by careful application of sophisticated software, these issues can be used to solve each other.
Bah ha ha ha! Oh, you idealists and utopians are so precious. So will the earth ponies run the servers and the unicorn ponies write the code? Where do the pegasus ponies fit in? Oh, I know, they can deliver the endless patches.
No, no. We call it Open Source Governance! You see? It's open source, so it's automatically better than everything else. It's holy!
Nothing prevents you from forming your own super PAC and collecting money to generate commercials to the public that promotes your political ideology.
Actually, I have been thinking very seriously along those lines. I'd like to form a PAC that simply creates ads that counter all the bullcrap out there, because the news media ceased being a serious watchdog a long time ago. It would be California focused.
It allows people to convene and collaborate without requiring that we have a politician to guide and protect us from ourselves.
Cool theory, bro, but then we went on the Internet, and saw all those people, and discovered they were even bigger psychopaths than the politicians. The politicians are just the more goal oriented alpha beasts.
Are you honestly saying that Rick Perry is smarter than a group of average people?
He found his way to a position of wealth and power. He's playing a ruthless and complicated game better than most. I'd say he's smarter than you, at least, because you appear to have bought his little act. They're *all* acting, you know. The moment you start thinking these scumbags are dumb, you've failed and become just another of the useful idiots.
Don't care. Blithering ideologues attacking another blithering ideologue. Waste of anyone's time. We already know the candidates are all sociopaths. Those who don't are just more blithering ideologues, and you can;t teach them anything, because they "know what they know".
It's also easy to trot out the old "run for office yourself!" trope which ignores much of modern reality.
Anyone not corruptible or already immoral will lose out to the sociopaths and insiders. That fault is the media that ignores issues (beyond a very shallow level) and goes after the dirt, incessantly and with a blood rage. You need to absolutely not give a shit what anyone thinks about you or says about you to survive.
I've worked on campaigns in the past at a high enough level to interact with the candidates. I've seen it first hand. Above city council positions for *small* cities, your typical "nice person" is eaten alive and spit out so fast it's just a blur. And we have small towns here in California that have been revealed to be corrupt warrens of asshats. Any outsider who challenges them is put down quickly via lies and outspending thanks to all their cronies in local business interests and public employee unions. What's that? Businessmen and unions are enemies? Ha ha! You're a silly pony!
This has been going on in one form or another since the year dot. The power structure has been breeding these monsters for millennia.
I got dinner and a roof over my head, other than that, I was on my own. I couldn't afford to see a movie or buy a beer. Once those two years of misery were over, then I moved out.
That would sound like heaven to 99% of the global population.
The religious types took over the GOP- simple as that.
Back in the day (hey, stop yawning!) even the likes of Nixon actually *warned* against mixing politics and religion. He was buddies with Billy Graham, but Nixon, a Quaker, is said to have expressed concerns that his dealings with Graham would be interpreted as politicial rather than personal.
Even wacky Goldwater figured out religion and politics shouldn't mix.
I'd say the real turning point was when Pat Robertson beat then VP George Bush in the 1988 Iowa Caucuses. That was where the religious right figured it all out after about a decade of working the system. Robertson's campaign eventually failed, but they learned a lot there. In hindsight it's clear why they disbanded the "Moral Majority" in the following year- they realized the big preachy public organizations didn't work. they needed to hit the system at it's innards.
I hate to say it as I pretty much loathe organized religion of any type, but I kind of admire what they did. They set a goal of taking power, and quietly and within the system did so. They didn't squat in parks. They didn't walk around rallies with rifles slung over their shoulders. They didn't take dumps on police cars or draw arbitrary divisions between two emotional sounding percentages. They proceeded logically and deliberately toward their goal.
Sometimes you have to respect an enemy, even if begrudgingly, before you can defeat them. Patton understood that one.
You would think that the time is right for a social-liberal/fiscal-conservative party to rise up and take the middle ground.
I'd like to see a Party that has no agenda other than "We will do whatever it takes to most efficiently mitigate a problem without concern what ideological banner that solution falls under, and we will not get lost in an endless and fruitless quest for perfection that cannot exist."
Bonus points for: "If government involvement will clearly make things worse, or fails to make reasonable improvements after a predetermines trial period, we will consider not doing anything until the situation changes or new resources/concepts justify revisiting the issue."
I dunno... some of the things I've seen on public access leads me to believe they just leave the studio unlocked during the day, and anyone can walk in and do a show.
I like yours better. I was always baffled about the Rio Grande explanation. It always left me in Philosoraptor mode wondering "well wouldn't their fronts be wet as well?"
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously? Have you lived in a bunker all that time?
if you really cared you would have Googled it.
Javasvript?
Well, at least we can agree to not like the guy, yes?
by careful application of sophisticated software, these issues can be used to solve each other.
Bah ha ha ha! Oh, you idealists and utopians are so precious. So will the earth ponies run the servers and the unicorn ponies write the code? Where do the pegasus ponies fit in? Oh, I know, they can deliver the endless patches.
I don't trust mob rule.
No, no. We call it Open Source Governance! You see? It's open source, so it's automatically better than everything else. It's holy!
Nothing prevents you from forming your own super PAC and collecting money to generate commercials to the public that promotes your political ideology.
