BTW, awful funny how it's OK for Dems to bring up long-odds, worst-case scenarios when they choose, but when the Republicans do it, it's "the politics of fear." At any rate, I'd take her as President over racist Biden anyway.
Funny . . . to quote many, many other bloggers, if Obama with all of his credentials and history had been white, would he have gotten nominated?
Interesting to see people already falling prey to the brilliant strategy of this pick. Just about anything negative which can be said about Palin can be used to attack Obama.
Silver halide microfilm has a life expectancy of 500 years and only requires a magnifying glass to be used. Take your photos to a pro, spend a little money, and you'll have permanent archival backups of your media.
But isn't that what voters in Blue States want -- to pay more in taxes than the Red States? After all, they keep electing folks who keep raising the taxes.
I just wish those of us who happen to live in one of those Blue States but outside of a city or major metro area had more of a say. You have no concept of the true meaning of wealth redistribution until you've lived in the *rural* Northeast US. What the federal government does to its taxpayers is child's play compared to what a one-party state government like Maryland gets away with.
I mean, they raise taxes on cigarettes, and are suddenly horrified to find that people do not buy cigarettes in New York. Now, what do you think the enlightened liberals do up there? Do you think they set the tax at a more reasonable level? No... they call out the cops and pass even -more- laws designed to try and ban people from cigarettes from out of state.
It's a shame that those of us Marylanders who live outside of Baltimore City and Prince Georges County (DC suburb) are subjected to the one-party idiots perpetually elected by the city-dwelling liberals, who never miss a chance to seize and spend more of *our* money.
If properly stored, silver halide microfilm (a century-old technology) will last 500 years, and the viewing technology is pretty simple (magnifying glass).;-)
Fuck the tourists who trickle out of pike place market (who clog that place up and make snarky comments about organic food)
You mean the people who keep Pike Place and the park around with the dollars they spend? Yeah, that's a great way to run the city and keep those facilities available for everyone.
They get scared because they have to interact with non-tourists and don't visit
Last time I was there, some crackhead tailed me for three blocks after I refused to buy two (undoubtedly empty) Applebee's gift cards from him for $20. If that's your definition of "interaction," you've got some issues.
Many of us think a park should be a nice place to visit with our family. If I've got to worry about being harassed by junkies or that my kid might stick himself with a discarded needle or be cut with broken whiskey bottles, I certainly wouldn't call it "the best park in the whole city." That the situation is allowed to continue at taxpayers' expense is more criminal than what goes on there.
So why not outfit them with pay-per-use locks and give the handicapped a special access keycard? Sounds like it would have cut down on a lot of the problems that happened in this case.
It's the puritanical mindset of Americans that pushes these normal behaviors into the shadows
Into the shadows? Hardly. Sounds like you've never been to Victor Steinbrueck Park in the middle of the most touristy section of Seattle, where you can see dozens of addicts and homeless cheerfully loitering about day or night. From Wikipedia:
"The park is a popular gathering place for tourists, but also for the mentally ill, vagrants, alcoholics, and drug addicts. Public inebriation, nudity, and calls for assistance for unconscious individuals are common; a fall-off due to increased policing in the 1990s proved shortlived. There are a lot of drug-related misdemeanors and even minor felonies, though there have been no homicides."
The only thing I find shocking is that this outcome surprised anyone.
Perhaps . . . but no Congressional oversight? No Senate hearings on these outrages? C'mon . . . the Democrats have been at the helm for a year and a half now, so they're either too incompetent to know this is going on, or they're complicit.
It just bugs me when any "evil US" story is automatically tagged "republican" here on Slashdot . . . as if the Democrats are significantly different or any less interested in stripping away the rights of American citizens (case it point -- Obama's support of FISA, which will pay him huge dividends if he wins the election by further strengthening the power of the executive branch).
Isn't that what IRS and unemployment benefit audits are for? It's not like you can keep collecting benefits forever without going through periodic interviews about what you've been doing, submitting lists of companies with whom you interviewed, etc. This proposed system assumes everyone is guilty and gives the government a free pass to construct a database of literally every single electronic transaction which might ever occur. The privacy rammifications are shocking. It's no different than proposing Real ID as a means to stop the "terrorists."
