Duke Nukem Forever stole the time schedule for nuclear fusion and tried to implement it in code. Unfortunately they were not able to successfully implement that schedule and so they ended up actually shipping the game.
The hurdle isn't running for the Senate in the US, almost anyone can do that, the hurdle is winning. You've focused on the wrong part of the problem. And even if he did win, no party would appoint him to the intelligence committee. Public works? Maybe. Intelligence? No.
All that USA vs Russia shit is just rhetoric for manufacturing consent to wind up the very expensive military industrial complexes yet again.
The US military budget is in a period of significant decline over the next 10 years. The military budgets of China and Russia have been increasing by significant amounts. That is especially meaningful given the major cost advantages in their labor and materials costs (which is why the US budget looks so high). You can see the result in Russia's stunning victory in seizing and annexing Crimea. Russia restarted the former Soviet practice of simulated bombing runs and probes by sea and air on NATO countries, Scandinavian countries, and the US several years ago. Chinese state run media recently published maps showing nuclear strikes against the US as part of a celebration of their growing nuclear submarine fleet.
Those things don't help anyone.
Putin appears to be very popular at the moment, and China has told the US it can't be contained. China's neighbors are fearful of its intentions and are arming with new weapons and alliances.
Talk to people from all around the world and you'll figure out that no one really wants to kill each other, we all just want to be safe and live our lives.
You don't seem to be acquainted with the cult of the holy war martyr in Islamic countries. They very much want to kill and be killed. They wish to reconquer lands formerly ruled by the Muslim empires, including Spain and Israel or die trying. Both China and Russia desire to expand their power, and even take lands from their neighbors.
The corporations that own the countries that use the laws of governments and religions against us are not the people of the world.
Corporations exist at the whim of governments, they don't "own" governments. If that wasn't the case then the various socialist and communist countries would never have been able to nationalize the property formerly owned by corporations.
"Government" is just a word for things we do together. "Corporation" is just a word for things we do together voluntarily. - David Burge@iowahawkblog
Snowden is an ally to the people of the world.
The affect of Snowden's leaks is a weaker and disunited West. Snowden is strengthening the hand of Russia and China which will mean more military adventurism and diplomatic coups. Remember than when Iran builds nuclear weapons to put on their missiles that can already reach Europe.
The post you are replying to obviously means the "electric chair," not a committee chair. Besides, the only upper house of a legislature that Snowden would have any chance at is more properly called the "Federation Council of Russia," not the Senate. Snowden is singularly unsuitable for any office of trust in the United States, and it is inconceivable that any American political party having a majority of the US Senate would appoint him.
I don't know, I can't fathom it I'm wildly advancing theories to explain how the USA achieved the USSR's wet dream of surveillance and it has less impact on policy than if a pop star got naked on prime time television.
You don't suppose it could be because the USSR used surveillance information to send people interested in democratic reform to be drugged up in psychiatric units, and people that made jokes about the Chairman of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to 10 years of hard labor in a prison camp above the artic circle while the US warehouses partial phone bills for 5 years in case it needs to do an investigation of someone discovered to be part of an Al Qaida bomb plot or a spy and doesn't send people to prison for making Bush or Obama jokes? That is kind of a meaningful difference.
Future generations will scarcely believe that we were here now, watching the footing for their prison be poured, and we did nothing.
I've got news for you, the problem isn't a future "prison," but rather the chains being forged. Those chains grow longer, heavier, the warnings continue, and nothing useful is being done about it. Demographics are against the US. This is not likely to end well.
No, but since you're left throwing things against the wall to see what will stick that will probably be the best you can do. The list of Cuban government atrocities against their own people is long and bloody, and the oppression of the Cuban people by Castro regime continues to this day. But that doesn't count since it isn't "US-sponsored," right?
"Freedom" and "democracy" are merely code words for slavery at the hands of the Americans. I praise Cuba for their continued heroic resistance to the evil imperialistic power... They've shown that the world will not simply bow down to American power...
What the Cuban communists have shown is that they are willing to execute or imprison people by the thousands each year to maintain a brutal dictatorship with backwards Marxist economic policies that have been abandoned by nearly every country in the world due to their repeated failure. Their "heroic resistance" to democracy, any real measure of freedom, and a functioning economy, have resulted in around 2,000,000 people fleeing the country at no small risk to themselves, especially if they get caught. The Cuban people are slaves now of their own government. Your praise is entirely misplaced.
Oh dear, oh dear. Yes, I have to agree here; that is horrible. Terrible. Possibly even Terrorism. Ranting and raving against the US! Having her photo taken with Fidel!! Because no US politician would ever rant or rave against neighbouring counties. Or have their photo taken with dubious world leaders.
Well, that is the Slashdot rule, isn't it? Whenever the subject of Iraq comes up you can bet that someone will point out that decades ago pictures were taken of Donald Rumsfeld meeting Saddam so that "totally proves" that Saddam was put in power by the US, and was a US puppet, and.. and... and. Or is this one of the many rules that is only operative when it is to the disadvantage of the US?