Actually, I have been thinking very seriously along those lines. I'd like to form a PAC that simply creates ads that counter all the bullcrap out there, because the news media ceased being a serious watchdog a long time ago. It would be California focused.
It allows people to convene and collaborate without requiring that we have a politician to guide and protect us from ourselves.
Cool theory, bro, but then we went on the Internet, and saw all those people, and discovered they were even bigger psychopaths than the politicians. The politicians are just the more goal oriented alpha beasts.
Are you honestly saying that Rick Perry is smarter than a group of average people?
He found his way to a position of wealth and power. He's playing a ruthless and complicated game better than most. I'd say he's smarter than you, at least, because you appear to have bought his little act. They're *all* acting, you know. The moment you start thinking these scumbags are dumb, you've failed and become just another of the useful idiots.
Don't care. Blithering ideologues attacking another blithering ideologue. Waste of anyone's time. We already know the candidates are all sociopaths. Those who don't are just more blithering ideologues, and you can;t teach them anything, because they "know what they know".
Um, because people can learn where the fixed cameras are and avoid them? UAVs allow adaption to changing border crossing patterns.
No, it's allotropic iron! We can power starshs and form the Lensmen!
I'm old. :-(
Some guy strapped a camera to his cat a while back. That's a solution if you can figure out how to train the cat.
Our worst problem IT people usually get an urgent call to the high power laser lab after which they are never seen again.
The rest we just frame for various national secutity violations, the severity proportional to their dickitude.
We have a couple openings, BTW.
Why do you have such a boner for the guy?
Choplifter?
At least setting the bench press goal has positive benefits even if you don;t get there. ;-) Maybe I'll do that one.
You'll get nowhere, of course. But that's not the point, is it?
Silly me, I rather thought it was, yes.
It's also easy to trot out the old "run for office yourself!" trope which ignores much of modern reality.
Anyone not corruptible or already immoral will lose out to the sociopaths and insiders. That fault is the media that ignores issues (beyond a very shallow level) and goes after the dirt, incessantly and with a blood rage. You need to absolutely not give a shit what anyone thinks about you or says about you to survive.
I've worked on campaigns in the past at a high enough level to interact with the candidates. I've seen it first hand. Above city council positions for *small* cities, your typical "nice person" is eaten alive and spit out so fast it's just a blur. And we have small towns here in California that have been revealed to be corrupt warrens of asshats. Any outsider who challenges them is put down quickly via lies and outspending thanks to all their cronies in local business interests and public employee unions. What's that? Businessmen and unions are enemies? Ha ha! You're a silly pony!
This has been going on in one form or another since the year dot. The power structure has been breeding these monsters for millennia.
I got dinner and a roof over my head, other than that, I was on my own. I couldn't afford to see a movie or buy a beer. Once those two years of misery were over, then I moved out.
That would sound like heaven to 99% of the global population.
Just sayin' ;-)
The religious types took over the GOP- simple as that.
Back in the day (hey, stop yawning!) even the likes of Nixon actually *warned* against mixing politics and religion. He was buddies with Billy Graham, but Nixon, a Quaker, is said to have expressed concerns that his dealings with Graham would be interpreted as politicial rather than personal.
Even wacky Goldwater figured out religion and politics shouldn't mix.
I'd say the real turning point was when Pat Robertson beat then VP George Bush in the 1988 Iowa Caucuses. That was where the religious right figured it all out after about a decade of working the system. Robertson's campaign eventually failed, but they learned a lot there. In hindsight it's clear why they disbanded the "Moral Majority" in the following year- they realized the big preachy public organizations didn't work. they needed to hit the system at it's innards.
I hate to say it as I pretty much loathe organized religion of any type, but I kind of admire what they did. They set a goal of taking power, and quietly and within the system did so. They didn't squat in parks. They didn't walk around rallies with rifles slung over their shoulders. They didn't take dumps on police cars or draw arbitrary divisions between two emotional sounding percentages. They proceeded logically and deliberately toward their goal.
Sometimes you have to respect an enemy, even if begrudgingly, before you can defeat them. Patton understood that one.
You would think that the time is right for a social-liberal/fiscal-conservative party to rise up and take the middle ground.
I'd like to see a Party that has no agenda other than "We will do whatever it takes to most efficiently mitigate a problem without concern what ideological banner that solution falls under, and we will not get lost in an endless and fruitless quest for perfection that cannot exist."
Bonus points for: "If government involvement will clearly make things worse, or fails to make reasonable improvements after a predetermines trial period, we will consider not doing anything until the situation changes or new resources/concepts justify revisiting the issue."
Please tell me why "conservatives" can seldom use a homophone properly?
Oh, and there goes my Obvious Joke Setup sensor. Little burning bits all over the office.
Um... already happened, dude. Google "cell phone accident manslaughter". First page even had on involving a cell phone and a boating accident.
blue man group?
Well, shoot, now I like *that* racial slur origin story better!
I dunno... some of the things I've seen on public access leads me to believe they just leave the studio unlocked during the day, and anyone can walk in and do a show.
Um, legalize? Oh, never mind. (kicks pebble)
I like yours better. I was always baffled about the Rio Grande explanation. It always left me in Philosoraptor mode wondering "well wouldn't their fronts be wet as well?"