In your scenario, I'm sure eBay would help nail you anyway, as they're no doubt keeping a list of everyone paying above a certain monthly / annual threshold in seller fees (again, for tax auditing purposes as well as internal marketing, "best customer lists," etc.).
I'm not talking about the political situation . . . I'm talking about the military reality. The military doesn't get to make any of the decisions you outline -- they just get to carry out orders and complete missions. Do you really believe that the reason there is continuing violence in Iraq has anything to do with a lack of US Military superiority? No, it's US Government's fear of seeing the war (specifically civilian casualties) televised all around the world. Otherwise, as occupiers (which we continue to be), we would have shot everyone who looked at us funny back in April 2003, and their families and associates, and the war would have been over. That is what has happened throughtout human history up until Vietnam. Vietnam changed everything -- solely because it was the first televised war. You can either have 100% complete, uncontested military success, or you can worry about the reaction from the rest of the world when you have to kill people (including some civilians) in a war zone. They are mutually exclusive. The insurgency knows this, and that is the ONLY reason this conflict goes on today. Ironically, the insurgency is NEVER called to task by those who continually demonize the US military, even when they behead civilians or make suicide bombers out of the the mentally disabled. Rather, we "made them" behead someone because we're occupying their country -- right?
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Statistics please? Or are you an oncologist?
BTW, awful funny how it's OK for Dems to bring up long-odds, worst-case scenarios when they choose, but when the Republicans do it, it's "the politics of fear." At any rate, I'd take her as President over racist Biden anyway.
If he were a year and a half older, Obama would be too. Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959.
Palin's not running for the top job in the land -- Obama is. There's a huge difference.
Funny . . . to quote many, many other bloggers, if Obama with all of his credentials and history had been white, would he have gotten nominated?
Interesting to see people already falling prey to the brilliant strategy of this pick. Just about anything negative which can be said about Palin can be used to attack Obama.
Silver halide microfilm has a life expectancy of 500 years and only requires a magnifying glass to be used. Take your photos to a pro, spend a little money, and you'll have permanent archival backups of your media.
. . . to link to an ad-filled TFA with bandwidth-consuming cheesy music. I hope their server fries.
But isn't that what voters in Blue States want -- to pay more in taxes than the Red States? After all, they keep electing folks who keep raising the taxes.
I just wish those of us who happen to live in one of those Blue States but outside of a city or major metro area had more of a say. You have no concept of the true meaning of wealth redistribution until you've lived in the *rural* Northeast US. What the federal government does to its taxpayers is child's play compared to what a one-party state government like Maryland gets away with.
I mean, they raise taxes on cigarettes, and are suddenly horrified to find that people do not buy cigarettes in New York. Now, what do you think the enlightened liberals do up there? Do you think they set the tax at a more reasonable level? No... they call out the cops and pass even -more- laws designed to try and ban people from cigarettes from out of state.
Oh, don't worry, you have company -- our elected retards in Annapolis are hard at work in going after "smugglers" after they recently doubled the MD cigarette tax to $2 / pack. Pack sales have dropped from 23 - 35% each *month* since they enacted the tax (double their projections), seizure of "contraband" smokes has quadrupled, and somehow everyone is shocked.
It's a shame that those of us Marylanders who live outside of Baltimore City and Prince Georges County (DC suburb) are subjected to the one-party idiots perpetually elected by the city-dwelling liberals, who never miss a chance to seize and spend more of *our* money.
If properly stored, silver halide microfilm (a century-old technology) will last 500 years, and the viewing technology is pretty simple (magnifying glass). ;-)
. . . here's another view of the piece of the Martian dust: .
Fuck the tourists who trickle out of pike place market (who clog that place up and make snarky comments about organic food)
You mean the people who keep Pike Place and the park around with the dollars they spend? Yeah, that's a great way to run the city and keep those facilities available for everyone.
They get scared because they have to interact with non-tourists and don't visit
Last time I was there, some crackhead tailed me for three blocks after I refused to buy two (undoubtedly empty) Applebee's gift cards from him for $20. If that's your definition of "interaction," you've got some issues.