Certainly. If a politician says some mean things about the US, that TOTALLY justifies US meddling in that politician's country. There is lots of jurisprudence here, because it is exactly the time-honoured schoolyard argument that teachers like so much: "But teach, THEY started it!". (And in the same time-honoured schoolyard tradition, the original offence is of course microscopic compared to the retaliation.)
You may notice that individual nations deal with each other, there is no "teacher." But you wouldn't suggest that anyone speak out of turn, right? Not even for human rights, for those that have no voice?
They hate us for our freedom. Underhanded manipulation of their local political system for our own agenda has nothing to do with it.
What the Cuban government truly hates is when it looks like any freedom might leak into their communist dictatorship. They put lots of people in prison, starve, and beat them, to keep that freedom from leaking in. Making something like twitter easier to get to isn't much of a threat to that. And as long as there are enough people running interference for the Cuban government, often voluntarily, the Cuban government will find it easier to keep their people in chains.
So do you have anything to complain about that isn't 40-50 years old or so? I've got something for you. The Cubans have been either executing or imprisoning people for political dissent the entire time, it hasn't stopped. Neither has the torture and mistreatment. And the numbers aren't small either. Since they don't seem to be making much progress there, are they "slimy" in your book? Worse? Surely not better? Or is it only the US, the country you claim to be from, that is "slimy"?
Slashdot Mirror
The Supreme Court decided long ago that a Congressional authorization to use military force was legally equivalent to a declaration of war.
As to the rest of that.... what on earth are you talking about?
Well you do need to use shaving cream if you want to avoid razor burn.
Nuclear fusion is the new Duke Nukem Forever.
Duke Nukem Forever stole the time schedule for nuclear fusion and tried to implement it in code. Unfortunately they were not able to successfully implement that schedule and so they ended up actually shipping the game.
Various Native American tribes are engaging in self-destructive behavior. Some say it is over gambling profits.
Disenrollment leaves Natives "culturally homeless"
One tribe in California will shortly have cut itself in half, down to 900 or less: I Know I Am, But What Are You?
He's Philby or a vigilante, not a "messenger." Oddly you're not getting that right.
I guess it's time to dust off Reagan's joke again. It only needs a slight tweak to be current.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force in force since 2001 is legally the same as a declaration of war.
As far as I know Snowden isn't being charged with treason but rather with espionage and computer crime.
The method of execution for a federal capital crime apparently can vary depending upon the offense, circumstance, and where it is committed.
The hurdle isn't running for the Senate in the US, almost anyone can do that, the hurdle is winning. You've focused on the wrong part of the problem. And even if he did win, no party would appoint him to the intelligence committee. Public works? Maybe. Intelligence? No.
You can try to paper over Venezuela's self-inflicted problems, but it won't be with toilet paper.
How socialism has destroyed Venezuela
" Somehow, toilet paper is now more valuable than paper money."
Venezuela Imploding Like the Soviet Union
The left has a blind spot on Venezuela.
All that USA vs Russia shit is just rhetoric for manufacturing consent to wind up the very expensive military industrial complexes yet again.
The US military budget is in a period of significant decline over the next 10 years. The military budgets of China and Russia have been increasing by significant amounts. That is especially meaningful given the major cost advantages in their labor and materials costs (which is why the US budget looks so high). You can see the result in Russia's stunning victory in seizing and annexing Crimea. Russia restarted the former Soviet practice of simulated bombing runs and probes by sea and air on NATO countries, Scandinavian countries, and the US several years ago. Chinese state run media recently published maps showing nuclear strikes against the US as part of a celebration of their growing nuclear submarine fleet.
Those things don't help anyone.
Putin appears to be very popular at the moment, and China has told the US it can't be contained. China's neighbors are fearful of its intentions and are arming with new weapons and alliances.
Talk to people from all around the world and you'll figure out that no one really wants to kill each other, we all just want to be safe and live our lives.
You don't seem to be acquainted with the cult of the holy war martyr in Islamic countries. They very much want to kill and be killed. They wish to reconquer lands formerly ruled by the Muslim empires, including Spain and Israel or die trying. Both China and Russia desire to expand their power, and even take lands from their neighbors.
The corporations that own the countries that use the laws of governments and religions against us are not the people of the world.
Corporations exist at the whim of governments, they don't "own" governments. If that wasn't the case then the various socialist and communist countries would never have been able to nationalize the property formerly owned by corporations.
"Government" is just a word for things we do together.
"Corporation" is just a word for things we do together voluntarily. - David Burge@iowahawkblog
Snowden is an ally to the people of the world.
The affect of Snowden's leaks is a weaker and disunited West. Snowden is strengthening the hand of Russia and China which will mean more military adventurism and diplomatic coups. Remember than when Iran builds nuclear weapons to put on their missiles that can already reach Europe.
Venezuela: Investigate Deaths in Prison Crackdown
You seem conflicted about the role of a free media in trying to build and maintain a free society and in fighting corruption.
The NSA *ONLY* spies on its enemies ... And we now have a pretty good idea of who it believes its enemy to be.
Wrong. The NSA spies to get information requested by other parts of the US government. Apparently there are around 30,000 such information requests.
