So the Senate isn't sufficient to protect the rights of individual states? Why should some yahoo in tumbuktu have more of a say who the President is than I do?
And today we get yet another lesson on why the electoral college is useless and outdated. How is it that someone can get a majority of votes and not win? Everyone's vote should be equal; having some people's vote count more than other people's vote is absurd.
I'm pretty sure that with the first ad they were implying that using Vista was like wearing clown shoes, and that the Vista experience would drive you to wear your clothes in the shower.
On the upside I bet these ads did sell more Apple products, so it isn't a total loss.
..what raging idiot at Microsoft green lighted this ad campaign..
Probably the same person who decided lyrics containing, "you'd make a grown man cryyyyy" would be a good theme song for their product. At least it was truth in advertising, I'll give them that.
I always though some kind of "grows itself" structure would be an awesome way to colonize another planet. Just send a probe ahead of the main colony that drops some "house seeds" somewhere, and when you arrive you have bunches of temporary shelters just waiting for you to move in (after you put in the electricity and plumbing and furniture of course).
In a sane society, wouldn't the warrant be required before actually bashing down doors? Oh wait, I forgot that isn't necessary anymore. Obviously the new FBI powers aren't intended to only be used to protect us from terrorists, but from those damn protesters too.
If you have a house full of people waiting to protest and the toilet backs up, where else are you gonna go?
Also possessing buckets of urine, slingshots, bows 'n arrows, and guns is perfectly legal (or was the gun illegally registered, or otherwise illegal?) Certainly there are plenty of illegal things you can do with all of the above items, but unless there is actual evidence that crimes were to be committed with the items, simply having them isn't a crime.
So at this point it looks like we just have to wait and see what evidence comes to light, including a reasonable explanation of why there were informants in the groups to begin with.
Whelan says his roommate, Erin Stalmaker, went out to talk to talk to the police. She asked the officers why they were there. The officers asked why people were running away from them. Erin reportedly told the officers that their drawn automatic weapons probably had something to do with it. She was detained after asking to see a warrant.
If this is true (being arrested after asking to see a warrant; no warrant being produced), this is insane. Heads must roll for this; our country absolutely depends on it.
For the sake of the country, the people responsible for these raids must be fired (and very possibly sent to prison) for this. This is utterly unacceptable.
If this was plugged into nearby billboards (like in Minority Report), wearing the costume through the metro would be worth it just to see people freak out over the ads for furry porn.
We'd need air to breathe and protection from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.
Well, we'd need all that plus the floating cities. Plus a way to get there would be nice, and a regular ferry to keep the supplies like food and such arriving. But aside from all that we are ready to move in.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh and I found one:
y2k bug : (281,000) 274,000
I am amazed that currently google only shows 654,000 hits for vote fraud, and 201,000 back then.
The Internet is a lot bigger now than it was in 2001.
Or not:
"penis enlargement": (107,000) 7,410,000
search term: (old) now
linux: (18,600,000) 558,000,000
microsoft: (15,700,000) 903,000,000
microsoft problems: (13,200,000) 500,000,000
linux problems: (15,400,000) 300,000,000
ubuntu linux: (20) 8,280,000
vista microsoft: (90,900) 20,800,000
vista microsoft problems: (0) 1,550,000
xp microsoft problems: (9,440) 11,900,000
Yeah, but if you were a lawyer and people searching for "sue my asshole ex husband" on gooooogle saw your link first, imagine how happy you would be.
Once Linux is no longer jailbait the love will start rolling in.
So the Senate isn't sufficient to protect the rights of individual states? Why should some yahoo in tumbuktu have more of a say who the President is than I do?
And today we get yet another lesson on why the electoral college is useless and outdated. How is it that someone can get a majority of votes and not win? Everyone's vote should be equal; having some people's vote count more than other people's vote is absurd.
I'm pretty sure that with the first ad they were implying that using Vista was like wearing clown shoes, and that the Vista experience would drive you to wear your clothes in the shower.
On the upside I bet these ads did sell more Apple products, so it isn't a total loss.
..what raging idiot at Microsoft green lighted this ad campaign..
Probably the same person who decided lyrics containing, "you'd make a grown man cryyyyy" would be a good theme song for their product. At least it was truth in advertising, I'll give them that.
If the internet has done one thing for me, it has killed whatever curiosity I had to go look at new shock images.
I always though some kind of "grows itself" structure would be an awesome way to colonize another planet. Just send a probe ahead of the main colony that drops some "house seeds" somewhere, and when you arrive you have bunches of temporary shelters just waiting for you to move in (after you put in the electricity and plumbing and furniture of course).
In a sane society, wouldn't the warrant be required before actually bashing down doors? Oh wait, I forgot that isn't necessary anymore. Obviously the new FBI powers aren't intended to only be used to protect us from terrorists, but from those damn protesters too.
If you have a house full of people waiting to protest and the toilet backs up, where else are you gonna go?
Also possessing buckets of urine, slingshots, bows 'n arrows, and guns is perfectly legal (or was the gun illegally registered, or otherwise illegal?) Certainly there are plenty of illegal things you can do with all of the above items, but unless there is actual evidence that crimes were to be committed with the items, simply having them isn't a crime.
So at this point it looks like we just have to wait and see what evidence comes to light, including a reasonable explanation of why there were informants in the groups to begin with.
Whelan says his roommate, Erin Stalmaker, went out to talk to talk to the police. She asked the officers why they were there. The officers asked why people were running away from them. Erin reportedly told the officers that their drawn automatic weapons probably had something to do with it. She was detained after asking to see a warrant.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/08/30/inside-an-rnc-raid/
If this is true (being arrested after asking to see a warrant; no warrant being produced), this is insane. Heads must roll for this; our country absolutely depends on it.
If only it were the police; it looks like the FBI may be involved as well http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/index.html
For the sake of the country, the people responsible for these raids must be fired (and very possibly sent to prison) for this. This is utterly unacceptable.
Call me when my server is also covered it hot grits and petrified.
I wonder how hard it would be to find out what the MAC addres of the provost's pc is? Let the spoofing hilarity begin!
Wanna check your email? That'll be $1. Wanna post to ./?? That'll be $2.
[after searching Clippy pops up]
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If this was plugged into nearby billboards (like in Minority Report), wearing the costume through the metro would be worth it just to see people freak out over the ads for furry porn.
But riding my high horse is free! So I ride him everywhere because of high gas prices.
We'd need air to breathe and protection from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere.
Well, we'd need all that plus the floating cities. Plus a way to get there would be nice, and a regular ferry to keep the supplies like food and such arriving. But aside from all that we are ready to move in.
I'm sure strip mining half of the land surface to get the lime won't have much of an impact.
Or the dolphins figure out the solution to all that lime being added to their seawater. How many nukes have we lost in the deep deep ocean again?
I keep half expecting them to finally get one built, and then they realize they don't have a launch pad capable of handling something that big.