Many of us think a park should be a nice place to visit with our family. If I've got to worry about being harassed by junkies or that my kid might stick himself with a discarded needle or be cut with broken whiskey bottles, I certainly wouldn't call it "the best park in the whole city." That the situation is allowed to continue at taxpayers' expense is more criminal than what goes on there.
So why not outfit them with pay-per-use locks and give the handicapped a special access keycard? Sounds like it would have cut down on a lot of the problems that happened in this case.
It's the puritanical mindset of Americans that pushes these normal behaviors into the shadows
Into the shadows? Hardly. Sounds like you've never been to Victor Steinbrueck Park in the middle of the most touristy section of Seattle, where you can see dozens of addicts and homeless cheerfully loitering about day or night. From Wikipedia:
"The park is a popular gathering place for tourists, but also for the mentally ill, vagrants, alcoholics, and drug addicts. Public inebriation, nudity, and calls for assistance for unconscious individuals are common; a fall-off due to increased policing in the 1990s proved shortlived. There are a lot of drug-related misdemeanors and even minor felonies, though there have been no homicides."
The only thing I find shocking is that this outcome surprised anyone.
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks?
I dunno, cheap yet plentiful food source?
How about the "Mobile Revenue Generator"?
but DHS is part of the executive
Perhaps . . . but no Congressional oversight? No Senate hearings on these outrages? C'mon . . . the Democrats have been at the helm for a year and a half now, so they're either too incompetent to know this is going on, or they're complicit.
It just bugs me when any "evil US" story is automatically tagged "republican" here on Slashdot . . . as if the Democrats are significantly different or any less interested in stripping away the rights of American citizens (case it point -- Obama's support of FISA, which will pay him huge dividends if he wins the election by further strengthening the power of the executive branch).
Last time I checked, we have a Democrat-controlled Senate and Congress. Surely Reid and Pelosi wouldn't let such a thing happen on their watch . . .
. . . so I took her to New Jersey. ;-)
Honestly, the s/n ratio keeps getting worse and worse here. News flash: government wastes money. Next.
. . . I'm posting a few of the pix here:
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Articles in Salon and Mother Jones cast McCain in an unflattering light? No way!!!
Next we'll be reading that the evil "Far Right" Republican bloggers are Google-bombing articles from foxnews.com. ;-D
. . . unify the country.
Isn't that what IRS and unemployment benefit audits are for? It's not like you can keep collecting benefits forever without going through periodic interviews about what you've been doing, submitting lists of companies with whom you interviewed, etc. This proposed system assumes everyone is guilty and gives the government a free pass to construct a database of literally every single electronic transaction which might ever occur. The privacy rammifications are shocking. It's no different than proposing Real ID as a means to stop the "terrorists."
In your scenario, I'm sure eBay would help nail you anyway, as they're no doubt keeping a list of everyone paying above a certain monthly / annual threshold in seller fees (again, for tax auditing purposes as well as internal marketing, "best customer lists," etc.).
Indeed. I'm surprised that this one even got past Slashdot's censo^H^H^H^H^Hmoderators. Because, you know, only the Republicans can do evil.
I'm not talking about the political situation . . . I'm talking about the military reality. The military doesn't get to make any of the decisions you outline -- they just get to carry out orders and complete missions. Do you really believe that the reason there is continuing violence in Iraq has anything to do with a lack of US Military superiority? No, it's US Government's fear of seeing the war (specifically civilian casualties) televised all around the world. Otherwise, as occupiers (which we continue to be), we would have shot everyone who looked at us funny back in April 2003, and their families and associates, and the war would have been over. That is what has happened throughtout human history up until Vietnam. Vietnam changed everything -- solely because it was the first televised war. You can either have 100% complete, uncontested military success, or you can worry about the reaction from the rest of the world when you have to kill people (including some civilians) in a war zone. They are mutually exclusive. The insurgency knows this, and that is the ONLY reason this conflict goes on today. Ironically, the insurgency is NEVER called to task by those who continually demonize the US military, even when they behead civilians or make suicide bombers out of the the mentally disabled. Rather, we "made them" behead someone because we're occupying their country -- right?