The post you are replying to obviously means the "electric chair," not a committee chair. Besides, the only upper house of a legislature that Snowden would have any chance at is more properly called the "Federation Council of Russia," not the Senate. Snowden is singularly unsuitable for any office of trust in the United States, and it is inconceivable that any American political party having a majority of the US Senate would appoint him.
I don't know, I can't fathom it I'm wildly advancing theories to explain how the USA achieved the USSR's wet dream of surveillance and it has less impact on policy than if a pop star got naked on prime time television.
You don't suppose it could be because the USSR used surveillance information to send people interested in democratic reform to be drugged up in psychiatric units, and people that made jokes about the Chairman of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to 10 years of hard labor in a prison camp above the artic circle while the US warehouses partial phone bills for 5 years in case it needs to do an investigation of someone discovered to be part of an Al Qaida bomb plot or a spy and doesn't send people to prison for making Bush or Obama jokes? That is kind of a meaningful difference.
Look! Still not in prison despite this: Best of Jay Leno's Obama Jokes in 2013
Future generations will scarcely believe that we were here now, watching the footing for their prison be poured, and we did nothing.
I've got news for you, the problem isn't a future "prison," but rather the chains being forged. Those chains grow longer, heavier, the warnings continue, and nothing useful is being done about it. Demographics are against the US. This is not likely to end well.
No, but since you're left throwing things against the wall to see what will stick that will probably be the best you can do. The list of Cuban government atrocities against their own people is long and bloody, and the oppression of the Cuban people by Castro regime continues to this day. But that doesn't count since it isn't "US-sponsored," right?
And your logic leaves you unable to say 5,000 deaths in a long running pattern of murder and toruture is worse than 1 death.
"Freedom" and "democracy" are merely code words for slavery at the hands of the Americans. I praise Cuba for their continued heroic resistance to the evil imperialistic power... They've shown that the world will not simply bow down to American power ...
What the Cuban communists have shown is that they are willing to execute or imprison people by the thousands each year to maintain a brutal dictatorship with backwards Marxist economic policies that have been abandoned by nearly every country in the world due to their repeated failure. Their "heroic resistance" to democracy, any real measure of freedom, and a functioning economy, have resulted in around 2,000,000 people fleeing the country at no small risk to themselves, especially if they get caught. The Cuban people are slaves now of their own government. Your praise is entirely misplaced.
Oh dear, oh dear. Yes, I have to agree here; that is horrible. Terrible. Possibly even Terrorism. Ranting and raving against the US! Having her photo taken with Fidel!! Because no US politician would ever rant or rave against neighbouring counties. Or have their photo taken with dubious world leaders.
Well, that is the Slashdot rule, isn't it? Whenever the subject of Iraq comes up you can bet that someone will point out that decades ago pictures were taken of Donald Rumsfeld meeting Saddam so that "totally proves" that Saddam was put in power by the US, and was a US puppet, and .. and ... and. Or is this one of the many rules that is only operative when it is to the disadvantage of the US?
Certainly. If a politician says some mean things about the US, that TOTALLY justifies US meddling in that politician's country. There is lots of jurisprudence here, because it is exactly the time-honoured schoolyard argument that teachers like so much: "But teach, THEY started it!". (And in the same time-honoured schoolyard tradition, the original offence is of course microscopic compared to the retaliation.)
You may notice that individual nations deal with each other, there is no "teacher." But you wouldn't suggest that anyone speak out of turn, right? Not even for human rights, for those that have no voice?
They hate us for our freedom. Underhanded manipulation of their local political system for our own agenda has nothing to do with it.
What the Cuban government truly hates is when it looks like any freedom might leak into their communist dictatorship. They put lots of people in prison, starve, and beat them, to keep that freedom from leaking in. Making something like twitter easier to get to isn't much of a threat to that. And as long as there are enough people running interference for the Cuban government, often voluntarily, the Cuban government will find it easier to keep their people in chains.
It's funny how butthurt they are about Cuba and how much effort they put into overthrowing Castro. It's like they don't have any bigger problems.
I believe that close to 2,000,000 people have fled Cuba and came to the US over the years. You don't suppose there might be something there, do you?
So do you have anything to complain about that isn't 40-50 years old or so? I've got something for you. The Cubans have been either executing or imprisoning people for political dissent the entire time, it hasn't stopped. Neither has the torture and mistreatment. And the numbers aren't small either. Since they don't seem to be making much progress there, are they "slimy" in your book? Worse? Surely not better? Or is it only the US, the country you claim to be from, that is "slimy"?
Virtually none of Marx's actual ideas were put into practice by the so-called Communist parties.
You are quite wrong there. Far too many of Marx's bloody ideas were put into practice.
Obviously we can't have the idea of the fringe Left engaging in political violence floating in polite company. After all, what would that do to the "peace" movement?
Bridge bombing case: Appellate court upholds the sentences of 4 terror suspects
The men had pleaded guilty in federal court in Akron to conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and other weapons charges.
A federal jury convicted a fifth man, Joshua Stafford, of similar charges. Dowd sentenced him to 10 years in prison in October.
Given Che's bloodthirsty nature I have little doubt where most of those atrocities occurred.