"Congress shall make no law...abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Well it's not difficult for a government to turn a peaceful demonstration into a violent one, all you need to do is get the police to attack with batons and break a few limbs and you'll generally get a response. And you can then declare a riot and martial law.
I do sometimes wonder at the naivety of Americans who think that the Constitution in itself can prevent fascism.
You are very wrong, at least in Spain, there are ALWAYS more protests against left governs than against the right wing governs for simple reason, right wings are extremists and they don't care about people so they don't simply give a f*ck about persons and their rights... spanish right wing protest in masses against women rights to abort and they kill people... so please, get your facts straight first.
On slashdot, right wing is good and left wing is bad. If a right wing person murders someone, then they're no true right winger. Oh, and Nazi stands for National Socialist so all left wingers are fascists.
The reason there are more demonstrations with right wing governments in power anywhere is that the sort of hard left types who demonstrate are usually young , angry and naive. Right wing voters are usually more mature and protest in other ways when a left wing government is in power.
And for proof of this, all you have to do is look at General Franco's regime, where the mature-but- fun-loving right wingers certainly never demonstrated or used violence in any way. Oh, wait...
Then you would defend the Mafia from criminal charges, based on that rationale?
It's not a defense, but an observation. Similarly, you can't point to a crime that the abstract entity, "the Mafia" commits, but which isn't actually committed by its constituent members.
But a member of the Mafia (or a company director) isn't just acting on their own behalf. Just because there is no physical person called Mr Mafia or Mr Corporation doesn't mean that the organisation doesn't exist.
Institutions like the Army or Catholic Church most certainly have an existence beyond their constituent human members.
I have to state the obvious here. Corporations are granted these rights because otherwise the people involved with the corporation have their rights abridged, owners, employees, customers.
Corporations are legal fictions, and the "rights" they have been granted are to shield employees from legal responsibility, which is the opposite of their purpose.
Corporations were created in order to limit their shareholders' liability to their initial investment, and thus encourage trade by removing the risk of a failed business banrupting you completely.
Few years ago, when teachers were protesting against low wages in UK, protest was routed through biggest commercial street in London (Oxford Street). Before it has reached the end, half of the people protesting was gone, shopping (they came from all over UK, so being able to visit all the shops, both discounts and posh ones was a real treat).
If people can be swayed by a sale tag, then I will gladly laugh in their damn face as to the "protest" being attempted.
I don't even know why they have to pass gag laws with the sheep being this easily distracted.
Fuck you. They all had to take a day's unpaid leave. If, having made their political point, they want to go shopping or get pissed, why the fuck shouldn't they in their own time?
Also off topic, I'm reminded of the fact that some people don't approve of green traffic lights and their local council requires a significant budget to replace them. Maybe they should try bluer shades of green since blue would be an acceptable colour to the local populace.
Sadly, that doesn't appear to have been published on April 1st.
2 cheap external hard drives. Use Acronis (or if you are lucky enough to have a copy of Norton Ghost) or other cloner to clone your entire hard drive including operating system to one or the other external overnight, keep the other drive in your car and swap out every day. Use a password/encryption to safeguard your data in case you lose one.
Simple, cheap, I've got this solution running in every dental or medical office I support. It not only saves their data in case of disaster, but also in case of ransomware or other serious infection.
Just so I have this straight in my head: you support multiple dental/medical offices, and every day, you drive to each office, clone their drives, and keep a copy in your car. I'm pretty much just repeating exactly what you said. Is that correct?
I think in this situation it is assumed that you would have a nominated person per office to do the cloning, swapping and carrying in their car.
So I am preparing the food, and oh, how nice the oven is warming up for me. Hey, what's that smell? Oh shit, I should not have stored that plastic tray in the oven!
Indeed, and the can of gasoline was even more unfortunate.
Don't forget all the people associated with her who "committed suicide".
If she was guilty of arranging their deaths, the way it works is that the police/prosecutors get some evidence and charge her with conspiracy to murder.
Otherwise, it's just meaningless "when did you stop beating your husband" hot air.
I'm somewhat skeptical of the whole corrupt system, all the way through, but all the muck brought up on Clintonia is NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING compared to the death, destruction, global disruption actions of the war criminals Dubyah and Dick
So?
Lets say that we all agree with you... then what? Vote in Clinton because... of what Bush did?
Two wrongs make a right?
How about we get someone fresh and new in who hasn't been in Washington for 30 years?
Just because two wrongs don't make a right doesn't mean that all wrongs are equal.
Starting two pointless wars is not in the same ballpark as getting a blow job.
The women who were only character-assassinated were the lucky ones.
An intern murdered execution-style at her workplace, an ex-lover who committed "suicide", his speech interpreter for the deaf has an auto-accident,....
