, they wouldn't have been doing these things in the dark to begin with. At best, a wave of overwhelming disapproval will scurry them all back into the dark (where they'd rather be, anyway) to carry on as they have for years with total disregard for the public.
Meanwhile, those who would risk exposing the government or make their dissent a focus of their attention wind up with the IRS being thrown at them like a rabid dog. They end up on no-fly lists. They end up on watch lists. They end up being investigated. Their entire histories end up being investigated. Their every association investigated. Intimidated. Threatened. They end up charged with espionage and treason. They end up running to other nations for their lives, for exposing those within a free government who are working to squelch the very freedom that government is meant to protect. The sad thing is, these are not the lunatic ravings of a paranoid conspiracy nut. Not any longer. These are documented incidents and practices in the mainstream press (and until the press were the victims of targets of these investigations, surveillances, intimidations, and threats -- even they weren't bothering to report on these stories). What was once the unthinkable fantasy-land of paranoid guys who see black helicopters everywhere is now both real and, apparently, accepted.
And that is why I say "you first" in response to the urging for civil disobedience, dissent, and political activism (at least as far as constitutional issues go). Because, when you take that bold step forward, most of your fellow citizens are taking a giant step back. Hell, half of them are flat out against you.
Fine, next time my keys go missing, I'll just ask a fucking dolphin.
This is a lot more like stating that shoes are the same as a sports car and, therefore, must fall under the same highway patrol purview.
Fifteen years ago, I'd have been all for causing a disruption. Exercising my self-evident liberties and thwarting The Man, when he came down on me for it.
Now, I have a fucked up back from a car crash, a fucked up knee from wrestling, a mortgage, people depending on me, a professional career, and neighbors. The amount of ways they could absolutely obliterate my life at their slightest whim are uncountable. As much as I'm all about people doing something and not just playing "Reddit-pretend-rebel/protestor", we are beyond the time of, say, the 90s -- where civil disobedience and voicing your dissent or even just being a vocal weirdo just got you either a knock on the door or a two hour trip into and out of your local lockup. We're in a time where you become an instant "child molester" or you just disappear or your finances go all permanently wonky, or you get "investigated" and now your neighbors and employer and coworkers all wonder what you've been up to that has raised the interest of The Man.
You guys are a right bunch of cunts, but every once in awhile, you're good for a good fucking laugh. :D
Are either of you guys aware that in order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second?
Most people don't even have that option. You have one cable provider per region and you either sign up with them or you don't get cable (or internet, etc).
There's no reason it couldn't be done well as a TV series in the right hands. Give it to HBO or SHO and let them go dark and stick closer to the book. It's a story King does well, and often. The whole "cut people off from the rest of the world and tell the story in an enclosed space" thing -- only this time, the enclosed space is massive.
At least HBO or SHO would probably not make it Under The Microsoft Windows Phone.