But it's alright, nothing to see here, ignore all that conspiracy theory nonsense and turn on the TV.
So why didn't anyone bump off the most notorious of the woman involved, Monica Lewinsky? I'm not from the US, and that's the only name I remember. If there was some super-evil conspiracy to remove traces of Bill's fucking around, why did they let her slip through the net?
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
As a non-American I always assume it is connected with the mythology of the Wild West or Frontiersman type of rugged individualism, which to be fair is fairly recent history (in European terms). Personally, I prefer civilization, but the "one-man-and-his-gun against the world" idea clearly appeals to many modern US citizens, even if they're living in a city apartment block and working in IT.
Otherwise known as "The Grauniad", because of the endless typos. Who the fuck writes "but keeps revising in likelihood request is denied". That isn't even English. That's the mentality of the Left wing assholes who produce The Guardian, arrogant, nation-wrecking tossers, who are terrified of open debate. I wonder why.
You certainly read an awful lot into a typo. Reading slashdot must cause you to have regular mental breakdowns.
"a quarter of the state the feds have given to Indian reservations"
This is an interesting use of the word "given".
If I hit you on the head with a baseball bat, take all your money and clothes, then throw your shoes and a couple of dollars at you out of pity, that's technically giving.
This IS a valid sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
That is such an extreme case as to be meaningless. Even as a native English speaker, I need that explained to me every time I see it, as none of the uses of "buffalo" are ones I have ever written or said myself (as I'm not from the US I need to be reminded that Buffalo is also a place).
It's a bit like saying that English has stupidly long words like "antidisestablishmentarianism" or "floccinaucinihilipilification." Yes, they're in the dictionary, but no one ever uses them except as a joke.
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You have the right to free speech, that doesn't mean everybody has to listen to you.
The "new" meaning (an individual that's deliberately abusive or deliberately fans the flames)
Actually, the new meaning is: someone who holds an unpopular opinion.
Just because an opinion is unpopular doesn't mean it's right.
If you want to use the internet to post anonymous messages threatening to rape children, don't be surprised if people get annoyed.
the rest of the white race
Oops, what a giveaway, you racist twat.
And "quoting" is somewhat different from "shouting through a fucking megaphone".
How's that insightful?
Linking to an xkcd cartoon is pretty much a guarantee of a +5 Insightful mod on slashdot. Fuck knows why, especially when it's as moronic as that one.
"Congress shall make no law...abridging the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Well it's not difficult for a government to turn a peaceful demonstration into a violent one, all you need to do is get the police to attack with batons and break a few limbs and you'll generally get a response. And you can then declare a riot and martial law.
I do sometimes wonder at the naivety of Americans who think that the Constitution in itself can prevent fascism.
Yes, even the art of demonstrating is bigger and better in the US.
You are very wrong, at least in Spain, there are ALWAYS more protests against left governs than against the right wing governs for simple reason, right wings are extremists and they don't care about people so they don't simply give a f*ck about persons and their rights ... spanish right wing protest in masses against women rights to abort and they kill people ... so please, get your facts straight first.
On slashdot, right wing is good and left wing is bad. If a right wing person murders someone, then they're no true right winger. Oh, and Nazi stands for National Socialist so all left wingers are fascists.
The reason there are more demonstrations with right wing governments in power anywhere is that the sort of hard left types who demonstrate are usually young , angry and naive. Right wing voters are usually more mature and protest in other ways when a left wing government is in power.
And for proof of this, all you have to do is look at General Franco's regime, where the mature-but- fun-loving right wingers certainly never demonstrated or used violence in any way. Oh, wait...
Then you would defend the Mafia from criminal charges, based on that rationale?
It's not a defense, but an observation. Similarly, you can't point to a crime that the abstract entity, "the Mafia" commits, but which isn't actually committed by its constituent members.
But a member of the Mafia (or a company director) isn't just acting on their own behalf. Just because there is no physical person called Mr Mafia or Mr Corporation doesn't mean that the organisation doesn't exist.
Institutions like the Army or Catholic Church most certainly have an existence beyond their constituent human members.
I have to state the obvious here. Corporations are granted these rights because otherwise the people involved with the corporation have their rights abridged, owners, employees, customers.
Corporations are legal fictions, and the "rights" they have been granted are to shield employees from legal responsibility, which is the opposite of their purpose.
Corporations were created in order to limit their shareholders' liability to their initial investment, and thus encourage trade by removing the risk of a failed business banrupting you completely.
Few years ago, when teachers were protesting against low wages in UK, protest was routed through biggest commercial street in London (Oxford Street). Before it has reached the end, half of the people protesting was gone, shopping (they came from all over UK, so being able to visit all the shops, both discounts and posh ones was a real treat).
If people can be swayed by a sale tag, then I will gladly laugh in their damn face as to the "protest" being attempted.
I don't even know why they have to pass gag laws with the sheep being this easily distracted.
Fuck you. They all had to take a day's unpaid leave. If, having made their political point, they want to go shopping or get pissed, why the fuck shouldn't they in their own time?
Also off topic, I'm reminded of the fact that some people don't approve of green traffic lights and their local council requires a significant budget to replace them. Maybe they should try bluer shades of green since blue would be an acceptable colour to the local populace.
Sadly, that doesn't appear to have been published on April 1st.
If diversity is the greatest thing, why don't we hack a random number of limbs off of every person for more diversity?
Maybe it's time to give up your delusions of special-snowflakeness and admit that some variations are simply flaws. Flaws that can be fixed.
But not all flaws can be fixed. And the point about diversity is that having some physical difference isn't a badge of moral depravity.
2 cheap external hard drives. Use Acronis (or if you are lucky enough to have a copy of Norton Ghost) or other cloner to clone your entire hard drive including operating system to one or the other external overnight, keep the other drive in your car and swap out every day. Use a password/encryption to safeguard your data in case you lose one.
Simple, cheap, I've got this solution running in every dental or medical office I support. It not only saves their data in case of disaster, but also in case of ransomware or other serious infection.
Just so I have this straight in my head: you support multiple dental/medical offices, and every day, you drive to each office, clone their drives, and keep a copy in your car. I'm pretty much just repeating exactly what you said. Is that correct?
I think in this situation it is assumed that you would have a nominated person per office to do the cloning, swapping and carrying in their car.
So I am preparing the food, and oh, how nice the oven is warming up for me. Hey, what's that smell? Oh shit, I should not have stored that plastic tray in the oven!
Indeed, and the can of gasoline was even more unfortunate.
to facebook AUTOMATICALLY
I have seen the future...and it is shit.
Don't forget all the people associated with her who "committed suicide".
If she was guilty of arranging their deaths, the way it works is that the police/prosecutors get some evidence and charge her with conspiracy to murder.
Otherwise, it's just meaningless "when did you stop beating your husband" hot air.
I'm somewhat skeptical of the whole corrupt system, all the way through, but all the muck brought up on Clintonia is NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING compared to the death, destruction, global disruption actions of the war criminals Dubyah and Dick
So?
Lets say that we all agree with you... then what? Vote in Clinton because... of what Bush did?
Two wrongs make a right?
How about we get someone fresh and new in who hasn't been in Washington for 30 years?
Just because two wrongs don't make a right doesn't mean that all wrongs are equal.
Starting two pointless wars is not in the same ballpark as getting a blow job.
The women who were only character-assassinated were the lucky ones.
An intern murdered execution-style at her workplace, an ex-lover who committed "suicide", his speech interpreter for the deaf has an auto-accident, ....
But it's alright, nothing to see here, ignore all that conspiracy theory nonsense and turn on the TV.
So why didn't anyone bump off the most notorious of the woman involved, Monica Lewinsky? I'm not from the US, and that's the only name I remember. If there was some super-evil conspiracy to remove traces of Bill's fucking around, why did they let her slip through the net?
will be lucky to get 18 inches
fnarr fnarr
try uttering such common sense in the usa
why are so many americans such fucking morons when it comes to the simple undeniable truth: more easy guns = more senseless death, not protection
As a non-American I always assume it is connected with the mythology of the Wild West or Frontiersman type of rugged individualism, which to be fair is fairly recent history (in European terms). Personally, I prefer civilization, but the "one-man-and-his-gun against the world" idea clearly appeals to many modern US citizens, even if they're living in a city apartment block and working in IT.
Otherwise known as "The Grauniad", because of the endless typos. Who the fuck writes "but keeps revising in likelihood request is denied". That isn't even English. That's the mentality of the Left wing assholes who produce The Guardian, arrogant, nation-wrecking tossers, who are terrified of open debate. I wonder why.
You certainly read an awful lot into a typo. Reading slashdot must cause you to have regular mental breakdowns.
"a quarter of the state the feds have given to Indian reservations"
This is an interesting use of the word "given".
If I hit you on the head with a baseball bat, take all your money and clothes, then throw your shoes and a couple of dollars at you out of pity, that's technically giving.
This IS a valid sentence: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
That is such an extreme case as to be meaningless. Even as a native English speaker, I need that explained to me every time I see it, as none of the uses of "buffalo" are ones I have ever written or said myself (as I'm not from the US I need to be reminded that Buffalo is also a place).
It's a bit like saying that English has stupidly long words like "antidisestablishmentarianism" or "floccinaucinihilipilification." Yes, they're in the dictionary, but no one ever uses them except as a joke.